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TUFTS DAILY THE 57 Where You Read It First Thursday, April 28,1994 Vol XXW, Number Meeting held between UNICCO and custodians, forum planned by JOHN O’KEEFE most 1,000 student signatures contracting corporation. Daily Editorial Board which opposes the subcontracting “No questions are going to be Preliminary negotiations re- of Tufts custodians with UNICCO asked about specific proposals that garding a possible transition to and to invite both the union and have been made or might be made. subcontract cleaning on the three UNICCO to attend a forudinfor- This is not a debate, it’s just a Tufts campuses began this week mation session next week. chance for students to ask ques- between the University Cleaning Archer claimed that the coali- tions and a chance to correct what Company (UNICCO) and Local tion had attempted to contact offi- they claim are public rumors and 254 of the Services Employees cials at the union and UNICCO by misinformation,” he said. International Union, which repre- telephone numerous times in re- “If they decline [to participate sents Tufts custodians. cent weeks and received no re- in the forum], we’ll have to con- The meeting, which was held sponse. ductthis forum throughthemedia, Gus will release its new CD at a concert in MacPhie Pub on Monday. in Sweet Hall on Tuesday morn- ‘We wanted to ask them some which would definitely be to [the ing, was the first step in concrete questions and to give them the coalition’s] advantage,” Archer said. talks between the two groups on chance to respond publicly. We Gus Will host concert possible wages, benefits, andother went to the meeting because they Louis Lindo, president of the terms of a-proposed agreement hadn’t returned [our] calls and Residential Hall Association (RHA), said that RHA will spon- that would result in all current because the coalition didn’t want to release new album Tufts custodians being hired by to make allegations against orga- sorthis forumon Wednesday night by CAROLINE SCHAEFER nizations we had not spoken to,” from 8-10p.m. inalocation which Daily Editorial Board Archer said. will be announced. Celebrating the release of their Archer said that, upon entering According to Lindo, RHA has first CD Parachute, Tufts’ band the negotiating room, he and the sent formal invitations to Tufts Gus will perform Monday night in other students were confronted by Vice President of Operations John a MacPhie show they are perform- university and UNICCO officials Roberto, representatives of ing expressly for Tufts students. and asked to leave. He said that the UNICCO, and representatives ‘We’rereally excitedaboutthis group was not given the chance to from Local 254 to attend the fo- show,”bandmembersRyanMiller make theirpresentation, but rather rum. He added that they had in- and Brian Rosenworcel said yes- were escorted into the hallway by vited Professor Gerald Gill from terday, adding that the show is free a UNICCO official. the history department. Lindo said and open to all. He added, “We thought that we that, as of yesterday, the RHA had In addition to playing for the were being extremely merciful to received no responses. Tufts community, Miller said that boththeunion andUNICCO... We UNICCO Vice President Bart the purpose of the show is to dis- have a lot of difficult questions to Munroe, who was in attendance at tribute CDs unofficially to Tufts ask them which we feel should not Tuesday’s negotiations, said that students. He said that there will be be discussed through the press.” he was aware of the invitation to 1,OOO advance copies of the CD Archer stated that the purpose attend an information session at on sale for $10, and that this is the of the forum would be to allow the Tufts and added that he “would first and only opportunity for parties to present their perspec- welcome that chance at the appro- people to buy the CD before its tives on the situation and for stu- see CUSTODIANS, Page 11 official release date in September, dents to learn more about the sub- when it will only be available in said, adding that they first played Ty record stores for approximately $15. atwhen an off-campus they performed venue at in the January, Black Panel discusses supreme Court ‘We wanted Tufts students to Rose in Harvard Square. get the first chance to get the CDs before they are officially released, itv Followingand success. their the early band popular-released decision, integration of schools and at a decent price. Ten dollars 2:500 copies of a four-song demo by KATHY POLIAS Linda Brown offered back- black schools offered a good edu- is how much a CD should cost,” tape. Within the past several Senior Staff Writer ground to the court case. She said cation, but with the accessibility Rosenworcel said. months, Gus has been touring and On Tuesday night, the Lecture that she was eight years old when of education for his daughters. He added that at the show Gus playing at college campuses Series presented a discussion in the case went to court. She lived in Brown said that this factor caused will be playing arange of the band’s throughout New England in an Cohen Auditorium entitled, an ethnically integrated neighbor- him to fight against the segrega- music, including all of the music effort to raise money to make their “Brown v.Board of Education, 40 hood in Topeka. Although there tion policy in Topeka’s public el- on the new CD. Parachute con- CD. While they saidthat they have years later: Education on a Multi- was an elementary school four ementary schools. sists of 11 original songs, many of been making money, they feel that Ethnic Campus.” blocks from her house, she was Cheryl Brown was only three which the band has performed at the shows have been alternately The discussion was moderated bussed to an all-black school two years old at the time of the Su- Tufts and in area shows. Miller exciting and disappointing since by Juan Williams, an author and and abalf miles away. Brown said preme Court’s decision to inte- said that all four of the songs on the location and crowd for which columnist for The Washington that she had “playmates of all na- grate all public schools. She said their previously-released demo they play ranges from gigantic to Post. The panelists were Dr. Man- tiona@es”, in her neighborhood that the integration process oc- tape, which includes “Love for minuscule. ning Marable, chairman of the andduestioned herparentson why curred peacefully, but many black Me” and “Fall in Two,” will be on “It’s tough to go from opening African American Studies Departd sht-cdldn’t go to school with teachers lost their jobs. She also the CD, in addition to the title for the Gap Band at Simmons ment at Columbia University and thsrm- stated that many schools formerly- track. College’s Spring Fling to playing Linda and Cheryl Brown, whose According to Brown, the prob- designated for blacks in Topeka ‘We want Tufts people to get at a gazebo for an ice cream sun- father challenged the segregation lem that her father had with the remained predominantly black af- the CD before they leave for the daeparty at WesternNewEngland policy in their hometown of To- segregation policy was not with ter the decision because white par- summer, and for sophomores who College,” Rosenworcel said. peka, Kansas in the famous court educational quality, for the all- are going abroad to hear it,”Miller Though not all shows have been case, Brown v. Board of Educa- *e LECTURE, page 10 said, adding that Gus has thrived as good as others, both Miller and tionofTopeka.TheSupremeCourt from Tufts-based support. Rosenworcel said that they still decided this case in 1954 and de- All Tufts juniors, the trio fea- love playing and estimate that their clared that segregation in public tures the talent of Miller, hectic touring schedule will amass schoolsdeprives minority children Rosenworcel and Adam Gardner. see GUS, page 6 of equal educational opportunity. While Gardner and Miller supply williams introducedihe panei- ists. He stated the importance of examining “human change” in the Inside 1990s, including how humans ex- Viewpoints................... p. 3-4 ploit each other’s potential, how Naif says good-bye to all those who they understand individuals of dif- inspired him, violence against women ferent ethnicities and cultures than must be stopped, and open up to God. their own, and what qualities they foster in their children. Williams Weekender ..................... I-IV commented that in today’s Ameri- Checkout the year-in-review ofarts, can society, “there is no such thing ;ee why With Honors has a witty cast, as color-blind ... People are ex- md how monotonic Germinal is. tremely race-conscious.” Nevertheless, Williams stated sports.................................... 7 that Brown v. Board of Education The “L is starting up its draft, and “heightened awareness and public ’hi1 Avoub on whv all suorts but base- opinion shifted on therace issue in America.” page two THETUFTSDAILY Thursday, April 28,1994 I Letters to the Editor Professor Netchinsky of this issue, I have heard only shock ex- In respect to her commitment to her pressed by people who have been her stu- students, Professor Netchinsky has written deserves tenure dents. If you want to let the administration countless recommendations for her stu- To themitor : know thatastate of shockis not agoodstate dents and has always made herself avail- Not merely does Jill Netchinsky de- for you to be in when you go forth from able. In regards to performance as a profes- serve tenure, but we as students deserve to Tufts, contact VicePresidentMelBernstein, sor a lot is said about professor Netchinsky be assured that Netchinsky will still be here Provost Sol Gittleman, and President whose classes are always overbooked while for us.