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February 28In the interest of complete transparency, this viewpoint has not been edited by the Daily. It appears in the exact form in which it was submitted.
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Curtatone proposes advertising guidelines
February 28Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone has proposed more stringent limits on commercial displays in response to the safety scare that erupted a month ago after mysterious advertisements in the Boston area caused a city-wide bomb crisis.
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Women's NCAA Tournament | New England sends 12 teams to NCAA tournament
February 28The women's basketball team finished its season 18-8, grabbed the highest seed in the NESCAC tournament in the program's history, and won its first postseason game, ultimately bowing to the nation's No. 1 team in its first-ever appearance in the conference championship.
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Sexpress yourself
February 28Yet again, campus organization Tufts VOX was attacked in the guise of a rant on sex toys, pamphlets and gender stratification. In her Feb. 26 Viewpoint, "Sex fair sends the wrong message," Ashley Samelson argues for a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for on-campus sexuality, which merely hinders the progress of the dialogue so many have fought to achieve. Her solution to the rape crisis is to reinstate antiquated gender norms, suppress sex education and threaten freedom of expression.
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Weekender Interview | Gerard Butler
February 28Gerard Butler, most widely known from his role as the Phantom of the Opera in the 2004 film adaptation of the play, has shifted time periods as well as physique in his recent portrayal of King Leonidas in the new film "300." The film transformed Frank Miller's comic book concerning 300 Spartan soldiers into a unique epic movie. In a conference call, Butler discussed his work with blue screen throughout the film as well as his physical and mental preparation for the brutal role of epic proportions.
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Brown but not blue: Survey says students at Tufts are happy
February 27Welcome to a day in the life of a Jumbo: go to class, attend a couple of club meetings, and of course, if it's a Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, perhaps go out and party.
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Inside Women's College Basketball | Duke keeps stealing show as sole undefeated team
February 27The Blue Devil women made history on Sunday, defeating North Carolina 67-62 to become the first undefeated women's team in ACC history - not a small feat considering the ACC houses three ranked teams.
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Olivia TeytelBaum | PhobiaPhiles
February 27Y ou are a lowly second grader slumped over in your desk, listening to a teacher who is altogether too nice telling you something about how Billy has one apple, and Martha has two apples, and together, how many apples will they have, and what if one is taken away, and what if three are added, and if you dozed off while this whole exchange was taking place, would you really miss anything?
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CORRECTION
February 27In yesterday's sports article, "Jumbos' freshmen excel at NESCAC Championship," Patrick Kinsella's 9:53.56 time in the 1,000 freestyle at the championships was incorrectly noted for breaking the 15-year-old Tufts record of 9:54.51 set by Marc Bonnet-Eymard in 1992. Senior Greg Bettencourt broke the record earlier this season at MIT on Feb. 2 with a time of 9:36.06.
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The pursuit of happiness
February 27The Princeton Review's 2007 edition of the "361 Best Colleges" shows that Jumbos are some of the happiest college students in the nation. Regardless of the weather outside or the midterm crunch, it seems that students' outlook on their time here is sunny. For all the hard work by students, faculty, staff and administration, this is high praise that reminds us that, despite our differences, we enjoy our time at Tufts.
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Panel addresses students' rights
February 27Students gathered yesterday in Sophia Gordon Hall for the Know Your Rights Forum. The event, which was sponsored by the Tufts American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ), featured a panel of staff and administrators who discussed confidentiality, overbearing parents and on-campus police actions. Approximately 40 students attended. The panel held representatives from the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL), Health Services, Judicial Affairs, the TCUJ and its Judicial Advocates program, Tufts Online and the Massachusetts ACLU. Margaret Higham, the medical director of Tufts Health Services, addressed confidentiality concerns related to medical treatment at Tufts. She assured the audience that Tufts' policy prevents Health Services from disclosing health-related information to anyone outside of her office, unless the student is in serious danger. "Deans find out about some alcohol [incidents] through the police reports," she said. Yet, she emphasized that Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) reports are confidential information. Another confidentiality-related discussion focused on the rights of parents to see academic transcripts. Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman said that Tufts will not disclose grades to parents without permission from students. "That's a matter of privacy under FERPA [the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act]," he said. TUPD Captain Mark Keith was also present and explained the role of his department, noting that it is an accredited police force. Not all TUPD reports lead to arrests, he said, which is a benefit to having a university police force. "It's a good opportunity to keep people out of the judicial system, and it helps people in life," said Keith. The panel also discussed online rights. Members of Tufts Online warned about the dangers of illegal downloading, which can lead to students' Internet connections being shut down and eventually to academic probation, they said. Senior Dan Grant, president of the Tufts ACLU and one of the forum's primary organizers, said that he was happy with the event. "I think it was really good to see the interaction between the administrators and the departments on campus and the students, and to see the candid exchange that went on between them," he said. Grant said that he hopes that there will be more forums about rights in the future. "The goal is to make it an annual event," he said.
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Devin Toohey | When Pop Culture Goes Bad
February 27Every now and then, I find that the world of pop culture manages to outdo itself in terms of ludicrousness and sleaziness. We are currently in the middle of one of those "now and then"s. Over the past few days, we have found ourselves hit with not one, but two stories that (if they were not real) I would have sworn were merely the wet dreams of some editor of the National Enquirer.
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Forget studying - lucky pennies on Jumbo's trunk might be all you need
February 27Forget black cats or the supposed consequences of walking under a ladder. Sometimes, flirting with superstition can be followed by decidedly strange events.
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Columnist Kristof raises his 'moral voice'
February 27For New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, the story of Ms. Suad, a woman gang-raped in the Sudan, represents both a trademark style of storytelling and hope for overcoming the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of the country.
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Rigid gender roles, not the sex fair, facilitate rape
February 27This letter is in response to the Feb. 26 Viewpoint "Sex fair sends the wrong message," written by Ashley Samelson.
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Inside the NESCAC | Hamilton, Amherst look to dethrone usual powers
February 27Whenever the calendar has turned to March, two NESCAC women's hockey teams - Bowdoin and Middlebury - have historically distanced themselves from the rest of the pack, meeting in the conference finals each of the last four years.
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Kristof speaks on the Libby trial
February 27As the country waits for the verdict in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof was able to offer an insider's perspective on the highly-publicized proceedings. Though best known for his crusade against the genocide in Darfur, Kristof is also outspoken about his longstanding opposition to the war in Iraq. "I wrote my first column in opposition to war in 2002. I then visited Iraq six months before the war started, and that cemented my conviction that war was a bad idea," he told the Daily before his speech yesterday. On May 6, 2003, at a time when the initial invasion had ended in success and when the Bush administration was experiencing high approval ratings, Kristof wrote a column that referenced U.S. diplomat Joseph C. Wilson's allegations that the government overstated its case that Iraq had tried to get uranium from Africa. At the time, Kristof withheld Wilson's name but anonymously reported Wilson's charges that important documents had been forged, which he came to believe while in Niger. That column was mentioned in the federal indictment of Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, as one of the factors that allegedly led Libby to investigate Wilson's trip to Niger and to out Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as an undercover CIA agent. In the federal investigation leading up to Libby's indictment, Kristof was one of the many journalists subpoenaed. Kristof's colleague at The New York Times, Judith Miller, was jailed in July 2005 for refusing to disclose the anonymous source who had given her information about Plame. She later obtained permission from Libby to reveal him as her source. Kristof recalls being surprised the Bush administration had not made a vocal response to the article that he published. "Usually, when a journalist writes something bad about a presidential administration, officials call us up to yell at us. But I did not hear a peep from them. They obviously took other routes," he said. According to Kristof, these other routes have jeopardized journalists' ability to gather information through anonymous sources. "It's been a disaster for journalists to protect sources. There are more journalists in jail but less information out there. If this had happened in the past, then the Pentagon Papers and Watergate wouldn't have been the same," he said.
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Tufts earns No. 19 national ranking after CSA Nationals
February 27Wrapping up its season with a win in its last match of the CSA tournament on Sunday, the men's squash team finished off its rollercoaster year on a high note. With the win, Tufts grabbed the No. 19 national ranking from Hamilton.
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Evans Clinchy | Dirty Water
February 27A decade ago, baseball's three hottest rising stars were a trio of American League shortstops.
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