Where You Partly Cloudy Read It First 63/34 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXI, NUMBER 35 FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2011 TUFTSDAILY.COM Agler wins Wendell Phillips, will speak at commencement BY MARTHA SHANAHAN Downes remarked that the overall Daily Editorial Board caliber of the students’ presentations was particularly high this year, making Senior Brian Agler is the winner of the judges’ decision difficult. this year’s Wendell Phillips Memorial “All the finalists were truly excellent, Scholarship, giving him the oppor- so … for the committee it was a pretty tunity to speak at the Baccalaureate hard decision,” he said. Commencement Ceremony in May, “I think what struck the committee the Office for Campus Life announced about Brian’s speech was how effective yesterday. his delivery was, how well constructed The Committee on Student Life the speech was, that … how effectively (CSL) presents the award each year to he used humor, and how good a job a junior or senior who demonstrates he did making a deep and important public speaking ability and a com- point,” Downes said. mitment to public service. Agler beat The Wendell Phillips Memorial out four other finalists for the award, Scholarship, first awarded in 1896, is juniors Michael Hawley, Nan Lin, one of two prizes given by the Wendell Melissa Reifers and Tomas Valdes. Phillips Memorial Fund Association in The finalists delivered speeches on honor of the Boston preacher and abo- Wednesday before a panel of judges litionist for which it is named. chose Agler as the winner, according to The field was narrowed down to 19 CSL Co-Chair and Associate Professor of Economics Thomas Downes. see AGLER, page 3 BRUCE WANG/TUFTS DAILY Two members of the TCU Senate are helping draft a constitution for the Boston Intercollegiate Leadership Council. Bubs sing on ‘Glee’ album Senate to help plan constitution to be released next month for intercollegiate council BY MICHAEL MARK S show’s Dalton Academy Warblers, Daily Staff Writer accompanying lead vocals performed BY RACHEL RA M PINO resentative, told the Daily. “We decided by “Glee” cast member Darren Criss. Daily Editorial Board to form a constitutional convention An album to be released by Columbia The yet-to-be-named album is set to where two representatives from each Records next month will feature songs be released before the end of season two The Tufts Community Union Senate school come together to draft the con- performed by the Tufts Beelzebubs on of “Glee” sometime next month, accord- is one of five members of the Boston stitution.” the current season of Fox’s “Glee.” ing to Powell. Songs to be featured Intercollegiate Leadership Council A constitution will create a structure The album release marks the first time include covers from the show of Train’s (BILC) selected this month to help draft by which BILC representatives can vote the Bubs have been featured on a major “Hey Soul Sister,” Maroon 5’s “Misery,” the body’s constitution, an attempt on these topics, Thorpe said. record label, according to junior Evan Destiny Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills” and to further legitimize the organization Representatives from the Tufts Powell, the Bubs’ business manager. Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream.” and help it move from discussion to Community Union (TCU) Senate “Our motto is fun through song, and The album release comes on the action. will join students from BC, Boston this has been a great way to spread our heels of several recent public appear- BILC is a network of college and uni- University, Bentley University and music — not just the [Bubs’] music ances by the Bubs, including a stint on versity student government associa- Suffolk University in drafting the con- but a cappella in general,” Powell said. NBC’s reality show “The Sing-Off” and tions from the Boston area founded to stitution over the next two months, “We have been really thrilled with the a performance at the White House in encourage intercollegiate cooperation. according to freshman Allie Can Lei, response.” December. “We look at it as a UN of student gov- one of the two TCU Senate BILC rep- On this season’s program, the Bubs ernments in Boston. … Right now, it’s resentatives. They expect to have the provided background vocals for the see BUBS, page 3 just a conference and we don’t do any- constitution ready for the council’s fall thing after that,” Boston College (BC) sophomore David Thorpe, a BILC rep- see BILC, page 2 Medical students meet their match at ‘Match Day’ Northeastern sees greater pool of applicants, selectivity BY MARGARET YOUNG to the Boston Globe. For an institution of Daily Staff Writer Northeastern’s size, that constitutes a for- midable horde of interested students. If you can reach back into the recesses Ronne Turner, associate vice president of your memory and recall the days of col- of enrollment and dean of admissions and lege applications, you may remember the marketing at Northeastern, explained just term “safety school,” that institution you how formidable this increase is. were sure would overlook your sub-par “We had 43,250 applicants and admitted SAT II score or that one C+ you got fresh- 35 percent,” Turner told the Daily. “[Last man year before understanding what a year] we had an entering freshman class GPA was. Schools that high-school seniors of 2,800, and that has been our goal for the even recently relegated to the “safety” list, past 10 years.” however, have seen a surge in applicants Not only has the number of applicants to over the past year, perhaps none more so Northeastern skyrocketed, but the caliber than Tufts’ neighbor across the Charles of Northeastern’s applicant pool has also River, Northeastern University. has also increased, Turner said. Although many colleges in the Boston “We have students who were the stron- MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS DAILY area, including Tufts, Harvard and Brandeis, gest in their high school applying, and that Fourth-year medical students at Tufts School of Medicine react yesterday morning during have had an increase in applications in the is a change,” she said. national “Match Day,” when medical students throughout the country learn where they past year, Northeastern has experienced Additionally, Turner said that the diver- will serve their first medical residencies. The 177 medical school seniors were sorted into the most drastic jump — 15 percent since teaching hospitals nationwide after starting the application process in the fall. last college application season, according see NORTHEASTERN, page 3 Inside this issue Today’s Sections Character develop- “Paul” may not do well News | Features 1 Classifieds 7 ment in latest sea- at the box office, but son proves “Fringe” it’s funny start to finish Comics 4 Sports Back deserves a second and is sure to become Arts | Living 5 chance. a cult favorite. see ARTS, page 5 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Friday, March 18, 2011 THE TUFTS DAILY New scholarship is exclusive to white males ALEX A NDR A W. BOGUS Editor-in-Chief EDITORIAL BY ANGELIN A ROTM A N Mick Brinkman Krever Daily Editorial Board Saumya Vaishampayan SponsoringScholarships come in nonprofit a myriad of shapes says its cause is unrelated to white supremacy Managing Editors and sizes. There are scholarships based on Martha Shanahan Executive News Editor Michael Del Moro News Editors gender, ethnicity, geographic location and Nina Ford even height. The one demographic lacking Ben Gittleson in scholarship opportunities, according to Amelie Hecht Ellen Kan a Texas nonprofit organization, is — believe Daphne Kolios it or not — white males. Kathryn Olson Matt Repka The Former Majority Association for Corinne Segal Equality, founded last March, is looking to Jenny White Brent Yarnell fill this gap. The group takes its name from Elizabeth McKay Assistant News Editors data reported by the U.S. Census stating Laina Piera that non-Hispanic whites now make up Rachel Rampino Minyoung Song only 45 percent of Texas’ population. Derek Schlom Executive Features Editor Colby Bohannan, founder and president Jon Cheng Features Editors of the organization, first came up with the Sarah Korones Emilia Luna idea for an ethnically based scholarship for Romy Oltuski white men when he himself was a student Alexa Sasanow looking for scholarship opportunities. Falcon Reese Assistant Features Editors Angelina Rotman “It really started back in 2002 when I was Sarah Strand working full-time and going to school, as Amelia Quinn was my cousin,” Bohannan told the Daily. Ben Phelps Executive Arts Editor “We were trying to find scholarships, and Emma Bushnell Arts Editors DAILY FILE PHOTO Mitchell Geller we did find a couple we could apply to. We The Former Majority Association for Equality has established a scholarship open only to white males, Rebecca Santiago kept coming across all these ethnically or a demographic that often gets overlooked for scholarship opportunities, according to its founder. Matthew Welch Allison Dempsey Assistant Arts Editors gender-based scholarships. There were no Andrew Padgett scholarships out there racially based for face, and that’s tough to hear,” Bohannan those who have money set aside for tuition, Joseph Stile our demographic.” said. “What we’re trying to do has abso- books, room and board,” he said. “The real Ashley Wood Others, however, like sophomore Eliza lutely nothing to do with white supremacy majority are the people who have to work Rebekah Liebermann Executive Op-Ed Editor Ziegler, do not share Bohannan’s opinions or racial bigotry.” to sustain themselves and borrow money Bhushan Deshpande Op-Ed Editors Larissa Gibbs about the necessity for exclusively white, According to Van Meter, the problem and go into debt to afford an education.