T H U R S D A Y APRIL 28, 2005
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McNamara argues for empathy in fighting nuke proliferation BY PHILLIP GARA STAFF WRITER
“The indefinite combination between human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to their use and the destruction of nations. For God sakes, think about it,” former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said Wednesday. In a passionate and reflective lecture to a packed MacMillian 117, McNamara contrasted recent nuclear concerns with his own Vietnam-era failure to address the same political issues. He stressed the importance of communication and empathy in contentious foreign affairs, as well as within the U.S. government, to prevent nuclear proliferation. McNamara spoke as part of a three-part lecture series sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies to commemorate milestones in the Vietnam War. Although much maligned during his tenure as secretary of defense under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, McNamara has recently softened his image by examining what he describes as his past mistakes. In his 1996 book “In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam,” McNamara began his efforts to uncover and analyze communication and policy failures at the highest level in order to find solutions for problems of nuclear proliferation and conflict in the 21st century. Ultimately, MacNamara said, during Vietnam, “the greatest failure was the failure
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara reflected on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations’ mistakes during the Vietnam War as part of a three-part lecture series sponsored by the Watson Institute to commemorate milestones in the Vietnam War. to talk. They wanted independence; we wanted assurance that the South Vietnam would not be used as a stepping stone to extend Communism across eastern South Asia.” More recently, McNamara joined Professor of International Studies James Blight and Adjunct Associate Professor of International Relations Janet Lang on the
After five years, BSR awaits FCC decision on Providence frequency BY HANNAH MILLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Since filing a bid with the Federal Communications Commission five years ago to operate its own signal, Brown Student Radio, the oldest student-run radio station in the country, is awaiting a final verdict from the FCC. After 69 years of local broadcasting, BSR still does not own its own signal, in part due to the red tape surrounding the FCC’s allocation of low-power FM licenses to grassroots radio stations nationwide. “BSR’s goal is to be able to control a station 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,” said BSR General Manager Shauna Duffy ’04. BSR currently rents seven hours per night from a station owned by the Wheeler School, and broadcasts from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. during the academic year. However, Duffy said, “The Wheeler School is very conservative. Having our own station would allow us more freedom on the air.” The Wheeler tower is located in Seekonk, Mass., about 6 miles outside of Providence. The distance reduces the quality of the signal at Brown. “BSR is hard to pick up from the
dorms on campus,” Duffy noted. An LPFM license would enable BSR to control a Providence-based signal that would better serve Brown’s population and the larger Providence community, she said. In 2000, the FCC authorized a new, affordable low-power FM radio service designed to enhance community-oriented educational radio broadcasting. BSR was among 15 groups that applied for permission to run 96.5 FM — a Providence-based frequency. In order to qualify for a license, organizations must have a local presence and a two-year history prior to filing for a license, and must promise to create local educational programming. Since the initial application five years ago, a number of contending groups have been eliminated from the running, either due to flaws in their applications or loss of interest, leaving BSR to negotiate with four other groups competing for the station — Zion Bible College, Ephese Haitian Church, Casa de Oracion and Providence Community Radio. None of the competing groups could be
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2001 book “Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century.” Blight and Lang also served as advisors on Errol Morris’ documentary “The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara,” in which McNamara examined issues faced in Vietnam and modern conflict. In his speech, McNamara described current nuclear anxieties and the importance of finding effective solutions to nuclear warfare now. “As we sit here, we, the U.S., have 6,000 nuclear warheads deployed. Each one on average has about 20 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb. And of the 6,000, 2,000 are on hair-trigger alert to be
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UCS recaps successes, looks to future University committee appointments process sidetracked BY LAURA SUPKOFF STAFF WRITER
At its final scheduled meeting of the year, the Undergraduate Council of Students pushed to finish pressing business by passing resolutions, certifying elections and presenting recommendations for next year’s council. However, the University committee appointments process, which was to conclude with approval of 49 appointments to 12 committees at the Wednesday meeting, was postponed due to a potential violation of the UCS code of operations. An additional meeting will be held Saturday to further discuss all committee appointments before certifying them. Brendan Hargreaves ’06, a current member of the Residential Council and
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chair of the lottery committee, brought his concern to UCS “that the appointments (to ResCouncil) were made unfairly.” Hargreaves, who was selected to be a member of next year’s council, said he was concerned about the lack of interviews for applicants, and said that only the third question on the application, which was about the problems facing the lottery and ways that it can be improved, is representative of what ResCouncil actually does. In addition, Hargreaves said ResCouncil faces many other issues of which applicants were not made aware. Appointments Chair Will Cunningham ’07 said there were applicants currently on ResCouncil “that did not take the application seriously.” Seventeen applicants applied for 13 voting and four alternate positions on the council. Three of the four chosen to be alternates are current ResCouncil members, including one see UCS, page 9 News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com
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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS READING AND SIGNING WITH KOREN ZAILCKAS 4 p.m. (Brown Bookstore) — Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes “the usual.” “LAURA MULVEY AND THE USES OF FEMINIST FILM CRITICISM” 6 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) — Lecture by Millicent Marcus, the Mariano Di Vito Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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WashU protestors win $500k for service workers BY CHRISTINA KIM CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A 19-day student sit-in at Washington University in St. Louis ended April 22 when the university made several concessions, including allocating an extra $500,000 toward wages and benefits of lower-paid service workers for each of the next two years. Members and supporters of the Student Worker Alliance organized the sit-in, which included a six-day hunger strike, to advocate for a “living wage” for WashU’s service workers. The city of St. Louis defines a “living wage” as pay between $10 and $12 an hour, varying according to benefits received. Meredith Davis, a sophomore and a participant in the sit-in, said WashU officials “shut down all conversations” with the SWA after months of dialogue between students and the university on the issue of a living wage. The university decided to limit discussion of worker wages to private Board of Trustees meetings, Davis said. She said she decided to participate in the sit-in because of her frustration with the university. “There has been a lot of student agitation,” Davis said. On April 4, students brought supplies to WashU’s admission office, South Brookings Hall, and began to camp out. “We chose to start on April 4, the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated,” said Ojiugo Uzoma, a founding member of SWA and an organizer of the sit-in. Convinced that they would be arrested the same afternoon, the participating students were all “waiting to see what would happen,” Davis said. When university officials ignored the protestors, the sit-in went on to receive much local and regional media coverage and SWA members got phone calls of support from former vice presidential candidate John Edwards and actor Danny Glover. On April 22, two WashU officials brought an official letter to members of SWA signed by Chancellor Mark
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At Princeton, 53% of eating disorders begin in college, survey finds BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT CAMPUS WATCH EDITOR
The results of a survey released Friday on eating attitudes and behaviors at Princeton University revealed a 9 percent self-reported rate of eating disorders among respondents. Of the 379 students who took the survey, 6 percent reported they had sought treatment for an eating disorder and 53 percent of students who reported having an eating disorder said it began at Princeton. The Princeton student group that administered the survey, the Eating Concerns Peer Educators, “wanted to get some numbers to quantify (the) feelings about perfection and thinness” on Princeton’s campus, said senior Olivia Albrecht, a member of ECPE. Armed with the survey data, the group now plans to push Princeton’s administration to grant it funding and a more visible role on campus, including a mandatory presentation during first-year orientation week. Last spring, ECPE members sent out an e-mail to 900 randomly selected students — roughly onefifth of Princeton’s undergraduate population — inviting them to take the anonymous, online survey, which took about 20 minutes. Albrecht said the survey was based on several professional questionnaires and assessment tools that have been see PRINCETON, page 6
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Shakespeare, not on the Green BY STEWART DEARING STAFF WRITER
This year’s Shakespeare on the Green spring festival — a spring tradition at Brown — will bring student-directed performances of “Richard III,” “As You Like It” and “Macbeth” to three unique campus locations. “Richard III” will be staged outside under the Bears’ Lair in the middle of Grad Center, between towers A and C. Director Dan Hernandez ’06 has chosen to emphasize the roles that trust and lies play in the story, according to stage manager Charly Simpson ’08. The production will also explore the complex, abrasive personality of Richard III, Simmons said. “There is a focus on the brutality of Richard. He’s really evil in this production,” he said. “As You Like It,” directed by Daniel Rogers ’08 and Jordan Elkind ’08, will be performed on Lincoln Field, near the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and will combine Shakespeare elements with a modern aesthetic. “Macbeth” will be an “odd, postapocalyptic” version of the Shakespeare classic with tons of black and leather, said director James Rutherford ’07. Nestled in Chafee Courtyard, beneath the Rockefeller Library’s absolute quiet room, the performance of “Macbeth” will make use of its unusual space, Rutherford said. A set of stairs, a bench and a green shrub will shape the stage. Only about 45 people will be able to fit into the see SHAKESPEARE, page 12
Tikkun exhibit remembers children killed during Intifada BY BEN LEUBSDORF SENIOR STAFF WRITER
The Main Green became a children’s graveyard this week. The exhibit, which began Tuesday and will end tonight, features around 800 mock graves, each with the name of an Israeli or Palestinian child killed between Sept. 29, 2001, when the current wave of violence, called the Intifada, began, and April 2005. The graves are arranged in chronological order, and are red if the child was Palestinian and blue if the child was Israeli. “These children were all noncombatants. They weren’t in the Israeli army, they weren’t suicide bombers,” said Ali Zarrabi ’06, co-coordinator of Tikkun, the group that created the exhibit. Tikkun seeks to encourage balanced dialogue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to its description on the Undergraduate Council of Students’ Web site. Zarrabi said Tikkun was trying to “start a dialogue” by impressing on students that children killed in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict are “more than just statistics. This is to humanize them.” However, the exhibit was the sight of confrontation on Tuesday when several protestors from Anti-Racist Action, which has campaigned for Brown to divest from all companies that do business with Israeli, arrived. According to Dara Bayer ’08, a member of ARA, six or seven members came to the exhibit with signs reading
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“Brown is invested in these graves” to protest the University for “supporting the apartheid state of Israel, which is causing these deaths on both sides,” she said. “We had no problem with them protesting,” Zarrabi said. But he added: “We had a problem with them standing directly in front of the piece. … They made the impression that they were responsible for the work, which many people now believe.” After a brief confrontation, Zarrabi said, the ARA members moved several feet away from the exhibit. “This is in memory of all the children and all the victims of the conflict,” he said, adding that ARA was trying to impose one-sided political meaning on the exhibit. But Bayer disagreed. “Death is political,” she said.
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BSR continued from page 1 reached for comment. The FCC encouraged applicants to join together to develop a plan for sharing the station, promising the license to the largest team. The successful groups would then have joint membership of the station and would share costs and
air time. For the past five years, BSR attempted to develop partnerships with various other groups in order to secure a license, Duffy said. But these efforts ended Monday, the deadline to submit a plan for “teaming up.” The three religious groups united, leaving out BSR. But BSR still has a chance. “If one or more group is disqualified, we could be back to
square one,” Duffy said. The FCC’s rules and regulations seem to be developed as the process unfolds, she added. With the help of Peter Tannenwald ’64, a Washingtonbased communications lawyer who has been doing pro bono legal work for BSR, the student station was able to file petitions with the FCC against three of the competing community organizations vying for the license in an attempt to disqualify them. “We’ve been lucky to have great alumni who have been very supportive,” Duffy said. BSR urged the FCC to reexamine the other groups’ applications and in some cases pointed to specific flaws that might indeed eliminate contenders from the applicant pool, she said. While the groups had the opportunity to defend themselves, none did. “We won’t have any idea about the outcome until the end of the summer,” Duffy said. In the meantime, BSR staff and listeners are hoping for the passage of a bill introduced by senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., which aims to open up more licenses nationwide, including one or two more in Providence. The ratification of this bill would decrease the competition for airwaves in the Providence area and might allow BSR to finally achieve its goal. “My hope is that students contact their senators in order to support the McCain-Leahy bill. That’s the best thing people can do to support community radio,” Duffy said.
Advising continued from page 7 more CAP courses are being launched for the 2005-06 school year, and in January, the University organized a sophomore midyear orientation. A good faculty adviser has to believe that the job he or she is doing is important, which is a perception not all Brown faculty have, Armstrong said. “We had a couple of discussions about these ideas with faculty governance boards, and (it seemed) that faculty find advising (at Brown) more interesting than at other places, where students have a list of courses they have to take — ‘I have to do this, I have to do that,’ ” he said. “But they don’t always think
Princeton continued from page 3 used nationally. It included questions about eating habits and self-esteem and used height and weight to calculate respondents’ body mass index. The survey’s results may not be completely reliable because the respondents were selfselecting. “The numbers could be skewed. ... It’s self reporting so (the eating disorder) number could be much higher or could be much lower” than reality, Albrecht said. Albrecht said the competitive culture at Princeton, and elite universities generally, may account for the high percentage of eating disorders. “Everyone here has to be thin — or is thin — and exercises way too much and doesn’t eat — everyone thinks this is the normal thing,” she said. “You don’t see anyone who’s overweight on campus and that’s not typical for America right now or, I think, this age group,” she added. Albrecht said she was particularly troubled by the 53 percent of those with eating disorders who reported that their eating disorders began at Princeton. “I think that’s astronomical. That’s one of the big numbers I personally find appalling,” she said. “A lot of people are predisposed to eating disorders, but it might have something to do with Princeton.” “It’s a hard number to work with ... (because) this is a common age that people develop eating disorders,” Albrecht added. Another ECPE member, Monica Wojcik, said at Princeton and colleges in general, students are vulnerable to developing unhealthy eating habits. “We are kind of isolated — all you see is Princeton students. Most of them are average weight or thin, you never really see any overweight people,” Wojcik said. “People tend to be perfectionists,” she added. According to ECPE members, the survey appears to be the first of its kind.
that the work that they do as advisers is adequately recognized and rewarded. We need to make sure faculty advising salaries are raised and advising gets as much attention as teaching. Good advising should be more visibly rewarded,” Armstrong said. The committee aims to begin implementing its final proposal in the fall, and in the meantime has completed site visits to Dartmouth College and Princeton University and a discussion with Stanford University’s newly appointed associate vice provost for undergraduate education. “We’re trying to get as many good ideas as we can from as many people and put them all together,” Armstrong said. — Anne Wootton
“What’s interesting about this is we did try to find comparative results ... and the cool-slashannoying part is that no one has done anything like this,” Albrecht said. The survey also included a 14question, true-or-false knowledge assessment section, which included questions about Princeton’s resources for eating disorders. Only 2 percent of respondents got a perfect score. “There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be getting a perfect score. ... We feel like in this area we can make a really big improvement,” Wojcik said. At Brown, there have not been any surveys similar to ECPE’s, at least in the recent past. “We haven’t done any surveys like that in several years and we tend to rely on national statistics as the best measure we have on this issue,” Frances Mantak, director of Health Education, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. According to Heather Bell, a nutritionist at Health Services, Brown does not formally track the numbers of students who come to Health Services seeking treatment for eating disorders. “My guess is the prevalence is similar to what you would find at other Ivy League campuses,” Bell said. She said that Health Services helps treat students with eating disorders “every day,” but that the frequency varies according to the time of year. “Toward the end of the second semester is a particularly intense time,” Bell said. “We have been getting lots of new people coming in saying, ‘I have an issue.’ ” Bell said that Health Services plans to switch to electronic medical records this summer, which will potentially make capturing eating disorder data easier. However, “we don’t have a formal plan to track” the information, she said. In addition to Brown Heath Services and Psychological Services, Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders holds support groups for students. Sofia Bengoa ’07, who coordinated ANAD last year, said around five to seven students typically attend meetings.
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Temporary employees paid less, have fewer protections BY KIM STICKELS STAFF WRITER
“B” works 24 to 28 hours per week at $8 an hour, below the $10.43 starting wage given to every permanent employee at Brown Dining Services, as a “limited duration employee.” He also works over 40 hours per week at another company. He is not a workaholic — he says he has no choice. He must support his wife and two young children. Sharpe Refectory workers, who requested to remain anonymous because they feared losing their jobs, told The Herald that temporary employees generally work harder than permanent employees because “you have to work very hard to get hired.” In response to the recent firing and rehiring of Valdi Williams, who worked for Brown Dining Services as a temporary employee for five years, President Ruth Simmons asked the Human Resources Advisory Board to investigate Brown’s use of temporary employees. Williams was fired March 7 from her job as a dishwasher at the Ratty under a union contract, but was rehired April 20 after a University “problem resolution process.” One night, “B” mops the floor and washes dishes at a campus eatery, waiting for the end of his shift when he can finally go home. He has worked at Brown for more than seven months, but he has not applied for a permanent position because “there are people who have been here three to four years and are still working temp.” “People are here making $8.25 who have been here for very long,” one worker said. Two workers also said that employees are unaware of the duration of time for which they will be employed. “You’re not told how long it will last,” said one. The Rhode Island Temporary Employee Protection Act mandates that employees be informed of the “estimated longevity of the assignment.” The Student Labor Alliance, which successfully pushed the University to rehire Williams, claims that “approximately 80 of 200 non-student workers are limited duration temporary workers,” SLA member Chris Hu ’06 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. One employee estimated that 21 to 22 limited duration workers work at the Ratty. Brown Dining Services employs the vast majority of temporary workers, according to
Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter. The Brown Bookstore also employs a significant number of temporary workers. Many of the temporary workers in Brown Dining Services speak little English. Temporary employees “typically work from three to six months,” Hunter wrote in an email. Both temporary and permanent employees work at the same level of difficulty, many employees said. “They do the full time work and should be paid a little more,” one Ratty employee said. “It’s a demanding job.”
Two permanent employees said they had worked for several years as temps before being hired. “They don’t get any benefits, no bonus time or sick time,” one said. BuDS Director Gretchen Willis did not respond to multiple requests for an interview this week. Although many employees agreed that Brown students appreciate the work they do, they emphasized it is not easy. “Brown is a very hard place to work for. We have to keep students satisfied,” said a Ratty employee.
Committee wants ‘safety net’ for academic advising As part of an ongoing effort to strengthen academic advising, a committee led by Dean of the College Paul Armstrong is developing a proposal for improvement that it will present to President Ruth Simmons by the end of the month. The committee, which also includes Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene and Associate Provost Brenda Allen, director of institutional diversity, is working largely from a report on academic advising completed in 2001 by Associate Professor of Sociology Gregory Elliott. Elliot used sociology research methods to survey the student body and see “what works and what doesn’t,” Armstrong said. One of the committee’s focuses will be providing a “safety net” for students who do not connect with their advisers. “We think it’s incumbent on us as a university to be more present to provide assistance to students in difficulty and for students for whom the advising doesn’t work,” Armstrong said. For this to happen, it is the consensus of the committee that academic advising needs to be better integrated with student life. The committee hopes to propose five residential advising offices closer to dorms. “We’re talking about having arms of the college out more where students are living,” Armstrong said. A recent addition to the academic advising system is the “advising partnership”
model. Introduced three years ago, it passes materials on to first-year students and faculty about the interactive nature of a successful adviser-advisee relationship — something that many students have never experienced before. “When I came to college, I had no idea what an adviser was,” Armstrong said. “(Advisers) aren’t supposed to be the answer-men or answer-women, telling you what do. (They should be) asking you questions, helping students make the transition from high school — you don’t have that relationship with your guidance counselor. “Part of this is recognizing that you have to educate students how to be not passive but active, how to seek out advice — orienting (them) to figure out how (they) should be navigating the Brown curriculum,” he said. Over 180 faculty members participate in first-year academic advising, and about 900 first-year students were enrolled in Curricular Advising Program courses this year. CAP courses enable first-year students to be taught by their advisers in a small seminar setting. For many students, however, faculty advising falls off in their sophomore year when they are no longer required by the University to have an adviser. One of the committee’s goals is to increase the percentage of sophomores with an identified faculty adviser. To this end, sophosee ADVISING, page 6
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NFL continued from page 16 Congress — and take advantage of politicians who saw nothing wrong with grading on a curve. Because baseball had set the bar so “exceedingly low,” as Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-Mass., put it, all the NFL had to do Wednesday was show up, seem organized and sound concerned and Tagliabue was going to come off as St. Paul, patron saint of antisteroid awareness. More than that, the NFL came prepared to pour it on — handing out glossy educational booklets aimed at high school athletes, hitting Congress in a soft spot, and using the occasion to announce a new, tougher drug policy. It was another reminder of how and why pro football eclipsed baseball as the national pastime. It all comes back to television. The NFL manipulates the medium as if the league invented it. Selig and his minions still view the thing as a strange alien box that fell to Earth from the heavens. If Vince Lombardi were around to assess the situation, he’d say, “Image isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” Train a television camera on the commissioners and everything the public believes about their respective leagues, right or wrong, comes quickly into focus. Selig is uncomfortable in front of the camera, looking awkward, nervous, disheveled, slightly shifty but not slick in any way, a faux pas waiting to happen. Funny, but that’s the precisely the same scouting report from baseball’s performance in front of Congress in March. Tagliabue, meanwhile, is lawyerly smooth and erudite, looking cool and in control, everready with the “SportsCenter”friendly sound bite. His performance Wednesday was made for television, just like everything about his league. Stylistically, it was a blowout
for the NFL. But how about substance? Selig was flanked by some of baseball’s biggest stars, past and present, during his appearance on Capitol Hill. Tagliabue had only Steve Courson, a onetime steroid user who retired from pro football in 1985 and frankly admitted he was out of touch with what was happening inside NFL locker rooms in 2005. Where were the current NFL players? Or at least someone who actually played in the league during the last decade? How about some NFL coaches? Asked about the issue, Upshaw launched the kind of spin that was positively, well, congressional. “Someone said that we need active players here,” Upshaw said. “Well, I talk to active players. I spend most of my time in locker rooms around the NFL, and I can tell you this: Over the years that I’ve been in this position, in the locker room, and I did include some quotes from active players in my testimony that’s part of this record, but I want to point out one thing that’s very important. We have never had one player in
the National Football League. ...” Suddenly, ESPN News interrupted Upshaw by cutting away to Fenway Park, where umpires were deciding whether to call the Boston-Baltimore baseball game because of rain. Upshaw’s audio went out as well. How convenient. How appropriate. Television stepping in again to lend the NFL a hand. Later, Upshaw was asked about Plummer’s claim on ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” that Upshaw had opposed steroid testing during contract talks with the NFL during the late 1990s. “I think the record will show that I have supported and continue to support and have been a strong supporter for testing for steroids,” Upshaw replied. “I don’t know what Gary Plummer’s talking about. But knowing that he’s a linebacker, I sort of take that into the balance of this also.” That drew some laughs from Upshaw’s interrogators. It’s good to be the king. Or, as the position is known in this country, the NFL. And when you’re up before Congress, it’s even better not to be Major League Baseball.
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his description of the only dialogue between U.S. officials and Ho Chi Minh in the summer of 1967. Henry Kissinger was in Hanoi to discuss an end to the war with a French communist who knew Minh from his time in Paris and a French scientist. “You will never believe what happened. While they were there, we bombed the goddamn place,” he said. McNamara condemned the lack of communication within the U.S. government — also characteristic of international relations. According to McNamara, “In Vietnam, the two most important issues were never discussed. Was Eisenhower correct — would the dominoes fall if we lost South Vietnam? And if yes, could that be prevented by the introduction of a large number of U.S. military personnel?” In his speech, McNamara stressed the importance of starting dialogues now in the midst of the looming nuclear threats. “You don’t have to take five years, 10 years, 15 years to look back and come to these conclusions,” he said. McNamara ended his speech by sending a message to future leaders based on his own self-analysis. “One of the most important lessons I have learned is that leaders are very unwilling to force associates to debate before them ideas in which the associates have a different point of view. That leads to a failure to discuss the issues,” he concluded.
continued from page 1 deployed in 15 minutes by the president without consultation. That’s where we are today,” he said. In order for the United States to slow nuclear proliferation worldwide, McNamara said, India, North Korea, Pakistan and other nations “need security guarantees.” According to McNamara, the United States has not discussed such guarantees since 1962’s Cuban missile crisis. McNamara also asked the United States government to at least show “a little maneuverability” in next month’s nuclear arms negotiations with North Korea, even though the communist state withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2004. “What we need to say is in some cases — North Korea — we are going to provide security. Other cases, such as Iran, we are going to have to provide nuclear fuels that they can use for generation of electricity, which is permitted under the treaty,” he said. McNamara said hard-line attitudes must be dispelled through open dialogue. “You cannot influence a person that you do not make an effort to understand. Today we don’t do this. It’s a lack of the willingness to move towards empathy,” he said. McNamara contrasted war hawk policies in Vietnam with
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UCS continued from page 1 voting member. Hargreaves said UCS was “disrespecting the process,” as applicants were “expecting the opportunity for an interview.” Though no community members or other potential appointees conveyed concerns about the appointments for the other committees, after much debate UCS decided to table all their appointments until investigating the code at a special meeting for voting members that will be called this weekend. This meeting, like weekly UCS general body meetings, will be announced through e-mail and open to the public. At Wednesday’s meeting, outgoing President Joel Payne ’05 and outgoing Vice President Charley Cummings ’06 reflected on the council’s activities over the past year and issues facing the council in the future. Cummings said the council has made progress this year and praised representatives’ dedication to their constituents. But he said that the issues facing the council, such as an increasingly apathetic student body, a tarnished reputation and a culture of individualism on the council are “something a code change or referendum will not fix.” He encouraged members to consider “what (they) think this organization could be,” and told the council of his confidence in the new UCS president and vice president. Payne commended the Council for the work it has done over the past year. “I’m really proud of the growth that I’ve seen,” he said. Payne spoke of his confidence in newly elected UCS president Brian Bidadi ’06. “I don’t think he’s going to do a good job — I know he’s going to do a good job,” Payne said. Bidadi also addressed the council and spoke of his goals for the next year and the council’s “ability to change Brown for years in the future.” He said he would like to continue the “tradition of student life improvement,” established this year with ideas and improvements such as a winter Jterm and summer storage, and that he would like UCS to be “an open student government with face-to-face interaction with our students.” Bidadi told The Herald that he will not implement Payne’s Campus Region Plan, the only major piece of the outgoing president’s original election platform that he said he did not accomplish this year.
Payne said he did not feel that he had enough support to bring the plan, which he believed was misunderstood by students to be “another layer of bureaucracy,” to life. Bidadi said he believes that “the spirit behind it was getting to know the students,” and he hopes to improve this interaction with regular dorm rounds and more polling through WebCT. Payne said he was proud of his work on Brown First exemptions for student groups and elections reform, both major parts of his original platform. At the meeting, UCS also passed two resolutions. The first was an anti-telemarketing resolution, brought to the council by Herald Opinions Editor Ari Savitzky ’06, which, according to the language of the resolution, encourages the University to “recognize students’ right to privacy” and “urges the University to withhold all student information (campus phone and box numbers) from credit card companies and telemarketers.” Savitzky urged the council to pass the resolution at this final meeting to ensure it was in place before new telephone numbers are distributed for the 2005-2006 academic year. The council also passed a resolution to promote a campus center to Category 1 status on the University table of needs, which is used in the University’s campaign to raise funds. A Category 1 need is considered to be of immediate importance and is explained as such to potential donors. Two weeks ago, President Ruth Simmons presented the current draft of the table of needs, which, based on input from previous years, requests a fitness center as a Category 1 need and classifies a campus center as a less-immediate Category 2 need. The UCS resolution requests that a fitness center remain a Category 1 need see UCS, page 12
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Weekend continued from page 16 that made it to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament will be inducted. William Pollard, meanwhile, will receive the Paul L. Maddock ’33 Award. M. and W. CREW: The Bears try to keep the momentum going after big wins last weekend. The men will face No. 4 Princeton, while the women have a tough dual meet against Yale and Northeastern University. M. LACROSSE: It’s senior day for Brown, which will take on No. 4 Cornell in the hopes of securing an NCAA tournament berth. According to Head Coach Scott Nelson, a victory here should ensure the Bears one of the 16 postseason spots. W. LACROSSE: Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00 should see some familiar faces on Princeton’s sideline this Saturday when her squad travels to New Jersey. McDonald was an assistant coach for the then-No.1 Tigers last season when they narrowly defeated Brown by a score of 5-4. W. WATER POLO: Bruno is heading to Bloomington, Ind., for the Eastern Championships this weekend. The Bears are the sixth seed in the field and will open up play against third-seeded Princeton.
W. tennis continued from page 16 Princeton that happened not to go in our favor, but we will win those types of matches next year,” Ames said. On Friday, Dartmouth began by securing the doubles point on its home turf with an 8-3 win at first and an 8-4 win at second. Kelley Kirkpatrick ’08 and Pariser posted an 8-6 victory at third doubles, but to no avail. In singles action, Kirkpatrick garnered a point with a 5-7, 6-1, 10 win at sixth and Ivancevic grabbed Brown’s only other point with her 6-3, 6-4 performance at third. However, the Big Green rolled on to win the match with straight set wins at first, second, fourth and fifth singles. The weekend did not get better when the Bears returned to Providence to host Harvard on Sunday. Harvard clinched the Ivy League title, capping an undefeated Ivy season with its 6-1 win over the Bears. The Crimson got off to a dominating start, sweeping the doubles competition to clinch the point. The first-year duo of Kirkpatrick and Pariser put up a valiant effort at third doubles before surrendering in a close 9-7 match.
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Co-captain Chris Mucciolo ’05 will be playing in his final home game Saturday. Sunday, May 1 Dave Zucconi ’55 5k Run: The third annual race to commemorate the beloved Brown sports enthusiast, the run will kick off at 9:30 a.m. in front of the old Marvel Gymnasium. Organized by SAAC, all proceeds will go to the Rhode Island Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Harvard cruised to the victory with three straight-set wins. Saiontz fell at the one spot in a swift 6-1, 6-1 match and Ivancevic lost her match 6-3, 6-4 at fourth singles. Junior Elsa O’Riain, who is ranked 70th in the nation, clinched the match with her 6-1, 6-4 win over Ames at second. Arlak shined in her penultimate performance with the Bears, earning Brown’s only point with a 6-4, 6-4 win at third singles. Although the Bears’ season did not go as well as they might have hoped, many players expressed optimism about next season’s squad. “We have had a rough Ivy season in terms of losses,” Ivancevic said, “but we have come a long way in terms of team dynamics and this will benefit us in the future.” “The teams that we are playing are all good and we have been doing our best,” Ivancevic added, “and even though we may have lost 6-1 or 7-0, we definitely competed well.” Next year the Bears return all players with the exception of Arlak, who leaves the team in capable hands. “I think … the sophomores will do their best to lead their younger teammates, and even the freshmen now will make a positive impact on the incoming players,” Arlak said.
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LETTERS EXTRA Intellectual diversity should go both ways To the Editor: In his letter (“Intellectual diversity is moving Brown forward,” April 26), Joshua Unseth ’08 succeeds in demonstrating that intellectual diversity would be a real step forward for Brown. However, he does not do so in the way that he intended. The importance of a movement for intellectual diversity should not be to try to change people’s minds, to alter people’s ideologies, but rather to open their minds to the existence and validity of other viewpoints. Granted, this is what Unseth suggests, but stronger demonstration of the need for such diversity lies in the closed-minded comments that pervade his letter. He equates liberal thought (at least on campus) with rampant promiscuity and the death of morality, suggesting that liberals (at least on campus) are “weed-smoking hippie activists.” Frankly, these
UCS continued from page 9 as well. Emily Blatter ’07, chair of the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee, presented recommendations on advising that the AAA committee had accumulated over the course of the year. Recommendations include the “designation of at least four members of the University as class advisers to follow a class throughout its four years,” “creating a centralized list of all advisers within the University that includes area of expertise, department, job title and office hours,” “research-based advising” and “open and more accessible advising files between advisers,” according to the language of the recommendations. Michael Morgenstern ’08 presented recommendations compiled by UCS’s Internal Reform Task Force. The recommendations dealt with council climate, meeting structure, mentoring, shifting the focus from individual to group projects, redefinition and creation of positions, and elections, among many other issues. Cummings, who called the document “precocious,” said that “this document has the potential to be an effectual one if put into the right hands.” The Student Activities Committee also made recommendations for changes that will affect category status and
statements do nothing more than to prove that he needs to open his mind to the rest of the world just as much this “echo chamber of liberal thought” that he so fervently indicts. Yes, 62,040,606 people in the United States did vote for Bush, but 59,028,109 others voted for Kerry. The nation outside Brown’s campus is not a hotbed of conservatism, it is a nation that is fairly evenly divided between the two parties. If intellectual diversity is to be promoted in a reasonable way, then it should be a two-way street. Liberals on campus certainly stand to benefit from exposure to conservative speakers such as Dinesh D’Souza; however, free exchange of ideas cannot be achieved unless conservatives open their minds to liberal thought as well.
group accountability. The SA committee also presented several groups to the council for de-constitution, three of which were present at the meeting to present their reasons for maintaining their status as Category III groups. The Higher Keys, the oldest coed a cappella group on campus, will receive a hearing on their de-constitution, as is mandated according to the UCS code after a group submits a written petition. This potential de-constitution is a result of a failure to submit a required budget to the Undergraduate Finance Board for two consecutive years as well as the possession of an outside bank account, which is prohibited of categorized student groups. Jackie Chen ’06, who has been business manager of the group this year and last, said that the group was not aware of its Category III status or the bank account rule. She said the Keys did not receive notification that they were required to submit a budget and believed their status to be Category II. The group will receive a hearing, and if deconstituted, may apply to be constituted at the beginning of the next academic year. The National Society of Black Engineers and the Brown Flying Club were both placed on a probationary period as Category II groups from their previous status as Category III. This period will last until they show greater community impact, a requirement for status as a Category III group.
Jeremy Welland ’08 April 26
Zucconi continued from page 16 In addition to the 5k, there will be shorter events for children of all ages kicking off at 9 a.m. Entrants in the main race may run or walk. This year the proceeds from the race and raffle will go to the Rhode Island Make-A-Wish foundation, which is trying to send a local child to Disney World. SAAC is hoping to match last year’s total of $6,000. Fundraising has been tough so far, due to rumors of threatening weather, but Trivedi and others still remain optimistic about their chances of hitting the goal. “We’re pretty close. I think that we are going to make it,” Trivedi said. In the race’s first year, donations went to the Fox Point Boys and Girls Club, where Zucconi first started playing sports, Trivedi said. Last year, proceeds went to The Tomorrow Fund for Children with Cancer at Hasbro Hospital, a charity that that helps pay mortgages and bills so parents can spend more time with their sick children. Although the race is just one of many community service events run by SAAC throughout the school year, according to Burroughs, it is the most important. “It really is SAAC’s biggest event of the year,” Burroughs said. “We’ve been planning this since before Christmas. It’s nice to see what student athletes can do away from the sports fields.” For more information on the race, visit www.brownbears.com.
Shakespeare continued from page 5 seating area, which is a small corner of the courtyard, delineated from the stage space by a thin, vague line of stones. “The seating is very limited, so the performance will be very intimate,” Rutherford said. “Richard III” will be performed Friday at 9 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. and Sunday at 9 p.m. “Macbeth” will go up Thursday at 9 p.m., Friday at 9 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 9 p.m. “As You Like It” performances will take place Friday at 5 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. All performances are free.
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OPINIONS EXTRA THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005 · PAGE 13
Leave the disrespect in your dorm rooms GUEST COLUMN BY SARAH GOULET No professor should ever need to tell her class to be quiet — not once, but multiple times during one lecture. Nor should she need to beg people to turn off their cell phones and not text message one another in class. She should not need to get used to starting class five minutes late because it takes that long for her students to begin to settle down enough for her microphoned voice to be audible. She should not need to experience the depressing humiliation of having students stroll out of class in the middle of a lecture. The impoliteness and disrespect that I have experienced in one of my classes this semester is unlike anything that I have seen at Brown. In fact, it is unlike anything that I experienced in high school. Rather, it is a throwback to middle school — but these middle-schoolers are 20 years old, and carry a sense of entitlement found in few adolescents. Although boring lecturers or dull material aren’t excuses for blatant rudeness, this is not the case here. Rather, this professor is an outstanding lecturer. Her classes are ani-
The impoliteness that I have experienced in one of my classes this semester is unlike anything that I have seen at Brown. mated, on-point and succinct; her lectures are peppered with wit. The subject matter is far from dry — in fact, the period being studied is one of the most vibrant, varied and beloved in the department. While this behavior is ultimately most disrespectful to the professor, it also shows a profound level of disregard for one’s fellow students. Brown is refreshing in that everyone who is here — at least hypothetically — wants to be here. Furthermore, Brown’s shopping system ensures that people can test-drive classes to guarantee that no one ends up in a class that he or she really doesn’t want to take. Many of the people in this class are not concentrators in the department, so they are under no institutional pressure to be in this class. So why are people so impolite? Is it because the professor is young? Is it because this is her first semester teaching at Brown? Does the large class size empower people with a sense of anonymity and relieve them of personal responsibility? Or do people simply have so little regard for their classmates and their professors that this conduct is tolerable to them? I am embarrassed for my classmates, and for Brown. May this professor know that this is an anomalous experience, and a mysterious one. There is only one class left in this semester, but I implore my classmates to show up on time, focus and be respectful. Otherwise, don't come at all. Sarah Goulet ’07 Cézanne to her class: be polite.
Pro-ROTC doesn’t mean pro-war GUEST COLUMN BY BRIAN BARBATA I graduated from Brown with a degree in fine arts in 1968 and was commissioned as a naval officer the same day, having spent two years in Brown’s Naval ROTC program. The school banned us from receiving our commissions on the stage with the graduates, so we were relegated to Sayles Hall. I have written to the Brown administration and the Alumni Monthly, trying to get some attention to the restoration of ROTC at Brown. The comments of some of those interviewed in “Focus on: Brown and the military” (April 27) help make the case. For example, Professor of Anthropology Catherine Lutz’s notion that “public and private universities shouldn’t be in the business of making better officers” is off-base. Think about it. When we send soldiers and sailors into harm’s way, do we want them guided by “better” officers or “worse” officers? The mental skills of an officer can mean the difference between a successful operation and one with casualties. In fact, it is the duty of our universities to provide the best leaders possible for the thousands of enlisted people whose lives will be more or less at risk depending on the quality of the officers responsible for them. Lutz’s point of view comes from a general anti-war perspective, which would end all wars and have no military. That’s
admirable, but in the meantime, we need to deal with reality, which is that this country is going to be putting military forces out there at risk for the foreseeable future. Do we want to put those folks more at risk, or less at risk? Beyond that, what kind of admiral or general would you want in charge of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the future — one from Brown, or one from somewhere else? If you’re a pacifist, you would want that person to be from Brown. If you’re worried about stupid wars, you want that person to be from Brown. If you’re concerned about casualties, you want that person to be from Brown. Today, people like to say they support our troops, but not war. Often a shallow sentiment, but better than calling involuntarily drafted soldiers in Vietnam “baby killers.” But why not “support our troops” by providing them with the best and brightest leaders? When it comes to a school like Brown, aren’t our graduates exactly the kind of people we would want to have out there influencing the way the military does business? The degree I earned at Brown was as “liberal” as you can get, and I thought it was critical in my ability to make
a difference in the Navy for four years. I wouldn’t have traded that experience for anything, and those who worked for me felt the same. So the next time you see an ROTC cadet walking around, go thank him or her for volunteering for the challenge of protecting our soldiers and sailors and making sure the ugliness of war is handled in the best way possible. That is
No one is more anti-war than people active in the military. what they are doing, not promoting warfare. No one is more anti-war than people active in the military. When I was in the Navy, I hoped every day that the war in Vietnam would end. Military officers protect our country when the administration deems it necessary. If you have a beef with that, talk to the politicians, but don’t take it out on the military. And think about getting ROTC back on campus. It’s what Brown can do for those future “poverty draft” soldiers and sailors that anti-war activists are so concerned about. It doesn’t mean you’re pro-war. Brian Barbata ’68 graduated from Brown with a degree in fine arts.
Anti-Racist Action responds GUEST COLUMN BY CHRISTOPHER SHORTSLEEVE The overwhelming majority of criticism directed at Anti-Racist Action this year is criticism of our tone and style. We’re told we’re not constructive, we’re not responsible, we’re too inflammatory, we’re too ideological, et cetera. While we anticipated a lot of these lectures about etiquette, we did not expect them to be so utterly devoid of political content. Where are the political critiques of ARA? At our rally last Wednesday, there was a Zionist counterprotest organized under the banner “Constructive Dialogue, Productive Activism.” We challenged our counterprotesters (Tikkun, Students for Israel and Brown Friends of Israel) to a debate and they declined, saying that this dialogue would “legitimize ARA.” Why is it that so many people hate us but aren’t willing to engage us on a political level? Answer: Behind campus Zionists’ calls for “civility” is an argument for the compassionate colonization of the Palestinian people. Witness the guest column written Wednesday by a member of Tikkun (“Remember these children,” April 27), which asked students to consider “all sides of the issue” in Israel and Palestine. Yet, though Tikkun claims to consider all sides of the issue, there is one side that they absolutely refuse to consider: the side that says that Israel and Palestine should be desegregated so that Jews, Arabs, Muslims and Christians can all live side by side in equality. Tikkun doesn’t want a desegregated Israel and Palestine where Jews and Arabs live side by side in one multi-ethnic, democratic state, because Tikkun, despite its pretensions to Palestine solidarity, is a Zionist organization. Like all Zionist organizations, its first principle is the maintenance of the state of Israel in its current form: a Jewish-only state in an Arab majority land.
Since September, ARA has called for the re-formation of Israel and Palestine as a single, democratic polity, in which all of its inhabitants, regardless of race or religion, live as equal citizens. Our so-called “responsible” opponents reject this call for multi-racial equality, proposing as an alternative a “separate-but-equal” Palestinian state, which they claim will come about through the peace process happening in Palestine right now. As we’ve been saying since September, this will
control them. It would have no viable economy. East Jerusalem would be taken from the Palestinians, along with its tourism market on which their economy depends. The state of Palestine wouldn’t even have the right to enter into an alliance without Israeli permission. That’s not a state. The United States knows that. What’s being offered to the Palestinians is a Bantustan, a militarily regulated reservation. It kills me to hear liberal Zionists on this campus talk about the
We challenged our counterprotesters (Tikkun, Students for Israel and Brown Friends of Israel) to a debate and they declined, saying that this dialogue would “legitimize” ARA. never happen. Israel and the United States don’t want a Palestinian state. It’s never been offered in peace processes in the past, and there has been no relevant change in the political character of either state to suppose that it will be offered in this current phase of negotiations. During both Oslo (1993) and Camp David (2000), the so-called “state” that was offered to the Palestinians was more like a militarily regulated reservation. And like its aborted predecessors, the current proposition looks much the same. The proposed Palestinian state would have no coherent territory. It would be comprised of disconnected parts of Gaza and the West Bank and bisected throughout by Jewish-only colonies, Jewish-only roads, the latest apartheid wall and IDF checkpoints and bases. This state would have no military. This “sovereign state” would be at the will of the Israeli military. It would not control its own borders, airspace or communications. Israel would
peace process like it contains some sort of hope for the liberation of the Palestinian people. Gaza and the West Bank aren’t connected. You can’t have a state with little pockets that aren’t connected. What are they going to connect them with? A monorail? This isn’t Disneyland. To our opponents who continue to reject a multi-racial Palestine, who continue to represent themselves and the peace process as “responsible” and “constructive” alternatives, I ask: What are you constructing? To those who stand for a peace process which tells the Palestinians that they can have neither their own autonomous state or full democratic inclusion into the Israeli state, I ask: What are you producing? Chris Shortsleeve ’05.5 and Anti-Racist Action would like to formally invite Tikkun, Brown Students for Israel and Friends of Israel to engage in a political debate moderated by a neutral third party.
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Diamonds and coal Coal to lines, particularly those that were easily preventable if not for CIA-style information management. But a begrudging diamond to the lucky, tardy souls who picked up tickets with their sodas at the Campus Market on Tuesday. Also, a diamond to the opportunity to use the word queue. A diamond to the Class of 2005, of which President Ruth Simmons proudly proclaimed herself a member. Please come back to visit. Or better yet, don’t leave Providence at all. Coal to the death of slacker concentrations. How are we going to compete with Cornell’s School of Hotel Management now? A diamond to the men’s tennis team for clinching a share of the Ivy League title. But coal to the lack of last-minute dramatics in beating Harvard for said title this year. A cubic zirconium to protesting. We give you credit for taking a stand, but when no one can keep track of who or what or why you’re protesting, is it time to take a break? A diamond to the valiant — and unpaid! — EMTs who kept our student body intact over the last two weeks. Coal to the new, manic avian chirping that now begins long before we go to bed. But a diamond to almost being run over by the Gray Lady in her 1950s-era delivery truck while listening to aforementioned manic avian chirping. A diamond to new traditions and the songs that come from them. Finally, a rain of shiny rocks to our fantastic staffers, who make the long nights more bearable and keep the place from burning down, most of the time. Have a great summer!
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LETTERS Stereotyping DPS police misses the mark To the Editor: I was very dismayed to see my friend, Sgt. Stephen St. Jean, maliciously attacked and mischaracterized in Vanessa Huang’s letter, “Rethinking arming: safety or protection” (April 27). I met St. Jean last November and have eaten with him weekly ever since. Sgt. St. Jean is one of the friendliest people I know at Brown, and I enjoy hearing about his experiences, his family and his views and beliefs, which are often quite different from my own. I applaud the Department of Public Safety’s initiative in communal dining for allowing me to get to
know him personally. Perhaps Huang would not be so willing to attack Sgt. St. Jean if she too took the initiative to get to know him, instead of immediately lumping him into her own stereotype of a violent “Brown cop” after one short conversation. Huang is certainly entitled to her opinion about the arming of DPS officers, but she is wrong to support her argument using unfounded and insulting personal attacks against one of its best officers. It is she who is in need of diversity training. Benjamin Boas ’06 April 27
Letter from the Editors A guest column in Wednesday’s paper by Vanessa Huang ’06, “Rethinking arming: safety or protection,” included several quotes from Sgt. Stephen St. Jean of the Department of Public Safety regarding the arming of DPS officers. St. Jean’s comments were taken by Huang from a conversation she said she had with St. Jean at the Sharpe Refectory “a month or so ago.” Wednesday night, Herald editors tried to determine the conditions under which St. Jean made his remarks to Huang. Huang told The Herald that she did not tell St. Jean she planned to quote him in The Herald at the time of their conversation. She also did not inform St. Jean she had used his quotes in her column prior to its publication. That St. Jean was not informed before he saw his name in The Herald was unacceptable. Though news reporters are required to identify themselves before any interview, guest columnists were not informed of this policy. The Herald will institute
new policies for columnists and guest columnists regarding personal interviews and will implement a procedure to guard against this type of mistake in the future. We work hard for the trust of our readers, but we now must work harder for the trust of those whom we interview. And members of the Brown community must be able to speak freely in private conversations without fear of their words and names appearing in print without their consent. Our failure to investigate the circumstances behind Wednesday’s guest column prior to its publication was a serious mistake. To our readers, to the Brown community, and most importantly to Sgt. St. Jean, we apologize. Jonathan Ellis, Editor-in-Chief Sara Perkins, Executive Editor Chris Hatfield, Senior Editor Lisa Mandle, Senior Editor April 28
C O R R E C T I O N S An April 26 editorial, “Controlled chaos,” incorrectly suggested that the Brown News Service and the Student Activities Office determined the process for distributing tickets for Bill Clinton’s upcoming speech. University Events, a unit of Public Affairs and University Relations, was responsible for decisions related to ticket distribution.
The author of Wednesday’s guest column “Running in front of an avalanche,” Will Pasley, is a member of the Class of 2007, not the Class of 2008. An article Wednesday, “33 years after ROTC, Brown and the military still on unsteady terms,” misspelled the name of Capt. Brendan Fogerty, the Marines recruiter for Brown.
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OPINIONS THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2005 · PAGE 15 ANDREW K. STEIN
Can the College Dems save us? Churchill is often quoted as saying, “If you are young and are not a Liberal, you have no heart; if you are older and are not Conservative, you have no brain.” Brown students and alums are no exception. Though eight out of 10 Brown students are “liberal” or “moderate,” according to Thefacebook.com, our alumni base is much more conservative. Extrapolating forward, we can expect a good chunk of the Class of 2005 to be voting conservative in 30 years. When you think about it, this is a pretty astounding shift in opinions, and it begs the question for Democrats: Can we prevent it? To answer that, let’s look at what makes young liberals move right with age. Some big factors are certainly predictable. Having children raises concerns about security. A weekly paycheck provokes the tempting meme of tax cut panaceas. And as our brains start shrinking, we generally resist change and prefer conserving things: existing social norms, the status quo, and our lucky Bingo board. Let’s play “What if?” What if we could prevent this ideological exodus? What if we could persuade more liberal students nationwide to maintain faith in progressive politics into middle and old age? If we could make even a 5 percent reduction on this long-term defection rate, then the political face of this country would gradually move in a more progressive direction. Conservative plans for a permanent Republican majority would be quashed. We have a great opportunity before us for any student who cares about America’s future to make a difference. Here. Now. The challenge — and opportunity — for the Democratic Party is to ensure that Democratic college students stay Democratic. It’s about loyalty. Businesses spend heavily on customer loyalty because they know it’s 10 times easier to keep an existing customer than to sign up a new one. Similarly, the Democratic Party must work hard to maintain one of its greatest advantages: the prevalence of liberal attitudes among college students. Psychology tells us that if people make a free, public commitment to something — and put their names to it — they are much more likely to stick to it in the future, even adjusting their self-image to appear consistent. One answer, then, is a “Progressive Pledge.” Every student is invited to articulate why he or she identifies as liberal. Because we spend so much energy decrying the Bush administration, Democrats often lose track of what we’re in favor of, such as equal rights, energy independence, and clean air and water. The Brown Democrats would then keep track of the students and their pledge after graduations with the ruthlessness of a college development officer. Every year they would be asked if they still hold the same values they committed to a year earlier. The answer from ages 22 to 23, from 52 to 53, and all those in between will tend to remain consistent. Although this strategy can be executed at colleges nationwide, it can surely start with the Brown Democrats — some of the bestknown, best-mobilized College Dems in the nation. A “Progressive Pledge” is a fairly simple idea. But as Churchill also said, “All great things are simple.” I think a widely instituted “Progressive Pledge” could help ensure the Democratic Party’s long-term prosperity. Andrew K. Stein ’06 walks upright and uses tools.
The CCP’s suppression of Falun Gong GUEST COLUMN BY JACOB WALLENBURG When people see my “I support Falun Gong” button, they often ask me, “Who is Falun Gong?” As I am graduating in about a month, soon nobody at Brown will be able to ask me this question anymore. So for those who still want to know, here is a basic explanation for why “I support Falun Gong.” First of all, Falun Gong is not a person, but a peaceful meditation practice from China. It teaches people to be True, Kind and Patient, and can help you improve your health and cultivate inner peace. Falun Gong was first taught publicly in China in 1992 by its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi. Its health benefits were quickly recognized by many, including the Chinese government, who therefore helped to promote it around China. Thus, with the help of the Chinese government, Falun Gong spread to over 50 countries worldwide by 1998, with over 100 million people practicing its gentle exercise movements. However soon the rapid spread of Falun Gong came to greatly alarm Chinese officials, who fear even the remotest sign of potential opposition to their absolute power. And some, such as former Chinese premier Jiang Zemin, felt that this movement had to be stopped. For despite the benevolent nature of Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party feared the 100 million practitioners who were outnumbering the 55 million members of the CCP. Thus, before people who liked to practice Falun Gong even knew what was going on, the government was already launching
a nationwide campaign to wipe out the practice within three months. Jiang Zemin immediately issued three policies directed at practicioners — “to ruin their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically.” How is the CCP trying to carry out these three policies? By controlling China’s media, the CCP is trying to ruin the reputation of practitioners with a continuous flood of anti-Falun Gong propaganda justifying the suppression. Secondly, the CCP fines companies that hire people who practice Falun Gong,
When I first heard about these facts, I was truly shocked to my core. I could not believe that a government would go to such lengths to suppress people’s freedom of belief. I am not the only one to respond in such a manner — many governments worldwide, the United Nations and all human rights organizations that I know of firmly condemn the CCP’s suppression of Falun Gong. Furthermore, there are over 16 lawsuits in over 13 countries charging Jiang Zemin and other CCP officials with “genocide, crimes against humanity, and torture.” Today, many practitioners in the United States are participating in a long-term effort to spread awareness about this issue to New Yorkers. This might have a good effect on the many big businesses that do trade with China and have their headquarters in New York. They might like to know that much of the money that they have invested in China has been used to fuel this inhumane persecution. I wonder: How much does it cost to monitor and detain so many of China’s 70 million Falun Gong practitioners and harass their families and friends? Could this money not be spent instead on improving China’s education programs and crumbling healthcare system? China has the largest population and fastest-growing economy in the world. One could ask: With so much persecution directed at its citizens, where are the CCP’s priorities in running the country?
Practitioners are tortured until they sign a piece of paper stating that they will thereafter give up their practice of Falun Gong. until such businesses could no longer afford to employ them. With so many practitioners in China, this is a huge blow to many families, who can no longer support themselves. Finally, Jiang Zemin invested a huge sum of the government’s money into founding a Gestapo-like organization called the “6-10 Office”. This body was put specifically in charge of all affairs relating to the suppression of Falun Gong. They are directly responsible for arresting practitioners en masse, illegally detaining them in “ReEducation Through Forced Labor Camps,” psychiatric hospitals and detention centers. There practitioners are tortured, using many of history’s most cruel torture methods, until they sign a piece of paper stating that they will thereafter give up their practice of Falun Gong and their belief in its guiding principles.
Jacob Wallenburg ’05 would like you to contact him for more information on Falun Gong.
MICHAL ZAPENDOWSKI
Exposing WWASPS camp abuse “By habit, I was already awake before the screaming began. As soon as the wake up call started, I reminded myself that I had become a machine and I wasn’t really there.” Thus begins an account of a typical day at Tranquility Bay, Jamaica, one of a dozen camps run by the Utah-based World-Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. WWASPS runs camps across remote parts of the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, whose purpose is to “reform” defiant teenagers. Although the account was published in Texas in a fictional short story competition, its author, Ryan Pink, has stated that what he describes in the story, including the screams of students who were being punished by camp staff, is true. Parents in the United States who pull their children out of normal schools and send them to WWASPS camps do not have to provide any justification — accounts online include a 17-year-old girl who had been accepted to Harvard before her parents sent her to Tranquility Bay. Students remain in the camp until they turn 18 (they can be sent there as young as 11 or 12), or until they genuinely embrace the camp’s belief system, which includes accepting parental authority, turning away from drugs and sexuality, and genuine gratitude for having been sent there to be reprogrammed. While at the camp, students are monitored 24 hours a day, are not allowed to speak or move without permission and are subject to a rigid disciplinary system. Punishment at Tranquility Bay includes
being forced to lie on the ground for months without moving or speaking, being sprayed in the face with pepper spray, or having your arms and limbs twisted into unnatural positions — the idea being to cause extreme pain without leaving marks. At other WWASPS camps, students have been beaten, put in dog cages and starved. Teenagers who cooperate with the program rise in a complex system of internal ranks, eventually becoming enforcers against new students. In so-called “group therapy” sessions, students are punished if they do not hurl abuse at one another, reveal personal information and proclaim their salvation by the program. Child abuse has slowly grown out of the family sphere and turned into an industry. Even normally “defiant” teenagers are often unable to resist the camp’s methods of indoctrination, and the Web is overflowing with testimonies from parents whose son or daughter was transformed into a “perfect” child, instinctively obedient and brimming with filial devotion. These camps are not an aberration in a culture that fetishizes law and order above individual liberty, is unreasonably terrified of rebellion, drug use and teenage sexuality and is absolutely unwilling to believe that giving unrestrained power to fanatical conservatives could result in genuine atrocities. Both Republicans and Democrats are aware of these camps, but with the exception of congressman George Miller of California, none of them have tried to do anything about it. It’s taboo to question the absolute rights of parents in this society. Several institutions run by the organiza-
tion in Latin American countries and elsewhere have been shut down, but for the most part they continue to operate, and are expanding. Sending your son or daughter to one of these camps is very expensive, and WWASPS has become a multi-milliondollar organization, with thousands of staff and a network of Web pages online designed to spread misinformation about the programs and convince desperate parents to send their children into the system. But very few people even know about the issue, to a large extent because the camps are run privately rather than by the government. Letters have been sent to congressmen, court cases have been fought and articles have been published, but there are at least as many people working to support these camps as there are working to shut them down. I am working this summer with a former Tranquility Bay inmate named Charles King to build a network of Web sites to counter the disinformation being spread by WWASPS on the Internet. We hope to decrease the number of parents willing to send their sons and daughters into these camps. A true solution would require national legislation to outlaw the child abuse industry, and all forms of privatized torture. In the meantime, for every Brown student slouching over finals in the coming weeks, there will be a young man or woman somewhere receiving a very different type of education — silent, terrified, and with no one to turn to. Michal Zapendowski ’07 has been saved.
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SPORTS THURSDAY APRIL 28, 2005 · PAGE 16
Big weekend for Brown sports
W. tennis upsets Bulldogs to end season with style BY MATT NICHOLSON SPORTS STAFF WRITER
The women’s tennis team completed its season on Wednesday with a 4-3 victory against Yale, moving Brown to 11-9 on the sea-
Women’s Tennis WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 BROWN 4, YALE 3
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Saurabh Kohli ’08 and the No. 36 men’s tennis team travel to Yale today. A victory will give Brown sole possession of the Ivy title. With a full schedule of games and competitions in the next weekend, here is a selection of sporting events to keep an eye on. Thursday, April 28 SOFTBALL: Brown has two doubleheaders this weekend, starting with Thursday’s match-up with local rival Providence College. Bruno will then continue the Ivy League season on Saturday with two games against last-place Yale in New Haven, Conn. M. TENNIS: After clinching a share of the Ivy League title on Sunday against Harvard, the Bears travel to New Haven to take on Yale. A win will give Brown sole possession of the title. M. and W. TRACK: The squads are both split in preparation for next week’s Heptagonal Championships. Some members will be competing in the Brown Springtime Invitational on Sunday, while others will be
traveling to Philadelphia to take part in the prestigious Penn Relays. Friday, April 29 BASEBALL: The Bears are still a game back of Harvard after splitting four games with the Crimson Monday and Tuesday. In order to maintain hopes for the Red Rolfe Division Championship, Brown must take down third-place Yale, who is two games behind the Bears. Bruno will take on the Elis in a doubleheader at home on Friday starting at noon, then travel to New Haven on Saturday for two more games. Saturday, April 30 Brown Athletics Hall of Fame Induction: Eight former players and one team will be honored at the Westin Hotel in downtown Providence. Among those being honored are: Richard Lloyd ’92 (Basketball), Edward Patton ’88 (Crew), T. Donald Thompson ’56 (Football), Rebecca Kellar ’97 (Ice Hockey), Michael Evans ’76
UPCOMING BROWN SPORTS SCHEDULE BASEBALL
W. LACROSSE
Friday, April 29, vs. YALE (DH, noon, Aldrich Field) Saturday, April 30, at Yale (DH) Tuesday, May 3, vs. CENTRAL CONN. (DH, 2 p.m., Aldrich Field)
Saturday, April 30, at Princeton Wednesday, May 4, vs. HARVARD (7 p.m., Stevenson Field) Saturday, May 7, vs. OHIO (1 p.m., Stevenson Field)
M. CREW
SOFTBALL
Saturday, April 30, at Princeton Sunday, May 15, EARC Sprints (Worcester, Mass.) June 2-4, IRA Championships (Camden, N.J.)
Thursday, April 28, vs. PROVIDENCE (DH, 3 p.m., softball field) Saturday, April 30, at Yale (DH) M. TENNIS
W. CREW Thursday, April 28, at Yale Saturday, April 30, at Yale w/ Northeastern May 14-15, EAWRC Sprints (Camden, N.J.) May 27-29, NCAA Championships (Sacramento, Calif.)
M. & W. TRACK
April 30-May 1, URI Invitational (Green Valley CC, Portsmouth)
April 28-30, Penn Relays (Philadelphia, Pa.) Sunday, May 1, Brown Springtime Invitational (Brown Stadium) Saturday, May 7, Heptagonal Championships (New York, N.Y.) Saturday, May 14, ECAC/IC4A Championships (Princeton, N.J.) Friday, May 27, NCAA Regionals (Randall’s Island, N.Y.) Wednesday, June 8, NCAA Championships (Sacramento, Calif.)
M. LACROSSE
W. WATER POLO
Saturday, April 30, vs. CORNELL (1 p.m., Stevenson Field) Saturday, May 7, at Princeton
April 30-May 1, Eastern Championships (Bloomington, Ind.) May 13-May 15, NCAA Championship (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
EQUESTRIAN May 5-8, National Championships (Sunbury, Ohio) M. GOLF
(Lacrosse), Kari Klassen Johnson ’98 (Swimming/Diving), and Meremu Chikwendu ’98 (Track and Field). In addition to individuals, the 1984 Ivy League Champion women’s soccer team see WEEKEND, page 11
son and 2-5 in the Ivy League. The win allowed the Bears to end on a high note, coming on the heels of a turbulent Ivy season and recent losses to Dartmouth on April 22 and Harvard on April 25. The Bulldogs, now 12-7 overall (3-3 Ivy), jumped out to an early lead, earning the doubles point with wins at all three spots. Bruno rebounded in the singles play, however, taking the requisite four matches. Amanda Saiontz ’07 started things off with a tenacious three-set win, followed by a win by Anita Ivancevic ’08 at fourth. Yale fought back with a win at second against Daisy Ames ’07 and barely edged out captain Alex Arlak ’05 at third singles in a three setter. Michelle Pautler ’07 answered with a win at sixth singles. Ashley Pariser ’08 then clinched the match for the Bears in a tough 7-
5, 6-7 (7), 6-4 win at fifth. “The match was emotionally tense,” said Assistant Coach Cecily Dubusker, “and Ashley was due for a win, so it was nice for her to clinch.” For the team, the Yale match represented the reversal of its trend of playing well but stumbling in close situations. “We had four three-set matches against see W. TENNIS, page 11
Ashley Hess / Herald
Ashley Pariser ’08 clinched Bruno’s upset of Yale Wednesday with her win at fifth singles.
SAAC gearing up for Sunday’s third annual Dave Zucconi ’55 memorial 5k BY BEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR
The third annual David Zucconi ’55 5k Run will be held Sunday. Hosted by the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, with assistance from the Department of Athletics and Physical Education, the race kicks off on Elmgrove Avenue in front of Marvel Gymnasium at 9:30 a.m. Started in 2003 by then-SAAC presidents Christopher Rels ’03 and Jessica Cooper ’03 GS, the race honors the memory of Zucconi, a rugby player during his days at Brown, who died of
cancer in January 2003 at 69. “He was a huge supporter of student athletes, and (the SAAC) wanted to do something that he would be proud of,” said Heena Trivedi, assistant athletic director for compliance. Known as “Mr. Brown” by many athletes, Zucconi was a huge supporter of Brown’s athletics program. “He was a big football fan,” said SAAC Co-President Will Burroughs ’05. “My freshman and sophomore year, he would come out to practice, and the respect the coaches would show
him was incredible. When he came out, it was a big deal. I got to meet him and he was an awesome guy.” In addition to the race on Sunday, $5 raffle tickets are being sold in the Post Office for the duration of the week. Applications for preregistration for the race, which costs $15, will also be available. The preregistration deadline has been extended to Friday. Runners can also sign up the day of the race for $20. see ZUCCONI, page 12
NFL shows baseball up in hearings BY MIKE PENNER LOS ANGELES TIMES
This time, Congress hauled the NFL up before the committee to grill Paul Tagliabue about Carolina Panthers on steroids, and recent first-round draft choices on steroids, and to interrogate Gene Upshaw about Gary Plummer’s claim that Upshaw once was “vehemently” opposed to testing for steroids in the NFL. And the biggest loser of the day was? Major League Baseball. Just like the other time. Mark McGwire and his foggedup reading glasses were nowhere to be found. Bud Selig and his flop sweat had been given the day off. Sammy Sosa was getting rained out in Boston, where, it is hoped, he was using the spare time to brush up on his English. Wednesday was the NFL’s
appointment to squirm under the glare of the bright lights, yet baseball, absent from Capitol Hill but never forgotten, took another beating, unable to doing anything right, even while it was doing nothing at all. “This hearing today is like light years different from Major League Baseball,” Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., told the panel of NFL Commissioner Tagliabue, NFL Players Association President Upshaw and NFL executive vice president for labor relations Harold Henderson. “I want to thank you for your cooperation. I want to thank you for being here and listening to the first panel. I want to thank you for providing us with the data that we needed. “Commissioner, I want to thank you for knowing what the
hell is going on. With all due respect, the commissioner of baseball hadn’t even read the document that he had given us. They didn’t even seem to know that in the document they gave us, it said, ‘A penalty or a fine,’ and then after the hearing, they said they voted to take the fines out, as if they were a part of it. “So, I mean, I kind of love you guys. But I shouldn’t. Because I still have problems (with the NFL’s drug policy).” And so it went on NFL inquisition day, which played more like an NFL-approved photo op because Tagliabue and Upshaw had the good fortune of being able to learn from baseball’s mistakes in front of Congress — which would be every move baseball made in front of see NFL, page 8