Where You Partly Cloudy Read It First 61/52 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXII, NUMBER 56 MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011 TUFTSDAILY.COM University plans to use state public nudity definition in NQR ban enforcement BY SAUMYA VAI S HAMPAYAN The ban as stipulated in Daily Editorial Board the Code of Conduct uses the terms “public nudity” and As Dec. 12 approaches, the “public semi-nudity,” adding last day of class that no longer that the former is a criminal implies a frigid dash around activity in Massachusetts and the Res Quad public nudity could result in arrest. But the may be on the mind of many vague language in the Code Tufts students. of Conduct and references to This semester marks the first criminal activity and arrest under the ban on the Naked leave some questions unan- Quad Run (NQR), an event swered. held annually in mid-Decem- Under Massachusetts ber to celebrate the end of General Law, nudity is defined the fall classes, which Former as “uncovered or less than University President Lawrence opaquely covered human geni- Bacow last March announced tals, pubic areas, the human that the university would no female breast below a point longer sanction. immediately above the top of Dean of Student Affairs the areola, or the covered male Bruce Reitman in a Nov. 14 genitals in a discernibly turgid email reinforced the ban on state.” Nudity falls under the NQR, clarifying that any stu- broader category of indecent dent who participates will face exposure, which is generally suspension for the subsequent defined as the public display semester. The Committee on of genitalia when others are Student Life (CSL) decided present, often with the intent COURTESY PHIL HOFFMAN unanimously to include the to shock. Students participate in this year’s ALLIES Intellectual Roundtable conference. ban in the Code of Conduct A guilty verdict for indecent for the Schools of Arts and exposure could result in up Sciences and Engineering and to six months in jail, fines up the Graduate School of Arts to $200 and probation for the and Sciences, so that all stu- charged individual, according BY MAHPARI SOTOUDEH from other schools, includ- understanding and to conduct dents would become aware of Daily Editorial Board ing the Air Force Academy, the SIMULEX exercise, a day- the ban. see NUDITY, page 2 ALLIES RoundtableBrown focuses University, on thepost-conflict U.S. long event relationsin which partici- The Alliance Linking Leaders Naval Academy and Boston pants solved a mock-security in Education and the Services University participated in the dilemma between the Mexican TCU Senate (ALLIES), a student group run event along with 25 Tufts stu- and American governments, under the Institute for Global dents, according to ALLIES according to Patten. Senate grants 11 surplus fund Leadership (IGL) dedicated member Anna Patten, a soph- The theme of the confer- to promoting civilian under- omore. Patten was the direc- ence was “Picking Up The requests, including Charles Tufts statue standing of military issues and tor of this year’s conference. Pieces” and aimed to explore Last night, the Tufts Community to purchase an additional van to be improving civilian-military The Roundtable brought the future of post-conflict Union (TCU) Senate voted on 12 managed by the Office for Campus relations hosted its annual together students from the relations between civilians proposals for surplus grant fund- Life (OCL) for general student group Intellectual Roundtable con- different official chapters of and the armed forces, accord- ing, totaling $169,700. The use. ference this weekend. ALLIES in order to discuss body approved all but one of the Senate also approved requests Approximately 20 students the issue of civilian-military see ALLIES, page 2 requests. from Tufts Robotics Club for $6,000 Surplus grants are designed to to purchase a 3-D printer, the Crafts be distributed to students who pro- Center for $3,500 to replace sup- pose large-scale capital improvement plies broken when being moved out Bazaar encourages socially responsible consumption projects. They are available to TCU- of Lewis Hall and Tufts University recognized and non-TCU recognized Television for $4,000 for a set-build- groups alike. ing project. The body also approved BY LEAH LAZER Should some of the $200,000 $2,600 for the purpose of purchas- Daily Staff Writer made available for surplus grants ing more effective compost bins for at the beginning of the year remain on-campus dorms. Students filled the Mayer unallocated by May 2012, the money The body rejected a proposal from Campus Center on Friday for will be returned to the surplus fund the OCL, which requested $36,000 the third annual OneWorld for the next year. to finish renovations to the Mayer Global Crafts Bazaar, which The most heated debate last Campus Center. The body largely featured fair-trade crafts and night took place as the Senate dis- believed that the request was not products from around the cussed a $100,000 request from in line with appropriate uses of the globe. senior Nathan Beaton, a representa- Student Activities Fee. The event was designed to tive of the Administration and Policy The Senate also reviewed four unite many campus student Committee, to fund a statue of Tufts’ proposals for buffer funding, money groups behind a common namesake Charles Tufts. Those pres- available for student groups at project in order to address ent debated for 90 minutes before any point during the year to cover global poverty issues and voting to allocate $25,000 to the unforeseen expenditures. highlight innovative solu- project. The project is estimated to The Senate approved buffer tions to global inequali- cost a total of $200,000. funding requests for themselves for ties, according to OneWorld Three groups, Tufts Mountain $2,350 for preparations for their President Marla Spivack. She VIRGINIA BLEDSOE/TUFTS DAILY Club, the Sharewood Project and Boston Intercollegiate Assembly added that the event raised Students at Friday’s OneWorld Bazaar purchased fair-trade products and the Leonard Carmichael Society, dinner and $2,821 for TuftsLife to over $3,000. learned about socially responsible consumption. were each given up to $30,000 in buy a new server. The Senate voted The profits of the bazaar will funding to buy vans for group use. to allocate $2,095 to WMFO Tufts be donated to GoodWeave, a that the organization places gloves and fair-trade coffee JumboCast was allotted $13,600 to Freeform Radio for renovations to non-profit organization that any children they find in the and chocolate from countries purchase a boxed van to help move Studio C, the group’s auxiliary studio inspects rug-manufacturing manufacturing facilities in around the world. equipment when filming athletic that has been offline since 2009. facilities in India and Nepal school or day care. Many of the crafts sold competitions. Tufts Christian Fellowship was denied to ensure that no child labor The bazaar featured goods were provided by larger orga- Given the many requests to pur- funding for a scholarship. is used in the production such as beaded jewelry nizations, such as SERRV chase vans, Allocations Board (ALBO) of their rugs, according to made by women in Uganda, requested and was granted $30,000 —by Gabrielle Hernandez Spivack, a senior. She added handmade scarves, hats and see BAZAAR, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections The Daily takes a look News 1 Op-Ed 9 at the Department of Adele’s new live album Child Development’s showcases her talent Features 3 Comics 12 American Sign Language and diverse repertoire. Arts & Living 5Sports 13 Program. Editorial | Letters 8 Classifieds 15 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Monday, December 5, 2011 Students learn TUPD to exercise discretion in NQR ban violation enforcement NUDITY about fair-trade continued from page 1 to Director of Public and Environmental products Safety Kevin Maguire. He added that being arrested and charged with a crime BAZAAR results in a permanent court record of continued from page 1 arrest, regardless of the court’s final and Ten Thousand Villages, groups decision. that gather and sell crafts from There is no specific ordinance, how- many smaller non-profit compa- ever, that covers public nudity or inde- nies in order to make fair trade cent exposure in Somerville, according goods accessible to consumers on to Somerville City Clerk John Long. a large scale, according to Spivack “We don’t have a definition of inde- and senior Dahlia Norry, an execu- cent exposure,” he said. “Just because tive member of OneWorld. there is not a local ordinance that says, The theme of this year’s bazaar ‘in Somerville, you may not be naked in was socially responsible consump- public view,’ that doesn’t mean that you tion; previous years have centered can be publicly naked.” on themes such as women and Long said that there is often no local youth empowerment, according to ordinance if the matter in question is Spivack. covered under state law. “We are hoping to educate the Somerville Deputy Police Chief Paul community about ways to be a Upton agreed, adding that the “over- socially responsible consumer, and whelming majority” of charges fall that means education about fair under state law, not city ordinance vio- trade,” she said. lation. Norry hopes visitors learned more “If we made an arrest for indecent about how to engage in socially exposure they would be charged under responsible consumption by pur- state law,” he said. “It’s very rarely that chasing fair-trade crafts and learn- we charge somebody under a city ordi- ing about the people and commu- nance violation.