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Horowitz to speak at U. twoand-a-half years after controversy BY JULIETTE WALLACK
It’s been two-and-a-half years since the national media descended on Brown’s campus over the controversy sparked by an advertisement in The Herald denouncing reparations for slavery. Now, David Horowitz, who solicited the ad, is bringing his provocative politics to the campus his views tore apart. The College Republicans are bringing Horowitz to campus for a lecture tonight and hoping things don’t get ugly. “I would hope that the average Brown student is intelligent enough to understand the counterproductive and hypocritical nature of an actual disturbance,” said Joe Lisska ’04, president of the College Republicans. Lisska said he’s hoping, “perhaps naively,” that the lecture will proceed without interruption. “It’s my secret and possibly naïve hope that he’s going to come to campus, and, when his lecture’s done, students are going to ask him some very, very tough questions and put him on the spot,” Lisska said. Horowitz’s ad, which appeared in over 20 college newspapers across the country, was titled “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea — and Racist Too.” It appeared in The Herald on March 13, 2001. The ad incited two debates — one centering on whether the content of the ad was racist and another over whether The Herald should have printed the ad in the first place. Tempers reached a boiling point when members of the newly formed Coalition of Concerned Brown Students stole the entire press run of the March 16, 2001 issue of The Herald. The Coalition’s actions attracted the attention of national media outlets, and debate quickly centered on issues of free see HOROWITZ, page 7
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Mayor David Cicilline ’83 presented the city’s plan for the 2004 fiscal year to residents of Fox Point and the Fox Point Citizens Association on Tuesday night.
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A year’s progress: Simmons addresses staff at forum BY MONIQUE MENESES
President Ruth Simmons and a panel spoke to over 400 staff members in Sayles Wednesday afternoon, discussing different aspects of staff involvement in the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. Speakers at the forum included Simmons, Provost Robert Zimmer and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Elizabeth Huidekoper. The discussion focused on recent improvements in staff communication and increased staff involvement in University decision-making. Panel members also answered questions about benefits and transportation problems. Staff members were given two documents upon their arrival at the meeting. The first noted goals of the Academic Enrichment proposals met in the past
year, and the second listed representative committees and boards comprised of faculty, staff and students. Overall, the University has had a “very successful year,” Huidekoper said. The creation of a Human Resources Advisory Board, composed of faculty and staff, for instance, has led to increased feedback on human resources policies and improved the quality of oral, electronic and print communication. But more work still needs to be done in this area, Huidekoper said. When the Academic Enrichment initiatives were first proposed to the Corporation in February 2002, they contained a collision between “internal” and “external” forces, Zimmer said. While internal forces drove the see SIMMONS, page 4
Faculty guides grad students through research process BY ZACH BARTER
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Julia Finkelstein GS, a first-year student in the master of public health degree program, said the small size of Brown’s graduate programs allows her to work closely with her advisor.
Learning material is one task for graduate students, and teaching it is another. But creating it — through research, analysis and presentation — is a different experience altogether. Grad students and their advisors say the process is not without its frustrations. “Writing a dissertation requires solving the unsolved problems and making a real contribuGRADUATE tion to the field,” said Professor of Economics SCHOOL David Weil, who serves as the department’s at 100 director of graduate studies and a research advisor. “That’s a difficult business.” Though requirements vary by department, conducting research is a common fixture of graduate programs at Brown. Faculty advisors within their departments help students navigate the process. Grad students run into problems at all stages of the research process, Weil said. The most common concern grad
Mayor talks taxes with Fox Point residents BY JONATHAN ELLIS AND SAMUEL CULVER
Fox Point residents angry about a possible property tax increase confronted Mayor David Cicilline ’83 at a meeting of the Fox Point Citizens Association on Tuesday. Many said they thought the purpose of the meeting was originally to protest a potential tax hike. But Cicilline attempted to assuage his audience by promising to find alternative ways to address the city’s $58.9 million deficit while keeping property taxes level. “We need to move away from the regressive property tax scheme and find another way to generate revenue. We can’t rely on the property tax anymore,” he said. Most of the revenue for the city of Providence comes from property taxes and state aid, he said. The reduction of state aid in 2004 will place pressure on the city to generate more revenue. Cicilline presented the city’s plan for the 2004 fiscal year. This includes $3.8 million in contributions from area colleges and universities. Cicilline told The Herald in an interview he was pleased with the agreement between Providence and the area’s colleges and universities to collect $40 million over the next 20 years in lieu of taxes. “You never get everything you want,” he said. “But I’m satisfied we reached the right solution, one that allows us to continue our strategic relationship.” The city will also look to find additional revenue with the increased cost of liquor licenses and closely enforced parking permits. “We are looking for ways to diversify and bring in more money to close the gap in this deficit,” Cicilline said. While Cicilline is trying to cut costs for the city, about $18.8 million of the expenditures come from old contracts the city is obligated to pay.
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Stanton, author of Cianci’s biography, tells quirky tales from the mayor’s tenure page 5
Nuclear weapons expert says U.S. is unbalanced in combatting threats page 5
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T With Horowitz visit, Michael LittenbergBrown ’04 suggests how to handle debate column, page 11
Despite hard play throughout game, field hockey loses 2-0 to No. 10 Princeton sports, page 12
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Rock, paper, scissors enthusiasts shoot for championship at tournament (U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It’s a time-honored tradition. It settles bitter disputes and answers philosophical questions. Few activities are as hallowed as the ancient art of rock, paper, scissors. Forty Syracuse University students participated Monday in a rock, paper, scissors tournament in the Shaffer Art Building. The event was the first of its kind at SU and was organized by sophomore video major Nick “The Original Craig Nasty” Kinling and sophomore communications design major Mark “Jason Wang” Kupasrimonkol. The two will be attending the 2003 Rock Paper Scissors International World Championships this Saturday in Toronto, Ontario. The grand prize is $5,000 in Canadian currency. They are also producing a documentary on the phenomenon, “RPS,” which they plan to complete before the end of the semester. Rock, paper, scissors players count to three, shake their fists and produce one of the three symbols. Paper covers rock, rock smashes scissors and scissors cut paper. The 40 competitors battled through four intense rounds of play, advancing through the bracket with each victory. About 65 people, including the players, attended the event. Competition was heated between the players, all of whom were required to adopt clever nicknames. Clayton “The Canadian Sensation” Houck, a sophomore biology major, assured the crowd a win. “I’ve played in a number of tournaments before, but I’ve never been No. 1, never won the belt,” Houck said. “They’re afraid of my scissors, they’re afraid of my rock and I could paper them to death in two seconds. My doctor said these hands are made for throwing paper.” Houck’s strategy for competition was very simple. “It’s more about reading my oppo-
nent,” he said. “Obviously, the strong male is going to play the rock, and the wussy girl will choose paper. But most people are somewhere in between.” Houck went on to lose in the first round. Daniel “Patrick Duffy” Leif, a junior magazine major, was also hopeful for victory. “I’m the odds-on favorite,” he bragged. “I’ve done yoga to prepare for competition, and I just went into the bathroom and prayed. I think that every major university should have a competition of this kind. It’s an important part of the educational process.”
Leif’s confidence let him down in the first two games of his best-of-three series, both of which he lost. Male competitors comprised the majority of the crowd, but a few brave females also decided to step up to the table. “I just got out of class, and I decided to compete because I like to win,” said Sarah Elizabeth Witt, a senior film major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. “My strategy is to distract the other person by spanking them.” Witt, who was selling non-competition spankings for a quarter, was also eliminated in the first round.
NYU campus reflects on recent deaths (U-WIRE) NEW YORK — Local and national
news media descended on the New York University campus Monday, as the university community reacted to the third student death in five weeks. Television news trucks were parked outside central campus locations like Bobst Library throughout the afternoon, a day after a sophomore in the General Studies Program died from a fall at 1 University Place. NYU students expressed a mix of disbelief and frustration Monday over the recent student deaths, with some saying the university had not done enough to address the deaths and others commending the school’s outreach efforts. “I feel it’s really sad,” said Alice Marshall, a freshman in the General Studies Program. “I’m just wondering why it keeps happening.” Michelle Gluckman, 19, died early Sunday morning after falling out of the sixth-floor window of a non-NYU build-
ing on Saturday night. Police sources said Gluckman’s death appears to have been a suicide, though the city’s medical examiner has not made an official ruling. The incident remains under investigation. Her death is the third at NYU this semester. A College of Arts and Science freshman jumped to his death on Oct. 10 from the 10th floor of Bobst Library, and a CAS junior leapt from the same floor of the library on Sept. 12. “I can’t believe it happened again,” said Melanie, a junior in the Stern School of Business who declined to give her last name. “I was at a wedding yesterday in Poughkeepsie, and a woman asked me to talk about suicide at NYU.” NYU officials echoed the sentiments of several students who said that extensive media attention could encourage more suicides. Media organizations
Harvard e-mail still on track despite glitches BY JONATHAN ELLIS
Some e-mail providers seem to think only junk comes out of Harvard. The Harvard Alumni Association offers the school’s graduates an e-mail forwarding service. E-mail sent to their post.harvard.edu accounts is automatically forwarded to a full-service e-mail address, such as those offered by Yahoo!, Hotmail or Internet Service Providers. But earlier this month, two dozen Harvard alumni complained to the Alumni Association that their forwarded e-mails were being filtered by Yahoo! Mail’s spam-blocking feature, the Harvard Crimson reported. According to the Yahoo! Mail Web site, the service attempts to direct “unsolicited commercial email,” or spam, to a Bulk Mail folder. Yahoo! defines spam as “any message or posting, regardless of its content, that is sent to multiple recipients who have not specifically requested the mail.” Yahoo! has since fixed the problem, but it could have caused a large number of Harvard alumni to lose incoming messages, the Crimson reported. The Yahoo! Web site also contains instructions on setting up custom filters to ensure such messages are delivered to a user’s Inbox. The Crimson and The Herald were unable to reach Yahoo! representatives for comment. Brown offers its alumni a similar forwarding service from the alumni.brown.edu domain. Michael Blitstein ’03, who forwards his e-mail to Yahoo! Mail, said he has received all of his messages without a problem. Harvard will soon be replacing its
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Harvard continued from page 3 forwarding service with a new Webmail service for its alumni, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Instead of having messages delivered to a third-party account, Harvard alumni will begin accessing full-service accounts at the Alumni Association’s Web site.
The new accounts will help the university stay in touch with its graduates, Andrew Tiedemann, Harvard’s communications director for alumni affairs and development, told the Chronicle. Alumni often forget to register new e-mail accounts with the forwarding service, so Harvard loses touch with them, Tiedemann said. And by forcing users to access their mail through the alumni Web site, the school can expose them to announcements and promotions, he added. The latest incident wasn’t the first time an ISP blocked e-mail from Harvard. In December 2001, America Online blocked e-mails to Harvard early-action applicants telling them whether they had been admitted, the Boston Globe reported last year. AOL officials didn’t know why their system flagged 75 to 100 of the messages as spam and completely deleted them, the Globe reported. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.
Simmons continued from page 1 University to present an extraordinarily ambitious plan, external forces created an environment in which it was difficult to create change. “We all had to make sacrifices in order to achieve goals that needed to be addressed ‘right now,’” he said. Despite the seeming incompatibility of these two forces, the University has begun to successfully execute a number of the initiatives, Zimmer said. “Our sacrifices have turned into tangible things,” he said. These include recruitment of new faculty in the anthropology, creative writing and biology and medicine departments, he said. Space issues were a major impediment to recruiting faculty members for the biology and medicine department, but Zimmer said the construction of two additional buildings, providing increased space for the department, will alleviate the problem. “We were able to finally do the recruitment that was needed,” he said.
Zimmer said an additional advance is the University’s new relationship with Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Mass. He said the lab was seeking a partner to begin participating in awarding marine biology grad student degrees. After a series of talks between the two institutions, Zimmer said the lab chose Brown as its partner. “All this could not have happened without the work, commitment and sacrifice from the people in this room,” he said. Members of the staff raised concerns about benefit and transportation issues such as parking and discounted RIPTA and bus passes. When asked what the time frame was for resolving transportation issues, Huidekoper said the Ad Hoc Transportation Management Advisory Committee was meeting on a weekly basis and the committee was in the “first phase of the process.” Although the committee’s recommendations should be out by November, she said she could not map out the timetable for longer-term goals. Another staff member requested the University provide discounted bus passes for staff members. She said parking in the past had been an inconvenience, but now it was an obstacle to getting to work on time. “I’m ready to take the bus,” she said. Her comment received unanimous applause from staff members. Simmons said one of the University’s priorities in handling transportation issues is addressing the congestion problem on College Hill. “It is of grave importance to our neighbors,” she said. “We need to deal with transportation arrangement issues.” Simmons said increasing benefits for staff members would be difficult. But she said the University ended last year with a 1 percent — $500,000 — budget surplus that will be used as bonuses to staff who have made an “exceptional effort in facilitating the Academic Enrichment initiatives.” Last year, the University raised $19.7 million through fund-raising, exceeding its goal by $70,000, she said. Simmons also said the administration is working to lift the salary freeze for staff members who make between $74,000 to $100,000 a year. “Like everyone else, they will now be able to benefit from the $900,000 being allocated to salary increases,” she said. Simmons expressed her appreciation to staff members for their cooperation and support thus far and said she welcomed suggestions from staff members on both their involvement at Brown and on how to improve the University. “Brown has an enormously bright future ahead,” she said. Wednesday’s forum was organized by the Staff Advisory Committee. Herald senior staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.
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CAMPUS NEWS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003 · PAGE 5
Cianci made crime into comedy, author Stanton says BY KRISTA HACHEY
Now serving food to fellow inmates and working at the New Jersey federal prison library, former Providence mayor Vincent Cianci’s legend as a Machiavellian leader lives on, said Mike Stanton, author of the Cianci biography “The Prince of Providence.” Stanton, who as a Providence Journal reporter investigated the Plunder Dome scandal that led to Cianci’s conviction on racketeering charges, revived memories that captured the complexity of Providence’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in his Tuesday night Salomon lecture. “Buddy’s story is about politics, corruption, redemption and romance,” said Stanton, whose investigative reporting on the case led to a Pulitzer Prize. Since his last book-signing visit to Brown in September, Stanton said he plans to make his book into a movie. Director Michael Corrente — whose credits include “Federal Hill,” “Outside Providence” and “American Buffalo” — has agreed to undertake the project. A native of Rhode Island, Corrente is also a distant cousin of Frank Corrente, one of Cianci’s top aides and coconspirators in the racketeering case. “It will be a challenge to boil down 400 see STANTON, page 6
Expert says U.S. nuclear weapons policy flawed BY SCHUYLER VON OEYEN
There’s nothing new about mass destruction, said nuclear non-proliferation expert Joseph Cirincione P ’06 in a lecture on Tuesday. “We have been killing each other since early history,” said Cirincione, director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington, D.C. “What happened in the 20th century is that we mechanized mass destruction.” In the lecture, “Weapons, War and Strategy: Nuclear Proliferation Policy in the Bush Administration,” held in the Joukowsky Forum, Cirincione described current policies regarding the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the world. Cirincione classified which countries currently have threatening capabilities of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, and noted the consequences of all three types of weapons of mass destruction. He said possible growing nuclear weapons programs in Iran could lead to regional instability and inspire neighboring countries to strengthen their own resources. Cirincione stressed that both chemical weapons and biological weapons do not pose the same kind of universal mass destruction capability threat nuclear weapons do. “Chemical weapons are not a strategic threat (to national security),” Cirincione said. “Only nuclear weapons are the true weapons of mass destruction, the ones
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that tip the strategic balance.” He also gave the audience a historical background in the development of weapons programs. He explained that today roughly a dozen countries possess a biological weapons or a biological research program. “Only a couple countries actually have weapons,” he said. “In World War II, every belligerent nation had them.” In this sense, “the technology is old. It has already proliferated.” “The first weapons were chemical weapons,” he said. Cirincione said Germans developed them in World War I, and the United Kingdom and France later followed suit. Cirincione called President George Bush’s nuclear proliferation policy a “sharp reversal of over 40-plus years” of thinking. The U.S. policy of the last 40 to 50 years was dedicated to eliminating these weapons, Cirincione said. Now, he said he interprets Bush’s speeches to mean the U.S. policy is focused narrowly on eliminating outlaw regimes that possess these weapons, exempting others. Cirincione said he despises this approach because he considers it divisive, picking “good guys” and “bad guys.” He explained that countries can change, as Iraq was considered an ally of the United States in the Iran-Iraq War and the United States gave them anthrax and other biological weapons. He also said maintaining this “double standard” is impossible.
Cirincione divided the U.S. strategy to combat such weapons into three categories — counter-proliferation, non-proliferation and consequence management. Counter-proliferation describes policy considerations that encourage nations to bring other countries’ illegal actions to light, but also includes more controversial policy decisions such as pre-emptive strikes. Non-proliferation policies concentrate on limiting the expansion of existing nuclear programs in the world and include the Partial Test Ban Treaty and the IBM treaty. The final category is consequence management, which includes preparing for domestic attacks and other homeland securityrelated measures. Cirincione said the United States routinely spends more money on confrontational counter-proliferation methods than on non-proliferation techniques which encourage peaceful means of eliminating weapons threats. Cirincione explained that these three pillars were already out of balance in 2001, when the United States spent $8 billion on counter-proliferation and $1.5 billion each on non-proliferation and consequence management. In 2002, the counter-proliferation spending jumped to $177 billion while non-proliferation stayed the same and consequence management rose to $23 billion. Projections for 2003 showed similarly unbalanced scales. see WMD, page 8
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Stanton continued from page 5 pages and a big part of someone’s life into a two-and-a-half hour movie,” Stanton said. “Cianci’s life really has movie potential — I foresee a lot of great cinematic moments of public and private passions clashing together.” Stanton portrayed Cianci as a politician, salesman and actor who could turn a languishing city around while simultaneously making crime into comedy. “Nobody played the power game better than Buddy did,” Stanton said. “He got this city noticed again and put it back on the map.” While wielding his power to benefit the city, Cianci also abused it — a trait that sparked controversy and ultimately led to his removal from the political stage, Stanton said. In one light-hearted incident related to Brown, Cianci pushed for the admittance of good friend Frank Sinatra’s nephews to the University. When one was accepted and the other waitlisted, Cianci flexed his muscle by shutting down a University project to build a new athletic center on campus, Stanton said. Then admission director Howard Swearer — who later became University president — questioned the mayor about the project’s cancellation, Stanton said. Cianci simply replied, “Let’s just say it’s been waitlisted.” After tensions diffused, the gym was ultimately finished. Although Sinatra’s second nephew was denied admittance, Stanton said the mayor continued telling people he knew that both nephews were studying at Brown. The audience responded lightheartedly to anecdotes of Cianci’s mischief, but some members of the crowd said Stanton’s talk renewed deep uncertainties as to how citizens should evaluate a leader who is both effective and immoral. Stanton recalled the “nightmare on Power Street” in which
“Nobody played the power game better than Buddy did,” Stanton said.“He got this city noticed again and put it back on the map.” Cianci assaulted his wife’s lover. He said the mayor would have described himself as “a bitter, cuckolded husband fighting for my honor.” Despite reports of the harsh confrontation, “people were weeping on the stairs of City Hall when Buddy was indicted,” Stanton said. While Providence citizens are thankful for the “renaissance” he pioneered, many still feel morally obligated to disapprove of Cianci’s “means justify the ends” approach to getting things done, Stanton said. “I’m so torn,” Providence resident Kim Zwetchkaubaum said while standing in line at the book signing following the lecture. “I think Cianci did so much for the city and, with his charisma, it’s hard not to like him. But so much has come out about him that I think that, right now, he is where he should be,” she said, referring to Cianci’s imprisonment. Asked about his personal opinion of Cianci’s legacy, Stanton told The Herald, “As a journalist, it isn’t exactly my role to make judgment calls. I have put out the facts and have made room for people to explore the dichotomy of this tragic figure.” But Stanton said Cianci’s life story is that of “romantic betrayal.” The former mayor’s corruption “in many ways undermined the progress he brought to this city,” he added. Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.
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Horowitz continued from page 1 speech. The administration convened a Faculty Forum to debate the situation, but it did little to remedy the rifts caused by the ad. Only Spring Break and an empty campus allowed the conflict to die down. Two-and-a-half years later Republicans hope a disturbance like the one at Richard Perle’s lecture last spring, where antiwar protesters shouted at Perle and threw leaflets into the audience, does not occur. But other groups on campus are asking why Horowitz is coming at all. “The last time Horowitz made his presence known at Brown, a lot of people were hurt,” said Ethan Ris ’05, president of the College Democrats. “We’re not angry (that he’s coming to Brown) because of his conservative viewpoints,” Ris said. “He’s able to take his line wherever he wants to.” Rather, Ris said, it’s Horowitz’s reputation as a “divisive figure” that makes some on campus question why the Republicans invited him. Doreen Wang ’05 said she also wonders why Horowitz is coming, and many people she’s talked to in the Third World community are “not excited” about the lecture. “It seems like a divisive and almost political move by the Republicans,” said Wang, who described herself as active in the Third World community. “He really does no good for anyone, other than himself,” Ris said. Lisska said Horowitz is speaking partly because he was originally scheduled to lecture at Brown in spring 2001, after the anti-reparations ad appeared in The Herald. But threats of violence forced the College Republicans to rescind the invitation, Lisska said. “Ever since then, it’s always been in the back of our minds because there was a terrible wrong that was committed by this school, and I want to correct that wrong,” he said. According to Horowitz representatives and Lisska, the former left-wing activist turned conservative provocateur will give a lecture titled “Academic Freedom: A Vanishing Ideal at Brown.” Despite the title, the talk could involve discussion of Horowitz’s views on reparations, Lisska said. “He’s not going to shy away from it,” Lisska said. “It’s quite clear that the reparations controversy at Brown from three years ago is incorporated into (the lec-
ture) because it’s an example of where academic freedom was trampled.” The Republicans are co-sponsoring the lecture with Young America’s Foundation, the suburban Washington, D.C.-based organization that promotes free speech on college campuses. A Brown chapter of YAF is currently forming, but it is not co-sponsoring the lecture. According to Adam Deitch ’05, Undergraduate Finance Board representative for the College Republicans, UFB provided $1,500 for the lecture in addition to the group’s normal funding. Lisska said YAF provided additional monetary support, but he declined to give a specific amount. Lisska said he’s encountered a large amount of resistance to Horowitz appearing on campus, including destruction of posters for tonight’s lecture. And, he said, some members of the liberal and minority communities on campus have expressed disbelief that Horowitz is speaking, particularly in light of the 2001 controversy that made national news and pitted student groups against each other and the administration. “They just don’t understand why he’s being allowed on campus,” Lisska said. “It’s just beyond me why people would be so closed-minded.” Wang said she thinks people “don’t really want to see more controversy.” A staff member who answered the phone at the Third World Center said administrators there had not discussed tonight’s lecture with students. Professors who were outspoken in the 2001 controversy expressed a desire to see students take advantage of the opportunity for informed debate. Ken Miller, professor of biology and a faculty member who was vocal about free speech in spring 2001, said he’s “happy” Horowitz is coming to campus, but not because he agrees with his views. “It serves as a mark of an open campus when people with strong views come and express that freely,” Miller said. “Horowitz is someone with strong views, and strong views often provoke a strong reaction.” But Miller said he hopes members of the University community will “remember that the solution for speech with which they disagree is more speech.” Miller said he personally feels Horowitz’s ideas are “so out of the mainstream” that the best way to react is to make him answer to what he says. Opponents must not “behave in a way that makes that argument self-fulfilling, which is exactly what happened in 2001.”
Sheila Blumstein, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, was interim president of the University in March of 2001, when The Herald ran the advertisement. Blumstein said she hopes members of the community take advantage of the opportunity for discussion. “We owe it to anybody and everybody, and ourselves, to have informed debate,” she said. “That should be the only way we should debate. … Our students do respond to wanting to have open debate.” Lewis Gordon, professor of Africana studies, was one of the most vocal members of the faculty in spring 2001 in speaking out against Horowitz and The Herald for printing the ad. Gordon did not return a call or e-mail seeking comment. Associate Professor of American Civilization James Campbell, who also spoke out against Horowitz and The Herald, declined to comment. Horowitz will speak at 7 p.m. in Salomon 101. The event will not be simulcast, but a tape of it will air on BTV in coming weeks. As of late Monday night, Dean of the College Paul Armstrong was scheduled to introduce Horowitz, Lisska said. President Ruth Simmons planned as of Tuesday afternoon to attend the lecture, according to Marisa Quinn, assistant to the president. The Department of Public Safety will allow picketers on the Main Green, directly across from the entrance to Salomon. Lisska said the Providence fire marshal will not allow large banners or signs inside the auditorium because the items present a fire hazard. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.
Taxes continued from page 1 “We need to find real solutions to these problems that won’t bury us two to three years down the road. … This is a difficult process but we need contracts that make sense,” Cicilline said. Lt. David Lapatin also spoke at the meeting about a variety of resident complaints, including disruptive student parties and an abundance of motorcycles on College Hill. “Our job is to stamp out the things that will ruin your quality of life,” Lapatin said. “I know one of the biggest things is motorcycles.” PPD officers have towed 25 bikes and issued 100 citations in recent months, Lapatin said. “The message is already out to the motorcycle people,” he added. Lapatin said he wants legislation passed that would allow harsher penalties for motorcyclists who drive with their mufflers removed. One resident in the audience blamed the city’s licensing board for the motorcycle presence on College Hill. “Thayer Street has been destroyed by the licensing board,” she said. “It used to be an early-closing district. Now it’s almost a nightclub district. The motorcycles are there because they can get a hamburger late at night.” Lapatin also addressed residents’ complaints about disturbances caused by off-campus Brown-related parties. By deploying extra officers during “peak party hours” and issuing warnings and citations,
Lapatin said he hoped to cut down on the number of disruptions. “I hope you’ve noticed the difference so far,” he said. PPD is meeting with the University to develop policies regarding off-campus living, Lapatin told The Herald. “We’re developing booklets for educating Brown students on abiding city laws and basically how to be good neighbors,” he added. “We have a great relationship with Brown University and its police,” he said. “We hope to have a great relationship with the students.” Lapatin also dealt with a crowd unsatisfied with what it perceived as lax enforcement of the city’s overnight parking laws. “I know that parking is one of the most vexing problems in Fox Point,” he said, after residents called out the names of streets on which they had seen cars go without a ticket. Although he did not address the issue during his speech, Cicilline told The Herald he was against arming Brown Department of Public Safety officers. “I do not support that,” he said. Cicilline asked President Ruth Simmons last spring to defer her decision on arming until the city had implemented its Neighborhood Community Policing initiative. With that project now complete, Cicilline said he felt it improved the area’s safety enough to keep DPS officers unarmed. “I hope (the University is) satisfied with the work we’re doing and the partnerships we’ve made with the Brown University Police,” he said.
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NYU continued from page 3 covering the deaths have included television outlets, such as CNN and Fox News, and newspapers ranging from The New York Times and the New York Post to upstarts like the New York Sun and AM New York. “For fragile people, for vulnerable people, this saturation
coverage of suicide can be problematic,” NYU spokesman John Beckman said. “It might be a trigger for him or her to think that suicide might be an appealing option.” Some students said they were angered by the media’s focus on a campus incident. “( This) is something that shouldn’t be on national television,” said Kennon Hulett, a Tisch School of the Arts freshman. While some students said
their professors have encouraged open class discussion about the deaths, others said NYU could have done more to address the apparent suicides. “I feel they should do more than an e-mail,” Stern sophomore Mehak Jamil said, referring to the university-wide emails sent by NYU administrators after the last two deaths. “Maybe there should be a moment of silence. I feel like we’re not respecting the memory of those who died.”
Grad continued from page 1 students bring to their advisors, he said, is that their research is “just not working.” “To find a topic is to find an area where you want to answer some questions. But you can’t really know if you’re successful until you actually try to answer them,” Weil said. Michal Jerzmanowski Ph.D. ’03, a former student of Weil’s, and now an assistant professor of economics at Clemson University, said the most frustrating part of the research process comes when students must take tools from the classroom and apply them to an actual problem. “It’s a discrete jump,” Jerzmanowski said. “You feel like you’ve overcome the biggest challenge, when in fact that’s where the real difficulty begins.” Grad students in Brown’s economics program generally take courses their first two years and begin conducting research in the third. Rather than writing a book-length dissertation, as graduate students in history might do, economics students are responsible for writing three journal-quality articles, Weil said. Most students complete the program in five years. Malhar Nabar GS, a fourthyear grad student of Weil’s, said the difficult transition from coursework to researching is an inherent part of the grad school experience. “I was expecting it to be hard. I didn’t let it overwhelm me too much,” Nabar said.
WMD continued from page 5 Cirincione also criticized the Bush administration for exaggerating the certain threat of weapons of mass destruction, particularly under its case for war in Iraq. “Purely on the basis of WMDs, you can’t justify the war in Iraq,” Cirincione said. He also noted the divide between neoconservatives who believe, “The road to Jerusalem is through Baghdad,” and consequently want more troops in Iraq while traditional military conservatives who generally favored the war want a sooner exit strategy for Iraq. He said the current administration’s view that today’s threats are greater than the heights of the Cold War is “revisionist history.” “I think that the threats today pale in comparison to the days of duck and cover drills.” He was also critical of the United States’s continued movement in one direction on the nuclear proliferation issue while the nation
Nabar, who is researching societal differences in standards of living, said his interest in the field started with exposure to faculty research. He said he sees Weil several times a month to “bounce ideas off of him” and get feedback on his work. “I’ve been happy with the whole experience,” Nabar said. “It’s been a very good fit for my interests.” Graduate students in economics tend to have more mobility among topics than those in the sciences, Weil said. Social science programs tend to include more collaboration between students and faculty than in the sciences, he said, where students spend much of their time in a single professor’s lab. Julia Finkelstein GS, a firstyear student in the master of public health degree program, said the small size of Brown’s graduate programs allows her to work closely with her advisor. “I came from a very large university where everything was very impersonal,” said Finkelstein, who attended McGill University as an undergraduate. “It’s the difference between a 2,000-person department and a 24-person department,” she said. Finkelstein, who is developing health intervention programs with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island, said her relationship with her advisor has been extremely positive. “He seems like a really genuine person and really interested in helping me along with my research,” she said of her advisor. Herald senior staff writer Zach Barter ’06 can be reached at zbarter@browndailyherald.com.
expects the rest of the world to move in another. “You can’t expect your kids to stop smoking cigarettes when you yourself have a two pack-aday habit,” he said. Cirincione expressed a number of challenges and threats in the world today. He expressed concern that Russia “continues to house the world’s largest warehouse of nuclear materials in the world,” and that minimum level security guards with barbed wired fences are the only things preventing a potential terrorist from apprehending nuclear weapons. He was also concerned that biological, chemical and nuclear weapons are all still talked about together in the loaded phrase “weapons of mass destruction,” while in his view that label only applies to nuclear weapons. The lecture was held as part of the Global Security Seminar series. Herald staff writer Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 can be reached at svonoeyen@browndailyherald.com.
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Field hockey continued from page 12 into the game knowing it needed to play Brown field hockey and not be intimidated by Princeton’s record or ranking. The back-and-forth play continued as both teams exchanged breakaways. At the 15:41 mark, Ashley Sennett broke the scoreless tie with an unassisted goal for the Tigers. The second half saw a momentum shift in favor of the Bears. Following a successful Princeton stroke, which made the score 2-0 five minutes into the second half — the result of a personal foul by Meaghan Harwood ’04 in the penalty circle — the Bears took control of the game. After recording only two shots on goal in the first half, the Bears recorded six in the second but were unable to finish their attempts. “We had some good attacks going into the circle, but for whatever reason, the ball didn’t go in the cage,” Norris said. “If the game was judged by who was dominating and possession time, we would have won this game. We played very, very well as a unit.” “We should have capitalized on our opportunities,” Pierpoint said. “We were close, but they came up with a bunch of defensive saves behind the goalkeeper and (Princeton) played well defensively.” In fact, Princeton goalie Allison Nemeth was awarded both Ivy League Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week for her performance against the Bears. Yet the Bears’ defense cannot be overlooked. Goalie Katie Noe ’05 recorded double-digit saves (10) on the day, and the entire unit once again played outstanding field hockey. “The defense worked hard to stay marked and not let their player receive the ball,” said Julia Kelderman ’05. “As a team we shifted to prevent Princeton from threading long balls through our midfield.” Throughout the second half, Brown nearly broke through the Princeton defense a number of times. Forward Molly Carleton ’04 had several series where she pounded the pads of the Princeton goalie, but was unable to push the ball by her, and Harwood narrowly missed a goal as the ball went just wide of the post. “Obviously, you are never happy with a loss, but we competed,” Norris said. “Our entire team, even the kids on the sidelines, worked hard today. Everybody was focused on what we needed to do. If we take this intensity for the rest of our season, we should be fine. This is the best we played all year from the beginning whistle until the end.” Norris noted that the strong effort left a bittersweet taste in the mouth of Brown players, as the Ivy League title is no longer in their reach. The Princeton win over Brown earned the team a No. 8 ranking and sets up a showdown next weekend between the league’s two undefeated teams, Harvard and Princeton. The game will most likely determine the winner of the 2003 Ivy League title. But the Bears are not throwing
in the towel just yet. If Bruno sweeps its final three Ivy opponents — Cornell, Penn and Yale — the team will finish third overall in the league. “We have five more games. If we win them all we will end with a record of 12-5, which is very respectable and very attainable,” Pierpont said. “There is a lot of hockey to be played, and there are more things we can do as a team to build for next year, for the young players.” The Bears kick off their final five games against Providence on Wednesday at home. Herald staff writer Maggie Haskins ’04 edits the sports section. She can be reached at mhaskins@browndailyherald.com.
M. tennis continued from page 12 more of a team game than singles is,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. “We do so many things to build our team chemistry and get ourselves to work hard together.” In singles, Brown had three players advance to round 16 — the most of any team — but only Cerretani emerged to the quarterfinals. Shamasdin, seeded seventh, fell to No. 10 Josef Novotny of the University of Maryland at Baltimore County 6-2, 6-3. Goldberg, the No. 12 seed, lost a close match 6-4, 7-5 to No. 17 Angel Diankov of
“It felt really good to play my game and play as well as I’m capable of playing,” Cerretani said. Virginia Tech. Cerretani rolled into the finals without dropping a set while defeating opponents from Manhattan, Harvard, Virginia Tech, Cornell and UMBC. In the finals, he faced fourth seed Cliff Nguyen of Harvard. After quickly jumping up a break for a 3-0 lead, Cerretani
faced a rally by Nguyen that brought the score to 3-5. Faced with a break point, Cerretani was able to break Nguyen’s serve and rally to win the set. Cerretani then ran away with the second set 6-2 for the victory. “It felt really good to play my game and play as well as I’m capable of playing,” Cerretani said. He and Shamasdin will return to the courts on Nov. 6 for the National Intercollegiate Indoor Championship at the University of Michigan. Phil Charm ’06, Luke Tedaldi ’06 and Rich Moss ’06, who did not get to play last weekend, will play in the Big Green Invitational at Dartmouth beginning Oct. 25.
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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003 · PAGE 10 S T A F F
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Climbing aboard We’re ready to take the bus, too. One University employee at Tuesday’s all-staff meeting, fed up with hunting for a parking space, said she was ready to make the switch to public transportation. Judging from the unanimous applause that followed her statement, she is not alone. Parking has never been one of the Brown campus’ strong suits. This year, with construction tearing up many of the University’s precious parking lots, finding a spot to park a car has gotten downright ugly. Simmons told the staff Wednesday that transportation issues, including congestion, are University priorities. But, when looking at ways to fix the transportation problems on campus, the administration must consider RIPTA in the solution. The Herald reported last week that the University’s chief concern about offering RIPTA access to students is whether it will be financially beneficial to Brown. But such benefits shouldn’t be the only reason for the University to offer public transportation to the community. Offering discounted RIPTA passes would benefit the area by alleviating congestion on College Hill and allowing staff and students alike to go out into Providence and stimulate the local economy. Transportation around the city may not cure the University’s financial problems with parking, but it can at least benefit Providence in many ways. While in the research stages to improve transportation and parking in the area, the University should implement a pilot program for RIPTA access — even using staff as its subjects — to give it more insight on the economic and ecological friendliness of providing such access. Although students may not be fully trusted yet to use RIPTA to its utmost potential, they will ultimately learn to make use of the system — and thus the city.
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LETTERS Many conservatives Conservatives act spread more fear than maturely in face of knowledge huge left-wing bias To the Editor:
To the Editor:
Natalie Smolenski’s letter of two days ago (“Conservative whining about intellectual diversity is hypocritical,” Oct. 20) was not merely a hatefilled distortion, as some have claimed. She raises a good point by noting that enemies of diversity have been using diversity as a catch phrase for the dissemination of their views, although she doesn’t make it clear that she sees the difference between xenophobic conservatives and the more moderate variety. Although I strongly support the movement for intellectual diversity, I think it is wrong for us not to realize there are people, even here at Brown, who are interested more in spreading fear than in provoking debate. The editors of the Brown Spectator, who publish xenophobic articles against immigrants, and the author of this summer’s column in The Herald defending sodomy laws (which are antihomosexual) come to mind. Fear-driven anti-foreigner and anti-gay statements are not arguments, they are assertions, and they are very justly ignored by the majority of Brown students. If conservatives want to call on diversity to spread their views, they need to make it clear that they do not support these type of statements and that they are willing to back their assertions up with argument.
Re: “Conservative whining about intellectual diversity is hypocritical,” Oct. 20. After reading Ms. Smolenski’s letter to the editor, I had a good laugh. As a conservative Republican here at Brown, I was not surprised by Ms. Smolenski’s naivete. Ms. Smolenski said, “... Instead of active debate, questioning our teachers or proposing alternative academic material, we’re going to whine until we get our own forums where we are once again the dominant paradigm.” What I find so ridiculously humorous about that notion is the claim that conservatives here at Brown “whine.” Reason being, conservatives here at Brown handle themselves exceptionally well when it comes to political debate. The overall impression I receive from liberals is that liberals have no problem protesting when they find themselves in the minority, but when they are in the majority, as they are at Brown, it is not acceptable for the minority to speak out. In fact, going back to the excerpt from Ms. Smolenski’s letter, the protesters are dubbed “whiners.” What happened to these liberals who love the right to free speech? Instead of calling conservatives hypocritical, you should take a look at yourselves first. Granted, I know not all liberals fit in the same boat as Ms. Smolenski, so don’t get me wrong. I am just expressing my concerns for the lack of intellectual diversity here at Brown. In my opinion, it is a problem. Go ahead and call me what you want, but there is no denying a massive left-wing bias at this institution. On a closing note, Ms. Smolenski claimed conservatives are fans of oppressing minorities. I would like to ask her a question: Why do many liberals refer to a conservative minority as an “Uncle Tom”?
Michal Zapendowski ’07 Oct. 21
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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003 · PAGE 11
The importance of free speech at Brown How to win an intellectual debate without shouting down the opponent TONIGHT THE COLLEGE REPUBLICANS could not have been violating his right to will bring conservative provocateur David free speech. One issue that was not given enough Horowitz to campus to speak about academic freedom. Many students and faculty consideration in the aftermath of the on campus remember Horowitz from two Horowitz ad was the question of free years ago when The Herald published a speech beyond the First Amendment. The students who confiscated the paid advertisement submitted press run were protesting the by Horowitz entitled “Ten failure of the paper to accuReasons Why Reparations For rately represent, if they were Slavery is a Bad Idea — And represented at all, the views of Racist Too.” The ad contained multiple groups of students of many racist and historically color around campus. The inaccurate statements, Herald claimed it was commitincluding the claim that slavted to something akin to a ery was self-inflicted by marketplace of free ideas, yet blacks. many students of color felt The In response to the ad, and, Herald was not representing in a larger sense, to the highly MICHAEL LITTENBERGtheir voices and therefore was antagonistic relationship BROWN not as open as it claimed. This between The Herald and type of speech, or representamany students of color on BROWN KNOWS BEST tion, is not constitutionally campus, a group of students protected — but The Herald “stole” an entire press run of The Herald three days after the ad was claimed it was open to all viewpoints when printed. The Supreme Court has ruled that it was actually acting to restrict free speech taking an unreasonable number of free by not representing the student of color publications amounts to theft, and there- viewpoint. My point here is that Horowitz’s fore the students’ actions could legally be constitutional right to free speech was not portrayed as stealing. But, a second charge violated by those who took the press run, against the students stands completely while the students who seized the papers unfounded: that the students’ actions vio- had a valid argument about the importanlated Horowitz’s free speech. The press run tance of free speech beyond the First of The Herald taken by the students on Amendment. Another claim, made by many students campus was not the issue that contained the Horowitz ad. Therefore the students angered by the publication of the advertisement, should also be considered. Following the ad, the Daily Jolt and Herald Michael Littenberg-Brown ’04 thinks forums were inundated with racist comfree speech is only worth the paper it’s ments and physical threats. In addition, written on.
the (then-named) Afro-American studies department received so many threatening phone calls and e-mails that it was forced to disconnect the phones. As a result of the threats and comments, some students of color reported feeling unsafe walking across campus, especially at night. These concerns raise important questions about our Brown community. As Sheila Blumstein, interim president in 2001, stated in a letter to the Brown community, “We are above all a community of learning and as such have a responsibility to provide an environment in which all members feel safe and empowered to grow intellectually.” If students feel their physical security is threatened, they will not be able to grow intellectually, and the spirit of our community will be violated. I am not arguing that the printing of the Horowitz ad directly caused our sense of community to be violated by making certain students feel unsafe. Instead I am asserting we must pay attention to our mission as a university to provide an environment conducive to intellectual growth. Such a commitment entails not only making sure all members of our community feel safe physically, but also that each individual feels safe intellectually. Thus, as we consider our effort to secure the physical safety of the members of our community, we must also maintain our commitment to intellectual diversity and respect. This last point is the subject of Horowitz’s visit to campus tonight. The College Republicans and Horowitz are promoting the idea that Brown is in fact not as liberal as it claims to be, that it is in effect
hostile to non-liberal ideas and thus intolerant. Horowitz has been going around the country using voting registration statistics for professors to show that universities are liberal havens where conservative viewpoints are grossly underrepresented and, in his opinion, blacklisted. The number one concern for the Brown community should be to prevent a repetition of the events that took place last spring at a lecture presented in part by Richard Perle in which he was shouted down by members of the audience. This type of behavior is grossly illiberal, denying the free speech of people with unfavorable viewpoints. The argument dredged up from the 1960s that those on the left do not have access to the media and therefore must shout down speakers to gain recognition is simply not matched by reality today. There are many ways to react to Horowitz’s visit to campus. First, and in my opinion the most important, is for students and faculty to attend the lecture and engage Horowitz intellectually, showing his premises are based on racist ideas and his conclusions don’t follow from the statistics he uses. The reason why Brown and so many other universities are considered “liberal” havens is because the ideas of intellectual freedom and tolerance are more accepted within a liberal framework than a conservative one. For precisely this reason, Brown owes it to itself and to other institutions of higher learning to stand up for what it believes in and make every effort to hear out alternative viewpoints. Then it can respond with the full force of its intellectual power.
In debt? Bad credit? No credit? Call a Democrat! America needs a Democrat to save its fragile economic recovery THE VERDICT SEEMS TO BE IN: quarters of enormous gains in the afterAmerica’s economy is finally turning math of the recession. In the short run, around after three years of rising unem- these productivity gains initially conployment and sluggish growth. Since tributed to unemployment as companies President Bush reduced the taxation of used information technology and foreign dividends and capital gains, investors are labor to expand output without hiring additional workers. But, in the feverishly pouring money into long run, higher productivity stocks while corporate profits means every worker will conare beating expectations tribute much more to the thanks to strong consumer economy than ever before, spending. Gold prices are up and Americans will enjoy a and even the unemployment much higher standard of livrate is beginning to turn ing as a result. around after peaking at 6.4 In this respect, the current percent in June. economic recovery strongly Overcapacity and unemresembles the 1992 recovery, ployment were the unfortuwhen remarkable productivity nate consequences of the NATE GORALNIK increases temporarily raised 2001 recession, but now ORDERS FROM unemployment but laid the they’re a cause for optimism. THE BOSS groundwork for a sustained As the economy picks up and economic boom during the consumers begin demanding more goods and services, firms will have Clinton administration. If demand no difficulty meeting this demand by remains strong, we could indeed experidrawing upon an abundant pool of under- ence a decade of healthy growth and low utilized labor and capacity. That means unemployment. But thanks to President the economy has a great deal of room to Bush’s tax cuts, there are serious causes grow without risking accelerating infla- for worry on the demand side. One of the reasons the current recovery tion. Most important, the economy’s poten- has been so sluggish is that it has been tial to grow has expanded significantly driven almost entirely by consumer since the 2001 recession. The Bureau of spending, which has remained strong Labor Statistics clocked an impressive 6.8 despite the recession. Stop and think percent rise in output per worker in the about that for a moment. The stock marsecond quarter of 2003, following two ket crash caused $7 trillion to disappear into thin air, and millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Meanwhile, American Nate Goralnik ’06 is a member of the Bear jobs are exported overseas or replaced by Necessities.
machines and many Americans have seen their wages fall and their job security threatened. In this environment, how on Earth are consumers finding money to spend? They’re not. In order to finance their spending habits, consumers are racking up the highest levels of consumer debt and mortgage debt in history. The same goes for the federal government, which has stimulated demand through tax cuts and spending hikes, but is running record-breaking deficits of close to $500 billion per year. Our spending habits and the spending habits of the government (including the $87 billion that Bush has requested for Iraqi reconstruction) are financed largely by loans from foreign investors. Add that to our record-breaking trade deficit and a private savings deficit, and you get a pretty ghastly picture of the American economy: We are borrowing capital from abroad, but rather than investing it, we’re spending it on an orgy of nonproductive consumption. Even with today’s low interest rates, debt payments are rising faster than productivity, meaning that we’re hemorrhaging cash faster than we’re creating it. Clearly, our borrow-and-spend frenzy cannot continue forever. “As the debt rises, so will the net outflow of interest, profits and dividend payments to foreigners,” says Martin Barnes, editor of the Bank Credit Analyst. “This boosts the current account deficit even more, threatening to unleash a vicious cycle of spiraling
deficits and debt.” If Americans continue to funnel capital into spending rather than savings and investment, dollardenominated debt could become unattractive to foreign investors, causing interest rates to rise until our debt to the rest of the world becomes unserviceable. The stakes are huge. If America’s external debt continues to grow, it could literally bankrupt the country. The only realistic way to make the American economy solvent once again is by repealing President Bush’s tax cuts. As Princeton economist Paul Krugman explains, the tax cuts have helped to create a “huge structural gap — that is, a gap that won’t go away even if the economy recovers — between U.S. spending and revenue.” To eliminate this gap, the next president will have to raise taxes to balance the federal budget so that spending no longer exceeds revenue. This is exactly what President Clinton did after taking office in 1993 in order to correct the massive deficits produced by President Reagan’s tax cuts, and it resulted in spectacular economic growth. Ten years later, we face what is in many ways a neat replica of the 1992 recovery. Productivity gains have laid the foundations for sustained economic growth, but reckless tax cutting by a Republican president has contributed to ballooning deficits that threaten to swamp the economic recovery. Again, the choice is clear. To restore America’s financial health, America needs a Democrat to balance the federal budget.
THE BROWN DAILY HERALD
SPORTS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2003 · PAGE 12
Dear Commissioner,
Kobe returns to basketball court
FORGET ABOUT THE BUD LIGHT COMmercials that suggest a warning moat or a “catcher for the day” contest. What baseball needs right now is a series to decide third and fourth place. That’s right — the Red Sox against the Cubs. What was the best of times not long ago for Cubs CHRISTOPHER SONG and Sox fans has SPORTS COLUMNIST quickly become the worst of times. Nothing would be better than to extend their seasons and give baseball fans a chance to see a matchup of teams that should’ve been in the World Series. After taking care of the Atlanta Braves, the best team in baseball during the regular season and with a three-games-to-one lead over the Marlins in the NLCS, the Cubs seemed to be on their way to their first World Series since World War II. With the flawless Mark Prior on the mound and a three-run lead at the top of the eighth inning, the Cubs seemed certain to break the curse they’ve suffered since a tavern owner and his goat were denied entry to a World Series game in 1945, the last World Series in which the Cubs played. A dream series between Boston and Chicago was quickly becoming a reality. Then disaster struck. First, Cubs fan Steven Bartman decided to make himself famous — and the most hated person in Chicago — by preventing Moises Alou from catching a foul ball. Then, shortstop Alex Gonzalez botched a routine double play that would have ended the inning. Finally, Prior imploded, giving up eight runs. So close, yet so far. A similar story goes for the Red Sox, who also had a three-run lead and were five outs from clinching the ALCS. But the Yankees started cooking up their October magic, and, after 120-plus pitches, Pedro suddenly became a mediocre pitcher. Boston’s three-run lead quickly vanished, along with New England’s hopes of their first championship since 1918. The only thing that remains for those loyal Cubs and Red Sox fans is a painful off-season asking, “What if?” What if Steve Bartman had been smart enough to let Moises Alou catch the ball? What if Grady Little wasn’t blind and could see Pedro was as tired as everyone else could see he was, including the Yankees and their fans? Would the curses have been broken? Would we have the World Series everyone wanted? The New York Yankees vs. the Florida Marlins: Honestly, who cares? Does the difference between 26 and 27 championships really matter to New Yorkers? Is anybody rooting for Florida? The people of Miami are busy following the Dolphins in the AFC East. So, we’re left with two teams, the Cubs and Sox, that everyone would watch, and a World Series nobody is watching. Give baseball fans the ending they deserve, Mr. Selig: Prior vs. Pedro, Sosa vs. Manny and, best of all, the Chicago Cubs vs. the Boston Red Sox at the end of October. Although third place is not as meaningful as a World Series ring, the series would be about extending what has been a magical season by a few more days for the fans. Don’t let the amazing ride end because of fan interference, or blatantly bad managing on the part of Grady Little. The Cubs, Red Sox and their fans have been through too much this season. Don’t let the fans say, “there’s always next year” just yet.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (L.A. Times) — Kobe Bryant
Christopher Song ’04 hails from Albany, N.Y.
finals, something never done before in tournament history. Ben Brier ’04 and Nick Goldberg ’05, seeded No. 17, upset the second seeded team of Andreas Laulund and Stephane Rod of Virginia Tech to advance to the quarters. While Brier and Goldberg fell to George Turner and Jason Beren of Harvard 8-3 in the quarterfinals, the teams of Cerretani and Shamasdin and Kris Goddard ’04 and Zach Pasanen ’06 advanced to the semifinals, where they were forced to play each other. Cerretani and Shamasdin won the allBrown match 8-3 and moved on to finals, where they avenged Brier and Goldberg’s loss by defeating Turner and Beren of Harvard 8-2. “We’re always going to be a little more successful at doubles because it’s
was back on the basketball court Tuesday afternoon, six days from the start of his eighth NBA season, so far a bit closer to the floor, so far not as quick and not as dynamic. A day after a judge ordered him to stand trial for felony sexual assault, Bryant, who over three weeks of training camp has made a somber play for normality, concluded practice Tuesday in a heavy sweat, disappeared into the trainer’s room and did not return. He told Laker publicist John Black that he “wanted a day off,” and so he did not address the media, which assembles every day to dab at the boundaries of the charges against him and to understand what impact they will have on his game and the Laker season. There have been few ready answers. Of the four players many believed would allow the Lakers to take their fourth NBA championship in five years, only Karl Malone and Gary Payton have not missed significant practice time. Shaquille O’Neal is recovering from a heel injury. Since the start of camp, Bryant has participated in nearly as many court hearings (two) as he has practices (three), and only Monday took up with the other three in a full-on, five-on-five scrimmage. In the few minutes reporters were allowed to view practice, Bryant made a jump shot, missed an alley-oop lob from Payton and ran with some care. A drive into the right side of the lane that last season might have ended in a tomahawk dunk, instead ended with an underhanded flip to Malone for a short jumper. For the moment, he is picking his way around his four floor-mates, rather than the four of them playing around him. He is finding his footing, both on the floor and off, playing basketball and then awaiting news from his lawyers and then playing basketball. A trial date has not been established. Bryant is scheduled to appear in a Colorado court Nov. 10, and that is all the Lakers know today, probably all they’ll know for a while. “I really can’t comment on that,” Coach Phil Jackson said. “I haven’t read the total report yet that’s been issued. I’ve just read what the media had to say about it (Monday) afternoon when it came out. So, I really can’t comment on that. I just have to say, you know, we want this thing to go as quickly as possible and disappear into thin air. That’s what we really want it to do, and have a season that’s unfettered.” Bryant, he said, has not suggested when a trial might occur, or when his lawyers might prefer it to be scheduled. “We have no feel at all,” Jackson said. “We just know that Nov. 10 is the next date that’s sitting there in front of us.” Apparently, Tuesday passed at the Lakers’ El Segundo practice facility with little or no mention of Eagle County Judge Frederick Gannett’s decision that Bryant’s case would go to district court, particularly from Bryant. “I thought it was pretty anticlimactic in that it didn’t seem to be on the minds of everyone, at least as much as I thought it would be,” Rick Fox said. “That’s including Kobe. Kobe was going through practice as if it was just another day. He’s said it before, that he’s done what he can do and now he has to let it play out. As far as going to trial, I don’t think it was anything anyone didn’t expect.” Horace Grant played on Bryant’s yellow scrimmage team Tuesday and said after-
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Co-Captain Lizzie Buza ’04 made the Ivy League Honor Roll for her play against Princeton.
Field hockey falls in physical matchup vs. No. 10 Princeton BY MAGGIE HASKINS
With a packed roof full of parents and fans, the Brown field hockey team (7-5, 2-2 Ivy League) took on No. 10 Princeton (8-3, 5-0 Ivy League) on Saturday. The Bears knew the Tigers, who are currently vying for their ninth straight Ivy League title, would be a tough test — a must-win if the team was to make a late run for the league title — but parental support was not enough as the Bears fell 2-0. Play was physical from the start, and much of the first half was a battle at the midfield, as neither team even took a shot on goal until midway through the half. Much of Brown’s success was due to a revamped defensive strategy on
Princeton free hits, designed to protect against the Tigers’ strong passing game. “We had everybody back the ball off 15 yards and shift when the ball went from side to side, rather than attack the ball,” said Head Coach Carolan Norris. The strategy was designed to offset the strength of Princeton’s backs, said Co-Captain Laurel Pierpont ’04. “If we started racing at them, they would just start passing right around us. By holding back and shifting as a unit, we were able to come up with more interceptions, forcing them to work harder to get around us,” she said. Pierpont also noted the team went see FIELD HOCKEY, page 9
Men’s tennis brings home singles and doubles titles in strong team showing BY CRAIG MCGOWAN
Feeding off of its disappointing finish at the ECAC Championships from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, Brown men’s tennis came out blazing at the Omni Hotels ITA Northeast Regional Tournament held in Ithaca, N.Y., over the last weekend. The top-seeded doubles team of Jamie Cerretani ’04 and Adil Shamasdin ’05 captured the doubles crown, and Cerretani captured the singles title by defeating Cliff Nguyen of Harvard. With their victories, Cerretani and Shamasdin both earn automatic entry to the National Intercollegiate Indoor Championship to be held in early November. Cerretani will play in the singles bracket and team with Shamasdin for the doubles bracket. Once again, the strength of the Bears was their doubles play. All three Brown teams advanced to the quarter-