Libby Found Guilty on Four out of Five Counts, Hopes for Presidential Pardon
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Today: Partly Cloudy THE TUFTS High 27 Low 16 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Flurries Since 1980 High 28 Low 6 VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 28 DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2007 Libby found guilty on four out of fi ve New WebCenter feature lets counts, hopes for presidential pardon students export calendars BY BENNETT KUHN sophomore Neil DiBiase Daily Editorial Board agreed that the new service will help students. “In terms Students can now export of time saving, it’s a huge their class schedules and the impact to be able to hit one university’s academic calen- button and have your entire dar from Tufts’ WebCenter schedule downloaded,” he to popular software like said. Microsoft Outlook, iCal, Uploading dates from Palm Desktop and Google WebCenter adds to previ- Calendar. ously existing setups without The new service, called requiring students to scrap “My Course Schedule dates already on their calen- Download,” was announced dars. yesterday and lets students Furthermore, students can export information on the opt to upload either their dates, times and locations of personal course schedules or their classes directly to their just the academic calendar, electronic calendars, PDAs so those who have manually or smartphones. entered their classes before It can also transfer uni- the new WebCenter feature versity-wide drop dates, reg- became operational can add istration periods, vacations the university’s important and other important dates dates without their course from the Tufts academic cal- schedules. endar. Tutorials with screenshots Tufts Community Union and instructions also appear (TCU) Senator Woon Young on WebCenter to help stu- MCT Jeong, a sophomore who was dents integrate the files they I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was found guilty yesterday of obstruction of justice and other charges. instrumental in creating the download with the schedul- service, said he hopes that it ing programs. will be useful for students. In developing the ser- BY ROB SILVERBLATT Associated Press (AP). Patrick Fitzgerald and District “I hope it will be a con- vice, Jeong worked closely Daily Editorial Board Found guilty of four of the Judge Reggie B. Walton throw venient tool for the student with Director of Student five counts with which he was the full weight of the law at body to help them plan their Information Systems After a jury convicted I. charged — he was acquitted him? semester better,” he said. Technology Patricia Sheehan Lewis “Scooter” Libby yester- of one of the counts of mak- Political Science Professor After hearing complaints and programmer and analyst day of obstruction of justice, ing false statements — Vice Kent Portney said that in all from his friends about hav- Mario Gonzalez. making false statements and President Dick Cheney’s for- likelihood, Libby will face a ing to manually input sched- “At first I thought it would perjury, the question looming mer chief of staff now faces up much more lenient sentence. ules, Jeong brought the idea be ideal for it to go on SIS over Capitol Hill is what the to 25 years in prison and a $1 “My guess is that it will be in to the Senate’s Education because that’s where all the next chapter in the CIA leak million fine. Committee in September. saga will be, according to the But will Special Prosecutor see LIBBY, page 2 TCU Senate Historian see WEBCENTER, page 2 Tufts ranks high in per-capita recycling “The Secret Music Project” performs at Hillel rates in Recyclemania competition BY DANIEL CHERIYAN Sara Raley, two of the nine interns under Contributing Writer Quirk, recently made promotional videos for YouTube.com. The weapons are all around you: the According to Fisher, the recycling tin cans, the soda bottles and yes, even interns have also worked as the last line the milk cartons. of defense against setbacks. The contest? Recyclemania, an annu- The interns “go and monitor bins and al friendly competition which aims to make sure they’re not vandalized,” she increase recycling rates on college cam- said. “We’re attaching zip-ties on to the puses, pits colleges and universities lids so they don’t get lost.” against each other to reduce waste. They Building team spirit is also key, as face off in categories such as the largest interns’ duties include flyering and run- volume of recyclables per capita and the ning publicity events like dormitory hall least amount of trash. snacks. “The more people know about The contest began on Jan. 28 and will it, the more they can contribute,” Fisher end on April 7. said. Currently in eighth place in the per- While the Tufts Environmental capita recyclables category, ahead of Consciousness Outreach (ECO) does Harvard and Yale, Tufts’ recycling is turn- not focus specifically on campaigns like ing its Ivy League competitors green with Recyclemania, the group is a major sup- envy. porter of environmental education. According to Recycling Coordinator “ECO is aiming to make Tufts a greener Dawn Quirk, one major obstacle for Tufts campus,” sophomore and ECO member has been the presence of its graduate Mara Gittleman said. “This semester is a campuses in the competition. big educational push.” ANJALI NIRMALAN/TUFTS DAILY “I think that we do really well in ECO manages educational activities Members of the Israeli band “The Secret Music Project” discuss their careers dur- Medford, [but with] the other campus- year-round, including its own competi- ing last night’s concert. es, it’s harder because they have much tion, Do It in the Dark, where dorms more disposable lab waste,” Quirk said. square off to see which can save the most Last night Hillel, the Tufts Community Union Senate and Tufts’ Friends of “Medford is the best at recycling.” energy. Israel sponsored a concert in the basement of the Granoff Family Hillel Center. As the race wears on, Tufts Recycles’ Junior Jesse Gossett, another ECO Left to right: Nadav Remez on guitar, Matan Chapnizka on tenor saxophone nine interns are working to promote member, finds the campus’ recycling bins and Haggai Milo Cohen on bass. Not pictured: special guest Itamar Doari on proper recycling practices. percussion. Junior Lauren Fisher and freshman see RECYCLEMANIA, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections GET WIRED ‘WELLE’ DONE News 1 Viewpoints 13 Features looks at why The Daily recommends some parts of campus new play beyond a Features 3 Sports 17 are still lacking wireless ‘Shadow’ of a doubt Arts | Living 7Classifieds 22 Internet access Editorial | Letters 12 Comics 23 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 7 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, March 7, 2007 WORLD IN BRIEF SUNNI INSURGENTS TARGET Guilty verdict was predictable, according to Portney SHIITE PILGRIMS LIBBY After Wilson made his feelings pub- from Bush, who has the constitutional Sunni Muslim insurgents, seemingly unde- continued from page 1 lic, the White House was accused of authority to set aside his sentence. terred by the new security plan for Baghdad, the range that the sentencing guide- leaking Plame’s identity as revenge. Assistant political science profes- struck boldly across Iraq on Tuesday, killing at lines would have prescribed,” he During the trial, Libby was accused sor Phillip Muñoz said that a pardon least 93 Shiite pilgrims in a grisly double suicide said. of lying to investigators about his would be a long shot, but still a pos- bombing in southern Iraq and mounting a mas- These federal guidelines, although involvement in the Plame affair. sibility. “It’s probably highly unlikely,” sive assault in the north that freed at least 140 their mandatory use has been declared Karl Rove, Bush’s chief of staff, he said. “It would seem to come at prisoners, most of them affiliated with al-Qaeda. unconstitutional, still serve as an and Cheney also came under fire for a huge political cost for Bush, but Nine U.S. soldiers died in roadside bombings, approximate benchmark for most potential involvement in the leak. he’s not running for reelection and six in Salah ad Din province and three in Diyala sentences. As such, Portney predicted Portney said that Fitzgerald was he’s certainly not poll-driven, so you province. that the maximum sentence will likely relatively restrained in his trying of never know.” Fourteen more Shiite pilgrims were killed in be around 27 months. the case and could have, had he cho- If it comes at all, he said that it Baghdad as they passed through mostly Sunni Although Libby’s defense team has sen to, taken a more aggressive stance would likely happen right before Bush neighborhoods as part of a rite commemorat- promised to seek a retrial and if that against both high-ranking officials. exits the Oval Office. ing the seventh-century massacre of the Imam fails, to appeal the verdict, Portney “My sense is that he didn’t push the Portney said that a pardon should Hussein, the prophet Muhammad’s grandson, said that success is unlikely. He said case as far as he could have,” he said. by no means be ruled out. “I think I and 71 family members and followers. that he hasn’t heard anything that But that’s not to say that Fitzgerald wouldn’t be surprised if Bush issued a The prison break in Ninawa province was “comes close to being grounds to will not exert pressure on Libby pardon,” he said. one of the largest insurgent operations in recent grant an appeal.” to implicate Rove and Cheney in While the Plame affair has been months. According to Iraqi police, 300 gunmen Still, defense attorney Theodore exchange for a lighter sentencing rec- plastered across the media for years, believed to be connected to the Islamic State Wells remained optimistic after the ommendation.