Today: Snow Showers THE TUFTS High 28 Low 15 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Partly Cloudy Since 1980 High 34 Low 21 VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 20 DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2007 Students sate their palates and intellects Before last night’s panel discussion, the symposium kicked off with a culture fair held in Aidekman’s Remis Sculpture Court. Along with the panel, the show was sponsored by the Tufts Initiative for Global Leadership and International Perspective (TILIP), a subgroup of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL). “It’s just a casual opening for the weekend’s symposium,” said Dickson Tsang, a junior at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, one of the four other universities involved in the program. Tsang said that the lively song and dance festival served as a contrast to the more serious political lecture to follow. The event aimed to provide a taste of Chinese and Indian culture, achieved primarily through the tasting of tradi- tional food and the viewing of musical and dance performances from the two countries. The fair exhibited a wide array of Chinese and Indian cuisine, from naan ANJALI NIRMALAN/TUFTS DAILY to lo mein. Panelist Orville Schell (left), IGL Director Sherman Teichman, and panelist Alan Wachman (right) speak just before the panel begins. The cultural intermingling was inter- spersed with two Indian and two Chinese ‘Empire as Culture’ is fi rst panel in symposium performances. Tufts’ own Bhangra Team was among the performers. BY JEFF GREENBERG global arena. reopen a modern version of the Silk Road. These cultures are familiar to Tufts’ Contributing Writer The first presentation was given by This goal would manifest itself through TILIP students, most of whom traveled to Fletcher graduate Dr. Sami Al-Faraj, the the construction of Madinat al-Hareer China over the summer and to India this The symposium “Asia’s Rising Giants: director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic (City of Silk). past winter break. There are about 12 China and India” began yesterday eve- Studies. The title of his talk was “The Silk This city would serve as a new link, Tufts students involved with the project, ning with a panel entitled “Empire as Road Strategy.” In his PowerPoint pre- particularly to China, with the goal of according to Tufts senior and TILIP mem- Culture”, featuring three scholars: Dr. sentation, he outlined the history of the increased trade and security. ber Jake Berliner. Sami Al-Faraj, Dr. Orville Schell and Dr. relationship between Kuwait and China Second to speak was Dr. Orville Schell, These students now have the oppor- Alan Wachman. through the Silk Road, an ancient trade the dean of the Graduate School of tunity to share their cultural experienc- Sponsored by the Institute for Global route that linked East Asia, Europe and Journalism at the University of California, es with the Tufts community. “It’s a Leadership’s (IGL) Tufts Initiative for the Middle East. Berkeley. Before he gave his lecture, Schell cross-cultural collaboration,” Tufts senior Leadership and International Perspective Al-Faraj discussed the culture of China, was awarded the IGL’s Dr. Jean Mayer Jonathan Chan, another TILIP member, (TILIP), the event will continue through India and Kuwait by showing slides of art Global Citizenship Award for his investi- said, noting that the group aims to expe- Sunday. that had traveled across distant regions gative journalism. rience the two cultures in “ways that are The symposium’s first panel, moderat- of Asia. He explained that Kuwait had During his presentation, Schell includ- academic as well as social.” ed by seniors and TILIP participants Tara little to offer during the ancient times of ed a brief overview of the social and politi- Dhawan and Tamara Chao, discussed the the Silk Road. However, with its current —by Lilly Riber role of trade, empire and soft power in the supply of oil, the country now wants to see SYMPOSIUM, page 2 Natsios: states need institutions their institutions. New England Baptist Hospital ends BY BHARATH POTTI Contributing Writer “State building and develop- ment are more than anything “It’s implementation, imple- institutional building. States fail its partnership with Tufts-NEMC mentation, implementation that because they lack institutions,” he BY JENNA NISSAN benefit both. told the Daily. determines the success or fail- said. Daily Editorial Board “The Needham opportunity According to Jerry Berger, ure of state building,” Andrew S. Still, Natsios cautioned that would allow us to be in the a spokesperson for BIDMC, Natsios said during his delivery it is not enough merely to plan New England Baptist market sooner and at a lower the center’s chief executive of this week’s second Charles the creation of these institutions. Hospital (NEBH) and Tufts capital cost,” NEBH Chief Paul Levy is now involved in Francis Adams lecture, sponsored Instead, it is necessary to follow New England Medical Center Executive Joseph D. Dionisio discussions with NEBH, Beth by the Fletcher School of Law and through. (Tufts-NEMC) announced in told the Globe. “Given those Israel Deaconess Hospital- Diplomacy. “Too much effort has been September 2006 a planned factors, we felt compelled to Needham and Harvard Medical Natsios, who has previously placed upon the ultimate objec- partnership to build a new explore the feasibility of a col- School faculty physicians at served as the administrator for tives. State building fails, for the 190-bed hospital in the laboration at Needham.” BIDMC. All parties involved USAID (United States Agency for most part, not because of plan- Boston suburbs. NEBH, how- Although NEBH had already are part of CareGroup. International Development), as ning, but because lack of proper ever, has recently postponed announced plans to build a “We are working with New the chairman and chief execu- implementation,” he said. the partnership in order to new hospital from the ground England Baptist to see if tive officer of the Massachusetts In Iraq, he said that the imple- discuss suburban expansion up with Tufts-NEMC, Dionisio there’s a way of better utiliz- Turnpike Authority during the mentation was problematic with Beth Israel Deaconess said the project was proving ing space that exists in the Big Dig and as George W. Bush’s because the key players in the Medical Center (BIDMC). to be more costly than expect- Needham facility,” Berger Special Envoy to Sudan, cur- reconstruction and developmen- Beth Israel Deaconess ed, according to the Globe. said. rently teaches at Georgetown tal efforts “were engineers sent by Hospital-Needham, a direct Brooke Tyson Hynes, vice Tyson Hynes said that University. the Pentagon to reconstruct Iraq affiliate of BIDMC and a president of public affairs at NEBH’s decision to postpone In his hour-long lecture in in terms of infrastructure.” member of the bond-holding Tufts-NEMC, said that NEBH’s the partnership has not influ- the ASEAN Auditorium, entitled Although infrastructure, vis- company CareGroup, along decision to end the partner- enced Tufts-NEMC’s plans for “Nation Building,” Natsios dis- à-vis the construction of build- with BIDMC and NEBH, cur- ship did not come as a com- suburban expansion. cussed the reconstruction and ings and other facilities is good, rently has 41 beds and room plete surprise. “They let us “Ellen Zane [said] that hav- development of failed states. Natsios said that creating a work- to expand, so it hopes to help know when the opportunity ing the Baptist Hospital was First cautioning that he was ing government and functional meet NEBH’s need for operat- presented itself, and [Chief always a cherry on top for speaking from personal experi- institutions is more important ing rooms. Executive of Tufts-NEMC] the expansion,” Tyson Hynes ence and that his remarks should and cannot be accomplished by Because of this fit, the Ellen Zane agreed that they said. “We’d love to have them not be taken as a rebuke of poli- engineers. Therefore, he said that two hospitals have signed should look into a fiscally as a partner, but this is a plan cies in Iraq and Afghanistan, he “a more developmental approach an agreement to talk for six responsible position to take, that we want to do as a hos- said that to fix states, the primary months about renovating the to look into an option within focus should be on improving see BUILDING, page 2 existing Needham building to their CareGroup family,” she see HOSPITAL, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections SICK JUMBOS METALOCALYPSE News 1 Comics 12 The Daily tries to avoid Start off with a ‘bang’ Features 3 Classifieds 13 catching the stomach Arts | Living 7Sports Back flu Editorial | Letters 10 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 7 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Friday, February 23, 2007 WORLD IN BRIEF BLOGGER GETS 4-YEAR PRISON Natsios says increase in recognition and aid helpful SENTENCE IN EGYPT BUILDING An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced an continued from page 1 anti-government Internet blogger to a four-year to nation building” would have been more prison term in a landmark case that has sent helpful. shockwaves through the country’s growing This process, Natsios said, takes time. community of online dissidents. “The problem with American democra- The case against Kareem Amer, 23, a former cy is that we are very short-sighted. It takes student at the Islamic institute of al-Azhar, was a long time to build institutions. It takes Egypt’s first prosecution of a blogger specifically 10 years to do it,” he said, adding that it is for online writings; other bloggers had been difficult to accomplish and defies simple detained for their offline political activities.