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Library union, U. agree to contract and pay raise But with no long-term deal signed, Thursday’s contract extension gaurantees no walkout only through the end of January

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Dana Goldstein / Herald

The Brown Hillel Foundation held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday afternoon to commemorate its successful campaign to erect the Glenn & Darcy Weiner Center, which will house Hillel.The new center is scheduled for completion by early 2004.

Hillel breaks ground

BY BRIAN BASKIN

If you will it, it is no dream.

Theodor Herzl’s words were repeated by nearly every speaker at the groundbreaking for Hillel’s new home Thursday to an audience of students, administrators, trustees, members of Hillel and community members.

The event, held in a tent on Brown Street outside the old Hillel building, commemorated the determination that finally allowed the Brown Hillel Foundation to take its first physical step toward turning its dream into a reality.

The 25,000 square foot Glenn & Darcy Weiner Center is scheduled for completion in late 2003 or early 2004.

It will include a multi-purpose room that can seat 175 people, a computer center, a library, a music room, classroom space and a terrace overlooking a garden that will house a large sukkah during Sukkot.

Lori Leibowitz ‘03, student president of Brown Hillel, said Hillel was constructing not just a building, but a new and larger community.

“We’ll be able to reach more students. More people will feel like Hillel is their home,” she said.

That fits with Hillel’s focus on both tending to Brown’s Jewish community and fostering connections to other groups, said Rabbi Richard Kirschen, executive director of Brown Hillel.

Finding a balance between the two is part of the rebirth of Jewish society, said Richard Joel, president and international director of Hillel.

“It’s time again in these United States to rebuild the community … a community of communities,” he said.

The new Hillel building will serve an important role on campus as a nexus for all communities on campus, said Vice President of Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero.

Unionized library staff members approved a contract extension and pay raise yesterday, averting a walkout authorized for today that would have disrupted library services.

The library system is open and fully functional after nine hours of negotiations Wednesday resulted in a contract extension through Jan. 31, 2003, according to University and union officials. The three-month extension and 4.25 percent pay raise were enough for 90 union members to cancel the walkout and agree to further contract negotiations.

At the 11:30 a.m. union meeting Thursday, members greeted news of the extension with applause.

Contract negotiations were hampered by staff members’ concerns about a proposed reorganization of the library system. The restructuring, the details of which the University has not yet hammered out, might result in longer hours, less job specificity and more responsibilities. Union officials said earlier this week that the University had not made enough of the reorganization plan available for them to sign a consee LIBRARY, page 4

English dept building wins acclaim, award from Preservation Society

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Dana Goldstein / Herald

Richard Joel, president and international director of Hillel, spoke at Wednesday’s groundbreaking.

“Hillel is one tradition that expresses Brown’s ideals of inclusiveness and idea exchange,” Montero said.

“The new building is an even more concrete and tangible expression of these ideals.”

Joel said Brown’s groundbreaking was the fourth event celebrating a new Hillel center he had attended in two weeks. The wave of construction is symbolic of a Jewish renaissance in the United States, he said.

“The pride is back in Hillel. The pride is back in the

The University’s restoration of the new English department building won the Providence Preservation Society’s 2002 Institutional Rehab/Restoration Award at the organization’s meeting Thursday night.

The department’s home, formerly known as the Samuel Wheaton House, was built originally in 1850. The University began restoring and adding to the building in 1999 and occupied it at the beginning of 2002.

At Thursday’s meeting, Katherine Horsey, executive director of the PPS, commended the University for “not allowing the new construction to overshadow the existing structure,” located at 70 Brown St. The project retained the 9,000 square foot structure while adding 29,000 square feet of new space.

University representatives including John Noonan, vice president for facilities management, accepted the award on behalf of Brown along with representatives of the architecture firm Lerner/Ladds & Bartels.

see HILLEL, page 8 see PRESERVATION, page 22

I N S I D E F R I D AY, O C T O B E R 2 5 , 2 0 0 2 The Herald takes a look at Brown’s unique a cappella culture, and the groups that compose it page 3

‘Two out of Four’ at Production Workshop gets three out of four stars page 3

Josh Champagne ’05 takes his good will and his bike across the U.S. for a good cause page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Jaideep Singh ’03 says U.S. must not turn a blind eye to real problems in MidEast column, page 27

With five games left, football looks to turn its season around this Parents Weekend sports, page 28

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CALENDAR PANEL DISCUSSION — “The Havana Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis,”The Hon. Dagoberto Rodriguez, Cuban Ambassador; Thomas Blanton, George Washington University; James Blight, Watson Institute; Peter Kornbluh, George Washington University; and Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, noon.

PANEL DISCUSSION — “The Future of U.S.-Cuban Relations,”The Hon. Dagoberto Rodriguez, Cuban Ambassador; U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chaffee; Thomas Skidmore, Watson Institute; and David Linstrom, Watson Institute.

Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 3 p.m.

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THEATER — “Parents Weekend Dance Concert,” produced by Michelle Bach-Coulibaly. Ashamu Dance Studio, 8 p.m.

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CONCERT — Brown University Jazz Band will perform works by Ellington, Mingus, Mulligan, and Hancock. Grant Recital Hall, 9 p.m.

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Two out of four gets three out of four stars

BY ETHAN RIS

Watching “Two out of Four” is a very relaxing experience.

It’s not that the performance is simple or demands little of its audience; rather, there is far too much on which to focus. The viewer who realizes this and stops trying to make sense of all the choices made on stage can have a truly enjoyable evening.

The show, at Production Workshop through Monday, is a tour de force for director David Myers ‘03; after all, he wrote two out of the four one-acts performed. The others are by Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright best known for “Waiting for Godot.”

It is unclear why Myers has paired his work with Beckett’s, but this is just the first of many unjustified choices that are easily excused. There is too much to like about the evening.

Myers’ own plays are surprisingly well written. The first, “do it,” deals with a nameless man, played by Gabriel Kahane ‘03, who takes a joke about killing himself too far.

Suicide is not traditionally a trivial matter, and it may be that Myers is trying to make a meaningful observation along these lines. The play, however, is redeemable almost solely for its humor, and as such it is well written and performed.

The second play by Myers, “Dollface and Stench,” is even better. The actors in the title rolls, Maura Finigan ’05 and Steve Kidd GS, nearly steal the entire evening. Their see TWO OF FOUR, page 23

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Members of the Bear Necessities delivered a performance earlier this week to a crowd of students under Wayland arch. Brown has more a cappella groups than any other University, and a rich a cappella singing culture.

Hitting the high notes

BY MONIQUE MENESES

ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Documentary film maker Errol Morris debuts a work in progress

BY ADAM HUNDT

On Thursday night, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris premiered his new work-in-progress, a film that challenges the basic presumptions about former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Part of the Watson Institute’s conference, “The Cuban Missile Crisis at 40,” the film looks at the major wars of the 20th century through the eyes of McNamara. Primarily, attention is paid to Vietnam.

The film, titled “The Logic of War,” presents a sanitized version of a man who many regard as a war criminal.

Though McNamara pointed out that military action alone would not fix Vietnam’s problems and privately protested against the war to his superiors, he allowed the buildup of advisers and armed forces in Vietnam to get out of control. Furthermore, he appeared frequently on television to speak positively to the U.S. public about the war effort.

After serving in the air force during World War II and working as an executive at the Ford Motor Company, McNamara served as Secretary of Defense from 19611968. In government, McNamara operated with a heavy reliance on numbers. He was constantly capable of pulling out statistics that would turn any would-be-failure into a success. Yet McNamara’s public approval of the war belied an inner turmoil.

As Morris noted after the screening, the typical “(David) Halberstam portrait of McNamara was as a number cruncher who belatedly realized that he had done wrong.” see MORRIS, page 21

You’ve seen some of these singers go wild at the arch sings, heard them at concerts and noticed their faces on campus. Behind the scenes they form alliances, compete to attract the top singers and try to distinguish themselves from the other groups. It all comes with being a member of one of the 14 a cappella groups at Brown.

There are the all-female groups, all-male groups, coed groups, religious groups, a pirate group and a Renaissance to 20th century group.

But each a cappella group says it has something that makes it different from the other 13 on campus.

The Brown Madrigal Singers, a group that sings songs written between the Renaissance and 20th century, breaks from the a capella formula by rarely featuring soloists, said member Benjamin Heasly ’05.

“We are a group that take ourselves seriously, while at the same time not taking ourselves seriously,” said Todd Goldstein ’04 of the Brown Derbies.

Some students believe there is a hierarchy among a cappella groups at Brown.

“I love them all, but I think some of the premier groups would be the Brown Derbies, Jabberwocks, Chattertocks and Ursa Minors,” said James Hwong ’04.

But members of the a cappella groups had different views about a hierarchy.

“If there is any hierarchy, we don’t talk about it. If you’re in your group, you think you’re the best,” Goldstein said.

Students usually have their personal favorite a cappella group and a reason for their choice.

“My roommate and I go nuts when the Brown Derbies sing,” said Emily Love ’05. “We think they’re goofy, so that’s what attracts me, I guess.”

What makes a certain a cappella group appear as “the best” or “really good” is subjective, said Shekinah Elmore ’04 of the Brown’s Tones.

“The ones that differentiate themselves are the ones that feel comfortable on stage,” Goldstein said.

Singers in all-male groups said their sound topped their all-female counterparts.

“The tone quality of an all-male group blends really well. All-female groups lack in vocal production and some people feel as if there’s something lacking,” said

Higher Keys member William Leung ’05.

Bradley Naylor ’03 of the Bear Necessities said, “It is easier in all-male a cappella groups to give an enthusiastic performance that is ‘full of testosterone.’”

But female groups make up in spirit what they might lack in sound, said Brienne Walsh ’04 of the Ursa Minors.

“You feel more comfortable,” she said. “It’s like a girl thing.”

Rivalries among a cappella groups are usually implicit.

“There’s always competition between groups in a not-serious way,” Walsh said.

As for alliances between certain all-female groups and all-male groups, members told The Herald that they were constantly shifting depending on connections within each group.

“Alliance changes over the years. It depends on who’s friends with whom,” Walsh said.

At the beginning of each year, the a cappella groups hold auditions for anyone interested in singing and being a member of a certain group.

New Brown’s Tones member Clara Schuhmacher ’06 told the Herald that the audition process involved singing scales, testing her range and a solo at the end.

“The audition process was very efficient and thorough. It was definitely intimidating in general, though,” she said.

The process of selection, Goldstein said, is held in a “very democratic way.”

Singers who audition list their top three choices and are matched to the group that wants them, he said.

“You’d only get into a group that you want to get into,” Goldstein said.

The process of selection, Elmore said, is getting more difficult each year.

For students looking to try out for an a capella group in the future, it will come as no surprise that the No. 1 quality groups look for is singing ability.

“We’re looking for a strong singer. Someone who has their own vocal style and a personality that shows strength as an individual,” Elmore said.

“You have to be able to sing first and foremost,” see CAPPELLA, page 4

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Cappella continued from page 3 Leung said, “then we focus on how you sound when you sing with us and your personality.”

Similarly, students who auditioned for a cappella groups had criteria they used to narrow the list down to their top three choices once they were called back.

“I like the kinds of friendships that develop among a close-knit group of girls,” Schuhmacher said.

New Bear Necessities member Jed Resnick ’06 said, “I was looking for a group of guys that I could get along with.”

The Brown University Choir often finds itself the odd group out in attracting students to sing.

“I feel that the choir loses students to a cappella when they’re freshmen and sophomores, but eventually they come back,” said Choir Director Frederick Jodry.

But Naylor, who is involved in both an a cappella group and the choir, said he didn’t see much movement of students from a cappella groups to the choir.

“Let’s just say people quit the choir to go to a cappella far more

frequently than in the other case,” he said.

Schuhmacher said she performed in a choir throughout high school and wanted a change.

“A cappella is more pop rocky stuff,” she said.

The number of a cappella groups in the University far outnumber those of any University in the United States, Walsh said.

But Jodry said he wouldn’t mind seeing a few more.

“I think there should be an a cappella group for each sign of the zodiac,” Jodry said. “I personally, would like to hear Virgo.”

But the overall reaction from students toward the diversity of songs they hear from an array of groups is positive.

“I’m actually impressed with all the groups. They’re very professional and a great source of entertainment at Brown,” Hwong said.

What’s the best part of being in an a cappella group?

“It’s a show every time you sing,” Elmore said. “You get to be a rock star for a moment.”

Herald staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

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Caitlin Carey ’03 scored to put Brown in the lead, in what Albro described as, “an amazing shot.”

Carey’s goal came from midfielder Michaela Sewall ’04 at 6:40 into the contest.

“Princeton didn’t know what hit them,” Albro said. “It was perhaps the earliest they’ve been scored on all season.

The Bears led the game into the second half, yet Princeton tied the match up at the 66:26 mark and then scored the game winner just 13 minutes later. According to Albro, Princeton had possession of the ball almost the entire second half.

Albro accredited goalie Sarah Gervais ’04 with having an outstanding game. Gervais, with a season average of .857 save percentage, stopped seven shots against Princeton. Kim LaVere ’06, in the sweeper position, also stood out among Brown’s defenders.

“At practice, we’ve been working on finishing. Caitlin’s goal mirrored the drills we were doing in practice,” said Haley Sennott ’04. “We’ve been working really hard. We are still optimistic.”

It was perhaps the earliest they’ve been scored on all season.”

Amy Albro ’03 Women’s soccer defender According to player Amy Bauman ’04, team morale is still good. The Bears have three more Ivies left to face, and as Baumann stated, “We have three Ivies left to win.”

“Everyone on the team knows we have been getting better with each game,” Baumann said. “For us, we know what we need to do to turn those close games into wins.”

The next game for the Bears is this Saturday, of Parents Weekend, at 5 p.m. on Stevenson Field against Cornell. The two teams tied in last year’s match-up. The Big Red (9-50, 4-2-0) is coming of a 4-0 win against Central College.

The Bears are aiming at finishing the season with a winning record, yet are in no contention for the Ivy League title this year.

tract.

The union members’ 3-yearold contracts expired at the end of September, and employees have been working since then without a contract, said Karen McAninch, business agent of Service Employees International Union Local 134.

The union represents more than half of the library system’s staff.

The workers’ contract prevents union members from striking or walking out, but because the document expired more than three weeks ago, union members could have walked out on Friday. With the extension, the University can avoid such a walkout until Jan. 31.

The extension and raise granted by the University establishes a “very good framework” for the contract negotiations, said Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations.

“The union and the University are very pleased that we’ve established a framework for continuing conversations,” Freid said.

McAninch echoed Freid, saying “the University was hoping that this would provide a framework for us to work together.”

The threat of a walkout did not enter into the University’s desire to reach an agreement with the union, Freid said.

Rather, “I think there were several proposals that were worth discussing.

“They required some time,” she said. “It was in everyone’s best interest to provide that time.”

Now that the University and union agreed on the extension, the two sides must continue meeting to discuss the reorganization, McAninch said, and having the extra time will allow both sides to focus on the restructuring.

In addition to the proposed changes that could affect library workers drastically, McAninch said the union hopes to address in negotiations the rising cost of health insurance and the inequities part-time employees face, including no long-term disability insurance and no pension.

Twelve of the union’s ninety library employees work part time.

The union and University were scheduled to meet Thursday, McAninch said, but because discussions went so late on Wednesday evening, the parties did not convene.

Instead, she said, negotiations will probably resume early next week.

Pap Dodd, library personnel and labor relations director and a member of the University bargaining team, would not comment, and Steven Rotondo, director of labor relations and also a member of the bargaining team, did not respond to a request for an interview.

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 5

Brown looks to implement new centralized computing system for $20 million pricetag

BY AMY RUDDLE

“peanut butter and jelly sandwiches than would fit in the V-Dub” and spending the night in lodging provided by local organizations all over the country, Champagne said.

Bikers got a glimpse of the small towns of the United States and were able to see amazing sights including Bryce Canyon in Utah — Champagne’s favorite, he said.

Mayors spoke to the students and the bikers were fed pasta and regional foods such as barbequed chicken. At night, the students presented slide shows illustrating the Habitat cause to the communities they passed through.

Although they were followed by a support van, students experienced dehydration, exhaustion and hunger, especially in Nevada where it was particularly hot, Champagne said.

Greg Meuser, a student Champagne described as “a role model, kind but tough” got severely ill in Nevada, Champagne said.

Champagne said it was a humbling experience to witness Meuser’s illness and to see “the toll this trip was taking on such a strong guy.”

The summer forest fires in the western United States forced the team to add 500 miles to the trip without adding additional days, he recalled. The trip leaders had to make last minute arrangements with local people who were very hospitable, Champagne said.

Champagne said he was in charge of organizing the sweep riders, a pair of bikers in the back who would make sure everyone is moving along. He felt this was a perfect role for him as he strove to make sure all riders would form a connection with each other and get to know one another.

“We all made it together. When we had a 28-person pace line when crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, the hills and valleys melted away,” he remembered.

Although no plans are definite yet, Champagne said he hopes to bring a similar program to Brown for summer 2004. He hopes to appeal to two groups of people whose interests overlap, he said — those focused on service and those looking for a great adventure.

During his trip Champagne said he felt that “whatever perspective they came with, each rider gained a new perspective based on the goals, motivations and perspectives of the others in the group.”

University administrators are currently working to revamp student housing, registration and admission systems by installing an approximately $20 million centralized computer network called an enterprise system.

With the addition of an enterprise system, all of the University’s departments and functions would work on a single computer system. A central database would hold all student information from academics to financial aid.

Director of Computer and Information Services Ellen Waite-Franzen wrote in an e-mail that students could use the new enterprise system to access their course registration, class schedules, housing, admission information, financial aid and academic records online.

This system would make an individual’s undergraduate application Web-accessible, Waite-Franzen wrote.

“As the student changes from being an applicant, to being accepted, to applying for financial aid, to being offered financial aid, to being enrolled, offices do not have to re-enter information about the individual student,” Waite-Franzen wrote.

An enterprise system would promote the accuracy of an individual’s data and make the entire admissions process more efficient, Waite-Franzen wrote.

An enterprise system “changes the way information is kept about students,” said Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski. The enterprise system will affect the Office of Financial Aid the most, Jablonski said.

Since the University would list a student’s information in a central database, an enterprise system would allow a student to view his application and financial aid information at the same time, rather than requiring entry into various databases, said Director of Financial Aid Michael Bartini.

An enterprise system promotes “interconnectivity” and efficiency between University departments, Bartini said. “The system allows work to be streamlined, especially when working with students and parents,” Bartini added.

Many students come to the Office of Financial Aid to get basic individual information, Bartini said, and this would change if personal information were available online.

Through the enterprise system, the Office of Financial Aid could offer better services, and students could better serve themselves, Bartini said.

“Students will have access to more self-service capabilities. ... that should lead to departments having more time to spend time with students on those issues that are not purely information driven and where consultation is necessary,” Waite-Franzen wrote.

“There’s every prospect that we’d offer better services to students. Ultimately, that’s the goal,” Bartini said.

The enterprise system would also enhance the student housing lottery.

“I’d like to see the whole housing registration process as Web-based,” Jablonski said, or at least make the management of housing more Web-based, she added.

Housing selection, placement of students in housing and housing management could all be feasible through the enterprise system, Waite-Franzen wrote.

With online course registration, students could drop or add classes online and could be notified if any class openings occur, Waite-Franzen wrote.

The system would also aid faculty, enabling them to view class rosters and waiting lists for their courses, Waite-Franzen wrote. Professors would be able to override the system and allow waitlisted students into a course, she added.

The costs of implementing the enterprise system depend on the vendor, but are estimated at between $15 million and $23 million. The University is considering hiring Peoplesoft, SCT/Banner and Oracle, and is evaluating

see HABITAT, page 22

see ENTERPRISE, page 22

Courtesy of Josh Champagne

Josh Champagne ’05, center, was part of a group of students that biked across the United States this summer to benefit Habitat for Humanity. He is looking to get more Brown students involved in the trip in coming years.

Biking for a good cause

BY ALLISON LOMBARDO

Rising at six in the morning to bike about forty miles, only stopping for a lunch of peanut butter and jelly and then resuming biking for another thirty five miles or so may not sound like an ideal summer vacation. But one student spent two months doing just that — and all the while raising money for Habitat for Humanity.

Josh Champagne ’05 biked about seventy-five miles a day and traveled from Connecticut to California to raise money for the organization, which helps low-income families build homes. Traveling across the country in a group of 28, Champagne said he joined the trip to support a cause he believed in and hopes to bring the biking program to Brown in the future.

Led by Yale University students, the Habitat Bicycle Challenge strives to raise awareness and funds for Habitat for Humanity, a national organization also present on Brown’s campus, Champagne said.

Habitat “doesn’t build homes for people but instead helps needy families build homes,” Champagne said.

Through “sweat equity,” families build their own homes with help from the community, he said.

Champagne said he found out about the trip in high school and knew that it offered the perfect combination for him: service, adventure and the accomplishment of a larger goal. He raised $7,500 through a letter-writing campaign; a bike-a-thon last year; selling products donated by companies; and with the help of family, friends and the men’s ultimate frisbee team, he said.

In order to participate in the trip, one must raise approximately $3,000, Champagne said. The biking company Cannondale donates the bikes and gear.

It was “an easy project to raise money for because it’s very appealing: proactive kids, going on an adventure and doing something good,” Champagne said.

The $200,000 total the group raised will go directly to Habitat.

An avid mountain biker since childhood and a member of the ultimate frisbee team, Champagne said he felt prepared for the trip. Riders entered the trips with all different levels of knowledge about cycling, he said.

“Although cycling seems to be an individual sport it really is a team sport because of its use of drafting and group motivation,” Champagne said.

A typical day involved miles of biking, eating more

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Troy continued from page 28 underdogs to a team that has more arrests than wins. On a side note, Randy Moss might want to think about looking up some moving companies in the phone book.

JETS (-3) over the Browns Despite failing to win since opening day before facing the Vikings, the JE-T-S are only one game behind the Patriots and since Jets’ fans are eternally optimistic, the playoffs are still within reach. With a win over Cleveland, the New York faithful might be thinking Super Bowl. Let’s also congratulate Tim Couch for going two weeks without crying about the Cleveland fans mistreating him.

RAVENS (+2.5) over the Steelers Thanks to the gross inadequacy of the AFC North, this game between two 3-3 teams is for first place in the division. The only draw to this game is being able to watch Kordell Stewart anguish on the sidelines wondering what happened to his life. Look for Baltimore and its “noname offense” to pull out the close win with some help from Ray Lewis, aka the entire Ravens’ defense.

BILLS (-7) over the Lions How many teams are kicking themselves that they did not try and trade for Drew Bledsoe? My guess is around 20 and it depends on whether or not you include New England. Drew has made every Buffalo receiver look like an All-Pro and at times he even helps management forget that the current defense consists of five tackling dummies.

Buccaneers (-7) over the PANTHERS After another letdown against Philadelphia, Tampa Bay is ready to make someone pay and Carolina is lucky enough to fill that role this week. Apparently Peter McNeely was busy. Facing either a 55-yearold second year QB or a rookie, Warren Sapp is like a shark who senses blood in the water, so look for him to help himself to the buffet.

Titans (-5.5) over the BENGALS Cincinnati might actually have a chance at home, that is if Tennessee spotted them 14 points and the ball.

Corey Dillon might threaten to retire, a la Barry Sanders, rather than play for the Bengals, but he might want to reconsider that when he realizes that no one cares. Jon Kitna would be a different story and I for one would stop watching games until he came back.

Seahawks (+2.5) over the COWBOYS Emmitt needs just over 90 yards to break Walter Payton’s rushing record and there will be a push to get him to break it at home. It just might not happen until they face the Jaguars in November. Mike Holmgren had to deal with Smith in his prime while he coached the Packers and it will given him great pleasure to keep him out of the record books for at least one more week.

49ERS (-8) over the Cardinals (LOCK OF THE WEEK) Last week, at some point in the fourth quarter San Francisco forgot how to score. The good thing for the 49ers is that the Cardinals have yet to learn to how. Barry Bonds’ postseason home run total could easily exceed the number of points Arizona scores in this game.

PATRIOTS (-3) over the Broncos With the 0-for-the-Patriots season on the line, coming off of a bye week I am going with the Pats to rebound with a big win over the Broncos.

With the Revolution losing the MLS Cup and the Red Sox still wondering what happened to their season, New England could use something to go right.

Texans (+10.5) over the JAGUARS In case anyone forgot, each week the Texans provide a friendly reminder that they are truly an expansion team. Don’t look for them to pull out the “W” this week, but instead to just lose respectably.

As long as they fail to blow a 30+point lead in a playoff game, they will surpass the efforts of the Oilers.

Colts (EVEN) over the REDSKINS After only two weeks, rookie QB Patrick Ramsey is on pace for just under 100 interceptions and that is not including those he has had called back due to penalties. Instead of picking a winner in this game, it might be more interesting to pick who is more overrated as a coach, Steve Spurrier or Marvin Lewis.

Giants (+7) over the EAGLES The Giants had two weeks to prepare for the Eagles, but it probably took them only ten minutes to decide that their game plan needed to center around stopping Donovan McNabb. This game should have tremendous divisional implications, as well as who is the better Campbell Soup spokesman, Strahan or McNabb.

Joshua Troy ’04 hails from Stamford, Conn., the home of the WWE(F), and is a political science concentrator.

Football continued from page 28 the Bears as well.

“You see frustration because you have a lot of guys banged up. They want to be out there helping the team,” Estes said.

Safety Hunter Young ’03, who leads the team in tackles with 44, and linebacker Bobby Parisien ’03 will not play Saturday. Starting cornerback Selom Azuma ’04 may not play due to a shoulder injury.

Tailback Tristan Murray ’06 sprained an ankle in the Fordham game and will sit this game out. Linebacker Kevin Khasigian ’03 and special teams standout Scott Epperson ’05 will also sit. Chas Gessner ’03 will play as he did the last game with tape over his injured finger.

Runningbacks Joe Rackley ’03 and Aaron Neff ’05 will be back in the line up and Brown should be able to establish a running game and consume possession time against Cornell.

The Bears have to avoid falling behind early in the game and not have to resort to a pass only, catch-up offense.

Early defensive stops by Brown will be the key to Saturday’s game.

Recently, the Bears have improved on the yards allowed per game, especially on the ground.

The defensive front four is beginning to make the pocket uncomfortable for opposing quarterbacks.

The Bears

recorded two of their seven sacks on the season last week against the Tigers, as well as one of its two interceptions.

“I think the defense has shown throughout all the games we’ve played in that it’s capable of making big plays and stopping people,” Estes said.

At quarterback, though Kyle Slager ’04 starts games and will start on Saturday, Nate Poole ’04 is more than a capable backup and has given the team an offensive spark when called upon.

Estes feels comfortable splitting time between the two play callers.

“If I feel one is going to give me more than the other, I’m going to play him. I don’t treat the quarterback position any different from any other position,” Estes said.

Though it may be hard not to, the Bears have to take it one game at a time.

“You can’t look to be 5-5 until you win one. We just need to beat Cornell. This team just needs to get a victory and get some confidence in what they do,” Estes said. “I’ve seen any quit in them. I haven’t seen that yet.”

Last year Brown trounced the Big Red 49-21, its highest offensive output of the season.

Brown will get another chance to get that elusive first win this Saturday at 1p.m.

Sports staff writer Jermaine Matheson ’03 is an assistant sports editor and covers the football team.

He can be reached at jmatheson@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 7

For many U. professors, it’s a long trip to work at Brown

BY CASSIE RAMIREZ

Many Brown professors commute to work each day from the Providence suburbs of Cranston and Warwick, but many others make the journey to work from more distant homes.

Rachel Stevens, a modern culture and media visiting assistant professor, commutes to Providence on Monday mornings and goes home to Long Island, N.Y., on Thursday evenings. During the week, she stays in a rented room on Wickenden Street.

Stevens said she chose to commute instead of moving to Providence because her job as a visiting professor is temporary, and she doesn’t have the resources to move “and set up to a point where it would be worth it.”

Stevens said she takes the bus or train to commute back and forth. While in transit, she uses her time to work on material for her class, read or make phone calls.

“And of course, there are those really bad movies that the Bonanza Bus always shows,” she said.

Having a foot in both Providence and in New York gives her access to resources in art technology in both cities, Stevens said. It also

Memorial home to more than crypts

BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

While sitting in seminar, you allow your eyes to drift from your professor.

Looking straight ahead, you find yourself staring into a crypt that houses two tombs wreathed in flowers. To your right, you see “Temple of Gold,” an enormous painting by 18th-century American artist Edwin Lord Weeks. It depicts the Golden Temple in India, the most sacred site in the Sikh religion. Behind you is the sensuously colorful nude “The Favorite,” a 19th-century work of art by Spanish painter Don José del Alisal Casado. When class ends, you grab your jacket and rush to the Ratty, but halt on your way out of the building to briefly admire a 17th-century English rapier, shined to perfection.

Unbeknownst to most Brown students, this is an experience that can be enjoyed right here on campus. The Annmary Brown Memorial, a box-like granite structure located at 21 Brown St., couldn’t provide a more contrasting setting to nearby Keeney Quad. Stepping through the bronze gates of the memorial, visitors are transported back in time.

“It’s a very nice art museum, and it’s very much a period piece,” said Sam Streit, associate University librarian for special collections. “It’s a 19th-century art collection in a nineteenth century see MEMORIAL, page 21

see COMMUTE, page 8

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As a living memory of the woman for whom it was erected and an art sanctuary, the Annmary Brown Memorial on Brown Street is a hidden University treasure.

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Commute continued from page 7 gives her students more opportunities, she said.

Another positive aspect to commuting, Stevens said, is that she is enthusiastic about both cities and she is “happy with both places for different reasons.”

There are downsides, which Stevens also noted.

“My social life in New York suffers,” she said. “And I tend to have less motivation to invest in Providence, to see what’s interesting and build stronger relationships with people here.”

Associate Professor of Judaic Studies Lynn Davidman said her commute from Kingstown, R.I., is 30 minutes “on a good day.”

“I lived in Providence for the first nine years I taught at Brown,” Davidman said. “But then I met someone who had a house in the country and I moved in.”

Davidman said she “wasn’t crazy about going down Route 95 all the time. But at home, she said, “It’s wonderful. I live near a beach. I like it quite a bit.”

She said she works three days a week at Brown and two days in her home. Although her schedule was like that before she started commuting, Davidman said she guards her days at home more closely now.

Professor of Political Science James Morone has different reasons for his daily commute from Boston.

“We actually did have a great house in Providence,” Morone said.

“My wife teaches at Brandeis, and after 10 years, she was tired of the commute, so she said it was my turn.

That seemed fair, so we sold the house and moved to Boston.”

Morone said because of the commute, he often stays in his office later than normal.

“And I can’t have students over at my house, but that’s all,” he said.

Overall, he said the commute doesn’t change the relationship he has with his students.

“If a student knew me a year before I began commuting and the year after, there wouldn’t be much of a difference,” he said. “The commute doesn’t really matter. It’s other things that make the difference. It’s the research you do, how you are as a teacher, the outside activities you’re involved in.”

Hillel continued from page 1 Jewish people,” Joel said. “You see it every day all over the place. We are rebuilding our people.”

Continued enthusiasm for community-building organizations like Hillel is crucial for the survival of Jewish communities everywhere, Joel said.

“The opposite of love is not hate — it’s indifference,” he said. “Our job is to make sure we matter.”

But an integral part of Jewish culture is building the future on the past, Joel said. In that sense, the new Hillel building serves as a metaphor for that philosophy — it will incorporate the three preexisting structures, one of which dates back to the eighteenth century.

“This will be the oldest and newest Hillel in the world when completed,” said Danny Warshay ‘87, president of the board of Brown Hillel, who introduced each speaker.

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

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WORLD & NATION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 9

IN BRIEF Military will receive at least 4.1 percent pay raise next year WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — It’s official: No member of

the armed forces will receive less than a 4.1 percent pay raise next year.

The pay raise, effective Jan. 1, is part of a $355 billion defense appropriations bill for fiscal 2003, signed by President Bush on Wednesday.

“This legislation takes care of our men and women in uniform and their families,” Bush said.“We provide the money for a pay increase of 4.1 percent for service members, provide for additional full-time support personnel for the National Guard and Reserves, continue to reduce the out-ofpocket cost for housing for our service members and their families.”

Some military personnel will receive more than the 4.1 percent increase. Mid-career officers and enlisted service members who are in positions that are hard to fill will receive raises of 5 percent to 6.5 percent.When the higher, targeted raises are taken into account, the average military raise will amount to 4.7 percent, according to congressional aides.

A proposal to raise the pay of federal employees by a similar amount has stalled in Congress. Aides to Washington area lawmakers predict that it will be addressed when lawmakers return after Election Day. Because Congress missed the Oct. 1 deadline for getting appropriations bills to Bush, much of the government is operatingunder a “continuing resolution” that permits agencies to continue spending at fiscal 2002 levels. Only two of the 13 spending bills—defense and military construction— have been sent to Bush for his signature.

The proposed salary increase for General Schedule employees was approved by the House as part of the spending bill for the Treasury Department, Postal Service and general government operations. But the Senate, which appeared on track to support a 4.1 percent raise, has not finished work on the spending measure.

Microsoft Corp. announces low-risk partnership with Walt Disney Co. (L.A.Times) — Learning from the mistakes of chief rival AOL Time Warner Inc., Microsoft Corp. announced a low-risk partnership with Walt Disney Co.Thursday in the first of what could be a series of deals with entertainment companies.

Microsoft sees the partnerships as a way to lure people to its No. 2 MSN online access service without taking on the considerable expense of developing its own content.

The deal with Disney calls for a jointly branded version of MSN that will give consumers a modest amount of Disney content at no cost beyond the $21.95 monthly charge for MSN. The Redmond,Wash.-based software giant might expand its relationship with Disney, and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said his company is working on other alliances to secure more content for MSN in exchange for driving Internet users to selected media sites.

None of those deals will involve Microsoft getting into the content business itself, as AOL did by buying Time Warner for $99 billion in stock. AOL planned to tap Time Warner movies, music, magazines and other content for its No. 1 online service, but that strategy that has yet to bear fruit: AOL’s Internet entertainment offerings are bringing in little profit.

“There’s a big difference between how we’re going about it and how AOL’s going about it,” Gates said in an interview.

“Microsoft is fundamentally a software company, but we know there’s lot more that can be done to find the best content.We’re in constant dialogue with leaders in the media business.”

Financial terms of the Disney deal weren’t disclosed.

Analysts said they were likely so meager that Microsoft might be offering Disney only free advertising.

“Microsoft is providing a highly trafficked medium on which Disney can provide images,” said Prudential Securities analyst John McPeake, who owns shares in Microsoft and recommends them.“I wouldn’t be surprised if it came down to bartering.”

The Disney branding came as Microsoft released MSN 8, a significant improvement for the online service with 9 million subscribers. MSN 8 adds junk mail filters and MSN’s first serious controls to limit children’s access to Web pornography, hate speech and other categories that parents select.

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Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose and other law enforcement officials announced the capture of two suspects in the sniper shootings during a press conference on Thursday in Rockville, Md.

Tests link found gun to D.C.shootings (Washington Post) — A Persian Gulf war veteran and a

teenager arrested before dawn today at a Maryland rest stop are behind the deadly Washington-area sniper shootings that threw the region into panic for weeks, and ballistics tests showed that the gun found in their car fired nearly all of the shots in the violent spree, law enforcement officials said today.

“Tonight people in the Washington metropolitan region are breathing a collective sigh of relief,” said Doug Duncan, chief executive of Montgomery County, where the shooting spree began on Oct. 2, leaving 10 people dead and three wounded.

The two suspects — identified as John Allen Muhammad, 41, once known as John Allen Williams, and Lee Malvo, 17 — were arrested after a flurry of police activity in places as far away as Tacoma, Wash., where a house Muhammad had rented was searched, and Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose, at a press conference tonight to officially announce the arrests that had been publicized all day, said the two men in custody were being held on charges unrelated to the spree but still were considered responsible. He said prosecutors would meet Friday to discuss filing charges against both men.

“We have not given in to the terror,” said Moose, who was in charge of the multi-jurisdictional task force that was investigating the crimes. “Yes we have all experienced anxiety but in the end, resiliency has won out.”

Asked whether Washington residents still had to worry, he said: “We have the weapon. It is off the street.” He said authorities believe they have “put some giant pieces of the puzzle together,” but they are still investigating the case and will keep open the tip line in case anyone still has information.

As soon as the press conference was over, Montgomery County schools officials announced news that school children have been waiting three weeks to hear: School operations will return to normal on Friday, with children allowed outdoor recess, physical education, open lunch at high schools and field trips. Other schools systems were likely to follow suit.

“All of us — everyone who works in our school system — are breathing a sigh of relief this evening,” Superintendent Jerry D. Weast said.

Also found with the gun in the car was a tripod that steadies the gun, a high-ranking source said earlier. Law

enforcement sources also said the Chevrolet Caprice the men were in had been modified to create a hole through which someone could lie in the back and shoot.

After their arrest, the men were first taken to an undisclosed location for questioning, with Muhammad initially being held on a federal firearms charge, and Malvo, who has a juvenile police record, as a material witness to a crime, law enforcement officials said.

Late this afternoon, Muhammad was taken to the heavily guarded U.S. District Court in Baltimore, where he appeared before Federal Magistrate Beth Gesner. She ordered that he be held on charges of illegal possession of a firearm, which violated a restraining order that was obtained by his ex-wife in the state of Washington last year. The restraining order prevented him from owning a gun, and law enforcement officials determined that he had in his possession when arrested a Bushmaster semiautomatic .223 caliber rifle.

The hearing began at 6:45 p.m. and lasted for about 20 minutes. Muhammad, escorted by an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, entered the room wearing a short-sleeved green prison jump suit and blue prison-issue slippers. His wrists were handcuffed behind him. He looked subdued. He bowed his head slightly as he made his way to the defense table.

He was uncuffed and took a seat beside his lawyer, federal public defender Jim Wydall. He responded in a soft voice to questions, including whether he understood the charges against him.

“I know where I’m at and I know what I’m doing,” he responded.

Earlier in the afternoon, Malvo appeared before Magistrate Judge James Bredar in a sealed courtroom, according to court officials. Malvo was given two courtappointed attorneys, then time to consult with them before returning to the courtroom, said the officials, who would give no further details about the proceedings because he is a juvenile.

A U.S. intelligence official said today that there is no evidence that Muhammad or Malvo are connected to terrorist organizations or terrorist associates.

Investigators are examining reports from acquaintances that Muhammad may have sympathized with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and approved of the 9/11 attacks. “This was a free-lance operation, and it’s not clear that his sympathies were even a part of his motive,” the official said.

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U.S. remains ‘unprepared’ for terrorist attack, panel reports WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — A prestigious task force led by two former U.S. senators has concluded that the American transportation, water, food, power, communications and banking systems remain easy targets for terrorists despite the government’s efforts at tightening the nation’s domestic security in the last year.

The panel, sponsored by the private Council on Foreign Relations and chaired by former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., suggests the task of protecting the American heartland is so complicated and expensive that the government’s current multi-billiondollar efforts will barely dent the problem.

The report comes a week after CIA Director George Tenet warned Congress that the terrorist threat is as grave now as it was just before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“A year after 9/11, America remains dangerously unprepared to prevent and respond to a catastrophic terrorist attack on U.S. soil,” said the commission. “In all likelihood, the next attack will result in even greater casualties and widespread disruption to our lives and economy.”

Among the looming crises it says require immediate attention are these: 1. Only a minuscule fraction of the containers, trains, trucks and ships entering the country are ever searched, meaning the chances of ever detecting a weapon of mass destruction are almost nil.

2. The nation’s 650,000 state and local police officers operate “in a virtual intelligence vacuum” because they are denied access to terrorist watch lists compiled by the State Department for use by U.S. immigration and consular officials.

3. Local police, fire and emergency medical personnel can’t communicate with one other in an emergency because their radios are incompatible, and they lack the training and protective equipment in the event of a chemical or biological attack.

4. Numerous legal barriers exist that discourage major industries from addressing secu-

rity concerns: most private water systems avoid checking water for signs of sabotage because of fear of litigation, and energy business executives fear convening to discuss emergency back-up procedures out of concern for antitrust litigation.

5. The National Guard, trained mostly for deployment overseas, is ill-equipped and ill-trained to respond to a major terrorist strike.

President Bush has proposed creating a Department of Homeland Security that would consolidate the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Customs Service, the Coast Guard and many other agencies. An Office of Homeland Security, headed by former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, is working to coordinate these functions as Congress debates the new agency.

Ridge’s office said Thursday the new report is out of date and didn’t recognize the administration’s efforts. “We’ve been actively implementing what we can, while waiting for Congress to act on the president’s homeland security proposals made in February, such as increased funding for first responders, bio-terrorism and critical infrastructure protection,” said Homeland Security spokesman Gordon Johndroe.

The panel’s leaders said they did not intend to criticize the Bush administration, but to focus the nation’s attention on what they consider a crisis.

“Starting from the point that nobody took any of this seriously (before 9/11), the Bush administration has made an adequate start,” Rudman said Thursday.

“But I think Tom Ridge and his staff have been so involved in process, so distracted by the security alerts and by the pending legislation, that they do have a ways to go. ... Our message is, for God’s sake, do it.”

Seven months before the suicide attacks on New York and Washington, Rudman and Hart released a congressionally mandated report warning that the threat of terrorism was so severe the government should create a homeland security agency.

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Hostage crisis differs from 1995, Russians say (Baltimore Sun) — In an earlier

desperate moment in their battle against Russia, nearly 150 Chechen rebels disguised as Russian police set off in a convoy for Moscow, determined to storm the Kremlin and bring a victorious end to their fight for independence.

They bribed soldiers to let them pass, but when policemen in the southern town of Budyonnovsk demanded a bribe they considered greedy, the Chechens opened fire and occupied a hospital, taking about 2,000 people hostage.

That was June 14, 1995. The siege lasted five days. More than 100 hostages died in bungled rescue attempts. When it was over, the rebels had won the promise of a truce, peace talks and safe passage back to Chechnya. The hostages were released, and the Chechens went home.

The war finally ended a year later. By then, about 30,000 people had died in a conflict that began in December 1994.

Today, Russians say, the circumstances are very different.

The Chechens who are holding about 700 hostages in a Moscow theater are not the same as those of 1995.

Some of the hostage-takers are women, astonishing considering where they come from.

Chechnya, a republic within Russia, is Muslim. In general theirs is not a conservative Islam, and their fight is for nationhood rather than jihad. Women have jobs and go unveiled, but men are considered their protectors.

Now here they are, alongside the gun-wielding men, women described as young widows who lost their husbands at the hands of Russian soldiers and who may believe they have nothing left to live for.

In 1995, much less was at stake. Budyonnovsk was a small town on the fringes of the country, far from the center of power in Moscow.

When soldiers proved unable to solve the confrontation, Prime Minister Viktor L. Chernomyrdin got on the phone with the rebels, led by Shamil Basayev, and negotiated in front of television cam-

eras. He promised peace talks.

The rebels left in two buses, along with politicians and journalists who volunteered to accompany them in place of the hostages. Chernomyrdin gave them a refrigerated truck to transport 16 dead rebels.

His prestige was enhanced by solving the crisis. President Boris N. Yeltsin looked weak for having stayed out of it.

Today is different. Russian President Vladimir Putin has everything at stake, his authority over Russia, his international credibility and even his honor.

The latest war, which began in September 1999, has destroyed much of what was left of Chechnya. Thousands more have died. Tens of thousands have fled. And the rebels have reached out to foreign Islamic groups — Thursday, the Arab television station Al-Jazeera broadcast an appeal from the hostagetakers in Moscow.

Putin has declared the Chechen war part of the international struggle against terrorism, asserting the fighters have links to al-Qaida. Some months ago, he announced the war was over and called Russia victorious.

Chechnya, he declared, was back to normal.

The dead, the refugees, the guerrillas staging daily attacks, the shuttered schools and destroyed homes were somehow beside the point.

And now, Chechen rebels are in Moscow, the heart of the country, right under the noses of what they call the power ministries — the Federal Security Bureau (a successor to the KGB), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense — not to mention the president in his grand Kremlin office.

Commentators on Russian television Thursday were saying the audacious rebels had proved Putin’s policies a failure.

Newspapers were pointing out that, in fact, the Chechen war was not over. Putin, they said, found himself in a position where he could not negotiate.

Neither could he afford to let 700 people die in a Moscow theater.

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Spying case creates growing furor in Israel JERUSALEM (L. A.Times) — For gener-

ations, men of the small Bedouin village of Beit Zarzir have proudly volunteered to serve in the Israeli army, which prized them for their battlefield bravery and their phenomenal ability to read terrain.

On Thursday, the scion of the village’s most prominent clan — a Bedouin lieutenant colonel who lost an eye fighting for Israel in Lebanon — stood before a military court, indicted on charges of espionage.

The case of Omar El Heib and his nine alleged accomplices, who are also Bedouin, is causing a furor in Israel. The men are accused of providing sensitive military information in exchange for drugs and money to the Muslim fundamentalist group Hezbollah, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction. El Heib, if found guilty, would be the highest-ranking Israeli military officer recruited to spy on the group’s behalf.

Since the earliest days of Israel’s statehood, the courage and loyalty of its Bedouin troops, who as Muslims and Arabs are not subject to Israel’s military draft, have been cited as proof that Israel’s Arab minority can be fully integrated, side by side with the Jewish majority, into the state’s most venerable institutions.

Now it is feared that this case will drive yet another wedge between the two communities, whose relationship has become increasingly fraught with tension and mistrust as the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, drags into a third year.

Many Israeli Arabs believe they are unfairly tarred by terror

attacks carried out by Palestinian militants, and point out that they, too, suffer casualties in suicide bombings and other assaults inside Israel. Israeli Arabs were among the dead and injured when an explosives-laden vehicle slammed into a crowded bus in northern Israel on Monday, killing 14 passengers.

Some Jewish Israelis, however, perceive Israeli Arabs’ sympathy for their Palestinian brethren as a worrisome threat from within.

Israeli Arabs have been implicated in the planning and carrying out of several attacks, and there was an outpouring of anger in Israel earlier this year when a young Israeli Arab woman and her companion, who were warned by the Palestinian bomber, got off a bus before it blew up without attempting to raise any alarm.

In such a highly charged atmosphere, these spy allegations are both divisive and damning.

Laying out their cases on Thursday, Israeli prosecutors depicted a seamy drug underworld intersecting with the shadowy realm of espionage, in which Hezbollah-linked traffickers proffered drugs and cash, and the Bedouin gang in return provided information about army troop movements, coded maps and other operational details.

As El Heib was being indicted in a special military court in Tel Aviv and four of his alleged accomplices appeared in criminal court in the Israeli Arab city of Nazareth, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, the army’s chief of staff and Israel’s top military man, sought to portray the case as an isolated one, even if wrongdoing is proven.

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Children’s health insurance program provokes dispute WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

When Congress created the Children’s Health Insurance Program, lawmakers and advocates across the ideological spectrum celebrated it as the biggest expansion of the government’s role in health care in three decades — a $40 billion investment to improve the lives of millions of youngsters whose parents were working but uninsured.

Five years later — and despite a slow start — CHIP is widely regarded as a success. But it is provoking a fresh dispute among the Bush administration, Congress and a growing number of states about whether some of its basic rules need to be changed.

The issue revolves around concern that the program is not providing enough money to states, which as the federal government’s partners contribute about 30 percent of the cost and determine coverage eligibility.

Under the rules, the administration predicts, states will have to drop 900,000 children between next year and 2006. Liberal policy analysts say the problem could be worse.

Concern about such a prospect crystallized at the start of the new fiscal year this month, when most states for the first time had to give back a total of $1.2 billion they had been handed for children’s health insurance but had not spent. Still, whether Congress should step in — and, if so, what it should do — remains in dispute.

The controversy’s roots lie in subtle features of the 1997 law that established the program — a law that was intended mainly to balance the federal budget.

One feature requires a state to spend its grant within three years. If any money is left over, it gets reshuffled to states that have used up their allotments. After one more year, if any of that money still remains, it goes back to the federal Treasury. That is

why $1.2 billion was returned this month — and why an additional $1.6 billion is expected to be returned to the Treasury next fall.

The other aspect of the law is a funding quirk. To fit the program inside certain budget limits, the subsidies were designed to decline by about one-quarter for last year, this year and in fiscal 2004.

Taken together, those features have created a paradox: Most states had more money than they needed when their programs were new and small. Now, they are losing money just as the programs have grown substantially, to include nearly 4 million children nationwide.

“There was a mismatch” in timing, said Cindy Mann, a research professor at Georgetown University who was in charge of CHIP from 1999 to 2001.

In his budget last spring, President Bush asked Congress to allow states to keep their money for children’s insurance. Bush’s senior health aides say the program is effective.

They have been encouraging states to use any extra money to extend coverage to broader groups of uninsured children, their parents and even other uninsured adults.

“Having that money go back to the Treasury at this point makes no sense,” said Thomas Scully, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the branch of the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees CHIP. “We don’t want to ... have it go back ... to be spent on road-building and not health care.”

Several governors are also prodding Congress. “It is unacceptable to just let these funds go unused and not preserve them for children,” said Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon (D), whose state used up its money, then was given $100 million more in the reshuffle — but could not spend that new money quickly enough.

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Korea gives China-U.S. meeting a new urgency CRAWFORD, Texas

(Newsday)

—

Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrives here Friday for a U.S.China summit that has been transformed by recent events from a relaxed down-home encounter into an urgent conference over Korea.

When originally scheduled, the meeting was conceived largely as an opportunity for Jiang, President Bush and their wives to interact informally on Bush’s ranch just before heading to an Asian-Pacific economic summit in Mexico.

The social aspect of the meeting will still be present. After conferring for 90 minutes, the Bushes and Jiangs will sit down to a Texas barbecue lunch. Then Bush, a self-proclaimed “windshield rancher,’’ will give his counterpart a tour of the spread in the presidential pickup.

Bush, campaigning for Republican candidates in the South Thursday, quipped that first lady Laura Bush was already at the ranch preparing for the visit. ``It’s been raining, so she needs to sweep the porch,’’ he said.

But North Korea’s unexpected Oct. 4 admission of a secret program to enrich uranium has raised the stakes for the BushJiang meeting. U.S. officials seek to rein in the North Korean nuclear program through diplomatic and economic pressure — and few governments are better situated to exert that kind of leverage than China’s.

Consequently, North Korea will top the agenda when Bush and Jiang sit down. Although the Chinese have been careful not to tip their hand since the North Korean admission, administration officials remain hopeful Beijing will help. “China has no interest in seeing a nuclearized Korean Peninsula,’’ said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the United States believes a diplomatic solution is possible because of the confluence of two things: North Korea’s dependence on outside aid for its failing economy and its neighbors’ desire to stem nuclear proliferation in their region. “We believe that we have some leverage and methods in this case that we don’t have in the Iraqi case,’’ she said.

The two presidents will discuss other issues, including the possibility of resuming military-tomilitary contacts curtailed afterthe collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese fighter over the South China Sea in April 2001.

Overall, Rice said, U.S.Chinese relations are on “a good footing.’’ She said the Chinese had taken some recent steps to assuage one of Washington’s biggest concerns — Chinese sales of missile and nuclear technology to other countries — and that there had been “some small signs of progress’’ on human rights and religious freedom, other traditional U.S. complaints.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 15

Federal coverup of nudity gets scrutiny WASHINGTON — When the U.S. Senate wouldn’t allow a collection of nudes in an art show last year, Raymond Wiger didn’t understand why. Wiger, whose work was in the show, saw plenty of nude art at buildings like the Capitol, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress.

So he wrote to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., then chairman of the Senate Rules Committee and whose office made the decision to reject the nudes, looking for an answer. The response was simple: no nudity or violent images allowed in the Russell Senate Office Building rotunda.

The Justice Department followed suit earlier this year when it hung a blue curtain in front of the bare-breasted statue “Spirit of Justice,” which has been in the building since 1936. The blue curtain was a better backdrop for Attorney General John Ashcroft when he was on camera, the Justice Department said.

It was further confirmation for Wiger that public displays of nude artwork seemed to be in danger. Now Wiger has produced “Out of Context — A View From the Hill,” an exhibition at Zenith Gallery. A collaboration with New York photographer David Morgan, the show incorporates photos featuring nudes at public buildings and spaces around town.

There’s an 1899 photo of a student group in front of “The Court of Neptune Fountain” outside the Library of Congress. The fountain includes three nude men and two nude women with water splashing onto their torsos.

“It’s probably the most explicit ... just a block across from the U.S. Capitol,” Wiger says. “I wanted to show the federal works through the use of archival photographs from the Library of Congress ... to show how long this work has been in the public eye.”

With the historic photos are detail shots that Morgan and Wiger took to accentuate the sexuality or eroticism in the same pieces. Wiger and Morgan also have their own work on display.

Morgan’s photographs are shadowy, erotic studies of the body; Wiger’s wire mesh sculptures are of nudes in similar poses to many stone ones.

“My work is a classical form in a contemporary medium,” says Wiger, 41, of Taos, N.M. “There’s never been any sexual connotation with my work.”

Censorship of art began to intensify in 1989 with a controversial show of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs, said Svetlana Mintcheva, arts advocacy project coordinator at the National Coalition Against Censorship. It came to the forefront in 1998 when the Supreme Court said the National Endowment for the Arts could take into account standards of decency when awarding funding.

Arts commissions and organizations that depend on government money are shying away from the potential controversy associated with nudity, Mintcheva says.

McConnell’s office told Wiger it banned the nudes last year out of a concern for children.

Gore calls for new emphasis on public health services WASHINGTON (Washington Post)

— Former vice president Al Gore, citing a growing threat of a biological weapons attack against the United States, Thursday said curing the “dangerous weakness” of the country’s public health ser vices should be the nation’s top health care priority.

Gore said that possible war with Iraq — and intelligence suggesting that the Iraqis would respond with a biological attack aimed at the U.S. — as well as the reemergence of Osama Bin Laden’s al-Qaida network have created “an immediate and urgent need” for action by the federal government to protect the population.

“The strong possibility of a biological weapons attack against the United States demands a new and comprehensive response,” Gore said at the George Washington University Medical Center.

“We need a new national defense public health act to responsibly address this

imminent threat.”

In the third of a series of policy speeches before the November midterm election, Gore largely set aside partisan criticism of the Bush adminstration in an effort to open a new front in the debate over health care policy.

He said that the lack of health insurance coverage for millions of Americans must take “a back seat” to the more pressing threat of improving the public health ser vice’s capacity to deal with an attack from anthrax, small pox or ebola.

Gore lamented the failure to enact either a patients bill of rights or a prescription drug coverage plan during the past two years, calling both examples of “promises made and promises broken” by the administration, and he criticized President Bush for offering this week what he called a weak alternative to pending legislation that could significantly lower the cost of generic drugs.

“The strong possibility of a biological weapons attack against the United States demands a new and comprehensive response.

We need a new national defense public health act to responsibly address this imminent threat.”

Al Gore Speaking at George Washington University Medical Center

But he largely focused on the importance of reinventing and bringing more resources to the public health system.

Earlier this year Congress passed and Bush signed a measure co-sponsored by Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., designed to deal with the threat of biological attack.

Gore praised that bill

but an adviser said he e n v i s i o n e d a m o re c o m p re hensive approach that would bring more resources to hospitals, o f f e r e n h a n c e d t ra i n i n g t o h e a l t h c a re p ro f e s s i o n a l s, i m p rove t h e l i n k s b e t we e n va r i o u s p u b l i c h e a l t h c e n t e r s a n d g i v e t h e s u rg e o n general greater authority — at a first year cost of about $10 billion.

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Some in black community disappointed by suspects’ race (Baltimore Sun) — In the black com-

munity, the good news came first and the bad news a half-beat later.

“Did you hear?” huddled officeworkers and shocked e-mail buddies said to one another: They think they caught the sniper — and he’s black.

It was a revelation few expected: The two suspects in the Washington-area serial sniper killings are not disenchanted white men, as were Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski.

John Allen Muhammad, 41 and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, are black.

Pundits and criminal profilers got it all wrong; they had predicted the sniper would turn out to be a young to middle-aged white man with a political or social ax to grind. Thursday, experts admitted to being surprised.

However, many blacks — from average citizens to influential leaders — took the news personally.

Diania Dabney, owner of Dabney’s Beauty Salon in Baltimore, said the snipers’ race was the buzz all Thursday in her shop.

“It makes me feel good that they’re caught, but I’m sorry they’re black, because I’m black,” Dabney said. “It’s a negative thing against the race, and we already have enough negative things against us.”

The talk that went on in Dabney’s shop was echoed around the country.

Thursday, on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” — a nationally syndicated radio program — the phone lines were flooded with callers shocked to hear the serial snipers were black.

“Folks were disappointed, and kinda like relieved and scared at the same time,” said Keith Fisher, producer of the Baltimore-area affiliate that carries the popular show on WWIN-FM. “People were saying, `Oh, I hope it’s not the guy, but if it is, well, then it’s good that they caught him.’ “

Former Black Entertainment Television talk-show host Tavis Smiley, who now has a radio program on National Public Radio, plans a show on the suspects’ race next week.

Profilers who missed the mark had relied on the history of such crimes.

“It’s very unusual for serial killers to be black,” said Ken Jennings, vice president of the African American Coalition of Howard County, Md., a local black think tank. “This is very surprising. I think people are very surprised.”

Although cases of black serial killers are unusual, there have been some. Henry Louis Wallace, a black man, was convicted in 1997 of murdering nine women in the Charlotte, N.C., area over a 20month period. Wayne B. Williams was convicted of two of the dozens of killings in the 1980s Atlanta child murders; once Williams was arrested, the killings stopped.

Na’im Akbar, former president of the National Association of Black Psychologists and a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee, said he fielded calls all day Thursday from colleagues, family members and a producer from Smiley’s radio show, all of whom wanted to talk about the suspected snipers’ race.

“I certainly am shocked and upset and saddened,” Akbar said.

“This is not typical conduct for us.

I mean black folks do some crazy stuff, but we don’t do anonymous violence. That’s not in our history.

We just don’t do that.”

Akbar said many blacks know that the race of the serial snipers will reflect negatively on them.

“The reality of it is we know on some very basic level, that in this country, we are always identified with the worst aspects of our community,” Akbar said. “So it becomes a very personal thing. Whether it’s true or not, I feel that white people will be looking at me now.”

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 17

Voting irregularities block Democrats’ outreach to Indians (Washington Post) — For months,

South Dakota Democrats have suggested that Native-American voters might provide just enough votes to help Sen. Tim Johnson win reelection over GOP Rep. John Thune. But an emerging scandal over the Democratic Party’s outreach to tribes is roiling the already fiercely contested campaign.

State and federal authorities have begun a criminal investigation into whether the Democratic Party’s assiduous courting of Native Americans produced fraudulent voting registrations and absentee ballots. Four hundred registration cards and absentee ballot applications are under scrutiny for possible irregularities such as forged signatures and dead registrants.

Republicans have even hinted at a legal challenge to the Nov. 5 election results. Democrats say the GOP simply wants to suppress Native-American turnout in a pivotal election.

No one questions that Democrats have worked diligently to register Native-American voters after pledging to increase the total to 20,000 from 10,000 at the campaign season’s start. About 17,000 new South Dakota voters had registered by Monday’s deadline, state officials said. About onefourth live on or near Indian reservations.

South Dakota Democratic Party spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg said the party is extremely proud of its outreach efforts, having established offices on every reservation.

“It’s extremely important to us that every eligible and legitimate voter have an opportunity to register and participate in the political process,” she said.

Native Americans tend to vote Democratic, a critical factor in the sparsely populated state. Johnson won his last race by fewer than 6,000 votes, and this year’s face-off with Thune — as well as the House battle between Gov. Bill Janklow, R, and Democratic lawyer Stephanie

Herseth — could be decided by even smaller margins.

In recent weeks, evidence of tainted registration cards and ballot applications has clouded the Democrats’ efforts. Early this month, party officials determined that at least two absentee ballot applications were fraudulent.

They fired a contractor, Becky Red Earth-Villeda, over allegations she had submitted scores of illegal voter registrations. One came from a woman who had died more than two weeks before officials received the card, and many more had mismatched birth dates and nonexistent addresses.

The FBI is working with state and local officials to determine how many registration cards and ballot applications may be tainted.

On Tuesday a consultant for the Sioux Tribes Voter Education and Registration Committee, Lyle Duane Nichols, was indicted on five counts of forgery in connection with voter registration cards he submitted.

“It’s vitally important the public know when these kinds of allegations are made that they are going to be investigated and investigated quickly,” said U.S. Attorney James McMahon.

Republicans are using the controversy as a political issue. Thune and his supporters have made much of the fact that this spring Johnson said his campaign was “trying to secure space to set up campaign offices on each reservation in the state.” Johnson spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said the campaign ultimately let the state party establish the offices in question, where officials are “working to elect Tim Johnson and every other Democratic candidate on the ballot this fall.”

In a Monday debate, Johnson challenged Thune to halt all negative campaigning. Thune said he would do so as soon as Johnson held a news conference explaining what he knows about voter fraud.

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Stocks fall on less-than-good corporate profit outlook (L.A.Times) — Stocks slid Thursday,

knocking the Dow Jones index down 2.1 percent amid growing unease about the outlook for corporate profits — a concern that threatens to thwart the market’s recent revival.

Third-quarter earnings have been beating Wall Street’s greatly reduced expectations, on average, but many corporate executives have been cautious or outright dour in their outlooks for the fourth quarter and for 2003.

“Companies are making their earnings numbers through cost cutting, which you can’t do forever,” said Russ Koesterich, equity strategist at State Street Global Markets in Boston. “What’s most troubling is that in their guidance, companies are not showing any optimism that revenue growth is going to return. To get anything approaching a bull market you need top-line growth.”

In Thursday’s trading, the 30stock Dow Jones industrial average sank 176.93 points to close at 8,317.34.

Analysts said short-term profit-taking also contributed to the drop: Through Wednesday, the Dow had surged 16.6 percent from the five-year low it reached Oct. 9.

The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index shed 13.64 points, or 1.5 percent, to close at 882.50, and the technology-oriented Nasdaq composite sank 21.52 points, or 1.6 percent, to close at 1,298.71.

In moderate trading, losers outnumbered winners 9-to-7 on the New York Stock Exchange and about 8-to-7 on Nasdaq.

The setback for stocks spurred nervous investors toward government debt, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note to 4.12 percent from 4.23 percent Wednesday.

In this week’s crush of thirdquarter earnings reports, companies such as AT&T and Xerox

have been recording profit achieved largely through cost reductions, while others such as United Parcel Service and chipequipment maker KLA-Tencor have warned that fourth-quarter results could be disappointing.

Third-quarter profit for the S&P 500 is likely to be up about 6 percent above a year earlier once all the company reports are in, according to data tracker Thomson First Call. But analysts’ expectations for the fourth quarter are falling fast: Profit growth now is pegged at 17 percent, down from 28 percent at the beginning of July. First Call expects those projections to keep sliding.

After cutting back costs, companies have leverage that will serve them well when the U.S. economy gathers steam, strategists said, but the economic outlook remains questionable.

“Corporate America has been on a treadmill for the last couple of years, and I don’t know how much leaner it can get,” said Joseph Kalinowski, chief investment officer at New York-based brokerage Ehrenkrantz King Nussbaum. “Unless we see some decent economic growth, we could be in for another lackluster reporting season in the fourth quarter.”

Thursday, Duke Energy dropped $1.06 to close at $19.08 after the utility giant said earnings in the last quarter plummeted and warned of a potential shortfall in 2003.

Microchip Technology slipped $2.97 to close at $22.68 after a profit report in which CEO Steve Sanghi offered the kind of conservative outlook that has become common. “The industry environment continues to be weak,” Sanghi said, citing flagging consumer confidence, the threat of a U.S.-Iraq war and the lingering effect the West Coast port lockout might have on holiday sales.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 19

New LAPD chief Bratton tags graffiti-busting as top priority LOS ANGELES (L.A. Times) — When William J. Bratton is sworn in Friday as the Los Angeles Police Department’s 54th chief, he inherits an agency accused in recent years of corruption and brutality.

Crime is up and arrests are down.

Topping his list of priorities?

Graffiti.

Far from trivial, Bratton said, fighting graffiti is the key to reducing crime overall and solving more serious offenses — from drug dealing to murder.

It is so bad here that after touring the city, Bratton, former head of the New York Police Department, called Los Angeles’ graffiti the worst he’s ever seen.

“I hate it with a passion,” he said of the painted blight that scars walls, sidewalks, awnings, windows, mailboxes, signs, freeway overpasses, even trees.

More than 30 million square feet of graffiti were painted over or sandblasted in Los Angeles last year, more than New York City officials cleaned up over four years at the height of their antigraffiti battle.

“It sounds like he’s proposing invading Russia in winter,” said Mike Davis, a University of California, Irvine, history professor who once found the inside of his mailbox tagged when he was living in the Los Angeles district of Echo Park, just north of downtown.

But Bratton said fighting graffiti is key to the so-called broken windows philosophy of policing that he plans to import to Los Angeles. The idea is that eradication of petty crimes and unkempt properties creates safer cities.

The new chief’s anti-graffiti push comes at a time when more is being done to combat tagging in Los Angeles than ever. But will Bratton — strapped by budget constraints — be able to wring improvement without more money or personnel?

On his side are a host of recent initiatives: A 2-year-old law lowers felony graffiti offenses from $5,000 in damage to $400. The reward for graffiti tips that lead to convictions was doubled to $1,000.Community-based groups are buying digital cameras to record graffiti – evidence for police and prosecutors.

Still, graffiti fighters say they have lost ground in the war with street vandals.

Over the last 18 months, they say, tagging has gotten worse — even with money to remove graffiti at an all-time high and felony graffiti arrests rising dramatically.

“It makes sense to go after graffiti,” said Cara Gould, operations director of Homeboy Industries, which holds a city contract for graffiti abatement in some of the hardest hit East Los Angeles neighborhoods.

“We’ve seen kids die because of graffiti,” Gould said. “If one gang goes into another’s neighborhood and writes graffiti, it makes them mad, and their impulse is to grab a gun and get even.”

Davis, who has written extensively about local politics and gangs, acknowledged that Los Angeles has a graffiti problem.

But he questions whether, in a city with more territory and only one-quarter of the police officers of New York, a war on graffiti might do more harm than good.

Homicides are up, he said, well past 500 people so far this year.

“I can’t imagine anything worse than declaring no tolerance of graffiti in terms of mismanaging police manpower,” Davis said.

To permit vandals and gang members to deface property is “effectively surrendering the authority of government to them,” he said. “You cannot let them control your streets. If they’re trying to do it by marking the streets with graffiti, then get rid of it.”

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In Bahrain, first vote in 30 years draws high turnout MANAMA, Bahrain (L. A. Times) — In

what was hailed as a victory for the pro-Western views of the king, more than 50 percent of voters on this Persian Gulf island went to the polls Thursday in the first parliamentary election in nearly 30 years.

Islamic leaders had waged a vigorous campaign urging voters to boycott the election to show their disapproval of the limited power-sharing plan devised by the king, Sheik Hamed ibn Isa Khalifa.

But election officials—backed by international observers— reported voting was strong even in

Shiite neighborhoods, where disaffection is highest with the king and the royal family, who are Sunnis.

“This is a big success for his majesty’s way for democracy that he has presented to the people,” said government spokesman Nabeel Al Hamer.

Hamer suggested that the king may name Shiites to the second legislative chamber, an appointive body created by the newconstitution.

One Islamic leader had predicted the turnout would not exceed 30 percent.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 21

Memorial continued from page 7 building. … We’d like more people to come to see it.”

The Annmary Brown Memorial was built by Gen. Rush Christopher Hawkins between 1903 and 1907 to serve as a memorial to his wife, the granddaughter of Nicolas Brown, and to house his extensive collection of 19th-century and early modern paintings as well as his book and manuscript collection. Both Hawkins and his wife are entombed in the memorial.

The crypt is open to the public and has become a legend in the Brown community. Each year on March 9, Annmary Brown’s birthday, fresh flowers are ceremoniously laid on her tomb, remaining there until they dry and whither.

The memorial was an independent collection until 1948, when its endowment began to run out. The University agreed to step in and maintain the memorial and the Hawkins Collection, but not without its own motives.

“In part, the reason why they were willing to do that was because the land behind the memorial went all the way back to Thayer Street, and they were in the process of building dormitories,” Streit said.

Because the Hawkins collection included books, it became part of the University library system. In 1990, the books in the Hawkins Collection, dating back to the 15th century, were moved to the John Hay Library, where they can be better preserved.

Today, the memorial houses the programs in Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies and Early Modern Studies.

Classes are held in the back room, directly adjacent to the enclosure containing the crypt.

The regular collection of the memorial includes not only Hawkins’ collection, but also the Masansky British Sword Collection, containing 105 swords spanning the time period between the 17th century and World War I, and parts of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, including porcelain and wooden miniature military figures.

The building underwent recent renovations to restore it to its 1907 look, and Streit said the University will be updating the air-handling system sometime in the next year.

Friends of the Library, a private association of members affiliated with the University Library System, brings lectures and special events to the memorial, as do the academic programs that are housed there. The position of coordinator for Friends of the Library, newly filled by Christy Law-Blanchard, has been moved from the John Hay Library to the memorial in the hopes of raising the memorial’s profile.

To this end, Robert Emlen, University curator and senior lecturer in the Department of American Civilization, will be giving a talk, “Love and Death, Books and Art: Creating the Annmary Brown Memorial,” at the memorial tomorrow at 2 p.m.

Law-Blanchard said that the memorial averages between three and five visitors daily.

“We have a lot of students who are interested in art come in and look at the paintings,” she said.

Streit said that in the past few years, several Brown students became interested in the Hawkins Collection. Three students became fascinated with the paintings and developed a websearchable database of the entire coll e c t i o n (http://128.148.7.229:591/amb/). One of the students wrote a senior thesis on General Hawkins as an art collector.

Although the Hawkins Collection contains important works by Weeks, Benjamin West, Eastman Johnson, After Rubens (teacher ofVanWyck) and others, Hawkins made several mistakes

in the acquisition of his paintings. He purchased a forgery of a John Trumbull portrait of George Washington and a painting of a bishop that he mistakenly attributed to El Greco.

“He didn’t have very good advice on his paintings,” Streit said. “He had better advice on his books.”

One of Hawkins’ goals was to acquire a book printed on every European press that existed from Guttenberg’s invention of the printing press to the end of the 15th century.

Last spring, a dream came true for the Friends of the Library and art-lovers throughout the Brown community.

Ken and Amy Shaw, local art dealers from Barrington, R.I. were taking a walk after lunch on Thayer Street when they noticed the bronze gates of the memorial. Drawn inside, the couple was taken aback by the condition of some of the artwork.

“We were told that a lot of the art-

work was not on the walls because of the restoration that was needed,” Ken Shaw said. “We discussed it, and instead of donating money to something we can’t see any results with, we decided to donate some money to getting the paintings restored.”

Shaw said that in return for their donation, he and his wife were able to control where the restorations took place, and see that they were fully restored. To date, three paintings have been restored and four more are in the process. The Shaws said they hope to start an adopt-a-painting program that will lead to the restoration of the entire Hawkins Collection.

“It’s a hidden treasure,” Ken Shaw said. “If you talk to anyone from Rhode Island, even who lives in the area, they’ve never heard of the Annmary Brown Memorial.”

Morris continued from page 3 Morris said the traditional take on McNamara is “a boring story – the tale of a bad man who does bad things.” But Morris told the audience, “I actually rather like the man. I find him a problematic person who still interests me.”

McNamara is not devoid of a sense of ethical responsibility, Morris said. McNamara is a “good man involved in a bad war,” he added.

In fact, this is not only how Morris imagines McNamara, but precisely how the former Secretary of Defense views himself. “The Logic of War” makes little attempt to challenge McNamara’s critiques of himself and the forces at blame inVietnam. The film highlights evidence that shows how

McNamara communicated to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson his doubts about Vietnam. Because the filmmaker has indicated his partiality toward his subject, this is not a film that objectively presents McNamara’s interpretation of history. In fact, it is a film that is subjectively sympathetic toward McNamara.

After the screening, several members of the audience were critical of the film’s self-imposed distance from the actual events of the war.

One individual, who identified himself as a Vietnam veteran, felt Morris had made a “personality cult for McNamara” and wanted to see more commentary on the gruesome realities of war. Morris’ response – “I resisted the atrocity footage” – suggests a certain disassociation with the reality that soldiers lost their lives because of McNamara’s actions.

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Champagne said he hopes to attract those looking to develop leadership skills and make new social connections.

The motto of Bike and Build, the organization that Champagne hopes to use, is “Pedaling to end poverty housing.” This national non-profit group will fit right in at Brown, Champagne said.

“Brown is the perfect place for this because of the high population of people who care about making a positive impact and like to do things that are crazy and new,” he said.

Champagne said he also hopes to make the trip more accessible for anyone interested by possibly finding fellowships or grants that would allow those who cannot afford the trip to participate. The proposed Brown trip would donate money to the local Providence chapter of Habitat for Humanity as well as the affiliate chapters that host the students along their journey.

The 45th annual preservation society meeting, held at the historic First Church of Christ Scientist, also featured a greeting from acting Mayor John Lombardi, who pledged to continue to support preservation in Providence, even after he leaves the mayor’s office to return to his position of City Council president.

“Our beautiful city would not possess such a distinct appearance without your tireless efforts,” Lombardi told the crowd of about 100 PPS members. “You’ve got my commitment that I will continue to support your efforts.”

Horsey also presented awards

Enterprise continued from page 5 them on total cost of implementation, their ability to meet Brown’s needs and the way the vendors measure up to Brown’s vision.

for residential restoration, adaptive reuse and neighborhood revitalization.

At the meeting, the PPS announced next year’s Great Residential Architecture Tour, which opens up historic properties for the public to tour. Brown will host the 2003 tour on June 7, Horsey told the crowd.

The event will mark the first time the University opens up several historic buildings with specific Brown affiliations at one time.

After the meeting, Horsey told The Herald that she doesn’t know which buildings the University will feature on the tour.

Horsey also presented a review of PPS’s activities during the past year, many of which focused on refurbishing the South Providence area.

“My hope is that we will choose a system that provides better service to faculty, students and staff; provides better information for planning and management; lowers business risk; and increases revenues and reduces costs through greater efficiency,” Waite-Franzen wrote.

Gourevitch continued from page 28 moments of my 21-or-so odd years on this planet? Without further hesitation, here is my top ten: 10. The Patriots “Snow Game” victory over the Raiders in last year’s NFL playoffs: Without a doubt one of the more entertaining games I’ve ever watched. It was a better game with more drama than the Super Bowl, thus earning it a place here.

9. 39 year-old and unseeded Jimmy Connors makes the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open: With his neon-colored rackets and his crowd antics, he made tennis about as fun as it can get to watch.

Watching this old man hobble around the court in numerous marathon matches against kids 20 years his junior was a pure joy.

8. Francisco Cabrera’s single in Game 7 of the 1991 NLCS to put the Braves in the World Series over the Pirates: There have been a lot of clutch hits in big games in recent baseball history, but this one really sticks with me. First, the Pirates hadn’t lost a game when leading going into the 9th inning all year. Second, you had Cabrera at the plate – with 10 at-bats on the season – against Pittsburgh ace Doug Drabek.

Finally, you had two outs, the bases loaded and the score 2-1. Nobody thought Cabrera had a chance. But in the end, it was Barry Bonds who was sitting down on the outfield turf wondering what could have been.

7. Michael Jordan shrugs in the 1991 NBA finals against Portland after hitting six threes in the first half: Even Jordan was impressed with himself on that night. He could do no wrong and that one single body expression said it all about the greatest player on the planet.

6. U.S. soccer’s victory over Portugal in the 2002 World Cup: Non-soccer fans bear with me here.

At 2 a.m. EST, as most of the U.S. was sleeping except for soccer lunatics like me, the men’s national team shocked the world. This was a game that nobody thought the U.S. could win then all of a sudden they were leading 3-0 in the first half.

5. Chris Webber’s timeout in 1993 NCAA title game: Frankly, I’ve

never fully recovered from this one.

The Fab Five, with their black socks and baggy shorts, introduced me and countless other 12 year-old kids to college basketball. I idolized them and was sure they were headed for a championship. Then Webber called a timeout. From one of the top players in the country to choke-artist, they don’t come crashing down any faster than that.

4. Tennessee Titans’ “Homerun Throwback” against the Bills in the 2000 NFL Playoffs: It was the most dramatic ending to a football game I’ve ever seen live and it had the great quality that everyone had an opinion about it – sports-crazed fans and the common folk alike. Forward pass?

Backward pass? I say it was legal, but others will fight me to their grave.

3.Yankees take two games in similar dramatic fashion of Byung-Hyun Kim and the D-backs: I was torn between giving Arizona some credit for winning the series or highlighting these games, but in the end these were just two unbelievable games. I told a buddy of mine before Brosius hit the homer in the second of the two comebacks that I’d stop being a baseball fan if he hit it. Luckily, the Dbacks pulled it off in the end, but not before giving the Yankee-Hater Nation a big, big scare.

2. Christian Laetner’s shot to beat Kentucky in the 1992 NCAAs: Everyone remembers the shot, but it was the sheer emotion of the participants that got me: from Laetner’s sheer joy to Thomas Hill crying out of happiness on the sideline.

1. Jordan’s shot in Game 6 of the 1999 NBA Finals against the Jazz in Utah: There was a photo in ESPN’s the magazine a while back that really did speak a thousand words. It was of this play: Jordan was up in the air and his shot was halfway to the hoop. In this photo, could see the facial expressions of every single fan behind the basket and they all had this horrified look on the face. All, except one kid with a Bulls jersey with a huge grin on his face and his hands in the air. The shot hadn’t gone in yet. That was Jordan.

Sports staff writer Nick Gourevitch ’03 hails from Solana Beach, Calif. and had to restrain himself to not put any San Diego-related moments on this list.

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Four” is done for

outstanding portrayal of a tragically mismatched couple acting out everyday situations is no doubt meant to convey serious ideas about identity and gender roles. This is not what comes across, and once again, the choice does not matter. It is too much fun to watch a disheveled Kidd stuff his face with buffalo wings as Finigan, the literaryminded girlfriend, hovers nearby.

Much of “Two out of Four” is done for effect, a trend that seems to extend to the very choice of the Beckett works.

Chosen from thoroughly different points in the writer’s career, the plays do not seem to mesh with Myers’ work, or even with each other.

The first Beckett selection, “What Where,” is the closest Myers comes to making an inexcusably poor choice. From very late in Beckett’s career, the play relies heavily on gesture and symbolism, neither of which is the theme of the evening. The mercifully short piece owes none of its failure to its actors; they execute their cold choreography flawlessly.

The direction is not particularly incoherent here, either. It is simply unclear why the play is performed at all.

Beckett’s second work of the evening, “Krapp’s Last Tape,” is a showcase for the excellent work of Seth Bockley ‘03. As the title character (and only character), Krapp, he creates a slowly clumsy old man who charms the viewer as he fumbles about the stage, laughing to himself and shoving peeled bananas in his pockets.

Bockley’s Krapp is at once hilarious and heartbreaking, and he shines even in a play that runs far too long.

Certain errors in “Two out of Four” are truly unforgivable, however. The mechanical centerpiece of “Krapp’s Last Tape,” a 1950s reel-to-reel tape player, is magnificent, but creates far too

effect, a trend that seems to extend to the very choice of the Beckett works.

Chosen from thoroughly different points in the writer’s career, the plays do not seem to mesh with Myers’ work, or even with each other. many technical problems for Bockley and ends up greatly hindering the play. The scene changes in “do it” are deliberately open and feature conversation between actors and stagehands; this may be intended to break down walls between stage and audience, but in reality it is just annoying.

The lighting and set for the performance are minimal and precise. For some reason, the stage is bordered by live grass; like so much else, it is an unjustified but pleasing choice. The sound design of Sam Posner ‘O3, featuring some of his original music, is well done and could actually be expanded to make the lengthier moments of the Beckett plays more interesting.

As a whole, “Two out of Four” simply requires too much brainpower to be viewed as a serious work of theater. Myers clearly has grand ideas, but they are mostly not evident to the viewer. The important fact of the performance is that its complex choices can be ignored without too much loss, and the play can still be a pleasure to watch.

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Giving prefrosh the right impression of Brown Bongs may abound, but being the countercultural Ivy means much more than an abundance of parties IT WAS LIKE STEPPING INTO SOME to study for, movies to watch or dance labyrinth: hallways that all looked the practices to attend, and I don’t usually same, infinite series of doors, distin- find the time to pause and contemplate. guished only by the different names they However, I had a chance last week when bore. I had flown cross-country, arrived my unit hosted our first group of preon campus late, come very close to not frosh. With the excited shout “They’re here!” we all paraded down contacting the directors of the the hall to claim our program and finally was trotprospective students, and ting down the hall after a harmy own experience came ried sophomore who was tryrushing back to me. They all ing to find a place for me to stood in our Unit Rep.’s spend the night. Turning a room, clutching their sleepcorner into yet another hall ing bags and overnight that looked exactly the same packs, looking in some cases as the last 10 we had traoverwhelmed — most either versed, I was breathtakingly excited or tired. In general, surprised to confront a door they looked young. I tried to that seemed to be hung with HANNE EISENFELD remember back to this time condom dispensers. On closer CAST OFF THIS TATTERED COAT last year, to when I was just inspection it not only seemed about to mail in my early to be, but most definitely was application, to how I had festooned with paper envelopes containing condoms: lubricat- been comparing so many schools, weighed and unlubricated, as well as dental ing all their alleged charms and supdams, all available for a fairly nominal posed shortcomings.

We had entered in the middle of a stuprice. In this distinguished company hung another envelope with the inscrip- dent’s welcoming speech, just in time to tion: “Abstinence = Free.” Only slightly hear, “Yeah, someone was smoking marireassured by that last offering, I contin- juana last night, and you could smell it, ued, swept along the unfamiliar passage- and the police walked right through, but they didn’t even care.” He went on to ways.

It’s hard to imagine that I ever saw the describe how everyone was pretty lax dorms — almost a second home now — about drug use and personal choices in such an alien light. Every so often I try here and that the only thing that could to look around me and see as I saw six really get you into trouble was actually months ago, but usually there are classes selling drugs. Now, this is admittedly true. A faint wafting of marijuana is almost always present in that particular Hanne Eisenfeld ’06 hails from Vancouver, hallway and, though officially disalWash. This is her first semester as a Herald lowed, drug laws do not command any columnist.

sort of particularly harsh enforcement.

But is this the first, glaring impression with which we want our pre-frosh to be confronted?

For some, certainly, there could be no better argument that Brown is the school of their dreams. They may be glad to see that the independence hinted at by the open curriculum is a reality, not just a bit of attractive admission rhetoric. Those who are chafing at the bonds of high school, of home and of familial intervention may hear the stories of complete freedom, see (and smell) the evidence all around them and begin composing admission essays in their heads on the spot. We want this to be a liberal campus, the atmosphere to be one of collaboration between students and administration — but do we want visitors to see this liberality translated directly into the ducking of minimum-age laws and the ability to party any night of the week?

And further, what of those students who come, drawn by Brown’s other reputation? We have garnered the image of the counter-culture Ivy League campus, a place where residents have goals and conceptions of a world that is greater than themselves. A place where classes are filled with students who are curious and passionate, and wherein said students have a spectrum of outside interests that ranges far beyond a weekend filled with frat parties. Students who come seeking this, believing firmly that such a place can exist, may be rudely surprised when they find that somehow an assumption has been made that

freedom is analogous with party culture.

The pre-frosh who stayed with us was already looking rather wide-eyed from the speech when I introduced myself — and this was before she’d really had a chance to take in the condom dispensers, the frat party posters and the not-entirely-inconspicuous bongs that were in one of the dorms through which she walked. She had toured Yale University the night before and was trying to decide which school should receiver her early application. We took her to Andrews, trying to convince her that our campus was every bit as beautiful — if not quite as gothic — as anything New Haven had to offer. As we came down the steps from the Andrews balcony, she asked about the presence of Greek life on campus, looking half-afraid to hear the answer. This turned into a polite incredulity when we told her that Brown actually had a very minimal Greek society that only existed for those who wanted to be involved. Her next question: “So there are things other than frat parties to do on the weekends?” made me wonder exactly what she was seeing and how she was perceiving our school.

And more importantly, it made me wonder whether she’d ever consider coming here after this first-hand experience. When prospective students come, we want to show them who we really are — not some nicely-glossed image straight from the viewbook. But let that image be proud and let it include all that we are — not just the eternal party that is one aspect of campus life.

Pointing a finger at the real Middle East crisis U.S. foreign policy should stop turning a blind eye to repression in the Arab world WHOM ARE WE KIDDING ABOUT number of Internet hosts per 1,000 peobringing democracy to Iraq? The country ple — an indication of how insular the is surrounded by regimes where elections region is.

U.S. policy should take aim at reducing are farces and freedoms are restricted. It’s naive to assume we can help construct these three deficits and devising a longdemocracy in Baghdad without doing term strategy for the region that doesn’t rest on war plans or election anything about undemocratic cycles. We would be better off governments in the rest of the if the 38 percent of Arabs region. It’s hypocritical to under the age of 14 today — bash repression in Iraq and the highest percentage of turn a blind eye to it elseyouth of any region — have where. job opportunities in the comA U.N. Development ing decade, if not for humane Program report released last reasons then for shrewd summer gives an authoritative geopolitical ones. If we don’t analysis of the Arab countries’ demand more of our Arab s h o r t c o m i n g s allies on issues of political (www.undp.org/rbas/ahdr).

JAIDEEP SINGH JAI-DEEP THOUGHTS freedom and women’s rights, Written by leading Arab intelthe people themselves will. lectuals, it is a scathing answer This could spawn Iran-style to the question: “Why has revolutions and more terrordevelopment in Arab countries lagged behind the rest of the world?” U.S. ism geared toward repressive governpolicymakers should take heed of the ments and the U.S. presence in the region. answer.

I went to high school in Kuwait, The key deficits in the 22 Arab countries, the report argues, are in freedom, which has one of the highest freedom women’s empowerment and access to scores among Arab countries and is a information. The Arab countries ranked pleasant place to live. But by most standead last (out of the seven regions of the dards, Kuwait can hardly be considered world) in human freedom, as measured open and free. The Emir of Kuwait by a U.N. index. Only sub-Saharan issued a decree giving women the right Africa has a lower gender empowerment to vote in 1999. But soon after, the ranking than the Arab countries. And Kuwaiti parliament rejected his decree despite oil wealth in many of the Arab for women’s suffrage. On the bright side, countries, the region has the lowest some might say, it’s nice that Kuwait actually has a parliament in the first place.

Jaideep Singh ’03 lived in Kuwait for four Government censorship is ubiquitous. years and Saudi Arabia for five years. He is My high school U.S. history textbook had co-editor of the Brown Journal of World no mention of the Holocaust. A thorough Affairs.

The key deficits in the 22 Arab countries, the report argues, are in freedom, women’s empowerment and access to information. censor at Kuwait’s Ministry of Education had carefully crossed out the sentences pertaining to Hitler’s crimes with a black marker. My harmless high school newspaper was looked over by school officials so they could root out things the ministry would take offense to. I wouldn’t even bother going to see movies; censors would cut out entire dialogues and scenes.

According to the BBC, the Ministry of Information censors all books, films, videotapes, periodicals and other imported publications deemed morally offensive. It’s not access to Playboy that is worrisome, it’s access to political magazines and films from abroad — untainted by local biases.

The kind of distortion and curtailment of freedom I observed in Kuwait has a profound effect on popular perception. Given my edited history book, I wasn’t surprised to find that many Kuwaitis think the Holocaust was a story concocted to raise sympathy for Jews and the establishment of Israel.

While most Kuwaitis I met were comfortable with the United States and grateful for U.S. intervention in the Gulf War, a significant number of Kuwaitis consider the United States the enemy. I

came across these people all the time.

My Kuwaiti classmates would say things like, “Before America got involved, Iraq and Kuwait were Muslim brothers. But the United States wanted Hussein to attack us because they want our oil and they wanted a military base here.”

They’re right about the oil.

Commentators like Thomas Friedman argue that oil money has allowed autocratic regimes in the Arab world to prolong their lives and avoid the rapid democratization that has swept much of the world after the Soviet collapse. Our myopic policies have made us so dependent on Middle East oil that we are willing to turn a blind eye to problems we would otherwise be attentive to. We are dependent on oil in large part because Washington’s failure to produce a strong policy effort to wean us off our gas-guzzling practices and technologies.

Getting back to Iraq, add the geopolitical interests of neighboring countries to the list of obstacles to democracy. Currently in Kuwait, Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times observed last week that countries surrounding Iraq would probably meddle in Iraq’s internal affairs to tip the balance in favor of the Sunni Muslims. Shia Muslims comprise the majority of Iraqis and would most likely come to power if Iraq were truly democratic. Iraq’s Sunni neighbors wouldn’t want that (Iran is mostly Shia).

The administration argument goes that any government would be better than Saddam Hussein. Maybe that’s true, but if the Arab context is anything to go by, don’t expect much.

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Urging a blank check against terror for wrong reasons Rather than quell U.S. fears, Bush is strongarming our representatives to support force against Iraq “THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR is war theory — of his liberal domestic critics fear itself.” Times have changed since as unpatriotic or dovish. This has given Franklin Roosevelt immortalized this quota- Bush considerable latitude to placate tion at his inauguration in January 1933; but domestic congressmen and senators and nearly 70 years later the political rhetoric force them to defer any and all decisions echoes a familiar tune in the United States. concerning future prospects of unilateral action by the United States to Fear is again the driving force in him.

U.S. politics as the nukes in With an evenly divided North Korea, disrupting terrorSenate up for grabs and a demist regimes and the threat from ocratic minority in the House Iraq loom at the forefront of vothoping to defy the odds and ers’ minds. These threats have win it back for the first time been magnified due to the since 1994, the Bush team has aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and actively been campaigning for the illusion of imminence creata host of GOP candidates. The ed by the Bush administration vote on the “blank check” resoand his speech writers.

SCHUYLER lution giving the Bush adminI do not mean to overlook the VON OEYEN istration full authority to attack importance of these issues and THE SKY’S THE LIMIT Iraq is particularly symptothe real threats that they presmatic of a larger problem. The ent to us today and tomorrow.

Senate Democrats knew that Rather, I criticize the means employed to deal with these issues and Bush was going to get his way on the resoluunfairly politicize them before November tion before opening deliberations started elections. The result is an uneven playing because the GOP would stand largely unifield for debate and a greater possibility of fied on the issue (In fact, 48 out of 49 repubwrongful decision making, as political pres- lican senators voted in favor of the resolusures trump the convictions of our repre- tion, the only dissenting GOP member sentatives in Congress and our foreign poli- being Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-RI), and that at least a few Democrats would defect in favor cy team in the State Department.

President Bush has attempted to quell of the resolution for fear of political backthese fears not by looking for broad-based lash from voters or for strong ideological international support but by “getting tough” reasons. This convinced many Democrats and “hawkish,” expressing a willingness to sitting on the fence to vote in favor of the use direct unilateral force against Iraq resolution. Twenty-nine democrats out of 50 should esolutions being debated in the U.N. voted “Yay,” for a grand total in the Senate of Security Council falter. Bush is attempting 77 votes in favor and 23 against. Other resoto portray the reason — or any kind of just lutions placing even some limited restrictions on the use of this blank check were lost in the mix, including proposals from Sen. Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 hails from Carl Levin, D-MI, Senate Foreign Relations Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

leaders Joseph Biden, D-DE, and Richard Lugar, R-LA. Similar lopsided votes are emerging from the U.S. State Department. Instead, they must assert their approval of the majority plan or face an angry upper-level governmental bureaucrat, forcing them to pack their bags in the near future — even should Bush prevail in a 2004 reelection bid.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has already been marginalized in major State Department decisions because of his unwillingness to get as hawkish as they might like.

Powell dealt a major blow to the administration last winter when he told Bush that he wanted Guantanamo Bay captives to have Prisoner Of War (POW) status to avoid poor precedent and ensure future US POWs are afforded the same basic rights. Lower-level state department members cannot afford to defy their superiors in the same way Powell can, and I think many of them will use the same reasoning the Democrats did.

All of this domestic political pressure could bring undesired and possibly tragic results to the international community. I disagree with Sen. Hilary Clinton’s, D-NY, justification of her approval of the blank check resolution two weeks ago. She claimed that she voted in favor of the resolution to secure peace by tightening the reins, even though she fundamentally disagreed with it. Her interests lie more in placating New York voters and leaving possibilities open for a 2008 presidential run than “preserving peace.” As Clinton points out, it is very possible that this vote could have favorable consequences for the country.

Faced with the increased prospects of the United States going alone against Iraq, the international community has added incen-

tive to pass some kind of multilateral broadbased U.N. resolution acceptable to the United States. However, Sen. Clinton will not publicly admit that this reasoning is a sort of desperate gambit because many hard-liners on the U.N. Security Council with permanent veto power like France might not appreciate the domestic politicization of this issue. Essentially, the poker stakes have been raised because the resolution faces increased chance of approval and more dire consequences if it fails. If the U.N. doesn’t buy it, and the United States has to go it alone, Hussein will not see an international community, but rather a unilateral, greedy, Christian nation attempting to directly defy his nation’s sovereignty, breaking all precedents of international law. Sen. Levin mentioned that he wanted Hussein to be looking at a broad-based coalition with international support rather than unilateral action precisely for this reason. Such unilateral action would not only catch Hussein’s attention, but the attention of Iraqis of every political stripe — religious radicals in the Islamic world of the Middle East and the international community as a whole.

Facing these exact prospects and fearing likely exertion of unit veto power by the French, the United States withdrew their former resolution proposal to the U.N. Security Council and will start again with a more moderate resolution this week. I think leaders in the international community are beginning to see how overextended the opening “immovable” U.S. bargain move was, and fear of watching in the future may toughen their own stances accordingly. Fear grips not only U.S. domestic political players but international ones as well, and the possible political consequences are great.

Two-state solution for Israel and Palestine futile A binational state is the only hope for long term stability and peace in the Middle East ON JULY 31, 2002, NINE PEOPLE WERE immigrants and Palestinian natives.

A binational state is the only long-term slaughtered at Hebrew University by a suicide bomber. This got a lot of attention in solution to the quagmire of the Israelithe United States because five of the vic- Palestinian conflict. Both peoples view tims were Americans. Overlooked were the Jerusalem as their eternal and undivided tragic ideological implications of the capital. Both have a rich heritage embedattack. Hebrew University, in the words of ded in the land from the Mediterranean to its president Menachem Magidor, is “a the Jordan River. Both peoples have identiuniversity founded upon the principles of ties primarily formed in diaspora. Any partition is doomed to failure: pluralism and tolerance, a uniPalestinian refugees of the versity that seeks to under1948 war and their descenstand the world in which we PHILIP CHAFFEE dents are not about to relinlive and that…aspires to proGUEST COLUMN quish their claim to the ancesmote peace and understandtral land stolen from them, ing with neighbors in this and religious Jews and those region.” Hebrew University represents the best of Israel: a commit- who have lived there for 35 years are not ment to diversity, freedom and liberalism. about to relinquish their spiritual ties to Judah Magnes, an early president of historic Judea and Samaria.

Oslo gave hope that a solution was at Hebrew University was, along with other Israeli notables such as Martin Buber, one hand. The rhetoric of Rabin, Clinton and of the few Cassandras of early Zionism. Arafat was stirring, and the 1993 handMagnes and Buber warned against parti- shake is still a source of nostalgia for many. tion and war against Palestinian Arabs Yet Oslo was flawed from its very incepwith whom Zionists would have to coexist. tion. Arafat was granted pseudo-legitimaOn the emerging refugee issue, Magnes cy through his administration of “Area A.” declared in October 1948, “It is unfortu- This committed Arafat and his “Tunisian” nate that the very men who could point to comrades to do Israel’s policing for it, the tragedy of Jewish [Displaced Persons] while successive Israeli governments were as the chief argument for mass immigra- busy reneging on Oslo commitments and tion into Palestine should now be ready, as dates. Not that Arafat minded, busy reapfar as the world knows, to help create an ing the profits of crony capitalism and additional category of DP’s in the Holy international legitimacy, while playing both sides of the aisle in his crackdown on Land.”

Rather than a partition, Magnes and militants. Arafat’s Palestinian Authority Buber envisioned a binational state that produced textbooks without Israel on their would respect the rights of both Jewish maps, while Arafat made speeches calling for the elimination of the Jewish State.

Meanwhile, under the Labor governments This is Philip Chaffee’s ’03 first column for of Rabin and Peres, the settlement populaThe Herald.

tions in the Occupied Territories doubled.

Israel, with good security reasons, refused and refuses to cede control over the external borders of the Territories. The new tactic of hermetic closures left the Palestinians of the Territories suffering in a way unfamiliar before Oslo. After a quarter-century of creating a crippling dependency in the Territories, this unconscionable group punishment suddenly made Palestinians unreliable employees, restricted their movement within the Territories and their access to institutions such as hospitals. This economic destabilization, creating enormous poverty in immediate proximity to enormous wealth, was bound to result in political and social destabilization able to leap over any fence.

With the reoccupation of “Area A” by Israel and the curfews, bombings and demolitions of the past year, Israel has been intent on creating a Third World country out of the Territories.

Simultaneously, Israel has begun the process of building a physical wall encompassing an expanded Green Line, while also continuing settlement expansion in the Territories. Most of the glorified Israeli left has never had a solution. Their focus has always been on partition, yet they’ve never seriously attempted to remedy the gross iniquity and instability of the situation of Palestinians vis-à-vis Israel.

Palestinians, responding to the inhuman and immoral conditions of their bombarded imprisonment, have resorted to the moral depravity of suicide bombings, and the utter futility of armed resistance.

Many who deal with this issue, most notably Edward Said and Azmi Bishara,

have picked up the call of binationalism from Buber and Magnes — yet they treat this goal as some utopian ideal settlement.

A two-state solution, as can be seen from the tentative steps of Oslo and the deteriorating situation of today, is an even larger pipe dream. Coexistence, meaning the annexation of the Territories by Israel and the granting of citizenship to those Palestinians in the Territories and returning from the Diaspora, is the only realistic and moral solution to the conflict. It entails a radical restructuring of Palestinian and Zionist ideologies, but one rooted in the past and in the principles of pluralism and tolerance.

For us to justify Palestinian suicide bombings or Israeli bombings of apartment buildings, for us to rationalize slaughters of Jewish settlers or Palestinian children is completely unconscionable.

“Anti-colonial freedom fighters” and “reluctant self-defense” are insufficient phrases for the abhorrent actions they attempt to obfuscate. Violence on either side is deleterious to the situation; the children in apartment buildings bombed

by Israelis must somehow learn to live with these same Israelis as neighbors. Real peace requires Israelis — and their supporters — to abandon the racist goal of an artificially maintained Jewish majority.

And real peace similarly requires Palestinians — and their supporters — to abandon any idea that Jews will somehow leave historic Palestine. These are monumental requirements, but partition is a flawed and failed idea. Coexistence and pluralism present the only realistically peaceful future.

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Diamonds and coal A cubic zirconium to the tentative agreement reached by University officials and SIEUL this Wedneday night. It’s a shame that the situation had to escalate to such dramatic heights in order for the Rock workers to get a little respect —next comes worker’s comp for carpal tunnel book shelver’s forearm.

A coal to Dean of Residential Life Donald Desrochers for refusing to put doors in the Minden Hall suites. Sounds like someone has his open/closed door policies confused …

A coal to file-sharing restrictions being enforced by Princeton and USC. Universities are responsible for our academic wellbeing, not our relative moral turpitude. Perhaps file-sharing will be federally regulated someday — however, the choice to break or follow these laws is a personal one.

A coal to OSL’s decision to ban alcohol at the Underground until Dec. 20. It’s kind of like trying to stop a burst pipe with a chewed piece of Bazooka Joe. Underage drinking, however condemnable some may find it, is here to stay.

A diamond to Multiracial Heritage Week and performance poet Staceyann Chin. You performed well on Russell Simmons’ HBO show, but you were even better in Salomon Wednesday night.

A coal to the 14 vacant buildings the University owns around Providence. There’s no better way to contribute to the community than to buy a building and let it fall into disrepair.

A cubic zirconium to the defacto first-year housing cluster that exists for Environmental Studies students in Hope College. While this program is great for students who want to live in a building with only students who are interested in studying the environment, some first-years may not come to Brown to make friends with ES students exclusively.

A diamond to Safewalk. You keep us safe and your shiny, neon coats make us feel like we’re in the future.

A diamond to friends’ parents. Just because ours don’t love us doesn’t mean your parents won’t feed us. In addition, our fathers’ insemination of our mothers’ eggs is the reason we are here.

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Dance, unlike other student groups, elitist, excludes beginners To the Editor: Let me clarify exactly what I find elitist about Brown dance (“Are Brown student performance groups elitist?” 10/23). It is not that I find individual dance groups elitist; however, I do find the overall purpose of the dance community at Brown elitist. I understand that these are performance groups and that is their mission; however, it is the lack of counterbalance with amateur performance groups that makes Brown dance elitist. This is opposed to other extracurriculars at Brown that do have space for people with little to no experience. I believe that a cappella isn’t elitist because there are forums for those who want to sing at Brown to do so; likewise, in theatre, Leeds may consider itself the best or most professional, but there is still room for beginners in other venues like Production Workshop.

In Brown dance there is little to no room for beginners, those with less experience or even some of the people who do have proven talent. This is not just the fault of the student organizations, but also because of the small size of the department, which limits the number and range of people who can be involved. Brown dance is elitist in the Webster definition that Camille Gerwin ’03 provides: “a group of

persons who by virtue of position or education (or in this case experience) exercise considerable power or influence.”

It’s not about being a political power on campus; however, these groups are full of people with experience who do control the range of cultural activities available to students, and through exclusion, they control the people who can be involved in dance production at Brown.

Gerwin’s argument for why dance is not elitist boils down to the idea that she does not approach it with an attitude of superiority. It shocks me that groups that were founded to combat such elitism now help propagate it. In co-opting my argument for more inclusive activities, which appeared at the beginning of the column, and turning it into an argument for space, Gerwin missed the whole point.

I want Brown to be a place where one can experiment in extracurriculars as much as with the curriculum. The point is a choice would have to be made to be more inclusive, perhaps in the way ballroom dance runs, perhaps with new groups or perhaps in another way. I don’t believe it is the lack of space that prevents inclusion. Ashamu is not the only place on campus to dance. One can dance in the lounges, in the gym or in any open space. As head of the student dance board, Gerwin should be one of the first to admit the elitism and work to make changes.

Brandi Davis ’03 Oct. 24

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 27

Brown students play a vital role in Nov. election In covering College Democrats panel, The Herald failed to highlight the importance of getting out the vote I WAS GREATLY DISAPPOINTED WITH Geraldine Ferraro as her role model, The Herald’s coverage of what was, by all Kennedy described the value his family accounts, one of the more important placed on public service and Brown disevents to occur at the University this cussed the importance of mobilizing semester — the forum on activism that the disenfranchised. The Herald was sponsored by the Brown College acknowledged the panel’s points on activism in its coverage, but Democrats on Monday night apparently did not under(“Rhode Island pols take the stand what was actually stage to discuss importance of JAMES KATZ going on at Monday’s forum. student activism,” 10/22). The GUEST COLUMN Anyone familiar with the event featured Democratic rules for political activity on candidates from five of the campus knows that partisan seven major political races in the state, including Myrth York (soon to be campaign events are against Student Governor of Rhode Island), Congressman Activity Office policy. The forum’s coorPatrick Kennedy (our current dinators went to great lengths to Congressman, one of the party’s most respect the SAO’s rules by billing the successful fundraisers and heir to the event as a discussion of activism and by Kennedy dynasty), David Cicilline ’83 ensuring the candidates knew that (soon to be mayor of Providence), Matt Salomon Center was not a place to Brown (the next Secretary of State) and stump for votes.

However, there is only one reason that Patrick Lynch ’67 (future Attorney General). Each member of the group so illustrious a group of candidates would spoke eloquently about the experiences in come to a campus where less than half of activism and community service that students are Rhode Island voters. They came not to discuss the community servinspired them to enter political life.

The crowd that filled the seats and ice projects of their acne-covered days of aisles of Salomon 001 seemed to appre- yore, but to enlist help getting out the ciate both the panelists’ messages and vote on Nov. 5. This work is vital given the the lighthearted interaction that tran- disenfranchisement plaguing parts of our spired between them. York pointed to country and the failure of the voting system in Providence on September’s priJames Katz ’03 hails from New York, NY. He mary day.

If Brown students become active paris president of the Brown College ticipants in state politics — and by Democrats.

There is only one reason that so illustrious a group of candidates would come to a campus where less than half of students are Rhode Island voters. They came to … enlist help getting out the vote on Nov. 5. “active,” I mean part of the voting public of Rhode Island — we can have a tremendous impact in a state this small.

In Rhode Island’s 3rd district, which contains most of Brown, 15,000 voters typically turn out for General Assembly elections. Brown and RISD combined have over 6,000 students. If even half of them voted, we could unilaterally select the area’s representatives to the General Assembly, City Council and Rhode Island Senate. A Brown student could easily win election to those positions if he or she so desired. Our state is far from perfect, but students have the potential to change that by determining who represents us and how. Monday

night’s panel was an invitation to the student body to make this vision a reality.

The Herald’s article, buried in the “In Brief” sidebar on page five, barely acknowledged there was an election on Nov. 5 or that Brown students could play a crucial role in shaping the future of Rhode Island politics. The Herald also did an abysmal job of detailing the question and answer period that followed the panelists’ remarks. Members of the audience asked pointed questions about undocumented immigrants and modern politicians’ inability to inspire young people.

I hope The Herald will improve its coverage of student group events; presently, activist groups are misrepresented and cultural groups are often unacknowledged. The community deserves better.

With the support of the FLMA, Students for Choice, the Coalition for Social Justice and the LGBTA, members of the College Democrats worked tirelessly to make the panel a success.

I know the rest of the Brown community shares my sentiments when I give Sara Dowd ’03, Kellyn Helmrick-Blossom ’05, Seth Magaziner ’06, Ethan Ris ’05 and Naomi Sheffield ’05 my sincere admiration and thanks for the hours of work they devoted to Monday’s event.

They should inspire us to help get out the vote over the next 12 days.

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SPORTS FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 28

Charged up for NFL’s Week 8 SINCE THE BASEBALL WORLD IS FOCUSING on California for the World Series, I figured it would be a good time to take a look at the best team in the AFC. If you assumed I meant the Raiders, you missed the past two weeks, two Oakland losses. If you thought I meant Los Angeles, you might want to stop living in the 90s and consider reducing your narcotics usage. The only way you would be right is if you named the 6-1, first-place San Diego Chargers.

JOSHUA TROY With a second SPREADING THE LOVE year starting quarterback, a second year starting running back and a new head coach, the team has managed to get off to its best start in years and give loyal Chargers’ fans hope of the first ever Super Bowl hosted by one of the participants. The chance of San Diego making it this far has even got Steve Young thinking about coming out of retirement, just for the chance to show them up.

Even though they have a bye this week, no one has been this excited about the Bolts since week three of the 75th anniversary season of the NFL, when the Chargers had the best throwback uniforms.

While some might want to give credit to Marty Schottenheimer for bringing coaching leadership and an established system to the team, in actuality it is their defense leading the way, as the second stingiest in the league. No Junior has coached this much trouble since the first “Problem Child.”

After taking out the Patriots and the Raiders, the Chargers have shown that in more ways then one the road to the Super Bowl goes through San Diego.

As for this week’s picks, as usual they are against the spread as provided by the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Also, I am heading to Cincinnati for the weekend for a quarterback try-out. (Home team in CAPS) Last week — 7-6-1 Season — 52-49-1 (Un)Lock of the Week — 3-4 SAINTS (-4) over the Falcons Mardi Gras has come early to New Orleans this year, as the Saints are tied for the best record in the NFL. Forget “Girls Gone Wild,” Saints’ fans dorm room fantasies are seeing Aaron Brooks and Joe Horn connect on an 80-yard pass. For Atlanta, Michael Vick is almost as good in real life as he is in Madden 2003.

Raiders (-3) over the CHIEFS Knowing the history of my friend’s fantasy football team, the only thing I can guarantee about this game is that Rich Gannon and Priest Holmes will each have three touchdowns each. While Oakland has lost two straight games, the only time the Kansas City defense is not overmatched is during pre-game introductions. Jerry Rice will deliver a reminder to Chris Carter about who the greatest receiver of all time is with his performance.

Bears (+1) over the VIKINGS The Packers have six wins and the other teams in their division, including the Bears and Vikings, combine for five. Chicago has fallen so far this year that they are now see TROY, page 6

With five games left, football relishes chance to turn its season around

BY JERMAINE MATHESON

It has been a frustrating season for the Brown football team (0-5, 0-2 Ivy League).

Last weekend after spotting Princeton 16 points, the Bears rallied to score two touchdowns in the second half and shut down the Tiger offense for the remainder of the game. The lead was too great to overcome however, as Brown lost another league game by two points.

With five games played and five games remaining, Brown has had exceptional moments on both sides of the ball but has continually been inconsistent, as the team is still in search of its first win.

To notch that first win the Bears will need to do something they have not done all season – play two halves of good football. For a team loaded with talent and the desire to match, consistent play is the only difference between where the Bears are and where they wanted to be at this point.

“As good as we are, we’re not good enough to play one half and expect to rebound and get back into a game in the second half. The teams that we are playing are too good,” said head coach Phil Estes.

Successful extra point attempts probably would have given Brown a victory over Harvard. Late turnovers halted potential game winning or tying drives against Towson, Fordham and last week versus Princeton. Inevitably, a team that had aspirations of an Ivy League title is frustrated to be looking up in the league standings.

This weekend, Brown will be playing a near mirror image of itself in Cornell (1-4, 0-2 Ivy League). Both teams are veteran groups that are currently winless in the

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“Offensively they do a lot to the same kind of things we do. They go from spread sets to no backs to two backs and a tight end set. They have a very good wide receiver by the name of Keith Ferguson,” Estes said. “Defensively they play the

Another close defeat for women’s soccer, as it falls to 17th-ranked Princeton

BY ELIZABETH GAMER

The word frustration perfectly describes the sentiments of the Brown women’s soccer team (5-6-2, 0-3-1 Ivy), after they suffered yet another heartbreakingly close loss on Saturday to Princeton University. The Bears were defeated 2-1 by the 17th-ranked Tigers (12-0-0, 5-0-0) at Lourie-Love Field in New Jersey.

Princeton is the only undefeated and untied team in all of Division I women’s soccer. The Tiger’s roster is filled with many of the leading scorers in the Ivy League. Brown definitely went into the game being the underdog, yet was still fired up at the onset of the match.

Before Saturday’s game, some Brown players found an article written in the Daily Princetonian previewing the event.

It stated, “the Bears should be no match for the Tigers tomorrow.” The article called the Bears’ defense “pesky” and called the entire Brown women’s soccer team the basement dwellers of the Ivy League.

It is true that Brown has a losing record, but the losses are not demonstrative of the talent of the team. The Bears have been in five overtimes this season and have suffered four one-goal defeats in the waning minutes of the games. In Brown’s loss against Harvard, Brown kept the Crimson off the scoreboard until the 71st minute of play and in the loss

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Against Cornell on Saturday,the w.soccer team will be gunning for their first league win. against Dartmouth, they were edged out after a double overtime goal.

The Bears were able to “scare the crap” out of Princeton in the first half of play on Saturday night, according to defender Amy Albro ’03, who said the first half of the game was dominated by Brown.

same defense we play: a four-man front, four linebackers and three in the secondary. They are a lot like us record wise and talent wise.”

Injuries are beginning to take a toll on see FOOTBALL, page 6

Cal’s streak not quite ‘priceless’ WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO CAL Ripken Jr. and anyone from Baltimore, picking Cal breaking Lou Gehrig’s consecutive games played record as the most memorable moment in baseball hisNICK tory is flatGOUREVITCH out ridicuSEE NICK’S VIEW lous. A nice moment – yes it was, but the greatest? Not even close.

To me, a memorable moment is one that leaves you speechless and one that you never forget where you were or who you were watching it with when it happens. Record-breaking moments just don’t do it for me in that sense. Maybe its because you know they are coming.

On the other hand, the last second shot or the walk-off home run in a pressure-packed playoff situation – those are the great ones. They make heroes, they make goats and they leave an imprint on your mind.

They are the moments that sports fans live and breathe for.

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see SOCCER, page 4