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The Tufts Daily Today: PM Showers High 52 Low 46 THE TUFTS Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper PM Showers High 63 Low 43 Since 1980 VOLUME LI, NUMBER 54 DAILY MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2006 Relay for Life brings in record funds Internet plays key role BY KAT SCHMIDT AND MARC RAIFMAN in campus campaigns Daily Editorial Board B Y KAT SCHMIDT Board (ELBO), views the Internet When many of their friends were D AILY EDITORIAL BOARD as the most important campaign kicking back on Friday night, 500 tool in the election. Tufts students kicked up their heels Blogs and Web sites are sup- “From my perspective I saw to walk in Relay for Life, a 12-hour planting door knocks and snail the Internet as the main form of event to raise money for cancer mail in elections around the campaigning in this specific elec- research. country, and Tufts is no excep- tion,” he said. “Although there The event, which took place tion. were other methods like chalking, simultaneously in various locales The Apr. 20 TCU presidential signs and T-shirts, I think that the nationwide, was hosted in the Tufts election showed the increasing Internet provided the most effec- Gantcher Center’s indoor track. utility of the Internet in campus tive and used form to campaign- Individual students and teams elections. In one surprisingly ing this time around. walked all night, from 6 p.m. to 6 accurate predictor of the election, “Candidates were monitoring a.m. the proportions of people in the their support through Facebook. “We’ve had a really successful three candidates’ Facebook.com com groups, advertising in theirs’ event,” senior and Relay for Life co- groups mirrored, within five per- and others’ Facebook pictures,” chair Josh Ludmer said. With $73,000 centage points, the percentage of Weldai said. “I’ve never seen as raised, he said, the group has already the total vote those candidates many campaign emails go out to broken records from the past two MARC RAIFMAN/TUFTS DAILY received in the actual election. candidates’ chosen ‘e-lists’ as in Students walk in Friday’s Relay for Life in Tufts’ Gantcher Center. years. The event is only in its third Winner Mitch Robinson cap- this presidential election.” year. tured 51.8 percent of the student Robinson’s campaign man- “This year I was hoping for Ludmer, along with co-chair the center of the track. Some napped vote. The day of the election, his ager, senior Robin Liss, said that $70,000, and we got it,” Ludmer said, senior Jon Godsey and American on sleeping bags they had brought Facebook.com group logged 384 the Robinson campaign “under- adding that he expects additional Cancer Society (ACS) representa- to help them last through the night. members, or 48.1 percent of the stood from very early on that the donations from area businesses. tive Jillian Gurek, took on the mas- Live bands and CDs provided total people registered in student Internet was important.” A total of 48 teams participated sive task of arranging the event. The entertainment at the non-alcoholic campaign groups. Robinson highlighted in the event. Among the 16 teams organizers’ hard work paid off. event. Harish Perkari, the second- Facebook.com as a key aspect of that raised the most money were “We tried to reach out a little Sophomore Elana Cohen-Khani place finisher, came out with 32.6 his campaign. fraternities Theta Delta Chi, Theta more into the community” with fly- participated as part of the Hawaii percent support in the election; “It gave you the chance to get Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Zeta Psi and ers, press releases and the involve- Club Team. “People [are] coming and his Facebook.com group list- an idea of your support group, Alpha Tau Omega, as well as sorori- ment of additional cancer survivors, and going,” she said, with replace- ed 300 members, or 37.6 percent and also made it easy to com- ties Alpha Omicron Pi and the senior Ludmer said. “People knew a lot ments rotating in and out to replace of total persons registered in stu- municate.” he said, adding that pledge classes of Alpha Phi and Chi about Relay this year. It’s catching exhausted team members. dent campaign groups. “in retrospect, [the Internet] was Omega. on.” Cohen-Khani kept her energy up Third-place candidate Denise really the tool that was going to The team that raised the most Five hundred participants were with a Dunkin’ Donuts “Box of Joe.” Lyn-Shue garnered 15.6 percent set us apart.” money was student drama group registered for the event. Activity in One of Cohen-Khani’s team in the election and logged 113 Outgoing TCU President Jeff Pen, Paint and Pretzels, which alone the gym peaked around 10 p.m., members has family connections members in her Facebook.com Katzin, a senior, also credited the raised nearly $8,000. Ludmer said, although at 12:30 a.m., to someone with cancer, which group, good for14.7 percent of the Internet as an important cam- Top ranking non-Greek teams there were still around 75 students inspired her to participate. total. paigning tool. “The Internet defi- included Team Leslie Parris, Team walking around the track and many It was also “a fun way to spend a Adam Weldai, public relations see INTERNET, page 2 Oh Six, Team Gopington, Hawaii more hanging out in the gym. Friday night,” she said. officer for the Tufts Elections Club and the Tufts Equestrian team. While some students walked, Freshmen Derek Ricciuto and Sponsors could make a donation others played frisbee, worked on online or with checks. schoolwork, ate and played cards in see RELAY, page 2 IN DEPTH | WITH SAMUEL SOMMERS Diversity and decisions ... I just wanna BY PAUL LEMAISTRE bang on a Daily Staff Writer drum all day Assistant Psychology Professor Samuel Sommers’ paper, “On racial diversity and group decision-making: BEATS perform during the Identifying multiple effects of racial April Open House enter- composition on jury deliberations,” tainment medley event in was recently published in the Journal Barnum 008. The event was of Personality and Social Psychology. Sommers studied trends in mock held for newly admitted COURTESY TUFTS PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT students visiting the Tufts juries, comparing how all-white and campus. more diverse juries differ in their group decision-making process- es. His research concludes that group member are more receptive, and that group performance is enhanced, on diverse juries. This week, we talk to Sommers about the implications of his study on the U.S. legal system and other situations involving group deci- ISABELLE MILLS-TANNENBAUM/TUFTS DAILY sion making. Paul Lemaistre: What were your initial motivations for this study? INSIDE Was it based off previous research, or did more casual observations Sausages sold to fight cancer prompt you to examine these issues more closely? It’s that time again! What BY ARAH UTRYMOWICZ time? “Best of Tufts” time, S B a joke but evolved into something Samuel Sommers: First of all, from a legal perspective, there is a lot of Daily Staff Writer of course. serious. debate and controversy in regards to race: To what extent does the race see FEATURES, page 4 Originally, “we wanted to be of a defendant influence the way they are treated by a jury? To what There was more than enough able to put up posters that said extent does race influence an attorney in jury selection? A lot of these sausage to go around at Tufts on ‘Sausage Fest,’” he said. “[But we questions focus on the racial composition of the juries themselves. Saturday, Apr. 22. realized] we could benefit a good You’ll hear people asking questions like whether the juries would That afternoon, the Tufts chap- cause instead of just being funny.” have delivered different verdicts in the O.J. Simpson or the Rodney ter of Sigma Nu Fraternity hosted Fellow fraternity brother and King cases, for example, had the racial composition of the jury been its first “Sausage Fest,” an event to sophomore Ethan Mandelup different. My thought as an experimental psychologist was to study Best of Best TUFTS2006 raise money for the Jimmy Fund echoed Kaminsky’s sentiments. this empirically: What are the actual effects of these different composi- and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He found the idea a “fun theme to tions of a jury as opposed to anecdotal [effects]? In addition to sausages, the fra- donate to a good cause.” ternity sold hot dogs, soda and Sigma Nu philanthropy chair PL: The research suggests that members of a majority within a INDEX Tufts Emergency Medical Service and head of social relations diverse group are more willing to talk about issues of race than in News | Features 1 (TEMS) shot glasses. Stephen Riche, a sophomore, said more homogenous panels. In all-white groups, when jurors brought Arts | Living 5 The shot glasses were conceived that the fraternity decided to sup- up issues of race as a factor, other jurors would try to change the Editorial | Letters 8 and created by the fraternity and port the fight against testicular subject or discredit it as [unimportant]. Were the white jurors aware Viewpoints 9 were not approved or endorsed by cancer because of its low profile. of the fact that they were doing this? Glocal 11 TEMS itself. “Most [money raised by] chari- National 15 The group raised between $300 table organizations [goes] to other SS: If you said to them, “What you were trying to do was minimize International 19 and $350 at the event. All of the cancers,” he said. discussion about race,” they would deny that and claim that it was Comics 20 money will go toward testicular Testicular cancer is a relatively irrelevant.
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