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Tufts grad Sciortino

wins primary contest
By Giovanni Russonello
Daily Editorial Board
Democratic state Rep. Carl
Sciortino (LA ’00) narrowly
defeated Alderman Bob Trane
yesterday after an unexpected-
ly grueling primary campaign.
The two-term incum-
bent, who represents parts of
Medford and Somerville in the
Massachusetts State House’s
34th Middlesex district, won 47
percent of the vote to Trane’s
45.
Sciortino was forced to run
a sticker campaign after a mix-
up in his office kept his name
from appearing on the ballot.
“Running a sticker cam-
Brown and Brew paign is never easy,” said Kevin
Lownds said that Sciortino
emphasized his achievements
when distinguishing himself
from Trane, the president of
Somerville’s board of aldermen,
in talks with voters. “The main
difference that I felt was that
Carl had a long list of accom-
plishments that he could point
to as a legislator,” Lownds
said.
“Carl was a leader in the fight
to close corporate tax loop-
holes to offset the burden of
local property taxes; he has
worked to secure funding for
increased transportation for
seniors and to secure fund-
ing for parks and open space,”
Lownds continued. “He was the
leader in the fight for marriage

goes brown and blue

Lownds, a Tufts senior who equality, and sponsored legis-
served as Sciortino’s campaign lation and pushed the speaker

with new armchairs manager. “You can see that

people were willing to go to
the extra trouble of putting a
danai macridi/Tufts daily
sticker on the ballot for Carl
Junior Michael Brown studies in one of the eight new armchairs that arrived in Brown and Brew yesterday. Director of because they know he has done
Dining Services Patti Klos called the chairs “very comfortable,” and some students who chatted with the Daily agreed. a great deal for the families of
But all the students interviewed said they preferred the old couches to the new brown and blue chairs. “I think [the Medford and Somerville, and
couches] made it a little bit cozier and a little bit more of a café setting,” junior Missy Ricculli said. it’s a win for everyone who lives
here.”
to bring the Global Warming
Solutions Act to a vote this past
legislative session.”
Lownds said that Sciortino
plans on bettering public edu-
cation and garnering more
state funding for his district in
the future. “He’s interested in
continuing to fight for better

Somerville plotting Davis Sq. hotel

by Sarah Butrymowicz
Daily Editorial Board
The City of Somerville took
another step on Monday
toward bringing Davis Square
its first hotel when the munic-
ipality released a Request for
Qualifications (RFQ) to any
interested developers.
“The issuance of the RFQ
is an important step towards
the development of a much-
needed hotel in Davis,” Mayor
Joseph Curtatone said in a press
release. “Davis Square is home
to a thriving business district
and the creation of a hotel with
a public parking garage will be
key to the economic growth
and continued success of this
area. The RFQ and subsequent
processes will also allow us to
identify a developer who will
engage in a public process with
all of the stakeholders in Davis
Square.”
Davis Square may soon have its first hotel.
The nine-page request fea-
tures a demographic snapshot
of Somerville, a neighborhood
description of Davis Square and
background information on
three potential hotel locations.
For Tufts’ Director of Comm-
unity Relations Barbara Rubel,
Sciortino went door-to-door
all summer to promote his
candidacy after his campaign
lost the signatures it needed
to get him on the ballot. “We
don’t know what happened to
the signatures, but they went
missing from his State House
office,” Lownds said.
As a result, according to
Lownds, “We knew that we had
to go door-to-door. We knew
that we had to talk to the vot-
ers of Medford and Somerville
about Carl’s accomplishments.”
rebekah sokol/tufts daily
the RFQ release is an indication
that a Davis Square hotel may
soon become a reality.
“This is beginning to seem more
immediate,” she said.
In a 2006 study conducted by
see HOTEL, page 2
education funding and improv-
ing our public schools,” Lownds
said. “He’s going to work for
more support for our towns.
Local aid has been slashed for
Medford and Somerville in
budget cuts a few years ago.”
Sciortino, who graduat-
ed from Tufts in 2000 with a
bachelor’s degree in biology,
worked as a research coordi-
nator at Fenway Community
Health in Boston directly
see ELECTION, page 2

Amid appeal, future of TCU amendments still unclear

by Ben Gittleson
Daily Editorial Board
The fate of three amend-
ments to the Tufts Community
Union’s (TCU) constitution
remains in limbo, and one stu-
dent is waiting for
the Committee on
Student Life (CSL)
to rule on wheth-
er the language of
the revisions was
valid before pro-
ceeding with his
appeal against them.
Students voted for a refer-
endum in April to adopt the
amendments, but sophomore
Christopher Snyder filed a
complaint that month say-
ing the Elections Commission
(ECOM) had left students in
the dark too long about what
they were voting on. The CSL
later pointed out that it had
not approved the amendments’
language before last spring’s
vote, so – regardless of the out-
come of Snyder’s appeal – the
changes were not yet valid after
the vote.
The CSL must decide wheth-
er the language is acceptable
before Snyder can continue
with his challenge to the pro-
cess. But a vacant spot on the
CSL has prevented the body
from considering the amend-
ments.
On April 23, voters approved
the amendments, which would
change the TCU Senate’s pro-
cess of electing community
representatives and would add
an official position to ECOM.
Snyder, who is also a copy
editor for the Daily, submit-
ted an appeal that day to the
TCU Judiciary (TCUJ) saying
that ECOM had violated its own
bylaws by neglecting to suf-
ficiently advertise the referen-
dum before election day and by
failing to prominently display
an option to abstain from vot-
ing on the amendment.
The TCUJ shot down Snyder’s
challenge on April 25, calling
emily neger/tufts daily
ECOM’s negligence a “harmless
Carl Sciortino supporters stand outside a polling station in Teele Square
yesterday. Across the street, there is an advertisement for Bob Trane.
see AMENDMENT, page 2

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2 The Tufts Daily
Hotel contract to be set
by end of year, city official
Champion estimates
HOTEL
continued from page 1
the Pinnacle Advisory Group,
a hospitality-consulting firm,
Davis Square was identified as
the top potential location for a
hotel in Somerville.
With an RFQ as the next
step, “you’re essentially say-
ing [to developers], ‘We have
good data to suggest that this is
an idea that would benefit the
community and would produce
a viable business opportunity,’”
Somerville’s Communications
Director Tom Champion told
the Daily. “Tell us how you
would approach it.”
In addition to being able to
express interest, developers
will have the chance to meet
with city officials, ask them
questions, provide their own
background information and
explain their qualifications.
There will be a mandatory
site tour on Oct. 1. All ques-
tions must be submitted by
Oct. 6, which will be answered
by Oct. 17, according to the
request.
Developers can pick from
three available locations: the
Buena Vista Garage at 56A
Holland Street; a Day Street/
Herbert Street parking lot; or a
Grove Street parking lot adja-
cent to Rite Aid and Community
Path.
The city used a third-par-
ty appraiser to set prices for
each property at $1,700,000,
$916,000 and $835,000, res-
pectively.
“The RFP will require that the
purchase price for each prop-
erty on which a development
is proposed be equal or greater
than the City’s appraised value
for such property,” the RFQ
states.
The developers must also
show how they would devel-
op the area, preserving and
enhancing the “nature of the
neighborhood” as well as plan-
ning details such as parking,
Champion said.
“All proposals must replace
the current parking, provide for
hotel-related parking required
CSL must vote on language of amendments before student’s appeal can be heard
AMENDMENT
continued from page 1
error” but ordering the com-
mission to alter its practices in
the future to address Snyder’s
concerns.
Snyder filed an appeal of the
TCUJ’s decision to the CSL on
May 1. But it turns out that the
terms of last semester’s TCUJ
members had already run out
by the time they heard Snyder’s
challenge, so their decision was
meaningless. Therefore, Snyder
on Sept. 2 suspended his appeal
to the CSL and re-filed the chal-
lenge with the 2008-09 TCUJ,
whose term began at the start of
the fall semester.
“The judiciary [members]
who heard my case shouldn’t
have heard it. They didn’t have
the power to hear it, and there-
fore a new … hearing needs to
be ordered,” Snyder said.
The first priority right now
is for the CSL to rule on the
language of the amendments. If
the committee approves it, then
Snyder’s appeal to the current
TCUJ can proceed. Should the
committee declare the language
unacceptable, though, Snyder’s
appeal will become null and
void because it will be dealing
with an invalidated vote.
The first amendment pro-
posed on the referendum sug-
by zoning ordinances and cre-
ate as much additional parking
as possible,” the press release
said.
Developers have until Oct. 31
to send in their responses. From
these, the Davis Square Hotel
Technical Advisory Committee
will make recommendations to
Curtatone. He will then select
three developers to submit
Requests for Proposals, more
specific requests than the rela-
tively open-ended RFQ.
The committee will be
made up of staff from the
mayor’s office, the Purchasing
Department, the Office
of Strategic Planning and
Community Development, two
community representatives
and one alderman at-large.
“This is beginning to
seem more immediate.”
Barbara Rubel
director of community
relations
While there is no timeline
as to when the committee will
make its selection, Champion
estimates that it will come by
the end of this year.
Once the hotel is construct-
ed, Tufts will likely be a large
attraction for customers.
The university brings in
many visitors for moving-in and
moving-out periods, Parents’
Weekend, homecoming and
commencement, reunions,
alumni events and other occa-
sions.
The hotel could also serve
Tufts as a resource for busi-
ness, depending on its facilities,
Rubel said.
If it had a conference room
or restaurant, the university
could use it on other levels.
“For Tufts, having a hotel in
Davis Square would be a great
benefit,” she said. “We’re very
supportive and looking forward
to seeing how this project con-
tinues.”
gests altering the way that stu-
dent groups receive a commu-
nity representative seat by mov-
ing the vote from the student
body to the Senate. The second
amendment would internalize
how community representa-
tives are re-approved, and the
third would add another seat to
ECOM.
When Snyder filed his May
1 appeal with the CSL, he told
the Daily then that he disagreed
with the Judiciary’s belief that
“the overwhelming vote in favor
of the … referendum question”
showed that, had the referen-
dum been better advertised and
the option to abstain displayed,
the outcome of the vote would
not have been affected.
On May 2, the CSL noti-
fied then recently elected TCU
President Duncan Pickard, a
junior, in an e-mail that it had
yet to decide whether the pro-
posed amendments’ language
was in line with university pol-
icy, and that it had decided to
wait until the fall when it could
conduct a public hearing on
the proposals. The referendum
cannot pass without the CSL’s
approval, which usually comes
before referenda are put to a
vote, but which Pickard said can
happen at any step in the pro-
cess.
News
Supporters of Bob Trane and Carl Sciortino (LA ’00) promote their candidates outside a polling station in Teele
Square during yesterday’s primary election. Sciortino, the incumbent, pulled out a narrow victory.
Sciortino campaigned door-to-door all summer
Election
continued from page 1
after college. When the 34th
Middlesex district’s incumbent
state representative, conserva-
tive Democrat Vincent Ciompa,
told Sciortino that he would
not support same-sex mar-
riage, and perhaps not even
civil unions, the 26-year-old
Sciortino, who is openly gay,
decided he had to run. “The
final straw was the same-sex
marriage debate,” Sciortino
told the Daily earlier this
month.
In his debut election,
Sciortino took down Ciompa,
who had served eight terms, in
the primary.
This year, Sciortino had to
counter what Lownds called
“negative campaigning” on
the part of Trane. Lownds said
the alderman tried to label
Sciortino a “tool of special
interests and a Beacon Hill
insider.”
Lownds said Tufts students
were a boon to the former
Jumbo’s campaign. “The Tufts
“We unanimously decided
to table the discussion and not
make a decision at this time,”
Colin Orians, then the CSL’s fac-
ulty chair, told Pickard in the
e-mail. Orians added that the
amendments “might violate
[Tufts’] non-discrimination pol-
icy.”
Currently, one student posi-
tion in the CSL lies vacant after
last week’s elections. The vacan-
cy led the CSL to delay its first
meeting of the fall semester,
stalling discussion of the April
referendum.
This postponement also pre-
vented the CSL from consid-
ering a separate referendum,
which proposed adding the
phrase “gender identity/expres-
sion” to two clauses in the TCU
constitution that prohibit dis-
crimination by recognized stu-
dent organizations. Advocates
had hoped to put this referen-
dum on the ballot in the Sept.
10 elections for freshman TCU
senators.
Current CSL Faculty Co-Chair
Calvin Gidney, an associate pro-
fessor of child development,
told TCUJ Chair Veda Shastri
in an e-mail yesterday that he
would discuss the issue of the
referendum later this week with
his co-chair, Steven Hirsch, an
associate professor of classics.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
emily neger/tufts daily
community was very support- for alleged bias. The alderman
ive,” he said. “Carl had sev- claimed that a political car-
eral volunteers from the Tufts toon in the Journal’s Sept. 11
Dems, who were handing out edition implied he had been
stickers at the polls.” involved in the disappearance
Trane may have some hard of Sciortino’s signatures earlier
feelings himself after this elec- this year.
tion. The Somerville News Trane also alleged that the
reported on Monday that Trane Journal failed to run a full-page
was pursuing legal action advertisement that he had paid
against the Somerville Journal for in advance.
emily neger/tufts daily
The Carl Sciortino campaign handed out stickers that voters could put on their
ballots.
“[B]ecause the CSL depends lead ECOM to refine its bylaws.
[on] student elections … to fully “Currently, there are very few
constitute our committee, we guidelines for what ECOM must
have not yet convened our first do to promote [a referendum],
meeting this academic year,” and this needs to be fleshed
Gidney said in the e-mail. He out more,” he said. “In the can-
said he would alert Shastri to the didate elections, you have a
committee’s “thoughts on the lot of material that has been
matter” in the next few days. hammered out over the years
Shastri said that the TCUJ is because there have been dis-
waiting to hear from the CSL putes and because there have
before it schedules a hearing on been issues … That is why can-
Snyder’s new appeal. didate elections and presiden-
“If the CSL decides that they tial elections run so smoothly.”
are not going to approve the ECOM has recently mandated
referendum language, then the a three-day advertising period
referendum becomes null and before referenda are put to vote
void, and Chris Snyder’s appeal in order to address the concerns
is also null and void,” Shastri Snyder raised, Shastri told the
said. Daily last week. Snyder yester-
Snyder said that he hopes the day called that change insuffi-
prolonged appeals process will cient.
Quote of the Day
“Did you see us play last year? We broke
every passing record in Tufts history. Passing
attempts, completions, touchdowns, you name
it. I’m not sure how much more we can throw
the thing.”
Bill Samko, football coach
see back page
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In spite of weak economy, recent grads’

Ally Gimbel | When kiwis fly

What am I
salaries increase 7.6 percent from last year doing here?

W
Future plans still remain elusive for many members of Class of ’08 henever I tell someone I am
studying abroad this semester
by Sarah Bliss in New Zealand, they always
Daily Editorial Board MSN Careers - reported average starting salaries for graduates in different fields of study have the same reaction.
“New Zealand, huh? Well that’s … interest-
As the state of the U.S. economy ing.”
and its Wall Street mainstays contin- Now, I get it: When you think of studying
ues to sour, it appears that the Class of abroad, you think of art history class in the
’08 has not necessarily been suffering Louvre, perfecting your Spanish over tapas
from this trend: Average starting sala- in Madrid, or exbeeriencing Prague. At least
ries rose 7.6 percent from last year, for an English major like me, you’d expect a
according to the Salary Survey con- semester in London, complete with weekend
ducted by the National Association of trips to Cumbria to visit the home of William
Colleges and Employers (NACE). Wordsworth.
Average starting salary

A recent article published by MSN
Careers reported an eight percent
increase in hiring as well, driven in
part by more interest in engineering
services, accounting, consulting and
financial services on a national level.
National statistics aside, it appears
that recent Tufts grads have been fair-
ly successful in obtaining jobs right
out of college, said Jean Papalia and
Donna Milmore, director and assistant
director of Career Services, respec-
tively.
“At the time of graduation,
Institutional Research conducts a
survey of seniors about their future
plans,” Papalia and Milmore said in
an e-mail to the Daily. “The 2008 data
indicates that 61 percent planned to
work full-time and 17 percent planned
to attend graduate school full-time.”
Another survey conducted in
August by Career Services found simi-
lar results: Nearly 60 percent of 338
respondents reported being employed
full-time, and 72 percent of these
respondents said that they received
job offers after May graduation.
One new alumnus, Michael Gelman
(LA ‘08), was offered a marketing
coordinator position for the corporate
marketing group of Dow Jones and
earns between $45,000 and $50,000
a year, he said. For graduates with a
B.A. in economics, like Gelman, that
The Honk! Festival brings together activist marching bands from across the country.
Field of study
is standard: MSN reported that the
average starting salary for an econom-
ics major from the class of 2008 is
$52,926.
“My job involves a variety of things,
including managing the group’s bud-
gets, sending invoices, scheduling
meetings, conducting qualitative mar-
ket research, assisting with running
focus groups and brainstorming ses-
sions and participating in a variety of
other projects dealing with things like
advertising campaigns or updating
different logos and brands,” Gelman
said.
Despite the increase in starting-lev-
el income, Gelman and other seniors
admitted that it was the job hunt —
not employers’ salary offerings — that
posed the most worries post-gradua-
tion.
“The job search was much more
laborious than I thought it would be,”
Gelman said. “I was looking and inter-
viewing for jobs for six months straight
prior to getting hired by Dow Jones.”
In spite of his starting salary, Gelman
said his experience in the job market
was generally discouraging.
“It seems like it is much harder for
people to get full-time jobs right now
and salary is less important than find-
ing a decent job at all,” Gelman said.
“In my department, people were
see ’08 SALARIES, page 5
Courtesy Tiffany knight
So why New Zealand? Why this tiny, unim-
posing country with a sheep to human ratio
of 10:1? Why a place so far removed you actu-
ally have to turn the globe upside down to
find it? Well, to be perfectly honest, because
I thought the same thing everyone else did.
New Zealand, huh? Well that’s interesting.
Truth is, there are very few things
Americans know about New Zealand. We
know that the country’s stunning landscape
was the backdrop for Peter Jackson’s “Lord
of the Rings” trilogy. We know the hysterical
duo Bret and Jemaine from “Flight of the
Conchords” and can sing along to nearly
every word of “Business Time” to prove it.
And of course, we know New Zealand is
teeming with sheep.
But that’s about it. Middle Earth’s moun-
tains, funny accents and farm animals seem to
be the only things New Zealand is famous for
in the world. The bright lights of Paris and the
delicious beer of Dublin are what usually draw
students overseas. Who’d rather spend their
semester abroad in a country that is less than
200 years old and has no access to the Eurail?
Well, me.
Realizing I wanted to come to New Zealand
actually came as a big surprise. I had always
tagged myself as the Europhile: rambling the
cobblestone streets of some French chateau
while nibbling a baguette, a book of phi-
losophy tucked into my trendy trench coat
pocket. Oh yes, I was living in a chardonnay-
drenched fantasy of “Amelie” and Simone
de Beauvoir. But then I remembered I can’t
speak a word of French to save my life. There
goes the baguette and high fashion. Then
I thought, “London?” Eh, Prince William is
already taken.
And I guess that brings me here, to an
English-speaking country in the middle of
effing nowhere, with some of the most thrill-
seeking idiots you’ll ever meet and more
sheep than you can possibly dream of. Yep,
sounds like paradise.
For the next five months, I’ll be living and
studying in the capital city of Wellington,
meandering the tree-lined streets, reading
works by famous Kiwi authors like Katherine
Mansfield and Witi Ihimaera, visiting Te Papa
Tongarewa (the award-winning national
museum) and drinking as much locally made
wine as my liver will allow.
On weekends I’ll travel out to the bush,
“tramping” (hiking) through lush rainforests
and glaciers, checking out geothermal parks
and maybe even seeing some wild penguins
(which, let’s be honest, is about 75 percent of
the reason I actually came here).
Maybe it’s not Europe, but New Zealand
appears to offer much of the same attrac-
tions, minus the nausea-inducing exchange
rate. This country’s got a foreign language (Te
Reo Maori, the indigenous language, is still
spoken, but English remains predominant),
rich history (albeit quite young) and (most
importantly) hot accents.
In the end, though, we do all go abroad for
the same reason: to do something interesting

Tufts joins community for Honk! Festival
by Jess Bidgood
Daily Editorial Board
Davis Square, with its hip
coffee shops, bizarre statues
and colorful locals, is never
lacking in quirky charm.
But only occasionally do
these quirks take center
stage in the way they will
next month during the Honk!
Festival, a gathering of activist
marching bands from across
the country.
“Each band does their own
thing [politically] — anti-
war, racial equality, femi-
nism,” said Sarah Moshontz
de la Rocha (LA ‘08), an alum
who is helping to coordinate
Tufts’ involvement in the
programming. “We’re living
in a dark time, and the bands
want to be as light and joyful
as possible.”
Honk!, which will take place
Oct. 10-12, began in 2006
thanks to the efforts of the
Somerville Second Line Social
Aid and Pleasure Society
(SLSAPS) Brass Band. Tufts
became involved last year,
hosting a symposium entitled
“Music: Festival and Politics”
to help kick off the festival.
The event gave band members
and community participants a
chance to reflect together on
their work.
“Then, we decided to see
if we could put together a
pick-up marching band,”
see HONK!, page 5
with our lives. Maybe we want to perfect our
knowledge of a foreign language. Maybe we
want to see famous places and meet beauti-
ful people. Maybe we just want to be legal.
Either way, no matter where we end up for a
semester (or year) abroad, we usually end up
getting a lot more out of it than we expected.
As for me? Well, let’s hope this semester in
New Zealand exceeds my expectations and
involves more than just hobbits and sheep.
Ally Gimbel is a junior majoring in English.
She can be reached at Allyson.Gimbel@
tufts.edu.
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Middle East, South Asia and Africa. She was a research associate for the Harvard Institute of
International Development from 1987 to 1994, and later worked for Save the Children and
UNICEF in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1998 to 2002. Over a period of 40 years residence
and work in countries of the Arab World, she researched and wrote several books on Middle
Eastern culture and society. Her books include Family in Contemporary Egypt (Syracuse University
Press 1984), Reveal and Conceal: Dress in Contemporary Egypt (Syracuse Univ. Press 1986), Within
the Circle: Parents and Children in an Arab Village (Columbia Univ. Press, 1997), and two translated
books Daughter of Damascus (Siham Tergeman, Univ. of Texas Press, 1994), and Folktales of
Syria (Samir Tahhan, Univ. of Texas Press 2004). Her latest book is The Political Culture of
Leadership in the United Arab Emirates (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007). Dr. Rugh received her Ph.D. in
Social Anthropology from American University in Washington, DC and a B.A. in Psychology
from Oberlin College. She is currently an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute.

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Various professors aim to use
festival in classroom activities
HONK!
continued from page 3
said Deborah Pacini Hernandez,
the director of Tufts’ American
studies and Latino studies pro-
grams. Her husband, a member
of the SLSAPS band and the
Honk! board, helped link the
festival to Tufts.
The couple recruited students
from Somerville High School as
well as from Tufts’ music depart-
ment to march together, and the
university’s Social Justice Arts
Initiative added a second band.
The interest shown last year
encouraged the American studies
program to bring in ethnomusi-
cologist Charles Keil for its two-
week Artist in Residency Program.
During his time here, which
has not yet started, Keil plans
to recruit and train a marching
band composed of Tufts students,
Somerville High School students
and members of ZUMIX, a Boston
music and dance group.
Together, they will join the
other Honk! participants to
march in the spirit of this year’s
theme: “Reclaim the streets for
Horns, Bikes and Feet.” Leading
this workshop will be part of Keil’s
career-long effort to raise aware-
ness about the role that music
can play in community and edu-
cational pursuits.
Keil will look for Tufts students
who want to attend one work-
shop and one dress rehearsal in
preparation for the parade.
“We’re not limited to just musi-
cians,” Moshontz de la Rocha
said. “[We work] in the spirit of
making music available to every-
body, in making public art.”
Ian Gendreau is a graduate
student of ethnomusicology
courtesy deborah pacini-hernandez & tiffany knight
who will assist Keil in running
Participants advocate for a variety of causes; immigration reform is among them.
the workshops.
5
“Charlie’s planning on doing
some New Orleans stuff, as well
as Brazilian Samba,” Gendreau
said. “We’re going to teach who-
ever shows up how to play this
music.”
In addition to the marching
band, teachers across campus
are finding creative ways to bring
Honk! into the classroom. Pacini
Hernandez examined the festival
in her “Urban Borderlands” class,
and Anthropology Professor
David Guss and Dance Program
Director Alice Trexler are also
integrating the festival into their
respective curricula. Also, a group
of students in Robert Oster Sachs’
“Producing Films for Social
Change” class will be filming a
documentary on the involvement
of ZUMIX in the programming.
Pacini Hernandez believes that
Honk! is garnering increasing
interest at Tufts and throughout
the community.
“It’s a beautiful, multidimen-
sional event that keeps growing
organically year after year,” she
said. “I think it’s great that Tufts
has the good fortune to be con-
nected to it.”
Those involved in Honk! stress
its importance.
“It’s amazing to see such color
and vibrance in Davis — peo-
ple in costumes, kids running
around,” Moshontz de la Rocha
said. “Honk! makes you stop and
be aware of your surroundings;
there are wonderful things going
on all the time.”
Pacini Hernandez believes
that Honk! is a way to combine
different people and ideas in a
valuable way.
“It’s a way to participate in
political dialogue in the public
sphere through music and move-
ment,” she said.

Despite increasing salaries, some

recent Tufts alums choose to delay
entrance into the workforce
’08 SALARIES
continued from page 3
Renato Montenegro (E ‘08) said. “You
really do have to go out and pound the
pavement. At times, I was put off and
my friends were put off. Salary wasn’t
a huge worry ... The thing that I found
was on most people’s mind was if they
would even have a job or not.”
Currently employed as associ-
ate director of Greenwich Education
and Prep, a K-12 tutoring center in
Greenwich, Conn., Montenegro tutors
children and performs administrative
duties like IT maintenance.
“I really can’t complain,” he said.
“It’s a cool job, I have a great boss. It’s
fun working with kids, and I have a
decent salary with benefits.”
While the increase in expected salary
hasn’t gone entirely unnoticed by Tufts
graduates, many students have yet to
begin the search for a salary-paid job
and instead are still considering their
future plans.
A clinical psychology major and
communications and media studies
minor, Dan Clionsky (LA ‘08) has yet
to secure a long-term position, con-
tinuing to work as a full-time resi-
dential counselor at Wayside Youth
and Family Services — the same orga-
nization he worked for as an under-
graduate — a non-profit human ser-
vice agency that provides counseling
services and residential programs for
youth and families.
“When I went to Tufts, I worked
around 12 hours a week,” Clionsky
said. “When I left, I realized I really
didn’t know what I wanted to do yet,
and they said, ‘We’ll hire you for 40
hours a week.”
Though he does not get paid much
as an hourly human services employ-
ee, Clionsky said his bachelor’s degree
provided him with a shortcut through
the counseling system.
“I would say that I get paid slightly
above average,” Clionsky said. “I have
taken on many responsibilities, and
so I have been promoted through the
system. Having a degree in clinical
psychology, in a way, erased two years
of necessary experience to get to the
point I am now.”
Although Clionsky is most interested
in entering advertising and has been
compiling his portfolio when he is
not working as a residential counselor,
he kept future salary earning power
in mind when deciding on a major.
According to the MSN Careers article,
the average psychology position yields
an annual salary of $30,877.
“I did specifically choose psychology
over other majors,” Clionsky said. “If I
do still want to go practice psychology,
there is money in that, and it’s not a
horrible profession to get into. I chose
psychology because I liked it. It’s not
a big-time, get-rich profession. It is
something I enjoyed, and it has the
potential to have decent pay.”
While salary is a consideration for
Tufts undergraduates, it does not top
the list, Milmore and Papalia said.
Instead, the most important factors
are job content, the opportunity to
contribute to society, location, col-
leagues and opportunities for training
and education.
According to Clionsky, he isn’t alone
in delaying entrance into the salary-
earning work force.
“I think a lot of us aren’t on sala-
ries yet because we aren’t sure about
entering the work force yet,” Clionsky
said. “At this point, we need money
now. Even people who left college with
good grades are having trouble find-
ing jobs.”
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 Arts & Living
Gallery Review
Sackler’s ‘Re-View’ shines light on Harvard’s
extensive collection, doubles as art history class
by Sarah Cowan
Daily Editorial Board
Entering the Sackler — the temporary
composite of all three former Harvard
University Art Museums (now going by the
Re-View
At the Arthur M. Sackler Museum
on long-term view
Harvard University Art Museum
32 Quincy St. in Cambridge
617-495-9400
umbrella term “Harvard Art Museum”) —
is like walking into a social scene, where
familiar friends and new faces mingle
together. The show on view, taking up the
entire museum, is called “Re-View,” and
is in some ways a review of art history,
arranged both thematically and chronolog-
ically. Advertised as a refreshing look at the
collection, the new setup feels somehow
more like a gallery setting than a museum,
exhibiting works in the center of the room
and on walls connected loosely by subject
or style.
Beginning at the bottom floor, viewers
find contemporary art, an interesting place
to start in this survey of Harvard’s collec-
tion. In this section, entitled “European
& American Art since 1900,” visitors are
immediately confronted by a relatively
unknown piece from 2008 by Kerry James
Marshall, “Untitled,” an acrylic, frontal
Album Review
Metallica returns to
moderate success
with ‘Death Magnetic’
by Grant Beighley
Daily Editorial Board
Metallica. The name says it all, and yet,
leaves so much to the imagination. This iconic
group didn’t set out to change the rock ‘n’ roll
Death Magnetic The plot of “Sons of Anarchy” revolves
Metallica
Warner Bros.
landscape; it just simply wanted to rock hard
and prove to the world that hairspray was not
a requirement for being in a West Coast rock
band.
So what can listeners reasonably expect
from the group’s newest album (the first in
five years) “Death Magnetic?” Probably what
Metallica does best: rock hard and fast with
sloppy solos and demonic lyrics.
And fortunately for planet Earth, the band
doesn’t disappoint. The first track on “Death
Magnetic” is “That Was Just Your Life,” a riff-
driven rocker that plays on the band’s ability
to change styles and tempos so adeptly. The
atonal riff that pushes the song matches quite
well with lead singer James Hetfield’s half-
shouting voice that somehow manages to stay
melodic throughout even the harshest of pas-
sages.
The most noticeable quality of “That Was
Just Your Life,” as well as the album as whole,
is the strange sub-production quality. While
producer Rick Rubin is known for his lo-fi
sounds, the combination of Metallica’s grating
sound with nearly no production at all makes
for a veritable cacophony of shrill sounds.
As musicians will immediately notice, the
tone of all the distorted guitars on the album
is atrociously digital-sounding and, for lack
of a better word, amateur. Hetfield’s vocals
sit strangely on top of the mix, and drummer
Lars Ulrich’s usually perfect bass drum sounds
far too flat. In essence, as accomplished as the
songwriting may be, the tracks sound like they
see METALLICA, page 9
work of the artist in action, with his palette
brutally thrust out at the viewer.
From there, the gallery eases into old
favorites: Matisse’s clunky sculptures loi-
ter near Franz Kline’s “High Street” (1950),
Klimt’s “Pear Tree” (1903) and the small,
seductive “Red and Pink” (1925) by Georgia
O’Keefe. Cézanne and Marsden Hartley
find themselves facing off yet again, as
they were in the Fogg Museum when it was
open, but have inched a bit closer to one
another. Max Beckmann’s black tuxedo in
his “Self Portrait in Tuxedo” (1927) makes
a sharp angle reminiscent of Mondrian’s
“Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and
Red” (1922) across the way — two works
from the Busch-Reisinger that made the
long trek across Broadway.
The last room on this floor is more
shocking with Leonardo Drew’s “Number
122” (2007) taking over an entire wall. The
work, slabs of wood crammed together in a
towering sculptural collage, protrudes into
the gallery’s space with full tree branches,
reaching out far above visitors and frames.
The puzzle of wood looks like a disorga-
nized bookcase, alluding to the stacks of
frames and artworks packed away in stor-
age for the next five years. Other works
throughout the exhibition seem to make a
reference to the closed building at 32 Quincy
St., like Andrew McCollum’s “Collection of
Ten Plaster Surrogates” (1982- 1991), black
rectangular molds hung on the wall, look-
ing like frames emptied: the anti-exhibit of
a closed museum.
On the second floor, “Asian & Islamic
Art, 5000 B.C. to the Present” represents
TV Review
FX’s new ‘Sons of Anarchy’ fits perfectly
into network’s dark, gritty programming
by Ryan Zuckman
Contributing Writer
FX has been known to take risks on
its shows, and has produced quite a few
great ones over the past few years; most
Sons of Anarchy
Starring Charlie Hunnam, Ron
Perlman, Katey Sagal
Airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on
FX
notably “The Shield,” “It’s Always Sunny
In Philadelphia” and “Rescue Me.” Their
newest show, “Sons of Anarchy,” has a
concept that is both dark and funny,
a formula fairly par for the course for
the network. The basic premise doesn’t
sound terribly exciting — members of
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courtesy harvard university
Max Beckmann’s “Self-Portrait in Tuxedo”
(1927) glances coolly around his new home
on the Sackler’s first floor.
the Sackler Museum’s collection and has
been open to the public since August while
the rest of “Re-View” was being installed.
The display includes a small representation
of Buddhism’s portrayal throughout his-
tory as ideology spread across South Asia to
see SACKLER, page 9
a motorcycle gang attempt to protect
their small town while running an arms
business — but the astute viewer knows
to expect more. Despite its flaws, “Sons
of Anarchy” is proving itself to be a wor-
thy addition to the fall lineup, thanks to
a capable and occasionally exceptional
cast, some clever writing and plenty of
good old-fashioned violence.
around Jax (played by Charlie Hunnam),
the son of the deceased founder of the
titular outlaw motorcycle club. He takes
pride in the brotherhood of the organiza-
tion and is increasingly involved in the
club’s business, which involves running
guns, paying off police and keeping meth
traffickers out of the charter’s fictional
hometown of Charming, Calif. His step-
father Clay (Ron Perlman) is the current
president of the club, and he isn’t afraid to
get his hands dirty. Jax begins to question
the aggressive direction the club is head-
ing, but is hesitant to act because of his
loyalties.
Though the pilot opens with the roar
of motorcycles, a blast of rock and roll
and an explosion of an arms warehouse,
it surprisingly takes quite a bit of time
for the action to pick up. In fact, many of
the plot twists seem familiar and maybe
even a little cliché. The opening scene,
in which a rival club steals guns from
a warehouse, feels dull and lacks con-
text because it occurs before any main
characters have been introduced. The
club’s business front (a garage) presents
a setting for the characters to meet, act
macho, conduct business and discuss
family and loyalty. Typical gang dialogue
is present, complete with frequent one-
liners.
Thankfully, as exposition winds down,
the characters become more complex
and their motivations less clear. Jax dis-
covers a memoir of sorts written by his
father, expressing his original intentions
for the club and the wish that his son
live a normal life instead of getting com-
mitted to a life of crime. In addition,
see ANARCHY, page 9
7
Devin Toohey | pop culture gone bad
Pop Culture Shock
A
s Daily aficionados and fans of
“Bangers and Mash” and “Hos-
tels and Hostiles” know, I spent
most of the past year in merry
ol’ England. This experience had a great
impact on my personality and, of course,
my pop culture sensibility was no excep-
tion.
For the first time in memory, I was all
but cut off from American pop culture.
Sure, there were still tabloids, but they
looked as if someone had done a find and
replace search, turning every mention of
“Britney Spears” into “Amy Winehouse.”
I found myself caring less about looking
into American pop culture online because
I would only get frustrated. Imagine me
reading all about the writers’ strike (and
“South Park’s” god-awful, albeit lauded,
response to it) and unable to find a single
way to incorporate that into a column
about living in London.
Friends would mention commercials
they were sick of (one of my friends had
a particular vendetta against a Viagra
one), and I would be shocked that some-
one else was ranting and I was just sym-
pathetically listening. Had I accidentally
entered the Mirror Universe?
In another instance, I felt my old self
screaming to resurface, but without the
proper drive to successfully do so. I had
met a group of Americans while traveling
and, within 15 minutes, they had com-
menced quoting some Youtube.com vid-
eo involving Jaeger bombs.
Were I not in this European bubble,
I’m relatively sure I would feel the same
detestation for them as I had felt for any-
one who said “Very Ni-ice” or “Sexy Time”
back in sophomore year (or anyone who
said “Yeah baby! Oh behave!” back in
middle school, or “Why so serious?” this
summer). As it was, I just shrugged it off
with a “whatever” and continued to talk
with them.
Where had my cantankerous nature
gone? When had I become so damn agree-
able? I was a stranger in a strange land
where my references fell on deaf ears 70%
of the time, and I didn’t catch about 70%
of those which were obvious to everyone
else. I had begun to live a life less tied to
pop culture and must admit, for a time I
was happier.
Then I returned to the States. And
within a week, I was back loving and hat-
ing my mistress as if we had never parted.
We were like a modern-day, non-puppet
Punch and Judy, assaulting the hell out of
each other, but unable to part.
I must admit, the transition was rough.
I had to resign myself to the fact that a
year in England meant there would be
jokes that would go over my head for a bit
and that a mention of “Brass Eye” on my
part would only get blank stares. Thank-
fully, my summer job put me in a summer
camp. And, I must confess, there is no
better refresher course to knowing, loving
and hating pop culture than being sur-
rounded by a thousand teenagers.
And now I’m back. And let me just say
that Rihanna, Shia LeBeouf and everyone
else involved with “Transformers” (2007),
people who complain about “Hey There
Delilah” excessively (Get over it. It’s just
like every other saccharine acoustic guitar
song. No better, but definitely no worse.
It’ll be a nostalgic hit in 2017.), “Meet the
Spartans” (2008), the twins from the sec-
ond season of “Heroes,” and quite a few
other people all got off easy with me writ-
ing about foreign cities and accents for a
year. Yeah, I may have been mostly cut off
from pop culture but there were things
that even I could not escape.
And on that note, let another year of
ranting and raving begin.
Devin Toohey is a senior majoring in clas-
sics. He can be reached at Devin.Toohey@
tufts.edu.
8 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The Center for the Humanities at Tufts

48 Professors Row

Invites you to a reception to honor our visiting artists

Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:30-6pm

Work on Exhibit

Hoda Jamal
Center for the Humanities
September 18 - November 21

Buthina Milhem
Aidekman Arts Center, Koppelman Gallery
September 18 - November 21
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Despite low production value,
‘Death Magnetic’ keeps with
Metallica’s signature style
METALLICA
continued from page 7
were recorded in a basement using
GarageBand software.
“The End of the Line” is simi-
lar to the album opener in sound,
but a bit more melodic in structure.
The main riff of the song and the
choruses have a swinging feel to
them, similar to the band’s 1997 hit
“Fuel.” The melodic bridge ties the
song together into a nice little easy-
listening metal package.
The first single and fourth track
from the album, “The Day That
Never Comes,” is one of the weakest
cuts on the album, and the reasons
behind its selection as the first single
are beyond any intelligent person’s
guess. While the chorus is extreme-
ly melodic and slightly catchy, the
song, which started as a ballad, has
an existential crisis at about three
minutes, and can’t decide if it wants
to be more like “One” or “Hero of the
Day.”
If the band had just embraced
the fact that this track should right-
fully be a ballad, things would
have turned out better for every-
one involved. The album could use
Strong cast provides ‘Sons of
Anarchy’ with needed boost
ANARCHY
continued from page 7
his newborn baby has numer-
ous health problems thanks to
his drug-addicted ex-wife, and he
struggles with the notion that his
child may die. These issues add
compelling drama to the show and
really engage the viewer.
Hunnam plays Jax fairly effec-
tively, demonstrating increasing
subtlety and charisma through-
out the series. His performance
effectively exudes his inner strug-
gle between his responsibilities to
his family and loyalty to the gang.
Perlman, as always, is a command-
ing presence. His gruff voice and
physicality bring an intimidating
coolness to the role of Clay. But the
biggest surprise of the cast is Katey
Sagal as Jax’s mother, Gemma. Far
Fourth floor of ‘Re-View’ displays
the curators’ creative efforts
SACKLER
continued from page 7
Southwest and East Asia. Incredibly
delicate and refined ceramic works
from Korea and China rest in cases
where visitors can easily compare
technique and style across time
and geography. Alongside a col-
lection of Chinese “Garden Rocks”
dating from the Ming Dynasty, the
wall text seeks to educate its read-
ers in typical Harvard Art Museum
fashion, comparing the naturally
sculptural objects of gray lime-
stone to abstract sculpture, as both
were valued for their formal ele-
ments. The idea on this floor is to
reveal influence and resemblances
between Asian and Islamic cul-
tures.
In “Re-View,” the fourth floor
is where curators got the most
creative, and is also where the
stripped away display of the col-
lection becomes most apparent.
“The Western Tradition, Antiquity
to 1900” is formatted to be loose-
ly chronological, and there is no
defined theme of style, subject
matter or technique. At the begin-
ning, subject seems to be the link,
as was the treatment of mythol-
ogy between a “Red-Figure Krater”
from ancient Greece and Piero
di Cosimo’s work from the High
Renaissance. Some works connect
in style, as in a small case housing
The Tufts Daily Arts & Living 9
another good slow, melody-cen-
tered tune, and listeners’ ears would
have appreciated a few EQ tweaks
on Ulrich’s snare drum.
“The Unforgiven III” is a con-
tinuation of the “Unforgiven” saga,
which, for those not up to speed
on Metallica history, was originally
a duo of songs from the albums
“Load” (1996) and “ReLoad” (1997).
The song is the most organic and
complete on the album, with none
of the sections sounding forced
together, as they do in other plac-
es. That said, for Metallica purists,
the song echoes with the sounds of
more modern Metallica, notably the
“Load” series.
All in all, “Death Magnetic” is a
fairly solid album, and it goes ever-
so-slightly above the expectations
of the eager public. It is obvious
that the band wanted to go back to
its roots with this album, but they
should have realized that even their
first record, “Kill ’Em All” (1983)
sounded pretty damn clean sonical-
ly. If it weren’t for the grossly under-
processed tone of the instruments
and vocals, this album would be
infinitely easier to like.
removed from Sagal’s previous
characters, Gemma is slick, deceit-
ful, callous and, most importantly,
supremely entertaining. Watch
her verbally abuse Jax’s ex-wife or
inform Clay that her son is stray-
ing from the carefully-constructed
organization as she proclaims, “I
just want to make sure my son
is following in the right father’s
footsteps.” She definitely embod-
ies the role of a gang wife/mother.
Allen Coulter, director of “The
Sopranos,” and Kurt Sutter, writ-
er for “The Shield,” make up the
strong creative force behind the
new series, and, in conjunction
with a solid cast, “Sons of Anarchy”
is a promising new series. It prob-
ably won’t revolutionize television,
but will surely prove to be an enter-
taining and compelling drama.
Sienese master Simone Martini’s
“Christ on the Cross” (1340) with
other medieval works from France,
all showing the influence on color
and form. In an alcove hang water-
colors by American artists Sargent,
Homer and La Farge. A wall of
landscapes by Monet, Whistler and
Bierstadt faces off with portraits by
Rembrandt and David. Busts con-
gregate on a platform — a bodi-
less meeting of Marcus Aurelius,
a Nigerian King, an unidentified
Frenchman and a 12th century
King from the Basilica of St. Denis.
Temporary niches for the time
being include photographs by
Dorothea Lange and Julia Margaret
Cameron, Robert Frank and more
recent work by Stephen Shore.
While the Wertheim Collection
remains almost fully intact,
including Impressionist and Post-
Impressionist necessities such as
van Gogh and Renoir’s self-por-
traits and Picasso’s “Mother and
Child” (1921-22), Gian Lorenzo
Bernini’s lonely “St. Longinus,”
previously displayed in the Fogg
amongst 14 other clay sketches
like it, stretches out his arm in his
new space, strikingly golden in his
new well-lit home. In “Re-View,”
he stretches out to experimenta-
tion, to dialogues new and strange,
to the conversations a collection-
in-transition has to offer.
10 The Tufts Daily Captured Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Captured

This past weekend marked the seventh annual Boston

Tattoo Convention, held at the Boston Center for the
Arts in the heart of the South End. Photographers
Jo Duara (LA ‘09) and Anton Zabludovsky (LA
‘09) scoped out the scene, snapping photos
that prove that the definition of “body art”
is subjective.

Consider the Lizard Man (this page,

bottom right), who tattooed his entire
body with scales over a period of
months, or the young girl (top of
opposite page) who pierced her neck
fourteen times creating a permanent
“lace collar”.

Label it freakshow or fashion state-

ment; either way, they sure make for
interesting photos.

BOSTON
TATTOO Photos by Jo Duara and
Anton Zabludovsky.
CONVENTION Illustrations by Chauncey Gibson.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 The Tufts Daily Captured 11
12 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Wednesday, September 17, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt Time for a deep breath
Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Although September is barely half- ruptcy and Wall Street has announced every Jumbo finds the right position.And
way over, the yearly scramble is already several job cuts. But while Jumbos plan- according to NACE statistics, these posi-
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors underway. We at the Daily can almost ning to become the next Wall Street mogul tions are increasingly well paying.
Kristin Gorman hear the collective wheels of the senior may need to wait for better days, the job Starting salaries went up 7.6 percent
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors class turning as students begin to wonder market for new hires remains strong – if from last year, a trend that is quite reas-
Jason Richards what it is they will do in that vast abyss applicants have the right mix of drive and suring in an era when students frequent-
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor commonly known as “life.” innovation. ly leave school carrying high amounts of
This is no easy process for seniors, and Many in the Class of 2008, for example, debt. That’s not to say that graduates can
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors the oft-repeated mantra that the econo- turned their undergraduate internships always expect to get rich fast, especially
Pranai Cheroo
Michael Del Moro my is failing certainly does little to reas- into full-time work. As some call into given the public-service mindset that
Nina Ford sure job applicants. But all is not lost; in doubt the value of picking up those early many Tufts students have. But Tufts also
Ben Gittleson fact, a deep breath and a bit of relaxation morning donuts for little-to-no pay, their became the first undergraduate school
Gillian Javetski
Jeremy White may just be what the doctor ordered. As experiences show that sooner or later, the to offer a debt forgiveness program for
recent statistics released by the National payoffs will come. More traditional job students who are entering nonprofit or
Alex Bogus Assistant News Editor Association of Colleges and Employers searches are also valuable, as long as they government agencies. The university
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor (NACE) and MSN Careers demonstrate, involve a sufficient amount of flexibility. announced this initiative, which is made
universities are not hurling their gradu- In either case, the job hunt remains a possible by the $100 million microfi-
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors ates into a doomsday, crash-and-burn long process. Although last year’s gradu- nance fund donated in 2005 by Pierre
Robin Carol world. In fact, hires and starting salaries ates ultimately found work, they spent Omidyar (LA ’88) and his wife Pamela
Kerianne Okie
Charlotte Steinway rose from last year to this one, a trend many a day pouring through opportuni- (LA ’89), last year. This commitment
that should bring hope to the Class of ties. Crafting a well-written résumé and complements the aggregate increases in
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors 2009. cover letter takes time and effort; follow- salaries and hirings.
Meghan Pesch
Still, we don’t blame Jumbos for worry- up phone calls and interview preparation So despite all the bad news trumpeted
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor ing; scanning recent headlines is enough only add to the difficulty. by the national media, the job market for
to make any senior think twice about the Current seniors must not be dissuaded recent graduates is hardly as nightmarish
Jessica Bal Arts Editors
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From a spurned lover

by K. C. Hallet

At first sight I fell for you

Your warm glow apparent from the start
Roomy and cozy, you welcomed me at once

We had everything in common

School spirit and an appreciation of puns
A love of great tea and drinkable coffee
The need to indulge with a chocolate chip muffin
But also have the option to take the high road (whole
wheat bagel, anyone?)

O Brown and Brew!

Through good times and bad, you were there
For naps and group projects
Breakdowns and meet-ups
I turned to you

And I supported you

When you never had the butterscotch syrup, I did not
abandon you
When the bad men came to rid you of your worn-out
(but beloved) upholstered appendages,
I wept for you but did not look away

Why do things seem different between us now? You are

so unavailable.
What changed during the summer? Whence your
rosy demeanor?
You don’t want to see me on weekends, and you kick me
out earlier than before.

I can change.

I’ll shell out for the iced mocha or toffee coffee,

I’ll put your needs first.
I’ve been selfish, I admit, but I promise to try harder.

Come back to me, B, like in that Kid Rock song with

Sheryl Crow. You love that song.
Don’t make me seek comfort in the arm(chair)s of
another.

Katherine Hallet is a junior majoring in psychology.

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Free speech must be protected

by Ashwin Phatak
On Monday, the Task Force on
Freedom of Expression created by
President Lawrence Bacow released
a Draft Declaration on Freedom
of Expression and Inquiry at Tufts
University. This document was the
result of almost two years of discon-
tent and hand-wringing after a Tufts
journal, The Primary Source, pub-
lished an offensive Christmas carol
in December 2006. Some have faulted
this document for offering little in the
way of explicit regulations that can
define the extent to which freedom of
speech will be protected. But I argue
that the document is very clear in its
intentions and goes too far in con-
straining freedom of speech at Tufts
University.
One of the most famous articula-
tions in favor of freedom of speech
came from the philosopher John
Stuart Mill in the 19th century. Mill
argued that governments should not
infringe on the liberty of individuals
except in cases where an individual’s
actions cause direct harm to another.
And most speech does not cause direct
harm to others.
Later, Mill offered a powerful defense
of freedom of speech’s usefulness to
society. Speech, he argued, must be
free because we never know when a
particular piece of expression or dis-
course has some element of truth.
If we stifle speech, we may be
neglecting a particularly important or
advantageous perspective that, with
freedom, would have come to light.
Even if a certain instance of speech is
false, allowing free expression ensures
that those with alternative “better”
perspectives reaffirm their views in
the debate that ensues.
The First Amendment provides
this same protection for freedom of
speech. The Supreme Court has stated
that the only legitimate justification
for limiting speech is when the speech
has a high likelihood of causing immi-
nent violence against others.
Clearly, speech that riles up an
angry mob to immediately inflict vio-
lence against an individual would be
deemed a criminal offense. However,
most speech in a newspaper or maga-
zine, regardless of how provocative,
racist or offensive, cannot be ratio-
nally argued as inciting imminent vio-
lence against others unless it is speci-
fying a time and location for a violent
crime to take place.
The Tufts Declaration on Freedom
of Expression does not abide by this
age-old legal theory. The Declaration
states that expression and inquiry
at Tufts must be exercised in “ways
that respect the dignity of others.”
All speech must be “free from various
forms of harassment and intimida-
tion.”
This all sounds cuddly and fluffy,
but it does not protect the speech
that the First Amendment and our
Supreme Court have deemed free. And
let us not forget what President Bacow
rightly stated: “While Tufts is a private
institution and not technically bound
by First Amendment guarantees, it is
my intention to govern as President as
if we were.”
According to the Task Force doc-
trine, the Christmas carol in question
would not be protected. The carol
clearly disrespected the dignity of
others, namely, African-American stu-
dents at Tufts, and it might even be
called harassment. It was under this
exact pretense that the Committee on
Student Life unabashedly infringed on
the freedom of speech of The Primary
Source and imposed a preposterous
ruling that only further infringed upon
their freedom of expression and the
related freedom of the press.
But, you may be thinking, what was
so bad with that ruling anyway? Let us
think back to the fall of 2006 when that
infamous Christmas carol was printed.
Immediately after the Tufts population
read those offensive and racist words,
there was a powerful, vocal backlash
against The Primary Source, its writers
and its editors.
That backlash is exactly what J.S. Mill
envisioned would occur given com-
plete and unquestioned protection of
the freedom of speech and expression.
Views that would have been stifled
and allowed to ferment in the minds
of a few racists were instead laid out in
the public arena for the university to
collectively ridicule and dismiss. Such
is the genius of free speech.
Thus, I implore the Task Force on
Freedom of Expression to rethink its
Declaration in order to keep it in line
with the brilliance of our Constitution’s
protection of freedom of speech. Not
only will this be in accordance with
President Bacow’s request, but it will
also follow in the traditions of free
speech embedded in our nation’s his-
tory and allow open debate and criti-
cism at this fine institution for years
to come.
Ashwin Phatak is a senior majoring in
political science and philosophy. He is
writing his senior honors thesis on J.S.
Mill and freedom of speech. He can be
reached at Ashwin.Phatak@tufts.edu.

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coaching ranks, give team new perspectives
COACHES
continued from page 20
Tufts.
“The whole school here is so
welcoming; it’s great how these
kids are able to play in an academ-
ic atmosphere,” said Carmichael,
who will take charge as defensive
backs coach. “My part as a coach
is small though. I just have to get
the players to play, put them in
the right position and maintain
the success they’ve had in the past
couple of years.”
Carmichael — who holds no
relation to the namesake of the
Tufts dining hall but still says the
food there is “pretty good” —
joins Samko’s staff after a year off
from the game following a stint at
Louisiana Tech in 2007. Despite his
laundry list of accomplishments,
Carmichael said his vast experi-
ence in football does not necessar-
ily make his coaching judgments
correct all the time. Still, his experi-
ence will inevitably yield valuable
insights that he can contribute to
the success of the Tufts program.
“If I give [the players] an exam-
ple of someone in the pros or at the
college level who has made it big,
then it gives them experiences,”
Carmichael said. “Naming a player
they recognize definitely helps; I’ve
seen it in their everyday hustle.”
Unlike Carmichael and his
four-and-half decades of coaching
experience, Velasquez comes to
Tufts at the age of 25, making him
just a few years older than many of
the players he now oversees as an
assistant coach. A resident of the
New England area since he was 15,
Velasquez joins the Tufts staff after
graduating from Endicott College
in 2006, where he was a four-year
captain in the football program and
competed on the offensive line.
Having played professional
football for six months in Dublin,
Velasquez said that his experience
in Ireland has made him a better
coach and ideally suited for a Div.
III program.
“When you play overseas,
there are some Div.-I caliber play-
ers, but there are also kids who
haven’t played since high school,”
Velasquez said. “It helped me
adjust to a wide range of talents at
the coaching level. I look at a player
for who they are, not who I think
they should be at this level. It gives
me a realistic perspective.”
Rounding out the new coaches
on the Jumbo staff is Civetti, the
new offensive coordinator and
tight ends coach. A 2001 gradu-
ate of NESCAC rival Trinity College,
Civetti is no stranger to the gridiron,
having garnered All-Conference
and All-American honors during
his playing career. Civetti joins the
Jumbos after spending the past
year as the offensive graduate
assistant at North Carolina State
University.
Despite the hype over the new
coaches,Velasquez and Carmichael
insist that it is the returning staff
members, headed by Samko, who
will form the core of the leaders this
season on the sideline.
“The coaches here are one of
the big reasons I came to Tufts,”
Velasquez said. “I’ve known them
for a couple of years, and they sold
me on this school. You just want to
work here because of their experi-
ence around the game.”
Tufts, which finished 5-3 last sea-
son, will open its season Saturday
against NESCAC rival Wesleyan on
Zimman Field at 1 p.m. For the
new coaches, this marks the begin-
ning of what they foresee as the
start of a winning tradition at Tufts.
“If we had the same coaching
staff with an inexperienced sopho-
more class leading, we would not
be as good,” Velasquez said. “It’s the
combination of these two essential
factors [experienced players and
coaches] — the main components
of winning teams — that leads us
as coaches to believe that this sea-
son will be a successful one.”
will both see time for Jumbos
OFFENSE
continued from page 20
more we can throw the thing.”
The offense will be hurt at least
somewhat by two losses in the
front line. The graduation of cen-
ter Thomas Ames (E ’08) and right
guard Dan Walsh (E ’08) leaves a
couple of holes to fill, but Samko
sees enough depth in his roster to
do just that.
“[Junior] Adam Wueger is back,
and [senior] Geoff Kramer’s back
and he’s a [tri-] captain this year,”
Samko said. “Kramer could have
been all-league last year. [Juniors]
A.J. Carreiro and Dan Morrison
started games for us last year, too.
It’s a good mix. We lose guys every
year.”
The receiving core is still in great
shape; tight end Kevin Gleason (LA
’08) will be replaced by senior Max
Cassidy, and the team’s top four
wideouts are all back in action.
Seniors David Halas, Stephen Black,
Az Adhanom and Ryan Gendron
will all make catches — the only
question is who’s throwing to them.
“Whatever happens, I think that
either one of us will be happy,”
Fucillo said. “I think he’s a great
quarterback and also a great per-
son. We don’t really know what
will happen, so we’re just trying to
work as hard as we can. Whatever
happens, we’re both here for the
same reason, and that’s ultimately
to win games.”
While McManama has the
advantage of experience with the
Tufts system, having appeared
briefly in six games in his first two
years, Fucillo has experience of his
own: He was Colgate’s opening-day
starter last fall, and he’s adjusted
quickly to the Jumbos’ program.
“It really helped me having
been in a college system before,”
Fucillo said. “Coming in as a
freshman, it’s always hard to learn
a new system, but having expe-
rience playing in college before
definitely helped.”
In either event, Fucillo or
McManama will be surrounded by
plenty of talent. It’s much the same
collection that carried Tufts to a 5-1
start last season, coming within a
couple of extra points of defend-
ing champion Middlebury’s grasp
on the NESCAC title. With so many
pieces of the puzzle returning, the
confidence must still be there.
“I’m not sure whether we’re more
confident,” Forde said. “But the fact
that we have a lot of returners is a
good sign. It’s still going to come
down to us executing and taking
care of business every Saturday. We
have to work hard and create our
own luck.”

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Samko’s team hopes the shift to 4-3 formation will pay dividends on defense
DEFENSE
continued from page 20
the switch from safety. Reynoso, who played
inside last year, will stay put and play the
most important position in a 4-3 defense:
middle linebacker.
Succeeding Albertine, a dominate pass
rusher who led the 2007 squad in with four
sacks and 11 tackles for a loss, will prove no
easy task.
“Steve was a big part of our defense and is
obviously a big loss,” Reynoso said. “But we
have a lot of talent returning this year on the
defensive line, with solid depth behind them.
We also have some new looks this year up
front that will help to get good pressure on
QBs.”
Perry, who will take the field now as the
linebacking corps’ only new starter, is expect-
ed to help fill Albertine’s shoes.
“The staff thought that Alex was a play-
maker,” Rynne said. “He played down in dif-
ferent sets last year and he knows where he
needs to be and gets there. So why not bring
him closer to the line of scrimmage?”
“Perry played safety last year, but he spent
the majority of the time as an outside line-
backer, so he’s really already made the adjust-
ment,” Reynoso said. “He’s a great athlete and
adds talent to the linebacker position.”
On the defensive line, the Jumbos are
fortunate to have several talented returning
players. The most experienced member of
the group is senior defensive tackle Jeremiah
Lechleiter, whose 38 tackles ranked fifth on
the team last year. Lechleiter will be joined
on the line by juniors Dan Stebbins, Chris
Seufert, Mike Cunningham and Ian Ritter. 16-6 victory in the 2005 season opener, so for
Stebbins, Seufert and Cunningham all saw
a significant amount of playing time last
The Tufts Daily Sports 17
season, and it is expected that they will only
improve as the season progresses.
Despite the team’s strong core of lineback-
ers and defensive linemen, there remains one
large question mark on the defensive side
of the ball: the secondary. Juniors Andrew
Elfman and Will Miller will be charged with
the heavy task of replacing J.B. Bruno (LA ’08)
and Nate Scott (LA ’08), last year’s starting
cornerbacks.
Still, Reynoso said he does not believe that
the departure of Bruno and Scott will put
extra pressure on the front seven.
“Nate and J.B. graduated last year, but
Will saw a lot of time too,” Reynoso said.
“Some other guys are stepping up, and we
have good competition at corner right now.
We also have a lot of experience returning at
safety, so I wouldn’t say there’s extra pressure
put on us up front.”
At safety will be senior Andy Henke and
2007 first team All-NESCAC junior Tom
Tassinari. Tassinari led the Jumbo’s defense
with five interceptions last season, one
fewer than the conference-leading six Kyle
McAllister of Bates put up last season. If
Tassinari performs like he did last season,
and the young cornerbacks can adjust to
their new starting roles, Tufts could end up
with one of the best defensive units in the
conference.
The Jumbos will be tested right away when
they face a Wesleyan offense Saturday that
passed the ball 318 times last season — the
second-highest total in the conference —
and averaged 323.4 yards-per-game. Tufts
Laura Schultz/The Tufts Daily
has not faced Wesleyan since the Jumbos’
The Jumbos continued practice yesterday in preparation for Saturday’s home opener against
the Wesleyan Cardinals. Tufts has not played Wesleyan since 2005, when the Jumbos
most of the players, this will be their first time
emerged victorious 16-6.
squaring off against the Cardinals.

SCHEDULE | Sept. 17 - Sept. 23

Bad officiating call opens wed thu fri sat sun mon tue

door for Broncos in Week 2 Football

vs.
Wesleyan
1 p.m.
NFL after an incomplete pass call.
continued from page 19 Instead, the Broncos stayed vs. Conn.
Field Hockey College
Green Bay Packers, who are alive, scored a touchdown 1 p.m.
fresh off a 48-25 closer-than- and subsequently won the
the-score-indicates win over game on a gutsy two-point at UMass
the Detroit Lions Sunday. conversion play. Dartmouth
Cross Country Invit. 10:30
In the AFC, the story comes As a result, the Broncos sit
not from a great game-win- 2-0 atop the AFC West while a.m.
ning play, but rather from a the 0-2 Chargers are stuck
poor, game-losing call by ref- cleaning the cellar and fum- Women’s vs. Conn.
College
eree Ed Hochuli. In a play ing at the incompetence of Soccer 11 a.m.
reminiscent of the “tuck rule” Hochuli. In response, the
controversy in the infamous League has expressed a pos- at New vs. Conn. vs.
Men’s
“Snow Bowl” en route to the sible interest in changing the Soccer England Coll. College Springfield
Patriots’ first of three Super rule after this season. 4 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 7 p.m.
Bowls, Denver Broncos QB Although this weekend of
Jay Cutler’s fumble into the football certainly left fans vs. Bowdoin
Volleyball at Bates vs. Brandeis
arms of a San Diego Charger glued to their television 8 p.m. (at Bates) 7 p.m.
linebacker in the late stages of screens — considering more 12 p.m.
his game was ruled an incom- than half of the games were
plete pass. decided by less than a touch- at Williams at Williams
Despite the almost imme- down — next week promises Golf Invitational Invitational
12 p.m. 12 p.m.
diate realization that the to be even better. With only
call was wrong after Hochuli two weeks of the season in the
blew his whistle, NFL rules books, the league’s landscape JumboCast Football
do not allow for possession is only just beginning to come Field Hockey
to change to the rightful team into focus.

StatISTICS | Standings

Field Hockey Women's Soccer Men's Soccer Volleyball

(3-0, 2-0 NESCAC) (1-0-0, 1-0-0 NESCAC) (2-1-0, 0-1-0 NESCAC) (5-0, 0-0 NESCAC) NCAA Div. III Field Hockey NCAA Div. III Women's XC
(Aug. 26, 2008) (Sept. 14, 2008)
NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL NESCAC OVERALL
W L W L T W L T W T W L T W L T W L W Points (First-place votes)
L L 1. Amherst, 280
Tufts 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 Colby 1 0 0 2 0 0 Williams 1 0 4 4 1. Bowdoin, 855 (35)
Amherst 1 2. Calvin, 266
Bowdoin 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 Conn. Coll 1 0 0 1 1 0 Amherst 0 0 6 1 2. TCNJ, 769 (2)
Tufts 0 3. Wisconsin Eau Claire, 262
MIddlebury 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 Middlebury 1 0 0 2 0 0 Bates 0 0 2 4 3. Salisbury, 747 (3)
Williams 0 4. Luther, 258
Trinity 1 0 3 0 0 1 Bowdoin 0 0 6 1 4. Messiah, 672 (1)
Bowdoin 0 0 1 1 0 2 Wesleyan 1 0 0 1 0 5. Washington, 243
Coiby 0 0 4 2 5. Lebanon Valley, 656 (1)
Williams 1 0 1 1 0 Wesleyan 0 0 1 1 0 1 Williams 1 0 0 2 0 0 6. SUNY Genesco), 239
Conn. Coll. 0 0 2 4 6. Middlebury, 642
Amherst 1 1 1 1 0 Conn. Coll 0 0 0 1 0 0 Amherst 0 1 0 2 1 0 Middlebury 7. Depauw, 237
0 0 1 2 7. Ursinus, 607
Bates 0 1 1 2 0 Trinity 0 0 0 3 0 0 Bates 0 1 0 1 1 0 Trinity 0 0 4 2 8. Williams, 223
Colby 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 Bowdoin 0 1 0 1 1 0 8. SUNY Cortland, 549 (1)
Bates 1 Tufts 0 0 5 0 9. Wisconsin-Platteville, 215
Conn. Coll. 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 Trinity 0 1 0 1 1 0 Wesleyan 0 0 3 9. Rowan, 498 (1)
Colby 1 2 10. Case Western Reserve, 205
Wesleyan 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 Tufts 0 1 0 2 1 0 Hamilton 0 1 4 5 14. Tufts, 258
Middlebury 3 11. Colby, 204
12. Wartburg, 193
G A Pts G A Pts G A Pts Offensive Kills SA N.E. Div. III Women's
13. Ithaca, 191
T. Brown 7 0 14 C. Cadigan 1 0 1 D. Schoening 1 1 3 S. Filocco 47 6 Soccer
(Sept. 9, 2008) 14. Middlebury, 172
M. Kelly 5 1 11 C. Hirsch 0 0 0 M. Fitzgerald 1 0 2 C. Updike 32 3
B. Helgeson 29 0 1. Williams 15. TCNJ, 169
A. Russo 1 5 7 S. Nolet 0 0 0 P. Doherty 1 0 2
K. Denniston 25 6 2. Wheaton 16. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 156
B. Holiday 2 1 5 W. Hardy 0 0 0 R. Coleman 1 0 2 L. Nicholas 17 0 17. Johns Hopkins, 153
I. Lewnard 2 0 4 F. Gamal 0 0 0 B. Green 1 0 2 C. Spieler 13 4 3. Western Conn. State
L. Griffith 2 0 4 B. Morgan 0 0 0 N. Muakkassa 0 1 1 4. Springfield 18. Williamette, 147
D. Joyce- 13 0
M. Scholtes 1 1 3 O. Rowse 0 0 0 J. Molofsky 0 0 0 Mendive 5. Tufts 19. Emory, 131
M. Kutcher 1 1 3 A. Almy 0 0 0 A. Kobren 0 0 0 Defensive B Digs 6. Bowdoin 20. Wisconisn-Oshkosh, 123
G. DeGregorio 0 0 0 M. Blumenthal 0 0 0 N. Goldstein 0 53 21. St. Thomas, 122
S. Filocco 6 47 7. Worcester State
Goalkeeping GA S S% R. Ramos-Meyer 0 0 0 22. Loras, 109
Goalkeeping GA S S% M. Ripecky 0 35 8. Middlebury
M. Zak 0 4 1.00 23. MIT, 101
H. Jacobs C. Spieler 2 33 9. Brandeis
K. Hyder 2 2 .500 0 1 1.00 Goalkeeping GA Svs Sv% D. Feiger 5 27 24. SUNY Cortland, 100
K. Minnehan 0 0 D. McKeon 2 21 .913 10. Eastern Conn. State
A. Kuan 0 15 35. Tufts, 16
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Inside the NFL
Dallas’ performance down the stretch gives it
edge in back-and-forth Monday night contest
by Philip Dear
Daily Editorial Board
Let’s hope Donovan McNabb’s $6.3-
million salary isn’t all invested in the
stock market. If so, he surely would
have had an extra bad case of the
Mondays.
The Philadelphia Eagles and their
explosive offense, led by veteran QB
McNabb, did their job when it came
to scoring points against the Dallas
Cowboys in the Monday Night Football
thriller. In fact, the Eagles dropped 37
points on “America’s Team.”
For that reason, the 41-37 loss to
their biggest rival was undoubtedly
a heartbreaker for the Eagles. They
eclipsed the 35-point mark for the sec-
ond straight week and hoped to make
a statement in the tough NFC East
division, which also contains the 2-0
defending Super Bowl Champion New
York Giants.
The heavyweight matchup was as
close a game as you’ll ever see, with
seven lead changes and a time-of-
possession differential only 58 seconds
away from even. Both sides collected
over 300 yards of total offense, the
Eagles with 337 and the Cowboys with
381. The number of first downs for
each team were nearly identical —
Dallas had 19 and Philadelphia had
20.
Clearly the stats were equitable.
So what gave Dallas the edge? In a
word, performance in the clutch. The
Cowboys converted on nearly two-
thirds of their third-down opportuni-
ties, compared to a little over one-third
by the Eagles.
In addition, following a Philly field
goal, which made it 30-21 with only
45 seconds left to play in the half,
the Cowboys’ leader, quarterback Tony
Romo, took the field ready to jump on
a relaxed Eagles defense. He quickly
cashed in on this opportunity by con-
necting with TE Jason Witten for a
42-yard gain to set up a 51-yard field
goal for kicker Nick Folk, which he
converted.
The score at halftime was 30-24,
the second-highest scoring first half in
Monday Night Football history.
The second half provided much of
the same as the lead swayed a few
more times, ending with a failed multi-
lateral fourth-down pass attempt by
the Eagles late in the fourth quar-
DAILY DIGITS
4 .938
The number of seconds remaining
in the second overtime of the men’s
soccer team’s matchup with Colby
on Saturday when the Mules scored
the winning goal. The 2-1 loss in
Tufts’ first NESCAC contest of the
season brought its record to 0-1-0
in the conference, 2-1-0 overall.
Sophomore midfielder Ron Coleman
came up with the Jumbos’ lone score
in the contest.
81
The number of years since the Ameri-
can Ryder Cup team did not have a
current major champion on its roster.
The American team will certainly feel
the absence of Tiger Woods, who
will not participate as a result of his
season-ending knee surgery after his
U.S. Open win earlier in the summer.
The Europeans have dominated the
past five of six Cups, winning by an
average margin of four matches.
The Tufts Daily
Despite playing without their top two wideouts, the Eagles were able to spread the ball out to
nine different receivers, including this reception by Greg Lewis. It wasn’t enough, however, as the
Philadelphia offense fizzled in the final minutes of the game to give Dallas a 41-37 victory.
ter. The Cowboys’ offensive weaponry,
primarily consisting of the Romo-to-
WR Terrell Owens duo that connected
for two touchdowns, was just strong
enough to outlast the Eagles.
But NFC fans who are dreading their
teams having to face the Cowboys and
Eagles can find comfort in the fact that
the defenses for these two teams were
relatively lackluster. The Eagles were
able to score virtually at will without
The volleyball team’s winning
percentage in terms of total sets
played in its first five matches this
season. The Jumbos have won 15
of 16 sets played, including 3-0
sweeps over Rhode Island College,
Babson, Smith and Williams in tour-
nament play over the weekend. The
only set the Jumbos have lost came
in the first set of the first match
of the season against Stonehill, a
match Tufts eventually won 3-1.
.477
The career-winning percentage of
manager Ned Yost with the Mil-
waukee Brewers since he took over
in 2003. Despite posting his highest
winning percentage this year (.553),
Yost was abruptly fired on Monday
after the Brewers dropped a four-
game series to the Philadelphia
Phillies and lost their advantage in
the NL wild card race.
Sports
MCT
their two best wide receivers, Reggie
Brown and Kevin Curtis, who are both
out due to injuries.
Next week, if the Pittsburgh Steelers
can stifle the Eagles’ potent offense,
there is a good chance that Philly
will fall to 1-2 considering its porous
defense. Likewise, the Cowboys will
have their hands full with the 2-0
see NFL, page 17
15
The number of points that the men’s
cross country team earned in the 5K
portion of the Jumbo Invitational
Saturday. Tufts runners swept the
top five finishing positions, giving
it a perfect score of 15 and an easy
victory over distant second- and
third-place finishers Bates (50) and
Anna Maria (80).
141
Consecutive games in which the
Ohio State Buckeyes have scored
a touchdown, a streak that ended
Saturday when the No. 1 USC
Trojans throttled the then-No. 5
Buckeyes 35-3. Ohio State’s last
TD-less contest came in a matchup
against rival Michigan on Nov. 23,
1996. The Wolverines defeated the
Buckeyes 13-9.
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Evans Clinchy | Dirty Water
Closing the record books
S
ometimes I lie awake worrying
about the fate of humankind.
The way I see it, we’re in trouble.
It’s the strangest thing. We humans
can travel to the moon and back; we can
map the human genome; we can vacci-
nate against polio, smallpox, tuberculosis,
what have you; and we can invent amazing
things like computers, televisions, planes,
trains, automobiles and microwave ovens
that can produce entire meals in seconds.
But for some reason, we still can’t devise
reasonable statistical metrics to tell us how
good people are at playing baseball.
Wait — scratch that. We can devise them,
and in fact we have. It’s just that most of
us are too dense to pay any attention. I’ve
complained about this problem before,
but today I return to my complaining ways
with renewed purpose.
This past Saturday the Angels’ Francisco
Rodriguez, one of the most perfectly medi-
ocre bullpen aces in the American League,
broke Bobby Thigpen’s all-time record for
saves in a single season, recording his 58th
in a 5-2 win over last-place Seattle.
Hold on. Let’s back up.
The save, a statistic invented by Jerome
Holtzman in 1969, is used to measure
how many times a relief pitcher has (1)
finished a win for his team; (2) not earned
a “win” (don’t get me started); and (3)
entered the game with a lead of three
runs or less, or entered with the tying run
on base, or at bat, or on deck, or pitched
for three innings. Wow. That was a lot of
“and”s and “or”s.
The save, Holtzman theorized, would
be the perfect metric to gauge a pitcher’s
effectiveness at closing games. But as it
turned out, the stat is terribly misleading,
as it is largely reliant on the manager’s use
of the pitcher, on the team’s performance
and on several kilotons of luck.
I do not fault Jerome Holtzman. By all
accounts the late Holtzman, who died in
July at the age of 82, was one of the great-
est sportswriters Chicago has ever seen.
He is a widely respected journalist and a
Baseball Hall of Famer. With regard to the
save, I view him much the same way I view
Aristotle, who posited that the Earth was
the center of the universe — terribly wrong,
but worthy of respect. Simply sparking dis-
cussion is an important step.
But it troubles me that almost 40 years
later, the public has focused so much
attention on Rodriguez and his “accom-
plishment” this season. Rodriguez and his
58 saves are intriguing because by most
reasonable metrics, he is having a bit of
a down year at age 26. His strikeout rate
per nine innings, a superb 11.74 for his
career, has dipped to 10.28 this year, and
he’s no longer the unhittable force he once
was. By Baseball Prospectus’ Adjusted Runs
Prevented stat (look it up!), Rodriguez is the
26th best relief pitcher in baseball.
But because so many baseball people
are so slow to question conventional wis-
dom, here we are anointing Rodriguez as
our new bullpen king.
This goes beyond Rodriguez’s unde-
served mention in baseball’s record book,
and beyond his undeserved consideration
in the AL’s races for Cy Young and MVP.
Those things worry me, but this problem
goes deeper.
I’m wondering which team, too rich for
its own good, is about to overspend by
tens of millions of dollars this offseason to
land a pitcher who’s turning 27 but peaked
at 22? Which pitchers will get shafted in
future free-agent markets because they
don’t compare to Rodriguez in the oh-so-
overvalued save category? And in which
decade will Angels manager Mike Scioscia,
a former Manager of the Year, finally realize
that he’s costing his team wins by misusing
his pitching staff simply to inflate a mean-
ingless, contrived number?
These are the real questions that
inquisitive, intellectual, curious baseball
fans should be asking. But these days, all
too often, these are the questions being
ignored. This is not progress — this is will-
ful ignorance. Somehow, I doubt it’s what
Jerome Holtzman would have wanted.
Evans Clinchy is a senior majoring in
English. He can be reached at Evans.
Cinchy@tufts.edu.
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Inside the NFL 19
Dirty Water 19
Daily Digits 19
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Football Preview

A
n elephant never forgets. Despite posting its first winning sea-

son since 2003 with a 5-3 campaign last year, the football team

came up just short of a share of the NESCAC title after a heart-

breaking season finale loss to the Middlebury Panthers, 21-19. With last

year’s squandered crown-sharing opportunity undoubtedly still on their

minds, the Jumbos look to post their first back-to-back winning seasons

since 1990-91 and put themselves back in contention for the conference

championship. Here’s a look at how they aim to do just that.

Tufts prepped
to tackle Jumbo-
sized mission in ’08
Offense in new, anonymous hands
as season opens Saturday
all photos by Laura Schultz/Tufts Daily

by Evans Clinchy
Daily Editorial Board
After going 5-3 last season and narrowly
missing out on a share of the NESCAC title,
the football team returns this fall with a load-
ed arsenal of returning weapons. The Jumbos
open their season Saturday with three of their
top four running backs and all four wide
receivers back for another year.
The only question is who will man the
helm.
In one corner is junior
Tom McManama, who
went 9-for-20 last season
as the backup for quar-
terback Matt Russo (LA ’08). In the other is
Anthony Fucillo, a junior transfer from Div. I
Colgate who hopes to see action right away in
a Tufts uniform.
When the Jumbos open their season at
Zimman Field at 1 p.m. Saturday, one of the
two will stand under center on the opening
offensive drive. It’s up to coach Bill Samko to
decide which one. Has he made up his mind?
“Yep,” Samko said.
With 72 hours to go, Samko remains tight-
lipped about who will start. But either way,
the offense will be in good hands, as indicated
by both quarterbacks’ performances in last
Friday’s scrimmage at Bowdoin.
“They played well,” Samko said. “They both
handled the offense well, and they managed
the game quite well. They’re good, and they’re
both going to play.”
Whoever wins the job will be replacing one
of the best quarterbacks Tufts has seen in a
long time. Russo was one of the NESCAC’s
most accurate arms last season, going 145-
for-261 (56 percent) for 1,528 yards. In his
two years under center, he transformed the
Jumbos into a more pass-oriented offensive
team, and it’s now up to his replacement to
maintain that style.
“Russo was a good player, and he’s defi-
nitely going to be missed,” said senior Will
Forde, who rushed for five touchdowns last
year. “But between Fucillo and Tommy, I think
we’re going to be fine at that position. What
really matters is what the offense as a whole
can do, not just one guy at one position.”
Forde is one of three running backs, along
with senior Brad Ricketson and junior Darren
Ferguson, who carried the Jumbo running
game last year. The three combined for 628
of the team’s 844 rushing yards, which ranked
fifth in the league. But primarily, the Jumbos
were a passing team under Russo, and that
likely won’t change.
“Did you see us play last year?” Samko said.
“We broke every passing record in Tufts’ his-
tory. Passing attempts, completions, touch-
downs, you name it. I’m not sure how much
see OFFENSE, page 16

Defense places high New coaches bring wide

hopes in its offseason array of experiences
adjustments
by Zachary
Groen
Contributing Writer
After an off-
season filled with
coaching and roster
changes, the team is ready to
accomplish something it has not
managed since 1990-91: back-
to-back winning seasons. If the
Jumbos want any hope of achiev-
ing this goal, their defense must
hold strong, especially in the face
of the many offensive power-
houses on their schedule.
After the hiring of new offen-
sive coordinator and tight end
coach Jay Civetti, the team will
rely on last year’s offensive coor-
dinator, Scott Rynne, to transition
into the defensive coordinator
position. Rynne, who has experi-
ence as the cornerbacks coach at
Union College in New York and
as the defensive coordinator and
head coach for Pomona-Pitzer
in California, does not expect to
have problems adjusting to his
new role.
“The nice thing is having been
at Tufts and knowing the guys,”
Rynne said. “Coach [Bill] Samko
says that we coach everyone on
the team, so I already knew the
defensive players.”
Rynne will head a defense
by Alex Prewitt
Contributing Writer
assistant with the Chicago Bears
from 2001-03, as well as the offen-
looking to make the jump from sive coordinator for the Cleveland
solid to elite. In 2007, the Tufts Before classes began, a trio of Browns in 2000 and receivers coach
defense ranked fourth out of 10 coaches new to Jumbo football con- for the Jacksonville Jaguars from
schools in the NESCAC in average vened on the gridiron for the first 1994-99, Carmichael has held major
points surrendered and sixth in time, bringing with them a wealth of college positions at the University
both pass and run defense. understanding to coach Bill Samko’s of Pittsburgh and locally at Boston
In order to make that jump, the football program. College. Working for the BC Eagles
squad will be changing its scheme P e t e gave him a good feel for the area,
when it takes to Zimman Field Carmichael, one of the main reasons
for its opener against Wesleyan R o b he chose to come
Saturday. Instead of running a 3-4 Velasquez coach at
formation like it has in the past, and Jay
this year’s team will primarily Civetti, the
setup in a 4-3, a decision that has focus of the
reenergized the players. major staffing
“We’re excited to come at teams change with-
with a new scheme this year, and in the foot-
it gives us an advantage because ball program,
other teams don’t have a scouting come to Tufts looking
report on us before the season,” to guide the team to its
senior tri-captain and linebacker first string of back-to-
Tyson Reynoso said. back winning seasons
The team will be experienced in nearly 20 years.
upfront, as the Jumbos return five And while all three
of the starters from last season’s appear to boast
front seven. Still, the switch to a the qualifications
4-3 has not been totally painless, needed to help
necessitating additional changes. Tufts attain that
Following the graduation of milestone, their
outside linebackers Stephen specific back-
Albertine (LA ’08) and Derek grounds could
Miller (LA ’08), senior lineback- not be more
er Ryan Crisco will shift to the different.
outside, where he’ll be joined by Carmichael
junior Alex Perry, who is making arrives on the Hill after gracing the
sidelines for 45 years at the Div. I
see DEFENSE, page 17 and professional level. An offensive see COACHES, page 16