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THE TUFTS DAILY Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Amid economic crisis, Tufts

rethinking financial aid carrier
The by Sarah Butrymowicz In April, Kennedy wrote a let-
contours Daily Editorial Board ter to the presidents of all schools
in Massachusetts urging them at
of our The recent upheaval in capi-
tal markets could cause Tufts to
least to consider the Direct Loan
Program.
cosmos change its system of allocating
federal financial aid in time for
Harvard University, North-
eastern University and Boston
next year’s process. University all use direct loans.
The Office of Financial Aid faces Colin Riley, the director of Media
a choice between switching to the Relations at BU, praised the pro-
Direct Loan Program, tradition- gram’s streamlined method.
ally supported by Congressional “Boston University has been in
Democrats, or sticking with the the program since its inception,”
mostly Republican-backed Federal Riley said. “It’s easy to work with,
Family Education Loan Program to have all the loans go through
(FFELP), which is more susceptible one lender.”
to fluctuations in the market. Boston College, like Tufts, uses
The programs offer the same sub- FFELP, according to Bernie Pekala,
sidized and unsubsidized Stafford the director of student financial
Rebekah Sokol/Tufts Daily loans and federally guaranteed PLUS strategies for BC. The school evalu-
loans, but the sources of the loans ates the two programs on an annu-
are distinct. With FFELP, schools and al basis and has stuck with FFELP
Mathematician Jeff Weeks captivated a students go through a third-party because it “has given our students
large audience in Cabot yesterday with lender to acquire money, while in the better benefits, better counseling
his interactive discussion of the potential Direct Loan Program, funds come and follow up,” Pekala told the Daily.
shapes of our universe. The talk was straight from the government. But due to the current state of
the first of three that Weeks will deliver “It is somewhat odd that we have the capital markets, BC has applied
this week as part of the Norbert Wiener two programs designed to do exactly and been accepted to the Direct
Lecture Series. Go to tuftsdaily.com for the same thing, only they run in very Loan Program as “a safety measure,”
a slideshow of yesterday’s lesson, and different ways,” Tufts’ Director of Pekala said.
check the Daily tomorrow for an article Financial Aid Patricia Reilly said. “Operational issues” constitute
on the series’ second installment, which A university-wide group repre- a main concern that the universi-
Weeks will deliver today in Braker Hall. senting all of Tufts’ schools will con- ty must consider before making a
sider several factors to determine change, according to Reilly. “We have
what program to use. systems set up to process FFELP
Tufts has historically used FFELP, loans,” she said. “We have a pretty
but the nation’s recent economic streamlined, almost all electronic
instability has spurred it to reexamine process. If we decided to move to
whether this is the best option. “We direct loans, it would require a sig-
are evaluating it this year because nificant amount of work on the part
there’s been so many changes in the of the university.”
market,” Reilly said. Still, a slight disparity in the sys-
Until last year, FFELP borrowers tems’ loan rates may lead the univer-
rarely had problems securing funds. sity to take a hard look at switching.
But this year, 135 lenders have sus- The difference results from a legisla-
pended federal loans, including the tive error that is still uncorrected,
Massachusetts Educational Finance according to Mark Kantrowitz, the
Authority, the state’s most prolific publisher of finaid.org. Currently,
student lender. The non-profit pulled PLUS loans through the Direct Loan
out this summer. “One of the worries Program have an interest rate of 7.9
going forward this year is that more percent, compared to 8.5 percent
lenders will drop out,” Reilly said. through FFELP.
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) On Feb. 8, 2002, President George
is a strong proponent of the Direct Bush signed a bill that set Stafford
Loan Program, which he considers loan interest rates at 6.8 percent and
the more efficient system because it PLUS loan rates at 7.9 percent for
is immune to the vicissitudes of the both programs, effective in 2006.
capital market, one of his aides, who But exactly four years later, the
requested anonymity due to office
policy, told the Daily. see LOANS, page 2
Alumna Hessan brings Tufts education to CEO’s chair
by Tessa Gellerson ment and innovation she had model, understanding life
Contributing Writer experienced as a student. in a broader sense, not con-
“I wanted the place to feel fined to just business. I really
Diane Hessan ( J ’76) told vibrant and energetic, like like the fact that she says we
students last night that her the buzz you feel on cam- should follow our passion,”
Tufts education laid a strong pus,” Hessan said. Foo said.
foundation for her success as During her speech in Hessan emphasized the
the president of a major com- Sophia Gordon Hall, Hessan importance of staying posi-
pany. displayed a love for her field. tive and being open to unan-
Hessan sought to inspire She said tasks that could be ticipated forms of inspiration.
rising entrepreneurs during daunting become enjoyable When running a business,
her lecture, speaking with for those who pursue what “look for the serendipity,”
nostalgia and an engaging they love. she said. “Sometimes in life,
sense of humor about her “If you major in what you to get the right opportunity,
undergraduate experience love, it’s not school, and in you have to have your head
and subsequent achieve- business, if you do what you up.”
ments at Communispace love, it’s not work,” Hessan The p re s i d e n t and
Corp., a social networking said. chief executive officer of
rebekah sokol/tufts daily
enterprise. Her optimistic view on life Communispace highlighted
After she graduated from and labor impressed gradu- the importance of develop- Administrators in Dowling Hall’s Department of Financial Aid and across
Tufts, Hessan wanted her ate student Jean Foo, who is the university are considering changing the federal student loan program
company to mirror the excite- studying music. “She’s a role see ALUMNA, page 2 that Tufts uses.

Inside this issue Today’s Sections

Victoria’s Secret is launch-
ing a line of collegiate Dane Cook’s newest News 1 Op-Ed 11
apparel, but Tufts will not flick, ‘My Best Friend’s Features 3 Comics 12
be one of the participat- Girl,’ fails to impress. Arts | Living 7 Classifieds 13
ing schools. Editorial | Letters 10 Sports Back
see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 7
2 The Tufts Daily News Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Tufts considering two programs Police Briefs

LOANS
continued from page 1
Higher Education Reconciliation
Act (HERA) of 2006 increased the
interest rate of PLUS loans that go
through FFELP, while leaving the
Direct Loan Program’s PLUS loan
rate untouched. This violation of the
2002 bill’s rate fixing still stands.
“There have been attempts to
change this, but none of those pieces
[of legislation have] been success-
ful,” Kantrowitz said.
This is partly because the
Democrats, who favor the Direct
Loan Program, gained control of
Congress in 2006. Also, congressmen
from both parties may be leery of
enacting a piece of legislation that
could be viewed as simply raising
interest rates on students, according
to Kantrowitz.
While the disparity between the
interest rates was due to a mistake,
“the difference is rational in that
the Direct Loan Program is much
cheaper for the taxpayer,” the aide to
Kennedy said. Instead of subsidizing
lenders, the government is borrow-
ing directly from itself.
Rep. Joe Courtney (A ’75, D-Conn.),
whose district encompasses eight
colleges and universities, is a fan
of the Direct Loan Program, which
began in 1993, for that reason. “I
think it makes a much better deal,”
he told the Daily.
Kantrowitz disagrees. While it
used to be “quite clear” that direct
loans cost the government less, after
the passage of two recent education
bills, the College Cost Reduction and
Access Act of 2007 and the Ensuring
Continued Access to Student Loans
Act of 2008, he believes that the “dif-
ferential has been largely eliminat-
ed.” The savings are minimal enough
that it would not justify eliminating
one of the programs, he said.
Kantrowitz finds that having two
programs is a positive. It brings a
degree of competition, which
requires that they are both operated
at minimal cost to the government
and provide solid service to the stu-
dents, he said.
While FFELP remains the more
commonly used program with 3,921
schools employing it, the Direct
Loan Program is rapidly gaining
ground. In June 2007, 1,173 schools
were using the Direct Loan Program.
By earlier this month, that number
had more than doubled to 2,399,
according to Kennedy’s aide.
Tufts will consider this increase in
volume, and therefore in customers,
for the Direct Loan Program with an
eye on how it affects the program’s
service.
“One of the things we worry about
is once we make a loan to the stu-
dent, what kind of service are we
going to get and what kind of service
are they going to get?” Reilly said.
Aside from the overarching fac-
tors, there are also some “little dif-
ferences” between the programs,
according to Reilly.
For instance, although the fees
associated with using FFELP and
direct loans, which are distinct from
the interest rates, are the same, many
FFELP lenders will cover them to
stay competitive.
But direct loans forgive the
remainder of students’ debts if they
work for a non-profit for ten years
after graduating. FFELP does not,
but similar alternatives are available,
according to Reilly. Taking advantage
of these alternatives is “just a little bit
more complicated,” she said.
Under former President Bill
Clinton, there was an effort to com-
pletely replace FFELP with the Direct
Loan Program, but Republicans
fought back with a “serious counter
push back,” Courtney said.
Kennedy believes that the Direct
Loan Program could handle all of
the student loans, but he still feels
it is necessary for FFELP to remain
healthy for the time being, in order
to avoid a “mass exodus,” the aide
said. “If all lenders dropped out over-
night, that would be very disruptive
to students.”
Courtney said eliminating FFELP
would be possible, but not easy. “It
will take a president using the full
weight of his office and a strong
majority to really accomplish some-
thing like that,” he said. “I wouldn’t
bet much money that you’re ever
going to see the elimination of
either.”
“The battle is going to be in terms
of whether one program … becomes
the dominant vehicle,” he added.
Tufts has considered adopting the
Direct Loan Program twice before,
once when it was introduced in 1993
and again a few years ago.
What’s Cookin’?
Tufts University Police Dep-
artment (TUPD) officers and the
Somerville Fire Department respond-
ed at 12:40 p.m. on Sept. 17 to
a fire alarm from Latin Way. The
alarm was caused by smoke from
cooking, but when investigating the
area, officers noticed a plastic bag
covering a smoke detector in one of
the rooms.
They also observed several
empty alcohol bottles – although
all the residents of the suite were
underage – and a red and orange
glass pipe. The pipe, which smelled
like marijuana, was confiscated.
A keg? In the
basement? Naw!
Officers responded to another
fire alarm at 2:40 p.m. on Sept.
18, this one at the Delta Upsilon
fraternity house at 98 Professors
Row. “We did not find the cause of
the alarm, but we did find a keg in
the basement,” TUPD Sgt. Robert
McCarthy said.
The residents “appeared to be
Hessan tells Tufts entrepreneurs to drop
the ‘J-word’ to increase networking success
Alumna
continued from page 1
ing an intimate network of
friends and associates. She
jokingly suggested dropping
the “J-word,” saying that
you never know what other
Jumbos you might meet.
Communispace helps com-
panies connect via online
communities with knowl-
edgeable consumers, who
provide feedback and share
insights on products.
“It’s really fun for the
members, and companies are
hearing stuff they have never
heard before,” Hessan said.
Companies pay an esti-
mated $300,000 annually for
each online community that
Communispace puts together.
Communispace allows
consumers to play an active
dumbfounded” when they were
informed of the keg’s discovery,
McCarthy said. TUPD confiscated
the keg.
Hit me with your best
shot — officer
Officers received a call at 3:01
a.m. on Sept. 19 reporting a distur-
bance at the Theta Delta Chi fra-
ternity house at 123 Packard Ave.
When they arrived on the scene,
they saw five males in the court-
yard arguing. One of the males,
a student who was not a frater-
nity brother, accused the officers of
harassing him for no good reason.
The student, who seemed to
be under the influence of alco-
hol, continued to argue with the
officers and challenged them
to “lock him up.” According to
McCarthy, the student said that
“he didn’t have a curfew and
he didn’t have to go home if he
didn’t want to.”
The individual walked toward
the officers with his hands out,
continuing to tell them to arrest
him. He also refused to show iden-
role in product campaigns
and designs. United Airlines,
a Communispace client,
recently announced that
due to budget constraints,
it would no longer serve hot
food on international flights freshman Maggie Kullman.
“She makes me appre-
ciate a Tufts education.”
Shelby Shultz
freshman
This proposition evoked
such furious responses
from the company’s online
community that the airline
quickly repealed its decision,
Hessan said.
Communispace boasts a
tification and said he was going
to get one of the officers fired.
Eventually, his friends took him
home.
Student arrested by
Somerville police
TUPD and the Somerville Police
Department dispatched officers to
a loud party at 763 Broadway at
12:42 a.m. on Sept. 20. When
they arrived, they found at least
200 people in the house, as well as
two or three kegs and a beer pong
table.
Officers asked for the residents,
and one student said that he lived
there. He refused to provide identi-
fication, questioning why he need-
ed it. The student became loud and
refused to cooperate, even though
he was told many times to lower
his voice and show his ID, accord-
ing to McCarthy.
Somerville officers arrested the
student for disorderly conduct and
transported him to the Somerville
Police Department for booking.
— compiled by Sarah Burtymowicz
93-percent rate of contract
renewals and an ever-expand-
ing base of clientele, Hessan
said.
The audience included
some aspiring CEOs, such as
“I really liked the speech,”
said Kullman, who plans to
minor in entrepreneurial
leadership.
Freshman Shelby Shultz
said the lecture made her
excited to be a Tufts student.
“She makes me appreci-
ate a Tufts education,” Shultz
said of Hessan.
The Alumni Association
sponsored the speech, along
with the Department of
Entrepreneurial Leadership.
The talk was an installment
of the Lyon and Bendheim
Alumni Lecture Series.

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“30 Rock” and “John Adams” were the major winners

at the Emmy Awards Sunday night. In honor of the new
category of Outstanding Host for a Reality Program,
all five of the category’s nominees shared the respon-
sibilities of hosting the ceremony. There were many
expected wins, but also a few upsets, including Bryan
Cranston’s win for Best Lead Actor in a Dramatic Series
for the TV show “Breaking Bad.” Go to www.tuftsdaily.
com to see our Arts blog, The Scene, and read more.

THE SCENE
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School spirit for your skivvies

Jessie Borkan |
college is as college does

Victoria’s Secret goes collegiate in new collection used by 31 schools My first

by Christina Pappas the school’s brand contract. freshman Sasha Reed said. “I don’t shop date
Contributing Writer “I saw the catalog [Victoria’s Secret] pro- there ... and I don’t watch the Victoria’s Secret
duced and didn’t believe the images were Angels runway shows because

O
Pencils, planners and … push-up bras? consistent with the values of the uni- I think those displays K so not my first date. Webster’s
School supplies and Victoria’s Secret may versity in terms of the way they are ridiculous and defines a date as “a romantic
seem an unlikely combination. But the popu- portray women,” Thorp said a little bit offen- appointment or engagement,”
lar lingerie and clothing retailer is looking in a statement reported sive.” and I have certainly been on my
to appeal to college students’ school spir- recently by US News and V i c t o r i a ’s fair share of those.
it with its newly unveiled PINK Collegiate World Report. Secret rep- But they have always seemed to be with
Collection. Thorp’s colleagues have resentatives my boyfriend, or at least “that guy I’m see-
The collection features colorful sweat- supported his choice to dis- did not return ing.” These kinds of dates are with guys
pants, t-shirts, hoodies, jackets, tote bags, tance UNC from Victoria’s repeated requests who know me, guys I’ve most likely already
sleepwear and underwear emblazoned with Secret. for comment. kissed, and guys I definitely already know
the name of a participating school. Currently, “We didn’t want the univer- Students that I like. It wasn’t until I got asked on a
31 are involved. sity’s brand associated with the can nominate real, “What if he doesn’t like me!?” gloss-
The schools in the collection are pri- Victoria’s Secret brand,” said Tufts University over-my-high-school-marching-band-
marily large state universities, including Nancy Davis, associate vice for consideration career, attempt-to-hide-the-fact-that-I-
the University of Texas and the University chancellor for UNC university by Victoria’s Secret may-actually-be-insane date that I realized
of Michigan, although the collection does relations, in an e-mail to the PINK Collegiate the extent to which I was in over my head.
include a few smaller private schools like Daily. “We didn’t want to promote Collection at Rewind to last spring. In the midst of
Boston College. Victoria’s Secret and its marketing vspink.com. The the supercharged, slightly tipsy hook-up
Tufts University has not been approached approach.” schools receiving culture we call college, I had gotten to the
to join the ranks But some dispute the claim the highest num- point of spending approximately 38 per-
of Victoria’s that Victoria’s Secret is ber of votes will be cent of my time complaining about how
S e c r e t ’s inherently demeaning to revealed on Oct. 16, romance is dead and why no one just asks
collegiate women. and Victoria’s Secret me to dinner (Dewick does not count!)
clients “ M a y b e will try to include instead of propositioning me in the base-
— a Victoria’s Secret doesn’t those schools in ment of SigEp. This was on the heels of
mesh with the its 2009 Collegiate a relationship (a generous characteriza-
feminist version of Line, according to tion) with a guy who had no room in his
empowerment,” said Tufts the Web site. proverbial closet for a formal suit jacket,
freshman Cara Guappone, Were Tufts to be a top nominee, the stu- much less a formal girlfriend or, God for-
who is a former Victoria’s dent body, faculty and administration at Tufts bid, a formal date. So I was ready to lose it.
Secret employee “But I real- would collectively determine what pieces of I returned to Cleveland to begin my sum-
ly don’t think that helping merchandise should boast the Tufts name mer of lifeguarding, as cynical and disillu-
women who want pretty and be sold at the school bookstore, accord- sioned with the so-called dating world as a
underwear is objectifying ing to Reitman. 20-year-old can be. Then came Tattoo Guy.
them.” In order to appear in the Tufts bookstore, Tattoo Guy was a regular patron at my
Guappone the resulting merchandise would have to pool whom I regularly drooled over while
denies that the PINK col- be dually approved. The Tufts Bookstore is I was supposed to be saving lives. I don’t
lection, which produces a branch of book retailer Barnes and Noble, know if it was my snazzy one-piece, my
the college gear, is inap- so both Barnes and Noble and the univer- juxtaposition with the other regulars —
propriate. Lingerie is not sity must endorse merchandise for sale at the Stretched-Out Speedo Man and Dirty Braid
the focus of the collec- bookstore, according to Jenna Scinicarello, Lady — or just the fact that being a life-
tion, she said. the bookstore’s assistant manager. guard increases your hotness by 40 per-
“The colleges “The Victoria’s Secret line would probably cent, but Tattoo Guy wanted to go on a
get to have cute little be popular to a certain extent,” Scinicarello date. With me.
T-shirts and brightly col- said. “[But] it’s not, for example, going to do Once I got over the initial shock of being
ored sweatpants with well in the unisex department.” asked for my number while on duty at the
fact that may be attrib- the school logos,” she Creating a contract with Victoria’s Secret kiddie pool, I proceeded to behave in a very
uted to the university’s said. “What’s wrong with could cause more problems than benefits, as mature and appropriate manner by imme-
intense screening pro- that?” well as garner a significant amount of unsa- diately relaying the details of our quasi-wit-
cess for prospective Students attending schools vory publicity, Reitman said. ty banter to the entire staff — which then
businesses. under contract with “Setting aside my own opinions,” Reitman assisted me in over-analyzing every word
According to Dean of Victoria’s Secret emphasized said, “There’s just no real reason to plunge of it. I was going on my first actual date,
Student Affairs Bruce Reitman, the brand’s ubiquity and convenience. Tufts into that kind of controversy. Tufts which, unlike going somewhere with your
Tufts conducts business transactions with “Victoria’s Secret PINK is comfortable, and should be known for its great community, lame high school boyfriend or emotionally
many different vendors, ranging from small it’s popular here. I see lots of students walking its thoughtful students, its sense of social unavailable college fling, involves present-
companies to far-away countries. But before around in PINK,” Boston College freshman responsibility — not its underwear.” ing yourself for what is essentially the first
any contract is signed, Tufts will examine the Tess Nicholson said. time. I felt like a virgin all over again.
reputation and standards of the potential Boston College remains the only school in Long story short, we went on a date,
partner. the New England area currently under con- but a quick look at my present bitterness-
“When we are looking at a new com-
pany, there are ethical business policies that
tract with Victoria’s Secret. “I basically live in
my BC PINK sweatpants,” Nicholson said.
Participating Schools o-meter when I witness PDA will tell you
that I am currently single. The tragic thing
come into play,” Reitman said. “For example, Regardless of whether or not they would about Tattoo Guy is that he did everything
does this company have sweat- sport the line, some University of Alabama right: He didn’t wait too long to call, he took
shops? Does it have a history of Tufts students said that Arizona State University me out to dinner at my (unbeknownst to
respecting human rights and Victoria’s Secret is sim- University of Arkansas him) favorite restaurant, he paid in a non-
fair trade? It’s as if the company ply engaging in smart Auburn University awkward way, and he walked me home
is applying for a job and we’re business practices by UC Berkeley when it was done. We even made out a
checking its references.” catering to the col- Boston College little on my front steps (OK, my parents’
After a company has cleared lege crowd. Clemson University front steps), but it didn’t take me long to
the ethical hurdle, the remain- “I don’t see the University of Colorado figure out that while we had an abundance
ing question is slightly stickier. big deal,” freshman Florida State University of aquatic skills between the two of us, we
“Simply put, we ask our- Scott Barchard said. University of Florida had absolutely nothing of something else:
selves, ‘Is this a good idea?’” “Victoria’s Secret is University of Georgia chemistry.
Reitman said. promoting its brand University of Illinois The moral of my first date? Just because
Reitman believes that sign- and trying to make University of Kansas you do something the “right” way (read:
ing a contract with Victoria’s a profit. That’s what University of Kentucky the way they did it on every episode of
Secret would not be an intel- businesses do.” UCLA Dawson’s Creek) doesn’t mean it is right.
ligent move for the university. But overwhelm- LSU The reality is that life is not a romantic
“I think many of the women ingly, women at University of Maryland comedy. I am not Bridget Jones, and there
here would be offended, and Tufts said they do University of Miami is no Mark Darcy, and now that I’ve accept-
our whole division of Student not support or wear University of Michigan ed that, my love life, after years of “dating”
Affairs would be in protest. I Victoria’s Secret and University of Minnesota and many a dramatic moment, can go on.
can tell you that Victoria’s Secret would not spend University of Nebraska I wouldn’t brand my priorities as changed,
would not get a warm welcome their money on University of North Carolina but they have certainly gotten more com-
from me,” Reitman said. Tufts PINK mer- University of Oklahoma plicated — there is now a delicate triage.
“Tufts seeks to be a model of chandise. University of Oregon Would I rather receive a charming invita-
social justice,” he added. “Why “I wouldn’t wear Penn State University tion to a date than wade through the murky
would we make a deal with a it,” sophomore USC waters of awkward, ambiguous and usually
company known to make money Meaghan Woodard University of South Carolina intoxicated flirting? Probably. But would I
by treating women as sexual said. University of Tennessee sacrifice spark for sophistication? Never.
objects?” The sexualized por- Texas A&M
Citing similar misgivings about trayal of women was a University of Texas
Victoria’s Secret, Chancellor Holden Thorp of factor in some students’ distaste of Vict-oria’s University of Washington Jessie Borkan is a junior majoring in clini-
the University of North Carolina announced Secret. cal psychology. She can be reached at Jessie.
on Sept. 1 that he had decided not to renew “I think Victoria’s Secret is a little weird,” Borkan@tufts.edu.
4 The Tufts Daily
Cutting the cord on landlines, students choose cell phones
Though many dorms and houses still have phones plugged in, most calls are made on mobile phones
by Charlotte Steinway
Daily Editorial Board
This is the second article in a two-
part series exploring landline phone
use and its demise in the wake of
the cell phone. The first installment
focused on the landline services offered
in Tufts’ residence halls; this one exam-
ines how students view these services
and on how the trends in wireless com-
munications will affect students post-
college.
Despite the fact that phone jacks
still decorate every dorm room wall,
the chance that a stroll down any
given corridor will give way to an
audible land line ring is slim to none
in the age of cell phone dominance.
Freshman Allister Chang, who lives
in Tilton Hall, said he doesn’t know
any students on his floor who use
their phone jacks for a landline phone.
In fact, Chang claims that even if he
did choose to purchase a phone for
the jack, he wouldn’t know how to be
reached.
“If I was given a phone number, I
don’t remember it at all,” Chang said.
According to university records,
though, a significant — albeit declin-
ing — proportion of students still have
landline phones.
Their obsolete status, therefore,
mostly stems from the fact that those
that own them hardly ever put them to
use.
John McKeigue, the manager of Tufts’
Voice Communications Services, tests
the use of phone jacks each year over
a one-month period. His results from
2006 and 2007 indicate that roughly
1,700 out of 2,250 jacks were in use.
This is down from 1,980 in 2005.
Although these numbers indicate
high rates of phone ownership, the
purposes of landlines in dorms remain
questionable.
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my Wren suite had a landline phone
in her dorm, and the only reason we’d
use the number was to prank call her,”
junior Sara DeForest said. “I don’t
think she really got any other calls on
it.”
Senior Nicole Butler also recalled
that the phone in her freshman
dorm room was not typically used by
friends.
“My roommate freshman year had
a landline phone, but the only people
who ever called her on it were tele-
marketers,” Butler said.
Records from Voice Communications
Services confirm the notion that while
many students still opt to plug land-
line phones, few use them regularly.
In 2005, a total of 18,884 calls were
made from landline phones in dorms
during the one-month test period. In
2006 the number fell to 10,506 and
in 2007 the figure plummeted again,
resting at 5,741, or only 3.38 per active
phone.
McKeigue explained that such
trends will likely continue through
each year’s testing period.
“I just think it will trend down,
because people oftentimes just want
to use their cell phones — they don’t Dylis Ong/Tufts Daily
Many students consider their landlines obsolete.
want to go [to] two places to check
their voicemail,” McKeigue said. “I push for the option. its. According to statistics from CTIA,
think wireless [phone service] pro- “My dad tried to convince me to which is the international associa-
vides advantages to mobile users that get a landline because that’s what he tion for the wireless telecommunica-
land service doesn’t.” was used to,” Sites said. “But it cost tions industry, 8.4 percent of U.S.
Students voiced similar sentiments, an extra $40 a month to get one, so households (more than 24 million
noting both price and general hassle I decided just to stick with my cell Americans) were relying exclusively
as their primary qualms with land- phone.” on wireless options in 2006.
lines. For some, landline phones come Butler, like an increasing number of
“I simply don’t want to have two along with the eventual purchase of a Americans, said she has little desire
phones,” junior Matt Horder said. permanent home. for a landline phone.
This trend also appears to be spread- “I don’t really anticipate getting a “I don’t think I plan on getting a
ing to students who have moved to landline phone immediately after col- landline phone when I graduate and
off-campus houses. lege,” Sites said. “Maybe once I’m set- move into my own house,” she said.
Junior Jess Sites, who lives in an off- tled and can actually afford to pay for “At least not for a while — it would be
campus house this year with friends, two phones, I’d look into it.” just too expensive and too much of a
said that nobody she lives with has a Still, even homeowners appear hassle to have another phone line [in
landline. Her family, however, tried to to be shedding their landline hab- addition to my cell phone].”
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Album Review
Pussycat Dolls fall on their backs
by Rebecca Goldberg
Contributing Writer
The relationship between dance-pop
music and musical instruments has been
undergoing a three-decade divorce. First
Doll Domination
The Pussycat Dolls
A&M
it was the drum machines and synthe-
sized strings of the disco era, then the
keyboards of the ’80s. By the teen-pop
explosion of the late ’90s computers had
made pop stars’ voices endlessly mal-
leable and easily homogenized.
The logical progression is realized
to the extreme with the Pussycat Dolls’
sophomore release, “Doll Domination”
— an album that is, for the most part,
completely devoid of music.
After more than half of their 2005
debut, “PCD,” became number-one
singles, group architect Robin Antin
brings the former burlesque act back
for more of the same slick music videos,
pounding dance beats and carefully-
orchestrated commercialism. As usual,
it’s no secret that these women are
intended to serve more as sex objects
than as musicians (or, heaven forbid,
as role models).
The undisputed star of the group
is Nicole Scherzinger, a former real-
ity-show contestant on the WB’s
“Popstars” and member of E-list girl-
group Eden’s Crush. Her presence on
“Doll Domination” is ubiquitous. The
four other Dolls are as faceless in these
songs as they are in their music videos.
Movie Review
Cook’s newest
is same old
offensive comedy
by Alison Farber
Contributing Writer
Prepare to be offended, ladies. Howard
Deutch’s new film, “My Best Friend’s Girl,”
moves quickly to disturb and outrage its
My Best Friend’s Girl
Starring Dane Cook, Kate
Hudson, Alec Baldwin, Jason
Biggs
Directed by Howard Deutch
intended audience: the romantic comedy
patron. Although some Dane Cook fans
will be satisfied by his go-to character (the
obnoxious frat boy), most will feel vio-
lated by the film’s transparent objective to
let Dane Cook act like himself and the its
blatant disregard for human decency.
Alongside Cook, “My Best Friend’s Girl”
see BEST FRIEND, page 9
celebritywonder.com
“My Best Friend’s Girl” stars Kate
Hudson, Jason Biggs and Dane Cook’s
malformed hair.
Arts & Living
What is with these women and motor vehicles?
Unsurprisingly, the opening track is
the smash-hit single, “When I Grow
Up.” It’s a veritable barrage of tweets,
zaps and booms with a sea of vocals
that swarms but never hits its target.
Gallery Review
Gallery melds a variety of
concepts, plethora of pieces
by Emily de Armas
Daily Staff Writer
The Barbara Krakow Gallery on Newbury
Street is currently featuring a show of con-
temporary mid-to-late-level career artists
The Sum of Its Parts
At the Barbara Krakow Gallery,
through Oct. 7
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
10 Newbury Street
617-267-9300
that differs considerably from the normal
fare on Newbury Street. The artists in “The
Sum of Its Parts” use non-traditional materi-
als and produce conceptually-based art that
ranges from furniture, wall installations and
relief prints, citing movements such as mini-
malism and post-modernism.
Visiting Barbara Krakow Gallery is
unique for any visitor. Instead of a store-
front space, the gallery is tucked away
on the fifth floor of a large building. The
elevator opens up into the gallery, which
does not include the normal hardwood
floors and vast expanse of wall space that
is common among other galleries. The
space is angular and strangely laid-out
with a friendly, accommodating staff. All
of the artists featured are well-known in
their fields and have shown works in major
museums such as the Museum of Modern
Art in New York City. The space at Barbara
Krakow feels more like a museum than a
simple gallery.
Upon entering, the viewer is greeted by
Frenchman Daniel Buren’s in-situ piece
“Unexpected Variable Configurations: A
Work in Situ” (1998), a red wall decorated
with a hand-drawn grid and his signature
screen-printed striped squares in an irregu-
lar pattern. Most famous for his work in
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Like much of “Doll Domination,” the
“singing” on “When I Grow Up” is a mix
of talking, breathing and yelling with
see PUSSYCAT, page 9
barbarakrakowgallery.com
Maurizio Pellegrin’s “Adagio Metropolitano”
portrays the spirit of the exhibit, combining dif-
ferent materials in a visually pleasing format
Paris, Daniel Buren, known as the “the stripe
guy,” is a contemporary minimalist artist
who manipulates space with simple geo-
metric patterns and questions the way art is
presented in museums.
Right in front of Buren’s red grid wall
is Tony Feher’s installation piece titled
“(Constellation)” (2007). The piece consists
of aluminum cans, nickels, dimes and mar-
bles strewn across the floor in an irregu-
lar pattern. A materially interesting piece
using non-traditional items from everyday
life, “Constellation” incorporates shiny metal
and glass objects as a representation of the
stars. While mildly interesting to look at, this
piece is eclipsed by Mel Bochner’s humor-
ous piece “Complain” (2007). “Complain,” a
Jasper Johns-style composition, features let-
see KRAKOW, page 9
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Caryn Horowitz |
The Cultural Culinarian
Vegetables
aren’t the
only things
green about food
S
aying that the food industry is invest-
ed in the environment is pretty much
as big an understatement as saying
that Bobby Flay kind of likes to grill.
There would be no food industry, no
high-end restaurants, no nothing if there
was no food to serve. All of that business-
driving food is dependent on the ground
it comes from. Chefs take this idea seri-
ously, and while “going green” has become
a buzzword within the past few years,
they’ve been the words to culinarians
across the country for decades.
They’ve also been the words that
defined my culinary upbringing. I’m from
New Jersey, the land of such wonders
as Springsteen, “The Sopranos” and the
Jersey tomato. For me, eating green — and
I don’t mean just my vegetables — has
always been about eating locally-grown
produce. The “local foods movement,” as
it’s now known, has also become a popu-
lar way for ecologically conscious chefs to
bring environmentalism into the kitchen.
Chefs who support the local foods move-
ment buy produce and game from farmers
within their area. The Union Square Café
in New York City, which opened in 1985, is
one of the most famous examples of this
style of cooking; the restaurant purchases as
much produce as possible from the venders
at the Union Square Greenmarket. Not only
does the local foods movement benefit the
agricultural industry of a community, but it
also helps keep things green by limiting pol-
lution due to long-distance produce trans-
portation. It also has its own set of culinary
benefits. Since it takes as little time as pos-
sible for the produce to get from the farm to
your plate, it is fresher, tastes better and has
lost fewer nutrients.
Some restaurants take the idea of local
foods even further and run their own
farms. Joe’s Farm Grill in Gilbert, Ariz. is
located on a farm owned by the restau-
rant. This provides tremendous benefits to
the owners, the patrons and the environ-
ment. There are no transportation costs
and the owners grow only what they need,
so there is no waste and they can keep
their prices down. Plus, can you imagine
how fresh a salad from Joe’s must taste if
they pick the lettuce, wash it and serve it
to you in a matter of minutes?
Several of these ideas are taking root
in our own backyard. Boloco and the res-
taurants in the New England Aquarium
are Certified Green Restaurants by the
Green Restaurant Association. To earn this
distinction, these eateries have demon-
strated their commitment to green dining
through steps such as recycling efforts,
supporting local agriculture and using
biodegradable products.
Diners at more upscale restaurants in
Boston can enjoy the benefits of the local
foods movement as well. Chef Barbara
Lynch, founder of the No. 9 Group of restau-
rants (including B&G Oysters, which, even
though it’s a splurge, has one of the best
lobster rolls I’ve ever had), features locally-
grown produce in her establishments. Chef
Lynch even runs her own green grocer, Plum
Produce, which sells produce grown exclu-
sively in New England.
Tufts itself has a history of promoting sus-
tainability and local agriculture; the dining
halls frequently offer sustainable fish and
locally-grown produce. This Wednesday,
Carmichael and Dewick will be hosting a
Harvest Food Festival that features locally-
grown fruits and vegetables. So tomorrow,
go to the dining halls, and when you swipe
your ID card, know that you are supporting
the local economy, helping the environ-
ment, and eating some tasty produce.
Caryn Horowitz is a junior majoring
in history. She can be reached at Caryn.
Horowitz@tufts.edu.
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Barbara Krakow Gallery adds unex-
pected pieces to swanky Newbury
KRAKOW
continued from page 7
ters spelling out common complaints, such as
“bitch and moan,” “blow your cool” and “have
a tantrum.”
One of the rooms in the gallery is set
up as a makeshift living room with Roy
McMakin’s “My Slatback Chair With Another
One” (2008) and Allan McCollum’s “Perfect
Vehicles” (1998), vases lined in a row on a
display that is akin to a mantel. McMakin’s
art is more about everyday functionality
than creativity, while McCollum’s colored
vases look identical but are differentiated
enough to question the notion of individu-
ality and uniqueness in wake of a mass-
production-based society.
The main challenge for these artists is to
find stimulating enough media while keep-
ing their ideas intact. Conceptual art is often
lauded by intellectuals and scholars more
concerned with innovation than tradition-
ally admired artistic skills — like creating
visually stimulating art, whether the work
is realistic or completely non-representa-
tional. The work in this exhibit aspires to
be both. While some of the pieces strike a
balance between these two opposing forces,
many, while intellectually stimulating, fall
short of the visual expression of the idea.
The most overlooked and interesting
pieces of the show are two works by Tara
Donovan. Her pieces, both titled “Untitled
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Mel Bochner’s “Complain” and Tony Feher’s
“(Constellation)” interact within the space
of the gallery.
(Rubber Bands)” (2006), are relief prints
from sculptural forms made of rubber
bands. Her use of office materials as tools to
create these prints is geometrically simple
yet visually stimulating.
The work in this show is interesting and
certainly warrants a visit, especially for
those interested in contemporary concep-
tual artists’ intimate venues. Regardless of
whether the artist’s work comes across as
too conceptual or not conceptual enough,
the Barbara Krakow Gallery is a departure
from most galleries on Newbury Street.
Arts & Living
‘Doll Domination’ lyrics consitute
a step-by-step guide to sluthood
PUSSYCAT
continued from page 7
no real melody attached.
Very little of the album has any
real tune. The few songs that attempt
it are trite ballads, sprinkled with
amateur-sounding piano and husky
vocals that mask any musical limi-
tations. Poorly-written choruses
repeat endlessly. These down-tempo
songs are either about leaving a man
(“Happily Never After,” “I Hate This
Part,” “Hush Hush”), cheating on him
(“Halo”), or finally getting a good one
(“I’m Done”).
In fact, the vast majority of “Doll
Domination” is about a man. Nicole
chastises him in “Who’s Gonna Love
You” while she screamingly threatens
him with violence in “In Person.”
“Out of This Club,” a collaboration
with R. Kelly, details the delicate art
of hooking up with a dude in a dance
club and then going home with him.
“I smiled enough/ I flirted enough/ I
posed enough/ Got freaky enough,”
pout the Dolls, like a step-by-step
guide to sluthood for tween girls.
“And she ain’t scared to get dirty/
Even though she’s so purdy,” Kelly
adds appraisingly. Clearly, this album
is not directed at feminists or lin-
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guists.
“Out of This Club” is the first track
on “Doll Domination” on which Auto-
Tune, the trendy computer program
that makes a singer’s voice sound
robotic (think T-Pain), rears its ugly
head. However, other computer
effects are used on nearly every, if not
every, song on the album.
Producers clearly tried to spot-
light a couple of Dolls other than
Scherzinger, but since these women
were hired to dance and wear latex
bikinis instead of sing, this became
an interesting challenge. Vocals have
been homogenized beyond individual
recognition. They were then masked
by every accoutrement available in
Pro Tools, the digital audio engineer-
ing tool. Undoubtedly, even solos by
the minor Dolls have Scherzinger’s
stronger voice layered underneath.
A bonus disc included with “Doll
Domination” includes solo efforts by
each individual Doll, but they are,
for the most part, unlistenable. The
E.P. also features a duet of sorts with
the recently-reunited and no-longer-
new New Kids on the Block and an
overly-slick cover of the bossa nova
classic “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.”
Hilarity ensues.

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on parole? My, this certainly isn’t good.”

Dane Cook sharpens his portrayal of

a complete tool in ‘Best Friend’s Girl’
BEST FRIEND
continued from page 7
stars Kate Hudson and Jason Biggs. Cook
plays Tank, a deliberately evil take on Will
Smith’s character in “Hitch” (2005). Tank’s
lucrative hobby is using his skill of being a
huge jerk to make women realize that there
really are no better men out there and that
they should settle with the ones they have
left. The movie’s most offensive moments
occur when Tank is in full-mode on his dates
with these women. One such gem occurs
when Tank says to his date, “We start with a
blowjob. Some girls think of it as a chore, but
I turn it into a tutorial.”
The film adheres to the same strict outline
present in most recent romantic comedies. It
quickly becomes apparent, however, that this
outline is consciously being followed when
Tank reveals his “game” and describes how
he has to set up a “meet cute” with each of
the women he plays. Following every rule in
the romantic comedy handbook, Jason Biggs
plays Tank’s pathetic best friend and cousin,
Dustin, and Kate Hudson plays Alexis, the
love interest of both men. Dustin is stuck in
the “friend zone” with Alexis, so he promptly
hires Tank to take Alexis out on the worst
date of her life. The central conflict of the
film is based on the balance between Tank’s
supposed need to be a “bad guy,” his friend-
ship with Dustin and his newfound — but
completely expected — love for Alexis.
The main problem with this film is not
its vulgarity, which can be, at times, very
entertaining, but rather its inability to make
its audience feel any connection with its
three main characters. A successful romantic
comedy requires the audience to want things
to work out well for its characters. In this film,
Cook’s semi-sexy portrayal of Tank is funny,
if you’re into his type of humor, but it is dif-
ficult to foster any real emotional attachment
to him. Deutch obviously attempts to make
him likeable, but it is hard to like anyone who
is that big of a jerk.
Dustin is meant to be the “nice guy,” but
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Health?
the Jason Biggs “nice guy” everybody loved in
“American Pie” (1999) and “Saving Silverman”
(2001) has been transformed into a pathetic
stalker-type loser. The film’s most frustrat-
ing character, however, is Hudson’s. Alexis’
motives are confusing when she wavers
between wanting a boy-toy and somebody
who really cares about her. Hudson is charm-
ing in most of her films, and although she is
absolutely stunning in this one, there is never
that a-ha moment where the audience falls Professor Alissa Spielberg provides an
in love with, or even likes her.
The film is much improved by a surpris-
ingly good soundtrack and its two supporting
overview and introduces four recent
roles. The first genuinely enjoyable moment,
besides the occasional belly-laugh from
Cook, is when Lizzy Caplan (who played
Tufts alums working in Public Health.
Janice Ian in “Mean Girls” (2004)) appears
as Ami. She is sharp and quirky and bright-
ens up each scene in which she appears.
Alec Baldwin plays Tank’s father and is often
even more offensive than Tank. Baldwin’s
character is an ironic twist on a women’s
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studies professor and plays a more extreme
version of Cook’s character. The moments
where he is on screen are hilarious, but it
becomes very obvious to the audience that
he only goes to such extremes because he
is Alec Baldwin and he can get away with it.
Nonetheless, there are some outrageously
funny scenes brought to the audience cour-
tesy of Baldwin.
“My Best Friend’s Girl” is not a com-
plete waste of time, due to Cook’s ability Co-Sponsored By:
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ducers, the film is sufficiently cliché and
offensive that audiences won’t remember
it by the time the next run-of-the-mill
Dane Cook movie gets a green light.
10 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Tuesday, September 23, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt An appreciated gesture
Editor-in-Chief On Sunday Tufts Community Union tors did not find out about this until ear- ing task of redoing the books and reassur-
Editorial (TCU) President Duncan Pickard lier this month. In the interim, university ing the students. The Treasury has had to
announced that the university had repaid officials were crunching numbers to find change its banking system, repay old debts,
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors the Senate for the money that former out exactly how large the payout to the and begin interacting with new employees.
Kristin Gorman employees Jodie Nealley and Ray Rodriguez Senate would be — a process that should The administration, meanwhile, allegedly
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors allegedly embezzled. We at the Daily wel- have been more transparent. When such betrayed by trusted employees and friends,
Jason Richards come this news. large stakes are on the table, leaving stu- was forced to regain the confidence of
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor The university has filed an insurance dents in the dark even for a few months the community. Both the Senate and the
claim and is waiting for a payout. It would is far from ideal; nevertheless, the final administration have performed admira-
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors have been easy to keep the Senate waiting outcome is nothing but admirable. bly through difficult times, and this was
Pranai Cheroo
Nina Ford too, but the response has instead been In the wake of the embezzlement scan- brought home to us by the administration’s
Ben Gittleson proactive. While the Treasury would have dal, it has become necessary for the admin- actions over the weekend.
Gillian Javetski hardly fallen apart had the administration istration and the Senate to go above and Tomorrow, of course, we at the Daily
Jeremy White
dragged its feet, what’s important about beyond the call of duty in many respects. will likely have to go back to pointing out
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editor the move is the symbolic message that This is, after all, a situation in which no hypocrisy and mismanagement. But the
Michael Del Moro making student groups whole is an impor- governing body wants to find itself with administration’s actions in making good on
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor tant objective. almost a million dollars missing, finan- its pledge to reimburse the Senate without
Certainly, the administration’s cial records a mess and numerous student even waiting for the results of its insurance
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors response has not been perfect. University groups crying foul. claim struck us as a decidedly decent thing
Robin Carol Treasurer Thomas McGurty set aside the The Senate, always underappreciated by to do.
Kerianne Okie
Charlotte Steinway money for the Senate in June, but sena- the student body, was faced with the daunt- We would just like to say thank you.
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors
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Don Wright
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor
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Katie Tausanovitch Unmasking the caring face of corporate logos
Adam Raczkowski Executive Technical Manager by Emily Glauser
The Post
up. But these philanthropists are real but let’s look at one key footnote —
Michael Vastola Technical Manager people, with real identities, not just Unilever owns not only Dove, which
John Sotherland Executive Online Editor a legally-backed registered logo. And tries to promote a healthy body image
Anyone familiar with basic market- a word to the wise: Never, under for women, but Axe deodorant, which
Hena Kapadia Online Editors ing strategies knows that there are any circumstances, trust a registered promotes, well, nothing. Except per-
Minah Kim
a lot of practices that corporations logo to care about humanity. Case in haps smelling your roommate from
can exercise to stay on the good side point: Dove Soap. down the street.
Matt Skibinski New Media Editor of their customers. The trend among Dove has hit the ground running as Obviously, nothing about Axe
Kelly Moran Webmaster the biggest corporations is to keep far as social responsibility goes. With deodorant advertisements preach
morality at the front of consumers’ its most recent “Campaign for Real social responsibility. Scantily clad
Caryn Horowitz Executive Copy Editor minds through their commercials. Beauty,” the women of Dove reach supermodels falling head over heels
Grace Lamb-Atkinson Copy Editors
What’s the hottest public relations out to the everyday woman — not just for the simulated scent of a man teach-
Michelle Hochberg technique to make an evil multina- the supermodel with perfect skin and es us nothing positive. The advertise-
Ben Smith tional corporation look good? The hair. They encourage women to be ments teach men that women are idi-
Christopher Snyder one tactic that gives a face to the strong and powerful, no matter what ots, and a spray of that famous Axe will
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Ricky Zimmerman conglomerates comes in the form size, shape, age and color they may undoubtedly get you laid. But the Axe
of “social responsibility.” Of course be. With their commercials and anti- internal counterpart, Dove, makes the
Brianna Beehler Assistant Copy Editors I’m referring to those few billion- Photoshopped images of women, this consumer think that someone behind
Casey Burrows
Alison Lisnow aire CEOs who can’t hide how much is arguably a great trend to be pro- the mask of money is actually human
Rachel Oldfield money they’re worth any longer and moting to the women of America. and possibly cares.
Mary Jo Pham must give something back. At that Seems legit and whole-hearted — but Only in America can one compa-
Lily Zahn status, it is important to make a don’t forget the logo. ny simultaneous promote a healthy
difference to the world around you The company that owns the Dove female body image, all the while
BUSINESS using the vast amounts of cash you brand (and all the Dove brand adver- encouraging them to dispose of their
Malcolm Charles Executive Business Director
have available. tising) is called Unilever. While it’s a brains for their noses. Thank you,
Not all humanitarian efforts company I’m sure most have never Unilever, for making that possible.
Dwijo Goswami Receivables Manager are without a face. We’re all famil- heard of, many would easily recog- When it comes down to it, don’t fall
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iar with the Bill and Melinda Gates nize the brands Unilever owns. The for the registered, trademark corpo-
Foundation, and it can be predicted epitome of a faceless corporation, rate whatever that claims it’s helping.
The Tufts Daily is a nonprofit, independent newspaper, pub- that their money will cure a world Unilever hides behind familiar brands Just unmask the logo and see that
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President Bush, joined by other officials, discussed the economy on Sept. 19 in the White House’s Rose Garden.
What should Wall Street do next?
by tim stratford
Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers
are gone off the board. The most dynamic twins since
Mary Kate and Ashley, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,
have left an enormous crater in the belly of the United
States financial landscape. Then the $85 billion bail-
out deal for the insurance conglomerate American
International (AIG) seemed to push the limit. And for
the encore, a historical $700 billion federal bailout to
get Wall Street back to even blindsides the already over-
burdened American taxpayer.
From its corporate greed to its over-leveraged trad-
ing and its excessive and unwarranted executive pay
packages, Wall Street has left Americans waiting for its
next performance. As the once mighty and seemingly
indestructible names disappear, what measures must be
implemented to protect future investment and public
confidence in the financial markets?
We face this $700 billion bailout with the hopeful
notion that the U.S. Treasury can eventually turn a
substantial profit in years to come on these toxic mort-
gage-backed securities. This very thought unnerves me
and gives me a deep sense of confused hopelessness.
Is this our only option at this point? Whether to use
public funds to rescue private industries — not due
to severe, unexpected competition, but to a financial
industry full of high-risk incompetence and an addic-
tion for self-serving shortsightedness — is now a deci-
sion sitting on Congress’ lap.
A lethal taxpayer “D.A.R.T” (Disclosure, Accountability,
Regulation and Transparency) must be flung into the
chaos as a cure for current ills and an immunization
against future attempts to derail the capitalist system. Wall
Street and the mortgage industry’s greed took away their
privileges of deregulation bestowed upon them almost
three decades ago. Unlike other struggling American
industries like the airlines and the automobile makers
who crave desperately for the same bailout status, the
financial industry floats untouched and unregulated.
Disclosure is paramount in facilitating the necessary
changes. For public confidence to return, Wall Street
must cease hiding behind intricate derivatives, self-regu-
lating agencies and an atmosphere of neglected fiduciary
responsibilities. From unregulated hedge funds to off-
the-books mortgage investments to non-decipherable
investment vehicles, Wall Street must make disclosure the
friend of the open capitalist arena, not anti-competitive
stigma. The investing public deserves it and will need it
in order to restore any sense of public confidence.
Accountability must be the hallmark rallying cry that
justifies the writing of this $700 billion bailout check.
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How about making “systemic accountability” part of the
new version of Wall Street jargon? When the market tur-
moil subsides, there must be a full-fledged congressional
investigation to see if there exist fraud, cover-ups or other
criminal actions. If we can devote congressional time and
energy to steroids in baseball, we can sift through this
mess and find who may have been culpable in causing
this national economic disaster.
Wall Street plays the “capitalist card” when it comes
to regulation. Its players claim that a free-market system
can only prevail in a highly unregulated atmosphere
with minimum controls and oversight. Excuse us for ask-
ing what they are doing with our investments and our
pensions. When the autos and airlines fail, it is usually
through a raw tragedy involving loss of life. The outrage
when autos and airlines malfunction and are not properly
regulated runs deep and personal. Although Wall Street’s
greed and malfeasance created heartache, havoc and
decimating financial woes, the failures are sadly soon
forgotten and somehow do not touch a nerve personal
enough to warrant a powerful public outcry. Hopefully,
this time is different.
Regulation is a searing tattoo that must now be inked
into the very soul of Wall Street. The excessive abuses of
leverage, the ingestion of toxic risk and the hefty multi-
million dollar executive pay and severance packages
warrant the supposed anti-capitalist punishment of a
more thorough regulatory environment. Again, public
confidence will only rise from the ashes if people see that
Wall Street is not a rigged game full of self-proclaimed
brainiacs that ignore the tragic pitfalls of irresponsible
and unethical leverage and risk.
The United States, as a citadel of pure democracy
and capitalism, cannot have international credibility
if the powerful engine that is Wall Street functions in a
shadowy, clandestine atmosphere. The murky financial
products which most Wall Street higher-ups could not
even explain can no longer be allowed to exist. Just like
the trusted surgeons who sit with their patients explain-
ing what will take place from point A to point Z in tomor-
row’s major surgery, Wall Street and the beleaguered
financial government agencies must go to extremes in
telling the investing American public what goes on with
our hard-earned investments and savings. Transparency
must be a cornerstone of this historic bailout and filter
its way to the top of the Wall Street lexicon, offsetting
“systemic risk” and “too big to fail” as synonyms for
incompetence and greed.
Is the U.S capitalist system so enormously complex
and globally interconnected that major corporate failures
must never occur? If so, this diffuses the free market
system instead of spreading it. Not allowing a person or
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group of people to experience failure in a pure capitalist
society creates a fantasy world where artificial rescues
overtake realities, or as one astute financial columnist
proclaimed, “Wall Street private gains and government
socialized public losses” do not mix.
Public funds to cover private financial corporate
losses, no matter how enormous, destroy the confi-
dence and foundations of a capitalist society. The pan-
icky pundits and financial wizards clamoring to avert
another Great Depression are the very ones who could
not utter the word “recession” a few short weeks ago.
Historical financial data, when compared with today’s,
tells us a depression is a very big stretch. Politically, it
is easier to pass through this enormous taxpayer bail-
out with the doomsday of a depression looming as the
imminent consequence. Quickly blaming short sellers
is a feeble attempt at finding a scapegoat. Professional
shorts wear the badge of Wall Street’s watchdog. They
uncover corporate weakness, executive incompetence
and possible malfeasance. Shareholders and investors
are the beneficiaries of their thankless and unfairly criti-
cized work. While Enron rode the wave of Wall Street
popularity and invincibility, ’twas the despised shorts
that revealed the massive fraud right before us. The
shorts always play a pivotal role in balancing the news
and keeping corporate America on its collective toes.
Last spring, I wrote in this paper (Tufts Daily, April
16th) about the questionable bailing out of Bear Stearns,
citing my deep concern of how government bailouts
puncture the roots of a true capital system where failures
of all magnitude give credence to the stalwart tents of
survival of the fittest and pure economic cycles.
As the Treasury and the Bush Administration scram-
ble for the congressional seal of approval in the coming
days, lurking in the shadows are two of America’s giants
awaiting their day at the bailout trough: the airlines
and automobile industries. Fragile as they are, will the
government ignore their pleas for assistance, or will the
bailouts continue? And we will then enter our oxymo-
ronic era of “socialized capitalism”?
Wall Street must transform back to a place where capital-
ism fosters and supports innovation and creativity for the
betterment of society and release itself as the cog of trans-
actional behavior built on self-interest, greed and debilitat-
ing shortsightedness. Our instant-gratification society must
slide back a few giant steps to a land of patient growth,
shrinking wealth gaps and promoting responsible financial
entities that serve their clients before themselves.
Tim Stratford is a visiting lecturer who teaches “Understanding
the Stock Market: History, Structure and Impact.”
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Freshmen adjust to longer distance and continue to prep for future 8k races
MEN’S XC
continued from page 16
too tired too early in the race ... I also
didn’t have a good gauge on when it
was going to end, so I had too much
energy left. My finishing kick was
way too hard.”
“After the race I felt like in my
fourth and fifth mile I could have
picked it up more and still probably
have had a strong finish but not have
had as much energy left,” he contin-
ued. “Just working on the beginning
and the end will help me a lot.”
In order to further help younger
runners adjust to the longer courses,
an increase in mileage and inten-
sity during workouts will help the
freshmen improve at this distance,
Carberry said. Still, the team will
look primarily to the older varsity
runners in future, more important
meets at the 8k distance.
“We are fortunate enough to not
rely on freshmen right now to be in
our top seven, which is a good thing
to have,” Carberry said.
Without the varsity runners avail-
able to lead the team, the fresh-
men also experienced the increased
responsibility and pressure of con-
tributing to the team score.
“Going into the race I knew that
[the varsity runners] weren’t going
to be there and that I would be one
of the top JV kids, so I had a little
more motivation to do well because
I knew that I would be up near the
top for our team,” Rose said. “They
were there cheering us on every
mile, so I got see them and that was
good motivation for me.”
The men’s runners will next take
to the course on Saturday at the
Conn. College Invitational.

SCHEDULE | Sept. 23 - Sept. 29

After success, confident Jumbos tue wed thu fri sat sun MON

head to NESCAC qualifier Football

vs. Bates
(H)
1 p.m.
GOLF think we compare favorably
continued from page 16 against most NESCAC teams. I vs. Bates
Field Hockey (H)
confidence heading into next like our odds.” 1 p.m.
weekend’s NESCAC qualifier. “If we can play the way we
“I think we’ve made a lot of played today next week, we’ll
Women’s at Wheaton vs. Bates
progress so far this season,” be right there,” Moll added. (H)
Soccer 4:30 p.m.
Hershman said. “It was nice to Although this week’s results 12 p.m.
see a good number of scores in were encouraging, the senior
the 70s. We stepped up against a leadership asserts there is vs. vs. Bates
Men’s
lot of really good teams.” room for improvement. The Soccer Springfield (H)
“We’ve improved significant- team is taking a confident 7 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
ly from last week to this week but hungry approach into
at Conn.
alone,” Benjie Moll said. “We NESCACs. College
were just a few strokes back “We’re satisfied with our Cross Country Invite
from the top four in NESCAC, performance, but at the same 12 p.m.
which is what we need next time, we can definitely step
week to qualify for the NESCAC it up another notch,” Haslett at MIT at MIT
Volleyball vs. Brandeis Invitational Invitational
Tournament in the spring.” said. “We think we’re hitting 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 10 a.m.
The key word is optimism as the our stride at just the right
Jumbos head into what the players time: the week leading up to at Salve ITA Regional ITA Regional ITA Regional
consider to be the most important the biggest tournament of the Men’s Tennis Regina Champion- Champion- Champion-
tournament of the year. year.” 3:30 p.m. ships 9 a.m. ships 9 a.m. ships 9 a.m.
“Playing against all these The NESCAC qualifier will be
quality teams this weekend held this upcoming Saturday **(H) =
JumboCast Football Homecoming
has really prepared us for and Sunday at Middlebury Game
NESCACs,” Hershman said. “I College.

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Flat, fast course at Conn. College will offer welcome respite from Tufts’ hills
WOMEN’S XC
continued from page 16
who are a little further behind to be
able to catch up with their team-
mates and be able to work together.
Even though it’s an individual sport,
we all entered the race to encourage
us to run together instead of run-
ning as individual varsity runners.”
Racing without their frontrunners
provided an additional challenge
for the Jumbos, who were forced to
regulate their paces without their
customary points of reference.
“Our top [runners] did not run,
which made things a little bit harder,
but it was kind of a good building
exercise for us,” Davidowitz said.
“It’s harder to pace yourself when
you don’t have your usual team-
mates in front of you.”
The race was particularly valu-
able for the Tufts freshmen, who
comprise nearly half the team
this season, as they continue the
transition between high school
and college racing.
“They’re doing a really good job,”
Davidowitz said. “They’re having a
lot of fun, and that’s the most impor-
tant thing. They have a good, laid-
back attitude, and they seem like
they’re just open to the fact that
it’s a different experience than high
school running. “It’s a lot of trial
and error; some of them are trying
out and readjusting,” she continued.
“The mileage is usually a big chal-
lenge — it’s just a lot higher than
high school mileage — but they’ve
definitely done a good job.”
“As far as running goes, it’s really
an adjustment,” Kass added. “There
are a lot of people who were [No. 1
and No. 2] runners in high school
who all come together at the col-
legiate level. It’s definitely a reality
check and a humbling experience. It
challenges us not so much to be the
best but to do our best in each race.”
The Jumbos will look to put the
pack-running strategy to use once
again at this weekend’s Conn.
College Invitational. And with every-
one back in action, the team is con-
fident that it can do just that.
“We rested a lot of girls [at UMass-
Dartmouth],” senior tri-captain
Betsy Aronson said. “People had
raced a few weeks in a row, and
the hills were tough on people. But
everyone will be running [at Conn.
College], and we’re all in the same
race, so we have a lot of opportu-
nity to run as a team and have a lot
of Jumbo uniforms out there. We’re
hoping it should be even better in
terms of running as a pack.”
The Conn. College Invitational
will also be a test of the team’s stam-
ina, as the course will be the team’s
first 6,000-meter course of the sea-
son, its longest test to date — and,
for many of the freshmen, the lon-
gest of their cross country careers.
“I think the big challenge for a lot
of the freshmen is that it’s going to
be the first 6k they’ve run before,”
Aronson said. “It’s not too different;
it’s still on grass, it’s still cross coun-
try, but adding a thousand meters
is a big mental challenge because it
feels far.”
Luckily for the Jumbos, they will
be running Conn. College’s flat, fast
course, providing a welcome break
from the hills the team scaled at
Trinity and at home on the Tufts
Farm Course in Grafton. As they
tackle the standard championship
course length, they will get a sense
of where they are time-wise.
“The splits are going to be a
little different, and it’s kind of an
extra push,” Kass said. “I think it
will be a good thing to start out
in a race like next week to see
where we’re at and what times
we’re shooting for because you
never really know until you race.”

StatISTICS | Standings
Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball Football
(5-0, 3-0 NESCAC) (2-0-0, 2-0-0 NESCAC) (3-1-1, 1-1-0 NESCAC) (8-0, 2-0 NESCAC) (1-0, 1-0 NESCAC) NCAA Div. III Field Hockey
(Sept. 16, 2008)
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
L W L PF PA Points (First-place votes)
W L W L T W L T W L T W L T W T W L W L
Amherst 1 0 30 6 1. Bowdoin, 851 (33)
Bowdoin 3 0 6 0 0 Amherst 2 0 0 2 1 0 Williams 2 0 0 3 0 0 Amherst 3 0 9 1
Middlebury 1 0 42 28 2. Salisbury, 801 (4)
Tufts 3 0 5 0 0 Tufts 2 0 0 2 0 0 Middlebury 1 0 1 3 0 1 Tufts 2 0 8 0
Trinity 1 0 17 7
2 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 Wesleyan 1 0 1 2 1 1 Williams 3 1 6 6 3. TCNJ, 799 (3)
Middlebury Williams Tufts 1 0 20 14
2 0 5 0 0 1 Conn. Coll. 2 1 5 5 4. Lebanon Valley, 731 (1)
Trinity Colby 1 1 0 4 1 0 Amherst 1 1 0 2 0 Williams 1 0 28 0
Middlebury 2 1 4 3 5. Middlebury, 672 (1)
Amherst 2 1 3 1 0 Middlebury 1 1 0 2 3 1 Colby 1 1 0 2 2 0 Bates 0 1 7 17
Wesleyan 2 1 6 3 6. Messiah, 621 (1)
Williams 1 1 3 2 0 Bowdoin 0 1 1 1 1 2 Conn. Coll. 1 1 0 1 2 0 Bowdoin 0 1 28 42
Trinity 1 2 5 5 7. Ursinus, 619
Colby 0 2 1 3 0 Wesleyan 0 1 1 2 1 1 Trinity 1 1 0 4 1 0 Colby 0 1 0 28
Colby 0 1 4 3
0 3 1 4 0 1 0 3 1 1 Hamilton 0 1 6 30 8. Johns Hopkins, 585 (1)
Bates Conn. Coll 0 1 0 2 1 0 Tufts 1 Bates 0 2 3 6
2 Wesleyan 0 1 14 20 9. Rowan, 545 (1)
Conn. Coll 0 3 0 4 0 Trinity 0 1 0 4 1 0 Bates 0 2 0 1 0 Bowdoin 0 2 6 3
0 3 1 3 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 Bowdoin 0 2 0 1 3 0 Hamilton 0 4 5 8 10. SUNY-Cortland, 430
Wesleyan Bates
12. Tufts, 361

G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. TD N.E. Div. III Women's
T. Brown 10 1 21 C. Cadigan 2 0 4 D. Schoening 2 1 5 C. Updike 54 3 W. Forde 27 133 4.9 2 Soccer
A. VonPutt- R. Coleman 2 1 5 S. Filocco 52 9 D. Ferguson 6 63 10.5 0 (Sept. 16, 2008)
M. Kelly 5 1 11 K. Anderson 7 33 4.7 0
A. Russo 3 5 11 kammer 1 0 2 M. Fitzgerald 1 0 2 B. Helgeson 49 1 1. Williams
L. Nicholas 40 0 2. Wheaton
B. Holiday 2 1 5 F. Gamal 0 1 1 P. Doherty 1 0 2 K. Denniston 37 9 Passing Pct. Yds TD INT
M. Burke 2 0 4 L. O’Connor 0 1 1 B. Green 1 0 2 D. Joyce-Mendive 37 0 A. Fucillo 50.0 178 1 0 3. Western Conn. State
L. Griffith 2 0 4 S. Nolet 0 0 0 N. Muakkassa 0 1 1 D. Feiger 18 8 4. Springfield
I. Lewnard 2 0 4 J. Love-Nichols 0 0 0 A. Lach 0 1 1 Receiving No. Yds Avg. TD 5. Tufts
M. Scholtes 1 1 3 A. Maxwell 0 0 0 C. Flaherty 0 1 1 Defensive B Digs S. Black 5 84 16.8 0
S. Cusano 2 42 21.0 0 6. Bowdoin
M. Kutcher 1 1 3 C. Hirsch 0 0 0 B. Duker 0 0 0 N. Goldstein 0 109
S. Filocco 7 76 7. Brandeis
C. Spieler 2 71 Defense Tack INT Sack 8. Eastern Conn.
Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% R. Crisco 10.0 0 0
M. Ripecky 0 61 9. Wellesley
M. Zak 1 5 .833 H. Jacobs 0 1 1.00 D. McKeon 3 28 .903 D. Feiger 7 52 A. Perry 6.0 0 0
K. Hyder 2 3 .600 K. Minnehan 0 0 J. Lechleiter 4.0 0 0 10. Salem State
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Inside the AL
Young and talented Rays, veteran Sox
are on the road to October from AL East
by Ben Davis
Contributing Writer
On this day one year ago, the Boston
Red Sox sat comfortably atop the
American League East, looking down
with disdain on the fifth-place Tampa
Bay Devil Rays, who trailed by 29 games.
A year later, the image is quite different,
as the redefined Tampa Bay Rays lead the
Red Sox by a game-and-a-half and have
clinched their first playoff appearance
in team history. The New York Yankees,
who have been playing ball in October
in every year since the strike-shortened
1994 season, are out of the hunt. The Sox
and Rays will join the Los Angeles Angels
of Anaheim and likely the Chicago White
Sox in postseason competition.
The Rays started off hot, leading the
East at the end of April, but the major-
ity of the baseball world was skeptical
of their ability to keep up with perennial
playoff Goliaths Boston and New York.
Tampa Bay has silenced all doubters by
leading the division at the end of each
month this season.
The Rays’ young pitching staff has
been the impetus for this season’s sur-
prising success. They are currently sec-
ond in the AL in ERA, WHIP and BAA.
Their bullpen has been outstanding with
key members J.P. Howell, Dan Wheeler,
Chad Bradford and Grant Balfour all
posting stellar ERAs of 3.25 or lower.
All five of the young starters have post-
ed double-digit wins, including James
Shields, Scott Kazmir and Matt Garza
who all have sub-four ERAs.
Despite its serious lack of experience,
Tampa Bay can look optimistically at the
recent performance of Andy Sonnanstine,
who out-dueled Boston ace Josh Beckett
twice in one week when the Rays’ posi-
tion in first place was in jeopardy.
One concern for Tampa heading into
the playoffs is its lead hurler, Scott Kazmir,
who had an abysmal performance in a
crucial matchup against the Red Sox in
Tampa Bay last week in a 13-5 loss. For
the man who began the season regarded
by many as the staff’s ace, Kazmir is still
shy of 150 innings pitched, ranking fifth
on the staff.
A sign of the changing winds, however,
Kazmir still has managed to lead the staff
in strikeouts, as well as ERA, posting a
gaudy 3.36. For the Rays to be success-
ful in October, Kazmir needs to step up
to the big-game pressure and pitch like
Top Ten | Biggest Letdowns in Sports
So the House That Ruth Built has
become … the House That Jose Molina
Closed? That’s just not right.
The Yankees have finally played their
last game ever in Yankee Stadium.
But we’d imagine that when the
Steinbrenner/Cashman cabal first assem-
bled their $209 million monstrosity of a
ballclub this winter, they had something
else in mind. Something like, gee, we
dunno, perhaps an October game with a
little something at stake. Instead, Molina
goes 3-for-4 with a home run to carry
the Yanks to a 7-3 win, keeping them
six-and-a-half games back from the Red
Sox for the wild card with the same
number left to play. In other words, the
last game left them little more than tech-
nically, mathematically and theoretically
not dead.
That’s just not right. Here are 10 more
letdowns from the universe of sports.
10. Chad Javon Johnson/Ocho Cinco/
Whatever. Hey, Chad — maybe if you
had more than 88 receiving yards this
year, or if you’d scored a single touch-
down, or if your team had a single win,
people would actually care what your
last name is. Just a thought.
9. Michael Jordan on the Wizards.
Remember that? That was a yawner.
8. Daniel Ruettiger (better known as the
inspiration for the 1993 movie “Rudy”).
So the annoying little 165-pound weak-
ling spends years slaving away, bringing
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Although Josh Beckett has not had his best season for the Red Sox, they will be counting on
him in the playoffs, and for good reason. In 10 postseason appearances, he has gone 6-2
with a 1.73 ERA, and his team has never dropped a playoff series with him on the roster.
the stud he has been for Tampa his entire
young career.
While the Red Sox’ pitching has been
effective in 2008, its offense has been
the headlining story. The Sox are second
only to the high-powered Texas Rangers
in runs scored and team batting average,
and they lead the American League in
on-base percentage. Seven of their play-
ers have posted double digits in home
runs, including Jason Bay and ex-Sox
player Manny Ramirez, who have ham-
mered 29 long balls in their combined
season with the team.
First baseman and second baseman
Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia have
been crucial pieces to the Red Sox
offensive attack this season, hitting
.309 and .324, respectively, with a com-
bined 93 doubles and 43 home runs.
With J.D. Drew likely out for the rest of
the year and Mike Lowell questionable
for the last week, Pedroia and Youkilis
need to continue to propel the offense
through October.
The Sox have both momentum and
experience on their side as the head into
the playoffs. Since the passing of the
non-waiver trade deadline when general
manager Theo Epstein made the decision
to trade the future Hall of Famer Ramirez,
the Sox have gone 30-16 and padded their
lead in the wild card race by six games.
In addition, the intangible of postsea-
up his grades, applying to Notre Dame
3,984 times, acting as a peon on the
practice squad, sleeping on an uncom-
fortable little cot, warming the bench
for seemingly forever … all just to play
… one play? Lame.
7. Barry Zito. One hundred and twenty-
six million. That’s a very large number.
6. Draft busts. Ryan Leaf. Akili Smith. Darko
Milicic. Kwame Brown. Sam Bowie. We
need not go on.
5. Tim Henman. Poor Tim. Despite reach-
ing four Wimbledon semifinals across his
14-year career, Britain’s favorite son could
never make it to the finals on his home
soil. With the hope that he would end
England’s Wimbledon drought (the last
British man to win the Championships
was Fred Perry in 1936), Henman could
never deliver.
4. The 2007 Patriots and 2001 Mariners.
Both teams put up historically mind-
blowing regular-season records, making
postseason glory all but a certainty, only
to lose to New York teams that weren’t
even that good. Whatever.
3. Barry Sanders. At 30, he was second
all-time in career rushing yards and a
lock to break Walter Payton’s record. At
31, he was … retired. Puzzling, isn’t it?
2. The Washington Nationals. When the
team moved in from Montreal in 2005,
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son experience remains on their side.
Every starting position player, save short-
stop Jed Lowrie and Bay, were along for
the magical 2007 World Series run. Also,
the entire starting rotation, along with
four bullpen members, pitched in the
playoffs last season.
After struggling through what has been
a largely disappointing season, Beckett
is now healthy and refocused, allowing
just two runs in 17 innings over his last
two starts. This certainly bodes well for
the local nine, as Beckett went 4-0 with a
1.20 ERA in his four starts during the 2007
playoff run. Along with Jon Lester and
Daisuke Matsuzaka, who have combined
for a 33-8 record thus far in 2007, the Sox
have an extremely formidable three-man
rotation that still puts fear in the heart of
any major leaguer come playoff time.
With the White Sox (or Minnesota
Twins, who are still fighting to catch the
North Siders) seemingly the weakest of
AL playoff teams, the Angels not hav-
ing played a meaningful game in over
a month and a National League that
provides little depth beyond the Chicago
Cubs, the Rays and Red Sox are the teams
to beat this October. It will be interesting
to see if the Rays can continue to shock
the world with their youth and miniscule
payroll or if the power and experience
of this year’s Red Sox squad will launch
them to their third title in five years.
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hopes were high in the nation’s capital.
Yet in almost four full seasons, the team
has collected an abysmal 283-358 (.441)
record. So much for change coming to
Washington.
1. The XFL. Inferior players, semi-disgust-
ing cheerleaders, randomly doing away
with normal football rules like kickoffs
and extra points, stupid announcers,
stupider player nicknames … What’s not
to like? Oh, right. Everything.
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Money
Business. Always
business.
I
think we all watched Brett Favre’s crazy
antics last night (except for me), so allow
me to play Tuesday morning quarterback
with Favre and my New York Jets.
The problem with writing about Brett and
the Jets is that the most interesting story left
is the news media’s coverage of the story.
Nevertheless, I would like to explore a fresh
insight into the saga: the money angle.
Originally, the Green Bay Packers were
willing to pay Favre $20 million to stay
retired. Instead, they received a conditional
draft pick, likely in the second or third round,
which has a potential value of approximately
$700,000. The Packers made out like thieves
by avoiding paying Favre a cent and by
receiving compensation when it looked as
if the return of The Gunslinger would cause
the Pack to either renege on their plans to
start Aaron Rodgers or pay Favre $12 million
to sit on the bench, a move that would turn
the fan base against management. Three
games into the season, however, Rodgers has
led the team to a 2-1 record, and the Pack are
well on their way to another division title.
With regard to Favre, I don’t understand
how a player is allowed to retire, do his own
thing for however many months, and then
simply return to his enormous old contract
whenever he so chooses. Why doesn’t every
player simply come and go as he pleases?
This isn’t boxing.
As for the Jets, to make room for their
new starting quarterback, Chad Pennington
became collateral damage. He of the Weak
Arm was cut to avoid paying his $7.8 million
salary-cap figure.
With Pennington, the Jets were funda-
mentally a seven- or eight-win team. Four
out of the last five years, it has taken double-
digit wins in the AFC to reach the postsea-
son. I leave it up to you to decide whether
or not Favre is worth a couple wins over
Pennington, but I’ll give you a hint: He’s not.
The Jets’ payroll increased approximately $5
million, money that could have been spent
more appropriately in other areas, like the
secondary that got picked apart by Matt
Cassel.
The Jets will play in a new stadium next
year, so some have justified the acquisition
as a way to market personal seat licenses and
raise fan interest in general. This is straight-
up poppycock. The Jets have sold out over
250 consecutive games and have a season-
ticket waiting list of 9,000. They would sell
tickets with Brett Favre, Brett Ratliff or Bret
Michaels behind center.
The marketing of Favre is a cash cow in
other ways, however. The day he was traded,
jersey sales records were shattered. No. 4’s
jersey, albeit in a different shade of green,
was bought more times on NFL.com in 24
hours than any other single player’s jersey in
history.
So as a Jets fan, am I happy they traded
for Favre? No, because I only care about
my team winning games. If Herm Edwards
were still coach, he wouldn’t have made the
trade because “you play to win the game.”
I understand that Favre does have some
intangibles and certain skills that one really
can’t quantify, but from an analytical stand-
point, it’s hard to defend acquiring Favre. In
my opinion, the most important job for a
quarterback is not to turn the ball over. Brett
Favre is terrible at this. Chad Pennington is
awesome at it.
But from a business standpoint, Jets GM
Mike Tannenbaum knew what he was doing.
The Jets sell some merchandise, they grab a
share of the media market from the defend-
ing Super Bowl champion Giants, and even
though it might not matter, they appease
some fans who have not seen a bona fide
icon on their team since Joe Namath.
As for myself, I am not mollified. I am, in
fact, unmollified. But at least I understand
the move and can fall back on the words
of my old friend The Greek: “Business.
Always business.”
Jeremy Greenhouse is a sophomore who has
not declared a major. He can be reached at
Jeremy.Greenhouse@tufts.edu.
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Men’s Cross Country

Freshmen lead way to seventh at UMass Dartmouth Invitational

by Lauren Flament
Contributing Writer

With the varsity squad saving its legs

for late-season action, the freshmen of the
men’s cross country team stepped up to
the starting line and led the team to a sev-
enth-place finish at the UMass Dartmouth
Shriners Invitational on Saturday.
The team scored 216 points in a field of 238
runners and 20 teams. MIT won the meet with
41 points, followed by Brandeis with 71 and
Keene State with 86.
Freshman Connor Rose led the Jumbos,
placing 36th with a time of 27:31. Freshman
Matt Wittman followed closely behind, fin-
ishing 41st in 27:39. And freshmen Phillip
Grannan and Henry Frey rounded out Tufts’
top finishers, both finishing in 27:49, good for
48th and 49th respectively.
“This week we took as a down week,”
senior co-captain David Tilton said. “The
varsity needed a week off after racing three
weekends in a row. We’re gearing up for
Conn. College next week, and Conn. has a
similar course to UMass Dartmouth. They’re
both very fast, flat courses.
“Really, we just wanted our varsity [run-
ners] to rest a few weeks before championship
season starts, and we will be running every
week from now on,” he continued.
The UMass Dartmouth Invitational was Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily

the first race of the season at the 8,000-
meter distance, making it the first 8k for the
freshmen who typically ran 5,000-meter
courses in high school.
“Our freshmen did very well,” Tilton
said. “I think there are still several things
about the 8k distance that they will be able
to improve upon during the season, but as
far as their first 8k race goes, I was pleased
with their performance.”
“We were pretty happy overall with how
the freshmen did,” assistant coach Mark
The varsity cross country runners, seen here racing at the Jumbo Invitational, rested their legs this week as the team traveled to UMass Dartmouth.
Carberry said. “To have four freshmen that be,” Rose said. “I thought it would be a lon- was able to get a feel for it.”
were between 27:30 and 27:50 was pretty ger version of the 5k, but it was completely With all but one of the remaining meets
exciting. We were really happy with Matt different. The whole first half of the race I this fall measuring at 8,000 meters, the
Wittman especially, who came through in was able to stay really relaxed, but you can’t newcomers will have time to gain much
41st and really came out of nowhere and really do that in a 5k.” more racing experience, which may, in turn,
had a fantastic race.” “It seemed like there was more time to real- improve running strategies.
This meet was a learning experience for the ly get a feel for the race before the pace started “I think I could definitely go out a little
freshmen, who will have the opportunity to to pick up, and people started to really move,” harder,” Rose said. “I stayed probably too con-
race several other 8k events later in the season. he continued. “It seemed pretty relaxed for me servative because I was nervous about getting
“[The 8k distance] was definitely new, for the first mile-and-a-half or so, which really
but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would helped me because it was my first time, and I see MEN’S XC, page 13

Women’s Cross Country Golf

Solid start continues with third place Jumbos eyeing NESCACs

by Carly Helfand
Daily Editorial Board
With some of the top women’s
cross country runners sitting out
for the weekend, including soph-
omore Stephanie McNamara,
who has led the team to two first-
place team finishes behind con-
secutive individual wins, some
of the team’s newest members
had the opportunity to shine in
Saturday’s UMass Dartmouth
Shriners Invitational sub-varsi-
ty race, helping Tufts to a third
place finish in an 18-team field.
Tufts was led by junior veteran
Lisa Picascia, who nailed down
seventh place overall with a 19:30
clip on the 5,000-meter course.
Freshmen Kelsey Barton and
Bryn Kass were not far behind,
taking second and third for the
Jumbos and 12th and 15th over-
all with respective marks of 19:43
and 19:51. Sophomore Elana
Davidowitz (20:20) and senior
Amy Hopkins (20:50) rounded
out the scoring for the Jumbos,
who tallied 80 total points on the
day. MIT took the overall meet
with 35 points, followed by run-
ner-up Amherst who tallied 50.
But while the Jumbos may
have had success individually,
Saturday’s race in particular was
dedicated to teamwork. Coach
Kristen Morwick held her run-
ners from the varsity race, put-
ting everyone together to con-
centrate on pack running.
“The focus of this weekend’s
race was really about kind of
sticking with each other and
working as a team,” Kass said.
“It’s really important in a cross
country race … for the runners
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by Danny Joseph
Senior Staff Writer
Although it may seem that
the Tufts golfers are stuck in a
rut, they have actually made big
strides this season.
The Jumbos finished in 10th
place out of 20 teams this week-
end at the Williams Invitational
at the Taconic Golf Club in
Williamstown, Mass. The team
shot a total of 312 strokes on
Saturday and 310 strokes on
Sunday to finish the tournament
with 622 cumulative swings, 26
strokes back of first-place fin-
isher Skidmore College. In the
absence of coach Bob Sheldon,
the team was coached by one of
last year’s captains, Dave Hunt
(E ’08), as well as assistant Matt
Malone.
Although this weekend’s result
may seem rather average, similar
to last week’s middle-of-the-pack
seventh-place finish in a field of
14 at the Bowdoin Invitational,
the team actually shaved 30
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Racing without their top veteran competitors at UMass Dartmouth, the Jumbos tournament featuring stiffer
still put together a quality effort, as three runners placed in the top 15. competition. This may be due to
the favorable weather conditions
over the weekend or perhaps to a
change in venue.
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“Taconic is one of the nicest
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the nicest public courses in all
of Massachusetts.”
The team had to adjust to
renovations that were being
performed on the course, how-
ever. Taconic is in the process
of undergoing changes that
will add approximately 400
yards to the 6,489-yard course
and because of the alterations,
some of the course’s bunkers
were roped off with designated
drop areas if the players hit into
them. Players also teed off from
closer tees, which likely helped
shave several strokes off of each
player’s score.
“Although we had to over-
come differences with the bun-
kers and some of the cart tracks,
the course was playing a little
easier this weekend due to the
changes,” Haslett said.
The team looked consistent
throughout the weekend, with
everyone shooting low scores
on both Saturday and Sunday.
Haslett led the way with his 71
on Saturday, good for a third-
place tie overall after the first
round. He coupled it with a 78
during play Sunday for a seven-
over 149, putting him in a 13th-
place tie individually for the
tournament.
Senior co-captain Benjie Moll
turned in two solid rounds,
shooting 78 and 77, while his
younger brother, sophomore
Danny Moll, carded a respect-
able 81 and 77. Sophomore
Luke Heffernan registered an 82
on Saturday and a 78 Sunday;
Hershman also improved from
Saturday to Sunday, with an 85
on the first day and a 78 on the
second. The team’s performance
gives the team much-needed
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