THE TUFTS DAILY be adopted this year ELBO gets booths for Thursday’s vote by JOHN O’KEEFE because it’s going to make the Daily Editorial Board Senate run smoother.” Tufts students will not have “Ifeel that we need to re-evalu- another opportunity this semester ate why the Constitution keeps to ratify the revised constitution failing. I think that it’s an issue of of the Tufts Community Union communication between the Sen- [TCU]. Due to a lack of publicity, ate and students. The students the TCU Judiciary [TCUJ] along don’t see what the new Constitu- with the Elections Board @LBO] tion is going to do for them, and decided yesterday that the pro- until that time it’s going to keep posed TCU Constitution will not failing.” be up for voting along with “I don’t think it’s an issue of Thursday’s TCUpresidential elec- student apathy,” Breakstone said. tion, as had been previously sug- “I just don’t think that students have been fully informed, so they According to ELBO co-Chair don’t care about it.” AvalonMcLaren, “Thesenatewas Pledging to make the told by the TCUJ that [the Consti- constitution’s passage a priority tution] could be [put up to a vote] of his administration, Breakstone photo byJudyfasterbrook again if they could make students said that he would work to inform The two TCU presidential candidates participated in a question and answer session with the Daily. more aware of the issues involved students of the issues involved if with the changes.” It was judged he is elected to the office. How- presidential candidates answer thattherewasnotenoughtimefor ever, he said he would not put the the Senate to accomplish that in document up for ratification if he time for tomorrow’s presidential felt it would not get the necessary number of votes. “It’s going to Press questions in a Conference vot~~~~~~~~~thanayearofpass next time it goes up if I’m work by members of the Senate President,” Breakstone said. Breakstone, Verdier address campus issues and problems and two failed attempts to ratify Past TCU vice president and by JOSH ROBIN and REMY Dairy editors David Meyers, Josh David Breakstone:The [Consti- the document, the proposed Con- current TCU presidential candi- STERN Robin, and Remy Stern. The gen- tution] has been a priority of this stitutionmayhave reacheditsend. date Ancy Verdier also expressed Daily Editorial Board era1 election for the position will year’s Senateandwillcontinue to The Constitution failed to gamer his disappointment in the The two candidates for the of- be on Thursday. be apriority of next year’s Senate. the necessary 25 percent vote of Constitution’s failures and con- fice of Tufts Community Union The following is a selection of I think the major issue has been the student body on two separate curred with Breakstone’s senti- [TCU] President met in a press questionspresentedandanswered: communication with the students ballots this semester. ments regarding the future of the -- students don’t really know Incumbent senators have document. Question: [The] first question is what’s in the Constitution, and vowed to launch another effort at Referring to the low turnout about the TCU Constitution. Ba- therefore they really don’t care to passage next year. However there forbothvotes, Verdiersaid, “Some sically it once again failed to gar- vote on it. we’ve got to start using is some concern that the proposed people don’t know the issues and Exclusive ner a quorum.. Is it on your agen- our communications more effec- document will die with the gradu- some people are just apathetic. I conference Monday night to dis- das to bring it up again for a vote tively.. ation of the current senior sena- want to change that next year and =cuss with the media their goals for next year? Q:A lot of Tufts students on cam- tors, many of whom played key that’s going to be done by out- the 1995-1996 term and to high- Ancy Verdier: I was hoping it PUS don’t know how the TCU roles in drafting the revisions. reach.” lighttheir relevant experiencethat would pass. It would be less of a Senateaffectsthem.Whatare your When informed of the deci- “This year’s Senate was taking qualifies them for the position. burden on the Senate in terms of plans for making the TCU more sionofELBOandtheTCUJ,TCU on a big job just rewriting the The candidates, juniors Ancy next semester. It needs to be ad- inclusive? Presidential Candidate David Constitution and didn’t have the Verdier and David Breakstone, vertised: chalking, whatever you AV: First of all, students need to Breakstone said, “I think it’s a timetomakeenoughpeopleaware discussed such issues as financial need todo.. .just garnering enough great travesty [that the Constitu- aid, federal budget cuts, student support within the Senate and see INTERVIEW, Page 2 tion will not be voted on again] see ELECrIONS, page 2 voice and empowerment, and the making sure that every senator is fate of the revised TCU Constitu- accountable to the Constitution tion. The questions were raised and making it their Droiect -- ev- Seminar on feminism, ethnicitv / Y and the session was moderated by ery senat& Pro&. held at Hillel over the weekend The conference began with a the gender discrimination prob- Panel discussion ledby WOmen Of lems until they could get past the s~eralethnic groups. ‘Ikse racial issues. Moreover, at Inside omen represent4 Arab, Asian- that time it was more important Features........................... p. 3 American, African-American, for women to keep a steady job SO A new, intelligent, magazine for the Jewish, and Hispanic CUkUres. they could eam enough income. practical-minded, ‘The Information’ After the panel, discussion-based They were not willing to skip lacks it, and tobin, for the last time. workshops were held, which were work in order to partake in femi- moderated by students, faculty, nist activities. The feminist issues A&E .................................. p. 5 and other members Of the Tufts did not have an immediate con- An interview with John Flansburgh community. The workshops COV- nection to women of ehicity. of Giants’ fame, Overpass’s latest a ered the issues Of SexUality, GO- The conference sought to en- weak effort, and The Visit is profound. lence, beauty and appearance, courage women of ethnicity that home and family, changing tradi- they do have a place in feminism. Sports................................. p.7 tion, and Community and politi- one of the participants in he Find out why women’s track had a cal organizing. conference said, ~‘~~fi,,i~~is a greatweekend, softball whips Brandeis, In addressing the question of struggle for all women’s rights. It and Sheinkin’s last ever! page cwu THE TUFTS DAILY Wednesday, April 26,1995 THETUFTS DAILY Letters to the Editor Nadya J. Sbaiti future students. Although is a noble Editor-inch ief Breakstone is most this Students need to save cause, I do not think it appropriate for a TCU president. There are many organiza- Managing Editor: David Meyers interest exemption- qualified candidate Associate Editors: JL McHenry, Jessica Rosenthd To the Editor: To the Editor: tions on campus which do this sort of Production Managers: Ryan Otto, Marc Sheinkin, fundraising exclusively. One would think PratikshaThakkar A non-partisan coalition of national The Tufts community has the opportu- student groups, including the United States nity to elect a dedicated leader as the that the Tufts Community Union senate NEWS Association, US Public Interest Research president of the Senate. I have know can- should be led by someone dedicated to the Editors: John O’Keefe, Andrea Grossman, Group, as well as members of the Tufts didate David Brealktone for almost three improvement of the present Tufts commu- Gayle Berkowitz nity. Assistant Editor: Joshua Robin community, call upon students to mobilize years. I have ben an observer of his politi- to fight the elimination of the in-school cal career for the same amount of time. K’EWOIhTS interest exemption on student loans. As of Beginning with his position as president Adam Lieberman LA’96 Editors: Darrah Feldman, Remy Stem yesterday the United States Congress re- of his freshman dorm he organized a Hal- loween dance for all members of the on- To the Editor: RiZTURES convened and will soon be discussion this legislation in the House. Just last week, campus residential life. This event turned I am writing to give my support to Dave Editors: Dan Tobin, Laura Bemheim, Breakstone for president of the TCU sen- Annie Risbridger Representative Bill Goodling (R-PA), out to be a fiasco, but it taught him how to Chairman of the House Economic and make things work. ate. As a member of the Senate Services ARTS &ENTERTmEVT Educational Opportunities Committee After his first semester, Dave became a Committee I had the pleasurable experi- Editors: Jay Ruttenberg, Joshua Davis, confirmed that his committee was consid- senator and used his experience to ascend ence of working under Dave Rreakstone. Michael J. W. Stkkings Dave was a very motivated and enthusias- Assistant Editor: Samantha Levine ering eliminating the interest exemption, during the next three semesters to a re- commenting that this would result in an sponsible position in the senate with many tic leader of that committee. In addition to L+EEKENDrn increase of only “pennies per month” in accomplishments under his belt. As assis- working hard on his own projects, he Editor: Liza Coheu, Rachel Levine tant treasurer, Dave was challenged to take always made sure that the other members Production Manager: Caroline Schaefer repayment. Another opponent of student financial aid recently claimed that the loss something that was in complete bureau- were also working hard.