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Task force drafts

declaration on
campus speech
By Giovanni Russonello
Daily Editorial Board

The Task Force on Freedom of

Expression, commissioned by University
President Lawrence Bacow to craft
a school-wide speech policy in the
wake of the Primary Source harass-
ment scandal, released its first public
draft yesterday and requested feed-
back from the Tufts community.
The draft outlines “a statement of
principle” for the university, not a
concrete set of guidelines for dealing
with free-speech debates, according
to Task Force Chair Jeswald Salacuse.
It directs members of the Tufts com-
munity “to respect the freedom of
other community members to inquire

Solar taxi
and express themselves freely; … to
exercise freedom of expression and
inquiry in ways that respect the digni-
ty of others; and … to create a climate

driver stops
that is conducive to learning and in
which all community members … are
free from various forms of harassment
and intimidation.”

at Tufts
Swiss schoolteacher
discusses worldwide journey
in solar-powered car
by Michael Del Moro
Daily Editorial Board
A car powered completely by the sun
made a stop at the Fletcher School yester-
day during a global tour promoting electric
vehicles as a means of alleviating climate
change.
Louis Palmer, a schoolteacher from
Switzerland, has piloted the “solar taxi”
through a 15-month voyage that will
have spanned 28 countries when it enters
Canada at the end of the week,.
Palmer called the journey unprecedent-
ed. “It’s, in fact, the first time ever in history
that a solar-powered car has traveled all
around the world,” he said.
The draft, which the task force will
amend after the community provides
feedback, seemed to move away from
some of the directives Bacow gave the
group in his charge in January of this
year.
Bacow has indicated his support
for guaranteeing all First Amendment
rights to everyone on Tufts’ campus.
He affirmed this in an e-mail to the
Tufts community in the wake of the
2006 Christmas carol parody that
ignited concerns about how the uni-
versity balances freedom of expres-
Rebekah sokol/tufts daily sion with preventing harassment.
Palmer was able to secure two silicon Louis Palmer, a Swiss schoolteacher, made a The Primary Source, Tufts’ con-
batteries valued at $15,000 dollars each, stop at Tufts yesterday as part of his world servative magazine, released the
as well as solar panels, thanks to dona- tour in a car powered by solar energy. carol, which many deemed racist, in
tions from the manufacturers; the panels December 2006. The magazine then
were produced by Q-Cells AG. This made on solar power. released an article on Islamic funda-
it possible for Palmer and a team of about The car can travel about 60-66 miles mentalism in April 2007 that many
200 people, including Swiss students, to on “a day with good sunshine,” a distance also found offensive. For these pieces,
manufacture the car in about a year. which Palmer said is adequate considering the Committee on Student Life (CSL)
The vehicle uses solar energy directly that the average North American car covers found the Source guilty of harassment
when in drive but can go about 200 miles about 30 miles a day. It uses about 8 to 10 and the creation of a hostile envi-
on a full charge of the battery, which it kilowatt-hours of electricity for every 100 ronment. The CSL ruled to force the
relies on when sunlight is unavailable. It kilometers (62 miles) and travels at a top Primary Source to attribute all its arti-
has never been tested during the winter. speed of about 55 miles per hour. cles to authors in the future, but Dean
Palmer noted that he installed half of Palmer said that his next prototype, of Undergraduate Education James
the solar panels that he received on the car, which will likely not be produced until the Glaser overturned this restriction. He
and the other half on the roof of his home.
This allows him to charge and run the car see SOLAR, page 2 see TASK FORCE, page 2

Alumni Ambassadors Program to double, increase Tufts’ connection with alumni

by Sarah Butrymowicz
Daily Editorial Board
Fresh off a successful launch last
year, the University Advancement
Division’s Student Ambassadors
Program will nearly double in size
this year and conduct four times
as many alumni interviews.
The advancement office emp-
loys the student ambassadors
to interview alumni about their
experiences at Tufts, their per-
spectives on the university’s
direction, and their thoughts
about what Tufts could do to
help alumni remain connected
to the school, according to Chris
Simoneau, the director of central
development programs.
Last year, eight ambassadors
conducted 50 interviews, mostly
in the Boston area. This year,
the program will hire at least
15 people, and it is aiming to
talk to 200 alumni.
Simoneau said the inter-
views’ sole purpose is to allow
alumni to connect with stu-
dents and provide feedback.
Ambassadors do not solicit
money or propose new proj-
ects to the alumni. of the Tufts program, heard
“The bottom line is we don’t
want to dictate to alumni
the programs and messag-
es that we want, but [would
rather hear] what they want,”
Simoneau said. “We’re on a
listening tour, so to speak.”
According to Simoneau, the
program borrows ideas “lib-
erally” from a Georgetown
University program by the
same name, a part of that
school’s overarching alum-
ni outreach program, the
Discovery Initiative.
Corey Barr and Nancy
Gram-olini, co-coordinators
the president of Georgetown
speak about the program at a
conference and presented the
idea to the Tufts advancement
office. The Georgetown pro-
gram was created in spring of
2006.
“It started because George-
town, like many schools, was
thinking about how we can
broaden our base,” said Tim
Foley, program manager of
the Discovery Initiative. “You
have a lot of people that feel
positive about Georgetown,”
but that don’t necessarily have
an ongoing relationship after
graduation, he said.
The Georgetown program
boasts 60 student ambassa-
dors, who conduct interviews
on a part-time basis, and a few
recent graduates who inter-
view full time. All together, the
ambassadors average about
1,000 interviews per year.
Whether Tufts’ program will
reach the size of its Georgetown
counterpart depends in part
on its ability to obtain fund-
ing. It is continually seeking to
expand, Barr said.
“First, we’d like to start meet-
ing with alumni from the dif-
ferent [graduate] schools [and
to] expand geographically,” he
said.
see AMBASSADORS, page 2

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The Coen Brother’s new- For some Jumbos, alco-
est,“Burn After Reading,” hol is an integral part of News 1 Op-Ed 9
succeeds thanks to an college life. But for oth- Features 3 Comics 11
all-star cast. ers, it is less appealing. Arts | Living 5 Classifieds 12
Editorial | Letters 8 Sports Back
see ARTS, page 5 see FEATURES, page 3
2 The Tufts Daily News Tuesday, September 16, 2008

China is leader in solar energy industry

SOLAR
continued from page 1
end of 2009, should be able to reach speeds
of up to 155 miles per hour. This should
bolster its chances in a planned around-
the-world race.
Palmer said the car underscores the
increasing viability of innovative, clean
energies that can help to reverse the effects
of climate change.
“We have the solutions,” he said. “We
can stop [the problem] if we want.”
Sarah Hammond Creighton, the program
director at Tufts’ Office of Sustainability, said
in her introduction to Palmer’s remarks that
the vehicle provides a concrete example of
energy innovation at work.
“The efforts of the solar taxi are a phe-
nomenal way to get people engaged in
things,” Creighton said.
She pointed to Tufts’ efforts to address
climate change with programs such as
research on electric cars, an electric lawn-
mower, and LED lighting systems. She
noted that 100 percent of Tufts’ energy
comes from natural gas and hydropower,
resources that she said cut carbon emis-
sions in half.
Had Palmer paid for the car himself, it
would have cost him upwards of $60,000
dollars, but if mass-produced, the price to
Rebekah sokol/tufts Daily consumers would be much more manage-
School spirit is on display at the University Advancement Division, which sponsors the able. The car could potentially be manufac-
Student Ambassadors Program. tured for $10,000 and have enough electric-
travel 1.4 million miles, provided that the
land is covered with solar panels and not
corn stalks.
After leaving Switzerland, Palmer trav-
eled through Europe, Asia and the United
States, hosting personalities ranging from
Jay Leno to U.N. Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon in his solar-powered car.
During his travels, Palmer observed that
Germany was the most advanced country
in terms of voltaic solar panels that are used
for direct electrical energy, while Turkey
was the leader in solar thermal panels that
are used for heating.
Still, Palmer said that China is at the
forefront of the nascent solar energy indus-
try, noting a proliferation of new buildings
there with solar thermal heating on top.
“This is the world leader … for new ener-
gies,” he said.
China is also the only country to mass
produce the silicon batteries needed for
solar cars, an undertaking which is essential
to bring the price of the batteries down.
Japan barred the solar taxi from entering
the country because of an unresolved dis-
pute originating in World War II that con-
cerns Swiss-licensed cars, but Palmer said
that Japanese car companies are already
capable of harvesting the benefits of solar
power.
“They know how to do it. They don’t have
to ask a Swiss schoolteacher how to do it,”
he said, adding that increasing demand for

Simoneau: Alums happy with program

AMBASSADOR
continued from page 1
While school is in session, students
are limited to interviewing alumni in
the Boston area, but Barr hopes they
will also be able to conduct interviews
while at home on breaks.
Junior Adam Frank, who became
involved in the program in January
after receiving an e-mail from Barr and
Gramolini, is a standout among stu-
dent ambassadors.
Frank conducted 40 interviews this
summer, most of which took place in
Fairfield County, Connecticut.
“I really liked meeting a ton of differ-
ent people,” said Frank, who has inter-
viewed a range of alumni, from the
Class of 1945 to the Class 2001. “The
experiences are just so different.”
This diversity in the range of alumni’s
backgrounds bespeaks the systematic
formula the University Advancement
Division uses in selecting interviewees.
Working within geographical con-
straints, the office targets alumni who
have fallen out of communication or
who have consistently not responded
to invitations to events.
Ambassadors have conducted inter-
views with 20 percent of the selected
alumni, compared to Georgetown’s 15
percent success rate, Barr said.
Alumni interviewees first receive
a letter inviting them to participate
in the program, then a call from an
ambassador. “A lot of people I can
never contact” due to a wrong number
or alumni failing to returning calls,
Frank said. For those he does get in
touch with, “the reception is good.”
Sometimes, alumni will offer very
specific suggestions on how they would
like to stay connected to the universi-
ty. minutes later to find her computer
“One woman wanted us to form a
knitting club,” Simoneau said.
Simoneau reports receiving posi-
tive feedback from alumni about the
Student Ambassadors Program, and
about their alma mater.
His findings match what other
ambassadors have reported. Out of
50 interviews last semester, Simoneau
estimates that there were only one or
two alumni who had mostly negative
thoughts about the school. “We still
learned from them,” he added.
ity to drive 10,000 miles a year, he said.
Palmer also said that the same amount
of land used to produce ethanol fuel for
a car to travel 20,000 miles could collect
enough solar power for the same vehicle to
Police Briefs
Laptop vanishes in Tisch
A female Tufts student reported a
stolen laptop to the Tufts University
Police Department (TUPD) on Sept.
11. The laptop was stolen on Sept. 9
when the individual left a classroom
in the Tisch Library. She returned 20
missing.
The individual asked the other peo-
ple in the room, but they said they
had not seen anything. She waited a
few days to contact the police in case
someone she knew had taken the
computer and was holding onto it for
her, according to TUPD Sgt. Robert
McCarthy.
The laptop was worth around
$1,000.
electric vehicles among the people is the
best way to effect change.
“What gives me hope [is that] no matter
which country, there’s so much awareness
[about] global warming,” he said.
Motorcycle damaged
TUPD officers responded to a call at
10:40 p.m. on Sept. 13 about four or
five white males who had knocked over
someone’s motorcycle and damaged the
side mirror. A while later, the officers
identified two people from the afore-
mentioned group, all of whom were
Tufts students.
One of the individuals admitted that
he had been with the group but said he
was only trying to pick up the motorcy-
cle. He supplied the name of the person
who allegedly knocked it over.
As the incident occurred off campus in
the Somerville Police Department’s juris-
diction, all the information, including the
individual’s name, was turned over to
that department, McCarthy said.
—compiled by Sarah Butrymowicz

Some question whether task force’s recommendations are overly broad

TASK FORCE
continued from page 1
did not absolve the magazine
of its harassment conviction.
On Aug. 27, 2007, Bacow
sent out an e-mail stating,
“The appropriate response
to offensive speech is more
speech, not less … While Tufts
is a private institution and
not technically bound by First
Amendment guarantees, it
is my intention to govern as
President as if we were … I
will work with the Board of
Trustees to formalize this pol-
icy.”
In his charge to the task
force, written in January,
Bacow emphasized the need
to preserve “freedom of
expression in a way that pro-
tects unpopular speech and
ideas consistent with the First
Amendment.”
But Salacuse, a professor at
the Fletcher School, told the
Daily in an interview yester-
day that the task force did not
believe the First Amendment
held total sway on campus.
“The First Amendment does
not apply to the university.
We are a private university.
We are a private educational
space. What we tried to define
is the freedom of expression
and inquiry on this campus,
keeping in mind that our fun-
damental goal is not a polit-
ical process, it’s an educa-
tional process,” Salacuse said.
“We believe that when action
takes place that may frustrate
the educational process, that’s
not a good thing.”
Yesterday’s draft declara-
tion states, “In addition [to
government legislation], the
university establishes rules to
ensure the orderly function
of the educational enterprise
and to protect the rights of
each member of the commu-
nity to participate in and ben-
efit from the discovery and
dissemination of knowledge.”
In Bacow’s original mission
statement to the task force,
he wrote, “The Task Force is
charged with recommend-
ing proposed policy language
regarding freedom of expres-
sion at Tufts University that
can be presented for adoption
by the Board of Trustees.”
In the interview, Salacuse
made clear that the broad
statements the task force has
put down did not amount to
specific laws.
“It is not legislation. It’s not
rules. That’s not what we were
asked to do. What we were
asked to do is to draft an indi-
vidual set of principles. And
then individual schools would
take that [and make their own
rules],” he said.
Phil Primack (A ’70) said
that the draft’s unspecific
language, which some have
assailed as ineffective, “con-
firms that this is a particu-
lar can of worms that would
have been better never open-
ing.” Primack is a freelance
journalist and Tisch College
of Citizenship and Public
Service affiliate who taught a
class called “Media, Law and
Ethics” in the Experimental
College.
“Somebody said it best
with, ‘We hold these truths to
be self evident,’” he said. “To
try to codify policies regard-
ing expression – beyond
those already provided by the
Constitution and other gov-
erning rules – is to bump up
against an almost impossible
balancing act.”
The draft’s language is
drawing criticism as being too
broad to have a significant
impact.
“What I honestly believe is
the draft is going to have no
effect on how we proceed as
an organization,” said senior
Michael Nachbar, the editor-
in-chief of the Primary Source.
“They wanted to appear that
they were doing something.
I don’t think this rule can be
enforced, but it’s more a rule
[for] decorum.”
“To try to codify
policies regarding
expression — beyond
those already provid-
ed by the Constitution
and other governing
rules — is to bump
up against an almost
impossible balancing
act.”
Phil Primack
freelance journalist
Primack said he saw the
language as overly general
and insubstantial. “My broad
reaction is, I’m a little puzzled
as to why this task force was
even created,” Primack said.
“How many people does it
take to change a light bulb?”
Tufts Community Union
President Duncan Pickard
disagreed, saying that the
policy needed to be broad in
order to apply to all of Tufts’
undergraduate and graduate
schools, but that it would be
useful to have a codified doc-
ument on which to base free-
speech debates.
“What it should do is just
set ground rules that make
this campus a safe space
for expression and inquiry,”
Pickard said. “I think what’s
good about this whole exer-
cise is it will … provide a
framework under which these
conversations can take place.
I don’t think that it exists right
now; we don’t have specific
language people can point
to.”
Pickard referred to the
harassment case that started
the debate over freedom of
expression.
“With the whole CSL rul-
ing, in the past there wasn’t
a standard framework that
members of the Tufts com-
munity can point to,” Pickard
said. “The CSL released a rul-
ing, and I’m not saying it was
a bad ruling or a good ruling,
but it was an arbitrary ruling.
[ With a statement on freedom
of expression], who knows if
the CSL would have ruled dif-
ferently?”
The task force will eventu-
ally submit a final draft to
Bacow, who will pitch the lan-
guage to the Board of Trustees
so that it can be instituted as
university policy.

For some college students, piles of empty liquor bottles after a weekend of partying isn’t appealing.
Some students cringe when others binge
Booze-free students join efforts to promote substance-free events
by Robin Carol
Daily Editorial Board
Beer pong, keggers and pub nights
are a regular part of campus life for
the vast majority of college students.
According to a study conducted in 2000
by the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism, 88 percent of
college students, including those under
the legal drinking age, have consumed
alcohol.
So what about the measly 12 percent
who abstain?
Student group Edun LIVE facilitates social justice with style
by Charlotte Steinway
Daily Editorial Board
In an age when “green”
has transcended the bounds
of color, many people now
choose services and prod-
ucts solely based on their
eco-friendly implications.
Edun LIVE on Campus, a
socially conscious T-shirt
distribution company, paired
this knowledge with social
justice issues in order to
create a student group root-
ed in conscious consumer-
ism.
Edun LIVE on Campus
(ELOC) shirts are created,
manufactured and pack-
aged in sub-Saharan Africa,
providing jobs and econom-
ic stability to the region.
These sustainable shirts
found their way to Tufts
when junior Tisch Scholar
Sarah Ullman first heard
about the organization at
the Clinton Global Initiative
Conference in New Orleans
in March during a session
on poverty alleviation.
“One of the panelists
— aside from President
Bacow, actually — was
Jackie Roberts, who is the
President of Edun LIVE on
Campus at their headquar-
ters in Ohio,” Ullman said.
“She’s in charge of expan-
sion to new campuses, and
she was speaking on social
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Jessie Borkan |
college is as college does
Midwest
Madness
M
idwest Madness — it’s a phrase
we’ve all heard. Used to refer
to everything from debilitat-
ing snowstorms to swing state
election hype, and from baseball to beer
festivals, it brazenly lumps together such
disparate places as downtown Detroit and
rural Kansas.
The House race becomes close in
Missouri? Midwest Madness. “Basketbrawl”
at a Pistons game? Midwest Madness. After
years of being thrown into the same cat-
egory as the likes of “American Top 40” host
Casey Kasem, Kevin Costner in “Field of
Dreams” (1989) and Garth from “Wayne’s
World” (1992), I’ve decided to own the term
that so deftly generalizes 10 states contain-
ing more than 60 million people. I, unmis-
takably Midwestern and more than a little
crazy, am taking Midwest Madness back. I
am Midwest Madness.
At Tufts, there is a certain dynamic
when it comes to divulging one’s home-
town. About half (yes, I made up that
statistic) of our non-international stu-
dent body is from New York City, “just
outside” New York City (read: any part of
Annie Wermiel/Tufts Daily
New York State), Jersey, California or the
all-encompassing Greater Boston Area.
In general, these people state where
they are from freely with no embarrass-
ment or pretense. They grew up where
they grew up, and now they are here, in
scenic Medford, Mass. Simple. Not so
for the other half of us American-born
Junior Maris Mann-Stadt said her “In my junior year of high school, I Jumbos.
decision to abstain from alcohol stems got alcohol poisoning the first time I I hail from Cleveland, Ohio. Population:
from personal preferences. ever drank and almost died,” Romanus 438,000. Claims to fame and infamy: LeBron
“I don’t really have any interest in said. “I didn’t drink for a very long time James, Dennis Kucinich, the Rock and Roll
it,” Mann-Stadt said. “I don’t like the and was kind of sickened by the smell Hall of Fame, the spontaneous combus-
taste of alcohol, and I don’t see a point and stuff.” tion of the Cuyahoga River and Drew Carey
in drinking if I don’t like the taste of it. For junior Shana Hurley, the reasons (who, incidentally, falls into the later two
I also don’t like to not be in control of are slightly more ideological. categories).
myself, and if I’m under the influence, I “I feel uncomfortable with the binge When you grew up “elsewhere,” it some-
have less control over what I do.” drinking culture in college because times feels like you have two choices: You
Traumatic experiences experiment- it puts people in situations that they can be overly, defensively, sometimes delu-
ing with alcohol led junior Melissa wouldn’t otherwise allow themselves sionally proud of where you live (Why not
Romanus to avoid drinking for several spend two-and-a-half weeks in Kutztown,
years. see DRINKING, page 4 Penn.!? It’s home to the Pennsylvania Dutch
Festival!), or you can debase and denigrate
your beloved hometown, trashing your old
stomping grounds like you did the unpopu-
lar kid that you secretly admired in the sec-
entrepreneurship — about ond grade.
how students, through their So here I am, trying to find the perfect
purchasing power, can make balance.
a difference.” I’m afraid that, at the outset of my time
Ullman was struck by here, I fell squarely into the first camp.
Roberts’ words, but before Fiercely proud of the loveable industrial
bringing the group to the has-been that is Cleveland and armed with
campus level, the Tufts the scars inflicted by my out-of-state cousin
junior decided to see how asking me at age nine if I was Amish, I pro-
ELOC could play a part in ceeded to make it clear to everyone that you
her personal life. don’t mess with Cleveland.
“I thought, I’m in the Yes, I have an accent; yes, my sports
Greek system, I’m involved teams never quite come through; and yes, if
in a lot of different things, you left my driveway and drove for an hour,
and when I went home this you would see cows but not before passing
past spring … I realized through the projects. What’s it to you?
that I had a zillion different I like to think I’ve calmed down a lit-
shirts — from events like tle (though I still sometimes wear my
Spring Fling, Homecoming, “Cleveland, You’ve Gotta Be Tough” T-shirt),
NQR, etc. — [which in turn] and I now think of my city as I do my fam-
made me realize [ELOC] is ily: with intense, unconditional love but
a great opportunity to har- also with an understanding that the rest of
ness the power of the col- humanity does not necessarily, and really has
lege market and really put little reason to, share that love. Do I want my
it towards something con- friends to meet my family and get to know
structive,” she said. their endearing eccentricity? Of course. Do I
From there, Ullman think everyone I know should spend a week
Courtesy Edun Live
decided to start a chapter with them, getting to know every fact and
of ELOC at Tufts, hoping to Edun LIVE organic cotton T-shirts are made by locals in African facet that makes up their beings? God, no.
inculcate the group and its villages. And so it is with Cleveland.
cause into life on and off In addition to provid- been speaking with a lot of To quote Baby from “Dirty Dancing” (1987):
campus. ing all of the orientation the offices around campus, “But if you love me, you have to love all the
“The structure of [ELOC shirts for the Class of 2012, and they have showed a lot things about me.” So, if you love your friends,
at Tufts] is a student-run Ullman claimed that a wide of interest.” love where they’re from, no matter how weird
business that’s housed range of groups have dis- On-campus projects, like or crazy (or even wholly uninspiring) those
under the Tisch College,” played interest in using the orientation T-shirts, places may be; it made them who they are. And
Ullman said. “We’re not ELOC’s products. have also incorporated the come visit me in Cleveland. Y’all have no idea.
housed under another cam- “Currently, we have a cou- community outside Tufts.
pus group, but ideally we’d ple of exciting partnerships, “We partner with a local
like to partner with other both with student groups on community organization Jessie Borkan is a junior majoring in clini-
student organizations, and campus, as well as off cam- cal psychology. She can be reached at Jessie.
we have been doing that.” pus,” she said. “We’ve also see SHIRTS, page 4 Bokran@tufts.edu
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T-shirts allow values to translate into fashion
SHIRTS
continued from page 3
located in Somerville, called PNM Designs,
which is under Centro Presente,” she said.
“They provide local at-risk youth with jobs,
job training and leadership opportunities.
They screen-print all of our shirts, so this
makes [ELOC at Tufts] not only good for com-
munities elsewhere in the world but also for
our local community, too.”
Although every step of the manufactur-
ing process is fully accounted for in ELOC
at Tufts’ designs, the group members do not
believe their work is done.
“In terms of goals, we are really looking
to get our team established,” Ullman said.
“Right now we’re looking for a vice president
of finance, a sales team, and we’re especially
looking for graphic designers interested in
working with us.”
In addition to seeking individuals interested
in becoming part of the ELOC team, Ullman
stressed the desire for interested groups, both
T h e F a r e s C e n t e r f o r E a s t e r n
M e d i t e r r a n e a n S t u d i e s
P r e s e n t s
on and off campus, to partner with ELOC.
“Our whole goal is to move shirts — we
want to move as many shirts as much as
we possibly can, and we’re looking at doing
that in a variety of different ways,” she said.
“And what’s especially cool about our mis-
sion being simply to move shirts and cover
our cost so that we can continue to operate
[is that] we can donate the profit of the shirts
to another organization. If a charitable group
wanted to have a fundraiser with us, we could
give the profits directly to the organization.”
In the next couple of years, Ullman hopes
to spread awareness about ELOC and bring a
whole new element to the idea of functional
fashion.
“People say, ‘you are what you eat,’ but in
another way, ‘you are what you wear,’ as well,”
she said. “How you represent yourself to the
world says a lot about what you believe and
who you are — that was kind of the motivating
power behind my belief that this could make a
difference.”
Many students that don’t drink
still support lower drinking age
DRINKING
continued from page 3
to be in. While I respect other
people’s choice to do that, and
I don’t disrespect them, it’s just
not for me,” she said.
Hurley explained that her
attitude toward alcohol also
stemmed from her connection
to straight-edge culture. Straight
edge, a term originally coined by
1980s punk band Minor Threat,
refers to a lifestyle whose adher-
ents don’t drink, smoke or have
promiscuous sex.
“I like straight edge hard-
core,” she said. “At an important
age in my life, I found a com-
munity of people who didn’t
drink or do drugs and found a
niche with people who felt the
way I did.”
Finding an alcohol-free niche
on campus manifests itself in
different ways for different stu-
dents. Junior Ben Smith, who is
also a copy editor for the Daily,
requested a Healthy Living floor
for his freshman year and has
lived in substance-free housing
ever since.
“Three of my good
friends have a bounty
on my head that who-
ever gets me trashed
first will win money.
It’s a joke, and they
respect my decision; it’s
never serious.”
Shana Hurley
junior
“You get a real community on
Healthy Living that you don’t
get on other floors,” Smith said.
“You can have a great party and
hang out with friends without
being drunk.”
Romanus found similar-
minded people through the
Tufts Alternatives e-list dur-
don’t drink aren’t big partiers
anyway,” he said.
Smith said that because he
lives on a Healthy Living floor,
many of his friends do not drink.
“It’s definitely a mix of peo-
ple. I don’t really hold [drinking]
against other people in terms
of friendships, but because
I live near people who don’t
drink, that’s the majority [of my
friends],” he said.
Still, pressure from friends
who do drink can be a challenge
in the college setting.
“Three of my good friends
have a bounty on my head that
whoever gets me trashed first
will win money. It’s a joke, and
they respect my decision; it’s
never serious,” Hurley said.
“Freshman year, people were
like, ‘Are you sure you don’t
want to drink?’ It has petered off
though,” Mann-Stadt said. “You
have to have a sense of humor
about it, and you can’t get angry
every time people do it.”
Even though Hurley doesn’t
mind when her peers drink —
“I don’t have a stick up my butt
about it” — she did express
some frustration at the lack of
alternatives to the social scene.
“I’ll be careful with my words.
I wish there were more things to
do that didn’t involve alcohol,
but I don’t wish to say there
should be more programming
without alcohol. The school and
student organizations do a good
job making sure there’s stuff to
do on campus; it’s just usually
over by 11,” she said. “It’s more,
to me, that Boston as a city isn’t
that conducive to not drinking.
I love going to straight edge
hardcore shows; you can go to
concerts, but in New York you
can just go out, walk around,
and there’s something open
24 hours. In Boston, the city
doesn’t lend itself to that.”
Recently, college drinking
has been in the news with the
announcement of the Amethyst
Initiative, whose members —
over 100 college presidents,
including Tufts president Larry

“The Resurgence of Tribalism in the Middle

ing her freshman year, which Bacow — are calling for greater
sent out weekly suggestions of discussion on whether to reduce

East and the Implications for Democracy”

alternative activities to drink-
ing. Then, she, along with fellow
junior Gabrielle Green, began
maintaining a Tufts Alternatives
blog, which received school
funding until recently.
Because of their current lack
Andrea B. Rugh of funding, the two students are
in the process of reconstructing
Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, Washington DC the blog.
“Gabrielle and I wanted to
keep it up as a thing for kids to
Dr. Andrea Rugh has been a technical advisor for USAID development projects in the do that doesn’t involve drink-
ing. It had cool things hap-
Middle East, South Asia and Africa. She was a research associate for the Harvard Institute of pening around the area that
International Development from 1987 to 1994, and later worked for Save the Children and people might not know about,”
Romanus said. “In talking to
UNICEF in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1998 to 2002. Over a period of 40 years residence people, a lot of times they don’t
know how to get around and do
and work in countries of the Arab World, she researched and wrote several books on Middle things off campus. [The blog
Eastern culture and society. Her books include Family in Contemporary Egypt (Syracuse University had] alternatives if you don’t
drink and if you don’t want to
Press 1984), Reveal and Conceal: Dress in Contemporary Egypt (Syracuse Univ. Press 1986), Within go out and party on the week-
the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village (Columbia Univ. Press, 1997), and two translated ends.”
Both Hurley and Mann-Stadt
books Daughter of Damascus (Siham Tergeman, Univ. of Texas Press, 1994), and Folktales of said they regularly attend par-
Syria (Samir Tahhan, Univ. of Texas Press 2004). Her latest book is The Political Culture of ties with friends who drink.
“I go to parties a lot, almost
Leadership in the United Arab Emirates (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007). Dr. Rugh received her Ph.D. in every weekend. I like to joke
Social Anthropology from American University in Washington, DC and a B.A. in Psychology that I’m never drunk enough
for sticky, sweaty frat parties,
from Oberlin College. She is currently an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute. but I think that people who do
drink feel that way sometimes
too,” Hurley said. “Whenever
I’m with my friends who are
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because I’m with my friends.”
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large events on campus such as
Open to the Public Fall Ball, he tends to avoid par-
ties where alcohol is the main
focus, which can sometimes be
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Students who currently don’t
drink at college offered unique
perspectives on this idea.
“My objection with drink-
ing has a lot to do with binge
drinking and social culture, so
if lowering the age would help
people become more normal-
ized towards drinking and that’s
what the inquiry is about in the
first place, then I think it’s a
good idea,” Hurley said.
Taking the rebellion out of
drinking could be a positive
step, Smith said.
“Generally, I think lowering
the drinking age would be a
good idea,” he said. “It would
reduce the impetus to drink
underage. When you get to col-
lege, you can break the law and
go wild, and that’s exciting to
people.”
Mann-Stadt said, “I think it’s
a good idea. I don’t know how
well it would happen, but it
would be interesting to try.”
Hurley said for those who do
drink and for those who choose
not to, it is important to respect
the choices that people make.
“I think there’s a contingency
of people who don’t drink, but
they spend a lot of time being
judgmental of those who do and
don’t leave their room much,”
she said. “You have to learn how
to be responsible and respect-
ful. On one hand that means
[if you drink], not drinking so
much that you get TEMS’d or
you get belligerent or aggres-
sive. [If you don’t drink], that
means letting your guard down
to go to a party.”
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Movie Review
A-list cast saves ‘Burn After
Reading’ from self-destruction
Ayda Wondemu
by
Contributing Writer
Only a year after their highly
acclaimed “No Country for Old Men”
(2007), the Coen brothers return to
Burn After Reading
Starring John Malkovich, George
Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton
Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen
big-screen success with “Burn After
Reading,” a hilarious spy spoof that
satirizes the political landscape of the
modern day. While the various fea-
tures of “Burn After Reading” make it
worthwhile to watch, it is not quite up
to par with their other, more memo-
rable’ efforts.
The story, set in Washington, D.C.,
is centered on various colorful char-
acters that come from all walks of life.
The Coen brothers wanted no mis-
takes in conveying that this is indeed
a spy spoof. Thus they begin the film
with an aerial map shot that zooms
in until it focuses on CIA headquar-
ters, where CIA operative Osborne
Cox (played by John Malkovich) is
fired from his job due to his drinking
and subsequently decides to write his
memoir. When the disc containing his
memoir is found in the Hard Bodies
fitness center, two employees, Linda
Litzke (Frances McDormand) and
Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), decide
to return the disc in exchange for
a “Good Samaritan” tax. Meanwhile
Cox’s wife ( Tilda Swinton) is cheating
on him with Harry (George Clooney),
who is also cheating on his wife. As
TV Review
‘Do Not Disturb’ your night by watching this
mediocre, stereotypical office sex sitcom
by Catherine Scott
Daily Editorial Board
This year, FOX chose to premiere its
new TV shows earlier than the other
major networks, in part due to its need
Do Not Disturb
Starring Jerry O’Connell, Niecy
Nash, Molly Stanton, Jesse Tyler
Ferguson
Airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on
FOX
to make up the most ground against
its competitors. Most new offerings
won’t stand a chance against big-time
shows like “Lost” and “Heroes.” FOX’s
new sitcom, “Do Not Disturb,” falls
into this category of “almosts,” unable
to keep up with not only the other
sitcoms, but also the plethora of “dra-
madies” that have become so popular,
or at least prevalent, in recent years.
The pilot episode is entitled “Work
Sex” and sets the tone for what will
most likely be the recurring motif of
the show: relationships and hook-ups
between employees at a hotel. The
action focuses mainly on the hotel’s
general manager, Neal (played by Jerry
O’Connell). O’Connell is the big name
behind the show, but his mediocre
acting proves yet again that television
makes people famous, not the other
way around — think Jennifer Aniston
During an astonishing “Tomb Raider” (2001) flashback, Angelina kicks Brad in the face. So
much for Brangelina — doesn’t look like he’s taking it well.
events transpire, the plot thickens and
characters are drawn into each other’s
lives, weaving a tangled, comic web of
destruction and downfall.
The strength of the movie lies in its
Niecy Nash puts her “Reno 911” skills to work — this time in sex investigations.
on “Friends” or George Clooney on
“ER.”
Neal has a serious problem with
romancing and bedding his employ-
ees, and his Human Resources director
Rhonda (Niecy Nash) decides that his
all-play, no-work attitude must be put
to a stop. She holds a “sex in the work-
tuftsdaily.com
imdb.com
the A-list cast. Malkovich is engaging
as an ex-CIA agent with an anger prob-
lem, which he counters with a drinking
see BURN, page 7
comedycentric.com
place” seminar for all hotel employees
and shames Neal into avoiding going
too far with the cute desk girl, Tasha
( Taylor Cole). Rhonda feels pretty
pleased with herself, until the sexy
security guy coerces her into getting
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5
Caryn Horowitz |
The Cultural Culinarian
The celebrity
chef
A
nthony Bourdain, Bobby Flay,
Tom Colicchio, Mario Batali, Paula
Deen, Alain Ducasse, Nobuyuki
Matsuhisa, Gordon Ramsay,
Wolfgang Puck, Rachael Ray.
To some people these 10 individuals
are household names, while to others
they are virtually unknown. Without a
doubt, there is one person who knows
each of them all too well: their invest-
ment banker. These are the recently
crowned “Ten Top-Earning Celebrity
Chefs,” in ascending order, according to
Forbes Magazine. Yes, Forbes. The realm
of the chef has grown so large that even
the nation’s financial industry has been
forced to take note. If you would have
told a Forbes editor 20 years ago that he
would be publishing this list, he would
have looked at you like you were chug-
ging the cooking sherry. And if you had
told him that the woman on top of the
list would be pulling in over $18 million
a year, he probably would grab the bottle
and take a swig himself.
The people on this list come from
various aspects of the food industry —
some are restaurateurs, some are televi-
sion personalities, some are both. All of
them, except for one, are actually chefs,
meaning that they have some form of
professional culinary training. Rachael
Freaking Ray is not a chef, and she open-
ly admits this. Yet, somehow she sits on
top of this list with almost $16 million a
year more than Bourdain. Don’t feel too
bad for the guy — he’ll drown his sor-
rows while he’s off trekking in Malaysia
or Morocco.
How is that possible? The answer is
simple: Being a celebrity chef has less
to do with being an actual chef than you
would think. Celebrity chef-dom is about
branding, marketing and personality. The
celebrity part of the equation is slowly
taking over the chef half of it. Most of
these 10 probably don’t spend much time
cooking in an actual kitchen unless it’s on
the set of one of their numerous televi-
sion shows. They do, however, spend a lot
of time with their respective marketing
teams, creating new brands of cookware
that they can sell to the masses.
Cynicism aside, I have a tremendous
amount of respect for these chefs. People
like Puck, Flay and Matsuhisa (co-owner
of the celebrity-magnet Nobu restau-
rants) have spent years building vast culi-
nary empires based on their number one
talent: They can cook damn good food.
Other celebrity chefs not on this list,
such as Ferran Adrià and Wylie Dufresne,
are internationally known for their dar-
ing and innovative forays into molecular
gastronomy. Then, there is the other part
of the celebrity chef community — Deen,
Sandra Lee and Rachael Freaking Ray.
Do they cook? Sure — although Lee’s
“Cocktail Time” is another story. Are they
breaking the mold with their cooking?
No. But are they really entertaining to
most of the country? Absolutely.
Ray is on top of this list because (for
some reason that I just don’t get) people like
to watch her talk show. And her four Food
Network shows. And buy her cookware.
And subscribe to her magazines. People
also love to eat Ducasse’s elegant food and
watch Batali win on “Iron Chef America.”
Ultimately, these 10 are where they are
today because they were able to capitalize
on the things that we as a society love to
do — eat, shop, watch TV, read, etc. — and
because they are really good at doing it. As
a result, they are also really good at spread-
ing an appreciation and love for all things
culinary, which for me, should be the end
goal. They just so happen to also be really
good at making bank.
Caryn Horowitz is a junior majoring
in history. She can be reached at Caryn.
Horowitz@tufts.edu.
6 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living
Album Review
ONLINE @ tuftsdaily.com
Gym Class Heroes stitch a complex
Arts and music at Tufts and beyond patchwork with ‘The Quilt’
The Scene | Anthony Green rocks Harpers Ferry
by Josh Zeidel
Last Thursday Anthony Green, the lead singer of groups such as Saosin (before Cove Rebber) and Contributing Writer
Circa Survive, gave audiences a solo show they will never forget. Green was joined by bands Person L
and Good Old War at Harper’s Ferry in Allston, Mass. What happens when an
After stumbling through the streets of Allston, finding Harper’s Ferry was an easy task; the sidewalk underground live hip-hop
was filled with scenesters, hipsters, emo kids and drunk adults all waiting to get into the venue. The band hits the big time? What
line wrapped around the street corner, and it took upwards of 30 minutes to get inside. Two girls were
kicked out of line because they were drinking something out of a coke bottle that wasn’t soda… The Quilt
Gym Class Heroes
Visit our brand-new Arts & Living blog online to read more. Also be sure to check out our
monthly Arts Editors’ Mixtape, available to listen to and download.
Decaydence/ Fueled By Ramen
happens when the frontman of
Fall Out Boy starts producing
emo-rap tracks? Throw in some
catchy hooks, appearances by
Daryl Hall, Estelle, The-Dream
and Busta Rhymes and guest
production by Cool & Dre and
out comes “The Quilt,” the lat-
est full-length studio album
from Gym Class Heroes (GCH).
This genre-melding, emo
hip-hop group has come a long
way from playing local festi-
vals and graduation parties in
its upstate New York home-
town of Geneva. The band
made its debut in 2001 with
the independently-released “…
For the Kids,” an album they
promoted by playing at the
2003 and 2004 Warped Tours.
GCH’s sophomore effort, “The
Papercut Chronicles” (2005)
featured an engaging instru-
mental backing to MC Travis
“Schleprok” McCoy’s intri-
cately woven word play. The
song “Taxi Driver” from that
album drew the attention of
Fall Out Boy member Patrick
Stump, and he was later fea-
tured on the GCH’s critically-
acclaimed 2006 follow-up, “As
Cruel As School Children,” on
which the band headed for a
more production-layered pop
Are You Studying or Do You Speak Arabic? sound. For the band’s most
recent album, Stump rejoined
the band in the studio, playing
the role of principal producer.
The album has an upbeat
Would you like an all expense paid summer in the start with the horn-driven, pia-
no-infused “Guilty as Charged,”
nation’s capital, including travel to Washington, featuring British singer Estelle
on the hook and a confident
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“guilty on all charges for the
board at The George Washington University and dopest album of the year.” This
is followed up by the reggae-
an internship at the U.S. Department of influenced “Drnk Txt Rmeo”
Homeland Security or FBI Headquarters? and the defiant McCoy-Busta
Rhymes duet “Peace Sign/Index
Down,” giving the disk a solid
opening lineup of tracks.
Would you like to fast track an exciting Unfortunately, the momen-
tum dies promptly with the
career with the U.S. Department of uninspired slow jam “Like
Father, Like Son (Papa’s
Homeland Security or the FBI? Song),” a track that com-
bines overtly Kanye-esque
piano backing with weakly
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This “Quilt” is about as comforting as a Parental Advisory sticker.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
sentimental and ironic lyrics.
Though the pumped-up reg-
gae/ska “Blinded By the Sun”
lifts the mood briefly with its
shout-out to the oft-sampled
“Sunglasses at Night,” the
album takes an abrupt turn for
the cheesy and uninteresting
with the ambiguously themed
“Catch Me If You Can.” And
don’t even bother with “Cookie
Jar,” the club-intended single
featuring The-Dream; odds
are good that this over-syn-
thesized drivel will receive far
too much radio play like an
irritating cross between the
Black-Eyed Peas’ “My Humps”
and Gym Class Heroes’ own
“Cupid’s Chokehold.”
Ironically, it is the band
members that stand behind
frontman McCoy who truly
shine on this album. For the
first time, guitarist Disashi
Lumumba-Kasongo’s lyr-
ics and vocals are featured
prominently, in addition to his
incendiary guitar work, nota-
bly on the pop ballad “Live a
Little” and the guitar-driven
“No Place to Run.” His gui-
tar work on the instrumental
introduction to “Home” dem-
onstrates that he’s just as fast
and comfortable on the fret-
board as many a classic rock or
metal shred-master. Drummer
Matt McGinley shows off his
versatility as both a rock and
hip-hop drummer, incorporat-
ing intense syncopation and
super-fast, tight beats, owing a
lot to Questlove of preeminent
live hip-hop band The Roots.
The favorable likeness breaks
down, however, as soon as
Travis McCoy begins to rap —
with vocals and lyrics far closer
to a nerdy, emo Eminem than a
younger Black Thought.
Gym Class Heroes ultimate-
ly suffer on some tracks from
McCoy’s too-often repeated
themes of infidelity, relation-
ship struggles and his upbring-
ing. On the whole, however,
“The Quilt” showcases a diverse
and entertaining patchwork
of talents. Everything is there,
from the stereotypical instru-
mentally-absent club track
to the unforeseen foray into
piano and guitar rock devoid of
rapped lyrics. The production
for the majority of the album is
not nearly as obtrusive as that
of the group’s last album, and
there is a definite sense of a
return to what made Gym Class
Heroes popular to begin with:
an especially tight instrumen-
tal core to back up an energetic,
wise-cracking and occasionally
insightful MC.
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Coen brothers up the machismo, lower the maturity in their newest flick
BURN
continued from page 5
problem, while Tilda Swinton
is a marvelously cold Mrs. Cox.
Clooney does what he does best
as Harry, a dim U.S. Marshal
who seems to have sex on his
mind 24/7. McDormand as
Litzke is both stupidly selfish
and selfishly stupid as she tries
to find happiness and fulfill-
ment in her life.
Pitt, who naively supports
her mindless pursuit, is fan-
tastic. He slips into this role
so naturally that you’d think
he has been portraying flam-
ing idiots all his life. There are
also other minor characters
such as the CIA director ( J.K.
Simmons) and the Hard Bodies
manager (Richard Jenkins)
who contribute immensely to
the ensemble.
After the dark and forebod-
ing adaptation of “No Country
for Old Men,” the Coen broth-
ers deliberately decided to take
a step away from seriousness
and opt for a more whimsical
endeavor. Indeed, they seem to
be having fun with the compa-
rably light “Burn After Reading.”
Filled with witty dialogue and
impeccable timing, the film
possesses the dark and twisted
humor that has become the
brothers’ trademark. The slap-
stick style, dim-witted charac- imdb.com
ters and bizarre connections “No way in hell is Christian Bale a better Batman than me!”
are reminiscent of “Raising
Arizona” (1987) and “O Brother, about the shape of modern Harry goes out for a simple incredibly scary as it touches hand) it lacks a certain come-
Where Art Thou?” (2000). politics and, as Simmons puts run or Cox goes sailing with so close to home. dic maturity that prevents
Yet even as they lead audi- it, “The Idiocy of Today.” his father. Yet you can never While “Burn After Reading” it from becoming an instant
ences through this farce in Throughout the film, the tell whether the paranoia is has many aspects that make classic. However, for fans of
which hilarity ensues in such score by Carter Burwell results justified or not. The thought it worth watching (if nothing the Coens, there are multiple
a nihilistic fashion, the broth- in a feeling of paranoia per- that top officials are spurred else just to see Pitt dance to facets to “Burn After Reading”
ers make a strong statement meating everywhere, even as by intense stupidity is also his iPod with a Gatorade in that make it a must-watch.

‘Disturb’ proves that no one can touch Steve Carell’s comedic boss-man role
DISTURB
continued from page 5
down and dirty behind the desk. When
Neal discovers her secret, the two hash
it out about the importance of retain-
ing professionalism in the workplace.
The attempts at subplots rely heav-
ily on the supporting cast of other
employees including Nicole (Molly
Stanton), a model working at the hotel
while her career is on a downturn,
Larry ( Jesse Tyler Ferguson), a gay man
who has lost his sexual energy after
being in a committed relationship for
five years, Gus (Dave Franco), a cute
bellboy whose character doesn’t really
have a point yet, and Molly ( Jolene
Purdy), a plus-size model with a lot of
bubbling personality. Their subplots
have not truly developed since the
characters are being introduced in the
pilot, but as of yet none of them pos-
sess any originality or flair.

The writing ranges from bad

to atrocious, making use of
many clichés, including but
not limited to the gay guy hit-
ting shamelessly on anything
that walks.
For the most part, the action of the
show focuses on O’Connell’s character,
but his limited acting range and lack
of comedic timing cannot support a
30-minute sitcom. In other words, he
is no Steve Carell. To be fair, O’Connell
does have many successful TV cred-
its under his belt, such as “My Secret
Identity,” “Sliders” and “Crossing
Jordan,” which leads one to believe
that it is the structure of the show and comedycentric.com
not necessarily O’Connell that facili- Want to see these people have sex? Watch FOX!
tates this banal, unfunny half hour.
All in all, the format of “The Office” hitting shamelessly on anything that lines that were laugh-worthy, and both Office,” it needs to establish some kind
in a swanky hotel does not work. The walks and the pretty model girl being came from the character of Gus. To give of originality in the characters and plot
acting is mediocre at best — even a dumb, self-involved harlot. The show all of the funny lines to a side character development. Or maybe director Jason
with O’Connell falling flat on his face. even tries to bring back the dead-and- that has no real position in the show’s Bateman should just come around to
The writing ranges from bad to atro- buried laugh track. trajectory does not make for a success- the other side of the camera once
cious, making use of clichés, includ- In the 30 minutes that the show ran, ful sitcom. If the show wants to keep or twice to appease the thousands of
ing but not limited to the gay guy there were probably only about two up with power shows, such as “The disillusioned “Arrested Development”
8 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Tuesday, September 16, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt A watered-down response to on-campus speech
Editor-in-Chief Yesterday, the Task Force on Freedom of part of the administration’s response to Board of Trustees.” Whether they were
Editorial Expression released its long-awaited draft hateful speech on campus, has yielded supposed to emerge with suggestions for
to the Tufts community. The document, what seems more like a press release than workable guidelines or a simple definition
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors largely devoid of substance, was focused a substantive prelude to useful policy. of freedom of speech as it pertains to Tufts
Kristin Gorman primarily on pinning down a working This should not be read entirely as is unclear. Indeed, the fact that two people
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors definition of the respect Tufts students an indictment of the task force itself, of can reasonably disagree about the group’s
Jason Richards owe to one another. course, nor of its members or its meth- purpose is a problem, because it ensures
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor As members of the Daily, we are not odology. The group members deliberated that everyone will be at least somewhat
entirely displeased with the decision. The for nine months, had over 20 meetings disappointed with the outcome.
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors First Amendment received its due as a with members of the campus community Anything more specific, of course,
Pranai Cheroo
Michael Del Moro governing principle. No journalistic free- and redrafted their statement numerous would have come under fire regardless
Nina Ford doms were seriously curtailed and no times in order to incorporate as much of its viewpoint. A more policy-oriented
Ben Gittleson new oversight was proposed. Concrete feedback as possible. Even now that the response would have drawn criticism
Gillian Javetski
Jeremy White policy was, in fact, entirely absent from draft has been made public, its mem- either for being too circumscriptive of
the statement. From the standpoint of bers are encouraging students to read the First Amendment rights or for allowing
Alex Bogus Assistant News Editor journalism at Tufts, the report will ruffle statement and send in their comments so the verbal and emotional abuse of stu-
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by Evan Lacher
The Democratic energy fumble
In this election of “hope” and “change,”
it is easy to believe the Democrats’ energy
policy is the right solution for our country.
But is it possible that the Republicans,
the party so many have grown to despise,
could actually have the right energy poli-
cy? And if so, would people be too caught
up in “change” to acknowledge that the
Democrats have become too idealistic?
The Republicans have crafted an energy
policy that deals with both supply and
demand — drilling and alternate fuels
— while the Democrats have stubbornly
refused to acknowledge the realities of the
world we live in.
Let me first refute some basic stereo-
types that have clogged this debate. I sup-
port drilling; however, I care greatly about
the environment, I support alternative
fuels, and I completely agree that we need
to drastically decrease our need of oil. On
too many accounts people have tried to
counter my energy policies with the above
statements in the belief that I am a cruel,
heartless, oil-loving guy. Take my word for
it (or ask my friends), I’m not.
This image stems from the Democratic
slogan that the Republicans and Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.) only seek to “drill our way
out of the energy problem.” Such could
not be further from the truth. Drilling is
not the solution but part of a solution that
first aims to make us energy independent
and then, eventually over time, completely
take us off oil.
The arguments against drilling follow:
It will take five to 10 years to make a dif-
ference, it is bad for the environment,
“Big Oil” is corrupt and steals money
from ordinary citizens, and it prolongs
the inevitable need to switch from oil. All
of these arguments stem from the pub-
lic’s false image of the Republicans and
their energy plan.
Yes, drilling on the Outer Continental
Shelf will not make much of an impact
for some years (no energy plan will), but
when did we, as a society, forget to plan for
the future? We have gotten so caught up
in seeking independence from oil that we
have forgotten to ask ourselves when we
will actually get off oil. The answer is not
pretty. Ninety-seven percent of our trans-
portation energy is based on petroleum,
and thus, it is naïve to believe we will be
off oil in 10 years, let alone 30.
Changing a country’s entire energy
infrastructure overnight is not possible,
and so it is easy to see that even in 10, 20
and 30 years, despite substantially lower-
ing demand, we will still need oil. Why
then should we not drill for something
that we need? Over the past 30 years, coun-
tries like Iran, Russia, Venezuela and Saudi
Arabia have created state-owned compa-
nies that we depend on. Our American
“Big Oil” companies now produce less
than 13 percent of the world’s oil. In terms
of national security, it is imperative that
we drill, as we cannot rely on rogue states
in an unforeseen future.
MCT
Furthermore, drilling creates jobs and
would eventually keep billions of dollars Exxon; however, it is never mentioned because they see it as preventing a spur fect timing allowed Obama to appear as
within our borders, thereby strengthening that 15 percent of the cost of gas goes to of innovation. I respect such an argu- the great bipartisan leader when, in fact,
the dollar. Drilling will strengthen national taxes, while only four percent goes to oil ment but disagree. High energy prices his politics prohibited an energy plan for
security, help the economy and put us on company profits. The reason “Big Oil” is are here to stay, regardless of whether the past two months.
a path towards energy independence. And making record-breaking profits is a result or not we drill. Thus, the economic and The Democratic stance to now allow
all of this will come from the pocketbooks of the oil industry’s need to supply the environmental incentives to develop some drilling is more rhetoric than an
of “Big Oil.” At the same time, the govern- global energy demand. Oil companies are greener cars and alternate fuels are inde- actual compromise. What we need is an
ment will lower demand and help spur not stealing money from us; rather, they pendent of “Big Oil.” “all of the above approach” that increas-
alternative fuels. are just smart enough to supply an energy As I sat in the Senate gallery this sum- es supply, lowers demand and invests in
As for the environment, while it is source that the whole world demands. mer, I watched as Senate Majority Leader alternative energies. As we seek energy
important to be cautious, we must be real- Furthermore, Obama’s accusation that Harry Reid (D-Nev.) denied votes on 38 independence, we must diversify our
istic at the same time. Drilling technology McCain will give a tax break specifically Republican amendments, all for the reason energy sources, and that includes drill-
has greatly changed over the years and has to the oil industry is not true. McCain of protecting Sen. Obama. At the time, Sen. ing, nuclear power, solar power and wind
become very safe and clean. For exam- has proposed a tax cut to all companies Obama opposed drilling, and as roughly power. The Democrats have done a great
ple, during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, (including the oil industry) that encour- half of the amendments dealt with drill- job of promoting the environment and
there was hardly any spillage because of ages more corporate investments in new ing, a successful vote on a drilling measure alternative energies that has now car-
the technology advancement. Nowadays, technology and infrastructure. Obama’s (which would have happened) would have ried over to Republican policy; however,
almost all oil spills result from transporta- windfall tax goes completely against the left Obama out to dry. Nevertheless, the Democrats have failed to acknowledge
tion, not drilling. There is no dispute that capitalist society we have built and was other half of the amendments dealt with that oil will still play a major role in energy
oil adds to global warming, but if we have used roughly 30 years ago, only resulting lowering demand and alternative fuels, policy for many years to come. This failure
a demand for oil, I would much rather in higher gas prices. Rising taxes solely but those too were denied votes. has allowed the Republicans to craft a
supply that demand with American oil. targeting the oil industry for the better of Thus, the Democratic stubbornness policy that acknowledges and deals with
The goal of achieving oil independence individuals is an outright oxymoron. All of to allow any Republican input into an environmental concerns and at the same
is independent of whether or not we are our families, in some way or another, own energy bill put Congress into recess with time, incorporates realistic goals.
drilling within our borders. part of the oil industry. With mutual funds, no energy solution. House Republicans
Sen. Barak Obama (D-Ill.) and the private investors, pension funds and IRAs, stayed on the floor for weeks demand-
Democrats have recently tried to tie John only 1.5 percent of oil stocks are actually ing a vote while Obama, on the day Evan Lacher is a sophomore who has not
McCain to “Corrupt Big Oil.” It is an easy owned by corporate management. Congress went into recess, stated that he yet declared a major. He is also the co-head
accusation with the recent profits by Many people do not support drilling would now allow compromise. Such per- of Tufts for McCain.

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Tufts takes four of top nine spots on Grafton

course at Jumbo Invitational on Saturday
WOMEN’S XC
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think she was really burned out
from high school — she did way
too much racing.
“She’s definitely in a much
better place, and she’s where she
should be,” Morwick continued.
“I think maybe at some point,
she’ll be running a lot closer to
Steph. Her attitude is awesome
— she’s running great workouts,
and I think it’s only going to get
better for her. I’m really psyched
with how well she’s improved.”
Leading a thus-far impressive
freshman class was Anya Price
(20:23.24), who finished third
for the Jumbos and seventh
overall. Senior Amy Hopkins
(20:35.25) and junior Lisa Picasia
(21:05.13) rounded out the scor-
ing for Tufts, taking ninth and
17th, respectively.
“The freshmen are doing
excellent right now,” Wilfert
said. “There are definitely a few
frontrunners, but they’re very
close and they all have a lot
of potential, so they should be
showing us a lot in the next few
weeks.”
“There’s a whole pack of them
that I think we are still adjusting
to training and not knowing the
courses,” Morwick said. “Some
of them didn’t run on a lot of
hills in high school, and our past
two courses were really hilly. It’s
a huge class, and they’re work-
ing hard and have great atti-
tudes. I think by the end of the
season, you’ll probably see even
more from that group of girls.”
“Grafton is a very chal-
lenging course. There
are a lot of hills that
can sneak up on you,
so you have to be care-
ful not to go out too
hard the first mile. You
obviously want to stay
with the lead pack but
try not to blow past
too quickly — just be
patient and move up
later in the race.”
Amy Wilfert
sophomore
While the team was pleased
with its efforts, there are some
aspects of its racing that could
still use some fine-tuning.
One item on the agenda is the
Jumbos’ pack running strategy,
which suffered this week due to
illness and injury that sidelined
some of their No. 6 and No. 7
candidates.
“I think there are gaps that we
need to address,” Morwick said.
“One through four looks pretty
good — there’s a little drop off
after four, and a big drop after
five — that’s really where we
need to make the improvement
... We had a few people not race
or drop out that will be in there
in the next few weeks, and that
could help address the gap, but
that’s something we’re going to
need improvement on.”
“We’re definitely still going to
be working on pack running,”
Wilfert said. “[Morwick] real-
ly wants to work on that next
weekend. I think all of the fresh-
men may run the JV race so they
can start working together and
getting used to pack running.”
Next up for the Jumbos is
Saturday’s UMass-Dartmouth
Invitational, which features a
flat, fast 5k course. Morwick
said she expects to rest many
of her top runners in prepa-
ration for the Conn. College Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily
Invitational Sept. 27, which will Freshman Anya Price finished third for Tufts and seventh overall to help
be the team’s first 6k competi- the squad capture first out of nine teams at Saturday’s Jumbo Invitational
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Lack of production from Cano, young players raise questions, cloud Yanks’ future
MLB
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Yankees, is another example.
The most recent case came on
Sept. 5, when Seattle Mariners
starter Brandon Morrow came
within four outs of no-hitting
the Yankees in his first big
league start.
On one hand, it’s easy to attri-
bute the offense’s gross under-
performance to its aging, plod-
ding veterans. But the few young
players in the Bombers’ lineup
didn’t exactly help the cause
either. Fresh off signing a four-
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year, $30 million extension in the
offseason, 25-year-old Robinson
Cano is hitting 40 points below
his career batting average, and
his .294 on-base percentage is
the second-worst among major
league second basemen with at
least 500 at-bats.
Knowing their team was try-
ing to rebuild and win at the
same time, Yankee fans may
have been willing to trade a
title run in 2008 for some sign
of progress from the team’s
young players. Instead, with
Cano struggling mightily, cen-
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ter fielder Melky Cabrera earn-
ing a mid-August demotion
and Hughes and Kennedy each
posting winless seasons, the
Yankees endured the worst
of both worlds: a disappoint-
ing season and a great deal of
uncertainty about their future.

Jumbos jump out to 5-0 start with four weekend wins, take floor again tonight
VOLLEYBALL
continued from page 16
“We are really deep this year,” Filocco
said. “There was a lot of contribution from
the freshmen, and all 15 players contrib-
uted well all weekend.”
One of the younger contributing players
was sophomore Caitlin Updike, who tallied
14 kills against Babson.
“I was injured last year, so I really want-
ed to play and just worked hard,” Updike
said. “I needed to prove that I could pro-
duce offensively.”
Updike was not the only underclassman
to come up big in the tournament. Freshman
Lexi Nicholas proved herself a force with six
blocks against RIC and seven kills against
Babson. Classmates Audrey Kuan and Cara
Spieler also stepped up on the court defen-
sively, tallying 15 and 14 digs respectively in
the match versus Babson.
“We have a lot of young players that
contribute a lot,” Updike said. “Everyone
on the bench could play a match, and it is
awesome that we have so many people. It
really helps in practice because the people
who are starting wouldn’t be so good if all
the other players weren’t pushing them.”
Day two of tournament play Saturday
saw the Jumbos pick up right where they
left off, routing the Smith Pioneers by
marks of 25-11, 25-16 and 25-18. Helgeson
led the team’s offense, netting 12 kills, and
Filocco proved her versatility by racking up
eight kills, 14 digs and 15 successful passes.
Junior Dena Feiger also showed her prow-
ess as a setter, notching 29 assists in the
victory, a performance she would better
later in the day against Williams with 41.
In their final match of the tournament,
the Jumbos took on the reigning NESCAC
champion Williams, which swept Tufts twice
last year, including in the conference semis.
The team remained unfazed, though, and
avenged last season’s defeats, downing the
champs in straight sets, 25-22, 25-11 and
28-26. Tufts ran an efficient offense through-
out the match, finishing with a .319 hitting
percentage. Offensive standouts were once
again Updike with 13 kills, Helgeson with 10
and Denniston with nine.
Denniston attributed much of this
offensive production to the team’s efforts
on defense.
“We had really good sets, and the
defense helped a lot,” she said. “It helped
us become more efficient on offense.”
“We have been working on defense the
past couple of weeks almost exclusively,”
Filocco said. “We have a lot of hitters and
are really deep, but the defense really pulls
everything together.”
Exceeding her 10-dig performances
against RIC and Smith, senior tri-captain
Natalie Goldstein came up with 16 digs in
the final match, as well as one of the team’s
six service aces.
“Especially versus Williams, defense was
key,” Goldstein said. “Williams is an incred-
ibly scrappy team that never lets a ball
drop. We had extremely long rallies with
them, and our defense was able to con-
tinue them.”
Goldstein was by no means alone on the
defensive end, as Filocco and senior Maya
Ripecky each added another 11 digs.
After opening their initial match of the
year with a first set loss against the Stonehill
Skyhawks Sept. 9, the Jumbos have not sur-
rendered a set since. They went on to over-
come Stonehill in four sets and have only
improved with each match played. Any
preseason nerves that they may have had
seem to be all but gone now.
“We had an epic preseason,” Goldstein
said. “We took that entire time to prepare
for one match, and we built up a lot of
excitement and nerves. This weekend we
got more comfortable with each other and
playing as a team. Getting more comfort-
able with each other and learning how
everyone works is why we are getting bet-
ter and better.”
“Each game we stepped it up a level,
which will really help in the future,”
Denniston said.
The Jumbos will put their perfect record
on the line tonight in Cousens Gym when
they take on the 5-4 Gordon College
Fighting Scots at 7 p.m.

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MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY “For me, I love running with
continued from page 16 people and not alone,” Frey said. vs.
will have a chance to run the 8k “I definitely run better with team- Football Wesleyan
this weekend. We try to ease them mates. It’s cool always having 1 p.m.
into it because the transition can someone to run with, whether it’s
be tough, but so far they’ve been a long or a short run. It’s great hav- vs. Conn.
Field Hockey at Babson
adapting really well.” ing the upperclassmen to navigate 6 p.m. College
“It’s really tough adjusting to the us through the runs.” 1 p.m.
terrain around here,” Frey said. “I Having competed in three
come from a flat state and our races across two meets so far at UMass
Dartmouth
courses here are really hilly. It’s not and with the UMass Dartmouth Cross Country Invit. 10:30
necessarily a lot of mileage but Invitational coming up Saturday, a.m.
we run a lot faster ... Grafton is a the rest of the season looks prom-
tough course. The hills make you ising, Carberry said. Women’s vs. Conn.
feel deceivingly tired or deceiv- “In general, we are a young College
Soccer 11 a.m.
ingly not tired, depending if you’re team,” he said. “We have one
going uphill or downhill.” senior in our top 15, so I think a
“It’s really hilly and muddy, lot of people look at us as having Men’s at New vs. Conn.
Soccer England Coll. College
and the footing is terrible,” said a rebuilding year; but in my opin- 4 p.m. 1:30 p.m.
freshman Phillip Grannan, who ion, I think we will surprise people.
has noticed that the training The season is slowly shaping up.
Especially with young athletes, it vs. Gordon at Bates vs. Bowdoin
at Tufts includes more mileage Volleyball (at Bates)
compared to high school. takes a while to adjust.” 7 p.m. 8 p.m.
12 p.m.
Both Frey and Grannan said “The team is looking really
they are adjusting well to the tran- good,” Welch said. “This year really at Williams at Williams
sition from high school to college. came down to younger guys step- Golf Invitational Invitational
“So far this experience has ping up because we are a young 12 p.m. 12 p.m.
been better than I could have ever team. It is still really early in the
dreamed,” Grannan said. “I really season, but so far the sort of prog- .
JumboCast Football,
like the team. It is a group of inter- ress we hoped to see from last year Field Hockey
esting and diverse people.” is coming along really well.”

StatISTICS | Standings
Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball NCAA Div. III Field Hockey NCAA Div. III Women's XC
(3-0, 2-0 NESCAC) (1-0-0, 1-0-0 NESCAC) (2-1-0, 0-1-0 NESCAC) (5-0, 0-0 NESCAC) (Aug. 26, 2008) (Sept. 14, 2008)

NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL Points (First-place votes) 1. Amherst, 280
W L W L T W L T W L T W L T W L T W L W L 1. Bowdoin, 855 (35) 2. Calvin, 266
Tufts 2 0 3 0 0 Amherst 1 0 0 1 1 0 Colby 1 0 0 2 0 0 Williams 1 0 4 4 2. TCNJ, 769 (2) 3. Wisconsin Eau Claire, 262
Bowdoin 1 0 4 0 0 Tufts 1 0 0 1 0 0 Conn. Coll 1 0 0 1 1 0 Tufts 0 0 5 0
3. Salisbury, 747 (3) 4. Luther, 258
Colby 1 0 3 0 0 Williams 1 0 0 2 0 0 Middlebury 1 0 0 0 Amherst 0 0 6 1
2 0 4. Messiah, 672 (1) 5. Washington, 243
MIddlebury 1 0 3 0 0 Bowdoin 0 0 1 1 0 2 Bates 0 0 2 4
Wesleyan 1 0 0 1 1 0 5. Lebanon Valley, 656 (1) 6. SUNY Genesco), 239
0 1 Bowdoin 0 0 6 1
Trinity 1 0 1 1 0 Wesleyan 0 1 0 1 Williams 1 0 0 2 0 0 6. Middlebury, 642 7. Depauw, 237
Coiby 0 0 4 2
Williams 1 0 1 1 0 Conn. Coll 0 0 0 1 0 0 Tufts 0 1 0 2 1 0 Conn. Coll. 0 0 2 4 7. Ursinus, 607 8. Williams, 223
Amherst 0 1 1 2 0 Trinity 0 0 0 3 0 0 Amherst 0 1 0 1 1 0 Middlebury 0 0 1 2 8. SUNY Cortland, 549 (1) 9. Wisconsin-Platteville, 215
Bates 0 1 0 2 0 Bates 0 1 1 0 2 0 Bates 0 1 0 1 1 0 Trinity 0 0 4 2 9. Rowan, 498 (1) 10. Case Western Reserve, 205
Colby 0 2 0 2 0 Colby 0 1 0 2 1 0 Bowdoin 0 1 0 1 1 0 Wesleyan 0 0 3 2 14. Tufts, 258 11. Colby, 204
Conn. Coll. 0 2 0 2 0 Middlebury 0 1 0 0 3 1 Trinity 0 1 0 2 1 0 Hamilton 0 1 4 5 12. Wartburg, 193
Wesleyan 0 2 0 2 0 13. Ithaca, 191
G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA N.E. Div. III Women's
S. Filocco 47 6 14. Middlebury, 172
T. Brown 7 0 14 C. Cadigan 1 0 1 D. Schoening 1 1 3 Soccer
M. Fitzgerald 1 0 2 C. Updike 32 3 (Sept. 9, 2008) 15. TCNJ, 169
M. Kelly 5 1 11 C. Hirsch 0 0 0
P. Doherty 1 0 2 B. Helgeson 29 0 16. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 156
A. Russo 1 5 7 S. Nolet 0 0 0 K. Denniston 25 6 1. Williams
W. Hardy 0 0 0 R. Coleman 1 0 2 2. Wheaton 17. Johns Hopkins, 153
B. Holiday 2 1 5 L. Nicholas 17 0
F. Gamal 0 0 0 B. Green 1 0 2 C. Spieler 13 4 3. Western Conn. State 18. Williamette, 147
I. Lewnard 2 0 4
B. Morgan 0 0 0 N. Muakkassa 0 1 1 D. Joyce- 13 0 19. Emory, 131
L. Griffith 2 0 4 4. Springfield
O. Rowse 0 0 0 J. Molofsky 0 0 0 Mendive 20. Wisconisn-Oshkosh, 123
M. Scholtes 1 1 3 5. Tufts
A. Almy 0 0 0 A. Kobren 0 0 0 Defensive B Digs 21. St. Thomas, 122
M. Kutcher 1 1 3 N. Goldstein 0 53 6. Bowdoin
G. DeGregorio 0 0 0 M. Blumenthal 0 0 0 22. Loras, 109
R. Ramos-Meyer 0 0 0 S. Filocco 6 47 7. Worcester State
Goalkeeping GA S S% M. Ripecky 0 35 8. Middlebury 23. MIT, 101
M. Zak 0 4 1.00 Goalkeeping GA S S% C. Spieler 2 33 24. SUNY Cortland, 100
H. Jacobs 0 1 1.00 Goalkeeping GA Svs Sv% D. Feiger 5 27 9. Brandeis
K. Hyder 2 2 .500 35. Tufts, 16
K. Minnehan 0 0 D. McKeon 2 21 .913 A. Kuan 0 15 10. Eastern Conn. State
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Injured arms, anemic bats leave big-budget
Yankees in fourth place in AL East race
by Sapna Bansil
Daily Editorial Board
Just how long has it been since the
New York Yankees failed to reach the
postseason? You’d have to go all the way
back to 1993, a time when the highest
paid baseball player was making $6.2
million, when there were zero Japanese-
born players in the majors and where
Derek Jeter was at the ripe old age of 19.
But as they sit eight and a half games
back in the wild card race with two weeks
to play, the Yankees will, in all likelihood,
suffer through a time warp and miss out
on October baseball for the first time
in 15 years. They’ll finish behind the
Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox,
two teams whose combined payrolls still
fall $31 million shy of New York’s, and
they will have to overtake the Toronto
Blue Jays just to finish in third place.
So who’s to blame for the Yankees’
colossally disappointing season? At
first glance, it might be the pitching
staff. Four-fifths of New York’s Opening
Day starting rotation has been plagued
either by injuries (Chien-Ming Wang),
ineffectiveness (Andy Pettitte and Ian
Kennedy) or both (Phil Hughes), forcing
the Yankees to lean heavily on the likes
of Darrell Rasner, Sidney Ponson and
Carl Pavano.
But even if they had something vastly
superior to their patchwork rotation, the
Yankees would not have been able to
overcome what was the biggest culprit
for their failed season: the offense. A
team that entered the season with the
reigning league MVP in Alex Rodriguez
at third base and that had acquired mid-
season reinforcements in the outfield
and at catcher has somehow managed
just 723 runs, eighth in the American
League. Stunningly, the Yankees have
been held to fewer than three runs in 47
out of 150 games this season.
As always, fans will reserve much of
their criticism for Rodriguez. They will
argue that even though he may very well
finish as the American League’s home
run leader for the second year in a row
— that, too, after spending the early part
of May on the disabled list — Rodriguez
still crumbled when his team needed
him the most.
It’s not an entirely invalid argu-
Top Ten | Luckiest People in Sports
Let’s get this straight. The Denver Broncos,
after scoring in the final seconds of their Week
2 matchup with the San Diego Chargers, just
one extra point away from forcing overtime
in a 38-37 game, did what?
Yes, they did. They went for two, gam-
bling to win the game right there, rather
than prolong the game and put the Chargers
away in overtime. Coach Mike Shanahan, the
savvy 16-year veteran that he is, expressed
no remorse after the fact, simply saying that
“sometimes, you have to go with your gut.”
Perhaps that’s because it worked. In honor
of Mr. Shanahan, here are 10 more of the
sports world’s biggest “luckboxes.”
10. Matt Cassel. Wanted: one quarter-
back to inherit the defense, special teams,
offensive line and ridiculous receiving core
of the NFL’s best team. High school diploma
preferred. No experience necessary. Really.
Absolutely none.
9. Francisco Rodriguez. He should prob-
ably send Mike Scioscia a Christmas card. Or,
rather, 58 of them.
8. Joe Morgan, Tim McCarver, John Kruk,
Jeff Van Gundy, John Madden, Skip
Bayless, Woody Paige and Stephen A.
Smith (eight-way tie). This is what counts
as an “analyst” these days? How do they get
these jobs? Are they just handing them out
on the street or something?
7. Ned Colletti. This is the man who looked
at his 54-54 Dodgers team at the trading
deadline and said to himself, “Yes, mortgag-
ing my team’s future for two-month rentals
of Manny Ramirez and Casey Blake just to
The Tufts Daily
Second baseman Robinson Cano, boasting a paltry .294 on-base percentage, is just one of
many Yankees to disappoint this season. Thanks to the subpar efforts of Cano and other
position players, the Yankees will miss the playoffs for the first time since 1993.
ment. With the Yankees just 1.5 games
off the wild card pace entering August,
Rodriguez had one of the worst months
of his career, striking out 30 times and
grounding into 11 double plays. Thanks
in large part to the failures of its $300
million man, New York suffered through
its first losing August since 1996 and fell
out of playoff contention.
But Rodriguez doesn’t deserve all the
blame for the Yankees’ hitting woes. The
offense as a whole has consistently failed
to produce, particularly with men on
base. The Bombers have the fourth few-
est sacrifice flies and the fifth most dou-
get swept by the Cubs in the first round of
the playoffs does look like a good idea.” And
he comes off looking like a genius!
6. Danny Ainge. Which award sounds
catchier -— NBA Executive of the Year, or
NBA Guy Who Answers the Phone, Listens
to an Offer of Kevin Garnett for Six Nobodies,
Shrugs, Says Okay, and Wins a Ring … of the
Year? We guess it’s the first one.
5. David Beckham. What does the aging
English soccer legend do when he starts to,
well, age? Oh, he just hops over the pond
and lands in Hollywood. Did you say the
L.A. Galaxy want to pay me $250 million to
play in the vastly underwhelming MLS? Of
course!
4. Anna Kournikova. Hmm, why do we
get the feeling that Ms. Kournikova doesn’t
exactly deserve all the attention she receives?
Perhaps, it’s because the only Grand Slam
titles she can call her own aren’t really her
own. Martina Hingis helped Anna snatch up
her only two big-time wins, at the Australian
Open in doubles play in 1999 and 2002, and
I’m more inclined to believe that certain other
“assets” may be to blame for Kournikova’s
ridiculously high number of Google hits.
3. The U.S. 4x200 Olympic relay team (the
members not named Michael Phelps).
We know Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and
Peter Vanderkaay are Olympic gold medalists,
but let us not forget that the final piece of the
Beijing quartet has a knack for winning the
gold. Phelps finished a full second better than
anyone else on the team and, ahem, sort of
carried them to victory.
Sports
MCT
ble plays in the majors, and their .262
average with runners in scoring position
ranks in the bottom five in the American
League.
Another baffling characteristic of the
Yankees’ offense is its consistent inabil-
ity to hit inferior pitching. Take Blue
Jays starter A.J. Burnett, for instance,
who is sporting a 1.78 ERA against New
York compared to 4.60 against the rest
of the league. Baltimore Orioles start-
er Daniel Cabrera, who has recorded
three of his eight victories against the
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MCT
Overtime is for sissies, right Mike?
2. Carl Pavano. For a man that once gave
up six earned runs on six hits in zero innings
against the Red Sox in ‘03, it is hard to
believe we call this man lucky. Yet he did
impress the Yankees enough to earn a ludi-
crous four-year, $40 million deal. Twenty-six
appearances later, Pavano still hasn’t earned
anything he’s being paid for. May we all be as
lucky as Mr. Pavano.
1. David Eckstein. Wait, so all I have to do
is hit .285 for my career, with no power, no
speed and average defense, and I can be a
two-time All-Star and a World Series MVP?
And people will think I’m gritty, scrappy and
smart when I’m really just short, white and
funny-looking? Awesome! Where do I sign
up?
-—by Evans Clinchy and Scott Janes
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Rays on
the rise
T
he Tampa Bay Rays have a chance
to become the first team in major
league history to go from worst to
first in consecutive seasons.
All year long, teams in the larger markets —
such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and
New York — have been chasing the 88-60
Rays. So how does such a young, inexpe-
rienced, cheap team come from nowhere
and overtake the Evil Empire and Red Sox
Nation? The answer isn’t that the Rays win
in spite of their age and low payroll. They
win because of it.
The Rays nearly doubled their payroll
this year, jumping from $24 to $44 mil-
lion, but still remained the second most
frugal team in the majors, behind only the
notoriously stingy Florida Marlins. For the
Rays, limits on spending cause manage-
ment to rely on young players, many of
whom play for the league minimum salary
of around $400,000.
It takes three years of major league
experience before a player is eligible for
arbitration — a period during which many
players earn far below their market value
— and then a wait of three more years
to qualify for free agency. During these
six years, players will almost inevitably
reach their peaks, which generally occur
between the ages of 26 and 30.
The fiscally savvy Andrew Friedman
took over the then-Devil Rays in 2005.
Since then, he has changed the face, the
name and the talent of the organization.
Friedman entered baseball with a Wall
Street background, having been an analyst
with Bear Stearns. When he stepped in, the
Rays had already assembled some strong
young talent, including starting pitcher
James Shields and outfield studs Carl
Crawford and Rocco Baldelli. Friedman
also walked in on the heist of the decade,
as former Devil Rays brass swung a deal for
lefty starting pitcher Scott Kazmir from the
New York Mets.
Friedman recognized where his team
could improve and made the necessary
changes at no cost. He saw the statis-
tic of run prevention as an exploitable
market inefficiency and traded the uber-
talented outfielder Delmon Young for
strikeout artist Matt Garza and defensive-
specialist shortstop Jason Bartlett. Last
year, Friedman shrewdly acquired first
baseman Carlos Pena, who the Yankees
and Sox had both released. Not only is
Pena a defensive whiz who boasts an OPS
higher than that of David Ortiz, but he is
also the highest-paid player on the team
at a meager $6 million.
Friedman knew coming into the season
that prospect Evan Longoria would man
the hot corner, and he has proven to be
one of the top defensive third basemen in
the league. Because of that, the Rays were
also able to upgrade at other positions by
sliding Akinori Iwamura to second base
and shifting B.J. Upton to center field. The
Rays’ Defensive Efficiency Rating, a statis-
tic that measures the percentage of balls
in play that a team’s defense converts into
outs, has shot from a deplorable .662 to a
league-leading .717, marking the biggest
jump from one season to the next in base-
ball history.
Tampa Bay’s pitching staff features
nothing but young talent as well, headed
by Shields, Kazmir and Garza. After that,
the Rays turn the ball over to their tremen-
dously improved bullpen, led by Grant
Balfour and J.P. Howell.
But that’s not all. Believe it or not, this is
the worst team the Rays will assemble for
years to come. They have a stacked farm
system and hold several of the biggest
assets in all of baseball in Longoria and
Upton, whose salaries are cost-controlled
for the foreseeable future. Also, prolonged
winning raises attendance and revenue
without fail.
People may write off the Rays this year
for their inexperience. People may label
them a fluke. But next year they’ll be even
better and more experienced. And the
best part is, they won’t have to spend a
dollar to improve.
Jeremy Greenhouse is a sophomore who has
not yet declared a major. He can be reached
at Jeremy.Greenhouse@tufts.edu.
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Volleyball Women’s Cross Country

Jumbos trample four opponents in McNamara, Tufts two-for-two

weekend tournament at Brandeis
by Evan Cooper
Contributing Writer
While it did not fully make
up for last year’s season-ending
loss to Williams in the NESCAC
VOLLEYBALL
(5-0, 0-0 NESCAC)
Brandeis Invitational, Saturday
Tufts 25 25 25 — 3
Smith 11 16 18 — 0
Tufts 25 25 28 — 3
Williams 22 11 15 — 1
Brandeis Invitational, Friday
Tufts 25 25 25 — 3
RIC 16 13 16 — 0
Tufts 25 25 25 — 3
Babson 23 19 14 — 0
Tournament semifinals, the vol-
leyball team exercised a measure
of vengeance against the 2007
conference champions at this
weekend’s Brandeis Invitational.
The Jumbos swept the Ephs
Saturday afternoon, an appro-
priate cap to a weekend full of
sweeps as Tufts rolled over all
four of its opponents without
dropping a single set, improving
its record on the season to 5-0.
Play commenced Friday eve-
ning, with Tufts taking on the
Anchorwomen of Rhode Island
College and winning in straight
sets, 25-16, 25-13 and 25-16. Tufts
was led offensively by senior
tri-captain Kate Denniston and
Tufts senior Kate Denniston, left, and sophomore Dawson Joyce-Mendive
attempt a block in Tufts’ victory over Stonehill Sept. 9. The Jumbos sit at 5-0
after posting four sweeps over the weekend at the Brandeis Invitational.
junior Brogie Helgeson, who each
notched seven kills in the match.
Denniston, who would later be
named to the All-Tournament
team, also contributed to the
team’s efficient service game,
coming up with four aces in addi-
tion to the three notched by fellow
senior tri-captain Stacy Filocco.
“We have been working on serv-
ing a lot in practice,” Denniston
said. “It helped mentally having
fewer unforced errors.”
Their service game proved
to be a strength throughout
the tournament, as Tufts went
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on to tally 20 service aces over
the duration of the tourna-
ment and fewer than six ser-
vice errors per match.
The Jumbos kept the momen-
tum going in their next match
against Babson, once again win-
ning in straight sets 25-23, 25-19
and 25-14. In this match, the
squad revealed its depth, mix-
ing up the lineup and putting a
number of underclassmen on
the court, all of whom stepped
up to perform.
see VOLLEYBALL, page 13 “[McNamara] didn’t end
after Jumbo Invitational win
by Carly Helfand
Daily Editorial Board
After a blowout win at Sept.
6’s Trinity Invitational behind
Stephanie McNamara’s first-
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Jumbo Invitational, Saturday
1st out of 9 teams
1. Stephanie McNamara (19:24)
3. Amy Wilfert (19:58)
7. Anya Price (20:23)
9. Amy Hopkins (20:35)
17. Lisa Picascia (21:05)
place finish, Tufts once again
relied on the sophomore who
locked up first place Saturday, as
the women’s cross country team
smoked the competition at the
annual Jumbo Invitational.
Tufts more than held its own at
its only home meet of the season
on the Tufts Veterinary School’s
campus in Grafton, Mass., tally-
ing 37 points — 33 points lower
than runner-up Conn. College
— and placing four runners in
the top 10. McNamara’s own
mark, a 19:24.39 on the 5k Farm
Course, paced the field by 25
seconds.
While McNamara ran a solid
time, a comparatively weak
field may have been to her det-
riment. Most notably missing
from the Bowdoin lineup was
2007 NESCAC Rookie of the Year
Yasmine White, who decided
not to run cross country this
season.
up having a ton of competi-
tion, which was too bad,” coach
Kristin Morwick said. “The last
two weeks, she could have run
faster. Steph hasn’t raced the
top kids in the conference yet
and probably won’t see any-
one until the All-New England
Championships at Franklin Park
[in Boston], which are just under
a month away.”
Following up her performance
at Trinity, sophomore Amy
Wilfert again placed second for
the Jumbos, clocking a 19:58.83.
The time was good for third
overall, with Wilfert less than 10
seconds behind Bowdoin senior
co-captain Annie Monjar, who
captured second place.
“Grafton is a very challenging
course,” Wilfert said. “There are
a lot of hills that can sneak up
on you, so you have to be careful
not to go out too hard the first
mile. You obviously want to stay
with the lead pack but try not to
blow past too quickly — just be
patient and move up later in the
race.”
After steadily improving over
the course of her freshman cam-
paign, Wilfert has seamlessly
moved into the No. 2 spot for
Tufts this season.
“Amy came in last season and
hadn’t done much running over
the summer, so I think she’s a
ton more fit than she was a year
ago,” Morwick said. “She was
one of the top distance recruits
that we’ve had, and I think over
the course of last year, she final-
ly got herself back into shape. I
see WOMEN’S XC, page 12

Men’s Cross Country

Denniston, Brown
each earn shares of
NESCAC awards
The NESCAC honored two Jumbos
yesterday who have helped their
respective teams get off to flying
starts. The volleyball team’s senior
tri-captain Kate Denniston and the
field hockey team’s sophomore for-
ward Tamara Brown each picked up
conference Co-Player of the Week
honors. Each is a first-time recipient
of the award.
Denniston helped her team post an
unbeaten 4-0 mark at the Brandeis
Invitational this weekend, making just
one error in 43 attempts and earning
a spot on the All-Tournament team.
In the squad’s final matchup of the
weekend, a critical early-season test
against defending NESCAC cham-
pion Williams, Denniston recorded
nine kills on 13 attempts as Tufts
cruised to a 3-0 victory. Buoyed
by Denniston’s performances, the
Jumbos improved to 5-0 on the sea-
son.
Brown, meanwhile, continued
her impressive recovery from ACL
surgery, notching her second hat
trick in three games during the
field hockey team’s 5-0 victory over
Colby on Bello Field Saturday. With
a team-leading seven goals through
the first three games of the season,
Brown has already surpassed her
points total through 13 games last
year. With the victory, the Jumbos
are off to their first 3-0 start since
coach Tina McDavitt took the helm
in 2004.
—by Sapna Bansil
Welch, six others post perfect score in 5k sweep
Tufts runners lead the pack during the 5k portion of the Jumbo Invitational Saturday in Grafton, Mass.. The squad would go on to post a
perfect 15 in the race, taking the top five finishing spots.
by Lauren Flament place in the 5,000-meter race and seventh in
Contributing Writer the 8k at the Jumbo Invitational Saturday at its
home course in Grafton, Mass.
Sometimes diversifying your assets is the Despite resting some runners in order to
best route to success. preserve them for later in the season, the
Jumbos swept the top five spots of the 5k race,
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY led by junior co-captain Nick Welch, who won
Jumbo Invitational, Saturday with a time of 16:44.58. Welch received sup-
port from junior Ryan Lena, sophomores Jeff
1st out of 3 teams - 5k Ragazzini and Chris Brunnquell and fresh-
man Henry Frey. The team tallied a perfect
1. Nick Welch (16:44) score of 15, with Bates taking second with 50
2. Ryan Lena (17:09) and Anna Maria College taking third with 80.
3. Jeff Ragazzini (17:13) “In comparison to previous years, it was
4. Chris Brunquell (17:20) overall a good effort and it was a good meet for
5. Henry Frey (17:56) some of the younger guys to get some experi-
ence under their belt,” Welch said.
Augsburg College junior Brent Haglund
7th out of 10 teams - 8k
won the 8k race with a time of 26:42.76.
23. Dave Tilton (28:39) Leading the Jumbos was senior co-captain
48. Andrew Lee (30:48) Dave Tilton, who placed 23rd overall with a
50. Andrew Bellet (30:52) time of 28:39.83. Bowdoin won the overall
59. Sam Hutchinson (31:38) team race with 38 points and Tufts took sev-
62. Anthony Pellitieri (31:49) enth with 194 points.
“I think it was pretty comparable [to last
The men’s cross country team did its best to year],” assistant coach Mark Carberry said.
divide and conquer this weekend, taking first “Our competition was a little varied from pre-
Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily
vious years. We were looking for our top guys
to have more of a workout out of it, so we
ended up holding out some of our varsity
members.”
“This year was a little bit different because
we had two men’s races, the 5k and the 8k,”
Welch said. “Overall, the competition was a
little spread out over the two races. The advan-
tage was it gave us two distances to put the
guys in. Those who were better suited to run
an 8k this weekend ran the 8k.”
Ten Tufts runners competed in the 5k race,
made up of a total of 28 runners, while six
Tufts runners competed in the 8k, which fea-
tured a total field of 84.
“The decision [of who ran in which race]
was really based on whose season is going to
be done earlier rather than later,” Carberry
said. “Running an extra 3,000 meters takes
a toll on your body, so we had the guys who
were planning on peaking later run the 5k.”
“All of our freshmen did the 5k,” Welch said.
“So far, they are doing really well. We have
now had three races that are the 5k distance,
which is what they ran in high school, but they
see MEN’S XC, page 13