THEWhere You Read It First TUFTS Commencement 1999 DAILY Volume XXXVIII, Number 63 , From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, mGkes a lve. -Arthur Ashe 2 THETUFTS DAILY Commencement 1999 News pages 345 A historical perspective of the Tufts endowment Is cheating running rampant at Tufts? New alumni will be able to keep in touch with e-mail Tufts students appear on The Lafe Show wifh David Lefferman A retrospective of the last four years Ben Zaretskyfears graduation in his final column Sports Vivek Ramgopal profiles retiring Athletic Director Rocky Carzo Baseball just misses out in the post-season 8 \( 11 b .7\ c/ Viewpoints - c Dan Pashman encourages Tuftonians to appreciate the school Commencement speakerAlex Shalom's Wendell Phillips speech David Mamet's new movie The Winslow Boy and an interview with the director A review of the new Beelzebubs CD, Infinity A review of The Castle and Trippin' Photo by Kate Cohen f Cover Photo by Seth Kaufman + < THETUFTS DAILYCommencement 1999 3 NEWS Halberstam, Ackerman speak 1929 1978 1999 Tufts $9.7 million $30 million $500 million DartmoLth $9.7 million $1 57 million $1.4 billion Brown $9.4 million $96 million $1.1 billion at Tufts’ Commencement ‘99 Alex Shalom to give coveted Wendell Phillips speech byILENEsllEIN Best and the Brightest, about the ment address. Senior Staff Writer Vietnam War, and most recently The ceremonies for the indi- Percent increase Percent increase Nearly 1,700 undergraduates Playingfor Keeps, a biography of vidual schools will take place be- between ’29 and between ’78 and and graduates will gather on the Michael Jordan. ginning at l l :45 a.m. Graduating ‘78 ’99 Tufts 21 0 percent 1567 percent academic quad to receive diplo- Senator Daniel Patrick ceremonies for each ofthe schools, Dartmouth 1519 percent 792 percent mas today during Commencement Moynihan (D-NY) was originally exceptfor Veterinary Medicine, will Brown 922 percent 1046 percent ceremonies forthe 147thgraduat- scheduled to deliver the gradua- be held on different parts of the ing class of Tufts University. The tion address for the Fletcher Medford campus. The School of main Commencementaddress will School of Law and Diplomacy. Veterinary Medicine’s ceremony Sndowment issues: be given by David Halberstam, a However, “[he] is convalescing will be will bekin at 2 p.m. on the noted historian and sports jour- from some back surgery that he Grafton Campus, where 76 gradu- nalist. aies will be receiving Tu.fts’fina .ncial state The main com- degrees. byJEREMYWANGIVERSON in that 50 year period, we lost an m enc em ent c er- The ceremonies for Daily Editorial Board enormous amount of ground,” emony will begin the College of Arts When Tufts was in its infancy Gittlemansaid.“It was agrim chap- with the all-Univer- and Sciences,the Col- in the 185Os, no one had heard of ter in this school’s history.” sity academic pro- lege of Engineering, the endowment. The only dona- DiBiaggio’s predecessor,,the cession at 9: 15 a.m. the Collegeof Special tions the school received were late Jean Mayer, is given credit for Following the pro- Studies, and the from organizationswhich gave $35 beginning to change the cession, at 10 a.m., Graduate School of for full scholarships for certain University’s stance towards rais- honorary degrees Arts and Scienceswill students. ing money. When Mayer came to will begiven, andthe be taking place at the Today, University President Tufts in 1978,the endowmentwas faculty emeriti and main Commencement John DiEiaggio’s top priority is approximately $30 million, only degree candidates site at 1 1 :45 a.m. leading as400 million capital cam- three times more than the 1929 will be recognized. A total of 920 un- paign cal1ed“TuftsTomorrow.” figure. When he retired in 1992, it Halberstam will also dergraduates will re- “We plan to meet and exceed stoodat $130million,a500percent give his address in ceive diplomas from the$400milliontarget,” DiBiaggio increase from when he arrived. this time block, thecollege ofArts and said, explainingthat the figure was Gittleman recounted the story speaking on the Sciences,while 157un- initially expected to be reached by of Mayer organizinghis first capi- main Commence- dergraduates will re- 2000. Dua to the campaign’s suc- tal campaign. ment site, between ceive diplomas from cess, he predicts that there is a “He announced $140 million Ballou Hall and the College of Engi- possibility that the campaign will and I think three trustees retired,” Hendetson Hall. neering;58 1ofthe Arts be lengthened and the target num- Gittleman said, explaining that an Halberstam is a and Sciences diplomas ber increased. investment group advised Mayer journalist and au- were earned in the Col- thor who has writ- legeof Liberal Arts, ac- An endowmentis auniversity’s to announce only $30 million. Photo by Bill Smith savings, with a fraction of the in- Mayer’s first effort succeeded,and ten on many sub- David Halberstam, Commencement speaker companiedby 389 from terest gloing to support the he followed it up with an equally iects includingbiog- the Jackson College for school’sbudget. It consistsofgifts successfully $250 million cam- iaphiesofno&ble&dividualssuch had,” according to Terry Ann Women,and28fromtheColl~geof tothe school from both alumni and paign. Gittleman said DiBiaggio’s as Robert Kennedy and Michael Knopf, the press secretary for the Special Studies. corporations. The endowment is $400 million effort continued that Jordan. He startedasthesolewriter Fletcher School. Knopf said that The Fletcher School ofLaw and crucial to a university, because it tradition. for The Dailv Times Leader of the Universitv “had been hoDeful Didomacvwillgivedeaeesto 190 can increase the amount that can Very little ofthe money Mayer West Point, Minnesota in 1955 that he would be able to attend.” &dents in FlLtcher kield. The be spent on students, and it as- raised, however, went to the en- and wrote for the paper until 1996. Dean of the Fletcher School School ofMedicineandtheSackler sures the university’s survival in dowment. “His campaigns were Halberstam became a foreign John Galvin spoke with School of Graduate Biomedical case of economic trouble. Because not dedicatedtowards the endow- correspondent for The New York Moynihan’s wife yesterday, and Sciences will graduate 163 stu- the endowment is so critical to a ment .... They establishednewpro- Times in 1960, earning a Pulitzer she informed him that her hus- dents on the President’s Lawn. school’s existence, it is normally grams, which gave a precedent for Prize for his coverage ofthe Viet- band would not be able to attend The ceremony for the School of invested very conservatively,with giving,” DiBiaggio said, “[Before nam War. The seasonedreporter is the commencement, Knopf said. Dental Medicine will be held on no more than five percent of the Mayer], there was no tradition of also a widely read and appreciated Instead of Moynihan, Peter the Carmichael Quad, where 14 1 total funds committed to any one generating money.” non-fiction and fiction author. Ackerman, F’69, chairman of the students will receive degrees. The particular investment. Halberstam has written over I5 board of visitors for the Fletcher Tufts’ endowment is approxi- see ENDOWMENT, page 31 books, includingtheacclaimed The School will deliver the Commence- see COMMENCEMENT, page 31 mately $500 million, and though growingq,uickly,it is significantly dwarfed by the endowments of Alumni Relations will expand programs what DiBiaggio considers Tufts’ primary competitors- Dartmouth, E-mail for life, computerized alumni network are in planning stages Washington University in St. by BENJAMINGEDAN accounts ofthe class of 1999 will remain active chooseswhichelectronic featurestoutilk for its Louis, andBrown-notto mention Daily Editorial- Board though the summer and next fall. network. the multi-billion dollar endowments This year’s graduates in Arts and Sciences This service, if widely used by alumni, will Available resources include a Career Center ofmany other competitiveuniver- andNutrition Science andPolicywil1bethe fmt help publicize Tufts by increasing its national with jobpostingsand links toother employment- sities. graduatingclasses to keep their Emerald e-mail and international name recognition. The Tufts related sites such as those maintained by Tufts “The endowment of this Uni- addresses after leaving the University. name would be attached to any job application Career Services, and a Message Board with versity s.hould be $1 billion,” The “e-mail for life” guarantee is part of an or personal electronic correspondence, and which Alumni Relations can advertise events DiBiaggio said. AlumniRelationsprojectwhichalsoincludesthe alumniwouldhaveavisibletietotheUniversity. and campus happenings. During the late 1920s, Tufts’ launching of an extensive on-line alumni net- The permanent e-mail accounts are only Broadcaste-mailsandanEventsCalenda&e endowment was approximately wok one aspect of Tufts’ technological campaign other availablemeans ofdisseminatinginforma- $9.7 million, comparable to the InDecember,TuftsplanstolaunchtheAlumni to unite its alumni base. The on-line alumni tion about germane programs. endowments of these benchmark Connections On-Line Community, which will community will offer various services for ac- Direct links to on-line registration forms schools. provide the nearly 80,000 known living alumni tive and disconnected alumni. for alumni-relatedevents can be incorporated It is unclear why Tufts did not with new e-mail addresses. Adatabasewillallowalumnitosearch