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Queen Noor of Jordan said yesterday, “There are leaders in all different levels — not only at the U.N. or in governments.”
Jordanian queen, religious leaders
tout importance of local leadership
by Leslie Ogden
Contributing Writer
Queen Noor of Jordan and
two major religious icons last
night repainted the concept
of leadership to encompass
Pep rally relocates due
to weather concerns
by Pranai Cheroo
Daily Editorial Board
An array of student per-
formers will work to stir up
campus pride at tonight’s
Homecoming pep rally, which
has been moved to the campus
center due to a dreary weather
forecast.
The 5 p.m. event will not
feature the typical parade,
but will instead spotlight
Navigator, a Tufts band, along
with student groups such as
BlackOut, B.E.A.T.S. and the
Tufts Cheerleaders.
The Spirit Coalition made
the decision Tuesday night to
change the locale from the Res
Quad. “We didn't want to take a
chance with the stage [because
of the] rain,” said sophomore
Sarah Habib, co-chair of the
Spirit Coalition. She stressed
that the decision to keep the
rally inside is final.
But Habib finds it a posi-
tive change. The campus cen-
ter’s Hotung Café will create
a “more packed atmosphere,”
Inside this issue
Tufts professors weigh
in on the economic
crisis.
see FEATURES, page 5
not only the powerful but also
community activists.
Un i v e r s i t y Pre s i d e n t
Lawrence Bacow spoke to a
capacity crowd in Cohen
Auditorium as he introduced
the speakers at “Compassionate
she said.
Senior Paul Lewis, the drum-
mer for Navigator, was opti-
mistic about playing in the
campus center. “We almost
like it more to play where peo-
ple are packed together,” he
said. “It generates more inter-
est in the band itself,” he said.
The Spirit Coalition, a
student organization, is co-
sponsoring the rally with the
Alumni Association.
Navigator will headline and
BlackOut will close, according
to Habib. The live music and
dance performances are a first
for the pep rally and are part
of the Spirit Coalition’s effort
to revamp the event. Students
will also find snow cones, cup-
cakes and games like “Pin the
Tail on Jumbo.”
“We’re putting a different
emphasis on it this year and
focusing on live performances
and other things that kids find
interesting, like free food, free
T-shirts, free music and other
see PEP RALLY, page 3
Jumbos will
Bobcats on their home
turf tomorrow for
Homecoming.
see SPORTS, back page
Friday, September 26, 2008
jo duara/tufts daily
Leadership: Voices of Insight.”
Rabbi Irwin Kula, president
of the National Jewish Center
for Leadership and Learning,
and Sakyong Jamgon Mipham
see QUEEN, page 2
TCU senators are pushing to improve common rooms. Their efforts were successful in West and Metcalf.
Student-led effort leads to dorm improvements
by Jeremy White
Daily Editorial Board
Current residents of West
and Metcalf Halls are enjoy-
ing new furniture, wireless
Internet and fresh coats of
paint in their common rooms
thanks to an initiative last
semester from two Tufts
face
Interview | Rep. Dick Gephardt
Gephardt urges action
on economic crisis
by Michael Del Moro
Assistant News Editor To hear the entire 17-min-
Former House Majority
Leader and presidential can-
didate Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.)
ate lunch with Tufts students
in an ExCollege class yesterday.
But first, he sat down with the
Daily on a day when national
lawmakers reached an impasse
while debating a bailout for
foundering
financial
companies.
Gephardt
answered
our ques-
tions about
the econ-
omy and
MCT
the battle
Rep. Dick Gephardt
between
Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
and Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Gephardt led the House of
Representatives’ Democratic
majority from 1989 to 1995 and
continued as minority leader
from 1995 to 2003. He repre-
sented Missouri’s third congres-
sional district from 1977 to 2005
and is now a consultant for the
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He
ran twice for the Democratic
nomination for president in
1988 and in 2004, and he was
considered as a possible run-
ning mate for Sen. John Kerry
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To hear the full interview, check out the Daily’s political blog, The Trail.
Community Union ( TCU)
senators.
Senator Chas Morrison,
who spearheaded the effort
with fellow sophomore and
senator, Shabazz Stuart, said
his experiences living in Bush
Hall last year alerted him to
the need to reexamine com-
mon rooms on campus.
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Features 5
Arts | Living 7
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(D-Mass.) four years ago.
ute interview, go to our
political blog, The Trail, at
tuftsdaily.com.
Michael Del Moro: Do you sup-
port the $700-billion bailout
plan and, if you were a law-
maker today, what sort of stipu-
lations would you have to go
with it?
Rep. Dick Gephardt: Well, I do
think they need to pass some
plan and I do think this is the
right plan. I think time is of
the essence because of the sit-
uation we’re in. The markets
are falling apart … I think the
amendments they’re making
to it are good ones: trying to
have oversight over the way
the thing is operated; Trying to
get taxpayers equity in some of
these companies so that they
can make money out of these
assets — the taxpayers get the
benefit of that …
I think it is reasonable to ask
for a restriction on executive
pay of the companies that have
failed and gotten into these
problems. It doesn’t make sense
to anybody to pay people big
amounts of money if they’ve
led a corporation that’s failed.
see GEPHARDT, page 2
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“The common space by and
large was not used as much
as I thought it should have
been,” Morrison said. “There
really wasn’t a single unify-
ing space that really brought
us together. In Bush, the
common rooms, they really
see DORMS, page 3
Comics 12
Classifieds 13
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THE TUFTS DAILY Rep. Gephardt discusses the road to the White House
Robert S. Silverblatt GEPHARDT recession entirely, or a bad recession. what I would want in someone who was a
continued from page 1 It also could not solve the problem as heartbeat away from the presidency, but,
Editor-in-Chief led a corporation that’s failed. Whether quickly as we think, the housing market you know, you could make an argument
Editorial it’s their direct fault or not, they were the could keep going down and we could go that being a mayor and being a governor
leader, the buck stops on their desk. into a recession. And that means loss of — because we’ve had many of them in
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors So I think those are good changes and jobs, loss of economic activity, GNP goes the presidency — is not the worst set of
Kristin Gorman hopefully with those changes they can negative for at least two quarters — that’s qualifications to be president.
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors get it passed. I understand the angst of how you define a recession. I just think she’s got to answer ques-
Jason Richards voters who see [that] this is an enor- And I guess worst-case scenario is if tions, she’s got to participate in debates,
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor mous amount of money, and after the they don’t pass the bill and the market and we can all figure out from that …
war in Iraq and the deficit we already falls completely apart worldwide and we whether or not she’s got enough experi-
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors have, people are really getting restive have a depression where, you know, 25 ence and enough common sense and
Pranai Cheroo
Nina Ford about where the federal government’s percent of our people are out of work and enough human characteristics to be a
Ben Gittleson headed. But we are where we are and people are getting foreclosed on their good president. I doubt that’s the case,
Gillian Javetski it doesn’t make any sense to have the homes and retirement is lost and kids and I think at that point people will think
Jeremy White
economy get worse, a lot worse, which can’t go to college, I mean the whole nine Joe Biden does have [the] experience
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editor I think it would if nothing passes. So I yards could really happen as it did in the that’s needed in a very difficult time that
Michael Del Moro think this is the best of bad choices. ’30s. we’re in, internationally and internally,
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor and they’re going to want to vote for expe-
MDM: What do you think of the position MDM: So the consequences of not pass- rience. That’s what I think the voters will
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors that John McCain has taken in terms of ing this bill would be catastrophic? decide …
Robin Carol calling for a suspension of his campaign
Kerianne Okie
Charlotte Steinway and a delay of the debate? What do you DG: Could be. It may not be, but I think MDM: What do you think Barack Obama
think his motivation is? the chances are better than not that if needs to do from now until Election Day
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors we just do nothing and watch this thing in order to secure victory in November? Do
Meghan Pesch
DG: Well, there’s all kinds of speculation unravel that you could have a really bad you think suburban whites in your home
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor about why he’s done this. I think it was the consequence. And that’s a risk that I don’t state of Missouri and other important
right thing to do; I think it’s the right thing Midwestern states, which are all turning
Jessica Bal Arts Editors
Grant Beighley for both the candidates to go back. This out to be swing states this year, could be
Sarah Cowan is an overarching issue … I think Warren “If they don’t pass the bill swayed by appeals to unspoken racism?
Catherine Scott Buffet called it a financial Pearl Harbor
Matthew DiGirolamo
event. So, if Pearl Harbor had happened and the market falls com- DG: There is still racism in our country,
Emma Bushnell Assistant Arts Editors during a campaign, you can bet people pletely apart worldwide ... it’s not nearly as much as it was even five,
Matt Digirolamo would stop campaigning and go back and 10 years ago, but I’m sure it still exists, in
try to figure out what to do … the whole nine yards could some quarters. I think the best way for
Jyll Saskin Executive Op-Ed Editor
You’re six weeks from an election. All really happen as it did in him to run is the way he’s running, [which]
Thomas Eager Executive Sports Editor the House members are up for election, is to be out every day, especially in impor-
Sapna Bansil Sports Editors
a third of the senators are up for elec- the ’30s.” tant swing states, talking directly to vot-
Evans Clinchy tion and of course these two candidates ers about what he wants to do when he’s
Philip Dear are up for election. And if either of the Dick Gephardt president, how he wants to solve the eco-
David Heck two major candidates for president are nomic problem, which is the main thing
Carly Helfand former House majority leader
Noah Schumer against this package, it’s not going to pass that people are worried about today, how
the Congress, that’s just the reality of the he wants to solve education and health
Scott Janes Assistant Sports Editor situation. So it makes sense for them to think anybody needs to take. care and energy and environment … and
Jo Duara Executive Photo Editor get involved … just speak in simple kitchen-table terms to
MDM: What is your opinion on John people that they can understand.
Alex Schmieder Photo Editors MDM: What direct effects do you think this McCain’s running-mate choice? And do If he does that, they’ll be less and less
Laura Schultz will have on working-class Americans? you think that John McCain’s decision to concerned about the color of his skin or
Rebekah Sokol
Annie Wermiel choose Sarah Palin reflects badly on him the color of his eyes or the way he looks
DG: Well, the best-case scenario would be as a decision maker? or any of that and they’ll be more [likely
James Choca Assistant Photo Editors if the bill passes and the markets stabilize to look] at what kind of a president he
Emily Eisenberg
Aalok Kanani and banks start making loans again for DG: Well, I think the voters will figure will be. And I think he’s very impressive
Meredith Klein autos and houses and to business and all this out. First of all, she’s an impressive and I think he’ll win voters over if he
Danai Macridi that. Then I think you might even, under speaker and makes a good presentation. just does that with discipline, which he’s
Tim Straub
a best-case scenario, be able to avoid a And, you know, her experience level is not doing today.
PRODUCTION
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Emily Neger Executive Layout Editor
World leaders speak on the importance of community
Kelsey Anderson Layout Editors
Leanne Brotsky
leadership, individuals on all levels taking charge
Jennifer Iassogna
Julia Izumi QUEEN fix them. the whole story, but to dictate and
Amanda Nenzen continued from page 1 The rabbi emphasized that leader- impose their rules,” she said. To loud
Andrew Petrone Rinpoche, one of Tibet’s most respect- ship can come from “the people who applause, the queen added that these
Muhammad Qadri ed incarnate lamas, joined the queen. have been left husbandless and trau- policies have caused people to lose
Daniel Simon
Amani Smathers “The world has never had a greater matized, because in that situation compassion and connection to other
Steven Smith need for compassionate leadership,” they are able to discover their own cultures.
Katie Tausanovitch Bacow said, adding that the panelists capabilities.” Expanding on this theme, the pan-
Adam Raczkowski Executive Technical Manager set terrific examples. Jerry Murdock, the panel’s mod- elists reiterated the importance of
The speakers’ goal was to challenge erator and the co-founder of Insight voting. “Everyone must engage. It is
Michael Vastola Technical Manager the perception that a leader is “some- Venture Partners, steered the conver- a real choice this year and the rest
John Sotherland Executive Online Editor one else [higher up] in the world. sation toward some of today’s global of the world is looking with more
problems. The Sakyong reminded interest than ever before,” the queen
Louise Galuski Online Editors the audience that chaos and diffi- said.
Hena Kapadia
Minah Kim
“American values and cult times are not new issues, but he Audience members appreciated
highlighted the need to approach the the panel’s fresh perspectives. “I took
Matt Skibinski New Media Editor policies are there to cor- problems differently now. more out of that lecture than I ever
Kelly Moran Webmaster rect the rest of the world — “It becomes more obvious to me expected to. Just to see world exam-
that we need leaders, but we ourselves ples and an honest opinion about
Caryn Horowitz Executive Copy Editor not to listen and hear the need to exude qualities of strength things that are so hard to explain
whole story, but to dictate and compassion,” the Sakyong said. is great,” sophomore Hisham Bechi
Grace Lamb-Atkinson Copy Editors
Michelle Hochberg The panelists also emphasized the said.
Ben Smith and impose their rules.” value of dialogue. “There is no one “This is why I’m at college, to be
Christopher Snyder that stupid that they are 100-percent exposed to this type of thing,” fresh-
Elisha Sum
Ricky Zimmerman Queen Noor wrong,” the rabbi said. He lobbied for man Marysa Sheren said.
queen of Jordan audience members to converse with
Brianna Beehler Assistant Copy Editors people they despise.
Casey Burrows To have an open vision, people
Alison Lisnow
“There are leaders in all different need to be more sympathetic, the
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Rachel Oldfield
Mary Jo Pham levels — not only at the U.N. or in rabbi said. “If you really have compas-
Lily Zahn governments, but also among women sion, you’d be able to see the entire
and children in conflict areas,” Noor story, every detail and every cause
BUSINESS said. The queen went on to describe and effect,” he continued, knowing “If you’re going to have a big
Malcolm Charles Executive Business Director
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ties of reconciliation. The queen added that the media
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Kula said that people should not need to embrace this concept because
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Administration increases its focus on residential life
with common room remodels in West and Metcalf
DORMS
continued from page 1
weren’t up to par with the rest of
the university and I thought this was
really a dramatic disservice to the stu-
dents.”
Stuart said that last year he noticed
a disparity between Tufts’ dormitories
and the more communal housing in
the boarding school he used to attend.
He likened the latter to “a system of
cheap hotels to house students.”
After forming an independent student
group to draw attention to the issue, the
Tufts Students for the Improvement of
Residential Life, Stuart said the admin-
istration “essentially rebuffed” him
when he first approached them with
his reservations.
Stuart pressed on with the effort,
working with members of the Senate’s
Administration and Policy Committee
to survey Boston-area schools like
Northeastern University, Boston
University, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and Harvard University
to gather information comparing their
residential spaces to those of Tufts.
“What we found was a lot more
thought had gone into the design of
these spaces [at the other universi-
ties],” Stuart said. “It appeared that
an interior designer or architect had
actually sat down and said, ‘How do
I make this space attractive, how do I
make this space conducive to social-
ization?’ whereas at Tufts we seem
to have a theory, which is, ‘The more
chairs you put in a common room, the
better that common room will be.’”
After compiling his findings, Stuart
enlisted the help of Morrison and
Senator Sam Wallis, a sophomore,
in authoring a report that the three
submitted to the Senate. The Senate
endorsed the report’s findings and
urged the administration to consider
implementing the changes, working
specifically with Director of Medford
Facilities Ron Esposito, Executive
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Administrative Dean of Arts and
Sciences Leah McIntosh and Director
of Residential Life Yolanda King.
McIntosh said that Tufts was able
to incorporate suggestions contained
in Stuart’s report in Metcalf and West
because those dorms were already
slated this summer to undergo sig-
nificant structural changes, including
renovations to their bathrooms.
“We were delighted to get their
input,” McIntosh said. “We have been
evaluating and looking at common
rooms over time as part of our ongo-
ing process of looking at the dorms”
in the context of large-scale recon-
struction projects.
Morrison said that the administra-
tors were receptive to the students’
requests, and were cognizant of the
issues’ importance. “They reacted
very well to it,” he said. “A lot of the
things we pointed out weren’t big
news to them. They knew that [the
common rooms] were lacking in cer-
tain regards, and to their credit they
really stepped up.”
Stuart said that the improvements
to the West and Metcalf common
rooms represent the first step in a
process of building trust between the
students and the administration and
amplifying the issue of improved resi-
dential life.
“The money came with the under-
standing that Metcalf and West were
trial runs,” he said, adding that “the
administration thinks that the stu-
dent body is incapable of treating
furniture nicely.”
Stuart continued, “As evidence they
pointed to what has happened in
Stratton and other residential halls
across campus where furniture has
been broken. Our position has been,
if you make it nice, make it attractive,
if you make it something we’re going
to be proud of, then students will
treat it with greater care.”
Stuart said that he began his efforts
News
to improve dormitories by focusing
on common rooms, but this is part
of a broader effort to increase the
amount of attention the administra-
tion pays to on-campus housing.
“We brought the campaign not
only to fix the common rooms but
to improve the focus on residential
life on campus,” said Stuart, who
was not a senator last year. “I think
the common rooms are one symp-
tom of a greater problem at Tufts,
which is the lack of emphasis on
residential life.”
Dean of Student Affairs Bruce
Reitman said that the administration
has begun to take a view of residential
life that reflects this shift by consult-
ing a wider range of perspectives,
including those of students and deco-
rators.
Morrison said that working to
improve the aesthetic quality of com-
mon rooms across campus will help
foster a sense of community by bind-
ing students to the “historic nature of
the university” that distinguishes one
dormitory from another.
“My biggest concern about the com-
mon areas is there is virtually nothing
on the walls,” he said. “There’s noth-
ing emphasizing the unique nature
of every dorm. The common room
in Tilton looks just like the common
room in Hill. You really can’t differen-
tiate the two.”
Referencing a recent Daily article
that revealed that only four percent
of Tufts graduates feel “very active” in
alumni affairs, Morrison said improv-
ing students’ residential experience
could help forge stronger alumni ties
with the university.
“If students feel like they’re part of
something that’s unique [and] that
has its own character and its own
identity, they’re much more likely to
feel a greater affinity for it,” he said.
“Frankly, that will manifest itself way
down the line in alumni donations.”
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Spirit Coalition
emphasizes music
in this year’s pep
rally programming
PEP RAlly
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giveaways,” Habib said.
This new emphasis meant getting
rid of a long-standing tradition — the
parade. “Historically, it never really
had a strong showing. It’s mostly the
kids who are in the parade who are
walking around the Res Quad and just
look awkward,” Habib said.
Jumbo, Tufts’ mascot, will be putting
on his annual appearance at the rally.
The event will also serve as a venue for
students to vote for the Homecoming
king and queen.
Habib hopes that the old combined
with the new will create more excite-
ment and school spirit. “[Spirit] is
sometimes something Tufts lacks, but
if we get a lot of kids together then we
can drum that up and it’s really impor-
tant,” she said.
Habib and Lewis have had about five
meetings and have been working togeth-
er to step up the programming. “We’re
really excited about the band [and] about
BlackOut,” Lewis said.
Habib chose to have Navigator at the
rally after seeing the group play at the
end of the fall semester last year.
Navigator, typically a fraternity band,
has spent a lot of time crafting its set list.
“[This] is unlike anything we’ve ever done
before because we’re so used to playing
crowded frat shows,” Lewis said. “We’re
really excited about playing for two to
three times the audience that we’re used
to playing for.”
Lewis would not disclose the list, but
he said Navigator will perform a new
version of a Michael Jackson song. The
band may also take requests, espe-
cially if someone wants to hear “Free
Bird,” he said.
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Financial Crisis 101: Housing
bubbles, interest rates and bailouts
Matt Skibinski
by
Daily Editorial Board
This article is the first in a two-part
series on the ongoing financial crisis on
Wall Street. Today’s piece will focus on
the underlying causes of the problem;
Monday’s piece will examine the proposed
government bailout plan and the
implications of the crisis as a
whole.
We d n e s d a y n i g h t ,
President George W. Bush
gave a dire and surprisingly
direct warning to Americans in a tele-
vised address: Without action, he said, the
nation’s economy is in danger.
It was the culmination of what have
been a tense year and a harrowing week
on Wall Street, with several major financial
institutions collapsing in just a few days
time. Last week saw the demise of Lehman
Brothers, a major investment bank with
holdings across the world, and the rushed
sale of investment firm Merrill Lynch to the
Bank of America. That night, the insurance
company AIG came so close to flounder-
ing that the federal government stepped in
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to prevent its complete collapse.
But while the financial tumult has
dominated front pages and water-cool-
er conversations alike for the past week,
its causes and implications escape many
Americans whose lives are far removed
from hedge funds, interest rates and the
high-risk investments of Wall Street.
So what exactly happened? Why
is America in the midst of a “serious
financial crisis,” as Bush told the nation
Wednesday night?
According to Tufts’ economic experts,
the situation stems from a web of com-
plicated and interconnected factors —
some that were foreseeable
and some that
weren’t —
that put
America’s financial
intuitions at serious risk.
A ‘mispricing of risk’
Boiled down to their simplest form, the
financial problems originated from what
Professor Enrico Spolaore, the chair of
the economics department, called a “mis-
pricing of risk.” As housing prices began
increasing steadily several years ago, a
phenomenon known as the “housing bub-
ble,” large institutions began investing in
risky loans to people who wanted to buy
property, but didn’t have the means to do
so.
The idea, he said, was that each prop-
erty’s value would increase, allowing the
borrower to pay back the loan and a large
amount of interest. That system began
collapsing in 2006 when real estate prices
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hang-ups
began to drop, rather than rise.
“Sometimes, people talk about the sub-
prime mortgage crisis, because a lot of
these mortgages were made to people with
poor credit,” Spolaore said. “But the prob-
lem is even broader than that. There are
also mortgages that are technically not
‘sub-prime,’ that also end up being made
at conditions that would make them very
hard to repay, especially after the houses
stopped increasing in price.”
For example, some loans required low,
virtually non-existent payments for several
years, but then sharply increased interest
rates later on — the idea being that bor-
rowers would purchase a piece of property,
live there for several years while their rates
were low and then sell it for a profit before
higher payments were required.
This process was made possible by a rel-
atively new practice among lending
companies of bundling thousands
of loans into a package — known as
a “security” — and selling it
to investment firms like the
Lehman Brothers. By com-
bining risky loans with loans
to more trustworthy bor-
rowers, lending compa-
nies were able to lure
investors into buying
both types of loan,
in the hope that,
as a whole,
the package
would still
increase in value.
“The basic
idea was to pack-
age different types
of loans
so that
even
i f
some of the loans went bad, the overall
package could still be profitable — as
long as too many of the individual loans
didn’t go bad,” said John Straub, an eco-
nomics professor who special-
izes in econometrics, in an e-mail to the
Daily. “Too many of the individual loans
have been going bad.”
Spolaore explained that this approach
— the idea of selling bundled loans — is a
relatively new one.
“For many decades, typically the people
who would lend you the money would
be a bank that would also take over the
risk; if you cannot make your mortgage
payment, the institution lending you the
money would also suffer,” Spolaore said.
“But over the past 20 years, there’s been
a process … so that, instead of holding
see FINANCIAL CRISIS, page 5
5
D
ear SOS,
I’m a sophomore and I just moved
into my housing arrangement (if
you could even call it that; I got left
out of the sweet Wren suite that my 10 BFFs
are living in and now I’m stuck in a single
in the boonies of Lewis). Anyway, I have a
little bit of pent-up anger about the situation
and I’d like to start looking into off-campus
housing for next year so at least I’ll have
something to look forward to. What do you
suggest is the best way to go about this?
Sincerely,
Hung-up on Housing
Dear Hung-up on Housing,
Your inquiry comprises of the first step to
combating the housing crisis. And no, I’m
not talking about sub-prime loans here. I’m
talking about the mid-sophomore-year cri-
sis that all students face where they have to
decide who they’re living with, where they
want to live and when they want to start
looking into the process.
And the answer to the latter, in all cases,
should be: as soon as possible. Trust me on
this one; I’ve had my own share of experi-
ence with the housing hullabaloo.
And what a hullabaloo it was. After decid-
ing that the latter half of the spring semester
was an optimal time to start the house hunt
(first mark against me), I got to work with
my two future housemates and started uti-
lizing all of the standard search tools: the
Tufts Off-Campus Housing Web site, ads in
the Daily, and then when utter desperation
kicked in, CraigsList.com. After fervent high-
lighting, jotting and underlining, my friends
and I finally began to look at options. And
by the end of the exhausting quest, I finally
have a roof over my head, as well as a variety
of tips I learned along the way. Note: All tips
are based on real experiences. Just ask me or
my housemates for factual verification.
1. Make sure your answering machine
is something credible if you plan to give
a landlord your phone number. I learned
this the hard way. I still have my Vmail from
eighth grade, which asks callers to “leave me
a beautiful message.” But that didn’t mean
I wanted landlords to return my call with
messages such as, “Roses are red, violets
are blue, I hope this message is beautiful
enough for you.” Aaaaaand I’m not kidding.
2. Choose a location you like as soon
as possible. The four basic areas are a)
the West side of campus, perpendicular to
Curtis Street, b) the North side, on Boston
Avenue, c) the East side, on College Ave
(near the Broken Yolk! And the library! And
the track! … Can you tell where I live?) and
d) the potentially underrated South side,
off of Powder House Boulevard.
3. If a landlord tries to convince you
that a makeshift room fashioned out of a
corner of the living room is actually a bed-
room, he is lying. Plain and simple. Unless
you are Harry Potter and your former resi-
dence was in a broom closet.
4. If your landlord is a Somerville police
officer, run.
5. If the ad in the paper is ambiguous
about the presence of a living room, THE
HOUSE DOESN’T HAVE ONE. Apparently,
come mid-April of last year, it was all the
rage to do without living rooms! It’s sooooo
eco-friendly not to have one think about all
the electricity you save! But seriously ... no
common area. Even dorms have those.
Long story short: If you want to live off
campus next year, start early, read between
the lines and don’t be afraid to make an offer
on one of the first houses you see. There
may not be a better one out there.
And if you were curious, I am happily
living in the basement of a house with nine
senior football players I met after I moved
in. I figured out my housing two weeks
before last semester ended.
Charlotte Steinway is a junior majoring in
sociology. She can be reached at Charlotte.
Steinway@tufts.edu.
6 The Tufts Daily Features Friday, September 26, 2008

Financial Crisis 101: A Dictionary

For non-economics majors, the intri-
cacies of the economy and the terms
thrown around to describe today’s finan-
cial woes can be tough to grasp. Today,
the Daily provides a list of commonly
used economic terms and offers a sim-
pler explanation of them.
Bailout: This occurs when a bankrupt
or nearly bankrupt financial institution is
given extra immediately accessible liquid
funds, typically by the government or
groups of investors. Bailouts have histori-
cally been controversial because it is wide-
ly thought that bankruptcy results from
an institution’s inability to satisfy its cus-
tomers — and that “bailing out” is going
against the actions of the consumers.
Hedge fund: An investment fund that
is private and thus only open to a small
number of investors, usually those who
are particularly wealthy or experienced.
These funds are handled by investment
managers and invest in a broad range of
types of investments. The term “hedge”
comes from the tendency for these
funds to guard against potential losses
by “hedging,” which usually means sell-
ing short.
Foreclosure: A phenomenon that
occurs when homeowners are unable to
pay mortgage loans and as a result, the
lender seizes the house.
Real-estate bubble: A term that char-
acterizes a period in real-estate markets
during which property values increase
dramatically and become unsustainable
in relation to other economic factors.
This bubble can pop; for instance, after
national housing prices in the United
States peaked in early 2005, they began
to decline and are still going downhill.
Sub-prime lending: A newly popu-
lar term, this refers to the lending of
funds by institutions to riskier borrow-
ers. Because the borrower typically has
a weaker income, job history or credit
status, high interest rates are associated
with sub-prime loans, and borrowers
are more likely to pay late or slip into
defaults.
—by Carrie Battan

Investors’ confidence has Financial crisis 101

heavy impact on economy

FINANCIAL CRISIS
continued from page 3
the mortgage and taking the risk,
typically the institution that lends
you the mortgage would be able
to sell the mortgage to somebody
else, and then this would [go] into
a security.”
But because bundled mortgag-
es are complex — loans made to
many different people with dif-
ferent means to pay them back
— their value was hard to assess,
according to Spolaore.
“And as you begin to create a
bigger and bigger gap between the
actual mortgage and the financial
instrument, it seems that along the
way, all of these people involved
... lost a complete sense of what
was really the underlying risk and
value of the security,” he said. “So
essentially it was a mispricing of
risk — a misevaluation of risk.”
Bursting investors’ bubbles
From the mid-1990s to the fall
of 2006, housing prices in the
United States rose quickly and
steadily. But in the past two years,
some real-estate values in key
markets, like parts of Florida and
California, have begun to drop.
The result, according to Straub,
has been a sharp increase in the
number of homeowners who are
Professor of Economics Edward
Kutsoati, that decline has left
investors panicked.
“[At first] no one was certain
and the extent of the damage
wasn’t clear, and how fast collater-
al was falling wasn’t clear,” he said.
“If you have a home for $600,000,
and that’s in the asset division of
your ballot sheet, and then it sinks
to $550,000, and then $400,000,
each reduction in the asset value
creates the lack of confidence and
the uncertainty that the problem
MCT
is much bigger than that.”
As a result, many investors Congressional leaders met yesterday to discuss the economic bailout plan, a talk that was largely inconclusive.
began backing out of investments Negotiators met at the White reached because the meeting packages for executives of firms
from firms that owned large bun- House with President George W. had been too focused on political seeking assistance. The legislation
dles of real estate loans — and Bush yesterday to discuss bailout issues surrounding the Republican will also likely include a way for
the prices of those investments plans in order to confront the presidential nominee Sen. John the government to hold an equity
dropped vastly. The firms them- recent economic crisis. Though McCain (R-Ariz.). stake in some of the firms to give
selves lacked the money to pay the meeting was the first step in Republicans are speaking out taxpayers the opportunity to ben-
back so many investors at the handling the issue, the talks are against the bailout plan, but efit should the bailout succeed.
same time. still very much in their prelimi- McCain has yet to express sup- President Bush, Sen. Barack
“The final thing that tends to nary phases. port, as it clashes with many of his Obama (D-Ill.) and McCain
collapse everything is if everybody News reports said that Sen. policy stances. each expressed confidence
says, ‘I want my money. I’m going Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), At another meeting, held at the that an agreement would be
to buy gold. I want my money,’ ” chairman of the Senate Banking Capitol early yesterday, Republicans reached shortly.
Kutsoati said. Committee, expressed frustrations and Democrats discussed legisla-
Any financial institution, that an agreement had not been tion regarding the limitation of pay —by Carrie Battan
according to Kutsoati, relies on
two key factors: trust and con-
fidence. Consumers must have
both in order for the market to
remain stable.
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incapable of paying their mort-
gage loans — a phenomenon that
results in the lender seizing the
house itself, which is known as
foreclosure.
“Housing prices have not tend-
ed to increase over the last year or
so — indeed they have declined in
most markets,” Straub said. “A large
number of sub-prime mortgages
have gone into default. The result
is a large number of foreclosures
which means that banks are now
in possession of a large number
of homes which they are trying to
sell. Since the current value of the
homes is lower than the amount
of money owed to the bank, the
banks are losing money.”
This problem extends beyond
the banks that initially sold the
mortgages, however. Because so
many mortgages have been pur-
chased by investment companies,
companies like Merrill Lynch and
the Lehman Brothers were deci-
mated when large percentages
of their bundled loans were not
being paid back.
“If people had kept paying
their mortgages everything would
have been fine,” Spolaore said.
“But people stopped paying their
mortgages because borrowers
themselves were not completely
aware, or were kind of deluding
themselves into thinking they
could purchase houses that were
much bigger and more expensive
compared to their income.
“The underlying hope by the
borrowers, maybe by the lend-
ers, was that the price of houses
would keep going up,” he contin-
ued. “It went up until 2006, and
then it collapsed.”
The result has been a sharp
decrease in the value of many
assets owned by investment
banks and holding compa-
nies. According to Associate
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According to Kutsoati, the same Wed. Oct. 15 Bush/Hodgdon at Hodgdon
principle applies to the financial Mon. Oct. 20 Hill/West at Hill
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Gallery Review

Famous faces see new light in ‘Karsh 100’

by Sarah Cowan
Daily Editorial Board
Photographs of famous people are
so common — whether taken by the
paparazzi or for promotional reasons —
Karsh 100: A Biography in
Images
At the Rabb Gallery, through Jan. 19
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
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that most of us never think about what
kind of portrait is painted by the image.
The famous have been immortalized
time and again by the media, a trend
that has stripped away any chance of
the mystery, sacredness and drama of
the flash or thoughtful exposure. Yousuf
Karsh, one of the greatest portrait pho-
tographers of the 20th century, stands
as a stark contrast to today’s click-happy
environment. Just this week, an exhi-
bition of over 100 of his photographs
opened at the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston. “Karsh 100: A Biography in
Images” marks the 100th anniversary of
Karsh’s birth and showcases some of his
most famous works.
The show is a collection of legend-
ary faces — movie stars, heads of state,
politicians, musicians and artists all
come together in one gallery. Evidence
of Karsh’s warm personality is infused in
each photograph, all except the one that
is said to have jumpstarted his career. In
December of 1941 he was famously given
two minutes to photograph Winston
Churchill, and under the pressure of
time and the prime minister’s persis-
tent scowl, Karsh managed to capture a
In his 1956 trip to Hollywood, where he took this portrait of Audrey Hepburn, Karsh’s date-
book read like movie credits.
complex look of disgruntled impatience
and slight amusement on the politician’s
face. The story goes that Karsh, after
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several polite requests for Churchill to
put out his cigar for the photograph,
took the cigar out of his mouth with a
gentlemanly “forgive me, sir” just before
taking the photograph.
The Churchill portrait thrust Karsh
into the public eye, and by January,
requests were pouring in for the prints,
which served as a powerful jumping-off
point for the unknown Canadian pho-
tographer.
Karsh became well known on the
international scene, going to England to
photograph Princess Elizabeth and King
George VI, to Hollywood to shoot pic-
tures of actors, and to the first meeting
of the United Nations to do portraits of
heads of state.
The MFA has lined up these stars to
form a striking hall of fame, but what
is most intriguing is their stage qual-
ity. These faces are theatrical, so that
even the politicians seem like actors
and screen stars look like pantomimes.
Karsh’s photographs are close, intimate
and telling, investigating faces with the
detail of a paintbrush, and are true por-
traits, created with more tactile molding
than the flash of a bulb or the closing of
a shutter.
Karsh manipulated his subjects, and
his technical know-how made him
extraordinary — he dressed his sub-
jects, controlled their expression and
pose, and honed the lighting. Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis stands in front of an
Asian screen like a mannequin, wearing
an ornate silk dress, creating an image
of wealth, luxury and pristine beauty.
There is a stark contrast between sub-
jects who confront the camera, star-
ing defiantly into the lens, and those
who let Karsh study and position them.
Audrey Hepburn’s portrait resembles
a sculptural bust, with her eyes cast
downward, her dark features, like the
see KARSH, page 8

Festival Preview TV Review

New celebrities start ‘Stars’ off on

right foot, despite stale formula
by Catherine Scott
Daily Editorial Board

Last Monday, the seventh
season of “Dancing with the
Stars” premiered on ABC. With

Dancing with the Stars

Starring Toni Braxton,

Lance Bass, Cody Linley,
Brooke Burke
beantownjazz.org Competition Mondays at 8
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock played at last year’s BeanTown Jazz Festival. p.m. on ABC

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Elimination Tuesdays at 9 p.m.

a fresh new cast of celebri-

Berklee’s jazz festival ties and even some new addi-

tions amongst the professional
dancers, “Stars” starts out on
the right path toward a suc-
by Jessica Bal you may find yourself wonder- cessful season, even as the for- ABC.com

Daily Editorial Board
As a sea of boisterously intox-
icated students filters into Tufts’
football stadium on Saturday,
Berklee BeanTown Jazz
Festival
Rain or shine at Berklee
Performance Center, Café
939 and outdoor stages
along Columbus Avenue
Sept. 25 - 27
Schedule available online at
beantownjazz.org
ing how you ended up on a
hard metal seat screaming for
bulky men in uniform. Football
and beer aren’t for everyone. If
you’re looking for an alternative
to Homecoming on Saturday,
look no further than the Berklee
BeanTown Jazz Festival in
Boston.
Featuring a wealth of world-
renowned musicians as well as
a collection of outstanding local
performers, the BeanTown Jazz
Fest has made its mark on the
city of Boston for the past seven
years. From its first turnout of
10,000, the festival has blos-
see JAZZ, page 9
mat of the show sticks to its
worn-out formula.
“Stars” picks a different
celebrity cast each season,
always ensuring that there
will be some who dance only
for laughs and some who are
actually pretty good (usually
the athletes and singers). Last
season’s winner, figure-skater
Kristi Yamaguchi, was only the
second female to ever win, but
this season, it looks as though
the females are going to be the
ones leading the pack.
Among the females looking
to take the trophy for this new
season are Grammy-award win-
ning singer Toni Braxton, TV
Warren Sapp cringes as he resists the urge to rip his partner in half
using his bare hands.
personality Brooke Burke and
Olympic gold-medalist volley-
ball player Misty May-Treanor.
Both Braxton and Burke know
how to move their bodies, and
if May-Treanor can learn to tone
down her powerful manner-
isms, she also could have a good
chance at winning.
The women who probably
won’t last very long include
actresses Kim Kardashian,
Cloris Leachman and Susan
Lucci. Though it is impres-
sive to be the oldest competi-
tor ever featured on the show,
Leachman, at 82 years old,
probably doesn’t want to risk
breaking a hip while jump-
ing and jiving. Lucci, a day-
time television actress, doesn’t
seem to know where she is
at times — plus, it’s surpris-
ing that the woman’s toothpick
legs can support her weight.
Kardashian is definitely the
funniest dancer of the three
because she has all the tools
and has no idea how to shake
what her mother gave her.
see STARS, page 9
8 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living Friday, September 26, 2008

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Tufts grad Pete Shungu (‘03), aka Afro DZ ak, breaks out
a solo trumpet Wednesday night during his album release
party at Bill’s Bar in Boston. Shungu’s debut solo album,
“Elevation,” was released Tuesday and features socially
conscious hip-hop with multi-instrumental jazz backing. To
read more about the concert and to see an audio slideshow
featuring more pictures like this one, visit the brand-new
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Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In Picasso’s portrait (1954), Karsh links the artist’s personality
with his work.

Karsh’s photographs connect

College
popular figures’ fame, work
KARSH
continued from page 7
curve of her neck, exaggerat-
ed. The more frontal portrait
of Ernest Hemingway has him
ity, is dwarfed by one of his
giant painted vases; Georgia
O’Keefe sits among driftwood
and a cow’s skull, her typical
subjects. Ansel Adams’ gleeful

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staring off in some contem-
plative daydream. Karsh set
it against a dark background,
so that Hemingway’s rugged
beard and fisherman’s sweater
make a textured, casual con-
trast to formal portraiture.
Fidel Castro and Pablo Picasso
face seems to jump towards
the camera, so close that the
top of his hat is cut off at
a sharp angle, expanding his
form like one of his mountain-
ous landscapes.
Including one of his camer-
as, his fedora and his passport,

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Karsh the creative leeway he is
allowed with others.
Some of the most beauti-
ful portraits are of artists, and
Karsh has an insightful under-
standing of their relationship
with their work. He not only
creates a portrait of the per-
sonalities and familiar faces
of his subjects, but also draws
connections between their
fame and their work. Picasso,
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of sessions, and even an inter-
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cussing immortality and the
future of mankind, the show
praises Karsh as a courtly
character worthy of his sub-
jects’ fame. His photographs
could make people famous,
but Karsh himself remains
humble and mysterious, never
exposed by his own camera,
so that all possible inferences
about his personality emanate
from the staged responses of
his subjects.

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theater profile

Ph.D. candidate Langsner details fight

choreogrpahy, the techniques and effects
by Gabbi Leviy
Daily Staff Writer

From the classic duel in “Romeo and

Juliet” (1996) to the bloody landing at
Omaha Beach in “Saving Private Ryan”
(1998), to a slap across the cheek, to an all-
out fisticuffs brawl, violent action graces
the stages and screens of classic and popu-
lar storytelling entertainment.
The art of theatrical combat developed
through forms of mock combat sports that
were used for ritual and diversion, such as
the medieval joust and fencing. Staged plays
featured reenacted versions of these activi-
ties, mirroring real current and traditional
culture. Japanese Kabuki theatre and Beijing
(Chinese) Opera showcased a stylized com-
bat, whereas English dramas in Elizabethan
times integrated the common European
blade fighting methods.
Today, stage combat is a highly special-
ized art form, regulated by guilds such as
the Society of American Fight Directors, who
train and test professional fight choreogra-
phers. A play or film with any kind of violent
act — even as small as a slap — will often
involve a certified combatant or instructor.
Meron Langsner, a Tufts drama Ph.D. can-
didate and a certified fight choreographer,
has a hefty résumé that includes many recent
credits on the Tufts stages. In an interview
with the Daily, Langsner emphasized the two
goals of any on-stage fight.
The two most important components are
safety and aesthetics, he said, with an empha-
sis on safety. “The majority of actor injuries
happen with things like slaps and falls.”
“If you’re going to have a big duel to the Courtesy Meron Langsner
death with chainsaws, you’re going to respect Alums Greg Smith (LA ’08) and Mark Villanueva (LA ’08) REALLY do not like green eggs & ham in this sequence inspired by Dr. Seuss.
the chainsaw,” he said. “But if we’re doing a
scene, and it’s some big shouting match, and the rehearsal processes begin. Depending Stage combat is a combination of dance Of course, theatrical combat isn’t lim-
someone gets slapped, someone might do on the director’s vision for the play, fight and slight-of-hand. “The audience wants ited to the live stage, but is also used in
the real slap. You might think it’s only a slap, choreography can be period-accurate or to go ‘that’s cool!’” Langsner said. But even film, with mind-boggling results. On the
but one of the top fight choreographers in the totally fantastical, limited only by the extent in the most realistic of scenarios, an audi- silver screen, a director has the ability to
country is deaf in one ear because of a slap to which the play can encourage the suspen- ence’s attention can be pulled away from focus the eyes of the viewer on exactly
gone wrong.” sion of disbelief in its audience. the action if they perceive that the actor what he or she wants to show. The prepa-
A well-placed combat scene can act as a “There’s a children’s play by Dave Mamet, himself is in danger. ration is similar to that for a staged scene,
crucial turning-point in the plot, and the goal called ‘Revenge of the Space Pandas’ that has “We have this badass reputation,” Langsner but quick camerawork and impeccable
of the fight director is to instruct the actors one of the greatest stage directions known to said of the theatrical combatant commu- timing allows the actors to move in ana-
how to approach and react to plot violence. man: Vivian holds off the hordes of attacking nity, “But we spend all our time saying, ‘Don’t tomically impossible ways.
A character will act in a certain way, Langsner Space Pandas using karate,” he said, laughing. bruise your knees!’, or ‘Are you OK, or are In both cinema and the theater, a
said, if he is about to run at someone, and its In this particular scene, a fight director you going to get hurt?’” Still, with the proper fight scene can catapult the plot forward
important for the actor to make deliberate might play on the audience’s stereotypes, training, committed actors and a sense of or completely change its direction. It
choices to draw the attention of the audience. pulling from a martial arts tradition and then creativity, stage combat uses a combination moves its audience in ways that words
When putting on a play, a director will often molding it into supernatural moves that are of props and bodies to effectively connect alone can’t, and when done well, it can
bring in a stage combat expert long before safe for the actors but impressive to the eye. more strongly to its audience. be unforgettable.

In new ‘Stars’ season women
will be strongest competitors
STARS
continued from page 7
Of the male competitors, one of
them, comedian Jeff Ross, has
already been sent home. Most
likely soon to follow are chef
Rocco DiSpirito, actor Ted
McGinley from “Married with
Children,” and Olympic gold-
medalist track star Maurice
Greene. These last three are
not so much amusing as they
are painful to watch on a
weekly basis.
The men who actually have a
shot at beating one of the females
are former ’N Sync member Lance
Bass, teen Disney actor Cody
Linley and former defensive line-
man Warren Sapp. Both Bass and
Linley are paired with two of the
youngest, more original profes-
sional dancers, Lacey Schwimmer
and Julianne Hough, respective-
ly, so they have a good chance
of impressing the judges and
America by constantly renewing
their routines. Sapp is surprising-
ly good for a big man and could
fly under the radar until the end.
The skill level of the profes-
sional dancers is reason enough
to watch the show. The women
are gorgeous, probably more
so than many of the Hollywood
starlets. Hough and Schwimmer
are two examples of dedicated
young women, and if that’s not
enough, Edyta Sliwinska often
dances in nothing more than
underwear and ankle warmers.
For the ladies, the male profes-
sional dancers are extremely
attractive and uber-masculine as
well, despite those tired stereo-
types about male dancers.
Those who have watched
“Stars” for some time know that
the show never really changes.
The three judges — Carrie Ann
Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno
Tonioli — have stayed the same
since season one. The dance
choices are always the same;
either ballroom or Latin, and the
dances are never really exciting
until the finale when the final-
ists get to do a freestyle num-
ber in which none of the stodgy
rules apply.
To really love this show, one
has to love dance, because even if
the professional dancers come up
with an incredibly original routine,
the token crabby old judge will
inevitably bark that dancing must
follow the rules assigned to it. After
the first few weeks, the bad seeds
are weeded out one by one and
the celebrities actually start to look
like professional dancers as the
routines become incredibly com-
plex and impressive. And if that’s
enough to constitute good tele-
vision by your standards, you’re
probably already hooked.
‘Instrument petting zoo’ and live music bring
Bostonians to Berklee for BeanTown Festival
JAZZ
continued from page 7
somed to attract some 70,000
visitors to Boston’s streets in
2007. Now Boston’s most popu-
lar outdoor festival, the event
spans three days and includes
over 17 bands and 120 musi-
cians, with crowds flocking to
the outdoor finale on Saturday.
“You really get to see Boston
at its best,” said Tom Riley,
director of the festival. “Last
year we had a beautiful day,
sun shining; and it really adds
something to the atmosphere.”
“From noon until 6 p.m. per-
formers permeate three stages
which stretch over six blocks on
Columbus Avenue,” he continued.
Riley also stressed the
natural collaborative effort
between the Berklee College of
Music and the jazz celebration,
explaining the way in which
students often aid in perfor-
mances. The first night of the
festival is held at a Berklee
campus venue, Café 393. Last
night, the warm-up party at
the café featured performances
associated with Berklee’s Jazz
Revelation Records, a com-
pletely student-run recording
label that serves to highlight
talented jazz performers from
the College of Music.
The festival continues tonight
at the Berklee Performance
Center at 8:15 p.m. with a
“Drum Summit” that features
two energetic and entertain-
ing contemporary drummers,
Cindy Blackman and Terri Lyne
Carrington, both of whom have
worked with the likes of leg-
endary artists such as Lenny
Kravitz and Herbie Hancock.
They’ll be joined by pianists
Geri Allen and Patrice Rushen,
along with the fun and funky
guitarist David Gilmore (who
is also a professor at Berklee).
Tineke Postma, a sax player
hailing from Holland, will also
be lending her talents to the
night’s tunes. Tickets for this
part of the festival can be pur-
chased ahead of time through
Ticketmaster.com.
The real day not to miss,
however, is Saturday, which will
gear its events to all age groups
and will include an “instrument
petting zoo.”
“There was a lot of confu-
sion when we first talked about
the idea; people thought there
were going to be actual ani-
mals at the festival,” Riley said.
“Anyone who participated,
though, had a lot of fun getting
to know the instruments and
playing with them.”
Photos, face painting, tem-
porary tattoos and booths with
crafts, wares and food from a
variety of countries will also
color the event, adding to its
multi-dimensional appeal.
Featuring a wealth
of world-renowned
musicians as well
as a collection of
outstanding local
performers, the
BeanTown Jazz Fest
has made its mark
on the city of Boston
for the past seven
years.
The show will go on, rain or
shine, so don’t think that any
storm clouds will keep the sax-
ophones away. If you’d rath-
er trade your foam finger for
finger-snapping on Saturday,
head to Columbus Avenue via
the Green Line. The BeanTown
Jazz Festival is not simply for
established jazz enthusiasts
but for anyone eager to cel-
ebrate and cultivate the musi-
cal culture of Boston.
10 The Tufts Daily Advertisement Friday, September 26, 2008

Vote Vote
For Homecoming
@ the Pep Rally, in the Campus Center
*Don’t forget to bring you ID!
Neel Chugh
An Appeal for Neel
Verse 1 – It’s hard to believe that it’s senior year/The chance of a lifetime is finally
here/As I’m getting ready to graduate/There’s one last thing I ask of you, my class mates
Chorus – Vote for me, Neel Chugh’s the name/A Jumbo for life, that’s my claim to
fame/While my year abroad was nice and everything/It’s good to be back and be your
Homecoming King Verse 2 – I do TASA, Tufts Association of South Asians/Trying to
bring a little color to the Tufts Nation/Two marathons already, but Homecoming is how I
get down/I like the medal – looking to add the crown Repeat [Chorus] Verse 3 –
Though we don’t know what the future holds/I’ll make the best of what we have before
we go/’Cause 3 years in the same place is a lot indeed/But just like Barack, I got the
change we need Repeat [Chorus] (Indefinitely)
Ted McMahan
I should be Homecoming King because…I am really passionate about everything that is
“Tufts.” From the sports teams to the CRAFTS Center to T.D.C. This school, for me, is the
greatest place on Earth. Go ‘bos.
Derek Miller
Just as Jumbo the elephant jumped in front of a moving train to save Tom the little albino
elephant, I would jump in front a train for you. I am from your hometown and went to your
high school. I am a quadruple major (in Biomedical Engineering, Quantitative Economics,
Women's Studies, and International Relations). I’ve not only painted the cannon, but I have
fired it as well. I'm in both the Beelzebubs and the Jackson Jills at the same time, and I did
3 pre-orientation programs (Wilderness, FIT, and International Orientation). I have
choreographed dances for SOC, TDC, Tufts Burlesque, TASA, Sarabande, and Tufts
Bhangra. In 2001, I headlined at Tufts Spring Fling, and Jessica Biel dropped out that year
after I dumped her. I hope this gives you ample reason to vote for me for HOMECOMING
KING 2008!! GO TUFTS!!
Ryan Pallathra
What's up my fellow Jumbos! My name is Ryan Andrew Pallathra and I'm a Senior
majoring in IR. I'm thoroughly involved on campus in a wide range of groups and I'm
pumped about being back at Tufts this year (from being abroad in London) and absolutely
LOVE everything about Tufts! This year, it's YOUR duty to vote R.A.P. as Tufts
Homecoming King 2008 because of a little something I call FATE. Confused? Let me
explain....Twenty one years ago, "The One" was born, a cute little Indian boy with the
majestic name of "Ryan". It was then written in the stars that one day this boy would grow
up to become Homecoming King. Still confused? Ladies and Gentlemen, the name Ryan is
Gaelic for "King", so help this lively and spirited guy you've all come to love these last
three years fulfill his Destiny. Vote Ryan for Homecoming King and help this studly young
Jumbo find his long-awaited royal crown!

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Vote Vote
King and Queen
this Friday, Sept. 26, 5 - 7 PM
Jessica Awerman
I am honored to be considered for the prestigious position of Tufts University’s 2008
Homecoming Queen. Before coming to Tufts I never even imagined I could someday be
Homecoming Queen (mostly due to the fact that I wasn’t aware Tufts had a football
team…). Don’t worry though because over these past four years my Tufts knowledge,
pride, and love have grown into something “jumbolicious.” I’ve learned to balance the
double life of being a Tisch superfan while still making it out to parties before TUPD. I’ve
been an active member of our campus, holding a national pre-med position, molding
freshmen minds as an OL, shaking my thang at TDC, and most importantly running as a
four-year member of the NQR varsity track team this December. Tufts is my home and I
would be grateful to represent our spirit this upcoming Saturday as the tusk stabbing, trunk
tackling, field stampeding ‘bos take on Bates!
Geoanna Bautista
Hey! I’m Geoanna Bautista, sometimes known as Filipino Cappuccino. I’m a Senior
majoring in Child Development and Biomedical Engineering, and also pre-med. But don’t
let those long names fool you into thinking I’m all work and no play! I’ve been known to
throw some ridiculous parties from La Casa to Stratton and my refreshments are legendary
(as many of you know). I’m also down to dance across cultures and you’ve seen me
perform in ALAS, TASA, VSC, SOC and Burlesque, as well as of course the Filipino
Culture Society. And if you’ve ever met me, then you know I LOVE Tufts! So vote for me
and let’s live it up at Tufts one last year!
Sophia Michelen
I should be Homecoming Queen because? I have fully embodied the Jumbo spirit through
my diverse campus activities since freshman year! My name is Sophia Michelen,
Biopsychology major and member of the class of 2009! From being on ski team, tutoring
through the Leonard Carmichael Society, being a member on TEMS, fundraising through
PANGEA, being a member of Greek Life, and being an RA, I have had amazing memories
through leadership positions on Exec Boards and memorable opportunities working with all
you fellow Jumbos! I have cried through Biology 13 exams, stayed up in the library passed
the announcer's warning calls, hiked the Alps in Talloires with you, lived through that crazy
mess that is spring fling, and have been by your side, picking you up--literally! -- through the
Nighttime Quad Reception! How much more Tufts can you get? I love everything that is
Tufts and hope you all will vote for me as your 2008 Homecoming Queen!
London Moore
Hey Jumbo's can you believe that it is homecoming already?
My name is London Moore and I'm running for Homecoming Queen!!! As many of you
know, Tufts is my favorite place in the world and I am so excited to be nominated. The Pep
Rally this year is going to be awesome and we have an amazing football team so get pumped
for this weekend and don't forget to vote London for Queen on Friday!!!

Contact arya.meydani@tufts.edu or nissa.bagelman@tufts.edu with questions

12 The Tufts Daily Comics Friday, September 26, 2008

Crossword
Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

Non Sequitur by Wiley

solutions

Married to the Sea

www.marriedtothesea.com

SUDOKU
Level: Losing a game to Bates — in any sport

Late Night at the Daily

Solution to Thursday's puzzle

“Why are you laughing? Could it be because I am

eating a cup of guacamole like an ice cream cone?”
—Carly

Please recycle this Daily

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ITA play this weekend will offer glimpse of future NESCAC competition
MEN’S TENNIS
continued from page 15
singles contests in every match.
“I thought it was a really great beginning
to the match,” Rosen said. “We usually do
pretty well against this team, but this was
the first time I think we swept them 9-0
in the last three years. The most signifi-
cant aspect was the doubles, and that the
doubles won in pretty convincing fashion.
Last season the doubles was really our
Achilles’ heel, but this year we have some
new freshmen and we really mixed up the
doubles lineup; we’re hoping this time to
really do well.”
“I still think doubles is a weakness that
we have to work on,” Landers said. “I think
that the reason we may have had an easier
time at No. 1 doubles this time around is
because Salve Regina lost a really good
doubles team from last year.”
In terms of addressing last sea-
son’s weaker doubles play, the squad
intends to maximize the time on court
in the fall, including the ITA Regional
Championships, which starts today and
continues throughout the weekend at
Williams, and the Wallach Invitational
hosted by Bates in two weeks.
“I think to a large extent we can [use the
fall to work on doubles] because we have
two matches in the fall against Salve Regina
and Babson, we have the ITA Tournament
and the tournament at Bates,” Rosen said. “I
think we really can put together some solid
doubles lineups that work, and I’m really
excited this year because we have two fresh-
men who are really playing good doubles
now in Sam and Kai, who I thought did an
excellent job in their first doubles match.”
“I wouldn’t go off and say that we’re a
doubles powerhouse right now, but I think
that we are a much better team in a much
better position than we were last year,”
Landers added.
On the singles side, every Jumbo player
managed a straight-set victory, as Tufts
combined to win 72 games compared to 21
taken by the Seahawks.
Playing at No. 1 for the first time in
his career, Rosen cruised 6-2, 6-2 while
Fountain dispatched his opponent 6-4,
6-2 from the second slot. Sophomore
Tony Carucci made good on his first
appearance of the season to win 6-3,
6-1 at No. 3, and Trott came in at No. 4
in winning 6-0, 6-3. Not to be outdone,
rookie Laber came out and dominated
at the fifth singles spot and won 6-1,
6-1, while junior captain Bryan Wilner
rounded things off at No. 6 with a 6-0, 6-2
victory to complete the sweep.
“The singles ladder is looking good,”
Landers said. “There’s a few people that
I think are not in it that could very well
come in and play No. 5 or 6 at any given
time and do just as well. We have a lot of
depth on our team; I think that if anybody
gets injured, there are definitely people
to step up and take their spot, and I think
that’s a pretty good position to be in.”
With its first team win already notched,
Tufts will now send some of its members to
the ITA Regional tournament, consisting of
tournament draws in singles and doubles
that focus more on individual, rather than
team, accomplishments. Furthermore,
while the dual matches of the fall offer rel-
atively light competition, the ITA Regionals
will include the lead players from all across
the conference.
“Generally ITAs have the very best play-
ers, so if you get in one or two good
wins there in singles or doubles, it really
gives you a lot of confidence,” Rosen said.
“This is the first tournament where you see
the top NESCAC players, so regardless of
whether you do well or not it lets you see
what the competition is and lets you know
what you have to work for.”
“I think that I see it as an opportunity
to set personal goals and to reach them
because the competition is very high, so
we can’t go in there and set a team goal
because it’s very hard depending on where
you are in the draw,” Landers added.
Representing the Jumbos this weekend
will be Rosen, Carucci and Laber in singles,
while the two doubles teams will consist of
Kohnstamm and Landers and Laber and
Victoria. While the competition at ITAs will
be tough with so many elite conference
players convening for one tournament,
there is certainly opportunity there for the
Jumbos, even if winning either the singles
or doubles draw remains a lofty goal.
“You’re not going in expecting to win
the tournament, but if you go in and beat
one of these very good teams it gives you
a lot of confidence the rest of the year say-
ing you can compete with the top of the
NESCAC,” Rosen said.

Football Breakdown SCHEDULE | Sept. 26 - Oct. 2

WEEK 2 Fri sat sun mon tue wed THU
The Jumbos (1-0) have won every vs. Bates
year since 1985; no reason to ex- Football (H)
at pect a change this year. Bates (0-1) 1 p.m.
will be hard-pressed to stop the
Jumbos’ high-powered offense. vs. Bates
BATES TUFTS Field Hockey (H) vs. Gordon
4 p.m.
1 p.m.
Last week brought a tremendous
at debut for sophomore QB Alex Ve- vs. Bates
Women’s vs. Babson
tras; the Jeffs are 1-0 after thorough- Soccer (H) 4 p.m.
ly dominating Hamilton. They’ll be 12 p.m.
AMHERST BOWDOIN the favorites against Bowdoin (0-1).
Men’s vs. Bates
Soccer (H)
The defending champs are 1-0, and 2:30 p.m.
sophomore QB Donald McKillop
at is the league’s Player of the Week. at Conn.
College
Colby has yet to score a point; Cross Country Invite
MIDDLEBURY COLBY they’ll get another try tomorrow. 12 p.m.

Both teams are 0-1, but both have at MIT at MIT

Volleyball Invitational Invitational
a shot at a middle-of-the-road fin- 4 p.m. 10 a.m.
at ish this year. The host Cardinals,
however, will have to overcome the ITA Regional ITA Regional ITA Regional
Men’s Tennis Champs. Champs. Champs. vs. Babson
WESLEYAN loss of sophomore QB Joe Giaimo. 3:30 p.m.
HAMILTON 9 a.m. 9 a.m. 9 a.m.

Women’s ITA Regional ITA Regional ITA Regional

Game of the year! Trinity and vs. MIT
Tennis Champion- Champion- Champion- 4 p.m.
Williams have won six of the last ships 9 a.m. ships 9 a.m. ships 9 a.m.
at seven conference titles, and the
winner of tomorrow’s showdown **(H) =
JumboCast Football Homecoming
TRINITY WILLIAMS is the favorite to win it all again. Game
—by Evans Clinchy

StatISTICS | Standings
Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball Football NCAA Div. III Field Hockey
(5-0, 3-0 NESCAC) (3-0-0, 2-0-0 NESCAC) (4-1-1, 1-1-0 NESCAC) (9-0, 2-0 NESCAC) (1-0, 1-0 NESCAC) (Sept. 23, 2008)
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
L W L PF PA Points (First-place votes)
W L W L T W L T W L T W L T W T W L W L
Amherst 1 0 30 6 1. Bowdoin, 782 (29)
Bowdoin 3 0 7 0 0 Amherst 2 0 0 2 1 1 Williams 2 0 0 3 1 0 Amherst 3 0 9 1
Middlebury 1 0 42 28 2. Middlebury, 691 (2)
Tufts 3 0 5 0 0 Tufts 2 0 0 3 0 0 Middlebury 1 0 1 3 0 1 Tufts 2 0 9 0
Trinity 1 0 17 7
1 Williams 3 1 6 6 3. TCNJ, 687 (1)
Middlebury 2 0 5 0 0 Williams 2 0 0 5 0 0 Wesleyan 1 0 1 2 1 Tufts 1 0 20 14
2 0 6 0 0 1 Conn. Coll. 2 1 6 5 4. Johns Hopkins, 678 (5)
Trinity Colby 1 1 0 4 1 0 Amherst 1 1 0 3 0 Williams 1 0 28 0
Middlebury 2 1 4 4 5. Messiah, 627 (1)
Amherst 2 1 3 2 0 Middlebury 1 1 0 2 3 2 Colby 1 1 0 2 2 0 Bates 0 1 7 17
Wesleyan 2 1 7 3 6. Ursinus, 523 (1)
Williams 1 1 3 2 0 Bowdoin 0 1 1 2 1 2 Conn. Coll. 1 1 0 2 2 0 Bowdoin 0 1 28 42
Trinity 1 2 5 5 7. Rowan, 507 (1)
Colby 0 2 2 3 0 Wesleyan 0 1 1 2 1 1 Trinity 1 1 0 5 1 0 Colby 0 1 0 28
Colby 0 1 4 3
0 3 2 4 0 1 0 4 1 1 Hamilton 0 1 6 30 8. Lebanon Valley, 491
Bates Conn. Coll 0 1 0 3 1 0 Tufts 1 Bates 0 2 3 6
2 Wesleyan 0 1 14 20 9. Salisbury, 490 (1)
Conn. Coll 0 3 1 4 0 Trinity 0 1 0 4 1 0 Bates 0 2 0 2 0 Bowdoin 0 2 6 3
0 3 1 4 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 Bowdoin 0 2 0 1 3 0 Hamilton 0 4 5 8 10. Tufts, 445
Wesleyan Bates

G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA Rushing Att. Yds. Avg. TD N.E. Div. III Women's
T. Brown 10 1 21 C. Cadigan 3 0 6 D. Schoening 3 1 7 C. Updike 62 3 W. Forde 27 133 4.9 2 Soccer
S. Nolet R. Coleman 2 1 5 S. Filocco 59 9 D. Ferguson 6 63 10.5 0 (Sept. 23, 2008)
M. Kelly 5 1 11 1 0 2 K. Anderson 7 33 4.7 0
A. Russo 3 5 11 A. VonPutt- M. Fitzgerald 1 1 3 B. Helgeson 54 1 1. Williams
D. Joyce-Mendive 54 0
B. Holiday 2 1 5 kammer 1 0 2 A. Lach 1 1 3 L. Nicholas 43 0 Passing Pct. Yds TD INT 2. Wheaton
M. Burke 2 0 4 F. Gamal 0 2 2 P. Doherty 1 0 2 K. Denniston 41 10 A. Fucillo 50.0 178 1 0 3. Western Conn. State
L. Griffith 2 0 4 L. O’Connor 0 1 1 B. Green 1 0 2 D. Feiger 21 8 4. Tufts
I. Lewnard 2 0 4 A. Almy 0 0 0 N. Muakkassa 0 1 1 Receiving No. Yds Avg. TD
S. Black 5 84 16.8 0 5. Springfield
M. Scholtes 1 1 3 J. Love-Nichols 0 0 0 C. Flaherty 0 1 1 Defensive B Digs
1 N. Goldstein 0 132 S. Cusano 2 42 21.0 0 6. Amherst
M. Kutcher 1 1 3 W. Hardy 0 0 0 P. DeGregorio 0 1
C. Spieler 2 86 7. Eastern Conn. State
S. Filocco 8 83 Defense Tack INT Sack 8. Bowdoin
Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% Goalkeeping GA S S% R. Crisco 10.0 0 0
D. Feiger 8 75 9. Colby
M. Zak 1 5 .833 H. Jacobs 0 7 1.00 D. McKeon 3 28 .903 M. Ripecky 0 75 A. Perry 6.0 0 0
K. Hyder 2 3 .600 K. Minnehan 0 1 1.00 P. Tonelli 0 4 1.00 D. Joyce-Mendive 5 20 J. Lechleiter 4.0 0 0 10. Salem State
14 The Tufts Daily Sports Friday, September 26, 2008

Women’s Tennis Preview

All-Americans Browne and McCooey to anchor Jumbos in fall

by Sapna Bansil
Daily Editorial Board
At the beginning of its fall season
last year, the women’s tennis team had
to fill the holes in its lineup left by four
graduated seniors. By the spring, the
Jumbos were down to seven players
after still more turnover on their roster.
But as it prepares to kick off its 2008
season today, Tufts finally has some-
thing it missed all of last year: a little
stability.
The Jumbos will travel to MIT
this weekend for the ITA Regional
Championships boasting a squad that
is returning all but one player from
last year’s team. Coming off a spring
in which they reached the semifinals
of the NESCAC Tournament and quali-
fied for the NCAA Championships, the
Jumbos are glad nearly all of them will
all be back as they try to build off their
success.
“We’re definitely really excited to have
most of our team coming back,” junior
captain Meghan McCooey said. “We did
make strides, and we improved a lot
last year, so it’s great then that almost
everyone is coming back because we
can start right from where we left off.”
A pair of All-Americans — McCooey
and sophomore Julia Browne — will
once again anchor Tufts’ singles lineup
after going a combined 23-8 out of
the first and second spots last sea-
son. The Jumbos are expecting much
from Browne, who captured both the
NESCAC and Northeast Rookie of the
Year awards last season and finished
the spring as the No. 15 singles player
in the nation.
“I think there’s absolutely no limit to
what she can do,” coach Kate Bayard
said. “We’re working on developing her
net game a little more, and once she
starts coming to the net significantly
more, she can beat anyone out there.”
Just one spot behind Browne in the
rankings was McCooey, who capped
off her spring season with a run to the
semifinals of the Div. III singles cham-
pionship, upsetting two ranked play-
ers, including the tournament’s second
seed, along the way.
“That actually gave me a lot more
confidence going into this year,”
McCooey said. “I believed that I could
beat those top players last year, but
now that I’ve actually done it, it’s really
made me feel like every time I go on
the court, I can beat the player that I’m
facing.”
Behind Browne and McCooey, how-
ever, Tufts will have some holes to fill
in its singles lineup, at least for the
fall. In addition to the departure of
last season’s lone senior, Andrea Cenko
(LA ’08), the Jumbos will be without
junior Erica Miller and senior Mari
Homma, both of whom are spending
the semester abroad. Before Miller and
Homma return for the spring season,
Tufts will rely in part on its large fresh-
man class — Jennifer LaCara, Jennifer
Lavet, Kaitlyn Pritchard and Nathalie
Schils — to help fill the void.
“We’re really lucky to get a lot of new,
solid freshmen who can help us out,”
McCooey said. “They’ve all shown that
they all have a lot to offer the team.
They’ve got great and very different
games, and they’re all going to play a
major role in what we can accomplish
this year.”
On the doubles side, Bayard plans to
pair McCooey with Browne and Lavet
with sophomore Edwina Stewart. But
in an abbreviated fall season without
any major events, Bayard says the focus
will be more on honing skills than
determining lineups.
“I have a plan for some doubles
teams that I’m going to stick with in the
fall, but things might very well switch
up once Erica and Mari come back in
the spring,” she said. “The fall’s much
more about developing our doubles
skills rather than determining the dou-
bles teams, and working on our serving
and volleying, on using the modified
I-formation a little more and on net
play and volley technique. I know in
the spring we’ll mix things up anyway,
so for now I’d just like them to have a
doubles foundation.”
Like always, Tufts will play a limited
schedule in the fall, featuring just two
dual matches and two individual tour-
naments. With all of the major champi-
onship events slated for the spring, the
coming months will be used to prepare
for the competition.
“If we can just get a bunch of match-
es under our belts in the fall, check out
the competition and compete really
well against it, it’ll definitely satisfy our
goals and help us in our spring season,”
Browne said.
Given the competitiveness of the
NESCAC, the Jumbos will take any
headstart they can get. The conference
had five teams in the top 13 of last sea- Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily
son’s final national rankings, includ- Sophomore Edwina Stewart will compete in her second season on the women’s tennis team
ing reigning NCAA champion Williams as part of a roster heavy on underclassmen, with four freshmen and three sophomores on
at No. 2 and three-time defending a squad of 11.
NESCAC champion Amherst at No. 3.
But Tufts showed signs last year of can make the jump to the NESCAC’s “Last year, it was a matter of a cou-
breaking the stranglehold the Ephs and elite this season. ple matches that separated us from
Jeffs have had on the conference in “Definitely Williams and Amherst Amherst, so we’re definitely ready to
recent seasons, twice losing to Amherst have always separated themselves take over. Each year we get stronger,
in matches that were closer than they from the rest of the NESCAC, but each and considering that this year we lost
looked on paper. year we seem to be getting closer and only one player, this could definitely
The Jumbos are hopeful that they closer to beating them,” Browne said. be our year to do that.”

Editors' Challenge | Week 4

Three words: small sample size.
Look at it this way. Those of us in the bottom half of the standings can take sol-
ace in the fact that none of this really counts yet. Until Carly falls to seventh place (at
the absolute highest), it’s still too early to worry. The season is young.
The September sensation this fall continues to be “Doctor” Phil Dear, who has
dominated all season and still holds a three-game lead over the entire field. Streaking
into second place with a 14-2 week (thanks in part to her successful pick against
her beloved Jets) is Sapna “El Toro” Bansil. Meanwhile another veteran Daily editrix,
known simply as [Rachel-Dolin], has successfully feigned knowledge of sports for
three weeks. Remember: The season is young.
And then comes the weird part. The anomaly of the season to date, Carly
“People Call Me Airhead” Helfand posted another strong week, going 11-5 to
maintain her firm grip on fourth. Evans “Long Contorted Spindly Fingers” Clinchy
matched her 11-5 to stay one game behind her, while Dave “Oh Captain, My
Captain” Heck slid one game behind Clinchy.
This week was a good one for Tom “Heartbreaker” Eager, who went 11-5 and
is now welcomed to the realm of the over-.500. Still aspiring to such great heights
are Scott “Love, Alan” Janes, now one game under, and Noah “Sense of” Schumer,
still three games short of utter mediocrity. But again, and really, we can’t stress this
enough: The season is young.
Joining us this week is a Daily alum of sorts, Matt “Former Freelancer” Mertens,
who’s kindly taken a week off from senioritis to share some wisdom.

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Women’s Soccer
Jumbos hand Wheaton 2-0 upset on the road
by Neesha Bhagat
Contributing Writer
In what will likely be labeled one of
the most noteworthy games of its sea-
son, the women’s soccer team ventured
WOMEN’S SOCCER
(3-0-0, 2-0-0 NESCAC)
Norton, Mass., Wednesday
Tufts 1 1 — 2
Wheaton 0 0 — 0
into the Lyons’ lair in Norton, Mass. on
Wednesday to take on nationally-ranked
No. 8 Wheaton College. And after a
90-minute battle, the Jumbos emerged
with another victory tacked to their
undefeated record.
Tufts’ 2-0 win over the Lyons pushed
the region’s No.4 team to 3-0-0. While vic-
torious against these two NESCAC com-
petitors, the team knew that this game
against the Lyons, ranked second in New
England, would be a bit more trying.
“I felt like the most important thing
going into the game was believing
in ourselves,” coach Martha Whiting
said. “We had to just play our game.
We both have very different styles of
play and we needed to set the tone
early on and believe.”
Early in the game, Tufts launched a
corner kick that led to two dead-on shots,
both of which were denied by the Lyon
defense. The Jumbos assumed control of
the game just before the end of the first
half when sophomore Sarah Nolet drilled
Men’s Tennis
Jumbos blank Seahawks 9-0 to launch fall
portion of season, look ahead to ITA champs
Junior Andrew Rosen, shown here during Tufts’ home contest against Salve Regina last season, competed in his first career match against
the Seahawks on the road Wednesday, emerging victorious in straight sets 6-2, 6-2. The Jumbos swept Salve Regina 9-0 heading into
this weekend’s ITA Regional Championships at Williams.
by Thomas Eager
Daily Editorial Board
For the past three years the men’s ten-
nis team has taken the court against the
Salve Regina Seahawks in the first dual
MEN’S TENNIS
(1-0, 0-0 NESCAC)
at Newport, R.I., Wednesday
Tufts 9
Salve Regina 0
match of the fall season, offering a pre-
liminary assessment of the squad’s play
before heading to the more important
spring portion of the season.
In 2006 and 2007, the Jumbos downed
the Seahawks by the same 6-3 score; com-
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a free kick above the goalkeeper’s head
directly into the upper-right corner of the
net.
In the end, that goal was enough to
secure the contest, but the Jumbo offense
was still on the hunt. With less than
four minutes to play Tufts notched an
insurance goal as junior Fanna Gamal
set up junior tri-captain Cara Cadigan,
who snuck the ball past the keeper in the
bottom-right corner. Cadigan’s goal, her
third of the season, made this contest
Wheaton’s first regular season home loss
by more than one goal since Oct. 5, 1996.
As they ran down the clock, the Jumbos
also halted Wheaton’s 23-game regular
season home winning streak.
“It came down to heart,” Whiting said.
“We really gutted it out. Every player that
stepped out onto the field gave her all
and really left it all on the field. In the end
we got the positive result.”
“It was a full team effort,” senior
tri-captain Maya Shoham said. “We
went in very confident and we knew
this game would be important later in
the season not only for the standings
but for respect in the league. We defi-
nitely wanted to leave everything on
the field.”
The victory kept the team’s perfect
shutout record alive, as the Jumbo
defense has yet to yield a goal. Shoham
credited the defensive line for its solid
performance against the Lyons, who had
scored 16 goals in the four matches lead-
ing up to their scoreless Wednesday.
“The defense stepped up huge,” Shoham
said. “To keep a team like Wheaton off the
board was a very big feat.”
petition on Wednesday, however, netted
an even better outcome as Tufts trounced
Salve Regina 9-0 on the Seahawks’ home
court in Newport, R.I.
Fall victories are nothing new to the
Jumbos, who are a perfect 5-0 in autumn
dual matches since they were first added
to the schedule in 2006. Tufts’ other annu-
al fall competitor has been the Babson
Beavers, whom the Jumbos will host
Wednesday. And while the results of the
matches aren’t exactly critical to the sea-
son as a whole, the experience the early
fall contests provide for first-year team
members is important.
“We have at least three freshmen who
will start this year, so [playing in the fall]
gives them an opportunity to get accli-
mated with playing college matches,”
junior Andrew Rosen said. “It really gives
the team a sense of camaraderie; I think
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The defense, anchored by sophomores
Carrie Wilson and Audrey Almy and fresh-
men Cleo Hirsch and Olivia Rowse, has
played exceptionally this season, ward-
ing off a total of 25 shots from opponents
thus far. While the defense has had suc-
cess because of its cohesiveness as a unit,
Almy stepped up and played particularly
well against the Lyons.
“Audrey was winning balls everywhere
and was shutting down all of their for-
wards completely,” Wilson said.
“[She] did a great job in both halves,”
Shoham said. “She did a good job keep-
ing the Wheaton attackers on their toes
and not letting them get a goal.”
Also notable was the play of junior
Kate Minnehan and sophomore Hannah
Jacobs in goal. While the Lyons out-shot
the Jumbos 22-12 in the game, they were
unable to put one past the rock-solid
Tufts goalkeeping tandem.
“The goalkeepers came up huge,”
Wilson said. “[Wheaton] had a break-
away midway through the second half
and [Jacobs] was able to slide-tackle the
attacker and shut her down.”
Jacobs made a total of six saves in the
second half while Minnehan ended the
first with one.
With three wins under their belts, the
Jumbos look ahead to their Homecoming
face-off with Bates tomorrow. The play-
ers agree that this victory heightened the
team’s confidence and will help set the
tone for the next few games.
“With Homecoming coming up, this
win was a huge confidence-booster,”
Wilson said. “We proved to ourselves that
we can step it up when we have to.”
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this year everyone’s really come together
even this early in the season.”
The Jumbos got off to a hot start in
doubles play, as junior Dan Landers and
sophomore Paul Kohnstamm teamed
up at the No. 1 slot to win 8-6, while
sophomore Jake Fountain and freshman
Sam Laber checked in at the second spot
to down their Seahawk opponents 8-5.
Junior Jon Trott and first-year Kai Victoria
completed the 3-0 sweep at doubles,
cruising 8-3 at the No. 3 doubles posi-
tion.
With memories of their relatively poor
doubles play last spring fresh on their
minds, the Jumbos know that improve-
ment as a team this season will require
immediate attention to those first three
doubles match-ups that precede the six
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15
Gideon Jacobs | Baseball, Football
and Poop Jokes
Why Johan
should win
the Cy Young
Consistency is boring. Where there’s no
risk, there’s no fun. It’s why girls love
leather jackets and motorcycles. It’s why
Seth Cohen never got any ladies. It’s why
some of the sports world’s greatest players
go underappreciated.
Me? I love consistency. A-Rod’s 12-year
streak of 35 homeruns and 100 RBIs is my
sports equivalent of Keira Knightley bath-
ing gently under a waterfall while whis-
pering, “Come join me, Gideon.” There’s
just nothing more incredible than a guy
who you expect to perform at a high level
fulfilling those expectations everyday.
Nothing!
Johan Santana is the ultimate example
of a performer who lives with the reality
of high expectations and simply comes
through time and time again. He’s been an
absolute rock for the Mets this season and
he is going criminally overlooked.
Never has a team seemed more on
the verge of disaster than the 2008 Mets.
Coming off a historic collapse in 2007,
they got off to an awful start, fired their
manager, almost released the guy who
currently leads their team in home runs,
rebounded, got hot, regained control of
the division, developed a lead, blew it and
now seem destined to collapse again.
But through all this, Johan has been
there (he’s sort of like State Farm in that
way). Every time the Mets are ready to
fold, every time the papers are ready
to declare them dead, every time Jose
Reyes is ready to crawl into his sad
place, Johan has been there to deliver
seven strong innings and breathe new
life into this team. It’s truly incred-
ible. It happens every couple weeks; the
Mets seem like a dysfunctional under-
achiever, then Johan takes the mound
and all of a sudden they’re a talented,
happy-go-lucky club. It’s like a weekly
transformation from the Osbournes to
the Brady Bunch.
His numbers back it up too. He hasn’t
lost a game since June 28. He leads his
league in ERA and quality starts. He’s going
to break 200 strikeouts for the fifth straight
year. This season, he’s gone less than five
innings only once (4 IP) and given up
more than four runs (5) only once. As in,
he gave his team a legitimate shot at a
win, literally, every time he stepped on the
mound in 2008. With better run support
and a bullpen that didn’t cost him five to
10 wins, what exactly would Johan’s num-
bers look like?
That makes me giggle a little.
Remember, when Johan signed his
record-setting deal with the Mets last off-
season, a lot of baseball people felt the
Mets overpaid. They said Johan’s veloc-
ity was down. They said the league had
caught up with him. They said he’s getting
old and beginning his decline. They said
Erik Bedard was the cheaper and possibly
better option.
They were wrong for a single rea-
son. Johan Santana is one of baseball’s
great competitive personalities. He’s a
guy who has the “it” factor, a total gamer
who wants the ball when it counts and
never ever accepts a loss. He’s the kind
of guy who’s capable of willing his team
to victory simply because he wants it
more. It’s a rare quality, and it’s a marvel
to watch in action.
He deserves the Cy Young for reasons
beyond his incredible numbers. Sure,
Brandon Webb has won a ton of games,
and Tim Lincecum is “the little engine
that could throw 99 miles an hour,”
but Johan has single-handedly saved
his team from mediocrity and propelled
them toward a possible championship
run. His reliability at the front of the
Mets rotation has been nothing short of
extraordinary. If he wins the Cy Young, it
will be because of his consistency and if
he doesn’t, it will be because of his con-
sistency. I hope the writers see through
the leather jackets and motorcycles and
vote for Johan. He may not be the sexy
pick, but he’s the right pick.
Gideon Jacobs is a sophomore who has not
yet declared a major. He can be reached at
Gideon.Jacobs@tufts.edu.
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Homecoming: Jumbo foes beware

Visiting Bobcats venture into winners’ circle
F
or its own sake, the Bates Bobcats had best know what awaits them when they arrive at Tufts tomorrow.
Jumbo athletics as a whole is off to a historic start this fall, posting a collective overall record of 23-1-1, good for a winning per-
centage ( WP) of .940 across six varsity sports, including field hockey, football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, volleyball and men’s
tennis. What’s more, heading into tomorrow’s Homecoming match-ups every team, with the exception of the men’s soccer squad,
has yet to surrender a loss. Tufts is also 9-1 in the NESCAC.
Recent history indicates that this is undeniably one of the Jumbos’ best starts to the fall season. Leading up to today’s date, Sept.
26, in past fall seasons, Tufts’ highest winning percentage — based on available records — prior to this year occurred in 2002, when
the varsity athletic squads were a combined 16-6 (.727 WP) overall and 10-2 (.833 WP) in the NESCAC. 2005 also produced similar
results, with a 21-8 (.724 WP) combined overall record and a 9-4 (.692 WP) conference record.
And with football (1-0), field hockey (5-0), women’s soccer (3-0-0) and men’s soccer (4-1-1) all boasting solid winning records
heading into tomorrow’s date with Bates — whose four opposing squads all own at least a share of last place in the conference
with a combined 0-8 record in NESAC competition — this weekend will truly be a matchup between David and
Goliath (or David and Jumbo, at least).
Let’s hope Goliath wins this time. Annie
Wermiel/
Tufts Daily

Football team faces weak Bobcats
Tomorrow’s Homecoming game is not exactly a marquee match-
up for the football team.
Tufts hasn’t lost to Bates in over two decades — most of this year’s
team hadn’t yet been born in 1985 when the Bobcats last got the best of
the Jumbos.
As for more recent history, the squad hailing from Lewiston, Maine has
seen some bloodbaths. In the last three years, the combined score of the
teams’ three games is 90-39. Last year, the Jumbos rushed for four touch-
downs and waltzed to a 35-20 win.
Yet none of that means much to junior Anthony Fucillo, the Jumbos’
quarterback, for whom history is just beginning. The only relevant num-
bers for him are 11-for-22, 178 yards, one touchdown, no interceptions.
That was his stat line in his first career Div. III game, a 20-14 win over
Wesleyan last Saturday. Not a bad start for a new quarterback learning a
new system.
“I’m happy with how I’ve come so far,” said Fucillo, who transferred
in from Div. I Colgate. “The fact of the matter is I’ve only been here for a
little over a month. The coaches and the players have all done a really
good job of helping me to fit in.”
The toughest adjustment period for Fucillo came after the open-
ing kickoff, when he had to learn in real time how to lead the Tufts
offense.
The stat line shows a trend: Fucillo was 4-for-14 in the first half,
receivers by a step or two each time. But they fell into sync in the second, with Fucillo going 7-for-
8. Part of the credit for that, he admitted, goes to the Wesleyan defense.
Women’s soccer team goes for another shutout
This weekend, the women’s soccer team is going from one rivalry to the next.
Fresh off their 2-0 victory over nationally-ranked No. 8 Wheaton Wednesday
afternoon, the Jumbos will host Bates tomorrow on Kraft Field. No one on Tufts’
roster has ever lost a Homecoming game.
The goal for the weekend will be to keep the team’s season-opening streak
rolling. The Jumbos have recorded shutouts in each of their first three games, including two
against NESCAC foes Colby and Conn. College.
“It will be a total team effort,” coach Martha Whiting said. “There can’t be any individ-
ual players; it’s all about playing as a team, working as a team and winning as a team.”
The Jumbos have had the upper hand in regular season games against Bates for the
past four years, beginning the streak with a win in 2004. But the victories have hardly
come easily, as Tufts was pushed to double overtime in 2005 and squeaked by with 1-0
wins in each of the past two seasons.
While Tufts may have history on its side in the regular season, Bates has had the
last laugh in postseason play. In both 2005 and 2006, the Bobcats eliminated the
Jumbos from the conference tournament with deflating overtime losses, each time in
Medford.
“Those regular season games might have been wins, but I think the games are
always really competitive,” Whiting said. “We always have to slug it out for 90 min-
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Given the teams’ extensive history, tomorrow’s contest promises an exciting bout.
“We need to play our game, we need to play smart, and we need to play
overthrowing his hard,” Whiting said. “If we do, I think we will get the right result.”
—by Neesha Bhagat

5 4-0
“To be honest with you, I got hit pretty hard,” Fucillo said. “But overall, our offense was able to
wear them down. Come the third and the fourth quarter, they were tired and we weren’t, so we
were able to win the game.”
This week, Tufts is matched with a Bates team that has had to rebuild an already struggling
defense. The Bobcats were the worst team in the NESCAC last season defensively, and they may The number of undefeated Jumbo varsity The combined record of the Jumbo teams during
be even worse this season after the graduation of their top four tacklers. teams so far this fall. They are field hockey Homecoming 2006 when Tufts last hosted the Bob-
“They’re still going to play hard,” Fucillo said. “I know that they’re coming off a tough season, (5-0), football (1-0), women’s soccer (3-0), cats for School Spirit Saturday. Football downed the
but we have to take them like any other opponent.” volleyball (9-0) and men’s tennis (1-0). Bobcats 21-12, field hockey won 3-2 in 3 OT, men’s
—by Evans Clinchy soccer notched two goals in a 2-0 victory and women’s
soccer scored in the second to beat Bates 1-0.

Field hockey team looks to extend undefeated record
The field hockey team has been unstoppable this season, outscoring its opponents 29-3. This
Homecoming weekend, in front of a large crowd of Tufts students, alumni and fans, the Jumbos,
who are 3-0 in the conference and a perfect 5-0 overall, will look to extend their winning streak
even further with a victory over Bates tomorrow.
Tufts last hosted the Bobcats for Homecoming in 2006 in a game that came down to triple
overtime. Following an 86-minute stalemate and a stroke-off, the Jumbos prevailed by a score of
2-1.
In order to avoid a tiebreaker this time around, the squad will have to take advantage
of the offensive opportunities that come its way.
“My biggest goal right now is creating our own opportunities instead of capitalizing on
other teams’ mistakes,” coach Tina McDavitt said. “We need to completely control
the game and get rid of our bad habits.
“Against Conn. College [last Saturday], we took 22 shots and we scored
three goals,” McDavitt continued. “We’re working on taking higher per-
centage shots and being more composed so that we can score more
goals off of fewer chances.”
While the Jumbos are looking to continue scoring in high
numbers — they are currently averaging 5.8 goals per game —they
also plan to bring some different techniques to the field on Saturday. The
team’s offense will use the match-up against the Bobcats, who currently share the
bottom of the NESCAC standings with Conn. College and Wesleyan, to practice new shots
and strategies that they hope to employ against stronger teams in the future.
“Bates plays with only three defensive backs, which we can use to our advantage,”
McDavitt said. “When you have more tricks in your bag, you have more things you can do
when your usual moves aren’t working. We’ve been working on that.” —by Amanda Chuzi
Men’s soccer team hopes to equal last year’s win total
As the men’s soccer team prepares for its game against Bates tomor-
row, the players would be wise to take a look at recent history for an
example of what not to do on Homecoming Day.
On Tuesday, the team defeated Springfield
2-0 to move to 4-1-1 on the season, the Jumbos’
best start since 2002. That year, Tufts started its
season 4-0-0 before a match-up with Bates in the
team’s Homecoming match. Despite heading into
that game ranked No. 6 nationally, the Jumbos were
downed by a score of 3-0 by a Bobcats squad that failed to
make the NESCAC playoffs. Although Tufts regrouped to even-
tually earn the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, the loss
to Bates was a low point in an otherwise sterling regular season.
But while this year’s Bates squad is 0-2 in NESCAC play, includ-
ing a 6-1 drubbing at the hands of perennial powerhouse Amherst
last Saturday, Tufts doesn’t plan to take the Bobcats lightly.
“We haven’t seen them yet this year, but I remember last year
they had a really good forward and a good defender, neither of
whom were seniors,” senior tri-captain Dave McKeon said. “We can’t
have a letdown because everybody wants to beat the other team on
their Homecoming.”
On the other side, the Bobcats will be looking to avenge last
season’s disappointing 1-0 overtime loss to Tufts, which took place
during Bates’ own parents weekend.
“I remember it being their parents weekend, and when [Dan]
Jozwiak [LA, ’08] scored in the overtime, we had this big celebration,”

.940
Overall combined winning percent-
age posted by the six varsity squads
who have competed in head-to-head
contests thus far in the fall. The teams
are field hockey (5-0), football (1-0),
women’s soccer (3-0-0), men’s soccer
(4-1-1), volleyball (9-0) and men’s ten-
nis (1-0), who together boast a 23-1-1
record.
.900
Andrew McKeon said.
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tuftsdaily For Tufts, the game will serve as both a salute to past Jumbo
squads and a test of the team’s true strength this year. Despite its winning
Conference winning percentage of record, Tufts still has the majority of its conference schedule in front of it.
the five varsity teams who have taken “Right now we’re in the middle of the table,” McKeon said. “Williams is
on NESCAC opponents so far. Field the only team with two wins. I don’t want to be unrealistic, but if we play con-
hockey (3-0), football (1-0), women’s sistently, then we could be at the top.
soccer (2-0), men’s soccer (1-1) and “We had eight seniors graduate last year, so a lot of them and even some guys
volleyball (2-0) have combined for a from the years before that will be coming back,” McKeon continued. “We want to
9-1 conference record, and all but play well in front of them. It’s always a loud, fun atmosphere, and this being my
men’s soccer sit atop their respective last year, it’s big. It’ll be a special game.”
NESCAC standings.
—by Noah Schumer