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THE TUFTS DAILY
VOLUME LXIV, NUMBER 47
After a delay of longer than a year, the university has convened a search committee to locate and hire the next dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. The college suspended its search for a new dean in March 2011, following inaugural Dean Robert Hollister’s announcement in September 2010 of his intention to retire at the end of the 2011-2012 academic year. According to Interim Dean of Tisch College Nancy Wilson, the search was postponed because of impending changes in university leadership, as Provost and Senior Vice President Emeritus Jamshed Bharucha left Tufts to assume the presidency at The Cooper Union. “We started the search in fall 2010, and it went on hiatus when [Bharucha] announced he was leaving,” Wilson said.
Brionna Jimerson
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Daily Editorial Board
“We suspended the search, and I was asked to step in [in] July 2011,” Wilson said. She has held the position for almost a year and a half and previously served as associate dean of Tisch College for seven years. “It is difficult to recruit deans when you can’t tell them to whom they will be reporting,” Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris told the Daily in an email, referring to the absence of a provost when the search initially began. “We are excited to hire a new dean now so that Tisch can continue to build on the success it has experienced in recent years.” The professional search firm Spencer Stuart will spearhead the search process, and Harris will act as the committee chair. Representatives from Spencer Stuart conducted meetings with various deans, members of Tisch College, Tisch Scholars
Patrick McGrath
Daily Editorial Board
In the recent 2012 presidential election, 50 percent of youth ages 18 to 29 turned out to vote, totalling 23 million young voters, according to data released by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). CIRCLE, an organization based out of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, also reported that the youth turnout rate remained consistent with that of the 2008 election. Peter Levine, director of CIRCLE, explained that in order to calculate this year’s young voter turnout, CIRCLE considered the proportion of voters who are considered young voters, provided by national polls; the total number of young Americans, provided by the Census Bureau; and the total number of votes
Champions!
Field hockey wins national championship by
Kate Klots
Daily Editorial Board
One game into the 2012 season, it looked like it would be a long fall for the 0-1 Jumbos, as Tufts traveled to play national No. 1 Middlebury and gave up five straight goals to its conference rivals in a 5-2 loss. But ironically, in the end its season was the longest of any Div. III field hockey team’s. On Sept. 8, it got blown out, but on Nov. 18, it claimed that No. 1 spot for themselves.
Yesterday, Tufts stormed past Montclair State to become the 2012 Div. III National Champion, seizing its 19th win of the season in historic fashion. The Jumbos became the second Tufts team to win an NCAA team title and the first women’s team to do so. “To win a national championship has been a dream for all of us and is a testament to what a great team this is,” senior see FIELD HOCKEY, page 10
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cast, which comes from local election officials around the United States. “I was surprised because 50 percent was also the rate in 2008, the year of the young voter. Yet signs pointed to lower turnout this year,” Levine told the Daily in an email. Statistically, level of education had an impact on whether or not a young person headed to the polls, Levine said. “Young people with some college experience, about 60 percent of all young people, voted at a rate of about 63 percent,” he said. Levine added that the turnout for non-college educated youth was 36 percent. “Working-class and poor youth are not participating and can still be ignored by the media, the parties and policymakers,” he said. According to Levine, the young voter see CIRCLE, page 2
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The field hockey team celebrates on the field after it beat Montclair St. 2-1 to capture the program’s first-ever national title and the first female team title for Tufts.
TCU Senate update
Senate unanimously passes safety resolution The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last night passed a resolution in support of the implementation of additional safety measures at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard. The resolution, which passed unanimously, comes in response to an incident on Nov. 8 in which a Tufts student was struck by a motor vehicle at that intersection and hospitalized. Citing students’ concerns alongside a 2007 public safety report by the City of Somerville, the resolution calls for the university to work with government officials to “take immediate action in advocating for further pedestrian safety measures placed at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard in Somerville, which would force drivers to reduce speed and come to a full stop at the intersection.” The resolution will also be forwarded to Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Director of Community Relations Barbara Rubel. Senators debated multiple points at length, arguing over whether the resolution should include more specific suggestions for how
the government should improve the intersection. The original language included mention of four-way traffic lights, crossing buttons at crosswalks and creating a “raised intersection” to deter drivers from crossing too quickly. The body eventually decided that the city’s engineers would be better equipped to make such suggestions. The Tufts Anthropology Collective received $458 in New Group Funding to defray the costs of attending two documentary screenings and a museum. The allocation was scaled down from the group’s $580 request, as the Allocations Board (ALBO) felt that buying tickets for up to 15 attendees was unjustified for a 10-member group. The TCU Judiciary was allocated $397.50, the entire budget of the Tufts Judicial Advocates, a group that seeks to advise students going through the Tufts judicial system. Though the group has existed for many years, they were cut from last year’s budget when it was decided that they were not a cohesive enough group to warrant funding. —by James Pouliot
Tufts Mock Trial places sixth in annual Mumbo Jumbo tournament by
Lizz Grainger
Daily Editorial Board
Nick Pfosi for the Tufts Daily
The youth voter turnout for the 2012 presidential election held at 50 percent, according to research conducted by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
Inside this issue Tufts students venture beyond Spanish and French with Critical Language Scholarship programs. see FEATURES, page 3
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) hosted 22 teams from 19 schools at the fifth annual Mumbo Jumbo tournament held Nov. 10 and 11 in Anderson Hall and Bromfield-Pearson. The Tufts team came in sixth after plac-
ing first for the past two years. This year’s competition featured many nationally ranked teams from various regions of the country, according to TMT Co-President Lindsey Wright, a senior. “The caliber of the competition defisee MUMBO JUMBO, page 2
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