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Racism another problem outside U.S., Dominican expert says BY MARISA PLUMB
Syracuse Professor Silvio Torres-Saillant spoke Monday night in Sayles Hall about misconceptions of race in the Dominican Republic. Focusing on the denial of basic rights to children of Haitian immigrants, he attributed racism in the Dominican Republic to the larger problem of associating race with nationality. When immigrant families move to the United States, the children they bear on U.S. soil automatically acquire full rights of American citizenship, he said. But in the Dominican Republic, Torres-Saillant said, no one is guaranteed complete protections of government, even after spending a generation in Dominican society. The government refuses to issue children of Haitian immigrants birth certificates, seriously limiting their educational possibilities, he said. Torres-Saillant pointed to findings from the Dominican Republic’s Human Rights Watch, showing that even people of Haitian descent who possess proper papers of citizenship still face deportation from the country. Authorities simply don’t take time to verify the grounds for deportation, he added. The term deportation, Torres-Saillant argued, is a misnomer — Haitians of Dominican descent are often not so much deported as exiled from their home country. The problem exists when people in the Dominican Republic don’t consider children of immigrants to be Dominican because they don’t fit an ethnic representation synonymous with Dominican nationality, Torres-Saillant said. Just as some individuals think a person in the United States whose parents speak Spanish is not American, people in the Dominican Republic often exclude people from their conception of citizenship if their parents speak Creole, he said. This dangerous mode of thought denies citizens of different races equal rights, he said. Schools in the Dominican Republic only accept students of certain ethnic and racial backgrounds, he said. Torres-Saillant organized a conference in New York and the Dominican Republic to address the challenge of diversity in a democratic nation. The Dominican Republic probably has the most ethnically mixed population in the Caribbean, Torres-Saillant said, and if it doesn’t offer equal protections to all citizens, the democracy will quickly break down. Torres-Saillant said U.S. citizens of Dominican descent are proactive in stamping out racism in the United States because, in the Dominican Republic, there is little vocal opposition to discrimination, he said. U.S. citizenship teaches political discontent, and U.S. citizens in the Dominican Republic should use these lessons to assert, “how can they do that?” Torres-Saillant said. The Dominican Republic also faces see DOMINICAN, page 4
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A Palestinian boy looks at an Israeli checkpoint Monday in Ramallah.Watson Institute for International Studies Research Associate Jarat Chopra and three colleagues escaped the besieged West Bank city on Monday.
Chopra escapes West Bank siege, arrives in Jerusalem BY SETH KERSCHNER
Leaving behind what he called a “humanitarian disaster,” Research Associate Jarat Chopra of the Watson Institute for International Studies and two colleagues escaped to Jerusalem Monday after 11 days trapped in the besieged West Bank city of Ramallah. Chopra, a consultant to the British government, traveled to the Middle East with legal advisors Diana Buttu and Amjad Aatallah as part of an international team to study peace between Israel and Palestine. Chopra, Buttu and Aatallah spoke with the media via telephone at a press conference in the Watson Institute Monday afternoon. The three internationals escaped Ramallah Monday following the Israeli army’s lifting of a 24-hour curfew. “Despite all the efforts of the various consulates, they had not managed to get us out,” Chopra said. They were lucky that a member of the peacekeeping party had contact with an Israeli general, he said. When Chopra, Buttu, and Aatallah arrived at the military checkpoint, they called the Israeli general on a cellular telephone and handed the phone to border guards. The general then authorized the guards to let Chopra, Buttu and Aatallah cross the border, and only then were they permitted to leave, Chopra said. The escape came on the same day that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to continue the Israeli army’s offensive in the West Bank, though army forces were reported to be withdrawing from at least two areas, Tulkarm and Qalqilya. After crossing the border, Chopra said he was “shocked by normalcy of life only a few feet away.” But in Ramallah, conditions were dire and not improving, he said. “We left behind a humanitarian disas-
ter,” he said. “No food is allowed into the city. Garbage has not been collected. Dead bodies lie on the streets and in buildings.” Chopra said there is “fear of a cholera or typhoid epidemic in Ramallah” because of the rotting corpses and contaminated water. The Israeli military is not allowing medical supplies into the city, he said. “Israel has declared (Ramallah) a closed military zone and as a result has been firing at any cars in the street, including ambulances and cars belonging to the Red Cross,” Buttu said. The conditions are such that relief agencies are unable to provide food or assistance to residents of the city. Uriel Masad, spokesperson for the Red Cross in Israel, told The Herald that Israeli authorities are making it difficult for medical supplies to reach Ramallah. “Hospitals are running out of oxygen cylinders and blood,” he said. “There is enough in the (rest of the) West Bank to supply all the hospitals.” The infrastructure of Palestinian government has also been drastically affected. The Palestinian Authority has been “methodically dismantled” by the occupying Israeli military, Chopra said. There is “no Palestinian governance,” he said. Chopra compared the “methodical destruction” of the Palestinian government in Ramallah to the situations he witnessed in East Timor and other war zones. He described the “fairly methodical destruction of things like roads and buildings … (the) education ministry was one of the first (buildings) to be gutted.” But Chopra said the war zone in Ramallah is different from any of the other war zones he has been in.
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After two weeks holed up in a house in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Watson Institute for Internal Studies Research Associate Jarat Chopra said Monday that the events he witnessed have drastically altered the elements of a possible Israeli-Palestinian peace. What Chopra termed the Israeli army’s “systematic destruction” of the Palestinian Authority’s infrastructure creates a new need for governance reconstruction on the Palestinian side — an added challenge that will make resolution more difficult, he said. Chopra, an international law, security and peace operations expert, traveled to Ramallah two weeks ago as a consultant to the British government and was a member of an international team studying peace between Israel and Palestine. With the destruction of Palestinian Authority compound and ministries and the Israeli army’s demolition of roads and buildings, the restoration of a functioning infrastructure now becomes a “new element that will have to be addressed by (U.S. Secretary of State) Colin Powell” in his upcoming visit to the Middle East, Chopra said. Powell is slated to meet with United Nations, Russian and European Union officials on Wednesday before traveling to the region in an attempt to forward negosee PEACE, page 6
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I N S I D E T U E S D AY, A P R I L 9 , 2 0 0 2 Hoffman, students collaborate on ‘Early College” program for high schoolers page 3
Escaped experts say Mideast peace talks must take new tactic
TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T ‘Red-green avante-garde’ could end marginalization of humanities, lecturer Jost Hermand says
Stephen Beale ‘04 says campaign finance reform does nothing for politics’ good name
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ACADEMIC WATCH TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 3
Army grants Chem professor Diebold $1.9 million for breast cancer research BY KATIE ROUSH
Professor of Chemistry Gerald Diebold recently received a U.S. Army grant totaling nearly $1.9 million over four years to fund breast cancer detection research. Diebold, who has a background in physical chemistry, said his research may give scientists the means to identify previously undetectable tumors. His method involves the use of sound waves in a process called ultrasonic vibration potential to identify areas of high blood concentration — often a sign of tumor growth. In the ultrasonic vibration potential process, a scientist sends a sound wave into a collection of charged molecules, called colloidal particles, which are contained in and neutralized by an oppositely charged fluid, called a colloid. A colloid can be muddy water, milk or blood, Diebold said. These charged colloidal particles are heavier than the surrounding fluid, but do not sink, like sediment at the bottom of a river might do, he said. When directed at the colloid and particles, sound waves “slosh” the surrounding fluid, but not the heavier colloidal particles, Diebold said. This sloshing displaces the fluid, and creates a charge separation between the colloidal particles and the oppositely charged fluid, Diebold said. The charge separation is called a dipole. Diebold said by adding the voltage of
all the dipoles, scientists can determine how much colloidal fluid is in a particular area and identify areas of low and high colloidal potential. A recent discovery shows that blood has a high colloidal potential — or a high sum of dipole voltages, Diebold said. The combination of this discovery and Diebold’s research could allow scientists to use the ultrasonic vibration potential process to identify tumors in areas of high colloidal potential. When a tumor grows, it requires many new blood vessels to support its rapid growth, Diebold said, which leads to a high concentration of blood in a tumor. He said he believes he can detect high concentrations of blood and previously undetectable tumors by using the ultrasonic vibration potential process. Diebold said tumor detection is not typically very accurate. Because it is nearly impossible to locate a small tumor in healthy tissue with mammograms, experts have openly questioned the effectiveness of x-rays, Diebold said. Diebold said his interest in breast cancer research stems from his desire to “work on things that are new and exiting.” He said he usually does not get involved in medical projects, but this is a new, practical approach to a medical problem. Diebold is one of five recipients of the see DIEBOLD, page 4
Hoffman, students plan ground breaking early college program BY KAVITA MISHRA
When Senior Lecturer in Education Nancy Hoffman asked students in her urban school reform class to participate in research for the Gates Foundation’s “Early College” initiative, volunteers didn’t expect to be involved in the planning of a groundbreaking program to introduce disadvantaged high school-aged students to higher education. The six undergraduates who worked for Hoffman this semester researched funding and state policies for charter schools, dual-credit programs and concurrent enrolment schools, which are similar to early colleges, said Katharine Malinowski ’02, Hoffman’s research assistant. Early colleges proposed for Gates Foundation funding provide disadvantaged students with a high school diploma and either an associate’s degree or substantial college credit in about five years, starting after tenth grade, said research assistant Jessica Jones ’03. “It’s another option for kids who the current system isn’t working for,” Jones said. Early colleges will give students a better transition from high school to college, said research assistant Kolajo Afolabi ’03. While transitionary programs like Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs exist, low-income students and students of color do not have equal access to these programs, he said.
National and regional organizations sent proposals for funding to create specific types of early colleges, Malinowski said. Each proposal catered to different students — not all the schools will be the same, she said. Funding from the Gates Foundation will sustain the early colleges for up to five years. After that, the organizations will rely on state funding, she said. A combination of funds for higher education and high schools within the state will probably be used, she said. The students researched funding options and state provisions for programs like early colleges for the national and regional organizations, said Malinowski. About 70 early colleges will open across the nation, but the exact locations are not known, said Afolabi, who worked with the South Eastern Consortium for Minorities in Engineering. Students in SECME’s proposed school will take college courses at four-year colleges rather than community colleges, Afolabi said. Most of the national and regional organizations will partner with community colleges, he said. A clear definition of what an early college is does not exist, which made research difficult, Jones said. Little research about dual-enrollment programs is available, creating another see COLLEGE, page 4
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problems resulting from the outside world’s perception of the country’s black identity, he said. On one hand, Torres-Saillant said, the Dominican Republic is often left out of the narrative of African disporia in the Americas. But at the same time, the country is seen as “Negro-phobic” because people don’t identify it as having an association with people of African descent, he said. As complex modern discourse and study on race blurs racial borders, “we don’t know race. The only thing we can know is racism. And that is what we can fight against,” TorresSaillant said. Torres-Saillant’s lecture was hosted by Alianza Dominicana de Brown, Sigma Lambda Upsilon and the Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc.
obstacle for the students, Malinowski said. Most states do not have clear systems for funding combined degree programs, Malinowski said. The students discussed the theory behind early colleges and how to implement these schools practically, she said. Jones and Research Assistant Jaime Olson ’02 are working on a type of guideline for the early college program organizers that combines the theory with the practical needs of an early college, she
Herald staff writer Marisa Plumb ’05 can be reached at mplumb@browndailyherald.com.
Diebold continued from page 3 “Innovator Award,” which is designed to encourage creative approaches to breast cancer research, according to a report by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material
said. Jones said she enjoyed seeing something come from her research and learning how initiatives happen. “You never are — in a Brown class — part of the process … of planning a program that is actually going to be implemented,” Afolabi said. After the semester, Hoffman will work for Jobs for the Future, the organization that will coordinate and manage the schools under the initiative, Malinowski said. Herald staff writer Kavita Mishra ‘04 is a news editor. She can be reached at kmishra@browndailyherald.com.
Command. The army bestows the award based on a researcher’s past record and his potential of accomplishment rather than the merits of a particular research project. Diebold downplayed the distinction, and called his evolving research project nothing more than “an idea, a very speculative idea.”
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CAMPUS NEWS TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 5
At UCS meeting, Spies sheds light on Enrichment Proposal progress BY EMIR SENTURK
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Members of OXFAM participated in a simulation of world hunger Monday evening in Faunce House’s Leung Gallery.
OXFAM simulates effects of world hunger BY JULIETTE WALLACK
OXFAM at Brown portrayed the world’s income disparity with a hunger simulation Monday night. The simulation in Leung Gallery drew 16 people who were given tickets that distinguished them as members of randomly assigned income groups. Organizers designated 15 percent, or two of the attendees, as members of the highest income bracket in proportion with the world’s population. That designation meant they were able to sit at a table and eat a hearty meal that included a salad, sandwiches and pasta and potato salad, said Robyn Neff ’02, president of OXFAM at Brown. Twenty-five percent, or three of those attending, received places in the middle income group, which meant they could sit on chairs without the luxury of a table. For dinner, they received rice and beans. Neff said someone who is considered to be in the middle income bracket is just a step away from hunger; losing one harvest or paycheck could push him into poverty. The remaining nine participants represented the rest of the world’s inhabitants
who suffer from hunger, Neff said, and as a result, they spent the evening sitting on the ground and eating a small portion of rice without any cutlery to symbolize the hardships people face each day. Before the groups ate their designated meals, Neff directed a few members of each income group to switch places. She said these switches represented the loss of a job forcing one person into the lowest income bracket and another into a higher paying job, allowing another participant to move into the middle income group. Neff said this activity was “a small slice of life as it plays out every day around the world,” adding that she believes the OXFAM-designed presentation is helpful. The dinner is an annual event, and.all proceeds go to OXFAM America, Neff said. The group sold tickets for $5 in the post office Thursday and for $6 at the door Thursday night. After the participants ate, McKenna Morrigan ’04, Hourglass Café manager, spoke about fair trade coffee. Dan Tuhus-Dubrow ’02, one of the two lucky students in attendance to receive a place at the high-income table, said he
thought the idea was interesting. “I think it’s a good way to show food distribution in the world,” he said, as he ate his sandwich and green salad while a member of OXFAM served him. Rashmi Kudesia ’04, who wasn’t as lucky as Tuhus-Dubrow and was seated on the floor with the lowest income group, said she still enjoyed the activity. She said she attended it “because I really believe in OXFAM’s mission and in supporting their initiatives.” She said she thinks an activity like the one on Monday helps people realize they are privileged “to go to a school like Brown and lucky to live in America.” Kudesia said she realized one meal at Leung Gallery doesn’t represent perfectly the unequal income distribution around the world. The activity served “as a reminder” of the inequalities around the world, she said. It is one thing to “know certain disparities exist,” she said, “but living them is a completely different thing.” Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.
Historian Hermand: Humanities scholars must examine broad social issues, not selfish pursuits BY VICTORIA HARRIS
Cultural and literary historian Jost Hermand said that scholars in the Humanities need to develop “concrete utopian perspectives” and ideal, yet practical plans. Hermand proposed that these perspectives should lead to the establishment of an “eco-socialist system” in his talk titled, “On the Necessity of New Master Discourses: Eco-Socialist Perspectives in the Humanities Today,” held Monday in Smith-Buonanno Hall. Hermand, a villas research professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, chastised academics in the humanities and cultural studies for allowing themselves to be dominated by individual interests and for ignoring deeper socio-political issues. “Separation and specialization have allowed the humanities to play the privileged role they occupy at the moment. However, it has also marginalized them,” he said. Because of this, Hermand said the humanities are increasingly irrelevant in dealing with today’s pressing social problems, such as overpopulation, pollution and globalization. Hermand urged scholars to stop “overspecializing,” limiting themselves to “privileged problems of individual subjectivity,”
and instead to formulate a new belief system. This system would involve increased democratic participation in government while ensuring the preservation of the natural environment, he said. “Humanity scholars could assume the status of an eco-socialist avant-garde, a redgreen avant-garde. They need to show they deserve their privileged position by identifying problems and formulating solutions to today’s pressing economic, social and environmental concerns,” Hermand said. Citing the tendency of post World War II scholars to produce a “knee jerk equation of totality with totalitarianism,” Hermand attacked the notion that systems of government advocating collectivity are necessarily dictatorial. “Ideologies that are reduced to personalities do not represent the ideologies themselves. Hitler was the best fascist there ever was and Stalin was the worst communist there ever was,” he said. Despite this, he continued, they do not embody fascism and communism. Hermand also questioned the ready acceptance of modern pluralistic societies, asking the audience, “Does such a society deserve to be called open … behind all this isn’t there a capitalist oligarchy? For the time
Megan Lynch / Herald
Historian Jost Hermand spoke Monday. being, this system has prevailed … but does that make all its critics wrong? He asked. Just as socialism cannot be dismissed as a failure, capitalism cannot be lauded as a complete success, Hermand told the audience. In fact, he said he sees a crisis in see HERMAND, page 8
The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed President Ruth Simmons’ plans for academic spending and her Proposal for Academic Enrichment in the upcoming year with Executive Vice President for Planning Richard Spies Monday evening in Peterutti Lounge. “We just haven’t spent enough money on core things that have been highly valued,” Spies said. “People thought the resources were too little, there was no concentrated effort to move the University forward,” he said. Spies emphasized the importance of having a plan of payment for all the University’s academic goals over the next few years. “We’re pushing the envelope with our funding,” Spies said. “We’re taking some risks. What we need to do is spend money now, not save it for tomorrow. “It’s important to understand that there’s lots of work that has to take place in parallel. We can’t wait for nine years to have passed when we start thinking about the tenth year,” Spies added. He outlined three major divisions in Simmons’ proposal. The short term includes all goals for September 2002. The intermediate term includes all goals up to two-to-three years beyond the 2002-2003 year. The long term consists of goals stretching five to ten years. The proposal’s short-term goals include increased faculty staffing and benefits, graduate student support, undergraduate financial aid, administrative support, increased library and computing facilities, staff salaries and benefits and space on campus. Spies also mentioned three “overarching issues,” namely the monitoring of revenues, assessment of the proposal’s success and a plan of communications with the campus community and Corporation. Both the intermediate and long term goals consist primarily of furthering the goals presented in the short term, he said. Among these expansions was the appointment of a Senior Vice President for University Advancement to handle alumni affairs and fundraising and a master plan for increasing space on campus. An improvement in student life as far as graduate and undergraduate housing is concerned falls under the category of a long-term goal, Spies said. “That’s simply something we can’t put aside very far for very long,” he said. “There’s no end of things to do,” Spies said. Overall, the University hopes to increase its budget by 20-25 percent in the long-term and, hopefully, appoint a greater number of faculty in an effort to better its academic standing, he said. “There is a great deal of excitement about Brown at a time when a lot of other places are pulling in their horns, and Brown is spending more freely,” Spies said. In his E-Board Report, UCS President Rodrick Echols ’03 announced that open forums for student discussion with the Bratton Group LLC will be held on Thursday, April 18 from 12 to 2 p.m. in Carmichael Hall, Tuesday, April 23 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and on Wednesday, April 24 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in Salomon 101. Herald staff writer Emir Senturk ‘05 covers UCS. He can be reached at esenturk@browndailyherald.com.
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Chopra continued from page 1 “No normal life is existing within the conflict,” he said. Ramallah is a “combat zone with only the abnormality of conflict.” A 24-hour curfew imposed by the occupying Israeli army kept Chopra, Buttu and Aatallah confined to a two-story house for 11 days, eating only crackers, pistachio nuts and pasta. At the end of their stay, the group ate one meal a day, and their supply of spoiled water was running low, Chopra said. Still, conditions were much worse in other parts of the West Bank. “By comparison, we certainly had the luxury siege experience,” he said. “Many have no water, no electricity, no communications.” Chopra left Providence for the Middle East on Tuesday, March 19. He intended to return to Brown after Spring Break, but his stay in Ramallah coincided with Israel’s March 29 invasion. “Ramallah was taken unexpectedly and with tremendous speed,” he said. Chopra, an expert on international law, international security and organization, and peace operations said many elements of the Israeli invasion were unexpected. After a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 27 Israelis in Netanya on the first night of Passover, Chopra said he expected F-16 bombings and an inva-
Peace continued from page 1 tiations of a cease fire. Powell is also expected to increase pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw Israel’s military forces and end its incursion in the West Bank. Despite mounting international pressure and a call for withdrawal by President George Bush, Sharon vowed Monday to continue the military offensive in the West Bank. Colin Powell’s visit to the region is only a first step in a daunting process without an end in sight, and the secretary of state’s delay in traveling to the region may have worsened the situation, Chopra and his collegues alleged. “The U.S. has been trying to give Israel as much time as it wants to come in and destroy the prospects for peace,” said Diana Buttu, a Canadian legal advisor who escaped Ramallah Monday
sion the following week. Instead, the Israeli army launched its offensive much sooner than expected. “There was a degree of unexpectedness in the timing, the dimension, the degree and the power of the invasion,” he said. When he “began to see the degree of permanence of the invasion,” Chopra said he began to question how long he might be stuck in Ramallah. The three peacekeepers said there was no organized Palestinian resistance to the Israeli invasion in Ramallah, though significant fighting has been reported in the West Bank towns of Nablus and Jenin. “In the sense of organized resistance, I really have not seen anything,” Chopra said. During the Israeli siege on the Palestinian Authority’s Ramallah headquarters, “we got calls from people inside the building desperate for help,” Aatallah said. Chopra said throughout the week he heard the sound of an occasional burst of automatic rifle fire followed by the “burst of heavy machine guns from tanks.” But more often he heard “continuous explosions without exchange of fire,” he said. Chopra described these as “explosions out of context” and speculated that they signaled the Israeli army’s destruction of roads and buildings. Aatallah described “house-tohouse searches” in which Israeli soldiers are “destroying property within the homes and threaten-
ing people within.” He said a neighbor was removed from his apartment and forced to live in an apartment with 20 other Ramallah residents who were supervised by soldiers. The residents of the apartment were not allowed to use the telephone and were required to ask permission to use the restroom, he said. Another neighbor watched as “Israeli soldiers drove a tank backwards over a women’s car and crushed it,” Aatallah said. “The soldiers went into her home, took food from the kitchen and sexually harassed her.” Chopra said the restrictions placed on journalists by the Israeli occupying army led to inaccurate reporting of the events in Ramallah. “It’s a bit surreal to be sitting inside a house and watching on TV what’s happening outside,” he said. “When a journalist reports one number of gunshots and you hear something else it is frustrating.” The Israeli government is not allowing reporters into Ramallah. “Journalists in the city are there illegally,” Chopra said. Reporters are not allowed to leave their hotels, and they “refer to ‘alleged bombings’ because they couldn’t see what was being bombed,” Aatallah said. Aatallah said it is troubling that the “real-time coverage that may have prevented casualties was unavailable.” “The hardest part is to see the details,” Chopra said.
with Chopra and Amjad Aatallah, a U.S. citizen and legal expert. Buttu and Aatallah were members of the same international team studying peace between Israel and Palestine and were trapped with Chopra in Ramallah when the Israeli offensive began 11 days ago. Though Bush’s decision to send Powell to the region marks his administration’s deepest involvement to date in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, Chopra said the destruction of the Palestinian infrastructure and services will make further intervention necessary. “The situation has deteriorated so rapidly there is going to have to be a much larger intervention,” he said. International peacekeeping troops may be required at some stage if order is to be restored and maintained, Chopra said. If international forces are used, any military units must have policing capabilities because the Israeli invasion has decimated Palestinian security forces, he
said. “It’s going to be very important in Secretary Powell’s visit that these issues are addressed,” Chopra said. Chopra, Aatallah and Buttu were working with Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. peace negotiators prior to the Israeli invasion of the West Bank. Chopra said he was trying to work toward implementation of the Tenet security work plan and Mitchell plan. The Tenet proposal is a series of steps developed by CIA Director George Tenet last summer to help move the two sides toward peace. “What we haven’t seen is an actual plan that is concise on politics as it is on security elements,” he said. Despite the escalating violence, Chopra and the other peace consultants said they are still hopeful. “There’s always hope because the alternative is unacceptable … certainly unacceptable to the weaker party,” Aatallah said.
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SPORTS TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 7
Women’s golf wins BC tourney, men finish ninth at Yale
With sights on national championships, women’s water polo sweeps tournament
BY JESSICA COOPER
BY ANDREW FRANK
When you are hot, you are hot. Brown women’s golf won their second straight tournament title with a first place finish at the 2002 Boston College Lady Eagle Invitational held at Oyster Harbors Golf Club in Osterville, MA. Crushing the competition with an astounding 47-stroke victory, the Bears dominated the 14-team spread, which included Ivy contenders Harvard and Dartmouth. Facing less than desirable conditions of two inch snow and high winds, the women waited out the weather on Saturday before clenching their victory. Tara Fiscella ’03, a two-time first team All-Ivy selection, captured the individual championship, winning medalist honors with a two-day 155 (77, 78) at the Par 74 course. Fiscella, who finished in a first place tie at last week’s Florida Gulf Coast Lady Eagle Invitational, won the medal by two shots over Brown Amy Behrman ’05, who shot a two-day 157 (75, 82). Jennifer Bley ’05 had a solid tournament for the Bears, shooting 79-86-165, while Elizabeth Carpenter ’04 came in with a two-day 169 (82, 77). Rebekah Alfond ’02 shot a two-day 176 (86, 90). Up next for the Bears is a road-trip to
The women’s water polo team competed in a league tournament held in Providence this past weekend. The Bears won all three of their matches against Connecticut College, the University of Massachusetts and Harvard University. In their first match against Connecticut College, Brown took advantage of a youthful side and recorded a lopsided 14-2 victory. Cecily Chun ’02 scored two goals to pace the Bears. Goalkeeper Alexa La Faunce ‘03 contributed in net with another strong game. Next, the Bears played a very defensive game against UMass, defeating them 8-6.
see GOLF, page 8
Diana Livermore ’05 provided much of the offense for Brown, while the Bears defense was lead by two-meter defender Tori Barbata ’03, who shut down UMass’ primary offensive threat. Noel Pacarro ’02 also scored for Brown in this game. Barbara Edwards ‘05 added a score with a shot that just beat the buzzer at the end of the first half. In the final game, Lauren McGeoch ‘04 scored two goals and Jeannie Ward-Waller ’04 paced the defense. The three-game sweep was a nice present to coach Todd Clapper, who was celebrating his birthday that day. Also, it marked the last home game for Pacarro and Chun, the two grad-
uating seniors. “Having spent spring break in Hawaii playing against some of the top teams in the nation, our team successfully applied that experience against all three opponents this weekend,” said Heidi Wendt ’04. “Our defensive systems are the most cohesive they’ve been all season and will contain any team on the east coast,” Wendt said. “With the Eastern Championships approaching, we’re perfecting the anticipation and six on five strategies that will, among other things, take Brown women’s polo to another NCAA Final Four Championship.”
M. crew sweeps Boston U., women drop Harvard BY ARI GERSTMAN
The women’s varsity eight, junior varsity eight and second novice team beat Harvard and the men’s team swept Boston University on Saturday, at the Narangasset boat club. The women’s crew team keeps pumping out wins on the path to the NCAA finals. This race was important for the team psyche, since it was the first home race of the season. In a race that was close for the first 400 meters, the Varsity Lady Bears pulled away in the final 400 meters to secure a win by 7.9 seconds.
Oarswomen Ellen Goldstein ’04 was very excited about the win. “This was a very important step in the long road to the finals,” Goldstein said. Harvard, another of the perennial powerhouses in women’s crew, is always an important win, no matter how early in the season it is. The men’s team continues to dominate opponents as well with another win of its own, as the Varsity eight edged BU with a time of 5:50.7 - 5:55.1. “It’s still early in the season,” said Varsity oarsman, Andrew Goltra ’02, “but
it’s good getting a win under the belt, especially before our big race against Harvard on Saturday.” A new rivalry has begun against BU with this latest competition. BU’s Free Daily Press quoted a BU oarsman who was very confident about beating Brown. “We needed to come out strong and not shy away from the challenge,” said cocaptain Goltra and that was exactly what Bruno did. The men’s race against Harvard is again at Narangasset boat club this Saturday, April 13, from 8:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
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Hermand continued from page 5 Germany and other highly industrialized countries, heightened by a mass media that has increasing control over the wants and needs of the public. This crisis is most visible in an increased popular violence and aggression, which he said “is an expression of deep dissent with a society … that does not satisfy the needs of all its citizens.” Not only scholars, but all citi-
zens, must actively work to solve this crisis, by increasing their sense of responsibility to both their local environment and fellow residents, Hermand said. People must be taught to feel that “their baby is also my baby, and their tree is also my tree,” Hermand said. Hermand proposed “a new concept of democracy that stems from ideas of responsible communitarianism in both Germany and the United States.” He added that only with major election reform would it be possible in the latter nation.
Softball continued from page 12 nine runs had crossed the plate. The Bears were only able to muster up a single run in the 9-1 defeat. In their first game against Harvard on Saturday, Brown once again lost because of a one-inning collapse. Tiffany Whitton drove in Rachel Goldberg for the Crimson’s first run and then Sarah Koppel hit a grand slam for the other four. Durlesser was pitching for the
Bears and had three strikeouts. The Bears scored in the sixth when Wong doubled to left, scoring Iudicello who batted 2-for-3 in the game. In the second game, Brown rallied briefly in the seventh with Galt bringing Wong home on a single and a ground out to second from Tone scoring Howe. However, it was not enough to even the score, and Bears ended up with two losses to begin their Ivy League play. Sports staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers softball. She can be reached at kbabcock@browndailyherald.com.
Golf continued from page 7 the James Madison Invitational held Apr. 14-15 in Harrisonburg, VA. This will be the women’s last tournament before vying for the Ivy Championship and a firstever bid to the NCAA. Men’s Golf The Brown men’s golf team braved cold and windy conditions at the Yale Spring Opener held at The Course at Yale in New Haven, CT, to finish ninth in the 23 team tournament. Though the home team prevailed, as the Yale first team took first place with a two-day score of 604, Brown positioned itself in the top 10 with a team total of 327-315-642. Enduring six-hour rounds and nearly freezing wind chill, the Bears persevered and were able to finish strong, posting a better second-day score than first. Ed Yoon ’02 was the highest individual finisher for Brown, with a two-day scorecard of 158 (79, 79) to finish 27th. Jason Ricketts ’04 and Danny Wallis ’05 tied for 36th place, shooting 160 (85,75) and 160 (80, 80) respectively. Ricketts also claimed Brown’s lowest overall single-round score with his second-day performance of 75 strokes. Kevin Buchert ’03 tallied 8381-164 over the two-days to close at 52nd. Matt Koenigsdorf ’03 shot 174 (85, 88), while Will Hubbard ’05 contributed with a 182 (91, 91) finish. Next for the men is the District I Championships held this weekend at Triggs Memorial Golf Course in Providence, RI.
Baseball continued from page 12 ond game of the day by a 7-5 score. The Lions took the early lead, putting up five runs in the first three innings. By the fifth inning, Brown closed the Columbia lead to two. However, two runs from the Lions in the sixth gave Columbia a 7-3 lead that would last the rest of the game. The Bears, now 11-14 overall and 2-2 in the Ivy League, are back in action Wednesday against URI at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket. Sports staff writer Alicia Mullin ’03 covers baseball. She can be reached at amullin@browndailyherald.com.
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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 9
Israeli PM Sharon vows to proceed Justice Dept fails to hand out federal with West Bank military offensive dollars for emergency equipment IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — At a time when states and
cities are clamoring for help in responding to the threat of terrorism, the Justice Department has failed to distribute more than $141 million in grants set aside for emergency equipment, according to a report issued Monday. Even when the federal money was awarded, some state and local governments failed to spend it in a timely way or did not make the gear readily available to emergency workers, according to a study by the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office. The items that were supposed to become available have been high on the wish lists of many jurisdictions in recent months, including personal protective gear for police, firefighters and other emergency response teams, equipment to detect chemical and biological hazards, decontamination aids and communications devices. Inspector General Glenn Fine said the grants are urgently needed to improve the nation’s readiness to respond to terrorist attacks, adding that the money “has not been getting out as fast as it needs to. Once it does, it’s not spent expeditiously.” The report criticizes the Justice Department’s Office for Domestic Preparedness, which distributes the money and oversees spending. As of January, the report found, the office had failed to award $141 million of the $243 million set aside by Congress.
Air fares conflict, confuse consumers (Washington Post) — Earlier this year, Douglas Ball saw a newspaper ad touting fares up to 40 percent off their regular price. He then quickly went to the airline’s Web site to nab a cheap flight from Dulles International Airport to San Diego. But a message said the $417 tickets were sold out. However a fare of $1,100 was available. “It’s like going to a store to buy an item on sale.But what they don’t tell you is there are only a few of those items in stock, so when you get there it’s sold out,but the store hopes you’ll buy something else,”Ball said.“It’s like playing a roulette wheel.” Airlines admit there can be dozens of fares — as much as a sevenfold difference that can change hourly — on one flight. Often those fares can be for seats right next to each other. “What you hear in the market is that the pricing system is confusing, unfair and broken,”United Airlines President Rono Dutta said.“I accept it is confusing.We would love to simplify it. And we’re struggling with ways to simplify it.” Complaints about the system have escalated as a result, in part, of the very tool the airlines have embraced to sell tickets — the Internet. Previously, travelers typically accepted fares their travel agents or airlines offered, often unaware of what else was available.They are now able to view a smorgasbord of airline ticket prices.
Despite Coast Guard regulations, life jacket laws remain adrift (Newsday) — In late February, the Coast Guard proudly announced a nationwide requirement that children under age 13 wear life jackets when they are aboard recreational boats. The new regulation, the Coast Guard wrote,“should reduce the number of children who drown because they were not wearing life jackets.” But, late last month, it withdrew the notice, explaining that state boating-law administrators had pointed out some serious enforcement problems. Now at least a year will pass before the law is on the books.The Coast Guard, which has been trying to get it passed for five years, has no explanation for why concerns were not raised earlier. It’s embarrassed. “I feel absolutely terrible — devastated,”said Capt. Scott Evans, who commands the Coast Guard’s Office of Boating Safety in Washington, D.C.“When they brought these questions up, I was like,‘Why didn’t anyone bring that up when it was up for public comment?’ But we’re trying to do the right thing now, and we don’t want to cram this thing down anyone’s throats.” The Coast Guard’s struggle to get the regulation adopted has even puzzled those within its natural constituency. “When you look at it from a boating safety organization standpoint, you wonder how well they did their homework,” said Virgil Chambers, executive director of the National Safe Boating Council, an umbrella group of boating clubs and industry representatives.
JERUSALEM (L.A. Times) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in his strongest defiance yet of Washington, D.C., vowed Monday to press ahead with a massive military offensive in the West Bank. As if to underscore the point, Israeli combat helicopters pummeled a refugee camp and infantry took hundreds of Palestinians prisoner. Sharon ignored demands from President Bush and other world leaders to end Israel’s invasion of Palestinian cities, and instead expanded the deployment of tanks throughout the West Bank countryside. In a speech to his Parliament, Sharon suggested that far from withdrawal, Israel’s occupation is open-ended. But as pressure mounted, the Israeli army announced early Tuesday that it would begin pulling out from two small cities, Tulkarm and Kalkilya, which had remained relatively quiet. The White House said it was "a start." In Nablus, the West Bank’s largest city, fighting that had raged for four days began to subside Monday. Scores of men — fighters and civilians — surrendered. Inside the bloodied Casbah, the old labyrinthine center of the city, wounded lay dying at a mosque. In Jenin, by contrast, Israeli troops, armor and gunships continued to battle stiff resistance from lightly armed Palestinian fighters hiding in a crowded refugee camp. Israeli and Palestinian officials estimated at least 100 Palestinians were killed in the last couple of days in the Jenin camp. On Monday, two Israeli soldiers were killed and four wounded. Palestinian gunmen "seem to have decided to fight to the last, to make the battle as bloody as possible," Israeli Brig. Gen. Eyal Shline said of the Jenin operation. He said several men feigned surrender, only to blow themselves up in suicide attacks on soldiers. At the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which tradition holds is the birthplace of Jesus, a huge fire erupted during a gun battled between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II said violence in the Holy Land had escalated to "unimaginable and intolerable levels." In Jerusalem, Sharon went before a special session of the
Knesset, or Israeli Parliament, to lambaste Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and announce he was taking his government farther to the right with the inclusion of three new right-wing ministers. Sharon dedicated most of his hour-long speech, in which he frequently was heckled, to harsh criticism of Arafat. He reiterated that he regards it as impossible to make peace with Arafat, a position that deeply complicates this week’s diplomatic mission by U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. He said he will not call off the offensive "until the mission has been accomplished, until Arafat’s terrorist infrastructures are uprooted" and until fugitives have been arrested. It remains to be seen how long Sharon so openly can defy Bush. Predicting the prime minister eventually would have to cave in, Israeli television Monday night featured Bush’s latest comments that emphasized his desire for Israel to pull out of the West Bank now. One commentator said Bush was in his "angry cowboy" mode. "I meant what I said to the prime minister of Israel. I expect there to be withdrawal without delay," Bush heatedly told reporters on a visit to Tennessee. After the Knesset speech, U.S. special envoy Anthony Zinni was dispatched to meet with Sharon and convey the Bush administration’s displeasure. A few hours later, the army announced its pullback from Kalkilya and Tulkarm. Powell told reporters after meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah in Morocco that the withdrawal from the two towns was an encouraging sign. Sharon launched Israel’s largest West Bank offensive in 35 years on March 28, following a wave of suicide bombs that culminated in a Passover Seder attack that killed 27 people, the single largest death toll in a suicide bombing in years. With catcalls raining in from the left and right, Sharon told the Knesset that when the army does withdraw, it will not be to Israel but to buffer zones he plans to create. The idea appalled Palestinians and diplomats, who said it would create ghettolike enclaves for Palestinians and establish a de facto permanent presence by Israel in Palestinian territory.
Bomb kills several in apparent assassination attempt against Afghan defense minister JALALABAD, Afghanistan (L. A.Times) — In what appeared to be
an assassination attempt against Afghanistan’s defense minister, a fiery bomb exploded Monday in a lunchtime market packed with flag-waving schoolchildren dispatched to greet the official. At least five people were killed, including two children and a teen-age boy, and 64 people were injured. The bomb missed the heavily armed convoy of Defense Minister Mohammed Qassim Fahim by just 200 yards. Tensions had been high in this eastern provincial capital because of opposition to a government crackdown on opium poppy cultivation and simmering hostility toward Fahim, an ethnic Tajik deeply resented by Pashtuns who dominate the region. In the last two nights, unsigned posters have appeared, warning that anyone supporting the government risks death and that “killing government officials is legitimate.” In an attempt to build crowds for Fahim, teachers emptied classrooms. The bombing came just days after the interim government rounded up about 300 members of the Hezb-i-Islami political party, most of them Pashtuns, on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. Hezb-i-Islami officials described the arrests as an anti-Pashtun campaign by ethnic Tajik ministers. About 160 people remain in custody. The ethnic conflict added a new layer of fear and anxiety to a country on edge because of armed factions jockeying for position ahead of a national assembly scheduled in June. In an interview Sunday night, Haji Mohammed Zaman, the regional security chief, had dismissed security concerns with a wave of his hand. That evening, Zaman’s officers tried and failed to organize soldiers in ill-fitting uniforms into a coherent formation during a dress rehearsal for the defense minister’s visit. Their poor training was evident in the moments after the bomb exploded, when attempts to turn around the convoy of dignitaries produced gridlock as victims lay bleeding and dying. Vehicles bumped back and forth for several minutes before security officials finally drove Fahim to a military base outside Jalalabad. He delivered a
scheduled two-hour speech on ethnic unity, then returned to the capital, Kabul, by helicopter a day earlier than planned. “They killed civilians and students who were there in the spirit of happiness, and they made it into a sad occasion,” Fahim said. “The attack was meant not only to kill me. They wanted to cause a disruption and send a message.” Haji Abdul Qadir, the governor of Nangarhar province, said: “This is the work of criminals. We will catch them in a few days.” No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The appearance of the Pashtun-language posters, which denounced the interim government as a cabal of “nonMuslim” traitors conspiring with the United States and Britain, suggested continuing underground support for the Pashtun-dominated Taliban. It was not known whether the bomb, which exploded at noon, was triggered by a timing device or remote control. Soldiers said it had been hidden beneath a diesel-powered generator and attached to the generator’s battery. Generators are common in Afghan cities, where the electrical supply is spotty. Fahim and other officials from Kabul arrived Monday morning in Jalalabad, Afghanistan’s gateway to the Khyber Pass and Pakistan, to meet with regional leaders who, like Fahim, were part of the Northern Alliance coalition that defeated the Taliban. Fahim arrived just four days after the government announced a plan to outlaw opium poppy cultivation. Nangarhar is the country’s second-leading opium producer and the source of its highest-grade opium. Poppy farmers have threatened violence if the government attempts to destroy their crops, which are due to be harvested in a week or so. Travelers between Jalalabad and the Khyber Pass reported that the road was blocked in several places by angry growers who stoned passing cars. An international aid worker said he was forced to turn back to Jalalabad. Soldiers under the control of Zaman and Hazrat Ali, the regional corps commander, are nominally under the command of Fahim. They would be needed for any attempts to plow under, burn or chop down farmers’ poppy crops.
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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F
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Let the media in When Jarat Chopra called a room full of journalists and media representatives Monday afternoon, he spoke after having just escaped a city under siege. An eyewitness to the horrific conditions in war-torn Ramallah, Chopra was trapped in a room with other international peace consultants for 11 days. His reports make it clear that a media presence in the West Bank is sorely needed in these unstable times. The Israeli army has placed a blockade on the transmission of information to and from Ramallah. Members of the press who still reside inside the city walls are there illegally and operate with full knowledge that they are unwelcome. As a result, accurate and timely coverage is compromised. Chopra spoke of the “surreality” of watching CNN and hearing gunshots outside his window — the CNN reports differing from what his ears recorded. His colleague Amjad Aatallah mentioned frustration at hearing journalists describe “alleged” bombings, referred to as such due to the lack of eyewitness testimony. Without real-time coverage of a war, there will be more casualties. Aatallah told reporters the story of a Ramallah resident who watched as Israeli soldiers drove over her car with a tank, ransacked her kitchen and sexually assaulted her. While some may challenge Aatallah’s account, it is likely soldiers would not act with this kind of impunity in front of television cameras. Futhermore, if witnesses are wrongly accusing the Israeli army of atrocities and rights violations, journalists at the scene could discredit such accounts. The decision by the Israeli occupying army to essentially ban all live reporting on the events in Ramallah leads us to question whether or not atrocities like those described by Aatallah are actually occurring in the city while uninvited reporters are locked up in their hotel rooms. Those who have banned the media must realize that eyewitnesses will report what they see, and there is a limit to the extent real events will go unreported. Survivors like Chopra and his associates are the best link to what is going on in the West Bank. An obstruction of the media is futile and self-defeating for peace, for Israel and for those, not as lucky as Chopra, who are still stranded in Ramallah.
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LETTERS Herald misconstrues parts of new first-year financial aid policy To the Editor: On April 4, The Herald published an article about the new financial aid policy that removes the work requirement for first-year students (“Brown ends work for first-years, but other Ivies won’t follow suit”). Some of the quoted comments suggest an inaccurate understanding of the policy. First-year students will not be prohibited from working next year. Under the new policy, Brown will increase the amount of University scholarship given to first-year students, replacing students’ expected earnings from work with University funds. Firstyears who nonetheless choose to work on-campus or off-campus will, of course, be able to do so. By removing the work requirement, the University hopes that first-year students will have more opportunities to explore the full range of academic, extracurricular and cultural activities that Brown offers. Also, it might be useful to point out that all earnings are taxable based on IRS regulations, and college work-study is no different. For more information, please go to the Financial Aid web site at www.financialaid.brown.edu/index. php (New Work Policy - Class of 2006) to read about the new policy or to http://www.brown.edu/ Administration/News_Bureau/2001-02/01090.html for a brief description of this policy as one of the President's Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. Janina Montero Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services April 8
Female tennis players deserve equal pay for equal play To the Editor: Brady Thomas’ article on professional women’s tennis (“Trying to keep men’s, women’s pay on serve,” 4/8) does an excellent job at critiquing the Women’s Tennis Association for paying male athletes more
than their female counterparts. Yet, the author falls victim to the very prejudices for which he criticizes the WTA. Thomas states that, when comparing men’s and women’s tennis, “the clincher” for him is the women’s “body-hugging multi-colored dresses.” In other words, the reason he enjoys watching women’s tennis is its sex appeal. If that is his motive in watching women’s tennis, he should stick with the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, and thus give female athletes the respect they deserve. Furthermore, Thomas draws an absurd metaphor between literature and tennis. The length of the match may not change how the audience views it, but anyone who has ever played tennis knows how much more difficult it is to play five sets than three. In this regard, I feel we should not ask if the extra money is justified for playing longer matches, but rather, why aren’t women playing five sets too? Alerian Lockwood ’04 April 8
Thomas’ column on tennis pay rates lacks original thought To the Editor: As I began reading Brady Thomas’ column “Trying to keep men’s, women’s pay on serve,” (4/8) I could not help but notice it bears similarity to a piece written by Rick Riley entitled “Disadvantage, Women” (Sports Illustrated, 7/10/01). Thomas’ article reads, “Did you hear what happened to Serena Williams last week? She was robbed. She had $71,000 snatched right out of her purse.” In Riley's article, written last summer, the lead reads, “Did you hear what happened to Venus Williams after she won Wimbledon on Sunday? She was robbed. She had $52,923 ripped right out of her purse!” Thomas goes on to call the discrepancy “about a Benz less than the men’s winner.” In the Riley article, the gap is called “about a new Lexus less.” Thomas is not wrong in his criticism of the inequality in professional tennis players' earnings. However, his argument would have been much stronger and more compelling had he not relied on the claims Riley made some nine months ago. Yoni Goldberg ’04 April 8
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OPINIONS TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 11
Supporting the wrong bill for the right reasons? McCain’s campaign finance reform exemplifies a dysfunctional political system THERE ARE THREE CATEGORIES OF campaign ads. But what could be more important than people campaign finance reform might automatically interest: accounting majors, ads run close to election day that publicize authentic populists and die-hard political information on important issues pertinent junkies. For the rest of us campaign to the election? And how do ads which finance reform is one of those nagging inform voters disenfranchise them? It is especially puzzling that doctriissues about as fun and excitnaire liberals who cling to a ing as filling out tax forms (or stance on freedom of speech financial aid applications). But regarding pornography, prothis new law merits the attenfanity and flag-burning fail to tion of all of us because it is an support speech that is obviousexample of the way in which ly far more important to the Washington’s dysfunctional integrity of our liberal demopolitical system operates. cratic system. The 1975 deciWhen most of us think of sion of the Supreme Court in campaign finance reform we Buckley v. Valeo should dispel think of greedy multinational any further doubt: “So long as corporations pumping millions STEPHEN BEALE persons or groups eschew of dollars into political camRIGHT WORDS expenditures that in express paigns and earning a vacation terms advocate the election or with a select senator to Hawaii defeat of a clearly identified while that senator’s constituents fill the unemployment lines. Yet, this melo- candidate, they are free to spend as much as dramatic image hardly accounts for one of they want to promote the candidate and his the major components of McCain’s cam- views.” Case closed. Apart from the disingenuous gag rule, the paign finance reform bill: the prohibition on issue ads 60 days before an election day. This campaign finance law may seem like the provision brazenly breaches freedom of wrong bill for the right reasons, removing speech and has understandably provoked the disproportionate interests of corporate the calumny of conservatives who brand it special interests (note that McCainthe “Incumbent Protection Act.” A recent Feingold would not have averted Enron). At New York Times editorial addresses these least most conservatives have spent their concerns by differentiating between gen- vocal energies crying foul on freedom of uine issue ads and those that masquerade as speech. However, the fundamental premise of campaign finance reform is plagued with as many flaws as its more extraneous eleStephen Beale ’04 would never consider ments. The chief impetus behind the new having an abortion. His columns appear law is the assumption that corporate finanon alternate Tuesdays.
cial contributions have no place in politics. In the words of John Bonifaz, the director of the National Voting Rights Institute, “Getting private money out of politics is the unfinished business of the civil rights movement.” However, the alternative is even more alarming: complete government financing and regulation of elections, a sure recipe for corruption. The lesser of two evils — more freedom — will minimize corruption. And here it is important to demolish the erroneous assumption that corporations are illegitimate. This supposition has the fingerprints of hackneyed socialist propaganda all over it, yet it deserves serious consideration because even some conservatives and moderate Republicans have bought into it. The assumption simply has no basis in political reality. Why should a business organization that employs thousands and makes a major financial contribution to the economy not voice its opinions in political affairs? For example, the health care industry, which comprised one-eighth of the economy in 1993, certainly had much at stake when Clinton threatened to federalize health care. What logic supports a ban on issue ads providing voters with information regarding the consequences of public health care services? Also, many corporations stand to better represent the interests of their employees than the employees themselves. When these corporations lobby for a certain bill that benefits them, such as one that keeps them in business, the advantages indirectly redound to their workers. Finally, the new law also
excludes many groups that can reasonably claim to represent the wishes of private citizens, such as the National Rifle Association and National Right to Life. An alternative bill would deregulate campaign finance reform and require full and immediate disclosure of all funding. This transfers power from paternalistic bureaucracies to voters who can express distaste for funding sources with their votes. Campaign finance reform is not only a dangerous bill, it also illustrates the mechanics of a dysfunctional political system. There is something seriously wrong with a political culture in which a chief executive signs a bill into law with impunity despite public statements questioning its constitutionality. It seems that just as people lack respect for historical accuracy (according to Professor of History Gordon Wood), they also prefer a useful interpretation of the Constitution over an accurate one. This pathology repeats itself incessantly in the annals of our political and legal dialogue, whether it be gun rights, abortion “rights,” the Electoral College, impeachment or the convoluted research behind Brown v. Board of Education that depended on questionable sociological reasoning. These utilitarian assaults on our Constitution diminish its ability to serve as a source of stability because they cheapen the weight of its precepts. It is especially woeful that this pattern promises to repeat itself yet again as this country courts war with Iraq without any discussion of a possible Congressional Declaration of War, a constitutional anachronism last employed during the Second World War.
The necessity of perpetuating a Jewish State One must consider the Holocaust in order to comprehend why Israel must continue to exist as a haven for Jews LAST WEEK I ATE MOST OF MY MEALS haps, it has become unfashionable and with matzah (unleavened bread) as part of therefore more veiled. While this might my religious observance of the Passover also have been true of other industrialized holiday. I did not, however, consume a sin- countries in Europe, for example, that trend is now reversing, and anti-semitism gle drop of Arab blood. This might seem obvious, probably is on the rise again, both among the common vandal and the political even ridiculous to most readelite anti-semitism exists now, ers. But there are absolutely and it has always existed. those who believe that I did RAFFI BILEK Only 60 years ago, mankind just such a thing. On March 10, GUEST COLUMN was witness to the most 2002, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Riyadh wicked crime against humaninewspaper revived the longty the world has ever seen. The lost blood libel as a form of attack on the Jewish people, claiming that Holocaust embodied anti-semitism in its the Jews require the blood of a non-Jew in purest form, and it happened in Germany, order to bake their Passover matzah. This, an industrialized, scientifically advanced, “civilized” country. “We live in Germany,” of course, is patently false. The reason that many Arab organiza- said the Jews of Germany, quite literally. tions (see also Egypt’s Al-Akbar newspaper, “Such a thing could never happen here. We March 25, 2001; Abu Dhabi television, are German citizens. We belong here.” So while the Jew is an accepted member November 17, 2001) fabricate these stories is to generate a fierce hatred of Jews among of American society today, history has the people who are exposed to this infor- shown us time and again (England, 1290; mation. Frankly, it’s a pretty effective France, 1306; Spain, 1492; Germany, 1933method. If someone were killing my chil- 1945) that a previously benign governdren and devouring them, I’d hate them ment will turn around and try to expel or too. The blood libel is a classic form of anti- eradicate its Jewish population. In 1948, Semitism. It was especially popular in the the State of Israel was created as a definiMiddle Ages, when the accusers were gen- tive answer to those who would try again. erally fanatical Christians. It is, painfully, The State of Israel declares that it will never let this be: anyone who is Jewish is gaining in popularity again today. The point I’d like to drive home is that immediately eligible for citizenship and anti-semitism exists now, in our present protection by the State. And that is why we need a Jewish state time, in the places that matter. To think that anti-Semitism is a thing of the past is of Israel. There is only one group of people naive; it has no more disappeared than has who can be guaranteed never to turn on any other form of racism — although in the Jews, and that’s the Jews. It’s a harsh educated circles in the United States, per- reality, but it’s the reality. Sadly, those who are truly best able to Raffi Bilek ’03 is at the same time a support- explain the necessity of the State of Israel are long gone. They are those who were er of the State of Israel and of Palestinian responsible for the creation of the state in self-determination. He sees no conflict the first place. Many of them came fresh between the two.
from the horrors of the Holocaust. To them, the question of why Israel should exist might almost have been an affront, and the answer, an understanding always on the tip of their tongue: “So that I and my children and my children’s children can never, never be subjected to that again.” Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today is a day set aside to remember the atrocities that were perpetrated against the Jews, the gypsies, the homosexuals, the communists and many, many others. Today we remember those people who survived unimaginable hardships to establish the State of Israel in order to save their own lives from future threats, and those people who didn’t survive these hardships at all. Israel is a home and a refuge to all Jews. Hitler showed us what it meant to be an anti-semite. He promised to eradicate all Jews, everywhere. Israel makes the promise that it will protect them. Therefore, I believe with all my heart that not only does Israel have the right to exist — for every nation has the right to self-determination, the Jewish people as much as the Palestinian people, and no people should be under the control of another — but that Israel must exist. Because in the end, there is simply no other country that can claim that it will be safe for Jews forever. Israel must exist, and it must exist as an independent Jewish state. There can be no binational state. (This does not mean that there should not be an independent Palestinian state.) There can be no right of return. (This does not mean that there should not be some other just resolution to the refugee problem.) Both would mean the dissolution of Israel as a Jewish state. This cannot be. World War II was, in
the grand scheme of things, not so long ago. If we become so certain that it could not happen again, then it certainly will happen again. Many Islamist organizations are already hard at work trying to accomplish the destruction of Israel. I hope it is clear that Israel does not reciprocate these feelings towards its Arab neighbors. Israel’s sole desire is to exist in peace, a safe haven for Jewish people everywhere. Israel has never attacked a country in order to acquire land; the occupation in which it is now involved, in fact, was forced upon it by the aggressive acts of its neighbors in 1967 and not by any policy of territorial acquisition. However, I caution you to look past a fight over a small mass of arid land. That is not what this column is about. Whatever truth there is to an Israeli occupation is not dealt with any further here. The fact of the matter is many fundamentalist Muslims are not interested in this land so much as they are in destroying the Jewish people. It is a difficult fact to believe, because no one wants to believe that there are people who are truly evil at heart, but I implore you not to delude yourselves for hopes of peace. Consider words from the mouth of Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, member of the Palestinian Authority-appointed “Fatwa Council” and former acting Rector of the Islamic University in Gaza: “Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews … and those who stand by them they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims” (Palestinian Authority television, October 14, 2000).
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SPORTS TUESDAY TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 · PAGE 12
MLB vs Forbes: Who do you want to believe?
Baseball splits doubleheaders against Penn, Columbia to open Ivy season
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, FORBES Magazine came out with a report last month about the wellbeing of Major League Baseball. The very well respected magazine reported that baseball had made an overall profit in 2001 with commissioner Bud Selig’s own Milwaukee Brewers raking in more than $18 million. This report comes on the heels of a winter in which the owners cried about bleeding cash and Selig himself went in front of JEFF SALTMAN THE SALT’S TAKE Congress to plead baseball’s case. So how can these two very different reports be true? The answer is that they can’t, and you have to choose whether to side with Bud Selig and baseball or an unbiased magazine with an excellent reputation. Like most sane people, I side with Forbes. Baseball has long been the worst run professional sport. Compared to football, which hasn’t had a strike in fifteen years and has a stable salary cap and revenue sharing, baseball looks downright backwards. Baseball has little revenue sharing and no salary cap. This basically means that the “large market teams” like the Yankees, Diamondbacks, and Rangers can spend all they want without giving money to the little guys like Pittsburgh. The last time a small market team won the World Series was the Minnesota Twins in 1991 when salaries hadn’t ballooned and the problem of the small vs. large market debate hadn’t begun. Compare this with football, which has had teams from Nashville and Baltimore in the Super Bowl in the past few years. Baseball also seems to pride itself on having as many conflicts of interest as possible. It starts at the top with the commissioner himself. Bud Selig is not an impartial mediator between the owners; he is one of the owners. Selig has a vested interest in the Milwaukee Brewers and shows no impartiality. For example, Selig tried to contract the Minnesota Twins in the offseason. It was later found out that he had taken out a loan from the Twins owner a few years ago. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this? Selig also wants to maintain the boys’ club atmosphere of Major League owners at all cost. Three teams switched ownership this off-season and how many went to people who hadn’t owned a team the previous season? One and that one is major league baseball itself! The Marlins owner became the Red Sox owner, even though he wasn’t the highest bidder. The Expos owner became the Marlins owner, and the Expos were bought by baseball in the hopes of getting rid of them by next season. It’s like a game of musical teams. Now that opening day has passed and the season is in full swing, we can hope and pray that a small market team will have a prayer of winning the Series. Last year, people rooted for Oakland and Minnesota (who failed to make the playoffs) to do just that. Unfortunately, baseball won’t let teams like those two have a fighting chance to win a championship, and we’ll have to see who can buy the most prestigious — at least, it used to be prestigious — championship in sports.
The Brown baseball team went 2-2 this weekend, splitting both its doubleheaders against Ivy League opponents. On Saturday, the Bears traveled to the University of Pennsylvania for the season’s first Ivy League match-up, emerging with a 2-1 win in game one and a 14-12 loss in a high-scoring second game. On Sunday, the Bears played another league opponent, Columbia, and again went home with an exciting win in extra innings and one loss. “The teams we played were good, but they weren’t nearly as good as we made them out to be,” said Jon Stern ‘02, who pitched for his fourth win of the season against Penn. “I think we definitely could’ve come out with four wins, but I don’t think anyone is terribly discouraged. We’re still in good position.” Stern threw for six strikeouts in six innings during the first game on Saturday and gave up only one run on two hits. Bryant Romo ‘02 came on to relieve Stern and secured the win for Brown. The Bears started the scoring early when John Magaletti ‘04 hit a second-inning single to right field, sending James Lowe ’05 in to score. The Bears struck again in the top of the fourth inning when Rick Lynn ‘02 tripled to left field, scoring Magaletti and giving Brown the 2-0 lead. Penn’s answer came in the sixth inning when a single from Michael Goldblatt allowed Penn pinch-runner Graham Bangert to score. The Quakers were unable to produce more scoring chances, and the Bears held
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on for the win. Scoring was higher, and the outcome less favorable for Brown, in game two of the doubleheader. Again, the Bears started off the scoring, taking an early 5-0 lead in the first inning. A double from Robert Deeb ‘04 in the second inning, followed by a Penn wild pitch and an RBI single from Matt Kutler ‘04, increased the Brown lead to six. In the bottom of the second, however, Penn came back with four quick runs. The Bears had another big scoring inning in the sixth when a two-run homer from Kutler sent Lynn in to score. Another home run, this time from Greg Metzger ‘02, made the score 10-5 in the bottom of the sixth. However, in the bottom of the eighth, Penn tied up the score 11-11. An RBI single from Cameron Mitchell ‘05 in the top of the ninth gave Brown a one-run lead. Finally, Penn’s Matt Horn sealed the deal for the Quakers, hitting a three-run homer giving Penn the 14-12 win. On the mound, Romo took the loss for Brown. Sunday the Bears visited Columbia for another weekend doubleheader, and the results were similar. Brown again started off strong in the opening game, earning five runs in as many innings. Columbia’s luck was the same, though, and the score stood tied 5-5 until the seventh, forcing extra innings. In the eighth, Lowe slammed a two-run double that cemented the Brown victory. Metzger gave another strong offensive performance in Sunday’s first game, hitting for two dou-
Softball burned in big innings, losing 3 of 4 to Ivy competition BY KATHY BABCOCK
After a tough weekend, Brown softball (5-13 Overall, 1-3 Ivy League) managed to find the win column in its last game against Dartmouth, giving them a 1-3 record over the weekend. On Saturday, Brown dropped two to Harvard, 5-1 and 4-2 in its first Ivy League competition. On Sunday, the Bears split with Dartmouth, losing the first game 9-1 and winning the second 3-1. “I was really psyched to play our first home games and start off the Ivy season,” said Julia Iudicello ’02. Brown’s final game of the weekend was by far its best as they shook off earlier losses and played a strong seven innings. Marissa Berkes ’05 got her first win of the season and kept Dartmouth off the scoreboard after a first inning home run. The Bears managed to tie the score at 11 in the third, as Laura Leonetti ’04 singled to center, stole second, and scored on a Iudicello double to left. The score remained tied 1-1 going into the bottom of the sixth. Cara Howe ’03 doubled to right center with one out, and was replaced by pinch runner Maggie Haskins ’04, who gave the Bears a 2-1 lead off a Melissa Brown ’04 single to right center. Laura Decker ’05, pinch hitting for catcher Candace Toth ’05, reached first base on a fielder’s choice, and in the number eight spot, Katie Tone ’03 utilized Bruno’s home field advantage as her high pop out to right field was obscured by the 5 o’clock sun and fell at the feet of the right fielder. Lizzie Buza ’04 stepped up and kept the rally going as she beat out a slow grounder to the shortstop, bringing Decker home from third and giving Brown the ever important insurance run. With a two run lead and seemingly unstoppable momentum, Bruno entered the top of the seventh ready to avenge the morn-
ing’s loss. The Big Green were held scoreless as the Bears tenacious defense proved too much for Dartmouth. The Big Green’s Carly Haggard sent a searing liner to short, but Melissa Brown set the tone for the inning with a leaping catch. The final two Dartmouth hitters were unable to muster any substantial rally and Bruno captured the 3-1 victory. “We knew we were a better team than how we played in the first game, and we wanted to win,” Iudicello said, “We fought back and we came back strong.” The scores over the weekend suggest Brown was outmatched, however, the Bears’ opponents only scored in five of the 28 innings played. In their first game against Dartmouth with Erin Durlesser ’04 starting on the mound, the game was scoreless until the Big Green exploded in the third. Haggard doubled to open the inning, and after a single and a walk, Dartmouth’s Kristin King hit a hard grounder back at Durlesser, which she deflected to the left, allowing the first run of the inning to score. A hard grounder to the shortstop also was deflected, giving the runner a free base while Conway scored the second unearned run of the inning. “Errors happen and we need to do a better job of recovering,” Iudicello said. Adrienne Draper singled to right for a RBI, and Cherie Comeau followed her at bat and hit one down the right field line, driving in two more to give Dartmouth a 5-0 lead. The ball appeared to drop in foul territory, but despite vigorous protests by Brown coach Pam McCreesh, the decision stood. After the debacle, the Bears brought in Uchenna Omokaro ’05 to pitch and while she pitched well, the floodgates had opened and Bruno was unable to grab the third out until see SOFTBALL, page 8
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With two splits, the baseball team extended its record to 11-14 overall and 22 in the Ivy League and will next face URI at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket. bles and four RBIs. Dan Spring ‘03 pitched for his second win of the season. Despite strong offense from Chris Jernigan ‘05, who went 2-for-3 at the plate, Brown fell to Columbia in the secsee BASEBALL, page 8
Women’s tennis tops Tigers but falls to Quakers BY SHARA HEGDE
The Brown women’s tennis team faced some strong Ivy League competition this weekend, picking up a win against Princeton University while losing to the University of Pennsylvania. Against the Tigers, the Bears received a clutch performance from Olivia Wong ’03 at number five singles. Her 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory turned out to be the deciding factor in the match. Brown also enjoyed strong success in the doubles matches with Victoria Beck ’04 and Alexandra Arlak ’05 winning 8-2 at number one. Kerry Meath ’05 and Caroline Casey ’03 were also victorious with an 8-5 win at number three doubles. In other singles action, Arlak took a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 victory at number three while Casey picked up a victory at number six 6-3, 7-6 (5). When asked about the match overall, Arlak felt the team performed very well. “It was a very close match all the way to the end,” Arlak said. “Olivia really came through for us and we had some great support from our fans.” Against Penn, the women faced tough matches throughout, but ended up losing the match 7-0. When asked about the Ivy League competition, Coach Norma Taylor recognized the Quakers as a serious contender for the Ivy League title. “Penn won the Ivy League title last year and they are still a very strong team,” Taylor said. Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 covers women’s tennis. She can be reached at shegde@browndailyherald.com.