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VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 37
THE TUFTS DAILY
Tree protest is
all just a ruse
By Giovanni Russonello
Daily Editorial Board
As it turns out, the organizers
of last week’s tree protest were not
misinformed, but rather misinfor-
mants.
The protest drew about 30 stu-
dents to the President’s Lawn to
protest the removal of a tree that
the administration never actual-
ly planned on cutting down. The
event’s planners, however, designed
the operation as a prank, invent-
ing the identity of Michael Canton,
the man whom they claimed was
behind the protest.
“We didn’t have that much of a
higher purpose in doing this. I’d like
to say we did, but I mean, really it
was just kind of a product of bore-
dom more than anything,” said one
sophomore who was involved in the
see TREE, page 2
Snake may be roaming Latin Way walls, TUPD says
If Latin Way has a mice prob-
lem, then the mice in Latin Way
now have a problem.
A student’s pet boa constric-
tor escaped from its cage on
Friday and is now believed to be
trapped in the residence hall’s
walls.
The university’s pest control
contractor told the Department
of Facilities that the 11-inch-long
snake will probably die in the walls
unless it happens upon an open-
ing through which to escape,
according to Tufts University
Police Department (TUPD) Sgt.
Darren Weisse.
“The gentleman that we use
said if the snake gets in the wall
and could not find its way out,
Neuroscience professor Haydon’s
endowment improves department
By Caroline Melhado
Contributing Writer
Thanks to a $3 million gift
from a Tufts trustee, a new
endowed professorship is
supplementing the School of
Medicine’s efforts to revamp
its neuroscience department.
Trustee Annetta Grisard-
Schrafl and her husband
Gustav Grisard donated the
money through Switzerland’s
Foundation for Research in
Gastroenterology and Related
Fields, according to medical
school spokesperson Siobhan
Gallagher.
The medical school has
endowed Neuroscience
Professor Philip Haydon’s
professorship with the dona-
tion and has opened a state-
of-the-art research facil-
ity in an effort to emerge as
one of the top neuroscience
Inside this issue
The new Gmail feature
“Mail Goggles” protects
users against drunk
e-mailing tendencies.
see FEATURES, page 3
Bai analyzes Internet’s effect on national politics
Matt Bai (LA ’90) hinged his speech on the assumption that Barack Obama will win the election.
it would perish in the wall, and
there would be no stench in the
wall. Wherever it is, it’s still there
somewhere,” Weisse said in an
interview yesterday evening.
“According to All Star [Pest
Control], you can’t coax a snake
out with food or anything,” Weisse
said, referring to the Somerville-
based company.
Carrie Ales, assistant director
of community and judicial affairs
for the Office of Residential Life
and Living, sent an e-mail to Latin
Way residents on Friday after-
noon alerting them to the fact
that a snake was on the loose.
University policy prohibits stu-
dents from keeping pets in on-
campus housing, excepting only
departments in the country,
according to an article in
Tufts Medicine, the medical
school’s magazine.
Haydon was recently promot-
ed to chair of the Department
of Neuroscience. He moved to
Tufts from the University of
Pennsylvania, where he began
research that he will continue
here on how glial cells commu-
nicate in the brain.
The article said that the
neuroscience program at
Tufts will be enhanced with
multiple new tenure-track
positions, which are anoth-
er development in Haydon’s
plan to improve the neurosci-
ence department at Tufts.
“Dr. Haydon wants to bring
us up to the level of being
absolutely the best. We’ve
marshaled our resources,”
Medical School Dean Michael
Rosenblatt said in the article.
The women’s crew team
boasted two top-10 fin-
ishes at the Head of the
Fish on Sunday.
see SPORTS, back page
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
“approved service animals or fish
in tanks no larger than 10 gal-
lons,” according to “Habitats,”
the school’s official guide to resi-
dential life.
Ales said that ResLife was in
the process of deciding how to
punish the student for keeping
a snake in an on-campus room.
“I have been in contact with
the student and will be meeting
with them this week to discuss
their consequences,” Ales told
the Daily in an e-mail. She did
not respond to a follow-up mes-
sage requesting the identity of
the student.
— by Giovanni Russonello
Tufts also spent a sepa-
rate $3 million turning an old
shirt factory at 35 Kneeland
Street in Boston into a high-
tech laboratory for various
medical fields, including
neuroscience.
“Without the investment
by the university, it would
not have been possible to cre-
ate state-of-the-art facilities
to recruit the best scientists,”
Rosenblatt said in the article.
Haydon is accompanied in
his move to Tufts by anoth-
er internationally regarded
neuroscientist, Professor
Stephen Moss, who arrived in
the spring with a team of 16
researchers.
“With the investments that
are being made together with
the recognized experts already
in the department and more
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By Jeremy White
Daily Editoral Board
Matt Bai (LA ’90), a political writ-
er for the New York Times Magazine,
spoke to students yesterday about the
transformative power of the Internet
in national elections and the shifting
political landscape.
Bai focused his
speech on the impli-
cations of a possible
Obama victory and
the unprecedented
technological factors
underlying this year’s
race.
To begin his Pearson Hall talk, Bai
warned against falling back on outdat-
ed historical parallels to bygone presi-
dential elections. “Tempted as we may
be to draw historical comparisons, you
can’t simply look back to 1932 to find
answers,” Bai said, referring to Franklin
Roosevelt’s first victory, which came in
the midst of national economic turmoil
rebekah sokol/tufts daily
see BAI, page 2
ZBT’s ball earns $2,450
for children’s hospital
By Rob Silverblatt enjoyed themselves.
Daily Editorial Board “Rolling a giant six-foot beach
ball around campus for a week
The Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) fra- is a good time,” he said.
ternity reeled in $2,450 for the Ebin added that it was a good
Children’s Hospital Boston after way to combat stereotypes and
last week’s fundraising cam- demonstrate the fraternity’s
paign, during which brothers philanthropic agenda.
rolled a giant beach ball around “It definitely raised aware-
campus, collecting signatures ness for [the] events and phil-
on the six-foot-tall sphere. anthropic activities of ZBT as
The fraternity kicked off the well as the Greek community,”
fundraiser last Sunday at the he said. “I know numerous peo-
Granoff Family Hillel Center. ple came up to us when we
University President Lawrence were rolling the ball and said,
Bacow, a ZBT alum, attended ‘I thought you guys only have
the Hillel gathering and was the parties.’”
first to pen his name on the ball. The fundraiser culminated
Brothers went on to collect over at Friday’s fraternity and soror-
1,200 signatures, according to ity block party, which brought
ZBT Vice President Daniel Ebin, together all campus Greek orga-
a junior. nizations, students and local
Hillel, the Office for Campus Medford and Somerville resi-
Life, Hillside Wine and Spirits
and other donors contrib-
uted money to the fraternity’s
dents.
Ebin said that brothers did
not collect many signatures
efforts. during the concluding event.
Despite the “quizzical looks” “By then, pretty much every-
that the ball-bearing brothers body had [already] signed the
attracted, Ebin said that they ball,” he said.
meredith klein/tufts daily
ZBT’s six-foot-tall ball rolled to the Greek community’s block party on Friday.
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Features 3 Comics 11
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2 The Tufts Daily
Sophomore surprised that peers will put in effort for environmental activism
Tree
continued from page 1
planning and requested anonymity.
The protest became a way to poke
fun at another student who is taking a
course on social movements with some
of the pranksters, and who hoped to
study the protest for a major class proj-
ect, according to the sophomore.
“We’re in, like, a social movements
class,” the sophomore said. “They were
planning on doing a whole study, like,
semester-long, on this whole move-
ment to save the tree. I think one of
the people in the class caught on and
told them [that the protest was a joke].
They got let down there.”
Journalist Matt Bai discussed technology and its effect on political campaigns.
Bai says Internet gives Obama campaign an advantage
bai
continued from page 1
comparable to today’s.
“People inevitably begin to see this
election in the same transformative
way,” Bai said, noting that Roosevelt
“realigned American politics and
gave us what we think of as modern
American government.”
Bai treated the upcoming presiden-
tial election as something of a foregone
conclusion, saying that “people effec-
tively voted” and citing the seemingly
insurmountable lead in the polls that
Obama has built since the financial
crisis set in.
He spoke of this election’s potential
to profoundly alter the political land-
scape, saying that a collision of social,
political and economic factors has led
to “a moment of truly tectonic shift in
American politics.”
Polling for congressional elections sug-
gests that Democrats stand to gain sub-
stantially in both chambers this election.
Bai emphasized the role the Internet
has played during this cycle, dovetail-
ing it with the theme of his recent book,
“The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers,
and the Battle to Remake Democratic
Politics.”
The Internet has shown its clout
in giving Obama a massive fundrais-
ing edge. In September alone, Obama
raised approximately $150 million.
“So far, the Internet politics [have]
been absolutely revolutionary,” he said.
Bai said the prevalence of the Internet
has also helped to diffuse criticisms
about Obama’s lack of experience by
fostering a culture of “be your own
expert.” People now diagnose them-
selves on medical Web sites and check
their bank account balances online,
Bai noted.
“We don’t really value institutional
expertise in the way we used to,” he
Using the name Michael Canton, the
architects of the rally created a Gmail.
com account that they used to invite
select students to the rally.
The Daily, under the impres-
sion that Canton was a real person,
sought to contact him via e-mail for its
Wednesday article on the rally. Posing
as Canton, the students responded past
press time. “I originally heard about the
tree being removed from someone who
works inside tufts admin, however, I
cannot give you the person’s name,”
[sic] they wrote.
The students wrote in a separate
e-mail from Canton that he was “an
intern in farm management on the
said, adding that Obama “subjugates
institutional expertise to this idea of
judgment.
“It’s hard to separate Obama out from
the larger cultural trend that is driven
by the Internet,” Bai said. “The truth is
the Internet has culturally changed the
way we live our lives in lots of ways.”
In reference to concerns about
Obama’s ability to win over constituen-
cies such as white, middle-class voters,
Bai asked if “issues trump demograph-
ics” in a general election.
Bai described how former President
Lyndon Johnson’s support of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 left deep divisions
in the national political scene. The
move exacerbated existing economic
and social anxieties that ran notably
through the middle class.
Obama has attempted to counteract
these traditional divides, Bai said, not-
ing that if Obama wins many tradition-
ally “red districts,” he has “the oppor-
tunity to redraw the political map in a
very transformative way.”
The Democratic candidate “has spent
more time, money, effort than any pres-
idential candidate since at least 1992
… trying to turn this around” by cam-
paigning in Republican strongholds
such as rural Appalachia, Bai said.
He then turned to a discussion of
the role racism has played in the cam-
paign. Bai noted that “race is not new”
as a factor in presidential politics,
pointing to the infamous 1988 attack
ad linking then-Democratic candidate
Michael Dukakis to the release of felon
Willie Horton, a black man.
“There’s been a general consensus
among Democrats for most of this cam-
paign that if not for race, Obama would
be doing better,” even though he is none-
theless outperforming 2004 presidential
hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass.) among
white voters in the polls, Bai said.
News
Grafton campus/ take occasional class-
es as well” [sic].
The sophomore recalled that
the pranksters had fun concocting
Canton’s job description. “We’d had a
few drinks,” the sophomore said. “We
went though a bunch of options. We
were thinking of a OneSource worker.”
The sophomore said the rally incited
more widespread enthusiasm than the
group had expected. “It was definitely
interesting what it revealed, because
it’s obvious that Tufts students really
care about things, but we never thought
they were ones to do much about it.”
The administration expressed dismay
last week, when the origins of the farci-
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Noting that polls are inadequate
because they tend to ask questions
that do not get to the heart of people’s
motivations, Bai said that just because
Obama’s race plays a role does not
mean it will be decisive.
“The question isn’t, ‘Is race a fac-
tor?’ but ‘Is it a determinative factor?’”
Bai said. He pointed out that former
President John Kennedy won despite
concerns about his Roman Catholic
faith.
Additionally, Obama’s race may
prove to be something of a boon if he
outperforms his predecessors in both
African-American turnout and per-
centage of African-American votes, as
he is likely to do.
Bai also spoke about how the leader-
ship mantle is being passed from the
Baby Boomer generation to Generation
X, with which Obama is “culturally
aligned.”
With harsh words for the “abysmal
failure” of a set of Baby Boomer politi-
cians that he said have failed to grasp
fundamental social and technologi-
cal trends, Bai suggested that Obama’s
representation of a new generation of
politics may play the role that some
voters imputed to race.
“It’s difficult to extricate race from
generation because generational
change always makes older people
uncomfortable,” Bai said.
He closed with a call to action aimed
at “looking at a flexible governing sys-
tem and adapting it to the challenges
of the moment.
“It’s a dissolving, outdated social
contract, soaring entitlement spend-
ing, a world where nuclear weapons
will almost certainly fall into the hands
of terrorists in the next decade and
of course climate change,” Bai said to
describe some of the challenges the
next administration will face.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
cal protest were still a mystery. “I would
love to find out who the person is who
started this terrible rumor,” Pamela
Dill, an administrative assistant in the
Office of the Executive Vice President,
told the Daily on Wednesday.
The sophomore admitted that the
rally’s organizers had drawn some heat
for the fake protest, mentioning social-
ly conscious students who worried that
the ruse could have a boy-who-cried-
wolf effect on future environmental
activism. “Some people were not too
happy about it,” the sophomore said,
“because if something like this does
happen then [people will] say, ‘Oh
right.’”
Neuroscience
research bolsters
other departments
neuroscience
continued from page 1
broadly at Tufts University, we are
already making significant prog-
ress towards this important goal,”
Haydon told the Daily.
Neuroscience will play a more
important and supportive role for
other departments in the medical
school as well.
“With my joining Tufts neurosci-
ence, my goal is to work with my
colleagues to develop critical areas
of research that will allow us to
move forward and develop inter-
nationally recognized strengths,”
Haydon said.
Traditional brain research
has focused on neurons, accord-
ing to Haydon. But he said glial
cells, which constitute half of the
cells in the brain and are electri-
cally inactive, have been mostly
overlooked in the study of neu-
rological disorders, since they are
mostly regarded as supportive cells
to neurons.
“We are studying how these glial
cells influence sleep, learning and
memory, and epilepsy,” Haydon
said.
New research suggests that
glial cells control communication
between neurons. These devel-
opments could lead to a broader
understanding of many neurologi-
cal diseases.
The neuroscience department’s
upcoming research will look at syn-
apses, the role of glial cells in brain
function, and the cellular mecha-
nisms of brain dysfunction in neu-
rological disorders and psychiatric
states, Haydon said.
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Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) spoke at
Tufts on Wednesday. Kerry spent
most of his speech on interna-
tional affairs extolling Democratic
presidential candidate Barack
Obama’s leadership qualities and
foreign policy judgment.
“We have to send him to the White
House,” Kerry said of Obama.
The Massachusetts senator, who
endorsed Obama in January, said
the United States needs to regain
respect on the world stage after
the Bush administration’s policies
have isolated certain countries.
“Never before in our lifetime has
our position in the world — mil-
itarily, diplomatically and mor-
ally — been so compromised,”
he said.
One student lamented the fact
that Kerry had turned his speech
into an “Obama rally.”
To see video of the address, visit
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Some students ‘score’ extra cash,
scholarships for retaking the SAT
Baylor offers incentives for accepted students to retake test and better their scores
by Meghan Pesch
Daily Editorial Board
The burden of college tuition on the
family budget leads many students
to find part-time jobs or participate
in paid research studies. Students at
Baylor University have another way
to pay the bills: retaking the SAT for
cash.
Last June, Baylor offered its admit-
ted class of 2012 $300 in bookstore
credit for retaking the SAT by the end
of September. The school, located in
Waco, Texas, also offered students who
improved their scores by 50 points or
more $1,000 per year in scholarship
money.
Of the 861 students that retested,
150 raised their scores enough to qual-
ify for the scholarship. These boosts in
scores were enough to raise the aver-
age test score of the incoming class by
10 points, from 1200 to 1210.
Some critics, however, believe that
Baylor is using this tactic to unfairly
try to raise its average SAT scores to
get a jump in the college rankings.
The U.S. News & World Report’s Best
Colleges ranking uses average SAT and
ACT scores, among other factors, to
rank universities across the country.
In the fight against catastrophic repercussions
of drunk e-mailing, Gmail creates safeguard
by Carrie Battan
Daily Editorial Board
Wearing a seatbelt to mini-
mize injury in case of a car
accident, locking up a bike
to ward off thieves, invest-
ing in plastic cases to guard
electronic devices: The list
of seemingly necessary pre-
cautions seems to be growing
larger.
It’s grown so large, in fact,
that Google’s popular Gmail
program has implemented
a feature that helps to fend
off one particularly danger-
ous act — sending late-night
e-mails while drunk.
The program, aptly dubbed
“Mail Goggles,” forces its
users to quickly complete a
set of five relatively simple
math problems before a draft-
ed e-mail can successfully be
sent. The feature is activated
during a user-specified time
frame, namely late weekend
nights.
Mail Goggles’ release is evi-
dence that those partaking in
drunken communication have
graduated from mere drunk-
text messaging to a bigger,
potentially scarier arena.
“I wake up in the morn-
ing hoping I’ll have a drunk
e-mail,” said senior Alex
Schuman, who routinely uses
her Gmail account after-hours
to send messages to both
her friends and e-list groups
of which she is a member.
“They’re very funny.”
Schuman explained that for
her, drunken e-mails often
have lighter implications than
other methods of communi-
cation.
The drunk e-mail may soon be a thing of the past with a new Gmail feature. Unfortunately, we can’t
see GOGGLES, page 4 say the same about the drunk text, the drunk hookup or the drunk dial.
Features
The ten point increase in Baylor’s
scores could mean a one or two place
difference in the rankings.
Higher test scores could also draw
a higher scoring applicant pool in
future years, since prospective stu-
dents average standardized test scores
to gauge where they might be accept-
ed.
Sophomore Catherine Swanson said
that the SAT is a good way of cat-
egorizing the different schools. “SAT
scores are a factor,” Swanson said.
“They put the school into perspective
— whether it is a safety, a guarantee or
a reach.”
Despite these criticisms, Lori
Fogleman, Baylor’s director of media
communications, argued that the uni-
versity did not enact the changes with
the intent to raise average scores.
“We were not trying to increase our
average score by accepting later test
scores; we plan to remove the incen-
tives in the future,” Fogleman said.
According to Fogleman, Baylor’s
motivation in providing the opportu-
nity was that they had not yet spent
their entire financial aid budget and
wanted to give students a chance to
earn additional scholarships from the
available money.
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“After we had moved up the dead-
lines for both admission and financial
aid … to provide earlier decisions to
the students and families, we real-
ized that our awarded financial aid
was lower than in previous years,”
Fogleman said. “We also realized that
many students had not taken [the SAT]
in over a year, and by pushing [the
acceptance] deadline ahead, we had
prevented them from showing their
best example of academic potential.
Thus, we might have boxed students
out of the merit aid they deserved.”
If Tufts were to offer students a
monetary incentive to retake the SAT,
many would oblige.
“I’d say [yes to the offer],” fresh-
man Maia Warner said. “I could either
spend four hours at a job to make $10
an hour or four hours making $300
dollars to take a test I’ve already stud-
ied for.”
Sophomore Dan Slate said that,
although he hated taking the SAT dur-
ing the college admissions process,
he would consider taking it to gain a
scholarship. “The SAT is a miserable
experience, and I would never want
to sit through it again,” Slate said.
see SAT, page 4
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Jessie Borkan |
college is as college does
A call for sober
hookups
W
hat is it about Halloween that
somehow makes everybody
get it on? Maybe it’s the intense
sugar high combined with the
anonymity of wearing a costume. Maybe
it’s the fact that it falls right on the two-
months-at-college mark or that the weather
is just cold enough for people to get cozy.
Whatever the reason, Halloween hits, and
suddenly campus becomes “The Real World:
Medford.” We all start finding out what hap-
pens when people stop being polite and start
getting real, and this generally translates into
a lot of making out.
My freshman year, I was out of town for
a wedding over Halloween, and when I
returned, I discovered that I had missed the
ultimate weekend of love (or rather ... lovin’).
Everyone I knew had gotten together during
the two-and-a-half days I was away. Was this
a result of the exorbitant number of scantily
clad girls dressed up as “slutty literally-any-
noun-here,” I wondered, or just a product
of half a semester of sexual tension mixed
with a little jungle juice and a lot of parties? I
was bamboozled but have since realized that
Halloween isn’t that crazy a phenomenon
— it’s simply the culture of college hookups
we’ve always lived with, magnified several
dozen times by large amounts of candy and
booze.
This week, I’m challenging everyone to get
with someone. This may sound suspiciously
similar to the mantra you’ve probably heard
every weekend since puberty from your frat
brothers/BFFs/housemates/(mom?)/older
siblings, but I mean it a little differently — I
mean do it sober. Do it during the day. Go up
to that cute girl you always see after class and
lay one on her. OK, so maybe don’t do that
(Did you GO to In the SACK!?), but talk to her.
Give your number to that guy who always
makes your sandwiches at Hodgdon. You
know that hottie in your group project? Flirt
unabashedly.
Don’t wait until you accidentally-on-pur-
pose run into each other at a party after
you’re both three beers in and acting drunker
than you are and then hope that there is
enough social lubrication and covert amo-
rous intent in the air to make something
happen. If it does, then you two can finally …
what? Avoid each other completely? Pretend
it didn’t happen, or at the very least, that you
don’t remember it? Actually not remember
it? Awesome, sounds like the beginning of a
beautiful relationship.
All this coy and emotionally guarded ridic-
ulousness isn’t getting anyone anywhere. We
shouldn’t have to be drunk to say how we feel,
and we certainly shouldn’t require a dark, or
worse, black-lit environment to express inter-
est in another human being. You know how I
said last week that this campus isn’t friendly
enough? Well, now I’m saying it’s not flirty
enough. How many famous love stories start
with an inebriated hookup? Not that many,
unless you aspire to be Courtney Love and
Kurt Cobain (or a very pregnant Katherine
Heigl). Great love (or even like) begins with
an honest admission of attraction, and while
I have accepted that romantic comedies do
not equal real life, I would still love to see
our hookup culture, if it must remain as that,
become a little classier (and a lot less alcohol
dependent).
So Tufts, I want you to figure out who it
is you were hoping to bump into this week-
end and then make a point of bumping
into him or her this week. Go out there and
make it happen, and do it totally sober, with
natural lighting, even. Use a Tufts-themed
pick-up line if you must (Hey, what are the
chances of NQR coming early this year?) and
know that the manner in which you have just
approached the opposite sex is more original
than your Sarah Palin Halloween costume.
Don’t get me wrong, party hard this weekend.
Just maybe this year, instead of a wingman,
bring a date.
Jessie Borkan is a junior majoring in
psychology. She can be reached at Jessie.
Borkan@tufts.edu.
4 The Tufts Daily Features Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Courtesy Baylor Photography

Baylor University created the SAT retake program due to a surplus of financial aid funds. The test is a way to determine who should get additional scholarships.

Jumbos like financial incentives, but most are uncertain scores would improve
SAT
continued from page 3
“Taking it now, I wouldn’t have
some of the pressures that I
had before, so getting $300 for
something that doesn’t matter
might be a good deal.”
While other students at
Tufts also find a $1000 schol-
arship incentive tempting,
they wonder about the fea-
sibility of raising test scores
that, given the school’s selec-
tivity, are already relatively
high.
“I was only 150 points away
from the maximum and had
taken a Kaplan course to get
there; it would be significant-
ly harder to raise [my score]
any more,” Warner said.
So p h o m o re Ca t h e r i n e
Swanson agreed the task would
not be easy. “Fifty points is
a lot to raise [my score] by. I
don’t think that extra studying
would raise it by that much.”
It is unlikely, however, that
such a system would ever be
put in place at Tufts. Since
Tufts does not offer merit-
based financial aid, Director
of Admissions Susan Garrity
Ardizzoni said, neither the
Admissions Office nor the
Office of Financial Aid would
require such a process.
“The SAT is a test to be
used in the admissions pro-
cess, not as a gauge of high
school knowledge,” she said.
“Students [at Tufts] will send
in AP scores after the year, but
those are more for the advis-
ing process, not admissions.”

Drunk e-mail enthusiasts consider

Dean’s Faculty Forum presents: intoxicated communication amusing
GOGGLES next day,” Ruff said. “But if you get to
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“I definitely am an avid drunk tex-
the point where you’re going to have
drunken conversations, your comput-
ter, but if I make it to bed by the end er might be a little bit of a lesser prior-
War” of the night alone, I’ll usually send
a drunk e-mail,” she said. “It’s usu-
ity. I’m usually not going to go home
and go on my computer, whereas my
ally ridiculous stuff that doesn’t make phone’s in my hand.”

A Lecture by Ayesha Jalal any sense. It’s usually to a group [of

people], blabbing about how much I
love them.” “I definitely am an avid
Mary Richardson Professor Sophomore Peter Day, who said
he has neither received nor sent a
drunk texter, but if I make
it to bed by the end of the
drunken e-mail, explained that for
Department of History him, Facebook.com messages and wall
postings are a comparable form of
night alone, I’ll usually send
late-night communication. a drunk e-mail. It’s usually
“I do drunken Facebook wall posts
F … My drunken Facebook messages ridiculous stuff that doesn’t
and texts are really amiable, to my make any sense. It’s usually
friends, like, ‘I really like you. I’m glad
to a group [of people], blab-
Discussant: Vali Nasr, Professor of International Politics, you’re my friend,’” Day said. “I’ll come
home at night, someone will leave me bing about how much I love
a post, and I’ll be like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to
The Fletcher School respond to it.’ And it will be drunken
by default.”
them.”
Alex Schuman
But while an element of humor and senior
levity is undoubtedly associated with

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 intoxicated typing, the morning after

can bring unforeseen consequences.
“A text message you can write off as
6:00 pm, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall, 2nd floor drunk texting, but an e-mail is more
permanent,” said sophomore Emily
Tufts University, Medford Campus Ruff, who admitted to having sent a
handful of after-hours e-mails while
under the influence. “[I’ve sent drunk
e-mails that are] more relationship-
based. It’s not a good thing.”
G “I’ve definitely sent one to some-
one I didn’t mean to,” Schuman said.
“That’s also a problem.”
Still, the ease of sending a text mes-
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University sage after downing a few cocktails
hasn’t been easily replaced by e-mail:
Many students might not take the
Email: deansfacultyforum@tufts.edu time or effort to get to a computer
should the desire strike.
“I think [e-mail] is a little more seri-
ous than a text, and it definitely has
made some interesting situations the
By and large, students said they
haven’t experienced enough regret-
table circumstances resulting from
drunken e-mails or Facebook mes-
sages to employ a service like Mail
Goggles.
“People have sent me a fair number
of drunk e-mails,” Ruff said. “Usually
they’re more things to laugh about
than be offended by.”
“[Mail Goggles] takes the fun out of
it,” Schuman said. “I’m pro drunk-e-
mailing.”
Echoing Schuman’s sentiments, Day
said he doesn’t plan on making any
strong efforts to stop himself from
typing or texting after he’s had a few
drinks.
“It makes life a lot more interest-
ing when you throw in unnecessary
drama,” he said.
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Album Review
Of Montreal’s latest is better
suited for the stage than a stereo
by Mike Adams
Daily Editorial Board
Thinking outside the box always
comes with its risks. In the music world,
this could lead to new, exciting sounds
Skeletal Lamping
Of Montreal
Polyvinyl
and genres or it could spell death for
a band. Of Montreal certainly has no
interest in rehashing its previous suc-
cessful efforts in its newest release,
“Skeletal Lamping.” The result is indie
pop that sounds exciting, revolution-
ary and decently good.
For starters, the album was released
not just on CD, vinyl and iTunes, but
also as a T-Shirt, tote bag, button set,
paper lantern and wall decals (the lat-
ter formats come with a free down-
load). Even more surprising from the
same band that released such delicious,
single-worthy openers as “Requiem for
O.M.M.” and “Disconnect the Dots” is
the blatant fact that the two opening
songs are both over five minutes long.
While this length might be standard for
some bands, for an upbeat indie band
like Of Montreal the two songs feel
more like rock operas.
“Nonpareil of Favor” starts out like a
typical Of Montreal song — bright and
catchy with a solid beat that builds up
into a multi-tracked explosion of fal-
Movie Review
Efron and Hudgens defy Disney standards by dancing less than a foot apart from one another.
‘HSM 3’ is another Disney tween hit
Cast of ‘High School Musical’ is all in this together
by Rebecca Goldberg
Contributing Writer
Bright lights, title card. Fade up on Zac
Efron’s sweaty, panting, preternaturally
pretty face. The East High Wildcats are 16
High School Musical 3: Senior
Year
Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne
Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale
Directed by Kenny Ortega
minutes and several points away from the
championship. There’s only one thing to
“Nah, let’s not go back to the Garden of Eden; our trip there last year was lame.”
setto. After the first minute, however,
the lyrics turn from simple (“It’s like
hey you were always there/ Just on the
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do: burst into song.
Welcome to “High School Musical 3:
Senior Year.”
For the first time, the indelible “HSM”
franchise has premiered on the silver
screen. The original “High School Musical”
(2006), a Disney Channel original movie,
was a sleeper tween hit. In the summer of
2007, over 17 million viewers tuned in for
the premiere of “High School Musical 2.”
The first sequel ramped up the franchise’s
campy tone and catchy tunes, and both
movies quickly became a phenomenon
with both tweens and irony-loving young
adults. The “HSM” formula translates to
cinema intact, albeit on a larger scale, as
Troy (played by Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa
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tip of my tongue/ And I needed you to
see MONTREAL, page 7
Movie Review
Jolie converts
‘Changeling’ into
an instant classic
by Catherine Scott
Daily Editorial Board
The phenomenon of the actor-turned-
director continues to proliferate the world
of filmmaking, but few have done it better
Changeling
Starring Angelina Jolie, John
Malkovich, Amy Ryan
Directed by Clint Eastwood
than Clint Eastwood. After the back-to-
back-to-back successes of “Mystic River”
(2003), “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) and
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (2006), Eastwood
follows up with “Changeling.” In his lat-
est effort, Eastwood does not disappoint,
living up to the standards of his previous
films.
Starring Angelina Jolie and John
Malkovich, “Changeling” tells the story
of Christine Collins (played by Jolie),
a single, working mother in the 1920s
whose son, Walter, goes missing one day
when she takes an extra shift at work.
After five months of searching, the police
claim that they have found her son. But
upon meeting him at the train station,
Collins immediately realizes that they
found the wrong boy.
Despite her pleas, Collins finds that
the police are not willing to admit their
mistake because they need the good
publicity after a string of murders and
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Caryn Horowitz |
The Cultural Culinarian
Comfort food
for a new
generation
I
know what all of the pundits are saying
about the economy — it’s like we’re in
1929 and we know that 1931 is coming,
so we better do something about it.
I have no clue what that something is
— my economic knowledge is limited to
the two econ classes I took freshman year
— but constantly hearing this comparison
between today’s economic environment
and that of the Great Depression got me
thinking: What types of food did people eat
during the Depression?
Like anyone who has gotten past middle
school U.S. history, I remember seeing pic-
tures in my textbooks of people lined up to
get their rations of staples like milk, bread
and sugar. But what did cooks actually do
with these ingredients? I have a hard time
believing that even with these basic items,
all people did was eat plain loaves of bread.
I wanted to know what Depression-era cui-
sine was really like.
Laura Shapiro beat me to it. A frequent
contributor to Gourmet.com, Shapiro wrote
an article on Oct. 13 called “Fear Cuisine” in
which she explores new recipes developed
during the Depression. There was a surplus
of sugar, so icebox cakes and white cakes
were the staple desserts of the time. The
chocolate chip cookie was invented in the
’30s and Bisquick became a pantry staple.
This was the era when meatloaf and canned
chili were typical entrée dishes.
Almost all of the recipes that Shapiro
describes are what we think of today as
Americana comfort food: meatloaf, mashed
potatoes, cornbread, chili, just to name a
few. The Great Depression brought about
a nation of stress eaters — but stress eat-
ers on a very limited budget. Home cooks
made simple, stick-to-your-ribs dishes that
were both nutritionally and emotionally
satisfying. Tucking into a meal like a big
bowl of beef stew is comforting, so it makes
perfect sense that this is the food that
Depression-era cooks turned to.
Classic comfort foods are certainly still
part of our culinary landscape, but they
have two new reincarnations. First, is
the inevitable “gourmetification.” It’s not
uncommon to see items like “truffled mac-
aroni and cheese” on the menu at a high-
end restaurant. Chefs are experimenting
with elevating comfort foods to new culi-
nary heights. A quick Google.com search
of updated comfort food yields interest-
ing results. Fried chicken and waffles, a
traditional southern dish, has been trans-
formed into “quail with wild rice cakes”
and grandma’s green bean casserole has
been replaced with “haricot vert gratin.”
Instead of going the gourmet route, most
people turn to the second reincarnation
of comfort food — fast food — for a quick
meal that gets the job done. I think you are
more likely to find someone stress eating
with takeout Chinese than sitting down at
an expensive restaurant. Fast food is about
instant gratification (I want dinner and I
want it now!), and this is comforting to a lot
of people.
We need a compromise. If we are on the
verge of another large-scale economic cri-
sis, people will not be spending excessive
amounts of money on gourmet comfort
food; but that doesn’t mean that order-
ing a pizza every night is the best way to
deal with your stress. I think that one of
the reasons dishes like stews and soups
were so popular during the Depression is
the comfort and satisfaction that comes
with cooking them. Spending more time in
the kitchen and using basic ingredients in
interesting ways — stress cooking instead
of stress eating — might be a great way to
work out your frustrations and come up
with some new recipes. It certainly did the
trick in the ’30s.
Caryn Horowitz is a junior majoring
in history. She can be reached at Caryn.
Horowitz@tufts.edu.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Malkovich’s understated minister perfectly contrasts with Jolie’s emotional performance
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continued from page 5
growing corruption within the department.
Reverend Gustav Briegleb (Malkovich)
preaches about this LAPD corruption from
his soapbox-pulpit every Sunday and sees
in Collins’ case a chance to expose and
expel the corrupt cops.
For the first time in Jolie’s
career, she portrays a woman
without any exterior hard-
ness, instead focusing on
Collins’ interior strength dur-
ing the search for her son.
When the officer leading the case, J.J.
Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), realizes that
Collins isn’t going to stop until she figures
out what happened to her son, he abuses
his power by tossing her into a mental insti-
tution.
While this film is packed with drama,
it never once seems melodramatic. This
may be partly because losing a child is a
devastating event for anyone and partly
because the film is based on the true story
of the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
Eastwood does not stray from the facts
of the case, which lends the film a gravity
that might not have existed otherwise.
What makes this film especially superb,
however, is the acting. This movie shows
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changelingmovie.net
“Oh my God, my son turned out to be THAT ugly? You can keep him officer; it’s quite all right.”
Jolie at her best, even better than her tastic in that film because she has no
turn as a sociopath in “Girl, Interrupted” problem getting into the mind of a crazy
(1999). Many surmised that she was fan- woman. Now, even if critics say she’s
7
only good because she’s a mother, Jolie
gives another performance that cannot
be ignored.
For the first time in Jolie’s career, she
portrays a woman without any exterior
hardness, instead focusing on Collins’
inner strength during the search for
her son. Her outward appearance falls
apart in every manner of the word: She
screams, cries, faints and throws things.
The beauty of her acting is in the believ-
ability of her tears.
Malkovich’s portrayal of an evangelical
minister desperate to stop corruption is
perfectly understated to match Jolie’s
emotionally draining style of acting. The
film has two villains, and while Donovan
does a good job playing a seedy cop,
the real star is Jason Butler Harner’s
insane character, the murderer Gordon
Northcott. Every scene Harner is in reeks
of something sinister, and at the end,
Eastwood makes sure the viewer feels no
sympathy during his punishment.
The pacing of the movie is incredible.
With a running time of two hours and 20
minutes, it never feels long, and there is
not one scene that should have been cut
out. Eastwood does an excellent job of
keeping the plot mysterious while main-
taining an undertone of bad feeling that
nothing good can happen in this story.
This film proves Jolie haters wrong on
every count. The performances are excel-
lent, the cinematography gorgeous, the
costumes miraculous and the direction
infallible. “Changeling” is yet another hit
to add to Eastwood’s résumé.

‘HSM’ hits the big screen with more catchy songs,
sappy romance and over-the-top dance numbers
HSM
continued from page 5
Hudgens) and their friends traverse
their senior year of high school.
Though critics have every rea-
son to pick apart “HSM” for its
poor acting, nonsensical plots
and overly-produced songs,
there’s no denying the franchise’s
entertainment value. One doesn’t
need to root for its saccharine
romance or swoon for its heart-
throbs in order to get a good
laugh at the expense of the pre-
dictable and often-ridiculous
dialogue or the uncomfortable
homoerotic undertones.
“HSM 3” continues its trend
of fetishizing the high-school
experience. The characters
seem torn between wanting to
live in the moment and wanting
to move on to the future. Troy
and Gabriella deal with the anxi-
ety of choosing the right school
and being apart from each other
while they confront high-school
milestones like prom and gradu-
ation. Mercifully, “HSM 3” never
tries to make its audience believe
that the central couple’s love is
threatened; many teen-movie-
melodrama clichés are refresh-
ingly ignored in this franchise.
This time around, the Wildcats
actually produce a high-school
musical about their own senior
year, penned by Kelsi (Olesya
Rubin) and choreographed by
Ryan (Lucas Grabeel). In a mad-
dening bit of either unnecessary
meta-text or lazy writing, the cli-
mactic performance of the musi-
cal allows for reprises of near-
ly every song that has already
appeared in the movie. And as if
to punctuate this unwelcome bit
of self-awareness, the final num-
ber of the film is actually called
“High School Musical.”
The many “HSM 3” musi-
cal numbers oscillate between
sober, repetitive love duets
(“Right Here, Right Now,” “Can I
Have This Dance,” “Just Wanna
Be with You”) and elaborate
brightly colored sequences that
come off more as fever dreams
than as musical pieces. “I Want
It All,” sung by drama-loving
twins Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale)
and Ryan pays clumsy homage
to the genre classic “Singin’ in the
High school was so much more fun when it was all about singing, danc-
ing and basketball — before the whole idea of an “education” had to
come along and ruin everything.
Rain” (1952). “The Boys Are Back”
features Troy and best buddy
Chad (Corbin Bleu) dancing in
an abandoned junkyard as they
reminisce about their friendship.
In “Scream,” Troy contemplates
his choice between a future in
basketball or in theater while he
dances angrily through the empty
high school during a lightning
storm. Efron is not an accom-
plished dancer, but he throws his
whole self into his performance
here, evoking Kevin Bacon’s per-
formance in “Footloose” (1984)
(set, incidentally, to be remade
by “HSM” director Kenny Ortega,
starring Efron). He punches bas-
ketballs, slides down hallways
and even rips down an enormous
banner of himself. This kind of
sublime ridiculousness recalls
Efron’s “HSM 2” solo, “Bet On It.”
It’s true that most of the “HSM”
cast is subpar in acting and sing-
ing, though many of them are tal-
ented dancers. Roles like Chad,
Taylor (Monique Coleman) and
Kelsi have been forcibly expand-
ed since the actors were cast
as tertiary characters, and the
actors struggle to meet expecta-
tions. However, there are some
bright spots among the Wildcats.
Grabeel is a charismatic actor
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with by far the most powerful
singing voice. Tisdale’s Sharpay is
often the most entertaining char-
acter on screen. Efron has a newly
developed charm and genuine-
ness that has even earned him
success independent of “HSM”
with “Hairspray” (2007) and the
upcoming “17 Again” (2009).
It’s clear that the kids in the
cast really do like each other,
and that natural camaraderie
helps carry the otherwise thin
script. Ortega is wise to rely heav-
ily on the chemistry between
Efron and Hudgens. The hand
of Disney, however, still has a
tight grasp. Though the couple’s
real-life romantic relationship
has become tabloid controversy,
their characters have only kissed
twice in three movies.
“HSM 3” ends with gradua-
tion, and it feels like the cast’s
graduation as well. The door is
open for a fourth film, however.
“Senior Year” implies a sort of
“HSM: The New Class” by intro-
ducing underclassmen Jimmy
(Matt Prokop) and Tiara (Jemma
McKenzie-Brown). But neither is
compelling enough to take the
franchise from the first group of
Wildcats’ clumsy-but-enjoyable
hands.
Barnes’ obscure lyrics are not
suitable for the faint of heart
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continued from page 5
happen, yeah”) to downright
confusing (“So I’m calling
your ass up at like/ Three in
the morning saying/ ‘Wake up
the dragon, let’s go get com-
promised’”). Concurrently,
the music turns from … well,
music to noise. If anyone was
wondering just how long a
band can maintain a simple,
grinding beat, fading between
the crash symbol, snare drum
and a single keyboard chord,
the answer is a precise four
minutes — the remainder of
the song. Again, this is still
only the first track.
Many songs deal with
themes of lust, love
and sex in a way
that can be shock-
ing and often quite
funny.
“Nonpareil” is followed
by “Wicked Wisdom,” which
takes this seemingly limit-
less, crazy energy and har-
nesses it into several distinct,
bass-driven parts. The song
is a very danceable medley
that, though too disjointed
to be played on the radio or
at a party, would make for a
delightful live performance.
“Gallery Piece” is a similar-
ly upbeat, steady track that
leaves the listener confused
as to whether to bust out a
disco groove or just to start
jumping around like a crazy
person. Anyone who has seen
Of Montreal live would prob-
ably prefer the latter.
Even more so than in the
band’s previous releases, it’s
hard to identify with or even
decipher singer Kevin Barnes’
lyrics — unless you’re a “black
she-male” or one of the sev-
eral other colorful characters
he channels. Whether they are
seen as brilliantly catchy or
rambling nonsense depends
completely on the tone of the
song: When delivered with his
usual effortless high-volume
wail, Barnes can pull off lines
like “I feel like an accidental
species/ Some mutant love-
child, never meant to be.” But
without a driving beat and
several other instruments to
keep the song afloat, the lyrics
can’t stand up on their own.
To the band’s credit, the
vast majority of songs have
at least a part or chorus that
falls into the former cate-
gory, with the last track, “Id
Engager,” just as bright and
uplifting as any other.
The one all-out “slow
song,” “Touched Something’s
Hollow,” is only a min-
ute-and-a-half long and is
abruptly interrupted by the
bright, horn-led “An Eluardian
Instance.” Evidently, Barnes
recognizes his own strengths.
Many songs deal with
themes of lust, love and sex
in a way that can be shock-
ing and often quite funny. By
far the most danceable song
is “For Our Elegant Caste,”
which opens with the refrain:
“We can do it soft-core if you
want/ But you should know
I take it both ways.” A first
time listener will immediate-
ly be sucked into the con-
tagious beat before realizing
the song’s racy subject mat-
ter. But those that recognize
Barnes’ frequent channeling
of Prince’s voice shouldn’t be
quick to deride the lyrics for
their lack of sense.
Ultimately, the frequent
tone changes and shattering
of conventions in an oth-
erwise mainstream-ready
sound make for an enjoyable
listen for long-time fans or
those who like experimental
music. New listeners would
be far better off starting with
the seamless “The Sunlandic
Twins” (2005). But if this
insane, disjointed, brilliant
medley of noise sounds
appealing on your iPod, just
wait until the band stops
by the Orpheum Theatre
on Thursday night for what
promises to be a truly mind-
blowing experience.
8 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Tuesday, October 28, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY Obama for president
Robert S. Silverblatt
Editor-in-Chief To echo the words of Bobby Kennedy in or due process, that threatens my civil liber- look like, or whether you submit to a Higher
Editorial 1968, “This is no ordinary time, and this is no ties. It is that fundamental belief — I am my Power. This was a man who understood that
ordinary election.” The list of crises that the brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — America is that apocryphal seven-year-old
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors new president will have to face on inaugura- that makes this country work. It’s what allows Muslim boy Colin Powell described who
Kristin Gorman tion day is more daunting than at any other us to pursue our individual dreams and yet looks up at the majesty of the White House
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors time in recent memory. Economic uncer- still come together as one American family.” and believes that he might love his country
Jason Richards tainty is at its peak as the stock market plung- This principle of mutual responsibil- enough to one day be president of the United
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor es and lawmakers and the American public ity drives Obama’s policies. His health care States.
alike view possible remedies suspiciously. plan, which would save the average fam- We wish that this was the man who had
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors An energy crisis threatens America’s fami- ily $2,500 and force insurance companies run for president. Instead, we saw a man who
Pranai Cheroo
Nina Ford lies and industries, depleting our oil reserves to cover pre-existing conditions, includes a desperately wanted to win and had forgotten
Ben Gittleson and our savings even as the global climate Small Businesses Health Tax Credit to help why; who fought like someone who knew it
Gillian Javetski crisis makes our need for alternative fuels small businesses provide the health insur- was his last chance to be called Mr. President
Jeremy White
abundantly clear. Millions of Americans are ance that their employees desperately need. and not his last chance to serve his country.
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editors without health insurance, and many more His economic policy contains a tax cut for We have been dismayed by McCain’s iden-
Michael Del Moro are struggling to get by with what they have. middle-class families and a plan to expand tification of “real Americans,” by the selec-
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor Children are being left behind in inner cities and improve transition assistance for people tion of an unqualified nationalist to protect
and underserved communities, and even for who have lost their jobs and need training Americans in his stead, and by his own quiet
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors the lucky ones, college is often out of reach. for new ones. His governing policies revolve acquiescence to those agents of intolerance
Robin Carol Hostile nations like Iran and North Korea around the philosophy that if people are who equate blind jingoism with something
Kerianne Okie
Charlotte Steinway continue their pursuit of nuclear weapons, doing all they can and still need help, then as wonderful and complicated as love of
and radical terrorists threaten our security we have a responsibility to do our best to country. We desperately hope that when this
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors at home. Meanwhile, American men and help them succeed. That is not Marxist or long and grueling campaign is over and the
Meghan Pesch
women — teenagers and young adults — are socialist, as some in the McCain campaign consultants have been sent on their way and
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting and have accused. Instead, it is a fundamentally the demons of presidential ambition have
dying in strange lands far away from home. American idea that we are bound together been exorcized, the John McCain we remem-
Jessica Bal Arts Editors
Grant Beighley In one week’s time, in the midst of these not by color or creed, but by a belief that ber is the man who will remain.
Sarah Cowan national and international emergencies, a we are in this together — part of the grand And he will have our respect again.
Catherine Scott new leader will stand up to take charge of a democratic experiment that endures from These years ahead will not be easy. Change,
Emma Bushnell Assistant Arts Editors country that has lost its way, lost its standing sea to shining sea. as Obama warns, requires sacrifice and forti-
Matthew DiGirolamo and lost its hope. A new leader will rally the On foreign policy, Obama often quotes tude. No president can solve these problems
dispirited masses of America to stand up to John F. Kennedy: “We must never negoti- on his or her own. But in 2004, at the close of
Jyll Saskin Executive Op-Ed Editor the tyranny of hopelessness and despair and ate out of fear, but we must never fear to his speech, he expressed his confidence in
Thomas Eager Executive Sports Editor to forge a new American way. negotiate.” Unlike McCain, who has at times the judgment, the optimism and the virtue
The Daily endorses Sen. Barack Obama. suggested expelling Russia from the G8, of the American people.
Sapna Bansil Sports Editors In this contest, the American people have creating a separate League of Democracies, “America! Tonight, if you feel the same
Evans Clinchy
Philip Dear had the benefit of choosing between two hon- and threatening both China and Iran with energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency
David Heck orable and eminently qualified candidates. military action, Obama advocates a policy of that I do, if you feel the same passion that
Carly Helfand Sen. John McCain distinguished himself forceful negotiation whenever possible. He I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that
Noah Schumer
in the wake of the Keating Five scandal by believes that seeking comprehensive settle- I do — if we do what we must do, then I
Scott Janes Assistant Sports Editor standing up to special interests. He refused ments not only with our friends but more have no doubt that all across the country,
to hew to party orthodoxy and gained respect importantly with our enemies is the key to from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to
Jo Duara Executive Photo Editor
as a man who spoke his mind and lived his responsible foreign policy and the best way Maine, the people will rise up in November
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 The Tufts Daily Op-Ed 9

by Thomas Mann
Halloween has to be one of my favorite
holidays. How often do you get to dress
up in some wild costume, wander the
streets at dusk and get rewarded with
candy for your efforts? Like most people,
I plan on partaking in the lively festivities
that accompany this season. But this year
it won’t be just sugar-craving children
knocking on doors.
Canvassing isn’t much like trick-or-
treating. You do not get candy, and what
you do get can be downright dishearten-
ing. While going up and down the drive-
ways of Londonderry, N.H. homes trying
to get people to vote for Barack Obama, I
couldn’t help but be reminded of the times
in my childhood when my mother would
spy a few proselytizers approaching our
house from the street and warn all of us
not to open the door, turn off all the TVs
(so as to make it seem as though we truly
weren’t home) and call all of the neighbors
to “warn” them of unwelcome guests.
House after house in Londonderry,
people would hastily close the doors
after discerning our intent, or they sim-
ply would not open them at all. So, if it’s
so painstaking, why canvass? Why spend
a whole day or a whole weekend in N.H.
campaigning for Obama when there are
so many Halloween parties to attend and
so much post-midterm schoolwork to
catch up on? After all, the polls look great
for Obama both in the Granite State and
nationally. There is surely a sense that
fate is all but sealed and all that we’ve
been looking forward to for what feels
like the last billion years is finally here.
But alas, it is not here yet.
In 2000, the final Electoral College
breakdown was 271 for President Bush,
266 for Gore (270 votes are neces-
sary to win); President Bush won New
Hampshire’s four electoral votes by 7,211
votes. This is not even twice the num-
ber of undergraduate Tufts students on
the Medford campus. If Gore had won
New Hampshire, the entire Florida issue
would have been moot. Gore would have
been the president.
Trick-Or-Treat?
Currently, Obama’s lead in New
Hampshire is real but not irreversible, and
if Hillary’s surprise victory in the primary
is any indication, no contest should be
taken for granted. As reassuring as a poll
can be, ultimately, it is only a prediction
of future events that have yet to come to
pass. If you were to, say, place Obama’s
overall winning chances at 95 percent,
there would still be a one in 20 chance of
loss, and that doesn’t even account for the
possibility of unpredictable factors.
What worries me is that the perception
of victory already achieved may actually
hurt Obama on Election Day. If victory
is imminent, why volunteer? Why vote,
mctcampus.com
for that matter? After all, someone else
will, and it’s not like Obama really needs
you. The effects of this kind of thinking
on a massive scale could be devastating.
On Election Day in New Hampshire —
and many other swing states — I have a
hunch that everyone who leans towards
McCain is going to vote. I’m not so sure
that the same can be said for every per-
son who supports Obama; people have
busy lives, and after all, he’s projected to
win in the state anyway.
And the Independents? For better or
for worse, lots of people don’t make a
decision until they get into the booth,
vacillate briefly and then settle on a can-
didate. Who knows if, after seeing pros
and cons in both candidates, they might
end up going McCain, just to give a little
boost to the underdog? Who can tell if it
might be enough to throw the state to the
Republicans again, even if by just a few
thousand votes? As speculative as this
all is, it is within the realm of possibility.
I think that this possibility alone should
be enough to call any Obama supporter
to action. If the last two elections have
taught us anything, it is that no amount
of effort is too much.
This weekend, after Halloween, I will
be going to New Hampshire to canvass
again. I ask all of you to come with
me. The Tufts Democrats’ Web site,
Tuftsdemocrats.com, will give you all the
details. Canvassing may not always be as
much fun as Halloween parties and trick-
or-treating, but it is essential for ensuring
that the next four years turn out the way
that we want them to.
To be honest, if McCain does win, I don’t
want to look back on my own inactivity and
blame myself for the next four to eight years
(or even the next few decades, depend-
ing on what happens to the Supreme
Court). Approaching a voter in person is
a campaigning technique unmatched by
any other form of attempted persuasion;
phone banking, mailings, commercials and
e-mails do not have the same effect. Only
canvassing allows you, if only briefly, to
enter another person’s world, to remind
him or her face-to-face that in the midst
of all of his or her daily routines and other
obligations, there is a new president in the
making and that you want him or her to
participate in that process.
None of the forms of mass communica-
tion can match this degree of individual
focus, and after all, elections are won by
moving people one by one by one. If we all
stay vigilant these last few days and con-
tinue (or start!) to work hard, we can make
sure that New Hampshire — or any other
swing state — does not go red again.
Thomas Mann is a sophomore majoring
in political science.

Professors: Know your stuff and keep your cool

by Craig Kaufman
On Wednesday, I witnessed
a situation I had never seen in
my four years here at Tufts. One
of my professors had difficulty
projecting her slides from a
computer. The professor tried
to conduct class while the
TA worked on and was final-
ly able to fix the technology.
Although the slides were work-
ing, our professor was frus-
trated with the way they were
being displayed and the speed
at which the TA was clicking
through them. With exasper-
ated sighs and hands thrown
into the air, she expressed her
dissatisfaction with the TA.
Members of the class looked
around at each other to make
sure that everyone else had
noticed what seemed like odd
behavior for a professor. Still,
her frustration continued to
mount, and her tone turned
edgy and cold as she admon-
ished the TA. Eventually the
professor turned to personal
attacks, including phrases like,
“If you can’t do it, then just
forget about it,” and finally,
“Just let me do it myself!”
Embarrassed, I squirmed
in my seat while the rest of
the class glanced nervously at
each other, trying to pretend
that they didn’t notice our pro-
fessor’s blatantly rude behav-
ior in front of a group of forty
students. I began wondering if
this professor and the TA had
previously had an argument
or if there was something else
bothering her so much so that
it caused her to act this way.
As the berating continued, I
was almost ready to get up and
leave the class. I felt so sorry for
the TA and so ashamed of the
professor’s actions that I could
barely watch anymore.
The next day, another one
of my classes ran into technol-
ogy problems: The professor
could not get a PowerPoint
presentation to work. Instead
of the usual displays of quotes,
pictures and information for
the class to read and observe,
we were left scrambling to fol-
low along as the professor read
from a slide that was visible
only on the teaching screen at
the front of the room. Luckily,
she stayed patient and did
not snap at the assistants, but
it was clear that these prob-
lems had left her frazzled and
unable to run the class in a
normal manner.
These are not the only
instances this semester in
which my professors have run
into problems with technology.
In fact, all five of my class-
es have been affected by it in
some way. One of my smaller
classes is delayed by five or
ten minutes every class while
we wait for our professor to
remember how to connect a
computer to the overhead pro-
jector. One professor told a
large lecture class not to take
notes in class so that we could
better pay attention to the lec-
turer. The professor promised
to put all of the slides with
notes on Blackboard, but she
later informed the class during
the exam review that she was
not going to be able to do this,
leaving the entire class with-
out notes and with nothing to
reference in preparing for the
midterm.
I spoke to a friend of mine
(a junior in the engineering
department), who noted the
crucial role projectors play in
displaying graphics, problem
sets and plans in engineer-
ing classes. When professors
are unable to get this technol-
ogy working, examples must
be written on the blackboard,
which are less clear and harder
for students to follow. This same
friend noted that there had
been several instances where
this had been the case, and
the professor’s performance,
the flow of the class and the mctcampus.com
students’ understanding of the
material had suffered. the country. It is absolutely unac- understand that you’re present-
In an attempt to save the situ- ceptable for a professor to not ing yourself in front of a large
ation and deflect attention from know how to operate basic tech- group of students.
her obvious rude behavior, the nology that they want to make Thankfully, at the end of
professor who had mistreated use of in class. I am not claiming class, our professor apologized
our TA joked to the class, claim- that every professor should be to both the TA and the class for
ing that that was why she was a technology wizard who can her rudeness. Still, I hope that
not a computer teacher. troubleshoot every problem, but she will think back on this expe-
This is absolutely the wrong if your class calls for you to uti- rience with remorse and that it
sentiment to take. This idea is lize PowerPoint, projections and will make her and other profes-
what leads to situations like media, it is important that you sors strive to become familiar
the one I witnessed last week. take the time to learn how they with the technology they are
Professors that do not teach in operate. Even more so, if you working with in order to pre-
the computer science discipline are having trouble with media in vent incidents like this in the
feel that they can use that as an class, it is absolutely deplorable future.
excuse for their lack of techno- to lose your cool and embar-
logical knowledge. The fact is rass yourself in front of a class
that it is 2008, and Tufts is one of in the way my professor did. Craig Kaufman is a senior
the most prestigious schools in Be patient, be professional and majoring in English.

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Latino Leadership in the

US Political Divide
A lecture by Giovanna Negretti

In this electoral season, much media attention has been directed at

the role that Latino voters will have in the upcoming general election. In
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Three Jumbo ruggers play a
large part in squad’s success
MEN’s RUGBY
continued from page 16
senior Erik Aurigemma said.
“We thought that we could
just walk up to the field 30
minutes before the game and
expect to win. Losing a game
made us realize that we can’t
look past anyone and that we
have to bring our game every
time. “
“Winning is easy to accept,
but losing is really what has
brought this team together,”
Bennett added. “We certainly
didn’t want to experience [the
Babson loss] again, so it just
made us that much more hun-
gry. How we responded after
that game was the defining
moment of our season.”
After the loss to Babson,
Tufts fell into a tie for first
place, with only a resched-
uled matchup with Wentworth
left on its schedule. Led by
Bennett’s three conversions
and tries by Aurigemma,
sophomores Marcus Cheek
and Brett Moore, senior Ben
Broderick and freshman
Andrew Purcell, the Jumbos
secured their spot in the semi-
finals of the New England
Championship.
On Sunday afternoon,
TURFC took on Plymouth
State, the defending nation-
al champions, for a chance
to move on to the National
Tournament in the spring. The
Panthers struck first, executing
the conversion — the equiva-
lent of a PAT — to jump out
to a 7-0 lead. Plymouth State
then broke through the Tufts
line for another try, going up
12 points heading into the
second half.
The team began to mount a
comeback late in the contest,
scoring on a three-point pen-
alty kick by Bennett, described
by Rhyman as an “amaz-
ing kick near the sideline.”
Sophomore forward George
O’Connor then scored to bring
the Jumbos within two points.
Two late Panther scores, how-
ever, allowed Plymouth State
to distance itself and secure
the win.
“We were winning every
line-out, setting our scrums,
and dominating every facet of
the game,” Rhyman said. “After
George [O’Connor] scored, I
was sure that we were going to
win. The final deficit does not
truly reflect the closeness of
this game.”
Tufts, who led the East
Conference in points allowed,
was able to hold Plymouth
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State, a team which had put
up over 50 points three times
this season, to its third-lowest
scoring output of the season.
A key part of this was Bennett,
who locked down one of the
Panthers’ best players and one
who “would be starting on
most Div. I schools,” accord-
ing to Rhyman.
Despite the loss, Rhyman
was quick to point out the
successes of the season, most
notably the conference title as
the “crowning achievement”
of the squad.
“What I’m most pleased
about is how hard this team
works,” Rhyman said. “One of
our unofficial team mantras is
the phrase ‘mediocrity is not
acceptable,’ and they always
delivered on that this year.
Some teams only practice
twice a week, but we were out
there three times, focused and
disciplined for every minute.”
A steady influx of freshman
from the class of 2012 has
brought the roster size to 35,
an increase of 15 from last sea-
son, leading to an extension in
depth and talent for TURFC.
Sophomore Matt Menning, for
instance, left the football team
to become a rugger and has
stepped right into place for
the Jumbos.
Rhyman was also quick to
point out the play of three
specific Tufts players, referred
to as the 8-9-10 link of the
“number eight” — the only
rugby position without an
official name — the scrum half
and the fly half, filled by junior
Matt Woerner, Aurigemma and
Bennett, respectively. An inte-
gral part to any rugby squad,
this link formed the backbone
of Tufts’ offense, which tallied
98 points this fall, good for
second in the conference.
With a number of stand-
out players competing for
the Jumbos, the possibil-
ity for a disparity of talent
to develop among the play-
ers exists, but Rhyman said
TURFC is blessed with depth
that should ensure success
beyond this fall’s campaign.
“Our B-side, our JV team,
would give our A-side scrum a
run for their money every prac-
tice,” Rhyman said. “It wasn’t
clear who was A or B, and that
is so unusual for rugby. I could
have started anyone on this
team and not have felt a defi-
cit in talent. While there are 15
guys on the field, the 20 on the
bench made this champion-
ship happen.”
Bulimia Nervosa
Strong season makes loss in playoffs bittersweet
WOMEN’S RUGBY
continued from page 16
because they lacked strength in
the back line, we could attack their
team found itself with few veter-
ans in the lineup, but thanks to an
said in an e-mail to the Daily. “With fullback and wings with success.” infusion of youth from this fall’s
10 minutes remaining in the game, But Bryant presented a slight- freshman class, the Jumbo roster
we scored two tries, coming close ly different challenge than the was in solid shape. The squad’s
to tying it up. We had a brief letup Jumbos were expecting: The depth paid huge dividends on the
at the start of the second half when Bulldogs’ game plan was cen- practice field, where Tufts was able
Bryant scored most of [its] points, tered on individual performances, to use the extra bodies to work on
but otherwise we played a solid 80 which challenged Tufts to adjust certain drills and more effectively
minutes.” on the fly and possibly made the prepare for games.
Prior to its playoff game this difference on Sunday. “The biggest thing from last year
weekend, the team posted back- “They played a slightly differ- was that we managed to recruit
to-back-to-back wins over local ent type of game than [we do],” 30 or so new players to our team
rivals Plymouth State, Wentworth Sandberg said. “We’re a very cohe- this fall,” Sandberg said. “That
and Roger Williams. With the sive team, so we don’t necessar- was great for the team because it
Jumbos well aware of their ily have a star player. We just work allowed us to take our practices to
strengths and what it would take together to get scores however a whole new level. With the extra
to put together another victorious possible. Bryant focuses more on depth we were able to better sim-
effort on Sunday, they were poised the individual players, which took ulate game situations and better
to attack the Bulldogs and exploit some time to adjust to, while we prepare for our games.”
their weaknesses. are a much more focused on the “As far as the size of the team
“Coming into the game, we group effort.” goes, sometimes that happens,”
were on a three-win run, so our Nevertheless, team members Yimoyines added. “Over the course
confidence level was high and we point to their focus on the team of 14 years, I’ve seen the team go
knew what we could do to win as a whole as the reason for their from 20 players to 50 and back
this game,” senior tri-captain Aliza successes this season and not their down again to 20.”
Sandberg said. “We were focused shortcomings. Moving forward, Tufts hopes to
on keeping possession and retain- “Rugby is a sport where it’s tough maintain its numbers and build
ing the ball. That was our big goal to identify individuals,” Yimoyines on the this year’s success.
going in, and we did that very said. “It honestly takes a whole “We hope to retain our num-
well.” team to make it work. We had bers after this season and have
“The key in the Bryant game everyone from senior veterans to another solid recruiting effort next
was to keep it away from their for- rookie freshmen on the pitch, and fall,” Yimoyines said. “We hope to
wards and attack their back line,” they all performed well. I couldn’t return to the Final Four in our divi-
Yimoyines added. “We had a hard be more proud of them.” sion as we did last year. We should
time defending their mauls, but Entering the the fall season, the be able to bring home the trophy.”
The Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
Presents
Self, Sovergnity, Swaraj: Gandhi and the Indian Political
Tradition
Lecture by: Ananya Vajpeyi
October 28, 2008 5.30 pm, Humanities Center, 48 Professors
Row
Ananya Vajpeyi is an Assistant Professor of History at U Mass
Boston. She was educated at Oxford, where she was a
Rhodes Scholar and at the University of Chicago. She has been
a fellow at the South Asia program of the John Hopkins
University in Washington D.C, as well as a fellow at the Nehru
Memorial Museum and Library New Delhi, and has taught at the
school of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
She has also been Opinions Editor for The Indian Express. She
is currently writing a book for Harvard University Press, titled

“Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India.”
Co-Sponsor:
History Department, Tufts University
14 The Tufts Daily Sports Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Shorter course requires minor adjustments
WOMEN’S CREW
continued from page 16
in just a week, so we were excited
about that.”
Meanwhile, the Varsity Eight
crew finished with a solid sixth-
place showing out of 18 boats,
clocking in at 12:58.31, 40 ticks
behind Williams, which captured
first in this race in addition to the
Varsity Four. While pleased with the
results from these races, the team
found itself caught somewhat off
guard because of the Head of the
Fish’s relatively short race distance.
“We were very happy with sixth,”
said senior co-captain Kaitlyn
Mula, who rowed in the Varsity
Eight on Sunday. “The Head of the
Fish is a little weird because the
race course, which is typically 5k,
was way shorter at 3.2k, so it’s clos-
er to a sprint than an actual head
race. We decided that this is the last
race of the fall so we were going to
go for it, and it wasn’t the cleanest
race, but we definitely pulled hard
and it paid off. Basically we had
the mentality of a head race, but
we were racing at a pace that was
much closer to a sprint.”
“I think it was harder for us
because we’re used to having low-
cardio races,” St. Thomas said. “It’s
much closer to a spring race so
they expect the rating to be a lot
higher, which we weren’t really pre-
pared for.”
Tufts also fielded three other
boats at the Head of the Fish: one
JV Eight crew, which took 10th out
of 14, and two all-freshmen crews
that competed in the Collegiate
Novice race, which took 11th and
13th, respectively, out of 36 com-
petitors.
“Talking to [the JV Eight], they
said it felt good,” Mula said. “They
looked good in the water, and they
ended up middle-of-the-pack,
which is pretty good for the second
Eight … it’s how we’ve been doing
pretty much all season.”
As for Tufts’ decision to race two
all-freshmen boats in the Novice
Eight, Mula and St. Thomas agreed
that this move was an important
one for a first-year crew class as
large and as experienced as this
one.
“We were really excited because
all the freshmen this year are really
strong,” Mula said. “To be thrown
into a novice category where pre-
sumably none of the rowers has
any experience, we thought it was
nice for them to have that unity at
the end of the fall season.
“[Coach] Gary [Caldwell] has
been really throwing them around
this season into any old seat to
see what they can do because no
one really knew,” she continued.
“They were new to the team; they
all had a lot of potential, but we
didn’t know exactly where in the
boat they were best or with whom
they rowed best, so it was fun to see
the freshmen show everyone what
they were made of.”
With the final head race of
the fall behind them and several
months of winter training ahead,
the Jumbos were satisfied with
the outcome of the fall regattas in
terms of training, competition and
acquainting the freshmen with the
competitive climate.
“In the fall, it’s not really the end-
all be-all to have the fastest boats
out there,” St. Thomas said. “Every
day we get out there trying to get
stronger and get more powerful,
and it doesn’t really matter what
the lineup is since in the spring the
goal every day is to get the fastest
lineup.”
“The first couple races of the fall
we realized what our weaknesses
were, what we needed to work
on, and by the time the Fish came
around we basically said, ‘Okay this
is what we know we have to do;
this is how we’re going to push the
envelope, and we’re just going to
finish as hard as we can,’” Mula
said. “And I think we really accom-
plished that. Look at the results:
We’ve gotten better in every race,
so we’re pretty happy. It was a good
ending to the fall season.”
Bruins hope students will take
advantage of college outreach
BRUINS
continued from page 16
ested in taking advantage of
Boston’s unique demographics.
With over a quarter million stu-
dents attending college in the
area, the Bruins view the city’s
captive college audience as a
potential fan base that few other
cities can match.
“Boston has so many students
in the city, and we want every-
one in the city to experience
Bruins games,” Chmura said.
“There’s a unique opportunity as
an organization to create more
fans while they’re here for their
college experience.”
The Bruins have featured a
special college-student section
at the TD Banknorth Garden
during weeknight home games
for several years, but this year
they have stepped up efforts to
attract new fans. The Bruins fran-
chise will be targeting college
students for Nov. 13’s contest
with the Montreal Canadiens.
The Bruins and the Habs are
longtime rivals, and with last
year’s playoff series between
the two going a fight-filled,
action-packed seven games, the
upcoming meeting should be an
intense one.
“There is a big emphasis on Nov.
13, the first game against Montreal
at home this season,” Chmura
said. “We hope it will be a great
experience for everyone to cover
world-class athletes on their stage
in a heated divisional rivalry.”
This type of rivalry can only
truly be appreciated in person,
according to Chmura.
“Hockey’s a sport that’s best
viewed live,” Chmura said.
“Hopefully, the journalists that
are covering games for student
newspapers can convey how great
hockey is [as a live] experience.
Students will see that excitement
in the student media and will
want to experience it for them-
selves.”
Tufts’ Bruins fans are excited
about the program. “It’s good
to give the Bruins attention in
a city where they are overshad-
owed by the Red Sox, Patriots
and Celtics,” senior Jonathan
Carlson said.
At present, most fans get their
Bruins fix from other media out-
lets that have inside access. But
as the Daily’s coverage begins
with this year’s Bruins season,
Jumbos will have to look no fur-
ther than these pages for their
team updates.

SCHEDULE | Oct. 28 - Nov. 3

Current students Tue wed thu fri sat sun mon

will miss upgrade Football

vs. Colby
12: 30 p.m.
GYM
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of Tufts’ athletic facilities. Field Hockey vs. Endicott at Bowdoin NESCAC Playoffs
“There will be no other impact on our 4 p.m 5 p.m. TBD
functionality,” Gehling said. “We’ve man-
aged with these same facilities for a long
Women’s vs. Endicott at Bowdoin NESCAC Playoffs
time, so there’s no reason we shouldn’t be
Soccer 3 p.m. 2 p.m. TBD
able to manage for a little while longer.”
For students, the decision to delay con-
struction does not come as an overwhelm- Men’s at Bowdoin
ing shock. Soccer 2 p.m. NESCAC Playoffs
“It makes sense,” said junior Dalton TBD
Swing, who works for the athletics depart-
ment and is also captain of the club soccer NESCAC Open NESCAC
Cross Invitational at Championships at
and baseball teams. “I had originally heard Country Wesleyan 5 p.m. Bates 12 p.m.
that they wouldn’t be done by the end of my
senior year anyway. It’s understandable, but
it’s obviously still disappointing. In my years, vs. Trinity (at
Volleyball vs. Worcester St. at Wesleyan Wesleyan)
new facilities probably wouldn’t help or hurt 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 12 p.m.
my [club] teams, but I know for others it
could have helped.”
Still, even though many current students Crew
will not be around to personally enjoy the
benefits of the new facilities, Swing looks for-
ward to the opportunities that the new space Golf
will allow the school. “It’s embarrassing that
with our basketball court, for instance, we
can’t host playoff games because the court is
eight feet too small,” he said. “We’re excited JumboCast
about the new facilities, and hopefully they Volleyball
aren’t delayed for too long.”

StatISTICS | Standings
Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball Football NCAA Div. III Field Hockey
(12-0, 8-0 NESCAC) (7-5-0, 4-4-0 NESCAC) (7-5-1, 3-5-0 NESCAC) (24-2, 8-0 NESCAC) (3-3, 3-3 NESCAC) (Oct. 21, 2008)
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
W L PF PA Points (First-place votes)
W L W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L W L
Trinity 6 0 159 113 1. TCNJ, 581 (11)
Tufts 8 0 12 0 0 Williams 7 0 1 12 0 1 Middlebury 5 1 2 9 1 2 Tufts 8 0 24 2
Amherst 5 1 139 90 2. Bowdoin, 561 (5)
Bowdoin 7 1 12 1 0 Amherst 6 0 2 8 1 3 Trinity 5 3 0 10 3 0 Wesleyan 7 1 19 5
Williams 4 2 143 103 3. Ursinus, 543 (8)
Middlebury 6 2 10 2 0 2 0 7 4 2 Amherst 4 3 1 8 3 1 Amherst 6 1 18 6
Middlebury 6 Colby 3 3 76 121 4. Messiah, 535 (1)
6 2 11 2 0 4 2 Conn. Coll. 6 3 17 10
Trinity Bowdoin 4 2 2 7 3 3 Williams 4 3 1 7 Middlebury 3 3 206 164 5. Tufts, 509 (5)
Middlebury 3 3 12 9
Amherst 5 3 9 4 0 Tufts 4 4 0 7 5 0 Bowdoin 4 4 0 6 6 0 Tufts 3 3 141 108
Williams 3 3 18 12 6. Middlebury, 424
Williams 3 5 6 7 0 Trinity 4 4 0 8 4 0 Colby 3 4 1 7 5 1 Bowdoin 2 4 130 177
Bowdoin 3 4 15 14 7. Lebanon Valley, 403
Colby 2 6 5 8 0 Wesleyan 2 5 1 6 5 1 Conn. Coll. 3 4 1 5 6 1 Hamilton 2 4 86 104
Trinity 2 6 13 10 8. Johns Hopkins, 378
Bates 1 7 5 8 0 5 0 5 0 Bates 1 5 81 172
Bates 2 6 0 6 7 0 Bates 3 8 Bates 1 6 13 15 9. Trinity (Conn.), 364 (1)
5 1 Wesleyan 1 5 83 92
Conn. Coll. 1 7 4 8 0 Colby 1 6 1 4 8 1 Tufts 3 5 0 7 Colby 1 6 11 13 10. Salisbury, 353
Wesleyan 1 7 3 10 0 Conn. Coll. 0 7 1 4 7 1 Wesleyan 2 4 2 4 7 2 Hamilton 0 7 9 19
NCAA Div. III New England
G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. TD Women's Soccer
T. Brown 17 2 36 J. Love-Nichols 4 1 9 D. Schoening 6 1 13 D. Joyce-Mendive 227 0 W. Forde 144 691 4.8 6 (Oct. 21, 2008)
R. Coleman 3 1 7 S. Filocco 202 27 K. Anderson 27 108 4.0 1
A. Russo 9 8 26 S. Nolet 3 3 9 1. Williams
B. Helgeson 164 1 D. Ferguson 8 66 8.2 0
M. Kelly 9 2 20 A. Maxwell 4 0 8 P. DeGregorio 2 3 7
C. Updike 136 5 2. Amherst
B. Holiday 4 3 11 C. Cadigan 3 1 7 A. Lach 1 4 6 K. Denniston 121 14 Passing Pct. Yds TD INT
F. Gamal M. Fitzgerald 2 1 5 3. Springfield
M. Burke 4 1 9 2 3 7 L. Nicholas 115 6 A. Fucillo 57.1 1231 11 4
M. Scholtes 2 4 8 B. Morgan 2 0 4 P. Doherty 2 0 4 4. Bowdoin
C. Spieler 63 18
I. Lewnard 3 0 6 W. Hardy 1 2 4 M. Blumenthal 1 1 3 Receiving No. Yds Avg. TD 4. Middlebury
T. Guttadauro 2 1 5 A. Michael 0 3 3 B. Green 1 0 2 Defensive B Digs D. Halas 28 416 14.9 8 6. Wheaton
L. Griffith 2 0 4 A. Puttkammer 1 0 2 N. Muakkassa 0 1 1 N. Goldstein 0 424 S. Black 17 384 22.6 1 7. Western Conn. St
D. Feiger 28 274 8. Tufts
M. Ripecky 0 265 Defense Tack INT Sack
Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% T. Reynoso 45.0 0 0 9. Eastern Conn. St
S. Filocco 21 251
M. Zak 6 27 .818 K. Minnehan 3 15 .833 P. Tonelli 2 16 .889 C. Spieler 5 207 T. Tassinari 37.0 2 0 10. Brandeis
K. Hyder 3 5 .625 H. Jacobs 6 27 .818 D. McKeon 12 63 .840 A. Kuan 0 106 R. Crisco 37.0 0 2 10. Keene St.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 The Tufts Daily Sports 15
Inside the NBA Jeremy Greenhouse | Follow the Money

New-school NBA centers matriculate tonight Thoughts,

by Evans Clinchy
Daily Editorial Board
speeches
After a five-month wait, Zydrunas Ilgauskas
and Kendrick Perkins are set to tip things off
in a rematch of last May’s epic seven-game

T
Eastern Conference Finals as the Boston his year, the World Series is getting
Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, two of the some of its worst TV ratings ever.
best teams in the East, take the floor at the TD Networks can blame it on Boston and
Banknorth Garden at 8 p.m. New York not making it to the Series,
tonight. since those cities contain the largest audi-
But out West, there’s ences. But those teams also have the most
an even more intriguing national appeal, and that can be attributed to
matchup getting underway the networks’ coverage of them. FOX shows
later this evening. every single Yankees-Sox game and markets
At 10:30 p.m. EST, we “The Rivalry” above all else. Even though
can expect to see a battle more words have been penned on the Rays
between not only the NBA’s than on anybody else this year, they were
two most improved teams, but also likely scant found on national TV during the regu-
the two best candidates to derail Boston in lar season. I still don’t think Tim McCarver
its quest for championship No. 18: the Los even knows who Andy Sonnanstine and
Angeles Lakers and Portland Trailblazers. Carlos Peña are. The networks essentially
The two men tipping it off at the Staples dug their own graves there.
Center go by the soon-to-be-household “Moneyball” is supposedly being made
names of Andrew Bynum and Greg Oden. into a movie. Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s
Those two centers, one who just reached general manager, is rumored to be played
legal drinking age yesterday and the other by Brad Pitt, which I don’t really see. I also
MCT
still a 20-year-old rookie, are on the verge of heard that the chess-playing super comput-
L.A. Lakers forward Andrew Bynum certainly has no aversion to dunking, as he slammed it
changing the face of the Western Conference. er Deep Blue will be playing Paul DePodesta.
home on 31 percent of his scoring attempts last season. Bynum, and his Portland counter-
The era of Tim Duncan and Shaquille O’Neal Steve Phillips should be portrayed by Jimmy
part Greg Oden, will be joined by an influx of talented young players.
is in its twilight; June’s Finals, which L.A. Fallon, since from what I can tell neither
lost to Boston in six games, was the first in a is likeable, talented or knows much about
decade not to include either of the old-guard and Bryant, who is still only 30 years old Gasol from moving full-time to the power baseball.
big men. Now, the new kids take the floor in and in the middle of his prime. Defensively, forward position, where he should become I had the idea of calling one of my columns
downtown Los Angeles. the Lakers will benefit from shifting Lamar one of the game’s best defenders. Offensively, Moneyballing — just liked the ring of it.
The Lakers, who won 57 games en route Odom, who hasn’t seen significant time on he’s not the most efficient scorer, but that will Beane just signed Mark Ellis for two years
to the West’s top seed last year, are only going the wing in about three years, back to small come with age. and $10 million, which is absolutely absurd.
to get better with Bynum’s return from a knee forward. The West’s 57-game winners may Brandon Roy, 24, is a former Rookie of the What Ellis lacks in hitting with a .321 on-
injury sustained nine months ago. Bynum, very well top 60 this year. Year and an All-Star at shooting guard and base percentage, he more than makes up
who showed a remarkably well-rounded In Portland, the ascent has been a little will combine with Aldridge and Oden to give for with his outstanding glove. He’s about as
game at age 20 last year and brings solid slower, but given the brilliance of GM Kevin the Blazers a dangerous inside-outside game valuable as Orlando Hudson, who stands to
defensive skills to go along with his scoring Pritchard, the Blazers are now as good a pick on offense. Rudy Fernandez, 23, is Portland’s make significantly more. Heck, Luis Castillo
and freakish rebounding ability, last played as any to represent the West in next summer’s other oversized shooting guard (both he and signed for four years and $25 million.
on Jan. 13. Pau Gasol, acquired by GM Mitch Finals. The Blazers haven’t finished above Roy are 6’6”) and had a stellar Olympics this But let’s not get it twisted. Beane, as
Kupchak in one of the league’s most lopsided .500 in five years, but after a 41-41 record last summer for the Spanish team. He will take brilliant as he is, is fallible. Michael Lewis
trades in history, made his Lakers debut on year, this season may be the breakout one the court in the States as a rookie. wrote that in that famous draft discussed
Feb. 5, perfectly filling Bynum’s role as an that will finally make it worth being a sports And Jerryd Bayless, 20, spent one year in “Moneyball,” Beane scoffed at teams
interior defender and second scoring option fan in Oregon. at the University of Arizona as a combo selecting high-school pitchers. Beane was
after MVP Kobe Bryant. Like the Lakers with Bynum, the Blazers’ guard before declaring for this year’s draft. ecstatic to select Nick Swisher with the 16th
With Bynum and Gasol now taking the greatest acquisition has come not through a Pritchard left the rest of the NBA’s front offices pick; meanwhile, two high-risk high-school
floor together, the Lakers have the best pair trade or signing but from a much-heralded scratching their heads in amazement this pitchers sandwiched that pick. They were
of 7-footers in the NBA, and both should be disabled list return. Oden, who hasn’t played June, somehow managing to trade the player World Series game one starters Scott Kazmir
improved. Bynum is reportedly 100 percent a game since April 2, 2007 when his Ohio Portland got with its No. 13 pick for Bayless, and Cole Hamels. There is no magic formula
after his recovery from May knee surgery, and State Buckeyes lost to Florida in the NCAA one of the class’s four or five best talents. for drafting.
he’s bulked up to 285 with less body fat. The title game, has, like Bynum, added a massive With Pritchard’s ability to consistently out- The NBA season starts tonight, which is
return of a bulkier, more physical Bynum will amount of muscle on his way back from a smart the rest of the Association, it’s likely very exciting. Thoughts: I approve of Donnie
enable Gasol and his better scoring range to knee injury and is now listed at 7’0”, 273. that even if the Blazers don’t go deep into the Walsh and Mike D’Antoni. So far. I think the
shift to power forward. Bynum, on the other Judging by his preseason performance this West playoffs this season, they’ll continue to Blazers are going to be really good. Whose
hand, dunked on 31 percent of his scoring October, Oden is on the way to becoming the improve and still be feared for years to come. idea was it to allow Tommy Heinsohn to
attempts last season, an absurd figure that NBA’s most physical big man since Shaq. And with a nucleus already in place of guys distribute Tommy points? I’d like to start
dwarfs Gasol’s 17. But the supporting cast around Oden all born between 1985 and 1988, it’s reason- distributing my own points to announcers
The Lakers’ offense, third in the NBA last is just as good, which is what makes this able to expect 10 years of dominance in with the least objectivity. Tommy Heinsohn
year with 113.0 points-per-100 possessions, year’s Blazers roster so scary, albeit young. Portland. The Duncan Decade is over — here and Mike Gorman lead Hawk Harrelson and
will only get better as Bynum joins Gasol LaMarcus Aldridge, 23, will benefit much like comes the new era. Darrin Jackson a bajillion to a slightly lesser
number. Am I alone in loving Jeff Van Gundy
as an announcer?
Games of the Week The hot stove league begins this week as
well. Thoughts: David Price is cash money
looking back (oct. 25) | Penn state 13, ohio state 6 in the bank. The Rays have a humongous
surplus in pitching. I think they should
One of the most storied rivalries in college football added another installment to its list of hard-fought trade Kazmir and Edwin Jackson. Price will
battles over the years. be starting next year, but it’s a shame guys
In Saturday’s contest between the No. 10-ranked Buckeyes and third-ranked Nittany Lions, the Lions like him, Joba Chamberlain and Brandon
prevailed by a touchdown, icing the game with an interception in their own territory. The pick, which Morrow all convert from relievers to starters.
came with 1:07 left in regulation, was an apt cap to a game that was characterized by tight defensive It’s so much fun to see dominant closers like
play on both sides. Papelbon stay in the pen after they come up
The score heading into the fourth quarter was 6-3 in favor of the Ohio State, with no touchdowns to the majors, even if they’re usually not as
scored. The Lions then turned on the jets, scoring a touchdown and a field goal late in the game to seize valuable there. But guys like Grant Balfour
the lead, which they would protect through staunch buckle-down defense in the game’s final stages. and Jose Arredondo and Brad Ziegler show
Neither team netted over 300 yards of total offense, a testament to the gritty nature of the rivalry. up for every team every year. I guess my
The Nittany Lions are averaging 460 yards of offense-per-game, including their latest 281 yard output point is, don’t pay for K-Rod.
versus Ohio State. The Buckeyes stepped up their defensive game to alleviate the pressure on their com- The winner’s curse: In an auction, the
paratively weak offense, which produces only 318 yards-per-game on average. Ultimately, the team from winning bidder will generally be overpaying.
Columbus, Ohio actually out-gained the Lions’ 281 yards by going for 287 of their own. My point is, don’t bid on Manny Ramirez.
However, the final score stood in favor of the Lions. After a fumble recovery gave the squad great How much would you pay to see your
field position in Buckeye territory, the Penn State offense broke through, scoring a touchdown with 7:07 MCT team win a championship? I’d pay up
left in the game. A later field goal and second turnover in the quarter ensured that Penn State would to $500. But I’m always low on stuff like
remain among the top-three ranked teams in the nation. that. I had a couple friends who went to
the All-Star game at Yankee Stadium this
looking ahead (oct. 25) | field hockey at Trinity year, and they could’ve sold their tickets
for a grand apiece. I thought they were
After eight hard-fought NESCAC wins, including two in overtime against nationally-ranked top 10 crazy not to sell.
teams at Middlebury on Oct. 11 and Trinity on Saturday, Tufts will take on Bowdoin this weekend in Why is the NFL trade deadline so boring?
a fight for sole possession of first place in the league. Why did the Cowboys trade a first, third and
The Polar Bears, after riding an undefeated regular season to the NCAA title in 2007, dropped sixth for Roy Williams? Actually, that’s a rhe-
their first contest since 2006 in a 2-0 affair with Trinity on Oct. 18. But if Bowdoin tops the Jumbos torical question, since that move is indefen-
this weekend and manages to crawl back into a tie for first place, the No. 1 seed in the NESCAC sible. Jerry Jones must hate money. The Jets
Tournament will go to the Polar Bears because of their win in the head-to-head matchup between should’ve traded for a good quarterback.
the two teams. Someone like Chad Pennington.
On the other hand, if Tufts is able to stave off Bowdoin Saturday, it will be guaranteed the No. 1 Until next time, don’t forget: “Money is
seed and with it the home field advantage for the duration of the playoffs. good for nothing unless you know the value
But securing the No. 1 seed certainly won’t be easy. After being blanked by the Bantams, the of it by experience.”
Bowdoin offense came storming back against a helpless 5-8 Colby Mule team, delivering an 8-1
thrashing. Unsurprisingly, Bowdoin’s charge was led by senior captain and 2007 NESCAC Player of
the Year Lindsay McNamara, whose four-goal show pushed her to the 25-tally mark for the second Jeremy Greenhouse is a sophomore who has
Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily time in her career. not yet declared a major. He can be reached
at Jeremy.Greenhouse@tufts.edu.
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Women’s Crew

Tufts reels in two top-10 finishes at Head of the Fish on Sunday

Courtesy Sarah Grace

The Varsity Four boat of the women’s crew, pictured here on the Fish Creek in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., took ninth place this weekend at the Head of the Fish Regatta. The Head of the Fish
marked the Jumbos’ third and final head race of the fall leading into the winter offseason.

by Thomas Eager
Daily Editorial Board
Coming off its final race of the
fall season before heading into win-
ter offseason training, the women’s
crew picked up a pair of top-10 fin-
ishes at the Head of the Fish Regatta
in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Sunday.
The Jumbos changed their strat-
egy for the final race, putting more
focus on their Varsity Four boat and
moving four of their normal Varsity
Eight starters — senior co-cap-
tain Steph St. Thomas, classmate
Becca Herbst, sophomore Kaylee
Maykrenz and freshman Kathleen
Holec — from the stern of the Eight
into the Varsity Four race. Tufts took
ninth in that competition out of
27 crews with a time of 14:23.06,
one minute behind race-winner
Williams.
“On Tuesday we decided to prior-
itize our Varsity Four, which is some-
thing we’ve never done before,” St.
Thomas said. “We took the stern
four, the four that set the rhythm in
the Varsity [Eight] and put that in the
Four, and we did that because the
four of us row similarly and really
well together, so we hoped that [by]
concentrating a lot of effort on the
four of us that we’d be able to per-
form well.”
While the move toward fielding
a stronger Varsity Four boat for the
Head of the Fish was essentially a
one-time deal — Tufts opts to focus
solely on the Varsity Eight in the
spring because Varsity Fours don’t
qualify for NCAAs — the change
provided the rowers with some
important experiences. Once more,
the crew improved markedly against
the elite competition from Williams.
“The Williams Varsity at Head of
the Charles [last weekend] came in
first and then they split their Varsity
into two Fours [at Head of the
Snake], which we didn’t know was
going to happen, so their first Four
won,” St. Thomas said. “At Head of
the Charles [the Tufts Varsity Eight
was] 90 seconds behind them, but
our Four this weekend was only 60
seconds behind them … knocking
off 30 seconds of time is ridiculous
see WOMEN’S CREW, page 14

Women’s Rugby Men’s Rugby

Jumbos suffer Bulldogs’ bite in playoffs
by Scott Janes
Daily Editorial Board
After running off three consecutive region-
al victories, the women’s rugby team was rid-
ing high entering its opening-round playoff
matchup against Bryant University Sunday.
Unfortunately for the Jumbos, it was the
Bulldogs who advanced to the second round
of the postseason by staving off a late Tufts
rally to escape with a 24-19 victory.
Down by a large margin with less than
10 minutes to go in the contest, the Jumbos
were able to rattle off two quick tries, worth
The women’s rugby team suffered a 24-19 playoff loss to Bryant University on Sunday. The Jumbos
tried to mount a comeback toward the end of the game, but ultimately fell short.
five points apiece, to pull within five points.
Yet despite their best efforts to get one last
touch in the try zone, the Jumbos’ attempts
proved futile.
Still, the squad came dangerously close
to defeating a team that had yet to surren-
der one try all season, as Tufts tallied three
against the Bulldogs in one day, further add-
ing to the frustration of the loss.
“[Sunday’s] game was a tough loss not just
because it was the playoffs, but because we
could have won it,” coach Kara Yimoyines
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Courtesy Kara Yimoyines
Ruckus on the pitch: Jumbos wrestle win
by Alex Prewitt
Daily Staff Writer
With all of the success of the varsity
teams this fall season, it can be extreme-
ly easy to overlook one of the most excit-
ing and thriving squads on the Hill. The
Tufts University Rugby Football Club
(TURFC) finished up its best season in
four years on Sunday, falling to defend-
ing national champion Plymouth State
24-10, but not before securing the East
Conference Championship of the New
England Rugby Football Union.
Led by a core of experienced upper-
classmen in addition to an influx of
strong freshmen, the Jumbo ruggers fin-
ished 4-1 in the Div. III East Conference,
locking up first place with a 26-7 win
over Wentworth Institute of Technology
on Thursday.
“The last two seasons we’ve really
struggled, with very few seniors,” junior
tri-captain Tom Bennett said. “Now
we have a lot of guys who have really
matured and have come together as a
team is what has brought us our success
this year.”
The theme of the Jumbos’ season
seems to be improvement. Just four sea-
sons ago in 2005, Tufts finished in last
place in its conference, partially because
the squad was littered with freshmen
new to the pitch. Since then, the prestige
of the program has steadily increased,
culminating in a conference champion-
ship, Tufts’ first since 2001.
“If you go back two seasons, we were a
sub-.500 team with undersized players,”
coach Bob Rhyman, a former Div. I rugby
player, said. “Now, we’ve made really big
strides with this group of young men
who have matured both age-wise and
from a rugby perspective. The learning
curve in rugby is so dramatic. The differ-
ence in this sport between a senior [and
a freshman] is like night and day, so the
strides these kids have made is unbeliev-
able.”
Perhaps the best indication of the
Jumbos’ improvement was their 9-0 vic-
tory over UMass Lowell, the reigning
conference champions, who downed
Tufts last season 56-0. TURFC also took
out Saint Anselm College, the runner-up
last season, in a nail-biting 8-5 contest.
Tufts’ lone loss for the season came
at the hands of Babson in a game that
seemed to be more of a fluke than any-
thing else. With no time left on the clock
and Tufts up one point, Babson scored
a try — the equivalent of a touchdown
worth five points — sending the Beavers
to a 20-16 win.
“We just didn’t play our game against
Babson — our heads got a little big,”
see MEN’S RUGBY, page 13

Gym Renovations Inside the Boston Bruins

Fitness center revamp is put on hold Bruins relax access rules

to let in college journalists
by Noah Schumer
Daily Editorial Board
Construction of the Steve Tisch
Sports and Fitness Center and
other renovations to school ath-
letic facilities, scheduled to begin
this spring, have been delayed
due to fiscal constraints brought
on by the nation’s current finan-
cial crisis.
The renovation was made pos-
sible in part by a $10 million gift
from Steve Tisch (A ’71). All told,
the changes are projected to cost
$30 million and encompass a
30,000 square-foot plot between
Cousens Gymnasium and the
Gantcher Family Sports and
Convocation Center, where the
current fitness center is located.
As The Daily reported last fall, the
project was to include the con-
struction of new locker rooms,
teaching space and a coaching
office suite.
The second phase of the proj-
ect — renovations to Cousens —
was to involve improvements to
the current basketball court and
the conversion of Hamilton Pool
into squash courts, while adding a
replacement pool. decision [to delay the construc-
Before the economy took a
turn for the worse, the renova-
tions to Cousens were expected to
begin in March and workers were
slated to break ground on the new
fitness center at the end of next
semester.
Although Director of Athletics
Bill Gehling said he is disappoint-
ed by the delay, he understands
the decision was necessary dur-
ing these turbulent times for the
financial markets.
“It’s not a surprise,” Gehling
said. “We still hold out hope that
maybe things will improve by the
time spring rolls around, but we
understand that these are sig-
nificant times economically and
there are other more important
things for the university besides
athletic facilities.”
The root of the problem has
been the tightening of the credit
markets, which has made it more
expensive for the university to
secure loans.
“As President Bacow said, the
tion] was mostly made for us,”
Gehling said. “The cost of borrow-
ing money in the short term has
increased too much.”
Despite the university’s dif-
ficulty in procuring reasonable
short-term loans, the athletics
department has been buoyed by
the amount of money generated
through alumni donations. Even
with Tisch’s donation, the univer-
sity still needed additional private
funding to give the initial green
light for construction.
“We’ve had a significant num-
ber of gifts towards this,” Gehling
said. “We’ve been very encouraged
by our ability to raise funds, which
is why we had the opportunity to
break ground before recently.”
In the meantime, the economic
crisis is not expected to have fur-
ther effects on the current status
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by Korin Hasegawa-John writer Kevin Paul Dupont has.”
Senior Staff Writer The Daily’s coverage will pro-
vide another small outlet to
This week marks a huge step expand exposure for a sport and a
forward in the Daily’s coverage of team that are in sore need of addi-
the National Hockey tional fans and revenue.
League, as the While the college media
Boston Bruins have outreach program is in
embarked on a pro- its infancy, Chmura said
gram that will grant he has high expectations
media access to local for the future.
college newspapers. “From a PR perspective,
College sports we are trying to reach out
reporters will be to every avenue possible
granted the same to get more coverage,” he
access as regular Bruins writers said. “As a former student jour-
from the Boston Globe, Boston nalist myself, when I was at Holy
Herald and other daily media Cross I knew how great it would
outlets. have been to cover one of the
“[It’s] mutually beneficial for Boston sports teams. I know how
the Bruins and for the student great of an experience it would
reporters,” Bruins Director of have been.”
Communications Matt Chmura The Bruins are especially inter-
said. “[The Daily will have] the
same access that Hall of Fame see BRUINS, page 14