Today: Partly Cloudy THE TUFTS High 52 Low 28 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Sunny Since 1980 High 43 Low 33 VOLUME LIV, NUMBER 52 DAILY Fletcher School Prof. Adil Najam TCU Senate survey shines accepts tenured position at BU light on life on the Hill BY GI LL I A N JA V ETSK I BY BE nn ETT KUH N access,” DiBiase said. He Daily Staff Writer Daily Editorial Board feels that with universal access, this incentive would After four years as an asso- The Tufts Community be eliminated. ciate professor of interna- Union (TCU) Senate released Another survey question tional negotiation and diplo- the results earlier this month concerned the possibility of macy at the Fletcher School, of its latest survey of the stu- instituting an honor code at Adil Najam is returning to dent body. Open for a 21-day Tufts: 43.4 percent of students Boston University to accept an period from mid-October to said they would be in favor of endowed-chair professorship early November, the 37-ques- such a code, while 28.8 per- and a leadership position. tion survey elicited responses cent said they wouldn’t and Najam taught at BU from from 1,327 students. 27.8 percent said they did not 1997 to 2003 before coming to One question asked stu- know what an honor code is. Fletcher. dents to consider whether Dean of Student Affairs “Professor Najam’s new having fob access to every Bruce Reitman said that post at Boston University rep- residential hall on campus the possibility of establish- resents a tremendous career would outweigh security ing a university-wide honor opportunity and we wish him concerns presented. Of the code became a major topic well in his professional pur- respondents, 57.9 percent of debate here several years suits,” Fletcher Dean Stephen said having the fob access ago. Bosworth said in an e-mail. would be worth it. At that time, according to “He is a well-respected mem- TCU Historian Alex Pryor Reitman, students “balked” ber of the Fletcher community supports universal fob access at the idea of a full honor and has made a lasting impact and was pleased with the sur- code — one that would allow here.” vey results. students to take papers and Najam, a leader in interna- “It’s powerful that all these exams on their own time and tional environmental studies students want it,” she said. in their own homes, with the and a member of Al Gore’s TCU President Neil DiBiase agreement that they would Nobel Peace Prize-winning feels that there could also be not cheat. team, will assume BU’s ways to prevent people from Such a code would also Fredrick S. Pardee Endowed outside the Tufts community make it mandatory for stu- Chair for Global Public Policy from gaining access to every dents to turn in their peers if and serve as the director of the ALISON MEHLSAK/TUFTS DAILY dorm on campus even if the they witness them cheating. Pardee Center for the Study Fletcher’s Adil Najam was part of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize- university adopts a universal On the other hand, Reitman of the Longer-Term Future. winning team. fob system. noted that there exist more He will also hold a tenured “I think that under our moderate codes that do not full-professor position in BU’s thing for me to do. [Being to do even more of the inter- current system, there is an include all of these compo- Department of International director of the Pardee Center] disciplinary, policy-relevant incentive for students to pig- nents. But he said that honor Relations and Department of seemed like a good fit to them research that I focus on.” gyback off other students or codes are hard to institute in Geography and Environment. and to me,” Najam said an Established in 2000 by a to let people they don’t know a place that doesn’t have a “The opportunity at BU email. “It’s an opportunity that into their dorms, because seemed like the obvious next excited me and will allow me see NAJAM, page 2 we don’t have universal fob see SURVEY, page 2 Degree Audit system revamped, further changes are on the way BY DA N PASTER N ACK Administrator Carol Downing, DARS Daily Staff Writer plays an important role in helping students track their requirements. The Degree Audit Reporting System “There is nothing more frustrating (DARS), a computer program that than calling a first-semester senior helps students ensure they are ful- to tell them that one of their require- filling their academic requirements, ments is unfulfilled,” Downing said in underwent aesthetic changes this an e-mail. year to make its audits easier to read Patricia Sheehan, the director of and understand. technology at Student Services, said DARS analyzes students’ course his- that students and faculty alike have tories and determines which require- been receptive to the system. ments have been fulfilled and which “All [comments] have been extreme- still have to be completed. In addi- ly positive,” she said. tion, users are able to see how many Sophomore English major Laura additional classes they would need Curren thought the new graphics if they were to decide to switch their were a good addition to DARS. major. “It is really helpful to have a visual Now, thanks to the changes, inter- to go along with the report,” she REBEKAH SOKOL/TUFTS DAILY active graphs and charts depict this said. Professor Carol Flynn speaks about girls’ books. Her remarks were part of the Fourth Annual information more clearly. Students Sophomore Atiyah Ahsan, an elec- Women’s Studies Research Colloquium. can view graphics representing the trical engineering major, found the percentage of credits completed for updated DARS to be easy to use and each requirement, and where their helpful. Fylnn lecture links ‘girls’ books’ to feminism GPA stands on a 4.0 scale. “All the instructions were there,” BY BE N GI TTLESO N By moving the cursor over differ- she said. “It was helpful because it did Daily Staff Writer audience of over 40 people in Sophia ent sections of graphs, users can see everything for me.” Gordon Hall, was part of the Fourth Annual the exact number of credits they have Currently, 22 majors in the schools Professor of English and American Women’s Studies Research Colloquium. completed or still need. of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Studies Carol Flynn lectured yesterday Flynn’s lecture was the last of the three These figures are an addition to the have been encoded in the system. But, about “girls’ books,” a literary genre that talks that comprised the event. multi-page, detailed report that DARS as Dean of Undergraduate Education she described as having a profound Flynn zeroed in on her years of study- provides. impact on readers’ images of femininity. According to Degree Audit see DARS, page 2 The presentation, given in front of an see GIRLS’ BOOKS, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections Viewpoints 11 The new Dylan tribute isn’t 2007 fall season sees News 1 your grandmother’s biopic. return of Tufts sailing Features 3 Comics 12 The Daily Arts section to the national top 10 Arts | Living 7Classifieds 13 reviews “I’m Not There” Editorial | Letters 10 Sports Back see ARTS, page 7 see SPORTs, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Najam hopes to retain connection with Tufts community Alcohol, drugs NAJAM While at Fletcher, Najam amassed which was published in March. “Adil is continued from page 1 an impressive record of accomplish- quite a phenomenon,” Moomaw said. are common in $5-million gift from Frederick S. Pardee, ments and awards. In his first year “His work is both academic and has a the Pardee Center is a forum for the of teaching, he was bestowed with real effect in international relations. girls’ literature study of the forces that will shape the the Paddock Award, which Fletcher’s “Because Fletcher is very small, there world in the next 35 to 200 years. In Student Council gives each year to aren’t the same amounts of oppor- 2003, Pardee donated an additional $5 an outstanding faculty member. This tunities here as there are at Boston GIRls’ BOOKS million to the center. accolade was “a surprise, an honor and University,” Moomaw added. “Adil has continued from page 1 Najam officially assumed his posi- a privilege that I will always cherish,” the opportunity to be immediately ten- ing and teaching the girls’ books genre, tion as director of the Pardee Center Najam said. This year, Najam was part ured at a higher rank at BU.” which is also the subject of an English on Nov. 13. As director, he will manage the Nobel Peace Prize-winning team As an associate professor, Najam did course she is teaching this semester. and help to expand the institution at a from the Intergovernmental Panel on not have tenure at Fletcher. She said there are a number of key time when its resources are expected Climate Change (IPCC). As for the future of Fletcher’s pro- elements that are present in nearly all to increase. He also plans to design an He has also given several keynote gram, Bosworth said that international girls’ books. innovative inter-disciplinary program addresses, including one to environ- negotiation and conflict resolution is First, she said, is the profound effect of research at a university-wide level. mental ministers from around the “an important area of study ..