THE TUFTS DAILY Where You Read It First Tuesday, September 21,1993 Vol XXVII, Number 7 Transformer blowout sparks downhill blackout by LEAH SCHWARTZ dent, Benjamin Torrey witnessed including Braker, Paige Hall and Daily Editorial Board the entire sequence of the fire. Lincoln Filene Center. A fire in the transformer caused After noticing that the power had Despite the prompt response a massive power outage which af- gone out in his room, and in the by the Tufts University Police, fected most of the downhill build- dorms ofhis friends,Torrey walked Buildings and Grounds, and the ings and lasted from approximately out of the building to the area near Somerville Fire Department, no 5 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. the row of cars and, “saw smoke definiteassessment could be made According to Tufts Police Su- coming out of the transformers.” with respect to the details of the pervisor Bob McCarthy, the Tufts “I knew that they don’t blow up problem and its cause until the University Police notified the but it could be dangerous,” Torrey utility company, Massachusetts Somerville Fire Department im- said. Electrical Company arrived to sur- mediately after receiving report of Another student, Tony vey the damage. smoke coming out of the trans- Rodolakis became aware of the Much time was delayed, result- former box located in back of power outage when he “tried to get ing from the lack of knowledge Pearsonchemistry building. Both into the Campus Center and it was over whether Boston Edison or departments, as well as Tufts all locked up.” Mass Electric Company owns the Buildings and Grounds were on A janitor on duty in Pearson at equipmentand whose service con- the scene within five to ten min- the time of the fire noted, “the tract covers the repair of the trans- PhOb byJonalhan &R utes. Upon reaching the trans- smell of burning in the basement.” former. Boston Edison had as- The Somerville Fire Department was called to extinguish the small former area, police “roped off the Various sources indicate that most sessed the equipment around 6:45 fire and secure the area around the transformer. area just to be safe,” McCarthy of the downhill buildings had lost p.m., and Massachusetts Electric tained inside the transformer con- tually returned to downhill build- said. - Senior Latin Wav resi- Dower and a few buildines UDhill arrived around 7 p.m. Mas - tainer. ings at approximately 10:45 p.m. sachusettsElectricCompany elec- “I would guess that a faulty Most students passing by ex- tricians opened up the transformer transformerwould have started it,” pressed shock over the massive and determined the cause of the Winters said. display of fire and police vehicles fire by 9:20 p.m. Tufts Building In order to temporarily repair and yellow police line. However, and Grounds electrician, Rich the wires, Winters said that they the shock changed to anxiety once Winters remained in contact with would “bypass the burnt trans- the reality of no power set in. Stu- the Mass Electric service engi- former and go directly to the main dents stopped by the transformer neers, and explained the problem switchgear.” area every few minutes to inquire and how it was going to be re- “These repairs are temporary about the remaining length of the paired. but efficient. There will be an- outage. A South Hall resident “Power goes through the trans- other shutdown sometime when complained about the lack of din- former so it can be read through a the students are gone to make per- ing hall options since Hodgdon meter by the electric company but manent repairs,” Winters said. and Dewick were closed. one of the three transformers blew The electricity will not be “Carmichael is going to be out,” Winters said. monitored through the meter until packed,” the student said. According to Winters, the ab- perinanent repairs are completed, After dinner, when students sence of one transformer weak- Winters added. would normally begin their stud- PhObbyha~~Benened and shortened the wires thus Winters had originally esti- ies, and power still had not been A Boston Edison representative explains the situation to Tufts causing the power failure. C&on mated that the “repairs were ex- returned to downhill residences, Building and Grounds Electrician Rich Winters and members of inside the transformer had created tensive and power would be back students sought lighted refuge in the Somerville Fire Department. a thick black smoldering fire con- around midnight,” but power ac- Wessell library. Speakers Brinker presents new Senate making plans

to discuss treasury regulations for upcoming events ’ by MICHAEL J.W. STTCKINGS by MICHAEL J.W. STICKINGS expand the current structure of Boston Daily Editorial Board Daily Editorial Board Wessell Library eastward in the During his report at Sunday Sunday evening’s TCU Senate direction of College Avenue. As evening’s TCU Senate meeting, meeting began with President John such, the extension would be culture TCUTreasurer David Brinker pre- Fee’s introduction to upcoming mostly above ground and subse- by DAVID MEYERS sented an introductionto the soon- events and on-campus issues, in- quently constitute “more for less Daily Editorial Board to-be-released 70-80 page Trea- clude the library expansion, money.” On the east side, a three- Tufts Lecture Series will be sury regulations manual. Trustee relations and dinners with story semi-circularstructure would presenting three speakers on The introductory report in- Tufts President John DiBiaggio. permit more light to enter. On the Wednesday who will discuss life cludes 20 existing Treasury by- Fee reported that DiBiaggio’s north and south sides, three smaller in Boston, according to co-chai laws, which, in essence, makeup a dinnersin campus dining halls with extensions, or wings, would be Ken Archer. This will be the first kind of Treasury constitution.Two students have been scheduled for constructed. Moreover, the en- event of the year for Lecture Se- further by-laws, included in the Wednesday, September 9, in trance would be redone and the ries. report, will be voted on eventu- Carmichael; Monday, October 4, late-night study room would be Boston Celtics General Man- ally. Their presence in the report in the Campus Center; Thursday, brought within easier access of the ager Jan Volk, WFNX discjockey does not suggest a formal presen- October 28, in Dewick; and Mon- outside. Troy Smith, and President of State tation for debate. day, November 1, in Hodgdon. The intended completion date Visit David Noonan will be speak- The report continues with a Moreover, several Trustees has been set for JundJuly 1996, ing about the different aspects of presentation of the Treasury’s or- rn& fib photo TCU Treasurer David Brinker have been tentatively scheduledto though Fee remarked that the pro- Boston social life, Archer said. ganizational structure, and a de- speak, as Fee noted, about “their cess is “little bit behind” schedule. State Visit is responsible for re- tailed descriptionof Treasury pro- bounced over the summer,the con- experiencesat Tufts, their careers, Similarly, he suggested that the ceiving foreign dignitariesinto the cedures, internal Treasury proce- cern is real and the rationale be- [and] their connections with Tufts “money has not been entirely state of Massachusetts.Noonan is dures, the TCU investment policy, hind shifting the TCU funds to now.” Topics of discussion will raised.” Apparently, only 13.5 also Chairman of the Board for the disciplinary procedures, and ex- Baybank lies in the danger of con- range from the Greek system to million dollars of the necessary 20 Restoration of Faneuil Hall. penditure guidelines. tinued losses from bad checks and university investments to campus million has enJaised, though “Basically, this is a forum to The description of the TCU’s large wire transfers. development. investment policy enhances Thus, “Under no circumstance Agrand openingof Carmichael see SENATE, page 8 see SPEAKERS, page 6 Brinker’s announdment at last shall any investment be made in has also been tentatively sched- week’s meeting of the shift of in- any financialinstrument that would uled for mid- to late-October. The Jan Volk vestment funds fromMemllLynch put the principle amounts of the hope, according to Fee, is to bring Inside to aBaybankIBMsystem whereby StudentActivities Fee in jeopardy back alumni, to have a “mellow Viewpoints or loss.” Potentially dangerous ...... P. 3 David Noonan funds are automatically shifted band” and a“festive” atmosphere, Dining workers are. sick of hearing betweenacheckingaccount, which investments may include “penny while maintaining the normal din- the Carmichael.complaints, and our Troy Smith allows for check-writing, and a stocks,junkbonds andfunds, high ing experience. As well, “hope- editor offers asequel to “The Bastard.” When: no-risk, government-backed mu- risk money market funds and mu- fully PresidentDiBiaggio and Vice tual fund account. As the report- tual funds,arbitrage funds and non- Wed., Sept. 20, 1993 President Bernstein, who have Features ...... P.5 describes, 25 percent of TCU as- blue chip stock issues.” expressed interest, will do some A street musician searches for his 7:OO p.m. sets must be available for expen- Eventually, once the TCU has stir-frying.” dog, Potato, and The Chaplain’s Table Where: diture; “the remainder should be reached a surplus situation, the A further area of Fee’s discus- offers intellectual chatter. Cabot Auditorium invested in short-term, low-risk Treasury retains “the discretion to sion was the proposed library ex- investments” such as certificates invest such funds in longer com- pansion. According to Fee, the A&E ...... p. 7 Sponsored by: of deposit (CDs) and “high quality mitment instruments.” expansion process is currently in Our writer traveled to Freeport and Lecture Series Mutual Funds.” the “design development phase.” livedtotellaboutit,andtheMFAhosts Since some Treasury checks see TREASURY, page 6 The proposal now at hand would page two THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, September 21,1993 THETUFTS DAILY Rebels wage war on Peruvian Indians Elin M. Dugan CUTIVIRENI, Peru (AP) -- The young “They are innocent in the truly biblical shrouded gorges and thundering waterfalls. Editor-in-Chief Maoist rebels nailed Indian leader Mario sense,” said the Rev. Mariano Gagnon, a Indians who were unable to escape and Zumaeta naked to a cross, gouged out his Roman Catholic missionary from New refused to take up arms were slain or forced Managing Editor: Caroline Schaefer England who worked at Cutivireni for 22 into slavery to grow food for the rebels. Associate Editors: Nadya Sbaiti, Marc Sheinkin eyes, cut out his tongue and castrated him. Editorial Page Editor: Stephen Arbuthnot Finally, they disemboweled him, jeering, years until he was forced out. “They take “They told us: ‘If you do not join us, then “Where is your God now?? you at face value. They can’t think you are ‘wewill have to kill you and your children Production Managers: Michael B. Berg, The atrocity by Sendero Luminoso -- lying to them.” and anybody related to you because that Leah Schwa,Ryan Otto the Shining Path -- came during an attack That worked in the Shining Path’s favor. means your semen is for the rich,”’ said NEWS on Cutivireni, an isolated Franciscan mis- As they did a decade earlier with Quechua- Pablo Mejia, 34, who spent four years with Editor: David Meyers sion on the Ene River in Peru’s eastern speakingpeasants in the Andean highlands, the Shining Path until he escaped with his Assistant Editors: Jessica Rosenthal, Amazon jungle, in November 1989. the rebels spent years indoctrinating bilin- family last May. Jessica Foster Wire Editor: Ashley Burkhart The mission’s destruction marked the gual teachers, who enjoy great respect in Since 1989, the guerrillas have killed as beginning ofa savage war on the Ashaninka Indian villages. The teachers in turn con- many as 1,000 Indians. In a single night in Indian nation, whose50,000members make vinced many Ashaninka that armed revolu- August they hacked to death at least 55 VIEWPOINTS it one of the largest Indian groups in South tion would halt centuries of white exploita- men, women and children in attacks on a Editor: Michael J.W. Stickings America’s tropical forests. tion. Assistant Editor: Mimi Ho half-dozen villages. Today Cutivireni is a lonely outpost for “They promised the most beautiful FEATURES about 80 soldiers and a camp for 900 things,” said JaimeVelasquez,34, a teacher “Sendero had to commit genocide be- Editor: Rachel Levine, Jessica Ruzz Ashaninka who have sought refuge from at Cutivireni and a spokesman for the refu- fore the government turned its eyes to this Assistant Editor: Sharon Jedel the guerrillas. gees. “They said we would have highways, region,” said Carlos Mora, an anthropolo- In the middle of what the Indians call the planes, big businesses, good homes. In- gist who worked WiththeAshaninkauntil it ART C? ENTERTAINMENT Editors: Madhu Unnikrishnan, Matt Carson, “red zone,” it can be reached only by small stead, they brought death, destruction,more became too dangerous. *’ Megan Brenn-White plane or helicopter. The rebels control the poverty.” The army entered the Ene valley in mid- forest and theEneRiver, which once linked 1991 and established a base in the ruins of WEEKENDER Ashaninka villages. Even the army dares Shining Path guerrillas arrived in the Editor: John McGuire the burned Cutivireni mission. Soon small Assistant Editor: Christopher Stripinis not venture onto the Ene. rain forest in the mid-l980s, escaping an groups of Ashaninka -- emaciated, half Production Manager: Jamie Fink The Shining Path has managed what army crackdown in the highlands,the birth- starved, diseased -- began emerging from Spanish conquistadors, rubber barons and place of the movement. the forest and begging for refuge. SPORTS waves of land-hungry settlers from the In 1989, rebel leaders decided the time Some 6,000 Ashaninka have escaped Editors: Doug Katz, John Tomase, Jeff Geller Andean highlands were unable to do -- had come to force the Ashaninka to join the from the Shining Path’s control or have enslave thousands of Ashaninka, who have armed struggle. been rescued by mixed army-Indian patrols PHOTOGRAPHY lived free as the wind for centuries in their Some clans got away, slipping deeper since 1991. But 5,000 are believed still in Editors: Irena Fayngold, Jennifer McCarthy remote rain forest. into the rain forest, arugged region of mist- the hands of the rebels. ssistant Editors: Tara Kemohan, Matilde Pert--, Anni Recordati - PRODUCTION Prospect of alcohol ‘sin’ tax sparks new Graphics Editor: John Pohorylo Copy Editors: Elana Vatsky, Cheryl Horton, Yael Belkind war among Washington D.C. lobbvists J WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wzbillions interests, the CGtempIated cigarette tax excise levies--- so-called “sin taxes” -- on of dollars at stake, the beer, wine and hard increase proposal apparently has been their products. Gizem Ozkulahci liquor industries have erupted into open dropped from $1-a-pack to 75 cents, rais- But such groups also live in constant Executive Business Director war over who should be taxed to help pay ing the likelihood that other revenue would fear and suspicion that theirgoas will be Business Manager: Phil Ayoub for President Clinton’s health care plans. be needed -- most likely from a hit on sold out when the time comes for hi Advertising Manager: Dean Gendron Tensions among the three sectors of the alcoholic beverages. lition to cut final deals. Office Manager: Lyle Mays alcoholic beverage business have been Clinton is to unveil the plan in a speech The alcohol-tobacco alliance, the Coa- Subscriptions Manager: Monika Voellm heightened by reports that Clinton may be to Congress on Wednesday night. lition Against RegressiveTaxation, already The Tufts Daily is a non-profit newspaper, published scaling back the tax increase he will pro- Sarasin’s September 15 letter, a copy of had been fractured this year by Clinton’s onday through Friday during the academic year and dish’ib- ed free to the Tufts community. The Daily is entirely pose for cigarettes and shift some of the which was obtained by The Associated signal that cigarettes would bear the brunt ident-run;therearenopaideditorialpositions.The Dailyis burden to other so-called “sin taxes.” Press, was written in response to an appeal of new taxes to pay for health care reform. inted at Charles River Publishing, Charlestown, MA. by Meister to Clinton not to focus any new Meister’s letter to Clinton struck the The Daily is located at the back entrance of Curtis Hall Last week, the president of the National Tufts University. Our phone number is (617) 627-3090. Beer Wholesalers Association wrote a let- taxes on hard liquor. most sensitive nerve of the beer industry. lsiness hours are 9:oO a.m. - 600 pm.. Monday hug\ ter accusing his counterpart in the liquor Some administration officials are known He pointed to the disparity between the iday, and 1 :oO pm. - 6:oO p.m. on Sunday. to favor exempting beer from taxes be- taxes on an ounce of alcohol in the form of The policies of The Tufts Daily are established by the industry of mounting “an all-out attack” on itorial board. Editorials appear on this page, unsigned. beer that “has placed the common interests cause it is seen as the favored drink of beer or wine, and in the form of distilled dividual editors are not necessarily responsible for, or in of the licensed beverage industries in great working people. Wine benefits from its liquor. By that measure, liquor taxes al- pementwith, the policies andeditorialsofTheTufts Daily. The content of letters, advertisements, signed columns, jeopardy.” roots in California, the state with the largest ready are far higher. rtoons and graphics does notnecessarilyreflect theopinion Beer Wholesalers President Ronald A. voting strength in Congress. “Why DISCUS thought it was neces- The Tufts Daily editorial board. Meister told the president in a letter sary to dump on beer and wine is beyond Letters to the Editor Policy Sarasin told Fred A. Meister, president of The Tufts Daily welcomes letters from the readers. The the Distilled Spirits Council of the United September 3 that “beer, not liquor, is the me,” Sarasin said. “Why should the beer :terspageisanopenforumforcampusissuesandcomments States (DISCUS), that Meister “has done beverage of choice of the young and driv- and wine industries continue to work with out the Daily’s coverage. ers.” And he said a rumored proposal to DISCUS on any issue when it has clearly Letters must include the writer’s-name and a phone more to damage the licensed beverage in- rmber where the writer can be reached. All letters must be dustries than all the activities of our most single out distilled spirits for new taxation indicated it intends to destroy us by dra- rified with the writer before they can be published. avowed critics.” “would perpetuate a ‘beer subsidy’ that is matically raising our taxes?’ The deadlinefor letters fo be considered for publication the following day’s issue is 4:oO p.m. Sarasin added: “The long-held goal of not rational and that sends the wrong mes- Meister said in a telephone interview Due to space limitations, letters should be no longei than the spirits industry to force up the taxes on sage to young people.” Sunday that the beer group was overreact- io words. Any submissions over this length may be edited beer and wine is now clearly exposed, and ing. f the Daily to be consistentwith the limit. Letters should be companied by no more than eight signatures. DISCUS has stooped to astonishingly low The liquor industry followed Meister’s “Right now everybody is very concerned The editors reserve the right to edit letters for clarity. levels to accomplish its purpose.” letter with a heavy campaign of advertising about the possibility of a tax increase, and iblication of letters is nor guaranteed, but subject to the anything anybody does or says is put under scretion of the editors. The White House still has not decided and media appearances calling a liquor tax Letters should be typedor printed froman IBM or IBM- the precise mix of new taxes it will seek to unfair and pointing out that 42 percent of intense scrutiny,” he said. lmpatible computer in letter-quality or near-letter-quality finance the health care plan. A late draft the price of a typical bottle of liquor now He said his letter was part of an effort to ode. Letters written on Macintosh computers should be ought in on disk - files should be saved in “text-only” called for $105 billion through the year goes for taxes. help Clinton realize “that to try to placate rmat, and disks should be brought in with a copy of the 2000, and there are clear indications a The beer, wine and liquor industries, the powerful tobacco lobby by pushing off Iter. Disks can be picked up in the Daily business office the like many relatively narrow special inter- onto us an unfair burden also has a lot of llowing day. major part will come from a hike in ciga- Letters should address the editor and not a particular rette taxes. ests, have banded together over the years difficulty, social and political, connected iividual. While letters can be critical of an individual’s But under heavy lobbying from tobacco with cigarette makers to lobby against new with it.” tions, they should not attack someone’s personality aaits. The Daily will not accept anonymous letters or pen mes except in extreme circumstances if the Executive lard determines that there is a clear and present danger to City schools start after asbestos removal :author. The Daily will not accept letters regarding the sverage of other publications, unless their coverage itself NEW YORK (AP) -- Back to school pleased. He said he had beeninthree schools September 9 opening was delayed. Asbes- s become a newsworthy issue that has appeared in the dly. The Daily will accept letters of thanks, if space didn’t mean back to normal this morning as this morning and “everything is upbeat.” tos, used in the past for insulation and rmits, but will not mn letters whose sole purpose is to classes, delayed by a lingering asbestos “The bulletin boards are umebooks fireproofing, can cause cancer. lvertise an event. scare, resumed belatedly for most of the are on the desk,” he said. “I see that a lot of When writers have group affiliations or hold titles or isitions related to the topic of their letter, the Daily will note city’s 1 million public schoolchildren. people have put in a lot of time. ... Parents About 100 schools were closed, but at following the letter.This is to provide additional informa- Chancellor Ramon Cortines said 90per- are doing what I asked them to, taking their students at half of them were shuttled to )n and is not intended to detract from the letter. Classifieds Information cent of the schools were open. But parents children to school, being with their chil- alternate classrooms in other parts of the All Tufts students must submit classifieds in person, had considerable trouble getting the details dren for a while.” city, said Bob Terte, a spokesman for the epaid with cash or check All classifiedsmust be submitted as the confusion that surrounded the 11 -day “Sure, there are going to be problems, . Board of Education. Some programs were I 3 p.m. the day before publication. Classifiedsmay also be mght at the Information Booth at the Campus Center. All delay continued on opening day. and we’ll face them as we get to them,” he canceled for lack of classroom space and assifieds submitted by mail must be accompanied by a As parents packed off their youngsters, added. many schools were running on split sched- ieck. Classifieds may not &.submitted over the phone. the telephone hot line meant to dispense ules because of the reduced number of NoticesandLost&Foundsarefreeand~onTuesdays On August 6, Mayor David Dinkins id Thursdays only. Notices are limited to two per week per last-minute information on which schools announced that asbestos inspections done usable classrooms. ganization and run space permitting. Notices must be were open was almost continually busy. in the 1980shad been botched and had to be Many parents also were concerned that ritten on Daily forms and submitted in person. Notices motbe used to sell merchandise or advertisemajorevents. And those listening to the radio heard that repeated, touching off a frantic rush to schools already cleared might still be con- The Tufts Daily is not liable for any.damages due to schools in some districts would be open -- check the city’s more than 1,000 school taminated. pographical errors or misprintings except the cost of the then that they would not. buildings. “If1 think it looks OK, I’ll leave my kid” sertion, which is fully refundable. We reserve the right to .fuseto print any classifiedswhich contain obscenity, are of But Cortines, still in his first month as The renewed inspections turned up as- at school, said Lilly Lopez, a Brooklyn 1 overtly sexual nature, or are used expressly to denigrate a chancellor of the nation’s largest school bestos in many schools where it was thought parent of three. “If there’s too much crazi- erson or group. system, said at about 8:30 a.m. that he was to have been removed, and the planned ness, I’ll take them to work with me.” . , ......

.. THE TUFTS-DAILY Page three VIEWPOJNTS The Bastard Reoriented To recap: Dave, the average Tufts student, in whom the thoughts... or rather, instincts, which pass through Dave’s Series suite. Star Trek reruns on the TV. Wacky, wacky, collective unconscious of the student body resides, ar- brain and central nervous system are of a different nature. Wacky. rived here on the Hill a couple of weeks ago for reorien- Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. Well, more accurately, Meanwhile, the pack has moved on.It has the collective tation into the idealism of campus life. His parents Mr. and drunkeness followed by sex with “Stairway to Heaven” social finesse of a sloth. Hooligans. Drunken offensive Mrs. faceless-corporate-executive-$lOO,OOO a year plus blaring in the background. tackles with a Sports Illustrated fashion sense. Spiritually perks, drove him here in the family station wagon. ’87 Alcohol is the crucial element here. Dave’s a bit shy, constipated. God, You have abandoned us in our time of Volvo 740. The car was after all. A suburbankid molded by a suburban upbringing. need. Michael J. W. Stickings laded sky-high with Church and/or temple, since he’s half and half. Family Three in the morning. Dave finds his way back to his everythmg acollege stu- vacations to Florida. Superficially wholesome, to be sure, dorm. Freshmen still roam like dazed antelope. How many The Reaction dent could ever possi- For him, college is an escape, a chance for his animalistic times, Dave hears the words “Let’s go back that way,” as bly need, with the ex- passions to be released once and for all into the environ- if these young ‘uns have a sixth sense for debauchery. ception of a varied supply of condoms and a writing ment. It is a chance for the constant struggle between his Stupification personified. It’s frightening. manual for the orthographically and linguistically im- personal Apollo and his personal Dionysus to tip in favor Dave vomits again. This time it’s the stairwell.It won’t paired, the latter being a handicap from which good little of chaos and disorder. be cleaned until Monday. The smell swiftly moves onward Dave, with the good little high school education, suffers So the first few nights, Dave gives striking evidence of to the deepest recesses of the dorm. More vomiting in the tembly. proof to these very evident laws of creation: toilet. Hygiene has no place in a men’s dorm bathroom. In Tears flow when Dave’s Mom says good-bye to her fact, hygiene has no place in a freshmen’s Friday or dear and innocent son, for Dave, now long since separated * God’s first mistake: human beings. Saturday night. Dave doesn’t even clean up, though he from the world of diapers, is being tossed into the vicious * God’s second mistake: freshmen. uses a copy of The Observer to wipe his face. Everything dung-heap world of, dare one say it, perversion. Perver- * God’s third mistake: freshmen during orientation. ‘m&t be put to good use. sion, that is, in both the social and academic sense. * God’s fourth mistake: freshmen during orientation who Dave crawls into bed. No sex tonight, though from the “Do you think you’ll be warm enough at night?’ Mom travel around in packs of ten or more. sound of it, his roommate John, an orgasmic nightmare is really worried that Dave won’t have anyone to tuck him * God’s fifth mistake: freshmen during orientation who from Long Island with the sexual prowess (and neck-size) in and kiss him on the forehead. travel around in packs of ten or more and discover big of Jumbo, has found that someone special whose name he Dad, the stoic male, gives Dave a parting jab in the drinking parties. didn’t bother to find out. shoulder and passes his heir some crisp bills. A lot of 20s This is the side of Dave that Bobbie and Bruce will a couple of 50s, and the odd 100. Dave smiles. College is Yes, the presence of freshmen packs (a.k.a. hordes) tra never know. The pathetic slob. The mindless young boy damn good, even if Mom has to whimper for a while. ling around in search of depravity is co from Ame9ca’s privileged suburban elite. The alcoholic. Mom and Dad leave. Back to Westchester County. tend to be loud androwdy, but they’rcus The guy with the 1275 SAT. The guy with the parents who Suburbia. The mundane existence of a boring middle-age, have a collective clueless expression on their virginal have $25,000 to throw around. Back to daughter Jen, a snotty high schooljunior with mall faces. Interestingly, these packs also have a collective In the morning, Dave will face the diversification hair. Back to other son Mike, an equally snotty eighth- olfactory radar system which hones in on the smell o process. The good boy from Westchester County will be grader. Back to the PTA. Housewife gossip. Barbecue But then ... Davemeets Hillside and Hillsitlemeets turnedinto a good liberal oaf with no original thoughts of parties in the back yard with Dad grilling hamburgers. Time passes... minutes, hours, generations... it doesn’t mat- his own. He will be turned into that well-rounded and Back home to a life with about as much purpose as our own ter. Dave’s skin turns a curious shade of ye1 w-green. He hollow beach ball. Our administration, our propagandists beloved World Civ. requirement. vomits. Luckily, there’s a window nearbr Chunks of of multiculturalism and political correctness, will blow For Dave, the door has been opened to a paradise of his Nick’s and Espresso’s fly out and land in the scenic him up with hot air. Then, Bobbie and Bruce will play most wet dreams. Academics, classes, and intellectual Hillside shrubbery. He wanders outside, uripates behind a volleyball with him. Backand forth. Back and forth. Back uursuits are about as far from his mind as the social tree, looks around into the haze. He thinks:he sees Mork and forth. Ad infinitum ... lcomposition of the late medieval French village. No, the drinking out of a ram’s horn, but he’s not we. It’s theFilm The Bastard of Ballou meets his fate. We are hypocriticalfor Dining hall workers want ignoring‘the Bosnians li& respect by Jay Ruttenberg think that if the draft were rein- b Arelys Vieira, Parthena be ‘‘smart’”and pile on two or three Perhaps the indifference to- stated I would do everything hu- Jaoultsides and Rebecca trays per shelf. At times, the line to wards Carrkiichael workers stems While studying World War 11, manly possible to avoid actual ser- Sawyer put the trays on the machine may from the fact that a good many of students are often shocked to learn vice. While I want Milosevic’s I be long, but have a little patience. the students here at Tufts have of America’s hesitancy to enter genocide to end, I do not want to We work for Tufts Dining, and Remember that if you don’t do it, never set foot in the dishroom un- the war.Howcould we have waited be the one to stop it. with all the flying opinions and someone else has to. less they’ve left their I.D. or keys so long, sitting idly by as Hitler Unfortunately, many Ameri- comments about the ,new It’s true that the new atmosphere on the tray (another dishroom pet massacred millions of innocent cans share my attitude. Our politi- Carmichael,we’d like to take some is reminiscent of a diner, but Tufts peeve) and are looking for them. people? How could we have al- cians all want the terror to end, but time to let you all in on something Dining workers do enough as it is We’re sure if those of you who lowed him to gain such enormous few are willing to risk their politi- many of you seem to have forgot- - we’re not waiters and waitresses don’t think twice about leaving power when we could have so cal fortune by supporting war. ten: there are people working be- as well. You are not home any- your tray at the table or putting easily defeated him? Why did it Likewise, most young men, like hind those doors you never go more and mommy is not here to gum on the new trays had to actu- take a Japanese invasion of our myself, hope that Slobodan through. There are cooks, pot pick up after you. Frankly, consid- ally get behind that conveyor and own territory to convince us to Milosevic does not become the scrubbers,bakers, lineladies, cash- ering that we serve over 1,400 scrape the gum off with your bare ioin the war effort? next Adolf Hitler and is removed iers, dishroom people, managers students for dinner each night, we hands because you simply don’t “Our politicians all want the terror to end, but and supervisorsthatkeep the place really don’t think carrying your have the time to put on a pair of running. And now we, as dishroom trays up to the machine is too gloves, you wouldn’t be so quick few are willing to risk their political fortune by people, have something we want much to ask. In fact, it’s the least to do half the things you do. supporting war.” to say. you can do. By the way, we’re sick Maybe ifyou had to sortthrough Yes, the new setup is quite dif- ofthat excuse we’ve heard so much food to pick out silverware and Many of these students, hom- from power, but are unwilling to ferent than that of the old lately: “but ... I had a class I had to pouroutthedrinks of 1,400people fied at the gruesome pictures of jeopardize their own lives for his Carmichael, buttake acloser look, get to and I just couldn’t wait in you’d begin to understand why we Hitler’s concentration camps, victims. Why do we claim that, if everyone -- it was designed and line to put my tray on the ma- walk out of Carmichael after a boast that while they would have the opportunity were presented, created with the students in mind. chine!” Bull. Be intelligent people shift with aching backs and bruises dodged the draft during such we would have fought in WWII, It was designed so that you would -- if you have aclass to get to, think from trying to lift 100trays at once meaninglesswars as Vietnam and while we will not fight in Bosnia? have amore comfortableand there- ahead! You know how crowded to bring to the eagerly awaiting Korea, WWII was different.It was Perhaps because Milosevic’sMus- fore, more enjoyable meal. It was Carmichael is; go eat somewhere Tufts students outside. Or maybe one of the few periods in history lims seem so foreign compared to designed so that all you’d have to else. We promise we won’t hold it when there were definite “good Hitler’s Jews. Perhaps we have do is get your food (which inci- against YOU. see CARMICHAEL, page 8 guys” and definite bad ones. For overestimated Milosevic’spower, dentally is now mostly cooked or World War 11, they would have and he is not the great tyrant we carved right there at the various fought and died not only for their believe him to be. And of course, stations for you), eat it, then put country, but also for Hitler’s de- perhaps we simply like to talk a your tray in the new handy dandy fenseless victims. big game, but would not have conveyor belt you all seem to love Yet, when the subject of risked our lives in WWII. so much (remember to push those SlobodanMilosevic’s terrorization My generation, the children of trays all the way in, folks) and of Bosnia’s powerless Muslims is the flower-children, was raised leave. No throwing silverware broached, these same students be- with the wonderful notion that war down a chute, no putting glasses in come silent. ‘Why should we risk is inherently evil and should be the glass racks, nothing. Just put our lives for them?” many say. avoided at all costs. Although the the tray on the shelf. You just can’t “America is not the world’s police idealism of the 1960’s sounds get any easier than that. force - it’s simply none of our good, pacifism is not always a Yet, many students seem to business.” This sentiment is eerily realistic or humane choice. think that even this is too much for reminiscent of the pre-war paci- The entire reason we study his- them, for we keep finding trays fism movement which swept tory is so that we can learn from left on the tables rather than on the American college campuses in the our past. Vietnam is generally re- machine where they belong. Oddly mid-1930s. garded as a tremendous mistake enough, some students feel that Photo by lrena Fayngold As I recently filled out my Se- which resulted in thousands of lost even though the conveyor belt has lective Service System registra- shelves made for placing one tray Carmicliael’s new setup may be confusing to some of us, but Tufts tion form, I could not help but see BOSNIA, page 6 on them at a time, they’re going to Dining workers would rather not hear any more complaints.

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Tuesday, September 21,1993 THE TUFTS DAILY page five FEATURES Flathead searches for Playing the lotterv4 Welcome to Stressed Desserts, the first major mind began investing in all the things that I could column in The Tufts Daily that asks you to read its have spent the dollar on more wisely, my empty his fuzzy pal and pet title both forward stomach backing up most of them. I’ve heard that and backward. In one actually has a greater chance of being struck by This Spuds is really one lost Potato! Berg this particular lightning than by winning Megabucks, and without a single cloud in the sky, I realized that neither into any community, set up his Stressed Desserts case youdon’tac- by CHRISTIANNA BEEBE tually get any- looked really promising. I continued my walk, but Senior Staff Writer equipment, and immediately “find thing new, but hey, who promised that you would my feet were heavier, my head a little foggier, and Attention Tufts students!If you 25 friends.” anyway? Of course Stressed Desserts is a palin- in general I felt a Iittle suckered by my own whimsy. see a “little Terrier mix, black and Although Flathead, now 35, drome, it reads the same in either direction, and As I got further away from the store though, the grey, with white front paws,” said he participated in “a lot of although this little marvel is only impressive to lottery ticket snug in my hip pocket, I turned my weighing in at 12 pounds, please music and theater” when he was in some, it does establish the major gist of my column, thoughts to the possibilities at hand, say... if I did callNedLandon, at 391-3015 and his youth, he never saw himself as which stresses just how wonderfully interesting the win the four or five million dollar prize. The let him know you’ve seen Potato, a traveling musician. ‘When I was world can be if only you stop to look at it in as many summer house I could buy my mom, that I promised for whom he has been searching younger, I was pretty clueless. I new and interesting ways as possible. I would get her if I was ever rich. The houses on for the past two weeks. envisioned nothing,” he said. First case in point: the old half-glass of water. large grassy plots I could deposit across the country Tufts students may not have Though at first he could not sing Some would see it as half-full, others as half-empty. to stop at as I drove across country in my new car, heard of Ned Landon, but may songs or play instruments very I challenge the reader to see it as both half-ful1,half- top down, CD player on just loud enough to be instead know of Flathead,the name well, he “always really liked the empty, and also as wet, clear (unless of course its heard over the wind. The book that I could concen- the street musician uses when he traveling” afforded by street per- from the local tap) warm or cold, and as a great trate on writing and would actually be able to get performs in Harvard Square, the formance. After hitchhiking divingtankfor aperson who is only three inches tall. published. The publishing company I could buy to arena for his folksy music for the around the Europe for seven years, There are obliviously infinite ways to view the glass make sure of it. Hey, I might even be able to pay off past three years. Flathead, who Flathead became bored, however. of water, and each possibility has its own opportu- some of my college loans, maybe even make some acquired his name when he was “[Hitchhiking] is fun for about a nity. Seeing a glass as half-full allows one to quench kind of donation to good old Tufts University. part of a “funky duo” called Flat- week-and-a-half,” he said. a thirst, put out a small fire, or water a botanical Maybe not. head and Bones, said Potato was While the constant movement friend. A half-empty glass has all of these opportu- Now my mind was whirring with the possibili- donated as a tip from a passerby may have become tedious, the nities, plus it’s half of a place to fill with other ties. I had probably spent the prize nine or ten times and had become a great part of his audiences in Europe did not. Be- interesting items, like concentrated fruit juice, or over, but each new possibility was more fun than the life as well as his act, often run- cause Europe has a “really long those fizzy rock-candies that pop in your mouth. last, and hey, I was on a roll, and most importantly ning through the crowd and sitting tradition of street entertainment,” The second case in point is paraphrased from a in a much better mood. By the time I got back to the in people’s laps. those watching his show were more young woman who spoke at my sister’s high school dorm and started to put on the water for my third When Potato was stolen on apt to become involved than graduation last June. She shared a story of how she consecutive pasta dinner that week, I had raised my Saturday, September 4, Flathead American audiences, Flathead tripped and fell down one day. Not an uncommon spirits to great heights. It was all a matter of per- said he felt as if a piece of his life said. “It’s in their chromosomes,” occurrence. Shejust sat on the ground and laughed, spective. was taken. Potato was kind of Flathead said of the European au- also not too unusual for a lot of folk, since there isn’t I didn’t actually think I had any chance of known as the “dog of Harvard diences. “They seek out entertain- muchelseonecando ... shejustsatandmadethebest winning the prize, it was just fun to think about the Square,” he said, providing a sur- mentinitsmoretraditionalforms.” of her new view. Her message to her fellow gradu- “what if.” It all goes back to trying enough different rogate pet for those living in apart- Although Flathead lamented ates is much the same as mine is now: when in doubt, views, until you findtheonethat does thejob. In this ments. He added that many people the fact that here, he had to drop back five yards and take in the view. It will case, it wasn’t so important that I had thrown away have told him how much they miss “struggle to get people to sing amaze you every time how a new perspective can a perfectly good dollar. It wasn’t so important that the dog. Locating Potato has since along” with him, he has nothing shed light on acrisis, bring new hope when all is lost, I had to get struck by lightning before I could even become a major effort for Flat- but praise for the open artistic en- and most importantly, add a bit of unexpected think I had a chance of winning. It was toying with head, who has been putting up vironment of Harvard Square. humor to almost any occasion. all the great things that could happen to a nice guy posters describing his Toto-like “Harvard Square lets people who This summer I played the lottery. I’m not really should he chance upon a few million. companion and advertising a re- are shy about their art” have a the gambling type, and except for the occasional ward for information that leads to place to shine, he said. The fact scratch ticket that someone has given to me as a gift, If it hasn’t been guessed by now, I didn’t win. the dog. that performers can easily obtain I rarely make it into the state lottery arena. It so Not that I wouldn’t keep writing this column, be- Flathead was playing by the permits “allows entertainersa cer- happened that it was a Wednesday, and as I know cause I’m sure the money wouldn’t change me any. Harvest Restaurant, at the end of tain amountoffreedom,”headded, from being a faithful Jeopardy fan, Wednesday is Well, maybe a little. Same guy, just a new station Church and Brattle Street,his typi- lending them “a place to struggle Megabucks night. Every Wednesday right around and time, if you know what I mean. The evening cal playing area, when he saw two and find their voice, quite liter- Final Jeopardy time they always give the winning continued, Final Jeopardy was beyond my scope of women, about 30 years of age, ally.” number, and as I get ready to yell out, “What is the knowledge that night, and I was left yelling, ‘What playing with Potato. Flathead said Oneof Flathead’s most embar- Kansas-Nebraska Act, Alex?’ others across the is my butt, Alex?’ at the Stratton Hall television. I a bartender at the Harvest Restau- rassing moments came when he state wait to find out if they can go turn off their atemy pasta and settled into acontented cablevision rant saw the women, who appar- was performing in Central Park alarm-clocks and sleep-in for the next, say, forty to coma. As the images on the screen came and went ently thought the Potato was lost, during his Flathead and Bones fifty years. in a surrealisticpseudo-reality, I sat back and thought disappear with the dog. Accord- days. Flathead described an idyl- of some more possibilities for my no-longer-pos- ing to the bartender, the women lic sight -- a small pond, toy sail- This particular Wednesday was a sunny one, and sible winnings. Hey, the Baltimore Orioles were were planning on postering and boats, and approximately 100 I was out strolling along before dinner, when it only around 173 million dollars. If I won about taking pictures, said Flathead, but people watching him. Someone occurred to me for some reason that it was a another 52 times I could buy my own major league have not done so yet. Flathead requested the 59th Street Bridge Megabucks day, and that I was standing out in front team! said he fears that the women have Song, and Flathead and Bones of local mom-and-pop type store that was of course I worked this new idea over in my mind for decided to keep Potato. F1 at- went to work. They did not know a lottery agent. I’m admittedly a little superstitious, awhile, “Buy me some peanuts and Crackerjacks,I head, who described himself as how to play the song very well, and a lot whimsical, and so even though it would don’t care if I ever get back ...” Okay, maybe I was shy before he began performing, and Flathead, sensing this, began usually be againsmy betterjudgment, I went in and still a little hungry, but overall, considering all the calls his street act “a wonderfully to use his “jerky street musician bought a ticket. entertainment I was gettingjust having the ticket in integrating thing.” Before settling voice” to mock the song and its Upon completing the transaction, and the inevi- my pocket and thinking of the “what ifs,” I’d have in at Harvard, he traveled around author, Paul Simon. Unbeknownst able loss of my dollar, my heart sank a little. My to call it a dollar well-spent. the world for 12 years, adding that, as a performer, he could walk see FLATHEAD, page 6 McLennan leads year’s first Chaplain’s Table discussion by REBECCA RUFO ReverendMcLennan started the term has “spread beyond the aris- he said, “I radically changed from will have a wide diversityof speak- Contributing Writer discussion off by reading the Ran- tocratic definition,” explained a very conservativeRepublican to ers. Reverend McLennan stressed “Good Conversation Over Din- dom House dictionary definition McLennan. It has been influenced a much, much more liberal per- that “as we look at each tradition, ner” is the slogan over the adver- of a WASP. In simplest terms, a by racial division and racism. son.” He went to Harvard for we will notice that religion does tisement for the Chaplain’s Table. WASP is a white Anglo-Saxon Reverend McLennan read to graduate school and attended both not come to any of us disembod- And that it is. Protestant. Random House re- the group from The Protestant Divinity school and Law school. ied.’’ He hopes that “we will be The Chaplain’s Table is a se- ferred to the WASP as being a Establishment by E. Digby After completing his studies he able to determine ourselves ries of discussionsthat address the “dominant type.” An Anglo-Saxon Baltzell, which was published in went on to practice Poverty Law amidst this mix of religion” and topic of Religion and Ethnicity. It is a person of either “English or 1964. Baltzell’s book tells how in Boston, helping underprivileged “in doing so realize both positive is open to all Tufts students, fac- Scottishdescent,” said McLennan. WASPs had degenerated from a people. and negative affects.” ulty, and anyone in the local area Okay, so we all know that. But ruling, powerful, benevolentforce who would like to participate in a where did the term originate? in American history to an ex- Religiously, McLennan’s There will be a variety of people lively, informal discussion. The term WASP originated in tremely insular group of people mother was his greatest influence. from differing religious and eth- The structure of the discussion the early sixties. The first use of who wanted to protect their own She had a “very active personal nic groups speaking and partici- is very casual. The speaker ad- the term is in the 1962 text The privileges. religious life,” said McLennan. A pating in the discussions. This dresses the topic from a personal American Journal of Sociology. McLennan did not say whether common quote in McLennan’s week Sherman Teichman, direc- viewpoint for ashort whileand the WASP was created as a term to or not he agreed with this interpre- family was “To whom much is tor of the EPIIC program, will opens the discussion to everyone “specificallyapply to those people tation; he wanted the audience to given, much is expected.” Any speak on “Dilemmas Of Religion, at the table. The main point of the who were white, Anglo-Saxon, derive its own opinions. He then conspicuous display of wealth was Ethnicity,And NationalismIn The discussion is to elucidate opinions Protestant, and were in power and went on to describe his own life as shunned and “moderation in all Political Process.” Among other on religious and ethnic issues. wealthy,” explained McLennan. In a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant. things” was considered a rule of topics that will be addressed this Reverend Scotty McLennan, the the United States today there are a Scotty McLennan grew up in thumb. Being a “good person, a year are: “Being Black and Ro- University Chaplain, led the first lot of white, Anglo-Saxon, Protes- Lake Forest, Illinois. He attended nice person, was considered far man Cal.holic,” “Do You Have To discussion of the school year this tants who are very poor, however, Hotchkiss, a private prep school, more important than financial suc- Be Greek To Be Greek Ortho- past Thursday on “WF .+Voes It many people still refer to these and then went on to Yale for his cess,’’ stated McJ,ennan. dox?’ and “Ethnicity In Israel: A Mean To Be A WASP : people as WASPS. In this way the undergraduate education. At Yale, This year the Chaplain’s table Rainbow Of Colors.” page six THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, September 21,1993 Karaoke takes country by storm onsgiven Flathead plays Greg Powers himself had been FLATHEAD . BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- LeVassenr, 37, a Portland resi- continued from page 1 continued from page 5 It’s not cool to b&h the Japanese dent who grew up in Sabattus, was a disc jockey for three years when for their trade policies if you own a truck driver until two years ago, he was sitting in a club called The fdliarize Tufts students, espe- to Flathead, Paul Simon was a Toyota or a Sony stereo system. when log books and state highway Palace in Saugus, Mass., in 1988 cially freshmen and international among those who had assembled And it’s difficult to fault them for regulations finally got to him. and witnessed karaoke for the first students, with Boston,” said co- to watch the performance. After inventing karaoke when there are “One night I got up and sang a time. chair Smita Basak. mocking Simon for several min- so many willing participants. song, with a little help from liquid “I remember thinking, ‘This Volk will speak on the many utes, Flathead said he noticed that The word “karaoke” comes courage,” LeVasseur said. “The will be a killer,”’ Powers said. sports attractions in Boston, Bones and the crowd were acting from a Japanese word meaning next thing I knew I was renting a He found an advertisement for Noonan will discuss daily life and strange. It was then that he was “empty orchestra.” The orchestra system.” Now he’s a disc jockey a karaokesound system in a music intellectual attractions, and Smith informed that Simon had been in may be empty, but the bars are full seven nights a week, including trade magazine and invested will discuss night life in the city, the crowd, but had left while lis- of people dying to grab a micro- karaoke gigs at weddings and other $6,000 in the equipment. It ar- Archer said. tening to Flathead. phone in front of friendsand strang- private functions. rived at his house via Federal Ex- “These people will be sharing “I turned crimson,” Flathead ers to become the lead vocal in a “Everybody loves being a star,” press one day, and that night Pow- some of the exciting opportunities said. ‘Everyoneknewhe was there, pre-recorded song. LeVasseur said. “There’s no such ers was setting it up in a bar in Bar Boston has to offer Tufts students,” and everyone knew I was being At the Barking Spider on Maine thing as abad karaoke singer.Some Harbor where he had a regular Archer said. stupid. He’s one of my heros... it Street in Brunswick, disc jockey are just better than others.” disc jockey gig. Anumber of Boston businesses, could’ve been my big break!” he Norm LeVasseur hauls in his pro- LeVasseiir provides his own “I can remember that fisher- includingthecomedy Connection, said. ductionequipmentand $150com- sound mixers, speakers, micro- man sitting at the bar saying, Pizzeria Regina, and Finagle a Flathead currently performs in the streets of Harvard Square in pact discs (with lead vocals erased) phones and teleprompters.He gets ‘riiiiight,’ “ Powers said. Bagel will be providing coupons every Wednesday night to lead the his compact discs and many of his Before the night was over, Pow- to the students who attend the pre- front of Store 24 by the intersec- karaoke charge before an eclectic show bookings from Greg Powers ers said, customerswere “begging” sentation. According to Archer, tion of Church Street and Brattle group of aspiring performers, party Entertainment in Scarborough, a him for an opportunity to sing. there is also the possibility that Street, and has intentions of re- animals, karaokegroupies (no kid- business devoted almost exclu- It’s not just the universal ap- merchandise will be raffled off. maining awhce longer, as well as ding) and karaoke virgins who sively to transforming bars and peal of a moment in the spotlight ‘We see this as an opportunity attempting to start a newspaper for Lecture Series to participate in catering to the arts of the street. avoided the scene as long as they nightclubs into small-town “Star see KARAOKE,.- page - 8 could before surrendering. Search” venues. community building,” Archer said. “My act is kind of loose... I’m fo- The event will take place at cusing on working Harvard Square Cabot Auditorium on Wednesday right now,” he said. at 7 p.m. It is open to all and admission will be free. New report TREASURY continued from page 1 ... BO Brinker remarked last week, continued from page 3 As the new policy is the “lowest risk Rm lives. World War 11, on the other you could ever take.” Moreover, hand, is considered a glorious the funds will remain tax-exempt “holy’.’ war which could not have on yields. These decisions reflect been avoided. Our largest mistake Brinker’s determination that the in WWII, however, is often over- upcoming year will be character- looked. This mistake was ized by greater fiscal conserva- America’s reluctancy to enter the tism. war earlier than we did. By ignor- ing Europe’s problems, we only allowed them to grow. Isolation- ism in the United States has never worked. Our neutrality legislation in the 1930’s actually helped boost Hider’s power. We cannot turn the other cheek as a tyrant practices genocide. We have built the most lavish military arsenal in the his- tory of the world. 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Tuesday, September 21,1993 THE TUFTS DAILY page Seven ART & ENTERTAINMENT MFA hosts new Age of Stick to malls: Freeport is a flop by mwUNNIKRISHNAN even odder coiours, like hideous thrownontoracks,andshoes, well, Daily Editorial Board green and camel stripes. shoes were just appallingly Art Nouveau collection Freeport, Maine is touted as a The next stop, Polo/Ralph dumped into abig box on the floor by MEGAN BRENN-~ITE Art Nouveau, there is a woodcu haven for serious sh.oppers. With Lauren, was adisaster. The clothes (with no regard, mind you, to sizes Daily Editorial Board by Marc and a poster done bJ the outlets of all sorts of major on the racks were all seconds, or matching pairs, even). In fact, There aren’t a lot of Art Kandinsky. The woodcut incor. clothiers, Freeport prom d prices, for the store offered shirts for $2, but Nouveau posters out there deco- porates Marc’s characteristic provide bragains and dis of the store who wants shirts with holes in rating dormrooms. However, with horses in a simple blue, green galore. ve rummage them? posters photographs, illustrations black and white woodcut entitled But it never delivers After fleeing the Gap and the and other graphic designs from “Horses Lying Down.’’ promise. In fact, Freepo was pretty, equally hideous Banana Repub- artists ranging from Munch and Kandinsky’s poster uses the same disappointment. Not ed were last lic, the next stop was Benetton. Kandinsky to Toulouse-Lautrec colors and the simple style of the town a rather boring 2 , per- This store was actually the high- and Gaugin, the exhibit at the time, but is still recognizable as drive away, but none of ntfor light of the entire town, for it’s Museum of Fine Arts, The Age of his own. really offer anything by way ch currently in the midst of a “50% Art Nouveau is both a pleasure On themore unusual side, there bargains. off everything” sale. Beautiful and a surprise. are a few pieces by Munch, in- The first stop on the tour is the Afterallthesedisappointments, Benetton sweaters could be had Art Nouveau was a style that cluding an especially harrowing Calvin Klein outlet. Major &sap- this reviewer then made a beeline for a mere pittance, the catch be- flourished in Europe and the black and white drypoint entitled United States from 1895 to 1905. “Death and the Maiden.” A stark rough piles of second The style is characterized by sim- portrayal of a woman dancing and rs (some with one sleeve plicity and an emphasis on both embracinga skeleton,this piece is nature and femininity. Although clearly derivative of Japanese the clothes are re this style would officially be trans- woodcuts, but the theme is all On this visit, all lated as “NewArt,”it is easy to see Munch. Toulouse-Lautrec also the influence ofolder artistic styles, comes in with two lithographs of from what seeme including winding patterns remi- disturbed-looking women in niscent of ancient Celtic designs scenes of serenity and openness. and especial1 y the Japanese onefavorite was Max Klinger‘s need to describe this store, except themes, of which many of the art- reddish-brown etching/drypoint/ ists were avid fans. aquatint. It depicts a woman alone There is everything from book on a beach with her head buried in showninthecatalogues.Yet, illustrations to advertisingposters her hands, titled, almost unneces- favouritestore (or so it in this exhibit. There are certainly sarily, “Abandoned.” The viewer from the things people wear unifying themes, but the range of can feel the pressing space of lone- styles is extensive. Because this liness around the woman with the style emerged in Europe and full expanse of the sky, the sea and ence of the catalogues, America almost simultaneously, the sand. there are photographs from Another standout is asmall ink The store featuredsummer clothes, dollars has abandoned the fashion haven. But it succeeds on one level, America, lithographsfromFrance, and goache book illustration.This which was to be expected, but not ideal upon which it was founded. at least. Even the most discerning drawings from Germany, and a lot near-cartoonish figure of a bird at a significantdiscount. Well, the By betraying its mission statement shopper cannot leave Freeport of other things. with an attitude is aptly called clothes were discounted, but the --the basic, timeless lookthat made emptyhanded;you just have to buy One effect this exhibit has is to “Strutting Bird.” With the pervad- prices were similar to those at a the Gap great -- it has alienated its something,evenif youknow you’ll make the viewer look at our own ing serious and peaceful themes in J.Crew retail store during a sale. traditionalclientele and has short- regret it later. Spuds Mackenzie beer ads and this exhibit, this comical bird is a None of J.Crew’s most popular sightedly doomed itself to fail- Freeport is agood place to visit, wonder why advertising was once much-needed contrast. items were to be seen in the store. ure.” especially if you’re in the mood so much loss crass. One Dutch The only problems with the That is, none except fheubiqutous Upstairs, though, is a bigger for a road trip. If you want to shop lithograph poster from 1894 by exhibit is its occasional lack of J.Crew rollneck sweater. Even horror. Even the cheesiest flea seriously, then take your credit Jan Theodor Toorop advertises continuity. Also, while it is inter- these were only offered in‘ odd markets look more inviting than card and don’t expect to get off “Delftsche Slaolie,”of Deft Salad esting to see works by some of the sizes, such as XXL and XS,and in this floor did. Clothes are just lightly. Oil. There is an intricate swirl of West’s most loved artists, it can be yellow and black lines and a cer- frustrating that the styles are not tain balance reflecting both the what is usually expected from Japaneseand Celtictraditions.The them. Women undergraduate design is the main emphasis and the influence of femininity is While most people won’t be strong. overawed by the works in this ex- students with concerns In the second room of the ex- hibit, it is worth asecond glance. It hibit, the Japanese influencecomes showcaseswell-known, and lesser- Out even more StrOngly With se- known artists, during a time and a aboug eating or weight: rene landscapes incorporatingna- style where their wildly disparate ture and an occasional solitary styles came together in a unifying woman. There is a decided lack of theme. where else could you tie action in these peaceful settings. togetherMunch and Rodin?while A bauguin lithograph, “The the exhibit itself is certainly inter- The Health Service is Washerwoman” and a Pissaro esting for its historical perspec- aquatint, “Twilight with Hay- tive, a good deal of the pieces are Sacks,” are both great examples worth seeing in their own right. organizing a support group. of the ways the artists used the’ The exhibit will be on view ai themes of the time with their own the Museum of Fine Arts until distinct styles. October 3. Tufts students do get For lovers of The Blue Rider free admission and it’s definitely school of art, which arose out of worth the trip. DOMENICO Call Dr. Katy Hanson or Dr. 4100 Mystic Valley Parkway (behind Howard Johnson’s) tel. 391 - 8255 Andrew Gouse at 627-3350. open 7 days a week Espresso, Cappuccino, Gelato and Fresh Pastry For those of you who appreciate the experience of an ai thentic ITALIAN CAFFE Suppose it’s your birthday. You get a pair of plaid slacks, some sock garters, a Tiffany CD, a G.I. Joe coloring book, and a bag 0’chips. So you’re left there with a12 your toys, but something is missing ... and then you think ... “Dang! If only I could write Arts for the Daily.V’

(You can, silly! Call Megan, Madhu, or Matt at 627-3090. Now. And happy birthday., page eight THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, September 21,1993

.- Fee outlines issues Norm is the best KARAOKE After his stage performance, didn’t know why karaoke was so SENATE to the Senate in its weekly meet- continued from page 6 continued from page 1 ing. Kanvowski -- whose uncle is a popular. Asked why she comes Fee assumes that it will be ac- After only ;anhour, the Senate that makes karaoke popular, Pow- state representative and whose back every Wednesday night, Por- quired through “capital campaigns proceeded into its secretive Good ers said. He believes the evolution parents have served on advisory ter paused to think and then said, of the bar and nightclub scene task force for the governor -- be- “I like to talk.” [and] big donations.”_- - and Welfare session in order to interview four candidates for Elm- makes karaoke a logical means of came even more animated in a Two tables away, Jan Levasseur The Senate will continue to tions Board amd to consider its entertainment for customers and discussion about the federal bud- (no relation to Norm) sipped a provide student input in the li- decision. Ha Duong, a junior, was economic survivalfor lounge own- get deficit, Maine’s congressional drink, her face wearing an expres- brary expansion process. More- chosen. She will sit on Elections ers. delegation and U.S. Senate Mi- sion of curiosity, amusement and over, on either October 3 or 17, Board with three members chosen “It’s interactive,and there’s not nority Leader Robert Dole. bewilderment,like she was people- Vice President of OperationsJohn .by the TCUJ and one yet to be too many forms of entertainment He wasn’t the only karaoke watching at an outdoor cafe on Roberto and Director of the Li- chosen by the Committee on Stu- where you can say that,” Powers crooner with a conscience in the Bourbon Street in New Orleans. brary Dave McDonald will speak dent Life. said. “People who no longer go to . room. A certified nurse assistant who bars to get drunk or get a date -- to Denise Ricker, 22, of lives in Harpswell, Levasseur, 32, put it delicately -- now have some- Brunswick, another Wednesday was asked if this karaoke thing Students must be patient - thing to do there. It gets people to night regular at the Barking Spi- was a weird scene. This was the CARMICHAEL go to bars on a weeknight -- people der, belted out a song before sit- first time she had been exposed to that makes it for us. Keep in mind who normally wouldn’t go.” ting down to talk about her other it. continued from page 3 that we’re all coping with the tran- Peter Karwowski, 29, of ’ life -- a degree in accounting and ‘Iwouldn’tsayweird,”shesaid. if you just took the time to look sition and if you would all be a Topsham, is hooked on karaoke. studies for a degree in social ser- “This is different.” She didn’t say around you and notice the ladies little more patient when you can’t He’s tall and thin, with a strong vices while waiting tables at Estes whether she would return. behind the counters sweating and find a tray or a fork or whatever, jaw line and stylishly long blond Lobster House in Harpswell. If Levasseur was at the Barking running to get you what you want, you wouldn’t expend so much en- hair that would put him at ease in Ricker was Miss Teen Brunswick Spider because she’ll anything or the various students running ergy bitching about something that try a lineup of MTV program hosts. in 1987and received’dritate hon- once, she may be in for a surprise around in badly soiled aprons, you cannot be helped. Karwowski is becoming some- ors for her singing in high school. the next time she walks into a bar, just might stop to think why it is We’rejust asking fortwo things thing of a shadow for disc jockey “Yes, I have a brain,” she said. according to Maine’s unofficial they all look damn tired and so , from Carmichael diners: 1) have a LeVasseur. Meanwhile, her friends, Jeanna karaoke warehouse supplier. frustrated. It’s called work. little patience and most of all, 2) Every time Norm does a show, Porter, 23, of Lisbon Falls and “I predicted three years ago Now, for all of you that are have some respect. there’s Karwowski. Dana Baker, 22, of Durham, that bars up here would be packed reading this and saying “well, it’s Because remember: This is not “Norm is the best,” said pumped their fists, gave each other with karaoke shows,” said Pow- not like they don’t get paid,” you’re Burger King -- you can’t have it Karwowski before takmg the stage high-fives and spilled beer as ers. “Karaoke is here for one rea- right, we do get paid. But let’s get your way! at the Barking Spider to sing Billy Karaoke Night heated up. son -- people want it and there’s a something perfectly clear right . Arelys Vieira is majoring in En- Idol’s “Don’t You Forget About By the end of the evening, Por- need for it. Ten years from now it now: they don’t pay us enough to Me” from the movie sound track glish, Parthena Taoultsides is ma- ter promised, she and her friends will be here. put up with your disrespect. of “The Breakfast Club.” would be at the karaoke stage sing- “Times change,” Powers said. just do us a favor and to joring in ChiMStudy, and Rebecca So try “He’s the king of karaoke,” ing and dancing to ‘love Shack.” “Either you change with them, or imagine something: if the new Sawyer is double majoring in Bi- Karwowski said of LeVasseur. Porter, a beautician, said she you lose.” setup is so much easier for all of ology and German. All three au- you, imagine how much harder thors are juniors.

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Tuesday, September 21,1993 THE TUFTS DAILY page nine SPORTS - Field hockey starts season with force, beating Conn. 1-0 by CAROLINE SCHAEFER Though the Jumbos controlled seemed like everything clicked, Daily Editorial Board the ball during the majority of everything fell into place. Things Inthe firststepto turning around both halves, the match remained we’d been working on in practice last season’s4- 10record, the Tufts scoreless until the beginning of came to us,” Manzelli said. field hockey team defeated the the second half. Junior center back Junior midfielder Alanna Connecticut College Camels Sat- Laurel Manzelli blasted a shot into Cummings echoed Manzelli’s urday, 1-0. the Connecticut goal, scoring the statement. “This is the best Tufts has lone goal of the game. “I think everyone did a great played in some time,” head coach While Manzelli’s shot was the job playing together as a team,” Carol Rappoli said yesterday of only successful one, Tufts posted Cummings said. Saturday’s home opener. 63 other goal attempts while play- Though Tufts prevailed, both “I think we played very well,” ing circles around the Connecticut Rappoli and Manzelli said that the she said. defense. The Camels’ offense was score should have been much dif- Though the score suggests a decidedly lacking, and the team ferent. close match, the game was far from only tested Jumbo junior ‘Weprobablyhadadozenother a heated battle. goaltender Amanda McKittrick scoring opportunities that we did “It was a very dominating game four times. not take advantage of,” Rappoli for us. The score does not indicate “Our kids dominated the of- said. Daily file photo this,” Rappoli said, adding that fense play. We played a super mid- Manzelli echoed this sentiment, The Jumbos defense blanketed Connecticut, while the offense piled she never doubted thatTufts would field game,” Rappoli said. “The saying that the score “should have up 64 goal attempts in the team’s 1-0*,Saturday. defeat Connecticut easily. Rappoli kids have been working hard. All been more like 4-0. mentioned that the Victory was of their work at practice really “We really did not capitalize Rappoli said that she believes Rappoli said that the six fresh- particularly sweet, since they were paid off.” on all the scoring opportunities we. this year’s squad is “‘better,” and men will help the squad in their able to avenge their 2-1 loss to Manzelli agrees with Rappoli. had. We have to work on that,” thinks that they “have a better aspirations this season -- to post a Connecticut in overtime last year. “Everyone played well. It just Manzelli said. However, she added chance to win.” winning record. that the team’s ability to work to- ‘We have a couple of things ‘We’re all hoping for a better gether is terrific. going for us this year. First, we’re season than last year,” Rappoli 1993 Jumbo Field Hockey Roster “We work well as a team. We faster, and we’ll run by people. said. have really good combinations,”, . Also, we’restrongerthis year. Last ‘We’re just trying to turn our ’ 3 Amy Hurwitz Freshman Attack White Plains, NY Manzelli said. year, we had a lot of injured play- record around, from 4-10 to 10- Freshinan Midfield Demorest. NJ 4 Megan Coneys Though many worried that the ers,” Rappoli said. 4,” Manzelli said. She added that 6 Jill Rosinsky Sophomore Attack Bryn Mawr, PA 8 Shayna Gross Sophomore Attack Linwood, NJ team would suffer from the loss of Manzelli pointed out that the though post-season play is team’s 9 Gretchen Livingston Freshman Attack Hallowell, ME last year’s captain Christine forward line is “especially fast.” “ultimate goal,” she said that they 1OAIanna Cummings Junior Midfield Sandwich, MA Ferrone to graduation, Manzelli Accounting for this speed are of- will be focusing on working hard 11 Liz Loftus Freshman AN Dover, MA said that the team is doing well fensiveplayersjuniorJenBoynton, over the next few weeks. 12LaurelManzelli Junior Defense Watertown, MA nonetheless. senior co-captain Lisa Ricciardi, ‘We’ll just take it one step at a 13Lisa Ricciardi Senior Attack Redding, CT “You can definitely feel her and freshmenGretchenLivingston time, and hope for the best,” 15 Laurie Meade Junior AIM Atkinson, NE presence missing, but the team and Natalie Soule. Manzelli said. 16 Jennifer Boynton Senior Forward Randolph, NJ structure is even stronger than last Rappoli said that she was im- The squad faces three tough Junior Defense Newton, MA 17 Liz Glazier year,” Manzelli said. nnance of teams this week, and unfortunately 18Pauline Mathewson Freshman Defense Barnstable, MA 20 Anneinarie Orth Sophomore Midfield Moorestown, NJ Manzelli said she believes that e team, who must take to the road for all three. 21 ‘Theresa Sorrentino Sophomore Defense Wayland, MA there are no real stand-outs among were playing in their first colle- Tomorrow, the Jumbos will travel 22 Natalie Soule Freshman Attack Yannouth, ME the team, since as a unit the team giate contest. to Waltham to take on the Bentley 23 Jill Donaldson Senior Defense Stow, MA appears so strong. . “They did not play like fresh- Falcons, and Thursday they’ll 24 Deb Allen Senior Midfield North Attleboro, MA “We have really, gQod combi- men. They played like upperclass- battle Wellesley. This coming 30 bawn Mom11 - Frestiman’ .I4 * - -mal ‘nations,and everyo.ne works hard men. Our young kids are very tal- weekend the team will brave the 31 Amanda McKittrick Junibr Goal and works together,?’,Manzelli ented, and they all played great,” bus trip to Waterville, Maine to said. Rappoli said. play Calby.

Those?.. Phightin “‘I;Phillies For those of you who actually read this column last numbers had fallen off dramatically and he was no longer games in Montreal last d and has certainly lived up year, you know that it is frequently a space for the radical the man who was hitting 30 homers a season in Texas. to his “Wild Thing” But he does have 39 saves venting of a Philadelphia sports fan. So therefore, you So far, he has almost as many RBIs as hits, and has and has certainly made things exciting. must have expected that forthe first column of the falk it become a huge fan favorite at the Vet with his booming Hawever, no player has had more of an influence, or is would once again be about the City of Brotherly Love and home runs and wall-denting catches. more necessary to the ultimate success of this team than its relentless search for a champion. Philadelphians might And what about right fielder Jim Eisenreich (Royals center fielder Lenny Dykstra (Mets reject). He is on a pace finally have their an- reject), who left Kansas City with about a .260 lifetime to score 150 runs, a feat that no Phillie has accomplished Marc pwer Sheinkin I. . average and the neurological disorder known as Tourette’s since Chuck Klein in the early 1930s. He is among the Before you get all Syndrome. All he has done is hit .330 and make the right league leaders in walks, batting average, runs, doubles, wide to the hot and bothered about field platoon of him and Wes Chamberlain one of the best on-base percentage, stolen bases, and has added a career- how this column is al- in baseball. high 18 homeruns to boot. ways about Philadelphia,simmer down. The Phillies have The list goes on and on. Names that came back from the While many voters have already conceded the National been in first place since opening day, and all summer this dead or completely out of nowhere. Kevin Stocker, the League MVP award to the Giants’ Barry Bonds (who has columnist has been silent, waiting for a chance to spew rookie shortstop who finally stabilized their up-the-middle had a wonderful season), it is Dykstra who is most deserv- pro-Philly propaganda. Besides, the Phillies are a legiti- defense, has also hit .340 out of the eight-hole. He was ing of this honor. The trophy should be given to the most mate story, a worst-to-first contender with a chance to go hitting less than .250 at AAA Scranton-WilkesBarre when valuable player in the league, not the player with the most all the way. he was called up. impressive statistics, and Dykstra is that man. Remember, it was in this very spot on a cool April Danny Jackson (Reds and Pirates reject), who had that When “The Dude” plays, the Phillies generally win, morning last semester where this columnist boldly pre- 23 win season way back in 1988, was thought to be and when he scores, they are almost unbeatable. Dykstra’s dicted that the then 4-1 Phillies would win their division. officially washed up. However, he has won 12 games and presence is necessary to other players’ success, while So here we are in September, and those wacky, wild, silly established himself as a solid fourth starter on a team that Bonds does much of his production on his own. Of course, Phillies are still in first. Okay, the lead has now dwindled hasn’t had consistent pitching in over a decade. Bonds is very valuable to San Francisco and they are in to four games as of yesterday, but it is there nevertheless. Add all these players to a base of veteran talent -- now contentionfor a division crown largely because of him, but Furthermore, it is almost impossible to discount the in- finally healthy -- and you have a division winner. Darren Dykstra should be the MVP and that’s all there is to it. credible season that this team has had, whether the lead Daulton has 103 RBIs and has made a name for himself as While many doomsayers have brought back painful continues to shrink or Montreal finally fades away. one of the best catchers in the league. Third baseman Dave memories of the 1964 Phillies -- a team that blew a six and The Phils were 90-59 going into last night’s play, the Hollins (Padres reject) has battled nagging injuries this a half game lead with two weeks to go in the season -- this first time the team has had that many wins since 1983, season but will still finish with over 90 RBIs, while first team is far better. They avoided being swept in Montreal when they last reached the World Series. This is all from baseman John Kruk (Padres reject) is once again among by the red-hot Expos and maintained the lead at four, a a team that finished dead last in the NL East a year ago, a the league leaders in batting. relatively safe cushion when rpmpared to the other pen- team that all the experts thought were going nowhere, a On the mound, Tommy Greene (Braves reject) is 15-3 nant races. team of misfits, convicts, and rejects. and is having his finest season as a pro. Terry Mulholland And even if they do manage to blow it, 1993 has been Even in Philadelphia,few believed that they’d actually (Giants reject) is one of the league’s most consistent an amazing season for Philadelphia baseball. The club have a chance. The starting pitching looked shaky at best starters and is one of the leaders in complete games again. will smash its previous attendance record and a genuine -- a lot of potential but little proven success. The bullpen Curt Schilling(Astros, Orioles, Red Sox reject) has won 14 excitement has been injected into the entire Delaware appeared to be even worse, with a closer who revelled in games for the second straight season,after sufferingthrough Valley. It is amazing what a pennant race can do to a city his wildness and a 40 year-old setup man. And the rest of a tough mid-season slump in which his ERA ballooned and -- it has been ten long years since the Phillies were any the team, while a proven winner when healthy, was not his confidence sagged. His recovery is as much a credit to good and the fans are starved for a winner. going to be able to carry the weak pitching to a winning his own professionalism as it is to the influx of veteran So here we are with two weeks to go and the Phightin’ season. leadership that guided him back to winning ways. Phillies are still in first. Rest assured that while it’s not nice But then it all started to fall into place. The pitching was The bullpen has been a pleasant surprise, with David to say “I told you so,” the fact remains that this column did c phenomenal, and those misfits and rejects were killing the West (Mets and Twins reject) and aged wonder Larry warn you in April and the Phillies are for real. ball. Take, for example, left fielder Pete Incaviglia (Rang- Andersen (Astros, etc. reject) both striking out better than Oh, and maybe next week, there will be something in ers and Astros reject). He could hit the ball a long way -- a batter an inning while setting uo for Mitch Williams this space that has nothing to do with Philadelphia.Maybe.

when he made contact -- but in recent seasons his power (Cubs reject). Wiiliams did blo; two of the three crucial And where have r”.YOU gone. John Wockenfuss? page ten THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, September 21,1993

- _- Eleven-year-old Maine girl begins cross country flight

off from Maine’s capital in a small Bob Baumgartner, planned to Commerce, presented Van Meter ever be able to forget,” said the irport- on a whim. plane this morning in hope of be- reach Sari Diego by Thursday. with a bottle of water from the girl’s mother, Corinne, who with coming the youngest girl ever to Atlantic Ocean to take on her jour- her husband James were taking Please, and I fly across the United States. If all goes according to plan,, $neyand lent her his jacket as she commercial flights to join their she will become the youngest fe- waited to be interviewedby Bryant daughter at each of her overnight mean please Van Meter’s mother and father male pilot to fly cross-country,the Gumbe1 on NBC-TV’s “Today” Stops. were among about a dozen well- youngestperson to fly 2,900miles program via a satellite hookup. ‘We’re really proud of our little -- recycle this wishers who huddled in the 30- and the youngest person to com- girl,” added her father, who said degree air and watched as the sixth- plete an east-to-west cross-coun- In honor of Van Meter’s depar- he held apilot’s license himself 30 and other grader from Meadville, Pa., girl try flight, Baumgartner said. ture, the mayor of Augusta de- years ago but no longer flies. liftedthe single-enginecessna 172 ‘We’regoing againstthe winds, clared today Victoria Van Meter The family planned to stay in fine paper into the air at 7:21 a.m. going this way,” he said. 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Please call Panda 628-2792 for details. collapse of Stalinbm-CUBA IN Jim at 629-8914 if found. Happy day. I love you, and I know PERIL Biking. Cycling, Canoeing. XSking, Hikng-Whne Mtns 2 Day Package what it means. Fall Intramural algn-lps Eyewitness account by Marjorie LOST Sublet Stamburg, Sparlacia forum. Tues- Breakfast. Lodging. Snacks only $65 Two bedmom furnished apartment (i Akida Sheppard. not pure breed. Don? Forget Thursday Spt. 23 and Friday Sept. day, September 28. 7:30 p.m.. p person RentalsandSludentgrouF Black w/white chest, onewhiie paw. 24fram12:00-1:00p.m.inHalligan bedroom semiclosed off) Wood- Emerson Hall, Room 305, Harvard to reregister your organization by work, 2 porches, quiet, has every- ratesavarlable Just 2 hrs fromTufts Answers to Shadow.‘ 9 mons. old. Friday Sept. 24th in the Studeni Hall, 2nd floor in hoiit of IM office. Yard, Harvard University, Cam- Info 207-625-8169 or write 6.C.E 100 Ibs. 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Programs Abroad Today Study Abroad at London School ol Economics Environmental Consciousness Eaton 201,12pm. Outreach (ECO) First General Meeting, All Welcome Eaton 201,9:00pm Tomorrow Pen, Paint, & Pretzels First meeting of the year. Asian Christian Fellowship Balch Arena Theatre, 11:30pm. Meeting... Don't miss it East Hall Lounge, 7:30pm. Tufts Friends of Israel Welcome back get-together and Sol Gittleman: Provost organizational meeting by Watterron Tuesday Topics: What Will I dc Calvin and Hobbes Bill Rm. 218 incampus Center, 8:30pm. With My Life? Lewis Lounge, 7pm. YW RERC\ZE IHAT NOlHNG Tufts Taekwon-do \S AS CLEAR AND SIMPLE 1st workout for returning members Tufts Dance Collective A5 \T F\RST APPEARS. Hill Hall Aerobics Rm.,8:05pm. UCT\MATELY, KNONECGE General Meeting -Dance and a \S PARALYZ\flG. choreography Programs Abroad Large mnf. rm. Campus Center. Study Abroad General Info. Meeting 8.30. pm. I Eaton 201, 11:30am. I t

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59 'I- a Parade" 23Aroma . 50 Printer's word 25 Distributes 51 Sheltered 26 Headliner Quote of the Day 52 Make tardy 27 Be concerned 53 Leveret 28 Chopping tools 34 Marbles 29 Relax 55 Bergen's 30 White of N Mortimer 32 Posts a letter OS/Zl/SS "He who looketh upon a woman loseth a fender." DOWN 33 Newspaper 42 Writing, 51 Group in a -- 1 Kismet article implements racing shell . 2 Turkish officers 34 Comedian 44 Preserve food 52 Verve -- Sign in an auto repair shop 3 Fishing need Johnson 45 Refuse 53 Love to 4 Queue 35 Legal holding 4647 BeerLarge artery excess Late Night at the Daily 5 Went in 36 Arrange by kind 54 Always 6 Become ready 38 Abuse 48 Overact 55 Transmit to eat 41 Mr. Coty 49 Attitudinizes 58 Pie - mode page twelve THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, September 21,1993

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