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BY HEATHER HAUSWIRTH cant advancement in women’s cover the expense of the drug, Contributing Writer health. but despite the hefty price “Seventy-five percent or tag, some students feel that Tufts University Health more of sexually active young their health is well worth the Services is in its second week adults have HPV,” Higham cost. of offering Gardasill, a newly said. “Being sexually active — “This is basically revolution- approved vaccination for not even just intercourse, but izing how the medical field the Human Papilloma Virus any type of genital-to-genital views sexually transmitted (HPV). contact and hand-to-genital infections (STIs),” senior pre- Gardasill, manufactured contact — puts you at risk.” med student Sally Greenwald by Merck & Co., is a vaccine Dr. Higham encourages said. intended to prevent the types as many girls as possible to Dr. Higham hopes that of HPV that lead to cervical get the vaccine but acknowl- the new vaccine will lay the cancer and genital warts in edges that its cost is a bar- groundwork to raise girls’ women and girls between the rier to many students. Health consciousness about sexual ages of nine and 26. Services charges $140 per health. TIM FITZSIMONS/TUFTS DAILY Tufts Medical Director Dr. shot, and students must get “You want to give [the vac- Dr. Samuel Boules receives the Leontief prize in Ballou Hall last night. Margaret Higham said that a three shots for the complete cine] to kids well before they wide range of sexual activities vaccination. are sexually active,” she said. expose women to HPV. She Insurance companies have Leontief Prize awarded to sees the vaccine as a signifi- not yet decided how they will see VACCINE, page 2 trail-blazing economists Gitmo vs. Geneva conventions debate comes to Tufts BY ROBERT SIY the preferences of young people. Contributing Writer We have to ask, ‘What does this mean?’” The Global Development and Schor is the author of several Environment Institute (G-DAE) best-selling books on market- at Tufts University yesterday ing and consumerism, includ- awarded the 2006 Leontief Prize ing “The Overworked American: for Advancing the Frontiers of The Unexpected Decline of Economic Thought to Dr. Juliet Leisure” and “Born to Buy: The Schor and Dr. Samuel Bowles. Commercialized Child and the The awardees also each delivered New Consumer Culture” . speeches on the topic “Economics Likewise, Bowles, a Research for an Imperfect World: Building Professor and Director of the on the Galbraith Legacy.” Behavioral Sciences Program John Kenneth Galbraith was a at the Santa Fe Institute, spoke Canadian-born economist who on the difficulty of managing the was infamous in the world of aca- unorthodox “weightless econo- demic economists for consistently my” of information. He said that urging breaks from the math- the model that was created for ematical and technical models “grain and steel” economies deal- that characterized economics at ing in tangible goods is obsolete the time. Rather, he urged his fol- in explaining and managing a lowers to view the economy as a weightless economy. product of the complex interplay Bowles said that in order to gain between culture and politics. perspective on how to manage In this vein, Schor, a Professor of information, economists should Sociology at Boston College, said look at the ways hunter-gatherer that while consumerism in today’s societies in ancient times man- economic culture has long exceed- aged game. “Information is like COURTESY NICKI SOBECKI ed levels that society can sustain, antelopes: hard to produce, dif- The Institute for Global Leadership hosted a teach-in last night featuring a panel of guests which discussed consumerism still remains a topic ficult to own, and wasteful if not the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and the Bush administration’s stance on the intersection of national few economists are willing to tack- shared,” he said. security and treatment of detainees at the facility. The panel included the President of Humans Rights First le. “I am moved and honored not Michael Posner and former General Counsel for the U.S. Navy Alberto Mora. The consensus of the panel “We can no longer take this because I am receiving a prize, was that the administration’s handling of the situation has seriously damaged U.S. foreign relations and dance around [consumerism],” but because I am receiving a prize the country’s moral standing abroad. Schor said. “Advertising and mar- keting are increasingly driving see LEONTIEF, page 2

Steinberg spills “dirt” on Red Sox

Boston fans, listen up: there’s more to University of Maryland. But he continued to “We’ll take these five years all over again your favorite team than you think. work for the Orioles every summer, initially with no changes, if we could,” he said. Red Sox Vice President of Public Affairs Dr. performing menial tasks “not only without Questions solicited after the speech cov- Charles Steinberg spoke to a group of about complaint, but with enthusiasm,” he said. ered topics from the Pedro Martinez deci- 20 students and professors last night about Eventually, Steinberg moved on to keeping sions to this year’s five-game sweep the Red his experiences in baseball at an event spon- statistics for famous then-Orioles manager Sox suffered at the hands of the Yankees. sored by Baseball Analysis at Tufts (BAT). Earl Weaver. Steinberg stressed the fact that media The event attracted not only Red Sox Needless to say, Steinberg eventually real- often gets in the way of the truth in sports fans, but also fans of the Giants, Devil Rays, ized that his place was not in dentistry. stories. “You don’t get the story from me,” Braves, Pirates, Phillies, and of course, the Apart from his professional history, he said. “You read it in the paper.” Yankees. Steinberg also addressed the subject on Students seemed to appreciate this new Steinberg spoke at length about how most student attendees’ minds: the “dirt” perspective on the team. “There was a he got started in baseball: working as an surrounding Red Sox Nation in the 2005 depth to the lecture that you don’t get from RACHEL SCHENKER/TUFTS DAILY intern for the Baltimore Orioles during his season. the sports page,” sophomore Red Sox fan Red Sox Vice President of Public Affairs Dr. senior year of high school. The intern posi- Steinberg was quick to downplay rumors, Robin Smyton said. “And it was interesting Charles Steinberg debunks Red Sox myths. tion, originally set to last only one month, saying that although “there were some odd to hear the back-stories from all these leg- quickly escalated into a summer job to which dynamics that did come out,” the manage- endary events.” Steinberg is happy to have found a home Steinberg would return for many years. ment of the Red Sox is like a family. Steinberg Steinberg also spoke about the future with the Red Sox. “There is no place else in Nevertheless, Steinberg planned to pur- worked with many members of the Red Sox of the Red Sox. As far as winning another baseball like Boston, like New England,” he sue a career as an orthodontist like his organization throughout his career, dating World Series is concerned, “you know, it’s said. father and even studied dentistry at the back to his days in Baltimore, he said. hard to repeat,” he said. —by Rachel Coffin

Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections STUDENT LOANS FOOTBALL News 1 International 11 The Daily takes a look The Daily preview’s tomor- at student loans and row’s game at Bowdoin at Features 3 Comics 12 our collective future looks back on a 1956 win Arts | Living 5Classifieds 13 paying them back. at Harvard. Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back National 9 see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Friday, October 6, 2006 Higher Education Briefs Doctors will emphasize drug’s role Bacow’s remarks BROTHER JIM DEMANDS RIGHT TO SPEAK in preventing cancer over STI effects praised Galbraith

“Nearly all of our campus is going to VACCINE ally active, said Senior President LEONTIEF hell, because all we care about is sex, mas- continued from page 1 of Tufts College Democrats Kayt continued from page 1 turbating, alcohol and rock ‘n’ roll music,” “It will be interesting to see if it Norris. named after one of my inspirations,” said James G. Gilles, a controversial evange- increases communication and con- “I think it’s good that the doc- Bowles, in an interview with the Daily after list preacher, told students at Purdue versation about sexually transmitted tors are targeting younger girls, as giving his specch. University, according to the Chronicle of infections and safe-sex behavior.” opposed to just crossing your fin- Wassily Leontief pioneered input-output Higher Education. The promotion of the drug to mid- gers that they haven’t had unpro- analyses in economics as a response to a Gilles, also known as Brother Jim, is now dle school-aged girls has sparked tected sex yet,” she said. “In a case system that he felt could not fully account suing Murray State University in Kentucky controversy among evangelical like this, people aren’t split among for real-world processes. for forbidding him to speak at the school. Christians and religious conserva- party lines.” The ceremony attracted a diverse audi- Although in the past he was allowed to tives who fear that girls will consider To best avoid controversy, Dr. ence, including faculty from and outside speak at the university’s student center, the vaccine a replacement for using Higham said that most doctors will Tufts as well as both graduate and under- which is a free-speech area on campus, condoms and that it will encourage emphasize the drug’s role in guard- graduate students. University President administrators have taken a more restric- sexual promiscuity and unsafe sex ing against cancer rather than in Lawrence Bacow delivered the welcom- tive stance in recent years. among younger girls. preventing STIs. ing remarks, relating his first experiences According to his attorney Nathan Tufts students on both ends of the “They are going to focus on the with John Kenneth Galbraith as a student at Kellum, the only reason that Gilles has not political spectrum, however, laud fact that it prevents cancer — which Harvard University. been allowed to speak at the university is the vaccine. it does — and that is more socially “[Galbraith] was much loved as a teacher, because his views are unpopular among Sophomore Amy Rabinovitz, acceptable and easier for a parent much loved as a scholar, and much loved as the people there. who sits on the Board of College of a pre-adolescent kid to hear,” she a public intellectual.” Bacow said. “It’s fairly apparent that they simply Republicans, said that the preven- said. The G-DAE awards the Leontief Prize didn’t like what he had to say,” Kellum, tion of cervical cancer should take While women suffer the conse- yearly for “outstanding contributions to eco- who works with the Christian legal-advo- priority in this argument. quences of HPV, men can be silent nomic theory that address contemporary cacy group Alliance Defense Fund, told “It’s ridiculous to say that the vac- carriers who unwittingly infect their realities and support just and sustainable the Chronicle. cine is a bad idea, because cervi- partners, since they often display societies,” according to Dr. Neva Goodwin, Although Kellum admits that his client’s cal cancer prevention outweighs the no physical symptoms. Senior Jay Co-Director of the G-DAE. Galbraith was views are not mainstream, he still hopes concern for giving young females Solomon expressed his interest in awarded the first Leontief Prize in 2000 that his right to express them will be less of a consequence for unsafe “any advancement that helps to together with Amartya Sen. upheld. sex,” she said. prevent the spread of diseases and “Much of the Work done by the G-DAE is The goal is for girls to get the vac- viruses [and] that can make sex building on the Galbraith Legacy,” Goodwin HARVARD MAKES A RETURN TO cination before they become sexu- safer.” said. ITS RELIGIOUS ROOTS A six-person faculty committee at OFF THE HILL | KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Harvard University recommended several bold changes to the school’s curriculum, Hangovers potentially more dangerous than inebriation including a requirement for all under- graduates to study religion in addition to BY ERIC BROWN there today. All other products released The placebo effect is the phenomenon U.S. history and ethics. McClatchy Tribune on the market are just that: remedies,” that a person’s symptoms can be alleviat- According to the committee’s report, Stefanko said. “Our product, Hangover ed by an otherwise ineffective treatment, “Harvard is no longer an institution with According to research in the Annals Prevention Formula, is the only clinically since the individual expects or believes a religious mission, but religion is a fact of Internal Medicine, those experiencing proven hangover remedy. After 10 years that the treatment will work, Pearson that Harvard’s graduates will confront in hangovers can be a threat to themselves of research, this is what we have come up said. their lives.” The report also noted that and others even after their blood alcohol with.” “Take for example if I were to be exer- 94 percent of incoming students report levels have returned to normal. Bill Arck, director of Alcohol and Other cising with a personal trainer,” explained discussing religion and 71 percent attend Because of the reduced cognitive abili- Drug Education Service with University Pearson. “I might have been doing the services. ties that accompany a hangover, routine Counseling Services, said he had not same workout before on my own. But “As academics in a university, we don’t activities can be seriously affected. The heard of HPF. However, he is skeptical of since I’m working out with a personal have to confront religion if we’re not reli- research suggests that hangovers can the new formula. trainer, I would feel like I was now getting gious, but in the world, they will have to,” potentially be more dangerous than actu- “Let’s just say I’m not going to invest my a better workout.” Alison Simmons, a philosophy professor al inebriation. retirement funds into this company,” Arck Pearson then discussed how she would who co-chaired the committee, said in a In the quest for hangover prevention, said. test HPF. telephone interview with the Associated Nutrimark, LLC, recently has uncov- In his years working at AODES, Arck “If I were to test the this formula on 50 Press on Wednesday. ered its Hangover Prevention Formula. said he has seen at least one new hang- people, I would give 25 of them the actual Students would also be required to take According to the HPF Web site, www. over-cure formula every six months, but formula, and the other 25 people a sugar courses in “science and technology” and hangoverprevention.com, HPF is a natural he has yet to be impressed by any of pill, telling them that it was the HPF for- “cultural traditions and cultural change.” dietary supplement that provides protec- them. Arck also said research has shown mula. I can almost promise you that some The committee’s report was first released tion from the “morning after” symptoms the best method to cure hangovers is one of those 25 people who took the sugar pill on Wednesday by Harvard’s student news- experienced after prolonged or excessive that’s much cheaper than buying pills or would say that they felt better because paper, The Harvard Crimson, after it had alcohol consumption. formulas. of this placebo effect, or because they been circulated around the faculty. Its rec- Gerald Stefanko, chief executive officer “There is too much good research that wanted to feel better.” ommendations follow years of debate over of Nutrimark, said taking one dose of the proves the best way to prevent hang- “The mind-body connection is very Harvard’s curriculum, which has been formula two hours before drinking will overs is simply time,” Arck said. “If you strong,” Pearson said. “If we think posi- criticized for being two narrow in scope continue curing the drinker’s hangovers drink too quickly or drink heavily for a tive, or feel better mentally, our bodies and out of touch with the real world. for the next three days. The recommended long period of time without allowing your will then feel better.” HPF dose is one pill for alcohol consum- body the appropriate amount of time for David Dick, junior in agriculture eco- ers weighing less than 130 pounds and the alcohol to work through your system, nomics, said he is skeptical of HPF. He BELMONT UNIVERSITY MAY two pills for those weighing more than you’ll get a hangover — period. It doesn’t said he has never experienced with hang- HAVE TO SURRENDER MILLIONS 130 pounds. matter what kind of hangover-prevention over cures, but he might give the formula Belmont University’s attempt to amend HPF contains a patented, all-natural supplements you use.” a try. its charter may end up costing the school extract, Tex-OC, derived from the fruit Arck said that in order to prevent hang- “If it’s really proven to work for three the hefty price of $58 million. of the Prickly Pear Cactus. This extract overs, the appropriate amount of time for days, I would really be interested in trying That sum, representing 54 years worth accelerates the body’s natural response alcohol to fully work through your body’s it,” said Dick. of donations, is what the Tennessee Baptist to physical stressors like alcohol. Along system is one hour per alcoholic bever- “However, it would definitely depend Convention is asking to be returned to with Tex-OC, HPF contains supplemen- age. Arck noted that one alcoholic bever- on how much it costs, and I would also them after a dispute with the university. tary B vitamins, which prevent alcohol’s age is a 12-ounce beer, a 5-ounce glass be concerned about the health issues. I The Convention claims that the Baptist depletion of vitamins necessary for prop- of wine, or one shot of hard liquor. Arck think I would need to know more about school’s insistence on giving its trustees er nerve and muscle and cardiovascular also stated that drinking 8 oz. of water for the formula, especially if it’s going to be in the right to elect their successors and functions. every alcoholic beverage also contributes my body for supposedly three days.” to expand the makeup of the board to Along with nutritional benefits, Stefanko to your body’s recovery. Amanda Stanford, a junior in psychol- include more representatives from other said numerous clinical tests, including a Along with Arck, Barbara Pearson, a ogy, said the formula sounds great but has Christian denominations violates a previ- double-blind, randomized study among licensed psychologist with the campus heard from others that hangover preven- ous agreement. 62 graduate medical students at Tulane counseling services, expressed her skepti- ters or cures never work. According to the Convention, this University, have proved the extract’s abil- cism. “I guess what makes me interested in agreement said that donated money must ity to protect the human body against “I feel that the placebo effect sometimes HPF is what makes this hangover cure be returned if the group was ever stripped various types of hangover symptoms. plays a role when people feel that these so much better than the others that don’t of its right to elect the Board of Trustees. “We are different than anything out hangover cures work,” said Pearson. work,” Stanford said.

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According to the Tufts admissions Web site, from law school, I’ll have accumulated over The most common, federal Stafford loans, that is the jumbo-sized bill landing annually in $200,000 in loans.” limit the amount of money students can bor- the mailboxes of Tufts students and their fami- Bergeron explained that by attending law row to $17,125 in four years, typically with a Mirror, mirror, on the lies. The price of tuition has risen by $2,087 school she was able to defer all but one of 10-year repayment plan. A maximum bor- since last year. her loan payments until she graduates. For rower, she said, would end up paying approxi- wall ... Many students are able to offset this increas- the remaining loan, she claimed forbearance, mately $200 per month. ing cost through scholarships and grants: The which requires that the borrower is incapable Reilly said that it is what the financial aid ike it or not, ladies, size Class of 2010 received $10 million total in grant of covering the loan due to unemployment office calls “alternative loans” — loans from money from the financial aid office, according or financial hardship, to delay making pay- banks or private lenders — that can lead stu- does matter. Muffin top, to the admissions Web site. Not everyone is ments. dents to financial trouble. able to count on grants, though; 52 percent of Bergeron said she’s “definitely” worried “(Alternative) loans carry higher inter- plumber’s butt, back cleav- all undergraduate students received no finan- about the future. “My monthly payments are est rates, have much higher loan limits and L cial aid from Tufts in the 2005-2006 school going to be pretty high,” she said, “and I would have the potential to impose a significant age, armpit boob ... not a day goes year, according to the Tufts electronic bulle- like to be able to pay off my loans sooner than repayment burden to the borrower,” she said. tin. expected.” “Because these loans are often negotiated by that you don’t see way more of Left with few options, some students left on To do so, Bergeron said, she will have to directly between the borrower and the lender, the fringe have instead delayed the financial delay or possibly give up some of her life we have very little information about the level another woman’s body than you want burden by taking out long-term college loans. dreams. of current borrowing.” But, according to a recent AllianceBernstein “Even though I’m more interested in less Reilly emphasized that “only a small per- to. Why aren’t modern women wear- Investments survey of recent college graduates lucrative areas of law, I’m going to have to put centage of Tufts undergraduates borrow pri- entitled, “The College Debt Crunch,” these those interests aside for a while so I can pay off vate loans,” which she attributed to the “gen- ing clothing that fit them? How can students should be careful: Accumulating my loans,” she said. erous financial aid program” at Tufts. However, large debts in college can throw students into Bergeron had been hoping to work for she said that the number of students using you even tell if an article of clothing a vicious cycle of debt that may affect their a nonprofit organization advocating human private loans has “increased to some degree as lifestyles for years to come. rights, but will probably find a corporate job costs (of attendance) have gone up.” looks like the designer intended it to? In the survey, which was conducted by when she graduates law school. “I’m sure I’ll According to the College Board’s “Trends AllianceBernstein Investments, Inc., 42 per- be able to manage, but it’s going to take a lot in Student Aid,” students borrowed nearly Have no fear, the Fashion Informer cent of respondents said “living paycheck- of budgeting and sacrifice,” she said. $14 billion in private loans over the 2004-2005 to-paycheck” described their lifestyle “very But Director of Financial Aid Patricia Reilly school year. That number is a 734 percent is here! well,” and 34 percent reported having sold said Bergeron’s situation is atypical for Tufts increase from the amount borrowed in the personal possessions such as furniture, CDs students. She explained that, while approxi- 1995-1996 school year, when attendance costs For some reason, 90 percent of the and clothes to help pay the bills. mately half of all undergraduates received were significantly lower. friends I have shopped with think For recent graduate Ashleigh Bergeron some loans through the financial aid program However, not all graduates have faced loan they are a size small. Don’t ask me (LA ‘06), who is now attending law school at this year, most are federal loans. The distinc- payment problems after graduation. Meghan why this is, but girls in every shape Tulane University, college debts have filled her tion, she said, is important. and size somehow think that small is future with question marks. “There are two major types of loans that see LOANS, page 4 the only acceptable size to purchase, regardless of how it actually fits. What these friends don’t under- CAMPUS COMMENT stand is either a) they haven’t been a “What do you think about using tanning salons?” size small since grade nine, b) every clothing company has different siz- How far would ing standards, or c) both. I have clothing from Juicy Couture “It’s not something that I would do, in sizes small, medium, large, and but I don’t really have a problem you go to get the extra large and Miss Sixty jeans in every size from 28 to 31 — same with other people doing it.” company, same body, four different coveted glow? sizes. Madeline Weiss Why? Because no two pieces of Senior BY SARA HIMELES clothing are ever alike, and because Contributing Writer I understand the cardinal rule of siz- ing: choose your size based on what COURTESY MADELINE WEISS The female Jumbo likes to be tan. In the mirror says, not what the tag September or May, you will spot her says. sprawled out on a beach towel just a few For some reason, this cardinal rule feet from Tisch, trying to soak up what- is too often ignored. Call it ego, call “Bombarding your skin with ultra- ever rays might have made it all the way it vanity, but females refuse to budge violet radiation and, like, quadru- to Medford, Mass. from what they believe is their size. But what good is that radiant glow if Get over it, ladies! No one is ever pling your chances of skin cancer her fellow Jumbos can only admire it two going to see what the tag says except is certainly worth brown skin to months a year? Enter tanning salons like for you, so wouldn’t you rather go a Xtreme Tanning in Davis Square: instant size up and buy a dress that flatters avoid the social stigma against pale sun just a Joey ride away. you, not flattens you? With fall in full swing, many Tufts stu- I was shopping with a friend (who people ... Come on, is it really that dents are gearing up for their regular vis- shall remain nameless) last year important that you look orange?” its to Xtreme Tanning. Senior Susan Linn who browsed the racks of her fave goes to maintain the complexion she’s designer and picked out a few items Ron Brown used to. “I live on the beach at home, so in size small to try on. She is not a

COURTESY RON BROWN Senior I’m outside all summer,” Linn said. “You size small. She tried on item after can call it seasonal affective disorder; I item, squeezing into each one and just like being tan.” promptly discarding them because Sophomore Amy Rabinowitz thinks she “didn’t like them.” all Jumbos should embrace the ritual. I suggested she try a medium, but “I found that the hassles of it are “Everyone looks better with a tan. You she scoffed at the idea, because “she not worth the so-called benefits. look healthier; you have a glow to you,” was a small” and they “just weren’t she said. right for her.” It’s a shame, because You are the way you are — just According to David Vanecia, co-owner she missed out on some really unique of Xtreme Tanning, Tufts students make pieces, all because of a silly tag. embrace it.” up about half of the salon’s custom- At least she didn’t buy them. I’ve Rina Sobel ers during the academic year. “For Tufts stood by friends at the cash register, being a small school, we get a lot of cringing, because I know that the Senior them,” he said. shirt they are about to buy gapes at A “basic tan” costs $7.99, Valencia the buttons, and the shirt they should COURTESY RINA SOBEL said, while a “faster, safer, and longer- be buying is lonely on the racks, the lasting” tan costs $22.99. Xtreme’s more “Large” tag rendering it an outcast. expensive tanning beds “use a lower Clothing should work for you, not percentage of the burning ray and a vice versa. That is to say, never buy “Fake tanning is ... orange. It just higher percentage of the tanning ray,” something a size too small because leads to a higher rate of skin can- Vanecia said, claiming that they make you want to try to fit into it — it will for a healthier tanning experience. never look good on you. cer; it’s just not healthy.” Even with reduced-risk tanning Always bring more than one size of options, some Tufts students have cho- an item to the dressing room with you, Stephen Blaker sen to quit the practice altogether. “I Junior probably won’t go tanning in one of the see FASHION, page 4 tanning beds again, because of the dan- Jyll Saskin is a sophomore who has not SARA HIMELES/TUFTS DAILY see TAN, page 4 yet declared a major. 4 THE TUFTS DAILY FEATURES Friday, October 6, 2006 Tufts students better than average at paying off loans ‘Small’ can be LOANS themselves out of. The survey showed that they had delayed getting a dental or medical Continued from page 3 39 percent of respondents with debt expect- procedure because of their economic situa- cute — or make Bean (LA ‘06), who is attending graduate ed paying it back would take more than 10 tion. school at Northwestern, said she has been years. Thirty one percent said pop music icon But for some students, like 2005 graduate you look fat able to find help balancing her education Madonna will be a grandmother by the time Stephanie Albin, undergraduate debt isn’t a costs through other channels. they finish paying off their college loans. problem at all. Albin has no undergraduate FASHION “I actually feel more financially secure Reilly said there are options to help allevi- debts but is currently paying her way through Continued from page 3 [in graduate school] than I did in college,” ate the problem when payments are hitting medical school. “It hasn’t been a hardship,” and try on both sizes, no matter what. she said. “There are ways to get funding, like students’ wallets too hard. Albin said, “and [if I had undergraduate loans] Does it highlight your waist? Hide your applying for grants, and some of them come “Students who are having difficulty repay- I would just have greater debt, but I would tummy? Thin your thighs? Accentuate with a fairly substantial stipend.” ing their federal loans may be eligible to con- have taken out loans in that case as well.” your widest part or smallest part? Bean applied for, and is receiving, full fund- solidate their loans,” Reilly said. “Consolidation Albin said her fiancé, Matt Leeds (LA ‘05), Clothing is meant to make you ing for her graduate tuition, which lightened allows the borrower to combine loans from took out substantial loans — and it was worth look good, so don’t ever settle for her financial burden. But she said that, with- various programs, lock in the current interest it. “He’s been able to pay off his loans without anything mediocre. Look around you out help, even relatively modest loan pay- rate and spread payment out for up to 20 years. a problem,” she said. as you walk across campus today, and ments could severely upset her lifestyle. Students who borrow significant amounts for Reilly felt similarly, citing a federal Stafford you’ll see that this seemingly obvious “I think I could manage to pay back about graduate school often use this option.” loan default rate of .03 percent. “The federal advice is almost always ignored. $120 to $150 [per month],” she said. “Two According to the survey, though, long-term government calculates our default rate each On the same note, just because hundred [dollars per month] would be doable, loans can also have negative consequences, year, which shows the percentage of students something is in style does not mean but it would be tough. Three hundred would lightening the load in the short run but pro- going into repayment who default on their that you should wear it. For example, be a problem.” longing the effects of debt. loans,” Reilly said. I cannot wear thick belts on my waist, According to the survey, those kinds of Of those with debt, 44 percent said they “[The rate] at Tufts is less than one percent because a thick belt creates curves, so monthly payments can quash recent gradu- had delayed buying a house due to financial this year, which indicates that most Tufts stu- on someone who already has curves, ates’ opportunities when they leave college, worries, and 28 percent said they had delayed dent don’t seem to find their student loan debt it just makes me look fat. placing them in a hole they may never dig having children. Twenty-seven percent said to be overwhelming,” Reilly said. I do, however, look good in longer shirts, because I have a short torso and these tops are lengthening. And skinny jeans are great for me, because they accentuate my long Don’t worry ladies; guys tan too — they just don’t admit it legs. Find out what styles look good on you, and stick with them. TAN Junior Stephen Blaker offered an tomers. “Some of the larger medical Dressing fashionably makes you continued from page 3 alternative rationale if the risk of skin institutions have said the benefits stand out, especially on this cam- gers and potential health risks,” junior cancer doesn’t register with the tanner: of moderate sun exposure outweigh pus, where pajamas are considered Whitney Arthofer said. “If you’re in Boston, it’s O.K. to not be the risks,” he said. According to the acceptable in public. Make sure you According to her male counterparts, tan. It’s irregular to be tan here,” Blaker Harvard Medical School Family Health stand out in a hey-she-looks-cool Arthofer may be making the right choice. said. Guide, moderate UVB ray exposure is way, not a look-at-her-stomach-rolls Girls who spend time under artificial But loyal customers of Xtreme Tanning vital to proper Vitamin D levels, and way. It’s okay and even encouraged rays “have their priorities set in the like their year-round glow too much light hitting the skin — not just the that you experiment with fashion, wrong place,” senior Jeff Vanderkruik to budge. Some admit to ignoring the eyes — may help to combat seasonal but don’t let any trend pass the exper- said. potential hazards. “I guess I’m young affective disorder. Still, a definite link imentation phase unless it makes you Freshman Chris Follen drew an even enough not to feel the repercussions,” between UVA and UVB exposure and feel comfortable, beautiful and sexy. stronger conclusion about the salon tan- Linn said. skin cancer exists. So what has the Fashion Informer ner: “She doesn’t respect herself,” he Linn also expressed the sentiment that The most surprising piece of informa- taught us today? When buying cloth- said. tanning rituals and risks can happily tion Vanecia had to share? Gentlemen ing, check your pride at the dressing But how to respond to an “Xtreme tan- coexist. “Nothing tends to be so horribly Jumbos want their share of ultraviolet room door and let the mirror, not ner”? Junior Steve Wise recommended harmful in moderation,” she said. “Just light, too. “We get some of the guys on the tag or Glamour magazine, tell mild intervention: “I’ll try to talk to her, don’t do anything in excess — excess is the hockey team — they try to keep it you what you should or should not because it’s really bad for you. I’ll try to bad for you.” quiet,” he said. “But the majority of our purchase. talk some sense into her,” he said. Vanecia is quick to defend his cus- customers love being seen.” Trust me, you’ll thank me later.

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TV REVIEW ABC’s new drama won’t have nine lives BY JULIA FELTUS the depressed middle-aged Guaty). Despite the aid from Contributing Writer man contemplating suicide, doctor Jeremy Kates, played the detective with a gambling by Scott Wolf of “Party of Five” The premiere for the new problem, the uptight female fame, Eva does not make it. ABC drama, “The Nine,” is assistant district attorney, Eva’s funeral soon follows, nearly everything its cheesy bank teller sisters and two and the hostages are reunited. stereotypical-looking gunmen Though meaning to be a sad The Nine waiting to commit a bank rob- and tragic event, the funeral bery. reception took on quite a dif- Sharp and quick camera cuts ferent air. With lively Hispanic Starring Scott Wolf, conveniently place each of the music playing in the back- Tim Daly, Chi McBride, nine stars in the same cen- ground, the gathering seemed tral location: Fidelity Republic as if it were a backyard bar- Lourdes Benedicto Bank. No surprise there. The beque rather than a funeral Airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. sequence tries to create the reception. sense of human connectedness Franny, previously shocked promo tagline suggests. Nine that was brilliantly achieved in and saddened by her sister’s complete strangers inadver- last year’s Oscar-winning film, death and recent burial, speed- tently meet at the location of a “Crash.” ily heats up her relationship bank robbery, which snowballs Though reminiscent of its with Jeremy during the recep- into a SWAT-storming, 52-hour structure, “The Nine” fails to tion. Apparently Will Ferrell’s hostage lock-down. With two obtain the same emotional funeral-crashing character in hostages dead, the nine survi- connection reached in Paul “Wedding Crashers” (2005) vors “are now banded together Haggis’ film and, instead, was correct in proclaiming like an unlikely family” as they becomes quite contrived. With grief “nature’s most powerful try to deal with problems of improved and continued char- aphrodisiac.” the past, present and future. acter development, perhaps a Days after the funeral, The first moments of the similar chemistry and genuine the survivors try to regain program consist of an overly unity between characters may some normalcy in their lives. dramatic monologue delivered be attained. The bank manager, played by one of the bank hostage When the SWAT team final- by Chi McBride (“Boston survivors, which sets the tone ly moves into the bank and Public”), returns to work, of melodramatic dialogue and retrieves the hostage victims, as do most of the other sur- screen shots to follow. viewers discover that one gun- vivors. Nevertheless, it is All the “survivors” are soon shot victim is actually one apparent that the event con- introduced: the perfect doc- of the bank teller’s sisters, a tinues to have a strong pres- tor in a relationship with the woman named Eva (played ence in their lives, as none compassionate hospital social by Lourdes Benedicto). Eva is of the survivors seem to worker, the busy bank man- rushed to the hospital, and the act like themselves.

ABC ager and his deprived-of- survivors come to the comfort Scott Wolf and Jessica Collins raise the roof. attention teenage daughter, of Eva’s sister Franny (Camille see NINE, page 7

MUSIC REVIEW Beck beckons a combination of hip-hop and electronic style BY JENNY HONG Beck-loving-hip-hop-hating-scenesters past involvements with the traditionally Contributing Writer will still appreciate Beck’s latest record- folksy and emotional Beck. Although ing. His combination of old and new, Godrich produced some of Beck’s less- Musical chameleon Beck Hansen, a experimental and traditional, surpris- er known albums, such as “Mutations” 36-year-old Los Angeles native, has an ingly proves that he hasn’t lost it just (1998) and “Sea Change” (2002), his unusual definition of “hip-hop.” With yet. familiarity with Beck’s personality and Beck’s critically acclaimed 2005 style has obviously proven useful in The Information release, “Guero,” garnered much criti- allowing this album to be arguably one Beck cism among longtime Beck fans who felt of his best. that it straddled the many fences con- “The Information” exposes the duo’s structed by his past work. This release talents in a different light, exploring awkwardly melded Beck’s lovesick and Beck’s penchant for collages of samples Interscope Records existential wailing with his rock-pop and sounds, as well as Nigel Godrich’s aesthetics into a single album that not trademark otherworldly electronics — little resemblance to the recently devel- only lacked heart, but direction, as well. this time void of Thom Yorke’s dystopian oped conventions pioneered by the Luckily, this time it looks like he has moaning. Even in this “hip-hop” album, genre’s modern day-juggernauts, such changed his ways, making a more cohe- Beck’s delivery is consistent with his as Kanye West or Jay-Z, Beck treats us sive-sounding album. past flirtations in the genre, best char- to his own version of the genre with his Collaborating with Beck for the third acterized by Beck merely talking over newest release, “The Information.” time, Nigel Godrich, longtime Radiohead INTERSCOPE RECORDS Don’t worry, tried and true indie- producer, manages to deviate from his see BECK, page 7 Ah, Beck-y in the sky with marbles.

MOVIE REVIEW ‘The Queen’ has more than a bee in her bonnet; Frears airs monarchy’s dirty secrets BY MUSSE HAILE However, unlike previous monarchs, Contributing Writer they function purely as figureheads. Throughout the film, the royal fam- Stephen Frears spares no time peeling ily spends its time posing for portraits, away the layers and cutting straight to moving from castle to castle and hunt- the heart of his new movie, “The Queen.” ing. As nobility, they enjoy the benefits of, well, nothing, and that’s the thing about being a figurehead: There’s not a The Queen lot to do, except to develop an obscene sense of self entitlement. Frears uses the family as a foil against Starring Helen Mirren, James Tony Blair, the newly elected prime Cromwell, Alex Jennings minister of England. Played by Michael Directed by Stephen Frears Sheen from “Underworld” (2003), Blair comes to symbolize the modern, as opposed to the classical, direction Frears, also the director of the Oscar- England has headed in the years since nominated “Mrs. Henderson Presents” MIRAMAX FILMS Princess Diana’s death. (2005) and “Dirty Pretty Things” (2002), Stephen Frears captures the royal family at a rare moment where they aren’t sitting in huge The real beauty of the movie lies in takes on the circumstances surrounding leather chairs, sipping tea with their pinkies out and saying, “Quite.” the way Frears blends fact and fiction. the English government and royal fam- Although he recreates the crash scene of ily immediately following the death of Princess Diana’s death, he uses real news Princess Diana. what writer Peter Morgan tries to convey of England, in “The Queen” at least, is The movie’s characters define much of through his screenplay. The royal family true royalty in every sense of the word. see QUEEN, page 7 6 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS | LIVING Friday, October 6, 2006 Several new films push the envelope in taste and politics

BY ELIZABETH WEITZMAN more divisive, people are now McClatchy Tribune beginning to speak out more.” Filmmaker Paul Schrader Remember the 2005 Oscar agrees — and as the screenwriter nominees? Every one of the mov- of “Taxi Driver” (1976) and “The ies up for Best Picture last spring Last Temptation of Christ” (1988), was touted as daring and pro- and writer-director of “American vocative, the work of directors Gigolo” (1980), he knows a thing determined to break new ground or two about controversy. and test their limits. “In troubled times like these, Ah, innocence. people look to the arts for Help change lives. Moviegoers are facing a slate answers, and start to welcome of films that will challenge them a challenge to the status quo,” US AT THE VISIT & to such a degree that last year’s Schrader says. “And in terms of CAREER movies will look like, well, yester- (onscreen) nudity, we’re much TUFTS day’s news. Thought two gay cow- more conservative now than we TE SCHOOL FAIR boys were shocking? Get ready were 30 years ago. It’s part of GRADUA 11 for the pansexual gymnastics a pulling back and a national performed — in full-frontal glory conservatism that began in the October — throughout John Cameron Reagan era.” Mitchell’s “Shortbus.” Found The status quo takes a backseat the racial sparks of “Crash” a bit to the Kama Sutra in the come- much? Buckle up for “Borat,” dic “Shortbus.” “When you have which mines extreme sexism a conservative culture, dialogue and anti-Semitism for humor. is stimulated, and that’s healthy,” And if the political implications says Mitchell, who insists his goal is of “Munich” seemed unnerv- actually to make sex less shocking. Start with your own. ing, be prepared for “Death of a “We are a sexually obsessed President.” society, but also a strangely prud- And that’s not to mention ish one,” he says. “When people potential rabble-rousers like are scared of something, they try ENTRY-LEVEL AND POST-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS IN the comedy “Sleeping Dogs Lie” to quash or compartmentalize it. and the gender-switching indie (With ‘Shortbus,’) I hope they’ll “Zerophilia”; the documentaries see that they can integrate sex Clinical Investigation • Communication Sciences and “Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing,” into their lives, rather than sep- “F—-,” “Jesus Camp” and “Deliver arating it into something that’s Disorders • Medical Imaging • Nursing • Physical Therapy Us From Evil,” and the seemingly just procreative, or dirty, or pruri- mild (on these shores, anyway) ent.” British drama “The Queen.” Brode thinks Mitchell is wise What’s causing this uptick in to take a comic approach to such onscreen instigation? Douglas frank subject matter, suggesting CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD Brode, author of “Sinema: Erotic that, “You can always get away Adventures in Film” and a cine- with more if you use humor.” BOSTON, MA ma studies professor at Syracuse Bobcat Goldthwait, who direct- University, points to a growing ed the upcoming “Sleeping Dogs www.mghihp.edu sense of public unrest. Lie,” also believes that “comedy “After 9/11 we were all trying makes every subject more palat- to stay within the bounds of good able.” So he hopes: Goldthwait’s Oct 11 - Tufts University, The Gantcher Center, 5:30pm - 8pm taste and we were all encouraged movie is about the fallout from a to self-censor,” Brode says. “But woman’s sexual experience with, as the political climate grows um ... her dog. Friday, October 6, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS | LIVING 7 Stale plotlines and cheesy writing won’t get ‘The Nine’ past Season One

NINE tribulation warrants a reunion. Here, continued from page 5 the tension between the triangle of The survivors do manage to re- Franny, Lizzie and Jeremy strongly immerse themselves in their prob- resonates. lem-filled lives. The bank manager’s Inadvertently, Scott Wolf’s character daughter, Felicia (Dana Davis), is delivers the most realistic and hon- clearly depressed and has an odd con- est line of the entire show, remarking nection with one of the gunmen, as to his girlfriend, “It was a moment revealed in the puzzling final scene — does it have to mean everything?” At of the program when she visits him in this point, the impractical drama was jail. The social worker, Lizzie Miller growing tiresome and this line brought (Jessica Collins), is unable to tell her the show back to reality, at least for a philandering boyfriend Jeremy that second or two. she is pregnant with his child, and the Why are the characters connected? assistant D.A. is told she has “lost her What happened in those 52 hours edge.” that has some substance? Viewers are plagued by these questions ironically relating back to Wolf’s inquiry. “It was a moment — does it Chi McBride told ABC, “I think there will be at least, hopefully, nine sea- have to mean everything?” sons; I think that’s the metaphor for the season. Yes, yes, that’s it.” Though Scott Wolf the first half of the show was a bit over- Star of ABC’s “The Nine” the-top, several interesting questions were posed towards the end of the pro- gram that, if explored in the right way, When viewers think for a moment will make for a slightly more intriguing that the survivors will lose touch in season. the coming weeks, time and distance But if the dusty plotline remains, don’t prove to be factors in destroying and the forced bonds between char- the still-unexplained bond between acters continue, the most meaningful ABC the nine. A get-together is soon orga- remnants of “The Nine” will be nine Like his former “Wings” castmates, Tony Shalhoub and Steven Webber, Tim Daly’s back on nized; apparently a 52-hour hostage actors out of work. TV. Unlike them, his show is bad. ‘The Information’ strikes perfect balance: suitable for stoners and ravers alike BECK Aztec ruin.” While the album has its continued from page 5 share of hits, tracks like “Dark Star” and music and beats accompanied by very “Movie Theme” employ a foundation of sparse singing. spacey ambiance against Beck’s dreamy Those still nostalgic for the days of vocals and cryptic crooning, yielding Beck’s lyrically complicated songs like a soundscape suited for a relaxed and 1994’s “Loser” — which features lines introspective journey. Finally, an artist like, “And my time is a piece of wax/ has created the perfect album for every Fallin’ on a termite that’s chokin’ on the bi-polar teenager vacillating back and splinters” — are still in luck with “The forth between a chill lifestyle and being Information,” as Beck’s lyrical sensibility the life of the party. is very much present on this album. The album concludes with a 10-min- ute three-part piece which culminates in a spoken-word track over drones Even in this “hip-hop” album, and spaceship noises. Two voices dis- Beck’s delivery is consistent cuss the desire and logistics of space traveling, alluding to Scientologist ide- with his past flirtations in the ologies. Beck, although classified as a Scientologist, has never explicitly stated genre, best characterized by his views on the religion itself. It is pos- Beck merely talking over music sible — but speculation at best — that Beck’s rumored Scientology involvement and beats accompanied by influenced some of the tracks on “The very sparse singing. Information.” Following his tradition of expanding the realms of various genres, Beck pio- neers his own combination of sound “The Information” is dense with Beck- and lyrics certain to please old and new isms at their best, recalling the rhyming INTERSCOPE RECORDS fans alike. Whether “The Information” style of albums past, particularly that of Face painting doesn’t stop in kindergarten. is hip-hop, pop or electronica, it is cer- “Odelay” (1996) and “Midnite Vultures” tainly all Beck. Pick up Beck’s newest (1999). endeavor today and dance, chill and This lyrical mayhem is evidenced hit, “Nausea,” where Beck describes ter,” a “black-out room,” and the act of even hear unforgettably quirky lyrics by the radio single and instant party to his listeners a “truth-blown gut- “push[ing] a shopping cart over in an with America’s favorite loser. Sound performances carry ‘The Queen’ despite a slow second half QUEEN After Diana’s death, Philip is ceive of displaying any human continued from page 5 incredulous that Elizabeth has emotion. They can do little footage throughout the movie to do anything more than appear more than watch helplessly to inject an element of reality to the public. As an observer, it from their country home’s TV into the film. is easy to grow frustrated while sets. Throughout the movie, ten- watching the vastly privileged To provide a different per- sions run high between Queen interact, revealing their complete spective, Blair and his cabinet Elizabeth (Helen Mirren) and lack of understanding of the immediately react in order to Blair. The two are radically dif- modern world. Despite all their capitalize on the opportunity, ferent, complete with conflict- titles and money, it becomes making endless statements to ing ideas stemming from their clear that this family resides in the public. The film even fea- contrasting parties and genera- a completely different universe. tures a recreation of a famous tions. Their differences become It’s an existence dominated by press conference that transforms painfully clear after the death of money and prestige entailing Blair into a press darling, much Diana, and each person’s indi- few, if any, responsibilities. to the dismay of Elizabeth. vidual reaction to the death is The performance of the royal The second half of the film what defines the film. family creates the tension in centers solely on Elizabeth, Helen Mirren gives a stun- the movie that carries it along. as the remainder of the char- MIRAMAX FILMS ning performance as the frig- It’s one thing to watch scene acters fade to the background. “No, no, trust me. If you get really close, it smells like crumpets.” id sovereign Queen Elizabeth. after scene of leisure and mean- Somehow, it seems as if Frears However, it’s the rest of the ingless banter. The scenes fol- is attempting to atone for his royal family who really steals lowing Diana’s death highlight less-than-flattering treatment of muster sympathy for a woman of topics as sensitive as these. the show. James Cromwell as the bureaucratic nature of the the royal family with the final who believes her position in “The Queen” is a simple film, Prince Philip is perfect as the throne. scenes. the world is a matter of divine refreshingly stripped of the befuddled Royal Consort, and Their various reactions to Frears tries to end the movie right. usual Hollywood trappings, and Cromwell’s interpretation of Princess Di’s death drive this by focusing on the Queen’s half- Although much of the second its superb ensemble cast allows this particular figure embodies point home. The royal monar- hearted attempts to understand half lags, the movie functions it to capture the sorrow and the idea of the royal family even chy is so bound by rules and the world in which she now well as a whole, holding up intrigue of a significant event in more than Mirren’s does. tradition they can’t even con- lives. It is difficult, however, to beautifully under the pressure modern British history. 8 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL | LETTERS Friday, October 6, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY OFF THE HILL | UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

KATHRINE J. SCHMIDT Editor-in-Chief The language of progress EDITORIAL

Kelly Rizzetta Managing Editors MINNESOTA DAILY state taking a proactive role grasp this reality. graduate, instead of giving Andrew Silver Staff Editorial in encouraging nontradi- Spoiled by prosperity, us the valuable opportunity tional language programs is a and isolated by vast oceans, to engage people of other Lena Andrews Editorial Page Editors Ever wonder how to ask welcome and necessary step. we’ve adopted a national cultures in their own lan- Samantha Goldman Jacob Maccoby “where is the bathroom?” Nearly one billion people attitude that anyone who guage. Pedro Rodriguez-Paramo in Chinese? We’ll, if you’re in the world speak Mandarin wants to do business with us In today’s global market- Mark Pesavento a student in the Minnesota Chinese, the official lan- can learn our language for place, the ability to speak public school system, you guage of the Chinese govern- themselves. Even American another language is more Zofia Sztykowski Executive News Editor might not have to won- ment. With China’s role in citizens who struggle with important than ever before. James Bologna News Editors der much longer. Gov. the world economy surging English as a second language Doors open for those who David Pomerantz Tim Pawlenty’s Chinese forward, so too should our are often treated with con- can communicate in more Marc Raifman Robert Silverblatt Language Initiative has efforts to learn this increas- tempt. Being monolingual is than just their native received $250,000 from the ingly significant language. not seen as a disadvantage, tongue. Sarah Butrymowicz Assistant News Editors state legislature to begin The importance of being but as a source of pride for In China, 200 million stu- Pranai Cheroo setting up a K-12 Chinese able to transcend language far too many Americans. dents are studying English, Jenna Nissan Lilly Riber language curriculum. And barriers cannot be under- Even here at the University, while in America only 24,000 Jeremy White in about a dozen schools stated in fostering good will, the College of Liberal Arts are studying Chinese. It’s across the metro area, not to mention good trade language requirement is about time we start putting Chinese 101 already is in relations between nations. often thought of as only forth some effort to remedy Anne Fricker Executive Features Editor session. For too long, the United that: a requirement that this, and the state’s initiative Arianne Baker Features Editor The importance of the States has been slow to must be filled in order to is a great way to start. Matt Skibinski Assistant Features Editors

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A study released just a few that fund these student groups come Tufts, either, but that doesn’t mean they days ago by a team of independent sci- BUSINESS nowhere near being large enough to don’t serve a purpose for someone else. entists in collaboration with the Union of make a significant contribution toward Lastly, for those students who are reli- Concerned Scientists shows that temper- Leslie Prives Executive Business Director so great an endeavor as making Tufts 100 gious, having a community of like-mind- atures in the Northeast have already risen percent need-blind. 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BY RICK PEARSON McClatchy Tribune House Speaker Dennis Hastert took responsibility Thursday for the grow- ing page scandal but said he has done nothing wrong and is not a detriment to Republicans’ efforts to keep control of Congress in the Nov. 7 election. “The buck stops here,” Hastert said at a press conference outside his office in Batavia, Ill., adding that he will let the numerous investigations deter- mine whether anyone—including any of his aides—did anything wrong. He said “No,” when asked if he or any of his staff had previous knowl- edge of the sexually explicit messages from former Rep. Mark Foley. A former aide to Foley said Wednesday that he told Hastert’s staff about inappropriate behavior by Foley toward pages more than two years ago. Fellow Illinois Republicans support- ed Hastert Thursday, but some acknowl- edged there were still serious questions about whether his staff let him down and how the mushrooming scandal would affect Republicans’ efforts to hold a majority in the House. U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., said the Foley scandal could impact Republicans’ chances in several Illinois congressional races. “We were going to have a tough time as it is, even though things had really turned around the last three weeks,” LaHood said. “But let’s face it, all of us are facing questions from our con- MARIO PETITTI/MCT House Speaker Dennis Hastert addresses reporters during a news conference outside his Bativia, Ill., office on Thursday. stituents. . . . I do think people like Peter Roskam and David McSweeney and Andrea Zinga—this presents a real Melissa Bean in two largely Republican point. what, when,” said Roskam. He added, problem for them.” suburban Chicago districts. Andrea “It’s a story that is changing literally “I think the facts are going to bear out Roskam is in a fierce contest with Zinga is seeking the Downstate seat of now every two or three hours, every and then once we know the chronol- Democrat Tammy Duckworth for retiring U.S. Rep. Lane Evans. time you go online there’s a new incar- ogy, once we know who knew what the seat of retiring Republican Rep. Roskam declined to answer directly nation of a version of the story and when, at that time I’ll comment. “ Henry Hyde and McSweeney is trying when asked whether he would take I’m going to wait for all the facts to lay to unseat Democratic Representative campaign help from Hastert at this themselves out in terms of who knew see HASTERT, page 10 Gunman surrenders in Texas; child unharmed Blunt downplays chance to D AN X. MCGRAW McClatchy Tribune take control of House Repubs. A 4-year-old boy is with a BY MATT STEARNS be the last man standing in the guardian and a 57-year-old McClatchy Tribune House leadership and therefore gunman faces several charges next in line for the top job, either after a shooting spree and a House Majority Whip Roy Blunt as speaker or, if Republicans lose long night of negotiations in discouraged speculation Thursday control of the House in midterm a Fort Worth, Texas, suburb, that the scandal that’s rocking con- elections next month, as minority police said. gressional Republicans could be an leader. About 5:40 a.m. CDT opportunity for him to move up the “His angle is to become speaker Thursday, more than 13 hours leadership ladder. if the other guys fall,” said George after the shooting began, offi- The Missouri congressman, the Connor, a political scientist at cers entered a home in the No. 3 Republican in the House of Missouri State University, which is Forest Hill suburb and emerged Representatives, issued a statement in Blunt’s district. “He is the least holding the boy’s hand. commending beleaguered House tainted and the most qualified.” At about the same time, the Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., say- Jeff Roe, a Missouri Republican gunman left the house through ing Republicans “stand together strategist, said Blunt could sur- KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH/MCT a back door and was placed in with our speaker.” vive such an atmosphere because A standoff ends with the release of a four-year-old on Thursday in Forest a van. Police identified him as “Those who are trying to cre- “should there be an effort to change Hill, Tex., where gunman Joe Dixon reportedly shot several people on Joe Dixon, 57. ate the appearance of disunity direction, Roy is a guy who’s real Wednesday. Officers said the boy was between myself and the speaker credible. The guy clearly leads, unharmed. should know: There is not, and has clearly can count votes.” He was asleep during much Tactical officers from Mansfield according to friends of the cou- not been, any daylight between the “I don’t think anybody’s thinking of the night as police negoti- and Tarrant County were among ple. speaker and me,” Blunt said. about leadership races,” said Gregg ated with Dixon, said Lt. Chris those assisting Forest Hill police Four people were taken to The statement came one day Hartley, a former chief of staff to Hebert, a Forest Hill police during the negotiations. hospitals late Wednesday after- after Blunt said that had he known Blunt who’s now a leading lobbyist. spokesman. Hebert said police estab- noon, Hebert said. Three were about former Rep. Mark Foley’s “Right now, there’s a huge challenge, “We don’t believe he was lished communication with shot, and the fourth was a preg- improper messages to underage which is maintaining the majority. . endangered at any time,” Dixon around midnight by nant woman who was injured pages, he would have handled it . . (Blunt) is a strategic thinker. But Hebert said. throwing a phone into the when she fell, he said. differently. he keeps himself focused on the The boy is a nephew of one home. He said Dixon was “very At least one of the shooting “I think I could have given some task at hand.” of three people shot Thursday. agreeable” and did what police victims was in critical condi- good advice here, which is, you Should Blunt move up, it would One of them was listed in criti- asked, including unloading his tion late Wednesday, Hebert have to be curious, you have to ask be a remarkably fast comeback cal condition. weapon. said. all the questions you can think of,” from a reversal that itself followed “It is a tragic event, but this “He asked for a few things,” He would not discuss the he’d said. a remarkably quick rise. is absolutely the best-case sce- Hebert said. “He wanted to condition of the others who Blunt is the highest-ranking Blunt was in his second term in nario,” Hebert said. know how the procedure would were injured. House Republican unscathed by the 1999 when then-House Majority The quiet end came after a happen. After a lengthy talk, he The episode apparently still-unfolding scandal. Some con- Whip Tom DeLay of Texas plucked violent day and a tense night surrendered voluntarily.” began about 11 a.m. when servatives have called for Hastert him off the backbench as chief of negotiations. On Wednesday, Dixon will be charged with Dixon entered the home of his to step aside, although Hastert deputy whip. Blunt was elected Dixon argued with his estranged one count of aggravated assault estranged girlfriend, according said Thursday that he planned to whip, the chief vote-counter, in girlfriend at her home, touching with a deadly weapon, Hebert to two friends of the couple, remain speaker. Others consider 2002 when DeLay became majority off the shooting spree, accord- said. Several more charges will who were interviewed as they Majority Leader John Boehner, R- leader. ing to friends of the couple. likely be filed, he said. waited at the scene Wednesday Ohio—who also knew about the A year ago, when DeLay quit his After the shootings, Dixon Dixon is believed to be the evening. allegations before they became post after being indicted on cam- holed up in his estranged girl- estranged boyfriend of the public—damaged goods as well. friend’s house with the boy. woman who lives in the house, see STANDOFF, page 10 Some observers say Blunt could see BLUNT, page 10 10 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Friday, October 6, 2006 Chairman of House ethics committee faces daunting task Ethics Comm. to BY LES BLUMENTHAL McClatchy Tribune investigate page As the chairman of the House of scandal’s effects Representatives Ethics Committee, Rep. Doc Hastings finds himself at the center of the congressional page scandal and alle- HASTERT gations that Republican leaders, including continued from page 9 House Speaker Dennis Hastert, may have Questioned about whether he handled the case improperly. would quit as speaker if he felt he After a rough start, Hastings seems to was hurting the Republican Party, have found his footing as the chairman Hastert noted that any time a leader of the Committee on Standards of Official is “on the hot seat and he is a detri- Conduct. But Hastert, R-Ill., picked the ment to the party, there oughta be a Washington state Republican for the post change.” But he said he has done a and Hastings has been a longtime sup- good job leading the House. porter of the speaker. “I’m going to run and presumably “It’s an extremely difficult task for him,” win this election (for his district) Norm Ornstein, a respected political analyst and when we do I expect to run for with the American Enterprise Institute, a speaker,” Hastert said. policy-research center, said of Hastings’ role Hastert again blamed much of the in the looming investigation. “If he doesn’t hype over the scandal on Democratic do it the right way it will destroy him.” operatives. But he also said during A low-key and loyal Republican from the news conference that he was a central Washington state district reaching out to House Democratic in which he consistently rolls up mar- leader Nancy Pelosi about a person gins of more than 60 percent, Hastings of high caliber to advise the House announced Thursday that his committee on what to do with the page pro- had launched an investigation and would gram. issue four dozen subpoenas. He declined After the news conference, Hastert to say whether Hastert would be among aides said the speaker had suggested those subpoenaed. to Pelosi that they jointly enlist for- Hastings said the committee had decid- mer FBI Director Louis Freeh or a ed not to hire an outside counsel as it had person of his stature to head that in its investigations of two previous speak- effort, but Pelosi rejected the idea of ers, Democrat Jim Wright and Republican Freeh. Newt Gingrich. Shortly before Hastert spoke, the “We are going to do what we feel we House Ethics Committee announced are charged to do,” said Hastings, who’d it was opening an investigation into flown back to the capital from his district the scandal and had authorized four this week as the scandal deepened and the dozen subpoenas for documents and pressure grew on Hastert to contain it with CHUCK KENNEDY/MCT testimony from House members, the November elections approaching. Rep. Doc Hastings, Chairman of the House Ethics Committee, leaves a closed-door meet- officers and staff. The Ethics Committee usually acts in ing of the committee on the page scandal of former Rep. Mark Foley on Capitol Hill in Committee Chairman Doc secret. But Hasting and the other commit- Washington on Thursday. Hastings, R-Wash., would not com- tee members held a news conference to ment when asked if Hastert would be announce their investigation. subpoenaed. But he said he thought Asked whether he personally supported Hastings was named the chairman of the investigations, including new allega- the speaker had done “an excellent Hastert, Hastings said, “I think the speaker committee in February 2005 after Hastert tions involving DeLay. Hastings and West job.” has done an excellent job.” declined to reappoint Rep. Joel Hefley, R- Virginia Rep. Alan Mollohan, then the top The investigation would take Asked whether he questioned the speak- Colo. Hastert also removed the two other Democrat on the committee, were at log- “weeks, not months,” said Rep. er’s leadership, Hastings said, “Listen, I Republican members of the committee gerheads over a number of issues, includ- Howard Berman, D-Calif., the rank- don’t want to get into all of that. We are here who along with Hefley had voted twice ing the makeup of the committee staff. ing minority member on the panel to talk about what the Ethics Committee is to admonish then-House Majority Leader Earlier this year, Mollohan stepped that is evenly divided between going to do regarding the incidents in the Tom DeLay for ethical lapses. down from the committee under his own Republicans and Democrats. last week, and that’s where we are. That’s Over the next 16 months, a partisan ethics cloud and was replaced by Rep. Committee members made it what we want to focus on.” stalemate stymied any new committee Howard Berman, D-Calif. clear that they could not discipline Foley because he was no longer a member of the House, but would look into such issues as a possible After violence, boy emerges unharmed Majority Whip cover-up. In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley STANDOFF “He grabbed the little one, and he just stopped short of absolving Hastert continued from page 9 started shooting,” Jackson said. voices support from any responsibility in the page Using zip ties, the man tied up his 61- She called 911 about 4 p.m. and fled BLUNT scandal, but when he was asked if year-old girlfriend, sexually assaulted through her back yard, she said. continued from page 9 the scandal provides a good chance her in a bathroom, put two shells in Friends described the couple’s rela- paign finance-conspiracy charges, Blunt for Democrats to retake the House, his shotgun and threatened to “blow tionship as volatile. One friend said the served as acting majority leader, and was he replied, “I hope not on that issue, her brains out” if she told anyone, said man told him, “Before I leave (the girl- favored to win the job. But Republicans because this has nothing to do with the friends, who declined to give their friend), someone is going to have to do chose Boehner instead because, in part, the election.” names. a drive-by and kill me.” Blunt was seen as too close to DeLay. “Let’s look at real issues instead of At some point, the woman got out The boyfriend had quit his job so he Hartley said Blunt was disappointed getting tangent issues,” Daley said. of her house, went to her sister’s house could keep an eye on the woman, the after his loss but that he and Boehner Daley also praised Hastert for next door and told the sister what had friends said. got along personally and worked well bringing federal dollars to the city. happened, the friends said. At one point Wednesday, a woman together. The mayor hinted that if Democrats Brenda Jackson, who said she was was seen throwing her purse to the “He accepted that and went right on retake the House and Pelosi becomes the woman’s sister, said that when the ground and screaming: “Oh my God, he with his work,” Hartley said. “He’s won 28 speaker, Chicago will be worse off. man arrived at her house, the argument shot my sister in the head.” The woman elections and lost three. He knows you can “She hails from California,” Daley resumed and he grabbed a 4-year-old in said, “Oh, Lordy, he shot my sister in the go from one loss to greater opportunities. said. “Rightfully so, and she will take the house. head.” You just have to keep plowing the rows.” care of California.” International 11 THE TUFTS DAILY Friday, October 6, 2006 Japan urges sanctions if N. Korea conducts test In Kabul, the Bush

BY YOSHIKAZU SHIRAKAWA the U.N. Charter. McClatchy Tribune According to sources in the council, Bazaar is a hot spot most Security Council member countries BY KIM BARKER Japan has proposed a draft of a U.N. basically supported the Japanese draft at McClatchy Tribune Security Council presidential statement a working-level meeting held after the that urges North Korea not to conduct a unofficial talks. The Pace Picante sauce expired two nuclear test and calls for additional sanc- Kenzo Oshima, Japanese ambassador years ago, and the spider-web witch hat tions if Pyongyang carries it out. to the United Nations who chairs the has seen better days. None of the Afghans Japan presented the draft to Security Security Council this month, said Japan here is quite sure how to use the Hot Body Council member nations at an unofficial does not necessarily have to stick to Tanning Oil, the Magic Smooth Razorless council meeting Wednesday. It hoped the the form of a council presidential state- Hair-Removing Cream for Black Men, or the council will act on the proposal by issu- ment. Shimmer Me Sexy lotion. Or why. ing a council presidential statement or a He told reporters that the most impor- But such details do not really matter here press statement. tant point is that an appropriate and at the Bush Bazaar, named after the U.S. Negotiations were continuing because strong message is issued to North Korea president, where the cheap American goods the United States, which wants to deliv- as soon as possible. fly off the shelves, regardless of their use. A er a strict statement on the issue, and Though a presidential statement is can of almost seven pounds of sweet corn China and Russia, which are reluctant not binding, as is the case with a resolu- sells for 80 cents; a bottle of Texas Pete hot to increase pressure on Pyongyang, have tion, it can be an official expression of sauce runs a dollar. been unable to bridge the gap between the will of the Security Council. A press “What’s this?” asked customer Mujib them. statement, however, is unofficial and the Rahman, 29, holding up Dial for Men, which Japan’s draft begins with an expression weakest form of message from the coun- promises the ultimate clean. “Is it good for of serious concern about North Korea’s cil. MCT my hair? Because I’m about to be bald.” announcement on Tuesday that the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, right, is pic- He is told he should not fight baldness, country plans to conduct a nuclear test. John Bolton told reporters Tuesday tured with Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, and that sadly, no magic American product It urges Pyongyang to exercise self- that the Security Council should clearly center, and Foreign Minister Taro Aso. will cure it. restraint, saying that carrying out the express its demand that North Korea Outside the door, a teenager buys a U.S. nuclear test would threaten peace, sta- withdraw its announcement of a nuclear include the expansion of the current ban military ready-to-eat meal for 30 cents. The bility and security in East Asia, and draw test and return to the six-nation talks and on port calls by the Man Gyong Bong-92, shopkeeper bags it before realizing that the condemnations from the international the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. a North Korean passenger-cargo ferry, to meal is Menu No. 2—pork rib—which vio- community. The Chinese and Russian U.N. envoys include freighters from North Korea and lates Islamic dietary rules. The draft also reiterates demands reserved judgment Wednesday, saying other countries, according to an unof- “This is pork,” said the shopkeeper, for North Korea to immediately return they had not received instructions from ficial decision made that day, the sources handing the 12th grader Menu No. 10, chili to the table of six-nation talks, fulfill a their respective governments. said. and macaroni. “Don’t eat it. Never eat Menu joint declaration made at the six-nation But diplomats said China and Russia On Thursday in Tokyo, Foreign No. 2.” talks in September 2005 and abandon its likely will demand revisions to the draft Minister Taro Aso agreed with Joseph There is no Bush Bazaar sign, and no nuclear ambitions. regarding additional sanctions in the Donovan, deputy chief of mission of advertising. This is the black market, where In the draft, Japan warns that addi- case of the nuclear test being carried the U.S. Embassy in Japan, that the two all the goods were bought from someone tional measures will be taken if North out. countries will cooperate on the quick who knows someone who has a connection. Korea carries out the nuclear test. On Wednesday, government sources adoption of a Security Council presiden- Once, these shops were called the Seven It also says that if North Korea ignores said the government will independently tial statement over North Korea’s vow to Colorful Stars market, but back then, people the demands of the international com- impose sanctions on North Korea if the conduct a nuclear test. used the empty stalls mainly as a place munity, the Security Council will act in country carries out a nuclear test. They reached the agreement during to go to the bathroom. A group of friends line with its major responsibility under Measures to be taken in such an event their talks in the Diet building. and relatives decided to clean up the shops about a year ago and sell American goods. Customers renamed the market for Bush, and business has been growing steadily Sex scandal can’t keep Israel’s ‘Mr. Clean’ from duty since. “Bush is a good man,” said shopkeep- BY JOEL GREENBERG er Jawad Mojtaba, 22. “People buy cheap MccLatchy Tribune things in his bazaar in Afghanistan.” It seems an obvious name for this literal During the Jewish holiday of Sukkot country. During the Soviet occupation of next week, President Moshe Katsav is the 1980s, a black market filled with Soviet scheduled to hold an open house at his goods was called the Brezhnev Bazaar, after official residence to greet the public. A Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader who few days later, he is to preside over the ordered the invasion of Afghanistan. opening of the winter session of the Israeli The Bush Bazaar, in a crowded downtown parliament. market about three blocks from the presi- But the normally festive events are dential palace, does not look like much. It is expected to be awkward affairs, because a dingy, two-aisle stretch of tiny stores with Katsav is under police investigation for corrugated metal roofs and dusty concrete suspected sexual harassment and pos- floors. The nicer shops have white shelves sible rape of a former secretary in his resi- and fluorescent bulbs. Ripped tarps draped dence. over the aisles protect shoppers from the sun For years considered a colorless “Mr. and rain, and boxes of American goods— Clean,” Katsav, 61, is at the center of a whether a DVD of Cheech & Chong’s “Up scandal that has tainted the presidency, a In Smoke” or U.S. military ready-to-eat ceremonial post that is the highest office meals—spill out of shop doorways. in Israel and whose holder represents the “People usually say, ‘Let’s go to the Bush nation in official functions at home and Bazaar and buy American products,’” said abroad. shopkeeper Ghulam Rassul, 59, a one-time Katsav, who is married with five chil- GUY ASSAYAG/MCT army colonel. dren, is being investigated about accu- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and Israeli President Moshe Katsav His shelves are lined with industrial-sized sations by the former secretary that he speak with the press after their meeting, at the President’s residence in Jerusalem, Israel, tubs of protein powder, Aunt Jemima maple forced her to have sex, claims echoed by on May 2, 2004. syrup, Oreos, green beans and beef ravioli. two other women who have since lodged A 64-year-old man with a fondness for dairy similar complaints with police. products holds up a Hunt’s Snack Pack of Katsav has denied any wrongdoing and Doron Rosenblum, a satirist, wrote attention from the installation of the most vanilla pudding and asks if it violates Islamic has accused his former employee of trying recently in the Haaretz newspaper that senior judge in the land. dietary rules. Rassul tells him it does not. to blackmail him with a false charge. the Katsav scandal had “irretrievably Katsav also traveled last week with his “We do not have pineapple in Afghanistan, For Israelis the scandal has provided a cracked the facade of `the president’s wife to Ukraine to represent Israel at cer- do we?” asked customer Mohammad Omar, juicy distraction from the daily spate of residence’—mainly expressed through emonies marking the 65th anniversary of grabbing a can of the fruit. No, he is told. But grim news on the aftermath of the recent walking in a suit on carpets with a the massacre of Jews by the Nazis at Babi it is a delicious fruit. war in Lebanon and the continuing con- smile. ... Never has the facade of `presi- Yar. Although Rassul said he never sells un- flict with the Palestinians. dential dignity’ looked more hollow and However, Israeli media reports said the Islamic food in his market, other shopkeep- Tabloids have published leaked tran- pathetic.” usually accessible president avoided jour- ers are less vigilant. They acknowledge sell- scripts of taped conversations between A few weeks ago police investigators nalists as he moved between official func- ing Campbell’s Bean with Bacon soup, and Katsav and his former secretary, next to raided the presidential residence, con- tions. the military’s jambalaya meal, which con- photos of the president and the woman, fiscating computers and documents, an During the recent Jewish High Holidays, tains ham. her face blurred to protect her privacy. unprecedented event. Later investigators a traditional time of soul-searching that Most customers are Afghan, but some for- A longtime politician in the rightist questioned Katsav at his residence for culminates with the Yom Kippur fast, one eigners have figured out that foreign goods Likud Party and a former Cabinet minis- hours. newspaper cartoon portrayed Katsav as a are cheap here. Occasionally, U.S. soldiers ter, Katsav had until the controversy been Yet, even while under suspicion, Katsav desperate penitent next to a hapless wife. show up, buying up any computer hard widely considered a bland figure, serving has continued his official duties with vir- Katsav’s compromised position has drives—even the damaged ones—and flash a largely unremarkable term as president. tually no interruption. brought calls for him to step down. drives. Shopkeepers save all computer parts The scandal is the worst to hit the Israeli Last week he swore in a new deputy “The president should immediately for the Americans, who pay well, ever since presidency, raising questions about the chief justice of the Supreme Court, though stop representing Israel abroad and in the Los Angeles Times reported last spring need for the largely symbolic office, which he did absent himself from the swear- the Jewish world,” wrote Shahar Ilan, a that a black market of U.S. goods near the is supposed to be above politics but has ing in of a new chief justice, a move his columnist for Haaretz. “He embarrasses Bagram military base sold computer storage sometimes become a political football. aides said was meant to avoid deflecting us enough inside Israel.” devices containing military secrets. 12 THE TUFTS DAILY COMICS Friday, October 6, 2006

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The recent streak has shown to-rags recently Tufts now heads toward a tough divi- the talent and resiliency of this year’s FOOTBALL PREVIEW sion contest at Bowdoin on Saturday. team, and the Jumbos will hope to pig- MERTENS continued from page 16 The Polar Bears sit at 2-4-2 this sea- gyback these results to the next level. continued from page 15 our defense good field position to protect.” son but possess a dynamic offense “One of the things we strive for pick on Qyntel Woods, who man- Bowdoin, meanwhile, has struggled on that is understated by their record. A every game and during every prac- aged to get arrested for breeding pit both sides of the ball this season, giving up an complete team performance from the tice is to maintain a level of intensity bulls for the purposes of dog-fight- average of 425 yards and a total of 47 points Jumbos could give them their fourth and also to simply have fun and not ing. It was a soap opera better suited in its two. The Polar Bears offense has scored straight win and signal a true tale-of- put too much pressure on ourselves,” for Telemundo than ESPN. only one touchdown, and averages 182 yards two-seasons run for the 2006 squad. Fedore said. “I think that there was a So the Blazers plunged into the per game. “The offense has been getting bet- lot of pressure on us in the beginning lottery, ending up with the third Senior quarterback Tom Duffy, who was 13- ter every game,” Fratto said. “Bowdoin of the season, and now that we have pick in last year’s draft. The fans for-31 for 143 yards in last week’s game, leads is strong offensively, so we need to rid ourselves of some of that by show- were clamoring for Chris Paul—the the Polar Bears’ offense. His main targets at play good defense and stay strong on ing that we can win, we are perform- Blazers picked Martell Webster. 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We 12 tackles versus Amherst, leads the Polar season with 102 points, other players The Ottawa Senators also loom large don’t even have Telfair anymore (he Bears. He heads a line-backing corps that have been unpredictable, such as 19- on the horizon. The Senators lost their was traded for rookie Randy Foye is one bright spot of the Bowdoin defense. year old Evgeni Malkin of Russia, who giant defenseman Zdeno Chara to the and the vaunted Raef LaFrentz and Regan’s co-captain on defense, senior defen- last year two-handed Flyer defenseman Boston Bruins in the offseason but Dan Dickau over the summer). I will sive back Brendan Murphy, was Second Team Darien Hatcher in the face, and was sub- retained superstars Dany Heatley, Daniel now throw myself from the library All-NESCAC last season. sequently suspended for several games. Alfredsson and Jason Spezza. Their team roof. The Jumbos know this game is a bench- This past summer, the Pens drafted is dominant on paper, and they have the This is how you can single-hand- mark for their season. A 3-0 start could propel the third son of the prodigal Staal fam- balance of young and old necessary in edly run a beloved franchise into the Tufts to their first winning record since 2003. ily, Jordan, with the second overall pick. the ever-evolving NHL. Look for them ground. I’d like to think that we have “Right now, I think it’s [about] just not get- Jordan, by all accounts, is said to be even to grab the spotlight over the coming glimmers of promise for the future, ting complacent, not being satisfied with how better than his elder brothers Eric, who weeks. but the karma of this city gives me we are playing right now,” Decembrele said. hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup this past June, The 2006-2007 NHL season kicked off the willies. Sporting Gods, I beseech “The key to success is not getting too high and Marc, a first-round pick by the New on Wednesday night but gets into full- You, let my championship drought on yourself but not getting to low on yourself York Rangers in 2005. While the Penguins gear this weekend. National coverage of not be 86 years, and please bring [either]. You have to take it one game at a time could have a bright future, the team is the NHL is shown on the AV channel, and down fire and brimstone on the and never be satisfied.” one of the most poorly managed fran- Bruins can be found on NESN. Lakers if You have the time. Amen. Editors' Challenge | Week 5

Week 4 saw the closest to a perfect showing as we've seen this a little breathing room between himself and 10 Winthrop St. room- year, as Andrew Silver lived up to his surname, coming just short of gold mate Andrew "Swap Philly for Boston because I'm a shoddy edi- with a 13-1 mark. A pair of Pennsylvania natives banked on their home- tor" Bauld. As a side note, Kelley Vend "ing Machine"-land and Tom town Eagles (as did everyone else), and rode their wings to a second- "M"eager failed to submit any picks at all last week, and we rewarded best 11-3 week. But not even that could gain Liz "Baltimore? More like their idiocy by assigning them the worst record from Week 4. The 8-6 Balti-LESS!" Hoffman much ground in the standings. Alexander "the mark might actually doing them a favor though, as both have been, um... Great" Bloom also finished at 11-3 to move into second place overall. awful. Kelley's not helping herself with her mind-blowing Tennessee pick. Also at 31-15 are Evans Clinchy "a spot in the postsea- And now, on with Week 5. Former Daily Sports editor Ben "The Ron son" and Dave "Pommel Horse" Pomerantz, who managed to put Clark Story" Hoffman offers his picks from Southeast DC. P.S. He runs like a girl. Andrew S. Alex Dave Evans Rachel Andrew B. Liz Tom Kelley GUEST OVERALL RECORD 32-14 31-15 31-15 31-15 30-16 30-16 28-18 27-19 22-28 Ben Hoffman LAST WEEK 13-1* 11-3 9-5 8-6 9-5 8-6 11-3 8-6** 8-6**

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MONDAY NIGHT Baltimore at Denver Denver Denver Denver Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Denver Baltimore Baltimore Denver Total Points 13 24 13 24 17 24 19 27 21 23 14 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Friday, October 6, 2006 Weekend marks anniversary String of four league games opens at Bowdoin FIELD HOCKEY screaming ‘Pass to me, pass to me,’ and we really put an emphasis of historic win over Harvard continued from page 16 but she’s teaching them to find on not underestimating Gordon,” we finished on our offensive plays,” her.” Casellas-Katz said. “They had some ANNIVERSARY Thompson had in mind with sophomore Tess Jasinski said. “We Just a minute after her own goal, really quick forwards and good stick continued from page 16 the game on the line. Wells were able to put the ball in the goal, Casellas-Katz pirouetted her way skills; we knew that from the scout- like Holy Cross or Boston recalled the pivotal play of which we’ve been struggling to do, into the Gordon circle and found ing report. They make a lot of small College: the game, a trick play called especially in our last game against freshman Michelle Kelly on the low passes in middle of the field, so we “The defeat of Harvard by Thompson at the last min- Bates.” post to put Tufts up 2-0. were able to counter that by going would catapult the Jumbos to ute—and without the bless- The Jumbos ripped 25 shots at The Jumbos would score once wide.” long-sought national notice; ing of old-timer Arlanson. the Gordon defense, 14 reaching more before halftime on a beauti- Junior Corey Green got her first spread the word of their With fourth-and-long in the pads of sophomore goalkeeper fully executed run upfield. After a collegiate goal midway through the prowess to every school in the third quarter and the Chyanne Wilson. The game was spin-dodge and pass from sopho- second half. After tearing her ACL the East; in short, give Tufts score tied 6-6, Thompson, characterized by long runs up the more Brittany Holiday on the right in the Jumbos’ season opener last students a feeling of achieve- who pulled double-duty as field as the Jumbos stayed close to wing, Casellas-Katz found Kelly, year, Green spent all of her sopho- ment they couldn’t receive the team’s punter, faked a the sidelines around midfield and who whipped left around a sprawl- more season on the sidelines, and by winning all their other punt and instead connect- transferred the ball well in the back- ing Wilson and found the bottom got her first game experience last games,” the article read. ed with senior co-captain field. left corner of the cage to make it a night. Nils Wessell, president of Norman Wright. “We work a lot on trying to get three-goal lead. Kelly’s two tallies After her first shot, a spin-around Tufts at the time, was asked “Ralph got the ball, made the ball up the field, receiving it were her team-leading fourth and in front of the cage, went wide by a reporter what he thought believe like he was going to well and making passes right to our fifth of the year. right, Green connected 16 minutes his team’s chances were kick it and threw a pass to players,” Jasinski said. “Today we That precision passing was into the second half, sending the against the giant down Mass. Norman, who got the ball and did that really well, and by passing on full display last night, as hit- rebound of a Casellas-Katz shot Ave. According to David Wells ran [20] yards,” Wells recalled. to the open player and finding the ins from the sidelines went from past Wilson for her first collegiate (LA ‘57), a senior co-captain “That was the play where we open space, we eliminated a lot of stick to stick, swinging around the goal. of the 1956 team, Wessell knew we were going to win.” defenders just by passing around backfield and up the wing before The fifth and final goal came off responded, “Well, we’ll win.” The gamble paid off—luck- them.” the Gordon defense could adjust. a corner, when a knee-high push The Jumbos did just ily for Thompson—and the The Fighting Scots were strong McDavitt traces it to what she calls from Jasinski tipped off Wilson’s that, topping the Crimson duo finished the job five in the game’s opening possessions, “skeleton passing” drills in practice. pads. Sophomore Marlee Kutcher 19-13 on Harvard’s open- plays later as Wright scored but several huge saves from senior “The ball starts in back with tapped it in with 15 minutes left to ing day. Quarterback Ralph off a pitch from Thompson at co-captain Marilyn Duffy-Cabana Marlee, and everyone has to cut, play for her third goal of the season Thompson, called “the pic- the Harvard four. and a touch of luck kept the Jumbos receive, pass and move and then we and her first since a pair of scores in ture of ease” in the Crimson’s Rubbing salt in the out of an early hole. shoot,” McDavitt said. “That’s what the Jumbos’ season opener. coverage, led the Jumbos back wound, the Tufts JV team Casellas-Katz got the ball roll- we’re starting to see on the field.” The win was the fifth straight for from an early 6-0 deficit. beat Harvard’s JV 13-0 three ing for the Jumbos with a flick up Gordon, not traditionally a the Jumbos, and there’s an undeni- A roster of 40 to 45 Jumbos days later. Not the prettiest over Wilson’s shoulder with 15:40 regional power, nearly upstaged the able storm cloud gathering behind took the field at The Stadium game of Tufts football—the remaining in the first half. The visiting Jumbos last season, scor- the squad. Saturday’s game against against a Harvard team that Jumbos fumbled six times junior set up three goals last night ing three quick second-half goals Bowdoin opens a four-game stretch numbered over 100. But and scraped out a win over and served as a focal point for the before the Tufts defense recovered. against NESCAC opponents. strict substitution rules in an even-weaker Harvard Tufts offense inside the Gordon 25. Similarly, Tufts escaped with a 3-2 “You can feel the momentum the 1950s meant that most second-string—but it was “Ileana is just the ultimate team win over a weaker Babson team building within our team, but it’s players took the field on both enough of a flourish on a player; she knows exactly where to two weeks ago on a Tuesday game a very controlled momentum,” sides of the ball, and that game that needed none. be, where to cut, when to take the earlier in the season, and the trap- Casellas-Katz said. “Every game, proved to be the equalizer While the rivalry between ball, and when to pass it,” coach game potential the game was in the we go in thinking we need to play between the two teams. the two programs has sub- Tina McDavitt said. “She sneaks forefront of the Jumbos’ minds last really well. It’s not cocky, it’s very “We didn’t have a special sided as college football has around and gets in the open spot, night. confident in what we’re doing, but punter or special point-kick- stratified—Tufts now plays and the girls playing around her “With Babson, we may have reserved in that we need to work er or a field goal kicker; there on the Div. III level while know to look for her. She’s not underestimated their level of play just as hard to stay here.” were people who did that but Harvard competes in Div. I- they had to play something AA—there is plenty of history else, too,” said Wells, who between the schools, which SCHEDULE | October 5 - October 11 scored the final Tufts touch- are separated by just a three- down that day on a 14-yard mile stretch of Mass. Ave. FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THURS catch in the end zone. “What According to the Tufts @ Bowdoin it boiled down to was that Athletics Department, the Field Hockey 12 p.m. our 11 beat their 11.” first game of modern football The Jumbos, under coach played between two college Women’s @ Bowdoin vs. Wesleyan Harry Arlanson, boasted a teams was the first Harvard- 12 p.m. 4:00 p.m. strong running game. Coming Tufts contest back in 1875. Soccer off of 362 rushing yards in The Jumbos won then, too, the season-opening win over although the different rules @ Bowdoin vs. Plymouth Men's Soccer 12 p.m.. State Bowdoin the week before, yielded a 1-0 score. 6:00 p.m. the Tufts offense hammered “[Tufts football] has a long the Crimson defense for 365 storied tradition and histo- @ Bowdoin yards. ry,” current head coach Bill Football 1 p.m. “Harry hated the forward Samko said. “We talk about pass; he called it the for- that stuff all the time, what @ Amherst @ Middlebury vs. Brandeis ward fumble, so the thing it means to play here, and Volleyball 12 p.m. 2 p.m. 7:00 p.m. that characterized our team those who have gone before, was the running game,” Wells and trying to maintain digni- said. “There was one year ty. It’s not a right or privilege Men’s @ All-New Englands where we led the country to play here—you’ve got earn Cross Country 1 p.m. in running yards per game; that stuff.” [rushing] was Harry’s game.” Evans Clinchy and Ethan Women’s @ All-New Englands It may have been Arlanson’s Landy contributed reporting Cross Country style, but it wasn’t quite was to this story. 12:30 p.m. STATISTICS | STANDINGS Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball NCAA Div. III Women's Cross Field Hockey Country Rankings (5-2, 3-1 NESCAC) (2-2-2, 1-2-2 NESCAC) (2-4-1, 1-3-1 NESCAC) (12-4, 1-1 NESCAC) (as of Sept. 26, 2006) CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL W L Pct W L W L T Pct W L T W L T Pct W L T Ranking, Team (Points) W L Williams 4 0 1.000 8 0 Williams 4 0 0 1.000 7 0 1 Wesleyan 4 0 0 1.000 7 0 0 Pct W L 1. SUNY Geneseo (280) Williams 4 0 1.000 12 2 Middlebury 4 1 .800 6 1 Amherst 3 0 1 .875 6 1 1 Williams 3 0 0 1.000 7 0 0 2. Amherst (270) Wesleyan 2 0 1.000 11 3 Bowdoin 3 1 .750 6 1 Middlebury 4 1 0 .800 5 1 0 Bowdoin 4 1 0 .800 6 1 0 Bowdoin 2 1 ..667 11 3 3. Washington (MO) (266) 2 Tufts 3 1 .750 5 Colby 2 0 2 .750 5 0 2 Amherst 3 1 0 .750 7 1 0 Colby 2 1 .667 8 6 4. Wisconsin (255) Trinity 2 2 .500 5 2 Wesleyan 2 2 0 .500 4 3 0 Middlebury 3 2 0 .600 6 2 0 Amherst 1 1 .500 13 1 5. Tufts (247) Wesleyan 2 2 .500 3 4 Tufts 1 1 2 .500 2 2 2 Bates 2 3 0 .400 4 3 0 Conn. Coll. 1 1 .500 10 5 6. The College of New Jersey (237) Bates 1 2 .333 3 2 Bates 2 3 0 .400 5 3 0 Colby 1 2 1 .375 2 2 2 Tufts 1 1 .500 12 4 7. Colby (231) Conn. Coll. 1 3 .250 3 4 Bowdoin 1 3 1 .300 2 4 2 Tufts 1 3 1 .300 2 4 1 Bates 1 2 .333 8 10 8. Calvin (229) Amherst 0 4 .000 2 5 Conn. Coll. 0 4 0 .000 2 5 0 Conn. Coll. 0 4 0 .000 2 4 1 Middlebury 1 2 .333 8 4 9. Williams (213) 0 2 Colby 0 4 .000 1 4 Trinity 0 5 0 .000 1 7 0 Trinity 0 5 0 .000 0 7 0 Trinity .000 5 4 10. Carleton (207) Hamilton 0 4 .000 5 9

Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Sailing World Collegiate Rankings G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA Ass. (as of Sept. 19, 2006) Ileana Casellas-Katz 2 3 7 Martha Furtek 3 1 7 Dan Jozwiak 3 0 6 Kelli Harrison 161 16 1 Michelle Kelly 3 0 6 Lauren Fedore 2 0 4 Mattia Chason 2 1 5 Stacy Filocco 140 15 4 Ranking, Team (Previous ranking) 1 0 2 Stacey Watkins 2 1 5 Fanna Gamal Bear Duker 2 1 5 Katie Wysham 138 19 1 1. Boston College (1) 2 1 5 Rebecca Abbott 0 2 2 74 4 6 Marlee Kutcher Ben Castellot 2 1 5 Cecilia Allende 2. Hobart William Smith (2) 1 2 4 Jessie Wagner 0 1 1 Jon Glass 2 0 4 Kate Denniston 40 3 10 Tess Jasinski 3. Harvard (3) Kathleen Martin 1 1 3 Abby Werner 0 1 1 Bob Kastoff 1 1 3 Kaitlyn O'Reilly 16 5 421 4. Dartmouth (5) Brittany Holiday 1 0 2 Joelle Emery 0 0 0 Alex Botwinick 1 1 3 Emma Kozumbo 0 1 1 Kim Harrington 0 0 0 Sam James 0 1 1 Defensive B Digs 5. St. Mary's (4) Meghan Becque 0 0 0 Jen Fratto 0 0 0 Joey Stampone 0 1 1 Katie Wysham 48 41 6. Georgetown (12) Margi Scholtes 0 0 0 Annie Benedict 0 0 0 Andrew Drucker 0 1 1 Cecilia Allende 31 14 7. Yale (6) Katie Pagos 0 0 0 Genevieve Citrin 0 0 0 Greg O'Connell 0 0 0 Stacy Filocco 15 150 8. Roger Williams Maya Ripecky 0 143 9. USC (9) GA S S% Sv% Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping Goalkeeping GA Svs Natalie Goldstein 0 214 14. Tufts (13) Marilyn Duffy-Cabana 9 46 .836 Annie Ross 5 33 .868 Pat Tonelli 13 33 .717 Kelli Harrison 15 136 Friday, October 6, 2006 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 15

INSIDE THE NHL MATT MERTENS | FREELANCER Pucks are dropped, and teams hit the ice fl ying The Mighty Have Fallen

BY PATRICK MANAHAN welve minutes of basketball Senior Staff Writer to lead the ‘Canes with 100 points. Their roster also boasts a superb goaltender in morphed the Portland Trail 22-year old Cam Ward, who rose to the Watching the Carolina Hurricanes hoist occasion last spring as the Conn-Smythe Blazers from a powerhouse the Stanley Cup last June prompted the Trophy winner in the playoffs. T big question: what the hell happened? However, Carolina’s veteran leadership into a laughingstock. The ‘Canes didn’t fit the mold of the ultimately gave it the edge; captain Rod new NHL team. With the rule changes Brind’Amour was 35, Glen Wesley was 39, Six years ago, we were one win from last year, 2005-06 was supposed to be a and both Cory Stillman and Ray Whitney the NBA Finals, dominating the Lakers coming-out party for small forwards and were 32. in a Game 7 on their home court with a new breed of speedy defenders. The Veteran leadership is becoming a rare a thirteen-point lead into the fourth young guns were atop the leader boards commodity in the new NHL. The days quarter. You could have heard a pin in every statistical category, usurping of 40-year old superstars, such as Brian drop on the hardwood at the Staples multitudes of veteran names that had Leetch, Mark Messier, and Brett Hull, Center. No team in NBA history had become staples of the NHL of old. making an impact are evaporating rap- climbed out of such a deciding-game The Buffalo Sabres had the kind of idly. There is an influx of rookies as the deficit with just a quarter to play. The team that epitomized the new NHL, with speed game slowly becomes the No. 1 Blazers couldn’t lose. two stud young goaltenders and a pleth- priority for all teams. I’ll bet Boston sports fans know ora of small, shifty players that demoral- There are, however, a few teams which exactly how I felt watching that melt- ized Philadelphia Flyers in the first round. have the Carolinian balance that seems to down. Supremely confident of a victo- But they fell to the ‘Canes in seven hard be such a recipe for success. ry; feeling the first pangs of uncertainty GARY REYES/MCT DIRECT fought games in the Eastern Conference The San Jose Sharks may be the most Ottawa Senator Johan Axelsson, left, shown when the lead got chopped to 10; ratio- Finals. striking example of the much-needed here representing home country Sweden, nalizing that just one basket would The Edmonton Oilers , who squared off balance between old and new. Young jumps into the arms of teammate Daniel stop the Lakers’ momentum. But the against Carolina in the Finals, fielded a stars Mike Bell and Jonathan Cheechoo Alfredsson who just scored a second period Blazers clanged off thirteen consecu- team similar to the Sabres. One of the five represent a wealth of talent that fits into goal against Czech Republic during a semi- tive misses; entering full-blown “Dear youngest teams in the league last year, an established framework of 27-year- final playoff game in the 2006 Winter God, this cannot be happening” mode their fresh talent and supernatural goal- old “veterans” Patrick Marleau and Joe Olympics in Turin, Italy Feb. 24. when Shaq threw down Kobe’s lob to tending guided the Oilers to the finals, Thornton, last season’s MVP. put the Lakers ahead by six; staring despite being seeded eighth. Yet, they, The Sharks made an unbelievable blankly at the television when the final too, fell to the mighty Hurricanes. comeback last year after the Olympics, that fits the mold, but they will prob- horn sounded. Lakers 89, Blazers 84, Again, what the hell happened? logging a win percentage in the vicinity of ably find themselves in the tank again in a game that ESPN Page 2 columnist The Hurricanes are a perfect balance .700 and ultimately ending up as the sixth this season. Although there are some Bill Simmons called the biggest single- of speed, skill, and experience. Like the seed in the postseason. Look for them to bright spots on the horizon, namely 18- game collapse in sports history. I was other teams, they have their share of start turning some heads in a powerful year-old Sidney Crosby, who finished the 13 years old, and the memory still dev- young talent, including 21-year old Eric Western Conference. astates me. Probably every sports fan Staal, who burst onto the scene last year The Pittsburgh Penguins have a team see NHL, page 13 has some deep loyalty-inflicted wound that time simply won’t heal; this one is mine. Los Angeles went on to win three Men’s tennis takes down Beavers in rare fall home appearance straight NBA titles, and Portland tor- In its first fall season home match in team after he defeated Keller 10-6 in the both contained their Beaver counter- pedoed its franchise in a failed effort to years, Tufts handily defeated Babson 7-2, super tiebreaker. parts, and posted wins in the No.5 and keep up with the Lakers. After that soul- finishing out its fall dual meet schedule In other singles matches, senior Craig No.6 slots. sucking loss, Blazers brass decided to with a 2-0 record. The loss dropped Kunkes recorded a victory at No. 2 as he The freshman combination of Trott bring in veterans to provide stability Babson to 1-2 on the season. beat Beaver freshman Alex Kamerogosky and Bryan Wilner led the way in doubles during future playoff runs. Here’s who In the most memorable match of the in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4. Sophomore matches, out-playing Babson’s duo of we acquired: Shawn Kemp, who was so day, senior tri-captain Corey Keller and Vinh Tran and freshman Jon Trott both juniors Ben Ediek and Jason Lynn for an grotesquely overweight that unnamed Babson’s junior Jeremy Stein played a followed-up stellar performances in dou- 8-4 victory at No. 2. Kunkes and Tran teammates feared that his size, com- back-and-forth match at No. 1 singles. bles to notch victories at Nos. 3 and 4, continued the trend with an 8-5 victory bined with his locker room cocaine Keller relied on his forehand to establish respectively. Tran out-dueled his oppo- of their own at No. 3. Keller and Loh binges, would literally kill him on the an early and convincing 7-5, 4-1 lead, nent 6-2, 6-3, and Trott recorded a 6-0, dropped their match 8-4 in the No. 1 court; Dale Davis, for whom we traded but Stein ultimately won the second set 6-3 win in similar fashion. Freshman spot. some guy named Jermaine O’Neal; and 7-5, grabbing one of two victories for his Andrew Rosen and senior Geoff Loh — Rachel Dolin Ruben Patterson, who had just pleaded no contest to attempting to sexually assault his childrens’ nanny. Suffice it INSIDE COLLEGE BASKETBALL to say that history has not borne out the wisdom of these transactions. General Manager Bob Whitsitt The Gators fi t the formula for NCAA success mortgaged the future for troubled tal- BY ADAM COOPERSTOCK Senior Staff Writer following year began their unprec- ent, and Blazers fans got the worst edented run, and Krzyzewski never of both worlds: a step backwards in These days, winning the NCAA looked back. performance and humiliating behav- Basketball tournament two years is a The Blue Devils had a talented, bal- ior from our players. The 2001 play- row is no simple feat. anced and well-coached squad that offs came, and we were swept by the Long gone are the days of dynas- was able to perform despite having Lakers, and the 2002 playoffs came, ties like John Wooden’s UCLA teams every other competitor gunning for and, you guessed it, we were swept by of the 1970’s. Since the tournament them. They also had a good win at their the Lakers. expanded to 64 teams in 1985, Duke is back, exemplified by Laettner’s mira- Rasheed Wallace seemed determined the only team to accomplish a double- cle buzzer-beater that beat Kentucky to put the single-season technical foul header, winning back-to-back titles in the 1992 National Semifinals. record out of the reach of mere mor- in 1991 and 1992. Arkansas , Kentucky Florida has the first part of the equa- tals. Damon Stoudamire tried to bring and Georgetown all won once but fell tion in place: all five starters returning, marijuana wrapped in tinfoil through in the national championship game an adequate bench, and coach Billy an airport metal detector. Wallace the following year. Michigan made it Donovan at the helm. Whether the threatened to kill an official after a to the finals two years in a row but lost Gators have good fortune a la Duke, or game and received a seven-game sus- in both contests. even need it, remains to be seen. pension. Scalpers hawking tickets at Although the task is a tough one, The unique thing about this group of the Rose Garden suddenly had to find the formula for completing it is fairly Gators is their collective decisiveness honest employment because nobody straightforward, and the circumstanc- in returning to school after the cham- PATRICK SCHNEIDER/MCT DIRECT: in Portland wanted to go to the games es at Florida are similar enough to pionship win. Forwards Al Horford Florida’s Al Horford puts in two as the Florida anymore. those during the Blue Devils’ repeat and Joakim Noah were surefire lottery Gators beat the UCLA Bruins 73-57 in the I couldn’t believe that this was hap- that it’s very conceivable that these picks in the draft in the wake of their championship game of the Final Four on Apr. pening to my team. The only profes- Gators could reach this milestone. performances last March. Swingman 3 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Ind. sional sports team in Oregon is the Duke was able to retain almost the Corey Brewer would have been a first- Blazers; people’s moods used to wax entire core of their championship team round pick, and point guard Taurean and wane with the team’s fortunes. for the run at the title in 1991-92. Bobby Green probably would have gone He coached at Marshall for two years Suddenly we had guys like Wallace, Hurley, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill late in the second round. Despite the before taking over a struggling Florida who said that he didn’t care about win- and Thomas Hill all returned follow- lure of the NBA, the players, along program in 1996. His arrival on the ning or losing so long as somebody ing the first title, while guard Billy with guard Lee Humprhey, all chose national scene came in 1996, when “cuts the check,” Darius Miles, who McCaffrey transferred to Vanderbilt . Gainesville for another year. the Gators lost to Michigan State in came to practice drunk, and Bonzi They had veterans like Brian Davis and The Gators have a deeper bench the 2000 national championship as a Wells, who gave fans in Portland the Antonio Lang who were able to com- this year, buoyed by the influx of new fourth seed. After that initial break- finger for booing him. pensate for McCaffrey, and newcom- talent as well as the return of some through, success was initially elu- We spent a first-round pick on ers like Cherokee Parks further swelled key reserves. Chris Richard, Walter sive for Florida, who failed to make Zach Randolph, who sucker-punched the Devils’ roster. Incredibly, all eight Hodge and Adrian Moss all contrib- it beyond the second round of the Patterson in practice and broke his of these players were selected in NBA uted significant minutes to last year’s tournament as a five seed or better. eye socket. Zach spent the night at a Drafts between 1992 and 1995. team and will be counted on again Donovan, however, turned the tables teammate’s house because he feared The Blue Devils were led by Mike to supplement the starters. They also last March, battling all the way to an Patterson would come to his home and Krzyzewski, one of the best college have four talented freshman recruits NCAA championship. kill him. We used another first-round coaches of all time. Krzyzewski resur- who will improve under the tutelage of This year’s Gators are ready to make rected Duke from an also-ran program Donovan and the veterans. a run at history. Fortunate to retain see MERTENS, page 13 into a perennial contender. He and Then there’s Donovan, one of 19 their players in the age of early draft the Blue Devils arrived on the national assistant coaches under former declarations and the pursuit of mil- stage when they advanced to the 1990 Kentucky coach Rick Pitino who has lions, the team now has the opportu- Matthew Mertens is a sophomore who has finals before bowing out to UNLV . The gone on to a coaching job of his own. nity to become a legendary one. not yet declared a major. 16 INSIDE Men’s Soccer 15 Freelancer 15 Sports Inside the NHL 15 THE TUFTS DAILY Friday, October 6, 2006

FOOTBALL PREVIEW Team has opportunity to get over hump at Bowdoin Football program

BY ETHAN LANDY commemorates Contributing Writer By all accounts, it was a tough loss to for- historic weekend get. On Oct. 8, 2005, the Tufts and Bowdoin football teams, both perfect on the young BY LIZ HOFFMAN season at 2-0, squared off at Zimman Field. Daily Editorial Board Tufts dominated in every statistic except the one that mattered, the scoreboard; as For Tufts football, Saturday after- a heartbreaking 10-8 Jumbos loss started a noon’s showdown with the Bowdoin downward spiral to an eventual 2-6 season. Polar Bears isn’t the only thing The two-point loss was the second against marked on the calendar for this the Polar Bears in two years, as Tufts fell 14-12 weekend. in Brunswick, Maine, in 2004. Today is the 50th anniversary of “We don’t like to look at the past, but of perhaps the most celebrated win in course you always look back and say, ‘They the history of Tufts athletics. beat us last year; we’ve got to get them good On Oct. 6, 1956, the Jumbos made this year,’” senior defensive end and co-cap- history by toppling heavily favored tain Chris Decembrele said. “We don’t forget. Ivy League foe Harvard, 19-13, in It will definitely be in the back of our minds a game held at The Stadium in all week, remembering how they stole one JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY Cambridge. The Tufts squad was out from us last year and the year before.” The Jumbos are looking for two year’s-worth of redemption at Bowdoin this weekend, mind- for blood—the Crimson kind—and The Jumbos now have their chance to ful of 2005’s 10-8 loss and a 14-12 defeat in 2004. returned to Medford with one of the settle the score, traveling to Maine tomorrow biggest upsets in Tufts history. to take on the Polar Bears at Whittier Field. themselves down 9-0 midway through the the ball offensively. I was impressed by their Tufts coach Harry Arlanson The undefeated Jumbos come in riding the second quarter. Bates scored a touchdown composure and attitude.” called it “the biggest game any of momentum of a 21-12 homecoming vic- off an early Russo fumble, and struck a field The Tufts defense was solid again, shutting us have ever played,” and the New tory over the Bates Bobcats last weekend. goal at the opening of the second frame. Tufts out Bates in the third and fourth quarters, York Times printed the score the Bowdoin, meanwhile, has stumbled out of bounced back, however, and scored 14 sec- holding the Bobcats to just 70 yards in the next morning alongside scores from the gate and will try to overcome a 0-2 start in ond quarter points to take the halftime lead. second half. The offense, coming off a nice national powerhouses Nebraska and hopes of achieving the success of last season’s Though Bates closed the margin to two effort versus Hamilton, struggled somewhat Ohio State. surprising 6-2 record. with a field goal 10 seconds before the half- against the Bobcats; Russo was solid, going An excerpt from a preview in the This will be Tufts’ first road game of the time break, sophomore wide receiver David 13-for-21 for 131 yards and two touchdowns, Harvard Crimson on Sept. 27, 1956, season, and winning away from of Zimman Halas’ second touchdown of the day in but the offense was plagued by a poor ground recognized the symbolic weight of a Field will present a challenge. the fourth quarter clinched the win for the game, rushing for only 68 yards. Tufts win and criticized the Harvard “A lot of the younger players won’t be as Jumbos. “The offense has to continue to not turn Athletic Department for scheduling comfortable,” senior quarterback Matt Russo “[The players] have played well; they need the ball over,” Russo said. “As long as we can games against team with “nothing said. “We’ve got to be extra focused in prac- to continue to play well,” coach Bill Samko do that and control the field position we will to lose and everything to gain,” rath- tice and take care of the little things. We’ve got said. “We are working hard, and I think they have a good chance to win because that gives er than playing bigger local rivals to make sure we are mentally prepared.” are keeping their composure, certainly cre- In last week’s victory, the Jumbos found ating turnovers on defense and protecting see FOOTBALL PREVIEW, page 13 see ANNIVERSARY, page 14

FIELD HOCKEY WOMEN’S SOCCER 5-0 makes it fi ve in a row Judgment vs. Brandeis keeps streak alive

BY BRIAN BAILEY and tri-captain Annie Ross Daily Staff Writer in the backfield set a strong tone early on for the Jumbos. It seems that a struggling While they were unable to team has found its way. uphold their dominance the Not to be outdone by their entire match, the Jumbos male counterparts, the wom- have shown longer stretches of strong play in recent games WOMEN’S SOCCER and continue to work towards at Kraft Field, Wednesday consistency. “We felt that it was really Brandeis 1 important to establish inten- Tufts 3 sity and maintain it for 90 minutes,” senior defender and Fedore: 2 goals tri-captain Jen Fratto said. Gamal: 1 goal, 1 assist “We didn’t really accomplish Ross: 5 saves that [on Wednesday], but we made good strides toward en’s soccer team gained its it. We’re going to need to be third straight victory, riding intense for whole games if we two goals from junior Lauren want to keep winning down ROBBIE HAVDALA/TUFTS DAILY Fedore to a 3-1 win over the road.” DAILY FILE PHOTO Junior forward Ileana Casellas-Katz makes a cut in the Jumbos’ Sept. non-conference Brandeis on Brandeis countered early Junior Lauren Fedore scored a pair 13 game against Wellesley. Casellas-Katz turned in a five-point game Wednesday. Following up on with a nice goal in the 18th of goals in the Jumbos’ 3-1 win last night, tallying a goal of her own and setting up three others as the a strong Homecoming perfor- minute to tie the score at 1- over non-conference Brandeis on Jumbos took a 5-0 decision over non-conference Gordon. mance, the team has gone 3- 1. Brandeis junior midfielder Wednesday. 0-1 in their last four contests Sarah Jasak was able to get a to improve to 3-2-2 overall. head on a well-placed cross and weaknesses. It has taken BY LIZ HOFFMAN two goals netted just 60 seconds The Jumbos established from freshman midfielder a while for us to work out the Daily Editorial Board apart broke the game open, and their presence from the start. Melissa Gornekoff. kinks.” the offensive opportunities came in With scrappy, physical play, The Jumbos wouldn’t leave Fedore struck again in the Trap game? bunches. Tufts was able to jump out to the game at a draw for long. 65th minute. She got a head Not here. “We put a lot of emphasis on an early lead when freshman Just six minutes later, Fedore on a great cross from Gamal, The field hockey team got a goal transferring in the backfield; if forward Fanna Gamal struck capitalized on a Brandeis redirecting it into the net. With and three assists from junior for- there’s a hit on the sideline, we’ll with a goal 13 minutes into defensive breakdown to score her two tallies on Wednesday, ward Ileana Casellas-Katz, stomping move it quickly back, across and the first half. the first of her two goals on the midfielder has scored four on non-conference Gordon, 5-0, for up the wing,” Casellas-Katz said. “During practice, we have the afternoon. Senior Kim goals the season, three on its third shutout in four games. With “The defense can’t get around quick been playing lots of scrappy Harrington came up with the headers. the win, the Jumbos improved to 6- enough, and we’re in.” games with a lot of scoring ball and found Fedore to give For the rest of the half, Ross 2 on the season and has a five-game After 22 shots and 27 cor- opportunities to accustom Tufts a 2-1 lead that they held and the defense maintained win streak, the program’s longest ners yielded just a single goal in ourselves with taking shots until the halftime break. the lead, capping off a solid winning streak since 1998. Saturday’s win in penalty strokes and always looking to goal,” “The more we play together, overall effort by the team. The Jumbos turned up what over league rival Bates, the Jumbo Fedore said. the better we have been able “The past four games has become their signature style offense let loose last night with its Gamal slipped the ball home to read our teammates and have been better,” Fratto of play—finesse dribbling, pinpoint biggest production in over a year. in a scuffle in front of the net learn their playing tenden- said. “Things are starting to passing and front-line speed—and “I don’t think it was our best game, following a feed from junior cies,” Fedore said. “We added click, and we’ve gotten better outmatched, out-ran, and out- but we worked well as a team, and midfielder Martha Furtek. seven new players to the ros- every game. More people are shot the Fighting Scots. Struggling The early goal and five first- ter this year and have a new through a shaky first 15 minutes, see FIELD HOCKEY, page 14 half saves from senior goalie team with different strengths see WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 13