Today: Partly Cloudy THE TUFTS High 59 Low 43 Tufts’ Student Tomorrow: Newspaper Partly Cloudy Since 1980 High 64 Low 41 VOLUME LV, NUMBER 51 DAILY WEDNESDAY , APRIL 9, 2008 Tufts receives largest gift in university history BY GIO VANNI RUSSONELLO funds the investment creates meaning that the university be generated from it will allow Lesley and Tufts upon their Daily Editorial Board will be earmarked to help the can apportion the money how- the university to benefit in a dissolution. university pursue major goals ever it sees fit, according to variety of ways,” Lee said. Doble founded Doble Tufts has received $136 mil- such as improving financial aid, Vice President for University Tufts is not the only benefi- Engineering in 1920, nine years lion, the largest gift in the uni- constructing a new, integrated Advancement Brian Lee. This ciary of the trust funds, whose after graduating from Tufts with versity’s history, after charitable biology and engineering labo- type of grant is rare, because total value was $272 million. an undergraduate degree in trust funds set up almost 50 ratory and supporting faculty. most donors stipulate that their Lesley University, located in electrical engineering. The com- years ago by engineer and busi- “This is an extraordinary act money be devoted to certain Cambridge, received an equal pany, which today operates in 75 nessman Frank Doble (E ’11) of philanthropy that will have projects or interests. donation. Doble, who served as countries, offers diagnostic test- were dissolved. a far reaching impact on Tufts,” “At the end of the day the a trustee and chairman of the ing to help clients in the power The donation has been invest- President Lawrence Bacow told university ... is benefiting from board at Lesley, established the industry improve efficiency. ed directly in the university’s the Daily in an e-mail. this in a way that’s largely unre- trusts in 1960 and dictated that endowment, and some of the The gift is unrestricted, stricted. The income that will they be split evenly between see DONATION, page 2 John Baronian, generous supporter of Tufts athletics, dies at 87 BY NINA FORD been a marvelous force in the Alumni Daily Editorial Board Association. Specifically, his passion was athletics. He supported athletics John Baronian (A ’50), a Tufts alum in a number of ways ... He founded the and longtime supporter of the univer- Jumbo Club and has just always been a sity, died on April 5 at Massachusetts booster of athletics.” General Hospital. He was 87. The Jumbo Club is an organization Baronian regularly supported and that supports Tufts athletics through donated funds to Tufts since his gradu- fundraising, social events and recogni- ation almost 60 years ago, and he was tion of athletes and sports teams. especially devoted to campus athletics. Baronian also funded construction of He died of complications from heart the Baronian Field House at Ellis Oval. surgery. “In 1983, there was a big banquet that “He was always on campus all the time 600 people attended to raise money in — he just constantly volunteered his his name for a field house,” Aftandilian services,” Baronian’s nephew, Gregory said. Baronian’s personal friends from Aftandilian, told the Daily. “Everyone across the country contributed enough knew him as ‘Mr. Tufts.’” money to the fundraiser to fully fund “He’s been involved in Tufts ever the field house. COurtESY PAUL SWEENEY since he graduated,” said Linda Dixon, “It couldn’t have been a nicer honor John Baronian (A ‘50), left, shown here with President Lawrence Bacow, was a significant a secretary for the Office of the Trustees contributor to Tufts, especially the Athletics Department. and Baronian’s longtime friend. “He’s see BARONIAN, page 2 Man who knifed student returned to DU before being arrested, police say Journalist who had self waterboarded The man who stabbed Between 2:30 and 2:45 sophomore Dan Stebbins on a.m., Vraibel and his compan- condemns controversial technique March 29 got away with- ions allegedly became violent BY BEN GITTLESON out being apprehended, but after Stebbins and four other Daily Editorial Board returned over an hour later fraternity brothers denied to the scene of the crime, them entry into Delta Upsilon. In the summer of 2006, where he was apprehended, The altercation occurred on award-winning journalist and the Somerville Police told the the lawn outside the building former Navy SEAL Kaj Larsen Somerville Journal. when Vraibel took out a knife subjected himself to water- Saugus, Mass. resident and “threatened to stab some- boarding, an interrogation tech- Brendan Vraibel, 19, was one,” police told the Journal. nique that simulates drowning arrested outside 114 Professors While Stebbins does not and is defined by the Geneva Row, the Delta Upsilon frater- remember hearing the suspect Convention as torture but which nity, at approximately 4 a.m. say this, he admitted it could the United States supports. and charged with assault with have happened. According to Larsen spoke about the expe- a dangerous weapon, accord- a Daily article published March rience and gave a history of ing to the Journal. 31, Stebbins never saw the waterboarding during a lecture Michael Phillion, 20, of knife, and he did not know in Cabot Auditorium last night. Medford and Ryan Casey, that the assailant had one until He also showed the feature 19, of Somerville were also after he had been attacked. that Current TV, the network apprehended after alleged- “It was a split-second thing for which he works, ran on his ly returning to the frater- that happened,” he said in 24-minute “interrogation.” The nity where the stabbing took the article. piece, which included footage place to smash windows with The Somerville Police from the experience, was picked golf clubs and baseball bats could not be reached for up on major national news an hour and a half after the comment. Although Tufts networks as the debate over original incident. University Police Department “enhanced interrogation tech- Police had originally come Sgt. Robert McCarthy did not niques” increased in the United to the fraternity at around confirm the name of the sus- States a few months ago. 2:45 a.m., directly after the pect, he did confirm that the Larsen said last night that stabbing. They returned after suspects were apprehended use of the practice portrays the attackers returned to after returning to the scene the United States in a negative Delta Upsilon, and the group of the crime. light. “Using waterboarding as a of attackers quickly dispersed. Stebbins was treated at and method of interrogation associ- MEREDITH KLEIN/TUFTS DAILY Journalist Kaj Larsen discusses the interrogation technique of waterboard- But three men were subse- quickly released from Mount ates the United States with some ing in Cabot Auditorium. quently caught and charged Auburn Hospital in Cambridge of the most notorious regimes with malicious destruction of directly after the stabbing. He in history,” he said. M. Tisch College of Citizenship mouth and pour water on the private property. Phillion was said that none of his stab The discussion was sponsored and Public Service. cloth. The method can create also charged with possession wounds were serious. by the American Civil Liberties In one form of waterboard- the sensation of drowning as the of a class-D drug. This classifi- Union of Massachusetts and ing, Larsen explained, interro- captive inhales moisture from cation includes marijuana. —by Dan Pasternack the Hugo Adam Bedau Fund for gators place a cloth in a blind- Civil Liberties at the Jonathan folded and handcuffed captive’s see WATERBOARDING, page 2 Inside this issue tuftsdaily.com Today’s Sections Martin Scorsese pro- The baseball team lost files the aging Rolling a 3-2 heartbreaker to News 1 Op-Ed 11 Stones in his new Brandeis on a ninth-in- Features 3 Comics 12 concert documentary ning home run by soph- Arts | Living 5Classifieds 13 “Shine a Light.” omore Drake Livada. Editorial | Letters 10 Sports Back see ARTS, page 5 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Visiting the Hill this Tufts will pay for new laboratory with funds from Doble’s gift DONATION that it is possible to bridge the gap it at 550 Boston Ave., 574 Boston Ave. week continued from page 1 between two cultures; beyond this you or both. Tufts will name the facility WEDNESDAY “Frank Doble was a true innovator have shown that the inevitable result of after Doble. who foresaw the potential of the elec- this bridging is responsible citizenship.” “It’s an exciting building and it’s “Public Lecture by Colin Mackerras of tric power industry when it was still Doble passed away in 1969. something that’s long been an important Griffith University, Australia” in its infancy. The technologies that Doble established the trust funds, priority for the university,” Lee said of Details: Colin Mackerras, professor of he developed made the industry safer which together owned 87 percent of the laboratory. International Business and Asian Studies at and more productive,” Bacow said in a Doble Engineering, in 1960. ESCO “In addition to that, the [donation] will Griffith University, will lecture on “Theatre press release. Technologies purchased the compa- allow us to support financial aid, faculty and Politics in Twentieth-Century China.” Doble moved the company’s offices ny last year, and the funds have since retention and a number of other student When & Where: 12:00 p.m.; Olin Center, in 1925 to the Hillside area of Tufts’ been dissolved. and faculty priorities,” Lee added. Room 12 Medford/Somerville campus, where Part of the money garnered by the Lee said that Doble embodied the Sponsor: Drama and Dance Department it remained for 22 years.