THETUFTS DAILY [Where You Read It First Monday, October 28,1996 Volume XXXIII, Number 37 I Student stabbed in gym fight Suspect found, charged with attempted murder byGREGoRY GEIMAN At this point, he became involved Daily Editorial Board in an argument with the eventual A pickup basketball game in victim. Jackson Gym Thursday night In the course of the disagree- ended with a Tufts student being ment, Key suddenly left the gym, stabbed in the abdomen, and a King said. When he returned a campus visitor being pursued by minute later, he had a knife. The local police throughout Somerville two men continued arguing, and and Cambridge. The victim, who soon after, Key stabbed the victim was unidentified, was placed in in the abdomen. intensive care at Lawrence Memo- “[Key] immediately fled the rial Hospital and released Friday scene,” King said, “but based afternoon. upon information we were able to The suspect, 22-year-old Roger obtain from witnesses, and some Maxim Key of Cambridge, faces information from the victim, we charges of attempted murder and were able to identify the suspectat assault and battery with a deadly the time.” weapon after turning himself in It was established that Key ini- Thursday night, said John King, tially fled the scene on foot, al- Tufts’ director of public safety. though there was a suspicious car Key is believed to have some con- parked inthevicinityofthegymat Photo by Rony Shram nection to Harvard University and the time of the assault. King sug- A pickop basketball game in Jackson Gym ended with a student being stabbed in the abdomen. the Harvard Police, which, King gested the suspect may have used ~~ ~~~ said, “facilitated the process” of this vehicle at some point. ties, and alerted ofthe incident. In assault and battery with a deadly Hospital, he was admitted in stable apprehending him. The knife that Key allegedly addition, police visited the homes weapon. condition, and placed in the inten- Key was arrested after inform- used was not recovered, and King of Key’s mother and girlfiend to Key is being held by the sive care unit. At 1:30 p.m. on ing the Harvard Police that he in- said he believes Key disposed of see whether he was hiding out in Somerville District Court until Friday, the victim was released, tended to turn himself in to the weapon. either residence. Atler a nearly Tuesday, atwhich time aprobable with the provision that he return Somerville Police, concluding a Once Tufts Police verified that five-hour search, King said, cause hearing is scheduled. for daily checkups at the hospital five-hour search by local authori- Key was not amember oftheTufts “through some information ob- Since Key was carrying no for- infirmary. ties. At press time, King was un- community, they attempted to lo- tained by the Harvard University mal identification when arrested, King said the twosfudents who able to elaborate on the connec- cate his residence,discovering that Police, we were informedatabout Kingsaid policeare notpositive of invited Keytoattend thegame will tion between Key and Harvard. he had a Somerville home in addi- 4 a.m. that the suspect intended to his identity and are not sure if the be asked to meet with Associate King said that Key was invited tion to his mother’s residence in turn himself in, which he did at suspect hasapriorcriminal record. Dean of Students Bruce Reitman to the gym by two Tufts students Cambridge. At that point, SornerviI le pol ice headquarters.” Thevictim was consciouswhen to determine if they will face any to participate in the game, which Somervilleandcambridge Police Upon his surrender, Key was TEMS and Tufts Police arrived on disciplinary action. was attended by both students were notified ofKey’s description booked by both Tu& Police and the scene. While he was bleeding and outsiders. At some point in and became involved in the inves- Somerville authorities. He was ar- heavily from his wound, King said, “In the course ofour investiga- the game, however, Key was ex- tigation. raigned in SommilleDislrict Court the victim never lost conscious- tion,” he said, “it appears that the cluded from playing, and he“took The suspect’s friends and rela- on Friday morning, and charged ness. two students were surprised by some objection to that,” King said. tives were contacted by authori- with attempttocommit murder and Taken to Lawrence Memorial the actions of their guest.” Class brings JapaneseT I to elementary schools by!SITPHANIE BLUMSEIN All six students have lived or studied in Contributing Writer Japan at some point in their lives. They also Tufts undergraduates are teaching Japa- all have had some form of counseling or nese culture and language in local elemen- tutoring experience. tary schools through a new course intro- Funding forthe program during the ‘96- duced this year in the German/Russian/ ’97 school year was donated by a friend of Asian Languages Department. Inouye’s residing in Japan. After the con- Outliningthe main focus ofthe program, clusion of this year, lnouye said, the pro- Daiiy file photo Professor Charles Inouye said the objec- gram will not be supported by this form of Eaton Hall was the site of Thursday night’s panel discussion of modern slavery. tive is to “start Japanese study in the [el- funding. Organizers of the program said ementary] schools; to prepare the students they are working to include the program in for the world of intercultural interactions.” the institutional budget as soon as pos- still The six students enrolled in the one sible. Panelists say slavery is credit undergraduate course, listed as Once a week, the six students go to a “Teaching Internship in Japanese,” learn third grade classroom at Bowman Elemen- a reality in the third world how to teach Japanese culture and lan- tary School in Lexington, MA. guage to students in local schools. The lessons are mainly taught and lead by JEFF MARGOLIES like conditions around the world today.” Explainingthe lack ofJapanese language by one undergraduate, but the other mem- Contributing Writer Giving an overview of the problems re- and culture courses at elementary schools, bers of the program also provide help and The first of a series of seminars on sla- sulting from slavery, Jacobs said, “Accord- despite considerable demand, lnouye said, assistance to the elementary school stu- very, the American Anti-Slavery Group ing to the AASG, there are more slaves “Most public schools have no resources to dents. (AASG) held a panel discussion on the around the world today than ever before. start a Japanese program, so we are trying Activities have included teaching about atrocitiesof slavery in third world countries There are Indian children that are shackled tohelpout bysharingour limited resources. Japanese food, origami, calligraphy, and Thursday evening in Eaton Hall. to the loom and weave the oriental carpets When thesechildren reach thecollege level, the importance of the kimono in society. Tufts senior Rishi Manchanda, who has that we walk on every day. they will have had some experience with While there is a large cultural aspect to the been working alongside the AASG as an “There are sexual slaves in Asiawho are Japanese.” class, the six students always try to incor- intern, said he brought thegroup tocampus either sold by their parents at a young age, ‘‘It isareally important program. Oneof porate parts of the Japanese language into to spark interest and raise awareness. or kidnapped off the streets. They wind up our main goals is to get rid of the stereo- the lesson. “The problem of slavery today is very in brothels. Haitian people are picked up in types people have about Japan,” Abby Each week, the third graders bring home hard to address,” Manchanda said. “There government sweeps and forced to do sugar Pratt, a participating student, said. what they made in class to show their par- is very much concern but it has been ne- cane work.” The six student teaching team also in- ents,andmustgettheirparentstosignaslip glected by the human rights community.” Jacobs said that each time that Western cludes students Oren Bernstein. Michael verifying that they in fact have seen the Panelist Charles Jacobs, the Research society hears about the slavery, action is Capati, Kharil Kirtman, Rachel Lichtig, and project their child has done. Director for the AASG, said, “Most of us usually taken. Former President Bush put Ian Weston; and is supervised and run by Pratt said she feels that “the kids are believe that slavery was an evil past. In fact, Japanese language professor Kiyoko there are millions of people living in slave- see FORUM, page 10 Morita. see JAPANESE, page 10 .. .. .. .. page two THE TUFTS DAILY Monday, October 28,1996 rHE TUFTSDAILE Letters to the Editor John B. O’Keefe the sentiments of several Tufts students.” response to “charges of bigotry” initiated Editor-in-Chief Two Senate incidents Last year, a group of students of color by students of color is insul?ficient. Last Managing Editor: DanTobin were not similar I prevented the Senate from continuing its year’s incident resulted in weeks of Senate Associate Editors: Bill Copeland, Karen Epstein To the Editor: meeting by occupying the meeting area. debate and a campus-wide referendum - Production Managers: Pratiksha Thakkar, In his letter, (Duily, 10124196) Ashish The Daily recorded this as “civil disobedi- certainly an adequate response. The bot- Raquel Almeida, Karen Thompson Shah accuses the Daily of biased coverage ence,” a term defined as “resistance to tom line is that charges ofracism, regardless NEWS of racial issues. He also claims that the unjust laws and acts of government.” Civil of their source, are never taken lightly by Editors: Gregoty Geiman, Pete Sanborn Senate’s reaction to charges of racism by disobedience is a noble method of protest; the Duih, the Senate, the administration, or .Assistant Editor: Linda Bentley students of color is insufficient.