T U E S D A Y APRIL 2, 2002
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Volume CXXXVII, No. 41
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FBI conducts night time raid on ISO, NAVA,YCL, arrests 25 students BY JOHN DOH
Late last night, slumbering students awoke to the sounds of thudding helicopter blades, squealing tires and semi-automatic weapons fire as a squad of over 100 FBI agents converged on Brown University. In a massive operation, twenty-five students — all members of the International Socialists Organization, the anti-war group Not Another Victim Anywhere and the Young Communists League — were arrested and detained by the FBI in undisclosed locations. Muffy Jones, a spokesperson for the FBI, said the arrests were intended to make an example of Brown. “This is not the beginning of a widespread trend. We just wanted to send a clear, unambiguous message to all the leftist whackos at your school,” he said. “We will never let them intimidate real Americans into questioning our great nation.” When asked with what crimes the students were charged and when they would be brought to trial, she declined comment. Members of West House said that Dmitri Seals ’02 was cuddling with his life-sized blowup doll of Karl Marx when FBI agents entered his room and ordered him to surrender. Seals gave himself up peacefully. As he was handcuffed and led out the door, he was overheard telling the agents, “You don’t have to live in a world of hate. Just give yourself up to love and you’ll be so much happier.” Shaun Joseph ’02 and Brian Rainey ’04 were far more combative. Barricading themselves inside Hope College, the pair sealed off the entrances and began shooting BBs at the agents who surrounded see RAID, page 7
OSL releases new, more stringent sex regulations BY TIM HENRY
The Office of Student Life has created new regulations making it more difficult for students to engage in sexual intercourse on campus. Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski announced the new regulations in a campus-wide email Monday. Jablonski said under the new intercourse rules, sex would be allowed on campus only if those engaging in sexual intercourse wear wristbands. Those students charging for sex must now charge per orgasm rather than a flat cover charge, she said. The addition of rules regarding sexual intercourse to the Student Handbook comes after what Jablonski described as “compelling life safety and health reasons to not allow sexual intercourse on college campuses.” Intercourse Authorization Wristbands will be available 24 hours a day at locations across campus including Health Services, Faunce House and Barus and Holley, said Director of Student Activities David Inman. Students expressed rage over the new sex policy and questioned how the Office of Student Life plans to enforce the new regulations. “How does the University plan to monitor what goes on in my bedroom? Are they going to install hidden cameras?” said Phil Maher ’03. “How would Dean Jablonski like it if I made her and her partner of choice go get a wristband before they got it on?” “I’m really worried about the future of social events at Brown,” said Anna Stern ’04, chair of the UCS see SEX, page 7
Compliments of Laura Fried
Camera footage shows that President Ruth Simmons held a secret meeting with U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle to discuss her potential candidacy for the presidency.
SIMMONS CONSIDERING PRESIDENTIAL RUN IN 2004 BY ALVIN GORESTEIN
President Simmons will meet with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D - S.D., this week to discuss a bid for the presidency in 2004, according to top Democratic party officials. Executive assistant to the President David Greene said, to the best of his knowledge, Simmons is not considering running for political office. “President Simmons was in Washington this weekend, but I believe it was for fundraising purposes,” he said. “She’s certainly never discussed politics with me,” Greene added. In an exclusive interview with The Herald, Daschle refused to confirm that he had met with Simmons, but said she would be “a very compelling candidate” in the 2004 Democratic primaries. “Ruth would not only be the first black, female presidential candidate, but also the first child of Texas sharecroppers to run for the office,” he said. “And that’s heartwarming.” Daschle said if Simmons were to enter the Democratic primary, he would be inclined to endorse her candidacy. “I don’t know where Grapeland, Texas is,” he said, “but I like the sound of it.” President Simmons did not comment on her political
prospects in a statement released to The Herald yesterday evening, but she did question her commitment to academia. “In an age when the core purpose of education is often lost in a miasma of competition and crass assessment and where the raw experience of confronting great and enduring ideas grows rare, academia may be a total waste of my considerable talents,” she wrote. Chancellor Stephen Robert said that the Corporation would expect Simmons’ resignation within the next year if she chooses to pursue the Democratic nomination. Robert pointed out that she would become the first black woman to leave an Ivy League presidency, an event he characterized as “a historic and momentous occasion not only for Brown but for the entire Ivy League.” Although Simmons has not announced her candidacy, Darrell West, professor of public policy and political science and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy, said he has already conducted a poll. Should she pursue the Democratic nomination in 2004, Simmons will benefit from a wide range of supporters, West said. Although she is most familiar to the academic community, she also enjoys an enthusiastic following among elderly absentee voters in the Netherlands, he added.
Reaves solves Math Box puzzle, releases detailed answer in confidential report BY GREG COOPER
In a confidential report, Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance Donald Reaves on Monday released his solutions to the “Math Box” puzzles, which appear weekly on page two of The Herald. The report provides detailed answers to all math boxes, examines current campus math box solution statistics and provides two solutions for solving math boxes, according to administrators and student leaders who read the report. The report was written by Reaves and issued to President Simmons, leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Graduate Student Council, Medical Student Senate, the Faculty Executive Committee and the Mathematics Departmental Undergraduate Group, said Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations. “They’ve been asked to use (the report) as a basis for their conversations on mathematics and the ‘Math Box’ in particular,” Freid said. “The president would like this to go to the appropriate representative bodies and she would like it to inform conversation.” The student leaders who received copies of the report said the document was marked “confidential” and they were instructed not to share its contents with their constituencies.
Tali Wenger / Herald
Donald Reaves presented the solution to the Math Box in a closed door meeting to UCS. President Simmons fell asleep during the presentation. Freid said there is nothing in the report that is “particularly controversial.”
I N S I D E T U E S D AY, A P R I L 2 , 2 0 0 2 Dave Matthews Band to headline Spring Weekend in response to student protests page 3
Herald Edit Board defeats Herald Sports Staff in NCAA tourney pool page 5
see MATH BOX, page 7
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Residential Life finally solves housing shortage. Ari Adland ’04 speaks his mind page 6
Hear what your white male classmates have to say about the world. Again. columns,page15
Title IX reversed. Maggie Haskins, W. Volleyball, W. Hockey are first cuts page 16
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