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Monday, February 11, 2013

VOLUME LXV, NUMBER 13

Tufts works overtime to clear snow, feed students

SNOW DAY

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Xander Landen

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COURTESY Elliott Davis

University President Anthony Monaco joins students sledding on the President’s Lawn Saturday. Over two feet of snow hit the Hill this weekend, closing campus facilities on Saturday and Sunday.

Students, TUPD team up to host Safety Awareness Week by

Abigail Feldman

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Sophomore Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senator Darien Headen and student-TUPD liaison sophomore Becky Goldberg, along with the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), will host their first Safety Awareness Week starting today in the hopes of bolstering campus welfare after recent incidents concerning pedestrian safety.

The event, sponsored by TUPD and the TCU Senate, will offer various awareness activities throughout the week around the Mayer Campus Center, according to Goldberg and Headen.

Sgt. Duane Weisse, who is responsible for TUPD’s involvement in the project, explained that Goldberg and Headen, along with Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire, first approached him in December following an incident where a student was struck by a motor vehicle at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard.

“We had a meeting and put together what we thought would be appropriate for pedestrian safety,” Weisse said.

Goldberg, who was recently elected to the TCU Judiciary, said that she, Headen and TUPD officers plan to set up a table on the second floor of the

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Campus Center throughout the week to give away reflectors that make pedestrians more visible.

According to Weisse, the reflectors also function as flashlights and bear the words “Be Safe, Be Aware” and the TUPD emblem.

“If there’s poor lighting, or even if there’s good lighting, cars can’t necessarily see you,” Goldberg explained. “Hopefully students will just snap it onto their backpack or coat pocket or something.

It’d be really helpful [for students to be seen], especially in the inclement weather.”

There is also a bulletin board in the Campus Center titled, “What makes you feel unsafe?” where students can add their opinions, Goldberg said.

Headen and Goldberg said they are also launching a photo campaign this week in the Campus Center, for which members of a campus group can create a poster with a phrase, such as “I’m careful about my safety because...,” and fill in their opinions. Members can either send in a picture of themselves holding the poster or come to the Campus Center to get their picture taken.

Headen and Goldberg have already received interest in the campaign from the Office for Campus Life, the men’s basketball team, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tufts University Pre-Veterinary Society and Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS), Weisse said.

Headen, a member of the TCU Senate Services Committee who helped write a recently approved resolution to improve on-campus safety, hopes the visual campaign will make an impact on campus life and spread the message of taking safety precautions.

“We want to post those pictures around, and hopefully we can start a trend,” Headen said.

“This can be something that happens each year. These sort of pictures can be shown in some sort of publication or something like that so the campus thinks, ‘I know him and he cares about his safety.

Maybe I should care about my safety too.’”

Weisse echoed Headen’s desire for the creation of an annual Safety Awareness Week.

“We want to make it an annual event if we can because it’s not a one-time thing to think about your safety,” Weisse said. “It’s an ongoing process.”

Additionally, Weisse said Fire Marshal and Fire Prevention Officer John Walsh has arranged for therapy dogs to visit the Campus Center on Wednesday.

On Thursday, Sgt. Darren Weisse, who manages the university’s Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Systems, will host a table along with TEMS to answer questions about both programs. On Friday, students can opt to take a

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The two-plus feet of snowfall Tufts faced this weekend, courtesy of Winter Storm Nemo, put the Tufts Department of Facilities Services, Emergency Management and Dining Services into full gear so campus could function and recover from the blizzard. The university began to prepare for the storm last Wednesday and reopened today at close-to-full capacity.

“We will probably be at 85 to 90 percent of full capacity [Monday], excluding a few walkways that you just can’t get to, but driving around the campus right now, it is in pretty good shape,” Director of Facilities Services Bob Burns said.

All academic buildings were closed from Friday to Sunday, and specific buildings—the Mayer Campus Center, Tisch Library and the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center—re-opened partway through the day yesterday.

The recovery effort has been a team project of many Tufts departments, according to Burns.

“It is important to recognize

that a lot of people in a lot of departments, faculty and staff, did a really tremendous job to get through this major snowfall,” he said.

Director of Emergency Management Geoffrey Bartlett said the university began to track the storm as a serious event on Wednesday.

“My office monitored weather forecasts and participated in conference calls conducted by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and the National Weather Service (NWS) to stay abreast of information from civil authorities and share relevant details with university administrators,” Bartlett said.

According to Bartlett, before the storm hit, Emergency Management began preparing the services that would need to be put into effect during the storm by fueling vehicles, setting up plows and planning to provide food throughout the weekend without deliveries.

Many employees worked long hours through the night, according to Burns. see BLIZZARD, page 2

TCU Senate Update

Senators file impeachment papers against TCU Treasurer The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate announced last night an initiative to impeach TCU Treasurer Matt Roy, a sophomore, for unconstitutionally lobbying in support of a candidate in an internal election for Associate Treasurer and preventing debate on the issue.

Sophmore senators Jessie Serrino, who resigned as Associate Treasurer last month, and Darien Headen filed the impeachment documents, which also cite an “unprecendented” speech Roy gave during a closed Allocations Board meeting. The speech allegedly influcenced the election and “intimidated and attacked members of the Allocations Board,” according to the impeachment articles. TCU Vice President Meredith Goldberg said at the meeting that if the Senate impeaches Roy at its meeting next Sunday, it will be up to the TCU Judiciary to decide upon the appropriate punishment.

Roy gave his State of the Treasury speech immediately thereafter, commending the Senate for its usage of its allotted budget before giving the Treasurer’s Report.

The Senate also passed a number of resolutions, including one calling for the university to divest from fossil fuels. About 30 members of student advocacy group Tufts Divest for Our Future were

in attendance for the resolution’s passage, including co-founder Dan Jubelirer a sophomore, who submitted the resolution with freshman Senator Tarek Makawi.

Jubelirer and Makawi cited research arguing that the existing fuel reserves of the top 200 fossil fuel companies contained five times the amount of carbon dioxide needed to cause irreversible climate change. While Jubelirer admitted Tufts’ divestment from such companies would be logistically difficult, he argued that it was part of a larger plan to create political change. The resolution passed with one dissenting vote.

The Senate also voted unanimously to pass a resolution supporting an extension of the undergraduate pass/fail deadline to match the current deadline for freshmen.

Senators also passed a resolution supporting the expansion of the Japanese House and the creation of an “Eco House” in the Hillsides Apartments. The meeting ended with a passed resolution to thank the university’s critical service providers for their work during Winter Storm Nemo.

The Senate allocated $10,344 for the Tufts Quidditch team to attend the national championship in Florida, $4,000 to the Art History Society to mount an exhibition, and $3,890 to student dance group Pulse to finance a trip to a competition.

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Students in Hillel’s Moral Voices program get a behindthe-scenes look at Dewick.

“This Will Have Been” at the ICA brings back the ‘80’s through an artistic lens.

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Visiting the Hill this week MONDAY “Japanese American Internment and the Competition of Empire during WWII” Details: University of Toronto professor Takashi Fujitani will lead a discussion of the treatment of Japanese Americans during and after World War II in relation to the competition between the United States and Japan for regional hegemony in the Pacific. The talk marks the annual Day of Remembrance for the United States’ internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. When and Where: 7:00 p.m.; Cabot Intercultural Center ASEAN Auditorium Sponsors: Asian American Center and the American Studies Program

TUESDAY “Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture” Details: Local entrepreneur David Greenwald (SK ‘11), co-founder and current managing director of Relay Technology Management, Inc. and 2008 winner of the Tufts Business Plan competition, will speak.

His talk will be followed by a question-andanswer session.

When and Where: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.; 51 Winthrop Street Function Hall Sponsor: Office of Alumni Relations

and Latino cultures including folk and pop icons, will discuss her new mural, “Jos矖 asconcelos,” that was recently installed in Mexico City. Her talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

When and Where: 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.; Barnum 008 Sponsors: Department of Romance Languages, Art and Art History Department, AS&E Office of Diversity Education, Latin American Studies Program, Latino Center and Latino Studies Program

Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Design Group at the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM), will speak about Massachusetts’ efforts to improve energy efficiency and sustainability, as well as her roles and DCAMM’s roles in various environmental projects.

When and Where: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Lincoln Filene Center Rabb Room Sponsors: Environmental Studies Program and Tufts Institute of the Environment

WEDNESDAY “The art of Elena Climent: La historia de la escritura” Details: Mexican artist Elena Climent, famous for her fusion of Mexican, Spanish

THURSDAY “Lead by Example: Advocating, Regulating, and Implementing Sustainability” Details: Jenna Ide, Deputy Director of

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Departments team up to handle a campus buried in snow BLIZZARD

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“A lot of [employees] slept in buildings on campus or had vehicles in which they could get home and get back,” Burns said.

“Fortunately, a lot of the members of the staff live not too far away, so with our four-wheeldrive vehicles they were able to get here and get back.”

Tufts also received assistance from UGL Unico (UGL) employees who haveworked to shovel

stairways, according to Burns.

Burns noted that a predicted rainstorm may slow the recovery process.

“It is supposed to rain Monday or Tuesday, which will add a lot of weight to the snow,” he said. “We are trying to get a lot of it out of here by hiring contractors to haul it off and just get it away from campus.”

Burns said he was glad the blizzard did not occur in the middle of the school week.

“I think we were fortunate that

the storm was a Friday afternoon event and that school was closed,” he said. “When something like that happens and people are gone, we can get to a lot of walkways, and we can get to parking lots.”

Burns said he does not know at this time if Facilities has gone over its snow removal budget.

Although Dewick-MacPhie and Carmichael Dining Halls remained open to students, retail food facilities, including those at

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The Tufts Department of Facilities Services and Emergency Management worked over the weekend to clear the roads for Tufts students and staff.

the Mayer Campus Center, Tower Cafe and others, were closed.

According to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos, Tufts Dining Services must be prepared for emergencies, as there are around 3,200 students who rely on the university for food.

“When we have emergency weather situations, the first thing we have to consider is that many students are in residence, so many of [them] rely on us,” she said.

Because of advance weather forecasts, the university was able to order extra supplies before the blizzard, according to Klos.

“We made plans on Thursday anticipating that we were going to have a big storm,” she said.

“We brought in food on Friday rather than Saturday, and our managers ordered extra food.”

While extra food was on hand, the state-imposed driving ban and a shuttered public transportation system impacted workers, Klos said. However, according to Klos, the dining halls were able to manage without their full rosters of staff.

“We identify other employees who don’t necessarily work [at a dining hall] but are willing to come in because they live nearby,” she said. “We also turn to our student employees to help us out.”

Some employees at Dewick and Carmichael even brought sleeping bags and spent the night at the university, according to Klos.

“In some cases, it’s peace of mind for them,” Klos said. She added that Carmichael Unit Manager Dave Kelley slept over, as did some of his staff.”

Overall, Klos said Dining Services was well-prepared to handle the storm, and she commended the dining workers for their excellent work.

Bartlett said smooth recovery from the blizzard is thanks to the dedication of experienced employees in all the departments that were involved with storm management.

“Tufts is fortunate to have many dedicated, long-term employees who have been facing New England weather for years,” he said. “While this was certainly a historic weather event, the team applied their experience to respond to this storm.”

Bartlett also encourages students to continue exercising caution when walking around campus.

“Give yourself extra time getting to and from class,” he said. “Please also yield to plows and snow removal equipment working on campus, to help them to clear snow safely and efficiently.”

Daniel Gottfried and Justin Rheingold contributed reporting to this article.

Safety Awareness Week targets winter dangers SAFETY

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picture with a TUPD officer Headen hopes the week-long event will improve communication between officers and students.

“It just shows the campus that they’re not the big bad guys wanting to bust your party,” he explained. “They’re actually nice people who really care about the students and really care about our safety.”

Both Headen and Goldberg hope that by holding Safety Awareness Week during the winter, they can address weather-related safety issues and keep pedestrian awareness fresh in students’ minds long after orientation week.

“The winter is really important, not only because of the inclement weather, but I think after the first semester sometimes people come back and they feel invincible,” Headen said.

Goldberg and Headen decided to join with TUPD because they were happy with changes the department had made to improve safety in the past few years. Both students pointed to several changes TUPD has made to improve pedestrian safety, such as increasing visibility by cutting down trees, clearing parking and adding traffic-slowing equiment at the intersection of Professors Row and Packard Avenue.

Goldberg has also worked closely with officers to improve the blue-light phone and panic button system by developing a texting network and an app, she said.

Oliver Porter / The Tufts Daily

The first Safety Awareness Week begins today at 11:30 a.m. at the Mayer Campus Center with the aim of improving safety on campus.

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Moral Voices gets behind the scenes at Dewick to explore food justice

by Jessica

Mow

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At 6 p.m. in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall, most students are too distracted by the bustle of the dinner rush to think about the kitchens. However, several students took a closer look at this rarely seen side of Dewick last week on a tour sponsored by Moral Voices, a Hillel-run social justice group. The tour was part of Moral Voices’ 2012-2013 theme of food justice, which also included a lecture by Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation” in November.

According to junior Rose Pollard, the chair of Moral Voices, the tour was meant to prepare the groups’ members for an upcoming event on Wednesday, which will explore cafeteria food in low-income schools.

“I thought having a tour of Dewick would be a good information session for people to compare a large-income institution to [one] with less resources,” she said.

Food for Thought, an on-campus group that aims to discuss and help implement improvements in Tufts Dining’s food awareness, also participated in Monday’s tour. Food For Thought, which is part of the Tufts Sustainability Collective, focuses on the growth, production and consumption of food through events such as Food Week in October.

“There’s been a lot of interest in seeing what actually goes on behind the dining hall, and a lot of members of Food for Thought have voiced interest in the past to see what goes on just so we have a basic knowledge, because a lot of the projects that we want to do revolve around our immediate food sources,” freshman Sara Gardner, director of Food for Thought, said.

The tour began in the delivery room, made its way through the central preparation kitchen, which is located in Dewick’s basement and distributes vegetables and baked goods to both Carmichael and Dewick Dining Halls, and ended in Dewick’s smaller cooking kitchen.The group watched staff prepare vegetables, and followed John Fisher, unit manager at Dining Services, through the bakery and into walk-in refrigerators. Smells of fresh food wafted through every room, from the recently baked brownies in the delivery room to the onions being chopped right in the preparation area.

Many students on the tour were impressed by the amount of effort and thought that Dining Services brings, particularly in terms of environmental efficien-

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Students in the Hillel-run social justice program Moral Voices get a behind-the-scenes look at the kitchens in Dewick Dining Hall. cy. Since implementing the latest system of composting and recycling, Tufts Dining Services has reduced waste by 60 percent, according to Fisher. Dining workers measure out the amount of food necessary for the day as exactly as possible in order to reduce the amount of excess.

“That’s the motto of the food business these days: no waste. Waste is money,” Fisher said.

Gardner was especially impressed by Dining Services’ effort to make changes according to students’ desires.

“A lot of people complain . . .’Oh, our dining hall’s not doing enough to reduce the waste stream; more compost,’ but they do everything in their power and their budget to do so,” Gardner said.

Gardner added that Tufts Dining Services’ thoughtfulness aligns well with the goals of Food for Thought.

“A lot of what Food for Thought advocates for is mindfulness. And nothing more than to think about what you’re putting in your body,” she said. “And just solely like, the volume of thought that Dining Services puts into the production of this food is great.”

Fisher noted that despite its enthusiasm for environmental awareness, Dining Services is unable accommodate every demand.

“If we had a perfect world, everything we’d buy would be sustainable, local, fresh, organic. Some of those things are realistic, some are not we’re talking about volumes that we use here. Tufts campus feeds about 15,000 meals a day,” he said.

Julie Lampie, a nutrition marketing specialist, said that she works with Dining Services to help them serve

food that follows the most recent nutrition trends.

“During the ’80s and ’90s, with the lowfat trend which was really to go as low fat as you can, we basically had low-fat desserts, low-fat cake. We eliminated all of that because it’s no longer the trend,” she said.

“It used to be 20 percent or below fat in your diet, now they recommend 30 to 35 percent, so it’s the type of fat. We [also] used to use hydrogenated shortening ... now we use 100 percent trans-fat free canola oil.”

Pollard was also impressed by the amount of work done by Dining Services workers.

“It really struck me how few people, how few workers per station there really are.

[There are] four workers for all of the bakery and six workers for all of the vegetable prep which is not only for Dewick but the entire campus and catering,” she said.

Pollard also encouraged her fellow members to keep this level of manpower in mind when they observe low-income schools’ cafeterias.

“This concept of making it from scratch, making it from kitchen — I think people will really be struck by that not really being the case in public schools, how that’s not really possible,” she said.

Gardner said she would like other students to keep Dining Services’ efforts in mind before they ask for more improvements.

“I would love for people to learn more about it and sort of take away more appreciation for what the dining hall does [and] maybe change the way that they think about food and eat food and take food from the dining hall to also change that side of it because the production side does all it can,” she said.

Campus Comment

As over two feet of snow descended on the Hill this weekend Facilities, Public Safety, TEMS and janitorial staff were hard at work keeping the damage to a minimum and making sure Jumbos safely enjoyed the snow. How do you think the university as a whole handled the blizzard?

I thought the university handled the storm relatively well and informed us promptly about closings, etc. I feel especially thankful to our dining staff for coming to work even given the horrible road conditions.

The university superbly handled the onslaught of snow. I am still both amazed and grateful for the university and the dining staff for staying on campus to cook us food.

-Michael James, sophomore

-Adrienne Larson, freshman

The staff of Carmichael and Dewick are superheroes.

I think they did better than most. We went out to Davis and Porter and hardly any of the roads or sidewalks were clear. But on campus, I felt pretty safe.

-Laura Hoffman, freshman

Natalie Jung, sophmore

Ben Kochman | Between the Slices

Blizzard rations at Dunkin’

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had planned to head into Chinatown this week to eat spicy meats pressed between buns, but those plans will have to wait.

I won’t be making any adventures into Boston anytime soon — after this weekend’s historic blizzard, the T is down and my car is submerged in two feet of snow in the driveway.

I’m starting to run out of food in my fridge.

Snow has seeped into the majority of my socks and shoes. In short, I’m cold and desperate to stick foodstuffs down my gullet.

For these reasons, and because I am hesitant to walk more than one snow-covered block from my Boston Avenue residence in any direction, I figured Sunday was the perfect time to try out perhaps the most convenient snack of them all: sandwiches at Dunkin’ Donuts.

DD has been heavily promoting what they’re calling “Bakery Sandwiches” for a few months now. You may have noticed life-size cardboard versions of Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski standing in Dunkin’ Donuts locations, brandishing one of these round bulbs of bread, meat and sauce. The “Bakery Sandwich” distinguishes itself from other DD ‘wich offerings with its lack of eggs, the goal being, perhaps, to market these sandwiches as an anytime snack.

I tried both variations of the “Bakery Sandwich”: the turkey, cheddar and bacon version and the ham and swiss. Both ‘wiches clock in at just under $3. I watched patiently as the DD server squirted a layer of condiment on the thick, crusty bun — the turkey sandwich bears an orange, vaguely spicy sauce that suggests a marriage of Russian dressing and chipotle, while the ham sandwich features a more traditional creamy mustard spread — upon which she stacked slices of meat.

Then she stuck the whole deal in one of those industrialized toaster machines and added the cheese in only at the very end, after the sandwich was out of the toaster and being wrapped up.

My benchmark for fast-food sandwiches is pretty low, and I encourage y’all to make your own ham and cheese or turkey and cheese sandwiches at home if you can. That said, these Dunkin’ Donuts sandwiches are not terrible. This DD experience was not nearly as awful as my floppy and flavorless egg-filled past experiences here. These sandwiches are basic, but they are comforting. The bread has a crunchy exterior but has chewy give to it as well, and I’m always happy to see a fast-food joint nod in a spicy direction, as DD does somewhat with the orange, chipoltle-ish sauce in the turkey sandwich, which with its salty bacon and melted cheddar was my favorite of the two that I sampled.

The cheese situation has also received an upgrade in the “Bakery Sandwiches.”

The usual plastic-y processed orange American cheese slices have been subbed out for slices of legitimate cheddar and swiss, which melt perfectly even though they spend no time in the toaster. Score one for industrial efficiency.

My biggest criticism of the “Bakery Sandwich” was that it was too bready. The crusty bun dominates both the turkey and ham versions. More slices of meat and cheese would have helped balance these ‘wiches out, but maybe the skimpy portions are simply what one can expect at the appealing $3 price point. Though the breadiness detracts from the sandwich as a whole, the plus side is that the “Bakery Sandwiches” are quite filling.

And I repeat: these things are not terrible.

Kudos, Dunkin’ Donuts. Next time two feet of snow blanket Boston, and I’m desperate for foodstuffs, I now know that the “Bakery Sandwich” will do the trick.

Ben Kochman is a senior majoring in English.

He can be reached at Benjamin.Kochman@ tufts.edu or on Twitter @benkochman .

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TV Review

‘Smash’ returns revamped, re-orchestrated, with new cast heavyweights by

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Entering back onto the small screen after a seasonal break, “Smash,” NBC’s star on the Tuesday night lineup, is back

Smash Starring Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee Airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on NBC in business — show business, that is.

Having been passed over at the Emmys for some of the major awards, including Best Drama and various best actor/actress nominations, “Smash” has returned with a strong will to better itself and a desire to trim away some of its fat.

Between its first season finale and this season’s premiere, the production staff has slimmed down its cast, cutting unpopular characters — namely Dev and Ellis — and puzzling side plots. In their stead, they’ve added star power in the form of Academy-Award winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) as well as Tonynominated actor Jeremy Jordan. In the show, the “Smash” team plans to focus solely on the production of “Bombshell: the Musical,” which will follow Marilyn Monroe’s life in song.

The Emmy Award-winning musical drama series came onto the scene last year as an underdog series produced by Steven Spielberg and created by Theresa Rebeck of television and Broadway acclaim. Rebeck built a name for herself for her work on the play “Seminar” (2011) and the TV series “NYPD Blue” (1993-2005).

Fortunately for “Smash” fanatics, the leading ladies and their supporting characters have remained to orchestrate the drama that resonated last season.

Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty, the dueling divas themselves, have kept

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Katharine McPhee is back as Karen Cartwright for “Smash’s” second season, but no longer must she face heated rivalry with character Ivy Lynn. their parts as Karen Cartwright and Ivy Lynn respectively.

However, this season the tables are turned. Answering the cliffhanger finale that left audiences waiting last season, Ivy is back — alive, but quite the dim-lit star, not the shining supernova to which the viewers have become accustomed.

Meanwhile, Karen has filled the star role

Album Review

DeLong debut album ‘Just Movement’ catchy, unoriginal by

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With colossal names such as MTV and Billboard pegging up-and-coming musician Robert DeLong as an “artist to

Just Movement Robert DeLong Glassnote Records watch,” his debut album “Just Movement” had high expectations to live up to.

The album, released on Jan. 22, brings together 12 beat-heavy tracks including his earlier released single “Global Concepts,” which has been playing on radio stations around the country since last summer. While the songs themselves are catchy and stimulating, the hype around him was definitely misplaced.

DeLong advertises himself as a oneman band who runs around a drum set, computers, a keyboard, joysticks and other electronics while singing and setting vocals to track loops. While the visuals of DeLong performing his tracks live are fairly impressive, the listener isn’t able to get the sense that DeLong is taking on all the responsibilities of his songs in a do-it-yourself way.

Upon an initial listen, there is no doubt that DeLong’s beats are catchy.

They draw from various musical genres including dubstep, basement rock and even Afro-Caribbean drumming styles.

Although there are clearly multiple

layers infused within each track, the sound comes across as simple. “Global Concepts” demonstrates a dual presentation of a drawn-out electronic club beat along with this Afro-inspired drumming. Shakers, just one of the many percussion sounds DeLong involves in his tracks, can also be heard on his popular single.

Various critics have suggested that the tracks on “Just Movement” are danceable or club-ready songs. However, too often there are lengthy segments in the tracks that don’t provide a heavy dance beat.

Additionally, DeLong’s vocals don’t fall in line with typical house music, despite his repetition of memorable phrases like “did I make you f--kin’ dance?” or “be not afraid, it’s just a game.” This isn’t to say that you couldn’t break it down to DeLong’s tunes if you wanted to, but even the most club-ready tracks on this album may need to be remixed before being added to a DJ’s set list. This lack of obvious club sound unfortunately places “Just Movement” awkwardly between house music and pop rock.

In addition to the uncomfortable inbetween-ness of DeLong’s sound, many of the tracks on “Just Movement” are strongly reminiscent of other artists in the electronic pop/rock genre. It appears that the critics claiming the originality of DeLong’s debut have never heard of Hot Chip, Passion Pit or Vampire Weekend.

The baritone notes layered underneath see DELONG, page 8

with ease. She has left Boston, and she was recently spotted enjoying New York’s limelight, for now.

But “Smash” has left no plotpoints unresolved from the finale. The compositional tag team of Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and Tom Levitt (Christian Borle), see SMASH, page 8

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Insurgent ’80s highlight ICA show by

Anna Furman

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What will have been? “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s” is an exhibit currently on view

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s At the West Gallery, through March 3 The Institute of Contemporary Art 100 Northern Avenue 617-478-3103 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. The exhibit’s duplicitous aim — to give a historical purview of the 1980’s and then to contextualize this within contemporary politics — may be ambitious, but it is made particularly salient by a couple of works.

The ‘80s were marked by an era of Reagan and Reaganomics, a time in which the value of art pieces as luxury objects grew dramatically and art and cultural institutions were drained of their finances. It was a formative decade in which lack of government response to the AIDS crisis and longstanding structural violence against people of color, women and the LGBTQ community drew the public to create a series see ICA, page 8

Elizabeth Landers | The Clothes Make the Woman

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ashion week is upon us again. As the length of New York Fashion Week keeps being extended — shows are starting days before the official kickoff date — the insanity intensifies. Designers show their fall 2013 collections a season in advance, giving buyers and tastemakers time to evaluate trends and buy or design layouts accordingly. Backstage, front row, uptown at Lincoln Center, downtown at Milk Studios — I’ve been everywhere for the past couple of days and in and out of the slush and subways; here’s a play-by-play.

Wednesday, Feb. 6th I resigned myself to missing class on Wednesday and headed down early in the morning to the city. After interning this summer at the new women’s wear brand Veronica Beard, I was brimming with excitement to help out the girls with their fall 2013 collection. Veronica Beard is designed by two sisters-in-law, Veronica Swanson Beard and Veronica Miele Beard, who share a mutual love of American sportswear and practical dressing. They design the kind of blazer that makes anything look good. Still, I had to bolt out the door at 6 p.m. sharp and head to the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection, which was started in 2001 to raise awareness for women’s heart health. Celebrities included Kris Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Olympian Gabby Douglas, Toni Braxton and Minka Kelly, who donned the red dress and hit the runway a little shaky — but smiling the whole way. Next was the Prabal Gurung for Target launch party at Pier 57 in Chelsea. As I stood inside, I realized how weird my Wednesday was: I was standing in a pier converted into an indoor carnival, eating empanadas while listening Jay Sean croon “Hit The Lights.”

Thursday, Feb. 7th Bleary-eyed describes the beginning of my Thursday. I ran downtown to pull some clothes from a PR company — what with the 10th anniversary of the magazine I write for, I was in the running for many a cocktail party during the week. After grabbing a white power suit (fashion rules are meant to be broken), I ran to Duckie Brown, an avant-garde menswear duo. With the Daily Front Row’s 10-year anniversary dinner that night at Indochine, a palm frond-decorated hot spot on Astor Place, I had about an hour to get ready then try, vainly, to find a cab to the Kenneth Cole show. The clothes were exactly the kind of grungy-cool separates and overcoats that you’d find on the streets of New York City and possibly around Boston. The who’s who of fashion showed up to IndoChine — Carine Roitfeld, Linda Fargo, Cindi Leive and Graydon Carter — with Heidi Klum hosting in a peculiar fur vest. Who cares, though, when the sit-down dinner is as fabulous as the sashimi and beef bok choy floating around on silver platters?

Friday, Feb. 8th

“I-am-so-tired” is the tag line of most showgoers during the week. My first show of the day, Tess Giberson, included some fabulous knits and cape dresses in the same vein as Helmut Lang or Rick Owens. While the screeching music overhead was unbearable, it was refreshing to see a show with highly wearable looks. The wind howled later that night at the Kate Spade 20th anniversary party downtown in Chelsea. DJ duo Oh Land mixed tracks in a whitewashed spacedfilled with everything NYC: a neon pink skyline, disco balls, taxi cabs and guys in gorilla suits. Fashion people who don’t take themselves seriously DO exist! The event breathed life back into many New Yorkers downtrodden by the whirling mix of snow and hail outside. The good news is that fashion week wasn’t cancelled (despite a rescheduling of Marc Jacobs’ show) and I survived in my incredibly impractical getup of heels in a snowstorm.

Elizabeth Landers is a senior majoring in political science. She can be reached at Elizabeth.Landers@tufts.edu.

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of mass demonstrations. This exhibition, curated by Helen Molesworth, looks at this period between 1979 and 1992.

After they exit a fourth-floor elevator, visitors to the exhibit immediately confront the bizarre beauty of a neon-lit Jeff Wall photograph that recalls Edouard Manet’s eponymous “A Bar at the FoliesBergere.” The work explores the oftpunctuated feminist concept of the gaze, using the iconography of 19th-century modernity to illuminate a particular ocular interchange that reflects power structures. It is unclear whether the man and woman in the foreground of the photograph are occupying a photography studio or some interstitial space between that studio and the viewer’s space, but the work is arresting within this ambiguity. Art history snobbery aside, photography students primed by the “rule of thirds” will happily identify Wall’s straightforward compositional strategy in this work, as well as his selfreflective attitude towards the medium.

After being sensitized to neon light, traditional art-historical references and some explanatory — albeit dry — wall plaques, viewers enter a series of rooms addressing different key components of the decade: The End is Near, Democracy, Gender Trouble and Desire and Longing.

From “The End is Near” to “Democracy,” visitors take a dramatic leap from a wall plastered with the letters “A-I-D-S” in red, blue and green to a massive black-and-white photograph of a protest against U.S. nuclear arms use. At the start of the “Democracy” section, Hans Haacke’s installation “Oil Painting: Homage to Marcel Broodthaers” diametrically opposes a humorously grandiose painting of Ronald Reagan with a photograph of 500,000 people in protest. The physical confrontation between the components of these works expresses a deeper confrontation between the political conservatism of the Reagan

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“How Ya Like Me Now?” by David Hammons presents a blond-haired, blue-eyed Reverend Jesse Jackson who confronts the viewer with the issue of racialized American society. era and the upsurge of political activism in response. What remains unclear is how the viewer fits into the equation of political representation. Do we draw inspiration and support from the history of political activism in the U.S. — and the successes that have been achieved — or do we find ourselves wallowing in a pool of anguish and frustration, realizing that the problems of yesterday have only intensified and deepened today?

David Hammons’ piece “How Ya Like Me Now?” confronts the viewer with a blond-haired, blue-eyed Rev. Jesse Jackson who appears to be looking both at and through the viewer. His red tie, blue suit jacket and accompanying American flag embody a simplistic sense of American patriotism that is made complicated by a row of sledgehammers tactically placed in an arc in front of the work. “How Ya Like Me Now?” originally appeared on

a billboard in Washington, D.C., but after local youths attacked the piece it was brought into a conventional gallery space, where Hammons incorporated the hammers.

If you have yet to visit the ICA, do so.

If its strikingly angular exterior doesn’t manage to lure you in, keep in mind its locus in the crosshatch of downtown Boston and its proximity to the historic waterfront. March 3 is closing day for this exhibition, so visit while you can.

‘Smash’ drops drama, ups star quality SMASH

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Musician Robert DeLong (right) is impressive when performing live, but that quality unfortunately doesn’t translate to his recordings.

last seen applauding “Bombshell’s” first full run, was thrown for a loop, receiving poor reviews. Their presence in the theater community at a low, the characters experience some tension that only slightly steers clear of melodrama. But as always, these two offer a level of authenticity in their performances that is sometimes lost by the greener cast members, such as Wesley Taylor and company.

What can make or break a live musical is its music, and, though TV shows aren’t staged, the same is true for a musical drama. “Smash” brought Joe Iconis, a composer of underground contemporary Broadway fame, on the composing team to aid Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman in writing songs for the show. Iconis creates a sound that straddles both the pop and musical theater worlds, allowing audiences to both engage with and tune into the show and its music, especially

with songs like “Broadway, Here I Come.”

A main complaint about last season was that it devolved into hyper-drama too often. After witnessing an affair between Ivy and Karen’s fiancee Dev and Ellis poisoning an actress’s food in hopes of helping Ivy ascend to the lead, viewers asked for a little bit less crazy.

“Smash” has certainly gotten the message, resolving the loose threads and helping all the characters to settle down back in the Big Apple.

But after the premiere of the second season, perhaps the series listened a little too well. Diminishing Ivy to a husk of what she used to be may have been something of a necessary sacrifice, but the competition between Ivy and Karen is what drove the show forward.

Audiences will surely love if Ms. Lynn gets back up on her horse and fights for her well-deserved spotlight. “Smash” needs some “oomph” and Ivy is exactly the girl to belt it out.

DeLong’s inspiring lyrics best quality of ‘Just Movement’ DELONG

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DeLong’s higher vocals strongly parallel Hot Chip’s “And I Was A Boy From School,” and “Few Years Make” could easily be mistaken for a Vampire Weekend tune. “Just Movement” is therefore disqualified from winning any points for musical freshness.

Nevertheless, DeLong should receive credit for consistently presenting thought-provoking topics in his lyrics.

Each song appears as a confessional

by DeLong concerning some inner thought that has been yearning to get out. “Complex By Degree” pays tribute to the originality of the human race, but when surrounded by an upbeat electronic sound, the lyrics don’t translate.

DeLong’s most engaging creation lies in the final two tracks, “Survival of the

Fittest” and “Basically, I.” The grinding, dismal lyrics in “Survival of the Fittest” protest against the current state of the world, but somehow DeLong succeeds in seamlessly flowing into the final track, which, fortunately, cheerfully questions where the world might be headed in the future. “Basically, I” also brings back in the namesake phrase from an earlier track, “Change (How You Feel),” and smartly wraps up the album’s overarching theme.

“Just Movement” is surely worth a listen-through, as DeLong has produced an entertaining album with inspiring lyrics. If you’re looking for innovation in the electronic-based genre, though, you won’t find it with DeLong. Instead, this lack of musical originality just makes you forget his name altogether.

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“Smash” retained female fan favorites like Debra Messing’s Julia Houston for its second season.

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We at the Daily would like to offer publication-wide appreciation for the members of the departments who braved this weekend’s blizzard for Tufts students. When we say “Tufts community,” students and faculty are often the assumed members of this group.

We fail to pay close attention to the members of the Tufts community who make the campus run each day, including members of Tufts Dining Services, Department of Facilities Services and Emergency Management, among other integral operations.

Appreciation at face value is more than a smile and nod of acknowledgment to the facilities crew, or a mumbled “thanks” near the dish return window, but a deeper and more meaningful gratitute toward others putting their lives and time on hold to accommodate students and their work to make student lives as comfortable and well balanced as possible.

This past weekend, while the Medford/Somerville campus was con-

cealed beneath over two feet of snow, some employees slept on benches and in sleeping bags in Aidekman Arts Center, Carmichael Hall and Lewis Hall to be available on Friday morning to operate the necessary functions of the university, chief among them feeding students in the dining halls and clearing streets and roadways of snow.

With much of the campus buried, countless students turned to the dining halls to eat and socialize. Members of the dining services staff served students, despite the fact that some of them had not slept in their own beds the night before.

Facilities services traversed the campus to clear away some of the snow as some students took to the President’s Lawn to enjoy the winter sledding alongside University President Anthony Monaco.

While students slept sequestered in their bedrooms, members of UGL and facilities plowed, shoveled and salted the sidewalks and stairs as quickly and effectively as possible, putting their own safety —

not to mention comfort — at risk as Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) cared for injured students.

The sacrifice of members of the Department of Facilities Services, Dining Services and Emergency Management is a reminder of how grateful students should be to these members of the Tufts community on a daily basis. Its times like this, when we are put in potential danger and discomfort, that the work of others on our behalf cannot go unnoticed. They stayed away from their families and the comfort of their beds so that we could eat and live comfortably during one of the heaviest snowfalls in the last five years.

Many preemptive measures were taken, and there is still plenty of work to be done, but we at the Daily are so grateful for these people’s presence, energy and work, and students would be remiss not to recognize that our privilege and safety on the Hill is the result of sacrifice in the face of discomfort and danger.

evidence that playing violent video games makes one more likely to commit actual acts of violence. For a summary of research performed, I suggest reading Jason Schreir’s piece “From Halo To Hot Sauce: What 25 Years of Violent Video Game Research Looks Like” on the gaming website Kotaku. Thus, I would be cautious to readily jump from what is already a fragile assumption to state that “images of sexual objectification cannot be too far off from instances of sexual misconduct or assault.”

In fact, Petersen’s approach to this argument is reminiscent of the tactics used

by NRA’s executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. In his response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, he blamed “vicious violent video games, with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat, and Splatterhouse,” but he did not offer any proactive solution, nor any understanding of video games. Petersen’s condescending tone towards the subject and players echoes those seeking to blame video games for violence, people who have rarely, if ever, touched a gaming controller.

Has Petersen ever played any of the video games she mentioned? Some of her examples feel outdated (Zelda disguised herself as a ninja and trained the player’s character in “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”; Princess Peach is becoming well known in go-kart racing circuits as well as in the popular game Super Smash Bros.). I don’t expect everyone to have played every game in question, but I think criticizing this medium without experiencing it can only lead to misunderstandings.

Important to Petersen’s argument is her

image of gaming’s audience as a “predominantly young boy viewership,” a misconception that continues to be perpetuated by the non-gaming public. The average gamer is 30 years old and 68 percent of gamers are over the age of 18 (Entertainment Software Association, theesa.com). Furthermore, as with games that feature high levels of violence, the purchase of games with sexual content in the vein of the second stereotype mentioned are age-restricted. Yes, a parent could purchase these games for their child, but we cannot control what content parents show to their children, whether it be television, film or games.

To reiterate, I agree with Petersen that the overall portrayal of women in gaming is ridiculous. Gaming developers must retreat from the notion that players only want to see sexualized female characters in need of saving. As Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency put it in an interview on Gamespot.com, “The creation of great and complex female characters in video games is an involved process, but ultimately developers are going to have to take some risks and step outside of the expected or established connections.” I think Petersen’s implications that video games inspire acts of violence and misogyny are flawed, but her observations highlight the gaming industry’s need for maturation. By continuing this dialogue, we can help spur change in what is not only a unique visual medium, but an outlet for fun and storytelling.

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letter to the editor Dear Editor, I have conflicting opinions about Alexa Petersen’s Feb. 6 column, “Video Game Violence.” The author voices a valid concern about the portrayal of women in video games. Many modern games continue to utilize female characters as nothing but sexualized plot devices: we could spend hours listing examples. It’s important to note, however, that there are highly acclaimed games that have fought these stereotypes, something that received little more than an aside in this past piece.

For example, game developerValve’s series “Portal” and “Half-Life” feature women in both playable and non-playable roles that do not fit into the common tropes Petersen pointed out: “Half-Life 2’s” strong, independent Alyx Vance is often cited as one of the most positive female characters in gaming.

Other prominent examples include Faith from “Mirror’s Edge” and Jade of “Beyond Good and Evil.” Yes, the list is short, but let’s not fail to acknowledge the developers who are actively bucking these trends.

The focus of Petersen’s piece, however, was not to discuss the lack of strong female characters in video games and how the gaming industry can improve itself. Instead, the author co-opted the questionable claim that video games “are harmful to young people because of their promotion of indiscriminant violence” to argue that players’ behaviors toward and conceptions of women are negatively impacted. Despite what the National Rifle Association (NRA) and many gun rights activists would have us believe, there is no conclusive scientific

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Duncan MacLaury

In response to interim University Chaplain Reverend Patricia Budd Kepler’s quotes in the Feb. 6 Daily article “Tufts Christian Fellowship wavers in pursuit of exemption from non-discrimination policy”, we, as members of the Coalition Against Religious Exclusion (CARE), would like to clarify why we oppose the Dec. 5 Committee on Student Life (CSL) ruling regarding student religious groups (SRGs).

The policy, as outlined in a Dec. 5 email sent to the entire student body, states: “From this point forward, all SRGs must justify on doctrinal grounds any departures from Tufts’ nondiscrimination policy ... that their leadership positions require. The University Chaplain will evaluate the justification, and if satisfied that the described criteria for leadership are required by a given religion, will allow the SRG to apply to the TCUJ for recognition.”

Kepler’s comments last week only underscore why CARE has been so actively fighting against this policy.

According to the aforementioned feature in the Daily, “Kepler said that she does not plan to press any student religious group seeking an exemption to specify its religious doctrine to the utmost detail.”

Kepler added: “I am not in a position, and I don’t think our other Chaplains are in a position, to require people to defend, expand on or interpret their faith tradition to somebody within the Chaplaincy. For instance, if the Protestant group says ‘our leaders need to be Christian’, I’m not going to come back at them and say, ‘What do you mean by Christian?’ That could mean a lot of different things.”

And there’s the rub: “Christian” could — and does — mean many, many different things. The job of many University administrators involves cultivating leadership within students, while the job of a chaplain or religious leader — regardless of locale — includes aiding in others’ spiritual growth. As an interim University Chaplain, Rev. Kepler’s job involves both of those responsibilities and navigating how they intersect. It other words, she must be able to ask those difficult questions and to foster conversation about what it means to be Christian, what it means to be a leader, and what it means to be a Christian leader. It is not her job to accept without due diligence a “Basis of Faith” that allows a University

financed and/or recognized group to have written requirements for membership or leadership; the vision of the Chaplaincy is to ensure that the campus is a safe, welcoming and affirming space for students of all beliefs.

The nondiscrimination policy of Tufts is rooted in the wisdom of providing an environment that creates a space built on social equity in the hopes that all will be treated as equal under the eyes of the university. The CSL decision allows this aspect of the nondiscrimination policy to be eroded and replaced with a thin veil of forced separation between people who disagree on what are arguably minor differences in religious practice of belief within an umbrella religious community. In allowing for both legitimized discrimination — through the justification of separation — and a redefinition of what a nondiscrimination policy means, the CSL decision is a hugely negative representation of the values and principles of Tufts. Rev. Kepler’s willingness to allow intra-group discrimination without even a modicum of transparency or questioning adds further salt to the wound. Additionally, the direct contradiction of the CSL policy by the Chaplaincy seems to overlook and trivialize the danger and damage of discrimination on individual, institutional and social levels.

This prospect alone is frightening, but the policy itself is problematic with or without a chaplaincy willing and able to ask tough questions of SRGs. A nondiscrimination policy should be inviolable — any “justifiable” exemption based on an uncritical review of doctrine renders it meaningless and leaves many students feeling unsafe on campus and unprotected by their university.

A common defense for such a policy is based on the unfounded fear of a “hostile takeover” of a group or “threat to religious identity” on campus. However, open elections simply ensure that anyone is allowed to run for a leadership position without discrimination; they do not ensure that they will win. If individuals within a group choose not to vote for someone they do not think represents them, that is their prerogative. But it is not up to the current leadership of Tufts Christian Fellowship or InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA staff members to decide eligibility requirements based on their interpretation of faith.

Elections guarantee that the spirit of a community evolves — or does not evolve — with its members. Forcing

leaders’ beliefs to stay static is stifling for both an SRG and the campus community at large. Allowing groups to apply to discriminate at the University Chaplain’s discretion is simply putting the power to interpret doctrine into hands of the few rather than the conscious of the SRG community.

The history of theology is the history of change. A changing understanding of the human condition, both past and present, leads and has led to changing understandings of divinity, morality and spirituality. No modern belief — scientific, religious, or otherwise — is immune to this fact. If members of a university chaplaincy are unable to recognize this, they should reconsider their personal ability to successfully aid in the development of students’ spirituality and leadership. Growth is inherently defined by change, even when the exact result is unknown; however, if we allow ourselves to be ruled by our fear of the unknown, we inevitably stifle our own growth.

We understand that members of TCF are working to resolve this issue, and we are encouraged that this matter is being taken seriously; these are important questions for all of us to consider.

These debates are not just occurring in Dewick-MacPhie Dining Hall, Goddard Chapel and Mayer Campus Center, but across the United States on many college campuses. The CSL decision was an attempt at an “easy fix” to a very complex debate and will carry with it long-term consequences if left on the books, even if TCF, or any other religious groups, declines to make use of the policy. Our goal at CARE is to facilitate the discussion of reconciling these issues in the hopes that policies that allow for the continued discrimination of specific identities will be understood as inherently flawed, and can be discontinued once and for all.

CARE invites all members across Tufts’ campus to engage with us in this dialogue. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, or would simply like to chat, we invite you to contact us via Facebook and Twitter or seek us out in person.

Kris Coombs (LA ’09, GSAS ’11, ’12) can be reached at Kris.Coombs@tufts.edu.

Martine Kaplan is a senior majoring in international relations. She can be reached at Martine.Kaplan@tufts.edu.

Duncan MacLaury, is a senior majoring in history. He can be reached at Duncan.

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hile we were cramming for finals last semester, the British bank HSBC remorsefully boasted to the world that they had reached a $1.92 billion settlement with the U.S. government, their penalty for laundering many billions of dollars for numerous violent drug cartels and global terrorist organizations, and in doing so, tarnishing every law that stood in their way.

Lanny Breuer, the criminal division chief for the Justice Department, was in charge of bringing HSBC to justice. During the 1990s, as a lawyer in private practice, he worked to defend mammoth banks and financial conglomerates in foreclosure fraud cases. Despite his different office at the Justice Department, Lanny has remained committed to his noble fight to protect the world’s largest and most evil banks from criminal prosecution.

According to Breuer, drug dealers in Mexico sought out HSBC; they deposited on a scale of “hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account.” Following a February 2008 meeting between HSBC representatives and Mexican authorities, the two parties traced $1.1 billion of laundered money from American HSBC branches to branches in the state of Sinaloa, home to the notorious eponymous cartel and Mexico’s most wanted criminal.

Despite the heinous crimes that Mexican and Colombian drug cartels commit, which include widespread human trafficking in collaboration with Hezbollah, and, in the case of Mexican cartels, upwards of ten thousand murders a year, the Justice Department decided to forego seeking an indictment against the bankers who fund, and thereby enable, international drug smuggling. Instead, they opted to settle for a meager fine equivalent to five weeks of income for HSBC (net worth: roughly $2.5 trillion).

The settlement means that no HSBCemployed international criminals were sentenced to prison. None. That’s roughly 350,000 fewer bankers behind bars than the number of inmates currently serving time for simple drug possession and street level distribution crimes. But the villains over at HSBC, who’ve reaped profit by helping drug cartels saturate the insatiable American drug market with the very same narcotics for which small-time offenders are incarcerated, are free to blow Colombian cocaine by their mini-mansions’ Jacuzzis.

Not one of HSBC’s henchmen will see the inside of a prison cell. The victims of the drug cartels they worked with, though — the ill drug addicts on America’s streets — are swept up and thrown away to rot behind bars. But that’s par for the course of America’s “War on Drugs.”

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, international banks absorbed roughly $325 billion in drug money in 2009. This whopping total signals that the fiscal benefit of laundering drug money is no match for the relatively meager cost banks might pay if they’re caught (the $1.92 billion HSBC has surrendered is the most costly settlement of its kind to date). As long as that cost-benefit analysis favors banks, they will continue to work with drug cartels.

Deterring potential money laundering bankers from assisting criminals by imprisoning the crooks at HSBC could have inconvenienced some cartels, but it’s not merely access to laundering that allows and encourages drug cartels to violently profit. Instead, the underground nature of the market within which they operate offers the world’s most violent criminals the opportunity to conduct their lucrative business. The solution is not merely to avoid repeating the errors of the Justice Department, but to eliminate the black market within which cartels participate. Only in a post-Drug War society, in which black market drugs are brought above ground, will banks be dissuaded from providing cartels with a corporate cover. Only in a post-prohibitionist society will cartels crumble.

Jonathan Green is a sophomore majoring in American studies and philosophy. He can be reached at Jonathan.Green@tufts.

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The future looked bright for Alyssa Von Puttkammer as she stepped onto the field for her team’s season opener against Middlebury this fall. A senior tri-captain on the Tufts women’s soccer team, she had high hopes for a squad that had retained much of its talent from the previous season.

But then, disaster struck.Von Puttkammer jumped in an attempt to win a ball, and instead ended up taking the full brunt of a point-blank header from an opposing player to her head. She continued to play, but had to come out after briefly losing her peripheral vision. Though she was able to return and finish the game, Von Puttkammer later experienced concussion symptoms that started to appear about four hours after the collision.

Her teammate, sophomore Alina Okamoto, received a concussion that was much more clear-cut. In practice, Okamoto was tearing down the field with just one defender to beat. At the edge of the box, play got hectic and she took an elbow to the head. On her way to the ground, her head made secondary contact with the keeper’s knee.

The recovery process has been difficult for both. Neither returned to the team for the remainder of the season, and Okamoto ended up taking the semester off from school in order to recover without the constant cognitive stimuli of a full course load. Von Puttkammer, who was still feeling her symptoms in December, three months after the collision, sometimes wishes she had done the same.

“I think that was a really good decision,

and if I had known how bad my symptoms were going to be I would have considered it,” Von Puttkammer said. “But it’s also hard with senior year. I didn’t feel like my cognitive ability was hindered at all, I still felt like I was performing like I normally would on exams, but it just took me longer.”

It would be easy to discount these two instances as a pair of coincidences that happened to befall a single team in quick succession. Yet, both Von Puttkammer and Okamoto suffered the fourth concussions of their young lives this fall, a testament to one of the least publicized stories of the concussion era we live in: the dangerously high rates of such head injuries in women’s soccer.

In a world up in arms over concussions in both professional and youth football, the issue of women’s soccer continues to be swept under the rug. A study done in 2007 by the Ohio State University found that women’s soccer has the highest rate of concussions per 1000 athlete exposures of any sport among high school and collegiate athletes.

The sport has 0.63 concussions per 1000 collegiate athlete exposures, higher than football’s 0.61 and significantly higher than men’s soccer’s 0.49. In game-specific situations, football jumps up to 3.02 concussions per 1000 exposures, but women’s soccer is still in second at 1.80.

What is the cause behind such a high rate of concussions? According to Pat Cordeiro, a certified athletic trainer at Tufts University, one potential explanation lies in the differing mechanisms by which men and women attempt to head the ball.

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Sophomore Alina Okamoto suffered a concussion in practice early in the fall and was forced to sit out the entire soccer season, an example of the undetected danger present in collegiate women’s soccer.

Campus closing delays athletic events With the Medford/Somerville campus closed from Feb. 8 to 10 and travel to and from the Hill very difficult, all athletic events for Tufts teams originally scheduled for this past weekend were postponed. Although Tufts tried to squeeze the men’s and women’s basketball games in on Sunday afternoon, the contests were again rescheduled, and the men’s game will now be held on Tuesday evening, with the women playing on Wednesday.

The hockey team, which was scheduled to play on Friday evening and Saturday night at Valley Forum II, was forced to give up one of its home games due to the storm. Their contest last night against Hamilton, which the Jumbos won 6-4, was played at Conn.

College rather than in Medford due to travel issues. Tonight, the Jumbos return for a true home game and will take on Amherst at 6 p.m. Check tend to accelerate their head more when they are going to make contact with a ball in the air,” said Cordeiro, who is writing a dissertation on concussions in women’s sports for her doctoral candidacy. “It’s one of those things where we know it happens, but we don’t know if it contributes to the injuries.”

The numbers certainly back up that hypothesis. According to the Ohio State study, 36.7 percent of the concussions in women’s soccer come from plays involving headers. Receiving a slide tackle, another very physical play, accounts for only 5.1 percent of concussions. For Von Puttkammer, the concussion this fall was her second resulting from a header.

Still, Cordeiro admits that there is no clear answer and that the head-speed theory is simply one of many possible explanations.

“There’s nothing specifically identified [to explain the high rates of concussions],” Cordeiro said. “It’s similar to ACL injuries in female athletes’ knees — we have all of these intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors that may be playing into it, but we can’t put our finger on one specific thing.”

Despite the concussion epidemic in women’s soccer, its popularity and reputation remain unhindered. It’s still one of the most popular youth sports, with a Girls Inc. study from 2005 to 2006 finding that it is one of five girl’s youth sports that attract at least 300,000 participants every year. Yet no one is predicting its slow and steady decline in the way many analysts are for football.

Sam Sommers, a social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at Tufts, believes it may have to do with the steady stream of football concussion stories, from SportsCenter features to Sports Illustrated cover stories, that serve to play on the public’s emotional heartstrings over and over again.

“Psychologically speaking, the more readily accessible examples of something are, the more prevalent we think it is,” Sommers said. “People who are afraid of flying will talk about ‘what about this crash’ or ‘what about that crash’ because they are very emotionally charged salient examples.

And the more quickly it comes to mind, the more pervasive you think it is.”

He also pointed to gender differences and their potential effects on people’s perceptions.

“Stereotypes about men and women in athletics, even though we live in an era of Title IX and people are much more open to the idea that women can be elite athletes too, the idea of playing physically and the things we associate with a concussion are things people associate with men,” Sommers said.

Even with all the facts, it can be difficult to perceive women’s soccer in the way we’ve become accustomed to viewing football. Sommers doesn’t see the high concussion rate affecting his opinion of his children playing the sport.

“I have two daughters, both play soccer, and I’m very comfortable with that,” Sommers said. “I don’t think I’d let a son

Tuesday’s Daily for full coverage of both games.

The track and field teams’ Cupid Challenge was postponed until this afternoon at 4 p.m., and the Jumbos will still be able to run in one of their few home meets of the year.

The men’s and women’s squash teams are still awaiting the decision on when they will be able to play in the Div. III Individual Championships.

The women’s fencing team is also awaiting rescheduling, since its meet at Boston University was postponed.

Overall, the weather issues of this past weekend don’t appear to affect any of the playoff schedules in the coming weeks, as no changes have been made to the upcoming NESCAC schedule.

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Von Puttkammer, still recovering from the trauma of her fourth concussion, falls very much in line with Sommers.

“I’ve considered it with football, and I wouldn’t let my son play, because it just seems dangerous,” Von Puttkammer said.

“It’s hard, because most of my teammates haven’t had concussions. After a kid got a first concussion, I would probably say let’s pick a sport that’s less intense on your head, but probably not until that point.”

Unfortunately, the first concussion can often be the most significant. According to Cordeiro, those who have had a prior concussion are more likely to get concussions, and the symptoms associated with each successive concussion get longer and more detrimental.

“For most athletes, if they have a concussion hopefully their symptoms will be gone after seven to 10 days,” said Cordeiro, who still can’t read with background noise or run for more than 15 minutes two years after receiving a second concussion during a triathlon. “But for some people, they last longer, and it’s typically those people who have had head injuries before.”

There also comes the difficult decision of whether or not athletes should be hanging up the cleats after multiple concussions. For Von Puttkammer, the thought never crossed her mind until she was recovering from her fourth.

“I never have considered giving up snowboarding or soccer until now,” she said. “Unless I play in a women’s league when I’m older, I probably wouldn’t risk it. This has been pretty life-altering — I haven’t been able to do anything but school and sitting for three months. And as an active person, that’s frustrating.”

According to Cordeiro, every person is an individual case, and there’s no clearcut line of whether an athlete should be allowed to continue to play a sport.

“We have team physicians here, we have a team neurologist at Tufts Medical, we have Dr. [Robert] Cantu, who’s one of the leading concussion experts, right down the street, and even if you sent an athlete to those doctors and said, ‘They’ve had three concussions or four concussions before, would you keep them out?,’ you’d get differing opinions.

It’s a decision they have to make together as a team,” she said.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Athletes are getting better and better at self-reporting their concussions, which is leading to more precautions and safer treatments. It also means more accurate data for researchers in the lab, as they try to break down the confusing world of one of the human body’s most difficult injuries to understand.

“We need to look at the question of why is this happening more,” Cordeiro said. “Until we can answer that, we’re really not going to know what direction to go into. Because we have all the data, we have all the numbers. People are focusing on it now, which is really the most exciting part, but we’re still a ways off from finding the answer.”