Today’s weather: Where You partly cloudy Read It First 67/49 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 28 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008 TUFTSDAILY.COM SigNu brothers caught with drugs; two withdraw BY JE R E MY WHIT E has learned. They were arrested judicial process, according to a scrutiny from its national orga- Continuing coverage Daily Editorial Board and faced threats of expulsion. member of the fraternity’s exec- nization after an infraction in Sophomore Adam Koltun said utive board. O’Hara and McNutt spring 2008, when TUPD discov- The Daily is investigating this Tufts University Police Dep- he has withdrawn from Tufts. could not be reached for com- ered a beer keg in the fraternity’s story, and further coverage will artment (TUPD) officers found Junior Andrew O’Hara has also ment. house. Having the keg there vio- follow soon. Keep an eye out for three brothers from the Sigma decided to withdraw while The charges come during lated university policy. upcoming issues. Nu fraternity in possession of junior Jacob McNutt has chosen troubled times for Tufts’ SigNu narcotics last month, the Daily to go through the university’s chapter, which has been under see DRUGS, page 2 Students lend a Senate to hold forum on recovered funds hand at Homeless Invest in JPMorgan Chase; buy the country of Iceland. Those are just two suggestions students have given the Tufts Coalition’s 5K run Community Union (TCU) Senate on how to use the $714,291.72 it recovered last BY ELL E N KAN month from the embezzlement scandal. Contributing Writer Senators will consider students’ more feasible ideas at a town hall-style meeting Somerville residents and a range of Tufts at 5 p.m. today in Hotung Café. community members turned out in record “This is supposed to be a campus numbers for the 13th Annual Somerville brainstorming session,” TCU President Homeless Coalition (SHC) 5K Road Race on Duncan Pickard said. “What I’m really Oct. 4, helping the SHC meet fundraising goals hoping to get … is just more ideas.” despite the negative economic climate. The Senate will not craft any definitive University President Lawrence Bacow and plans at the forum, which will be the first his wife, Adele, led a conglomerate of Tufts of two. students, faculty and staff members who ran Still, some proposals have stuck out the race. Another group of students provided in the weeks following the Senate’s assistance. announcement that it had received res- “Adele and I have run this race many times. titution for the money allegedly stolen by It is always great to see so many Tufts students, former Office of Student Life employees faculty and staff turn out for the run. It gives Jodie Neally and Ray Rodriguez. Achieving me yet another reason to be very proud to be campus-wide wireless Internet access and President of Tufts,” Bacow told the Daily in an contributing funds to the Tufts Mountain e-mail. Club’s planned Trips Cabin have been two The SHC received less corporate sponsor- such ideas. ship this year due to the national financial “I’m sure [those] will come up [at the turmoil. While this meant that there were fewer meeting],” Pickard said. funds raised than the year before, the SHC still Since the Senate is now looking at an raised enough funds to continue operations. unprecedented surplus, it makes sense Over 1,000 runners participated in the road to put the money at the student body’s race, 300 more than last year. “I was surprised Leaving warm disposal, according to Pickard. by the number of people. As I was approaching “For me, $700,000 is a lot of money to the finish line I saw a lot more people than I had weather behind have sitting around,” he said. expected,” said sophomore John Atsalis, who As for purchasing Iceland: “That’s a participated in the race. great idea,” Pickard joked. “It would solve The coalition raised more than $30,000, the housing problem.” which will go toward its operating fund. The MITCHELL DUFFY/TUFTS DAILY Students welcomed autumn’s dropping temperatures and falling leaves yesterday. They —by Rob Silverblatt see RACE, page 2 threw together a pile of multicolored leaves on the Academic Quad, then dove right in. Mass. voters could ban BY CHRISTINA PA pp AS David Watson, executive write a ticket for cyclists,” Watson Contributing Writer director of the advocacy group said. “It’s a separate process from dog racing on Nov. 4 MassBike, said the discrepancy issuing a ticket to a motorist, and CambridgeStudents can often belaws found affectmight be amplifiedincreasing by bureau- cyclistit’s an administrative population burden, so BY LE SLI E OGD E N racing activists contest that the rules pedaling up the Hill or down cratic practices that prevent some most towns don’t want to do it.” Contributing Writer themselves are inhumane and the College Avenue to Davis Square. towns from enforcing cycling But Murphy saw no justifica- conditions at the tracks amount to But those heading all the way laws. tion for such a discrepancy. “We Is dog racing in Massachusetts a animal cruelty. The Massachusetts to Cambridge may want to take “Under current Massachusetts cruel, archaic pastime or a respon- State Racing Commission (MSPCA) extra precaution. law, there is a special procedure to see CYCLING, page 2 sible industry that supports the oversees the industry. With a recent rise in the num- livelihood of hundreds of people? Since 2002, more than 800 dogs ber of bicyclists on the road, the Voters will decide the fate of hun- have been injured while racing in city has come under scrutiny for dreds of workers and thousands of Massachusetts. Nearly 80 percent its enforcement of particularly greyhounds on Nov. 4 when they of these injuries have involved bro- strict cycling laws. vote on the Massachusetts state ken legs, while other injuries have “We have been enforcing ballot’s Question 3. included paralysis, cardiac arrest these laws for over a decade,” A number of animal rights groups and broken necks. Sgt. Kathleen Murphy of the have endorsed Question 3, “The Christine Dorchak, co-chair of Cambridge Police Bicycle Unit Greyhound Protection Act,” which the Committee to Protect Dogs, a said. “Now we’re suddenly getting will determine whether dog racing group that supports Question 3, press for it.” remains legal in Massachusetts. told the Daily that hundreds of dogs Many cyclists do not consider Passage of the referendum would will continue to be injured if grey- themselves bound by the same close the two pari-mutuel grey- hound racing continues. laws as motorists, Murphy said. hound racetracks in Massachusetts “[Dog racers] keep dogs boxed When such cyclists are pulled and potentially put hundreds of up in 32-inch-wide-by-34-inch- over, they frequently argue people out of work. high cages for an average of 20 semantics with police officers, Question 3’s opponents argue hours a day,” she said. According to she said. The rules of cycling in that greyhound tracks follow state- state records, one dog goes down Cambridge are stricter than those ALI MEHLSAK/TUFTS DAILY imposed regulations and thus, do of the surrounding towns, and the A man bikes in Harvard Square. Cambridge’s more stringent cyclist laws nothing wrong. Anti-greyhound see QUESTION, page 2 discrepancy causes confusion. have elicited complaints from some bikers. Inside this issue Today’s Sections Junior Jesse Faller led all Schools across the coun- Div. III runners at Open News 1 Editorial | Letters 8 try look to hotels to deal New Englands over the Features 3 Comics 9 with housing crunches. weekend. Arts | Living 5Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Police Briefs Tufts nutritionist leaves SORE LOSER had been removed from the ceiling. university with accolades The individual told officers that he had Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) removed the detector because it was too BY CARTER ROGERS seven years,” he said. “It was just time to do officers responded to a call at 1:40 a.m. on loud and he could not sleep. He was written Contributing Writer something else.” Oct. 12 reporting that someone had broken up and a report was sent to the dean’s office In his current job, Russell helps the NIH’s a window at 123 Packard Ave., the Theta for failure to leave a building during a fire The American Society for Nutrition Office of Dietary Supplements decide where Delta Chi fraternity house. When officers alarm. awarded Robert Russell its David Kritchevsky to put resources and perform research. arrived, the suspect, a Tufts student, was Career Achievement Award in Nutrition “NIH is the fundamental research source walking away with a female companion. NO CANDLES, PLS — NO, RLY before he retired this summer from his posi- and funding source for medical research in Officers approached the individual and tion as director of Tufts’ Jean Mayer United this country,” he said. asked him what happened. He told them A TUPD officer heard a fire alarm going States Department of Agriculture (USDA) It is this research that separates the USDA that he had been with a group of friends off at 12:18 a.m. on Monday in the Hillside Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and the NIH. “Research is a minor part and they had all gotten into the party except Apartments. Students exiting the building (HNRCA). of the USDA portfolio. Their major things for him, according to TUPD Sgt. Robert told the officer, who had been called in for The American Society for Nutrition is a [have] to do with entitlement programs and McCarthy.