Where You Mostly Sunny Read It First 58/48 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 28 MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts alum examines ZBT hosts annual Get on the Ball career, development of Narratively fundraiser by Melissa Kain by Patrick McGrath Contributing Writer Daily Editorial Board Tufts fraternity Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT)’s Noah Rosenberg (LA ’05), founder, annual “Get on the Ball” philanthropy CEO and editor-in-chief of Narratively, event to raise money for the Boston a web-based, narrative journalism Children’s Hospital kicked off last platform, spoke about his career and Wednesday and will continue through the founding of the platform in a lec- this Friday, according to ZBT President ture titled “Human Stories Will Change Jason Brillon and ZBT Vice President the World,” organized by Friends of Bryan Dumond. Tufts Libraries for Parents and Family Dumond, a senior, explained Weekend in the Hirsh Reading Room of that members of ZBT will be rolling a Tisch Library, on Friday afternoon. ball with a six-foot diameter around Rosenberg was introduced by Laura campus and into Davis Square to collect Wood, director of Tisch Library, who signatures from students, faculty and spoke briefly about his career, dur- passersby on the ball itself. ing which he worked for The New York “We’ve been working with a num- Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, ber of partners who have pledged to CBS Channel One News and New York donate a certain amount of money for magazine, among other publications. each signature we get on the ball, so Wood called him an “entrepreneur and the goal is to get as many signatures as storyteller,” noting his contributions to we can and gather as much support as journalistic innovation, and added that we can,” he said. Rosenberg has been involved in different The signatures on the ball itself are components of the journalistic process, an important part of the fundraising including production, editing, photog- process, and the brothers of ZBT hope raphy and writing. to top the number of signatures they ETHAN CHAN / THE TUFTS DAILY Narratively, which defines itself as “a collected last year to raise awareness ZBT hosted the kickoff celebration for its annual ZBT Get on the Ball event to raise money for the platform devoted to untold human sto- and donations for the Boston Children’s Boston Children’s Hospital. Attendees were entertained by various a cappella groups from Tufts. ries,” releases one theme per week and Hospital, according to Brillon, a junior. one piece per day, according to Wood. “Last year we had around 3,500 signa- According to Dumond, ZBT also hopes featured raffles with gift cards to local res- Rosenberg began the lecture by dis- tures, so that’s something we would like to raise more money this year than they taurant favorites such as Yoshi’s, Danish cussing the changing dynamic of jour- to top this year,” he added. “We’re always have in the past. Pastry House and Dave’s Fresh Pasta. nalism and the role that media plays looking to improve.” “Last year we raised $5,000 for Boston The event also had raffle items such as today, noting that “media storytelling Dumond said that one major Children’s Hospital, and this year we tickets to the Somerville Theatre and an in general has evolved to a fantastically change in this year’s “Get on the Ball” think we can exceed that,” he said. “We’re autographed baseball from the Boston elaborate extent.” fundraiser is the addition of “percent- making our goal $5,500 … and given the Red Sox. The Amalgamates, sQ! and He discussed the current craze with age plans.” On Oct. 21, 20 percent of support we’ve got from alumni in our fra- Anchord all performed at the event. “buzzword content,” increased access revenue from Orange Leaf in Davis ternity, parents and the 20 percent plans “All the money collected from the to information and the hyper-connected Square will go to the Boston Children’s we have instilled this year, we think it’s a raffles will be donated back to the hos- contemporary world. Rosenberg added Hospital, and on Oct. 23, 20 percent of very ambitious yet realistic goal.” pital,” ZBT Philanthropy Chair Joseph that new forms of media, which now revenue from Amsterdam Falafelshop On Oct. 15, ZBT held its “Get on the Cirone, a sophomore, said. will also go to the hospital, he Ball” kickoff celebration in Alumnae see NARRATIVELY, page 2 explained Lounge. According to Dumond, the event see ZBT, page 2 TCU Senate Update The Tufts Community Union (TCU) nization can only appeal an Allocations $3,421.13 to host its Civil-Military Latin American Students to expand oppor- Senate began its weekly meeting last night Board request if the Allocations Board’s Relations and Disaster Response event. He tunities through the TCU Senate, because by briefly discussing problems students recommendation has altered the group’s said that the amount requested this year both groups are questioning whether they face when they remain on campus for request in any way,” and a second clause, was larger than that of previous years want to use the Senate to accomplish their Thanksgiving break, including closed din- 5.1.4.1, that states that under extraordi- because ALLIES has 15 more cadets com- goals. This sparked a discussion on minor- ing halls and general “misery” on campus. nary circumstances the previous rule may ing than usual, meaning they must use ity groups’ attitudes toward the Senate, Senate, along with Dean of Student Affairs be overturned by two-thirds majority of the Tufts Dining Services, which is more expen- with Senator Isabella Kahhalé asking if Mary Pat McMahon, wants to begin to Allocations Board. sive. The Allocations Board recommend- minority groups did not feel comfortable think about ways to bring students who A proposition to vote on the second ed $3,076.30, which TCU Senate passed in the space or if they did not think it was stay on campus over this break together. amendment to the TMP was objected to 26-0-0. an effective organ. Muñoz, a sophomore, The Student Outreach Committee then by Senator Andrew Núñez, who said the Various community representatives from responded “both.” provided its update, which focused on language gave too much power to the the Group of Six then presented updates to Fatima Ajose, community representative its own efforts to brainstorm ways to Allocations Board. A brief discussion on the full Senate body. for the Africana Center, expressed concern connect Tufts community members over the amendment was followed by a vote A report from Leili Ghaemi, community coming from her community that Tufts Thanksgiving break in conjunction with the on whether the Senate would vote on the representative for the International Center, administration was pushing to get rid of Senate’s new effort. amendment. That vote passed, and the was read to the Senate because Ghaemi, a individual culture houses and combine The Education Policy Committee announced amendment was subsequently voted on sophomore, could not attend the meeting. them in one large intercultural house. they were focusing on the needs of the and passed 20-5-1. Her statement concerned struggles fac- Ajose, a first-year, said this was a concern Department of Computer Science by reach- The Allocations Board then reported on ing international students, specifically the for the communities, as each wants its own ing out to students to ask what they felt the the requests it received from Tufts VOX for physical lack of space for them to congre- space. TCU President Robert Joseph said department most needs. The committee said $3,127.73 to host the speaker Oh Meghan! gate. that he discussed this issue with Dean of that it was also moving forward on other proj- for its workshop entitled “Getting Wordy Betty Fong, community representative Undergraduate Education, Student Affairs ects and would potentially follow up on their and Talking Dirty.” Kochman, a junior, for the Asian American Center, reported and Student Services John Barker last year research with the department. explained that they recommended this that the center was thinking about work- and Barker said there was absolutely no TCU Treasurer Adam Kochman proposed money for VOX but rejected their request ing with the Counseling and Mental Health push for this within the administration. two amendments to the Treasury Procedures of $600 to co-sponsor an event with Service to provide more training to council In the open forum Núñez announced the Manual (TMP). The first involved increas- Brown, Blue and Queer because that group students of color and those of differ- National Students for Justice in Palestine ing the clarity and detail of the language was not recognized by TCU Senate as ent experiences. Fong, a sophomore, also Conference will be taking place this week- used in Section 5.1.1, which addresses a Tufts organization. The Senate passed encouraged senators to come to the social end, adding that the slam poetry group how student groups make requests of the the Allocation Board’s recommendation of justice leadership training on Saturday at DarkMatter would be performing, the key- Allocations Board. The amendment passed $3,127.73. 11:30 a.m. note lectures will be open to all and there 26-0-0. Kochman then reported that Arturo Muñoz, community representa- will be a DJ and dance groups. The second amendment was to add Tufts Alliance Linking Leaders in Education tive for the Latino Center, said that the cen- a clause to 5.1.4 that states, “An orga- and the Services (ALLIES) requested ter was coordinating with Association of —by Kathleen Schmidt Inside this issue Today’s sections Tufts football stays News 1 Op-Ed 9 Flying Lotus uncon- undefeated at home ventional, experimen- with 27-20 win over Features 3 Comics 10 tal in latest album.