IT 3 (1 1" .. I. ,, .. c- s.... ................ ........ __._.)_. THE TUFTS-DAILY ..... 'Tt is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. '' -Rene Descartes . I. .... I ', , I ...... ...... .. >. ...... page two THE TUFTS DAILY Commencement 1995 ITHETUFTS DAILY Nadya J. Sbaiti Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor: David Meyers Associate Editors: JL McHenry, Jessica Rosenthal Pr-duction Managers: Ryan Otto, Pratiksha Thakkar, Marc Sheinkin NEWS TUFTS CELEBRATES ITS 139TH COMMENCEMENT Editors: John OKeefe, Gayle Berkowitz, Authorhistorian Doris Kearns Goodwin and her husband, presidential Andrea Grossman Assistant Editor: Joshua Robin speechwriter Richard Goodwin, will deliver the main address at today’s ceremony to honor the awarding of 2,220 degrees. United Nations Under- VIEWPOINTS secretary-General For Political Affairs Marrack I. Goulding will address Editors: Remy Stem, Darrah Feldman Fletcher School graduates.................................................................... Page 3 FEATURES Editors: Dan Tobin, Laura Benheim Annie Risbridger . ARTS C? ENTERTAINMENT GIFFORD STEPS DOWN AS EXEC BOARD CHAIR Editors: Jay Ruttenberg, Joshua Davis, Michael J.W. Stickings, Samantha Levine Nathan Gantcher is replacing Nelson Gifford (left) as the chairman of the trustees’ Executive Committee. The trustees met to discuss topics including WEEKENDER Editors: Liza Cohen, Rachel Levine construction expenditures and the selection of new trustees.- Additionally Production Manager: Caroline Schaefer SPORTS Editors: John Tome, Greg Youman, Bill Copeland - Assistant Editors:Doug Katz, David Wank PHOTOGRAPHY Editor: Judy Easterbrook, Shane Tilston A HAVEN FOR COMPUTER NERDS Assistant Editors:Joey Kotler, Catarina Hernandez The growing interest in the Internet and “information superhigway” com- PRODUCTION bined with the return of coffeehouses’ popularity has spawned a 90s cafe Layout Editors: Mark Lerman, Raquel Almeida chock full of computer goodies. See how you can have your world wide web Graphics Editor: Wenimo Poweigha Copy BitoEEmriferBelle with cream and sugar............................................................................ 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Commencement 1995 THE TUFTS DAILY page three NEWS - Commencement ceremony honors University graduates by JESSICA ROSENTHAL Medicine will award 153 M.D. Medicine, beginning at 2 p.m. on Kearns Goodwin’s writings on liance for Progress” and was in- Daily Editorial Board degrees. Dr. Timothy Johnson, the lawn of the Grafton campus. American political figures have strumental in Kennedy adminis- Over 2,220 degrees will be medical editor for ABC News and This Commencement cer- established ahigh standardforthe tration policies. Goodwin also awarded by Tufts University dur- its Boston affiliate WCVB-TV, emony will begin with the dedica- researching and presentation of served as Deputy Assistant Secre- ing today’s 139thcommencement will address these graduates. tion of the Jean Mayer Adminis- history. In her works, she com- tary of State for inter-American ceremony at Tufts. Historiadau- The School of Dental Medi- tration Building, named in honor bines objectivity and psychologi- affairs. thor Doris Kearns Goodwin, win- cine will confer D.M.D. degrees of Tufts’ former president who cal insight to produce landmark Under President Johnson, ner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for on 141 graduates. Tufts President died in 1993. portraits of the powerful and in- Goodwin wrote the “We Shall her biography of