Where You Sunny Read It First 50/36 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER 44 WEDNEsday, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts revises campus Tufts student hospitalized after being hit by car A Tufts student has been hospitalized after being struck emergency guide by a car while crossing the intersection of Powderhouse BY STEPHANIE HAVEN the importance of the Natural Boulevard and Packard Avenue Daily Editorial Board Disaster section.” at approximately 8:30 p.m. last Public Safety Program Thursday, Nov. 8. The Department of Public and Coordinator Anastassiia According to an email the Environmental Safety has updat- Tarassiouk said it is unclear university sent out to the stu- ed its guidelines for the universi- why protocol for hurricanes dent body on Nov. 9 regarding ty’s response to emergency situ- and other extreme weather the accident, the student was ations, expanding it to include events more common to the taken to Massachusetts General protocol for hurricanes, extreme Boston area, like heat and win- Hospital. The Somerville Police heat and winter storms. ter storms, was not included in Department told The Boston Public Safety’s official previous versions of the guide. Globe that the car’s driver is Emergency Response Guide Power outages, which Maguire cooperating with the police’s received its makeover last month, said are more common at Tufts investigation of the incident. before Hurricane Sandy hit the than natural disasters, have been The Powderhouse-Packard Hill, but Director of Public and removed from the section on intersection has been the site Environmental Safety Kevin natural disasters and given their of many similar incidents in Maguire said that the storm own section in the new guide. recent years. Last September, KYRA STURGILL / THE TUFTS DAILY underlined the importance of “If you think of ... emergencies two Tufts students were struck The Somerville Police Department is currently investigating an acci- being prepared for extreme that could happen on campus, by cars at the intersection dent involving a Tufts student that was hit by a car at the intersection weather and emergencies. power [outage] is one of the big and required hospitalization, of Powderhouse Boulevard and Packard Avenue. The Natural Disaster section ones,” Tarassiouk said. “It is impor- according to an article pub- of the guide was one of five sec- tant to have that on its own.” lished last fall in the Daily. tions that Public Safety edited The need to create a new sec- In one of last September’s acci- safety updates at the intersection tion, for traffic approaching and updated. The section now tion for power outages was one dents, senior Sara Honickman this fall. Those include painted Powderhouse Ave. includes provisions like one of the main reasons Public Safety was hit at the intersection by crosswalks, new stop signs at In the campus-wide email, the that advises students and fac- revamped the guide this year, a car making a left turn onto the Packard Ave. approaches of university stated that it is taking ulty working in laboratories to Tarassiouk said. Public Safety Powderhouse. the intersection and increased steps toward preventing future stop their experiments until the worked with Facilities Services “Cars treat it like a main pedestrian crosswalk signage. collisions at the intersection. storm passes. and the Office of Residential Life road and aren’t cognizant of The intersection currently has Public Safety and the City of “We have always been aware and Learning to develop advice how many pedestrians there flashing red lights and stop signs Somerville have yet to comment that natural disasters can happen on what to do in cases of power are,” Honickman told the Daily for traffic approaching Packard on their plans to improve pedes- in Massachusetts at any time,” outage and gas leakage, as well as at the time. Ave., and flashing yellow lights, trian safety at the intersection, Maguire said. “But recent weather The City of Somerville, with which in Massachusetts signal which borders Tufts’ campus. events have definitely added to see EMERGENCY, page 2 input from Tufts, implemented vehicles to proceed with cau- —by Nina Goldman Anthony Romero discusses free IGL plans speech at Snyder lecture TEDxBeaconStreet BY JOSH WEINER what can be done about ongo- “They made it a core belief BY ELLIOTT DAVIS tive things we are engaged Daily Editorial Board ing violations of this consti- of theirs,” Romero said. “It Contributing Writer in,” he said. “This plays into tutional value. reminds me of why free TEDxBeaconStreet’s emphasis Anthony Romero, execu- “While it seems there is and unfettered speech is so The Institute for Global on education and interface, tive director of the American now more free speech than important — it’s how impor- Leadership (IGL) will this which also incorporates what Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ever, there are also more jus- tant ideas become real.” weekend participate in the [Werner] is calling explora- delivered the 16th Richard E. tifications than ever to limit Romero claimed that stand- first TEDxBeaconStreet con- tions or ‘Adventures.’” Snyder President’s Lecture in that free speech,” he said. ing by the First Amendment ference at the Lincoln School The IGL and mem- Distler Performance Hall yes- Romero said it was fit- can produce many harmful in Brookline, Mass. bers of the IGL’s Synaptic terday afternoon. ting to be speaking of this side effects, denouncing the Technology, Entertainment, Scholars program will be The lecture, entitled matter in Massachusetts, idiomatic expression that is Design (TED) events fea- organizing Adventures for “Sticks and Stones: Freedom where many of the Founding referenced in his lecture’s ture enlightening talks given TEDxBeaconStreet. of Expression and Political Fathers began the campaign title: “Sticks and stones may by experts in a wide variety Through these Adventures, Correction,” addressed for free speech over 200 years break my bones, but words of fields. TEDx events aim community members will be America’s history of protect- ago during the American to bring the TED formula to able to take part in activi- ing freedom of speech and Revolution. see SNYDER, page 2 local communities around the ties with conference speak- world, and Tufts alumni have ers, according to Synaptic established TEDx franchises Scholar Gavin Murphy, a in Kabul, Afghanistan and junior and member of the Tehran, Iran, according to IGL TEDxBeaconStreet Braintrust, Director Sherman Teichman. the conference’s leadership Teichman said Managing board. Curator of TEDxBeaconStreet The main Adventure orga- John Werner approached nized by the IGL will take Teichman with the concept place next semester, accord- of TEDxBeaconStreet and ing to Teichman. Through the asked him to be one of the IGL’s Alliance Linking Leaders event’s curators and a speak- in Education and the Services er. According to the organiza- (ALLIES) program, the IGL will tion’s website, Werner estab- hold an Intellectual Roundtable lished TEDxBeaconStreet in at Boston University from Jan. an effort to bring TED to the 25 through 27. Greater Boston area. The Roundtable will feature In his speech, Teichman as its keynote speaker Captain will highlight the significance Wayne Porter of the U.S. of IGL’s local and worldwide Navy, the chair of Systemic initiatives. Strategy and Complexity at the “I want people to know Naval Postgraduate School, JUSTIN MCCALLUM FOR THE TUFTS DAILY what we do with immersive Teichman said. Porter is Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, spoke about freedom of expression education, what we do around at yesterday’s Richard E. Snyder President’s Lecture. the world and what distinc- see TEDx, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections News 1 Op-Ed 9 Tufts Kink adds a new Eclectic musician Dan voice to the campus Deacon discusses his Features 3 Comics 10 dialogue about sex. process and more. Arts & Living 5Sports Back Editorial | Op-Ed 8 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Romero encourages freedom of speech on college campuses SNYDER fective and even counter- ity has the right to determine faced while in office. at several colleges, where stu- continued from page 1 productive means of acting what is or is not legitimate “He is the most unjustly dent protests and assemblies will never hurt me.” against hatred. speech, you’ve lost control of criticized, vilified and stereo- are constricted to designated “The truth is, words do “I believe that there is no the system.” typed president I have ever areas around campus. hurt,” he said. “Applied effec- place for speech codes of any Romero argued that it is known,” Romero said. “The “Designing ‘free speech tively, like a thumb within a kind on a college campus,” he especially important to pro- level of overt racism I have zones’ is designing to limit free bruise, words can hurt a lot.” said. “Restricting that speech tect freedom of speech on seen against our first black speech as much as possible,” Romero described his doesn’t make the hate go away college campuses, as they are president disgusts me.” Romero said. “Every part of a numerous encounters with ... You drive that hate and places where students foster Romero still asserted that college campus should be a hurtful hate speech, from bigotry underground and it many fresh ideas and where hate speech has a right to free speech zone.” growing up as a gay Puerto becomes harder and harder to many landmark movements — exist, giving the example of the Romero admitted that Rican in the Bronx to the hate control ... In a nursing envi- including Occupy Wall Street, controversial Westboro Baptist “the effects of harmful and mail he now receives every day ronment, you need to under- the anti-Vietnam War move- Church, whose leader, Pastor degrading speech are real” at his job.