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For Simmons, corporate positions mean added obligation

BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

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BATTER UP It was time to break out the bats for some hockey-baseball Wednesday evening on Lincoln Field.

President Ruth Simmons sits on the corporate boards of several Fortune 500 companies at the advice of the Brown Corporation, but said she questions whether or not it is in the best interest of the University.

Simmons joined the boards of technology manufacturer Texas Instruments Inc., pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. when she was president of Smith College, and continues to serve on them and other corporate boards with the support of the Corporation.

Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62, who approves the president’s corporate commitments, said he does so with the conviction that they serve the University.

“How a chief executive spends her time is an important and also a very complicated issue,” Robert told The Herald.

“Certainly, the vast majority of a president’s time should be spent directly on Brown, but there are other things that presidents do, and I think there’s a benefit to Brown to

For graduate TAs, making ends meet is job one

BY BRIAN BASKIN

Karen Newman spent her first day as dean of the Graduate School Tuesday with representatives from the Graduate Student Council, working on a new teaching assistant policy that aims to clarify expectations for student teachers like Alanna Hildt GS. Hildt is teaching four sections of an introductory art history class this semester to make ends meet while she studies Canadian modernism as a sixth year graduate student.

She might work 40 hours in a typical week — twice the amount Brown assumes a TA to be working for a stipend — but she couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

Work hours and the number of sections and students given to each TA varies by department. Extra effort goes largely unrewarded and can lengthen the time it takes to earn a Ph.D., Hildt said. Brown’s summer stipend often isn’t enough to allow graduate students to continue researching without taking a job outside the University.

Hildt said she still feels grateful to be a TA at Brown even under the current system.

“I just think we’re privileged.

Sometimes we forget that,” Hildt said. “I feel fortunate to be working in a field I love and earning enough money to live on.”

Hildt said she chose to do a third stint this semester as a TA for introduction to the history of art and architecture because it gave her the opportunity to express her love of art to students who might only take one art history course at Brown.

Though the courses Hildt teaches usually have nothing to do with Canadian modernism, the rigorous preparation necessary to lead even a section in an introductory

course often gives her own research a boost.

“The more you think about (art), the better you become at what you’re doing yourself. Your base of knowledge broadens,” Hildt said.

Many TAs aspire to be professors themselves, so leading a section is an asset in the job market for providing valuable teaching experience, said Joan Lusk, associate dean of the graduate school, who allocates and manages all TA positions.

Many departments require potential professors to teach a class as part of their application, Lusk said.

Laetitia Iturralde GS, a French citizen who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris as an undergraduate, said she wanted to attend an American graduate school partly because it would give her the opportunity to teach.

Three semesters leading sections in Scandinavian and American literature in the comparative literature department took her far from her studies of the French literary tradition in Argentina.

Iturralde said her confidence in her own research and writing improved while she — a native French speaker — was forced to study the structure of a research paper to grade papers in English.

But experience and an improved standing in the job market don’t change the fact that every hour spent on TA duties is an hour away from the research that ultimately leads to a degree, said Lennart Erickson GS, who has worked as a TA in the economics department.

“TAing definitely has a lower priority than one’s research,” Erickson said. “That’s the way academia works. There are real

benefits to TAing … but the tradeoff is time away from your own research.”

A graduate student gets paid a stipend to lead a section, but the quality of that section is up to the TA, Hildt said.

Hildt said she spends several hours preparing for each section because she enjoys teaching and doesn’t want her own performance to reflect badly on the professor. But her job performance as a TA seems to have little effect on her standing with the University, Hildt said.

Erickson said he made the most of his teaching opportunities because it could be many years before he teaches undergraduates of Brown’s caliber.

“The students in my TA sections may very well be the best students that I ever have the opportunity to teach,” he said.

Each department assesses its graduate students differently, but in many departments a TA’s performance evaluation is taken seriously, said Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller, the director of graduate studies in the political science department.

“For us, it’s part of advancement,” Schiller said.

More fellowships, which allow graduate students to focus solely on their research, would go a long way toward diminishing the toll on TAs, Hildt said.

The Graduate School last year decided to give fellowships to all first-year graduate students so they would not need to TA until at least their third semester.

Outside Ivy League, most universities continue to attract more women than men page 3

Pro-choice, pro-life groups see this fall as an important time for abortion activism page 5

U. appoints 12 professors to tenured ranks

BY DANIELLE CERNY

The University tenured 12 professors and six assistant professors in May, increasing the portion of total Brown faculty members currently tenured to 73 percent.

Seven more faculty members were tenured in 2001-02 than in 2000-01, said Associate Dean of the Faculty William Crossgrove.

The associate professors granted tenure are Rebecca Burwell from the Department of Psychology; Tony Cokes, Modern Culture and Media; José Itzigsohn, Sociology; Xinsheng Sean Ling, Physics; and Kerry Smith, History.

The professors granted tenure include Pravin Krishna from the Department of Economics and Leonard Tennenhouse from the Department of English.

Newly appointed as professors with tenure are John Bodel from the Department of Classics; Qian Chen, Bio Med Orthopaedics; William Cioffi, Bio Med Surgery; Elliott Gorn, History; Christopher Hill, Philosophy; Evelyn HuDeHart, History; Ronald Martinez, Italian Studies; Paula Vogel, English; and Provost Robert Zimmer, Mathematics.

Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04 can be reached at bbaskin@browndailyherald.com.

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Doug Grutzmacher ’04 leads the way for men’s water polo, garners Athlete of Week honors sports,page 12

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Numbers show gender gap increasing at most schools nationwide

BY SARA PERKINS

The best class ever is 56 percent female.

Since 1992, every first-year class to enter Brown has had a higher female-to-male ratio than the last, and the Class of 2006 is no exception.

Though Brown is still the only Ivy League school in which women outnumber men, the national trend shows more women enrolled in both two and four-year colleges than men — 56 percent nationwide — and more women earning undergraduate degrees. Fifty-six percent of professional degrees still go to men.

Statistics point to a disparity of achievement in high school to explain the phenomenon. Men are more likely to drop out of high school or be enrolled in special education classes.

“I hesitate to say this, but it seems that women have an orientation not only toward achievement, but also toward being good and pleasing others,” Linda Sax, a UCLA professor of education, told the New York Times. Female high school students are more likely to be enrolled in honors and college prep courses, the Times reported.

Last year, “62 percent of our early applications were women,” said Director of Admission Michael Goldberger. Of those accepted early, 58 percent were women, and women made up 59 percent of the total applicant pool.

Two years ago, Goldberger predicted that other Ivy schools would see a female majority “soon.” As of yet, “It hasn’t really happened,” he said. “I think that Columbia has more female applicants. … I’m not sure why” Brown is the only school with an imbalance, he said.

Columbia’s undergraduate student body is 49 percent female.

“Most colleges across the country have more women, regardless of being public or private,” said Liliana Mickle, director of undergraduate admissee RATIO, page 6

‘Whiteness’ emerges as study trend

BY JOANNE PARK

At Brown and a handful of schools across the nation, courses on “whiteness” are challenging the way scholars think about the study of race.

Professor of Sociology Gordon Morgan at the University of Arkansas is one of a growing number of scholars who have taken a step to define the experience of the majority group in the United States.

Though Morgan initially proposed the idea of a whiteness studies course in 1995, his request was denied.

Morgan said he “found a certain amount of resistance to the course from faculty members that feel a little intimidated by the subject matter.”

His course, “Special Topics in Whiteness,” is now being offered this fall. His students encounter literature from Jeffrey Kaplan’s “Encyclopedia of White Power” to Toni Morrison’s “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the Literary Imagination.”

At Brown, Jennifer Roth-Gordon, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, teaches a similar course called “Critical Perspectives on Whiteness.”

Morgan said his motivation in teaching the course was to “bring to public understanding to the nature of whiteness.

“This concept did not exist prior to the New World … so that leaves us to find out how it got started, how it is maintained, and what its future is,” he said.

Morgan’s view of “whiteness” is based primarily on colonialism.

“Ordinary sociology teaches that epochs can stamp personalities. … During the colonial period, there was an ascendancy of the dominant colonial personality,” he said.

What Morgan terms the “colonial personality” reigned from 1500 to about 1950. “One of colonialism’s biggest props was whiteness. People have been freed from colonialism. Therefore, the major props supporting colonialism have been superceded,” he said.

Morgan cited the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the liberation of European colonies in Africa as factors further contributing to the fracturing of whiteness.

He said that with current progress in globalization, it is time for a revised definition of whiteness. “This is not an attack on whiteness … but an attempt to understand that society does not stand still,” he said.

Morgan, who is black, said his course was an exercise to analyze the basis for change, as opposed to an ideological attack.

Morgan said students have responded in positive fash-

ion. The demographic in his course of 24 students is varied, with seven to eight people identifying themselves as white, four to five as mixed race and the remaining students as black.

“Sparks are always flying (in class). There is tension, particularly in the first few days of class,” he said.

Morgan said the white students in his class were subdued at first but have come alive recently.

“Now that the class is gelling, the environment is not as hostile. We are getting good discussion, friendships are being made,” Morgan said. “Everybody is finding they have to revise what they once viewed as canonical knowledge.”

Morgan acknowledged the controversy surrounding the subject matter. “Courses on minority relations or criminology deal with outgrowths of earlier emphasis on whiteness — so if we construct a good course on whiteness, we could potentially face fewer social science courses on the minority perspective,” he said.

Roth-Gordon said whiteness studies are groundbreaking because “white people are taken to be the norm. What whiteness studies do is say that if you really want to understand race, you have to understand what whiteness means as well. When we talk about people of color, that’s implicitly comparing them to whiteness.”

While she agreed that the Civil Rights movement was a backlash against whiteness, she said the current backlash against Affirmative Action is an indication that whiteness is becoming more pronounced.

Roth-Gordon said her whiteness studies course is not a reaction to the rise of minority perspective courses, but an attempt to critically observe the concept of whiteness and privilege. “Often, by not acknowledging the fact that they have white privilege, they are reinforcing a racial hierarchy,” she said.

Jody Green ’03 completed his own analysis of whiteness in an independent study last year. Green said whiteness is often undetectable in society. “The U.S. has a lot of rhetoric about racial equality and addresses racism as if it’s a tangible thing that can be taken care of … whereas it’s something systemic that infiltrates every institution,” Green said. “As a white person, it has been invisible for me where I grew up.”

At the conclusion of his study, Green said he better understood “my own whiteness … especially the implications of (it) when joining in grass-roots campaigns with people of color.” Green said his study allowed him to see “just how relevant these issues are to the current debate see WHITENESS, page 6

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Boards continued from page 1 know what’s going on in the commercial world.”

Simmons said she agrees that her presence on corporate boards generally furthers the interests of the University. In fulfilling her obligations to various corporations, she also makes valuable contacts for Brown and enhances her leadership skills, she said.

The engineering program she developed at Smith and Brown’s ongoing Program for Academic Enrichment are both indebted to knowledge she gained through serving on corporate boards, Simmons said.

Even so, Simmons said she questions the time she currently invests in the corporate world.

“I don’t always think myself that it’s necessary for people to serve on corporate boards in order to do well as a leader,” she told The Herald. “That’s why I leave the judgment as to whether or not I should do it essentially to my board.”

When she assumed the Brown presidency, Simmons resigned from the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance with the Corporation’s approval. She has not joined any major corporate boards since, despite a proliferation of offers, she said.

“Clearly, this is an activity that, if anything, she is trying to decrease,” Robert said.

Even without participation in the MetLife board, Simmons’ corporate obligations remain substantial. Texas Instruments, based in Dallas, expects its directors to attend about nine mandatory meetings each year. The most recent meeting, held Sept. 19, coincided with Simmons’ fundraising tour of Dallas and

Equestrian continued from page 12 other colleges. Returning rider Rebecca Barker ’05 reestablished the team’s position with a competitive second place in Walk/Trot/Canter, a score which placed her into the Novice division and qualified her for Regionals in the spring.

Galyn Burke ’05, who placed 4th at Nationals last spring in the Team Walk/Trot division, kept up her undefeated streak within the region by winning at her fifth consecutive show. Her win placed her into Walk/Trot/Canter and also qualified her for Regionals.

After the flat classes finished, the team rallied during a lunch break and prepared for the sec-

Cropp continued from page 12 or any other type of seafood for that matter, why not pay homage and give it big fat kiss?

Sadly enough, many sports are stuck in the Middle Ages and afford no opportunity for the athletes to express their sheer jubilation. When was the last time you saw anyone strut around the lane at a bowling

Fort Worth.

Simmons also attended a meeting in Texas in April 2002, which coincided with the A Day on College Hill orientation program for incoming first-years. As a result, she did not attend any of the events of the 2002 ADOCH. As chair of Texas Instruments’ Stockholder Relations and Public Policy Committee, Simmons was required to attend three subcommittee meetings in Fiscal Year 2001. The Audit Committee, which she served on until November 2001, held four meetings last year, the company reported.

Simmons receives stock options and annual compensation of approximately $165,000 from Texas Instruments, Pfizer and Goldman Sachs, according to public financial documents.

In return for her service to Texas Instruments, Simmons receives a $55,000 yearly retainer and options for 10,000 shares of common stock. She also was granted 2,000 restricted stock units when she joined the board in 1999.

Both Pfizer and Goldman Sachs provide similar compensation for their directors’ involvement.

At Pfizer, Simmons was responsible for attending nine general board meetings and at least six meetings of the Audit Committee in Fiscal Year 2001. At Goldman Sachs, she was expected at five board meetings and reported to the Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee in 2001.

Since Texas Instruments, Pfizer and Goldman Sachs released their most recent definitive proxy statements in March 2002, the responsibilities of corporate directors have increased substantially, according to Goldman Sachs spokesperson Kathleen Baum.

Following the development of

“I don’t always think myself that it’s necessary for people to serve on corporate boards in order to do well as a leader.”

President Ruth Simmons new corporate guidelines by the New York Stock Exchange, “board members at nearly every well-run company have taken on further responsibilities,” she said.

This holds true for members of Goldman Sachs’ compensation and audit committees, of which Simmons is a member, Baum said. “It’s probably not easy,” she added.

Despite the extensive time commitments corporate boards require, Simmons insists that she does not spend less time on campus as a result. Rather, she said, meetings detract only from her personal time.

In total, she added, her corporate consulting adds up to less than four to five hours each week, the maximum the University allows for faculty and administrators. Yet Simmons said she still has her doubts about serving on corporate boards.

“It’s a lot easier for me if I don’t do them, but, on balance, my guess is that the pressure to do corporate and other boards won’t disappear,” she said. “I think it’s something that a leader is expected to do.”

Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 covers the Office of the President. She can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

ond half of the show, the fences or jumping portion. Since Brown was still neck and neck with at least three other colleges, these remaining classes were crucial.

When Peddy and Bialo won their Open Fences classes, the Bears began confidently eyeing the blue again. Newcomer Leila Ledsinger ’05 continued the streak by winning her Intermediate Fences class, helping to secure Brown’s victory.

As team members excitedly tallied up points, Peddy and Bialo competed, along with two other, non-Brown riders who had won both their flat and fences classes, for the high point rider award.

After a test on the flat, Brown asserted its dominance again as the judge named Peddy high point rider and placed Bialo second, or reserve high point.

Brown won the show with a

total of 39 out of a possible 49 points, beating out the other nine colleges in the region. While the win provided a promising start to the season, the Bears know they have a tough act to follow if they plan to do as well as last year, with an Ivy title last April and a third at Nationals in May. However, even with the significant loss of last year’s senior class, the Bears feel confident that their talented returning riders and competitive new members can continue the success of previous years.

They hope to extend their lead in the region at their next show on Sunday, Oct. 6, which they are hosting at Windswept Farm in Warren, R.I. Friends and fans are welcomed, especially since this is the team’s only home show all year and should prove to be an exciting one.

alley sober? (Okay, well Jesus from the Big Lebowski doesn’t count.)

Billards, Ping Pong, Equestrian, Frolf, Croquet and Curling are just of few of the many prospects.

For every sport there are clearly an infinite number of possible celebrations, so there is next to no excuse for duplication. In order to make sports marginally more interesting, why not require a celebration? There should be a separate set of officials, who are not figure skating judges, to judge

whether or not the score should stand, based solely upon the aspects of the celebration. Okay, maybe this is beginning to sound like the next American Idol, so I’ll stop before you get sick. Regardless of your sport, I urge you to get out on the practice field and work on that prized celebration, because you never know when the opportunity for fame or shame will arise.

Ian Cropp ’06 hails from Buffalo, N.Y.

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Pro-choice, life groups see now as time for action

BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

On-campus groups on both sides of the abortion debate are looking to create awareness by holding events on campus, beginning with today’s Love Your Body Day, hosted by various pro-choice groups.

Meanwhile, Brown Students for Life, a group that opposes abortion, is tentatively planning an on-campus event for high school students.

That event, slated to take place Nov. 23, will feature a talk by Richard Varieur, a Catholic family therapist practicing in Pawtucket. Varieur has spoken at other pro-life events in the area. While BSL members stressed that the event is still in the works, they said they are working to make it happen.

Thomas Reutland ’03, leader of BSL, said Varieur’s presentation will focus on the ethical issues surrounding abortion.

Planning for the event started last week when Rhode Island Right to Life contacted BSL with the idea, Reutland said. RIRL is hosting Varieur’s appearance and publicizing the event, postering at local high schools and contacting prolife student leaders.

At Monday’s BSL meeting, the eight members in attendance discussed the event. The day will include Varieur’s talk, lunch, small-group discussions and a video. Sections led by members of BSL will examine critical readings of pro-life and pro-choice texts and information on how

the high school students could get involved in pro-life activism.

BSL, while primarily focused on the abortion issue, began its last meeting with the reading of an ACLU briefing paper on the death penalty. The paper argued that the death penalty should be abolished because it is inherently racist, targeted at the poor, and that it fails to deter crime. Most BSL members said they were against the death penalty.

BSL members said they resist the notion that being pro-life and anti-death penalty are politically mutually exclusive.

“Brown Students for Life is not about a stereotype of being pro-life only meaning being against abortion,” Reutland said.

Group member Cate Waldrop ’05 acknowledged that the current political climate presented a problem for people who opposed both abortion and capital punishment.

“On an individual level, it’s not necessarily a conflict,” she said. “These issues are connected on an ethical and moral level as the value of human life.”

BSL also plans to discuss euthanasia this year. The group’s position on euthanasia is that “human life is to be respected up until natural death,” said Keeley Schell GS. “It’s a sad consequence of our society if elderly people do not have the support they need to feel like

life is worth living.”

On the other side of the abortion debate, members of pro-choice groups say they are less anxious to de-politicize abortion. Katie Del Guercio ’04, president of the Brown Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, said political activism centering on reproductive health and a woman’s right to choose will be a big part of Love Your Body Day. “We will be talking about the right, politically, to respect your body,” Del Guercio said.

At 1 p.m. today, two campus organizers from the off-campus Feminist Majority Foundation will give a talk titled “Never Go Back: The Threat to Legalized Abortion.” On Oct.16, Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, will come to Brown to speak on the same topic.

“Abortion is a very, very current issue at this time, given the political climate,” Del Guercio said. Her group, along with Students for Choice, is particularly concerned about the make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court, which Del Guercio fears may overturn Roe v. Wade.

“I encourage people to educate themselves about both sides,” Del Guercio said. “It’s their responsibility to know who they’re electing.”

Students for Choice is also planning several other events. On Oct. 24, National Young Women’s Day of Action, the group

hopes to show the Academy Award nominated documentary “On Hostile Ground.” The film is about the dangers faced by abortion providers, group members said.

Students for Choice members also help escort women past picketing protestors into local clinics, promote awareness and host fundraising events on campus.

The group is part of the Rhode Island Choice Coalition, and plans to participate in a lobbying week at the Rhode Island State House.

Group members are also involved in Brown Undergrads for Sex Health Education. This group will organize seminars for high school students on relationships, sexual health and reproductive choice.

A.J. Rathmann-Noonan ’02.5 of Students for Choice said she agreed with Waldrop that the abortion debate should be de-politicized. But she said she feels it not feasible to do so in the current political climate.

“Taking it out of the political sphere is incredibly dangerous for women right now,” she said.

Del Guercio concurred.

“Because conservative political forces are chipping away at women’s reproductive freedom continuously, it has to be a political debate,” she said. “Women’s reproductive freedoms are not secure in this country, in the slightest.”

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Tenure continued from page 1 The only newly appointed associate professor with tenure is Michael Satlow of Judaic studies.

Through the tenure process, professors are guaranteed their current faculty position until retirement.

Tenure secures professors’ positions by allowing them to teach and conduct research without fear that unpopular views or changing circumstances will lead to their termination, Crossgrove said.

Professors are recommended for tenure by the head of their department.

“Departments prepare dossiers, including a lengthy list of items such as a CV, a summary of teaching evaluations, a departmental recommendation and confidential evaluations from five or more experts in the individual’s field,” Crossgrove said.

This detailed collection of papers is then sent to the Committee on Faculty Reappointment and Tenure.

The committee currently consists of eight faculty members and four senior administrators, and is chaired by Dean of Faculty Mary Fennell, Crossgrove said.

Ratio continued from page 3 sions at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

But the gender imbalance is more pronounced in public schools and community colleges than in certain well-known private universities. Cape Cod Community College is 59 percent female, and Indiana University is 52.5 percent, whereas women make up 48 percent of the undergraduate body at Harvard and Rice universities.

Birth rates cannot explain the phenomenon. Although women make up 51.1 percent of the total U.S. population, 51.2 percent of babies born in the U.S. are male.

Until 1999, the University of Georgia’s admission policy gave preference to men in an attempt to correct the gender imbalance of entering classes, but a lawsuit by three rejected applicants resulted in a judge ruling the

Most Brown professors are actually tenured immediately after being hired, based on their previous accomplishments. The procedure is slightly different for assistant professors who are usually hired for an initial three-year contract. The contract is renewable for up to four years, and by the sixth year, at the latest, they are reviewed for possible tenure, Crossgrove said.

The six-year standard applies for all tenure track faculty.

Before that time period expires, all professors are entitled to tenure review.

With tenure come highly desirable benefits.

“Tenure includes job security and an increase in salary, which makes it very attractive for anyone of course. But more importantly, it’s nice to know your colleagues have embraced you as a professor and as a member of your department,” said Associate Professor of Engineering Gregory Crawford, who was tenured in late spring of 2001.

In reality, “nearly all faculty who are professors or associate professors are tenured,” Crossgrove said.

With such a large number of professors tenured, Brown reserves certain rights to release a tenured professor should that professor fail to live up to acceptable standards,

Crossgrove told The Herald.

In most cases, tenure assures academic employment until a professor retires unless there is a clear demonstration of incompetence, neglect of duty, dishonesty in research or teaching, or unacceptable personal conduct that impairs a professor from fulfilling his responsibility to Brown, Crossgrove said.

The burden of proof, however, rests on the University and therefore, “a professor with tenure can be dismissed, but only after a lengthy procedure,” Crossgrove said.

With the planned increase of 100 new Brown faculty members by next year, the percentage of tenured professors is expected to decline, Crossgrove said.

“The anticipated overall effect of new hires should be that the percentage of the faculty that holds tenure should decline as we bring in more new assistant professors,” Crossgrove said.

Regardless of the percentages, Crawford said being nominated for tenure was a muchappreciated gesture of deference.

“It is absolutely an incredible honor to be tenured, especially since the recognition comes directly from your fellow colleagues for everything you’ve accomplished,” he said.

practice unconstitutional. The undergraduate body is now 59 percent female.

Goldberger found little merit in the suggestion that Brown’s brochures may be responsible for some of the imbalance in application rates. A recent New York Times report suggested some colleges’ brochures may appeal more to women than men.

“I think that they are (balanced). … If we felt that the way we were portraying Brown was non-male-friendly, we would be concerned,” he said. “What do you do, count pictures” of men versus women?

But Goldberger said the Corporation could discuss the problem at its next meeting in February.

The Corporation “possibly will discuss making a change if it anticipates a real problem. … I think it’s always healthy to examine where we are,” he said. For now, “we want to get the best students here, and we’ll go from there.”

Whiteness continued from page 3 around TWTP. “The white people who criticize TWTP seem to do so without a real understanding of their own white self or their white privilege,” he said.

“None of (The Herald opinions columnists) ask what the role of white people is in anti-racist campaigns. Such questions can only be asked after there is a consciousness of white self,” Green said.

Green echoed Professor Morgan’s concerns about the effect of whiteness studies on other ethnic studies courses.

“Whiteness studies have the potential to be good, when used in a proactive way. It becomes problematic when discussions on whiteness become too centered, detracting focus from people of color,” he said.

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 7

IN BRIEF

N. Korea identifies 13th kidnapped Japanese TOKYO (L.A. Times) — At least two North Korean agencies

Clinton cautions against Iraq strike BLACKPOOL, England (Washington Post) — Former president Bill Clinton Wednesday warned his successor of “unwelcome consequences” if President Bush launched a preemptive military strike against Iraq. Speaking to a British Labor Party conference here, Clinton sharply criticized the administration’s foreign policy while endorsing the goal of compelling Iraq to disarm.

“A pre-emptive action today, however justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future,” Clinton told the group. He urged Bush to continue to seek U.N. Security Council approval before sending in U.S. forces.

“I have done this — I’ve ordered this kind of action,” said Clinton of a military attack.“I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocent people will die.”

In a speech generally less critical than former vice president Al Gore’s sharp attack of a week ago, Clinton suggested focusing on the fight against the alQaida terrorist network.“Our most pressing challenge is to finish the job,” he said.

The former president criticized the administration for rejecting the 1997 Kyoto agreement on global warming, the new International Criminal Court to try alleged war criminals and the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty.Those policies, he said, had understandably made Europeans less inclined to trust the Bush administration on Iraq.

Clinton said that Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, was “bobbing and weaving” to thwart international inspections. He added:“We should call his bluff.”

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who invited Clinton to speak here, has been Bush’s strongest foreign supporter in the campaign against Saddam, and Clinton was lavish in praising his host.

were responsible for kidnapping 13 Japanese — one more kidnap victim than previously acknowledged — during the 1970s and 1980s to provide language training and identities for spies, officials in the communist nation told a team of Japanese diplomats Wednesday.

The disclosure came as doubts mounted about the details North Korea provided concerning how eight of the victims died, most in their 20s and 30s: Megumi Yokota, abducted at age 13, hanged herself from a pine tree at 28 after being hospitalized for severe depression, the diplomats were told. Two victims died of carbon monoxide poisoning; two were killed in traffic accidents; one drowned; and three died of heart disease or cirrhosis.

All but one of their graves has washed away in floods, North Korea maintains.

The Japanese said the newly identified kidnap victim, Hitomi Soga, is alive and married to a former U.S. soldier now living in North Korea. The American — identified as Charles Robert Jenkins, now 62, of North Carolina — defected in 1965 from his post in South Korea.

In Washington, Lt. Col. Thomas Erstfeld, from the Pentagon’s POW/Missing Personnel office, confirmed that Jenkins defected to North Korea as an Army sergeant, the highest ranking of six defectors to the country in the 1960s. Two defectors have since died. Erstfeld did not know Jenkins’ hometown or unit.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il first alluded to the purpose of the kidnappings in his surprise acknowledgment and apology to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in a summit two weeks ago. Because so few details were provided, Tokyo sent officials from the Foreign Ministry to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, for four days to find out more.

North Korea said nine of the 13 victims were abducted by agents working for a special agency from 1978 to 1980 that provided Japanese language training to help spies more eas-

ily infiltrate South Korea.

Members of another department kidnapped Japanese in Europe from 1980 to 1983 because “they didn’t have their own contacts” to carry out abductions in Japan, Deputy Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.

The Japanese officials were told that two senior North Korean officials responsible for the kidnappings were tried in 1998. One was put to death and the other sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The North Koreans disclosed that Soga, the newly identified victim, was taken in 1978 while shopping with her mother. She was 19 at the time. Soga and Jenkins were married in 1980 and have two teen-age daughters.

Soga told Japanese investigators that she was stuffed in a sack and taken by boat and train to Pyongyang, where she worked at a special agency. Her mother has not been heard from since, although the North Koreans insisted that only the younger Soga was kidnapped.

The Japanese victims who remain alive in Pyongyang told the investigators they want to see their families but wish to stay in North Korea because they have jobs and children who don’t speak Japanese.

North Korea’s latest details have brought condemnation from the victims’ families and opposition party leaders, who doubt their veracity.

“The families aren’t sad — we’re furious,” said Takuya Yokota, Megumi’s brother.

Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa said the report seems “made-up well.”

“I have never seen such a mockery,” he said. “I can’t imagine a Japanese government accepting such a ludicrous report.”

Nevertheless, Koizumi said he intends to press ahead with bilateral meetings later this month aimed at improving ties with North Korea. “We need to keep absorbing the responses by North Korea, but it seems that they responded with sincerity to the investigations,” the prime minister said.

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Homeland security compromise delayed WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

Another move toward a compromise on the stalled homeland security bill was postponed Wednesday when a group of senators from both parties called off a meeting scheduled to discuss a deal on workers’ rights.

The meeting was to have been a follow-up to discussions Tuesday about giving President Bush more flexibility in managing the 170,000 federal workers who would comprise a new Department of Homeland Security.

Senators John Breaux, D-La., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., were hoping to get talks moving on the issues of civil service and collective bargaining rights for those workers, which have stalled the bill in the Senate.

The House approved a version favored by the White House in July.

The senators were working on a draft that would have given President Bush expanded man-

agement freedoms while providing some protections to union members, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

The draft was intended to jump-start discussions Wednesday by a larger group of senators that included Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, RMiss., and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.

Bush has insisted that the legislation must give him authority to design a new personnel system that would make it easier to hire, fire, discipline and reassign employees of the new anti-terror department.

The White House also wants to preserve Bush’s current right to remove workers from unions if their primary responsibilities involve intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work.

Breaux, Nelson and Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., the only Republican to publicly break

with the White House on the issue, earlier proposed giving Bush the authority to develop personnel changes with labor unions and take any disputes to a presidentially appointed impasse panel.

The same proposal would have permitted Bush to remove workers from unions if their job duties changed so that they were primarily performing intelligence or investigative functions related to terrorism.

Breaux and Nelson need more time to develop a new compromise, staff members said Wednesday.

The talks were put off indefinitely as the Senate prepared to shift its focus to a resolution on the use of force in Iraq.

Ranit Schmelzer, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said that Democrats have not given up on finding a way to bridge differences, but that nothing appeared imminent.

Scientists map genetic code of malaria (Washington Post) — Scientists

have determined the complete genetic codes of the single-cell parasite that causes malaria and of the mosquito that transmits it to people, a feat they said would allow them to launch a hightech assault on one of the world’s deadliest and most intractable scourges.

Capping a six-year effort involving hundreds of scientists in nearly a dozen countries, scientists say the accomplishment should speed development of new drugs and vaccines that take aim at the parasite’s most vulnerable genes, and could facilitate the creation of environmentally benign insecticides.

Moreover, malaria’s genomic unveiling has revealed a host of new research opportunites that could inspire a much-needed shot of international investment

in the faltering global war against the disease, researchers said. Malaria kills more than 2 million people annually—the vast majority of them children younger than five—and has spread in recent years as affordable drugs have lost their effectiveness and mosquitoes have perfected their resistance to the most widely used sprays.

Scientists probing the newly dissected strands of DNA already have found genes that the mosquito uses to sniff out humans—a discovery that could lead to the creation of sophisticated new repellants—and genes that the malarial parasite uses to invade red blood cells, which if blocked might prevent human infection.

Researchers have even found genetic evidence that malarial mosquitos’ eyes glaze over after a big blood meal, just like peo-

ple after a Thanksgiving dinner.

In combination with the human genome, unraveled to great fanfare 18 months ago, the new work gives rise to a biomedical trifecta.

“For the first time we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human,” said Anthony Fauci, chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which provided much of the U.S. share of the project’s funding. “It’s a very important milestone.”

But Fauci and others warned that for all the opportunities the new work presents, an extraordinary commitment from the world’s wealthier countries will be needed if the fruits of that research are to reach those who need it.

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Aide to Martha Stewart’s broker lied NEW YORK (Newsday) — Douglas Faneuil, the boyish assistant to Martha Stewart’s stockbroker, pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge Wednesday, admitting he was offered money, plane tickets and an extra week’s vacation to keep mum that Stewart had been tipped off to inside information regarding her ImClone System Inc.’s shares.

The plea by the Merrill Lynch broker assistant—signed with federal prosecutors in the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney James Comey on Sept. 24—was part of a deal to testify in their investigation of Stewart and her dumping of $228,000 worth of ImClone shares last December.

The domestic diva sold her 3,928 shares of ImClone stocks on Dec. 27, just before the price nose dived on news the Food and Drug Administration would not approve its anti-cancer drug, Erbitux.

Stewart has denied any wrongdoing in the sale of ImClone shares, and has maintained that she had a standing order with his supervisor, Peter Bacanovic, to sell the stock if the price went below $60.

Her friend, ImClone’s former chief executive and founder Sam Waksal, was indicted in August for allegedly telling family mem-

bers to dump millions of dollars worth of ImClone stock before the bad news about Erbitux hit the market. He has pleaded not guilty.

Wednesday, Faneuil, 27, contradicted Stewart’s account, telling U.S. Magistrate-Judge Kevin Fox that Bacanovic had “directly or indirectly” told Stewart that Waksal family members had been selling their ImClone stock and that Sam Waksal had also attempted to sell off his stock.

Neither Stewart nor Bacanovic were named in the indictment, but the nine-page misdemeanor information describes his superior as a “Financial Advisor” and Stewart as “the Tippee.”

Asked to identify the “Tippee,” one of Faneuil’s lawyers, Marvin Pickholz, said, “If you guys read this information and you can’t fill in the blanks, you’re in serious trouble.”

Stewart’s spokeswoman, Allyn Magrino, refused to comment Wednesday.

The youthful former “client associate” described how he had accepted “a percentage of the financial advisor commission,” and been offered an extra week’s vacation and airline tickets.

Faneuil also admitted to lying in a Jan. 3 interview with the Securities and Exchange

Commission and a March 7 interview with an SEC lawyer and an FBI agent.

“I knew that it was important for the SEC to learn why the Tippee sold his or her stock in ImClone on Dec. 27, 2001, within hours after the Waksal family attempted to sell their stock,” Faneuil said.

“I did not truthfully reveal everything I knew concerning the actions of my immediate supervisor ... and of the reasons for the Tippee’s sale of stock.”

Prosecutor Michael Schachter said that subsequent to his two interviews, Faneuil had admitted to authorities that he had concealed the truth.

Schachter said Faneuil’s story could be corroborated by other witnesses, phone records, e-mail messages and brokerage records and other evidence.

Merrill Lynch fired both Faneuil and Bacanovic Wednesday.

Spokesman Bill Halldin indicated that Faneuil was terminated because of his guilty plea Wednesday, and Bacanovic was terminated because “he has declined to cooperate with investigators.”

Faneuil faces up to a year in prison for the charge and a minimum fine of at least $100,000 when he is sentenced Jan. 7.

Report finds 1 million violent deaths yearly (Washington Post) — About 1.6 million people die violently each year around the world, accounting for about 3 percent of all deaths. Most of the victims are men, half are suicides, and 90 percent live in poor and middle-income countries.

Those are among the conclusions of a massive new analysis of global violence being published Thursdays by the World Health Organization.

Hidden beneath the big numbers is a grim and detailed portrait of how personal risk varies by country, region, age, culture, and the sim-

ple availablity of means to do harm.

For example, Colombia leads the world in murder rate, with nine times as many homicides per capita as the United States’s, and 88 times as many as France.

China may be the only place where more women than men kill themselves. Suicide in Samoa increased three-fold after the pesticide paraquat became available in 1972, falling steeply when access to the chemical was controlled in 1981.

One in every 236 Cambodians has lost a limb to a landmine.

In the Egyptian city of

Alexandria, nearly half of all female murder victims are women who have been raped, and are then killed by family members as an act of “cleansing.” One third of rapes in Johannesburg are gang rapes, with boyfriends often participating.

About 500 elderly women are killed each year in Tanzania as witches.

However, the purpose of the 346page report isn’t to produce a lurid catalogue of human suffering, said Etienne Krug, a Belgian physician at WHO who lead the three-year effort to gather information from about 150 countries.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Cutting out boards As a member of the corporate boards of three Fortune 500 companies, President Ruth Simmons was expected to attend at least 20 off-campus meetings in Fiscal Year 2001. In April 2002, Simmons flew to Texas for a meeting at Texas Instruments Inc. and missed all of A Day on College Hill.

Simmons is locked into her board positions until her terms run out, but when that happens, she must significantly cut back on these responsibilities.

The University is in the midst of exciting but volatile change. As Simmons plans for a capital campaign and prepares to implement new academic initiatives, it is unacceptable that she spends up to five hours a week on corporate work. Simmons doesn’t just leave Brown for occasional board meetings — she is burdened by daily homework.

We point the finger at the Brown Corporation, which asked Simmons to remain on these boards. Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62 said Simmons’ positions benefit the University because she can learn from the corporate world. But with the New York Stock Exchange’s new guidelines, Simmons will likely have to spend even more time on her corporate obligations.

We salute the Corporation for wanting our president to broaden her horizons, but we believe Simmons is a capable leader and won’t learn more about Brown’s future by working for businesses not directly associated with the University.

Simmons’ initiatives for University enrichment may have benefited from what she learned at distant Texas Instruments’ board meetings and from line items on Goldman Sachs’ financial statements, but while Brown begins to revamp its foundation, this time away from the University is time poorly spent.

Hopefully, Simmons will not miss any more events like A Day on College Hill. And if the Corporation remains convinced that Simmons’ efforts in the corporate world are in Brown’s best interests, we ask the Corporation to announce publicly the dates and locations of her upcoming corporate board meetings.

Simmons admits that her time on boards is not ideal. The Corporation must ask Simmons to discontinue most of her corporate work when her terms run out. As Brown looks to shape its uncertain future, it is imperative that Simmons focuses all her efforts on the University.

SHANE WILKERSON

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘God Bless America’ song of prayer, not assurance that United States protected by God To the Editor: Although there are lots of things I would like to address about Eric Mann’s speech as reported in The Herald (“Mann calls for action against U.S. injustices,” 10/1), I was struck by his seeming inability to grasp the central point of a simple song.

“God Bless America” (which is not, by the way, our national anthem) is far from a blanket declaration that God stands behind and abets every U.S. action, no matter how awful the consequences to other nations. It is instead a request, a

prayer, that God would bless the United States and guide us in our actions. Even if it did say that God has blessed America, that statement is not consistent with Mann’s spin on it. Having been gifted by the almighty does not mean a blank check written to the U.S. spiritual bank account.

Being blessed, if anything, implies an obligation to live up to the blessing, an obligation to use the gift wisely.

We can argue as to whether or not the United States has done this, but the characterization that patriots are blind to the moral imperatives inherently characteristic of the United States is simply false. Then again, maybe I’m expecting too much from someone who thinks that the main challenge in the wake of an awful attack against this country is “revolutionary organizing” and “resistance.”

Bill Dilworth GS Oct. 2

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 11

Hungry East Side burglars an increasing threat Providence police of little help in stemming the tide of near campus robberies I ’ V E B E E N RO B B E D. A COMMON placeable Aimee Mann tape? Why else take phenomenon, and one people must get my last Powerbar, important for the aforeused to when they live in a sprawling mentioned training?

That last item led me to reevaluate the metropolis like Providence. But this time it happened to me. This has set off an odd scene in the kitchen. The mess there censeries of emotions in me. “Violated” would tered around a search not for cash or valuables but for food. A sudden be too strong a word, but I cercase of the munchies while on tainly felt abused. Audio CDs the job? Perhaps, but I now take are often difficult to replace, it as the work not of a profesand my thief seemed to be trysional burglar but of a despering to take those closest to my ate and hungry individual. No heart. A music lover? Or did he professional thief would have just happen to grab three early left so many fingerprints on the import Jesus and Mary Chain ziplock baggie he tried to put albums? I don’t know why I had my leftover Vietnamese food two copies of the Stone Roses, into, spilling half on the floor but why did he have to take and forgetting the baggie when both? Why am I left with all of BILL TORTORELLI he left. The questionable nutrimy Dead Milkmen and none of DIARIO MINIMO tion of the Bee Boong was the Cure? abandoned in favor of the quick Actually, I must admit that caloric intake offered by a bag train of thought did lead me to wonder if my thief had set out to upset me of Hershey’s Kisses in the freezer. It’s hard to personally. I didn’t take the mess created as be mad at someone subject to such dire a personal affront — such are the exigen- need. I guess I can live without the stack of cies of burglary. But why else take my laundry quarters that used to be on the table. brand new running shoes two weeks into If my thief took a few cans of beer to dull the my training for the Ocean State Marathon? pain of hunger, destitution and screaming (Oct. 13. Save the date.) Why else take my ignorance, I can forgive that — especially of crappy, battered walkman with the irre- a thief polite enough to leave one can for me.

But don’t get me wrong: this new clarity — call it pity, call it social consciousness — Bill Tortorelli GS reserves the right to does not mean that I want to make a habit replace all of his CDs with pirated copies if of victimization. I have taken steps to avoid the police aren’t going to protect the future attacks on my living space and its originals.

contents. Follow these simple guidelines and you, too, can live without fear of crime: 1. Lock your doors. Oops. Did I mention that little detail of my own sad, embarrassing story?

2. Don’t waste your time with the Providence Police. They exhibited no interest in catching the perpetrators of the five break-ins in my complex this summer.

I recommend vigilante justice. There should be maiming booby traps on all of your valued possessions and drugged food in your refrigerator.

3. Doris’ apartment was not broken into.

Get yourself a huge dog. If that’s not an option, borrow a dog and make a recording of its panting, pacing and barking. Play that very loudly whenever you’re not home.

4. Get rid of everything you own. My life is much simpler now that I have nothing of value to anyone. Except books; but I’ve noticed that books are rarely listed among the items taken during a break-in. My poor dumb bastard could have made thousands if he had known which books to take. But don’t get any ideas because you never know which of my books are now springloaded and waiting for the next thief.

This self-defense, take-the-law-intoyour-own-hands, overly-hyphenated suggestion does not apply to those lucky enough to live on campus. I have found Brown’s Department of Public Safety officers to be far more responsible, professional and effective than their Providence

Police Department colleagues. Having dealt with PPD regarding four break-ins and an attempted assault, I cannot credit them with a single effective interview or report. And they do not understand the concept of the follow-up. In two of those cases the responding officers did not even take the time to get out of their cars.

But perhaps I’m being unfair. I should apply my newfound perspective and spirit of understanding to the police as well as to the criminals. It must be difficult to fight crime when their hands are tied by due process, legal loopholes and incompetence. Knowing that crime will continue in spite of their efforts must be terribly depressing, leaving them without the will to attempt serious investigations. And on top of that cycle of disillusionment, the only recently checked reign of corruption in the municipal government must have been a daily message discouraging any efforts toward adequacy.

Does this mean that policing will improve throughout the city now that corruption is being addressed? Yes, but I won’t hold my breath or tell you to stop locking your doors. I’m just glad that I now live on campus. I have great faith in Colonel Verrecchia’s police force. I hope the rest of you are expressing your appreciation to them, including our new Captain Fioravanti and the yellow-shirted Sterling Security guards who are now watching your back as you stumble home at night.

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SPORTS THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 12

Celebrate good times, come on

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

WHILE I WAS WATCHING THE SECOND quarter of my Buffalo Bills playing against the Chicago Bears this weekend, something happened that most people would think strange, I took partial pleasure out of watching the opposing team score. This has only happened once prior in my life, and since I wasn’t alive during the Black Sox scandal, you can rule out any sort of conspiracy (sorry Oliver Stone, no story IAN here). In both CROPP CROPP-DUSTING instances the reason for my twisted sadomasochism can be best explained by Kool and the Gang’s song “Celebration.”

Ever since watching Ickey Woods pull his patented “Ickey Shuffle” in the endzone, I knew that there was more to scoring than just hugging your teammates. Celebrations are one of the most entertaining aspects of any sports contest. Sure, anyone can score a touchdown off of a fade route — we’ve seen that a million times — but how many people can actually pull a move like the “Dirty Bird” and make it look like it could be on Darren’s Dance Grooves? A good celebration is like partying on Thursday nights, it isn’t absolutely necessary, but how much does it improve the quality of life?

What exactly makes a good celebration is tough to say, although spontaneity and creativity definitely help. Plans are essential, but as former Texas Governor Bush will attest, it’s all about execution. The delivery is what either puts the play on the highlight film or lands you a spot on celebrity boxing, squaring off against Chunk from Goonies. Many people remember the exhilaration when Brandi Chastain took her shirt off after scoring the winning goal, but who could forget the shameful moment of Bill Gramatica injuring his knee after a field goal that wasn’t even in the 4th quarter.

Obviously different sports call for different celebrations. The most familiar comes in the form of the end-zone dance. Due to taunting restrictions, however, the end-zone festivities must be kept at a reasonable level. While I don’t propose the NFL hires Michael Flatley as an end-zone instructor, I wouldn’t mind seeing Will Farrell and Cheri Oteri teaching the players a few tricks.

In soccer, there are about 10 typical celebrations you’ll see, ranging from the airplane, to the shirt over the head, to the gymnastics routine that has you wondering if Bela Karolyi has been coaching the team. While I’m thoroughly impressed with the physical talent of soccer players, I’d expect more dramatics out of players who via their dives and fake injuries have more acting experience than Andy Rooney.

There are some things that are apparently twice as nice on the ice, and I would have to say hockey celebrations have the potential to fit into this category. Enough with the fist-pumps and raising of the arms, let’s see some ice luging, canoeing and snow angels. And if the crowd is insane enough to throw out an octopus,

The California native and co-captain was named Collegiate Water Polo Association Player of the Week and is leading the team in goals, including a team-high six in one game against MIT

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Grutzmacher ’04 leads men’s water polo

BY SHARA HEGDE

If you told Doug Grutzmacher ’04 eight years ago that he would be a dominating force on a college water polo team, he probably wouldn’t have believed you.

“I wanted to try out for basketball so I took up water polo to stay in shape,” Grutzmacher said. “I enjoyed playing so I decided to stick with it and play year round.”

The Bears (4-6) are sure glad that he did, as Grutzmacher, a co-captain, has started off this season on a tear. He leads the team in goals, including a team-high six goals in a game against MIT earlier this year.

“Doug is a great leader in the pool,” said Coach Todd Clapper. “A great deal of our offense runs through him.”

The California native’s play has attracted a great deal of attention. Last

week the Collegiate Water Polo Association named Grutzmacher Player of the Week for his performance against MIT where in addition to his goal-scoring, he drew four ejections.

He followed up on this game with another exceptional performance against Harvard, scoring two goals and drawing two ejections.

Clapper attributed Grutzmacher’s early success to his off season work.

“Doug really worked hard this off season and the results are beginning to show,” he said. “He brings a great deal of energy to the team and his teammates really rally around him.”

After a successful four-year high school career, Grutzmacher chose Brown because of the flexibility it offered him.

“A lot of these big California schools with big programs pretty much expect you to live in the pool. After playing every season in high school, I wanted to play for a program that would allow me to fully experience other aspects of college,” he said.

One of those other aspects is academics. Grutzmacher has decided to concentrate in biology.

At present, he is unsure of his plans after Brown, but hopes to use the next two years to figure out where his interests are strongest.

As for this season, Grutzmacher’s

Men’s soccer shuts out URI, 2-0 Adom Crew ’04 continued his hot streak, scoring in his fourth consecutive game and providing the offensive spark for the Bears

BY NICK GOUREVITCH

The Brown men’s soccer team (3-2-1, 0-1 Ivy) defeated its in-state rival, the University of Rhode Island, 2-0 in Kingston, R.I., on Tuesday night. Adom Crew ’04 scored both goals and goalkeeper Chris Gomez ’04 notched eight saves to record the team’s first shutout of the season.

While Crew continued his hot streak — scoring in his fourth consecutive game — and provided the offensive spark, it was the emergence of the defense that made the difference in the game.

“It was pretty huge to get a shutout and we’re coming together in the back four,” said starting defender Edward Thurston ’03. “It takes a little while to get the chemistry together in the back, but we are gaining an understanding of each other.”

The victory was especially satisfying as it ended Brown’s two-year losing streak against the Rams despite the Bears’ significant advantage in the all-time series with a 31-11-1 record.

In recent years, this match-up has been wildly entertaining and Tuesday’s win was the first time since 1994 that this game has been decided by more than a one-goal margin.

While Brown ended the night with the decided advantage, the Rams outshot the Bears 24-10 over the course of the match and the Bears did not take the lead until the 68th minute.

“In the middle of the first half, it seemed like they were winning most of the second balls,” Thurston said. “But towards the end of the half we got the ball out wide and started working it better.”

Gomez’s play in goal was a big factor in keeping the game scoreless when the Rams were controlling possession. He sandwiched the half-time break with outstanding play when he twice made backto-back tough saves near the end of the first half and to start the second half. It was Gomez’s third consecutive start of the season after sitting out the Bears’ first two games. He has allowed only four goals in 352 minutes — a little less than four full games — this season.

Brown’s first goal came when Crew put back a rebound off of a mid-range shot from Evan Ryan ’03. Twelve minutes later, Crew broke through again when he put away a Matt Goldman ’04 cross. The assists were the second of the season for both Ryan and Goldman With his third multi-goal performance of this short season, Crew — one of the co-captains of the team — is putting together a remarkable season. He is averaging more than a goal per game and leading the team with 17 points on eight goals and an assist.

This weekend the Bears will travel to San Francisco, Calif., and compete in the Diadora Classic.

This will be their second trip in two years to a west coast tournament. Last season, they had a rough time in San Diego, losing two games, but hope to learn from that experience this year.

“This weekend is just a huge weekend in terms of momentum,” Thurston said.

“We have been plagued with disappointment on these big trips and it will be great for our morale if we can win one or two of these games.”

Brown will face off against Santa Clara University on Friday at 5 p.m. and the host, the University of San Francisco, on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.

Nick Gourevitch ’03 is an assistant sports editor and covers the men’s soccer team. He can be reached at ngourevitch@browndailyherald.com.

focus is on helping a young team adjust and do well in a difficult conference.

Brown plays in the CWPA Northern Division that always fields many competitive teams. The Bears will rely heavily on Grutzmacher’s experience and leadership to carry them through this year.

“We have a very young team this year as five out of our eleven players are freshman,” Clapper said. “Doug has done a great job helping them improve their game and adjust to this level of play.”

Co-Captain Nate Hughes ’03 echoed Clapper’s sentiments regarding Grutzmacher’s contribution to the team.

“He’s a great leader and we really work well together,” Hughes said. “He’s very patient and always willing to listen to his teammates and their concerns.”

As the season winds down, Grutzmacher and the Bears hope to end on a strong note.

“After being here a few years, you can really see the improvement in our play,” said Grutzmacher.

“We’ve struggled the past few years, but we’ve come a long way and we can only get better.”

With Grutzmacher leading the way, that’s very likely.

Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 covers the women’s soccer team and can be reached at shegde@browndailyherald.com.

Equestrian trots to win at Conn.

BY SARAH STAVELEY-O’CARROLL

Last Saturday, the Brown varsity equestrian team traveled to Storrs, Conn., for the first show of the season, hosted by the University of Connecticut.

Traditionally the team’s most difficult show, the Bears had never won at this venue in the past. So when Brown took home the blue ribbon on Saturday after a long day of vying for the top spot against the nine other colleges in the region, the victory was especially significant.

In fact, this fall posed more obstacles than did previous years — 16 seniors graduated last spring, leaving less than half of the team to return this year. Included in the graduates was three-time national champion Amanda Forte, who won the prestigious Caccione Cup in May 2001 and who is now pursuing a professional riding career.

However, after significant work to rebuild their team with new members and lots of hard work from returning riders, the Bears proved that they could still dominate the region.

The Brown team kicked off the morning with an impressive start: two wins in Open flat, the first by returning rider Jackie Bialo ’04, and the second by newcomer Jamie Peddy ‘06. These victories brought together the team, and senior Marston St. John kept the momentum up as she placed second in Intermediate flat.

The competition remained tough, however, and Brown at one point was tied for second place with five see EQUESTRIAN, page 4