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e ITHE TUFTS DAILY - i \!‘here you read it first Monday, April 11,1988 Volume XM, Number 49 Fire Damages Crafts House All Resider& Forced to Move Out afternoon consoling one an- by BILL LABOVITZ The students met yesterday other and retrieving personal morning to discuss housing A one-alarm fire at the items, which the students with Dean of Students Bob- Crafts House early yesterday said sustained smoke damage. bie Knable, Director of morning caused an estimated Residents said yesterday Housing John Darcey, Direc- $20,000 worth of damage, they are all being housed in tor of Public Safety David forcing house residents to live dormitory rooms and will de- Flanders and Dean Elizabeth elsewhere for the remainder cide at a later point whether Toupin, who was the dean on of the semester, officials said. to move off-campus. “We call at the time of the fire. There were no injuries. will not be back [in the house] House residents and other The fire, reported at ap- until next fall,” said fresh- see FIRE, Page 15 proximately 12:15 a.m., is be- man Flvnn Pritchard. lieved to have been caused by a malfunctioning circuit Spacebridge Speakers breaker, according to Somer- ville District Fire Chief Frank Kelley. Call for Stability Kelley said the rear cellar the project over the next three area and the landing for the by CHRIS BALL years. The agreement was interior stairwell sustained Soviet and American pane- signed when Sherwin and 65 heavy fire damage. The entire lists at the second interactive Tufts students visited the So- building also suffered heavy satellite link-up between viet Union over Tufts Spring smoke damage. He estimated Tufts and Moscow State Uni- Break. that the addition of clean-up versities stressed the need for see SOVIET, Page 18 expenses could bring &he total #giitW undekstapding be- Students See repair cost to $SO,OOO,+. tweei the superpowers to A Boston Edison crew shut achieve strategic stability. Improvements off all power to the building Panelists and students also by CHRIS BALL after firefighters brought the discussed other current blaze under control. Exten- superpower issues, including Saturday’s spacebridge on sive rewiring will be required. the the recent INF treaty and strategic stability was an im- The 14 residents of the nuclear arms reduction. provement over the first satel- Somerville fnefighters at the Crafts House early Sunday house, located at 14 Profes- The satellite link-up, also lite link-up, several students morning. sors Row, spent yesterday called a spacebridge, is part of said. the Global Classroom Project Students interviewed said Panels Urge Education Against . started on an experimental that at the first spacebridge basis between Tufts and there was not as much Moscow State. Professor interaction among the pane- . Prejudice Martin Sherwin, the direc- dent of the Tufts Democrats, J. lists and the audience. of three panels, was held by tor of Tufts Nuclear Age and “There was not as much by SCOTT DAMELIN the Tufts Democrats in Bar- ‘‘ [addressed] the crucial issues that affect us every day and Humanities Center, is in communication [at the first Panelists at a symposium num 8. charge of the Tufts end of the spacebridge],” one student Saturday agreed \ that The panelists said they help us face these issues in the Tufts community.” project. Academician Yev- said. homophobia, racism and sex- thought that the students must geny P. Velikhov heads the “This time we really dis- ismare prevalent on the Tufts be educated about the various The symposium, which was co-sponsored by the dean of Soviet side. cussed things,” another stu- cmapus and that both faculty problems on campus in order Sherwin announced at the dent said. students, dean of and students must make an ef- for them to be solved. spacebridge that he and Ve- Professor Martin Sherwin, fort to solve these problems. ‘‘The symposium,” accor- undergraduate studies, the likhov had signed an agree- see STUDENTS, Page 6 The symposium,.- consisting ding to Matt Freedman, presi- Tufts Lesbian and Gay Com- munity, the African-American ment March 24 to continue ‘T’ Fire Forces Evacuations Society, the Asian Studies Club and the Women’s Collec- A fire on a MBTA subway train heading from Porter to Davis tive, began with opening Square Saturday afternoon led to the evacuation of over 300 pas- remarks by Max Herman, vice sengers and a 40-minute delay on that section of the Red Line, president of the Tufts MBTA Public Information Officer Peter Diamond said yester- Democrats. day. Herman, chair of the sym- The fire, in the motor section of the second car in a four-car posium committee, said, “by train, was discovered at 3:32 p.m., Diamond said. sponsoring the symposium, “The train had just left Porter on the way to Davis,” he said. [we are] filling the needs of the The train was located 30 feet north of the Porter Square station Tufts conmmunity to have a on the northbound side. forum to talk about the According to Diamond, power was turned off and the 300 to issues.. Events like this seek 350 passengers on the train were sent to the rear two cars, where to promote equality and officials evacuated them using a ladder at the rear of the train. understanding among both No injuries were reported. minorities and majorities.” During the 40-minute delay on the Red Line, the MBTA used The first panel of the sym- four shuttle buses to transport passengers between the Harvard posium dealt with Square and Alewife stations, Diamond said. homophobia. Panelists includ- From left to right, Antonia H. Chayes, former Air Force The Cambridge Fire Department responded to the fire. updersecrtary; Prof. Martin J. Sherwin; McGeorge Bundy, see SYMPOSIUM, page 20 farmer a@mijI sesstity acbkp. * .A 7 l-0 \.-.-- Preventing AIDS At Tufts the syndrome is both fatal and tion period. Symptoms may by JOELLE BIELE Dr. George &zone, direc- AIDS is transmitted sexually; 100 percent preventable. appear in three months, five tor of Health Services at Tufts, if you are not active, chances The following is the first in a ALDS is a blood-related years, or never. This means an said during an interview with of acquiring the virus are low. four part series on AIDs at Tufts, disease which destroys the im- unknowing carrier may be the Daily, ‘‘nebest way of at- As of 1986 there were no the resources available for mune system, leaving one spreading the virus to others. preventing it, and student reac open to infections. Not highly According to the American “If I don’t have a condom on me, I don’t tion to it. Part two will appear contagious, the AIDS virus, College Health Association, 70 tomorrow. Human Immundeficiency to 75 percent of AIDS cases in- Want to go get one.. .it’d break the moment, Walking into the lobby of Virus, is transmitted through clude homosexual and bisexual your dorm, you go over to the intimate sexual contact, con- men and 17 percent are IV plus I don’t want to insult someone. Hav- wall of mailboxes, wondering taminated needles, blood and drug users. The rest include ing them think I think they have a disease if any mail is in your connec- blood products. HIV is ex- prostitutes, blood transfusion tion with the outside world. tremely fragile and easily recipients, heterosexuals, and would Win it.” Throwing your heavy back- tacking AIDS is through reported cases of AIDS among -pack on the floor, you search education We want to in- your pockets to find the box’s ... homosexual women. Recrea- crease the awareness of all tional drugs and alcohol can key. After a few seconds of jig- students, all faculty, and all gling with the lock, the door impair judgement and staff.” decision-making, which may opens to reveal mail! You Only a handful of reported quickly flip through the lead to activities that cause the AIDS cases exist on Amreican transmission of STDs, drugs envelopes, bills, and college campuses. Newsweek’s magazines. “Nope, nothing such as “poppers” can On Campus reported in the damage the immune system. If interesting,” you sigh. April 1987 issue that only 75 “Ooooh, what’s this? Pam- we are not under substance in- students were known to be car- fluence the opportunity to phlets? ‘AIDS.. .What rying the disease while “there Everyone Should Know’ and become infected are reduced. are several hundred campus Gay and bisexual men are at ‘Making Sex Safer.’ cases of ARC.” These statistics Hmmmm.. .” greatest risk of getting AIDS. are decieving, since the in- The homosexual community Tufts University has cubation period for AIDS is mounted an educational cam- has been dealing seriously with approximated at five years the syndrome since the first paign to inform its students, and, due to confidentiality faculty, and staff about Ac- US outbreak in 1981. It has laws, the numbers are possibly greatly affected heir sexual ac- quired Immune Deficiency lower than the actual cases. Syndrome and other sexually tivity. THe bath-houses and Surgeon General C.’Everett ‘back-rooms’ that were once transmitted diseases. As part Koop said in his Report on of a nation-wide effort to help Health Services Director George Rizzone popular in the 1970s are destroyed by mild soaps and infants born with the disease. AIDS, “Adolescents and pre- almost non-existent today. As people learn about the condi- -adolescents are those whose tion and its causes and com- disinfectants once outside the The association said thbt in the one student put it, “Once you body. It is not spread by casual United States there are cur- behavior we wish to especially watch your friends die from it municability, the university influence because of their has embarked on numerous contact.