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Today: Mostly Sunny THE TUFTS High 50 Low 34 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Rain / Snow Since 1980 High 40 Low 33 VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 47 DAILY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007 Former child laborers speak Surprise alcohol regulations out about their experiences mar Hotung’s re-opening BY ROB SILVERBLATT Daily Editorial Board terday, but most of the frustration was directed toward the identification When Hotung officially re-opened policies. yesterday, a ban on using out-of-state “People are definitely frustrated and IDs to buy alcohol and a two-drink students feel as if this is an instance limit for beer and wine caught almost of Dining Services creating loopholes everybody by surprise. and boundaries that aren’t com- Dining Services implemented municated ahead of time to them,” the regulations, but students, Tufts Robinson said. “To me, it shows a Community Union (TCU) senators and failure on Dining Services’ part to at even Dean of Student Affairs Bruce least be transparent about [their] pro- Reitman said they had no knowledge cedures.” of the rules until after 5 p.m. yester- Reitman also found the lack of com- day, and wish they’d been consulted. munication troublesome, as Hotung, The policy now in place is that which is located in the campus center, to buy alcohol, students 21 or older is at the intersection of many inter- must provide either a passport or a twined jurisdictions. Massachusetts ID. No IDs from other The campus center is a building states are accepted. Students who buy dedicated to student activities, the alcohol also have to wear a wristband new renovation to Hotung stemmed that marks the number of drinks that largely from a Senate and student they buy. Students can only buy one affairs initiative, and Hotung itself is a JO DUARA/TUFTS DAILY drink at a time and no more than two Dining Services facility. Former child laborers Sanita Lama and Jaya Bhandari, as well as Nina Smith (LA ’89) and Professor in one night. “All those groups should be involved Drusilla Brown, pictured here from left to right, discuss child labor in carpet factories. Reitman and Senate Historian and in a conversation about what controls sophomore Neil DiBiase speculated are in place, and that didn’t happen,” BY KAT SCHMIDT the age of eight and was forced to go that these regulations stem from legal Reitman said. Daily Editorial Board weave at a carpet factory in Kathmandu. concerns. Director of Dining Services The policy in effect today, he said, “It was horrible,” she said. Patricia Klos did not return two calls is impractical since most students live Ten years ago, if you told Sanita Lama But thanks to a school sponsored by a to her cell phone last night for com- outside Massachusetts or didn’t bring and Jaya Bhandari, two former child nonprofit organization called RugMark, ment. a passport at school. “There should be laborers, that one day they’d be sitting in she got an education and another chance. TCU President Mitch Robinson and another way ... that works better,” he Tufts’ Hillel talking about their lives, they “I found love with the teachers,” she Reitman have both been involved in said. wouldn’t have believed you. said, composing herself. Now, Lama has plans that renovated the space and From his perspective, Tufts-issued In fact, they never thought they’d earned her secondary school proficiency added beer and wine to the menu. IDs, which include the cardholder’s get out of the Nepalese carpet factories certification and is teaching adult carpet While they both met frequently with a date of birth, should be adequate where they worked 12-hour days and workers English, math and sanitation. group of interested parties, including proof that students are of age to buy seven-day weeks weaving carpets, tak- Lama is one of more than 3,000 success Dining Services, they said that no one alcohol. “I don’t understand ... why a ing their rest by sleeping on the floor stories in the history of RugMark, which had mentioned the restrictions that Tufts ID card doesn’t suffice,” Reitman between the looms. has worked since 1995 to end child labor students faced yesterday. said. Lama, a petite 19-year-old clad in in India, Nepal and Pakistan, explained Both sets of regulations — those Students who arrived for the official a print dress, shed a few tears while involving IDs and those involving recounting how she lost her mother at see CHILD LABOR, page 2 drink limits — created confusion yes- see HOTUNG, page 2 TFA aims to ‘Take Back Sleeping on the Quad the Night’ for women BY MARTIN SATTELL cially threatening for women Daily Staff Writer because incidents of sexual violence typically occur after In order to raise awareness the sun goes down. about sexual violence and “The idea is for women to abuse at Tufts and address reclaim the night — to feel stereotypes surround- safe at night walking around ing these issues, the Tufts campus, walking to their cars, Feminist Alliance (TFA), or at parties,” she said. with the help of the Women’s This year’s Take Back the Center, is hosting a Take Back Night will begin with a stu- the Night forum tonight at 8 dent-led forum and will p.m. in Eaton 201, which will examine the repercussions be followed by a rally and on survivors, witnesses and candlelight vigil. perpetrators of sexual vio- Take Back the Night is an lence and abuse, accord- event that seeks to end vio- ing to Elaine Theodore, the lence and discrimination coordinator of Tufts’ Violence against women, with specific Prevention Program. emphasis on sexual violence “It is an interactive critical and abuse. It is internation- thinking session about how ally observed, but there is no we [look at] the issue in rela- universal date on which it is tion to the Tufts community,” held. she said. “[The event] is called ‘Take As such, students will per- Back the Night’ because night form a series of tableaus that is a time of vulnerability for represent different forms of ANJALI NIRMALAN/TUFTS DAILY women,” Interim Director of sexual violence and abuse, Members of Pangea erect one of the several tents that were put up outside of West Hall yesterday. the Women’s Center Susan ranging from potential Last night, students slept in them as part of a “Symbolic Refugee Camp.” The night in the tents was Gilbert said. harassment to more seri- part of a three-day campaign meant to draw attention to the plight of refugees and internally dis- According to Gilbert, who ous assault. According to placed persons around the globe. The event continues today and tomorrow, though students will is involved in the planning of not be sleeping on the quad again. the event, nighttime is espe- see NIGHT, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections LEAVING A LEGACY ‘PICTURE’ THIS News 1 Viewpoints 15 Children of alumni get a Tufts Symphony ushers in boost during admissions but spring this Saturday with Features 3 Sports 19 may suffer in the long run ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ Arts | Living 7Classifieds 22 Editorial | Letters 14 Comics 23 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 7 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, April 11, 2007 WORLD IN BRIEF BUSH SIGNS LAW ON UKRAINIAN, Students upset over unanticipated Hotung policies GEORGIAN ACCESSION TO NATO HOTUNG “We’re not going to sit here for a of state to have a passport ... isn’t nec- U.S. President George Bush has signed into law continued from page 1 night to have two beers,” he said. essarily a fair assumption,” she said. legislation supporting a Ukrainian and Georgian opening of Hotung yesterday were also With the new regulations in place, Although it is still unclear whether bid to join NATO, the White House press service surprised by the regulations. he said there was no reason for 21- these regulations will change, DiBiase said Tuesday. Seniors Drew Giacomi, J.W. Wright plus students to prefer Hotung over said that he hopes to discuss them “The President signed into law the NATO and junior Stephanie Dueno, all of local bars. “I think it’s unacceptable ... during a previously scheduled meet- Freedom Consolidation Act of 2007, which reaf- whom are over 21, had no idea when It’s just not worth it anymore,” Wright ing about Hotung where a dining ser- firms support for continued enlargement of the they entered the café for dinner that said. vices representative will be present. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), desig- they would need either a Massachusetts As for the requirement that students He said that he hopes a compromise nates Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, and ID or a passport to buy alcohol. use a Massachusetts ID or passport, he can be reached that would allow more Ukraine as eligible to receive assistance under the Although he retrieved a passport said that it would be much more rea- students to take full advantage of the NATO Participation Act of 1994, and authorizes from his room, Giacomi, a Connecticut sonable to require students with IDs new Hotung. fiscal year 2008 appropriations for certain military native, felt that the drink limit and ID from other states to buy their alcohol “As far as I’m concerned, it’s assistance for these countries,” the press service restrictions soured the promise that on points if Dining Services is con- unacceptable to make students use said in a statement on its Web site. the new Hotung would enliven cam- cerned about fraud. [Massachusetts] IDs,” he said.

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