Where You Mostly Sunny Read It First 26/14 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LVII, NUMBER 5 MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2009 TUFTSDAILY.COM Question marks Popular artist creates mural on campus BY MITCHELL GELLER over question 2 Daily Editorial Board BY ALEX A NDR A BOGUS World-renowned street artist Shepard Daily Editorial Board Fairey left his distinctive mark at Tufts on Saturday, braving the cold weather and high A new state law decriminalizing the pos- winds to put up a mural on campus. The session of small amounts of marijuana visit was part of the 2009 EPIIC International went into effect on Jan. 2, but confusion on Symposium on Global Cities and coincided the local level has prevented it from having with the artist’s upcoming gallery show at the much of an impact. Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA). The changes are a result of the suc- Fairey, best known as the artist responsible cessful passage of Question 2, a statewide for the Barack Obama “Hope” poster and the ballot initiative, during the last general “Obey Giant” propaganda campaign, created election. the mural for a wall by the Jumbo Express While state officials claim they have convenience store, located on the lower level made new guidelines transparent, the Tufts of the campus center. The work consists of University Police Department (TUPD) and a series of anti-war-themed images done in local police officers say they still have not Fairey’s signature style, highly influenced by gotten enough direction from policymak- Communist propaganda. ers. The artist and five helpers, including “We’re sitting back waiting for our Spencer Elden, the boy from the cover of marching orders,” Lt. Paul Covino of the Nirvana’s album “Nevermind” (1991), spent Medford Police Department told the Daily. two and a half hours Saturday afternoon “It may be in the legislature’s lap right now. assembling the mural from a series of modu- Given the current financial crisis, I don’t lar pieces of varying size. Rather than plan think this is the first thing on their menu.” the mural out in its entirety, members of the Marijuana policies and procedures at crew measured the wall and pieced together a Tufts will effectively stay the same, said cohesive image as they went along. TUPD Captain Mark Keith. Though made of paper, the mural could “In all practicality, I don’t see a big AALOK KANANI/TUFTS DAILY last for up to four years if left alone. change for us here on campus,” Keith said. Shepard Fairey, a popular street artist, puts up a mural by the Jumbo Express convenience “In the past, for small amounts of marijua- store at the campus center on Saturday. see MURAL, page 2 na, we haven’t arrested individuals unless it was coupled by an arrestable offense.” Question 2, which passed with 65 per- Tufts’ grad schools look to maintain quality in face of budget cuts cent of the vote in Massachusetts on Nov. 4, stipulates that adults found with an BY CA RTER ROGERS it will be difficult to embark on new ven- served at meetings to save money. These ounce or less of marijuana will be required Daily Editorial Board tures, but all hope the core missions of their sorts of changes “are all ways we can trim to forfeit it and will receive a $100 fine. schools will be preserved. our budgets and not affect our overall mis- Offenders under 18 will face the same This article is the first in a four-part series Many of the graduate schools are cutting sion,” Eberle said. penalties, but will also be required to enter about how the recession has affected differ- back on extraneous expenses to compen- The School of Medicine is taking a similar a drug awareness program. If they fail to ent parts of the university. sate for budget cuts. “Holistically, we [want approach. “We are reducing other parts of participate, they could face a fine as high Despite the current economic crisis to look] at the entire school itself and say, the budget so that we can continue to sup- as $1,000. and the associated cuts to the university’s ‘How can we be leaner?’” Nathaniel Eberle, port research at the same level,” Semuels Prior to Jan. 2, state law deemed pos- budget, Tufts’ graduate schools say they the director of public relations and com- said. She added that the school is hoping session of any amount of marijuana a will be able to make it through the reces- munications at the Fletcher School of Law to increase its revenue with a new master’s criminal offense and, therefore, worthy of sion without being forced to reduce edu- and Diplomacy, said. “Every department at program. Administrators there are also con- arrest. cational quality. Fletcher has reviewed its expenditures with sidering increasing class sizes. TUPD procedure specifies that small Meanwhile, though college graduates a fine-tooth comb to come up with ways to At the Cummings School, budget cuts amounts of marijuana are to be confiscat- nationwide increasingly consider fleeing save money to weather the storm.” accompany an increased focus on the ed and destroyed. Officers write a report the ailing job market, hoping to wait out The School of Medicine is taking a simi- environment. on the offender that is sent to the Office the storm in academia, application rates to lar approach. “We are reviewing the entire “We’ve asked each of our departments of Student Affairs, where further judicial many of the university’s graduate schools budget. All departments are economiz- to trim their budgets by three percent,” action is determined. “This won’t really have not experienced noticeable bumps. ing,” Marsha Semuels, the school’s execu- Cummings Executive Associate Dean change,” Keith said. All Tufts schools are facing similar chal- tive administrative dean, told the Daily in Joseph McManus told the Daily in an e-mail. The state attorney general’s office and lenges, and the graduate schools’ economic an e-mail. “Environmentally conscious budgets cuts the Massachusetts District Attorneys tests are not far removed from those of the Representatives from Fletcher and the have included elimination of bottled water Medford campus. Representatives of many Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine see QUESTION 2, page 2 of Tufts’ graduate programs have said that mentioned that they would cut lunches see GRAD SCHOOLS, page 2 Planned Parenthood president speaks at Tufts BY TESS A GELLERSON the historic Supreme Court rul- 18 times, and having 11 births,” Daily Editorial Board ing that legalized abortion in Richards said. “It wasn’t even until the United States on the basis of 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled Cecile Richards, president of the an individual’s right to privacy. in [Griswold v. Connecticut] that Planned Parenthood Federation The speech was the first part of married couples could use birth of America, shared her hopes for this year’s “Issues of the Future control legally.” the future of women’s reproduc- Symposium” sponsored by the Though Planned Parenthood tive health care in the new Obama Tufts Democrats. was established decades ago, administration in a speech in An engaging panel discussion Richards said that the group con- Cabot Auditorium on Friday. on the future of gay rights took tinues to experience harassment “There have been a lot of politi- place on Saturday, as the sympo- from pro-life supporters. “Despite cal highlights in my life, a lot of sium’s second installment. the right to a legal abortion, this highlights this year … but noth- Richards, who founded and has just been a controversial issue,” ing quite beats this Tuesday in has served president of America she said. “Just yesterday, we had a Washington, D.C.,” Richards said. Votes, an organization dedicated man drive his car into our clinic in THRILLED TO Despite the presentation occur- to increasing voter registration, is a Minneapolis, Minnesota.” THE MAX ring on a Friday night, students self-proclaimed “political junkie.” Many critics of the Bush admin- filled the auditorium, eager to hear She began the lecture with sev- istration allege that women’s from and converse with Richards. eral sobering anecdotes, remind- reproductive rights suffered under The turnout was indicative of the ing the audience that the status the previous president’s watch. MIKE ADAMS/ TUFTS DAILY controversial and explosive nature of women’s reproductive rights in President George W. Bush Sophomore Mark Simons, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, greets of issues surrounding abortion America remains far from certain. spearheaded abstinence-only Internet personality Tucker Max following a brothers-only screening and reproductive rights. “Margaret Sanger founded education programs and rein- of Max’s upcoming film, “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” (2009). Richards’ speech marked the Planned Parenthood. Her moth- 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, er died having been pregnant see RICHARDS, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections Students studying in The women’s basket- and visting Israel discuss ball team took its first News 1 Op-Ed 9 everday life during the NESCAC loss at Colby Features 3 Comics 10 conflict and its impact on but bounced back to Arts | Living 5Classifieds 11 their friends and family. beat Bowdoin. Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Monday, January 26, 2009 Visiting the Hill Artist places mural on wall near Jumbo Express MONDAY students who register in advance. MURAL Jill Medvedow, the director of around the world. "SUPERHEROES IN A The event will include performanc- continued from page 1 the ICA and a personal friend of While graffiti is usually thought GLOBALLY-CONNECTED es from various student groups, “It’s like everything: — it even- Teichman, approached him last of as simply a name or image WORLD" including B.E.A.T.S, and presenta- tually goes away,” Fairey told week with the opportunity to have spray painted or scrawled on a tions by speakers who have had the Daily.