Where You Mostly Cloudy Read It First 45/35 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LVII, NUMBER 35 TUEsday, MARCH 10, 2009 TUFTSDAILY.COM Tufts hands over Ascot Partners Partying like it’s 5769 documents to Mass. AG Coakley BY ROB SIL V ERBLA tt ilar to a subpoena and mandates cooperation. Daily Editorial Board “The university was required to produce the documents requested by the attorney As part of an investigation into Bernard general,” Martin Oppenheimer, Tufts’ senior Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme, Massachusetts counsel for business and corporate affairs, Attorney General Martha Coakley requested said in an e-mail. documents from Tufts last month. Still, Oppenheimer suggested that the uni- Meanwhile, Jacob Ezra Merkin, the gener- versity would have helped Coakley’s office al partner at Ascot Partners, has come under even absent the demand. renewed scrutiny after New York University “In any event, we believe it is in our interest (NYU) alleged in a lawsuit that the promi- to cooperate with the attorney general’s inves- nent investor received a warning several tigation,” he said. years ago about red flags in Madoff’s invest- Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler ment strategy. would not comment on the contents of the AAOLOK KANANI/TUFTS DAILY Coakley served the university in February A DJ plays for students at Purim in the Wild West held at Oxfam Cafe last night. The with a civil investigative demand, which is sim- see MADOFF, page 2 event was hosted by the Chabbad House. Senate considers 24-hour health line Report shines light BY TESSA GELLERSON who could answer questions and “Students don’t quite realize that Daily Editorial Board direct callers, when necessary, to a they’re actually waking someone doctor or open treatment center. up to ask [about] something that on salaries at colleges In response to increasing stu- Tufts’ Health Service office isn’t an emergency,” Senior Director BY MA tt REPKA School of Dental Medicine. She dent demand, the Tufts Community already has a doctor who is on- of Health and Wellness Service Daily Editorial Board also chairs the Department Union (TCU) Senate has spearhead- call for emergencies at all hours, Michelle Bowdler said. of Dentistry at Tufts Medical ed an initiative to create a 24-hour but students typically call in TCU President Duncan Pickard A recent study of salaries at Center. health services option. with non-pressing issues. As a has been leading the initiative and private colleges has defied a Papageorge’s salary under- The primary goal is to create a result, the current system places has worked with Bowdler to deter- number of expectations about scores a larger nationwide pat- call center that would give students a strain on Health Service medi- executive compensation in the tern of dental and medical school around-the-clock access to nurses, cal professionals. see HEALTH SERVICE, page 2 world of higher education. professors vying with presidents The findings, published in The and chancellors for the position Chronicle of Higher Education, of highest-paid employee. indicate that presidents are often Columbia University’s sal- not the highest-paid college ary structure provides a drastic employees. Instead, colleges are example of this pattern. During increasingly allocating the top fiscal year 2006, Columbia dollars to dental and medical President Lee Bollinger had a school professors. base salary of $911,284, while The study was based on tax the five best-compensated pro- records filed for fiscal year 2006 fessors made at least $1.5 million by 600 private colleges and uni- each. Dermatology Professor versities and found that only 31 David Silvers topped the list at percent of the 293 employees in $4.3 million. the data set who earned more The trend is “not terribly sur- than $500,000 per year were the prising, since these things are presidents or chancellors of their market driven,” Steven Bloom, respective institutions. the assistant director of govern- But at Tufts, like at many other ment relations at the American comparable universities, the Council on Education, told the president gets the biggest pay- Daily. He noted that in order to check. stay competitive, universities The Daily’s analysis of Tufts’ need to match or exceed their Internal Revenue Service paper- competitors’ offers. work from fiscal year 2006, Sometimes, however, the the most recent forms that are highest-paid employee com- publicly available, shows that pletely defies expectations. At the University President Lawrence University of Southern California, Bacow earned $520,420, plus the top earnings went to head $52,151 in benefits. football coach Pete Carroll, who The second-highest-paid has a contract worth $4.4 mil- employee, at $486,806 with ben- lion per year, according to the efits, was Maria Papageorge, Chronicle. who is currently the chair of Carroll’s contract makes him DAILY FILE PHOTO the Department of Oral and Health Service and the TCU Senate are considering the creation of a 24-hour call center. Maxillofacial Surgery at the see SALARIES, page 2 Tufts’ undergraduate and graduate IR programs make top 10 in international survey BY SAUMYA VAISHAMPAYAN said they were pleased with the results. according to the TRIP survey. uate and graduate rankings is not unique. Daily Staff Writer “I think being tenth in the nation is Nathaniel Eberle, the director of Johns Hopkins, for example, did not place something to be quite proud of,” Kirk public relations and communications in the top 10 for its undergraduate pro- Tufts’ undergraduate International Lange, the assistant director of the under- at the Fletcher School, called the rank- gram, despite grabbing the second spot Relations (IR) program and The Fletcher graduate IR program, said. ings helpful, but cautioned that they for its master’s program. Similarly, while School of Law and Diplomacy’s mas- According to Lange, the ranking is are not conclusive. Georgetown’s graduate program took top ter’s program both cracked the top 10 in particularly impressive because Tufts’ According to Eberle, the survey is unable honors, its undergraduate counterpart recently released worldwide rankings. undergraduate program was compet- to fully capture the complexity of what was ranked fifth. In the Teaching, Research and ing against counterparts at a number of makes a school stand out. The nature of the rankings likely con- International Policy (TRIP) survey of IR larger universities. “We’ve always hovered in the top five, tributed to the discrepancy. programs, the Fletcher School came in Harvard and Princeton took the top and while we find that to be quite a feath- The latest TRIP survey, published in fourth place out of master’s programs, two spots, respectively, for the lead- er in our cap, Fletcher has never really February, is based on feedback from 2,724 while the IR program nabbed the tenth ing undergraduate IR programs. And looked at that specific survey as a gauge of IR scholars in 10 countries, according to spot on the undergraduate list. Georgetown has the top master’s pro- how we’re doing,” he said. Representatives from both programs gram, followed by Johns Hopkins, The disparity between Tufts’ undergrad- see RANKINGS, page 2 Inside this issue Today’s Sections The 3Ps spring minor The Daily looks ahead “The Garden Party” to the start of baseball News 1 Editorial | Letters 8 tackles absurdity and season and whether Features 3 Op-Ed 9 circular arguments. the team can keep their Arts & Living 5Classifieds 10 winning streak alive. Puzzles 7 Sports Back see ARTS, page 5 see SPORTS, back page 2 THE TUF T S DAILY NEWS Police Briefs ONE GooD REASON TO student answered. In addition to WALK TO THE GYM the tape, officers observed weather stripping on the door and two fans A student reported to Tufts set up at the window. After confis- University Police Department at cating the marijuana and parapher- 4:30 p.m. on March 1 that his nalia, the officers discovered that car had been stolen from where the room did not belong to the it had been parked on College host. The keys were taken from the Avenue in front of Halligan Hall. subletter and a report was sent to While working out in Gantcher, the dean’s office. the student left his car keys and sweatpants in the bleachers of the AGAIN? gym. When he returned, his keys were missing. TUPD Sgt. Robert A TUPD officer driving down McCarthy noted that transponder Packard Avenue 1:58 a.m. on March keys give away cars’ identities to 8 observed a student in front of the persistent thieves. Theta Delta Chi house. The student, who appeared shaken up, reported JUST TRyin’ TO KEEP THE being assaulted by a group of indi- COLD AIR OUT, MAN viduals who retaliated for being denied entry into the house. The TUPD responded to reports of student was able to identify one marijuana use in South Hall at 1:27 of the assailants as a Tufts student. a.m. on March 8. When officers Tufts Emergency Medical Services knocked on the door of the sus- (TEMS) transported the student to pected room, they heard tape rip- Lawrence Memorial Hospital for ping off the door before a male further treatment of his injuries. Initiative still in planning stages HEALTH SERVICE for this,” Pickard said. continued from page 1 Health Service would have to mine its feasibility. employ an off-campus service in “We’re just in the research order to implement the call center. phase right now,” Bowdler said, The project’s leaders are currently citing the many factors that have considering a company that works to be considered. with over a dozen schools, including “What you’re weighing is: Is it Boston University and Columbia improving service to students? Is University, according to Bowdler.