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THE TUFTS DAILY
Economic downturn spells restraint for Tufts
While prioritizing aid, doubts University ‘tightening the belt’
linger about need-blind policy
by Ben Gittleson
Daily Editorial Board
The current economic crisis has hit
home for many college students on
financial aid. But Tufts remains com-
mitted to meeting the needs of all stu-
dents currently receiving aid.
In an e-mail to the Tufts community
earlier this month, University President
Lawrence Bacow promised “to meet the
full financial need of every undergradu-
ate we admit.”
“Our highest priority is to meet our
financial aid obligations to our stu-
dents,” Bacow told the Daily last week.
“We will do everything to try and pro-
tect that.”
At Tufts, the undergraduate schools’
annual operating budgets provide the
vast majority of funding for financial
aid. For the last two years, the univer-
sity has been admitting students on an
Empty seats at
Town Meeting
Administrators and student leaders hoping to open a dialogue about health and wellness issues at Tufts
turned out to be virtually the only people in attendance at last night’s Town Meeting. Dean of Arts and
Sciences Robert Sternberg, standing, convened a panel of administrators. Representatives from the Tufts
Community Union Senate and Tufts Emergency Medical Services were also at the meeting.
Chemistry professor works with national academy that advises president, Congress
by Allie Wahrenberger
Contributing Writer
The National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) extended mem-
bership to Chemistry Professor David
Walt earlier
this year, rec-
ognizing his
development
of specialized
sensors that
can both cap-
ture images
and perform
biochemical
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analyses.
Walt joined Engineering Dean
Linda Abriola in the NAE ranks when
he was elected in January, along with
64 other new members from across
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on PCs on college cam-
puses.
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unofficial need-blind basis, in which
admissions officers evaluate applicants
without considering their ability to pay.
Tufts will
not be able
to deter-
mine until
March,when
the Office
of Admiss-
ions finaliz-
es the Class
of 2013’s
makeu p,
MCT
whether the
economic climate will
prevent the continua-
tion of this practice,
according to Director
of Financial Aid Patricia Reilly.
She said financial aid officers know
the country and nine foreign associ-
ates. The NAE made its choices pub-
lic in February.
“It’s a very gratifying recognition,
not just for me but for the students
who have been working with me for
the past 20 years,” Walt said. This
year’s new additions bring the total
NAE membership to 2,227 domes-
tic engineers and 194 foreign associ-
ates.
The NAE, based in Washington,
D.C., is part of the National
Academies, a group of organizations
that advise the federal government
on science, engineering and medi-
cine. NAE members are elected by
their peers.
At Tufts, Walt is renowned for his
application of micro- and nano-
technology to biological issues and
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Daily Editorial Board
As the nation’s financial crisis has shak-
en up Wall Street and hurt Main Street,
the downturn has left administrators on
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dent way,” University President Lawrence
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his practical research in areas such
as the detection of explosives and
chemical warfare agents. In addition
to his role as the Robinson Professor
of Chemistry, he serves as an adjunct
biomedical engineering professor at
the School of Engineering. He has
been at Tufts since 1981.
Election to the NAE is “partly hon-
orific, but certainly a role in which we
solicit [members’] advice regarding
the advancement of engineering,”
said Randy Atkins, the academy’s
senior program officer for media and
public relations.
Atkins stressed that the honor is
very significant, as very few people
are elected. Members are primarily
chosen for past contributions to their
fields.
“The NAE brings together the very
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a whole range of expenditures, and at this
point it’s too early to say what we’re going
to do, but we’re tightening the belt on liter-
ally everything.”
This means all new capital projects, such
as the planned construction of a new biol-
the Hill with their ogy lab and of the Steve Tisch Sports and
own issues to con- Fitness Center, will not be able to move
front. forward.
Administrators “Basically, anything that’s large is not
are predicting a going to happen until the credit markets
dip in the endow- loosen up,” Bacow said. “That’s not a deci-
ment, and large sion which we even make; it’s a decision
capital projects that’s being made for us.”
will be put on Smaller construction projects also face
hold, with smaller the potential of being put on hold. Summer
construction proj- maintenance performed on buildings fits
ects possibly fol- into this category, according to the presi-
lowing suit. dent.
“We’re going to But most of the school’s costs, such as
be evaluating vir- salaries, are fixed. Salaries make up the
tually everything majority of the university’s operating bud-
to make sure we get. “We’re not expecting there to be any
sort of change in our operating budget per-
see ECONOMY, page 2
TEMS gets authorization
to operate ambulances
by Geoffrey Gaurano running, and the idea first started
Contributing Writer as far back as 1999,” said senior
Jonathan Nadler, executive direc-
Tufts Emergency Medical tor of TEMS.
Services (TEMS) acquired a TEMS has no plans to actually
license last month certifying operate an ambulance because
the group as a classified ambu- of the vehicle’s high mainte-
lance operator in the state of nance costs.
Massachusetts, but TEMS mem- In fact, TEMS already operates
bers say the group has no plans at a standard that is equal to that
to actually obtain an ambulance. of other ambulance services, so
The license, which the the new license will not result in
Massachusetts Department of any changes to the group, accord-
Health’s Office of Emergency ing to Nadler.
Medical Services approved in “We have been preparing
early September, gives TEMS the for this for a number of years.
same recognition and accredita- We’ve been on top of everything,”
tion as any other ambulance ser- Nadler said. “[The certification] is
vice in Massachusetts. not going to change much, it’s just
“The whole idea of the license going to give us better recognition
is to give TEMS more of an offi- with the state and the administra-
cial standing,” said senior David tion.”
Kudlowitz, TEMS’ director of Department of Public Safety
operations.
“It’s been many years in the see TEMS, page 2
best experts in the world to advise ogy in people’s lives.”
the government,” Atkins said. He cited the influence of a 2007
Walt expects the most significant book, “Rising Above the Gathering
difference in light of the honor to be Storm: Energizing and Employing
that he will probably spend more America for a Brighter Economic
time traveling, as he will be expected Future,” which addresses the need to
to serve on advisory committees that keep America competitive with eco-
provide guidance to Congress and nomic, scientific and technological
the president. developments happening through-
Associate Chemistry Professor out the world. The book was written
Elena Rybak-Akimova, one of Walt’s by National Academies organiza-
colleagues, said that she expects tions, including the NAE.
that students will be happy to know Atkins and Walt both emphasized
that they have a professor as accom- that the NAE’s governmental-advis-
plished as Walt. ing process reflects a significant team
Walt’s election was“well deserved,” effort based on the collaboration of
she said, “although this recognition talented engineers from around the
may be somewhat overdue.” world.
According to Walt, the NAE is Walt said he intends “to help them
“focused on the right things, like the come up with some specifics about
importance of science and technol- how to achieve these goals.”
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Police Briefs
DEVIOUS DECAL
Tufts University Police
Department (TUPD) officers on
Oct. 15 found a car in the
Carmichael parking lot that they
believed to have a fraudulent
parking decal. It turned out to
be registered to a different car.
The police followed up the
following day at 11:05 a.m. and
discovered that a senior had
registered his car and given the
parking decal to a sophomore.
The sophomore, a resident of
Wren Hall, wanted to park closer
to the dormitory, according to
TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy. A
report was turned over to the
dean’s office.
TUPD SAYS XYZ
TUPD officers driving around
campus at 12:57 a.m. on Oct.
18 found three white males
standing on a sidewalk, one of
Bartlett: TEMS does not need own ambulance
TEms
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Technical Services Manager
Geoffrey Bartlett, TEMS’ admin-
istrative advisor, said that “a
number of practical obstacles”
stand in the way of operating an
ambulance at Tufts.
“We would be required to
garage the ambulance, and that
would change the nature in the
way TEMS works,” he said.
“In terms of our protocols,
nothing is going to change,”
Nadler said. “Most of the rea-
son being, for the past number
of years we’ve been operating
under the stance of getting licen-
sure. So we’ve been compliant
with all the regulations.”
TEMS volunteer Alice Tin, a
junior, said that an ambulance
would limit TEMS volunteers’
mobility by requiring them
to band together at all times,
because an ambulance takes
three people to operate.
“We have three people on
duty always and we can kind of
Tufts’ reputation with lenders proves helpful
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that the economic downturn is
having “some impact” on Tufts
families’ assets, citing decreas-
ing home values and savings.
But there have been fewer
effects on families’ incomes.
Both assets and income become
factors in the financial aid pro-
cess.
“In general, this kind of
downturn means individual
families need extra help,” Reilly
said. “What we need to be pre-
pared for is most likely there are
going to be families who hadn’t
expected to need financial aid
or hadn’t expected to need sub-
stantially more, and because
of the financial markets things
change.”
She stressed that the econo-
my’s effects on Tufts students
have been relatively minor so
far.
“We haven’t seen yet a big
surge in families reporting that
they’re unemployed, or that
their assets are gone or that they
can’t borrow,” Reilly said, not-
ing that there was only a two-
percent increase in the number
of applicants who applied for
aid this year. “In fact, this fall,
the number of people who paid
their bills on time is higher than
it’s ever been.”
But officials must wait to see
if rising unemployment will
translate to increased demand
for aid next fall. Meanwhile,
decreased confidence in the
whom was urinating. The offi-
cers approached the men, who
said that they were from Lehigh
University in Pennsylvania and
were visiting a Tufts student.
The officers went to South
Hall with the three males to
verify this with the student they
claimed to be visiting. The Tufts
student confirmed they were
visiting from Lehigh.
In the student’s room, officers
observed bottles of vodka, rum
and whiskey, as well as several
racks of beer. The four individu-
als were under 21. The alcohol
was confiscated and a report
was sent to the dean’s office.
Lehigh was notified of the inci-
dent.
Student not DRUNK,
JUST COMBATIVE, UN-
STEADY AND Smelly
TUPD received a call at 1:15
a.m. on Oct. 19 reporting an
be wherever we want to be on
campus,” she said. “If there is
a call, the person who has the
TEMS truck will drive and pick
everyone up. If we had an ambu-
lance we would need to be at the
station all the time.”
Bartlett said owning an ambu-
lance would also be imprudent.
“When we look at the volume
of calls TEMS responds to over
the course of the year and con-
sider the number of times that
the ambulance would actually
be used to transport the patient,
it wouldn’t be cost-effective for
the university to operate at that
level,” he said.
Bartlett explained that in emer-
gency situations that require an
ambulance or a stretcher, out-
side emergency medical services
will continue to provide ambu-
lances. Kudlowitz said TEMS’
emergency vans can do almost
as much as ambulances can any-
way.
“The only difference between
us and what some people may
credit markets has not signifi-
cantly impacted Tufts students
who receive loans, Reilly said.
The university has one of
the lowest rates in the country
of students defaulting on their
federal loans, making it easy “to
find lenders who were happy
to do business with us,” Reilly
added. Users are not allowed to have an
Around the country, though,
many college students are hav-
ing a tougher time securing pri-
vate and federal loans since the
crisis.
As of last week, 137 lend-
ers had stopped making fed-
eral student loans and 36 had
stopped issuing private ones,
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of
FinAid.org, said. This means
“that students will have to
hunt around a little bit more
to find a lender,” he said. The
Massachusetts Educational
Financing Authority, the
state’s largest student-loan
provider, stopped offering
private loans in July; it has
begun offering some of them
again.
Kantrowitz finds that eco-
nomic worries have affected
financial aid in three areas:
availability, cost and eligibility.
Increased credit-score min-
imums for private loans will
impact low- and moderate-
income students, first-gen-
eration college students and
minority students the most, he
explained.
Kantrowitz said that subsi-
News
“intoxicated and combative
male” in the lobby of Lewis
Hall, according to McCarthy.
Somerville Fire Department and
Cataldo Ambulance Service, Inc.
responded along with the Tufts
police. When officers arrived,
they were informed that the
male had moved to the fourth
floor.
When they confronted him
there, he stated that he had not
been drinking. He was swaying
back and forth, holding onto a
doorframe for balance, and he
smelled of alcohol, McCarthy
said.
The student refused to show
identification or go to the hos-
pital and continued to act com-
batively. He was placed under
protective custody and brought
to the Medford police station.
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call a ‘real ambulance’ is that we
don’t have a stretcher. Everything
else is exactly the same,”
Kudlowitz said. “We’re trained
the same way, we take the same
amount of class time and we
take the same exact tests.”
Bartlett said that even with-
out a physical ambulance, TEMS
plays a critical role in handling
campus emergencies.
“TEMS still provides a valu-
able service in that they’re able
to arrive earlier than the ambu-
lance and yet provide the same
level of care as a basic life-sup-
port ambulance until the ambu-
lance gets there,” he said.
TEMS volunteers are ready
to assess emergency situations
before an ambulance arrives at
the scene, Bartlett explained.
“Effectively they’re bringing
the equipment and bringing the
skills and training of an ambu-
lance to the scene a lot sooner
and beginning to treat the patient
even before the ambulance gets
there,” he said.
dized and unsubsidized fed-
eral Stafford loans will not be
impacted by the crisis because
their issuance does not depend
on a borrower’s credit history.
Federally guaranteed parent
loans, PLUS loans, to a “small
percentage of borrowers” could
be affected, Kantrowitz said.
“adverse credit history,” which
includes, among other things,
having had a foreclosure in the
last five years.
“The major impact has to do
with the length of the education
program,” he said. “Students at
four-year schools are going to
be more profitable than stu-
dents at two-year schools, and
that’s why we’ve seen discrimi-
nation against some students
at two-year institutions.”
But in many cases, this is not
an issue for students at com-
munity colleges, who often do
not need to enter the private
market, since safer federal and
state loans cover their lower
costs of education.
At Bunker Hill Community
College in Boston, officials
have seen a recent increase in
enrollment from students seek-
ing a cheaper college path, said
Melissa Holster, the school’s
financial aid director.
“We have a lot more students
applying to aid and a lot more
students opting to come to
community college,” she said,
“because they don’t want to
spend the [extra] money.”
BU puts in place hiring freeze
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formance for this fiscal year,” said
Thomas McGurty, vice president
for finance, explaining that the
university is prepared to pay for
the budget’s fixed expenditures.
Among the factors causing
projects to be stalled is a decrease
in returns on investments. “One
area where cost has increased
has to do with borrowing costs,”
McGurty, also the university’s
treasurer, said.
Each week, the university sells
variable-rate demand bonds to
tax-exempt mutual funds such as
those held by Fidelity and Putnam.
The interest rates on these funds
are going up because the funds
themselves have recently “come
under substantial stress,” accord-
ing to McGurty.
The cost of borrowing spiked
about a month ago, but it has
since declined. The interest rates
on the funds are reset each week.
Tufts’ endowment has declined
with the drop in the national
market. “Everything is down; our
endowment is down as well,”
Bacow said.
The university assesses its
endowment most precisely at the
end of each quarter, but conducts
monthly reports as well. “October
has been so volatile. It’s difficult to
say where we are,” Bacow said.
Despite the current economic
situation, Tufts administrators
agreed that it would be unwise to
make drastic alterations to invest-
ments.
“We make adjustments to our
investment strategy only if, as and
when the needs of the university
change, but not in response to
changes in market conditions,”
Tufts’ Chief Investment Officer
Sally Dungan said in an e-mail.
“We continue to have a well-
diversified portfolio and we will
be raising some cash so that we
can be on our front foot and take
advantage of good opportunities
as they come along.”
Bacow echoed her sentiments.
“We invest for the very long term,
and we know for the very long term
the place to be is with a prudent
asset allocation that is divided up
between equities, between real
assets, between fixed incomes,”
he said. “You want to be steady
and disciplined in your approach
to that.”
The university skirted a mini
crisis in August, when an admin-
istrator removed approximately
$130 million of working capital
from the Commonfund Short
Term Cash Fund and put it into
Treasuries just weeks before the
majority of the fund’s assets were
frozen. About 60 percent of the
money remains frozen.
Although they have not lost any
money, over 900 colleges and uni-
versities that invest in the fund do
not have full access to over $9.3
billion, according to Bacow. He
credited Tufts’ shrewd move to
Associate Treasurer Darleen Karp.
“We had become concerned
about the overall liquidity of the
markets and the potential impact
it could have on the fund, given
that the fund held some longer-
dated securities,” Karp said in an
e-mail to the Daily.
The financial crisis has been
something that all colleges have
had to grapple with. While Boston
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University also had no money in
the Commonfund when it was
frozen, the school has taken pre-
ventative measures similar to
those of Tufts.
“We instituted a hiring freeze,
and we will not begin new capi-
tal projects until we’ve seen what
the ripple effects are,” BU spokes-
person Colin Riley told the Daily.
“We’re not in any financial dif-
ficulty … Right now there haven’t
been any other effects, other
than what we put in place on our
own.”
Riley said there has been a
decline in some of the BU endow-
ment’s investments, but he echoed
Bacow in noting that short-term
losses can give way to long-term
gains. “Unless you sell them, you
haven’t lost anything,” Riley said.
Back at Tufts, McGurty
explained that while there is no
way to know what will happen
next in the financial world, “We’ll
be closely watching the effects
of the financial markets on the
broader economy.”
He is unsure of how Tufts will
react to any developments. “The
depth and the duration of this sit-
uation [are] really not understood
at this point,” he said. “It’s difficult
to make plans and forecast.”
But Dungan said Tufts will have
to think long-term in order to
confront the financial crisis.
“The consensus is that the
U.S. and global economies will
face challenges for some time to
come,” she said. “The stock mar-
kets usually lead the economy out
of recession by six to 18 months,
but it is impossible to know how
soon a turnaround may occur.”
Despite Tufts’ economic hard-
ships, individual donors to the
university have remained active of
late. The Annual Fund is perform-
ing better this year than it was at
the same time last year, accord-
ing to Christine Sanni, director
of advancement communications
and donor relations.
Tufts had its best fundrais-
ing year in history last year, in
large part due to Frank Doble’s
$136 million gift in April. While
it would take another extreme-
ly large gift to help the univer-
sity surpass last year’s record, the
Advancement Office’s Director of
Central Development Programs
Chris Simoneau said the school
is still on track to meet the goal of
Beyond Boundaries, the current
capital campaign, which aims to
earn $1.2 billion by 2011.
“The life of a campaign is lon-
ger than any economic turmoil in
recent times,” Sanni said. “We’re
in good shape because we’ve had
good success in the early years.”
Still, the Advancement Office
is not ignoring the marketplace’s
turmoil. “We’re focusing on com-
municating with our donors,”
Simoneau said. “We’re not back-
ing off, but we’re being sensitive.”
Part of that communication
means reaching out to donors not
necessarily to ask for money, but
to talk to them about different
issues and encourage other sorts
of involvement, such as volun-
teering for an event.
Simoneau also pointed out
the diversity of Tufts’ donor base,
which draws on over 100,000 indi-
viduals, businesses and organiza-
tions. “Not all of those are affected
equally,” he said.

While still only having a limited share of
the market, Apple starts to close the gap
Students welcome user-friendly, largely virus-free Macs in increasing numbers
by Lindsay Eckhaus
Contributing Writer
Macintosh computers are no longer
reserved for the artsy-fartsy type — just
walk into a large lecture hall on any
college campus to find myriad white
apple icons glowing on the back of
note-takers’ laptops.
With Macs’ inherent user-friendli-
ness and high safety rating — in addi-
tion to their “hip” factor — the percent-
age of students choosing them over PCs
is continuing to rise.
Though Apple computers only hold
about 15 percent of the demographic’s
market share, according to a report by
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty,
40 percent of college students say their
next computer purchase will be a Mac.
College students also purchase Macs
at a much higher rate than the overall
population, in which Apple holds only
a 3 percent market share worldwide.
Junior Hannah Chang, the Mac
representative for the Tufts campus,
said she switched from a PC to a Mac
after applying for her job with Apple
and has never regretted the jump.
“I already had a computer that
worked fine, but my friend told me
about the [campus representative] job
so I looked it up online and got my
new Mac laptop for free,” Chang said.
“I like how Macs start up quickly, and
the battery life is really long. You can
record your class lectures, take pictures
on Photo Booth and use Garage Band.
The built-in camera is great because it
can help you communicate with family
back home really easily. Macs are not
just aesthetically pleasing, but every-
thing about them is really easy to use.
My MacBook also doesn’t get as hot as
my PC used to get.”
Freshman Lauren Milord, who had
Norovirus outbreak plagues Georgetown
Initially mistaken for food poisoning, virus puts campus in quarantine mentality
by Julie Kalt
Contributing Writer
Touching doorknobs, taking a sip
from a friend’s drink at a party, shar-
ing a pint of ice cream, smoking a
friend’s cigarette, giving a significant
other a kiss — this is the kind of
contact that the college experience
entails.
But the instances that define the
collegiate experience could also jeop-
ardize it.
During the last week in September, an
outbreak of the Norovirus spread vio-
lently and rapidly on the Georgetown
University campus. A group of viruses
that cause acute gastroenteritis, the
Norovirus is extremely contagious
and easily spreads through person-
to-person contact. With so many peo-
ple living in such close proximity to
each other, a college campus is the
prime location for something like the
Norovirus to take hold and prolifer-
ate.
Georgetown sophomore Dave
Wilkins said the epidemic affected
everyone in some way.
“It was pretty confusing at first,
because initially, everyone thought it
was dining hall-related food poison-
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problems with her old PC, is similarly
pleased with her decision to switch to
Mac.
“I was fed up with my old Dell laptop.
It stopped working and it would just
shut off randomly. I always heard that
Macs were less prone to viruses and that
they are more efficient,” she
said. “It took a little getting used to, but
it wasn’t too hard. Overall, I am really
happy with [the Mac].”
Judi Rennie, supervisor of Tufts
OnLine, said that relative to the amount
of Macs on campus, the number of stu-
dents who bring their Apple computers
to receive tech support is quite small.
“I can’t think of a year when we saw
more than a fistful of Macintosh com-
puters,” Rennie said. “We see much
more complicated fixes on PCs. There
are no real viruses on Macs, and the
Mac OS X is so much kinder and gentler
ing,” Wilkins said. “My friend was one
of the first people infected, and every-
one in the ER was initially comparing
what they’d eaten recently. The cam-
pus pretty quickly went into quaran-
tine mode. Everyone started carrying
around hand sanitizer and trying to
make sure they were keeping healthy
because pretty much everyone knows
someone who got sick.”
Despite such a “confusing” expe-
rience, Georgetown’s response was
quick and direct. The university’s Vice
President for Student Affairs Todd
Olson sent nearly a dozen e-mails to
the student body detailing the school’s
response to the virus and updating
students and staff about the number
of students infected and the severity
of the infections.
Olson sent his first e-mail to the
Georgetown community Oct. 1.
“I am writing to notify you that
O’Donovan Dining Hall will be closed
for breakfast and lunch today, with
breakfast temporarily relocated to
McShain Lounge and lunch in the
Leavey Center. We are taking this step
as a precaution after being notified
overnight that approximately 25 stu-
dents were treated at the Georgetown
University Hospital for symptoms
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than even the old Macs … It is really a
self-serving machine. You can slap in
the TechTool CD and it is able to repair
the computer for you so you don’t need
to bring it in [to us].”
Meredith Turits, a senior who for-
merly worked at an Apple store, agrees
that the safety of the Mac software
is incomparable to that of Windows.
“There are no known viruses for Mac
OS [X] 10. It’s in virtue of the way the
security is set up. I’ll make a concession
and say that because we have [a small
portion] of the entire market share,
there is very little incentive for anyone
who wants to start a virus. [Also], Macs
can’t use .exe files, which are how most
viruses are encrypted,” she said.
While their safety and ease have
made them increasingly popular, so
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related to possible food borne ill-
ness,” he wrote in the e-mail.
In his second e-mail, Olson noted
that by late afternoon of the same day,
96 students experiencing symptoms
of vomiting, diarrhea or dehydration
had been treated for gastroenteri-
tis. With the cause of the illness still
unknown, the District of Colombia
Department of Health (DOH) was
called on site to conduct food safety
and epidemiological investigations.
By the next morning, the DOH con-
firmed that Norovirus was the cause
of the sickness. Immediately, student
resident halls were cleaned with a
specific focus on common areas and
high-contact surfaces such as bath-
rooms, doorknobs and handrails.
Georgetown freshman Catherine
Urfer said that the university made
every effort to halt the spread of the
virus.
“Free hand sanitizer and electrolyte
fluids were provided in our common
room, and the school provided us
with $13.50 in order to do our laun-
dry and wash our sheets,” Urfer said.
“Basically, it was bad for the people
who got sick, but it was comforting
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3
Ally Gimbel | When kiwis fly
Kiwi café
culture
N
othing makes me feel like more
of an American than my passion-
ate love affair with black filter cof-
fee — aka my caffeine addiction.
I remember fondly the days of chugging
fair trade Ethiopian roasts before exams.
In true yuppie/hippie/student style, I never
went anywhere without my reusable ther-
mos filled to the brim with black gold, always
prepared to guzzle on the go.
Imagine for a moment then, oh over-caf-
feinated reader, the dark day I entered my
first café in New Zealand. Never before had
I found myself speechless (quite literally, as
they don’t use words like venti-half-triple-
shot-soy-macchiato here) in the presence of
a barista.
Eyeing the menu, I was distressed by the
fact that nowhere on that chalkboard were
the words “drip coffee” written. On top of
that, none of the available hot drinks cost
less than $2, which, to be honest, is half the
reason I drink black coffee as it is.
So, I panicked and ordered an Americano,
figuring maybe that in Kiwispeak, “black
coffee” equals “American” and “Americano”
equals “fancy way of saying black coffee.” Just
like “grande” equals “small,” right? See, even
my logic is ruled by American café terminol-
ogy.
Apparently that’s just not how things are
done down under.
New Zealand’s café culture is taken very,
very seriously. I recently learned from my
Lonely Planet guidebook that Wellington, the
country’s capital, has more cafés per capita
than New York City. Kiwis mean business.
As it turns out, the only places you can
find filter coffee are in American-owned fran-
chises like McDonalds and Starbucks or in
the beverage section of the grocery store (in
the form of instant powder).
Unlike in America, Kiwis do not drain large
paper cups of coffee during rush hour. They
sit down at tables, with other people, taking
polite sips out of ceramic mugs and enjoying
every delicious moment.
Not to mention that the cafés themselves
are more aesthetically pleasing than your
average Starbucks. While I don’t mean to
belittle the global conglomerates for their
superb taste in commercialized, mass-pro-
duced art and choice of mood music (How
many times do I have to listen to Norah Jones
while waiting for my Frappuccino?), I must
say that the personalized atmosphere of each
café makes the whole experience feel more
authentic.
The ambiance in each café is different,
so you can always match your coffee date
locale with your mood. Feeling artsy? Feeling
crunchy? Feeling sophisticated? I can assure
you that there are plenty cafés with either
original artwork or vegan food or sleek fur-
niture (or all three) — within five minutes
of each other. The hardest part is choosing
which one.
Actually, the hardest part is choosing what
to order. For a pure caffeine boost, try a long
black (basically the equivalent of a single or
double espresso shot). Many Kiwis also go
for flat whites, which are interchangeable
with caffè lattes. All these choices are usually
the cheapest, and have the highest caffeine
content.
Looking to indulge? Splurge for a
mochachino, a delicious blend of choco-
late, espresso, sugar and whole milk. In New
Zealand cafés, a true mocha (added bonus:
a snobby name pronounced mock-ah) can
only be drunk one way: out of a large mug —
with a generous sprinkle of chocolate powder
— and very, very slowly.
Ultimately, it didn’t take long for me to
embrace Kiwi coffee. Sure, getting over the
initial hump of mornings without mainlining
French roast was hard, but the relaxed atmo-
sphere and delicious fare of New Zealand
cafés made for an easy transition from
American to coffee sophisticate.
Then again, whenever I need to relapse,
there’s always Starbucks around the corner. I
know … Shame on me.
Ally Gimbel is a junior majoring in English.
She can be reached at Allyson.Gimbel@
tufts.edu.
4 The Tufts Daily
Vista setbacks lead to more Mac sales
MACS
continued from page 3
have their marketing techniques.
“Mac’s marketing is really clever and
they have a bunch of fun features like
Photo Booth. The Mac store is the coolest
store ever,” Milord said.
Turits believes that Apple’s growing
popularity is due to
the rise of the iPod
over the past sev-
eral years.
“Because the
iPod became a
real fixture in
[our] culture, peo-
ple became more cognizant
of the brand and what it had to offer,” she
said. “It is not just a niche-nerd thing any-
more — you walk into a café or a school
library and 40 to 45 percent of what you
see is Macs. The operating system is so
intuitive: You touch it and it feels like
home. The fact that Apple retail has built
out so much is definitely a part of the
popularization, too. At the Apple store,
you go in and you [interact] one-on-one
with people who know their stuff — and
we don’t work on commission.”
Rennie is a big fan of all the applica-
tions that Apple offers, like the Spotlight
search tool and a built-in karaoke game
for her iTunes.
“Everything is also more compatible
now that you can run Windows on Macs,”
Rennie said.
The success of Apple is also concur-
rent with the relative failure of Windows
Vista, Microsoft’s latest operating sys-
tem, which has seen customer satisfac-
tion rates lower that its former operating
systems.
“Vista is Microsoft’s least successful
system. They had to keep delaying the
Microsoft XP cutoff date because so many
people were asking for computers with
XP instead of Vista,” Turits said.
While many students are making the
switch to Macs and adopting newfound
Apple pride, others stand by their PC alle-
giances.
Freshman Joe McLoughlin didn’t have
to think twice when he opted to purchase
a PC. “I’m really happy with my com-
puter. I guess I’m just used to the way PCs
and the Windows system work,” he said.
“Sometimes it runs slowly but nothing
intense has happened. I haven’t had any
viruses.”
Still, Mac buffs on campus are enthused
by their Apples.
“Mac is a much more loving software,”
Rennie said. “Apple kids learn to use their
computers out of love, whereas PC users
learn [to use them] out of necessity.”
Features
Viral outbreaks are continual threat
to college campuses, says Higham
NOROVIRUS
continued from page 3
that the school was so proactive and
open about what was going on.”
As Georgetown’s President John J.
DeGioia remarked in his message to
the community, officials were aggres-
sive on five fronts: notifying students,
staff and parents, cleaning, identify-
ing sick students, responding to those
students and closing the dining hall.
Taylor Burkholder, director of pub-
lic relations for GERMS (Georgetown
Emergency Response Medical Service)
said that the GERMS staff saw tri-
ple their normal amount of calls and
responded to them seamlessly.
“The outbreak was quite sudden,”
Burkholder said. “But it was treated
as any other communicable illness
by GERMS. In order to accommodate
the sheer number of calls we received
(triple our previous record for a shift),
we doubled our crews in service and
brought in extra staff to take care of
administrative and operational tasks
around the clock. We sanitized often,
bleaching down our equipment and
ambulances frequently. I’m really
proud of our organization for stepping
up the way we did. We managed to
handle a call volume that is unheard
of for a squad our size, and do it with-
out any mishaps. After the fifth day,
GERMS had treated and transported
just over 100 Georgetown students to
the Georgetown University Hospital.”
Despite the swift response, 192 stu-
dents and two staff members in total
caught the virus. Because a large num-
ber of student athletes were among
those who became ill, many athletic
events were cancelled after consulta-
tion with competitor institutions and
league officials.
Margaret Higham, medical director
of Health Service at Tufts said that
even though the Norovirus outbreak
seems like a rare event, outbreaks on
college campuses are actually more
common than people may think. As
serious as Norovirus is, staph infec-
tions, Mononucleosis (Mono) and the
flu are also frequent visitors of college
campuses.
“Tufts actually had a recent out-
break of Norovirus [as well],” she said.
“It obviously wasn’t as pervasive as
the Georgetown outbreak, [but] these
viruses are very widespread. Students
leave home and they don’t have very
good hygiene. People don’t wash their
hands after leaving the bathroom
and there is a fair amount of sharing
mouth-to-mouth — from marijuana
to cigarettes to water bottles to inti-
mate contact.”
While reversing these trends would
lead to a healthier campus, many of
the necessary precautions challenge
the college lifestyle.
Freshman Marco Marrazza feels
that germs are bound to spread on a
university campus.
“College students will inevitably
share drinks, pass around blunts and
stay up all night to finish a paper.
So even though diseases thrive in
these conditions, nothing’s going to
change,” he said.
Still, some students realize that get-
ting sick in college is too easy and
that at a certain point, student have to
realize that they are not invincibleS.
“I live in a suite, and if one of us
is sick, all of us will get sick,” Junior
Erin Flood said. I’m one of those crazy
people who won’t share food or drinks
just because I’m so paranoid about
contracting something.”
Junior Melissa Jones shared Flood’s
sentiments. “Usually when I get sick
it’s because I haven’t been getting
enough sleep,” she said. “Also, when
there’s a cold going around, it spreads
fast. A lot of people go to lecture sick,
and if you have a roommate who’s
sick, it’s really hard not to catch it. I
try to get a lot of vitamin C to help my
immune system.”
 Arts & Living
Movie Review
‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ presents audience with
a unique character and loads of optimism
by Melissa Lee
Contributing Writer
Americans clearly love British comedies,
often finding blunt irony much funnier and
less restrained than Yankee humor. “Happy-
Go-Lucky,” the latest import from the moth-
erland, is no exception.
Happy-Go-Lucky
Starring Sally Hawkins, Eddie
Marsan, Alexis Zegerman
Directed by Mike Leigh
Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, a free-spirited
primary school teacher from North London.
She loves life and doesn’t take anything seri-
ously, even when her bicycle gets stolen. This
film captures poignant, life-affirming snap-
shots of her daily happenings.
After she loses her bike, Poppy takes
up driving lessons with the eccentric and
moody Scott (played by Eddie Marsan), who
turns out to be her antagonist. He grows both
frustrated and fascinated with her upbeat,
laissez-faire attitude. She also has amusing
run-ins with a fiery flamenco teacher, her
dowdy pregnant sister and a lovable social
worker. No matter what roadblocks come
her way, Poppy takes everything in stride.
Although this storyline sounds cheesy,
the movie manages to avoid falling into the
super chick-flick trap of, say, “Mamma Mia”
(2008). This film is refreshingly optimistic,
but not cloyingly so.
The opening scene shows various angles
of Poppy happily biking through central
London, with lively instrumental music
playing in the background. Right away, this
scene establishes both the mood of the film
and Poppy’s positive character. Eventually,
Theater Review
Mitchell mouths off
about Watergate scandal in
‘Martha Mitchell Calling’
by Brianna Beehler
Daily Editorial Board
In the very beginning of Jodi Rothe’s
play “Martha Mitchell Calling,” Annette
Miller warns the audience, “There won’t
Martha Mitchell Calling
Written by Jodi Rothe
Directed by Daniela Varon
At the Central Square Theater
through Nov. 9
Tickets $18 and up
be any 18 1/2-minute gaps in my tapes,
like you-know-who’s!” On that note,
Miller sets the tone for the rest of the
performance, plunging the audience
into a Southern belle’s gossipy sum-
maries of the real goings-on of the
Watergate scandal.
Both the politically savvy and the
politically averse will find Miller’s comi-
cal impressions and anecdotes amus-
ing. Miller performs the role of Martha
Mitchell, the extraordinary wife of for-
mer President Richard Nixon’s Attorney
General John Mitchell, a woman who
always has a comment about every-
thing. Miller spends most of the per-
formance fondly recounting her life to
a tape recorder for her upcoming book
in her fuzzy pink nightgown from her
equally rosy bedroom. With standard
southern hospitality, she invites her
listeners into her heart and home. The
audience feels intimately connected
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5
tuftsdaily.com
Devin Toohey | pop culture gone bad
And isn’t it ironic,
don’t you think?
“H
igh School Musical 3:
Senior Year” comes out
this Friday and I gotta
admit, I’m dying to see it.
No, I’m not a pubescent girl with a crush
on the non-threatening Zac Efron. Let me
just put it this way: The first “High School
Musical” (2006) was absurd beyond imagi-
nation, a caricature of whatever teeny bop-
pers gobble up. It was filled with awkward
innuendo (I couldn’t figure out if it was
unintentional or the sick joke of the writ-
ers who knew that pre-teens would miss
it) and generally was the closest thing to
having a lobotomy while still keeping your
brain intact. As for the second one (2007),
it topped its predecessor. By the end, Troy
gave the viewers the best anti-moral of all
outnow.ch time: something along the lines of “For too
Sally Hawkins stars as optimistic Poppy in ‘Happy-Go-Lucky.’ long I’ve been thinking about my future,
instead of what really matters: what my
though, her juvenile antics and excessive ability to connect with youngsters when she friends think of me.”
friendliness do grow irritating, and the audi- helps her students to make bird masks out But as I planned my upcoming weekend
ence can almost sympathize with Scott’s of paper bags. The zoomed-in views of indi- and thought about going to the movies,
aggravation. vidual children intently painting their masks squealing (albeit ironically) at Troy and
Fortunately, the movie combats Poppy’s are powerful because they are so simple and Gabriella’s relationship overcoming yet
zealousness by successfully encapsulating touching. another non-hurdle and having the songs
up-close details of life’s precious moments. Poppy is able and willing to confront and stuck in my head for the next week to the
After a long night of clubbing, Poppy and deal with difficult situations, such as encoun- annoyance of my housemates, I began to
her friends drunkenly unwind at home. At tering a homeless man or counseling the wonder: How different am I really from a
one point, she pulls out a pair of raw chicken class bully. Through these interactions, Poppy teenage girl who sincerely likes the movie?
cutlets that she had used to stuff her bra. redeems herself in the eyes of the audience Aren’t I doing the exact same things, except
Scenes like this one provide hilarious by exploring the more complex, serious char- trying to hide behind the all-powerful,
insight into Poppy’s character and appeal acter beneath her frivolous exterior. English-major veil of irony? Where does
particularly to adult audiences. She is not In the end, though, this film is a com- one draw the line between ironically liking
just the cutesy, innocent girl that she might edy, and it provides enough funny moments something and genuinely liking it?
seem to be. On the other hand, the audi- On the base level, they are pretty much
ence gets to see Poppy’s inner child and see HAPPY, page 7 the same, especially to Disney. Whether
I go to see it to ridicule or to adore it as
the greatest piece of cinema since the
“Hannah Montana” movie (2008), it does
not matter to them. If I fill their coffers,
they’ll be happy. All they care about is that
I don’t sneak in and I pay cash to see the
film (which I will be doing, so Disney 1,
Devin 0).
Also, I, like many people seeing the film,
would still be upset if Disney changed the
formula. Were the film to use different stars
(which may happen in the next “HSM,”
unless it becomes “College Musical”) or
cut out the music entirely, I would, like
many of the fans, be horribly disappoint-
ed. Why? Because “HSM” would become
almost an unworthy target as just another
dumb Disney movie.
When does one stop mocking some-
thing and just admit they like it whether
newyearbaby.net
it’s good or not? I think “HSM” is still in
Socheata Poeuv unlocks the secrets of her family’s past in Cambodia for her film, the former category, but I recently realized
“New Year Baby.” that one of my guilty pleasures (which
I will not disclose) is in fact that — a
Award-winning filmmaker visits campus guilty pleasure — and not something I
watch with ironic detachment. While it’s
Growing up in Dallas, Texas, Cambodian-American Socheata Poeuv thought not something I’m proud of, I’ve come to
she knew her parents. Their quirky customs, in her mind, marked them as strange accept it. And now I wonder whether it
immigrants and crippled them from keeping up with the times and with American was always a guilty pleasure and I just did
culture. It wasn’t until adulthood that Poeuv learned the secrets of her family’s past not want to face facts.
and understood their incredible resilience amidst the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. Perhaps this is all part of the problem
Her consequent journey through Cambodia inspired the film “New Year Baby” with being an elitist. We elitists deny our-
(2006) which chronicles her discoveries. selves dumb, stupid fun, except under the
The documentary is Poeuv’s filmmaking debut, and it has already caught the pretext of irony. But is that pretext just a
attention of over 25 film festivals and won numerous prizes, including several “Best pretext so we can have our stupid fun, or
Documentary” awards. During the premiere at the 2006 International Documentary even worse, is stupid writing so powerful
Film Festival in Amsterdam, it garnered the prestigious “Movies That Matter” that it can pierce the irony until we are cor-
human rights cinema award from Amnesty International in a unanimous decision. rupted and reduced to liking it?
The film was also broadcast nationally on PBS Independent Lens during May of I guess what I’m saying is, elitism (which
2008, an opportunity that bolstered Poeuv’s project promise: to share the inspiring I admit I love) is a precarious outlook. I
documentary with 100 million people over the course of 10 years. She hopes that find myself constantly going to horrible
her story of discovery and acceptance of a guarded past will reach communities and movies to laugh at them and prove my
classrooms in America, as well as cities here and abroad most intimately familiar elitism, but always at the risk of falling into
with conflict and injustice. the trap of genuinely enjoying them. But
Want to count yourself among one of the 100 million touched by “New Year I must continue doing so. So yes, you will
Baby?” Poeuv will bring her award-winning documentary to Tufts tonight, so that find me cheering on the Wildcats (even if
students can soak in the “love, joy and pardon” of her journey. There will be a there’s a bit of an all-knowing smirk on my
screening of the film at 7 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium, followed by a question-and- face) this weekend.
answer period with Poeuv and a reception. Admission is free.
Devin Toohey is a senior majoring in clas-
— by Jessica Bal sics. He can be reached at Devin.Toohey@
tufts.edu.
6 The Tufts Daily Arts & Living Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The story of President Nixon’s scandal and
downfall takes to the stage in a pink nightgown
MITCHELL
continued from page 5
with this woman who tells all
from the comfort of her bed,
drinking gin and reliving her
past.
“Martha Mitchell Calling,”
tells of one woman’s struggle
to expose an administration
rife with political corruption.
The woman known as the
“Mouth of the South” achieved
national celebrity status with
her famous phone calls to
the press about matters the
Nixon-era conspirators want-
ed kept quiet. President Nixon
said in a 1977 interview with
David Frost, “If it hadn’t been
for Martha, there’d have been
no Watergate.” But this power-
fully humorous play that dives
into the not-always-pretty
details of Mitchell’s life doesn’t
undermine her bravery; it is
a tribute to her courage and
character.
The play stops short of ide-
alizing Mitchell, and instead
presents a woman with basic
human faults, a heart and a
mischievous sense of humor.
Rothe stays true to Mitchell’s
quips and witticisms with such
lines as “Nixon is as exciting as
a fish stick dinner!” Mitchell’s
stubbornness lands her in
more than one sticky situation
with the former president and
first lady, many of which she
delightedly relates in her one-
on-one with the audience.
Mitchell’s story centers
mostly on her relationship
with her husband and her role
in his success and its ulti-
mate undoing. What begins
as a story of romantic mus-
ings, flirtations and inno-
cent games transforms into
The Tufts Daily Arts & Living
Courtesy Kippy Goldfarb
Mixing gin with inside information makes for a scandal in the case of
Martha Mitchell.
a dark and complicated tale. the love and sympathy of all
Near the end, the woman that in the audience. Miller enliv-
viewers have come to love ens the role of Mitchell, and
takes on a suicidal, defeat- her feisty, uncontainable
ist streak, and the full extent character does justice to the
of Mitchell’s sacrifices in the woman who constantly fought
name of truth becomes clear. against lies and deceit. Miller
Timothy Sawyer gives a con- is also a longtime member
vincing performance as John of Shakespeare & Company
Mitchell, frequently emerging and has appeared on and off
from his portrait in the bed- Broadway.
room to relive the past during A touching and inspira-
his wife’s reminiscences. tional portrait in the midst
Director Daniela Varon cre- of election season, “Martha
ates a play for any American Mitchell Calling” is an impor-
interested in the pursuit of tant reminder of a woman
truth and in those who were who loved her man, but loved
martyred in its name. Varon is her freedom of speech more.
an award-winning New York- “Martha Mitchell Calling”
based theater director, and plays at the Central Square
her newest production lives Theater in Cambridge through
up to her past work at over 30 Sunday, Nov. 9. Student tickets
theaters nationwide. are available for $18, and $12
Miller puts on a perfor- rush tickets go on sale the day
mance full of heart, evoking of the show.
Poppy’s level of enthusiasm necessitates long incubation periods.
Clashes with quirky characters
make Poppy a lovable protagonist
HAPPY
continued from page 5
to keep the audience laughing
throughout. The humor is witty and
natural and not too forced or crude.
Scott, the driving instructor,
turns an ordinary situation into
an extremely entertaining occur-
rence. His uptight character is so
completely the opposite of Poppy’s
personality that they can’t help but
clash throughout every second of
every lesson. Scott’s behavior is
exaggerated and ridiculous, but
even his character eventually gets
rounded out.
Another amusingly outlandish
person that Poppy encounters is
her flamenco instructor (Karina
Fernandez). When Poppy and her
friend come to class late, the teach-
er says, “It’s very Spanish to be late.”
The instructor’s emotional, passion-
ate personality eventually builds to
a hysterical crescendo.
Once again, director and writer
Mike Leigh employs his signature
technique of having the actors cre-
ate their characters and dialogue
through improvisational sessions
before shooting each scene. He
7
outnow.ch
uses this script-less method in his
past films such as “Secrets and Lies”
(1996) and “Vera Drake” (2004). The
result is genuine characters that the
actors completely embody. All of the
actors are perfectly cast in their roles.
A subtle detail that makes Poppy
stand out against all of the charac-
ters that she encounters is her cloth-
ing, which is outrageous — even by
hipster North London standards.
Her wardrobe includes such items
as bright blue striped sweaters and
giant red hoop earrings. By contrast,
Scott wears plain gray jackets and
her flatmate wears mostly black.
Poppy really does stand out
in every way. She doesn’t let any-
thing phase her, and she lives life
to the fullest. She easily could have
become the overly perfect character
that the audience hopes will fail,
but instead she is an endearing pro-
tagonist.
This quirky comedy is a great
pick-me-up after midterms,
breakups and other less-than-
fun activities. The combination of
light-hearted optimism and truly
funny humor is enough to cheer
anyone up.
8 The Tufts Daily Editorial | Letters Wednesday, October 22, 2008

EDITORIAL
THE TUFTS DAILY
Robert S. Silverblatt In a time of crisis, protect what’s important
Editor-in-Chief In a recent conversation with the endorse buildings or people. And the and Fitness Center construction will
Editorial Daily, University President Lawrence answer should be simple enough: peo- eventually add to the currently ail-
Bacow cautioned against pushing ple. It is the other students and pro- ing facilities at Cousens Gym and the
Rachel Dolin Managing Editors bricks and mortar at the expense of fessors — not the physical infrastruc- Gantcher Center. Additionally, Barnum
Kristin Gorman people. As Wall Street continues to ture — that students will ultimately Hall, home to the biology department,
Jacob Maccoby Editorial Page Editors disappoint and the economy plunges, remember from their time on the Hill. is increasingly an outdated and sec-
Jason Richards the university will be pushing a lot less It is for that reason that we support ond-rate space for Tufts’ first-rate fac-
Giovanni Russonello Executive News Editor bricks in coming months and maybe the university’s decision to continue ulty. Because of the credit crisis, the
even years. The planned construction to protect what’s really important: the university is holding off on building
Sarah Butrymowicz News Editors of a sports complex and a lab facility quality of the students and professors. a laboratory on Boston Avenue meant
Pranai Cheroo
Nina Ford are two of the casualties, with work on What that boils down to is a com- to facilitate interaction between engi-
Ben Gittleson them being pushed back as Tufts tight- mitment to hiring and holding onto neering and biology efforts at Tufts.
Gillian Javetski ens its belt and pulls in the reins on the the best professors and making sure The facility will one day open new
Jeremy White
endowment. that all students, regardless of their opportunities on a campus that has
Alexandra Bogus Assistant News Editors While these delays are unfortunate socioeconomic situations, can afford a not added a new lab building in nearly
Michael Del Moro at best, they are certainly prudent. A Tufts education. Tufts’ quality profes- 20 years. Once the credit markets ease,
Carrie Battan Executive Features Editor part of Tufts’ burgeoning endowment sors must continue to inspire students we urge the university to move for-
has always been set aside for physical even as the endowment performs ane- ward with these projects and others as
Jessica Bidgood Features Editors improvements, but that has never been mically, and need-blind admissions quickly as possible.
Robin Carol the primary purpose of the ongoing cannot become a casualty of the slow- In these difficult times, the uni-
Kerianne Okie
Charlotte Steinway capital campaign. The money flowing down. versity must continue focusing on
into the university’s coffers over the In order to make ends meet, budget what’s important: its students. Tufts’
Sarah Bliss Assistant Features Editors past years has instead been an over- cuts are inevitable, and the university excellence derives from its people.
Meghan Pesch
whelming endorsement of our com- has correctly decided to put large capi- Guaranteeing student financial aid
Mike Adams Executive Arts Editor mitment to need-blind admissions. tal projects on hold. Still, this is not a and professor salaries will help the
So we now find ourselves at a cross- license to keep them on the backburn- quality of the College Avenue experi-
Jessica Bal Arts Editors
Grant Beighley roads. Cuts and delays are inevitable, er indefinitely. ence flourish in spite of poor perfor-
Sarah Cowan so the only question is whether we For example, the Steve Tisch Sports mance on Wall Street.
Catherine Scott
Emma Bushnell Assistant Arts Editors
Matthew DiGirolamo
nate beeler
Jyll Saskin Executive Op-Ed Editor
Thomas Eager Executive Sports Editor
Sapna Bansil Sports Editors
Evans Clinchy
Philip Dear
David Heck
Carly Helfand
Noah Schumer
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McCain’s kryptonite
by Michael Bendetson

While the presidential elec-

tion is still weeks away, Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.) seems
to be on the path to the Oval
Office. For the second time
in the past decade, Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.) will fail to
reach the presidency because
of one man: George W. Bush.
The 43rd president has proven
to be a cancer to a McCain
candidacy.
The relationship between
Bush and McCain has always
been turbulent. The root of this
disdain can be traced back all
the way to the year 2000. After
a major McCain victory in New
Hampshire, a fearful Bush used
smear tactics against him in
South Carolina. If McCain had
won South Carolina, he would
have been on his way to winning
the Republican nomination.
Karl Rove was willing to pre-
vent this at any price. In a
move like something out of
Watergate, the Bush cam-
paign allegedly spread rumors
that McCain fathered a black
child and that his wife used
drugs. Although most people
hate negative campaigning, it
worked. McCain lost signifi-
cantly in South Carolina, which
led to a devastating overall loss
for the Arizona senator.
After the primary season
ended, McCain was furious at
Bush for using dirty tactics to
destroy his campaign. He even
referred to Bush as “a combi-
nation of the cowardly lion, the
tin man and the scarecrow,”
meaning that he thought Bush
had no courage, no heart and
even no brain. McCain believed
that his chances to be com-
mander-in-chief were gone.
Much to McCain’s surprise,
he got one more chance to
run for president. But this has
MCT
proven to be one more chance
for Bush to spoil. While McCain change, HMO reform, torture irrelevant, as Obama has man- The senator from Illinois Most Americans view McCain
has agreed with Bush on a fair policy and gun laws. aged to make Bush an albatross also knows that by painting as more of the same, when
amount of issues, the senator The most notable disagree- around McCain’s neck. In the Bush and McCain with the in fact he is a maverick. Bush
from Arizona has also disagreed ment has been on the war in last debate, Obama mentioned same brush, he has guaran- has caused severe damage to
with the president on some Iraq. McCain proved to be the that McCain has been “a vig- teed himself victory. Bush has the Republican Party, and the
major topics. McCain spon- leading critic of Bush’s strat- orous supporter of President been one of the most ineffec- person on the receiving end
sored the McCain-Feingold egy in the war. Though he was Bush.” Obama does have tive presidents in our coun- of this damage is Senator John
Campaign Reform Act against harangued by many for point- strength behind his argument, try’s history, having failed on McCain.
the will of the Bush adminis- ing out that a surge in troops as McCain has had to move almost every major policy
tration. He voted against the was necessary, the strategy was uncomfortably closer toward issue. Even though McCain and
Bush tax cuts on moral and eventually implemented and Bush and the right-wing mem- Bush are quite different and Michael Bendetson is a fresh-
fiscal grounds. McCain further has proved successful. bers of the Republican Party to their relationship is uncertain, man who has not yet declared
disagreed with Bush on climate All these differences were gain the support of the base. the strategy has prevailed. a major.

Off the Hill | Stanford University

Obama should bail out economy with campaign money

by Stuart Baimel
The Stanford Daily
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has again
surpassed all fundraising expectations
and raised $150 million in the month of
September, more than doubling his own
fundraising record of $66 million set the
month before. His fundraising over the
past two months is more than almost
any presidential candidate ever.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), for his
part, fundraised nothing, as he is limited
to spending $84 million under public
financing rules. In violation of the spir-
it of McCain’s own campaign-finance
legislation, his campaign is directing
fundraisers to the Republican National
Committee, which continues to pull in
huge amounts of money and spend it on
McCain’s behalf.
Despite the fact that Obama has much
more money than seems necessary, his
campaign continues to ask for money.
His campaign manager David Plouffe
recently sent out an e-mail to support-
ers announcing how much the cam-
paign had raised.
“It’s not too late to own a piece of
this campaign,” Plouffe wrote. “In fact,
your support is needed more urgently
now than ever before … make a dona-
tion today.” Despite fundraising $5 mil-
lion per day last month, the campaign
still sends out daily e-mails asking for
money, as if the campaign needs it.
I can imagine what Obama does
with all the money he hasn’t spent:
Overworked Obama staffers are told
to “take a break in the vault” and dive
into the campaign vault, where they
roll around in Benjamins sent in by
college professors, Scarlett Johansson
and Oprah fans — the job’s best perk
for sure.
Given that Obama is already out-
spending McCain four-to-one in most
swing states, it’s not entirely clear how
much more money Obama needs to
defeat McCain and whether additional
dollars now will actually lead to addi-
tional votes.
Obama’s huge financial advantage
has caused him problems before. When
fighting Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania,
he outspent her about three-to-one, but
he still lost the state by 10 points. Ohio
was similar. It’s hard to imagine that
Obama could drop another $100 million
he has not already committed in the
next two weeks and not waste the vast
majority of it.
Television advertisements, to which
most campaign funds are directed, cer-
tainly exhibit the principle of “diminish-
ing returns.” If voters have seen nine
TV ads in the span of an hour, it is
unlikely that the tenth will change their
minds. Obama raised record amounts
in the primaries, which enabled him
to outlast Clinton, but he also spent
record amounts, barely defeating the
greatly outspent and bankrupt Clinton
in the end. Obama’s financial record has
inspired conservative critics to snarkily
observe that Obama’s spending record
compares to how “tax-and-spend liber-
als” use government money: unwisely
and in great amounts.
There’s certainly a better use for all
the money Obama has raised. It’s clear
that in the final month of the election,
Obama is going to raise something like
$150 bajillion and not have any real
use for it. Rather than going toward
the Obama 2012 reelection campaign or
funding exceptionally lavish inaugura-
tion parties, Obama can put this money
to good use by immediately bailing out
the American economy. We need it, to be
certain, with a recession looking more
and more likely and the credit markets
still locked up.
I can even think of a good place to start
with the bailout and “liquidity injec-
tions” (which honestly do not sound
all that appetizing): my bank account.
It’s grown smaller in recent months,
though not necessarily due to the stock
market or declining house prices. But
that doesn’t matter. It has grown smaller.
That’s what matters. I can even think
of good taglines for this: “Investing in
a Youth” and “Supporting Tomorrow’s
Leader.” Obama has no idea what to
do with his embarrassment of riches. I
am not yet rich. I think this sounds like
something that has traction.

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he still launched 48 home runs and
knocked in 146 RBI. He hasn’t looked
particularly good in the playoffs, slug-
ging a mere .323; but he’s still feared
enough to garner a .410 OBP. That’s
because opposing managers know that
any ball he makes contact with could
leave the yard so they simply elect to
put him on base.
That may not be the wisest decision,
however, as the ever-underrated Pat
Burrell hits behind Howard in the line-
up. The left fielder hit 33 dingers this
year and walked 102 times, compiling
an .875 OPS. He provides great protec-
tion for Howard, as his command of
the strike zone and ability to turn on
a fastball puts a lot of pressure on the
pitcher when there are men on base.
In center field, Shane Victorino pro-
vides balance and versatility, hitting 14
homers with 36 steals and batting in
every spot in the lineup besides third
and fourth. In right, Jayson Werth is
another player that can do a little bit
of everything, swatting 24 long balls
and stealing 20 bases. Manning the
hot corner, Pedro Feliz provides the
glove while Greg Dobbs brings the bat,
recording an .846 OPS against righties.
Despite the quality of the Phillies’
lineup and the power arms on their
staff, hitting and pitching may not
Rays ready to win first championship
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unassisted at the 56:06 mark, tying the game with his second goal of the year. Sophomore the home run. But they hit plenty in
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The Phillies really excel above the
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while some may be quick to point out
that the Rays were first with 142, the
Phillies did it at a Major League-best
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In terms of fielding, there are few
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ly appear more efficient). The Phillies
were fourth in the majors, fielding 52
balls above average. The Rays weren’t
bad, coming in ninth with 24 outs
above average, but that’s still less than
half of Philadelphia’s mark.
It’s often the little things that make
the differences in the playoffs, whether
it’s a run-saving defensive play or a
timely manufactured run. The Phillies
can run, field, and they have pitchers
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their deep lineup, and their ability to
close, and maybe it’s time for the city
year that the Andrew Friedman Gambit
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payroll — finally pays off. It won’t be
sexy, but it will be graceful, and more
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Evans Clinchy | Dirty Water
Hate to say I
told you so
T
his article is the first in a 17-part
series chronicling the unbearable pain
caused by being a Red Sox fan in light
of recent events that occurred in St.
Petersburg, Fla. The words that follow will
likely be self-deprecating, self-loathing and
self-pitying. The author will likely ignore the
fact that 29 other teams in major league
baseball have fans and that those fans are
human beings with real emotions and real
feelings and all that stuff. If you are a fan of
one of those 29 teams, you should probably
not read any further. In fact, just turn the page
right now. Go on, do it. Read a gallery review
or something. Seriously. Go.
Anyway. When did it happen for you?
When did it all become clear? When did
reality sink in? When did that ever-fearsome
“big picture” come into focus?
When did your mentality change from
“Wow, we just witnessed the greatest
comeback in postseason history” to “Oh,
God, now we actually have to win two
more of these?”
When did you realize that one of the most
dramatic wins in Red Sox history would prob-
ably go to waste? That Dustin Pedroia, David
Ortiz and J.D. Drew, three men who had just
led the Red Sox back from a 7-0 deficit to the
biggest comeback in any postseason game
since 1929 — 1929! — were probably, even-
tually, going to come up short when it really
mattered? That no matter how dramatic one
win is, it just isn’t always enough?
As you can probably guess, I’m about
to brag that I was panicking long before it
was cool.
At 12:16 a.m. on what was technically
Friday morning, exactly five years to the min-
ute after Aaron Boone’s home run doomed
the 2003 Red Sox in that year’s ALCS, Drew
singled home the winning run to end the
Sox’ 8-7 win over Tampa Bay. Over the next
three hours, I underwent the five stages of
celebration — for grief, there’s denial, anger,
bargaining, depression and acceptance; for
me, there was disbelief, euphoria, more dis-
belief, optimism and …
Reality.
At around 3:30 a.m. (up until this point,
I was way too giddy to sleep), it hit me: For
some reason, I’m celebrating the fact that my
team is trailing three games to two, is pretty
lousy on the road, and won’t go to the World
Series without consecutive wins over James
Shields and Matt Garza.
With an ace Shields against an ailing Josh
Beckett, I thought the Rays were probably
favorites to end it right there in Game 6. But
even if you’re generous and consider the
teams evenly matched, the Red Sox’ chances
of winning the final two games were still
pretty damn low — 25 percent.
That’s right, 25 percent. I could, and I
did, boil it all down to one simple yet hid-
eous number. Maybe that’s because I’m
just a nerd. Or maybe it’s because the Sox’
front office had Bill James brainwash me. Or
maybe, just maybe, it’s because I’m the most
cynical baseball fan alive.
The simplest way to put it is that I’m a non-
believer. I don’t believe in the intangibles. I
don’t believe in destiny, or fate, or God-given
mandates for teams to win games. I don’t
believe in curses or jinxes or rally caps or
rally monkeys. I don’t believe in hot streaks; I
don’t believe in slumps. I don’t believe in the
clutch. And in this case most importantly, I
don’t believe in that all-important buzzword
that everyone loves to throw around after a
game like Game 5: momentum.
Forget it. None of it exists. In baseball,
the only thing you can truly believe in is
complete and total randomness, and if you
can’t accept the fact that sometimes what’s
random is cruel, then maybe you should be
watching soaps instead. Those are scripted.
Baseball, no matter how much we some-
times wish otherwise, is not.
As great as Game 5 was, it doesn’t mean
we should’ve all expected Game 7. The Rays
won, as most teams with 3-2 leads in seven-
game series generally do. It all makes sense.
Agonizingly perfect sense.
So now, with the Red Sox at home and
Kazmir facing Hamels in Game One tonight,
it’s hard to do much else besides … shrug.
There’s really only one thing you can say.
Screw it. Only six days ‘til Celtics season.
Evans Clinchy is a senior majoring in
English. He can be reached at Evans.
Clinchy@tufts.edu.
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Water Polo
Coast Guard drowns Tufts’ hopes of taking
a trip to national tournament this year
by Carly Helfand
Daily Editorial Board
After its second tournament
launched the water polo team to 8-0,
this season was playing out to be a
mirror image of last year’s undefeated
run to the Club Nationals tournament.
But with a 9-8 loss to division foe
Coast Guard this weekend, that win-
ning streak — and the Jumbos’ season
— came to an abrupt end. hole set up at the five, so when the ball
With the defeat, the Jumbos lost
their opportunity to even compete
for first place in the country. In the
past two years the team advanced to
Nationals, falling short of the title
game both times to take third place
overall. Longhurst continued. “We didn’t have
“I think it came down to the fact that
we each individually wanted to win the
tournament very much, and the prob-
lem was everyone took it upon them-
selves that it was up to them to win the
tournament,” senior Ben Moskowitz
said. “In the past we were more versa-
tile when we worked together … There
was a little bit of a disconnect, and it
was a poor time for that to happen.”
Problems for the offensively mind-
ed Jumbos started early on, as Tufts
couldn’t seem to find the net. Leading
scorer and senior tri-captain Pete
Georgakakos was held to just three
goals, while freshman Benji Koltai,
who emerged as a prolific offensive
weapon over the course of his first two
collegiate tournaments, was stopped
at two.
“A lot of our shots were not great …
or not going on goal,” sophomore Alex
de Castro-Abeger said. “A lot hit the
bars or went slightly over the cage …
The balls were just not going our way.
We weren’t making shots that we nor-
mally always make.”
Coast Guard’s hole-set strategy also
Sailing
Jumbos string together series of strong
finishes in wake of boost in national rankings
by Philip Dear
Daily Editorial Board
The sailing team is the Barack
Obama of the collegiate sailing cir-
cuit: more intelligent, better looking
and steadily rising in the rankings
until the end, when it will find itself at
the top.
Or so it hopes.
After two weeks of overwhelmingly
impressive racing, the sailing team
was awarded another boost in the
national rankings, from No. 6 to No.
5 as of Oct. 14. As of Monday, the
team is ranked third in New England.
Keeping up with this trend of domi-
nance, the Jumbos posted some more
strong finishes this weekend.
The team’s best finish came at the
Captain Hurst Bowl, a two-day regatta
held at Dartmouth. The Jumbos man-
aged a second-place finish out of 20
teams, scoring a combined 122 points
from 20 races between two divisions
and narrowly edging out third-place
Boston University’s 123 points.
The A division boat was sailed by
the seasoned duo of junior Tomas
Hornos and senior tri-captain Lara
Hwa, while the B division consisted
of senior tri-captain Baker Potts and
classmate Christina Kelly. The A divi-
sion boat finished third to garner 73
of the 122 overall points. Meanwhile
Potts and Kelly were able to win the B
division, bringing in only 49 points.
“We did well considering the con-
ditions,” Hornos said. “[The breeze
was] pretty light and inconsistent, but
we were able to just stay in the game.
Other teams were up and down, but
Baker was able to win his division and
I was able to figure out the course at
the end. I was able to put together a
few good finishes at the end.”
Potts stayed relatively consistent
throughout the day, winning three
Sports
took the Jumbos by surprise, giving
way to fouls that in turn led to open
shots on goal.
“Normally, the hole set plays two
meters away from the goal, and
when they get fouled, they have an
open pass,” senior goalkeeper James
Longhurst said. “If you’re fouled
beyond the 5-meter mark, you have
an open shot, and all the defender can
do is hold their hand up. They set the
came to the hole set and we fouled
their hole set, they’d have a free shot.
“They didn’t have anyone set up
inside the 5-meter line, so we didn’t
have any defenders inside the line
when they took the open shot,”
anyone to block inside. It was pretty
much just the shooter and the goalie,
and I can only block so many shots.”
The Jumbos relied on Longhurst,
who in his first season in the net has
come through time and again for Tufts.
Longhurst was able to stop a number
of Coast Guard’s free shots to keep the
Jumbos in the game.
“The game would have been a lot
worse if he didn’t have an amazing
game as goalie,” de Castro-Abeger
said. “He was unbelievable.”
But eventually, despite a solid effort,
Coast Guard wore the Jumbos down,
and their frustration gave way to laps-
es in their usual style of play.
“It seemed like we weren’t playing
together as a team like we normally
do,” Longhurst said. “We weren’t pass-
ing as much or driving as much, and
we sort of just became six individual
field players instead of working as one
unit. I think that’s sort of what led to
our inevitable loss.”
“We played really hard,” Moskowitz
added. “I’ve never seen us play as hard
in the four years I’ve been playing polo
races and finishing in the top 10 in
nine of the 10 races.
When asked to describe how well
his teammate and captain Potts did,
Hornos spoke with brevity.
“Baker pretty much just dominat-
ed,” he said.
“We were happy but we didn’t want
to get carried away because we knew
this wasn’t the top-top regatta of the
weekend,” Hornos said. “There was a
regatta at the Naval Academy where a
lot of our competition was. We knew
we were going to do well.”
“It was a regatta we can
certainly improve upon. We
made a few easily correct-
able mistakes.”
Dan Altreuter
senior tri-captain
With third-place BU and fourth-
place Brown both within eight points
of Tufts, the strong finish saved at
least a two-spot drop overall.
There was a noticeable void of Tufts
boats at the Navy Fall Intersectional at
the Naval Academy, where the major-
ity of the top teams in the nation
raced for early-season supremacy. The
Jumbos did not schedule in time for
the regatta’s registration last spring,
and consequently sought out other
competitive regattas.
The Jumbos also seized the oppor-
tunity to sail in familiar waters this
weekend on the Upper Mystic Lake for
the Lane Trophy regatta. It is always
a welcome occasion when the team
gets to race on the lake on which it
practices every day, as its sailors are
accustomed to the conditions.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
here. I think the problem for us is that
we didn’t execute our game play effec-
tively. Coast Guard played the best
game we’ve seen them have in recent
memory. I don’t know when they’ve
had as many big shots or big saves in a
game against us, ever. It’s tough when
things are not going well on one end of
the spectrum for us and going great for
Coast Guard.”
The loss to Coast Guard came on the
heels of a Tufts victory over Amherst,
whom the Jumbos defeated for the
third time this season after blowing
out the bottom seeded University of
Vermont, 18-7. While the Amherst
game was relatively close, at 11-8 after
the squad struggled a bit in the first
half, Tufts’ defense managed to take
out Amherst’s best player and effec-
tively shut down its hole sets.
“It was standard Tufts water polo,”
de Castro-Abeger said. “We usually
come out in the first half not at our
strongest. We’re a second-half team,
and we usually pull away in the second
half. We really had control of the game
the whole time — the score may not
have represented it in the first or sec-
ond quarters, but we knew going into
the game what type of water polo they
played and we knew how to stop it.”
Overall, despite the early exit, the
season was a productive one for a
Jumbo squad that managed to improve
defensively and maintain its focus.
“This season was incredible,”
Moskowitz said. “It was full of ups
and downs, but overall, the 20-some
odd guys that came out to practice
put time and effort into playing the
game and learning a lot. It was a tough
defeat, and we’re sorry it had to be
that way, but I think everyone will look
back and find that this was a great sea-
son — there were just a few bumps in
the road.”
For the regatta, Tufts sailed in a
round-robin style team race, in which
it turned in a third-place finish out of
the eight teams present. And since one
of the eight teams originally sched-
uled dropped out, a second Jumbo
team was assembled to fill the void
and ended up claiming fifth.
Still, the Jumbos were not entirely sat-
isfied with the overall results on the day.
“We worked together pretty well,”
said senior tri-captain Dan Altreuter,
who sailed one of the three boats
for the first team. “It wasn’t perfect,
though, as you can see from the results
of the regatta.”
As part of the original Tufts team,
Altreuter sailed with sophomore Sara
Carnahan in one boat, while juniors
Andrew Criezis and Jennifer Watkins
teamed up in the second boat and
seniors Robby Moore and Amanda
Harwood sailed the third.
Although the Jumbos are accus-
tomed to the Upper Mystic Lake’s vol-
atile sailing conditions, stiff breezes
nevertheless caused trouble on the
water.
“There was a big breeze, so it turned
out to be more of a contest of how
fast you could make your boat go as
opposed to tactics,” Altreuter said.
“Tactics were still a huge part, but the
heavy breeze emphasized boat speed.
“Our starts were not very good to
begin with,” he continued. “Coming
around the leeward mark, we occa-
sionally didn’t make the plays we
needed to and as a result, we let the
opportunity slip away from us.”
The third-place Jumbo team fin-
ished behind Boston College and
Dartmouth. Despite glimpses of Tufts’
typically great sailing, the overall sen-
timent was clear.
“It was a regatta we can certainly
improve upon,” Altreuter said. “We made
a few easily correctable mistakes.”
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Phils-Rays: The Daily goes around the horn

With the typical October-dwelling New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox out of the picture, it’s time for some new and exciting post-
season faces. The 2008 World Series will feature the Tampa Bay Rays, with an average age of 27, and the Philadelphia Phillies, littered with
studs in the peak years of their careers. In essence, these two teams are mirror images of each other, stocked with a deep lineup, a strong
and consistent bullpen and a powerful starting rotation. So, who enters the World Series with the edge — the Rays, who have never had
more than 70 wins before this season, or the Phillies, who have just one MLB championship in their 100-plus-year history? The Daily breaks
it down position-by-position. by Alex Prewitt
Centerfield: B.J. Upton vs. Shane Second Base: Akinori Iwamura vs. Chase
Victorino: Upton is a man possessed, Utley: Sure, Iwamura is yet another prod-
Left Field: Carl Crawford vs. Pat Burrell: single-handedly sending the Red Sox uct of the Japanese system: He’s solid Right Field: Gabe Gross/Rocco Baldelli
The speedster Crawford did not make back to their cursed days by tying an defensively, quick on the basepaths and vs. Jayson Werth: Gross is in the lineup
as much noise as his teammates in the ALCS record with seven home runs and adept at hitting leadoff. But Utley is the for his defense, while Baldelli could be
ALCS, but he was plenty dangerous at 11 RBI, all while posting an OPS of 1.191. leading candidate for the MVP award this an all-around stud for the Rays, but a
the plate, hitting .345 with 10 hits and As respectable as Victorino’s numbers season and has displayed it throughout mitochondrial disorder prevents Baldelli
three stolen bases. Burrell, on the other are — a .281 average with a .625 slug- the playoffs. Against the Dodgers, Utley from playing more than one game in a
hand, lacks speed but possesses power ging percentage during the postseason led his team in runs, average, hits, dou- row. Werth started the season as a part-
and patience that Crawford can only — there is no one better than Upton in bles, home runs and walks. Iwamura, on timer but took over the starting gig and
dream of; he hit 25 more homers and baseball now. Edge: Rays the other hand, swatted just six hits for a put up strong numbers, with 24 home
walked 72 more times during the regular paltry .207 average. On the season, Utley runs and 20 steals. He doesn’t cover as
season. Edge: Phillies posted an OPS almost 200 points higher much range as Gross in the outfield, but
than Iwamura’s. Edge: Phillies he’s no slouch either. Edge: Phillies.

Shortstop: Jason Bartlett vs. Jimmy Starting Pitching: Both teams have
Rollins: Following a stellar season defen- an incredibly deep rotation filled with
sively, Bartlett has melted under the strong arms built for the long haul. The
glare of the postseason lights, commit- Phillies will open Game 1 with Cole
ting crucial late-game errors against the Hamels, who breezed through the
Red Sox that could have cost his team Dodgers’ bats in the NLCS, pitching 14
the series. He’s not known for his offense innings and finishing with a 1.93 ERA,
either, hitting just one home run the 13 strikeouts and just five walks. The
entire season. Rollins, on the other hand, Rays will counter with Scott Kazmir,
gives his team the advantage because of who had problems with longevity in the
his ability to post big numbers. He’s got ALCS, pitching just 10 innings in two
power hiding somewhere, having hit 30 outings and finishing with a 4.35 ERA.
homers a year ago, and he is one of the With young studs James Shields, Andy
preeminent base stealers in the game Sonnanstine, and ALCS MVP Matt Garza
today. Surprisingly, he also has better rounding out the rotation, the Rays
range and a higher fielding percentage match up well with the Phillies’ Brett
than Bartlett. Edge: Phillies Myers, Jamie Moyer and Joe Blanton.
But no back-end starter in either rota-
tion is consistent enough to give one
squad the advantage. Edge: Push
Third Base: Evan Longoria vs. Pedro Feliz/Greg Dobbs: The
rookie Longoria was about as hot this season as the actress
who shares his surname, but he might actually be a bigger Bullpen: The X-factor in this matchup has to be David Price, the
household name in Tampa after his heroics in the ALCS 23-year-old lefty who came in and promptly silenced any shot the
against the Red Sox. In the playoffs, Longoria has hit .262 Red Sox had at a comeback in Game 7. As a team, the Rays are very
with six home runs and 11 RBI in as many games. Feliz is good at holding leads, as Tampa Bay is 41-11 when leading after
batting just .192 this postseason and is really only in the three innings. The success of the Phillies’ pen hinges on closer Brad
lineup for his glove. While Dobbs slugged .507 against right- Lidge, who was 41-for-41 in save opportunities this season and did
ies on the season, he has stone hands. Edge: Rays not surrender a run in five NLCS innings. Like the starting rotation,
these two units are nearly equal. Edge: Push

Managers: Joe Maddon was there as
a bench coach when the Los Angeles
Angels won the World Series in 2002, so
he knows exactly how to motivate his
team in its most desperate time. The
Phillies’ Charlie Manuel has been much
more consistent than Maddon, having
racked up 573 wins in seven years as
a manager. But Maddon’s relationship
with his players is unmatched. Often
seen clowning around before games,
he will keep his players loose under the
pressure. Edge: Rays
Catcher: Dioner Navarro vs. Carlos
Ruiz: According to season statistics,
Navarro clearly has the edge, hitting
nearly 80 points better with 23 more
RBI. Although the Rays catcher bat-
ted just .192 in the ALCS against the
Red Sox, Ruiz has just one RBI in the
playoffs himself. Navarro, who nearly
sealed Game 7 with his hose down to
second base, garners the edge due to
his defensive work, as he threw out
base runners at twice the rate that Ruiz
did during the season. Edge: Rays
Designated Hitter: Willy Aybar/Cliff
Floyd vs. Matt Stairs: Aybar is probably
the most underrated and overlooked hit-
ter on the Rays’ roster, having hit .367 in
the playoffs. Floyd is the likelier option,
though, having posted 27 homers and 91
RBI, in addition to a .903 OPS in his career
against Philadelphia. It is unknown who
the Phillies will place in the DH spot, but
it should be Stairs, who, in his lone at-bat
in the NLCS against the Dodgers swatted
a two-run home run that gave them the
series. Edge: Rays
First Base: Carlos Peña vs. Ryan Howard:
Peña had a stellar ALCS, swatting three
home runs and driving in six runs, while
Howard is a consistent contender for the
NL MVP award. Throughout the season,
Howard was equally as durable as he
was productive, playing in all 162 games,
driving in 146 runs and blasting 48 home
runs. While Peña’s counting stats were
less impressive, with 31 homers and 102
RBI, his OBP trumped Howard’s, .377 to
.339. Their OPSs on the season were .871
and .881, respectively. Edge: Push

EDITORS’ CHALLENGE: World Series

WINNER GAMES MVP
Carly 6 Scott Kazmir

Dave 7 Cole Hamels

Evans 4 Evan Longoria

Noah 5 David Price

Phil 6 B.J. Upton

Rachel 6 B.J. Upton

Sapna 6 Brad Lidge

Scott 6 B.J. Upton

MCT
Tom 5 Evan Longoria
The Phillies will need second baseman Chase Utley to continue to put up MVP-like numbers in the World Series.
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Beasts of the East: Why the Phillies will win the World Series
by David Heck
Daily Editorial Board
The Philadelphia Phillies have long
been the loveable losers of Major
League Baseball. Originally founded
in 1883, the Phillies have only won six
pennants and one World Series in their
entire existence. They also hold the
dubious honor of having lost
the most games of any club in
major league history. Being
from Philadelphia, they fit
right in, where the last major
sports team to win a cham-
pionship was the 76ers in
1983.
But fear not, Phillies fans:
This year just might be the
year. The recipe for success in
the playoffs starts with quality pitch-
ing, and that’s just what the Phillies
have.
Their rotation is fronted by the best
pitcher in the series: Cy Young can-
didate Cole Hamels, who compiled a
3.09 ERA and led the majors with a 1.08
WHIP this season. Mixing a low 90s
fastball with an 80 mph change, the
lefty can outright baffle hitters with his
fluctuation in velocity, which is why he
totaled 196 strikeouts during the sea-
son. His tight mid-70s curve isn’t too
bad either; it’s a perfect complement
to the fastball-changeup combo, spin-
ning more than 10 inches lower than
his heater.
Hamels also has the benefit of expe-
rience. After dropping his only start
of the playoffs last year, Hamels has Ryan Madson had a good year in the this year, amounting to a .102 batting
won all three of his outings this year, setup role, sporting a 3.05 ERA and average against. His southpaw delivery
giving up just three runs in 22 innings. increasing his K/ will almost certainly prove useful in the
If the Phillies need him to, Hamels BB ratio from late innings of a close game when Carl
could pitch three games in the series, 1.87 in 2007 Crawford or Carlos Peña steps into the
giving them a big advantage over the to 2.91 this batter’s box.
Rays, who have nobody comparable. season. His But that’s only one side of the
stuff has Phillies’ game: They also feature one
always been of the deepest lineups in the majors.
there, as evi- While their two MVP winners, Jimmy
denced by Rollins and Ryan Howard, are sure to
the 49 percent gather a lot of attention, Chase Utley is
their best player. Posting a .375
Scott Kazmir may OBP and belting 33 home
have the stuff, James runs, Utley has pro-
Shields may have the control vided both power
and David Price may have the and consis-
potential, but the 24-year-old
mct
Hamels is now a bona fide ace.
Closing out games for Hamels tency for
will be Brad Lidge, who was the Phillies’
the best at shutting the door in the offense. He’s also
majors this season. Equipped with a handy with the leath-
fastball that can touch triple digits, swing- er, establishing the fourth-
Lidge put together a 1.95 ERA and and-miss best zone rating of any second base-
went 41-for-41 in save oppor- rate on his man in baseball.
tunities, while his 92 strikeouts changeup Both Rollins and Howard are more
were fourth among major league going back to specialized in their roles: Rollins pro-
relievers. He also seems to ’07; but at age vides the qualities of a good leadoff hit-
have cast off the psychologi- 28, he’s finally ter while Howard has a game-changing
cal scars of the Albert Pujols learning how to swing. Although he’s no longer the
home run in the 2005 NLCS, as be a complete 30-home run hitter of 2007, Rollins
he has already registered five pitcher. managed 58 walks against 55 strikeouts
saves in the playoffs with no The pen also this season, while stealing 47 bases in
trouble. includes one of 50 attempts.
On the whole, the the best lefty Howard saw his OBP drop from .392
Philadelphia bullpen is specialists in to .339 within the past two years, but
underrated, as it was second in the baseball in J.C. Romero, who allowed
majors with a 3.19 ERA this season. only 10 hits in 30.2 innings to lefties see PHILLIES, page 13

Expect the unexpected: Young Rays are World Series favorites

by Evans Clinchy The following offsea- assembling the best defense in the has recorded a tremendous comeback
Daily Editorial Board son, three men arrived in game. Call it a market inefficiency, call season to once again become one of the
Tampa Bay with change it what you will, but Friedman has qui- best closers in baseball. But whether
The Tampa Bay Rays will win the on their minds — owner etly acquired one of the best defensive the Phillies will survive to the
World Series quite simply because they St u a r t St e r n b e r g , players in baseball at each position. At ninth inning to hand
have prepared too well not to. Every general man- third, Evan Longoria is a star in every Lidge the ball
event in the franchise’s history, from ager Andrew sense of the word, but it’s a bit trickier is anyone’s
baseball’s expansion draft in 1997 up Friedman and to see the value in a right fielder like guess.
until tonight’s first pitch, has built up to field manager Gabe Gross or a shortstop like Jason T h a t
this. Joe Maddon. Bartlett. Friedman sees it. may depend
All the draft picks, all the under-the- It may have This year’s Rays converted 70.8 on which
radar trades, all the quiet, cheap free- taken three percent of batted balls into outs, B.J. Upton
agent pickups. A new GM, a new man- years, but those the most efficient defense in base- shows up
ager, a new business model. The best three men ball over the past two years. Combine — the one
defense in baseball, an incredibly young have made that with one of the American League’s who hit
yet perfectly reliable pitching staff, and best pitching staffs, and you’ve got a nine home
an offense just barely good enough to pennant-winner — and a clear World runs in
get the franchise to this point. All of this Series favorite. 531 regu-
is part of the Rays’ winning strategy. This MCT After the marquee matchup of Scott l a r- s e a s o n
would be the absolute perfect textbook Kazmir and Cole Hamels in Game 1, at-bats this
example of rebuilding, if not for the fact the Rays’ biggest edge over the National year, or the
that no Tampa Bay team had won more League-champion Philadelphia Phillies one whose
than 70 games before this year’s Rays. will emerge: the depth of their start- home run
Instead, let’s just call it “building.” ing pitching. The Phillies’ Brett Myers, rate increased
In 2005, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Jamie Moyer and Joe Blanton will square nine-fold in MCT
allowed 936 runs, the most in the major off against James Shields, Matt Garza the postsea-
leagues. Their pitching staff was awful baseball rel- and Andy Sonnanstine — a clear advan- son. Upton has
and their defense was even worse, evant again in tage to the Rays, whose starters’ ERA seven homers
and both had the numbers to prove St. Petersburg, was 3.95, second-best in the American in the playoffs
it. Predictably, Tampa lost 95 Fla. League and sixth in the majors. The to date; Longoria has six and first base-
games that year, finishing dead The Rays have Phillies at 4.23 were seventh in the NL man Carlos Peña has three. The Rays
last in the American League East, found the least and 13th in baseball. don’t hit doubles and they were caught
28 games behind the New York flashy way pos- The Phillies have an edge in the bull- stealing more than any other AL team;
Yankees and Boston Red Sox, sible to reach pen, where five solid setup men are the
both 95-game winners. their first World Series, opening act for Brad Lidge, who, at 31, see RAYS, page 13