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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2010

VOLUME LX, NUMBER 57

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WMFO marks 40 Group suggests racist role in security alert years in operation BY

MATT REPKA

Daily Editorial Board

BY

MICHAEL MARKS

Contributing Writer

WMFO Tufts Freeform Radio on Friday celebrated its 40th anniversary, showcasing its newly updated facilities at an open house event in its Curtis Hall studios.

This year also marks the 100th anniversary of student-run radio at Tufts; in 1910, students founded a “wireless society” dedicated to the budding technology.

WMFO, founded in its current form in 1971, launched the first overhaul of its technical facilities in nearly two decades in March 2009, according to WMFO General Manager Andy Sayler.

“This is an excellent opportunity for us to show the community what we have been doing here at WMFO for the past 40 years,” Sayler, a senior, told the Daily at the event. “In the past few years, especially, we have made some important changes that have increased the quality of our broadcasts and our programming.”

WMFO’s recent renovations installed in its two main studios new digital equipment that is superior to that used by many commercial radio stations in the local area, Sayler said.

WMFO also acquired an expansive digital music library and digital turntables that enable DJs to perform live mixing on the air, and the radio station last year founded its label On the Side Records to record student musicians, he said.

During the event, WMFO conducted an on-air interview with University President Lawrence Bacow in which he emphasized college radio’s importance to today’s society.

“It used to be that college radio stations could only broadcast within proximity to the campus, but now [WMFO] is really broadcasting to an infinite audience, literally around the world,” Bacow said in the see WMFO, page 2

In response to Thursday’s false alarm regarding a report of an armed man on campus, a group of students, outraged by what they perceived to be racial undertones prompting the incident, organized a poster campaign.

A Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) security alert issued shortly before 4 p.m. on Thursday to the Tufts community described in detail a man reported to be carrying a silver handgun on Professors Row roughly 90 minutes prior.

After the alert was issued, the individual called TUPD to explain that he had been carrying a ratchet wrench. Confirming the individual’s identity, TUPD issued a follow-up e-mail roughly one hour later, explaining that the situation had been resolved.

Upset by what they considered to be racial issues motivating the report of the incident, a group of students put up posters around campus the same evening and into the weekend. The posters, placed on buildings and signs throughout campus, have sparked discussion and debate, even prompting various counter-campaigns aimed at exposing perceived weaknesses in the original posters’ message.

The poster design features two hands, one white and one black, holding identical adjustable wrenches. The word “wrench” is printed under the white hand, while the black hand bears the caption “gun.”

Senior Hameto Benkreira is one member of the group that spearheaded the initial poster campaign. He said that the group formed spontaneously based on common interest.

“We’re not a formal student organization, we’re not a class, we’re not a [Tufts Community Union (TCU)] group. We just came together,” Benkreira said.

The goal of the posters, he said, was to spark dialogue among members of the Tufts community about the effects of race on implicit assumptions.

“We’re really trying to reach everyone,

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Students on Friday gathered to put up posters questioning a perceived racial motivation behind the previous day’s false alert of an armed African-American man on campus. and that’s our most fundamental and most basic goal,” he said. “All we’re trying to do is get people to talk about this more.”

Benkreira affirmed that the posters were not designed to criticize the individual

who reported the incident.

“Clearly, there’s racial implications involved in this,” he said. But “that doesn’t see POSTERS, page 2

TUPD of icers join students for game night in Metcalf Hall BY

LAINA PIERA

Daily Staff Writer

Metcalf Hall on Thursday night hosted a game night with members of the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) to promote bicycle and laptop registration as well as enhance relations between students and members of the police force.

The event, open to all students, provided attendees with an opportunity to register their bikes and laptops with TUPD. Organizers also supplied board games and video games for students and police officers to play together.

“We incorporated the game night with a bike registration and laptop ID program to try to get more participation into the programs,” Gene Dipersio, a campus security officer who co-organized the event, said. “We’re also trying to get in touch with the kids and let them know that we’re available for questions. We’re trying to get a little friendlier with the students.”

Metcalf Resident Assistant (RA) Daniel Meer, a junior, came up with the idea for the event with Dipersio in an effort to increase awareness of TUPD’s outreach initiative, the ResCop program, which assigns a TUPD liaison officer to each of the residence hall duty teams.

The event, in line with the program’s goals, allowed students to connect with TUPD offiVIRGINIA BLEDSOE/TUFTS DAILY

A Tufts University Police Department officer played Jenga with junior Winnie Hu in Metcalf Hall during a game night on Thursday.

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Visiting the Hill this week Rights Center will discuss current human rights issues in the state of Chiapas in Mexico.

When and Where: 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center 205 Sponsor: Teach-in-CORES

MONDAY “GHG Emissions Reductions from Power Plants in Response to Carbon Pricing” Details: Joseph Cullen, research fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment, will deliver a lecture in the fifth installment of the Tufts Energy Climate Policy Research Seminar 2010-11.

When and Where: 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.; Tisch Library 304 Sponsors: Department of Economics, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy

TUESDAY “Law Class with BU Law Grad” Details: Dan Norland, a graduate of the Boston University School of Law, will teach a mock law class and answer questions about law school.

When and Where: 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.; Robinson Hall 252 Sponsor: Tufts Pre-Law Society

“Human Rights in Mexico” Details: Pedro Faro of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human

WEDNESDAY “Ambassadors’ Dialogue on Korea” Details: His Excellency Duk-Soo

Han, the Republic of Korea’s ambassador to the United States, will hold a discussion with the Honorable Kathleen Stephens, the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea.

When and Where: 5:30 to 7 p.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center ASEAN Auditorium Sponsor: Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series “Public Conversation About Art Museums” Details: Philippe de Montebello, director emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Fiske Kimball Professor of History and Culture of Museums at New York University, will hold a talk about

museums, hosted by Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences and Professor of Art History Andrew McClellan.

When and Where: 5:30 to 7 p.m.; Barnum 008 Sponsor: Toupin Bolwell Fund THURSDAY “China into Africa: Great Hopes, Bad Outcomes” Details: Robert Rotberg, director of the World Peace Foundation and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, will discuss his new book, “China into Africa: Trade, Aid and Influence.”

When and Where: 6:50 to 7:15 p.m.; Terrace Room, Paige Hall

Sponsors: Tufts Collaborative on Africa, African Student Organization FRIDAY “The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution and the Legacy of the 1960s” Details: Author Richard Wolin, distinguished professor of history, comparative literature and political science at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will deliver a lecture.

When and Where: Noon to 2 p.m.; Crane Room, Paige Hall Sponsors: Department of Romance Languages, Center for the Humanities at Tufts —compiled by Brent Yarnell

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Students, alumni and WMFO staff socialized at WMFO’s Friday open house celebrating the radio station’s 40th anniver-

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interview. “I think the Web opens the world up to college radio.”

WMFO Assistant General Manager Alex Michaelson, a senior, echoed this sentiment.

“As a freeform radio station, we are excited about the opportunities new technology affords our DJs to broadcast their choice of programming to a wide audience,” he said.

On freeform radio, the DJs have complete control over programming choices.

Representatives from radio stations at Berklee College of

Music, Boston College and Salem State University attended the open house, which featured a crowd of over 100 people, including Bacow, WMFO alumni and current students.

Michaelson, a senior, said that despite the difficulties the radio industry faces with the advent of music sharing on the Internet, college radio stations could still flourish.

“I think the changes we have made display how we have adapted to new technology and how the [radio] business is changing,” Michaelson said.

“The truth is that college radio

is still very big.”

Michaelson said that college radio and WMFO in particular provide an important community service in offering a platform for smaller, less visible labels and artists to play their music, which larger commercial radio stations do not provide.

“I think the real importance of this anniversary is that, notwithstanding all the changes the radio industry is facing, [WMFO] is still running strong, thanks to the commitment of the Tufts community to freeform radio over the years,” Michaelson said.

cers on a personal level, Meer said.

“I thought that it would be cool if we were playing games and made it more involved to get a greater turnout,” Meer said. “From there, the idea spun off to incorporate the things I’ve seen kids in the dorms doing. It’s really aimed at everything that the residents like, as well as incorporating the TUPD ResCop program.”

Dipersio serves as the ResCop for Metcalf, Richardson House and 45 Sawyer Ave., a universityowned house. The five RAs from these three residences planned the event, according to Meer.

TUPD officer Moses Curry agreed that the goal of the event was to show the Tufts community another side of TUPD. “A lot of people have a bad view of police officers,” Curry said.

“This shows that we are human beings too, and that we like to have a good time.”

Organizers invited the entire TUPD police force to the event, according to Meer.

“A lot of them weren’t able to make it since they were on duty … or because they weren’t on duty and weren’t in the area,” Meer said.

This was the first TUPD game night hosted, though the police department does organize student outreach events on a regular basis, according to Curry.

The board games played included Yahtzee, Monopoly and Jenga.

Video games available included Michael Jackson Dance Off, Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.

The winner of each game won a prize, according to Meer. Available

prizes included iTunes and Dunkin’ Donuts gift cards, TUPD water bottles, Woody’s Liquors-themed t-shirts donated by Woody’s Liquors in Somerville and a “Get Into Your Room Free” card for use when a student is locked out.

TUPD provided all prizes except for the Woody’s Liquors donations, according to Meer.

Metcalf resident Max Bukhovko, who played a game of Mario Kart with a TUPD officer, attended the event mostly because he was interested in winning an iTunes gift card. Though he said he has never felt intimidated by TUPD, playing video games with the officers allowed him to get to know them better.

“I’ve never personally been intimidated by them, but they’re very chill,” Bukhovko, a freshman, said of the officers. “Officer [Christopher Fielding] won, but there are no hard feelings.”

Sophomore Nick Ferrentino received a $10 Dunkin’ Donuts gift card after winning a round of the game Ninja against fellow students and officers.

“It definitely gave them more of a human side,” Ferrentino said.

“Normally you get the stereotype that they’re out to get you, but here you actually got to hang out with them, which was nice.”

The turnout for the event was strong, Meer said.

“I was really excited to see the turnout because it’s hard to get students out to an event, especially during finals period,” Meer said. “It was a great chance for everyone to unwind, relax, laugh a little, joke a little, and it created a strong connection between the students and TUPD.”

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mean the reporter was racist,” he added, saying that the caller was “trying to protect campus safety.”

Junior Laura Kroart, who was also involved in putting up the posters, agreed that the efforts were not designed to point fingers. “[The campaign was] not meant to call out an individual, to say that this person is a racist … but that we should start a dialogue about the realities of stereotypes in American society,” Kroart said.

Still, when asked if race was the motivating factor behind the call, Kroart said that was “impossible to prove, but … impossible to disprove.”

Students involved in the effort distributed or posted 1,000 of the posters throughout campus by Sunday, according to Benkreira.

Their strategy, he said, has been successful so far.

“I think it’s been effective,” Benkreira said. “We’re sort of setting a precedent in how we’ve gone about reaching the community.”

Benkreira hopes to meet with Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman to discuss

the matter this week.

But not all students felt the same way about the posters. Senior Austin Field found the posters’ tone confrontational.

“It’s worth having a conversation if that constitutes racism or not, but I think there’s a way to do that where people are receptive, and there’s a way that makes people instantly defensive and confrontational,” Field said. “I think the posters fall more into the second category — making people feel attacked.”

Freshman Max Goldstein produced posters of his own in order to counter what he saw as a problem with the original posters’ depiction of the tool in question. Held in a way that would produce the clicking sounds described in the alert, a ratcxhet wrench more closely resembles a firearm, Goldstein said.

“There’s actually a lot more similarity between the gun and the wrench than the posters portray,” he said. “The posters that are out provide misinformation about what actually happened.”

“I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have a dialogue about race,” he added. “But it needs to be based in what actually happened.”

Senior Tyler Cooper felt that the campaign could deter students from reporting potentially dangerous sightings in the future.

“We’re risking campus safety if we attack the people who call in activity that they think is suspicious,” Cooper said. “We don’t want to be scaring people away from making future phone calls about security risks.”

Cooper believed that the reporter’s mistake was reasonable. A ratchet wrench, different from the adjustable wrench pictured in the posters, “could pretty reasonably be misconstrued as a gun if you only saw it for a brief second,” he said.

TCU President Sam Wallis, a senior, met with Reitman and TUPD Capt. Mark Keith on Friday to discuss the issue. The decision to issue a security alert in the first place was jointly made by TUPD and university administrators, he said, adding that such decisions are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Associate Professor of Psychology Sam Sommers e-mailed his students after the alerts were issued on Thursday because the incident fit the subject material of one of his classes. He described the incident as falling under “weapon bias,” referring to the

subconscious tendency to see objects as weapons in the hands of one race or gender over another.

Everyone involved in the incident — from the caller to the authorities — did everything right, he said.

“Based on the details I know, no one did anything wrong,” Sommers told the Daily.

“If you think you see someone with a gun, you should call the police. If you are the Tufts police and someone calls in a report, you should contact the senior leadership of the university. And if you are the senior leadership of the university and you receive a credible report of a public safety threat, sending out an e-mail seems perfectly legitimate.”

Still, he agreed that the incident raises the importance of asking questions about race and implicit perceptions.

“On the other hand … I think it’s totally legitimate to ask the question, ‘Would this event have gone the same way if it had been someone else carrying a wrench on Professors Row — would the event have transpired at all?’ I think that’s a perfectly legitimate question to raise, and scientific data suggests it would have been less likely to happen.”

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Is the four-year college career on the way out?

Tufts works to maintain high four-year graduation rates BY

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AMANDA WARREN

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A recent study conducted by the American Enterprise Institute found that only 37 percent of full-time undergraduate students graduate within four years. Cuts in school budgets, rising nationwide admissions, soaring tuition rates and a badly wounded economy have combined to make the traditional four-year path to graduation a thing of the past for many students.

The study found that the most selective schools are more likely to see their students graduate within four years.

This holds true at Tufts, where rates of graduation within four years have remained fairly constant at around 85 percent for the past decade.

James Glaser, dean of academic affairs for arts and sciences, credits students first and foremost for Tufts’ record of graduation success.

“Students who come to Tufts, an elite private school, from the beginning have a high level of academic preparation and proven academic performance records,” Glaser said. “By virtue of the fact that we have such fine students who come here, they are going to finish here.”

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin said that the study’s findings might be misleading because of its large scope.

“The 37 percent statistic takes into account every kind of university in the country,” he said. “Many of these places have open admissions policies and do not have the ability to assess the prepa-

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Tufts’ four-year graduation rate is well above the national average, which is quickly dropping. ration of the students or choose the most academically qualified students.”

Glaser also stressed the availability and usefulness of Tufts’ academic resources, which are intended to assist students who may be struggling with busy schedules.

“We’ve put in place support systems to help students through the undergraduate experience,” he said. We monitor every student’s progress and provide people to talk to and resources

for students who have challenges completing graduation requirements.”

While high graduation rates are one component of Tufts’ reputation, the school’s goal is to graduate all of its students in six years, not necessarily four, Glaser said.

“We like to give students a little bit of flexibility,” Glaser said. “If they take a few extra semesters, it doesn’t worry see GRADUATION, page 4

Smoking kills, and the FDA now makes sure there is no mistaking it BY

ANGELINA ROTMAN Daily Staff Writer

Smoking is being given a new look: one that is marked by images of cancer, corpses and diseased internal organs. As part of a new battle strategy in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) war against tobacco, the plain and simple cigarette packs of the past will soon become more shocking and gruesome.

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, passed in June last year, has since given the FDA more regulatory powers over tobacco, including marketing and labeling guidelines. The most visible change, however, is the FDA’s new proposed labels. Those currently previewed feature images of cancerous lungs, a body in a coffin and covered corpses with identification tags hanging off a toe, all of which attempt to change the way smoking is looked at in the United States. Whether the images will have an impact on the number of smokers, however, is still up for debate.

“I don’t think they’re going to make much difference,” Edith Balbach, a senior lecturer of community health, said. “I don’t think they’re going to hurt, but I think most smokers know there’s a reasonable chance that smoking can kill you.”

Senior Adrian Williamson agreed that more explicit labels aren’t likely to make smokers quit. “I was in Edinburgh last semester, and there were very graphic images on cigarette boxes. They don’t really bother me, except for the ones that show lung cancer. As a smoker, I would try to buy a different box or cover up the picture with tape,” Williamson said.

Sophomore Ben Van Meter stated that the graphic labels on cigarette packs are trying to wage a battle that’s already lost.

“It’s kind of silly. I feel like it’s wasting time to fight over it. … There are more substantive ways to promote non-smoking than putting stickers on cigarette cartons. If a person is buying a cigarette pack, it’s already too late,” Van Meter said, citing nicotine’s extreme addictiveness.

Over the past decade, the number of Americans who smoke has decreased, but 20.6 percent of American adults still say they

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Cigarette boxes are about to get more graphic now that the Food and Drug Administration has been given increased power over the tobacco industry’s marketing and labeling. smoke, in addition to 19.5 percent of high school students, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Still, Balbach is not certain how much of an effect the graphic warning labels will have on youth.

“Staring at a pack, they might think, ‘I’m so cool, I’m smoking something with lungs on the package,’” she said, adding that countries with lower knowledge of the dangers of smoking and lower literacy rates might be more likely to benefit from graphic warnings.

One such example is Uruguay, where warning labels are required by law to cover 80 percent of each cigarette package and each brand is allowed just one package design.

Williamson believes more graphic labels can spur gradual cultural change. “In general, I don’t think smokers would be encouraged to stop smoking from images alone, but culturally, in the long run, I think it makes people more aware of the dangers of smoking,” he said.

Balbach suspects that the future of smoking trends will vary depending on country and socioeconomic class.

“I think what’s going to be really big is that the tobacco industry is going to be less active in upper-income countries and

much more active in lower-income ones,” Balbach said. “We’re already starting to see aggressive action [by tobacco companies] in Africa. It’s going to be a lot less visible to us here and a lot more visible in lowerincome countries.”

While the tobacco industry is trying to increase the number of smokers in other areas of the world, the percentage of adult smokers in the United States may simply be due to the enjoyment factor, Van Meter said.

“People are not smoking because they’re misinformed, stupid or ignorant,” Van Meter said. “They’re smoking because they want to.”

The biggest changes with regard to smoking habits, Balbach said, have come from legislation, not warnings.

“The things that make a real difference are clean indoor air laws,” Balbach said. “If you can’t smoke at work, that encourages people to quit. Increases in the excise tax, too, and that probably has an effect on youth starting. And the really aggressive media companies, the ones that really get out there and say the tobacco industry is manipulative.”

Romy Oltuski contributed reporting to this article.

hat do you call it when hundreds of drunken students get together to partake in a grueling athletic endeavor while their similarly drunken friends cheer them on? Furthermore, let’s say it’s sort of a Tufts ritual, and it happens in early December as everyone is stressing about finals. Nope, it’s not NQR. It’s T-D-C!!!

Just kidding, I’m thinking about NQR, and my manhood is already shriveling in giddy anticipation.

Yes, the Naked Quad Run, or the more PC “Nighttime Quad Reception,” is this Friday, and as a senior, this is the last time I can run. After this year, I’ll have to sneak onto campus, slip past the police and try to blend in with the students so I can see college kids get naked. Oh, wait. … I forgot that the school practically invites the entire Medford/Somerville community to this. I’ll probably get my invite along with a request for donations two minutes after I’m given my diploma.

Last year, I missed out on NQR. I somehow skipped the run and went straight from pregaming to postgame Pizza Days.

It was incredibly depressing. There’s something special about the run. There’s the pageantry, the positivity, the energy, the boobies. What’s not to like?

On top of that, we’re all out there together, nipples hard as steel, family jewels shrinking faster than the U.S. economy. There is a bond between runners that cuts through prejudice, racism, sexism, politics and even gymnophobia.

(Sorry, I’ve been studying for the GREs.) The icing on this nudie cake is that the administration hates NQR. Track down University President Lawrence Bacow’s 2002 response to the event. He is not too pleased. He more or less calls it a disgrace to the Tufts identity.

Sorry, Larry, I think you’re great. You had some sweet dance moves with Adele this weekend. But you couldn’t be more wrong. NQR represents the very best of the Tufts student body. I mean, I couldn’t get a spot on the President’s Marathon Challenge, so I gotta get my 26.2 miles in somehow.

In all reality, I think NQR really is a positive event. Yes, we are all super hammered. That’s not too classy. Yes, we are naked, which doesn’t look too good when hosting donors’ dinners. (In hindsight, you might have wanted to schedule that another night, Larry.) But the spirit of NQR represents something beautiful in this school. It’s a liberation, an expression of overwhelming freedom, a celebration of our fellow students and an appreciation of tradition that Tufts should admire.

Instead, the administration has adopted a policy of calculated ignorance.

Do just enough to protect the students while simultaneously maintaining the moral high ground, casting NQR as a despicable event.

I will agree that it doesn’t always go off without a hitch. The routine photographer isn’t very cool. People get injured slipping on ice and such. Yes, some people over-imbibe. The campus gets a little trashed. Sorry.

Regardless, creepy voyeur-porn photographers and all, I love NQR. It’s a great way for us to blow off a little steam. It’s innocent. It’s hilarious. It’s an act of innocent defiance. It’s a Tufts tradition. And above all else, it’s fun.

And so, this year, I will be sure to run.

I’ll throw my naked body boldly into the fray. I encourage all of you to do the same.

If I haven’t won you over with my florid prose, well then how about this: It’s your only chance to give the Tufts University Police Department an astronomy lesson. Show them the full moon.

Stephen Miller is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at Stephen.

Miller@tufts.edu.

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Graduating from college in four years is no longer the national norm GRADUATION continued from page 3

us. If they’re taking longer than six years, then that’s a problem. We need to work with them to get them across the finish line.”

In order to combat falling four-year graduation rates, Tufts puts an extra emphasis on support systems for freshmen, Coffin said.

“We give students a very strong foundation from the beginning,” he said. “We are privileged to be able to place students in a small advising group where they can spend time with faculty members and peer leaders oneon-one. We have an advantage in scale where we can track kids in an individualized way, unlike bigger institutions.”

Many universities have had to deal with slashed budgets during the recent recession, which forced them to downsize financial aid programs, course offerings and faculty, making it more difficult for students to afford tuition and fulfill graduation requirements.

However, Tufts was able to maintain, and even increase, its graduation track record over the past few years.

The success is a testament to the administration’s dedication to its students, according to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler.

“The belt-tightening that was done at Tufts was deliberately done in such a way as to minimize impact on students,” Thurler said in an e-mail to the Daily. This meant making cuts in salary increases for faculty and staff while increasing the financial aid budget, she said.

“We did this so that we could meet the greater financial need among students and families and ensure that students were able to continue their education,” Thurler said.

According to Coffin, the most frequently cited reasons for students’ failure to graduate on time are related to financial concerns. Many students, unable to afford the full price of tuition,

take part-time jobs to supplement their income, making it difficult to carry a full course load. But Tufts’ strong financial aid program gives students the resources and the flexibility to complete requirements and graduate on time, he said.

“We are committed to meeting the full need of any student on aid or any student who finds him or herself in need of aid, and that is a very unique and underappreciated policy,” Coffin said. “Some students may choose to get side jobs, but we aren’t forcing students into the type of situation where they have to work.”

Instead, the small percentage of Tufts students who fail to graduate on time is comprised mostly of students who transferred to other institutions, finding that Tufts was not a good fit for personal reasons, Coffin said. Others take time off for personal leave, illness or travel, he said.

Nick Pendry-Aber, a senior, was scheduled to graduate in May until graduation requirements got in the way. After spending a few semesters trying out different majors, PendryAber said that by his junior year, he was forced to choose between spending a semester abroad in Spain and graduating on time.

“Studying abroad is this amazing opportunity that is an integral part of the college experience,” he said. “So the decision was easy. I didn’t want to regret missing out on that experience.”

Though he wishes Tufts had been more flexible in accepting the transfer credits that he earned while studying abroad, Pendry-Aber does not regret his decision to spend an extra semester at college after returning from Spain.

“I had a great experience in Spain, and I get to be in college another semester,” he said. “I might not have been completely ready to leave before, but after this semester, I’m definitely more motivated to get out and get my life started.”

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NBC’s pain is ‘Chuck’ fans’ gain Cheesy spy action and big laughs make ‘Chuck’ worth a second look BY

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This article is the latest edition of “Second Chances,” a recurring feature looking at TV shows that

Chuck Starring Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin Airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on NBC deserve a second chance from viewers. Their ratings may be low, but their quality is high, so if you tuned out early on, here’s our case for why you should give each show another try. This time: “Chuck.”

For “Chuck” fans, it’s a good thing NBC is currently struggling: The spy action-comedy routinely averages less than a 2.0 rating — read: very low — in the all-important adults aged 18-49 demographic and has been on the bubble for renewal every year since it began. Basically, on any other Big Four network, it would have been a goner.

But on NBC, “Chuck” is no anomaly; it is merely a low-rated show among poor performers — “Chase” and the now-canceled “Undercovers” have even lower numbers. Miraculously, it is now in its fourth season, and a fifth is not out of the question. The show right now is probably as secure as it will ever be, so why not join in the fun?

The series follows titular hero Chuck Bartowski as he transforms from a nerdy under-

achiever to a still-nerdy spy when he unexpectedly downloads a government supercomputer into his head. At first, this computer — the Intersect — just gives Chuck access to government secrets, making him an asset to be protected. When he downloads version 2.0 at the end of season two, though, he gains the ability to “flash” on more than just intel — he can now download skills, chief among them being kung fu.

If the premise sounds a bit hokey, well, it is. But once you accept it for what it is, “Chuck” is a pleasure, a deft mix of action and comedy with a full range of fun characters.

Zachary Levi brings a fun, goofy energy to Chuck that has nicely evolved over the years.

Levi is still not the most physically skilled actor — although he manages to make his fight scenes believable — but he does very well with the comedy. He also has great chemistry with the rest of the cast, particularly Yvonne Strahovski.

Strahovski plays Agent Sarah Walker, Chuck’s CIA handler and now-girlfriend. Their relationship has been the romantic through-line of the series, with the will-they-or-won’t-they tension reaching ridiculous levels at times, but once they got together, the show proved it could still be the same “Chuck,” even without the relationship problems.

Strahovski has also proven her comedic chops when required, even though she usually has to play Sarah as the straight woman and the butt-kicking babe.

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Baldwin), a take-no-prisoners military man with a penchant for firearms and Ronald Reagan, rounds out the team. Although he had little patience for Chuck at the outset, he has grown to appreciate him and their relationship has turned into a nice sweet spot for the show. Plus, Casey’s grunts are some of the funniest forms of communication on the show, and communicate more than any words could.

The one big problem “Chuck” has is its B-plot location, the Buy More store where Chuck and his best friend Morgan (Joshua Gomez) work. When the show began, Chuck was actually working there as a Nerd Herd employee doing his CIA missions on the side. Now, though, he is a fullfledged spy and the Buy More has turned into an undercover CIA base so that the show can continue to use the set and the staple of Buy More characters.

Admittedly, those characters — mainly Jeff (Scott Krinsky) and Lester (Vik Sahay), who also perform in their cover band Jeffster! — would be missed if absent, but at this point, their stories are so tangential to the

rest of the show that they have become distracting. The writers need to figure out a way to better incorporate the Buy More plotlines into the principal stories, as they did with Morgan joining Operation Bartowski, or get rid of them altogether.

The show can be a bit cheesy at times. It has a tendency to overuse the word “spy,” just in case viewers don’t get that that’s what “Chuck” and Chuck are about. Plot holes are sometimes glaringly obvious, and the contrivances needed for so much spy action to happen at the Burbank, Calif., Buy More are laughable.

But the weekly missions are generally exciting, the overarching plots — like the current one about finding out the truth about Chuck’s mother (Linda Hamilton) — provide good narrative thrust and the characters are just plain fun to spend time with.

“Chuck” isn’t rewriting the rules of television, but it’s a solid show that shouldn’t need blatant Subway product placement to keep it on the air. Tune in at 8 p.m. on Mondays to see what you’re missing.

ALBUM REVIEW

Crisper and more mature, Calle 13 returns with politically-charged album, ‘Entren Los Que Quieran’ BY

MELISSA MACEWEN Contributing Writer

A joke between brothers almost never leads to a career, but Calle 13 have managed to

Entren Los Que Quieran Calle 13 Sony U.S. Latin make it work. Created by stepbrothers René Pérez Joglar, aka Residente (Resident) and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez, aka Visitante (Visitor), Calle 13 has enjoyed a meteoric rise to success. Prior to the Nov. 22 release of their fourth album, “Entre Los Que Quieran,” the brothers had already won two Grammy Awards and 10 Latin Grammy Awards.

The duo claims to have begun as a joke, but quickly rose to public prominence during the mixing of their debut album. Public controversy surrounding Calle 13’s song “Querido F.B.I.” (“Dear F.B.I.”), a controversial track about the death of Puerto Rican revolutionary Filiberto Ojeda Ríos during an FBI arrest, gave the band mainstream media attention after viral marketing of the song through Indymedia

Puerto Rico, an alternative news website.

Calle 13 is quick to reject their frequent classification as reggaeton, but all other options considered, this classification is quite frankly the only one that makes any sense. Though reggaeton may provide the basis for Calle 13 as a band, Visitante’s background as a full-time musician and producer lets him eagerly weave in enough different genres to make Calle 13 a different beast from anything the listener has ever heard before.

The band believes “Entren Los Que Quieran” (“Enter Those Who Wish”) is its most mature album to date. Given the carefully thought-out crafting of the songs and the crisp vocal structures, this is true.

The album is also noticeably more political than the group’s previous releases, and it addresses issues ranging from the Pope to Sony music to Mexican drug cartels with rapid fire, acerbically witty lyrics.

The duo may not escape criticism for sexually charged wordplay or feisty political lyrics, but at least they are consistent. The bluntness, and occasional offensiveness, of their lyrics extends to all subject areas. Indeed, the brothers apply the same wit and blatant honesty to any situation they are writing about, whether addressing military coups or

JayHova’s Witness or God/MC

girls on the street. The album contains infusions of pop rock, hard rock, ska, hip-hop, jazz, electronica, rap and salsa, but somehow manages to come off as effectively unified. The album even manages to avoid alienating non-Spanish speakers such as myself, who can fully appreciate the rhythm and intonations of the language, even if they miss many of the lyrical nuances.

Part of “Entren’s” cohesiveness is due to an aspect of music production that many artists and producers seem to overlook in the day of iTunes: the actual organization of the album. The album’s overblown, theatrical approach suits the music and never distracts the listener from the content of the record. The “Intro,” instrumental “Inter-En Annunakilandia,” and “Outro” of “Entren” help give the album a sense of organization while stylistically mimicking Calle 13’s lyrics. Starting with the energetic “Calma Pueblo,” which features Omar Rodriguez of The Mars Volta, and closing with the beautifully layered harmonies and driving, but understated, drumming of “Prepárame la Cena,” the tracks weave thoughtfully around this structure to create an album that flows very logically from beginning to end.

“Calma Pueblo” is certainly a strong track that could attract a crossover audience from bands

such as — logically — The Mars Volta, or even Cypress Hill. A heavy beat, Rodriguez’s guitar riffs that sound at times like a whacked-out Santana, and a catchy refrain all make this an effective opening track that both lays out the direction of the rest of the album and hooks listeners. One of my other personal favorite tracks is the waltz-like “Latinoamérica,” with its violin, subtle guitar reminiscent of a music box and the careful harmonies of singers Susan Baca, Totó la Momposina and Maria Rita. The song starts out quietly, but gracefully flushes out as the different musical layers interact.

“Latinoamérica’s” message is also a highlight, as it poetically calls for Latin American solidarity.

Overall, “Entren Los Que Quieran” is a highly listenable album valuable for both its witty lyrics and song structures, and its definitively dance-worthy feel. At times, the sheer number of genres and sound effects that are all woven together can be overwhelming, and can occasionally give the album a feeling of structureless chaos, but if anything, this is all part of the desired effect as the songs never are so free-form as to be unapproachable to the casual listener. The album manages to be rowdy and fun, while simultaneously making a clear political statement.

ince 1996, Shawn Carter has been releasing solo albums as Jay-Z. The way he tells the story in his new book, “Decoded,” he was in the recording booth one day when a friend commented that listening to him flow was akin to a religious experience: Jehova to Jay-Z/Hova.

Other reports put the inception a little differently — his nickname had been “Jazzy” and was bastardized into Jay-Z; Jay-Z is an homage to Jazz-O, his one-time mentor; it’s a reference to the J/Z subway line that stops near the Marcy Houses housing project that he grew up in — but for our intents and purposes, we’ll believe the official story.

While the (pointless) debate over who the best rapper of all time is rages on, most would agree that, regardless of his place in history, Jay-Z is one of — if not the — most important rapper currently working in hiphop. When Jay-Z tells an audience to “throw up the roc” — put their hands up to make the shape of a diamond, the hand symbol of Roc-A-Fella Records — everyone does it.

If we look at Jay-Z through the lens of a semiotician — one schooled in semiotics, the study of signs, a field of study I’m only pretending to understand — the roc is probably the first logical thing to examine.

There is a lot we can say about it: We could look at the abstraction from the word “rock” to “roc,” to the concept of “diamond,” to a roughly diamond-shaped symbol, how that symbol represents power and violence, how it has fascist implications, etc., etc. Jay-Z’s catalogue is brimming with signs and symbols created by his utterances.

Saussure and Pierce, two of the founding fathers of semiotics, have slightly differing ways to view signs, but Saussure’s is much more simplistic, so we’ll stick with that one: For him, there is the signifier (the sign) and the signified (the concept that is symbolized), and it is understood that there is an unconquerable space between the signifier and the signified.

In our use of language, we inherently encounter this space. The only time that there was no space, classically, between a signifier and a signified was when God first spoke, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God’s words and the light were one. This, of course, happened in the prelapsarian world before language was arbitrarily attached to everything, when all things were known by their “true” names (and when, believe it or not, people communicated telepathically — it’s in the Bible, go look it up).

Everything uttered has a signifier and a signified. That’s how our language works.

God is the only one who is allowed to create with his speech. Except for Jay-Z. Jay-Z makes up a lot of words. Much of it is slang, but some of it is the word of a god.

It’s more than “the author as god,” it’s god (MC) as god.

When Jay-Z says “Izzo” or “Jigga Man,” he’s creating wholly new concepts. When he says “Jigga Man,” he creates himself as “Jigga Man.” It can be understood as a nickname, but I’d like to argue — validly, I think — that it’s more than that. There is no concept in the world to which “Jigga Man” can be perfectly mapped except for what Jay-Z became after he said it.

Jay-Z understands his place as God. On “Takeover” (2001), he says it himself, “God MC, me: Jay-Hova.” To the casual listener, this is simply another brag, but to the clued-in semiotician — which you now are, so congratulations and you’re welcome — it’s a confession.

Shawn Carter was born December 4, 1969. Jay-Z was born in that recording booth, as his first disciples were baptized in his flow.

Mitchell Geller is a senior majoring in psychology and English. He can be reached at Mitchell.Geller@tufts.edu.

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Students on Friday afternoon became aware of a false alarm when a person reported seeing an African-American man carrying a gun that turned out to be a ratchet wrench. Following the incident, a group of students put up posters across campus suggesting that racial discrimination had led to the false alert.

The posters depict a white hand holding a wrench and a black hand holding the same wrench; the photograph with the white hand is labeled “wrench,” while the other is labeled “gun.” The posters rather strikingly pointed out a common racial stereotype in our society, and the students involved in the poster campaign said that their intention was to stimulate a discussion on such stereotypes, not to cast blame on those involved in the incident.

The posters, however, came across as accusatory and merely served to single out an individual’s actions instead of explaining a broader issue in a productive manner. In addition, the posters were misleading, showing an adjustable wrench instead of a ratchet wrench, which could more understandably be mistaken for a gun.

This reaction is an example of the tendency of well-intentioned Tufts students to take a single event and use it to promote their cause in an almost exploitative manner that disregards the potentially hurtful results of their campaign, as well as its polarizing effects.

The person who reported the gun presum-

ably acted out of concern for the safety of his or her peers. He or she seemed to have acted appropriately given his or her — however incorrect — perceptions and should be commended for quickly reporting seemingly suspicious behavior.

Had the object actually been a gun, this person’s actions could have been vital to Tufts University Police Department’s ability to take action and save lives. Members of the Tufts community should not have to be worried about reporting suspicious activities, regardless of the race of the individual involved.

There are better ways of making a point than a poster campaign like this weekend’s.

It is true that the person who reported the incident was incorrect about the object. It is true that his or her actions were probably a result of a prevalent stereotype in our society.

But it was hardly worthy of such a harsh, exploitative response.

We must be careful when combating prejudice to not tip the bias in the other direction. Before continuing to deride the person who reported the incident, students should ask themselves how closely they themselves would have looked at the object before reporting the potential threat.

The 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo is a classic example of well-intentioned people making a fatal mistake as a result of racial discrimination. Diallo was a Guinean immigrant living in New York City who was shot to death by a group of police officers who thought

Diallo was reaching into his pocket for a gun when he was actually probably pulling out his wallet. This case is often referred to in psychology textbooks as a warning of how easy and how fatal stereotypes and prejudices can be. Psychologists highlight the important distinction between a stereotype, which is when social categories are used in judgment; prejudice, which relates to certain feelings about those groups; and discrimination, which is an action based on prejudice or stereotypes.

As members of the Tufts community, we have an obligation to make ourselves aware of discriminatory situations and to prevent them. Discrimination occurs as a result of ignorance to which we have all fallen victim at some point, and as a result of the dissemination of stereotypes to which we are inevitably exposed but must try to recognize.

We must make an active effort to become aware of how easy it is to succumb to laziness when forming opinions and making decisions regarding other people. One such method of breaking down stereotypes and avoiding discrimination is by living in a diverse community.

We as a community should use the false alarm to be aware of and try to counteract the means by which social stereotypes color our actions. The accusatory implications of these posters are based on unfair assumptions and are counterproductive to the goal of having a fruitful conversation about persisting stereotypes.

on our behalf around the world.” Should Americans have an interest in specific documents, the Freedom of Information Act and the passage of time are the legal remedies that Congress has created for unearthing government secrets. Working within the law to change how the government classifies secrets is the appropriate solution, not flouting the law while lives are at stake.

I will concede that the U.S. government may be overstating the number of lives at risk due to these disclosures, but that does not mean that these leaks are harmless. While WikiLeaks has attempted to redact names of specific sources, the background descriptions of the sources often remain, placing these individuals at risk.

Besides the obvious risk to sources, U.S. and worldwide diplomacy have been dealt a blow. While it has been more or less known that some Arab leaders are uncomfortable with a rising and someday-nuclear Iran, the disclosure that Arab leaders are pushing for military action over international sanctions and negotiation is not a reflection that the United States has “successfully built a network of allies against Iran as a potential enemy.”

Instead, it shows that Arab countries are just as skittish about nuclear Iran as Israel. Furthermore, while Iran publically “mocks the whole operation as a Western propaganda game,” the leaders of the

Iranian government are not so foolish as to dismiss these cables behind closed doors. Their reaction to these cables will be unpredictable — encircled by a U.S.led coalition, Iran may choose to abandon its nuclear efforts in the face of broad opposition or instead redouble its efforts as its fears of isolation and encirclement have been confirmed.

Likewise, the revelation that China has hinted to South Korea that it would not oppose unification if it gained access to North Korea’s resources is confirmation that North Korea’s notorious paranoia is not misplaced and its nuclear weapons may be the only ace it has left.

While foreign governments may publicly disavow the contents of the cables by accusing the United States of being mistaken at best and conspiring with WikiLeaks at worst, this will not be the case during internal policy discussions. These cables will have subtle but long-lasting effects on how the United States and the world conduct diplomacy. It should come as no surprise that American diplomats are adept and effective in doing this nation’s work — we did not need these cables to prove that to the world.

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While I have disagreed with many of Joshua Youner’s “Conscientious and Contentious” columns over the course of this semester, I have chalked it up to differences in ideology that are not worth quibbling over. His column on Thursday, however, while aptly identifying the downsides of the State Department diplomatic cables leak by the organization known as WikiLeaks, ends with the preposterous conclusion that “the assault on WikiLeaks and [Julian] Assange should stop.”

Since WikiLeaks came into the possession of classified U.S. government documents, it is necessary that the government investigate the leaks of these documents thoroughly and ensure that it does not have sources beyond the Army private currently in custody for the leaks of the so-called War Diaries earlier this year.

In a nation that is governed by the rule of law, it is despicable that a public servant took advantage of the privilege of handling sensitive information and abused the trust placed in him by the U.S. government, and therefore its people, by indiscriminately leaking thousands of classified documents for the purpose of “worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms.”

Moreover, it is fair to say that the American people do not have a carte blanche “right to know what is being done

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Beyond the posters BY

GEOFFREY GUARANO AND ANNA SMITH

You’ve probably seen the “wrench/ gun” images that were plastered all over campus starting Thursday night.

They depict a white hand holding a wrench juxtaposed with a black hand holding the same wrench. The word “wrench” is printed below the white hand, and the word “gun” is printed below the black hand.

We are students who organized in these efforts, and here’s why: We are acting out of concern for the community member who was mistakenly reported holding a silver revolver on Professors Row, and out of concern that the series of e-mails we received that day might have gone unquestioned.

Let us be very clear from the start — our intention is not to protest the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) or the individuals involved with this specific incident. Actually, we’re not protesting at all. We commend both the caller and TUPD for striving to keep our campus safe. Instead, we created our posters to encourage active dialogue across the Tufts community. We are a group of students who are deeply concerned with society’s accepted interpretation that so easily replaces a ratchet wrench with a gun in the hands of a black man. Let’s challenge ourselves to focus on the big picture.

Several hours after the e-mails were sent, the “wrench/gun” posters appeared on campus. The conversations that we have had and that our peers have had about this poster and the incident itself have varied. Responses

range from support to laughter to anger and annoyance, with some claiming that we are being hypersensitive and are “playing the race card.”

It is productive to reflect upon this event within the larger context of other campus incidents. In 2006, The Primary Source published a Christmas carol, which verbally attacked the 52 black students of the class of 2010. Though the university declared the publication to be guilty of “harassment and creating a hostile environment,” in the end, no editorial restrictions or responsive reconciliation were instituted. In 2009, a student verbally assaulted, physically attacked, spat at and threatened to kill 13 members of the Korean Students Association, and earlier this semester, homophobic slurs and attacks appeared. And only days ago, a Tufts community member was singled out and alienated while going about his daily routine.

While these discriminatory incidences are the most memorable ones on campus, equally significant and damaging instances occur on a daily basis at our university. Tufts hosts a great deal of diversity, but our attempts to embrace it are not always fully realized. Consider not only the multiracial community that exists on the Hill, but also that Tufts is diverse in terms of geographic origin of its students and their socioeconomic status, religious affiliation and sexual orientation. Look around campus, in the curricula, student organizations, athletics, Greek life, etc.; notice how differences are not always recognized and embraced equally.

We would like to use this space to continue the dialogue and put words behind the visual campaign that got the campus talking. We believe that this incident cannot be looked at as one single misunderstanding but should be considered in the context of historic and continued racism against people of color through seemingly legitimate and legal methods. These include the various “three strikes” laws enacted throughout the country, as well as the disparity in the sentencing of crack and powder cocaine possession, which over-incarcerates those possessing minor amounts of crack. The reality is that black men are criminalized and over-incarcerated in our society.

The reality is that one in three black men born in the United States today will be locked up during their lifetime based on current punitive criminal law, oppressive social conditions and existing trends.

Tufts is not immune from these social realities. Last Thursday’s incident is very much connected to a long and painful history of people of color who are racially profiled, deemed threatening and cast as criminals. The danger of connecting blackness and criminality is visible across the country in the realities of those who have been searched, incarcerated, shot and killed for simply reaching into their pockets to take out a non-threatening object such as a cell phone or a wallet.

Last Thursday’s incident was brief and did not result in physical harm, but we cannot deny its significance within a larger context of racial profiling in soci-

ety. Both Columbia University Provost Claude Steele, in his recent and widely acclaimed text “Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us,” and Associate Professor Keith Payne of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in his psychological research on race, have contributed evidence to the reality of “weapon bias.” This term refers to the tendency of people of all races to, in a splitsecond decision with unclear evidence, more often perceive an object to be a weapon in the hands of a black man than in the hands of a white man. For this reason, the race of the person who reported the alleged gun is irrelevant.

Furthermore, the minute details of the object — adjustable or ratchet wrench — are not relevant to the macro issue and social reality of racial profiling and weapon bias.

The e-mails, posters and long discussions on Facebook challenge us all to reflect and think critically about our own identities and how they define our experiences, the context of last Thursday’s incident and its racial significance, and what implications this has for our community at Tufts. What we have now is an opportunity to start thinking and talking about making this campus more of a community and a safe and warm place for all — students, faculty and staff — across all spectra: social life, curricula and beyond.

Geoffrey Guarano is a senior majoring in English. Anna Smith is a senior majoring in economics, Spanish and American studies.

The race card: Maybe we jumped the gun BY

BRIAN PILCHIK

On Thursday, I was getting some last-minute homework done in my dorm room when I saw that an e-mail had arrived. “Safety Alert: suspicious person reported with a handgun” was the subject line. Thinking that was kind of a scary thing on a college campus, I opened it immediately, only to learn that the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) had received a report about a man with a gun and that a TUPD search turned up nothing.

I figured it wasn’t so bad, and I went back to my homework.

An hour later, another e-mail. The first had been a false alarm; the man who had been spotted called TUPD, explaining to the police that he was merely holding a ratchet wrench, not a gun. After an interview, his story checked out, and TUPD wished us all a nice, safe day. That was the end of it, or at least it should have been.

Instead, the next morning, I woke up, walked out of South Hall and did a doubletake. There on the wall and again on a tree, I saw them: signs depicting a white woman’s hand holding a wrench and a black man’s hand holding the same wrench. The former was labeled “wrench” and the latter “gun.”

I thought about it for a second and smiled.

How clever! A social statement organized and distributed literally overnight, talking about race and gender. Aren’t Tufts students brilliant?

As I walked to Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall, however, I began to have second thoughts. That poster had a message, certainly, but perhaps more than one. The poster was saying: “Hey, that wasn’t a gun.

It was a wrench. You only thought it was a gun because a black dude was carrying it.”

Alright, that’s certainly one interpretation.

But what else did it mean? In a way, the message was also, “Don’t be so eager to report suspicious activity. Look, you’re probably just a bigot; no one has guns around here.”

The more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that the signs were neither funny nor appropriate. Four days ago, there was an individual who felt that there was a gun on campus, who was trying to protect us all and potentially save our lives by reporting it to TUPD. And today we are ridiculing this person? We’re turning around and saying, “Ha! You’re a sexist! You’re a racist!”? That’s what

this person deserves, to be mocked by the student body for reporting suspicious activity?

I don’t think so. In fact, I can’t disagree more.

We not only have a right to report our suspicions without harassment from our peers, but we have a duty to do so. Each and every one of our lives depends upon quick, honest reporting of any dangers to the community.

The truth is that this issue had little to do with racism or sexism. Just because the suspect happened to be African-American or happened to be male doesn’t make this a case of bigotry. This is about someone with something that looked like a gun, regardless of his physical features.

I’ve seen new posters around school, and I applaud whoever created those. They clearly depict the difference between an adjustable wrench — used in the original social-statement posters — and a ratchet wrench — identified in the TUPD alert.

The thing is, a ratchet wrench — the kind held by the actual suspect — does look like a handgun, if held the right way. The wrenches pictured in the original posters look nothing like guns. And this is a valid point; maybe the issue here isn’t race or gender. Maybe the issue is simply that a shiny metal tool can look like a gun, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with reporting it.

To all the social activists out there: We appreciate what you’re trying to do. But stop mocking your peers for trying to keep you safe. I know that it is important to have an open dialogue about race and gender discrimination. This, however, is not the time.

This incident is about gun safety, about people being in potential life-threatening danger and about reporting suspicious activity. This is not about prejudice.

We should be glad that it’s not. It shows that the Tufts community isn’t racist or sexist.

Rather, the Tufts community is merely undereducated on the dimensions and features of wrenches and pistols.

All joking aside, students should be encouraged to continue reporting any and all suspicious activity to TUPD. Don’t be afraid of being labeled a racist. It’s more important that we keep our campus safe. Take potential threats seriously.

Brian Pilchik is a freshman who has not yet declared a major.

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Jumbos sweep weekend with pair of one-goal victories BY

DAVID MCINTYRE Senior Staff Writer

After an inconsistent start to the season in which Tufts shut out defending conference champions ICE HOCKEY (4-2-1, 3-1 NESCAC) Valley Forum II, Saturday St. Anselm Tufts

0 0 3 2 1 1

— 3 — 4

Valley Forum II, Friday OT New England Col. 0 3 1 0 — 4 Tufts 2 0 2 1— 5 Middlebury before losing its next two games, the team found itself facing off against two tough opponents in its first weekend homestand of the season. But even without their injured junior all-conference starting goalie Scott Barchard, the Jumbos were able to earn two hard-fought victories, each by a margin of one goal.

“These were two home games that we really needed to win,” senior quad-captain Tom Derosa said. “To play the way we did really shows a lot about the character of our team.”

It all started on Friday, when the Jumbos hosted New England College at the Malden Forum. In just their second home game of the season, the Jumbos came out of the dressing room flying and played probably their best period of the young season to get the

game started. Freshman forward Kyle Gallegos grabbed two goals, the second of which was a brilliant power play strike set up by senior quad-captain Andy Davis.

The Pilgrims would not go quietly, though, and they completely turned the game around in the second frame, erasing the two-goal deficit and concluding the period with a 3-2 advantage.

After Tufts sophomore defenseman Nick Metcalfe was called for a roughing penalty, Pilgrims freshman forward Greg Girtatos slotted home a power play goal to get his side on the board, and junior forward Niko Uola equalized the score at 2-2 with a goal 7:31 into the period. To complete the reversal, junior forward Greg Jacques added an unassisted goal with 3:16 remaining to give New England College a one-goal lead heading into the decisive third period.

“It could’ve been really disheartening to our team to give up a two-goal lead and go down like that,” senior quad-captain Dylan Cooper said. “But we showed some grit and character and came out strong in the third.”

While each of the first two periods was one-sided, the play in the third was much more even. Both teams knew that a single mistake could decide the game. It was Tufts that scored first, as sophomore forward Dylan Plimmer netted the equalizer with 12:12 remaining. But the tie was short-lived, as it took just 21 seconds for the Pilgrims to regain the lead, with

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Senior quad-captain Dylan Cooper, above in Saturday’s St. Anselm game, amassed two goals and an assist over the weekend, helping to ensure his team’s two hard-fought, one-goal victories. junior defender Aki Uola grabbing his first goal of the season to restore their advantage and set up a dramatic ending to the game.

With just 1:28 remaining in the game, sophomore defenseman Trevor John rushed in from the point to tie the game, slotting one past New England College senior goalie Aaron Harvey. Then, just 39 seconds into the overtime peri-

od, John scored again, this time pouncing on a rebound from a Derosa shot to give the Jumbos the thrilling victory.

“It was the second time we’ve pulled our goalie this year, and both times we’ve scored the tying goal,” Derosa said. “It shows we really have a grasp of how to play 6-on-5 and we understand what to do in desperate situations.”

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It was a total team effort from Tufts, which had four multi-point scorers in the victory. But the Jumbos had little time to celebrate, as they needed to quickly transition their momentum into their matchup with St. Anselm the very next day.

Much like in the New England College game, the Jumbos domisee HOCKEY, page 11

POWER RANKINGS compiled by the tufts daily

For the first time ever, a school has broken the 2.0-point barrier in the NESCAC Rankings.

Thanks to unanimous second-place rankings for men’s basketball, men’s hockey and women’s hockey, as well as a very impressive showing in women’s basketball, Amherst now sits at a 1.90 average in the last installment before winter break. Ever since finishing behind Williams in the preseason winter rankings, the Lord Jeffs have maintained a three-week hold on first.

Williams has kept a hold on the No. 2 spot, nearly undone by an eighth-place finish by its women’s hockey team. Middlebury, Bates and Hamilton all leapfrogged Bowdoin; the Polar Bears plummeted to sixth overall. Meanwhile, at fourth place, Bates is at its highest mark ever.

After a down week at ninth, Tufts moved back up to seventh; the Jumbos overtook Trinity, which fell to eighth, and Colby, which headed down to ninth. Wesleyan and Conn. College for the third straight week flip-flopped at the final two spots. The former now sits in the cellar.

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Senior tri-captain Colleen Hart, above in a game against Bowdoin last season, led the Jumbos with a double-double — 15 points, 11 rebounds — en route to her team’s 70-36 defeat of Colby-Sawyer on Saturday afternoon.

Explosive offense propels Jumbos to win over Chargers BY

KELSEY PERKINS

Contributing Writer

In an outstanding display of both offensive and defensive skills, the women’s basketball team on Saturday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (4-1, 0-0 NESCAC) Cousens Gym, Saturday Colby-Sawyer 18 18 — 36 Tufts 36 34 — 70 afternoon extended its winning streak to three with a 70-36 blowout vic-

tory over out-of-conference opponent Colby-Sawyer at Cousens Gym. With three straight impressive wins under their belts, the Jumbos are starting to hit their stride.

“With our new players and new roles for some returners, I think we needed to get some game experience under our belt,” junior tri-captain forward Kate Barnosky, who is currently nursing a torn meniscus, said. “We’re clicking a lot more now, and team chemistry is building.”

After a slow start offensively, the

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SCHOOL

1

AMHERST

2.00

2

WILLIAMS

3

LAST WEEK

MEN’S HOCKEY

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

AVERAGE

1.60

2.00

2.00

1.90

1

1.00

1.60

1.00

8.00

2.90

2

MIDDLEBURY

3.00

2.80

7.60

1.00

3.60

4

4

BATES

4.20

4.20

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5

5

HAMILTON

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5.80

4.40

5.10

6

6

BOWDOIN

8.20

6.40

3.00

4.20

5.45

3

7

TUFTS

8.20

6.40

4.20

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TRINITY

4.80

8.20

9.40

3.00

6.35

7

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COLBY

6.40

7.40

7.40

7.00

7.05

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10.00

10.00

5.20

5.20

7.60

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7.20

6.40

9.40

9.00

8.00

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The poll was devised as follows: Each voter ranked all NESCAC schools in each sport, and those scores were averaged to create a composite ranking for each sport. The composites were then averaged to determine each school’s overall ranking. Note that Hamilton does not compete in men’s and women’s basketball in the NESCAC, Bates does not compete in men’s and women’s hockey, and Tufts does not compete in women’s hockey.

This week’s list was determined by polling Amro El-Adle (Amherst Student), Mike Flint and Nick Woolf (Conn. College Voice), Katie Siegner (Middlebury Campus), Alex Prewitt (Tufts Daily) and Whit Chiles (Wesleyan Argus).

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SPORTS

INSIDE INTERNATIONAL SOCCER

FIFA picks Russia, Qatar to host World Cups in 2018, 2022

BY JESSE WEINBERG Senior Staff Writer

FIFA, the world’s soccer governing body, on Thursday announced the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively.

The announcement came as a shock to many observers, who expected the 2018 World Cup to go to more favored bids

by Portugal/Spain, Belgium/ Netherlands and England.

But the biggest surprise was the awarding of the 2022 competition to Qatar, which beat out the United States, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

The awarding of the bids to Russia and Qatar was a definite disappointment for the losing countries. But no one was likely to be as unhappy as the English, who were eliminated during the first round of voting. They did not try to hide their discontent, and even Sir David Richards, the chairman of the English Premier League, responded angrily to the decision.

“It is a real shame that the greatest nation in world football cannot host the World Cup,” Richards told the press after hearing the news. “Why? I don’t really know.”

The United States, bidding for its first World Cup since it hosted the event in 1994, also came back empty-handed despite being seen as the favorites, alongside the Australians, to earn the 2022 tournament.

Russia’s bid was centered on spreading out the Cup, with the host cities organized into clusters. The northern cluster is to be centered on the cities of St. Petersburg and the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, perhaps better known by its pre-World War II German name, Konigsberg.

The central cluster will be based around Russia’s capital and largest city, Moscow. The city’s Luzhniki Stadium played host to the 2008 Champions League final, and the site will again be a venue for the World Cup. Russia will also have a cluster based around the Volga River, with venues in the cities of Volgograd, Kazan, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Saransk, and a southern cluster built around the cities of Krasnodar, Rostov-on-don and Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

In contrast to the widespread locations of the Russian Cup, the venues in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar will be confined by the size of the smallest country to ever host a World Cup. But while Qatar is small in size, it is a rising force in world sports.

A small peninsula located in the Persian Gulf, Qatar is situated on the world’s third largest reserves of natural gas and has substantial oil reserves.

The Qataris have parlayed their wealth into building one of the world’s wealthiest states, all the while expanding their sporting infrastructure. Qatar established its own soccer league, the Qatar Stars League, which has been the final stop in the glittering careers of many of Europe’s biggest stars, including Marcel Desially, Gabriel Bautista, Ronald De Boer and Stefan Effenberg.

Qatar’s bid attracted voters because of its unique ability to allow fans to attend more than one game in a day thanks to the close proximity of the venues.

Voters were also attracted by the prospect of having the first World Cup ever to be hosted in

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The choice of these two very different countries to host the world’s greatest sporting event is surely going to be one of great

controversy, but what can be said for sure is that the whole world will be watching Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. In the meantime, soccer fans have Brazil 2014 to look forward to.

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Sophomore Trevor John, above in Saturday’s St. Anselm game, has the Jumbos cruising after scoring the game-winning and game-tying goals in the team’s 5-4 victory against New England College on Friday.

Koleini steps up in Barchard’s absence HOCKEY

the goalie and allow the puck to go in.”

But just like in the New England College game, Tufts’ opponents would not give up, and St. Anselm rallied intensely in the third period, outshooting the team 19-9 and twice pulling to within one goal. However, Tufts was able to see off the late challenge as senior forward Mike Vitale got Tufts’ fourth goal and the team snuffed out a last-second attack to preserve the 4-3 victory.

After the sweep of the weekend games, the Jumbos now boast a 3-1 conference record and will hit the road for three straight away games against conference opponents Conn.

College, Babson and UMass Boston. It will clearly be a critical stretch as the Jumbos look to improve their record for postseason play.

“They’ll be tough matchups, but we’ve already had success on the road this season,” Derosa said. “Two of the three road games are also over the winter break, and it’s always easier to focus and play well when classes aren’t in session.”

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nated the first period, but this time, they did not stop there. Reserve junior goaltender Evin Koleini made 27 saves in the first two frames to shut out the Hawks, giving the Jumbos a solid base on which to build.

“Evin has done an unbelievable job since Scott has been out. I can’t say enough about him,” Derosa said. “He’s undefeated, which is all you can ask for from a goalie.”

Meanwhile, the Jumbos took a 3-0 lead from a variety of sources: Cooper sliced through the defense to get two of the tallies with help from Derosa, while freshman forward Cody Armstrong scored his first collegiate goal from the first collegiate assist of classmate Tim Mitropoulos.

“The first goal was a breakaway up the right side, and the second was more of a broken play,” Cooper said. “I came in from the point on the power play and took a wrist shot, and there was just enough traffic in front to screen

Jumbos found themselves trailing 3-1 with a little over four minutes played.

The lead would prove to be the only one the Chargers would earn, as a 3-pointer from freshman guard Liz Moynihan gave the Jumbos an advantage they would not relinquish the rest of the game.

“We were getting good looks, but our shots just weren’t falling,” Barnosky said. “We did a good job of not getting frustrated with how the game opened up, and we started knocking down shots.”

And knock down shots they did. A 17-4 offensive flurry from the Jumbos — which included two 3-pointers and a circus shot from senior tri-captain guard Colleen Hart — put them ahead by 15 points. Despite an effort

by Colby-Sawyer freshman forward Mari Meserve that included six points down the stretch, the Jumbos led the Chargers 36-18 going into halftime.

The score was a real tribute to the Tufts defense, as the team forced 12 Charger turnovers in the first half alone, turning them into 12 points.

But the Jumbos knew they needed to play a full game — something the team had been struggling with in recent weeks.

“This was the first time we’ve been able to string two halves together,” sophomore forward Bre Dufault said.

“Sometimes we’ll have a late start, or we’ll have a great first half and then break down in the second. This time we were consistent throughout the game.”

Colby-Sawyer came out of halftime determined, but Tufts quickly shifted the momentum in its favor. After the Chargers got the first points of the half, a 3-pointer from sophomore forward Collier Clegg and another basket from Moynihan re-established the advantage for the Jumbos. For the

SCHEDULE | Dec. 6 - Dec. 10

STATISTICS | STANDINGS

MON

Men's Basketball

Women's Basketball

Ice Hockey

(3-3, 0-0 NESCAC)

(4-1, 0-0 NESCAC)

(4-2-1, 3-1 NESCAC/ECAC East)

Amherst Bates Bowdoin Colby Conn. Coll.

Middlebury Trinity Tufts Wesleyan Williams

NESCAC

OVERALL

W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

W 6 5 3 4 3 6 5 3 4 7

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L 0 1 2 3 3 0 2 3 3 0

Individual Statistics RPG 3.2 4.8 11.3 1.2 5.2 0.7 1.5 2.4 2.8 1.7 2.7 2.0 0.8

APG 1.0 0 0.8 2.2 0.5 2.7 2.8 0.2 1.3 0.2 0.7 0.3 1.2

Alex Goldfarb S. Anderson A. Orchowski A. Quezada James Long K. Firempong Oliver Cohen A. Dowton Sam Mason M. Lanchantin Tom Folliard Peter Saba Matt Galvin

PPG 12.5 11.2 9.8 6.8 5.2 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.0 2.8 2.7 2.0 1.8

Team

70.7 42.7 13.7

rest of the game, the Tufts lead would never dip below 20, getting as large as 36 with five and a half minutes to go.

The final score line was a reflection of both the offensive and defensive domination that the Jumbos exhibited. Eleven members of the Tufts team contributed to the final score, including four who scored in double digits. Hart led the team with a double-double, tallying 15 points and 11 rebounds. Junior guard Tiffany Kornegay had a double-double as well, with 13 points and a gamehigh 12 boards. She also added five assists.

The team also got major contributions from its younger talent, with Moynihan and Clegg scoring 14 and 11 points, respectively.

The scoring distribution on Saturday demonstrated the remarkable depth of talent on the young team.

“Coach [Carla Berube] has been saying she thinks our team this year has one of the deepest benches she’s seen in her nine years here,” Barnosky said. “Yesterday everyone not only played a lot, but everyone that went in contributed too.”

With the decisive win, the Jumbos are demonstrating the progress necessary for success during conference play, which begins Jan. 14 in a home game against Middlebury.

“The NESCAC will be a step up in terms of competition, especially with three NESCAC teams currently in the top 25 in the country,” Barnosky said. “These games have been a great learning experience for our newcomers and have helped prepare us to take on the NESCAC.” Now 4-1, the Jumbos will continue their out-of-conference schedule as they travel to Emerson on Tuesday night for a 5:30 p.m. matchup. The Jumbos took down the Lions 59-49 last year and hope for a similar result this time around.

NESCAC

W Amherst 0 Bates 0 Bowdoin 0 Colby 0 Conn. Coll. 0 Middlebury 0 Trinity 0 Tufts 0 Wesleyan 0 Williams 0

L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NESCAC

OVERALL

W 6 6 4 4 3 6 5 4 4 7

L 0 1 1 1 5 0 2 1 1 0

Individual Statistics RPG 7.2 7.6 4.8 3.0 2.8 4.4 2.0 1.4 0.8 2.5 2.4 1.0

APG 2.8 2.8 1.0 1.4 0.8 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.0 0.2 0.7

Colleen Hart T. Kornegay Collier Clegg Liz Moynihan Bre Dufault Ali Rocchi Sam Tye C. McClure Lindsay Weiner Issy Cless Sarah Nolet Maggie Riddle

PPG 17.4 11.2 9.4 8.4 3.6 3.4 3.0 2.6 2.4 2.0 1.8 1.0

Team

62.8 41.6 11.2

W Williams 4 Amherst 3 Bowdoin 3 Tufts 3 Conn. Coll. 2 Hamilton 2 Colby 1 Middlebury 1 Trinity 1 Wesleyan 1

L 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Men’s Basketball

OVERALL

T W L T 0 6 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 4 1 0 0 4 2 1 0 2 2 0 0 3 3 0 1 2 3 1 0 2 4 0 0 2 4 0 0 2 3 1

Individual Statistics Tom Derosa Dylan Cooper Zach Diaco Kyle Gallegos Trevor John Mike Vitale Conor Pieri Dylan Plimmer Andy Davis Nick Pappas Team

G 5 4 1 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 23

A 8 3 5 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 32

Pts. 13 7 6 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 55

Goalkeeping Scott Barchard Evin Koleini Team

S 116 109 225

GA 9 12 21

S% .928 .901 .915

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