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THE TUFTS Where You Tufts’ Student Newspaper Read It First Since 1980 VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER 48 DAILY THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 18, 2004 Law requires colleges to allow military recruiters on campus BY ZOSIA SZTYKOWSKI gy, according to Kelly Field, a don’t tell” policy on homosexuali- Daily Editorial Board reporter with the Chronicle of ty. “Some schools don’t want to Higher Education. have military recruiters on cam- A bill passed last month that HR 4200 also requires military pus because their stance is a vio- disallows some types of federal recruiters’ access to students to lation of the school’s nondiscrim- funding to colleges and universi- be “equal in quality and scope to ination policy,” Greenfield said. ties that ban military recruiters the access to campuses and to “This is similar to what would from their campuses has raised students that is provided to any happen when any recruiter legal, constitutional and ethical other employer.” comes onto campus and said ‘we questions. “There are no pros to this legis- only want to hire white people, or The bill, HR 4200, is an exten- lation,” said Kent Greenfield, a we only want to hire women,’” sion of the Solomon Amendment professor at the Boston College Greenfield said. “The schools are passed in 1996, which excludes Law School. Greenfield is the saying, ‘no we don’t want to treat colleges from receiving funds founder of the Forum for these recruiters equally if they from the Department of Defense Academic and Institutional discriminate against some of our if they bar military recruiters from Rights, a group of 25 law schools students.’” their campuses. that filed one of the first lawsuits But President of Tufts The new bill broadens the pre- against the government over the Republicans Nicholas Boyd said vious one to include funding from Solomon Amendment. the bill is not offensive to univer- the Homeland Security and Greenfield argues that both sities’ rights and policies. Transportation Departments, the laws are a violation of institu- “Colleges are free to make their Department of Energy’s National tions’ First Amendment rights. own choice in this matter,” he Nuclear Security Administration “What I’m fighting for is the right said. “Suggesting that colleges and the CIA. of educational institutions to should receive federal funds and Funding from these depart- make their own decisions,” he simultaneously have the right to ments is usually given to universi- said. avoid even the most minimal ties conducting research on Added controversy arises due JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY defense, transportation, or ener- to the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, see RECRUITERS, page 4 A member of the Tufts ROTC unit prepares to leave for training. NASA forensics Prof. tackles search for alien life BY JIM FORD tal geology; our aim is to perform verti- Contributing Writer cal chemistry,” Kounaves said. “We Is there life on Mars? One Tufts pro- want to find answers to basic questions fessor and his research team, many of such as ‘Is there water there?’, ‘How whom are undergraduates, are using long has it been there?’ and ‘Is the previously untried techniques to help planet theoretically habitable?’” answer this question. Though the team’s research would be Chemistry Professor Samuel groundbreaking, Kounaves said the Kounaves took on the project four underlying concepts are not too years ago when NASA created the advanced. “Because we know so little “Mars Scout Missions” program, under about the surface of Mars, the science which academic teams compete to of the project is very simple,” he said. design an original study of possible The project will include the contri- Martian life forms. butions of undergraduates. “It gives “NASA placed a $325 million limit on them an opportunity to work on cut- the mission and over 30 groups sub- ting edge-research early on in their mitted proposals” Kounaves said. “The careers,” Kounaves said, adding that goal was to create a landing device that his researchers come from varying aca- would land on the surface and perform demic backgrounds. “The project is analytical tests.” very interdisciplinary,” he said. Previous studies of Mars’ surface Junior Jason Kapit, who has been have been conducted by the Mars working on Kounaves’ team since the Rover, but Kounaves said his team is summer, agreed. “I am an engineering working on an entirely different physics major but I’m actually working approach to studying the red planet. on the chemistry of it right now. On the While the Mars Rover uses horizon- Mars lander there is a carbon dioxide tal X-rays to examine the geology of the tester and I am working on determin- planet’s surface, Kounaves’ team “will ing what temperature the lander JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY be the first to drill into the ground and should be kept at in order for this tester Dr. Jim Hallock of NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board delivered actually perform wet chemical analy- to work properly,” he said. a lecture entitled “The Forensics of the Space Shuttle Columbia” to students yesterday at sis,” he said. noon in Halligan Hall. The event was sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and “The Mars Rover performs horizon- see MARS, page 2 Electronics Engineers. INSIDE Red Bull pursues on-campus promotions, seeks to end mystery A review of ‘National BY KATHERINE LEVAN can suspended by wings, a this mysterious drink.” version that contains only 10 Treasure,’ directed by Jon Contributing Writer sculpture of a bull penned in a Much of the mystery sur- calories and three grams of Turteltaub. cage, and a steam liner, all of rounding Red Bull derives from carbohydrates. see ARTS, page 5 Red Bull is working to make which were constructed out of bans on the drink in some “In general we think that sug- itself the energy drink of choice Red Bull cans. The winner European countries after ary drinks are a major cause for for weary library-bound college receives a trip for two to the deaths supposedly related to the epidemic of obesity that we students by running campus 51st annual International Arts mixing the drink with alcohol have in this country,” said outreach campaigns, including Exhibition in Venice, Italy. or consuming it immediately Medical Director of Health one at Tufts this year. “Any student can enter. You after a heavy workout. Services Margaret Higham. Red Bull’s student brand can melt them, cut them up, Although Red Bull is often “As for caffeine, it would manager at Tufts is sophomore [and] build whatever,” Cohen used as a mixer or a chaser in depend on how much they were Elad Cohen, whose current said. parties or at clubs, recent taking a day and what symp- project is coordinating a con- Cohen has also worked on research in Brazil showed there toms resulted from that,” test where students use cans of Red Bull’s visibility at Tufts at is no physiological change to Higham said. Red Bull contains Red Bull to create works of art. the Entrepreneurial Conference the human body after consum- less caffeine than the average INDEX The contest is part of a and the Jumbo Jam earlier this ing a combination of Red Bull cup of coffee. nationwide grassroots market- semester. and alcohol, and researchers Hingham said the only way News | Features 1-4 ing campaign that employs stu- Red Bull use marketing tools attributed the popularity of the to feel truly refreshed is by “get- Arts | Living 5 dent brand managers to like contests to “target college combination to the placebo ting enough sleep. There’s no Editorial | Letters 10 encourage Red Bull consump- students and try to build cus- effect. shortchange stimulant that National 13 tion. Red Bull supports student tomer loyalty,” Cohen said. This does not mean that Red gives the body what it needs.” International 19 activities on campus, and “People don’t really under- Bull is a “healthy” energy drink, The beverage was first manu- Comics 24 stand [Red Bull],” Cohen said, however. It contains 110 calo- factured in Austria in 1987, and Classifieds 25 brand managers receive free who added that people have ries, 200 milligrams of sodium, derives its stimulant power Sports Back page Red Bull. Past entries to the Red Bull told him they thought the drink and 28 grams of carbohydrates, see RED BULL, page 2 tuftsdaily.com can art contest have included a was dangerous. “They think it’s although there is a low-sugar 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Thursday, November 18, 2004 CITY BRIEFS Education lobbying to REPORT FINDS SOMERVILLE POLICE INEFFECTIVE UNDER POOR LEADERSHIP govt increases nationally A report released Friday by former attorney general Scott Harshberger Tufts remains low on list of spenders found the Somerville Police BY DANNY LUTZ mittee. Department to be “disorganized, poor- Daily Editorial Board The study found that “a ly led and internally divided” under one percent increase in lob- current Police Chief George McLean. Bucking a national trend bying expenditures by a uni- Mayor Joseph Curatone commis- towards increased spending versity without representa- sioned the report, which also recom- on lobbyists, Tufts ranks low tion ... results in a 0.15 per- mends empowering the mayor to alter on the list of big spenders. cent increase in earmarks,” appointment procedure for future Colleges and universities while if the university is rep- police chiefs. “The [current] chief is not have come to rely more and resented by a senator, the perceived as a leader and he is seen as more upon federal grants, increase is on average 0.35 being controlled by a small core of forcing them to earmark percent.

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