Where You Rain Read It First 53/31 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXIII, NUMBER 4 FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 TUFTSDAILY.COM Alumnus launches site to ϐǦ is an extremely good site for finding BY AMELIA QUINN Daily Editorial Board good restaurants because there are so many reviews, we hope that people, On a campus where rainbow flags when voting, will think that gay rights decorate fraternities and where are important and look at the site to both a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and decide how the politician stands.” Transgender (LGBT) Center and a While the site contains information Rainbow House exist to make LGBT and ratings on issues and people at a students feel at home, it can be all macro-level — such as on presidential too easy to slip into oblivion about candidates — it also allows users to the often-harsh climate just outside scope out and grade local businesses the Tufts bubble. But a new website and organizations with which people has made braving and navigating that may interact on a regular basis. outside world a much easier task for “It you have a gay child who wants the LGBT community. to sign up for a soccer league, you In an attempt to create a system that can look and see if any of them have will allow gays and their allies to rank particularly bad records for how they businesses and leaders on a scale from deal with gay kids,” Lowry said. “What extremely homophobic to extremely we hope is that this becomes a very gay-friendly, Travis Lowry (LA ’10) reliable source in which businesses has teamed up with his friend Conor and people respond to gay rights.” Clary to create RainbowChronicle. Lowry conceived the site in the com. The website, which launched on wake of a recent high-profile rash of Jan. 11, is intended to provide user- suicides among LGBT youth nation- generated content that calls attention wide. Rainbow Chronicle, Lowry said, to the actions and practices of people was inspired largely by the web-based and organizations, from elementary It Gets Better Project, through which schools to dive bars to celebrities and gay adults aim to prevent suicide everything in between. among their adolescent counterparts. “It’s very difficult to find a single As a group, gay adolescents are sta- resource that describes the voting tistically considered far more likely record of a politician,” Lowry, the to commit suicide than heterosexual site’s president and chief executive SCOTT TINGLEY/TUFTS DAILY officer, said. “In the manner that Yelp see LGBT, page 2 Senior Vice President for University Advancement Brian Lee, who has worked at Tufts for twenty-five years, will leave at the end of next month to assume his new position as vice president for development and institute relations at the California Institute of Technology. Senior VP Lee to assume new position at Caltech BY LIZZ GRAINGER “He built a really strong advancement Daily Editorial Board organization and operation over the years,” she said. “I think Tufts really expanded its Senior Vice President for Advancement capabilities over the last 15-20 years — Brian Lee will leave Tufts at the end of much more professional, capable organi- next month to assume his new posi- zations than in the past.” tion as vice president for development Lee joined the university in 1986 as and institute relations at the California associate director of development at Institute of Technology. the School of Veterinary Medicine and Since 2002, Lee has been responsible in 1987 became the school’s director of for fundraising, alumni relations, and development. advancement communications and ser- He also became assistant dean for vices for the entire university. resources in 1992. In 1995, he was appoint- University President Anthony Monaco ed director of development for the entire announced last month that he has appoint- university, and in 1999 he was named vice ed Executive Director of Development Eric president for development Johnson as acting vice president for univer- He has held his title as senior vice presi- OLIVER PORTER/TUFTS DAILY sity Advancement beginning in March. dent for university advancement since 2002. A geothermal well outside of Lane Hall will use the natural heat beneath the Earth’s Lee’s position at Caltech is effective According to Thurler, Lee gained valu- surface to heat and cool a classroom in Lane Hall. April 1. able experience in advancement activities “The invitation to lead and shape the during his nine years at the Cummings advancement operation of an institution School of Veterinary Medicine. Geothermal well to power such as Caltech represents a truly extraor- “He was very instrumental in reach- dinary professional opportunity,” Lee told ing goals at the [Cummings School of room in Lane Hall his Tufts colleagues in an email. Veterinary Medicine], which is the only Among Lee’s contributions to the uni- vet school in New England, so that’s a real BY LEAH LAZER who spearheaded the project. versity was his leadership of Beyond accomplishment,” Thurler said. Daily Editorial Board Garven, who has several observa- Boundaries: The Campaign for Tufts, a In an email to his colleagues, Lee reflect- tion wells throughout campus that university fundraising campaign that ed on his twenty-five years at Tufts. The Department of Geology and the he uses in his courses, wanted to concluded last June after reaching its “In 1986, I first arrived at Tufts’ Facilities Services Department have transform this observation well into a goal of $1.2 billion. Despite a challeng- Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine partnered to install a geothermal well geothermal well so that his students ing economic period, the campaign was to begin work as a development officer, which will be used to heat and cool a could learn more about geothermal the largest fundraising effort in univer- seeking philanthropic support for the classroom in Lane Hall. heating and cooling. sity history. School’s extraordinary programs and stu- The heat exchange unit — which is “I’m doing this because I wanted Lee was also responsible for leading the dents, alongside the dean and faculty,” he located outside of Lane Hall, where to show students how geologists and Tufts Tomorrow campaign, which con- said in the email. there is already a deep observation hydrologists use these wells to char- cluded in 2002 and raised $609 million for “Nine years passed with the blink of well for geology courses — will serve acterize the earth,” Garven said. the university. the eye, and I found myself in Medford/ as an educational opportunity for stu- The project is almost complete Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler Somerville, promoting the excellence of dents interested in geology, according said that Lee was an essential part of Tufts’ to Professor of Geology Grant Garven, see WELL, page 3 financial advancement as a university. see LEE, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections “Extremely Loud and Eleven players got News & Features 1 Sports 9 Incredibly Close” would in on the scoring for be a lot more poignant Tufts, as the women’s Arts & Living 5 Classifieds 11 if it didn’t try so hard to basketball team routed Comics 8 elicit tears. Emmanuel College. see ARTS, page 5 see SPORTS, page 9 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS & FEATURES Friday, January 27, 2012 THE TUFTS DAILY DANIEL J. RATHMAN Editor-in-Chief EDITORIAL Craig Frucht Ethan Sturm Managing Editors Laina Piera Executive News Editor Brionna Jimerson News Editors Elizabeth McKay Mahpari Sotoudeh Jenna Buckle Assistant News Editors Shana Friedman Nina Goldman Lizz Grainger Stephanie Haven Leah Lazer Victoria Leistman Patrick McGrath Melissa Wang Falcon Reese Executive Features Editor Amelia Quinn Features Editors Victoria Rathsmill Derek Schlom Kevin Criscione Assistant Features Editors Hannah Fingerhut Nadezhda Kazakova Matthew Welch Executive Arts Editor Zach Drucker Arts Editors Adam Kulewicz Melissa MacEwen Anna Majeski Joseph Stile Kate Griffiths Assistant Arts Editors Alexander Hanno Chris Poldoian Bhushan Deshpande Executive Op-Ed Editor David Kellogg Op-Ed Editors Seth Teleky Ard Ardalan Assistant Op-Ed Editors Yiota Kastritis Elayne Stecker Devon Colmer Cartoonists Wes Engel JODI BOSIN/TUFTS DAILY Louie Zong Anna Christian Editorialists RainbowChronicle.com solicits user feedback on the friendliness of political figures and local businesses toward the LGBT community. Jonathan Green Elliot Philips Michael Restiano Carter Rogers Joyt Singh Aaron Leibowitz Executive Sports Editor Matthew Berger Sports Editors Lauren Flament ǯ Claire Kemp Kate Klots David McIntyre egory are based on an aggregate of worked with Lowry and Clary on the Alex Prewitt LGBT Alex Baudoin Assistant Sports Editors continued from page 1 individual user opinion of four cri- site’s development, said. Zachey Kliger Connor Rose adolescents. teria: voting record, publicly stated “If we miss anything, then other “I thought we could take the power views on LGBT issues, inclusion of users can flag it and bring it to our Justin McCallum Executive Photo Editor Jodi Bosin Photo Editors of the Internet and user-generated LGBT constituents and/or employees attention. We don’t allow any kind Will Butt reviews, and instead of telling people and the user’s personal experience of obscene images on the website,” Ashley Seenauth Scott Tingley that it will eventually get better in with the leader. Carter said. Caroline Geiling Assistant Photo Editors the future, we could use the Internet Of more immediate value for users, Carter emphasized the site’s goal of Takuma Koide Misaka Ono to make it better now [by shedding] specific businesses — including Davis serving and informing the population Oliver Porter light on businesses and leaders who Square staples such as Dave’s Fresh at large rather than solely focusing on Andrew Schneer Kyra Sturgill are accepting, and also [by drawing] Pasta and Boston Burger Company, a niche of LGBT individuals.