Where You Partly Cloudy Read It First 54/38 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVI, NUMBER 37 WEDNEsday, OctoBER 30, 2013 TUFTSDAILY.COM Greenblatt speaks about social entrenpreneurship BY JOSH WEINER arts education that taught me Daily Editorial Board how big a place the world is,” he said. “Those seeds are being Jonathan Greenblatt (LA ‘92), planted right now and you special assistant to President don’t even know it. But take Barack Obama and director of the time to till those seeds, to the Office of Social Innovation cultivate that plant, because and Civic Participation in the they could take you places you United States Domestic Policy don’t even know.” Council, delivered the Lyon & Greenblatt outlined what he Bendheim Alumni Lecture at believed would be common 51 Winthrop St. last night. characteristics amongst social Greenblatt spoke of his early entrepreneurs. He said that experiences as an activist, people in the field commonly which included protesting in display a strong sense of deter- his hometown of Bridgeport, mination and resourcefulness Conn. for Soviet Jews’ rights towards achieving a positive and joining Bill Clinton’s 1992 impact in their environment. presidential campaign as a “They are change agents, graduating senior at Tufts. He people who are committed to chose to spend his first months change throughout their lives,” out of college working as a he said. “This is typically part waiter at a Harvard Square cafe of their DNA. They are out to while campaigning for Clinton change what they think is a VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS in his spare time, much to the broken equilibrium. They are Somerville High School and Medford High School students will no longer have to pay Tufts’ $70 application fee, shock of his parents. thinking big from the get-go.” as part of an agreement between the university and the two cities. “In that moment, I had the Greenblatt acknowledged benefit of nearly four years several accomplished entre- University waives application fee for of discovery and enrichment,” preneurs from Tufts, telling he said. current students that they are Medford, Somerville High students Greenblatt recognized the part of a lineage of social entre- tremendous impact his alma preneurship. He then spoke BY MENGHAN LIU application fee for Somerville Community Relations Barbara mater had had on his career in about his own experience in Daily Editorial Board High School and Medford High Rubel told the Daily in an email. entrepreneurship and encour- co-launching the charitable School students and committed According to Somerville Public aged current Tufts students to water bottle company, Ethos Tufts University, with the City Tufts to paying each city $1.375 Schools Superintendent Tony make the most of their under- Water. of Somerville and the City of million over the next five years. Pierantozzi, Tufts will provide graduate experience. Greenblatt said that the sta- Medford, reached separate part- “This latest agreement marks SAT preparation tutoring and “I wanted to change the nership agreements last week another milestone in how we world, and it was my liberal see GREENBLATT, page 2 that waived the university’s $70 work together,” Director of see APPLICATION, page 2 Tufts Medical Center names Wagner interim CEO BY MELISSA MANDELBAU M Organization, was named Specialist at Tufts Medical Center sion to leave Tufts Medical, Wagner started at Tufts Daily Editorial Board interim chief medical officer Jeremy Lechan, Beyer held the Wagner was appointed to fill Medical in 2008 as Chief of for Tufts Medical Center after CEO position for two years the position. Internal Medicine and Adult Michael Wagner, presi- his predecessor Eric Beyer before leaving to pursue other “It just seemed like it was Primary Care and an Associate dent and CEO of the Tufts resigned on Sept. 17. opportunities. Immediately the most appropriate natu- Professor of Medicine, he Medical Center Physicians According to Media Relations after Beyer announced his deci- ral progression,” Lechan said. said. “He has a wealth of experi- He believes his understand- ence both [in] a management ing of financial operations, the capacity and as a physician. full range of services the Tufts He’s had progressively more Medical provides and the pro- responsibility within our cess of running a complicated organization it made sense organization will help him sig- that he was the top executive nificantly in this new role. and the person with the most The search for a permanent experience.” CEO has not yet begun, as As CEO, Wagner hopes to the Board of Trustees of the expand Tufts Medical’s mar- Medical Center hopes to focus ket share by strengthening on current strategic initiatives relationships with physicians instead, Lechan said. in the community. Therefore, “There is no imminent plan doctors will send their patients to replace [Wagner],” Lechan to the Center for tertiary care, said. “There is no doubt among or special consultant care on anyone that he’ll do an excel- referral from a primary or sec- lent job.” ondary doctor. He would also While the university and like to pursue more hospital Tufts Medical Center are inde- affiliations that are mutually pendent entities, Tufts Medical beneficial for Tufts Medical is the university’s valued part- Center and community hospi- ner in training the next gen- tal centers. eration of doctors, University “Hospitals today are com- President Anthony Monaco plicated places and there are told the Daily in an e-mail. a lot of changes occurring in “We envision a future of con- terms of the way we’re paid, tinued collaboration between accountabilities, reporting our two-world class institu- and the increased focus on tions,” he wrote. reporting our quality results,” Wagner has been President Wagner said. “All those clini- and CEO of Tufts Medical VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS cal operational issues are a Physicians Organization since After the resignation of his predecessor Eric Beyer, President and CEO of the Tufts Medical Center Physicians major focus of the work I do Organization Michael Wagner was appointed interim chief medical officer for Tufts Medical Center on Sept. 17. every day.” see WAGNER, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s sections Cathy Stanton, lecturer New exhibit at the MFA News 1 Op-Ed 9 of anthropology, talks gives a voice to female about her award-win- Iranian and Arabic Features 3 Comics 12 ning research. photographers. Arts & Living 5Classifieds 15 Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Police briefs card and gift card. The glasses were who had been witnessed throwing the him to the ATM. The officer smelled WATCH YOUR PACK not found. Neither of the suspects were barrels, had run away. Officers accom- alcohol on the student and subsequent- Tufts University Police Department students. The case is currently being panied the uninvolved student back to ly asked what was bulging out under (TUPD) on Oct. 23 at 12:05 p.m. processed in court. his house on Boston Avenue but could his sweatshirt. The student revealed a received a report from a male student not locate his roommate. 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels. The concerning a stolen backpack. The stu- BUDDY SYSTEM officer confiscated the bottle. dent had left his backpack on a field Medford police on Oct. 24 at 1:49 a.m. BABY JACK while playing Frisbee and returned to reported individuals throwing trash bar- On Oct. 27 at 12:0 3 a.m. a male stu- find it missing. Items lost with the bag rels on the train tracks by Boston dent knocked on the door of the Mayer included his iPhone, glasses, ATM card Avenue. When TUPD arrived, Medford Campus Center, which was locked for and a gift card. Officers later arrested officers were talking to a male student an event, and asked to use the ATM two individuals, one of whom had the who was not directly involved in the inside. The supervising officer on duty iPhone and one of whom had the ATM incident. His roommate, the student agreed, let the student in and escorted —Compiled by Menghan Liu GREENBLATT charities, as well as a mini- continued from page 1 mum of $10 million over its tistics regarding the global water first five years of sales. He said crisisGreenblatt — and the facts that encourages over that this represented nonprofit the com- work a billion people worldwide lack pany’s best chance of turn- access to clean drinking water ing consumers into activists and 2.6 billion lack adequate and bettering the company’s sanitation — greatly disturbed chances of making a collective him. He became inspired to do impact towards resolving the his part to resolve this issue and global water crisis. decided to develop a brand of Greenblatt addressed his bottled water to generate funds other efforts involving social for water, sanitation and hygiene entrepreneurship, including education programs. many which he handles on a From the start, it was a regular basis at his position challenging venture, and in the White House. He spoke Greenblatt initially struggled of ways in which individuals to effectively market and dis- can devote themselves to the tribute his water bottle brand. “social innovation agenda.” He described this startup Volunteering for nonprof- period, during which he sold it organizations, including Ethos Water exclusively from AmeriCorps, was one method his home in Los Angeles, as which he praised specifically. one of profound uncertainty. “The nonprofit field in this “Everyone loves a success country is the most vibrant in story,” he said. “But before those the world, and it is the safety success stories, there are a lot net that provides so much to so of tough nights, hard conversa- many,” Greenblatt said.