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VOLUME LXX, NUMBER 13

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MASS.

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New club to run local prison tutoring program by Ariel Barbieri-Aghib Contributing Writer

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Fourth annual Century Ride bridges Tufts schools by Jordan Abosch Contributing Writer

The fourth annual Tufts Century Ride brought together approximately 70 students, faculty and alumni from the Tufts community on a bike ride last Friday. This year’s ride was organized by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris and his office in collaboration with the Tufts Cycling Team and Quad Cycles, an Arlington bicycle shop. The full 106-mile ride passed through three Tufts campuses — Medford/Somerville, Boston and Grafton — according to the Office of the Provost’s website. Participants were able to choose to ride distances of 18, 44, 88 or 106 miles. The bike route began at the Medford/Somerville campus, went along the Charles River into Boston and then headed west en route to the Grafton campus, according to the Provost’s website. The Century Ride ended at Ballou Hall, where food, drink and a cheering crowd awaited. Harris started the Century Ride in July 2012, shortly after joining the Tufts community, with the intention of meeting fellow Jumbos. “I thought, how am I going to meet people?” he said. “I don’t want to wait until September. I want to get to know people now.”

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Harris said he looked at the distances between the university’s Bostonarea campuses and realized a route connecting the three campuses would add up to around 100 miles, or a century in cycling terms. He decided to invite Tufts faculty members on a bike ride along this route, and the event quickly grew bigger than he had anticipated. Harris, who oversees all eight Tufts schools, said he enjoys uniting people and places on the ride, giving Jumbos the opportunity to see what he calls a unique constellation of schools. “It’s really a special place with all these different parts, but if you don’t try, you can stay in your silo the whole time,” he said. Noah Epstein, captain of the cycling team, said the team enjoys the opportunity to meet fellow Jumbos. “It’s like a rolling social event that brings everybody together,” Epstein, a senior, said. Epstein said one Century Ride participant considered ending the ride early but ultimately persevered and finished at Medford. “I was proud,” Epstein said. One of the participants, Kenneth Weitzman, said the ride was an exciting chance to explore the various Tufts locations. “I’ve never actually been to any of the other campuses,” Weitzman, a sophomore, said.

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Another Century Ride cycler, Justin Richer said he really enjoyed the experience. “I’ve been wanting to do it for about four years, and it was awesome,” Richer, a student in the School of Dental Medicine, said. On the road, Harris said he enjoys connecting with people in a context where official titles disappear. “Many people see me as the provost, but I just see me as Dave,” he said. “[During the ride,] they’re not thinking, ‘I’m riding with the provost.’ They’re thinking, ‘I was with that guy Dave. We went on a ride. We talked about this that and the other.”’ The logistics for the ride are planned months in advance, according to Harris. “Two weeks out, we start watching the weather closely,” Harris said. “You just hope it’s not going to rain.” The first Century Ride, held in 2012, had only 30 faculty bikers. That number grew to 170 registered bikers for last year’s ride, according to a Daily article published on Sept. 22 of last year. Harris said he was pleased by this year’s event. “I really think this was our best ride ever,” he said. Produced in collaboration with Tufts Podcast Network. Listen to the audio segment at SoundCloud.com/tuftspodcasters.

A Tufts chapter of the nonprofit Petey Greene Program, an organization focused on supplementing education in local correctional institutions with the help of graduate and undergraduate students, will make its debut on campus this fall. Amanda Borquaye, who hopes to open conversation about the lack of educational support systems in prisons, will head the project as part her Tisch Scholar project. “Hopefully bringing this program here would facilitate more dialogue about incarcerated people,” Borquaye, a sophomore, said. “It’s easy to pretend that they don’t matter, that they don’t exist, but thats really not true.” According to the organization’s website, the Petey Greene Program is named after television and radio talk show host Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr., who worked as a disc jockey in a correctional facility while serving time for an armed robbery. Following his release, Greene became a prison reform activist and founded the Ralph Waldo Greene Community Center and Efforts for Ex-Convicts. Greene’s close friend, Charlie Puttkammer, founded the Petey Greene Program following Greene’s death in order to continue his legacy postmortem. Borquaye said she was introduced to the Petey Greene Program through the multi-year Tisch Scholars program run through the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. The leadership program empowers students to improve the communities surrounding Tufts by collaborating with local organizations. “I heard about the project proposal and thought it sounded really interesting, so I decided to take it on,” Borquaye said. Currently, there are only nine students involved with the Tufts Petey Greene Program, though there are over 80 people on the Tufts chapter’s e-list, according to Borquaye. Students selected as tutors will attend four one-hour workshops, as well as an on-site orientation, to prepare for the program. According to the Regional Field Manager for the Massachusetts Petey

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