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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018 tuftsdaily.com TCU Senate elects new trustee representatives by Noah Richter The Senate-elected position speaks tent set of criteria were discussed,” join the committees once they join the Assistant News Editor on behalf of TCU at meetings of the Lazo-Rivera said. body, the minutes indicate. university’s Board of Trustees, accord- Weinflash explained the impor- The minutes indicate that the body Editor’s note: The Daily has not been ing to the TCU website. tance of the role he will be assuming. then passed an additional amendment permitted to cover TCU Senate debates Class of 2020 Senator Pedro Lazo- “I’m excited to start working with the to the TPM, which had been passed on internal appointments includ- Rivera discussed the election process as Tufts community to figure out ways we last week regarding personal contri- ing trustee representatives in the past. well as the decision to close the meeting. can work with the Board of Trustees to butions. The amendment, which was However, the Daily was initially told “Each candidate was given the help our students and members of the tabled from last week’s meeting, sets by Senate that access will not be given opportunity to introduce themselves broader Somerville and Medford com- the rate of personal contributions for for the entire meeting discussed in this and speak on their interests in the munities,” Weinflash told the Daily in Senate-subsidized travel costs as 12 article, including parts that did not position and underwent a Q&A,” Lazo- an electronic message. “I hope that percent of the total spending. The concern trustee representative appoint- Rivera told the Daily in an electronic this can make students feel less disaf- spending increase will total “to around ments. Senate later clarified a day after message. “The Senate also discussed fected on our campus, and also get the [$]126,500 in supplementary funding the meeting that this was incorrect. its thoughts on each candidate after word out to Tufts students that this with [$57,000] left assuming groups The Tufts Community Union (TCU) each of their individual interviews and position exists, and can help change spend all of their budget,” according Senate met Sunday evening in the compared their performance to one our policies.” to the minutes. Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room another once they had left the room.” Goggins emphasized the connec- Diversity and Community Affairs to elect trustee representatives, assign Closed-session format allowed the tion he hopes to build between the Officer Grant Gebetsberger welcomed committee placements and review senators to speak to and review can- Tufts community and the Board of the changes. proposed changes on the Treasury didates’ applications candidly, Lazo- Trustees. “I’m optimistic that the new per- Procedures Manual (TPM) that had Rivera said, stating that such priva- “The position is a crucial link in sonal contribution system will reduce been shelved in the previous meeting. cy is “crucial to making an effective ensuring communication between the the burden on students to supplement According to Senate’s meeting min- appointment.” Board and Senate, making sure each funding for group trips,” Gebetsberger, utes, the body read through appli- Lazo-Rivera also said that a closed body can make well-informed deci- a sophomore, told the Daily in an elec- cations, interviewed candidates session ensured that the candidates sions,” Goggins told the Daily in an tronic message. “I see groups being and debated before electing soph- would not be influenced by each other. electronic message. more fully funded for their off-campus omores Connor Goggins and Insiya “A closed session avoided one can- After the elections, members of the competitions and conferences which Naim, and senior Noah Weinflash as didate’s interview impacting another Senate were allocated to committees will increase accessibility for all Tufts the three new Senate trustee repre- candidate’s participation, especially for the coming semester. Newly elect- students to participate as fully as pos- sentatives. considering that a generally consis- ed first-year members will be able to sible in campus organizations.” TCU election results by Noah Richter was elected to fill the vacant Class of to vote for candidates running for tion of CSL and Judiciary members Assistant News Editor 2021 seat, and Amrutha Chintalapudi these positions, according to the TCU was also open to all undergraduate was elected to fill the Class of 2019’s Senate website. students. Carolina Olea Lezama, Andrew available seat. Sophomore Insiya Naim was elect- Students voted via Voatz, the voting Kofsky, Rabiya Ismail, Deepen Goradia, First-year Katherine Wang will ed to fill the vacant position of stu- platform first introduced to the Tufts Timothy Leong, Iyra Chandra and be the new Women’s Community dent representative on the Committee community last year. They were able Melia Harlan were elected to fill the Representative, and junior Sylvester on Student Life (CSL), while first-years to vote via mobile app, website or in seven Class of 2022 Tufts Community Bracey will be the new Africana Jonah Zwillinger, Camille Calabrese person, according to ECOM. Union (TCU) Senate openings, accord- Community Representative, accord- and Max Goldfarb will fill the three ECOM did not release the total ing to Elections Commission (ECOM) ing to Mandelbaum, a junior. All vacancies on the TCU Judiciary, turnout of the elections by press time. Chair Ethan Mandelbaum. Griffen Saul undergraduate students were able according to Mandelbaum. The elec- New center at Fletcher hosts conference on cybersecurity by Natasha Mayor Former Estonian Minister of Foreign international law and dean ad interim of CILG’s interdisciplinary mission is in News Editor Affairs Ambassador Marina Kaljurand the Fletcher School. It stemmed from an line with Fletcher’s: to combine law and (F ’95), Senior Director of Cybersecurity idea that had been floating around with diplomacy with the ultimate goal of creat- The Center for International Law and Policy and Strategy at Microsoft Angela the support of former Fletcher Dean James ing world peace, Trachtman said. Governance (CILG) at The Fletcher School McKay and United Nations Assistant Stavridis, according to Trachtman. Trachtman shared that the CILG chose of Law and Diplomacy hosted its inau- Secretary-General for Strategic Diplomacy has come a long way cybersecurity as its first area of focus. For gural event — a two-day conference on Coordination Fabrizio Hochschild were since the Fletcher School’s founding, as this conference, five teams of researchers the world of cybersecurity — in Breed among the speakers in attendance. Trachtman noted. were tasked with writing papers on one Memorial Hall over the weekend. In an interview with the Daily, Joel “Today, diplomacy is health and cyber- of five subtopics: standards, export con- Titled “Protecting Civilian Institutions Trachtman, professor of international law security and financial regulation and trade trols, vulnerability disclosure, attribution and Infrastructure from Cyber Operations: at the Fletcher School and faculty direc- and all sorts of things,” Trachtman said. and compliance. Designing International Law and tor of CILG, said the concept for the new “What Professor Johnstone and I realized Trachtman said each team comprised Organizations,” the conference featured center was developed last summer in con- is that we needed to readdress that link of a lawyer and a technical expert who presentations from cybersecurity experts junction with fellow CILG faculty director between law and diplomacy to broaden it were given six months to work collabora- in government, business and academia. Ian Johnstone, who is also professor of and to deepen it.” see CYBERSECURITY, page 2 Please For breaking news, our content archive and recycle this exclusive content, visit Contact Us NEWS............................................1 newspaper P.O. Box 53018, OPINION ....................................8 tuftsdaily.com ARTS & LIVING ......................3 Medford, MA 02155 SPORTS ........................... 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