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U. gets B on sustainability report card BY TARYN MARTINEZ STAFF WRITER

Instead of handing out grades, the University received a grade for a change when the Sustainable Endowments Institute published its ﬁrst annual College Sustainability Report Card Jan. 24, analyzing the 100 U.S. and Canadian universities with the highest endowments and grading them on the overall environmental sustainability of each institution. Environmental sustainability measures how efﬁciently an individual or institution uses ecological resources, taking into account future generations. The universities were graded in seven areas — administration, climate change and energy, food and recycling, green building, endowment transparency, investment priorities and shareholder engagement.

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pilot program, the University had a chance to distribute 16 entertainment channels to residence halls and get feedback about the service, said Alan Usas, assistant vice president for academic and network systems and services for CIS. The success of the pilot program led the University to consider IPTV as a solution to the increasingly obsolete cable system now in place. The system is so outdated that its replacement parts are no longer manufactured. “[The cable system] basically died

The Providence Journal has pulled its financial support from the annual Providence Journal/Brown University Conference on Public Affairs, halting a two-decade partnership between two of Providence’s most important institutions. The University was notified that the conference would not be continued in late October, when the chairman, publisher and president of the Journal, Howard Sutton, contacted President Ruth Simmons, according to Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations. “Mr. Sutton notified President Simmons that the Providence Journal would no longer be able to provide funding for the conference,” Chapman said. Barbara Nauman, director of promotions for the Journal, did not respond to a phone message for comment, but she e-mailed The Herald a press release regarding the cancellation. In the statement, she said, “Although the Journal has stepped down as a financial sponsor, the newspaper remains steadfast in its commitment to cover such important topics and events as the public affairs conference.” The press release also quoted a letter to Simmons from Sutton: “The Journal is proud of its participation in these events, which have enlightened and entertained a generation of citizens. However, changes in the media business necessitate moving some resources to meet new needs in our core services.” The Journal has also stopped sponsoring the Rhode Island Statewide Spelling Bee, according to a Jan. 17 article in the Providence Phoenix.

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Min Wu / Herald Members of emPOWER joined their counterparts from the seven other Ivy League universities Thursday to push for the adoption of climate neutrality on campus.

Brown received B’s in nearly every area, except for an A in shareholder engagement and C’s in both investment priorities and climate change and energy. With an overall grade of B, the University was in the company of Duke

and Columbia universities and Vassar College as well as the 18 other schools receiving grades between a B- and a B-plus. “The B grade puts Brown really high up compared to many other institutions,” said Mark

Orlowski, founder and executive director of the Institute. “There’s only seven schools that got better grades overall,” he noted, calling the B “a reﬂection of Brown’s vicontinued on page 4

CIS expands IPTV by increasing channel selection BY SUSANA AHO STAFF WRITER

Internet protocol television, which allows students to watch TV on their computers, is more than an alternative to cable television — it’s a replacement. At the beginning of the semester, Computing and Information Services expanded IPTV, doubling the number of channels, and plans to extend IPTV to television sets and into the classroom. Brown’s IPTV, a product of the company Video Furnace, was introduced to students as a pilot program in Fall 2005. During the

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Members of Students for a Democratic Society encouraged students to recycle the Disorientation Guide they distributed in January.

SDS launches Disorientation Guide BY PHILLIP GARA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960’s left-wing student group that returned to the Brown campus last spring, launched a “Disorientation Guide” in January as part of its effort to encourage student involvement with social justice issues. The Brown chapter, which formed again last year after the SDS regional New England conference held at the University in April, is part of a nationwide movement that began in January 2006 to restart SDS on college campuses. Brown’s SDS chapter created the Disorientation Guide to inform incoming ﬁrst-years about social justice groups on campus and how they could get involved. SDS member Yesenia Barragan ’08 said the guide contains “basic information about how to be an

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organizer at Brown.” It includes brief descriptions that SDS members collected from every social justice organization on campus. “This would be an amazing thing to find in your mailbox if you’re looking for activism,” said SDS member Vale Cofer-Shabica ’09. “I would have loved to have gotten it as a freshman,” he said, adding that SDS placed the 1,600 copies of the guide in the mailboxes of all first-year students. SDS members also placed cardboard boxes in the P.O. in which students who do not want to keep their Disorientation Guides can recycle them. SDS member Michael Da Cruz ’08.5 said the group is “trying to be a catalyst towards approaching the University in a more democratic way.” In addition to the publishing the guide, SDS has finished designing its Web site, Brownsjn. org. He added that SDS at Brown

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BY IRENE CHEN STAFF WRITER

When television pundit Bill O’Reilly aired a segment on Queer Alliance’s Sex Power God party on his Fox News show in November 2005, Brown was suddenly in the national news, and many voices weighed in on the subject. One publication — produced by the institution it covers — was among those voices. Ofﬁcially, the Brown Alumni Magazine’s “fundamental mission is to continue Brown’s educational work by reporting about the workings of the University and the ideas and accomplishments of its alumni, faculty and staff,” according to the Web site of the Public Affairs and University Relations, the ofﬁce that oversees BAM. So exactly how much say does

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FREEDOM AND FOUCAULT Literary theorist Judith Butler lectured on the threat to academic freedom posed by the ARTS & CULTURE war on terror through discussion of Foucault and Kant

BAM balances U. afﬁliation with unbiased reporting

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RATTY RULES REVISED TTakeout at the Ratty gets more complicated with the advent of a new ﬁling system for student identiﬁcation cards

the University have in a publication that is sent out to its alums — especially on a sensitive subject like Sex Power God? “With that article, on the party and the publicity on Fox News, I wasn’t really thinking about the is-

FEATURE sues. I was thinking about how to report it fairly and accurately so alumni could understand what happened,” said Emily Boutilier, who covered Sex Power God for BAM and is now the editor of the Amherst alumni magazine. “I think of the magazine as providing a full picture to alumni that they wouldn’t get on Fox News — something no other publication could provide.” When asked if she received pressure from the University to present

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stories in a certain way, Boutilier said, “As a writer I was pretty much given freedom to write, and I was encouraged to report fully.” Norman Boucher, the editor in chief of BAM, said the magazine has a long history of independence. BAM was ﬁrst started in 1900 as the Brown Alumni Monthly and was sent out to alums on a subscription basis. “In 1945, the University said they’d like to use the magazine for all our alumni. There was some concern at the time. There were those who were working on it that wanted it to remain editorially independent, so they set up this alumni board of editors,” Boucher said. “This board would serve as the people who would ensure the editorial quality continued on page 6

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Blasing discusses Nazim Hikmet, founder of modern Turkish poetry

Butler argues for academic freedom in post-Sept. 11 world

BY LINDSEY MEYERS ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

Mutlu Blasing, professor of English, shared her insights into the life, work and politics of the controversial 20th-century Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet in a Wednesday lecture co-sponsored by the Turkish American Cultural Society of Rhode Island and the Brown Turkish Cultural Society. Blasing’s presentation analyzed Hikmet’s biography and writings to explore both the intrinsic beauty of his work and his importance as a modernizer of Turkish poetry. There is a close connection between Hikmet’s work and his life — the universal themes of freedom, beauty and love in his poetry arise from his personal struggles, Blasing told the 30 to 40 attendees. Most notable, she said, was Hikmet’s imprisonment by the Turkish government, a period that had a formative inﬂuence on Hikmet’s poetry. Just as Ezra Pound wrote part of his “Cantos” in a U.S. military detention camp in Italy after World War II, Hikmet used his prison experience to perfect his poetry, Blasing explained. Using peasant inmates as his audience, Hikmet responded to their critical reactions by creating a universal poetic language. As a result, Blasing said, Hikmet produced “Human Landscapes,” an epic work that “speaks to all types of people.”

For Blasing, Hikmet’s attempt to create a universal poetic language reflected his Marxist belief that there is a link between language and communal identity. Blasing, with her husband Randy, has translated eight volumes of Hikmet’s poetry. Blasing said she first learned of his work from a French translation and she finds it curious that the works of Hikmet have disappeared from the official textbooks used to teach Turkish schoolchildren. Hikmet is arguably the most important modern Turkish poet, Blasing said, but she wondered aloud why Hikmet is still considered dangerous by the Turkish school system. Hikmet was a Communist, and his work was deemed to be a threat to the government. But for Blasing, Hikmet’s real “danger lies in his poetry, not his politics.” Blasing observed that Hikmet’s poetry articulates a “moment of change” in Turkey, one that fuses Ottoman poetry and oral folk poetry into a more modern form of Turkish poetry. For Blasing, this change was an aesthetic one that made the poetic inseparable from the political. Quoting Ezra Pound’s dictum that “only emotion endures,” Blasing said she believes Hikmet’s poetry has a lasting resonance because of the universality of his personal experience.

BY LINDSEY MEYERS ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

Literar y theorist Judith Butler addressed the threat posed to academic freedom by the war on terror on Jan. 29 in a well-attended lecture on campus titled “Critique and Disciplinarity: Foucault via Kant.” A prominent ﬁgure in the ﬁeld of gender, queer and performative literar y studies, Butler is a professor in the departments of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She was invited to speak at Brown by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women as part of its 25th anniversar y lecture series, “The Future of the Critique.” In her lecture, Butler focused her inquir y on academic freedom in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Balancing erudition with wit, Butler compared the philosophies of Kant and Foucault to analyze how contemporar y institutions of educational authority create standards for intellectual inquir y that eliminate certain forms of social criticism. She focused on how the organs of power in academia — the government, universities and philanthropic organizations that fund research — legitimate norms that restrict research

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grants for any academic inquir y that might intellectually promote terrorism or violence. Butler argued that those restrictions have become more prominent in the wake of Sept. 11. She said legislation such as the Patriot Act inﬂuences what types of research philanthropic organizations, such as the Ford Foundation, will under write. The result, according to Butler, has been a “redeﬁnition of academic disciplines,” a move that restricts the “kind of research one is able to pursue.” Though those restrictions are intended to prevent the promotion of terrorist violence, Butler asked if they merely ser ve as a pretext to preser ve the power of those in authority by curtailing intellectual questions that should be asked. Butler used Franz Fanon’s 1963 work “The Wretched of the Earth” to exemplify the danger of academic repression. Fanon’s work is a canonic intellectual expression of the inequity of colonialism, Butler said, but under current standards it may never have been written because it considered the role of violence in decolonization. For Butler, academic disciplines are engaged in battle against the power structures that govern what is “normative.” “Academic freedom is under

siege,” she said. She suggested the paramount need to “ask questions.” Questioning and debate are necessar y for academic development, she said, noting that if “disciplines did not seek to quarrel, how could they rethink themselves? Expand themselves?” Butler is “one of the most important, inﬂuential and widely debated critical thinkers” and a scholar whose works act in the “ser vice of the future of criticism,” said Elizabeth Weed, director of the Pembroke Center. Butler is best known for her works on gender studies, especially her contention that gender distinctions arise from socially determined roles, rather than intrinsic differences between the sexes. Her major treatise, “Gender Trouble,” has been translated into 23 languages and is regarded by many as a seminal expression of modern literar y theor y. Butler applauded the Pembroke Center for its commitment to academic inquir y. “The object of the university is to foster freedom of inquir y” because there is interplay between the “speak-ability” and the “thinkability” of a concept, she said. By that standard, Butler’s lecture was an intellectually challenging and politically provocative defense of the necessity of academic freedom.

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U. scores B on sustainability report card

Disorientation Guide targets freshmen

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continued from page 1 sion and leadership on sustainability.” No university received an A or A-plus. The four schools to earn an overall A-minus grade were Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Stanford University and Williams College. On their individual report cards, Harvard received six A’s, while Williams had four and Dartmouth and Stanford both received ﬁve. Fifty-four universities earned an overall grade of C and 20 more earned D’s. “Before starting the project, we realized that, for quite a while, there was no single source of information on what a broad range of schools were doing on sustainability and endowment practices,” Orlowski said. With the grade assessment system provided, the report can be used “as a learning tool between institutions,” he added. Each category of the report card was graded by taking into account different factors of the individual university. Points were awarded to both statements of sustainability plans and actual programs already in place, with the latter carrying more weight in the ﬁnal grade. Data for the grading system was collected from July 2006 until last month from documents available to the public, such as Web sites for the sections related to campus management, said the report. A survey was sent to

the universities to allow them to correct or update the information, and 90 of 100 schools responded. Orlowski believed that “when you compare letter grades between institutions, (the system) works out to be pretty straightforward and accurate.” However, some doubt the usefulness of the Report Card’s broad grade system. “I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to them,” said Resource Efficiency Manager Kurt Teichert, referring to efforts to generalize and compare the sustainability of universities. For example, Teichert said accurate comparisons between universities are difficult when universities measure their emissions in different ways. “Brown has a long-standing record of implementation of real energy reductions,” Teichert said, responding to the University’s C in that category. “It’s the people in the university actually doing the work that understand how we work. The bottom line is, more power to the people who try to do those things, but they’re usually uninformed,” Teichert added. Orlowski defended the grading system. “There’s no absolutely perfect system to measure anything. We came up with a system that is efficient, effective and fair, and we’re pretty proud at looking at 26 different indicators between seven categories,” Orlowski said.

Though there is still “the opportunity to innovate and room to grow,” Orlowski said “Brown should step back and recognize how far it has come.” Aden Van Noppen ’09, one of the organizers for both the Brown Environmental Action Network and climate-neutrality campaign emPOWER, said the grading system was a step in the right direction. “I think the idea of having something like this is important. Until now, we didn’t have something of this nature that evaluated schools,” Van Noppen said. “Schools measure emissions with different criteria. But if they’re measuring them in the same way, it provides us with a foundation to compare schools.” While trying to compare broad topics like investment priorities across 100 universities of varying size and endowments is tricky, Van Noppen said she hopes the report card will act as “sort of a wake-up call for schools that aren’t doing enough” and encourage Brown to purchase renewable energy offsets. Students groups from Ivy League universities have already begun their own movement encouraging climate neutrality. Speciﬁcally, eight environmental groups, including Brown’s emPOWER, released a statement yesterday calling for their universities to commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

continued from page 1 is also looking to “build a more serious student community and integrate it into Providence.” Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in American civilization and an influential member of the original SDS at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said the John Nicholas Brown Center will host a show on Apr. 13 based on comic panels from the book, “SDS: A Graphic History,” which he co-authored with illustrator Gary Dumm. At the opening, which will be presented by the Department of American Civilization, Dumm and graphic artist Harvey Pekar of “American Splendor” will deliver presentations. The exhibit on SDS’s history will then travel for 18 months. Though the SDS of the 1960s was linked to protest against the Vietnam War, Barragan said lessons from the original SDS are valuable for a new generation of members and activists. “They offer an experience that is incredibly unique,” she said. “They went through all the problems and difficulties of the 1960s. Those learning experiences are essential to forming our position as organizers now and in the future.” SDS’s name grew out of Student League for Industrial Democracy, the successor of socialist youth groups that first formed in the 1910s at several Ivy League colleges. “(SDS) led student mobilization against the war, against the draft and against university complicity with the war,” Buhle said. In 1965, SDS became the leading anti-war student organization and grew consistently until 1969, when its membership was estimated at 20,000 and

its general, unofﬁcial following estimated at 100,000, Buhle said. “That year SDS fell into disarray, split dramatically and collapsed, as did other similar New Left organizations,” Buhle said of the group’s demise in 1969. SDS failed to spread its idea of revolutionary change beyond the college campus, he said. “We were trapped as a student milieu.” But Buhle said Brown’s SDS record was “spotty.” Even though SDS demonstrations were not large and the group struggled to stay in existence, general student activism had an impact at Brown: Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 led a successful campaign against ROTC, and others advocated the adoption of the New Curriculum. “There is a constant tug between what can we do differently and how can we hold on to the useful icons of the 1960’s,” Buhle said of SDS’s resurgence. “SDS now has 250 chapters and several thousand members, growing much faster than the original SDS.” SDS member Will Pasley ’07 said the group plans to work on a tuition freeze campaign and an effort to make Brown libraries accessible to Providence residents. The group also hopes to have more input from other groups in next year’s “Disorientation Guide,” he said. Cofer-Shabica said the group’s new Web site would allow SDS to promote social justice more broadly. “The Internet allows for contact with students in small colleges, in community colleges, in places where it is not likely there would be SDSers,” he said. “This is an experiment in participatory democracy. Everyone participates, it is not hierarchal.”

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The University spent $18 million in the past three years to comply with Rhode Island ﬁre codes.

U. spends $18 million on fire code upgrades The University has spent $18 million over the past three years to comply with Rhode Island fire codes, according to Stephen Morin, director of environmental health and safety. Most of the money was spent on installing sprinkler systems in residence halls that did not already have them and adding mini-horns to all dorm fire alarms to make them more audible, Morin said. The University spent over $7 million making those additions in 2004 and 2005, and it is now just finishing the installation of sprinklers in the Sciences Library, a project that cost $2.7 million. More sprinklers were added and other work has been done in Minden Hall, the Sharpe Refectory and the Faculty Club, among other places. More stringent fire codes were introduced in Rhode Island after the 2003 Station nightclub fire in West Warwick killed 100 people. Morin said the new regulations were unanticipated and the projects to bring Brown’s facilities up to code were “challenging to try to budget.” Morin said the Station fire changed attitudes toward fire safety in Rhode Island, and he said he has seen increased awareness on campus since then. “In fire drills, the response from the students is different,” Morin said. “There is more paying attention and more dialogue with students about what is important.” — Debbie Lehmann

New Ratty takeout rules cause ire Gail McCarthy worked the lunchtime shift Wednesday at the Sharpe Refectory as a cashier, swiping students’ ID cards as they entered the dining hall. “Takeout,” said one student as McCarthy took his card. She nodded and filed the student’s card alphabetically in a small cardboard box at her side. This new procedure had been instituted to “put some organization into the process,” wrote Clair Sidla, assistant director of Dining Services, in an e-mail to The Herald. The old system involved students leaving their ID cards at the cashier station while they gathered their takeout food, resulting in a jumble of cards from which students could accidentally take the wrong card, Sidla wrote. The new filing system was introduced at the beginning of the spring semester by Dining Services as a way to minimize confusion at the cashier’s station. “Our efforts have been to address the issue of the student customers mistakenly taking the incorrect ID,” Sidla wrote. The new procedure did have its hiccups during its first days of use, though the problems have begun to be ironed out, McCarthy said. With a longer line, McCarthy waits to file the growing number of cards until a lull in traffic. “During busy times it gets a little tough,” McCarthy said between swipes. Sidla said feedback about the new card system from both cashiers and students has been positive. But one Dining Services employee expressed frustration at how time-consuming the system had become, and student reactions have been mixed. “I think it’s great,” Luis Camacho GS said. “It works perfect.” But Blair Hickman ’08 described the system as “horrible.” Piet Walvoord ’08 and Karin Sanders ’08 both said they preferred the original system. At lunch Wednesday, Sanders waited for her card to be handed back while McCarthy dealt with a sudden crowd of students entering the Ratty, as well as a visiting alum who paid in cash. “It’s difficult when people are coming in and you’re trying to grab your card,” Sanders said. While Ratty diners are required to hand their cards to the cashier with the old system, students taking out food from the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall only have to have their card swiped. No change has been made to the procedures at the V-Dub. In other dining hall news, new card-swiping machines were installed in both the Ratty and the V-Dub Dining Hall prior to the start of the semester. Some of the new machines proved too sensitive to scratched cards and had to be replaced, McCarthy said. — Evan Boggs

For Jeffrey Stibel MS’99, graduate study in cognitive and linguistic sciences didn’t lead to a research or academic career but to a trail of corporate successes. Currently CEO and president of Web.com, the 33-year-old Stibel uses his knowledge of the brain — which he developed in part as a grad student at Brown — to create Web sites that meet customers’ needs. “My every waking moment is about understanding how decisions are made,” he said. Stibel currently runs Web.com, a company founded in 1995 to create, host and maintain Web sites for small to medium businesses. Stibel said he has transformed the company’s management style and made it more efﬁcient since his arrival in August 2005. Stibel has started about a dozen companies and currently sits on the board of half a dozen others, most of which are managed and owned by Brown graduates. He also serves on the board of the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program. “I guess I am a serial entrepreneur,” Stibel said. Stibel’s business career began while he was still in grad school. He formed a laboratory group of about a dozen students and professors from Brown’s computer science and cognitive and linguistic sciences departments. The group combined linguistic, cognitive and computer science methods to improve web search engines by enabling them to differentiate between various meanings of the same word. Though such a feature may seem commonplace today, at the time it was a revolutionary improvement in Web technology.

The group created Simpli.com in 2000 and sold the company to NetZero later that year. “Jeff managed to motivate a bunch of academics, something very hard to do,” said James Anderson, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences. Stibel remembers asking Anderson if his ambition to turn research into a for-profit enterprise would create a conflict of interest. “He said, ‘I don’t have a problem as long as I can join in,’ ” Stibel said. Stibel said he always knew he wanted to apply cognitive science and psychology to business. As an undergraduate at Tufts University, he majored in psychology and philosophy. While working toward a master’s degree at Brown, he was also enrolled fulltime at MIT Sloan School of Management, where he studied decision-making in business. “I was studying the business side of the same problem at Sloan and the cognitive side processes behind decision-making at Brown,” he said. In order to complete degrees at two universities simultaneously, Stibel had to divide his time between Providence and Cambridge, Mass. “I traveled a lot,” Stibel said. But he doesn’t think a business education is necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur. “Get as much experience as you can and surround yourself with great people, ” he said. Stibel has worked with the same team of Brown grads throughout his ventures. Some of his colleagues have also started their own companies. Stibel said they have been integral to his success in business. “I am loyal to them to the core. For selfish reasons too,” he said.

Courtesy of Web.com Jeffrey Stibel, president and CEO of Web.com

Stibel sits on the board of the Search Agency, a Rhode Islandbased Internet company founded and managed by Carl Dunham ’86. Dunham said he feels a similar loyalty to Stibel and describes him as a person with an extraordinary vision, knowledge and organizational skills. “There are people who have one of these qualities, but he has them all,” Dunham said. Stibel has had to make personal sacriﬁces for his career, but he can’t imagine retiring, he said. He has had to move often around the country with each new venture, from Providence to California and now to Georgia. He said he has made more money than he could ever need, but he is not in it for the money any more. “I tried it, retirement. For three days, but it didn’t work,” he said. Stibel said that Brown, the “anti-establishment establishment,” in many respects deﬁnes his career. “You have to have the ability to wear different hats,” he said.

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Brown Alumni Magazine strikes a balance between afﬁliation to U. and objective reporting continued from page 1 of the magazine.” The magazine is only partially funded by the University. It raises approximately 55 to 60 percent of its budget through advertising sales and “voluntary subscriptions,” which is the term the magazine uses for reader donations. The University funds the rest of the budget. “The magazine is supported almost as much by alumni wallets as it is by the University’s,” Boucher said. Benjamin Weiser ’76, a reporter for the New York Times, serves on the 15-person board of editors for BAM. Some members are journalists like Weiser, while others come from magazines and many are from publishing companies. The board meets twice each year, once in Providence and once in New York City, Weiser said. “We brainstorm and we send in written critiques of each issue. It’s all in the interest of making it better.” “We don’t have a relationship to the University, we’re just volunteers,” Weiser said. “We give them other voices — not all the ideas originate from the cocoon of the ofﬁce. We’re from all around the

country, and we all have different ideas.” Weiser has kept his interest in the University alive by serving on BAM’s board. Given that he had been involved with WBRU while a student, he recently suggested a BAM story on radio stations at Brown. Weiser said he believes that alums read BAM to stay in touch with the University because of its credible reporting. “Journalism is based on independence, and I would say that the BAM has a long and great tradition of journalistic independence,” Weiser said. “I think that the University realizes that you get some credit for not intervening.” Michael Chapman, vice president for the public affairs and University relations, stressed BAM’s independence despite the fact that it is organizationally located in his ofﬁce. “Norman reports to me, as a member of our ofﬁce, and the staff is paid out of University funds, but the magazine’s staff publishes the BAM themselves,” Chapman said. “I don’t have a role in the editorial decision-making process for the

Brown Alumni Magazine.” When asked about responses from alums about controversial issues covered in the magazine, Chapman said, “All the responses to controversial magazines are all directed to (Norman),” though he added that “none of the coverage in the alumni magazine since I have been here has really caused any conflict with the administration.” Weiser said BAM’s independence ultimately benefits the University. “Out of what arrives in the mailbox, mostly what alumni read is the BAM, although (the University) sends out fundraising letters as well,” he said. “If the magazine ever lost its independence, it would lose reader interest, causing alumni to become less involved with the University.” Even Boucher acknowledges the benefit BAM has on the University’s fundraising efforts — and the role independence plays in that effort. “We reach a greater number of people than any other traditional mailings that Brown sends alums,” Boucher said. “They’re putting us out because it works in terms of raising money. But if we suddenly became a spin magazine, with

simple press releases, people who read us would be less inclined to contribute.” Occasionally, events at a university challenge its alumni magazine to adequately cover its campus. During the controversial presidency of Laurence Summers, Harvard Magazine, the university’s alumni magazine, strived to fairly portray the opposition to Summers and comprehensively cover the events that led to his resignation. “Harvard went through a great trauma in a leadership, and we reported more fully than anyone else, because we had the sources to do so,” said John Rosenberg, Harvard Magazine’s editor. “I think the story was very polarized, so we ran both letters that were both pro and con. It wasn’t as though the university called up and said that ‘you shouldn’t do that.’ I think that many appreciated the coverage.” Brown went through similar tumult when President Gordon Gee suddenly resigned in 2000 — after only two years as the University’s leader — to take the top post at Vanderbilt University. Boucher covered that story himself. “I talked to everybody on cam-

pus, and it was a moment in Brown history where everybody was just kind of open, people were pouring their soul out,” Boucher said. “It was a traumatic episode for Brown. It was one of the most talked about stories and to this day, I still hear alumni magazine editors, who ask me, ‘Did you get criticized for doing it?’” “Nobody asked me to read that story ahead of time. They knew that BAM was doing the story the way BAM does stories, and although there was probably some anxiety about what the story was going to be, most people agreed that it was the best way for Brown to confront what had happened and moved on,” Boucher said. Boucher said he believes that BAM offered the Brown community a chance to come together. “It offered the opportunity to have everyone connected with Brown to really talk about what had happened to the institution,” he said. “We served as the kitchen table for all the members at Brown to talk about all these episodes. It helped Brown move forward because it was the only place that everyone could get together to talk about what had happened.”

ProJo to no longer support conference despite long-standing tradition continued from page 1 Chapman said the University has no plans to seek alternate funding for the conference. “The University provides other opportunities to engage with the community,” he said, citing today’s Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture and the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lectures as events that are open to the public. “It is unfortunate that it had to

come to an end. The conference was a real contribution to the intellectual atmosphere of the University, and local community members beneﬁted from the chance to hear interesting speakers,” Chapman said. The conference began in 1980, when Michael Metcalf, then the publisher and chairman of the Journal, approached Brown President Howard Swearer with the idea for a single lecture at Brown to commemorate

the Journal’s 150th anniversary, said Robert Reichley, then the vice president for University relations. He said Brown came back with the suggestion of a serious annual conference on domestic policy, which would complement the foreign policy program that would soon come with the Watson Institute for International Studies. “In the earlier days, when we started it, we didn’t really know how it was going to work. The ﬁrst

one was a big success. The next one was even bigger. It got to the point where we ran a conference lasting two weeks,” Reichley said. The ﬁrst conference focused on the American political system, and topics in subsequent years ranged from education and media to the possibilities of democracy in the Middle East and American class relations. One conference even led to physical changes for the city of Providence — the 1992 conference, entitled “Who will save the American city?” helped inspire the renovation of Providence’s riverfront, Chapman said. “There were a series of panel discussions on the topic from the national perspective, and that led people to think about what the possibilities might be for improving areas of Providence, such as the riverfront,” Chapman said. Reichley, who worked at the University from 1968 until his retirement in 1995, said, “The idea for the use of water in a way that would be helpful instead of a nuisance was not (former Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci’s) idea. He would love to take credit for this, but that wasn’t what happened. When something like that can come out of a conference, that is incredible.” Past speakers have ranged from New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks to mayors, senators and specialists in their ﬁelds. “Many of them came for nothing, only a few wanted something,” Reichley said. “Many schools are paying big money for lecturers. We didn’t start out like that at all. We talked to people who knew people. We told them, ‘We are not asking you to give a regular speech. We are asking you to solve problems in various areas.’” The conference is usually held in the spring, though planning begins in late summer and continues into the fall in order to secure good speakers, Chapman said. “It was a real collaboration between Brown and the Journal. Robert Whitcomb, the editorial pages editor, and I would get together, sit down, talk about ideas for the conference, and then present them to Howard Sutton, the publisher, and to President (Ruth) Simmons for their decision,” he said. Once the topic of the conference

was set, staff in Public Affairs and University Relations would begin the logistics of putting together the conference, such as publicity, media relations and making arrangements for speakers, Chapman said. “The biggest thing was the degree to which people from the Journal and people from Brown got into it,” Reichley said of his conferenceplanning days. Reichley was ﬁrst appointed by President Swearer as the key contact at Brown, while the late Brian Dickinson, then the editorial chairman and lead editorial writer at the Journal, was the main contact at the Journal, Reichley said. Even after Dickinson was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, Reichley said he continued to work on the conference: “When he couldn’t talk, there was an incredibly sophisticated computer that allowed him to speak to us about his ideas. He worked on the conference up to only months before his death.” In recent years, the conference had been abridged. Chapman said, “The Providence Journal was the ﬁnancial backer of the conference. Some conferences lasted up to two weeks. Over the years, however, it became smaller in scope.” Reichley said the two-day conferences of recent years were not representative of the conference’s glory days. “I never use the word unique, almost never, but this was unique in the country — a major university and a major newspaper getting together and doing something annually as a service for the community. We looked around, there was no other place this was happening,” Reichley said. “The conference brought people onto our campus. It showed we were interested in domestic policy issues. From the Journal’s standpoint, it brought things the Journal does and reports on and brought that out into the open,” Reichley said. “I seriously lament the loss of it and my sense is that things like that get lost when people stop thinking seriously and thoroughly about why these things are being done. This was not just a show, in our case it was part of our educational mission,” he said.

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Bingeing now seen as most common eating disorder (Washington Post) — Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have gotten plenty of attention in recent years. But the ﬁrst attempt to document how common eating disorders are nationwide produced surprises. It turns out, for example, that the most common eating disorder is neither anorexia nor bulimia — it is binge eating, by far. The researchers found that 0.9 percent of women and 0.3 percent of men reported that at some point in their lives, they had anorexia, which involves eating very little to avoid gaining weight. The study found that 1.5 percent of women and 0.5 percent of men said they had had bulimia, which involves vomiting after eating to avoid gaining weight. Both are consistent with earlier estimates based on smaller samples. But the researchers found that binge eating was much more common. Binge eating is consuming unusually large amounts of food in a short period of time at least twice a week. The researchers found that 3.5 percent of women and 2 percent of men had been binge eaters.

Olmert testifies to panel probing war performance JERUSALEM (Los Angeles Times) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified for more than six hours Thursday before a commission investigating the performance of Israel’s government and military during last summer’s conflict in Lebanon. Olmert was scheduled to be the final witness before the government-appointed inquiry commission, whose findings could bolster or politically weaken the prime minister and his defense minister, Amir Peretz. Both leaders have faced abysmal approval ratings and persistent calls to resign since the war with Hezbollah guerrillas ended without a clear victor after 34 days of fighting. The army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, quit last month amid unrelenting criticism over the Israeli military’s handling of the war. Olmert has sought to portray the war as a triumph, saying the Aug. 14 cease-fire improved security conditions for Israel by pushing Hezbollah fighters away from the country’s northern border and clearing the way for a 15,000-strong force of Lebanese soldiers and international troops to guard against flare-ups.

Accused in swinger extortion case blame each other (Newsday) —The two Long Islanders that police said met casual sex seekers on the Internet and videotaped them engaging in a variety of sex acts to extort tens of thousands of dollars now blame each other for their roles in the scandal. As police began watching more than 100 hours of footage of sex among mostly New York State residents, an attorney representing Shawn Payne, 34, of East Hampton, N.Y., claimed she was coerced into at least some parts of the blackmail scheme that may have ensnared dozens of people, some of whom may hold prominent or powerful positions. “My client may have been as much a victim in all of this as those who have been reported to be victims,” said Payne’s lawyer, Marc Gann. “She was scammed by this guy and forced to do some things. Let’s just say I think any acts she may have committed were done under duress.” But Michaelangelo Matera of Melville, N.Y., who represents Michael Largue, 45, of Franklin Square, N.Y., said the opposite is true. As Largue and Payne, who police said were once lovers, took jabs at each other, police maintained that neither of them is a victim, and that they both preyed without mercy on “swingers” and casual sex seekers they met over the Internet.

Senate adds tax breaks to minimum wage bill WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, but added small-business tax breaks that are unacceptable to House leaders, preventing Democrats from claiming a quick victory on one of their top legislative priorities. Senate Republicans praised the measure as a responsible package that would help workers who earn the minimum wage and the businesses that employ them. They implored House leaders to accept the compromise and send it to President Bush, who put out a statement Thursday praising the Senate bill. Democrats were less effusive. After the vote, presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., lined up at a press conference with the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and bemoaned the complications. Earlier, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would prefer to pass a minimum-wage increase without “all these business pieces of sugar.” The Senate action sets the stage for potentially lengthy negotiations between the two chambers, as the new Democratic majority works through one of its first significant tests.

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New study counters U.N.’s global warming critics BY THOMAS H. MAUGH II LOS ANGELES T IMES

Countering claims that the U.N. has been exaggerating the impacts of global warming, a new study released Thursday shows that the organization’s last major assessment signiﬁcantly underestimated the effects produced by greenhouse gases. The 2002 report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, accurately estimated atmospheric carbon dioxide increases, but underestimated the increase in temperature and the rise of sea levels, an international team reported online in the journal Science. Actual data, the team said, shows that global temperatures have increased by 0.6 degrees Fahrenheit, at the upper limit of the U.N.’s predictions, and that sea levels have been rising 0.13 inches per year, compared to the report’s estimate of less than 0.08 inches per year. Conservative critics and a variety of online bloggers have argued that IPCC has overemphasized the potential effects of global warming in an effort to extract more research money and to impose draconian emission restrictions, said geochemist Ralph Keeling of the

Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, one of the authors of the Science report. The actual data shows that “IPCC is presenting a consensus view that has been okayed by a very large number of interests, so it tends to err on the side of making cautious statements and not exaggerating,” he said. The study “looks quite solid to me, indicating ... that the climate is changing in a very signiﬁcant way — and model projections are not overestimates, as some charge,” said atmospheric scientist Michael MacCracken of the Climate Institute, an independent think tank in Washington. The Science report came on the eve of the IPCC’s latest report, a summary of which was to be released Friday in Paris. Although an international team has been editing the summary word by word all week, it is expected to say that global warming is now “unequivocal” and that it is “very likely” — a phraseology intended to indicate 90 percent certainty — caused by human activities. The 2002 report, in contrast, said only that it is “likely” that the warming is human-caused, indicating a 66 percent certainty. The report is expected to pre-

dict that global temperatures will rise by 3.6 degrees to 8.1 degrees by the year 2100, with the best estimate being a 5.4-degree rise. The increase from 1901 to 2005, in contrast, was 1.2 degrees. The report incorporates six models of ocean behavior that, on average, predict a sea level rise ranging from 11 to 16.9 inches by 2100. Such an increase would inundate many low-lying areas around the world, including islands like Kiribati in the western Paciﬁc Ocean and marsh areas around New Orleans. The data used for the new IPCC report does not include recent observations of extensive melting of Greenland’s ice sheet and the Larsen B ice shelf in western Antarctica, both of which have been reported in recent months. That melting may partially explain the unexpectedly high rise in observed sea levels, according to the authors of the Science paper. The unexpected increase may also be due in part to a natural variability in sea levels superimposed onto rises produced by global warming, they said. It would be “premature,” they concluded, to assume that sea levels will continue to rise at the current rate.

Palestinian ﬁghting continues despite cease-ﬁre BY KEN ELLINGWOOD LOS ANGELES T IMES

JERUSALEM — Renewed violence between rival Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip left at least six people dead Thursday, despite a three-dayold cease-fire agreement. Clashes broke out around the coastal strip after gunmen from the ruling Hamas movement ambushed a convoy of trucks they said were carrying arms from Egypt destined for its main rival, Fatah. Four members of Palestinian security forces and two bystanders died in the fighting and more than 40 others were injured. Egyptian officials in Gaza and a spokesman for the presidential guard of Palestinian Author-

ity President Mahmoud Abbas, who belongs to Fatah, denied the trucks were carrying arms. They said the cargo was supplies for a presidential guard compound in Gaza. The two sides called the truce following clashes that killed about 30 people last week. On-and-off violence kicked up in December after Abbas called for new elections to break a political deadlock. Hamas, which unseated Fatah in parliamentary elections a year ago, sees early elections as part of a coup attempt and accuses the United States of backing Fatah in the escalating violence. The Bush administration plans to provide $86 million in what it describes as nonlethal aid to Ab-

bas’ security forces. Egypt has shipped weapons to bolster his forces in Gaza, with what Israeli ofﬁcials say is their permission. Hamas and Fatah have negotiated for months over terms of a coalition government aimed at breaking an international aid embargo against Hamas. But the talks have repeatedly faltered, mainly over the distribution of Cabinet portfolios and Hamas’ refusal to recognize Israel. Western nations cut aid because they consider Hamas a terrorist group, and set three conditions for a renewal: The Palestinian government must recognize Israel, renounce violence and agree to abide by past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.

Libby left out some facts in interviews, FBI agent says BY AMY GOLDSTEIN AND CAROL D. LEONNIG WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — One of the FBI agents who interviewed I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby during the CIA leak investigation testified Thursday that the vice president’s thenchief of staff did not acknowledge disclosing the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to reporters, asserting that he was surprised when another journalist later told him about her. FBI agent Deborah Bond also testified that Libby said he came across a handwritten note he had made during a phone conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney as he was preparing to be interviewed by investigators in the fall of 2003. The note made it clear that, shortly before June 12, 2003, Cheney had told him Plame worked at the CIA’s counterproliferation division and was married to an outspoken critic of the Iraq

war. Libby’s conversation with Cheney took place nearly a month before Libby telephoned Tim Russert, NBC’s Washington bureau chief. According to Bond, Libby maintained that, during that call, Russert mentioned that “all the reporters” knew that the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV worked at the CIA. Libby told the investigators that “it was as if it was the first time he heard it,” Bond said. Coming on the seventh day of testimony in Libby’s perjury trial, Bond’s description of the FBI’s two interviews with Libby in his White House office gave jurors their first account of what the prosecution alleges were lies that Cheney’s former top aide told investigators to obscure his role in spreading classified information. The version of events Libby related to the FBI conflicts with the accounts of several government officials and journalists who have

already testified at the trial. Russert is scheduled to be the prosecution’s final witness early next week. Libby is charged with lying to FBI agents and a grand jury in the investigation of the leak of Plame’s name to the news media. He is not charged with the leak itself. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald contends that the CIA officer’s identity was disclosed as part of a White House campaign to discredit her husband. In 2002, the CIA dispatched Wilson to Africa to investigate reports that Iraq had recently tried to buy material there for making nuclear weapons. In June 2003, shortly after the Iraq war began and days before his wife’s identity was leaked, Wilson publicly accused President Bush of trying to justify the war by twisting the intelligence Wilson had brought home. continued on page 8

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M. hoops hosts Penn and former head man Miller continued from page 12 Head Coach Craig Robinson, who has met Miller but does not know him personally, said improving his team’s record is the primary focus tonight. “I have motivation because we’re 1-3 in the Ivy League,” Robinson said. “I haven’t mentioned (Miller’s return) at all. I ﬁgure it’s one of those things that’s too obvious to talk about.” The Quakers sit atop the Ivy League standings and appear to be the team to beat in the Ancient Eight. The Bears, on the other hand, are looking to regain momentum after losing games at Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend to fall to 1-3 on the year. Brown faces the difﬁcult task of shutting down some of the best players in the conference. In the backcourt, senior Ibrahim Jaaber is the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year. He averages 16.4 points per game, good for third in the league, and leads the conference in steals and assists. Senior forward Mark Zoller anchors the Quakers down low. He leads the league with 18.9 points per game and is second in rebounding. Forward Mark MacDonald ’08 said that taking away Penn’s go-to players and forcing them to rely on their second options will be crucial for the Bears. “We know that they have outstanding seniors,” he said. “Jaaber’s considered the best player in the league right now,

and Zoller’s having a great year too, so if we can contain them we should have a good shot.” Fortunately for the Bears, they counter with one of the conference’s most proliﬁc backcourt tandems. Guard Mark McAndrew ’08 is ranked ﬁ fth in the Ivies in three-point shooting percentage and sixth overall in scoring. Huffman would be third and eighth in those categories, but he hasn’t played in enough games to qualify due to an earlyseason knee injury. Another possible advantage the Bears have might be their extensive knowledge of Miller’s system and coaching philosophies. “We know their whole offense,” MacDonald said. “Most of us have played with (Miller) for one, two or three years, so we’ve got an edge.” There won’t be any rest for Brown this weekend. After playing Penn tonight, the Bears will host Princeton on Saturday, with the tip-off at 7 p.m. The game with the Tigers will pit Robinson against his alma mater, where he was the two-time Ivy Player of the Year. Tonight, however, gives the Bears the opportunity to gain a small measure of revenge — if not against their former coach, then against the Quakers for last season’s heartbreaker. “(Miller) adds a little extra something,” MacDonald said. “We’ve been looking forward to this one all year since they beat us in overtime.”

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Libby left out some facts in interviews, FBI agent says continued from page 7 Libby has pleaded not guilty to all five felony counts. He and his attorneys contend that he misremembered the conversations he had with reporters about Plame amid the crush of his work on national security issues. Thursday, Bond told jurors that, during the FBI interviews, Libby did not mention several significant aspects of his interactions with journalists. He told investigators about a July 8, 2003, breakfast meeting with then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Bond said, but did not mention another meeting with Miller two weeks earlier. Bond said Libby also did not say that he had sought information about Plame from government officials and discussed the matter with Miller and, soon after, with Matthew Cooper, then a reporter for Time magazine. Bond said Libby told her that he did not recall discussing Wilson’s wife with Miller. In Cooper’s case, Bond testified, Libby said he had simply told him that other reporters were saying that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA but that he did not know whether

that was true. Bond also said Libby “adamantly denied” that he had told then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer about Plame. Fleischer testiﬁed earlier this week that Libby did reveal that information. During cross-examination, defense attorney Theodore V. Wells Jr. pressed Bond to acknowledge that Libby had said during his ﬁrst FBI interview that he was very concerned that his memory was bad and that he needed to review his notes to jog it. Wells also questioned the thoroughness of the agent’s notes about Libby’s account of a third conversation with Miller, on July 12. Earlier Thursday, the judge presiding over the trial expressed doubts about defense arguments that Libby was made a scapegoat by the White House in 2003 as the furor over the CIA leak grew. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said that argument was undercut by evidence that then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan, at Cheney’s direction, publicly denied that fall that Libby had any role in leaking information about Plame. Walton allowed the prosecu-

tion to play small portions of videotapes of briefings from early October 2003, by McClellan, who had, by then, succeeded Fleischer as Bush’s press secretary. Libby had complained to Cheney that McClellan had, days earlier, cleared senior White House adviser Karl Rove but not Libby, according to witnesses and trial documents. Cheney then called the White House to urge McClellan to do the same for Libby, suggesting some phrases that Libby and Cheney had worked out together. According to one exhibit, Cheney scribbled on a note: “Has to happen today.” Jurors watched snippets of three McClellan briefings. In one, a few days before Libby’s first FBI interview, McClellan was asked whether Libby or two other administration officials had leaked Plame’s name. The videotape shows McClellan replying: “I spoke with them so I could come back and say to you, they were not involved.” Thursday, Walton ruled that Libby’s attorneys are not entitled to look at Miller’s notebooks for evidence that she had spoken with sources other than Libby about Plame or Wilson.

CDC releases federal guidelines for pandemic BY JIA-RUI CHONG LOS ANGELES T IMES

The most serious flu pandemic should prompt immediate isolation measures, including sending students home from school for up to three months and quarantining households with sick family members, according to federal guidelines issued Thursday. Because it would take four to six months to prepare a vaccine to protect against a pandemic flu, the guidelines are critical to restricting the virus in the interim. The best alternative to a vaccine “is to try slow down the spread and buy some time,” said Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidelines were created, in part, because of continuing concerns over bird flu, which has spread through Asia, Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. The virus, which rarely infects humans, has not been detected in North America. The guidelines from the Department of Health and Human Services

grade the severity of flu epidemics like hurricanes. The most serious outbreak, classified as a Category 5, would be on par with the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed tens of millions of people. Such pandemics would call for postponing or canceling public gatherings, such as sport and theatrical events; closing child-care centers and staggering work schedules to thin crowded offices. A regular seasonal flu, which has a fatality rate of less than 0.1 percent, would be classified as a Category 1. The guidelines’ only recommendation is that sick people voluntarily stay home until they recover, possibly up to 10 days. Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles County’s public health director, said guidelines appear to be appropriately measured. “We always want to err on the side of caution,” he said. “This document, on first reading, appears to do that.” Local health officials would have the ultimate authority to implement the measures, but the CDC recommended that they start quickly with

the first cluster of confirmed cases in a state or region. A poll by the Harvard School of Public Health conducted in conjunction with the report found that 57 percent of the people surveyed said they would have serious financial problems if they had to miss work for more than a month. About a third said they would ignore the restrictions if their employers asked them to come to work. If schools and day care closed for a month, 93 percent of adults said they could arrange for care for their child, but about 60 percent said that at least one employed person would have to stay home to take care of that child. Economic concerns led to the omission of travel restrictions, said Dr. Marty Cetron, who helped develop the guidelines at the CDC. “The trucks that cart the chlorine we need to purify water may have to move across state lines,” he said. “We want to preserve the functioning of civil society and work to the extent possible. … If we are in the setting of a Category 5, then we can re-evaluate.”

IPTV expansion may eventually end cable in dorms continued from page 1 about 10 years ago and has been on life support,” Usas said. The expanded IPTV system, according to a presentation prepared by Sara Gentile ’09 for UCS members last fall, cost the University about $180,000, plus an additional $40,000 per year for “support and maintenance of the IPTV system,” increasing the total annual cost for IPTV to $270,000. As of now, IPTV is only available on computers. Gentile wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that “UCS will only support the cable system’s replacement if there is a viable solution in place so that students may

watch television on their personal TV sets.” The solution, according to Gentile, is the “set-top box,” another Video Furnace product. A set-top box is a device that sends the IPTV signal to a conventional television, allowing the shows transported over the Internet to be viewed on a TV screen. Video Furnace has been developing this product since last spring but it is not yet for sale, Gentile wrote. Set-top boxes would be purchased for televisions in areas like dining halls and lounges. “They’re not that expensive — a few hundred dollars each,” Usas said. The product wouldn’t be provided for students with televisions, but Resi-

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dential Life is interested in renting them out to students. “We hope to make that affordable,” Usas said. The University is also planning to expand IPTV to the academic sphere. This would include adding international channels and broadcasting more campus events. Brown has paid for additional space on the IPTV system to store 1,200 hours of videos for a video-on-demand program where students can watch course materials online, though the project is still in preliminary stages. “Whether events or curricular material, the system gives us that dimension … as well as MTV and ESPN and Fox,” Usas said.

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Mahr: Brown, Penn both beneﬁt from Miller’s decision continued from page 12 sical lingo this time). I can completely relate to those who plan on spending tonight in the stands yelling everything about Miller and his mother at the top of their lungs. Hell, if I wasn’t obligated to fulﬁll my Sports Staff Writer duties and cover the game, I’d be right alongside them in a lessthan-sober state. That’s because more often than not, that’s what one does when a coach/player returns to his former digs. Yet, that doesn’t make his move to Philly unforgivable. From both his standpoint

and ours, the move came at the right time. For starters, it’s safe to say that Miller had worn out his welcome here on College Hill. Of course, he will always be remembered and praised for the work he did in his ﬁrst few years, especially when the team was near or at the top of the Ivy League. But since then, the team’s performance had gone downhill, his choreographed jacket throws and tantrums had become passe and the program had struggled with retaining its players (and that’s putting it extremely lightly). If Miller hadn’t left of his own accord, it is

foreseeable that he was one more sub-par season from being shown the door. Viewing the situation from Miller’s perspective, it was also a great job opportunity. This is by no means to say that the Brown men’s basketball program can’t hold its own, but Penn is at the pinnacle of the Ancient Eight and has been since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Almost no one can say they would turn down the chance to run a league power. If you’re given a recording deal straight up, you’re not going to turn it down and audition for American Idol instead.

So there it is, proof that Miller’s departure was not only a wise decision on his part, but also what was best for the Brown program going forward. He got a crack at the best coaching job in the league, and we waved goodbye to a tiresome, difﬁcult coach and his B-level theatrics. While his actions may be forgiven, that’s no reason not to hope that the new Glen Miller Band will be booed off the stage at a few shows now and then. Chris Mahr ’07 encourages both fanaticism and a lack of sobriety at tonight’s game.

Semester off in Oregon can’t slow w. fencing’s Gorth continued from page 12 any part of the blade. What if people hit each other at the same time? There is a right-of-way rule. If both lights go off, the aggressor gets the point. If someone is attacking you, you must defend the attack before attacking them. The rule was originally established to prevent both people from dying in a duel. How did it feel to clinch the Northeast Fencing Conference at home this weekend? It was great going undefeated. It was the second Northeast Fencing Conference meet, and all the teams in the Northeast fence each other. There are 27 possible bouts, and the team that wins the majority — at least 14 — is the winner. How does it feel to compete in a sport that most people are not familiar with? I like it a lot. I played ice hockey and lacrosse in high school, and everyone knew about those sports. Now, I like that no one knows about fencing. There is much less outside pressure, since few people come to the competitions, and no one knows the rules. Who would win in a fencing bout, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert? Ego is pretty important in fencing, and if you think you are hot stuff, you are going to fence like you are hot stuff. So I think Colbert would come right off the bat and score a touch. But fencing is an enduring athletic contest, and it is also a battle of intellects. Not only do you have to be as fast and as strong as your opponent, but you also have to outsmart your opponent. So I think Jon Stewart would come back and score

the next touch. Then on the third touch, both fencers would execute the same action at the same time, and the referee of the bout doesn’t award a touch to either, but Colbert, convinced of his superior fencing abilities, would argue with the referee that it was his touch. Colbert would not stop arguing, and the referee would be forced to throw him out of the competition, and then declare Jon Stewart the winner. Why did you take last semester off? I wanted to defer before coming to Brown, but my parents didn’t think I would go to school if I deferred. So instead, I came to Brown and loved my first year, but I took last semester off. I spent my time in Portland, Ore. working in a developmental biology lab. What did you do for the biology lab? I was a lab assistant. Basically, we wanted to identify what signals would drive cells to become tendons and how the development of tendons interacts with the development of other tissues, like bones and muscles. Did you fence in Oregon? I fenced five days a week with the Oregon Fencing Alliance. It’s a highly competitive club, and I routinely got my butt kicked by high school kids. But my coach, Ed Korfanty, was great, and I learned a lot. Three of the four members of the U.S. women’s saber team are his students. How did training in Oregon help your fencing? Training with the best is always the way to go. Getting your butt kicked every day really makes you improve. If you want to have the best attack game, you need to match up against the person with best defense. If I can find a way to

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beat the best, when I fence against others, it won’t be much of a problem. Did you get to see the beautiful scenery of Oregon? I did a lot of rock climbing, snowboarding and mountain climbing. I climbed Mount St. Helens in Washington twice in one week. It’s about a 12-hour hike roundtrip. My climbing partner, Derek Pershing, and I are both pretty crazy. The ﬁrst time, we started at 10 p.m. during a rainstorm that turned into an ice storm and then a snowstorm the higher we climbed. By around 3 a.m., we were about 500 feet from the top, but we had to turn around because of the horrible weather. We went back a few days later, got to the top and took a bunch of awesome pictures. Why do you keep a map of

Mount St. Helens next to your desk? If I can climb Mount St. Helens in the middle of the night during a storm, I can do organic chemistry homework. It gives me a little motivation. W When you were in Portland, did you keep in touch with Brown? My friend Natalie Cobb ’09 wrapped my birthday present in the Brown Daily Herald, and my friend (Herald Copy Desk Chief) Chris Gang ’09 physically brought me two copies of The Herald when he came to visit me in Portland. I also saw a few alums at the Ok Go concert with Chris (Gang). What did you miss most about Brown? I missed the people the most. They don’t make them like they do at Brown anywhere else.

Goldman: Miller’s actions speak louder than his words continued from page 12 I can’t blame Miller for going to a program that has finished in either first- or second-place in the Ivy League standings since the beginning of time, but the way he left is still contentious to me. A handshake and a person’s word should mean something, and in this case, it seems Miller’s did not. Thanks in part to Miller’s wavering, Brown did not hire a head coach until last June, putting the team at a disadvantage. NCAA rules prohibited new Head Coach Craig Robinson from working with the team over the summer, forcing the squad to learn the majority of a completely new offense right before the season began. Even with his success at Brown, Miller’s record was still below .500 in seven seasons. I’m no rocket scientist, but it seems like an athletic director would want a coach who has won more than half his games. It seems odd that Penn would hire someone who previously coached a team it has routinely owned for the past decade, as Miller went 2-8 against Penn over his final five seasons at Brown. Under Miller’s guidance, Brown experienced a steady decline since that magical 2003 season. The past two seasons, the Bears have gone 22-33. But instead of showing some dedication to the program that he helped build, Miller simply bolted for a better offer when it came his way. Regardless of what you may think of Miller, tonight’s game will be entertaining. So bring your friends, enjoy a cocktail or two beforehand and cheer on the Bears as they ruin Miller’s homecoming.

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Diamonds and coal A diamond to the Alpert Medical School for its new, shiny $100 million name. But coal to the fact that it strangely echoes that place in Seekonk where we bought our futon. Coal to the conditions in Keeney following the water shutdown. We know freshman year is all about debauchery, but guys, clogged toilets and vomit-streaked hallways are just too much. Get back to breaking the “no unitcest” rule. A diamond to ResLife director Rich Bova for trying not to “cramp our style.” As a former Grad Center resident, he knows how much personal style cinder block walls and exposed pipes require. A diamond to Jo’s workers for putting up with Brunonian vomit, blood and globs of ketchup and mayonnaise. Kids who stuff chips down their pants must not know that all the cool kids now pre-game at the Ratty. ROXANNE PALMER

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President Bush: danger to humanity or our protector? Bush destroys our civil liberties NATALIE SMOLENSKI

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SEAN QUIGLEY

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Everything changed at 8:46 a.m. Everything changed at 9:03 a.m. Everything changed at 9:37 a.m. And everything changed at 10:03 a.m. We all know what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. We all know that it was a tragedy that could have been avoided, if only our government had been stronger in pursuing international terrorists and if only our government agencies had stopped bickering over bureaucratic turf. We who are among the living must never forget that day. We must never forget the pain, the agony, the rage and the thirst for justice. Just as the attacks on Pearl Harbor were the event that shaped our grandparents’ generation, the attacks on the World Trade Center will shape ours. Polluting the editorial pages of many American newspapers, including our very own Herald, are articles from civil liberties radicals, opining about President Bush’s “imperial” wartime actions. Three common leftist complaints focus on

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Last week, Sir Ken Macdonald, a veteran prosecutor, spoke to the British Criminal Bar Association. He offered words of caution that thundered as a warning to the world. “I believe an abandonment of Article Six (of the European Convention on Human Rights) fair trial protections in the face of terrorism would represent an abject surrender to nihilism,” he said. In recent history, the canon of Western self-perception has hinged on the idea that our societies have made the greatest strides in establishing good government by way of institutionalizing protection of the individual against arbitrary rule and disproportionate punishment. The concept of human rights justifies these protections. The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrined the statement “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Moreover, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution declare that the government does not grant rights but rather is granted rights by the people, who form the base of its legitimacy. The judicial system is the primary instrument for safeguarding and defending these rights. Over the past six years, people around the world have watched with trepidation as the U.S. government has publicly sought to justify limitations to these rights. On Jan. 18, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales publicly asserted before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the right of habeas corpus does not effectively exist. On Jan. 11, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, attacked all legal firms whose lawyers represent Guantanamo detainees. He indirectly called on major U.S. companies to boycott these firms, saying, “CEOs are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms.” Such statements from Bush administration officials are not surprising given the administration’s repeated argumentation that certain people (“al-Qaida and al-Qaida look-alike detainees,” in the words of Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, are not deserving of rights — meaning protection from governmentally-meted injustice. It took a Supreme Court decision — Hamdi v. Rumsfeld in 2004 — to uphold the right of habeas corpus for all U.S. citizens, including those being held at Guantanamo Bay. But this decision alone was not enough to discourage the administration from conferring upon itself the power to further violate individual rights by spying on the communications of U.S. citizens without a warrant. The potential for abuse of such a system became painfully evident in the case of American lawyer Brandon Mayfield, who was erroneously linked to the Madrid train bombings through a mistake in fingerprint matching. The Spanish government

expressed doubts that Mayfield was correctly identified, but the U.S. government wiretapped his phone conversations, secretly searched his home and office and jailed him. It took two and half years to clear his name. The New York Times quoted Mayfield, “I personally was subject to lockdown, strip searches, sleep deprivation, unsanitary living conditions, shackles and chains, threats, physical pain and humiliation.” After his innocence became apparent, the U.S. government granted him $2 million in damages — an unprecedented gesture which has not been afforded to the hundreds of other Americans wrongfully jailed and mistreated during the time of their incarceration. Despite the novelty of the war on terror, this is not the first time that the U.S. government has overstepped its authority to the detriment of individual rights. We need only remember some of the projects undertaken by Cold War-era COINTELPRO — false media stories, perjured testimony, broken marriages, harassment, break-ins, surreptitious searches,

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CO U NTE R PO I NT beatings and assault — to realize that the protections we cherish as U.S. citizens are constantly under attack. In COINTELPRO’s case, the legislative branch eventually stepped in to curb the excesses of the executive via the Church Commission’s oversight and recommendations. Today, the measures we take must be more sweeping and more public. Bad news spreads fastest, and information about the U.S. government’s denigration of human rights becomes global knowledge in the blink of an eye. As one of the few countries that has enshrined human rights in our legal system, the U.S. represents a crucial stronghold for rights in a world where governments often deny them. We are still an international model, and the political and military chaos of the last few years demonstrates that if we err, other countries will more openly err with us.

Natalie Smolenski ’07 sees the necessity of a morally ordered world.

the suspension of habeas corpus, the treatment of detainees and the NSA’s program of warrantless wiretapping. With much pleasure, I will defend all three of the president’s policies. Many critics of the president have asserted that his “unprecedented” executive power violates the Constitution. Further they argue that the president’s military order to detain citizens and non-citizens as “enemy combatants” is a clear breach of that sacred document. I scoff at the charge that the president’s executive power is unprecedented. I wonder if the president’s critics are familiar with the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in several states a mere two weeks after the war began. He even ignored an appellate court decision spearheaded by Chief Justice Roger Taney, Ex Parte Merryman, which stated, “the president … cannot suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, nor authorize a military ofﬁcer to do it.” However, the court did rule that Congress may suspend habeas corpus, thereby reafﬁrming a precedent that had been set in 1807 by Ex Parte Bollman. However, Bush, like Lincoln, was forced to suspend habeas corpus due to extraordinary circumstances. For, as Article 1, Section 9, of the Constitution declares, “(t)he Privilege of the

Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” The attacks of Sept. 11 amounted to invasion. Bush did what was necessary to defend the nation at that moment of vulnerability. Though the Supreme Court’s 2004 decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld eventually overruled the president’s suspension of the writ, Congress vindicated him with the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which suspends habeas corpus for unlawful enemy combatants. As commander-in-chief, Bush exercised due executive authority in a time of domestic uncertainty. Alexander Hamilton, a strong advocate of executive authority and a framer of our Constitution, would have been proud. On the matter of detainees, Bush is to be commended for his handling of suspected and confirmed terrorists, the Abu Ghraib scandal notwithstanding. If anything, his administration’s policies have been too gentle, but they certainly have not violated international law. Let me elaborate. To begin with, terrorist detainees are not prisoners of war. They are not “commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;” they do not “(have) a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;” they do not “(carry) arms openly;” and they do not “(conduct) their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.” In order to be a prisoner of war, according to Common Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention, a prisoner must meet all four characteristics. Terrorist detainees should not be stripped of all rights, but they are not entitled to the courtesies afforded honorable combatants. Second, the rules of war enumerated by the Convention apply only to conflicts “not of an international character,” according to Common Article 3. The war on terror is, by nature, an international conflict. Finally, this is a different kind of war. Rapid intelligence is essential in thwarting terrorist attacks and defeating terrorism. Sometimes we have to deprive terrorists of sleep, waterboard them or offend them in order to get intelligence that can then be used to save lives. Some may judge these tactics “humiliating” or “degrading,” and they are entitled to that view. However, they should note that those terms are highly subjective. For instance, if a woman soldier interrogates a conservative Islamist, he would find such treatment to be “humiliating” and “degrading.” Would we then be violating international law if we hired female interrogators? Another key element of the president’s antiterrorist agenda that has come under criticism is the NSA’s program of warrantless wiretapping. This program is legitimate because both sides of the wiretapped telephone call are not located in the United States. One party in each wiretapped phone call is always foreign. I do not want to patronize my readers by going into the chief purpose of a nation-state — securing the borders from outside intruders — but it must be recognized that government’s duty to defend the nation concerns any form of intrusion, whether physical or electronic. Must the executive branch get court approval to defend the nation against invaders? Especially considering that 3,000 innocent American lives were already lost because of government timidity, we must unashamedly do what is necessary. In an article for the Weekly Standard, Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield defended the president’s program by writing, “To counter enemies, a republic must have and use force adequate to a greater threat than comes from criminals, who may be quite patriotic if not publicspirited, and have nothing against the law when applied to others besides themselves. But enemies, being extra-legal, need to be faced with extra-legal force.” Bush has used that force. It is imperative that he continue to use it.

Sean Quigley ’10 used to dunk fellow students’ heads in the toilet, and they talked.

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Miller’s departure M. hoops hosts Penn and former head man Miller beneﬁted both programs BY PETER CIPPARONE SPORTS EDITOR

BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Former men’s basketball Head Coach Glen Miller shares the same name as a famous 1930s bandleader, so it’s apt that some music analogies be made when breaking down his return to the Mahrtian Encounters Pizzitola Center tonight. Whenever a band adds a new front man, there’s potential for a great new sound, as well as potential for a ghastly mistake. As dirty as I feel writing this, the new Glen Miller Band has a higher likelihood of being the former than the latter. On paper, they have all the makings for a sweet sound. Miller has proven to be a capable

bandleader, turning a once moribund Brown men’s basketball program into a legitimate threat, even bringing it to the National Invitational Tournament back in 2003. In contrast, his new band at Penn already knew how to jam before his arrival. He has taken charge of the two-time Ivy League champs, a perennial league power that has a lot of history on its side and expects to win each year. Even when his current players leave the band to pursue solo careers (just to stick with the music analogy), he won’t have any trouble replacing them. For those who are new to the college basketball scene, Philly is pretty good at producing kids that can play. Now, we can analyze whether Miller’s move to Penn should be criticized (and I’ll spare the mucontinued on page 9

Miller’s return should be far from triumphant JUSTIN GOLDMAN SPORTS EDITOR

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ magical Super Bowl run to Detroit, Mich., last year was much-hyped because of its ﬁnal destination, which doubled as the hometown of Jerome Bettis, the team’s running back. Bettis withstood the presGolden Body sure of playing in front of his home crowd and helped the Steelers to an impressive victory. Tonight, something similar will happen on College Hill at the Pizzitola Center. Former Head Coach Glen Miller, one of the best coaches in Brown basketball history, will return to Brown for the ﬁrst time since he left the program to become the head coach at the University of Pennsylvania last year. Miller coached Brown’s men’s basketball team for seven seasons and helped rebuild a program that went 4-22 in the 1999-2000 season, the year before he took the reins. In just three seasons, Miller turned the Bears into one of the best teams in the Ivy League. In 2002-03, he went 17-11 overall, and the team posted a school-record 12-2 mark in conference play. He

also guided the Bears to the National Invitational Tournament, the first postseason berth for Bruno in over 20 years. Granted, an Ivy League basketball game in February is far from the magnitude of the Super Bowl, but the circumstances surrounding Miller’s departure add to the hype of tonight’s game. Although coaching changes are not very common in the Ivy League, it is inevitable that a coach who succeeds on the Ivy level will try to find a job at a school in a conference where basketball is bigger than it is in the Ancient Eight. Miller is no exception to this rule — he just happened to jump to the most prestigious job in the Ivy League. It seemed like during his entire tenure on the sidelines at the Pitz, he was always hungry to get that bigger and better job. Though the Bears posted a disappointing 2006 season, with a 1017 record, it seemed like Miller would be back on the sidelines in 2007 after flirting with an opening at the University of Hartford. Though he expressed a desire to stay at Brown, Miller changed his tone again when Penn coach Fran Dunphy stepped down to take the position of head coach at Temple University, and Penn hired Miller shortly after.

For the past seven years, fans of the men’s basketball team could count on former coach Glen Miller to patrol the sideline of the Pizzitola Center, hollering at officials and players alike. Tonight, fans will see Miller barking out instructions once again, but with one difference — he’ll be on the opposite sideline coaching the University of Pennsylvania. Brown hosts Penn at 7 p.m. tonight, for the first time since Miller left to become the Quakers’ head coach last spring, and the first time since the Bears almost upset the NCAA Tournament-bound Quakers in last year’s season finale. Marcus Becker ’07 hit a threepoint shot with less than a second remaining to force overtime, but Brown lost to Penn 74-68 in the extra period. That was Miller’s final appearance on the Bears’ home floor. Now, Miller is coaching a Penn team that is 2-0 in the Ivy League. Miller, however, is treating his homecoming as just another game. “I don’t have any extra motivation coming back,” Miller said. “I’m really not looking forward to … playing my old players, but I enjoyed my seven years here and am going to have the same approach against Brown as I do against any other school.” Guard Damon Huffman ’08 acknowledged that Miller’s return makes the match-up different than most Ivy League contests. “It’s going to be weird seeing (Miller) in the Pitz again,” he said. “You’re always going to be excited about playing a (former) coach.” There still exists some lingering resentment over Miller’s departure. Although Huffman credited

dspics.com Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo (Above) Forward Chris Skrelja ’09, averaging 7.3 points per game this season, and the rest of the men’s basketball team will face the reigning Ivy League champion, University of Pennsylvania tonight. (Inset) University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball Head Coach Glen Miller returns to Brown to face his old team on Friday.

Miller for giving him the chance to play college basketball and developing his game, he said it “would have been nice to know the details of what was going on” when Miller was being courted by other colleges last spring. Miller said his decision was not based on a dislike for Brown. “It went beyond the Ivy League,”

M. BASKETBALL: v. Pennsylvania, Pizzitola Center, 7 p.m. W BASKETBALL: at Pennsylvania W. M. HOCKEY: vs. Princeton, Meehan Auditorium, 7 p.m. W. HOCKEY: at Princeton SKIING: Brown Carnival, Wachusett Mt., Mass. M. & W. SQUASH: at Williams M. & W. TRACK: at Giegengack Invitational (New Haven, Conn.) WRESTLING: at Pennsylvania and Drexel

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Last weekend, Deborah Gorth ’09.5 led the women’s fencing team to an undefeated record in winning the Northeast Fencing Conference Championship. The Amherst native went 13-2, the best record of the day. Gorth is back at Brown after spending last semester doing biological research in Portland, Ore.

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Herald: How did you start fencing? Gorth: My high school boyfriend and I wanted to start boxing, and we went to my parents to ask if it would be okay for us to buy gloves and head gear. My mom thought it was a horrible idea and insisted that we think of another way to bond. We came up with fencing, because it would kill fewer brain cells.

M. BASKETBALL: vs. Princeton, Pizzitola Center, 7 p.m. W BASKETBALL: at Princeton W. GYMNASTICS: at MIT

M. HOCKEY: vs. Quinnipiac., Pizzitola Center, 7 p.m. W HOCKEY: at Quinnipiac W. SKIING: at MIT Carnival, Loon Mountain, N.H. EQUESTRIAN: at Trinity and Central Connecticut M. SWIMMING: vs. Columbia, Smith Swim Center, 4 p.m. W. SWIMMING: vs. Columbia, Smith Swim Center, 12 p.m. M. & W. TRACK: at Giegengack Invitational (New Haven, Conn.) WRESTLING: at Princeton

SUNDAY, DAY FEB. 4 DAY, FENCING: at MIT Invitational GYMNASTICS: vs. Rhode Island College and URI, Pizzitola Center, 1 p.m. M. & W. SQUASH: at Dartmouth W. TENNIS: vs. Boston College, Varsity Tennis Courts, 10 a.m.

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he said. “It was about having a new challenge, it was about being part of the Big Five and it was about having the opportunity to play against those national-caliber teams. In Philly, college basketball is a really big deal, and it’s fun to be a part of that.”

Jacob Melrose / Herald Deborah Gorth ’09.5 helped the women’s fencing team clinch the Northeast Fencing Conference championship on Saturday. Gorth ﬁnished the day with a record of 13-2.

What type of fencer are you? I fence saber. Bouts go by very quickly. It’s the ﬁrst to ﬁve touches. You try to target the area from waist up. The saber can score with continued on page 9