Today: Sunny THE TUFTS High 61 Low 39 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Mostly Sunny Since 1980 High 59 Low 43 VOLUME LV, NUMBER 56 DAILY WEDNESDAY , APRIL 16, 2008 UIT seeking to expand Dining Dollars, Points Plus wireless Internet access BY NINA FORD reach for UIT. merge to form JumboCash Daily Editorial Board After improving connection strength in the library, which BY GIO VANNI RUSSONELLO The University Information already has wireless access Daily Editorial Board Technology (UIT) department but has experienced a number is working to expand wireless of outages recently, UIT will Dining Services announced Internet access across campus decide which additional loca- yesterday that it will combine in the near future, and plans to tions to address. the university’s often perplex- install wireless access points “Based on cost, the schools ing Points Plus and Dining in Tisch Library before spring will determine which areas Dollars systems into one multi- reading period begins on are addressed first,” Irish said purpose account next semester, April 29. in an e-mail, adding that UIT a move that Tufts Community UIT has also conducted site has completed preliminary Union (TCU) Senator C.J. surveys in several dormito- examinations of Wren, Haskell, Mourning said could pave the ries and will use the results Sophia Gordon and West Halls. way for more restaurants to to frame its goals, said Dawn join the Merchants on Points Irish, associate director of out- see WIRELESS, page 2 (MOPS) system. Dining Services also announced that meal plans will no longer include points, so stu- dents may choose the number of dining hall meals they purchase independently of the amount of REBEKAH SOKOL/TUFTS Daily cash they store on their identifi- Starting next semester, student ID cards will have increased spending power. cation cards. With the newly introduced Dollars, which many students can use their ID cards to access JumboCash system, students historically purchase at the money from both accounts, will be able to use their ID cards beginning of each semester as which are often referred to col- to buy meals at on-campus eat- part of their meal plans, can be lectively as “points.” eries and area restaurants and used to buy food from selected Director of Dining Services also to pay for such on-campus on-campus eateries and from Patti Klos said students’ confu- expenses as bookstore purchas- six sponsored restaurants near sion about the two accounts es and laundry cycles. campus. Points Plus can be used motivated the merger. “In the Students have consistent- at campus food vendors and students’ minds it wasn’t the ly expressed confusion over to make other miscellaneous most convenient way to make what they can buy with Dining payments such as bookstore purchases,” she said. “We call ANNIE WERMIEL/TUFTS daily Dollars and what falls in the purchases and overdue-book Tisch Library may soon see an increase in its wireless Internet capacity. domain of Points Plus. Dining fees at Tisch Library. Students see POINTS, page 2 Next year’s Programming Board LGBT activist breaks silence with talk reps elected BY MARYSA LIN Daily Editorial Board Students selected next Class Council presidency, year’s Programming Board Adam Fischer was elected Staceyann Chin broke the representatives in an election vice president of social pro- silence with a bang yesterday. yesterday that was delayed gramming, Brooke Rothstein The Jamaican activist, poet by a technological hitch. won the vice presidency of and playwright showcased her The student council respon- academic programming, fiery and candid oratory while sible for Winter Bash, Fall Danny Wittels was elected speaking on issues of sexual- Ball and last month’s Winter treasurer and Kate Carpenito ity and identity in the capping Carnival held elections for won the secretary position. event of the LGBT Center’s Day contested seats in the Classes In the Class of 2010, of Silence. of 2010 and 2011, while all Jay Romano and Anita Wu An acclaimed agitator for candidates in the rising senior will split time as president, women’s rights, Chin spoke class went unopposed. with Romano serving in the frankly about a variety of issues Yesterday’s voting got fall before going abroad in and performed several poems. off to a rocky start, as a the spring. Wu will be “I believe ‘whore’ is a word we technological problem pre- abroad in the fall and will came up with for women who vented Programming Board take over in the spring. like f—king as much as men,” she officials from putting ballots Brittany Cahoon was elected said. “I believe there will always for the contested elections treasurer, and Clara Chan be something to fight for.” MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS Daily online until very late in the won the vice presidency of Chin spent the session pro- Activist Staceyann Chin spoke at a closing event for the Day of Silence. morning. academic programming. viding biographical insights The Board was using an The class’s secretary posi- into her life, including her exo- “You guys must not have any eration of young people with outdated listserv, or collec- tion and vice presidency of dus from her home country of fun during sex,” she added. strong convictions is “the first tion of e-mail addresses, to social programming are Jamaica, where homosexuality “I f—k with you, with all of generation that really can do send out the ballots to mem- still open. is illegal. She read portions of this, because I do believe that a anything” and that there are bers of the Classes of 2010 Saskia Chanoine will her memoir, performed poetic conversation between those of “very few boundaries [it] can’t and 2011. become the rising senior pieces and sought to challenge us who are a couple generations cross.” Once Lauren Kari and Erica class council president after the boundaries of what many ahead of you may engender you But Chin said she worries Shipow, the board’s co-chairs, her position, like the rest of people consider sensitive, taboo talking to people younger than about what young people will realized the mistake, they had those in the Class of 2009, or shameful topics. you are,” Chin said, describing choose to do with their power. to individually remake all the went uncontested yesterday. “I like to push the buttons the importance of encounter- She also discussed racism in ballots because the listserv London Moore will serve about race and sexuality and all ing many different perspectives America. “Someone doesn’t need had already been finalized. as vice president of social of that,” Chin said. In response from people in varied points in to spit in your face and call you a The rising sophomores’ programming, Pooja Chokshi to the quiet crowd in Cabot their lives. n——r” for it to be racism, Chin ballots were not available will be vice president of aca- Auditorium, she joked that stu- The talk concluded the LGBT said. She said that both sexism until 11:40 a.m., and the ris- demic programming, Neil dents today have become so seri- Center’s Day of Silence, in which and racism are deeply pervasive ing juniors’ ballots went up DiBiase will be treasurer ous that they have lost “nuance participants — usually students in American society. at 11:15 a.m., said Kari, who and Eran Filiba will become and irony and sarcasm and all — refuse to speak for a full day in “People talk about black peo- is currently a senior. the secretary. those wonderful things that allow order to highlight the feeling of ple who are poor, black men who In the Class of 2011, you to say so much with your isolation that gays feel. Lindsey Rosenbluth won the —by Giovanni Russonello body, with your voice. Chin said that today’s gen- see CHIN, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections Air Force ROTC mem- The women’s tennis bers incorporate mili- team improved to 9-1 News 1 Op-Ed 9 tary training into their on the year with a deci- Features 3 Comics 10 Tufts undergraduate sive win over Conn. Arts | Living 5Classifieds 11 education. College yesterday. Best of Tufts 7Sports Back Editorial | Letters 8 see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Switch to JumboCash may lead to expansion of Merchants on Points system POINTS Services sells, the office will have to recon- aware that students have expressed a cards to add to their JumboCash over the continued from page 1 figure how it relies on reaping money desire to have more off-campus options Internet, and to allow students to check [JumboCash] ‘points simplified’ ... We from students’ purchases at non dining- and that’s something that we’ll continue to their account balances online. hope that this [system] will be a no-brain- hall eateries on campus, according to look at with student representatives’ help Adding JumboCash will carry new finan- er, easy to understand and just make life Mourning. This will help Dining Services in the new school year,” she said. cial incentives for students, Mourning simpler for everyone.” adapt to incorporating more restaurants Klos said that more complicated said. They will save 10 percent if they Mourning, the TCU’s outgoing Services into the MOPS system, she said. obstacles lie ahead before Tufts can purchase JumboCash by a certain date in Committee chair, spearheaded an effort “Because the Dining Dollars ... money incorporate additional off-campus res- the summer. “If I want to buy 1,000 points this school year to streamline the points goes toward Dining Services ..