Senate R Funding Educes 'Source' for Second Time
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T DAILY THE Volume XXXVI, Number 45 IWhere You Read It First Tuesday, Marchs 31,1998 Senate reduces ‘Source’ funding for second time by ANDREWF’REEDMAN According to Thever, she met able to meet before spring break, Daily Editorial Board with Levenberg after the last Sen- however. The Primary Sourceis still feel- ate meeting. “[Levenberg] as- Until last evening, Levenberg ing the repercussions for alleg- sumed he was allocated $1 1,500 was unaware ofthe Senate’sdeci- edly turning its budget in late. nomatterwhat,”Theversaid,add- sion to remove him as signatory. Before spring break, the Tufts ing that in fact the amount was “The Senate has been stone-wall- Community Union (TCU) Senate only a suggested cap, and said ing us for weeks, I have to hear voted to reduce the Source’s bud- she and Levenberg were to agree about it from you guys; this is get from approximately$17,000 to on the final budget. ridiculous,” he said. a maximum of $1 1,500. At this “He rejected everything I had Levenberg saidThever ignored 1 Photo by Mike Weissmai Sunday’s meeting, the Senate to say. He didn’t even have an hise-mails followingspring break. TCU Senate voted on Spring Fling funding Sunday night. votedtogranttheSource$10,625. itemized budget for me then,” He said that Thever tried to con- The Senate also removed the Thever said. tact him before the Senate meeting publication’s signatory, Editor-in- She said an itemized budget on Sunday, but that he was in The Senate strikes the ChiefKeithLevenberg, which bars was sent to her after that meeting, Primary Sourceofficeworking on him from future budgetary nego- but said she had no other contact production of the next issue. tiations for the Source. with Levenberg. Levenberg said that Thever did new ‘Rock ‘n Bowl’ The Senate decided to reduce Thever proposed cutting the not try to contact him at the office the budget a second time and re- allocation to $10,625 because she or e-mail him at that time. by ANDREWFREEDMAN recommendation, but the Senate voted to uphold the recommenda- move Levenberg from his post said the Source had continued to Levenberg alleged that the Daily Editorial Board violate the budgetary process. budget cut and removal of the Spring Fling is going to be a . tion. Goidenbergdetailedthe find- because it said Levenberg ne- “I wanted to budget them for signatory was the result of a per- huge event, but not quite as huge ing request by the Programming glected to sign the final budget. Without Levenberg’s signature, halfofwhat they weremakingthis sonal vendetta on Thever’s part. as some would have liked. Boardas wellasthe ALBOrecom- mendation. Although ALBO had the Senate did not consider the year ...I left messages for him but “Meena is malicious and incom- The Senate approved the Allo- petent. She has personal issues approved $2400 for a trip for budget complete. he never got back,” she said. cations Board (ALBO) recommen- 150 that she refuses to discuss. Her students to Canobie Lake amuse- The Source’s Allocations Thever added that she tried dationof$25,730topayforSpring unsuccessfullytoreach Levenberg job is to oversee media groups. Fling. That money does not in- ment park on the Sunday after- Board (ALBO)chairperson, Sena- before the break. “1 really wanted She has no idea how mediagroups clude funds for a “Rock ‘n Bowl” noon before Patriot’s Day, it rec- tor Meena Thever, said that she ommended that funding not be had tried repeatedly to get the to sit down and discuss it with him operate.” event on the evening of Patriot’s before spring break,” she said. At the Senate meeting, some Day. “Rock ‘n Bowl” would have budget signed before Sunday see SENATE,page 16 night’s meeting. Thever and Levenberg were un- . senators argued for an even more been a new event this year that severe cut to the Source’s budget. combined bowling, black lights, Senate Parliamentarian Rommel theProgrammingBoard’sandmusic. The event was cutfunding from Childress said the budget should Goddard Chapel bells restored be completelycut. “They screwed request at an ALBO meeting last by LEA JESUELE cleanedandsomewiresinthe origi- I the whole budgetary process and week. Senior Staff Writer nal electricalmechanism were re- got away witkit. ~f you want to During Open Forum Jill Hol- Aftersurvivingoveradecadein placed. give $1 1,000to someone, give it to lander ofthe Junior Class Council need ofrepair,the bellsofGoddard Rapucci added, “[The system] someone who deserves it. Should askedfor$3,000moreforthePro- Chapel have been completely re- has now been upgraded with all we give them money when they gramming Board’s Spring Fling stored during a process that en- the newest electrical state-of-the screwedup?I thinknot,”Childress Week to pay for “Rock n’ Bowl.” compassed almost two weeks. art procedures. As soon as you said. Hollander explained the plan for “Overtheyears, thenumber of learn how to operate the new sys- Senator Samar Shaheryer the event as well as the costs of electrical problems invoIving the tem, you can program your own agreed. “The budgetary procedure renting out the top floor of the striking mechanism of the bells melodies into it and hopefullythe was totally ignored. I think we Alewife Bowling Alley. has increased,” said Robert bellswillnow beheardmoreofien have already had the debate. The “This event will provide some Rapucci ofBuildingsandGrounds, since they are now fully restored best way to get back to procedure off-campus programming... It has who oversaw the procedure. to their original quality.” is to let Meena do her thing and received overwhelming support Rapucci explainedthatthe bells According to A Walking Tour come up with a number.” from everyone I have spoken with,” operate by a system of electrical ofGoddardChape1, the bell tower Freshman SenatorMarc Lipson Hollander said. solenoids connected to an ivory itself is part of the original struc- said, “We gave them a second Brian Shelly of the Program- keyboard that controls the caril- ture ofthe chapel, which was con- chance. How many people get ming Board explained to the Sen- lon of bells, enabling the chimes to structed in 1882, and completed secondchances? I definitelythink ate that Hollander was in Madrid play any tune that is played to and dedicated in 1883.The compi- we need a new number.” during last week’s ALBO meeting them through the keyboard. lation of facts explains that the Childress added that eliminat- and that he had not done an ad- A Walking Tour of Goddard first bell ever used was a gift from ing the budget was not personal. equatejob ofexplainingthe event. Chapel, a 1984 compilation ofin- the class of 1898, which was in- Goddard Chapel bell tower. “It is the eleventh hour right “It fills a unique niche. A re- formation prepared by former stalled in 1908 and eventually be- now ... what does the rule say? If laxed, laid back evening. A low Chaplain Geoffrey G. Drutchas, cameknownas‘TheVictoryBell” signal the beginning and ending you missed all this, zerodollars. It cost, low stress event,” he said. explains that the bells have not because it was rung every time a ,ofclasseseachday, weekly morn- is really not personal. It goes Shelly and Hollanderasked the been touched since the early ’80s. Tufts team was victorious. ing prayerservices,andthe begin- against everything. They didn’t Senate to reconsider the ALBO The bell tower and carillon were The bell was also sounded to ning and ending of commence- follow any procedure...Theyraped ment.Today,thebell isstill rungat the whole process.’ They still commencement. didn’t correct it since the big de- World Civ stays requirement After working his way through bate. That disgusts me,” he con- school as a bell-ringer, Eugene B. tinued. byDANIELBARBARIS1 Associate Professor of Music David Locke raised Bowen, a member of the class of Many other senators,however, Daily Editorial Board several concerns regarding the future ofthe require- 1876,gaveninebellstothechapel. felt that eliminating the budget The world civilization requirement, aTufts inno- ment, primarily dealing with the possibility of future According to A Walking Tour of entirely would be too harsh. vation termed by some as “progressive,” will now review ofthe requirement by the EPC after the pass- Goddard Chapel, these bells be- “Giving them zero dollars isri- become a permanent fixture at Tufts, as the Arts and ing of the motion to continue the requirement. came known asthe Bowen Bells, diculous. That would be com- Sciences faculty voted yesterday afternoon to main- “The EPC should be thanked for its report, which and the Victory Bell from the Class pletely rash,” Trustee Represen- tain the requirement indefinitely. The requirement, meanstheendofitsworldciv.review...My motion is of 1898 was later added to these tative Stacey Goldberg said. which had previously existed as a three-year proba- that this report not be the basis for any future review bells. Senate President Omar Mattox tionary program, will not change from its original ofthe requirement,” Locke said. “The third sentence Drutchas’ information explains agreed, saying, “To approve zero form. ofmy motion is that the faculty move to make world that in 1966,fifteen new bells were dollars now is very irresponsible. The program was evaluated by the Educational civilization one of their permanent foundation re- added to the tower and dedicated Many ofthe concerns raised have Policy Committee(EPC),which, after six meetingson quirements.’, to John Tilton, the university’s been based upon personal feel- the subject, determined that the world civilization Messina assured the body that the EPC’s involve- first provost, bringing the total ings towards the Source and that requirement should exist as a foundation require- ment in thereview wouldendthere.“[The EPC report] number of bells to twenty-five.