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THETUFTS DAILY Volume XXXV, Number 51 \Where You Read It First Tuesdav, November 18,1997 I aenateIy discusses1. s Intruder atmosphere on campus arrested in By ANDREWFREEDMAN A Senate committee, headed by Daily Editorial Board Schnirman,will ask the Greekorganizations South Hall At Sunday’s meeting ofthe Tufts Com- to lobby their national chapters to repre- munity Union Senate,the proposed change sent their views on this matter. “This com- by LnvDABENTLEY in the University’s social policy was dis- mittee will organize this [lobbying] effort. Daily Editorial Board Tufts University Policearrested amale at cussed. The committeewill deal with what will hap- 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, and charged Last week, Tufts announcedthat it would pen with the social life at Tufts. If this him with trespassing and breaking and en- conduct random spot checks of fraternities resolution is approved we will haveavastly tering into a South Hall dorm room on Friday to ensure that the fraternities are abiding by different social climate next semester,” night. FIPG guidelines which stipulate that only Schnirman said. If convicted, the 20-year-old suspect . two persons per brother can enter a frater- The committeewill investigate ways that could.face up to ten years in prison, TUPD ’ nity party. the University can keep the social atmo- sphere at Tufts viable while keeping within Lt. Mark Keith said. ~ Senate Vice President Jack Schnirman Keith said that two female residents of said he recently met with members offrater- FIPG guidelines. Schnirman said that after the South Hall room notified police that the year 2000, fraternitieswill be more re- nities as well as Associate Dean of Stu- there were as many as three intruders in the dents Bruce Reitman to discuss the matter. stricted as some fraternities move towards dorm. The female students said they were Thereafter, the dean released a statement substance-free housing. “That seems to be President Omar Mattox spoke TCU awakened when they heard someone open- a national trend,” Schnirman said. at Friday’s rally against the social that was read at the student rally on the ing their dorm room door. According to Schnirman,possibilities to President’s Lawn Friday night and at policy change. “The individuals in the room didn’t give Sunday’s meeting. alleviate the adverse effects of such a them a hard time,” Keith said. In his statement, Reitman said that for change include expanding or building more ing. Kerry Santry, the interim head of the Once the suspects left, Keith said the now, the FIPG guidelines are being treated social space. Career Planning Center, will address the female students called TUPD right away. He pointed out an important distinction as recommendations and not as rules. At Senate next week to answer any questions “They werealittleconcemed,alittleshaken,” ’ the end of this semester, Reitman said, the in any future changes. Because the deci- from the senators regarding the Center. he said. national fraternity chapters meet to sion will come down from FIPG, “this won’t will Currently, the resolution calls for the According to a TUPD security alert, decide whether or not to adopt the FIPG be a University social policy. FIPG only administration to consider the needs of which has been posted across campus as a covers fraternities,” Schnirman said. guidelines. Ifthe fraternitiesagree to them, certain groups, such as the Career Planning safety precaution, the suspects gained ac- ’ According to Schnirman,this difference the University will have to enforce them, Center, Traveling Treasure Trunk, Cheap cess to the residence hall Friday night after due io liability issues. leaves options open for other houses and Sox, and the Leonard Carmichael Society “piggy-backing through the front door as “The University will not be the ones organizations to have parties. when drawing up the blue-prints for the Sophomore senator Jen Trask proposed lawful residents were entering.” Once in- making this policy,” Schnirman said. new building. side the building, according to the security a resolution which will “The Career Planning Center has re- urge the administration alert, the suspects went looking for parties cently come tothe forefront.It is my opinion in dorm rooms and “several residents in- to recognize the need for that it should take priority,” Trask said. more space for student vited them in and allowed them to stay She added that “competition for space throughout the night.” organizations. has become a major issue.” The resolution recom- Keith said that theft might have been the Senate Treasurer Josh Goldenberg said, suspects’ main purpose. mends that groups be “Space for student organizations on this “It appears they were probably checking allocated space in the campus isextremely limited.” 30,000 square feet ofnew dorms... probably seeing if there was any- Trask explained the motivation behind thing they could steal,” Keith said, although office space to be cre- theresolution. “My motivation is dual. One, ated when a parking he said no burglaries were reported. the Sweet Hall structure, [and] stemming Keith said one of the female students structure is built on the from that will be a larger issue of space rode in a car with an officer looking for the space occupied by Sweet allocation,” she said. suspects and positively identified one of Hall. Accordingto Trask, A committee led by Trask, which has them who was standing at a bus stop on construction on the ga- been looking into the needs of the Career CollegeAve. rage could begin as early Planning Center,will likely broaden its scope A freshman South Hall resident, Emily Photo by Mike Werssman as Sept. 1998. to investigate how the University currently DaSilva, said that on Friday night, screws Students gathered on the Presiden:.’~Lawn Friday night The be allocates space to groups and to recom- to rally against the social policy change. debated and voted upon at the next Senate meet- see SENATE, page 14 see INTRUDER, page 14 q 0 Faculty digs archaeology Program brings minority Ph.D program candidates to speak to students byALISONDAMAST Senior Staff Writer by DAVID PLWIOSE plainedthat “can’t-find-them-itis” The Arts and Sciences faculty unanimously approved the ar- Senior Staff Writer is a familiar administration re- chaeology program’s proposal to offer courses under its own Tufts is making progress in di- sponse to the call for a more di- heading (ARCH) rather than under other departments’ headings. versifyingthefaculty, said Michael verse faculty.Thisdifficultyinfmd- The proposal waspart ofthe recommendaticnsofthecommittee on Powell, the special assistant to the ing qualifiedminorityfaculty mem- Cum’cula, which presented its report at yesixiay’s faculty meeting. president for affirmative action. bers is not only found at Tufts, but According to the committee’s repsri, the archaeologyprogram Yesterday, at a lecture in the also at many other colleges and wants to “offer new courses which are inherently interdisciplinary Coolidge Room of Ballou Hall, universities, Powell said. and do not belong under any single department headbg,” Powell spoke on the Future Fac- The administration is making “The archaeology propjams want to offer inore regional courses ulty Ambassadors Program. This great progress toward the goal of and offer more coursesthat are geared ~cwdrslsindependent study,” program brought Frederick Luis a diversified faculty, Powell said. a spokesman for the program said. Aldama, a Ph.D candiate in En- “This problem can’t be solved Expressing doubts about the necessity of the change, many glish at Stanford University, to overnight.” faculty members raised questions about the proposal. Dean of lecture at Tufts and is one step He added, though, that Tufts is Photo by Lisa Lake Natural and Social Sciences Susan Ernst asked whether this change toward the goal of diversification not moving as quickly as he would Frederick Luis Aldama would require any additional funding. The spokesman for the of the faculty. like. Furthermore, he said, even program explained that aspecial gift tothe departmentwouldallow The Future Faculty Ambassa- the advancesthat are made in find- didates valuable teaching experi- it to offer two new classes each year taught by a part-time professor dors Program is a joint venture ing diverse faculty are not ac- ence and enables the administra- without requiring any additional funding. between Tufts and Stanford Uni- knowledgedby the theentire Tufts tion to recruit them for possible “I feel that a listing under archaeology in the student Bulletin versity. At Tufts, the two spon- community. full-time positions at the Univer- would encourage more students tu take archaeology classes. If is sors of this program are Powell In addition to the Future Fac- sity. d;fficult for students to pick out the archaeology classes when and Dean of the Graduate School ulty Ambassadors Program, the Aldama, in particular, is aprime looking at the Bulletin as they are offered under various depart- of Arts and Sciences Robert Multi-Cultural Teaching Fellows example of a potential minority ments,” Tufts Community Union Senator Brian Cathcart said. Hollister. Powell said one goal of Program also attracts prospective facultymember,Powell said. In his Is other business, David Sloane, chair of the Committee on this program is to provide lectur- minority faculty members, Powell introductory speech for Aldama, Curricula, presented recommendationsto the faculty for new comes ing experiencefor up-and-coming said. He said this program is more Powell reviewedAldama’s creden- anC changes in previousIy offered courses. minority college professors. intensive than the Future Faculty tials. Aldama was born in Mexico The faculty approved changes in pre-existing course tities, such Powell said this program also Ambassadors Program byause it City, Mexico. After movingtoCali- as changing the name of a course in the history department from provides valuable exposure for enrolls advancedPh.D candidates fornia at a young age, Aldama minority Ph.D candidates to pro- who teach Tufts summer school see FACULTY, page 8 spective employers.

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