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Where You Read It First Cloudy 57/45 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LVIII, NUMBER 32 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009 TUFTSDAILY.COM Some administrators oppose medical amnesty BY MATT REPKA Until this semester, under- Daily Editorial Board age Tufts students who sought TEMS’ assistance during bouts This article is the second in of intoxication could expect to a two-part series looking at the receive no more than a warn- alcohol policies of Boston-area ing, as long as they had filled schools. The first article, which out a health survey. But Tufts ran in yesterday’s issue, focused has done away with the warn- on the implementation of medical ing system, and students caught amnesty at nearby institutions. drinking underage are immedi- ately put on level-one disciplin- While students on Tufts’ ary probation (pro-one). Alcohol Task Force consider Detractors of the amnesty whether to argue for a medical model see it as a sort of “get out amnesty policy at Tufts, adminis- of jail free” card that does noth- trators stand by the stricter regu- ing to prevent dangerous alcohol lations implemented this semes- abuse. ter, as they worry that more As a way to reach a middle lenient rules on alcohol abuse ground between zero disciplin- might bring unintended, danger- ary measures and a hard-line ous consequences. approach, a number of schools Tufts’ Director of Health have instituted a system of Education Ian Wong questioned monetary fines for alcohol JODI BOSIN/TUFTS DAILY the fairness of a policy that guar- infractions. Somerville is extending permit parking to all of the city’s residential streets to address limited spots and budget issues. antees disciplinary clemency to A first incident of providing students who seek medical atten- alcohol to a minor at MIT car- For students parking off campus, tion for excessive drunkenness. ries a $50 fine, as well as a con- Wong described a hypo- ference with a dean. At Boston thetical situation involving two College (BC), fines for alcohol intoxicated students. Under a or drug violations accompany Somerville permits cause headaches medical amnesty policy, Wong other modes of punishment, BY DAPHNE KOLIOS commercial vehicles parked on increases in their vehicle insur- said, if only one required atten- such as community service Contributing Writer Somerville’s residential streets to ance payments. Cars often tion from Tufts Emergency requirements, and can become have a resident parking permit remain on family insurance plans Medical Services (TEMS), the increasingly severe for repeat- The City of Somerville plans or visitor pass. This highlights a and are registered to students’ university would be eligible to ed offenses. to implement a new policy problem unique to Jumbos who homes away from Tufts during punish the less acutely drunk BC adopted the fine system requiring parking permits for all don’t live on the Hill. the students’ one or two years off student but not the one who last year, the school’s Associate vehicles parked on residential To receive a resident permit — campus in the vicinity of Tufts’ sought treatment. Dean of Community Standards streets in the city, complicating renewable annually — a car must Medford/Somerville campus. “It’s not fair to both people, to Brent Ericson told the Daily. an already difficult parking situ- be registered in the city. “The prob- The new policy is a response to say that just because you weren’t The money collected from fines ation for many Tufts students liv- lem is that many Tufts students too little money and too few open TEMS’ed, you get written up,” goes toward student program- ing off campus. don’t have their cars registered in parking spaces, according to City Wong said. ming, he said. In an attempt to simultane- Somerville,” Somerville Alderman of Somerville spokesman Tom Many nearby peer institutions, At Northeastern, an elaborate ously raise money to balance Walter Pero told the Daily. Champion. Two thirds of resi- including Harvard and Northeastern system of fines — with individual a budget deficit and free up Students often do not regis- dential streets already fall under Universities and Massachusetts penalties equaling up to $200 — crowded parking spaces, the new ter their cars in the city because Institute of Technology (MIT), use policy would require all non- doing so can result in large see PARKING, page 2 medical amnesty. see ALCOHOL, page 2 Students’ company makes Tufts researchers contribute to BusinessWeek’s ‘Top 25’ particle accelerator experiment BY CORINNE SEGAL Chris Jacobs, who graduated from Babson BY KIRA HESSEKIEL Contributing Writer College last year. Contributing Writer Since its inception, Emergent has com- BusinessWeek’s search for the top 25 pleted over twenty consulting projects, A consortium of Boston-area research- entrepreneurs under 25 recently led it to according to Hering. The company is now ers hopes to fill in a missing piece of a the Emergent Energy Group, a business expanding into development with the cre- fundamental theory of physics within the created by Tufts students to harness renew- ation of a solar project for nine buildings in next couple months, when groundbreak- able energy sources. New Jersey as well as a wind farm in New ing tests are carried out at the world’s larg- Current senior Greg Hering teamed with Hampshire, he said. est and most powerful particle accelerator. then-sophomores Jayson Uppal and Jared “We empower communities to power The group of researchers will analyze Rodriguez in 2006 to found Emergent, a themselves, essentially,” Hering said. data from an experiment to take place business that advised cities, landowners This marks the fifth year of the rankings. in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a and developers on how to harness sus- Over the summer, BusinessWeek readers 17-mile-long particle accelerator located tainable energy in the form of wind and nominated companies for the list. Then under the French-Swiss border. Built by solar power. BusinessWeek staff chose the finalists. the European Organization for Nuclear He said BusinessWeek’s recognition Hering said that Emergent takes a com- Research (CERN) near Geneva, the LHC of their company validates their efforts, munity-based approach to installing power has been plagued by setbacks since though they are relatively younger than the plants. “We engage town administrators researchers first used it briefly in Sept. typical business founder. and local community members much ear- 2008, but it is set to fully start back up “It gives us credibility. Someone goes, lier on in the entire development process,” next month. ‘You guys are young.’ And we go, ‘Yes, he said. Tufts students and faculty members, but we’re the best of the young people,’” Hering said that the group rose above partnering with physicists from the he said. the difficulties of being young entrepre- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hering thought of the idea for the com- neurs in a field dominated by an older and Boston, Harvard and Brandeis pany as a freshman during the fall of 2006 generation. “We get past that by present- Universities, hope “to find out more and later teamed with Uppal and Rodriguez, ing the best of what is expected from [our] things about fundamental particles,” who were at the time members of the Tufts generation,” he said. according to Austin Napier, a Tufts pro- Energy Security Initiative (now the Tufts Emergent currently has about 30 cli- fessor of physics and astronomy who is Energy Forum), to develop a business plan. ents. BusinessWeek stated that the firm’s participating in the project. Together they run Emergent as a partner- COURTESY ATLASEXPERIMENT.COM ship along with Jesse Gossett (LA ’09) and see EMERGENT, page 2 see CERN, page 2 The LHC is a 17-mile-long particle accelerator. Inside this issue Today’s Sections Dark, musty theaters in The volleyball team News 1 Op-Ed 9 old, colonial towns can beat Williams to win provide some optimal the hallowed Hall of Features 3 Comics 10 settings for Halloween Fame championship Arts & Living 5Classifieds 11 spooks and surprises. over the weekend. Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see ARTS, page 5 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Tuesday, October 27, 2009 dent lived in the room. Both Largest particle accelerator to Police Briefs were transported to Lawrence An interactive map is Memorial Hospital. available at tuftsdaily.com PLANNING AN ESCAPE host Boston researchers’ work ROUTE FOR NQR? A HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE END patched to 13 Conwell Avenue CERN tions of three or four fundamental A student living in West Hall FOR A VERY BELOVED BOX in Somerville at 2 a.m. on continued from page 1 visible particles. called the Tufts University Police A TUPD officer smelled some- Oct. 25 to check on a woman The consortium’s work cen- Other members of the consor- Department (TUPD) at 7:50 a.m. thing burning in a stairwell on dressed in a French maid out- ters on ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC tium are more concerned with on Oct. 23 to report a break-in the side of South Hall facing fit, sitting on the steps of her Apparatus) detector, one of top-quark physics and muons. in her dormitory room. Officers Lower Campus Road at 3:12 house and crying. six experiments in the LHC. Napier said he is “not opti- responded and found pry marks a.m. on Oct. 24. The officer She was wearing a costume Researchers in the Tufts delega- mistic about finding the Higgs by a lock on a door in the room noticed that someone had lit “a week early,” TUPD Sgt. tion will take advantage of data [particle] for at least a year.” that led outdoors.