Today: Mostly Sunny THE TUFTS High 46 Low 30 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper PM Rain/Snow Since 1980 High 43 Low 30 VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 44 DAILY FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2007 Gallagher receives Light on the Hill UIT increases size of Tufts Webmail accounts to 200 MB BY SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ The decision was made not Daily Editorial Board to publicize the change because there was a concern that students Tufts Webmail received an would become excited for the upgrade of jumbo proportions increase and then face problems last week. if implementation failed, accord- Prior to the upgrade, Tufts stu- ing to O’Connor. dents had 50 megabytes (MB) in There is “so much instability e-mail space available to them with Webmail that poor publicity on Webmail before they reached would be worse than none,” she their quota. That number has said. now quadrupled to 200 MB. Now aware of the increase, “[Our goal is] to make e-mail as Gerson thinks that it was a good functional and usable for people as idea because she has nearly possible,” Dawn Irish, University reached her quota in the past. “I Information Technology’s (UIT) actually had gone through and associate director of outreach, deleted a lot of old mail. It felt like said. I was getting those stupid e-mails UIT became aware of the com- that your mailbox has [almost] munity’s desire for more e-mail reached [its] quota like every room via user feedback. “We’ve other week,” she said. talked to students in the past and Sophomore David Aaron they wanted more space,” Irish Friedman has not received such said. e-mails before, but he also thinks Melissa O’Connor, the act- the upgrade will be beneficial. ing manager of the University “I’ve never really had problems JO DUARA/TUFTS DAILY Systems Group, which is part before, but increased capacity is a Before he received the 2006-2007 Light on the Hill Award, Peter Gallagher (A ’77) performed with the of UIT, agreed. “We saw more plus,” he said. Beelzebubs. requests for increases in [the] Irish hopes that more quota BY LILLY RIBER careers.” Former winners include formance by the current Bubs, quota,” she said. space will be provided to Webmail Daily Editorial Board actor Hank Azaria (LA ’85), for- followed by two songs performed The upgrade was not costly users in the next six to nine mer NBC News President Neal with Gallagher as well as many because it was a reconfiguration months, but is unsure of exactly “Go Jumbos!” shouted actor- Shapiro (LA ’80) and current New other Bubs alumni who came to of available space, not an expan- how much space will be added, singer Peter Gallagher (A ’77) Mexico Governor and 2008 presi- show their support. sion of the total available space, when the increases will be made, yesterday from the stage of the dential candidate Bill Richardson Next, Gallagher was introduced O’Connor said. and how much they will cost. Cohen auditorium, where he (A ’70, F ’71). by Pamela Goldberg (J ’77), a But this will not be the case Future increases may give received the Tufts Community Before receiving the award, classmate of Gallagher’s and the with future upgrades. Future Webmail more space than at least Union (TCU) Senate’s 2006-2007 Gallagher took advantage of his director of Tufts’ Entrepreneurial additions of space “will be more one of its free competitors — Light on the Hill Award. return to the Hill to perform once Leadership Program at Tufts, costly because we have reached Hotmail currently has 250 MBs of According to TCU Senate again with the Beelzebubs, the which was one of the event’s our [maximum],” she said. space. But it is still far away from President Mitch Robinson, the a capella group of which he was sponsors. When the expansion occurred, Gmail, which offers around 2.6 award recognizes Tufts alumni a member of during his under- Other sponsors were the TCU it was kept relatively quiet; some gigabytes (GB) and Yahoo! Mail, who have demonstrated “ambi- graduate years. Senate, the Alumni Association, students were not even aware which offers 1 GB of space. tion, achievement and active The musical introduction to it occurred. “I didn’t notice it,” — Ashley Pandya contributed citizenship in their personal the ceremony included a per- see GALLAGHER, page 2 sophomore Jennifer Gerson said. reporting to this article. Latin American studies major approved; Water, water everywhere Portuguese to be taught starting fall ’08 BY ROB SILVERBLATT a result of the recent decision by the faculty, Daily Editorial Board students can declare Latin American studies as their major “right away.” A proposal to create a new Latin American The creation of the major resulted from studies major was approved at a faculty a desire to offer students more opportuni- meeting earlier this week, and plans to bring ties for in-depth study than the minor cur- Portuguese classes to Tufts are now one step rently allows for, and was made possible by closer to fruition. the addition of several regional specialists to Late last month, the Daily reported on the faculty over the past six to seven years, both of these initiatives, which have since according to the proposal for the creation of gained momentum. the major. On Wednesday, the proposal for the Latin While students planning on majoring in American studies major received unani- Latin American studies have several choices mous support at a faculty meeting, accord- for most of their requirements, currently the ing to José Antonio Mazzotti, the chair of the only regional language offered is Spanish. Romance languages department. But classes in Portuguese appear to be on Prior to that, Latin American studies was the horizon. Recently, Mazzotti received the only offered as a minor, and while the plan to go ahead from the Arts and Sciences Steering create a major had been pre-approved by a Committee to put together a Portuguese pro- curriculum committee earlier this year, it still gram. Classes will be offered starting in the needed the support of the full faculty. fall of 2008. To fulfill the major, students need to take Although requests were made in the past to 11 classes and complete a five-semester lan- add Portuguese classes, budgetary constraints REBEKAH SOKOL/TUFTS DAILY guage requirement. prevented the development of a program. Sophomore Woon Young Jeong explains the similarities between tap water and Of the 11 classes, at least one must come Mazzotti said that while budgetary con- bottled water to freshman Michael Woon during the Tap Water Challenge yesterday in from an approved course in each of seven cerns are no longer a problem, it is still wise Dewick. During the event, students were encouraged to participate in taste tests to see areas, including anthropology and art history to wait a year before offering the classes. “It if they could tell the difference between tap and bottled water. Organizers argued that or culture. An integrated capstone experi- is a little late to start a search for an instruc- the two varieties of water are more alike than many imagine. The event was sponsored ence, in which seniors can either take a semi- tor and change the catalogue for next fall,” by Tufts students interning for Corporate Accountability International, an organization nar, write a thesis or complete a project, is he said. “I think it is better to wait until “that protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible also required. 2008 so we can publicize the program more and dangerous corporate actions around the world,” according to its Web site. Mazzotti told the Daily in an e-mail that, as adequately.” Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections BILL OR RONALD? BOURGOIS IN BOSTON News 1 Comics 10 College professors weigh The Daily visits an icon in on the ‘greatness’ of the of 20th century sculp- Features 3 Classifieds 11 past four U.S. presidents ture Arts | Living 5Sports Back Editorial | Letters 8 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Friday, April 6, 2007 WORLD IN BRIEF DEADLINE FOR SHUTDOWN OF NORTH KOREAN REACTOR IN PERIL Gallagher leaves students with encouraging words in, he said, is primarily a factor of gut The U.S. Treasury’s inability to release frozen instinct. “Success is a miracle,” he said. North Korean bank funds has stalled talks on dis- “Ninety-nine percent of the time no one mantling Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons program properly attributes the reason for that and jeopardized an April 14 deadline for North success.” Korea to shut down a nuclear reactor, senior Gallagher also emphasized the uncer- Asian officials said Wednesday. tainty of it all. “You just have to trust China’s chief envoy to the nuclear talks and yourself,” he said. South Korea’s foreign minister said the U.S. and Speaking about his role in the academy North Korea remained divided over how to trans- award winning film “American Beauty” fer some $25 million in bank funds, imperiling (1999), Gallagher expressed the anxi- the deadline for North Korea to shut down its ety that accompanies this uncertainty. Yongbyon nuclear reactor. “There was this silent dread that we knew Missing the deadline is all but unavoidable, it could be great,” he said. said Chinese envoy Wu Dawei. The delay in In addition to Gallagher’s words of wis- returning the money has soured the mood after dom on life and his career, the audience a Feb. 13 diplomatic breakthrough in which left the event with a few personal details China, North Korea, South Korea, the United about Gallagher and his time at Tufts.