THE TUFTS Where You Tufts’ Student Newspaper Read It First Since 1980 VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER 32 DAILY WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 27, 2004 Tufts students ‘mock’ presidential debate BY ELLEN AIKEN DiMaggio represented Tufts terrorists,” Casazza said. Contributing Writer Socialist Alternative, and Taking the Democratic posi- Jonathan Parnes represented tion, Parnes said, “We want to put With Nov. 2 quickly approach- Tufts Democrats in the debate. NATO in charge of border control ing and election fever gripping The debaters covered topics and that would free up about the campus, over 100 students ranging from healthcare to gay 20,000 American soldiers to deal filled Cabot Auditorium last night marriage, but focused mostly on with some of the hotspots in to watch Tufts’ first live mock terrorism and the war in Iraq. Baghdad right now. We need to go presidential debate. “On Sept. 11 we were attacked back to the U.N. Security Council The debate, which was by terrorists who declared this and have them oversee the recon- designed to mirror the structure war against the United States and struction of Iraq.” of the actual presidential debates, against freedom and free “It’s a war that was based on was mediated by WCVB-TV and nations,” Casazza said, echoing lies,” said DiMaggio, injecting the ABC News anchorman and recent Republican oratory. third party perspective. “It’s the reporter Anthony Everett, a Tufts “This is not a war of choice. wrong war, it’s a bloody war and I alumnus. This war is nothing less than one think it’s time to bring the troops JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY Kristen Casazza represented of good against evil and America Leaders of the campus political parties took part in a mock presidential see DEBATE, page 2 debate last night moderated by ABC News anchorman Anthony Everett. Tufts Republicans, Daniel has to stand strong against the

ELECTION 2004 Anti-gay rhetoric in state rep. race heats up Ciampa says he is not affiliated with conservative group sending anti-gay mailings BY KEITH BARRY support ... other than the fact that activist.” who supports gay marriage, and Daily Editorial Board they brought out an issue of grave Sciortino called the flyer “des- Congressmen Ed Markey and importance.” picable hate mail,” and said it Marty Meehan — both support- Political mailings to neighbor- The PRC opposes gay mar- was an “unfortunate distraction” ers of gay adoption rights and hoods surrounding Tufts by a riage, homosexual civil unions, from other campaign issues. abortion rights. Massachusetts-based conserva- and abortion rights. PRC President Brian Camenker Ciampa has a voting record in tive group are calling Democratic Ciampa, the 16-year incum- said he foresees his message favor of both civil unions and candidate Carl Sciortino a bent of the district that includes being well-received in Medford abortion rights, but opposes gay “homosexual, anti-Catholic parts of Medford and Somerville and Somerville. marriage. extremist.” surrounding Tufts, has been wag- “What we found in other races Camenker said he did not Medford and Somerville ing a write-in campaign to is that — this is a big problem — know whether Ciampa supported doorsteps have been flooded encourage supporters to vote for how the elected officials voted civil unions. “We don’t support with dueling flyers from support- him Nov. 2. most of the time does not corre- civil unions. You’re never going to ers of independent candidate Ciampa lost to Sciortino by spond to how the people in the have 100 percent agreement with and former Democrat only 93 votes in the Democratic district feel,” Camenker said. “We any political candidate at all,” he Representative Vincent Ciampa primary campaign. see that in district after district said. “We basically are pro-life, and Sciortino in the race for the Yesterday, area residents after district.” and he is not pro-life.” THE TUFTS DAILY 34th Middlesex District received a flyer supporting But Somerville and Medford The PRC’s flyer recounts a June 34th Middlesex District Mass. Dem- Massachusetts state representa- Ciampa that came in an envelope voters have historically elected 2003 incident in which Sciortino ocratic candidate Carl Sciortino tive seat. saying, “Last year he and his part- and re-elected politicians such as The president of the Parents’ ner disrupted a Catholic Mass. State Senator Charles Shannon, see MAILINGS, page 2 Rights Coalition (PRC), a conser- Now he’s about to be YOUR state vative group that sponsored the representative!” flyer, will speak at Tufts tonight. Inside, voters found a flyer Sciortino, Russell dsicuss Mass. clean elections Ciampa — who is running as entitled “A Special Report on the an independent after losing in Homosexual Lobby’s Secret Democratic primary winner Carl Sciortino Public financing of electoral campaigns the Democratic primaries to Campaign to Install a and Mass Voters representative Alexandra arrived in Massachusetts in 1998 when Russell’s Sciortino — said he is neither Homosexual, Anti-Catholic Russell targeted election ills ranging from big organization helped pass the Clean Elections affiliated with the PRC nor had he Extremist in the State spending to patronage in a panel last night. Bill. But the initiative was later overturned and received any money from them. Legislature.” Russell began by citing statistics on how elec- “written off without any accountability,” Russell “I’m trying to run a sticker The pamphlet listed a number tions are financed in Massachusetts. “One per- said. campaign, and they’ve got an of allegations against Sciortino cent of the population is giving 83 percent of The bill aimed to provide a pool of money for issue with Mr. Sciortino,” he said. and what it called his “long campaign contributions,” she said. “A lot of peo- “I’m not familiar with what they record as a militant homosexual ple aren’t able to afford to run.” see CLEAN ELECTIONS, page 2

Never too old for Halloween Tufts student accused of violent bias incident at College Avenue party BY KATHARINE CLARK [Friday’s] incident itself is not necessari- Daily Editorial Board ly a crime.” He said “the expression of bias may be something that we disdain Tufts junior Terry Levine said another that is not always something that is reg- Tufts student verbally and physically ulated or that legislation deals with.” assaulted him due to his sexual orienta- According to the Pachyderm, tion last Friday, and has reported the Massachusetts law defines a hate crime matter to the Dean of Students Office. as a civil rights violation that involves a According to Levine and junior crime committed due to the victim’s per- Alexandra Bloufarb, a friend of Levine’s ceived sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and witness to the event, an inebriated sex, disability, or national origin. assailant pushed and slapped Levine Bloufarb said she had no doubt after commenting that he “looked gay.” Friday’s incident fell into this category. “I Levine and several witnesses identi- think it’s really embarrassing, especially fied the alleged assailant as sophomore at an institution like this, because [this Reshawn Branch and named him to the Dean of Student’s Office on Monday. see ASSAULT, page 2 When asked about what transpired last Friday night, Branch refused to com- INDEX ment. News | Features 1 Professor Evan haefeli The Dean of Students Office con- Arts | Living 5 spoke last night in Wren firmed it had received reports of two Editorial | Letters 8 Hall about the history of assault cases this weekend, one of them National 9 the Salem witch trials. potentially constituting a hate crime. International 15 Attending students then The office would not release or con- Comics 20 took part in a free pump- firm the names of students who might Classifieds 21 kin carving session. have been involved and an investigation Sports Back page JEFF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY is ongoing. Reitman said the “bias piece of tuftsdaily.com 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Telefund changes for new academic year Alumnus moderates Tufts’ BY EMILY BARRETT much nicer space,” he said. and reach the goal of $2.5 million. Contributing Writer One drawback of the new space Stevens said any improvement in student presidential debate is poor acoustics, a major issue for Telefund’s performance is ultimate- DEBATE the outcome of the debate. “I Tufts Telefund has recently relo- an office whose business is talking, ly good for the University as a continued from page 1 think it’s great that all three can- cated to a newly renovated space Chiu said. whole, including the student body. home now from Iraq and let the didates were allowed to partici- where supervisors hope to break “When there is a full session, it The money raised by Telefund Iraqis rule Iraq for themselves.” pate and get their views out last year’s record-setting fundrais- can be quite hard to hear the per- not only “helps boost the school’s The parties were equally there. In the nationally televised ing campaign. son to whom you are talking,” Chiu rankings by increasing alumni par- separated in their views about debates, it’s very restricted and Telefund is the organization that said. “[But] it is a definite improve- ticipation ... [it also] raises money gay marriages. for me, very boring.” runs the “phonathon,” a fundrais- ment.” for financial aid, scholarships and “I think that a really impor- In the real presidential ing campaign that calls alumni and According to employees, the student resources,” Stevens said. tant part of the Republican plat- debates, the most significant other friends of the University, to office switch will make Telefund Positions at Telefund are some of form is that marriage needs to third-party candidate in the raise money for the Tufts Annual more effective in addition to being the highest paying on campus. be designed between a man presidential election, Ralph Fund. more comfortable for employees. “During the peak hiring time and a woman and the over- Nader, was not allowed to par- Last year, the phonathon raised “Because the new space is so [Telefund is] deluged with appli- whelming majority of Ameri- ticipate. $2.3 million for Tufts. The goal this much more open, it allows much cants,” Stevens said. cans have spoken that they As mediator, Everett stressed year is to raise $2.5 million. more interaction between the man- “We have students of all back- agree with this,” Casazza said. “I the importance of getting out Telefund moved from the second agement staff,” Stevens said. “This grounds and interests working think it’s our job to make sure to vote. “I don’t think there’s floor of Packard Hall, described by increase in interaction allows us to here. Not only do we have under- that the sanctity of the institu- any greater responsibility than Program Manager D.J. Stevens as work more closely with new callers graduates, but we have grad stu- tion of marriage is protected.” participating in a democracy,” “cramped and stuffy,” to the recent- to help them develop their persua- dents that work with us as well,” Parnes took a different tack. he said. “A lot of people have ly-renovated basement. sive skills.” Stevens said. “It always is a positive “What is clear is that we need fought and died for that right The new office space is larger Employees are confident that thing when a veteran caller can to make sure that [gay couples] and I think it’s incumbent on and more spacious, according to under these new circumstances, include on a resume that they per- have the same legal rights as all everyone that is able to vote, to sophomore Telefund employee Telefund will be able to surpass last sonally raised thousands of dollars other citizens, and that not only vote, but to be an Jordan Chiu. “The basement is a year’s record-breaking phonathon for their alma mater.” includes tax benefits, visitation informed voter.” rights to hospitals and social Roberta Oster Sachs, whose security benefits.” Ex College class “Understand- “Democrats also support ing and Creating TV News” pro- Dean of Students Office will deal with incident gays being able to serve openly duced and directed the event, in the army,” Parnes said. “I was also pleased. “I’ve taught at ASSAULT Branch’s grip, Levine and Bloufarb Office. The victim left open the continued from page 1 was shocked to see that the Princeton and Columbia and I said that a shaken Levine shook possibility of pursuing [the inci- GOP platform affirms that think the students here are kind of bias] is everywhere and it Branch’s hand and left the house dent] through criminal proceed- homosexuality is incompatible incredible.” needs to be dealt with,” she said. unharmed. ings, but hasn’t made a determina- with military service.” “I think at Tufts they really Reitman said the adjudication According to both witnesses, tion if he wants to go that route After the debaters’ closing raise the level of discussion,” process has started at the Dean of Branch was significantly intoxicat- yet.” statements, the floor was Sachs said. “The debaters had Students Office and typically takes ed at the time. “He contacted my The TUPD has had no further opened to questions from the an incredible command of the several weeks. friend to have him tell me that he contact with Branch at this time. audience. issues. I wish one of them Levine said he was at a party at was so drunk that he didn’t even “Tufts should get involved and DiMaggio was pleased with would run for office one day.” 143 College Ave dancing with remember the incident,” Levine make a big deal about it because it friends at 1:30 a.m. Friday night said, “and all that he did remember is a big deal,” Bloufarb said. when Branch approached him. “I was my friend throwing him out of Incidents of bias at Tufts are usu- had had no previous contact with the house.” ally handled by the Bias him,” Levine said. Rosen said, “A couple minutes Intervention Team, which operates Camenker will be speaking According to Levine and later I went up to the kid and really under the Dean of Students’ Office. Bloufarb, Branch told Levine “you ripped into him and it honestly But Bias Intervention look really gay.” seemed like he had no idea what he Coordinator Marisol Perez deferred today about homosexuality Levine replied by offering to had done. He said he didn’t mean it comment to Reitman, who said, MAILINGS Sciortino himself spends, it’s shake hands, asking him to “leave it in a homophobic way.” “While a campus investigation is continued from page 1 the enormous amount of alone. I said it didn’t matter,” “It seemed as though I almost going on because those involved stood up with his back to the money coming from out-of- Levine said. had to remind [Branch] of what he are students, the Bias Intervention altar during a Catholic Mass in state and certainly from out of Bloufarb said Branch continued did,” Rosen said. “He kept saying it Team is not able to provide imme- June of 2003 and reportedly the district [from gay rights to verbally antagonize Levine, wasn’t a big deal, like ‘I’m not diate and full disclosure on the kissed his partner. groups],” Camenker said. allegedly insisting, “No, you look homophobic, that’s the last thing I incident.” Sciortino defended his He said he has no problem like a fucking fag.” am.’” Levine left campus yesterday for “peaceful protest” of the with his message potentially At this point, the confrontation Bloufarb agreed that Branch his home to discuss with his par- Catholic Church’s stance on being unpopular. reportedly turned violent. Levine seemed considerably inebriated. ents whether or not to pursue legal gay marriage but said the kiss “Every time you do some- said Branch “slapped me in the “He was really drunk, but that’s no recourse. He said he does not hold never took place and was a thing like this, these guys run face and I kept saying chill out, just excuse,” she said. a “personal vendetta” against the distortion by the PRC. around and call us bigots and shake my hand and leave me alone. Levine filed a report with the perpetrator. “I think everyone has a “I am a Catholic, and it is haters and say we’re spreading After that, he put his hand on my Tufts University Police Department right to know happened,” said. important to me as a Catholic bigotry and hatred,” neck and pushed me up against the (TUPD) that morning and gave a “I’m not angry, I’m not an angry to tell the church when it is Camenker said. “That’s their wall,” Levine said. more in-depth statement on person,” Levine said. “I’m just mad stepping over the line,” stock answer to anyone who Bloufarb and another witness Monday. at the situation. Ignorance is every- Sciortino said. “I did not dis- ever questions their activities and friend Rachel Rosen confirmed TUPD Captain Mark Keith said where.” rupt, I did not defame, I did or comments or does anything Levine’s account. Levine “is pursing the incident — Sarah Dalglish contributed to not defile my church.” — it’s that same song,” he said. Upon being release from through the Dean of Students this article Ciampa called the incident Camenker is speaking involving Sciortino as tonight at 8 p.m. in Pearson described by the flyer “pretty 104 as one of three panelists in despicable.” an event titled Panelists take aim at Ciampa’s fundraising The PRC also took issue “Homosexuality and Society.” CLEAN ELECTIONS pertained to his own election in Ciampa had his own special- with Sciortino’s activities as “There’s a lot of questions. Is continued from page 1 the Democratic primary, such as interest financing, Sciortino chair of what it called the “rad- there such a thing as gay peo- candidates who could not afford the use of monies from organiza- accused. “He pulled in over 30 ical Tufts Transgender, ple?” Camenker said when to spend their own money to tions outside of the 34th special interest groups, I had six. I Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual asked about the topics of the start a campaign. The average Middlesex District. had 30 individual contributors Collective (TTLGBC),” includ- event. successful campaign for state “[Sciortino] had outside from the district, he had zero,” he ing sponsoring coming-out The PRC’s sister organiza- representative costs $50,000, groups funding his campaign,” said. days, founding the Rainbow tion, Article 8 — which has the Russel said. “The higher the said Vincent Ciampa, Sciortino’s Sciortino said Ciampa’s loss is House, and “advertising a same P.O. Box address as the office, the more money it costs,” independent challenger in the as an example of the need for how-to seminar on anal sex.” PRC — is co-sponsoring the she said Nov. 2 election. reinstatement of Clean Elections. Camenker said the PRC pro- event with the Tufts Though opponents of publicly- Sciortino defended such “He thought he was safe,” duced the mailings to counter Republicans. financed elections say taxpayer financing as necessary since Sciortino said of the 16-year the pro-Sciortino mailings Tufts Republicans President money should not be used to Massachusetts has no public incumbent who often ran with- from non-local gay political Nicholas Boyd said that finance political campaigns, money available to candidates. “I out Republican challengers. action committees and to Camenker was one of three Russel said, she called elections spent the last six months beg- “If you don’t have a challenger, inform voters of issues that panelists who are “coming to “part of the public good” and said ging” for donations, he said, there’s no accountability,” he were not discussed in the pri- provide an alternative per- they should be “voter owned.” “going to people who are not in said. mary campaign. spective on gay marriage and Sciortino also used the forum the district. That’s not how “It’s not how much gay health issues.” to bring up issues of fairness that democracy should work.” — Keith Barry

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LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX | PART ONE IN A FOUR-PART SERIES Is it ever really ‘my body, my choice’? BY JULIA LIFSCHULTZ high school,” one senior said. “I said. “Some just don’t see it the Daily Editorial Board didn’t, however, enforce that he same way you do and sometimes always wore a condom, because it will try and make something This article is the first in a four- feels better when he doesn’t and I more out of a one-night stand part weekly series looking at sex on was always protected.” than there really was.” campus. The articles will be based “This didn’t present a problem Of course, in college, there is no in large part on anecdotal evi- until I was recently made star- “norm.” For every woman who dence, asking the question “How tlingly aware of how difficult it is believes she is safe without con- do we behave sexually at Tufts, to detect some STDs in men, and doms, there is another who sticks and how aware are we of the have since decided you can never adamantly to their use. “The real- risks?” This first article will look at be too careful,” she added. ity is that this isn’t like high student behavior, while the next Since then, in all but one case, school,” said one female junior, three will focus on the ramifica- she has made her partner wear a who has had one sexual partner tions of that behavior. condom. She shows more fore- for a year and a half and uses con- sight than many of her counter- doms every time they have sex. Everyone has read the obliga- parts, though, since each of the “You don’t necessarily know tory sex pamphlets that list ways three partners she has had were everything you think you know to protect oneself and others, and all tested for diseases before about a person. They could have what to do if one ever slips up. becoming involved with her. had one partner or 10. Protection STD tests, symptoms, treatments, One male senior who has had is a must even if you think you the morning after pill, adoption, seven partners followed this really know the person.” abortion, pre-natal care. How rel- trend, only using condoms with One male junior tries to be evant is that to life on campus? non-girlfriends, until a scare and careful, but finds it difficult some- Do we use that knowledge? Is our a talk with his mom forced him to times. “I try to always use protec- community so insular that we think more seriously about dis- tion, but unfortunately, alcohol reject most safety precautions out ease. sometimes skews my judgment,” of the belief that “it could never “I fear STDs — you never know he said. “I think the biggest fear is happen to us?” who your partner is and what getting a girl pregnant, even The college students surveyed they carry,” he said. “Knowing before an STD, because many appear to rate pregnancy as their there’s no cure for AIDS and just STDs are tough to get even if you greatest sexual fear, above sexual how common something like her- have unprotected sex, especially diseases. Many females who the pes is is a real worry. I hope that HIV.” Daily spoke with, all of whom I’ll be smart enough not to make When asked for further expla- requested to remain anonymous, the drunken mistake of not wear- nation on this theory, he said relied on birth control pills to stay ing protection with a random girl “apparently from what I have “safe” during sexual intercourse, again. I got lucky with that one.” heard, a heterosexual male who without a second form of protec- He also worries about the emo- has unprotected sex is more LUCIA DI POI/TUFTS DAILY tion against STDs. tional side effects of sex. unlikely to get an STD than either For Tufts students, decisions about sex and decisions about sexual health “I have been on birth control “Emotionally, I hate the baggage see SEX, page 4 are not always one and the same. since the day I graduated from some girls bring after sex,” he

MARISSA BECK | EAT THIS! IN OUR MIDST | REID PALMER Team player dashes from the 50-yard line to France Food at BY VALERIE SULLIVAN enjoyed most here was playing football and Daily Staff Writer being a part of that team, so it’s a way to Fenway stay connected to it,” Palmer said. Reid Palmer was originally attracted to Currently, Palmer is “pretty focused on Tufts for the rare opportunity to combine working with the football team and trying art, a liberal arts education, and football. to make it a positive experience for the et’s go Mets!” cheered Palmer (LA ’04) began his career as a guys, because it was such a positive experi- my 78-year-old grand- Jumbo as a student of the five-year com- ence for me.” Through his position as a bined degree program, which allows stu- graduate assistant, Palmer is exploring ma as we walked L dents to graduate in five years with a B.A. whether he might be interested in pursuing “through the torrent of rowdy Sox fans from Tufts and a B.F.A from the Museum of football coaching as a potential career Fine Arts. In addition to handling five- path. at Fenway, lucky to be at game one of course semesters, Palmer played football Palmer would like to see Tufts students the World Series. My eyes shot at her all four years as an undergraduate student being more supportive of the athletic at Tufts. department. “I think the kids who are like lightning — we were there to involved [with athletics] spend a hell of a watch the game, not to get mobbed for lot of time trying to be successful at some- Meet some of the great thing, and it makes it easier for them when being inhabitants of NYC. they know they have support from the stu- people that are here and enjoy dent body,” Palmer said. “NAWT in this stadium, lady!” Palmer suggests attending fall sports on retorted a huge, bearded, beer-guz- “spending time with them. That’s Saturdays, or spending a couple of hours at zling fan, clothed entirely in Sox a basketball game during the week. “I think apparel. The abnormally large hotdog what you’re going to take out of that would also help foster a better sense of in his hand was also fully dressed — community on campus,” Palmer said. with toppings, that is. I scanned the here more than anything. One of Palmer’s older brothers made it a crowd, realizing that he wasn’t the priority to attend all Palmer’s home football only one with a big wad of typical ” games. “It doesn’t seem like much, but it baseball grub. Reid Palmer means a lot when you’re putting in all that “Your next column should be about LA ’04 time and effort to try and do well at some- what to eat at Fenway!” shouted thing and there are people there who care Grandma, reading my mind. I guess Though his performance on the field as and are supporting you,” Palmer said. “It DAILY FILE PHOTO not everything is absurd that comes defense end was impressive, Palmer down- makes it that much easier.” Palmer says that team success is “much bet- out of her mouth. plays his individual success as a football Palmer is thankful for the support of his ter than any individual success you can During such a rare and substantial player at Tufts. “I’ve played on some really family. “My parents were the ones who have.” moment in history, I think it’s fitting to great teams,” said Palmer, who was elected encouraged me to look at a school like mention hot dogs, cheeseburgers, team captain his senior year. “[That’s] Tufts, to be in tune with what my own sausages, nachos, fried dough, French gram in Talloires, France. much better than any individual success interests are so that I would pick a place fries, pizza, and ice cream. Believe me, “You eat French meals with French fam- you can have because you’re part of some- that was right for me and not necessarily my mind really was on the game — ilies the way they eat their meals — you thing larger than yourself, which is ulti- what they wanted,” Palmer said. especially when St. Louis tied it up in don’t just sit there, rush through the dinner, mately more rewarding.” Now, Palmer’s days are usually “tied up the seventh inning. It’s just that I am and run off to do something else,” Palmer Palmer eventually left the five-year MFA doing football stuff and then classes.” Still, always astounded by the quantity and said. “If ever I was home for lunch, the program during the spring of his junior he keeps it all in perspective. “I like to have quality of unhealthy food at games. father of my house would come home for year, after realizing his desire to continue a good time — there are things that are Each choice seemed worse than the lunch — he’s a doctor, a surgeon — but he’d with art wasn’t as strong as it had been dur- sometimes more important than getting next. They don’t even have something come home for an hour and a half, two ing high school. The decision gave Palmer straight A’s and studying all the time,” as basic as fruit. I never understood hours, and sit down, eat a meal, talk.” more time to pursue football, and he has Palmer said. “There are good times with why I couldn’t buy a simple apple or Palmer noticed that the people he met in few regrets. “I think it’s a really important friends that are going to mean more than orange at a baseball game. It’s just as France were “a little more relaxed and just thing to be able to explore all your inter- [that].” enjoy being here, as opposed to always ests,” Palmer said. Last winter, Palmer spent some time ski- see BECK, page 4 looking for something better.” Last year, Palmer graduated with a ing with friends. “We would wake up early In the future, Palmer is considering mov- Bachelor’s degree in American Studies. and go skiing, blow off school.” He paused. ing to the West Coast, which he thinks Senior Marissa Beck, an English major, Now a graduate student at Tufts, Palmer “I don’t promote blowing off school, but might contrast the fast-paced life of the works with the Strong Women pro- still manages to balance academics with stuff like that meant more to me than being Northeast that he is so used to, having gram as an assistant manager and per- athletics. in a classroom, taking notes, doing well on grown up in upstate New York. sonal trainer for the Tufts Personalized For Palmer, working in Tufts football a test.” He also plans to travel. “It’s a big world,” Performance Program. Contact her at department as a graduate assistant is the Palmer attributes his “[appreciation] he said. “Being 22, I feel so young, like [email protected]. This column is result of a natural progression. that life isn’t all about work,” in part, to the there’s so much to see. It’s pretty crazy to written in conjunction with the Balance “I thought about what I wanted to be host family he stayed with during Tufts’ section of The Tufts Daily. doing with my time, and the thing I seven-week study-abroad summer pro- see PALMER, page 4 4 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS | FEATURES Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Students discuss sexual behavior, fears Beck says to skip the crackerjacks, SEX “Everyone thinks about pregnancy and continued from page 3 STDs because of all the classes we have had stick to your peanuts at ballgames a female or a homosexual male.” to take,” he said. “They scare ... you and After two months of nagging thoughts, he make you never want to have sex.” BECK you would have received in the clams. continued from page 3 was tested and came up clean. “I was very Although he said he is not into random Big choices to make — Polish sausage mad at myself and I didn’t get myself tested sex, he attributes this to the social scene at “juicy” as nachos, hot dogs, or candy or a seven dollar cup of imported Irish for a couple of months because I wanted to Tufts as much as his health classes. “The bars, but without the high saturated fat, beer? If you are drinking alcohol and monitor the situation,” he said. “I got really Tufts environment is not conducive to sex,” cholesterol, and sodium. haven’t eaten anything, eating even a paranoid so I decided to get tested.” he said. “There’s no place where everyone A single “Fenway Frank,” has 170 Fenway Frank is better than not putting There is more to fear from sex than STDs can come together and have fun, save for a calories, 140 of which are from fat, not anything into your stomach. You want and pregnancy. One female senior who has few events like Spring Fling, tailgating at including the bread. And as for daily to be able to watch the game, not puke had three sexual partners believes that Homecoming, and maybe even Fall Fest needs, the Fenway Frank provides 24 all over the fans in front of you. love, more than condoms, is necessary for and Naked Quad Run. Even house parties percent of the fat, 36 percent of the sat- Personally, I would stick with the protection during sex. are always small and get broken up, and it’s urated fat, 10 percent of the cholesterol, pizza and then ... “buy me some “Sex is a personal act that can be dan- always the same people.” and 24 percent of the sodium. peanuts and crackerjacks!” Well, maybe gerous unless you are choosy about your One senior who has had seven sexual With the knowledge about the risk of not the crackerjacks. But you can buy partner,” she said. “Being in love makes partners has no regrets regarding her sexu- obesity, heart disease, and even colon me some peanuts because they are not sex better.” al history, though its evolution has taught cancer, meatless dogs are now offered only fun to crack, but also more satisfy- “I’m too scared to have sex without her a lot. “I do think once you find some- at a handful of the nation’s baseball ing for longer periods of time due to the being in love because I don’t want to get one you like being with both sexually and parks and arenas, but not at Fenway, high protein content. hurt,” she added. “Condoms protect from emotionally, it takes sex to a higher level where the four dollar Frank still holds Peanuts are good sources of vitamin diseases, but they cannot protect from and shows you the importance of that the lead. E, niacin, folate and magnesium and emotional hurt and attachment that may bond between two people that you may I don’t expect to find grilled Chilean the U.S. Food and Drug Administration come from sex.” not have experienced in your prior sexual sea bass or tofu stir fry at a baseball (FDA) affirmed a health claim that Another female senior female reiterated history,” she said. game, (though there is a sushi stand at peanuts and other nuts may reduce the those same feelings in describing her “I also think it’s scary these days with the Yankee stadium). But the choices at risk of heart disease when consumed choice to lose her virginity. “Pregnancy and amount of STD’s out there, [including] the events like this always seem to be limit- daily in small amounts. disease weren’t a worry; it was more how ones that protection sometimes doesn’t ed to the same junk because Americans I’ll pass on the crackerjacks, a the situation would change after,” she said. even prevent [such as herpes],” she added. were conditioned since the time they’re caramel coated popcorn and peanut “How he’d act toward me. Was I giving up “The only thing you can do is be as careful kids to eat hotdogs at a game, or lol- snack that is full of sugar, corn syrup some kind of power or something? It’s def- as possible in terms of protection but real- lipops at amusement parks. and soybean oil — all contributors to initely a double standard because I don’t ize that in this day and age the percentages People don’t want grilled chicken over heart disease. How ironic that peanuts think guys worry about that kind of stuff.” are against you.” a Mediterranean salad with fresh fruit or and cracker jacks are paired up in the One male student cites the lessons from yogurt when Yawkey Way food vendors song! his high school health classes as pervasive are selling Italian sausage, “Monster Next time I hear another Tufts stu- when considering sex, although he notes So what are the risks? Read this space next Dogs” and Philly cheese steaks! dent complain about the food here, I that they have rarely changed his behavior. week Wednesday. If it comes down to it, and you’re at might lock him up in Fenway for five Fenway feeling a little hungry, what hours and see how his stomach likes it. should you eat without reeking havoc It’s outrageously expensive to eat, and upon your health? Sad to say, but don’t try to sneak food and drinks into Palmer advises students to balance peanuts are probably the only real good the ballpark like we do into the library thing to eat there — and part of a because they really catch you! Security healthy diet for the heart. snagged my poor grandma’s little work and play, to get to know peers But out of all the actual meal choices, ZipLoc bag of carrots (as if she didn’t PALMER Palmer has advice for students with pizza would most likely be the best have enough to complain about continued from page 3 years left at Tufts: “Meet some of the great because even though it is high in sodi- already!). think you can see it all, but you’ve got to at people that are here and enjoy spending um, the cheese is high in calcium and My suggestion is to eat something least want to.” time with them,” he said. “That’s what protein, and the tomato sauce is high in healthy beforehand, especially with Palmer has enjoyed his time at Tufts. you’re going to take out of here more than lycopene (a phytochemical thought to protein to hold you over. This way, you “Tufts is one of the best schools in the anything.” help ward off heart disease by prevent- can put your four dollars toward a bot- country — if not in the world,” Palmer said. Palmer strives continuously to be proac- ing oxidation of low density lipoprotein tle of water! “Overall, the amount of opportunities to tive in his life. “[Taking charge of your own (LDL) cholesterol). explore your interests at Tufts is awesome. life] is really important,” he said. “You have Behind home plate, Legal Seafood There are just so many different things stu- to deal with yourself every day. If you can’t offers clam chowder, but the fans say The nutritional advice in this column is dents can do here, both in and out of the deal with [yourself], I don’t know how you that, “all the clams jumped out!” So verified by Emily Bergeron, MS, RD, edi- classroom.” can deal with other people.” much for all of the protein and minerals tor of the Daily’s Balance section. 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THEATER PREVIEW Murder, anti-Semitism, sensationalism and a full pit orchestra ‘Parade’ marches director and Drama Department chair Barbara Grossman said into Balch Theater that “Musicals have moved to stories with more tragic sub- this weekend jects.” In the tradition of opera, Grossman said modern musicals BY KATE DRIZOS such as this one use song to Senior Staff Writer evoke emotion. Tufts Junior Julia Arazi, who Wrongful accusations, death plays Frank’s wife Lucille in the sentences and lynch mobs are production, cited “Rent” as a not your typical musical fodder. classic example of the more didactic and somber subject Parade matter modern musicals are Opens at the Balch Arena Theater tackling. Arazi said that newer Thurs., Oct 28 and runs this week- musicals like “Parade” go end and next. “against the stereotype of happy, Tickets: $4 cheesy musicals” and instead employ music to “heighten Yet in “Parade,” which opens extreme emotions.” tomorrow night at the Balch “Parade” also differs from Arena Theater, the rhapsodic many musicals of the past with tap-dancing townspeople of yore its protagonist’s relationship to are indeed very much absent. his surroundings. George “Parade,” written by Alfred BEN THAYER/TUFTS DAILY Rausch, a senior playing the role Uhry with music and lyrics by Jessica Bauman and George Rausch bow down during ‘Parade.’ of Governor John Slayton, Jason Robert Brown, was a Tony explained that typically the main award-winner when it opened in finds himself gainfully employed word that he is the last person to with false testimony and without character of a musical is an out- 1998. It now makes its Boston but quite unhappy in 1913 see her alive. a definitive burden of proof, sider who wants to be integrated debut as the Department of Atlanta. Frank, the superinten- In the wake of the arrest, Frank Frank is sentenced to hang. into another community. Drama and Dance’s fall produc- dent of a pencil factory in becomes the victim of media Such a bleak tale hardly seems Upon hearing Frank’s first tion. Atlanta, is mistakenly arrested sensationalism and of anti- typical of a theater genre inun- song, in which he laments “I The musical is based on the for the brutal killing of one of his Semitism that is brewing just dated with such exclamatory want to be back where people true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish, young employees, 13-year-old beneath the surface in the Jim entries like “Oklahoma!” and college-educated “Yankee” who Mary Phagan, after police get Crow South. After a trial awash “Hello, Dolly!” However, “Parade” see PARADE, page 7

KATE SKLAR | FASHION FILE CONCERT PREVIEW Not so new, but New Found Glory still rocking out Shopping Group brings their high etiquette 101 energy act to Dewick BY SETH KEIM Daily Editorial Board

nyone who has worked in retail or New Found Glory is in a precarious in the restaurant business would position. They currently occupy that tricky area where they may have alienat- Aagree that service-oriented jobs ed their old fans by cracking the main- provide a veritable case-study in human stream, and at the same time, non-fans might write them off as just another pop- behavior. Even the most seemingly polite punk flash in the pan. individual can become demanding and Do yourself a favor though, abstain from either one of these factions and ungrateful the moment she encounters check them out at Dewick tonight. someone employed to serve her. Formed in 1997 in Coral Gables Florida, the band quickly garnered major It is not until we are on the other side of notice on the punk scene. Rising from the consumer world — the side where we the ashes of other bands, most notably are the service providers rather than the hardcore band Shai Halud, New Found ones served — that we can truly begin to Glory (then with an “A” in front) brought identify the ugly and often unintentional together a variety of influences and tal- JUSTIN STEPHENS/LAUNCH.COM ways in which we mistreat our salespeople, ents, bringing their high energy to live New Found Glory: just another boy band? waiters, etc. shows in small venues. Combining equal But since not everyone has had (or is parts hardcore, emo and rock, the group released their first full length, “Nothing infectiously captures the emotion of going to have) the eye-opening work expe- began to establish themselves at the Gold Can Stay” in 1997. growing up and breaking up. rience I speak of, take advice from someone forefront of the new punk generation. The debut deftly mixes lead singer After the success of “Nothing Gold Can who has. Based on my first job working in a Touring relentlessly on the east coast, Jordan Pundik’s sugary sweet vocals with Stay,” the band recorded an album of clothing store, here are some keys to in- the band continued to turn heads and the hard-driving breakdowns and catchy cover songs. This EP, “From the Screen to store etiquette that will make your spending gain a rapid fan base. Playing bigger and hooks of guitarists Steve Klein and Chad Your Stereo” is a tribute to movie themes, spree a more pleasant experience for every- bigger shows, they quickly sold-out their Gilbert, not to mention the playful and with all the songs putting an up-tempo one involved. debut EP, “It’s All About the Girls.” From powerful bass of Ian Grushka. Lyricist spin on old favorites. Particular stand- First, don’t be afraid to ask for help. If you there they were signed to noted punk Klein makes no excuses about wearing are on a mission to buy (and not just label, Drive-Thru Records, where they his heart on his sleeve, and the band see NEW FOUND GLORY page 7 browse), allow the salesperson to help you, even if you think you know what you want. While there are the occasional salespeople who offer to help but don’t mean it or sim- Wind Ensemble’s ‘Music’ repertoire matches spirit of change ply don’t offer to help at all, the majority BY SARAH RUBIN age to the often overlooked transformative “A Movement for Rosa,” composed by really do want to assist you. (Even if they Contributing Writer power of music. The pieces selected were Mark Camphouse, was written in honor don’t, too bad. That is what they are there composed at times of social unrest, often of Rosa Parks, the well-known civil rights for.) With virtually every magazine cover leading to revolutions and inspiring men icon who refused to sit in the back of an They are knowledgeable about sizes and showing a picture of George W. Bush or and women to change their world. Alabama bus. The civil rights anthem, styles and will save you a lot of time and John Kerry and maps of Electoral College “There is a constantly evolving scene in “We Shall Overcome” is embedded in the frustration sorting through piles and racks votes posted on walls like a kind of political politics,” said Wind Ensemble conductor piece, but, “They don’t hear it right that don’t have what you need. wallpaper, it’s hard to forget about the John McCann, who chose the theme for away,” said McCann. “At first, you sense Second, while it is completely upcoming election. Walking around cam- this year’s concert. “So, this music is cer- the frustration, defiance, and then a pus, the air is thick with excitement as stu- tainly relevant today.” moment of epiphany. The song makes see SKLAR, page 6 dents gear up for battle as well. The selections come from a variety of itself heard subconsciously.” In perfect compliment to this charged periods of revolution throughout history, That “Rosa” ends in a sad, noncommittal Kate Sklar is a junior majoring in English. atmosphere, the Tufts Wind Ensemble is ranging from three revolutionary marches way, suggests that the progress hoped for She can be reached at [email protected]. presenting a concert framed by the theme written in 1848 Prague to a reworking of a “Music for Protest and Change,” an hom- Pink Floyd song called, “The Turning.” see WIND ENSEMBLE page 7 6 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS | LIVING Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Wednesday, October 27, 2004 THE TUFTS DAILY ARTS | LIVING 7 Wind Ensemble’s repertoire reflects change WIND ENSEMBLE last spring they performed a spreading Tufts music across the continued from page 5 Disney-themed concert for a world to such locales as Dublin, by the civil rights movement is not group of elementary school stu- Prague and Iceland. yet complete. The group is both a class and a Another piece, “Epinicion,” TCU student-recognized organi- mimics ancient Greek pieces of [T]he theme ‘Music for zation. There are about 40-45 the same name that were sung on members. Wind Ensemble presi- the battlefield as the living were Protest and Change’ [is] dent and trombone player Lewis separated from the slain. The Reilley said, “The ensemble is an modern piece, composed by Jon an homage to the often extremely diverse group. I would Paulson in 1974 at the end of the say there is no ‘typical’ member.” Vietnam War, is somewhat unusu- overlooked transformative The Tufts Wind Ensemble al. The music is written in a man- encourages you to remember the ner that allows the performers and power of music. great movements of times gone by the conductor to have a lot of con- — free of charge. trol over the way the piece is per- dents who joined in the music- formed. making with their voices as well as “Music of Protest and Change” will The Tufts Wind Ensemble aren’t with their maracas. Once a year, be performed Wednesday, Oct. 25, always such rabble-rousers. Just they make an international trip, at 8 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium. BEN THAYER/TUFTS DAILY Jaime Cepero sings during ‘Parade.’ New Found Glory to play at Dewick tonight ‘Parade’ captures connection NEW FOUND GLORY returned to the studio to capital- doubt inspired a strain of copy- between patriotism, bigotry continued from page 5 ize on their ever increasing cats and sound-alikes. Listen to outs are covers of “The Goonies momentum. Working with pro- The Starting Line’s “With Hopes PARADE Grossman and the designers ‘R’ Good Enough” and of course, ducer Neal Avron for the second of Starting Over” and try not to continued from page 5 found “Parade” to be a particu- “The Glory of Love” from the time, the band set out to expand think of New Found Glory. look like I do and act like I do,” larly compelling story in today’s “Karate Kid.” their boundaries and create Continuing to push the band the audience is privy to the fact political context because it After almost three years of something more mature. in new directions and expand that Frank is not an archetypal magnifies the close connection touring and recording, the band What followed is 2002’s “Sticks musically, the band regrouped musical protagonist. Usually between patriotism and big- didn’t stop to enjoy their modest and Stones.” The album, accord- to record “Catalyst,” released the outsider wants in, but in otry. The tale explores the success. Instead, after logging ing to Klein, is just not just about earlier this year. On their fourth “Parade” the outsider wants rapidity with which a group of thousands of miles on the road girls and heartbreak. While much full-length EP the band made a out and stays only for the citizens can devolve into a mob. with such bands as The Get Up of the material might be an evo- conscious effort to incorporate financial and marital obliga- Further, it warns, as Grossman Kids, MXPX, and Reel Big Fish, lution from the typical teenage other sounds from their musical tions he has in the South. says, against the “pageantry” they headed back into the studio break up song, the album’s first youth, mixing elements of hard- Musicals as a genre often referenced in the musical’s title to record their self-titled follow single, “My Friends Over You,” is core, thrash and ‘80s new wave. deal with transformations, and that can mar truth and justice. up to “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” a straight-up relationship song. Get Up Kids keyboardist James “Parade” does obey this tenet in The production’s music, set The album, released in 2001, fea- With the help of the single, Dewees even cameos on the sin- its exploration of the relation- design, and costumes create an tures a new version of the irre- and an uproarious video that gle, “Failures Not Flattering,” ship between Frank and his impressively complete feeling sistible track “Hit or Miss,” and a garnered constant airplay on which also features four-on-the- wife. While native Georgian of the South during 1913. video to accompany the song. MTV, New Found Glory officially floor drum beats from drummer Lucille and self-proclaimed Ubiquitous violins, real screen With two well received full- entered the mainstream, and of Cyrus Bolooki. Yankee Leo are at first distant doors and detail-oriented peri- length albums and a growing course experienced the backlash Currently New Found Glory is and dissimilar, the unfair trial od costuming contribute to a legion of fans, New Found Glory that comes with commercial suc- out supporting their punk fore- and subsequent events bring cohesive presentation of was indeed poised to hit it big. cess. They did return to their fathers, Green Day. Renowned the couple closer and teach Atlanta during this era. Following the album they set out roots, however, taking a much for an aggressive and passionate them how to love and appreci- The tap shoes of older musi- on a big tour with pop punk deserved headlining spot on the live show, expect New Found ate each other. cals have been traded in for pranksters, Blink 182. In addition 2002 Warped Tour. Glory to win you over with their The story is striking because lace-up boots and a happy end- to this tour, they managed to also After their third album, the relentless and melodic beats the blatant bigotry and jarring ing is distinctly absent. outdraw main stage acts at the group cemented themselves as along with Pundik’s unique events depicted are real. The cast “Parade,” however, employs a Van’s Warped Tour. one of the premier punk bands, voice. And if you’re one of the was able to read about their full pit orchestra and 25 voices After success like this, did any- following in the footsteps of few who’ve dismissed the band character’s actual biographies in to tell an important and one really expect the band to Green Day and Blink 182. While in the wake of their success, well preparing for their parts and the poignant tale with a disquiet- take a long break? Of course not, not always a groundbreaking you might just be won over script is based on actual recount- ing emotion that only music as New Found Glory once again band, New Found Glory no again. ings and the trial transcript. can convey. Browsers versus Time Killers SKLAR clothes on the floor of the dress- continued from page 5 ing room when she is finished. reasonable to expect assistance, She assumes that because she don’t forget your manners. has plenty of time to kill, so must “Please,” “Thank you” and some the salesperson who will have to good old fashioned patience will clean up after her. Needless to say, keep you on the sales staff’s good this kind of behavior is generally side and greatly increase your not well-received by the sales chances of getting what you want. staff. Remember, you do not have the The Browser, on the other key to the stock room — they do! hand, shops with her eyes, not with her hands (and obviously, not with her wallet). But because Just remember that “serv- she is kind and often passive, her behavior is welcomed by sales- ice” is not synonymous people. She doesn’t tend to try anything on and if she unfolds a with “slavery.”Sales people garment for inspection, she makes an honest effort to neatly are people, too, and the replace it. This brings me to my next clothes don’t hang them- point. There is a popular assump- tion among shoppers that all sales selves. associates work on commission. That is to say, they only make Of course every now and then, money if you spend money. we will find ourselves in a clothing Although that is the policy in store with no intention to buy some stores, many employees, whatsoever. In these cases, we are like me, get paid either on salary usually either browsing or killing or by the hour. time. Allow me to distinguish for a Whether you make a purchase moment between The Browser or not, their pay check is the same and The Time Killer. These — they are strictly there to help two shoppers actually differ con- you. So don’t feel guilty if you siderably in behavior. The don’t find something you like. The Browser tends to be a gentle crea- employee’s financial arrangement ture who is actively observing the should not affect your decisions. clothing, while The Time Killer The most important thing to (although also “only looking,” as it remember when shopping is just were) is apathetic toward the to be considerate. Good service is clothing itself and simply seeks a source of pride for most entertainment in the store. employees. Just remember that Because she is not on a sched- “service” is not synonymous with ule, The Time Killer will try on any “slavery.” Salespeople are people item that looks appealing (often too and the clothes don’t hang regardless of size) and leave the themselves. 8 THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL | LETTERS Wednesday October 27, 2004

THE TUFTS DAILY EDITORIAL JONATHAN A. GRAHAM Editor-in-Chief LGBT issues demand thoughtful attention

EDITORIAL Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender their viewpoints without causing LGBT stu- “homosexual, anti-Catholic extremist,” and Mark Evitt Managing Editor (LGBT) issues are dominating campus dis- dents to feel victimized on this campus. warn, “Now he’s about to be YOUR state course this week. Junior Terry Levine was Pohl’s challenges to the Red Cross’ policy representative!” Sarah Dalglish Associate Editors allegedly assaulted because of his sexual last spring were met with criticism, because These are attempts to stir up fearful, orientation this past weekend. Senior Matt many thought he was attacking the integri- reactionary views among local voters that Denise Ho Pohl is spearheading a campaign against ty of blood drives. have no political basis. This is muckraking Jordana Timerman the Red Cross’ policy that forbids gay men It is easy to understand this interpreta- at its worst and should not be tolerated by Benjamin Rubinstein Editorial Page Editors from donating blood. And the tion. The Red Cross does not allow men Medford and Somerville voters. Verónica Aguilar Medford/Somerville state representative who have sex with men to donate blood Tufts Republicans have invited one of race has turned ugly, with third parties dis- because they have a higher statistical risk of the main proponents of the flyer cam- Keith Barry News Editors Patrick Gordon tributing anti-homosexual literature catching and transmitting AIDS. For a sim- paign, Brian Camenker of the Parents’ Jillian Harrison against alum Carl Sciortino. ilar reason, it does not allow people who Rights Coalition (PRC), to speak on cam- Daniela Perdomo These issues are sensitive, but it is have spent more than three months in pus tomorrow in part of its Kathrine Schmidt important that they be discussed. Each Great Britain or six months in other parts of “Homosexuality and Society” forum. It is Katharine Clark Assistant News Editors issue must be analyzed individually, but Europe to donate, since they have a higher understandable and right for the Tufts Daniel Lutz must also be considered in the larger statistical risk of acquiring mad-cow dis- Republicans to discuss the LGBT issues Zofia Sztykowski sphere of the LGBT community’s status at ease. Health concerns trump all others in a being debated across the nation today. Tufts. blood drive. But it does not need to invite speakers Julia Lifschultz Features Editors Patrice Taddonio While Levine’s alleged assault is still Pohl has discussed ways to change this who go so far to ask whether homosexu- under investigation by the Dean of policy with the Tufts administration, the ality even exists. Stephanie Christofides Assistant Features Editor Students Office, it must be taken seriously. Red Cross and the Leonard Carmichael Tufts Republicans don’t have to be Jess Keiser Arts Editors We should feel safe on this campus, with- Society. He is correct to take a proactive anti-homosexual in order to be conserva- Sara Ludovise out fear of violence from other students. step, with the opportunity to make a real tive. A basic tenant of conservatism is to Alissa Green Although the alleged assailant was report- change, instead of simply condemning the let people do as they wish without gov- Blair Rainsford edly drunk at the time, this does not justify blood drive. ernment intervention. They are entirely Maura Allaire Assistant Arts Editors his actions. If an agreement can be made by which within their rights to debate current Dave Cavell The seriousness of the alleged remarks is men who have sex with men can give blood issues, but inviting disrespectful speakers Seth Keim debatable, but everyone can condemn the safely, this should be allowed. Until then, to campus alienates a significant portion incident’s reported violence. Slapping and the safety of the blood recipients must take of Tufts’ student body. Paula Fortner Viewpoints Editors Leah Roffman pushing someone against a wall by the the first priority. While the Tufts campus is largely wel- neck should shock and shame students. There are real concerns about anti- coming to LGBT students, this weekend’s Kristy Cunningham Sports Editors Further investigation is needed and must homosexual sentiment in the flyers sent alleged crime suggests that threats still Jesse Gerner Aman Gupta be provided to the student body as soon as out to Somerville and Medford voters, exist. Rather than fostering a hostile envi- Ben Hoffman possible. encouraging them not to vote for Sciortino. ronment, campus leaders like Pohl and the Tim Whelan Students who disagree on LGBT issues The flyers don’t attack his policies, but his Tufts Republicans should find a way to should use pro-active methods to discuss status as a gay man. The flyers call him a respectfully discuss these issues. Dave Pomerantz Assistant Sports Editors Andrew Silver

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ADAM PULVER | UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

A columnist’s responsibility

iscussions of media responsi- bility have reached a high in Dthe past several weeks, starting with the CBS News fake document scan- dal in September, but exploding since “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart appeared on CNN’s show “Crossfire” on A reaction to Bush’s Oct. 15. On the show, Stewart criticized hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala for “hurting America” by participating in embryonic stem cell policy that an embryo is merely the potential gy would be dominated by private cor- political theater and failing to act in the BY RUDY HARTMANN for human life — not alive as a human porations if the federal government interest of the public. Begala and being at this early blastocyst stage of had no hand in it. Bush did not want to As I read the Letter to the Editor, development (a uniform mass of cells alienate his conservative base, so he Carlson countered with the claim that “Stem Cell Research” in yesterday’s that has not gastrulated yet). This accu- agreed to give federal funding only to Stewart is “too soft” on politicians and Tufts Daily (Oct. 26), I could not help sation against ESCs seems to be trying the “cell lines created from 70 embryos but feel that yet another simplification to equate it with the abortion debate, already destroyed” (Sen. Kerry correct- wasn’t being funny enough. of a complicated issue had occurred. which it is distinct from. I believe that ly pointed out in the debates that in The Letter stated that “non-embryonic the creation of the ban on federally reality only less than 20 have been And now, an article in The New York stem cells” which were “ethically funded ESC research was meant to used, and 70 is gross exaggeration). Times (“If You Interview Kissinger, Are derived” had already treated several court the anti-abortion vote. However, Bush’s funding was a pit- You Still a Comedian?” Oct. 24) has human illnesses, while embryonic tance, and has led to a de facto ban on appeared discussing the need for Jon stem cells (ESCs) have not been used to ESC federal funding. Research even in Stewart to take his “responsibility” more treat any “human patients.” Bush sidestepped the issue, and as many as 70 ESC lines is simply not seriously, seeing how his program This presents an error in logic to me: enough; medical research requires far attracts more 18- to 34-year old viewers if you ban experimentation with using the power-of-the-purse, he more genetic diversity than this. than network news shows do. Finally, the human ESCs, how can you possibly Would anyone think it sensible to Northeastern University Student proceed to deride ESCs for not produc- has been trying to heavily curtail use only 70 people infected with HIV in Government Association has voted to ing any experimental treatments in research towards developing an HIV ban the free distribution of the Boston humans? This is a self-fulfilling ESC research by allowing what is vaccine? No. It would take at least a Herald on campus in light of a poor edi- prophecy. ESCs have proven very suc- hundred times that many and probably torial decision to show a photograph of cessful in vertebrate research, such as essentially no federal funding. more. the face of a mutilated young woman, regenerating the spinal cords of lab rats Bush sidestepped the issue, and killed in the aftermath of the American that had been severed (the South Park using the power-of-the-purse, he has League Championship Series. episode “Kenny Dies” explained this This leads into the larger issue: been trying to heavily curtail ESC Not all of these discussions are equal process). Other animal research is also President Bush’s ban on federal fund- research by allowing what is essentially though. Most would agree that “news” promising, but has been severely cur- ing for embryonic stem cell research. I no federal funding. In the end, a de programming like CBS’s “Evening News” tailed because of the ban. call it a “ban,” although Bush techni- facto ban on ESC research was made: with Dan Rather have a responsibility to The Letter also posits that “If an cally “was the first President ever to by funding less research than would in provide accurate, objective coverage of embryo is a human life ... then destroy- allow funding.” In the 1990s, no feder- any way be useful, Bush has in a strict events. But while the definition of objec- ing it is murder.” I would agree with ally funded institution was allowed to legal sense lifted the old total ban, but tive coverage is open to debate, this this claim if an embryo indeed was a utilized ESCs for research. Only private in fact has only reinforced it. responsibility is still much clearer than human life. However, it is my opinion funding could be used and this drasti- In the meantime, Bush now uses the responsibility an editor has to “pro- cally reduced the amount of funding every opportunity to publicly pat tect” members of the public and clearer Rudy Hartmann is a sophomore who is per- available. still than the responsibility that pundits, see STEM CELL, page 10 suing a biology and history double major. It also led to fears that the technolo- like Stewart, Carlson and Begala have. As “news analysis” programming prolifer- ates cable news channels, the line between news and punditry becomes hazier, and the public suffers. Who is winning the war on terror? The idea that pundits have any responsibility at all to society is not a BY DEVADAS KRISHNADAS static universe and the application of groups geographically dispersed. foregone conclusion. Punditry is a form that notorious economic principle — However, the American response to of entertainment. While in an ideal ceteris paribus — or all other things those attacks and the demonizing of its world people read columns like this and A key message of the current admin- being equal. However, the world is leader Osama bin Laden, while under- watch programs like “Hardball” and istration is that America is winning the manifestly neither static nor are all standable, have lifted al Qaeda into a “Crossfire” to gain new perspective and war on terror. Since the attacks on Sept. other things ever equal. While the oper- prima inter pares relationship with opinions on important issues to help 11, 2001, United States forces have con- ations against al Qaeda in Afghanistan other, even the more established, mili- form their own position, we know that a ducted offensive operations in and elsewhere certainly have disrupted tant organizations. After all, the world’s lot of times people read and watch for Afghanistan and Iraq while intelligence its organization circa 2001, the rising greatest superpower has declared war the drama: the controversy (ahem), the agents and Special Forces units are number of terror attacks since are sure- on it on bilateral terms. partisan fighting, the utter ridiculous- active in over a dozen countries fight- ly indications that it has reorganized Arguably, the American response to ness. The majority of people read and ing a shadow war. In recent debates, the and raised new recruits. Sept. 11 has raised al Qaeda in the guise watch because they want to and enjoy President has claimed that over 75 per- of a vanguard organization, which doing so, not because of a desire to be cent of al Qaeda’s strength has been despite its small size and non-State informed and educated. depleted. This, along with Saddam American society has become identity, now rests on an equal plane This does not absolve members of the Hussein’s removal, is a strong sign that politically polarized and con- with a superpower in the guise of an media from their societal responsibili- America is winning the war on terror antagonist. Nevertheless, it would be ties. Yes, there is a practical need to and that ‘freedom is on the march.’ flicted about what its next defensible to say that this is an entertain in order to keep one’s column These claims, which form such a funda- unavoidable side effect of the necessary space or time slot. But the traditional mental plank of the administration’s leader means in terms of its response to the attacks on Sept. 11. It is responsibilities of journalists to advo- claim on a second term, could bear a way of life and the country’s quite another thing to blithely claim cate and investigate on the public’s closer look. progress in that war. The unintended behalf are just as, if not more, impor- In the first instance, it is spurious to posture of engagement in the consequences are more than just an tant. make the claim that “75 percent” of al inconvenience, they are a cost-benefit As someone who considers himself a Qaeda has been eliminated. Such a international community. inflection where in the main the costs pundit of sorts, I take what I see as the proposition requires the conditions of a are being born by America and the ben- responsibilities of that position fairly One should also consider that prior efits are being accrued by al Qaeda and seriously. Contrary to the claims of my to the attacks on Sept. 11, al Qaeda was its fellow travelers. critics, I believe opinion writing serves a Devadas Krishnadas is a MALD 2005 not a very well-known organization in The sanction of the international candidate at the Fletcher School of Law the West or even among the militant Islamists, being merely one of many see TERROR, page 10 see PULVER, page 10 and Diplomacy .

Adam Pulver is a senior majoring in commu- VIEWPOINTS POLICY The Viewpoints section of The Tufts Daily, an open forum for campus editorial commentary, is printed Monday through Thursday. Viewpoints nity health and political science. He can be welcomes submissions from all members of the Tufts community. Opinion articles on campus, national, and international issues can be roughly 700 to 1000 words in reached via e-mail at [email protected] length. Editorial cartoons are also welcome. All material is subject to editorial discretion, and is not guaranteed to appear in The Tufts Daily. All material should be submitted by no later than 1 p.m. on the day prior to the desired day of publication. Material may be submitted via e-mail ([email protected]) or in hard- copy form at The Tufts Daily in the basement of Curtis Hall. Questions and concerns should be directed to the Viewpoints editor. 10 THE TUFTS DAILY VIEWPOINTS Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Opinion writers have responsibilites too Presidential election really is PULVER actions or the character of Communications Comm- continued from page 9 either of these politicians ission’s censorship of “offen- a referendum on the Iraq war greater purpose than venting could bring harm to their sive” media content, I would one’s anger at a particular sys- careers, or even their personal applaud his writing. TERROR Presidential election a referen- tem, community or policy. lives. However, to not reveal But sadly, they are not. Mr. continued from page 9 dum on the war on terror, as it Writing in a public setting is this information could bring Cochran’s columns do not con- community in the form of sup- has been hitherto conducted. not about promoting one’s far greater harm to the public, tain offensive content in the port for the operations in American society has become own self-interest, but about and would be violating a far sense of the FCC. Rather, they Afghanistan and international politically polarized and con- advancing one’s view of the greater journalistic responsi- are offensive to sensible, counter-terror initiatives clear- flicted about what its next public’s interest. While this bility than niceness. responsible individuals. While ly rested on the case that this leader means in terms of its way can bring a writer praise or some of them have been was, and continues to be, a just of life and the country’s posture notoriety (or, when done cor- benign, like his dissection of the war. Treating the war in of engagement in the interna- rectly, both), that should not Mass media influences the best places on campus for forni- Afghanistan as synonymous tional community. be the desired end. cation, others have been down- with the war in Iraq is, however, While regime change in Iraq In this country, media is public, and it influences right irresponsible. His promo- insupportable. It has become and organizational disruption acknowledged as a key part of tion of drunk driving, cocaine clear from findings of the 9/11 of al Qaeda may be debated as the “policy triangle” (the other political action, and the use and binge drinking cannot Commission that there was legitimate measures of success two legs being the public and be seen as productive to any never any link between Saddam in the War on Terror, what can- politics). Mass media influ- responsibility of a pundit important dialogue, yet may Hussein and the perpetrators of not be dissembled is the cen- ences the public, and it influ- actually encourage unhealthy, the attacks on Sept. 11. trality of the direction and con- ences political action, and the is to keep this mind in dangerous behaviors. Therefore, while the removal of duct of that war to contempo- responsibility of a pundit is to Tufts is not the ideal setting the Taliban, who harbored and rary American presidential pol- keep this mind in every word every word he says or for an “Animal House”-style supported al Qaeda, has a direct itics. That fact is indicative of he says or writes. college experience. But most causal relationship with the how much the war on terror is To some degree, I agree with writes. of us knew that coming in attacks of Sept. 11, the subse- not only something manifested those that argue that journal- here. So hopefully, these quent operations in Iraq do not. in the combat zones of Central ists, like doctors, should oper- So what does all of this have columns will not encourage It is worth pointing out that Asia, but also in the suburbs ate under the primary law of to do with anything? Well, over anyone to regress to such Saddam Hussein ran what was and cities of America. nonmalfeasance, or “First do the past several weeks, many immature, idiotic behavior. essentially a secular regime Perhaps, as a proxy, progress no harm.” However, an impor- readers have approached me And hopefully, these columns which used the trappings of in the war should be measured tant caveat must be added to asking when I would write a are not meant to serve any religion where it was conven- by how much influence each that statement: While I agree scathing condemnation of my value but an entertainment ient. Saddam’s power base was side has on the other. Using this that net societal harm should colleague Evan Cochran and one, for I question the success tribal and sub-religious and not metric, some credence must be be avoided, sometimes to his weekly column, “Down of the Tufts admissions and fundamentalist. Such a leader given to the administration’s advance the interests of socie- with the FCC.” Well, I think academic processes if one can was practically an apostate in claims of success, but the sad ty, one must consciously harm this as close you are going to go through three years here the minds of the religious truth is that three years after an individual. get. and still truly believe their zealots. Thus the removal of declaring war on Osama bin While this may sound con- I am not quite sure what the right to party is paramount. Saddam Hussein has done Laden and al Qaeda, both are troversial, an example may point of Mr. Cochran’s To be fair, the responsibility nothing to advance the war on still extant. This fact and its reduce concerns. Consider a columns are beyond being the for Mr. Cochran’s columns terror. implications have become fun- scandal where a corrupt politi- talk of the campus for their does not wholly lie with Mr. What it has done is cost the damental to the choice of cian is misappropriating pub- inane nature and utter absurd- Cochran himself. Columnists United States lives, treasure and national leadership and all that lic funds for personal use, or ity. But controversial ideas in are chosen by The Daily edito- international goodwill. It has it means. Ironically, that this even the case of an inept and of themselves are no rea- rial board. I can only hope become a commitment at a gives al Qaeda a place of influ- politician who has the power son to condemn opinion writ- they saw some promise of time when flexibility is the ence in deciding America’s to imprison or free individu- ing. If, in fact, Mr. Cochran’s responsible journalism in Mr. required weapon in the war future. Is it not then legitimate als, but exercises that right columns were truly in Cochran that he has yet to against non-State actors. It has to ask, “Who is winning the war irresponsibly. Criticizing the response to the Federal demonstrate to the campus. also made the coming on terror?”

Bush Administration’s policy is just a de facto ban on stem cell research STEM CELL both houses of Congress for ESC continued from page 9 research and the major barrier to the himself on the back for “funding” the ban being lifted is President Bush him- research. self. As for the judicial branch, we can President Bush’s administration is only hope that with the failing health of decidedly in favor of continuing the Chief Justice Rehnquist, President Bush ban, while simultaneously claiming that will attempt to attempt to appoint an they would be more than happy to stop impartial replacement who will deal it. even-handedly with the ESC debate. But On Oct. 4, I attended the lecture by as Bush has not only admited but boast- Dr. Leon Kass at the inaugural meeting ed, he doesn’t believe in a “litmus test.” of the Presidential Lecture Series. Dr. President Bush also opposes the ther- Leon Kass is chairman of the President’s apeutic cloning of embryonic stem cells Council on Bioethics. During the Q&A for use in research. Bush equates it with section, I asked Dr. Kass whether he felt reproductive cloning that would pro- that Senator Kerry’s support of ESC duce clone babies (missing the point on research or Bush’s ban on it, was the why names to distinguish the two forms most ethical choice. He sidestepped the were devised in the first place). Debate issue by reiterating the administration’s on a global ban on cloning began on rhetoric that it was not, indeed, a “ban.” Oct. 21 in the United Nations, but there He went on to say that it was really an are sharp divisions over whether it issue for Congress and that the should include therapeutic cloning; President had no control over it. Bush is adamantly for a total ban. Furthermore, reports that stem cells from adults are just as useful as ESCs are ESCs have proven very successful meant to play on the lack of knowledge by everyday people about ESCs. ESCs in vertebrate research, such as can divide indefinitely, which means they could rapidly grow, say, a whole regenerating the spinal cords of new organ. However, adults’ stem cells cannot divide indefinitely, and if forced lab rats that had been severed (the to rapidly create an entire new organ, the organ would suffer extreme genetic South Park episode ‘Kenny Dies’ damage from the strain. Most cells, including adults’ stem explained this process.) cells, can only divide a set number of times before the telemeres (essentially repeat-sequence padding) on the ends This assertion is a bold-faced lie. Just of their chromosomes wear down and four months ago, a majority of the sen- they have to stop dividing. ate sent a letter to President Bush asking ESCs are special in that they have an that the restrictions he has imposed on enzyme known as telomerase which can ESC research be lifted. Fifty-eight sena- restore the damage that telomeres tors signed on to the letter, including 14 receive, allowing them to divide indefi- Republicans. Furthermore, just month nitely. Because they can divide indefi- previously in May of this year, the House nately thanks to telomerase, embronic of Representatives also sent a letter to stem cells can be used to engineer new Bush signed by 206 congressmen. organs and tissues in a way that adult So there is really broad support in stem cells cannot. National 11 THE TUFTS DAILY WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 27, 2004 Probe finds pilot error, sensitive rudder system BY RUSS BUETTNER aviation disaster in US history. Knight Ridder Newspapers Coming two months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, many NEW YORK — An American initially feared terrorists had Airlines jet crashed in Queens struck again. But NTSB investi- three years ago because the co- gators, working with the FBI, pilot made an “unnecessary and quickly ruled that out, said aggressive” maneuver that investigator John O’Callaghan. snapped off the plane’s tail, “If the first officer had investigators said Tuesday. stopped reacting, allowing the First Officer Sten Molin rudder to neutralize, the acci- jerked the Airbus 300-600’s rud- dent would not have occurred,” der back and forth four times said NTSB investigator Malcolm within seconds in an unneces- Brenner. sary attempt to escape the Investigators found that rough air from another jet, the Molin had twice before overre- National Transportation Safety acted to turbulence in the same Board found. way. The NTSB also blamed an On Tuesday, Maximo overly sensitive rudder system Ramirez, who lost his niece, on the Airbus and flawed pilot Mikaela Montalvo de Garcia, training by American for the and her daughter, Indira Cueva, crash that killed 265. said he still believes terrorists Less than two minutes after are responsible. taking off from Kennedy Airport “That pilot, with all his expe- on Nov. 12, 2001, American rience, he’s the one to blame?” Flight 587 crashed into Belle asked Ramirez. “If that’s the Harbor, Queens, killing all 260 case, they need to ground all JAMES W. ANNESS/KRT people aboard and five more on the planes — all the 300s — and Two police officers look in the backyard of a home on 128th street in Belle Harbor, New York, where wreckage the ground — the second-worst train the pilots all over again.” from American Airlines flight 587 struck and destroyed a home on Monday, November 12, 2001. Candidates continue to fight over voters Surprising the

BY JAMES KUHNHENN courtroom, defense AND WILLIAM DOUGLAS Knight Ridder Newspapers rests Peterson case RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. — President BY BRIAN ANDERSON Bush and Sen. John Kerry scoured for votes Knight Ridder Newspapers in sharply divided Wisconsin and three other battleground states Tuesday with messages of reassurance to undecided vot- REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — To the surprise ers who harbor doubts about the president of most in the courtroom, defense attorneys on the economy or about Kerry on securi- for Scott Peterson concluded their case yes- ty issues. terday, having called just 14 witnesses in Bush aimed to weaken Kerry’s advan- just over five days of testimony to help per- tage on domestic policy issues by portray- suade jurors to acquit the man of murder ing Kerry as a big spender who would raise charges. taxes to pay for his ambitious domestic As the final defense witness, Modesto agenda. police officer Michael Hicks told jurors yes- “My opponent believes the economy terday about a burglary that occurred at the grows by growing the size of the federal house of a Peterson neighbor on Dec. 26, JOE ODEN/KRT 2002, two days after Laci Peterson vanished. government,” Bush said at a morning rally Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards greets students at a rally at the A confidential informant told police that in Onalaska, Wis. “I believe the economy University of Minnesota in Minneapolis yesterday. grows by growing the size of the coffers of Steven Wayne Todd burglarized Susan and small businesses.” with national security and fighting terror- University of Pennsylvania’s National Rudy Medina’s house, across the street from Kerry, speaking in Green Bay, tried to ism. Kerry, on the other hand, is solidly Annenberg Election Survey shows that the home of Laci and Scott Peterson. Hicks dent voters’ perception that Bush would be ahead of Bush on economic issues such as among voters who still consider them- found Todd, who immediately admitted stronger fighting terrorism and securing jobs and health care. selves persuadable, 50 percent view Bush being involved in the crime. the nation against terror attacks. He listed By appealing beyond their respective as a stronger leader than Kerry, whereas “First thing, he said he would tell you a series of White House decisions that he bases of support, the two candidates only 32 percent see Kerry as stronger. At about the burglary but he had nothing to do said put troops or the country in peril, cap- were following polling signals that show the same time, 82 percent of those voters with the woman,” defense attorney Mark ping each with the refrain: “When a com- they’ve rallied partisan voters and now consider the economy fair or poor and 59 Geragos said, reading from Hicks’ report. mander in chief makes the wrong deci- need to use the remaining six days of the percent of them rated their personal eco- sion, America’s security pays the price.” campaign to make the sale with unde- nomic situation fair or poor. I’m not sure whose ending Polls consistently show that Bush leads cided swing voters. Kerry on qualities that voters associate To illustrate the point, a new poll by the see CAMPAIGN, page 13 “was more fizzling, the prosecu- tion’s or the defense. Cingular buys AT&T Wireless after FCC approval ” Paula Canny BY ON AN Cingular, a partnership operated by using the wireless network operated by J V Defense lawyer, San Mateo County Knight Ridder Newspapers SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Sprint Corp. Corp., expects that full integration of AT&T Analysts expect that AT&T Corp., CHICAGO — Cingular Wireless closed Wireless will take at least 18 months, but it Verizon Wireless and Sprint will all seek to its purchase of AT&T Wireless yesterday, is under pressure to complete certain win customers from Cingular, taking Hicks said Todd unraveled a detailed within minutes after receiving govern- aspects far more quickly. It only has rights advantage of any difficulties that arise account of his crime, telling him that he ment approval, creating the nation’s to use the AT&T brand through April. from integrating the billing, customer moved a safe from the house to the front largest wireless phone company with service and network operations of the two yard before seeking the help of Donald about 47 million customers. cell-phone carriers. Glenn Pearce about 6:30 or 7 a.m. on Dec. The $41 billion deal should result in Our company is growing “Cingular has a limited window of 26, 2002. Pearce, who unlike Todd had better service for both Cingular and AT&T opportunity and a difficult task given the access to a car, drove to the Medinas’, where customers, analysts said, but customers at 25 percent a year. We’re going size of the combined company,” said Todd placed the safe in the car, Hicks said should expect difficulties in the short Ranjan Mishra, a principal with Adventis, he was told. “ They brought the safe to the home of term. And by year’s end, thousands of to keep growing organically. a Boston telecom consultancy. AT&T Wireless employees may get pink “AT&T Wireless has a big share of large Pearce’s mother, where he was living at the ” time, and pounded it open with a sledge- slips. companies among its customers, and Consumer advocates opposing the Ivan Seidenberg those are exactly the targets that AT&T hammer and other tools, Hicks said. merger predict it will lead to higher prices CEO, Verizon Communications Inc. Corp. will try to win when it launches a Both men were later convicted of bur- in some areas, but few industry observers mobile service next year. Verizon and glarizing the Medinas’ house, but also expect that will happen. Sprint also want those customers.” received an overwhelming endorsement The Department of Justice approved After that AT&T Corp., the long-dis- Cingular will try to minimize customer from Modesto police for their complete the merger Monday and yesterday, the tance carrier that spun off AT&T Wireless, confusion by easing them into the cooperation in the matter. Federal Communications Commission will be able to launch a new wireless serv- did as well. ice using the AT&T name. It plans to do so see CINGULAR, page 13 see PETERSON, page 14 12 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Wednesday, October 27, 2004 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL 13 Bush, Kerry continue to fight it out with hopes Cingular buys out AT&T CINGULAR Chicago. “We’re going to keep to sway undecided voters in battleground states continued from page 11 growing organically.” CAMPAIGN That’s not the same as saying, ‘I troops arrived and accused Kerry changeover. It will begin by But Seidenberg said that continued from page 11 know you’re voting for me. I’m of launching “baseless attacks and adding the Cingular name and Cingular’s acquisition is a good After campaigning in going to hold your hand while distortions.” logo to bills from AT&T Wireless thing and he’d like to see more Wisconsin, which he lost in 2000, you’re voting for me.’” Kerry also faulted the adminis- and to its retail stores, said consolidation. Bush headed for Iowa, another Rove said Kerry’s campaign has tration’s homeland security poli- LeAnn Priebe, president of “It’s a healthy thing for our state he narrowly lost. Kerry head- been doing a lot of handholding in cies and decisions, arguing that Cingular’s central region. industry to have a healthy ed to the Southwest to rallies in Las recent days with former President Bush chose to reduce taxes for “You’ll begin to see changes in Cingular,” he said. Vegas and Albuquerque, N.M. Bill Clinton and former Vice wealthy Americans instead of the coming weeks,” she said. “By Analysts said they will watch Kerry planned to return to Iowa President Al Gore working to shore financing port security measures the end of six months, the AT&T the rate at which the bulked-up early Wednesday morning. up the traditional Democratic and boosting police and fire Wireless name will be gone.” Cingular loses customers in In his economy-focused base, especially black voters. departments. Joining him in Thousands of layoffs and coming months. Customer speech, Bush questioned whether Green Bay were Baltimore Mayor unhappy customers are foreseen turnover, called churn by the Kerry would reform the nation’s Martin O’Malley and two New by Ken Hyers, a wireless analyst industry, has been a major prob- legal system and reduce the num- My opponent Jersey mayors, Newark’s Sharpe with the In-Stat MDR market lem for AT&T Wireless since con- ber of expensive lawsuits. Bush James and Trenton’s Douglas research firm. sumers have been allowed to claimed that frivolous lawsuits believes the economy Palmer. “You have major restructuring change carriers and keep their drive up the cost of health care and “We don’t need a president who of companies with different wireless phone number. are a drag on the nation’s econo- grows“ by growing the size thinks we can’t afford to fund billing systems, different back- “Churn will be an excellent my. homeland security,” Kerry said. office systems,” he said. “The indicator in the coming months “He’s sided with the personal- of the federal government. “We need a president who believes customers are going to suffer. We of how well Cingular is able to injury lawyers time and time we can’t afford not to. And that’s saw that when Bell Atlantic and integrate AT&T Wireless into its again,” Bush said of Kerry. “It’s I believe the economy the kind of president I pledge to Air Touch merged to form operation,” said Michael Weaver, hard to get good legal reform out you that I will be.” Verizon Wireless. telecommunications managing of the United States Senate grows by growing the size Though Kerry’s aides have said “There were tales then of cus- director for Fitch Ratings. because they’re influential. As a the campaign is trying to project a tomers unable to even reach Cingular’s churn rate has been matter of fact, he’s raised more of the coffers of small positive vision of a Kerry presiden- anyone from customer service. about 2.8 percent, slightly above money than any other member of cy, on the stump Kerry has mount- The first 18 months will be the the industry norm, while AT&T’s the United States Senate. That’s businesses. ed a fierce attack on the president worst, but after that, things churn has been as high as 3.7 about $22 million so far, since that’s as focused on Bush’s deeds should really improve. Verizon percent. President George W. ”Bush went on to become an excellent Until its merger closed, AT&T 1989, and still counting.” as it is on his own pledges. Aides Bush’s remarks in the final days say Kerry has a difficult task in operation with fine customer Wireless continued as an inde- of the campaign are aimed at these final days of inspiring confi- service, and Cingular will too.” pendent competitor to Cingular. drawing sharp contrasts between In his security speech, Kerry dence in undecided voters while While some analysts specu- Earlier this month, it introduced Kerry and the president on five reiterated a charge, first made energizing traditional Democratic late that Cingular’s acquisition of OGO, a wireless device designed issues — family values, national Monday, that Bush ignored inter- constituencies, who in the end AT&T Wireless may trigger fur- to send e-mails and text mes- security, Social Security, Medicare national warnings by failing to could decide the election with ther industry consolidation, sages, but not voice calls. and the economy — and to aggres- secure a major Iraqi military their turnout. Hyers said he doesn’t see any Priebe said that Cingular is sively woo undecided Democrats. installation that held hundreds of “Bush closed his base support mergers on the horizon. evaluating OGO and other AT&T Karl Rove, Bush’s political strate- tons of powerful explosives. Kerry faster than we did,” Kerry Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Wireless products to determine gist, said the campaign is focusing based his attack on a New York spokesman Michael McCurry Verizon Communications Inc., which it will integrate into its its final efforts on fast-growing Times report that 380 tons of said. “We have a harder case said he anticipates that Verizon product line. It also has yet to communities, such as York and explosives disappeared from the because we have to bring in all Wireless, which has about 42 decide which AT&T Wireless Lancaster in Pennsylvania — unguarded Al Qaqaa depot near the Democrats and then also million customers, will grow by stores will close and which locales where there’s room to Baghdad. The Kerry camp believes reach and get more of the inde- acquiring new customers rather employees will lose their jobs. improve upon turnout from the it has seized on a compelling issue pendents and the swings and the than seeking to merge with “Until 10:15 [Tuesday] morn- 2000 election. and released a new television ad soft voters. Our message has to another carrier. ing, we were fierce competitors,” “We’re pushing in places not Tuesday hitting on the missing be more complicated because “Our company is growing at said Priebe, “so only now do we only where there is elasticity in the explosives. we’re not just relying on Bush- 25 percent a year,” said have the opportunity to go in vote, but in the exurbs and where Bush officials said the explo- bashing to get us where we want Seidenberg, who was in the city and evaluate their operations to there’s elasticity in the turnout. sives disappeared before U.S. to be.” to address the Executive Club of make decisions.” 14 THE TUFTS DAILY NATIONAL Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Openly gay Methodist minister to stand church trial In surprise BY DAVID O’REILLY was acquitted in March and United Methodist Church law camp and retreat center in Knight Ridder Newspapers allowed to maintain her post. forbids the ordination or Spring City, near Pottstown, Pa. move, Peterson Stroud, 34, has been associate appointment of “self-avowed, Retired Bishop Joseph H. PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. pastor of First United Methodist practicing homosexuals.” In Yeakel of Smithsburg, Md., will Elizabeth Stroud, a Church of Germantown since May the denomination’s preside at the trial, which is defense rests Philadelphia-area pastor in an 1999. In April 2003, she told her General Conference, its highest expected to last one to three PETERSON open relationship with another congregation she was a lesbian legislative body, reaffirmed the days. The case will be heard by a continued from page 13 woman, will face a church trial living in a “covenanted relation- ban. court of 13 pastors drawn from Geragos appeared to be work- Dec. 1 that will decide if her ship,” effectively inviting a trial. Her congregation has the church’s 16-county Eastern ing to persuade jurors that Todd relationship violates the laws of “I knew when I preached that declared its support of Stroud Pennsylvania Conference. and Pearce could have been the United Methodist Church. sermon that this day might well and set up a legal defense fund. Stroud has chosen to be rep- responsible for Laci’s Dec. 24, The trial, which will be open come,” Stroud said in a phone At Stroud’s request, the trial resented by the Rev. J. Dennis 2002 disappearance. He has con- to the public, is the first for the interview yesterday. “I’m spiri- will be open to the public and to Williams, a retired Methodist tended that someone abducted mainline denomination since a tually and mentally as prepared news media. It will take place at pastor, and Alan Symonette, a her while she walked the family lesbian pastor in Washington as I can be.” Camp Innabah, a Methodist civil lawyer and labor arbitrator. dog around her neighborhood. Her remains and those of the unborn son she was carrying later turned up along the Slim profits mean little incentive to make flu vaccine Richmond shoreline not far from BY BRUCE JAPSEN er Sanofi-Aventis, and Deerfield, Ill.-based that generate at least $1 billion in annual where her husband said he fished Knight Ridder Newspapers Baxter International Inc. are among the hand- sales, the world’s largest drugmakers avoid the day she disappeared. ful of companies exploring the economic the vaccine business altogether. Police arrested her husband CHICAGO — Every year, vaccine makers potential in a cell-based approach — working “No pharmaceutical company worth its April 18, 2003. He has been held hand-process millions of chicken eggs in their on ways to produce vaccines using cell tissue salt will pursue a market unless it is worth at without bail on two murder labs, shining a light through each shell to find from humans or animals. least $1 billion in sales,” said Ben Andrew, counts ever since. the embryo where a strain of influenza virus is But development is slow because those in health-care industry analyst at Chicago The sudden end to the defense injected and incubated. the business say they are working on a vac- investment bank William Blair & Co. case came as a surprise. Judge This tedious approach is fraught with com- cine as a mere sideline to the focus on pre- Not only is the market small, but pricing Alfred Delucchi had told jurors mercial risk when huge batches become con- scription drugs and other new technologies pressures keep margins low. Manufacturers on Monday that two more taminated. with more profit potential. say they charge about $8 for a flu shot taken defense witnesses would take the A more modern method using cell tissues Global flu vaccine sales are worth less than annually. Companies have difficulty raising stand after Hicks, but emerged would allow manufacturers to quickly brew $1.8 billion a year — a figure that doesn’t even prices because the government and public from his chambers this morning vaccine by the vat and likely eliminate pro- crack the top 20 sales ranking for an individ- health agencies that buy much of the product with news of the defense conclu- duction-related shortages like the one that ual drug sold in the United States. The choles- would create a political stir. sion. has rattled millions of U.S. consumers this terol drug Lipitor alone will generate $10 bil- The lack of large profits, liability issues and Many courtroom observers year. lion in global sales this year for Pfizer Inc. high manufacturing costs have also led to the had expected Drs. Henry Lee and But the unappealing economics of the vac- By comparison, Aventis Pasteur’s flu vac- exodus of vaccinemakers. Excess capacity in Cyril Wecht to testify about the cine business, which has a high ante and cine product sales are about $600 million the late 1990s, for example, cut the number of condition of the human remains offers relatively small profits in return, has annually, while California-based Chiron Corp. flu vaccine companies from four to two when and the lack of evidence at the retarded the development of cell-based tech- expected more than $300 million in flu vac- prices sank to the $2-a-dose range. Earlier this Peterson home where police nologies and other innovations in vaccines. cine sales this year. They’re the two major U.S. month, troubles at Chiron caused the U.S. believe the slaying occurred. And it has put substantial relief for U.S. short- players left in an industry that had about two supply to be cut to less than 60 million “I’m not sure whose ending ages as much as a decade away, companies dozen manufacturers 30 years ago. dosages, from an expected supply of 100 mil- was more fizzling, the prosecu- and analysts say. “It is your basic supply and demand issue,” lion, this flu season when British officials sus- tion’s or the defense,” said Paula “Everybody would like cell culture [tech- said Joy Amundson, president of Baxter’s bio- pended the license at a Chiron manufacturing Canny, a veteran San Mateo nology] next year, but realistically it is more science business. plant in Liverpool. County defense lawyer. “Oh, boy.” likely 10 years away than one year away,” said “[The current flu vaccine market] has been Baxter, which built a vaccine facility in the Prosecutors are expected to Wayne Pisano, executive director of commer- dominated by two players and they have been Czech Republic, is believed to be the furthest call eight additional witnesses cial operations for Aventis Pasteur, the world’s in the business for years. It doesn’t leave a lot along. It expects to complete clinical trials of today to refute the defense case. largest egg-based flu vaccine-maker. “Egg- of room for people with existing technology to its cell-based flu vaccine and secure European Lawyers will give their closing based [production] is something we are going enter the market,” Amundson said. approvals in 2006. Baxter will not begin U.S. arguments next week with jurors to have to live with for the short term.” Since Wall Street increasingly demands trials until next year and won’t predict when a possibly beginning deliberations Aventis Pasteur, a unit of French drugmak- drug companies churn out blockbuster drugs vaccine could be available here. today. International 15 THE TUFTS DAILY WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 27, 2004 Israeli parliament OKs Sharon’s withdrawl plan

BY MICHAEL MATZA Sharon opposes a referendum, which Knight Ridder Newspapers would take months to prepare, because he views it as a stalling tactic. JERUSALEM — Shattering decades of The possible defections of Netanyahu public policy with a landmark vote, the and Livnat, along the expected departure Israeli parliament has, for the first time in of the National Religious Party unless a the nation’s history, approved a plan to referendum is held, threaten to topple uproot Jewish settlements from lands Sharon’s already shaky governing coali- claimed by the Palestinians for a future tion. He might be forced to call new elec- state. tions or cobble together a unity coalition, Tuesday night’s vote in the 120-mem- mostly likely with the opposition Labor ber Knesset was 67 in favor of Prime Party. Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan, and 45 Still, the historic significance of opposed, with seven abstentions. One Tuesday night’s decision is that it moves gravely ill member could not attend the Israel one step closer to achieving historic session. Sharon’s vision of withdrawing from Gaza Sharon’s proposal still faces fierce while consolidating his hold on the opposition from within his Likud Party, largest West Bank settlements. with no guarantee of implementation; “I cannot say the messiah came down,” four future votes of the cabinet are said political analyst Avraham Diskin, required before any pullout can take “but it’s another important step that place. Seventeen of 40 Likud members proves Sharon means business.” voted against the plan, which the well- In the countdown to the vote, an esti- organized settlement movement has mated 15,000 settlers, many in the move- pledged to fight to the end. YOSSI ZAMIR/KRT ment’s signature orange T-shirts, rallied Settlers and supporters of the Jewish settlement movement sing during a gathering of thousands The plan for “unilateral disengage- outside the Knesset in a hilltop rose gar- the plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip in front of Israel’s parliament, or Knesset, in Jerusalem. ment” calls for the evacuation by next den to urge legislators to reject the plan. summer of all 8,200 settlers from 21 set- Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat described Opponents have called for a national Vendors sold ice cream and cotton tlements in the Gaza Strip and several the plan Tuesday night as Israelis “negoti- referendum. Two principal members of candy in a carnival atmosphere, while hundred from four small settlements in ating with themselves.” Sharon’s cabinet, Finance Minister loudspeakers blared patriotic songs and the northern West Bank. Sharon calls the Making good on his threat to remove Benjamin Netanyahu and Education “Hatikva,” the Israeli national anthem. move a necessary step to enhance Israel’s ministers who voted against disengage- Minister Limor Livnat, who reluctantly Rabbi Mordechai Elon, leader of a security after four years of Palestinian ment, Sharon immediately fired cabinet voted “yes,” told reporters immediately Jewish school near Jerusalem’s Western violence and absent a Palestinian partner minister-without-portfolio Uzi Landau, after the vote that they will resign if Wall, told the crowd “prayer and faith” for peace. and deputy minister Michael Ratzon, Sharon does not call for a plebiscite in the Palestinians remain deeply skeptical. both of whom cast “no” votes. next two weeks. see ISRAEL, page 19

Death toll from Japanese earthquake rises to 31 Digital views Knight Ridder Newspapers 2,000 residents were evacuated Nagaoka. Monday. The Niigata prefectural According to the agency, the NIIGATA, Japan — More than government warned that the aftershock was recorded at 100,000 people were still under rain may cause landslides and M4.1, and the focus was 10 kilo- evacuation yesterday amid burst the riverbank. meters beneath the Chuetsu occasional heavy rain as the According to Tohoku Electric region. death toll from Saturday’s Power Co., 28,000 households The frequency of quakes fell Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu were still without power yester- to less than three per hour yes- Earthquake rose to 31. day afternoon following terday, but an aftershock of About 103,000 residents were Saturday’s series of powerful upper 6 is still possible, the staying at 486 makeshift evacu- earthquakes, although nearly 90 agency said. ation shelters in 37 municipali- percent of households who lost There is a 20 percent chance ties, including Nagaoka, Ojiya power have had their service of an aftershock of M6 or and Tokamachi in Niigata restored. stronger within three days from Prefecture. Water supply was unavailable 10 a.m. yesterday and a 40 per- A woman and her two chil- at 108,000 households in 22 cent chance of an aftershock of dren in Koidemachi were still municipalities. The prefectural M5.5 or stronger. missing yesterday, although the government plans to restore the Meanwhile, Yoshitaka car that the woman was driving service in a week. Murata, state minister for natu- AARON SUOZZI/KRT when she left her home was An aftershock at about 3:30 ral-disaster prevention, said Madeline Lothamer (right), the acting commander of the 221st found in the afternoon covered a.m. yesterday registered 4 on yesterday he would expand the Ordnance Company, shows two young Afghan girls a digital pic- in mud in Nagaoka. the Meteorological Agency’s application of the law created to ture she took of them during a humanitarian mission to a school The rain flooded seismic intensity scale of 7 in aid disaster survivors as part of just outside of Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan known as “the Yamakoshimura in the prefec- Koshijimachi and 3 in sur- white house” Monday morning. ture. Nearly all of the village’s rounding cities, including see QUAKES, page 19 South Korea calls for ‘creative and realistic’ talks with northern neighbor BY RENEE SCHOOF posal” to get North Korea back to the nego- planned to give up its nuclear weapons In Seoul, the South Korean foreign min- Knight Ridder Newspapers tiating table. programs. The United States would offer a ister said his government had concerns But Powell said the United States in formal guarantee that it wouldn’t attack about a new U.S. law, the North Korea SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s June “put forward a new position, which after North Korea demonstrated serious- Human Rights Act, that links American aid foreign minister called yesterday “for a we believe was a balanced position show- ness about not developing a nuclear arse- to North Korea with Pyongyang’s progress more creative and realistic” proposal that ing flexibility on our side as we tried to nal. The proposal holds out the possibility on human rights such as freedom of would lure North Korea back to six-nation deal with the concerns” raised by North of U.S. aid after weapons programs are speech and religion. The law calls for talks over its nuclear program. Korea. eliminated in a verifiable way. human rights to be part of the talks on The position differed from that of visit- “We’re always prepared to be flexible, The nuclear crisis arose in 2002 when ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons ing Secretary of State Colin Powell, who but we’re not going to put down a new pro- U.S. officials said North Korea admitted programs. said the United States already had a good posal every couple of weeks because the that it had a secret uranium-enrichment Ban said North Korea’s “particular situa- proposal on the table. North Koreans say, ‘We’re not sure we like program that could provide material for tion” must be taken into consideration and The disagreement, coming a day after the previous proposal.’ That’s not a way to nuclear weapons. North Korea then threw that the American emphasis on rights China called on the United States to take a negotiate,” Powell said in an interview out international inspectors and said it shouldn’t be allowed to have “a negative more flexible position, indicated that U.S. later yesterday with NBC. had started reprocessing spent plutonium, effect on North-South [Korean] talks and partners in the six-nation talks aren’t uni- If North Korea returns to the talks, its an alternate nuclear-weapons material. the six-party talks.” fied in their approach. concerns as well as suggestions from all U.S. analysts estimate that North Korea Earlier yesterday, South Korean soldiers Powell finished yesterday a trip to Japan, partners in the talks can be discussed, he had material for one or two nuclear patrolling the heavily militarized bound- China and South Korea. Those three coun- said. “The way to do this is at the discus- weapons before the crisis and may have ary with North Korea found two holes cut tries and Russia are members of the six- sions, not in press conferences or state- reprocessed enough plutonium since then in wire barriers about 40 miles north of party group, along with the United States ments.” for several more. Seoul, raising the possibility that North and North Korea. A fourth round of talks planned for North Korea repeated yesterday its con- Korean troops might have infiltrated the South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki- September was canceled after North Korea ditions for resuming the talks: An end to South the day of Powell’s visit. South moon, appearing with Powell at a news refused to attend. America’s “hostile policy,” U.S. compensa- Korean troops put up more roadblocks conference, said he told Powell that the Under the June proposal, South Korea tion for freezing its nuclear programs and and conducted search operations. Powell countries involved in the talks “must come and Japan would provide North Korea with a promise to discuss South Korea’s nuclear said it was a small breach and didn’t come up with a more creative and realistic pro- fuel for energy once Pyongyang declared it experiments at the talks. up in his discussions. 16 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Wednesday, October 27, 2004 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL 17 Homemade bombs largest killer of coalition soldiers in Iraq

BY PATRICK KERKSTRA from vital community affairs Knight Ridder Newspapers and reconstruction missions, enlisted soldiers and officers at BAGHDAD, Iraq — The two Baghdad bases said. innards of the Iraqi insurgency For all the military’s efforts to are piling up at Baghdad’s tame the threat, IEDs kill coali- bomb-squad headquarters: a tion soldiers at a steady clip, 10 tangle of gaffer’s tape and elec- in some months, 20 or more in trical wire, 9-volt batteries and others. And while the Iraqi gov- assorted kitchen timers, even a ernment keeps no statistics on pink plastic alarm clock civilians killed by IEDs, news adorned with daisies. accounts of the blasts almost They’re the building blocks of always include bystanders. what the military calls impro- The devices are too easy to vised explosive devices, the build, and the explosives that weapon of choice for Iraq’s mili- power them too readily avail- tants. The simple bombs have able, for them to go away any- become the biggest killer of time soon, said Brig. Abdul coalition soldiers and the Kadir Moniem Said, the director unglamorous foundation of the of the Iraqi police unit that insurgent effort to drive the defuses and investigates IEDs. U.S.-led coalition out of Iraq. “One of the coalition’s fatal As the coalition IED death toll mistakes was to allow the terror- has mounted to more than 300, ists into army storerooms,” he according to icasualties.org, a said, citing the postwar looting Web site that tracks military of ammunition depots across casualties, soldiers have come to Iraq. “The terrorists took all the consider the homemade bombs explosives they would ever PAUL ASSAKER/KRT an apt symbol for the larger war need.” Iraqi police assigned to an ordnance-removal team keep a storeroom of weapons and bombmaking materials in Iraq: a sneaky, primitive Citing security concerns, the they discovered during recent operations in Baghdad. The confiscated items are kept at a police station in the weapon that’s tailor-made for a U.S. military refused to divulge capital. murky, elusive enemy. how many IEDs have exploded “It’s a different kind of war. It’s or been disarmed in Iraq. were wildly inaccurate, poorly ing,” said Staff Sgt. Eric May, “It began in a primitive way, reactionary. You can’t shoot until American soldiers and Iraqi disguised and often did little launching into an anti-IED but now they are quite profes- something explodes, and then security personnel in Baghdad damage even when they found tirade as he led a 1st Cavalry sional,” said Said, the police what do you shoot at? They’re said they encountered at least a their targets. Division (1st Battalion, 8th brigadier. “It seems that some- already gone,” said Sgt. Chris few each week, sometimes sev- Not anymore. Regiment) night patrol onto the body from outside Iraq helped McGuire, of the 21st Field eral in a day. In hotspots such as Now, IEDs are often ingen- hazardous roads leading to them, as the bombs we see now Artillery Regiment. the Baghdad slum of Sadr City iously concealed. Insurgents Baghdad International Airport. are used in other countries.” The ubiquitous IEDs led the — which has been more peace- encase them in concrete blocks Newer bombs often are The insurgents have become military to add armor to thou- ful in recent weeks — drivers that look like pieces of broken packed with ball bearings, bolts more tactically sophisticated as sands of soft-skinned vehicles. slalom through streets littered curb. They’re packed in plastic or other shrapnel. With enough well, daisy-chaining multiple They’ve forced units across the with IEDs. The bombs are bags, orange crates, rusted gaso- explosives, they can tear bombs — 23 in one case near country to devote untold hours marked with pylons and other line cans and countless other through a Humvee’s armor plat- Ramadi — to create massive “kill to IED patrols, searching for warning signs when U.S. forces pieces of trash, making them ing. zones” dozens of yards long. suspected bombs or parking are out of the area; the signs are virtually indistinguishable from Remote detonators have They’ve also used roadside along crucial routes in an removed as patrols move in. other rubbish along Baghdad’s become commonplace, allow- bombs as opening shots in attempt to stop them from In the early days of the insur- dirty streets. Some have even ing insurgents to stay far away ambushes, firing automatic being planted. gency, roadside bombs were lit- been stuffed into the carcasses from the blast site and making it rifles and rocket-propelled It’s dull and unrewarding tle more than a nuisance to of dogs or other animals. difficult for U.S. forces to catch grenades at soldiers as they spill work, and it diverts attention American and Iraqi forces. They “I hate them. They’re cheat- or kill the bombers. out of disabled vehicles. 18 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Private guards claim to protect, but do they endanger other citizens? BY LAURENCE ILIFF ties are trying to get a handle on an indus- Knight Ridder Newspapers try that many feel is out of control. “These guards are protecting valuables MEXICO CITY — Small groups of armed or someone’s physical integrity, and so men and women range with near impuni- they consider everyone who approaches ty across this sprawling metropolis, intim- them as a threat,” said Irma Islas Leon, a idating pedestrians in their path and han- Mexico City councilwoman pushing a bill dling residents’ complaints with “make- to mandate more training for the guards. my-day” stares and sometimes gunfire. The guards, who are paid a few hundred And these are supposedly the good guys dollars a month, “are given weapons that — a growing army of private guards that they don’t know how to use, and that’s why moves the cash that keeps Mexico City there are accidents,” Islas said. running, watches over stores and protects Some examples: rich Mexican families and U.S. executives. In late September, an armored car But in the process, critics say, some of belonging to Servicio Panamericano de the 12,000 private guards in the city have Proteccion ran a stoplight and nearly hit become a new threat to the public, along ice cream vendor Juan Miguel Sanchez, with corrupt police, common criminals police said. When Sanchez pointed his fin- and kidnappers, who have thrown this ger toward his eye, suggesting the driver nation into a panic over crime. watch where he’s going, guards descended “They are abusive in every sense of the from the truck and one of them shot word,” said street vendor Francisco Sanchez, police said. Vasquez Maldonado, 37. “You cannot say Within minutes, armored cars from the anything to them, you can’t look at them ... same company descended on the scene They stare as if you are going to rob them.” and tried to prevent police from arresting After recent incidents in which residents the guards, police said. have been run over by armored vehicles, As Sanchez hovered between life and had weapons pointed at them and have death, Police Chief Marcelo Ebrard sus- been shot by stressed-out guards, authori- pended the firm’s government permission to operate. Sanchez remains in the hospital, and the guards face attempted murder charges. A week later, a driver for the Cometra armored car service hit a woman in the rough Iztapalapa neighborhood after running a stoplight, police said. The woman survived, and the guard is being investigated. In early October, an attack against a Cometra armored car left three bystanders wounded, including a teenage girl and a woman who later died. Police are investi- gating who fired the fatal bullet. A week later, a guard for the Tameme company threatened a motorist with a gun after the two were involved in a traf- fic accident, police said. The guard faces disciplinary action, including possible dismissal. Wednesday, October 27, 2004 THE TUFTS DAILY INTERNATIONAL 19 Cuba to stop accepting U.S. dollar Officials are concerned that rising BY NANCY SAN MARTIN grace period to trade in the U.S. cash he has Knight Ridder Newspapers saved, but after that, losing 10 percent of his tensions could lead to more violence money will feel like “a punishment for ISRAEL Some demonstrators held placards MIAMI — The Cuban government turned something we haven’t done.” continued from page 15 emblazoned, “Sharon is a traitor,” and the economic clock back a decade Monday Economists predicted that many Cubans, would sustain them. “Soldiers, disobey orders to evacuate with an announcement that it would soon like Jesus, will flock to stores to stock up on Anita Tucker, 58, born in Brooklyn, us.” stop accepting the U.S. dollar and instead merchandise before the new rule kicks in. has lived for 28 years in the Gaza Strip Miriam Tratner, 45, a mother of eight require the so-called “convertible” peso as In his announcement, Castro suggested settlement bloc known as Gush Katif, in in the West Bank settlement of the only form of payment at businesses that Cubans tell their relatives living abroad a community of 75 families called Kedumim, said she came to Jerusalem across the island. to send them money in other foreign cur- Netzer Hazani. Among the residents are to support her friends in Gush Katif. If Economists said the new measures, rencies, such as euros, British sterling or her two married sons and five grand- soldiers try to move them out, she said, which take effect Nov. 8, was yet another Swiss francs, The Associated Press reported. children. she will put her body on the line to try to move in a series of steps in recent months to There will not be a fee to exchange other “I’m here with a lot of people from block the evacuation. further consolidate control over the circula- currencies. Gush Katif and they don’t look too wor- “We will be there. They will open their tion of U.S. currency and raise needed Cuba said the new rule was another nec- ried,” she said. “The prime minister has homes to us. We will be with them in the money for the government. Under the new essary response to tightened U.S. restric- pressured these members of the last bad moments,” she said. rules, the government keeps 10 percent of tions on travel and remittances that limit Knesset. They are totally disoriented. Officials are concerned that rising all money being converted. family visits to the island to once every three They’re not listening to the people. tensions could lead to violence. Hours “This is a move that is following a trend: years, reduce the per diem that can be spent There’s no freedom of thought in the before the vote, which fell a day before additional control,” said Paolo Spadoni, of while on the island and restrict money Knesset anymore,” she said. the ninth anniversary on the Jewish cal- the University of Florida, who has studied transfers to immediate relatives. Tucker said she worked hard to defeat endar of the assassination of Prime Cuba’s economy. “All the money circulating Soon after the new U.S. measures were the plan when Sharon put it to a refer- Minister Yitzhak Rabin, extremists will go through the government.” announced in May, the Cuban government endum of his 190,000-member Likud sprayed graffiti calling for Sharon’s mur- The announcement was made on Cuban raised prices at stores that accept dollars by Party in May, which he lost. She will der on walls in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. television Monday night and came in the as much as 30 percent. continue to work against it by all legal “We got Rabin and we’ll get Sharon,” form of a resolution adopted by Cuba’s Last year, Cuba ordered state companies means, she said. and “Hearty wishes to the next assas- Central Bank. Cuban leader Fidel Castro to conduct all of their hard-currency trans- “My parents were refugees from sin,” the vandals wrote, according to looked on as his chief aide and a television actions through the central bank, providing Germany. My grandparents were media reports. personality read from the document. more money for the government and refugees from Poland. I do not expect to Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by an Dollars will be changed into convertible enabling more centralized control over state be a refugee in the homeland of the ultra-nationalist Jew opposed to Israel’s pesos at a one-to-one rate with no extra enterprises. Jewish people. ... Reporters ask me participation in the Oslo peace process charge until Nov. 8, according to the resolu- Although only relatively few Cubans are where I will go if the evacuation hap- that brought Palestinian leader Yasser tion. But after that, the 10 percent fee will be estimated to have direct access to U.S. dol- pens. God willing, they will be asking Arafat back from exile and established added to the exchange transactions. The lars, U.S. currency has become the back- me the same question next year,” she limited Palestinian self-rule in the West convertible peso is one-to-one to the U.S. bone of the economy, enabling purchases of said. Bank and Gaza Strip. dollar, whereas the Cuba peso is worth higher-quality food, clothing, appliances much less. and other products not readily available at In remittances alone, the new 10 percent peso-only stores. charge would provide a substantial profit for U.S. dollars have been the primary cur- the government’s coffers. Between $400 mil- rency in Cuba since 1993, when Castro 103,000 remain in shelters in Japan lion and $1 billion is estimated to flow to the legalized the dollar amid a grinding eco- QUAKES Niigata and Fukui prefectures, the gov- island each year in the form of cash trans- nomic crisis caused by the Soviet Union’s continued from page 15 ernment expanded the application of fers from Cuban Americans, primarily from 1991 collapse and the loss of about $5 billion relief measures for the Chuetsu region the law, making it cover families whose the United States to relatives in Cuba. in annual subsidies from Moscow. and typhoon-hit areas. home has an intolerable smell or mud. “It’s going to be very difficult for a lot of The government said the latest measure Murata will issue a statement to local Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki people,” a Havana resident told The Miami was tied to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s deci- governments to specify applicable Hosoda said the government would Herald by telephone. sion in May to fine Switzerland’s largest damages. consider revising the law to make it “If somebody sends me $100, then I will bank for allegedly sending U.S. dollars to Under the law, the government can applicable to more cases. “We’ve get $90 back,” said Jesus, a Havana street Cuba and other nations in violation of U.S. provide financial assistance of up to 3 already applied the law flexibly, but we merchant. “Why lose when you have noth- sanctions. The United States implemented million yen to a family whose home is have to be more flexible. We’ll discuss if ing?” an economic embargo against Cuba four destroyed in a disaster. we should revise the law,” he said at a Jesus said he will take advantage of the decades ago. Following the torrential rain in July in press conference yesterday. 20 THE TUFTS DAILY COMICS Wednesday, October 27, 2004

CROSSWORD DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU

FOX TROT BY BILL AMEND

DILBERT BY SCOTT ADAMS

NON SEQUITUR BY WILEY

HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (Oct. 27) — Although you have lots of energy, and you might rightfully think that nobody can do the job as well as you can, learn to delegate this year. You’ll become a better manager and get even more accom- plished. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Where will Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — Quick action you get the money to achieve the quality you leads you to make a discovery that could change imagine? Don’t have a tizzy; the opportunity will your attitude. Make plans carefully, and you can present itself soon. Offer your services. achieve more than you ever thought possible.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — You’re get- Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — You’re not in ting stronger and more determined over the next the battle all by yourself even though it may few days. One of your talismans must be the seem that way. Form an alliance with somebody bulldog. When you latch on, you don’t let go. who can provide the stability you lack.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — There’s a Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — It’s just fight brewing, but try not to get emotionally about time to get back to work. A creative friend involved. Step back, and look at the bigger picture may inspire you to try something you thought when deciding which side to support. There’s an only others could do. Your expertise is expanding. awful lot at stake. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — The won- Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — There’s one ders never seem to cease. Just about when you’re hassle after another, and none of them are your ready to quit, the difficulty finally gets resolved fault. So why should you have to deal with them? due to a new discovery. And you had it all the Because you’re so good at it! time.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — You’re smart and Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — You may be creative, but that won’t be enough. If you also take just about worn out by now. Don’t make big on responsibility for your actions and for others, plans for tonight. You’re wiser to stay close to you could rise into a well-deserved leadership home. Go to bed early, and recuperate. position. Now’s a good time to practice. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — The odds are Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — There are a pretty high that you’ll learn a lesson the hard few more touchy subjects to deal with before you way — and soon. Be respectful and attentive, can relax. Schedule a break for yourself tomor- hold onto your money, and your odds of suc- row — and even more on the next day. cess improve.

AROUND CAMPUS TODAY TOMORROW Chaplain's Table — Religion and the Arts "Michaelangelo" Cristelle Baskins, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Art History. 5-7 p.m. Macphie Conference Room Thursday, 10- 14-04

Noon hour concert series LATE NIGHT AT THE DAILY Busarow, Gregg, and Pelz Performed By: Thomas A. Gregg, Tenor; “You look like a pumpkin.” Timothy Macri, Flute; Heinrich Christensen, Organ. Goddard Chapel — Jill to Mark 12:30-1:00p.m. Thursday, 10-14-04 Wednesday, October 27, 2004 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS | CLASSIFIEDS 21

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The freshmen really Tufts would clinch the seventh While that statement could be games? For the first 15 minutes after stepped up and helped secure the and final spot in the NESCAC chalked up to a man in the public Polite, respectful and support- Jozwiak scored, Tufts put pass win.” tournament with a win over last eye intentionally trying to steer ive doesn’t make for passionate combinations together and had The inexperience in the back place Conn. College on Saturday. away from his biases (Sox), I am fans where I come from. Of course, several quality shots. was not an issue in the match as However, if the Jumbos lose guessing there is some truth to it. that does not make us right as The Jumbos nearly knocked in this group of four defenders is and Trinity upsets Middlebury, I think there is most definitely a obnoxious, look-at-me types. Sox an insurance goal with 23-min- beginning to gel as a unit. Trinity would tie the Jumbos with Cardinal Nation out there. Folks fans may be the Terrell Owens of utes remaining. Junior forward- “We’re young, but every game a 3-6 league mark. The Bantams from Oklahoma, Missouri, rooters, announcing our presence turned outside midfielder Todd we’re showing improvement,” would then win the seventh bid Arkansas, Tennessee, without a with authority any chance we get, Gilbert one-touched a pass from Glass said. “Even though it’s the to the tournament because they major league team to call their while St. Louis is the Marvin the right side of the 18-yard line end of the season, it’s better late beat Tufts in head to head com- own geographically, root on their Harrison, going about their busi- to classmate center midfielder than never.” petition earlier in the season. Redbirds. I mean, only in the ness and letting their play (or play- Mike Guigli. Guigli drove a thun- Sullivan shouted instructions “We could still mathematically BBTIA could they turn the cookie ers) do the talking. dering shot towards the upper to his young defenders while not make it to the playoffs,” cutter classic Busch Stadium into I just hope fans from the BBTIA corner of the net, but missed just making several key saves late in Ferrigno said. “We have to take something that resembles eye learned a thing or two from watch- over the crossbar. the game. Conn. College seriously and, if all candy. Alas, the same could not be ing the last two games in Boston. After the near-goal, Tufts was With 16:46 remaining, Sullivan goes as planned, playoffs will said for, may they rest in peace, Chanting is good. It promotes a lit- forced to buckle down on defense blocked a close-range shot after begin on Sunday.” Three Rivers, Veterans, and tle bit of ill-will towards the other for the remainder of the match. the Cardinal offense fed three In their final practices this Riverfront Stadiums. Maybe it’s team, which can never be a bad Glass and freshmen Matt passes through the Tufts back week, the Jumbos will concen- because those places didn’t bring thing. If the St. Louis faithful Maloney, Derek Engelking and four. The shot proved the closest trate on getting as healthy as pos- in grass as soon as the Cardinals pulled out a “NO MORE DH!” Andrew Drucker held off a frenet- Wesleyan would come to equaliz- sible for Saturday’s match, as well did, which brought an “old time chant every time a Sox hurler ic Wesleyan attack by winning ing the score despite numerous as keeping their heads in the baseball” kind of character to the stepped to the plate, major kudos balls in the air and filling space in drives in the final minutes. game. place that was nowhere to be would be given out. But they need front of senior keeper Matt “It was only a one-goal game, “We need to get our minds found in the other three spots. to find another chant now, Sullivan. so I was worried at the end,” ready more than anything else,” I heard Boston referred to as “a because that one is mine. Maybe “We knew we had to get the Ferrigno said. “We didn’t threaten Glass said. “We have to keep our drinking town with a baseball last night they dusted off their ver- win on the defensive end,” Glass on offense after we scored as composure.” problem.” Hardy har, I know. But sion of the “Who’s Your Daddy?” shouldn’t that be St. Louis, the chant that they last used on Frank birthplace of Budweiser? Sure, Viola in 1987. But I can’t picture it. Sam Adams dominates this Who knows? Maybe they rip Working opposing muscle groups is the key region, but you go on Yawkey Way into their teams just as much on INSIDE FITNESS chest, you can train calves with back, you can and they ask you to remove your their sports radio stations. Maybe continued from page 23 throw quads in when you train shoulders. Just arm and leg for 16 ounces of the there is some sort of underground body to move you the opposite way. make sure that you hit everything in some way, stuff. Well, six bucks, but still, hard- curse there that the national biceps/triceps, back/chest, quads/hamstrings, shape, or form. ly a hometown discount. media has failed to get a hold of lower back/abs ... there are a ton of opposing mus- So next time you decide “it’s bench day, Is not Budweiser born and bred yet (The Curse of Willie McGee?). cle groups to work. baby!” stop and think (last time I’ll ask you to in the Lou? Is not the stadium But for whatever reason, the Plan workouts accordingly, making sure you hit think) about whether or not you are training the named after a brewer? Shouldn’t Cardinals fan base is not one we each muscle group at least once a week. You can muscles you can’t see. Muscles that, though these people start living up to the can relate to. Unless the Cards train opposing muscle groups on the same day invisible to you, the shirtless Greek god stand- “St. Lunatics” label when they go were to come back from a deficit (have an “arm day”), or you can train coordinating ing in front of the mirror in track pants, are no to ballgames? I would imagine it to to win this series. I think we might muscle groups on the same day (think a “push” less important to your health, your aesthetic be cheaper closer to its home know something about that. day and a “pull” day). You can toss biceps in with value, and your performance. Jumbos face off with Connecticut College with home playoff game on the line FIELD HOCKEY deadlocked. With the clock and the temperature their chance to play the first round of continued from page24 Despite a combined 14 shots and 14 winding down, the Jumbos kicked into the NESCAC tournament on Bello Field, With the sun now at their backs, the corners in the second half, the game high gear. At the 10:13 mark, a prime where they are 6-1 this season. Jumbos came out ready. headed into overtime with neither team scoring opportunity for Tufts was foiled To secure home-field advantage, the In a spectacular up-field surge, senior able to break the tie. when Kelly tripped up Panzer on the team will need a win over league foe tri-captain Dana Panzer gave the team The sense of urgency escalated in the goal line. Connecticut College on Saturday. the chance it needed, dodging three extra period. With only 12 players on the Panzer was awarded a penalty stroke, Despite Tufts’ past advantage of hav- Cardinal defenders and dishing to soph- field, the game opened up with long on which she is a perfect 2-2 this season. ing won four of the last five games over omore teammate Kathleen Martin at the offensive drives. Last night was no different. With the Connecticut, and the Camels’ 0-7 record net for the goal, popped up past a lung- The Jumbos stayed on the offensive, Jumbos lined up behind her on the 25- against NESCAC teams this season, the ing Kelly at the 23-minute mark. sending seven shots towards the cage, yard line, collectively holding their Jumbos cannot look past this game. With the score evened, the game fell but were unable to find the net. Key breath, Panzer calmly knocked in the “To be able to play here, for the girls back into a stalemate. Sophomore goal- saves by Rappoli kept the Cardinals game-winner off the stick of Kelly into to sleep in their own beds the night keeper Angela Rappoli and Kelly both scoreless, and a second overtime period the top corner of the cage. before, is a huge plus for us,” McDavitt netted four saves to keep the game ensued. With the win, the Jumbos kept alive said. “We’re ready for Saturday.” 22 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Martinez shuts down Cards for 3-0 series lead

BY PAUL SULLIVAN his 18th career postseason Knight Ridder Newspapers homer. That tied him for second on the all-time list with Reggie ST. LOUIS _ As the World Jackson and Mickey Mantle Series moved to St. Louis for behind Bernie Williams of the Tufts finished in Game 3 on Tuesday night, it was Yankees. second place at obvious the local populace was The Cardinals threatened Sunday’s Greater not amused at what has been twice early off Martinez but Boston Champion- perceived as second-class treat- wound up hitting into two ships but was ment on the world’s biggest unusual double plays. awarded first be- stage. They loaded the bases against cause a non-Boston If the World Series had been a Martinez with one out in their school, Connecti- Fox sitcom, it probably would be half of the first on two walks cut College, won billed as “That Red Sox Show,” sandwiched around an infield JAMES HARRIS/TUFTS DAILY the regatta. with a special guest appearance hit. But Jim Edmonds flied out to by the St. Louis Cardinals. short left, and Ramirez gunned Boston moved within a victory down Larry Walker as he Tufts has some trouble at Brown and Conn. of its first World Series title since attempted to score from third for 1918, topping the Cardinals 4-1 an inning-ending double play. SAILING the 13 teams present, while fresh- Lederer took 12th for the B divi- Tuesday night. Another questionable continued from page24 men Mike Easton and Katie sion. Both days were cold and Clearly, the Red Sox were get- baserunning decision bit the shifts and sailed smart,” said Filip Greenlee sailed to first in the B windy, which did not to help the ting the bulk of the attention at Cardinals in the third after of her team on both days. “We division. Tufts team. the outset of the Series because Suppan reached on an infield hit have a very smart team.” “We were really overpowered The Stu Nelson Women’s of their quirky personality, their and Edgar Renteria doubled to The team was excited about in the morning,” Woodworth Trophy at Connecticut College 86-year championship drought put runners on second and third the title they earned on Sunday. said.” We are not a heavy boat.” didn’t turn out much better for and their 2-0 lead. with one out. Walker grounded “It was kind of a cheap way to Luckily in the afternoon the Tufts, who sailed to a 12th place “I believe you get what you out meekly to second, but win [the title],” Filip explained. winds died down, so the Jumbos result. Tufts placed eleventh in earn,” Cardinals manager Tony Suppan changed course about “But it is exciting to know we are were able to regain control. Both the A division and tenth in the B La Russa said before Game 3. “If halfway home and headed back the best team in Boston!” the A and B teams were light division, resulting in its 12th place we had won two games at to third, where first baseman In what is becoming a recur- pairs, but taking chances allowed finish out of 15 teams in the regat- Fenway Park, I think everybody David Ortiz’s throw nailed him ring theme, the Jumbos took first the Jumbos to dominate. ta. would be talking about how this for the third out. place for the third time since 2000 The Jumbos had a little more Senior Lindsay Shanholt, with club had led the regular season Boston increased its lead to 2- at the Wellahan Trophy at the trouble at Brown, where Tufts freshman crew Chloe Starr, sailed in wins and was playing at a high 0 in the fourth on Bill Mueller’s University of Southern Maine. sailed to 13th place out of 18 in for the A division, and freshmen level and [asking], `Can anybody double and Trot Nixon’s RBI sin- Tufts won the trophy in both the Hoyt Trophy. The A division’s Kaity Storck and Lyndsey stop them?’ gle. 2000 and 2002. Brendan Shattuck and Zoe Gibbons-Neff, competed in the B “They won the two games, so The Red Sox added two more The A division sailors, junior Bolesta, both juniors, took 11h division. Boston College took the they get the majority of the runs in the fifth on run-scoring Tommy Leach and senior Sarah while sophomore Jimmy Praley trophy with 93 points, leaving attention. I think they have singles from Ramirez and Woodworth, took second out of and junior Michaela Brady- Tufts well behind with 145 points. earned it, they have it.” Mueller that forced an early exit The only team in baseball his- for Suppan. The Cardinals right- tory that has bounced back from hander allowed four runs on SCHEDULE | Oct. 25 — Oct. 31 a 3-0 deficit is the very same Red eight hits in his 42/3-inning Sox, who accomplished it against stint, the third consecutive game MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN the New York Yankees in the in which a St. Louis starter had failed to last five innings. Wesleyan Conn. College American League Championship Field Hockey Series. Meanwhile, Martinez was on 3:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Pedro Martinez picked up cruise control. Pitching in his where Curt Schilling left off in first World Series, Martinez has @ Amherst Football Game 2, shutting down the pow- been without his so-called 1:00 p.m. erful St. Louis lineup through good-luck charm, his 28-inch- seven innings on three hits with tall friend Nelson de la Rosa. Wesleyan Conn. College Though he had been invited Men’s Soccer six strikeouts on 98 pitches. Mike 3:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Timlin pitched a perfect eighth into the Boston clubhouse dur- inning, and Keith Foulke gave up ing the earlier rounds, de la a solo homer to Larry Walker in Rosa has been noticeably Women’s Conn. College the ninth. absent of late. Soccer 1:30 p.m. Meanwhile, Cardinals starter When Ramirez was asked his whereabouts, he told the Boston New England Champs @ Jeff Suppan was knocked out in Sailing the fifth. Globe: “We don’t need him. We’re Freshmen Yale For the third straight time in playing great without him.” the Series, the Red Sox scored in The Red Sox didn’t need any Volleyball NESCAC @ the first inning to the grab the good-luck charm in Boston, and Weekend Middlebury early lead. Manny Ramirez the way the Cardinals were homered off Suppan with two swinging their bats early in Game 3, they didn’t appear to Field outs, launching a 2-2 pitch far JUMBOCAST Football into the left-field bleachers for need one in St. Louis either. Hockey

STATISTICS | STANDINGS Field Hockey Football Men’s Soccer Women’s Soccer Sailing College Rankings NESCAC Standings Final NESCAC Standings NESCAC Standings NESCAC Standings As of Oct. 21, 2004 CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE POINTS CONFERENCE OVERALL CONFERENCE OVERALL Coed Rank, Team (Previous Rank) Team W L Pct W L Team W L Pct PF PA Team W L T Pct W L T Team W L T Pct W L T 1. USC (1) Middlebury 8 0 1.000 11 0 Amherst 5 0 1.000 169 74 Williams 6 1 1 .812 9 2 2 Middlebury 6 0 2 .875 10 0 2 2. Yale (4) Bowdoin 6 2 .750 9 3 Trinity 5 0 1.000 211 32 Bowdoin 6 2 0 .750 9 4 0 Amherst 5 0 3 .812 7 1 4 3. Kings Point (11) Wesleyan 5 2 .714 10 2 Williams 4 1 .800 101 79 Middlebury 5 1 2 .750 9 1 2 Tufts 4 1 3 .688 6 3 3 4. Boston College (5) Williams 5 3 .625 9 3 Colby 3 2 .600 101 46 Amherst 5 2 0 .714 10 2 0 Bates 4 3 1 .562 9 3 1 5. Hobart/WmSmith (7) Trinity 4 3 .571 8 4 Middlebury 2 3 .400 121 122 Wesleyan 4 2 1 .643 6 4 1 Bowdoin 3 4 1 .438 7 5 1 6. St. Mary’s (2) Tufts 4 4 .500 8 5 Wesleyan 2 3 .400 88 131 Bates 3 3 1 .500 8 3 1 Williams 3 4 1 .438 6 4 2 7. Dartmouth (3) Amherst 2 5 .286 4 7 Bates 1 4 .200 85 153 Tufts 2 5 0 .286 6 5 1 Conn College 3 5 0 .375 7 5 0 8. Tufts (6) Colby 2 6 .250 6 6 Bowdoin 1 4 .200 107 169 Trinity 2 6 0 .250 3 8 2 Trinity 3 5 0 .375 6 5 1 9. Georgetown (8) Conn College 1 6 .143 4 8 Hamilton 1 4 .200 99 223 Colby 1 6 1 .188 4 6 2 Colby 2 5 1 .312 6 5 1 10. Harvard (9) Bates 1 7 .125 3 10 Tufts 1 4 .200 56 109 Conn College 1 7 0 .125 3 10 0 Wesleyan 1 7 0 .125 3 10 0 Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Women’s Tennis Scoring Player Scoring Scoring Individual Statistics Player G A Pts Rushing Att Yds TD Player G A Pts Player G A Pts Position, Singles, Record Dana Panzer 11 7 29 Steve Cincotta 61 236 1 Todd Gilbert 4 5 13 Sarah Callaghan 3 2 8 1. Jennifer Luten (7-1) Martha Furtek 3 2 8 Lea Napolitano 4 5 13 Jason Casey 45 170 1 Mattia Chason 3 0 6 2. Jennifer Lejb (6-1) Brendan Georges 36 135 1 Ben Castellot 3 0 6 Jen Baldwin 3 1 7 Jeanne Grabowski 2 1 5 2,3. Kylyn Deary (5-3) Jennie Sachs 2 1 5 Brian Cammuso 36 129 0 Mike Guigli 3 0 6 Becky Greenstein 1 4 6 3,4. Trina Spear (5-3) Illeana Katz 2 0 4 Casey D’Annolfo 16 27 1 Bob Kastoff 1 2 4 Lauren Fedore 2 1 5 Stacey Watkins 1 1 3 Totals 202 704 4 Greg O’Connell 1 0 2 Sarah Gelb 2 0 4 4,5. Lani Ackerman (5-3) No. Yds TD Jayme Heller 1 1 3 Receiving Alex Bedig 1 0 2 Ariel Samuelson 2 0 4 5,6. Stephanie Ruley (5-1) 39 399 1 1 1 3 Kevin Holland Matt Maloney 1 0 2 Lindsay Garmirian 1 0 2 6. Ashley Weisman (2-1) Tracy Rittenour 6 110 1 MeghanBecque 1 0 2 Steve Menty Mike Lingenfelter 0 2 2 Catherine Benedict 1 0 2 Position, Doubles, Record Brian VonAncken 6 74 1 Lizzy Oxler 1 0 2 Ben Kallechey 0 1 1 Annie Benedict 0 1 1 1. Luten/Deary (7-1) Chris Roy 6 70 0 1 0 2 Chip West 0 1 1 Lydia Claudio 0 0 0 Katie Pagos Totals 58 702 3 2. Lejb/Neda Pisheva (5-2) Goalkeeping GA Sv Sv% Goalkeeping GA Sv Sv% Goalkeeping GA Sv Sv% Passing Att-Cmp-Int Yds TD 3. Spear/Ackerman (1-0) Matt Sullivan (6-4-0) Meg McCourt (6-3-2) 13 45 .776 Angela Rappoli (2-2) 5 26 .839 Jason Casey 90-48-8 501 2 15 67 .817 Annie Ross (0-0-1) 3 10 .769 3. Spear/Weisman (4-2) Duffy-Cabana (6-2) 8 28 .778 Casey D’Annolfo 35-21-1 201 1 Scott Conroy (0-1-1) 5 16 .762 Totals 125-69-9 702 3 Wednesday, October 27, 2004 THE TUFTS DAILY SPORTS 23

INSIDE FITNESS TIM WHELAN | Muscle imbalances can cause back, joint pain SOME KIND OF WONDER

IAN ASAFF mously imbalanced. A different Senior Staff Writer This neglect of certain muscles groups is rampant in the gym, brand of The subject I address this week and is more dangerous than passion is not one that will ever garner a many think. Muscle imbalances question. “Well, why ever can affect posture, leading to not?” your inquisitive mind asks. back pain, joint pain, and muscle t’s gotta be tough to be a It’s because the subject is neglect, pain. They can cause progress on and, by definition, you will never the focus groups to stagnate. For Cardinals fan right now. The think to ask about it. So anyway, example, your body may actually way these things go, unless here goes my rant ... resist chest development due to I Bear with me as I wax philo- an underdeveloped back. there is a coast involved, all media sophic for a moment. We, as The upper back is a commonly coverage will not be created equal. human beings, are constantly neglected body part, along with being bombarded with one side the rear delts and lower back. St. Lunatics everywhere are like of things. Skinny is good, fat free These muscle groups all con- “We won 105 games. What are we, anything is good, Kerry is good, tribute to good posture and ath- Bush is good (this column is non- letic performance. All pulling chopped liver?” partisan), working out is good. activities involve these groups, so Well, yes; many of those things if you think you are going to be Yes, in fact, you are. Like getting are good. However they are only able to lift that keg all by yourself into college, if you don’t have a good if you know the entire story, without properly working out hook you don’t have much to sell. or if you exercise moderation and your back, you’ve got another Maybe if you had been a little balance. What I’m getting at is thing coming pal. more, I don’t know, tragic, since that all too often people do some- Sadly, there is a body part that 1926, instead of being the National thing they think is good for them, suffers from even more neglect League’s Yankees, swallowing up when in reality they aren’t cover- than the back. You guessed it: It’s 16 NL titles and nine world titles. ing all the bases or they are going your legs. If I had a dollar for Oh, you haven’t won it all since to an extreme — which can actu- every guy I saw in the gym with a 1982? An ump missed a call in ‘85 ally lead to something bad. lower body that was dispropor- to lose you the title to the intrastate Example: tionately smaller than his upper Royals? You had lost the NLCS in The so-called “meathead syn- body... well, I’d have a lot of dol- ‘96, ‘00 and ‘02? Sorry, you’re going drome” is one in which a male lars. So work your legs. And your to have to buy your sympathy else- works out religiously only the back. where. I’m fresh out. muscles he can see when he The best way to make sure you I do not want this to become a stands in front of a mirror wear- aren’t a victim of muscular neg- “whose fans deserve it more?” dia- ing Adidas warm ups and no lect is to sit down and think (don’t tribe. But there are those who have shirt. This translates into endless stop reading, I just want you to gone before me who really think sets of flat bench, standing bar- think for a minute or two, I prom- they do deserve it more, so bring it bell curls, and crunches. ise) about your workout. Every on. Sometimes, the enlightened ones muscle in your body moves you I hate to say it because of its will do some shrugs to get the in a certain way. Well, it’s also true BEN THAYER/TUFTS DAILY “corporate America trying to tug at “monster traps” that look so that there is a muscle in your Leg exercises, such as this squat, should be components of any exer- your heart in order to tug at your appealing in wife-beaters, but cise program. Ignoring muscle groups such as the back or legs can be wallet” implications , but that new other than that, they are enor- see INSIDE FITNESS, page 21 very harmful. Nike ad sort of grabbed me. You know it as the one tracing the path of two brothers as Sox fans as they INSIDE THE NFL watch games together, era to era. And while some questions still linger (How did they keep those Parity returns in Week 7 as league regains balance front-row seats for all those years? No company bought them out?) I BY DAVID POMERANTZ career. couldn’t help but be affected by it. I Daily Editorial Board Its not even out of the ques- guess the evolution of a fan is tion that the Cardinals become always an easy avenue to go, but I If the beginning of this year’s more than a third party in the think they nailed it. NFL season made some fans ques- NFC West. They are 2-4 with You can tell where an organiza- tion the league’s oft-praised parity, upcoming games against tion has been just by looking at its Week Seven quickly reminded Buffalo and Miami, and the elderly fans. The picture I have of a them why the league is character- Seahawks and Rams sure aren’t Cardinals fan is of a little old lady ized by the phrase, “any given impressing anyone. with a toothy grin and maybe plas- Sunday ...” In Atlanta, Week 7 was a real- tic cardinals on each of her shoul- Going into Sunday, each divi- ity check of the worst kind. What ders that she claims chirp to her sion around the league looked had been the best rushing during the games. She can remi- more like baseball’s AL East than defense in the NFL let up an nisce about her heroes; Ozzie the typical close standings we’ve astounding eight rushing Smith, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, come to expect from the NFL. Two touchdowns to the Kansas City Stan Musial, all recalled with fond teams — if that — battled for the Chiefs, who still won’t be able to memories. All were men who fin- top spot while two or three teams pull off any sort of playoff run ished the job, per se. hopelessly played for the distinc- without stepping up their I think our old ladies are of a lit- tion of not being last. defense. The Chiefs were cer- tle different cloth than that. Did Case in point, the AFC East: tainly helped out by how lost you see the woman interviewed by Through six weeks, the New Vick continues to be in the new Fox’s Chris Myers during Game 2? England Patriots and the New York Atlanta offense. She almost interviewed him, with Jets were each 5-0, while the In the Monday night game, all the wisdom and baggage it Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins the Cincinnati Bengals brought appeared she possessed. No smile, had combined for a whopping one the cruising Denver Broncos at least not one that I could deci- win. It was Buffalo’s. It came over down to earth in their first pher. She mentioned that the Sox Miami. appearance on Monday Night were one strike away in ‘86, as if it In the NFC South, the Atlanta Football in 12 years. In an effort JOE RIMKUS JR./KRT hasn’t stopped gnawing at her no Falcons made everyone forget that to avoid headaches, try thinking matter how many 3-0 deficits her Michael Vick is having serious Sammy Morris (31) breaks the tackle of Travis Fisher (22) en route to scor- of the game as an anomaly. ing a touchdown for the Dolphins in the first quarter of Sunday’s game. team comes back from. problems running the West Coast Also in the “even good teams Were she to reminisce about her offense as they cruised to a 5-1 have hiccups against miserable heroes, my money would be on record. The rest of the division, had counted out are now right back So what happened? Well, the Rams teams from Ohio” category, the her mentioning Yaz’s season end- comprised of the New Orleans in the playoff hunt. may have showed their true colors still undefeated Philadelphia ing popup in the ‘78 playoff or Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Dolphins pulled off the in South Florida. Eagles needed overtime to beat Teddy Ballgame’s .200 average and and Carolina Panthers, had tallied biggest upset of the week, finally Mike Martz coaches the team as the Cleveland Browns. The one RBI performance in 1946. four wins between them. getting their first win of the season if he is playing Madden against the Eagles should be fine, although The Sox are going to earn every The NFL looked like it was being as they dominated the St. Louis computer on rookie. He only they are going to have to play smile if they finish this thing off, dominated by a handful of teams. Rams 31-17. “Inside the NFL” has throws (although they’ve been better run defense to keep win- though. But not until then. So Fewer teams had a higher propor- referred to the Fins as “hapless,” effective with this at times), choos- ning. Cardinals fans, wherever you are tion of the wins around the league “helpless,” “woeful” and “pathetic.” ing to ignore a Hall of Fame run- The undefeated Patriots (sure as hell not on this campus) than in any year in recent memory. Unfortunately for Miami, this game ning back in Marshall Faulk and a handed the Jets their first loss, take solace in that. Then, like Terry Tate when the told us a lot more about the Rams great up-and-comer in Stephen 13-7, extending their winning I have heard Peter Gammons, a office aid forgets to refill the coffee then it did about the Dolphins. Jackson. Defense seems to be an streak to 21 and their regular Maine down-easter and Boston maker, Week 7 came slamming Commissioner Paul Tagliabue is afterthought. season streak to an NFL record Globe-bred Red Sox Nation mem- into our worlds. As evidenced by already practicing his “With the This is where one would expect 18. ber, refer to St. Louis as the “Best the sheer and utter misery of this number one pick of the 2005 draft, to read about why the Rams would The Pats and Eagles remain Baseball Town in America” paper’s editors’ picks, (the winners the Miami Dolphins select ...” fall apart and the Seahawks would atop their respective confer- of the week went just 8-6) this speech. run away with the NFC West. ences, but below them things week’s games took everyone by The Rams, on the other hand, Except the Seahawks lost the other got a lot more interesting as the surprise. Parity’s back. Some teams looked great heading into the big upset of the week, getting dom- status quo of the NFL took some see WHELAN, page 21 that had been thought of as playoff Miami game. They had won three inated by Dennis Green’s upstart twists and turns. Expect the “any locks mere days ago took costly in a row, including an incredible Arizona Cardinals and the ageless given Sunday” parity to contin- Tim Whelan is a senior majoring in and often embarrassing steps late game comeback against the Emmitt Smith, who rushed for over ue to shake things up as playoff English. He can be reached via e-mail backward, while teams that experts Seattle Seahawks two weeks ago. 100 yards for the 78th time in his races begin to take more form. at [email protected]. 24 INSIDE Some kind of Wonder 23 Sports Inside Fitness 23 THE TUFTS DAILY WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 27, 2004

MEN’S SOCCER 1-0 win over Wesleyan takes the Jumbos one step closer to playoffs Jozwiak scores his first collegiate goal in defense dominated game BY KRISTY CUNNINGHAM crucial for the Jumbos to remain in Conroy has been hampered by Daily Editorial Board seventh place in the league and in injury all season and stayed true to playoff contention at 3-5 in league form in this match, but was forced The men’s soccer team took a play. to leave the game after the first half step towards the playoffs yesterday “This win will give us momen- with a thumb injury. with a 1-0 win over visiting tum going into the last game of the He did, however, notch three NESCAC rival Wesleyan. season and into the playoffs,” saves and helped keep the game Conference games in this last sophomore defender Jon Glass scoreless in the first 45 minutes. week of the regular season deter- said. “It was a great rebound after The two teams battled back and mine whether or not the Jumbos the heartbreaking loss to Williams. forth for the first half without will be playing on Halloween in Every conference game is so breaking the 0-0 stalemate. It was the first round of the tournament. important.” not until five minutes into the sec- “This was a must-win game for The Jumbos opened the game ond 45 minutes that Tufts finally us,” coach Ralph Ferrigno said. on a sunny afternoon ready to take broke the tie with a goal from “Ironically, we didn’t play as well as it to the Cardinals. freshman forward Dan Jozwiak. we did against Williams on Wesleyan, however, had Classmate Bob Kastoff sent an Saturday, but we did get the right momentum from its weekend 1-0 arching cross from the outside in result this time.” upset win over league powerhouse front of the goal. Jozwiak used his Tufts was coming off a heart- Amherst. height advantage over the breaking 2-1 defeat by Williams “Wesleyan is a good team,” Wesleyan defense and headed the last Saturday in which the Ephs Ferrigno said. “They had a good ball past the Wesleyan keeper for came from behind to win the win against Amherst on Saturday his first collegiate goal and the game in the last few minutes of the and we knew they would be tough only tally in the match. second half. like all of the NESCAC teams. The Jumbos continued to hold The NESCAC loss sent the That’s how they proved to be.” off the Cardinals’ offense and Tufts opened the game with orchestrate several attacks of their SCHUYLER ARMSTRONG/TUFTS DAILY Jumbos to 6-5-1 overall and 2-5 in Freshman Bob Kastoff (17) assisted classmate Dan Jozwiak for the lone the league. senior captain Scott Conroy in net see SOCCER, page 21 goal of Tufts’ win over Wesleyan. The win will help secure Tufts’ chances The win against Wesleyan was for a rare start. at a playoff berth.

FIELD HOCKEY Double-OT victory extends streak Tough win over Wesleyan gives Tufts four wins in a row

BY LIZ HOFFMAN the Tufts circle until nearly 12 minutes Daily Staff Writer into the game. However, the frustration began to In its biggest and most dramatic win mount as shot after shot from the this season, the Tufts field hockey team Jumbos ran short, wide, or right into the stretched its winning streak to four pads of Wesleyan sophomore goalkeeper games and grabbed hold of the momen- Caitlin Kelly, who turned away 15 of 18 tum that has eluded it all year as it clos- Jumbo attempts on the day. es in on postseason play. Then, at the 12-minute mark, a loose The Jumbos fought back from an early ball was picked up by the Cardinal one-goal deficit to nab a 2-1 victory over offense and carried downfield for a conference rival Wesleyan in double quick goal by junior Amy Rouse past overtime yesterday. sophomore goalkeeper Marilyn Duffy- With the win, Tufts moved to 9-4 over- Cabana. all, 5-3 in league play, and with a win “I think the girls really started to get over Connecticut College on Saturday, frustrated when they couldn’t get it in,” stands poised to host a first-round game coach Tina McDavitt said. “The longer SCHUYLER ARMSTRONG/TUFTS DAILY of the NESCAC tournament. you let a team think they’re in the game, Senior Jayme Heller (19) and junior Lea Napolitano (17) worked in the midfield to shut down The win ended Wesleyan’s seven- the longer they will be in the game, and Wesleyan’s offensive line, one of the most powerful in the NESCAC. game win streak, dropping its record to Wesleyan responded to that.” 10-3, 5-3 in conference play, and jeop- Wesleyan returned to midfield a ardizing the Cardinals’ home-field whole new team. Turning what looked to backfield shutout one of the league’s them down and try to get the ball wide,” advantage in the postseason. be a fluke goal into a threatening offen- most dominating offenses, which the sophomore back said. “I think we The game looked promising early, as sive drive, the Cardinals tightened the includes seniors Louisa Mook and Jenny did a really good job of that today.” Tufts dominated offensively, hammer- play and upped the tempo, rattling off Wasserman, who have combined for 77 The game remained close as halftime ing the Cardinal defense with five shots four shots and penetrating consistently points and a third of the team’s 42 goals approached, with runs by each team and racking up five penalty corners in into the Jumbos’ circle. Tufts’ free hits this season. turned back at the cage, and the Jumbos the first 10 minutes. Tough defensive stopped short on Wesleyan’s sticks and Watkins commented on the skill of headed to the sideline with the possibil- play by the Jumbos, led by junior tri- the Cardinals mixed powerful hits with the Cardinals’ offensive line. ity of playoff home-field advantage on captain Lea Napolitano in the midfield short passing to cover ground quickly. “We knew coming in that their center the line. and sophomore Stacey Watkins backing Tufts responded with an equally was strong, and Jayme [Heller] and Lea up, kept the Wesleyan front line out of intense defensive effort. The Jumbo [Napolitano] and I knew we had to shut see FIELD HOCKEY, page 21

SAILING Busy, successful weekend for Tufts sailors, led by Kirkland in Minnesota BY KELLEY FERRO day,” Kirkland said. “But I had two he said. temperatures in addition to MIT, the Jumbos took a third-place Daily Staff Writer penalty turns on the second [day].” Kirkland placed well with many changing winds, but there is a cer- finish on Saturday at the Smith Kirkland was penalized for top-five finishes and no penalties, tain familiarity with the Single- Trophy, and a second on Sunday at The Vanguard North American being too aggressive on the start- but the pressure was on until the Handed Championships, since he the Rudolph Oberg Trophy, other- Mens Single-Handed ing line, and also for fouling anoth- very last moment. also attended the event as a fresh- wise known as the Greater Boston Championship took place this er player, a foul he felt was unfairly “I knew I had to beat seven man and sophomore. Championships. weekend at the University of awarded to him. points,” Kirkland said. “I caught a “It was cold out there, not like Since a non-Boston team, Minnesota, where Zander One of the penalties caused him little breeze and went from mid- Bermuda,” Kirkland said. Connecticut College, won the lat- Kirkland, a Tufts junior, contended to take a last-place finish, but his fleet to sixth place.” “Freshman year I was happy-go- ter regatta the trophy was given to for the third consecutive year. other strong finishes compensated Kirkland traveled out to the lucky and I sailed fast downwind.” Tufts. Kirkland sailed to his best finish for it, leaving him in a strong state University of Minnesota with sail- That year he took fourth place Juniors Alex Singer and Rachel yet, taking a third place finish out of mind on day two. ing coach Ken Legler. in the event, and the following year Filip sailed the B division in the of the 16 teams present, seven of “[On the second day] I knew I “We came up with a good strat- he took seventh as a sophomore, a Smith Trophy and the C division which were from New England. was not far behind third,” Kirkland egy,” said Kirkland, who with result he said was a “disappoint- on Sunday, finishing third on both The event started on Friday and said. “I went into Sunday knowing Legler developed a game plan ment.” days. ended on Sunday, with a total of 16 I should be in the top three.” according to the wind shifts. Back on the east coast, the rest “We caught all the right wind races sailed during the three days. “But anything could happen. Kirkland, a native of Bermuda, of the Jumbos were busy as well. “I was pretty consistent the first Luckily the wind gods helped me,” had to deal with the Minnesota In two consecutive regattas at see SAILING, page 22