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Today: Mostly Sunny High 32 Low 25 THE TUFTS Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Mostly Cloudy High 33 Low 27 Since 1980 VOLUME LI, NUMBER 11 DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2006 Provost to pull Sophia Gordon double-duty resident-selection BY ROB SILVERBLATT process released Daily Editorial Board As of a special election held on Feb. BY KAT SCHMIDT Daily Editorial Board 8, Somerville Alderman-at-Large Denise Provost may now add the title of “Massachusetts State Representative” to With construction on the new her resume. Sophia Gordon Hall dormitory on- Provost — an attorney, Democrat and schedule to be completed for the start current alderman-at-large — won the of the 2006-2007 academic year, the uncontested election for the 27th Middlesex Office of Residential Life and Learning District seat with 93 percent of the vote. (ORLL) has released information on The seat was vacated when former the process for selecting residents. Representative Pat Jehlen was elected “This is an exciting time for our to a position in the Massachusetts State upperclass students, and [Sophia Senate. Gordon] will provide more hous- Provost will take her seat midway ing and more on campus options through a two-year term, so her agenda is [for] apartments on campus,” ORLL still uncertain. As much of the legislation Director Yolanda King said. for the term has already been proposed, The new dormitory will make avail- her work “partly...depends on which com- LISA CHOW/TUFTS DAILY able 124 additional on-campus beds, mittees I’m assigned to,” she said. Ted Sorenson, speechwriter for former President John F. Kennedy, speaks at the Fletcher intended mainly for students in the Provost’s election has been well- School of Law and Diplomacy. roughly 1,200-member Class of 2007. received. The dormitory will only contain Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone is confi- single-occupancy rooms, grouped dent that Provost is prepared to fit right in. Strong words from JFK scribe into 24 four-person and four six- “I would submit that Denise is ready to hit person suites. It will also include a the ground running,” he said. BY AUGUST HALES administration directly following the dis- multipurpose lounge/theatre space, He also feels that she will inter- Contributing Writer covery of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962 a second-floor mezzanine lounge, act well with the rest of the Somerville as an example, Sorenson referred to a time enclosed study lounges and storage Representatives. “They advocate with... Former special council and advisor to when American foreign policy was cen- for bicycles. Its two buildings, which persistence and tenacity. Denise will fit President John F. Kennedy, Theodore “Ted” tered on pursuing legal and diplomatic face each other, will be connected by right in,” he said. Sorenson addressed Tufts students last alternatives to armed conflict. a partially-underground breezeway. Political figures on the Tufts campus night on the importance of law and diplo- In taking all the requisite steps to ensure Students may apply for Sophia have also voiced support for Provost. macy in an increasingly globalized world. that its actions adhered to international Gordon’s 24 four-person suites in sin- “She’s extremely passionate about issues A member of the Council of Foreign law, the Kennedy administration was able gle-gender or in co-ed groups, and that affect the day-to-day lives of her con- Relations, the Commission on the to maintain the support of the interna- applications are due Feb. 13. At that stituents, such as housing, education and White House Fellows and the Century tional community while averting a disaster point, students’ lottery numbers will health care,” said Aaron Banks, President Foundation, Sorenson spoke in the ASEAN of global proportions, Sorenson said. be averaged, and their eligibility for of the Tufts Democrats. “She’s very progres- Auditorium at the Fletcher School of Law This adherence to international law is a suite determined. Selected groups sive, liberal and very thoughtful.” and Diplomacy as a part of the Charles not the case today, Sorenson said. “We may then select their suites according Curtatone praised Provost’s financial Francis Adams lecture series. have people in power who think interna- to their lottery averages. knowledge and hopes she will help to make The author of eight books on politics tional law is optional,” he said, referring Students may also apply as indi- health care more affordable on the local and the presidency, including “Kennedy” to the current administration’s decision to viduals for the one all-female, one all- level. and “Why I Am a Democrat,” Sorenson bypass the UN Security Council to invade male and two co-ed six-person suites. “The issue of the cost of health care was introduced to the audience by Dean Iraq, the withdrawal from the protocol of Those rooms will be selected during coverage is something that really has an Stephen Bosworth of the Fletcher School the International Court of Justice and the the seniors’ night of the general hous- impact on cities and towns,” he said. as “the gold standard of speech writers.” accusations of violations of the Geneva ing lottery. Curtatone also hopes Provost will be Though in his 80s, Sorenson spoke Convention. It remains uncertain exactly what able to increase the amount of state aid to forcefully and without the aid of notes to On the domestic front, Sorenson criti- effect Sophia Gordon will have on the Somerville to “the level...we had in 2002.” an audience composed mostly of graduate cized the Bush administration’s attempts to housing situation for upperclassmen. Since then, he said, Governor Mitt Romney students on what he views as a disturb- defend the National Security Agency (NSA) Availability of on-campus apartments has reduced the flow of money. ing turn away from law and diplomacy in wiretapping program. Quoting former varies from semester to semester American foreign and domestic policy. See PROVOST, page 2 Offering the actions of the Kennedy see SORENSON, page 2 see SOPHIA, page 2 Mooney decries ‘war on science’ BY PRANAI CHEROO donors.” Daily Staff Writer According to Mooney, the Republican party injects Journalist Chris Mooney doubt into scientific consen- addressed Cabot Auditorium sus through “well-funded think last night on the “erosion of tanks that attack mainstream science in modern [American] conclusions and create the per- politics.” ception that there are two cred- “A huge gulf has opened ible sides to the issue.” between Republican leaders He refined his argument by and leaders in science,” Mooney conceding that the political left said. will sometimes tilt science to Mooney, who has worked suit its purposes, but held that JO DUARA/TUFTS DAILY as both a political and sci- the Republicans of the present ence journalist, is the author administration are “vastly more Going once, going twice...for a cause of the recently-published “The guilty” of such offenses. Republican War on Science.” Mooney also discussed the When senior and Asian “Much of the Vietnamese toward tsunami relief. This year, He provided numerous exam- possibility that information pro- Community at Tufts (ACT) community down there were war auction proceeds — which ples of ways the Republican vided by government organiza- President Adrienne Poon returned refugees coming with nothing amounted to slightly over $1,000 party “ignores or distorts sci- tions such as the Food and Drug to Tufts after traveling to the and trying to survive off fishing,” — will go to the Boat People SOS entific findings to appease spe- Administration, the Center for Mississippi Gulf Coast as part of Poon said. “Now that livelihood Organization, which, according cial interest groups, [including a Tufts Volunteer Vacation last is wiped out as well.” to its Web site, provides “relief, religious groups] and corporate see MOONEY, page 3 month, she couldn’t shake the In an effort to provide assis- assistance, and support to feeling that she could do more. tance to the Vietnamese com- Vietnamese refugees and immi- “I definitely got the impres- munity, ACT partnered with the grants in their search for freedom INSIDE INDEX sion that a privileged community Vietnamese Students Club (VSC) and dignified life.” was giving help to a privileged to hold a charity auction last “Language barriers are the News | Features 1 It’s ‘the final Arts | Living 5 community,” Poon said. “I often night in Alumnae Lounge. The primary reason why this commu- countdown’ Editorial | Letters 8 wondered about the needs of services that were auctioned nity has been unable to receive for Arrested National 9 those who were the working included everything from special the benefit of the aid available for Development International 11 class or in poverty before the sQ! and breakdance performanc- them through the Red Cross and Comics 12 storm.” es (see freshman Austin Worth, FEMA,” Poon said. “It’s important see ARTS, page 5 Classifieds 13 As Poon discovered, a size- pictured above) to bhangra and to remember the needs of such Sports Back page able portion of that segment cooking lessons. communities and make sure that is from Vietnam (over 7,000 Funds raised at last year’s they are not forgotten about.” Vietnamese live in New Orleans). annual ACT charity event went —Patrice Taddonio tuftsdaily.com 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Friday, February 10, 2006 UNHCR’s Albrecht speaks at Inter-Cultural Week event Provost keeps B Y RACHEL LEVEN Madeline Albright and other for- flicts and of refugee crises that “Preserving asylum means Contributing Writer mer refugees, including a rapper, prevail today.” challenging the notion that refu- alderman post a journalist and a sex therapist. Albrecht cited three issues gees and asylum seekers are the The International Club kicked Albrecht then summarized the that must be addressed in the agents of insecurity or terrorism PROVOST off its Inter-Cultural Week early history of the UNCHR and the future by the UNHCR, govern- rather than its victims,” he said.