Today: Rain THE TUFTS High 50 Low 32 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Sunny Since 1980 High 49 Low 30 VOLUME LII, NUMBER 39 DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2006 Healey makes fi nal plea in last televised debate Gubernatorial debate BY DAVID POMERANTZ extends to the Hill Daily Editorial Board BY PRANAI CHEROO Daily Editorial Board Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey need- ed a miracle in last night’s final televised An informal debate took place last night debate between the canidates for the Nov. 7 during the first of a new monthly series Massachusetts gubernatorial election. of joint events hosted by both the Tufts What she got was the wrong end of a Republicans and the Tufts Democrats. three-on-one battle in which Democrat Deval The event allowed students to watch Patrick and Independents Christy Mihos and the televised gubernatorial debate on a Grace Ross attacked her at every available large screen in Hotung Café. Many stayed opportunity. Even though Healey managed after its conclusion to hear further discus- to focus much of the debate on the two issues sion and ask questions of representatives she sought to discuss — taxes and crime from each of the Tufts groups present. — the barrage she received from all the candi- Each representative predicted a victory dates makes it hard to believe that Healey will for his respective gubernatorial candi- be able to overcome a 25-point deficit in the date. polls during the final week of the campaign. “Kerry [Healey] really stuck it to Deval Journalist Cokie Roberts of ABC News [Patrick]. She tried to get him to be spe- moderated the debate, which took place at cific and he didn’t,” Vice President of the the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall Tufts Republicans Dan Hartman said. in Boston and was sponsored by the Boston Hartman characterized Lt. Governor Media Consortium. Healey as tough on sex offenders and The format of the debate was complex, FORD ADAMS/TUFTS DAILY FORD ADAMS/TUFTS DAILY drunk-driving laws, and described how with Roberts posing questions during the Kerry Healey Deval Patrick together with Governor Mitt Romney has beginning and end of the debate, and the turned a Massachusetts’ previous $3 bil- candidates questioning one another during or should he just come out and say, ‘I’m should be trying to do is recover the money lion deficit into a surplus. the middle portion. sorry’?” they owe to the people of Massachusetts.” Hartman argued that Healey’s repub- After kicking things off with a question “I think he has [apologized], and I think he “I think you’re right,” Patrick responded in lican presence in a heavily democratic about the appropriateness of the Boston should,” Patrick said. “It was a dumb com- the 20 seconds allotted for his rebuttal. “That’s state can help counter “irresponsible Archdiocese’s role in urging Catholics to ment, and I think he knows it was a dumb great. My question is, why hasn’t that hap- spending.” turn out to vote in a gay marriage plebiscite, comment and has said so.” pened?” “Patrick has already signed with special Roberts asked Patrick about the story of the Patrick then launched into the first ques- After Healey returned a volley, asking interests and he’ll do exactly what they day. tion of the debate, asking Healey whether Patrick if he would return the state to the want to do,” he said. “I have to ask you the question that’s been the Romney administration’s retention of the one-party rule of Michael Dukakis, Mihos got “If you’re looking at issues, then Healey asked of every Democratic candidate in the Bechtel Parsons/Brinckerhoff construction involved for the first time in the night, com- wins your vote, but if you’re looking at country today,” Roberts said, “which is about company in the Big Dig “made sense.” mencing an attack on Healey that would last personality, then Patrick wins it,” he said. Senator [John] Kerry’s [D-MA] botched joke, “Of course it doesn’t make sense,” Healey for the full hour. Senior Mickey Leibner, Vice President as he calls it, and where he said today he said. “It was a terrible mistake. They should issues a ‘sorta, kinda’ apology. Is that enough never be allowed back in any capacity. All we see ELECTION, page 2 see DEBATE, page 2 Solomont brings students to Economist discusses self-identifi cation meet former President Clinton in context of “traditional” economics BY DAVID POMERANTZ senior Mike Abare seized the Daily Editorial Board moment. BY CHRISTY MCCUAIG Daily Staff Writer “He came over to where we In speeches and his biog- were, and I asked him if he’d raphy, Bill Clinton makes a mind answering a quick ques- Nobel-Prize-winning Professor point of saying that he decided tion,” Abare said. George A. Akerlof delivered the sec- to commit himself to politics Abare said that he asked ond part of this year’s Wellington- when he met his hero, John F. the former president what he Burnham Lecture and Domestic Kennedy, at the White House. thinks the central problem Policy Forum, titled “Economics Last week, Clinton may have facing our country is today and Identity,” in Barnum 008 last felt a tinge of déjà vu. This and how future leaders might night to a crowd of over 120 stu- time, he was doing the inspir- address that problem. dents and teachers. ing, and the role of a young Abare says that Clinton Akerlof’s was the second lecture student Bill was played by a paused, looking as if he was in the two-part series sponsored group of Tufts students who “thinking a million miles per by the Economics Department, met the former president at minute.” the first of which was delivered on a fundraiser as part of their The former president Monday by Harvard psychologist political science seminar “The responded by saying that Mahzarin Banaji. Clinton Presidency.” America’s biggest prob- President Lawrence Bacow The course is taught by Tufts lem is the economic dispar- introduced Akerlof as a Professor trustee and Democratic Party ity between the rich and poor, of Economics at the University of fundraiser Alan Solomont (LA’ according to Abare. Clinton California-Berkeley, a 2001 recipi- FF CHEN/TUFTS DAILY 70). also cited nuclear proliferation ent of the Nobel Prize in Economics, George Akerlof, co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, answers Solomont invited the class and the lack of bipartisan poli- and the President of the American questions during a post-lecture dinner hosted by the Economics Department. of 19 undergraduates to a tics as looming problems. Economics Association in 2006, fundraiser at his house on “He spoke for about ten to 15 saying that he could “go on and he sees as the “missing motivation” seek to maximize profits and indi- Wednesday night that was minutes,” Abare said. “We all on” about Akerlof’s many achieve- in the traditional form of econom- viduals seek to maximize utility. attended by over 150 wealthy went back and said ‘it was the ments. ics. He was quick to give half the The “missing motivation” in this and influential contributors to best 15 minutes of my life.’” Bacow said that he read Akerlof’s credit for his lecture and knowl- type of economics is that “econo- the Democratic Party. On the car ride home, Abare best known work, an article enti- edge of the subject matter to his mists missed an important part of The students had a chance said that he started to think tled “The Market for Lemons: research partner, Rachel Kranton, economics: people typically have to meet House Minority that his meeting with Clinton Quality Uncertainty and the with whom he has worked for over opinions, and also have views Leader Nancy Pelosi and would be a defining moment Market Mechanism” as a sopho- ten years. They are in the process about how they see and identify Illinois Representative in his life. more at MIT. This article examines of writing a book about identity themselves,” he said. Rahm Emanuel, Chair of the “It dawned on me later that the phenomenon of asymmetrical and economics together. According to Akerlof, everyone Democratic Congressional after I saw him I felt inspired information in markets and eco- Akerlof began by reviewing what has an ideal as to what sort of per- Campaign Committee. and motivated to be in poli- nomics transactions. he called “traditional,” or standard son they think they should be and When Solomont intro- Akerlof spoke about his current economics, explaining the supply duced Clinton to the class, see CLINTON, page 2 work in economics, covering what and demand curves and how firms see AKERLOF, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections WEEKENDER SPORTS News 1 Viewpoints 11 Tufts remembers a Use your five senses in a legend as the city of Features 3 Comics 16 whole new way! Boston honors Ron Arts | Living 5Classifieds 17 Aurbach. Editorial | Letters 10 Sports Back see WEEKENDER, page 5 see BACK PAGE 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Thursday, November 2, 2006 WORLD IN BRIEF STATE DEPARTMENT Format leads to sarcasm, contention between candidates SCREENED SPEAKERS FOR POSSIBLE DISSENT ELECTION out of the two folks not talking to ing to scare people into voting for ers,” in a barb directed at Patrick’s continued from page 1 us.” you.” advocacy of parole for convicted An internal State Department “Your unfavorable rating is at 59 Mihos put his arm around The debate reached a heated rapist Benjamin LaGuer. Despite review has found that U.S.