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CTHE TUFTS DAILY7 Medford, MA 02155 Monday, March 4,1991 Vol XXII, Number 34 Writing New council for special requirement interest houses planned by JANINE BILLY held at special interest houses. might be Daily Editorial Board Mark Goldner, Bayit resident, Members of Tufts’ special said that the council has gotten interest houses are currently in “very positive” support from both implemented the process of forming a special the Bayit and the Jewish Culture by PETER QUATTROMANI interest house council, according Club, the campus organization Contributing Wrira to Candice Greenberg, a Tufts associated with the house. The Tufts Writing Intensive Community Union senator. McGinty, said that the council Program, now in its third year, Greenberg, a member of the will ask for Senate funding for has grown steadily in size and Senate Culture and Ethnic Com- events if and when it receives may eventually become a Liberal minee and Arts House resident, TCUJ funding. She said that house Arts and Jackson College require- said that several members of events are currently funded by ment under the new title of Writ- special interest houses brought the organization or club working ing Workshop, according to As- the idea to her Senate district with the house. sistant ProfeSsor of English and meeting two weeks ago. She said Greenberg said that the Senate Program Coordinator Ann Van that the council will be a “secu- Culture and Ethnic Committee Sant. rity blanket,” or support network favors creating such a group. She Based on a faculty vote in for the houses. said, however, that she did not March of 1986 that recognized Currently, there are between believe the special interest house that some students are insuffi- Seven and ten members of the group would get any financial ciently trained in writing, the unofficial council. Greenberg said support from the Senate. She added faculty decided to begin a writing that the Tufts Community Union that she feels members of the technique program that would Judiciary requires a 15-person special interest houses also do eventually be implemented as an membership before it will recog- not want a connection to the Senate. LAW core requirement with nize a student organization. She McGinty said that last year writing workshopcourses offered said that if the group gets enough there was talk of giving a special in every department. Van Sant members in the next couple of interest house to a fraternity. A was hired in the fall of 1987 to weeks it will apply for recogni- council could prevent such an create the writing program. tion. idea from being talked about “The Writing Workshop Pro- - Rebecca Shannon, president because the houses would be gram is based on the assumption Photo by Jen Kleinschmid, of the Arts House, believes that “taken seriously,” she said. that teaching a method of inquiry Bill Slackman law in two of his team-high 26 in Saturdav’s win. the council will increase visibil- In addition, Greenberg said that is at least as important as teach- ity of the houses. She said she the council would “give defini- ing a body of knowledge. There- hopes that the council will en- tion” to the special interest houses fore, the Writing Wolkshop courses Jumbos drop Cardinals courage students to appreciate the for the campus and the house focus attention both on the tradi- value of the specialty houses. residents. Greenberg believes that tionally defined course material First ECAC tourney win since 1982 According to Rikki McGinty, most Tufts students do not know and on the writing process -- from by PAUL HORAN at Cousens early this semester. president of the German Club, much about special interest houses, exploration to revision -- with the Senior Staff Writer The game on Saturday night German House resident, and Origi- pointing out that they are not listed aim of providing a model for Tufts’ men’s basketball team went the Jumbos’ way from the nator of the idea for the council, in the Pachyderm. investigation and communication took its first step in the Eastern beginning, as they led from start the council will give the houses “They’re a very nebulous that students can use independ- College Athletic Conference tour- to finish. Jumping out quickly to representation in the Tufts com- thing,” she said. ently in their other academic nament with a 97-82 victory a 10-2 lead, Tufts seemed unaf- munity. Currently special inter- Goldner said that many stu- work,” Van Sant said. against Wesleyan in Cousens Gym fected by any post-season pres- est houses are not represented by dents are not aware of campus Although the number of Writ- on Saturday night. It was the second sure. The game stayed fairly close the Inter-Dorm Council, she said. organization affiliations with the ing Workshop courses has in- time that the Jumbos defeated the for most of the first half until, McGinty said that the houses specialty houses, noting that HIllel creased from 13 offered over the Cardinals, the first coming dur- with4:35 lefttogo, forwardLarry would be more successful in is not associated with the Bayit as 1988-89 academic year to 13 ing the regular season in a one- Norman converted on a three- achieving rights spgcialty how is commonly thought. offeringsthis semester alone, Van point Tufts victory on the road. point play to give the Jumbos a with such a council. According to Greenberg, the Sant said there have been prob- ?he win was also the first for 39-30-lead. That play started a McGinty said that the council council will probably be run as a lems with students’ perceptions Tufts in ECAC tournament play 14-6 run until halftime which has received support from the collective similar to thewomen’s of the program. since winning the title in 1982.. included seven points for Nor- German House. Collective, a group without title- “Some students are apprehen- Thanks to Babson College’s man and gave the team a 50-36 According to Greenberg, the holding officers. She said that a sive because the word ‘intensive’ upset victory against second- lead at intermission. council will work as a social and president might be prone to rep- sounds frightening. In most cases, seeded Brandeis, the third-seeded Tufts cruised for most of the organizationalcommittee. She said resent only his or her house and students don’t realize that the kind Jumbos will host another tourna- second half, scoring ten points that, by working together, the since the group is “a conglomer- ment game. Wednesday night see WRITING, page 17 on see MHOOPS, page 9 houses could drum up support for see HOUSES, page 10 at7:OO. Babson beatTufts,91-81 dances, parties, and lectures being Arab goals may threaten The simple signs of war and peace by GEOFF EDGERS military [were] doing.” stability in Middle East Senior Staff Wrirer Though his method of expres- “Nuke Iraq.” The message is sion may not be widelyimitated, by CHRISTOPHER BALL ness of the Arab allies. senior staff wrim The question before the United simple, the implications might Yim is not alone in his emotions While the public is.mostly States and theEuropean and Arab not be. Freshman Toby Yim placed or his desire to express them in euphoric over the Allied military members of the coalition is how the two four-letter words on his some way. The war has brought victory and is focused on the terms to establish relations between states window in Houston Hall three on an increased need for many to that insure peace in the region. days after the first Scud missile express themselves about the War Commentary “If we cannot win the peace, hit Israel. events. What may have been a our military victory could turn “I was looking for a four-letter war of missiles and death in the of the ceasefrre with Iraq, state- out to be a Qrrhic victory,” said word and nuke seemed all right,” Middle East became a war of ments from Arab capitals augur a Italian Foreign Minister Gianni Yim said. “I [felt] very angry slogans and signs back home. squandering of the victory by the De Michelis last week. about what Hussein and the Iraqi However, Yii recognizes that with plitical ambition and vindictive- It had been noted well before the benefits of the powerful di- the air war and ground offensive rectness of slogans and symbols that any military victory would comes the risk of over-simplifi- Photo by Julio Mota fail to resolve the fundamental cation of the issues. A war-time patriotic gesture Inside C “With any country that has p. 3 roots of the conflict. viewpoints ...................... “Neither military action nor inflamedpatriotism there’s always “It was not so much a political War and peace -- no not the Tolstoy status quo ante peace will remedy the danger of evolving towards issue, but it was just to remind novel, but three articles on what it all jingoism,” said Yim, a member people that there’s a war going means in the new world order. the incipient turmoil of Arabia, where the vast disparity between of the Tufts Community Union on,” Milberg explained. EPIIC ........................ pp.4-5 rich and poor creates bitter con- Senate. “I hope I’m not contrib- Milberg has sensed the clash Distinguished panelists confronted flict within and among nations, uting to that.” between theTufts anti-war move- political and social evil in many terms at where a US ‘victory,’ by arms or Another popular method of ment and the flag bearers. Mil- this weekend’s symposium. ultimatum, will only strengthen expression during the Gulf crisis berk resents what he construes as belligerent forces like Iran and has been flag hanging.

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