CTHE TUFTS DAILY1 Medford, MA 02155 Tuesdav. Februarv 6.1990 Vol XX. Number 10 Tufts financial aid may fall short by up to $500,000 by AhiA GEORGE the already tight University budget ous enough to their commitment probably isn’t far off from what Daily Editorial Board later in the year if it looks as if to financial aid ... they will find we need. But the thing is, this A week after the announce- Tufts may fall short. the money,” Jacobson said. year’s freshman class isn’t the ment of possible crippling cuts in “If there is acute need for Eastwood said that current kind of class that Dean Cuttino the state financial aid budget, Dean additional financial aid, we will predictions of a possible $200,000 . nor I would particularly like to of Financial Aid Bill Eastwood have to make major shifts in the to $500,000 shortfall in aid are see as the norm,” Eastwood said. said last week that Tufts’ own aid budget,” he said. Rotberg would based on the past three to five This year Tufts enrolled 31 per- budget for next year may fall not elaborateon where the money years’ data of the needs of incom- cent financial aid students when short by as much as S500;OOO. would be found, saying, “it’s still ing students. in previous years the average had According to Dean of Admis- a hypothetical question.” Last year, the University froze been 35-36 percent, he said. sionsDavidCuttino,such ashort- Rotberg maintains that it is the financial aid budget at 10.275 Eastwood said that approxi- ‘ fall and Tufts’ ensuing inability still too early to tell whether the percent of total revenue from mately $6.9 million of last year’s to meet the financial need of the approximately $9.5-9.4 million student charges. $9.2 million went to aid students entering class could seriously budgeted for aid next year will be Rotberg explained his optimism already at Tufts. This amount is damage the school’s ability to enough to meet the needs of the that the budget will work out saying not expected to decrease even if attract and enroll the students that entering class. that last year, the first year of the there is a shortfall, he said. contribute to Tufts’ diversity. Senate President Billy Jacob- freeze on financial aid, aid came Dean of Administration Larry Academic Vice President son, a member of the University out slightly over budget despite Photo by maRiemer Ladd also said that Tufts students Robert Rotberg, citing severe fiscal Committee on Budgetary Priori- similar e&y predic&ns of a Dean David Cuttino . already on aid should not be af- constraints and a number of ties, sees Administrators’unwill- shortfall. fected in the case of a shortfall. it is the diversity of the class of competing budgetary priorities, ingness to commit more money “Eastwood said last year that are committed to the said that no more money will be two years ago and not the current people already here. The real to the financial aid budget as we were going to be $600,000 freshman class that he and the allocated for student aid in the evidence of a lack of commit- short and we had a surplus and question is what we do with the Admissions Office would like to current budget. ment to financial aid. that’s why I don’t have any great entering class because the However, Rotberg is optimis- “I believe that if President faith in their crying wolf this year,” duplicate. mitment there is obviously dif- “If you use the last year as the tic that the worst will not happen Mayer or Vice President Rotberg Rotberg said. starting point ... Tufts aid budget see AID, page 2 but said he would find money in or the Board of Trustees are ser; Eastwood said. however. that Painting stolen from Policy on scientific Gallery 11 exhibition misconduct updated by DAVID SPIELMAN report. by STEPHEN NEWMAN for proposing, conducting or re- Daily Editorial Board Captain Ronald Repoza of the Dailv Editorial Board porting research or scholarship.” A painting by Boston Museum Tufts Police said he had no record An updated written policy on Gittleman chaired the com- School student Laurann Szpak was of the theft in the police log. misconduct in science research mittee responsible for writing the reportedly stolen from the wall Szpak’s painting, entitled was released over the winter break Tufts’ procedures. He said that outside Gallery 11 in Cohen “Book,” was p+ of the thesis to all Tufts faculty members by faculty and staff members from Auditorium early last week. exhibition for her masters degree Provost Sol Gittleman. The two Arts and Sciences, Fletcher and Szpak said she contacted the from the Boston Museum School. year-old report was updated to the graduate schools were among Tufts Police upon dscovering the Szpak said she displayed the paint- meet requirements issued on Aug. those on the committee. theft’and,thinking that the paint- ing, which alsp appears on the 8. 1989 by the Public Health The Tufts University Policy ing might have been removed by promotional card for her exhibi- was Service. and Procedures Relating To Mis- the custodial staff for one reason tion, just outside the gallery to from l1 last week. The new PHS regulations re- conduct in Scientific Research or another, was directed to Build- attract and lead people into the sentimental value. While artwork quire all universities to “report And Scholarship is a due process ings and Grounds. She was told gallery. Szpak said she set up her displayed inside the gallery is the initiation, certain interim document, Gittleman explained. by Buildings and Grounds that all display between 9 a.m. and 2 insured from theft by the Univer- developments in, and the outcome He said that the policy sets for- of their staff were outside shovel- p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23. The sity, Ketelhohn was not sure about of any investigation relating to’ mal guidelines for what will ing snow after Sunday’s large painting was reportedly stolen material displayed outside the alleged misconduct in scientific happen to those accused of mis- snowfall and had not removed it. between that time and Monday gallery, as Szpak’s piece was. research for which PHS funds conduct as well as those who make Erica Ketelhohn, the director morning. Not only was the painting sto- have been provided or requested,” the allegations against them. of Gallery 11, said she has not Ketelhohn said she noticed that len, but the promotional cards of according to a memo attached to “It protects the researcher and contacted the Tufts Police or the the painting was missing around “Book” displayed along the hall the University policy. the whistleblower,” Gittleman Safety Office, although she is 11 a.m., before she opened the leading to the gallery and the According to the Tufts docu- said. He stressed that it is impor- gathering the information needed gallery at 11:30 a.m. arrows pointing the way were also ment’s overview, “The purpose tant to remember that “peoples’ to file a report to both offices. Szpak assessed the painting’s removed, Szpak said. of this University policy is to lives are at stake.” Ketelhohn said she was sick last value at $350, adding that the. Szpak said that while she was formalize guidelines and proce- According to Gittleman,Tufts week and thus unable to file the acrylic-on-paperwork also has a see PAINTING, page 10 dures for addressingand respond- has always had a policy relating ing to reports of misconduct in to the issue of misconduct in sci- scientific research and publica- ence, but that the new document Doctorate program~ reconstituted tions.” is more comprehensive. by COLIN WOODARD 1 by the new Interdisciplinary Guertin added. The document defines scien- Gittleman said that the issuing Daily Editorial Board Doctorate (ID)in an effort to more The adoption of the Interdisci- tific misconduct as any behavior of the procedures had no bearing The Graduate School of Arts closely control the quality of plinary Doctorate is an attempt to involving “fabrication, falsifica- on Tufts involvement with the and Sciencesfaculty voted unani- applicantsand the education they tighten up the admissions require- tion, plagiarism, or other prac- controversial “Baltimore Case.” mously yesterday to terminate the receive while studying at Tufts. ments and the oversight of inter- tices that seriously deviate from The Baltimore Case centered previous interdisciplinary pro- ID retains the innovative charac- disciplinary doctorate candidates, those that are commonly accepted see POLICY, page 10 gram, “One of a Kind” and re- ter of the “One” program, but according to Guertin. At the crux vithin the scientific community place it with a new program, the with greater academic rigor and of ID is a special overseers com- Interdisciplinary Doctorate. accountability, according to the mittee (“IDOC”) composed of The “One of a Kind Doctorate proposal of the ad hoc committee appropriate tenured faculty Program” had allowed students assembled to advise the GSAS members. IDOC will make ad- to create their own program of dean on the matter. mission recommendations to the study, combining work in two or The “One” program was sus- Dean and monitor the academic more departments. pended last summer after ques- progress of all candidates for the The Program has been replaced tions were raised about the pro- Interdisciplinary degree. gram’s organization. “There was The ID program gives non- alackofsupervision,”saidGSAS doctorate departments, which I Inside Dean Robert Guertin. “Students include most social sciences and were going off and doing their humanities, broader opportunities Features ............................