Where You Read It First Mostly Sunny 33/18 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LX, NUMBER 59 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010 TUFTSDAILY.COM Sexual assault judicial process questioned BY MICHAEL DEL MORO statistics to the U.S. Department Daily Editorial Board of Education. Carter first took note of Tufts’ A non-profit organization that new policy, implemented this advocates for the prevention of fall after extensive deliberations, campus crime has alleged that when he saw a post about it on an the university’s judicial process independently run website that for handling cases of alleged sex- addresses rape issues at Tufts. ual assault does not comply with “The biggest red flag was that federal regulations. destruction of records policy,” The nonprofit organization Carter told the Daily in November. Security on Campus, Inc. (SOC) Reitman denied the allega- claims that a provision in the adju- tions in an e-mail to the Daily, dication process that calls for the saying that that the university’s destruction of all case materials judicial process is in line with the after the case has been resolved stipulations of the Clery Act. may conflict with certain provi- According to Reitman, the pro- sions of a federal statute and could cess was also designed to com- require reworking or revision. But ply with the Family Educational Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Reitman refuted the idea and said and to maintain the privacy of that Tufts’ current policies are com- those involved in cases of alleged pliant with federal regulations. sexual assault. Page seven of the Student “The outcome of all cases in Judicial Process for Allegations the Student Judicial Process are of Violence, including Sexual made part of the public record at Assault Cases, states that “after Tufts, to the extent that they can DAILY FILE PHOTO the case has been decided, and be made available to the Tufts Winter Bash will not be making a return to its previous location of the Gantcher Center, pictured above during 2009’s all appeals exhausted … all mate- community without compromis- Winter Bash. Instead, it will remain an off-campus event held this year at the Copley Place Mariott Hotel. rials created by or reviewed by ing the privacy of the individuals the Dean and/or the fact-finder involved,” he said. will be destroyed, unless the case Reitman drew a distinc- Winter Bash stays off campus with or elements of the case are in liti- tion between formal and infor- gation or moving toward litiga- mal records and said that the tion, in which case the materials Department of Public and new location, slight modiications will be preserved until the litiga- Environmental Safety retains all tion is resolved.” of the documents that the Clery BY MARISSA GALLERANI Most of the logistics of the off- “It’s going to be an identi- Daniel Carter, the director of Act requires be kept. Senior Staff Writer campus event, including the bus cal event at a new location,” public policy for SOC, told the The university updates its loading and ticket systems, will Habib, a senior, said. She said Daily that the stipulation vio- policies and judicial processes This year’s Winter Bash event be run in the same manner as last the Sheraton was unavailable lates the Jeanne Clery Disclosure according to changes in federal will be held at the Copley Place year, according to Programming because the event space is cur- of Campus Security Policy and statutes, according to Reitman. Marriott Hotel on Jan. 28. Board Co-Chair Sarah Habib. rently under renovation. Campus Crime Statistics Act “We take great care to comply For the second year in a row Programming Board, in conjunc- “We created a pretty good (Clery Act), a 1990 federal stat- with the requirements of FERPA the event will take place at a tion with the Office for Campus recipe last year, and we tried ute that requires all institutions and of the Clery Act. Boston hotel, with some revi- Life (OCL), sponsors and coordi- receiving federal financial aid sions to last year’s event. nates the annual event. see WINTER BASH, page 2 funding to disclose their crime see CLERY, page 2 Senate considers granting student Hillel members sell latkes for charity during Hanukkah ‘subgroups’ greater autonomy BY BRENT YARNELL Bodwin, a sophomore, said Daily Editorial Board the need to coordinate with the larger groups on budgeting, The Tufts Community Union especially when those groups (TCU) Judiciary is explor- engage in very few related ing the possibility of ending activities, has frustrated many the practice of subgrouping, subgroups. according to Judiciary Chair “They had said that they had Beth Doyle. trouble communicating with Subgrouping, the process the supergroup,” Bodwin said. by which the Judiciary recog- “They thought that the super- nizes small student groups as group was too stretched out to subsidiaries of larger groups, adequately manage the sub- is intended to help smaller group’s funds.” groups gain membership and Bodwin said the Judiciary navigate TCU Treasury pro- plans to look closely at sub- cedures by linking them to groups during next semester’s larger, related organizations, rerecognition process, when according to Judiciary New the Judiciary reviews a mem- Group Recognition Chair Greg bership list of each group and Bodwin. a written statement on the But subgrouping has actual- group’s activities over the past ly complicated the budgeting year. process for many TCU groups, Doyle said that groups wish- Doyle, a senior, said. ing to remain subgroups will Each TCU group designates probably be allowed to do so, KRISTEN COLLINS/TUFTS DAILY two signatories to work with though no decisions have been Junior Matt Davis and sophomore Liz McGarry prepared latkes at Tufts Hillel last night. They will sell the the Treasury, but subgroups finalized. latkes in the Mayer Campus Center today to benefit Solar Electric Light Fund, a nonprofit organization share signatories with the that provides solar power technology to developing countries. larger group, she said. see SUBGROUPS, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections The men’s swimming News 1 Op-Ed 11 A look at the use and and diving team cheer definition of the ever- each other on to a Features 3 Comics 12 elusive term, “hipster.” third-place finish. Arts | Living 5Sports 13 Semester in Review 8 Classifieds 14 Editorial | Letters 10 see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, page 13 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Winter Bash will remain an off-campus event, cost $10 to attend WINTER BASH Habib said the proximity of the event continued from page 1 to the start of the semester necessitated to keep everything the same while just the online sale. “The reason we have adapting to a new venue,” OCL Assistant to start selling tickets before school is Director David McGraw said. because ... Winter Bash is the second OCL Director Joe Golia agreed. “We week that we get back to school, so we felt that Winter Bash was very success- needed to make sure there was enough ful last year, especially doing some- time to sell them,” Habib, said. thing of this size for the first time in Golia advised students to buy tickets Boston,” he said. early and said event coordinators will Golia felt that the new space offers be enforcing stricter bus times this certain improvements over last year’s year. venue. “The space is very beautiful, and “I would just encourage people to it’s all on one floor, which is a plus. The buy their tickets early so that they can 21-plus area has its own separate area at get their preferred bus times, because the back,” he said. we are going to try to make sure that One of the new improvements will students adhere to their specific bus- be the coat check process, Habib said. loading times,” Golia said. Last year, the event drew criticism from “We hope more students come this attendees for a coat check process that year,” Golia said. “Last year we had a resulted in widespread confusion, long little over 2,700 students, and we can fit lines and some lost coats. up to 3,000 students in the ballroom.” “The coat check last year was may- He also praised the general conduct hem,” Habib said. “This year it is com- of attendees at last year’s event. Winter pletely new and improved. It will be a Bash had been moved off-campus in an self-service coat check with three thou- attempt to avert the drunkenly destruc- sand coat hooks spread out through a tive behavior that marred the Winter couple of different rooms.” Bash held the year before. “We’re working with the hotel to “Student behavior was really good make sure that space will not be an last year,” Golia said. “The hotel was issue,” Programming Board Co-Chair really pleased with us; we had minimal Adam Fischer said, referring to the coat problems.” check. “We’re really excited for it,” Fischer Tickets will be priced at $10, the same said, noting that extensive planning is as last year, according to Habib. She said involved with preparing an event for the the tickets are expected to go on sale entire student body. online starting on Jan. 17, and can be “We think that it is going to be great JAMES CHOCA/TUFTS DAILY picked up in the Mayer Campus Center space and a beautiful location … we Students crowd in line at the coat check at last year’s Winter Bash. Event coordinators were beginning Jan. 21.