THE TUFTS Where You Read It First VOLUME L, NUMBER 16 DAILY FRIDAY,SEPTEMBER 30, 2005 Noam Chomsky: Terror is not a high priority in the world BY SEIF-ELDEINE OCH the safety zones around the capital. Contributing Writer The destruction of a foreign country is not a new phenomenon in U.S. foreign Nearly three years after his last policy, he added. Chomsky mentioned appearance on the Hill, Noam Chomsky the history of U.S. involvement in Iraq was back Thursday night to talk about and Iran, including aiding Iraqi leader the failures of U.S. foreign policy, includ- Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran ing what he called the “grotesque” situa- from 1980 to 1988. tion in Iraq. “Bush, Blair, Powell and Rice bitterly Chomsky, the Massachusetts Institute denounce Saddam for crimes in the of Technology linguistics and philosophy 1980s,” Chomsky said, referring to the professor outspoken on social and politi- President, the British Prime Minister, and cal issues, addressed a packed room in the two most recent American Pearson 104. Secretaries of State. “What is missing is Students lined the aisles and in some [Saddam] committed those crimes with cases sat behind the podium. Just before our help.” Chomsky entered the room, one of the Chomsky also said the sanctions organizers said the speech might be imposed on Iraq during the George H.W. given in Cohen Auditorium — prompting Bush and Bill Clinton Administrations many students to leave the room only to led to the death of hundreds of thou- wind up missing the speech. sands of children. The United States has The four major crises facing the world, a “standard operating procedure to put Chomsky said, are: nuclear war, environ- sanctions on the government and arm mental disaster, the indifference of the the militia,” he said. superpowers to the first two problems, “We also should be paying reparations and the failure of the superpowers to to Iran and Iraq for 50 years of torture,” make amends for past mistakes. Chomsky said. But Chomsky spent most of his 90- When he spoke in Cohen Auditorium minute speech and hour-long question- on Nov. 18, 2002 — as the likelihood of a and-answer session on Iraq, Iran and the war in Iraq grew — Chomsky said the War on Terror. George W. Bush Administration did not JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY The press is unable to communicate want to address the root causes of terror- Many students were turned away from Thursday night’s lecture by Noam Chomsky in the scale of destruction in Iraq, Chomsky Pearson Hall because of an unexpectedly large turnout. Before the speech began, organiz- see CHOMSKY, page 2 said, because reporters are confined to ers unsuccessfully attempted to move the speech to Cohen Auditorium. Senator promotes unpaid internship stipend Senior Rafi Goldberg wants to make sure Union president on a platform that included the students can afford an unpaid summer intern- internship stipend. ship. While the capital campaign is being pre- At the Tufts Community Union Senate pared, Goldberg said, what remains to be done meeting on Sunday, Sept. 25, senator Goldberg for the internship stipend is “a matter of find- announced a proposal to pay a stipend to 50 ing the right donor.” students who have an unpaid internship. He described the internship stipend as “a The plan would pay students for housing, great thing that could help more Tufts students food and other costs of living during the intern- be prepared for the real world.” ship out of an endowment fund. The proposal was well received by the sen- The money for the fund would be provided ators. “I think most people were in favor of it from funds raised during the University’s next because it’s something that will help students,” capital campaign, which has a fundraising tar- President Jeff Katzin said. get of $1 billion. Katzin said the University’s financial situa- LISA CHOW/TUFTS DAILY Part of the campaign’s income will go tion could make implementing the proposal dif- At Thursday evening’s speech at the Fletcher School, an audience of toward making the University’s admissions ficult. mostly students and faculty listened to former United Nations official process need blind. The rest of the money will Dave Baumwoll, last year’s president, said Kieran Prendergast speak about the evolving role of diplomacy. be divided among the schools. he tried to create an internship stipend last “They wanted ideas,” Goldberg said. “I year. “The idea was one of the major objectives gave them an idea.” I wanted to accomplish,” he said. Diplomacy is ‘confused, Goldberg has been working on the proposal complex, contradicting’ since the spring. He ran for Tufts Community — Emily Chapper BY KATHERINE SHELLEY attention on the importance of Mayor’s committee releases Contributing Writer resilience, patience and persist- INSIDE ence. “Short term expediency will Jimmy Tingle comments Effective diplomacy requires usually come back to bite you,” he plan for police department on his American dream. pragmatism, patience and a will- said. BY LAURA FONG nearby. The closest substation see ARTS, page 5 ingness to give up any hope of a He emphasized the need for Contributing Writer to Tufts would be in the old personal life, Sir Kieran diplomats to follow their moral Powder House School building, Prendergast said Thursday compass. Ideals are necessary to Somerville police officers which closed in 2003 because evening. navigate the “confused, complex will get a better feel for the of low enrollment. Prendergast, the former United and contradicting” realities of neighborhoods they patrol if “When it comes to safety on Nations under secretary of politi- diplomacy, he said. the mayor gets his way on a the street, more officers will be cal affairs, discussed the evolving Prendergast stressed the impor- department overhaul. closer to the scene,” Curtatone use of diplomacy with about 70 tance of honesty, integrity, cour- A committee appointed by spokesperson Mark Horan mostly graduate students and fac- tesy, accuracy, modesty and dis- Mayor Joe Curtatone presented said. “There will be someone to ulty in the ASEAN Auditorium in cretion — values he said remained a plan to restructure the go to.” the Fletcher School of Law and relevant. Somerville Police Department The restructuring would also Diplomacy. Prendergast also discussed the to the Board of Aldermen on change patrols, as officers will “Foreign policy must be made limits of diplomacy. “War is the Sept. 21. be shifted to areas with higher with the head, though with full failure of diplomacy,” he said. “But The recommendations are crime rates. “Right now there awareness of the heart,” there are just causes and there are awaiting a vote by the police are an equal number of officers Prendergast said. just wars.” unions and then the Board of in low-crime areas and high- Practical diplomacy and The lead of the war in Iraq was Aldermen. If the plan is crime areas,” Horan said. “The INDEX alliance-building require diplo- “a failure of diplomacy all around,” approved, it will be sent to the area surrounding Tufts News | Features 1 mats to see things the way they Prendergast said. state legislature for a final vote. University has relatively low Arts | Living 5 are, not the way they want them to A more sustained commitment The proposed changes cen- crime. The restructuring will Editorial | Letters 8 be, he said. Diplomats have to to diplomacy may have allowed ter on the department’s address that.” National 9 analyze the nature of problems for a United Nations Security accountability to city citizens The overall number of offi- International 11 and their expected consequences Council consensus on a plan of and government. cers in the Tufts area would not Comics 12 — and whether proposed solu- action, he said. It would have been The mayor’s proposal decrease because the plan calls Classifieds 13 tions will solve the problem or harder for the United States to includes the addition of sub- for putting police officers cur- Sports Back page merely manage it. stations, giving officers who Prendergast focused the most see DIPLOMACY, page 2 patrol neighborhoods a base see POLICE, page 4 tuftsdaily.com 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Friday, September 30, 2005 Diplomacy tough Students undeterred by Chinatown bus fire BY VICTORIA KABAK ing of 73, meaning 73 percent of com- Students interviewed said they did with spouse, kids Contributing Writer panies had a lower driver risk. A rating not notice a major difference between DIPLOMACY of 75 can trigger a federal investigation. the safety of the Chinatown bus servic- continued from page 1 A ride on the Chinatown bus to New The company is not under investiga- es and other companies. abandon diplomatic methods if the York is cheap, convenient and some- tion from the government, though the “They use the same kinds of buses Security Council had a better history of con- times explosive. explosion incident is being investigat- that Greyhound and Peter Pan do,” sistency and resolve. A bus operated by the Fung Wah Bus ed by insurance companies. sophomore Will Kent said. “If you’re The United Nations works best as a per- Transportation company burst into Travel Pak, a division of Kristine taking a bus it could burst into flames manent forum for countries to air their flames just after its 45 passengers evac- Travel & Tours Inc., received a driver regardless of what company. They have grievances and for smaller countries to have uated on Interstate 91 on Aug. 16. The risk rating of 97. Kristine Travel is also standards.” an audience with more important ones. bus was on its way from South Station not under investigation, but it no Kent said he takes a Chinatown bus “One of the UN’s most useful functions is as in Boston to Canal Street in New York’s longer runs the Travel Pak service about three times a year.