Where You Sunny Read It First 38/28 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXI, NUMBER 22 TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts professor to chair Harvard board BY ELIZAB E TH MCKAY [Harvard] President [Drew] Daily Editorial Board Faust and her colleagues in their vigorous efforts to adapt Harvard University last week to changing times and to announced that a Tufts pro- maintain Harvard’s standing fessor, Leila Fawaz, will serve as one of the best universities as president of its Board of in the world,” Fawaz said in an Overseers for the 2011-12 aca- e-mail to the Daily. demic year. Members of the board Fawaz, the Issam M. Fares elect the president yearly, professor of Lebanese and according to Harvard’s Senior Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Communications Director will assume her position after John Longbrake. Harvard’s commencement in Robert Shapiro will round May. She is the founding direc- out the board’s leadership as BRUCE WANG/TUFTS Daily tor of Tufts’ Fares Center for the vice-chair of the Board’s TCU President Sam Wallis, pictured above second from right at a Feb. 27 Senate meeting, was part of a Eastern Mediterranean Studies executive committee. Shapiro, delegation of senators representing Tufts at the inauguaral NESCAC summit. and has served on the Harvard a prominent Boston lawyer and board since 2006. former president of the Harvard The Board of Overseers is Alumni Association, will also TCU Senators discuss alcohol abuse one of two governing bodies at assume his post in May. Harvard. The board assists the Fawaz predicts that the Harvard administration in an board’s goals for the coming with NESCAC peers at conference advisory capacity and oversees academic year will crystallize the visitation and review of in the coming months. BY KATHRYN OLS O N TCU President Sam Wallis and they’ve attempted to work them Harvard’s schools, according “I anticipate that we Daily Editorial Board Senator Yulia Korovikov repre- out,” Korovikov, a sophomore, to Fawaz. The other body is the will be thinking about such sented Tufts at the summit hosted said. “We asked ourselves, ‘What recently revamped Harvard issues as Harvard’s evolving Two Tufts Community Union at Connecticut College. The aim can we do better as a group to Corporation, which supervises international agenda, its (TCU) senators this weekend of the summit was to help par- work towards a better system?’” finance and business affairs. efforts to think innovatively attended the inaugural New ticipants gain a better understand- Summit participants concluded Fawaz says she hopes to use about teaching and learning England Small College Athletic ing of underage alcohol abuse at that students abuse alcohol at her tenure as president of the in the college and across Conference (NESCAC) Summit NESCAC schools. dangerous levels and that shots of board to continue to guide Harvard’s schools and the on Alcohol to share Tufts’ experi- “The goal of the summit was hard liquor pose the greatest risk Harvard’s evolution. ways the different parts of the ences with the problem of under- to identify which problems all “Together with my fellow age drinking. NESCAC schools face and how see ALCOHOL, page 2 overseers, I hope to support see HARVARD, page 2 New event marks Boiler failure at Tufts heating plant left uphill dorms with decreased heat The uphill central heating plant, which is responsible for heating the dormitories end of Black in the area, on Sunday experienced boiler problems that caused a temporary reduction in the temperatures of many buildings. History Month “We did have heat in all the dorms, just at a lower rate,” Director of Facilities Services BY LAINA PI E RA Bob Burns said. “We never lost heat. We Daily Editorial Board were putting out reduced heat, because we lost a boiler.” Students, faculty and members of Despite the reduced heat levels in uphill the community last night gathered at dorms, the Department of Facilities Services Granoff Family Hillel Center to close did not receive any reports of complaints out Black History Month with a cel- from members of the Tufts community, ebration of black history and culture. Burns said. The Black History Month Celebration, Vice President for Operations Dick sponsored by the Tufts Black Men’s Reynolds said that Facilities monitored the Group and the Africana Center, fea- temperatures of the affected dorms; boiler tured performances by the all-female problem did not last long enough to sig- DANAI MACRIDI/TUFTS DAILY a capella group Essence, the ENVY nificantly reduce temperatures in affected Several uphill dormitories, including Carmichael, were affected by a boiler failure on Sunday. Step Team, Berklee College of Music buildings. student Nick Hakim and Matt Rose “Nothing ever got below 64 degrees,” He said that all of the residence halls ser- he estimates that normal heat returned and the Crossover Kidz, a hip hop/rap he said. viced by the central plant — and therefore to dorms by midnight. Facilities yester- band also made up of students from Two of the boilers used to generate impacted by the boiler crash — are uphill: day was still working on the boiler that Berklee. heat for uphill dorms stopped working, Blakely, Carmichael, Hallowell, Hill, Hillside had been experiencing pump difficulties, Sophomore Gabrielle Raymond also Reynolds said. The central plant, located by Apartments, Houston, Miller, West and Reynolds said. read her essay, which took second place the smokestack adjacent to Dowling Hall, Wren. At approximately 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, in January’s MLK Reflections Contest. usually runs on two out of its three boilers at Reynolds said that heat in other buildings Reynolds sent out an e-mail to let residents There was an open mic for attendees to a time, but on Sunday was down to just one and downhill dorms is supplied by separate of affected dorms know that Facilities had share their thoughts about black his- operational boiler. heating plants. restored the central plant to its standard tory and culture. One of the boilers’ pumps malfunctioned “We have a number of heating systems working capacity. Senior Shabazz Stuart, one of the due to low-quality fuel, and the third boiler around the campus. So many dorms were To prevent future boiler problems at event’s organizers, said the idea for the — an older piece of equipment typically unaffected,” Burns said. the central plant, Burns said that Facilities event came up two weeks ago when reserved as a backup — would not start, The boiler stopped functioning at approxi- is looking into modernizing the aging members of the Black Men’s Group Reynolds explained. mately 9 a.m. on Sunday, Reynolds said. equipment. realized there was a void to fill. “We were unable to get fuel to one of Facilities was notified of the problem by an “We want to make sure we provide good “Black history is American history,” the boilers because of a problem we’re hav- alarm that goes off when a boiler goes out service to the community,” Burns said. Stuart said. “To know black history ing with delivery of oil to the plant,” he said. of service, and responded quickly to try to Reynolds said updates to the central and to understand black history is to “There has been a problem with fuel delivery repair it, Burns said. plant are planned for this summer, while understand who we are as Americans. and quality of oil.” “For about 12 hours, we had people boiler replacements remain longer-term We talked about priorities for the The inability to pump fuel to the boiler was working on it all day [Sunday],” he said. goals. semester. We said, ‘No one’s doing any- due to both poor oil viscosity and a technical Reynolds said one of the boilers started failure of the pump, according to Burns. up again around 9 p.m. the same day, and —by Jenny White see CELEBRATION, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections Chef Dan Barber (LA The Daily’s photo News 1 Op-Ed 11 ’92) has made a pas- department takes an sion for cooking devel- upclose look at a few Features 3 Comics 12 oped at Tufts into an cultural events held Arts | Living 5Sports 13 award-winning career. this weekend. Captured 8 Classifieds 15 Editorial | Letters 10 see FEATURES, page 3 see CAPTURED, page 8 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Groups collaborate to put on Black History Month celebration at Hillel CELEBRATION continued from page 1 thing for Black History Month. There’s no opportunity for Tufts students to come out and celebrate such a part of history.’” Senior Hameto Benkreira, another event organizer, said the group want- ed to commemorate the end of Black History Month with an event involving a broad spectrum of the community. “We really wanted to bring a cross- section of the campus together to cel- ebrate this event. … There’s not always such a diverse crowd that’s reflective of the Tufts campus,” Benkreira said. “We thought it would be a good way to close out Black History Month with a com- munity gathering. We really worked hard to reach out to a lot of people from all over campus.” The organizers approached Tufts Hillel to host the event, worked with the Center for STEM Diversity and obtained funding from the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs. Sophomore Groom Dinkneh, who also helped organize the event, said he invited Matt Rose and the Crossover Kidz to the celebration after seeing Rose perform at a similar event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology BRUCE WANG/TUFTS DAILY Organizers sought to attract a broad spectrum of people to last night’s event, which marked the end of Black History Month.