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Community policing initiative could start next month BY AIDAN LEVY

Starting as early as December, Department of Public Safety officers will be assigned to patrol specific campus regions in an effort to facilitate communication between DPS and the Brown community. The initiative, spearheaded by Lt. Kevin Andrews, is intended to accelerate the crime investigation process and streamline communication between the community and law enforcement officials. Ultimately, the initiative, known as “community policing,” should build a safer, more connected community, Andrews said. “A lot of older people would say it’s going back to the era of the foot cop, but it’s more complicated than that,” Andrews said. “A wide array of service-oriented organizations in the community is involved.” Currently, each DPS officer patrols a large campus region — North Campus or South Campus. Under the new system, each will patrol a much smaller territory. With community policing, 30 DPS officers will negotiate which regions will be their territory. Regions are small — for example, Wriston Quad is a region by itself. Each region will be covered during three daily shifts. Assignments will last one to two years, but a concrete figure will emerge as the plan develops further. Currently, DPS is hiring new officers to fill the positions of two officers who are transferring out of the department in coming weeks. When the interviewing process has concluded and the community policing plan is put in place, officers will be encouraged to familiarize themselves with residents of

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A Providence police officer stood watch at Faunce Arch as a student walked home to Pembroke campus Tuesday night.

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Dorm inspections leave some ‘I can’t talk right I’m in class’ students unhappy with ResLife now, Professors try creative BY JANE TANIMURA

Confusion about where and when annual room inspections would be conducted has left some students complaining that they were fined unfairly by the Office of Residential Life. Since Oct. 27, ResLife inspectors have been performing the first round of plain-sight inspections in select residence halls across campus. The second round, which will cover all other residence halls, will be conducted in the next three weeks. In accordance with ResLife protocol, inspectors will knock on a resident’s door, enter and then record any violations per a checklist, a process that

takes only a few minutes, said Assistant Dean of Student Life Thomas Forsberg. If a resident has violated any rules, the inspector will leave a copy of the checklist in the room. Inspectors confiscate some unauthorized materials, especially candles, upon inspection, and they will revisit other rooms to make sure students have made required changes to décor and removed other illegal materials. In serious cases, failure to correct these violations will result in referral to the disciplinary system, Forsberg said. Some students who were fined dur-

The Rhode Island Workers’ Safety Act, signed by Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 last summer, will ban smoking in all public facilities beginning March 1, 2005. Approved by the General Assembly on June 17, the law forbids smoking in bars, clubs, restaurants, malls, sports arenas, offices, taxis and any place of employment. Only smoking clubs, such as cigar bars, and Rhode Island’s two gambling facilities — Lincoln Park and Newport Grand — are exempt from the ban. Though bars with Class C or D liquor licenses and fewer than 10 employees can wait until Oct. 1, 2006, to implement the policy, very few locations around the Brown campus qualify for the provision. Most College Hill restaurants do not currently allow smoking. Those that do are accepting the policy without opposition, and some suggest it is a positive change. “I quit smoking six months ago, so for

me it is a blessing,” said Kostas Karampetsos, general manager of Kartabar on Thayer Street. “From my understanding everybody thinks it’s a good thing.” Both Kartabar and Paragon currently allow smoking at the bar (and restaurant, although with limits), but will implement the ban when it comes into effect in March. Fish Company, however, tentatively plans to prohibit smoking sometime in January. A Fishco bar manager said he expects the ban will hurt business. Jennifer Roberts, general manager of Paragon, said that while the law will affect every food and beverage business in the state, some Rhode Island towns are already smoke-free and “pretty much everybody just gets used to it.” “You’re not going to stop going out to a restaurant or a bar because you’re not allowed to smoke,” Roberts said. “They’re going to come here or they’re going to stay home.”

Nicholas Mackris, co-owner and managing partner of Andreas, is similarly straightforward about the change. “It’s not a negative thing, and obviously we’re going to have to comply,” Mackris said. “But a lot of college kids smoke … so I do think it’ll affect businesses around this area in particular.” But many Brown students expressed relief that they would no longer be victims of secondhand smoke. “As an asthma sufferer, I’m looking forward to the ban,” said Greg Kuwaye ’08. Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New York, Florida, California, Delaware, Idaho and Utah and several cities — including Boston — already have smoking bans in place. Students from those places say eating in partially smoky restaurants has been far more of an adjustment than the upcoming ban will be. “I’ve gotten so used to eating a burger at a bar and tasting the burger instead of

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I N S I D E T H U R S D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 1 , 2 0 0 4 RISD’s solar decathlon team gets ready to compete against 18 schools in two-year competition risd, page 3

NPR correspondent Mara Liasson ’77 to speak on 2004 election this afternoon campus news, page 5

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 isn’t so sure what she thinks about feng shui — but her mom really likes it column, page 11

BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

The proliferation of cell phones in modern society has been felt everywhere, from the roads to subway cars to concert halls and movie theaters. Brown’s classrooms and lecture halls are no exception. A decade ago, students would never have recognized the sound of a cell phone cutting into a lecture or breaking up a discussion. But Gus Crothers ’07 said HI 135: “Modern Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity,” has regularly been interrupted this semester. “I can say that probably in every lecture you can hear a cell phone, but that’s the case in every big lecture class I have,” he said. Crothers said he did not think his professor should do anything “but set a good example by turning off his cell phone, which he made sure to do after his phone went off in one of the early classes.” Alana Firl ’07 said she has heard cell phones ring in each of her courses this semester except her 8:30 a.m. physics class. Firl added that she was extremely annoyed by students comparing ring tones in one class. “I’d like to see all cell phones collected and burned,” she said. According to Christine Rosen, a senior editor of the technology journal New Atlantis, “What we’re seeing on college campuses and classrooms, we’re seeing in many public spaces.” The author of a recent article, “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves,” said she’s observed “a Jekylland-Hyde thing that goes on with cell phones, because those of us that have them like to think that we use them thoughtfully in public space.”

College Hill bars prepare for smoking ban BY MARY-CATHERINE LADER

strategies to stop cell phone interruptions

Marie Hopkins RUE ’08 writes that the financial aid situation isn’t fair for transfer and RUE students column, page 11

Two members of the men’s tennis team have successful weekend at Dartmouth competition sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “SOUTH ASIA: BOOM OR DOOM?” 7 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) — Anita Pratap will give this lecture, which closes South Asian Identity Week. Pratap was CNN’s South Asia bureau chief.

“ELECTION 2004: A WASHINGTON INSIDER’S VIEW” 4 p.m. (Salomon 101)— A lecture from Mara Liasson, national political correspondant for National Public Radio.

INTERFAITH SUPPER: CRIME AND JUSTICE FROM A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE 5 p.m. (58 Keene St.) — Richard Frechette, administrator and chief financial officer of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, will lead this dinner and discussion of spirituality and the criminal justice system.

THEATER:“FUCKING A” 8 p.m. (Leeds Theater)— The opening night of the latest Sock & Buskin production, a drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning playright Suzan-Lori Parks.

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MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Hot Ham on a Bulky Roll, Lyonnaise Potatoes, Kielbasa, Pasta Primavera, Green Peas, Vegan Tofu Pups, Waffle Fries, Jelly Roll, Yellow Cupcakes with Frosting.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Cream of Mushroom Soup, Chicken Soup with Tortellini, Sloppy Joe Sandwich, Falafel in Pita, Creole Mixed Vegetables, Yellow Cupcakes with Frosting.

DINNER — Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Sauce, Spinach and Rice Bake, Red Potatoes with Fresh Dill, Cajun Corn and Tomatoes, Whole Green Beans, Cheese Biscuit Bread, Ice Cream Sundae Bar.

DINNER — Vegetarian Cream of Mushroom Soup, Chicken Soup with Tortellini, BBQ Chicken, Vegan Vegetable and Tempeh Saute, Herb Rice, Fresh Sliced Carrots, Stir Fry Vegetable Medley, Cheese Biscuit Bread, Jelly Roll.

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 3

RISD students compete in two-year-long solar decathlon BY CHELSEA RUDMAN

In the fall of 2005, RISD will be one of just 19 schools competing at the U.S. Department of Energy’s second Solar Decathlon, a competition designed to raise awareness of alternative energy sources and produce viable options for solarpowered housing. With two schools coming from across international borders, the DOE hopes that the competition will raise both national and international awareness of alternative energy sources. The goal of the competition is to design and build a self-sustaining, energy-efficient and aesthetically pleasing solar-powered home that provides inhabitants with electricity and running water and a well-designed, comfortable living space. In the fall of 2005, the full-size houses will be displayed on the lawn at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., but RISD SOLAR plans to begin construction of its house this spring on the banks of the Providence River. Each participating team has approximately two years to plan, design and build its house. Before, during and after the 10-day competition in Washington, D.C., the public will be able to visit the houses and learn about the use of solar power. Judged in 10 different

categories ranging from architecture to communications, designs must balance a variety of functional demands to win. RISD’s participation in the Solar Decathlon began with Adjunct Professor of Architecture Jonathan Knowles. In the summer of 2003, Knowles approached one of his students with the idea. Four days later, a few of his students sent a proposal to the Department of Energy. The team, which named itself RISD SOLAR, was chosen from approximately 30 applicants and is the only art school participating in the competition, as well as the only school without an engineering department. Other faculty members working on the project include Wilbur Yoder, a co-head of the project with Knowles, and Peter Tagiuri, chair of the architecture department, who works to recruit students to RISD SOLAR and integrate the resources of all of RISD’s departments. So far, a total of approximately 45 students have worked on the solar house. These include several Brown students, such as Marika Shioiri-Clark ’05, who is currently enrolled in the architecture class affiliated with RISD SOLAR, “One to One.” The RISD team has received outside help from engineers through local

companies such as Entech. After its initial proposal was accepted in summer 2003, the RISD team spent the fall semester and winter session drawing up three initial designs and researching solar panels. In spring 2004, the team selected a final design and submitted its plans to the DOE. Since construction was approved in September, RISD SOLAR has been building prototypes of the house’s various components to test out the functionality of their designs and the effectiveness of different materials. RISD SOLAR Spokesperson and Fundraising Committee Chair Cristina Zancani-Tabena RISD ’05 expressed her team’s strengths, writing in an e-mail, “We … believe that the ultimate design success will be in interdisciplinary collaboration. RISD offers the great advantage of having all the disciplines of art and design, and integrating them could bring forth the assets of our institution.” The biggest problem for the team has been fundraising. The college has given RISD SOLAR a grant of $40,000, but the team needs to raise $400,000 in total for the project, Zancani-Tabena wrote.

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ResLife continued from page 1 ing the first round of inspections now say they were not given adequate warning about the inspections. “They didn’t make it clear that they were checking the rooms,” said Ted McCarthy ’07. Inspectors confiscated McCarthy’s hookah from the common room of his friend Jamie Kidwell ’07. When Kidwell went to retrieve the hookah from the Department of Public Safety, officers there said because it did not smell like marijuana, she could have it back, Kidwell said. Still, even though her four other suitemates had nothing to do with the incident, Kidwell said they have all been asked to meet with Associate Dean of Student Life Terry Addison for a non-disciplinary meeting. “My main complaint is that it’s an inconvenience. I don’t think everybody (in the suite) should be responsible,” Kidwell said. But Forsberg defended these inspections, saying any students who did not receive ResLife emails about the inspections were “isolated incidents.” Forsberg said students were notified prior to the inspections, in accordance with Residential Life’s Health and Safety Inspections Code, which is described on ResLife’s Web site. In addition to the e-mail sent out to all residents on Wednesday, another e-mail that detailed the inspecting process and the times the examinations were to occur was sent three weeks ago. Flyers were also posted on the doors of residence halls, Forsberg said. But Mario Desouza ’05, who lives in New Dorm and was cited for sleeping with the door to his suite open, said he never saw any flyers or received an e-mail. After the inspection, two of his roommates ended up being locked out of their rooms by the inspectors, he said. Inspectors are required to lock doors when they leave, even if they are unlocked when they arrive. Nicholas Friesner ’05.5 said

although he knew information about the inspections was out there, he did not think the notices were visible enough. Friesner said he found the flyer on the back door of Barbour Hall, where he lives, only after he was fined and actively searched. But Friesner said he and his two roommates never received an email. “I only saw one flyer in the whole building and it’s the most nondescript thing I’ve ever seen, which leads me to believe that they didn’t want us to know about it,” he said. When Kidwell was trying to find out more about ResLife’s policies online, she said the process of looking for information was “like a loop” — she was constantly referred to one Web site and then another. Friesner has already set up an appointment with Director of Housing Richard Bova and plans to ask that fines be waived for all residents who did not receive notification. But Forsberg said proving that some students didn’t receive the e-mail will be difficult because ResLife computers never reported a system error after it was sent. Forsberg said the inspections are not intended to get students in trouble but to ensure a safe environment in all the residence halls. “Our goal is prevention,” Forsberg said. Although ResLife has published brochures and sent out emails about health and safety issues in the residence halls, Forsberg said room inspections are still the most effective way of reducing violations because they affect students the most immediately. “The fact that we’re finding violations proves that other resources haven’t worked,” he said. Forsberg said it’s still too early to determine whether violation rates have increased since last year because inspections of all residence halls have yet to be completed. Assistant Director for Operations Jacqueline Newcomb said some buildings have had significantly fewer violations than others.

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 5

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies RAMALLAH, West Bank (Los Angeles Times) — Yasser Arafat, the guerril-

la chieftain who juggled armed resistance and political diplomacy, died at age 75 Thursday in Paris, leaving a dual impression on the world: the iconic symbol of the Palestinian struggle for nationhood, and the embodiment of a revolutionary who could not make the transition to governance.

Revered and reviled, Arafat forced the plight of the Palestinian people into international consciousness and made it the defining conflict of the 20thcentury Middle East. He convinced even his enemies that Palestinians had the right to a state of their own, then failed tragically to deliver it. Locked to the end in a showdown with Israel, Arafat saw many of his

NPR correspondent to speak this afternoon Award-winning National Public Radio political correspondent Mara Liasson ’77 will present a “Washington insider’s view” of the 2004 election today in Salomon 101. Liasson, who concentrated in American history at Brown, has covered four presidential elections and the aftermath of the Gulf War for NPR since she joined in 1985 as a general assignment reporter. She now reports on politics and national policy issues on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition” and on the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Brit Hume.” She serves as a panelist on “Fox News Sunday” and appears on PBS’s “Washington Week” and

other political programs. Liasson has also worked in print journalism. She took a leave of absence from NPR in 1988 to attend Columbia University as a recipient of a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in economics and business journalism. She sits on the board of Freedom House, a nonpartisan pro-democracy think tank. Liasson’s lecture, “Election 2004: A Washington Insider’s View,” is being sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and is this year’s John Hazen White Lecture. The lecture, which begins at 4 p.m, is free and open to the public. — Christopher Chon

erstwhile supporters desert him as he appeared increasingly an anachronism, apparently unable to truly forswear violence or embrace the rule of law. The only leader most Palestinians have ever known, Arafat came tantalizingly close to establishing the state he dedicated his life to winning. For signing the 1993 Oslo, Norway, peace accords with Israel, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his Israeli partners, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, then made a triumphant entry into the Gaza Strip to become the elected head of the Palestinian Authority, ruling a territory made up of the strip and a patchwork area in the West Bank. By the time Arafat died, however, he and the Palestinians had lost much of what they had gained, as Israel expanded Jewish settlements and re-occupied some lands amid a surge in Palestinian attacks. Arafat was a decrepit shadow of the leader he once was, shunned by a White House where he was once an honored guest and trapped in the ruins of his Israeli-battered headquarters in the West Bank, his graft-ridden Palestinian Authority all but collapsed. Especially as a younger, more

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Phones continued from page 1 “In fact, our use is quite the opposite — most people do pull out the phone and start talking,” she said. When cell phone owners tell researchers both that they use their phones conscientiously in public spaces like classrooms and that they are horrified by others’ behavior, “it’s what sociologists call the actor-observer paradox,” she said. Rosen added that “some of (the rude behavior) is here to stay ... but I like to think that the pendulum will spring back towards the manners end.” Professors at Brown have tried different strategies to minimize cell phone disruptions in class. Assistant Professor of Political Science Jennifer Lawless has a unique approach. “I tell them at the beginning of class that if their cell phones goes off, they have to take the call,” Lawless said. Lawless said the method had been a good deterrent, as the only phone that has rung was her own. “I did not take the call,” Lawless said.

Professor of Biology Kenneth Miller, who teaches BI 20: “Foundations of Living Systems,” which typically enrolls 300 to 400 students, said he has an effective way of preventing cell phone disruptions. On the first day of class, “I invited all the students to join me in exercise” by standing up to turn off their phones, he said. “I would say most classes would not have a cell phone go off, but in the ones that did, you can immediately spot them, you know, ripping through their backpacks,” Miller said. Associate Professor of English Daniel Kim, who teaches EL 61: “Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures,” a large class required for English concentrators, said he thinks in big classes students try to be more careful about turning off their phones. Kim said he doesn’t see cell phone disruptions as too big a problem because “every time it’s happened they’re just so incredibly mortified that it doesn’t happen again.” Herald senior staff writer Justin Elliott can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Smoking continued from page 1 tasting half burger and half Marlboro Red that it’s weird going to places and tasting food with the mix of cigarettes,” said Boston native and nonsmoker Luke Harris ’07. Charisma Levonleigh ’08 from Santa Barbara, Calif., said that while she favors the ban, she is sympathetic to the effect it will have on her friends who do smoke. “In New England because the winter is so bad, I feel bad asking people to step outside and smoke,” she said. A sophomore who described himself as a “purely social smoker” said he has seen the effect a smoking ban had on the sidewalks of his hometown, New York City. “It pisses smokers off and some actually stop smoking, but the real smokers just smoke outside,” he said. “So you have a herd of smokers outside, and you can’t walk, and babies can’t be pushed on their strollers, and it creates a whole new form of societal atmosphere.” State Sen. Susan Sosnowki, who sponsored the law, said she expects it will change the state’s atmosphere for the better. After pushing similar legislation for the past three years, her efforts were rewarded by a State Senate vote of 25-7 on May 3 with the support of several organizations, including the American Cancer Society and Heart and Lung Associations. “It’s time we cleaned the air in Rhode Island,” she said.

Solar continued from page 3 “Fundraising has been our biggest hole,” Knowles said. The team has received donations from corporations and private individuals and is also looking to receive assistance in the form of donated materials. RISD SOLAR recently entered a competition to win solar panels from energy super-giant BP. Next semester, RISD SOLAR will begin construction of its house on the waterfront in Providence, not far from the architecture building. The house will be open to the public until graduation, and the team is hoping for plenty of local publicity so it can, as Knowles said, “promote what we’re doing.” Next fall, the module will be partially disassembled and transported to Washington, D.C. During the three-week display period in the capital, approximately 100,000 visitors are expected to visit the solar houses, Knowles said. Real estate agents and developers are expected to be amongst them, scouting for models that might ultimately be massproduced. Knowles said he would “like to sell (the house) to an enlightened developer,” but that another option would be to keep the prototype as a working laboratory resource for RISD and Brown students. There is “definitely” a future for solar power in the United States, Zancani-Tabena said. “I think people will consider it more and more. There’s no pollution. It’s natural. … These (houses) are the first experiments in terms of making a great design for (solar) housing.” With rising demands, dropping costs and improved efficiency, solar power is already on the rise in the United States, Knowles pointed out, adding, “This is the next technology.”

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Bowls continued from page 12 The Las Vegas Bowl is miffed because it has to wait for the regular season to end Dec. 4, because a Pac-10 team might drop into its lap depending on the outcome of UCLA-USC or CaliforniaSouthern Mississippi. Meanwhile, the Emerald and Silicon Valley bowls, knowing they virtually have no shot at a Pac-10 school, already are shopping for free agents. “It’s downright unfair,” Kunzer-Murphy of the Las Vegas Bowl said. So is this what happens when you have too many bowl games? Bingo. This year, more than ever, major conferences may have trouble providing teams for their tie-ins. Part of the reason is an 11game season requires that a team have a winning record to be bowl eligible. There is NCAA legislation pending that will allow for 12-game seasons — meaning 6-6 gets you to the Houston Bowl — but that won’t happen until 2006. This year’s mad scramble has bowl officials scouring bottom-feeder conferences for teams that have six victories. “You have to be halfwhacked to work in this business,” Kunzer-Murphy said. The big winners this year may be the Western Athletic

and Mid-American conferences, which in some years have had bowl-qualified teams that don’t get a sniff. Last year, Northern Illinois of the MAC went 10-2, defeating Maryland and Alabama, yet sat home for the holidays. This year, ironically, there could be a bidding war for Akron. “Every bowl game in the country is going to have the WAC and the MAC,” KunzerMurphy surmised. Somewhat amazingly, the most sought after free agent right now is 7-2 Navy. “Navy is like the cute girl on the corner that everyone is courting,” Kunzer-Murphy said. Bowls desperate for schools are hocking their bowl wares like trinkets on a sidewalk. Las Vegas is selling, well, Las Vegas, and the fact that its host teams get to stay at the Hard Rock. Incredibly, the shortage of available schools has not slowed the prospect of additional bowls — games in Denver and San Diego are being proposed. Pacific 10 Commissioner Tom Hansen said there’s nothing the NCAA can do to stop the proliferation. “The marketplace will determine which ones survive,” he said. Hansen said he envisions a year when a bowl will not be able to fill its commitments and the game will have to be canceled. With any luck, it could happen this year.

Arafat continued from page 5 robust man, Arafat exuded an undeniable charisma. He could charm skeptical visitors, playfully tease children, rally enormous crowds with vows to march on Jerusalem. In his prime, he could speak of moderation in his quest for a Palestinian state but still sanction an attack in Israel if the timing seemed right. The hatred he conjured in his enemies was easily matched by the devotion of his supporters who lionized him. A turning point, in a life replete with them, came with the collapse of the Camp David summit convened by President Clinton in the summer of 2000. Many blamed Arafat because he rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s offer of limited Palestinian sovereignty over parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Arafat dismissed the offer as inadequate. By that October, a new intifada, or uprising, had erupted, sparked in part by what some saw as an inflammatory visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by Ariel Sharon, then an opposition leader. Israel, which had once accepted Arafat as a partner in peace, bitterly repudiated him as the architect of the escalating militarization of the intifada. A backlash against Barak led to his defeat at the polls and brought Sharon to power. Under the hard-liner and his right-wing Likud Party, polarizing rhetoric and violence from both sides

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Policing continued from page 1 their particular region and anyone who regularly visits or works in the region during their shift, in order to establish a viable line of communication. Officers will first contact residential counselors and will later branch out to meet administrators, faculty and students. However, community policing can only be effective with the full cooperation of the community, Andrews said. “DPS is just the catalyst to get the community involved in crime prevention,” he said. “The community needs to take an active role in keeping Brown a safe place.” Andrews emphasized that offhand comments and suggestions may prove to be significant elements to solving an ongoing investigation or deterring a crime. “It may seem that it’s really nothing, but a little thing like spotting some guy on a corner every morning may have something to do with a crime.” While community members are currently allowed to discuss concerns with DPS, Andrews feels community policing will cause a dramatic improvement in communication. “Through constant interaction, community members become more comfortable with an officer and apt to voice their concerns,” he said. Michelle Nuey, manager of special services for DPS, said she believes community policing will “maximize the relationship between officers and the community.” By stationing officers in permanent locations, “Officer A will know X, Y and Z in a building. They’ll be able to establish a clear and prolonged post. It definitely facilitates police-community relations if you can put a name with a face,” she said. The new system engenders a quicker response, with officers closely in touch with a small community, rather than a centralized patrol less aware of specific campus regions. While officers will patrol a small area, this will not bar them from responding to calls from other areas. But responding to crimes is not the primary goal of instituting a community policing program, Andrews said. The hope is that community policing will be a more effective means to deter crimes from happening at all, but the community must play a role, he said. “As far as response to crimes that may occur, it will more or less stay the same, but we want to be more than an organization that responds as things happen.”

M. tennis continued from page 12 up for us, since each player needs to play a certain amount,” Blumenkranz said. Although the outcomes of their matches do not have an effect on their league standing, both went to the tournament to compete. “Every tournament is important,” Scherer said. In doubles action, the pair lost to Harvard’s Parker and Scott Denenberg, 8-5. This was not the first time they played together — they competed in a few doubles matches this summer as well as a few times this

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M. tennis continued from page 8 season. “They barely got by us,” Blumenkranz said. “We are a work in progress. We definitely have to improve.” Scherer has high hopes for the duo. “We’re just learning to play with each other, but we are getting better,” he said. The Bears will enjoy a brief winter break until they compete again on Jan. 22 at Boston College. Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe ’07 covers men’s tennis. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Arafat continued from page 7 intensified. Israel now held Arafat personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israelis in a wave of suicide bombings and other attacks. And Arafat’s own people, worn down by decades of struggle with Israel, began to lose faith in him. The bloody confrontation — which has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Israelis and more than 3,000 Palestinians — was driven, Palestinians said, by Israel’s refusal to relinquish the Jerusalem site known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, or to promise that Palestinian refugees, and their descendants, who lost their homes in the 1948 war that ended British rule and created Israel, could return. To Palestinians, Arafat’s refusal burnished his image as an uncompromising nationalist. To Israelis, it sealed his slide from interlocutor to an enemy many of them considered to be nothing more than an unreconstructed terrorist. As suicide bombings increased, Sharon launched an all-out war on Palestinian militants, declared Arafat persona non grata and reoccupied the West Bank. In 2002, Israeli troops flooded Arafat’s Ramallah compound, known as the Muqata, destroying most of the structures, battling Arafat’s bodyguards and cutting off all outside access. His final decline came within the sandbagged, crumbling walls of the Muqata. The diplomats and dignitaries no longer visited. His health faded mysteriously and he was reported to have briefly lost consciousness. His senior aides were quickly assembled. Arafat finally agreed to leave the West Bank for urgent medical care, but only after Sharon reversed himself and promised to allow Arafat to return once he had recovered. Some say Sharon did so knowing Arafat would not be returning, at least not alive. At dawn on Oct. 29, a smiling but frail Arafat was led to the parking lot of the Muqata and hoisted into a Jordanian military helicopter. It carried him away into leaden skies as a small group of supporters waved and wept. From Jordan, he was taken to a hospital near Paris. With his death, Arafat leaves his people in the midst of economic, political and security crises, bereft of a leader who once captured the world stage, and longing for their shared dream of independence.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Ringing sour Most people agree that Brown students are, to a point, capable and intelligent. Students here juggle busy academic, extracurricular and social lives and somehow manage to keep everything together. So it’s mind-boggling to think about how many Brown students are unable to turn their cell phones off when they enter a classroom. Students in large lecture classes report phones ringing on a daily basis, and professors must devise creative methods to remind students to turn off their phones. It’s true that many Brown students have important positions on campus and need to be reachable, and it’s understandable that people want to know when someone is trying to reach them. But it’s also true that students want to be able to focus on lectures, classroom discussion and their education, rather than their neighbor’s cell phone. We’re not paying $37,000 a year to hear your new Motorola play Kanye West’s “All Falls Down” or Britney Spears’ “Toxic” — we can turn the radio on for those. Being considerate of your fellow students means turning your cell phone off. It’s that kind of consideration for others that led state officials to impose a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. Scheduled to take effect on March 1, the ban ensures that a nonsmoker’s meal — not to mention his health — will not be ruined by second-hand smoke. Sure, smokers are not sitting in clubs and bars blowing smoke directly into nonsmokers’ faces. But they are imposing the effects of their harmful and disgusting habit on people who have not consented to such effects. It is distressing that a law is required to force people to be considerate of their neighbors, but these laws work. In cities such as New York and Boston, restaurants and bars continue to thrive, despite smoking bans that were heavily debated when first proposed. The same principle works here on campus; professors who address the problem of cell phones ringing in classes face the nuisance head on, and a firm policy regarding phones ringing in classes is necessary. It’s disappointing and somewhat surprising Brown students can’t turn their phones off on their own, but clearly some prodding is needed.

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LETTERS Dietsch misrepresents Democrats’ situation To the Editor: I wanted to make a few quick points in reply to Emily Dietsch’s column (“Staying the Course,” Nov. 8). Though I believe she had good intentions, her column seriously misreads the situation the Democratic Party finds itself in (or, rather, made for itself). Dietsch writes that we need to “stay the course, but louder, stronger and more effectively.” The problem is that the “course” that the Democratic Party is now on, and has been on for some time, is one that caters to the poisonous political culture whose terms are set by the right. What this country desperately needs is not more of the current mess, but an unapologetic progressive movement that will step out of the boundaries of current political discourse and capture the imaginations and interests of the millions of disillusioned Americans who don’t see their basic concerns being addressed by either mainstream party. It is a shame that the Democrats and their supporters put so much effort and money into trying to marginalize the only anti-war, anti-Patriot Act, antideath penalty, pro-gay marriage (the list could go on) candidate, Ralph Nader. The only thing that will stop the right-wing drift of American politics is a movement from the left that will force political

issues onto the table that need to be addressed in a progressive way. Otherwise, the rank and file of the Democratic Party can be as progressive as they want, but the leadership of the party will ultimately ignore them and continue to play the right wing’s game. If there is no movement to the left of the Democrats that will force them — with the threat of taking a significant amount of votes — to address important issues in a new and progressive way, they won’t do it. They have no reason to if they are assured that, no matter what, we progressives will have to vote for them because there’s nothing else to do. What we on the left need is the self-confidence that if we put our ideas out there with honesty and frankness, Americans will listen seriously to us because we are addressing their concerns in ways that they need to be addressed. The current trend of the Democratic Party, underneath it all, shows a total lack of self-confidence in progressive ideas and a horrible lack of faith in the American people’s progressive potential. Unless the party changes its “course,” further disillusionment is in store. Derek Seidman GS Nov. 10

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 11

ARI SAVITZKY

Privacy rights now If Democrats are unable to assert a compelling message to voters in 2008, they will spend another term in exile. Democrats must reshape the liberal-conservative spectrum; as so many have said, they must reclaim the populism which has been monopolized by those interests who benefit from culture war, class division and Republicanism in its current form. In the style of the times, I propose adding privacy to the Bill of Rights. Amendments-as-political-devices are all the rage. So maybe one to secure our bodies, families and private lives as our own respective business could begin to marginalize a toxic values debate and hasten the em-bluement of the West and its electoral troves. An amendment guaranteeing that “the right of all persons to privacy shall not be violated” would bolster widely assaulted freedoms. If privacy is not implicit in the Fourth Amendment's right “to be secure in (our) persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,” perhaps that’s because the people who wrote the Bill of Rights lived in a society impossibly different from our own. Just to make it especially clear whose liberty was to be most prized in this new country, though, our founding fathers included an amendment explaining that the specific rights mentioned in the bill “shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Yet it would take more than a century and a half, during whose waning years states sterilized “imbeciles” and contraception was widely illegal, for privacy to gain favor. In 1948, the United Nations declared privacy a universal human right, and in 1965 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut anti-contraception law and established a broad view of privacy as a set of “penumbral” rights, derived from the First, Fourth and Fifth amendments. After 1965, a definition began to emerge from the American courts: Privacy is a fundamental right; it is personal, not property-based; and it includes the right to one's body, a basic level of sexual freedom, a woman's right to choose and security of one's personal information. Yet without sufficiently explicit constitutional protection, privacy is routinely trampled. Web users are scammed daily on the “Internets,” the government is butting in on the taxpayers’ intimacy, prisons are filling needlessly with drug offenders who are accorded no rights over their own bodies and television is strangling America deeper into existential crisis. Isn’t it time to bestow on all persons the dignity that comes with the right to be left alone? President Bush’s proposed amendment to ban gay marriage never had much of a chance in Congress, but it served its electoral purposes well. The amendment’s basic statement — “gay marriage is a national problem” — framed the ensuing electoral politics, and forced the Left into the damaging and narrow position of defending gay marriage alone, rather than advocating broad civil rights, fundamental equalities or limited federal government intervention in Americans’ lives. A privacy rights amendment doesn’t need to pass — nor should it, necessarily. It just needs to send a clear message: that individual liberty, not religious or moral purity, must be protected to save America's soul. Democrats must play offense to win — we need to go out and actually convince voters that we stand for something. We need to build majorities without compromising or crapping out, even as we seek long-term change. Why do Americans support civil unions even as they vote against gay marriage? Why does the president support these semantic arrangements even as he pushes a federal ban? Most people believe what you do in your personal life is your own business and not the government’s. This sentiment resonates perhaps more in the west than in the Northeast, given the latter’s puritan root, and the former’s progressive past. From the prairie to the coasts, towering institutions have invaded private life, warping American individualism into a national complex. Voters are desperately seeking answers to fundamental questions about the nature of our society, and Democrats must posit some of their own. If Democrats express concerns about the direction of American life as a common dilemma of individual liberty, they can begin to isolate fanatics and unite populist conservatives, moderates, and liberals and libertarians. They can break the GOP in New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Montana by portraying them as in the hands of extremists. They can define the terms of our political discourse; they can play the game and win. Americans will vote for tolerance and liberty — Democrats need to bring it to them direct. Ari Savitzky ’06 wears the deepest shades of blue.

RUEing the aid situation GUEST COLUMN BY MARIE HOPKINS

Brown supports its domestic students as well as any other large university does — with one glaring exception: Transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students fall between the cracks when it comes to financial aid. The hurdles to solving this problem are enormous, officials say, but what is most troubling is that little action seems to have been taken to tackle the problem. The University does not currently consider RUE and transfers along with the rest of the student body when it doles out aid. In fact, both programs appear to be strictly budget-driven, and this budget is outside of the normal aid reserves. While transfer students are currently admitted to Brown under a need-blind admissions process, absolutely no University funds are allocated to support them. RUE students are still admitted needaware, with an annual budget that includes only a small allocation for aid. (Only two of the 2003 RUE admits received any University funds.) Prospective RUE students who have significant need are often declined admission based on finances, not on academic qualifications. While I commend the University for pushing for needblind admissions, I think there are some internal issues for those that are already admitted that need serious redress. First, segregating RUE and transfer aid from the rest of the University coffers is unfair and wholly unethical. Older students, special students, former military, those who took time to raise a family, late bloomers and anyone else who started at another institution are denied aid. Second, while not true for other full-time students, if a RUE or transfer student is not awarded aid in the first year they are ineligible for funds in future years. At the very least, and perhaps most important, RUE and transfer students

should be considered eligible for aid after they are fullfledged members of the student population. RUE and transfer students are thousands of dollars in debt. A large percent will graduate with six-figure debts after four years at Brown. That is staggering. The administration would not let a regular admit take on that amount of debt; for most students, if there is need, that need is at least partially met. The University Resources Committee, which advises the University on financial issues, met Monday to discuss funds allocation for next year. RUE and transfer students attended to voice concerns. Provost Robert Zimmer’s noncommittal response to these student worries was, “What I can say is we take the problem seriously. ... When we feel we can address it, we will.” RUE and transfer students fear this day will never come. The subject of financial and institution aid for RUE and transfer students needs to be tackled once and for all. For the provost to place the matter on the back burner yet again, until whenever the University feels it is ready to address it, is abhorrent. Something is seriously wrong with this picture. Brown supports diversity in the student body in most matters, yet it discriminates against RUE and transfers in regard to aid. We are a part of this community, we will be alums and many of us have already proven ourselves in business and social circles. Apply the same rules for aid to us that you apply for all other students.

An unfair financial aid policy hurts RUE and

transfer students.

Marie Hopkins RUE ’08 is vice president of the Resumed Undergraduate Student Association.

ALEXANDRA TOUMANOFF

Arranging prosperity My mother became obsessed with Feng Shui two years ago. I came home late to discover her rabidly dusting the guest room. We never dust in our house. Why clean something that inevitably replaces itself? “What’s wrong?” I asked, worriedly. Then I spotted a vacuum cleaner in the corner. This was obviously a crisis. She pitifully waved a dirty rag. “You know how the guest room is the Prosperity Room?” “Uh huh.” “Well. It turns out ... it’s not.” “What do you mean? It’s on the left, farthest from the front door ...” Mom cut me off. “I forgot to include the garage in my calculations. Going from there, the Prosperity Room is actually behind the guest room in the back yard, where your baby sister dug her pit. Our Prosperity Room is missing!” “Are you telling me that instead of a Prosperity Room, we have a Prosperity Pit?” I asked. But our spiritual journey had only begun. It turned out that our front door was in the wrong place. The Feng Shui expert, who had been on Oprah, recommended knocking down the entire front wall and rebuilding it with the door at a more Feng Shui friendly angle. My father objected to the cost so instead my family placed a giant bowl of salt by the door. The salt acted as a talisman, fighting the evil energy of the door. It was also good for tripping guests. With so much spiritual progress, we consulted a second Feng Shui expert. According to this one, our prosperity room was not where my little sister had dug her pit. It was the garage. This, if possible, was spiritually worse than the pit. “The garage?” my mother moaned. “We keep cars in there!” “Yeah, and aren’t there spiders?” asked my sister. “And expired earthquake emergency provisions,” my mother said. “Imagine the damage outdated soup cans are inflicting on our money energy!” We cleaned. But the Feng Shui expert said it wasn’t enough. We teetered on the chasm of spiritual disaster. What we needed, she said, were goldfish. We needed life in the garage, the expert explained. We

needed color. We needed movement. Goldfish were the obvious solution. With our prosperity mending, the Feng Shui expert decided to take a gander at my room. We stood in silence as she surveyed the piles of clothes and textbooks and considered in what direction she should flee. Nobody but the cockroaches was talking. “I am feeling considerable yin energy here,” she said. “Is that a good thing?” I asked weakly. “No. Yin is the dark. Yang is the light.” She gestured grandly like a realtor in a ballroom, scratching her acrylic nails down a wall that had once been white. “Yang is happiness, breathing spaces. Yin is dark, ghostly. It lies in a dead room like a rotted lily pad on a stagnant pool.” “Oh,” I said. “That sucks.” She stepped over my piles of stuff and glared at me. “Your bed’s in the wrong place,” she accused. “It is?” I asked. “I’m, uh, sorry.” “Don’t apologize to me. Apologize to yourself. And your bookshelves! They block an important channel of yang. The mess! It is truly amazing that in this room, you manage to get out of bed in the morning.” My mother looked very concerned and was taking notes. “So, what can I do?” I asked. “Paint the walls a different color?” The Feng Shui expert clutched at her chest and landed in a heap on a pile of clothes. A pizza crust fell out of them. “Paint the walls?” she gasped. “That’s like asking what you can do for your skin when your very bones are out of alignment.” My mother gasped. “So, what can I do?” I asked, getting comfortable on another pile. “Clear out the crap,” she said. I perked up. “You mean I should throw away the textbooks that I’ve had since eighth grade?” She wilted. “Oh, my god. YES.” “Cool.”

One student’s

encounter with Feng Shui.

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 keeps it real.

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SPORTS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 12

Bowls could be scrambling for qualified teams

Five earn All-Ivy recognition for w. soccer, LaVere ’06 named to first team

(Los Angeles Times) — Wanted by bowl com-

The end of the women’s soccer team’s season was bittersweet — the team finished 7-10 and 2-5 in the Ivy League — but the Bears did get some positive recognition from the Ivy League. Five players made either honorable mention All-Ivy or first team All-Ivy this year. Co-captain Meghan Schreck ’06, Hilary Wilson ’06, Jill Mansfield ’07 and Kathryn Moos ’07 all earned All-Ivy honorable mentions, but the lone first team selection was Kim LaVere ’06. LaVere had an outstanding season as the Bears’ sweeper, anchoring a strong defense and providing solid team leadership throughout the season. “Kim had a great season,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “She is a junior, and this was her best season. “I have a lot of confidence in her. This was a well deserved honor,” he said. Teammates agreed that it was nice for LaVere to get recognition, especially because she plays sweeper, a position that most people who aren’t soccer fans often don’t appreciate the importance of. “Kim does not get the credit she deserves. She is probably the best sweeper in the league. It was a nice honor for her to have made first team All-Ivy,” Schreck said. Schreck’s honorable mention capped a season in which she led the team in scoring, with 14 goals, while shouldering the burden of responsibility as a co-captain. “Meghan is an outstanding leader,” Pincince said. “She really takes care of everything on the field and off the field. She was in exclusive company being a captain as a junior and she handled it very well.” Schreck said she was happy to have been recognized by the league as an AllIvy selection, but it did not give her complete validation on the season. “It wasn’t something I expected or needed, but I am happy to have been

mittees: college football teams with six victories. Must have quarterback, head coach, fight song, ability to travel on short notice. Mascot optional. Welcome to Operation Saturation. The era of having more bowl-game slots than bowl-eligible schools may soon be upon us. With less than a month left in the season, 36 schools have reached the six-win threshold required for bowl participation, leaving 20 schools with work to do in order to satisfy the bloated 28-bowl-game market. “It’s a frightening scenario,” Las Vegas Bowl executive director Tina KunzerMurphy said this week. Consider the Las Vegas Bowl’s plight: It is supposed to get the Pacific 10 Conference’s fifth-place team to match against a Mountain West opponent. The problem is the Pac-10 may not have a fifth-place team that is bowl eligible. In fact, this year, if USC goes to the Orange Bowl, there’s a strong chance the Pac-10 might not be able to fill four of its seven bowl tie-ins. Situation: Four Pac-10 schools are locks for postseason play: USC, California, Arizona State and this weekend’s winner of UCLA-Oregon (both schools are 5-4). If USC ends up in the Orange Bowl and California goes to the Rose, Arizona State moves up to the Holiday Bowl. The Sun Bowl is assured of getting a Pac-10 team, but after that it’s “Katie bar the bowl-room door.” The Insight Bowl, which gets the No. 4 pick, stands a reasonable chance of getting a Pac-10 team, but it could be tough luck for the Las Vegas, Emerald and Silicon Valley bowls, all of which may be scrambling to fill vacant slots.

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BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN

Bill Pijewski / Herald

Kim LaVere ’06 was named First Team All-Ivy this year, following an honorable mention in 2002. Four other Brown players were named honorable mention All-Ivy. selected,” Schreck said. Wilson, a transfer from Arizona State University, had an outstanding and AllIvy-worthy first season. She tied a record for saves by a Brown goalie this season, with 145 saves, which included routine saves as well as game-saving ones. “Hilary really deserved to make first team,” Schreck said. “She couldn’t have had a better year. On top of everything soccer-related, she had to come in and adapt to a whole new environment. This was really a great year for Hilary.” Mansfield and Moos earned All-Ivy mentions for their consistently solid play. Mansfield continued to wow the crowd with her famous flip throw-ins.

Sports and business are a match made in heaven, purgatory or college Despite what the NCAA told Jeremy Bloom or what NHL fans want to believe, sports and business are inextricably linked. I will include poker as a sport and a business. I promise that this will be IAN CROPP CASH CROP my only mention of a game — I mean, sport — where sweaty, balding men exhibit dominant control of their facial muscles to intimidate or beguile opponents. And according to Buddy Cianci’s definition of a business, if money is being “rightfully taken” from a “willing” party and given to another, “respectable” party poker fits the bill. So what are some cases of the two worlds colliding? The NHL, the owners, the players and the fans (given in order of descending wealth) all know that hockey is the prepubescent poster child for the sport and business dilemma. Hockey is the sport and the NHL is the business, with the former taking a back seat to the latter. Right now, the best we can hope for is a government subsidy or the return of the Intolerable Acts with a hockey clause slapped on. (With the departure of John

Ashcroft, the prospects of this are looking bleaker and bleaker.) Just as Bo Jackson knows baseball, football and cricket, George Foreman knows boxing, cooking, naming children (all of his children are named George) and, most recently, house cleaning. With his Lean Mean Grilling Machines, he proved more than his worth in the business world. Now he has introduced a home cleaning system, which will probably sell like hotcakes. If anyone can sell weapons of mass destruction to Iraq and then convince the New York Times that it actually didn’t happen, I’m sure it would be him. Michael Phelps is a good athlete, but he made a bad business decision. What was he doing driving drunk? I’m disappointed, for the obvious reason that he could have been going home with just about any girl wherever it was that he was drinking. He should be jailed for his poor decision-making, in addition to his drunk-driving charge. I don’t think many sponsors will be calling him up too soon, unless they happen to be the same ones sponsoring NASCAR events. Stick to the water, Mike. There are plenty of sports products that have gone kerplunk faster than

Fidel Castro’s baseball career. The XFL, for example, was a great idea in practice. I’m sure anyone who has watched “SportsCenter” has seen Tom Emanski’s Defensive Drills video — possibly even seen the video back-to-back-to-back — and never, ever wanted to buy it. There are some products that do not work with the diamond-ring principle, wherein if you make someone’s marital and sexual wellbeing depending upon the purchase of a product, it will be bought. The defensive drills video does not fit that description in most states, though not the 10 of 11 where citizens have decided that there are specific morals in sports. As much as I have scoffed at the relationship between sports and business, I am morally obligated to praise the hand that feeds me. Without business, I wouldn’t have the opportunity to analyze sports while being remunerated at the current salary of NHL players. I doubt the NCAA is profiting off my labor, and I sure hope nobody at Brown is. I must warn anyone who tries: Buddy Cianci eventually will get out of jail. Herald sports editor Ian Cropp ’05 enjoys the GCB.

“She improved her ability to beat people one-on-one this year. She has always been good defensively, but this season she was very strong attacking as well,” Pincince said. Moos did not have as many goals as she had last year, when she captured Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, but she still scored 11 points this season, second only to Schreck. “She is someone that the opposing team always had to reckon with,” Pincince said. After losing six games by two goals or fewer this season, the Bears look to improve next season as all five of the AllIvy selections return.

M. tennis sends two to compete at Dartmouth BY BROOKE WOLFE

The men’s tennis team finished complete team action two weeks ago, but this past weekend two first-years competed in the Dartmouth Invitational. Neither Scott Blumenkranz ’08 nor Michael Scherer ’08 traveled to the Omni Regional Championships, so both needed to play a few more matches to come out even with those teammates who did, according to Head Coach Jay Harris. Scherer and Blumenkranz each competed in two singles and two doubles matches. Scherer won his first match against Harvard’s Robert Parker 6-2, 6-3, but fell to Manhattan College’s Elan Cohan 11-9. Scherer went into a third-set tiebreaker, also known as a super-breaker, rather than going into a third set. He lost by only two points in what he called a “nerve-racking but exciting” match. Blumenkranz lost his first match to Pedro Genovese from Marist College on a close call, eventually ending the match 64, 6-4. He came back to defeat Caleb Gardner from Harvard 6-4, 7-6. “(This tournament) is more of a warm-

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