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President’s office will give $17K to special event funding

Office of finance and planning announces $1M deficit

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

BY LISA MANDLE

President Ruth Simmons told the Undergraduate Council of Students that her office will make up for the Special Events Committee’s $17,000 budget deficit and support events like last year’s Spring Weekend Pool Party, Van Wickle Gate Birthday Party and the Carberry Music Festival. The infusion of $17,000 into SPEC’s existing $30,000 budget almost brings the group’s finances to the organization’s $50,000 expected budget. Simmons’ contribution is a one-time cash influx, said David Greene, assistant to the president. Simmons made no commitment beyond this year, Greene told The Herald. Though she has not committed funds yet, Simmons told members of UCS’ executive board in a Friday meeting that she would make up for this year’s budget shortfall and repeat the gesture next year if a shortage occurs. After next year, Simmons plans to include SPEC’s costs in the University’s operating budget, said Justin Sanders ’04, chair of UCS campus life committee. Sanders said SPEC now gets funding through the Undergraduate Finance Board, but a series of miscommunications and the restructuring of SPEC left the committee short of the $50,000 its budget asked for. SPEC was responsible for last weekend’s Live on Lincoln. Anna Stern ’03, founder of SPEC, said the events the group is considering are similar to last year’s Spring Weekend Pool Party, Van Wickle Gate Birthday Party and Carberry Music Festival. Greene said Simmons did not make a financial commitment for coming years. “(Simmons said) she would do this for them this year with the understanding that they would be able to find some regular source of funding. They’re trying to find a way to bridge a gap in the programming they want to do,” Greene said. Stern said she is excited about the budget increase that matches SPEC’s original request. “I think that it’s really important that the University shows its support for campus events by giving us funding,” Stern said. “I think that’s a great move.” SPEC’s next step is to think of new program ideas for which the money can be used, Stern said. In addition to augmenting SPEC’s funding for the current year, on Dec. 6 Simmons will see a short list of student life initiatives prepared by UCS and the Office of Campus Life. Sanders said UCS submitted its version of the list to Janina Montero, vice president for campus life and student services.

At Monday’s Advisory Committee on University Planning meeting, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration Elizabeth Huidekoper announced the office of finance and administration is facing a $1 million deficit and requested additional funding in Fiscal Year 2004 for enhancing public safety and increasing staff compensation. The meeting was closed to the Brown community and to the press. Assistant Provost Brian Casey and Associate Vice President for Budget and Planning Susan Howitt reviewed Huidekoper’s presentation with The Herald on Tuesday. Huidekoper told ACUP that the office of finance and administration is running a $1 million deficit for this year’s $67.3 million see DEFICIT, page 4

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A panel of professors spoke Tuesday night about affirmative action in the United States.The event was part of Asian American History Month.

Putting the focus on race Professors argued Tuesday that affirmative action in admission and public policy should focus on race, not class BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

Admission officers and policymakers should focus on race in affirmative action and find other ways to address class inequalities, professors said in a panel discussion Tuesday evening. The U.S. government designed affirmative action policies to rectify inequalities racism created, not class inequalities, said Evelyn Hu-DeHart, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. She called affirmative action “a conservative policy,” because it extends equal consideration only to people who fit specific criteria: originally, underrepresented racial groups and women. Affirmative action as an experiment “has not succeeded,” said Paget Henry, professor of sociology and Africana studies. He cited racial stereotypes, criminalization of youth of color, job discrimination and residential segregation as evidence of persisting racial inequality.

But with people now perceiving affirmative action as “reverse discrimination,” policymakers are dismantling affirmative action programs even though the initiatives have not accomplished their goals, Henry said. Gail Cohee, director of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, said white women and Asian Americans are the objects of “over-achieving” stereotypes because they appear to have benefited the most from affirmative action. Affirmative action helped white women because they shared most of the same privileges as white men, HuDeHart said. Asian Americans benefited because post-1965 immigration laws favored highly educated immigrants with professional backgrounds. As a result, those aided have in large part been from middle-class backgrounds, Hu-DeHart said. “We cannot get rid of (affirmative action), but we need to fix it,” she said. She suggested that affirmative action should not include women and Asian Americans and should focus only on blacks and Latinos. Henry agreed that affirmative action programs should only consider race. “There is a history of oppression that is unique” to blacks and Latinos, he said. But the professors said other pro-

After long wait, List Art close to granting 24-hr student access BY AKSHAY KRISHNAN

After a long campaign, visual art and art history students appear to be close to getting 24-hour access to the List Art Center. The visual art faculty and the List Building Committee will recommend to Dean of the College Paul Armstrong that he grant students 24-hour access beginning the end of this week, concentrators told The Herald. “Under right conditions of safety and security, there is a consensus to have the building open,” said Richard Fishman, chair of the visual art department. “In theory, when we have the CS, MCM and music buildings open 24 hours for students to practice, it only seems right to have the List open too,” Fishman said. Bell Gallery Director Jo-Ann Conklin said the ball is now in the University’s court. “A letter from this committee along with the faculty will reach the dean’s office by the end of this week or next week at the latest,” Conklin said. “It’s up to the dean’s office and the University to take it from there.” The safety and security of the displays inside the art center remain a sticking point for all parties, Fishman said. The faculty, building committee and the Department of Public Safety want to have sign-in access through the lobby rather than key card access, he said. But students

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I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 3 , 2 0 0 2 Psych Prof Gregory Fritz wins $3M grant to study asthma in minorities page 3

Brown, neighbors at odds over University’s institutional zoning status page 5

Over 100 students attend leadership summit to network, exchange ideas page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Brett Cohen ’03 says Democrats need to adopt a “Total Security” platform column, page11

Women’s hockey beats Vermont, gets chilled by Dartmouth to start ECAC schedule sports, page 12

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ACADEMIC WATCH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2002 · PAGE 3

Psychiatry prof gets $3.3 M to study asthma in minority children BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

Professor Gregory Fritz was recently awarded a $3.3 million grant to research the differences in diagnosis and treatment of asthma among minority children. The research will be conducted in coordination with the University of Puerto Rico. Fritz, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior and director of child and family psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital, is working with colleagues at Brown and in Puerto Rico to understand why minorities are diagnosed with asthma more frequently and have more asthma-related problems than non-minorities. “There’s good evidence nationally that there’s increased incidence of asthma in minorities,” Fritz said. There are four hypotheses Fritz is investigating, he said. The first is a question of diagnosis. “There may be different diagnostic standards” for minorities and non-minorities, he said. “We’re going to do a very consistent evaluation and make sure that everyone gets the same diagnostic test and the same studies.” A second influential factor is how families manage the asthma, Fritz said. “There may be different cultural beliefs

as to how one should use the doctor and what’s the role of medication,” he said. Because asthma medication is often preventative and a patient may not notice results when taking the medication, some patients may be less diligent about taking the medication. “If by taking them you don’t feel any different, maybe you won’t take them,” Fritz said. “It’s more likely that the minorities have that belief, and they may not be more likely to take medications which prevent symptoms,” he said. Minorities are less likely to have access to high-quality health care or any type of health care at all, Fritz said. If minority asthma sufferers only get emergency room care and do not have continuity, “they will likely have more symptoms and more troubles from the asthma,” Fritz said. There are also cultural differences in the views and the perceptions of physical, especially pulmonary, symptoms that might affect how quickly people seek care, Fritz said. When the National Institutes of Health “put out the call for proposals” to understand from where discrepancies in asthma among minorities arise, Fritz was immediately interested, he said. “I’ve been working at children’s hospitals since I finished

my training,” he said. Although asthma is a physical condition, Fritz’s background in psychiatry still comes into play. “As with many diseases, there are significant psychological and social components to this illness,” he said. “With virtually every illness, a child psychiatrist or psychologist who is interested and sophisticated is consulted about how to intervene. The central intervention can be psychological.” In addition, he said he has been interested in asthma and understanding the relationship between the mind and the body, especially the respiratory system. The $6 million grant, a little over half of which was awarded to Brown, also includes $2.7 million to the University of Puerto Rico over the next five years. The Puerto Rico research, led by Glorisa Canino, is supposed to be identical to the Brown research, although Brown is evaluating a Caucasian control sample as well as nonCaucasians. Brown is also handling data management and data entry. Herald staff writer Stephanie Harris ’04 edits the academic watch section. She can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

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Deficit continued from page 1 budget due to increased security costs, Casey said. The University will spend slightly more than $1 million hiring Sterling Investigative Services officers and Providence Police Department officers to increase officer visibility, he said. Casey said Huidekoper is currently developing options to address her office’s expected shortfall, though he did not elaborate on the specifics of these options. Huidekoper “did not present a concrete solution” to the deficit, said undergraduate representative Laura Lehmann ’04. Casey said Huidekoper requested funds for the upcoming fiscal year to increase public safety staffing, salaries, training, equipment and vehicles. Long-term costs of increased security will depend in part upon whether Brown Police officers are armed, a decision that will not be made by ACUP, Casey said. President Ruth Simmons is expected to make a decision regarding the arming of Brown Police in the coming months.

ACUP will look more closely at the public safety budget this spring when the committee focuses on long-term projects, Howitt said. Huidekoper told ACUP that Brown was maintaining a competitive total compensation package for staff on a local, regional and national market, Casey said. University turnover of employees was at 11 percent in Fiscal Year 2002 which was low compared to the national average of 14.2 percent, Huidekoper said. Recent benefit enhancements to staff include an increase in Brown’s average employee health insurance contributions and an increased staff Tuition Assistance Program, Casey said. Simmons’ focus on equalizing benefits between faculty and staff led the University to increase its Tuition Assistance Program for children of staff members pursuing undergraduate degrees from $4,000 to $10,000 annually, he said. ACUP discussed potential increases in compensation for staff for Fiscal Year 2004, but did not make any specific decisions, Casey said.

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grams should address class inequality. Associate Professor of American Civilization Robert Lee said special scholarships and programs for first-generation college students aid students from lower economic classes. An audience member asked how to counteract the perception that students of color gained admission because of affirmative action rather than merit. “There’s all kinds of reasons why we are admitted,” HuDeHart said. Applicants whose parents attended Brown, who come from underrepresented geographic areas or who do not need financial aid all receive preference in the admissions process, she said. Some students receive preference in college admission because they are athletes or musicians, but affirmative action leads to the most stigmatization because people can see racial differences, she said. The panel, part of Asian American History Month, drew approximately 70 people to Smith-Buonanno 106.

have campaigned for swipe card access. Students entering List between 4 p.m. and its closing time at 11:30 p.m. must now present ID in the building’s lobby and sign in and out. Security Officer Sean Cowland, who monitors the List lobby, said he would prefer a system that employed a security guard and required students to sign in. “In the case of a fire or an emergency, it would be useful to have a number on the people in the building and this would help me get people out,” Cowland added. “If we can get the University to supply a guard for 24 hours, students will be happy, and everybody will be happy,” Fishman said. List houses the Visual Art and History of Art and Architecture

Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

Events continued from page 1 Montero will compare the list to one made by her office and then look at how the initiatives fit into the budget. Issues that UCS hopes to see addressed include athletic facilities for students who are not varsity athletes, including the expansion of the Bear’s Lair and Andrews workout facilities. Also on UCS’ proposed list of initiatives is restoring lounges made into dorm rooms to their original form, adding fitness equipment to dormitories, putting email kiosks around campus and

Afghanistan continued from page 5 “soul-searching” for non-governmental organizations and the United Nations, which had to confront mistakes resulting from a lack of principled policy and an incoherent approach to assistance. “It took the civil war period … for some of these issues to be raised,” Donini said. During the Taliban period, from 1996 to 2001, assistance organizations thought their presence in Afghanistan would help to reform the regime, he said. Some international workers “had the feeling that by working on the ground some progress would be made in bringing the Taliban to their senses,” Donini said. This was a time when “Afghanistan had fallen off the radar screen” of U.S. foreign policy, he said. Although relief efforts were becoming more coordinated and principled, progress in this area did not reform the regime and if anything, the regime became more brutal, Donini said. The Taliban “thought they could get international recognition. When they couldn’t get it, they starting sliding from a failed state to a rogue state,” he said. In the time since Sept. 11, 2001, the number of U.N. and non-governmental workers in

departments, plus the David Winton Bell Gallery and the slide library. “Opening the building 24 hours is definitely a positive influence on the life and intellectual creativity of the students,” said Elisabeth Reynolds ’05, an art history concentrator. “This could mean that you could come in when you feel you’re top of your game or at your creative best, whatever the time is.” Herald comic artist Andrew Hull ’03, a computer science and art concentrator, said it is only natural to provide 24-hour access to List. “Many students are busy during the day, and it would be great for them to get to their studios late at night, when they have all the time they need to work on their art. It really makes sense to have it open,” Hull said. Herald staff writer Akshay Krishnan ’04 can be reached at akrishnan@browndailyherald.com.

increasing the amount of 24hour study space beyond the Center for Information Technology. Both Sanders and Greene said Simmons did not pledge any money toward the campus life initiatives, but the list is the first step in making improvements to student services. Simmons seems very supportive of the initiatives, Sanders said. She has “put some more energy into these, which I can understand because they are areas that have been overlooked,” he said. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

Afghanistan has grown enormously, but the problem, Donini said, is that there is little accountability on the part of the warlords who, in practice, still rule much of the country. The United Nations, which had essentially taken on many state responsibilities such as health care during the Taliban regime, now has to work as an outsider to the new government, which places political stability over human rights, Donini said. It is assumed that because the United States toppled the Taliban regime the problems in Afghanistan are solved, Donini said, but “Afghan leaders haven’t changed their spots.” Donini said the United States and the United Nations have taken a very “realpolitik” position, favoring whatever policies will ensure stability and unity, he said. Their position is essentially, “Human rights are important — but not now,” he said. Donini said the international community must “advocate and document” human rights violations. “Unless these issues of justice are put on the agenda and addressed … you’re going to make the situation worse rather than better,” Donini said. The prospect of long-term U.S. support is unlikely, he said, given the country’s tendency to quickly abandon its responsibilities in one area when another problem perceived as more pressing, such as Iraq, arises.

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CAMPUS NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF

U., locals at odds over zoning rules BY DYLAN BROWN

100 students attend leadership summit About 100 student leaders discussed their passions for community building Tuesday night at the Brown Leadership Summit in Andrews Dining Hall. Speaker Misha Joukowsky ’87, a professional leadership consultant, gave a keynote address about how students can use their leadership skills to accomplish their goals. Matt Paknis ’85 urged summit attendees to assess their own leadership abilities. The summit was originally planned for 50 students, but was expanded due to the high volume of interested students, said Joy Wu ’03, president of the Organization of Women Leaders, which co-sponsored the event. “It told us that there was a lot of interest and demand in what we were doing,”Wu said. Wu said the two main goals of the summit were “to promote community building and ignite a passion for leadership development.” Allen Feliz ’03, president of the Undergraduate Council of Students, said both goals were equally important and explored fully at the summit. Many organizations have similar ideas and future goals for Brown, and the summit allowed students to form networks of communication to accomplish these goals,Wu said. “If you bring 80 to 90 students together that are passionate about something, something is bound to happen,” Wu said.“This way, they will be sharing a lot of success techniques and avoiding a duplication of efforts. You just learn from each other.” Basirat Ottun ’05, a member of Brown Sisters United, said the summit helped her meet other leaders from other groups. “Most of the clubs I belong to are minority-based,” she said.“I wanted a broad view of other groups outside minority groups.” — Bamboo Dong

University administrators and local residents are at odds over the existence of Brown’s “institutional zone,” which mandates that the University only build on the East Side but allows Brown to build upward in the low-density residential area. There is a regular 30-foot height restriction on residential houses on the East Side, but within Brown’s institutional floating zone, the University can build a building up to 75-feet high. Also, within a residential zone one can only build a house, but Brown is allowed to build classrooms, dorms and labs, said Robert Azar, senior planner of Providence’s Department of Planning and Development. Institutional zone ordinances allow Brown to build taller buildings toward the “core” of the zone, than near the border, said Mike McCormick, director of Facilities Management. Also, the rules allow Brown to aggregate parking on an overall basis, not building by building, he

said. “The institutional zone as a concept is a sound concept,” McCormick said. “It gives the institution some freedom and protects the neighborhood from institutional creep.” Others disagree. “The institutional zone concept will change in the future because Brown is abusing it. … There is certainly a consensus that the institutional zones are not working,” said William Touret, a member of the College Hill Neighborhood Association. Some East Side residents believe that some Brown buildings and proposed buildings already have a negative impact on their neighborhoods. A major area of contention is at the “interface” of Brown’s institutional zone and local residential zones, said Deborah Penn, former president of the College Hill Neighborhood Association. see ZONE, page 6

Afghan nation building faces hurdles BY JONATHAN SKOLNICK

Visiting Senior Fellow Antonio Donini spoke on the challenges of nation building in post-Sept. 11, 2001, Afghanistan on Tuesday at a Watson Institute lecture entitled “Principles, Politics and Pragmatism in the International Response to the Afghan Crisis.” Donini, who spoke from his experience as coordinator for the United Nations humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan for several years, focused on ways the international community can learn from past mistakes in its relationship with Afghanistan. “Looking back is useful,” he said, “because some of the roots of the problems that we’re seeing now are actually steeped in the choices made in the 1970s or early 1980s.”

Donini began his discussion with a brief history of the “Afghan crisis,” which Donini said has been ongoing since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. He split the crisis into four phases, each with unique characteristics. The period from 1979 to 1992, marked by the war with the Soviet Union, was a time when international assistance groups struggled to maintain an orderly, principled method of delivering aid and furthering development. For the international community, “Principles were not an issue at that time. Human rights also were not really an issue,” Donini said. The civil war period, from 1992 to 1996, was a time of see AFGHANISTAN, page 4

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Zone continued from page 5 Touret said local residents and Brown are at odds over the issue of “institutional creep,” or the building of institutional buildings next to residential areas. These institutional buildings “basically intrude on a historic area,” he said. Brown’s “most egregious” example is the Bio-Med building on Meeting and Brown streets. The industrial-looking Bio-Med building causes noise pollution with its incinerators and lab ventilation fans, which run at night, Touret said. It causes traffic congestion, and there is a concern about the possibility of toxic emissions from the lab, he said. “People who live in a Greek revival don’t want to live next to a brick wall,” Penn said. There are about 10 or 12 institutional zones in the city. These institutional zones, like Brown’s, correspond to property owned by institutions of higher learning and the city’s hospitals, Azar said. The original intention of the zones was to “prevent the negative impact of colleges on neighboring residential areas,” Azar said. While formulating the institutional zone concept approximately 15 years ago, city officials decided they had to act because several academic and healthcare related institutions needed to grow. The city wanted the growth to be orderly, “because the neighborhoods were being chewed up,” Touret said. But some current East Side residents are concerned with the preservation of the architectural landscape, the size, scale and usage of the neighborhood. “We have to think about what this neighborhood is about,” Penn said. “There are always improvements that can be made” in relations between the University and its neighbors, McCormick said. Most of the areas of contention between Brown and East Side residents arise from “procedural issues” of how often Brown can review its projects in front of the City Plan Commission, he said. Even though some believe Brown is destroying historical neighborhoods, “Brown spends an astounding amount of money every year to restore historic buildings,” said Catherine Horsey, executive director of the Providence Preservation Society. “The character of our campus is very much tied to the neighborhood,” McCormick said. Zoning is just one of the considerations Brown makes when deciding

W. Icers continued from page 12 goal for the Bears and had 30 saves. Amy Ferguson had 34 saves for the Big Green. The next day, the Bears jumped all over the Catamounts. The Bears scored all three of their goals in the first period. Three minutes in, Karen Thatcher ’06 scored her first goal of her college career on a pass from Link. The next goal came at 13:37 when Nugent scored and was assisted by Link and Thatcher. A mere 19 seconds later Ashlee Drover ’06 scored her first collegiate goal. “I think that freshmen are freshmen. You don’t anticipate a

whether to build or not, he said. The institutional zone also “doesn’t provide much protection for historic properties that Brown seeks to demolish,” Touret said. Buildings, such as the Sarah Doyle House, which is a “highly significant historic structure,” have little protection, he said. However, the preservation society does not consider the Sarah Doyle House a historically important building. The Sarah Doyle House “is a reconcilable loss. That means that the building is not of enormous historic and architectural significance that we can’t live without it,” Horsey said. Brown examined a series of studies about what to do with the Sarah Doyle House before deciding to tear it down to make way for a new Life Sciences building. The University studied several plans, such as moving the building to Brown property or moving it to private property, but none were accepted. “We really made a lot of attempts to save the house,” McCormick said. Horsey said Brown has a “long history of demolishing historic buildings.” Wriston Quad was built on top of a block of colonial houses, she said. East Side residents worry about the city’s tax burden that they say rests squarely on their shoulders. The character of the neighborhood is changing to a “Brown-oriented” character, and “it’s inappropriate. You’re basically forcing people out, and off the tax role,” Touret said. The problem is that “the East Side is the most solid tax base in the city,” he said. It supports many other areas, but as “Brown overbuilds within the institutional zone, particularly on the outer areas, it is eroding the tax base at a time Providence can’t afford it,” Touret said. McCormick disagrees. “Zoning and taxes are completely separate issues,” he said Providence’s zone ordinance says that institutions must submit a “master plan” to the City Plan Commission about every five to ten years. The master plan describes each institution’s development intentions. “If the institution doesn’t” submit a plan, “it can’t get a building permit,” Azar said. The plan commission, which is staffed by seven civilians, meets in public once a month and considers each plan, and determines whether or not a plan conforms to Providence’s comprehensive plan, Azar said. “It’s not an easy call for the commission members to make,” because “they must be careful in how much interference” they make

with Brown’s property, Azar said. However, each institution can amend its master plan every six months. “It’s really a six-month document,” Azar said. This is a point of contention, East Side residents say, because it doesn’t give neighborhood citizens much of a preview of what Brown intends to do. “Brown is unwilling to share its ideas,” Touret said. “Brown has left the community out of the process.” So far Brown has amended its year 2000 master plan twice at the request of the plan commission, McCormick said. East Side residents are also worried about future potential University expansion. “Brown has conceded it has no long term plan” for its expansion within the zone, Touret said. Brown hired a private consulting firm, R. M. Kliment and Francis Halsband, to help develop a longterm master plan for the University’s expansion, McCormick said. Brown is still in the information gathering stage, and we “must understand the problem before we can understand the solutions,” he said. “There will always be institutional zones,” but, “as does any zone, it needs to be looked at,” Penn said. Horsey agreed. “The system doesn’t work well for anybody,” and the zoning ordinance is going under revision, she said. But University officials see things differently. “I don’t imagine large scale changes to the institutional zone,” McCormick said. Recently, Brown made more of an effort to make frequent contact with members of the local community, McCormick said. “We’re having really good discussions with Brown. I think it’s a good process. I think it will make both Brown and the neighborhood better,” Penn said. Other community members are not optimistic about the University’s efforts. “Brown has not felt an obligation to listen to the neighborhood and its residents. … It’s sad that the administration doesn’t realize the ill will it is generating,” Touret said. Touret says he is frustrated with the discrepancy between what “Brown says it stands for and what it does.” “There’s got to be a lot of thinking on both sides about how we can co-exist,” Penn said. “There’s no question Brown needs a lot of room to grow, but there isn’t much space left in the institutional zone,” she said. “It’s always difficult to grow within what is a residential area surrounding the institution,” McCormick said.

lot from them coming in because it’s a huge adjustment to the college system. If they get their goals early that is great, but I think what you’re looking for in freshmen is consistency,” Murphy said. “Until they can put the points up on a regular basis, I will be pleased. But right now let’s wait and see.” At this point Vermont wisely chose to switch goalies. Tiffany Hayes came in replacing Kami Cote, who had six saves in the game. Hayes was flawless in goal for the rest of the game with 52 saves, but the damage had already been done. Dreyer was in goal again for Brown and had 13 saves. In the third period, the Catamounts tried to rally at the

end. They called a timeout at 18:18 and pulled their goalie for a minute and a half, but they were unable to score. “I think that basically we should have beaten Vermont a lot more handily than we did. I thought that we should have scored at least three goals per period. We got worse and worse as the game went on,” Murphy said. “I think after we scored the three goals we kind of breathed a sigh of relief and said okay, we won that game and I think that in order for us to play better hockey we have to play three good periods. I expected the score to be 9-0.” Brown is on the road again next weekend facing the Minnesota and MinnesotaDuluth.

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Voice on new tape could belong to Housing bias declining, still affecting bin Laden, U.S. officials report IN BRIEF

Hispanics, African Americans

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Hispanics face more dis-

crimination in the housing market than African Americans but unfavorable treatment of both minority groups appears to be waning, according to a study released last week by the Urban Institute and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Researchers found that black renters received unfavorable treatment in 21.6 percent of their inquiries, down 4.8 percentage points since 1989. But Hispanic renters encountered discrimination 27.5 percent of the time, a slight increase. Hispanic homebuyers were also more likely than black homebuyers to face unfavorable treatment, though discrimination against both groups was down. Examples of discriminatory treatment included steering, in which minorities were not shown homes in predominantly white areas and instances in which minorities were denied information about financing that was provided to whites. Discrimination was a particular problem in Atlanta, while Chicago and Detroit were among the best cities tested. The latest discrimination estimates are based on 4,600 paired tests conducted in 23 metropolitan areas during the summer and fall of 2000. Two individuals — one minority and the other white — posed as otherwise identical renters or buyers and visited real estate or rental agents to ask about advertised housing units. It marked the third time since 1977 that the tests were conducted.

Iraqi exiles’ efforts stalled by rivalries ROME (Washington Post) — Three months after the Bush administration encouraged them to unite and create a common political platform for the future of their country, Iraq’s exile factions are locked in an ethnic, religious and political power struggle. Potentially important players are fighting tenaciously over rival agendas. One of the major factions, the Iraqi National Congress, is also feuding with the State Department over $8 million in funding for propaganda, humanitarian and other programs it is supposed to oversee, State Department officials said. A much-heralded INC “information-gathering” operation inside Iraq has yet to get off the ground, the officials said, because of uncertainty in the Bush administration about the INC’s ability to get and relay useful intelligence, as well as competing views within the Washington bureaucracy. Also stalled are the preparations for a pan-opposition conference that was meant to project a vision for democratic rule if President Saddam Hussein is overthrown. The conference was originally scheduled for late September, but has been repeatedly postponed. The next possible date is Nov. 22, in Brussels, but the INC is threatening a boycott. The State Department plans to send a delegate to London soon to meet with opposition officials to end the infighting that has blocked the conference, a department official said. The arguing has put into doubt a role for Iraqi exiles in the country’s future and presents a grim preview of problems for any U.S. occupation of Iraq. Some of the disputes are based on ethnic suspicions and religious rivalries. During his decades in power, Hussein has tamped down such conflicts through repression. But by President Bush’s reckoning, the new Iraq is supposed to resolve its problems within a democratic system. The Bush administration officially recognizes six opposition organizations. One is the INC, an amalgam of anti-Hussein groups. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party represent the Kurdish population, based in northern Iraq. The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, an Iranian-based fundamentalist group, claims to represent the majority Shiite Muslim population. The Iraqi National Accord is composed of former army officers and defectors from Hussein’s Baathist party. Also thrown into the mix is a monarchist party that embodies the aspirations of Sharif Ali bin Al Hussein, an exiled aristocrat, to restore the Hashemite throne to Iraq. Bush also has authorized expansion of the opposition organizations to include groups representing other former military officers and Turkish, Assyrian and Christian minorities.

WASHINGTON (L. A Times) — After more than a year of suspense over whether Osama bin Laden is dead or alive, U.S. officials said they believe the man heard on an audiotape Tuesday praising recent attacks against civilians in Indonesia and Russia and urging new strikes on the United States and its allies is the terrorist mastermind. Several U.S. officials cautioned that the National Security Agency, CIA and other authorities would continue to analyze the high-quality audiotape throughout the night for conclusive confirmation that it is the voice of bin Laden. But they said they believe the founder and leader of the al-Qaeda network — silent, hunted and unseen since last year — is the man heard issuing a series of threats and calls to arms to Muslims around the world. The 4 1/2-minute tape was provided to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television network and broadcast globally beginning Tuesday afternoon under the heading “new audio statement by Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ... to the peoples of the countries allied with the tyrannical U.S. government,” according to a transcript released by U.S. officials Tuesday evening. On the tape, the man identified as bin Laden refers to recent terrorist attacks in Bali, Tunisia, Yemen, Pakistan and Moscow and says that they were in response to those countries’ support of the United States in its military strikes in Afghanistan and in other alleged acts of aggression against Muslims, including in Iraq. The purported comments by bin Laden come at a troubling time as the United States spearheads a coalition gearing up for war with Iraq and amid growing indications that al-Qaeda is regrouping and planning more attacks in far-flung corners of the world. The tape rang alarm bells at the White House, the CIA, Pentagon and elsewhere in Washington, officials said, because bin Laden has been known to make such public pronouncements just before a terrorist strike, as was the case before al-Qaeda truck bombs killed 224 people at two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. Several U.S. officials said that an initial analysis of the tape, based on comparison with existing “voiceprints” of bin Laden,indicate that it is authentic and made in recent weeks — the first concrete evidence that the Saudi fugitive survived the punishing military attacks in Afghanistan and perhaps the most aggressive global manhunt in history. Many U.S. officials, including the FBI’s top counterterrorism authority, had said publicly that they believed bin

Laden was probably dead. “I don’t doubt that it’s bin Laden but there is no reason to rush to judgment on this,” said one U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We are waiting for our analysts to check all possibilities. Significant portions of it could be bin Laden with other parts spliced in.” “Initial reports can be wrong,” cautioned the official. “But we’re hearing that (technical) people are saying, ‘Yes, it sounds like him.”’ Several counterterrorism experts said bin Laden’s apparent resurfacing might have been triggered by the increasing drumbeat of war with Iraq. “The confrontation with Iraq is perfect grist for the jihadist mill,” said Daniel Benjamin, a former counterterrorism expert at the National Security Council and recent co-author of a book on al-Qaeda and its conflicts with the West. “Even though he has no sympathy for Saddam Hussein or the regime there, bin Laden has always cast the confrontation with Iraq as another example of the struggle between the infidels and the crusaders” and the followers of Islam. Moreover, bin Laden’s emergence would underscore what critics of an Iraq invasion have argued — that the war on terrorism is unfinished and that an assault on Baghdad would stretch U.S. resources too thin. Senior military officials seem increasingly impatient with the progress of the war on terrorism, particularly the often fruitless sweeps of territory along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Last week, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he thought the United States had “lost a little momentum” in the hunt for al-Qaeda, and argued for putting greater emphasis on shoring up the Afghan government. U.S. counterterrorism authorities — and British Prime Minister Tony Blair — have cautioned in recent days that there has been an alarming spike in the kind of intelligence “chatter” that normally precedes a major terrorist attack, at a level unseen since the assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. At the Justice Department and FBI, the airing of the tape put authorities on an even higher state of war footing than they had been previously, one official said. “Unfortunately, every time he surfaces, something really bad follows,” the official said. “It makes us have to be even more on our guard, which is a hard thing to do because we are already at a very heightened state of alert. “

In a livelier postwar Kabul, weddings rebound but restrictions remain KABUL, Afghanistan (Washington Post) — Beribboned like

birthday gifts and veiled in feathery tulle, gleaming white sedans crisscross the capital all day long. In each back seat sit a young couple who barely know each other. The groom often looks dazed. The bride, made up like a geisha and elaborately coiffed, usually stares straight ahead. A second car follows closely, careering through heavy traffic while a young man with a video camera straddles the front passenger door, capturing each moment of the ride that will carry the newlyweds — often blood relatives but virtual strangers — to a new life together. For the past two months, Kabul has been gripped by wedding frenzy. The city’s half-dozen hotel salons have been booked in back-to-back shifts, and beauty parlors are crammed with brides in curlers. Garage workshops are decorating 10 cars a day; cake bakeries are producing endless seven-tiered extravaganzas. The phenomenon is largely a byproduct of the same demographic trend that produced the American baby boom of the 1950s. Since December, more than 1.5 million Afghans have returned to Kabul from years of wartime exile or refuge abroad, while tens of thousands of men have put down their guns for the first time in two decades. “We were closed for 10 years, but we reopened seven months ago, and now we are completely booked, with weddings every morning and afternoon,” said Mohammed Isak Anwari, who manages a modestly priced wedding hotel called New Summer. “So many people are coming home from abroad. They want to settle down, and they want someone to keep them warm at night.” This fall, the pace of weddings increased with the anticipation of winter, the lifting of Kabul’s longtime curfew and the approach of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, when weddings are banned. All last week, every hotel in

Kabul hosted two or three weddings a day; by Wednesday, the first day of Ramadan, all the hotels had closed. The revival of music and dancing at weddings, which had been banned as un-Islamic by the strict Taliban regime that collapsed last November, has also made getting married more fun. For the past five years, most weddings here were sober, at-home affairs, while wealthier urban families traveled to Pakistan to hold their parties. But dozens of popular musicians and singers have returned to Kabul after years of exile, and celebrators no longer have to cross the border to whoop it up. This season’s fashionable hotel weddings are deafening parties that feature fast music, insistent drums and heavily amplified keyboards. “People feel free now. They want to enjoy themselves and have a big party,” said Sayed Hamid Zia, a wedding singer and keyboard player who has worked so many gigs in recent weeks that he twice lost his voice. The return of wedding music has not been universally welcomed, however. To conservative Islamic groups, it constitutes a threat to religious order — and its performers are purveyors of decadence. In a half-dozen incidents this season, wedding entertainers have been beaten, threatened and even killed. Moreover, the festive mood of this wedding season should not be confused with either liberality or love. Afghanistan is a deeply traditional Muslim society, where alcohol is banned and virtually all marriages are arranged between families — often within the same extended family. Usually, the engaged couple are allowed to meet only occasionally and only while chaperoned by relatives. During the festivities, brides are expected to maintain an unsmiling, almost funereal demeanor, especially when posing for pictures. And in some ways, they have as much to mourn as to celebrate.

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Sholem continued from page 12 passed and it has become apparent who the dominant teams are, serious issues still prevail. The voters love to root for the underdog, and it often distorts the rankings. For example, Bowling Green was ranked No. 20 in the Associated Press poll prior to its loss against Northern Illinois. The team was obviously being rewarded for keeping an undefeated record through the first ten weeks of the season. However, the polls are not meant to be a reward; they are meant to be an accurate depiction of the nation’s best teams. As of last week, Bowling Green was ranked three places ahead of Florida in the AP poll, so according to this poll, Bowling Green was a better team than Florida. I think we all know that if these two teams played, Florida would destroy their weaker MAC opponent. The fact that Bowling Green was ranked ahead of the superior Florida team is a disgrace to college football. I also don’t like that the voters feel compelled to drop a team a certain number of places following a loss, even if the team put forth a valiant effort and displayed great skill. For example, if

Equestrian continued from page 12 the day, she competed for the High Point Rider title, which she also won. Moving into Intermediate Fences, co-captain Jessica Kingsborough ‘04 continued Peddy’s precedent of effective riding, picking up third place on a difficult horse. The only other Brown rider in this division, Severine Brustlein ’05, swept away the competition in her class with a first place finish, the first win of the day. In the next class, Kate Rae ’05 made her Novice Fences debut with a near flawless course, impressive enough to merit her second place finish in a class of ten riders. Her performance would set the pace for the rest of the division — a Brown rider would either win or place second in

the No. 25 team in the nation loses by four to a top ten team, the loser will certainly drop out of the polls the following week. This drop is totally unjustified, because although the team did lose, it had a great performance. If anything, the team should move up in the rankings because they demonstrated that they were better than previously thought. Unfortunately, don’t expect this to happen in today’s system. It is all based on the concept that a team that wins should not move down in the rankings. My question is this: why not? The voters aren’t supposed to worry about dropping a winning team and upsetting its fans. It’s all about ranking the nation’s top teams in order. A team that loses a close game to Ohio State should be allowed to move ahead of a team that beats up on Appalachian State if the losing team demonstrates that it is playing better than the winning team. In short, don’t worry about what the teams think of the rankings, just rank them in the order that you feel they deserve. The absurdity of the polls also makes it optimal for a top team to lose earlier in the year rather than later. For example, Iowa suffered its only loss very early on and has won every game since. If it wins out, as expected, it will most likely finish in the top five in the

almost every one of the Novice Fences class. Katherine WarshawReid ’04 continued the sweep by winning her class after another smart ride, while Jennifer Kim ’04 also won her class and Rebecca Barker ’05 placed second in hers. Going into the Flat portion of the day, the Bears had already accumulated 19 points (out of a possible of 21). The team’s first Open rider, Alexis Marcuvitz ’06, kept the winning streak alive as she took the blue, followed by Peddy’s win a few classes later. After some solid rides and difficult draws in Intermediate Flat, the team’s pace slackened, but picked up again with Warshaw-Reid’s second place and Barker’s win in Novice. Rachel Roemer ’06 won her Advanced Walk/Trot/Canter class, beginning another division-wide sweep by the bears. Catherine Alsop ’05 took second place, while Ariana Arcenas ’06 finished up Advanced

nation. Oklahoma, on the other hand, is one of the nation’s most dominating teams. However, it lost so late in the year (week ten) that its top five finish is now in question. There is very little doubt in my mind that Oklahoma would crush Iowa, yet due to the ridiculous nature of the polls, the Hawkeyes may get the last laugh. Because voters automatically drop a team three to four places after any loss, it is imperative for a team not to lose games late to secure a good final ranking. One possible solution would be creating a panel of about 15 football experts consisting of excoaches, broadcasters, players and people who genuinely know the game and have the time to create an accurate poll. The panel would not be allowed to release any polls until the third or fourth week of the year to make sure every team gets a chance to shine. This may not be the best solution, but I find it upsetting that everyone is so quick to accept our current flawed system. I’m working night and day on a viable remedy to the situation, but as of now my verdict is this: the poll system sucks. Jamie Sholem ’06 hails from Champaign, Ill., where he can now watch two college-level teams if you include the Bears.

Walk/Trot/Canter by winning her class. After a brief lull between Brown riders, Jennifer Bain took third in Beginner Walk/Trot/Canter. Finally, as the sun began to set, Jennifer Fauth ’05 competed in the first class of the last division of the day, Walk/Trot. The Bears knew that if she won her class, they would have not only won the show, but once again reached their own personal record of 47 points. After a good ride in a competitive class, the Bears waited tensely for the placings. In line with the rest of the day’s performances, Fauth won her class, not only boosting the team’s points, but also placing her into Walk/Trot/Canter and automatically qualifying her for Regionals in the spring. Lauren Rogoff ’05 finished the day with a third place, and the team prepared to return home. Sarah Staveley-O’Carroll ’03 is a member of the Equestrian team.

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24-Seven Art students who want to seize on a late-night or earlymorning burst of creativity by touching up their works-inprogress in the List Art Building are out of luck. While students of computer science, music and modern culture and media can access equipment vital to their studies 24 hours a day, the University shuts its burgeoning artists out of their studios squarely at 11:30 p.m. This is unacceptable. Many art students, like CS and MCM students, are busy with classes and other schoolwork and commitments during the day. Coding computer programs, writing musical scores and creating works of art are creative pursuits that aren’t easily perfected during set hours. Shutting List at 11:30 p.m. denies the University’s artists the opportunity to use their creative juices when they may flow the most. Like the Center for Information Technology, List is often crowded during the day and evening, and the University’s art students have similar difficulty accessing resources. CS, MCM and art students all need specialized equipment to produce time-consuming and creative works. While students in history and sociology would likely do just as well studying in their dorm rooms as they would in a library, art students depend on the resources in List. Brown should focus on giving all students the opportunity to thrive. The University should not expect art students to do what it doesn’t expect of CS, MCM and music students. Concerns that 24-hour access could compromise security in List are reasonable, but they can and must be addressed. The University is paying to post Sterling security guards around campus at all times of day and night. The University should supply a guard at List for 24-hour access. Whether that guard comes from the University’s own Department of Public Safety or from Sterling is up to administrators. The University has many options, and all should quickly identify the most cost-effective method to keep List open. Keeping List open for 24 hours would give art students the ability to express their creativity to their utmost potential. Some students already enjoy 24-hour access to some buildings on campus. That privilege must be extended to Brown’s artists.

RYAN LEVESQUE

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Life Science opposer East Side resident

ing about the new Life Sciences building by insulting the University community (“Proposed Life Sciences building ill-conceived,” 11/11), lives at 9 Olive St. Caveat lector.

To the Editor: Your readers should know that William Touret, who wrote the offensive letter to The Herald complain-

William Beeman Department of Anthropology Nov. 12

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Democrats need grand strategy to regain power Business as usual plays to the short-sighted strength of the Republican party SINCE THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS, ly support policies like awful prison condiin which the final nail in the Democrats’ cof- tions (with no instruction or opportunity to fin of relevance in national politics was ham- learn anything except crime from other mered, all of liberal punditry has taken up inmates), an unjust death penalty that in the task of determining exactly what it was essence punishes people for having little to the Democrats did or did not do that result- live for or free reign for drilling more polluting fossil fuels. These policies are all ed in their needless loss. From self-defeating in the long term. slate.com to Paul Krugman of But this is the selling point of the New York Times, there is Republican policy: the promise bewilderment that Democrats of a quick fix. Being “tough” on have done such a poor job in criminals, in favor of “balanced explaining the issues. In conenergy” (i.e. coal) and in favor of trast, Republicans seem to have traditional values sounds good pulled a real number in selling and may lower costs in the presaverage folk on the need for tax ent, but at the expense of the cuts and environmental policies near and distant future. that only help the rich and corPlatitudes are easier to espouse porations at their expense. Sure, BRETT J. COHEN than sound arguments. the Democrats lack leadership SKEPTIC’S TAKE In a particular triumph, and the marketing know-how of Republicans have played up the Republicans, but they have “conservatism,” which for them chosen a fundamentally flawed strategy (assuming they have one). In this is an amorphous mirage of dogma that really has little to do with “less government,” into a column, I will outline a winning one. For comparison, let’s look at the success- macho, supposedly realist, take-charge attiful Republicans. They seize on a number of tude that disarms serious analysis. If you dissingle-issue voters who have no real ideo- agree with the Republicans, they launch an ad logical connection with each other, such as hominem attack strategy: you don’t merely Christian religious extremists, upper-class differ in opinion; you’re not tough enough to businesspeople who wish to pay no taxes, make the difficult decisions. Republicans occasional hunters who wish to maintain have successfully demonized liberals as out of unnecessary arsenals of weapons capable touch well-wishers who would lead the counof mass murder and so forth. To this crew try to ruin, and they attempt to characterize they add (even more) ignorant people with anyone with a liberal position as a weakling. Sadly for the world, the Republicans will ill-advised public policy positions. Given full information, no one would real- keep succeeding either until the Democrats get their act together, or more likely, the consequences of the Republicans’ shortsighted Brett J. Cohen ’03 is a stand-up comedian.

policies become clearer through mass suffering. Now as noted, in some scientific sense, the Democrats are probably closer to the socially optimal policies than the Republicans. To gain power, the Democrats have a number of options: they can abandon their superior policies (morally repugnant), they can advocate nice-sounding, terrible policies but enact good ones (the opposite of the Republicans) or they can do a better job of explaining their good policies. Obviously I would submit that the Democrats should pursue a strategy of improved communication, but the same old game won’t do. The usual methods of talking about issues — 30-second political spots on TV around election time and short interviews on talk shows — are insufficient to explain most complicated ideas and sound bites are advantageous to Republicans. Instead, the Democrats should use all media, à la Ross Perot, buying chunks of air time and demonstrating, with support of academic experts, the side effects of Republican policies. The Democrats should turn to Hollywood to bring to life the effects that education and background can have on shaping success in concrete displays of light and sound. Of course, the Democrats need a way of expressing their generally superior viewpoint. What characterizes a world in which we provide aid in Marshall Plan style chunks (spurring production in the United States itself, it must be added) to lift poor nations out of poverty and away from hating the United States (eliminating potential recruits for al Qaeda)? How do we describe a safety net that ensures all children get an adequate educa-

tion and that no elderly freeze to death in winter or die of heat stroke in summer? And what do we say of strategies that prevent crime instead of avenging ourselves on criminals? The phrase I have in mind is “Total Security.” Democrats should seize the initiative and demonstrate that if you have certain goals, from public safety to minimum international terror, the clear choice for you in the voting box is the Democratic one. Total Security encompasses issues in social, economic and foreign policy. A Total Security supporter is thoughtful but serious on the issues, stern where necessary, but open-minded and always reliant on good science or “what works.” Total Security sums up what the Democrats should be all about. Being secure will require resolve to implement, as well as tough choices; it will require sacrificing our unrestricted use of polluting, terrorfunding substances like crude oil and require our richest, most successful members of society to pay adequate taxes so all children can meet their full potential. With respect to labor, we must work hard to make economic security available to all citizens, running our economy in an efficient manner — no dock workers should be able to strike when they earn over $120,000, jeopardizing the economic security of thousands of others whose wages are far smaller. The characterization of the Democratic platform as Total Security has a benefit a Republican strategist would love: if you ain’t for it, you’re against it — supporting insecurity or partial security. And no one wants that. Take that, Republicans.

The Senate takeover and the cost of political empire Why the Democrats must emulate the Republican Party’s tactics of 1992 ON ELECTION DAY, THE DEMOCRATS their message; the revelations of gross corwere dealt their most serious blow since the porate malfeasance, coming directly after Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. In the evaporation of the surplus and the the space of two years, a president elected reversal of the growth rates of the 1990s, without a numerical majority has managed sowed a fertile climate for the populism to convince the public that he won in a bungled by Al Gore in 2000. Instead, the Democrats blew it, retreating landslide, has maneuvered an from the knockout punch. The extremist domestic agenda into GOP outflanked them; the the mainstream on the coatopportunity was squandered. tails of a just war and stumped Conservatives harped on what his party back into the majority. they called the New York Times’ The liberal strategists and punpartisan coverage of Bush’s war ditry will have a field day over aims, but this obscured the the next few weeks, browbeatmore remarkable fact: virtually ing each other with choruses of overnight, an impending “What went wrong?” attack on Saddam Hussein, as They have reason to do so. yet unconnected with anyWith the loss of Paul Wellstone, ALEX SCHULMAN thing to do with Sept. 11, 2001, it can safely be said that our BORN TO RUN had driven the year’s endless most straightforward populist string of corporate catastrolegislator is now a Republican phes off the front page. — John McCain. The Greens’ James Carville has pointed out that attempt to run a candidate against Wellstone in Minnesota was a disgrace, but Americans will not trust national defense to a unlike in 2000, the Greens share no particu- party that refuses to defend itself. Make no lar blame in Tuesday’s debacle. Through mistake; the GOP stranglehold on the govtheir own ineptitude, the Democrats stand ernment is extremely dangerous to our comin perhaps their weakest position since mon future, and to turn the tide back toward before the Depression, and a radical infu- sensibility, the Democrats unfortunately will sion of nerve and — if you’ll pardon the have to take the Republicans circa Clinton’s expression — cojones will be needed to first victory as their model, dirty fighting and all. In 1992, the Republicans were in their recalibrate our political landscape by 2004. The most astonishing public relations weakest position in years, having lost the feat of the season was undoubtedly Iraq’s presidency in addition to both houses of sudden replacement of the economy in the Congress. They quickly reoriented themnational news, a move I saw carefully and selves into a fierce opposition party, denying brilliantly orchestrated by GOP strategists. It Clinton any breathing room from day one. recalled Clinton’s finest instances of neutral- The defeat of the Clinton health care plan izing his enemies and with far less sense of was his worst loss — it paved the way for the compromise. For a while, it had seemed the Gingrich takeover in 1994, which gave us triDemocrats had the material to reinvigorate angulation, Dick Morris and years of an essentially gelded executive. The Clinton plan failed for a variety of reaAlex Schulman ’03 is an empire unto himself.

sons, but the model works well for Democratic opposition of Bush. It was said of Clinton: so here’s this “New Democrat,” who positioned himself as a pro-business moderate, showing his true colors by trying to sneak in socialized medicine. We can still say the same about Bush — he positioned himself as a moderate (uniter, not divider, etc.) in 2000, a “compassionate conservative” who would temper the fury of the deposed Gingrich and the defeated impeachment managers. Once in office, he pressed a radical conservative agenda along Reaganite lines, cutting taxes for the very wealthy, flooding the courts with religious ideologues and so forth. Bush has a trump card that Clinton did not — the war, which he has handled well enough and is to be commended for. But the unrelenting hawkishness of the Bush administration could slowly backfire, and Democrats should be waiting to pounce. The most embarrassing part of the Democratic reaction to Iraq was neither those who opposed it, nor those who supported it; many simply had no position whatsoever, spouting inane platitudes about a “national dialog” and “international reputation,” riding the fence on polling statistics through the election season so as not to offend anyone. Americans are not stupid; we know waffling when we see it. Human nature respects leaders with convictions, not empty vessels who will bow to fickle popular moods. The “war on terrorism,” though important if executed correctly, is not eternally popular. That assumption shows gross historical ignorance. Any war can quickly turn against its executors, especially one as globally entangled as this. The Bush administration’s economics are simply untenable, and the Democrats could very easily point this out while still pledging to defend the United States from

its sworn enemies. Removing Saddam will be a Pyrrhic victory if its diversion of resources means Afghanistan will slide back into tribal chaos. If we are truly dedicated to colonizing and rebuilding Iraq, as well as fighting al Qaeda elsewhere, the costs will be enormous, numbering in the trillions over the next 10 years. The Clinton surplus has disappeared, mostly back into the hands of the wealthy, and the disastrous Bush tax cut is loaded heavily into the future, meaning less revenue, especially if the economy continues to stagnate or decline. Though the war could cause shortterm stimulation, it could mean out-ofcontrol, Reagan-era deficits in the long term. State and local governments are already spiraling toward insolvency, and the war fever in Washington is denying them any revenue-sharing attention. We’ve been here before, and it wasn’t pretty. Clinton did not do nearly enough to reverse the dispiriting economic trends that began with the oil shocks of the early 1970s and were accelerated by the blind, free market ideology of the 1980s and 1990s, now a global pandemic thanks to ignorant IMF policy. Since the early 1970s, through even the storied “boom” 1990s, the top 20 percent reaped all the gains, the large middle stagnated and the bottom declined. Class warfare can be fought from above as well as below. Economic growth after World War II was basically egalitarian; recently, it has been entirely for the already wealthy. The Democrats must form a unified front and attack this point ruthlessly. Instead of harping on specific issues only as it suits them (here abortion, there prescription drugs), they need total warfare; only then will we have our 1994 coup, and though it may be nasty, at least we’ll know that we are right and they are wrong.

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Football polls fail to deliver DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK THE college football polls are a joke? I mean, who decided that sportswriters possess the omnipotence necessary to determine the top 25 teams in the nation, in exact order? We base our opinions of college football teams on the JAMIE judgment of the SHOLEM beat writer for 1ST YEAR PHENOM the Pullman Daily News and the Madison Eagle. This seems absurd to me. Using the coaches’ poll is really no better because though coaches know more about judging the talent of a team. They do not have any time during the hectic season to monitor the results of the entire nation and produce an accurate poll. One of the major problems with the system is that the preseason poll, which most of the nation uses as an indicator as to who the dominant teams will be, is a total guess. Take a look at this year’s preseason coaches’ poll and compare it to the current coaches’ poll. Three of the teams originally picked to be in the top ten are no longer ranked at all, and only three of the original top 10 teams are still in the top 10. This kind of woeful inaccuracy is not a bash on the coaches, for they did their best in making predictions. It merely shows that polls should not be relied upon as much as they are by the media and the fans of college football. Even after most of the season has see SHOLEM, page 9

Near perfect show leaves riders in first BY SARAH STAVELEY-O’CARROLL

The Brown varsity equestrian team traveled to Hebron, Conn. to compete in the second-to-last show of the season at Wesleyan’s barn, Windcrest Farm, on Saturday Nov. 9. Although they have not lost the region’s top spot once this season, the Bears hit a slump during the past two shows, placing fourth at Teikyo Post and second at the University of Rhode Island two weekends ago. These last two performances were respectable, but the Bears adopted a “take no prisoners” attitude and decided that they needed to reassert themselves in the region with a big victory to extend their lead. Every year, Brown has had at least one very high scoring show, but the Bears had not yet experienced such a victory this season. Wesleyan’s show, traditionally a team favorite, was the site of these wins in the past and once again proved the perfect venue for reestablishing the Bears’ dominance. Another helping factor was the weather; after a week of cold temperatures, the girls lucked out with sunny skies and temperatures reaching the sixties. The morning started out slowly with Open Fences. The competition was stiff and plentiful; one class had as many as ten riders. In the last class of the division, Jamie Peddy ’06, who has been showing consistently well throughout the season, scored the team its first points with a second place finish. After winning her Open Flat class later on in see EQUESTRIAN, page 9

Women’s icers open ECAC season with win over Vermont, loss to Dartmouth BY KATHY BABCOCK

The women’s ice hockey team skated past Vermont this weekend with a 3-0 shutout, but fell to Dartmouth 3-1. Both were conference games making Brown 1-1 in the league. But the loss to fourth-ranked Dartmouth, who Brown beat 4-3 in overtime last year to win the ECAC title, was disappointing. “I think the main reason we lost was because we didn’t execute our normal system. It was our penalty kill that hurt us more than our power play,” said coach Digit Murphy. The Bears faced the Big Green Friday night in Hanover in what quickly became a very rough game with nine penalties in the first period and 24 overall. “Unfortunately or fortunately the way you look at the game the referees are starting to crack down on women’s hockey,” Murphy said. “They’re just calling more. It’s a new phase of the game that we’re going to have to adjust to and we’re probably just going to have to have a better penalty kill, because I don’t see us adjusting our style of play.” Both teams started strong defensively, and the game was tied 0-0 going into the second period. However, Dartmouth got on the boards quickly when at 2:00, Sarah Clark scored on a power play assisted by Katie Weatherston and Amy Catlin. Brown answered five minutes later with a goal from Jessica Link ’05. Link scored off the rebound of Kim Insalaco’s ’03 slap shot. Kerry Nugent ’04 also picked up an assist on the play. The winning goal came at 14:52, when Krista Dornfried scored shorthanded for Dartmouth. The Bears went into the third period trailing 2-1.

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The women’s ice hockey team will hit the road this weekend, traveling to Minnesota for a rematch of last year’s National Championship game against Minnesota-Duluth. In the third period, Cassie Turner ’03 went in the box for tripping. Less than 30 seconds later Dartmouth scored its third goal of the game, its second on a power play. Alana Bremiller scored with an assist from Carly Haggard. Neither team was able to score a goal in the remaining fifteen minutes of play. Myria Heinhuis ’06 managed to get in the Brown record books with the most

penalties in a single game. Heinhuis had six of the team’s 12 penalties. She served time for interference, checking, tripping, more tripping, interference again and body checking. Only one of her penalties led to a Dartmouth goal. Brown actually out-shot Dartmouth in this game 35-33. Pam Dreyer ’03 was in see ICERS, page 6

Seniors lead volleyball to wins over Lions, Big Red in final two home matches BY LILY RAYMAN-READ

Brown volleyball is on the up and up after this past weekend’s defeat of both Colombia and Cornell. At this point, the team stands at 10-13 overall and 6-5 in the Ivy League. This past Friday, the women beat Columbia in three games, with scores of 30-28, 30-18 and 30-22. In this match, the women improved their Ivy record to .500 and recharged the team’s spirits. The matches took place in the Pizzitola Gymnasium. In the final home game of the season, the Bears beat the Big Red in four games, with scores of 30-28, 19-30, 30-25 and 30-28. The victory was much cause for celebration, but also for sadness on the part of the team’s five departing seniors: Ceneca Calvert ’03, Jessie Cooper ’03, Angela Dunn ’03, Aneal Helms ’03 and Alexis Malapeai ’03. For these women, it was their final home game, and one of their final few matches here at Brown. In the match against Columbia, Cooper and Dunn both had 13 kills, while Kim Highlund ’04 had 22 digs and Calvert had nine. Cooper is currently third on the list of Brown’s all-time kills with 1,076 and Dunn is now in fourth with 1,034 kills. As a whole, the team performed very well, and was impressive in its unison and technique. Against Cornell, Brown once against pushed it out and got a well-deserved victory. At the game, each of the departing seniors were honored, as is tradition on

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Sitting at 10-13, the volleyball team will look to win its final three games and reach .500, starting with a match at Penn on Friday. the final home game of the season. While once again Cooper and Dunn led the team in kills, and were tied at 16 apiece during the match, Leigh Martin ’06 had a great game with 46 setting assists. The defense was led by the same two team members, Calvert and Highlund, who had 14 and 12 digs respectively.

This weekend, the women will travel to the University of Pennsylvania on Nov. 15 and to Princeton on the Nov. 16, with their final match of the year against Yale on Nov. 20. The year has been both a hard one and one of tremendous growth, as the women have continuously improved and look to win their final three matches.