T U E S D A Y SEPTMEBER 2, 2003
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Dean of the Faculty will step down at year’s end BY PHILISSA CRAMER
Dean of the Faculty Mary Fennell — responsible for many of the University’s key decisions regarding faculty hiring, recruitment, development, promotion and tenure — will step down at the end of the 2003-04 academic year after a fouryear term that began in June 2000. Due to a high potential for burnout, the length of Fennell’s term as dean of the faculty is standard for the position, she said. “I’ve definitely felt the intensity,” Fennell said. As the dean of the faculty, Fennell has managed the instructional budget and encouraged and helped departments to make excellent recruitment decisions, said Dean of the College Paul Armstrong. “The strength of the curriculum depends on the strength of the faculty,” he said, making Fennell’s position vital to the academic life of the University. Having served under the administrations of both Interim President Sheila Blumstein and President Ruth Simmons, Fennell said the demands placed on her have varied from year to year. “It’s been a different job almost every year,” Fennell said. Fennell said she decided to announce her plans to step down as the dean of the faculty a year in advance to give the University time to both find a replacement and wrap up some ongoing projects. “I wanted to proactively decide to plan a transition year,” she said. The dean of the faculty reports directly to the provost, who along with Simmons will convene a search committee to identify Fennell’s replacement, she said. During the transition year, Fennell said she plans to continue working on a new set of faculty hires, retooling a new benefits package for faculty and supporting the creation of Brown’s new mulsee FENNELL, page 16
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Dean of the Faculty Mary Fennell will step down at the end of the academic year.
Sara Perkins / Herald
Rain is predicted for the opening week of classes — including during Tuesday’s planned convocation exercises.
Network problems leave students with no access to e-mail, Internet and chat BY JONATHAN ELLIS
Many students who returned to dorms eager to check e-mail, research classes or chat with friends found themselves out of luck over the last week. As of Monday night, some users of Brown’s residential network were unable to access the Internet for extended periods of time, according to reports received by The Herald. While some students were blocked from the Internet completely, their roommates’ connections were working perfectly. In other cases, connection speeds varied or specific Internet-reliant applications failed. The problems are attributable to a glitch in the University’s firewall, Richard Boes, director of network technology, said Monday. A firewall monitors incoming and outgoing traffic on a computer network to prevent unauthorized access to the system. All traffic is split into small, manageable pieces of data called packets. The firewall analyzes the packets and blocks those it deems potentially harmful. Some dorms employ a firewall called NetScreen, Boes said. Over the weekend, NetScreen began unnecessarily blocking outgoing packets of information, he said. Working with NetScreen Technologies, the University’s Computing and Information Services rebooted the firewall system, Boes said. That seemed to solve the problem, he said. Boes said the CIS Help Desk told him
around midday Monday the outages had ceased. But many students said the problems continued late into Monday. Andrew Pfeffer ’05, who moved into Minden Hall a week ago, said his entire floor was without Internet access as of Monday night, though other parts of Minden are online. “We had access sporadically for (the first) two days,” he said. “Ever since then, no dice.” CIS told him the problem would be
Some transfer students express discontent at cramped living quarters page 5
Ilana Friedman ’04 makes a video to promote gardening in Providence schools page 5
see CIS, page 16
Brown facilities and library workers form new independent unions BY JULIETTE WALLACK
After years of belonging to an international union, 330 Brown facilities and library workers are taking matters into their own hands by forming a new independent union. In an election last week, the workers voted to withdraw from Service Employees International Union and form the United Service and Allied Union. A similar motion for 120 dining services workers to join the new union failed, so they will remain with SEIU, said Karen McAninch, former business agent of SEIU Local 134. The formation of USAU, the new union, means the University will now have to work with two different bar-
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resolved Tuesday at the earliest, he said. With the data CIS collected during the outages, Boes said NetScreen hopes to create a patch for the firewall so the problem cannot happen again. NetScreen officials were unavailable for comment Monday. Boes said there was only a “slight chance” the problem was related to the recent outbreak of viruses and worms on the campus network. Last Tuesday, the
gaining units when dining services workers’ and facilities workers’ contract expires at the end of October, according to Walter Hunter, vice president for administration. “We will still wind up having negotiations with the lawful representative (from each union),” Hunter said. In the past, food services and facilities workers negotiated one contract with separate sections for each workforce, Hunter said. Bargaining with representatives from two different unions means each union will have a separate contract at the end, he said. While University representatives prepare for the end of the facilities and see UNIONS, page 6
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T The craziness of the California recall is cause for celebration, says Toumanoff ’06 column, page 19
Barry Bonds manages to be baseball’s most hated and most respected player sports, page 20
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THIS MORNING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 2 Coup de Grace Grace Farris
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DINNER — Vegetarian Caribbean Black Bean Soup, Chicken Rice Soup, Beef Stroganoff, Orange Turkey, Grits Souffle, Au Gratin Potatoes with Fresh Herbs, Fresh Vegetable Melange, Herbed Turnips, Swedish Rye Bread, Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Marshmallow Cake Roll, Raspberry Mousse Pie , (H) Beef Stroganoff
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CAMPUS NEWS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 3
Construction on I-95, 195 delays returning faculty and students BY ELLEN WERNECKE
Sara Perkins / Herald
Brown students and faculty returning to campus by car are feeling the effects of road construction in downtown Providence. The construction of a new interchange linking Interstates 95 and 195 downtown is impacting the University with the closure of the I-195 exit closest to campus. The highway’s westbound Exit 1, the “Downtown Providence” exit, was closed permanently in April to prepare for the relocation of a 2.5-mile stretch of I-195. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is moving the strip to a more accessible area and reconstructing roads where the exit ramp stands now. DOT spokesman Richard Fondi said the prospect of renovating I-195’s existing roads was deemed too costly because of the area’s many parks and historic sites. Fondi said the entire I-195 project will take four or five years and will encompass much of the state’s highway network from Providence to the Massachusetts state line. “We’re going to do it in small segments,” Fondi said, “so there won’t be much
First-years gathered in Sayles Hall Saturday night to participate in the annual midnight organ concert. see CONSTRUCTION, page 6
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CAMPUS NEWS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 5
Initial housing for transfers distresses some BY SARA PERKINS
When Alexis Smagula ’06 first saw her new living space last Wednesday, she wasn’t thrilled. Neither were her parents. “Someone will have to choose whether to have their head crushed or be paralyzed for life,” her mother said, pointing out the low-hanging television set suspended over the end of one of the converted Keeney lounge’s four beds. The room still contained the unit bulletin board, and small wardrobes doubled as closets and dressers. There was barely enough room for four desks, beds and wardrobes. The transfer from Kenyon College was one of many in this year’s fall transfer class who moved into cramped quarters last week. At least 28 transfer students are housed in groups of three in what were, in other years, Perkins doubles. “It’s pretty cramped, but it’s not so bad because I don’t think any of us really unpacked,” said Donald Tetto ’06, a transfer from Rutgers University. “It’s all in boxes.” Fortunately, many of the housing assignments will not be permanent. According to Barbara Ross of Residential Life, empty rooms cannot be reassigned until after the first day of classes in case a student shows up late. Dean Thomas Forsberg, associate director of Residential Life, was not available for comment. Tetto was told one of his roommates would be moving into an empty double next door this week, unless its intendsee TRANSFERS, page 6
SUMMER STORIES: A CONTINUING SERIES
Friedman ’04 wants Providence schools to invest in educational gardens BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ
At a time when tight budgets force local school districts to cut back to the basics, an investment in greenery may be a tough sell. But this is precisely the pitch Ilana Friedman ’04 intends to make to Providence schools this fall with an instructional film about creating classroom gardens. Friedman filmed Providence children at work and play in four classroom gardens over the summer. Part of a growing movement, these projects fuse the principles of experiential learning with urban agriculture. With the help of their teachers, students use the gardens to learn everything from physics to weeding. Although she grew up with a garden on her New York City roof, Friedman first became involved with urban gardens in Providence as a volunteer with the Southside Community Land Trust, which has been instrumental in establishing classroom gardens throughout the city. Through the Land Trust, she connected with local teachers who had taken their classrooms outdoors, and applied for a Starr Fellowship last spring to document their work. Around the same time, Friedman began volunteering as an assistant teacher at Providence’s CityArts, where students in free afterschool art classes benefit from a classroom garden. But her primary work this summer was behind the camera. “I saw myself as a collector of information,” said Friedman, who intends to compress about 25 hours of footage into a 20-minute instructional
Photo courtesy of Ilana Friedman
Ilana Friedman ’04 spent the summer filming Providence children in classroom gardens in a bid to convince local schools of the value of urban agriculture. film for local teachers interested in developing classroom gardens. “So many of the young students I spoke with were able to articulate a strong personal resonance with the natural environment,” she said of the 7 to 13year-olds she worked with. “They ended up sharing these beautiful words about how much they loved being out in the garden.”
For some students, she said, it’s the sensory element of the garden — flowers such as lamb’s ear are “particularly wonderful to touch.” For others, simply a name, like bleeding heart, can be evocative. And sunflowers, Friedman said, “just give you a wonderful sense of space as a child.” see FRIEDMAN, page 17
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Unions continued from page 1 food workers’ contracts, they are still working to agree on library workers’ contracts. When negotiations began more than a year ago, the library workers were represented by SEIU 134. But after last week’s vote, University representatives will be discussing the contract with representatives from USAU. “We’ve been talking with the library for quite a while,” said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. Negotiations did not proceed while unionized library workers petitioned for the independent union, he said. But as soon as the new USAU union is certified, discussions will begin again. Both Hunter and Nickel said the new union probably won’t affect negotiations. “This is a choice that the unionized work force makes, and whatever group the union members select to represent them, the University will negotiate with,” Nickel said. The movement to form an independent union arose because SEIU was too big to rep-
“This is a choice that the unionized work force makes, and whatever group the union members select to represent them, the University will negotiate with.” resent Brown workers adequately, according to Dan Paiva, a mechanic with facilities management and one of the spokespeople for the new union. “They’re big money and big business,” Paiva said. SEIU is currently working to absorb the Providence chapter into a Massachusetts chapter, he said. He said that would take Brown workers from a 750-person chapter to a chapter that could one day have as many as 20,000 members. “We don’t need someone in Boston running our local,” Paiva said. “They don’t know what’s happening in Providence.
They’re not attuned to what’s happening. They’re not attuned to what our needs are.” An SEIU representative currently working at the Providence chapter was unavailable for comment regarding the situation. The vote can be appealed, McAninch said, and the new union is not official until the vote is certified. That should happen tonight, when members elect new officers and negotiators, she said. McAninch, who previously worked for SEIU-134, could be elected as a USAU negotiator, she said. That would put her back at the bargaining table as the library negotiations begin again. Paiva said last week’s vote could be contested, but it’s unlikely, and the membership will proceed with elections tonight. “We need to build a foundation of the new union,” he said. “It’s not going to be a haphazard thing. You’re preserving your right to autonomy, and … with the SEIU, that’s gone.” Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.
Transfers continued from page 5
The dynamic between the more worldly but still disoriented transfers and first-years can be weird, but at least one unit in Perkins has had an RC-brokered ice breaker event. ed occupant arrives. Smagula was hopeful that at least one of her roommates would be relocated during the first week of classes. Converted Keeney lounges housed groups of three last year. Jessica Pesce ’06, however, said she is very happy with her housing. The transfer from Boston College shares “a larger than normal double with a sink” in New Dorm B. Transfer students are frequently housed in first-year dorms. Those not lucky enough to get Wriston singles are living in Keeney, Morris-Champlin, Perkins, New Pembroke, EmeryWooley, Andrews and Hope. Students say the dynamic between the more worldly but still disoriented transfers and firstyears can be weird, but at least one unit in Perkins has had an RCbrokered ice breaker event. “The invisible wall is now broken,” Tetto said, and some communication has begun between the two groups. Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.
Construction continued from page 3 impact on traffic flow.” Along with the relocation, construction of a new bridge spanning the Providence River and connecting the highways began in August. The bridge project will include not only westbound and eastbound lanes, but also a separate walking and jogging path. In a press release issued by DOT, Richard Repeta of the Maguire Group, which designed the 1,240foot bridge, described it as “a structure that will come to represent the new Providence” and predicted it would “redefine the city’s skyline.” Fondi acknowledged the difficulty of maintaining the city’s highway system, but said the project is critical to that system. “Approximately a quarter of a million cars travel through the city of Providence every day,” Fondi said. “To take on a project of this magnitude is a momentous task, but we’re being proactive about it.” Herald senior staff writer Ellen Wernecke ’06 can be reached at ewernecke@browndailyherald.com.
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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 7
Bush vows to appoint manufacturing czar RICHFIELD, Ohio (L.A. Times) — President Bush kicked off the unofficial start of the 2004 presidential election season Monday, promising a Labor Day crowd of union members in this battleground electoral state that he would appoint a manufacturing czar and lift a lackluster economy that has left their sector “hurting.” As rain drenched his union jacket and cap, along with a backdrop of cranes and John Deere tractors, Bush outlined a balmier outlook for a manufacturing sector that has shed 2.4 million jobs — most of the 2.7 million the economy as a whole has lost since he was elected three years ago. As evidence of his resolve, he said, he has ordered Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans to appoint an assistant secretary whose job is to stimulate conditions for a “strong and vibrant” manufacturing economy. “I believe there are better days ahead for people who are working and looking for work,” Bush told a stormsoaked crowd of several hundred people at a training center here run by the International Union of Operating Engineers. “I want you to understand that I understand that Ohio manufacturers are hurting, that there’s a problem with the manufacturing sector. And I understand for a full recovery, to make sure people can find work, that manufacturing must do better.” The president’s remarks stressed the topic on which Bush has gotten the least support in recent polls, suggesting that White House officials believe that Democratic criticism of Bush’s economic performance cannot go unanswered. With nearly one-third of the United States’ 9.2 million unemployed losing their jobs in the last three years, Democrats say Bush has the worst economic record since the pre-Depression administration of Herbert Hoover. Although productivity gains brought on the end of the recession in November 2001, consumer confidence remains cautious and former “Steel Belt” states, such as Ohio, have lagged behind states less dependent on manufacturing. That has not been lost on the president’s advisers. The visit to Ohio on Monday marked Bush’s third trip this year to the state, which he won only narrowly in 2000. ‘We’re committed to helping those who’ve got a job to keep a job and for those who are looking, to find a job,’’ Bush said, as Labor Secretary Elaine Chao stood nearby.
see BUSH, page 17
Arnold mingles with the masses at the State Fair in Sacramento, Calif. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (L.A. Times) — Republican Arnold
Schwarzenegger, braving autograph seekers, near 100degree heat and vendors selling fried Twinkies, took his campaign to replace Gov. Gray Davis to the California State Fair on Monday and blamed the Democratic incumbent for the state’s troubled economy. Schwarzenegger, answering a few questions from reporters but offering little detail on campaign issues, lamented that nearly 22,000 Californians were laid off in July. He cited high taxes, over-regulation and the costly workers’ compensation system for the state’s economic woes, and accused Davis of being “in the pockets” of special interests. “These people didn’t just lose their jobs,” Schwarzenegger said, as bungee jumpers swung high above him and fairgoers rode on elephants in a corral nearby. “These people witnessed firsthand the American dream slipping away from them.” Hundreds of admirers shouted for his attention, tried to shake his hand and thrust pens and pieces of paper at him during his trip to the state fair, a two-week event that draws as many as 100,000 people a day. Schwarzenegger said for the first time that he would participate in one debate, to be hosted Sept. 17 by the California Broadcasters Association. The association’s format includes taking questions from voters and submitting them in advance to candidates. The candidate rejected 15 other debate requests, including for Wednesday’s forum in Walnut Creek, the first debate of the campaign. “It is important for me to be part of that debate,” the actor and former bodybuilder said of the broadcasters’ mid-September event. “The rest of the time, I will be traveling up and down the state campaigning, getting the message out there, knocking on doors, going to TV stations, radio stations, talking to the journalists. By the time we are through with this campaign, you guys will be sick of me. Trust me.” Republican Peter V. Ueberroth, the former Los Angeles Olympics organizer and Major League Baseball commissioner, urged Schwarzenegger to join other main gubernatorial candidates in the “Race to Recall” forum Wednesday. Saying that participating in the debates “shows respect for the voters,” Ueberroth said Schwarzenegger’s presence would elevate the exposure of all the main candidates —
“These people didn’t just lose their jobs,” Schwarzenegger said, as bungee jumpers swung high above him and fairgoers rode on elephants in a corral nearby. and broaden voters’ awareness. “The ratings will double or triple if Arnold is there,” Ueberroth said. “He would be doing a great service for the recall campaign, and for himself.” Without Schwarzenegger’s presence, Ueberroth said, early absentee voters could end up voting before they’ve watched him outline his vision for governing California. Ueberroth spoke to reporters from his campaign headquarters in an industrial complex at the edge of John Wayne Airport in Orange County, space rented from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who underwrote the petition drive that forced the recall vote. Issa, an early candidate to replace Davis, dropped out after Schwarzenegger decided to run. State Sen. Tom McClintock, a Republican contender for the governor’s job, meanwhile, was struggling to get a word in Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball.” McClintock is running ahead of Ueberroth in polls but behind Schwarzenegger. In response to questions from host Chris Matthews, McClintock said he didn’t believe he was a spoiler who would drain votes from Schwarzenegger. At the state fair, Schwarzenegger sounded themes similar to those that former Gov. Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger’s campaign chairman, talked about when he was in office during the recession a decade ago. At that time, Wilson appointed Ueberroth to study the causes of the recession. Now that the economy once again has slowed, many of the Ueberroth Commission ideas are being recycled by Schwarzenegger: Cut taxes, reduce government regulation and overhaul the workers’ compensation system. “Right now we are over-regulating and overtaxing people,” Schwarzenegger said. “Other states come and say, ‘We have less regulation; come to us.’ What you see right now is a huge exodus of people expanding outside the state.”
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Iraq Governing Council names 25member Cabinet BAGHDAD, Iraq (L.A. Times) — Iraq’s
U.S.-appointed Governing Council took a broad jump Monday toward restoring self-rule when it named 24 men and one woman to a provisional Cabinet to take over the dayto-day running of the government from American occupiers. What actual power the council and the new ministers have remains vague, and many Iraqis view both bodies as little more than fronts for foreign invaders. But the long-awaited creation of a new governing framework gave momentum to Iraqi demands to retake control of their country in the wake of three devastating acts of terrorism last month that left the impression the U.S.-led coalition is unable to rule what it has conquered. Some council members groused that the cabinet should have been decided at least a month ago and that its 25 portfolios were distributed more along ethnic and political lines than on the basis of ministers’ professional abilities. But even those who saw the new government as imperfect celebrated its emergence and the hope it holds out that Iraqis can take care of their own affairs and hasten an end to the occupation, hated by many Iraqis. Since the country remained in mourning following Friday’s terrorist killing of a Shiite leader, Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr Hakim, the Governing Council issued only a list of the 25 ministers’ names — most little-known figures or returned exiles — without fanfare. Still, the newly empowered politicians spoke about the need to roll up their sleeves and get down to the difficult work of rebuilding a government shattered by the U.S.led war then looted by criminals and left vulnerable to sabotage and violence by foreign terrorists and remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime. “I’m not very satisfied with the way it happened, but at least it happened,’’ Rajaa Habib Khuzai, an obstetrician from Diwaniyah, said of her fellow council members’ focus on diversity rather than expertise. “I’m especially unhappy that there is only one woman minister.” But she said the deliberations went smoothly and the wheels of government are now turning — a demonstration for Iraqis that progress is being made in recovering independence. “This government will represent Iraq and in due course our sovereignty will be restored,” said Safeen Dzayi, a diplomat with the Kurdistan Democratic Party that inherited responsibility for foreign affairs. The diplomatic portfolio will be an essential one, Dzayi said, as designated Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zubari, the party’s spokesman and international-affairs adviser, will be the face Iraq presents to a world that has changed dramatically in the 12 years that this country was isolated and ostracized by sanctions.
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Panel faults Israeli police on protests JERUSALEM (Washington Post) — A
g ov e r n m e n t - c o m m i s s i o n e d report concluded Monday that police used excessive force against Israel’s Arab citizens during protests in the earliest days of the Palestinian uprising three years ago, resulting in 13 deaths in a fusillade of bullets and sniper fire. The Israeli inquiry also criticized police for covering up many of their activities, refusing to investigate the civilian deaths and treating Israeli Arab citizens as their “enemies.” While the report did not assign blame to most of the individuals who fired the guns and led the police forces, it did provide the first accounting of the Israeli government’s missteps in a key event early in the intifada — a conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 2,400 Palestinians and 860 Israelis. “This is the first time the state has recognized officially the fact that its Arab citizens are not only discriminated against, but were neglected and ignored,” said Shuli Dichter, who testified before the commission as codirector of Sikkuy, an advocacy group that works to improve relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel. The three-member panel, commissioned by the Israeli government a few weeks after the October 2000 riots in predominantly Arab towns in northern Israel, said Israeli police used unwarranted force against demonstrating Israeli Arabs by picking off rock-throwers with snipers firing live rounds into crowds, and shooting demonstrators with rubbercoated steel bullets from as close as 15 yards. The voluminous report, published in two thick books, said that Israeli officials, particularly then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak, were oblivious to the seething anger of Israeli Arab citizens, which led to widespread rioting and violence. “The treatment of the Arab sector is the most important and sensitive internal issue on the agenda of the state,” the report said. “It needs the personal leadership of the prime minister.” The panel added, “There is no room for discrimination,” and specified that the Israeli government should halt its policies of confiscating lands and demolishing houses owned by Israeli Arabs. The inquiry, set up by the government under intense pressure from an angry and embittered Israeli Arab community, suggested no sanctions against Barak, although it said he was unprepared for the riots and failed to stop police from using excessive, lethal force. The much-anticipated report
was berated as inadequate and incomplete by some Israeli Arab leaders and as disappointing by families of the young men killed during several days of demonstrations in the first days of the uprising. “It’s not that we’re looking for revenge,” said Shawqi Khatib, who heads an organization for Arab citizens in Israel. “We’re looking for serious responsibility on the part of those who did the shootings. Unfortunately, the report does not give the answers to those questions.” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would address the recommendations in a special Cabinet meeting. Maj. David Tzur, head of the border police, defended the actions of police officers, but said at a news conference that authorities would study suggestions for improvement. “The police have to understand that the Arab public ... should not be treated as an enemy,” wrote the three panel members, led by Supreme Court Justice Theodore Or. “The use of live ammunition, including sniper fire, is not a means to disperse a crowd by police,” the report said. The inquiry cited for wrongdoing nine police officers, only four of whom remain in the security forces. Of those four, the panel suggested firing only one, a brigadier general who it said was responsible for “the use of snipers and live ammunition without justification.’’ The officer has received promotions since his actions in the riots, the report said. Another officer who has left the service was found “not fit to be a commander in the police” because he “confronted youngsters who were stone-throwers’’ with live ammunition, killing two of them. The committee recommended that the Israeli government conduct criminal
investigations into some of the cases. The intifada has further inflamed the historically tense relations between Israeli Jews and the country’s Arab minority population. As the conflict intensified with Palestinian suicide bombers attacking buses, cafes and pedestrian malls inside Israel, the country’s Jews have become increasingly distrustful of its Arab citizens. At the same time, Israeli Arabs — who have mostly refrained from participating in the Palestinian conflict since the October 2000 riots — have become even more disenfranchised in a society that has placed them at the bottom of every socioeconomic indicator, with the lowest incomes, highest unemployment and worst school dropout rates. Israeli Arabs make up about one-fifth of the population of 6.6 million. Tarab Yazbek, whose 25-yearold son, Wisam, was among those killed during the riots, said she was angry that the panel did not “find those responsible for killing our children.” Snatching a poster with photographs of Israeli government officials whom Israeli Arabs blame for the shootings, she ripped the pictures to shreds and stomped on them. “Democracy is just for the Jews, and not the Arabs,” she said, eyes brimming with tears as she left a room where an Israeli Arab group was holding a news conference to respond to the report. In the sixth missile strike in less than two weeks against members of the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, Israeli pilots Monday killed one militant, Khader Husari, and injured 28 other Palestinians during an attack on a car traveling through a residential neighborhood in Gaza City, according to Palestinian security and hospital officials.
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New ministry to recruit paramilitary rorce in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (Washington Post) —
Iraq’s newly appointed interior minister will recruit a paramilitary force composed of former Iraqi army special forces troops to pursue guerrillas, terrorists and saboteurs who are undermining the country’s stability, officials said Monday. The so-called Civil Defense Battalions are to come under the command of the Interior Ministry, which will operate under the tutelage of U.S. occupation authorities. Iraq’s advisory Governing Council named Nouri Badran, a former diplomat with intelligence experience, as interior minister, one of 25 cabinet members formally announced Monday to usher Iraq toward self-rule. Badran was among several in the Cabinet whose appointments had been previously disclosed. “The plan for the Interior Ministry envisages a total force of 70,000, including the Civil Defense forces, police, traffic police and border guards,” said Ali Abdul Amir, a spokesman for the Iraqi National Accord, one of the many political parties with a presence on the Governing Council. The INA, which has been long supported by the CIA, has taken the lead in drawing up security plans for Iraq. INA chief Ayad Alawi heads the Governing Council’s security subcommittee, which drafted the proposal for the Civil Defense Battalions, Abdul Amir said. Badran was the INA’s spokesman before being named interior minister. The Interior Ministry also will oversee the national police force, which is still being formed. Perhaps most controversially, the ministry will include a domestic
intelligence-gathering section. Iraqi and U.S. occupation officials have already begun to recruit former intelligence officers from Saddam Hussein’s government, as well as exiled veterans of his security services, to monitor suspected subversives. In effect, the Interior Ministry is in line to become the most important security apparatus in post-Saddam Iraq. The Interior Ministry’s security plan appears to be a refinement of a proposal aired in July by the head of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid. Abizaid said that the United States would create a militia to fight alongside U.S. and allied forces in Iraq against resistance forces. Since then, frequent ambushes of U.S. troops have been accompanied by significant sabotage of infrastructure. Last month, three car bombings killed more than 150 civilians. The latest, an explosion Friday outside a major Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, killed at least 95 people, including a prominent religious leader, Ayatollah Mohammed Bakir Hakim. After having dismantled Iraq’s army in the spring, the United States is apparently now trying to retrieve the cream of Iraqi military forces to help battle anti-occupation fighters. Although the Interior Ministry will recruit elite former soldiers from Saddam’s army, none will come from military units personally loyal to him, especially not the Republican Guard or the Special Republican Guard, Abdul Amir and Governing Council officials said. Iraqi and U.S. officers will re-train the recruits. “We want to do this as fast as we can,” said Abdul Amir. “Three months at most.”
Because intelligence officials under Saddam largely were committed members of his Baath Party, Abdul Amir said, he expected recruiting them for a new intelligence agency to provoke controversy. Many Iraqis considered Saddam’s intelligence apparatus one of his most effective and vicious tools of repression. U.S. officials have blamed Baath Party loyalists and former secret policemen for much of the violence directed at U.S.-led occupation troops. Abdul Amir said that Iraqis’ growing fear of violence and uncertainty would override other concerns. The new domestic spies will be trained in the ways of democracy, he added. “At this point, Iraqis want to see any aspect of control of the security situation. People blame the Governing Council for not taking action, and now we are doing something,” he said. “This will be interesting,” said Siyamend Othman, an Iraqi political analyst. “We will have Baathists chasing Baathists.” Proposals from Governing Council members to use militias affiliated with Iraqi political parties or religious organizations have apparently been scrapped. “We do not want to form militias. We want a true Iraqi security force,” said Ahmed Chalabi, the former exile who leads the Iraqi National Congress. Chalabi Monday became the Governing Council’s second president; the position is being rotated monthly among nine council members. “We want to build up a state, not warlords,” he told alJazeera, the pan-Arab satellite news network.
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Purported Saddam tape denies role in Najaf blast NAJAF, Iraq (Washington Post) — A
new audiotape message Monday purporting to be from former President Saddam Hussein denied any role in the car bombing in this sacred city last week that killed scores of people, including an influential cleric, Ayatollah Mohammed Bakir Hakim. While police have yet to put forward any evidence about those responsible, Hakim’s followers and many people in Najaf have suggested the attack was carried out by foreign fighters in collusion with Saddam loyalists. The voice on the tape, aired by Arabic-language satellite television channels, said those charges were made to divert attention from the “real culprits,” whom it did not identify. “Many of you may have heard the snakes hissing, the servants of the invaders, occupiers, infidels, and how they have managed to accuse the followers of Saddam Hussein of responsibility for the attack on Hakim without any evidence,” the voice said. The tape was the first purportedly from Saddam since Aug. 1. It made no mention of two previous car bombings in Baghdad — at the Jordanian Embassy on Aug. 7 and the U.N. compound on Aug. 19. Like previous recordings, it used a convoluted rhetorical style recognizable to most Iraqis in urging more attacks against U.S. troops, which have occupied Iraq for five months. “Great heroes, intensify your brave blows against the foreign aggressors from wherever they come and whatever their nationalities and encircle those criminals who
slide into cooperation with the infidel, criminal foreigners,” the voice said. The bombing Friday, which damaged the Imam Ali shrine, Iraqi Shiites’ most sacred, and devastated a crowded street along its southern gate, has given rise to fierce speculation about who was responsible. In the funeral procession for Hakim, which began in Baghdad Sunday and ends Tuesday in Najaf, mourners have speculated that the bombing was planned by militant Sunni Muslims antagonistic toward Shiites or by loyalists of Saddam, who viciously repressed the Shiite majority for three decades. Many said that it was coordinated between the two. U.S. officials said Iraqi police have arrested four people in the attack, all of them Iraqis. The U.S. military is holding three others, two of them picked up by an angry crowd at a nearby restaurant hours after the bomb was detonated. Capt. Edward Lofland, a Marine spokesman in Najaf, said one of those in Iraqi custody was detained this weekend after police discovered computers and high-tech equipment worth about $18,000 in his residence. But many of the others detained appear to hold few leads, he said, and other U.S. officials said suggestions of links to organized groups abroad, such as al-Qaida, remain premature. “There are those allegations, but until you have solid evidence to go down that road, it can only be speculation,” said Maj. Rick Hall, executive officer of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines.
The uncertainty has left Najaf, a city 90 miles south of Baghdad that is among the most holy to the world’s 120 million Shiites, in a nervous state. Hakim’s funeral will begin in Kufa, then pass a few miles to Najaf and the gold-domed shrine of Imam Ali, which bears scars from Friday’s bombing. In preparation, police and armed guards belonging to Islamic parties have set up checkpoints and sealed off roads leading to the shrine and the nearby al Wadi es Salaam cemetery, one of the world’s largest. At intersections, they searched cars and checked registration papers, snarling traffic throughout the day. “We can defend against individuals, but we’re worried about cars,” said Hassan Zamali, an official with the Dawa party, a Shiite group that was at odds with Saddam. Zamali was organizing security near the Kufa mosque, where Hakim’s funeral procession arrived Monday night. Hall said the only armed presence in Najaf will be police and those licensed to carry weapons. But it was clear Monday that followers of Hakim would bring their own guns to enforce security, given the lack of trust they put in the police force. “We’re taking charge now,” Zamali said, “but after what? After we paid a huge sacrifice.” Aboard a yellow truck carrying a symbolic coffin draped in black and adorned with Hakim’s portraits — his body was never found — the funeral procession slowly made its way Monday to Kufa from Karbala, another sacred city.
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Study finds socioeconomic class affects IQs (Washington Post) — Back-toschool pop quiz: Why do poor children, and especially black poor children, score lower on average than their middle-class and white counterparts on IQ tests and other measures of cognitive performance? It is an old and politically sensitive question, and one that has long fueled claims of racism. As highlighted in the controversial 1994 book “The Bell Curve,” studies have repeatedly found that people’s genes — and not their environment — explain most of the differences in IQ among individuals. That has led a few scholars to advance the hotly disputed notion that minorities’ lower scores are evidence of genetic inferiority. Now a groundbreaking study of the interaction among genes, environment and IQ finds that the influence of genes on intelligence is dependent on class. Genes do explain the vast majority of IQ differences among children in wealthier families, the new work shows. But environmental factors — not genetic deficits — explain IQ differences among poor minorities. The results suggest that early childhood assistance programs such as Head Start can help the poor and are worthy of public support. They also suggest that middle-class and wealthy parents need not feel guilty if they don’t purchase the latest Lamaze mobile or other expensive gadgets that are pitched as being so important to their children’s development. “How many books are in the home and how good the teacher is may be questions to consider for a middle-class child, but those questions are much more important when we’re talking about children raised in abject poverty,” said lead researcher Eric Turkheimer, a psychologist at the University of Virginia. The work, to be published in the November issue of the journal Psychological Science, is part of a new wave of research that embraces a more dynamic view of the relationship between genes and environment. Although older research treated nature and nurture as largely independent and additive factors, and saw people as the sum of their genetic endowments and environmental experiences, the emerging view allows that genes can influence the impact of experiences and experi-
ences can influence the “expression,” or activity levels, of genes. In Turkheimer’s study, the impact of genes on IQ varied depending on a child’s socioeconomic status (SES), a sociological measure that includes household income and other elements of class and social status. Until recently, Turkheimer and others said, research had indicated that the “heritability” of IQ — that is, the degree to which genes can explain the differences in IQ scores — completely dominated environmental influences. That led some to call into question the value of programs such as Head Start, which are based on the assumption that by improving the childhood environment through extra attention, nutrition and care, a child’s intellectual future could be improved. But it turned out that virtually all those studies on the heritability of IQ had been done on middleclass and wealthy families. Only when Turkheimer tested that assumption in a population of poor and mostly black children did it become clear that, in fact,
the influence of genes on IQ was significantly lower in conditions of poverty, where environmental deficits overwhelm genetic potential. “This paper shows how relevant social class is” to children’s ability to reach their genetic potential, said Sandra Scarr, a professor emerita of psychology now living in Hawaii, who did seminal work in behavioral genetics at the University of Virginia. Specifically, the heritability of IQ at the low end of the wealth spectrum was just 0.10 on a scale of zero to one, while it was 0.72 for families of high socioeconomic status. Conversely, the importance of environmental influences on IQ was four times stronger in the poorest families than in the higher status families. “This says that above a certain level, where you have a wide array of opportunities, it doesn’t get much better” by adding environmental enhancements, Scarr said. “But below a certain level, additional opportunities can have big impacts.” The principle is straightforward
and has long been recognized in plants and other simpler organisms. In one famous example, often repeated by evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin, two genetically identical seeds of corn, planted in very different soil conditions, will grow to very different heights. Some social psychologists and behavior geneticists have hypothesized that the same must hold true for the relationships linking human genes, socioeconomic status and IQ. Like corn in depleted soil, the thinking goes, minorities and the poor (two categories with so much overlap that researchers find it difficult to tease apart their
effects) perform worse not because of their genes but because they are raised in an environment lacking in resources and poisoned by racist attitudes. “It’s a hypothesis that makes a great deal of sense on its face, but has been difficult to study,” Scarr said. Difficult, she said, because the best way to study the relative contributions of genes and environment to a human trait is to conduct studies on twins or, in some cases, adopted children. And almost all the twins and adoptees who have been available for study over the years have come from middle-class or higher-class families.
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British weapons expert felt betrayed, widow says LONDON (Washington Post) — In the
days before his death, British weapons expert David Kelly felt a growing sense of despair and betrayal at the hands of both the government and the news media, his widow testified Monday. Janice Kelly, speaking publicly for the first time since her husband’s apparent suicide, told an inquiry he had appeared exhausted and increasingly despondent after he learned that officials in the Defense Ministry had identified him to journalists as the likely source for a controversial BBC report. The report, which alleged that officials in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office had knowingly exaggerated intelligence claims concerning Iraq’s access to weapons of mass destruction, triggered a political storm between the government and the BBC in which Kelly found himself in the middle. On July 17, the last day of his life, two days after he had been forced to testify publicly before a House of Commons committee, her husband seemed totally spent, she said. “I just thought he had a broken heart,” she testified. Her testimony directly contradicted that of several Defense Ministry officials who said they had informed Kelly before theyreleased a statement saying an unnamed official had come forward and then provided details that helped journalists identify him. “He said several times that he felt totally let down and betrayed” by ministry officials, Janice Kelly said, “because they were the ones that had effectively let his name be known in the public domain.” Kelly had been led to believe his name would not be revealed, she said. “He had received assurances, and that’s why he was so very upset about it.’’ But Kelly was also upset by newspaper stories that suggested he had given interviews to reporters and that cited sources claiming that he was merely a low-level ministry employee, rather than one of Britain’s foremost experts on weapons of mass destruction, Janice Kelly
said. He was particularly unhappy about an article that made it appear as though he had given an unauthorized interview to London Sunday Times journalist Nick Rufford. Janice Kelly said her husband had spoken to Rufford for only four to five minutes in his front yard before asking the reporter to leave. Testifying by audio link from a private room within the Royal Courts of Justice, where the inquiry is being held, Janice Kelly spoke in a careful, measured voice that seldom betrayed emotion. But her testimony etched a poignant portrait of a man driven over the edge by circumstances that grew beyond his control, while concerned family members and friends were helpless to intervene. Other relatives, including Kelly’s daughter Rachel and his sister, Sarah Pape, also testified. Janice Kelly described her husband of 36 years as an intense, but emotionally distant man who had not informed her when he converted to the Bahai faith five years ago, nor when he wrote a note to his immediate supervisor in late June disclosing he had met with BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan one week before Gilligan’s May 29 broadcast report. Kelly, 59, who had worked for the government for nearly two decades and had visited Iraq nearly 40 times in the 1990s to track down weapons of mass destruction, was at times upset by his low pay grade and by the fact that he would probably have to retire at age 60, she said. The BBC report, which triggered heated denials from Blair’s office, cited a confidential source alleging Blair’s aides had insisted that a dubious claim be inserted in an intelligence dossier last September even though they “probably knew” it was wrong. While she knew nothing of the growing controversy, Janice Kelly said she noticed that her husband was looking tired and strained and had become “much more taciturn. He became more difficult to talk to and we, the family, expressed this worry to each other.”
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Treasury secretary praises Japan’s reforms TOKYO (Washington Post) — U.S.
Treasury Secretary John W. Snow Monday pointedly praised Japan’s efforts to rid its banks of bad loans and stimulate consumer spending, suggesting that the world’s second-largest economy — long a drag on global growth — may be on its way toward recovery. “The reform program is beginning to bear fruit,” Snow told reporters Monday evening, after a day of meetings with Japanese top officials, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, his economic advisers and the governor of Japan’s central bank. “The Japanese economy is beginning to turn.” Snow’s generous words were in stark contrast to those of past visiting U.S. dignitaries, many of whom have vented frustrations over Japan’s unwillingness to embrace painful economic restructuring to cure its economic stagnation. Snow’s tack reflected in part a personal style favoring diplomacy over confrontation, but also the fact that Japan’s economy has shown signs of revival in recent months, with exports up and its stock market at its highest level in more than a year. Still, some analysts said Snow’s optimism outstripped economic reality: His real message, they said, appeared to be an expression of the Bush administration’s gratitude for Japan’s support during and after the war in Iraq, underscoring the primacy of defense over economic policy in a White House consumed with its war on terrorism. “Japanese cooperation on Iraq is now the most important thing,” said Richard Jerram, an economist at ING Baring Securities (Japan) Ltd. in Tokyo. White House officials have “basically said they will not allow direct criticism of Japan. There has been quite a striking silence in recent months. Everybody’s being nice to each other because of Iraq. It’s as simple as that.” Koizumi is facing elections later this month for the leadership of his party. When a
Japanese reporter asked Snow whether he was endorsing the prime minister, the Treasury secretary grinned and said he does not involve himself in the elections of other countries. But he added: “We’re very impressed with President Koizumi and the policies that he has put in place.” He also thanked Koizumi for “Japan’s continued contributions toward the reconstruction of both Afghanistan and Iraq.” During his first stop on an Asia tour that will take him to Beijing on Tuesday and Bangkok later in the week, Snow treaded carefully on the issue being watched most intently back in the United States, the value of the currencies of Asia’s two largest economies, Japan and China. As Chinese and Japanese exports to the United States rise, the Bush administration has felt mounting pressure from business and labor groups to force those Asian countries to allow their currencies to rise. Lower exchange rates encourage exports by making a country’s goods relatively cheaper in overseas markets. Snow sidestepped questions about Japan’s efforts to keep its currency weak. Analysts estimate the Bank of Japan has poured billions of dollars this summer into foreign exchange markets to prop up the value of the dollar against the yen. Analysts viewed Snow’s silence as tacit acceptance of Japan’s intervention. By contrast, when Snow’s predecessor, Paul H. O’Neill, visited Tokyo last year, he sparred openly with his Japanese counterparts, accusing them of trying to maneuver out of their economic troubles through unfair monetary policy. Left hanging was the question of how Snow would address the value of China’s currency — the yuan, also known as the renminbi — when he arrives in Beijing on Tuesday. Snow said only that he generally favors “flexible exchange rates.” But he showed no such restraint as he described his meetings here, heaping praise on Japan’s leaders.
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CIS continued from page 1 sheer amount of traffic created by the Blaster and Welchia worms shut down the entire residential network twice, The Herald reported Friday. “Everyone I know (without access) followed the rules,” Pfeffer said. “We installed that new (antivirus) software, but that didn’t seem to make a difference.” Yolanda Campos ’05, a resident of Machado House, said she was offline late Monday. “A few other people who are living there are having problems as well,” she said. Internet access has proved “sporadic and unreliable,” said Sam Baltimore ’05, who lives in Goddard House. AOL Instant Messenger service worked, but browsing the Web didn’t, he added. “I had hoped that by having a Mac I’d be immune to all the computer problems,” Baltimore
Fennell continued from page 1 tidisciplinary centers, all centerpieces of Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. “Working with Ruth Simmons on the development of the academic initiatives was one of the biggest changes I have ever seen” in a university, Fennell said. She said she is also planning to get the recently reorganized
said. “Unfortunately, even though I don’t have any viruses, the Brown network has been causing me problems.” In New Dorm A, an area hit particularly hard by the outages, Lee Hoffman ’04 watched his two suitemates go without access for eight hours Monday. “For the amount of money that they’re spending on our network, they should be doing a better job with this,” he said. The recent surge of network problems has taken its toll on CIS, with staffers working extra hours to connect and disinfect every student’s computer on campus. “(The Internet has) been this nice electronic playground, but you can’t help starting to wonder if maybe all this connection is not so great,” Ellen WaiteFranzen, vice president for CIS, told the New York Times Monday. “Now it feels like a war zone.” Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers technology at Brown. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.
faculty committees up and running and document all of her activities so her replacement can pick up where she leaves off with as little disruption as possible to faculty affairs. Fennell said she is hoping to take a year’s leave before returning to the classroom and her research programs in health services and health policy. Herald staff writer Philissa Cramer ’05 edits the RISD News section. She can be reached at pcramer@browndailyherald.com.
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“We want people to be able to realize their personal dreams by working. That’s the commitment this Labor Day.” The speech was labeled a policy address, rather than a political one, but among those accompanying the president was his chief political adviser, Karl Rove. Although few potential Democratic rivals have gained traction beyond the dark-horse candidacy of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, political analysts say the president’s advisers are carefully seeking to ensure that they can manage a close victory in states such as Ohio. Bush also appears keen to avoid the fate of his father, George H.W. Bush — a popular wartime president whose reelection prospects in 1992 were scotched by the perception that he paid too little attention to the economy, analysts said. “My sense of it is, all along, Bush has been careful not to be his father,” said Larry J. Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. “His father was left announcing that he cared — way too late to matter. And Bush has been saying all along that he cares. He even downplays the good news and says good news isn’t good enough.” Asked why the president chose to come to Ohio, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said, “It’s an opportunity for the president to meet with
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recently in San Francisco given by Cephalon, which markets modafinil under the brand-name Provigil, and said a number of experts stated modafinal gives no competitive advantage to athletes. Goldman, who spoke by phone from the Bay Area, said White informed him she had a family history of narcolepsy — her mother and maternal aunt have severe cases — and a slate of other symptoms: trouble overcoming jetlag; the tendency to fall into deep sleeps during the day; and problems sleeping at night. She also suffered from mild depression while in college at Tennessee, he said. Goldman said his colleagues at Balco researched the drug in detail and knew it wasn’t banned either by the IAAF or International Olympic Committee, so they weren’t concerned about giving her the samples. He said he was aware the IAAF requires medical declarations for all prescription drugs, but he did not think a declaration necessary in this case since she was instructed to take the drug only as needed. Her agent, Robert Wagner, said she told him she had taken the drug before the U.S. championships in June, a meet in Oslo and an unannounced drug test in London. Wagner said White — who remains eligible to compete — intends to run Friday in Brussels.
beyond the darkhorse candidacy of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. the International Operating”— then, glancing at her notes — “Engineers Union.” Although “there will come a time for politics,” she said, ‘’right now the president is focusing on his job, leading Americans, and he’s focused on helping create jobs for American workers.” One tactic to do that, administration officials said, is Bush’s decision to appoint a manufacturing czar to focus on ways to ease the burden on manufacturers and save jobs. Bush has not set a date by which he will appoint the new Commerce Department official, Buchan said. The president hinted that he would seek to use the post to combat unfair trade policies. “One way to make sure the manufacturing sector does well is to send the message overseas. ... We expect there to be a fair playing field when it comes to trade. See, we in America believe we can compete with anybody just so long as the rules are fair, and we intend to keep the rules fair,” Bush said.
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At the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, where Friedman did much of her filming, the garden has become “a point of engagement for the school,” she said, with everything from reading to science to occupational therapy held outdoors. “You can bring advanced calculus outside to the garden,” she said. When Friedman completes her film, she said she hopes it, too, becomes a point of engagement — for a network of Providence educators committed to the benefits of classroom gardening. “I’ve found that young people and old people really benefit from having a balance of thinking and doing, of being inside and being outside,” she said. “To watch something grow and be responsible for something growing is an extremely motivational experience for a child.”
broken up.” The draw has opened up for Capriati. In the quarterfinals, she will play either No. 15 Ai Sugiyama of Japan or Francesca Schiavone of Italy. Officials hoped to get in that match as well as two other women’s fourth-rounders — No. 7 Anastasia Myskina of Russia vs. Mary Pierce of France and No. 2 Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium vs. Dinara Safina of Russia. Last year, Capriati was cranky and seemingly under pressure in New York. Monday, she spoke about getting
Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 edits the campus watch section. She can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.
through that tough patch, again, and landing in a good place. “It’s like a cycle, just goes over and over,” she said. “If it’s not one thing, it’s another thing. I just learn you can’t expect everything to be perfect and work out the way you want it. It’s like sometimes I don’t even understand the kinds of mood that I go in and out, whatever. “I’m just happy for what I have and have no complaints. I don’t have anything to prove to myself, to anybody, or myself, really. I’ve realized I’ve achieved a lot, at least in my tennis, in my career. That’s one less worry. That was kind of a worry before. You know, I let that go.”
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Necessary foresight Mary Fennell is quitting the right way. Although she announced her intention this summer to vacate the dean of the faculty position and return to the classroom, she’s giving the University through the end of this academic year to find a replacement. Administrative turnover always breeds some confusion and loss of momentum. But the way in which officials resign — and how the University anticipates and reacts to such changes — can make a world of difference. Gordon Gee’s unexpected departure from Brown’s presidency ushered the University into a stasis period, with Interim President Sheila Blumstein at the helm. Most often, those administrators chosen to serve as placeholders during the search for a permanent replacement can effect little change. Even maintaining the status quo or continuing with previously-launched programs can prove challenging during a time of turnover. When Director of Residential Life Donald Desrochers suddenly vacated his position last winter break, Katherine Tameo, manager of finance and administration, took over as acting director. Since then, ResLife seems to have experienced some instability as an office, most notably in the flux between housing shortages and surpluses. Fennell’s decision to announce her departure a year in advance was a wise one. She plans to continue working on a new set of faculty hires, retooling a new benefits package for faculty and supporting the creation of Brown’s new multidisciplinary centers, all centerpieces of President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. Fennell even hopes to thoroughly document all her activities, so her replacement can pick up where she left off. In the meantime, the University can search for a permanent replacement. Let’s hope the next one’s as thoughtful.
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OPINIONS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 19
And now from the state that gave us Ronald Reagan... The craziness of the California recall shows that democracy can be direct and very entertaining A PORN STAR CAMPAIGNS TO TAX who makes it onto the final ballot, and breast implants. Ahhhnold tells each party works hard to convince its California’s Governor Gray Davis, more extreme party members to go to the “Consider this a divorce.” The press chor- voting booth on primary day. Thus, party tles its way through course after course zealots slyly weed out those pesky candiof gubernatorial frivolity, as California dates with politics in the mushy middle, and when the election “that skips toward the first potencounts” takes place, voters are tially successful recall elecstuck with whomever the tion in its history. major parties have foisted on A ballot more congested them. The exciting thing with political nobodies than about the recall is that the a stuffy nose during hay fever political parties have not been season has the nation calling invited to this political party. the recall a joke and a humilThat said, there are embariation. rassing and careless aspects Indeed, in addition to the to the upcoming election that porn star, the candidate list make serious Californians boasts Gary Coleman, Larry ALEXANDRA quake in their sandaled shoes. Flynt, a high school senior TOUMANOFF The porn star, Marey Carey, and a comedian who smashWHAT’S A GIRL wants to cure the state deficit es watermelons. Who will GOTTA DO? by taxing breast implants run next? Christina Aguilera? (perhaps to make sure everyFree Willy? The ballot dances on the edge of insanity, or, at least, a real- one notices that she’s untaxable). Her plan to revitalize California’s economy ly interesting sitcom. But parody or no, this election, more also includes making lap dances tax entertaining and accessible to the public deductible. She intends to put a lid on than a Broadway show, has breathed crime by having men trade guns for Xfresh life into the democratic process in rated films, because, “If men had more orgasms, they’d be less violent”, and California. This recall is for the people, by the when asked her thoughts on global people, literally. For a change, political warming, she said, “Wear less clothes.” parties are not calling the shots. We are Larry Flynt, perhaps better known as the witnessing direct democracy. Generally, self-proclaimed “smut peddler who only registered Democrats and cares,” insists installing slot machines Republicans (no Independents) decide will solve the budget crisis. “I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but I’m not paralyzed from the neck up, like Alexandra Toumanoff ‘06 does not have time to write a tagline because she is too Davis.” It turns out ridiculous candidates busy collecting signatures to run for grab everyone’s attention. Wasn’t having governor.
It turns out ridiculous candidates grab everyone’s attention. Wasn’t having perfectly groomed, plucked and de-linted “I did not inhale” candidates getting a little boring? perfectly groomed, plucked and de-linted “I did not inhale” candidates getting a little boring? It’s nice to liven things up a bit, to know this “democratic” society is not just one in which only the cookiecutter-Gucci-besuited, whose opinion polls and political parties rule their decisions, can run for government. In addition, we are learning all it takes is outrageous candidates to get the nation thinking seriously about California’s problems. We have had less-than-beloved politicians in office before. What makes Gray Davis different? What makes him so awful that Californians are in a fever to yank him from office? One answer is that Gray, like his name, is about as charismatic as a dish rag and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sept. 11 happened, and then the ever-lasting crisis in Iraq began, a war that was supposed to be a quick, easy victory. The citizens feel restless. They are moored in anti-climax. The cumulative effect is that Americans feel they cannot trust their government to know enough about what is going on to make good decisions, or to be honest, and a brewing distrust has stirred the soup of political resentment to a frothy boil. Throw the scoundrels out. Start
clean. This is why Schwarzenneger and others have grabbed our interest. They are not jaded, well-groomed graduates of Capitol Hill whose idealism, like an old coin, has blurred and lost its shine. These non-politicians are proud owners of successful careers and independent sources of money, which crowns them with the sincerity cynical Californians hunger for. One reason they love Ahhhnold is that, as a native of Austria, he cannot hope to use the governorship as a springboard to the presidency. However, what is truly exciting about this recall is that it has galvanized people. The election process is usually as dry as a trip to the plumbing section of the hardware store, and, even with mudslinging, candidates became boring years ago. This recall is the energetic sound of Californians yanking control from inept politicians and shaping their own destiny, even if that destiny is no better than what they have now. But most important of all, this recall is fun. No wonder the Democratic and Republican bigwigs are apoplectic. The masses have snatched the reins of power in a bloodless revolution, and are loving it.
The disturbing political influence of Rev. Moon This surprisingly powerful GOP supporter thinks outside the box — way outside the box Moon is the head of the Unification THE MID-TO-LATE 1990s MUST HAVE been a pretty boffo time to be a Church, an international religious organizaRepublican who didn’t exactly fit the tion that preaches worldwide conversion, party’s traditional born-again spiritual arranged marriage, total submission and mold. A flurry of messy affairs and the abolition of all languages except Korean. divorces among Newt Gingrich’s suppos- Moon’s Moonies gained their first major edly pro-family congressional majority political exposure by orchestrating a fast in had forced the party to back away from its support of Richard Nixon during Watergate. constant invocations of their deep godly Moon, who saw a godless China as the roots, and Bob Dole ran a surprisingly greatest obstacle to worldwide conversion, apparently felt American conclassy presidential campaign servatives were ideal allies in which he barely even hintELI SWINEY against the common commued he was on a mission from GUEST COLUMNIST nist enemy. American conservaChrist himself. tives welcomed the money and Of course, even the early manpower Moon offered, days of the George W. Bush campaign clearly showed things were although they understandably wanted to about to change. The man who listed Jesus keep him somewhat behind the scenes. Still, many of you might recognize Rev. as his greatest influence “because he changed my heart” unabashedly courted Moon. If you’re a Delaware prison inmate, the religious right, and he’s since used maybe you remember him from his days Sept. 11 as an excuse for even further doing time next to you for tax evasion. If ramping up his blatant religious prefer- you’re a Holocaust survivor, maybe you ences. Now, in the aftermath of Alabama remember him from his statement that Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s your suffering was part of God’s punishTen Commandments debacle, there must ment to the Jewish people for rejecting be a wave of panic sweeping over the Christ. Like Bush, Moore and John Ashcroft, young neocons who want to stay loyal to Moon believes he can speak directly to the GOP but like thinking outside the spir- Christ on a daily basis. But those old fogeys itual box. Luckily, such Republicans have a do it by praying — Moon, who makes no powerful role model in their movement’s secret of his literally messianic aspirations, own leadership, and it doesn’t get much knows he just needs to look into the mirror. more outside the box than him. Ladies and How refreshing! Maybe most importantly, if you’re a congentlemen, I give you the Reverend Sun servative news patron, you probably know Myung Moon! Moon as the founder of the Washington Times, Ronald Reagan’s openly stated Eli Swiney ‘04 is best known at The Herald “favorite newspaper” and the earliest powas the writer of the defunct but longerhouse of the now-dominant conservative standing comic strip “Pornucopia.”
media. Moon staffed many of the paper’s key positions with lackeys from his own church, including Times president Bo Hi Pak, a man known not just for his undying allegiance to the man who claims to be Christ reincarnate, but also for his funneling of cash to Nicaraguan contras after the United States discontinued its illegal covert funding of the terrorist group. Although the Times boasts a considerable readership, it doesn’t compare to the stranglehold Moon has over the media in his native South Korea. There, Moon is an unavoidably powerful media magnate, like Ted Turner if Ted were a reactionary, delusional conservative who claims to be God, or like Rupert Murdoch if Rupert Murdoch were — well, exactly like he is now, except more open about it. And Korean. Who says the GOP has a strained relationship with cult leaders of color? Moon’s Korean newspapers regularly quote his Washington Times without disclosing that it is both owned by Moon and widely regarded stateside as disreputable and inflammatory. That way, even though most Americans hopefully know not to trust the Times, one of the most volatile regions in the world is given a portrait of American views explicitly designed by a cult leader to exacerbate conflict between North and South Korea. Transnationalism’s a bitch, huh? So Moon’s clearly a problem, but how connected is he really to the Republican Party? Well, he’s a major contributor to scores of conservative think tanks, including ones that aided the presidential campaigns of Reagan and both Bushes. The
Heritage Foundation has even employed a good number of top-ranking Moonies. The elder Bush has, since his retirement, given a number of speeches at Moon’s organizations, for which he received thousands of dollars in payment. Moon and Daddy Bush are apparently quite chummy — the two have been photographed together more often than Ashton Kutcher and (the reader should insert the up-to-date Kutcher girlfriend here — I really don’t follow that kind of thing). Admittedly, there’s no smoking gun that would suggest Moon is behind the scenes, explicitly making policy in the Bush White House. Of course, there’s no smoking gun that would suggest that Global Crossing or Halliburton are making decisions in the Bush White House either — there’s just a trail of money to the corporations, just like there’s a trail of money to Moon. What’s undeniable is Moon has been sinking millions of his own money into the conservative cause — both in contributions and by bankrolling the money-losing Times — for decades. It’s hard to imagine that one would continue that kind of investment for so long without a payoff. So if you’re a young Republican with a passion for blaspheming, don’t despair. Roy Moore may be able to get on TV more than Moon, but as long as the Unification Church leader has a checkbook, there will always be plenty of leaders in your party willing to hypocritically look away as Moon defiles the Christian legacy they claim to celebrate. And hey, if you follow him, maybe it’ll help you land a job at the Times.
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SPORTS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 20
USA Track takes home 19 medals and scrutiny
Accepting the arrogance of Barry Bonds WHILE DESCRIBED AS A COMPLETELY self-centered, my-way-or-the-highway, arrogant jerk, Barry Bonds flat-out delivers the goods, even in the most trying of situations. He’s been blasted publicly by Jeff Kent and others for being a horrible teammate. Earlier this summer, he had the audacity to say he’d eliminate Babe Ruth from the record books and baseball history. Yet he holds the unique distinction of probably being baseball’s most disliked and most respected player. Bonds’ biggest JON MEACHIN problem is he SUICIDE SQUEEZE knows how talented he is. “The only number I care about is Babe Ruth’s. Because as a lefthanded hitter, I wiped him out. That’s it. And in the baseball world, Babe Ruth’s everything, right? I got his slugging percentage and I’ll take his home runs and that’s it. Don’t talk about him no more.” Clearly, Bonds thoroughly enjoys verbal masturbation, and unfortunately for opponents, he can actually back it up. Only days after his father’s death, Bonds returned to the lineup Saturday for a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks with Randy Johnson taking the mound for Arizona. With an incredibly heavy heart, Bonds walked over to home plate for his second at-bat and promptly smacked a home run giving the Giants a 2-1 victory. According to the Associated Press, “he no sooner finished rounding the bases than he began to experience lightheadedness, heart palpitations and trouble breathing.” He came out of the game in the eighth inning. The Giants’ trainer measured Bonds’ heart rate at 160 beats a minute and “by Sunday, it was down to a resting rate of 65, but Bonds showed other signs of exhaustion.” In a time where professional athletes’ desire is constantly questioned, Bonds fought for the right to play Sunday and “had a few choice words” about being taken out of the lineup. For almost a year, Bonds has taken the field with his father struggling with both lung cancer and a brain tumor. His on-field contributions have continued to be mind-boggling even as he approaches his 40th birthday. He’s missed more than 25 games this season and rarely sees a good pitch to hit, yet he still leads the majors in home runs and walks and is third in the National League in average. At the end of this season, he will likely be third on the all-time home run list behind only Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. He’s the most intimidating player in the sport and his unbelievable numbers have the San Francisco Giants running away with the NL West. So maybe you wouldn’t grab a beer with Bonds after the game or invite him over for dinner, but when it’s game time, you always want him on your bench. Sports editor Jon Meachin ’04 hails from New York City. Interested in writing for the sports section? Want to cover a Brown sports team, write a weekly column or feature? Come to the Brown Daily Herald Open House Wednesday at 6 PM or e-mail sports@browndailyherald.com
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es in six days, similar to what Pete Sampras accomplished last year. Capriati’s actual time spent on the court was 1 hour 12 minutes. Total elapsed time, including the delays, was 6 hours 37 minutes and two outfits for Capriati. With the skies threatening again, Capriati won it on her first match point. She looked relieved. “As the night goes on, you just want to get it finished,” Capriati said in a television interview afterward. “ ... At the end, it was a little slippery, but I didn’t want to stop. At the end it was starting to come again and I was like, `No, stay away.’” It had begun to drizzle again when she was trying to break Dementieva’s serve to finish if off. On top of that, the match took on a different tone because Dementieva was a different player after the first delay. Capriati had a 4-0 lead and a point for 5-0 in 13 minutes when the rain first interrupted them. She napped in the players’ lounge and chatted with her entourage during the delay, then managed to take the first set and held a 3-2 lead in the second set before the second delay, which lasted less than an hour. Dementieva played her best tennis after that interruption. At 4-4, she broke Capriati at love and served for the set but was broken at 15. Capriati won the final three games. “It was very tough,” Capriati said of the delays. “ ... It was just getting pretty annoying. I was just getting tired. It’s hard to play matches like that, once you actually do get out there, your rhythm is
States finished the ninth World Track and Field Championships Sunday with its biggest medal haul in 10 years and some negative news that was actually quite positive. U.S. sprinter Kelli White’s drug test from Thursday’s 200-meter final turned up negative, her agent disclosed Sunday, lending credence to her claim that she took the stimulant modafinil at this meet for medical reasons, not performance enhancement, and giving her hope that she might keep at least one of the two gold medals she won here. Meantime, White’s physician, Brian D. Goldman, said he gave her two sample bottles of the drug — about six to 12 pills — to take on an “as needed” basis earlier this year after diagnosing the sleep disorder narcolepsy during a consultation in the Bay Area. “She had all the clinical indications,” said Goldman, a consultant to Victor Conte at Balco Laboratories in Burlingame, Calif., which has worked with hundreds of star athletes including Marion Jones and Jones’s ex-husband, C.J. Hunter, who tested positive for the steroid nandrolone just before the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. Sunday’s developments, however, did not extract White from what likely will be a protracted controversy surrounding her positive test after the 100 final, nor did it erase the ugliness that seemed to follow the American team, even as it won 20 medals (10 gold, 8 silver, 2 bronze), more than any other country. Russia won 19; Belarus, France and Ethiopia each claimed seven. “It’s a Dickensian experience,” USA Track and Field CEO Craig Masback said during an impromptu news conference. “It’s a best-of-times, worst-of-times week.” The championships got underway with Jon Drummond’s lay-down protest of his disqualification from the 100 quarterfinals and ended Sunday with U.S. gold medals in the men’s and women’s 4x400 relays and the men’s 4x100. The victory in the short relay was something of a surprise as the U.S. team had been depleted by a thigh injury to Maurice Greene, the mid-week disappearance of Tim Montgomery, and the banishment of Drummond. “These four guys were never supposed to be together,” said John Capel about the team that included himself, Bernard Williams, Darvis Patton and J.J. Johnson and won in 38.06 seconds. “Through all the adversity, all of the downfalls, we stepped up to show that the United States is still a strong country and always will be.” Saturday, White learned she could be forced to relinquish her 100 and 200 golds and banned for two years as a result of the positive test for modafinil, a drug the world track and field governing body (the IAAF) is scrambling to classify. Though modafinil is not specifically banned by the IAAF, the organization could levy punishment if it determines the drug is similar to amphetamines or ephedrine. That would be a severe blow both to White and the United States, as she emerged this year as a potential rival to Jones, the five-time Olympic medalist. Goldman said he attended a conference
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Jennifer Capriati returns the volley of Martina Sucha in the second set of their match at the U.S. Open.
Capriati advances on rain-filled U.S. Open day NEW YORK (L.A. Times) — How much pizza
can a Paradorn eat? This isn’t a some sort of twisted test. It’s all about the U.S. Open and what happens when it rains almost all day — only one tennis match was completed before 10:30 p.m. — and the only sport was jumping over massive puddles in the food court. Of course, the search for the most trivial details became important while players played chess, backgammon and video games during the long delays. Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand revealed in the players’ lounge he had two slices of pizza, one at 11:30 a.m. and one at 2:30 p.m., attempting to fuel up for his fourthround match with Lleyton Hewitt of Australia. It was hard to go back to the tennis when there was almost no tennis. Finally, Jennifer Capriati survived two rain delays, the first lasting about 4 1/2 hours, and became the first player to complete a match Monday, another victory of sorts. The sixth-seeded Capriati defeated No. 11 Elena Dementieva of Russia, 6-2, 7-5, in the fourth round, finishing at 8:22 p.m. The inclement day created havoc with the schedule. Andre Agassi’s fourth-round match against Taylor Dent of Huntington Beach was postponed until today, as were Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden vs. Guillermo Coria of Argentina, No. 3 Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain vs. Todd Martin and No. 11 Srichaphan vs. Hewitt. The weather forecast for Tuesday, however, was not promising. If Agassi is to take his third U.S. Open title, he would need to win four match-