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Underground will reopen with alcohol

“Genius” alums receive $500K in funding BY JONATHAN HERMAN

Jim Yong Kim ’83 and Nawal Nour ’84 are two of the 24 winners of this year’s MacArthur “genius” grants. Both will receive $500,000 of support over the next five years. MacArthur Fellows are chosen for their creativity, individuality and promise for the future, said Daniel Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. The awards honor “geniuses,” meaning “people that are doing something so unique that the MacArthur Foundation believes they should continue their research,” Kim said. After graduating from Brown, Kim earned an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard. The selection process is intensely secretive. The Foundation collects letters of recommendation secretly and the candidate’s first contact with the Foundation is the phone call telling him that he has won, Socolow said. Kim was completely shocked when he received the phone call from the MacArthur Foundation. “It’s kind of like a ‘Wizard of Oz’ thing. It’s not a reward for past achievement. It’s to spur you on for the future. They give you a heart or brain,” Kim said. Kim said he is not sure what he will do with his prize, but “it has given me a sense of responsibility and pressure.” As Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Kim is the driving force behind the WHO’s effort to spread treatment for HIV in developing nations. The goal of the “3 by 5” program is to get three million more people HIV-AIDS treatment by 2005. “This is the largest public health initiative in human history. If we can get three million more we are going to learn something,” Kim said. Kim’s work with the WHO is only his most see FELLOWSHIPS, page 4

Council tackles UCS/UFB relations BY KRISTA HACHEY

Relations between the Undergraduate Finance Board and the Undergraduate Council of Students were at the top of the UCS agenda at its Wednesday meeting. UFB recently rejected a UCS proposal for $5,000 to fund campus-wide special events, and a Photo Club proposal for funding to renovate darkroom ventilation. UCS members explored the roles of the Council, UFB and the University in funding student activities and needs. Dan Le ’04, chair of UFB, was also present at the meeting. UCS supported UFB’s denial to fund renovations to Faunce’s darkrooms, a request of the Photo Club, said UCS Treasurer Thilakshani Dias ’05, who presented the UCS statement. The document — to be revised and submitted to the see UCS, page 8

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

political views out of classrooms. Students around the country feel threatened by professors’ liberal slants and are unable to express their conservative views, he said. “Students can’t get a good education if they’re only telling you half the story,” he said. And on campuses where liberal viewpoints are dominating, he said conservatives are afraid to speak out. “There are always two sides to issues,”

After last-minute delays postponed the Underground’s reopening once again, the bar will serve alcohol for the first time in a year on Oct. 24, under professional management. “Everyone is excited and I feel we have come to a nice balance with the administration,” said Food and Beverage manager Adam Gerchen ’04. “We think the Underground will soon be returning to the full glory of years past.” The Underground’s managers told The Herald in mid-September the bar would reopen by the beginning of October. But managers postponed the Oct. 3 opening when Director of Student Activities David Inman took an unexpected medical leave. Inman, who general manager Leslie Friedman ’04 said is the Underground’s strongest supporter in the administration, had been in charge of the club’s operation. Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski took over Inman’s role, which led to the delay of the second planned opening night, scheduled for Oct. 17 when the bar’s new professional manager, Michael Santoemmo, had a scheduling conflict, Friedman said. “The student managers of the Underground and Dean Inman needed to finalize the job description for the manager, conduct interviews and hire the manager,” Jablonski wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “Training for all students working in the pub also needed to happen.” The University interviewed candidates who responded to an ad in the Providence Journal for the professional manager position earlier this year. The hiring of an overseeing manager not enrolled at Brown was one of the conditions Inman and Jablonski established for the Underground’s reopening. Administrators believe Santoemmo’s presence will cut down on underage drinking at the Underground, the primary issue that led to its previous closure, Friedman said.

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“I am not a racist,” conservative theorist David Horowitz told a packed audience in Salomon 101.

Horowitz speaks out against stifling of conservative views BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Self-proclaimed “scary guy” and conservative theorist David Horowitz made his first appearance on campus last night, in a lecture marked by fiery debate and a polite audience. Horowitz’s lecture in Salomon attracted a crowd of 400 people and a heavy police presence. “I have been dying to answer questions for two-and-a-half years, but no one would invite me,” Horowitz said. In spring 2001, Horowitz’s anti-reparations advertisement appeared in The Herald, sparking a month of controversy that split the campus over issues of racism and free speech. He was invited by the College Republicans to speak then, but the offer was rescinded amid threats of violence. During his 45-minute lecture, Horowitz touched on issues ranging from liberal bias on college campuses to the reparations debate. But, he said, “I am not the divisive, inflammatory, racist force” that some make him out to be and, as a conservative, he is the “target of a campaign of vilification” that has “metastasized” at Brown. “I am not a racist,” he said. Rather, he said he feels “that the civil rights movement has gone astray in supporting racial preferences.” Horowitz began his lecture by describing the ideas behind his Academic Bill of Rights, which calls for universities to keep

Consulting expert says social investing difficult, but worthwhile BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

With negative preconceptions about social investing, it’s hard to get institutional investors like Brown to even look at all their options. Robert Bowers, managing director at the consulting firm Cambridge Associates LLC, outlined the uphill climb facing advocates for socially responsible investing in SmithBuonanno Wednesday afternoon. Institutions like Brown are in fact running a risk by not looking at their social investing options, he said. Bowers said social investing appeals to investors who are “looking for a

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source of return that goes beyond the financial” or who believe socially desirable qualities are found in financially sound companies. In the past decades “the environment, diversity, human rights, product safety, workers’ rights, nuclear power, weapons manufacturing and other issues have emerged as major themes” in social investing, he said. Because of the varied list of issues and many strategies — from stock screening to shareholder resolutions — it is not easy to talk about social investsee INVESTING, page 4

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Horowitz fails to respond to some questions, says Gwyneth Fries ’03.5 guest column, page 11

Volleyball takes one and drops another in weekend Ivy play, making them 1-4 in league sports, page 12

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 · PAGE 3

WaterFire creator Evans ’75 wants Art to touch lives

FACES OF RISD: a series of profiles of randomly selected RISD students

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Brendan Kellogg RISD ’05 and Katie Fleming RISD ’05 hope to open a furniture shop together after graduation.

Fun with furniture at RISD BY GREG MAZUREK

How do you spend your day? While many students are still sleeping, Brendan Kellogg RISD ’05 and Katie Fleming RISD ’05 go to RISD’s furniture studio around 7:30 a.m. They spend the rest of the day dedicated to furniture design. Although Fleming and Kellogg said it is not mandatory for students to spend this much time in the studio, they enjoy what they do — so they stay until around 11 p.m. Kellogg is in the initial stages of creating an object he said might serve as either a bench or a sliding shelf. His design includes two curved pieces placed on top of each other. Both he and Fleming use a design process called “belt lamination” that allows them to form curved shapes out of thin sheets of wood.

The sheets are approximately an eighth of an inch thick, glued together and formed over molds. A bag envelops the mold and wood, creating a vacuum that allows the wood to form on the mold. Kellogg created a large mold for his project out of several layers of wood. He said he hopes to be able to use it for different sized pieces. “The mold is left to dry for about eight hours,” Fleming said. Afterwards, the curved piece is formed and can be cut for use. In the beginning stages of the project, Kellogg said aesthetic appeal was the most important feature for him. “I looked for a form that interests me,” he said. Fleming — who is building an see RISD, page 4

WaterFire brings families closer together, someone once told creator Barnaby Evans ’75. Evans said the man told him WaterFire’s calm ambience silenced his family’s arguments for the evening. Evans — currently the artist in residence in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — talked about how the concept for WaterFire came about and how the event grew to become one of Providence’s greatest attractions in a talk Saturday at the RISD Museum. Evans said his idea of setting the Providence River alight and showcasing music and art got the thumbs up from city leaders when he responded to a request for creative ways to commemorate the 10th anniversary of First Night, the city’s annual New Year’s Eve art festival. WaterFire was initially intended as a onetime event with a budget of $100 from the local government, Evans said. He said he raised funds to pay for the project himself at the time. Its successful reception encouraged the city to make WaterFire a regular event. Now finishing its ninth season, WaterFire receives $25,000 to $30,000 annually in city funding, and draws around 70,000 people each time. Evans said urban art should involve the community in the way WaterFire does. “The public is (woven) into this piece,” he said. “Volunteers come to help light the fires. The fires need to be tended and cared for, like a novel, community or city.” WaterFire was meant to have mass appeal and be an event the whole family can enjoy, Evans said. Anna Pomfret, who attended the talk, says WaterFire is a beloved event in her family, especially for her grandchildren. “It’s the thing for people to get together to admire the beauty of the fire, the music,”

she said. “And Providence is beautiful with all the different buildings illuminated.” This is exactly the reaction Evans is aiming for, he said. “I wanted to bring people to this beautiful waterfront park,” he said. “I want to change people’s behavior to public space.” Evan said WaterFire was centered on “psychological synesthesia.” “I wanted to simulate people’s five senses simultaneously,” he said. “You can walk through it, smell it and hear the sound of crackling.” Evans selected a specific wood that emits a scent and crackles when burnt. To further stimulate the sense of hearing, recorded music is played to simulate a movie soundtrack, Evans said. “It’s like you are in a movie. I wanted to break the dichotomy between audiences and actors on stage,” he said. “On this urban stage, we are all participants.”

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WaterFire was initially intended as a onetime event with a budget of $100 from the local government, said creator Barnaby Evans ’75.

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Investing continued from page 1 ing as a whole, Bowers said. Reams of studies on methods of social investing, he said, overwhelmingly show that sociallyscreened portfolios achieve returns equivalent to those of conventional portfolios. Bowers said the traditional argument that “any subset will inevitably underperform the entire market” might be valid, but every fund is acting in a subset simply because stock-pickers have their own personal preferences. Bowers said companies right now focus on quarterly profits and short-term growth, creating enormous inefficiency — so if you consider yourself a longterm, perpetual investor you need a sustainable outlook. Social investors believe socially responsible companies mini-

“In my mind, it’s one of those logical things that is baffling — how can environmental and social issues not become financial at some point?” he asked. mize long-run risk. “In my mind, it’s one of those logical things that is baffling — how can environmental and social issues not become financial at some point?” he asked. A truly great investor, Bowers said, can tell when the masses are wrong. “With the appreciation and consciousness of these

types of issues, there’s no reason why it can’t be the source of a stock picker’s or private investor’s brilliance.” “What I keep coming back to,” he said, “is it’s so hard to find people investing differently. This is different.” Bowers cited several institutions, like the Rockefeller Foundation, with their own social investing strategies. At Williams College, he said alumni can donate to a newly created social investment section in its endowment. Bowers predicted that the level of social investing “will keep growing,” although “how it manifests itself from institution to institution will vary widely.” He said he was optimistic because more information is available to the socially responsible investor than 10 years ago, when an investor had to be “wildly committed” to make a socially responsible portfolio.

Underground continued from page 1 “(Santoemmo) was our top choice because he has been working with Brown students for a few years now in catering, he is comfortable with our student body … and also has the managerial experience the administration wanted,” Friedman said. Students will be asked to swipe their Brown ID to both verify their status as current students and determine whether they can

Fellowships continued from page 1 recent humanitarian endeavor. Kim co-founded Partners in Health, a nonprofit organization that tackles international and local health issues. Partners in Health created a plan that has decreased the cost of treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis by 95 percent in parts of Siberia and Lima, Peru, according to Partner in Health’s Web site. Its other programs include efforts to combat AIDS and women’s health problems in Haiti and locally in Massachusetts. “I’m terribly grateful to Brown for letting me form and work on these crazy projects,” Kim said. “I feel that the education that I got at Brown through the Third World Center and the constant conversation about social justice issues created the recurring theme of social

purchase alcohol. A valid driver’s license will also be required before a student can consume drinks. Once inside the club, students of legal age will be identified by wristbands. Friedman said she believes the Underground may be able to expand its hours of operation to include Thursdays, previously one of the club’s most popular nights, as early as next semester. In addition to increasing the Underground’s presence in Brown social life, she said she hopes the extra evening will enable the club to book more musical guests and entertainment. “The diminished number of nights of operation makes the availability of performance spaces on campus much lower

RISD continued from page 3 abstract cabinet featuring many curved pieces of wood — said the design was more important to her than its future use. “What you make doesn’t have to be functional,” Fleming said. But they both said they know they will make changes to the pieces as production continues. They said they plan to complete their projects by the end of the

justice and equality of medical care (in my work).” Nour, who earned her M.D. and master’s in public health at Harvard, told the Harvard Gazette she was shocked when the MacArthur Foundation called. “I actually got heart palpitations from sheer delight,” Nour told the Gazette. Nour established the African Women’s Health Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the first one of its kind — treating genitally circumcised women. She is also the primary author of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s guide for treating circumcised women. The MacArthur Foundation was created in 1978. The Fellows Program supports the pursuit of knowledge and creative ideas. Herald staff writer Jonathan Herman ’07 can be reached at jherman@browndailyherald.com.

than it had been in years past,” Friedman said. “With only two nights of operation, competition for booking has been really high.” For now, the Underground will open on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. The student-run Hourglass Café uses the space Sundays through Thursdays. “The Hourglass Café has been very successful in this space,” Jablonski said. “Both individuals and groups are benefiting from a late-night space for meetings and studying where there is also food available.” Herald staff writer Robbie CoreyBoulet ’07 can be reached at rcorey-boulet@browndailyherald.com.

semester. Kellogg’s project, at the moment, seems less detailed than Fleming’s. “Sometimes simple can be the most functional,” Kellogg said. After the furniture studio closes at 11 p.m., Kellogg and Fleming said they turn to homework for their other classes or go to sleep. But they said the hours they spend in the studio now will be well spent if their plans to start a shop after graduation work out.

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CAMPUS NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 · PAGE 5

Academics guide grad student social life BY MONIQUE MENESES

Graduate student social life is different from the undergraduate experience, and much more tied to academic work, students said. Associate Dean of Student Life Carla Hanson said it is hard for students to socialthe ize outside their academic departments. GRADUATE “Grad school demands an incredible SCHOOL amount from students and this sometimes at 100 doesn’t leave too much room for socializing,” she said. Julie Trotta GS, a third-year grad student studying geophysics, said her social life revolves around the people in her department. “Because we spend so much time together, we tend to congregate,” she said. “It’s easier to make plans.” Biology grad student Michael Harrison GS, fourth-year grad student and co-president of the Graduate Student Council, said, because it is “so easy for like-minded people to stay together,” one of the goals of the GSC is to provide opportunities for grad students to come together across departments. Yet many students still find that the majority of their closest friends are in the academic departments they are in. “From my own personal experience a lot of my social life at Brown has been about my academic work and their academic work,” said Samuel Brenner GS, a fourth-year grad student studying in modern American history and co-president of the GSC. Harrison pointed out that grad student social life is “very different” from the undergraduate social experience. While freshmen in undergraduate school are put in units that define their social focus, he said the social life in graduate school focuses on the student’s academic department. “It’s different hanging out with people — you talk more about the intellectual aspects of your life,” he said. Trotta said, although there was a general sense of community among grad students, one thing she misses from her undergrad experience is being able to recognize faces on campus. “You feel less of a presence because we’re so focused on our studies,” she said. But social life can mix between the two schools — undergraduate and graduate. Brenner, for one, said he met his fiancée, Claudia Arno ’04, in the Brown University Chorus.

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Molecular biology grad students Brenda O'Connell GS and Pooja Agrawal GS. Adjustment to grad school is less dramatic than the adjustment to undergraduate school right out of high school, Hanson said, although grad students face many of the same problems, including homesickness and relationship troubles. But grad students must also deal with challenging relationships with advisors and diverging roles as both a TA and a researcher, she said. Many students told The Herald these issues haven’t posed significant threats to their studies or lives at Brown even though they have confronted or are confronting them. Despite the various opportunities for social interaction on campus, some students prefer not to have a social life, Harrison said. “They’re just at Brown for the work,” he said. But those who choose to can now go to the new Grad Student Lounge, which opened in January, to meet other people who are not affiliated with the academic depart-

ment they are in, Brenner said. The GSC has been able to organize various activities every two weeks on Fridays, Harrison said. The lounge, which includes an entertainment center, a small kitchen and an outdoor terrace, is the venue for social activities ranging from salsa dancing to movie nights. “We also hold several social parties throughout the year,” Brenner said. “There’s the Halloween party and the spring dance, which we hold annually.” Brenner said the activities were successful on different levels. For the major social gatherings like the Halloween party, he said a couple hundred students attend each year. But for events like salsa nights, he said 20 to 30 students might show up. “We get a good turnout,” he said. Herald senior staff writer, Monique Meneses ’05, can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

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Horowitz continued from page 1 he said, but at many colleges now, “there are not really two sides.” During the question-andanswer period, Brenda Allen, associate provost and director of institutional diversity, challenged Horowitz to follow through on that statement, and extended an invitation for Horowitz to come back to campus and debate his views with an opponent, such as Randall Robinson, whose writings ignited the reparations movement. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while,” Allen told The Herald after the lecture. She said that while Horowitz’s lecture was a good way to get a conservative speaker on campus, there are few opportunities for students to hear from both ends of the political spectrum or to hear two different views on issues such as reparations. In a lecture like last night’s, “you have one point of view talking to an audience,” she said. Allen said she didn’t agree with everything Horowitz told the audience, but “it was a good opportunity to listen to some things that

were meant to be provocative.” And, she said, though she would disagree with some of what Horowitz said throughout the lecture, there were a few things “where, in fact, we’re not so far off.” Horowitz also told the audience he didn’t understand why professors’ political views are allowed to infiltrate lectures and lessons. “Unfortunately, we live in a time when we can’t trust our professors, all of them,” he said. After the lecture, President Ruth Simmons told The Herald she was particularly upset by the “gross generalities about Brown” that Horowitz made. She said she felt Horowitz particularly misrepresented the University’s professors. “Gross generalities about Brown do a great disservice,” she said. But Horowitz soon drifted to the question of reparations, the topic that divided the campus in spring 2001. “I had no idea that ‘ten reasons’ was going to become what it did,” Horowitz said. “None of you knows what was motivating me to buy that ad,” he said. Horowitz defended his position, saying that just because he opposes reparations does not make him racist.

“I have black people in my family,” he said, and used his history as a civil rights activist since the late 1940s to defend himself against charges of racism. The anti-reparations ad Horowitz purchased was titled “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea — And Racist Too,” and it appeared in over 20 college newspapers across the country. The Herald printed the ad on March 13, 2001. The advertisement set off two debates — one over whether the content of the ad was racist and another over whether The Herald should have printed the ad in the first place. After the quickly formed Coalition of Concerned Students stole the entire press run of the March 16, 2001 issue of The Herald, tempers flared, and the University became the staging ground for a national debate over free speech. The administration convened a Faculty Forum to debate the situation, but it did little to remedy the rifts caused by the ad. The conflict finally died down when students vacated campus for Spring Break. Organizers of last night’s lecture were concerned the tempers generated two-and-a-half years

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Brenda Allen, associate provost and director of institutional diversity, challenged David Horowitz on a number of points he made in his speech. ago would reignite with Horowitz’s arrival, and a heavy police presence indicated precautions were taken. Things went well, said Joe Lisska ’04, president of the College Republicans. With $1,500 given by the Undergraduate Finance Board, the College Republicans co-sponsored the lecture with Young America’s Foundation, a national organization that promotes free speech on college campuses. “The event went better than I even hoped,” Lisska said. “I think

this was exactly what the University needed.” But Simmons was less than pleased. “I was not happy,” she told The Herald. After the lecture, Simmons asked Horowitz for an apology for misrepresenting Brown. Horowitz told The Herald he apologized, and that Simmons accepted the apology. Simmons said she realizes the questions Horowitz attempted to grapple with are “difficult,” but she disagrees with his claims about the modern state of Africa and African Americans in the United States. Both Simmons and members of the student body said they were impressed with how well students handled Horowitz, considering his history with the University. “It’s a really outstanding statement how well the students responded,” said Rahim Kurji ’05, president of the Undergraduate Council of Students. Horowitz told the audience that the reception Brown students gave him was the most polite he’s gotten from universities around the country. “That makes a strong statement for us two-and-a-half years later,” Kurji said. Veer Bhavnagri ’05 said he went into the lecture worried about how Brown students would react to Horowitz. “I expected going in that Horowitz would be able to explain himself, and I was worried that the Brown community would not let him do that,” Bhavnagri said. But students let Horowitz speak and, in one case, even “shushed” a female audience member who tried to disrupt the lecture, he said. Bhavnagri said he felt Horowitz was able to explain himself, but many of the questions students lobbed at him during an hourlong question-and-answer period were “sort of out of the blue and not really relevant.” Horowitz refused to answer questions asking for his views about the Patriot Act and affirmative action, responding that students would ideally be able to turn to their professors for the conservative viewpoint on those issues. “I’m not a library,” he said. But, Bhavnagri said, “I don’t think you can really argue with him. He’s against reparations, and I think most people are against slave reparations, whether or not his reasoning was valid or not.” After the lecture, Horowitz said he felt it went “well, except for the end,” when a time crunch forced moderator and Dean of the College Paul Armstrong to ask for all remaining questions at once. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 · PAGE 7

Music star Elliott Smith dies in apparent suicide LOS ANGELES (L.A.Times) — Elliott Smith, a singer-songwriter

whose musically seductive, emotionally dark recordings made him one of the most acclaimed cult artists of the past decade — and an unlikely Oscar contender in 1998 — died Tuesday. Smith, 34, was discovered in his Echo Park apartment with an apparently self-inflicted knife wound and died at Los Angeles County Hospital-USC Medical Center, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office. In a series of albums beginning in 1994, Smith established himself as an evocative poet of the tormented soul, pairing scenarios of romantic loss, existential bleakness and the curse of addiction with engaging, lilting melodies. His spare guitar accompaniment and the eerie, echo-like quality of his vocals reinforced the music’s bittersweet mood. Although his record sales were modest, Smith enjoyed tremendous respect from his peers and from critics, emerging as his generation’s pre-eminent exponent of the singer-songwriter tradition. Although he was stereotyped as a gloomy, introspective artist, Smith had broader aims. “I don’t really have any goals as a songwriter, other than to show what it’s like to be a person — just like everybody else who’s ever played music does,” Smith said in a 1998 Los Angeles Times interview. “I don’t feel like my songs are particularly fragile or revealing. “They’re songs. It’s not like a diary, and they’re not intended to be any sort of super-intimate confessional singer-songwriterish thing. I like the Beatles. Dylan. The Saints and the Clash. All the good things about what they did or do is probably the same things that I’m trying to do.” Friends and colleagues agreed Wednesday that there was more to Smith — who had been nearing completion

of a new album when he died — than his image as a downbeat troubadour. “He was incredibly funny and sweet, intellectually rigorous, someone who really cared about the people around him,” said Luke Wood, an executive at DreamWorks Records who had worked with Smith for five years. “I really felt he was in a very positive, forward-thinking place. He really wanted to get his record out early next year.” Rob Schnapf, who co-produced his last two albums, said Smith “was a dignified, gentle person and a great artist.” “I loved making records with him,” he said. ‘’It was extremely rewarding, and we had fun.” But the demons Smith wrote about weren’t fiction. “All that stuff is real,” Schnapf said. “That was no game, that was not a marketing idea. That was real stuff.” Steve Hanft, a filmmaker who directed an experimental short film for Smith, called “Strange Parallel,” and enlisted Smith to do music for his new movie, “Southlander,” said he saw the singer five days before his death. “He just seemed like he was imploding on himself,” Hanft said. “He was still really sweet and nice and really smart, but he just seemed like he was starting to cave in physically. He just wasn’t happy.” Steven Paul Smith was born in Nebraska and spent his early childhood in the Dallas area, living with his mother and stepfather and the latter’s children. At 14 he moved to Portland, Ore., to live with his biological father and his family. After graduating from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a degree in political philosophy, he returned to Portland and embarked on a period of difficult relationships, heavy drinking and a musical career. He played in a punk-rock band called Heatmiser but increasingly concentrated on solo material in a more reflective style. In 1994 he released his first album, “Roman

Candle,” on the local Cavity Search label. He followed it with two albums for the Seattle-based Kill Rock Stars label and began drawing critical notice and a small but intense and growing audience. Smith toured extensively and relocated to New York. In 1997, director Gus Van Sant prominently deployed five songs from Smith’s albums in his film “Good Will Hunting,” and introduced one new one, “Miss Misery,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for best original song. That led to the odd sight of the reticent troubadour performing in a white suit on the gala 1998 Oscars telecast, in competition with the likes of Celine Dion and Michael Bolton. Smith signed with the prominent Los Angeles label DreamWorks, and with a bigger budget he began to enhance his sound with orchestral pop elements. “When you listen to it, it’s very easily digestible,” said Schnapf, the co-producer of his two DreamWorks albums, “XO” and “Figure 8.” “He made it look really easy. He was a great musician, in an understated way. A lot of times you couldn’t take apart his songs. They were this puzzle, this intricate little puzzle.” Alhough Smith was disappointed that his records weren’t more successful — “XO,” his best seller, sold 224,000 copies — he became a popular live performer. Through it all, he continued to struggle with depression and alcoholism. He made a suicide attempt in 1997 and stayed at a psychiatric hospital. But recent reports had been upbeat. “On the addiction issues, I think he’d really gotten the upper hand on them,” Wood said. “I can say in all honesty the last few months Elliott has been sober and was focused. Sobriety was a major thing for him, because it was the path to how he was going to close out his record.”

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UCS continued from page 1 administration next week — emphasizes that the University, not UFB, should be financially responsible for building renovations. Dias said UCS’ official backing of UFB will reinforce the need for the University to act on the matter. The Photo Club has the only color processing system on campus and, because of a faulty ventilation system, students face a significant danger using toxic chemicals in photo development. Over $5,000 in equipment has, in this way, fallen into disuse, Dias said. UFB provided $32,000 in funds to the Photo Club two years ago to purchase equipment, but the club’s recent request for funds raises ques-

tions about where UFB money should and should not go, she said. “UFB provides money for student activities,” Le said. “Improving the ventilation system in Faunce does not coincide with the board’s defined role as a fund-provider. UFB would not be liable if someone was harmed — the University would be.” Turning to UCS’ request for events funding, UCS Alumni Liaison Justin Sanders ’04 said he respected UFB’s decision to deny UCS the funding. “UFB is in charge of all the delegation of student activities fees and, in contrast, UCS’ role is to represent and advocate student concerns,” he said. Without UCS, UFB cannot tell the University what it can and cannot fund, Sanders said. In this vein, both groups work symbiotically on campus, he said. UFB’s denial of UCS’ proposal indicates the Board’s concern that student groups go to the Council for funding when turned down by the Board, said UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05. Because UFB is hesitant to transfer funds directly to UCS, Kurji said he hopes the Board decides at its meeting tonight to earmark $5,000 for major events should the need arise in the future. To build class unity and improve student relations with President Ruth Simmons, UCS is developing a class officer program — an independent social programming board of elected members from each class devoting “its energies to building class spirit and University pride,” Sanders said. Kurji said he hopes to see elections for the group next spring. In the meantime, the Office of the President, the Office of Campus Life and the Student Activities Office are working to address community-building within classes, he added. UCS, with the Queer Alliance and members of the administration, is sponsoring a lecture series on diversity and free speech to educate students on issues of intolerance, Kurji said. “This is a perfect opportunity for collaboration with student groups,” he said. “We hope that these events will bring meaningful campus-wide dialogue.” UCS is also inviting community members to attend a soon-tobe-scheduled meeting with Provost Robert Zimmer, chair of the University Resources Committee. Zimmer will present budget plans to the Council and solicit feedback from students. Senior Class Officer Naia Cucukov ’04 requested use of the UCS listserv to request nominations from student groups for the Feb. 12 Mr. Brown University pageant. The fund-raising event

UFB’s denial of UCS’ proposal indicates the Board’s concern that student groups go to the Council for funding when turned down by the Board, said UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05. would showcase 12 senior men. Cucukov said she plans to raise money by selling pageant calendars and holding a raffle to auction off Valentine’s Day dates with the participants. The Ad Hoc Transportation Management Advisory Committee met last week to discuss parking accommodations and updates to safeRIDE. According to a recent zoning ordinance survey, Council member Jason Holman ’04 said there are 2,023 available parking spaces and an excess of 3,000 students who want parking. Ways to deal with the problem include cutting sophomores out of the parking lottery and working with RIPTA to provide free bus passes. Holman said satellite parking spaces for rent may also be available in East Providence. To increase UCS visibility on campus, Council member Melba Melton ’06 announced a joint UCS-WBRU publicity event to take place Oct. 31 on the Main Green from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. WBRU will hand out free concert tickets and CDs while UCS members talk to students. Dunkin’ Donuts has also offered to pitch in and provide its new espresso drinks, she said. UCS Campus Life Committee Chair Ari Savitzky ’04 reminded the Council of architecture firm Venturi, Scott Brown’s upcoming campus visit and the UCS-guided tour to orient the architects. “The goal of the tour is to show them how students move around on campus, take them through some spaces, point out what we do in those spaces — it will be very student-centric,” he said. UCS Communications Committee Chair Tim Bentley ’04 said UCS’ Annual Programs pamphlet will soon be available in student mailboxes. Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students. She can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.

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Cropp continued from page 12 ists’ average salary increases are enough to add four pounds of gold jewelry. Factoring out all of the non-muscle weight gains, there still does seem to be a push for more physically fine-tuned athletes who can hit farther, run faster, tackle harder and break more records. There is nothing wrong with any of this, but when most of it seems to be masked by a veil of secrecy where Jose Canseco plays the role of Woodward and Bernstein, integrity comes into question. When Sammy Sosa’s bat spilt into two, we found out that he may or may not have been using cork for any period of time. This not only tarnished his accomplishments, but also had a trickle down effect, where people began to ponder if Bonds or McGwire had been juicing their bats. McGwire had already admitted to using a substance tantamount to steroids that was banned in many other leagues, so it’s not as if the record he broke was done with absolute purity. It’s like what would happen if the Red Sox finally win, but it’s only because some fans kidnapped the Yankees and all NL opponents save the Mets — you get the same enjoyment, only a little more sleazy. One can’t help but wonder if Bonds wouldn’t have broken McGwire’s record had he not read too much Mary Shelley and submitted himself to the whims of a BALCO lab experiment. Maybe he was using only “supplements” and maybe all of his muscle is natural, whatever that means, but there is still some unsettling feeling knowing that he may not be allowed to participate in the Olympics, or that what he is taking has similar effects to steroids. The MLB Player’s Union finally agreed last summer to accept drug testing for illegal steroids. This was a great step, but it won’t stop players from using Andro or other designer steroids. Even with such a policy in baseball and other professional sports, the policy does not have enough bite. Using steroids is a violation of a rule, and many consider it a breach of honesty. With a twoyear ban for steroids, as we have seen in track and field, some athletes are more willing to test their luck, facing the risk of getting caught. A lifetime ban with heavy fines is imperative, as it would further deter drug usage and increase the credibility of the sport. USA Track and Field Chief Executive Officer Craig Masback, in addition to confirming that four U.S. athletes tested positive for a new designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone last summer, sent a letter to the leaders of major U.S. sports asking them to join in the growing battle against drugs saying, “the situation in which we find ourselves is not a track and field problem or a baseball problem, but an American problem.” I couldn’t agree with him more. But steroids are like terrorists: Just when you think you’ve found a way to eliminate them, they shoot right back up in another form. The litany of nutrition supplements are harder to regulate than the NYSE, especially when players’ unions fight tooth and nail to keep from subjecting players to doing something we have to do

It’s like what would happen if the Red Sox finally win, but it’s only because some fans kidnapped the Yankees and all NL opponents save the Mets — you just get the same enjoyment, only a little more sleazy. each time we go to the doctor’s office: pee in a cup. Like any sports fan, I love watching homeruns fly out of the park; I love seeing a linebacker decapitate a quarterback; and I love watching Shaquille O’Neill attempt a free throw. I just wish I knew that those players breaking the records and hitting two homeruns against the Red Sox in

game 7 (not to name names) were drug free. Until those who are guilty are caught and some health codes are instituted to keep athletes from looking like the Governator in his younger days, the cloak of uncertainty will remain. OK, I’m calm now. Ian Cropp ’05 hails from Amherst, NY, where the bars never close.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Best behavior Everyone in the Brown community can agree with one statement David Horowitz made Wednesday night — the audience at his lecture was one of the best behaved either Horowitz or many in Salomon had ever seen. The 400 students, professors and administrators who attended Horowitz’s lecture did little to betray the anger and outright hate many no doubt felt for the man whose advertisement tore the campus apart twoand-a-half years ago. With a few exceptions, audience questions were well thought out, more or less eloquently expressed and fulfilled the purpose question-and-answer sessions are meant to serve. When an audience member began shouting at Horowitz, she was quickly quieted by those sitting around her. People who disagreed with Horowitz’s views voiced their opposition during the question-and-answer period rather than with disruptions or booing during the lecture itself. That said, it’s shameful Horowitz may be the first conservative speaker of his prominence in recent memory to lecture at Brown without being heckled, disruptively protested or otherwise harassed. Perhaps students learned from the infantile shouting and leaflet tossing during Richard Perle’s visit that made our campus a subject of ridicule. Or maybe the sheer magnitude of the spring 2001 controversy served as an adequate warning to would-be protesters on Wednesday about the level of vitriol the sort of shenanigans more or less tolerated at Perle’s lecture — and others — could have potentially stirred up. We hope the Horowitz lecture serves as a watershed moment at Brown, one where students can look back at the successful debate and take cues on how to receive future speakers whose views are diametrically opposed to those of the vast majority of students. Perhaps by intelligently debating such speakers, rather than shouting at them, the Brown community can prove is possible to engage the right without joining it.

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SHANE WILKERSON

LETTERS University needs larger spaces for popular lectures

Sox and Cubs fans can ponder next year while everyone else enjoys a great World Series

To the Editor: Because of the limited space in Salomon, I find myself sitting at my computer typing a letter to the editor of The Herald instead of listening to David Horowitz’s speech on academic freedom. How can Brown claim to be an institution that promotes intellectual stimulation when it only makes this socalled intellectual diversity available to the small segment of the student body (not to mention faculty or the larger Providence community) that can fit inside the lecture hall of Salomon 101? Mr. Littenberg-Brown made a valid point (“The importance of free speech at Brown,” Oct. 22) when he stated that “students and faculty need to attend the lecture and engage Horowitz intellectually” instead of “shouting down the opponent.” However, how is one able to attend the lecture when the Department of Public Safety is instructed to turn away the overflow attendees once Salomon had reached its unimpressive capacity? Two years ago a horde of people congregated outside Alumnae Hall (myself included) because once again Brown chose an inappropriate venue (Alumnae Hall) for a very prominent speaker (Salman Rushdie). Are the people who organize these events incapable of doing the basic math that would lead them to the very simple conclusion that more that 300 people are going to show up to hear these people speak? Repeated issues like these indicate that managerial competence is severely lacking at Brown. Why spend huge amounts of money to bring speakers like Rushdie and Horowitz to Brown when only a tiny minority is able to benefit from their ideas?

To the Editor: Mr. Song’s article about the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs as the matchup that should have been (“Dear commissioner,” Oct. 22), is frankly nauseating. This is a World Series for true baseball fans, not for those who learned of Prior, Manny, Castillo and Aaron Boone in October. Any baseball fan can see this is a matchup that will feature a team that was in dead last until a lastminute manager change brought the most miraculous of comebacks, the 23-year-old Beckett who can throw 100 mph and Juan Pierre, arguably the best lead off hitter with 65 stolen bases. Baseball fans know this is a World Series that will display the talents of the future Hall of Fame pitcher Roger Clemens; Mariano Rivera, the best closer in postseason history; Jeter, with the all-time postseason hit record; and Williams, with the record for the most postseason homeruns and RBIs. Nevertheless, to fans caught up in the curse of the billy goat and of the Bambino, this World Series is a farce. “Does the difference between 26 and 27 championships really matter?” Absolutely. “Is anybody rooting for the Florida?” Sixty-five thousand people were on Tuesday, through the rain. So to all the Sox and Cub fans, keep wondering “what if?” and dreaming of a series to decide the second and third loser. In the meantime, we true baseball fans will put our lives on hold to glue ourselves in front of the television to celebrate the 100th birthday of the World Series.

Vanessa Beary ‘04 Oct. 22

Sachin Shah ‘05 Oct. 22

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003 · PAGE 11

Horowitz appearance important, but unenlightening I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE University’s belief that largely conservative think tanks College Republicans for bringing David had to develop in response to universities, Horowitz to campus. Although notable not which he considers “liberal think tanks.” specifically on the issue of reparations, he One student made the point that just commanded me to question my political because many of our professors were liberviewpoints, and I am pleased to announce als did not mean that they lacked the that he in fact reaffirmed much of my think- integrity to refrain from allowing their political bias to infest their teaching. It has ing. always been my understanding As I walked into Salomon, I that the statements in the handwas greeted by a little blue GWYNETH FRIES book are the unspoken ethical handbook from Students for GUEST COLUMNIST assumptions of any rational, Academic Freedom. Before the open-minded thinker, and I am lecture began, I flipped proud to be involved with a unithrough the handbook, in which there were several repeated state- versity whose faculty would encourage the ments about how professors should not vocalization of opposing ideas in one of the voice their political biases in teaching, and most welcoming intellectual environments how they should treat students equally, — the classroom. In my response to Horowitz, I was insultregardless of their students’ beliefs and political persuasions. I was pleased to ed on behalf of the Brown community. He assume that my university was already continually dismissed intelligent and broad based on this principle. Surely, I am not the thinking questions by denying that he had only liberally minded student who has ever said something the whole room had witnessed him stating, by calling our compicked up The Brown Spectator. David Horowitz would have us believe, ments silly or dismissing us as Marxists or however, that a particular poll, taken at a liberals, or by saying that in his infinite wisparticular moment in time, had found the dom, he would need several hours to conratio of Democratic to Republican profes- sider certain concerns (especially concernsors at our school to be around 30:1, where- ing one bright young woman’s question as at other universities the ratio was closer concerning his stance on the Patriot Act). In to 10:1. Although later he admitted that a court of law, you cannot be faulted for these polls were not of the soundest statisti- your manner of speech. In a lecture at a unical integrity, in conjunction with his inaccu- versity, you can. Horowitz continually interrate labeling of students as liberals and rupted the first speaker, as well as one of the Marxists, this instance suggested an almost only African-American students to raise paranoid over-categorization of critics as questions (at which point the mediating close-minded enemies. My uneasiness with dean felt it necessary to intervene, encourthis undercurrent grew when he stated his aging the student), showing how there was a double standard involved with his commitment to the free movement of diverse ideas. Gwyneth Fries ’03.5 hails from Generally, it was strange to be confronted Washington, D.C., and actually owns a with so much pomp over intellectual divercopy of Horowitz’s book,“Hating Whitey.”

sity when Horowitz seemed to be unaware of a whole body of knowledge and literature concerning post-colonial studies — a body of literature on which many if not all of my classes in a wide variety of disciplines here at Brown have been based. Daniel Schliefer ’03.5 asked an intelligent question concerning neo-colonialism. In Horowitz’s ad, he continually stated that black people in America were the richest black people in the world. Dan asked if America might not also be responsible for the impoverishment of black people in Africa as well. Among almost all political thinkers, excluding the very right wing, most people accept that multinational corporations, as well as the IMF and World Bank, play a considerable role in shaping the development of many African countries. In many cases, the involvement of these institutions has been detrimental to the development of strong, independent governments and economic policies. Horowitz’s response basically discounted that neo-colonialism was anything more than some inflammatory rhetoric dreamed up by Marxists. The lack of a genuine response to Dan’s question, as well as a number of other statements, gave me the general perception that David Horowitz was not interested in accepting the idea that history was an intellectual construction fashioned for the winners by the winners. The view that white, Anglo-Saxon men created the abolitionist movement discounts any form of uprising that has not made it into antiquated texts on American history, in addition to revealing his basic misunderstanding of the distinction between positive and negative freedom. If Mr. Horowitz is unable to reach an openminded (not liberal) perspective on history, how can we expect him to be truly critical of

opposing viewpoints in the present era? I agreed with Horowitz on the point that we all needed to be responsible for making sure we read a variety of views concerning our topics of study, and that we needed to promote critical awareness of many perspectives. One student asked the question, to which he did not have time to respond, “How are we to avoid intellectual manipulation?” I would not blame this young woman for being disenchanted with alternative, conservative viewpoints when Horowitz repeatedly inflamed statistical information and then later went back on his words. Intellectual integrity involves not opening one’s mouth to share an un-truth. Horowitz would have us believe that 100 percent of inner-city school systems were controlled by liberals, 85 percent of people support reparations and that our faculty was embarrassingly liberal. Horowitz actually stated that he felt he had no other choice but to publish his advertisement, considering the liberal bias toward reparations and the lack of dialogue on campus concerning them. Again, with this statement, he assumed all liberals agree on the topic, even though earlier he said he knew the idea of reparations had never been wholeheartedly embraced by a liberal movement since its birth several decades ago. Although my hopes that this evening’s lecture would further enlighten me on the reparations dispute were dashed, I did come away feeling that I had learned something. Other students at my university, conservative or liberal, believe in intellectual diversity enough to bring this man to campus and question him. Unfortunately for Horowitz, this evening was truly a liberal moment.

A cautionary tale, inspired by David Horowitz Walking along Hope Street last night, I points. From all the campus gossip about passed by an unlit colonial-era house I had him, I was expecting some bigoted behenever noticed before. The door was open. moth, but he was well-spoken. I didn’t Back in the South, where I’m from, an agree with everything he said, but a lot of it open door is a common invitation for a was very thought-provoking. I’m definitely passer-by to come in and visit. After hesi- glad I went.” “What didn’t you agree with?” the old tating for a second, I entered. “Hello!” I said in my most non-threat- man asked. “Horowitz made the point ening voice. “Anybody home?” that among Brown professors, I walked through the entrance there is a 30:1 ratio of hall to a closed door. A sliver of Democrats to Republicans. He flickering light surrounded the compared this to the 10:1 door’s rim. I knocked, waited average among the 32 elite and entered. colleges he surveyed. While he An old man’s voice rose admitted that voter registrafrom a big easy chair in the tion records are a rough guide middle of the nondescript to a faculty’s political leanings, room. “I’ve been expecting the statistic definitely gives me you.” The old man’s chair sat pause.” across from another, empty ANDREW K. STEIN “Why?” chair. Together, the chairs MY PLACE OR “It seems kind of absurd,” I formed a triangle with a roarYOURS? said to the old man. “I’m ing fire. “Sit down,” he said. I tempted to agree with sat. Horowitz that such one-sidedness isn’t “What’s on your mind?” he asked. Something about the situation made good for the school. I mean, take the me feel as if I were speaking with an old College Republicans. I’ve heard they’re friend. The usual fluff talk just wasn’t nec- something of a joke among College essary. I’m not sure why, but a wave of Republicans nationwide. But this isn’t their fault. In order to avoid being outcasts comfort and familiarity came over me. I got right to the point, the one thing I’d here, they’ve had to move really far to the been thinking about for the past hour. right of the national party line.” “And you’re worried about the College “Horowitz. David Horowitz. He came to talk tonight. You might have heard about Republicans?” he asked. “Not really. They’re well-spoken and it.” they stand up for what they believe in. I “Indeed. What did you think?” “I thought he had some really good respect that. But it makes me wonder whether the average Democratic, Green or revolutionary socialist Brown student isn’t Andrew K. Stein ’06 knows diversity is not similarly out of touch.” black and white.

The old man paused, letting the silence hang. After a while, he said, “When he speaks about the need for intellectual diversity, Horowitz likes to say, ‘You can’t get a good education if you’re only getting half the story.’ If you’ve read any presidential biographies, you know great leaders surround themselves with people who disagree with them.” “I realize we don’t have a lot of conservatives, but I don’t see what’s wrong with that,” I told him. “Brown is a liberal place. We attract liberal students and faculty. I’m all for affirmative action and racial diversity, but intellectual diversity? I don’t think it really matters. We’re not that kind of school.” Again the old man paused, collecting his thoughts. “So you believe in affirmative action? You believe it is legal?” “Sure. The Supreme Court said so this summer.” “What reasoning did the Supreme Court give?” “Oh, I think I remember. The majority ruling asserted that quotas and point-systems aren’t kosher, but that a university can consider a person’s race if it is trying to pursue a diversity of perspectives.” The old man nodded. “Let me present you with a series of assumptions. Assumption #1: Would it be safe to say that if you believe in the legality of affirmative action, then you believe in a general diversity of perspectives?” “Yeah. I mean, that’s why the Supreme Court let affirmative action remain at the University of Michigan. Racial preferences are justified in the pursuit of a ‘general diversity of perspectives,’ like you said.”

“Moving on to Assumption #2: If you believe in a general diversity of perspectives, then you believe in a diversity of political perspectives. Do you accept that?” “Yeah. That makes sense.” “We’ve established that Brown is lacking in intellectual diversity, right?” “Sure.” “So, Assumption #3: If you believe in a diversity of political perspectives, you disapprove of Brown’s lack of political diversity.” “I see what you’re saying. You’re saying that if I think affirmative action should be legal, then I should disapprove of Brown’s dearth of political diversity.” “Or conversely,” the old man responded, “if you’re not outspoken about the lack of Brown’s political diversity, you don’t believe affirmative action should be legal.” “That’s quite a statement,” I said. “Not a lot of people are going to like it.” “But is it false? Are any of my individual assumptions incorrect? People might have different reasons for believing in affirmative action, but if you want it to be legal, then you have only one choice. If you don’t accept that choice, then the Supreme Court doesn’t accept your arguments, and affirmative action is down the drain.” “I never really thought about it like that.” “Exactly. If you support affirmative action, then you should be upset by the lack of diverse political perspectives at Brown. If you’re not upset by this, then you’re a hypocrite.” And with that, the old man fell silent.

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SPORTS THURSDAY OCTOBER 23, 2003 · PAGE 12

Weather not on side of M. golf

Keeping it drug free for 2003

BY ADAM ROYSTER

RECENTLY BANNED SUBSTANCES HAVE been a problem in the sports world. Just thinking about it gives me roid rage. Instead of tearing my Red Sox hat to shreds, I’ll put my mind to more constructive matters. I’ve got a great idea: Instead of playing real sports with the possibility of drugs being used, cut out the sport and make taking drugs an actual sport. We can have a IAN CROPP SPORTS GUY Fritos eating contest that requires participants to smoke marijuana before ingesting as many Fritos/Funions/Cheetos in an hour, or an entire night, well whatever, how ever long you want to, man. We can have a “let’s see how many bullets it takes to fell you” contest. You start by doing more coke than the Hilton sisters then watch scenes of “Scarface” and run into an NRA meeting screaming “Guns kill people” and see how many shots from a “personal defense mechanism” it takes to bring you to your knees. Instead of a homerun contest, why don’t we have an impersonation contest, where you do your best to look like an East German shot-putter (of either sex). Instead of sending people to the warning track, you make some track marks of your own, juicing a shot of roids into each muscle group several times a day — just like the governor of California used to — and shrinking your genitals to microscopic sizes. The roid rage, which has, as of late, become America’s past time, extends beyond the sport that is America’s past time. Track and field used to be one of the most respected sports, with roots dating back before the first Olympics (which predates the rock, paper, scissors world championships by more than 2,000 years). Arguably, the 100-meter event used to be the ultimate test of athleticism, though with a spate of drug scandals, it has transcended into the ultimate test of finding someone to pee in a cup for you. Maybe this is an exaggeration, and it is clear that not everyone is out to sacrifice his/her manliness/womanhood for the love of the game, but the usage of steroids and other drugs by an unknown amount of athletes and the reluctance of a majority to submit to testing diminish the credibility of sports. With substances building muscles and making baseball players as flexible as Bush’s foreign relations policy, we lose an element of reality. It used to be that players were superior athletes-people who looked like the normal person, but flaunted superior skills. Now it seems like athletes have become superior specimens of science. This year the average weight of the Yankees is 200.2 pounds, versus 30 years ago when it was 189.5 pounds, and even 10 years ago with a weight of 191.36 pounds. (Don Zimmer was taken out of the team average for purposes of statistical accuracy, though Roger Clemens and David Wells were counted to emphasize the author’s point.) Not all of the increased average weight, which can be found on nearly all teams in all sports, should be attributed to steroids. A good portion of the weight gain is due to “super sizing” and the vast consumption of Jared’s sweet onion chicken teriyaki from Subway, and the fact that the capital-

Coming off a 15-day hiatus from collegiate competition, the Brown men’s golf team finished 20th at this week’s New England Championship. The 45-team field consisted of Ivy League rivals Harvard, who took home the bronze with a team total of 624, and Dartmouth, finishing ninth with 640. Roughing the elements was the hardest part of the Monday and Tuesday event, as wind and rain frazzled almost every competitor. No player in the field finished with a sub-par score, nor did any team shoot better than 34 shots over par — the first-place score for the University of Rhode Island. “It was very cold the first day and it was windy the second day,” said Head Coach Ed Hanley. “So the weather definitely had something to do with it.” Aaron Telch ’07 led the Bears after the first 18 holes Monday with a score of 81. Dave Cangemi ’06 was three shots behind Telch with 84, and Robert Chen ’05 was four shots back with 85. The usually consistent Lanny Benson ’07 and Jason Ricketts ’04 had off days with scores of 88 and 87, respectively. As a team, the Bears, with their highest score deducted from their total score, finished Monday with a team total of 337. The following day saw little improvement in scores or weather. Cangemi and Benson trimmed a few shots off their scores Tuesday, each shooting 80. Telch saw his score increase slightly to 83 along with Chen and Ricketts, who shot 88 and 89, respectively. Though the second day of competition yielded a better team total of 331 for the Bears, the 20th-place finish with an overall total of 668 was not enough to oust either of the other Ivy Leaguers. An unwanted vacation and continuous poor climate conditions have wreaked havoc on the young team. The last time the men were on the course for two consecutive days of competitive golf was a month ago at the season’s opening event, the Dartmouth Invitational. “That was our first competition in over two weeks. Our past two events were rained out and it’s tough jumping back into tournament play,” Hanley said. “The layoff really affected a lot of the guys. It was hard to get things going again.” The Toski Invitational, which was rained out at the end of September, is being made up Monday as a one-day event. As the last tournament of the fall season, the team looks to redeem its poor performance this week and end this part of the year on a positive note. “The effort has been there all season, and so has the attitude. Unfortunately, when the tournament starts, we’re just not clicking on all cylinders,” Hanley said. Herald staff writer Adam Royster ’05.5 covers men’s golf. He can be reached at aroyster@browndailyherald.com.

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Kim Highlund ’04 (center) tallied her 1,000th career dig in a win over Columbia.

Volleyball picks up first Ivy win versus Lions, loses to Cornell BY KATHY BABCOCK

Brown women’s volleyball (2-11, 1-4 Ivy League) faced the best and worst the Ivy League had to offer last weekend, proving the team belongs somewhere in the middle of the pack. The Bears faced Cornell (15-1, 6-0 Ivy League) Friday, losing 3-1 in a close match. The next day, the team beat Columbia 3-2 (0-14, 0-6 Ivy League) in its first Ivy win of the season. “I’m very, very happy with our win. There were moments when we shined in both games. Against Cornell, we had them in the third game 25-19,” said Kim Highlund ’04. “Really we should have pulled out our game against Cornell. I don’t think we just played with them. I think we played above them in both the second and third games which shows the potential of the team.” The Bears made an impressive comeback against Columbia. They fell behind in the first two games losing both by a score of 28-30, but managed to pull out of a deep hole to win the next three to win the match, with 30-22, 30-16 and 1510 victories. “We were finally able to do it at Columbia. I think that it was a great game because it did go (to) five and we could have folded in that fifth game,” Highlund said. It was a record-setting game for Highlund, who tallied her 1,000th career dig against Columbia. She tallied 18 digs in the contest, a team high that puts her career digs at 1,003. “It was obviously a great accomplishment. It’s something I’ve been looking forward to since my freshman year hoping that I could achieve it. Now my biggest thing is to get at least third (in Brown’s record for career kills). Laura Wells is in third with 1,034 digs,” Highlund said. “She was my big rival when I was a freshman and she was a junior, so it’s a big thing for me to get past her which unless I get injured I can definitely do.” Many other players had strong matches — Elvina Kung ’05 notched 16 digs, while Karalyn Kuchenbecker ’06 tallied her second double-double of the weekend with 22 kills and 10 digs and Liz Cvitan ’07 notched 20 kills. Other important hitters for the Bears were perennial performer Lauren Gibbs ’06 who had 14 kills and Meghan Goria ’06 getting back

into the lineup to record 10 kills. Leigh Martin ’06 set nearly everyone up with 62 assists on the match and had three kills and six digs herself. The Bears’ first Ivy win came off a tough loss at Cornell the day before followed by a long bus ride into the city. In the first game, the Bears fell 29-31, then regained the momentum to win the second game 30-27, tying the match 1-1. But the team lost a close third game 2830 and ran out of steam in the fourth game losing 22-30. Kuchenbecker led the team against the Big Red with her first double-double of the weekend with 16 kills and 17 digs, uncharacteristically leading the team in digs. Setter Martin also notched a double-double in the match with 53 assists and 17 digs, sharing the team lead with Kuckenbecker. Cvitan made 17 kills in the loss, which was a personal best for a match until she shattered it the next day. Gibbs put in a strong showing as well with 15 kills. Kung had another solid day on defense tallying 13 digs while Victoria Kasten ’07 made an impressive showing with 15 digs. For the first three games of the match, the Bears kept up with the best team in the Ivies. Brown was unable to finish, but the scores show two evenly matched teams. By comparison, their Ivy win the next day at Columbia is less impressive. “One of the most frustrating things is that after almost every match that we lost, the other team’s coach has said, ‘You’re going to have a phenomenal team,’ and that’s great, but we know that we already are. It’s just a matter of getting to the next level,” Highlund said. Bruno has its first home stand in nearly a month this weekend against Dartmouth and Harvard. “I definitely hope that it is a turning point. … I think it was just a matter of getting over that hump of knowing that we can do it and knowing that we’re just as good if not better than a lot of the teams in the Ivy League,” Highlund said. “We’ve had this idea that we’re younger than other teams. We just have to go out and play like we know we can and the way we play in practice. We have to go out and prove it to people.” Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers volleyball. She can be reached at kbabcock@browndailyherald.com.

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