Today: AM Showers THE TUFTS High 71 Low 45 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Showers Since 1980 High 57 Low 35 VOLUME LII, NUMBER 24 DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006 Cotler: Holocaust ‘began in words’ Cotler ‘troubled’ by detainee bill Before his talk yesterday, Irwin rights record was tainted no more Veteran human rights advocate speaks out on ‘crimes of indifference’ Cotler sat down with the Daily than ten days before the detainee for a brief chat about legisla- bill was passed, when a Canadian BY HAYDEN REICH tion passed in September that government commission cen- Contributing Writer changed the rules regarding who sured the U.S. for its extradition can be held in suspicion of terror- of a Canadian citizen to Syria, The Honorable Irwin Cotler, ism and how they can be treat- where he was tortured for crimes former Minister of Justice for ed. that the commission found he Canada, spoke Wednesday eve- The Daily reported yesterday didn’t commit. ning to a crowd of about 90 in an that, excepting one abstain- Maher Arar was detained in event sponsored by the Institute ing Massachusetts legislator, all the United States for eight days for Global Leadership (IGL). of the state’s representatives to on terrorism charges on his way Cotler addressed “the pur- Congress voted against the so- back to Canada from Tunisia and suit of justice,” and the related called detainee bill, with Senator was not informed of his consular “struggle against hatred” and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) calling it rights by U.S. authorities, accord- “struggle against genocide.” “bad public policy.” ing to Cotler. The United States, He discussed these themes Cotler acknowledged that furthermore, did not fully inform in the context of current affairs among politicians there has Canadian officials of their plans in the Middle East and Africa, been a “dispute to the fact that for Arar before extraditing him to as well as human rights inves- [this bill] does what people say Syria, where he was imprisoned tigations in the Western hemi- it does;” that is, restricting civil for four years. sphere, his specialty for much of liberties in the interest of national Cotler, who represented Arar his professional life. security. while he was still the Minister of He began by speaking briefly Nevertheless, he said that he Justice in Canada, said that Arar about what has “guided” him is “concerned” about the bill is “not just an innocent person in his career as a politician and because of its compromising but an innocent victim of three activist, saying that “you cannot stance toward basic legal “rules” governments, and those are the pursue justice unless you feel like habeas corpus, prohibition U.S., the Syrian government, and the injustice around you.” of certain practices in detainee the Canadian government.” Cotler organized his speech treatment, and the applicability The States “play[ed] a principle into “lessons” on human rights, in court of evidence obtained by role in this narrative,” he said, addressing current phenomena coercion. noting the apparent hypocrisy of in human rights and how justice “The struggle against terrorism sending an alleged criminal to a can be pursued in each situa- must be carried out in a principled country that the United States tion. way,” he said. That principle is consistently decries as a propo- The first of his “lessons” “the protection of human secu- nent of terrorism and a violator of pertained to what he termed rity.” human rights. “the danger of a state-sanc- Human rights and the fight “What this shows is that we tioned culture of hate,” using against terrorism are “mutually have to be very careful in a post- Iranian President Mahmoud JAMES FOLTA/TUFTS DAILY complimentary and reinforcing,” 9/11 universe about the way we Ahmadinejad and the charged The Institute for Global Leadership hosted the Honorable Irwin Cotler, Cotler said. conduct anti-terrorism efforts,” political atmosphere in Iran as who was Minister of Justice and Attorney General for Canada from 2003- “I see terrorism as an assault he said. the prime modern example. 2006 and currently serves in the Canadian House of Commons for the on the security of democracy and In this vein, the detainee Cotler pointed to constituency of Mount Royal. on collective rights like life, liberty, bill “undermines fundamen- Ahmadinejad’s comments on and security,” he said. Preventing tal American due process safe- Israel as a “direct and public sive evidentiary base” for intent “The Holocaust did not begin terrorism therefore represents guards,” he said. incitement to genocide,” under- to commit genocide in human in the gas chambers; it began in “promotion and protection of “In the end, you have either scoring the international com- history. words,” he said. human rights.” both security and rights or you munity’s “responsibility to pre- Using the example of the mas- His second lesson warned This advantage, however, is have neither,” he said. “[Any anti- vent genocide.” sive genocide of the Holocaust, against “crimes of indifference,” jeopardized when individuals and terrorism action] must be done According to Cotler, this state- Cotler said that “words can groups are “singled out” for dis- in a way that comports with the ment is “the most comprehen- hurt.” see COTLER, page 2 criminatory treatment, he said. rules.” The United States’ human —Zofia Sztykowski Tufts alumna organizes Republican support for November Cannon’s gay BY KRISTEN CASAZZA Daily Staff Writer Hoff said she spends a lot of time answering e-mails and creating spreadsheets, but talked about the pride defaced As most of her peers in her gradu- greater scheme of her work. It is her BY JAMES BOLOGNA ating class dreaded the potential re- responsibility to develop and imple- Daily Editorial Board election of President George W. Bush, ment the Young Republicans’ nation- alumna Rachel Hoff (LA ‘04) prepared wide strategy for supporting midterm for a career in which she would mobi- election candidates. The Tufts University Police lize support for his party. “My first priority is to deploy volun- Department reported today that Tufts’ “When Nicole Ambrose, the National teers into targeted states for intense cannon, painted in rainbow colors to Chairman of Young Republicans, weekends of campaigning,” she said. celebrate National Coming Out Day, was asked me to organize the national She also plans to send legal teams to vandalized yesterday morning. effort to mobilize Young Republican oversee voting locations and ensure They found the word “smut” painted voters, I jumped at the opportunity,” all election laws are followed. on the cannon. It was also found paint- Hoff said. Targeted states this year include ed over a chalking of the word “rainbow” Hoff was appointed the National Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Tennessee, on the pathway in front of the cannon. Field Director of the Young Republicans and Montana. “Even though we were one of the top (YR) in August of this year, and now “This kind of coordinated grassroots 20 gay-friendly schools, we had an inci- plays a key role in grassroots GOP re- political effort, the Rove/Melman dent this morning that shows us that election efforts across the country. strategy, has become the hallmark of our community is not perfect,” Dona The Young Republicans is a tax- the Republican Party,” she said. “It’s Yarbrough, Director of the Tufts Lesbian, exempt group that supports GOP can- why we win elections and why we Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) didates in political elections. “Many have dominated the house, senate and Center, said at the Coming Out Day members are former campaign man- presidency.” event at the Campus Center yesterday. agers,” Hoff said. Hoff has already visited Ohio and Sophomore Sofia Nelson, who was “We’re really the young profession- Indiana. there when the police arrived and aided als of the Republican Party,” she said. “We chose to kick off our cam- in repainting the cannon, said many “Most active members are between 25 paign efforts in Ohio because it has students were upset by what they saw. and 35 years old and we represent the COURTESY RACHEL HOFF skilled labor of the campaign efforts.” see REPUBLICANS, page 2 Rachel Hoff see CANNON, page 2

Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections CAMPUS HEATH CONCERT PREVIEW News | Features 1 International 13 Jumbo-size-me? The Daily The Daily disects TV on the investigates obesity on Radio in preparation for Arts | Living 5Comics 16 campus. Saturday’s show Editorial | Letters 8 Classifieds 17 Viewpoints 9Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see WEEKENDER, page 5 National 11 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 12, 2006 POLICE BRIEFS Hoff’s idealism motivates her work for the Republicans OFFICERS WALK IN ON BEIRUT GAME REPUBLICANS vs. 37 percent). Available data shows [Democrat] Chabot but said DeWine was continued from page 1 Steve Chabot statistically tied with too liberal for their vote,” said Tamara Tufts University Police proven to be such a key state in deter- Democratic challenger John Cranley. Woods, YR chair for the Midwest region. Department (TUPD) officers mining the direction of politics nation- DeWine’s seat is particularly impor- Hoff, Woods and other volunteers responded to a call about a noise ally and we believe that’s especially true tant. “Senator DeWine is defending per- spent the weekend distributing litera- violation in Latin Way on Saturday, this November,” Hoff said. YR teams haps the most contested Senate seat in ture door-to-door and making phone Oct. 7, at 3:31 a.m. When the officers hit districts in Cleveland, Dayton, and the country,” Hoff said, of an election calls. “We’ve made over 5,000 voter arrived, they could see three or four Cincinnati, Ohio, and southeastern year in which a loss of only six Senate contacts this weekend. I’m optimistic males through the window in one of Indiana the weekend of Sept. 29- Oct.1. seats would mean losing the majority in [that] neighbors talking to neighbors the towers. Hoff organized volunteers to assist the chamber. about why they’re voting Republican will The males were yelling, scream- in multiple Ohio campaigns, including Republican candidates in the state ensure GOP victory again,” Hoff said. ing and swearing out the window. those of Senator Mike DeWine, guber- face a balancing act of appealing to Hoff said her devotion to conservative The officers also found broken natorial candidate and Ohio Secretary of their base, mostly loyal Bush supporters, principles and sense of duty motivated beer bottles on the ground, which State Ken Blackwell, and Steve Chabot, while promoting an identity indepen- her involvement. appeared to have been thrown from U.S. House candidate in Ohio’s District dent from the administration. “I want Republicans to win because the window. 1. DeWine, who is pro-life and supports I believe in the Republicans’ vision for When the officers went upstairs, According to Oct. 11 averages on gun control, is one such unique candi- America,” she said. “I believe in an own- they found a beirut game that was Pollster.com, DeWine is locked in a dead date. ership society where individuals are set up and several empty thirty heat with Democrat Sherrod Brown. “What I thought was the most interest- given the right to make their own deci- packs of beer. There were also bro- Democratic challenger Ted Strickland ing dynamic walking around Cincinnati sions and make their own resources. I ken bottles in the hallway and stair- holds a 15-point lead over Blackwell (52 was how many people supported very much identify as an idealist.” well. A report was filed and turned over to the Dean of Student Affairs Office. Coming out day was still a success OFFICERS WALK IN ON CANNON at Tufts.” (ANOTHER) BEIRUT GAME continued from page 1 The outdoor event on the Campus Write a Officers responded to a call at Center patio, attended by roughly 50 stu- Wilson House on Sunday, Oct. 8, at “I was standing there and many people dents, faculty, and staff members, fea- 1:21 a.m. A Resident Assistant had came up and offered their support to us,” tured students and professors relating Viewpoint asked individuals in a room to be she said. their experiences of “coming out” and quiet around 10:30 p.m., and when “We take this very seriously,” she said. publicly acknowledging their homosexu- they were still loud at around 1:00 “But this is not indicative of the whole ality. a.m. she called the police. community.” “It is hard to hate people you know, When they arrived, they found Nelson said that while she felt a bit people you love,” Yarbrough said in sup- several males and females in one discouraged by the graffiti, she hopes it port of community events like Coming room, which was “a total mess,” will motivate students into action against Out Day. according to TUPD Sergeant Robert homophobia. “I hope it will assuage some “There has never been a better week McCarthy. There was a beirut game of the complacency on campus and get to come out than this week,” Fletcher set up. There were also many empty more people involved.” professor John Perry said to the crowd. beer cans and bottles, as well as an “It was one person going out of their “With the congressional scandals, this is empty vodka bottle. way for hate,” said freshman Sabina the type of thing the closet encourages.” Some of the ceiling tiles were bro- Carlson at the event. “That’s one person After police arrived and documented ken. The individuals also had three too many.” the incident, Nelson and other members taps used for kegs. The taps were Yarbrough called for solidarity at the of the Queer-Straight Alliance painted the confiscated, along with an open event. “We must work together,” she said. pathway black and re-painted the cannon 24-pack of Bud Light, which only “It isn’t just the LGBT community,” said rainbow. had about 10 beers left in it. The Daniel Katz, co-coordinator of the Queer- “We didn’t let it ruin our day,” said case was turned over to the Dean’s Straight Alliance. “This affects everyone Nelson. office.

POLICE BROUGHT IN TO ASSIST COMATOSE STUDENT HR violators deserve no impunity TUPD received a call on a report of COTLER that “there need be no conflict” between a male passed out in the men’s bath- continued from page 1 them. room on the third floor of Houston or the international community’s choice He stated emphatically that “enforce- Hall at 1:18 a.m. on Sunday, Oct 8. to ignore current, preventable actions of ment and application of counter-terrorism When the police arrived, they hatred and genocide. must always comport with word of law,” found a male leaving the area, The indifference of the international and pointed to the case of Maher Arar as who was, according to a Resident community to genocide is illustrated best an example of this agreement having gone Assistant, the subject of the initial by the genocide occurring in the Darfur awry. call. region of Sudan, he said, but the 1994 Maher Arar was a Canadian national Tufts Emergency Medical Service Rwandan genocide is also a “painful and whose rendition to Syria from the U.S. (TEMS) was called, and the man tragic” reminder of preventable genocide. sparked controversy when a Canadian gov- offered service, but he signed a In the case of Darfur, Cotler said that “the ernmental commission found that he was waiver and refused medical treat- international community has a responsi- innocent of the charges of terrorism he ment. bility to intervene.” had been imprisoned and tortured for over “What is necessary now is action on four years. the ground if we want to save Darfur, Junior Michael Eddy, a student in the STUDENT REPORTS HARASS- which begins with putting UN boots on IGL’s Education for Public Inquiry and MENT BY SUITEMATES the ground...without Sudan’s approval if International Citizenship (EPIIC) program, On Friday, Oct. 6, the police necessary,” he said. questioned Cotler regarding instances received a report from a female He argued that the perpetrators of geno- when “the pursuit of justice is not always student that her suitemates were cide and human rights violations should black and white,” and whether granting harassing her. be prosecuted, and said “we have to make impunity to perpetrators of human rights The student said that they were the International Criminal Court...a real- is a possible solution in these situations. making excessive noise and knock- ity.” Cotler said that impunity for perpe- ing on her door. She had called about He referred to the plight of the victims trators of human rights violations “may this issue in the past, McCarthy of human rights violations, saying that “it encourage other leaders in other killing The Daily welcomes submissions said. becomes our responsibility that we give fields to continue.” from all members of the Tufts Officers spoke to the suitemates voice to the voiceless, power to the power- “Always hold the perpetrator respon- community. Viewpoints should that were present, and they were less.” sible,” he said. “I don’t believe acquiescing be between 700 and 1,000 words warned to stay away in the future. “The real test for human rights” is to to the requests of the perpetrator prevents in length and can be sent to The report was turned over to the ask the question, “is it good for children?” genocide.” [email protected]. Dean’s office. he said. He underscored this sentiment IGL Director Sherman Teichman was —by Sarah Butrymowicz throughout his remarks with anecdotes pleased with the turnout and the evening’s about his family. distinguished guest. “I’m amazed that he’s Cotler also spoke about the relationship here, because he is much sought after,” he between human rights and security, saying said.

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PETE MCKEOWN | DAILY TOWNIE Lights, camera, townie! hen I die, people are going

to be able to say two things Wabout me: “Wow, that good- looking kid never left Medford” and “that real-

ly awesome and attractive townie sure knew

a thing or two about movies.” Until now, I

had only appeased the first quote in my Daily

Townie column and had yet to venture into

the wonderful realm of movies. I’m a colum-

nist, not a movie critic.

However, the movie “The Departed” has given me a reason to talk about movies as long as they have one central theme ... being in Boston. If it happened in Boston, I’d say that’s well within my jurisdiction and because of that, I’m going to list the top five movies filmed with Boston as a prominent theme. 5. “Fever Pitch” (2005) — Just kidding. With

REBEKA SOKOL/TUFTS DAILY the exception of some live Red Sox World These people might have lower BMIs if they were walking instead of taking the T. Series footage (we won, by the way...yes.) this movie misses the boat completely on any legitimate representation of Boston. I put it as number five on my list specifically so you can Hills, walking lead to lower obesity, study says be warned not to go see this. Putting Jimmy Fallon in the lead role as a life-long Bostonian BY HANNAH MANDEL Anglin, who lives off-campus. campus plays a role in walking popu- and Sox fanatic is about as realistic as hav- Contributing Writer “It’s scenic, and it puts me in a good larity. According to Raymond Hyatt, an ing me play Michael Jordan in a basketball mood,” he added. assistant professor of medical sociolo- movie. Dewick on a Thursday night is a Sophomore Adam Fried agreed. “I’m gy at the Friedman School of Nutrition, It failed on all levels, and to make matters dangerous place. The Belgian waffle content to walk. I don’t mind [the hill] safety is one of the most important worse, it turned into a sappy chick flick. Don’t makers sit beckoning. The pizza glis- but when it’s icy it can be tricky,” he determinants of how inclined people see it. If you think it’s worth it just for the live tens. On top of all that, it’s sundae said. are to walk. According to the most Sox championship footage, call me ... I have night. So how do Tufts students eat so For those who disagree, though, recent Tufts Police crime statistics, over 15 versions of the Red Sox championship indulgently without blowing up? there aren’t many other options. only one on-campus assault occurred DVD. There is a simple explanation: at Campus is not known for being car- in 2004. 4. “Boondock Saints” (1999) — You know Tufts, walking is the best — if not the friendly and parking is limited. As There are several components this is a great list if I have this excellent movie only — way to get around, even if it Fried explained, even if he were to to walking safety: sidewalks and lit not even placing in the medals. This movie means going around the hill instead of park somewhere near an academic paths are important, and perceptions shows how two brothers are told by God to rid over it. building, he would end up walking to of safety also play a role. “We don’t the city of Boston from all dangerous and rot- The University of Utah recently it anyway. actually have to know that a crime ten criminals ... with semi-automatic weap- published a study showing that obe- “I think it’s most convenient to have was committed in an area, we just ons. If a movie has the phrase “vigilante jus- sity rates are lower in more walking- a bike because you can pretty much have to have the perception that it’s tice” in the plot outline, I want to watch it. friendly neighborhoods. That’s some- put it anywhere,” Anglin said. unsafe,” Hyatt said, noting that “these The fight scenes are unbelievably cool, the thing to keep in mind when there are Sophomore Sophia Kostelanetz dis- are things public policy can address.” characters are believable, gritty Bostonians, 10 minutes to get from Halligan to agreed, saying that biking on cam- Public policy that encourages health and Willem Dafoe plays a flamboyantly gay Olin and the Memorial steps are slick pus might be the worst option: “Every through walking and safety is not detective who can crack any case. If those with ice. Or when you live downhill once in a while [I see someone biking far from Tufts. Since 2002, Assistant aren’t ingredients for success, I don’t know and getting anywhere is a hike. uphill] and I feel so bad for them. It Professor Christina Economos has what are. “I do like walking around campus. looks so painful!” been heading the Shape Up Somerville 3. “Mystic River” (2003) — First of all, the Sometimes it’s inconvenient because Aside from the lack of convenient Mystic River runs through Medford, so that you have to walk far,” said junior Kevin alternatives, the safety of the Medford see WALKING, page 4 alone makes this movie great. If people actual- ly knew how gross the Mystic was, this would be an entirely different movie that would prob- ably feature mutant townies running amok after drinking from the toxic waters down by A path paved by books led lecturer Zanger to Tufts the Mystic Valley Parkway. However, the real “Mystic River” is a poi- BY ARIANNE BAKER “I knew where books came from, so I She attributes her interests to the gnant look at how the death of one girl can Daily Editorial Board thought about them in a more cultural growing popularity of gender studies send an entire neighborhood into a tailspin, way,” she said. that occurred when she was young. “A and the performances of Kevin Bacon, Sean The connections between a person’s But she didn’t expect her path would lot of us in my generation started doing Penn and Tim Robbins make this movie worth past and present are not always clear- put her at the front of a classroom. gender studies,” she said. “We realized the price of admission. cut. In the case of Lecturer Abby Zanger, “When I went to grad school I didn’t that you couldn’t just look at history or 2. “The Departed” (2006) — This may be a winding path of comics, magazines, think of myself first as a teacher, but study literature from all the great men; a little premature, but I’m ready to put this and books eventually led her to the I had to teach right away. I realized I you had to look at women, too.” second on my list because it may go down as front of a crowded college classroom enjoyed the experience; it was a surprise As an undergraduate, Zanger was the best police/mafia drama that I’ve ever seen. to speak about sexuality and gender to me that I enjoyed teaching so much,” interested not only in women’s studies, There’s so much gunfire they almost had to issues. she said. “But it definitely wasn’t a child- but in how gender played a role for both put a disclaimer at the end saying, “No townies Zanger grew up around books and hood dream to teach.” women and men, particularly in images were harmed during the filming of this movie.” controversy. Her father was a whole- But now that she is a lecturer, Zanger of sexuality. Also, the cast is absolutely outstanding and sale book and magazine distributor who has found her favorite part of teaching She said that her early exposure to even features two of Boston’s own in Matt became heavily involved with issues of has been learning from the people she comic books, which use images and text Damon and Mark Wahlberg. Damon real- censorship after anti-obscenity pros- instructs. to tell stories, has helped her to study ly nails his role as a police detective whose ecution flared up against magazine dis- “I’m interested in learning from my sexuality. “I’m a reader of images and a real allegiance lies with a mafia boss (Jack tributors for mailing publications like students — otherwise I get bored. I reader of text, so I was very attentive to Nicholson), making the audience want to “Playboy.” love when I give students material and details and I started thinking about how wonder aloud “What the hell happened to But it wasn’t the Comstock Law, it’s not fully digested, and they have sexuality fit into images,” she said. Ben Affleck?” which legislates against “obscene, lewd, to return to me what they got out of it “I was interested in how images got It was nice to see Marky Mark in this Boston or lascivious” materials, that got Zanger and they get things I never would have conflated with sexuality,” she said, movie as well, playing the character of a hot- interested in books. “I used to go down thought of,” she said. “especially around male political fig- headed police sergeant who trusts and likes to my dad’s office as a kid and I would Zanger’s interests lie in sexuality and ures, conflating virility with political absolutely nobody. He seemed to have a chip read books and comic books,” she said. gender in early modern Europe, a field power, and women and their position in on his shoulder throughout the movie, prob- “My father had a huge warehouse of that covers both literary studies and his- the world.” ably wanting to scream out, “I’m way more books and I could take them home ... it tory. Since beginning her professorial Boston than Matt Damon ... that nerd went was better than a library.” As a lecturer in the history depart- career, Zanger has noticed big changes Seeing books from a different angle — ment, Zanger’s research has produced in both literary studies and history. “Ten see TOWNIE, page 4 sitting in a warehouse, stacked and sep- several books, including “Scenes from or 15 years ago, literary theory was on arated by publishers — allowed Zanger the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial the cutting edge of ideas, but now his- Pete McKeown is a senior major- to experience books in a different way, Fictions and the Making of Absolutist ing in English. He can be reached at rather than just as “vehicles of ideas.” Power.” see ZANGER, page 4 [email protected]. 4 THE TUFTS DAILY FEATURES Thursday, October 12, 2006 For Zanger, change is the only Bahston makes constant in research field movies great ZANGER myself as a boring person, but TOWNIE continued from page 3 I do have a sense of humor and continued from page 3 tory is a much more vibrant and I don’t take things too serious- to friggin’ Harvard”, but then again, innovative field,” she said. ly,” she said. “I want people to he probably shouldn’t make insults “I think it’s a natural evolu- know that I am serious about because his big breaks were an adver- tion. History has engaged with my work, but not too serious.” tisement for tighty whiteys and a band multiple different cultures and Zanger’s work is supplement- called “Marky Mark and the Funky different disciplines,” she said. ed by her life at home. “I have Bunch.” “History has done a great job an 11-year-old son who’s fan- 1. “Good Will Hunting” (1997) — Best of engaging with anthropology, tastic, and he teaches me every movie ever. Matt Damon will forever be political science. I think I’m an day about being a teacher,” she Will Hunting in my mind, and he will example of the way history has said. subsequently forever be the man. become so interdisciplinary.” “It’s interesting to watch how Whether it be the ridiculously awe- The changes Zanger has young kids learn. It’s very pri- some Boston accents, or the sarcastic noticed since she earned her mal. I’ve learned a lot of things Bostonian sense of humor, or shots of Ph.D have been personal as well about how people learn, but the Charles River or the Orange Line, as professional. “I have learned when he was a baby, I could this movie oozes Boston like an unten- so much along the way. Every see how there are very universal ded cut oozes puss. (Gross I know, but time you earn a degree, you ways of learning.” puss seemed the best description for think you know certain things, “He takes me places I never townies like me.) but now I realize how much would think I was going to go. This movie tries to tackle the mind of more I know about my own field He sparks an interest in me for a math prodigy that’s stuck in the body than I knew even 20 years ago,” things that I thought would of a hardened tough guy out of South she said. never interest me, like reading Boston, and it’s done obscenely well. “My interest has really broad- children’s books and playing Movies don’t get any better than the ened and shifted and changed. children’s computer games,” scene where Damon holds a girl’s phone If I knew then what I know now, she added. number in front of a smarmy Harvard the beginning of my teaching And occasionally, her posi- student and says “I got her numbah, career would have been easier.” tion as a history researcher how do you like dem apples?”...espe- Students might expect Zanger overlaps with her son’s learn- cially since a majority of Harvard guys to be a more reserved book- ing processes. “He’s obsessed are, how do I say, the worst. worm-type, but she’s far from with the History Channel, so The bottom line about all these mov- it: it’s impossible to talk to her he’s constantly asking me ques- ies is that they embrace what makes without laughing. She speaks tions about obscure historical Boston so great: loyalty, wit, hard work, assertively, but with a wry sense things. He tells me the dates of and townies. of humor. historical events that I have no ALEXANDRA DUNK/TUFTS DAILY Without these, Boston would just be This sense of humor has clue about,” she said, laughing Lecturer Abby Zanger teaches History of Gender and Sexuality this another city, and then who would want remained constant. “I think of as usual. semester. to film that? Somerville tackles obesity with new ‘Shape Up’ plan .$ "5


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BY MIKEY GORALNIK to mind the late painter’s wisdom. to Cookie Mountain” (to which the music is so disparately influenced mates Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Daily Editorial Board It is difficult to name a band Daily gave five stars), their soph- that identifying individual tech- Malone’s duet with various ambient that sounds even remotely like that omore full-length, on Interscope niques and even instruments can found sounds and faintly ephemer- The abstract expressionist paint- genre-defying group, and equally Records last month. be like isolating ingredients in a al chatter that never quite gets loud er Mark Rothko once said that “... hard to think of bands as much on As was true with “Young Liars” Slim Jim. enough to understand. This effect the familiar identity of things has the cutting edge as TVOTR, com- and “Desperate Youth,” the most Nonetheless, amidst the hazy not only displays Sitek’s attention to to be pulverized in order to destroy ing to The Paradise Rock Club on readily evident characteristic of milieu of textured production and detail and meticulous studio skills, the finite association with which Saturday. “Cookie Mountain” is that it does endlessly looped feedback, sever- but also adds a decisive — if con- our society increasingly enshrouds It is near impossible to find a not sound like anything else ever al elements of “Young Liars” and founding — twist to an otherwise every aspect of our environment.” comparably avant-garde band recorded on this planet. Writing “Desperate Youth” emerge as parts B-rate song. It is uncertain if Brooklyn’s TV with a major recording contract. about TVOTR is difficult, because of the band’s signature sound. Most noticeable, though, are the on the Radio are Rothko fans or Nonetheless, after one critically their palette is so diverse that their Keyboardist David Andrew Sitek’s vocals. Alternating between one of are even interested in “pulverizing” adored EP (2003’s “Young Liars”) sound requires an atypical vocabu- penchant for near-imperceptible the most impressive, silky-smooth any of pop music’s existing forms, and a Shortlist Music Prize-win- lary. subtlety is crucial to TVOTR’s work. sopranos in independent music but not since Sonic Youth’s records ning full-length debut (2004’s With elements of jazz and doo- On the a capella, barbershop-esque and a glass-shattering falsetto, of the mid-1990s has an American “Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty wop, experimental and post-rock, “Ambulance” from “Desperate band’s trail-blazing creativity called Babes”), TVOTR released “Return trip-hop and shoegaze, TVOTR’s Youth,” he stealthily buoys band- see TVRADIO, page 7 6 THE TUFTS DAILY WEEKENDER Thursday, October 12, 2006

MOVIE REVIEW Amputation via chainsaw more enjoyable than new ‘Texas Chainsaw’

BY KRISTIN GORMAN to the sad state of affairs at this particu- Daily Editorial Staff lar Texan household. Tommy’s “uncle,” Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey), who adopted him at Texas has enough problems: One of the birth, starts the film off with a bang. After most disliked presidents in United States shooting the last police officer left in history pretends to be a native (despite the “town” (best described as a decrepit man- sion and a condemned slaughterhouse), The Texas Chainsaw he drives the bloody corpse home in his new sheriff’s car (for dinner, of course), Massacre: The Beginning puts on the uniform and gets on a power trip that lasts throughout the film. To make matters worse, if you are a canni- Starring R. Lee Ermey, Andrew balistic ex-soldier, the best accessory you can possibly have is a deranged adopted Bryniarski, and Jordana nephew with detachment issues and a Brewster thing for chainsaws. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman Cut to Dean (Taylor Handley), a young, idealistic teenager plotting with his girl- friend, Bailey (Diora Baird), to burn his fact that he was born in New Haven, Conn.), draft card and head off to Mexico. Also the accent can be highly unfortunate, and along for the ride are Dean’s older brother, it hardly ever snows (i.e. no snowmen, Eric (Matthew Bomer), and his girlfriend, sledding, snowball fights or winter joy of Chrissie (Jordana Brewster). any kind). To top it off, about 30 years ago, Eric is headed back to Vietnam to accom- Hollywood became fixated on the story of pany his little brother into battle, or so he this one little chainsaw massacre incident. thinks. A misplaced cow in the middle of Rumored to be a true story, filmmak- the road renders the four stranded in the ers are unable to let the fascination die, middle of nowhere. Their only hope lies in yielding the production of five movies con- a lone sheriff car driving down the road to cerning the same macabre, cannibalistic, provide “assistance.” After the four teenag- chainsaw-wielding Texans. This year — no ers are thrown into the mix, the plotline doubt in honor of the upcoming Friday the slowly falls into an endless stream of gratu- 13th — the film industry has graced us with itous violence. the sixth: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: And it never stops. After the 87th repeat The Beginning.” of the foreboding music, prolonged silence Unfortunately, this latest edition brings and shocking horrific scene/unexpected up the end of the collection in terms of fast-movement technique, it all appears an inane plotline, horrendous acting and to be more comedic than terrifying, more absurd cinematography — even for the overplayed than realistic, and more pathet- already bleak realm of horror films. ic than cinematographically pleasing in The title leads most to believe that any way. this film will finally reveal the twisted In the realm of horror films, gore is history behind the monster, unlocking expected and eloquence in its delivery is the secrets of the horrific, bloody past always appreciated, but not many people that led Thomas Hewitt, or “Leatherface” expect much quality-wise out of a good, (Andrew Bryniarski), to his murderous old-fashioned “scary movie.” This one man- ways. Hilariously enough, the film “cov- ages to plummet below even those low, low ers” his entire childhood within the five standards. About halfway through the film, minutes before and during the opening every subsequent scene brings to mind the credits. After that ever-so-explanatory expression “beating a dead horse” — well, NEW LINE CINEMA Put your hands in the air! Now wave ‘em like you just don’t care that you’re being chased sequence, Tommy appears to be about it’s that and the fact that much of the film is around by a chainsaw-wielding maniac. 30, judging solely on his enormous build. set in a slaughterhouse. To be fair, though, people with leather The film is composed of a peripher- faces don’t generally age well, so it could ally famous cast, most previously having amateurs into horror film material. low budget and realistic, based-on-a-true- go about five years either way. The tale is roles on TV shows or minor parts in films. The fact is that 1974’s “The Texas story feel. then transformed into the same cookie- It is apparent that practice does, indeed, Chainsaw Massacre” was one for the books. In the fifth spin-off, that feeling is gone. cutter scenario we have seen five times make perfect, and these kids could use a Emerging a year after “The Exorcist” (1973), After resurrecting the story five times prior, before. little more. Roles on “All My Children,” “The it fits into a quality section of horror film this last attempt fails, because sometimes, The audience quickly becomes privy OC,” and “As the World Turns” can’t turn history. The beauty was in its poor quality, practice just can’t make perfect.

THE CONTROVERSIAL QUESTION Severed heads to the tune of Mozart: Is it free speech at its best or anti-Islamism? BY JULIE SCHINDALL ing and rethinking these works. Opera is Daily Editorial Board performance; it’s not just a static product that ends once it’s created. A director like The Deutsche Oper Berlin announced Neuenfels tries to make the opera relevant the cancellation of its performance of every time it’s staged. Mozart’s 1781 opera “Idomeneo” two weeks ago, just a few weeks before the start of the Q: How do we perform major works fall season. Citing security concerns and an from the artistic canon — works that may anonymous phone call, the opera compa- offend — when, increasingly, everything ny’s decision was based on a controversial today offends? closing scene featuring four severed heads of religious icons, including Muhammad. AC: Something that has emerged from This particular staging of the opera this debate over the decision to cancel the premiered at the Deutsche Oper in 2003 opera is the question of self-censorship. In without significant backlash, though this general, the choices the performer makes season’s staging is infused by lasting ten- have to do with what kind of audience he sion due to the Danish newspaper cartoons has. Who is the audience at the Deutsche of Muhammad and heightened sensitivity Oper? Who goes to the opera? Who buys amongst the Islamic community in Europe. the ticket? Is Neuenfels speaking to an The Deutsche Oper Berlin’s decision to audience who is able to understand what cancel the opera has caused a significant he is doing? Might they not be offended? outcry over free speech and artistic liber- In that case, why should he be silenced? ties in democratic societies. If that is not the case, we should probably To address the impact of this decision, ask him to change his staging, unless those the Daily picks up the conversation with JENS KLEEMAN he is offending are put in the condition to Tufts lecturer Alessandra Campana, a musi- The Deutsche Oper Berlin was forced to cancel its performance of Mozart’s opera ‘Idomeneo’ respond, to engage with and discuss his cologist and an opera expert. due to a controversial scene involving the prophet Muhammad. reading of the opera. Another issue is, if you want art to have Q: How do we continue to perform political content — and it does anyway Mozart’s works, a huge name in the clas- puts the severed heads of Neptune, Jesus, — perhaps we should think about being sical music canon, in modern times with Buddha and Muhammad [on the chairs]. AC: Operas and theaters are them- more than passive spectators, meaning modern political and even security consid- What we see is the historic gods, in a way. selves stages for politics, especially cultural [we] ought to be critical. And perhaps it is erations? It’s a strong gesture, asking, “What are we politics. What kind of cultural politics are useful from time to time to have these little to get out of this opera which has to do we doing right now? And which role do we shocks in order to revise our attitudes as AC: The basic question is: What kind with religion and God?” It’s a very delicate ascribe to art? Is art for entertainment and spectators. of significance does this opera have nowa- issue. appeasing the senses? Or do we ascribe to Media like television tends to put us on a days? What [Hans Neuenfels, director of art the role of reawakening our ability to find comfortable couch. If we change the medi- “Idomeneo” at the Deutsche Oper] does Q: Can we allow directors like Hans strategies for reconciliation in a world that um, perhaps we will make sense of our role is, at the very end of the opera, he puts Neuenfels, who pushes the political enve- seems to be so anxious about conflicts? as more active viewers who demand a say Idomeneo on the stage with these four lope, to use Mozart’s art as a vehicle for a Most of these artists probably had in what we watch instead of just accepting chairs, and Idomeneo comes out and statement about free speech? the best of intentions as far as rework- everything. Thursday, October 12, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY WEEKENDER 7

TOP TEN Reunited and it feels so good If there’s one thing that Paris Hilton his sexuality. Well, maybe he was lying 7. Mike O’Malley and Moira “Mo” at huge venues named after multi- has taught us, it’s that making up (but, to America about his sexuality, but Quirk of Nickelodeon’s “Global Guts” national corporations and auction off not, in her case, making out) is hard far less conspicuously. Tom and Mimi — If recurring dreams are any indi- their equipment after every show. He to do. Her well-publicized but mostly were married when Cruise was in his cation, this has been in the making would have wanted it that way. uninteresting feuds are as infinite as “Top Gun” (1986)/“Rain Man” (1988) for years. We’ve seen the Aggro Crag her daddy’s money, but her little tiff prime and Katie Holmes was still learn- every night for the past three years, 3. Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina with once-BFF Nicole Richie seemed ing to multiply. Maybe Mimi can cure six months, one week, and two nights, Jolie — When they run out of stores more than just tabloid fodder; that is him of Scientology and save his career and believe us: It’s just as good as you of each other’s blood to drink, they’ll to say, real. all at once? remember it. start jonesing à la Wesley Snipes in Feuds are certainly nothing new “Blade.” Things will work themselves to the arts department; after all, the 9. Tim Gunn and Santino — We miss 6. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky out naturally. phrase “artistic differences” came Santino’s impressions of Tim on this — Strictly from an arts/entertainment from somewhere. This feud, so epic in season’s “Project Runway.” While standpoint, this wonderful union 2. Kenan and Kel — With Kenan’s its scale (it must have lasted, for, OMG, Vincent was a pretty entertaining nut- made for much better political drama rumored departure from “SNL” and a year or something) and its happy job for a while, his eccentricity’s got than the guy who can’t pronounce Kel’s general departure from stardom, resolution piqued our interest. We’re nothing on Santino’s dead-on, hilari- the word “nuclear.” Hillary definitely it may be that the only thing that these not excited that Hilton and Richie have ous Tim impersonations. Come on, doesn’t need him anyway. Let’s not lie: two less-than-“all that” child stars reunited; instead, we realize, in light of Tim and Santino, “make it work” in she’s got the balls of a brass monkey. need for success is a miracle. And, this occurrence, who should bury the some kind of reunion episode. lacking that, each other and a good job hatchet. 5. Katie Couric and Matt Lauer at “Good Burger.” If these brave girls can reconcile for 8. Starland Vocal Band — If the unend- — Without Katie, NBC execs have the fifth season of “The Simple Life,” ing popularity of their opus is any instructed Al Roker to drastically 1. Ben Affleck and his dignity — Matt asking Nickelodeon just to reunite the indication, we have so much more increase his perkiness. The results will Damon will come through like a knight original cast for “Global Guts: Post- to learn from this ‘70s-era folk band. not be pretty — even less pretty than in shining armor with a swift, lean fore- Adolescence” doesn’t seem too much When will we hear about mid-after- usual. arm to the back of the head and remind to ask. noon/mid-morning/early-evening his wayward friend that he actually delight? The possibilities are endless. 4. Nirvana — The world’s most over- used to be kind of tight. Signs point to 10. Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers — And, SVB, you had something; after all, rated band will stage an epic reunion this having already occurred (see The We liked Tom better when he wasn’t your motto’s always been, “when it’s tour with Courtney Love on vocals, as Daily’s review of “Hollywoodland.”) jumping on couches, yelling at Brooke right, it’s right.” Kurt would have truly wanted it. As per Shields and lying to America about Courtney’s request, they will play only — Daily Arts Staff

New instrumentation meets brilliant handling for a date in a sketchy club TVRADIO the introduction of live drums and live bass in many ways from past TVOTR releases, it is lative to the humdrum to the “wow, what a let continued from page 5 imbue “Cookie Mountain” with an atmo- still quintessentially them. Adebimpe’s vocals down.” On some nights, the band maintains Adebimpe coolly sings lyrics that require a spheric depth bordering on tribal that the and Sitek’s production may be deployed and a precarious balance between Malone’s gui- decoder ring to make sense of. previous albums lacked. manipulated in slightly different ways, but tar, Adebimpe’s voice and Sitek’s numerous “King Eternal” from “Desperate Youth” is Sitek blends the low-end bass chords and the Protean pipes, confounding writing and and varied instruments. Their sounds blend a textbook example of this. He effortlessly simplistic tom-and-snare drums of “Wolf Like infinitely expansive soundscapes of old still into an even mass but retain their individual switches between the soprano pipes and Me” into a whirling, seamless musical vortex define this record. identity, and everyone goes home happy. squeaking falsetto as he detachedly sings, denser than anything TVOTR could have Adebimpe adopts his falsetto more often, Other nights, it is as though the band is as “Afraid of thunder children, so hide your possibly produced with their colder instru- but he also dives deeper into his register than confused by how to make their music as the ears/ Hope your fortress holds up for many ments. “Playhouses,” with its impenetrable ever before. Much of “Playhouses” is sung in audience is about to how to listen to it. They many many years/ Shudder, it’s a shame/ layers of guitar fuzz and reverb, is perhaps a dark, almost guttural bellow; the rest is sung spend the entire show trying to extricate Lightning, call the game/ Send us up a baby the best example of the oceanic, tribal setting in his polished croon dotted with falsetto. It their own complex layers of music from each boy/ Let the smoke carry his name” as though TVOTR achieved on “Cookie Mountain.” The is definitely new, but aesthetically, it doesn’t other, with some sounds overpowering oth- these words make perfect sense. fuzz fills the speakers, suspending the song’s really feel that different. ers and the music sounding more like a car It is a beautiful song and Adebimpe sings other instruments in ways that bring to mind The same is true for Sitek’s production. crash than modern art. it impeccably, but, as with much of modern Rothko’s infamous floating color fields. Though he structures and manipulates Unfortunately for TVOTR, Saturday’s and contemporary art, its meaning is murky TVOTR’s new live sounds differently than sold-out show with Grizzly Bear will be at at best. Out of the cryptic fog, certain ques- Now he can play the sitar like a moth- their old mechanical ones, he still does so The Paradise Rock Club. The venue, with its tions arise: With pipes as good as his, why erbleeping riot with the same proclivity for nuance within bizarre seating arrangement and stage posi- sing falsetto? And, for that matter, what the sonic expanses. Some of the instruments tion, has hosted train wrecks from such for- hell is he talking about? The music is so dense At the same time, “Cookie Mountain” also have changed, and so too have some of midable artists as M.I.A. and Prefuse 73. With and full of hidden subtleties, that it is difficult represents a decided maturation for TVOTR. Sitek’s interpretations, but, as he did in the a floor-to-ceiling pillar in the middle of the to ever be certain. Not only do they display a better mastery of past, he still arranges everything on “Cookie floor obscuring the stage and a slight decline What is certain, however, is that on their many of the techniques they experimented Mountain” so that his open spaces get filled in the floor towards the back of the room, it is sophomore effort, the band, whose core trio with on “Young Liars” and “Desperate Youth,’ with layer upon layer of meticulous detail. one of the city’s least hospitable venues. The of singer Adebimpe, producer Sitek, and gui- but they also add even more styles to their This makes for a rewarding and mind-bend- clubby lighting, VIP tables and bustling bar tarist/vocalist Malone have been together ever-growing palette of influences. ing album, but how it relates to a live setting make it feel more like a hot spot than a place since 2003, have hung on to parts of the The jaw-dropping opener, “I Was a Lover,” is uncertain. to see shows. avant-garde-barbershop paradox that spun represents both of these developments. The This is a real loss. Music as creative, as new heads on their first two proper albums, but song begins with eight bars of simple, trem- TV on the Radio may not transmit in the and as saturated with insightful and origi- only tenuously. “Cookie Mountain,” their bling hip-hop drums, until an epic wash of Paradise nal nuance as TVOTR’s belongs in a place best album to date, contradictorily finds bass guitar, slippery sitars, and what sounds like a museum, where it can be thoroughly TVOTR at both their most primitive and like an elephant’s roar boldly enter. Sitek Painstakingly minute details and expert engaged for a prolonged period of time. In most advanced, but certainly at their most rears his genius head by burying the sitar, a studio handling is all well and good in the so many ways, their music is vastly different creative. new instrument to the TVOTR arsenal, low controlled environment of a recording booth, from anything that has preceded it, and this Whereas “Young Liars” and “Desperate enough in the mix to merely texture instead but getting these fragile forces to align well in is the overwhelming sensation that listening Youth” relied exclusively on drum machines of define the tune, but not so low as to be a club depends on a slew of external factors, to their newest record evokes. for rhythms and heavily on synths and key- inaudible, like the chatter in “Ambulance.” from lighting and acoustics to how many Right now, TV on the Radio is creating boards for melodies, “Cookie Mountain” is The new instrument deployed in a traditional people show up. It’s basically a crapshoot, something where before there was nothing, in many ways a conservative retreat to live but improved way is a theme throughout and this has been the buzz surrounding and even if they haven’t destroyed anything instrumentation in the best way possible. “Cookie Mountain.” TVOTR’s latest batch of performances. in the process, this is an achievement that A greater emphasis on Malone’s guitar and Still, although “Cookie Mountain” departs Reviews range from the staggeringly super- Mark Rothko would appreciate.

POP SMART Marmaduke: Finally explained! Attaining a new level of social commentary that many satirists could only dream of, blogger Joe Mathlete of the Houston-based band, The Mathletes, fearlessly — and with respectable regularity — lampoons Brad Anderson’s classic cartoon, “Marmaduke” on his Web site, “Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke.” Those of you who recall anything about the over-50-year-old comic strip (or who have even seen it before) may won- der how Mathlete could attempt to surpass that hilarity, but surpass it he does. (See caption below for an example.) — by Stephanie Vallejo

‘Marmaduke, for all his worldiness, does not fully comprehend that a bone has little or no value to most humans. His attempted barter with a Ziggy- esque butcher ends in minor yet palpable embarassment.’ — Posted by Joe Mathlete, Oct. 4, 2006.

BRAD ANDERSON 8 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL | LETTERS Thursday, October 12, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL

KATHRINE J. SCHMIDT Editor-in-Chief A problem child craving attention? EDITORIAL Kelly Rizzetta Managing Editors “We have taught the rest of the world” better or worse. Times news analysis on Tuesday, it might Andrew Silver to view nuclear weapons as a symbol of Analogously, the United States as a hege- be time for the current administration to respect...” monic power acts like a teacher: the United readjust their strategy towards nuclear pro- Samantha Goldman Editorial Page Editors As Martin Sherwin suggested in his talk States sets the rules and ignores them when liferation and adapt it to the current situa- Jacob Maccoby Mark Pesavento at Tisch Library on Tuesday, the United it deems it necessary, the United States tion. (Tufts students will attest that the best Grant Reid States has taken on the role of a teacher in punishes other countries for bad behav- teachers are flexible and respond to the the international community and perhaps ior and rewards them for good behavior, needs of each student.) Zofia Sztykowski Executive News Editor has unintentionally instructed nations such and it uses invasions, sanctions, diplomatic The Bush administration must re-evalu- James Bologna News Editors as North Korea to revert to using nuclear support,and military and economic assis- ate the goals of their lesson plans if we are David Pomerantz weapons as a way to get attention and tance as learning tools. to be successful in adverting nuclear war. Marc Raifman esteem. Just as a teacher tries to control and If the Bush administration continues to Robert Silverblatt Although the strained relationship attend to all the students equally, the cur- treat North Korea as a problem child (or Sarah Butrymowicz Assistant News Editors between the United States and North Korea rent administration is trying to balance rela- ignore it and, instead, only focus on Iran) Pranai Cheroo can be traced back decades, it is useful to tions with many nations in many regions North Korea will remain a problem child. Jenna Nissan focus on President Bush’s January 2002 dec- and unify U.S. policies to achieve broader If the United States punishes North Korea Lilly Riber Jeremy White laration of North Korea as a member of the goals of “winning the war on terrorism.” In for its nuclear test without offering incen- ‘axis of evil’ as not only an insult to the small an overcrowded classroom, some “needy, tives for better behavior or giving the nation Asian state, but as a self-fulfilling prophecy. attention-craving” children are ignored the respect it craves, it is hard to imagine a Anne Fricker Executive Features Editor This expresses the current administration’s and, thus, feel compelled to “act up” to get peaceful outcome. Arianne Baker Features Editors lack of faith in the future of North Korea as an attention.” To that end, the current adminis- According to Sherwin, Robert Kristen Sawicki accepted member in the world community. tration has their hands full of “problem chil- Oppenheimer, the father of nuclear tech- Students of social psychology are dren,” as it continuously divides its atten- nology, would concur that diplomacy is Matt Skibinski Assistant Features Editor familiar with the concept of a “self-fulfill- tion between Iraq and Iran to the detriment the best policy for dealing with a reticent, ing prophecy”: namely, that predictions of N. Korea. nuclear North Korea. The test of diplomacy Stephanie Vallejo Executive Arts Editor — simply because they are made — shape While it is understandable that it is is now on the teacher, as the next few weeks outcomes and ultimately come true. This impossible for the U.S. to give equal diplo- will be filled with tests of diplomacy within Greg Connor Arts Editors Mikey Goralnik is common in classrooms when teachers matic “attention” to all three of these previ- the halls of the United Nations. identify students early on as over- or under- ously identified “evil” children, as the world’s The other students—especially “evil” Diana Landes Assistant Arts Editors achievers and treat them accordingly. It’s teacher and rule-enforcer, it is important Iran—are closely observing U.S policies to Sarah Cowan easy to give “good” students the benefit of that the current administration take a step learn any lessons that will help them in their Kristin Gorman the doubt, while assuming the worst-case back to consider whether their policies showdown with the teacher. For the sake of scenario with the behavior of “bad” stu- inadvertently encouraged the North Korean the peace in the world classroom, U.S.-led Marissa Weinrauch Executive Viewpoints dents. As a consequence of differential nuclear test this week. diplomacy must not fail, and we must set a Editor treatment, the students actually perform As suggested in the front-page New York good example at this critical juncture. Raven Anderson Assistant Viewpoints Kahran Singh Editors Adam Winograd Elizabeth Hoffman Executive Sports Editor DON WRIGHT Alex Bloom Sports Editors Andrew Bauld Rachel Dolin Kelley Vendeland Evans Clinchy Assistant Sports Editors Thomas Eager

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“What diversity really means” I believe understanding begins with irrelevant. BUSINESS Viewpoint, Oct. 11 mixing. Diversity — at the most basic There are 52 African Americans in Leslie Prives Executive Business Director level — begins with numbers. the freshman class. What if there were To the editor, Martin also bemoaned my mention 42 instead of 52? How about 22? And Rachel Taplinger Business Manager of a black/white paradigm, which she though, as Kerri Martin states, the big Zachary Dubin Office Manager Yesterday, Kerri Martin asserted called “outdated.” And though I wish picture — who we choose to interact Eli Blackman Advertising Managers that students were to blame for the “the problem of the color line,” as with — is still an issue, the larger Hadley Kemp lack of racial diversity in the Tufts’ W.E.B. Du Bois called it in his 1903 subject, presumably, is that students Stacey Ganina Receivables Manager freshman class, stating that we were novel, “The Souls of Black Folk,” was are in an environment where they are reluctant or unwilling to “branch out” outmoded, it is not: Many secondary given a choice. and “desegregate the self-segregated schools in America — like housing So let us talk numbers, recruit- The Tufts Daily is a nonprofit, independent newspaper, pub- campus.” I beg to differ. areas — are divided by race. ment and diversification. Let us also lished Monday through Friday during the academic year, and Undeniably, students tend to inter- This translates into later inequali- talk justice. Not me “doing justice distributed free to the Tufts community. act with those most like themselves. ties, such as a 2004 U.S. Census to my African-American peers” as EDITORIAL POLICY But if students are not in an environ- Bureau statistic stating that 18 per- Martin stated she assumed my pur- Editorials that appear on this page are written by the Editorial ment that is diverse, they do not have cent of African-Americans aged 25 pose was; let us talk justice for a Page editors, and individual editors are not necessarily respon- an option. The problem starts here. and older held a bachelor’s degree or Tufts community, a community that sible for, or in agreement with, the policies and editorials of The Tufts Daily. The content of letters, advertisements, signed If students choose to make their higher. thrives on differences, opportuni- columns, cartoons, and graphics does not necessarily reflect friendships based on the most overt Because of this, contrary to Martin’s ty and intelligent decision-making. the opinion of The Tufts Daily editorial board. commonalities — race and socio- thoughts, heavy recruitment is imper- Let us talk justice for a community LETTERS TO THE EDITOR economic status — then it is a per- ative for African-American students, that, by increasing racial diversity, Letters must be submitted by 4 p.m. and should be handed sonal decision. However, the amount as well as other students of color, becomes far stronger than the sum of into the Daily office or sent to [email protected]. All let- of “mixing” is constrained by the whether they be Latino or Native its parts. ters must be word processed and include the writer’s name amount of different people avail- American. Only when Tufts’ student and telephone number. There is a 350-word limit and letters must be verified. The editors reserve the right to edit letters able to “mix” with. Martin states that body is more reflective of the country Paula Kaufman for clarity, space, and length. diversity begins with “mixing,” but as a whole will recruitment become freshman ADVERTISING POLICY All advertising copy is subject to the approval of the Editor- in-Chief, Executive Board, and Executive Business Director. A publication schedule and rate card are available upon CORRECTION request.

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If so, you might suffer from AWS: Awkwardness with Strangers. As a proud member of a local AWS chapter, I thought I would share some moments that might make you cringe, squirm, or at least laugh at me. Let’s go three for three, O.K.? I am not really environmentally con- scious, to the point that if Al Gore saw me on the street he would probably punch me in the teeth. Occasionally, I will open doors with the handicapped button if it is an available option. Once, after working out at the gym, I was head- ing over to the Campus Center and used the automatic door, completely unnec- essarily. And as the door shut I noticed a guy struggling with crutches hopping on one leg who proceeded to grab the han- dle and pull it open with full force. The limper saw me watching him, saw how I got in, and when he walked past me, he CORBIS just kind of shook his head in disgust a little bit. And I thought, “Good thing he doesn’t know where I’m parked.” Girls’ attire really confuses me. They The times, they may be a-changin’ wear pants with “Juicy” written on their butts or “For your eyes only” scrawled 55 electors honored their effort with a vote. lous states. across their breasts, but without fail, BY MATTHEW DIAMANTE Neither Bush nor Vice President Cheney The Electoral College, an historical odd- they always become offended when made any substantive effort to thank those ity which was created but not named by they find me inadvertently staring. On Nov. 2, 2004, over five and a half million amongst them who had not written triple- the U.S. Constitution, continues to select Listen, ladies, I am a very literate guy. citizens of California voted to give George W. digit checks; indeed, the candidates had not presidents in a manner that is an antiquated I crave words like you crave a night of Bush a second presidential term. Among even made more than one or two public cancer on our republic. The body cannot “Gilmore Girls” and pink martinis. You their number were lawyers, CEOs, retirees appearances in California, the Union’s most be disbanded without modification to the cannot blame me for wanting to expand and students; one of them was the gover- populous state, during the 150-plus events Constitution, which practice has shown my knowledge of the complex syntax nor. They outnumbered the populations of that constituted their campaign. would never pass the three-fourths muster and diction our fine language has to Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, Bush had shown great public interest in of state legislatures necessary for an amend- offer. And another thing, if I’m going South Dakota, Delaware and Montana com- helping Iraqis vote for a representative gov- ment. But the College can be reformed, and to be reading your butt or your chest, bined, and the sum of their bank accounts ernment but was utterly silent when five and it should be. maybe you could start putting some could probably have purchased several a half million voters of the world’s most pow- This is the aim of the National Popular real thoughtful messages on there. Like, small countries. They mailed ballots and erful country were all but disenfranchised. Vote Campaign, which aims to ensure that “The release of atomic energy has not assembled at polls in order to support the Such is the curse of the so-called Electoral presidential candidates who win most of created a new problem. It has merely most powerful man in the world on what College, which in 2004 not only afflicted the America’s votes win the White House. made more urgent the necessity of solv- may have been the single most important aforementioned Californians but 2,832,704 How? ing an existing one.” At least then, we day of his life. Texas Democrats and 5,309,175 Republicans Briefly, the campaign, as stated on its Web would all be learning something. And what did these 5,509,826 taxpayers in New York and Illinois. Ninety-nine percent site NationalPopularVote.com, seeks to per- AWS is being waved at by someone get for their trouble? Not one of their state’s of the advertising money spent by both the suade states to exercise their constitution- you don’t know, waving back, and then Bush and Kerry campaigns was purchased ally sanctioned right to appoint presiden- watching them give a great big hug to Matthew Diamante is a sophomore who in 17 states, of which only one (Florida) the guy walking behind you. has not yet declared a major. ranks as one of the nation’s five most popu- see VOTE, page 10 You could file this one under AWS: it’s called the “reintroduction.” There will be many instances during your college career in which you will meet the same people over and over again. You know that you have met this person, they ‘How to Create a Tufts Social Scene know you have met them before, but for whatever reason there exists a shadow of a doubt in each of your minds. You for Dummies’ think, “Maybe she doesn’t remember me.” Most often, you will pretend to be hearing this stranger’s name for the BY RAIG UNKES reruns on Nick at Night every Friday, and a few basketball games last sea- first time. Occasionally, however, you C K we can take a few steps ourselves to son, finding school spirit on campus will use the ballsy, “I think we’ve met ensure we have a good time on cam- is about as likely as Britney Spears before.” A word of advice: do not pull The last few weeks have been filled pus. becoming the first lady. out this line when you are at the per- with editorials and articles about the We need to improve school spirit. The only place I consistently see son’s birthday party. It was pretty obvi- problems with Tufts’ social scene. Remember Homecoming a couple new people of all different races, eth- ous that you know who they are when I understand the complaints about weeks ago? How you met up with a nicities and fraternities on campus you brought a gift. campus social life and agree that it group of friends early in the morn- is at the wild and crazy Club Tisch. AWS is forgetting to take your Claritin can be improved. Yet I believe that ing to barbeque and tailgate? How Why can’t the student body take a pill during allergy season and winking instead of exclusively blaming the the stands were packed with peo- couple hours out of its week to sup- uncontrollably at the girl sitting across administration and waiting for the ple cheering for Tufts, and how the port the Jumbos as they battle against from you on the subway. social messiah to descend upon the enthusiasm carried over to parties the mighty Ephs of Williams and Lord I was out to dinner at Mr. Bartley’s in school and save us from watching all over campus that night? At many Jeffs of Amherst? Harvard Square with a friend recently, schools, days like these are not called Maybe creating nicknames for the when the place was really crowded. We Craig Kunkes is a senior majoring in Homecoming; they’re just Saturday. At got our own table but were seated liter- political science. Tufts, however, besides Homecoming see SOCIAL LIFE, page 10 ally one foot away from another table with two middle-aged men. Although it was cramped, dinner was fine until VIEWPOINTS POLICY The Viewpoints section of The Tufts Daily, an open forum for campus editorial commentary, is printed Monday through Thursday. Viewpoints welcomes submissions from all members of the Tufts community. Opinion articles on campus, national, and international issues can be roughly 700 to 1000 words in see AWS, page 10 length. Editorial cartoons are also welcome. All material is subject to editorial discretion, and is not guaranteed to appear in The Tufts Daily. All material should be submitted by no later than 1 p.m. on the day prior to the desired day of publication. Material may be submitted via e-mail ([email protected]) or in hard-copy form at The Tufts Daily in the basement of Curtis Hall. Questions and concerns should be directed to the Viewpoints editor. The opinions expressed in the Viewpoints section do not necessarily represent the opinions of The Tufts Daily itself. Neil Padover is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached [email protected]. 10 THE TUFTS DAILY VIEWPOINTS Thursday, October 12, 2006 Students could make Tufts Electoral College distorts the Padover fails fun again with a little effort democratic value of elections at interacting SOCIAL LIFE week’s major parties. It’s VOTING past summer, both houses of the with others continued from page 9 simple economics that, the continued from page 9 California Legislature passed the athletes will make the teams more competition, the bet- tial electors in whatever manner bill, only to have it woefully vetoed seem more professional and ter the product. (I know my they see fit by agreeing to allocate by Gov. Schwarzenegger, one of the AWS create spirit. How about Chris professors would be proud those electors to the winner of many citizens whose presidential continued from page 9 “The Hammer” Decemberle, of me for applying economic the national popular vote, regard- vote was ignored two Novembers the men started to openly dis- Jeremy “Too Smooth” Black, theory to improving parties less of their own state’s returns. ago. The rookie governor said cuss how they were each hav- Matt “Eagle Eye” Linde, or on campus). These laws would not take effect, that to sign the bill would dis- ing extra-marital affairs with Craig “Vinny Chase” Kunkes? Or houses can take the however, until enough states had honor states’ rights, mechanically younger women. My friend Whatever inspires you, let’s Captain Planet approach agreed to ensure that the winner ignoring the ludicrousness of the and I exchanged astonished all schedule a few days in and combine forces to cre- of the national popular vote would notion that a decision undertaken glances, thinking that we could addition to Homecoming to ate a super party. It seems indeed win the election. (A more by a state (and withdrawable by not possibly be hearing this break out the grills, turn on logical to have five houses detailed, yet admirably succinct that same state) could somehow conversation. We finished our some music, and watch a in a row each sponsoring summary can be found in Hendrik abridge its own authority. meal and when one of the guys game as a school. a party so that people can Hertzberg’s Feb. 27 New Yorker I believe that a likelier reason for caught my eye while we were We need to have more Tufts hop conveniently from one piece, “Count ‘Em”). Schwarzenegger’s veto was pres- paying the check, I just gave nights out. This year, the only house to the next with each This form of legal perquisite sure from GOP insiders. The Karl him a forced smile and said, place I can count on seeing a house having different mixed — commonly known as a “trigger Roves of the nation must delight “Don’t worry. I don’t know your large group of Tufts students drinks, or music, or whatever law” — invites states to join this in running 17-state presidential wife.” is on Tuesday nights for kara- attracts kids these days. Interstate Compact at their own campaigns, and surely salivate AWS is asking a guy who is oke. As much as I love hear- I understand that people leisure, and thus gives the cam- at the thought of using polling- talking loudly to himself on a ing “Don’t Stop Believing,” are upset about parties being paign a credible claim to being the sharpened scalpels to whittle that New York City street if he is “Summer of ‘69,” and “Livin’ broken up early and the lack first ever feasible effort to reform number further. practicing lines for a Broadway on a Prayer” being butchered of options on weekends, but the College. And why not? It’s both cheaper show, only to watch him turn every Tuesday by the Tufts we can take steps indepen- While it is true that not every and easier to lie to a fraction of the his head and reveal a Bluetooth crowd, I believe we can add a dent of the administration to American (my good friend Seth, country while gorging the media cellular device on his left ear. few other regular nights out. make college fun. We need included) favors scrapping the on a state-by-state circus than it is Last week, I was alone on Back in my Tufts prime, to open up doors on cam- current state-by-state presiden- to run an honest national contest. an elevator whistling Shakira’s Thursday night was Magoons pus and organize certain tial election system in favor of Not coincidentally, Gallup Brain “Hips Don’t Lie” to myself, night. This bar had everything: events for certain nights on a national popular vote, a 2004 reports that 80 percent, “the great- when all of a sudden the doors It was spacious, it had a real a regular basis. Once a part Gallup poll found that 61 per- est level of support” ever recorded opened on the fifth floor of the dance floor, and it served of Tufts social life becomes cent of Americans favored such for a national popular vote, came building and two guys in suits politically incorrect drinks like institutionalized, it can’t be a change, a percentage that has after Richard Nixon won his first walked in and pressed the but- Irish car bombs. Then, one stopped (like NQR). remained roughly the same for presidential term in 1968. In that ton for their floor. Feeling like day, I showed up and no one It is also important to over 60 years. To put that num- election, Nixon won 20% more I had been caught in the act, I was there, and I’m pretty sure remember that the most ber into a presidential perspective, of the electoral votes than his tried to make a smooth transi- it was not just because people important aspect of college President Reagan’s 1984 re-elec- Democratic rival despite a mere tion into whistling something knew I was coming. Let’s bring is making friends for life and tion win, accomplished with just 0.4% popular vote lead. If that else, and so I went with the back Magoons night. being around people you under 60 percent of the national 80 percent of Americans doesn’t first tune that came to mind. But why stop there? I like. As long as you are with popular vote, was deemed a nearly constitute buyer’s remorse, I don’t The song was “Whistle While never understood why we people you enjoy, it doesn’t unparalleled landslide — and yet know what does. You Work.” For a few seconds try to cram people into one matter if you are in a grimy Reagan’s ticket was less popular So enough with the Bushes and I thought I had gotten off easy house or fraternity until it basement, an expensive club then than the prospect of reform- the Nixons that blemish the often without embarrassing myself, gets so full that you can’t or a dorm room. So keep try- ing the Electoral College is today. great history of this, our world’s and then I remembered that take one step without get- ing to change Tufts’ social First assembled this past mightiest nation. For the first time I was standing in an eleva- ting a beer spilled on you. policy if you feel it necessary, February, the National Popular in the history of our republic, a tor with two other guys while It seems logical for houses but don’t forget to enjoy your Vote Campaign is now lobbying national popular vote for presi- whistling the Dwarves’ theme and fraternities to designate time surrounded by friends state representatives on behalf dent may be attainable. from “Snow White.” I should a party night to have that while you have it. of its Interstate Compact. This In the next few weeks, I and a have stuck with Shakira. National 11 THE TUFTS DAILY Thursday, October 12, 2006

Bush focuses on diplomacy with N. Korea Bush again affirms support for fence BY RON HUTCHESON AND JONATHAN LANDAY McClatchy Tribune on Mexican border

President Bush stressed diplomacy BY DAVE MONTGOMERY over military action in the standoff over McClatchy Tribune North Korea’s nuclear weapons program Wednesday as North Korea threatened President Bush said Wednesday that his more weapons tests. administration is committed to building more At the United Nations, Secretary than 700 miles of fencing along the Southwest General Kofi Annan said the world faces border, dispelling questions about whether “an extremely difficult situation” and the barrier will actually be constructed. called for direct talks between the United Bush expressed strong support for the States and North Korea. Bush rejected multi-state fence approved by Congress late one-on-one negotiations, but said he last month as well as an accompanying “virtu- remains committed to diplomacy. He al wall” of high-tech gadgetry such as sensors, urged the U.N. to impose stiff economic cameras, radar and unmanned surveillance sanctions on North Korea. aircraft. North Korea said it would consider “We’re going to do both,” Bush said at a international economic sanctions a dec- news conference in the White House Rose laration of war. Garden. “You can’t fence the entire border. But “The more they push us, the stron- . . . you can use a combination of fencing and ger our response will be,” an unidenti- technology to make it easier for the Border fied North Korean official told the South CHUCK KENNEDY/MCT Patrol to enforce the border.” Korean news service, Yonhap. Other President George W. Bush holds a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White Legislation that cleared Congress on Sept. North Korean officials raised the possi- House in Washington on Wednesday. Bush on Wednesday urged “serious repercussions” 29, just before the start of an election-season bility of additional weapons tests. for North Korea’s apparent nuclear test, but said the United States remained committed to recess, would require reinforced fencing and U.S. intelligence officials were still diplomacy and had no intention of attacking. barriers along porous sections of the border in trying to confirm North Korea’s claim California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Sunday that it had successfully tested a The proposed fence has ignited diplomat- nuclear weapon. “We’ll give diplomacy a chance to work,” because all of North Korea’s plutonium ic protests from Mexico as well as vigorous At a White House news conference, Bush told reporters. “There’s a way for- was stored at the facility in Yongbyon. opposition from many U.S. border communi- Bush reiterated previous statements that ward for the North Korean leader to “I had a detailed plan in front of me. ties, escalating speculation that it may never he would not tolerate a nuclear-armed choose.” I could have snapped my fingers and be built. North Korea. At the same time, he down- Japan, rattled by unconfirmed rumors done it in a minute. It would have been Congress has approved $1.2 billion for bor- played the possibility of military action. of more North Korean weapons tests, effective. The point is that I never recom- der fencing but the barrier envisioned by “We have no intention of attacking announced a six-month ban on imports mended to the president doing it,” he lawmakers is expected to cost at least $2.2 North Korea,” he said. U.S. officials are from North Korea. The Japanese sanc- said. “The military option was truly the billion and possibly more than $6 billion. The pushing the U.N. Security Council to tions also prohibit North Korean ships option of last resort.” Department of Homeland Security has also approve a package of sanctions intended from entering Japanese ports and effec- Perry said North Korea’s Stalinist sent mixed signals about its commitment to to throttle North Korea’s ability to buy tively ban visits by North Korean citi- regime has almost certainly scattered its building the fence. or sell high-tech weaponry. The United zens. stocks of plutonium bomb fuel to secret In response to a reporter’s question, how- States is also seeking authority to stop Military analysts said the United States locations around the country by now, ever, Bush left little doubt that his administra- and search North Korean vessels. has few good military options if diplo- ruling out the use of air strikes to destroy tion intends to carry out the congressional “I suspect the council will come macy fails. them. The teleconference was arranged mandate to build double-layered fencing— together and take a firm action against Former Defense Secretary William by the Center for American Progress, a two parallel rows of fencing—and adjacent North Korea,” Annan told reporters at Perry said the Pentagon prepared a plan liberal policy institute. patrol roads in sections of the border with the U.N. “It’s important for the whole to take out North Korea’s main nucle- Bush, who also might have had a heavy concentrations of smuggling and illegal world.” ar research facility during the Clinton chance to order an effective air strike immigrant traffic. Bush said his goal is to convince North administration, but decided not to use early in his administration, said he con- The fencing, he said, would be erected Korean leader Kim Jong Il that abandon- it. sidered “all options” but chose diplo- in areas “where there is a high vulnerability ing nuclear weapons is the only way to In a teleconference call with report- macy. for people being able to sneak in,” he said. end North Korea’s international ostra- ers Wednesday, Perry said an air attack cism and revive its failed economy. might have been effective at the time see NORTH KOREA, page 12 see FENCE, page 12

Cory Lidle’s plane crashes Peace Corps looks to retirees for new vitality, expertise BY BRADY AVERILL into New York skyscraper McClatchy Tribune Thirty years after they vol- BY STEVENSON SWANSON Joe Torre, manager of the New York unteered for the Peace Corps, McClatchy Tribune Yankees, confirmed that the plane Vermont residents Kenneth and belonged to Lidle, 34, who came to June Nicholson signed up again A small fixed-wing aircraft pilot- the Yankees from the Philadelphia in 2001 and spent the first years ed by a New York Yankees pitcher Phillies on July 30. Lidle reportedly of their retirement teaching in slammed into a posh Manhattan earned his pilot’s license about one Bulgaria. residential skyscraper Wednesday year ago and bought the 2002 four- Long retired at 77, Woodbury, afternoon, leaving at least two peo- seat aircraft, with about 400 hours in Minn., resident Charles Harkness ple dead and the city reeling with the air, for $187,000. joined the Peace Corps partly on initial fears of terrorism over what With the constant scream of a challenge from his daughter. was determined to be a tragic acci- sirens echoing through the city and He went to Kyrgyzstan to teach. dent. television images of fires blazing For Ronald Tschetter, who Nonetheless, as a precaution and smoke billowing from windows, took over as the Peace Corps’ North American Aerospace Defense the aftermath of the crash immedi- director two weeks ago after

Command (NORAD) scrambled ately invoked memories of the ter- a long career in the financial CHUCK KENNEDY/MCT fighter jets over several U.S. and rorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But, industry, recruiting retirees such Peace Corps Director Ronald A. Tschetter speaks at the Peace Corps Canadian cities minutes after the within 90 minutes of the crash, the as the Nicholsons and Harkness headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006. plane crashed into the midsec- Department of Homeland Security is a priority. tion of the 50-story building at 2:42 and the FBI issued statements “It’s a resource that if tapped p.m. Eyewitnesses said the plane describing the incident as an appar- could just bring tremendous The traditional 20-something ous fields: agriculture, business, smashed into the north face of the ent accident, not terrorism, in hopes value to these countries,” he who has a college degree is still education, energy and health. red brick building, producing a of reassuring the public. said. the average Peace Corps volun- They also bring diversity. fireball that engulfed several apart- A spokesman for the Chicago As Tschetter takes the reins of teer. Only 6 percent of volunteers Jody Olsen, the deputy direc- ments around the 30th floor and Office of Emergency Management an organization that has a $318.8 are older than 50. But Tschetter tor of the Peace Corps, said it dropped debris into the street. and Communications said the city million budget, he’s looking at is interested in a new market: was important for its volunteers The aircraft, a Cirrus SR 20, car- was monitoring the crash in New expanding the Peace Corps to baby boomers. There are 78 mil- to reflect the diversity of people rying an instructor and a pilot York, while communicating with more countries and keeping lion of them, and they’re retiring living in the United States and believed to be Yankees pitcher Cory federal aviation and emergency volunteers’ safety a top prior- soon. They’re going to be look- that getting baby boomers to Lidle, took off from New Jersey’s pri- management contacts. The Illinois ity. Currently the Peace Corps ing for things to do, he said. join was one way to do that. vate Teterboro Airport, just across Air National Guard knew of the New serves in 75 countries, and in Tschetter, a health volun- “The host family sees that vol- the Hudson River from northern York crash, but had not contributed fiscal year 2005 it had 7,810 teer with his wife in India from unteer as a way about thinking Manhattan, at about 2:30 p.m. The fighter jets from the 183rd Fighter volunteers. More than 182,000 1966 to 1968, said retirees could about America,” she said. pilot reportedly made a distress call Wing in Springfield to air defense people have flowed through the bring sustainable expertise to Sen. Norm Coleman, R- just before colliding with the 18- organization since it got its start the organization. They have year-old Upper East Side structure. see LIDLE, page 12 in 1961. decades of experience in vari- see COPRS, page 12 12 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Thursday, October 12, 2006 Nuclear test prompts political Lidle, one other dead following plane crash LIDLE rible,” said Larrea, who works as a Visual Flight Rules (VFR), which jockeying; possible arms race continued from page 11 butler for a family living in a 48th means that they rely on their eyes, anywhere in the state, a spokes- floor penthouse. not instruments, to navigate. They NORTH KOREA partisan finger pointing. woman said. The neighborhood is one of the are not permitted to fly over the continued from page 11 Democrats said the devel- Among the swiftest to respond city’s most affluent, filled with hos- city itself unless they receive per- Perry and Joseph Cirincione, opment showed the fallacy of was the Sears Tower. Management pitals, medical offices and expen- mission from the Federal Aviation an expert with the Center for Bush’s approach of relying on spokesman Mark Spencer said sive apartments like those at the Authority. American Progress, said they North Korea’s neighbors to apply an e-mail was sent soon after the Belaire, where an 864-square-foot It was a foggy afternoon in were deeply concerned that pressure on the reclusive regime crash to reassure tenants that it two-bedroom unit currently is list- Manhattan, but rain did not arrive North Korea’s claim to have suc- rather than engaging in direct appeared to be an accident. ed at $1,049,000. A number of the until well after the time of the acci- cessfully tested a nuclear weapon talks. They also criticized the Shortly after the crash, hundreds lower floors of the Belaire house dent. The aircraft was equipped with could trigger a new nuclear arms president for listing North Korea, of New York police officers and fire- medical offices. a parachute that could be deployed race in Asia. along with Iraq and Iran, as an fighters swiftly converged at the Long tongues of flame flared to help a plane in land, although Cirincione pointed out that “axis of evil”—a designation Belaire condominiums, on East from shattered apartment windows apparently it was not activated. Taiwan and South Korea halt- that gave North Korea another 72nd Street between York Avenue before firefighters brought the fire In an interview with the New ed nuclear weapons programs reason to claim that it needs and the FDR Drive in a response under control about 30 minutes after York Times published last month, under U.S. pressure in the 1970s nuclear weapons to prevent a that was “massive, quick and coor- it began. Eleven firefighters were Lidle spoke about the plane’s safety and Japan has a stockpile of 23 U.S. attack. dinated,” said New York City Mayor treated for minor injuries. No fatali- feature. tons of plutonium that could be Bush and his defenders said Michael Bloomberg speaking at a ties or serious injuries among build- “The whole plane has a para- used as bomb fuel. North Korea’s failure to live up late afternoon press conference. ing residents initially were reported. chute on it,” Lidle said. “Ninety- “People are afraid of the North previous agreements with the Manuel Larrea, 66, was in his After circling the Statue of nine percent of pilots that go up Korean threat,” he said. “All of Clinton administration indicat- 24th floor apartment when he Liberty, the 2002 Cirrus SR 20 flew never have engine failure, and the 1 them are at least having internal ed that it was time for another heard the plane approach the up the East River corridor between percent that do usually land it. But discussions about their nuclear approach. building. “It was a motor, it was Manhattan Island and the bor- if you’re up in the air and some- options.” “It didn’t work in the past, is my roaring. One or two seconds later, I ough of Queens, said Bloomberg. thing goes wrong, you pull that If North Korea is not sufficient- point. The strategy didn’t work,” heard the explosion. I felt a boom. Portions of that corridor are legal parachute, and the whole plane ly penalized, hardliners in India Bush said. But Bush’s approach It was all of a sudden. It was ter- for pilots flying small craft under goes down slowly.” could begin calling for a resump- of engaging Pyongyang in nego- tion of nuclear weapons tests, tiations that also include South prompting similar calls in rival Korea, Japan, Russia and China Pakistan, and Iran could also hasn’t had much success either. accelerate its suspected weapons The so-called six-party talks Youths not only ones joining Peace Corps program, he said. broke down after a fifth round The apparent North Korean in November 20005, with the COPRS give four presentations at the thing more to my life than just test “could be the tipping point United States and North Korea continued from page 11 AARP convention in Anaheim, retirement.” that so many of us have warned blaming the other. Minn., who’s the chairman of Calif. She also hopes that young Jack Bardon, who joined the about for so many years,” said “Diplomacy is a difficult pro- the Senate subcommittee that volunteers can get their parents Peace Corps at 70 in 2003 with Cirincione. cess because everybody’s inter- oversees the Peace Corps, has interested in serving. his wife, Jane, said the Peace In the context of a hotly con- ests aren’t exactly the same,” echoed that sentiment. In Nancy O’Connell’s case, Corps could do more to recruit tested congressional election Bush said. “It takes a while to get “We have a lot of baby she was already familiar with retired people. “The word is campaign, North Korea’s claim people on the same page, and boomers coming back to the the Peace Corps because her not getting out like it could,” that it had successfully tested a it takes a while for people to get Peace Corps,” he said. “I hope daughter had volunteered in the he said. The Bardons, who live nuclear weapon sparked some used to the consequences.” (Tschetter) continues to diver- 1980s in Tanzania. At 68, Nancy in St. Paul, Minn., have given sify the volunteer base.” O’Connell joined the Peace presentations to people who are Saying they want baby boom- Corps after 11 years of being about to retire or have retired. ers is simpler than finding a retired pharmacist, leaving Tschetter hopes that people Bill calls for 700-mile fence them. Tschetter said recruiting Whispering Pines, N.C., in 2003 will consider post-retirement young volunteers was easy: Go to serve in Suriname in South volunteering as new jobs. FENCE border state lawmakers that local to college campuses. The baby America. Dropping everything at 55 continued from page 11 communities would have a say in boomer market isn’t as defin- “I had a really nice life, but to volunteer isn’t the same as In remote, less-populous areas, he exactly where the barriers would be able, he said. something was missing,” she doing it at 25, however. There said, high-tech enforcement may located. Later this month, Olsen will said. “I knew I needed some- are different challenges. prove to be the better approach. While Bush said several weeks “It’s a combination of fencing ago that he planned to sign the bill, and technologies,” said the former he used Wednesday’s press confer- Texas governor. “It’s hard to enforce ence to again urge Congress to enact that border. You got some rugged a comprehensive immigration plan country . . . stretches of territory that would include a guest worker where you don’t even know where program and legal protections for the border is.” more than 11 million illegal immi- 8&
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BY TIM JOHNSON Chinese hosts preferred to preach Guoguang, a former editorial McClatchy Tribune restraint rather than enter the fray writer for the People’s Daily who and twist arms, and in the end they is now a political scientist at the North Korea’s nuclear test deeply obtained little. University of Victoria in Canada’s rattled China because it has more “China never played a real British Columbia. at stake in the survival of the isolat- mediator role,” said Jin Linbo of It took China’s leaders years after ed Pyongyang regime than it likes the China Institute of International the collapse of the Soviet empire to admit. Studies in Beijing, adding that in the early 1990s to rebuild confi- Moreover, some of those vital China doesn’t feel threatened by dence in the Communist Party and interests are conflicted. Their bal- North Korea’s nuclear program. tell people, “Look, the party sur- ancing places China’s policymak- “I don’t think Chinese lead- vived. Communism is okay,” Wu ers in a quandary as they play a ers believe North Korea’s nuclear said. pivotal role at the U.N. Security weapons will immediately affect China has a historic friendship Council in deciding how to punish China’s national interests,” he said. with North Korea, tempered by the North Korea for its nuclear test. At the same time, as China’s spilled blood of hundreds of thou- China values being seen as a leaders frequently point out, sands of Chinese troops during responsible rising power interested they need peace abroad so that the 1950-1953 Korean War. China’s in shouldering global issues and they can focus on economic older generation strongly supports maintaining peace and stability in growth and reforms and sort out North Korea, a historic if trouble- East Asia. Its leaders also regard a myriad of domestic problems, some ally, and prefers a divided soaring economic ties with the such as widening disparities of peninsula to a reunified, more United States as a vital interest. income and tattered social safety powerful Korea on its borders. “China doesn’t want to severe- nets. Moreover, say analysts, CLAUDIA HIMMELREICH ly hurt relations with the United China also does not want to Pyongyang plays a strategic role for Gerhard Strate said he expects the conviction of his client, Mounir el States over the North Korean issue,” face the possible collapse of the Beijing. Motassadeq, on charges of membership in a terrorist organization will said Shi Yinhong, an internation- Kim Jong Il regime and the need Kim Jong Il’s million-man army stand. “The case has been very well made,” he explained. al relations specialist at People’s to explain to China’s citizens the occupies the attention of U.S. forc- University in Beijing. failure of an allied one-party state es on the Korean Peninsula, and Since 2003, when China first like its own, scholars say. could rattle the cage and divert the began hosting six-nation talks on “If the regime (in Pyongyang) Pentagon if Beijing ever were to German court to weigh the North Korean nuclear issue, it collapses, that could be a big shock has won international praise. But to the Chinese system,” said Wu see COMMUNISM, page 15 retry of Moroccan terrorist

BY MATTHEW SCHOFIELD he was ordered released pend- McClatchy Tribune ing resolution of the appeals. Ramadan is Arab world’s best TV month Now Motassadeq, who is There’s no dispute that free on bond, is about to learn BY MIRET EL NAGGAR Middle East: gathering to watch since they know everyone will Mounir el Motassadeq was close whether U.S. security policy McClatchy Tribune the often-melodramatic, some- be watching.” to the men who carried out the will help him walk away from times controversial prime-time, Television broadcasters Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks criminal charges in the worst Last week, it was Ingy sweeps-month TV that airs earn as much as 20 percent on the Pentagon and the World terrorist attack in American his- Sharkawy who won the race during Ramadan, the Muslim of their annual revenue dur- Trade Center. tory. that begins right after dinner month of fasting. ing Ramadan, said Mohamed He spent three months at A German court on Thursday each night at her family’s home Muslims across the Arab Elassiouty, who heads the an al-Qaida training camp in will begin a hearing into wheth- in Cairo. She beat her dad and world break their dawn-to-dusk film program at the American Afghanistan. He lived near lead er the accessory to murder brother to the remote control, fast not just with lentil soup University in Cairo. He said hijacker Mohammed Atta in charges should be restored. The and her mother grumbled when and platters of chicken, but also some business tycoons even Hamburg, Germany, and signed German government is seek- Sharkawy plopped down on the with a visual feast that makes finance their own miniseries as the witness to Atta’s will. He ing a third trial in the matter. best seat in front of the televi- Ramadan one of the most- solely as vehicles for the soft held power of attorney over the Among the issues is whether the sion. anticipated television months drinks and dairy products they bank account of another hijack- United States will allow German In charge, Sharkawy clicked for both Arab families and hawk. er, Marwan al Shehhi. He trans- attorneys to question two key past “Devil’s Gardens,” a series advertisers. “They know people will stay ferred $2,500 to plotter Ramzi figures in the Sept. 11 plot— about drug trafficking in rural The Ramadan television line- at home, after a heavy meal, Binalshib. He even sent money alleged mastermind Khalid Egypt. She flipped to “Tamer up is the Middle East’s version and relax in front of the TV,” to the United States used to Sheikh Mohammed and co- and Shawkiya,” a comedy about of American networks’ sweeps Elassiouty said. “They flash help finance the hijackers’ pilot conspirator Ramzi Binalshib. newlyweds from different social week, with the unveiling of lav- them with ads that will defi- training. At the time of Motassadeq’s classes. Finally, she decided on ish miniseries that are a mixture nitely stick in their minds after German authorities charged trials and appeals, Mohammed “The Nightingale,” the biog- of campy schlock and cutting- watching it four or five times him with 3,066 counts of acces- and Binalshib were being held raphy of a legendary Egyptian edge scripts. each day, for 30 days. The real sory to murder, and in February in secret at an undisclosed loca- crooner. “The shows in Ramadan are stars this year, I guess, would 2003, he was convicted—the tion by the Central Intelligence With a tray of syrupy pas- better than at any other time of have to be Pepsi and Fern but- first person to stand trial for the Agency. Despite two visits to the tries and a pot of bitter Arabic the year,” said Ingy Sharkawy, ter.” Sept. 11 attacks. United States by the German coffee, the Sharkawys settled 25. “It shows that the directors But among the advertising But that conviction was over- prosecutor, U.S. officials in for a seasonal tradition that make a huge effort to produce turned by a German appeals millions follow throughout the the best series for Ramadan see RAMADAN, page 15court in 2004. Earlier this year, see GERMANY, page 15 Georgians in Russia fear ‘ethnic purge’; Russian police order “all-out crackdown”

BY ALEX RODRIGUEZ ities have begun a sweeping campaign countrymen fear the worst. severing all transport links between the McClatchy Tribune against Georgian families and businesses “It’s an ethnic purge,” said Leila two countries. that many are calling ethnic persecution. Narouchvili, a Moscow journalist who is The crackdown on Georgian immi- The directive from police to Moscow Last week authorities deported 136 Georgian. “This is going to last a long time grants came as Russian President Vladimir School No. 169 came by fax: Furnish the Georgians they claimed were living ille- because the order comes from above. Putin last week urged stricter enforce- names of all Georgian students, their gally in Russia, and 150 more were to be And it means problems for the children ment of Russia’s immigration laws, cit- dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers deported Tuesday, said Denis Soldatikov, of Georgians, for years to come.” ing the need to “protect the interests and parents’ names. spokesman for Russia’s Federal Migration Russia’s relationship with Georgia has of Russian producers and the Russian The Oct. 3 order, similar to other police Service. Authorities also shut down sev- worsened considerably with the rise population at large.” requests sent to schools across the capi- eral Georgian restaurants and Georgian- of Saakashvili, the Western-educated Human-rights advocates say Russian tal, came amid Russia’s all-out crackdown owned casinos in Moscow, citing tax vio- reformist who led the so-called Rose immigration and law-enforcement on Georgians last week that included lations. Revolution against Eduard Shevardnadze. authorities interpreted the president’s deportations and shutdowns of Georgian- And in a move that drew harsh criti- Saakashvili has transformed Georgia into comments as a green light to launch a owned businesses. Principal Alexander cism from human-rights leaders, Moscow a strong U.S. ally that vigorously pursues sweeping check of the country’s Georgian Engels said he was so shocked that he police have been asking city school membership in NATO and integration diaspora. had to reread the order several times. administrators to furnish lists of all chil- with Europe. “The local police rushed to immediate- “This request is so completely unlaw- dren with Georgian surnames so authori- However, with Georgia’s arrest of four ly implement his instructions, with what- ful. And it comes from the police, who are ties can track down their parents and Russian military officers on espionage ever means they thought appropriate,” supposed to secure the rule of law,” said check their residency status. charges last month, relations between said Irina Bergaliyeva, a human-rights Engels, who refused to comply. “This sit- Authorities have since backed away the two countries have sunk to a new advocate who helps defend the rights of uation was a real shock for our teachers. from that strategy, insisting that such low. Georgians living in Moscow. ... They’re wondering who will be next.” requests were made by police depart- Russia condemned Georgia’s actions as Roughly 1 million Georgians live and Amid the Kremlin’s worst diplomatic ments acting on their own. Nevertheless, “wild and hysterical.” Georgian authori- work in Russia, according to the Federal row with its tiny southern neighbor since in a country with a dark history of purg- ties released the officers last week, but Migration Service. Many of them send Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili es and mass deportations, leaders of the Kremlin imposed an air, sea, road and came into power in 2004, Russian author- Georgia’s diaspora in Russia say their rail blockade against Georgia, effectively see GEORGIANS, page 15 14 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL Thursday, October 12, 2006

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Binalshib were transferred to U.S. mili- plan being made.” jected to harsh interrogation practic- In addition, prosecutors presented tary custody and are now being held Whether testimony from Mohammed es. The United States has insisted that evidence that Motassadeq trained at openly with other terrorist suspects at and Binalshib would help prosecutors the interrogation techniques did not an al-Qaida camp in 2000 and that he the U.S. naval station at Guantanamo convict Motassadeq is unclear—one of amount to torture, but Bush administra- arrived in Germany to study engineering Bay, Cuba. the issues in this case is that he claims it tion officials have refused to say what in 1993—the same year Atta enrolled at Representatives of the International would clear him. those techniques were. the Technical University of Hamburg- Committee of the Red Cross have trav- Mohammed is believed to have first Meanwhile, the former German pros- Harburg. eled there to talk to the men, and U.S. suggested the hijacking plan to Osama ecutor, Kay Nehm, who twice flew to the But Strate, one of Germany’s best military attorneys will soon be appoint- bin Laden. Binalshib, who roomed with United States in an effort to win U.S. known defense attorneys, said none of ed to represent them under a just-passed Atta in Hamburg, is suspected of becom- cooperation in prosecuting Motassadeq, that proves that his client was involved law authorizing the Bush administration ing the plot’s principal logistician after has expressed frustration at the U.S. atti- in the Sept. 11 plot, though he stops to try them and other terror suspects the U.S. refused him a visa, eliminating tude. short of saying that his client should be before military tribunals. him as a potential hijacker. “You have to differentiate between declared innocent. “Let’s say, rather, that It’s unclear, however, whether the mili- Motassadeq says their testimony will justice and secret services,” he recently they do not have sufficient evidence in tary will make Mohammed and Binalshib show that he knew little of the plot. told Der Spiegel magazine, referring to this matter,” he said. available to assist in Motassadeq’s case. His first trial statements that the CIA the CIA. “Apparently, the secret services’ Without better evidence tying him to The German prosecutor’s office won’t delivered to the prosecutors appeared to interests have priority there. They were knowledge of the plot, Strate predicts that comment on whether it will renew confirm this. not primarily interested in the judicial at worst his client will serve a few years of efforts to question them—German law Even so, the court refused to accept investigation of the terror attacks.” the seven-year sentence he was given on forbids prosecutors from commenting the statements after Motassadeq’s attor- And Motassadeq’s attorney is predict- the membership conviction and then be outside of court—and spokesmen for ney suggested they might have been the ing that in a relatively short period of expelled from Germany for overstaying both the U.S. Justice Department and result of torture. U.S. officials declined time his client will be free of all charg- his expired student visa. Because of this, the Pentagon said they had no informa- then to discuss the conditions under es—either in Germany or more likely in while Motassadeq is free in Hamburg, he tion on the subject. which the two men were questioned, his native country, Morocco. is not able to work or study. Strate said German prosecutors, however, say and an FBI agent, Matthew Walsh, didn’t Gerhard Strate, whose office walls are that he is limited to waiting for the final they’ll ask the court to reinstate the help the case when he was dispatched to covered by photo-realist cityscapes of decision in this case. accessory to murder charges. They’ll testify. New York, said he expects his client’s “It is possible he will have to spend argue that even though Motassedeq may At the time, the judge expressed frus- conviction on charges of membership time in prison here, on the existing sen- not have known precisely when and what tration that Walsh “was not particularly in a terrorist organization will stand tence, before he is expelled,” he said. Atta and his companions were planning, helpful” as he primarily testified that (“The case has been very well made,” he “But the accessory to murder charge still he knew enough to be found guilty of information sought in the case was “not explained.) appears to lack the necessary evidence.” helping them. available” or that he was “not authorized That conviction came in a second trial As for the German prosecutors who “We have reason to come back to the to answer such questions.” after the first case was overturned where have pursued this case, this is expected accessory to murder charges dismissed Any future German questioning of prosecutors showed that Motassadeq to be their last chance to make the Sept. in the previous trial,” said one prosecu- Mohammed and Binalshib would be had ties to both Atta, who was at the 11 charges stick.

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RAMADAN turn, scanned in the guide, and In Saudi Arabia, for exam- recruit her 5-year-old daughter nuclear arms continued from page 13 emailed it to dozens of other ple, the top-rated Ramadan for another operation. are some critically acclaimed young Egyptians eager for help show lampoons the kingdom’s “It’s not enough that you took programs that tackle the most wading through the tangle of ultraconservative traditions. In my husband, you want to take race in Asia pressing issues of the region: programs. one episode, Saudi women call my daughter, too?” the sobbing terrorism, Western influence, “Now, it’s out there roaming police because they fear a bur- woman screams before slam- COMMUNISM religion and poverty. around the Internet,” Karam glar has broken into their home. ming the door. continued from page 13 Competition is fierce and said with a touch of pride. But when the officer arrives, No stranger to controversy, deploy troops in a blitz attack on viewers are increasingly dis- Egypt alone produced 60 he refuses to enter the home Anzour still watches his back Taiwan, a self-governed island it cerning. series this year on a dizzying col- because the women don’t have after death threats that poured claims as its own. The best-known names in lection of subjects ranging from a male relative with them. The in after his Ramadan series “Taiwan is a priority for Beijing,” Arab cinema work year-round to the lives of Cairo street children show’s producers have received last year. “Beautiful Maidens” said Wu, noting that China’s leaders come up with the biggest, flashi- to the push for women’s rights death threats and calls from depicted the lives of suicide routinely believe that if they bend est and edgiest Ramadan shows, in remote farming communities Saudi clerics to cancel the pro- bombers at al-Qaida training to Washington on the North Korea sometimes spending more than to an idealistic father’s struggle gram. camps who’d hoped for a reward issue, it gives them leverage on $1 million on a single series. The with his rebellious son. Renowned Syrian director of 72 virgins if they carried out Taiwan. shows air on both state-backed One of the biggest hits is Najdat Anzour offered “The attacks. Outraged Islamists Even so, there is no deny- and privately owned stations. “Cinderella,” the sweeping Renegades” this season in an demanded the cancellation of ing Beijing’s real frustration at “I can’t keep track of them. biopic of Soad Hosni, a revered effort to show that terrorism the show. Pyongyang for what it sees as a reck- There are too many,” said Nevine Egyptian screen diva of the and extremism affect Muslims Anzour triumphed, and an less escalation of tensions, reflected Karam, 36, who carved out time 1960s and `70s who plunged to just as much as Westerners. estimated 50 million viewers in its angry denunciation Monday from her job at an architectural her death in a mysterious fall Anzour’s show, one of about tuned in. of the “brazen” nuclear test and its firm to create her own hand- from a sixth-floor apartment in 40 from Syria this year, incor- This year, Anzour said in a willingness to support punitive U.N. written guide to the program- London. porated the work of seven Arab telephone interview, he aimed sanctions. ming. In other parts of the Arab screenwriters for an unflinching to “defend Islam” against the China knows that a nuclear- Karam’s friends admired world, directors risk their lives look at the aftermath of terrorist growing influence of zealots. He armed North Korea deeply her handy guide and asked for and livelihoods with more attacks in Syria, Morocco, Egypt, said he wanted to shake up the unsettles Japan and could spark their own copies. To keep up serious shows that challenge Iraq and England. In one scene, Arab world to show that frank an arms race in East Asia. It also with the demand, she built an authoritarian regimes as well as a cleric visits the wife of a man dialogue among Muslims—not raises the possibility of an even- Excel spreadsheet and photo- the wave of militant Islam that’s who died carrying out a terror- just between Islam and the tual U.S. limited military strike on copied it for her pals. They, in coursing through the region. ist attack. The sheikh wants to West—is crucial now. North Korea, making Kim’s future less certain. “The present situation is quite dangerous. North Korea faces more and more isolation,” Shi said. Next step: Russia might ban money transfers to Georgia “The possibility of collapse has increased.” GEORGIANS a popular Georgian restaurant combing Moscow apart- published. “That’s what we’re China maintains leverage on continued from page 13 in downtown Moscow, a visit ment buildings where pock- facing now.” Pyongyang by supplying more than money to relatives in Georgia, by police to check the restau- ets of Georgians live, as well Russia’s star mystery writer, half of its vital energy supplies, yet one of the poorest of the former rant’s records was followed as their stalls at city markets. who uses the pen name Boris it believes it affects events in North Soviet republics with an aver- by a visit from health inspec- Police conducting passport Akunin, also was singled out Korea less than ever, Shi said. age monthly wage of about $60. tors, and afterward by a check checks at southeast Moscow’s for scrutiny from authorities “China’s relations with North That financial lifeline may come from a government agency that Domodedovskaya market last week. The Georgian-born Korea already are at the lowest point to an end if Russian lawmak- enforces copyright laws. arrested Georgian produce ven- writer’s real name is Grigory in many years, and influence is at ers proceed with plans to ban “They came one after another,” dor Manana Dzhabelia after Chkhartishvili, which likely is the lowest level,” he said. money transfers to Georgia. said David Kakachia, director of the learning she had failed to renew why officials with Russia’s tax While China’s leaders juggle dif- Migration service spokes- restaurant and two sister restau- her passport in time—a gaffe crimes service called his publish- fering concerns, they also keep an man Soldatikov denied that rants, Genatsvale and Genatsvale that normally would draw a $30 er last Thursday and demanded eye on the public mood. Chinese Georgians are being singled out VIP. “It took the whole day. They fine. to see the writer’s contracts and are at once unhappy with Kim for because of their ethnicity. were looking for excuses to shut us The 51-year-old mother was payment paperwork. embarrassing their nation and “We are not giving any prior- down, but found nothing.” hauled into a police station, Akunin’s publisher complied. deeply averse to kowtowing to ity to any particular national- Fearing further, less polite declared illegal at a court hear- Akunin says he was far from Washington’s demands to punish ity,” he said. When asked how visits, Kakachia said the chain’s ing the next day and crammed worried because he pays his Pyongyang. many Georgians the authorities owners decided to temporar- into a detention cell with other taxes. More worrisome, he says, China is most likely to want to believe are residing in Russia ily close all three restaurants. Georgians awaiting deporta- is the message that the govern- deal with the crisis like a family dis- illegally, Soldatikov answered, “It’s humiliating that in Russia, tion, her relatives said. ment’s crackdown is sending to pute, chastising North Korea in pub- “99 percent.” which fought fascism for a cen- “I feel like the Stalin era is the rest of Russian society at a lic but stopping short of inflicting Russia’s blitz against Georgian tury, that people are now being back,” said Dzhabelia’s cousin, time when nationalistic senti- real pain, Wu said. businesses and households persecuted on the basis of their Marina, who also is Georgian ments are on the rise. “You want to punish your brother shows few signs of waning. Last ethnicity,” he said. and, fearing for her safety, “Our state has crossed a very but you want to maintain the broth- Thursday at Genatsvale Arbat, Authorities also have been asked that her last name not be important boundary,” he said. erhood,” he said. 16 THE TUFTS DAILY COMICS Thursday, October 12, 2006

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He isn’t championship and give owner today that’s the same as it was 18 ing point was Richard saying, ‘You the only one at Childress on pace Jeff Burton’s son often would ask, Richard Childress his first title since months ago,” he said. come with us, we believe in you.’ It for a career year. Teammate Kevin “When are you going to win a Cup Dale Earnhardt won in 1994. Brian Burton, who is extremely was a huge undertaking for Richard Harvick, who is fifth in the Chase, race?” It has been a long road for Burton, close with his younger brother and to change everything he had done, also is benefiting. Harrison, who is 5, even needled, who endured four seasons in which even would have him tag along and he wanted Jeff to be a part of But Burton said he has much “You better start winning some he finished 12th twice in a row and on dates, said Jeff’s imprints on that challenge.” to accomplish in the final seven races.” Harrison Burton was too 18th in back-to-back years. While Childress are impossible to ignore— The results didn’t come imme- Chase races, which will culminate young to remember the last time his driving for Roush Racing two sea- even from afar. diately for Burton—or the entire at Homestead-Miami Speedway on father had been in Victory Lane; he sons ago, Burton lost primary spon- “He’s the driving force and won’t Childress operation. Burton found Nov. 19. He showed in Dover that was 1 at the time. sorship on the No.99 Ford and faded take credit,” said Brian Burton, himself embarrassed about running he has turned a corner by emerging “Jeff would say, ‘I’m doing my into the background as the careers president of the family construc- outside of the top 10 for the better with a win. After being dominant in best,’ and Harrison would just of teammates Kenseth, Kurt Busch tion company. (Jeff’s other brother, part of 50 races after joining the several races this season, he finally smile,” said Burton’s wife, Kim. and Greg Biffle burgeoned. Burton, Ward, competed in Cup races from team, and found it difficult to look proved he had a strong enough car Two weeks ago, the elder Burton who finished fifth or better in the 1994 through 2004.) drivers such as four-time champion to make a late push. finally came through—passing Matt points standings from 1997 through “He was the instigator, and start- Jeff Gordon in the eye. He received a deluge of congrat- Kenseth with six laps to go at Dover 2000, seemed more like an also-ran ed turning traditions that back in But now he can, which is particu- ulatory messages. Former Roush (Del.) International Speedway. than an elite driver. the Earnhardt days they didn’t mess larly refreshing after feeling some- teammates tracked him down in Burton ended the second-longest Burton left Roush determined to with.” what dejected by his flailing career. Victory Lane. Gordon, Bobby drought in NASCAR history after prove he could restart his career. Added Childress: “He’s been a “When you can’t compete, it takes Labonte and crew members from going 175 races between victories, “If I got into the situation where huge part of our turnaround. Even the wind out of your sails,” Burton opposing teams sought him out. behind only Bill Elliott’s streak of 226 I thought it wasn’t going to get any when we were having bad days, he said. “I don’t do this because I like Defending Cup champion Tony races. The win catapulted Burton better, I would have just quit,” the would say, ‘Guys, it’s going to get to sit in a 140-degree car going in Stewart had Burton’s pilot relay a into first place in the Chase for the 39-year-old said. better, you’ve got to keep digging.’ circles. For a period of time, it’s just message. Cup, and reaffirmed what Burton Burton has worked tirelessly He was a cheerleader and a quarter- not the same, and you never really Despite his recent run, Burton has been saying for weeks: “I didn’t since arriving at Childress to help back.” know what people think of you. You has been reluctant to declare him- wake up this year and learn how to his owner evaluate everything from But Burton said it was Childress never know really what your peers self the driver to beat. It’s too soon to drive.” the engine program to personnel who helped resurrect his career. are thinking about you, and I prefer tell whether Burton will continue his After Sunday’s UAW-Ford 500 at on each of the three teams, all part While Burton still raced for Roush, to not worry about it. But I do care.” run, but even Roush conceded he’s Talladega Superspeedway, Burton’s of an effort to rejuvenate a reeling Earnhardt lobbied aggressively for Noticed Brian Burton: “He has pulling for his former driver—but lead was reduced to six points with organization that struggled to field Childress to hire the South Boston, the fire back in him.” only if Kenseth and Mark Martin fall six races left—over Matt Kenseth competitive cars in the wake of Va., native as his successor. Burton is tied for the series lead short. Jerricho may be bringing down the walls in NY, but hold off on the hype FANTASY FOOTBALL ment Damon Huard, a guy who, until this ing position. Look for coach Herm Edwards For the Green Bay Packers, the departure continued from page 18 season, hadn’t played in an NFL game since to defer to Larry Johnson when he needs a of Javon Walker has opened the door for Greg Grossman checks in at only 100.8 on the quar- 2003 and hadn’t started in one since 2000. touchdown. Jennings. A second-round pick out of Western terback rating scale. Indy’s Petyon Manning Huard, who stepped in for the injured Trent Until Carr and Huard start passing for 250 Michigan in 2006, Jennings has become a has just a 62 percent completion rate and is Green, is making the most of his new role. yards each week and throwing touchdown favorite target of Brett Favre and has racked up just shy of 1,300 passing yards, giving him a Huard has completed 70 percent of his passes passes left and right, stick with the Mannings, 364 receiving yards and three touchdowns. QB rating of 95.6 and thrown for 765 yards and five touchdowns the McNabbs, and the Palmers of the world for Jennings isn’t the only rookie wide receiver So who is leading the league in quarterback in the four games he started, without tossing your fantasy quarterbacks. making a name for himself. Marques Colston rating? a single interception. Those numbers have At wide receiver, though, the usual sus- of the New Orleans Saints has also risen to the How many people would guess that David combined for a 107.4 quarterback rating, 0.2 pects are not keeping pace. Through Week top of the league with 374 yards receiving and Carr of the perennial doormat and currently above McNabb. 5, Chad Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals, 3 touchdowns. 1-3 Houston Texans would be sitting atop Here’s the “but.” Although these guys may Terrell Owens of the Dallas Cowboys, and Also, third-year star Reggie Williams of the league in quarterback rating? Carr has be having great statistical seasons as overall Steve Smith of the Carolina Panthers have Jacksonville Jaguars has four touchdowns completed an astonishing 73 percent of his passers, fantasy owners should avoid them combined for just three touchdowns. Smith, while his fellow junior Jerricho Cotchery of the passes while throwing for 865 yards and seven like the Plague. Quarterback ratings are like who sat out the first two weeks of the season, New York Jets has three touchdowns and 333 touchdowns in four games. walks in most fantasy baseball leagues: they’re has the most receiving yards of the three with receiving yards. The combination of the Eric Moulds’ arriv- a great measure of the player’s ability, but 261 yards, while Owens checks in 232 yards. But before you find yourself selling the al in Houston and the emergence of Andre oftentimes they do not contribute to the suc- Johnson has only 201 yards. farm for a guy named Jerricho, realize that it’s Johnson as one of the league’s elite wide cess of the fantasy team. Some of the least-likely players have only been five weeks. Chad Johnson, Terrell receivers has finally given Carr some options Additionally, Carr has fumbled the ball morphed into this season’s top wide receivers. Owens, and Steve Smith, can easily torch a in Houston. With his seven touchdowns, he is three times and once again finds himself lead- Chicago’s Bernard Berrian is the only receiver bad team for 150 yards and two touchdowns on pace for a career high, as he threw only 14 ing the league in sacks taken. Meanwhile, in football with over 400 yards and also has anytime in the next few weeks. At the same last season. Huard, despite the viable passing options of four touchdowns. This is the same guy who time, if any of these young receivers are Second on the list for quarterback rating is Tony Gonzalez and Eddie Kennison, remains lost the starting job last season in Chicago to available on the waiver wire, get them while the Kansas City Chiefs’ early-season replace- a mediocre quarterback thrust into a start- Mark Bradley. they’re hot. Cutbacks, insufficient medical care can’t keep rugby players off the pitch NESCAC ruggers also face an uphill battle. At be diverted thanks to the generos- According to the guidelines set in the coach the Ephs, the coach travels continued from page 20 the end of September, the Williams ity of the Ephs’ supporters. NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook, 50 miles four times a week from his our school in all sports. There is Athletic Department recommend- “Because Williams is Williams, Bowdoin’s athletic training servic- home in Brattleboro, Vt. always additional incentive when ed that the school’s administration someone will put in some money, es and Trinity’s sports medicine At Middlebury, head coach Ward we play them.” cut funding for its club coaches by and the club funding will be like services provide nearly exclusive Patterson, now in his 10th season, Preeminence on the pitch, how- 10 percent annually and for club it has been for 100 years,” Farley treatment to their school’s varsity has shown a passion for rugby since ever, is not the only battle that rugby insurance by 20 percent annually said. athletes and visiting varsity players his days at Principia College, where club teams face. Because rugby is over the next five years, leaving Nonetheless, the consider- and only treat club players in the he founded the club team that he classified as a club sport, and not a rugby and other club sports to fend ation given to the plan highlights case of an emergency. eventually coached. He attributes varsity sport, NESCAC rugby teams for themselves. the financial crunch experienced Despite the obstacles, the imme- his passion for the game to its abil- constantly face financial struggles. “We were faced with the esca- by club sports throughout the diate future of men’s club rugby ity to build character. “In the past, we have been very lating costs of liability insurance, NESCAC. in NESCAC schools appears to be “Rugby is a sport that in my successful and traveled to a num- coaching, and adding EMT’s,” Club athletes also run into dif- safe, especially considering the experience provides the oppor- ber of tournaments, often times Williams coordinator of club sports ficulties on the medical front, as committed and passionate person- tunity to learn about who you fronting the bill for food, travel, and Richard J. Farley said. “The Athletic athletic trainers often service var- alities that exist in the game today. are,” Patterson said. “It is very accommodations ourselves, which Department did not want to deal sity athletes differently than they do Bruce Stephenson, now in his high intensity because there is can get a little pricey,” said junior with club funding from a medical club team players. Colby’s Health 11th year as coach of the Williams no time to react. So it encourages James Lowe, a co-captain of the point of view. We felt that since club and Counseling Services requires squad, has been involved with the you to learn to instinctually play Tufts squad. sports are initiated by students and non-varsity athletes to receive sport for 37 years, playing, coach- ethically with courage, fortitude, Amherst Rugby’s website promi- run by students, they are a separate a referral from a practitioner in ing, refereeing, and advising rugby teamwork, and the ability to cope nently features a link to a PayPal entity.” order to receive physical therapy, teams. A feature on Stephenson in with humiliation. Rugby is truly server encouraging supporters to In Williams’ case, the policy is while varsity athletes can schedule the Oct. 4 edition of the Williams one of the finest character-educa- donate money to the club. Williams still under review, and a crisis may an appointment themselves. Record reflects his dedication. To tors I know.” 18 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Thursday, October 12, 2006 Athletes do find ways to make INSIDE FANTASY FOOTBALL up for teammates’ absences

STUDY ABROAD though I had worked out while continued from page 20 I was away, being in ‘basketball learn about new cultures and gain shape’ is much different than strong language skills.” simply being in shape. It took a Although athletes abroad couple weeks to really get back in must be diligent in maintaining the groove, get in shape, learn the skills and fitness, the Athletics new plays, [and] get to know the Department embraces the freshmen.” school’s mission for a well-round- While some athletes run or ed student and is accepting of frequent local gyms, others hone athletes who opt to study abroad. their skills by playing with a local “The study abroad program sports team. Junior softball player is one of the things [the Office Danielle Lopez, who is currently of Undergraduate Admissions] abroad in Barcelona, is deter- touts,” crew coach Gary Caldwell mined to come back swinging said. “I have potential student- away. athletes that ask if they will be “Before I left I e-mailed the head deterred [from studying abroad], of baseball and softball in all of and I say, ‘No.’ Some majors are Spain, and they gave me the con- aided by studying abroad during tacts for the team in Barcelona,” junior year. It’s about connecting Lopez said. “By playing with this everything together.” team I’m keeping my skills on the Certain sports pose more field and improving my Spanish obstacles to going abroad than ... I don’t feel like a foreigner or others. Athletes participating in an American idiot, and it’s all in DAVID EULITT/MCT dual-season sports, such as crew, Spanish.” Kansas City’s Damon Huard is second in the league in quarterback rating at 107.4, but while his 73 percent tennis, and sailing, must choose Depending on the country of completion rating is keeping the Chiefs afloat, don’t expect him to help a fantasy team anytime soon. between one of their two seasons. study, however, athletic options For winter-season athletes whose can be limited. season runs from November to “As far as participating in sports, QB rating? Keep it out of your fantasy March, studying abroad will inev- it depends on the program,” itably conflict with part of the Caldwell said. “There is one mem- BY ALEX BLOOM has become the first quarterback Who, then, is rated higher than season. ber from the men’s [crew] team Daily Editorial Board in NFL history to start a season McNabb? “I was worried that my team- and one from the women’s team with 1,500 passing yards (he’s cur- The first guess would be to look mates and coach would think I in Ghana, and the availability [of We’re only five weeks into the rently at 1,602) and 10 touchdowns at the two remaining undefeated was abandoning them by leaving crew facilities] there is quite lim- new NFL season, but the surprises (he’s got 11) and no more than teams, the Indianapolis Colts and for the year, and that I was not ited.” keep on coming. one interception. He also has 87 the Chicago Bears. Chicago’s Rex committed to basketball,” Miller- Senior squash co-captain Julia The top performer this past yards and three touchdowns on Grossman is also having a stellar Stevens said. “Fortunately, when Avrutin, who studied in Madrid weekend was the early favorite the ground. fantasy season with 1,243 pass- I explained to them my reasons last fall, ran into similar difficul- for MVP, Donovan McNabb of the His 107.2 quarterback rat- ing yards and 10 touchdowns. But for leaving, they were very under- ties. Philadelphia Eagles. According to ing, however, is only third in the standing and supportive.” “The courts were over an hour the Elias Sports Bureau, McNabb league. see FANTASY FOOTBALL, page 17 Regardless of the sport, sepa- away so I didn’t really play at all,” rating from a beloved team can Avrutin said. “It was a real struggle be quite an ordeal. Miller-Stevens to come back.” SCHEDULE | October 12 - October 18 had originally intended to stay To avoid the drawbacks of abroad in Italy for a year but leaving during the school year, THURS FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED decided instead to return for the some athletes also take advan- @ Trinity vs. spring semester in time for the tage of their summer vacation Field Hockey 11 a.m. Wesleyan second half of the basketball sea- and study abroad then, instead. 4 p.m. son. Junior cross country tri-captain @ Trinity “Everything about [basketball], Catherine Beck participated in Football 1:30 p.m. I missed,” Miller-Stevens said. a two-month-long archaeologi- “I missed the day-in and day- cal dig in Vescovado di Murlo, out toil of practice and working in Tuscany, Italy. Sophomore Men’s Cross Country with 12 other committed players lacrosse and squash player Brian towards a common goal that we Rassel participated in the month- all believed in ... I knew that I des- long Tufts in Annecy program, Women’s Plansky Invite perately wanted to be back on the while sophomore hockey player Cross Country @ Williams 12:15 p.m. floor with my team. I called my Joe Milo was one of many who coach right from Italy.” choose to spend six weeks this vs. UMass In addition to the team chem- summer at the Tufts campus in Men's Soccer @ Trinity Dartmouth istry experience that is lost with Talloires. 12 p.m. 4 p.m. a semester abroad, the biggest “There are always other Women’s @Keene challenge is often in keeping up options,” Miller-Stevens said. @ Trinity State physical skills away from cam- “Many athletes study abroad dur- Soccer 11 a.m. 5p.m. pus. ing the summer or set aside time “Coming back halfway through to travel when they graduate. vs. Bates vs. Colby @ Conn. Volleyball 8 p.m. 12 p.m. College the season was a bit tough at Usually, if there is a will, there is a 7 p.m. first,” Miller-Stevens said. “Even way.”

STATISTICS | STANDINGS

Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball (5-2-2, 3-1-2 NESCAC) Football (6-3, 3-2 NESCAC) (4-4-1, 2-3-1 NESCAC) (15-5, 2-2 NESCAC) (3-0) CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL W L Pct W L W L T Pct W L W L T Pct W L T CONFERENCE W L Williams 6 0 1.000 10 0 Amherst 4 0 1 .900 7 1 Wesleyan 5 0 0 1.000 8 0 1 Pct W L W L Pct Williams 4 0 1.000 15 4 Middlebury 5 1 .833 8 1 Williams 4 1 1 .750 7 1 Williams 5 0 0 1.000 9 0 0 Tufts 3 0 1.000 Amherst 3 1 .750 17 1 .800 7 1 Middlebury 3 0 1.000 Bowdoin 4 1 Middlebury 4 2 0 .667 6 2 Amherst 5 1 0 .833 9 1 0 3 1 Wesleyan .750 15 4 Williams 3 0 1.000 Trinity 3 2 .600 6 3 Tufts 3 1 2 .667 5 2 Bowdoin 4 2 0 .667 7 2 0 3 1 Bowdoin .750 12 4 Amherst 2 1 .667 Tufts 3 2 .600 6 3 Colby 2 1 3 .583 6 1 Middlebury 3 3 0 .500 7 3 0 2 1 Conn. Coll. .667 11 5 Trinity 2 1 .667 Wesleyan 2 3 .400 5 5 Bates 3 3 0 .500 7 3 2 3 1 .417 2 2 Tufts 4 4 1 Colby .500 11 10 Colby 1 2 .333 .250 4 3 2 2 Bates 1 3 Wesleyan 3 3 0 .500 5 5 Bates 2 4 0 .333 5 4 0 Tufts .500 15 5 Wesleyan 1 2 .333 1 3 Conn. Coll. 1 4 .200 4 5 Bowdoin 1 4 1 .250 3 5 Colby 1 4 1 .250 2 4 2 Bates .250 10 11 Bates 0 3 .000 1 3 Colby 1 5 .167 2 6 Conn. Coll. 0 4 1 .100 2 6 Conn. Coll. 1 5 0 .167 4 5 1 Middlebury .250 10 6 Bowdoin 0 3 .000 0 3 Amherst 0 5 .000 2 6 Trinity 0 5 1 .083 2 7 Trinity 0 6 0 .000 1 8 1 Trinity .000 6 5 Hamilton 0 3 .000 Hamilton 0 4 .000 7 11

Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics C-A Yds. G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA Ass. Passing TD Lauren Fedore 274 23 Matt Russo 32-52 348 4 Ileana Casellas-Katz 3 6 12 5 1 11 Mattia Chason 5 2 12 Kelli Harrison 2 Martha Furtek 236 27 1 Michelle Kelly 5 0 10 3 3 9 Dan Jozwiak 4 1 9 Katie Wysham Fanna Gamal Stacy Filocco 227 17 4 Rushing Att. Yds. TD Marlee Kutcher 3 1 7 3 1 7 Ben Castellot 3 1 7 Rebecca Abbott Cecilia Allende 105 5 7 Brendan Georges 39 237 1 Stacey Watkins 2 2 6 1 2 4 Alex Botwinick 2 3 7 Whitney Hardy Kate Denniston 66 3 17 Will Forde 20 92 0 Tess Jasinski 1 3 5 1 0 2 Bob Kastoff 2 2 6 43 3 Jessie Wagner Brogie Helgeson 3 Brian Cammuso 16 56 0 Brittany Holiday 2 0 4 0 1 1 Bear Duker 2 1 5 Kaitlin O'Reilly 27 9 690 Joelle Emery 0 1 1 Kevin Anderson 12 43 0 Kathleen Martin 1 1 3 Jon Glass 2 0 4 Matt Gaylord Abby Werner 0 1 1 12 35 1 Corey Green 1 0 2 Peter DeGregorio 1 1 3 Defensive B Digs Chris Guild Kim Harrington 26 61 8 25 1 Emma Kozumbo 0 1 1 0 1 1 Sam James 0 1 1 Katie Wysham 0 1 1 Jen Fratto 0 0 0 Andrew Drucker 0 1 1 Cecilia Allende 32 18 Jennie Williamson 21 208 Receiving No. Yds. TD 0 0 0 Annie Benedict 0 0 0 Joey Stampone 0 1 1 Stacy Filocco Steve Menty Katie Pagos Maya Ripecky 0 265 11 103 0 David Halas Natalie Goldstein 0 360 9 154 4 GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA Svs Sv% Brian Von Ancken Goalkeeping Kelli Harrison 26 237 4 29 0 11 58 .841 Annie Ross 7 41 .854 Pat Tonelli 15 45 .750 Mark Jagiela Marilyn Duffy-Cabana 3 31 0 Thursday, October 12, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 19 Volleyball beats Brandeis, gears up for NESCAC weekend ANDREW BAULD | YOU CAN’T STEAL FIRST VOLLEYBALL Delusions of grandeur continued from page 20 “Our fans this year have been awesome; s it too late to turn to a career in they’ve been so supportive, and it has been a great atmosphere to play in. It Major League Baseball? I ask this is definitely something that keeps you up and makes you want to take it to the only because my greatest regret in other team.” I Ripecky acted as a wall in the back life has always been that I never played court with 25 digs, and senior co-cap- tain Kelli Harrison added 22 digs to her Little League as a child. Not even T-ball. stellar offensive showing of 16 kills. “It’s good to stay undefeated on our And that is a great shame, because I believe home court, but every game is a les- son,” Harrison said. “We have to work on I could have been a great ballplayer. our consistency and bringing the same amount of energy and momentum into Whenever I have a catch (which is what the game and keeping it throughout the the pros call it), I imagine the scouts lurk- match.” ing just around the corner, watching and waiting to jump at the chance to sign me. As of yet, that hasn’t happened, and that’s “Beating the NESCAC teams a great, great tragedy. They found Randy Newsom here. Why not me? is the only way we are going I know it’s too late for a college career, to be where we want to be but there’s still a chance for me to make it to the Big Show. If I practice now, every during postseason.” day, I think I could be ready for next season’s Spring Training, at the latest. Kelli Harrison If slow-pitch softball is any indication senior co-captain (and I think we all agree it is), then my first-at-bat home run and 4-for-5 showing in the scrimmage I played in on Sunday should clear any doubts as to whether I This theme will be integral to the am ready. I mean, slow-pitch is about on Jumbos’ preparation for hosting two par with what Randy Johnson’s throwing upcoming NESCAC matches against these days. I just need a chance to prove Bates on Friday and Colby on Saturday. myself. But still, I toil away at this column Tufts was blanked three times by the and this academic life when I could be on Mules last season, dropping 3-0 deci- the field, livin’ the dream. sions in the regular season, the NESCAC I place complete and utter blame for Championship, and the National this injustice on my parents. Rather than Quarterfinals. With that in mind, the forcing me into a life of weekend Little team will certainly be looking for League games and endless summer tour- redemption, something it hopes will naments, my parents chose to ask me if I propel it to a pair of crucial victories this wanted to join a team and had the audac- weekend. ity to actually listen to me when I replied, “NESCAC is where you really want JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY “No thanks.” to push it,” Harrison said. “We need to Senior co-captain Kelli Harrison serves in the volleyball team’s match on Tuesday night. The Parents should understand that a six- bring the same fire and the same atti- Jumbos rallied from behind to beat Brandeis 3-1, on 16 kills and 22 digs from Harrison. year-old has no conception of what it is tude from start to finish with each and that will make him or her happy later in every game. Beating the NESCAC teams Bates, the Jumbos’ first match up this sively,” Thompson said. “They will keep life, and, as such, a parent must act as the is the only way we are going to be where weekend, is coming off a 3-0 defeat at the ball alive and force you to make decision-making surrogate. Because let’s we want to be during postseason.” the hands of Amherst, leaving its confer- mistakes. We need to be the team that face it: Six-year-olds are stupid. With conference losses this season ence record at 1-3 and dropping its over- can control our play and minimize our My idiot six-year-old self would have already to Amherst and Wesleyan, each all record below .500 to 10-11. Colby has errors.” been completely content with dressing in NESCAC game carries additional weight fared better in conference play, claming Conference games are always impor- only my awesome Ninja Turtle Halloween for postseason seedings. a 4-3 NESCAC record with an overall tant to any NESCAC team. They offer costume every single day of the year, eat- “We know how important these record of 11-8. A pair of wins for the rivalry, bragging rights, playoff spots, ing nothing but jelly beans and living in NESCAC games are—we don’t want Jumbos this weekend should keep them and a chance to announce the home the bathtub. My parents conveniently did to have any more losses in NESCAC in contention for one of the top playoff team’s presence with authority. This not listen to those requests. The point because every game counts,” Thompson spots, but the team is not overlooking weekend the Jumbos have a prime is that the world is now devoid of what said. “We look forward to facing our either opponent. opportunity to make a statement to the could have been a monumental baseball NESCAC opponents and beating them, “Colby and Bates don’t have a lot of rest of NESCAC and they are not going player, and that is a shame. but every game is a chance to improve.” power, but both teams are great defen- to shy away from it. I believe Ted Williams would have nod- ded in approval at my natural-born swing. Had I been taught how to throw a curve- ball early enough, I could have taken Games of the Week the mound, but if I must be somewhat realistic, I am resigned to being a great LOOKING BACK (OCT. 5 - 11) | DALLAS COWBOYS VS. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES outfielder. Think of it this way, which would you This game was supposed to be Terell Owens’ chance to make a rather have: the guy who hits home runs statement in front of the Philadelphia fans, famous for being some of with perfect form or the guy who hits the most hostile in the country. But instead, TO’s former teammate and homers with an ugly swing? You take the guy with the ugly swing because he has media scapegoat Donovan McNabb stole the spotlight, making Owens’ nowhere to go but up. sub-par showing--three catches, 45 yards, and a grand total of zero That’s me. I’m a clean slate. No coach- touchdowns-- a mere afterthought. Owens didn’t even catch a pass until ing interference. Just pure, natural talent the third quarter. to be molded by whatever lucky manager Throwing for 354 yards, McNabb led his team to an exhilarating 38- picks me up. All I’m coming in with are some lessons on teamwork from “The 24 victory over the Cowboys, converting 40-yard and 87-yard passes for Sandlot” and the art of fielding from touchdowns. Down 31-24, and in desperate need of a touchdown, the Walter Matthau. Oh, and first and fore- the Cowboys saw their chance for a victory slip away, as Eagles’ defenive most: no crying. Got that. backLito Sheppard picked off a Drew Bledsoe pass on fourth-and-18 in Listen, I’ve seen “The Natural,” and, the end zone, returning the ball for a 102-yard score as the clock wound minus the whole playing baseball before getting shot, I could be the real life Roy down in the fourth quarter. Hobbs. Or what about Jim Morris, the Ron Ennis/MCT guy who got a chance to pitch in the Majors after years of injury and absence LOOKING AHEAD (OCT. 12 - 19) | VOLLEYBALL, TUFTS VS. COLBY from the game? I mean, again, minus the whole “experience in baseball” aspect, Coming off a 3-1 victory over Brandeis on Tuesday evening, and its sixth con- that could be me. secutive victory, the volleyball team will play host to Colby So here’s how I see it. You sign me to a Major League contract, and you’re mak- on Saturday afternoon as part of a NESCAC weekend that ing an investment in the future. Movie brings the Mules and the Bates Bobcats to Medford. History and book deals are a sure bet, and since I is at play, as the Jumbos fell thrice to the Mules last season haven’t strained myself from years of play, in 3-0 sweeps, including losses in the NESCAC title game, I could be good to go well into my 40’s. the NCAA quarterfi nals, and a regular-season defeat that was the sole blemish on Tufts’ This is win-win, folks. Someone get Scott Boras on the phone immediately! 9-1 conference record. This time, however, the gauntlet gets thrown down at Cousens My only stipulation: I won’t play for the Gym, where the Jumbos are a fl awless 9-0 in 2006. Yankees. I play for a contender, or I don’t So far, the Jumbos are 2-2 in NESCAC play, and this weekend’s games against Bates play at all. on Friday and Colby on Saturday will prove crucial to the team’s seeding in November’s NESCAC tournament. Tufts faces Bates at 8 p.m. on Friday and Colby at 12 p.m. on Andrew Bauld is a senior majoring in Saturday. English and political science. He can be reached at [email protected]. 20 INSIDE Inside Fantasy Football 18 Sports You Can’t Steal First 19 THE TUFTS DAILY Thursday, October 12, 2006

VOLLEYBALL Not in this house: still perfect at home after win over Brandeis Jumbos rally from one-game deficit to beat Judges 3-1; good practice for upcoming NESCAC matches against Bates, Colby

BY ERICA BAILEY that is something we are push- Contributing Writer ing ourselves on every day.” “We are struggling with our Any team expecting to waltz consistency right now,” coach out of Cousens with an easy vic- Cora Thompson added. “We tory should think again. need to control our tempo from VOLLEYBALL first point to last point. Last at Cousens Gymnasium, Tuesday night we really turned it on, but we need to find our tempo early Brandeis 1 and stick with it throughout the Tufts 3 match.” The team quickly recovered GAME SCORES 1 2 3 4 from its 30-28 loss in game one Wellesley...... 30 16 27 28 and had no problem finding Tufts...... 28 30 30 30 its groove as it swept the next three games 30-16, 30-27, 30- Wysham: 18 kills 28. Despite several lead changes Harrison: 22 digs, 4 blocks O’Reilly: 56 assists and some close calls late in the fourth game, the Jumbos set- Despite a slow start against tled down, played smart, and let Brandeis on Tuesday evening, Brandeis dig its own hole with 21 the Jumbos rallied for a 3-1 vic- offensive errors and 12 serving tory, improving their record to errors on the match. 15-5 and notching up their home Spurred on by a support- record to a pristine 9-0. ive home crowd, the third and “We came out slow today, fourth games yielded impressive which was obvious in our first- rallies, clutch digs, and assertive game loss to Brandeis, but we play. came back strong in the sec- “There is definitely something ond game,” junior Katie Wysham about playing on our own court,” said. “Our team is having prob- sophomore Maya Ripecky said. lems staying on a high level of ANJALI NIRMALAN/TUFTS DAILY play; our pace tends to drop and see VOLLEYBALL, page 19 The Tufts bench watches on its feet as the Jumbos win a point in their 3-1 win over Brandeis on Tuesday night.

STUDY ABROAD Goals keep coming, Jumbos move above .500 with second straight 5-0 blowout For varsity athletes, study abroad The men’s soccer team added another tally in the win column on Bello Field last night, demol- ishing non-conference Plymouth State in its second straight 5-0 shutout victory. The Jumbos question is trickier to navigate extended their winning streak to five games and are now 5-4-1 on the year, their first winning BY MEGHAN BECQUE studying abroad became a priority.” record of the 2006 season. Senior Staff Writer In most Div. I schools, going abroad “We knew we were on a good streak, and today was really important,” junior midfielder Alex is not an option for student-athletes, as Botwinick said. “They were a highly ranked team, and we had a great game. We’re still proving With the mid-October deadline for scholarships or a spot on the team are at to the rest of the league that we deserve to be winning the games.” many study abroad programs looming, stake. NESCAC schools, however, put a Battling through inclement weather, the Jumbos out-ran and out-passed the Panthers from many Tufts juniors are anxiously awaiting greater emphasis on the student aspect the opening whistle. After two near-misses off corner kicks in the first five minutes, sophomore acceptance letters and sending in visa of the “student-athlete” label; classes are Peter DeGregorio opened the scoring 6:31 into the match with a header over the outstretched applications. a priority, practice times are kept to a hands of sophomore goalkeeper Tyler Shute. But varsity athletes considering pro- minimum, and coaches are not allowed Tufts did not wait long to bury all hopes of a Panther comeback. Less than a minute later, in grams abroad must shoulder an even to participate in offseason training. a textbook play, freshman midfielder Bear Duker controlled in the middle and found Botwinick larger burden. Fall and spring athletes This philosophy created strong study streaking down the left side of the pitch. Botwinick centered the ball to junior forward Dan have their study abroad options cut in abroad programs and reputations at Jozwiak, who fed the ball back out to the left for a cross. Botwinick hit a one-touch cross back half, and even then, spending a semes- schools like Tufts and Middlebury and has into the box, and Jozwiak buried the ball in the upper left corner off a header. ter abroad can interfere with preseason allowed the student-athletes at NESCAC The Jumbos and Panthers traded attacks and counterattacks for the next 20 minutes. Tufts training, postseason competition, and schools a complete academic and cul- eventually pushed the score to 3-0 with 15 minutes left in the half off a score by senior Mattia offseason conditioning and skills work- tural experience. Chason. outs. Tufts’ reputation for strong study Sophomore Sam James continued the Jumbos’ scoring run seven minutes later off an assist by For many athletes, the decision abroad and language programs—between DeGregorio. Chason remained dangerous, and scored once again only two minutes after James’ between a top-notch season and a unique 40 and 45 percent of the junior class at goal for a 5-0 lead. The match played out more evenly in the scoreless second half, with both academic experience is daunting. Tufts goes overseas each year—and the defenses shutting down all plays from the opponent. “When I realized that basketball was reduced commitment to an athletic team Tufts’ precision passing, which allowed them to dominate the Panthers in the first half, has the only reason I would choose not in the offseason, attracts many student- improved immensely since the start of the season to go abroad, I decided it was time athletes. “We’ve just started bonding more as a team,” Botwinick said. “That’s something that we’ve to reprioritize,” said senior basketball “I chose to go to school here, because I been saying since the very beginning: that we just need to bond more. We’ve been working on player Tayrn Miller-Stevens, who spent was able to obtain the complete package,” passing plays in practice, but we’ve also just been meshing really well.” the fall 2005 semester in Italy. “While Miller-Stevens said. “I liked that Tufts had See Friday’s Daily for further coverage. basketball is definitely one of my pas- a strong international feel to it, and that — by Kelley Vendeland sions in life, I’ve always wanted to expe- the school encouraged its students to rience the most possible, during my time at Tufts. For me, that meant that see STUDY ABROAD, page 18

No money, no worries for ruggers Yankee pitcher dies in plane crash Rivalries fuel competitive spirit of NESCAC squads New York Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle died yesterday afternoon after his plane struck near the 40th floor of a 50-story residential high-rise on New York’s Upper East BY SAPNA BANSIL usually reserved for varsity sports, however, Side, authorities said. Contributing Writer are alive and well among the league’s rugby Two bodies, including Lidle’s were found on the ground following the crash. Lidle club teams within rugby’s own local organiz- was 34. They play in mud and mayhem. They cel- ing body, the New England Rugby Football Lidle was a licensed pilot, and the plane was registered in his name. The plane was ebrate with post-game revelry, complete with Union (NERFU). flying under visual flight rules and was not in contact with air traffic controllers until a boisterous songs and hard drinks. They slap NERFU Div. II rugby sees the brunt of the mayday call shortly before the crash, authorities said. their teammates with endearing nicknames league rivalry, as traditional NESCAC foes The accident set the condominium building Belaire, on fire, in addition to the one such as “Mr. Tinklepants” and “Ogre.” Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby all compete in next door. Fire officials controlled the fire by 4 p.m. Indeed, male ruggers are a breed of their Div. II’s North Conference, vying for the top The plane left New Jersey’s Teterboro airport across the Hudson River at 2:30 p.m., own. And nowhere is this more apparent records and the right to compete in larger about 15 minutes before the crash, according to airport officials at the Port Authority than in the rugby club teams at NESCAC Northeast tournaments. of New York and New Jersey. schools, where rivalries and timeless rugby “It is definitely more important to us The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the scene. traditions persist. to beat Colby and Bates because they are Lidle was traded from the Phillies to the Yankees on July 31. He compiled a 5.13 ERA As USA Rugby, rather than the NCAA, NESCAC schools,” Bowdoin coach Rick Scala in 10 games for the pinstripes. presides over collegiate rugby, formal confer- said. “Colby traditionally is just a big rival for For more coverage, turn to the National section on page 11. ence competition and championships do — Rachel Dolin not exist in this club sport. NESCAC rivalries see NESCAC, page 17