Editors
Contents
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Timothy Noetzel
26 October 2007
MANAGING EDITORS Lydia Hall Mara Sacks Olivia Saucier EDITORIAL EDITOR Peter Shaeffer NEWS EDITOR Duncan Pickard OPINION EDITOR Daniel Rosen ARTS AND EXCURSIONS EDITORS Josephine Chow Eliza Walters CAMPUS EDITOR Molly Posner ART DIRECTOR Natalie Polito PHOTO EDITOR Erin Baldassari ASSISTANT EDITORS Joshua Aschheim Julie Lonegran EDITOR EMERITUS Michael Skocay
Volume CXV, Issue 5 The Observer, Since 1895 www.TuftsObserver.org
News 2 The Sound and the Fury: Town-Gown Takes a Turn for the Worse, by Adam Evans
7 More Than A Sum of Our Parts: Why the U.S. News Numbers Don’t Add Up, by Alexander Dietz 10 One Bottle At A Time: Student Advocates Make a Splash, by Mary Jo A. Pham
Opinion 21 Looking for the Green in Brown and Blue, by Adam Fischer 22 Living With the Earth, For the Earth, by William Ramsdell 23 Ahmadinejad — Hot Air, and Little More, by Zachary Witlin 24 From Metcalf to Morocco: Observations on an Eclectic Nation, by Michael Snyder
Arts and Excursions 26 Sounds and Tastes: Hip-Hop Killed the Rock’n Roll Star, by Jonah Gold 27 All That Jazz and More: Dual Degree Students to Bring New Music to Tufts, by Josephine Chow 28 London: All the World’s a Stage, by Melissa Lee 30 Marc Chagall: Artist and Political Nudist, by Brian McLoone 31 Unique Shopping: Three DIY Experiences, by Katie Christiansen 32 Affordable, Authentic Mexican, by Eliza Walters and Olivia Saucier
Staff Writers
Poetry and Prose 33 Washington Street, by Jahn Sood
Contributors
In Every Issue 14 Ticker Tape, by Kate Schimmer 15 Editorial 16 Interruptions, by Olivia Teytelbaum 36 Campus
Alexander Dietz Brian McLoone Mary Jo A. Pham Kate Schimmer Olivia Teytelbaum
Katie Christiansen Adam Evans Adam Fischer Jonah Gold Melissa Lee William Ramsdell Michael Snyder Zachary Witlin
COVER IMAGE: SARAH LEENEN
PARTING SHOTS: ERIN BALDASSARI
Artists and Photographers Julia Bourque Jwala Gandhi Lauren Herstik Sarah Leenen
Cynthia McMurry Angela Robins Ryan Stolp
Roxane Sperber Shabazz Stuart Ryan Zuckman