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Women's soccer poised to defend second place finish

August 31

After finishing one goal shy of a national Division III title, women's soccer coach Martha Whiting says she has the personnel to repeat last year's success. While some members of last year's 18-4-1 team have graduated, the squad's foundation remains intact. A preseason coaches' poll has Tufts ranked second in the nation. This comes as no surprise to returning players, who can remember the Nov. 19 match when over 1,000 fans packed the stands of Kraft Field to watch Tufts flirt with a national title against the College of New Jersey in a 2-1 loss. The team's immediate concern will be filling gaps left by the three graduated captains: goalkeeper Randee McCardle, midfielder Sara Yeatman, and defender Carmen Mikacenic. McCardle set a Tufts record for career shutouts with 24 and last season was a third team All-American and second team All-NESCAC. Yeatman was chosen for first team All-American as well as first team All-NESCAC, after she finished first on the team with 11 goals. Mikacenic achieved second team All-NESCAC status, but her coach says she performed better than the award indicates. "Although Carmen wasn't an All-American, I think she was one of the toughest defenders in the country," said Whiting, last year's National Soccer Coaches Association of America coach of the year. "All three of those players were very important to our success." The team also lost junior midfielder Adie Sherwood, who scored the lone Tufts goal in the national championship game, after she transferred to Cornell over the summer. While the losses are significant, there are six seniors on this year's squad, including new co-captains Lynn Cooper and Katie Ruddy, who were both integral parts of last year's team. Whiting has yet to meet the 22 freshmen players vying for positions in the starting lineup, but is optimistic after holding interviews and watching video tapes. Aside from personnel changes, the biggest obstacle in the Jumbos' path could be a new NESCAC rule that eliminated at-large bids for the national playoffs. The women's soccer team, like most of Tufts' sport teams, participates in the NESCAC division, which typically fields some of the strongest Division III teams in the country. At the end of each season, there is a NESCAC tournament, with the winner getting an automatic bid for the national playoffs. In the past, a committee chose other teams to receive an at-large bid. If the new system had been in place last year, Tufts would not have made the playoffs. "It makes it a lot tougher when you play such strong teams," Whiting said. "This season, we will not be able to breathe easy until the last day of the [regular] season." Though the decision to eliminate the at-large bid was contested by students across the NESCAC, no effort has yet to overturn the ruling. Whiting, however, says a compromise may still be reached. Last season's high finish has focused national attention on the program, which should help the team's future recruitment efforts. "There are a lot more kids who know about us before they get here," Whiting said. "People all over the country know what we did. It didn't really help us in recruiting for last year since it happened so late, but I think for next year it will have a bigger impact." After being named national coach of the year in only her second season as head coach, Whiting says she will stick to her winning ways. "Winning that award makes me work harder," she said. "To achieve something like that at a young age is amazing, and now I want to keep it up." The team will not have long to dwell on past victories and an uncertain future. The regular season begins on Saturday, Nov. 8 against Babson. While this non-conference game will have little impact on the final standings, the Jumbos will square off against NESCAC rival Middlebury on the following Saturday at home.

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Hockey kicks off season with St. Michaels win, Norwich loss

August 31

In its first weekend of ECAC East/NESCAC conference competition, the ice hockey team won an exciting 6-4 victory against St. Michaels only to lose to a stellar Norwich squad 10-2. The first game of the weekend pitted together two teams that had moved up from the ECAC Northeast conference in the offseason. The St. Michaels Purple Knights jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, but back-to-back goals by the Jumbos put Tufts back up on top in the second period. Freshman Gino Rotondi notched Tufts' first goal of the season and the first of his collegiate career 1:28 into the second period. Junior tri-captain Mike Carceo added another two minutes later. The Purple Knights responded with a pair of goals to close the period though and led 3-2 entering the final frame. Sophomore Pat Byrne led a fourth period surge, as Tufts came from behind and scored four goals in the final stanza to win the game. Byrne scored only 14 seconds into the period and freshman John Hurd added another goal less than a minute later. Byrne and Rotondi both scored again before the night was over, and Tufts began its season undefeated. Senior Ian Kell, returning from his year abroad, played well in goal, notching 35 saves. With a promising start to what will probably be a rebuilding year, half of the goals and six of the 11 assists came from freshmen. Rotondi ended the game with a pair of goals and assists, Hurd had a goal and two assists, Shawn Sullivan had two assists and Adam Zussman added another. While the 6-4 victory was nice, Tufts defeated the Purple Knights 7-2 last year in the middle of a seven game winning streak to kick off the season. This year the winning streak ended as a single game, as the Norwich Cadets, ranked sixth in the nation entering the game, easily disposed of the Jumbos 10-2. The ten points was the most the team had given up in almost two years, when it lost to Oswego State on Nov. 28, 1999 by the same 10-2 score. The Cadets saw scoring from eight different players and led 9-0 after two periods. The shutout was broken up by Carceo, and Byrne added another goal towards the end of the fourth period. In all, Norwich out-shot Tufts 51-16. Sophomore Ben Crapser, last year's starting goalkeeper, began the game in goal and made 31 saves. Kell took over in the third period, making nine saves and only letting one puck slip past him. The Norwich debacle was not the way Tufts wanted to start its season, especially considering that the team lost only one regular season conference game all of last year. This will probably be a harbinger of things to come in the future though, as the team will face many of the top ranked teams in the country. The Jumbos will have a temporary reprieve over the holiday weekend, as they try to defend their title at the Coca-Cola Classic at Stonehill this weekend. The team will play Framingham State on Saturday and either Stonehill or UMass-Boston on Sunday.

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Being radical isn't bad

August 31

To the Editor: While I understand Eitan Hersh's criticisms of SLAM ("SLAM's tactics too militant," 10/18), I fear he has misinterpreted the group's efforts. As a member of SLAM (and the much-ridiculed subject of recent Viewpoints), I do not deny being passionate about labor issues. If Mr. Hersh wants to characterize me as an "irrational radical" then so be it. In a nation where 90 percent of the population supports a war of vengeance, who determines rationality? He goes on to say, "The general population does not want to be associated with something 'radical.' The leaders of SLAM, however, don't understand this. They don't understand how to sell their product." He's right. I don't understand why "radical" is such a bad word. Doesn't anybody recall the context in which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles use the word? It's always good. The word "radical" has developed negative connotations that it doesn't deserve. Eitan: don't be afraid of associating yourselves with what you believe to be a noble cause just because it is deemed radical. And please don't assume that, as a SLAM member, I'm trying to sell a product. I'm no capitalist. Justice isn't something that can be bought and sold. All of my efforts related to SLAM have been attempts to educate and empower the community. I'm sorry that Mr. Hersh is choosing to stand idly by and watch us take action even when he agrees that the University and OneSource exploit our custodians. Eitan, why not come to a meeting and suggest a change in tactics? Don't let minor disagreements like those you mentioned make you one more apathetic student on this campus. We already have thousands of those.Emily Good LA '04

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Jumbos hope to run down Trinity

August 31

After easy wins in its last two outings, the Tufts football team will brace itself for a bigger challenge this weekend when it hosts the Trinity Bantams on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. The Bantams enter the game at 2-1, while the Jumbos are looking to extend their record to 4-0 for the first time since 1998, when coach Bill Samko's squad posted a 7-1 campaign. "Trinity is probably better physically than Bowdoin," Samko said. "But honestly, we don't change anything as we prepare. It's not magic. We say respect all, fear none." But if history has anything to do with it, the visitors have the advantage, with nine wins in the two team's last ten meetings, including the last four contests on Zimman Field. Samko, however, says that home-field advantage will give his team a boost. "I would expect it to be a pretty decent crowd since it's parent's weekend," he said. "Anytime you play at home, you know the field, and familiarity with surroundings certainly makes a difference. But that doesn't mean that you're always going to win at home and you can't win on the road." Against Trinity, Samko will again turn to Tufts' potent running attack, which has accounted for ten of the team's 16 total touchdowns so far. Tufts comes into the contest ranked eighth in Div. III in rushing yards, averaging 287.7 yards per game. Last week, despite a 34-0 rout of Bowdoin, the Jumbos saw their ground production drop off from 340 and 315 yards in the previous two weeks to 208. Nevertheless, Samko has no intentions of changing his game plan. "We're going to try to do what we do best," Samko said. "There's no secrets." Trinity will also rely on its running game, which produced 214 yards and a touchdown in a 21-10 win over Hamilton last week in Hartford. Junior running back Brian Fabrizio rushed for a career high 159 yards on 27 carries and a touchdown, earning the NESCAC Player of the Week accolade. Athletic junior quarterback Greg Ward, who threw for 208 yards and two scores in his team's 27-20 victory over the Jumbos a year ago, is back to lead the offense. On defense, Trinity is lead by two-time All-American safety Steve Cella, who returned an interception 47 yards for a touchdown against the Continentals. The Tufts defense, which has given up just 12 points in its last two games, is coming off its first shutout since 1997. The Jumbos are 26th in the nation in rushing defense, surrendering just 76.7 yards per game. "We have to not turn the ball over, take the advantage of the opportunities, win the kicking game, and slow them down when we're on defense," Samko said. If all goes according to plan, the Jumbos should rise to the challenge and come away with their fourth win of the season, reversing the Trinity curse in the process. Nonetheless, Samko is reluctant to go into the game overconfident. "Every week is a challenge," he said. "Whether you want to believe it, last week was a challenge. It was only 7-0 in the first quarter and 14-0 at the half," he said. "Anything can happen."

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A time to educate

August 31

It's been a month since the hijacking of four commercial airplanes shattered the American sense of security and complacency that set in when the Cold War ended and was reinforced by years of economic prosperity. On Sept. 11, over 5,000 people were killed, a national symbol was destroyed, and the US economy was derailed in a few fateful hours, focusing the nation on imminent security concerns. Impressively, administrators rallied together to hold a vigil that very night, during which hundreds of Tufts students crowded the academic quad to find solace in school officials and their peers. At the vigil, prayers and moments of silence were mixed with warnings not to discriminate against Muslims or Arab Americans. Most students were pleased with the vigil, but some said the University should have waited before addressing issues of tolerance at a time that should have been reserved for mourning. While the warnings against discrimination were an important message, Tufts should have waited before focusing students' attention on the significant, but peripheral, issue of campus unity. The University response was pragmatic, with Tufts considering possible consequences of the attack on its student body. But it seems that school officials, in their attempts to protect Arab students, were insensitive to the needs of those who lost family and friends in the attack. While still mourning, the next phase for Tufts should have been educating students on the geopolitical issues that brought on the attack. Instead, during the month that followed, Tufts continued to focus on diversity and nondiscrimination. E-mails from the president and unsubstantiated accounts of hate crimes dominated the official discourse. When the faculty joined the debate, little improved. A group of professors held a "teach-in" during which they rekindled peace rhetoric and dusted off anti-war slogans not used since the Vietnam War. Over 20 professors co-authored a Viewpoint that was a compilation of tabloid horror stories of discrimination from across the nation. And history Professor Peter Winn wrote a Viewpoint that dismissed President Bush's speech to Congress as an oversimplification of global politics. More constructive responses included political science professor Michael Goldman's revamping his popular "Media, Politics, and the Law," class to focus on the consequences of the attack. EPIIC Director Sherman Teichman should also be applauded for including the attacks in this year's theme of "Global Inequalities." But the majority of outspoken professors have simply engaged in anti-Bush, anti-war protests. Reacting to the overwhelming American pro-war consensus, professors have advanced legitimate themes about discrimination and non-violence that a nation caught up in military rhetoric has often overlooked. However, these and other faculty members are not meeting their other obligation: to educate. In times of uncertainty, students crave information. Tonight's seminar on the war, sponsored by the political science department, could spark vital academic debate. But thus far, professors with useful expertise have responded with characteristic academic cynicism, and have not made attempts to objectively inform students about the complex web of issues, ranging from deploying our military to Islam and Middle Eastern politics. To a certain degree, it is an academic's role to question the majority opinion, especially when Americans are rallying blindly behind their war-time president. Yet the relevant faculty have not seized the educational opportunity at hand. While it is important to continue to teach in an academic setting, professors must also use their knowledge and stature to help students make sense of a complicated and increasingly frightening conflict.

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Credit-card tuition payments not on horizon

August 31

Students and parents looking to reap the benefits of paying tuition by credit cards - such as low interest rates and frequent flier and cash-back perks - will have to keep their cards in their wallets, for now. Though Tufts is exploring ways of accepting electronic payment, University officials say the fees from accommodating credit card use are too high to bring back the program. The Board of Trustees voted in 1998 to stop accepting credit card payments, according to Bursar Kathy Mundhenk, who has worked at Tufts for two-and-half years. Tufts must pay a certain percentage of every dollar that each parent pays by credit card as a fee to the credit card company. When credit-card tuition payments were discontinued, Tufts was receiving $28.7 million in tuition payments by credit card, and paying over half a million dollars in fees. According to officials, Tufts could not absorb the cost without drastically raising tuition. Massachusetts law prohibits Tufts from making credit card users pay a surcharge to cover the fees, according to Mundhenk. But one legal option would be to charge a "convenience fee" for those who pay by credit card. One reason schools accept credit cards is the ease in processing the payment electronically. Boston College (BC) has a system that processes the payments over the phone using voice prompts, according to Christopher Cordella, director of operations and student services at BC. BC began accepting credit cards five years ago. "The only real drawback is the cost" Cordella said. "If it starts to impact tuition, we'll need to stop." Tufts and Boston University (BU) have used similar systems for credit card transactions. "Schools look to try to develop electronic processes... back in those days [accepting credit cards] was the only choice," Mundhenk said. Each semester, the Board of Trustees at Tufts various schools evaluates payment methods. Whether to accept credit card payments is one of the many topics discussed, but for right now, Tufts is unlikely to change its policy. "The University would like to move toward electronic processes but not at such a great cost to the school," Mundhenk said. Schools are looking to other, cheaper ways to use technology to speed processing, like automated clearing house (ACH) payments that are done over the Internet, an option being explored at BC. Many parents use credit card tuition payments to accumulate frequent flier miles and related perks. But as more undergraduates take advantage of the option, the fees schools must pay rise. "I probably would charge tuition fees if that were an option so that I could earn frequent flier miles," said Dave Ardam, whose son, Jackie Ardam, is a freshman. Robert Crowell said he would jump at the opportunity to use a credit card to pay for his the tuition bills for his freshman daughter, Sarah. "Absolutely, because you get frequent flier miles" he said. Credit card tuition payments are also helpful to parents who, according to Cordella, "don't plan as well as others." Charging a tuition payment is easier than taking money from the stock market and cheaper than paying stock penalties. It delays payment for another 30 days, giving more time to those short on funds. Four years ago, before BU eliminated the credit card payment option, Singer talked with companies about possibly reducing the fees. Visa agreed to make colleges a separate group with a lower fee percentage. But the reductions were not sufficient to convince BU and other schools to continue accepting credit card payments. "I can understand why the University would be opposed to this method of payment," Ardam said. "It might ultimately end up raising tuition prices." There are still opportunities for parents to use their credit cards. Summer courses at Tufts can be charged, and part-time students at BU can also pay with credit cards. Area schools are also searching for a way to make payments easier for graduate and part- time students. "We found that part-time students have limited options in the way of loans and scholarships," said Steven Singer, the BU comptroller. Credit cards could act as a loan for these students. But schools find that parents of undergraduates benefit from the credit card payment option more often than graduate or part-time students. Tufts isn't the only school that stopped accepting credit card payments. Singer said that "the costs were getting so very excessive" that BU stopped accepting credit card payments in 1997. Fees to the credit card companies had cost the school $1.5 million per year. With the rise in tuition fees and credit card fees, that figure today would be closer to $2.5 million.

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Once again, Yankees fail to bow out of playoffs

August 31

Baseball fans across New England were probably crying over their clam chowder last night as they watched their despised rivals, the New York Yankees, secure a return to the American League Championship Series (ALCS). After coming back against the Oakland A's, the Yankees now face the Seattle Mariners, who narrowly defeated the Cleveland Indians. In the National League, the Atlanta Braves swept the Houston Astros and now take their tomahawk chop west to face the ArizonaDiamondbacks in the NLCS. The Athletics were on the brink of throttling the Yankees, winner of the past three World Series, but choked after jumping out to a 2-0 series lead, which featured two wins at Yankee Stadium. In hostile New York territory, Oakland walked away with wins in the first two games of the series, 5-3 and 2-0, only to come home and lose two more in a stadium where it had won its last 17 regular season games. The Yankees became the first team to win a division series after losing the first two games at home and proved that experience generally wins out over youth. Shortstop Derek Jeter was one of the heroes of the series, during which he broke Pete Rose's record of 87 postseason hits. In Game 3, Jeter had an impressive backhand flip to the plate after an overthrow to preserve the 1-0 win for Mike Mussina. And in Monday night's Game 5, Jeter dove into the stands in the eighth inning to record an out and prevent a Mariners score. The Yankees fell behind early in Game 5 but came back to life in the late innings. Rookie Alfonso Soriano had a two-run single in the second inning, and New York capitalized on errors to score two more runs. Mariano Rivera notched the save for New York and has converted 20 consecutive postseason save chances since 1998. The Seattle Mariners, after a magical 116-win season, came close to having their World Series hopes dashed, when it took them five games of grappling with Cleveland to secure the ALCS bid. Cleveland blew the Mariners away in Games 1 and 3, 9-2 and 17-2, and Seattle fought hard for its 3-1 Game 5 win on Monday night. Jamie Moyer won the start and had a 1.50 ERA in the series, while rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki went 12 for 20 to lead the offense. Pitching - or the lack thereof - in Game 4 proved pivotal in this series, and Moyer's performances in his two starts in addition to reliever Jeff Nelson's work in Game 5 sent the Mariners to victory. Seattle silenced the bat of Cleveland's star hitter, Roberto Alomar, who hit just .190 in the series. The Mariners send Aaron Sele to the mound tonight in the first game of the ALCS against the Yankees. While baseball history would dictate a New York win and return to the series, the talented Seattle team proved in the division series that it will fight hard for a World Series berth. While the Mariners' failure to wallop the Indians surprised baseball fans, baseball observers received a bigger shock when Atlanta did not exit stage right after the first round. Against a Houston team that was clearly better on paper, the Braves orchestrated a three-game sweep to return to the NLCS for the ninth time in ten years. In Game 3, Atlanta's Paul Bako, a name previously unknown to much of baseball, homered and drove in three runs, while third-baseman Chipper Jones added two RBI of his own in the 6-2 win. Houston's "Killer B's" faltered in the postseason, as Craig Biggio and Lance Berkman each went 2 for 12, Jeff Bagwell was 3 for 7 but had no RBI. Atlanta easily took the three games, 7-4, 1-0, and 6-2. The Braves now face the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS, after Arizona beat the St. Louis Cardinals and advanced to the NLCS for the first time in team history. After losing Games 2 and 4, Arizona's pitching proved too much for the Cardinals to handle. Curt Schilling and his 22-game-winning arm shutdown the Cardinal hitters in the 2-1 win. Reggie Sanders' 447-foot home run off Morris put Arizona ahead 1-0 in the fourth inning and J.D. Drew's two-out home run off Schilling tied the game at one in the eighth. Tony Womack singled home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth to allow Arizona to advance. While Schilling performed like an ace in the two games he started - he gave up only one run in 18 innings to earn 1-0 and 2-1 wins - Arizona's number-two starter Randy Johnson once again faltered in the playoffs. He has a lifetime record of 2-7 in the postseason, with the only two wins coming for the 1995 Seattle Mariners. With Schilling having pitched twice against the Cardinals, it will be up to Johnson to come through for the D-Backs in the NLCS. Arizona scored only ten runs in the division series, and the match-up against Atlanta will be determined by which team pitches better.

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Rams, Saints to battle again in West

August 31

St. Louis Rams After an assortment of offseason moves geared toward upgrading a defense that allowed 471 points last year - the seventh worst in league history - the St. Louis Rams are once again thinking Super Bowl. The Rams dominated the NFL two years ago but lost in the first round of the playoffs last season. The new "D" could feature eight new starters, including defensive end Damione Lewis, the Rams first round pick, and recent pickups in linebacker Mark Fields, safety Kim Herring and cornerback Aeneas Williams. While the Rams' defense still remains a question mark, there is no doubt about the squad's offense. Quarterback Kurt Warner leads the high-octane attack with a supporting corps that includes running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt and Az-Hakim. If the Ram's defense can click, a return trip to the Super Bowl is a strong possibility for this talented team.New Orleans Saints The New Orleans Saints represent the Rams' stiffest competition for the division title. The franchise, which has been a joke for much of its existence, finally came of age last year, made the playoffs, and shocked the NFL by ousting the Rams in the opening round. With Aaron Brooks guiding the offense and a healthy Ricky Williams backed up by rookie Duece McAllister in the backfield, the team should have no problem scoring. Add in wide receivers Albert Connell and Joe Horn and you have a formidable offense. The Saints' defense is more of a question mark. While the squad sports one of the league's best defensive lines, New Orleans is weak at linebacker and secondary. Nevertheless, if the defense can hold up, expect the Saints to make noise in the playoffs.San Francisco 49ers After years of dominating the NFL with Joe Montana and Steve Young throwing touchdown passes to Jerry Rice, the San Francisco 49ers find themselves in unfamiliar waters - rebuilding. Though Rice departed from the cash-strapped 'Niners and was signed by Bay Area rivals, the Oakland Raiders, all hope is not lost, and San Francisco is already on its way back up. With Jeff Garcia (4,278 passing yards last season) following in the line of great quarterbacks, and Terrell Owens emerging as a dominant receiver, the offense looks like the 49ers prototype of the past.Still, the team will need another receiver, perhaps J.J. Stokes, to emerge along with running back Garrison Hurst, who is returning after a 32-month hiatus due to an ankle injury. Historically known for their offense, the 49ers have a solid young defense and have added defensive end Andre Carter and defensive tackle Dana Stubblefield to the mix. While the 49ers won't make the playoffs this year, they will be exciting to watch and have laid the groundwork for a possible postseason run next year.Atlanta Falcons Since losing in the 1998 Super Bowl, the Atlanta Falcons have compiled a record of 9-23. Despite the addition of number one draft pick Michael Vick, the rookie QB from Virginia Tech, Atlanta fans will see much of the same this season. Chris Chandler remains the team's starting quarterback, while Jamal Anderson will have the responsibility of carrying the football. Wide receivers Shawn Jefferson, Terance Mathis and Tony Martin are decent but unspectacular. On the other side of the ball, the Falcons defense could be the team's strength. Travis Hall and Ed Jasper are solid defensive tackles, and linebacker Keith Brooking has superstar potential. This team will be sub par, but the Vick era is on the horizon, and the exciting youngster could gain control of the Atlanta offense by the end of the season.Carolina Panthers The only things the Carolina Panthers have going for them are coach George Seifort, who won two Super Bowls in San Francisco, and backup quarterback Chris Weinke, who won the Heisman Trophy last year and will make his NFL debut at 29. After cutting QB Steve Beuerlein, Jeff Lewis has been entrusted with the starting role, even though he has never started an NFL game. In fact, the Panthers are the first team in modern football history to go into a season without a quarterback who's started an NFL game. Richard Huntley and Tim Biakabutuka are the running backs, but the tandem is far from dangerous. Safety Mike Minter provides leadership to a young defense, which may start as many as six players who are 24 or younger. But, with so many players yet to prove themselves, the biggest news in Carolina could be whether or not Seifort makes it through the end of the season as head coach.

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No meetings yet, but Senate hard at work

August 31

Though the Tufts Union Community (TCU) Senate has not held its first meeting, senators say several projects are in the works, including support for students affected by last Tuesday's terrorist attacks. "There will be no major Senate initiatives before the entire Senate is elected," said Melissa Carson, the Senate vice president. The date of freshmen Senate elections is undecided, but the eight new representatives must attend the Senate retreat on Sept. 29.The Senate will decide during its first meeting when to put into effect the constitutional amendments approved last spring. One amendment will give culture representatives full voting privileges. "It will give the culture reps more power," Senate President Eric Greenberg said. "They can participate in every part of the meetings now and they get to vote. People will respect the culture reps more."After the terrorist attacks, individual senators worked behind the scenes on last Wednesday's vigil and other projects to support the student body. "We didn't want it to be a PR thing, it was a personal project," Carson said. "It was my response as a leader of the community."Greenberg spent the summer on campus, planning Fall Fest and undertaking other initiatives. For his efforts, Greenberg was paid $3,400. The Senate was influential in the recent changing of the school's alcohol policy. Residential Life now places students on probation for substance-related violations in dorms, taking jurisdiction away from Judicial Affairs. Another change allows students on Residential Life Probation I to remain in "good standing" - allowing them to participate in extracurricular activities and rush Greek houses."It was the Senate's choice to shift the probation over to Residential Life," Greenberg said. "Now, you would receive the same punishment as if you got written up because of violating quiet hours. It is a sort of a warning." Greenberg campaigned for president on a ten-point platform last year, and said he will pursue many of the same projects - finding a better cable and telephone service provider, passing social life initiatives, releasing housing lottery numbers earlier in the year, adding more economics courses, updating classroom technology, and increasing the number of classes dedicated to race and culture issues.One of Senate's projects last year, a shuttle to Boston, may no longer needed now that the MBTA offers extended bus hours, Greenberg said.Other executive board members worked on summer projects in addition to Fall Fest planning. Carson realized that students would miss the Collegiate Web when it went out of business last year, and found a similar replacement. "The Collegiate Web is just a tradition that we didn't want to see disappear," she said. "The Web became a part of Tufts culture."Carson identified a suitable replacement, published by I-Tech, a company that works on a number of area directories. The booklet will be delivered to on-campus students in the next few weeks and the campus center and Dowling Hall will also carry extra copies for off-campus students. "The main difference is that I-Tech has full page menus and ads. There are no coupons except for WingWorks," Carson said.While TuftsLife.com includes menus and comparable information to the old Web, Carson said that not every student can easily access the site. "Lots of off-campus students [cannot get] on the Net with the same ease as the on-campus students, so having information in printed form makes it easier for them," she said.In another effort to make life more convenient for students, Senate Treasurer Ben Lee spent the summer working on a new machine that allows students to buy merchandise from the campus center information booth with points. "The machine is operating now," he said. "You can buy stuff like movie and theater tickets using your points."

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Diamondbacks take first two against Yankees

August 31

Sports columnists used every adjective in the dictionary to hyperbolize the Arizona Diamondbacks' defeat of the New York Yankees in the first two games of the World Series this weekend - overwhelming, paralyzing, dominating, pulverizing. While the likelihood of Arizona sweeping the series remains slim, these descriptions were well deserved, as the D-Backs pitching was unyielding in the desert heat of Phoenix in Games One and Two this weekend. On Saturday night, Curt Schilling dominated for seven innings to earn his fourth postseason victory this year. Schilling gave up only three hits while striking out eight, but was lifted by manager Bob Brenly after 102 pitches so that he would have enough energy to pitch later in the series. The Yankees got on the board in the top of the first when Bernie Williams doubled to drive in Derek Jeter, who had reached base when he was hit by a pitch. Then Schilling caught fire, and New York's offense and defense fell apart. Sloppy fielding and inconsistent Yankee pitching let Arizona score five unearned runs in the 9-1 win, marking only the second time the Yankees have lost in their last 18 World Series games. The turning point in the game was the third inning, when New York starter Mike Mussina unraveled. With the score tied 1-1, Mussina hit Tony Womack with a pitch and then began giving up hits when he was ahead in the count. Luis Gonzalez blasted a home run to right field to give Arizona the 3-1 edge and spark the Diamondbacks' offense. Arizona added two more runs in the inning and took advantage of a Scott Brosius fielding error in the fourth inning to tack on four more. The game marked the first time the Yankees played baseball in Arizona since 1951, Mickey Mantle's rookie year, when they held spring training in Phoenix. The Yankees suffered d?©j?  vu in Game 2 on Sunday night. Once again, Arizona's pitching shut down New York's offense. The Yankees pulled out all the tricks - taking time to come into the batters' box, taking pitches, constantly stepping out of the box - but could not break Randy Johnson's concentration. The three-time Cy Young award winner struck out 11 and held the Yankees to three hits in the complete game 4-0 win. With the win, Johnson is now 3-1 this postseason with a 1.36 ERA, a marked different from the last five years, during which he lost seven straight playoff starts. Brenly started Danny Bautista in centerfield in place of Steve Finely - a move that paid off in the playoffs against St. Louis and had a similar effect on Sunday night. Bautista drove in the D-Backs' first run with an RBI double in the second. He reached base again on an infield single in the seventh and scored on Matt Williams' three-run home run. Yankees starter Andy Pettitte gave a decent effort but came nowhere close to matching Johnson. Pettitte held the Diamondbacks to three hits over the first six innings but lost it in the seventh when he surrendered the shot to Williams. The series now heads to New York, where Game 3 will be played at 8 p.m. tonight. While Arizona has a 2-0 lead, it will still be an uphill battle for the Diamondbacks. Facing a team that is known for thrashing postseason opponents, Arizona had to win at least one game with its two best starters pitching if it had any chance of stopping the Yankees. The Diamondbacks are known for getting by on the backs of their two aces, and this strategy may not cut it in a series against a team with a pitching rotation almost as deep as its wallet. Arizona will send in second-string starter Brian Anderson, who hasn't started since Sept. 8, to face Roger Clemens. Clemens has five Cy Young awards under his belt and five times more wins than Anderson this year, as the lefty was 4-9 with a 5.20 ERA on the season. While the Yankees are accustomed to early series leads, they are not incapable of turning the series around. They lost the first two games against Atlanta in 1996 but came back to win the championship, and they rallied against Oakland when down 2-0 in the best-of-five division series this year. In the best-of-seven series, however, if the Diamondbacks' two All-Star pitchers can each win twice, Arizona will win a championship. Brenly is likely to start Miguel Batista against Orlando Hernandez tomorrow night in Game 4, but regardless of what happens in this game, a well-rested Schilling will be a force to be reckoned with in Game 5. If Arizona can win just one out of three games in New York and return home to put Johnson on the mound in the potential series-winner, the Diamondbacks will be in an enviable position and sports writers might get their first chance in years to come up with witty analyses of a Yankees loss.

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Local folkster takes unplanned path to stardom

August 31

Maybe being trapped on a snowy farm with a sprained ankle in Maine wouldn't be the most logical step toward a music career, but this is what gave Kris Delmhorst a running start into her chosen profession. It has only snowballed from there. From an organic farm in Maine to smoky Boston bars, Delmhorst has followed a rather unusual trajectory since leaving college - a path that has led her to semi-stardom in Boston's thriving folk scene. "I grew up in Brooklyn and after college I decided to learn something new and experience a change of pace from city life," she told the Daily in a recent interview. "So I decided to spend one year apprenticed on an organic farm in Maine." Little did Delmhorst know that the experience would change her life. "I was stuck at home in the middle of winter with a sprained ankle when I found a guitar and fiddle laying around," she said. "I started to learn to play a little bit, and it took off from there." Although this was Delmhorst's first crack at folk instruments, music had been with her since she started cello lessons at the age of eight, and later played piano through high school. "I was into instruments, but not into classical music, and so I ended up dropping it completely," she said. At Williams, where Delmhorst majored in photography, the future folkster didn't touch a piano. After rediscovering her passion for music, Delmhorst moved to Cape Cod in 1995 to teach music. It was on the Cape that she began to write songs, before she moved to Boston to be near friends. In the city, Delmhorst played at open mikes and small shows, and soon a small following grew. "I only intended to come here for a year but it kind of stuck," she said. "The music community here is so amazing. In Boston there are a ton of people playing and they're playing all kinds of stuff. "It's a big enough town that there is tons going on, but small enough that there is an overlap between the folk world and the rock world. Because I play fiddle I can play with a lot of different bands and genres. I feel like the five years here have been like going to school all over again." Like her early interest in music, Delmhorst was also interested in writing as a child, demonstrating a propensity towards poetry from a young age. "I was always into music and writing, but I just started writing songs relatively recently," she said. "I was kind of surprised that I hadn't written songs before. I had tried, but it did not work out." Still today, Delmhorst says that songwriting is a mysterious thing. "A piece of a song comes floating down from the sky, usually it is a line that grabs me and I spend a lot of time with it," she explained. "Sometimes it reminds me of stories of my life or other people's lives. I don't sit down with a topic; I get a suggestion from wherever it comes from and I sit down and think about it. "Some pieces happen in an hour or two, some will take a week or two," she said. "Some you get halfway through and it stops. I have songs that I have put away for a year." On Saturday, Delmhorst will play at the Somerville Theater where she will be headlining for the first time. "I love playing there," she said. "I also like playing in all different kinds of settings. Club Passim is nice because it's a different kind of thing from other shows. It's super quiet, and everyone listens while you play." And she is quickly expanding to new crowds - Delmhorst recently spent a couple weeks in the Midwest, exposing the region to her folk ballads and country tunes. "I have some friends out there. The crowds were a little smaller because I'm not as well known there yet. I think that overall people are friendlier than out here. They're more likely to talk back to you at a show. They speak up from the audience a lot." Delmhorst will treat audiences to tracks from her new CD? Five Stories, named after the fifth floor of a recording studio where the album was produced. The album will be released Nov. 6. "It has quite a mix. There are some songs that are pretty rockin'. There are also some that are traditional bluegrass, folk ballads, and pop sounding stuff," she said. Differing from her earlier album, this one, she said, is "a little fuller sounding, takes more risks, and is a more interesting production. It is more rootsy sounding, more organic." Delmhorst is right. Five Stories is quite different from her previous release, Appetite. The new CD shows her wide range of music abilities, from a taste of country music in "Mean Old Wind," to the more powerful sound of "Little Wings," to the softer sound of "Words Fail You." "I've reached my current goal because I really wanted to grow with this album and I feel that I have." Delmhorst has grown in other ways. She has signed on to new booking and new publicists, which pretty much ensures that a greater range of people will hear Five Stories than has ever heard her work before. Successful at a young age, Delmhorst will continue to carve a place for herself within the Boston folk scene, and stands as a model for confused undergrads puzzling over what to do with their lives. "I never really had a clue that this was what I wanted to do. I don't think I realized it was possible until I was already doing it. It really just happened very naturally and was never something I imagined before I started writing songs all of a sudden," she said. "It just kind of unfolded."

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Inside Fitness

August 31

Sports at Tufts is not exclusive to varsity or club athletes. In that light, the Daily has begun a weekly section devoted to health and fitness issues. If you have any questions you would like to see in this section, please send them to dailysports@hotmail.com.I go to the gym a lot, but I also like to party on the weekends. Does drinking a couple times a week have any effect on my weightlifting goals? Alcohol consumption is most definitely detrimental to all weightlifting goals, as well as any other fitness goal. First, because of the biochemical makeup of alcohol, it is very high in empty calories. And when you go out for a night of partying, you rarely have just "one or two," so the excess calories add up. Therefore, drinking can definitely put a few pounds of excess flesh around your midsection. Alcohol can also interfere with carbohydrate loading in the muscle fibers, thereby interfering with contraction. Aside from its depressant drug status, alcohol can even lower your natural testosterone level, thus slowing strength and muscle gain. In other words, if you are at all fitness conscious, avoid the booze.How can I get a six-pack? There are two components to developing a good six-pack. The first is toning and tightening the abdominal muscles. The second is dieting and reducing the layer of fat covering the abs. There are three major muscle groups that make up a good six-pack - the upper abs (usually the easiest to develop), the obliques, and the lower abs (usually the most difficult to bring out). A good ab routine consists of at least one exercise that hits each of these groups. Here are a few examples:For upper abs, try standard crunches. Lie on your back, making sure your lower back is flat against the mat. Lift your legs, bending the knees to a ninety-degree angle. Make sure your thighs are perpendicular to the mat. Keeping your neck straight, squeeze your abs together, and emphasize the contraction (think: squeezing a spring or an accordion). Lift only your shoulders off the mat. Slowly lower, then repeat.For the side abdominals (obliques), grab a medicine ball. Plant your feet slightly wider than shoulder width, and hold the ball directly out in front of you, with a slight bend in your arms. Twist side to side, keeping your hips still. Keep the motion low in torque, since too much momentum can cause pulled muscles.For the lower abs, lie on your back, palms under your buttocks. Lift your legs straight up until they are at a right angle with your waist. Thrust your feet straight up, concentrating on pushing with your abs. All exercises should be done in the 15-20 rep range.Diet is the second major component of a toned stomach. Keep the fat intake low, and try to consume fewer calories than you burn each day. Instead of a few large meals, try to eat five to six small meals throughout the day, as this keeps the metabolism going. Incorporate some cardio-vascular exercises into your workout routine, as this will help burn fat - fat doesn't actually burn of, the cells either grow or shrink, based on fat storage needs. What are twenty-ones? I heard about them from my coach, but I am unclear as to how to actually incorporate them into my workout. Twenty-ones are an intense training method aimed at forcing the maximum amount of blood into the muscle, thereby getting a better "pump." This technique can be used with various exercises, but for ease of explanation I'll apply it to standing bicep curls. Grab the bar with hands about shoulder width apart. The weight should be around 75% of your usual working weight. Curl the bar half way up, so your arms form right angles. Lower. On the seventh rep, continue the motion to the top, then lower it only until your arms are ninety-degrees. Go through this partial motion another seven times. After the seventh rep, do seven more through the full range of motion. By using the partial motion, this exercise places a greater emphasis on the individual fibers of each part of the bicep (or whatever muscle you're working). After doing a set or two of twenty-ones, you will certainly feel the extra stress on the muscle.

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Seven Jumbos honored after 6-2 season

August 31

After a 6-2 season and its second top-three finish in the NESCAC since 1991, the football team placed seven members on the two All-Conference teams. Four Jumbos earned first team honors, while three were selected to the second team. Leading the pack was junior running back Keven Kelley, who was named to the All-NESCAC first team on offense. Kelley led the conference in rushing with 1,079 yards on 231 carries, an average of 134.9 per came, and rushing touchdowns with eight. In the season finale against Colby on Nov. 10, Kelley ran for 136 yards to break the Tufts single reason rushing record, formerly held by Paul Dresens. Dresens rushed for 1,070 yards in 1988 - the last time a Jumbo had run for over 1,000 yards prior to this fall. In total, Kelley racked up five 100-yard rushing games. Also named to the offensive first team was senior co-captain and offensive lineman Mike Willey. Willey, a four-year starter who was second team All-NESCAC last year, anchored an offensive line that produced 227 yards on the ground per contest. Overall, the Jumbo running game ranked first in the NESCAC and 21st in the nation. Junior Adam Collette, also an offensive lineman, was named to the All-NESCAC second team. Two sophomores, Mark Tilki and Caleb Hudak, were the Jumbos' other first team honorees. Tilki was the only first team selection for special teams play, after averaging 23.2 yards returning kickoffs, recovering a fumble on a kickoff, and blocking two punts. Tilki, who doubles as a cornerback, also led the Jumbos with four interceptions. Hudak, a defensive tackle, was selected to the defensive first team after leading Tufts in both sacks (four) and tackles for losses (seven). In a 9-7 win against Trinity on Oct. 13, Hudak recorded ten tackles and had a fumble recovery that set up the Jumbos' only score of the afternoon. He ranked fourth on the squad with 41 total tackles. Senior co-captain Scott Mittenthal, a linebacker, and junior cornerback Evan Zupancic joined Collette on the second team. Mittenthal was the Jumbos' top tackler with 59, including 15 against Trinity. Zupancic ranked sixth in tackles (37) and third in interceptions (three). Returning kicks, Zupancic averaged 9.9 yards and scored one touchdown on punts, and averaged 14.8 on kickoffs.

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Students at risk for potentially-fatal disease

August 31

Rushing to class, you notice an odd stiffness in your shoulders and neck. You were unusually tired when you woke that morning and wonder if you might be coming down with a cold. But being a college student who works long hours with little sleep and has, at best, mediocre eating habits, you think nothing of it and go about your day.With all the stresses of everyday college life, many students do not give minor ailments a second thought. Unfortunately, however, such slight symptoms can be indicative of a much more dangerous malady- one that can be treated if caught in time, but may be difficult to diagnose. Run-down conditions usually mean too much stress and not enough down time, but they might also be signs of meningitis, a disease to which college students are becoming more and more susceptible.Symptoms of meningitis include flu-like signs, high fever, headaches, stiff-neck, confusion, nausea, vomiting, exhaustion, and/or a rash. If it is not detected early, the disease can progress rapidly.A meningitis scare in Tilton Hall last year was a wake-up call for many Tufts students. A student had contracted the bacteria which causes meningococcal meningitis, the most common form of meningitis found in college students. Living in close proximity and sharing everyday items such as cups, plates, food, and clothing can promote the spread of viruses and other diseases.Meningitis affects 3,000 Americans and kills approximately 300 each year. One hundred to 125 cases of meningitis appear on college campuses across the country each year. Of the people that contract the disease, 10 to 13 percent die despite receiving antibiotics. Of those who survive, 10 percent suffer severe side effects such as mental retardation, hearing loss, or the loss of limbs.According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics, some of the factors that heighten the risk for contracting meningitis are communal living, bar patronage, smoking, and irregular sleep patterns - all habits of some college students. People from the ages of 15 to 24 are considered at the greatest risk.In a study conducted in Great Britain and in Germany, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found that university students were found to be at greater risk than non-students of the same age."College students are most likely to get this disease because their immune systems are run down already and they ignore the symptoms," a spokesman for the Center for Disease Control said. The CDC recommends that entering freshman, especially those living in dorms, should be vaccinated against the most predominate serogroups of the disease: A, C, Y and W -135. These four serogroups account for two-thirds of the strains that affect college students and the college -aged population.The vaccination, which may cause a few minor side effects, is virtually painless and may only lead to slight swelling at the sight of application.Alhough Tufts does not require the vaccine for entering students, "we do heavily recommend it," a spokesman for Health Services said. The common vaccine, Memomune, is especially recommended for any college-aged person, infants, and travelers to high-risk areas of Africa. The shot, which costs between $55 and $75, lasts for 3 to 5 years.Though most students have been well educated recently as to the risk of contracting meningitis, many do not believe it should be mandatory before entrance to colleges across the country."We have to get immunized for mumps, measles, polio, and tetanus but not diseases like the flu. Why should it be mandatory?" junior Courtney Brown said.Still, many feel that if the concern is legitimate, vaccination could be mandated."If the danger is real and imminent, then yes, [the vaccination] should be mandatory," senior Karen Wang said.

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MOPs to add new restaurant after Urban Gourmet withdrawal

August 31

Dining Services has set a tentative mid-October date for the addition of a fourth restaurant to its Merchants on Points (MOPs) program. The new restaurant will replace Urban Gourmet, which decided not to renew its three-year contract last spring. The MOPs program allows students to order food from off-campus vendors using their points or dining dollars. The program currently features three restaurants - Espresso Pizza, Near East Caf?©, and Wing Works. Student input will help determine a new restaurant, possibly through "an online survey late this week or early next week," said Patti Lee Klos, director of Dining Services.Urban Gourmet notified Klos at the end of July that it was leaving MOPs. Jenn Warner, co-owner of Urban Gourmet, said that the decision was "strictly business." Urban was paying a 15 percent commission to Dining Services on every points sale and spending $500 per month on a separate phone line, among other Tufts-related expenses. These factors combined put too much of a financial burden on the self-proclaimed "mom and pop" business.MOPs vendors must also submit receipts of Points purchases to Dining Services, which then processes the receipts and reimburses the vendor. Warner found the paperwork overwhelming."I put in 65 to 70-hour weeks here, and I had to spend another several hours putting the weekly receipts in numerical order for the program," Warner said. The lag time between services rendered and payment also led to Urban Gourmet's departure. According to Klos, it can take anywhere from 15 days to two months to pay MOPs restaurants, depending on when receipts are submitted and processed. In Urban Gourmet's case, payment often came two months later."We could only submit the receipts monthly, and it took the University another month to process the receipts," Warner said. "So, we are putting out money to buy ingredients in September, but we wouldn't get our money back from the University until November." Though it just recently withdrew from the program, Warner said the restaurant would rejoin the program if returns were higher. "Leaving the program was a very difficult decision for us to make," she said. "We struggled with this decision for a year." But Klos said that the University "has operating costs solely because of this program," and the 15 percent commission goes towards administrative and other costs associated with MOPs.Despite Urban Gourmet's departure, Dining Services is not reconsidering its payment policies and fee structures, though Klos said she is "looking to speed up the reconciliation process." Managers at the other MOPs vendors said they were generally happy with the program. The three restaurants previously on MOPs had to leave because they went out of business.Since Urban Gourmet's decision to leave the MOPs program, several area restaurants have expressed interest in joining, Klos said. Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate services chair Ed Schwehm will work with Klos to gauge student opinion in selecting a new restaurant. He speculated that he will use Tufts polls, the Senate's online polling program, to gauge student opinion on the issue. In the past, students have expressed interest in adding a Chinese restaurant to the MOPs program. Accordingly, Chinese restaurants are among the current options under consideration, Klos said.The number of vendors, however, will not change. Klos said that the delay in paying MOPs restaurants limits how many restaurants the program can accommodate. "Last year, the number of transactions doubled and the dollar volume tripled," she said, adding that Dining Services does not have the personnel needed to coordinate a larger program.

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Student receives Marshall fellowship

August 31

Senior John-Paul Ghobrial was awarded a Marshall fellowship last week, marking the first time in six years that a Tufts student was recognized with the prestigious honor. Ghobrial will use the award, which is sponsored by the British Council, to study at Oxford University for a master's degree in modern Middle Eastern studies. "Being Egyptian, I've always been interested in the area," he said. "I'm primarily interested in the interplay between Arab culture and political and economic development - the way we perceive other nations has a lot to do with how we interact with them." Dean of the Colleges Charles Inouye said that Ghobrial, an international relations and French double major, personifies Tufts. Ghobrial is now working on his senior thesis on French nationalism, is the student leader of the French house, and participates in community service organizations. "He is broadly educated," Inouye said. "He appreciates diversity and is internationally-minded. He is serious about his studies. He is a community leader. We're proud of John-Paul and grateful for the example he provides for those who will follow." In studying the modern Middle East, Ghobrial said he hopes to research what is common between East and West. "One of the things that interests me is that the Western world is always described as being different from the Islamic world," he said. "I'm not studying the Middle East to show how it's different... I study it to learn about the trends that interconnect us all." "I truly believe that people are more similar than they are different - there are basic concepts that everyone wants," he added. Inouye said he hopes that Ghobrial will be one of many scholars to achieve similar recognition in the future. "There are many students like John Paul here at Tufts," he said. "I see a wave of talented young people who are here because they know this is best place to get the special kind of education they need." The council awards 30 scholarships each year to go toward two years of study at a British university. The council takes into account "academic excellence" with a minimum 3.7 GPA after freshman year, extracurricular activities, and "a clear plan of study that fits into long term goals," according to the council's description of the fellowship. Although he had high grades throughout his Tufts career, Ghobrial said he is troubled by the high GPA requirement for the fellowship. "In my opinion that is a bad thing," he said. "I wish it didn't matter as much. Just because you didn't have the right letters and numbers doesn't mean you're not creative." The last Tufts student to win the award in 1995, Ara Barsam (LA '96), went on to research philosophy and theology at Magdalen College in Oxford. In addition to Ghobrial, three other Tufts students applied for Marshall fellowships this year. For future Marshall applicants, Ghobrial's advice is to be straightforward. "You need to have a clear idea of what you want to do," he said. "Be sincere, don't just try to please them, and try to show them that this is something that you have been interested in a long time."

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Speaker:US in bed with unsavory allies

August 31

Although he supports the US-led coalition against terror, Kennedy Library CEO John Shattuck said the Bush administration might be overlooking human and civil rights in its campaign to root out terrorism both domestically and abroad. "Sept. 11 is clearly a huge wake-up call of what was happening in the '90s," said Shattuck in his discussion, "Human Rights and Civil Rights At Home & Abroad After 9/11." Shattuck, a former US ambassador to the Czech Republic, said the public has not always supported human rights missions, but the post-Sept. 11 diplomacy would bring such abuses back into the public eye and that Americans would become more concerned with human rights crises such as those in Chechnya and East Timor. "I'm optimistic about the future of human rights," he said. While the public was previously characterized by a "lack of real support for the missions," Shattuck said that war would bring the issues into the public consciousness, creating an "opportunity for the human rights agenda to be integrated into defense." But, he added, promoting human rights would create short-term costs in the name of coalition building and crime fighting. "We are blind-siding ourselves in many of these places," he said. The US is cooperating with Pakistan and Russia - two nations guilty of human rights violations, according to Shattuck. He warned that double standards in US foreign policy and inconsistent enforcement of these policies would give some nations a "complete pass" on their actions. Shattuck said the current conflict is the result of heightening tensions that were left unchecked during the 1990s. While communication and globalization spread across certain regions, he said, other areas were left behind and enjoyed few advantages from global integration. In his government and non-government posts, Shattuck was exposed to the international "trajectory of terrorism." He was twice forced to close his embassy due to credible threats of terrorist acts. Although he said he was "shocked and outraged" by the Sept. 11 attacks, Shattuck said the US had knowledge of extremist groups' dissatisfaction with the US, and of their willingness to act. According to Shattuck, in recent years the US has encountered "plenty of evidence that something was underway."Shattuck was joined by Juliette Kayyem, executive director of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, as part of a series of Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) panels on the subject of terrorism. The 15 audience members asked questions and interacted directly with the speakers, a hallmark of IGL events. Kayyem said the current law enforcement trends, such as racial profiling, are "like nothing we've ever seen before" in the area of civil rights. Kayyem is a regular consultant on terrorism for the US and foreign countries, and has served as counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice. Freshman Daniel Mandell asked the speakers to comment on the tension between civil liberties and national security. "I have been greatly concerned over the conflicts and limitations being imposed on civil liberties," he said. Kayyem cited the detention of more than 1,000 people as an ethical blunder on the part of the administration, and called the questioning of 5,000 people by intelligence agencies a "joke." She was specifically concerned with the acceptance of racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims within the United States. Mandell, who is helping to organize an American Civil Liberties Union chapter at Tufts, said it was valuable to hear the presenters give their "experienced opinion about what is really going on." According to Kayyem, "antagonizing a community isn't going to get that community to help you." A more effective strategy, she said, would be to cooperate with the targeted groups. Kayyem also criticized the US intelligence community, citing a lack of coordination between different agencies, and calling them "extremely ineffective" at detecting potential attacks. "There's a lot of information out there, and it's not that we don't have enough. We just don't know how to get the gems from the noise," she said. Shattuck, who also served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, DC, and vice president of Harvard University, drew on his experiences to discuss the conflict from a policy, legal, and academic perspective. He called on his experiences defending a victim of Watergate wiretapping to draw parallels to the current situation and likened Attorney General John Ashcroft's arguments justifying the expansion of intelligence agencies' capabilities to Richard Nixon's statements during the Watergate scandal.

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Vice president post eliminated in major admin. reshuffling

August 31

President Larry Bacow and Provost Sol Gittleman announced plans to restructure the undergraduate and graduate administrative structures in a meeting with the Board of Trustees this weekend. The changes include the elimination of Mel Bernstein's former position, the vice president of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (AS&E). The restructuring came alongside an announcement that Tufts will begin a nationwide search for a new provost, as Gittleman steps down from his post. Dean of Engineering Ioannis Miaoulis and Dr. Mary Y. Lee, dean of educational affairs at the medical school, were appointed associate provosts. The dean of natural and social sciences, Susan Ernst, will become the dean of Arts and Sciences. All changes are effective Nov. 1. The appointments of the new associate provosts were initiated to streamline the administration and unite Tufts' seven schools. Gittleman said that reducing the size of the administration's organizational structure will save money that could enhance faculty salaries. Gittleman also said that he and Bacow hope to strengthen the roles of the deans and build stronger ties between AS&E. Ernst will begin serving on the President's Council with all of the other deans, effective immediately. The deans will continue to report to the provost and be expected to collaborate across disciplines. In an interview, Gittleman said he expects the realignment to succeed, explaining that the system mirrors Tufts' "model of governance" from the 1960s. "It worked well back then, and was a more agile structure that generated few complaints of 'administrative bloat,'" he said in a press release. "Larry and I are convinced this approach will serve us well into the future, having seen how well the AS&E team has worked since Mel Bernstein's departure," Gittleman said. Several other administrators have left since Bacow was appointed University president. Bernstein announced his resignation in May and on Nov. 5 Associate Dean Michaele Whelan announced plans to leave for Brandeis to again work under Bernstein. Former Associate Provost June Aprille left earlier this year to assume the position of provost at the University of Richmond. Former Dean of Arts and Humanities Leila Fawaz and former Dean of the Graduate School Rob Hollister stepped down last spring to focus on teaching. Hollister now serves as Dean of the University College of Citizenship and Public Service. The state of undergraduate education will be evaluated through a Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience, which will be chaired by economics Professor Gilbert Metcalf, and co-chaired by deans Kristine Dillon and Charles Inouye. Undergraduate life was last comprehensively reviewed 20 years ago, and Bacow said in a press release that much has since changed. The task force will present its findings to Bacow and build on the recommendations of the Higher Education Initiative, an undertaking from 1997 to 1998 that examined several aspects of the Tufts academic experience. Bacow and Gittleman also announced that chemistry professor David Walt will become the chair of a University Council on Graduate Education. Aprille led a group that reviewed graduate education over the summer and asked Tufts to create a council to find ways to build cohesiveness among the graduate schools in AS&E. Miaoulis will continue to work on the initiatives Aprille began this summer, such as collaborative programs on aging, the environment, research in Africa, and child development, while working to create ties between Tufts' seven schools. Lee plans to focus on integrating educational programs in health sciences through the medical school, nutrition school, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the dental school, and the veterinary school, and work on teaching initiatives throughout the University. Lee, who has already organized several University-wide teaching initiatives, is working to promote faculty development.

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Jerusalem women speak out

August 31

A panel of three Jerusalem women spoke on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a discussion entitled "Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women - Three Faiths - One Shared City," on Friday as part of a ten-city US tour. The three women - two representing the Palestinian viewpoint and one from the Israeli - stood for opposing cultural standpoints, though all promoted peace in Israel. But because of the panel's makeup, many audience members felt that the speakers offered biased accounts of the conflict. "I applaud the women engaging in a very difficult dialogue, but I thought that the nature of the program was very biased," Rabbi Jeffrey Summit said. "To talk about the difficulties of the occupation without speaking of the suicidal bombers and the increase of terrorism is not giving a deeper understanding of the situation." Approximately 40 students attended the event, which was organized and sponsored by Partners for Peace, a UN-registered non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting a peace agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The speakers' visit to campus was the last destination on a 17-day trip through the US. Partners for Peace chose the three speakers so that they were not acquainted beforehand. The Israeli viewpoint was represented by 48-year-old Michal Shohat, while 22-year-old Muslim Rawan Damen and 61-year-old Quaker Jean Zaru presented the Palestinian viewpoint. All drew from their life experiences to define their opinions on the peace process. "Everyone speaks from their own reality," Zaru said. Damen focused on daily life in Ramala, a village located about ten miles north of Jerusalem. She talked about the bombing of Ramala and said that she was "angry for all of us, especially for the children." Damen questioned the act after the news reported that the bombing was intended to subdue Palestinian terrorism. "What can we call the bombing of Palestinian civilians by Israeli military forces?" she asked. Representing the Israeli side, Shohat, a former member of the Municipal Council in Jerusalem and a current Secretary General of the Israeli political party the Meretz, emphasized the need to restart negotiations. "It's not a religious problem as much as it's a land problem," said Shohat, who thinks that having one, bi-national state is not realistic right now. Shohat also expressed the emotional detriments of the conflict. She said she was "tired of the necessity to fight for our lives" after experiencing five wars in Israel and having "been through war as a child, as an adult, as a mother, and as a soldier." Shohat said she regretted breaking a promise to her children that the process would be peaceful and that they would not be forced to serve in the military. "My duty is for my state to survive, the only way this is possible is a peace agreement," Shohat said. "My duty is to get peace." Damen also spoke on the effect of Israeli occupation on children, pointing out that one-third of the 150 children killed in the last 11 months were killed at home or on the way to school. She said that her 13-year-old brother refused to watch the news, because it was "filled with horrible scenes," or sleep all by himself. Zaru likened the Palestinians' current situation to "one giant prison" and urged the need to "join hands with all who are committed... to work for peace." Zaru drew a parallel between the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Middle East conflict, saying that Americans were recently put in a similar position as the Israelis and Palestinians. "One thing we can learn... is that violence leads to violence," she said and hoped that those involved "are working for peace rather than vengeance." Although attendees said that the discussion was revealing, some criticized the homogeneity of the panel. Junior Rebecca McCormick said that while the event was informative, it "could have had a broader spectrum" because the speakers were not balanced in terms of social background, profession, or age. "[The organizers] could have gotten two Palestinians and two Israelis to balance the panel," junior Natica Smith said.

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Complaint against ELBO dropped

August 31

The group of student government leaders who were calling for the resignation of Valentino Caruso from the Elections Board (ELBO) decided yesterday to drop the complaint it had filed with the Committee on Student Life (CSL). Caruso stays on as the sole member of ELBO, after the other two people on the board resigned after a miscommunication regarding the elections for the eight freshmen senator seats and one open TCU Judiciary (TCUJ) seats. The student government members - the executive board of the TCU Senate and two chairs of the TCUJ - decided that acting on the accusations would complicate the matter further. "We felt that it would be in best interest of student government as a whole to move forward and drop the complaint," TCUJ co-chair Mike Ferenczy said. Ferenzy called Caruso yesterday afternoon to tell him the complaint was dropped. "I think it's a step in the right direct for student government that they've given me a mandate to do my job," Caruso said. "I take the action of the dropped CSL case as a vote of confidence in the Elections Board." Caruso speculated that his role in preparing for today's rescheduled election may have led to the dropped complaint. "I think they are pleased with how the current election is being conducted," he said. But TCU Senate President Eric Greenberg said that Caruso's conduct had nothing to do with the decision. "Regardless, he was going to run [today's election] anyway," Greenberg said. Dropping the complaint "was better for student government." After the complaint requesting Caruso's resignation was filed, Caruso publicly refused to leave his post, and he wrote in a viewpoint printed in Tuesday's Daily that he was "unwilling to take the fall." Student government and the CSL plan to appoint four new members to ELBO within the next week. To fill the Senate seat recently vacated by Michele Shelton, an election must be held within the next two weeks. ELBO was previously the only body of student government that did not undergo official training, but the Office of Student Activities plans to train the new ELBO members in light of recent and past mishaps. Caruso held a "Meet the Candidates" forum in Dewick last night, where freshman candidates stood at the dining hall's entranceway and solicited students to vote for them today. While some candidates complained that the event was disorganized and poorly planned others thought it would improve visibility for the election.

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