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OPPOSING WAR Members of Not Another Victim Anywhere set up shop on the Main Green yesterday to oppose a possible war in Iraq. Later on Monday, President George Bush called on Iraq to disarm or face U.S. military force in a national cable television address. SEE STORY, PAGE 7.

Bizzacco ’03.5 becomes Cicilline’s right-hand man BY ANIA KUBIN

Chris Bizzacco ’03.5 has more real-world political experience than most political science and public policy concentrators could ever dream of having. He left Brown last semester to become mayoral campaign manager to David Cicilline ’83 — a position he still holds as the November election nears and as he resumes his studies. Bizzacco became involved in Cicilline’s campaign in April 2001 when he learned that Cicilline needed a summer intern. Bizzacco met with Cicilline and landed the position. As an intern that summer, Bizzacco worked on the early planning phase of the campaign. Cicilline asked him to work Chris Bizzacco ’03.5 on the campaign full time, and Bizzacco left Brown to take the paid position of campaign manager during the spring of 2002. For Bizzacco, this opportunity was a continuation of years of political exposure and interest. “Politics was always a part of growing up in my family,” Bizzacco said. A Rhode Island native, Bizzacco said he has several local political role models. His grandfather was president of the Johnston City Council, his uncle was also active in politics in Johnston and his mother was involved with the school committee in North Providence. They were honest, hardworking and inspiring, Bizzacco said. At age 13, he began working for Providence Casting, his family’s business. Hot summers spent assembling buttons and buckles taught him about the burdens of heavy labor, he said, and he found himself “looking for a way out.” For Bizzacco, public service became just that. At Brown, Bizzacco is double concentrating in political

science and public policy. However, he said he could “only get so much out of a book,” so he took time off to work with Cicilline to get “real life” experience. During his summer internship, Bizzacco researched municipal problems and accompanied Cicilline on various events in Providence, including a conference on youth and gun violence. He said he saw that “corruption is infused in every part of the city and in every part of city government,” and eliminating that problem is the focus of Cicilline’s campaign. Crime rates are high, schools are performing poorly and families are being kicked out of their homes, Bizzacco said. Despite Providence’s recent renaissance, there are many people living in the city’s surrounding areas that were left behind, Bizzacco said. Through his managerial position, he said he hopes to help Cicilline change Providence. “Organizing a political campaign is a really intense operation,” Bizzacco said. He added that people who want to run for office should first run someone else’s campaign to learn about what it involves. And it involves a lot — creating a message, organizing volunteers and raising money, he said. But the most intense part, Bizzacco said, is reaching into communities and meeting people. Bizzacco said through his work, he met a boy who is afraid to jog because of the gunshots he hears outside, parents who have lost their kids to violence and children who read the same textbooks two years in a row because their schools can’t afford new ones. This September, Bizzacco returned to Brown as a fulltime student, but he said he is still committed to Cicilline’s campaign and remains its manager as part of an independent study with Professor of Political Science Darrell West. The most difficult part of returning to school has been the “transition from reality to theory,” he said. Though Bizzacco plans to finish his education at Brown and then go to graduate school before returning full time to politics, he said the lessons he learned from Cicilline will be lasting. “Through David I was able to see what public service is really all about and how you can change people’s lives,” Bizzacco said.

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In Rhode Island, coffee drinkers find a unique product hardly matched elsewhere page 5

Students for Liberty, a political group that advocates social and economic freedom, was recently promoted to Category III status by the Undergraduate Council of Students. Under UCS rules, the organization will now be given an official budget by the Undergraduate Finance Board. “This was something I thought we very much deserved,” said the group’s president, Eric Neuman ‘04. “I was pleasantly surprised, but not shocked.” Students founded the group a little over a year ago “to fill a void on campus,” Neuman said. “We didn’t see a lot of activity on economic and personal liberty.” While the group espouses the doctrines of laissez-faire capitalism, it also supports socially liberal causes. “We support a woman’s right to choose, freedom for and from religion,” and same-sex union, Neuman said. “This combination of conservative economic and liberal social ideologies, “makes us an odd political group,” he said. Despite this “odd combination,” SFL attracts devoted members and sponsors various activities. Last spring, the group held a panel composed of international students who discussed their personal experiences with globalization. Every other week last year, the group met to read and discuss the works of contemporary and classic economic philosophers. In the near future, SFL plans to sponsor a lecture by Brown Medical School Assistant Professor Daniel Harrop, the Libertarian candidate for District Three State Representative. “Many Libertarian candidates are in line with our political thought,” Neuman said. But he added that SFL is not technically affiliated with the National Libertarian Party. Too often, the party “is an outlet for people who want to get pot legalized,” said Joseph Lisska ‘04, vice president of the Brown College Republicans and SFL treasurer. “They don’t care about the philosophical theories surrounding individual freedom.” Although they identify with Libertarian values, SFL’s members hail from different partisan backgrounds — Democrats, Independents and Republicans belong to the group. Lisska said he had no trouble reconciling his memberships in SFL with his role in the College Republicans. SFL is geared more toward philosophy, while the Republicans are an effective tool for social and political change, he said. Lisska added that he strongly identifies with both groups’ economic stances, because “the economic realities of this world make me not favor the Democrats. Labor unions are a disgusting leech on our society.” Despite members’ diverse partisan affiliations, discussions of party are “checked at the door,” said SFL’s Vice President, Laura Schonmuller ‘03. “On campus we feel there needs to be more discussion about freedom, government and social restrictions,” she said. “We don’t really want to put a party name on that.” Neuman said he thought SFL would appeal to a see LIBERTY, page 4

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French American school grows into local center for bilingual education BY STEVEN GROOPMAN

Nestled in an inauspicious small stone building at 75 John Street lies the French American School of Rhode Island, founded in September 1994 with just five students. It now serves 102 students, representing 25 different countries from preschool through fifth grade. The basic mission of the school is to give its students a distinct education. “Parents put their children in our school so that they can obtain a unique, bilingual education that combines the innovation of the American system with the structure of the French,” said Head of School Dominique Thompson. The school is related to the University in that “some of our first parents were Brown faculty,” Thompson said. Svetlana Evdokimova, associate professor of Slavic languages, said she placed her son, Theodore, in the French American School because “first and foremost, I believe in the importance of acquiring knowledge of foreign languages and cultures,” she said. “Ignorance about other cultures frequently leads to a dangerous sense of false superiority,” she said. Brown enjoys a quiet and steady relationship with the French-American School, which is one of just 33 similar schools in the country. In past years, a number of undergraduate volunteers worked with the school through the Swearer Center, especially when the school was just starting to come into its own. “We always send a representative to Brown to recruit volunteers during the Community Action Network fair because the students have been great in the past and we’re always looking for new volunteers,” Thompson said. Also, the school sometimes plans educational field trips to Brown, including one visit to a Brown HIV research lab. Magdalen Chua ’03, who volunteered at the after-school program at the French-American School during her sophomore year, said she chose to work there because she wanted to work with children. Because she was also taking French, it seemed like a good fit. “Many of the children were already bilingual, so they had a relatively easy time learning a new language,” Chua said. “Sometimes it was hard because I was encouraged to speak French with the children at all times, and they knew it better than me, but it really helped my French a lot.” Chua spoke of how diverse the school was both in terms of students and faculty. “The teachers were extremely patient and helpful with the students,” Chua said. “Although they were encouraged to speak French at all times, sometimes English would be used if a child was really having trouble.” The school also maintains a relationship with other educational institutions by leasing its basement space to various new charter schools in the area, including Blackstone Academy and St. Joseph’s School. These schools are still small and cannot yet afford a space of their own, Thompson said. The school curriculum is delegated by a committee in Washington, D.C., that is accredited by both the United States and France. Thompson said that one the greatest gifts the school gives to its students is the ability to truly appreciate another culture by learning its language, customs and values. “Of course English is important,” Thompson said. “It is the basic, most common means of communication in our world today. But to truly be immersed in a language that has so much culture and history — that is truly a gift and a privilege that more young people should be able to experience and enjoy.”

Talan faces uphill battle in mayor’s race BY ALAN GORDON

Recent polls indicate Republican mayoral candidate David Talan is a long shot to win office this November — but to him, the campaign is not all about winning. Talan received only 4 percent support from recent poll respondents and is trailing his Democratic opponent David Cicilline ’83 by a wide margin in the race to lead Providence. THE RACE FOR Talan describes himself as a PROVIDENCE “good Jewish boy” who grew up in FIRST IN A SERIES working class South Providence. His home address is printed on all of his handouts, and he speaks proudly of the community projects he has participated in over the past 25 years. As president of the Reservoir Triangle Neighborhood Association for six terms, a founding member of the Friends of Roger Williams Park and president and coach for Elmwood Little League, Talan has been involved in many aspects of Providence life. “While I’m not married, and I don’t have any children, I tell people I actually have 600 children in the little league,” Talan said. What Talan lacks is the experience of running a successful campaign. A 53-year-old computer systems analyst, he has never held public office and has lost nine elections as a Republican candidate for city council and state representative. The closest he has come to election success was working on Mary Ross’ 1992 campaign for state representative. “In a district that was 85 percent Democrat … we were able to get Mary elected,” Talan said wistfully. Later he mentioned, “it would be a dream to be mayor.” Talan’s campaign is centered on support for school vouchers, which would give $3,000 to the family of each child who leaves the public school system to go to a private or parochial school. At the Sept. 27 mayoral debate in Sayles Hall, he managed to work in his school voucher plan while answering questions

regarding racial tensions, homicide and supporting the arts. He contends that vouchers will relieve the overcrowding of Providence schools, force public schools to compete for their students and “allow poor minority children to join the 8,000 other children with more affluent parents, who have already fled the public schools.” He estimates his voucher plan will save Providence $25 million. Talan also said he wants to encourage Brown and other universities to found charter schools, which Providence students could use vouchers to attend. Talan is also concerned with the lack of affordable housing in Providence. He said the inflated demand for housing could be significantly diminished by encouraging Brown and other universities to build more on-campus housing for students. He is also keen on reclaiming Providence’s many Brownfields — or abandoned lots — a process he gained experience with as an activist in the Reservoir Triangle neighborhood of Providence. Talan consistently denounced the corruption of former Mayor Vincent Cianci’s administration, and rarely hesitates to criticize Cianci-era projects like the current police civilian review board, which he calls a “bureaucratic monstrosity.” He also warns that current pensions for city workers are so “excessive,” they threaten to bankrupt the city. During his campaign he said he is refusing contributions from “city workers, people who do business with the city, criminals and drug dealers.” “He is not a strong candidate,” said Alexandra Lynn ’03, president of the College Republicans, adding that the group is concentrating on the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Don Carcieri ’65. Despite his current low poll results, Talan said he will play a valuable role in the election. see TALAN, page 4

David Segal looks to turn Ward One Green David Segal is crusading against Providence’s overnight parking ban in one of the country’s strongest districts for Green Party candidates BY ADAM STELLA

The unwelcome but familiar sight of a parking ticket on one’s windshield greeted many College Hill residents on the morning of Sept. 18. But the distributor of these tickets was not the usual city parking enforcement. It was 1st Ward Green Party candidate David Segal. Segal distributed mock tickets in the early hours of Sept. 18 to draw attention to his parking reform proposals, which would eliminate the ban on overnight parking on College Hill. A permit system would replace the current system, a measure that would be safer, making parking more convenient for residents, Segal said. The proposed system would allow off-campus University students to purchase street parking passes and is just one of the substantial reforms Segal has proposed for city government. The resignation of Ward One Democratic councilman Robert Clarkin makes the race one of the city’s most competitive. Segal faces competition from Clarkin’s nephew Democrat Kyle Diggins, Republican William Miller and independent Harrison Bilodeau. One of Segal’s challenges may be distinguishing himself from the thousands of college students on College Hill. From his rumpled, maroon, zip-up jacket to his worn New Balance 611s, he has a college look. He refers to his “slacker” math major at Columbia University and otherwise speaks like a student. While Segal views his age, 22, as an asset, Riana Good ’03, president of the Green Party at Brown, is less optimistic. She said his age is his biggest obstacle, although she added that his ideas are “excellent” and his knowledge of the issues facing the east side and Providence is exceptional. “The age factor needs to be overlooked,” Good said. But as the conversation shifts to city policy, Segal’s enthusiasm for progressive reform emerges. He leaves no ambiguity about his priorities. “The number one issue is affordable housing,” Segal said. In response to the rapidly rising rents that have forced many residents out of College Hill and Fox Point, Segal proposes a variety of reforms. He advocates creating a

task force to explore rent control, giving tax breaks for developers building affordable housing and compelling the city’s universities to build more on-campus housing. Segal’s proposal that universities build more on-campus housing is “excellent” and “wise,” said Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations. She pointed to the refurbishment of Minden Hall as evidence of the University’s commitment to providing on-campus housing and said further projects will be considered. The Green Party fared well in the ward in the last two elections, giving Segal a reason for hope. Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader received between 17 and 22 percent of the Ward’s vote in 2000. In 1998, Josh Mandelbaum ’01 garnered 23 percent of the vote in a state Senate race against a Democratic incumbent. “If there’s any ward in the country that a Green should be representing, it’s this one,” Segal said. But the strength of the Democratic Party in this ward cannot be discounted, a fact that Segal acknowledges. “I doubt if a Green candidate has much of a chance of winning unless a huge number of students vote,” said Professor of Political Science Elmer Cornwell. Segal hopes his intense grassroots campaign will draw 500 votes from students and 500 votes from the rest of the community. The ward includes the campus south of Angell Street, which includes Wriston and Keeney quads. He spent much of the summer trying to counteract the Democratic party’s strength by knocking on doors, mailing campaign literature and taking suggestions from local residents and businesses. Some of the specifics for his parking proposal came from talking with residents, he said. His proposal for a business liaison between local businesses and the city government came from discussions with local business owners. Segal and Good are optimistic about the young candidate’s chances in a four-way race, but both admit that they are counting on Bilodeau to take votes away from Diggins in order for Segal to win. Segal predicted that no more than 2,200 votes will be cast. Like in many city races, reforming city government and cleansing it of corruption will be a major issue in this race, Cornwell said. He added that an endorsement from widely popular Democratic mayoral candidate David Cicilline ’83 could have a significant impact on the election. An Oct. 9 debate should give the other candidates an see SEGAL, page 4

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Segal continued from page 3 opportunity to publicize more of their positions on some issues, something they have yet to do, Segal said. Segal firmly staked out the left on other issues, such as supporting a living wage for city employees and contractors, calling for alternative sources of energy, including solar-powered street lamps and pushing for the city to adopt paid maternity and paternity leave. If elected, Segal plans to request a comprehensive audit of the city budget and look for new sources of revenue for the city. Some of his tax proposals include a transfer tax on property worth more than $200,000 and a one percent income tax on salaries over $75,000. He said he may also ask colleges and universities in Providence to contribute money and services to the city. The University supports raising the state’s PILOT contribution, in which state government pays the city instead of taxing the city’s college and university academic buildings, Freid said. She pointed out that Brown donates equipment or services to several Providence high schools, and is working to improve the city’s teacher training. “We are very interested in collaborative efforts that will benefit our city and state,” Freid said. Segal is a relative newcomer to the area, having grown up in suburban Washington, D.C. He moved to Providence after graduating from Columbia in 2001. He is advised by a group of friends and acquaintances from Providence and his childhood home, and he reads material online and elsewhere, he said. He has consulted with Mayor Mike Feinstein of Santa Monica, Calif. — the biggest city to have a Green mayor.

Segal firmly stakes out the left on other issues, such as supporting a living wage for city employees and contractors, calling for alternative sources of energy, including solar-powered street lamps and pushing for the city to adopt paid maternity and paternity leave. Segal officially entered the race in June because he did not think the ward was well represented, he said. He had been contemplating running since at least last winter, Good said. Segal approached the Brown Greens early in the spring semester inquiring about support, she added. Segal spent this school year beginning in September substituting as a math teacher at the Wheeler School and performing other needed duties for the school. His various jobs include tutoring, leading field trips, leading arts and crafts and teaching fourth graders LSAT logic puzzles, Segal said. Last year he taught calculus at the Wheeler School. His schedule has left a considerable amount of time to campaign. Despite his avowed confidence in his chances of winning the race, Segal seems to relish the role of the underdog. “Nobody’s really giving me a chance,” he said. “Well, maybe some people are now.”

Liberty continued from page 1 large, relatively silent majority of campus moderates of all political persuasions. “There are a lot of moderates on campus and no one’s saying anything to them,” he said. “The ultra-left sentiments are much louder.” He said libertarian viewpoints are often been overlooked on campus because they require extensive knowledge of complicated subjects. “People are talking about the Greens, but there are other third parties out there,” he said. “For every bumpersticker or sound bite, there’s a 15-minute refutation of it. That’s hard to shout out from a podium.”

Talan continued from page 3 “I thought it was very important to have a Republican candidate on the ballot,” Talan said, noting that without him there might be no Republicans in the mayoral race. He added that he is helping to energize Providence Republicans, so that they might gain in strength in the future. No matter the outcome of the election, Talan said he considers his campaign a fulfilling one. “There are so many fascinating and talented and really interesting people in the city of Providence and, being a candidate, you actually get to meet them,” Talan said. “Even if the unthinkable happens, and I lose the election, it’s still a wonderful experience.”

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UFB reps debrief UCS at weekly council meeting BY JONATHAN ELLIS

It wasn’t exactly a financial accounting class, but at its meeting Monday night, the Undergraduate Council of Students received a primer on the operations of the Undergraduate Finance Board. Following the meeting, behind closed doors, council members gave President Allen Feliz ’03 and Vice President Deepa Kumaraiah ’03 a vote of confidence. UFB Chair Langston Dugger ’04 and Associate Chair Dan Le ’04 explained what the board does with the $700,000 it collects each year from student activities fees. UFB funds all Category III groups, Dugger said. Category III groups are eligible for additional funding beyond the $90 per semester that goes to Category II groups. Category I groups receive no funding. But student groups don’t use all their allotted money each year, and the unused funds go into a holding account. While its value fluctuates from year to year, the account currently totals about $600,000, Dugger reported. UFB is looking to find projects to fund with that money, but its expenditure is heavily restricted, Le said. She said that UFB will try to revise its constitution this year to loosen those rules. Other UFB goals for the year include assisting the Coalition of Bands at Brown in finding practice space and expanding web-based information services for student groups, Dugger told the council. UFB will hold an open forum to get feedback see UCS, page 6

In Rhody, a different java tradition BY XIYUN YANG

Nine years ago, the Rhode Island General Assembly briefly suffered a bipartisan schism. The political spectrum tossed and turned, fostering short-lived yet unpredictable bedfellows. Buried under intense political rhetoric, opposing sides argued on the floor. But what was the sensational subject matter? Reproductive rights? Educational standards? Upon closer inspection, the debate topic is one near and dear to everyone’s hearts. The official state drink: Coffee Milk v. Del’s Frozen Lemonade. Although both state-drink hopefuls aspired to join the ranks of the Rhode Island Greening Apple, the official state fruit, and Cumberladite, the official state rock, there was only room for one official state drink. The debate was intense. The competition was harsh. The stakes were high. “Hm. Tastes like melted Häagen-Dazs ice cream,” said Joanne Park ’06 as she took a skeptical sip of the winning beverage. First introduced to Rhode Island in the 1920s, coffee milk gained enough momentum by 1993 to be crowned the official drink of Rhode Island, according to the Rhode Island Gift Basket Company’s Web site. The heart and soul of coffee milk, propelling it as a beverage in its own right, can be isolated to coffee syrup. Autocrat coffee syrup, the only brand available at East Side Mini Mart, inches out of the bottle as a thick dark brown liquid. By mixing coffee syrup with milk at a ratio of two tablespoons to eight ounces, the concoction creates a rich, sugary drink. Coffee milk is also the core ingredient in a Coffee Cabinet, a coffee flavored milk shake that’s distinctly found in Rhode Island. The milk shake is called a “Cabinet” because its originator kept his blender in a kitchen cabinet, according to the Web site Whatscookingamerica.net. The drink is not a particularly healthy alternative to its blander cousin — coffee milk contains about the same amount of fat as low-fat ice cream. Coffee-flavored ready-to-drink milks present a new market for dairy manufacturers, according to research

Although Rhode Islanders have officially claimed ownership of coffee milk, the drink makes occasional appearances in New Hampshire and other New England states, according to New England residents. from Dairy Management Inc. Consumers surveyed by the research said that lack of available flavors is a reason why they do not drink more milk. Although Rhode Islanders have officially claimed ownership of coffee milk, the drink makes occasional appearances in New Hampshire and other New England states, according to New England residents. Recently, a slight variation of the drink became all the rage in Japan and South Korea, a student told The Herald. Coffee milk is often cited as a poster child for small local businesses. “Without (small businesses), Rhode Island would be no better than any other state. A Rhode Island without a place to buy two wieners with the works and a large coffee milk would be a very sad state indeed,” Republican congressional candidate Mike Battles wrote in a statement. But perhaps such categorization is misleading. The coffee milk in the Ratty and other University Food Services locations is provided by Garelick Farms, a subsidiary of the Dean Foods Corporation. A glass of the drink is ideal for a sophisticated revisit of a more popular childhood favorite, chocolate milk. It can also pass off as a more muted, cheaper version of any Starbucks latte. “Shouldn’t they be serving this stuff at Starbucks for nine bucks?” asked Alex Clifford ’06.

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UCS continued from page 5 from the student body, Dugger said. UFB will examine the University’s new ‘Brown First’ policy, Dugger said, calling it a “big pain” for some students. ‘Brown First’ is a new University-wide policy that requires student groups, along with administrative and academic offices, to retain the services of University Food Services and Metcalf Copy Center over external vendors. Justin Sanders ’04, UCS Campus Life Committee chair, suggested that the policy could prove useful to student groups if it provided set lists of prices to assist in event planning. Dugger said he hoped to strengthen the communication between UCS and UFB, adding that they “can’t afford to not talk about the issues.” In the council’s E-Board

Salt continued from page 12 the age of 30, you need to have at least one fantasy sports team. Like when you’re a little kid and get all dressed up in one of your parent’s clothing because you want to feel like a grown-up, fantasy sports give 20 year olds the chance to feel like a real-life general manager without the stress of being fired every year. Where did this obsession with fantasy sports come from? Like Tipper Gore, I’m inclined to attack music lyrics for this problem, but I don’t think they’re to blame (or thank) in this case. The fantasy craze comes directly out of the emergence of the internet. If there were no internet, people wouldn’t do fantasy sports because, frankly, Americans are way too lazy to calculate and keep track of their own points. Believe me, we tried my senior year, but by week 14 we pretty much decided to stop. Fantasy sports have become so widespread that next year they’re going to have fantasy curling and fantasy World Series of Poker on ESPN.com. Seriously, there is

report, Feliz said he was pleased with the feedback the council received at its town meeting Thursday, but he wished the turnout had been better. Meanwhile, he said he is looking forward to an upcoming student leadership conference, calling it “a project that I truly believe in.” Because one council member is on leave, Kumaraiah said that another at-large representative position will be opened to the public. She also organized UCS office hours so the council could have a more visible presence in Faunce House. The winners of last year’s “Win Paul Armstrong’s Money” have now been paid in full, said Ty-Reese Brit-Foreman ’04, council treasurer. Kevin Bennett ’03, Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee chair, said his committee will look at the Brown Police arming issue and formulate the council’s final position after what he expects to be a “healthy debate.”

Sanders said Fall Ball is tentatively scheduled for Friday, Nov. 1, and the Key Society will take over its planning. The council approved the Independent Artists Network as a Category I group and bumped up Brotherhood to Category II status. But after lengthy deliberations, it tabled its discussions on categorizing Five Brothers Incorporated, a party planning group, and upgrading the Hourglass Café to a Category III organization. Nikhil Laud ’03, Corporation liaison, said he will work with the Corporation on a senior class gift. He also said he will try to get a recently graduated alumnus appointed as a member of the Corporation. And, he added, the Corporation would have final say in any decision to change Brown’s grading system.

pretty much fantasy anything. Fantasy golf and fantasy NASCAR are now mainstays. Fantasy gaming should be extended to the world of Brown as well. Having Fantasy Neuro or Fantasy Engine 9 would be amazing. Imagine what a conversation about these would be like: “Dude, I got Hazeltine in the second round!” “Yeah man, he had some injury problems last year, but it looks like he’ll pick it back up this year.” It would revolutionize the way we learn and probably make it more interesting. It’s really hard to fathom all of the fantasy sports that are out there at the moment. While fantasy sports seem to have gotten a little out of control, one thing I will say for them is that they do give you something to talk about. A friend of mine once noted, “If you guys didn’t have fantasy baseball, you’d have nothing to talk about.” This isn’t completely true, because we could also have had Fantasy Little League World Series to talk about as well (the trashing talking kid from Harlem went first overall). Fantasy sports really do give you an endless supply of “awkward silence stoppers.” If a

conversation looks like it has hit a lull, just bring up a deal you’re thinking about proposing or who you’re matched up against this week, and suddenly, the lull is over. Fantasy sports also give you a pretty in depth knowledge of players that you wouldn’t have otherwise. Someone in my league picked up Steve Smith. I thought Steve Smith played basketball and was one of the 12 guys on Portland whose name I knew, yet they still had a horrible team. By the way, Steve Smith is a receiver on Carolina who looks like he could have a breakout year, so you may want to pick him up. So this country has gone fantasy crazy. And while I say this, I have three fantasy football teams in two leagues (don’t ask me why, it’s not worth getting into.) Rather than being part of the solution, I’m part of the problem. Maybe I’ll go to Fantasy Anonymous right after the football season ends. While I’m there, at least I know I’ll have something to talk about.

Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

Jeff Saltman ’03 hails from outside Washington, D.C., and is a history and economics concentrator.

Sokoloff continued from page 12 equipped with a salary cap and minimum. Your negative view of the parity I adore is interesting, and fittingly intertwined with college football’s greatest blemish, the ranking system. Indeed, a college team can positively “come out of nowhere” with a season of upsets and consistency, counter to everyone’s expectations. Check out, for example, Tulane’s 1998 perfect season. The fruit of their labor was merely a Sporting News article with a New Orleans byline. What more could they have done? College football prides itself on surprise, but apparently a team such as Tulane having a shot at the National Championship is a bit much even for the NCAA, record notwithstanding. Upsets in the NCAA can be jolting, but practically inconsequential in a sense. In the NFL, a 0-0 record is just that, and each team enters the season with an equal chance. The results are teams like the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots winning more than just a brief moment of national respect. I will now, if I may, introduce another aspect of rankings sys-

Volleyball continued from page 12 kills, and Highlund scraped out 11 digs. Gibbs received her first start of the year, having proven her worth in the previous game and tallied nine kills. Towson went on to defeat Iona three games to one to take home second place in the tournament. The Bears took on Iona College in the final match of the weekend, where the score of every game was 30-28. Brown won all but the third game to defeat the Gaels and take the tournament title. The Gaels strongest player was senior Julie Cycon who had 11 kills. On the other side of the net, Calvert had 11 kills and 10 digs for her seventh consecutive double-double– she also surpassed former teammate Diane Schneider’s record for aces, moving into fifth place all-time with 65. Kuchenbecker had her third consecutive double-double with

Soccer continued from page 12 San Francisco broke the deadlock in the 43rd minute and never relinquished the lead. While the Bears did not score that elusive second goal, they did pressure the Dons late into the second half. Jeff Larentowicz ’05 and Dustin Branan ’03 put shots on target in the final minute of action, forcing the San Francisco keeper to make two of his five saves in the waning seconds of the match to seal the victory. Also participating in the weekend tournament was Harvard University, who was defeated handily in both its games after

tems that favors the NFL — the simply euphoric spirit of victory. I hope the recent Florida State versus Iowa State nail biter still resides in recent memory. The Seminoles squeaked by, thanks to a goal-line stand on the final play of the contest. The Seminoles’ victory was hardly considered such, as celebration and relief were exchanged for uneasiness and disappointment. On that afternoon, the Seminoles won far less than the credibility they lost. In the NFL, the line separating victory and defeat is bold. The former is celebrated, and the latter is unforgivably lamented. Skilled play has become an annoyance to you, as the players have “perfected each play.” You fail to mention that, by this logic, NFL defenses too have “perfected” the defense of each play. Increasing skill retains the balance of competition while refining all aspects of play. I do concede that this is ultimately a question of style. I relish a fingertip reception, but if you prefer “broken plays” and “silly penalties,” you should check out the Brown intramural scene. Jamie Sholem: The NFL owns you. Guest Columnist Gabe Sokoloff ’06 loves Jamie Sholem like a brother.

13 kills and 11 digs — it was her fourth double-double of the season. Cooper, coming off her record-breaking game against Yale, had 20 kills and Gibbs had her third strong game of the weekend with 13 kills. Iona is 136 after the weekend. After a successful weekend, the Bears are focusing on training in practice. “We’re working on some of the things we had trouble with,” Short said. “We’re trying to quicken our offense; we’re trying to add more free ball plays. … There are a lot of things we’ll be working on.” Brown has their second Ivy League match of the year next weekend at Dartmouth. It will be an important match in the team’s attempt to capture the Ivy title alone this year. “(The Ivy League champion) is very hard to predict because the Ivy league is so even,” said Short. “It makes it very fun and challenging.” Sports Staff Writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers the volleyball team. She can be reached at kbabcock@browndailyherald.com.

defeating the Bears two weekends ago. The Crimson lost 4-1 to San Francisco and 2-0 to Santa Clara. Brown will next face Columbia University in a critical Ivy League match-up at Stevenson Field on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. If the Bears hope to edge their way back into the Ivy race, they must beat a tough Lions squad that is fresh off a victory over defending Ivy League co-champion Princeton University. Last season, Brown defeated Columbia in a 1-0 overtime thriller in New York. Nick Gourevitch ’03 is an assistant sports editor and covers the men’s soccer team.He can be reached at ngourevitch@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF French oil tanker explosion probed KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (Washington Post) — Yemeni and French

investigators launched a probe Monday into the cause of an explosion aboard a French oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden that the ship’s owner contends was caused by a terrorist attack. The ship was rocked by a blast and engulfed in flames on Sunday morning as it neared Mina al-Dabah, a port close to the city of Al Mukalla, about 200 miles southeast of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Officials said the fire, fueled by nearly 1.6 million gallons of crude oil aboard the tanker, was extinguished Monday. French and Yemeni officials said it was too early to determine what caused the blast on the ship, named the Limburg. A Yemeni official said his government believes an oil leak sparked a fire and caused the blast. French officials said that they could not rule out terrorism, but that they had not seen enough evidence to indicate the blast was set off deliberately. “We believe the explosion happened from within the tanker, but investigations are still underway,” a Yemeni official speaking on the condition of anonymity told the Associated Press. Yemeni journalists who were escorted close to the stillsmoldering tanker reported seeing a charred hole about three feet wide on one side of the ship.The journalists said twisted metal around the hole pointed outward, perhaps indicating the explosion came from inside the tanker. Officials accompanying the journalists said it was the only hole.

CalTech discovery of icy sphere to prompt re-examination of space (L.A. Times) — Two California Institute of Technology astronomers, using an aging telescope to scan the fringes of the solar system, have found a massive object half the size of Pluto — a distant, icy sphere they have dubbed Quaoar. The scientists say the dark, reddish object is the largest body discovered in the solar system since Pluto was spotted in 1930. Although precise measurements are impossible to make from Earth, Quaoar (pronounced KWA-wahr) is estimated to be about 780 miles across, the size of Pluto’s moon, Charon. It dances near the edge of the solar system 1 billion miles beyond Pluto, 4 billion miles from Earth. The find by Mike Brown and Chad Trujillo, two young Caltech astronomers who have worked in relative obscurity to survey the outer reaches of the solar system, was announced Monday at a meeting of planetary scientists in Birmingham, Ala. Quaoar joins a handful of other strange, large objects recently found in Pluto’s neighborhood, the Kuiper Belt, a swath of icy cosmic residue that extends from Neptune to the solar system’s outer limits. Its discoverers say Quaoar is too small to be a planet, although they note it is quite planet-like in its behavior and acts far more like a planet than Pluto does.That finding immediately revived a simmering debate among astronomers about whether Pluto should be stripped of its designation as a planet, and is forcing astronomers to reconsider even basic notions about the solar system as a whole.

Key breast cancer gene identified (Newsday) — Discovery of a gene that could be important

in many breast cancer cases was announced Monday by a research team at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y., and the University of Washington. Called DBC2, for “deleted in breast cancer,” the gene is considered a candidate for causing, or helping cause, the so-called “sporadic” cases of breast cancer. These are the non-inherited form that account for about 90 percent of breast cancer cases. According to a report to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the newly identified gene seems to be a “tumor suppressor” gene that applies biological brakes to keep cells from growing out of control. If it’s damaged, the brakes are released, and cancer gets going. The lead author on the study was Masaaki Hamaguchi, at Cold Spring Harbor Lab. It is not yet clear, however, precisely what role the gene plays, if any, in cancer cases. Much more study is needed, although examination of breast cancer tissue shows that DBC2 is damaged — actually deleted — in 58 percent of the cases studied. It is also lost in half of the lung cancer tissue samples tested.

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President George Bush spoke on national cable television Monday night about the need to use military force against Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime.Without declaring war, Bush said the United States is prepared to use force if Iraq does not agree to disarmament.

Bush to Iraq: disarm — or face force CINCINNATI (Washington Post) — President Bush, in a sober but

chilling address, warned the public tonight that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is “a murderous tyrant” who poses an immediate threat to the United States and American lives. Seeking to rally support for a congressional resolution that would authorize him to order unilateral U.S. military action against Iraq, Bush said, “While there are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone — because it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction are controlled by a murderous tyrant who has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people.” Bush said that the resolution did not mean that war with Iraq was “imminent or unavoidable.” But, he said, it would show “the United Nations, and all nations, that America speaks with one voice.” Bush spoke in a televised speech aides said was scheduled so that he could explain his Iraqi policy directly to the American people. While it is seems likely that the resolution Bush seeks will pass both houses of Congress by the end of the week, polls show that public support is waning. Most Americans still support war against Iraq, but have questions about its timing and the lack of support from allies. Monday night, Bush’s Democratic critics in Congress said they remained unconvinced of the need to strike immediately. As he made his case, Bush offered little new information, borrowing phrases from his U.N. address last month, remarks he made on the congressional resolution at the White House last week, and recent Capitol Hill testimony and news conferences by members of his Cabinet. Instead, he systematically went through the now-familiar case against Iraq: Saddam’s long defiance of United Nations disarmament demands and barring of U.N. weapons inspectors; evidence that he has stores of chemical and biological weapons and is seeking to build a nuclear device; his repression against his own people. And he repeatedly

emphasized that a failure to act quickly could disrupt the balance of power in the Middle East and cost American lives. Far from undermining the overall U.S. war against terrorism, as some critics have charged, Bush said, confronting Iraq “is crucial to winning the war against terror.” Repeating allegations of existing ties between Iraq and al-Qaida, Bush said the greatest threat to U.S. security was that Saddam would turn his weapons of mass destruction over to terrorists who shared his hatred of America. Explaining the need for a pre-emptive policy, Bush compared his decision to that of President John F. Kennedy, who authorized a 1962 U.S. naval blockade to prevent Soviet missiles from reaching Cuba. “Facing clear evidence of peril,” Bush said, “we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” Bush delivered Monday night’s speech to a group of civil and business leaders at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Cincinnati was chosen, administration officials said, to evoke a sense of the “heartland” without the political filter of Washington or the portentous implications of a White House address. Even as he is pushing for a congressional resolution authorizing unilateral U.S. force, Bush is pressing the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution that would force Saddam to submit to a tough new weapons inspection regime and threatens the use of international force if Saddam refuses to agree. “Clearly, to actually work, any new inspections, sanctions or enforcement mechanisms will have to be very different” than those the United Nations has passed, but only partially enforced, in the past, Bush said. “American wants the U.N. to be an effective organization that helps to keep the peace.” Among the measures he is seeking, Bush said, “the Iraqi regime must reveal and destroy, under U.N. supervision, all existing weapons of mass destruction.”

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Sniper finds 8th target in schoolboy (Washington Post) — A 13-year-old

boy was critically wounded outside a Prince George’s County, Md., school Monday in a shooting that authorities linked to a spate of sniper attacks that have now killed six people and wounded two others in the Washington area since Wednesday. The youth, an eighth-grader at Benjamin Tasker Middle School in Bowie, was struck in the chest by a high-powered rifle bullet as he was being dropped off in front of the school by an aunt about 8 a.m., authorities said. An investigator said police found a spent shell casing in woods about 140 yards from the school, in a spot with a clear sightline to where the boy crumpled to the ground, bleeding. “We have a level of fear that we’re not used to,” Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Charles A. Moose said Monday when it became apparent that Prince George’s had joined the list of Washington area jurisdictions where sniper attacks have occurred. The others are Montgomery, the District of Columbia and Spotsylvania County, Va. Speaking to reporters in Rockville, his eyes moist and his voice quivering with anger, Moose said: “Today it went down to the children. ... Someone is so meanspirited that they shot a child. ... Now we’re stepping over the line. Shooting a kid. I guess it’s getting to be really, really personal now.” The boy, hospitalized Monday night in critical but stable condi-

tion after about 2 1/2 hours of surgery, is the youngest of eight sniper victims. The first, a 55-yearold man, was slain Wednesday night in Montgomery. Four people, ages 25 to 54, were killed Thursday morning in Montgomery, a 72-year-old man was fatally shot Thursday night in the District and a 43-year-old woman was wounded in Spotsylvania on Friday afternoon. All the victims were in public places going about ordinary activities — mowing a lawn, filling a gas tank, walking into a supermarket. But the shooting of a teen-ager in front of his school jolted parents and school systems across the region and raised an already intensive police investigation to a new level of urgency. Maryland Gov. Parris N. Glendening announced that the state would contribute $100,000 to an existing $50,000 reward fund for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. In Prince George’s and Montgomery, officials said schools would open Tuesday with greatly increased security and no outdoor activities for students. And in an extraordinary joint appearance Monday night, the Montgomery, Prince George’s and District police chiefs and other law enforcement officials vowed to work cooperatively in one of the biggest criminal manhunts in the region’s history. Calling the attacks “cowardly and senseless,” President Bush said federal law enforcement agencies would continue assisting

local investigators. “Laura and I send our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families,” the president said. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said federal authorities have no evidence that the shootings are the work of an organized terrorist group. “It’s a horrible tragedy,” Ridge said. “You get nauseous thinking about how cowardly, how inhumane this is.” At the Bowie school, police and anxious parents poured into the area following reports of the shooting, and scores of officers and police cadets began searching for evidence, focusing on woods nearby. Meanwhile, surgeons at Children’s Hospital worked to save the critically injured youngster. The bullet had penetrated his upper abdomen before fragmenting and causing damage to his spleen, stomach, pancreas, lungs and diaphragm, hospital officials said. After conducting ballistics tests Monday, authorities declined to say whether the bullet in the Bowie attack had come from the same high-powered .223-caliber rifle used in previous attacks. Michael Bouchard, head of the Baltimore office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, would say only that the slug was from “the same family of bullets” as the ammunition in earlier shootings. Yet officials made it clear that they had evidence tying the Bowie shooting to the sniper attacks in Montgomery, the District and Virginia.

Canada to coax smokers to kick habit WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Washington Post) — Before Tony Hayden

smokes a cigarette, he takes two other hits — one to his wallet, the other to his conscience. Rising federal and provincial taxes have helped push the price of cigarettes up nearly 40 percent here in the past year, to the equivalent of up to $7.50 a pack. Hayden, a plumber, said he can still afford his $50-to-$70-a-week habit, but the cost is cutting into his weekend spending money. More troubling to him are what he calls the “sick but powerful” warning images that began to appear on cigarette packs in Canada 20 months ago. The 16 government-approved pictures, one of which must be on every pack, include a man in a hospital bed breathing through a ventilator, a close-up of yellowing, nicotine-stained teeth, two boys staring out from the written message “Don’t Poison Us” and a pair of lungs blackened with cancer. “They make you think, and sometimes I do a double take,” Hayden said as he and a colleague, Adam Lavoie, took an afternoon smoking break. The picture warnings — the first of their kind, with Brazil since adopting them as well — are part of the Canadian government’s expanding campaign against smoking. It includes $320 million over a five-year period for education and prevention. The pictures have also caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that would require similar pictures on the packaging of cigarettes sold in the United States. But a

spokesman for Rep. James Hansen, R-Utah, one of the bill’s sponsors, said the legislation probably is on the “deep back burner.” The Canadian government expects to spend years fighting legal challenges to the warning requirement. Last month, a Montreal court heard closing arguments in a lawsuit filed by tobacco companies claiming that the regulations, including the required warnings, infringe on their rights of free expression. “We say the package is a vehicle of expression and insisting on putting these images on, which vilify the product,” violates the industry’s rights, said Simon V. Potter, lead counsel for the tobacco companies in the suit. He said that Canada’s tobacco industry is “quite happy” to include written health warnings on the packages, but that the pictures and the accompanying text take up too much space and are “unjustifiable.” Mark Taylor, immediate past president of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said the companies “are facing an uphill battle.” “It took the tenacity of a number of public health groups and some very brave politicians who stood up to the tobacco industry to get this through,” he said. The pictures “inform people of the true risks involved in smoking. They don’t exaggerate the dangers.” Anti-smoking activists and health officials credit the picture warnings with helping to reduce smoking. An estimated 600,000 Canadians quit in 2001, leaving about 5.4 million smokers over

age 15 in a country where 45,000 people die annually from smoking-related causes. “Earlier studies have shown that the warnings have been effective,” said Ken Kyle, director of public issues at the Canadian Cancer Society, which in March surveyed 2,014 Canadians and found that 76 percent support the graphic warnings, with 59 percent of smokers saying they were a good idea. In a previous study by the society, 43 percent of smokers said the new warnings had made them more concerned about the health effects of smoking, while 44 percent said the warnings increased their motivation to quit. Kyle pointed out that the warning labels are only one part of the country’s campaign and that continuing to increase taxes on tobacco products will have as much impact as anything else. Lavoie, an apprentice plumber, said that if prices keep going up, he will consider quitting. Lavoie said that after his initial shock, most of the warnings have not greatly affected him. Yet he and Hayden said they avoid buying packs that display the stained teeth, or a bent cigarette meant to link smoking and impotence. “Those are the worst,” Hayden said. To nonsmoker Julie Snee, who works in the administrative offices of West Edmonton Mall, the world’s largest indoor shopping complex, the warnings are good if they get people’s attention, but she is a bit skeptical about their effect. “I have friends who smoke and they don’t seem to be quitting,” she said.

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Israeli attacks kill 13, wound 80 KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (L.A. Times) —

Israeli military operations, including a missile attack in a crowded street here, killed 13 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip Monday, generating an outpouring of grief and vows of revenge. Ten people were killed and about 80 were injured by the missile, which was fired from a helicopter gunship in Khan Younis at the southwestern end of the Gaza Strip. Israeli military officials said the missile was aimed at a large group of Palestinian gunmen who were firing at troops as they were withdrawing from positions they had taken during an early morning raid by Israeli tanks. Three more people were shot later Monday morning at the local Nasser Hospital by Israeli soldiers stationed atop an observation post in a nearby Jewish settlement, hospital officials said. They said the wounded included a 14-year-old boy shot in the neck and a hospital maintenance worker who was declared brain dead after being shot in the head. Israeli officials said the firing may have come in response to a mortar volley and rifle rounds fired at a Jewish settlement from the vicinity of the hospital. Palestinian fighters, meanwhile, used the flare-up of violence as an opportunity to settle scores with local police, security officials said. A group of 20 men from the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, who were disguised in Palestinian police uniforms, kidnapped a Palestinian police commander at a bogus checkpoint and killed him for his role in the killings

of three people at a Hamas demonstration in favor of Osama bin Laden in October 2001. That killing set off a street battle in Gaza City and a clash at a refugee camp between Hamas and Palestinian security forces in which four more people were killed and 30 wounded, Palestinian police said. The Israeli attack was the deadliest in the Gaza Strip since July, when an Israeli bomb killed 15 people. It left Palestinians here groping for explanations about why Israeli troops have intensified operations in the Gaza Strip in the last few weeks. “This was an excessive and totally unwarranted use of power by the Israelis,” said Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the Gaza Strip. “The Israelis didn’t find significant weapons or explosives, and how much damage can these people (in the street) do firing on tanks and helicopters?” The attack occurred during a visit by Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, who is seeking to create momentum for peace talks based on the most recent international initiative. Solana said he was shocked by the loss of life but vowed to push forward with his mission. “Israel has a right to defend itself,” said a National Security Council spokesman in Washington, Sean McCormack. “Israel should, however, consider carefully the consequences of its actions. That includes the need to take every measure to prevent the loss of innocent life in fighting terror.”

A Hamas spokesman, Abdel Aziz Rantissi, told the Associated Press: “Everyone should know that as our people were not safe in Khan Younis, so Israelis will not be safe in Tel Aviv. We will strike everywhere.” Abu Amr noted that before Monday, more than 17 Palestinians were killed and 60 injured in the Gaza Strip in the last three weeks during almost daily Israeli military operations. He said Palestinian analysts believe Israel is trying to “tranquilize, pacify and destroy parts of the Gaza Strip before the war with Iraq starts, so when it starts, they have a free hand” to focus on Iraq. Israeli military officials said the attacks on Khan Younis — the second-largest city in the Gaza Strip with about 100,000 residents — targeted neighborhoods considered strongholds of Hamas, a radical Islamic group that has asserted responsibility for many of the deadliest suicide bombing attacks against Israel in the last two years. The operations involved about 40 tanks accompanied by several bulldozers and supported by helicopters. They began about midnight andcontinued until about daybreak. “What we’re trying to do is go into these strongholds,” said an Israeli military spokesman, adding that in the last 10 days, 18 mortar shells were fired from one neighborhood at the nearby Israeli settlements of Gush Katif. “If we don’t go to where they are, they’re going to get better and bolder and stronger.”

Brazil’s Lula preps for presidential runoff RIO DE JANEIRO (Washington Post) —

On the steaming sands of Ipanema beach, Lucia Araujo beamed as she stood next to her flag bearing the red star of the Workers’ Party, which scored its greatest electoral victory ever Sunday in the first round of Brazil’s presidential vote. The Workers’ Party candidate, labor leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, failed to win the 50 percent plus one needed to avoid a runoff on Oct. 27. But he trounced his competitors and is seen as wellpositioned to return the left to power in Latin America’s largest nation for the first time in four decades. “We are so close now, so very close,” said Araujo, 37, who has voted for Lula four times, including his failed bids for thepresidency in 1989, 1994 and 1998. “We’ve waited 13 years for this, so we can wait another three weeks. We still have to convince a few more people that the time has come for Lula, but finally, the momentum is on our side.” One day after the first-round vote, Brazil’s left cautiously celebrated a partial victory. The final results showed that Lula, a former factory worker who won 46 percent of the vote, will face the ruling party candidate, political centrist Jose Serra, who won 23 percent, in a runoff scheduled to fall on Lula’s 57th birthday. Lula appeared confident Monday, especially given that two other left-leaning candidates in the race, former Rio state governor Anthony Garotinho and former finance minister Ciro Gomes, placed a strong third and fourth, respectively. Monday, Gomes declared his backing for

Lula. Both Lula and Serra are reportedly in negotiations to win the same promise from Garotinho. Analysts said the left’s big gains reflected mounting discontent in Brazil and across Latin America with the “Washington consensus,” which asserted that free market reforms and privatization would improve the lives of Latin Americans who opened their economies to U.S.-style capitalism during the 1990s. “Yesterday, 76 percent of the population voted in favor of a new economic model for this country,” Lula said, referring to his vote tally combined with those of Garotinho and Gomes. “This was a majestic victory ... for the left. I want to thank all the people who this time did not have fear of change.” But financial markets, which have battered the currency, stocks and bonds in the world’s eighth-largest economy as Lula has risen in the polls, appeared even more apprehensive. The markets seemed to send Lula yet another message that any change in the economic policies in place under the eight-year stewardship of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso should not be too abrupt. Brazil’s leading Sao Paulo Stock Exchange index fell 4.28 percent and the embattled Brazilian currency, the real, shed another 3.3 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar after already dropping 37 percent this year. Meanwhile, the campaign of Serra, Cardoso’s handpicked successor and the preferred candi-

date of financial markets, appeared to struggle for direction as his top political adviser, Sen. Joao Pimenta da Veiga, quit and Serra stayed at home for much of the day with the flu. “We’re starting a new fight today... . We have 21 days and ... we will use every day to discuss new problems,” Serra said in brief comments to reporters. “More than discuss them, we will also dedicate each day to explaining just how and who can really solve them.” Serra, an economist and Cardoso’s former health minister, carried only one of Brazil’s 26 states Sunday — the poor and sparsely populated northeastern state of Alagoas. Lula carried 24 states and the federal district of Brasilia. Gomes, who finished fourth with 12 percent of the vote, carried his home state of Ceara, in the northeast. Serra, 60, is seen by foreign investors as a steadier, more professional candidate. His best hope for gaining ground over the next few weeks, analysts said, is to try to forge political alliances with several center and rightwing parties, especially the influential and conservative Liberal Front Party, which has for years been in an alliance with Serra’s ruling Brazilian Social Democracy Party. But early indications were that he might have difficulties. Yet analysts said Serra, who became internationally renowned for pressuring foreign pharmaceutical companies to lower the cost of AIDS drugs to developing nations, is actually quite close to Lula in his political thinking.

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Who’s on first? At Monday’s meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students, members discussed the new, controversial ‘Brown First’ program. Council members raised concerns similar to those highlighted in The Herald’s coverage of the new costcutting program on Sept. 25. ‘Brown First,’ which requires student organizations and University departments to use Graphic Services, University Food Services or select external vendors for a variety of services, appears to be an innovative way of keeping money inside the University. However, the University’s consistent inability to provide necessary information about ‘Brown First’ has caused problems and raised questions about the program’s application. The Herald’s Sept. 25 article highlighted a major problem with the new program: the University is not providing student organizations and academic and administrative departments with all the information necessary for implementing ‘Brown First.’ Student groups unknowingly violated the program in outsourcing services to unapproved vendors only because the University never provided these groups with a list of approved vendors. At Monday’s UCS meeting, student government representatives referred to ‘Brown First’ as a “big pain” and asked that the University provide set lists of prices to assist in event planning. This is not all that is needed. Acting Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Ellen O’Connor would not disclose to The Herald which vendors are approved ‘Brown First’ merchants. The only vendors whose identities were revealed are Ronzios and Pizza Pie-er. Furthermore, the process by which vendors can be approved for use under ‘Brown First’ is also cloaked in secrecy. Student leaders expressed confusion over these ambiguous aspects of the program. They are unable to comply with ‘Brown First’ because the University is not telling them which vendors they may use. We hope that the University has nothing to hide with regard to the program. Surely, student groups who have to follow the program and vendors who would like to become eligible for ‘Brown First’ could both benefit if all the information were revealed. ‘Brown First’ is suspect and currently receiving criticism from student groups and UCS members because information about how to follow the program, which vendors are acceptable under the policy and how vendors can earn a spot on the “preferred vendor list” is not being disseminated properly.

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Both Oskooi and Ruiz fail to clearly articulate their message To the Editor: Apparently, a sense a humor is not one of Brown’s entrance criteria. Granted, Shirin Oskooi’s ’05 article (“A call to arms: Brown students must defend themselves,” 10/4) was not particularly funny. Nor was it particularly clear: the extended garden metaphor shed little light on her ultimate message: take pride in belonging to Brown. Her article was, however, a fairly blatant attempt at humor. Oskooi writes, “Brown accepts students who promise loud voices and/or loud futures.” Certainly, both Oskooi and her challenger Doraelia

Ruiz ’06 are fulfilling these expectations. Loud, however, does not equal useful. Taking Oskooi’s piece as a serious instance of elitism (“Elistist attitudes not acceptable at Brown University,”10/7), as Ruiz does, involves lending the article more weight than it deserves. If we are trying to castigate Oskooi, let’s ask her to be funnier next time. Furthermore, while Ruiz’s life story was both interesting and heartening, she used it in a punitive way. “Let me bring you to reality,” she demands, before accusing “people like Oskooi” of assuming “people like me (are) undeserving citizens.” While Ruiz’s complaints are valid, Oskooi is not really a proper target. Nor does Oskooi’s article, however unsuccessful, merit such a harsh response.

Angela Feraco ’04 Oct. 7

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002 · PAGE 11

U.S. must consider all options before declaring war A preemptive strike against Iraq could do more harm than good in achieving its objectives IN THE FIELD OF WORLD POLITICS, would place international security into conthere can be no doubt that these are precari- siderable doubt. The policy that will immediately bring the ous times. World peace and global security lie immediately in the balance. The looming crisis to a head is the forthcoming U.N. possibility of a preemptive strike on Iraq Security Council resolution co-sponsored by leaves the United States at the breaking point the United States and Great Britain, which calls for unconditional access of war as national political elecfor weapons inspectors in Iraq. tions close in to further compliThis proposal would also give cate the crisis. The dogged the United States authority to intransigence of both the United use direct force in Iraq should States and Iraq is not surprising. they not comply. The measure is However, one has to wonder if viewed with considerable skepan overextended opening barticism among major European gaining move by the Bush and Asian nations, among them administration has left any real permanent Security Council time for critical reflection members China, Russia and beyond the announced Oct. 19 SCHUYLER France. Because these three return of U.N. weapons inspecVON OEYEN nations have unit veto power, a tions led by chief inspector Hans THE SKY IS THE LIMIT dissenting vote from any one of Blix, after a four-year hiatus them would immediately kill from the region led by chief. the resolution and would indiSaddam Hussein is a dangerous man who has established a precedent of cate a symbolic collapse of multilateral supusing weapons against his own people. Iraq port that would be a huge setback to the has already developed chemical and biologi- United States. A preemptive strike against Iraq contains a cal weapons, and there have been confirmed reports that he is attempting to achieve number of radically profound difficulties. It nuclear capabilities. It is clear that the return would set a precarious precedent because, in of weapons inspections specialists to the theory, preemption is to be used only in the entire region must be the goal in order to event of an imminent threat, and as a last assure security, stability and a peace divi- resort when all alternatives have been dend for the whole world. Iraq agreed last exhausted. In this case, all alternatives have week to comply with a U.N. resolution man- not been exhausted. Meaningful economic dating the return of such inspections but sanctions and weapons inspections with would not tolerate the inspection of their possible arms support are certainly plausible eight sacred temples. As Secretary of State before Bush declares that war is inevitable. Colin Powell has articulated, unconditional Furthermore, such a strike could have signifaccess should be the goal of U.S. and U.N. icant repercussions in the Arab world. A negotiations. Anything short of that goal number of regimes, especially Jordan and Egypt, stand a chance of crumbling in the event of instability in the region. There is also Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 hails from no guarantee that whatever government Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He is a history and replaces Hussein will be any less authoritaripolitical science concentrator.

an and oppressive. The possible economic cost of the war and the difficult logistics of the military invasion leave U.S. policy makers gnawing at their hats. The Congressional Budget Office has indicated the projected costs of the war to be staggering. Even conservative estimates indicate that it could cost between six and nine billion dollars per month in troop costs, with significant additional funding required to bring the troops back home. Logistically, the situation for the ground troops is far worse than in Desert Storm in 1991 because of the inevitability of urban warfare in major cities, especially Baghdad. A preempted U.S. strike could unite an Iraqi army that might number over one million troops and would fight vigilantly in defense of their violated national sovereignty. Key military strategists agree that these conditions make the war effort considerably more difficult and that it could take a considerable amount of time to quell the formative resistance. Congressional Democrats, with the exception of Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and select comments from Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., have been hard-pressed to openly criticize Bush’s war path. In part, this is a result of reelection concerns and viability of their dissent since a number of Democrats in the Senate voted in favor of war in 1991 and would not likely renege. It will be interesting to see how the three proposals they have — two created by the Senate, one from Bush — fare next week as each of them give the President varying degrees of autonomy to make decisions as commander-in-chief. Bush’s position has a number of problematic implications. The incentive for Hussein to comply with Bush’s requests is questionable. Hussein has little reason to believe Bush won’t try to remove him and his regime even if he complies, something he surely consid-

ers as he plans his next moves. Since he has publicly announced to the world his intentions of striking first, the likelihood of a peaceful resolution is decreased and Hussein’s incentive to strike first is increased. Also, Bush has been quick to take advantage of the political climate and didactically overextend his hand by proclaiming that the United States will remove Hussein and his government by force if the inspectors are not allowed unconditional access after the two week intercession. He has purposely left no other alternative or “bargaining space” and is relying directly on deterrence to force the Iraqis to comply. If Iraq does not immediately acquiesce, Bush has placed himself in the position of being forced to declare war so that he does not invalidate his previous statements and allow the United States to be seen as “weak” among the international community. The president also makes the claim that this war is part of the “war on terrorism” and that Iraq must have meaningful and direct links to al-Qaeda because the groups have been talking. Bush has tried to psychologically forge this link in the minds of the U.S. public and strengthen the strongest political poker card in his hand: fear. Yet in reality, there is little substantiated evidence supporting this claim at all. What these facts amount to is that, while the United States certainly has the military might and ability to remove the Hussein regime, it is very dubious as to whether the area will be any safer after the regime change, or if it will be more unstable. The importance of pushing for unconditional access for U.N. weapons inspectors cannot be understated, but if Iraq does not agree to such a measure by the time the first wave of inspectors arrives on Oct. 19, Bush should not unilaterally declare war until every other viable alternative has been exhausted.

Technology a threat to longshoremans’ livelihood Governor Almond’s proposal for the Quonset megaport will eliminate significant job opportunities Of all the issues being negotiated, port THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE & Warehouse Union has been locked out of automation technology is among the most work at West Coast ports since Saturday, contentious. Union members say this tacSept. 28. The ILWU is the labor union tic is being used to bump future generaresponsible for loading and unloading tions out of jobs. The ILWU, like its East cargo from container ships on the West Coast counterpart, the International Longshoreman Association, Coast. Their contract expired sees longshoreman jobs as on July 1 and, despite months generational opportunities: of negotiations, an agreement SARAH KITE GUEST COLUMN you are a longshoreman, your has not been reached. father was a longshoreman How does a work stoppage and your son or daughter may by dockworkers on the West Coast affect Rhode Island? The majority of be a longshoreman — it runs in the blood. cargo imported by the United States — The Pacific Maritime Association insists such as cars, clothing and toys — arrives at that integrating more automation in speWest Coast ports from the Far East and is cific port activities will increase efficiency then transported by truck and rail across and productivity. To the ILWU, automation the country. Due to market pressures and means fewer longshoreman jobs. James global economics, several years ago ship- Spinosa, president of the ILWU, has said pers initiated a delivery practice known as the ILWU does not oppose automation, it “just in time” delivery. This practice has opposes the loss of jobs due to automaeliminated long term warehouse storage tion. The PMA stated on Aug. 30, that there and cargo stockpiling at most ports, as will be no new union tech jobs, which Cargo is shipped as close to anticipated means the jobs necessary to operate the delivery time as possible. The JIT delivery automated systems will be given to nonsystem has become standard practice as union workers. The technology being shipping, warehouse and labor costs have debated on the West Coast is mainly logisrisen, and profit margins have shrunk. A tics technology, such as optical scanners, strike by the ILWU stops a major supply which would help move trucks through line of goods to the East Coast and, once the system more efficiently. There is no the supply has dwindled, it will not be reason why these jobs should not be ILWU replenished until the labor negotiations jobs. The technology being touted by the are settled and normal port activities Almond administration is a totally different matter. resume. Governor Lincoln Almond is proposing relying on never-before implemented Sarah Kite is the Associate Regional technology — complete terminal automaRepresentative of the Sierra Club-Rhode tion — for his megaport at Quonset. Bits Island office.

and pieces of the terminal technology are in use in Europe, but nowhere in the world are the components used together as a system. In the United States, the Longshore unions simply wouldn’t stand for it. It means substantial elimination of jobs. For example, a typical gang size (longshoremen work in groups called gangs) might be 20 to 25 people per shift, needed to unload a small to medium sized container ship. Under Governor Almond’s scenario, the computers would do all the work. What jobs would be needed? Perhaps two operators monitoring the computers inside the control center, and possibly two longshoremen monitoring dockside activities. The Governor’s port will not produce the longshore jobs being promised. Nor will the Governor’s port produce high-paying jobs in other areas. The majority of port truckers are independent owneroperators. The AFL-CIO announced this year that it is launching a major campaign to unionize port truckers. Why? Because port truckers typically average $7 to $8 per hour, suffer numerous occupational health hazards, have no pensions and assume huge personal liability. With union membership comes union benefits. Some may find it implausible to hear a Sierra Club employee espouse the benefits of union membership. The Sierra Club supports unions and organizing efforts worldwide, and several years ago, the Sierra Club field system voted to organize itself and formed the John Muir Local 100, of which I am a member. We fought for basic jobrelated rights: a standard work week, better

health care benefits and competitive salaries. Our union leaders continue to fight to better our working conditions, to ensure union members are treated fairly and equitably by management. While I in no way compare the rigors of my job with those of a longshoreman, I understand and appreciate what union membership means, and I certainly am well aware of its value in my life. My family has a long history of union membership — teachers, police, fire and trades — and I can not imagine my life any other way. Governor Almond likes to talk about the jobs his megaport will create. The reality of the West Coast port situation tells us otherwise. Unions have traditionally embraced technology that improves worker safety and productivity, but not at the expense of job security for their members. A better scenario for Quonset Point/Davisville would be to drop the current port plans and begin an open discussion about the future of the site. Involve the unions, current Quonset tenants, community and public interest groups and local municipalities. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Austria’s premier 19th century woman author, who frequently wrote about social injustice, said, “Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge.” Open discussion, lively debate and even heated arguments are all preferable to the current state of decision making for Quonset. The process must be open and above board and not conducted behind closed doors. Let this be Governor Almond’s true legacy.

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SPORTS TUESDAY OCTOBER 8, 2002 · PAGE 12

Fantasy sports: Not just in Jeff Saltman’s mind RIDING HOME FROM THE GROCERY STORE last week, I was changing the radio station in my car when I came upon a sports talk show. After listening to the show for about five minutes, I realized that this show was entirely devoted to fantasy football talk and that the guest was a fantasy football guru. People would call up and ask this man, who has nothing better to do all day then figure out who should start this week, what decisions they should JEFF make about their SALTMAN teams. For examTHE SALT’S TAKE ple, one man called with a heavy New England accent and asked, “I can only staht two receivahs next week out of this group of three: Rod Gahdenah, Chris Chambahs and Amani Toomah. Who should I staht?” After listening to this show for another five minutes, I thought to myself, who in the world would listen to such a show? Then I found the answer: I would. Fantasy sports have grown at a ridiculous rate in the past few years. During my senior year of high school (a long, long time ago), my friends and I formed a league, and this was deemed revolutionary. In fact, free computer leagues hadn’t even become the norm, so we calculated the points by hand. Now it seems that if you’re a true sports fan and you’re under see SALT, page 6

NFL schools NCAA football TO THE HONORABLE JAMIE SHOLEM, who claims the battle of NCAA and NFL is “not even close”: Your arsenal of NFL insults is a mix of old and new. Old are the simplified arguments of the NCAA’s superiority accompanied by incomplete accounts of examples. New is the GABE SOKOLOFF blatant misrepreSOKOLOFFAGUS sentation of the NFL. Your so-called counter arguments to classic NFL boasts are flawed, and I will enjoy dismantling them all the more. When your column was written, St. Louis had started off 0-4, which has now dropped to 0-5, and you are doubtful that it will destroy them. Rather, you suppose an 0-4 record will merely force them to “work harder to continue driving toward the playoffs.” I’m afraid it’s a bit harder than you think. The NFL has been in existence for almost forty years. Of the hundreds of teams that have come and gone, only one team has ever gone 0-4 and made the playoffs —the San Diego Chargers of 1992. They lost the AFC divisional playoffs 31-0 to the Miami Dolphins. Remember that? I do. The NFL season is an endless string of meaningless games? Man, you must really hate baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer. And that’s all I’m going to say on that. I am thankful the NFL rulebook is see SOKOLOFF, page 6

Volleyball tops Yale, takes Invitational BY KATHY BABCOCK

School records came crashing down this weekend as the Brown volleyball team hosted Yale University Friday night and then went on to compete in the Brown Invitational Tournament. Brown defeated the Bulldogs in five games, winning its first Ivy League contest of the season. The Bears also won their own tournament, beating Towson and Iona both in four games. “Because volleyball is such a team sport, it sometimes takes a little time to blend together and play like a team,” said Coach Diane Short. “We’ve been getting a little bit better every weekend and I think that is the big thing.” It was a record setting weekend for Jessie Cooper ’03 who had 22 kills against Yale, giving her 940 career kills. This moved her past Mary McCain’s 936 and into fifth place on the all-time list. Cooper finished the weekend with 960 kills. Leigh Martin ’06 had 73 match assists against the Bulldogs and is now tied with Aimee Bower for fifth place. “The senior class has really brought the team together,” Short said. Facing Yale on Friday night, Bruno started out slow, dropping the first two games 30-32 and 43-45. However, the Bears managed to claw their way out of their two game hole, winning the next three games 30-26, 30-20, and 16-14. This was due in part to the record-setting performances of Cooper and Martin, but also from notable play from several other sources. Ceneca Calvert ’03 posted her fifth straight double-double with 16 kills and 21 digs and phenom Karalyn Kuchenbecker ’06 also posted a doubledouble with 19 kills and 15 digs. Lauren Gibbs ’06 managed in only 18 attempts to make 13 kills. Angela Dunn ’03 also had 13 kills, Elvina Kung ’05 had 12 digs and

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Karalyn Kuchenbecker ‘06 (above) was one of several top performers this weekend in the volleyball team’s first place finish in the Brown Tournament. Kim Highlund ’04 combined with Martin for 18 digs to complete the Bears victory. Saturday morning the Bears began tournament play against Towson University, defeating them in a four-game match. Brown beat the Tigers in the first game 30-21, then dropped a game 27-30. The Bears came together in the next two games, winning 30-16 and 30-24 to take the match.

Calvert played another double-double with 16 kills and 23 digs. Kuchenbecker solidified her position as one of the team’s leaders despite her youth with 19 kills and 15 digs. Martin fell short her of her previous game’s record assists, but still posted 62 assists. Dunn continued her solid play with 15 see VOLLEYBALL, page 6

Crew scores in sixth straight as M. soccer ties, loses BY NICK GOUREVITCH

The Brown men’s soccer team (3-3-2, 0-1 Ivy League) traveled across the country last weekend to compete at the University of San Francisco Diadora Classic and came home with a 2-2 tie against Santa Clara University and a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the tournament host. Adom Crew ’04 scored in both games for the Bears, putting his consecutive games with a goal streak at six — three away from the school record of nine held by Fred Pereira ’77 and Darren Eales ’95. With ten goals in eight games, Crew has the third highest goals per game average of all players in Division I this season. On Friday night, the Bears played to a hard fought draw against the Broncos in a match that closely mirrored Brown’s season-opening tie against Michigan. The Bears had trouble opening and closing out the match, allowing a goal in both the first and last ten minutes of regulation. dspics.com After Santa Clara put up an early score Men’s soccer lost 2-1 on Sunday to San Francisco,which had previously beaten Harvard 4-1. on a direct free kick, the Bears responded late in the first half when Ibrahim Diane ward Will Weatherly converted a one-on- time in their eight matches, they failed to ’06 touched in a long cross from Crew. one breakaway against goalkeeper Chris score first. In the 16th minute, forward Luke Holmes put away a shot from inside The goal was Diane’s third of the season Gomez ’05. In overtime, neither team was able to the box for the Dons. making the freshman — who is one of In the 37th minute, Bruno tied up the only six players to start all eight games for put a shot on target. Santa Clara had a Bruno — second on the team in both player sent off with a red card with just game, albeit for only a short time. After under two and a half minutes remaining being outshot 6-1 since the first goal of goals and points. The Bears took the lead early in the in the second overtime, but there was just the match, Brown broke through when second half when Crew sent home a cor- not enough time for the Bears to capital- Crew headed home a free kick from Marcos ’05. ner kick from Matt Goldman ’04. ize on the advantage. Unfortunately, the Bears could not In Bruno’s second match against San Goldman now leads the team in assists Francisco, all three goals were scored in keep the score tied going into halftime. with three this year. However, Santa Clara equalized with the first half of action. The Bears fell just eight minutes remaining when for- behind early once again as, for the sixth see SOCCER, page 6