THETUFTS DAILY (WhereYou Read It First 2,1999 Volume XXXVIII, Number 25 I Tuesday, March __ Students assaulted in hate crime, suspects unknown I byDANIELBARBARIS1 wordswereexchangedatthistime. tim suffered only minor bruises. Daily Editorial Board “The two males continued on The suspect’s identity, as well Tufts was rocked this weekend their way down the street,” Keith as whether he was a Tufts student, by what appears to be a violent continued. “As they came down remains unknown, although a hate crime, one that left two stu- Emory, the third male came run- physical description given by the dents in the hospital and the Tufts ning after them, yelling at them two victims lists him as a white University Police Department from behind. He ran up to one of male, 5’9”, with dirty blonde hair (TUPD)searchingforanunknown the individuals, knocked him to over his ears and amuscular build. assailant. the ground, and punched and The suspect was wearing a white The assault, which took place kickedhim. tanktop, bluejeans, andwasclean at 4: 10 a.m. Sunday morning, oc- “Thesecondvictimtriedtohelp, shaven. The possibility exists, curredonEmorySt.,whilethetwo but was punched and kicked as Keith said, that the assailant had students,whosenameshavebeen well. The suspect then fled on been at the party with the two withheld, were returning from an foot,” Keith concluded. victims prior to the assault. off-campus party, according to When askedwhatthethirdmale “There’s some indication that TUPD Captain Mark Keith. said to the two victims, Captain the suspect may have been at the “There was a party at a resi- Keith responded that the suspect party. It’s believed that there may dence on Winthrop St.,” Keith repeatedly yelled, “Faggots.” have been some individuals at the said. “As the two males were leav- The first victim suffered a bro- party who may have seen him ing the party they encountered a ken nose, a number of cuts, there,” Keith said. third male, who momentarily bruises, and abrasions, as well as University President John blocked their exit. It is unclear if bruisedribs, while thesecondvic- DiBiaggio expressed his extreme displeasure at the incident in a press release. He said, “We take all Sorority pledges inj ured at Cannon ouracts students of violence extremely like this seriously, against ~ . * _-I... I<* . * and pursue every means available what type ot action the lcic would be taking, -it’s largely iiat“ ‘,ility management ... to some by DANIELBARBARISI to us to see that justice is served. Daily Editorial Board IGC President Steve Levine responded, extent, their bc :ing an Ivy League school “In this case, we are addition- The campus Greek system, an organiza- “None, unless formal charges are brought. counts for a lot. m,I ney ‘LOOK ’ ed at the criminal ally disturbed and saddened to tion that in recent times has fought for its against either individuals or the fraternity conviction that has come down from [the hear that hateful slurs were lev- very existence at Tufts, recently suffered involved. If action were to be taken, they Scott Kreuger case], and they are perhaps eled against our students. Inci- through another damaging incident. At the would be brought before both the IGC Judi- trying to distance themselw:s from experienc- dents of intolerance against any same time, Greek systems at other area ciary and the Committee on Fraternities and ing something s.iimiiar, .‘ or of being seen as a I. __ ..-J-. memberofour University commu- schools like Dartmouth College are under Sororities.” risK to sorneaay experience something simi- nity affects every one of us,” fire and are scheduled for integration or IGC will be, however, organizing sevlera1 lar,” Reitman said. DiBiaggio said. elimination. activities to ensure that situations like this do Reitman explained that in the last ten The case is still under investi- Last Friday morning at approximately not arise in the future. “IGC will be holding years, many of Tufts’ benchmark schools gation, and more details will be 12:45 a.m., as nearly25 pledgesofthe Alpha three GAMMA (Grcpkp A dvncating Mature have also either‘done away with their Greek releasedas they become available. Phi sorority were painting the cannon, they Management of Alcohol) events this month, systems, or ha1,e forced them to go co-ed, covering I. :.- ....,. __ :- -1.. >:- - n- 11 The police urge anyone in posses- topics sum as inciuuirig LVIQY,Bowdoin, Trinity, and sion of information that may help alcohol a buse and vio- Amherst. .:-“A ._.^ ’7 the investigation to contact them lence agalllsr WUIIICII,- -- at x7-3030. Levine said. These events see GREEKS, page 11 will be mandatory for pledges and new mem- bers. Controversies brin Despite whatever Dreventative actionl the IGC might take now or in to light TCUJ’s role the fbture, the Greek com- munity both at Tufts and lI7FPPMV WANP-mPCnN SenateI meetinm hw “-’w-av yaw*x -..- -- -.- - - -... 0-. nationally has in recent “J “ua\y”a I Daily Editorial Board “We had someonethere last semester, years been ’Iagued by a Recent events on campus have and we had some questions as to what ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ brought into question the specific pur- [the Senate] was doing, but it wasn’t so pose and power ofthe Tufts Community over-the-limits where we’d step in,” Dai/y file photo has led to the closing of UnionJudiciary(TCUJ). Ibrahim said in a telephone interview. numerous fraternity Nearly 25 Alpha Phi pledges were attacked by approxi- Part ofthe TCUJ’sjob istomake sure “The attitude [amongst TCUJ mem- mately 15 pledges of Zeta Psi while painting the cannon. chapters and systems in that there are no duplicate groups on bers] was ‘I don’t want to spend three the last ten years. Most .” . camDus. This point was recently tested hours every Sunday-- night there’ ... noth-- .~~ were attacked by approximately 15 pledges notorious was last year’s rraternity-relatea in a controversy between two literary ing wrong was happening, so we stopped and brothers of the Zeta Psi fraternity. The death from excessive alcohol consumption of nuhlications. Oueen ’.F Head and Arti- attending.” he continued. He also said sorority pledges were pelted with eggs, vin- MITstudent Scott Mreuger, an . ~ . egar, and paint in an effort to “take” the focused national a ‘ 2 THETUFTS DAILY March 2,1999 Crash tests raise some new concerns about car air bags Los Angeles Times-Washington ~~ Post News Service referred to as a “fifth-percentile” dren, and babies. Currently, air WASHINGTON - Federal dummy because 95 percent of bags are required to pass safety Albright decries China auto safety regulators disclosed women are larger than it - is so tests using the much heavier 50th- 11 , Monday that acrash test had raised new that it may not perform reli- percentile male. The government crackdown on new concerns that air bags are ably. A fifth-percentile women is also is in the process of issuing the dangerous for small women, about 108 pounds and four feet 1 1 official specificationsfor dummies prompting officials to plan addi- inches tall-compared with 17 1 that represent women and chil- democracy tional research. pounds and five feet nine inches dren, though automakers and In a test performed by the Na- for a 50th-percentileman. other researchers use them fre- BEIJING - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright decried tional Highway Traffic Safety “We are pretty outraged that quently in testing. Brian O’Neill, Beijing’s recent crackdown on democracy advocates in a meeting Administration last July as part of they would wait eight months to president of the Insurance Insti- Monday with Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, but said it a different research project, a 1997 release this,” said Sheila Gruber tute for Highway Safety, cautioned would not affect China’s attempts to enter the World Trade Orga- Dodge Caravan was rammed into McLean, a DaimlerChrysler n ization . that it is not clear whether the a 1997 Honda Accord in a front- spokeswoman. “We have yet to Caravan test demonstrates a real “I thinkwe have all made clear, and I will again, that we have a end crash at 35 mph. To the sur- see the data. The fact is, they got risk to a human being or whether multifaceted relationship with China,” Albright said in ajoint news prise of NHTSA researchers, the these numbers on the Caravan and the result is related to the way the conference. “And we determined some time ago that it was not a Caravan’s passenger-side air bag were not sharing (them) with us. dummy performed. O’Neill sug- good idea to link human rights and trade, and we actually make better deployed with such force that a Instead, they have gone the sen- gestedthat the female dummy used progress in both when they are not linked.” small adult probably would not sationalist route.” in the test “has a neck structure Tang complained about what he called the politicization of have survived the bag’s impact. If NHTSA said it will do more human rights and said that any attempt to confront China on the not like humans.” air bags work properly, they are research based on the results of He pointed toNHTSA datathat issue was pointless. supposed to shield a person from the Caravan’s passenger-side air show only nine cases of adults “We are also firmly opposed to the practice ofwantonly interfer- injury even in acrash of that mag- bag in this test. In general, federal killed by passenger-side air bags. ing in othercountries’ internal affairs by taking advantage ofhuman nitude. regulators have beentryingtomake ForChryslerminivan model years rights questions as an excuse,” Tang said. Thomas Holowell, chief of air bags safer by allowing 1994 through 1998, NHTSA has The exchange at Beijing’s Diaoyutai Guest House underscored NHTSA’s crash-worthiness re- automakers to reduce the power of on record 14 fatalities involving a fundamental shift in Sino-US relations in recent years.