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THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Thursday, November 3, 2005 POLICE BRIEFS U.S THE TUFTS Where You Read It First VOLUME L, NUMBER 39 DAILY THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 3, 2005 Hotel Rwanda tickets Two thousand too many all gone before noon BY KELLY MCANERNEY said. She arrived at Aidekman at AND MARC RAIFMAN 10:00 and got her ticket at 11:15. Daily Editorial Board Rusesabagina’s lecture will be the first in the Merrin All 800 tickets to hear Paul Distinguished Lecture Series, Rusesabagina, the man whose presented by Tufts Hillel and story was told in the film Hotel made possible by a gift from Seth Rwanda, disappeared in under Merrin (LA ‘82), a member of the and hour and a half Wednesday. Board of Trustees. Tickets began being distrib- According to junior and Hillel uted at 10 a.m. for the Nov. 15 lec- intern Amanda Mendel, 800 ture in Cohen Auditorium. seats were available in Cohen According to Joanne Barnett, the and Jackson combined. Of these theatre manager at the seats, 200 were reserved for spe- Aidekman Arts Center, the tickets cific members of the Tufts com- for seating in Cohen were gone munity, including the students by 11:15 a.m. and community members who Half an hour later, tickets for worked to bring Rusesabagina to overflow seating in Jackson Gym campus. were all claimed as well. “At 9 When tickets for Salman a.m., there were 20 people wait- Rushdie’s Sept. 27 speech were ing for tickets,” Barnett said. “The distributed, they were all passed line was out the door at 10 am.” out in about 30 minutes. Tickets were given on a first- Organizers opened up the Balch come, first-serve basis at the Arena Theater for a simulcast of JAMES HARRIS/TUFTS DAILY Aidekman ticket booth. Tickets the lecture, and these tickets History graduate student Dan DiMaggio speaks at a rally held by the Tufts Coalition to Oppose War on Iraq were free, but students were became available about a week Wednesday in front of Tisch Library. About 14 people participated, chanting slogans such as “Bush lies, thou- required to bring their Tufts ID after the first batch was released. sands died, troops home now.” card to claim one. Students could As manager of the Hotel Mille claim a second ticket if they Collines, Rusesabagina sheltered brought another person’s ID. over a thousand people during Students were also allowed to call the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Coming out safe at Tufts, not so elsewhere ahead and reserve tickets. About 800,000 Tutsi and moder- “I had to wait in line forever,” ate Hutu tribe members were BY SARAH FELDBERG violent crimes committed ly the only public lesbian organ- sophomore Rachel O’ Donnell killed. Contributing Writer against women — and particu- ization in Guatemala. In 2004, larly women who identify them- Lesbiradas — along with other When Claudia Acevedo selves as lesbians — are, in fact, civil rights groups — launched a entered the Rabb Room of the increasing, despite the official campaign to encourage the gov- Writing novels, getting fit Lincoln Filene Center on end of the civil conflict. ernment to take action to pro- Tuesday, she did not look like BY BRIAN MCPARTLAND Japanese Professor Hosea Hirata “Last year, 590 women were tect all of its citizens from dis- Senior Staff Writer speaking with Murakami about the stereotypical activist. assassinated,” said Acevado, crimination and violence, and his life. The two previously knew Dressed casually in blue jeans whose talk at Tufts was spon- to publicize the issue of diverse Former Tufts professor and each other from time they spent and a white blouse and looking sored by the Association of Latin sexual orientations. renowned Japanese author together at Princeton University slightly embarrassed, she American Students, the Latino “Guatemala is a society where Haruki Murakami returned to 15 years ago. immediately apologized for her Center and the Arts, Sciences sexuality is not talked about,” campus Wednesday to speak Murakami spoke as if it were tardiness and expressed her and Engineering Diversity Fund. Acevedo said. “We’re trying to about his new life as a writer. easy to become an author. “I appreciation for the small crowd “This year,” she added, “there get the theme of sexuality on the The event was set up as a sort went out and bought paper and that had gathered to hear her have been 580 deaths.” table.” of public interview, with pen and I wrote [my first novel],” speak. The government, Acevado Here at Tufts, the issue is Murakami said about his first A native of Guatemala, said, is quick to blame the vio- more than on the table; it’s in book, “Hear the Wind Sing,” pub- Acevedo joined the Tufts com- lence on gangs, domestic abuse the Tufts Community Union lished in 1979. “I didn’t even try munity to speak on the gender- and prostitution related crimes, (TCU) Senate. “I’m the commu- to write anything before.” based violence and homopho- but Acevedo sees other explana- nity representative for the Hirata showed a slideshow bia that have become common tions for the killings. “Fifteen to Queer Straight Alliance [QSA] to presentation of Murakami’s within her home country: The 20 percent of the victims are the TCU Senate,” said sopho- works and asked the author to past nine years have been a found in pairs,” she said. “When more Jonathan Fichman about elaborate on the works. One of period of transition after a civil the newspaper reports the his participation in the gay the first things the audience war that battered the killings, it says that the women community at Tufts. “I’m basi- learned is that the reserved Guatemalan people for 36 years, may have been involved in an cally a liaison between the Murakami believes the first step and violence remains a fact of intimate relationship.” Senate and QSA, so our interests toward successful writing is life. In response to continuing and concerns are represented.” proper physical fitness. According to Acevedo, “a cul- prejudice against people of QSA, formerly known as the “First train your body. Then, ture of violence and terror” has diverse sexual orientations, Tufts Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, developed in Guatemala that Acevedo founded a group called JAMES HARRIS/TUFTS DAILY persists to this day. She said that Lesbiradas in 1999. It is current- see LGBT, page 2 Haruki Murakami see AUTHOR, page 2 INSIDE Just how much candy can a Lego bulldozer really carry? Wars continue to heppen in the stars. BY JUDY WEXLER dents into area classrooms to run helps to move girls towards the activities. At the weekly executive see WEEKENDER, page 5 Daily Editorial Board hands-on activities that teach sciences.” board meetings, members basic principles of engineering. Much of the Lego technology bounce ideas off of each other It is the Friday afternoon Some of these activities involve STOMP uses was developed by and discuss which activities work before Halloween, and the kids in Legos and Lego Robotics. another of the center’s educa- better than others. Mimi Fong’s fifth grade class are “Our mission is to get engi- tional outreach programs, the Weidenbach and Zamarripa anxious to get their candy. To get neering into K-12,” said Robolab. came up with the bulldozer activ- it, though, they must build bull- Portsmore. “It’s obviously really STOMP’s programs are not ity to bring some Halloween spir- dozers out of Legos. hard for these teachers to do limited to Lego Robotics, though. it into their classroom. They con- With the supervision of two these amazing hands-on activi- “At a younger age, we teach ‘What structed a two-by-two foot Tufts students, kids at the Josiah ties with one teacher to 30 kids.” are sturdy structures?’” senior square of blue electric tape on the Quincy Elementary School in In addition, to Josiah Quicy, Kaitlyn Conroy, a senior and tiled floor and scattered approxi- Boston are constructing motor- STOMP sends students to member of STOMP’s student mately fifty Jolly Ranchers inside ized bulldozers with which they between eight and 12 other ele- executive board, said. “Then we the tape. will scoop up as much candy as mentary schools each year, move into more advanced topics The students got to keep as INDEX possible from a small pile on the including ones in Medford and like gear ratios.” much candy as their bulldozer floor. Somerville. STOMP activities also incorpo- plowed from the square but had News | Features 1 The students — juniors Joe STOMP specifically wants to rate subjects other than engi- to forfeit one quarter of that loot Weekender 5 Editorial | Letters 10 Weidenbach and Nate Zamarripa encourage young girls to get neering. One lesson plan ties if their machine fell apart while National 13 — are part of the Student Teacher interested in engineering. Fong social studies into science by crossing the floor. The elemen- International 17 Outreach Mentorship Program said that goal is certainly being explaining the engineering prin- tary school students worked in Comics 20 (STOMP), run by Tufts’ Center for accomplished. “There are always ciples behind the pyramids of pairs of two to construct the bull- Classifieds 21 Engineering Education Outreach. a handful of girls who are intimi- Egypt. dozers. Sports Back page Started four years ago by Tufts dated by building, and by the end Each STOMP team, usually “We’re trying to make the plow alumna Merredith Portsmore (LA of the program, they’re not,” she made up of two Tufts students, ‘98, G ‘99), STOMP sends stu- said. “I think that this program designs their own classroom see STOMP, page 4 tuftsdaily.com 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Thursday, November 3, 2005 POLICE BRIEFS U.S.
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