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Where You Partly Snowing Read It First 21/10 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVII, NUMBER 24 WEDNEsday, FEBRUARY 26, 2014 TUFTSDAILY.COM BUILD: India participating in Tufts remembers Donna Milmore BY ABIGAIL FELDM A N Campus Network fellowship Daily Editorial Board BY CH A RLOTTE RE A According to the MCN web- Donna Milmore, assistant Daily Editorial Board site, the network’s mission is to director of the Career Center increase the effectiveness and for the past 14 years, passed The Millennium Campus sustainability of groups work- away suddenly on Feb. 16. Network (MCN), a nonprofit ing toward the United Nation’s She was 63-years-old. organization based in Boston, Millennium Development Goals. Dean of Campus Life Bruce recently selected BUILD: India Participation in the fellowship Reitman announced her death to participate in its fellowship provides groups like BUILD: to the Tufts community in an program and receive a grant of India with coaching on leader- email he sent last Tuesday. up to $10,000. ship and strategic planning. “In her work at the Career According to Angad Bagai, Bagai explained that the cho- Center, [Milmore] has a BUILD: India member who sen groups will receive their touched the lives of thou- is representing the group in grants when the fellowship pro- sands of Tufts undergradu- the MCN Fellowship Program, gram ends in May. The grants ates, graduate students and BUILD, which is an acronym will vary in size according to the alumni,” Reitman wrote. “She of the group’s mission state- group’s needs, he said. will be deeply missed by all ment “Building Understanding “We will need to work with who knew her.” through International Learning the MCN officials on how much At the Career Center, Milmore and Development,” was one of we actually get — it would be a was responsible for consulting several groups selected to par- budget that is agreed upon with students about careers, job ticipate and receive funding by them as well as us,” he searches and graduate school for its project. said. “We are hoping to get the decisions, according to her col- “[MCN] took in a lot of maximum $10,000 and, based leagues Jean Papalia, the Career grants, went over them and on [this] project, we should be Center director, and Donna the ones that they thought able to, but a lot of it depends Esposito, the Career Center had the most potential ... on both of us coming to an senior associate director. [they] took them on as fel- agreement.” “She was really a cheerlead- lows,” Bagai, a junior, said. According to Bagai and fel- er,” Papalia said. “She always “What the fellowship entails is low BUILD: India member really supported people and that anyone who is receiving Shobhita Narain, the Institute their goals and dreams and these grants attends meetings for Global Leadership-based what they wanted to do.” in which we discuss our vari- program will use the funding on Over the years, Milmore ous projects [and] our various projects aimed at developing maintained close relation- ALONSO NICHOLS / THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY organizations.” Milmore found her ‘real calling’ as Career Center assistant director. see BUILD, page 2 see MILMORE, page 2 University begins negotiations with part-time faculty union BY DA NIEL BOTTINO the salary freeze for part-time Daily Editorial Board faculty that has been in place for the last five years, Klatt The School of Arts and said. Sciences entered negotiations “Every year that goes by, in on Feb. 7 with the Service real terms, there is a pay cut Employees International for someone who gets a zero Union (SEIU), an organization percent [salary] increase,” he that represents Tufts’ part- said. time faculty. According to Klatt, the uni- During the negotiations, versity has shown no sign of union members said they hope changing their compensation to discuss issues of compensa- policy. tion, job security and evalua- “[The pay freeze] was tion processes, in addition to the university’s decision presenting other demands and to impose,” he said. “Some alleged grievances, according administrators will object and to Andrew Klatt, a lecturer in say that it wasn’t in perpetuity, the Department of Romance but in effect it was, because it’s Languages. in perpetuity until and unless “Compensation for part- they decide otherwise.” time faculty is far below that An additional issue that of full time faculty,” he said. Klatt mentioned involves job “Little by little ... universities security for part-time faculty have transformed the instruc- members, whose terms are tion workforce into a low-wage, outlined in appointment let- low-paid and in most cases ters, he said. without-benefits workforce.” “[The appointment let- The university is still in the ters] explicitly state that [the process of developing posi- appointment] is depend[ent] tions on the individual issues on the needs of the univer- being discussed, Dean of sity,” he said. “The reason it Academic Affairs for Arts and says that is because classes Sciences James Glaser said. can be canceled for under-en- “Some of the proposals will rollment. We have no compen- come from the union, and sation for canceled courses.” some will come from us,” he While it is possible they will said. “What exactly those pro- have an agreement before the posals are, I don’t feel that I end of the semester, the negoti- am at liberty to say, in part ation process will likely extend because our thinking is not beyond May, explained. SOFIA ADAMS / THE TUFTS DAILY fully clarified yet.” “Our aspiration is to have University administrators and union representatives for part time faculty began negotiations earlier this month. One of the issues the union members will likely discuss is see NEGOTIATIONS, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections Band of Horses’ live Sapporo Ramen a News 1 Op-Ed 9 album maintains high hidden gem in Lesley standards of its previous University’s University Features 3 Comics 10 studio-recorded tracks. Hall. Arts & Living 5Classifieds 15 Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see ARTS, page 5 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Police Briefs BREAKING BAD a call about two students on the roof about a wild party on Curtis St. They Packard Ave. where the officers stopped of Metcalf Hall. When officers asked located the house and found a note it. The driver, a Tufts student, had a Tufts University Police Department what they were doing on the roof, the on the front door instructing guests to driver’s license but his registration was (TUPD) on Feb. 21 at 4 a.m. received a students replied that they were simply enter through the side door. The police suspended. Because of this, his vehicle call from two female students in Lewis enjoying the nice night. They were sent proceeded through the side door and was towed and he will not be able to Hall after they awoke to find that a male on their way. found 200 to 250 people, along with a recover it until he registers it with the Tufts student had entered their room. DJ, in the basement. When the owner state of Colorado. They yelled at him to leave the room, TURN DOWN FOR TUPD was questioned, he said that it started as pushed him out and locked their door. a small party and got out of control. The CLOSE TO HOME The male student began banging on the TUPD on Feb. 23 at 12:30 a.m. received sign on the door and the presence of the door and yelling to be let back in. TUPD a call about a loud party on Whitman DJ caused TUPD to question his story. A local man entered the Tufts Daily arrived and took the student, who was Street. When officers arrived, they office at approximately 11 p.m. on Feb. intoxicated, to Somerville Hospital. He cleared about 150 people from the REGISTRATION BLUES 24. He appeared to be intoxicated and was also placed under arrest for break- house. TUPD was called. The man was placed ing and entering. Two officers in their cruiser on Professor’s under arrest and transported to the THROUGH THE SIDE DOOR Row on Feb. 23 at 12:47 a.m. saw a police station. Officers said the man has ROOFTOP RELAXATION vehicle speeding down Professor’s Row a lengthy record. Police on Feb. 23 at 12:45 a.m. respond- from Curtis St. and toward Packard Officers on Feb. 22 at 2:05 a.m. received ed along with Somerville Police to a call Ave. The vehicle made a right turn onto —compiled by Kathleen Schmidt Program could receive grant of up to $10,000 Career Center assistant BUILD sophomore who is also a copy women, in Thottiyapatti have. continued from page 1 editor for the Tufts Daily, said. So it’s really using their exist- director passes away at 63 community health and educa- “We noted in our application ing skills instead of trying to tion programs in the village we would be the first ones to create these trainings in order MILMORE calling,” Papalia said. “She of Thottiyapatti. BUILD: India try to implement it in India ... to [teach them].” continued from page 1 loved work everyday.” has already been involved in I think that [this] helped set Bagai emphasized the ships with hundreds of stu- Outside of the univer- the implementation of EcoSan our application apart because important role the grant could dents and alumni whom sity, Milmore, a resident of toilets in Thottiyapatti. it [involves] taking something play in making these initia- she worked with while they Charlestown, Mass., was an “For a long time we want- that has a proven success rate, tives come to fruition.

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