Today: PM Showers High 53 Low 44 THE TUFTS Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Showers High 48 Low 48 Since 1980 VOLUME LI, NUMBER 59 DAILY MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006 English programs can’t meet immigrants’ demand in Mass.

BY ROB SILVERBLATT While the department receives Daily Editorial Board approximately 10 million federal dollars and 27.3 million state dollars each year, Massachusetts lacks the resources to she said, these funds are not enough. accommodate the demand of immi- There are almost as many people grants for adult English language pro- waiting for these services as there are grams, according to specialists in the receiving them, she said. “Unfortunately, field. we don’t have enough resources for the The issue of English education for demand.” undocumented immigrants has been Tufts sends volunteers to many local thrust into the political limelight with programs, but junior Irit Lockhart, a pro- a bill currently under debate in the U.S. gram co-coordinator of ESOL and Adult Senate. Literacy at the Leonard Carmichael The bill would allow many undoc- Society, said that local organizations umented immigrants the chance to have not made her aware of the full obtain citizenship after waiting for scope of the problem. ISABELLE MILLS-TANNENBAUM/TUFTS DAILY a specified period, paying a fine and “I haven’t heard any complaints from meeting certain English language and community groups saying that they civics requirements. were severely lacking any volunteers,” It didn’t rain! “There’s a large immigrant population she said. Tufts’ Melodesiac, The Slip (whose guitarist band also needed to play at Amherst College here in the city of Boston, and in order “Obviously with that kind of number, Brad Barr is pictured performing), Guster and later that evening. for them to become productive citizens I’m greatly encouraged to look more Blackalicious rocked out on the President’s Guster didn’t just perform. The band and to become self sufficient, they’re into cooperation from those groups and Lawn for this year’s Spring Fling. brought a cause: the Campus Consciousness going to need [to speak] English,” said really finding out what they could use “The entire show just ran so smoothly,” Tour, an initiative to help spread environmen- Patricia Hembrough, the director of the from us,” she said. “That’s something said Concert Board Co-Chair Devra Bergman, tal consciousness at concert locations. The Adult Learner Program at Project Hope that we’ll definitely look into ... to make a sophomore. “I was absolutely terrified, but Tour was launched with the help of Guster in Dorchester. “Presently there just are sure that somebody is really doing ... it went off without a hitch. All of the workers singer/guitarist Adam Gardner and his wife not enough resources to allow that to numbers research this summer.” were fabulous, everything worked out, the Lauren Sullivan, who founded a non-profit happen.” According to Linda Hamilton-Korey, weather was beautiful. Everyone seemed to environmental organization called Reverb. According to the Massachusetts an ESOL instructor at the Jamaica Plains be having fun.” At each of Guster’s performance, students Department of Education’s (MDE) Web Community Center Adult Learning Bergman said that Concert Board sold receive tips on “green living” - and enjoy free site, there are currently over 20,000 Program, the problem is not limited to approximately 4,000 tickets, on the higher giveaways of natural products including Luna adults in Massachusetts waiting to funding, but also extends to organiza- end of the typical Spring Fling turnout of and Cliff bars. A food drive also takes place. access the English for Speakers of Other tion. 3,500 - 4,000. “The Campus Consciousness Tour serves Languages (ESOL) and Adult Basic The Jamaica Plains program meets Approximately 55 volunteers helped with to raise awareness to social and environ- Education (ABE) programs funded by nine hours per week, but despite the the show, some of whom put in a 13-hour mental issues for students who are often the MDE. drive and commitment of her students, day to help the show go smoothly. too busy to think about these issues on Anne Serino, the Administrator of the Hamilton-Korey said that it is often dif- “We met at 6:30 in the morning, and a daily basis,” said Amanda Fencl, a Tufts Adult and Community Services unit at ficult for them to get involved. there were people who helped out until 7:30 Environmental Consciousness Outreach the MDE, says that the Department’s “Most [participants] have full-time at night,” she said. (ECO) Board Member who helped coordinate budget allows it to fund 87 community jobs and most of them have families, so That effort was particularly key with the the Tour at Tufts. adult learning centers and 13 county see ESL, page 2 fast clean-up following Guster’s act, as the —Kat Schmidt houses of correction. Divest what? Tufts has no D.C. rally: ‘Today, every one of us is Sudanese’ ‘direct’ investments in the Sudan BY KAROUN DEMIRJIAN is exactly what was going on in gious and political grassroots orga- Daily Staff Writer BY KAROUN DEMIRJIAN sion to divest this past March. Rwanda,” said Paul Rusesabagina, nizations, and was headed up by the Daily Staff Writer The growing campaign, how- the hotel manager whose tale of Million Voices for Darfur campaign. ever, has not affected Tufts much. The National Mall echoed with heroism during the Rwandan geno- The three-hour program featured a Sunday’s Save Darfur rally in According to Tufts Associate chants of “Never again,” “Enough cide was depicted in the recent host of speakers, including elected Washington was a time of calls Director of Public Relations Kim is enough” and “Save Darfur now” movie “Hotel Rwanda.” “Darfur is a statesmen, religious leaders, survi- to action, but not all demands Thurler, Tufts has remained silent yesterday, as tens of thousands of disaster, a shame to mankind,” he vors of various genocides (including were for troops, envoys and con- on this issue for a simple reason: people rallied in front of the Capitol said. Darfur) and celebrities. sequences. Tufts has no direct investments in in Washington D.C. to call for gov- The gathering in Washington That deadline was extended by A number of speakers spoke on the Sudan to divest. ernment action to bring a stop to was the largest of a series of ral- 48 hours last night, after Sudanese behalf of a growing campaign to Nonetheless, a small group genocide in the Darfur region of lies planned across the country and rebels rejected a final peace deal. divest American holdings in the of present and former Tufts Sudan. world to coincide with the U.N.- “Right now, refugees in camps Sudan. University students have added “Darfur is the first genocide of the imposed Apr. 30 deadline for parties are listening on short-wave radios While a few states, beginning their voices to national calls for 21st century, and it will be the last,” in Darfur to end three years of open for news of protests around the with New Jersey in August of last divestment through the Sudan emcee, radio talk show host and conflict that has already cost almost world,” Samantha Power, Lecturer year, have divested their Sudanese Grassroots Activism Center. Their activist Joe Madison proclaimed. 200,000 lives and displaced 1.8 mil- at the John F. Kennedy School of interests, colleges have been the project — an online petition to His hopeful attitude was matched lion people, according to Human Government at Harvard and author real institutional leaders in the be delivered to Tufts President and complemented by others’ calls Rights Watch estimates. of the Pulitzer prize-winning book campaign to purge assets from Lawrence Bacow and Treasurer for urgent action. The Save Darfur rally was spon- the Sudan. Thomas McGurty — exists on the “What I have seen in Darfur sored by over 50 human rights, reli- see DARFUR, page 2 Harvard initiated the trend Web site www.tuftsdivest.com. in April 2005, when the Harvard The Web site states that “Tufts Corporation announced its inten- University has an endowment tion to divest its $4.4 million stake fund with millions of dollars Tufts takes next steps toward academic integrity in the oil company PetroChina. invested in multinational corpo- Since then, six other universi- rations. Some of these compa- BY JAMES BOLOGNA sented to the faculty, that sys- assigned no grading penalty, and ties — including Yale, Stanford, nies may be doing business with AND CHRIS CHARRON tem “[did] not allow [the Dean of some thought the students had vio- and Brown — have divested their the government of Sudan. Tufts’ Daily Editorial Board Student Affairs] to effectively track lated the biggest rule of the acad- holdings, with the most recent money may thus be flowing to students who may violate honesty emy and...didn’t deserve a grade or additions being the ten schools business ventures that enable the The Tufts faculty voted on and policies with regularity, encouraged to even be enrolled in the course in the University of California sys- passed a new academic dishonesty negotiation with every decision, any further,” Reitman said. tem, which announced their deci- see DIVESTMENT, page 6 policy at its Apr. 19 faculty meeting. and lead to gross inconsistencies “Students felt this was unfair: The previous policy stated sim- from professor to professor, depart- Some faculty handled cases very ply that faculty members were ment to department.” differently than others. So we got INSIDE INDEX “encouraged to report allegations of To rectify these issues, faculty many requests for change,” he said. News | Features 1 academic dishonesty to the Dean of members will be required to report The new policy went into effect The Daily dis- Arts | Living 7 Students Office.” Now, all incidents all incidents of academic dishon- immediately at the Wednesday cusses operas Editorial | Letters 10 must be reported. esty to Reitman starting next year. meeting, and Reitman expects that by Donizetti and Viewpoints 11 “We are no better and we are no They will also have a set of disci- the number of cases reported will Tufts grads. National 13 worse than other schools,” Dean plinary guidelines at their disposal “certainly” increase. “This is expect- International 19 of Students Bruce Reitman said. in an attempt to improve consis- ed because all faculty are now see ARTS, page 5 Comics 24 “[Academic dishonesty] is a univer- tency from case to case. required to report to us,” Reitman Classifieds 25 sal problem for everybody and that “What faculty had to do before said. Sports Back page is because of all of the new sources was deal with grading consequenc- That required reporting is intend- out there — the Internet, etc.” es — some saw it as a teaching tuftsdaily.com According to the proposal pre- experience for the student and see HONESTY, page 6 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Monday, May 1, 2006 Students travel to D.C. for Darfur rally Bill could increase demand for ESL DARFUR Other speakers drew on timeless phras- ESL gration bill should require literacy as a continued from page 1 es borrowed from Isaiah to Bono to Martin continued from page 1 precondition for citizenship. “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Luther King. “I have a nightmare,” said Rabbi for some of them even keeping up with According to Mirna Merced, the Genocide,” told the audience. David Saperstein, director of the Religious nine hours a week is difficult,” she said. Director of Adult Education at Centro Fighting in Darfur began when ethnic Action Center, as he detailed for the crowd the “They do it, but they’re exhausted.” Presente in Cambridge, citizenship tests Africans rose up against the Arab-dominated additional atrocities he said would result from For many immigrants, such pro- already test for literacy. If applicants are government in 2003. Since then, government- continued inaction in Sudan. grams are the only way that they can not literate, “I don’t see how they could sponsored Janjaweed militias have engaged While condemnation of the ongoing geno- improve their status, Hamilton-Korey pass tests or an interview,” she said. in a systematic campaign of murder, rape and cide has been practically universal throughout said. “When [students] improves their She feels that the best system would the burning and destruction of rural villages Washington political circles, concrete action English, they are definitely able to be more flexible than a blanket man- throughout the region. to stop it has not. improve their economic status and get date, and that rules should be applied The crisis has been further complicated in “This genocide can be ended immediately,” better jobs,” she said. “It’s a direct cor- “depending on the age of the person recent months by the forced return of thou- said John Prendergast, Senior Adviser with the relation.” and how long they’ve been in the coun- sands of refugees who had fled to neighboring International Crisis Group, stressing that the According to Michelle Fuentes of try.” Chad in earlier stages of the conflict. U.S. government urgently needed to protect The Welcome Project, which is based The proposed Senate bill also would The events drew a mixed crowd from vari- the people of Darfur with U.N. forces, punish in Somerville, many of the students also be likely to increase demand on ous parts of the country. the perpetrators of the genocide and promote have great potential but need access to English education programs, putting a The largest representation at the rally by peace with a presidential envoy. English language programs in order to strain on funding and resources. far was from high school and college age stu- Currently, the African Union is the only make use of it. “If the bill were to go through ... that dents. international body with troops operating She said that while some students would be great if while they’re making “You are the backbone,” Simon Deng of within the Darfur region, and though its Peace have poor literacy in general, others that provision they are also allocating the Sudan Freedom Walk said, addressing and Security Council has promised to hand are very educated, but in a different funds that would be distributed to pro- the many teens and 20-somethings in atten- over peacekeeping functions to the U.N. after language. “We have ... some people who grams and community agencies to do dance. its mandate ends this September, the AU has have college degrees in their country that work,” Fuentes said. “That’s not Nearly 30 Tufts students helped form that not yet given its final approval. but they have no language skills here,” something that, as far as I’m aware, the backbone. Attempts at U.N. intervention thus far have she said. bill speaks to.” Freshmen Aliza Sandberg, Dena Greenblum been stymied by, among other diplomatic Within the programs, undocumented The press office of Edward Kennedy and Candice Montalvo interrupted studying snafus, the threat of a Security Council veto immigrants are generally accepted on a (D-Mass.), who has been active in and cut short their Spring Fling weekend cel- from China, which has invested heavily in oil don’t ask, don’t tell basis. pushing for a reform bill, could not be ebrations to attend the rally. in the region. “It’s not necessary for adults to be reached by press time to comment on The Tufts contingent, which scheduled a Many of the calls for action were directed documented in order to be in our pro- whether or not the bill accounts for full 36-hour itinerary of travel and Darfur- specifically at international leaders. “George gram,” said Hembrough. funding. related activities, faced a bit of a setback when Bush...Kofi Annan...Hu Jintao...Omar al- According to Serino, the MDE asks Hembrough said that all of the the Hillel-subsidized bus it had chartered Bashir...we’re not going to give in until the the programs that it funds to try to get resources for increased efficiency do broke down in New Jersey, stranding the ral- genocide stops and peace and justice reign Social Security numbers from all people not need to come from government liers for four hours in a mid-state diner. They throughout all Sudan!” said Gloria White enrolled in classes. money. “The weight or responsibility rolled into Washington — with the help of a Hammond, chairwoman of the Million Voices The data collection, she said, helps for that doesn’t necessarily have to fall Jewish Community Center in New York — just for Darfur campaign. the MDE to look into the effective- on the state or federal government,” she in time for the rally Sunday afternoon. The rally marked the end of a weekend ness of these programs by tracking the said. “I’m really happy to be here,” Greenblum of Darfur-related events, which began on impact that they have on participants in Instead, businesses could do more to said. “There’s nothing else I could be doing Friday with a day of lobbying various mem- areas such as future employment. facilitate access to literacy programs for back at Tufts that’s more important than this.” bers of Congress and divisions of the State “[We do] data matching in order to their employees. “The business commu- Amy Levavi came from New Jersey with Department. understand the impact of adult edu- nity could partner with ABE programs members of the Jewish Community Relations Sarah Bettigole, a freshman from Tufts cation on people’s employment,” she in helping to provide English classes Council, one of the many religious and ethnic who met with representatives from the State said. on site at the workplace,” Hembrough organizations that showed up in large groups Department on behalf of the student group However, participants are not said. to support the call for action in Darfur. She Pangea, said it was an inspiring end to an edu- required to provide numbers and people Another potential problem with the brought her three daughters to the rally. cational weekend. who choose not to disclose their Social bill, according to Hamilton-Korey, is “We’ve talked about genocide, but I wanted “I honestly came today without much Security numbers are not excluded from how it will define literacy. to show them that words are not enough,” she hope,” Bettigole confessed, explaining that the the programs. “When the Senate bill says literacy ... said. “It’s important that people take action as pessimism and pragmatism of government “It’s not required,” Serino said. “We I don’t know what their definition of lit- well.” officials had made her question how much do ask people for Social Security num- eracy is,” she said, noting that the term “It’s about time this got this kind of could really be done until she saw the passion bers because we do some data match- technically refers to reading and writing exposure,” said Glover Kebe, a resident of of the crowd. ing, but it’s not required.” skills, but is often used to refer to merely Washington, D.C., who said the years of atroci- Though she has been working on respons- Some programs have interpreted this speaking proficiency. ties in Sudan should be of global concern. “We es to Darfur for a year, Bettigole is still a relative requirement differently. According to According to Serino, if the bill were can’t be ignorant for so long, or let ourselves newcomer to the campaign for ending atroci- one ESOL Program Coordinator, who passed it would probably cause more live in a secluded bubble just because we live ties in Sudan. Yet even the most war-wearied asked that her name as well as that of people to try to register for classes. in America.” in the crowd seemed to share the enthusiasm her organization be kept anonymous “To add the pressure of mandated The sense of historical moment was per- she drew from the rally. because she feared reprisals against her English would of course increase the vasive throughout the crowd and stressed Mukhtar Taha, who said he left Sudan after students, the decision to have organiza- pressure for more ESL (English as a throughout the rally. his father was killed for criticizing the govern- tions ask for Social Security numbers Second Language) services,” she said. “Today, every one of us is Sudanese,” ment in 1985, smiled as he surveyed the scene created “a hue and cry in the adult [edu- Even so, she said that the extra incen- announced Former Marine Captain Brian in front of the capital. cation] community.” tive might not be necessary “Without Steidle, who advised African Union forces “I’m very pleased,” he said. “Look at all “We encourage students to give us a legislative mandate to learn English in Darfur from 2004 to 2005, echoing the these people — we’re going to have peace.” their Social Security numbers, but we there’s already enough people to fill words of President John F. Kennedy in his 1963 Karoun Demirjian is a student at the Fletcher don’t require it,” she said. “A lot of peo- twice as many seats as we have.” speech in West Berlin. School of Law and Diplomacy. ple don’t like giving out their Social Serino said that most immigrants Security numbers.” realize that they need literacy in order The coordinator added that her pro- to improve their status. “Most immi- gram does not require the Social Security grants understand that in order to suc- Results of Senate in-house elections numbers, but that the program’s goal is ceed they need to understand English,” to get enough numbers voluntarily to she said. Tufts Community Union Vice President - Harish Perkari make it appear that they are actively Merced, who came to the continental Treasurer - Evan Dreifuss soliciting them. United States in 1988 from Puerto Rico, Historian - Neil DiBiase “If we don’t get enough Social Security feels that even without governmental Parliamentarian - Andrew Caplan numbers to make it look like we’ve been requirements, immigrants should still doing it ... then [the Department of find a proper balance between their Committeee of Administration and Policy Co-Chairs - Pooja Chokshi and Education] would say that clearly you native culture and American culture. Matt Shapanka haven’t been asking the question, and “I want my child to have some of you must ask the question,” she said. my culture but I also understand that Committee on Culture, Ethnic, and Community Affairs Chair - Zoe Gibson According to Serino, that program there’s a need for assimilation [and that] coordinator’s fears are unfounded, as you have to be aware that you will come Education Committee Chair - Amanda Richardson the Department of Education does not to the new country to learn a new way Public Relations Committee Chair - Pooja Choksi punish students for not reporting num- of life, so in that sense you need to make bers. “There’s no consequence assigned adjustments,” she said. Services Committee Chair - Neil DiBiase to someone not giving a number,” she Merced feels that most immigrants Special Projects Committee Co-Chairs - London Moore and Mose said. are able reach this balance. “I think Berkowitz Even though undocumented immi- it’s desirable if you keep some of your Senate Surveys Committee Chair - London Moore grants can enter programs, there is still culture and I think most immigrants do debate as to whether or not the immi- that,” she said.

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Showers Showers PM Showers 62/50 59/48 53/44 see page 1 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES 3 Before heading out into the real world, SYDNE SUMMER | HOW TO . . . seniors stop to sign the Graduation Pledge BY REBECCA DINCE alliance efforts have been head- of 2006 will leave an amazing and celebrate those goals with a larger Daily Editorial Board quartered at Manchester College important legacy by being the community,” Lin added. in Indiana. first class to really rally behind the Both coordinators agree that It is the last day of classes and In 2001, The Pledge was Graduation Pledge,” Razavi said. the message of the Pledge cor- ...say goodbye as graduation quickly sneaks up brought to Tufts by students from “We are looking to get as many of responds with the message and his past Friday, I finished the last on seniors, many have begun to the Peace and Justice Studies pro- our classmates to sign the pledge philosophy of Tufts as an institu- think about their life beyond Tufts. gram. It only gained popular sup- as possible.” tion. class of my undergraduate career. But two members of the Class of port at the University, however, “Hopefully, the Pledge will “The message of the Pledge 2006 are working to ensure that this past year. become more than just a list of definitely emphasizes the active There were bagels and orange juice, their fellow graduates bring the signatures,” Razavi added. “We and responsible citizenship that T Tufts philosophy with them as You can take hope that by creating this net- this institution attempts as a but it certainly didn’t feel like a celebration. they leave the Medford campus. work we can reach out to one core value and because we still As I left Lane studio and walked home, I real- Seniors Negar Razavi and the job on Wall another over the years and con- have milestones ahead of us, this ized that in three weeks this would no longer be Karen Lin are the co-coordinators tinue to try to encourage each pledge can serve as a reminder my home. of the Graduation Pledge. The Street,“ but start a recy- other to make positive contri- that students will continue to Of course I’ve done my fair amount of com- national project, an alliance of butions to the world around us, strive for better choices wherever plaining about Tufts, but now that it’s almost colleges and universities, is now cling program in your and to sometimes make the hard possible,” Lin said. over, I’m not sure that I’m ready. I’m going to in its fifth year at Tufts and simply decision to follow the path that “Tufts often emphasizes the miss having 20 of my friends all in a two-block reads: “I pledge to explore and office or help bring fair we know is right, as opposed to importance of ‘active citizenship’, radius. But instead of getting all teary-eyed, I take into account the social and the path we think we’re expected and we as students are encour- think it’s best to just enjoy the remaining three environmental consequences of trade coffee. to follow in life.” aged to go out and help our com- weeks and cherish the memories. any job I consider and will try Negar Razavi Lin and Razavi hope that the munities and those around us,” So since today is my last column in the Senior” to improve these aspects of any Pledge will not only lead to more Ravazi said. Daily — unless you read the commencement organizations for which I work.” socially and environmentally “What this pledge does is rein- issue — I wanted to share my favorite times “It’s a national project,” Razavi “By signing the pledge, we are conscious individuals, but also force this message and asks all of and favorite memories at Tufts. Make sure you said. “But universities integrate not asking students to follow a have a larger impact on those not us who are leaving Tufts to con- make your own, so that you can bring them the pledge in ways that fit best specific career path,” Razavi said. taking the Pledge. tinue being active citizens. It is with you when the time comes for you to say with their school. At Tufts, we “Instead, we believe that they “It can be important on a per- not a political statement. It is a goodbye, too. are asking graduating seniors to should take whatever job they sonal level for each student to commitment to trying to bring I think my all-time greatest memory is feed- sign it before they leave Tufts and want, but try to make a positive pledge social and environmental positive changes in ways that ing the ducks in the Boston Public Garden. enter the ‘real world.’” social and environmental impact responsibility,” Lin said. “But we resonate with our understanding It was just so fun picking up two loaves of “The pledge here at Tufts is with that job.” are also interested in making a of the world,” she added. bread and sitting down by the swan boats. It part of a national and interna- “In other words, you can take collective statement to the rest of The symbol for the Pledge felt like a retreat from the city, and the ducks tional alliance of colleges and the job on Wall Street, but start a the Tufts community and beyond is a green ribbon, which are and occasional swans were just so adorable as universities who want to show recycling program in your office that the Class of 2006 do care being distributed to students at they dove into the water, gobbling down soggy that their students care about or help bring fair trade coffee,” and do plan to carry forth this Commencement this coming pieces of bread. One duck became my friend issues of social and environmen- she explained. “You can work in a consciousness in their lives after May. “We hope [students] will as he waddled out of the lake and ate the bread tal responsibility and will con- restaurant and still do something getting their degrees from here.” educate their family and friends straight from my hand. Though, I must say, tinue to care after they graduate,” positive such as a food drive.” “We obviously can’t hold any- about the commitment they the geese were a little scary when they started Lin added. Lin and Razavi were quick to one accountable for their word, made through the Pledge,” Lin getting aggressive and nipping the other birds The Graduation Pledge add that they hope the Class of but we do believe many students said. — and sometimes my finger. was started at Humboldt State 2006 will leave a lasting legacy here have already made similar Seniors can sign the pledge Another great memory is sophomore year University in California in 1987. with the Pledge. promises to themselves, and this at: http://ase.tufts.edu/pjs/pledge. initiation parties. Since my friends and I weren’t Since 1996, however, its national “We are hoping that the Class is just another way to share and html. the sorority type, we decided to create our own tradition. We split into groups and each group was in charge of a different activity, from truth- IN OUR MIDST... or-dare Jenga in West to Kings in Miller. There were also costume themes: Team America, Dirty Monkeys, Look at Those Melons, etc. Going from Medford to Uganda Then, there was Initiation 202 when we all over students from the region, ones that dressed up as schoolgirls — although it was a BY ELIZABETH YATES Daily Editorial Board have not encountered much receptive- little strange partying at DTD that night when ness from local NGOs. nobody else was in costume. “They’ve been looking at the situa- Then there were the spring breaks. I strongly Junior Matthew Benson sits at a table tion and they haven’t been successful,” suggest trying out all types of vacations during in Dewick as the dining hall staff finishes Benson said. “It’s not that I’m by any your four years. Mine were all fabulous: going wiping down the post-lunch mess from means better or more prepared than to Disney World, partying in Jamaica MTV- the empty tables. At 2:30 p.m., Benson these students — they were born more style sophomore year, traveling around Europe finally has time to grab a bite to eat, even prepared. But the thing is, as a Westerner while abroad and soaking up the sun in Puerto though he has to conduct an interview and these being Western organizations, Rico senior year. while munching. perhaps I’ll be able to approach them But I think the best times were just laughing Benson, a peace and justice stud- from a different angle.” and hanging out with my friends — tanning ies major, will be travelling to Uganda Great expectations abound about on the library roof, playing flip cup with the this summer with big goals in mind. Benson’s involvement in the project. girls at 359, watching “The OC” religiously with He hopes to lay the foundation for Professor James Tumwine, Benson’s con- wine or champagne (and sometimes yummy what would become an official checks tact at University of Makerere Medical homemade Italian cuisine), hickey contests and balances system — modelled after School in Kampala, Uganda, believes after Passover dinner, dressing up as storybook one designed by the Humanitarian that Benson will bring a unique perspec- COURTESY MATTHEW BENSON characters, playboy bunnies and firewomen for Accountability Partnership in Geneva tive not only as a western student, but Benson (pictured) hopes his internship in Halloween, meeting my first love in the base- — to monitor non-governmental organi- also as one influenced by the standards Uganda will aid in the legitimization of NGOs. ment of 123, creating birthday parties based on zations’ (NGOs) efficacy in dealing with of Tufts University’s Institute for Global everything from paninis and wine to blackout the country’s internally displaced popu- Leadership. ultimately pushes me into all this. The punch, making and eating jello-shot cakes, lation (IDPs). Benson also receives mentorship from Western world could, if it really wanted, going to beer-b-ques, watching the Pops for Currently, the number of IDPs in his academic advisor, Tufts Professor tackle these issues. But that’s not the fourth of July, being a devil with two angels for Uganda falls just short of two million Astier Almedom, who helped him find way the world works. The way the world NQR, stealing someone’s ice cream cake, drink- and UN Undersecretary of Humanitarian the internship and secure the financial is now, these people don’t have a chance. ing scorpion bowls at Hong Kong without IDs, Affairs, Jan Egeland, has declared the 20 support of the Luce Student Research And that’s really, really frightening. It’s Spring Flings (when they weren’t rained out), year old humanitarian crisis as the “big- Scholarship. Other financial supporters disgusting,” Benson said of his motiva- setting off the fire alarm in Miller, getting ran- gest neglected humanitarian emergency of the project are the Institute for Global tion to get involved with the Ugandan dom rides — sometimes limos — into Boston, in the world.” Leadership and the University College IDP humanitarian emergency. parties at the brothel, strip Beirut in Miller, Approximately 400 organizations have for Citizenship and Public Service Program Director for Hillel, Lauren karaoke at El Guapo, watching my friends been established to address the IDP Summer Scholars Program. Estes, knows Benson from working guzzle down the $400 of alcohol I bought my population’s needs, but Benson stated As for Benson, his hopes are high, together on “Moral Voices for Genocide,” first week of school, our leg-warmer obsession that “despite the seemingly un-ebbing but he approaches the opportunity a year-long Hillel initiative that created sophomore year, playing bartender (then get- increase of NGOs in the country, many with humility and an open mind. Of the a committee to plan events and bring ting kicked out) in Faneuil for St. Patrick’s Day, of [these] needs remain unaccounted expectations for his research this sum- speakers to campus to address genocide. creating the hottest toga costumes for parties at for.” mer he said, “What I hope to be doing Estes expressed admiration of Benson’s DU, jello-shots at that frat that only has parties Though hesitant to blame Westerners is just laying the groundwork for some- steadfastness. once a year, partying VIP, devouring an entire for the failure of such a large and well- thing greater. Ultimately [my research] “I could really see his passion for the key lime pie with Mary, dressing up for pimps resourced network of NGOs, Benson is for the region; it’s for the people; it’s topic whenever we had a discussion,” she and hoes at AEPi, going to Red Sox games with does believe that western business atti- not for Westerners or somebody like me. said. “He was a very vocal member of the my step-dad’s amazing seats, tanning at the tudes have permeated the NGO com- I just want to get my hands as dirty as committee and he is also incredibly edu- lovely Sun Kissed, hosting parties in Haskell munity to promote what he refers to as possible — in a good way — to really cated about the topic, very advanced.” with Miss Juicy, visiting Hillside Liquors, hop- “briefcase NGOs.” Such NGOs, claimed experience what’s going on.” Almedom agreed that Benson’s is a ping the fence at BC for Marathon Monday, Benson, act more as businesses than Benson’s humility is not the product powerful and very personal brand of pigging out at Dewick after homecoming soph- humanitarian agencies. of a lack of knowledge or capability. It activism. “Matthew has a rich cultural omore year (then again with everyone this past To Benson, the thought of humanitar- is rather the effect of a profound sense heritage — British and African American Spring Fling — not to mention the massive ian agencies profiteering from the criti- of responsibility and a sincere lack of — which may inform his deep sense of food fight), the ongoing towel stealing for two cal situation of Uganda’s IDPs is “deplor- understanding of the world’s indiffer- social justice,” she said. “However, at the years, endless brunches at Carmichael, and so able and unacceptable.” He expects that ence. end of the day, Matthew is his own per- many more... I’ll miss you guys so much! simply collecting the facts and figures “I don’t understand how anyone can son making his own decisions as to what And to everyone else, good luck and good- from these NGOs and making them pub- carry on in their daily life knowing that is important and how best to contribute bye. lic knowledge will make a significant dif- other people in the world are suffer- to achieving that which is important in ference. ing incredibly, and dying every day, our world today: equity, social justice Sydne Summer is a senior majoring in Benson also hopes that his back- every minute, every second. And you do and concern for humanity, particularly English. She can be reached via e-mail at ground might give him an advantage nothing. And that thought... that’s what the ‘unheard’ sections of humanity.” [email protected]. 4 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Monday, May 1, 2006

MIKE CONROY/TUFTS DAILY Freshmen Per Sandel and Shaun Angus (a writer for the Daily’s News department) smash a car at the same rush event that is pictured at left.

MIKE CONROY/TUFTS DAILY Freshman Jake Maccoby drops a cinder block off of the roof of Zeta Psi onto a car during a rush event featuring the destruction of a car bought by the brothers. A look, through a lens, at Greek life

ALEX DUNK/TUFTS DAILY Alpha Phi pledges dance at Greek Jam, which was held on Apr. 28.

JO DUARA/TUFTS DAILY Sophomore Ethan Mandelup serves a sausage at Sig Nu’s Sausagefest, a charity barbecue to benefit testicular cancer research.

JOSH WILMOTH/TUFTS DAILY ATO (left) plays Zeta Psi (right) at the annual Greek Mud Volleyball Tournament, held this year on April 23.

ALEX DUNK/TUFTS DAILY ALEX DUNK/TUFTS DAILY Senior Stephen Nichols of ZBT builds Lego creations with local children at ZBT’s Panama, a legal version of the classic drinking game Beirut, was played at a Sig Ep rush event on Jan. booth at this year’s Kid’s Day, held Apr. 9. 30 during Rush. Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES 5 Spring 2006 Helping in a hurricane’s wake A semester in review Resolutions, referendums and Robinson

Junior Mitch Robinson beat out veteran senator Andrew Caplan for a seat on the junior class Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate in early February. After working with the Senate for several months, he then beat out fellow juniors Denise Lynn-Shue and Harish Perkari in the race for the 2006-2007 TCU presidency. Minor changes to the TCU constitution also passed in a referendum on the election ballot that was submitted by sophomore Alex Clark, senior Ed Kalafarski and senior Jordana Starr. According to Kalafarski, one amendment proposed to change the name of ELBO to “Elections Commission” and “overhaul” the organization “to provide fair compensation and accountability for officers.” Another amendment will add the TCUJ Advocacy Program, a program to assist students facing disciplinary issues, to the constitution. COURTESY TRACY AND SAM DUPONT An additional amendment will allow seniors the first option for open Students worked on devastated houses in Louisiana Senate seats, allowing for an experienced senate if few seniors and juniors through a Volunteer Vacations trip to sites ravaged by were to run. FORD ADAMS/TUFTS DAILY Hurricane Katrina. At the last meeting of its 2005-2006 term, the Senate passed a reso- Massachusetts Democratic gubernato- lution laying out a plan recommending that it spend a percentage of its rial candidate Deval Patrick speaks at Tufts students have been deeply involved this semester $150,000 budget surplus to enhance “campus programming or [aid] in the Massachusetts College Democrats’ in pressing for assistance and action amidst the devastating campus development.” convention, held at Tufts on Apr.20. effects of Hurricane Katrina. The Senate also recommended that book requests be directly collected The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) sponsored a from professors next semester and compiled in an online database. Volunteer Vacation to Gulfport, Mississippi over winter The database would then be forwarded to the campus bookstore. It Apathy? Not here break. 87 undergraduates, 12 graduate students and would also be made available to students before the start of the semester, Tufts students on both sides of the seven alumni went to the storm-ravaged area to clean up, helping them to find reasonable textbook prices. political aisle have made their voices heard rebuild and assist victims of Katrina. Thanks to a new initiative from the Senate and TuftsReviews.com, stu- this semester. In February, Tisch Library hosted “Jumbolaya,” an event dents were also able to consider data from official course evaluations when On Apr. 18, the Tufts Republicans spon- to raise money for the Southern University of New Orleans choosing their classes for this semester. Evaluation information from Fall sored an event at which State Senate can- library, which was destroyed by Katrina. The event raised 2005 courses is now available at TuftsReviews.com. didate and Tufts alumna (LA ‘99) Samiyah over $1000 in raffle ticket sales and donations. The Senate also passed a resolution to consolidate and simplify infor- Diaz spoke. Over spring break, 40 students traveled to New Orleans mation about the rights and responsibilities of Tufts students, in hopes of She focused on education, saying that and worked with Helping Other People Everywhere (HOPE) reducing confusion over commonly-committed infractions. public schools need greater accountability to assist in cleaning and gutting homes and distributing — Danny Lutz and that students should have access to much-needed food, clothing and toiletries. high-quality education without having to — Bruce Hamilton travel unnecessarily far. She also spoke about increased economic opportunities and safety. The Republicans also sponsored an event on Apr. 10 with the Pan-African From the ground up Alliance to discuss why only 10 percent of Since the beginning of the only available this year to rising African Americans voted for George W. school year, major campus con- seniors, its existence opened up Bush in 2004. struction on a new dormitory, housing for other classes. They urged the black community to Sophia-Gordon Hall, and a new “Once the seniors selected take another look at many important music building has been pro- Sophia and some of the other issues, emphasizing that many Republican gressing on-schedule. apartments — Latin Way and programs, such as the No Child Left Behind The dormitory and music Hillsides in addition to some sin- Act, will yield results beneficial to the black building will be ready for stu- gles in the other halls — we still community in due time. dents starting in the fall of had plenty of housing for rising The Republicans said that they have 2006. juniors,” Director of the Office made several important changes to their There is no question that of Residential Life and Learning programs and that the New Deal programs Sophia Gordon’s extra rooms (ORLL) Yolanda King said in a of the Democrats are losing their impor- have helped to ease the crunch March e-mail to the Daily. tance. of housing for the 2006-2007 As for the music building, “The position that I’d like to advance is academic year. in addition to the main concert that you’ve had 50 years of New Deal pro- “I think everyone who want- hall, the building includes a new ISABELLE MILLS-TANNENBAUM/TUFTS DAILY grams and where have they gotten you?” ed a bed this year got one,” Vice music library, practice rooms, a Thanks to the new Tufts construction, students will enjoy a new Jordan Greene, the Vice President of the President of Operations John music studio and smaller perfor- music building and the Sophia Gordon dormitory next year. Tufts Republicans, asked at the event. Roberto told the Daily in March. mance venues, providing a state- The Tufts Democrats hosted the “I don’t think anyone was forced of-the-art home for the Music (TSO) and the Tufts Chorale. Additional renovations on the Massachusetts College Democrats off-campus, and I don’t think Department. Planners of the building said that South and East side of the Cabot Convention earlier this month, bringing anyone will be forced off-cam- But some orchestra members the space constituted a compro- Tower in the Fletcher School of together between 100 and 150 students pus next year [the 2007-2008 are upset that the new space will mise, and that the size will be Law and Diplomacy will be com- from approximately 20 colleges in the school year].” be unable to acoustically fit both ideal for the majority of Tufts’ pleted in December 2006. state. While Sophia Gordon was the Tufts Symphony Orchestra midsize music groups. —Aaron Schumacher Over a dozen people spoke at the event, including Democratic gubernato- rial hopeful Deval Patrick, Vice Chair of A potpourri of campus crime the Democratic National Committee Susan Turnbull and U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA). Campus police dealt with a potpourri crimes. the office of the Brown and Brew coffee At the convention, junior Kayt Norris of crimes this semester, though vehicle- There are “no leads at all, not even shop. A second safe was broken into. was elected Vice President of the College related crimes were the only recurring any suspects” for many of these crimes, On Jan. 29, a physical altercation took Democrats of Massachusetts. offense. Pugliares said. “We’re getting hit hard; place in Bush Hall, during which sexual She told the Daily after her election that The Tufts University Police Department we’ve had a lot of extra people on-duty.” orientation-related slurs were uttered. her goals include increasing communica- (TUPD) has had to deal with the outbreak According to TUPD Captain Mark A disciplinary hearing, presided over tion, increasing professional and funding of frequent car break-ins this semes- Keith, this rise in car break-ins corre- by the Tufts Community Union Judiciary opportunities and encouraging members ter. At least 13 of these break-ins have spond with a rise in similar burglaries and Student Affairs administrators, was to “really think about the issues we really occurred this semester, and in one of throughout Medford and Somerville. held Mar. 10. In the end, the incident care about, and take on issues of our own those cases, the car was stolen. At around midnight on Jan. 23, two was deemed an “act of intolerance.” as College Democrats.” Although they arrested one man Tufts students were robbed of cash, Freshman Kevin Casey was placed on The Democrats also co-sponsored a after he was caught stealing a license cigarettes and a backpack at the rear of Disciplinary Probation Level II after it was two-day energy symposium with the Tufts plate in Hill Hall’s parking lot on Mar. 2, Curtis Hall. decided that “insufficient evidence” was Energy Security Initiative on Apr. 21 and 22. according to TUPD Lieutenant Domenic Curtis Hall itself was also broken into presented to sustain Casey’s allegations Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Pugliares, officers have had trouble shortly afterwards on the weekend of that the victim provoked the incident. Dukakis gave the opening address, speak- tracking down the perpetrators of these Feb. 20, when a safe was stolen from —Marc Raifman ing about the future of energy. —Rob Silverblatt

They came, they spoke, they conquered said that warfare and Western inter- Like Khalidi, she said that the He expressed confidence in the ference have created many obstacles United States must carefully con- new United States-Saudi Strategic A series of prominent speakers elections. He pointed to this election to democracy. sider its actions in the Middle East. Dialogue, in which the U.S Secretary visited Tufts this semester to discuss and the Kuwaiti parliament’s suc- On Feb. 24, Iranian human rights She also emphasized that Islam is of State and the Saudi Foreign problems currently facing the Middle cess in democratically determining attorney and Nobel Peace Prize a diverse religion open to many Minister will meet every six months East. the new monarch of the country as winner Shirin Ebadi delivered the interpretations, as well as her belief to discuss issues of mutual impor- On Jan. 26, Professor Rashid encouraging signs of the growth of keynote address at this year’s EPIIC that democracy in the Middle East is tance to both countries. Khalidi of Columbia University deliv- democracy. symposium, “The Politics of Fear.” entirely feasible. He also said he hoped more ered the keynote address for a Fares Khalidi discussed the historical She addressed the media’s role Most recently, Prince Turki Al- Americans will begin studying in Center for Eastern Mediterranean context of Islam’s role in the Middle in propagating fear, suggesting a Faisal, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Middle Eastern countries, a situation Studies conference entitled East, attempting to address the role tendency to oversimplify important Ambassador to the United States, that he said would create a more “Democratizing the Middle East.” of Western colonialism and counter issues, exaggerate terrorist acts (such spoke at Tufts on Apr. 27 about con- broad-based understanding between Khalidi’s speech came on the eve the perception that the religion is as the anthrax mailings) and label all crete efforts to address the role of the two cultures. of Hamas’ victory in the Palestinian “particularly anti-democratic.” He Muslim criminals “Islamic terrorists.” the United States in the Middle East. — Anthony McGovern 6 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Monday, May 1, 2006 Not everyone approves of Turnitin.com Best of Tufts 2006: The results are in HONESTY With Turnitin.com, students submit their continued from page 1 work to its online database. According to The results are in, and the Best of Tufts 2006 has been decided! During the vote count- ed to bring consistency. the Web site, the automated computer pro- ing, we at the Daily have learned a few things about our fellow Jumbos. Previously, “with some faculty decid- gram analyzes the submitted document Most noticeably, there are many more ties than normal this year. Is that due to the fact ing one way and some deciding not to and compares it to over 10 million student that many on campus are of two minds about their favorites, or because our sample size even report certain incidents of dishonesty, works and over 4.5 billion pages of Internet is really small? We’ll let you decide. there was no way of know whether this was content, as well as millions of pages of pre- Also, some of us are very funny. Take, for example, the various answers to “Best place a student’s seventh of eighth allegation,” viously published books and journals. to pick someone up,” On and Off the Hill: Answers included “the TEMS truck,” “the com- Reitman said. “So with the new way, we will So far the services used by the University munity tot lot” (you’re a bad person), “the rape steps” and the winner, “on the T.” It’s true, be able to see repeat offenders because of have cost about $1,000. According to though. Nothing gets us hornier than leafing through a discarded Metro paper while mak- the central reporting to my office.” Reitman, it should cost another $5,000 to ing eyes at the drunk MIT freshman across the way. “I think that a uniform policy serves every- implement the technology across the cam- ...and some of us aren’t. The best calzone is “this dick”? Ha ha! Penis humor: the gift that one’s interests better,” English Professor pus. keeps on giving. Also, a shoutout to the creatively worded answer for “Best dance club,” and Department Chair told the Daily in an “It is not a very expensive system,” “dancing sux.” Indeed it does. e-mail message. “Students know what to Reitman said. “Other schools have had great And some of us can’t read directions. SOC is part of an 11-way tie for “Best dance expect if they cheat and so may be less likely success with it, and our bio department has club,” even though, as you may have noticed, SOC is actually a student group, and the to violate the policy on academic honesty; also had great success.” category was in the Off the Hill section. 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Yoshii’s?) of their actions; and the Dean’s office has a Bio 13 classes. “It was a little bit more work Anyway, here are the winners. better opportunity to come to terms with to figure out,” said Gaudette, “but once — David Cavell the problem of academic dishonesty.” we worked through some of the student’s Edelman feels as though the Dean’s office downloading problems, it worked well.” ON THE HILL OFF THE HILL will do an even-handed job of managing the Professors receive a color-coded original- requests. ity report, offering the percentage of similar Best student organization Best calzone “I’ve worked with the Dean’s office for phrases in a student’s paper to other works. 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Best machine at the gym Best burritos Executive Director of the Honor Council “The Web site saves the professors who Elliptical Anna’s Taqueria and current Mathematics Professor Jim use it a lot of time,” Sandefur said. “There Sandefur. are some professors who love it and some “We take academic integrity very seri- professors who don’t use it at all.” ously here,” said Sandefur of Georgetown, “The program is not meant to serve as Effects of divestment difficult to evaluate which requires all incoming freshmen to evidence to make a plagiarism complaint,” take a three-hour online plagiarism tuto- Reitman said, “but simply to start a con- DIVESTMENT case,” she said. rial. versation between the professor and the continued from page 1 Not all universities publicize their financial Reitman sees no honor code in the near student.” Sudanese dictatorship to purchase weapons information, but the UC divestment serves as future for Tufts. “We all inherited a school Reitman also said that it was not the and continue a military campaign Congress one example of the scale of the investments in without an honor code,” he said. “It is administration, but the students who and the State Department call genocide.” question. According to Trey Davis, Director of hard to impose that on a place that doesn’t demanded that something be done about The Tufts Investment Office could not be Special Project for the University of California, already have it.” plagiarism. “Students at Tufts actually com- reached for comment on whether or not Tufts the value of the UC system’s divestment could An honor code requires a certain culture, plained about the laissez-faire attitude holds indirect investments in the Sudan. be anywhere from $20 million to $2 billion, he said. “The hardest part of an honor code about cheating here,” said Reitman. Though calls for divestment are increas- depending on whether the University choos- is the requirement that you [a student] must But sophomore Doug Terry, who used ing, discussion surrounding the actual effects es to divest direct investments or attempt to report a peer that you know is cheating or the site in Bio 13, doesn’t share Reitman’s of divestment has been nearly nonexistent. surgically divest its indirect investments as you will be in violation of the code,” he said. sentiments. “I’m personally not worried The general state of unfamiliarity with the well — which are harder to trace. “I think something similar to what we have, about other students cheating and getting particulars of divestment was thrown into “We won’t know the amount until the a more modified honor code, works better.” better grades; I work hard to earn the grade relief a month ago, when an 8-page ad insert divestment takes place,” he said, which is cur- According to Reitman, the most often I deserve,” he said. “I find it interesting that in the New York Times promoting investment rently scheduled to occur within 18 months reported instance is of plagiarism is “unau- the site is supposed to ‘spark conversa- created a spark of anger and confusion sur- after the announcement, after state indemni- thorized collaboration...especially for tion,’ but in reality it is a way to accuse rounding the role of money in the Sudan. fication. research courses in the humanities or sci- students.” “It’s a hard thing to assess, because we have On the whole, though, the power of divest- ences where people work together to gather Neveretheless, the University must con- no way of fully estimating the costs and bene- ment seems to lie in its effectiveness as a information but must write separately.” tinually adapt to a culture of plagiarism. fits of divestment,” said Economics Professor political gesture, and less so as an economic To take on this problem, Tufts plans to “We live in a culture of short-cuts and of Edward Kutsoati. “The idea, in principle, is one. expand the use of Turnitin.com, software heightened emphasis on the ‘bottom line,’” that divestment disciplines governments. But “It’s a common theme in protests that you that was piloted last year in the biology Edelman said. “In such a culture where I don’t think this has worked well in the past, want to do things that ameliorate the situa- department and that will be available cam- everyone from politicians to corporate lead- at least not in the rogue states.” tion or cause systemic changes,” said Michael pus-wide starting in fall of 2006. ers seems to focus on the ends and not the Yet divestment does appear to have had Klein, Professor of International Economics The Internet database program, Turnitin. means, it’s no surprise that academic dis- positive effects in resolving past conflicts. It at the Fletcher School. “You think, ‘what if com, compares students’ work against pre- honesty seems to have increased over the was used as a tactic to bring about an end to someone had done something, would it have viously published material. The Biology past five years at Tufts and at universities apartheid in South Africa. made a difference,’ say in Armenia in the department and the Dean of Students’ office across the country. While Professor Margaret McMillan, also teens, or in Germany in the 30s and 40s,” have been using the Web site since January “Some students seem to forget that suc- in the Department of Economics, admitted Klein said. “You’d like to think it would have, 2005. The Dean of Students’ office has used cess is not measured by the grade they divestment can work in globalized econo- but this is a very different kind of country ... the program as an investigative tool in cases receive in a course but by the knowledge mies, she pointed out that official U.S. gov- it’s too unclear to take a strong stand either of academic dishonesty, and some biol- that they acquire,” Edelman added. ernment statistics list only one American firm way.” ogy professors require that students turn in — Kat Schmidt contributed reporting to that does business in the Sudan. “So I don’t Karoun Demirjian is a student at the assignments to the online database. this article know how much divestment can do in this Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Arts|Living 7 THE TUFTS DAILY MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006

OPERA PREVIEW From soap opera to opera: ‘Tonya and Nancy’ to premiere

BY DIANA LANDES the media spectacle that had the complete. At first, Searle did not In this way, audiences see the assault on Kerrigan. Senior Staff Writer whole nation talking in 1994 has know how to approach the sub- the spectacle from the stand- Al-Doory explains that she all but subsided. ject matter. She first attempted point of the news audiences in wanted to use “music to tell the Will the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Now the dueling figure skaters to write the show in a chrono- 1994, when Kerrigan’s knee was story.” The whole event and its Harding conflict ever go away? are back, and this time, they’re logical fashion starting with each clubbed just a month before the unraveling in the media was so Well, if this article were being singing. Tufts music graduate woman’s childhood. When that Winter Olympics and Harding melodramatic, said “Tonya and student Abigail Al-Doory is large- approach proved unsuccessful, was thought (and later proven) to Nancy”’s assistant director, senior Tonya and Nancy ly responsible. Al-Doory suggested using flash- be in cahoots with the assailant. Jess Fisch, that it is appropriate Written by Abigail Al-Doory With writer Elizabeth Searle, backs to move the story along. The show’s director, Meron that the music for the show was May 2 at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Zero Al-Doory wrote “Tonya & Nancy: Searle, who had written a Langsner, insists that both written as an opera — a dramatic Arrow Theatre, Cambridge The Opera” as her Master’s thesis. novella involving the Kerrigan- women are portrayed sympa- medium. $20 general admission, $10 for The show will premiere tomorrow, Harding feud published in 2001, thetically, though he does note Al-Doory and Searle agree that students May 2, with two performances at used newspaper headlines as the violent nature of the show. A their style of writing is both “dark 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the American inspiration for the show. In fact, former teacher of stage combat and perky,” which explains why Repertory Theatre’s Zero Arrow the choruses of nearly all the at Boston University, Langsner they describe “Tonya & Nancy” printed in 1994, the answer Theatre in Harvard Square. songs in the 40-minute show are made use of his expertise in the as darkly comedic. would seem to be “no” to any “Tonya & Nancy” took Searle made up entirely of old head- field to choreograph some of the see NANCY, page 9 American with a television. But and Al-Doory about two years to lines. more violent scenes depicting

OPERA REVIEW Despite ‘tenor’-uous lead, ‘Lucrezia’ a success

BY GAREN NIGON Daily Staff Writer murderess. She is the aggressor whom all other characters fear. Her sole weakness is her love for her estranged son, who incon- A son’s devotion, a husband’s jealou- veniently infiltrates into her circles, unrav- sy, a woman’s wrath: Gaetano Donizetti’s eling this cycle of murder and seduction “Lucrezia Borgia” has it all. Opera Boston’s leading to her ultimate suicide. For these reasons, Lucrezia demands Lucrezia Borgia more than the average coloratura. She requires power, depth and personal- ity. Barbara Quintiliani brings all of these Written by Gaetano Donizetti qualities to her performance. In the first May 2 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre act she displays Lucrezia’s tenderness and Tickets $24-$85 vulnerability as she encounters her son. In the second act she channels Lucrezia’s new production, however, has only most wrath as she confronts her jealous hus- of it. band. In the third act Quintiliani success- The production is solid, the sets are fully combines these two qualities, culmi- well-rendered, and the black and red color nating in a spectacular coloratura aria that scheme sets an appropriately devilish showcases her powerful dramatic voice. mood, but with certain things missing, the This performance makes the production a production falls short of potential great- success, in spite of a lack of support from ness. her lead male counterpart. This potential for greatness is built into This counterpart is Gennaro, Lucrezia’s the opera. Most Donizetti heroines, like estranged son, sung by tenor Justin

Lucia and Anna Bolena are generic col- Vickers. Vickers’ long list of credits and CLIVE GRAINGER/OPERA BOSTON oratura victims. As the male characters critical hosannas makes one wonder what “Let me work on my crossword in peace, dammit!” toss them around, the girls do nothing exactly the problem was the night this but complain about their misfortune in reviewer was in attendance. Was he ill? a series of arias displaying their crowd- Was his mind somewhere else? Romantic Quintiliani’s power. His upper register suf- to maintain adequate chemistry. pleasing vocal acrobatics. problems? Digestive problems? fered from a debilitating wobbly vibrato. This became painfully evident in his Lucrezia has all the acrobatics, but she Regardless, something was not right. When he wasn’t straining to keep up, he scene opposite mezzo Christine Abraham is no victim. She is a seductress. She is a Vocally he could not measure up to got lost amidst the rest of the cast, failing see LUCREZIA, page 9

MOVIE REVIEW ‘Stick It’ gets stuck on weak plotline; Bridges good, Peregrym bad BY ROBIN SMYTON Contributing Writer Bridges plays its gum-chewing, popped- collared proprietor, Burt Vickerman, as a kind of polo shirt clad Obi-Wan Kenobi. Gymnastics is always entertaining dur- Haley is initially resistant (to say the ing the summer Olympics, so why is it least) to the idea of restarting her gymnas- such a drag in “Stick It”? It’s one of those tics program. Apparently, she walked out on the gymnastics World Championships, Stick It costing Team USA the gold. If the film were to explain her reasons for abandoning her country and sport sooner, her teen angst Starring Missy Peregrym, Jeff would make a lot more sense. Instead, Bridges the movie waits far too long to explain Directed by Jessica Bendinger why she snaps at every single person she meets; she becomes so abrasive that the audience is hardly given any real reason to sports that most of America becomes like her, aside from her occasionally sharp interested in once every four years, like wit. figure skating, track and field or competi- By the time the film reveals the cause of tive ping-pong. her angst — and suffers many a training The igniting and extinguishing of the montage in the process — “Stick It” has Olympic torch could practically be a meta- already become another movie entirely. phor for America’s similarly evanescent What started as a series of music mon- interest. But movies like “Cool Runnings” tages on extreme biking and dumb girls in (“Jamaica, we have a bobsled team”) and TOUCHSTONE PICTURES leotards becomes a movie about gymnas- “Staring contest. You and me. Go. You’re not even looking at me!” “Chariots of Fire” (cue the now clichéd tics, or close enough. theme music) have succeeded before in It settles itself down and cans the flash making Olympic sports popular beyond flipping the sport into a crisply-packaged After a stunt at an under construc- to reveal the gymnastics world’s nasty live network coverage, so “Stick It” should music video tutorial about grrl power. tion McMansion lands her in court, she undercurrent, complete with villainous be a blast. Right? That spirit is exemplified in “Stick It”’s receives a wholly unrealistic court-ordered and vengeful judges and the worst kind Not so much. In an attempt to draw on angry lead. Rebellious teen Haley (new- punishment. In a scene that might as well of show moms. It no longer matters that the valuable teenage demographic, writ- comer Missy Peregrym) likes to wear lots include a flashing neon sign with the word Haley’s fellow students all seem to share a er/ director Jessica Bendinger (the scribe of camouflage and ride her bike off things “PREMISE” on it, Haley is sentenced to of “Bring It On”) spends most of “Stick It” that she should not. “time” at an elite gymnastics school. Jeff see STICK IT, page 9 8 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS|LIVING Monday, May 1, 2006 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS|LIVING 9 Arts Briefs Reviving the figure-skating conflict, ‘Tonya and Nancy’ TUFTS ALUM HAS ‘GOAT’ THE RIGHT IDEA NANCY continued from page 7 in Tufts’ Department of Drama and Tufts alum and former Daily Photo Editor In this way, audi- Dance, comes to the show with years Karl Schatz returns back to Tufts with a Fisch played Matt Damon this year in of experience under his belt. Fisch whole exhibition devoted to — that’s right “Matt and Ben” a play about Damon ences see the spectacle points out that Tufts students who are — goats. His exhibit, “American Goat: A pho- and writing partner Ben Affleck before working on the show have been given tographic journey through America’s grow- their big break. She describes “Matt from the standpoint of a unique opportunity to work in such ing goat industry” is nothing to bleat at: and Ben” as “more of an absurdist a professional setting. It’s a collection of photos from his travels comedy” where as “Tonya & Nancy” is the news audiences in Though the show has not yet been across the country and an intricate look into more of “an interesting interpretation performed, it has already become the agriculture industry. Schatz, along with of a media circus.” 1994, when Kerrigan’s something of a media phenomenon. writer Margaret Hathaway, went on a long “Tonya & Nancy” emerges at an News of the show was picked up road trip in 2003 to observe, record and pho- interesting time in American culture. knee was clubbed just a by entertainment and sports wires tograph goats on farms all across America. It seems pop culture icons are being this fall and articles about “Tonya & Called “The Year of the Goat,” the project turned into high culture icons with month before the Winter Nancy” have already been printed in is documented on http://www.american- increased frequency. Evidence of this newspapers like The Boston Globe goat.com. The exhibition will be on display includes the existence of the recent Olympics and Harding and USA TODAY, among others. Says in Aidekman from May 1 through 31, and an opera about the ringmaster himself, Fisch, ESPN Magazine is “sending a opening reception and cheese tasting will Jerry Springer. was thought (and later representative to inquire about the take place on May 3 at 6 p.m. Sample goat Al-Doory says of her show and this show.” Additionally, NPR will cover cheeses by local producers will be provided. budding new genre of theater: “It is proven) to be in cahoots the show on a local broadcast. contemporary opera that fits with a “Attention given to this is amaz- BOSTON LYRIC WRAPS UP ITS DIVA short attention span culture.” with the assailant. ingly disproportionate for a master’s SEASON WITH ‘THAÏS’ Professionals mostly staff the show, thesis,” said Langsner. Fisch con- with some Tufts undergraduates par- curs: “This is more press than I’ve Opera buffs can still catch Boston Lyric ticipating in smaller roles. The leads, from Germany and New York respec- ever heard of a show being put on in Opera’s last performance of the Diva Season: Nancy and Tonya, are professionals tively. Langsner, a doctoral student Boston, let alone at a university.” Jules Massenet’s mysterious and sensu- al “Thaïs,” playing at the Shubert Theatre through Tuesday, May 9. A story of passion, love and desire, “Thaïs” takes place in Egypt Nevermind the opera, Quintiliani’s Borgia won’t bore ya in the 4th century and follows the fates of Athanaël, an ardent monk, and the sinful Thaïs, his former childhood friend turned Alexandrian courtesan (and the object of his affection). Soprano Kelly Kaduce sings the title role opposite baritone James Westman as Athanaël. Massenet’s “Thaïs” is a tug-of- war among love, God and all the lascivious- ness of Egypt’s glitz and glam — and prom- ises to be a lavish sight indeed. Tickets are available at http://www.telecharge.com.

DANCE FANS SHOULD RUSH TO ‘RUSSIAN BALLET’ Studying for that Russian final? Why not put it in context with Boston Ballet’s newest show, “An Evening of Russian Ballet,” open- ing this week at the Wang Center? Russia’s lengthy, bountiful ballet tra- dition is rich with passion, emotion and drama galore. Boston Ballet will perform a CLIVE GRAINGER/OPERA BOSTON selection of favorite numbers to music by Lucrezia Borgia does NOT let suits of armor boss her around. Alexander Glazunov, Camille Saint-Saens, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Moritz Moszkowski, LUCREZIA Johnson, who plays Lucrezia’s husband cation of the dominatrix. Though at Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy, Riccardo Drigo and continued from page 7 Alfonso. Despite their support and times excessive, this imagery comple- Igor Stravinsky. who played Orsini, Gennaro’s best friend. Quintiliani’s powerhouse performance, ments the plot and performances effec- Frenchman Marius Petipa, who served Abraham gave a solid supporting per- Vickers’ weaknesses were unsalvage- tively. as ballet master at the Imperial Ballet in St. formance. But despite her best efforts able. When all is said and done, this produc- Petersburg from 1862 to 1905, set the foun- and her charming voice, the tender The costumes designed by Nancy tion is about Lucrezia, and more spe- dation for Russian classical ballet. He’s the scene during which Orsini and Gennaro Leary are for the most part excellently cifically, about Quintiliani as Lucrezia. honoree of this show as Boston Ballet’s per- express their friendship and pledge to rendered. Their harsh sexual imagery All of the production values and the sup- formance pays tribute to his choreography. stay together until the end fell flat on its compliments the nocturnal set and porting performances cohere around her “An Evening of Russian Ballet” will play face. The chemistry was completely uni- lighting design, and, of course, the magnificent voice. Her voice is strong from May 4-7 at the Wang Theater. Tickets directional. Abraham would give cues, sexually charged seductress Lucrezia. enough to temper the production’s faults, are available at http://www.telecharge.com. trying to maintain a tender rapport, but For example, the sailors are all clad and as the curtain rises and Quintiliani Vickers would reject them. in leather pants with openings at the comes forward to graciously accept her — compiled by Rita Reznikova The rest of the supporting cast was groin, and Lucrezia’s black gown in her applause, the audience rises gratefully to equally strong, especially bass Bert final wrathful scene is an obvious invo- its feet. Heroine fails to ‘Stick’ her film landing

STICK IT the film. He is as tough as interesting in “Bring It On.” continued from page 7 the heroine, but seems to Even those with no asso- singular brain cell until she have more of a reason for ciations whatsoever to the becomes willing to share his thick skin. His acidic sport could sit back and hers. Even if you hate Haley chemistry with Peregrym enjoy the acrobatics and during the first act or so, makes what could be a high school drama of cheer- you find yourself rooting very contrived coach-ath- leading. Although “Stick It” for her and her sweet, if lete relationship into a very is in much the same vein, misguided, teammates. believable one. The most it never lets gymnastics be No matter how impres- memorable of the other itself. Although the sport is sive the gymnastic stunts pupils, Vanessa Lengies (of entertaining enough on its are, the actor who steals “American Dreams” — not own, the routines are too the film is the one who the Hugh Grant movie, dressed up and quickly cut stays away from the vault. the TV show), Haley’s ini- to allow the audience to Mind you, Peregrym is tial rival, is bitchily sweet. appreciate the grace of the decent as an actress and Joanne may be dumb and sport. “Stick It” is certainly impressive as a gymnast; manipulative, but she’s not going to win gymnastics she’s kind of like a sarcastic also sympathetic. any new fans, but those who Bridget Monynahan who The film mainly gets live life between back flips can tumble with attitude. deductions because of its will make it their cinematic Jeff Bridges’ scenes, how- direction. Bendinger made anthem, if only for a lack of TOUCHSTONE PICTURES ever, are the real delight of cheerleading relatable and any film alternatives. A friendly game of “Outrun the Tractor” quickly turns ugly. 10 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL | LETTERS Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL

PATRICE H. TADDONIO Editor-in-Chief A new approach to academic integrity? EDITORIAL David Cavell Managing Editors For years, Tufts’ policy on plagiarism can still find ways to plagiarize, as not But professors should still use a David Pomerantz has consisted of little more than “eyes all universities use the site. great deal of discretion. As part of the on your own paper” and “cite refer- Turnitin.com claims that thousands schoolwide launch of TurnItIn.com, Jennifer duBois Editorial Page Editors ences properly.” of academic institutions from around however, the Dean of Students office Mark Phillips Assaf Pines The administration has always the world use the service, but obvi- has taken away professors’ discretion Seth Rosenberg maintained that Tufts does not look ously students could still get material by requiring them to report any case of lightly upon academic dishonesty, and from those which do not. academic dishonesty. Kathrine Schmidt Executive News Editor has tried to ensure a tough stance. But The service also suffers from the At an Apr. 19 faculty meeting, Dean Bruce Hamilton News Editors despite its efforts, cheating is still a fault of any technology in that is sus- of Students Bruce Reitman announced Daniel Lutz relatively large problem. ceptible to error. There could poten- that faculty will be required to report Kelly McAnerney A 21st century solution hopes to tially be logical flaws in the code it all such incidents. Anthony McGovern Marc Raifman change all that. Starting in fall of 2006, employs, which could result in either While this solution may help to level Kristen Sawicki an Internet database program called falsely positive or falsely negative cases the bar across departments where stu- Judy Wexler TurnItIn.com will become available to of plagiarism. Furthermore, there is dents have previously received varying all faculty members at Tufts. always the risk posed by malicious degrees of treatment, it also brings a Jamie Bologna Assistant News Editors Chris Charron Professors who wish to use the sys- hackers. problem: bureaucratization. Laura Herman tem will have students sign on to the Despite these flaws, the addition of There is a need for a school-wide Victoria Kabak site and submit their work, at which TurnItIn.com to the tool boxes of pro- standard of academic integrity, but Aaron Schumacher Rob Silverblatt point it will be compared against a fessors will go a long way in combating centralizing and channeling every massive database of student works plagiarism. instance of plagiarism through one Arianne Baker Features Editors from other academic institutions as The increased threat of being caught center is impractical. Rebecca Dince well as nearly 4.5 billion pages of inter- will serve as a deterrent to many pla- Nonetheless, these steps reflect a Alexandra Dretler Sydne Summer net content and scholarly journals. giarizers. It also allows for a more com- willingness on the administration’s The service, which will cost approxi- prehensive search, far more quickly. part to recognize a problem that, if Courtney Chua Assistant Features Editors mately $5,000 to implement fully, has Professors are clearly capable of left unaddressed, could come to com- Anne Fricker already been in use since January 2005 identifying a significant percentage of promise the reputation of our institu- Elizabeth Yates by the Biology department and the plagiarism cases on their own, and tion as well as our students. (Harvard’s Blair Rainsford Executive Arts Editor Dean of Students’ office. Technical with the aid of a comparison tool, can Kaavya Viswanathan, anyone?) concerns aside, both parties have spot the vast majority. That the administration is taking Gregory Connor Arts Editors Margarita Reznikova reported great success with the tech- But with the ability to detect plagia- action to support its claims of being Kelly Rizzetta nology and are excited about others rism at the click of a button, professors tough on plagiarism is a step in the Stephanie Vallejo following suit. risk becoming more reliant on the pro- right direction. Let’s hope that step While the Web site is the most com- gram and less so on their professional pans out, rather than getting wrapped Kate Drizos Assistant Arts Editors Mikey Goralnik prehensive service around, students intuitions. up in red tape. Lisa Granshaw Viewpoints Editors Leah Roffman DON WRIGHT Marissa Weinrauch Elizabeth Hoffman Executive Sports Editor Alexander Bloom Sports Editors Kristen Cunningham Andrew Silver Thomas Spera Andrew Bauld Assistant Sports Editors Rachel Dolin Kelley Vendeland James Harris Executive Photo Editor Ford Adams Photo Editors Schuyler Armstrong Mike Conroy Alexandra Dunk Isabelle Mills-Tannenbaum Jo Duara Assistant Photo Editor Sarah Halpert Josh Wilmoth

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A day of inaction: Two perspectives on May Day Support immigrant Six-hour May Day workers’ rights at BY DAVID MITCHELL Tufts and beyond

Today’s May Day, the first 24 hours of that BY JOSEPH RAMSEY, DAN great three-letter month that marks, for me, DIMAGGIO AND the official escape from the New England winter. Being a senior and all, I expected DANIEL BRASIL BECKER this year’s upcoming May Day would mean little more to me than yet another reminder Today, May Day, 2006, millions of immi- that Commencement is quickly approach- grant workers and their allies — friends, ing and my time at Tufts is almost over. But family members, neighbors, co-work- I, in a flurry of procrastination, decided ers and others — will demonstrate for to do some background research: “From immigrant civil rights across the United where does this May Day originate?” I asked States. Held on International Workers Day myself. — a holiday which originated in the United Well, here goes. States in 1886 and commemorates the On May 1, 1886, 80,000 workers in heroic struggle of hundreds of thousands Chicago marched for limiting the normal of mostly foreign-born American workers working day to eight-hours. Over the next who struck for and won the eight-hour few days, workers from across the country work-day — this historic outpouring has joined in the movement, walking out on been billed as El Gran Paro Americano their jobs to demand more leisure time. (the Great American Strike 2006) as well At that time it was not unusual for a wage as Un Dia Sin Inmigrantes (Day Without laborer to spend well over 10 hours a day on Immigrants). the job. All over the country today, thousands On May 3, the authorities, trying to break upon thousands of people will be taking the up an altercation between strikers and day off from work, from school and from scabs, shot into a crowd and killed four shopping, dramatizing by collective and people. The next day, a bomb exploded coordinated absence the incredible impor- at a workers’ rally in Chicago’s Haymarket tance of immigrant workers and consum- Square. Three prominent labor leaders ers to American society. Gathering in vigils, were rounded up, blamed for the attack, see SOLIDARITY, page 12 see MAY DAY, page 12 Joseph G. Ramsey is a graduate student at Tufts David Mitchell is a senior majoring in and a member of Tufts Coalition Opposed political science. His post-graduation to the War in Iraq. Dan DiMaggio is a junior plans include, among other things, find- and the president of the Tufts Socialist Club. ing a job. Daniel Brasil Becker is a sophomore. CORBIS BENJAMIN BELL | SPARE ME Ode to an American Dream

BY MATTHEW DIAMANTE it was decided that the Democratic Bush were anywhere as smart as any Representative Matthew Santos of of “The West Wing”’s senior staff. In Texas would eke out a win this April 6. December 2002, after more than a year On Sunday, May 14, one of the finest This too was the right choice: in in office, Bush repeatedly insisted to television programs in a generation addition to avoiding a grim series California Representative Tom Lantos will air its final chapter. After seven denouement burdened with a prima- that Sweden, and not Switzerland, seasons, 154 episodes and more than a ry character’s sudden death and an has a history of political neutrality One last time hundred hours of content, NBC’s “The electoral loss, “The West Wing” has and maintains no standing army. (To West Wing” will come to an end. now presented the first election of a make matters worse, Lantos was born Now is the right time to end the Democratic President following a two- in Hungary and is the House’s only ell I hope everyone had a program, as President Josiah Bartlet term Democratic Administration since Holocaust survivor, making him inti- finishes his second term and his suc- Vice President Al Gore won Florida six mately familiar with European histo- wonderful time at Spring cessor is sworn in. The glory days of years ago. We may never know whether ry.) W the program, marked by consistent- Ohio sought to elect President Bush or By contrast, Martin Sheen’s President Fling. I’ll admit, having ly superb scripts, lavish budgets and Senator Kerry in 2004 due to significant Bartlet stays up late and delights in top ten rankings among the nation’s and reprehensible voting anomalies. immersing himself in complicated Guster back at Tufts induced some good viewship, have come and gone. After Since those abberations occurred in issues. The character was based in part a headache-inducing fifth season that spite of (and indeed in some cases on President Clinton, who had such a old college spirit and camaraderie that threatened to drown the proverbial because of) Republican leadership, it is thorough understanding of policy that horse in mid-stream, a heavy focus on fitting that President-Elect Santos will during a 1993 joint session address to usually tends to be absent from our won- the new presidential election as well as replace President Bartlet by this time Congress concerning his health care dramatic shake-ups amongst the White next month. From the “Pilot” premiere reform initiative, he recited from mem- derful campus. House staff revitalized the show, and its to the finale, “Tomorrow,” “The West ory the speeches’ first nine minutes In other related news, women in Iran sixth and seventh seasons have done a Wing” has shown the past decade as it while his aides scrambled to adjust will finally be able to attend soccer games respectable, and sometimes outstand- ought to have been. the Teleprompters. And in the October due to the recent and somewhat sur- ing, job of wrapping up this twenty- Of course, the show’s first allegiance 2000 episode “In the Shadow of Two prising benevolence the country’s lead- first century epic. has never been to strict realism. Series Gunmen,” “The West Wing”’s National er. Unfortunately, with the upcoming The writers had originally planned Creator Aaron Sorkin shied away from Security Advisor Nancy McNally wor- bombing campaign that will be launched to have the Republican nominee, acknowledging historical events fol- ried about the uncertainty of Osama by the United States, the soccer games Senator Arnold Vinick of California, lowing the Truman Administration and bin Laden’s whereabouts more than will probably have to be postponed. win the 2006 election (see Wikipedia’s avoided defining in what year the series eleven months before his 9/11 ter- Bummer. “Timeline skew theories for The West began in order to maintain a sense of rorist attacks. Her then-counterpart Regarding last week’s column, I was Wing” article for two ingenious theo- timelesness. (Josh Lyman mentioned Condoleeza Rice, as we have since astounded that so many people had no ries as to why such an election would President Johnson by the end in the learned, was not nearly as concerned. idea who Jonathan Swift was. For those take place this fall). This was the right first season, but never mind.) From A realized Gore Administration may of you who failed to pay attention to choice, guaranteeing some meaty the spectacular Hollywood soundstage well have prevented those catastrophic your high school English teacher, allow drama. But when John Spencer, the that looks much better than the real- crimes, but I digress. me to enlighten you. Swift is perhaps beloved actor who portrayed Chief of life West Wing to the conspicuous lack In his “Brokeback Mountain” review the most famous satirist of all time. His Staff-cum Vice Presidential Nominee of corporate villainry to its generally in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert works included “Gulliver’s Travels” and Leo McGarry, died last December, positively portrayed Republican offi- wrote that “the more specific a film is, “A Modest Proposal,” the work on which cials, “The West Wing” has always been the more universal, because the more my column was based. Although Swift Matthew Diamante is a freshman who a pleasant distortion of reality. has not yet declared a major. It is all too easy to wish that President see WEST WING, page 12 see BELL , page 12

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The opinions expressed in the Viewpoints section do not necessarily represent the opinions of The Tufts Daily itself. 12 THE TUFTS DAILY VIEWPOINTS Monday, May 1, 2006 No apologies from Mitchell says America deserves a ‘Day of Inaction’ MAY DAY declare that “repose is an essential con- day weekend every week? I find myself Bell as he says bye continued from page 11 dition of happiness”? (Note: These are salivating at the prospect. BELL and then quickly tried, convicted and rhetorical questions.) Now, I know what you’re thinking: continued from page 11 hung. They would be honored by the As Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in- “That schedule is not economically movement as martyrs, and May Day (or law, wrote in his treatise “The Right to viable, not now in this time of global died over 250 years ago, I still expected International Workers’ Day as it is also Be Lazy” (a philosopher after my own competition. Don’t some people work people to know who he was. I figured that called) became an international tradi- heart), “In capitalist society, work is the long hours by choice? What about those incorporating his name into the title of my tion to commemorate the struggle of the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of people who truly enjoy their jobs? And column might convey what I was trying to working man (and later an opportunity all organic deformity.” And as Austin what about new immigrants in this coun- do, but apparently I made a terrible mis- for communist states to show off their Kelley explained in the Nation earlier this try who deserve a chance to work for the calculation. I guess if you don’t know who military arsenals!?). year, Lafargue “asked...for the right to lie American Dream? David, you can’t be Jonathan Swift is, then you are not going to It wasn’t until 1938 via the Federal around on the daybed, the right to read serious about this...either that or you’re understand the point I am trying to make. Labor Standards Act, though, that the and to nap, the right to feast and to make just scared about having to work for a liv- Instead of garnering a few laughs, I vast majority of workers in this country love. He declared the right to endless lei- ing.” seemed to have offended quite a few peo- were legally guaranteed an eight-hour sure.” While it’s true that I am not especially ple. day. That’s why this May Day (today!) I looking forward to having a full-time job, I am tempted to apologize for not making So, with this historical background in intend on joining the people over at the work itself doesn’t scare me — rather, it obvious that I was not serious, but that mind, I got to thinking about my own www.6hourday.org by working no more it’s the fear that a full-time job will con- just wouldn’t be my style. And also, why imminent arrival in the working world than six hours in protest. Sure, I have sume my life and come to define who I should I apologize for the collective literary (I’m an optimistic person by nature), an less than three hours of class today (with am. And while I recognize the irony of my historical ignorance of Tufts student body? undoubtedly more humane place than it two exams, no less!), but you can be sure “Day of Inaction” falling on the same day In any case, I didn’t really plan to write was 100 years ago. I have the courageous that I will be taking the rest of the day off as illegal immigrants’ “Day of Action,” I about anything specific this week because wage laborers that came before me to (unless you count intramural basketball feel like we are on the same side of this it’s my last column of the year. I figured I thank for that. playoffs as work, which I don’t) — and battle — all workers everywhere in the would review my past columns and end on But as I consider life after Tufts — you should do the same. As the poorly- world deserve more leisure time. an especially arrogant and pretentious note actually getting up in the a.m. on Fridays, designed Web site (which has had 4,219 It’s true, I admit, that a 24-hour week (Would there be any other way?) You know, not having time for Beirut marathons, visitors since Sept. 3, 2003 and whose is not in the cards for most of us, regard- take credit for things like whipping the or late-night BS sessions, or the pursuit petition includes a whopping 350 signa- less of how many people sign the online Greeks into shape and inspiring the people of my various intellectual interests — I tures) explains, “It’s been nearly 90 years petition. But today, on the first day of on this campus to take some extra care in wonder, why does it have to be this way? since we’ve seen a reduction in the hours May, while I’m lying on my couch eat- their appearance... things of that nature. Why was the working class content of the workday despite improvements in ing an Uncle Ben’s microwavable dinner, But as fate would have it, I saw an excel- with just eight hours of leisure a day technology, machinery, and efficiency.” quoting “The Big Lebowski” and playing lent film this past Friday that presented (assuming a healthy eights hours of Makes sense to me. Xbox 360’s FIFA 2006 against my house- some very interesting and controversial sleep)? Capitalism has been very good Imagine for a moment working just mate Keith (whose laziness is so extreme ideas of justice and revenge. I suppose it’s to us as a country — isn’t it time we truly six hours a day, four days a week. How that he only gets dressed and leaves the only appropriate that I end with a discus- reap the benefits, slow down and enjoy much more satisfying would life be if house to go to Qdoba), I will be keeping sion of a movie, just as I began. The movie I the fruits of our labor? Wasn’t it Aristotle you could go to the office from 10 a.m. the labor movement’s spirit alive, and for went to see is called “Hard Candy,” and it is who once wrote that “the first principle of to 1 p.m., take a two-hour lunch, be out that, future generations will have me to not a porno, so relax. all action is leisure”? And did not Cicero of the office by 6 p.m. and have a three- thank. “Hard Candy” begins, as most classic movies do, with an instant message con- versation. We soon learn that the people chatting away are actually a 32-year-old STAIR calls for solidarity with immigrants on May Day photographer/pedophile, and an innocent SOLIDARITY by the expansion of the Tufts the U.S.-Mexico border, and build and maintain this, rich- 14-year-old girl who is apparently just look- continued from page 11 Medical School. would criminalize the 11 mil- est of all nations. ing for some attention. It turns out that After the rally, members of lion undocumented work- We thus reject calls for “Jeff” and “Haley” have been talking online demonstrations and mass the May Day Coalition will ers in the United States, as exploitative “guest worker for the past three weeks and have finally marches, immigrant workers lead a march from Tufts off- well as those who assist these programs” and call instead decided to meet in person as the movie and their allies will demon- campus into Somerville down workers in any way—doctors, for amnesty for all immigrant commences. The two agree to rendezvous strate the political power of Broadway to Foss Park (near nurses, social workers, teach- workers who now reside in at a café called “Nighthawks” for some this 21st-century Civil Rights the Dunkin’ Donuts), to join ers, priests, you name it. The the United States. coffee and conversation, and maybe even Movement. a 4 p.m. community rally for law’s draconian nature has Far from being a “drain” something more. On the Boston Common immigrant rights. Shamefully, prompted immigrant activists on society, immigrant work- Haley arrives first and orders a very at 4 p.m., hundreds to thou- Foss Park in recent days has to call it rightfully the modern ers are the ones being drained scrumptious looking dessert. She is in the sands of immigrant workers, been the site of U.S. Homeland equivalent of Fugitive Slave today, by U.S. corporations middle of eating it when Jeff walks in, intro- allies and student activists Security Department raids on Act of 1850. that exploit their cheap labor, duces himself, and then wipes the excess will be gathering in solidarity undocumented workers; it is We in Tufts’ May Day/STAIR and by a government that chocolate off her lips with his hand. He then with those striking for justice a local, and symbolic, site for Coalition declare our opposi- taxes their wages but then proceeds to strangely lick his fingers, which across the country, calling immigrant rights activists. tion to the harassment, crim- refuses them basic human is completely revolting. The café scene is for “Amnestia para todos!” The May Day/STAIR inalization, exploitation and services due to their “illegal” expectedly painful as the two create an odd (“Amnesty for all U.S. immi- Coalition is rallying and repression of our immigrant status. sense of sexual tension that is obviously grant workers!”) A Boston- marching today both to sup- brothers and sisters. We stand That millions of displaced inappropriate. wide student rally at Harvard port particular immigrant civil in support of and in solidarity and expropriated people des- Using very passive aggressive techniques, Yard will commence at 1 rights struggles and to publicly with their struggle for labor perately seek a better life in Haley begins to lobby Jeff into taking her p.m. and will culminate in a oppose the repression, harass- and civil rights, including the the United States thousands home with him. Being the slick and charm- march to join the rally on the ment and criminalization that right to work and to form and of miles from their homes ing child molester that he is, Jeff is at first Common. immigrant workers face across become active in trade unions, and their loved ones is not hesitant. He thinks that this might be too Here at Tufts, members the United States today. the right to peacefully assem- to be held against these peo- risky because they have already been seen of the Tufts May Day/STAIR Politicians and media pun- ble free from police intimida- ple — quite to the contrary, in public, but Haley is practically irresist- (Students at Tufts Acting for dits representing the interests tion, the right to speak out immigrants’ spirit, hard work, ible, so he finally agrees. The two drive back Immigrant Rights) Coalition, of big business and right-wing against injustice and to peti- courage and diverse cultural to Jeff’s upscale modern crib and continue a newly formed group, will nationalism seek to divert tion employers and the gov- contributions to American their uncomfortable banter when Jeff sug- gather on the campus cen- attention from a disastrous ernment with their demands, life are to be valued and cel- gests afternoon screwdrivers. The audience ter patio at 3 p.m. to speak and unpopular war and a U.S. without fear of reprisals and ebrated — but rather laid feels as if Haley might soon face her inevi- out in solidarity with immi- economy that is increasing- repression. (This means you, at the foot of an inhuman table fate as the helpless victim but things grant workers in their ongo- ly failing to produce secure, OneSource!) economic system which not are, however, not what they appear. ing struggle for political and quality jobs for the most Such democratic and civil only creates massive waves Haley slips some sort of drug into Jeff’s social equality, even right in Americans by scapegoating, rights are not the property of humanity with nothing to drink that causes him to pass out. When Tufts’ backyard. This ‘back- dividing “real Americans” off strictly of U.S. citizens, but of sell but their labor-power, but he wakes up, he’s bound to a chair as Haley yard’ includes, not only the from non-citizen “foreigners” all human beings. We, further- exploits that labor for super- roams menacingly around his house. The Medford-Somerville cam- and “illegals.” They seek to more, refuse to respect poli- profits, even while deeming once harmless Haley has morphed into pus, where immigrant work- build walls between us, lit- cies or laws that would codify it “illegal” — always a con- the genetic spawn of Hannibal Lector, with ers help to make our cam- erally and figuratively. Under and expand the de facto caste venient label to intimidate medical scalpel in hand. I won’t say anything pus run, but also Chinatown, HR4437, the Sessenbrenner system of racial apartheid in those workers who seek to else because I wouldn’t want to ruin the end- where Asian immigrants’ Bill — already passed by the which millions of hard-work- fight back. ing, but you can guess what she intends to struggle against gentrifica- House — lawmakers would ing human beings are denied Join us to celebrate May do. tion has been exacerbated erect a 600 mile wall along basic rights while helping to Day 2006! The audience is left questioning whether Jeff deserves his fate. I mean, how can one have sympathy for a child molester? Then again, does Haley have the right to trick Jeff ‘West Wing’ will be remembered long after its competitors into taking her home? These are all ques- tions that the audience is left to reconcile. WEST WING ten, “The West Wing,” like the original House last fall, but is not likely to keep continued from page 11 What is right and what is wrong? It’s all very “Star Trek,” will endure as forward- her there due to abysmal ratings.) ambiguous, but being forced to figure it out it understands individual characters, thinking, high-quality programming I myself would suggest a half-hour- is what makes this movie so good. It compels the more it applies to everyone.” In of the art world’s newest medium. long dramatic series depicting the you to sincerely question what you believe. its early years, “The West Wing” often And because broadcast television present Administration’s two terms, OK, so I would have normally ended on mirrored events from the Clinton is the most widely accessible (and timed to conclude when the real Bush that last sentence, but this is my last column Administration, most notably in its thus democratic) artistic medium in Presidency finally ends. “The West so bear with me. I would sincerely (I can depiction of an impeachment attempt. the Union, Americans deserve quality Wing” has already shown that actors be sincere!) like to say thanks to the Daily Recent plotlines have similarly flirted works that dare to dissect and chal- reciting scripted dialogue can be much and the Viewpoints editors for allowing me with current events, focusing on the lenge the politics and events of our more informative than talking heads to write a column these past few months. I deployment of American soldiers with- times — especially when the airwave’ droning into a camera lens. Perhaps really appreciate them letting me indulge out an exit strategy and an illegal leak so-called “news” programming is as if Americans saw honest re-creations in my own narcissistic exhibitionism for of national security information. I, for thin and soporific as today’s. Once of the President and his staff at work, an entire semester. To those of you who one, am therefore confident that long “The West Wing” has ended, what will they would be permanently disabused enjoyed my column, I say rightfully so. To after such vapid ratings powerhouses take its place? (ABC’s “Commander- of the notion that this Administration those of you, who didn’t, spare me. as “CSI” and “Survivor” are forgot- in-Chief” put a woman in the White truly has our best interests at heart. National 13 THE TUFTS DAILY MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006 Remains discoveries reopen old wounds Money handlers BY GREG B. SMITH ducts and cooling towers. Knight Ridder Tribune Family members who lost loved ones face new restraints on Sept. 11 find themselves back where For more than four years, the 40-story they started, waiting to see if those who BY JAMES KUHNHENN Deutsche Bank tower has stood silently died so long ago might finally be identi- Knight Ridder Tribune at the edge of Ground Zero, a graveyard fied — and laid to rest. waiting to be found. “Those body parts didn’t just get there. They blocked the House of Representatives The building was searched in 2002 and They’ve been there for four years,” state from approving a federal budget. They near- pronounced clear of all human remains. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said ly killed a package of ethics and lobbying In the last few weeks, however, nearly last week after the ribbon-cutting cer- legislation. They got a stern warning from 700 bone fragments have been found on emony for the memorial at Ground Zero. the White House for larding an emergency the roof at 130 Liberty St. “Nobody bothered to look.” spending bill with pet spending projects. Along with a piece of human scalp. How this situation came to be remains And they are led by Republicans. And a pair of plastic wings that airlines a mystery; no single agency ever took Who are these guys? give to young passengers. charge of the recovery of human remains They are the money handlers of Congress The New York Daily News has learned at Ground Zero. — the members of the House and Senate that several areas inside the aban- “It certainly would have made more Appropriations Committees who pull the doned skyscraper have never been fully sense at that time that they had done strings of the federal purse. With that money, searched. Small bits of human remains a more thorough search,” said Marian they can dictate federal policy and influence are being found now only because the Fontana, whose firefighter husband, elections. state is preparing to demolish the build- David, has never been found. “I think it Some key votes this week in the House ing. would be tough for a family to get a call and Senate, however, could mark the begin- While the search was suspended last this many years later.” ning of new restraints on appropriators. week when asbestos was discovered on The building became enveloped in a Their ability to dole out cash as favors to MICHAEL BRYANT/KRT the roof, officials at the Lower Manhattan toxic plume after the collapsing south lawmakers, donors, lobbyists and constitu- Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, pictured in Development Corp. say they expect that tower of the World Trade Center ripped a ents is under increasing attack. Critics of the 2005. New remains discovered nearby have more fragments will be found when they see REMAINS, page 15 see HANDLERS, page 17 reopened old wounds. eventually take apart the structure’s air Barrier may not keep non-native Barnacle ball carp out of Great Lakes waters structed. Engineers still intend to BY DAN EGAN construct a second “array” as part Knight Ridder Tribune of the new barrier, but they’ve run out of money and still need The Army Corps of Engineers an additional $6 million or so to will flip the switch on a new $7 finish the job. million electric carp barrier on the The hope is that the old bar- Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal rier could be used as a backup to on May 8. The same day, the agen- the single array on the new bar- cy is scheduled to turn off the juice rier until money can be secured to on an old barrier, something Great build a second array. Lakes advocates say is foolish. “We’ve long argued there needs An electrified swath of canal to be a layer of redundancy on that is the federal government’s last canal, and it makes little sense to chance to stop an invasion of Asian turn off a barrier that works,” said carp, which have been migrating Marc Gaden, spokesman for the north up the Mississippi River basin Great Lakes Fishery Commission. since they escaped their southern The cost to keep the old barrier fish farms more than a decade ago. running is estimated at $1,800 per The problem is that the carp, month. which can grow to a wolf-sized Now the race is on to shake that 100 pounds and gobble up to 40 relatively modest sum from the pounds of plankton per day, would proposed $2.8 trillion federal bud- overrun the world’s largest fresh- get. On Monday, a bipartisan group water ecosystem — and the multi- of Great Lakes senators introduced billion-dollar commercial and rec- legislation to continue to pay the reational fishery that it supports. electricity bill on the old barrier, The worry is that the new bar- but lawmakers would have to move rier is actually only a half-finished unusually fast, given that the old STEVE RINGMAN/KRT job. Only one of two planned barrier is slated to be turned off in A bowling ball with barnacle is among the collection of strange items found in the ocean by retired electrified fields has been con- less than two weeks. marine biologist Curtis Ebbesmeyer at his home in Seattle, Washington, last month. Ex-NFL quarterback Shuler carries the ball for Carolina Democrats BY JIM MORRILL With a war chest of $552,000, Shuler has Knight Ridder Tribune proven he can raise money. But as a politi- cian, he’s a 34-year-old rookie still learning As the candidate toured the factory, a the playbook. woman walked up with a slip of paper. Can I For example, he opposes abortion, but have your autograph? she asked. says, “It wasn’t until the campaign that I Flashing a smile, he scrawled: thought about what an important issue it Heath Shuler — 21 — Go Vols. is.” In Western North Carolina, Heath Shuler Some Democrats are bothered by Shuler’s is still a star. conservative stands on such issues, as well People remember how the quarterback as his support for the war in Iraq and for from Bryson City led his high school to three GOP candidates in Tennessee. But nation- state titles. How he went to the University ally, Democrats are banking on Shuler. of Tennessee because Knoxville was closer Needing 15 seats to control the House, they to home than Chapel Hill. How he was see him as their best chance to capture one the Heisman runner-up in 1993. How the in North Carolina. Washington Redskins made him their top “This race is essentially the only game in pick. town for Democrats in North Carolina,” says Never mind that his pro career faded after Amy Walter, an analyst with the Washington- just 29 games. In the mountains of Western based Cook Political Report. North Carolina, the memories shine as Shuler could have begun his political JERRY LODRIGUSS/KRT brightly as the gold NFL alumni ring he career in Tennessee. After leaving football Heath Shuler (5, center), then quarterback for the Washington Redskins, gets sacked in a wears. in 1999, he and his wife, Nikol, settled in game against the Philadelphia Eagles in 1995. He is now running for Congress. Shuler is running for Congress in the 11th Knoxville, where he started a real estate District, hoping to challenge eight-term development company with his brother. He he’s done as a Republican,” says his oppo- Republican and Democrat, but backed Republican Rep. Charles Taylor this fall. He’s turned down Republican overtures to run nent, Michael Morgan, 52, a contractor who Democrat — and Tennessean — Al Gore heavily favored in Tuesday’s primary against for office. But in 2002, he backed GOP can- favors legalizing marijuana and lost the 2004 over George W. Bush in 2000. According to a Buncombe County Democrat who served didates for governor and the U.S. Senate. primary. Republicans, it was one of only four times six years in prison for manslaughter. “Everything he’s ever done politically Shuler says he supported friends, he’s voted in 16 years. 14 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Monday, May 1, 2006 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL 15 Families await remains results REMAINS Last fall, workers with an continued from page 13 asbestos removal company found 14-story gash into its facade. several bone fragments on the Filled with a poisonous mix of roof. The city medical examiner asbestos, lead, dioxin, cadmium, was then ordered to monitor the and polycyclic aromatic hydro- cleanup. carbons, 130 Liberty was rendered Since then, 690 bone fragments useless. have been recovered, according The most thorough search of to Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman the structure was conducted in for the examiner’s office. June 2002, by the fire department, Of the 2,749 people killed on with two teams working round- Sept. 11, 2001, in the Trade Center the-clock. attacks, 1,151 have not been iden- They checked the entire build- tified. The medical examiner still ing floor by floor, and visually has more than 9,000 unidenti- inspected the roof, said spokes- fied remains, not including those man James Long. found at 130 Liberty. However, the firefighters did While the remains previously not take apart infrastructure or recovered at the adjacent WTC site sift the so-called ballast gravel have been carefully preserved for on the roof, where most of the possible DNA identification, the remains have been found in the Deutsche Bank site has remained last several weeks. exposed and unprotected since “They found what they could,” Sept. 11. recalled Fontana, who had pressed That delay could make DNA for the search back in 2002. “They identification more difficult. could only do a visual search. “It’s certainly not helping us They couldn’t look inside walls that there was all this time that’s and vents and infrastructure.” passed,” said Borakove. “But we’re No other agency stepped for- going to do the best we can to ward to order up a more thorough analyze what we’re finding.” inspection of the privately owned Some families of victims are building. The situation was com- furious that the building wasn’t plicated by the fact that at the thoroughly searched years ago. time, the fate of the tower was tied Last week, Sens. Chuck up in litigation between Deutsche Schumer and Hillary Clinton Bank and its insurance compa- called on the Pentagon to send nies. in the team that searches for MIA The LMDC bought 130 Liberty remains to supervise the recovery in August 2004, but still no thor- effort. ough inspection for human And some relatives are suggest- remains was ordered. ing that the search be expanded About a year ago, workers to the rooftop infrastructures of inspecting the building for the nearby buildings. planned demolition noticed that “Really, when you think about several areas in the building still it, it’s four and a half years later,” contained substantial amounts of said Bill Doyle of the Coalition of debris. 9/11 Families, who lost his son, Those areas included the cool- Joseph, during the attacks. “Get ing towers on the roof, air ducts it all done now, so I don’t have to throughout the building and areas hear two years from now that they around the gash in the facade. found more human remains.” 16 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Monday, May 1, 2006 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL 17 Congressional money handlers face many new restrictions HANDLERS states. President Bush threatens continued from page 13 to veto any bill that exceeds his special projects called “earmarks” requested amount, but Senate that appropriators slip into large Appropriations Chairman Thad bills that fund federal agencies, Cochran, R-Miss., is trying to block say the earmarks symbolize out- amendments that would strip out of-control spending and lead to $2.7 billion. ethics scandals. Appropriations chairmen and One former appropriator, Rep. their subcommittee heads are Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R- among the most powerful mem- Calif., is in prison, convicted of bers of Congress. Because all taking bribes in exchange for appropriation legislation begins defense contract appropriations. in the House, appropriations sub- Another appropriator, Rep. Alan committee chairmen there are Mollohan, D-W.Va., was forced to known as the cardinals of Congress. step down as the top Democrat Congressional analysts sometimes on the House ethics committee say that Congress is made up of amid questions about money he’d Republicans, Democrats and inserted into spending bills that appropriators. benefited friends and associates. “Institutional power here rests The simple answer, conserva- with appropriators, and much tives say, is to get rid of earmarks. more so than it used to,” said Rep. “You can’t complain about the Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., a leading crit- sharks when you’re holding a ic. “The growth of earmarks, the bucket of chum,” said Rep. Mike ability of individual appropriators Pence, R-Ind., a leading fiscal con- to write checks to donors and to servative. friends and to allies and to individ- The appropriators are fight- uals in their districts, is something ing back. House Appropriations that simply has to stop.” Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis, Stopping it, however, is not easy. R-Calif, led his 37 Republicans in The Constitution gives Congress a revolt last month that blocked a the power to set spending, and House vote on the budget because lawmakers guard that power jeal- it would have tied their hands on ously. And they sometimes say one earmarks. thing but vote another. Last week Lewis brought lob- Thirty-five Republican senators bying and ethics legislation to a applauded Bush’s threat to veto the standstill because it contained emergency-spending bill if it grew similar terms. The impasse was too much and promised to stand resolved, at least temporarily, when with him, if necessary. But the first Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and effort to trim fat from the bill — an Majority Leader John Boehner, R- amendment to knock out $700 Ohio, promised to apply earmark million for a railroad replacement restrictions to all committees, not in Mississippi, Cochran’s home — just appropriators. The House is to failed 49-48. Of the 35 Republicans vote on the measure this week. who said they’d sustain a Bush Meanwhile, Senate appropria- veto, 15 voted to keep the railroad tors added more than $14 billion money in the bill. Seven of them in earmarks to emergency spend- were Appropriations Committee ing for Iraq and hurricane-ravaged members. 18 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Wednesday, March 1, 2006 International 19 THE TUFTS DAILY MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006 Brazil’s ethanol program struggles Sunni insurgent rage turns against Iranian goods

BY LEILA FADEL The alliance with Iran has not Knight Ridder Tribune been kind to Iraqi Sunnis. Shiite death squads, partly funded by A white flier taped to sand- Iran, have targeted Sunni men, colored walls has infused the who show up dead, their bodies markets with fear in the north- tortured and their hands hand- eastern city of Baquba and the cuffed behind their backs. western Sunni city of Fallujah. As the nation unravels into The flier is signed by the muja- Sunni and Shiite sectors, the hedeen (holy warriors), and it Sunni-backed insurgency has will be enforced with arson this revived in cities such as Baquba, week. northeast of Baghdad, and “Every pharmacy, store or Fallujah, the isolated Sunni city vehicle will be burned if they are west of the capital. caught with Iranian merchan- Shortly after the boycott warn- dise,” a flier in Fallujah said. “And ings began, on Thursday about if the owner of the burned vehi- 200 insurgents attacked Baquba cle or the store or the pharmacy checkpoints surrounding the city tried to transfer these goods in broad daylight, police said, again, then he will be punished killing an estimated 16 people. CORBIS according to the laws of God. He The once bustling marketplace A truck is loaded with organic sugar cane at the Sao Fransisco sugar mill in Sertaozinho, Brazil September 8, will be considered a collaborator is now quiet except for bullets 2005. with the killer.” exchanged between police and BY JACK CHANG “Here is the classic dilemma require a swath of farmland a Earlier this year it was Danish insurgents, residents said. Knight Ridder Tribune of biofuels,” said Tad Patzek, little smaller than California. products that disappeared from In Fallujah after the warning geoengineering professor and Replacing that gasoline with less Iraqi shelves after a controver- that banned Iranian products, Brazil’s booming ethanol biofuels expert at the University efficient corn-based ethanol, sial Danish cartoon ignited rage the mujahedeen entered schools industry has won international of California at Berkeley. “They which the United States produc- across the Muslim world. Now, to enforce a dress code. Girls acclaim, but recent supply and fight for space in the environ- es lots of, would require farm- in Sunni areas of Iraq, the rage under 15 must cover their hair. pricing problems suggest that it’s ment, they fight food produc- land the size of Texas. turns against Iran. E-mails and Older ones must cover their not the grand solution to tight oil tion and they fight consumption “Biofuels will not make any text messages pass the word: faces. More than six influential supplies and ever-rising prices trends. They are not the answer kind of impact on Americans, “Every penny you spend on clerics have been murdered in that had been hoped. to the energy crisis.” the way they’re consuming now,” an Iranian product turns into a the past six months for speaking Brazilian ethanol producers Such hard lessons come as Patzek said. bullet an Iraqi gets killed by, or against the mujahedeen. are struggling to keep up with unwelcome news for U.S. con- Brazil’s problems this year pours fuel on the fire of strife.” Trucks bearing Iranian goods domestic demand for ethanol, sumers, who are encountering started after growers of sugar Since the American invasion are being diverted as they which is projected to grow by 50 record high prices at the gas cane upped sugar production of Iraq in 2003, neighboring Iran near Diyala province, of which percent over the next five years. pump and threats to oil supplies rather than ethanol to take has become one of the closest Baquba is the capital. The trucks Yet a 15 percent jump in prices in politically troubled countries. advantage of rising world prices allies of the Shiite-controlled gov- go directly to the Shiite south earlier this year sparked a sharp In his State of the Union for the sweetener. Most refiners ernment. Iran’s Shiite theocracy or through the Kurdish north to drop in consumption. Even so, address in January, President can switch from ethanol to sugar was once Iraq’s greatest adver- avoid the threat of firebombs suppliers are struggling to plant Bush asked Americans to look production within hours. sary when Saddam Hussein, a in Diyala, said Mohammed A. enough fields of new sugar cane, toward alternative fuels such as Rising consumption of etha- Sunni, ruled. Back then, Iran’s Hassun, chairman of the Baghdad from which ethanol is produced ethanol as a way out of their nol had already stretched sup- goods were smuggled over the Chamber of Commerce. here, to keep up with the antici- energy crunch. plies thin. Prices recently have border. Now they flood into Iraq In the markets, merchants pated growth in demand. Yet if Brazil is hitting bumps fallen, but only after the govern- through five trade routes in the are rushing to rid themselves of Some energy experts say this on the ethanol road, Americans, ment lowered the required per- Shiite south and Kurdish north. incriminating goods before this has revealed the limits of Brazil’s who consume more than 10 centage of ethanol mixed with The goods are popular because week’s deadline. ethanol program and that it is times as much oil as Brazilians, gasoline from 25 to 20 percent, their prices are cheap. They over- Imad Sadiq, 34, pointed to a an unreliable energy source, one face a minefield. reducing demand. This month’s whelm markets in Shiite cities, blue and white air cooler in front that can’t be depended on to Replacing a year’s worth of beginning of the sugar cane har- but many Sunnis already shun of his appliance store. It was the make much of a dent in world- U.S. gasoline consumption with them as enemy-made merchan- wide use of fossil fuels. sugar cane-based ethanol would see ETHANOL, page 21 dise. see BOYCOTT, page 21 Egyptian parliament renews law Cubans feel vulnerable as permitting detention without trial hurricane season approaches

BY MIRET EL-NAGGAR ings in the Sinai peninsula. The first took Knight Ridder Tribune place Monday in a coastal tourist resort on the Red Sea and left 24 dead and Egypt’s parliament voted Sunday to 160 wounded. The second happened extend for two years an emergency law Wednesday when two men blew them- that allows indefinite detentions without selves up, one near a car carrying multi- trials and otherwise restricts civil liber- national peacekeepers, the other next to ties. a police car. Only the two suicide bomb- The law’s extension is a setback for ers were harmed. Security forces arrested the Bush administration, which has thirty people and killed one suspect in a been pressing Egyptian President Hosni gun battle. Mubarak to be less repressive. Mubarak “Current events and terrorist crimes had promised during his re-election call for a mechanism to face these crimes campaign last year to replace the 25- that afflict citizens,” said Maher el-Drby, year-old law with a new statute targeting a member of parliament’s majority party. terrorists, but his government chose to Opposition bloc members said that renew the old law instead. Parliament the law has been in force for 25 years and approved the extension 287-91. hasn’t stopped any terrorist attacks. Civil society groups and members of “The executive uses this law to repress opposition parties have long demand- political opposition,” said Mohamed ed the law’s abolition. Under it secu- Saad el-Katatny, a member of the influ- CORBIS rity forces forcefully disperse demonstra- ential Muslim Brotherhood, which holds High winds and rains rage over streets and buildings as Hurricane Rita passes over the tions and detain anyone deemed risky to 88 seats in parliament and forms the north end of Cuba on Sept. 20, 2005. national security, even people said to be main opposition bloc. slandering Egypt’s image. Human-rights Mubarak had hinted last week, even BY MIKE CLARY life-long resident Hector Martinez, 67, groups say that thousands of prison- before the Sinai bombings, that the emer- Knight Ridder Tribune recalling how tempest after tempest was ers sit in Egyptian jails without formal gency law would be extended. either deflected or robbed of its punch. charges. “How can we believe in the rest of Jutting into the Caribbean Sea like But last July, for the first time in mem- Prime Minister Ahmed Nazief told par- the president’s promises, which he made a boxer’s chin, this area of small towns ory, a major storm roared up the Jamaica liament that the two-year extension “was during the last electoral campaign?” said and sugar cane fields near Cuba’s south- Channel, cracked the glass in the Cabo not long when measured against the dan- George Ishak, coordinator of the wide- ernmost point looks like a target no hur- Cruz lighthouse, and raked the promon- gers which threaten us and our future. We spread Kifaya opposition movement, ricane could miss. tory with winds as high as 145 mph. will never use the emergency law other which in Arabic means “Enough.” Yet for several generations, this coast- Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people in than to protect the citizen and the secu- The law has been in force since the al pocket on the lee side of the Sierra Cuba, including 13 in Granma province, rity of the nation and combat terrorism.” 1981 assassination of former President Maestra seemed immune from harm. Egypt was rocked last week by bomb- Anwar Sadat. “The mountains protected us,” said see CUBA, page 23 20 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL Monday, May 1, 2006 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL 21 Brazil’s ethanol problems ominous for U.S. ETHANOL sugar and ethanol, say they can cooler, southern states, said continued from page 19 satisfy growing demand for eth- Marcelo Furtado, Brazilian direc- vest also boosted ethanol sup- anol by producing more sugar tor of the environmental group plies and lowered prices. cane. Greenpeace. “This showed ethanol can “There is a lot of room to grow “There is a way forward with help but it cannot replace fossil more sugar cane,” said Fernando ethanol, but it has to be very well fuels, at least right now,” said Jed Moreira Ribeiro, secretary gen- managed and very well regulat- Bailey, Latin American director eral of the country’s largest sugar ed,” Furtado said. “There’s a big of Cambridge Energy Research and ethanol group. question the government needs Associates, a U.S. consulting But with more than 13 mil- to decide about what is off lim- firm. “There’s a lot more devel- lion acres already growing sugar its, and we believe the Amazon opment that’s needed.” cane, such words worry environ- should be off limits.” Ethanol has become a staple mentalists, who fear expansion What no one in Brazil wants in Brazil’s energy stew. Brazil’s will come at the cost of rain- to see is a repeat of the country’s refineries pumped out 4.5 bil- forests and savannah in Brazil’s last failed experiment with etha- lion gallons of the biofuel this northern states, where there is nol. past year. All but 14 percent was little sugar production. Sugar Backed by enormous subsi- consumed domestically. cane production expanded by dies, Brazil’s ethanol industry So-called flex-fuel cars that only 2 percent last year in the flourished during the 1980s, run on both gasoline and eth- country’s southern and cen- prices were low, and Brazilians anol make up three-fourths of tral states, where most sugar is bought millions of ethanol-pow- new car sales. Ethanol makes up grown. ered cars. about half of all fuel used by pas- The Amazon forest is attrac- However, those cars became senger vehicles. tive to sugar farmers because all but useless by the end of the Government and industry its warm climate produces two decade when rising sugar prices leaders in Brazil, already the growing cycles per year, dou- turned growers away from pro- world’s largest producer of both ble the single harvest found in ducing ethanol as oil prices fell. Iraqi merchants tossing Iranian goods to stay safe BOYCOTT Fallujians stock up on their favorite merchandise. continued from page 19 goods. One young woman bought “The Shiite and Kurds are 80 only piece of merchandise he still boxes of honey cakes to hide in percent of the population, the rest had to sell. her room. A widow bought three of the population won’t affect one Abu Saleh walked into the store boxes of about 80 cakes each to thing,” Kazzaz said. in his white dishdasha, a tradition- sell at the business she runs from In the mayor’s office in Baquba, al Arab male gown, looking for a her home. Her little store would be Khaled al-Sanjari confessed that bargain as the sweltering summer overlooked by the insurgency, she he can’t protect the merchants. To heat approaches. said. save themselves they must get rid “How much?” he asked Sadiq. Mohammed Hassan al-Kazzaz, of Iranian goods. “190,000 Iraqi Dinars,” ($128.57) head of the Iraqi Chamber of “Iran wants to fight the the merchant replied. Commerce, said that China and Americans by using Iraqi people “You have to sell it, you have Iran are the biggest exporters to and not Iranian ... those who only two days. Would you sell it Iraq. Iran gives Iraqi importers made this threat wanted to send for 170,000 ($115.04)?” Abu Saleh a six-month grace period to pay a clear message to the Iranians asked. for merchandise, he said. He pre- not to interfere in Iraqi matters,” “You won’t find any Iranian dicts the boycott will fail because Sanjari, a Sunni, said. “Most of coolers in Fallujah in two days. demand for the goods is too high. the shop owners will obey. Some You have to buy it,” Sadiq said. In the southern port city of Basra of them may be killed. We cannot The haggling continues as the markets are filled with Iranian save everyone.” 22 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL Monday, May 1, 2006 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL 23 Cuba fears another torrential season CUBA homes by the end of the year. And in the continued from page 19 center of Niquero, an open-air manufac- and destroyed or damaged tens of thou- turing operation is turning out cement sands of homes in a nation already reeling blocks. under a housing crisis. The wait for materials is long, however, Now, on the cusp of another hurricane so the well-honed Cuban talent for inven- season predicted to be as busy as the tiveness has kicked in. Lamello, his wife last, many local residents living in barely Margarita Miyano, 56, and four other fam- patched-up houses admit that last July’s ily members are living in a cabin the fam- Category 4 storm shredded a sense of ily built from the ruins of the house. What invulnerability that once sustained them. was once a wall becomes a makeshift roof, “The problem is that we always had and planks from an interior divider are faith that nothing like this could happen,” nailed into a bed frame. said Marco Lamello, 66, a retired office At the other end of the cement slab is worker who narrowly escaped death when another tiny shelter for Guillermo Garriga the wood-frame house in which he lived Dominguez, 54, and his wife, along with collapsed around him. “But it did hap- the couple’s pregnant daughter Illiana, pen. That storm destroyed a big part of 24, and her husband, family physician Niquero.” Leonardo Diez, 30. They once lived in More than 450 miles from Havana, this the downstairs part of the 100-year-old region is well off the track for most Cubans house. and visitors alike, save for a small number “We will rebuild,” said Garriga of tourists who seek out the back roads for Dominguez, “but we are still waiting to bicycle touring or who dive the crystalline hear when we will get the materials.” waters. Many campesinos live in small Next door, under a roof that did not cottages with roofs thatched with palm blow away but is now full of holes, live fronds. Leonor Macareno, 60, and her husband, Neither those roofs, nor those made retired cook Luis Rosello, 63. “It seems from sheets of zinc, were any match for strange to say that we never worried that Dennis, a storm that Cuban President Fidel much about hurricanes,” said Macareno, Castro declared on July 7 had “arrived, who has lived in the same house for 42 with all its diabolical force.” years. “But we worry now because the Dennis made landfall near the cen- forecasters say that once something like tral province of Cienfuegos, crossed the this happens, it is likely to happen again.” island to emerge in the Gulf of Mexico and Equally worried are the people of Cabo then on July 10 blasted into the Florida Cruz, the southernmost point in Cuba, Panhandle. The hurricane was blamed for about 20 miles south or here. The light- an additional 22 deaths in Haiti, three in house, built is 1871, is working, but a small the United States and one in Jamaica — 42 museum adjacent to the tower is closed lives in all. for repairs. According to the Cuban government Weeks after the storm passed, an assess- figures, Dennis caused about $1.4 billion ment team from New York-based Church in damage and destroyed 20,000 homes on World Service arrived in Niquero to survey the island. In Niquero, more than 90 per- the damage. cent of the homes were either destroyed or “Usually Cuba does a good job of evacu- damaged. ating people,” said Don Tatlock, emer- In Cuba there are no blue tarps, FEMA gency response coordinator who set the trailers, or trucks delivering ice to swelter- stage for the delivery of almost $900,000 ing storm victims. There is no homeown- worth of aid, more than half dedicated to ers insurance. building 100 new homes. “But in this area Soon after the storm passed, Castro many thought it was a drill. They are in announced a plan to build 100,000 new shock that they suffered such damage.” 24 THE TUFTS DAILY COMICS Monday, May 1, 2006 CROSSWORD DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

FOX TROT BY BILL AMEND

DILBERT BY SCOTT ADAMS

NON SEQUITUR BY WILEY

HOROSCOPES For the week of May 1-7, 2006

Aries (March 21-April 20) Before mid-week, a long- Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Seductive flirtations may this term friend may cancel travel plans or announce week arriving without warning. Workplace important home changes. Emotional delays in the romance, however, will not evolve as antici- family, complex demands from romantic partners pated: before mid-week emotional triangles, or late social invitations may be a central concern. public speculation or ongoing social disruptions Patience is vital: expect loved ones to opt for group may prove annoying. Avoid long-term risk and involvement, creativity and social distraction. take time to carefully consider all alternatives. After Thursday, study employment documents for Caution is necessary. misleading information. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Business diplomacy is now Taurus (April 21-May 20) Romantic communications essential to lasting success. Some Scorpios, may this week become subtly competitive. especially those born after 1978, may encoun- Power struggles in intimate relationships will be ter unexpected workplace triangles. Underlying difficult to avoid over the next four days. Planned issues involve unrealistic ambitions or overly events, relations with friends or last minute fam- familiar relations with key officials. Avoid pub- ily gatherings may be a prime source of confu- lic debate and expect hidden information to sion. Remain vigilant: accurate facts will prove soon emerge. After Thursday, a mildly unethical vital. Late this week, a bold discussion between romantic proposal, although flattering, should key officials or older relatives may reveal contro- be politely ignored. versial proposals. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Family negotiations will Gemini (May 21-June 21) Employment schedules may require delicate emotional skills over the next greatly improve over the next few days: after six days. Older relatives may this week chal- Wednesday, expect social differences between lenge the revised habits or social choices of colleagues or delayed permissions to no longer others. Traditional roles versus new friendships stall progress. Some Geminis will also encounter may trigger lasting controversy: take time to a sharp increase in daily duties and financial fully explain your thoughts, needs or actions. responsibilities. If so, thoroughly review new Detailed information will be appreciated. Friday contracts for legal details: vague deadlines may through Sunday accents past memories or unex- strain workplace relations. pected social messages.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) Co-workers and key officials Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) News from distant friends may this week ask for extra dedication. Respond or previously silent relatives may arrive over the with enthusiasm: although recently strained, next four days. Pay close attention to long-term business relationships will soon offer valuable work schedules, business expansion or career opportunities for advancement. Late Wednesday, speculation. Loved ones may soon wish to take discuss short-term employment plans with on special assignments or steadily adopt new loved ones. Budgets and family obligations will job skills. Offer encouragement but expect lin- LATE NIGHT AT THE DAILY: FAREWELL EDITION demand shared plans. Thursday through Sunday, gering doubts and slow progress. a previously withdrawn friend may request con- crete social promises. Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Someone close may be unusually moody or introspective over the next Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Over the next six days, revised eight days. Key issues involve low social confi- job roles will demand careful timing. Close col- dence, group reputation or delayed romantic leagues may press for increased knowledge, progress. Provide strong examples for revised special permissions and rare team assignments. options: before next week, loved ones will "That is a giant tree up my ass." Remain determined to individual goals, however, respond positively to creative suggestions. and watch for delays. Minor power struggles may Friday through Sunday, watch for a rare finan- this week trigger unexpected group disagree- cial opportunity concerning technology sys- — Ross Marrinson ments. Thursday through Saturday, a close relative tems, new investments or foreign travel. requests a bold public statement of affection. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) Employment routines may Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Early this week, loved ones be unreliable over the next two days. Before reveal complex emotions or unique social tri- Wednesday, ask colleagues for extra consider- "You stay classy, Tufts." angles. Group alliances and long-term friend- ation or detailed instructions. This is not the ships are now changing: before mid-week, expect right time to create controversy or challenge ongoing pressure to accept controversial activi- the authority of key officials. Stay focused and ties, adopt unusual ideas or expand key relation- expect a calm atmosphere to soon be estab- — All of us at the Daily ships. Creative suggestions may prove mislead- lished. Before Sunday, minor ailments affecting ing: trust your own instincts. After Friday, friends the kidneys, lower back or digestion may prove and lovers may propose controversial travel or bothersome. Opt for exercise: revised health home plans. regimes will offer the best results. Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS | CLASSIFIEDS 25

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We reserve the right to refuse to print any classifieds which contain obscenity, are of an overly sexual nature, or are used expressly to denigrate a person or group. Questions? Email [email protected]. Detroit dominates Twins at home An introduction to turkey hunts BY JASON WILLIAMS heading for baseball oblivion. Cleveland Indians, the Chicago TURKEY was on the verge of coming right Knight Ridder Tribune With several contracts set to White Sox and Detroit,” Hunter continued from page 26 in. Unfortunately, none made the expire after the season, they said. “That’s tough to swallow. regularly and stopped once to give final approach. No one is smiling now. could be heading for a midsea- I don’t even know what to say. herself a shot. Her mother’s boy- “That was close. That was really This time, the clubhouse son fire sale. And crowds at the I can’t keep saying the same friend, Stan Skare of Hawthorne, close,” Stetzer said. stereo was off, and Minnesota Dome could plummet. thing over and over.” also came along on the hunt to As he and Vavra left the woods, Twins players were silent as Twins manager Ron But the Twins keep doing the observe. it was clear Vavra had become a they dressed after their week- Gardenhire said before the same things over and over at At midmorning, the group turkey hunter. end beating mercifully ended a game that he took a verbal beat- the plate and on the mound. came upon a tom walking down “I’m going to get one, no mat- 6-0 loss to Detroit on Sunday at ing from fans during his weekly Most of their hitting prob- the middle of the road. The hunt ter what,” she told Stetzer. “We’re Comerica Park. Sunday morning call-in radio lems were reflected in slug- was on. coming back here, aren’t we?” In one of the worst three-day show. You don’t get too many ger Justin Morneau’s first two Quickly, Stetzer led Vavra into On the way to lunch, Vavra stretches in Twins history, the breaks following losses of 9-0 at-bats against Rogers (4-2). a stand of young Norway pines, talked about her first few hours of team was thumped 33-1 in a and 18-1. Morneau struck out on three where they began calling. The tom turkey hunting. three-game sweep by a divi- “No one believes in us right pitches in his first at-bat. He appeared briefly but saw some- “In the morning, I didn’t like it sional opponent. now,” White said. “But I’m not struck out on four pitches his thing he didn’t like. He disap- because it was too cold and you The last time the Twins scored going to quit, and I know the second time up. peared among the pines. have to get up early,” she said. “But only one run in a three-game rest of the guys aren’t going to Just like last season, when But another tom began gob- when it got warmer and we were series was in June 5-7, 1981. quit.” they had the worst run-produc- bling back to Stetzer’s yelps, so he moving and we started seeing and The Tigers administered that Hunter, the team’s club- ing lineup in the AL, the free- and Vavra moved in that direction. hearing things, it got exciting.” beating, too, at Tiger Stadium. house leader, wore the disap- swinging Twins are making it Four times in the next hour and That afternoon, Vavra would The 2-7 road trip was the pointment on his face Sunday. easy on opposing pitchers. a half, they would relocate in the have another chance to run and Twins’ worst in eight years. After Saturday’s 17-run debacle, Players continue to take extra plantation, trying to get closer to gun. I was unable to accompany But home might not seem he was upbeat. He said “guys batting practice and break down gobblers. the hunters, but Stetzer told the like a refuge, because fans are are still smiling” as rap music film of their swing. Gardenhire Stetzer was masterful on his story. howling on talk radio and the blared from the speakers. But has significantly changed his calls, using an in-the-mouth dia- They spotted a tom walking in boo-birds are ready to chirp at his demeanor was quite differ- lineup in the past four games. phragm call along with slate and the woods just off a road and set the Metrodome. ent a day later. Nothing has worked. box calls to imitate interested hens. up to call it, he said. But he told “Right now,” Twins center “My whole career, I’ve never The Twins claim they see light He offered up seductive yelps. He Vavra their odds were slim because fielder Torii Hunter said, “we been whipped this bad,” Hunter ahead after their worst nine- issued calming purrs. He tried they’d have to call it across a creek. [stink] to people.” said, speaking softly. “It’s not a game stretch away from home “cutting,” ripping off a quick series Gobblers often won’t cross a creek The Twins (9-15) finished good feeling.” since August 1998. Entering of yelps that imitate an agitated or to get to a hen. the first month of the season The primary reason for a seven-game homestand excited hen. Gobblers called back “I started calling, and he with the American League’s Hunter’s concern is that the Monday night against Seattle, repeatedly, first from a distance, answered, but he didn’t cross the second-worst record. And they Central Division has man- they are hitting .305 at the then almost within gun range. creek,” Stetzer said. “I had noth- gave no indication Sunday handled Minnesota, which as Metrodome, where two-thirds Vavra was unable to see the ing to lose. We started way over- that things will be any better recently as 18 months ago was of their victories have come. birds, but Stetzer twice got glimps- calling. I had her calling with the in May. Although pitchers Kyle king of the division. The Twins They are batting .215 on the es of them. box call. Pretty soon we hear fuff- Lohse and newcomer Dennys have completed their first cycle road. Gardenhire said he has no “I think we saw two toms and fuff-fuff. He had flown across the Reyes gave up 12 fewer runs through the divisional schedule explanation for the road woes. a jake (a yearling male) twice,” he creek.” than in the Twins’ previous with a 2-10 record. Both victo- “We definitely have a lot of would say later. Stetzer could hear the gob- game — how’s that for prog- ries have come against Kansas work to do,” he said. “We have This was the essence of turkey bler coming through the dry oak ress? — Minnesota was held to City, arguably the worst team in to pitch better. We have to hit hunting — talking to the birds, try- leaves. He was walking quietly, not a season-low two hits by Kenny baseball. better. We have to catch the ball ing to get them to commit within strutting. Rogers and Todd Jones. In nine games against the top better. That’s why there can’t Vavra’s 25-yard shooting range. All of the previous evening’s talk “It can’t get any worse,” des- three teams in the division, the be anybody pointing fingers in She was captivated by the conver- about hand signals was forgotten ignated hitter Rondell White Twins have been outscored 73- here, because it’s the total pack- sation, ready to pull the trigger if when Vavra saw the gobbler. said. 15. age. It’s got to be an effort by the opportunity presented itself. “She yelled, ‘I see him!”’ Stetzer At this rate, the Twins are “We’ve been swept by the the whole team to get better.” Several times, it seemed a gobbler said. “That was it.” Softer bumpers get test as NASCAR officials hope to limit ramming BY DAVE KALLMANN test of whether less reinforcement will is the guys that tear their car up (because ing,” Mears said. “You could almost take Knight Ridder Tribune mean the drivers use their bumpers less they) forget.” the bumpers off these cars. If someone and their heads more. Most drivers agree that the softer bum- pulls down to block your run, they cause First came soft walls, and now NASCAR So far, the only thing they’ve done is pers can’t hurt, but few believe they’re the incidents.” has soft bumpers, too. generate a wide variety of opinions. soft enough to radically change the way Other problems are drivers making The first innovation — the crushable “At least NASCAR is trying something for people race at Talladega and at Daytona aggressive moves while side-by-side and steel and foam system developed at the this event,” said reigning champion Tony International Speedway. hitting each other nose-to-tail while going University of Nebraska — has been univer- Stewart, who led the charge for change “You’ll still be able to bump-draft and through the corners at nearly 190 mph. sally hailed as a tool that has saved more in February with his dire but ultimately do the things you’ve always done,” 2003 NASCAR addressed both before the season lives and minimized more driver injuries incorrect prediction that someone would champion Matt Kenseth said, adding that opener in February and warned drivers than anyone cares to contemplate. be killed by the end of the Daytona 500. the change was just enough. “You’re not that they’d be penalized. The second — a reduction in the amount “We’ll see how it works out.” gonna be able to pile-drive somebody, While the threats may have been effec- of bracing and the size of tubing allowed By limiting the amount of bracing and which you shouldn’t be doing that to start tive, they’ll never have the same sort of at the front of the cars — remains an size of tubing in the front of cars, NASCAR with, so I don’t think it’s gonna be a big teeth as driver-to-driver intimidation or a unknown. hoped to create a consequence to bump- deal.” good old-fashioned, butt-whipping, said The development was spurred by com- drafting. Too much puts both the radiator Still others question whether the bum- veteran Jeff Burton. plaints that drivers were using the noses and the aerodynamics of a driver’s car in per addresses the real issues. The influx of corporate sponsors and of their cars as battering rams and creating peril. Daytona 500 runner-up Casey Mears is a television cameras has made dispensing unnecessary danger on the NASCAR Nextel “People are gonna forget that they don’t fan of bump-drafting. In his mind, it’s fun such garage-area justice impossible. That’s Cup Series’ longest and fastest tracks. have the cow-catchers in the front end,” and hardly ever a problem. put the sanctioning body in the difficult The Aaron’s 499 on Sunday at Talladega veteran Mark Martin said Friday. “That “Nine times out of 10, if you review the position of trying to determine a driver’s (Ala.) Superspeedway will be the first real should be part of the interest to the race tapes the big [accident] is caused by block- intent and dole out a proper penalty. 26 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Monday, May 1, 2006 A’s stop sloppy Royals, 13-6 A weekend at Camp Turkey BY SAM MELLINGER homer from Mark Teahen in the fifth. BY SAM COOK Douglas County Wildlife Management Area Knight Ridder Tribune The frustration of the announced 15,224 Knight Ridder Tribune north of Gordon. in attendance reached its crescendo the Stetzer is vice president of the Gitchee So many things to take from this. None next inning, when the Royals gave the Brandi Vavra wasn’t sure she was crazy Gumme Chapter of the National Wild Turkey of them are good. game away. about turkey hunting. Federation, which organized the hunt. It’s just a month into the season, and The boos came out when A’s catcher Yes, she had signed up to take part in “Hunting as a heritage is in a decline right the Royals are on pace to set club records Jason Kendall drove in a run by taking a this Wisconsin youth turkey hunt. But now now,” said Stetzer, 46. “I think it’s important for losses, center fielders used and frus- Luke Hudson pitch off his arm. Kotsay — at 5:45 a.m. on a brisk April morning near that kids not only learn to hunt, but how to tration built. The latest irritator is a 13- then hit a two-run double to right, Kendall Gordon — the 12-year-old from Hawthorne, hunt ethically. It’s not about taking a bird. It’s 6 home-stand finale loss to Oakland on and Kotsay scored on German’s awkward Wis., was cold and a little afraid of being about what you learn out there and taking Sunday at Kauffman Stadium, lowlighted error, and Eric Chavez added an RBI sin- eaten by coyotes. that and applying it to everyday life.” by mistakes both outrageous and basic. gle. In the predawn darkness, Vavra was sitting On the Friday night before the hunt, Stetzer Esteban German left in the sixth Hudson took the loss after allowing all with her back against a Norway pine, her and other mentors had begun working with because of a bruise and laceration of the four batters he faced to reach base. adult hunting mentor by her side. Her men- their young partners. At his pickup tailgate, mouth after a routine fly ball to center “Seems like we’ve done this a lot,” Bell tor was Doug Stetzer of Superior, a veteran Stetzer showed Vavra various turkey calls. bounced off his face. An inning later, said. “We score, and then we just give it turkey hunter. He told her how a GPS navigation system Doug Mientkiewicz’s diving stop on Mark right back. We’ve got to figure out how to Vavra whispered to Stetzer that she want- worked. They worked out hand signals they Kotsay’s grounder was wasted when make that better.” ed to go home. Stetzer whispered back that could use to communicate during the hunt. Royals reliever Andrew Sisco was too slow Mientkiewicz said: “The one good posi- they had made a deal to sit in the woods for He showed her the camouflage face paint he over to first. tive is we bailed (Elarton) out of the loss.” 30 minutes. sometimes wears during a hunt. “I’ve seen things here recently I haven’t Right now, the Royals know they have “You wouldn’t want to go back on a deal “I would never wear that stuff,” Vavra told seen since rookie league,” Royals man- much bigger things to worry about than you made, would you?” Stetzer whispered. him. ager Buddy Bell said. “Guys not having protecting Elarton from starting the sea- “I might,” Vavra whispered back. Later, Vavra worked with hunt coordinator (sun)glasses, guys not covering first. That’s son 0-5. Losses continue to pile up on the About two minutes passed. No gobblers Kevin Feind of Solon Springs to pattern her not an issue of playing hard or whatever, worst record in baseball. Center fielders called. shotgun on a turkey target. She approached it’s just that when the game starts moving — first David DeJesus, then Shane Costa, “Has it been 30 minutes?” Vavra whis- that exercise apprehensively because she too fast, we don’t have the ability to slow it now German — continue to drop. pered. had previously shot a 12-gauge shotgun that down.” Elarton and fellow veteran starting “It’s been about three minutes,” Stetzer kicked her hard in the shoulder. Now, with That the game was not televised may pitchers Joe Mays and Mark Redman were said. a lighter 20-gauge, Feind helped her work save German from national embarrass- acquired in the offseason to eat innings Slowly, daylight seeped through the pine through those fears and put a shot right on ment on the highlight shows. That the and give consistent production. In their plantation. Still, no gobblers sounded off in the target. She was ready. Royals finished April 5-17 and already last three starts, they’ve surrendered 15 this area where Stetzer had seen birds dur- After the early morning hunt in the pine are 11 games behind Chicago in the AL earned runs in a combined 71/3 innings. ing prehunt scouting. But he was a man of plantation, Stetzer and Vavra went into the Central opens them up for ridicule every- Any positive vibes from snapping his word. When 30 minutes had passed, he mode turkey hunters call “run and gun.” where from local radio shows to Jay Leno’s an 11-game skid seem as outdated as ushered his young hunter out of the woods. They drove roads in the Pine Barrens back- monologue. AstroTurf now, the frustration spilling over Soon, Vavra was warming her feet in country, stopping occasionally to call tur- Scott Elarton’s string of hard luck — into postgame comments from Bell and Stetzer’s pickup. Stetzer was trying to figure keys. four losses while pitching mostly solid as the players. out how to salvage this hunt and expose Stetzer helped Vavra use a slate call and the Royals scored a total of five runs in his “The bottom line is performance, and Vavra to the glories of wild turkey hunting. a box call to imitate the yelps of a hen tur- five starts — ended with his worst outing. we’re not getting it done,” Elarton said. Vavra was one of 16 youths, ages 12-15, key. Vavra, clad head to toe in camouflage, Elarton made it just two and one-third “You can go locker to locker in here, and who had been chosen in a drawing to take warmed to the daytime version of turkey innings, giving up five earned runs, four we’re not getting it done. We have to make part in the first youth hunt in Northwestern hunting. She liked running and gunning. hits and three walks. His ERA jumped some changes. I believe you make your Wisconsin. This is the first year turkey hunting A diabetic, she checked her insulin levels from 3.16 to 4.28. He was saved from own breaks. The way we’re playing right has been permitted in Douglas and Bayfield another loss by a score-tying, three-run now, we don’t deserve any breaks.” counties. The hunt was headquartered at the see TURKEY, page 25

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WOMEN’S CREW counterpart 7:39.74 to 8:12.08. vs. Amherst continued from page 30 The Tufts novice crew did Softball NESCAC tourney Dietz believed that the not fare as well, losing in 5:00 p.m. team’s mentality entering the three of its four races. The Men’s NESCAC Semifinals race may have had a hand first novice boat got the only @Middlebury in the less-than-desirable win, defeating Smith by a time Lacrosse results. of 7:36.77 to 8:12.21, but los- “We got ourselves too hyped ing to Wellesley by a time of Women’s up,” Dietz said. “It was such 7:46.07 to 7:55.84. The 2N lost Lacrosse a big race for us that we all to both Smith and Wellesley in wanted to win so badly, and its races. NCAA NCAA we got overwhelmed.” But all heads are turned Women’s Tennis Regionals Regionals While it struggled against towards Lake Quinsigamond in TBD TBD the Smith boats, Tufts did Worcester this Sunday for the not have a problem against New England Championships, New England Div. III Championships Wellesley college, beating one of the biggest rowing Men’s Track @Springfield 3:00 p.m. it soundly. The varsity team competitions of the season. (7:23.48) sped past Wellesley’s The team enters competition New England Div. III Championships varsity boat (7:55.92). The sec- familiar with most of its com- Women’s @Springfield ond varsity boat fared even petition, as only Williams and Track 3:00 p.m. better, defeating its Wellesley Trinity will be new opponents.

STATISTICS | STANDINGS Men's Lax NESCAC Tournament Women's Lax NESCAC Tournament Baseball NESCAC Standings Softball NESCAC Standings Div. III Softball as of Apr. 26, 2006 Team NESCAC OVERALL Team NESCAC OVERALL Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) First Round, Sunday: First Round, Sunday: NESCAC East W L T W L T NESCAC East W L W L 1. St. Thomas (8) Bowdoin 10 2 0 25 5 1 Tufts 7 1 24 12 2. Ithaca No. 4 Tufts def. No. 5 Bates, 13-8 No. 6 Williams def. No. 3 Colby, 17-11 Tufts 9 3 0 19 12 0 Bates 4 4 15 14 3. Muskingum No. 3 Bowdoin def. No. 6 Amherst, 12-8 No. 4 Bowdoin def. No. 5 Tufts, 14-7 Trinity 6 6 0 17 14 0 Trinity 4 4 22 8 4. Rutgers - Camden No. 2 Wesleyan def. No. 7 Williams, 12-5 No. 2 Amherst def. No. 7 Wesleyan, 17-8 Bates 3 9 0 10 16 0 Bowdoin 3 5 16 22 5. Louisiana College Colby 2 10 0 9 20 0 Colby 1 7 11 20 6. Wisconsin - Eau Claire Second Round, May 6 @ Middlebury: Second Round, May 6 @ Middlebury: 7. Wartburg NESCAC West NESCAC West 8. Chapman No. 1 Middlebury vs. No. 4 Tufts No. 1 Middlebury vs. No. 6 Williams Middlebury 8 3 0 20 7 0 Williams 8 0 26 8 20. Tufts No. 2 Wesleyan vs. No. 3 Bowdoin No. 2 Amherst vs. No. 4 Bowdoin Williams 8 3 0 24 7 0 Amherst 5 3 18 10 Div. III Women’s Lacrosse Amherst 8 3 1 20 9 1 Middlebury 5 3 15 9 as of Apr. 17, 2006 Wesleyan 3 6 1 11 16 1 Hamilton 1 7 3 25 Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) Hamilton 0 12 0 7 25 0 Wesleyan 1 7 12 21 1. Gettysburg (13) 2. Middlebury (1) 3. Salisbury Men's Lacrosse Women's Lacrosse Baseball Softball 4. The College of New Jersey (1) G A P G AP BA HR RBI BA HR RBI 5. SUNY Cortland Mark Warner 9 15 24 Dena Miller 35 12 47 Jim O'Leary .484 2 26 Danielle Lopez .420 11 41 6. Amherst Mike O'Brien 13 9 22 Maya Shoham 17 13 30 Bryan McDavitt .404 2 30 Alison Drobiarz .405 0 1 7. Colby Billy Granger 11 11 22 Alyssa Corbett 21 16 27 Greg Chertok .367 0 17 Samantha Kuhles .389 0 12 8. Franklin & Marshall Brett Holm 12 4 16 Lauren Murphy 15 12 27 Nick Curato .357 0 15 Cara Hovhanessian .371 2 27 11. Tufts Michael Hughes 13 1 14 Sarah Williams 16 9 25 Kevin Casey .344 0 16 Laura Chapman .355 0 4 Collegiate Coed Sailing Clem McNally 10 1 11 Meredith Harris 12 7 19 Brian Casey .342 0 25 Jess Barrett .333 1 9 as of Apr. 13, 2006 Chris Connelly 9 2 11 Bretlyn Curtis 11 6 17 Kyle Backstrom .336 0 21 Erica Bailey .326 2 20 Ranking, team (previous rank) Rory Doucette 5 4 9 Christine Attura 10 7 17 Brian McDonough .330 4 27 Megan Cusick .323 0 13 1. Hobart/WilliamSmith (2) Chase Bibby 5 0 5 Courtney Thomas 5 3 8 Ben Chang .318 0 8 Mara Dodson .291 0 10 2. Tufts (3) Connor Ginsberg 4 1 5 Jackie Thomas 4 1 5 Chris Decembrele .280 5 21 Maya Ripecky .289 1 4 3. Harvard (4) Casey D'Annolfo 3 1 4 Caitlin Friedensohn 3 2 5 Pat Kennedy .207 0 3 Annie Ross .278 1 10 4. St. Mary’s (6) Matt Lanuto 3 0 3 Hillary Pentz 2 2 4 W L ERA SO Pitching W L ERA SO 5. Georgetown (1) Pitching 6. Yale (7) Joe Cavallo 3 0 3 Carlos Lopez 3 0 1.74 30 Lauren Gelmetti 5 1 1.86 35 7. USC (9) Goaltending Sh SV Sa% Eric Johanson 0 1 2.57 16 Sarah Conroy 7 4 2.24 36 8. Hawaii (12) Goaltending Sh Sa Sa% Gillian Kline 159 68 .428 Zak Smotherman 4 1 2.59 43 Julia Brenta 7 2 2.36 39 9. Dartmouth (14) Matt Harrigan 261 157 .602 Tracy Rittenour 22 7 .318 Derek Rice 3 3 2.97 24 Erica Bailey 4 4 2.90 42 10. Boston College (5) Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 27 MVP choices show divergent direction of MLB, NBA LIBERATOR continued from page 29 was the name of the game in the 1990s, epitomized by Pat Riley’s bruising version of success through defense and intimida- tion. The average possession consisted of a pass or two followed by a painful one- on-one isolation that often consisted of the offensive player shoving his gluteus maximus repeatedly into the crotchal region of the defender. Watch any game in which Mark Jackson was involved and you’ll agree with me. After Michael Jordan retired (for the second time) the NBA just did not have much going for it. That is, until 2003. Then the triumvirate of D-Wade, King James and ‘Melo graduated to the big time. Couple their entrance with the new rule changes (most notably the outlaw of the hand check) and we have a happier, more offense-friendly version of basket- ball. Scoring is up almost 10 points since the turn of the century. Defense still wins championships, but offense can now win you a ton of games along the way. Just ask the Detroit Pistons, who are the favor- ites this year because they now have an offense to go with their suffocating defense. SCHUYLER ARMSTRONG/TUFTS DAILY No player has benefited from this shift Junior Bryan McDavitt gets the putout at first during the Jumbos’ matchup against Colby on Saturday. McDavitt was 6-for-13 with seven more than Steve Nash. He made a seam- RBI as Tufts swept the Mules in league action. less transition from Dallas to Phoenix and, in the process, took the Suns to the Tufts pitchers protected leads in all three Colby games top of the Western Conference. His offen- sive value is indisputable, but his invis- BASEBALL inning, it’s a huge plus for the defense, and Clark out of the game after just two innings ibility on the other end may have cost the continued from page 31 it gives the pitchers a lot of confidence,” of work, pressuring the rest of the Colby staff Suns last year’s playoff series to the Spurs. With all of the offensive support, Tufts’ Decembrele said. “It was really a testament to string together the final five innings. Despite this gaping hole in his game, the starters maintained their focus on the to our pitchers [that they were able to hold all Friday evening’s game was no different, Canuck won the MVP, and he may win mound. Senior Zak Smotherman surren- of the leads]. Whenever we can put runs up as the Jumbos recorded two runs in the first again this year if certain leaked reports dered three earned runs in seven innings in early, it helps us, and in a long game, it hurts and six in the fourth to take an early 8-0 lead. hold true. game one; sophomore Adam Telian yielded [the other team’s] morale, which is a huge The Mules didn’t help their fatigued pitch- Compare that to the 2005 AL MVP race. four earned runs in his six innings of work part of how we were successful.” ing staff, committing four errors in the field. As any sports fan knows, it boiled down in game two; and junior Derek Rice gave up In Saturday’s first game, the Jumbos Tufts refused to hand its opponent extra to Big Papi and A-Rod. Once you get past three earned runs during his six innings on scored three times in the first and five times outs, only misplaying the ball once in all their gaudy offensive numbers, the two the mound in the finale. in the second before Colby could get on the three games. players couldn’t be more different. They Since the Jumbos mounted offensive ral- board. The team was off and running after The team will finish out its regular season are the quintessential ying and yang of lies in the first inning of all three games, Tufts Chertok was hit by a pitch to start the game. with a game against Eastern Connecticut the sporting world. pitchers were charged with protecting the He stole second, reached third on a balk, and tonight and a double-header against Babson The former is a big Dominican Santa leads, which they did solidly. scored the first run for Tufts on a Brian Casey on Sunday. The NESCAC Tournament opens Claus who is beloved by Boston fans and “Whenever you put runs up in the first single. Tufts knocked starter freshman Justin up at Bowdoin on Friday, May 12. generally admired by baseball aficiona- dos. Over the past few years he has come up with countless clutch hits, led the hapless Red Sox to the promised land, and kept Manny in check. You just can’t Jumbos will take on Amherst in first round of NESCACs help but like the guy. SOFTBALL and sophomore Megan Cusick also had 3 RBI and two runs, as well as Drobiartz’s 2- Then there’s A-Rod, a health nut so continued from page 29 two hits apiece, but the Jumbos could not for-4 showing with two runs, Tufts’ captured obsessed over projecting an image of young team. I think next weekend we’ll string together enough consecutive hits to a 10-1 win. professionalism and class that he comes definitely be fine in terms of getting up for get anything started and the Mules came Senior Julia Brenta pitched brilliantly, off pathetically fake. He’s hated by most the games.” through in the final inning for the win. going the distance to earn her seventh win. baseball fans and tolerated by Yankees At 6-0 heading into the twinbill against The split doubleheader against Colby She held Endicott to only one run, four hits, fans and players. Although the man last-place Colby, the Jumbos were looking at followed one against non-conference no walks and had eight strikeouts as the is a fantasy owner’s dream, he is one their best chance at a perfect NESCAC East Endicott on Friday. In the second game, Jumbos broke the game open in the fifth more October chokefest from being record in years. With the Jumbos already Tufts rebounded from an eight-run deficit inning with five runs. anointed the new “Mr. May” by George having locked up the top seed, the 0-6 but fell just short of victory as the Gulls Overall, the set of four games this week- Steinbrenner. Take him off the team and Mules spoiled what they could by taking the tacked on a run in the bottom of the sixth to end were not the Jumbos’ best. However, the Yankees still make the playoffs. Take opener in extra innings, 3-2, before running win 9-8. Five Tufts errors led to six unearned they are now focused and ready to move on Ortiz off the Red Sox and not only do into some heavy bats from the Jumbos to runs for the Gulls, including two costly two- to the NESCAC tournament. they miss the playoffs, but Manny would fall 13-5 in a six-inning game. out miscues in the first inning that kept the “We didn’t play very well [this weekend], have started smoking weed during games In the second game, the Jumbos posted Endicott offense going. and this week is going to be very important instead of before and after and spent the nine runs on the board in the top of the “When we go to NESCACs we have to in getting back on track and playing the way second half of the season picking dan- sixth, blowing open what was a 4-3 game play better than we have played this week- we need to be playing to beat the teams like delions out in left. But A-Rod does play and making a strong statement going into end,” Ross said. “We’re going to work really Amherst and Williams,” said Bailey. exceptional defense, and it is mainly for the NESCAC tournament. hard this week and try to put on the finish- At 24-12 and 7-1 in the NESCAC East, the that reason that he was given the nod Sophomore Heather Kleinberger had ing touches. Hopefully we got it all out of Jumbos are now finished with their regular over Ortiz. two hits in the rally, leading off with her our systems.” season and will begin conference tourna- Last year’s MVP winners epitomize first home run of the season and, after the Endicott sophomore pitcher Kelly ment play on Friday against Amherst, the where the two leagues are heading. The Jumbos batted around the lineup, returned Bregman was on course for a great game, second-place team in the NESCAC West. NBA rewarded a player for his exception- to the plate for a two-run single. Freshman holding onto a one-hitter through four “[Amherst] beat us in California [over al work on the offensive side of the ball in Maya Ripecky and sophomore Megan innings. But Tufts’ offense came alive in the spring break] and I’m really excited to get spite of his porous defense. In contrast, Cusick each had a trio of hits in the game. top of the fifth, putting the Jumbos on the back at them and show them the Tufts team Big Papi lost the MVP award because Sophomore Erica Bailey started for the board and beginning a comeback that was that we are,” Ross said. “But in reality all we he didn’t play any defense. It’s interest- Jumbos, having finished off the final three highlighted by Cara Hovhanessian’s two- have to do is play Tufts softball and if we do ing to note that Ortiz, while not Doug innings of the opener. Bailey gave up three run single helped Tufts put up four runs in that no one can stop us.” Mientkiewicz, is not a terrible first-base- runs and four hits, and was replaced by the inning. Four teams overall qualify for the tour- man. In fact if you gave him a full season freshman Lauren Gelmetti, who gave up Tufts added four more in the top of nament and the other matchup features and then compared his defensive num- one earned run and struck out three in four the next inning to tie the game, but the Williams College, who posted a perfect con- bers to the rest of the league, he might innings of work. impressive comeback was all for naught, as ference record in the West, against Trinity come out more highly rated among first In the series opener, the Jumbos lost Endicott added one more in the bottom of College, the second-place finisher from the basemen than Nash compared to other their second heartbreaker in as many days, the sixth. Endicott freshman Casey Shanley East. point guards. falling to the Mules 3-2 in nine innings. scored on a wild pitch for what would be With a win over Amherst, the Jumbos But with the atmosphere of baseball After seven scoreless innings, both teams the winning run as Tufts failed to answer in may get another crack at Williams. The these days, it just made more sense for scratched out a run in the eighth. Tufts the top of the seventh. Ephs ended the Jumbos’ NESCAC title Rodriguez to win the award, despite the added one more in the top of the ninth on “I think the Endicott game showed how dreams last year with a pair of same-day fact that he may be the antichrist. For the freshman Allie Drobiartz’s RBI single, but tough we could be,” Bailey said. “It proved wins from senior hurler Clara Hard, and same reason, Nash was the right pick over it wasn’t enough. Colby won the game on that we are a team to be reckoned with. took the crown for the second year in the Duncan last year. He was a better fit for two runs in the bottom of the ninth against Even on our worse day we can come back row, after three years of Tufts dominance. the flashier and offensive-minded prod- Bailey, who had entered in the seventh to and we can execute.” This year, Tufts returned the favor in the uct the NBA is looking to package. Both relieve junior Lauren Ebstein. The opener proved to be a much less regular season with a doubleheader sweep leagues have received a much-needed Despite some struggles on the mound, stressful hour and a half for the Jumbos. The on Apr. 2. The two are the undeniable forces face-lift in the past few years that has Bailey had a strong day offensively, going 3- team’s offense was fully functional; led by in the league, and the stage is set for another made them refreshingly entertaining for for-4 with an RBI. Freshman Meghan Foley Lopez’s 2-for-3 performance with a double, showdown. two completely different reasons. 28 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Monday, May 1, 2006 Next up for the men: top-ranked Middlebury on the road in semifinals MEN’S LACROSSE session advantage and led to two goals continued from page 32 by McNally and scores by sophomore overtime win, was as back-and-forth as attacker Matt Caple and junior midfield- the teams’ first dead-even duel, and the er Brett Holm. Jumbos adopted a similar strategy. The Tufts defense, playing a man-to- “We worked a lot on moving the ball man set against the Bobcats, allowed no and keeping active on the crease,” said shots by Bates until sophomore attack- freshman attack Clem McNally, who had er Bryan Frates broke through with an a game- and season-high six goals in the unassisted goal at the 8:10 mark to cut win. “It worked in the first game and we the Tufts lead to 6-3. Frates struck again figured it would work the second time with 5:26 minutes remaining. around,” McNally said. Choren then capitalized on a Bates The teams traded goals and momen- defensive mistake, but Bates closed the tum throughout the match until the final lead once again with a last minute score eight minutes, when the Jumbos opened from junior midfielder Wes Couture, for a the floodgates, breaking the deadlock 7-5 Jumbo lead going into the half. with a five-goal run to the final buzzer. The Bates man-to-man defense adjust- Freshman Clem McNally, who logged five ed and held Tufts scoreless in the third goals in the Apr. 22 game, once again period. Bates scored the only two goals ripped apart the Bates defense for his of the period. Both defenses continued double hat trick on the afternoon. to frustrate the opponent’s offense, and “[McNally] didn’t hold the ball very the Tufts defense managed to avert a long, and he doesn’t’ carry the ball very threatening Bates run in the last minute much,” Daly said. “He is a great finisher, of the period with a clutch clear by junior and our guys have done a great job look- defender Alex Bezdek. ing for him. He gets open, he catches the Entering the fourth period, the Jumbos ball and he finishes.” changed their offensive strategy, from a Bates took advantage of Tufts’ initial 1-4-1 to a 1-3-2 formation. mistakes with a goal at the 11:22 minute “That means that you take a guy off mark for a 1-0 Bobcat lead. Sloppy pass- the crease,” Carillo said. “We did that ing and shooting on both sides resulted because they were a very quick sliding in multiple possession changes for the team. Only having one guy on the crease next seven minutes, until Tufts soph- made their slides a lot longer, and gave omore midfielder Perry Choren found us more opportunities to score.” McNally at the top of the crease for a 1-1 The Jumbos broke the 7-7 tie in the tie with 4:42 minutes remaining. fourth period with a beautifully orches- Having a man positioned at the top trated goal at the 11:33 minute mark. of the crease is an important part of the O’Brien sprinted up the right side of the MIKE CONROY/TUFTS DAILY Jumbo strategy. field, and found McNally on the top of Freshman Chase Bibby scores with 3:49 left in the fourth quarter to put the Jumbos up 11-8 “We definitely set a lot of our plays the crease. Rather than taking the shot, during Sunday’s playoff victory against Bates. up for [Clem] to get the ball there,” Daly McNally pivoted and connected with Bibby, and O’Brien. 12-4 in a regular conference match on said. “He does a great job for us. He’s just Carillo, who powered the ball from his In Saturday’s game against Connecticut Apr. 12, in the semifinal round on May 6. had a phenomenal last two weeks of the position on the left side of the net past College, the Jumbos traded scores with Tufts must work to retain its momen- season.” flat-footed Bates goalkeeper senior co- the Camels early the match, but found tum from the Bates victory going into the Bates scored at 2:15 minutes, but Tufts captain Paul Kazarian, who had 10 saves themselves at an 8-5 deficit at the 7:50 weekend. countered with a goal by Carillo for a 2-2 on the day but was left helpless by the minute mark in the third period. However, “It’s pretty tough [to maintain momen- tie going into the second period. rapid passing on that play. Tufts staged a comeback, embarking on tum],” Daly said. “We’re in the middle The Jumbos came out firing in the Bates countered for an 8-8 tied score, an unanswered five-goal run. The Tufts of finals and reading week. It’s a tough second set, running around the stunned the last Bobcat goal of the game. The defense held the Camels scoreless for mental time for our guys and that’s what Bobcats in an unanswered four-goal Jumbos began their five-goal onslaught the remainder of the match, securing a we’re focused on, being mentally ready spurt in the first three minutes of the with a McNally goal, his fifth of the 10-8 victory in the Jumbos’ final regular to play. We’re going to be physically ready period. Senior co-captain midfielder match, with 8:51 remaining. McNally season league game of the year. to play. Now it’s just making sure we’re Rory Doucette’s dominance in the face- contributed another goal to the Jumbos The Jumbos now face the No. 1 tourna- tough and strong and that we’re getting offs (he won eight of the nine face-offs run, and was joined by junior midfielder ment seed and No. 10 nationally ranked through what we need to get through in the period) gave the Jumbos a pos- Doug Smith, freshman midfielder Chase Middlebury Panthers, to whom they fell academically.” Several Jumbos step up and score crucial points to edge out Middlebury

WOMEN’S TRACK four important points. the 4x400 meter relay to take able to be great in anything with her fourth-place finish continued from page 30 “It’s great to have the fresh- second in 3:59.35. because she was spread too and personal best of 40’00.5”. tough as nails and wants to men contribute and so great Three other Jumbos thin to come to college with Dormon was angrier about win, and it was such a boost to for Halsey and Aubrey, who took advantage of their last less demands on her,” Morwick losing to two Ephs, Williams the team.” have been fighting injuries chance to qualify for All-New said. “[Rutecki] has really been senior Kathleen Krause and Sophomore Jenna Weir, since indoors,” Morwick said. England’s on Saturday. Senior able to flourish. Her race was junior Abelee Esparaza, than who has been battling a knee Bloom was joined in the 400 Arielle Aaronson took sixth in key to our team success.” she was satisfied with the injury all season long, joined by sophomore Joyce Uang and the 5,000 meters in 18:22.21 Junior Maggie Clary also throw. Fitzpatrick with fifth place in freshman Jackie Ferry, with and freshman Katie Rizzolo hit took sixth in the event in “She throws a [personal the long (16’08”) and eighth all three scoring. Bloom took 39:57.62 in the 10,000 meters, 1:07.67, setting a new personal best], but is pissed that the place in the triple jump second place in 59.55, Uang taking 11th place. Freshman best and joining Rutecki in the Williams kids beat her — and (34’01.25”) for five points. finished in sixth (1:01.31) Kathleen Rutecki improved her point-scoring with three of her that’s what makes good ath- The Jumbos stacked many of and Ferry came in seventh personal best in the 400 hur- own. letes great: never being sat- their top sprinters in the 200 (1:01.43). Bloom, Uang, and dles by 2.5 seconds, running Sophomore Cecilia Allende isfied and wanting more,” meters on Saturday. In addi- Wasser also brought in six 1:06.29 and scoring six crucial took sixth in the javelin with a Morwick said. “We have a lot tion to Bloom and Fitzpatrick, points with sophomore Erica points by taking third. personal best mark of 113’05”, of kids on our team and many freshmen Aubrey Wasser and Steinitz by taking third in the “It’s so great to see a kid while freshman Paula Dormon of the freshmen with that atti- Halsey Stebbins took sixth 4x100 meter relay, running who had to do a million events barely missed the All-New tude. It’s nice to see it in the (26.92) and eighth place 50.54. Bloom, Uang, Wasser, in high school because she’s England’s qualifying mark younger kids and bodes well (27.05) respectively to score and Ferry also teamed up for a good athlete, but never was in the shot put on Saturday for our future.” Jumbos’ strategy of stopping Barr falls through as other Polar Bears step up WOMEN’S LACROSSE the ensuing face-off, and her goal ten sec- to bring her total to a game-high five Barr’s dominance. continued from page 32 onds later began a 7-0 Bowdoin run that goals, and two other Bears scored, bring- While Barr came in just under aver- The rematch was a far different story. carried the Bears to an insurmountable ing the final margin to a lopsided 14-7. age with three goals, the defensive shift “They were more ready for us this time,” halftime lead over the stunned Jumbos. The first-round game was held at resulted in a scoring explosion from the sophomore attack Sarah Williams said. After Moore’s goal, sophomore mid- Bowdoin, instead of Tufts, because Tufts rest of the Ephs’ lineup. Ten Ephs scored “They underestimated us the first time fielders Brooke Nentwig and Lyndsey was unable to clinch the fourth seed the in the game, including junior midfielder around, but they were ready today.” Colburn each tacked on a goal to widen day before in its loss against Williams. Elizabeth Pierce, who led the way with The Jumbos seemed to be in control in the lead to 7-3. Keating followed up with As was the case in the Bowdoin game, five goals. the opening minutes, as two Tufts mid- her second goal, and Donoghue scored the Jumbos drew first blood against “We were playing in a different defense fielders, sophomore Alyssa Corbett and two more of her own. When freshman Williams, as sophomore defender Ilena than we normally do,” Williams said. “We junior Lauren Murphy, scored early in the attack Libby Barton scored with 1:35 left Remshifski scored her first goal of the were face-guarding [Barr], and our zone game to take a 2-1 lead five minutes in to in the half, the Jumbos trailed by eight, season to give Tufts a 1-0 lead. That, how- had a hard time adjusting to that.” the game. 11-3. ever, was the Jumbos’ only lead one of the Miller scored three times in the losing But the Polar Bears quickly came “We didn’t play as well as a team,” game, as the Ephs rallied for seven of the effort, and Corbett added two goals charging back. Junior midfielder Kate Williams said. “Draw controls were a big game’s next eight goals, and would never Tufts finished the season with a record Donoghue, senior tri-captain Jena Davis part of it. We didn’t get many draws, and look back from their 7-2 lead. of 10-5 and 5-5 in the NESCAC. and sophomore midfielder Bridget they capitalized on that and scored.” The Jumbos came into the game with Bowdoin goes on to play top-ranked Keating each scored for the Bears to give The Jumbos attempted to mount a one huge task on their minds — stopping Middlebury, who had a bye in the first Bowdoin a 4-2 lead. comeback in the second half, as Corbett Williams senior co-captain Rachel Barr, round. In other first-round action, sixth- With 16:50 left in the first half, Murphy added her second goal and senior tri- who averages 4.36 goals per game and is seeded Williams built on its victory over responded with her second goal, cutting captains Dena Miller and Meredith Harris the NESCAC’s leading scorer by far. Tufts Tufts with an upset over third-seeded the lead to 4-3, but Bowdoin’s sophomore each added their first, along with Williams. coach Carol Rappoli adjusted her defense, Colby, 17-11, and second-seeded Amherst midfielder Grace Moore took control of But Donoghue scored again for the Bears which normally plays zone, to account for defeated seventh-seeded Wesleyan, 17-8. Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 29

SOFTBALL COLE LIBERATOR | HOT PEAS AND BUTTER Team splits two doubleheaders to close out season BY SAM KRUMHOLZ Senior Staff Writer With the NESCAC East crown already wrapped up, the softball team played two doubleheaders this weekend against non- SOFTBALL A tale of two sports at Waterville, Saturday (2) ow that the insanely over- Tufts 2 Colby 3 (9 inn.) hyped NFL Draft has gone the R H E Nway of the Dodo, fans can get T...... 000 000 011 2 6 1 C...... 000 000 012 3 5 3 back to the only two sports that mat- Tufts 13 Colby 5 (6 inn.) ter this time of the year: basketball and

R H E T...... 020 209 13 15 2 baseball. C...... 300 002 5 6 3 Look closely and you’ll notice that the at Endicott, Friday (2) 2006 versions of the NBA and MLB are not the same as the ones you grew up Tufts 10 Endicott 1 (6 inn.) watching. Both leagues have undergone dramatic transformations over the past R H E few years, but in two contrasting ways. In T...... 000 154 10 6 1 fact, this may be the first time in which E...... 001 000 1 5 3 ISABELLE MILLS-TANNENBAUM/TUFTS DAILY Sophomore Danielle Lopez turns a double play in the Jumbos’ sweep of Trinity on Apr. 22. two leagues were moving in such oppo- Tufts 8 The softball team split its two doubleheaders this weekend, but had already sewn up the site directions. Endicott 9 top spot in the NESCAC East. First to baseball. Here’s a sport that, in the 90s, went through a phase which R H E T...... 000 044 0 8 9 5 one game decisively and losing another in “I think there was a little bit of a lower produced offensive numbers that would E...... 530 001 X 9 7 5 dramatic fashion in both sets. Solid pitch- intensity because it’s hard to get up for every have made even the most hardcore Tecmo ing once again anchored the Jumbos, but game,” junior centerfielder Annie Ross said. baseball player blush. The combination conference opponent Endicott College defensive miscues and inconsistent bats “It’s one of the things we have to work on of smaller parks, sub-par pitching due on Friday and NESCAC rival Colby on hampered their attempt to finish a perfect and it’s what happens when you have a to expansion, Denver’s thin air, and, of Saturday. NESCAC East season and keep momentum course, those steroids led to an offensive The Jumbos split both series, winning high heading into the league playoffs. see SOFTBALL, page 27 orgy that made Cy Young roll in his grave. It got so bad that Ken Caminiti won an MVP thanks to those magical enhancers and Brady Anderson (!!) hit 50 home runs. Although the home run binge of the 90s Tufts keeps training, optimistic for NCAA Regional bid was exactly what the sport needed in the wake of the ‘94 strike, the events of the WOMEN’S TENNIS than we did.” based on Bowdoin’s mediocre 7-7 past ten years have been labeled with a continued from page 30 The squad’s remaining two victories record going into the tournament. big, fat asterisk. now.” came from No. 2 and No. 4 singles. “It’s interesting because if you look But more recently there has been a “Bowdoin is always a feisty team, and Bram bounced back after dropping the back at Bowdoin’s matches against change in America’s pastime. Runs are this was an important match for them,” first set to Raymond and won 2-6, 6- other teams, they lost head-to-head down to a little over 4 1/2 per game; coach Kate Bayard added. “They went 1, 6-3 at No. 2. At No. 3, Deary routed to Connecticut College, who we beat, Barry Bonds has been reduced to a brittle into this match with the confidence D’Elia, 6-2, 6-0. Bates, who we beat 9-0, and Wellesley, crybaby with about as much mobility as that they had beaten us earlier in the Tufts suffered close singles losses who we beat,” Bram said. “If you look at Tony Siragusa after Thanksgiving; Sammy year. I’m sure they were focused on across the board, including two that it on paper, it would seem like an easy Sosa has been labeled a fraud and Mark that, rather than on the fact that our went to three sets. At No. 1, Luten win for us.” McGwire a coward. These dinosaurs have lineup is different now. A victory is a lost to D’Elia by a narrow 6-4, 7-6 (9) Tufts will find out on Tuesday wheth- been replaced by a crop of young pitchers victory.” score. In the third slot, Hughes out- er it received a berth in the NCAA led by Dontrelle Willis and Rich Harden, At No. 1 doubles, Bram and Luten lasted Ruley in three sets, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Regional Tournament. Seven teams who are shifting the balance of power overpowered Bowdoin freshman Sarah Waldman took the No. 5 match, 7-5, 6- from the region will be invited to com- away from the hitter. Last year’s World D’Elia and junior Kelsey Hughes, 8-2. 4, against Jumbo junior Silvia Schmid, pete for the opportunity to qualify for Series embodied this metamorphosis, The Polar Bears picked up the other and Knez lost in a close match at No. 6, the national tournament. matching up two teams built around doubles matches, as Ruley and Deary falling to Sisk, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3). “It’s tough to say who will get in dominant pitching and timely hitting. fell to junior Christine D’Elia and soph- “The match came down to a cou- at this point,” Bayard said. “There Both the White Sox and the Astros made it omore Kristen Raymond, 8-4, at the ple of points,” Bayard said. “It was are a bunch of teams vying for the to the Fall Classic despite scoring over 300 two spot. close; one team had to win and it last few slots. Amherst, Williams and fewer runs than the New York Yankees. At No. 3, Bowdoin senior Kristina was Bowdoin. We knew any match at Middlebury are definitely going, and Will we ever see the single-season Sisk and freshman Rachel Waldman NESCACs would be a fight, but we were Wellesley probably fits into one of home run record challenged again, much defeated Tufts sophomore Andrea going into this first round with confi- those definite slots.” less broken? Probably not. But that’s a Cenko and freshman Jessica Knez by dence. It’s tough to lose a match you Tufts, Vassar, Bowdoin and the good thing. the same 8-4 margin. Normally fresh- know you’re capable of winning; how- College of New Jersey are all on the Basketball, on the other hand, has man Mari Homma joins Cenko play ever, I’m sure Bowdoin would have felt bubble. In order to prepare for a poten- gone in the opposite direction. Defense at No. 3, but Homma was absent from the same way if we had beaten them. tial bid, the squad will continue to Friday’s match. I’m happy with how hard we fought, train. see LIBERATOR, page 27 “Becky and Jen played another out- but it clearly wasn’t our day.” “We will continue to focus on dou- standing match at No. 1 doubles,” On the surface it seemed that the bles skills and strategy, mental tough- Bayard said. “Our No. 2 and No. 3 teams Jumbos should have captured the ness and conditioning in practice,” Cole Liberator is a senior majoring in played solid doubles, but Bowdoin cap- match, not only based on the change Bayard added. “We will be ready if we history. He can be reached via e-mail at cole. italized on their opportunities better in lineup from fall to spring but also get this bid.” [email protected]

Team must balance studies while preparing for New England Championships MEN’S TRACK ple. Marcy hit the provisional provisional qualifying list for by an Eph. Sophomore Chris Championships, to be held this continued from page 32 qualifying mark for Nationals Nationals. Kantos took third in the 10,000 Thursday, Friday and Saturday While struggling through sev- with his jump of 46’02”, beat- “I didn’t realize it was quite meters in 31:34.55, and sopho- at Springfield. eral of the sprinting events, the ing the mark by three quarters that close,” Galvin said. “It felt more Dave Sorenson finished “It’s going to be a really hard Jumbos were able to rack up of an inch. Marcy competed good. It was a pretty fast circle third (9:32.44) in the steeple- stretch,” said Barron. “We’re most of their points through the at Nationals in the event with so it took me to my last throw to chase. going to use a lot of our decath- jumping and distance events. Jones during the indoor season. get used to it and get a good toss Both Lacey and Kantos were letes, and with finals going on, Sophomore Jeremy Arak, along “We definitely have one of out there.” running on a day’s rest, having people are going to be pretty with freshmen James Bradley the strongest jumping pro- Galvin also took eighth in the competed in the Penn Relays on stressed.” and Ted McMahon, led the way, grams in New England,” Barron shot put while teammate senior Thursday. While exams and fatigue finishing first, fourth and sixth, said. “Last year we didn’t have Brandon Udelhofen grabbed “I think we did really well [in might seem like obstacles that respectively, in the high jump. as many athletes, but this year fifth in the discus. the distance events],” said Lacey. can possibly hinder the Jumbos, Arak jumped 6’06” on Saturday, we do and we have been getting The distance team fared well “We scored points in everything no one is counting them out. his best mark during the out- a lot of points off of them. Our throughout the meet, tallying but the 1,500. Kantos came back “The final exams actually work door season, and just an inch goal is to improve that program 36 of the Jumbos 118.5 points. and ran really well in the 10,000 out decent because you have a short of his indoors mark that every year.” Once again, senior tri-cap- while [junior] Justin [Chung] free schedule to plan practices,” sent him to Nationals. Tim Senior tri-captain Jason tain Matt Lacey put in another had his personal best [32:05.17 Galvin said. “The only big con- Bassell, Rob Lorie, and Kenneth Galvin rose to the occasion to dominating performance, fin- for eighth in the 10,000]. Overall cern getting the sleep in. There Lang took third, fifth and sev- take first in the hammer throw ishing first in the 5,000 meter I think the distance team had a are a good amount of kids who enth in the pole vault. by only seven inches (179’07”) run (14:55.25), and junior Josh really strong performance.” are qualified for ECACs (May 20 Junior Fred Jones finished a and earning a valuable ten Kennedy also scored points by While the Jumbos represented at Springfield), which gives you disappointing third in the long points for the Jumbos. Galvin finishing fifth with a time of their colors this weekend, they a week off after final exams are jump and fifth in the triple jump, beat out Colby senior Jason 15:15.84. Senior Pat Mahoney will now embark on a nerve- done.” while sophomores Nathan Scott Foster by only seven inches finished third in the 800, run- racking period which includes “I think we are going to get and Dan Marcy took third and to win the NESCAC title and ning a 1:55.30 and taking the balancing final exams with the great performances out of fourth, respectively, in the tri- improve Galvin’s spot on the only top-five spot not occupied upcoming New England Div. III everybody,” Barron said. 30 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Monday, May 1, 2006

WOMEN’S TENNIS Loss to Bowdoin yields early Tufts exit from NESCAC tournament B Y THOMAS EAGER Senior Staff Writer

Riding a three-game winning streak, the No. 27 women’s tennis team entered the first round of Friday’s NESCAC WOMEN’S TENNIS NESCAC Chapionships at Williams, Friday Bowdoin 6 Tufts 3

D’Elia (B) def. Jen Luten (T) 6-4, 7-6 (9) Bram (T) def. Kristen Raymond (B) 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 Hughes (B) def. Ruley (T): 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 Deary (Tufts) def. D’Elia (B): 6-2, 6-0 Waldman (B) def. Silvia Schmid (T) 7-5, 6-4 Sisk (B) def. Knez (T): 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (3)

Jen Luten/Becky Bram (T) def. Sara D’Elia/Kelsey Hughes (B) 8-2 Christine D’Elia/Kristen Raymond (B) def. Stephanie Ruley/Kylyn Deary (T) 8-4 Kristina Sisk/Rachel Waldman (B) defeated Andrea Cenko/Jessica Knez (T) 8-4

Tournament against No. 23 Bowdoin looking to pick up the victory and earn a date with Amherst in the semifinals. The fifth-seeded Jumbos fell short, however, as fourth-seeded Bowdoin tri- umphed, 6-3, at Williams College, which hosted the tournament. The Jumbos now await a poten- tial at-large bid to the NCAA Regional Tournament, which will be played this weekend. “Everyone was really disappointed,” senior captain Becky Bram said. “We had all hoped to get a shot at Amherst the next day,” Bram said. Amherst went on to win the tournament. The regular-season fall contest between the Jumbos and Polar Bears also ended in a 6-3 Bowdoin win, and despite the return of juniors Kylyn Deary, Jen Luten, and Stephanie Ruley from abroad, Tufts failed to exact ven- geance on the Polar Bears. (Deary is also a senior staff writer for the Daily sports department.) “It was definitely a tough loss because the score was so close,” Bram said. “A lot of the close matches didn’t go our way this time. It was definitely a disap- pointment and no one really expected it, especially since we lost by the same JAMES HARRIS/TUFTS DAILY score and our team is so much stronger Senior captain Becky Bram, shown here in action during the fall season, picked up one of two Tufts singles victories and the only doubles win, along with junior Jen Luten, as the Jumbos fell 6-3 to Bowdoin in the first round of the NESCAC tournament on Saturday. see WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 29

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD WOMEN’S CREW Three school records broken as Jumbos Weekend regatta gives Tufts take second at NESCAC Championships a taste of things to come BY SARINA MATHAI Smith and then Tufts. Senior Staff Writer BY ALEX BLOOM onds. Though hand-timed, the week, O’Brien scored ten As they are likely to see Daily Editorial Board rather than automatically points for the team, overtak- Smith at New Englands, Tufts timed, the finish is 0.4 sec- ing Middlebury senior Beth Only a week away from the got a sneak preview, and didn’t Three school records fell onds better than the existing Butler in the final stretch for New England Championships, necessarily like what they saw. on Saturday as the Jumbos record of 4:35.8, set in 2000. the win. the women’s crew got a taste Both the first and second brought home second place at Junior Sarah Crispin qualified “It looked like she was down of things to come on Saturday. Smith varsity boats outraced the NESCAC Championships for All-New England’s with for the count with 200 to go The team went head-to-head their Tufts counterparts: The for the fifth straight year. her third-place finish in the and then put on a burst and against Wellesley, Simmons 1V beat the Tufts varsity eight The team finished behind event, running 4:42.3. blew by the Middlebury girl and Smith, the latter stand- 6:56.41 to 7:04.15, and the 2V Williams in exciting fashion, Senior tri-captain Becca in the last 50 meters,” Tufts ing right above them in the boat defeated the Tufts second beating out Middlebury by Ades set a new school record coach Kristen Morwick said. seedings for the New England varsity 7:24.14 to 7:28.74. The four and a half points with a in the 3,000 steeplechase on Sophomore Kaleigh Championships. 3V Tufts boat did salvage a win in the 4x800 meter relay. Saturday with her second- Fitzpatrick scored 20.5 points The seedings for the New win, rowing to a 7:37.21 finish The team scored 130.5 points place finish. Ades out-sprint- by herself on Saturday with England Championships were ahead of the Smith 3V, which during Saturday’s meet at ed Colby sophomore Anna performances in the long and announced Sunday evening. came in at 7:52.68. Bowdoin, with the relay set- King on the final straightaway triple jumps and in the 100 Tufts varsity and junior varsity While this weekend was ting a new school record to for a time of 10:52.5, break- and 200 meters. She took fifth boats will both be the fourth the first real taste of spring cap off an exciting weekend of ing her own school record in the 100 and, running the seed in their respective events, for much of New England, an racing for the team. of 10:53.9 which she set as a 200 out of the slower heat, while the third varsity boat extremely strong headwind of The relay team of juniors sophomore. was still able to tie teammate took the top spot in its event. nearly 15-25 miles per hour Sarah Crispin and Kate Makai The time is a new personal senior tri-captain Rachel “I’m really excited for our hampered the rowers, whip- and sophomores Katy O’Brien best for Ades and improves Bloom for fourth place with team this year,” said junior Kris ping up whitecaps on the and Catherine Beck set a new her standing for Nationals a time of 26.74. In the jumps, Shoemaker, a member of the water throughout the course. Tufts best in the 4x800, run- qualification by 21 seconds, Fitzpatrick hit 17’02.25” in the first varsity boat. “We’re stron- Smith, a physically stronger ning 9:20.24 and breaking the putting her close to the top of long jump for second place ger than we’ve ever been; from and bigger team than Tufts, previous record of 9:21.2, set the performance list. and 34’08.5” in the triple for every boat down, there’s just was less affected by the head- in 2000. “I wasn’t expecting to run fifth place. so much unity and strength. wind. “We knew we had to win that fast,” Ades said. “I was Morwick suggested she We have a really good chance “Definitely, the headwind [the race] or at least beat just trying to get a good forego her final jump in the at New Englands. We finally was a big factor for us,” senior Middlebury substantially,” place for the team. It should long jump to save energy for made NCAAs last year, which Martha Dietz said. “We’re a fair- Beck said. “We were all just be good enough to get me other events, but Fitzpatrick was the first year we’d ever ly small team and that tends to running scared in that race, to Nationals, but you never decided to compete, and hit qualified, and I think we have be difficult in a headwind, tra- trying to put as much dis- know.” her second-place mark. a really good chance of doing ditionally. The physically larg- tance between us and them.” Beck and Ades combined “We’ve asked a lot of her in that again this year.” er team has an advantage in a Beck also won the 1,500 for just two of the many great the past two team champion- “This is great news com- strong headwind. I think there meter at NESCACs, setting performances at the meet. ships [this one and Div. III’s pared to last year,” she said. was a 20-mph wind coming a new personal best by four O’Brien won the 800 meters during indoors] and she is so “Last year both our varsity straight down the course and seconds with a time of 4:35.4 with a time of 2:14.65 to willing and such a competi- and junior varsity were ranked it makes the feeling of taking and beating the next closest improve her provisional qual- tor,” Morwick said. “She’s just either ninth or tenth.” each stroke very different.” competitor, Williams sopho- ifying mark by 0.7 seconds. The 1V from Williams is the more Lissy Robie, by six sec- Despite an illness earlier in see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 28 No. 1 seed, followed by Trinity, see WOMEN’S CREW, page 26 Monday, May 1, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 31

BASEBALL Jumbos kick Mules out of Meford, finish second in NESCAC East BY RACHEL DOLIN Coach John Casey recorded his Daily Editorial Board 400th victory as the team’s skip- per in the first game of Saturday’s The baseball team concluded its doubleheader. A 1980 graduate of NESCAC schedule in convincing Tufts, Casey has amassed a record of fashion this weekend, smashing 44 401-269-3 during his 23 years at the BASEBALL helm of the organization. at Huskins Field, Saturday (2) Casey refused to comment for this article. Colby 4 Tufts 12 “It’s really spectacular,” junior catcher Chris Decembrele said. “We Colby 3 made a big deal about it after the Tufts 15 game [on Saturday]. With the kind of coach he is, the focus is always at Huskins Field, Friday on us; he doesn’t want that sort of Colby 5 attention and didn’t make a big deal Tufts 10 about it. But from the players’ per- spective, it’s really something spe- hits and scoring 37 runs en route cial. We’re proud to be on the team to a three-game trouncing of Colby, that could do it for him.” 10-5, 12-4, and 15-3. Scoring 22 combined runs in After taking three from Trinity last the first two games of the set, the weekend, Tufts got its second con- Jumbos continued to spray the ball secutive home sweep at Huskins all over the park, picking up 15 runs Field to redeem two midseason on 18 hits in the final game. Taking sweeps at the hands of Middlebury advantage of Colby’s fatigued pitch- and Bowdoin. The wins improved ing staff, Tufts posted an eight spot the Jumbos’ NESCAC East record to on the board in the sixth inning to 9-3, good for second place behind cap off its ninth NESCAC victory of the 10-2 Bowdoin Polar Bears, who the 2006 season in Saturday’s night- swept Bates over the weekend to cap. secure the top seed in the division. Senior Ben Chang, who replaced SCHUYLER ARMSTRONG/TUFTS DAILY “We needed to come back and Decembrele behind the plate in Freshman Kevin Casey connects during the second game of the Jumbos’ doubleheader against Colby on win a few games,” junior Kyle the third game of the series, jump- Saturday. Tufts swept the three-game series against the Mules to clinch the second spot in the NESCAC East. Backstrom said. “Going into the started the rally with a single. After playoffs, we want to go in with a few freshman Kevin Casey was hit by a gave Colby junior reliever Robert time in the sixth, Colby reached into “Of course, whenever you get wins. It’s important that we play in pitch, putting two runners on with Rosenbaum a rude welcome, con- its bullpen again in search of some- into a team’s bullpen in the first the way we are capable. We did what no outs, Colby coach Tom Dexter necting with a double to drive in one to stop the bleeding and came of three games, it’s a plus for you,” we were supposed to do against pulled freshman starting pitcher Chang from second. The Jumbos up with senior Jon Vacca. Chertok Decembrele said. “By the last game Trinity and Colby. Being swept by Robert Whelan. But the move made followed with another single, double rolled out the welcome mat again, we were seeing their fifth, sixth, and Bowdoin was not exactly what we no difference to the Jumbos, as they and sac fly to increase the inning’s this time with a two-RBI single. seventh guys, which was definitely a had in mind, but we had to respond, amassed the largest single-inning run total to four. Junior second baseman Brian Casey big help.” and we beat Trinity. We had to go run total of the weekend. After both Chang and Kevin finally flied out to right field to end out and control our own destiny.” Senior tri-captain Greg Chertok Casey reached base for the second the inning. see BASEBALL, page 27

2006 PENN RELAYS Results are mixed from Philadelphia, but Beck breaks eighteen-year-old record BY ALEX BLOOM AND WILL KARAS Beck had planned to focus her talents “I went out with the pack and lost them as expected will likely not be enough to Daily Editorial Board and Senior Staff Writer on the 1,500 for Nationals this season, and then tried to get up with them,” Ades get him to Nationals. Last year, the final but now has the opportunity to compete said. “It was a good effort but I would qualifier for Nationals ran 14:39.1. Four track athletes made the trip on in two events. The 5,000 meters is the last have liked to qualify. I wish I had run “You can’t be disappointed with a [per- Thursday to Philadelphia to run at the event of the meet, which takes place on faster, but it’s not going to get me down.” sonal best],” junior Josh Kennedy said. prestigious Penn Relays with mixed suc- May 25-27 at Benedictine College, mak- The members of the men’s team both “He ran a good race and he knows that he cess. Two members of the men’s team ing it easier for Beck to run both events. posted fast times, but not as fast as they has the capability to run faster. It’s just a and two from the women’s team went “Right now my plan is to run both,” initially hoped. Senior tri-captain Matt matter of whether he’s going to get that traveled to the 112th Relays in order to Beck said. “I’ve just been putting a lot Lacey took 32nd in the College Men chance before Nationals.” qualify for Nationals, and while three of pressure on myself to perform well at 10,000 Championship, running 31:06.04. Kennedy was supposed to join Kantos of them had success hitting their times, Nationals in the 5,000. I want to ease the Although the time qualifies Lacey provi- in the 5,000, but illness on Thursday pre- they were not as fast as they would have tension and diffuse it by running a race sionally for Nationals, it will not be com- vented him from running. liked. earlier.” petitive enough to get him on the final Kantos and Lacey traveled to the Relays Sophomore Catherine Beck blazed Senior tri-captain Becca Ades also ran list. to find a fast race in order to hit qualify- to a fourth-place finish in the Olympic the event with Beck, taking 19th and run- “I didn’t run that well in the Penn ing times for Nationals. Without compet- Development 5,000 meters at the Penn ning 17:49.74. The time just missed the Relays,” said Lacey. “I didn’t start that itive times from the Relays, both runners Relays in Philadelphia on Thursday with a National provisional qualifying mark of well and since it’s such a long race, if you may be scrambling to find the oppor- time of 16:51.04, breaking Nancy Benson’s 17:46, but still qualifies Ades for All New don’t start well it’s hard to run the rest of tunity for a fast race before Nationals. 18-year-old record of 16:54.4 and auto- England’s. the race faster.” Last season, Lacey used Penn Relays matically qualifying for Nationals. The race, which went through the first Kantos ran 14:43.84 for 18th place in to automatically qualify for Nationals in “Just to [improve my personal best] by lap in 1:27 and the second in 1:20, was the Olympic Development 5,000 at the the 5,000. Teammate Nate Brigham (LA that much and run that fast is just huge unevenly paced at the beginning and Relays. While the time is a personal best, ‘05) also qualified for Nationals auto- for me,” Beck said. “I’m still trying to pro- Ades had trouble hanging with the lead- and good enough to provisionally qualify matically in the Penn Relays last year in cess it all.” ers. Kantos for Nationals, it was not as fast the 10,000. Athletes of the Week CATHERINE BECK, WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD

No record is safe from the sophomore, who took down not one, not two, but three school records this weekend, including an 18-year-old 5,000 meter record on Thursday at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, PA. Beck ran 16:51.04 for fourth place in the Olympic Development 5,000. Beck's time replaces Nancy Benson's record of 16:54.4, set in 1988. The time automatically qualifies Beck for Nationals. Beck also won the 1,500 meters at the NESCAC Championships on Saturday at Bowdoin with a time of 4:35.4. Beck went into the final lap of the race trailing Williams sophomore Lissy Robie only to take off and beat Robie by six seconds. The time breaks Caitlin Murphy's school record of 4:35.8, although Murphy ran 4:32.2 indoors in 2000; but problems with the timing system meant that the 1,500 was hand-timed. After already taking down two records, Beck joined the 4x800 meter relay team with juniors Kate Makai and Sarah Crispin and sophomore Katy O'Brien to break the school record in that event. The team ran 9:20.24, breaking a record of 9:21.2 set in 2000. Beck agreed to run the event with the 2nd place in NESCAC on the line against Middlebury. Her leg of 2:17 helped the team win the event by nine seconds to score 10 points and come from behind to beat Middlebury by 4.5 points. During the indoor season, Beck broke school records in the mile and the 5,000 and holds the second fastest time in the 3,000 meters. MIKE CONROY/TUFTS DAILY

CLEM MCNALLY, MEN'S LACROSSE It's rare, but freshman Clem McNally earns Athlete of the Week honors for the second straight week. Following an impressive offensive showing against Bates last week in which he scored five goals, McNally showed he is no freshman fluke by scoring six goals in Sunday's first-round playoff victory, once again against Bates. With the score tied 2-2 at the end of the first period, McNally helped lead one of the team's best offensive stretches this season, contributing three of Tufts' four goals in the second period. At the end of the third period Bates closed the gap to 7-7, but another offensive run in the fourth quarter, including five goals, with two from McNally, helped lead Tufts to a 13-8 victory. McNally's only assist in the contest came in the fourth period when McNally found senior attacker Dane Carillo to break a 7-7 tie. McNally made a beautiful pass to Carillo from the top of the crease as the senior scored from the left side of the net, giving the Jumbos a brief lead. The goal would be part of a 6-1 run, including 5 straight goals to end the game, which would give the Jumbos the playoff victory. Tufts stands at 11-5 and moves on to play at top seed Middlebury next Saturday in the semi-finals. The Jumbos lost their only match up against

MIKE CONROY/TUFTS DAILY Middlebury this season 12-4. If McNally can offer up another offensive blitz, however, Tufts should be a contender for this year's Championship title. 32 INSIDE Baseball 31 Women’s Tennis 30 Sports Softball 29 THE TUFTS DAILY MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006

MEN’S LACROSSE NESCAC Weekend Recap For all NESCAC spring sports, Middlebury senior Brian Waldron this weekend marked the end and Williams sophomore Dan of regular season play, the Greenberg. The two split the first beginning of the playoffs, or two games, with Waldron win- the crowning of a tournament ning the first 6-3 and Greenberg champion. In lacrosse, baseball taking the second 7-5. Waldron and softball, four teams are left prevailed easily in the third standing, while this weekend game, though, winning 6-1 and featured the NESCAC tourna- giving Middlebury another title. ment in men’s and women’s Softball: Williams completed tennis. Here’s a quick look at the a perfect 8-0 season in the results: NESCAC West, finishing a two- Men’s Lacrosse: Perennial game sweep at Amherst to earn champion Middlebury, the five- hosting rights for next weekend’s time defending title holder, NESCAC Tournament. Despite earned the top seed and a first the loss, Amherst clinched sec- round bye in this year’s playoffs. ond place in the West, earning a In first round play, No. 4 Tufts berth in the double-elimination defeated No. 5 Bates 13-8; No. 2 tournament and an opening- Wesleyan beat No.7 Williams 12- game matchup with Tufts. Tufts 5; and No.6 Amherst fell to No.3 split with last-place Colby on Bowdoin 12-8. Tufts will travel Saturday to finish 7-1, but had to Vermont to take on No.1 long since clinched the top spot Middlebury next Saturday, and in the East. The final tourna- Bowdoin will take on Wesleyan. ment berth was up for grabs Women’s Lacrosse: In first in a series between Bates and round action on Sunday, No.2 Trinity. The Bantams got the job Amherst won against No. 7 done, sweeping Bates to earn a MIKE CONROY/TUFTS DAILY Wesleyan in convincing fashion, tie in the standings, and earned Freshman Clem McNally scores with 2:44 left in the fourth quarter to put the Jumbos on top 12-8. McNally had 17-8. No.6 Williams defeated a trip to Williams by virtue of the six goals in his postseason debut as the fourth-seeded Jumbos beat tournament five-seed Bates 13-5. No.3 Colby 17-11. No.5 Tufts fell head-to-head tiebreaker. to No.4 Bowdoin 14-7. Williams Baseball: Bowdoin locked will face No.1 Middlebury next up the top spot in the NESCAC Tufts advances to tourney semifinals Saturday, while Bowdoin faces East with a sweep of Bates, BY KELLEY VENDELAND of the NESCAC Men’s Lacrosse are one of the best teams in off against Amherst. securing hosting rights and rel- Daily Editorial Board Championship. the league, and we just had to Women’s Tennis: The num- egating Tufts to the No. 2 seed. The team’s 10-8 victory match their motion and their bers shook out according to In the NESCAC West, Williams The beautiful weather at Bello over Connecticut College game.” seed, as No. 1 Amherst beat scratched out a win in a thrill- Field yesterday was a perfect on Saturday, combined with “We just talked about playing No.2 Williams yesterday in the ing 3-2 victory over Wesleyan backdrop for the men’s lacrosse Middlebury’s 9-8 comeback win a game for a full 60 minutes, not finals of the NESCAC tourna- in 11 innings, allowing Williams MEN’S LACROSSE over Bates the same day, hand- playing for 15 minutes and tak- ment, 6-3. The Lord Jeffs, ranked to claim sole possession of at Bello Field, Sunday ed the nationally 17th- ranked ing a five-minute break,” senior third nationally, earn an auto- first place with a 9-3 record. Jumbos the No. 4 seed in the attacker Dane Carillo said matic bid to the NCAA Regional Although the East division has Bates 8 tournament and home-field The win over Bates, No. 18 in Tournament with the title, while wrapped up its schedule, the Tufts 13 advantage in the first round. the nation and the tournament’s No. 8 Williams awaits a probable West will be waiting on Friday’s McNally (T): 6 goals, 1 assist The Jumbos knew that they fifth seed, moves the Jumbos to at-large bid. Middlebury-Wesleyan game. If O’Brien (T): 1 goal, 2 assists would have to bring their A- 11-5 on the year and ends the Men’s Tennis: Top-seeded Middlebury wins the game, it Harrigan (T): 11 saves game and maintain their inten- Bobcats’ season at 9-5 overall. Middlebury won its third straight will be tied for first place with sity against the formidable Sunday’s game, a rematch of NESCAC crown with a 4-3 win Williams; but if Wesleyan emerg- Bobcats. an Apr. 22 game in which Tufts over second-seed Williams on es victorious, then Williams “[Bates] plays great team came away with an 8-7 double- Sunday afternoon. The title came will be the unopposed league team’s 13-8 runaway victory offense and great team defense,” down to the winner of the top- leader, followed by Amherst and over Bates in the first round coach Mike Daly said. “They see MEN’S LACROSSE, page 28 ranked singles match between Middlebury.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD Jumbos falter in first round of NESCAC playoffs Tufts falls short of BY EVANS CLINCHY Senior Staff Writer perennial winner

The women’s lacrosse season came Ephs at NESCACs to an abrupt finish on Sunday when the Jumbos lost to Bowdoin in Brunswick, BY WILL KARAS Senior Staff Writer WOMEN’S LACROSSE at Bowdoin, Sunday In a sport where one team has had a Tufts 7 virtual stranglehold on league competi- Bowdoin 14 tion, the best any other squad can hope for is a strong second-place showing. Murphy: 2 goals, 1 assist Corbett: 2 goals The men’s track team did just that on Saturday when it came in behind peren- at Williams, Saturday nial powerhouse Williams with 118.5 points. Tufts 11 Williams 19 It was the Jumbos’ second runner-up finish in at the NESCAC championships Pierce (W): 5 goals in as many years. Corbett: 3 goals Fighting for bragging rights in the New England region, Tufts fell short of Maine, 14-7. The loss eliminated Tufts the Ephs, who dominated the field and from the NESCAC tournament. posted 225 points to claim its second Tufts entered the final weekend of straight title. Despite the second-place the regular season tied for fourth place finish, coach Ethan Barron had only in the NESCAC and with a guaranteed good things to say about his team’s per- berth in the tournament. With a win formance. against Williams on Saturday, the team “Overall, it was a great day,” Barron could wrap up a home-field advantage said. “Williams was very strong, but our in the first round. team stepped up and put up a great Instead, the weekend began with a 19- performance. We had a lot of people 11 regular-season loss to Williams and beat their all-times best finishes, and we ended with the Jumbos’s 2006 campaign definitely reached our potential.” in the history books. “Going in, if the score would be based Sunday’s game was a rematch of a on the seeds, they would have a huge thrilling 9-8 Tufts victory on Apr. 3 over advantage really,” senior tri-captain the Polar Bears, then ranked No. 5 in the Jason Galvin said. “Everyone just went in nation, which propelled Tufts to 6-0 and ISABELLE MILLS TANNENBAUM/TUFTS DAILY with the goal of winning their events and into the national polls. Senior tri-captain Dena Miller, shown here in the women’s lacrosse team’s 9-8 win over Wesleyan scoring as many points as possible.” on Apr. 19, contributed a goal in her final game in Jumbo uniform on Sunday, as Bowdoin WOMEN’S LACROSSE, page 28 defended its home turf with a 14-7 win in the first round of the NESCAC tournament. see MEN’S TRACK, page 29