Where You Partly Cloudy Read It First 49/38 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER 48 TUEsday, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts alumna Mitra was spirited Johnnie’s Foodmaster closes all locations BY JENNIFER WHITE JAMES POULIOT “We don’t have the exact date, Daily Editorial Board Daily Editorial Board but we are projecting all of the stores will be open by the end Tanya Mitra (LA ’10), whose The family-owned supermar- of the fiscal year 2013, which joyful energy sparked team spir- ket chain Johnnie’s Foodmaster ends at the end of September,” fighterit at tae kwon do tournaments and healer earlier this month announced McCready told the Daily. and whose nurturing personality plans to permanently shutter The Foodmaster on Salem bonded her to people and medi- its 10 locations, including the Street in Medford will be con- cine, died suddenly at her home store on Alewife Brook Parkway verted into a Stop & Shop by the on Nov. 3. She was 24. in Somerville, a few blocks from end of the current year. At Tufts, Mitra double majored Tufts’ Medford/Somerville The remaining three locations in biology and German while campus. without a buyer are nonetheless excelling on the pre-medical Although Whole Foods Market scheduled to close by Nov. 30. track. She was in her second year purchased the leases for six of The Alewife Brook Parkway of medical school in Newark at the stores, and Stop & Shop location closed its doors for the University of Medicine and another, Foodmaster has yet to good this Sunday. Dentistry of New Jersey. find a buyer for the three stores Whole Foods did not pur- Associate Professor of Biology located in Whitman, Lynn and chase Foodmaster on Alewife Philip Starks, Mitra’s faculty advi- on Alewife Brook Parkway. Brook Parkway, which is locat- sor at Tufts, said that Mitra decid- Whole Foods purchased the ed one mile away from the ed to become a doctor at a very six leases at an estimated price existing Whole Foods on Mystic COURTESY NICHOLAS BAYHI early age and stood out because of $30 million. The deal will Valley Parkway and 1.8 miles Tanya Mitra (LA ‘10) brought joy and energy to the Tufts Tae Kwon Do of her sincerity and determina- bring the total number of Whole away from the Whole Foods at team. She died suddenly at her home on Nov. 3. tion in helping others. Foods stores in Massachusetts Fresh Pond. “My guess is that not too many up to 26. “There were a number of of her medical school colleagues would require it.” Matthew Davenport (LA’10), The six stores, including one factors [involved in the deci- had tutored children and parents Mitra was born in Morristown, Mitra’s boyfriend, said it was on Beacon Street in Somerville, sion], including size and prox- living in poverty or had volun- N.J., and while growing up her her experience of witnessing will re-open following a peri- imity to an existing store,” teered with the aged since before family moved to other parts of widespread poverty and sick- od of renovation, according to McCready said. their 12th birthday,” Starks said. New Jersey and spent three years ness in India that solidified her Whole Foods Public Relations John DeJesus, the owner of “Tanya was a caregiver before living in India when Mitra was in Manager for the North Atlantic she knew that her future job middle school. see MITRA, page 2 Region Heather McCready. see FOODMASTER, page 2 Student grazed by car at Curtis Senior awarded $8,000 intersection The Department of Public for social media app looks to expand and Environmental Safety BY MENGHAN LIU wires are a very old technology for BY MARTHA SHANAHAN Fellows program this year issued a Pedestrian Safety Alert Daily Editorial Board communication. Daily Editorial Board placed one upperclassman on Nov. 16 via email following The inspiration for the app ACE Fellows studentprogram in each of four resi- the second of two student- This month, senior Foster came this past summer when In a pilot program finish- dence halls, providing fresh- vehicle accidents that have Lockwood was awarded $8,000 Lockwood was trying to leave a ing its first semester, stu- men and sophomores with occurred in the last week and from the Paul and Elizabeth voicemail for his girlfriend and dents known as Academic academic, social and extracur- a half at intersections border- Montle Prize for Entrepreneurial began to wonder if there was an and Community Engagement ricular guidance as needed. ing campus. Achievement for his messaging app for easily sending someone (ACE) Fellows are serving as “They operate as role mod- On Friday, a vehicle grazed application Wyre, currently avail- an audio message. From there, academic and social mentors els in the residence halls,” a student at the intersection of able on the iPhone and iPad. the idea moved beyond simply meant to ease new students’ Associate Dean for Orientation Curtis Street and Curtis Avenue, Lockwood, a computer science text and audio, he said. transition to Tufts and con- and Student Transition Laura according to the email. The stu- major and entrepreneurial leader- “It’s not a novel idea,” Lockwood nect them to the world outside Doane, who directs the pro- dent was uninjured. ship studies minor, applied for the said, acknowledging that he found their dorm rooms. gram, said. “They’re not RAs On Nov. 8, another student Montle award after developing the inspiration in popular apps like Run jointly by the Dean of [resident assistants] and was struck by a motor vehicle pilot version of Wyre at the begin- WhatsApp, which allows users Undergraduate Education’s they’re not tutors. They’re sort at the intersection of Packard ning of the school year. to send each other texts, photos, office and the Jonathan M. of combining aspects of both Avenue and Powderhouse Wyre is described in the App videos and locations. However, Tisch College of Citizenship Boulevard and seriously injured. Store as “a user-friendly messaging Lockwood believes such apps are and Public Service, the ACE see FELLOWS, page 2 The student is undergoing tool designed for fast and com- still too focused on texting. treatment at Massachusetts prehensive communication,” and “People are looking for alterna- General Hospital. iOSnoops.com rated it five stars. tives,” he said. Both incidents occurred after The free app allows users to easily Last week, over 1,100 users dusk, according to Director of share “wyres” such as audio clips, around the world had signed up Public and Environmental Safety video clips, YouTube videos, pho- for Wyre, and over 500 of them Kevin Maguire. tos, in-app drawings, locations, were verified and active, according The alert also provided tips contacts and calendar events. to Lockwood. for staying safe while walking While many of these capabili- Senior Brad DeBattista, a friend around or near campus, which ties already exist on the iOS plat- of Lockwood’s, was one of Wyre’s included wearing light-colored form, Wyre fully integrates these first users. DeBattista beta tested or easily visible clothing at options into one convenient loca- the app before it moved to the night, establishing eye contact tion, Lockwood said. App Store, helping to brainstorm with drivers when crossing an It also allows users to delete new features such as sharing cal- intersection and being aware of already-sent wyres from a receiv- endar events. traffic signals and crosswalks. er’s phone because all the data is “Some of these things you According to Maguire, while encrypted and stored on a back- can already do through plain old motorists are more likely to end server rather than on the iPhone, but it’s very involved, it’s suffer legal consequences in a receiver’s phone, he added. too many clicks, it’s not readily pedestrian accident, the pedes- “It’s often that we are translat- available,” DeBattista said. “I think trian is usually in more danger. ing our experiences into text,” Wyre is really good because it takes “A pedestrian walking has Lockwood said. “The goal of Wyre all of the capabilities that you have, much more to lose than a was to make it equally accessible and maybe didn’t even know you motorist driving,” Maguire said. in any kind of medium.” had, in your phone and puts it all ANNIE WERMIEL / TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES He explained that the name After a successful pilot semester, the Academic and Community Engagement —by Audrey Michael Wyre was chosen ironically, since see WYRE, page 2 Fellows program is now accepting applications for next year’s fellows. 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Arts & Living 5Classifieds 10 Comics 7 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Friends share memories about alumna Mitra MITRA “She looks at her mom and “She was sure of herself and of continued from page 1 says, ‘No. I have to do this for her opinions, but not in a single- motivation to pursue a career in my team,’” Bayhi said. “We were minded way,” Julie Lonergan (LA medicine. like, ‘Whoa.’ None of us would ’10) said. “She just knew how the “In terms of what exact medi- have been able to say that to her world should work, and so she cine she would get into, she mother.” made it work that way.” hadn’t picked one yet, but it was Mike Harb, coach of Tufts Scott Schreiber (E ’10), a grad- going to be out there, in India or Tae Kwon Do, echoed Bayhi’s uate student in engineering at in Africa, with Doctors Without sentiments.