Where You Read It First Sunny 75/56 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LVIII, NUMBER 1 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2009 TUFTSDAILY.COM Greek affairs Green Line office again left extension costs without director to top $1 billion BY TESSA GELLERSON BY MATT REPKA Daily Editorial Board Daily Editorial Board

Students within Tufts’ Greek com- The plan to bring the T’s Green Line to munity are working to keep fraterni- Tufts is feeling some growing pains. ty and sorority life running smoothly Completion of the Green Line extension following the abrupt departure of project is facing delays of up to six years Director of Fraternity and Sorority from its 2014 deadline, and its price tag Life Patrick Romero-Aldaz. continues to grow. Romero-Aldaz left Tufts on Aug. Officials this summer raised the project’s 27 to direct the Office of Fraternity estimated price tag to over $1 billion. The and Sorority Life at the University cost of the project’s first six stops, which of South Florida, leaving the Greek will culminate near Tufts at College Avenue, office primarily student-led and rose from $600 billion to $934 billion this without any plans on the horizon summer. A seventh stop was added to the of hiring a new director. Until a plan in February, and summer estimates ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY replacement is chosen, Dean of Student Orientation Leaders make a human pretzel during orientation training this week. put its price tag at $130 million. Student Affairs Bruce Reitman will Project Manager Kate Fichter said the act in Romero-Aldaz’s stead. increased figure came about as officials “I was offered an opportunity Steps to improve diversity awareness developed a more comprehensive pic- I couldn’t refuse to lead another ture of expenses. “The original [$600 Greek community with a position making little progress million] number, which has been out that is larger in scope and responsi- BY ALEXANDRA BOGUS of the Korean Students Association, there for five or six years, was gen- bility,” Romero-Aldaz told the Daily Daily Editorial Board administrators agree that orientation erated from a very preliminary plan- in an e-mail. is an ideal environment to raise diver- ning study,” Fichter, an official with Since he came to Tufts at the end Plans to improve diversity aware- sity issues. The office of University the Massachusetts Executive Office of of the 2007 academic year, Romero- ness this semester have met a slow President Lawrence Bacow released Transportation (EOT), told the Daily. Aldaz worked to align Tufts’ frater- start and may go unnoticed by mem- a statement in the days following the The EOT is responsible for finding nities and sororities with national bers of Tufts’ Class of 2013 during ori- incident that included plans to review funding for the extension, but the debt- Greek regulations. Most notably, he entation, but administrators pledge the diversity component of orienta- ridden Massachusetts Bay Transportation advocated a strict BYOB policy in that a number of initiatives are in the tion and “maximize its impact.” Authority (MBTA) will service the extra sta- line with national regulations that works and will eventually address stu- Most changes to diversity program- tions and fund their everyday operations forbid Greek houses from supplying dents’ calls for increased awareness. ming during orientation, however, once they are built. alcohol. He also eliminated alcohol With last April’s bias incident in remain behind the scenes or in the The project is slated to extend the Green from the Spring 2008 rush process. hindsight, in which a then-freshman planning stages. Line past the Lechmere station, the cur- shouted racial slurs and engaged in rent terminus of all northbound trains. The see GREEK, page 2 a physical altercation with members see DIVERSITY, page 2 change would add seven stops throughout Somerville and Medford. While the Green Line extension as far as College Avenue is still on schedule to LRAP program surges into second year meet its 2014 deadline, construction of the seventh stop at Mystic Valley Parkway/ 288 alumni in public service receive grants from debt-reduction program Route 16 was pushed back this summer. Completion is now expected between 2016 BY BEN GITTLESON “The alumni who received awards and 2020. The Boston Region Metropolitan Daily Editorial Board have been very positive about the Planning Organization, which is respon- impact of them of getting this support,” sible for allocating federal funding, has Nearly 300 alumni in the non-profit Hollister said. “identified funds” for the Route 16 stop in and public sectors received help in the The quantity of applications and level that four-year period, Fichter said. past year in paying off their student loans, of interest ahead of the Sept. 1 dead- thanks to a trailblazing university pro- line was on track with last year, accord- The costs of service gram encouraging many others to con- ing to Director of Public Relations Kim Some of the recent cost increase can sider applying for funding as the program Thurler. In the first year, over 100 people be attributed to revelations about enters its second year. were turned away, largely because “they Americans with Disabilities Act compli- The Loan Reduction Assistance didn’t fall into the realm of need or they ance issues. Originally, the seven new Program (LRAP) disbursed over $450,000 didn’t qualify,” LRAP Administrator Judi stations were to be outfitted with simple in grants to 288 alumni of the universi- Kennedy said. platforms, similar to the street-level con- ty’s undergraduate and graduate schools Josh Wolf (LA ’08), who plans to apply to working in public-service occupations, the program this year, said student-loan see GREEN LINE, page 2 which traditionally earn significant- debt has muddled his hopes of attending ly less than those in the private sec- graduate or law school. An LRAP grant, he tor. University officials have billed it as said, would make a big difference. the first university-wide loan-repayment “It’s really hard for me to say that I’m program in the nation. going to go to law school,” he said. “I’m “I was very pleased with the impact in going to go take out a bunch of loans for the first year,” said Tisch College Dean the second degree when I haven’t even Robert Hollister, who was significantly finished [paying off] the first one?” involved in designing LRAP. He said the LRAP’s creation and its continuation high volume of applications received — into a second year, in which over $500,000 over 400 — indicated the existence of a will again be put toward the program’s real need for the program. administration and awards, reflect Tufts’ Eligible Tufts graduates received need- commitment to active citizenship and its JOANIE TOBIN/TUFTS UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHER based awards ranging from $500 to encouragement of students to give back EMILY EISENBERG/TUFTS DAILY Tisch College Dean Robert Hollister was an $5,000. Money is given out on a year-to- beyond graduation, according to alumni Plans for an extension of the Green Line architect of Tufts’ innovative Loan Reduction year basis, and last year’s recipients can through Somerville and Medford have been Assistance Program. reapply this year. see LRAP, page 2 delayed to as far as 2020. MATRICULATION GUIDE For those of you becoming Tufts students today, the Daily has your fix of introductions — to the lingo you’ll only hear on the Hill, the hot spots in Davis Square, Boston’s great big arts scene, Tufts’ athletic rivals and more. Check out our four-page pullout section, starting on page 9. Log onto tuftsdaily.com for a digital guide, complete with slideshows, audio content and interactive maps.

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Turn to Arts for a look The Daily offers News 1 Editorial | Letters 14 at the Museum of Fine NESCAC newcomers Arts’ exciting new exhib- a welcome guide to Arts & Living 3 Op-Ed 15 its on art from abroad Tufts’ athletic confer- MATRICULATION GUIDE 9 Sports 17 and “seeing” music. ence. Comics 13 see ARTS, page 3 see SPORTS, page 18 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Students will have T extension’s completion date set back several years

GREEN LINE doing it in a second phase, it would cost returned in time for this article. to wait for diversity continued from page 1 $50 million more” due to inflation and Patrick’s embattled position at the State crete pads at the Green Line stations on other added costs, Krause told the Daily. House and the impending election cycle initiatives Commonwealth Avenue. “It’s going to be disruptive to the neigh- have only served to further politicize the But consideration of the disabilities borhood to do one construction project, current debate over mass transit. DIVERSITY legislation forced the EOT to reassess its and then two years later have another one In recent weeks, Patrick and continued from page 1 plans. The extension’s tracks, which would begin,” Krause added. “It seems a lot more Grabauskas have feuded in the press “There’s definitely talk and a recog- run parallel to the existing commuter rail practical to do it all at once.” over the origin of the fare-hike proposal, nition that orientation is an impor- track for a majority of the line, are by and with each saying that the other was tant time to have this type of pro- large below street level, meaning eleva- MBTA woes responsible for the idea. gramming,” said Office for Campus tors and escalators would be necessary to The MBTA is currently confronting a After the first in a series of open- Life Director Joe Golia, an orientation achieve compliance with the law. $5.2 billion budget deficit, and strategies to-the-public meetings discussing organizer, but he added that no formal “We’re now talking about full stations … to right its financial woes through fare the proposed fare increases, Patrick committee has been formed to discuss escalators, elevators, CharlieCard equip- increases and service cuts have been met announced the cancellation of the improvements to diversity education ment, heating,” Fichter said. “Those are with public criticism and outrage. remaining 12 meetings. during orientation. obviously much more expensive.” Former MBTA General Manager Daniel The proposed increase would raise the Orientation organizer Ryan Heman, According to Ken Krause, a member of Grabauskas resigned last month amidst CharlieCard subway fare from $1.70 to a junior, attributed the slow start to a the Medford Green Line Neighborhood a public spat over fare increases with the $2.00 and the cash subway fare from $2.00 lack of people, money and experience. Alliance, which is made up of local citi- administration of Gov. Deval Patrick. He to $2.50. Bus fares would jump $0.50 to Most administrators and student orga- zens, waiting to complete the final Green was given a $327,487 severance package, $2.00. At this time, however, there are no nizers involved in orientation are new Line stop has a separate downside aside earning more public critique. formal plans to implement fare hikes or this year, he said. from the delay. “It’s of concern, because by Repeated calls to the MBTA were not cut service in the T system. “The way you get things to change is not to tell people you need things to change,” he said. “We would love to see more people involved in diversity actu- No replacement announced yet for Romero-Aldaz ally come forward with a program.” Golia said any changes discussed will GREEK Greek community. changes or noticeable changes,” said be implemented in future years. continued from page 1 “There’s no diminution in the level junior Jason Clain, public relations “It doesn’t mean that we’re not Romero-Aldaz’s departure leaves of importance in which we view having manager for the IGC. doing anything,” he said. “If any time the Greek community without an these functions,” Reitman said. “We’re Maccoby agreed that Romero-Aldaz’s is great for this type of programming, acting director, not unlike the one- going to keep everything going.” departure would not affect the IGC’s it’s orientation.” year period prior to Romero-Aldaz’s Jacob Maccoby (LA ’09), who served goals and proceedings. Orientation is largely run by stu- arrival at Tufts when students took as Inter-Greek Council (IGC) president “No matter what,” he said, “we will dents. Heman is working in a commit- on the responsibilities of running last fall, praised Reitman’s temporary continue to provide the strong lead- tee of eight. the Greek system alone, including takeover of the position. ership, first-rate community service “The problem is just that [for] our coordinating rush. “Dean Reitman has always been a and excellent social events that this little committee,” Heman said, “[diver- His position will remain unfilled strong supporter and friend of the campus and this community [expect] sity] is a big thing for us to tackle.” indefinitely due to a hiring freeze Greek community at Tufts, and there from us.” A number of diversity initiatives on new staff members as a result of is nobody I would rather have as our Romero-Aldaz said that despite fac- throughout the university are in plan- the financial downturn, according to adviser and our advocate,” he told the ing certain obstacles, he was satisfied ning stages but will not be revealed Reitman. He maintained, though, that Daily in an e-mail. Maccoby added, with his tenure at Tufts. until later in the semester, according to “there will be no lack of attention to however, that he hoped the university “When you take a position that is Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman. the Greek system.” would appoint a full-time replacement charged with bringing about change, He added that events and programs of Reitman will take over the position as soon as possible. you realize it is not always going to be this nature may not be appropriate for of chair of Tufts’ Fraternity and Sorority Others pledge that the vacant posi- easy,” he said. “But I will say that my an orientation setting. Life Advisory Council, a group created tion will not prove an obstacle. time at Tufts has been most rewarding “You could have all the desire to by Romero-Aldaz that consists of both “It’s sad to see Patrick go because because I’ve had an opportunity to include more things in the world, but students from the Greek system and he was a great connection for us, but I help make some positive change, learn there’s only so much you can do in the university officials. The advisory coun- don’t expect people in the Greek com- a great deal about myself and, most two and a half days [of orientation],” cil enacts and administers policy and munity and people who look at the importantly, work with some truly fan- he said. oversees the direction of the campus Greek community to see any drastic tastic students.” Executive Director of Institutional Diversity Lisa Coleman and Provost Jamshed Bharucha plan to release the university’s first annual report on diversity this fall, offering a “status LRAP helping to repay debt for alumni in public service report” on diversity initiatives across LRAP ate school, but says his limited income pretty much start anytime in the year,” Tufts’ campuses, according to Reitman. continued from page 1 and remaining student-loan debt have said Stephan Vitvitsky (LA ’06), who was Coleman declined to comment on the and university officials. made that unfeasible for at least the next ineligible for LRAP this past year because report until it is released publicly. “Tufts always sort of preaches this couple years. of the timing of a position he held. Presenters at one of orientation’s mission of public service and think- “It’s one of those things where it defi- Multiple deadlines throughout the major programs, “Many Stories, One ing globally and acting locally,” said nitely impacts my current situation,” he year, or a rolling application process, Community,” which will take place on Courtney Boen (LA ’06, MPH ’07), a said, referring to the possibility of receiv- would work better with the untraditional Thursday evening, also will announce policy analyst for the Boston Public ing an LRAP award. “If this does happen, recruiting and hiring process in those a new social justice initiative to begin Health Commission’s Center for Health it will greatly increase the chance I have fields, he said. this fall, according to International Equity and Social Justice. She received to go on to grad school or law school … Director of Career Services Jean Center Director Jane Etish-Andrews, $4,500 this year to put toward her or whatever higher education I do.” Papalia disputed the assertion that dif- one of the organizers of the program. $47,000 in student loans; the unex- No significant changes were made to ferent schedules exist across the board, The program will offer diversity pected grant, she said, served as a the program this year other than “stream- though. A single deadline ensures fair- workshops for interested students. “cushion” for her income. lining” the application process, accord- ness in allocating awards, according to Organizers, including the Office of the “For me,” Boen said, “Tufts really put ing to Hollister. The initiative remains in Hollister and Thurler. Dean of Student Affairs and members of its money where its mouth was.” its beginning stages, and administrators For Wolf, the deadline is not the prob- the “Group of Six,” a collection of Tufts New Hampshire State Rep. Scott are still learning how to most effectively lem so much as the question of his eligi- student centers that seek to promote Merrick (D), who was elected to office in implement the program in all of Tufts’ bility. His status as an aide to a Maryland diversity, hope to offer a certificate in 2004 as a sophomore at Tufts, praised the schools, he said. state legislator in both a legislative and future years to students who partake in program and said an LRAP award would Some have argued that one set dead- campaign capacity has made him unsure a number of these workshops. help a lot. line might not be the best approach to of his chances. Major changes to orientation this “Being a state rep in New Hampshire accommodate alumni. “I really enjoy what I’m doing,” he year have centered on Orientation doesn’t pay,” Merrick (LA ’08) said, add- “Unlike jobs in the private sector, where said. “I’m working on policy on a day-to- Leader (OL) training, which has been ing that the position pays $100 per year. there’s a very strict recruiting schedule, day basis. I feel that my work is actually informal in the past, Heman said. He is thinking about going to gradu- jobs in non-profits and the government affecting people.” Coordinators created a new position to direct OL training and have set up formal training events focused on The Daily is currently looking for columnists in... diversity issues. Orientation Leaders have attended presentations on diversity-oriented Arts programming that all freshmen are required to attend, including “Many Features Stories, One Community” and “In the SACK.” OLs also have attended a train- Op-Ed ing session by BEAT Bias, a student group that seeks to improve awareness Sports of campus diversity. “In general, we are putting a lot of emphasis on realizing that not every- Send three 550- to 650-word sample one who comes to Tufts is that kind of stereotypical Tufts student,” said senior Shani Scheiman, who is the first to hold columns to [email protected] the OL training coordinator position. But Scheiman agreed that the task should not be confined to orientation by Sept. 16. “Orientation is a great time for this type of training, but it’s not just the orientation team that should be tak- Make a pitch and fi nd your niche! ing this challenge on,” she said. “The entire university should be implement- ing programs.” 3

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COURTESY OF WWW.3EB.COM Third Eye Blind’s BY ADAM KULEWICZ Daily Editorial Board ‘Ursa Major’ fails to September has finally come, but evolve there’s still time left to take in the summer displays at the Museum of BY NICK HELLBERG Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). Over the past Contributing Writer few months, the museum has opened several exhibitions, each examining When Third Eye Blind’s eponymous diverse topics — the interaction of debut album first hit the radio in 1997, visual and musical arts, the conver- it took only a matter of days for the band gence of Chinese and Tibetan painting and the interface between American Ursa Major artists and Mexico in the 1900s. One of the most compelling exhi- Third Eye Blind bitions is “Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs.” It opened at the MFA — which is free for students with a Mega Collider Records Tufts ID — this summer and runs until Feb. 21 in the Foster Gallery. Visual artists and musicians have been inter- to become a household name among twined, and at times in competition, alternative and mainstream rock fans with one another for centuries; the dis- alike. Fueled by raw, anarchic musi- play examines the work created when cal and lyrical energy and a healthy the two meet, through media such as dose of twenty-something angst, the portraits of musicians and paintings album generated a string of massive hit with musical titles. singles, including such perennial radio Among the portraits displayed are classics as “Semi-Charmed Life” and four of the Beatles by Richard Avedon. “Jumper.” In a music industry dominat- Each shot depicts a member of the ed by grunge and post-grunge sewage renowned group with bright colors and like Bush, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden sharp contrast, recalling the era in — all of whom largely spent this part of their careers attempting to replicate see GALLERY, page 7 Nirvana — Third Eye Blind’s upbeat, deftly-produced pop styling was a wel- come breath of fresh air. Despite its meteoric rise to fame, how- ever, Third Eye Blind’s second and third albums — “Blue” (1999) and “Out of the Vein” (2003) — were considerably less commercially successful. While they were tremendously popular among the band’s condensed and devoted fan base, each album sold far fewer copies than its predecessor, and the pair produced fewer recognizable radio singles combined COURTESY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON than the debut album had generated by “Aretha Franklin” (1992) by Herb Ritts; (top to bottom) ”Rose Roland (Covarrubias)” (1926) by Edward Weston; “The Mahasiddhas itself. With dwindling record sales and a Saraha, Dombi, Heruka, Naropa, and Virupa” (Eastern Tibetan, 18th Century); “Worker’s Hands, Mexico” (1927) by Tina Modotti. departure from its original record label, Third Eye Blind’s heyday seemed to be at an end, and the following six years saw Adaptations of “Lovely Bones,” “Where the no new studio releases as the band faded more or less into obscurity. Released on Aug. 17, Third Eye Wild,” “Mr. Fox” bode for a lively fall and winter Blind’s “Ursa Major” is only the fourth studio album in the band’s 16-year career. Originally scheduled for release BY CATHERINE SCOTT in 2007, the album’s completion was Daily Editorial Board delayed for a full two years by band leader Stephen Jenkins’ writer’s block The fall season usually brings a mixed and perfectionism. The album is char- bag for moviegoers, as the leftover acterized by the same signature sound blockbusters, big-studio award bait and that has driven every Third Eye Blind small indie films finally make their way recording before it: a blend of ’90s onto the big screen. alternative pop and fuzzed-out heavy Compared to last fall, this particular metal riffs, backing Jenkins’ semi-gut- season has stirred up a lot of anticipa- tural, in-your-face vocals and dark, tion for more than a few films. Whether uncensored lyrical posturing. All of or not these films can live up to their this is capped off by a pulsing, psyche- frenzied hype will be the main question delic lead guitar, with a tight and laser- for audiences during the next couple of like tone unlike the guitar sound of any months. other band past or present. Starting with the biggest and the bold- The lead single, “Don’t Believe a Word,” est: James Cameron’s “Avatar” will finally is reminiscent of the band’s later hits like be released on Dec. 18. The film has ROTTENTOMATOES.COM “Crystal Baller,” while the intense, sexu- “Listen, kid, I know I look ridiculous in this huge monster costume, but the movie is gonna been Cameron’s pet project for nearly ally charged lyrics of “Why Can’t You Be” be THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS AWESOME!” two decades, and he’s spent a lot of that and the instrumental “Carnival Barker” time building new cameras for its 3D both hearken all the way back to the technology and raising the nearly $250 Another big-name director returns lows a young girl who is murdered and band’s self-titled premiere. In short, the million that the film’s budget required. this fall on Dec. 11 with “The Lovely watches her family from heaven. “The album is perfectly consistent with every- Initial footage Cameron displayed at Bones.” Director Peter Jackson based Lovely Bones” promises a balance of thing fans have come to expect from a Comic-Con left some viewers luke- this film on the dazzling, melancholy warm. book of the same name. The story fol- see MOVIES, page 5 see THIRD EYE BLIND, page 7 4 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS & LIVING Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Wednesday, September 2, 2009 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS & LIVING 5 Comedy is the only genre with little to off er moviegoers this fall and winter MOVIES continued from page 3 grounded human emotion and fantasti- cal imagery that Jackson knows well how to concoct. One of the most publicized upcoming films is Guy Ritchie’s updated “Sherlock Holmes,” with Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. One might wonder why “Sherlock Holmes,” set for a Christmas release, didn’t fit in with the summer blockbusters. Hopefully it’s because “Holmes” will be a bit smarter than the average summer flick. Another favorite director, Wes Anderson, strays from his normal film- making path with an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” set for a Nov. 25 release date. With a precious trailer and a voice cast including George Clooney and Meryl Streep, the film should have no problem finding followers, even with Anderson’s polarizing reputation. Coming out the same day is direc- tor Rob Marshall’s newest musical, “Nine,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Dame Judi Dench and Kate Hudson. With a star-studded cast, fabulous music and costumes and an intriguing story focused on a tortured man and the women in his life, the ROTTENTOMATOES.COM movie is already rumored to be the James Cameron’s “Avatar:” “Oh, the guy in the tank behind me? Oh, he’s just really, REALLY excited for the Blue Man Group show…” front-runner at the Oscars. For those who like their weirdness prepackaged and pretty, Spike Jonze is who starts eating boys after she is special effects than the previous direc- Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Malin Akerman releasing his take on Maurice Sendak’s improperly sacrificed and a demon tor, something the introduction of Jacob and Kristen Bell, the film features a classic children’s book, “Where the While takes over her body. Considering Cody’s (played by Taylor Lautner) and his pack hilarious ensemble cast, but it remains Things Are,” on Oct. 16. Taking a work of success writing “Juno” (2007), her new- of werewolves should put to good use. to be seen if these stars can keep the merely ten sentences and fashioning a est film’s script is bound to be witty, but Once again, Kristen Stewart will star as laughs coming. feature film complete with dysfunction- there has been some controversy over Bella, a high school student in love with A few other interesting films include al families, nightmarish landscapes and director Karyn Kusama’s interpretation a vampire, but there will be a lot less of Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, loveable creatures, this film promises to of the screenplay. heartthrob Robert Pattinson as her love- “Whip It!” with Ellen Page as a roller be a must-see for more than just those Many moviegoers are also antici- interest Edward, since this novel focused derby player, coming Oct. 9; an adapta- with a penchant for the strange and pating the second installment in the primarily on the budding friendship tion of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” unusual. “Twilight” series. “The Twilight Saga: between Bella and Jacob. with Viggo Mortenson on Oct. 16; the A film that could be wildly enter- New Moon” is set for release on Nov. 20. In terms of good comedy, the pickings story of Amelia Earhart, “Amelia,” star- taining or equally nauseating is Diablo While the first installment disappointed are slim. One film that will hopefully not ring Hilary Swank on Oct. 23; Richard Cody’s sophomore effort, “Jennifer’s many fans, a larger budget and a new disappoint is “Couples Retreat,” coming Kelly’s “The Box,” with Cameron Diaz, Body,” premiering on Sept. 18. Starring director may make “New Moon” bear- out on Oct. 9, which is a story about four on Nov. 6; and “Invictus” with Morgan Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried, the able outside the preteen crowd. Director couples who go to an island in order to Freeman starring as Nelson Mandela film is about Fox’s character, Jennifer, Chris Weitz has more experience with mend their marriages. Starring Vince on Dec. 11. ATTENTION STUDENTS!

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Memory and Social Trauma in Arabic Literature and Cinema New course ARB 91-07, Prof. Kamran Rastegar

Artist: Zena Khalil

How do the scars of war, social conflict and violence influence literature and cinema in the Arab world?

You’ll find the answer when you take ARB 91-07 with Tufts’ new Arabic literature professor, Prof. Kamran Rastegar. Meets in the 12+ block with an additional time for film screenings.

All books are in English and films are screened with subtitles. Wednesday, September 2, 2009 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS & LIVING 7 Exhibitions combine cultures, pull eyes and ears a bit closer together GALLERY continued from page 3 which the band was so influential, and the images are very striking on the gal- lery’s stark white walls. The exhibition also features photos by celebrated photographer Herb Ritts of artists including Mick Jagger, Little Richard, Prince, Bruce Springsteen and Aretha Franklin. While the representa- tions are simple, they still display each artist’s personality clearly. The most noticeable work of the exhibition is Candice Breitz’s “Queen (A Portrait of Madonna)” (2005). The work is made up of 30 screens that each display, according to the descrip- tion in the museum materials, one of “thirty hardcore and diverse fans” belting out “the full 73 minutes of Madonna’s ‘Immaculate Collection’ album.” The passionate and eccen- tric subjects of the piece are sure to catch your attention, and though the vocals are generally dissonant, the rare moments of relative harmony more than make up for it. Another exhibition, “Tibet/China Confluences,” recently opened at the MFA and runs until May 23 in the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Gallery. Although “conflu- ence” is not a word that many would use to describe the two countries’ recent relations, the paintings and scrolls attest to the lively artistic dia- logue that took place between the two cultures over several centuries. The exhibition’s introduction guides visi- tors to several paintings which depict Ahrats — Buddha’s immediate disciples. Even though they all depict the same subjects, each piece renders the figures and surroundings very differently. The Chinese paintings are excep- tionally detailed and include very realistic landscapes, while the Tibetan paintings are somewhat less detailed and instead focus on vibrant colors and figure arrangements. However, as the works in the rest of the exhibition demonstrate, Chinese and Tibetan artists borrowed ideas and techniques from one another over the centuries to the point where, as the introduction in the museum materials states, “The two traditions are often so closely woven … [that they] constitute new, hybrid traditions.” “Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries” runs until Nov. 2 in the Herb Ritts Gallery. The exhibit features works by the American pho- tographer Edward Weston and several photographers from the same period. The photos in the gallery demon- strate how American artists, many of whom traveled to Mexico in the early 1900s because a traditional tour of Europe had become difficult after COURTESY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON World War I, were captivated by the With its bright colors and contrasts, Richard Avedon’s “John Lennon” (1967) is one of the highlights of the MFA’s exhibition. country. The photos capture many different subjects and demonstrate (Covarrubias)” (1926). The piece is exhibitions, “Vida y Drama: Modern tects Charles and Henry Greene. how Weston and his contemporaries simple but dramatic, and it conveys a Mexican Prints,” which relates nice- These special exhibitions comple- were in some cases so moved that sense of invigoration that Roland and ly to “Viva Mexico!” in the neighbor- ment the museum’s permanent collec- they came to personally identify with other Americans must have felt during ing gallery, and “A ‘New and Native’ tion and serve as a wonderful introduc- Mexico’s joys and sorrows. One exam- their time in Mexico. Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & tion for any Boston newcomer to this ple is Weston’s portrait “Rose Roland The MFA also opened two other Greene” exploring the careers of archi- dynamic and ever-changing museum.

Even after a 6-year recording hiatus, Third Eye Blind has no new ideas THIRD EYE BLIND pervasive since Kurt Cobain’s then, seems like a prime oppor- continued from page 3 rise to power. It was, in a word, tunity for self-reinvention. By Third Eye Blind album, and they different. broadening their stylistic hori- have broken their recording fast Sadly, history shows that zons and diversifying their in comfortable style. novelty when repeated ad nau- songwriting portfolio, Third As delightful as it surely is seum gives way to formula, Eye Blind very easily could have to the preexisting flock of rabid and both of Third Eye Blind’s rendered themselves once again Third Eye Blind devotees to see subsequent albums strict- musically relevant. The fact that their favorite band in the midst of ly adhered to the same pop they opted instead to doggedly an apparent musical comeback, rubrics that had led to the employ the same compositional listeners must consider exactly band’s early success. In the conventions with which they why Third Eye Blind faded from end, both “Blue” and “Out of began their career is a befud- the spotlight in the first place. the Vein” appealed to the fans dling disappointment. The band’s first album was tre- who had been reeled in by The key to sustained critical mendously successful because the first album and were look- and commercial success, as has of its comparative novelty in the ing for more of the same, but been demonstrated time and extant musical climate of the the lack of musical innovation time again, is evolution: When a late 1990s. It was sharp, fresh across releases prevented the band refuses to progress, what and groundbreaking, conducive band from expanding their fan started as a distinctive, signa- to both headphone listening and base or recapturing the favor ture sound becomes simply a 3EB.COM a little bit of head-banging at the of the modern rock radio sta- cliché, and even the most dedi- “Who’s got two thumbs and made a totally predictable album? THIS GUY!” dance club. It was upbeat and tions that had so adored them cated fans will eventually drift poppy when most major rock in the past. Third Eye Blind away. “Ursa Major” is fantastically other Third Eye Blind album. As it has no distinct character unto labels were only interested in simply wasn’t new anymore. well-executed, tightly performed, a collection of Third Eye Blind itself, and — especially in light of perpetuating the grunge sound A new album on the coattails brilliantly produced and almost songs, “Ursa Major” is decent; as the absurdly delayed release — is that had become so infernally of a six-year recording hiatus, totally indistinguishable from any an album, a standalone entity, ultimately a letdown. 8 THE TUFTS DAILY ADVERTISEMENT Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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It’s not easy getting “oriented.” We know, we’ve been there. After two and a half days of it, things can just end up feeling, well, disorienting. Breaking the ice is fine (especially if it means you get to tell all of your new friends what kind of animal shares your first initial), but it won’t really answer your biggest questions about your home for the next four years. That’s where we come in. “What’s my dorm really going to be like? Who’s this ‘Joey’ guy? What in the world is a NESCAC?” From old-school traditions to day-to-day tips to the best Boston hangouts, we’ve got the guide to ease you into Tufts life. So pull out these four pages and stuff them in your pocket. And check out tuftsdaily.com/matriculation for an expand- ed, multimedia edition of the guide. Fight songs, beanies and dressing up as babies For freshmen, hazing was once as much a part of getting oriented as the Matriculation Ceremony

BY KERIANNE OKIE were hazed by the sophomores in the Daily Editorial Board Sword and Shield Society, a group of honorary tradition-keepers who were in Today hazing is a term generally associ- charge of orienting the freshmen to their ated with underground fraternity rituals, new surroundings. At the now-extinct overzealous drinking and stern bans by Jackson College for women, sophomore colleges. But there was a time when haz- members of the All Around Club filled a ing was not only tolerated, it was encour- similar role. aged. Upon their arrival at Tufts, freshmen Until the late 1960s and early 1970s, life received hazing booklets with everything for freshmen at Tufts was chock-full of tra- they needed to know about their responsi- COURTESY GORDON SHEARER/TUFTS DCA dition, discipline and freshman initiation. From 1902 until 1970, freshman men see TRADITIONS, page 11 COURTESY TUFTS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

April 5: June 19: Nealley, Rodriguez sen- Senate funds tenced to two years in prison. Trips Cabin. Jodie Nealley and her former Campus news: A crash course After a year- co-worker Ray Rodriguez plead COMPILED BY ALEXANDRA BOGUS long debate guilty to stealing close to $1 on how to use million from the university’s DILYS ONG/TUFTS DAILY the $687,780 student activities funds. Each recovered after the university’s former administrator receives a two-year prison sentence. Dec. 19: Tufts loses $20 million embezzlement scandal (see June 19 item), Tufts Community Union sena- Nov. 4: Election 2008. A swarm in Madoff scandal. University President Lawrence Bacow tors decide to devote some of the of elated students flows into money to financing an extension to campus’ streets and quads announces in an e-mail that Tufts has lost nearly 2 percent Tufts Mountain Club’s Loj, a popular at midnight to celebrate the weekend retreat in New Hampshire. election of Barack Obama. In of its endowment to Bernard Massachusetts, residents by a Madoff’s legendary Ponzi June wide margin pass Question 2, a scheme after investing $20 mil- lion in hedge-fund firm Ascot referendum decriminalizing the May possession of small amounts of Partners. marijuana. April January, 2009 March April 9: Bias inci- February dent roils campus. A fresh- March 11: Recession hits Tufts. man October, 2008 drunk- DILYS ONG/TUFTS DAILY December Bacow e-mails the community predicting a balanced budget enly shouts racial slurs at mem- November in Fiscal Year 2010, despite a bers of the Korean Students projected 30-percent decline Association, inciting a scuffle in Tufts’ endowment. The uni- and eventually leading to a rally outside Tisch Library (above), Jan. 24: Fairey sparks clash. Street versity cuts $36 million from its among other bias-awareness artist Shepard Fairey crafts a mural budget this year to cope with the activities. The freshman later outside the campus center. Weeks economic downturn, translating apologizes and agrees to a one- later, students anonymously post pro- to over a dozen layoffs and freez- semester suspension and anger vocative messages that many consider es of salaries over $50,000. management counseling. offensive — and others call a political statement — over Fairey’s piece. The controversial postings are revealed to ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY be part of a class assignment. On July 30, Fairey returns to post a new version of his mural. 10 THE TUFTS DAILY MATRICULATION GUIDE Wednesday, September 2, 2009

If Tufts is your new home, then Davis Square is like your cool aunt’s house. It’s a place where you can take a break from campus life while still feeling comfortable. Boston isn’t far, davisquare but Davis has almost everything you need. BY ROBIN CAROL 11 Daily Editorial Board 8 Movies and Music

1. Somerville Theatre 55 Davis Square Located in a historic building right next to the T stop, the Somerville Theatre fea- tures big-name movies and concerts. The ornate building’s stage has hosted the likes of Bruce Springsteen and U2, and upcoming acts include Mirah and 7 Stephen Kellogg. Seeing a movie will also get you free admission to the Museum of 2 Bad Art, located in the basement, which is worthy entertainment in itself. 1 Dessert

2. J.P. Licks 17 6 4A College Avenue 12 Featuring unique flavors like Carrot Cake 5 and Coffee Oreo, JP Licks will truly make you scream for ice cream. Buying a cone or a cup of coffee is a great excuse to stand 9 inside and get warm while you wait for the Joey. 4 10 3. Kick Ass Cupcakes 3 378 Highland Avenue 13 The name just about says it all. 15 Clothes 14 16 4. Poor Little Rich Girl 255 Elm Street This cutesy boutique sells new and used clothing, jewelry and other fun accesso- ries that fit into a college budget. When you’re sick of shopping for sweats at the Tufts bookstore, pop in for a look at some- thing a bit more exciting. Gifts

5. Magpie 416 Highland Avenue At Magpie you’ll find the creations of crafty local artists and designers. When you’re Coffee with deluxe toppings like artichokes and a rather upscale experience with a variety of searching for a birthday gift, you can pick sun-dried tomatoes. Indian cuisine on the menu. A good place to up a funky trinket knowing it can’t be 9. Diesel Café take a date, but perhaps a better place for your found anywhere else. 257 Elm Street 12. Blue Shirt Café parents to take you. Need to fuel up? Diesel offers dozens of coffee 424 Highland Avenue 6. Davis Squared drinks, a variety of teas and tasty sandwiches. For unique wraps and sandwiches that won’t 16. Rosebud Diner 409 Highland Avenue With pool tables, a photo booth, street signs on break the bank, Blue Shirt is the place. They 381 Summer Street Across the street, Davis Squared the walls and couches to kick back in, it’s a good incorporate a variety of flavors and have plenty Stuffed into an old train car, this classic Davis offers modern cards and gifts for spot to study with some java. of vegetarian options. establishment is hard to miss. Expect tradi- every age group. tional greasy-spoon fare and a wait staff with, Cheap Stuff 13. Anna’s Taqueria ahem, character. Haircuts 236A Elm Street 10. Family Dollar Boston is loco for Anna’s burritos, which are Pharmacy 7. April Hair Cutting 245 Elm Street made right in front of you. This location is open 35 Holland Street For laundry detergent, school supplies or kids’ late, making it a great dinner option if you miss 17. CVS If the time between freshman orientation underwear (hey, who knows?), this dollar store out on the dining halls. 1 Davis Square and Thanksgiving is a bit too long to wait, offers great deals on everyday items. Perhaps Many students fill their prescriptions at Tufts head to April for an affordable trim. you didn’t know you needed sailboat shaped 14. Redbones Barbecue Health Service, but for over-the-counter rem- bookends, but you can find that and more at 55 Chester Street edies you can head to CVS. Now that your Waxing Family Dollar. If you’re craving authentic Southern barbeque, soup-toting mom isn’t around, you can stock head to the lively Redbones. If it’s Southern up on DayQuil and Band-Aids here. 8. Skin and Body Works Eats Comfort you’re after (and you’re conspicu- 77 Holland Street ously old for a freshman), the basement bar tuftsdaily.com If you need some shaping, groom- 11. Dave’s Fresh Pasta Underbones is the ticket. Its bright décor is For an interactive ing, or man-scaping, this is the 81 Holland Street almost as spicy as the pulled pork upstairs. Web version of the place to do it. Skin and Body Works A couple blocks off the square, Dave’s sells Davis Square map, is affordable, professional and con- homemade pasta — of course — but the 15. Diva visit veniently located. real treasures are the sandwiches. You can 246 Elm Street www.tuftsdaily.com/matriculation design a panino on your choice of bread, Tandoori, naan and curry: Oh my! Diva offers

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TUFTS SPORTS ABCs of Tufts Athletics

shes: After Jumbo the quite a home-field advantage. arry Bird: The Celtics great on the baseball team from 1968- a varsity program. AElephant’s stuffed hide burned Including the postseason, the Lonce filmed a commercial for 1970 and ranks 15th on the pro- ’s and O’s: Of the 22 varsity head in a 1975 fire, his remains were field hockey team is 38-8 all-time the defense technologies compa- gram’s career strikeouts list. Xcoaches on campus, seven are recovered and stored in a peanut at the five-year-old facility. ny Raytheon in Cousens Gym. ailing: Trinity owns squash, Tufts alums, including 26-year butter jar that is kept in Athletic antcher Center: Completed alden Forum: The hockey SBowdoin had a strangle- coaching veteran John Casey of the Director Bill Gehling’s office. Gin November 1999, the Mteam’s home is located hold on field hockey in recent baseball team and Mike Daly, who, Rubbing the jar before a big game 66,000-square-foot, state-of-the- roughly 15 minutes away in years and Williams is tops in after playing football and baseball is said to bring good luck. art facility houses an indoor track nearby Malden, Mass. That’s just about everything else. But at Tufts, was hired to coach the rown and blue: Our school and tennis court. right, we have a giant elephant Jumbo fans can always hang Bcolors make for some of the amilton Pool: The old- statue on our campus, but not their hats on the sailing team, ugliest uniforms this side of the Hest swimming pool in the an ice hockey rink. easily the most decorated squad Oregon Ducks. NESCAC is the home of Tufts’ on campus, with 20 national Q ousens Gym: The 77-year-old swimming and diving teams. titles since 1976. Cfacility has charm, old-school The facility’s poor air quality was uftonia’s Day: Maybe it’s appeal and — finally — a regu- blamed for the rash of respiratory K Tnot as catchy as “Hail to the lation-sized court. Recent reno- illnesses seen on the men’s squad Victors,” but Tufts’ fight song, vations lengthened the court to last year. penned in 1913, is just as time- 94 feet, allowing Tufts’ basketball ntercollegiate football: less. We still don’t know what a teams to host NCAA Tournament IAthletics Director Emeritus “tuftonia” is, however. DAILY FILE PHOTO games as early as this season. Rocky Carzo has long contended ltimate frisbee: Thanks to that Tufts and Harvard squared Uthe nationally-competitive men’s lacrosse team in 1999. off in the first U.S. college football E-Men and the Ewo, ultimate is oga: As if to compound the game in 1875. The history books, JOSH BERLINGER/TUFTS DAILY perhaps the most visible club Ywhole latte-sipping, left- C however, cite an 1869 Rutgers- sport at Tufts. leaning, NPR-listening stereo- Princeton game, played with a ESCAC: Boasting the Directors’ oute Courts: Home to the type, we at Tufts have taken a round ball under rugby-style NCup’s top three schools, six Vmen’s and women’s tennis liking to yoga, among the most rules, as the birth of intercolle- defending national champions teams by day and health-con- popular physical education giate football. and, of course, your Tufts Jumbos, courses on campus. umboCast: The student-run the NESCAC is perhaps the stron- ero: The number of NCAA webcasting group streams live gest conference in Div. III. team national championships ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY J Z coverage of several Tufts sport- bjective Analysis of Baseball: M Tufts has won in its history (the MR: Following a photo-finish ing events over the Internet free OAn Ex-College course on NCAA does not sponsor sailing). Dvictory at last year’s indoor of charge. sabermetrics for all the stats geeks That’s not to say we haven’t come track championships, the wom- out there. close. Both the women’s soc- en’s distance medley relay (DMR) resident’s Marathon cer and field hockey teams have team became Tufts’ first repeat PChallenge: Started by reached the NCAA title game in national champion since Caitlin University President Lawrence the last decade, only to lose in Murphy (LA ’00) won back-to- Bacow in 2003, the PMC’s squad one-goal heartbreakers. back 800-meter crowns from of 200 runners is the largest 1999-2000. known collegiate marathon team ANDREW MORGENTHALER/TUFTS DAILY —by Sapna Bansil llis Oval: The site of the out- H in the country. Edoor track and football field uinsigamond: Located in scious townies by night. is named for Fred “Fish” Ellis (A JAMES CHOCA/TUFTS DAILY QWorcester, the lake hosts illiam Gehling: Tufts’ tuftsdaily.com ’29), a four-sport star considered many of the men’s and wom- WAthletics Director since arguably the greatest male athlete raft Field: The home of the en’s crew teams’ regattas, 1999. Gehling has spent a lifetime For a slideshow in school history. Built in 1894, it Kmen’s and women’s soc- including the New England on the Jumbo sports scene, co- overview of the is also the oldest sports complex cer team bears the name of Rowing Championships. captaining the 1973 men’s soccer Boston sports on campus. Patriots owner Bob Kraft, who ichardson, Bill: The New team to a 10-2 mark before serv- scene, visit ield turf: Bello Field’s unique gave the field as a gift to Tufts RMexico governor and one- ing as the women’s head coach for www.tuftsdaily.com/matriculation Fplaying surface has given Tufts in the 1980s. time presidential hopeful pitched the first 20 years of its existence as

In addition to hazing, former Tufts traditions included single-sex dorms and ‘courting hours’

TRADITIONS were required to dress up as toddlers. In wear … slacks or pants to class or on the throw a towel over the door and then slam continued from page 9 some cases, freshmen who had disobeyed Hill,” she said. “One of the things that we the door, so technically it wasn’t encased bilities as new Jumbos — from fight-song rules could also be spanked with paddles. accomplished was that during finals [and] in the frame — but it was close.” lyrics to dress-up dates to a complete list And in the spirit of getting to know their studying for finals, women could wear And while men didn’t have dorm cur- of regulations that only applied to the classmates, one night each year the men pants in the library and be comfortable fews and restrictions like the women did, newly matriculated students. would raid the women’s dorms, a tradition and study, and it sounds stu- the university may have found other ways Freshmen were not allowed to walk called “panty raids.” pid now but it was to keep them in check. on the grass, and they were required to While hazing today is usually a term a big deal then.” “There were all kinds of say hello to everyone they encountered paired with pain and suffering, many of Girls had strict rumors about on campus. Other requirements included the students in the 1950s and 1960s felt curfews; their special attire, such as brown and blue that the experience brought them togeth- dorms were beanies and the occasional Huckleberry er and created a friendlier, more intimate locked around Finn costume, the wearing of nametags campus. 10 p.m. on the size of poster boards and participation “None of the hazing was done to be most nights, in traditional hazing activities. During one embarrassing or pain- and they were such activity, called “pray-for-rain night,” ful to any- only allowed a freshman men were ushered to the wom- certain num- en’s dorms to request a downpour from ber of later the ladies’ windows. outings per “[The freshman week. men] would Dating yell, ‘We was also want rain! restricted We want rain!’ on cam- and we would pus. Men dump water on were only them,” Sondra allowed Szymczak (J ’59), to visit recalled. “The the women’s women enjoyed it dorms during courting hours, COURTESY TUFTS DIGITAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES tremendously. The and even then visiting was restricted freshman men did to the lounge of the dorm. not exactly enjoy it.” “If someone needed help in getting a various things Other activities heavy object brought upstairs or some- being placed in the food — espe- included mock air thing like that you’d have to yell, ‘Man on cially in the men’s dining halls — in order raids. COURTESY MELVILLE MUNRO/TUFTS DCA the floor!’” Caserta said. to keep the men’s romantic impulses “We had to carry our Women were allowed to enter the men’s under control,” Allen Potvin (E ’65) said. books in a pillowcase,” one,” Norma Caserta (J ’62) said. dorms, but again there were restrictions. As Tufts approached the 1970s, student Szymczak said, “and if “It was mostly — at least anything I expe- “In the men’s dorms … there was a reg- protests and uprisings gradually wiped [an upperclassman] went by and rienced — so that you would branch out ulation that the door could not be encased away many of the traditions that under- yelled, ‘Air raid!’ we had to dump the and get to know other people.” in its frame when there was a woman in grads took for granted. books and pull the pillowcase over our Still, hazing wasn’t the only aspect of life the room,” Breed said. “So the guys would “I was working in admissions … and par- heads.” on campus that was unlike today. Sunny ents brought their daughters to see Jackson Freshmen also had to know the song of Breed (J ’66), who attended Tufts not long tuftsdaily.com Tufts in the fall and through the winter, and the day and they could be quizzed at any before the dorms became co-educational, For an audio then in about January, I think, or sometime time. Students who did not follow hazing explained that being a woman on campus feature on in that time frame, [Tufts] opened up dorms rules were given demerits, and those who was infinitely different. Jackson College to co-ed living,” Breed said. “So the parents received too many demerits were pun- “Women could not live off campus in alumni, visit brought their daughters to a very different ished at the baby party — an annual ori- apartments, and we couldn’t have tele- www.tuftsdaily.com/matriculation campus than they’d seen when they were entation gathering in which the freshmen phones in our rooms, and we couldn’t looking at Tufts as a place to come.” 12 THE TUFTS DAILY MATRICULATION GUIDE Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Music and Movies and Museums, Oh My! A color-coded guide to Boston’s art scene Get lost amid the dark, screeching depths of the United States’ oldest subway system, and you just might end up emerging to the sweeter sounds and brighter beauty of RED LINE Boston’s ripe arts scene. Here are a few fantastic venues to explore on the T. Use this Brattle Theatre guide as a springboard into the Boston scene, but remember: There are plenty of (Harvard Stop) amazing locales that didn’t make it onto our map, so just keep exploring. Open since 1890, Brattle has a rich his- tory of live theater, cabaret and film noir. Now it’s the place to catch classic and GREEN LINE art-house films, and the theater’s also Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum known for its repertory series. (Museum Stop) Earning high marks for its distinctive layout and The Middle East impressive collection, this mansion-turned-museum (Central Stop) ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY was built and arranged in the early 1900s by the fabu- With intimate performance spaces and lously rich Isabella Stewart Gardner. a tasty restaurant, the Middle East is a prime place to see up-and-coming The Tufts COURTESY ILYA MIRMAN The Paradise Rock Club artists before they make it big. Just don’t (Pleasant Street Stop) expect things perfectly polished. The “Dise” is one of the best venues for catching big orange line dictionary names as well as up-and-coming stars in the music ImprovBoston scene. U2 performed their first U.S. concert here. (Central Stop) Looking for a laugh? Search no farther BY ROBIN CAROL Daily Editorial Board Coolidge Corner Theatre than Cambridge, where you’ll find sketch, improv, standup performances (Harvard Street Stop) Harvard e lin and “naked comedy.” Starting college is hard enough without This independent theater hosts loads of film ue Central bl feeling like everyone is speaking in code. We festivals and midnight events. Coolidge prides red line et decided to give you a leg up on some of itself on highlighting the odd, classic, tre the various acronyms and abbreviations that ard Street rv international and avant-garde. Ha Pleasant S Aquarium are common on campus. Unfortunately, you BLUE LINE can’t complete your language requirement in Aquarium IMAX Jumbo-ese, so don’t sleep through your place- Downtown Crossing ment test! green line (Aquarium Stop) World silver line For a movie experience that’s Trade also educational, take a trip to Fob: Small gray item on your keychain that E. Berkeley Street Center the Aquarium and experience the will let you into your dorm’s main entrances. Museum silver line gigantic IMAX screen. Unfortunately, fobs won’t let you into very Ruggles many dorms other than your own, so when students want access to another building they Boston Classical Orchestra often have to resort to other methods (see Green Street (Aquarium Stop) “Piggyback”). If head banging and guitar riffs

COURTESY STEPHEN BAIRD aren’t your thing, you might prefer Joey: The trusty shuttle between campus and the more mellow entertainment of Davis Square. The Joey can take on many the Boston Classical Orchestra. ORANGE LINE forms, including “prison Joey” (a white school Museum of Fine Arts, Boston GRAPHIC BY ALLY GIMBEL bus), “mini Joey” (a short bus) or “traditional (Ruggles Stop) Joey” (a big shuttle with “Tufts” written on the side). Keep track of Ol’ Joe’s wily ways using This list could not be complete without the JoeyTracker, a slightly unnecessary GPS sys- mammoth MFA, which boasts a spectacular tem, as new forms could surface this year. collection. From ancient to contemporary, Africa SILVER LINE to the Americas, you’re sure to find plenty worth Institute of Contemporary Art NQR: Though the official Tufts term is the stopping to stare at. (World Trade Center Stop) Nighttime Quad Reception, by the end of With a waterfront location and constantly fall semester, Jumbos will know firsthand the Orpheum Theatre rotating exhibits, the ICA is a prime spot to acronym’s true meaning: Naked Quad Run. (Downtown Crossing Stop) discover fresh and experimental artwork. Don’t be fooled by its classic black and white ex- Piggyback: A verb synonymous with letting terior and slightly tattered bowels: The Orpheum, SoWa Galleries COURTESY IWAN BAAN/ICA someone into a building behind you; this one of the oldest theaters in the United States (East Berkeley Street Stop) action is strongly discouraged by the Tufts and the original home of the Boston Symphony The neighborhood South of Washington Street (SoWa) is a cluster of galleries, Police Department. Despite these warnings and the relatively high number of creepers Orchestra and the New England Conservatory, boutiques and creative restaurants. The SoWa Artists Guild, a warehouse-like around campus, students generally piggyback has made up for its aged appearance by hosting building on Harrison Avenue, opens up for First Fridays, where you can mingle at all hours of the day and night. legendary stars like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, with local artists in their studios. —compiled by Jessica Bal the Grateful Dead and Queen. Rape steps: Legend has it that the staircase behind Wren was specially designed so that women could outrun a pursuer. This really means that walking up and down the steps is a huge pain and that they will forever have an The unoffi cial guide to freshman housing unfortunate nickname.

BY ROBIN CAROL beautiful sequestered lawn all to itself. Res Quad: The lawn located in the center of Daily Editorial Board Dorm room essential: good social skills Carmichael, Miller, Houston and Olin appar- ently got its name because it was once home Tilton: If you weren’t already a chill, hookah-smoking kid Carmichael: From the outside, Carmichael is the most to a reservoir. Today, it’s home to barbeques, in high school, after a semester in Tilton, you will be. picturesque and historic looking dorm on campus. The sunbathers and Frisbee games … until out- Dorm room essential: lighter bathrooms tell a different story. At least you won’t have to side temperatures become too unbearable. face the freezing wind tunnel to get to the dining hall — Houston: The epitome of the all-freshman dorm, Houston’s just walk downstairs. SIS: Web service used to register for classes halls are always replete with costumed party-goers, late Dorm room essential: scale and to check final grades. Irrelevant for the night jam sessions and frustrated RAs. Good luck getting majority of the year but becomes all-impor- your work done. Hodgdon: Hodgdon dwellers are a mischievous bunch. Be tant five minutes before your slotted course Dorm room essential: earplugs careful — once you start trick-turning bottled water and registration time, when clicking “Register” granola bars, it’s a slippery slope to full-on kleptomania. over and over seems like a logical way to Hill: The entire dorm is healthy living, and they couldn’t Dorm room essential: roach traps speed up time. have picked a better location. You might not be able to get stress relief from binge drinking, but its proximity to the Miller: Don’t be confused by the jealous stares from other TEMS: Tufts Emergency Medical Service. gym means that you’ll be able to take out your frustrations classmates — they just wish they had those nice new Can be used as a noun, or as a verb that on some free weights and a treadmill. couches. Being sexiled doesn’t seem that bad when you roughly translates to “calling an ambu- Dorm room essential: letter opener can go relax in the lounges. lance.” Most often heard coming from Dorm room essential: foosballs the mouth of an intoxicated Jumbo, as in, Haskell: From the outside, Haskell looks a lot like Tilton. “Don’t TEMS me, bro!” From the inside, a lot like Wren. In reality, it measures up Metcalf: You’re like the Goldilocks on campus. Uphill? to neither. Downhill? No, Metcalf is just right. But the Bridge pro- Tuftslife: By the end of orientation, every fresh- Dorm room essential: mounting tape for the brick walls gram’s late-night intellectual discussions might not live man will have been advised at least five times up to their PR. to switch their Internet homepage to Tuftslife. Bush: The oft-forgotten dorm, Bush Hall hides right Dorm room essential: philosophy books com. This Web site features calendars, events around the corner from Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall and and links to everything you’ll need to know on is mostly ... unremarkable in every way. Single bathrooms Richardson: Blessed with some of the nicest rooms on campus. Dining hall menus, anyone? are a plus, but their appearance borders on prison-like. campus, you’ll also miss out on the notorious “freshman Dorm room essential: Tupperware for stealing dining hall boy room smell” that often permeates dorm hallways. TUPD: Tufts University Police Department, fruit Dorm room essential: vibrator otherwise known as the campus cops. They will be your new best friends when you lock Lewis: Often the last pick for the dodgeball team, so to South: One of Tufts’ newest dorms is clean and comfy. The yourself out of your room one morning, but at speak, Lewis looks a bit foreboding. Escaping its concrete only thing about South is the trek north. It takes its toll. that night’s frat party you might feel differently walls is probably the best way to cope. Luckily, it has a Dorm room essential: window fan about them. Wednesday, September 2, 2009 THE TUFTS DAILY COMICS 13

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EDITORIAL THE TUFTS DAILY GIOVANNI J.B. RUSSONELLO Kill time — don’t let it die Editor-in-Chief You’re headed for your first day can find a niche somewhere on cam- an independent daily paper, and the EDITORIAL of chemistry class in Pearson Hall, pus, whether it’s onstage in Aidekman, newspaper office always feels a touch Naomi Bryant Managing Editors and you walk into a read-through of in that strange-smelling lecture hall in understaffed. David Heck a calculus syllabus: You’re actually Barnum or buried in the cozy depths But we make up for our small stature in Bromfield-Pearson Hall. You make of the Curtis Hall basement. with a reliable print product every day Alexandra Bogus Executive News Editor plans to meet a friend for lunch at All things considered, Tufts is a small of classes, including daily arts and fea- Nina Ford News Editors the cafeteria, but you walk right past school torn between its New England tures sections — rarities in the news- Tessa Gellerson it without even realizing. You’re on college feel and its research university paper business — as well as a Web Ben Gittleson Gillian Javetski your way to Anna’s Taqueria in Davis reputation. That leaves us with more site with a growing multimedia pres- Christy McQuaig Square, and you end up peering up exciting classes than one can count, ence. Each semester we fight an uphill Matt Repka at Rudy’s Café — in Teele Square. No many of which remain available even battle to fill out our staff, which means Ellen Kan Assistant News Editors matter what you’re doing or where at first-years’ ignoble registration time. that everyone who chooses to join the Harrison Jacobs you’re wandering, right now Tufts’ Equally importantly, it leaves the cam- Daily, puts in the time on assignments Katherine Sawyer campus probably looks a whole lot pus bursting with well-funded clubs and shows sufficient interest can find Saumya Vaishampayan bigger than it really is. and organizations, many of which are himself or herself rapidly vaulted to a Robin Carol Executive Features Editor As a Tufts student, you share your hungry for anyone they can find, from prominent position. academic dean with 1,200 other people helpers to leaders. It’s the same story with any number Jessica Bidgood Features Editors Alison Lisnow and your lecture class with 200. You At the risk of sounding like Tufts of interest groups and other organi- Emily Maretsky live in a dorm with countless other tour guides, there’s no better way to zations on campus. Just don’t expect Kerianne Okie students. Unless you’re confidence and discover your own hidden talent or a free ride onto the TCU Senate as a Romy Oltuski Christina Pappas charm incarnate, this can be as intimi- passion, to meet people or to simply freshman candidate. (Wait a couple Charlotte Steinway dating as an international relations kill time without letting it die, than weeks — you’ll see what we mean.) Julia Zinberg professor’s superiority complex. to seek out a quirky club meeting and In short, while this campus may Sarah Korones Assistant Features Editors But there is one big number that throw your name on the e-mail list. seem huge today, it is small. And Carter Rogers might feel more welcoming: The Tufts If you’ve never danced before, check though it is small, it is dense. The Community Union (TCU) recognizes out the Ballroom Dance Team. Always Hill is packed with theater and a Jessica Bal Executive Arts Editor over 150 student organizations, from been kind of quiet? Join HYPE!, the capella groups, cultural houses and Emma Bushnell Arts Editors the Queer-Straight Alliance to the Tufts mime troupe. There is a lot more to ethnic organizations, publications of Matthew DiGirolamo Investment Club to the Backgammon college than lectures and note taking. all stripes and venues where aspiring Mitchell Geller Adam Kulewicz Club. That’s why the cannon rarely And at the risk of sounding like musicians can perform. Catherine Scott spends more than a couple days with a recruitment agent, the Daily is a So at the risk of sounding like all of Josh Zeidel the same hues. So if you have an inter- perfect example: Tufts is the small- your mothers on a Monday morning Charissa Ng Assistant Arts Editors est, there is a high likelihood that you est university in the country with in high school, get moving. Benjamin Phelps

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As the trees begin to change, there is an aura pres- ent on campus that happens once a year. While each student decides how they want to spend their time, evaluating what they want to get out of the upcoming year, a collective energy forms throughout the Hill. An unrivaled amount of creativity and enthusiasm causes a perfect storm of excitement: new clubs, ambitious personal goals, new friendships and a contagious buzz. The new year means a new start — another chance to get around to the hobby you never picked up, an ability to talk to the friend you have never approached, one more chance to explore all that Tufts has to offer. As the snow begins to fall, the autumn energy gives way to winter complacency. Routines emerge, mid- terms dominate our time and many of the goals and hopes that the fall ushered in find themselves at the bottom of our to-do lists. But if we could keep up that energy all year, constantly challenging routine and passivity, imagine the possibilities. With this in mind, I would like to warmly welcome the Class of 2013 to our great university. Freshmen are the physical embodiment of the energy I was referring to, serving as both a sparkplug to traditional campus groups and as a blank slate, eager to do whatever it takes to get the most out of the year. You have all made a great choice by attending Tufts, and, without a doubt, if you put in the time to explore what this university has to offer, you will be rewarded with an endless amount of success and memorable experienc- es. Never lose your enthusiasm to learn or discover, ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY and as the years go by try to hold on to the awkward up with relevant projects that can solve problems in the fall so special. But sustaining autumn’s optimism but exciting energy that you felt during your first few these critical areas. Innovative strategies and plans is a personal task. It’s important that as the year days at Tufts. The aura that surrounded your arrival will be used to create a more cohesive campus with progresses we continue to challenge ourselves to to campus is dependent on your — and on the rest of better communication between clubs and leaders. A innovate, to make sure that we do something new or the student body’s — willingness to stay inventive and dedicated Senate will also be able to fortify intellectu- meaningful every week. The beginning of the year animated in the face of routine. al life on campus and help create more social outlets tricks us into thinking that we have an unlimited I want to promise that the Tufts Community Union to meet the demands of a diverse campus. amount of time to make our desired changes in the (TCU) Senate is ready and able to assist the campus in The TCU Senate also will be much more open and community and in ourselves, but every moment is its effort to stay fresh and lively. An endless list of new transparent. We promise to use new technology sourc- precious and should not be wasted. If we all work projects, new ideas and new initiatives is intended es to stay up-to-date and accessible, and our meet- together to create a better Tufts, we can have an to help make life at Tufts better for all students. This ings will be much more public. Distributing agendas entire year defined by a commitment to a dynamic, year’s TCU Senate is committed to being realistic prior to meetings and advertising the appearance of unforgettable campus culture. and approachable, making sure that every project we administrators at meetings will ensure that no one is undertake has a real bottom line and a clear benefit surprised by the decisions or direction of the Senate. for all students at Tufts. We will identify certain areas As the year is set to begin, the TCU Senate will help Brandon Rattiner is a senior majoring in political science of campus life that could be improved upon and come the student body maintain the energy that makes and philosophy. He is the TCU Senate president. Ears for Peers

BY ABIGAIL BENUDIS have a person they can truly confide in, and Ears for Peers us take more than four shifts; as a whole, the group does a helps by being a confidential friend to anyone in need. total of 336 hours of community service a month. Thanks Twenty years ago, the Tufts community saw the con- Students call our hotline for every possible reason. to new marketing campaigns — such as distributing Ears ception of Ears for Peers. Unlike any other group on Whether you are homesick, have roommate conflicts, for Peers pens to incoming freshmen — Ears for Peers has campus, Ears for Peers was and still is the university’s regret your weekend hook-up, are questioning your become much more known on campus and the frequency only student-run, anonymous and confidential hotline sexuality, have abused substances, got caught by Tufts of calls per night has increased substantially. dedicated to serving the Tufts community. Our mission University Police Department, have major depression or The remarkable truth behind Ears for Peers is that and principles have remained virtually unchanged since are just confused about college life, you have a peer who our members do all of this with no personal recognition 1988, and our group has become an increasing presence is ready and eager to talk with you. It really doesn’t mat- on campus. We have a real desire to support our peers on the Hill. ter how seemingly inconsequential a problem is. Even if through difficult times, and we stay involved because of From 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. every night of the academic you’re just sick of the rain, we’re here to listen without strong group cohesiveness and the knowledge that our year, Ears for Peers members, or “Ears” as we refer to judgment and you should feel free to call us anytime. free time is spent helping people. ourselves, provide Tufts students with an opportunity to But we Ears do more than just listen to callers and Sometimes a well kept secret here at Tufts, Ears talk. We are trained volunteers who listen to and support send them on their way. Each one of us has been thor- for Peers has been running on the generosity of its students through our phone hotline and Instant Message oughly trained by the Counseling and Mental Health members’ donations of time and energy. Despite being service, while retaining anonymity and confidentiality. Service and is well versed in both on- and off-cam- unidentified and uncelebrated, our members are enthu- The identities of the Ears are kept secret, allowing callers pus resources. We often suggest on-campus resources, siastic and committed. Dedicated to providing sympa- to talk freely without worrying that they are speaking with but also aid the callers with finding other places that thy and support every night of the academic year, we’re someone they know and thus without fear of judgment will be helpful with their specific needs or concerns. here to listen if you should ever want to call or instant or condescension. In return, the callers are not obligated Frequently recommended resources include the Office message. We’re here for you every night, and we hope to to reveal their own identities, and the majority of callers of Residential Life and Learning, Counseling and Mental talk to you soon. choose to remain anonymous. Health Service, Academic Resource Center, Health Our group deviates from the traditional crisis-hotline Service, Tufts Emergency Medical Services and the aca- model since we don’t simply instruct callers on what to demic deans. Abigail Benudis is a junior majoring in Spanish. She is the do. Instead, we recognize the important cathartic benefits Ears must be “on duty” answering phone calls or instant Public Relations officer for Ears for Peers. Ears for Peers of just venting, and provide callers with an anonymous messages for at least four shifts per month. Every Ear vol- can be reached at 617-627-3888 or tuftsE4P on AOL Instant friend when they just need to talk. Students don’t always unteers a minimum of 20 hours a month, though many of Messenger from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily.

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Out with the old...

ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS DAILY ...in with the NCAA tournament? Recently completed renovations lengthened the court in Cousens Gym to 94 feet, allowing the home of the Tufts basketball teams to host postseason games as early as this season. The new-look facility will be on display for the first time when the Tufts volleyball team hosts Wesleyan on Sept. 18.

INSIDE BOSTON SPORTS Banner 2008-09 season lands Tufts in Directors’ Cup top 10 Jumbo Nation: A look at the mania Buoyed by historic seasons from its field hockey and soft- of local sports at Tufts ball teams, Tufts finished in BY ALEX PREWITT 10th place out of 310 ranked Daily Editorial Board Div. III programs in the final 2008-09 Directors’ Cup stand- Manic. Traditional. Intense. All ings. The finish was Tufts’ sec- words used to describe Boston’s ond best in the 14-year history sports culture. But what does it of the Directors’ Cup, which mean to become a part of this awards points to a school atmosphere upon arriving in the when its teams qualify for area? For some, it can be a new NCAA championship events. In annoyance along the lines of all, 13 Jumbo squads compiled going to class; for others, it can a school-record 759.25 points develop into a new way to live, on last season. par with breathing. In May, the softball team Like a toxic gas seeping through capped off a stellar 2009 cam- the cool Boston air into surround- paign with a fourth-place show- ing communities, the area’s sports COURTESY J. VINCET ing at the College World Series, ANDREW MORGENTHALER/TUFTS DAILY culture becomes infectious, even to Fenway Park is a big lure for sports fans who come to school in the Boston the culmination of a record- the most halfhearted of fans. Sure, area. The recent success of teams like the Red Sox and Celtics gives many breaking 44-3 season that swimming, women’s basketball, some exhibit innate immunity. But a reason to follow local sports. included NESCAC and Regional men’s lacrosse and women’s for the majority, setting foot in the crowns. Coach Cheryl Milligan’s tennis also scored for Tufts, region means instant exposure. every season since 2001. In 2007, “I feel like Red Sox fans are very squad picked up 80 points for which was one of four NESCAC “Being around Boston sports the squad went 16-0 in the regu- accepting,” said senior Brenna Tufts, the second-highest total schools to finish inside the top in 2009 is to be around intelli- lar season. And with quarterback Heintz, a native of Alaska. “So I of any team on the Hill. Only 10. Williams, Middlebury and gence and a spirit that is really Tom Brady back from a knee injury, came here, where the Boston sports field hockey earned more points, Amherst claimed the top three special,” said Professor George things are looking bright for the teams are really electrifying, and I scoring 90 after making just the spots, with the Ephs capturing Scarlett of the child development city’s gridiron stars. got caught up in it. I’m sure that if second NCAA title game appear- the Directors’ Cup for the 11th department, who moved to New The Boston Celtics, who have you’re a student who comes from ance by any team in school his- consecutive year. England from Baltimore in 1963. won an NBA best 17 titles — far away and Boston has been los- tory and finishing as the national With at least a few squads “It’s not just another sports town. including the 2008 championship ing a lot, you wouldn’t be as likely to runner-up last November. expected to be in the postsea- I’m passionate about the Patriots — and the Boston Bruins, a five- get caught up in it.” Track and field also provided son mix this fall, Tufts could get but am neurotic about baseball time Stanley Cup-winning fran- Just as it has no geographical a major boon to Tufts in the out to a fast start in the 2009- and got caught up in Sox fever. I chise, have made winning a way boundaries, devotion in Boston standings, totaling 217.25 points 10 Directors’ Cup race. Boasting had experienced that city passion of life. The atmosphere of success has no age limit. For those accus- across four teams in the winter three returning All-Americans on before in Baltimore with [Colts can be contagious, especially to tomed to the city’s recent success, and spring seasons. The high- its roster, the field hockey team is quarterback Johnny] Unitas, but Tufts students. like Prescott, or others who grew light came from the women’s ranked second in the preseason gradually got converted when I “Once you live in this area, it up watching the Red Sox in the indoor squad, whose fifth place national polls and could once started living on my own.” becomes easier to jump on the 1940s, like Professor Sol Gittleman, finish at the NCAA champion- again compete for an NCAA With a wave of championships bandwagon,” said sophomore Jeff the sports culture refuses to falter at ships in March, featuring a title- title. In addition, women’s soccer flowing into the city, being a Boston Prescott, who grew up in New York the generational gap, appealing to winning effort by the distance could be in for a bounce-back sports fan has become increasingly Yankee territory Wilton, Conn. all residents. medley relay team, earned the season after injuries derailed a easy for new students. The Boston “Collectively it’s becoming easier “If you’re interested in sports and Jumbos 75 Directors’ Cup points. team that started off 6-1 last Red Sox, for instance, have won and easier to support teams in it’s in your DNA, you get the sense Women’s lacrosse was not far year, and volleyball will look to two of the last five World Series and Boston, because I think its begin- that you’re in a historic town,” said behind, tallying 70 points after return to the NCAA tournament could be poised for another run ning to compete for the sports capi- Gittleman, who teaches a course reaching the national quarter- after a program-best campaign this October. tal of the nation.” on baseball history. “It’s a little bit finals in its first-ever NCAA tour- in 2008. The New England Patriots, like- Even for those Tufts students manic, a little bit crazy in such a nament appearance. wise, are owners of three Super from far away, assimilating into small town. People take it extremely Volleyball, men’s and women’s —by Sapna Bansil Bowl trophies this decade and have Boston’s sports atmosphere accumulated at least nine wins in comes naturally. see BOSTON SPORTS, page 19 18 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Wednesday, September 2, 2009

TUFTS SPORTS Welcome to the NESCAC

Tufts is a proud member of the NESCAC, which, contrary to popular belief, does not stand for Never Expect Sports Championships At Colby. In fact, the New England Small College Athletic Conference houses some of the most successful teams in all of Div. III, including six 2008-09 national champions — Williams women’s tennis and rowing, Trinity squash, Middlebury women’s cross country, Amherst women’s ice hockey and Bowdoin field hockey — and the top three schools in the Directors’ Cup — Williams, Middlebury and Amherst. Now when someone asks you why you went to school in the Northeast (because don’t lie, it wasn’t the weather or the raging parties), you can inform them that Tufts belongs to the country’s best Div. III conference. So take a trip through the 10 other schools that share a conference with the Jumbos — institutions you will come to know and hate in your time here. With all the success, we figure that the stands should be filled with more than eight fans.

Colby Mules Bates Bobcats Williams Ephs Waterville, Maine Lewiston, Maine Williamstown, Mass. Middlebury Panthers Known for: Its randomly good women’s Known for: Little beyond a Known as: Goliath. Middlebury, Vt. lacrosse team. fleeting moment of women’s Vs. Tufts: The Ephs saw lengthy Known for: Recently finding success in sports not Vs. Tufts: Colby was nearly perfect in defend- soccer glory in 2005. winning streaks against two called hockey and lacrosse. ing its NESCAC women’s lacrosse title — except Vs. Tufts: Bates and Tufts Jumbos squads come to an end Vs. Tufts: Middlebury’s men’s lacrosse team won against Tufts. The Jumbos dealt the Mules their have built up quite a rivalry on Parents Weekend last season every conference championship between 2001 first and only regular-season loss last season, in women’s soccer. In 2005 in Medford. A lockdown defen- and 2007, but not without some serious challenges recording a 13-9 victory in Waterville, Maine the schools played in three sive effort gave Tufts football from Tufts. The two teams played a triple-overtime that wound up shifting the conference regular one-goal games, including a its first win over Williams since thriller in the 2006 conference semifinals, the season crown in Tufts’ favor. 1-0 win by Tufts in the NCAA 1986, while men’s soccer’s 3-1 longest game in NESCAC Tournament history, NESCAC Nugget: Has produced five Tournament’s second round, victory was its first over the followed by an 8-7 nail-biter in the ’07 semis. The Olympians, most recently Hilary Gehman, while the following year, a Ephs since 1994. Panthers walked away victorious both times and who competed in crew at Sydney and Athens seventh-seeded Bobcats team NESCAC Nugget: Has won 70 of are 32-1 against the Jumbos over the last 40 years. in 2000 and 2004, respectively. stunned the second-seeded the 123 meetings of the “Biggest NESCAC Nugget: Won a combined 21 national Jumbos in the first round of Little Game in America” over rival titles from their lacrosse and hockey programs the NESCAC Tournament. But Amherst, including four straight. between 1995 and 2006. the Jumbos have exacted their revenge since then, shutting out the Bobcats in their last two meetings. NESCAC Nugget: Mascot was originally the Garnet, named after the official colors. In fact, the fourth line of Bates’ fight songs goes “Today the Garnet Bobcats conquer again.”

Hamilton Continentals Clinton, N.Y. Known as: The soon-to-be newest full-time member of the NESCAC. Vs. Tufts: The 2007 Tufts women’s soccer team had hopes of making a deep NCAA Tournament Bowdoin Polar Bears run for its prolific senior Brunswick, Maine class, only to be denied Known for: Lindsay “Bleeping” by Hamilton. In a second- McNamara. round contest in Clinton, Vs. Tufts: McNamara’s goal in the the Continentals beat second overtime of last year’s nation- the Jumbos on penalty al title game denied the field hockey kicks, ending the careers team a chance to claim Tufts’ first- of seven seniors who had ever NCAA team championship. amassed 40 wins in their Bowdoin and Tufts are ranked one- four years on the Hill. two in this year’s preseason field NESCAC Nugget: Seven of hockey polls, with a showdown on Hamilton’s teams partici- tap for Oct. 30 in Brunswick. pate in the Liberty League: NESCAC Nugget: Has won eight of field hockey and men’s nine NESCAC women’s basketball and women’s basketball, championships since the tourna- soccer and lacrosse. ment’s inception in 2001.

Trinity Bantams Amherst Lord Jeffs Hartford, Conn. Connecticut College Camels Amherst, Mass. Known for: Their dominance in squash — New London, Conn. Known for: Having the most nonsensical the last time the Bantams lost a match was Known for: Failing to win a single mascot in the NESCAC. in 1998. NESCAC title — ever. Vs. Tufts: From Andrew Olson’s buzzer- Vs. Tufts: The biggest threat to derail the Vs. Tufts: Though the Camels’ beater in the 2006 Sweet Sixteen to Kim Trinity football team’s perfect 2008 campaign Wesleyan Cardinals men’s basketball team has gone Fiorentino’s final-minute dagger in last came from Tufts, which battled the Bantams Middletown, Conn. just 6-12 in NESCAC play over the season’s NESCAC semifinals, Amherst bas- to a 28-27 overtime loss. Trinity tied the game Known as: Bill Belichick’s alma mater. last two years, they are 2-0 against ketball has been a perennial thorn in the with an 11-play, 92-yard drive late in the Vs. Tufts: In each of the last two years, the the Jumbos. In the schools’ most Jumbos’ side. Four of the women’s squads’ fourth quarter and won thanks, in part, to a Jumbos’ softball team has gone through recent meeting last season, Tufts nine losses over the last two years have botched extra point by Tufts. In the teams’ the Cardinals en route to a NESCAC cham- coughed up a double-digit first- come against the Jeffs — none by greater previous meeting, the Jumbos became just pionship. In last season’s conference finals, half lead before going on to hand than six points. the second team since 2001 to beat the pow- 37-1 Tufts steamrolled past Wesleyan with Conn. College its first of two NESCAC Nugget: Has made the men’s erhouse Bantams, scoring a 16-10 win at an 8-2 victory on Spicer Field, claiming its conference wins. basketball NCAA Tournament each of the Zimman Field. third consecutive NESCAC crown and its NESCAC Nugget: Conn. College is last 10 seasons. NESCAC Nugget: The 2008 Trinity baseball sixth in program history. 3,537.5 miles away from Western team went 45-1, with an NCAA record .978 NESCAC Nugget: Wesleyan’s Andrus Field Sahara, the closest-known inhab- winning percentage, en route to winning the is the oldest continuously used football itance of the camel. school’s first NCAA National championship. field in the United States. Wednesday, September 2, 2009 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 19

INSIDE THE NFL Rookies rising: Are first-years ready to fulfill their potential? BY ALEX PREWITT they are miles apart on the field. recently sprained his MCL, and Daily Editorial Board Whereas Flacco was blessed his status is up in the air for with Derrick Mason to throw Week One. Denver has a his- Every year, several rookies to, Sanchez has no true go-to tory of turning rookie backs perform at a level well beyond receiver. Gone is deep-ball into immediate stars, but with their age and transition smooth- threat Laveranues Coles, leaving pass-happy rookie coach Josh ly from college to the fast-paced opposing defenses to key in on McDaniels at the helm, Moreno’s NFL game. Last season, new- Jerricho Cotchery. role remains uncertain. comers such as Matt Ryan of But it’s undeniable that The hype surrounding the Atlanta Falcons, Joe Flacco Sanchez has the potential to Moreno would indicate that he of the Baltimore Ravens, Matt fill in admirably for Favre, as is next in line to become the lat- Forte of the Chicago Bears and the former showed with a stel- est star in the Denver backfield. Steve Slaton of the Houston lar performance in limited play- In just two years at Georgia, Texans blazed onto the nation- ing time against the cross-town he averaged 5.5 yards-per-carry al stage. With Ryan and Flacco Giants. He completed 65 per- and rumbled for 2,736 yards quarterbacking their teams into cent of his passes for 149 yards, and 30 touchdowns. That does the playoffs and Forte and Slaton including a 31-yard touchdown not even include the aggregate amassing 1,000-yard-rushing pass to Chansi Stuckey. 600-plus yards he accumulated seasons, this year’s crop of NFL’s Yet, in his opening contests, in the receiving game. rookies class will face the weight Sanchez looked more like a Rumors have been circulat- of some high expectations. quarterback fresh out of college ing that Moreno’s injury will Perhaps the first-year who than one focused on leading the hinder him from partaking in has gained the most attention Jets to the playoffs. Against the the opener, but he certainly has been New York Jets quarter- Ravens Sanchez was shaky in the possesses the physical tools to back Mark Sanchez. Fresh out pocket in the face of one of the be an instant splash in the AFC of the University of Southern league’s best defenses, throwing West upon return. California, where he started just one interception in only eight Meanwhile, the Super Bowl one season, Sanchez will take attempts and accumulating a runner-up Arizona Cardinals over under center in place of the passer rating of 55.7. hope their rookie weapon, run- mercurial, on-again off-again When Sanchez takes the ning back Chris “Beanie” Wells, Brett Favre. field on Sept. 13 at Houston, will provide the missing ingre- Coach Rex Ryan, also a rookie he will become the first Jets dient for their potent offense in New York, named Sanchez the rookie quarterback since 1960 — an established running game. starter despite an up-and-down to start the opening game. Despite ranking second in the preseason that included an How he performs remains to league in passing yardage, the MCT impressive showing against the be seen, but the expectations Cardinals placed dead last on Jets rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez has earned himself a starting slot. Sanchez New York Giants but a shaky per- are certainly high. the ground, averaging just 73.6 will be following in the footsteps of the Ravens’ Joe Flacco and the Falcons’ Matt formance against the Ravens. Still, while Sanchez is one of yards per game. Ryan, who led their teams to the playoffs as rookies last year. In the aftermath of Ryan’s dec- the only quarterbacks in line to Selected with the 31st overall laration, comparisons between make an immediate impact, he pick in the 2009 draft out of Ohio it big — he was the only back to Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald, Sanchez and Flacco quickly have is certainly not the lone first- State, Wells brings an estab- run a faster 40-yard-dash than Wells should provide the nec- become commonplace. Flacco year to generate noise this pre- lished résumé to the desert. He Moreno — and he has shown essary ground attack to keep last year became one of just eight season. Across the country, rushed for 1,609 yards and 15 flashes this preseason. On Aug. opposing defenses from stack- rookie quarterbacks in league two running backs are mak- touchdowns for the Buckeyes 28 in his professional debut ing the secondary. history to start a playoff game, ing a storm in their respective his sophomore year, includ- against the Green Bay Packers, While other first-years, such while Sanchez hopes to follow West divisions, and the rushing ing a 222-yard burst against Wells made a splash, rushing for as Detroit Lions quarterback suit after being handed the reins attacks of the Denver Broncos Michigan, the most against the 46 yards and two scores, includ- Matthew Stafford, are high up to the rebuilding Jets. But even and the Arizona Cardinals hinge Wolverines by any one running ing a 20-yard scamper in the on depth charts, the rookies though Flacco and Sanchez may squarely on their legs. back in rivalry history. second quarter. will have a long climb to star- seem similar on paper regarding Broncos back Knowshon But performing in the NFL will Even with Pro Bowlers at dom. But Sanchez, Moreno and their professional inexperience Moreno, a first-round draft pick be a different story. Like Moreno, quarterback in Kurt Warner Wells all appear poised to make and strong defensive support, out of the University of Georgia, Wells has the capability to make and wide receiver in Anquan the leap sooner than expected. INSIDE MLB Boston sports a Piñeiro rises a cut above as Cards take flight ‘tradition deeper BY DANIEL RATHMAN The true secrets to Piñeiro’s success, Daily Editorial Board however, have been grounders and lin- ers — more precisely, lots and lots of than anything’ In “Bull Durham,” Kevin Costner’s groundballs and very few line drives. BOSTON SPORTS character Crash Davis tells hotshot In fact, Piñeiro has induced more continued from page 17 pitching prospect ‘Nuke’ LaLoosh, groundballs than any other pitcher in seriously.” “Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, baseball this season, as a whopping 61.5 Yet what attracts fans like Professor they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls percent of the balls hit in play against Scarlett to Gillette Stadium or Fenway Park — it’s more democratic.” him have caught dirt. Meanwhile, he has is not the banners or the rings, but rather By Davis’ standards, the St. Louis prevented opposing batters from squar- the constant support emanating from the Cardinals’ de facto No. 3 starter, Joel ing up the baseball, with a paltry 16.0 seats in those hallowed grounds. Piñeiro, would be a leading candidate percent of the rocks coming off their “What I fell in love with is this tradition,” for the National League Cy Young award. bats turning into lined shots, the sec- Scarlett said. “It was captured in ‘Fever The 30-year-old Piñeiro hardly stands ond-best mark in the National League. Pitch,’ this license to be nutty and to still out when he’s on the mound, as he Not surprisingly, Piñeiro’s sound have fun. If you keep an open mind and lacks the overpowering stature, eccen- approach has also led to a high num- start to see the sports teams in Boston, I tric delivery and intimidation factor that ber of double plays. Piñeiro has negat- think you can still admit and enjoy the fact most of the league’s other elite starters ed 23 baserunners this season via the that there’s something special here.” bring to the table. Instead, the Puerto twin killing, more than any National The fact that Boston houses hundreds Rican right-hander sets himself apart in League pitcher except the Washington of thousands of college-age sports fans a way that usually goes unnoticed, even Nationals’ John Lannan and the Pirates’ MCT only adds to the mania. though it’s equally effective. Paul Maholm. Pitcher Joel Piñeiro is having a resurgent sea- “College fans are some of the most Piñeiro, whose 3.11 ERA current- Piñeiro has also taken advantage of son for the National League Central-leading driven fans because they’re young, exu- ly ranks 10th among National League the tutelage of baseball’s best pitch- St. Louis Cardinals. berant and are their own personalities,” starters with at least 150 innings of work, ing coach, Dave Duncan. The Cardinals Jeff Prescott said. “New York is where is the only pitcher in the top 10 with pitching wizard has helped complete his heater the third most effective one in business happens, not where fun hap- less than 100 strikeouts and a hit rate of hurler’s readjustment to the National baseball, behind those of Randy Wolf pens. In Boston the fan base is so strong almost one per inning. And although he League after Piñeiro went an atrocious and Cain. That’s a vast improvement that it fosters a stronger and more tightly- has whiffed less than half as many bat- 8-13 with a 6.36 ERA and 23 hom- over the -20.1 linear weight of Piñeiro’s knit community because it’s the biggest ters in nearly as many innings of work ers allowed in his final full season in straight fastball in 2008, and it’s the pri- college city.” as Atlanta Braves’ ace Javier Vazquez, the American League with the Seattle mary force behind the renaissance he Even for the most diehard of fans, Piñeiro has been charged with the same Mariners in 2006. has enjoyed this season. Boston sports still offer rich opportunities number of earned runs. It took four months of mixed results Piñeiro doesn’t have Ubaldo Jimenez’s each day. The consensus advice for any So, how has Piñeiro managed to in a relief role with the Red Sox in 2007, league-leading 96 mile-per-hour fast- sports fan? Get to Fenway as soon as pos- post more quality starts than Vazquez, followed by a midseason trade to St. ball, he lacks Josh Johnson’s top-notch sible to experience the full effect of what teammate Chris Carpenter and the San Louis and a rocky return to the rotation slider, and his changeup can’t hold a the area has to offer. Francisco Giants’ Matt Cain while sur- in 2008, for Piñeiro to finally give up his candle to that of Tim Lincecum. Yet he “Fenway is one of the two great historic rendering 169 hits and fanning just 84 earlier style of pitching for a more dem- ranks right near those Cy Young hopefuls monuments left in pro baseball,” Gittleman batters in 170.2 innings? ocratic one. But his decision to embrace with a 3.04 fielding-independent ERA. said. “If you got a sense of history, you’ll If you ask Crash Davis, his secret is as this method and feature his new signa- Adam Wainwright and Chris Carpenter want to see Fenway Park. You should get democratic as the popular vote. ture pitch — the sinker — has turned his form one of the finest one-two pitch- consumed, or at least involved, if you come To make up for his lack of strikeouts, career around. ing rotation punches in baseball, but and are interested in sports in general.” Piñeiro has been extraordinarily stingy The newly crafted sinker has proven Joel Piñeiro plays one heck of a second “Over the years, I realized that this [tra- when it comes to walks, handing out a incredibly effective in its debut tour fiddle in the Gateway City. And though dition] was something deeper than any- league-low 18 free passes. To temper the through the bigs. Its linear weight — a he is probably the best kept secret in St. thing,” Scarlett added. “Fenway Park is effect of his bloated hit rate, Piñeiro has statistic that measures the effectiveness Louis, he is one of the primary reasons to Boston what Notre Dame is to Paris. kept all but six of those knocks in the of a pitch relative to those of other pitch- why the Redbirds are among the favor- It is the cathedral. It’s this very positive yard, leading the circuit in that category ers, with an average pitch ranking at ites to take home the National League community that links one generation to as well. 0.0 — of 23.0 makes Piñeiro’s high-80s pennant this year. another. The tradition is unbelievable.” 20 THE TUFTS DAILY ADVERTISEMENT Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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