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Where You Read It First Rain 47/31 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 38 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 TUFTSDAILY.COM Yale professor cautions against valuing Tufts, surrounding areas voter conversion over mobilization affected by Patrick’s cuts BY ALEX A NDR A BOGUS BY JEREMY WHITE of dollars in budget cuts, have Daily Editorial Board Daily Editorial Board enacted measures to protect funding for select programs. Exactly one week before Tufts’ Cummings School of Somerville officials expressed Election Day, Yale Professor of Veterinary Medicine may be cautious optimism about the city’s Political Science Donald Green grappling with $5.4 million less ability to weather the setback. highlighted in state funding come fiscal year Somerville Alderman-at-Large what he sees 2009, after Massachusetts Gov. Bruce Desmond told the Daily that as a discon- Deval Patrick announced on Oct. the local government is trying to nect in presi- 15 that he will slash over $1 billion focus on retaining “some of the dential cam- from the state’s expenditures. The main functions of the city,” such paigns, which move will reduce the Cummings as police and fire services, schools focus more on School’s fiscal year 2009 operating and public works. swaying vot- budget by about eight percent. Desmond said Somerville is ers than on the simpler task of Cummings School Dean working to keep such essential pro- increasing turnout among solid Deborah Kochevar said that grams on “an existing-service level, supporters. administrators at the school in so you’re not cutting any people. In the year’s second Frank C. Grafton, Mass., are not sure what “The biggest cost in government Colcord Lecture, entitled “The steps they will take to address the is usually personnel,” he said. Science and Pseudoscience of funding cuts. “It would be inap- State Sen. Patricia Jehlen Winning Elections,” Green argued propriate to comment on how the (D-2nd Middlesex), who rep- that the success of mobilization school is going to handle the cuts resents parts of Medford and techniques depends on adding a right now,” she said. Somerville, said that despite personal touch and communicat- The graduate school’s loss Patrick’s pledge to keep local aid ing directly with people. comes out of a state earmark, and education funding constant, “Sustained, high-quality, heart- according to the Worcester many programs are suffering. felt communication often leads to Telegram and Gazette. “We’ve been through rounds of success,” he said. As part of its contract with the budget cutting, and there’s not a lot Dean of Undergraduate state, at least half of the Cummings left that’s easy to cut,” Jehlen told Education James Glaser said in School’s student body must be the Daily. “We cut some things that introductory remarks that Green, comprised of Massachusetts resi- are making people very upset.” the author of “Get Out the Vote: dents, and the school receives a As examples of cutbacks so far, MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS DAILY How to Increase Voter Turnout,” subsidy that helps it provide a Jehlen pointed to local municipal Yale Professor Donald Green spoke yesterday about his study of efforts to is known as “one of the most cre- 15-percent tuition discount to in- programs seeking to allay drug increase voter participation. ative and provocative social scien- state students, according Kochevar. abuse and teen violence, funding tists in the country.” to describe the tactics of mobiliza- to vote. Persuasion, Green said, Because those stipulations remain for special-needs students and a Green described his Alumnae tion and persuasion. involves “trying to win people over part of the contract, the budget 40-year-old Cambridge program Lounge lecture as the “kind of Mobilization focuses on get- to your side.” cuts will not affect them, she said. that provides support to people advice you’d get from … cam- ting people who have already Somerville and Medford, paign consultants,” and went on expressed support in a candidate see GREEN, page 2 which will also face millions see FUNDING, page 2 ALLIES hosts annual conference BY SA R A H BUTRYMOWICZ Community Union senator. While the Daily Editorial Board initiative has tangible benefits, it has also received criticism regarding this The Alliance Linking Leaders in type of intersection between academics Education and the Services (ALLIES) is and the military. leading its second annual “Intellectual The ALLIES symposium’s program- Roundtable” this week, bringing doz- ming will involve panel discussions, ens of military and academic experts to including “Strange Bedfellows? The campus to discuss cooperation between DoD and the Social Sciences” and “The civil and military enterprises. Imminent Challenge: Transitioning The three-day-long event is set to Security in Fragile States,” and a screen- kick off tonight with a keynote address ing of the film “Hidden Wounds,” a doc- from Antonia Chayes, the author of umentary about soldiers coping with “Planning for Intervention: International post-traumatic stress disorder. Cooperation in Conflict Management.” The symposium will close on Friday The title of this year’s roundtable is with a second keynote address, this one “Increasing National Participation in by Andrew Bacevich, author of “The Security and Defense.” Limits of Power: The End of American Students and experts will examine Exceptionalism.” the role of social sciences in the U.S. As of two weeks ago, ALLIES had military and take a look at the mili- received 20 confirmations of attendance ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY tary’s connections to politics. These ties from experts, including faculty from the About 60 students, mostly Air Force ROTC cadets from Boston-area schools, assembled at are particularly relevant given the high U.S. Naval Academy at West Point, schol- the campus center yesterday for a crisis simulation. number of military officials who have ars from George Mason University and endorsed a presidential candidate this professors from the Fletcher School. But cycle. Morrison anticipates that there will be National council pushes for Tufts Of particular interest will be Defense between 30 and 40 attendees. Secretary Robert Gates’ Minerva initia- The panel discussions, which will tive, which allocates millions of dollars each feature three or four experts, will to bring ROTC facility to campus to support academic researchers’ work be open to all students. ALLIES students on projects that do things like examine and visiting students will also attend BY BEN GITTLESON But university officials say that deci- the connections between religion and a number of smaller conferences with Daily Editorial Board sion remains in the hands of the mili- terrorism and archive documents on distinguished guests. tary, which has determined that main- Chinese military doctrines. Twenty to 30 Tufts students will take A national non-profit group devoted taining central hubs for Boston-area “That’s probably one of the most part in these conferences, where they to supporting higher education sent a schools, located at MIT and Boston important topics we’re going to be dis- will be joined by students from the Naval letter this month urging Tufts’ Board University, is more cost-effective than cussing,” said ALLIES member Chas Academy and Air Force. of Trustees to move the university’s setting up detachments of the program Morrison, a sophomore. “That’s one of the really unique assets Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at each area college. Minerva draws on the social sci- to an intellectual roundtable,” Morrison program back on campus, saying that Anne Neal, president of the American ences to improve war-fighting capaci- said. “We’re going to be sitting down students deserve the right to pursue a ties, according to Morrison, a Tufts with people from all sides of the table.” military career in a convenient way. see ROTC, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections ‘Saw V’ is a hack job that The field hockey team News 1 Op-Ed 9 fails to impress. kept its winning streak Features 3 Comics 11 alive yesterday. Arts | Living 5Classifieds 12 Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see ARTS, page 5 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Changing minds is not easy Police Briefs GREEN ally funded 527 organization that CLOSET DRINKERS erty of Interstate Rental Service, be but the student signed a form continued from page 1 would help political scientists brought to the TUPD station. refusing aid and was sent home Drawing on a number of stud- test the effectiveness of differ- Tufts University Police Dep- for the night. ies, Green said that mobilization ent mobilization tactics in actual artment (TUPD) officers responded STUDENT Can’t WALK, is more cost-effective than try- campaigns. The only limitation, to a call at 11:11 p.m. on Oct. AND SERGEANT CAN’T JUMBO GETS AN AERO- ing to sway people across party he said, is that campaigns could 23 at Lewis Hall at the request SAY WHAT ‘SPACE PORN SOL MAKEOVER lines, especially when the can- be unwilling to risk losing in the of an on-duty resident assistant. PARty’ COULD BE didates are familiar and recog- name of research. The RA told officers that she had An individual called TUPD at nizable. Still, in the “heat of the “After this election, we’re attempted to make contact with TUPD officers driving on Sawyer 2:59 a.m. on Oct. 26 to report campaign,” candidates are more going to hang out our shingle. people who were being noisy in Avenue at 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 24 vandalism that was occurring likely to create ads that focus on If you’re an aspiring candidate a room, but they would not open saw a female walking unsteadily on the Academic Quad.

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