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An ACLU sponsored panel discussed restrictions on civil liberties since Sept. 11 in Salomon 001 Monday.

Sept. 11 response violates civil liberties,panel advocates allege BY NICHOLAS FOLEY

Six months after Sept. 11, a panel of professors, legal experts and advocates attacked the U.S. government’s attempts to restrict civil liberties at a Monday night discussion in Salomon 001. “There has been a concerted effort by the Bush administration to quell dissent. … The attempt is laughable,” said Harvey Silverglate, criminal defense attorney and civil liberties litigator. Silverglate and two co-panelists denounced freedom of speech restrictions, racial profiling and the USA Patriot Act, which allows for increased government surveillance of private communication. At key moments in U.S. history, certain government actions have been rightfully discredited by dissent on the part of young Americans, Silverglate said. Loren King, adjunct assistant professor of political science, reinforced the importance of defending freedom of speech, and said he worried that Attorney General John Ashcroft has

unfairly muted critical voices in the wake of Sept. 11. On Dec. 6, Ashcroft said those who questioned the Bush administration’s new homeland security policies would “aid terrorists” and “erode our national unity.” “If you’re committed to democracy, this has to really trouble you,” King said. Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said citizens must have the right to denounce the racial profiling of Middle Eastern immigrants to the United States. “It is absolutely extraordinary that Middle Eastern immigrants for six months have been detained on minor charges,” Brown said. Brown said there is “not one shred of evidence” tying many of the detainees to terrorism. He compared their detention to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. “Racial profiling perpetuates stereosee PANEL, page 4

About 60 student activists squeezed into Wilson 301 Monday night to discuss allegations of racial profiling and a response to the Friday arrest of two Brown students on the Main Green. President Ruth Simmons also attended the meeting, in which students spoke about racial profiling, the arming of Brown Police and the University’s Monday decision to commission a study of campus security by Bratton Group LLC, a team of outside consultants. Brown University Police and Security officers arrested the two students, Michael Smith ’05 and David Williams ’05, on the Main Green after they declined to show their identification and engaged in an altercation with police. Students said Friday’s arrests raised questions about the potential arming of Brown Police. “It is very clear that this was a case of racial profiling and that there are racist policies practiced by the Brown Police,” said Brian Rainey ’04. Both of the students arrested Friday are black. Simmons said she feels strongly that racial profiling is wrong and that “it is absolutely, categorically improper for anyone at Brown to do that.” Simmons said her son, who has dreadlocks, has been stopped by police because of his race. She said she wants to “eradicate any semblance of racial profiling on campus.” Students in attendance criticized the way Brown Police handled the situation. “What is the point of checking them for IDs in the first place?” asked Matthew Swagler ’02. “It is very easy to tell the difference between a Brown student and a Hope High student, and the high school students come on campus all the time.” “BUPS doesn’t have records of every time they stop someone,” Simmons said in response to questions about how often students are asked for IDs in the area of Faunce House, where Friday’s incident took place. “If (Williams) was cursing, then that is a

morally justified response to an act of racism,” Rainey said. Some of the students gave evidence of past examples of racial profiling by BUPS. Niketa Williams ’05 said that during a safety forum at the Third World Transition Program, a BUPS officer told students that “90 percent of campus crime is perpetrated by black and Latino males, so don’t be offended if you are approached because you fit the profile.” Toward the end of the meeting, Simmons engaged in a heated discussion with some of the students. Rainey criticized Simmons’ motives for attending, saying “the president obviously felt some heat.” “That is not true — you can’t state what my feelings are,” Simmons responded. “This is not a game for me, I want to listen to different viewpoints, which is why I am here,” she said. Some students said they were not sure if they should combine the question of racial profiling with the debate over arming the police. “Friday’s incident could add weight to the anti-gun message, but I am not sure if the guns issue will add weight to racial profiling,” said Riana Good ’03. “This has exposed what is wrong with arming the Brown police,” said Shaun Joseph ’02. “These issues are intimately connected.” Some students said they thought the administration was moving too quickly toward a decision to arm police. “That is totally false,” Simmons said. “There is not a plot underway to arm the Brown Police.” She added that she is undecided about arming police but is gathering opinions from both sides of the issue so she can “study it very seriously.” “I’m not anywhere near a decision on this,” she said, and added that she might not be ready to make a recommendation to the Brown Corporation on arming police until next semester. Some students also criticized the see ARRESTS, page 4

With $1M budget boost, CIS plans campus-wide computing overhaul BY JULIETTE WALLACK

As part of President Ruth Simmons’ Plan for Academic Enrichment, Computing and Information Services is preparing to upgrade the campus computing network, improve computing support services and enhance security on CIS’ antiquated system. Simmons’ proposal, approved by the Corporation last month, includes a $1 million budget increase for CIS — a relatively small increase in comparison with other parts of the proposal. University officials said they are delaying further funding until a more specific plan is proposed for CIS. CIS’ future was not clear during the Corporation weekend because Ellen WaiteFranzen, vice president for computing and information services, had been at the helm of Brown’s technology services department

for less than a month when the Corporation met, Simmons told The Herald after the Corporation meeting. “I think the Corporation felt because our vice president for computing was not here and has not had a chance now to really give us any clear direction in terms of what will be required that it might be good to just contemplate some fairly modest increases,” Simmons said. Waite-Franzen is now focusing on the future of CIS, which she said involves upgrading the campus network and improving support services. She said those are the areas of concern that staff, faculty and administrators brought to her attention prior to her arrival on campus, and she hopes to have a basic proposal ready in a few months. “I knew before I arrived that Brown’s basic technology infrastructure needs

attention so that we can provide better services campus-wide,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “This remains my focus.” Waite-Franzen told The Herald that a faster, larger-capacity network will allow CIS to “push” software like anti-virus programs to students. Now, she said, students must go to the server and “pull,” or download, programs. Waite-Franzen said she plans to enhance CIS’ security so that “we’ll know a little more about who’s using our network and who’s trying to do bad things on the network,” she said. Waite-Franzen said she hopes to start improving the network this summer with the assistance of a consultant who will arrive on campus later this semester. Her department has not selected a consultant group to assist with planning the improvements, but CIS has sent out requests for

I N S I D E T U E S D AY, M A RC H 1 2 , 2 0 0 2 Brown-led study finds many anti-depressant users would not qualify for clinical trials page 3

UCS discusses racial profiling, improvements to CIS services at weekly meeting page 5

Student assaulted early Sunday morning at College and Brown streets, BUPS reports page 5

proposals, she said. “The main barriers to the upgrade relate to our ability to get into buildings, offices (and) rooms during times when they are not in use,” Waite-Franzen wrote. “We cannot disrupt classes, so our window of opportunity is very limited.” This summer, Waite-Franzen said she hopes to target residence halls and classrooms, and next fall, “we’ll see if there are some areas we can do that are not going to be really disruptive.” Work will continue during winter break and could be completed by the summer of 2003, she said. “We will be able to do this during very controlled times, and this will result in the full installation taking longer than if we had access whenever we needed it,” WaiteFranzen wrote. But, she said, this same limsee CIS, page 6

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Renee Betancourt ’05 says students must show solidarity with arrested first-years guest column,page 15

Wrestling finishes fifth at Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament page 16

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Anti-depressant study reveals most Patients who prefer comfort may still patients would be excluded from trials receive aggressive care, Brown-led IN BRIEF

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Up to 85 percent of patients taking anti-depressant medication face exclusion from clinical trials of these medications because pharmaceutical companies have strict demographic requirements for trial groups, according to a new Brown study. “The reason for their exclusion is probably based on pharmaceutical companies’ belief that there would be no difference between active medication and placebo in these groups,” said Dr. Mark Zimmerman, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior and director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital. The study, which appeared in the March 2002 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, received funding through grants from the National Institutes of Mental Health. The researchers conducted interviews with patients at the Rhode Island Hospital Department of Psychiatry outpatient practice. They compared the subjects in the study to the subject groups for 31 anti-depressant trials published in five leading psychiatric journals from 1994 to 1998. Clinical trials for anti-depressants currently consist of subjects who meet very specific criteria. The subjects must show a high-severity level of depression symptoms to be included in trials, even if they have been diagnosed with major depression, Zimmerman said. “It had been our observation that many of the patients seen in our practice would not have qualified for antidepressant efficacy trials,” Zimmerman said. While no “typical” anti-depressant trial exists, Zimmerman and his colleagues looked at the most frequently used exclusionary criteria. Some of these criteria “make sense,” Zimmerman said, such as excluding highly suicidal patients from a study where half of the subjects receive a placebo. Patients with bi-polar or psychotic disorders are affected differently from those who are only affected by depression and also have reason to be excluded. Other groups, such as substance abusers and those with eating and anxiety disorders, are frequently excluded from anti-depressant clinical trials even though they represent the majority of individuals prescribed such medications. Of 346 depressed patients in the study, two-thirds would not have qualified as test subjects for clinical trials.

Currently, clinical trials for antidepressants consist of subjects who meet very specific criteria. The subjects chosen have to show a high severity-level of depression symptoms to be included in trials, even if they have been diagnosed with major depression, Zimmerman said. The rate of exclusion rose to 85 percent when patients with anxiety disorders were factored in, yet 90 percent of the patients interviewed were prescribed anti-depressants at the time, according to a statement from the Brown News Service. “Individuals with mild depression may be more likely to respond to a placebo (in a clinical trial),” Zimmerman said. “Conversely, individuals with multiple psychiatric disorders in addition to depression my not respond as well to active medication.” Pharmaceutical companies conduct these trials with the goal of proving the effectiveness of their new medications, leading to the very selective groups they choose for their trials, Zimmerman said. The Food and Drug Administration does not address the issue of representation in its Code of Federal Regulations, Zimmerman said. Zimmerman said the research does not suggest that anti-depressants are over-prescribed, but that they are under-studied. If a group responds the same to placebos and active medications, then these groups face unnecessary exposure to the side effects of anti-depressants, Zimmerman said. If these groups were included in clinical trials, researchers could better understand how antidepressants affect them. Jill Mattia, clinical assistant professor and Michael Posternak, research fellow in the department of psychiatry and human behavior, also worked on the study.

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Arrests continued from page 1 University’s choice of the Bratton Group to study campus security issues. Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton leads the consulting group and will make recommendations to Simmons by the end of May. Rainey criticized Bratton’s use of the zero tolerance policy in New York, and said he is the “former head of one of the most barbaric police departments in the world.” Some students alleged that the administration chose the Bratton group because they knew that it would give a recommendation in favor of arming police. Simmons said Donald Reaves, executive vice-president for finance and administration, chose the group because of its “knowledge and expertise.” “They were not chosen because they would recommend a certain option,” Simmons said. The students discussed a number of possible responses to Friday’s arrest, including a “take back the Main Green” rally. “People came to this meeting pretty upset, and we need to have a plan of action,” said Alden Eagle

’03, a post- magazine editor. “We need to demand very soon and very publicly that no charges be filed against the students,” he said. Swagler agreed on the importance of timing. “We need to do something this week so that we can respond in a quick manner,” he said. But others cautioned that students should not act too quickly. “It is better to respond well than to respond quickly,” said Cyrus Dugger ’02. The students agreed to future meetings and planned to collect more information to document instances of racial profiling, they said. “We have to educate the rest of the Brown community and get it out for everyone to understand that racial profiling is wrong,” said Leah Scherzer ’02. Some people in the room cautioned against exploiting the two students for political purposes. “The costs of whatever we do will not entirely fall on us, which is why we have to keep the students in mind,” Dugger said.

Panel continued from page 1 types,” Brown said. If just one racial or ethnic group is targeted, this group will naturally be most often implicated in crimes, he said. “If we stopped only whites,” Brown said, “people would say that whites commit a lot of crimes.” Silverglate told the audience that racial profiling “is a destruction of our vitality,” because the United States’ population is ethnically diverse. The panelists agreed that the Patriot Act, which passed 98-1 in the Senate in Oct. 2001, infringes on civil liberties and restricts freedom of speech under the guise of homeland security. Silverglate called the act a

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Herald staff writer Andy Golodny ’03 is a campus news editor. He can be reached at agolodny@browndailyherald.com.

decent showing in the Big 12 Tournament, but then again Iowa played very well in the Big 10 Tournament, and they’re not invited to March Madness. The Tigers have a ton of talent as well and were ranked as high as No. 2 earlier this season, but in the end, they don’t deserve to be there. Luckily they are playing an overrated No. 5 seed in University of Miami and could prove the spoiler in that game. Despite all of these blatant mistakes by the committee, the tournament will still be fun and entertaining with lots of upsets. There may be fewer this year as top teams get to play closer to their home areas to prevent another Maryland vs. Georgetown game in Boise, Idaho. The picks this year are

“monstrosity” and claimed that Congress must have passed it without having read it first. King said there is a “a tendency to embrace jingoism” in times of national crisis. Megan Zwiebel ’03, president of the Brown chapter of the ACLU, said she hoped the panel would facilitate discussion. Zwiebel said after Sept. 11, she “couldn’t even comprehend the reality of the New York skyline. There was too much going on too quickly.” ACLU member and Herald opinions columnist Carl Takei ’02 moderated the panel, which was sponsored by the Brown ACLU, the Brown College Democrats and the Brown College Republicans. Herald staff writer Nicholas Foley ’05 can be reached at nfoley@browndailyherald.com.

tough and there is no clear favorite to win the entire thing, but I came up with my picks anyway. I think that the University of Pennsylvania, Valparaiso, Kent State, Hawaii, and Boston College will pull upsets. I like Texas Tech, Kent State, UCLA and Wake Forest to be spoilers and have upsets in the second round of play. My Final Four picks are (drum roll please) Duke, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Illinois. In the end (completely unbiased of course), I think Maryland will win the National Championship over Oklahoma in Atlanta on April 1. So stay tuned, because my picks will be entirely wrong, though not as bad as some made by the selection committee. Jeffrey Saltman ’03 hails from Maryland and is a history and economics concentrator.

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CAMPUS NEWS TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Male student assaulted at College and Brown streets early Sunday morning, BUPS reports A male Brown student was assaulted on the corner of College and Prospect Streets around 1:40 a.m. on Sunday, according to a Brown University Police and Security report. The complainant said four male suspects and one female suspect stopped their white Lincoln Navigator with a Rhode Island license plate near the complainant. The suspects exited the vehicle and approached him. One college-aged male suspect punched the complainant on the forehead with a closed fist. All suspects returned to the vehicle and drove north on Prospect Street. Brown EMS transported the student to Rhode Island Hospital where he was treated for an abrasion to his forehead. BUPS officers searched the area but did not locate the suspects. The Dean on call was notified. BUPS recommends using caution and walking in groups on campus. The red emergency button on campus blue light phones connect directly to BUPS, and officers respond to the pressing of emergency buttons under all circumstances. Shuttle, escort and safewalk Services can be reached at 863-1778. Anyone with information regarding the assault can contact BUPS detectives at 863-3412 or 863-9956. Suspicious activity can be reported to BUPS at 8634111. All information is kept confidential. — Austin Head-Jones

Racial profiling, CIS plans top UCS agenda BY EMIR SENTURK

The Undergraduate Council of Students developed a plan of action to respond to the Friday arrests of two students and discussed the future of the Student Activities Office and the possible closing of the Underground at its weekly Monday night meeting. Vice President for Student Life and Campus Services Janina Montero, Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski and Vice President for Computing and Information Services Ellen Waite-Franzen were present at the meeting. UCS devoted the first half of the meeting to a discussion of Friday’s arrests on the Main Green. Council representatives said the incident compromised their feeling of safety around Brown University Police and Security officers. UCS outlined the steps they would like to take in the aftermath of the event. UCS President Rodrick Echols ’03 said he hopes to develop a plan of action by next week. Some options included releasing a statement on the incident, informing the student body about campus policies and working to increase communication with BUPS. “It’s going to be very hard to find out who was the good guy (and) who was the bad guy, no matter what we do,” said UCS Vice President Tali Wenger ’02. Echols emphasized the importance of a balanced, proactive approach to the broader issues UCS members discussed, including racial profiling. He told the body that President Ruth Simmons is ready to issue a statement on Friday’s arrests. As of Monday, President Ruth Simmons had made no public statement about her intention to issue such a statement. Jablonski and Montero discussed the University’s fall review of student activities. The review was administered by a team of consultants led by Artie Travis, vice president for student affairs and dean of community life at Oglethorpe University and Tom Dunne, assistant dean for

undergraduate students at Princeton University. The report analyzed all aspects of the SAO and recommended improvements. The report said the office has an insufficient mission statement and suggested the office take on a “more intentional role in leadership development and advising of major student organizations.” The report also questioned “if the risks associated with the (Underground) are worth the benefits it provides to students.” Several UCS members commented on the efficient use of Faunce House space. “We need to look at every square foot of this building and consider redesigning it for better usage,” Jablonski said. “The more involvement we have from you, the better it’s going to be,” Montero said of possible improvements to the SAO. Waite-Franzen discussed technology at Brown and the changes she hopes to implement in the next few years. “Brown is very needy in its technology right now. We have very old systems that don’t talk to each other very well,” she said. Updating the University’s computing network was the focus of Waite-Franzen’s four points of improvement. She discussed the possibility of an entirely wireless network that could benefit students living off-campus. A wireless network would be less expensive than the current one, Waite-Franzen said. She recommended the standardization of administrative computers, better computer training for faculty and a more reliable e-mail system. UCS members requested an increase in the number of computers on campus, more printers at computer clusters and an extension of the allocated time for passwordauthenticated web-based services. Herald staff writer Emir Senturk ’05 covers UCS. He can be reached at esenturk@browndailyherald.com.

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Wrestling continued from page 12 Brown leaves next Tuesday for the NCAA tournament in Albany. Until then, the whole team will continue to practice together to prepare for the four qualifiers. “This is the first time since 1999 we’ve had four qualifiers,” Amato said. “Hopefully we’ll

CIS continued from page 1 itation exists at virtually all other universities. Waite-Franzen said she thinks Brown’s network might be less advanced than most institutions’ technologies. She said she isn’t sure how Brown compares to its peer institutions but said she thinks “we’re behind the rest of the world,” and that could be because Brown

come back from nationals with an All-American or two.” Other Bears who wrestled well but failed to qualify included Rob Apgar ’03 at 133 and Sean Jenkins ’04 at 165. Apgar, seeded third in his weight class, won his first match before losing the next two. Jenkins also won his first match before losing to the third seed in his class, but managed another victory in the loser’s bracket before he was finally eliminated.

Adam Santee ’04 came in as a six seed at 174 and managed one victory before elimination. Jesse Savage ’02 began with a loss at 157, but scored a win in the loser’s bracket before losing a second time. Ryan Gill ’03 could not manage a victory at 125.

installed its network much earlier than many other universities. “A lot of institutions have only installed their networks, say, in the last five years,” she said, “so we have a network that’s very old.” As a result, Waite-Franzen said she must now plan the future of CIS and determine how the Proposal for Academic Enrichment can meet its needs. She wrote that she hasn’t planned how the initial $1 million increase will be spent, and she doesn’t know how much the improvements will cost.

“My goals are to provide the technology services that enhance and support the teaching, learning and research environments of the University. … We do need to do all of this in the smartest, most efficient and effective manner possible,” she wrote. “I don’t believe institutions should throw money at technology just because they have the money.”

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IN BRIEF Women’s hoops’ Mitchell, Pavichevich earn post-season Ivy honors Forward Nyema Mitchell ’04 and guard Rada Pavichevich ’02 have garnered post-season honors from the Ivy League for the 2001-2002 women’s basketball season. Mitchell, a strong forward for the Bears, was named Second Team All-Ivy. She led Brown in rebounding with 9.1 rpg and finished second on the team in scoring with 11.2 ppg. The sophomore was also a dominating defender, as she led the Ivy League in blocked shots with 61, the fifth highest season total ever at Brown. Mitchell recorded 2.3 blocks per game, which ranked her among the top 20 shot blockers in the nation. Her 98 career blocks rank fourth in Brown history. Mitchell also posted seven double-doubles this season and was named to the All Tournament Team at both the UIC Thanksgiving Tournament and the Brown Classic. Pavichevich, a tri-captain for the Bears, was selected as an All-Ivy honorable mention. The senior led Brown in four statistical categories including: scoring (12.3 ppg), assists (85), steals (56) and free throw percentage (71 percent 82-115). Pavichevich started every game for the Bears this season (27) and set a new career-high with 24 points against Yale on January 26. She was named the Ivy League Player of the Week two times during the year and was named to the Ivy League honor roll five times. Pavichevich finished her career ranked 14th on the all-time scoring list at Brown with 929 career points and eighth in career assists with 266. She led the Bears in scoring in 15 out of 27 games this season. — Brown Sports Information

Two men’s icers named to All-Ivy team The Brown men’s ice hockey team had two athletes selected to the 2002 All-Ivy men’s ice hockey team, with Yann Danis ’04 being named First Team All-Ivy and Paul Esdale ’03 earning Honorable Mention recognition. A goaltender, Danis earned First Team honors, while leading the Ivy League with a .929 save percentage. His 1.96 goals against average in Ivy contests ranks third in the league. Danis’ overall goals against average (1.85) is fifth in the country, while his save percentage (.939) is third in the nation. Danis was a two-time ECAC Goalie of the Week, one-time ECAC Player of the Week, and a two-time US College Hockey Online Defensive Player of the Week. Esdale earned Honorable Mention recognition after finishing as the Bears second-leading scorer, while leading all-defensemen with 5-13-18 totals. He is a crucial part of the Brown power-play and penalty-killing teams, scoring three power play goals, while tallying nine power-play points, to go along with one short-handed goal. — Brown Sports Information

With strong play, three fencers earn at-large NCAA championship bids The Brown men’s and women’s fencing teams competed at the NCAA Regionals at Columbia on Sunday with three Bears earning recommendations for at-large bids to the NCAA Championships on March 21-24. Paul Friedman ’03 led the Bears with a first place finish in men’s saber. Also earning a recommendation as an atlarge bid on the men’s side was Mark Dembitz ’02 who came in at ninth in men’s epee. Sharon Sonenblum ’02 also earned a recommendation as an at-large bid as she finished 10th in women’s saber. The NCAA Championships will be held March 21-24 at Drew University in Madison, NJ. — Brown Sports Information

Five women’s icers earn All-Ivy honors The Ivy League has announced the 2001-2002 season women’s hockey All-Ivy Team. The League recognized five Brown players for their efforts this season, while Kristy Zamora ’02 was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Year. Zamora, Cassie Turner ’03, and Katie Germain ’04 were each named to the First Team. Jessica Link ’05 earned second team honors, while Meredith Ostrander ’02 was named an Honorable Mention. Zamora had an outstanding senior season. She totaled 28-19—47 on the season, which ranks fourth in the nation in points per game. She reached the 100 career point plateau on February 13 against Providence College, and currently ranks 12th on Brown’s all-time career scoring list. Zamora’s Co-Player of the Year honor marks the sixth time that a Brown player has received that recognition. The last player to achieve the feat was Ali Brewer ‘00. Turner was also named to the First Team, and was the only unanimous selection on the First Team, recognizing her as the League’s top defender. She tallied eight assists in Ivy contests this season. Turner recorded totals of three goals and 14 assists on the season. This is the second time she has been honored by the Ivy League, as last season she was an HonorableMention selection. Germain was the final player named to the First Team. The sophomore was the League’s top goaltender, maintaining a .949 save percentage and a 1.75 goals against average. Her overall totals rank first in the ECAC-North in GAA and save percentage. Link was named to the second team, making her one of only two freshmen to earn either first or second team honors. The rookie had a solid first season with the team. She tallied nine goals and three assists in Ivy games, and totaled 17-15-32 in all contests this season, which ranked 3rd on the team. Meredith Ostrander had another solid season with the Bears, playing both sides of the blue line all season. She totaled two goals and seven assists in Ivy games, and recorded 2-24-26 on the season for totals. — Brown Sports Information

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Cassie Turner ’03 was the only unanimous selection on the All-Ivy First Team, recognizing her as the top defender in league competition.

Men’s hoops’ Earl Hunt ’03 named first team All-Ivy, only fifth player in Brown history to earn honor twice Brown guard Earl Hunt ’03, the Ivy League’s leading scorer, has been named a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection for the second straight year in a vote of the eight Ivy League men’s basketball coaches. Hunt, a two-time Ivy League Player of the Week, led the Ancient Eight in scoring for the second consecutive season, averaging 19.7 points per game, his same total as last season. He scored 30 or more points five times this season, including a season high 35 points against High Point and Navy. Hunt was second in the Ivy League in free throw percentage (138 of 164, .841), attempting, and converting, more shots from the charity stripe than any other player in the league. Hunt is the fifth player in Brown history to become a two-time first team All-Ivy selection. Hunt finished the season as Brown’s second all-time career scorer with 1,526 career points, second to Arnie Berman, who scored 1,668 career points from 19691972. His 405 career free throws is second best in Brown history, while his 521 career field goals ranks third in the Brown record book. — Brown Sports Information

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Earl Hunt ’03 garnered first-team all-Ivy honors this year, making him only the fifth player in school history to make the first team in two different years.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2002 · PAGE 8

IN BRIEF Israelis continue Palestinian roundups in West Bank BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Newsday) — “Keep your hands on

your head,” the Israeli soldier ordered. He looked almost as tired as the Palestinian men who shuffled along in single file into the interrogation center, their hands slipping from their heads in fatigue. “This is the ultimate humiliation,” said one Palestinian, who didn’t have time to give his name before being marched into the Palestinian-owned quarry compound that the Israeli army was using Monday as a detention center for hundreds of Palestinian men they had arrested. This is the way the conflict in the West Bank is going at the moment: hundreds of Palestinian men arrested by soldiers, led to interrogation centers, blindfolded and wrists bound. Each is interrogated; most are let go. Some are kept on suspicion of involvement in attacks on Israelis and taken to detention centers in Israel where they can be kept for 96 hours without access to a lawyer or without being charged. All this after a sustained attack on a refugee camp and a command from loudspeakers that all men between the ages of 15 and 45 give themselves up or face the consequences. It happened in Tulkarem at the end of last week and it happened in the outskirts of Bethlehem and in the northern town of Qalqilya Monday. In Israel, the new tactic of surrounding the bellicose refugee camps and temporarily occupying them, searching for weapons and wanted men, has proved instantly popular. Israelis, sickened by a series of Palestinian suicide attacks, feel deeply vulnerable and polls show a majority support preemptive military action. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon congratulated the commander in charge of the Tulkarem invasion Monday, according to an Israeli newspaper. Among Palestinians, the rounding up of so many men — most of whom the Israeli army acknowledges are not involved in attacks on Israelis — has caused immense anger.“This is collective punishment for the people,” said Annas Khalil, 23, a pharmacist who lives in the Palestinian refugee camp of Dheisheh, which adjoins Bethlehem. He was among the hundreds of men lining up to enter the Nassar quarry. It remained unclear Monday how effective the sweeps were. In Dheisheh, the Israeli army said it had discovered some facilities where bombs and rockets were being manufactured and, indeed, 10 days ago a suicide bomber from Dheisheh killed nine Israelis, including several children, in Jerusalem. But many of the men the army most wanted to find and arrest had left the areas before the army arrived, adapting to the evolving conflict. “We have learned a lesson from Tulkarem,” said Abu Badera leader of the al-Aqsa Brigades, the most prominent and deadly Palestinian militia.“We have taught Sharon a military lesson. I think saving the lives of our fighters and so improving our capacity to fight back, that is the true victory. Every day we learn something new, how to fight.

CBS 9/11 documentary draws nearly 40 million viewers Sunday night (Washington Post) — An average of nearly 40 million people watched CBS’s Sunday night presentation of footage shot inside the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 — the largest audience for a non-sports program this season. At its peak, between 10 and 10:30 p.m., more than 42 million were tuned in to “9/11.”The footage was culled from video brought to CBS by two French filmmakers, who found themselves in the middle of the terrorist attack while shooting a documentary about a rookie firefighter stationed in downtown New York. The program, put together by a CBS News team but hosted by Robert De Niro, was sponsored by Nextel. The communications company paid for the 71/2 minutes of public service announcements that were bunched into three breaks during the two-hour broadcast. Although there were no advertisements in the traditional sense, Nielsen ranked the program; final ratings numbers will be out Tuesday. According to preliminary figures, young and old alike evidently were intrigued by the advance publicity about the program, including a third of all viewers ages 18 to 34 who were watching television between 9 and 11 Sunday night, and more than a third of 25- to 54-year-olds.

Afghan soldiers advance to edge of the Shahi Kot valley for final battle ZORMAT, Afghanistan (L.A. Times) — Hardened Afghan soldiers with tanks, rocket launchers and mortars advanced to the edge of the Shahi Kot valley on Monday, vowing to clean out nests of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who may still be lurking in its labyrinth of caves despite more than a week of aerial bombing and firefights with U.S. troops. No one knows how many enemy fighters may still be in the valley after the U.S.-led onslaught, but the newly arriving Afghan forces clearly expected danger as they prepared to enter an area that many believe is the last stronghold of alQaida and the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. In addition to Afghan warriors, U.S. and Australian special forces were still operating in the area. However, the bulk of regular U.S. troops were being flown back to Bagram air base about 125 miles north of the fighting, satisfied that the heaviest fighting was over. The long reinforcement column, which lumbered out of the dusty provincial capital of Gardez about 7 a.m., consisted of 12 tanks, other military equipment and about 500 troops, said Abdul Matin, an Afghan brigade commander. Under the command of a former Northern Alliance general, Gul Hydar, who was sent to Gardez with 1,000 troops last Friday at the order of the Afghan Defense Ministry in Kabul, the capital, the soldiers were to augment and reinforce a U.S.trained Afghan force led by Gen. Zia Lodin, which has been in the fighting since the campaign was launched March 2. The column moved slowly over the bumpy, rutted, packedearth road out of Gardez. Atop their tanks, witnesses said, soldiers smiled and waved their weapons. Matin said the arrival of the column from Kabul was “very important” for Afghanistan’s interim government, led by Prime Minister Hamid Karzai, because it represented the first steps toward creating new national army. “Anywhere in the country where there is trouble, forces should be sent out by the Defense Ministry to help,” he said. By about 6 p.m., Hydar’s forces had taken up positions on Shahi Kot hill at the entrance to the valley, said Matin. He described the valley as very long with four or five entrances. When entering the valley, the Afghan force will have to contend with whatever enemy hide-outs have not yet been detected and bombed, as well as with land mines and booby traps laid by al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. Having visited the caves during his days as a moujahedeen

fighter against the Russians, Matin said it was good that Afghans would do the close-in dirty work of seeking the last hiding places. “The pathways to the caves are very hard to see for the Americans, and the caves themselves are labyrinthine,” he said. Matin said he expects the final battle for Shahi Kot to commence within two or three days. Back at Bagram, a U.S. Special Forces senior officer, who identified himself only as Lt. Col. Mark, cautioned that the most risky part of the mission — scouring of mountain ridges and caves for remaining al-Qaida operatives — was still ahead. “The more we back these kind of folks into a corner, the more desperate they are going to be,” he said. He added that between 100 and 200 enemy fighters were believed to be hunkered down “just trying to survive” in a system of caves high on the mountainsides overlooking the valley. “I don’t know what the number is, but it’s not a big one,” he said. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Chris Bentley, fire-support coordinator for the operation, said Air Force and Marine aircraft had destroyed about 20 caves, using ordinance including thermobaric bombs that draw the oxygen out of the cave, leaving its structure intact for further intelligence-gathering. In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan hope to finish “mopping up” in the valley by the end of this week. Rumsfeld said several prisoners had been taken in the fighting and “a great many” enemy fighters have been killed in the U.S.-led offensive. Other officials have estimated the number killed at more than 700. Additional U.S. troops returned to the Bagram air base Monday from the fighting zone. Four CH-47 Chinook helicopters, with a capacity of about 40 fighters apiece, disgorged what appeared to be over 100 soldiers. Army officials declined to quantify by how much the U.S. force in the Shahi Kot area has been reduced, and stressed that the battle — dubbed Operation Anaconda — continued. Meanwhile, more details on the battle to date emerged Monday, showing a mixture of mistaken estimates of enemy numbers and position, combined with a rapid response by U.S. troops forced into a defensive posture. And it became clear that an air attack, the dominant element of the U.S. war until Operation Anaconda’s ground warfare, helped reverse the fortune of ground troops.

Despite petition, Zimbabwe closes polls in presidential election after three days HARARE, Zimbabwe (L.A. Times) — The government closed the polls Monday in this country’s chaotic presidential elections and a high court judge later rejected the main opposition party’s petition to extend voting to a fourth day. The election, originally scheduled to be held Saturday and Sunday, had been extended one day by court order after long lines and slow processing at many polling stations prevented thousands of people from casting ballots over the weekend. Although the order called for the vote to be continued nationwide, the government opened polls only here in the capital and a nearby township and did so “under protest,” Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told state television. Both areas are considered strongholds of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, or MDC. But when crowds of voters returned to polling stations in the capital early Monday they found many did not open until afternoon and some not at all. “Polling was supposed to take place throughout the nation and begin at 7 a.m.,” said MDC spokesman Learnmore Jongwe. “There are thousands of people who would not have had the opportunity to vote.” The election, the most contentious in this nation’s history, pit President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front against MDC challenger Morgan Tsvangirai. The opposition accused Mugabe of intentionally slowing the voting process to rig the election results, a charge the government denied. “If those thousands of people are not allowed to vote, this is a stillborn election,” Tsvangirai told reporters at a crowded news conference earlier Monday. “The MDC will not be part of an illegitimate process to try to disenfranchise people.” State radio reported that election results would not be known before late Tuesday or Wednesday. Analysts warned of widespread unrest if MDC voters conclude

that the election had been fixed. Tsvangirai called for restraint from his followers despite the arrest Monday of Welshman Ncube, his party’s secretary-general, for reasons that remained unclear. “Restrain yourselves so you do not allow (the government’s) sinister plans to succeed,” he said in a statement. “As you wait for the results, do not succumb to their provocative traps. I know they are trying very hard to provoke you.” The government has accused Tsvangirai, Ncube and another MDC official of trying to assassinate the 78year-old president. They deny the allegation. The run-up to the election was marred by violence, with the opposition charging that pro-government militants killed at least 107 of its supporters during the last two years. The government reported that 2.7 million of the nation’s 5.6 million registered voters, or about 48 percent, had gone to the polls by Sunday. Thousands more sought the chance Monday. Also on Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Harare reported that police detained four American diplomats for reasons that remained unclear. The diplomats were on their way back to the capital from the town of Chinhoyi, about 70 miles northwest of Harare. They were stopped at a police roadblock and told to go to a police station, where they were held for about five hours. Two of the Americans were accredited election observers. The other two were diplomats with the U.S. mission here. Police were unavailable to comment on the detention. The United States and Zimbabwe’s former colonial master, Britain, have been outspoken critics of Mugabe’s rule. His loyalists have accused the two Western nations of setting the stage for a coup if the president wins.

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Bush declares second stage of war on terror WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — President Bush marked the six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Monday by appealing for world support for a second phase of the war on terror, which will be aimed at denying al-Qaida a new home base and access to nuclear weapons. For the first time, he publicly promised U.S. military training and other resources to nations fighting terrorists on their soil, adding a potentially costly dimension to his vow to fight terrorism to an end. “We will not send American troops to every battle, but America will actively prepare other nations for the battles ahead,” he said. Framed by the flags of scores of nations that have aided in the initial stage, Bush said “the civilized world” must stay with him as he moves against nations that have stockpiled weapons of mass destruction, with aides calling Iraq a chief offender. “These weapons, in the hands of terrorists, would unleash blackmail and genocide and chaos,” Bush said during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. “Our coalition must act deliberately. Inaction is not an option.” The president’s call came on a day when Americans, steadily returning to routines even as the government warns the danger has not dissipated, paused to mourn formally the nearly 3,000 victims of the suicidal flights into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. In New York City, hundreds of people marked moments of silence at 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., when the towers of the trade center were hit. Several hours after Bush’s speech, he unveiled a stamp showing the famous photo of three firefighters raising a flag in the charred ruins at ground zero. “Heroes USA,” says the stamp, to be issued in the spring. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told grieving survivors, “September 11th was truly an attack against the world.” Bush did not use his address to articulate a new policy, but continued to build a case against rogue states capable of nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Although he did not name Iraq, officials said Saddam Hussein’s regime was among those Bush had in mind when he said the world must face “the growing threat of terror on a catastrophic scale.” “Some states that sponsor terror are seeking or already possess weapons of mass destruction; terrorist groups are hungry for these weapons, and would use them without a hint of conscience,” the president said. Administration officials said that besides Iraq, Bush sees the primary threats as Iran and North Korea — the “axis of evil” he warned of during his State of the Union address in January. The officials said that to a lesser degree, Bush sees Syria and Libya as dangers. The speech did nothing to resolve the fierce debate within Bush’s administration about how to replace Hussein, even as Vice President Dick Cheney flew to the Middle East for a week of consultations that include the Iraqi threat as a top item on his agenda.. Appearing in London with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Cheney said he sees “a lot of evidence” that Hussein possesses “and is continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction.” A senior administration official said Bush has made no decision about action against Iraq, but was signaling other nations that this is a “time to talk about the future of Iraq, a post-Saddam Iraq, which I think everybody would welcome.” Allies in Europe and elsewhere have reacted with skepticism and opposition to the possibility of military action against Iraq, but the official said the White House is optimistic about support for future phases of the war. “What you’re hearing from the allies are cautions, but not by any means resistance or a rejection,” the official said. “We’re cautious, too.” Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said in an interview that Bush had articulated “many important goals” that he must explain to the Congress and the nation in the days ahead. “What we have to do now is to better understand how we accomplish those goals,” Daschle said. The South Lawn ceremony had an audience of 1,300, making it among the largest events held at the White House while Bush has been president. Hundreds of rescue workers and victims’ relatives listened as the Boys Choir of Harlem opened with an a cappella rendition of the National Anthem. The ambassadors from Nigeria, Turkey and South Korea made opening remarks praising Bush for his resolve. But he made it clear he saw the occasion as no time for bows, calling six months “a short time in a long struggle.”

Ceremonies at three crash sites mark six months since Sept. 11 terrorist attacks NEW YORK (L.A. Times) — Moments of silence, pledges that good will overcome evil and twin beams of light piercing the night sky on Monday commemorated the six months since terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. “We saw the worst of mankind. We saw the face of evil,” New York Gov. George Pataki told an audience, some fighting back tears, who gathered in Battery Park to mark the moment that the first of two jetliners slammed into the twin towers. Pataki pledged that 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11th will remain “a date and a time we will never forget.” The true remembrance, added New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “will be in our hearts.” At ground zero, workers paused briefly to recall the assault on America before resuming the task of removing rubble and searching for bodies. More than 2,800 people died at the site where the buildings collapsed. Similar ceremonies were held Monday in Washington, D.C., near where another suicide pilot crashed into the Pentagon, and in western Pennsylvania, where passengers struggling with hijackers forced a fourth jetliner into a field. At the United Methodist Church in Shanksville, Pa., hundreds of people took part in a multifaith service where candles were lit and the names of the 44 people who perished aboard the plane were read aloud. Church bells tolled to remember the victims of United Airlines Flight 93. “The first thing they hijacked was our name and our religion,” said Iman Fouad El Bayly, representing the Islamic Center of Johnstown, Pa. Later, about 300 people journeyed to the crash site two miles away. Flowers were placed next to a bronze marker in memory of the dead. A similar reading took place at St. Paul’s Chapel on Broadway in Lower Manhattan, where all the victims of the trade center, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania crash were memorialized. “This was the worst violation of America in our history,” former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said Monday. He said that all the people killed in the attacks — firefight-

ers, police officers, rescue workers “and many, many hidden heroes ... would want us to lift up our heads very, very high.” At New York Police Department precincts throughout the city, officers stood at attention and saluted while commanders read aloud the names of 23 of their comrades who were killed. The World Trade Center dead also included 343 firefighters and 37 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers. The New York commemoration came in two parts: First, on a cloudless morning similar to Sept. 11, officials dedicated a massive sculpture, which had been damaged in the attack, as a temporary monument. “The Sphere” — a steel and bronze sculpture created in 1971 by artist Fritz Koenig to promote peace through international commerce — was partially crushed by falling debris from the towers. Later, when darkness fell, officials gathered again to illuminate two huge beams of light that soared into the sky to symbolize the twin towers. Jessye Norman of the Metropolitan Opera marked the moment by singing “America the Beautiful,” her voice ringing out into the cold, clear night air. Someone in the crowd held up an American flag. “The lights are going up really high,” said Arthur Leahy — whose brother James, an NYPD officer for almost 10 years, died at the trade center. “Hopefully, he’ll be looking down from heaven. It’s a beautiful thing, the lights reaching the sky.” The “Tribute of Light” was switched on by 12-yearold Valerie Webb, whose father, Port Authority Officer Nathaniel Webb, was killed in the attack. The light display will continue through April 13. Depending on weather conditions, the columns are expected to be visible for at least 20 miles around the trade center complex. “Look into your heart to remember those that are no longer with us,” Bloomberg urged the crowd at the morning tribute. “I think they would have wanted us to make a better world,” the mayor said. “They would have wanted us to show the terrorists that they cannot defeat us.”

At the Pentagon, workers mend more than a building (Washington Post) — Whiskey didn’t help. Neither did Willie

Nelson’s country blues, no matter how loud. Nothing could chase away Michael Flocco’s grief after his son’s death Sept. 11. Days passed with him sitting at his dining room table in Newark, Del., avoiding his wife, buried in photographs of their only child: Navy Aerographer’s Mate 2nd Class Matthew Michael Flocco, one of 189 killed in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Then it hit him. Flocco, 53, a sheet-metal worker since high school, decided that the way to fix his broken heart might be to rebuild the Pentagon. So the tin knocker wrangled a transfer from his union in Delaware and signed on with the Phoenix Project, joining hundreds of workers in a breakneck effort to rebuild the damaged part of the Pentagon before the attack’s one-year anniversary. As a digital clock counts down the seconds, he and other construction workers put in 10-hour days, six days a week. Each crew hustles to keep ahead of other crews pushing from behind. Breaks come twice a day, 15 minutes each. Lunch is a sandwich snatched from a canteen truck. Stickers on hard hats, logos on jackets and posters in conference rooms exhort: “Let’s roll.” When he arrived at the Pentagon a month ago, the first thing Flocco did was go right to the spot where his 21-yearold son died and ask: “How ya doin’, kid?” “I think, spiritually, he’s here,” said Flocco, who lives in his 24-foot Winnebago at a Maryland trailer park and returns home on weekends. “It’s like his spirit left his body, but I feel he’s still in the area. “ The sense of purpose may run deepest for Flocco, but many workers — whether unskilled laborers or master carpenters, immigrants from El Salvador or native-born residents of Chantilly, Va.,— talk of feeling an extraordinary commitment. Only a week ago, workers painted over the pieshaped symbols marked on doors by rescue workers to indicate that the rooms had been searched for victims. “Sometimes you get kind of almost an eerie feeling when you stop to think about why you’re doing this,” said Dave Smore, a surveyor from Chantilly. But there is almost no time to stop to think, he said. The same crews already employed on the decade-long renovation program to modernize the Pentagon were mobilized into high gear after Sept. 11, working round-the-clock on rescue and recovery. Since then, the pace has slowed, but only a little. “They’re pushing, pushing, pushing,” said Samuel Mauck, 28, a carpenter from Front Royal, Va. Mauck was told to expect a mandatory 10-hour day, six days a week when he was hired. But the day usually stretches

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Workers are putting in long hours and as many as six days a week to finish repairs on the Pentagon by the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. to 12 hours. The overtime boosts his $20.45 an hour wages to $28.30 an hour, but he said the project means something that can’t be measured on a pay stub. “Let’s say 50 years from now, when we’re looking back at these events, I can say I helped build it,” he said. When American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, the jet crashed through part of the building that had been renovated and through another part that was about to begin renovation. Three of the Pentagon’s five rings were broken. After authorities finished their on-site investigation, crews razed everything between the fourth and fifth corridors and started over. Work has now progressed to the fourth floor and continues about 20 hours a day, spokesman Brett Eaton said.

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Preserving liberties Understandably panicked by the wrecking of America’s symbolic invulnerability on Sept. 11, President Bush hastily captained the USA Patriot Act, a 342 page document that invests an amount of power in domestic defense — with the potential to trample civilian rights to privacy and fair judgment — unmatched since the McCarthy era. The act, passed “with virtually no public hearing or debate,” according to the Center for Constitutional Rights and was not accompanied by either conference or committee. Bush, determined to promote himself as the agent of “good” against a grossly caricatured “evil,” has deemed that he, as well as Congress, are the ultimate arbiters of this newly delineated “good.” In an ACLU-sponsored panel Monday night, a panel of professors, legal experts and advocates discussed the frightening resemblance which Bush’s Act bears to Japanese interment and other civil liberties violations arising from America’s past battles with domestic unrest. The Act presumes that “the right to self-defense is not that of an individual, but that of the nation and its citizens. . . If the government’s heightened interest in self-defense justifies the use of deadly force, then it certainly would also justify warrantless searches.” This assumption, while ostensibly a blow for domestic security, is in actuality a detriment to its very precepts. While 1,100 immigrants have been detained by the Department of Justice to date, only a handful have been charged with crimes. Th Patriot Act is a wild-card for the government which can be played at any time and with no regard to justice or due process. While it is obvious to those of us on College Hill that legislation like the ironically named Patriot Act attack freedom of speech and infringe on civil liberties, events like Monday evening’s forum are becoming more important. As Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft continue to attack the same values that they claim America is defending abroad, we must continue to be critical of legislation like the Patriot Act. If the president’s administration and our elected congressional representatives continue to turn a blind eye to laws that potentially threaten the values that our armed forces are said to be fighting to protect, it is our job as citizens to be more astute observers and, in turn, active participants in government.

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LETTERS Arrest incident should mean no guns for BUPS To the Editor: I think that the incident on the Main Green on Friday (“2 Brown students arrested on Main Green Friday afternoon,” 3/11) proves without a shadow of a doubt that the Brown Police should not, under any circumstances, be armed. The police officers were barbaric in their handling of the situation and the incident would have been exponentially worse if they were armed. Instead of reading an article about two first-years being arrested on the Main Green, I would probably be reading their obituaries. When the two freshmen asked why the police officer wanted to see their IDs, he should have exercised some common sense and explained why, instead of calling for backup. To antagonize the freshmen with comments like “yo mamma” and “Do you want to get (pepper) sprayed?” is a testament to the police’s lack of maturity and intelligence. Students who used to wonder why they never saw many Brown Police officers on campus need to know, that instead of working on campus, there are a bunch of officers stationed in front of Hope High School ushering the students away from campus as they try to go home after a long day of classes. It is very interesting to note that Brown Police officers are not stationed in front of the Wheeler School at the end of their school day. I wonder why that is? It is very difficult to respect a police force whose main agenda is racial profiling. Instead of obtaining weapons, Brown Police should instead receive lessons on cultural sensitivity and on how to respect human beings, especially the people of color who walk through this campus, regardless of whether or not they attend Brown or Hope High School. Maybe then, I would have a tiny bit of respect for those who claim to protect and serve me. Onyeka Iloabachie ’03 Mar.11

BUPS does engage in racial profiling

on Main Green Friday afternoon,” 3/11), one should not pretend that racial profiling does not occur on campus. I had been walking with an African American faculty member one night, and was stopped by a BUPS person who gently and briefly questioned my colleague, the well-dressed black woman, and not me, the blue-jeaned, scruffy-haired white guy. This event, of course, does not mean BUPS did anything wrong last week, or the students were in any way in the right. But it does suggest to me that racial profiling, at least of faculty, can take place here. J.William Suggs Associate Professor,Chemistry and Biochemistry Mar.11

Arrested students’ reactionunderstandable To the Editor: Friday’s altercation between BUPS and two freshman students (“2 Brown students arrested on Main Green Friday afternoon,” 3/11) makes perfect sense to me, because I have been in the same situation. Before I came to Brown, I was a local public high-schooler, and a favorite target of our beloved BUPS. The officers who frequently questioned my friends and me during after-school hours seemed to see only the potential vandals in us, and treated us in like fashion — that is, like dogs. In that moment of pure offense and humiliation, you have two choices: you can try to defend yourself and your reputation rationally, or you can become the beast they already think you to be. Cops love it when their suspicions turn out to be correct — it's the egomaniacal basis behind wanting to be a cop. They become excited because they get to flex their pistol-whipping muscles on you. In Friday's situation, the two students chose to become beasts, if only out of principle. When an officer profiles you, he tells you who you are, at which point you have to in some way defend yourself. It is both offensive and absurd to have to rationalize your existence to someone who seems to intentionally misunderstand you. Easy as it would have been to whip out a card of identification, (as would have quelled tensions Friday), sometimes the urge to lash out is too great to supress. And I understand completely.

To the Editor: Whatever one may say about the students arrested on the Main Green last Friday (“2 Brown students arrested

Tom van Buskirk ’04 Mar.11

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2002 · PAGE 11

Sharing a right-wing perspective on rights Investigating conservative political philosophical theory THE RECENT CONFLAGRATION OVER THE have inherited a poor reputation when it United States’ putative violation of the comes to civil rights. But this feud over Geneva Convention in Guantanamo Bay rights began centuries before McCarthy. and the prior controversy over threatened Indeed, conservatism was conceived in a civil rights in the wake of Sept. 11 demon- philosophical debate over rights that incitstrate the left’s Pavlovian affection for ed Edmund Burke, the great colossus of conservative thought, to write “rights.” This unconditional his famous jeremiad, love for rights began with the “Reflections on the Revolution attempts of liberal political in France.” In the course of philosophers of the denouncing the French revoluEnlightenment to counter the tionaries and their liberal apolencroachments of monarchy. ogists, Burke drafted his own The early apostles of liberalexposition of rights. ism derived these rights from Burke first rejected the an imaginary “state of nature” theoretical paradigm of a and projected them onto their “state of nature” because it societies. These rights delinretroverted civilized society eated a sphere of individual STEPHEN BEALE into its mythical primitive autonomy not to be eclipsed RIGHT WORDS precursors. He railed against by the government, which those who presumed to possessed no rights of its own and existed by the consent of the gov- revamp society according to this abstract design. “Their abstract perfection is their erned, unified by a social contract. The explosion of the French practical defect,” he wrote. According to Revolution discredited the utility of these Burke, centuries of social evolution and lofty principles as a practical blueprint polishing of human nature rendered the for social overhaul. In the 20th-century, models of liberal theorists obsolete: “In the notion of rights quickly dissipated the gross and complicated mass of into the banalities of politics as the left human passions and concerns, the primappropriated the sacred stamp of rights itive rights of men undergo such a variety to whatever it could cram under the of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they rubric of liberty and equality. This impulse infamously figured into continued in the simplicity of their origithe UN’s Universal Declaration of nal direction.” Burke then indicted the rights produced Human Rights, which stretched the scope of rights to include a right to a job, from this abstract reasoning on the a union, marriage and leisure. The per- grounds of extremism: “The pretended spective of conservative political philos- rights of these theorists are all extremes; ophy dispels the dangerous ambiguity and in proportion as they are metaphysithat has accompanied rights since their cally true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of a inception. Since the McCarthy era, conservatives middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.” Ideals such as Stephen Beale ’04 concedes that he has no absolute liberty and equality simply did not comport with reality. Burke’s criteria right to write this column. His columns for the existence of a right consisted in the appear on alternate Tuesdays.

ability of an individual to claim a right and the complementary duty of society to fulfill his claim. A right to marry implied the duty of society to furnish a wife. And Burke precluded desires from the narrow range of possible rights (thus he would classify marriage as a desire, not a right). Burke started his examination of the “real rights of men” by substituting his own paradigm of modern society for the unrealistic prototypes of liberals. He first postulated that “if civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right.” From this original premise, Burke constructed his own outline of the rights of “civil man.” From Burke’s baroque prose Russell Kirk distills the following supplementary rights: “Equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society.” The common denominator is the right of an individual to participate in modern civilized society. The chief constituent of this paramount right is the right of an individual to enjoy the fruits of his labor. In this final formulation Burke achieved his stated goals. He proposed a theory of rights far removed from the simplicity that made the French Revolution possible and equally distant from the petty laundry list of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The individual justifies his claim by his membership in society, and society ratifies his membership. Finally, this central right to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor passes the ultimate test: it can be achieved in the absolute without tending towards the extremes that terrified Burke. It is hard to imagine any circumstance in which the legitimate acquisition of the fruit of one’s labor abridges any other social value. This litmus test would condemn parts of the canonical Bill of Rights to the paper shredder along with the UN’s Declaration, but Burke’s formula would also resolve many of

the festering problems over rights. For example, how can freedom of speech be a right under most circumstances except instances in which a crowded theater is on fire or American security is threatened? Burke’s answer: in one case, freedom of speech is a manifestation of the right to participate. In the other cases it is not. The same dispensation excludes such fanciful rights as the right to health care and a woman’s right to choose. Burke dismembers the liberal construction of government with equal fury. Whereas the liberals warned of government intrusion, Burke welcomed it as a restraining force on the passions of men. While liberal theorists celebrated the cardinal right to vote because it required a democracy, Burke divorced government from rights. Government is not founded on human rights, but rather on human nature, which, although universal, is also “modified by local habits and social aptitudes.” As Fisher Ames, an American contemporary of Burke, observed, “Constitutions are but paper; society is the substratum of government.” Thus, the form of government should differ from country to country. In the words of Russell Kirk, “democracy may be wholly bad, or admissible with certain reservations, or wholly desirable, according to the country, the age and the particular conditions under which it is adopted.” This political relativism is undergirded not by an indifferent cultural relativism but rather by a healthy cultural realism. In the 20th-century, Burke’s intellectual disciples embraced his apprehensions about the French Revolution as a template for the conservative confrontation of communism. His fresh appraisal of government is an antidote to some confused conservatives and inebriated liberals who celebrate globalization as an opportunity to massproduce democracy for the world.

Taking a stand against racial profiling at Brown Students must join together against mistreatment of community members by BUPS LIKE MANY OTHER STUDENTS WHO READ various events and happenings on campus the article about the arrests that occurred on to the multitude of students who walk from the Main Green Friday afternoon, I was Pembroke to the Main campus everyday. shocked and appalled by what happened. Given this information, it is difficult to deem While racial profiling and the possibility of this route exclusive to or characteristic of the officers’ racist motives were explored, I high school students. In addition to the age and would like to further examine chosen route of the students, the situation, as depicted by the the time of day was allegedly Monday’s Herald article, with a RENEE BETANCOURT used as rationalization for stopcritical eye. GUEST COLUMN ping the students. While 3 p.m. The police cited the students’ is a traditional high school disage, their choice of route, the missal time, 2:50 to 3 p.m. is also time of day and their attitude as reasons for stopping them. As freshmen, the the passing time between blocks G and O; students were close in age to that of high therefore, it is safe to assume that many school students; however, there are just fewer Brown students would be crossing the camthan 1,500 first-years on campus and a simi- pus at this time as well. Lastly, the police stopped the two stular number of sophomores who could all potentially be mistaken for high school students, because they were suspicious of their dents. So do all of these 3,000 people get attitude. However, the perception of anothstopped? Isn’t it safe to assume that there are er’s attitude is entirely subjective. There is too more people on this campus who are college much ambiguity in what constitutes a suspistudents, but look younger than they are, cious person if attitude is the sole determinthan there are high school students roaming ing factor. Is there now a prescribed way to walk across campus in order to convey the the campus? The two students walked across Parking proper attitude? It is in this, an “attitude,” that Lot No. 14, which lies between Waterman the racism inherently lies? because the BUPS and Angell Streets, directly across from officers know nothing of these two students Hunter. Along with my friends and hall- except what they see, an attitude they infer mates, this is my usual path of choice to main based on physical appearance. After the students refused to present their campus. Aside from that, there are three postering walls in this parking lot advertising IDs before the police, according to The Herald article on Monday, several students vouched for the students’ membership in the Renee Betancourt ’05 hails from Brown community. If the issue were about Havertown, PA where she attended The whether or not the students were from a Shipley School.

nearby high school, the whole encounter would have ended at this point. But it didn’t. The students walked away towards Leeds, and it became apparent that they were not going into Faunce House after all. The threat of these students being high school vandals had dissipated. Five backup officers were called to the scene because the students continued walking and were being “disrespectful.” One of the students allegedly said, “I don’t need to show you shit.” I agree that this is disrespectful, but it does not imply that the officers are in any danger or in need of five other police officers’ assistance. In addition, being disrespectful is in no way against the law; under the First Amendment, students are allowed to express themselves verbally in this manner should they so choose. Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations, defended the police officers stating that one of the backup police officers was black. At this point in the incident, the racialization had already been done. That an officer later called to the scene was also black does not indicate that the two officers who stopped the students weren’t acting on racial motives. While it is unclear how the physical altercation occurred, the violence that ensued in the handcuffing of the students was appalling. These two young men had not committed a crime, nor had they been charged with one as of Monday’s Herald, and yet they were arrested and detained. I was under the impression that BUPS was here to

protect the Brown community, not assault it. Once it was clear that these students were not a threat to fellow students, faculty or property, why was it necessary to engage in violence and then arrest them? Today, African Americans constitute 13 percent of the country’s drug users, 37 percent of those arrested on drug charges, 55 percent of those convicted and 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison. As of the 1995 census, 42.2 percent of Philadelphia’s population was African American, and in the week of March 7, 1997, African Americans operated 79 percent of the cars stopped by police. The only thing the BUPS police officers knew about the two students they encountered Friday afternoon was that they were black. I believe that this is a clear case of racial profiling on behalf of BUPS. Racial profiling occurs every day in shopping malls, on the highways, in the courtroom and countless other places. What keeps it from happening at Brown? Apparently nothing. I do not agree with the racist logic used to justify singling out and stopping these two black students here at Brown University. So until they receive an apology from BUPS, I will wear my school identification so that the Brown police officers may not mistake me for a high school student as well. I will show that I do not have to stand for this blatant mistreatment of the black members of the community. I will show my solidarity with these students. I will show my ID.

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SPORTS TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2002 · PAGE 12

Was the selection Wrestling sends 4 to Nationals, finishes committee alive fifth at Eastern Intercollegiate tourney last weekend? BY MIRANDA TURNER

I DON’T KNOW WHERE EXACTLY THE NCAA selection committee was sequestered, but it must have been some place that didn’t get radio or TV to watch last weekend’s games. For instance, why in the world was Cincinnati put as a No. 1 seed in the West over Oklahoma? Not to take anything away from Bob Huggins’ Cincinnati team, as they had a great season, finishing with a record of 303 and winning the conference tourJEFF SALTMAN nament, but THE SALT’S TAKE Oklahoma played and beat better teams. They defeated No. 1 seeds Kansas and Maryland, in addition to beating No. 2 seed UConn earlier in the season. Not only did they win these games, they dominated them. The Sooners absolutely dismantled Kansas on Sunday, winning 64-55. The nine-point difference in the final score doesn’t begin to describe the domination the Sooners had over the Jayhawks. They also beat Maryland solidly earlier this year in Oklahoma by a score of 72-56. This was before Maryland started to hit its stride, but it’s still a win over a very high quality opponent. Cincinnati has not beaten a No. 1 seed, though it has beaten No. 5 seed Marquette University twice and No. 7 seed Wake Forest University. So in the end, the first and second seeded teams in the West bracket should be flip-flopped. Another blatant mistake made by the selection committee was Gonzaga. Wasn’t this the year that Gonzaga was going to finally get some respect? I could have sworn that it was. They have reached the past three sweet 16’s and have earned the right to have a higher ranking in the tournament. Some were even mentioning them as being a No. 1 seed, though a No. 3 seed was much more likely. Instead the committee snubbed them, putting them as a No. 6 seed in the West and with a possible second round match up with University of Arizona, who is fresh off of winning the Pac-10 tournament. This game is an Elite Eight game at the least, not a second round game. This isn’t fair to Arizona or to Gonzaga, who had an incredible season, ending the year 29-3 and playing a pretty hard out of conference schedule. I don’t know what the committee was thinking by putting the Zags at No. 6 in the already stacked West bracket. The committee also seemed to allow teams in based upon potential rather than actual record. Boston College and University of Missouri are the most notable. The Eagles of BC have done nothing this season except be highly ranked and fall flat on their faces. They got absolutely demolished by Duke University a few weeks ago and ended the season with a 20-11 record, whereas they started out the year ranked as a top 15 team. They have excellent guard play and could surprise some teams if they get their act together, but a team like Butler University with a record of 25-5, deserves to be in the tournament more. Missouri is a perfect example of a team that is not deserving of a bid. They had a see SALT, page 4

The Brown wrestling team finished fifth at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament this weekend and will send four wrestlers to the NCAA tournament on March 21-23. Bronson Lingamfelter ’02 at heavyweight, Nick Ciarcia ’04 at 197, Jason Mercado ’03 at 149 and Clint Frease ’02.5 at 141 all qualified for the national tournament. Lingamfelter, losing in the final to Harvard’s David Rechul, a longtime nemesis whom Lingamfelter defeated two weeks earlier, finished second in the heavyweight division this weekend. His second-place finish earned Lingamfelter an automatic bid to the NCAAs. Ciarcia, Frease, and Mercado all finished third in their respective weight classes and received at-large bids. Karl Rittger ’02, a NCAA qualifier two years ago, finished sixth in the 184-pound class and did not receive a bid to the tournament. “Karl actually wrestled very well, but he had some bad luck with seedings and lost a couple of close ones,” said Head Coach Dave Amato. Brown placed fifth in the tournament with a total of 65.5 points, behind tournament-winner Lehigh University, Penn, Cornell and Harvard, but ahead of eight other teams. Amato was pleased with the fifth-place finish but thought his team could have done better. “We could have had nine guys place,” Amato said. On Friday night, the first night of the tournament, Brown lost seven matches in

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For the first time since 1999, the wrestling team has placed four in Nationals, each looking to gain All-America status. a row, but turned things around on Saturday. “Saturday everybody wrestled great,” Amato said. “It’s a little disappointing not having more Eastern place-winners and not having a champion, but we wrestled our hearts out. Three guys came all the way back to get third-place finishes and Bronson was in the final and lost a heart-

breaker.” “(The team) made unbelievable strides this year,” Amato said. “We have guys knowing that we can win. We’re one of the elite teams again. Even though we’re losing three strong seniors, we are in great shape for next year.” see WRESTLING, page 6

After disappointing 9-8 loss to Fairfield, men’s lacrosse looks to rebound this weekend vs. UMass BY JERMAINE MATHESON

The Brown men’s lacrosse team (1-1) suffered its first loss of the season, a 98 letdown to Fairfield University (2-1). To say that the outcome was a surprise is an understatement as the Bears came in ranked 17th compared to an unranked Fairfield team. The Stags commenced the scoring, but the Bears responded by scoring the next four goals. Richard Tuohey ’04 netted his first goal of the season, followed by goals by co-captain Jimmy Mormile ’02, co-captain Jonathon Thompson ’03 and Ryan Culligan ’05. The Stags would add two more goals to their total, but Brown matched their scoring with goals by Chas Gessner ’03 and another by Thompson. At the half, the Bears had a 6-3 lead and everything seemed to being going according to the Bears’ plans. Fairfield came out with a strong third period scoring four unanswered goals of its own. The Stags slowed the game down, making it a possession-bypossession game. Such a game plan took Brown out of its comfort zone, as the Bears prefer an up-tempo, run and shoot game. “Our game plan is to run a lot as we feel that we were the better conditioned team,” Gessner said. “They held the ball and really slowed the game down, and some costly turnovers hurt us.” Another goal by Gessner would tie the game halfway in the final period, but a turnover left goalie Mike Levin ’04

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Co-captain Jimmy Mormile ’02 had a goal and an assist in the men’s lacrosse team’s 9-8 loss to Fairfield. alone in a one-on-one situation that the Stags converted. The Bears’ defense would make amends killing three consecutive penalties. Gessner would score his third goal of the game with less than two minutes remaining, bringing the

score to eight goals apiece. The Stags then won a key face-off that put them in their zone. In the closing minutes, Fairfield found the back of the net again, giving the Stags a 9-8 lead. The Bears were unable to answer with just seconds remaining, giving the Stags an impressive and unexpected win. In a sobering loss the Bears fell to the Stags, a team they expected to dominate that actually ended up with the advantage on ground balls and faceoffs. Levin had 12 saves but could not get his stick on the last one that proved to be the game winner. “It was a very disappointing loss. We didn’t play up to our expectations,” Thompson said. “Right now we have to swallow our pride, bounce back and get ready for a must win game versus UMass.” Rarely do teams have pivotal games early in the season. If the Bears have any plans for a post-season birth they will need to find a way to stop UMass on the road, a team that is currently ranked 12th in the country. A year ago, the Minutemen dominated Brown, beating the Bears 15-5. “UMass is a huge game for us,” Gessner said. “We need to figure out what we did wrong and move ahead instead of dwelling on this.” Sports staff writer Jermaine Matheson ’02 covers men’s lacrosse. He can be reached at jmatheson@browndailyherald.com.