M O N D A Y APRIL 11, 2005
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OUT OF AFRICA Film festival expands in its second year at the Cable Car to include tales of the diaspora A R T S & C U LT U R E 3
RIVER DEFILED Jack Sweeney-Taylor ’06: Maine Penobscot tribe’s water rights should be valued over paper profits O P I N I O N S 15
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EMS simulates mass casualty incident
Cole promotes mix of politics, business BY CHRISTINA KIM CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Health Services building becomes temporary mockup ‘disaster zone’ Sunday BY TARYN MARTINEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On April 10, a tanker carrying almost 800 million gallons of liquid natural gas exploded in Narragansett Bay. Everything within a one-mile radius of the explosion was immolated, while downtown Providence was mostly flattened by the blast and had several large fires to combat. Three of Providence’s main hospitals were destroyed. Up to 100,000 people were injured, and 38 seconds of exposure led to second-degree burns. How could such a thing have happened? This apocalyptic scenario was the subject of a mass casualty incident drill held by Brown Emergency Medical Services on Sunday afternoon. EMS Director Richard Lapierre defined a mass casualty incident as “one more patient than you can handle given the circumstances.” The first floor and basement of the Health Services building were transformed into a disaster zone, complete with injured and hysterical “victims” — mostly student actors and some mannequins — scattered debris and a power outage. The parking lot became a center of command and a treatment area for extricated victims, who were often strapped to spine boards or wearing neck braces. Victims themselves were removed from the building, treated and then placed onto tarps according to a color system: green victims were able to walk, yellow had non-critical injuries, red were critically injured and black were dead. About 104 people, all volunteers and mostly Brown students, participated in the drill. “I didn’t really know what I was getting into,” said volunteer Arminda Smith ’08. She played a hysterical woman whose baby died
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Gerry Kagan ’06 moved a volunteer “victim” from the parking lot of Health Services into an ambulance as part of Sunday’s drill.
No ‘ideological litmus test’ for ‘Kaleidoscope’ fund, Simmons says BY ANNE WOOTTON STAFF WRITER
President Ruth Simmons was thinking about intellectual diversity “long before she came to Brown,” according to her assistant, Marisa Quinn, and in January she announced the creation of a fund dedicated specifically to that goal. The recently named Kaleidoscope Fund has been initially financed with $100,000 of Simmons’ discretionary budget to pay for speakers Simmons
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deems will increase intellectual diversity at Brown. Simmons initially announced the fund at her Spring Semester Opening Address in January. Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza was the first speaker brought to campus with money from the Kaleidoscope Fund. His March lecture, titled “In Defense of see FUND, page 4
Summer renovations planned for 22 U. buildings Some dorms fail new fire codes — Minden worst BY STEWART DEARING STAFF WRITER
By next fall, Brown will have some of the most fire-safe college buildings in the United States, according to David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services. The University plans to renovate 22 buildings this summer to comply with new state and city fire codes, he said. Rhode Island recently updated its fire codes in response to the February 2003 Station nightclub fire in West Warwick that killed 100, Greene said. The state has set a time limit for institutions such as Brown to update their facilities to meet the new fire safety requirements. Of the buildings to be renovated, Minden Hall poses the most serious fire safety issues. “The staircases in Minden aren’t rated for fire safety and need to be closed off,” Greene said. The current layout of the staircases in
Minden does not comply with state fire codes because it doesn’t account for the “smoke potential,” he said. The staircases are open to the hallway, which in the event of a fire would allow smoke to enter the stairs and prevent students from exiting safely. An enclosed staircase will provide students with a safer, smoke-free escape route, Greene said. To enclose the staircases, architects will have to change the floor plan of the dorm. Specific changes will vary from floor to floor, but no private bathrooms will be removed from any of the rooms, said Richard Bova, director of residential life. Some suites on the corners of the building, however, will lose their corridors to make room for the stairs. In these altered suites, students will have to walk through one room to get to the others, Bova said. Other suites located far from the stairs will remain unchanged.
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Minden Hall is one of several dorms that will undergo construction renovations this summer.
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SMITHFIELD, R.I. — “Tomorrow I’ll donate clothes to the homeless, my sister won’t miss them,” reads an advertisement from fashion designer Kenneth Cole’s spring 2005 campaign. As the keynote speaker for the Brown University and Bryant University Entrepreneurial Extravaganza, Kenneth Cole spoke Friday night at Bryant about his experiences both as a fashion designer and as an advocate for social programs. The question and answer session covered the company’s tongue-in-cheek and socially aware advertising campaigns, Cole’s involvement with social programs and the actual business itself. “I love what I do. The business is a reflection of who I am,” Cole began. Cole started his career in 1984 selling shoes out of a 40-foot-long truck in New York City. Realizing that it was neither economical nor logical to be one of 1,100 shoe sellers, Cole decided to take a different approach. After changing the name of his company from Kenneth Cole Inc. to Kenneth Cole Productions Inc., he obtained a license from the New York mayor, under the pretense that he was shooting a full-length feature film titled “The Birth of a Shoe Company.” The license allowed him to park the truck in front of the New York Hilton Hotel, where department store buyers would be selecting shoes to sell in their stores. By catching buyers as they went from one building to another, Cole wound up selling over 40,000 pairs of shoes over the course of two and a half days. Twenty years later in 2004, Kenneth Cole Productions made over $515 million in revenue. Without “creative problem solving,” Cole said he would not have made that first sale. “The key is always to stay focused,” he said. Cole discussed the importance of connecting his work in social programs to his business. Because of a “pervasive consciousness” that seemed to be sweeping America in the 1980s, Cole said he wanted to work especially with AIDS in his early advocacy. “In 1985, you couldn’t speak about AIDS,” he said. Cole said he “started this public service campaign to talk about it.” One of the advertisements from the campaign advocates safe sex, featuring a portrait of a woman with the words “Shoes are not the only thing we encourage you to wear” written at the bottom. Cole serves as the chairman of the board of trustees for the American Foundation for AIDS Research and on the national board of HELP USA, an organization that provides housing and assistance for the homeless. During the month of February, Kenneth Cole stores offer a discount on shoes for shoppers who bring in a pair of their own shoes to donate to HELP USA. When one student asked Cole why he found it necessary to associate his political and social views with those of his company, he said he considers it his responsibility. “I’ve always done this because I’ve always thought that this is the right thing to do,” Cole said. see COLE, page 4 News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com
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THIS MORNING MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 2 Coreacracy Eddie Ahn
TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “HOW SECULAR WAS THE ENLIGHTENMENT? SIX FACES OF REASONABLE BELIEF” 4 p.m. (Salomon Center 203) — A lecture by Prof. David Sorkin, who previously taught at Brown (19831986). Since 1992 he has been the Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UW-Madison he has served as Director of Jewish Studies (199398) and is currently Director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities (2003- ).
“U.S. FIRMS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: HI-TECH ELECTRONICS IN GUADALAJARA, MEXICO” 4 p.m. (McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute ) — Kevin P. Gallagher, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, will examine the extent to which high technology firms from the U.S. have transfered technology to the so-called “Silicon Valley of South America,” Guadalajara, Mexico.
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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 3
Africana Film Festival makes expanded sophomore appearance
RISD works outshine Brown offerings at Hillel exhibit
BY JANE TANIMURA STAFF WRITER
On display at Hillel’s Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center this month is a consortium of artistic offerings, Brown and RISD students’ latest creative visions, brought together for the biannual “Juried Brown/RISD Student Show.” The exhibition, which had its unveiling on April 7 and is open to the public until April 30, features 27 pieces of diverse amateur work in a variety of different media. Coordinated by Ilana Schachter ’05, the compilation ranges from traditional oil-on-canvas paintings to more modernist attempts at sculpture and mixed media prints. Though its unspoken aim may be to demonstrate the potential for artistic prosperity as Brown and RISD students share a venue, unfortunately the exhibit only confirms RISD’s place as a bastion of craftsmanship superior to that of its neighbor. With a marked disparity between the rich output of design school talent and the less-inspired product of those whose ambitions outweigh their ability, the display ulti-
From documentaries to musicals, features to shorts, art house to mainstream, the films of this year’s Africana Film Festival reflect the breadth of Africana cinema, which includes movies from African diaspora cultures as well as Africa itself. The festival, which runs at the Cable Car Cinema from April 13 to 17, will show 15 films from 12 countries and host three panel discussions. Now in its second year, the festival expanded the scope of its screenings from last year by including African diasporic films and inviting more speakers from outside Brown. The ultimate intention is to reach beyond the academic community, said Richard Manning, one of the festival directors and a film archivist for the Department of Modern Culture and Media. Some of the festival’s highlights this year include the Rhode Island premieres of “Moolade” and “Agogo Eewo.” “Moolade,” a Senegalese film directed by Africa’s most famous filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene, tells the story of six girls’ escape from an African ceremony of female circumcision. Director Tunde Kelani’s film “Agogo Eewo” is a critical allegory of the corruption of Nigerian politics. The movie is an example of a new trend in Nigerian cinema called Nollywood, a kind of film that “doesn’t stay within one genre,” Manning said. “The director’s going into it as if there are no rules,” he said. International Writers Fellow for the Watson Institute Pierre Mumbere Mujomba will lead a screenwriting panel about writing for theater and screen in the
EVENT INFO Africana Film Festival April 13-17 Tickets: $3/show or 8 passes for $15 for students, $5/show or 8 passes for $20 for general admission Cable Car Cinema • 204 S. Main St. 401.272.3970 Schedule available at www.brown.edu/aff Democratic Republic of Congo. A noted playwright and novelist, Mujomba conflicted with the Congolese government in January 2002 after the performance of his politically subversive play “The Last Envelope.” Meadow Dibble-Dieng, a fifthyear graduate student in French Studies, with the help of Manning and Philip Rosen, professor of modern culture and media, founded the festival last year as the African Film Festival, which showed only films from Africa. Dibble-Dieng conceived of the idea for a festival as a way of giving exposure to a branch of cinema that’s becoming increasingly important but still not widely seen, said Claudia Esposito, co-director of the festival and also a fifth-year graduate student in French Studies. The event is sponsored by the Forbes Center for Culture and Media Services Studies, the Office of the President, the International Writers Project, the Heimark Fund and the Department of Africana Studies. Tickets are $3 for students and $5 for general admission. The Cable Car Cinema is located on 204 S. Main St. For more information, visit www.brown.edu/aff.
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mately endows RISD students with well-earned bragging rights. But perhaps the comparison isn’t entirely fair. In fact, among the Brown contributions, there are several pieces that both stand out and do justice to the University’s visual art department — the intricate “Untitled” by Leslie Wei ’05 and “There is Something Such That…” by alum Jonathan Allmaier ’02, in particular. Wei’s wall art, a shadowy, cardboard-cut rendering of the word “patriot” constructed out of the silhouettes of hand grenades, AK-47s and foot soldiers, is a remarkable achievement in its editorial impact. In a more ambiguous turn, Allmaier’s abstract panel of multihued browns, tans and reds covers the wall alongside a stairwell — to the regrettable end that despite its largeness, the creation is partially hidden from view. Still, any of Brown’s artistic achievements are only overshadowed by the innovative caliber of the gallery’s RISD entries. “RIPTA Emergency Conversation Cards: Rte. 99” by Stephanie Lempert RISD ’05 lampoons the emergency
guides found in public transportation in an effective marriage of the provocative and the comic. Displaying advice via road-sign symbolism, the piece delivers first aid to the socially inept with graphically designed notes that poke fun at the banality of small talk. “Did you order this sunshine?” reads one, while a stick figure gestures, “Do you think you could get through a day without coffee?” “Untitled,” by Elaine Belmont RISD ’07 may seem no more than a conservative ink portrait of three women, but closer inspection conveys the fluent draftsmanship of the young artist. Reminiscent of early Egon Schiele, Belmont’s work is bohemian and Expressionistic in the best sense, and exudes the burnished, decadent quality of an undergraduate romantic. Eclipsing all, however, is “Grand Parent’s Wedding Day,” by Ji Hyun Joi RISD GS, clearly the exhibit’s most stunning contribution. A mixed media piece fusing plain silkscreen with swatches of red fabric, see HILLEL, page 6
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EMS continued from page 1 in the incident, meaning that the emergency medical technician also had to focus on calming her. Teams of emergency medical technicians were divided into five crews. All crews had a chief, who in turn worked under an incident commander. Necessary positions, like team security officer, were assigned as soon as the incident commander’s team arrived on the scene, roughly 10 minutes after the scenario started. Half of Brown’s senior student EMTs were in command positions within the scenario while the other half evaluated them. To ensure the safety of the teams and volunteers involved, everyone was given a code word — “banana” — to use in case of an actual emergency. Using the code word would bring the simulation to a halt. EMT Nick Mark ’06 planned the scenario. He said he chose a liquid natural gas explosion because “it’s an actual concern — this could actually happen.” Brown EMS tries to hold one mass casualty incident drill per year, “primarily so when the big one hits, we’ll know what to do,” Lapierre said. Last year, the scenario was an earthquake that dev-
astated the area. This year, the situation was even worse. “What complicates this one is that our normal backup (Providence Medical Services) isn’t available,” he said. “Brown EMS is on its own.” Brown EMTs worked for the duration of the drill and afterwards met to discuss what went well and what did not. Incident Commander Andrew Pfeffer ’05 rated his and the rest of the EMTs’ performance as “a little better than average.” “We had a little difficulty setting up,” he said. “I think at the beginning we didn’t allocate our resources well enough.” Pfeffer said if he had to do it all over again, he would have waited until the outdoor setup was ready to send rescue crews into the building . Some victims were “killed” on impact in the scenario, and at least one patient, who had been critically wounded at the start, died as other victims were treated. But as the saying goes, practice makes perfect — and in this line of work, perfection can mean the difference between life and death for some victims. “You can sit in a classroom and talk about MCIs,” said Senior EMT Matthew Sarasin ’05, “but without actually doing it, you lose a lot.”
Renovations continued from page 1 Floor plans and occupancy charts for Minden during Segment II of the housing lottery were not available until the afternoon of the lottery due to lastminute planning for these renovations, which required approval from fire safety authorities. However, the renovations did not interfere with the lottery and Minden rooms were available for Segment II as planned, Bova
Cole continued from page 1 Cole did find time to add some humor when a student asked, “If you could have done anything different in the last 20 years, what would it have been?” “More jokes,” Cole responded. The evening concluded with Cole signing copies of his book, “Footnotes: What You Stand For is More Important than What You Stand In,” and a reception. Past EPE speakers have
said. The changes did not decrease the total number of students housed in Minden, he said. The inconvenience to students caused by the renovations is well worth the gain in fire safety, Greene said. “We try to minimize negative impacts on students, but the end result is a safer environment. That’s more important to me than advanced warnings,” he said. In the 21 other buildings scheduled for renovation, fire safety additions will be relatively inconspicuous. Residential Life
included media mogul Ted Turner ’60 and JetBlue founder David Neeleman. Ken Tsuji ’05, one of the organizers of the event, said that the decision to select Cole as the keynote speaker was made because EPE is “looking for variety” and that Cole’s popularity would “draw a different type of person” to the event. Cole’s representatives first approached the Student Activities Office to set up an event at Brown, rather than the other way around, Tsuji said. Tsuji commented on Cole’s work with social programs and organizations as appealing to
plans to update sprinklers and fire alarms to all of the dorms on Wriston Quad, as well as Slater Hall and West House, Bova said. The University hopes that most of the dorms will have a sprinkler and fire alarm in each room by next fall, he said. A few dorms will also receive cosmetic repairs, Bova said. All of the dorms on Wriston will receive new windows, and Grad Center’s first floor rooms will have new tiling. ResLife also plans to upgrade all of the flooring in New Pembroke 1, 2, 3 and 4.
students. “Some of the most successful plans are social initiatives, social non-profits,” Tsuji said. EPE events continued Saturday on campus. Brown teams swept the top three spots at the Elevator Pitch competition, in which presenters pitch a business model in two minutes, and took the top two spots in the case study competitions, which featured 20 teams from area colleges, including Harvard, one of whose teams took third. Kevin Volk ’08, said he hoped the EPE would “foster excitement about entrepreneurship.”
Fund continued from page 1 American Empire,” was sponsored by the Brown College Republicans but financed primarily by the Kaleidoscope Fund. Speakers supported by the fund must be of “general interest” and “valid experts” in their subject areas, Simmons wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “The point is that we should not apply a political or ideological litmus test,” she said. “We will check to see that each lecturer is in fact one who has rigorously developed their perspective and submitted it to public criticism.” The Kaleidoscope Fund is independent from the Lecture Board, a student group that aims to “provide the University community with speakers who initiate thoughtful challenge and insight that complement the academic, extra-curricular and developmental elements of the Brown experience,” according to its Web site. In past years, the Lecture Board has sponsored lectures by Salman Rushdie, Oliver Stone, Ralph Nader, Spike Lee and Ben Stein. But speakers paid for by the Kaleidoscope Fund should provide something that isn’t already available on campus, according to Quinn. “I think the president created this fund to spark and cultivate discussion on a wide variety of issues,” she said. Simmons said she hopes to eventually be able to raise money for an ongoing support of this effort. Though Quinn will be the facilitator of the fund, “(Simmons) will ultimately be the one reviewing proposals. This is really her idea and her interest,” Quinn said. Simmons’ discretionary funds are made up in part from donations from parties interested in making sure that “presidents can be flexible and address needs as they arise,” Quinn said.
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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 5
Connecting with heritage key to creating sense of community, combating racism, speakers say BY STEWART DEARING STAFF WRITER
African-Americans should learn more about their African heritage to combat racism, according to both Aminah Pilgrim, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston in the Africana Studies Department and the director of its Cape Verdean Language & Culture Institute, and Tem Blessed, a youth organizer and hip-hop artist in the rap group “Busted Fro.” Both spoke about the relationship between AfricanAmericans, specifically Cape Verdean-Americans, and their homeland at the Cape Verdean Heritage Series Convocation on Saturday. Cape Verde is a small chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean which was colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century. The Cape Verdean Heritage Series, sponsored by the Cape Verdean Student Association, seeks to spread awareness and understanding of the country’s culture. In the late 20th century, famine forced many Cape Verdeans to immigrate to the United States, Pilgrim said. Many settled in New England and typically worked as migrant laborers in the cranberry- and blueberry-picking industries on Cape Cod. During the winters, Cape Verdeans moved from the Cape to surrounding areas of New England such as Boston, Pawtucket and Providence, specifically Fox Point, Pilgrim said. Despite racism and deplorable living conditions, Cape Verdeans made significant contributions to the New England economy during the late 20th century, she said. Their work on Cape Cod built Ocean Spray into the prosperous company it is today, she added. As a descendant of immigrants from Cape Verde, Pilgrim also spoke about her experience growing up in Onset, Mass., known to some white neighbors as “Jungle Town” due to its large Cape Verdean population. She faced racism and was labeled as generically “black” by her white neighbors. “I was taught in high school that it only mattered that I was black. No one ever asked me where in Africa I was from,” Pilgrim said. Only by connecting to her cultural roots in Cape Verde did she finally gain perspective on
her oppressive U.S. environment, she said. She encouraged today’s African-American youth to do the same. “It is crucial to reconnect to the culture and to close the gap,” she said. To establish a relationship with the past, young Cape Verdean-Americans should travel back to Cape Verde and actually experience the community, Pilgrim said. Learning the language, creole, also provides a sense of common identity between the American and Cape Verdean, she added. Blessed, the son of Cape Verdean immigrants, also spoke about his relationship with Cape Verde. He stressed the importance of Cape Verde’s history in his identity. “Knowledge is the key to finding out who you are. Understanding myself began with going back to history,” he said. In addition to being a hiphop artist, Blessed also works in a youth empowerment group called YouthBuild, which teaches teamwork, leadership skills and critical thinking to lowincome young adults. The people he works with in YouthBuild are now facing the same problems that he faced a few years ago, he said. Establishing connections with supportive elders who will provide love and discipline is especially important in YouthBuild’s work. Older members of the community can give low-income youths a solid sense of identity and belonging that helps them fight against the prejudices of the “system,” he said. The most difficult task for groups like YouthBuild is to find a way to transform feelings of anger into a constructive motivation for change. “There is so much energy in the youth to go out and destroy things. We have to redirect them into something more positive,” he said. Through his work in YouthBuild, Blessed hopes to help struggling low-income youths find a way to be accepted into American culture. “Hiphop was my way to feel like I was a part of America. It gave me a way to express myself and vent out the stresses of life. I’m hoping to give back and help people find their own ways,” he said. Cape Verdean-Americans Diana Duarte ’05 and Elena Lobo ’08 organized the event and introduced the speakers.
Corporate negligence and greed that led to Bhopal incident still a global concern BY CAROL-ANNE CELESTINE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Poisonous gas released into the air, killing more than 5,000 instantly. Half a million survivors scarred or disabled for the rest of their lives. The soil and water tainted by toxic heavy metals without hope of decontamination. This is the devastation left in the wake of the disastrous Dec. 23, 1984 Union Carbide methyl isocynate gas leak in the city of Bhopal, India, which left the area and its residents devastated and struggling to pick up the shards of their ruined lives. The accident, often attributed to a blend of corporate greed and recklessness, was the topic of Saturday’s presentation and forum at RISD called “Learning from Bhopal.” The event showcased experts from multiple disciplines, including Gary Cohen of the Environmental Health Fund, who has been working to bring justice to the people of Bhopal for the past 17 years; Satinath Sarangi, a trustee of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal; and Assistant Professor of International Studies Simone Pulver of the Watson Institute.
Cohen, who spoke passionately on the disaster, said the Bhopal incident was “the Hiroshima of the chemical industry” and called the city’s plight “a story of dark truths and people’s aspirations.” According to Cohen, even 20 years after the Union Carbide incident, the perpetrators of the accident continue to evade prosecution while refusing to take responsibility for their negligence. The people of Bhopal are still without justice, Cohen said, and to date the survivors have received only $1,000 each as compensation for their suffering because of political red tape. Sarangi spoke of his intimate involvement in the long-term recovery efforts and his role in the establishment of the Sambhavna Clinic. “Sambhavna” is the Sanskrit and Hindi word for “possibility,” which reflects the people’s optimism that it is possible for their lives to improve, he said. Sarangi also told of the blowback from the disaster, which he said manifests itself in a rise of cancer rates in the area, tuberculosis, reproductive disorders and birth defects. He told the audience that a corrupt government
in collusion with the Dow Chemical Company — which acquired Union Carbide in August 1999 — is turning a blind eye to the horror and doing its utmost to downplay the facts, while pharmaceutical leviathans like Glaxo, Pfizer and Aventis continually peddle ineffective drugs to an already impoverished populace. However, in the midst of the multitudes of negatives, both Cohen and Sarangi both mentioned hope. Cohen and Sarangi said people are beginning to get back on their feet by helping each other, building clinics and turning to the traditional holistic healing method known as Ayurveda, which employs herbs, yoga and art. Cohen ended the forum on a somber note, saying that another Bhopal could easily happen anywhere in the world as long as such dangerous chemicals are used and profit is prioritized over human life. All people are trapped “in a global web of poison,” he said, and it is the obligation of all to remain vigilant and mindful and to remember the tragic lessons taught by Bhopal.
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Equestrian continued from page 13 leges scattered around Connecticut and Rhode Island within Region 1. Having already qualified for the National Championship, Peddy’s only ride at Zones was a practice one that closely mimicked what she will later face in Ohio and also gave her an advance look at other competitors. Keefe, Peloquin and Peddy still have several weeks of training before the National Championships. The time will be an opportunity to work on perfecting their personal strengths and improving upon their weaknesses. “I know we all have our own problematic issues, and we each do different things well, so we need to focus particularly on the areas we need to improve during the next few weeks,” Peloquin said. “We all have unique individual styles and need to improve in a variety of distinct ways.” In addition to training, the entire team will compete in the annual Ivy League Tournament, held Saturday in Hanover, N.H. Unlike the other shows late in the season that only include specific riders and have an individual focus, the Ivy League Tournament is like those of the regular season — a team wins, and everybody gets to compete, if they want. “We’ll probably win it, but really, who knows?” Peloquin said. “Cornell usually is a winner or runner-up of their Zone, rivaled primarily by Skidmore. I know that Cornell isn’t going to the Nationals, so I’m hoping this means they’re weaker than usual this year. Then we definitely can win.”
Hillel continued from page 3 “Wedding Day” depicts a Korean family perhaps on the verge of decimation. A complicated work, the portrait is ornamented with unraveling red bowties, proof of memory’s precariousness and the important role of ceremonial costume in uniting a family. Detracting from such triumphs, however, is a bevy of little engines that couldn’t from Brown. “One thing that is exciting and new to the show is the addition of alternative art forms such as printmaking,” Schachter said, referring to “Do This My Way” by James Dunbar ’05, an illustrated book that actually appears less exciting than exasperating. Composed of a series of block prints annotating
Pope to take on a slowly waning church ROME — Only a few miles from the throngs that pressed into St. Peter’s Square to bid farewell to Pope John Paul II, a soaring Baroque style basilica echoed with emptiness. Inside, 20 of the faithful were sequestered out of sight in a side chapel for the noon Mass, while Father Virgilio Missori, 84, sat alone near a confessional booth awaiting penitents who did not come. In many ways, the quiet scene day in and day out at the 17th century Basilica of St. Ambrose and Charles is far more representative of the state of the Roman Catholic Church today than the one that unfolded in St. Peter’s Square, where an estimated 2 million pilgrims paid homage John Paul II in what was arguably the world’s largest funeral. For the moment, the Catholic hierarchy is reveling in the outpouring of adoration and affection for the late pope. But it is commonplace scenes like the sparsely attended Basilica of St. Ambrose and Charles that are increasingly on the minds of the world’s cardinals as they prepare to elect John Paul II’s successor. “The church in today’s world needs to face some real crises. There’s a crisis of faith. I’ve been saying there’s a crisis of indifference or apathy,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington said here. For all the glory of its churches and its history as the preeminent keeper and promulgator of
the Christian faith, the Roman Catholic Church is in retreat in much of the developed west that used to be called Christendom. Regular attendance at Mass is on a downward spiral in many predominately Catholic countries, especially in the church’s European heartland. It is much the same story in the United States. At the same time, while the worldwide Catholic population now tops 1.07 billion, the church’s share of the overall world population has dropped slightly. The church in the United States continues to grow, but at a lower rate than has the overall population. Such issues are not the only ones facing the cardinals gathered here for the conclave to replace John Paul II that begins April 18. The church’s growing priest shortage, concerns about centralization of decision-making authority in the Vatican, and the need to foster better relations with Islam are among other issues at the top of the agenda. But, based on the comments of cardinals here, they are equally concerned by declines in church participation and the slowing growth of the overall Catholic population. Among the causes, cardinals say, are the secularization of cultures, opposition to the church’s teachings on sexuality, the church’s failure to quickly stem the sexual abuse of children by priests, increasing popularity of Protestant evangelism, and declining European birth rates.
Blackalicious lyrics, Dunbar’s entry relies on an accompanying CD version of the song for those not in the know. Equally off-putting, the illustrator shields his book from his readers, providing a prissy pair of gloves for the grubby-handed. Upon gathering the courage to crack the spine of his book, one is greeted with a graveyard of published clutter. Encountering the already muddled rap symbolism of “Cleanin’ out the digestive tract of hip hop like cranberries,” viewers experience a digestive explosion of ink and indecipherable, symbolic mud. In “3 a.m.,” by Elizabeth Fisher ’07, a photographic take on early-morning Providence delivers the dreary ghostliness of College Hill with some success — focusing on the barren city’s Point Street bridge and trolley tunnel after hours. Still, Fisher
may be all too successful in channeling the boredom of her scenes. With composition so tawdry, her audience may also be inspired to turn in for the night. In spite of the RISD’s artistic dominance, it should be noted that the best creations still crop out of careful forethought on the part of the artist — and this is where Brown students may have something to impart to their counterparts. One need only glance at the ceramic “Precarious in Nature” by Thomas Staton RISD ’07 to sense that this clay vessel, for all its craft and meticulousness, has been mistitled. Far from delicate or unstable, the piece feels firmly planted — and its creator could have learned from the accuracy underlying so many of the Brown offerings. With any luck, future gallery events at Hillel will feature art that combines the best of both worlds.
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WORLD & NATION MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 7
Both sides await FDA decision on breast implants BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR LOS ANGELES TIMES
WASHINGTON — Kristen Chase plays tennis, lifts weights and works out on cardio machines, an ambitious fitness regimen for a mother of four nearing 40. But nursing three sons and a daughter has changed the appearance of her breasts in a way exercise can’t fix, she said. So Chase has opted to have surgery to restore her figure, and she has decided silicone gel breast implants would look and feel better than the saline liquid-filled ones. Her decision would be a simple one in many countries. But in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration bans the use of silicone implants for cosmetic surgery because of lingering suspicions about health risks. This week, two California companies will go before an FDA advisory panel to seek a recommendation that could open the way to market silicone implants to the 250,000 American women who each year have surgery to make their breasts fuller. Chase, who lives near Chicago, will be watching closely. She has delayed having the surgery, hoping the panel will ease the ban on silicone implants and the agency will then sign off. “I don’t want that top-heavy, unnatural look,” she explained.
“There are some women that you look at and it’s flagrantly obvious their breasts are augmented. I am pursuing a natural, prior-to-having-children look, and saline does not provide that.” Silicone implants have become the choice of 90 percent of European women who have cosmetic breast surgery, according to industry figures. But in this country, they remain limited mainly to cancer patients having breast reconstruction. In 2003, a FDA panel recommended approval of silicone implants for cosmetic surgery patients, as well. But agency officials rejected that recommendation and requested more information from manufacturers. The two Santa Barbara, Calif., companies, Inamed and Mentor Corp., have produced data that they say shows a low risk of complications, such as ruptures. But it’s not at all clear the FDA will approve their products. Even if it approves silicone implants, patients might be required to undergo costly MRI scans every year or two to detect ruptures. Last week, staff reports released in advance of the panel meeting questioned whether the new industry data reliably can predict that implants would not rupture after more than a few years in women’s bodies.
Higher prices, stagnant wages produce pay cut for U.S. workers BY NICHOLAS RICCARDI LOS ANGELES TIMES
For the first time in 14 years, the American work force has in effect gotten an across-theboard pay cut. The growth in wages in 2004 and the first two months of this year trailed the growth in prices, compounding the squeeze from higher housing, energy and other costs. The result is that people such as Victor Romero are finding themselves falling behind. The 49-year-old film-set laborer had to ditch his $1,100-a-month Los Angeles apartment because his rent kept rising while his pay of $24.50 an hour stayed flat.
“There’s no such thing as raises anymore,” Romero said. This is the first time that salaries have increased more slowly than inflation since the 1990-91 recession. While salary growth has been relatively sluggish since the 2001 downturn, inflation had stayed relatively subdued until last year, when the consumer price index rose 2.7 percent. But average hourly wages rose only 2.5 percent. The effective 0.2-percentage-point erosion in workers’ living standards occurred while the economy expanded at a healthy 4 percent, better than the 3 percent historical
“The tone of those FDA documents was more negative than people expected,” said Amit Hazan, an analyst who follows the medical devices industry for the investment company of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Wall Street analysts noted that the chairman of the new FDA panel, Johns Hopkins cancer specialist Dr. Michael Choti, voted against silicone implants when he served as a member of the 2003 panel. Choti was not granting interviews, his office said. For Inamed and Mentor Corp., millions of dollars are riding on the outcome of the three-day meeting. The two U.S. silicone implant manufacturers have spent years trying to persuade the agency to allow them to sell their products to cosmetic surgery patients. Should they succeed, Hazan estimates the implant market would increase by nearly 20 percent next year, from $400 million to $475 million. Market analysts predict that silicone implants, if approved, quickly would outpace sales of the liquid-filled ones. The safety debate over silicone implants has been going on since the late 1970s. Lawsuits alleging that gel leaking from ruptured implants caused cancer and other diseases forced Dow Corning, a major manufacturer, into bankruptcy. The FDA imposed the current restrictions in 1992. Since then, repeated scientific investigations have not found a cause-and-effect link between silicone breast implants and illnesses such as cancer, immune system disorders, connective tissue disease or neurological problems. A recent study found an association with fibromyalgia, a syndrome characterized by chronic muscle and joint pain, although that remains a controversial diagnosis among doctors. Medical researchers have documented other kinds of complications, common to all implants. Breast tissue around an implant can contract, causing pain and deformation. Implants can rupture. Such problems require many women to undergo repeated operations. “Breast implants do NOT last a lifetime,” says an FDA handbook for patients. “You should be prepared for long-term follow-up,
see PAY CUT, page 11 see IMPLANTS, page 8
Controversial nominee Bolton’s record to be focus of Senate confirmation hearings BY DAFNA LINZER THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — During a meeting on North Korea in late 2001, John R. Bolton’s repeated talk of overthrowing Kim Jung Il frustrated the State Department’s specialist on the country. “Regime change” is not President Bush’s declared objective in North Korea,
Charles L. Pritchard recalled telling Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security. “That is exactly what we are all about,” Bolton snapped back, curtly reminding Pritchard and a colleague that U.S. troops had just finished see BOLTON, page 8
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Crew continued from page 16 race tight against Michigan, leading by almost a seat at the 1,000meter mark, but was unable to stay out in front, falling behind by 5.9 seconds. Despite the defeat, Almy was pleased with the improvement from the morning. “We were really racing,” she said. “We knew it was going to be tough. Michigan and Ohio State
are two really strong teams with great racers. We were just hoping to race them hard.” While the varsity eight was not successful, the junior varsity rebounded from its earlier loss with an exciting victory. The novice eight also had solid performances all day, winning all its contests. Both Almy and Starr praised the first-year boats for solid racing efforts all day and commended the junior varsity for rising up after its defeat in the morning to
take Michigan down. “The freshmen as a boat didn’t let anything rattle them. They raced their own races and beat out some tough competition,” Starr said. “The JV did a great job bouncing back and did not let themselves get caught losing.” The women are anxious to rise up after their performances this past weekend by channeling their energy and focus into this Saturday’s races against Boston University. While they say they do not have any specific game plan for the race, Almy said, “We need to practice solid racing mentality and get better at going after races as hard as we can.” The men’s varsity eight was prepared for the challenge of facing the defending national champion Crimson. Led by seniors Arden Beddoes ’05, Terence Kooyker ’05, Jeff Arbeit ‘05 and captain Alex Hurtado ’05, the team came out Saturday ready
for a fight. “We wanted to see where we stand and what we need to work on,” Hurtado said. “There were some good things and some bad things (in the race), but it was a good starting point for us and something we can work from.” While the varsity and junior varsity boats took tough losses, the first-year boats shut down the competition. After what Kooyker called a series of “excellent practices” the previous week, the team went into the race confident about its chances. “We wanted to go out hard in the first half of the race and see where that put us,” Kooyker said. “We had to go out with aggression and race the first 1,000 (meters) as hard as we could.” Even though the varsity eight was slightly behind the Crimson at the halfway mark, Kooyker noted the fact that Bears got “up
on them right off the line,” saying, “This is one of the most physically strong boats I have ever been on.” Although the Bears were pleased with their power and quick start, they need to start focusing more on the mental aspects of competition, Hurtado said. “(We need to) work on racing with more poise and keeping focused throughout the race,” he said. “We need to be more mentally prepared like a varsity boat to go out and race,” he said. Ready to put their first race behind them, the men are gearing up for their only home race of the season, Saturday against Northeastern University. “They are another good crew,” Hurtado said. “It will be nice to have the race at home, and hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and go faster.”
Implants
women choose silicone,” he said. “Why are American women restricted from making the decision for themselves?” Consumer groups and some women’s health advocates argue that the long-term risks of silicone implants remain unknown. “I don’t think the science can support approval,” said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families. What happens when silicone implants break is of concern because such ruptures are not easily detectable. Saline liquidfilled implants deflate when they rupture, making a failure easy to see. But with silicone implants, the gel stays in the chest area, and may be absorbed into the body slowly. These “silent ruptures” account for the majority of cases in which silicone implants
fail. The FDA staff’s conclusions raised concerns about the longterm risks of ruptures, despite the new industry data. Although initial rupture rates for cosmetic surgery patients with Inamed implants are in the low single digits, the agency estimated that 10-year rates could range as high as 38 percent. For breast reconstruction patients, facing more complicated surgery, the FDA staff estimated 10-year rates as high as 93 percent. The projections are based on mathematical modeling that the company strongly disputes. Uncertainties about the health effects of silicone breast implants long have marked the debate over them. Some women who have had the implants later have suspected their health was compromised, even in cases where no ruptures was found.
serve in Bush’s second term. His record, including allegations that he used unconfirmed intelligence to promote his policy goals, will be the focus of Senate confirmation hearings starting Monday. Bush has nominated Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, an organization he has described as irrelevant and corrupt. For the last four years, as the administration’s point man on weapons of mass destruction, Bolton has worked to reverse decades of
U.S. nonproliferation and arms control policies. Bolton maintains that the system of arms treaties established since World War II — with milestones under Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and George H.W. Bush — have constrained U.S. power and infringed on American sovereignty without holding other nations to account. For the United States, treaties are law, Bolton once wrote. “In their international operations, treaties are simply `political’ obligations.”
continued from page 7 re-operations to treat complications and personal financial costs.” Supporters of silicone implants have concluded that their risks are outweighed by the benefits. “I’ve never professed that anything man-made in terms of a medical device is perfect,” said Dr. James Wells, a Long Beach, Calif., surgeon who chairs a task force on breast implants for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. But Wells said that the task force is going to urge the FDA panel to approval silicon implants for general use. “Women in 60 countries in the rest of the world have access to them, and 90 percent of the
Bolton continued from page 7 overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to Pritchard. The encounter highlights Bolton’s combative style as much as it captures his commitment to hard-line foreign policies on a range of issues he has influenced, from North Korea to Iran. Both have made him perhaps the most controversial figure nominated to
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M. lax continued from page 16 Meanwhile, the Bears were forced to run a very efficient offense, making the most of their few possessions. Scoring on 11 of their 28 possessions, the Bears took advantage of their individual athleticism to dodge past the Yale defenders. “We’re the type of team that has a lot of players (who are good) when they have the ball,” Mucciolo said. “If we had the ball more, we would have exploited it more. We were just trying to put pressure on the goal.” After making some adjustments, Brown got back into the game in the third quarter and exploded with a furious comeback in the fourth. Down 11-4 with just over 20 minutes left in the game, the game seemed all but over, but the Bears refused to quit and came within one goal of sending the
Vallely continued from page 13 “Yeah, he’ll be in triple-A,” said a middle-aged Sox fan to his right. “Doesn’t that make it worse that he just hit a triple off a guy making your team?” “No,” the Yankee fan countered. That was all he could muster. Then he talked about the 26 World Series rings — the most cowardly comeback in sports. Again, if it isn’t clear, I don’t like these people. Which made it all the more enjoyable to watch them leave in the eighth inning, their team about to lose 7-2. After the game, we made the necessary trip to a Firestone in downtown Tampa, which was on a blocked-off, nearly unreachable street. Apparently, the Big Dig extends into Tampa. Things went surprisingly smoothly — I was expecting them to say that the car needed to be scrapped — and we got a new tire on Hatty’s dime. Unfortunately, this trip cut into our afternoon plans, unambitious as they were, so we headed back to the hotel, unsure of what the night held in store for us. We were hoping that our final night would be an epic tale of debauchery — the kind of night you expect from spring break, the kind that you both savor and regret. Once we got back to the hotel, though, we began the night slowly — we sat in one of the rooms, drinking bottles of High Life and — this is the kicker —
game into overtime. “We expect that out of them,” Nelson said. “They’re not going to give up. That’s a given here at Brown lacrosse.” Yale got on the board quickly, winning the opening faceoff and moving the ball quickly to generate a wide-open shot just 1:17 into the game. Woodson answered back for the Bears, though, beating his man from behind the net for an unassisted goal. Yale held the ball for much of the quarter, but the still-fresh Brown defense held tough and the teams traded goals to end the quarter 2-2. In the second quarter, though, the Bulldogs tightened their grip, completely dominating possession and outscoring the Bears 7-2. Yale took advantage of its possession, not only scoring goals but also moving the ball around the perimeter to wear down Brown’s defense. “They made a smart move,” Mucciolo said. “(Teams) use (possession) to their advantage, they
have a lead, time’s on their side (and they) frustrate the defense. (It) made it tough for us.” In an effort to swing momentum back towards the Bears, Nelson pulled goalie Chandler Clarke ’07 for Nick Gentilesco ’06. Gentilesco had started all of the Bears’ previous games, but broke his hand against Syracuse and was not expected to play. “The goalie switch was done to change the momentum. Chandler’s a heck of a goalie,” Nelson said. The switch did not seem to have an immediate effect, but as the game entered the second half, the Brown defense tightened up, allowing only 14 shots, a noticeable improvement from the 25 they allowed in the first half. The other adjustment the Bears made was to put in an all-long stick faceoff unit to try to force a ground ball off the faceoff instead of allowing Yale to win it cleanly. Putting in a long stick group made it easier for Yale to win the initial
watching “You Got Served.” Of course, on paper, it’s entirely embarrassing. But … no, it’s just entirely embarrassing. We ventured out into the lamplit streets of Ybor, which was strangely quiet given its reputation as a party town — after all, the receptionist at the hotel had told us that Girls Gone Wild had been filming the two nights prior to our arrival. Matt occasionally mimicked a dance move from the movie and humming the tune that went with it. He did this roughly 120 times over the course of the night, and it somehow drew huge laughs each time. We made our way to a cigar bar on East 7th Avenue, figuring it only made sense in a neighborhood that celebrated, above all else, its rich history of cigar making. We sat outside and talked about the Sox — John Halama, Johnny Damon’s declining vision, Jay Payton’s future with the club and fantasy baseball — feeling strangely comfortable on the street on which I once thought one of us would end up lying face down in a pool of our own blood. After a return to the hotel for some more brews, we were all something other than sober. But Mike seemed to have lost his mind. “Let’s go,” I said, motioning towards the door. “But where can you take me?” Mike demanded, frantically. We still haven’t figured out what he meant. He continued delivering these nonsensical oneliners at a frenzied clip, leading
Matt to conclude he’d be “great at the (Democratic National Convention) as the guy who killed a stripper and doesn’t know what to do.” The next day, we drove back down to Fort Myers for one last game. Matt Clement started, and the Sox beat the Devil Rays 6-4, going 4-0 over our stay. We left directly from City of Palms Park, cannonballing it back to Boston because our plans to stay over in Savannah, Ga., fell through earlier in the week. Somewhere around Connecticut, Mike said that in the writing of the story I could “feel free to embellish his character, and give him all sorts of fancy traits, like whistling really well.” Apparently, he hadn’t come down from the previous night. Twenty-eight hours after leaving that last game, we approached Boston, dead tired, with a day’s worth of fast food in us and little else. We were half a mile from Fenway Park, Matt behind the wheel and me on the iPod. “Can we get a little, you know … Standells?” he asked. Driving along the Charles, we blared “Dirty Water,” the Spring Training Odyssey coming to a close with the appropriate symbolic flourish. With 3,200 added miles on the odometer, Florida and Spring Break were behind us. The dog days of summer lay ahead. If you laid out the Annals of Spring Training columns by Charlie Vallely ’06 end to end, they would reach from Fenway to Fort Myers.
faceoff, but gave Brown an excellent chance to strip them of the ball. The effect on the game in the third quarter was drastic. Instead of Yale dominating possession as they had before, the Bears were able to get more time with the ball, and the Bulldogs did not have as much time to go to work on the Brown defense. Having more time with the ball, the Bears outscored the Elis 3-2, going into the final quarter down 11-7. “We realized in the fourth quarter we had to play more aggressively, with more energy,” Mucciolo said. In the final period, the Bears came out firing on all cylinders. After a pair of goals from Mucciolo and Kyle Wailes ’06, a lucky deflection gave Yale a goal and a 12-9 lead with 3:24 left in the game. Woodson started the Bears’ final push, scoring with 1:26 left. Alex Buckley ’07 scored just 31 seconds later, pulling Brown within one with under a
minute to play. Knowing that they had their last chance to stave off defeat, the Bears won the final faceoff and called timeout to set up their final play. Unfortunately, with so little time left, Yale was able to put up a zone defense, forcing the Bears to run a time-consuming play. The Elis forced a drop with less than 10 seconds left to prevent a shot and preserve the 12-11 win. “We were too cautious,” Nelson said. “It takes longer to attack a zone, (but) we didn’t attack it fast enough.” With the Ivy League still wide open and perennial powerhouse Princeton 1-6 on the season, the Bears still have hopes of capturing an Ivy title and a NCAA tournament berth. They travel to Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday to face Harvard, where they will look to get back on track. “We just got to worry about Harvard right now,” Nelson said. “This is going to be a real gut check for our guys.”
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Pay cut continued from page 7 average. At the same time, corporate profits hit record highs as companies got more productivity out of workers while keeping pay raises down. Some see climbing profits and stagnant wages as not only unfair but ultimately unsustainable. “Those that are baking the larger pie ought to see their slices expanding,” said Jared Bernstein, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute in Washington. On the other hand, higher wages could hurt the economy by stoking inflation. Employers might pass the costs on to consumers in higher prices, and that in turn might prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates even more aggressively, possibly slowing the recovery or even triggering a recession. For now, workers’ wallets are being pummeled by something of a perfect storm of economic forces: a weak job market, rising health insurance premiums and inflationary pressures. The biggest factor is the slack employment market, which means there is little pressure on businesses to boost pay. “They take advantage of you because there’s no work and anyone will work for anything,” Romero said. Although the unemployment rate has dropped to a relatively low 5.2 percent, that figure doesn’t count the hundreds of thousands of jobless people who’ve given up their searches and dropped out of the labor market at a greater rate than any time since 1988. At the same time, the cost of health premiums has skyrocketed, eating into the pool of corporate cash set aside for raises. While pay increased only about 2.4 percent last year, benefit costs jumped almost 7 percent. With benefits factored in, workers’ total compensation did outpace inflation in 2004, even if they didn’t see it in their paychecks. But employers also are requiring workers to pay a greater share of their premiums. “Health care has eroded the wage base,” said Janemarie Mulvey, chief economist with the
Employment Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank in Washington. “In the long run, we can’t continue like this. If health care keeps crowding out wages forever, something’s got to give.” The squeeze is especially intense on the 47 percent of the work force whose employers don’t directly provide their health insurance. For lowerincome workers, who are more likely to be uninsured, the falling value of their wages is even more serious, because they’re more likely to live paycheck to paycheck. And rising food and energy prices take a higher toll on the poor than on the rich. Historically, periods when wage growth is outpaced by inflation rarely last more than 18 months. That’s partly because businesses don’t want their employees’ living standards to fall, as that injures morale, said Trewman Bewley, a Yale University economist who has studied wage activity during economic downturns. Many economists figure it’s only a matter of time until workers can pry more money out of their employers to catch up to inflation again. If economic growth remains robust, as many forecasters predict, workers may gain greater leverage to negotiate wage hikes. “Chances are that those workers that have problems getting by because of higher fuel prices will probably tell their employers, ‘I can’t make it,’ ” said John Lonski, chief economist at Moody’s Investors Service. So far that hasn’t worked for Brian Chartier. The 29-year-old Glendale, Calif., resident handles inventory for a Los Angeles manufacturing company. No one there, he said, has gotten a raise in two years. “They’re able to do this and I haven’t quit, because where am I going to go?” he said. “There are no jobs.” While his salary remained flat, rising health care premiums kept eating up more and more of his take-home pay, so he dropped out of his employer’s insurance program. His rent also is climbing. As Chartier loaded bags of groceries into his Honda Civic last week, he boasted that they were full of bargains. “I don’t get a single thing that’s not on sale,”
Chartier said. “I can’t afford to anymore.” Despite their wages failing to keep pace with inflation, American consumers have kept shopping. Consumer spending has continued to rise. Analysts say that’s partly because some shoppers are thinking less about their paychecks and more about their biggest asset: their homes. Home prices have risen 9 percent nationwide since last February, sheltering consumers, and the economy, from much of the pinch of higher prices. “There’s been a wealth effect afoot throughout much of the recession and the recovery,” said Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, “because no matter what people’s incomes were doing, their wealth was improving — their biggest assets, their homes, were accruing.” As inflation sparks higher interest rates, most economists expect the housing market to cool, making shoppers more dependent on their paychecks. And even those who have seen their paper wealth rise phenomenally aren’t happy about rising costs and stagnant pay. Corina Swatz has seen the value of her Los Angeles home triple during the 10 years she’s owned it. But neither she nor her husband has gotten a raise in more than a year. At the same time, gas prices have forced them to shell out $55 to fill the tank of their Chevy Tahoe. “I used to spend $600 a month (on groceries). Now I spend $800,” Swatz, a mother of two, said as she made her weekly Costco run last week. The increased value of her home gives her only so much solace. “We’re hanging in there.” The danger is that people such as Swatz, despite their homeequity cushion, may rein in their spending and pull the rug out from under the economic expansion. That’s what Gabriel Torres has done. The 56-year-old cook hasn’t gotten a raise in years but pays ever higher prices to fill his Nissan X-terra. He and his wife have come up with a solution: cut down on driving. “We don’t go out much,” Torres said. “We used to. But now we only drive when we really have to.”
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W. lax continued from page 16 its own, tying the game on a free position shot with 11:28 elapsed. Staley added her third goal just a few minutes later, but the Lions took advantage of a missed slide and scored on a point blank shot. Brown broke the tie with 10 minutes left in the half as Biros took a feed from behind the goal, drove in from out in front and scored on a low shot. Bruno increased its lead a minute later on a cross-field pass from Biros to Sarah Passano ’05, who had a one-on-one with Columbia’s goalie. Brown took its biggest lead of the game at 6-3 just 40 seconds later as Jen Redd ’07 picked up her seventh goal of the season off a pass from Ashley Holden ’06. After a Columbia timeout the Lions started moving the ball more in their offense, sending it around the perimeter and cut-
ting to the crease more frequently. The strategy worked as they picked up two more goals to bring them back within one of the Bears. Brown, however, also demonstrated patience, especially on their rides, turning a botched Columbia clear into a wide-open goal by Passano with an assist from Mimi DeTolla ’08. “We like to pressure the goalie, — Sarah Passano is especially good at that,” Biros said. “After that we try to get to the adjacent (players). We stay patient, don’t go for the check. It really came together today.” Columbia picked up another goal with 40 seconds left to go into the half trailing 7-6. The margin was surprisingly close considering Brown had possessed the ball f o r most Ashley Hess / Herald of the Co-captain Kate Staley ’06 half had four goals against a n d Columbia on Saturday. h a d relatively little difficulty getting open looks on the crease.
“For the amount of time we possessed the ball in the first half, the score did not reflect that,” Duggan said. The Bears took control after intermission with goals from Biros and Staley. The goals seemed to galvanize the Lions, who responded with more activity and pressure on defense. “The (Columbia) defense definitely stepped up more in the second half, but they were still slow on slides,” Biros said. “They picked it up and were playing us farther out.” The fast pace also started to take its toll on Bruno, who started playing more conservatively on offense and not risking the long-range passes that had been so successful in the first half. “It was hot out today,” Southard said. “They were running up and down the field for a lot of the game. It was a track meet that we didn’t want to have.” Columbia started chipping into Brown’s lead, scoring off a free position shot, winning the subsequent draw control and putting it past Southard on a fast break. “The first half they just ran it in and made poor passes, the second half they tried to work it more,” Duggan said. The Bears managed to stay on top off a free position goal from Biros, but Columbia got another open look off their offense, then disrupted a Brown clear and scored off a dodge from the left to tie the game for the first time since 11:28 in the first half. Bruno took the lead again after DeTolla scored off a free position shot with 9:21 left, but the Lions evened the score despite several big saves by Southard. On offense, the Bears were led by Staley, with four goals, and Biros, who had four goals and one assist to go along with three ground balls and two caused turnovers. The team’s third-leading scorer, Biros now has eight points in the last two games. “It is about time,” she said of her scoring explosion. “I was waiting for it to come. Against Dartmouth I had the first hat trick of my college career. I started playing with my team.” Defensively, the Bears were anchored by Southard, who had 10 saves and five ground balls, and Duggan, who had four ground balls and a team-high three caused turnovers. It was a particularly nice victory for Duggan, who played for the Lions last season before transferring to Brown in the fall. “I just tried to treat them like they were any other team, but I really wanted them to lose,” Duggan said. The Bears will hit the road for their next game, traveling to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on Cornell this Friday. “We just want to bring the energy and attitude from this game to Cornell,” Southard said.
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SPORTS EXTRA MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 13
Equestrian sends three to Nationals after strong showing at Regionals BY ELIZA LANE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Three members of the equestrian team traveled to the StoneleighBurnham School in Greenfield, Mass. over the weekend to compete in the Zone 1 Championships. The trip was extremely successful: Whitney Keefe ’08 and Grace Peloquin ’07 qualified for the National Championships, while Jamie Peddy ’06 rode in a practice round in anticipation of the Cacchione Cup competition at Nationals. Unlike the horse shows of the regular season, which focus on competing universities’ equestrian teams, Saturday’s contest was aimed at recognizing outstanding individual riders. Each participating rider qualified for their event at the Zones by placing first or second in that event at their respective Regional Championship horse shows, held the previous weekend. “It’s irrelevant who wins: First and second are basically the same because you get the same award,” Keefe said. “Either place provides an invitation to the National Championships in the given event. … Obviously it’s awesome to win, but that’s not the main goal. Really, you just try to win so you can keep competing. Hopefully, you’ll end up at Nationals.” Keefe has had a successful rookie campaign, winning both the Open division’s Flat and Fences classes and then capturing second place in Open Fences class, earning her a spot at Nationals. “It’s a step-by-step process,” Keefe said. “These championship horse shows emphasize the individual rider more than the regular season shows do, and they’re just a completely different type of thing because they get tougher and tougher as you progress.” Unfortunately, a controversial decision placed Keefe in third place in her attempt, too low to earn another spot at Nationals. After a first-place finish in the preliminary round, trouble arose for Keefe during the additional judge’s testing. Her horse reared as she was attempting to pull it to a halt at the end of her prescribed course, but she remained seated. If a horse rears or misbehaves in a similarly egregious manner, its rider is granted a re-ride — which, on the flat, requires the entire class to re-do the previous showing, with any judging scores from the first round rendered useless. The Open Flat was conducted again, not because of Keefe’s mount, but because another coach was loudly voicing discontent about another horse. The riders rode again on the flat, and Keefe had another solid performance on the same horse but was called back for a third time. The judges’ testing proceeded almost exactly as it had the first time — right down to Keefe’s
horse’s rearing at the end of the maneuvers. She received another ride — this time on a different, unfamiliar horse that put her at a significant disadvantage — the other three girls had spent the previous 50 minutes on the same horses. Still composed and confident, Keefe rode well in her final test — but not well enough to satisfy the judge who surprised spectators and competitors alike by ranking Keefe third. Saturday, Peloquin placed second in the Novice Fences class, a surprise, as Peloquin felt her first ride was mediocre at best. “It was definitely an iffy ride. I mean, the horse I drew was tough,” Peloquin said. “I knew this because I watched him in earlier classes, in which he was rode by more advanced riders. It was helpful to see how skilled riders controlled him — I mean, they can control almost any horse, so you can learn from them.” Despite all the watching, Peloquin said she was shocked when she finally rode the horse herself. “My horse was so much harder than I ever thought he’d be,” Peloquin said. The horse Peloquin rode in the first round of the Novice Fences class had a tendency to get strong, picking up his pace drastically after clearing each fence — a problem that makes it especially difficult when faced with a line of jumps with a set number of strides between the hurdles. Peloquin, however, managed the situation well, only erring in a few spots along the course. “I guess he wasn’t that bad,” Peloquin said. “It was tough because he’d take off after a jump, and I’d restrain him too much. He’d be moving with these choppy, little strides.” The judge deemed her ride good enough for additional testing and ultimately placed her second, sending her off to the Nationals. The third member of the team who will travel to Ohio is Peddy, a contender for the Cacchione Cup, a prestigious award presented annually to the winner of a special event for Open riders, which combines a flat phase and a fences phase. She qualified after accumulating enough points during her Open class rides in the regular season. The top Open rider from each region — determined by total points accrued during the year in the Open division classes they enter, with Flat and Over Fences contributing equally to a rider’s total sum of points — is invited to participate in the highly competitive event at the Nationals. Therefore, Peddy is not only representing the University but also the equestrian programs of the other 10 universities and colsee EQUESTRIAN, page 6
Annals of Spring Training, pt. IV: Yanks, autos and the return Editors’ Note: This is the final in a four-part series in which Charlie Vallely relives heading to baseball’s ultimate vacation destination: S p r i n g CHARLIE VALLELY Training. C’EST LA V. Once more, we packed into the blue ’97 Volvo sedan, this time on our way to Legends Field in Tampa, only a 10-minute drive from Ybor. As its address — 1 Steinbrenner Drive — would suggest, Legends Field is the spring home of the New York Yankees (if you’ve never heard of them, they’re the ones who had their hearts removed when they inked their contracts). I sat in front, scouring my iPod for the perfect 10-minute playlist. (Herald Sports Staff Writer) Matt (Nicholson ’07) and Mike (Yamartino ’06) were in the backseat, presumably roughhousing. Hatty (Herald Senior Editor Chris Hatfield ’06) was behind the wheel, driving while reading the directions in his lap. At some point, none of us were looking at the road. That was the point at which we veered onto a steep curb at 35 mph, the front wheel crashing violently. Hatty swerved back onto the road, narrowly avoiding a telephone pole and a trip to the hospital. Somehow, he had managed to add an even more terrifying scene to the Chris Hatfield Automotive
Saga, outdoing his feat of driving through North Carolina in two hours and rear-ending a car in gridlock. We got out and assessed the damage. Rather, I stayed in the car and fumed silently as the others assessed the damage. All things considered, we lucked out — the sidewall had cracked and the hubcap was bent, but the tire was not losing air. Still, it would require attention before we drove the 1,493 miles home. “He said he wanted a ding,” Hatty said, in reference to my father’s words from before we left. The fact that his comment found a payoff on the trip was baffling. In spite of the complications of Hatty’s second accident, we still had a game to attend, a Sox-Yanks one at that. Though it meant nothing — the Sox would only start four regulars — even the most watereddown version of the rivalry is enough to get my adrenaline pumping. Because, as all Sox aficionados know, there is nothing more satisfying than beating the $206 million team; and nothing worse than losing to them and having to listen to their self-entitled fans revel in the convenience of rooting for a team that wins every year. I hope I’ve made my bias clear enough. Again, the four of us split into two groups, Matt and I taking what
we thought were the lesser tickets to compensate for our afternoon of luxury the previous day. It turned out, though, that they were more or less the same tickets, only on opposite sides of the field. Matt and I sat along the third-base line, a few rows from the back. Mike and Hatty were on the first-base side, closer but farther down the line. Our tickets could have easily been considered worse, considering Matt and I were situated a few rows in front of four loud, moderately drunk Yankees fans who yakked incessantly throughout the game and cackled at each other’s uninspired material. “David Ortiz isn’t on steroids,” one of them said as Big Papi dug in, wearing number 79, presumably because his usual number 34 jersey was left in Fort Myers. “He’s just fat.” It was the funniest thing they had ever heard, and the speaker milked it for all that it was worth. Later, in the top of the sixth, when Sox minor-leaguer Mike Lockwood hit an RBI triple off Tanyon Sturtze to push the score to 4-1, the same guy delivered another gem. “Too bad he’ll be in triple-A,” he said, breaking into a soulless cackle. see VALLELY, page 9
Baseball continued from page 16 After the emotional win in game one, the Bears struggled to get back on track in game two. Starter and Herald Sports Staff Writer Shaun McNamara ’06 kept the game close, giving up three runs through 4 2/3 innings. But the Bears could not close the gap, and the Quakers held a 4-2 lead with Kutler on first and two down in the eighth. With their backs against the wall, however, the Bears responded. Jeff Nichols ’05 reached on an error, and Devin Thomas ’07 tied the game up with a single to right. Nichols scored the tying run with a well-executed hook slide to avoid the tag when it appeared he had no chance of scoring. “I don’t know how I do it,” Nichols said when asked about the slide. “I’m not the fastest guy, so I guess I just have to find out other ways to get in there.” Nichols’s slide allowed Hughes a second shot at a game-winning hit, and he responded, knocking in Thomas on an error by the third baseman. On Sunday, Brown increased its winning streak to six as it pounded Columbia 12-5 and 105. The Bears found themselves down in the first game, 5-3, heading into the home half of the fifth, when they batted around and plated six runs to take the lead. After tacking on three more runs in the sixth, the Bears coasted in the ninth to record their fifth
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Eric Larson ’06 had seven RBIs in two games against Columbia. straight victory. Jeff Dietz ’08 got his second start and earned his first career victory, allowing five runs — four earned — over five innings after being used in relief against Penn the previous day. Game two was a 10-0 rout until the ninth when the Lions finally got to starter James Cramphin ’06. Cramphin was one out away from a shutout when the Lions tacked on five runs before he induced a ground ball to short to end a successful
weekend. “I felt great,” Cramphin said. “My ball was moving a ton, and I was basically just trying to keep it over the plate. Plus the guys were throwing the leather around all day. I’ll take that kind of defense any day.” Cramphin expects the weekend to set the tone for the rest of the season. “It was a great capper to the weekend,” he said. “This was the year my class was really looking forward to, so it’s great that we’ve gotten off to this start.”
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EDITORIAL/LETTERS MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 14 S T A F F
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The twisting kaleidoscope The Kaleidoscope Fund, President Ruth Simmons’ effort to bring intellectually diverse speakers to campus, has already yielded benefits. Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza, the first speaker to be invited to Brown using Kaleidoscope money, gave a passionate and intriguing speech in which he carefully defended his arguments rather than rushing through them. After a series of liberal speakers who assumed that audiences here would take their words as gospel, there’s no question D’Souza brought intellectual diversity to this stop on the campus lecture circuit — if intellectual diversity could ever be quantified. Simmons will be the ultimate arbiter of which proposals to fund, according to her assistant, Marisa Quinn. And Simmons appears to be willing to support speakers with whom she may personally disagree; in her February letter to the student group Anti-Racist Action, in which she rejected ARA’s Israel divestment proposal, she suggested the group make use of the fund. We encourage Simmons to exercise caution, because any time officials make judgment calls about the validity of arguments, they open themselves to accusations of censorship. How extreme is too extreme a viewpoint for a Kaleidoscope Fund speaker? We don’t expect to see any neo-Nazis or white supremacists sponsored by the Office of the President. But what about potential borderline cases? At the same time, Simmons will have to support liberal speakers, even if that makes her efforts redundant; otherwise, she may as well call it the Conservative Fund. An intellectual diversity fund that brought only conservative speakers to campus would be both an insult to average conservatives, by suggesting that token representation is a sufficient remedy to an institutional slant, and a capitulation to zealots who call for intellectual diversity only to make themselves heard. With all these constituencies to satisfy, Simmons may find her $100,000 of initial funding is capable of disappearing quickly. She will have some difficult choices ahead. We do not argue that a selection committee would better serve the needs of the Kaleidoscope Fund — committees can often work too slowly, misrepresent the community they serve and be accused of censorship anyway. But Simmons will have to make sure each of her selections is disparate for maximum impact. Unless you change the focus of a kaleidoscope, it only reflects the same thing, repeated over and over again.
DANIEL L AWLOR
LETTERS Raising the preregistration fee is misguided To the Editor: The dean of the college and the registrar’s proposal to raise the charge for late preregistration from $15 to $150 (“Admins propose hike in late registration fee at UCS meeting,” April 7) is unnecessary and misguided. Although the dean of the college and the registrar are both correct in predicting that students will go out of their way to preregister on time in order not to pay such a fee, both seem to have ignored other ways to combat late registration. Something as simple as an all-campus e-mail at the end of the preregistration period reminding students to preregister would most likely decrease the
number of late registrations, and it wouldn’t cost any student a dime. University Registrar Michael Pesta’s comment that “For a lot of students, ($15) is pizza money” is insulting — $15 may not be much, but it’s still money we put toward buying textbooks, paying student loans and other financial burdens associated with University life. Increasing the registrar’s fee to $150 takes away money from us that we can use more effectively to allay already high costs and fees.
Tristan Freeman ’07 April 7
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OPINIONS MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 15
ASL crisis at Brown GUEST COLUMN BY ALIDA KINNEY Brown has decided to discontinue offering instructional language courses in American Sign Language. Many feel that ASL is useless and unimportant because for those of us with the ability to use words, signing seems horribly inefficient. I, like many others, maintained this erroneous belief until I completed a full year of ASL here at Brown. In that year, I learned more than just a few signs: I became capable of holding simple conversations in ASL and learned about the complex (and tight-knit) social dynamic in the ASL community, the technological innovations developed to assist the hearing-impaired lifestyle, and the different means through which families deal with hearing impaired relatives. Thanks to the ASL classes offered at Brown, I was privileged to experience guest speakers who came and shared their stories with us in sign language. Furthermore, it gave me the opportunity to engage in commu-
Cutting ASL is a terrible mistake. nity service projects aimed at helping the deaf community in Rhode Island. Some of my most incredible experiences at Brown stemmed directly from my ASL courses and it would be a shame to deny future students the chance to have similar ones. I completed my sign language classes thinking that I would quickly forget all that I had learned. I was amazed and extremely grateful when I proved myself wrong. A year after completing the course, I was working in an animal hospital when a deaf owner brought in her sick cat. Nearly in tears, I watched as she was forced to communicate everything to the veterinarian in writing. When the check-up ended, I went over to her and started signing with her. Despite being out of practice, I was able to ask her more personal questions about her cat, and I could tell how impressed and grateful she was that someone was able to communicate with her in her native language. Brown’s decision to rid ASL from its curriculum is a terrible act. It reduces diversity pn our campus community, not just by eliminating a language alternative, but by eliminating the choice to learn about an entirely different community and how it faces the everyday challenges of life. This decision is something that a liberal university — and Brown University especially — should not stand for. While Brown so proudly boasts about its diverse classes and student body, this decision to discontinue the ASL program inherently contradicts its stated beliefs and must not be tolerated. Alida Kinney ’05 is a biology concentrator.
JACK SWEENEY-TAYLOR
What’s in a border? The Penobscot tribe of Maine govern perhaps the thinnest nation in the world, a strip of territory running no more than a quartermile wide at any given point, snaking its way 150 miles up the center of the state. Its narrow line is so squiggly because it follows the Penobscot River, making the reservation the only one to exist entirely within the confines of a river. Ever since the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Agreement of 1980, which gave the tribe state status as a municipality, Maine has defined the Penobscot reservation’s borders and tribal authority in the tightest of terms. For the state, Penobscot jurisdiction does not extend to the water surrounding the 200 or so islands that make up reservation land, meaning that the tribe’s stewardship of the river, which has 1,000 years of cultural significance, carries little legal sovereignty in the state’s eyes. Furthermore, as a municipality the reservation is subject to state influence, such as health laws and education funding, which encroach upon the tribe’s self-governance. Although the settlement agreement also brought the tribe federal recognition, which, according to the United States Constitution, means that “only Congress can abrogate or limit an Indian tribe’s sovereignty,” Maine argues that federal rules don’t apply when a tribe has negotiated its authority with the state. Instead of solidifying their status as “a nation within a nation,” as other tribes have done, the Penobscot have seen the agreement erode the narrow boundaries and political autonomy of its reservation. The issue strikes a national chord at a time when the United States shows so much concern for homeland security and sealed borders. A group of seven of us from Brown visited the Penobscot over spring break to learn more about their most recent legal struggles with Maine. In 2003, the tribe witnessed the Environmental Protection Agency approve
Maine’s request for the rights to issue water pollution permits along the river, not only on state-owned stretches of land, but also in areas within reservation lines. The rights, which the EPA previously held with the interests of the tribe at hand, essentially allow the state to reach into Penobscot territory for the benefit of Maine paper companies dumping their waste into the river. Maine paper companies such as Lincoln Pulp and Paper produce much of the nation’s paper and all of its business reply cards, providing the major source of employment for the state. In receiving the reins on water pol-
own borders. Little has captivated the United States more since Sept. 11, 2001 than the security of its borders, from the threat of another air attack to illegal entry along its 2,200 milelong southern fence. In the past few months, outcry about immigration from Mexico has reached a new pitch, with the recent surge of 1,000 armed citizens joining the “Minuteman Project” at the Arizona-Sonora border, where they await illegal crossings ieytalkies and Border Patrol contacts. This winter, Congress decided to increase Border Patrol agents by 2,000 and pass the REAL ID Act, restricting state-issued driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and making it harder for refugees to find asylum in the United States. Between the attention going to who might be slipping into our country and how they might exploit us, we are slipping state and corporate privileges into reservations and letting tribal autonomy wilt unnoticed. The Penobscot are looking to regain some ownership of their river by initiating the Penobscot River Restoration Project, a proposal to eliminate two major dams and build a bypass for a third to help restore the river’s migratory fisheries. They are asking for aid from NGOs and the federal government, who could make the project happen by setting aside $20 million in 2007’s budget. The initiative is a viable way to bring Washington’s attention back to reservation claims and the stewardship of tribal land. You can help press President Bush for support by sending him a letter from www.penobscotriver.org. Should the effort succeed, the Penobscot will reestablish their influence on the river and set a constructive example for confirming the sanctity of borders
We are slipping state and corporate privileges into reservations and letting tribal autonomy wilt unnoticed. lution regulations, Maine has the chance to overstep costly environmental standards and thereby cut a plump slice of extra profit for its major industry. Meanwhile, the affront to the Penobscot tribe not only threatens the wellbeing of the river, but also sets a precedent for the intrusion of tribal lands. The Penobscot are bringing the case to federal district court, but should they lose, the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs will face the danger of similar breaches of autonomy across the nation’s reservations. The United State’s long-standing halfpromise to ensure security for Indian tribes includes the Federal Indian Trust Responsibility, which is a legal compact to protect tribal interests and repay the debt of failed treaties. As Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the compact in 1831, Indian reservations are “distinct political communities, having territorial boundaries, within which their authority is exclusive.” Yet as these boundaries increasingly fade to a shell of past sovereignty, the United States turns its attention outward toward its
Jack Sweeney-Taylor ’06 paddles down the discharge from University Laundromat.
JOSHUA LERNER
Stranger-friendly school In the weeks following the suicide of a fellow Brown student, I’ve been thinking about the sense of community we share on campus. Community — as I like to define it — is something like the opposite of isolation: it means social contact, communication, and connectedness. It makes students feel welcome, or at least gives them a feeling of belonging to a larger network of peers. If we want to ensure that no student feels isolated or withdrawn from this place (and I hope we all want to ensure this), then we need to examine closely the community we have created here at Brown. Brown is a small school, but only relatively. While a larger university or state school might have upwards of 30,000 undergraduate students, and a small liberal arts college might enroll 1,500, Brown is home to just over 5,500 undergrads. Our campus has distinct social centers, but our home is by no means a small, enclosed space. There is a chance, then, that if I set out from Charlesfield Street, I could walk to Meeting Street without encountering a single face I recognize. I admit, more often than not, this isolated walk from one end of campus to the other does not occur; I usually see one or a few friends or acquaintances along my way. But it hurts when I do travel across campus without seeing anyone I recognize; it hurts
because I often feel that the people who pass me are indifferent strangers, not peers with whom I may one day share a class, or a meal. I’ve noticed that we walk with our heads down, and we don’t smile at others. What results is a sense of isolation. I’ve been told this has something to do with so-called New England stoicis. Out in the Midwest, strangers like to acknowledge one another, but here on the Eastern Seaboard, we’re a bit more cautious with our smiles. Try to count every Brown student you’ve met — your best friends, past acquaintances, that kid you met once at a party. For the sake of argument here, even count your “friends” made on thefacebook.com. You might surprise yourself with how many you can muster. But if you subtract that number from around 5,701 — the number of full-time students enrolled at Brown — what you are left with is a four-digit number. That’s thousands of your schoolmates whom you have never met. It is about time we start getting to know each other, and there are a few ways we can make it happen. For one, the University needs to play a part in creating a community of inclusion that transcends farther than its emphasis on first year units. We all needed a unit our first year — a group of people with whom we could share, commiserate and laugh. But the truth is, we keep needing some
sort of stable community interaction well into our second, third and fourth years here. In addition to focusing on an imposed framework that reaches the first-year population, Brown should concentrate on making sure all students feel welcome and connected. There should be more emphasis on school-wide events: an open afternoon game on the Main Green, perhaps, or a weekend social gathering as an alternative to cliquish parties that can often be exclusive and isolating. But the University can only play a small role in creating a greater sense of community on this campus. The burden is on us all, if we’re willing to accept it. If you’re still reading, and you haven’t disregarded my words as sentimental mush, then I trust you’re with me on this. Try, then, to meet one new person today. Introduce yourself to the person you have sat beside all semester but have never gotten to know. Or maybe start small: As you hustle down Thayer Street, smiling at a stranger would be great. And one final note to the student I once saw eating breakfast alone at the Ratty, with the homemade sign that read “StrangerFriendly Table.” Well, I didn’t get the chance to sit down next to you that morning, but if I see you again, I’ll be sure to stop and say hi. And then we won’t be strangers anymore. Joshua Lerner ’07 saw her face, and now he’s a believer.
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SPORTS MONDAY MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005 · PAGE 16
Baseball sweeps Penn and Columbia, now .500 on season BY STEPHEN COLELLI ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
On a picture-perfect Saturday afternoon in front of a large and enthusiastic crowd, the baseball team swept the University of Pennsylvania for its first two wins in the Ivy League. The Bears recorded another sweep the following day over Columbia to even their record at 11-11 (4-2 Ivy). The Bears won both games on Saturday in rousing, come-from-
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Danny Hughes ’06 had gamewinning RBIs in both of Brown’s come-from-behind wins over Penn.
behind fashion. The opener, a game scheduled for seven innings, went four extra innings and included a homer by Matt Kutler ’05 in the eighth to keep Bruno alive after Penn had taken a 3-2 lead. In the 11th inning, Danny Hughes ’06 ended the game with a bases-loaded shot off the base of the centerfield wall to give the Bears a 4-3 victory. Brian Tews ’07 pitched brilliantly, allowing only three runs — two earned — in 7 2/3 innings and recording a career-high 10 strikeouts. The second game was a less exciting affair, as Brown could manage only two solo home runs heading into the bottom of the eighth. Summoning the drama of the first game, the Bears rallied for four runs with two outs in the eighth, and Rob Hallberg ’08 shut the Quakers down in the ninth for his second win of the day. The comebacks were critical for a team staring a 0-4 league record in the face. “Huge, and you can capitalize that,” said Head Coach Marek Drabinski when asked how important the wins were for the team. “Realistically, we were pretty close to getting swept, but (the comebacks) are a testament to this team’s character and never-quit attitude.” Brown’s hitters struggled at the plate all day, but the bullpen kept the games within reach, throwing 8 1/3 innings and giving up only three hits and one run. Hallberg picked up both wins, relying on his fastball and slider to silence the
Crew squads struggle versus tough opponents BY SARAH DEMERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
For the Brown crew program, this was a weekend of firsts. The men finally had their first race of the season against Harvard on the Charles River in Boston, and the women traveled to the Midwest for the first time since the 2002 NCAA Championships to compete against Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. While both the men and women’s varsity eights fell to the tough competition, the two men’s first-year boats and the women’s novice eight came out of the weekend victorious. The women made the long journey to Columbus, Ohio to take on Ohio State and Rutgers University in the morning, followed by Michigan in the afternoon. Under the leadership of tri-captains Catherine Starr ’05, Meaghan Kelly ’05 and Gillian Almy ’06, the No. 6 Bears dominated Rutgers’ varsity eight but fell to Ohio
State’s faster squad. The junior varsity eight had the same split results. After a breakage in the Ohio State boat at the beginning of the morning race, the women were forced to wait almost 40 minutes for the competition to get into a new boat. Once the race finally got underway, the Bears lacked the intensity to pull off a victory. “We were pulling hard, but we just didn’t really race them,” Almy said. “Our energy, fight and excitement were not there.” The disappointment of the morning race made the women determined to turn things around in the afternoon. “We were as prepared as we could be,” Starr said. “We learned a lot from the first race against Ohio State, and we went into the second race looking to improve from that.” The varsity boat kept the see CREW, page 8
Quakers. He struck out six in 3 2/3 innings of work, none more important than the leadoff hitter in the ninth inning of the second game. “Coach told me to be ready,” Hallberg said, “and I had only faced one batter in the first game, so I was expecting to get the call. One of the biggest things we talk about as pitchers is to get that first guy out, so the strikeout (to start the ninth) was real big.” Of course, Hallberg and the rest of the bullpen would not have had the opportunity to shine without some timely hitting from their teammates. Drabinski noted that the team was struggling all afternoon because the Penn pitchers were keeping the Bears’ lineup offbalance with a mix of off-speed pitches that Brown struggled to adjust to. “Pitch-to-pitch you’ve got to make adjustments,” Drabinski said. “We weren’t doing that at first, but once we got to their starter (in Game 2) everybody settled in a bit. Hopefully, this will kind of jump-start us offensively.” Brown won game one when Kutler, who went 7-for-9 on the day, ripped a single down the right field line to put runners on first and third. Eric Larson ’06 was intentionally walked to load the bases for Hughes, who responded with his best swing of the day to end the marathon game. “We played 20 innings today, but you can’t be tired when the winning runs are on base,” Hughes said. Of the first game-winner, Hughes said, “(The pitcher) got behind in the count and left a fastball up, and I ripped it.”
Rally falls short for m. lax Bears erase 11-4 deficit, but fall 12-11 to Yale BY BERNIE GORDON SENIOR SPORTS WRITER
The men’s lacrosse team dropped a heartbreaker to Yale (6-2 Overall, 3-1 Ivy) on Saturday in its first Ivy League game this season, losing 12-11 to drop to 33 on the season. Co-captains Chazz Woodson ’05 and Chris Mucciolo ’05 led the Bears with three goals each. “We didn’t play a whole game,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. It was “kind of two different teams for us: one where we got way behind (and) played poorly, (and another in the) last 20 minutes when we played fantastic,” he said. Yale dominated possession, especially in the first half, win-
ning 21 of 27 faceoffs and converting 17 of 20 clears compared to the Bears’ 17 of 27. Coupled with a 40-26 advantage in ground balls, the Elis had all the time they needed to let their offense go to work. “They did a good job,” Nelson said. “They had lots of opportunities and they played with confidence.” The Elis were able to wear the Bears down with crisp ball movement, generating many quality shots. Fatigue began to show in Brown’s defense, and Yale scored seven times in the second quarter to build a 9-4 halftime lead. see M. LAX, page 9
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Co-Captain Chris Mucciolo ’05 had three goals in Saturday’s loss.
W. lax tames Columbia with 12-11 win BY BEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
In a battle of former Brown players turned head coaches, the women’s lacrosse team defeated Columbia 12-11 in a tight, fastpaced game on Saturday. It was the first Ivy League win for the Bears, who move to 3-6 overall (1-1 Ivy) on the season. The loss leaves the Lions and Head Coach Kerri Whitaker ’96 at 5-4 overall (0-3 Ivy). It was the first conference win for Brown Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00. “It was a huge win for us,” McDonald said. “The Ivies, obviously, are huge, and it feels great to have our first win.” The Bears needed some lastminute heroics from Amie Biros ’07 to secure the victory. In a back-and-forth battle, the Lions scored on a second-chance shot by Katie Warner to tie the game at 11 with 4:10 left. With the momentum in their favor, Columbia forced a turnover on Brown’s ensuing possession and got a decent shot on net that was stopped by goalie Julia
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Southard ’05. The Bears successfully cleared the ball, giving them an offensive opportunity as the clock dropped below two minutes. Brown worked the ball around the perimeter in order to run some time off the clock. It ended up behind the goal and Biros, who noticed an opening in the defense, dodged in from the left side and scored. “I knew the (defender) was overcommitting to the right, so I faked going right and went to my left,” Biros said. “I just wanted to get by her.” Biros’ goal put Bruno up one with a minute left, but Columbia got another chance, winning the draw control and working it downfield. Herald Contributing
Writer Anne Duggan ’06 disrupted an errant pass and scooped up the ball, giving Brown a chance to clear the ball and end the game. Columbia, however, had other things in mind, causing a turnover on its ride to get one last shot off. Southard again came up with the save and held the ball until the final horn blew. “The team had been working hard all game and I knew that I didn’t have the greatest game,” Southard said. “I knew I had to make a big play.” The game started off with back-to-back goals from cocaptain Kate Staley ’06, but Columbia answered with two of see W. LAX, page 12
BROWN SPORTS SCHEDULE FRIDAY, APRIL 8 M. TENNIS: Brown 6, Princeton 1 W. TENNIS: Princeton 7, Brown 0 SATURDAY, APRIL 9 BASEBALL: Brown 4, Penn 3 (F/11); Brown 6, Penn 4 M. CREW: 2-2 overall (at Harvard) W. CREW: 6-3 overall (at Ohio State, with Michigan and Rutgers) M. LACROSSE: Yale 12, No. 16 Brown 11 W. LACROSSE: Brown 12, Columbia 11 SOFTBALL: Harvard 3, Brown 1; Harvard 3,
Brown 1 M. TENNIS: Brown 4, Penn 3 W. TENNIS: Penn 6, Brown 1 M. TRACK: 2nd (at UConn Invitational) W. TRACK: 1st (at UConn Invitational) W. WATER POLO: Brown 19, Connecticut College 2; Harvard 9, Brown 8 SUNDAY, APRIL 10 BASEBALL: Brown 11, Columbia 4; Brown 10, Columbia 5 M. GOLF: 17th (at Yale Spring Invitational) W. GOLF: 2nd (at Brown Invitational) SOFTBALL: Dartmouth 3, Brown 1; Dartmouth 2, Brown 1