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THE TUFTS DAILY

VOLUME LXI, NUMBER 44

Where You Read It First Est. 1980 TUFTSDAILY.COM

Friday, April 8, 2011

Greeks give blood on behalf of would-be LGBT donors by

Rachel Rampino

Daily Editorial Board

Volunteers from Tufts’ fraternities and sororities will next week be giving blood on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in an effort to raise awareness of the fact that federal statutes prohibit some of its members from doing so themselves. The students will donate blood at the April 12-16 American Red Cross

blood drive, hosted by the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS), in Carmichael Hall next week. A 1992 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation bars men who have sex with men (MSM) from being blood donors. “They’ll be donating on behalf of the larger idea of those who can’t, particularly MSM people, but there are so many people who can’t,” Aaron see BLOOD DRIVE, page 2

courtesy andrew altman

Seniors Andrew Altman, David Chen, Karan Randhawa and Maxime Pinto and junior Justin Ferranti made up one of two winning teams in the Gordon Institute’s 100K Business Plan Competition.

Competition winners get 100K for business models by

Bianca Blakesley Daily Staff Writer

Two teams of winners in the Tufts 7th Annual 100K Business Plan Competition each walked away with $100,000 for their business model proposals in urban sanitation in Kenya and a product for Indian motorcyclists after beating out 11 other teams. The winners, Roof for Two and Sanergy, were among teams in the competition’s two categories — the Classic Business Plan Competition and the Social Entrepreneurship Competition. They presented their ideas Wednesday in the Alumnae Lounge to a panel of judges in pursuit of the $100,000 prize. The money is distributed in the form of in cash and in-kind services. The competition, sponsored

since 2007 by the Gordon Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, required one member of each team to be an undergraduate or graduate student or alumnus from one of the university’s schools. The contest’s rules allowed the teams to utilize up to $50,000 in outside funding to develop their project, according to Pamela Goldberg, director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program and the organizer of the competition. First-year Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy student Guarav Tiwari was the Tufts representative on the team behind Sanergy, which won the Classic Business Plan Competition. The group, composed of Tiwari and three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students, focused their research on reducing disease in see GORDON, page 3

Active citizen alumni to gather on the Hill The first-ever gathering at Tufts predominately focused on connecting graduates dedicated to active citizenship will convene on campus tomorrow, as the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service hosts over 100 people for its 10th anniversary celebrations. The day will begin with a morning of short talks by faculty members and alumni, followed by panels on social enterprise, policy and advocacy. Together with today’s Alan D. Solomont Lecture, featuring House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the event represents the culmination of a year of Tisch College anniversary celebrations. “Tufts has so many alumni who are active citizens,” Sarah Shugars, communications specialist at Tisch College, said. “We really wanted to have an opportunity for all these alumni to come together.” Alumni participants range from Simon Rosenberg (A ‘85), the founder and president of the New Democratic Network, to Sheril Kirshenbaum (LA ’02), a University of Texas at Austin researcher who recent-

ly wrote a book entitled “The Science of Kissing.” Professors from the biomedical engineering, history and child development departments will join colleagues from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and Tisch College in sharing their ongoing work. “We kind of figured that if you’re coming back to a university, you have to have a chance to learn something new that you hadn’t expected,” Nancy Wilson, director and associate dean of Tisch College and future interim dean of Tisch College said. The gathering, titled “The Active Civic Roles of Tufts Alumni,” is targeted at both alumni and students. An “online community” on Tisch College’s website lists attendees and their interests, with the goal of linking them together beforehand and making tomorrow’s networking more efficient. —by Ben Gittleson

Inside this issue

Virginia Bledsoe/Tufts Daily

Members of the Greek community at the April 12-16 blood drive plan to donate blood on behalf of certain members of the of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community .

Court ruling curbs Google’s rights to digitize books by Jon

Cheng

Daily Editorial Board

New York City district court judge Denny Chin last month rejected a potential settlement in an ongoing trial which pits Google Books against the Authors Guild and the American Association of Publishers. The settlement would have allowed Google to publish online exerpts from out of print books that fall into fuzzy legal domain. The Google court settlement only applies to what are called “orphan works,” according to Laura Walters, Tisch Library’s associate director for teaching and research. All books published in the United States before 1923 are considered in the public domain; all books published afterward are subject to copyright. Orphan works are works published after 1923 that are out of print, for which the copyright holder or author cannot be

contacted. They make up a great number of the books Google has made available to the public. “Google was planning on making a database of the orphan works and selling them as a subscription to libraries. This is what the court has put a stop to,” Walters, who is also Head of Collections, said. “The judge said that the issue of orphan works is best dealt with through legislation, not the courts.” Google has been working to scan millions of books for its free digital archives, including those from the collections of many universities. The recent rejection of the $125-million settlement deal is especially damaging toward Google’s plans to digitize the library books from major research institutes, as Google has already digitized 850,000 of Harvard’s books and will no see DIGITIZATION, page 2

Today’s sections

The New York Times’ paywall highlights an upward trend in online news subscriptions.

The Kills’ fourth album takes the band in a new and enthralling direction.

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