Where You Read It First Partly Cloudy 62/46 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LIX, NUMBER 39 FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 2010 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts’ GAYpril festivities kicked-off yesterday BY MINYOUNG SONG Besen is also the author of Daily Staff Writer “Bashing Back: Wayne Besen on GLBT People, Politics and The month of April has Culture” (2007). been rechristened GAYpril in Other kick-off highlights honor of an annual celebra- for GAYpril include the tion of diversity at Tufts that Intercollegiate Dollar Party the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Dance, LGBT Shabbat Dinner and Transgender (LGBT) and Ally Appreciation Soul Center sponsors in conjunc- Food Dinner. tion with the Queer Straight The intercollegiate dance Alliance (QSA). taking place tonight at GAYpril festivities launched Hotung Café will include yesterday with a lecture fea- attendees from Harvard turing activist Wayne Besen, University, Massachusetts the founder of Truth Wins Institute of Technology and Out, a non-profit organi- Boston University, according zation that seeks to dispel to freshman Tabias Wilson, LGBT myths publicized by an undergraduate intern at anti-gay sectors. the LGBT Center who over- Tom Bourdon, director of saw the planning for the the LGBT Center, said that dance party. TIEN TIEN/TUFTS DAILY Tufts’ ranking in the intercollegiate recycling competition has been dropping. Besen has been an influential “This is the first time that member of the LGBT commu- Tufts’ LGBT community is nity, especially in connecting able to work with LGBT com- faith and sexuality. munities at other schools,” Recycling rates at Tufts high but “While he is often contro- Wilson said. versial, [Besen] always does As the umbrella group for a great job talking about how student LGBT organizations, stagnant, echoing state trend queers and religious com- QSA will also be sponsoring munities can work together,” some of the GAYpril events, BY KATHERINE SAWYER in the last few years reached have similarly not changed Bourdon said. “His talks are including a drag show, the Daily Editorial Board a plateau, mirroring the state- significantly in the past ten interesting because he always National Day of Silence wide trend. years. sheds a light on the hypocrisy and the National Marriage Despite Tufts’ significant Tufts’ recycling rate has not Dawn Quirk, recycling coor- that exists in regards to peo- Boycott Rally. progress that has been made significantly improved in the dinator for the Tufts Recycles! ple saying that homosexual- Tufts on April 26 is taking in the realm of recycling, the past five years. Residential recy- ity is something that could be university’s recycling rate has cling rates in Massachusetts see RECYCLING, page 2 cured.” see GAYPRIL, page 2 Monks construct sand image in the library Independent Papercut Zine Library comes to Somerville from Harvard BY MARTHA SHANAHAN [saw] professors suggesting that their Daily Editorial Board students … use zines as a resource for other subjects.” The independent Papercut Zine Hendricks said that the new Library, previously based in Harvard Papercut Library has not seen the Square, last month opened its doors same visitor count as the previous at a new location on Pearl Street in location, but she hopes membership Somerville. will grow by drawing from the local Clara Hendricks, the co-founder of community, which she said includes the library, explained that the library Tufts students. carries over 13,000 self-published Laura Walters, associate director publications on a variety of subjects. of teaching and research at Tisch Much of its collection consists of Library, said that Tisch Library occa- zines, or noncommercial publica- sionally refers students to local pub- tions usually related to specialized or lic libraries, although with decreasing unconventional subjects. frequency as of late. “We have a wide range of topics “This [has not happened] very often [including] a how-to section, a large since we now have a small leisure political section … a food section … reading collection at Tisch,” Walters and a travel section,” Hendricks said. said in an e-mail to the Daily. Hendricks believes that the library Walters explained that while she will benefit from the move. thought that the media carried at “We do see it as a good thing; Papercut is not the type of resource we have a lot of room to expand,” most Tufts students would generally Hendricks said. use, she would refer students to the She explained that the move, library if the situation called for such including the transfer of all the media, a recommendation. furniture and shelving, occurred over “This library sounds very special- two weeks, and the library was set up ized,” Walters said. “If [students] in the week before its March 14 open- could get what they needed there, we ing. would recommend it. Basically, we try Hendricks said that at the library’s to get the materials in the hands of previous location in Harvard Square, students the best way we can in terms a large proportion of its 12,000- to of ease for them and cost for us.” JODI BOSIN/TUFTS DAILY 13,000-person membership was made Chen Chao, a reference librarian Tibetan monks have throughout this week been working on the construction of a Tibetan up of Boston-area college and univer- at Tisch Library, said that librarians Sand Mandala in Tisch Library. The Buddhist image, constructed one grain at a time by sity students. help direct students to places that the monks, will be completed April 5. “We did see students from all over the city coming in,” she said. “We even see LIBRARY, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections Tufts’ StarCraft team is Drama and amusing News 1 Comics 9 currently undefeated dialogue abound in and at the top of the TUTV’s student-life Features 3 Classifieds 10 East 1 division. based soap opera “In Weekender 5Sports Back motion.” see FEATURES, page 3 see WEEKENDER, page 5 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Friday, April 2, 2010 THE TUFTS DAILY Tufts’ ranking falling in recycling competition RECYCLING Paper recycling statistics from the have to do some sorting, but we make KERIANNE M. OKIE continued from page 1 Medford/Somerville campus show it pretty easy here, so I don’t under- Editor-in-Chief program in the Facilities Department, that between fiscal years 2005 to 2008, stand how it can be inconvenient.” explained that this stagnation can the school has been recycling between McKeon agreed and added that stu- EDITORIAL partially be attributed to the already a rate of 737 to 897 tons, up from the dents must reduce their total usage in Caryn Horowitz high rates at Tufts that make further 2005 rate of 670 tons. order to improve the level of recycling Grace Lamb-Atkinson improvement difficult. The rate of increase, however, on campus. “Yes, I think we’ve [reached a pla- has been relatively slow since 2006, “I don’t know how, especially on a Managing Editors teau] here in Medford,” she said. “The according to Quirk, and Tufts’ ranking campus like Tufts where it’s so easy Ellen Kan Executive News Editor [rates at the] Boston campus have in RecycleMania has been dropping. to recycle, I still see people not really Michael Del Moro News Editors Harrison Jacobs gone up a bit every year since I’ve “In 2008, we came in 18th in the paying attention,” she said. “It seems Katherine Sawyer worked at Tufts, possibly because they grand champion competition and like people might recycle, but they Saumya Vaishampayan had lower rates before.” now we’re in the low 40s,” Quirk said. don’t realize that it’s also about not Marissa Gallerani Assistant News Editors Amelie Hecht She noted however, that the univer- “Part of that is because other schools consuming as much.” Corinne Segal sity as a whole has also been produc- have joined and some schools, such Carreiro emphasized the impor- Martha Shanahan ing more trash, while individuals still as military schools, have much higher tance for students and staff to take the Jenny White do not recycle enough on a personal rates of compliance.” initiative to sort trash for recycling. Brent Yarnell level — factors which both contribute “Students and staff have to be the Carter Rogers Executive Features Editor to the stagnation. ones first separating the trash and Marissa Carberry Features Editors Tufts’ recycling rate in the 2007- recycling,” he said. “We have people Robin Carol “I don’t know how, espe- Emily Maretsky 2008 fiscal year was 33.6 percent, sig- who collect those bags at the end of Mary Beth Griggs Assistant Features Editors nificantly higher than the overall level cially on a campus like Tufts the day, and if everything is already Emilia Luna of recycling in Massachusetts, whereas sorted, the employees just pick every- Alexa Sasanow where it’s so easy to recycle, Derek Schlom in 2008 about a fourth of all residen- thing up, and it’s already done.” tial trash in the state was recycled. I still see people not really Although Tufts still has work to do Catherine Scott Executive Arts Editor This is about the same as the 1997 to get past the current recycling rate Jessica Bal Arts Editors paying attention.” Adam Kulewicz recycling rate, according to a review plateau, Carreiro noted the impor- Charissa Ng the Boston Globe conducted using the tance of looking back and seeing how Josh Zeidel state’s Department of Environmental Lucy McKeon far the school has come. Michelle Beehler Assistant Arts Editors Protection figures. Tufts Recycles! intern “The important thing to me is the Zachary Drucker Rebecca Goldberg Although the last five years have change, where we first started and not seen much improvement in Tufts’ where we are now,” he said.