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Last night’s Senior Pub Night ended abruptly after an attendee allegedly set off a fire extinguisher on the dance floor, causing the bar’s managers to shut down the event approximately two hours before it was scheduled to end.

“I just got off the dance floor and then all of a sudden this sort of light smoke covered the dance floor, and it tasted really salty, bitter almost,” senior Ha Vo said. “We saw a lot of security guards yelling at us to head off the dance floor.”

Senior Andrea Ness saw an individual, whom she was unable to identify, near the fire extinguisher before smoke filled the room.

“I saw some kid over by the wall, and I saw him putting down a fire extinguisher,” she said. “He looked like he knew he was not supposed to be doing that.”

She offered a similar account of the substance filling the air and subsequent evacuation. “[A] few minutes later, the entire room started filling up with smoke. …

Then they started clearing everyone out,” Ness said. “It was obviously not fog from a fog machine.”

Students were evacuated from the bar, Ned Devine’s in Boston, at approximately 11:30 p.m. after the fire extinguisher was set off.

Event organizers immediately called the buses to come and bring students back to campus, according to Senior Class Council President Lindsey Rosenbluth.

Rosenbluth said she believed that the perpetrator was a Tufts student, but Programming Board co-Chair Sarah Habib denied that any Tufts student was involved.

“We think something else happened,”

Habib said. “There’s some miscommunication there. This is not on Tufts students.”

Rosenbluth said that while the event was expected to end at approximately 1:30 a.m., it was at the discretion of the bar when to close it.

Students returning from the event, many of whom had just arrived when the bar was shut down, expressed dissatisfaction with its outcome.

“I want a refund, and I think everyone else does too,” senior Emily Balk, who had just arrived at the event when the bar was shut down, said.

Because the revenue collected from ticket sales for pub nights held during the academic year goes toward paying for transportation to and from the bar, no refunds will be issued to the students who purchased tickets, according to Rosenbluth.

“Asking for refunds will prove fruitless,” she said.

Six-hundred tickets were made available to seniors during the week leading up to last night’s event. They cost $10 each.

The event has in recent years faced cancellation because of students’ rowdy behavior and inappropriate levels of intoxication. A Senior Pub Night at the end of October ended early after a similar incident in which a substance that appeared to be pepper spray was sprayed in the air, driving students off the dance floor and causing venue staff to shut down the event.

For students at Tufts who hail from outside New England, Patriots’ Day is a mysterious but warmly welcomed day off from classes. For those from Boston, the holiday means only one thing: the Boston Marathon. One of the largest sporting events in the country, the Boston Marathon is one of the city’s strongest traditions.

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The Marathon Over a century ago, 15 dedicated runners completed the first Boston Marathon, and 114 years later, the tradition is still going strong. The marathon is always held on Patriots’ Day, a state holi-

Panzer named Gerald R. Gill Professor of the Year by

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Assistant Chemical Engineering Professor Matthew Panzer was last week named the Dr. Gerald R. Gill Professor of the Year, marking the first time the award has been chosen by the student body.

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate this year altered the selection process to extend participation to the entire student body through an email nomination process. The Senate initiated the

Professor of the Year Award in 1999, and Gill, who passed away in 2007, was its inaugural recipient.

This new process allowed the choice to reflect the voice of the student body, according to TCU Education Chair Chartise Clark.

“I decided to open it up just because the award is supposed to come from students,” Clark said. “I thought that it would just be a much more authentic and much see PANZER, page 2

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Ready to run: A closer look at Boston’s Marathon Monday

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day unique to Maine and Massachusetts.

Though the United States can claim the most wins — 41 — the event has become international in scope and draws both participants and spectators from all over the world. Over 26,000 runners from 90 countries and all 50 states on Monday will run this year’s 26-mile, 385-yard race.

Boston’s race is unique in the widespread public backing and support it receives, according to record-holding ultra-marathon runner Ian Sharman.

“In a lot of big city marathons, it’s not like a whole lot of people care,” Sharman said. “It’s the whole atmosphere. Everyone gets really behind it.”

Sharman, who is signed with The see MARATHON, page 3

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Members of the Tufts community play an active role in the Boston Marathon each year.

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Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Matthew Panzer is this year’s Dr. Gerald R. Gill Professor of the Year.

Sportswriter Massarotti earns award for achievement in field by

Angelina Rottman

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Tony Massarotti (LA ’89) has seen a good amount of success in his 40-odd years. Currently a co-host of the CBS radio show “Felger and Massarotti” on 98.5 The Sports Hub, the sportswriter has worked for The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe and is the author of four books. His success even earned him Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year in both 2000 and 2008.

Now, the alum has one more award to add to his mantle. The Tufts Alumni Association on Saturday gave him the Distinguished Achievement Award, an honor bestowed upon former Jumbos for outstanding achievement in their professions. Yet in spite of Massarotti’s success and the honors he has picked up along the way, when it came to the one he received last weekend, Massarotti couldn’t say what he had done to deserve it.

“I’m flattered,” he said. “I don’t know that anything I’ve done is all that distinguished. … I don’t know what kind of contribution I’m making to society, but I really enjoy doing what I do. There are certainly people more deserving, and I’m flattered.”

George (Bud) Guzzi (A ’56), whose son knows Massarotti very well, nominated the writer for the Distinguished Achievement Award, calling him exceptionally worthy of the award.

“I think Tony was just a natural [choice]. He’s a local kid, he comes from a great family,” Guzzi said. “Tony’s like an icon around here. He’s like the little brother who knows much more than you do. … Tony is a great writer, and he gets Sportswriter of the Year. He’s very well respected and deserving of the award.”

Massarotti got a taste for journalism as a writer and later editor at the Daily.

The experience he got from the school newspaper, Massarotti said, was vital to launching his career.

“My sister gave me the best piece of advice: No matter what you learn in the classroom, the experience is invaluable,” he said. “What you learn outside is more important. You have to be willing to bite the bullet. When you’re doing that sort of stuff, you’re investing in your own future.”

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Local high school wins innovation award by

Hanorah Vanni

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Somerville High School (SHS) last month was named Innovative School of the Year by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.

The council created the Innovative School of the Year recognition last year to recognize Massachusetts high schools breaking new ground in the field of biotechnology, according to Lance Hartford, the executive director of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation.

Hartford praised SHS’s commitment to partnerships with other academic and research institutions, including Tufts, in the field of biotechnology as well as its emphasis on career guidance for students interested in pursuing biotechnology after graduation.

“We feel that really to have an effective program at the high school level, students need to both understand the science and understand what kinds of opportunities are

out there,” Hartford said.

Somerville’s focus on biotechnology, embodied in an academic program initiated in 2005, is unique, according to Somerville High School science teacher Chris Angelli.

“We were one of the first schools in the state to offer a biotech program,” Angelli said.

The program offers students opportunities to do research in laboratories and develop interest in a possible career in biotechnology Angelli has taught biotechnology classes at the school for two years. The courses draw a variety of students, from those already interested in careers in science to those simply curious about the field, he said.

Such course offerings are valuable to students’ post-grad pursuits, given the school’s proximity to Boston, a hotbed of the biotechnology industry, Angelli said.

“Boston really is the East Coast hub of biotech, so we would be doing a disservice to our students to not have a course that gave them a head start on the process of getting into that

field,” Angelli said.

As part of its biotechnology curriculum, Somerville High School has forged an academic partnership with Tufts. Tufts and SHS collaborated in piloting the “Getting the Dirt on Somerville” project in the fall of 2009. In the project, Tufts students and students from the high school collected soil, grew microbial colonies and isolated the DNA within the finished cultures, according to Meredith Knight, the project coordinator with Tufts’ Chemistry Organized Outreach Program.

The Chemistry department will again collaborate next month with SHS on a project where students analyze their maternal ancestry though a cheek swab DNA test, according to Knight.

“I love working with Somerville High School,” Knight said. “These teachers are really open to doing these types of projects, and they also have the flexibility and support of their administration, and that means a lot.”

Mock Trial sets sights on top prize at Nationals by

Elizabeth McKay

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Tufts Mock Trial will travel this weekend to Des Moines, Iowa to compete in the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) National Championship Tournament.

The team will compete against the nation’s top collegiate mock trial teams, including defending national champion New York University, for the AMTA’s highest honor at Drake University Law School.

This season will mark the student-run team’s second-ever trip to the national tournament, having qualified for the first time last year.

Of the 670 collegiate mock trial teams that entered the AMTA National Championship series, only 48 passed through two preliminary tournaments to qualify for the championship tournament, according to Tufts Mock Trial Co-President Jonathan Lautin, a senior.

Though Tufts Mock Trial entered three teams in the first tournament of the series, only one advanced to the final tournament, after earning fourth place at the Opening Round championship tournament in March.

In this weekend’s competition, the Jumbos will argue and play witnesses for both sides of a product liability case.

Two judges, typically local attorneys, graduated law students or former Mock Trial competitors, will judge the four

rounds, according to Tufts Mock Trial Co-President Tomas Garcia, a junior.

The team will receive points each round based on the performance of its lawyers and witnesses.

Though the judges’ scoring is based on a rubric that allocates points across subcategories, it is still highly subjective, Lautin said.

“Sometimes there are teams that are clearly better than the other team in that round, but they still won’t win because the judges see it a different way. The scoring is completely subjective,” he said.

Garcia agreed. “That’s one of the struggles of mock trial, getting to the point where you’re so polished and so good that there’s no doubt that you’re the better team,” he said. “That’s the ideal standard to achieve.”

Freshman Brian Pilchik, a veteran high school mock trial competitor, will be traveling to the national tournament for the first time. As an expert witness for the defense, Pilchik said he will need to be able to answer any question his or the opposing team directs at him according to the source material provided by the AMTA. Because they cannot predict what the other team might ask, the Tufts competitors brainstormed possible questions and appropriate answers, Pilchik said.

“There’s a lot of technical information to memorize, especially for cross-examination when they could ask you about any of it and you’re expected to know,”

he added.

The AMTA released this season’s case, which is based on an actual product liability case, in September, according to Lautin. With the exception of a few minor changes made by the AMTA, the same case has been used throughout all of the tournaments in the invitational and championship seasons.

“We know the case really well. So right now what we’re trying to do is come up with new angles and things that we hope the other teams won’t expect,” Lautin said.

“You never know what the other team is going to do exactly, so at least half the trial is just adapting to what the other team does. It’s a combination of memorization and polish and thinking on your feet,” he added.

The team also traveled to Brown University for a practice scrimmage last weekend, according to Pilchik.

This weekend’s tournament will mark the end of a strong season for the young team, which saw its members place a team in first at two of the four invitational tournaments, and fourth at the Opening Round Championship, despite facing the hardest combined strength of opponents at the tournament, Garcia said.

“Before last year we never even thought about being in the National Championship Tournament,” Lautin said. “Just making it here is a huge accomplishment.”

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dental than anything else.

“My grand delusion was I was going to double major in English and math, because I thought that would be unique,” he said.

In his acceptance speech Saturday, Massarotti named English and music lecturer Michael Ullman as an influential figure during his time at Tufts, a sentiment by which Ullman was flattered.

“He came to my nonfiction writing class,” Ullman said. “And he wasn’t a natural writer, but he had something which is better in some way. He had a real love of his subject, which is sports, and he had things he wanted to say about sports. Actually, after he made the decision to become a writer, I became really hard on him. He’s a very genial guy, unpretentious. He could take the kind of criticism I was giving him. He would take anything that would help him get to that goal.”

Ullman and Massarotti still keep in touch today.

“Occasionally we exchange emails,” Ullman said. “I complain to him about the Red Sox.” Guzzi said it was unusual for a writer to receive the Distinguished Achievement Award, a seemingly odd occurrence, given Tufts’ strong emphasis on liberal arts.

“Usually people who get the awards are scientists or doctors or educators, and I don’t remember the last time

a writer got it,” Guzzi said. “Tony’s a writer, he’s on radio, he’s been on TV, he’s written books — he’s an all-around athlete in the field. He’s a journalist.

It’s just enjoyable listening to someone who knows baseball. It’s good to see a local kid make good.”

Massarotti has two sisters who also graduated from Tufts and between the three of them, they have an accumulated 16 years of Tufts schooling under their belts. One of his sisters, Elena Massarotti ( J ’80, M ’84), also received an Alumni Award in 2006.

Saturday was not Massarotti’s first time back on the Hill since his graduation. In the spring of 2004, he returned as an educator, teaching Newsrooms, Locker Rooms and Press Boxes in the ExCollege. The course centered on the struggles that accompany sports reporting in the age of talk radio, cable television and the web, he said.

“I came home and said to my wife, ‘This is going to be a lot harder than I thought,’” he said. “I was shocked when the semester ended because I thought I had really gotten to know a lot of the students. We really were a group. Some of them I’ll hear from every once in a while. It was an extremely rewarding experience.”

Reflecting on his own years as an undergraduate, Massarotti credited Tufts for giving him his start.

“In my case, [Tufts] was directly responsible for how I began,” Massarotti said. “When I graduated, I

took a part-time job, ostensibly a paid internship at The Boston Herald and that was facilitated through an alumni relation. I would not be doing what I’m doing if it weren’t for Tufts.”

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Sportswriter Tony Massarotti (LA ‘89) last Saturday won the Tufts Alumni Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award for the success he has seen over his decades in the field.

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For first time, Professor of the Year selected by student body Panzer

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more legitimate process if … the student body actually got to do it themselves, as opposed [to] us just picking,” Clark said.

The more transparent selection process will allow the recipient to be representative of Tufts’ diverse students and not just of the academically homogenous composition of the Senate, according to Clark.

Since the Senate is typically composed primarily of students studying political science, Clark said the selection process could be “skewed” against professors in other departments.

Clarke sent an email to all students requesting nominations for outstanding faculty members, she said. The committee then reduced the pool of nominated professors to a group of six finalists.

Panzer was chosen by paper ballot in the Mayer Campus Center by voters from the student body last Tuesday, according to junior Jessica Kulig, who was a member of the committee responsible for selecting the finalists.

In selecting finalists, the committee looked for candidates who, according to the students’ descriptions, uphold the legacy of the award’s namesake, a late Tufts history professor.

“The award is named after Gerald Gill, known for his distinguished scholarship, teaching, leadership and advising,” Kulig said. “Considering those characteristics, we looked at … professors who took a personal interest in students and their success in the classroom and university as a whole.”

Currently in his second year at Tufts, Panzer said he felt humbled by the award.

“I feel really honored,” Panzer said. “It’s really clear to me that I’m definitely doing the job of my dreams. I’m so glad that I went into the academic life; I love being a student, and it’s really rewarding for me to pass that on, to help new students get excited about engineering and the sort of things I was excited about as a student. So it’s extremely rewarding, I love coming to work every day.”

Panzer, who teaches a course on thermodynamics required for all sophomore chemical engineering majors, described his pedagogical approach as “distilling” information down to the essentials. He strives to teach with enthusiasm, he said.

“If you don’t, it’s going to be pretty dry and boring,” he said.

“It’s a lot of math, it’s a lot of abstract concepts, lots of variables, lots of Greek letters.”

Outside of the classroom, Panzer, along with undergraduate and graduate student assistants, conducts research with a focus on innovative alternative energy.

“My research is in alternative energy, so it’s nontraditional chemical engineering … we look at things like solar cells, and specifically we use nontraditional materials,” Panzer said. “So we’re trying to make next generation solar cells using things like polymers and organic molecules, which could potentially be cheaper, lighter, more flexible.”

A reception will be held to honor Panzer and the other finalists towards the end of April, according to Clark.

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North Face and will be running the Boston Marathon for the third time on Monday, has completed his fair share of challenging courses. Typically a 100-mile racer, Sharman still says that Boston’s course is challenging, noting the infamous Heartbreak Hill, a 0.4-mile-long ascent near the end of the marathon trail.

The course, which starts in Hopkinton, follows Routes 135, 16 and 30 before heading into downtown Boston and finishing in Copley Square. A series of climbs starting around Newton, including Heartbreak Hill, makes the last half of the marathon notoriously difficult.

The Boston Marathon ranks second only to the Super Bowl as the largest single-day sporting event in the world, and this year it will dole out a collective $806,000 in prize money to its winners.

The Runners Professional athletes may be going for the win, but Tufts’ President’s Marathon Challenge (PMC) team will field 200 runners who are dedicated to the race and having a good time.

The PMC is the largest collegiate marathon program in the United States and allows students to partake in defining life experiences, while also raising money for Tufts-related nutritional, medical and fitness programs.

PMC Director Donald Megerle is a firm believer in preparing runners not just for the athletic and mental aspects of the race — but the fun too.

“The bottom line to all of this is to enjoy it,” Megerle said. “You

are on stage for 26 miles. You are a rock star.”

The team, which is a mix of undergraduate and graduate students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff, wakes up early a few mornings each week to train together. Though the runs are long and the hours are early, student interest in the event is consistently high.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Megerle said.

“Each year you get more and more kids with more and more enthusiasm than the year before.”

In fact, enthusiasm for the program is so great that far more runners sign up than can compete in the challenge. John Hancock Financial Services, the team’s primary sponsor, donates 200 bib numbers to Tufts for the race annually. The company’s 10-year contract with the PMC team has now expired, but Hancock agreed to still provide the team with 100 bibs for the next two years.

Racing numbers are given out in order of seniority — most go to alumni, friends of the university, graduate students or undergraduate seniors.

Senior Ryan Kring, who will be running the marathon for the first time this year, considers the PMC to be one of the defining experiences of his Tufts career.

He appreciates the camaraderie of the team, but especially the guidance of Megerle.

“Don is really the heart of the team,” Kring said. “He is so inspiring. You never realize how important a great coach is until you do something as challenging as a marathon.”

Even runners who are not able to officially compete in the marathon still have great respect

for the PMC. Freshman Jeremy Aronson, who plans to run the race numberless as a “bandit,” looks back on his training quite positively.

“It was the experience of a lifetime,” Aronson said.

The Spectators Thankfully, running 26 miles is not the only way to take part in the marathon fun — many Tufts students also find it entertaining to watch the competition. Approximately 500,000 people crowd the streets of the greater Boston area to watch the runners. Sharman and Megerle both recommend watching near Heartbreak Hill or the finish line, though those looking for a good view will have to fight the crowds. Racers will take off between 9 a.m. and 10:40 a.m., so spectators must get out early.

A number of Tufts students volunteer at aid stations along the course, providing encouragement and nourishment to runners. The presence of so many college students gives the event a “party atmosphere,” Sharman said. He has even seen spectators offer alcohol to runners. Sharman, however, feels that what makes the event special for spectators is the scream tunnel made up of girls on Wellesley College’s campus.

Runners can hear the euphony for miles, and those in need of some extra encouragement are even offered kisses from the crowd.

“The main thing that makes it unique is screaming college girls halfway through,” Sharman said.

“That’s definitely something you don’t see anywhere else.”

Want to know what the “real world” is like?

Find Your Mentor Apply online by Monday, April 18th Enrich your summer experience by connecting with alumni mentors through the CASE (Connecting Alumni and Student Experiences) Network.

Summer mentorships are available in: Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. For more information visit http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/?pid=293 or email Rachel.Szyman@tufts.edu

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MFA hosts extravagant environments of Chihuly glass works by

Will Owen

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Dale Chihuly has suffered a number of injuries. A 1976 car accident, for example, left him blind in one eye. But he has

Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass At the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery and Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard through Aug. 7 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 (617) 267-9300 never allowed these setbacks to deter his creativity. As a highly celebrated artist among those using the glass medium — arguably the most famous since Louis Comfort Tiffany — Chihuly has created thousands of pieces during his career, ranging vastly in size and scope.

Chihuly leads a large team of glass artists in the construction of his pieces.

Many of the fantastical spaces he creates are categorized as whole environments and large-scale installations, often too intricate for one person to tackle alone.

Through Aug. 7, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is showcasing several of these installations in “Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass,” an exhibition celebrating Chihuly’s unique and creative talent.

Based in Seattle, Chihuly has displayed his works in cities all over the world. His exhibitions are both indoor and outdoor, some being permanent fixtures in a community while others

are transient. “Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass” boasts nine of Chihuly’s awe-inspiring environments in the MFA’s Ann and Graham Gund gallery and three of his courtyard pieces located outside.

The entrance into Chihuly’s fantasy world begins with “Scarlet Icicle Chandelier,” which, like all of his pieces, is made entirely of glass. It would be an understatement to describe the chandelier as simply unlike that of a typical dining room. Its striking blood-red color complements its eccentric shape. It looks like a giant red sea urchin plucked from a coral reef rather than a household fixture, and it is only a preview of what is to follow in the other rooms.

The second room has on display a number of Chihuly’s crude sketches that inspired some of his glass pieces. The sketches offer a fascinating look into how such rudimentary drawings lead to whole spaces of color, light and glass.

“Ikebana Boat,” for one, graces the second room. In this piece, Chihuly filled a wooden canoe with glass creations of all colors that look like tentacles overtaking the modest boat.

The following room draws on Native American culture and art. Chihuly’s “Tabac Baskets” are integrated alongside 19th-and 20th-century Native American baskets. They are comparable to large shells and are of subdued gold hues. The baskets are irregularly shaped, making them look very modern even as they blend in with the American Indian pieces.

Wool trade blankets hang from the walls of the room, adding to the ambiance of American Indian influence.

Chihuly has always expressed a fascination with flowers in his work, and his next environment, “Mille Fiori,” reveals

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Dale Chihuly’s “Ikebana Boat” (2008) is now on display at the MFA, Boston just that. A thousand floral glass fixtures cover a huge portion of the floor in a wide array of colors and shapes. Some are serpent-like in their shapes, while others are more spherical. The lighting of the room brings together the diverse colors in beautiful cohesion.

Lighting also plays a crucial role in the next display, titled “Persian Ceiling.”

Above a clear glass ceiling lies a multitude of colorful glass shapes created by Chihuly.

The lighting of the room causes stunning reflections of color from the ceiling on the sparse white walls, creating otherwise unimaginable shapes. This is perhaps the most whimsical of the nine Chihuly envi-

ronments housed by the MFA. Another innovative and intriguing piece displayed is “Neodymium Reeds.” On large logs, thin lavender glass fixtures assertively reach for the ceiling. They look like primitive purple plants or otherworldly fungi jutting out from decaying trees.

The eccentric exhibit ends with a gift shop devoted exclusively to Chihuly and his glass art, where anything from books to Chihuly-inspired jewelry can be purchased. For those interested in unapologetic flamboyance and a fascinating use of color, light and shape, “Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass” is undoubtedly worth a look.

Restaurant Review

Although hampered by location, KO offers knock-out fare Cozy South Boston location offers Australian-inspired dishes, desserts by

Ashley Wood

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After exiting the Broadway stop on the Red Line, it is difficult to imagine why a restaurant would choose to set up shop

KO Catering and Pies 87 A Street South Boston, MA 02127 (617) 269-4500 Price Range ($-$$$$): $ in this particular section of South Boston.

The view from the T station is of a giant

traffic intersection, and all five merging streets seem to offer nothing more than a few sparse restaurants and pubs. Perhaps the crowds loom after dark, but at noon on a Sunday the foot traffic is anything but busy.

KO (which stands for Knock Out) Catering and Pies is located on an even less obvious side street a few minutes away from the stop. An Australian pie shop that opened up less than a year ago, KO caught my attention after I saw it on Urbanspoon.com under Boston’s “Talk of the Town” section.

As my friend and I approached the tiny black awning, it became clear that KO was the kind of place that could only survive on word-of-mouth and free publicity: Not only are people unlikely to pass it on an afternoon stroll, but the “restaurant” itself

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KO, located in South Boston, offers an intimate atmosphere and delicious Australian food.

is not designed to accommodate more than 10 people sitting — eight if you want to actually be comfortable. Furthermore, the sitting area is really just one giant table, making picnicking with a few strangers inevitable.

Nonetheless, the environment is pleasant enough to make staying worthwhile.

The table is scattered with Aussie magazines and the room smells of freshly baked pies. Three clocks hang on the wall, charmingly pointing to the times in Sydney, Cape Town, South Africa and “Pie Time,” aka Boston.

As I approached the counter, KO founder and chef Samuel Jackson greeted me with a stereotypical “G’day mate!” The pitch-perfect accent and overt friendliness was enough to make the cynic in me flare up; how much was this restaurant banking on the novelty of an Australian chef to attract American customers? But another friend, fresh from being abroad in Sydney, later assured me that the slang and smiles were genuine.

After about 10 minutes, however, I no longer cared. The meal in front of me, consisting of a classic meat pie and fries covered in “chicken salt,” all for less than $10, looked too appetizing to simply chalk up to novelty.

I convinced myself to eat the pie the “Australian” way, which, according to KO’s website, means with one hand and a healthy dollop of ketchup. The latter was a mistake — I haven’t liked ketchup since second grade — but the pie on its own was still delicious, and certainly didn’t rely on condiments for flavor. It was small enough to fit in one hand, but large enough to have rendered my stomach comfortably full by the end of the meal. The crust was flaky and warm, but did not overwhelm the savory beef filling, and I alternated bites of pie with a few salty, well-seasoned fries.

The “chicken salt” on the fries is a seasoning that combines salt and a type of

chicken extract, such as chicken bouillon, as well as other herbs and spices. The addition is a nice alternative to regular fries, although it is certainly meant for sodium lovers only.

As I finished up my hearty meal, I discovered the real problem with dining at a table with strangers: Everyone else’s dishes look equally appetizing.

The young couple sitting across from me had decided to order from the breakfast menu. “Brekky,” as it’s called at KO, is only available on the weekends, which is too bad, because the woman’s herbed potato rosti with slow roasted tomato, bacon and a fried egg, was enough to make me consider going back the following Monday morning.

Instead, I satisfied my lingering cravings with a stab at dessert and ordered a lemon slice. Although delicious, it tasted mostly like your average American lemon tart, and I kicked myself for not being more adventurous and ordering the sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce or the Tim Tam ice cream.

As we exited the “restaurant,” a family headed by an Australian woman walked in and approached the owner at the counter.

The two exchanged “G’days” while the daughter tried to fit as many packages of Tim Tams into her arms as possible. The fact that KO is apparently frequented by other Australians easily helped me ditch the last remnants of my cynicism. I also noticed that the shelves behind the dining table carried not only the young girl’s Tim Tams, but a variety of other Australian condiments and cookies, including the infamous Vegemite.

Perhaps I will eventually reach the point where I am willing to order authentic, classic Vegemite on toast, but in the mean time, I can think of nothing other than potato rosti and Tim Tam ice cream for my next meal in South Boston.

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StatISTICS | Standings Men's Lacrosse

Women's Lacrosse

(9-1, 6-0 NESCAC)

NESCAC OVERALL

Tufts Amherst Trinity Middlebury Wesleyan Colby Conn. College Bates Bowdoin Williams

W 6 5 5 4 3 2 2 1 1 1

L W 0 9 1 10 1 8 2 7 3 8 4 5 4 5 5 4 5 3 5 1

L 1 1 1 2 3 5 6 6 6 8

Individual Statistics G A P

D.J. Hessler Sean Kirwan Ryan Molloy Kevin McCormick Matt Witko Alec Bialosky Geordie Shafer Sam Diss Nick Rhodes Andrew Fiamengo Team Goaltending Steven Foglietta Patton Watkins

23 37 20 24 17 8 5 5 2 2 149 GA 50 40

27 1 14 7 8 5 3 3 3 2 80

50 38 34 31 25 13 8 8 5 4 229

Sv S% 72 .590 63 .612

NESCAC OVERALL

Trinity Bowdoin Colby Middlebury Tufts Amherst Bates Williams Conn. College Wesleyan

W 6 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 0 0

L 0 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 6 6

W 10 8 8 7 7 7 6 7 4 5

L 0 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 7 6

Individual Statistics G A P

Lara Kozin Casey Egan Kelly Hyland Gabby Horner Steph Perez Kerry Eaton Kaitlyn Leidl Mary Kate Gorman Eliza Halmo Kelley Cohen Team Goaltending Sara Bloom Tess Shapanka

21 22 15 16 17 14 6 7 5 2 131 GA 75 15

17 15 8 4 2 5 4 1 0 1 60

Sv 34 21

W 6 2 3 1 0

L 0 1 3 5 3

T 0 0 0 0 0

West Middlebury Amherst Wesleyan Hamilton Williams

4 2 3 1 2

2 1 3 2 4

0 7 7 0 0 12 5 0 0 13 12 0 0 7 13 0 0 16 6 0

OVERALL

W 12 13 13 7 10

L 4 6 9 12 10

T 1 0 0 0 0

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throw, a rare example of Ramirez exhibiting hustle on the baseball field. Manny had the stadium’s grounds crew scour the dirt after the game for his lost jewelry, but to no avail.

5. God Bless America: Ramirez was out of the lineup for his first game of the season with the Boston Red Sox in 2004, though he had a pretty legitimate excuse: The star outfielder was in Miami becoming an American citizen. The day after, he celebrated by running out to left field carrying a small American flag, firmly planting the stars and stripes in front of the Green Monster at Fenway Park. He received a standing ovation when he came to bat in the second inning as the speakers blared Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.” 4. Walking off with Manny: With the game tied in the bottom of the ninth, two outs, runners on first

W 3 4 4 1 0

L 0 2 2 5 3

T 0 0 0 0 0

L 12 13 7 7 10

T 0 0 0 0 0

West Amherst Middlebury Wesleyan Hamilton Williams

5 5 2 0 0

1 1 4 3 3

0 13 9 0 14 4 0 8 13 0 3 14 0 9 9

0 0 0 0 0

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OVERALL

W 13 13 14 5 4

Individual Statistics AVG HR RBI

38 37 23 20 19 19 10 8 5 3 191

Chase Rose Matt Collins Erik Weikert Sam Sager David Orlowitz Frank Petroskey Ian Goldberg Tom Howard David LeResche

.390 .344 .313 .270 .268 .268 .259 .216 .215

1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

20 17 9 11 5 7 8 4 2

Lena Cantone Jo Clair Emily Beinecke Lizzy iuppa Mira Lieman-Sifry Sara Hedtler Izzie Santone Chrissie Massrey Katherine Darveau

.511 0 .432 13 .370 1 .346 0 .324 0 .279 0 .263 0 .229 1 .222 0

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.314 15 124

S% .312 .583

Pitching Derek Miller Kevin Gilchrist

W L ERA SO 1 1 2.25 14 4 1 2.06 15

Pitching Izzie Santone Rebecca DiBiase

W L ERA SO 7 2 2.42 38 2 6 2.97 43

and second and a 1-0 count against Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez, Ramirez smashed a bomb that cleared the Green Monster in left, giving the Red Sox a 6-3 walk-off win in Game 2 of the 2007 ALDS. Ramirez finished that postseason with a .348 average, four home runs and 16 RBIs, leading Boston to its second world championship in four years.

3. Manny cuts off the cut-off man: When Orioles outfielder David Newhan sent a fly ball deep to centerfield, it seemed like a routine double or triple. But as Damon picked the ball up and flung it back toward infielder Mark Bellhorn, Manny decided to take matters into his own hands. He dove to cut off the throw from Damon, and by the time the ball reached Bellhorn, Newhan had crossed the plate with the most Manny-acal inside-the-park home run in baseball history.

2. High fives for all the guys: Most players get their fan interac-

tion out of the way during batting practice — but Manny Ramirez is not most players. When former teammate Kevin Millar drove a ball to the track in left field, the runner on first base, Aubrey Huff, took off assuming Manny couldn’t reach it. But Manny did reach it. He caught the ball, leaped toward the stands, high-fived a fan to stop his momentum, turned around and threw the ball to cutoff man Dustin Pedroia, who relayed it to first and doubled-off Huff.

1. Getting pissed off:When nature called, Manny answered — in the middle of a game on July 18, 2005.

With Red Sox pitcher Wade Miller about to deliver to Joey Gathright, Ramirez finally emerged from the Green Monster just in time after a mid-inning bathroom break. Luckily for him, Gathright did not swing, though on the next pitch he singled to left. There is no bathroom inside the left-field wall; Ramirez claimed he peed into a cup.

Baseball

Three doubleheaders on tap for streaking Jumbos Barring extreme circumstances, most Major League Baseball teams don’t play more than three doubleheaders in a season. The No. 25 Tufts baseball team will soon play three in a span of eight days.

That trio of twinbills — at Colby on Saturday, at UMass-Dartmouth on Monday and at Wesleyan on April 23 — is just part of a grueling stretch during which the baseball team will play 10 games in nine days.

The loaded slate is the result of rainy weather that postponed both of last week’s games against Brandeis and Daniel Webster, as well as Wednesday’s matchup with Bentley.

Those contests have been rescheduled for consecutive days, from April 20-22. Combined with the doubleheader against Wesleyan on April 23, the revised docket will have Tufts

East Tufts Bowdoin Trinity Bates Colby

Individual Statistics AVG HR RBI

Peeing in Green Monster a ‘best of Manny’

MANNY

as of Apr. 14, 2011

(13-12, 3-0 NESCAC East)

East Tufts Bowdoin Trinity Bates Colby

NESCAC

USILA Div. III Men’s Lax

Softball

Baseball

(12-4-1, 6-0 NESCAC East)

(7-3, 4-2 NESCAC)

on the field for four straight days, a similar experience to the seasonopening spring trip in Virginia and North Carolina.

As the innings mount, pitching depth will become crucial and some of the arms may be asked to work in unfamiliar roles or stay out for more innings than coach John Casey typically asks of them.

Fortunately for NESCAC Eastleading Tufts, Casey will have plenty of quality options at his disposal. The Jumbos’ pitchers have combined to post a 2.96 team ERA so far. Of the seven Jumbos who have worked at least 10 innings in 2011, six have an ERA under 4.00, and the seventh — junior starter David Ryan — is nonetheless a perfect 3-0.

Meanwhile, the bullpen, led by senior closer Ed Bernstein, has not

been charged with a run since March 30, a six-game span. Its success has been a key ingredient in the team’s current nine-game winning streak.

Tufts (12-4-1 overall, 6-0 NESCAC East) meets Colby (10-10, 0-3) this weekend and will look for its starters to keep eating innings; in the past six games, the bullpen has pitched just eight innings. If that trend continues, the Jumbos should escape the upcoming marathon no worse for the wear.

With a strong performance in Waterville, Maine this afternoon and tomorrow, the Jumbos will be on the verge of clinching a second consecutive No. 1 seed in the NESCAC Tournament.

—by Daniel Rathman

27 35 6 3 12 11 6 6 1

Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Tufts (11) 2. Salisbury (1) 3. Stevenson 4. RIT 5. Cortland 6. Stevens 7. Dickinson 8. Roanoke 9. Denison

IWLCA Div. III Women’s Lax as of Apr. 14, 2011

Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. TCNJ (20) 2. Hamilton 3. Trinity (Conn.)

4. Salisbury 5. Cortland 6. Gettysburg 7. Franklin & Marshall 8. Middlebury 13. Tufts

NCBWA Div. III Baseball as of Apr. 10, 2011

Ranking, team (No. 1 votes) 1. Shenandoah (22) 2. Marietta (3) 3. Kean 4. Christopher Newport 5. Heidelburg 6. Texas-Tyler 7. Chapman 8. Linfield 25. Tufts

Jumbos look to remain undefeated in NESCAC play

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while being outscored 12-6. A strong start from the Jumbos could immediately shift the momentum.

“It’s been a lot about the first inning these last few games,” sophomore second baseman Emily Beinecke said. “Either defensively we come out a little bit flat or offensively we come out a little bit flat, and I think we need to put the two together and go all out and set the tone for these games.”

A strong Tufts start will be made more challenging by a Bowdoin pitching staff that includes three pitchers with sub-2 ERAs. The group is led by senior co-captain Kara Nilan, who has thrown 11 complete games while accumulating a 1.25 ERA. Tufts saw Nilan last season and tagged her for five runs on eight hits in six innings in a 5-1 victory.

The Jumbos will also likely face first-year Melissa DellaToure, an unfamiliar foe who could cause them problems. DellaToure has an impressive 1.82 ERA and will not be easily fazed, having already started twice in NESCAC play.

The Jumbos will counter with an equally deep staff led by senior co-captain Izzie Santone and DiBiase. Santone rarely makes mistakes on the mound, holding opposing hitters to just a .245 average while only walking 10 in 55 innings. She caught some rough breaks early in the year but now boasts a strong 7-2 with a 2.45 ERA. DiBiase has been consistent for the team all year and has an ERA just under 3.00. But

against a strong Polar Bears lineup led by Nilan — who is hitting .374 — she knows there is little room for error.

“It’s just a matter of making sure that I hit my spots and having my pitches varying and working,” DiBiase said.

“They definitely have a good lineup so it will be one of the more challenging games.”

In a low-scoring series, creating runs may be the key to victory. Tufts is well equipped to do so with three of the league’s best base stealers in juniors Lizzy Iuppa (14-of14), Lena Cantone (8-of-9) and Mira Lieman-Sifry (10-of14). All three own on-base percentages well above .400, making them continuous scoring threats.

“We have been working on bunt-and-runs and hit-andruns a lot,” Beinecke said. “It’s a lot about the execution. If we execute, we can definitely be successful.”

The Jumbos benefited from a rainout on Wednesday that has given them a four-day break, their second-longest break between contests this season. The team has been practicing intensely, taking the opportunity to hone their game.

“It was nice to get to go inside and bang out a lot of repetitions on specifics,” DiBiase said. “We had a very personalized practice [Tuesday] where each person was getting what they really needed to focus on. It was also good to not have the mental and emotional stress of the games [on Wednesday].”

The series kicks off this afternoon at 4 p.m. with a doubleheader tomorrow at 12 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.

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After opening league play in the NESCAC by splitting two matches last weekend, the men’s tennis team traveled to MIT on

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Wednesday, looking to avenge a one-game defeat from last season. But after taking two of the three doubles matches, the Jumbos faltered in the singles pairings, falling to MIT 5-4 for the second consecutive year.

“It was definitely disappointing,” junior co-captain Morrie Bossen said. “This was one of the matches we had targeted once the schedule was made. They have improved since last year, so, in a sense, it was good to see that we have improved — with the same final score as last season.

That doesn’t change the fact that we came up on the short end in a close match.”

The Jumbos began the afternoon with No. 1 doubles pairing sophomore Andrew Lutz and junior Kai Victoria winning their match 9-8. No. 2 doubles partners Bossen and sophomore Mark Westerfield then fell 8-6 to sophomore Larry Pang and freshman Curtis Wu of MIT. “They weren’t quite as strong in doubles,” Lutz said. “We knew we could get up there and then try to hold out in singles to win.”

But Tufts rallied, taking No. 3 doubles in dramatic fashion through a strong performance from senior co-captain Paul Kohnstamm and junior Sam Laber, as the pairing won seven of the last eight games of the match en route to an 8-5 victory.

“Mark and I lost a tight match,” Bossen added. “But Paul and Sam’s comeback was incredible. I thought that was the boost we needed going into the singles matches to carry us to victory.”

Holding a slim 2-1 advantage after doubles play, Tufts then lost the next two singles matches. Freshman Edwin Zhang

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Sophomore Ben Barad, here in a match last spring, rallied to win in three sets at No.3 singles on Wednesday, but Tufts still lost to MIT 5-4. of MIT defeated Victoria 6-2, 6-0 in the No. 1 singles position and senior Ken Van Tilburg defeated Lutz 7-5, 6-1 in the second pairing. But in the No. 3 match, Tufts sophomore Ben Barad came from behind to overcome Pang 2-6, 7-6, 6-4, giving the Jumbos hope of pulling off an upset.

But MIT showed its grit and secured the team win with victories in the No. 4 and No. 5 singles matches, with freshman Patrick Monaghan and senior Tony Carucci going down to the Engineers 6-2, 7-6, and 6-4, 6-1, respectively.

The Jumbos ended the day on somewhat of a positive note with No. 6 freshman Austin Blau easily dispatching his opponent 6-0, 6-1, but it was too little, too late for the Tufts team.

“We didn’t convert in a few of the singles matches that we needed,” Lutz said. “Ben played so resiliently and had a great comeback win, but overall it was a little disappointing.”

Tufts will try to forget about the bitter loss as it travels to face Colby on Friday. The Jumbos have enjoyed success in the past against the Mules, defeating them 7-2 last year and 5-4 two years ago.

“Colby is a league match, and any league match is important for us,” Bossen said.

“Colby always plays us close, and we’ve sort of formed a rivalry with them.”

After the Colby match, the Jumbos return home to host nationally ranked No. 4 Amherst College on Sunday.

“It’s always exciting going up against the best,” Lutz said. “Each of us individually have had our shining moments, we know we’re capable of beating them. Again, it’ll take some good doubles play — it always takes doubles to beat a top team.”

Turbulent weather may be a factor in Sunday’s match against the highly ranked Lord Jeffs. With the Sunday forecast predicting steady rain, the match may be forced indoors.

“If it rains Sunday, Gantcher is our home court, which they might not be accustomed to playing on,” Lutz said. “It’s a very fast surface — every school has a different funky indoor surface. Our confidence level definitely goes up for singles when we play in Gantcher. Either way, it’ll be a fun match — a lot of people are predicting that [Amherst] will go to the national championship.”

Kozin, Rappoli break records as Jumbos down Endicott

The softball team has done nearly everything this season. They have played 25 games spanning from Massachusetts to Florida. They have faced teams from as close as Brandeis and from as far away as Minnesota. They have gone into extra innings on four different occasions and mercy-ruled teams on three others.

But what they haven’t done is play more than one NESCAC series.

That will change today when Tufts heads to Brunswick, Maine for a threegame set with NESCAC East rival Bowdoin.

The series holds major implications for the conference playoffs: A sweep by the Jumbos would all but clinch them a spot while being swept would leave them in danger of missing the NESCAC championships for the first time ever.

“I feel like we come out with a lot of intensity when we go up against NESCAC teams,” sophomore pitcher Rebecca DiBiase said. “We know its kind of do or die at this point in the NESCAC; we can’t really afford to give up any losses. But we know that any NESCAC team can come out and win on any day.”

Luckily for the Jumbos, history falls strongly in their favor. Since 2004, the Jumbos have dominated the Polar Bears, 15-1. But Bowdoin is undoubtedly one of the up-and-coming teams of NESCAC softball and took the first game in last year’s series against Tufts.

The Polar Bears are currently riding a seven-game winning streak and look to be a team hitting its stride.

On the other hand, Tufts is on a three-game skid that they will need to turn around quickly this weekend. The team’s biggest focus will be on the first inning, in which they have conceded runs in each of the past four games

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by Alex Prewitt, Daniel Rathman and Noah Schumer

Daily Editorial Board

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Junior attacker Lara Kozin broke the Tufts single-game assist record with seven in the second half, while coach Carol Rappoli recorded her 300th collegiate victory as Tufts defeated Endicott College 19-10 yesterday afternoon at Bello Field. Kozin snapped a record held by three former Jumbos, most recently Chrissie Attura in 2009, who all shared the mark with six assists. Rappoli, who coached at Wellesley and Colgate before coming to Tufts in 1985, became only the sixth coach in NCAA women’s lacrosse history to record 300 wins. See The Score at blogs.tuftsdaily.com/thescore for a full game recap.

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In the wake of Manny Ramirez’s retirement, announced last Friday, the Daily counts down the top 10 moments of his career.

10. The phrase is born: In 1995, while in his first full season with the Cleveland Indians, the Indians’ manager, Mike Hargrove, reported that Ramirez absent-mindedly left his hefty MLB paycheck in a pair of boots in the visitor’s clubhouse after a game. Hargrove proclaimed it a standard example of “Manny being Manny,” thus birthing what became a legendary Major League Baseball saying.

9. Manny gets political: In 2007, Ramirez skipped the White House ceremony commemorating the team’s World Series championship that season. Manny, not known for being a politically conscious ballplayer, simply claimed he had better things to do that day, prompting then-President Bush to quip that, “Manny Ramirez isn’t here. I guess his grandmother died again,” in reference to Ramirez’s oft-employed excuse for evading undesirable events (like the beginning of Spring Training).

8. Manny retires under a cloud of suspicion: Ramirez on April 8 announced his retirement from Major League Baseball under threat of a 100-game suspension for failing the league’s drug testing program for a second time. While few would question Ramirez’s almost unparalleled natural baseball talent, the charges related to the possible use of performance-enhancing drugs have stained an otherwise hall-offame-worthy career in which the right-handed slugger amassed 555 home runs and 2,574 hits.

7. Manny hits RBI No. 165: Ramirez enjoyed perhaps the finest season of his illustrious career in 1999 with the Cleveland Indians, when he knocked in an astounding 165 runs during the team’s ultimately pennant-winning campaign. Ramirez’s 165 RBI marked the highest total by an MLB player since Jimmie Foxx in 1938 and the 14th-highest singleseason total in history.

6. Manny sacrifices his bling: During a 2002 rehab stint with the Red Sox’s Triple-A affiliate based in Pawtucket, R.I., Ramirez lost a $15,000 earring while sliding into third base to beat an oncoming see MANNY, page 7