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7 iTHETUFTS DAILY I Where You Read It First Thursday, November 10, 1983 Volume VI1 Number 44 Interact Wins Second Place in National Newsletter Contest by AMY SESSLER Interact, the Computer Services Interact has been published on a Newsletter at Tufts, won second place regular basis since May, 1982. It is in a contest sponsored by the Special distributed on a bi-monthly basis dur- Interest Group on University Com- ’ ing the school year and covers computing Centers (SIGUCCS). puting issues for the administration, , Entries were judged on-visual ap- faculty, staff and students. pearance, content, and style by a com- According to Fern Greenberg, editor mittee from the office of Academic of Interact,the newsletter educates the Computing at UCLA. Tufts placed se- Tufts community on campus com- cond in the category of newsletters puter issues as well as computing published fewer than eight times per issues in a broader sense. “The year. The first place prize in that award,” she commented, ‘‘confers the category went to Northwestern legitimacy of the newsletter” among University. its peers. Tufts Named Beneficiary of Estate Tufts has been named the principal on Pleasant Street on the island. Robert Liken, (I.), stated that the US.perceives fhe USSR as saying, “We estate beneficiary in the will of Alice Williams purchased the house in 1976 have our comer ahthe world - Afghanistan - and you have yours - Cary Williams. Williams has been and made it available as a summer Nicaragua - we’ll mind our business if you mind yours.” Oscar Chacon, hailed by President Mayer for ‘‘her ob- guest house to hundreds of Tufts (r.), spoke on U.S. involvement in El Salvador. (Photo by Carole Levenson) vious love for and committment of students, faculty and alumni. Tufts, and particularly her affection “I wanted to share the joys and for the medical school, which was so pleasures on Nantucket that I ex- ably served by her father.” Williams perienced as a young girl with the Oxfam Addresses Central was ninety-one. Tufts community that has always been an important part of my life,” American Food Problems A generous supporter cf Tufts, Williams recently reminisced. Williams’ father, Dr. Harold by JOHN LOWENSTEIN Williams, served concurrently as the Williams, born on July 16, 1892, third dean of Tufts’ medical and den- had her memoirs published in 1976 by Houghton Mifflin Publishers. The In an address entitled “Land, of American aid is to abort revolu- tal schools from 1898 to 1913. Liberty, and Revolution in Central tionary change in Central America. He book, entitled Thru the ’knstyle of- America,’’ Laurence Simon, Policy contrasted the Sandinista program of Analysis Director of Oxfam America land reform to the American backed told about forty people Monday after- plan in El Salvador. noon in Mugar lounge that the San- dinista government of Nicaragua “is see OXFAM page 4 committing every available resource to help the poor of their country” and that “the United States backed inva- Speakers Address Intervention in Central America sion is hurting land reform in Nicaragua,” forcing the government to hy CAROLE LEVENSON divert precious development resources The Latin American Affairs Com- the’ dictatorship of Victores Mejias. newspaper. to fight the American backed mittee sponsored a Teach-In on Cen- “He is committed to putting The slides that Manz presented insurgents. tral America Monday night in Cabot Guatemala in regional conflict,” she showed the various aspects of life in Suggesting that the huge build up Auditorium. asserted. She believes that Mejias Guatemala. In most of the slides, men of arms in Nicaragua was purely The three lecturers included Beatriz played a significant role in re- in military garb could be seen carry- defensive, Simon did not discuss the Manz, a Chilean anthropologist and activating the main military organiza- ing rifles, and sometimes checking the Sandinista’s ties to Cuba and the PLO former professor in the Experimental tion, Condeca: The act of forcing all identification of hundreds of c’-LJ il‘ ians. or their alleged role in exporting College; Robert Liken, a policy 19-year-old men to become active in The living conditions of the peasants revolution and terrorism in the region. analyst for the Carnegie Endowment the military is a “sophisticated were depicted by wooden shacks lin- Stating that American policy makers for -International Peace, and a pro- method of contrdling the popula- ed up side by side. “It is rare to see cannot hope to acquire the necessary fessor at Harvard and M.I.T.; and tion,” said Manz. The quality of life houses with tin roofs,” lilanz claimed. perspective by simply visiting a coun- Oscar Chacon, a member of the in Guatemala has declined since Me- Another group of slides showed try for twenty-four hours, Simon gave Democratic Revolutionary Front in El jia’s regime, claimed Manz: “In eight peasants constructing a road. This a “perspective often not heard in the Salvador. days, 3000 people were captured.” project was called “food for work,” halls of Congress or given by the news Manz spoke on Guatemala where Manz related that she witnessed a because in exchange for work they media.’ she lived for seven years and recently shooting by two plain clothesmen of receive food. Manz noted that these Simon noted that social .problems visited. two defenseless men during the day on peasants don’t even have shoes or are worsened by the political nature of Manz claimed that human rights are a city street.. The incident was automobiles. Nevertheless, she claim- American aid. In his opinion, the goal being violated in Guatemala) under reported on page five of the local See TEACH-IN, page 1 1 page two THE TUFTS DAILY Thursday, November 10, 1983 J T’HE TUFTS DAILY b. In- Defense of Elliott M. MARINA KALB, Editor-in-Chief To the Editor: PETER L. REWMAN, Executive Business Director SUSAN ROTH, Execuuve Editor HOWARD SIMONS, Associate Editor We are concerned that the letter in Jim Elliott is a man of character who ELLEN GLASSNER, Managing Editor MARK KIRSCHNER, Managiug Editor 3 Monday’s Daily from Andrea Nagel is dedicated to excellence in teaching. , BARRI HOPE GORDON, News Editor MARK BERLIND, Arts Editor and Bryn Clark may leave a lasting and He has our titmost respect. I AMY SESSLER, Assistant News Editor ETHAN GOLDMAN, Assistant Arts Editor ROBIN SPADONI, Featurcs Editor JIM GREENBAUK, Sports Editor unfair impression of ourcolleague and BRIAN MILAUSKAS, Assistant Sports Editor ELlSA GUARINO! Business Manager friend, Professor James Elliott. If John Powell RENEE GERARD, Assistant Business Manager there’s anyone on this campus who is Graham Wootton KATHY ROONEY, Graphics Editor ROBIN LQITERSTEIN. Cranhics Editor I more committed to Tufts Jeffrey Berry KEN EVANS, Photography Editor ALEC COSTERUS, As&stani Photography Editoi LISA HIRSCH, Layout Editor KRISTIN HERMAN. Lavout .Editor undergraduates, we don’t know who Donald Klein SUSANNE A. SHAVELSON, Copy Editor ELLEN SPIRER, Copy mtor HARLAN MEYER, Classifieds Editor EVAN MERBERG, ClassiSieds Editor he or she 5s. And two generations of Robert Elias students and advisees know this bet- Lily Gardner Feldman ter than anyone else. His accessibility Marilyn Glater The Wts Daily is a non-pmfit student-run newspaper published by the students of Wts University, weekdays during the to students is extraordinary - as Sarah Terry academic year. Printing by the Harvad Crimson, Inc., Cam- Bradbury Seasholes bridge MA. Please address correspondence to: The Wts everyone knows his door is always Daily,’Curtis HaU, Medfod, MA 02155. Telephone: (617) open. John Gibson 381-3090. Business hours 9-5 weeldays. U.S. postage paid in Medford, MasoaFhusens. Professor Elliott voluntarily teaches Bobby Cooley an extra qourse every year. As chair- , Tony Smith man he did not reduce his teaching John Field Options for Safety load, which is the norm for the chairmen of all academic (The above are all faculty members in Since the inception of the Wells Fargo weekend security con- departments. the Department of Political Science) tract, questions have been raised as to whether the Wells Fargo security personnel are indeed, more effective than students as 1 Noticing Attitudes TO the Editor: ’ security monitors. The amount spent on the security system ($60,000 a year for Wells Fargo; $40,000 yearly for students) I read with interest the numerous Chilean woman, would surely has also led us to question whether Tufts is getting its money’s letters to the Editor in yesterday’s Dai- recognize racism when expressed. worth with Wells Fargo. ly. Several individuals, most if not all Furthermore, both are extremely ex- apparently students of Professor perienced in campus organizing and While we have been assured that a review of the system will Elliott, wrote responses to the letter are thus not likely to fabricate take place at the end of the semester, we urge the administra- sent by Andrea Nagel and Bryn Clark statements in retaliation for one tion and the Safety Department to investigate other options. on their experience in attempting to department’s denial of funds. On the Perhaps the policy of accepting the lowest bid offered should ask for funding for a teach-in on Cen- contrary, having dealt with the ual America.What I found most amaz- Political Science department before also be evaluated; perhaps better quality may be secured for ing is that although none of these and in need of $350, they were clear- an additional sum. students were there at the time of the ly not shocked at Professor Elliott’s There are, however, other alternatives to the present system meeting; they all believe they refusal. They went, having gone to understood what took place and have most other departments, believing that we have considered.

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