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MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 LookTUFTS MAGAZINE WINTER 2015 30 5 Discover 17 Act HEALTH, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY OUR HUMANITARIANS, LEADERS, AND INNOVATORS 8 MIND MELD The future of human intelligence may lie outside the physical brain BY JEFF STIBEL, A95 18 COVER THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS Tom Barefoot, A68, urges governments to rethink how they measure 14 Architecture with a human face HOUSE OF MIRTH progress BY MIChaEL BLandING BY ANN SUSSMAN, F86, AND JUSTIN B. HOLLANDER, A96 VETS ON CAMPUS 16 COLUMN KIDS THESE DAYS When judgment trumps 22 PART 1: A FEW GOOD MEN AND WOMEN science BY W. GEorgE SCarLETT Our universities need students like my Marines QUICK READS 6 HEALTH NEWS FROM TUFTS Stem cell BY ELLIOT ACKErman, A03, F03 therapy for pets, your brain on coffee, antidepressants 24 PART 2: BASIC TRAINING Military service | and pregnancy, fluoride for babies 7 DINOSAURS prepared Keith Wasserboehr, A16, for Tufts | 13 AND POACHED EGGS WARDING OFF LIVER CANCER BY CATHERINE O'NEILL graCE 15 CHARACTER SKETCH Ashley Magee, V95, and the dog that ate 43½ socks 27 FIVE SECRETS OF THE WORLD'S TOP INNOVATORS My radio show guests are revolutionizing the way we live by Kara MILLER, G08 QUICK READS 25 LAURELS | 26 BRILLIANT! Jumbo entrepreneurs and their big ideas PHOTO: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD; ILLUSTRATIONS: GABY D'ALESSANDRO (HAPPINESS), DAVID PLUNKERT (MIND MELD) Look 29 Create THE CULTURE PAGES 30 AGAIN I FORMED WHOLE A poet’s life after traumatic brain injury BY Kara PETERS 38 OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE Hamlet on the E! channel BY MICHELLE Ray, J94 8 40 GAME ON Rainy-day fun from our award-winning board game designers BY maTT M. CASEY QUICK READS 35 MIXED MEDIA Our books and 41Connect creative milestones | 39 CHARACTER SKETCH KEEPING UP WITH THE TUFTS COMMUNITY Stacy Klein, G88, connects theater to the earth 42 THIRTEEN VISIONARIES Thrills and spills in our presidential history BY SOL GITTLEman 48 THE JUMBO CHANNEL Reliving the early days of TUTV BY KRISTIN LIVIngSTon, A05 54 CLASS NOTES 60 IN MEMORIAM 63 THE BIG DAY Jumbo weddings and unions QUICK READS 47 INVESTING IN STUDENTS For a portfolio manager, it’s the natural thing to do 49 NEWSWIRE | 50 OH, THE PLACES THEY'LL GO The new bridge-year program | 52 A BOOST FOR TUFTS' 18 ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS | 53 BUILDING TUFTS A space for collaboration In Every Issue On the Cover 2 PRESIDENT'S PAGE Free The pursuit of speech is good speech happiness is back 3 LETTERS in style, thanks to 4 THE EDITORIAL WE a movement to Learning to notice change how we 74 TAKE IT FROM ME Perennial measure progress gardens, literary agents, (page 18). résumé-reading smarts, Illustration by Betsy Hayes sports nutrition 76 ELEPHOTOS President’s Page FREE SPEECH IS GOOD SPEECH SINCE ITS FOUNDING in 1852, Tufts has The seeds of social change are often sown on embraced a campus culture that college campuses. University students at Tufts and encourages the free and unfet- elsewhere have been leading voices in the civil rights, tered exchange of ideas. It is what environmental, labor, women’s, and peace movements. defines us as a university in Members of our community have challenged the pursuit of discovery and knowl- administration, and each other, on social and political edge, and it is what prepares our issues, most recently on fossil fuel divestment, sexual students to take on the complex assault, international affairs, and Tufts’ relations with challenges of our times. We can- its custodial staff and part-time faculty. I welcome and not have the benefits of education encourage these exchanges. With issues as complex as without being open to ideas that test these, we cannot broaden our insights without a full us and sometimes make us uncomfortable. airing of many viewpoints. Our own Declaration on Freedom of Expression at It is certainly not my expectation that every member Tufts University, which the Board of Trustees approved of our community will embrace every perspective and in November 2009, states: “Without freedom of expres- every point of view. My hope is that these debates and sion, community members cannot fully share their discussions are civil and respectful and that we always knowledge or test ideas on the anvil of open debate and engage in constructive dialogue, even though we may criticism. Without freedom of inquiry, community not always agree. Make no mistake, we will not tolerate members cannot search for new knowledge or chal- speech or conduct that involves threats, intimidation, lenge conventional wisdom.” or harassment or interferes with the rights of members Academic freedom has been fundamental to of our community to participate in campus life. At the American higher education since the early twentieth same time, we need to protect all points of view, no century. It is essential not only to the teaching and matter how unpopular or provocative, to advance our research of our faculty, but also to the contributions mission as an educational institution. they make to informed public debate on matters of I have been deeply troubled by calls on our own consequence to our society. and other university campuses to silence speech. At Colleges and universities are also where young people some institutions, commencement speakers have been can freely examine their own assumptions, beliefs, and denied the right to be heard. Here at Tufts, we have perceptions through a diversity of lenses and develop the been urged by members of our own community, both critical-thinking skills that will shape their personal and on and off campus, to cancel programs and speakers. intellectual growth. It is our responsibility to encourage When debate is stifled, everyone loses. opportunities for students to debate and contemplate a I strongly believe that the best response to offen- gamut of opinions, ideas, and viewpoints—in classroom sive speech is more speech. And I fervently defend the discussions and readings, in the laboratory, in our stu- principles of academic freedom and the right of all dios and performance halls, and through the speakers members of this community to express their views and conferences we host on campus. These kinds of on any issue. These principles are the foundation of exchanges, both formal and informal, will help our stu- Tufts University and all of modern American higher dents become active and engaged citizens of the world. education. ANTHONY P. MONACO President, Tufts University 2 TUFTS MAGAZINE | WINTER 2015 PHOTO: ALONSO NICHOLS Letters THE REDESIGNED to the column by Gittleman himself TEACH FOR AMERICA replacing experienced educators MAGAZINE (“1914’s Long Tail”). I gave “Stress CAVEATS with inexpensive Teach for America The makeover is a bonanza, and the and the Gums” (Health News from Thank you for Kathy Hubbard’s personnel. Many charter schools notion of offering four magazines in Tufts) to my dentist. I’ve sent copies article spotlighting Tufts grads who in low-income neighborhoods are one is inspired. of the Philip Starks column “Busy As choose to teach (Fall 2014). But staffed primarily by such personnel. In our household, which receives a Grandma” to everyone. the title of that article—“Time Out MEG LUTHIN, A07 seven alumni/ae magazines, Tufts BOB HORNE, G60 to Teach”—is worrying and telling. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Magazine has always been read BOOTHBAY HARBOR, MAINE I hope that these alums, unlike cover to cover, more or less. Yes, eighty percent of Teach for America AN ELEPHANT TO some of the articles have been a bit Congratulations on the redesigned members, find their teaching expe- REMEMBER wordy in the past. But not so now, Tufts Magazine. What an improve- riences enriching enough to keep I read “Elephant of the Hour” (Fall and content has not been sacrificed. ment! This issue afforded me them in the classroom beyond the 2014) with great interest, because Other huge pluses are the jazzy new hours of enjoyable and informative two-year hitch. All of our children, during my four years at Tufts, I had layout and high-quality photos. reading. It will be a challenge to especially those vulnerable the job of babysitting Jumbo at the KATHERINE HALL PAGE, G74 maintain the same quality in future students in low-income schools, Barnum Museum of Natural History LINCOLN, MASSACHUSETTS issues, but I’m sure you will do it. deserve the most experienced and (now Barnum Hall) on Saturday IRVING NOVIC, A51 dedicated teachers—and the most and Sunday afternoons—preventing This truly is one of the best maga- STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA stable and nurturing environ- local kids and others from trying zines ever. Every piece in the rede- ments—we can provide. to sit on his trunk, pull his tail, or signed Fall 2014 issue affected me, You’ve turned an outstanding It’s also worth noting that while otherwise mistreat him. My most from the letters responding to “The magazine into an even better one. Teach for America does place memorable experience was the Sol Decades” (Summer 2014), about Write on! Photo shoot on! recruits in hard-to-staff districts, afternoon a very old, stooped-over Tufts’ beloved University Professor TOD J. KAUFMAN, A75 that’s not always the case. Districts lady came in. Tears were running and former provost Sol Gittleman, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA with no teacher shortage are profusely down her cheeks as she viewed Jumbo. She explained that she had been a trapeze artist and had ridden around on his back during circus shows. VINCENT MAINIERO, A53 MILFORD, CONNECTICUT CORRECTION (AND CONGRATULATIONS) Our notice about the new children’s book This Day in June, by Gayle E. Pitman, J94 (Mixed Media, Fall 2014), got the title wrong—we were a month off.

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