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Where You Mostly Cloudy Read It First 43/39 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVII, NUMBER 46 FRiday, APRIL 4, 2014 TUFTSDAILY.COM Childish Gambino to headline Spring Fling Hip-hop artist Donald Glover, and we’re really excited about it,” commonly known by his stage Kurtz, a sophomore, said. name Childish Gambino, will Concert Board purposefully did headline this year’s Spring Fling not announce the Spring Fling concert on April 26, Concert Board artists in order to create hype and co-chairs Emily Schacter and Mark encourage attendance at Battle of Bernado announced at Battle of the Bands, Kurtz said. the Bands last night. “It was announced early last The New Pornographers, an year because Nelly posted the indie rock band, and electronic concert on his site, but this year it dance DJs Flosstradamus will open was completely on our schedule,” for Childish Gambino. Battle of Kurtz said. “We like the idea of the Bands winner Waldo will be promoting one of our own events, the opening act for Spring Fling, and since Battle of the Bands is and runner-up Not So Gentlemen, related to Spring Fling, it made will perform on Tuftonia’s Day. sense to announce tonight.” According to Concert Board While over the past few months co-chair Mark Bernardo, organiz- the campus has heard rumors ers selected the artists on the basis suggesting the Spring Fling head- of students’ preferred genre, artist liner was Blink-182, Jason Derulo availability and allocated budget. and a multitude of the other art- This year, Concert Board was able ists, Concert Board acknowledged to offer bids to bigger-name artists that they started some of the after receiving $75,000 in extra rumors to get students talking. NICK PFOSI / THE TUFTS DAILY funding from Tufts Community “There have been a lot of weird Wagatwe Wanjuki, the keynote speaker at IHH, is a Tufts alumna and a nationally-recognized sexual violence advocate. Union Senate. names going around, most of Childish Gambino was Concert which we started ourselves, but Board’s first-choice artist, accord- there were definitely some ran- ing to Concert Board production dom ones,” Kurtz said. ‘It Happens Here’ provokes assistant Katie Kurtz. “The first bid we put out was accepted, so it was our top choice, —by Denali Tietjen conversation about sexual violence BY CHARLOTTE GILLILAND dents Luke Carroll Brown, a current that we could represent a bastion of Daily Editorial Board senior, and Margo Cramer, a recent experiences.” graduate, and has since spread to In its third year at Middlebury, Last fall, University President other colleges. IHH has since taken off as both Anthony Monaco named sexual “I knew [sexual assault] was hap- an online and spoken campaign. assault as one of the most impor- pening,” Cramer said. “My friends According to a Dec. 4, 2013 arti- tant issues on campus, and created had experienced it, and I had expe- cle published in The Middlebury a university-wide sexual assault task rienced it. And there was just no Campus, the IHH campaign is force to address and prevent sexual conversation about it — at least currently working to establish misconduct at Tufts. Currently, the at Middlebury. We had a feminist programming at six other colleges university is in the process of hir- group on campus that didn’t address across the country. This year, IHH ing a Sexual Misconduct Prevention it directly ... There was just general was successfully launched at Tufts Specialist, who will work to develop silence around the issue.” with the help of several sororities sexual assault prevention programs. Cramer said that she and Brown and the Action for Sexual Assault Alongside these recent initiatives, took several weeks to decide on the Prevention (ASAP) group. Tufts students are hosting a variety best form for a campaign about sex- “Tufts has, over the last few of programming this April as part ual violence awareness and opted years, struggled with its footing in MEPHISTOPUCK VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Hip-hop artist Childish Gambino has been selected to headline this of a campaign for Sexual Assault to focus on initiating dialogue on the movement of sexual assault year’s Spring Fling concert. Awareness Month. On Wednesday campus through storytelling. awareness and prevention,” Katrina night, students came together to “We started collecting stories,” she Dzyak, a sophomore and one of the share their experiences at It Happens said. “Sharing stories in a thought- planners of IHH, said. “There is a lot Here (IHH), an event that provides a ful manner seemed like one really lacking on the administration side forum for survivors of sexual assault important step in getting people to ... [and] it has become [the] role [of] UEP hosts visionary to share their stories. see this issue as an important one students, of course, to create spaces IHH was founded at Middlebury ... What we really wanted to do was planning conference College in the fall of 2011 by stu- attract a variety of submissions so see IT HAPPENS HERE, page 2 BY JUSTIN RHEIN G OLD could talk about visionary plan- Daily Editorial Board ning, the kind of planning that resulted in works like the Emerald Tufts Bikes adds 12 new bikes to Tufts Department of Urban Necklace, the Olmsted Parks — and Environmental Policy and planning that doesn’t focus on Planning (UEP) last Friday host- only what’s probable, but ... that bike-share program ed a conference on the future actually takes a look at what would of city planning in Québec and happen if we designed the best we BY MARISSA PE C K versity’s hilly campus. Bikes’ notoriety on campus, and New England. could,” Ciurczak said. Daily Staff Writer “We found a bike with equivalent part of that is implementing these The conference, “Planning for Hollander explained that he has durability [to the old bikes] but that new programs.” the Possible,” was funded by the done research on urban planning Tufts Bikes last week added 12 would ride even better,” Meyer, a One such program involves Government of Québec and the issues in Canada and Québec, new bicycles to its school bike-share sophomore, said. the integration of stickers from Government of Canada, accord- and was inspired to bring people program, bringing the total number According to Hoffman, the Boston-based Bicycle Benefits to ing to UEP Associate Professor together from both Canada and of bikes in the program to 30. bikes were purchased through a incentivize biking as an environ- Justin Hollander. Participants the U.S. after attending a lecture According to Tufts Bikes president supplementary funding alloca- mentally friendly and efficient included scholars and govern- by Julian Agyeman, the confer- Benjamin Hoffman, the gradual tion from Tufts Community Union mode of transportation. ment officials from both Canada ence’s keynote speaker and a UEP deterioration of the original bicycles Senate. Hoffman emphasized the “These are small stickers that we and the United States. professor at Tufts. necessitated their replacement. role that Tufts Bikes’ student vol- will stick on every single one of our Conference organizer and UEP “I had gone to a lecture he deliv- “The bikes were four years old, unteers play in the management bike-share helmets, and if you have graduate student Peter Ciurczak ered, and he was talking about this getting a lot of use,” Hoffman, a of the bike share. that helmet, you get discounts at explained that the conference new and powerful idea about how, sophomore said. “As the bikes broke, “People do love the bike share, certain stores and restaurants in encouraged participants to think for the history of urban planning, the share shrunk a bit.” but they don’t really know that Boston,” Hoffman said. “For exam- beyond current planning ideas. people had always been really Tufts Bikes vice president Tufts Bikes is connected to the ple, if you go to Diesel [Cafe] in Davis “What we were trying to do was Adam Meyer added that the new bike share,” Hoffman said. “We’re kind of create a space where we see QUEBEC, page 2 bikes are better-suited for uni- very much trying to increase Tufts see BIKES, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections News 1 Comics 10 Avicii experiments with Quilt exhibition at the sound and style in lat- MFA surprises with intri- Arts & Living 3Classifieds 11 est album. cate colors, patterns. Sports Back see ARTS, page 3 see SECTION, page 3 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS | features Friday, April 4, 2014 THE TUFTS DAILY Biking promoted as environmentally-friendly alternative BIKES “It also opens up other parts of Somerville green way of traveling.” CAROLINE A. WEL C H continued from page 1 and Medford.” Hoffman hopes that the new bikes will Editor-in-Chief Square and show them your helmet [you get] Hoffman echoed this sentiment and added help raise awareness of the program. Students EditoriaL free coffee.” that Boston is not a great city for bikes. interested in renting a bike can check one out J.L. Hoagland Meyer also emphasized the potential “There are a lot of people who want a from the library for eight hours or, if they take Stephanie Haven benefits of borrowing bicycles from the way to get around fast, but at the same time it after 10 p.m., can keep it overnight. Managing Editors bike share. might not want a car,” he said. “There is “I think what it comes down to is that there Justin Rheingold Executive News Editor “More than anything, [the bikes] give peo- the element of creating a bike-friendly envi- is a lot of potential for bike riding at Tufts,” he Daniel Bottino News Editors ple a nice way to get off of campus,” he said.

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