Today: Few Showers THE TUFTS High 42 Low 37 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Showers Since 1980 High 44 Low 39 VOLUME LIII, NUMBER 51 DAILY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007 Themed weeks help bring awareness Three speakers offer insights to religion, health and human rights on minor league baseball BY EVANS CLINCHY a brief speech about the grow- Daily Editorial Board ing popularity of the minor league game, a trend that the Three members of the Tufts rest of the speakers returned to community — Experimental throughout the night. College lecturer Andy Andres, “When you think about and alumni Ted Tye (A ’79) the number of people going and Tony Massarotti (LA ’89) to minor league games, it’s — visited the Tufts campus last more than the NFL and NHL night for a panel discussion on combined,” said Tye, whose minor league baseball. Tornadoes are expecting over The Ex College-sponsored one million fans in 2007. “That’s event, entitled “The Minor a stunning figure to me.” League Revival: Baseball, Tye discussed in detail the Entrepreneurship and process of creating an inde- Community,” was held in pendent minor league team. Barnum Hall before a small The Tornadoes originated in group of students and profes- 2005 after team organizers sors. Well-known baseball stat- oversaw the construction of a istician and Boston Red Sox 3,000-seat stadium in just nine consultant Bill James was also weeks, hired former Red Sox in attendance. players Rich Gedman and Bob Tye, who is the co-owner of Ojeda to run the player devel- the independent minor league opment department, and went team the Worcester Tornadoes, about building a 22-man ros- spoke about the management ter. aspect of minor league base- While the team’s develop- ball, while Massarotti, a base- ment was a challenge, Tye cited ball columnist for The Boston several factors that contrib- Herald, explored the minor uted the rapid rise in his fran- LAURA SCHULTZ/TUFTS DAILY league game from his perspec- chise’s popularity, among them T.J. Hellman (left) discusses the environmental health issues facing Chelsea, Mass. at an event yesterday while tive as a member of the media. low ticket prices (the average PHAT president and senior Candis Joseph (right) looks on. Andres, the instructor of the Ex Tornadoes ticket costs $8, com- College course “Sabermetrics: pared to the $46 price for a seat BY ALEX BLUM few days. to their self-titled cause. The Objective Analysis of at Boston’s Fenway Park); the Daily Editorial Board Organizers of Interfaith Interfaith Week is spon- Baseball,” offered insight into convenient, safe and family- Week are looking to promote sored by Pathways, an initia- the statistical analysis of minor oriented nature of the minor Two weeklong initiatives an understanding of world tive at Tufts run through the league players. league game; and the enthusi- hope to provide Tufts stu- religions, while Health and Experimental College that Ex College Associate asm created in Massachusetts dents with a dose of informa- Human Rights Week spon- Director Howard Woolf intro- tional services over the next sors want to draw attention see THEMED WEEKS, page 2 duced the three panelists with see BASEBALL, page 2 Tufts Democrats to release fi rst LCS sponsors three-day blood drive in Hodgdon issue of new magazine today Future issues will be circulated throughout the state BY JENNA NISSAN left out, will all be posted on the Daily Editorial Board Dems’ Web site, according to Norris. She said that submissions came The Tufts Democrats will be distrib- both from students who were very uting and promoting the first issue of involved in the Dems as well as some their partisan magazine, The Forum, who had little to no involvement. in the Mayer Campus Center today. Some submissions even came from “It’s a partisan magazine as opposed off-campus writers. to an ideological magazine,” senior This issue, for example, will feature and Dems President Kayt Norris said. one article from a Boston University “We want it to [cover] the range student. of Democratic thought [and] to be a In the future, around half of the voice for both conservative and pro- magazine will be set aside for articles gressive Democrats alike,” she added. from students at other universities, The first issue, which is comprised and as a result of a contract between ANJALI NIRMALAN/TUFTS DAILY of 20 black-and-white pages, focuses the Tufts Dems and the College Red Cross collection specialist James Brady draws blood from freshman Cameron Archibald on issues including the future of the Democrats of Massachusetts (CDM), yesterday in Hodgdon. Democratic Party, energy indepen- it will be distributed throughout the dence, the health care system and state. Around 70 Jumbos stopped by Hodgdon Freshman Phoebe Richman said that she primary elections, according to the The Tufts Democrats will be in yesterday to give blood. The donations go donated blood “because I can and because publication’s editor-in-chief, fresh- charge of editing and designing the to the American Red Cross through Tufts’ I’m O negative ... so I should.” People with an man Scott Dodds. magazine, as well as sending it to Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS). O negative blood type are considered univer- He said that the issue also includes the printer, but the CDM will pay the Sophomore and event co-organizer Katie sal donors because their blood donations are a few humor pieces, such as a step-by- additional costs of state-wide circula- Muller said that over the course of the blood compatible with patients of all blood types. step guide on how to dodge a draft. tion. drive, which began yesterday and will con- The current drive is the third this year Although some articles in the first Each president of a Democratic tinue through Thursday, the goal is to get 150 sponsored by LCS. The first was in the fall issue were written by editors, most chapter at a Massachusetts university people to donate. and the second was earlier this semester. It were submitted by students. will receive a copy of the first issue, After giving blood, some donors spoke will continue today from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Around twice as many articles were but distribution will be more exten- briefly to the Daily about the experience. and on Thursday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. in submitted as could be included in the sive for subsequent ones. “[I’m giving blood] because I know people Hodgdon. print version. Although today’s issue will be the need it and I’m healthy and able to, so I figure, The articles that made it into the only one of the year, the Dems plan ‘Why not?’” sophomore Jenny Gerson said. —by Bennett Kuhn magazine, as well as those that were on putting out four next year . Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections POP CULTURE CLASH STATUE-ESQUE News 1 Viewpoints 13 What do students know ‘Persephone’ leaves more about, American audiences stone cold Features 3 Comics 18 Idol or the American Arts | Living 7Classifieds 19 presidential election? Editorial | Letters 12 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 7 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, April 18, 2007 WORLD IN BRIEF KEY LEADER IN MEXICO DRUG CAR- Collaboration assures more effective programming TEL ARRESTED THEMED WEEKS campus,” Render said. “We figured it would be a lot better A man described as a key leader of the violent continued from page 1 Events throughout the week will if all of these groups on campus actu- Gulf Cartel has been arrested as part of a widening aims to bring Jewish, Christian and range from discussions of personal ally worked together,” sophomore crackdown on drug trafficking in northeast Mexico, Muslim students together. faith to religious services. and Tufts’ Physicians for Human federal authorities announced Tuesday. “We feel that religious groups at “It’s a way to get some questions Rights Co-Chair Adnan Alam said. The announcement of the bust in the state of Tufts are underappreciated and even out about different faiths that stu- “We figured if we all did our things Tamaulipas, which borders the United States, came segregated, so we wanted to encour- dents can get [answered] from a real at the same time, it would be a lot the day after Mexican soldiers detained more than age dialogue between both people person, rather than from Wikipedia,” more successful in creating aware- 100 local police officers in the neighboring state of of faith and people not of faith,” Hofmann said. “The idea is to put a ness about human rights issues.” Nuevo Leon for questioning about suspected ties to freshman and Pathways facilitator face to the faiths.” The programming for Health and drug traffickers. Keith Hofmann said. “We felt that it’s Events like a cooking class and Human Rights Week kicked off with The operations are part of a series of efforts something that needs to be discussed yoga class will provide a different last night’s lecture by T.J. Hellman, a pushed by President Felipe Calderon aimed at stem- in an open forum for everyone.” approach and incorporate a cultural member of the Chelsea, Mass. Green ming the country’s increasingly violent war between One reason that religion has not element. Space and Recreation Committee, drug cartels. been discussed enough is that some- Health and Human Rights Week who discussed Chelsea’s struggle to The bloodshed continues: Monday alone, near- times it makes people uncomfort- brings together a wide range of preserve its environment. There will ly two dozen bodies were found across Mexico able, according to sophomore and health- and human rights-related also be a photo exhibition, a movie — some charred, others stuffed in garbage bags Pathways facilitator Nathan Render.