THE TUFTS DAILY Est

Where You Sunny Read It First 49/32 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXIII, NUMBER 11 FRiday, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 TUFTSDAILY.COM Love146 promotes awareness of child sex trafficking BY SHANA FRIEDMAN Yoon, a senior, started the Tufts Love146 campus organization is pending official recog- ness of child sex trafficking but also to further Daily Editorial Board chapter after being sexually assaulted on nition, according to Yoon, making it currently establish the Tufts chapter of the organization campus during the fall of her junior year by ineligible for Tufts Community Union (TCU) as a fixture on campus. Tufts’ chapter of Love146, an international a student from a different university. She Senate funding. Student organizers covered “I think as a group we’re just starting up non-governmental organization (NGO) dedi- spoke calmly about her experience and then the costs associated with last night’s event. at Tufts, so I see this as a first contact for cated to the abolition of child sex slavery and described the circumstances that surround “Everything is coming out of our own people to learn about the issues, the group exploitation, last night hosted a Valentine’s child sex slavery. pockets, but we don’t mind at all because this and Love146 apart from Tufts,” Elaine Kim, Day event in order to promote awareness “They’re forced to have abortions in the is something we really believe in,” Yoon told a junior in charge of design and marketing of the Love146 organization on campus and brothels so that they can be continued to be the Daily. for the group and an organizer of last night’s spread its message about the eradication of sold over and over again,” Yoon said. “Some The event’s fundraising efforts constituted event, told the Daily. child sex trafficking. girls are sold up to ten times a night. When the postcard and t-shirt sales, and the first $350 Yoon further explained the group’s mission The event, titled “Broken Hearts: Something girls are taken out of the brothels, they want to in proceeds will be diverted to reimburse the and its attitude toward raising awareness and Worth Celebrating,” was held in the Sophia commit suicide, even in safe homes.” student organizers for the costs of organiz- generating activism. Gordon Multipurpose Room. Vanessa Lin, who helped coordinate the ing the event. The remainder will be donated “We don’t just want people to come and “We’re celebrating our broken hearts event, explained that her involvement in to the cause of ending child sex trafficking. donate a twenty-dollar bill and walk out and because out of our broken hearts comes com- Love146 at Tufts started when she watched the Students in attendance emphasized not have experienced something for them- passion,” Jane Jihae Yoon, the founder of the film “Taken,” which chronicles two American their belief that this organization repre- selves,” she told the Daily. “Love146 is about Tufts’ chapter of Love146, said. girls’ abductions into the sex slave trade over- sents a critical opportunity to address a creating an experience for people that come The evening opened with screenings of two seas. The story the film told, though fictional, pertinent issue. to our events. We want them to feel like they’re short promotional videos for Love146 that captured her attention. “My mom was a domestic violence law- a part of it and that they’re getting something emphasized the organization’s mission and “My heart was just gripped. It was more yer so we talked about these issues a lot, out of giving.” message. Members of the Tufts chapter then than a cinematic emotional experience, and but I never felt like I did anything about it,” “Our hope is that everyone who comes to explained how they became involved with the it wasn’t just Hollywood,” Lin, a sophomore, Jordan Anderson, a freshman, told the Daily. our event will have their heart break for these issue, and the event concluded with an infor- said. “I couldn’t comprehend the fact that I “This organization gave me the opportunity children and that any giving that they do or mal dialogue inspired by discussion questions could have been that girl,” she said. to change that.” raising awareness that they do after will be out placed throughout the venue. The Tufts Love146 chapter’s status as a The event served not only to raise aware- of compassion,” she added. Steer discusses World Bank’s BY BRIONNA JIMER S ON mate control was a problem for rich people,” Daily Editorial Board he said. “Ten years ago, 10 percent of our clients worldwide said ‘climate control is so World Bank Special Envoy for Climate important; it should be one of the top four Change Andrew Steer visited the Hill last things we work on.’ Last year, 95 percent said effortsnight to discuss the World on Bank’s initiativesclimate ‘please make control climate change one of the top and work concerning climate change and three or four things you’re working on.’” the intersection of policy and action in con- He noted that the goal is to limit global trolling its effects. warming to two degrees Celsius, though The lecture was part of Fletcher School he thinks that a more realistic expectation of Law and Diplomacy Professor William would be a four-degree increase. Moomaw’s Sustainable Development “This is not about tweaking at the mar- Diplomacy course. Moomaw is also the gins; we can’t gradually do it differently,” director of the Center for International he said. “These are choices, and you can’t Environment and Resource Policy at the straddle between two paths very long.” COURTESY OF JUSTIN MCCALLUM Fletcher School. Steer cited successful endeavors in South The winners of Rooftop Comedy’s Tufts University Talent Search (Max Cohen, Ian Steer’s position with the World Bank is Africa, Qatar and China but said that the Donovan, Haydn Forrest, Bradley Frizzell, Clay Grable, Matthew Nazarian, Aliza Small equivalent to vice-president of the organiza- organization still has a long way to go in and Sam Zuckert) will go on to compete against Emerson College at Improv Boston on tion, according to Moomaw. stopping climate change. Tuesday, March 27 in the TBS National College Comedy Competition. At the World Bank, Steer directs and “The bad news is, even with all of our implements plans in over 130 countries with plans added together, with the most opti- regard to creating a more environmentally mistic agenda, we’re nowhere close to where conscious attitude toward climate, oversee- we want to be,” Steer said. ing the $6.5 billion dollar Climate Investment Steer discussed the emotional and eco- New OEO Director Zellmer Funds. With more than three years of experi- nomic devastation that often accompanies ence in the World Bank and in diplomacy unsuccessful planning and policy reform. concerning environmental and resource “To allow negotiations to throw away our plans to focus on Title IX policy, Steer brought his expertise to Tufts futures … it’s a great tragedy,” he said. “It is and discussed the urgency of creating effec- important we do not lose that in our sophis- BY VICTORIA LEI S TMAN local laws and regulations; extensive tive policy and supporting grassroots and ticated diplomacy. Let’s not forget there are Daily Editorial Board experience in designing, developing national-level organizations. issues of justice here and issues related to and implementing training programs; “There are two worlds: negotiation and our children, and our children’s children.” Jill Zellmer in November became direct case management experience action,” Steer said. “We’re hoping to bring The event drew approximately 50 attend- the new director of the Office of Equal and excellent communications skills,” the action into negotiation to create some- ees — a mix of graduate and undergraduate Opportunity (OEO), filling a position that Baenen said. thing that gives us a chance.” students along with residents of the sur- was left vacant for seven months prior. Zellmer previously worked at the He noted that there is a distinct difference rounding communities. The previous director, Jacqueline Massachusetts Commission Against between policy and implementation. Moomaw implements and arranges such Hymes, left Tufts in March of 2011, forcing Discrimination. She then worked on “There are many dimensions to what the events to provide students with a ground- the university to begin the extensive pro- international investigations of discrimi- World Bank is doing,” he added. “We look at ed image and understanding of the career cess of finding a new director, according nation, harassment, fraud and embez- the science of climate change, and we can’t opportunities and realities of those endeav- to Michael Baenen, University President zlement at the corporate level, accruing afford to wait … By 2015, we shouldn’t be oring to change and improve the global Anthony Monaco’s chief of staff. 15 years of experience in the field before getting [international] agreements to address approach to climate change. “In order to conduct a thorough search applying for her position at Tufts. climate change, but doing something.” “The course plays back and forth between at a director level, it is not unusual for “I’ve been in several different kinds of Steer began the lecture by drawing a reading articles and discussions, and we’re the process to take six or more months,” settings doing the same work, and I love distinction between present and past atti- having people here who are doing this stuff,” Baenen told the Daily in an email. what I do,” she said. tudes toward climate control. Nations and Moomaw said. “In the conversation sur- Zellmer was ultimately chosen for The most pressing issue Zellmer has their leaders seek input from the World rounding climate control, there’s nothing the position based on her extensive found at Tufts is devising a plan to imple- Bank when creating climate-related poli- about the World Bank, yet the World Bank prior experience in the field, according ment Title IX regulations, she said.

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