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VOLUME LVI, NUMBER 62
THE TUFTS DAILY
Senate reaches decision on recovered funds
At meeting, body decides to save portion of funds,
create an endowment and channel money to ALBO
by Jeremy White
Daily Editorial Board
The Tufts Community Union (TCU)
Senate voted last night to save some of the
$687,780 in recovered funds and put the
rest toward student activities. The decision
ended a nearly three-month-long process
that saw the body work to determine how
to dispense of money allegedly embezzled
by two former administrators.
The Senate approved a proposal to put
$300,000 in a savings account, use $300,000
to create an endowment that will go toward
student activities and channel the remain-
ing $87,780 to student groups through the
Allocations Board. The body voted 18-8-1
after an evening of impassioned debate.
While the Senate originally reported a bal-
ance of $689,775.75, that number stemmed
from an internal error.
Senators began last night’s meeting with
a raft of proposals that universally empha-
sized fiscal caution in a time of economic
crisis. The ideas ranged from establishing
an endowed scholarship for students on
Alumni gifts sustain planned dental school
expansion, which will tack on five floors
courtesy dental school
The construction will add five new floors.
School of Engineering looks to supplement its focus on ethics
through new lecture series made possible by anonymous donor
by Ellen Kan
Daily Editorial Board
The School of Engineering’s Gordon
Institute next semester will inaugu-
rate a new engineering lecture series
focusing on engineering ethics, thanks
to a $40,000 gift from an anonymous
alumnus.
The lecture series will cover micro-
ethics topics and examine concepts,
such as intellectual property and pri-
vacy, that relate to the ethics of the
individual. It will also address broader
macro-ethics issues such as the ethi-
cal ramifications of nanotechnology
research, climate change and sustain-
Inside this issue
Students answer the
call of duty ... jury duty,
that is.
see FEATURES, page 3
Monday, December 8, 2008
financial aid to putting the funds aside to
accrue interest for a campus center renova-
tion project.
In the proposal’s initial formulation, the
endowed fund would have eliminated the
Student Activities Fee, which is included
in every undergraduate’s tuition and forms
the basis of funding for student groups and
projects. That stipulation did not remain in
the final document.
TCU Treasurer Matt Shapanka, a senior,
explained that the newly created endow-
ment would challenge donors to the uni-
versity to match the Senate’s contribution.
As the initial donor to the endowment, the
Senate will exercise control over where the
money ultimately goes.
“I personally support eliminating the
Student Activities Fee down the road,
but this doesn’t earmark money for that,”
Shapanka told the Daily after the meeting.
Sophomore Senator Sam Wallis backed
the proposal, saying that it returns some
money to the students while allowing the
see FUNDS, page 2
by Caroline Melhado
Daily Staff Writer
Despite the ailing economy, alumni
have made significant donations to
fund Tufts’ School of Dental Medicine’s
five-floor vertical expansion.
The $66.5-million project will lead
to more office space, an alumni edu-
cation center and a clinical simulation
area. The university has allocated $30
million for the expansion, while the
remaining funds will come out of the
dental school’s reserves and dona-
tions.
“At the present time, we still are
fundraising for about $5 or $6 million.
We are very close to meeting the goal
in our fundraising effort,” said Dental
School Dean Lonnie Norris, although
she noted that the economic down-
turn “has most people considering
slowing down a little bit.”
Norris explained that a number
of large donations have boosted the
able development. The institute, a
leadership program within the engi-
neering school, will run the series.
The nameless alumnus offered to
make the gift in January, hoping to
prompt students to think about the
ethical implications of their work,
according to Jackie Natale, a University
Advancement development officer
who deals with engineering develop-
ment. “[The donor] has an interest as
a professional in seeing more people
think about engineering ethics and
engineers in public policy,” she said.
It will be called the Knox Lecture
Series in Engineering Ethics in honor
of Associate Engineering Dean Kim
The women’s basket-
ball team finishes its
fall-semester schedule
on a high note.
see SPORTS, back page
TCU senators debate how to spend the recovered funds.
school’s efforts.
“We have already raised some of the
gifts that we needed to move closer to
the goal,” she said.
Vincent Mariano (D ’82) and Lisa
Emirzian (D ’82) gave a $50,000 gift to
name a clinical operatory in the post-
graduate prosthodontics department,
where they serve as faculty members.
The couple also runs a clinic in East
Longmeadow, Mass.
Lino Calvani (D ’91), now practicing
in Rome, Italy, made a similar $50,000
naming donation for a clinical opera-
tory in the same department.
Also among the donors are the post-
graduate endodontic Classes of 1976,
1983 and 2007 and two Class of 1976
graduates, Maurice Belden and R.
Scott Smith.
Once completed, the project will sig-
nificantly expand the dental school’s
existing 10-floor structure.
see DENTAL, page 2
Knox, who advised the alumnus dur-
ing the latter’s time at Tufts.
“Dean Knox has made an enor-
mous commitment to the education
of our students, and she’s an excel-
lent example of a person who behaves
in the most ethical way,” Civil and
Environmental Engineering Professor
Lewis Edgers said. “It is a great honor
for her, but it is also entirely appropri-
ate that this series is named in her
honor.”
The donor requested to remain
anonymous because he wants the
focus to remain on Knox, according to
see LECTURES, page 2
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Features 5
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Editorial | Letters 10
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Cameras still fair
game, despite last
year’s NQR uproar
by David Stern
Daily Staff Writer
Students looking to shed their
clothes for the hallowed Naked Quad
Run (NQR) tonight may want to be
wary of who is watching them.
Organizers do not plan to take any
new steps to prevent spectators from
shooting video and taking photographs
of the event, despite incidents last
year that provoked a strong student
response.
Video and photographs of last year’s
annual run wound up on YouTube.com
and a public nudity Web site.
Currently dubbed the Nighttime
Quad Reception, the run began in the
early 1980s and has grown in recent
years. Each year, thousands of stu-
dents bear the cold and remove their
clothes, running laps on a course
around the Residential Quad. The Tufts
Community Union ( TCU) Senate and
the Programming Board sponsor the
event, which is sanctioned by the uni-
versity.
The Somerville Journal stirred up
controversy last year when it posted a
video of NQR on both its Web site and
YouTube. Meanwhile, photos from last
year’s run ended up on Coccozella.
com, a Web site that collects anony-
mously submitted photos from public
nudity events.
Coccozella’s password-protected
pages featured hundreds of pictures
from NQR — many full-frontal shots
that clearly showed runners. The
Journal’s video mostly contained shots
of individuals’ backsides.
Students initially lashed out at the
Journal’s coverage, voicing their opin-
see NQR, page 2
Comics 11
Op-Ed 12
Classifieds 13
Sports Back
2 The Tufts Daily News Monday, December 8, 2008

Visiting the Hill this week
MONDAY
“Economics Department
and Fletcher School
Seminar Series”
Details: Daniel Mejia, an assistant
professor of economics at Universidad
de los Andes in Colombia will talk
about the production and traffick-
ing of narcotics. The presentation is
part of the 2008-2009 Seminar Series
sponsored by the economics depart-
ment and the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy.
When and Where: 12:00 p.m. to 1:15
p.m.; Braker Hall 001
Sponsors: economics depart-
ment, Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy
“Tufts Mathematics
Colloquium”
Details: Bridget Tenner, an assistant
professor of mathematics at DePaul
University, will give a lecture entitled
“Coxeter groups and Bruhat order:
algebraic and topological structure”
as part of the Tufts Mathematics
Colloquia. Tea will be served at 3:30
p.m.
When and Where: 4:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m.; Bromfield-Pearson 101
Sponsor: mathematics department
To submit an event to “Visiting the Hill,” send listings to events@tuftsdaily.com.
TUESDAY
“Seminar in Systems
Engineering”
Details: Sangtae Kim, a professor of
mechanical and chemical engineer-
ing at Purdue University, will give a
special seminar on “The Evolution
of the Pharmaceutical R&D Business
Model.” The lecture is part of the
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Fall 2008 Seminar Series.
When and Where: 10:00 a.m. to
11:00 a.m.; Crane Room, Paige Hall
Sponsor: chemical and biological
engineering department
FRIDAY
“Department of Biology
Seminar Series”
Details: Karen Vasquez, a doctor of med-
icine at the Anderson Cancer Center at
the University of Texas, Houston, will
talk as part of the biology department’s
Fall 2008 Seminar Series. Refreshments
will be available in the lobby of Barnum
Hall at 3:45 p.m.
When and Where: 4:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m.; Barnum Hall 104
Sponsor: biology department
— compiled by Nina Ford
Senate decides against spending some
of recovered funds on financial aid
FUNDS
continued from page 1
Senate to exercise restraint with the bulk of
the funding.
“I think it was a nice balance between all
of the proposals, and I think we still have
the potential to do all the projects we had
on the table before,” he told the Daily. “By
saving a portion of the money, we can see
what the university’s finances look like after
they go through the budgeting cycle and
then make a more informed decision.”
Wallis cited projects such as extending
library services hours and maintaining
the Summer Scholars program as possible
recipients of a block of funding whose tar-
get the Senate can freely determine.
The final vote pitted the winning propos-
al against one submitted by junior Xavier
Malina, who is currently on leave from Tufts
but served on the Senate during his fresh-
man and sophomore years. His bid would
have added $600,000 to the Senate surplus
in order to generate an annual grant used to
foster social programming on campus.
Although he did eventually support the
winning proposal, Malina criticized its
vagueness and urged the Senate to establish
more definitively where the money will go.
“We always knew that most of the money
was going to be earmarked to be saved, and
none of the proposals really outlined any-
thing specific,” Malina told the Daily last
night. “I think it lacks punch. It isn’t going
to satisfy students because it doesn’t, as of
right now, outline anything concrete.”
Numerous senators had advocated put-
ting the funds toward supplementing finan-
cial aid in order to ease the strain on the
university’s budget and to ensure that stu-
dents could remain at Tufts regardless of
socioeconomic status.
Senator Toby Bonthrone, a senior who
prominently advocated for this cause, said
that he accepts the body’s decision but
urges continued vigilance to shield stu-
dents from having their Tufts experiences
adversely affected by the economic down-
turn.
“What matters is not what we’ve done
but what we’re going to do,” Bonthrone
told the Daily after the vote. “Even if we had
given the money towards financial aid, it
shouldn’t have slowed us down. We need to
keep acting in a manner that doesn’t ignore
the extent of the crisis.”
Senior Sofia Nelson, one of several stu-
dents who attended the earlier part of the
meeting, said that the number of senators
who rejected putting the recovered funds
toward financial aid was “disconcerting.”
“Any effort and gesture this body can
make to exemplify how important it is
to students to have a need-blind admis-
sions policy is a step in the right direction,”
Nelson told senators during the meeting,
referring to the university’s goal of officially
establishing an admissions policy that does
not take into account an applicant’s ability
to pay. “The quality of the student experi-
ence is dependent on having a diverse stu-
dent body.”

Lecture series aims to remedy
the current lack of attention
devoted to engineering ethics
LECTURES
continued from page 1
Natale.
While the lecture series
remains a work in progress,
Gordon Institute Director
Robert Hannemann expects
the inaugural event to take
place in February or March,
with approximately two lec-
tures per semester.
The lectures will primar-
ily target the undergraduate
community — a condition
that both the donor and the
university felt strongly about.
“We believe that it is appro-
priate to make sure that the
lectures are in fact directed
towards and publicized in the
undergraduate community,”
Hannemann said. “We want
to make these lectures acces-
sible, meaningful and appro-
priate for undergrads.”
The lecture series will play
an important role in address-
ing a perceived lack of mate-
rial on ethics within the engi-
neering curriculum. “While
[the donor] was here at Tufts,
he had a lot of interest in
engineering ethics and the
role of the engineer in soci-
ety, especially as relating to
public policy,” Natale said.
“So he really wants to pro-
mote that role more and felt
that it was something that
was lacking in a lot of areas
and that he wanted to bring
to Tufts after he left.”
The gift also complements
the school’s major focus on
engineering leadership.
Edgers, also an associate
dean who focuses on curricu-
lum development at the engi-
neering school, emphasized
that one of the school’s main
goals is to promote such val-
ues.
Hannemann echoed those
comments. “We have a strong
opinion that engineering pro-
fessionals need to show more
leadership in their compa-
nies, in their communities
and in society,” he said. “The
lecture series fits in perfectly
with that direction that we’re
taking.”
The talks could play a
unique part in this aim of
instilling in engineering lead-
ers a sense of ethics and val-
ues.
“We think that there is more
to a Tufts education than
classroom work … and that’s
where we see these lectures
series fitting in,” Hannemann
said. “We’d like to get the
opinions, the knowledge and
the wisdom of people else-
where in the world.”
Somerville Journal editor says paper will cover
NQR again, in part because of lingering issues
NQR
continued from page 2
ions in comments on the
paper’s Web site, on the vid-
eo’s YouTube page and on the
Facebook.com group “NQR
2007: a Tufts Tradition, NOT a
Media Sensation.”
“A universally accessible
online video violates the cul-
ture and sanctity of the event,
and will discourage the partic-
ipants in future years,” wrote
Jennifer Bollenbacher, now a
junior, in a letter to the Journal.
“Please hold yourselves to the
same standards that we as stu-
dents do and help us continue
such an amazing tradition by
keeping it private.”
But although Tufts is a pri-
vate university, it remains
open to the public, even on
the night of NQR, accord-
ing to Tufts University Police
Department ( TUPD) Capt.
Mark Keith.
“If it’s in an area that’s open
to the public, then you’re in
public view,” Keith said. “We’re
not going into restricting pho-
tographs.”
On Wednesday, the Senate
and the Programming Board
sent an e-mail to students
requesting that they not bring
cameras to the event. Planners
send out a similar e-mail out-
lining ground rules and the
camera appeal every year.
Still, the university has not
extended a request for privacy
to the surrounding Medford
and Somerville communities.
“The more you point some-
thing out as, ‘Please don’t do
this because you wouldn’t want
to embarrass all these students
doing this outrageous thing’ …
the more news people have an
inclination to be sure they’re
there,” Dean of Student Affairs
Bruce Reitman said.
Somerville Journal News
Editor Kathleen Powers said
her newspaper would likely be
covering the event again this
year.
“Because it was such a big
brouhaha [last year], I guess
we have to cover it this year,”
Powers told the Daily. “We
need to cover it this year
because it was such a con-
troversy last year. We need to
cover it in part to look at what
has changed due to our cover-
age from last year.”
Powers added that she would
only publish videos that could
air on television regulated by
the Federal Communications
Commission and that follow
the “SYPOPITZ” rule, a tele-
vision standard that allows
backside nudity.
After the Journal covered the
run last year, a number of stu-
dents became upset over what
they called a lack of consent
to having their photographs
taken. The Journal responded
by removing photographs from
its Web site when complaints
were made.
Reitman said that before stu-
dents take part in NQR, they
need to be aware of the possi-
bility of being photographed.
“If you’re choosing to go
out and run around naked
in an event that has notori-
ety beyond the Tufts campus,
what expectations do you
have of privacy?” Reitman
asked.
Some students also
expressed concerns about the
ethical implications of inter-
viewing intoxicated students
at NQR, as the reporter from
the Journal did last year.
“I don’t think it’s particu-
larly good journalism,” soph-
omore Royi Gavrielov said. “I
don’t think you’re going to get
a legitimate representation of
your subject if they’re drunk.”
Powers defended the
Journal’s decision to interview
drunken subjects. “We don’t
feel that that was controver-
sial,” she said. “If there was
someone who was of-age or
not that was publicly intoxi-
cated, that is an offense.”
Notwithstanding the con-
troversy, many students are
looking forward to this year’s
run.
“[It’s] too much of a tradi-
tion not to do it,” sophomore
Julia Stimeck said.

Vertical expansion aims to allow the dental school to accommodate large

influx of patients, accomplish its goal of fostering active-citizenship efforts
DENTAl
continued from page 2
The 12th and 13th floors will house
treatment clinics, reserved for the
orthodontics, endodontics, periodon-
tics and postdoctoral prosthodontics
departments.
The new patient clinics will feature
a plethora of windows, taking advan-
tage of natural light. The entire expan-
sion meets Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) stan-
dards.
The 14th story will largely serve
alumni: It will consist of a continu-
ing education conference center and
will also house a preclinical simulation
clinic with more than 100 new chairs
for student practice.
“The new space will have better seg-
regation from academic and clinical
space, better opportunities to teach
and to learn,” said Joseph Castellana,
executive associate dean of the dental
school. “There will also be a space for
students to be mentored out of the
clinical area.”
The new simulation clinics adhere
to the dental school’s focus on a strong
technology core. The dental school was
one of the first of its kind in the coun-
try to have electronic record keeping
and digital radiology.
The 15th floor will contain adminis-
trative offices, which were previously
situated on lower floors. This move
will free up more space for classrooms
and smaller learning areas for stu-
dents.
“Everything that we do at the school
we needed more space for,” Norris
said. “We see 20,000 patients per year,
which comes out to a little less than
100,000 visits a year.”
“The dental school is really stay-
ing with the aspiration that President
[Lawrence] Bacow has, which is to
make us one of the most remarkable
dental schools in the country, not only
in terms of technology or patient care
that we provide, but also an increas-
ing emphasis in active citizenship,”
said Mark Gonthier, the dental school’s
associate dean of admissions and stu-
dent affairs.
Castellana emphasized the building
expansion’s lasting impact.
“I think it will position the dental
school long into the future,” he said.
“You need to make these kind of invest-
ments. We are one of the few dental
schools in the country to be fortunate
enough to make this kind of invest-
ment for our future.”
Monday, December 8, 2008
Semester in Review
The lost-and-found funds
Jodie Nealley and Ray Rodriguez
pled not guilty in August to charges of
having embezzled a combined total of
almost $1 million between 2001 and
2007, but since then little has hap-
pened in the court case involving the
two former Office of Student Activities
(OSA) administrators.
Still, the effects of the scandal still
ripple through the campus. Now
called the Office for Campus Life, the
department that used to be the OSA
welcomed new director Joe Golia over
the summer. In an effort to make sure
its books stay in order, the office also
added its first-ever business manager,
Annie Wong, in June.
Most importantly, however,
the embezzlement scandal led the
administration to provide the Tufts
Community Union (TCU) Senate with
$902,338 as restitution for what the
body purportedly lost. The Senate
used some of the money to pay off
or forgive debts, then spent most of
the semester discussing internally and
with the student body at large how it
should spend the rest. Just last night,
the Senate decided to invest some of
the recovered funds in student activi-
ties and save the rest for later delega-
tion.
Managing the market’s effects
The Senate may be sitting on a
wealth of extra funds, but the nation
is deep in a recession, and for the
university, the economic downturn
has meant restraint and cutbacks.
University President Lawrence Bacow
has kept the community privy to the
administration’s approach to handling
the crisis – and a crisis it is, as the
university predicts its endowment to
drop by 25 percent in the coming year
– with school-wide e-mails.
The Daily’s news section has sought
to provide students with a more com-
prehensive picture of what this new
wave of reluctant conservatism means
for the many facets of Tufts, academic
and otherwise. Capital projects have
been put on hold, and the university
is preparing for $36 million in budget
cuts next year.
MOPs and JumboCash
One university department that has
been looking to grow despite the
financial horizon is Dining Services.
Fresh off its well-received introduc-
tion of JumboCash last semester, the
office set to work this fall to expand
the Merchant Off-Campus Partners
(MOPs) system, which enables stu-
dents to order delivery from local eat-
eries using JumboCash. Dining Services
announced last week that Pizza Days,
a popular late-night standby, will be
one of two restaurants joining MOPs
next semester.
Election ’08
When Barack Obama on Nov.
4 became the first black man to
be elected president of the United
States, his victory capped off months
of political activism on campus. The
Tufts Democrats and Republicans
both sponsored get-out-the-vote
efforts, and the Dems put signifi-
cant resources into canvassing in New
Hampshire.
Although they were eager to
publicize their message, the Jumbo
canvassers faced many an apathetic
resident tired of political games and
deferred promises.
“People are sick of the negative
campaign and sick of both candidates
for that reason,” canvasser Doug
Foote (LA ’08) told News Editor Sarah
Butrymowicz, who traveled along with
the canvassers one weekend to report
on their efforts. “Part of it is a sense
that all politicians are bad.”
Nonpartisan groups such as
Tufts Hillel and Tufts Votes also
chipped in efforts this fall, heading
up efforts such as voter registration
drives and absentee ballot mailing
stations.
On the local front, Carl Sciortino
(LA ’00) won reelection to the state
legislature after a sticker campaign
helped him slip by with a primary
victory over Somerville Alderman Bob
Trane.
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Speakers on campus
Tufts hosted a wide range of speak-
ers this semester, from the co-founder
of a revolutionary television station to
a former presidential candidate.
Tom Freston, who helped create
MTV and bring the music video into
the common consciousness, deliv-
ered the Richard E. Snyder Presidential
Lecture.
Freston left MTV years ago, but
during his talk he defended the sta-
tion’s relevance in the Internet age.
“It’s hard to be hot and cool and on
the cutting edge for a long time,” he
said. “But they’re still at it – they’re still
on the air.”
In late October, Sen. John Kerry
(D-Mass.) told a packed Cohen
Auditorium audience that Americans
needed a new style of leadership –
and that then-Sen. Barack Obama was
the answer.
Kerry bemoaned the current state
of affairs and emphasized that the
new administration would need to
take a comprehensive approach to
confronting crises.
“We face a complex and urgent
set of challenges,” he said. “The very
definition of national security is being
rewritten.”
Other big-name speakers included
Norman Ornstein and Erin Brockovich.
Ornstein, an American Enterprise
Institute resident scholar and CBS News
analyst, drew on the theme of change
to compare this year’s presidential elec-
tion to the 1980 contest between
Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
Brockovich, who gained fame
when her fight for environmental jus-
tice became immortalized in a hit
movie, said that her battle against
the Pacific Gas and Electric Company
in California was just one of many
necessary struggles against those who
would do harm to the planet.
“What should be our most impor-
tant and passionate priority is to make
sure Mother Earth, this planet and this
world continue to sparkle. Each and
every one of us has a part,” she said.
Debating speech
The Task Force on Freedom
of Expression, commissioned by
University President Lawrence Bacow
in January to create a university-wide
policy on freedom of expression, in
September released a draft declara-
tion. Some praised the preliminary
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version for taking a stance without
being so specific as to embolden the
university to trample on students’ First
Amendment rights, while others wor-
ried that the draft’s wording would
prove too vague to make any differ-
ence. Another contingent maintained
that the task force should never have
been assembled, calling the codifica-
tion of a university-wide freedom of
speech policy ill-advised.
In an interview with the Daily,
Professor Jeswald Salacuse, the chair
of the task force, expressed his opposi-
tion to Bacow’s stance that Tufts should
always preserve First Amendment
rights for its students in the university’s
internal judicial system.
The task force has not released
a final draft to the public, but it is
expected to do so next semester;
Bacow hopes to approve a version
in time to submit it to the Board of
Trustees in May.
Campus crime
On a campus that sometimes sees
highly concentrated periods of local
crime and more tranquil stretches at
other times, this semester fell into
the latter category. Over the sum-
mer, a rape near College Avenue and
Dearborn Road portended trouble
for late-night trekkers on and around
Walnut Hill this fall. But the next big
scare did not come until November,
when junior Liz Friedman said that
she was robbed at knifepoint before
escaping from the attacker, who she
said was trying to abduct her.
The Tufts University Police
Department (TUPD) misreported the
location of the crime, according to
Friedman, who said she got in touch
with TUPD about the misinformation
soon after the department sent out
an alert to the student body. She later
came to the Daily with the information
after receiving no reaction from TUPD
regarding the mistake, she said.
Tufts tricksters
This semester was marked more
by petty mischief than harrowing
crimes. A group of students threw
the entire campus for a loop with a
bogus protest, raising an uproar over
the removal of a tree that the admin-
istration actually had no intention of
cutting down.
Two instances of more revolting
misbehavior came toward the end
of the semester. In Sophia Gordon
Hall, students reported finding bags
filled with fecal matter. In Wren Hall,
residents turned up their noses after
repeatedly finding urine in a laundry-
room dryer.
Here at the news section, this
semester has been easy to write
about. We have seen and reported
on life at Tufts in all its bizarre, histo-
ry-making, worrisome and hopeful
incarnations. A hearty thanks goes
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NOT GUILTY! A jury prepares to deliberate in court. For some Massachusetts college students, jury duty can be a nuisance that is unavoidable. For oth-
ers, it’s a welcomed learning experience.
Students juggle jury duty with academics
Jumbos must often go the distance to meet their civic requirements
by Lindsay Eckhaus
Daily Staff Writer
In addition to building houses with
Habitat for Humanity or tutoring elemen-
tary school children through groups like
the Leonard Carmichael Society, many
students must engage in a less conven-
tional form of community service. In
Massachusetts, those who inhabit the
state for at least six months out of the
year — including students who attend
college in Massachusetts but reside in
It’s no wonder we’re
all so unhealthy
Two Tufts students work in a Tisch reading room to gear up for an upcoming
final exam.
32.9 percent of students polled listed stress.
25.4 percent listed sleep difficulties.
24.8 percent listed a cold, the flu or a sore throat.
18.1 percent listed concern for a troubled friend or family member.
15.5 percent listed relationship difficulty.
15.5 percent of students listed depression, anxiety disorder or seasonal
affective disorder.
15.1 percent listed Internet use or computer games.
7.0 percent listed attention deficit disorder.
6.2 percent listed alcohol use.
2.1 percent listed drug use.
Within 30 days of the ACHA survey:
40.7 percent of female students surveyed reported dieting to lose
weight.
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other states — may be asked to serve jury same judicial district. Some are exempt
duty. from serving, such as those who serve as
According to the Massachusetts jury primary caretakers to disabled relatives
system, the Office of Jury Commissioner or people who are self-employed and
(OJC) randomly selects possible jurors cannot leave their businesses.
from a list of Massachusetts residents Many students, unaware of the law’s
and inhabitants. Once individuals are inclusive nature, are often confused
summoned, they must report on the date upon receiving letters of summons.
they’ve been assigned. “I was really stressed, because they
Individuals are allowed to postpone called me in [to serve in] Woburn, which
service for up to one year after the sum- is a two- to three-hour T ride from
mons is received and transfer the loca-
tion of courthouse to another within the see JURY DUTY, page 4
Days of class left: one. Outside tem-
perature: 16 degrees. Number of laps
to run around the quad: undetermined.
Number of pages to write before next
Friday: 46. Number of flashcards to mem-
orize before final exam: 92. Number of
holiday parties to attend: seven. Average
number of hours slept per night last
week: four.
Can winter break come a little
sooner, please? The seemingly never-
ending rat race of the semester is
morphing into a sprint to the finish
line as finals loom with potentially
dire consequences. The borderline
unhealthy tendencies of the average
college student can become a way
of life when magnified by the serious
pressures presented by finals.
Lack of sleep, overuse of caffeine,
heightened stress levels, depression, anx-
iety — they’re all present during finals
period, and they can leave students feel-
ing physically and emotionally distraught
when all is said and done.
In light of finals week, the Daily has
compiled some statistics of the issues
that plague college students most.
A fall 2007 survey conducted by the
American College Health Association
(ACHA) surveyed students to determine
Annie Wermiel/Tufts Daily the most influential factors impeding
their academic performance.
22.4 percent of males reported dieting to lose weight.
5.0 percent of male students reported not eating fruits and veg-
etables.
2.9 percent of female students reported not eating fruits and veg-
etables.
28.1 percent of total students polled reported never exercising vigor-
ously for 20 minutes or longer.
12.1 percent of students polled said they never felt as though they got
enough sleep to feel rested in the morning.
16.0 percent of students said they had been diagnosed with depres-
sion.
54.0 percent of students reported being single.
— by Carrie Battan
5
Michael Goetzman | Spotlight
Fast lane
Ben Crane
This semester, Ben Anshutz is a name
that has been tossed around quite a bit as
his songs have spread like butter across
the Internet. The sophomore’s mission is
simple: “I’m bringing my folk-fried, jazz-
dipped, pop rock to the streets of California,
Boston and everywhere in between. Spread
the madness,” he says on his Web site. And
since adopting his simpler stage name,
“Ben Crane,” it seems that the troubadour,
poet and astronomy expert has been doing
just that — spreading the proverbial mad-
ness.
He was raised in Newport Beach, Calif.,
where his mom, a piano teacher, taught
him how to play at three years old. Before
school every morning, Ben would practice
his classical piano until his interest later
shifted to jazz and then to the rock/pop
genre, where most of his musical endeav-
ors now take shape.
At lunch, Ben told me about attending
high school in California and reminisced
on his frustration with the limited music
scene and the rigid school rules concerning
how opposite-sex students could interact,
proclaiming that he’s glad that Tufts hasn’t
adopted his high school’s motto: “Doors
open, lights on.” Listening to Ben’s music,
there’s no denying that these rules might
have been blessings in disguise, forcing
him to develop his romantic imagination.
As in most music, romance and love are
dominant themes in Ben’s repertoire. A
combination of a callow attraction to the
ideal of romance and a more experienced
understanding of the shortcomings of such
an attraction pervade his songs; he is at
once wistful and hopeful, reflecting on love
lost and love renewed with lofty lyrics filled
with metaphors and sublime space imag-
ery.
Now, considering the present musical
context in which a number of bands and
amateur YouTube.com artists have made
names for themselves through parody and
humor, it’s easy to see how someone might
mistake Ben’s music for a lampoon against
over-wrought, emotionally candid and ver-
bose indie/folk-rock performers. I have to
admit, when I first heard Ben’s song “Mind
Trick,” I wasn’t sure whether I was listening
to the work of a genius musical satirist or
Ben Folds on psychedelics.
But after meeting Ben, I think the latter
interpretation fits best. In “Mind Trick,” he
describes his overwhelming emotions for
a girl with grandiose galactic language, as
if the limited space on earth simply isn’t
adequate for his infinite scope of feeling:
“I get dizzy whenever you walk by/ Cause
neon lights/ Explode in the sky/ And I
wonder if you’re an illusion/ Or curious
cosmic fusion.” Ben’s lyrics shed new light
on universal feelings; I too have wondered
if a girl I once met was not a “curious cos-
mic fusion.” And who hasn’t, really?
In my favorite verse, Ben sings: “We
could step out into the sky/ You’d gasp as
worlds passed us by/ Drift through the
galactic air/ Hypnotized by solar flares/
Drift through the Milky Way/ And kiss above
a supernova.” Something about these lines
reminds me of a PG-13 version of Disney’s
“Fantasia.” I can even see Ben in a blue
robe and Mickey Mouse ears conducting
the whole thing as stars erupt into myriad
specks of dust and the sun’s surface rips
and twirls around like the stuff in a lava
lamp.
As you can probably tell, Ben’s music
defies simple categorization. In fact, I
don’t even think his own “folk-fried, jazzed
dipped, pop rock” description quite covers
it — which goes to show you that, in the
creative process, sometimes the creation
eludes even the creator. And I guess that’s
what keeps it interesting.
Michael Goetzman is a sophomore who has
not yet declared a major. He can be reached
at Michael.Goetzman@tufts.edu.
6 The Tufts Daily
College students struggle to fit mandatory civic
duties into their packed college schedules
JURY DUTY
continued from page 3
here,” sophomore Susan Golbe
said. “I assumed that I could get
out of it, but then I read the
Massachusetts law that says if
you go to school here, you have
to serve.”
Not only was the location
inconvenient, but Golbe was
summoned for a date that is
during winter break. Despite
these difficulties, she noted that
dealing with the jury system
was simple.
“It’s amazing to par-
ticipate in the justice
system from a front
row seat, literally ... It’s
like watching the best
of reality TV, because it
is real. Good trials are
good drama.”
Daniel Winslow
Tisch College senior fellow
“It was really easy to change
the date and location,” she said.
“Two days ago they sent me a
letter saying that my time and
place had changed and that
they would contact me ten days
before the trial with informa-
tion on how to get there and all
of the logistics.”
Junior Alyssa Irizarry was
summoned for an even less
timely date. “I opened the let-
ter and laughed because the
date is the day I’m leaving to
go abroad in Mexico,” she said.
Like Golbe, Irizarry chose to
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postpone her service.
In order to ensure the broad-
est array of citizen participation
in the judicial process, students
are as eligible as the rest of the
public to serve on juries. In 1980,
courts established the policy of
requiring 18- to 34-year-old citi-
zens, previously left out of the
system, to serve as jurors.
“The theory that was used
when it was first enacted was
it was part of a judicial reform
effort to ensure that the broad-
est array of people serve on
jury duty,” Professor of Political
Science Kent Portney said.
“But the real reason why the
change was made was that they
needed more people to serve …
They [were] accomplishing two
goals at the same time and they
[didn’t] have to admit to both
of them.”
Although the rule seems to
make the judicial process fairer,
it elicits mixed responses among
members of the Tufts commu-
nity. Irizarry said she does not
think it is fair for busy college
students to have the added stress
of serving as a trial juror.
“If you are a full-time stu-
dent where you have classes
every day of the week, you
won’t have time to skip class-
es,” Irizarry said.
Although students have the
opportunity to postpone service,
it is hard to postpone it to a con-
venient time if they are only in
Massachusetts during the hectic
school year, she said.
“At least in your home state
you can postpone it to the sum-
mer or some time when you are
free,” Irizarry said.
But Golbe has no problem
with the law, though she wishes
college students received the
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Massachusetts residents receive.
“I think students should have to
serve, because we are citizens
just the same,” she said. “[Yet]
I was mad because I read that if
you work you get paid to [serve
on jury duty], but I don’t get paid
if I miss work, and I don’t get
paid for the class I’m missing.
We want to hear it.
We are obviously doing a service
to the community, but we’re not
getting compensated like every-
one else.”
Tisch College Senior Fellow
Daniel Winslow, who formerly
served as a trial court judge,
believes that serving on a jury
is a privilege.
“Jury duty is a great experience
in civic engagement because,
unlike most forms of public
service, it is direct democracy
where all of the power of the
state is placed in the hands of
citizens,” he said. “I think it’s a
good idea that students are sub-
ject to jury duty because they
are subject to the justice system
of Massachusetts.”
“It’s amazing to participate in
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row seat, literally,” Winslow
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Winslow also said that most
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their experience very rewarding.
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while,” he said. “Several of my
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found the experience to be a
positive one, which is consistent
with all of the survey data.”
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Movie Review
‘Nobel Son,’ striving for excellence,
proves just another cheap thriller
by Robert Gottlieb
Contributing Writer
Barkley Michaelson, the protagonist of
“Nobel Son” (2008), tells the audience, “The
truth is good and bad are not so absolute.”
Nobel Son
Starring Alan Rickman, Bryan
Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy
Directed by Randall Miller
Maybe he’s right in his own crazy, fast-
paced, saturated world. It is difficult to say
the same in the world of cinema. “Nobel
Son,” for sure, is bad.
Sadly, at first, the film seems to have great
potential. “Nobel Son” managed to pull
together a promising cast. Alan Rickman
of “Sweeney Todd” (2007) stars as Eli
Michaelson, a heartless chemistry professor
with a huge ego resulting from his recent
Nobel Prize win. His son Barkley (played by
Bryan Greenberg) plans on accompanying
his parents on a plane to Stockholm, but the
trip quickly goes awry. Before he gets to the
airport, he is kidnapped by Thaddeus James
(Shawn Hatosy) and held for a $2 million
ransom, the precise amount of money that
accompanied the Nobel Prize.
The motives of the kidnapper are personal.
The formula uses elements of a classic thriller:
betrayal, dysfunctional families and revenge.
Other cast members include Eliza Dushku
as artsy poet City Hall, Mary Steenburgen as
Barkley’s forensic psychologist mother and
Bill Pullman as a detective, with cameos from
Danny DeVito and Ted Danson.
Unfortunately, the actors’ scripted roles
do not complement their impressive acting
chops. Even Rickman’s performance, which
often involves zingers to his family and
Installation Preview
The orange glow of Harvard Yard will soon be overtaken by a light installation.
Harvard light installation celebrates the 60th
anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights
by Jessica Bal
Daily Editorial Board
A stroll through Harvard Yard this
week might bring visitors more than
UDHR 60th Light Installation
Dec. 8-10 from 5-10 p.m.
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”Don’t do it, I’ll shoot!”
colleagues, fades quickly. More noticeably,
Dushku’s performance borrows heavily
from lame jokes in her poetry café, clichéd
one-liner pickup lines and her sex-appeal
in bedroom scenes with Barkley. DeVito’s
turn as a “reformed obsessive compulsive”
is not funny either. These actors and the
other players do a B-rate job, with B-rate
delivery of black comedy and emotion.
The “funny” parts of “Nobel Son” consist
of Santa spewing profanity in a crowded mall
and quirky poetry readings at City Hall’s café.
“Nobel Son” juxtaposes this dull humor as it
attempts to combine allegedly intriguing
subplots of violence. These scenes include
the severing of thumbs (in graphic detail)
and cannibalism. Needless to say, this film is
definitely not for more squeamish theater-
goers. Worse still, in a blatant attempt to
make itself a “cultured” film, “Nobel Son”
references everything from Pat Benatar’s lyr-
ics to Michel de Montaigne.
The film’s arc is extremely convoluted.
The plot twists are resolved at the end, but
through unexpected means. The point at
which the tables turn in the film’s second act
seems to come from nowhere. The lag time
during the transition between the two scenes
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they bargained for. Dec. 10 marks
the 60th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
and Harvard has orchestrated a slew
of events and a thought-provoking art
installation to celebrate the occasion.
The first article of the UDHR reads,
“All human beings are born free and
equal in dignity and rights. They are
endowed with reason and conscience
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of action renders “Nobel Son” implausible
and poorly executed. Although the audience
may understand the characters’ motives for
what happens on a superficial level, it’s clear
that the film loses steam and is just desper-
ately trying to tie up loose ends.
Directed by Randall Miller and co-writ-
ten by Miller and wife Jody Savin, “Nobel
Son” moves along feeling like a film school
exercise of a thriller than a film with any
legitimate purpose. Miller overloads his film
with the “essentials” of the youth thriller
genre of the ’90s: light-speed cuts, use of
handheld cameras, dramatic color filters,
extreme close-ups and a mediocre alt-rock
soundtrack. Used in this film, however, in
contrast with the works that pioneered these
tactics, the techniques feel trite as Miller
transparently seeks to conform to the typi-
cal standards of the genre. In doing so, he
sacrifices any original vision and puts his
inexperience on display.
Miller’s work is not good enough; he wast-
ed the opportunity to pull off a decent thrill
ride. Regardless of its seemingly promising
cast, “Nobel Son” is just a cheap, ill-con-
trived knockoff of “Fargo” (1996) and “The
Italian Job” (2003) that simply disappoints.
Gallery Review
Two SMFA
students exhibit
thesis projects
by Lauren Herstik
Daily Staff Writer
The MFA Thesis Exhibition in the
Tufts University Art Gallery is cur-
rently hosting the works of Daniel
MFA Thesis Exhibition
At the Tufts University Art
Gallery
Dec. 4 through Dec. 21
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Phillips and Eugene Scott Finney, two
graduate students pursuing a Masters
in Fine Arts degree through a com-
bined degree program with Tufts and
the School of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (SMFA).
Towing a fine line between pack rat
and artist, Phillips’ work is a massive
undertaking in experimental art. The
show itself consists of video pieces in
one room and an interactive installa-
tion in the next.
The videos show images of Phillips
and his cohorts deliberately filling a
space with what appears to be simple
found objects and everyday detritus.
The viewer, confused at first, is drawn
see MFA, page 9
7
Grant Beighley | Pants Optional
Going out with a
bang
T
his edition of Pants Optional
is going to be a little different.
Since I’m feeling rather uninhib-
ited at the moment, this week’s
column is a rejected music review that I
wrote the morning after a raging social
event while severely under-slept, and
I think it just may be some of the best
work I’ve ever done. So enjoy the ‘fail-
column’ that was my review of Britney
Spears’ “Circus” (2008):
The album kicks off with the first sin-
gle, “Womanizer,” which, as most who
have heard on it the radio know, con-
sists of little more than Spears repeat-
edly saying the word “womanizer.” Why
Ms. Spears’ pants-on-head-stupid pro-
ducers felt the need to make a one-
word chorus baffles most, and there’s
a very good chance that the stuttered
pronunciation of the word that fills the
mundane choruses was simply Spears’
first take at saying the word out loud.
Words are hard sometimes.
In terms of song structure,
“Womanizer” sounds like it was com-
posed by a herd of syphilitic elk. More
to the point, as the track progresses, a
first-time listener will think that it will
eventually evolve into something more
than talking and programmed hand-
claps, but, just to spite the audience,
it never does. Especially for a single,
the song has no real hook, no real
melody and no real singing, a problem
that could easily be solved by Spears
becoming a nun and never opening her
mouth again for any purpose.
The second track, which also hap-
pens to be the second single as well
as the title track, “Circus,” is just as
mundane as “Womanizer,” but it is
exasperating enough to make the lis-
tener drink a pint of Drano for very
different reasons. While “Womanizer”
is, for lack of better terms, the worst
thing since McGriddles, “Circus” can
at least claim to have a melodic cho-
rus, but the words contained in that
chorus (and verse) are so pitiful and
vain that it’s impossible to listen to
the track without punching someone.
Scratch that; it’s impossible to listen
to the track at all. Ever.
In the second verse, Spears croons,
“There’s only two types of guys out
there/ Ones that can hang with me,
and ones that are scared/ So baby, I
hope that you came prepared/ I run
a tight ship, so beware.” The majority
of male listeners fall into the latter
category, and with good reason: This
album may push them to off them-
selves in ways so creative they’re far
too amusing to put into words. Like
wearing a squid for a hat. A really ugly
squid hat. And wearing it so much,
you die. Other gems include, “I’m like
a performer/ The dance floor is my
stage.” Note that dancers and per-
formers are different in this scenario.
At this point, I want to die.
The album reaches its pinnacle of
suck with the cut, “If U Seek Amy.”
Now, for the astute listener, the pun in
the title readily becomes apparently
when interpreted in the context of the
lyrics, which read: “Love me hate me,
Say what you want about me/ But all of
the boys and all of the girls are beggin’
to if-you-seek-Amy.” “If U Seek Amy,”
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8 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living Monday, December 8, 2008

Movie Review

‘Frost/Nixon’ examines two misunderstood

men through the lens of historical drama
by Jordan Teicher
Daily Staff Writer
Historical drama is a difficult
genre. Such a film needs the prop-
er balance of entertainment value
Frost/Nixon
Starring Frank Langella,
Michael Sheen, Kevin
Bacon
Directed by Ron Howard
and historical accuracy on top of
all the qualities that made a qual-
ity film: good directing, strong
acting and an intelligent script.
Director Ron Howard is frequent-
ly guilty of exaggerating history
and twisting the truth in some
of his other films such as “Apollo
13” (1995) and “A Beautiful Mind”
(2001). But in his latest histori-
cal drama “Frost/Nixon,” Howard
sticks to the facts and presents
an intriguing story, all the while
struggling to match the renowned
quality of his earlier works.
Based on the Tony Award win-
ning play of the same name by Peter
Morgan, who also wrote screen-
plays for “The Queen” (2006) and
“The Last King of Scotland” (2006),
“Frost/Nixon” revisits the post-
Watergate interviews between suc-
cessful British talk show host David
Frost and President Richard Nixon.
The film opens with Nixon (played
by Frank Langella) announcing his
resignation from the presidency.
Afterwards, Nixon might have slow-
ly faded into oblivion, as the coun-
Even while slouching, Nixon towers over his young interviewer.
try licked its wounds from his illegal
activities. But David Frost (Michael
Sheen) has other plans: He wants to
interview Nixon and get him to talk
about what really happened during
the scandal. The plan initially fails
because Frost’s show lacks the lus-
ter of more popular news programs,
but Frost ultimately manages to
outbid the other networks and get
the chance to do the interview.
Both sides prepare to square off
in a duel of wits, with the consensus
being that Nixon’s superior intel-
ligence will overpower the flashy
and unprepared Frost. Essentially,
Nixon believes he will get the
chance to exonerate himself of his
wrongdoings with all of America
watching. Frost hires Bob Zelnick
and James Reston Jr. to help him
prepare for the interviews and dig
up information on the disgraced
ex-president, but when the cameras
start rolling, Nixon cleverly avoids
any self-incrimination. It is up to
Frost, with his filming time dwin-
dling, to get Nixon to admit his guilt;
otherwise all his efforts will have
been for naught.
What stands out the most in the
entire film is Langella’s larger-than-
rottentomatoes.com
life portrayal of Nixon. He does not
look or speak exactly as Nixon did,
but he puts on a great performance,
accentuating the clever persona
and dry wit of the former president.
Sheen also excels as Frost, but his is
a much more subtle performance.
He channels the demeanor of a
man who wants to be liked by all
but is insecure about risking his
entire career by going after Nixon.
The supporting roles are solid
throughout the film, with the
exception of Kevin Bacon’s portray-
al of Jack Brennan, Nixon’s post-
presidential chief of staff. Although
usually reliable, Bacon looks stiff
and uncomfortable throughout
most of his screen time. Howard
also struggles to keep the film’s pace
going strong before the climactic
final interviews. The movie starts off
with a documentary-like approach,
using archival news clips and inter-
views with the supporting charac-
ters then suddenly switches to the
plot structure of a typical film.
These relatively small short-
comings can be overlooked, how-
ever, since the interview itself is the
most entertaining part of the film.
As if engaged in a boxing match,
Nixon and Frost try to out-duel
one another on the issues of his
pre-Watergate presidency, such as
foreign policy dealings with China
and Vietnam. Finally, with one ses-
sion remaining, the focus turns
to Watergate. Through Howard’s
directing, the film adequately pres-
ents the tension and the intensity of
the topic without over-dramatizing
it. Once Nixon lets his guard down,
the audience sees a burdened man
who has grown weary instead of
the tough and curt politician he
appeared to be.
Howard has created a film that
has plenty of political relevance to
today’s world. It discusses politi-
cians’ responsibilities to both their
constituents and the law, but is
slightly less polished than his earlier
films. The acting is noteworthy and
the story is gripping at times, but
the film does not always enthrall
the viewer. All of these factors com-
bine to make “Frost/Nixon” a good
movie, but not the epic one it des-
perately strives to be.

Projectors illuminate different sections

of declaration across Harvard campus
DECLARATION the director of Harvard’s Committee
continued from page 7 on Human Rights Studies. “The
and should act towards one another Kennedy School projections will deal
in a spirit of brotherhood.” Adopted with the right to vote and other relat-
by the United Nations in 1948, the ed issues; the [library] projection will
genocide of World War II still fresh in deal with the right to information.”
member states’ minds, the declara- The outdoor placement facilitates
tion was the first global document a purpose which Bhabha, who spear-
to address and outline the rights headed the installation, described
that inherently belong to all human as “communicating human rights as
beings. By nature of being a declara- part of our public lives.”
tion rather than a treaty, the UDHR is The piece is not simply meant for
not legally binding in a formal sense. the Harvard community. “We want it
Nevertheless, its 30 articles have been to reach out to the border commu-
assimilated into the laws of various nity, anyone going about their busi-
countries throughout the world, and ness in the Yard,” Bhabha said. “Some
its tenants have been utilized in a of the words will project onto the
number of other international treaties pavement, which means that pass-
and documents. ersby will be physically walking over
the messages and the articles will be
moving across their bodies.”
The Human Rights Art The installation is a visual comple-
ment to other events commemorating
Installation at Harvard the anniversary. Programming will
University is designed to aim to demonstrate the relevance of
the declaration in light of contempo-
celebrate the fundamental rary issues.
Today, there will be a town-hall
freedoms established by meeting about AIDS at Harvard
the UDHR in an interac- Medical School and a panel discus-
sion concerning the development
tive and visually intriguing and security of Afghanistan at the
way. Kennedy School. Tuesday evening,
Bhabha will be on a panel that exam-
ines “The Genocide Convention at 60
Years: New Challenges or the Same
The Human Rights Art Installation Ones?” On Wednesday, a dramatic
at Harvard University is designed to reading of the UDHR by local activ-
celebrate the fundamental freedoms ists will verbalize the words illumi-
established by the UDHR in an inter- nated on Harvard buildings, bringing
active and visually intriguing way. the messages of universal freedom
The installation features the 30 arti- to the present with full force. The
cles of the declaration, which will be performance is free and open to the
projected onto buildings throughout public.
the university beginning this evening The Human Rights Art Installation
and lasting until the anniversary on opens tonight at 5 p.m. and contin-
Wednesday. ues through Dec. 10. Bhabha will
“The buildings are chosen spe- kick off the event in front of the
cifically for each article,” said Public Widener Library, where refreshments
Policy Lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha, will be served.
Monday, December 8, 2008 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living 9

ase.tufts.edu/gallery ase.tufts.edu/gallery
Phillips takes students on a tour of his ever-changing studio. Eugene Scott Finney creates sculptures that also have practical utility.

Artists’ distinct styles represent the culmination of time well spent in school
MFA
continued from page 7
in and becomes fixated on this process of
simply filling a space. The videos play on a
loop, chronicling the process from start to
finish and all over again.
In these compilations of hundreds of
moving images, the only artwork of any
permanence is the collection of objects
slowly amassing in the frame. Human
figures dart in and out of the images,
occasionally remaining still, but never
for more than a few seconds. These fig-
ures add and remove objects, creating an
environment only to destroy it again. The
overall images tell a story, one that asserts
that art is about a process and not about
a product. Here, this process becomes the
object of focus.
The process comes under even more
intense scrutiny in the next room, where
an interactive installation is evolving.
Here, Phillips has recreated a studio
space, where visitors can step in and
help with the creation process. Phillips
has invited specific people, some artists
and some who are not, to the space to
leave their mark. These guests’ artistic
processes will be documented by a cam-
era set on a timer to take constant aerial
shots of the whole scene. The makeshift
studio space is surrounded by scaffold-
ing, which affords visitors a better view of
the ongoing process below.
Phillips’ work insists on the singular
importance of the process of creation, and
as an SMFA thesis, this technique is admi-
rable. Art school encourages exploration of
the creative process in all sorts of media,
and the investigation of different styles. It’s
easy to go in with every intention of pro-
ducing beautiful pieces in order to become
a really great artist, but the nature of art
school lies in the creative process. A thesis,
which serves as the culmination of all this
time spent in school, that is concerned
wholly with process is indicative of a time
well spent in school. Phillips’ thesis could
serve as a solid foundation on which to
build a career as an artist.
Finney’s work serves as an interesting
contrast to that of Phillips. His two large
sculptural pieces are as much about aes-
thetics as they are about function. Finney
has crafted a fleet of ships and a fully
inhabitable hovel out of antique building
materials and discarded objects.
These two pieces impressively strike a
balance between delicate craftsmanship
and full-on utility. Finney considers the
need for functionality in the solid construc-
tion, while at the same time focusing on
nuanced detail, as each individual item
seems to have been carefully selected. The
house is filled with all sorts of used objects
— including old bullets in a dish, antique
pulleys with a scale and an atlas — that
contribute to the character of the piece.
Walking through the display is like check-
ing in on someone’s house while they’re
away on vacation.
But while the character of the house is
tangible, it’s also a little inconsistent. Some
items imply a maritime connection, while
others imply a military one. Each object
could be from a distinct time period and
place. Unless the owner is wildly eclectic,
the items don’t really all seem like things
that one person would own. Nevertheless,
they’re all clearly selected with such care
and attention for detail that the inconsis-
tency doesn’t present a problem.
Both artists present impressive and
well thought out works, reflecting time
well spent in school. Phillips’ appreciation
for the creative process and the inherent
destruction involved in art making will
serve him well in his future artistic endeav-
ors. Finney’s attention to minute details
and strong craftsmanship makes his work
appealing and will likely be a hallmark of
his work in the future.

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excuse for a Spears comeback
BEIGHLEY
continued from page 7
pronounced phonetically, is
supposed to sound like “Eff
You See Kay Me.” Go on, say it
out loud. Besides the fact that
the lyrics make no grammati-
cal sense, it’s silly to think
anyone in the club is look-
ing to “if-you-seek-A” Spears
without the protection of a
Hazmat suit.
Especially for a single,
‘Womanizer’ has no
real hook, no real mel-
ody and no real sing-
ing, a problem that
could easily be solved
by Spears becoming a
nun and never open-
ing her mouth again
for any purpose.
The beat and musicality of
“If U Seek Amy” barely regis-
ter with the listener after he
or she realizes what the lyr-
ics are trying to do, but, on
a second listen, it becomes
blisteringly obvious that the
marching, programmed beat
never changes throughout the
course of the song.
I can only imagine a dance
floor full of people marching
on place with incredibly seri-
ous looks in their faces. This is
serious music. It’s incredibly
hard to make a song as sim-
ply and as poorly as Spears
and her producers have man-
aged with “If U Seek Amy;”
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it’s almost as though they just
played back all the pre-sets on
a 1980s Casio keyboard and
played Mad Libs with Jar Jar
Binks in order to get the lyr-
ics.
Long story short, don’t buy
this album. Don’t touch this
album. Don’t be friends with
anyone who owns this album.
If you’re currently friends
with someone who is consid-
ering buying this album, lock
them in your basement and
brainwash them until they
exist solely to destroy all that
Britney Spears stands for.
If you ever encounter a copy
of “Circus” in the wild, imme-
diately drop to the floor and
play dead, as its less-evolved
vision is based on movement,
and with any luck it will sim-
ply leave you be and continue
in search of another soul to
feed upon.
And that, ladies and gentle-
men, is what I call a damn
good review. It was piquant,
yet esoteric. While its overarch-
ing motif is post-lapsarian, the
subtle references to Kant can’t
be ignored.
If you went into reading this
column expecting anything
that made sense, I hope you’ve
been very displeased with
what I’ve presented. Now go
out there and make the world
a crazier place.
But seriously, don’t buy
“Circus.” It makes you die on rottentomatoes.com
the inside.
Though the Daily will stop production over winter break, the earth will not, in fact, “stand still.” In fact,
Grant Beighley is a senior there are several great movies coming out over the break that are sure to fill the void left by a lack of
majoring in English. He can classes. For a complete overview, visit the Daily’s Arts blog, “The Scene,” at www.tuftsdaily.com.
be reached at Grant.Beighley@
tufts.edu.
10 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Monday, December 8, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt
An empty promise?
Editor-in-Chief This Wednesday marks the 60th anni- sions of individual countries and does not government and the Lord’s Resistance
versary of the adoption of the Universal have the manpower or the authority to Army. Even in instances when the United
Editorial Declaration of Human rights (UDHR), enforce its well-intentioned declarations. Nations does declare emergency situations,
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors the first global articulation of any form As the United Nations does not have very it cannot mandate involvement or put a
Kristin Gorman of inherent and universal human rights. much in the way of enforcement power, stop to global atrocities; it can only wag its
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors Although it remains the world’s most wide- compliance with any of its mandates is massive finger of disapproval and plead
Jason Richards ly translated document of its kind and little more than optional. The onus is on with its member nations to intervene. But
Harrison Jacobs
Vittoria Elliott stands as a symbol of the highest goals its member countries to lead by example again, that is only when it acknowledges
society can achieve, its anniversary is as and ensure that its recommendations are the situation. While the United States has
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor much a reminder of how little our country followed both at home and abroad — and termed the conflict in Darfur as a “geno-
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors and the world as a whole have managed to the United States has not been the best of cide,” the United Nations still stops short of
Pranai Cheroo progress as it is a celebration of the beauty role models of late. this qualification, as it would be an implicit
Nina Ford of ideals. The 1994 genocide of almost one million mandate for intervention.
Ben Gittleson
Gillian Javetski In the wake of the atrocities of World people in Rwanda was met with virtual All of these are incidents that clearly
Jeremy White War II, the United Nations set out to create silence in the United Nations and the world infringe upon the “right to life, liberty and
an International Bill of Rights that would community as the feeble U.N. peacekeep- security of person” and the right to be
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editors
Michael Del Moro explicitly define the “human rights” men- ing forces tried in vain to hold off the storm free from “torture or … cruel, inhuman or
tioned in the U.N. Charter. Today, however, of Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi mil- degrading treatment,” just to name a few.
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor this momentous document’s 30 articles itants bent on mass murder. The United So while this 60th anniversary is certainly
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors seem like empty promises. The human States itself has quietly allowed the tor- an opportunity to celebrate the worthy
Robin Carol rights violations over the decades that have ture of Iraqi prisoners of war. The world ideals of the UDHR, it should also be a
Kerianne Okie passed since its ratification have painfully watched as hundreds of thousands of clear reminder that our deeds must align
Charlotte Steinway
illustrated the cavernous gap between the Northern Ugandans lost their homes and with our promises, or the aspirations of the
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors declaration’s words and the actions of the were forced to relocate to displacement momentous document will forever remain
Meghan Pesch world community. The United Nations still camps virtually devoid of sanitation as a nothing more than words. And words can
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor does not hold much sway over the deci- result of the conflict between the Ugandan only do so much.
Jessica Bal Arts Editors
Grant Beighley
Sarah Cowan Kayla Murdock
Catherine Scott

Emma Bushnell Assistant Arts Editors

Matthew DiGirolamo

Jyll Saskin Executive Op-Ed Editor

Jwala Gandhi Assistant Op-Ed Editors

Nina Grossman
Harrison Jacobs
Ellen Kan
Andrew Rohrberger
Molly Rubin

Thomas Eager Executive Sports Editor

Sapna Bansil Sports Editors

Evans Clinchy
Philip Dear
David Heck
Carly Helfand
Noah Schumer

Scott Janes Assistant Sports Editor

Jo Duara Executive Photo Editor

Alex Schmieder Photo Editors

Laura Schultz
Rebekah Sokol
Annie Wermiel

James Choca Assistant Photo Editors

Emily Eisenberg
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Leanne Brotsky
Jennifer Iassogna
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Muhammad Qadri FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Daniel Simon
Amani Smathers
Steven Smith Well, they say the Bahamas are nice mental hope that our generation can hours in a windowless basement can
Katie Tausanovitch this time of year. Today is our last issue of make a new name for young voters. There easily be lost on our readers. On a
Adam Raczkowski Executive Technical Manager the semester, and I’m planning on taking was a grassroots war against apathy on somewhat regular basis, I hear students
my nonexistent paycheck, hopping into college campuses, and the results were talk in passing about the Daily, and
Michael Vastola Technical Manager the Daily’s private jet and enjoying some encouraging. several times they have mentioned that
Hena Kapadia Executive Online Editor sunshine and relaxation. And then there was the silly. For start- we take ourselves too seriously. We do,
This semester has been one heck of ers, for the first time in recent memory, it after all, have an ethics code exhaustive
Minah Kim Online Editors a ride, with plenty of ups and downs to rained in the Daily office. Or that’s what enough to make even our own heads
Matt Skibinski New Media Editor keep the journey interesting. Both local- we thought — until we realized that rain spin. But that misses the point. This is
ly and nationally, financial issues have typically isn’t yellow and that we work a consuming activity, and one that is
Kelly Moran Webmaster seeped through dialogues in a sobering right under a bathroom. But all of that, of only rewarding for us if we can strive to
Caryn Horowitz Executive Copy Editor way. On the Hill, the semester began course, is overshadowed (quite literally) bring you the most complete, accurate
with students grappling with new hues of by the beleaguered tree on the President’s coverage possible.
Grace Lamb-Atkinson Copy Editors betrayal following the indictment of Ray Lawn. It was certainly interesting to see In this process, there’s still room for a
Michelle Hochberg
Ben Smith Rodriguez; the community felt cheated that Tufts’ most well-publicized social fair amount of fun, and it’s the ability of
Christopher Snyder and was calling for action, only to later activism experiment of the semester all of the editors on our masthead to push
Elisha Sum receive an opportunity in the recovered ended with a student in a banana suit themselves while still enjoying their time
Ricky Zimmerman
funds. Nationally, the economic slow- climbing and protecting a tree that was here that I will miss most after today.
Brianna Beehler Assistant Copy Editors down has forced Tufts to reexamine its never meant to be cut down. I hope all of you have enjoyed reading
Casey Burrows core priorities as brick and mortar con- But more than anything, this semester the Daily as much as we have enjoyed
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Mary Jo Pham need-blind admissions. ships stemming from this 60-hour-per- our issues, remember that behind the
Lily Zahn Still, there have been plenty of high- week job. It’s all too easy as a college scenes, in the basement of Curtis Hall,
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Malcolm Charles Executive Business Director uations. Students returned to Tufts in as many groups as there are hours in the with some very real-world scenarios.
September enthusiastic about the pros- day in hopes of packing as much mean- Well, this is the last time that you’ll be
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12
A toast to the end of Prohibition
by Morgan Holland
A quick glance through New York Magazine recent-
ly informed me that Dec. 5 marked the 75th anni-
versary of the end of Prohibition. The article high-
lights the historical drink menu at a much-celebrated
Greenwich Village restaurant that once upon a time
was a glamorous speakeasy. While I am all for com-
memorating the notable repeal of the 18th amend-
ment, I cannot say that it is something that I think
about all that often. For most of us, alcohol has
always been a legal substance for those over 21, and
envisioning what society would be like without that
liberty is beyond the imagination of some.
Having just finished celebrating my own personal
legality — and that of most of my friends — this anni-
versary prompts me to reflect on the wider implica-
tions of our current system. What would life be like if
alcohol were illegal for everyone?
After a minute or two, I realize that it is not too
much of a stretch to get a sense of what it might be
like. I just have to rewind six months (to when I was
20) and visualize the social environment found on
many college campuses across America — no fedo-
ras or chin-length bobs necessary. Depending on
how you look at it, we might just have our very own
little Prohibition-esque bubble on the Medford-
Somerville crossing.
Now: An opportunity of your lifetime
by Philipp Tsipman
Seven months to unemployment? In this economy,
as a Tufts senior, the word “graduation” probably sum-
mons up more anxiety than hope.
When my classmates and I left Tufts four years ago,
the “real world” seemed easier and much more wel-
coming. But do not give up. This fall’s financial crisis
has made you all adults now. It will challenge, teach,
and, likely, shape you as a generation. It has also given
you what I believe is the opportunity of your lifetime.
Since 2004, through the Tufts Career Advisory Network
and Connecting Alumni and Student Experiences
(CASE) program, I have helped close to a hundred stu-
dents with their first job search.
My advice to you is fourfold: Choose your path. Make
the job search your 6th class. Take smart risks. Give
back along the way. Do all this and you’ll do better than
you can imagine.
Do not graduate unprepared like many of my
friends and me. For many of my schoolmates, the
first job came easy: from a parent’s advice, a career
fair or a Monster.com job posting. Some chose jobs
based on friends. Others on what seemed hot or
glamorous. Four years later, few are in the same
industry, let alone at the same firm. One friend left
“indigenous-rights filmmaking” for an MBA and a
private equity firm. Another changed from doing
Fortune 500 strategy consulting to working on pub-
lic school reform. A third switched from masters in
accounting to medical school.
Some career transitions are an exciting self-discov-
ery, but many are pretty gut wrenching. Perhaps your
path will wind less. However, you should take the time
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Imagine: It’s a Friday night in 1923, and a well-
attended speakeasy is abruptly raided by federal
Prohibition agents. The people (in this case, flap-
pers and the mafia for the sake of historical clichés)
flee, the owners get in some kind of trouble and the
place is shut down. The partygoers most likely know
another place, probably around the corner, to con-
tinue their saga. The speakeasy moves locations the
next week, and the thrill of the forbidden fruit gets
that much sweeter.
Flash forward to 2008. It’s a Friday night, and well-
attended festivities at a house, frat or dorm are inter-
rupted by the police. The partygoers flee, the hosts
are written up, fined or reprimanded in some way,
and the party is shut down. There are probably festiv-
ities still in full-force (with beverages) across campus,
down the road or maybe even down the hallway. The
determination of university co-eds to become inebri-
ated is quite astonishing and is further evidence that
where there’s a will, there’s a way.
In New York City during Prohibition, 52nd Street
between 5th and 6th Avenues was nicknamed “Swing
Street” due to the 30 speakeasies located there.
Remind anyone of Professors Row (not that I am
implying that professors are like swingers – no,
definitely not)? Seniors and all those over 21 on and
around campus play the role of Canada — special
arrangements are often made to obtain contraband
goods with little border control. And while the dodgy
now to craft it.
Imagine yourself in ten years. What would you be
happy doing? Why? Saving the world, running a com-
pany, or being rich and famous don’t quite count—dig
a few levels deeper. Also, don’t limit yourself to options
like Foreign Service, being a lawyer, or working for
Google. They are all good possibilities but not the right
ones for everyone.
To help you along, e-mail and call as many alums
as you can. Know what industries and job roles are
out there and what skills and personalities they take
to succeed. Perhaps the best advice I have ever got-
ten was from a Tufts alum in investment manage-
ment who told me to not go into investment manage-
ment. It was a lucrative option, but wasn’t at all right
for my interests and personality and would’ve made
me miserable.
As you think through your path, make job searching
your 6th class. With many 2008 grads still job hunting,
it could take you six to 12 months to land the right spot.
If you haven’t started already, catch up and make your
plan over winter break. Ask a mentor or friend to serve
as your “job search professor” and keep you on track.
When you do find an opportunity, ask yourself
two questions. First, why is this the right job for
me? Second, why am I the number one person for
this job? Why me and not a top Ivy League grad or my
best friend?
Besides Tufts alums, there is a library of information
that can help, such as Vault and Glocap guides, books
like Tim Butler’s “Getting Unstuck” or Stephen Covey’s
“7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” Myers-Briggs
personality tests and online tools like “Remember
the Milk.”
My third piece of advice is to take risks — but be
Monday, December 8, 2008
jungle juice served at some campus parties isn’t quite
moonshine, the potent concoctions are often remi-
niscent of bathtub spirits. Perhaps the risk of sudden
blindness is not imminent, but projectile vomiting
might be.
Our very own President Lawrence Bacow has
signed on to the Amethyst Initiative, along with 133
other university presidents, to support opening up
discussion about lowering the legal drinking age.
Conceivably, this suggests that some recognize cam-
puses do indeed have the potential to set up environ-
ments that breed Roaring Twenties-like behavior.
Temperance failed then, and it fails now.
The existence of a restrictive measure (in this case,
federal drinking age laws) creates an atmosphere on
college campuses that can and often does cause unin-
tended consequences. During the 1920s, the ban on
alcohol supposedly increased crime and promiscuity
and fostered a general sense of looseness, while in
current times it manifests itself through binge-drink-
ing, hazardous behavior and well … a general sense
of looseness (heck, we are all about to go run around
naked en masse).
For many students, alcohol is still illegal, a fact
that leads to a strong desire to seek out that which
is restricted. A little thing called the “intoxication
instinct” theorizes that as human beings, we innately
look for ways to alter our state of being and con-
sciousness. Some might say that we are just up
against human evolution, but there are most likely
other factors contributing to the sheer magnitude
and frequency of alcohol consumption in college.
One might also contend that a certain social cli-
mate did exist at the time of Prohibition that may
resemble parts of current campus cultures. As young
people, we are inevitably attempting to gain a better
sense of ourselves, our values and our place in this
world. Overall it is a somewhat unnerving time filled
with insecurities and challenges, whether we like to
recognize our collective self-consciousness or not.
We like to experiment, we might rebel and we will
most likely test the boundaries of our own bodies,
free will and autonomy. We have grown up in a some-
what fast-paced, disconnected, instant-gratification-
seeking era, and now we are often caught in the illu-
sive ambiguity of what it means to be a “young adult.”
Perhaps as in the 1920s, a method for coping with our
current situation is thinly disguised in drinking pro-
fuse amounts of alcohol and calling it a roaring-good
time.
We have certainly lost much of the glamour that
appears to have characterized the time of Prohibition,
but I am not sure how much of the mindset, particu-
larly on college campuses, has progressed when it
comes to alcohol some 75 years later. I don’t know if
there is a solution, but I do know that I wouldn’t mind
hanging out with Jay Gatsby for a day. If we were to
anthropomorphize The End of Prohibition, we could
all toast to him together — Happy 75th anniversary.
Morgan Holland is a senior majoring in clinical psychology.
smart. My first job out of Tufts paid $14,000 with no
health insurance. I was managing a State Senate cam-
paign for a Republican against a four-term incumbent
in “blue” Massachusetts. Was I crazy? Well, I had the
chance to work for the former head of Honeywell
Consumer Products group—one of the smartest and
most honorable people with whom I’ve ever worked. I
probably learned more about building and managing
teams than I have in later, better-paid senior positions
with the Boston Consulting Group and Motorola.
In your own job search, are you betting on an oppor-
tunity to learn? Employer’s brand? Fulfilling your pas-
sion? Being one of many at a large New York firm, or
having a higher profile but not a network in a smaller
company or city? Each option presents an opportunity
and a downside.
Finally, I suggest no matter where you find yourself,
give back. Changing the world doesn’t need to mean
selling your stuff and moving to Africa. Nor does pursu-
ing a lucrative career shut you out from an opportunity
to help. The world needs your passion and your skills
no matter what field you’re in.
A mentor of mine is an investment banker and advis-
es Unicef on its budget. With my own background in
strategy, politics and business, I’m starting a non-prof-
it organization helping entrepreneurs in low-income
urban areas. This is my way to give back.
I hope today’s challenges will let you find your own,
unique way and will serve as the guiding beacons
along it. Now is your chance. Now is your opportunity.
Best of luck.
Philipp Tsipman is a 2004 Tufts graduate. He is the former
vice president of the Chicago Tufts Alliance.

Women’s Basketball
Holiday cheer: Defense awakens as Jumbos Bartolotta’s
head into winter recess with blowout win milestone game
by Sapna Bansil
leads MIT to victory
Daily Editorial Board
Saturday afternoon in Cousens Gym,
the women’s basketball team finally
resembled the squad it knew it was all
along.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
(5-1, 0-0 NESCAC)
at Cousens Gym, Saturday
Colby-Sawyer 21 22 — 43
Tufts 35 33 — 68
Following lackluster performances
against Brandeis and Salem State ear-
lier last week, nationally ranked No. 20
Tufts righted the ship, notching a deci-
sive 68-43 victory over non-conference
foe Colby-Sawyer and sending itself
into the three-week holiday layoff with
a 5-1 mark.
A week that began with the Jumbos
surrendering 81 points in a home loss
to the Judges and 62 in a narrow win
over the Vikings two days later ended
with one of their best defensive per-
formances of the season. Not one
player from Colby-Sawyer hit double
figures in scoring, as Tufts limited the
Chargers to a season-low 43 points on
just 36.7 percent shooting.
“I think the defense we played against
Salem State versus the defense we
played [Saturday] was worlds apart,”
coach Carla Berube said. “We were
two different defensive teams. Colby-
Sawyer competes at a very high level,
defensively and offensively, and so we
had to come out at the beginning and
play with intensity and aggressiveness
see WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, page 18
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Sophomore swimmer Maureen O’Neill out-touches Bowdoin sophomore Allison Palmer by 0.36
seconds to win the 50-yard freestyle at the MIT Invitational Friday night. O’Neill’s efforts in several
events helped pace the Jumbos to a second-place finish out of seven teams.
Jumbos make a splash at MIT
Invitational, take second
by Alex Prewitt
Senior Staff Writer
With hundreds of fans and coach-
es packed into MIT’s gem of a pool
house and screams synchronized to
WOMEN’S SWIMMING
(4-0)
at MIT Invitational, Cambridge, Mass.,
Friday and Saturday
2nd of 7 teams excited you get,” senior tri-captain Kayla
1. NYU 970.5
2. Tufts 700
3. MIT 659
4. Wheaton 432
5. Brandeis 366
6. Bowdoin 189.33
7. Colby 165
Sports
tuftsdaily.com
After a week of mediocre defense, the women’s basketball team buckled down at home against
Colby-Sawyer, notching a 68-43 victory to end the fall portion of the season with a 5-1 overall
record. Junior Julia Baily led all players on the floor with a 20-point effort in 33 minutes for Tufts.
James Choca/Tufts Daily
every breath ricocheting off the walls,
the women’s swimming and diving
team took center stage against some
of the best competitors from across the
region. At the end of the two-day meet
in Cambridge, the excitement over their
results far exceeded the atmosphere in
the pool house for the Jumbos, as Tufts
rolled to a second-place finish in the
seven-team MIT Invitational.
“The louder it is in the gym, the more
Burke said. “The atmosphere there was
fantastic. I looked at the girls who were
performing well and it really helped us
feed off each other. Some of our best
times were at the end of the meet, so
that just came from having the team
behind you the entire time.”
see WOMEN’S SWIMMING, page 17
13
Men’s Basketball
by David Heck
Daily Editorial Board
The men’s basketball team headed
into Cambridge with recent history on
its side, having taken its last 10 meet-
MEN’S BASKETBALL
(4-2, 0-0 NESCAC)
at Cambridge, Mass., Saturday
Tufts 36 30 — 66
MIT 32 47 — 79
ings with neighboring rival MIT. But
on Saturday the Engineers prevailed
as senior Jimmy Bartolotta dropped 31
points to secure the top spot on MIT’s
all-time scoring list as the Jumbos fell
79-66. The loss dropped Tufts to 4-3
while MIT improves to 6-3.
“We missed some shots,” junior co-
captain Jon Pierce said. “I missed a lot
that I usually make. Not to take any
credit away from MIT — they prevented
a lot of things — but we didn’t get good
looks. I got caught settling for some jump
shots in the second half. Obviously, as
the leading scorer and captain, when I
don’t make shots it’s hard for the team.
It’s a lot on me.”
Bartolotta hit a three-pointer with
3:20 left in the first half to spring past
Campbell Lange’s (’76) previous record
of 1,699 points and become MIT’s all-
time scoring leader. Although he was
Josh Berlinger/Tufts Daily only 6-for-12 from the field, he went
17-for-19 from the charity stripe while
see MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 17
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Tufts keeps pace with regional
powerhouses at MIT Invite
by Amanda Chuzi
Senior Staff Writer
At this weekend’s MIT Invitational,
the men’s swimming and diving team
proved that it can keep up with the likes
of bigger fish.
MEN’S SWIMMING
(3-0)
at MIT Invitational, Cambridge, Mass.,
Friday and Saturday
3rd of 7 teams
1. MIT 1038
2. NYU 867.83
3. Tufts
4. Brandeis
740.83
344
5. Bowdoin 324
6. Wheaton 189.33
7. Colby 165
While the Jumbos placed third out of seven
teams at the meet, they can still take pride in
the final result. Although the host Engineers
captured first place by a fairly comfortable
margin, the Jumbos proved they could hang
with the meet’s top three, finishing just 127
points behind second-place NYU with a
tally of 740.83 and holding off fourth-place
Brandeis by 396.83.
“We’ve been training for about one month
now, as opposed to those other two teams,
who have been training for two months,”
coach Adam Hoyt said. “Those two teams
were very well-rested. It was a focus meet for
them, but for us we were just looking to put
forth some of our best races.”
The Jumbos did just that, shining espe- Kelsey Bell/Tufts Daily
cially bright in the relay events. The 200-yard Sophomore diver Trevor Stack was runner-up
in the 3-meter dive and captured third in the
see MEN’S SWIMMING, page 19 1-meter.
14 The Tufts Daily Sports Monday, December 8, 2008

Ice Hockey

Jumbos get even with a pair of conference wins at home

Annie Wermeil/Tufts Daily

The team celebrates after senior forward Jared Melillo scored the game-winner against New England College Saturday afternoon at the Valley Forum II. The Jumbos pushed their record to
.500 with a pair of weekend victories and sit at 3-3-0 overall and 2-2-0 in the conference entering tomorrow night’s home battle against Framingham State.

by Evan Cooper things around, stringing together two
Daily Staff Writer consecutive wins this past weekend —
a feat it accomplished only once last
After a slow 1-3 start to its season, the season — defeating both New England
ice hockey team seems to have turned College (NEC) and St. Anselm at home
to improve to 3-3 overall.
ICE HOCKEY Saturday afternoon’s 3-2 win against
(3-2, 2-2 NESCAC/ECAC East) the NEC Pilgrims was one of Tufts’ tight-
at Malden Forum, Saturday est games of the season so far, with the
deciding goal tallied with less than 10
NEC 0 1 0 — 1 minutes remaining in the third period.
Tufts 2 0 1 — 3 With the score knotted at 2-2 since the
first period, the final frame was marked
by extremely physical play from both
at Malden, Mass., Friday
the Jumbos and the Pilgrims.
But at 11:41 of the third period,
St. Anslem 0 1 0 — 1 senior forward Jared Melillo buried the
Tufts 1 2 1 — 4 game-winning goal for his first tally of
the season. After Pilgrim sophomore
goalie Aaron Harvey stopped a shot
from the opposite point, Melillo picked
up the rebound and took advantage of
a wide-open net.
“[The goal] was just a good, team
effort,” Melillo said.
Tufts then had to fight off the surging
Pilgrims for the rest of the period, rely-
ing on its defense and solid physical
play to keep the puck away from Jumbo
freshman goalie Scott Barchard. But
the first-year proved critical to holding
the lead, posting 37 saves on the game
and 14 in the final frame, including
several after New England pulled its
own goalie with 1:35 remaining.
“We are really bonding as a defensive
unit right now,” Barchard said. “We
have been blocking shots since day
one, and it’s really a whole unit effort.”
“[New England] is a big, physical
team, so it is important to play physi-
cally all the time too,” coach Brian
Murphy said. “We were finishing checks
all the time.”
Tufts jumped on the Pilgrims early
in the game with a goal just 3:29 into
the first period, as sophomore forward
Dylan Cooper scored his second goal of
the season on a one-timer from soph-
omore forward Lindsay Walker and
junior co-captain Myles Neumann.
The Jumbos made it a 2-0 game just
see ICE HOCKEY, page 18

Men’s Track and Field Women’s Track and Field

Solid individual performances buoy McNamara makes case

runners during season opener
First meet serves as barometer for rest of indoor campaign
by Lauren Flament
Daily Staff Writer
The men’s track and field
team kicked off its indoor sea-
son with a downsized lineup
at the Husky Winter Carnival
at Northeastern on Saturday,
as just 28 Jumbos competed in
the meet while others watched
from the sidelines, including
21 returning letter-winners.
“We treat this meet as kind
of a time trial for us,” coach
Ethan Barron said. “It’s a
chance for us to gauge where
everybody’s at — how they’ve
gotten stronger and faster
over the summer and the fall. I
was very pleased with the per-
formances. We had a number
of athletes coming away with
[personal records] or New
England-qualifying marks.
for NCAAs in first race
Any time you can do that in
a time-trial setting is always a
great start to the season.”
Senior Phillip Rotella and
sophomore James Wheeler led
the Jumbos, with Rotella plac-
ing 19th in the 55-meter dash
and sixth in the 200-meter
dash and Wheeler, who did
not compete as a freshman,
tying Rotella for 19th in the
55-meter dash and notching
13th in the long jump. The
team also saw solid perfor-
mances from its throwers, as
sophomore Alex Gresham fin-
ished 14th in the weight throw
and classmate David Dorman
took 17th in the shot put.
“The sophomore throwers
have made some great gains
from where they were at last
year, and they are a lot bet-
ter than the marks they put
out on Saturday — [when they
were] getting the competition
rust off — and they’re getting
ready to take it to the next
level,” Barron said.
“We have a good group of
throwers, with a few veteran
guys that have been around
and now freshmen that look
promising,” junior quad-cap-
tain Nick Welch said. “They
have a good coach, and it will
be a strong group. There’s not
really any team that has a bulk
of their points coming from
their throws, but I think the
group as they are now has a
lot of possibility to contribute
a lot of the potential success
for the team this year.”
The highest finisher for Tufts
was junior Ikenna Acholonu,
see MEN’S TRACK, page 19
by Carly Helfand
Daily Editorial Board
“Your first track race is
nerve-wracking — it’s a totally
different terrain [than cross
country],” said sophomore
Stephanie McNamara, who led
the women’s track and field
team in its first meet of the
season two weeks after earning
All-American honors at cross
country Nationals.
So much for an adjustment
period.
McNamara wasted no time
before beginning to make
arrangements for her next
trip to Nationals, hitting the
NCAA provisional qualify-
ing mark in the 5,000-meter
event at Saturday’s Husky
Winter Carnival, hosted by
Northeastern University, with a
time of 17:23.61.
“After cross country ended,
the option I kind of give the
distance kids is if you want to
do a very light maintenance
program and run the first week,
that’s fine, but only if you’re not
overtired or [injured],” coach
Kristen Morwick said. “She was
feeling good, and we figured
we’d make the most of the cross
country peak and give her a
shot at the 5k.”
McNamara was the run-
ner-up in the race, finishing
behind only Sara Donahue of
the Greater Boston Track Club.
While Donahue crossed the line
well ahead of McNamara, run-
ning a 16:51.04 and hustling to
a lead upwards of 30 seconds,
McNamara kept up for much of
the race.
“They were both lapping the
field a lot and spending a lot of
time in lanes two and three on
a banked track, which is really
kind of tough,” Morwick said.
see WOMEN’S TRACK, page 19
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Women’s Squash

Injuries persist as shorthanded squad loses fifth straight

by Noah Schumer
Daily Editorial Board
After entering its fifth match of the
early season still lacking its full starting
lineup, the women’s squash team lost
9-0 at Amherst on Thursday, dropping its
record to 0-5 going into winter break.
WOMEN’S SQUASH
(0-5)
at Amherst, Mass., Thursday
Tufts 0
Amherst 9
“Our whole semester has been some-
what jumbled because of injuries,” assis-
tant coach Kelsey Engman said. “This was
the closest we’ve come to a full team, and
we probably were not mentally prepared
enough for the match. It was close last
year, but [Amherst] came out more pre-
pared and they were better. They went
after it.”
The Jumbos were short one player,
forcing them to concede the ninth slot
on the ladder and bumping several other
players up one spot, a problem they’ve
experienced all semester as the team has
defaulted at least one match in all five
of its contests this year. At the top of the
lineup, senior tri-captain Victoria Barba
continued her solid play, remaining com-
petitive throughout her match and taking
at least two points in each set.
Sophomore Valerie Koo also put forth
a notably strong effort at No. 2, winning
a point in each set against a tough oppo-
nent. Freshman Alix Michael returned
from an injury to make her collegiate
debut at the No. 5 spot, losing her first set
by the slim margin of 10-8 before drop-
ping the next two 9-1.
At No. 3, senior tri-captain Simone
Grant battled through an illness to take
four points from her opponent in the
third set, setting a spirited example for
her coaches and teammates.
“Simone gave a really great effort,”
Engman said. “She was sick, and con-
sidering that, she played so well. It was
inspirational to watch. She was running
down balls all over the court.”
“She did a great job bringing up team
morale,” added senior tri-captain Jessica
Herrmann, who was sidelined due to an
injury. “This whole season she’s had to
play at a spot higher than she’s used to
because of the injuries and [junior] Stef
[Marx] being abroad, which is not an easy
situation. But she’s handled it incredibly
well, and I’ve been really impressed with
how she’s fought.”
The team is looking to use its time off
during the break as a chance to work on
fitness. In addition, the Jumbos will be
traveling down to the Cayman Islands for
a week of training in early January.
“It’s tough because we’re worried about
some of the girls not having access to
squash courts in order to keep active,”
Engman said. “But the free time should
actually allow us to come back in better
shape than we are now. I’ve set up a com-
petition over who can work out the most
and keep in the best shape. The players
are going to email me each week with an
update on what they’ve been doing, and
I’m going to convert that to points.”
The squad also eagerly anticipates the
return of two key players from last year
— Herrmann and Marx — as well as the
debut of first-year Mercedes Barba.
Marx, who represented Tufts at the
College Squash Association Individuals
last year, is returning from studying
abroad. Herrmann and Barba are both
out with injuries.
“It will be great having Stef back,”
Engman said. “She’s a great player and a
really strong, positive force on the team.
She’ll be joining us on the Cayman trip
and she’s an inspiration for the rest of the
players because she’s such a fighter and is
tenacious out there.
“A few other teams are going to be in the
Caymans the same week as us,” she con-
tinued. “Hamilton, George Washington
and the women from Brown will be there,
so we may get a chance to play.”
After five difficult matches, the Jumbos
are hopeful about improving once the
spring portion of the season kicks off in
January, as they turn the page from one
semester to the next.
“Our main focus this season has really
been to stay positive about our game,”
Engman said. “We’ve had some tough
matches against a few of the top teams in
the country, and we’re trying to be realis-
tic and use it as a learning experience to
strive to get better.
“On the court, we could be more focused
and a bit tougher,” she continued. “We’ve
emphasized hitting the ball deeper in the
court in order to put our opponents more
on the defensive.”
Despite the early-season results, the
Jumbos’ goals for the rest of the season
remain the same.
“We’re still sticking with our goal of mak-
ing the B division at Nationals,” Herrmann
said. “It’s going to be tough, but we’ll be a
much stronger team next semester with
Stef and other people returning. We’re all
excited and enthusiastic about the rest of
the season.”

Men’s Squash

Tufts splits final weekend of season’s first half, looks

ahead to support lineup will receive when play resumes
by Thomas Eager
Daily Editorial Board
Despite ending the first half
of its season with a 2-5 record,
the men’s squash team enters the
MEN’S SQUASH
(2-5)
at Cambridge, Mass., Saturday
Tufts 6
MIT 3
at Amherst, Mass., Thursday
Tufts 0
Amherst 9
winter offseason with optimism
knowing that when it returns to
the court in the spring, its lineup
will be bolstered and ready to take
on the healthy competition that
still lies ahead.
Saturday saw the team over-
come the MIT Engineers 6-3 to
close out its fall semester cam-
paign with a victory. The contest,
however, might have been closer
than the Jumbos were expecting;
Tufts had swept MIT handily 9-0 in
each of the past three seasons. But
with a roster that awaits the return
of several key mid-lineup starters
from abroad, the squad has been
fielding a number of freshmen and
upperclassmen that have seen lim-
ited matchplay during their Tufts
squash careers.
“I think we’re glad to have [the
win], but that said I think we went
into it a little too lackadaisical and
so we had to address that at the
end especially,” senior tri-captain
Brian Rassel said. “Even though
we won 6-3, it was mostly our new
guys who lost toward the back at
[No.] 7 through 9, but it wasn’t so
much a problem there, just that
other than our No. 1 and 2, almost
everybody struggled somewhere in
their match against a team which
we were expecting to get a little bit
more from.”
Meanwhile, play on Thursday
saw the team suffer its fifth sweep
of the year: a 9-0 defeat at the hands
of the Amherst Lord Jeffs. The out-
come stood in stark contrast to
a pair of bouts with Amherst last
season, when the Jumbos dropped
two narrow 5-4 decisions to the
Lord Jeffs, though with the team’s
new-look and, admittedly ephem-
eral until the spring, lineup for
the fall, Thursday’s result was not
unexpected. The team was also
playing very shorthanded, with
players abroad and others out
due to illness, so the Jumbos had
to default the No. 9 match before
even taking court.
“In the van I was driving back
in, we were talking about wheth-
er we’re going to get a shot to play
them again at either the NESCAC
Tournament or Nationals because
I think that we felt that if we were
all playing at our appropriate
spot in the ladder that they were
a team we could compete with,”
Rassel said. “Just like the way you
can’t compare last year’s team to
this year’s team, it’s a whole new
dynamic … so we’re just hoping
to get that opportunity [of play-
ing Amherst again], and I don’t
think we’re dwelling too much on
that loss.”
“Amherst is a good team; they’ve
got a good program and they defi-
nitely treated us with respect out
there on the courts,” senior tri-
captain Josh Levinson added.
In terms of positive learning
points netted from yet another 9-0
loss this fall, Levinson said that he
was struck by the composure of
the players in the face of having to
play at a higher-than-normal slot
on the starting roster.
“In every match there were at
least one or two points where you
could see a transition to a focus
level,” Levinson said. “And again
it’s difficult going into a match
already defaulting our bottom
match and stepping up on the
ladder, [but] it was so good to
see that transition even if it hap-
pened for one or two points.”
With the fall portion of the sea-
son behind them, the Jumbos hit
the winter offseason primed for
the return of abroad competitors
who will strengthen the team con-
siderably. And even though it suf-
fered five 9-0 sweeps en route to
its 2-5 record, Tufts purposefully
scheduled difficult matches for the
fall while saving the more mean-
ingful competition for the spring
portion of its season in anticipa-
tion of having its full lineup.
“We’re really excited about gear-
ing up for the second half of the sea-
see MEN’S SQUASH, page 18

Athletes of the Week

MAureen O’Neill, women’s Swimming & Diving
In a week filled with stellar races across the board for Tufts, sophomore Maureen O’Neill distanced herself from the pack, totaling five first-
place finishes across two meets. The sophomore swimmer led the Jumbos to second place in the seven-team MIT Invitational in Cambridge
this weekend, winning the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events in addition to anchoring the first-place 200-yard freestyle relay team.
In the opening event of the meet, O’Neill swam a 24.44 split in her leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay, barely out-touching Wheaton’s
Dania Piscetta in the waning seconds, to give the Jumbos a first-place finish by 0.07 seconds. O’Neill followed up her performance with a
victory in the 50-yard freestyle, the same event in which she holds Tufts all-time record. She rounded out her three-victory day by winning
the 100-yard freestyle, edging out Piscetta by 0.11 seconds at the wall.
In the second and final home meet of the season on Wednesday against Wellesley, O’Neill once again anchored a winning 200-yard free-
style relay team as well as the dominant 200-yard medley relay, which emerged victorious by nearly five seconds. She narrowly missed out
by 0.15 seconds on a third first-place finish, taking second in the 50-yard backstroke behind senior teammate Michelle Caswell.
With winter recess and exams looming, O’Neill and the Jumbos (4-0) take a break from the competitive waters, focusing on a training
trip to Puerto Rico beginning on New Year’s Day. Tufts returns to action Jan. 17, taking on host Williams and Wesleyan in a tri-meet.
kelsey bell/Tufts daily

Scott Barchard, Ice Hockey

Freshman goalie Scott Barchard was the anchor of the best defensive effort thus far for the hockey team, leading the Jumbos to back-
to-back home victories over St. Anselm and New England College for their first weekend sweep in league play since 2006.
Coming into the matchups with the Hawks and the Pilgrims, Barchard had allowed 12 goals in four games but found his comfort zone
in the net, ceding a combined three goals in the wins over the weekend. Saturday saw Barchard rack up 37 saves as the Jumbos knocked
off New England College, 3-2 at Valley Forum II. The freshman withstood a barrage of shots from the Pilgrims, as the two goals came in a
span of two minutes in the first period.
Barchard’s weekend began with a 22-save effort in a 4-1 victory over visiting St. Anselm, dealing the Hawks their first loss of the season.
The first-year’s stellar play in the net allowed Tufts to secure its first win against St. Anselm since 2001.
Through six games in his rookie campaign, Barchard has posted a .909 save percentage, good enough for eighth in the conference, as
well as a 3.01 goals-against average. The Jumbos look to continue their two-game winning streak tomorrow with a home contest against
Framingham State before hanging up their pads for a month-long respite during winter break. Tufts will hit the ice in 2009 for three games
before the beginning of the spring semester on the Hill.
ANNIE WERMIEL/Tufts daily
Monday, December 8, 2008
Second-half defensive pressure proves too much for visiting Jumbo squad
MEN’S BASKETBALL
continued from page 13
also pulling down 11 rebounds
and notching three steals. It was
the fourth time in his last five
games that Bartolotta scored at
least 30 points.
“He took 12 shots and made
six of them,” Pierce said. “He
had 19 free throw attempts,
which I thought was a little
ridiculous. Some of the offi-
ciating was sketchy to say the
least. There wasn’t a whole lot
we can do about it. [Senior
co-captain] Aaron [Gallant]
and [junior] Dave [Beyel] did
what they were supposed to do,
keeping him out of the flow of
the offense. I thought we kept
him from doing the things he
wanted to do and he benefited
from 10 trips to the line.”
“I’m not really sure what it
was,” Gallant said. “I’ll just say
that he got to the line a lot and
he made his free throws. That
really helped them win.”
Gallant led Tufts with a
career-high 21 points on 6-of-
13 shooting, including 3-for-4
from behind the arc but claimed
that his offensive numbers were
meaningless in light of the loss.
“It means nothing,” he said.
“Absolutely nothing.”
Pierce contributed 18 points
of his own and grabbed 12
boards, but he was just 6-for-
17 from the floor and a mea-
ger 1-for-8 from three-point
range. Aside from Gallant and
Pierce, the rest of the squad
combined for an ugly 9-for-26
from the field.
“It’s just tough to go into that
gym and make shots,” Pierce
said. “It’s not really a shooter’s
gym — and I don’t say that
as an excuse. I was 1-for-8
from three after going 6-for-
8 at home. When people are
making those shots, it’s kind
of contagious. The more shots
we missed, the more it seemed
to pile up. They played good D,
but we still had looks that we
normally knock down.”
Tufts was ahead 36-32 going
into halftime, but MIT then
routed the Jumbos 47-30 in
the second half. In addition to
Bartolotta, fellow seniors Billy
Johnson and Bradley Gampel
also posted strong performanc-
es for MIT, scoring 18 and 13
points, respectively. Johnson
also pulled down eight boards
while Gampel contributed eight
The Tufts Daily Sports 17
assists.
“We didn’t play that well in
the first half,” Pierce said. “They
missed some shots and we
made a couple more shots, but
we didn’t play that well either,
so to be up by four was really
a gift. In the second half, those
shots that we’d made in the first
stopped going in. They were
really focusing on me down low,
double- or triple-teaming. Any
time someone drove they had
guys stepping up and taking
charges, and we didn’t take care
of the basketball. Combine all
those things and it’s easy to lose
in an opponent’s gym.”
“I think it may have just been
one of those nights,” Gallant
said. “I know they doubled us
up sometimes and that took
us out of our offense a little
bit. I think it was just a bit of
inexperience playing against a
D like that.”
MIT took the lead for good
three minutes into the sec-
ond half when Johnson stole
the ball at half court and fin-
ished the fast break with a
dunk. Freshman guard Jamie
Karraker hit a deep three-
pointer to put the Engineers
ahead 55-50 with 10 minutes
to go, and MIT then stretched
its lead to double digits as
Gampel and Bartolotta con-
tinued to reach the free throw
line. Gallant put the Jumbos
within six after making a
jumper with 2:17 left, but the
Engineers went 8-for-10 from
the free throw line over the
rest of the game to secure the
victory.
The Jumbos will look to
rebound from the loss when
they hit the road tomor-
row night to take on the
University of New England.
The Noreasters are also 4-3 on
the year, including 1-1 against
NESCAC competition.
“We expect them to be not
very big but very tough and very
quick,” Gallant said. “They’ll
throw full-court press at us all
game. It’ll be a big test to see
how we handle and take care of
the ball. They’re going to be in
our faces all night.”
“They’re a small team,” Pierce
said. “There’s nobody above
6-foot-4. It’s going to be a hos-
tile environment. We need to Andrew Morgenthaler/Tufts Daily
take care of the ball, pound it Senior co-captin Aaron Gallant, shown here during Thursday night’s home contest against Plymouth State, led
inside, and hopefully make the the men’s basketball team with a career-high 21 points, though a lackluster second-half doomed the Jumbos in
shots we missed today.” their 79-66 loss to MIT in Cambridge, Mass.

Training trip to prepare Bigelow’s team for its spring semester competition
WOMEN’S SWIMMING
continued from page 13
The Jumbos tallied 700 points through-
out the meet, second only to the 970.5
posted by Invitational-winner NYU, a
team that began training two months
before the Tufts squad. But the Jumbos
trumped host MIT, a feat that evaded the
team in recent years.
By capturing second, Tufts also surpassed
NESCAC rivals Bowdoin and Colby, as well as
Wheaton and Brandeis, a team the Jumbos
defeated in a dual meet Nov. 23.
“Our kids really stepped it up this week-
end, especially under the tough conditions
with exams coming up and our meet on
Wednesday,” coach Nancy Bigelow said.
“They were all feeling fatigued toward
the end because 27 hours in this place is
a lot of swimming. But top to bottom, we
exceeded our expectations and certainly
rose to the challenge today.”
Sophomore Maureen O’Neill, a three-
time winner in freestyle events, led the
way for Tufts, racking up crucial points
for her squad. Never shying away from
the photo finish, O’Neill took first in
both the 50-yard freestyle, winning by
.36 seconds, and the 100, touching the
wall 0.11 seconds ahead of her nearest
competitor.
O’Neill was also the anchor leg of the
200-yard freestyle relay, joining fresh-
men Courtney Adams, Paulina Ziolek and
Valerie Eacret to finish first by 0.07 sec-
onds. O’Neill’s 24.44 final split allowed
the Jumbos to surge ahead and narrowly
escape Wheaton’s A team.
“She’s a sophomore, but all of the fresh-
men on the relay clearly look up to her as
their leader,” Burke said of O’Neill. “As
a freshman, it can be stressful because
there is a lot of pressure to do well,
so they need upperclassmen like her to
handle it as an example.”
Juniors Lindsay Gardel and Kelsey Bell
took first and second place, respectively,
in both the 1- and 3-meter dives, earn-
ing the Jumbos crucial points early on in
the Invitational. The 800-yard freestyle
relay team of Eacret, freshmen Annie
Doisneau and Kathryn Russell and soph-
omore Megan Kono took first, distancing
itself from the rest of the pack by more
than three seconds.
Kono, the Tufts record holder in the
1,000- and 1,650-yard freestyles, narrowly
missed out on becoming a dual winner
on the weekend, finishing behind only
NYU’s Margaret Rippe in the 500-yard
freestyle.
Other notable performances for the
Jumbos included Eacret’s second-place
finish in the 100-butterfly and Doisneau’s
second-place finish in the 200-yard free-
style, which bested her closest opponent
by just under one second. Additionally,
senior tri-captain Katie Swett took sec-
ond in the 200-yard breaststroke, while
the 400-yard freestyle relay team of
Doisneau, Adams, Eacret and O’Neill
finished runner-up in the event by 0.57
seconds.
“Our kids really stepped it
up this weekend, especially
under the tough conditions
with exams coming up and
our meet on Wednesday ... Top
to bottom, we exceeded our
expectations and certainly
rose to the challenge today.”
Nancy Bigelow
coach
“It was really a group effort,” Swett
said. “Not only do we have depth, we have
great swimmers. In the past, we would
have one person win two events but not
much else. Now, the depth combined
with talent is really helping us this year.”
Tufts will take a break from the water for
the holiday season, returning to competi-
tion on Jan. 17 with a tri-meet at nation-
al powerhouse Williams with Wesleyan.
Bigelow, however, assured that her team
will be aptly prepared for the heightened
competition, as the Jumbos will take a
two-week training trip to Puerto Rico in
early January.
“The trip is kind of like hell week in
football for us, but it only makes us stron-
ger,” Swett said. “We’re done with finals,
so we don’t have to worry about home-
work or papers, so it allows us to focus on
swimming and put all our effort into the
team. In the end, it always pays off.”
When faced with more crucial NESCAC
meets, the team’s ability to rally around
each other will take precedence. That was
evident throughout the weekend, and the
Jumbos believe their stellar performance
is a sign of good things to come in 2009.
“A big part of our success [Saturday]
was the support felt from other people
on the team,” Bigelow said. “When you
get on the block, you’re excited, but you
also feel like the rest of the team is there
swimming with you. This meet definitely
motivated us, gave us a great sense of
confidence going into next year. People
are going to train harder because they
believe in themselves, and this meet defi-
nitely gave us the confidence we need.”
“This was absolutely a great weekend
— we exceeded our expectations by far,”
Burke said. “It was exciting and it defi-
nitely made everyone that much more
excited for NESCACs. We just need to
keep swimming through the break, stay
in shape and come back and take on the
other NESCAC schools. In a way, we feel
unstoppable right now.”
18 The Tufts Daily Sports Monday, December 8, 2008

Barchard staunch guarding Offseason training trip to Cayman Islands will

net throughout weekend wins
ICE HOCKEY the Hawks and fending off all
continued from page 14
1:33 later when they were able
to dig the puck out of a tussle
behind the Pilgrims’ net and
feed sophomore forward Tom
Derosa at the opposite side of
the box, allowing him to bury
the puck in its far side.
Tufts would not enjoy its
cushion for long, however, as
New England junior captain
Trevor Turner scored a power-
play goal to cut the lead in half
at 13:50 in the first period.
The Jumbo defense started
to break down after the goal,
and New England capital-
ized: Barely two minutes after
Turner’s tally, Tufts coughed
up the puck deep in its own
zone, and Pilgrims sophomore
Simon Laudon-Sorlin easily
netted it over a sprawled-out
Barchard to even the score.
Both offenses were quiet
for the entire second frame,
but neither physical play nor
penalties were lacking, as the
Pilgrims registered 12 penal-
ties to the Jumbos’ 10. The
game also saw the teams go
four-on-four on two occasions,
when players were called for
matching penalties.
Friday night’s 4-1 home-
opener win against St. Anselm
marked Tufts’ first against the
Hawks since November 2001.
The Jumbos’ power play strug-
gled during the contest, failing
to capitalize on a five-on-three
early in the first period and
going 0-5 on the night. The
penalty kill, on the other hand,
proved once again to be one
of the team’s strengths, kill-
ing five of six penalties in the
game and keeping the Hawks
off the board for the entire
first period despite three Tufts
penalties.
“Today the penalty-kill
picked us up, because our
power-play fell a little flat,”
Murphy said. “We need to work
on special teams.”
Freshman and scoring lead-
er Nick Resor put the Jumbos
on the board first, burying a
rebound at 13:32 of the first
period for his fourth goal of
the season.
Barchard played flawlessly
in the first period, stopping a
number of offensive flurries by
12 shots he faced.
“I just came here to win
games,” Barchard said. “There
is no added pressure.”
In the second period, the
Jumbos’ offense began mesh-
ing well, and just 35 seconds
into the period, Cooper scored
his first goal of the year on a
two-on-one, waiting until the
last second before ripping the
puck over St. Anslem goalie
Alex Wyse.
Although the Jumbos kept
the pressure on the Hawks,
outshooting them 28-23 on the
game, Hawks sophomore Nick
Wheeler cut the lead to 2-1 on
a power-play goal at 9:27 in the
second with a shot from the
point through heavy traffic in
front of the net. Still, that was
the only shot to beat Barchard
the rest of the game.
“[Barchard] has played well,”
Murphy said. “He really picked
it up tonight.”
Tufts’ offense responded
quickly to quell any attempt
at evening the score, as senior
defender Phil Clark dug the
puck out of the corner and
fed Walker in the slot for an
insurance goal at 11:21, mak-
ing it a two-goal game again at
3-1. The remainder of the sec-
ond period and all of the third
were very tight and physical,
with the teams combining for
another seven penalties, but
both offenses remained quiet.
St. Anselm gave it a last shot
to get back in the game by
pulling their goalie with 1:26
remaining, but the Jumbos
successfully kept them away
from Barchard and even added
a little more insurance with an
empty-net goal by freshman
forward Matt Amico with 0:39
left in the contest.
“They were pressing the
neutral zone well,” Barchard
said.
The pair of wins was key for
Tufts, improving its NESCAC/
ECAC East record to 2-2 after
the slow start to the season. The
Jumbos will look to keep their
momentum going tomorrow
night at home, when they face
off against the Framingham
State Rams in a home non-
conference contest, Tufts’ last
game before winter recess.
offer experience against competitive clubs
MEN’S SQUASH
continued from page 16
son and taking a whole new level
of focus because every time we
swing the racket it’s going to be a
win or lose situation as opposed to
this fall where [our match results]
turned out exactly as anticipated,”
Rassel said. “There wasn’t a lot of
doubt or question about that, so
we’re excited to get into the real
part of the season where the focus
is better because a lot more is
going to be riding on it.”
“We definitely started the sea-
son with some of the best com-
petition we face in the entire year,
Jumbos roll into winter break with 5-1 mark
despite subpar play, tough fall semester schedule
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
continued from page 13
and make it hard for them;
We talked a lot about what
they want to do, and we took
away what they’re best at.”
“I think we showed some
heart finally on defense,”
senior co-captain Kim
Moynihan said. “We got into
the passing lanes, we got up
and pressured the ball, and
our posts did a really good
job. We really worked as a
team, which was nice.”
Tufts honed in its defen-
sive efforts on Colby-Sawyer’s
low-post duo of junior for-
ward Terri Duffy and senior
center Emma Pasquale, who
took court Saturday averag-
ing a combined 30.5 points
per game. The Jumbos’ front-
court trio of senior center
Katie Tausanovitch, junior
forward Julia Baily and fresh-
man forward Rachel Figaro
neutralized the Chargers’ top
threats, holding Duffy and
Pasquale to just 17 points
combined.
“We try to improve on
every aspect of our game,
but defense has always been
our key,” said Baily, who
also contributed a game-
high 20 points. “This week,
we as a team really focused
in practice on our defense,
and I really tried to focus on
defense for this game. [Duffy]
and against teams like that, to
have that experience is impor-
tant,” Levinson added. “And to
have that experience of playing
quality opponents and ending
the season on a win, and looking
into winter break knowing that
we’re getting our reinforcements,
is good too.”
As part of its offseason prepa-
ration for the spring, the Jumbos
will take a five-day training trip to
the Cayman Islands, where they
will scrimmage other squads and
practice twice daily. Once that
concludes, they expect to utilize
the knowledge gleaned from a fall
was their best player, and to
keep her under her season
average was a good thing.”
The Jumbos never trailed,
jumping out to a 12-2 lead
across the first 3:07 and
building their advantage
up to 14 by halftime. The
Chargers threatened to make
things interesting in the sec-
ond half, whittling Tufts’ lead
down to six with 15:19 to play,
but the Jumbos responded
with a 19-0 run — during
which they received scoring
contributions from six dif-
ferent players — to put the
game away.
In addition to Baily’s sec-
ond 20-point performance of
the season, Tufts also saw a
strong individual effort from
Moynihan, who came off the
bench for the first time since
her sophomore year after sit-
ting out practice last week
with a nagging foot injury.
In 18 minutes, Moynihan tal-
lied 14 points on 56 percent
shooting, including seven in a
row during the Jumbos’ game-
breaking second-half run.
“Kim was a great spark,”
Berube said. “That was huge.
She hasn’t been practicing
because of her sore Achilles,
so for her to come in and
spark us off the bench like
that was awesome.”
The victory marked the end
of tough competition and com-
bine with that the return of their
abroad players in order to take on
future competition in full stride.
“I’d say right now in the fall
we had a good practice sched-
ule. It was a lot of work; we had
some training with the trainers
at the gym and going off that
experience, putting a little more
focus on pre-match preparation
and then taking advantage of this
break,” Levinson said. “And I real-
ly feel that the combination of the
new players and the combination
of what we’re going to do, we will
have a different team.”
of what was a successful first
semester six-game stretch for
the Jumbos. Despite spurts of
subpar play, the team man-
aged to pick up five of those
games playing a schedule load-
ed with some of the best out-
of-conference schools in New
England, including four teams
that appeared in the NCAA
Tournament last season.
“It feels great to be 5-1,
absolutely,” Berube said.
“It’s better to learn our les-
sons early on in the season
and learn them against great
opponents; I’m pleased that
we ended this semester like
this. Hopefully, we can bot-
tle up that defensive inten-
sity and remember that that’s
how we have to play. We can’t
have games like Salem State;
I hope we’ve learned from
that.”
Tufts will not hold anoth-
er practice until Dec. 28,
two days before it travels to
Worcester, Mass. for the WPI
Tournament. The two-day
affair will kick off a slate of
four winter break non-con-
ference games — culminating
in a contest against NESCAC
rival Bates that will not count
towards Tufts’ conference
record — that will serve as
the Jumbos’ final tune-up for
NESCAC play, which tips off
Jan. 16 against Williams.

StatISTICS | Standings SCHEDULE | Dec. 8 - Dec. 12
MON TUE WED THU FRI

Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Ice Hockey at University of

(4-1, 0-0 NESCAC) (1-3-0, 0-2-0 NESCAC/ECAC East) Men’s
(X-X, 0-0 NESCAC) Basketball New England
NESCAC OVERALL 7 p.m.
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L W L T W L T
W L W L
Amherst 0 0 8 0 Middlebury 4 0 0 6 0 0 Women’s
Amherst 0 0 6 0
Bates 0 0 5 1 Hamilton 3 1 0 3 1 0 Basketball
Bates 0 0 3 3
Bowdoin 0 0 4 2 Williams 3 1 0 4 2 0
Bowdoin 0 0 6 1
Colby 0 0 5 2 Bowdoin 3 1 1 5 1 1 vs.
Colby 0 0 6 3
Conn. Coll 0 0 1 6 Amherst 2 1 1 3 2 1 Ice Hockey Framingham
Conn. Coll 0 0 4 3 St. 8:30 p.m.
Middlebury 0 0 4 4 Trinity 2 2 0 3 3 0
Middlebury 0 0 7 2
Trinity 0 0 7 0 Tufts 2 2 0 3 3 0
Trinity 0 0 2 5 Men’s
Tufts 0 0 5 1 Colby 2 3 0 2 5 1
Tufts 0 0 4 3 Swimming and .
Wesleyan 0 0 5 2 Conn. Coll. 1 2 1 4 2 1
Wesleyan 0 0 1 5 Diving
Williams 0 0 2 5 Wesleyan 1 3 0 1 5 0
Williams 0 0 5 2
Individual Statistics Women’s
Individual Statistics Individual Statistics Swimming and
G A Pts. .
PPG RPG APG PPG RPG APG Diving
Tom Derosa 3 3 6
Jon Pierce 23.9 9.3 1.0 Julia Bailey 15.3 7.3 1.5
Nick Resor 4 4 5
Aaron Gallant 12.7 2.3 1.3 Colleen Hart 14.0 4.8 5.0 Indoor Track
Lindsay Walker 2 2 5
Dave Beyel 9.7 3.7 1.9 Kim Moynihan 9.5 2.8 2.2 and Field
Dylan Cooper 2 2 5
Matt Galvin 6.6 3.3 5.0 K. Tausanovitch 9.2 4.8 1.2
Mike Vitale 0 0 5
A. Quezada 6.3 0.3 0.8 Casey Sullivan 7.3 2.8 0.8
Matt Amico 1 1 3
James Long 4.9 3.9 0.1 Rachel Figaro 6.0 5.2 1.0
Andy Davis 1 1 2 Men’s
Dan Cook 4.3 1.9 0.3 Lindsay Weiner 4.5 0.8 0.7
Phil Clark 0 0 2 Squash
Tom Selby 3.6 4.1 1.1 Katie Puishys 2.4 1.6 0.4 .
Cory Korchin 0 0 2
Reed Morgan 2.9 2.0 1.1 Stacy Filocco 2.3 0.7 0.7
Doug Wilson 0 0 2
Sam Mason 2.3 2.7 0.7 Katie Wholey 2.3 0.5 0.3
Team 17 26 43
Max Cassidy 1.6 1.2 0.4 Vanessa Miller 2.0 3.3 1.8 Women’s
Brian Lowry 1.6 1.4 0.2 Kate Barnosky 2.2 0.5 1.5 Squash
Goalkeeping S GA S%
Peter Saba 1.0 1.7 0.5 Issy Cless 2.0 0.0 0.0
Scott Barchard 160 16 .909
Jay McNamara 25 4 .862
Team 77.7 40.7 14.0 Team 77.5 40.3 17.3 Team 185 21 .898 Jumbocast
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WOMEN’S TRACK
continued from page 14
“She really only had a couple bad laps
where she fell off the pace a little bit,
but she was able to come back at the
end and keep it together.”
“I had someone to shoot for, and
while she ran an amazing time and
pretty much ran away with it, I still had
her for the first mile or two,” McNamara
said. “I felt really lucky to be able to run
behind someone like that.”
With much of the team sitting out
the first competition, for the rest of the
Jumbos, the meet was more about assess-
ing their fitness levels to start the season.
“People are just starting to condition
for the most part,” McNamara said. “It’s
a trial just to go out and see what kind
of shape you’re in and what you want to
focus on.”
For Tufts, the results were promising,
as the team saw several strong perfor-
mances and a number of impressive
debuts. Among them was that of fresh-
man Dayorsha Collins, who narrowly
missed the provisional mark in the high
jump with a showing of 1.62 meters.
“We hadn’t done a lot of jumping, just
mostly training and some really easy
technique stuff,” Morwick said. “We
really only put her approach together
on Thursday — that’s two days before
the meet … She is going to be so good.
If you look at the quality of the per-
formances over the weekend, she was
outstanding.”
Freshman Shantal Richards also
looked good in her first meet for Tufts,
posting a 4.79-meter long jump after
kicking her foot back on a landing cost
her close to a foot and a half. Her mark
left her in 22nd place, just behind junior
Logan Crane, who came in 15th.
“She just has a natural ability,” Crane
said of Richards. “She’s going to do phe-
nomenally in the long jump — I have
great hopes for her. We just have to keep
working on it — both of us have to.”
Crane herself was also busy on the
track, running her fastest time ever to
start the season in the preliminaries for
the 55-meter dash. Unfortunately for
Crane, her time was bested by a num-
ber of Div. I athletes that edged her for
spots in the final race.
“I had someone to shoot for,
and while she ran an amaz-
ing time and pretty much ran
away with it, I still had her
for the first mile or two. I felt
really lucky to be able to run
behind someone like that.”
Stephanie McNamara
sophomore
Senior Halsey Stebbins also deliv-
ered, running a 27.25 for 27th in the
200-meter dash and posting the fastest
split in the 4x400-meter relay.
“I was pleased with the performanc-
es of the upperclassmen,” Morwick
said. “I thought Halsey ran a great 200.
When they get deeper into the heats
of the 200, they don’t allow blocks, so
she’s basically doing that from a stand-
ing start.”
While the meet’s results may not have
been a representation of the team as a
whole, Morwick was pleased with her
team’s opening performance.
“It’s the first meet after training since
September, so there are a lot of things
to shake out and it’s never going to be
perfect,” she said. “I thought overall it
was a really good first meet, and I was Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily
really happy with how well we did … Clocking in at a time of 17:23.61, sophomore Stephanie McNamara hustled to second place
Hopefully that will give them an inspi- in the 5000-meter run during Saturday’s Husky Winter Carnival at Northeastern. The sopho-
ration to train over break.” more’s showing surpassed the NCAA provisional qualifying time.

Busy January schedule could make or
break season when Jumbos hit pool
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freestyle relay team of sophomores David
Meyer and Gordy Jenkins, senior Andrew
Shields and freshman Owen Rood finished
in second place, as did the 400-yard free-
style relay team of Meyer, Shields, Rood and
sophomore Andrew Altman. Meyer and
Altman also made up half of the 800-yard
freestyle team, combining with sophomore
Joe Lessard and freshman Alex Strittmatter to
finish second behind NYU’s A squad.
“The 800-freestyle relay was one of the
best races I have ever seen,” senior quad-
captain James Longhurst said. “Our team
was right behind MIT going into the last leg
and we ended up winning by just over half
a second ... Everyone on that relay put up
incredible times.”
“Those were some of the fastest relay
times we’ve had in five years, aside from
the NESCAC Championships or the NCAAs,”
Hoyt said.
Featured in the 200 and the 400 was fresh-
man sprinter Rood, who anchors the relay
teams. Rood posted the fastest splits for both
relays and the third-fastest split of all of the
swimmers in the 200. Rood also placed third
in his individual event, the 50-yard freestyle.
“He’s very talented,” Hoyt said. “He’s a
good contributor, especially on our relays.”
The Jumbo divers stayed true to their
usual successes, with junior Rob Matera
placing first in both the 1- and 3-meter dives
while sophomore Trevor Stack placed third
in the 3-meter and second in the 1-meter.
All four Tufts divers placed in the top nine in
both events, earning 122 of Tufts’ total 740.83
points.
“Our divers outscored all six of the other
diving teams at the meet,” Hoyt said. “Going
into every meet we know that we’ve got our
core of divers who can compete against any-
one, and we look to our divers to perform well
in every meet and they never let us down.”
Despite all of the reasons to pat themselves
on the back, the Jumbos are not ready to let up
just yet. After winter break, Tufts will look to
its rematch with MIT, as well as meets against
BC, BU and NESCAC rival Williams. With five
competitions crammed into January — some
back-to-back and others merely three days
apart — the month could either make or
break the Jumbos’ season.
“Going into the break and heading off to
our training trip we will focus on keeping our
intensity up, focusing on the techniques we
need to swim fast and making sure that we
stay positive so that this season can be our
best season ever,” senior quad-captain Ben
Moskowitz said.
“Even though everyone swam really
fast this weekend, there is always room for
improvement,” Longhurst said. “We still have
to work on the little things like starts, turns
and breathing patterns. It is still the first half
of the season so we have a lot of time to get
everything down before NESCACs, and we
are so fast right now that no one knows how
fast we will go when we have perfect races.”
Runners return to the track after
injuries sustained at Northeastern meet
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who took third place in the 55-meter
hurdles with a time of 8.01. Other
noteworthy efforts for Tufts came
from senior Marcelo Norsworthy and
sophomore Greg Pallotta, who had
both missed past seasons due to inju-
ry. Norsworthy took 10th in the 1,000
meters, running it in 2:42.17, while
Pallotta placed 12th in the 3,000-meter
run, clocking in at 9:12.17.
“I was pretty happy with [my perfor-
mance],” Pallotta said. “I didn’t really
expect anything going into it. I just
wanted to put on the uniform again
and get out there and race ... It gives
us — us being me and the coaches —
a good jumping off point to see what
kind of shape I’m in and what my
body can handle, so I think it’s a good
indicator of where I am at this point.”
A foot injury during last year’s
indoor and outdoor seasons had
prevented Pallotta, who is also a
cross country runner in the fall, from
training for 10 weeks. Since then,
shin problems have also kept him
from the track.
“I think once I get 100 percent
healthy and I’m able to train, it will
take a couple months of good solid
training, but I see no reason why I
wouldn’t be able to be where I was
before,” Pallotta said.
“Overall, some of the younger cross
country guys showed that their fitness
from the cross country season is now
translating into good performances
on the track, and the sprinters had
a pretty solid day,” Welch said. “For
most people, it takes at least one race
to sort of shake the cobwebs out and
get into the swing of things and com-
peting. That’s why it’s nice that we had
this meet in December.”
The team will not be racing again
until after winter break Jan. 17, when
it hosts the Tufts Invitational.
“As a whole, the team did a great
job with what we’ve worked on,”
Barron said. “So early in the season,
we’ve only be able to work on a lot of
parts, whether it’s acceleration for the
sprinters or endurance for the dis-
tance runners or the runway for the
jumpers. I think that across the board
everyone did a great job executing
what we’ve worked on, and now we
have four more months until indoor
championships and six more months
until outdoor championships, to fill in
the holes.
“Really this meet sets up more for
practice,” he continued. “Now we
know what we have to work on, we
know what we have to work with, and
we’ll get in a lot more quality workouts
that will make our second-semester
meets that much more competitive.”
20 The Tufts Daily Advertisement Monday, December 8, 2008