Where You Sunny Read It First 46/27 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER 38 MONday, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 TUFTSDAILY.COM Scott Brown talks time at Tufts Cold War Kids to headline third annual Cage Rage concert BY LIZZ GRAIN G ER to 2,500 will be available. hopes the event will be a way for Daily Editorial Board Since this year’s Cage Rage students to celebrate the end of will take place the weekend after the semester, Harada said. The indie-rock band Cold classes end and before reading War Kids will headline the third period starts, Concert Board see CAGE RAGE, page 2 annual Cage Rage Concert on Dec. 8. at the Carzo Cage. Programming Board is still in the process of booking an opening band, according to Concert Board Co-Chair Nate Harada, a junior. Tickets will go on sale on Nov. 13 through the TuftsTickets.com website and will be available at the information booth in the Mayer Campus Center for $10 per Tufts ID and $20 per guest ticket, according to Harada. Students will be allowed to pur- chase two guest tickets per ID. CYDNEE DUBROF / TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES The number of available Thirty years before Scott Brown (R-Mass., LA ‘81) became a U.S tickets is not set in stone, Senator, he played basketball, sung in choir and served in student though Office for Campus Life KATJA TORRES / TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES government at Tufts. Brown spoke with the Daily last week about (OCL) Assistant Director David Concert Board announced today that Cold War Kids will headline this fall’s Cage his experience in the Tufts community. See page 3 for the feature. McGraw anticipates that 2,000 Rage concert on Dec. 8. Tickets will be available for purchase next week. Committee on Student Life to At roundtable, sustainability groups hear TCF’s derecognition case BY MARTHA SHANAHAN identifying a solution.” discuss plan for waste reduction Daily Editorial Board Starks said the committee will be weighing the univer- BY JU S TIN RHEIN G O ld Energy and Emissions Working while the university is reducing Tufts Christian Fellowship sity’s “dual conviction” of both Daily Staff Writer Group (EEWG) discussed specific its emissions, new construction (TCF) has filed an appeal with supporting spiritual life on steps the university is taking to plans could stand in the way of its the Committee on Student campus and maintaining “as The Tufts Sustainability improve energy efficiency and to long-term emissions goals. Life (CSL) to contest its offi- discrimination-free an envi- Collective (TSC) on Friday hosted reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. “The fact that we are growing cial derecognition last month ronment as possible.” a roundtable event for a variety of “We made a pledge to meet clearly is important, but it’s even based on allegedly discrimi- Junior Jessica Laporte, a green-minded groups and indi- the emissions reductions [for more important to recognize how natory clauses in the student member of TCF’s Vision and viduals to discuss ways in which 2020] associated with the Kyoto we are growing,” she said. “Our group’s constitution. Planning Team, confirmed the campus could further act on Protocol, and we met that,” plans add really energy intensive The CSL is a group of fac- that TCF has appealed the its commitment to sustainability. Ann Rappaport, co-chair of the buildings, including lab build- ulty members and students decision and said the group Members of the university-wide EEWG and a lecturer in the Urban ings, and this poses an enormous charged with the responsi- asked in their appeal that the Campus Sustainability Council, and Environmental Policy and challenge to us moving forward.” bility of hearing appeals of CSL consider questions of the including representatives from Planning Department said during Isenstein said the university decisions handed down by rights of all campus religious Facilities Services, Dining Services the roundtable. plans to keep energy efficiency in the Tufts Community Union groups to choose their leaders and teaching faculty, among oth- She added that the university mind as it pursues new construc- (TCU) Judiciary. based on beliefs. ers, presented the progress made still has much to do before it can tion projects. The Judiciary derecognized “We’re asking them to con- by the Council’s three working meet its goals for 2050, which “We are working on a different TCF last month because it sider what it means on a cam- groups on improving campus include a 75-percent reduction in process for thinking about new considered a clause in the pus level to protect religious sustainability through energy effi- emissions levels from 2001. construction and renovation that group’s constitutional bylaws, freedom and promote reli- ciency, water conservation and Director of Facilities Technical involves setting aggressive ener- which required members gious diversity,” Laporte said. recycling. Services and EEWG co-chair in leadership positions to “There are a lot of different Members of the council’s Betsy Isenstein cautioned that see SUSTAINABILITY, page 2 adhere to a list of eight tenets directions it could go.” of Evangelical thought, to Official derecognition be in violation of the TCU means the group cannot use Constitution’s non-discrimi- the Tufts name without per- nation clause. mission, schedule meeting Tufts researchers receive grant for The CLS will either uphold spaces using Tufts resources or strike down the Judiciary’s or have access to TCU Senate decision. allocated funding. soft-bodied robots The body may also issue While the appeal process BY DANIE L BOTTINO a recommendation that is ongoing, TCF will continue Contributing Writer the Judiciary re-evaluate its to have access to these rights interpretation of the TCU and funding, Laporte noted. Tufts researchers recently Constitution, or encourage It remains unclear how long received a $2.7 million training the University Chaplaincy to the appeal process may take, grant from the National Science engage the broader Tufts com- she said. Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative munity in a discussion about Regardless of CSL’s ver- Graduate Education and the role of beliefs in selecting dict, the group plans to Research Traineeship program the leadership of campus reli- retain its affiliation with the that will enable them to fur- gious groups. Chaplaincy and its status ther their work on soft-bodied “An appeal has been sub- as a campus chapter of the robotic technology. mitted, and the process is national college evangelical Researchers at Tufts have moving ahead accordingly,” Christian mission InterVarsity been working on these revo- Philip Starks, CSL chair and Christian Fellowship/USA. lutionary robots for approxi- associate professor in the Laporte said the group has mately six years, according Department of Biology, told decided to change its name to Professor of Biology Barry the Daily in an email. “The to Tufts Christian Fellowship Trimmer, who is the principal InterVarsity to emphasize its CSL is looking forward to ANDREW SCHNEER / THE TUFTS DAILY reviewing and gathering data, relationship with the nation- see ROBOTS, page 2 Researchers have received a grant to continue work on soft-bodied robots. hearing all perspectives and al organization. Inside this issue Today’s sections “The Walking Dead” Playing with a smaller News 1 Op-Ed 9 returns with vigor after roster, Tufts volleyball a lackluster second fell to Bowdoin over Features 3 Comics 12 season. the weekend. Arts & Living 5Classifieds 13 Editorial | Op-Ed 8 Sports Back see ARTS, page 5 see SPORTS, page 15 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Monday, November 5, 2012 Visiting the Hill this Week MONDAY Indian Reformer” FRIDAY “Embracing the Genius of the ‘and’ WEDNESDAY Details: Brian Hatcher, professor and “Election Aftermath: Why Should I — Delivering Economic ‘and’ Social “Surviving the Holocaust as a Jehovah’s Packard chair of theology in the Department Believe What I See on the News?” Value” Witness” of Religion, will be speaking. Details: Marian Porges (LA ‘82), a senior Details: Doug Conant, former president Details: Elizabeth Dopazo, an 83-year-old When and Where: 5:15 p.m.; Rabb Room, producer at NBC News, will be discussing and CEO of the Campbell Soup Company, Holocaust survivor, will be recounting her Lincoln Filene Center this year’s post-election coverage. will be honored as the first Corporate story of survival in Nazi Germany. Sponsors: Women’s Studies Program When and Where: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Citizen Fellow of the Jonathan M. Tisch When and Where: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Eaton 201 College of Citizenship and Public Service. Granoff Family Hillel Center Downstairs “Colored Cosmopolitanism and the Sponsors: Communications and Media His lecture will focus on how to lead a Chapel Racial Borders of South Asia” Studies Program “mission driven” organization and inspire Sponsors: Cummings/Hillel Program for Details: Nico Slate, assistant professor of employees. Holocaust and Genocide Education history at Carnegie Mellon University, will When and Where: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; be speaking. Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center THURSDAY When and Where: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 Sponsors: Jonathan M. Tisch College of “Lost Daughters and Forgotten p.m.; Cabot 205 Citizenship and Public Service Widows: Re-examining the Life of an Sponsors: The Department of History —compiled by the Daily News Department Concert Board to maintain Cage Rage’s indie-rock theme CAGE RAGE Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums list in continued from page 1 the United States in February 2011. “TDC [Tufts Dance Collective] is that Harada said Concert Board began the Friday and Cage Rage is that Saturday, so search this summer but only recently we’re hoping that’s going to be a big week- finalized the contract with the indie-rock end and people will be really excited about band.