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The federal government earlier this month brought to the forefront the debate over student health insurance with proposed regulations that could drastically increase benefits of student plans and require that these plans meet similar standards to those stipulated in the recent national overhaul of the health insurance system. The proposed rule would vastly enlarge the benefits of Tufts’ student plan, which is brokered through the insurance company Aetna. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) put forth the regu-lations and has now entered a period of public review. Student health insurance plans have remained in limbo throughout the great-er universal health care debate, accord-ing to Director of Health and Wellness Services Michelle Bowdler. Insurers, poli-cymakers and university administrators often have not known whether the plans

must meet the same standards that private insurance companies now face with regard to the general public, she said. “People have been looking at student insurance for a long time because one of the concerns has been about how the plan has now evolved to bring more compre-hensive coverage for students,” Bowdler said. “It has to comply with some regula-tions for full universal health care, but not every regulation.” Individual private insurance plans can cost between $4,000 and $8,000 because of the more comprehensive coverage they offer to clients, Bowdler said. Tufts’ current student plan costs approximately $1,500. Students are typically healthier than members of the general public, which con-sistently results in less-expensive student plans, sophomore Daniel Markowitz, a member of the Student Health Organizing Coalition (SHOC), said. Originally founded in 2008 by Tufts stu-dents, SHOC advocates improved benefits

Proposal may greatly increase Tufts’ student health benefits

by Michael Del MoroDaily Editorial Board

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fletcher school dean stephen Bosworth has served for two years as of this week as u.s. special envoy to north Korea.

Bosworth marks two years balancing diplomacy, deanship

by ben GittlesonDaily Editorial Board

As students at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy sat down for exams in December, their dean had other things on his mind: how to pre-vent war on the Korean peninsula. For Stephen Bosworth, the dean of The Fletcher School and the Obama administration’s special envoy on

North Korea, balancing the demands of a full-time deanship with the mitiga-tion of rising tensions in the North has become the norm. Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced his appointment as special envoy two years ago this week, Bosworth has played an instrumental role in U.S. policy toward North Korea, mak-

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the tufts Community union senate on Monday appointed two students as com-munity representatives to represent the

Queer straight alliance (Qsa) and the asian american alliance (aaa). freshman Grainne Griffiths will represent Qsa and tufts’ lGBt community on the senate. Griffiths on feb. 14 ran unopposed in an

election held by Qsa after sophomore alex lis-Perlis resigned from the posi-tion last month. Griffiths aims to better coordinate Qsa’s activities with those of other groups on campus in an effort to emphasize shared experiences. “i want to integrate more events with other Group of six members as well as other groups on campus,” she said. “We don’t want to focus on an issue that only people who identify as lGBt can relate to; we want to recognize similarities between different groups.”

Griffiths also hopes to improve coordi-nation between different lGBt-focused groups on campus. “i’m very excited to integrate all the different efforts of the lGBt groups at tufts,” she said. “right now, everyone seems to be on a different page, but i’m excited for us to work together more.” Junior richa Batra will serve as the community representative for the aaa and the asian-american community at tufts. Batra was selected for the posi-tion two weeks ago in an election held by the asian american Center. she stressed the importance of increasing diversity within senate “i want to act as a voice for the asian-american community within senate,” Batra said. “i think the posi-tion is very important, especially now that community reps have more rights on senate and because it brings more diversity to the body. i’m happy to be a part of it.”

Two community reps appointed to TCU Senate

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international Orientation, along with tufts’ four other pre-orientation programs, will now fall under the supervision of the undergraduate Orientation Office.

Freshman pre-orientations centralized under one office

by Jenny WhiteDaily Editorial Board

Logistical changes to Tufts’ pre-ori-entation programs will next year bring all five programs under the supervi-sion of the Undergraduate Orientation Office, streamlining their advertise-ment and application processes. The office, in conjunction with the programs’ coordinators and the Office for Campus Life (OCL), will this year help develop a universal appli-cation and payment mechanism for all five of the programs, which include Conversations, Action, Faith and Education (CAFE); Fitness and Individual Development at Tufts (FIT);

Freshman Orientation Community Service (FOCUS); International Orientation (IO); and Tufts Wilderness Orientation (TWO). It will also provide training for all program leaders and staff and coordi-nate the logistics for students storing belongings in their dorms before pre-orientation programs begin, accord-ing to Coordinator for Orientation and Administration Jamie Engle. “We are helping to coordinate the logistical aspects of the programs but are leaving control of the content to the individual programs,” Engle said. The changes will bring a sense of

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and lower costs for student plans across Massachusetts. Bowdler said the cost of stu-dent insurance will inevitably rise over the next few years since col-leges and universities like Tufts will likely implement changes to comply with the proposed regu-lations beginning in the 2012-13 academic year. Health insurance is manda-tory for all residents over 18 in Massachusetts, though many undergraduates opt to remain on their families’ health plans, which typically offer more benefits than the student plan. Since September, young adults nationwide have been allowed to stay on their parents’ insurance until the age of 26 as a result of the Affordable Care Act President Barack Obama signed last year.

Coverage One stipulation in the pro-posed regulations calls for an annual limit of at least $100,000 for essential health benefits. The stipulation would go into effect between January and September 2012. This would mean, for example, a large increase in the Tufts plan’s maximum for pre-scription-drug coverage, which is currently $2,000, Bowdler said. Prescription drugs are included in the HHS definition if essential health benefits. The majority of students do not exhaust this benefit, according to Bowdler, with only five to 10 students per year going over the $2,000 mark.

Still, Bowdler said the univer-sity would work to adjust benefits incrementally over the next few years in light of the proposed regu-lations. Administrators, she added, are currently considering options for improving student insurance. “If there’s one person who has an unexpected illness, we wouldn’t want that one person not to be cov-ered and have to worry about their health care,” Bowdler said. Students in SHOC believe the new regulations are moving stu-dent health insurance in the right direction and that current health care plans are inadequate, accord-ing to Markowitz. “Students are required to buy health insurance, and if they’re required to buy health insur-ance, they should be covered by plans that actually cover them,” Markowitz said. “You should be promoting education, and you should be promoting your stu-dents. ... Any regulations that do help increase benefits, I think, [are] a very big step and a very important step.” Markowitz called the $100,000 maximum “very substantial.” Sophomore Brent Abel, chair of Tufts’ Student Health Advisory Board and a member of SHOC, said the new maximum could mean a lot for students with pre-existing medical conditions. Abel remains optimistic that the proposed regulations set stan-dards that are achievable through negotiation. “In order to get the cheapest price for Tufts,” he said, “it’s impor-tant to do a lot of bargaining with the insurance companies.”

Cost Bowdler, however, is unsure about how the proposed regula-tions will affect student health insurance costs at Tufts. “I think it’s OK, but I’m wor-ried about the cost increases,” she said. “I’m also confident that some of this will work itself out of the next few years.”

Abel and Markowitz said some-times a large amount of what students pay for their plans goes toward administrative overhead and not their health care. As much as 30 to 45 percent of certain plans’ costs do not go toward health care, according to Markowitz. “One really important thing

for bargaining power is that universities have to join togeth-er on this,” he said. “The bigger your clientele, the more power you have.” Abel added that it was impor-tant to make insurance compa-nies compete for Tufts’ patron-age by constantly comparing their benefits and costs.

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Proposed regulations would expand breadth and cost of student health care plans.

ing numerous trips to Washington and northeast Asia to discuss with officials on both sides of the globe the secretive nation’s nuclear program and humani-tarian record. All the while, he has managed the affairs of and fundraised for The Fletcher School, fulfilling his aca-demic responsibilities to a degree that he says has not diminished. Bosworth has instead used his civic service position to enrich the edu-cational experience at the graduate school, holding half-a-dozen off-the-record briefings for members of the Fletcher community and updating colleagues during monthly faculty meetings, he said. Seth Leighton, a first-year Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy can-didate, said that through attending two of the off-the-record talks, he has learned how uninformed U.S. officials really are when it comes to on-goings in North Korea. “I’ve become aware of … the extent to which there’s a lack of information and how much that constrains the ability to negotiate and look at policy choices,” he said. A number of smaller-scale, infor-mal events like guest lectures have also brought Bosworth’s expertise to the classroom, according to both Bosworth and Ian Davis, assistant director for media relations at The Fletcher School. Bosworth said his return to civil service represented the ideals of the university and The Fletcher School. Prior to coming to Tufts, he served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea for four years and had earlier been ambassador to Tunisia and to the Philippines. “It’s an illustration of the kinds of things that we are educating our stu-dents to be able to do,” Bosworth said of his current role. While he conceded that the increased demands on his time over the past two years have added stress to his private life, Bosworth said

that his academic work “keeps [him] sane.” He estimated that about 20 to 25 percent of his time is spent on his State Department position, and he devotes the rest to Fletcher. “My life here at Tufts and at Fletcher adds an element of balance, gives me a sense of perspective,” he said. “It’s been a healthy balance in dealing with the frustrations of the North Korean problem.” Depending on “the tenor” of events in northeast Asia, the dean travels to the region once every two or three months and spends one or two days in Washington every couple of weeks. Next week, he is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Constant travel has taken a toll on Bosworth, who travels on Fletcher business in addition to his work on North Korea policy. In the fall, he vis-ited London, Spain, India, Dubai and Brazil for The Fletcher School in addi-tion to two trips to northeast Asia this academic year, according to the State Department’s website. “Steve is a remarkable guy,” University President Lawrence Bacow said in an e-mail. “Beyond being a ter-rific dean and a distinguished public servant, he has amazing energy and stamina. I don’t know how he does it. From my perspective, he is perform-ing public service at the highest pos-sible level so he has my full support.” Bosworth’s dual role, Bacow said, has “provided great visibility for Fletcher on the world stage.” A State Department official in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs was unaware of any other offi-cial in the current administration at Bosworth’s level of seniority simul-taneously holding an academic posi-tion of the same stature. Leighton, who concentrates on law and development in Pacific Asia, said he has appreciated Bosworth’s open-ness when speaking with students. “I think he certainly is as knowl-edgeable as anyone else, perhaps in the world, on the Korean peninsula,” Leighton said.

administrative authority to the way the programs are run, according to Assistant Director of Athletics and FIT coordinator Branwen Smith-King. “It’s important for the administra-tion to have a hand in what we do and for us to feel supported,” Smith-King said. While the change aims to streamline pre-orientation programs, several stu-dents who helped coordinate this year’s programs expressed concern that the common application would dampen the individuality that program-specific applications allowed. “We like to write our own application in a very FOCUS-specific way,” FOCUS co-Coordinator Mike Borys, a sopho-more said. “We’re afraid we might end up with people who don’t really want to be at FOCUS.” Junior Elliott McCarthy, who served as a co-coordinator for CAFE, expressed similar concern that the common appli-cation would take away from the indi-viduality of each program. “It will be harder to tell whether a student would be a good fit for your program or not,” McCarthy said, add-ing that he hoped to avoid creating an application as formal as the one used by Tufts’ Office of Undergraduate Admissions. The Undergraduate Orientation Office and coordinators for each pro-gram are in the process of collaborating on a final version of the official applica-tion, Borys said. The universal application will help encourage cooperation among the groups and streamline the application process, Smith-King said. “There was a feeling that we needed to collaborate more, and the common application will be a step in the right direction,” she said. “I’m in favor of the work [the Undergraduate Orientation Office] is trying to do to make the pro-gramming more uniform.” The new application process will now also require all pre-orientation pro-grams to notify students of their accep-tance in June, according to International

Office Director Jane Etish-Andrews, who serves as the IO coordinator. The Undergraduate Orientation Office this year will also centralize the advertizing of the pre-orientation programs into a joint brochure featur-ing all five options. Advertisement was a responsibility formerly delegated to the heads of individual programs. The office will circulate the brochure online and on paper at April Open House. Since the Undergraduate Orientation Office will allocate a higher budget for the common brochure than individual programs have had available to them in the past, Borys believed the packet will be of better quality. Etish-Andrews believed that central-izing the programs’ recruitment efforts would bring IO in league with the bet-ter-known pre-orientation programs. “It’ll make us more mainstream,” she said. “It will give the program more visi-bility to be with the other four programs that we’re not usually listed with.” McCarthy agreed that CAFE, which is sponsored by the student interfaith ini-tiative of the same name and last year hosted nine participants, will benefit from the heightened visibility. “It gives everyone equal exposure,” McCarthy said. “We’ll probably see an increase in numbers.” TWO co-Coordinators Louisa Bradberry and Duke Fountain, both seniors, believed that the changes were in the best interest of students and their families and would not hurt the integrity of any programs if implement-ed properly. “We are doing our best to work with the OCL to meet their concerns, while also trying to retain the individuality and excellence that people have come to expect from TWO,” Bradberry said. The move, Smith-King said, reflect-ed the university’s belief that pre-ori-entation programming is valuable for incoming freshmen. “We’re all responsible for these young people,” she said. “The univer-sity has taken it seriously enough that they want to combine our efforts, and that really shows the value of these programs.”

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Anyone who watched, read or heard about last month’s State of the Union Address came away with a knowledge of at least one new goal on America’s politi-cal to-do list: Win the future. The public reception of the term was less unanimous. While some named President Barack Obama’s newest slogan as just the morale boost the country needed, others reduced it to an acronym: “WTF.” But the catchphrase — also the title of a 2005 Newt Gingrich book, as well as a handful of other modern political mani-festos — is not the first to make it big dur-ing Obama’s presidency. Nor is Obama, for that matter, the first politician with a penchant for wordplay. Political slogans of years past have been met with equally divergent responses and with equally per-suasive arguments, leaving many divided on whether political aphorisms hold any real meaning or whether they are mere publicity stunts. The answer is as simple and complicat-ed as, “both,” according to Bob Lehrman (A ’65), chief speechwriter for former Vice President Al Gore. “Take ‘winning the future.’ Meaning? Yes. The message is, ‘At a time when Americans worry that we’ll never have prosperity again, and we will lose out to China or India, who seem to be mov-ing ahead, we will recover, and we’ll win that battle,’” Lehrman, who is currently an American University speechwriting pro-

fessor, told the Daily. “But it was also done in a way that guaranteed publicity.” Deborah Schildkraut, associate profes-sor of political science at Tufts, explained that whether a political slogan holds any weight or, more importantly, any efficacy, depends on the situation in which the slogan is used and to what end. Wording is often just about getting the audience to remember something, she said, but words’ contextual associations can also help win or lose a political battle. The most transparent of these situa-tions is what social scientists would cat-egorize as framing: when opposing sides of a debate craft phraseology to present a stance more publicly palatable than their opponent’s, if only linguistically. “A catchphrase associated with a partic-ular policy can matter in terms of framing the debate about that policy and helping figure out what an issue is about. That can be consequential,” Schildkraut said. “The side that succeeds in framing gets the upper hand, and the other side is then in a position of trying to dislodge the fram-ing of the issue that is being discussed. An example that comes to mind is using a term like ‘death panels’ when talking about health care reform.” Framing can be as simple as associating words that register as “good” with your own argument and words that register as “bad” with your adversary’s. Of course, oppo-nents in a semantic battle can fight back, as the “pro-choice” camp did to a strong, offensive phrase “pro-life,” which at first seemed to leave its corollary framed as the

“pro-death” position, Lehrman said. “You try to find a phrase that means something to a lot of people — and try to get a lot of people to hear it,” he said. “Americans like optimism. They like peo-ple who are for something good. Both parties devote a lot of time and money try-ing to find slogans, phrases or acronyms that are both optimistic or for something impossible to oppose.” And it’s no wonder political figures pour time and money into focus groups that scrutinize the terminology of their plat-forms; the effect of this name game on manipulation of public support is measur-able, Schildkraut said. “We see this in debates about immi-gration reform. One side promotes giv-ing illegal immigrants an opportunity for ‘earned citizenship,’ while the other side opposes ‘amnesty.’ Research shows that the American public favors allowing illegal immigrants to earn legal status, but that support is weaker — though still a major-ity — if the survey question uses the word ‘amnesty,’” she said. Slogans are used as framing devices on smaller political battlefields as well.Former Tufts Democrats President Seth Rau, a junior, cited the debate surrounding vot-ing rights for the Tufts Community Union Senate’s community representatives. “Choosing your words in a debate is critical. Look at this fall’s vote between Referendum 3 and 4. One proposal that won by one vote nearly won the election because it talked more about celebrating diversity, which is a key buzzword on our campus,” he said. “At the end of the day, the public wants a memorable phrase that the media drives into their heads, whether they realize it or not.” Current Tufts Democrats President Ryan Long, also a junior, sees framing as poten-tially hazardous to campus affairs. “I have seen language manipulation used in many different contexts, including on campus and think that it can be a seri-ous problem on a national scale,” he said. “I think that people are frequently swayed by rhetoric and do not investigate policies and the truth of what people say or even really think about it.” Still, senior Kevin McDonald, vice president of Tufts Republicans, does not think that the slogans used on campus — or in Washington — make much of a real difference when it comes to voters’ leanings for one reason: “They’re short and easily forgotten,” he said. Lehrman is of a same opinion. While he agreed that language manipulation can

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Imagine this scene: You’re walking across the Academic Quad on a brisk autumn day in October 1954. You hold a copy of the Tufts Weekly

in your hands, eagerly scanning an article that has made big news on campus. In fact, this news is so big the Weekly was moved to declare this “the first time that such liberal rules have been put into effect in any men’s college in the East. We have set a prec-edent.” What headline, you may ask, transformed Tufts into such a radical institution? “Women Permitted in Dormitories.” Men and women in the same resi-dential building before marriage? What kind of lunatic could even dream of such a policy? Considering the context and putting sarcasm aside, it appears that Tufts really did take a big step by allowing men to bring their dates back to the dorms. Just look at all the ways this new policy essentially turned Tufts into a coed free-for-all: 1. You’ve been out all night at the local watering hole, wooing that spe-cial girl. Things are going so well that the two of you decide to go back to your room for the night. Well ... not quite. First “a dormitory resident signs his date in by putting her name, her school, his name, and the time” in a book kept at the front desk in each dor-mitory. And as for spending the night? If this is a weekend we’re talking about, then “hours after 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings come under the regulations for parties and must have chaperones.” Nothing screams “party” like a chaperone in your dorm room. 2. So, you’ve finally managed to fol-low all the rules: Your date is signed in. It’s Sunday, so she’s visiting from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. or 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Now the fun really begins, as long as “the doors to the rooms are left fully open and normal lighting [is] being used.” I’ve always found the harsh glow of fluorescent lights to be particularly romantic. 3. Though it’s hard to believe, you were one of the lucky ones if your date actually made it into your well-lit, eas-ily monitored room. According to these liberal rules, you weren’t allowed to bring a girl to your room if your dorm had a lounge. Instead, the two of you had to remain in the lounge and your date couldn’t leave “for any reason except to us[e] the toilets.” This is where it starts to sound like prison. 4. Let’s assume you’ve found a girl who has not yet decided to desert you. Things seem to be looking up because you and your date are the only two people in the lounge, even though your ninety minutes of visiting time are almost over. You lean in for the kiss and ... your Faculty Resident stomps through the lounge, performing his duty to provide a ten-minute warning before all girls have to leave the dorm. What a mood-killer! But look at us now: Not only have we done away with the check-in desks, open door policies and visiting hours, but men and women can actually live together in the same dorms! I some-times wonder, though, if these relaxed policies are really worth it. Because when I think about the guys’ wing of my freshman dorm, all I can remem-ber are my male neighbors’ impossibly loud, three-hour-long Guitar Hero bat-tles and the fact that their half of the hall constantly smelled sort of funky. I guess that’s just the price you pay for progress ...

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Alanna Tuller is a sophomore majoring in English and Spanish. She can be reached at Alanna.Tuller@tufts.edu.

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‘Winning the future’: What, if anything, do political slogans actually mean?

by Romy oltuskiDaily Editorial Board

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The efficacy of political catchphrases, like the ‘8 is Enough’ slogan used in President Barack obama’s presidential campaign, is often questioned.

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‘yes We Can’ was one of the defining slogans during Barack obama’s 2008 presidential run.

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sometimes be effective in the specific case of framing, its outcomes even then are overestimated: Language can only comple-ment a politician’s message, not define it. One catchphrase often cited as having cast a politician in a favorable light is President Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America.” Still, Lerhman clarified, the slogan accompanied Reagan’s politics, rather than defined them. “While Reagan won, the slogan didn’t make much difference,” he said. “The TV ad using it made some [difference]; it was really skillful. But the economy, the lingering unpopularity of Carter and Reagan’s avuncular appeal were much more important.” Moreover, framing is only one use of political catchphrases, and if a phrase is being used for another purpose — like to describe a political philosophy or pro-vide an uplifting message midterm, as is the case with “winning the future” — the effect is likely to be much more negligible, Schildkraut said. “For the most part, I don’t think they help all that much, especially during gov-ernance, i.e. ‘Winning the future.’ During the campaign, a phrase like, ‘Yes, we can,’ can tap into a zeitgeist and feed into the enthusiasm that people have for the cam-paign. That enthusiasm can certainly help to sustain involvement. During governance, however, a vague catchphrase about an approach to policy-making has difficulty resonating,” Schildkraut said. Lehrman agreed that “Yes, we can” was effective as a slogan but differed from “Winning the future” significantly. “‘Winning the future’ was a State of the Union message, calculated to express opti-mism,” he said. “‘Yes, we can’ was not only a theme of Obama’s campaign. He used it in the long, brilliant end of his vic-tory speech … at a time when that message struck home.” McDonald, who believes that the lan-guage that characterized the beginning of Obama’s presidential campaign — words like “hope” and “change” — have immense power to inspire and mobilize

supporters, thinks that the president’s most recent linguistic offering falls short for other reasons. “It doesn’t strike me as anything special,” he said. “This slogan doesn’t have the same panache that others do; it lacks any kind of emotional power that many good slo-gans have. ‘It’s morning again in America’ gave the sense of rejuvenation and renewal for the country; ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid’ summed up the anger of the American people at the time. ‘Winning the future,’ to me, doesn’t have any of these qualities of a lasting slogan.”

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If you’re looking for the next “How I Met Your Mother,” look elsewhere.

“Mad Love,” the latest sitcom from CBS, tells the story of two pairs of friends, Ben and Larry, and Kate and Connie, searching for love in New York City. The pilot begins as Ben ( Jason Biggs) and Larry (Tyler Labine) are leaving the observation deck of the Empire State Building and Ben forgets his phone. He returns to the top and finds Kate (Sarah Chalke) holding it. They share instant “fireworks” — coinciden-tally the same name as the pilot episode and an obvious allusion to the classic movie, “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993). The pilot retains its unoriginality as Ben invites Larry to go out with Kate and her best friend, Connie (Judy Greer). Larry and Connie, as the best friends of Ben and Kate, respectively, are at odds from the start, a sort of hate-at-first-sight, and viewers are expected to find comedy in their snarky bickering. A strong point of the show

I have to admit I was a little more than ashamed when I bought my ticket for “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.” Dignity aside,

though, it is actually a fairly entertaining movie. Although marketed as a concert film, its real strength lies in the backstage foot-age and home-movie clips that help viewers understand Justin Bieber and his journey to massive popstardom. The moment Bieber’s face appeared on the big screen, the tween girls in the audience started screaming — loudly. If just his picture can drive little girls that wild, it is not hard to imagine the effect he has on the girls at his

concerts and in real life. A good portion of the film is simply tween girls: the kind still in the awkward middle school phase, talking about how much they love everything from the Biebs’ personality to his looks to his voice. All of the girls have a slightly crazy look in their eyes, like they honestly believe they will actually marry Justin someday. These clips of fans provide some laughs; whether intentional or not, it is still funny. Bieber and his production team know their target audience. Scooter, Bieber’s man-ager, even states that Justin’s fans are a “loyal group of girls.” There is no doubt that Justin Bieber is being marketed to young females and the constant shots of crying girls dur-ing the performances show the filmmakers know this too. One of the funniest scenes in the movie plays off Bieber’s fans and their undying obses-sion with him. In the middle of the movie, there is a continuous slow-motion shot of

Ever wonder what exactly happened to some of grunge’s classic bands? Look no further than Earth.

Recently, fans of doom metal band Earth haven’t been sure exactly what to expect, and its highly anticipated sixth album, “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I,” released earlier this month, continues to surpass expectations. Founded in 1989 by Dylan Carlson, Earth originally depended on the Black Sabbath-esque distorted guitar sound that bands like Melvins and Nirvana re-popularized. The band rapidly built up a fan base and inspired a number of bands, including Sunn O))) and Sleep. Sunn O))) even went so far as to name itself after Earth’s favorite Sunn-brand amplifiers. But just as Earth’s grungy, drone-metal popularity started to gain momentum and a number of imita-tors, the band went on hiatus in 1996. It returned in 2002 with a notice-ably different sound. Drifting away

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Macaroni and cheese is the ulti-mate American comfort food. Even the snottiest, pickiest of children pine for that combina-

tion of pasta and orange dairy product of questionable origin. It’s creamy, it’s salty, it’s like a cuddly blanket that tastes good. I’ve yet to meet anyone that outgrew their love of macaroni and cheese. The ability of this dish to transcend generations — in conjunc-tion with a new restaurant trend revolving around the transformation of simple, homey foods into expressions of gourmet extrava-gance — has led to the creation of recipes for mac with double-take-worthy price tags. Take, for example, the gentrified reincar-nation of macaroni and cheese at the Los Angeles fine dining establishment, Mélisse. The $95 concoction consists of fresh taglia-telle and parmesan cheese topped with white truffles and brown butter truffle froth. Some restaurants have gone so far as to devote themselves exclusively to this one dish, like Cheeseology in my hometown of St. Louis. Thinking outside the blue box does not by any means require spending all of your dough. The key to making your own fancy mac rests on executing one technique, after which you are the master of your own cheesy destiny. This essential part of the equation is the sauce, which typically begins with a béchamel, the classic French white sauce of milk thickened by a butter and flour paste called roux (pro-nounced “roo”). Cheese is added to the bécha-mel to create Mornay sauce. The following is an extremely inexact rec-ipe I put together that packs tons of flavor and a silky texture. I’ll walk you through the steps and my reasoning behind choosing the ingredients. You can, of course, omit and substitute where you want.

About a third of a box of campanelleMilkButterSalt and pepperGarlic powderShredded American and cheddar cheesesSherry (I got a bottle of inexpensive Amontillado at Trader Joe’s)2 strips of baconA handful of shrimp: raw, peeled, deveined and chopped into bite-size piecesPanko breadcrumbs

Cook the campanelle, or whatever pasta you choose, until al dente. I like campan-elle because it holds thick sauces beauti-fully and looks pretty cool too. Drain and set the pasta aside. While the pasta boils, cook the bacon until crispy. Crumble it up and set that aside. In a medium to large pot, melt about four tablespoons of butter and add an equal amount of flour, stirring vigorously to keep it free of lumps. The mixture should form a smooth paste; add more flour if it looks too thin. Cook the roux over medium heat for about a minute, just to get the raw flour taste out. At this point, pour in milk, while stirring; then, add shrimp. Cooking the shrimp in the sauce will add a briny flavor. Turn the heat off after a minute or so. Add a few handfuls of the shredded cheese. I chose this particular blend for cheddar’s sharpness and because American melts real smooth-like. Stir in the bacon, an ingredient I really should not have to explain (smoky! bacony!) and no more than two tablespoons of sherry. Sherry is great because it adds a certain “je ne sais quoi” and reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Don’t argue. As one housemate put it after trying this dish, “I’m never eating maca-roni and cheese again without sherry.” Season with salt, pepper and garlic pow-der to taste. Stir in the pasta. At this point you can just eat the stuff, or, you can take it to the next level and bake it at 350 degrees with breadcrumbs on top until golden brown and you can’t wait anymore.

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Emily Balk is a senior majoring in biopsychology. She can be reached at Emily.Balk@tufts.edu.

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Earth takes on a more refined, musically mature sound in ‘Angels of Darkness’

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is the relationship between Ben and Kate. Biggs and Chalke are not only well-suited for each other chemistry-wise, but they are also matched in their acting abilities. Biggs, known for his starring role in the famous teen film series “American Pie,” has found similar roles ever since, perfecting his lowbrow comic acting. Similarly, Chalke’s role in “Scrubs” (2001-10) exhibited her “dram-edy” sensibilities, which she effortlessly brings to her new show. Their charm, comedy and touch of romance could have enhanced this fail-ing comedy, if only their lines hadn’t been heard countless times in varying combinations over the past 20 years. Their chemistry is dependent on the script and could have been more pro-nounced and unique had the lines con-tained an ounce of novelty. Instead, the romance falls on its face. Greer and Labine, on the other hand, prove to be a disastrous match. Greer has played more challenging roles that better demonstrate her talent in movies such as “27 Dresses” (2008) and “13 Going on 30” (2004), and in TV shows such as “Arrested Development” (2003-6). This role is a step down for her — it demonstrates none of her range. She could bring so much life to the show if it just offered her some creative freedom. Greer is quite unequally matched with Labine, an actor who has not nearly as much acting prowess. His acting experi-ences display a remarkable lack of variety or range, and his character attests to that. His role is a combination of all the crass, goofy men who appear in TV shows and is reminiscent of a stripped-down Barney Stinson of “How I Met Your Mother,” add-ing nothing to the show. His character is not comical — he’s unappealing and will certainly turn off many viewers if his streak of tactless comedy continues.

Though the “Mad Love” cast includes familiar names like Biggs and Greer, and the producers attempt to use them to create a competent show, the program’s major downfall is its writing. It doesn’t make any departure from more relevant and successful sitcoms, yet it constantly reminds us of its competitors. The series could showcase its actors’ talents and strengths; instead, it takes the tack to entertain the audience, recycling material

from relationships on past sitcoms. Even the settings lack a certain believability. Greer’s character could be made much more human by adding humor that doesn’t involve venom. Occasional snide comments, given the right circumstanc-es, can certainly enhance a show, but they shouldn’t be used a first option. And as for the lead romantic couple, the writers could afford to differentiate the characters. “Mad Love” may be a com-

edy, but every comedy has to have a bit of drama in it — a quality that will be lacking if the two are too compatible and similar. “Mad Love” may be a failed “How I Met Your Mother,” but if the producers were to make it its own show and flesh out its characters’ intentions, it could be prom-ising and enjoyable to watch. It would be a shame for these actors, aside from Labine, to be robbed of the opportunity to make the show a success.

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‘Mad love’ seems to copy ‘How i Met your Mother,’ right down to the bar table.

Bieber smiling and whipping his hair back. It is humorous and shows that Bieber can make fun of himself and the persona that has been created for him. The shot is completely ridicu-lous and the filmmaker knows it; the director is winking at the audience and letting them know that Bieber does not take his teen idol image too seriously. Bieber’s army of schoolgirl fans is one of the reasons why so many people brush him off as a teen celebrity instead of a real musician, but the film compiles enough clips of Bieber as a child to prove that the kid does have talent. Home movies of a 7-year-old Bieber keeping great rhythm on a drum despite his lack of training would be impressive enough. Add on Bieber as a child playing the guitar and singing some complicated songs and it is clear that there is more to this little Canadian than just a smile and a hairdo. Despite the glimpse behind all the celeb-rity and hysteria in Bieber’s life, the film is still constructed in a way that retains his whole-some image. Clips of Bieber praying over a slice of pizza before eating and refusing to ever cancel a show come off as manipulative in a blatant attempt to show Bieber as a nice guy. Even with these kinds of scenes, though, it is interesting to witness Bieber’s world and try to understand what goes along with fame and

wealth at a young age. Performances from Bieber’s tour are sprin-kled throughout the film. Shot with 3-D cam-eras, the stage and performance pops out at the audience. Yet sitting in a movie theater even with that technology never matches the experience of seeing a concert in person. Plenty of guest stars, including Boyz II Men (who should probably be called Men II Seniors pretty soon), Usher, Jaden Smith, Ludacris and Miley Cyrus, sing with Bieber to liven up the concert portions. But while Bieber definitely has a stage presence and his songs can eas-ily get stuck in the viewer’s head, the perfor-mances never seem to elevate to the level of justifying the massive craze around him. The film ends with a massive performance of Bieber’s ubiquitous hit “Baby” (2010), with tons of confetti and 3-D effects: It is the Bieber equivalent of a showstopper. If you are not a fan of Bieber after hearing about his struggles to make it in the industry and hearing his catchiest track sung in one of the most impor-tant musical venues in the world (Madison Square Garden), you probably never will be. But let’s be real: This is a film made for those who have already caught Bieber Fever. And considering that audience has already led “Never Say Never” to a $50 million domes-tic gross on a reported $13 million budget, Paramount Pictures can’t be too upset with the results.

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Justin Bieber and usher perform together in ‘never say never.’

from the traditional territory of doom metal, the band began to incorporate jazz, classical and country into its songs. Incredulous fans might have also noticed that some of its songs even sounded almost upbeat. From the first dusty notes of Wild West-reminiscent “Old Black,” “Angels of Darkness” has steadily, and almost predictably, continued this trend. While Earth’s fourth album, “Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method”(2005), foreshadowed the band’s increasing obsession with low-key soundscapes, its fifth album, “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull”(2008), showed the band’s increased willingness to wan-der further and further away from the standard confines of the metal genre. “Angels of Darkness” possesses a comfortable musical maturity found on none of Earth’s previous albums. Earth’s earlier music lay barely outside the realm of Sleep’s “Dopesmoker”(2003) and Melvins’ “Stoner Witch”(1994), but this album is more refined and cohe-sive. That’s not to say that Earth’s origi-nal sound isn’t still there: The music still trudges, drones still lend a subtle but continued presence, and a mere five songs comprise the hour-long album. However, this album’s instru-mental subtlety draws it particularly far from Earth’s roots. At times, the songs can be slightly unrewarding. Slight emotional varia-tions aside, the songs start to resemble each other. Just as a song seems to build to a climax, it frequently shies away and pursues other directions. Indeed, rather than having the songs progress toward anything in particular, the band seems much more interested in exploring the different instruments’ interactions in a drawn-out progression of musical tex-tures. “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull” exemplified Earth’s talent of emphasizing the voice of each instru-ment, yet “Angels of Darkness” takes rather the opposite approach. Despite this psychedelic musi-

cal doodling, the songs maintain an impressive degree of warmth and depth due to the presence of another, lesser-known ’90s icon. Cellist Lori Goldston, best known for her work with Nirvana, Bush and David Byrne, adds a critical depth to “Angels of Darkness” with sonorous, grinding cello parts that complement the band’s guitar work perfectly. This album’s focus isn’t on the musical progression within the songs; rather, the songs’ structure and merit revolve around the complex, incred-ibly melodic interactions between the weighty depth of the cello and the comparably soaring guitars. The almost physical presence of the cello and electric bass grounds the songs and leaves the band free to dabble and experiment overhead. And experiment it does. On the track “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I,” for example, the extreme baritone of the cello is bare-ly noticeable until a few carefully selected inter-instrumental harmo-nies resolve some particularly experi-mental sections. Similar moments of effective tonal dis-parateness occur on the strangely victori-ous “Hell’s Winter,” rescuing the song from sounding exactly like a funeral march. Though the album’s length and lack of predictable song structure may make it difficult for some fans to enjoy initially, these brief, sporadic moments of complete resolution that make all the listening worth it. Earth may be losing some of its original fans, but the band clearly has a method to its madness. It is hard to believe that grunge and post-rock could ever be effectively reconciled, and yet Earth has done just that. Its change in musical style stays true to its roots, while keeping pace with the thriving modern sub-genres of post-rock and ambient. Earth still has plenty up its sleeve, which fans will be able to enjoy as soon as next year with its 2012 release of “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II.”

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Student health plans should be on par with nation’s Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a new regulation that would bring student health insurance plans up to the standards of the Affordable Care Act, which passed last year. The new rule would affect insurance plans offered at colleges and universities, including the plan at Tufts offered through Aetna, and is a sensible step toward assuring quality care for college students. The proposed regulation defines student insurance plans as a type of individual health coverage, instead of their current status as either “short-term limited duration insurance” or “blanket” group insurance, neither of which allow for many protections of the Affordable Care Act. The new classi-fication would reconcile student health insurance plans with other individual plans, allowing the federal government to regulate them effectively. This would ensure that students get the same ben-efits from the health care overhaul as the rest of the country does. This is an important and welcome change, one that puts necessary pro-tections on students’ health care plans. These include ensuring that no monetary limits can be placed on lifetime coverage, an integral part of

the Affordable Care Act. It would also prevent arbitrary revocation of cover-age based on mistakes in the origi-nal application process for insurance. Finally, the regulation would end the exclusion of students under age 19 who have pre-existing conditions. These were important components of last year’s health care bill, and it is prudent that they apply to and protect college students as well. In addition to these new protections, the regulation would provide a com-mon minimum coverage of $100,000, which is essential to student health care. Currently, coverage limits for existing student plans vary widely. According to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), annual coverage limits for college plans range anywhere from $15,000 to $250,000, with the median at $50,000. Tufts’ Aetna plan is on the high end, allowing for up to $250,000 of benefits per policy per year, and thus would not be greatly affected by the new rule. Students at other many other universities, however, are not as fortunate. Over 20 percent of plans offered in the student health market have a coverage cap of $100,000 or less, compared with only about 0.2 percent in the individual market.

This wide range leads to discrep-ancies in student coverage and, in turn, in the quality of student health care. These unfair and unacceptable discrepancies are exactly what the HHS proposal aims to alleviate. The GAO and HHS estimate that between 1.1 and 1.5 million students will be affected by the regulation. The new rule will also increase transparency in the student health market. It will be mandatory for student health insur-ance providers to disclose to their customers whether or not their plan meets all requirements laid out in the Affordable Care Act. This regu-lation makes sure those individuals who purchase their health coverage through their college or university will also benefit from the new consumer protections now in the law. The Affordable Care Act allows for individuals under the age of 26 to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans, but for many students, universi-ty-provided plans are the only option. Though college-age students are, on average, healthier than the population at large, they should not be discrimi-nated against because of this. The qual-ity of their health care should be on par with the rest of the nation’s.

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Penny pincher: Search engine abuse skews results

Think for a moment about how much trust we put into Internet search engines like Google. They are our springboards to the otherwise nearly impenetrable expanse of information available online. That’s why it’s a bit disturbing that a single company — JCPenney — manipulated the largest search engine in the world for months on end with-out Google noticing. When The New

York Times saw the department store showing as the top Google search result for everything from bedding to dresses, they brought in an expert who explained the devious means compa-nies use to attain higher results. JCPenney [allegedly] planted links in abandoned sites to boost its stand-ings — and it worked, to Google’s dis-may. The search engine has since tried to correct the problem manually, but the damage to our trust is done. With as enormous a place to patrol as the Internet, how are search engines sup-

posed to stop people from breaking the rules and falsifying the results? The simple answer is that they can’t: People always will find a way around the guidelines. That leaves us, the searchers, ques-tioning the order in which results are presented to us. We’re left wondering if the top result is really the most popular website for a given term or if its place-ment comes as a result of some string-pulling. If nothing else, the problem proves once again that we’re making the rules up as we go with the Internet.

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The focus of this year’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) course is “Our Nuclear Age: Promise and Peril.” Although my friends have enjoyed teasing me about giving up my social life in exchange for learning about “nukes,” I’ve found great relevancy to our lives in this experience. Most students at Tufts were born after the end of the Cold War, but for our parents and previous Tufts students, the nuclear arms race was a part of daily life; it was a serious concern and a heavily debated issue. Unfortunately, these debates are no longer a part of life at Tufts. The rest of this piece will attempt to prove that this debate is still worth having on campus. Nuclear weapons are still a part of our lives despite the end of the nuclear arms race and continued nuclear disarmament. Although the United States no longer tests nuclear weapons, France was actively test-ing nuclear weapons until 1996, both India and Pakistan tested nuclear weapons in 1998, and North Korea tested nuclear weap-ons in 2006 and 2009. The nuclear arms race has changed, not gone away. Israel has never openly tested nuclear weapons, but the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Israel has anywhere from 75 to 400 nuclear warheads. While Iran does not have nuclear weapons, it has been developing and testing ballistic missiles which could serve as delivery vehicles for nuclear warheads. Iran also has not been forthcoming in providing the International Atomic Energy Agency with information regarding its nuclear program and as a result the international community has no way of accurately knowing what the Iranians are truly up to. The debate over nuclear weapons is not a one-sided debate in favor of disar-mament, as there are many reasons that having a nuclear arsenal is better for the United States. Deterrence provided by American nuclear weapons gives non-nu-clear weapon state allies reassurance that they can have the powerful deterrent force of nuclear weapons without having their own nuclear arsenal. Countries like Japan need not worry about threat from nuclear weapons states because the United States is jointly responsible for Japan’s national defense. There has also not been a major conflict on the scale of a world war since the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since 1945 there has been what some international relations scholars call a “nuclear peace” that explains the lack of

major conflict in the second half of the 20th century and the present day. In the unfortunate age of terrorism that we live in, nuclear terrorism is also a threat that some experts view as a very credible threat in the years to come. Many experts who study the possibilities of nuclear ter-rorism, including political scientist and Harvard professor Graham Allison, Harvard professor Matthew Bunn and former CIA intelligence officer and Department of Energy Director of Intelligence Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (who will all be presenting at the EPIIC Symposium held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Feb. 23-27), have all called nuclear terrorism a prevent-able catastrophe against which the United States has done little to protect itself. What makes the nuclear-weapons issue such an interesting point of debate is that the effects and repercussions of our nuclear age are long-lasting and more complex than condemning nuclear weap-ons as dangerous to the world. In order to get the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) ratified by the Senate, President Obama pledged $85 billion to be spent over the next 10 years to modernize the infrastructure of the nuclear weapons program infrastructure. This $85 billion promise, however, does not include fund-ing for replacing the current nuclear stock-pile, much of which has been in operation longer than intended. Recently in Congress there has been a push to lower the federal budget and cut government spending. The pressure to cut government spending raises an interesting

question: What will happen to the $85 bil-lion currently slated to be spent on reviving and rebuilding the U.S. nuclear weapons infrastructure? The funding of the nation-al labs and plants has remained stagnant since the end of the Cold War — this $85 billion commitment would bring much-needed modernization to some of the facil-ities that are still operating in buildings that date back to World War II. Does the need to modernize our nuclear infrastructure, weapons and arms control programs out-weigh the need to cut federal spending? Nuclear weapons once again entered the public’s eye in December, as the Senate battled over New START’s ratification. Unfortunately, though, little discussion on nuclear weapons took place outside of EPIIC. The Daily for the most part ignored the issue with the exception of a couple articles that merely focused on the partisan political debate revolving around the treaty and not what New START meant outside of the political realm. Given the importance of nuclear weapons in foreign policy and international relations and as an indirect factor in our every day lives, the debate over nuclear weapons is certainly one fit-ting for a college campus like Tufts. As future leaders in our fields — whether as scientists, journalists or peace negotiators — it is important that we form opinions on issues that will shape the world we live in outside of Tufts.

America is not in decline

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Foreign Policy published a Jan. 3 article boldly titled “Think Again: American Decline” by Gideon Rachman. The last time I checked the website, 2,380

people “liked” it. I don’t. Very little about “American decline” is real or new. Similar predictions of U.S. decline have surfaced every decade or so since Washington rebuilt the international system after World War II, from the after-math of Sputnik in the 1960s to the eco-nomic distress of the 1980s. Foreign Policy is also hardly the only peddler of the latest declinism fetish. Everyone from Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria to former Singaporean diplo-mat Kishore Mahbubani to American intel-ligence agencies themselves has parroted a version of it. But every myth has a grain of truth. In this case it’s the fact that — God forbid — other powers are rising. Goldman Sachs says China will overtake the U.S. economy by 2027 and that the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will emerge as major world play-ers. But so what? Other powers have been rising for decades. Yet, to take one statistic, the American economy in 2004 was the same size relative to the world’s total GDP as it was in 1975 — 20 percent. The real and more useful questions about decline are therefore not who is growing and by how much, but whether emerging pow-ers can dent American power sufficiently and whether the United States will lose the key advantages that have sustained it as the world’s sole superpower. For all the fretting, the United States, as Mr. Rachman himself admits, remains the leader across the board. U.S. military power is still unmatched and vastly technologically supe-rior to any other nation. Military spending is almost as much as the rest of the world com-bined. The American economy dominates futuristic industries like biotechnology and nanotechnology with a potent combination of technological prowess and entrepreneur-ial flair. According to China’s own Jiao Tong University’s rankings, 17 of the world’s top 20 universities are American. Millions still flock here to pursue the American Dream, while America’s melting pot of cultures bodes well for its exceptional innovative capacity. Provided the United States continues to encourage immigration and starts control-ling its debt, there is little reason to believe that such a resilient colossus will see its vast advantages perish. There are also few signs of a “global multipo-lar system” emerging anytime soon. Despite doomsday realist predictions, no country has attempted to balance Washington’s hege-mony since 1991. And while the future rise of Asian powers may boost the case for eventual American decline, the truth is that each of the United States’ potential balancers also faces significant challenges going forward. For China, it is the growing dispar-ity between its coastal and inland areas, its physical isolation and the risk that it will get old before it gets rich. For India and the European Union, the challenge will be to painfully negotiate the divergent interests of states in a noisy democratic system. As for Iran, Russia and Venezuela, they are flexing their muscles as proud spoilers, not global powers. It is also quite unlikely that these states will soon form a coalition to confront the United States, given their own divergent interests. Even China and Russia compete ferociously in Central Asia today. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe we’ve reached Francis Fukuyama’s “end of histo-ry,” particularly with the slowing of democ-racy’s progress during the last decade. Nor do I think the United States will be able to dominate and dictate terms to others all the time in the future. Still, I just don’t see the irreversible decline in U.S. power and the rise of a new world order that many seem to reflexively accept.

Prashanth Parameswaran is a first-year Fletcher student. He can be reached at Prashanth.Parameswaran@tufts.edu. His blog is asianist.wordpress.com.

A defense of freedom of speech

Under what circumstances can democ-racy survive? Political scientist Robert Dahl argues in his book “Polyarchy” (1971) that the citizens of a democratic state must be allowed to “formulate preferences” and “signify their preferences” by means of “individual and collective action.” This action can come in the form of speech and other forms of public expression. Based on Dahl’s assertions, it may be prudent to ask the following question: What is democracy without freedom of speech? In more spe-cific terms, at what point does political cor-rectness infringe upon our inherent right to free expression? That The Primary Source was forced into self-censorship because of its provoc-ative treatment of affirmative action (the publication removed the piece from its website) testifies to the high level of politi-cal correctness within the Tufts’ commu-nity. Contrary to Ryan Heman’s argument in his Feb. 15 op-ed, “More speech, not less, and certainly not hate speech,” polit-ical correctness is the issue here. Free speech should not be thrown out in favor of sensitivity. Those who felt victimized or offended by The Primary Source’s piece on affirmative action had every right — and perhaps even an obligation — to respond. But if we rely on filtered exchange instead of honest opinion, intellectual growth becomes nearly impossible. While the fact

that the Primary Source printed a piece as offensive as “O Come, All Ye Black Folk” should have undermined its credibility as an intellectual publication, it should not have prompted calls for censorship, like when then-senior Biodun Kajopaiye declared, “I urge [the] Senate to ask cam-pus publications to make a lifelong pledge to say that they won’t do things to offend different communities.” Freedom of speech was the real victim here. Heman also argued in his op-ed that hate speech is not conducive to “intellec-tual discourse.” Although this may be true, I would hesitate in classifying The Primary Source’s carol on affirmative action as tantamount to hate speech. I would not consider it morally justifiable or journal-istically responsible either, but this brings me to an important detail: “Good morals” and freedom of speech do not necessarily have to be compatible. Allow me to explain this point further. Many of us are famil-iar with the town of Skokie, Ill., a heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago which, during the late 1970s, found itself at the center of a national debate over First Amendment rights. Neo-Nazis expressed an intention to march through the town, and the majority of Skokie’s citizens expressed outrage at the thought of such a possibility. Just how broadly could the First Amendment protect U.S. citizens? Was it possible to extend liberty even to those who are bent on destroying the very pil-

lars of freedom and equality that vitalize democracy? The case, National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, ulti-mately made its way to the Supreme Court, and in 1977 the Court ruled in favor of the neo-Nazis’ right to dem-onstrate. The First Amendment protects hateful and insulting speech, so long as that speech does not directly incite action that threatens human life. Democracy relies upon various insti-tutional frameworks in order to maintain stability and legitimacy, including regu-larly held elections, vigorous competition between opposing political forces and basic rights including freedom of asso-ciation, religion and, of course, expression. The point is that to limit freedom of expres-sion is to limit democracy. Thus, demanding that offensive publi-cations be banned or censored is irrecon-cilable with the basic tenets of a free, dem-ocratic society. I would expect the Tufts community to uphold these democratic principles and encourage the expansion of — not the limitation of — dialogue and expression, no matter how uncomfortable this process may be. For if we cannot uphold the principle of free expression, where do we stand as a society?

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To finish off what has been an up-and-down and at times disappointing regular season,

the ice hockey team went on a road trip to Vermont, where it faced conference foes St. Michael’s and Norwich. Much like the rest of its season, Tufts’ results were mixed: a 6-3 defeat to Norwich on Feb. 19 and a 5-3 victory over St. Michael’s on Feb. 18, which left the team’s final season record at 6-16-1. The game against Norwich on Saturday was expected to be tough, as the Cadets were on an eight-game winning streak and had just clinched their 13th consecutive ECAC title. But Tufts battled from the outset and jumped out to an early 1-0 lead after a goal from

senior forward Mike Vitale. Norwich managed to take a 2-1 lead, but Tufts fought its way back into the game, tying the score with freshman for-ward Kyle Gallegos’ 15th goal of the season. “We were on a power play, and [senior forward Tom] Derosa got pressured in the neutral zone, so he just threw the puck to me at the blue line,” Gallegos said. “There were two defenders in front of me, but I managed to slip through them and put the puck in between the goalie’s arm and his body for the goal.”

For the women’s squash team, a season full of close losses and shutouts was

unsurprising given the inex-perienced squad, whose start-ing nine consisted of just one senior and three rookie play-ers, two of whom had barely picked up a squash racket before the season began. Yet the Jumbos maintained all season that they were capable of better and finally proved that this weekend at the Walker Cup in Princeton, N.J. After losing its opening round match, Tufts recov-ered to win two consolation matches, ending the season on a high note and finishing with a 9-14 overall record. The No. 24 Jumbos finished 21st overall in the tourna-ment, an improvement over last season, when they came in second in the Epps Cup D division, equivalent to 26th place. On Sunday, Tufts, the low-est seed in the tournament’s C division, beat No. 22 Vassar

6-3 in the final round of the consolation bracket to secure fifth place. The previous day, Tufts, which had not beaten a team above it in the rank-ings all season, faced No. 21 Colby, a team that twice beat them 5-4 during the regu-lar season. Yet the Jumbos reversed the trend, upsetting the Mules for a 5-4 win. On Friday, Tufts lost its first match against the division’s top seed, No. 17 Franklin & Marshall (F&M), 9-0. F&M went on to finish first in the Walker Cup, beating No. 18 Hamilton 5-4 in the final round. “Beating [Colby and Vassar] was, of course, great because we believed that we could do it all along,” senior co-cap-tain Valerie Koo said. “In our previous matchups, we just psyched ourselves [out], but this time around we knew it was our last chance and everyone definitely played hard.” The Jumbos’ victory over Vassar in the consolation-round final was a team effort, with the top six of the Tufts’ ladder all bringing in wins. Koo, junior co-captain No. 3 Mercedes Barba and junior No. 5 Alyse Vinosky each won in three games, while junior No. 1 Alix Michael and soph-omores No. 4 Jess Rubine and No. 6 Ushashi Basu pulled out four-game victories. At the No. 7 spot, sophomore Hafsa Chaudhry had a close five game loss against Vassar sophomore Avery Siciliano. Tufts lost to Vassar 6-3

When the men’s basketball team took on Bates on Feb. 12 in a winner-take-all battle for fifth place in the NESCAC, it was boosted by a factor that has been missing for the past few seasons: a loud, boister-ous student section. Led largely by a contingent from the Zeta Psi fraternity — which also organized a pregame get-together at its on-campus house on Professors Row, a throng of over 50 students stayed on its feet from tipoff until the final buzzer marked a 66-62 Tufts victory. The students harassed the referees when unfavorable calls were made and chanted, swayed and berated opposing players. “It was a good atmosphere and it was especially noticeable because it was something we haven’t had for the rest of the year,” junior center James Long said. “Everyone that night was great. Everyone was excited with it being Senior Night and with all the playoff implications that were there with the Bates game. We fed off the crowd. They brought great energy and I think they were a huge help that night.” For Zeta Psi, the idea of the pregame festivities and the effort to get a big crowd out to the game originated from three sophomore fraternity brothers who also play for the Jumbos — forward Scott Anderson, guard Alex Goldfarb and center Matt Lanchantin.

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ICE HOCKEY

Seniors close with split weekendTufts defeats St. Michael’s, loses to Norwich to finish season

by DaviD McintyreDaily Editorial Board

see ICE HOCKEY, page 19

Daily File Photo

Freshman Kyle Gallegos, pictured above in a Dec. 4 game against St. anselm, has been a bright spot in tufts’ tough 2010-11 campaign.

MEn’s BasKEtBall

Bringing down the house: Students turn out for Senior DayFraternity-led pregame celebration leads to largest Cousens crowd of the season

by alex lachDaily Editorial Board

see MEn’s BasKEtBall, page 17

CourteSy Pat CorDeiro

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“We have some basketball players who are in Zeta, and they were talking about having some people over,” Zeta Psi President Luke Metcalf, a junior, said. “They checked in with me, and they were the ones that actually put up the Facebook group.” Fans started arriving to Zeta Psi’s house at around noon on Saturday, and by 12:30 p.m., a pretty large crowd had turned out. “It was an open-invitation thing,” Metcalf said. “A lot of kids who often come to Zeta showed up, but there were also a lot of people who we didn’t really know, which was sort of the point. For me, I just invited most of anyone I knew. It wasn’t really exclusive at all.” The crowd stayed at the house until just before 2 p.m., the scheduled tipoff time, at which point the mob made its way down to Cousens Gymnasium for the start of the game. The group, mostly clad in layers of Tufts attire, made its presence felt almost immediately and provided a stark contrast to what the crowd, the team and other fans usually expect. “[For most games], at the end of the day we have to bring our own energy,” Long, a tri-captain, said. “At this point, if you can’t get yourself up for a game you’re going to be in trouble, but it still helps. It doesn’t hurt when you have a bunch of people there cheering.” The energy was ubiquitous, from the Jumbos’ bench to the portions in the crowd not involved in the more raucous

activities. Senior Pat Doherty, who has attended a number of games during his time on the Hill, thought it was the best crowd he’s seen in his four years here. “They were really into it from the first minute to the final whistle, and I think that kind of school spirit and camaraderie between the students was something I’d like to see more of at Tufts. It was a breath of fresh air,” Doherty said. All parties agreed that the presence of the robust student section brought substantial energy to the game and the overall game experience. Metcalf said that while fraternities should not feel obligated to organize fan sections in the future, last Saturday was a fun experi-ence that could easily be replicated. “It’s definitely an opportunity. We do have houses that can host these things, and it would be good to see it happen more,” Metcalf said. “Most of the crowd, but not all, was at our house beforehand.” Attendance at most Tufts athlet-ic events, especially from students, is usually sparse, compared not only to Boston’s Div. I schools like BC and BU, but also to rival NESCAC schools like Amherst and Williams. A few different theories have been posited. “I think some of it has to do with size,” Long said. “Some of those other schools are small and everyone knows each other, and it’s a smaller network of getting people involved to go to the games. Tufts is twice the size of most of the other schools.” Doherty agreed that Tufts’ peer schools have a unique camaraderie due to their

small size and tight-knit community. “I know other NESCAC schools where I have siblings or friends that have gone there, have had very, very intense student support for their athletics and it might be because they’re smaller or because they’re in the middle of nowhere,” Doherty, who played on the men’s soccer team for three years, said. Though there is somewhat of a tradi-tion of apathy by students towards Tufts athletics, both Long and Metcalf agreed that the fan turnout against Bates was definitely a much needed first step in the right direction. “It’s kind of like a rolling snowball effect — the more everyone is going to the game, the more everyone that isn’t going to the game wants to go to the game,” Metcalf said. “After the game, we were lamenting the fact that we hadn’t done this all semester long. I think that if it did happen often, there would be better attendance at these things. They are events, but Tufts students don’t really see them that way.” Metcalf believed that such large turn-outs could easily happen again as both Tufts fans and athletes look forward to the spring season, which includes Tufts’ defending NESCAC champion baseball team and defending national champion men’s lacrosse team. “It does happen, and last Saturday proved that, but it doesn’t happen enough,” Metcalf said. “It is fun to go to these things, and I could definitely see us doing it again in the spring for whichever sport.”

Elephants in the Room

all photos courtesy tufts athletics

Alex GrossSenior

Men’s Squash

i’m tired of hearing about...

celebritylook-alike

first thing i do in the morning

favorite late-night

snackJustin Bieber is...

how good the celtics/patriots/

red sox are

My body is a temple; i don’t eat late-night

push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups

Denzel Washington

(Editor’s note: Yeah, right)

a musical genius

Lindsay KatzSophomore

Women’s tennis

paul KohnstammSenior

Men’s tennis

Valerie KooSenior

Women’s Squash

how i barely leave campus

everything, especially pop chips

Drink water

one time, a 6-year-old

asked me if i was Matilda

a lame excuse for a movie

Buffalo chicken bites

snooze my alarm

i don’t know, but apparently

i have a twin on campus.

lame

the New york yankees’ lack of starting pitching

Wheat thins andhummus

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shooter

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BriAn roWe | CALLS the ShotS

and the 2011 World

series champ is...

the San Francisco Giants, because they won last year and are primed for their young talent to con-tinue to improve this year. No

wait, the Red Sox because they had the biggest offseason, and Jon Lester will win the AL Cy Young. But what about the Yankees, who re-signed their captain and are a threat every year? The Phillies, and their J.D. Power and Associates Highest Rated Pitching Staff award? The Pirates and their … wait, never mind. The calendar says late February, and that means hope springs eternal for the fan bases of every Major League Baseball team. Everyone is convinced that this is the year their young tal-ent blossoms, their aging veterans turn back the clock and their team makes a run to October’s biggest stage. Projections flow like wine at a Dionysus party, and there seems to be no limit to the optimism by fans and players everywhere. There are headlines about players all but guaranteed to start the year no higher than Class A (oh hey, Bryce Harper), and others about play-ers who we hope and pray didn’t miss their chance for a graceful exit (looking at you, Jason Varitek). Every big free agent signing is greeted with an outpouring of emotion across the country, as everyone begins the hot stove season convinced that their team will find a way to fill all of their glaring needs. Some signings fly under the radar — Brandon Webb to Texas? Former Cy Young winner on the World Series runner-up? — while others are greeted with as much derision as Asher Roth playing Spring Fling two years ago — $126 million to Jason Werth, Washington? Really? REALLY? But through it all, everyone is con-vinced their team has taken a step forward. The Red Sox think they can begin a Yanks-in-the-late-’90s run with so much talent locked up. The Orioles think they can compete in the AL East with the Mark Reynolds, Vladimir Guerrero and Derrek Lee signings. Detroit is in win-now mode after sign-ing Joaquin Benoit, Victor Martinez and Brad Penny. The Yankees are apparent-ly satisfied with a slightly less-portly CC Sabathia, a Phil Hughes who man-aged a 4.90 second-half ERA, and three clubhouse attendants as their rotation. The A’s have young pitchers who seem to be on the verge of challenging San Francisco for best in the Bay Area. But my favorite part of spring is still to come: the spring training updates. Like I’m sure many others do, I take pride and joy in reading the most obscure notes and tidbits about every-thing that goes on in different train-ing complexes. For example, I might read that Paul Konerko woke up with a headache this morning, at which point I will bust into my roommate’s room and declare absolutely that this will keep his beloved South Siders from competing with the Twins this year. Or I might happen to read a story about how Pablo Sandoval looks like he swallowed the actual Kung Fu Panda and immediately proclaim to another roommate that this means his Giants will never, ever repeat. I subscribe to the springtime ritu-al of over-emoting about my favorite team as much as the next guy, but this year is a little different, since I already know the Red Sox have the AL East title wrapped up. Fortunately, in baseball, the idea of fantasy has become reality, and I get to focus on channeling my inner Theo Epstein to give my keeper team a leg up. But how can I lose there either, with Albert Pujols anchoring my offense? I’ll have to go heckle my roommates about this too.

Brian Rowe is a senior majoring in economics. He can be reached at B.Rowe@tufts.edu.

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just one week earlier, on Feb. 13, with the only Tufts wins coming from Koo, Barba and Vinoski. Tufts showed depth and strength against NESCAC rivals Colby, with wins coming up and down the ladder. Michael, after losing to sophomore Kate Pistel in both matchups in the regular season, managed to pull through with a win in a five game match: 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 6-11, 11-9. Basu beat Colby junior Coco Cowan in four games after splitting her two previous matchups against her. The final and deciding win came from sophomore Caitlin Doherty at the No. 9 spot, who won in five games against senior Ellie Hoyt to clinch the victory for the Jumbos. Doherty is one of two players on the team who had never played squash prior to the season’s start. “It felt so great to help the team win, especially since it was such a vital game. I’ve learned so much this season and [Coach] Belkys [Velez] has really helped me improve my tech-nique and figure out how to play up my skills against opponents,” Doherty said. “Coming into the season with no experience, I never really expected to have such an integral part in how the team does.” In the first game of the Walker Cup against F&M, eight of Tufts’ nine matches were lost in three games, with Vinoski, who won the first game 11-9 at the No. 5 spot before dropping three in a row, as the only exception. Koo played a competitive first game against sophomore Chelsea Ross in which she lost 18-16. She then fell 11-8 in both consecutive games. The CSA individual squash cham-pionships are held at Dartmouth on March 4-6. Michael, the Jumbos’ top performer, will likely be the sole Tufts entry in the tournament.

Tufts swept by Franklin &Marshall in first round of Walker Cup at Vassar, ends season on high note after wins in consolidation matchesWomen’S SquaShcontinued from page 15

Courtesy MerCedes BarBa

Junior co-captain Mercedes Barba, left, in a match against Vassar on Feb. 13. tufts lost that match, but beat the Brewers 6-3 in this week-end’s Walker Cup.

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In the second period, however, Norwich controlled the game and acted like true conference heavyweights. Freshman defenseman Francois Gatien put the Cadets in front for good with a power-play goal at the 11:50 mark of the second period, and sophomore forward Pier-Olivier Cotnoir complet-ed his hat trick as Norwich stormed ahead to a 5-2 lead that it never relin-quished. “Norwich has just incredible depth and plays the game at such a high speed,” senior quad-captain forward Dylan Cooper said. “It’s so hard to play

against them because they can attack at any moment.” Saturday’s matchup was the final game for the seven seniors on the ros-ter, including three quad-captains — Cooper, senior defenseman Andy Davis and Derosa. The seniors will be remem-bered fondly for their careers, highlights of which included NESCAC tournament appearances in 2009 and 2010. “It’s everything to have those guys around you, supporting us and leading us throughout the season,” Gallegos said. “They’ve been incredible, and it’s been amazing having them around.” The loss to Norwich was made less painful by the fact that Tufts managed

to capture its sixth win of the sea-son on the previous day, a 5-3 victory over St. Michael’s. The game followed a similar offensive pattern for Tufts: Vitale poked home the first goal, while Gallegos blasted home the second. The difference was at the other end of the ice, though. The Jumbos managed to keep the Purple Knights off the score sheet at critical moments and never relinquished their lead in the game. “Kyle is an incredible offensive weapon, and he can create a scoring chance out of nothing,” Cooper said. “It doesn’t matter who’s playing with him on a line — he is always going to find a way to create opportunities.

That goal he scored against Norwich was one of the best I’ve seen the whole season, and he played well against St. Michael’s too.” Gallegos has unquestionably been one of the few very bright spots during the season and has emerged as one of the star forwards on the team. Gallegos led the Jumbos with 15 goals in only 20 games played, which represents a remarkable 22.7 percent of Tufts’ 66 goals scored on the season. “This season motivates me even more for next year because I know I can be successful here,” Gallegos said. “I just want to continue that progress into next season and beyond.”

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StatIStICS | StandIngS WED THU FRI SAT SUN

Men’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball

ice Hockey

Men’s swimming and

diving

NESCAC Championships

at Bowdoin

NESCAC Championships

at Bowdoin

NESCAC Championships

at Bowdoin

Women’s swimming and

diving

Men’s indoor Track and field

All-New Englands

at BU

All-New Englands

at BU

Men’s squash

CSA National Singles

at Harvard

CSA National Singles

at Harvard

CSA National Singles

at Harvard

Women’s squash

individual statistics

S. AndersonA. QuezadaA. GoldfarbA. OrchowskiJ. LongK. FirempongO. CohenM. LanchantinT. FolliardS. MasonA. DowtonP. SabaM. Galvin

Team

ppG 11.910.59.29.05.65.45.43.83.13.11.91.61.4

68.7

RpG5.92.31.57.45.01.91.62.11.72.61.31.00.9

37.0

apG0.52.60.80.60.82.82.80.41.01.10.10.20.7

13.6

Men's Basketball(13-12, 4-5 Nescac)

WilliamsMiddleburyAmherst TrinityTuftsBatesConn. Coll.BowdoinWeseleyanColby

NESCACW9874 433322

L0125566677

OVERALLW24232214131212141111

L11211121313101313

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ice Hockey(6-16-1, 5-14-0 Nescac/ecac east)

HamiltonWilliamsMiddleburyAmherstBowdoinColbyTrinityWesleyanConn. Coll.Tufts

NESCAC OVERALL

W111191011109865

L4656778101214

T4253122110

W14141112151111976

L67787109111416

T4364124331

individual statistics

Tom DerosaKyle GallegosDylan CooperZach DiacoMike VitaleDylan PlimmerAndy DavisTrevor JohnNick PappasConor PieriTeam

G11157372432266

a 218913594444

105

pts.3223161612118766

171

GoalkeepingEvin KoleiniBrian PhillipsTeam

s428178722

Ga6036106

s %.877.832.882

individual statistics

Colleen HartCollier CleggT. KornegayVanessa MillerLiz MoynihanAli RocchiKate BarnoskyBre DufaultC. McClureLindsay WeinerSam TyeIssy ClessMaggie RiddleSarah Nolet

Team

ppG 16.09.69.47.57.25.84.84.13.41.81.61.31.31.3

61.4

RpG5.03.97.95.43.14.52.02.81.00.81.52.00.81.7

39.9

apG3.30.53.31.81.20.30.80.80.20.50.30.00.40.2

10.9

Women's Basketball(18-6, 5-4 Nescac)

AmherstColbyBowdoinWilliamsTuftsBatesMiddleburyTrinityConn. Coll.Wesleyan

NESCAC

W9766553310

L0233446689

OVERALL

W242121211817151497

L1444689111516

Women’s indoor Track

and field

All-New Englands

at BU

All-New Englands

at BU

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