T H U R S D A Y MARCH 21, 2002
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At State House rally, activists call for action on housing bill
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BY CHRIS BYRNES
With the Corporation’s support secured for President Ruth Simmons’ Proposal for Academic Enrichment, University officials are now planning to add 100 new faculty members. But some are concerned the University doesn’t have enough room for a 25 percent increase in personnel. The University is equipped to deal with the short-term implications of the increasing faculty size, said Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning. But in the long run, the number of new faculty members will pose a space problem, and Brown must deal with that, he said. The University can use space that is available around the campus for the next two or three years, Spies said. With the completion of Carr House, which houses the English department and creative writing program, and the Watson Institute for International Studies, space opened up around campus, he said. “People have done a pretty good job in recent years of stockpiling that space for this purpose,” Spies said. Because the open space is located all around campus, how it is used will depend on what departments receive new faculty appointments. “That’s going to take a lot of work,” Spies said. “You can’t put somebody in the English department … and assign them an office two miles down the road.” The University faces a shortage of office space in the long term, Spies said, so “the University’s committed to undertaking a master planning exercise to look at the space we have and the spaces that are available.” The review of available space, which Spies said is in preliminary stages, will also identify spaces the University could use to build or expand. Spies said the University’s goal is to get the full review process underway by early summer. Spies said using the available space around campus allows the University to plan for the next few years. “It allows us to go forward immediately, though we’ve clearly got a bigger, longer term problem,” he said. “There are a whole set of questions which we have to get some help working through and that we have to go through systematically.” Some faculty appointments will cause more space problems than others, Spies said. “Even junior faculty in some fields require 1,000 or 2,000 square feet of space to carry out their research,” he said. But, Spies said, he doesn’t expect the eventual space crunch to affect how new faculty are appropriated to specific departments. “Inevitably, there are going to be lots of compromises” in deciding the location of faculty offices, he said. But “the idea is to make those decisions based on the best academic arguments and then try to make the space work.” Current faculty members are not con-
Brown students and community activists rallied at the State House Wednesday calling for the passage of an affordable housing bill that has stalled in the Senate for the past month. The bill, which would authorize floating a $10 million debt over two years, follows Gov. Lincoln Almond’s decision to freeze $5 million in state budget allocations toward affordable housing. Almond’s decision was motivated by the need to close a potential $70 million deficit in this year’s budget, but was problematic. Following the decision the government received several lawsuits claiming the act was unconstitutional. Attended by approximately 25 people, the rally was organized and led by Eric Hirsch, treasurer and board member of People To End Homelessness. Hirsch urged the Senate to take positive action on the bill, saying, “We don’t know why the Senate hasn’t agreed to pass this, and we don’t care.” Rev. Duane Clinker, one of four pastors arrested for staging a sit-in at the State House this fall, called for volunteers to be trained in civil disobedience. “We have incredible power. The time has come to end forced homelessness in Rhode Island,” Clinker said. Hirsch told The Herald he was cynical about the prospects of change any time soon. “I hope (they will act soon). The Senate leadership tells us they’re moving ahead, but they’ve kept ‘moving ahead’ for a month,” he said. He said building contractors were forced to put down their tools mid-construction this fall when Almond froze their funding. Green Party mayoral candidate Greg Gerritt who attended the rally, expressed his lack of confidence in the Senate. They were “dithering, not actively opposing,” he said. “This should be a no-brainer,” he told The Herald, and added that homelessness needs to be completely eliminated, not just reduced. Abraham Young ’04 and Cate Oswald ’04, a Rhode Island native, lead a fledgling student group at Brown focused on affordable housing issues and were responsible for organizing student participation in the rally. Oswald said the purpose of the rally was to demonstrate the continuing urgency of the housing shortage and the tireless work of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless. Oswald said Brown students have direct interest in the housing shortage. “We are contributing to some of the lack of affordable housing as we move off campus and into some of the different neighborhoods, especially Fox Point,” she said. The Senate continues to deliberate on the bill as it waits for the results of the lawsuits. In early March, the Senate passed a measure calling for Almond to release $5 million in housing funds immediately.
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A new Hillel House will provide additional resources for students often frustrated by the lack of available space in the current facility.
After years of obstacles, Hillel construction slated for May start BY KATIE ROUSH
After five years of planning, the renovation and expansion for a new BrownRISD Hillel building will begin in May of 2002, said Executive Director of Hillel and Associate Chaplain Rabbi Richard Kirschen. The construction plan was finalized two weeks ago when Martin Granoff, Brown-RISD Hillel building campaign co-chair and trustee of the University, announced that Hillel had raised enough money to go ahead with the construction. The announcement follows five years of campaigning and fundraising. It is a $9 million project, but the actual building construction will cost $5 million, Kirschen said. He said since last September, the goal of the Hillel staff was to begin work in May. “I’m excited we are breaking ground when expected,” Kirschen said. “I think this will be a really important addition to the Brown community.” Brown-RISD Hillel, the center of Jewish life for the Brown and RISD community, is a chapter of the international Hillel foundation. Located at 80 Brown
St., the Hillel building and land are privately owned by the foundation. Hillel purchased two lots next to the present building, at 106 Angell St. and 100 Angell St. The upcoming construction will result in a building that rests on the three lots, Kirschen said. Because the three buildings are historical Rhode Island landmarks, the inner spaces can be altered but the outer frames can not be razed. Hillel is working with the Providence based architectural firm Hayes/de Boer Associate Architects, which specializes in architectural preservation. The three buildings will be unified by new additions that will preserve the architectural integrity of each structure, Kirschen said. The building will be named the Glenn and Darcy Weiner Hillel Center, after two Cornell graduates who died in a plane crash several years ago. The new center will house offices for students and Hillel employees, include multipurpose rooms and “student friendly spaces,” a redesigned kitchen, and a computer cluster, Kirschen added. see HILLEL, page 4
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I N S I D E T H U R S D AY, M A RC H 2 1 , 2 0 0 2 Rhode Island welfare increasing in effectiveness, Taubman study shows page 3
Food bank aims to end hunger across state within the next three years page 3
In discovery, Brown research shows monkeys turn thought into action page 5
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Abby Shoben ’02 clarifies importance of open dialogue and debate on campus column,page15
Women’s icers enter ‘Frozen Four,’ looking to claim NCAA hockey title page 16
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IN BRIEF State Rep Carroll declares party switch, abandons Democrats, cites lack of support for women candidates State Rep. Mary Ann Carroll, a long-time Democrat, is switching to the Republican or Independent party. She cites redistricting plans and lack of support from Rhode Island’s Democratic party for female candidates as reasons for leaving. Under Rhode Island’s redistricting plan, Carroll would face Deputy Speaker Thomas Winfield, D-Smithfield, in the upcoming primaries. Her new district, which lies more than 80 percent in Winfield’s Smithfield, makes a Democratic primary victory nearly impossible for Carroll, she said. It is unclear whether Carroll will join the Republican party or run as an independent.“I don’t know what I’m going to do right now,” she told the Providence Journal after she officially cut ties with the Democratic party.“The Republicans have been real nice to me.” On the house floor Wednesday, Republican leaders and representatives lobbied for Carroll’s loyalty. Robert Watson, R-East Greenwich, called Carroll’s move a “courageous act.” He called on other legislators to change party affiliation, as well. Carroll accused the Democratic party of not supporting female candidates’ interests during the redistricting process. This redistricting process “was designed to protect the ‘good old boys’ at the expense of everyone else,” Carroll said.“As a result, towns such as mine were carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey.” The newly formed districts are coupled with a downsizing of the House and Senate. The House will be cut by 25 percent, and the Senate will lose 24 percent of its senators. Despite the changes on the horizon, Carroll is thus far the only legislator poised to change party affiliation. “I want to assure my colleagues and my constituents this in no way changes who I am, the issues I support or what I believe in,” Carol said on the house floor Wednesday. — Marion Billings, with reports from the Providence Journal
Escaped teens still at large after drug addiction treatment center breakout Three teenagers who escaped from the Phoenix Academy drug addiction treatment center in Burrville last week are still at large. The two 15-year-olds and one 17-year-old walked away from the treatment center on March 7. One 15-year-old was charged with a drug violation in Drug Court, and the other was transferred to the program from the state’s family services department. The 17-year-old was serving an extended term at Phoenix Academy and had been charged with larceny in Family Court. Phoenix Academy, which houses 15-20 youths, has been on the grounds of Zambarano Memorial Hospital for about 15-years. On Monday, Richard Freeman, chief executive officer of Eleanor Slater Hospital, which owns Zambarano, said he didn’t know about the Phoenix Academy escapes. “To the extent that it created a major problem, I haven’t heard anything,” he said earlier in the week.“I was up at Zambarano on Friday and no one told me anything about it.” — Marion Billings, with reports from the Providence Journal
State unveils new, friendly Web site A new state Web site allows Rhode Islanders access to approximetely 1,600 rules and reguations of different state agencies, ranging from rules regarding standards for seafood processing, storage and transportation to regulations on the liscensing of swimming pools, wading pools, hot tubs and spas. “I am absolutely thrilled we are providing unprecedented access to public records,” Secretary of State Edward Inman told the Providence Journal. Inman said he plans to unveil the Web site today. The Web site contains 160 megabytes of information from 95 state agencies that can be accessed through a search option similar to most web sites. — Marion Billings, with reports from the Providence Journal
Taubman Center study: RI welfare gets high marks for unique approach BY EMIR SENTURK
Under Rhode Island’s unique welfare system, the Family Independence Program, the income of welfare recipients increased through employment, decreased state expenditures on cash assistance programs and enhanced family cohesion and stability, according to a study by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. Some of the roadblocks on the path to the “steady employment and financial well-being” of Rhode Island families mentioned in the study were low wage levels, unreliable or inconvenient transportation and the high cost of housing. But the continued success of Rhode Island’s welfare program remains uncertain due to shifts in national welfare policy. President George Bush’s decision to integrate more stringent requirements will lead states to push for more federal funding for their welfare programs, said Professor of Political Science James Morone. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program gave block grants of cash assistance to states, rather than entitlements to individuals on welfare. To earn these grants, 40 percent of state’s welfare recipients needed to be working at least 30 hours a week. Currently, 70 percent of state welfare recipients are working at 40 hours under the Bush administration’s proposal. “I was very pleased that President Bush supported the reauthorization of TANF funds with strong support for working families,” said Gov. Lincoln Almond at a Feb. 28 press conference where he announced the release of the study. “That’s the hallmark of our program here in Rhode Island,” he said. We’re giving families the tools they need to get there,” Almond said. “We’re providing comprehensive health care and child care to families and these investments are making a big difference.” The study found Rhode Island emphasizes a “family first” welfare philosophy, which includes the absence of a time limit for children’s welfare, child-care subsidies to families with children up to 16 years of age and Rite Care, the state’s medical assistance program for low-income parents, children and pregnant women. The national trend is towards a “work first” philosophy, the study found. “Rhode Island has adopted more generous work provisions that gives more support in providing people with
The study found Rhode Island emphasizes a “family first” welfare philosophy, which includes the absence of a time limit for children’s welfare, child-care subsidies to families with children up to 16 years of age and Rite Care, the state’s medical assistance program for low-income parents, children and pregnant women. job training and daycare,” said Darrell West, professor of public policy and political science and director of the Taubman Center. Rhode Island’s unusual program stems from the state experiencing a smaller decrease in its welfare rolls, West said. The state’s drop-offs are at half the national average of about 50 percent, he said. Morone called Bush’s changes to national welfare “a nice, simple, old-fashioned question of funds.” Bush’s welfare reform essentially cuts back on the funds for states and closes many of the loopholes and special circumstances that were around for people on welfare during Clinton’s presidency,” he said. While the federal government will try to cut back on welfare spending, state governments will push to maintain or expand the federal government’s commitment, Morone said. The Department of Human Services, the Rhode Island College School of Social Work and the United Way were all involved in the study of the FIP that led to the report. The report is now available on the Department of Health’s Website. Herald staff writer Emir Senturk ’05 can be reached at esenturk@browndailyherald.com.
Food bank aims to end hunger in RI BY ELENA LESLEY
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank has taken on a massive challenge — to eliminate hunger statewide by 2006. “It’s an idealistic goal,” said Rachel Melamed ’02, who has volunteered for the organization. “But it’s good to aim high.” RICFB, which distributes food to most of the state’s soup kitchens and shelters, outlined its strategy to make Rhode Island “hunger-free” in its recently released 2001 annual report. “Increasing awareness of the problem, expanding our infrastructure to handle more inventory and broadening public support will all bring us to our ultimate goal,” the report reads. Founded in 1982 to help Rhode Islanders cope with the lagging economy and cutbacks in social programs, RICFB was intended as a short-term response. But it expanded over time, adding other programs — such as Kids Café, which serves meals to children in low income families — to its food distribution focus. RICFB is now a vital resource for an estimated 39,000 people in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, the report says. Last year, it distributed 6,141,211 pounds of food. But those who work for RICFB want to do more. In the next five years, the RICFB staff plans to reduce the percentage of Rhode Island households that are “food insecure with hunger,” from 2.6 to less than 1 percent. RICFB’s Food Stamp Outreach Program will be an integral part of the hunger-free strategy, said Communications Manager Eleanor Acton. The program, which began last year and is funded by the Rhode Island Foundation, helps those eligible for food
“We need to keep people’s attention focused on this effort. Hunger doesn’t go away when you feed people on Monday. They’ll still need something on Tuesday.” Eleanor Acton Communications Manager, RI Community Food Bank stamps — and not yet receiving them — fill out applications. Sixty-nine percent of Rhode Islanders eligible for food stamps are now receiving them, Acton said. RICFB is also in the process of purchasing a new, 66,000 square foot warehouse, which can hold twice as much food as the one now in operation. “We need more space for more volunteers to sort and inspect food,” Acton said. Both Melamed and Acton cited raising awareness as RICFB’s main challenge to achieving a hunger-free state by 2006. “We need to keep people’s attention focused on this effort,” Acton said. “Hunger doesn’t go away when you feed people on Monday. They’ll still need something on Tuesday.” Herald staff writer Elena Lesley ’04 can be reached at elesley@browndailyherald.com.
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Hillel continued from page 1 Kirschen said the construction will take a year. He said he is unsure of where Hillel will be located during the construction. The building process was delayed because it took time to buy the additional two lots, and another several years to gain approval from the Providence Preservation Society and Zoning Board of Providence, as well as to secure the necessary final funding, Kirschen said. The new building “will be good for Brown,” Kirschen said. The building will be available to the student body for a broad range of activities, in conjunction with many other groups at Brown, he said. Aviva Levine 02, co-president
of the Jewish Student Union, said she is excited that the construction is finally a reality. “The new building will meet the needs of the community much better than the current one,” she said. Plans to renovate Hillel originated through conversations with students who said the present space was not sufficient for the amount of students using Hillel’s services, Kirschen said. The kitchens were not large enough to adequately prepare the kosher meals and especially around Jewish holidays, Hillel would be involved in four of five activities without enough space to accommodate them all, he said. Rabbi Alan Flam, who held the position of Executive Director of Brown-RISD Hillel for 18 years until Kirschen assumed the position last summer, said the center will serve four main purposes. It will be a religious center with
three distinct worship services, an educational center with a library and classrooms, a service and justice center active in community service work, and a center for arts, culture and ideas, he said. Flam said the 92nd Street YMCA on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is a model for how he hopes the new Hillel will act as a cultural cornerstone of the community. Kirschen quoted Royster Harper, dean of students at University of Michigan, as he summed up the future vision of Hillel. “The challenge for Hillel is to teach our students that we should be an example to all,” he said. “That we can take care of our own and still help others. That we can all be proud of and true to who and what we are without building walls to shut out other people.”
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Designs for the new Hillel center will be actualized when construction begins in May.
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Ready for change, Grad Student Council looks to revamp its role BY JAMAY LIU
Through restructuring and a new agenda, members of this year’s Graduate Student Council said they hope to improve the quality of graduate life at Brown and set a precedent for future councils. In the past, lack of continuity, disorganization and minimal participation have led to “the perception that GSC isn’t effective or interested in graduate concerns,” said Terrence Johnson GS, vice president of GSC. Graduate students viewed the council as a social organization that didn’t deal with important issues, he said. The new council, which took over in January, aims to cultivate a community among graduate students, as well as strengthen connections with other communities on campus, said Heinrich Hock GS, co-president of GSC with Aaron Katz GS. “Brown has historically been an undergraduate focus school,” Katz said. “Graduate students don’t really have a sense of being a part of Brown, as they tend to be isolated in their specific departments.” Part of the problem is the lack of graduate student space, Katz said. A priority for GSC is allocating space for a multipurpose lounge that can be the “focal point for high-level community building,” he said. This summer, the piano lounge in the Grad Center will be converted into an area for graduate students to gather, Katz said. Graduate students have only one dorm on campus, Miller Hall, and it isn’t very conducive to graduate needs, Johnson said. A housing committee will work on improving and expanding graduate housing. GSC’s long-term goals are to work on participation, transparency and organization, Katz said. “Before, everything fell to the presi-
dent and vice-presidents,” Hock said. “We want to make the job of future executives a little easier by processing committees, by having officers focus on providing procedure so that they can solicit participation from committees. “We want to get things started, get the momentum going, so that there can be continuity when people take over next year,” he said. “We will do this by finding smaller and more manageable ways for people to get involved with GSC so that they can fit it into their schedules.” Besides housing, committees will address issues including campus safety, benefits and minority issues. An improved Web site will serve as an information and coordination mechanism, Hock said. “Students don’t really know what GSC can do for them,” Katz said. “They don’t know that GSC can be effective in providing support and serving as a link to the administration.” For example, GSC helped draft a letter and distribute petitions when students went to state representatives to protest the law prohibiting international students driver licenses, Katz said. GSC has also made connections with the greater Brown community a priority. The council has met with the Undergraduate Council of Students to talk about ways to form connections and build mentoring between undergraduates and graduates. “Undergraduates can really benefit from the information graduates have to offer,” Johnson said. An increase in support from the administration, especially from President Ruth Simmons, who, according to Katz, is the “first to come in with a background in graduate education and a real interest in seeing graduate see GSC, page 6
Breakthrough research turns thought into action BY BETHANY RALLIS AND KAVITA MISHRA
In a groundbreaking experiment, Brown researchers implanted electrodes in areas of the brains of rhesus monkeys that control movement. With their neural impulses hooked up to a computer screen by electrodes, the monkeys could move a cursor and follow a moving target on the screen. The transformation of thoughts into mechanical action could one day help paralyzed people move, allow control over involuntary body functions, and unlock the inner workings of the section of the brain that controls motion, researchers involved with the project said. Liam Paninski ’01, a New York University graduate student who was involved in the study while at Brown, said in an e-mail that the group’s work leads in many directions. “There’s a lot to be done on modeling neural responses, with the goal of improving our decoding algorithm,” Paninski said. The study, which appeared in the March 14 edition of the journal Nature, is one of a series of projects by a team of researchers led by John Donoghue, chair of the Department of Neuroscience. The researchers are attempting to transform thoughts — neural readings from the brain — and translate them into action. M.D./Ph.D. student and lead author of the paper, Mijail Serruya GS, said what makes the study different is as little as the three minutes of training and the use of electrodes to pick up activity from a small number of neurons. In the experiment, the monkeys play a computer game and use a joystick to move objects on the screen. The researchers then turn off the joystick, and the target continued to move on the screen based on the monkey’s neural activity. Yun Gao GS, a graduate student in applied math, Michael Black, associate professor of computer science, and Elie
Bienenstock, professor of applied math, are also working with Donoghue on projects to turn neural impulses into action. “We are working on more sophisticated algorithms and techniques for solving the kind of problems they’ve been working on,” Black said. These algorithms should help the research team translate neural signals to three-dimensional movement. The experiment with the monkeys does not show how the brain functions, he said. The assumptions made during the experiment are based on theories of machine learning, probability theory and statistics, Black said. The algorithms should help researchers understand the actions of the brain, Black said. Black said this should lead to eventually controlling 3D-movement on a computer through the mind. The researchers said they plan to use this 3D-movement control ability to help paralyzed people move. They will take the neural signals of the brain and convert them into algorithms that can be recognized and simulated by machine, Black said. The research on the rhesus monkeys could also lead to biofeedback, or the ability to mentally control one’s involuntary body functions, Paninski said in an e-mail. “The role of biofeedback has to be elucidated,” he said. They have to ask, “what are the learning processes that go on as a primate becomes accustomed to a prosthetic device, and how do we analyze these processes rigorously?” He cited a third extension of the discovery as answering the “engineering-type questions to develop mechanical devises that will respond to the brain signals.” Philip Kennedy, CEO and chief scientist of Neural Signals, said, “I think that some of these techniques will help restore movement within the next three to five years.” see MONKEYS, page 6
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Space continued from page 1 cerned about space issues, said John Savage, chairman of the Faculty Executive Committee and professor of computer science. Savage said he knows Simmons is concerned about where to place new faculty, but he doesn’t think there is a shortage of space, only a shortage of space that’s ready at this time. The University is ready to deal
M. Lax continued from page 16 some mercy, allowing consecutive Hartford goals, yet they still continued to score with ease. Gessner scored his first goal of the game on an assist from Miller at 2:06. Later in the period, Levin sparked the offense again, leading to another Thompson goal with an assist from Culligan ’05. Mormile added an unassisted goal to bring the Brown total to 12 to Hartford’s three. Freshman James Hahn ’05 netted a goal on an assist from Thompson, followed by goals by Christian
Monkeys continued from page 5 In 1998, Kennedy did a similar research, but he used a human rather than a rhesus monkey. Through his work the human subject was eventually able to move a cursor on the computer screen and access communications applications. “The brain is so complex. Its going to take more than a single
GSC continued from page 5 education facilitate benefits to the whole community,” is an important factor in the execution of GSC’s goals, Katz said. One such issue the administration has been good with so far is summer funding for research, Hock said. For the first time, a set amount of money has been set aside in the budget specifically for graduate
with some of these problems, Spies said. At the end of 2001, the University floated a bond package worth several million dollars that gives the administration the resources to renovate existing structures. Some of the multimillion-dollar bond proceeds could be allocated toward building or finding a storage space where library materials used infrequently could be stored, he said. The University now stores about 250,000 books at the Harvard Depository Library in Southborough, Mass., at a cost of about $100,000 a year.
For now, though, the administration is preparing for the new faculty appointments and the space needed to house them. “We know that we can address the short-term problems in a reasonable way if people are understanding and patient,” Spies said. “We know how to go about studying and determining what our options are for the longer term. There’s a lot of work to be done.”
O’Mara ‘05, with Jeffrey Bowen ‘04 assisting, and Charles Towers ’04 with an unassisted to make the score 15-4. In the end, the numbers confirmed what was evident on the field; the Bears simply overpowered an ill-prepared Hartford team. Thompson led the team’s attack with four goals and two assists. “We’re finally starting to grow up and learn how to win,” Thompson said. “Saturday’s game is definitely a game we can get if we play our best.” On Saturday afternoon, the Bears will have no time to waste, as the Loyola Greyhounds (4-0), currently ranked third in the
country, pay a visit to Stevenson field. Loyola, a team known for its athletic prowess will not make things easy for the Bears. Yet Coach Nelson is looking forward to the challenge. “It’s a great day for us, to play a team like this at home,” he said. In what should be a battle from start to the finish, the Bears have a chance to prove their previous late game letdowns were a fluke and that they belong among the nation’s elite. The first face-off is at 1p.m. Sports staff writer Jermaine Matheson ’02 covers men’s lacrosse and can be reached at jmatheson@browndailyherald.com.
person and more than one way of looking at it to understand how it works,” Black said. Serruya said reporters have asked him if they can use these techniques on a “couch potato.” This brings up ethical questions we have to figure out as a society,” he said. “It’s important not to get sidetracked.” There are people who are paralyzed right now — “they are our concern,” Serruya said. As a medical student, Serruya
said he wonders how to make the discovery useful. How can we apply what we already know, he asked. Serruya said he is excited with the work still to be done, and he hopes to use resources in various Brown departments to contribute to an interdisciplinary study. One branch of science can’t solve this alone, he said. Instead, it takes neuroscience, biology, engineering, computer science and math, he said.
research stipends. The longterm goal is to have five years of guaranteed coverage for every graduate student. On the unionization debate, which is currently under appeal, GSC remains neutral in order to stay representative of the whole community, Hock said. “In theory, a union would be limited to dealing with only employment issues,” he said. “However, GSC and the union could work in conjunction to represent the community.” The unionization controversy
has been positive in terms of bringing out the graduate student voice, Johnson said. “People saw the potential the Graduate School has, the ability of graduate students to discuss issues and fight for basic rights,” he said. “It showed that graduate students do care, do have a voice, are willing to speak out and do want to get things done.”
Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 covers faculty and administration. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.
Herald staff writer Jamay Liu ’05 can be reached at jliu@browndailyherald.com.
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Former employee files suit against Another college reports anthrax scare UPenn, claims descrimination IN BRIEF
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (U-WIRE) — Middle Tennessee State
University’s post office and Cope Administration Building were shut down Monday afternoon after a plain envelope containing white powder addressed to the college was opened by President Sidney McPhee’s secretary. The offices were closed around 2:35 p.m. after a call was placed to Doug Williams of MTSU News and Public Affairs from MTSU’s Police Chief Jack Drugmand. The Cope building was re-opened Tuesday, but the president’s office is still closed. Employees at the post office were evacuated, along with approximately 200 to 300 employees in the Cope building, while fire department employees contained the envelope. The envelope was triple bagged in biochemical containers and sent to the Health Department for anthrax testing. Post office and fire department workers then were washed with bleach solution. Fire department technicians wore level 1 protective suits with air packs when they removed the letter from the office. “The health department has done so many anthrax tests since Sept. 11 it’s a minor thing,” said Jimmy Francis, deputy chief of the Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Fire Department. “There have been no positive results in Tennessee since Sept. 11.” Results of the test are expected to be disclosed within the next two days. Employees were instructed to decontaminate themselves with a bleach and water solution. If tests show the substance is anthrax, employees will be vaccinated and closely monitored.
University students from across United States attend peace conference SOUTH BEND, Ind. (U-WIRE) — Nearly 50 students from University of Notre Dame and other universities will be presenting at the 2002 Undergraduate Peace Conference at the Hesburgh Center this weekend. This year’s conference titled,“Be the Change,” will feature seminars, lectures, artistic performances and exhibits on how to strive for peace. Colman McCarthy, a syndicated columnist and editorial page reporter for The Washington Post, will give the keynote address at 7 p.m. in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business. McCarthy teaches at Georgetown University and is the founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, a nonprofit organization that promotes education in nonviolence and peacemaking. The conference will continue with panel presentations from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. A roundtable discussion with University President Emeritus Theodore Hesburgh will take place from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. Saturday in Room C-103. The conference will end with dance and music concerts. Tona Boyd, conference coordinator, said she sees this conference as a way for students to “be the change you want to see in the world.” Boyd was a member of a group of students that met to discuss how they could be a voice for peace in the recent aftermath of Sept. 11. “After Sept. 11 I think many people wanted to ‘do something’ but were completely overwhelmed by the magnitude and complexity of the issues involved,” Boyd said. “With the war on terrorism and the prospect of starting war with Iraq, what better opportunity to speak out against violence and injustice than now?” These complex issues the speakers will address include ethnic and religious dimensions of conflict, multifaceted solutions for peace and development, and the role of youth, media and military in the advancement of peace and more. A number of the students involved with the conference are from Notre Dame, but there are also presenters from many Midwest colleges including Western Michigan, Kent State, Purdue and St. John’s universities. Kristin Corcoran, committee head on panelists and presenters, said there was a great response to the invitations to speak but unfortunately not enough funding to fly presenters in from around the world. “We had responses from all over the world, including Uzbekistan and the Balkans,” Corcoran said.
PHILADELPHIA (U-WIRE) — A man claiming he is a former
University of Pennsylvania employee recently filed a complaint against the University, alleging employment discrimination on several different counts. Gordon Roy Parker, a publisher and self-proclaimed activist, claims during his employment at Penn, the University practiced racial, gender, disability, retaliation, creed and irrelevant criteria discrimination against him. According to University Associate General Counsel Eric Tilles, Penn has no record of Parker ever applying for a job. Parker alleges in 1993 he was not given a promotion at the Penn Medical Center because of his race and gender, even though he believes his skills were more than adequate for the job. He is asking for a total of $351,000 in lost wages and damages. Parker’s main contention is the affirmative action program in place at Penn not only works against individuals like himself seeking employment but is also unnecessary for minorities and women to advance in certain occupations. “As a white male secretary I say, ‘Yes, it’s time to rethink affirmative action,’“ he said. “I believe reverse discrimination is a problem.” At this point in the legal process, Parker still does not have an attorney, and an employment discrimination panel is reviewing his case in deciding whether or not to grant him counsel. “We have agreed with him that the court should appoint a lawyer,” Tilles said. “We have not filed an answer and we do not think we have discriminated against him. We will probably be moving to dismiss the complaint.” Parker said he plans to file an amended complaint but has not done so yet, and Tilles said his office is waiting to respond until that is filed and Parker has legal representation. In his complaint Parker alleges the University’s affirmative action program “has resulted in wholesale, centralized, mass discrimination against him,” primarily due to its “premise that white males are never discriminated
against.” Throughout his complaint, Parker cites what he says are University statistics. Those statistics show, he claims, African-Americans are already overrepresented in lower-level positions at Penn and therefore there is no need for affirmative action at the University. “Extending affirmative action protection to minorities in job classifications where they are already overrepresented ... locks them into lower-paying jobs with minimal economic security,” according to the complaint. In terms of gender discrimination, Parker claims “Penn’s affirmative action program provides unnecessary assistance to females in administrative assistant positions within the University.” As an example, Parker includes statistics from the Office of General Counsel, which reveal “approximately four out of five support staff, and all secretaries, receptionists and all but one paralegal, are female.” Parker also points to a study that states women have a “beauty premium,” and Parker believes that is why “attractive females are given ridiculous advantages in every stage of employment.” “There really isn’t any help for the man looking to break into the female-dominated profession,” Parker said. According to the complaint, the “interpersonal appeal” that Parker’s complaint says women have justifies Parker’s claim of “disability status upon those individuals, including Plaintiff, who are not attractive females, on the grounds that they are genetically deformed.” Parker also alleges he has been the victim of retaliation discrimination, since he is a “whistle-blower and civil rights activist who has filed internal and now external grievances against Penn.” Additionally, the complaint states since Parker strongly “believes it is morally wrong to not report wrongdoing or illegal behavior,” his “whistle-blowing” behavior constitutes his creed, and Penn has practiced creed discrimination against him. Christina Yang is a staff writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian.
Students wanting to pose for Playboy face stiff penalties from some schools Waco, Texas (UWIRE) — Photographers for Playboy maga-
zine’s “Women of the Big 12 Conference” feature and representatives of the 2003: Budweiser Women of the Big 12 Conference Swimsuit Calendar will be in Waco, Texas, this week in search of Baylor University women to pose for their publications, but students who do so could face consequences from the Baylor administration. Playboy has been featuring college pictorials for the past 25 years. When the Big 12 last was included in 1996, President Robert B. Sloan Jr. told the Lariat students who posed for the magazine would be “subject to expulsion under the student sexual misconduct policy.” This time, however, that may or may not be the case. Bethany McCraw, the associate dean of judicial and legal student services who would be in charge of punishment, said although the handbook lists expulsion as a possible consequence of such behavior, that consequence is not a foregone conclusion — things such as the students’ attitude and their honesty also would be considered. “Suspension and expulsion are always an option, depending on how grievous the action is,” McCraw said. “All of the sanctions listed in the handbook would be an option. I can’t really make a blanket statement. There are so many variables to each individual case — it depends on the situation and the circumstances.” The other possible punishments listed in the handbook are censure, reprimand, probation, restitution and eviction. The two Baylor students who posed in 1996 were seniors and therefore not able to be expelled. Regardless, Dr. Eileen Hulme, vice president of student life, said it was not something the university administration would look upon favorably. She said posing for Playboy would fall under one of the Student Handbook’s definitions of misconduct: “expression that is inappropriate in the setting of Baylor University and in opposition to the Christian ideals which it strives to uphold.” “We really would believe that posing nude in Playboy would be in opposition to our Christian ideals,” Hulme said. However, posing for the Budweiser swimsuit calendar
would be a different situation in Hulme’s opinion. The way a student posed would be considered in deciding what definition of misconduct under which it would fall. In previous calendars produced by University Calendar Productions for University of Kansas and Kansas State University, some women posed topless, with their arms or other objects covering their breasts. “A student pictured in a Budweiser calendar would not necessarily produce a university response,” Hulme said. “However, if it crosses the line to lewd behavior, we would consider disciplinary action.” Hulme said she would consider posing topless to be lewd behavior. Spokespeople for both Playboy and University Calendar Productions tend to see their publications in a more positive light; both said past participants in similar projects had been pleased with the experience. “I think it’s the experience of a lifetime,” said Elizabeth Norris, director of public relations at Playboy. “I think any girl would love it — she’s pampered and treated like a queen. It’s great fun to be a star for a month. Everybody wants to be in Playboy.” T.J. Killian, the vice president and co-founder of University Calendar Productions, said posing for the calendar would be very different than posing for Playboy. He described the models posing topless in the calendars as an example of implied nudity, which he does not consider inappropriate. “Sometimes there’s a negative connotation associated with Playboy that we don’t want to be associated with,” Killian said. “There are a couple of obvious differences — the models aren’t nude. Implied nudity is one thing, but we don’t show anything inappropriate.” Killian also said the company would not have women pose in ways with which they were uncomfortable. “We make sure everyone is real comfortable and has a good time,” he said. “It’s a lot of fun.” Brandi Dean is a staff writer for the Baylor Lariat.
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Feds arrest Harvard student on alleged embezzlement charges CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (U-WIRE) — Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a Harvard University Kennedy School of Government student Friday at Peabody Terrace on charges he allegedly embezzled $3.35 million from a Hong Kong company. The Hong Kong government charged 34-year-old Kenneth Kin-Yuen Fung, who is also known as Kenneth Chi-Keung Fung and Edward Fong, with 12 counts of theft and seven counts of false accounting records, according to documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. The Hong Kong warrant for Fung’s arrest, issued Dec. 21, 2001, describes his nationality as British and Canadian. According to the KSG registrar’s office, Fung is registered there as Edward Fong, the same name he uses on his Canadian passport. From February 1997 to March 1998, Fung served as chairman and chief executive officer of Climax
International Company Ltd., a firm which specializes in the production and distribution of paper products and stationery, the documents said. The complaints issued against Fung allege he “dishonestly appropriated company funds” before and during his term as a CICL executive, from December 1996 to February 1998, by writing 12 company checks for personal use and issuing false accounting records. In 1998 Fung fled to Singapore from Hong Kong, the records indicate. After his arrest Friday, Fung appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joyce London, where the U.S. Attorney’s office argued Fung was “likely to flee if released,” according to court papers. London ordered he be held pending an extradition hearing. Jenifer L. Steinhardt is a staff writer for the Harvard Crimson.
Six students killed in freak auto accident (U-WIRE) BOWLING GREEN, Ohio —
Usually when students return to school after spring break, they are excited about seeing friends they haven’t seen in more than a week and are anxious to get the last half of the semester over; however, those feelings were replaced Sunday by sadness and shock when students returned to Bowling Green State University and learned six of their fellow students had died in an automobile accident Friday about 20 miles south of Cincinnati. Michelle Saunders and Ryan Leigh Foss, both of Huron, Ohio; Sara Jean McCarthy, of Brook Park, Ohio; Andrea A. Bakker, of Strongsville, Ohio; Jacqueline E. Ahlers, of Vandalia, Ohio; and Jessica R. Hedlund, of Perrysburg, Ohio, were in a van on their way home from a Spring Break trip in Panama City, Fla., when heavy wind and rain caused the northbound vehicle on Interstate 71 to slide over the median and into the southbound lanes. A tractor-trailer truck collided with the van, killing the girls on impact. The six young ladies were all residents of Founders Quadrangle. University students expressed feelings of shock when they heard the news of the crash over the weekend or as they returned to campus. “I was shocked with the news of what happened last Friday. I talked with my friends, and they shared my feelings of grief,” said Michael Cassandra, a student. “A loss like this is one that will certainly be difficult to overcome, and we will always question why this happened to such a wonderful group of people,” junior Jay
Atamanec said. This is the second year in a row a student living in Founders has died. Atamanec, who lives in Founders, said he plans to live in the hall again next year. He said he is concerned about the fact deaths have been occurring to Founders residents but he said he can’t dwell on it. “You just have to hope that nothing like that will ever happen to you,” he said. Craig Vickio, director of the Counseling Center, said his department always tries to be on the scene of a tragic occurrence such as this. “Whenever there is a tragedy on campus, we try to make our staff available, particularly if it is affecting a large group of students,” he said. The main goals of Counseling Center staff are to act as listeners and help students and faculty discover ways they best can cope with an incident of this nature, Vickio said. “Students are going to have widely different reactions to this,” he said. “For a lot of students, they’re going to struggle to come to grips with the reality of this happening, and others will be more numb to it.” Vickio said one thing that is good for getting through the grieving process is to realize the important things in life and do things to recognize them. “One of the things I see students doing is they want to reach out to other people,” he said. Craig Gifford is a staff writer for the Bowling Green State News.
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Suicide bomber kills himself and Investigating terrorist groups, Federal 7 others on bus in Northern Israel agents raid 14 Virginia sites IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Federal agents and local
police raided 14 sites across Northern Virginia Wednesday, many with links to the Middle East, seizing boxes of documents in an ongoing investigation of the funding of terrorist groups. No arrests were made and none of the businesses was closed. Government sources said the investigation is looking at charities and other organizations that may have contributed money to international groups that sponsor terrorist activities. Federal officials said the search warrants in Virginia and one in Georgia were issued as part of Operation Green Quest, a counterterrorism financial task force created by the Treasury Department in October. Affidavits explaining the reasons for the searches were sealed and were not provided to those who were searched. Agents from the U.S. Customs Service, which heads Operation Green Quest, officers from nine other federal agencies and local police swooped into locations in Herndon, Falls Church, Leesburg and Fairfax County about 10:30 a.m. Neither federal nor local officials would disclose exact locations for any of the searches. But Customs agents were busy loading up boxes throughout the afternoon at two offices in Herndon: The International Institute for Islamic Thought and MarJac Investments. Shortly before 4 p.m., the investigators drove a large U-Haul truck into a parking lot near both.
Most American Catholics believe church covered up pedophile cases WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — A majority of American Catholics believe that church leaders have tried to cover up child sexual abuse by priests rather than attempting to deal with the problem, according to a major poll on religion in American life. The second annual survey, conducted Feb. 25-March 10 by the Washington-based Pew Research Center and Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, asked 2,000 adults a broad range of questions about religious issues. Reflecting heavy news coverage of the scandals that have affected dioceses from Booon to Los Angeles, 85 percent of those polled — and more than 90 percent of the Catholics in the sample — said they had heard recently about cases of child abuse by clergymen. Fifty-six percent of the Catholics in the poll said church leaders have “mostly tried to cover up the problem,” while 32 percent said their leaders have “mostly tried to deal with” it. Of all those surveyed, non-Catholics as well as Catholics, 62 percent said church leaders have tried to cover up the abuse, and only 26 percent said the leaders have tried to deal with it.
Honda goes mainstream with hybrid (Newsday) — The third gasoline/electric-powered or “hybrid” car to go on sale in the United States, a version of the Honda Civic, will be priced just under $20,000 and deliver as much as 51 miles to a gallon of gasoline, by federal estimates, its manufacturer said Wednesday. Although environmentalists sometimes dismiss them as public-relations ploys to stave off higher fuel economy requirements, more hybrid vehicles are due in showrooms in coming years — from General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Group at least, based on their announcements. Hybrid powertrains employ a gasoline engine less powerful than one that normally would power the vehicle in question — thus the fuel savings — but that is augmented when needed by an electric motor. The motor is powered by batteries that are recharged by the gasoline engine so that, unlike pure electric vehicles, hybrids do not require lengthy recharging from house current. The Civic hybrid, which is to go officially on sale next week as a 2003 model, will begin at $19,550 with a fivespeed manual transmission. It joins the comparably priced Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids. Honda says the price represents a $1,500 premium over a comparablyequipped conventionally powered Civic sedan. A compact, the hybrid Civic, with a 1.3-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engine and manual transmission, delivers 46 mpg in the city and 51 on the highway by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates.
UM-EL-FAHM, Israel (Washington Post) — A bearded young
Palestinian man, chewing gum and wearing a jacket, boarded a bus full of Arabs and Jews in northern Israel Wednesday morning, paid his $2.60 fare and then triggered a thunderous explosion, killing seven people and himself and injuring 27. At one moment Bus No. 823 was on its normal morning run from Tel Aviv to Nazareth, carrying sleepy soldiers and civilians to their bases and jobs just after 7 a.m. At the next moment it was a blackened, mangled wreck, split practically in two pieces, a rolling charnel house spattered with blood and body parts and spewing smoke and flames. The suicide bombing further undercut a troubled peace mission by the American special Mideast envoy, Anthony Zinni, who is trying to coax Israelis and Palestinians toward a ceasefire after 18 months of fighting and terrorist attacks. Nonetheless, Zinni was still expected to broker a scheduled meeting of Israeli and Palestinian security chieftains this evening that he hoped would result in a formal truce declaration. After the bloodiest three weeks in memory here, the ongoing violence on the ground seemed disconnected from the headlines and proclamations generated by American diplomacy. The talk this week from Zinni and Vice President Dick Cheney, who visited Israel for 24 hours, has focused on ceasefires, meetings and laying down incentives for Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, to crack down on militant groups. The reality has been a tight Israeli military siege on Palestinian cities and towns, and uninterrupted Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Four of the seven people killed on the bus this morning were Israeli soldiers. The other victims, dead and wounded, included Jews as well as Arabs. The radical group Islamic Jihad, which has carried out a string of terrorist attacks on Israelis, took responsibility for the bombing and identified the bomber as a 24-yearold militant from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Rafat Abu Diyak. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed the attack on Arafat and suggested Israel would retaliate. “We see that Arafat has not changed his policy of terror,” he said. “He has taken no steps whatsoever, he has given no orders at all (to halt Palestinian attacks). This is something very grave, and we’ll have to take the necessary measures.”
Arafat’s Palestinian Authority condemned the bombing. But the Authority’s statement seemed to focus on the fact that the attack took place inside Israel – suggesting implicitly that attacks on Jewish soldiers and settlers in the Palestinian territories were not covered by the condemnation. “World public opinion, which has been on the Palestinians’ side against the Israeli attacks on Palstinian civilians, will never accept Palestinians attacking Israelis inside Israel,” said the statement. “We can’t give any excuse to extremists in Israel to continue their aggression against our people.” The bombing this morning took place near the large Israeli Arab town of Um-el-Fahm, in Israel’s heavily Arab Galilee region. The bomber boarded the bus and said he was going to Afula, a Jewish town in the north. He walked toward a group of soldiers seated toward the back of the bus, immediately attracting the suspicions of Jewish and Arab passengers. “I know they don’t care who they hit,” Kamla Massalha, an Arab citizen of Israel who is a surgical nurse, told Israel Radio. “He didn’t look normal. He looked around, he looked left and right and there was something under his jacket, around his waist. I suspected him right away. ... A second later, the explosion came.” At least one Israeli soldier on the bus also took note of the bomber when he boarded. “I noticed that he had a jacket and when he sat down, I saw something inside,” said Vadim Weinfuss, an Israeli soldier who was on his way to an army base. “I went to get my rifle, to try and stop him and I saw that he was talking to someone who was sitting next to him. ... I was going to shoot him when he blew up.” The bus continued rolling for some distance, even though it was on fire and nearly everyone aboard, including the driver, was dead or injured from shrapnel, shock or flying glass. “The explosion was tremendous, tremendous. And then people started screaming and people were on fire,” said Avi Malul, who was sitting two seats behind the bomber but somehow survived. “I grabbed my gun and jumped out the window. And I saw bodies on the ground.” Bus No. 823 has been hit by suicide bombers twice before, two weeks ago and last November. Nonetheless, several of the passengers, both Arabs and Jews, said they had discounted the possibility of another attack on the bus, because it carries so many Arab passengers.
Final Whitewater report finds no evidence of wrongdoing by Clintons WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Bill and Hillary Clinton made “factually inaccurate” statements to federal investigators during the eight-year Whitewater probe and a jury could have concluded that Hillary Clinton took part in keeping subpoened records hidden, but there was not enough evidence to prove the Clintons committed perjury or obstructed justice, according to the final report of the independent counsel released Wednesday. The five-volume, 2,200-page report by former independent counsel Robert Ray comprises the final legal word on a decade of intrigue involving the former president and first lady, and provides the historical coda to an investigation that dominated national politics in the 1990s. But like Ray’s final report on the Monica Lewinsky case, released March 6, it offers few new revelations. The massive tomes of the Whitewater report detail the intricacies of myriad loans and land swaps made by Madison Guaranty, the Little Rock thrift owned by the Clintons’ business partners that failed in 1989 at a cost to taxpayers of $73 million. It reprises the years of investigative efforts into the Clintons’ dealings with Madison’s owners, James B. and Susan McDougal, including what the report describes as “lack of cooperation” by the White House and “novel privilege claims” by President Clinton intended to thwart the inquiry. Most pointedly, Ray’s report calls into question sworn testimony in 1994 and 1995 Hillary Clinton, now a U.S. senator from New York, about her billing records while working as a lawyer for Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The records were the key to establishing whether Hillary Clinton might have known about fraudulent financial arrangements. Those records went missing for 18 months in the mid1990s while Mrs. Clinton was under subpoena to produce
them for the federal investigation. They turned up in January, 1996 in Room 319A of the White House residence, eight feet from a room from where Mrs. Clinton had been working on her book, “It Takes a Village.” The report now says that a White House employee — identified only as “confidential witness” — testified to seeing Hillary Clinton in the hall outside the room carrying a box containing what could have been a rolled up sheaf of billing records. Two construction workers who were with the staffer testified to seeing her as well, though only one recalled seeing the rolled up paper. “The independent counsel considered whether Mrs. Clinton’s lack of memory (about the missing billing records) was an instance of feigned forgetfulness,” Ray said in the report. “A trier of fact could conclude that Mrs. Clinton had the billing records in the White House ... but the evidence was insufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.” David Kendall, the Clintons’ lawyer, said Wednesday that the couple would have no comment on the report, calling it the “most expensive exoneration in history.” He said it ended as it began: “With no evidence of any wrongdoing by the Clintons.” In a 25-page written response included as part of the report, he ridiculed Ray’s notion that Hillary Clinton would have hidden the records. “There is no remotely plausible reason for the records to have been consciously withheld for 18 months and then produced just as the 1996 Presidential campaign kicked into high gear and just as the first lady began a much publicized book tour,” he wrote. “I think this is a complete vindication, especially if you remember all the things that she was charged with,” added Celinda Lake, a Washington D.C.-based Democratic pollster.
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Senate gives approval to campaign finance legislation WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —
The Senate Wednesday gave final congressional approval to legislation aimed at reducing the flow of big money into American politics, marking the first major overhaul of the nation’s campaign finance laws in nearly 30 years. The bill, approved 60 to 40, would end political parties’ ability to collect “soft money” donations, which totaled nearly $500 million in 2000. In an effort to curb thinly veiled attack ads by outside groups, it also would limit socalled issue ads that target specific candidates just before elections. The path to final passage was cleared when the Senate voted 6832 to end delaying tactics that had stalled enactment for seven years. The legislation now goes to President Bush, who said Wednesday night he will sign it into law. “Like many Republicans and Democrats in the Congress, I support common-sense reforms to end abuses in our campaign finance system,” the president said in a statement. “The reforms passed today, while flawed in some areas, still improve the current system overall.” He said the
legislation “does present some legitimate constitutional questions.” Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., was more effusive in his praise. “This will be a landmark piece of legislation that I think will be written about in the history books for years to come,” he said. Historic or not, the battle over the bill — one of the most controversial of the past decade — is not over. Leading opponents and their allies in various outside groups vowed to challenge the measure in court as a violation of free-speech guarantees in the Constitution. With some limits, courts have ruled that campaign contributions are a form of expression. Passage of the bill amounted to a rare triumph for small bands of reformers in both parties, principally Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. He lost the Republican presidential nomination to Bush two years ago, but bounded back on Capitol Hill to prevail on the issue that had been his campaign’s hallmark. The bill is less ambitious than some earlier proposals that called for spending limits and public
funding of campaigns. Still, supporters and opponents agree that it could profoundly affect the way money is raised and spent to influence elections and law-making. But they disagree on whether the impact will be good. “The political landscape ... will be filled with more people and less influence, more contributors and smaller contributions, more democracy and less elitism,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. To the contrary, the bill’s foes argued, it will threaten the viability of political parties and other democratic institutions as well as free speech. “This wholesale regulation of every action of every American anytime there is a federal election is truly unprecedented,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. McConnell, who led the fight against the bill, focused much of his fire Wednesday on newspapers that supported the bill editorially, including The Washington Post. He said they have a “blatant conflict of interest” because their revenues and influence might increase if other forms of advertising are curtailed.
Campaign strategists disagree on which party might benefit more from the legislation. The two parties raised roughly the same amount of soft money in the last election. Republicans typically raise far more in “hard money” contributions, and will presumably benefit more from a provision that will raise hard-money limits. But Democrats will still benefit from campaign activities by labor unions and other groups that support them and have vowed to step up their fundraising for hard dollars. The bill, sponsored by McCain and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., in the Senate, would ban the unlimited soft money contributions that special interests have been pouring into national party coffers in recent elections. To avoid laundering of the funds through other party groups, it would also limit soft money contributions to state and local parties, capping them at $10,000 and barring their use in federal campaigns. Soft money is ostensibly for party-building activities, such as registration and get-out-the-vote drives, but has increasingly been
used by both parties for advertising that promotes their own candidates or attacks rivals without using specific words that trigger hard money contribution limits. The bill would curb “issue ads” that target specific candidates just before elections. It would bar use of soft money money from corporate, union and non-profit advocacy groups for such ads within 60 days of a general election and 30 days of a primary. These interests could set up political action committees to raise regulated cash for such advertising. The bill also would double, to $2,000, the limit on individual hard-money donations that can be used to fund campaigns directly, with corresponding increases in other limits and annual adjustments to account for inflation. It would increase contribution limits for candidates facing wealthy candidates who finance their own campaigns; tighten disclosure requirements and apply them to large independent expenditures; and ban fundraising on federal property and from foreign sources.
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Minorities receive lower quality health Bush ready to set rules for care service, according to a new study trials of terrorism suspects WASHINGTON (Newsday) — The Bush
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Minorities in America — even those with private health insurance — receive lower quality care than whites, a pattern so widespread and severe that it contributes to higher death rates and shorter lifespans, a major report released Wednesday found. Although it was not possible to quantify the inequities, researchers identified language barriers, inadequate insurance coverage, bias among doctors and nurses, and a woeful lack of minority physicians as reasons why non-white patients received fewer tests and inferior treatment. “This is a pervasive problem with moral and ethical implications for our society,” said Martha Hill, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and vice chair of the Institute of Medicine committee that prepared the report. The problem of access to medical care among minorities is well-documented, but the 562-page report is the most exhaustive analysis of the disparities in treatment and health outcomes. The report, requested by Congress, shines a harsh light on the effects of patient stereotyping and an expensive health system that often forces patients to ration their own care.
“We have a health care system that is the pride of the world, but this report documents that the playing field is not even,” said David Williams, a sociology professor at the University of Michigan who described the study as “a wakeup call for every health care professional.” A non-white patient in America today is far more likely to be treated by a white doctor who earns less, received less training and does not have a clear understanding of the patient’s native language or cultural heritage, according to the report. Most remarkably, over the past three decades, the share of black physicians in America rose from 3.5 percent to 3.9 percent. The biggest discrepancies — and most devastating health consequences — came in the areas of cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, cancer and diabetes. African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and native Americans were less likely to receive sophisticated treatments such as angioplasty, bypass surgery, kidney transplantation or a combination drug therapy known as the “AIDS cocktail.” One study of 13,000 New Jersey heart patients found that far fewer AfricanAmerican patients received catheterization to clear the
arteries, despite exhibiting the same symptoms. Another study involving 13,600 nursing home residents found that blacks “had a 63 percent greater probability of being untreated for pain relative to whites.” “Significantly, these differences are associated with greater mortality among African-American patients,” the researchers note. “By contrast (minorities) are more likely to receive certain less-desirable procedures, such as lower limb amputations for diabetes.” Bias in medicine appears to parallel other societal stereotypes, said Alan Nelson, chairman of the committee. Medical schools often teach that some minorities complain more about pain or do not follow drug regimens; many doctors and nurses are unaware of cultural beliefs that can impact health, researchers said. “Physicians and other health care providers are more comfortable interacting with people like themselves — highly educated, articulate individuals,” said committee member Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Providers go into health care professions with good intentions, yet the evidence does suggest there is unequal treatment.”
administration would grant terrorism suspects brought before military tribunals many fundamental protections used in civilian trials but deny them others, limiting their right to block second-hand evidence and to appeal their convictions, even in the case of death sentences, government officials said Wednesday. At the same time, the Justice Department announced Wednesday that it would go ahead with a new round of antiterror interviews with foreign nationals in the United States, calling the first phase a success after interviews with more than 2,200 people yielded a number of tips on possible terrorists. The Bush administration’s long-anticipated plans for the military trials for terrorism suspects were presented to Congress Wednesday, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to announce them Thursday. The plan to hold tribunals came under fierce criticism when President Bush announced it in November as a means to try suspected al-Qaida terrorists outside the U.S. federal court system, especially in cases where national security information might be divulged. Critics feared the tri-
bunals would short-circuit due process, denying suspects a public trial, independent counsel, the right to hear evidence against them and the ability to appeal their verdicts. The new rules appear designed to address many of the sharpest criticisms, international law experts said Wednesday, by modeling the tribunals after military courts-martial and adding widely accepted legal protections. Bush said Wednesday that he had “nobody in mind” to bring before the tribunals and stressed that they merely are an option for prosecuting terrorists. “We’ll be using the tribunals if, in the course of bringing somebody to justice, it would jeopardize or compromise national security interests. So they’re a tool,” Bush said. U.S. officials have said they expect a very limited number of tribunals, perhaps no more than a few dozen, and that they might not start until the fall. Bush said the fates of many of those detained at Guantanamo Bay, where many of those subject to tribunal might come from, remained unclear, though he said, “Remember ... the ones in Guantanamo Bay are killers. They are ... they don’t share the same values we share.”
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Bush heads to Mexico with aid in hand MONTERREY, Mexico (L.A. Times) —
Carrying a sackful of aid, President Bush arrives here Thursday for a global development conference that, in sharp contrast to many past meetings with lofty goals, may actually accomplish something. The United States and European nations will use the U.N. Conference on Financing for Development to tout commitments to raise annual aid to poor nations by a combined $12 billion by 2006. Bush will also unveil a new program to promote private investment and jobs in rural Mexico as a way to discourage illegal immigration, U.S. and Mexican officials said Wednesday. The U.S. and European Union aid increases are a response to globalization foes who say the benefits of free trade haven’t filtered down to the poor. The aid increases constitute a reversal after a generation of shrinkages in U.S. aid budgets. Last week, Bush announced the U.S. promise to boost aid to poor nations by $5 billion, to $15 billion yearly, by 2006. The EU announced its commitment to add $7 billion to its annual aid program at a Barcelona, Spain, summit last weekend. But the timing of the aid increases — before a conference whose theme is how to lift developing nations out of poverty — is no coincidence, Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda said. “They are directly linked to the celebration of the summit in Monterrey,” he said. Nearly 60 heads of state are expected at the meeting. Castaneda attributed the high turnout to nations’ eagerness to ratify what is being called the “Monterrey Consensus,” that rich countries must do more to help the poor.
“NAFTA created a tremendous economic boom ... mostly along the border states. And one of (Mexican) President (Vicente) Fox’s concerns has been to take that prosperity and transfer it to the center of the country and to the south..” Condoleezza Rice U.S. National Security Adviser Cuban President Fidel Castro will also attend the conference, but he and Bush will not meet. Bush will stay through Saturday morning, when he leaves for Lima, the Peruvian capital. The U.S.-Mexico assistance program, dubbed Partnership for Prosperity, unites the public and private sectors in developing projects to help regions of Mexico that haven’t benefited from the North American Free Trade Agreement, officials said. Asked about the Mexican aid package, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the program is aimed at smoothing out NAFTA’s “uneven” economic benefits. “NAFTA created a tremendous economic boom ... mostly along the border states,” she said. “And one of (Mexican) President (Vicente) Fox’s concerns has been to take that prosperity and transfer it to the center of the country and to the south.” At a news conference here Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill cautioned that the Bush administration is attaching some strings to its boost in aid to poor nations. To keep the aid spigot open, the United States wants to be shown concrete results in terms of higher living standards and
incomes, O’Neill said. In typically blunt fashion, O’Neill expressed some reservations that government donations are the best route to take in helping the world’s poor. “The real economic development will come from (investment) capital,” he said. “We’re not going to do it with welfare.” O’Neill and U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell are heading an effort to devise benchmarks to prove the effectiveness of poverty aid. Bush and Fox will huddle in a meeting Friday that Mexico hopes will result in U.S. aid in border infrastructure, water and immigration. Officials of both countries were reticent Wednesday about what specific help Mexico might receive. Asked during a White House briefing late Wednesday about criticism that Washington isn’t providing enough foreign aid, Rice said U.S. assistance comes in the form of guaranteeing military and security aid. “I say to people that the United States provides for the world a lot that others do not, including security,” she said. “What we’re doing to increase stability and security around the world right now is really quite remarkable.”
Compaq’s shareholders approve $20B proposed merger with Hewlett-Packard HOUSTON (L.A. Times) — Compaq
Computer Corp. shareholders on Wednesday approved the company’s proposed $20-billion merger with Hewlett-Packard Co. in a vote as routine and decisive as HP’s was not. In contrast to the conflict-ridden HP shareholder vote Tuesday that left the outcome of the merger in doubt, Compaq shareholders ratified by a 9-to-1 margin what would be the largest merger in computer history. Retired chemical engineer John Pickering was typical of Compaq shareholders who attended the company’s 45minute meeting in Houston. “I feel that the two companies are in a struggling situation,” said Pickering, who holds 600 Compaq shares. “But the two together will be able to challenge any other leader in the industry. IBM is the obvious one.” The deal was vigorously contested by HP director Walter Hewlett, who argued that a merger would stick HP in the money-losing market for personal computers and siphon earnings from the company’s profitable printer business. Although results from both shareholder votes are not likely to be official for weeks, Compaq
Chief Executive Michael Capellas on Wednesday said he was confident that the final tally of HP votes will favor the merger. Walter Hewlett has said the vote was “too close to call.” “They would not have announced it without due care,” Capellas said of HP CEO Carly Fiorina’s claim of victory. The two companies in September announced their plans to merge on the premise that a combined company would be better able to compete in an industry racked by recession and unprecedented cutbacks in technology spending. A merger, they argued, would let the companies slash $2.5 billion in annual costs, combine their product lines to offer soup-tonuts technology for large global companies, and compete more effectively with IBM Corp., Dell Computer Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. “What they’re striving for is to paint a bull’s-eye on IBM’s forehead,” said Charles Rutstein, research director at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass. “This merger gives them the breadth and the depth to do so.” Should the merger proceed, the combined company would have 145,000 employees in 103 countries.
As the junior partner in the merger, Compaq has not endured the same intense public scrutiny as HP, but Compaq’s finances proved a key weapon for Walter Hewlett. The Houston company last year posted a loss of $785 million on $33.6 billion in sales. About $587 million of the red ink originated from Compaq’s PC business, which accounted for more than 40 percent of the company’s overall revenue. To stanch future losses, Compaq last year laid off 9,500 workers, shut down plants, outsourced its PC manufacturing and slashed inventory. But Capellas has acknowledged that the work in streamlining costs is far from complete and that further reductions are needed to compete with the likes of Dell and suppliers of generic PCs who continually drive down the product price. HP and Compaq have said they will slash 15,000 jobs, or 10 percent of the combined work force to achieve much of the cost reductions. Both also have sought to ease customer and investor concerns by putting forth a detailed plan on how they plan to merge the two companies, down to the color of the employees’ badges.
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Newly discovered fossil skull challenges view of human evolutionary history (L.A. Times) — A newly discovered
fossil skull suggests that an early human species migrated from Africa to Asia and back again before evolving into modern humankind, an international team of researchers said Wednesday. The fossil is the strongest evidence yet that the species called homo erectus – a tool-making, nomadic ancestor of humanity that was the first creature to master fire – was a single species ranging across Africa, Europe and Asia. Many scholars have argued in recent decades that homo erectus was actually two or more species. The discovery, which was unearthed in Ethiopia from the sediments of an ancient lake shore, will be detailed Thursday in Nature. The new find is certain to revive scholarly arguments over a crucial period of human evolution, experts said. It appears to simplify the human family tree, but also to renew the debate over the role Asia may have played in human origins. “What we now have is evidence that a single human ancestor species was so successful that it was spread from Java to Italy to Ethiopia by 1 million years ago,” said W. Henry Gilbert, a University of California, Berkeley graduate student who discovered the skull during a 1997 field expedition. The find also highlights the crucial effect of climate change on human evolution. The fossil skull belongs to a period when an abrupt climate change plunged the world into an ice age. These early humans had first evolved in Africa and then spread to Asia and Europe. As temperatures dropped across the Northern hemisphere, they may have moved south back into Africa, as did many migrating herds in that era.
“This was a time ... when there was large-scale movement of many species between continents everywhere on Earth due to major global climatic change,” said Yale University expert Elizabeth S. Vrba. “They came out of Asia into Africa. They would had to move to stay with water, to stay with food,” she said. “There would have been massive gene flow back and forth. That would get us the pattern we see – one single widespread species.” The evidence for the new theories consists of the skull and leg bones of six separate individuals that Gilbert and his colleagues found at a site along an arid outwash in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia. The area is about 140 miles northeast of Addis Ababa. Ethiopian and American researchers have turned up fossils of many prehuman and human ancestors there in recent years, including two previously unknown hominid species. Gilbert was working in the 110 degree heat as part of a team of 45 scientists from 13 countries led by Ethiopian anthropologist Berhane Asfaw at the Rift Valley Research Service and UC, Berkeley paleoanthropologist Tim D. White. Scored by ancient fang marks and encrusted with fossilized roots, the skull needed three years worth of painstaking work to clean and restore. “The new skull is gorgeous,” said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy at Kent State University, who has examined the find. “The new specimen greatly simplifies our view” of how homo erectus evolved, Lovejoy said. It paves the way “for new analyses of how and why erectus eventually gave rise to homo sapiens.” The fossils of these restless creatures have been bones of con-
tention since the remains of the so-called “Java Man” were first discovered in Asia more than a century ago. Decades of research and dozens of fossil finds in China, Europe and Africa have not settled where homo erectus first evolved or clarified its contribution to contemporary humanity. Although its bones first turned up in Asia, the oldest specimens of homo erectus have been discovered in Africa, home to all the earliest known prehuman ancestors and universally considered the cradle of human evolution. Homo erectus skulls vary widely. Those differences seemed so great that some scientists theorized that these early human ancestors divided into two separate species between 1.5 million years ago and 500,000 years ago. Until now, researchers had gathered the African fossils into a separate species called homo ergaster. The Asian fossils, they said, must belong to an isolated branch of the human family that likely had little or no direct contact with their African relatives once they split away. That branch, therefore, would have no connection to modern homo sapiens. Contemporary humanity, in that view, is an entirely African creation. This primeval skull contradicts that theory, the researchers said. If these early humans had diverged along separate evolutionary paths as they spread across the Old World, the new Ethiopian specimen should look quite different from its Asian relatives. Instead, the new skull is similar enough to some found in Asia to show that even after almost a million years of wandering, these creatures clearly all belonged to the same species.
Jury reaches verdicts on 4 of 5 counts in case of lawyers accused of mauling dog A Superior Court jury said Wednesday it had reached verdicts on four of five counts in the trial of two San Francisco lawyers charged in their neighbor’s fatal dog mauling. Judge James Warren ordered the verdicts sealed and told jurors to continue deliberating on the fifth count Thursday. All the verdicts will be read at the same time, he said. “The court will retain this under lock and key tonight and it will be available (Thursday),” Warren said. The defendants, Marjorie Knoller, 46, and her husband, Robert Noel, 60, are charged with involuntary manslaughter and owning a mischievious dog. Knoller, who also is charged with second-degree murder, faces a sentence of 15 years to life in prison if convicted. Noel faces four years in prison. Knoller and Noel owned two large Presa Canario dogs that attacked their neighbor Diane Whipple, a 33-year-old lacrosse coach, in the hallway outside her apartment on Jan. 26, 2001. The trial was moved to Los Angeles County Superior Court because of publicity in the San Francisco Bay Area. After nearly 10 hours of deliber-
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ations over two days, the jury foreman sent a note to the judge at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday. “The jury has reached a decision on four of the five counts and we have determined that it would be best to adjourn and reconvene tomorrow morning,” the foreman wrote. During a brief court session, Warren instructed the foreman to place the four verdict forms in an envelope, seal it and sign his name across the back. The jurors can still change their minds and the verdicts will not become final until they are read in court, Warren said. The judge excused the panel of seven men and five women at about 3:45 p.m., saying that he was “aware that these deliberations can be trying.” Warren encouraged them to keep an open mind and consider their fellow jurors’ points of view. Outside the courtroom, San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan said that he was encouraged that the jurors decided on all but one count and that he believed they would reach a verdict on the fifth. He declined to speculate which count was still undecided. “We’re encouraged that this case will come to a conclusion,” Hallinan said. “This is a case that
must be put to rest.” Defense attorneys did not comment about the jury’s note. Jurors began their deliberations Tuesday after four weeks of emotional testimony. The jury elected a foreman, a Chicago native who works as a machinist for the city of Los Angeles. The foreman, who had served on two previous civil cases, has owned 10 dogs in his lifetime and has been bitten once. Just after jurors reconvened at 9 a.m. Wednesday, they asked for a rereading of testimony Noel gave to the San Francisco grand jury last year about his two dogs. Noel, who did not take the stand during the trial, denied to the grand jury that either of his dogs had ever acted aggressively. He also denied that one of the dogs had ever jumped at a pregnant woman or had lunged and bared its teeth at a neighbor. Jurors also were read Noel’s testimony about a dog walker who warned him to muzzle his dogs. The three people referred to in the grand jury transcripts testified in the trial about their encounters with the defendants and their dogs. Warren also interrupted the deliberations Wednesday to clarify one of the jury instructions relating to the charge of owning a mischievous dog.
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Diamonds and coal Coal to pink eye. You make our eyes itch and look funny. Diamonds to the students who presented their wok at the Bell Gallery’s exhibition. We were able to “subvert paradise” through your diverse collection of work. A diamond to the Senior Class for earmarking your Annual Fund gift to focus on a worthy cause like need-blind admission. Diamonds to the members of the women’s ice hockey team for winning the ECAC championship. Good luck in the “Frozen Four.” Coal to “Civil War” photographs. By this, we mean photographs taken today, but that look like they were bayonetted and then sat under a damp rock for 150 years. Coal to the disgruntled children of Belper, England. While we understand the anxiety you must experience going through adolescence in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, we wonder why you have to take it out on poor, unsuspecting Mr. Potato Head. A cubic zirconium to monkeys who can move a mouse cursor with their mind. Next thing you know they’ll be running for president.
D AV I N C H E N G
LETTERS Bush not voice for all
A diamond to Doynow. A diamond to finding your artistic niche, wherever it may be. Some people like making contour drawings, some people like making … other kinds of drawings. A cubic zirconium to Virgin Atlantic. You tease us with your “standup bar” and then add that “in first class” clause. Student Advantage and first class go together like Tom Collins and Robitussin DM. Coal to professors who have classes this Friday. Students who actually show up to these classes: dedicated, or unloved by Mom and Dad? A diamond to Long Island. You make nice sweatshirts, you have tan people in the middle of winter, you produced a damn good hip-hop group and you’re but a hop, skip and a jump from lovely Newark Airport.
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To the Editor: Brendan Baran made some interesting comments in his letter concerning President Bush (“Bush to benefit from finance reform bill” 3/20). I was struck by the following statement: “It is in Bush’s best interest to sign the campaign finance bill precisely because he is not under the control of big business. On the contrary, he receives the majority of his money from individual voters, and in this way could be viewed as the voice of the people.” The recent push for oil drilling in Alaska as well as the current administration’s intriguing connection to the Enron Corporation scandal, make it undeniable that big business plays a role in contemporary U.S. politics. Anyone who voted in the November 2000 election and recalls the incredible course of events that followed will immediately realize that Bush is hardly “the voice of the people.” I remind Baran that half of the votes cast by Americans were not for Bush. He may be a voice for some, but he will never be the voice for all. Christopher Benedetto GS March 20
Racial profiling used as political strategy To the Editor: It’s good that Jake Berman opposes racial profiling against blacks (“The many fragmented faces of racial profiling” 3/20). However, his justification of it against Middle Easterners shows he fundamentally misunderstands the nature of racial profiling. What are the biggest terrorist organizations in the United States? They are the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacy groups, the pro-life fanatics, the ultra-right militias and so on. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League estimates that since 1977, there have been about 59,000 acts of terrorism committed against abortion clinics. Almost all offenders are white Christian males. Would Berman support government scrutiny of all Christian charity organizations, as all Muslim organizations are harassed today? Would Berman approve of the secret detention of white people by the Justice Department, as thousands of Middle Eastern people are detained today? The fact that the same folks who lust for profiling against Arabs and blacks never suggest the same
measures against whites reveals that racial profiling is not a “legitimate tool,” but a political device. Anti-black profiling paints all blacks as potential criminals and relieves American institutions of any culpability for racism or unequal social conditions. Anti-Arab profiling suggests that terrorism is an ethno-religious feature and diverts attention away from U.S. imperialism, which has created the conditions for terror through its violent, anti-democratic interventions. Justice demands that we oppose all forms of racial profiling, against any group and in spite of any excuse. Shaun Joseph ‘02 Marc 20
Racial profiling not effective police tool To the Editor: Racial profiling is not a tool of law enforcement, it is racism. It refers to stopping and inspecting an individual because of that person’s race or ethnicity. This is a form of class probability, whereby general characteristics of an entire class of people are used as the reason to search or detain individuals. Racial profiling differs from case probability, which uses a precise description of the perpetrator from a specific crime to identify suspects. What occurred at Brown on March 8 has occurred numerous times on campus before. The reason this incident has caught the attention of the majority of students is that the two students who were asked for ID refused to show it. Targeting everyone in a certain group because of the actions of some is an unfair practice and is not an effective police strategy. In fact, police target, detain and harass many innocent people in their rush to arrest relatively few. One study done on an interstate in Florida, found that “while about 5 percent of drivers on that highway were dark-skinned, nearly 70 percent of those stopped were black or Hispanic, and more than 80 percent of cars searched were driven by blacks and Hispanics (However,) only 9 of the more than 1,000 stops, or less than 1 percent, resulted in a traffic ticket.” ( “No Equal Justice,” Cole 37) Racial profiling promulgates suspicion and distrust, causing police to lose support and cooperation from the very public they are supposed to protect. Racial profiling is not only racist, it makes police ineffective at the job they are paid to do. Leah Scherzer ‘02 March 20
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OPINIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2002 · PAGE 15
Lots of shouting, but no one is listening Campus BUPS debate lacks a purpose if everyone has an opinion already AS I’M SURE EVERYONE READING THIS proportion and that Brown students column is aware, currently one of the were quick to assume racial undermost hotly debated topics on campus is tones in any circumstance. I am sure that I am not alone when I the state of Brown’s police force. Should they be armed? Do they engage in note that no one has bothered to ask racial profiling? Why can’t they do any- and then listen to my opinion. Obviously, I could offer it thing about the recent crime voluntarily, but there is no wave of assaults and robuse in shouting if others beries? Although I am more don’t want to listen. One than happy to provide my way to show a willingness to opinion on all of these toplisten is to ask. Please note ics, I would prefer to use this now that I am using myself as an example of the ills solely as an example: I think befalling campus discussion we should be asking everyat the University. one for their opinion and As was the case during that there is nothing particthe Horowitz controversy ABBY SHOBEN ularly special about my last spring, there is an ABSTRACTION own. inherent danger in assumLast spring, as the ing that everyone agrees with you. Last week, in the course of 24 Horowitz controversy seemed to be sethours, BUPD came up in three sepa- tling down, I had dinner with a friend I had rate circumstances. In the first, the not seen since the whole thing began. She speakers automatically assumed asked me what I thought of the issue, everyone in the room thought that remarking that she was particularly interarming was a very evil thing — “and we ested in my thoughts because I was then want to give these assholes guns?” an Opinions Editor of The Herald. I, in During the second and third instances, turn, asked her for her opinion. She sat in much to my amusement, the speakers stunned silence for a moment and replied assumed the opposite about my opin- that although she had asked most of her ion; arguing that the incident on the friends and acquaintances what they Main Green had been blown out of thought, not one of them had turned the question back on her. Did they not think Abby Shoben ’02, all 5 feet, 2 inches of her, she had anything useful to say? If anyone asked for my opinion on wishes there were less “height profiling” in the subject of arming BUPD, I would the world. Her columns appear on altertell that person about my experience nate Thursdays.
“If anyone asked for my opinion on the subject of arming BUPD, I would tell that person about my experience working alongside these cops in Brown EMS. I could tell them about how friendly the vast majority of them are.” working alongside these cops in Brown EMS. I could tell about how friendly the vast majority of them are, and how nice they have been to two of my friends following unfortunate incidents. I would also share the new perspective I have on the inherent courage it takes to be responsible for public safety and how difficult it can be to enter situations on a daily basis that most of us will experience only once or twice in our lives. Very few students at Brown, save my friends from EMS, have any idea what it is like to be a cop. Perhaps if they knew, they wouldn’t be so quick to criticize, or so quick to reach a judgment denying trained police officers a weapon that
the officers feel would make it more likely for them to be able to go home to their families at the end of the day. But nobody has asked me. Nor have they asked the people they really should be asking: the cops themselves. I know that not all cops at Brown and certainly not all police officers in this country are perfect. I’ve also had a friend tell me that he was getting his car windows tinted because, “I’m tired of getting stopped by state troopers.” Nevertheless, we should not leap to conclusions about the motives of one particular officer on that fateful Friday afternoon. As we make our individual decisions about what really happened and what should be done, both about this incident and about the question of arming BUPD, we owe it to ourselves and to our community to learn as much as we can about all facts and arguments. We must do so by seeking out and listening to the opinions of our friends, and more importantly, people who do not agree with us. In her letter dated March 13, President Ruth Simmons urged all of us to suspend judgment before all facts are known, “giving all principles a chance to be heard without bias.” I could not agree more. It takes courage and openmindedness to do so, but we would all have a more complex and sophisticated understanding of our own arguments as a result.
Racial profiling as unacceptable as racism Rowley’s support of racial profiling by police is replete with unfounded assertions TRAVIS ROWLEY’S COLUMN, “RACIAL tern of vandalism on campus associated profiling a necessary tool of law enforce- with Hope High School students. ment” (3/18) is ignorant, naive, and fre- Furthermore, even if Hope students did quently outright false. There can be no indeed at some point vandalize somequestion that racial profiling is racist by thing somewhere, we must ask ourselves definition. When it is used, people of dif- what group of people is most responsible for sullying the appearferent races are treated difance of our campus. ferently by the law, indeDuring my time here there pendent of their guilt or have been multiple acts of innocence. What, then, is ALDEN EAGLE GUEST COLUMN arson in Faunce House, and racism but the act of differthere has never been any ential treatment based upon doubt that they were comracial assumptions? One mitted by Brown students. cannot be against racism and support racial profiling unless one mis- Likewise, have you ever walked around this campus on a Sunday morning? I understands at least one of the terms. Rowley is arguing that racism in the challenge anyone to offer evidence form of racial profiling should not only proving that anyone does more damage be socially acceptable, but should be an to Brown University than Brown institutionalized, official policy for University students. The logical extenpolice forces. Many of us doubtlessly sion of this fact is that police measures hold the less controversial opinion that actually designed to prevent property racism is always a bad thing. However, destruction on campus should be tarwe most go further and look at the falla- geting Brown students, most of whom cious arguments Rowley uses to support are white and well to do. In this light, does the racial profiling of privileged racism. Rowley buys hook, line and sinker the whites walking around campus sound idea that the individuals harassed on ridiculous? If the answer is yes, then we March 8 were initially approached must agree that profiling students of because they looked like they were from color is even more ridiculous. Harassing Hope High School, and that Brown cops people of color on our campus does were specifically on the lookout for such nothing to protect people or property, students. This excuse is patently ridicu- and there can be no possible justificalous. No one seemed particularly wor- tion for it. Most disgusting in Rowley’s column is ried about Hope High prior to this month. In an atmosphere of heightened his use of made-up statistics. He refers awareness of all things criminal, I find it to a recent Herald article (“Simmons, truly hard to believe that the Brown students discuss Friday arrests at open community would not have been previ- meeting,” 3/12) in which another stuously informed were there actually a pat- dent relayed that a BUPS officer had said, “90 percent of campus crime is perAlden Eagle ’03 hails from Grants Pass, OR. petrated by black and Latino males, so don’t be offended if you are approached He spends his summers working on his because you fit the profile.” The fact that parents’ sheep farm.
“I challenge anyone to offer evidence proving that anyone does more damage to Brown University than Brown University students. In this light, does the racial profiling of privileged whites while walking around campus sound ridiculous?” Rowley accepts this statistic is remarkable, and makes one wonder if he ever reads his e-mail. The all-too-frequent crime notifications we all receive frequently state the race of suspects, and it simply is not true that anywhere near ninety percent of them are people of color. Most importantly, we must address the fact that, like Rowley, the police officer quoted was using fabricated statistics in order to support his proprofiling agenda. This figure has no root in fact whatsoever. Considering such an offensive attempt to justify racism, it is not surprising that most do not trust the Brown Police as much as Rowley would like us to. It is laughable that he blames the “liberal media” for the anti-police sentiments shared by so many, as though the actions of police were not enough to such create biases. No amount of media
spin doctoring could possibly make the police’s treatment of Abner Louima or Amadou Diallo any less disgusting, and Rowley could find plenty of people in Providence with their own stories of police harassment. So long as police brutality is taking place anywhere, people will not trust police. I wonder how Rowley can so easily dismiss the real impact of such crimes upon our psyches. Furthermore, it is simply contradictory to call for both racial profiling and for people to trust the police. Racial profiling does not mean merely the occasional inconveniencing of people of color. It means that innocent people may be risking their lives walking down the street. This is the most important failure of Rowley’s argument: racial profiling is not just about an insulting request for one’s Brown ID. He would like us to think that we should regard racial profiling as we regard airport security checks, as though both were merely a minor annoyance. The difference is that metal detectors, to my knowledge, never beat anyone for no justifiable reason. We must stand firmly against racial profiling both on our campus and off. We must call racial profiling what it is: racism. Rowley wants us to make a distinction between the racist act of racial profiling and “evil racism,” and goes so far as to state, “It is safe to say that for years the practice of racial profiling has significantly decreased crime rates.” Actually, it isn’t safe to say that because that is an insupportable claim. Racial profiling significantly decreases nothing but police credibility, and greatly increases the risk of police brutality against people of color. We cannot stand by idly while such racism exists on our campus.
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SPORTS THURSDAY MARCH 21, 2002 · PAGE 16
Women icers look for revenge and title in Frozen Four rematch against the University of Minnesota BY MAGGIE HASKINS
With an inspiring come-from-behind win versus Dartmouth last Sunday, the Brown women’s hockey team (24-7-3) qualified for the Frozen Four, the Division I Women’s Hockey Championship. The Bears, who are in somewhat familiar territory, as both the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 teams qualified, will face off against No. 1 ranked University of Minnesota (28-3-5) on Friday night in Durham, N.H. Rounding out the Frozen Four will be defending national champion University of Minnesota-Duluth (22-6-4) and Niagara University(26-7-1). The Niagara Purple Eagles, the regular season champions of the ECAC Eastern Division, are the school’s first team to make it to a final four. None of these opponents are strangers to one another. Bruno has faced all three teams this season, losing to the University of Minnesota (3-2) and Niagara (3-1) and tying the Bulldogs of Duluth (2-2). Yet these outcomes do not truly reflect Brown’s ability to match up against their foes this weekend. Brown faced the Minnesota teams in early December and Niagara in early Jan. Since the Niagara loss on Jan. 6, the Bears have lost only one game and gone 19-1-1. Currently the Bears are riding a seven-game winning streak, including their thrilling come-frombehind championship win vs. Dartmouth, where the Bears were able to play their type of aggressive and quick hockey. Due to lackadaisical officiating, the Bears were able to use their physical abilities to their
Women’s tennis tops BC for first time since 1993 BY SHARA HEGDE
The Brown women’s tennis team performed brilliantly this past weekend, earning a hard fought victory over Boston College. The Lady Bears’ last victory over BC came back in 1993. This victory improves the team to 5-0 this spring. Caroline Casey ’03 and Kerry Meath ’05 led the way for Brown. Casey’s victory at number five singles (7-5, 6-3) improved her record to 12-5 this season. Meath continued her strong season, winning at number four singles 6-3, 1-6, 6-1. Her season record is now 16-1. The two would then combine to win the lone doubles match for Brown, 8-5 at the number three position. Coach Norma Taylor was pleased with the hard earned victory. “This is a huge win for us and I’m excited for the girls,” she said. “We haven’t beaten BC in a long time so this victory is very important.” Also performing well for Brown was Victoria Beck ’04. Beck pulled out a tough match at number two singles, edging her opponent 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 covers women’s tennis. She can be reached at shegde@browndailyherald.com.
SCOREBOARD Today’s Games Men’s swimming at NCAAS. Athens, Ga Fencing at Drew. Madison, N.J. Wrestling at NCAA Championships. Albany, N.Y. Baseball at Navy. Annapolis, Md
advantage and pounded out the victory. Against the University of Minnesota, Bruno will need that and more. The Minnesota Golden Gophers are led by Patty Kazmeier Award finalist Rhonda Curtain. Curtain, a junior, switched to defense this year, and the switch has certainly paid off for both the team and herself. Curtain leads the nation in defensive scoring (47pts, 34a) and captains the nation’s best power play. The history between the Bears and Gophers extends well before this years match-up in December; in fact the Bears and Gophers have faced off at the Frozen Four twice before. In 1999 the Gophers defeated Brown for third place, and in 2000, they snatched away the national title from Bruno. This year the Bears hope to exact a measure of revenge on Minnesota. If the Bears are able to sneak past the Gophers, their next opponent will be just as challenging. The Bulldogs of Duluth have not lost to an ECAC opponent this year and hope that Niagara will not be the first. As with previous games, Coach Murphy has not changed much in practice this week and continually discussed the importance of focus on the ice. The only real question for Bruno this weekend is who will get the call in the net. Though Katie Germain ’04 played in only the first few minutes against Dartmouth, her overall performance this season has been stellar, posting a 12-4 record and a 1.73 goals against average. Germain’s comrade in the goal, Pam Dreyer ’03 should also see con-
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The women’s hockey team will look to avenge two prior Frozen Four losses to the University of Minnesota when it takes on the Golden Gophers on Friday. siderable time in the net. Dreyer was named the ECAC tournament’s Most Outstanding Player last weekend, while recording over 50 saves. The Bears enter this weekend in search of the national championship and if the team can continue to play its physical,
fast-paced tempo, it might just be bringing one back to Providence. Sports staff writer Maggie Haskins ’04 is an assistant sports editor and covers the women’s hockey team. She can be reached at mhaskins@browndailyherald.com.
Men’s laxers bounce back, dominate Hartford 15-4 BY JERMAINE MATHESON
After two disappointing losses, the Brown men’s lacrosse team (2-2, 0-0 Ivy League) exorcised some demons on Tuesday night with a 15-4 romp over the University of Hartford. After a slow start, perhaps due to the bitter cold, the Bears took control against a Hartford team that at times looked bewildered against the Bear onslaught. In its last game, Hartford scored the game winning goal with only minutes remaining, eerily reminiscent of Brown’s past two losses. Yet any thought of a repeat quickly dissipated. The Bears’ defense and goaltending were superb. They limited a Hawk team that had been averaging 12 goals per game to merely four, most of which came late in the fourth period. The scoring commenced with freshman standout Chazz Woodson ’05, bringing the ball from the midfield, dodging multiple defenders and finally passing to the team’s leading scorer Jon Thompson ’03, who recorded his eighth goal of the season at 5:39. Woodson ’05 then scored a goal of his own, an unassisted near-tothe-ground missile at 14:34 in the first quarter. In the second period, after an initial great save by the Hartford goalie, he could only watch as Jimmy Mormile ’05 beat three defenders to score his 46th career goal 6:01. Mike Levin ’04 answered with a great save of his own and then initiated a Brown attack that ended with another goal by Thompson, assisted by Mike Kelley ’02 at 9:01 in the second. The half ended with the Bears scoring four goals, allowing a lone goal for the Hawks. The Bears’ first half dominance was due in large part to the play of goalie Levin, who not only made great saves, but helped clear from the defensive zone. “Our goal tending was great in the first
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Co-captain Jonathon Thompson ’03 led Brown in its victory over Hartford Tuesday night, piling up four goals and two assists. half,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. “Levin was outstanding. The game could have easily have been tied 4-4 at (the) half but instead we were up by three. It was great defense and goaltending tonight.” In the second half, the offense followed the defense’s lead and unleashed havoc on the Hawk goaltenders. At 3:48, a fast break down the middle of the field found the back of the net off the stick of Brian Miller ’04, with Thompson assisting. Later, a lazy Hartford pass proved costly. Mormile scored unassisted through the goalie’s leg at 8:13. Shortly after, Miller scored again on an assist by Mike Albarelli ’04 at 9:23, bringing the score to 7-1.
The Hawk’s frustration was noticeable at this point. An errant technical foul gave Brown a man advantage. Chas Gessner ’03 nearly had his first goal of the game, a near miss that pinged of the post. Moments later, the Hartford goalie was not so lucky, as Thompson’s shot hit the mark at 10:23. Levin continued making big saves in the third as Brown pulled away 9-1. “It was great to finally get up by a few in the second half and not have to stress out like we have in the past few games,” Nelson said. In the final period, the Bears showed see M. LAX, page 6