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Sex and society concentration suffers from lack of resources BY JONATHAN ELLIS

Brown’s Sexuality and Society concentration was one of the first of its kind in the country eight years ago, but interest and participation in the program has waned. Crippled by a lack of faculty and student involvement, the concentration is attempting to rebuild. Since its founding in 1994, an average of four or five graduating seniors each year choose to concentrate in Sexuality and Society, often using it as a second concentration, said Gretchen Schultz, associate professor of French studies and chair of the concentration. “The goal of the interdisciplinary concentration is to look at the importance of sexuality as a category of analysis in the various disciplines,” Schultz said. Concentrators take classes in a broad range of areas, including the humanities, sciences and social sciences and tailor individual programs of study with faculty advisors, according to the concentration Web site. Sexuality and Society is by no means a department — see SEXUALITY, page 9

At foot of College Hill, a Brownowned building looks for a use

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Mixing tunes in his native Hebrew with some songs in English and Spanish, urban folk-rocker David Broza performed a two-hour set for a packed crowd of students, faculty and staff in Salomon Center Wednesday night.

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Broza kicks folk rock style BY SARA PERKINS

Playing mostly Hebrew-language folk-pop selections and a few Spanish and English songs, folk-rocker David Broza walked a line between ethnic-influenced music and more mainstream pop-rock in a concert Wednesday night. Broza brought a crowded Salomon 101 to its feet in an over-energized two-hour set, playing songs from his 25-year career. At times he was the missing link between older singer-songwriters like James Taylor and Eric Clapton and the new generation of introspective guitar virtuosos like John Mayer and Dave Matthews. Other times, he was a flamenco bandleader or a peacenik sidewalk singer. The label “urban folk rock” does justice to neither his diverse musical influences nor his obvious emotional investment in his music.

BY ZACH BARTER

Seven years after its purchase, the University is struggling to find a purpose for the vacant, gold-domed Old Stone Bank building, a victim of several administrative transitions since 1997. The building, located on South Main Street in downtown Providence, was purchased along with the adjacent Benoni Cooke House in 1995 to house the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, currently located 18 miles from campus in Bristol, R.I. The Old Stone Bank, constructed in 1898 by the firm of Stone, Carpenter and Wilson, is located within a National Register District and the College Hill Historic District and has been a prominent fixture of the Providence skyline for over a century.

Broza stirs in a variety of guitar styles and holds them together with his jazz-rock baritone. He used rock power chords, jazzy slides, country-style finger picking and flamenco-style rapid strumming, often all in the same song. Rather than feeling forced, his technique frequently is surprising and delightful. Broza’s lyrical influences are similarly diverse. “I collaborate with poets and writers on the lyrics and the stories,” he explained between songs. One song was a neighbor’s poem about the sunset in Tel Aviv — Broza’s one-time hometown — set to music. For another piece, he, in desperation, lifted words from a friend’s newspaper article. His most affecting song was a sweet sixties-style Hebrew peace ballad. He said he began writing it with see BROZA, page 4

see OLD STONE, page 9

Defending immigrants from deportation: students, city youth discuss the possibilities BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

Students, Providence youth and a probation officer debated whether political activity or community organization is the best way to defend immigrant communities against deportation at a forum sponsored by the Cape Verdean Students Association. Members of the Providence Youth Student Movement attended the forum. PrYSM organizes families in Providence’s immigrant communities to protest deportation and provides support and education for youth. PrYSM member Sarath Suong ’02 said over 1,500 Cambodian Americans are awaiting deportation. Many Southeast Asians came to the United States as refugees, but 1996 legislation removed their refugee status. In March of this year, government officials from the United States and Cambodia signed an agreement to facil-

itate the deportation of Cambodians, Suong said. Cape Verde signed a similar agreement with the United States. Under the agreement, any Cambodian or Cape Verdean who has ever been convicted of an aggravated felony and served a year or more in prison or on probation is eligible for deportation. Tony Lima, a probation officer in charge of community correction in Bristol County, Mass., said he is “right in the middle of” the deportation problem. Of Cape Verdean descent himself, he advocated the deportation of some Cape Verdeans who violated probation. “It was my job,” he said. Lima said immigrants can avoid deportation by knowing about the relevant laws. Laws governing immigration and deportation change frequently, and public defenders often do not know the current law, he said.

Lima said some deportees are incarcerated once they are returned to their country of origin, even though they already served a full sentence and underwent Immigration and Naturalization Service detention in the United States. He emphasized the importance of voting, encouraging PrYSM members to “operate from a position of power” by registering voters and establishing relationships with government officials. PrYSM members defended their community-based approach. Talking with leaders is not as important as talking to community members, said Kohei Ishihara ’02. He and other PrYSM members said they can make a greater

I N S I D E T H U R S D AY, N O V E M B E R 7 , 2 0 0 2 At Yale, admission office bids adieu to its binding early decision policy page 3

New statue outside P.O. will honor charismatic Casey Shearer ’00 page 5

Incidents of larceny, car break-in reported to Department of Public safety page 5

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Jacob Appel ’95 says President Bush should reevaluate his decision on stem cell research guest column, page15

Volleyball falls to Harvard, digs out a win against Darmouth College column, page 15

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CAMPUS WATCH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002 · PAGE 3

IN BRIEF Yale University waves goodbye to binding early decision policy Yale University’s early decision policy will become nonbinding beginning with the Class of 2008. Under the new plan, students can apply early to Yale, but may also apply in the regular admission period to other colleges, even if accepted to Yale. Yale started its current early admission program in 1996 at a time when colleges across the nation were opting for early decision. “We adopted early decision for the sake of the rare student who knows exactly where he or she wants to go by mid-fall of the senior year of high school,” said Yale Undergraduate Dean Richard Brodhead.“We never meant the early cycle to become the normal cycle.” Yale President Richard Levin sparked a national debate when he criticized early decision policies in the December 2001 issue of Atlantic Monthly as needlessly rushing the college admission process for all but the minority of students who have a clear idea of their first choice. “Early decision programs help colleges more than applicants,” Levin said in a news release Wednesday.“It is our hope to take pressure off students in the early cycle and restore a measure of reasoned choice to college admissions. Our new early action program will allow students who are very confident of their preference to receive early word from Yale while still allowing ample time for further investigation and the thoughtful weighing of options.” In April, the University of North Carolina became the first major university to switch from early decision to early action. Brown made the opposite move, opting to convert from an early action to an early decision policy starting with the Class of 2006. — Brian Baskin

UCal unions reject latest contracts LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) — Two unions involved in lengthy

labor negotiations with the University of California rejected UC’s most recent offers this week. Both the clerical workers’ and lecturers’ unions felt that the most recent UC offers didn’t adequately address contentious issues, including job security and wage increases. The Coalition of University Employees, the clericals’ union, informed university administration Thursday — the deadline for acceptance of the proposal — that they would not accept the UC’s settlement offer. Lecturers, represented by the University Council of the American Federation of Teachers formally rejected the university’s terms on Wednesday. The UC had asked them to respond by Oct. 25. Both unions want to make their own counter offers to the university soon. The UC is willing to meet with each union and is currently discussing plans for a meeting with UC-AFT, UC press aide Paul Schwartz said in a statement. The university and CUE have not had a contract since the end of last September. A major obstacle to an accord is disagreement over pay increases. The union seeks a 15 percent pay hike over two years, but UC officials have consistently said there is not enough in the university’s budget. Though the university is willing to continue talks with clericals, UC negotiators will stick to salary terms contained in the offer CUE rejected. The university offered clericals a 2 percent raise, followed by a 1.5 percent cost of living adjustment. The UC proposed a percent increase equivalent to raises planned for university staff in other classifications. CUE president Claudia Horning said that the pay raise offered is “chump change,” adding that while the union has continued to negotiate, the UC has been unwilling to work with them. “They don’t refute the facts of our argument; they just

say no, we won’t give you that,” she added. The UC is in a similar place with the lecturers’ union, Schwartz said. Though lecturers and UC officials have been in collective bargaining talks for over two years, they have failed to produce a contract. Neither party has agreed on pay rates, job security or arbitration mechanisms. Lecturers were dissatisfied with the UC’s most recent offer, contract language was not the only reason they rejected the deal. Kevin Roddy, president of UC-AFT, said the union objected to the UC submitting both a conditional offer along with terms the UC would adopt if lecturers rejected the first deal. The union interpreted the university’s action as a move toward a final bargaining position. “We don’t really agree that things are at impasse ... we think there is lots more room for negotiation,” Roddy said. However, the university is less optimistic. Schwartz said though the next step depends on the substance of UC-AFT’s response, everything seems to be moving toward impasse, a declaration that one or both parties can’t move any more at the table. Rob Hennig, a UC-AFT bargaining team member and UCLA lecturer, disagreed, saying that the outcome depends on whether the UC decides to continue bargaining or go to impasse, where the university would impose a contract. If the UC files impasse proceedings with the State Labor Relations Board, the next step is to go to “fact-finding,” or non-binding arbitration. In non-binding arbitration, the State appoints a mediator to review the facts of both sides and offer a solution. Neither side is obligated to accept the mediator’s proposal. Both unions have gone on strike multiple times, and the threat of a future work stoppage at UCLA looms large. On more than one occasion, Hennig has said lecturers will strike on campus.

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Broza continued from page 1

Nick Mark / Herald

David Broza is a household name in Israel. His concert was cosponsored by Brown Hillel, the Latin American Student Organization and Brown’s chapter of UNICEF, with all proceeds going to UNICEF.

several friends during “one of the most emotional times in our lives,” in November 1977 when the hope of the peace process first began to bloom in Israel. Broza said he has since added “30 verses, pretty depressing verses. … I added one last verse, which is worth singing every night” about a peace agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan. Rabin was assassinated in 1995. The last line of that verse is “I will not lose hope.” Broza’s uninhibited stage presence and unmodulated energy were at times his greatest strengths, at others his weaknesses. His introduction, a virtuosic minutes-long guitar riff, showcased all his stylistic influences and showed great promise. He climbed to dizzying ranges of volume and speed and dropped to a whispering strum. Unfortunately, that promise was not consistently borne out during his set. It was not until his encore, in which he played one of his most popular songs, that he truly displayed the range and

control of a mature musician. Until that point, he occasionally left the audience behind as he swung tunes up to an aggressive volume and left them hanging. In the tradition of many artists who transitioned from their native tongues to English, Broza’s English lyrics could be somewhat insipid and uninspiring. “Somebody make me laugh / somebody make me cry / somebody take me way down low and raise me way up high / somebody make me feel the things I cannot feel alone / somebody take my heart home.” His strongest and most individual songs were those that stayed away from excessive emotion, but were not completely divorced from his own lyrical voice. Broza, a household name in his native Israel, has toured extensively in the United States and around the world over his 25year career and is a lifelong peace activist. His concert was co-sponsored by Brown Hillel, the Latin American Student Organization and Brown’s chapter of UNICEF. All proceeds went to UNICEF. Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

Deportation continued from page 1 impact by educating community members and drawing large groups of them to protests, creating public awareness of the catastrophic effects of deportation on families and communities. “The solution is building a loving community,” Suong said. He said PrYSM primarily tries to build relationships with families in immigrant communities and provide support for the family members of people facing deportation. Suong described PrYSM’s efforts to form a coalition between the Southeast Asian community and other communities in Providence. The local Cambodian community is organizing a National Day of Action Against Deportation with Cambodian communities across the country. This is the first time the Cambodian American community has come together to act together, Suong said. A member of Providence’s Cambodian community described his own experience with the deportation process. “I made one mistake, and it cost me dearly,” said the 27-yearold man, who requested that his name not be given. He committed a crime at age 17 and pleaded guilty, accepting a sentence of three years. No one told him that pleading guilty made him subject to deportation, he said. After he served his sentence, the INS placed him in detention for two-and-a-half years, finally releasing him when he proved he was not a threat. Four years later, the United States and Cambodia signed the deportation agreement, and he is now awaiting deportation. “Right now, all I can do is go day by day,” he told The Herald. “I don’t have any future.” Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Department of Public Safety reports stolen bible, missing pants Two larcenies and a car break in were reported to the Department of Public Safety between Oct. 28 and Nov. 4., according to DPS reports. At noon on Oct. 31, a man left his Bible and his reading glasses in a secured custodial closet. He returned on Nov. 4 at 4 a.m. to find that the closet was open and his Bible was missing. A woman parked her car on Power Street at 10 a.m. on Oct. 30. When she returned to the car at 3:30 p.m., she found that the passenger-side window had been smashed and her stereo had been stolen. At midnight on Nov. 1, a man left his sweatpants in his chair at Jo’s for a brief period of time. When he returned to his seat, he found that his pants were missing. The man’s keys were in the pocket of his pants. — Sam Shulman

Twins prevalent at U., numbers show Even though Brown is a place of diversity and difference, there are a few students whose faces can be seen as those of another. In fact, there is at least one pair of twins in every class at Brown. Michael Goldberger, director of admission, said the presence of twins in each class is not out of the ordinary. “I would be shocked if our (twin population is) different from any other school,” he said. Though Millicent Ford ’03 didn’t think about whether or not being a twin would change her sister’s chances of admission, her twin Victoria Ford ’03 said she thought twins would be accepted in sets. “Sometimes they like to accept both — if the package looks nice,”Victoria Ford said. “I feel like the admissions office is twin happy,” she said. But Goldberger said that there’s no admission policy that says twins must be accepted together. “Officially, the answer is no,” he said.“If they are very, very close, we would try to get them in.You can’t help it if there’s two students that are similar in almost every single way.” Goldberger said each student’s application is looked at individually. If one student’s qualifications are either good or bad, it doesn’t affect the other twin’s admission status, he said. — Bamboo Dong

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A new fountain is being erected in the Faunce Courtyard in memory of Casey Shearer ’00. A charasmatic student, Shearer died just days before his graduation from the University in May 2000.

Fountain will honor Casey Shearer ’00 BY ALLISON LOMBARDO

The University will unveil a new fountain in the sunken courtyard outside the post office in April in honor of Casey Shearer ’00, the charismatic Brown student who died days before his graduation. The original courtyard fountain, the first Brown Bear, helped bring the mascot to the University. The new fountain will create a new space on campus for students to gather. Howard Ben Tre, a local artist who also designed the downtown Fleet Financial Center Plaza, designed the new fountain with conceptual help from the Shearer family. Ben Tre said family members wanted to make a gift to Brown inspired by the legacy of their son. Ben Tre said he is creating a beautiful place for students to congregate, encouraging communication — a gift Shearer embodied by bringing diverse groups

together in friendship. The re-landscaping of the area and the addition of benches will enhance the community environment, he said. The fountain will be a nearly 10-foot tall sculpture of bronze and glass with an undulating shape and water spilling off the top. The surrounding pool will be 14 feet in diameter and will be made of organic-looking granite so the fountain will be “a complete work of art whether the water is on or not,” Ben Tre said. An economics concentrator, Shearer was known on campus for his play-by-play sports announcing on Brown Student Radio, the station he helped revive. Shearer also wrote a weekly sports column “On the Case” for the College Hill Independent. An aspiring sportscaster, Shearer received his magna cum laude see SHEARER, page 6

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William Gerold / Brown University

The old bear fountain in the courtyard by Faunce House was donated to the University by U.S. Sen.Theodore Francis Green in 1931.

Shearer continued from page 5 pin just days before he tragically passed away, the victim of a virus that infected his heart. The original bear fountain will be cleaned, restored and relocated to a new campus location, said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. U.S. Sen. Theodore Francis Green, class of 1887, donated the original fountain in 1931. While traveling abroad to Germany to give an economics lecture, Green admired the statue of a bear outside Breslau’s city hall, Brown Alumni Monthly magazine reported. Green encouraged Professor Ernest Moritz Geyger to replicate the statue at Brown. Born in Germany in 1861, Geyger was trained at the Art School of Berlin

Perlmutter continued from page 12 team’s minor league system depleted. Did you know that Duquette drafted Mark Texeira, who is currently the hottest prospect in baseball, out of high school, but refused to give him good money so that he could spend it on older bums? It is often justified to trade prospects in exchange for players who are anticipated to make an immediate impact, but a balance between the present and the future must be found. Under Duquette, it wasn’t, and the team is now paying for it. What may be the biggest and most heart-breaking problem of all is that, in 2004, management may have no choice but to split up the team’s core. Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, Garciaparra and Jason Varitek all become free agents that year. For a team that may be trying to decrease its payroll so as to afford a new stadium, full retention could be impossible. Stop and think about that for a second. No more Nomar? He has become a symbol for the bridge between the older generations of

as well as the Academy of Fine Arts and is known for his plastic sculptures. Green was the first to propose the bear as Brown’s symbol. He told The Herald in 1932 that he wanted Brown to have a companion to Yale University’s bulldog and Princeton University’s tiger. In February 1991, a museum official from the town of Wroclaw asked Brown for details about the bear. The original statue was destroyed during World War II, and town officials wanted to reconstruct it to set it outside their town hall. Wroclaw officials hoped the bear connection would tie Providence and Wroclaw together. Shearer’s parents Ruth Goldway and Derek Shearer and friends ensured Casey’s legacy on campus in other ways as well, through the Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture and the Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction.

Sox players and the new; heck, he is a symbol of the entire city of Boston. People used to imitate Boston accents by saying “Hahvahd Yahd.” Now they say “Nomah.” Y tú, Pedro? It is unpleasant to think of Pedro pitching for another team. Rarely is a single baseball player responsible for so many of his club’s wins. Heed these words, Sox management: do everything in your power to keep the team’s core together, especially Nomar and Pedro. If that means spending less on big name free agents in the next two seasons, so be it. Not enough can be said about the contributions the these players make to the team, and for that the team owes them contractual respect. By no means would I label the next two years a reconstruction period, but the team is certainly a bit strapped. It is tough to paint a cloudless picture of a cloudy sky. To quote the venerable Louis Armstrong, “the future ain’t what it used to be.” But for the Red Sox nation, that can only be a good thing. Herald sports columnist Eric Perlmutter ’06 was two years old when Billy Buckner let that ball go through his legs.

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002 · PAGE 7

IN BRIEF Bush receives credit for Republican victories in Tuesday’s midterm elections (Newsday) — As jubilant Republicans and glum Democrats

picked through the results of the midterm election Wednesday, they agreed on one thing: the outcome was a remarkable personal victory for President Bush. Bush staked his prestige and political capital on a fullbore effort to influence the election, and his wager was handsomely rewarded. His Republican Party won control of Congress, padding its majority in the House and wresting the Senate away from the Democrats. As a result, the president can anticipate winning passage of several long-stalled legislative initiatives and judicial nominations in the run-up to his 2004 re-election campaign.“George Bush got the mandate on Tuesday that eluded him in 2000,” said Republican consultant Rich Bond. Defeat-drenched Democrats, on the other hand, faced a near-term future of recriminations and leadership struggles, starting with an immediate battle to replace House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, who announced Wednesday he was giving up his leadership post. Their gloom was palpable:“It’s like you woke up Christmas morning and found that Santa took away your toys,” said Democratic consultant Rachel Gorlin. The margin of victory in many of Tuesday’s contests was exceedingly close — a shift of a few percentage points in Minnesota and Missouri could have kept the Democrats in control of the Senate — and Republicans said several races were decided by a late movement of undecided voters in their direction. The main catalyst for that last-minute tide, they said, was Bush, who careened around the country in the five days leading up to Tuesday’s voting.

US says it foiled drug-terror plan WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — U.S. officials announced

Wednesday that they had foiled two separate plots to use drug money to buy weapons for terrorists, including an alleged attempt by a U.S. citizen and two Pakistanis to swap tons of heroin and hashish for Stinger missiles they planned to sell to al-Qaeda. In the second case, Justice Department officials said they had broken up a plot by right-wing Colombian paramilitaries to buy $25 million worth of high-powered East European weaponry with cocaine and cash. The cases illustrate the increasingly aggressive efforts by U.S. authorities to staunch the flow of drug money and other funds that terrorists use to buy weapons and finance their activities. From Islamic militants to Colombian paramilitaries, Attorney General John Ashcroft said, there is a “deadly nexus between terrorism and drug trafficking” that poses a serious threat to American security. “We have learned, and we have demonstrated, that drug traffickers and terrorists work out of the same jungle; they plan in the same cave and they train in the same desert,” Asa Hutchinson, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said at a Washington news conference with Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and other officials Wednesday. In both cases, authorities lodged the federal charge of providing material support to terrorist groups, a statute that has become the centerpiece of the Justice Department’s domestic war on terrorism. The charge, used rarely before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has subsequently been filed against defendants that include John Walker Lindh — who pleaded guilty to aiding the Taliban — and alleged members of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in Lackawanna, N.Y., Portland, Ore., Detroit and Seattle. According to a federal indictment unsealed in San Diego Wednesday, the two Pakistani nationals and a naturalized U.S. citizen who has lived in Minneapolis were indicted Oct. 30 for allegedly offering to trade 5 metric tons of

hashish and 600 kilograms of heroin to undercover FBI agents for four Stinger missiles. As the deal progressed, according to the indictment, the men told the agents meeting with them in Hong Kong that “they intended to sell the `Stinger’ anti-aircraft missiles ... to members of the Taliban, an organization which the defendants indicated was the same as al-Qaeda.” The meetings with the men were taped, according to Ashcroft. Syed Mustajab Shah and Muhammed Abid Afridi, both from Pakistan, and Ilyas Ali, a naturalized U.S. citizen from India, were arrested after that Sept. 20 meeting. They appeared in a Hong Kong court on Tuesday to fight extradition to the United States, officials said. The Colombia case, called “Operation White Terror,” began 13 months ago and resulted in videotapes and audiotapes of meetings with undercover FBI and DEA agents in London, Panama City and the Virgin Islands, where the four suspects allegedly discussed exchanging drugs for weapons. The arms were intended for the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, a brutal umbrella group of paramilitary forces that has been blamed for hundreds of assassinations, kidnappings and massacres, and was labeled a terrorist organization by the State Department in September 2001. U.S. authorities said the four suspects believed they were going to trade $25 million in cash and cocaine for weapons including shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles; 9,000 assault rifles; grenade launchers and nearly 300,000 grenades; 300 pistols; and about 53 million rounds of ammunition. The sting included a bogus “PowerPoint” computer presentation given to AUC representatives that showed the weaponry. Later on, in April 2002, U.S. agents allowed one of the prospective buyers to inspect examples of the weapons during a meeting in St. Croix, according to court documents.

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Election not seen as factor in Iraqi policy (Washington Post) — The rest of

the world is likely to discern little change in U.S. foreign policy after Tuesday’s Republican gains in Congress, including the GOP takeover of the Senate, since President Bush already enjoyed bipartisan support on leading issues, analysts and political leaders said Wednesday. By making Iraq and the global war against terrorism the major focus of his energetic campaign for Republican candidates across the country, Bush left little room for a Democratic Party that had already decided not to question his foreign policy leadership. The election, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Wednesday, was a referendum on Bush’s leadership and “on the American people’s concern for the war on terror, what is happening in Iraq, our foreign policy and the concerns they have for national security. The president made that his drumbeat.” While some speculated that Bush would become more belligerent on Iraq, others said the elections would have no effect. “I think the dynamics of the negotiations at the United Nations are more or less on their own track at this point,” said Gary Schmitt, executive director of the conservative Project for the New American Century. The

administration Wednesday formally introduced a U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that it hopes will pass by the weekend. Fault lines on Iraq are much deeper within the administration than in Congress. The State Department has so far prevailed on a multilateral approach, to the dismay of Defense Department leaders itching for a fight. “I do not believe this will lead to a more aggressive Bush” on the world stage, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said of the election. “It will lead to a more confident, more assertive Bush ... It is deeply satisfying, rather than exhilarating.” Although leadership of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will revert to the GOP, the committee makeup is far different than it was in the heyday of the last Republican chairman, retiring Sen. Jesse Helms (N.C.). He was strongly conservative and ruled with an iron hand. The current ranking member and likely new chairman, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is a moderate and has frequently found common cause with the committee’s outgoing Democratic chairman, Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.). The next Republican in seniority is Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.).

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Sexuality continued from page 1 the program does not have its own office, staff or faculty. It relies on professors from other departments whose specialties include the context of sexuality. Brown’s program suffered a blow two years ago with the departure of David Savran, former professor of English and chair of the committee that created the concentration. Savran left Brown to join the faculty at the City University of New York. New professors continue to come into the University to replace those who have left the program, but the concentration is entirely at the mercy of other established departments in terms of hiring, Schultz said. She now has a long list of professors who are available to perform research and work independently with students in the area. Students perusing this year’s Course Announcement Bulletin might be discouraged from concentrating in Sexuality and Society — the requirements include four core courses, none of which are offered this year. But

Old Stone continued from page 1 In 1995, then President Vartan Gregorian pledged to commit between $12 and $15 million toward the acquisition, restoration and renovation of the site, setting 1998 as the tentative date of completion. The University contracted Boston architect Ann Beha and exhibition designer Ralph Appelbaum to develop plans for the project, which was billed as a way for the Haffenreffer Museum to better fulfill its educational mission and for Brown to increase its presence downtown. In the meantime, the University conducted the quiet phase of a capital campaign for the project, during which it raised over one-third of the necessary funds, said Shepard Krech III, director of the Haffenreffer Museum and a professor of anthropology. The funds included a $700,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. “Back when Vartan Gregorian was here, there was a lot of momentum for Haffenreffer moving to Providence,” said Kevin Smith, the museum’s deputy director and curator.

Cross Country continued from page 12 ance. “The highlight for us was Pat’s performance. It puts him 14th on the all time best performances of a Brown runner at Van Cordtland Park,” Gregorek said. “He had a really gutsy performance.” Though the team did not do as well as it hoped, Tarpy still had to focus on his race. “I knew it wasn’t going great, but I still had my stuff to do,” Tarpy said. “I was hoping that everyone else would come up on me later in the race.” The other scorers for the Bears

the University recently overhauled the requirements to reflect the changing makeup of the faculty associated with the program. Students can now choose from a list of over 30 courses in 14 departments, and new core courses are offered. This year, only one student is planning to concentrate in Sexuality and Society, though Schultz has spoken with other interested candidates. “It’s absolutely viable” to concentrate in Sexuality and Society, Schultz said. “It’s very much an interdisciplinary concentration that is defined in terms of students’ interests,” she added. “It’s an extremely vital field. It’s cutting edge.” The concentration has been working to increase its visibility at academic fairs and on the Internet, and Schultz encourages all students who are interested in pursuing sexuality studies to speak with her. Other strong sexuality studies programs around the country include Duke University’s Program in the Study of Sexualities, founded in 1997 and New York University’s Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, which changed its name this year from the Program in Women’s Studies.

Other prominent institutions with sexuality studies programs include the universities of Illinois, Iowa and California at Berkeley. Not all universities are quick to embrace sexuality studies programs. At Harvard University, faculty and students have campaigned for a program for studies of gender and sexuality, but have encountered administrative inattention and resistance, Schultz said. Courses dealing with the subject were scarce last year and were advertised only by word of mouth and e-mail, the Harvard Crimson reported. “We, on the other hand, seem to have the opposite problem. We have the encouragement of the administration, and we do have a very enthusiastic core group of faculty. But unfortunately, we’ve lost about half of the founding members of the concentration over the past eight years, and that’s hampered our ability to offer as many courses as we’d like to,” Schultz said. “We’re doing everything we can to encourage the replacement of those people.”

But that all changed with the 1997 departure of Gregorian and his succession by former President Gordon Gee, Krech said. For a variety of reasons, Gee was either unable or unwilling to raise the necessary funds for the building’s renovation, and the project died, he said. The University never brought the capital campaign out of the quiet phase, and the building remained vacant. The museum was also forced to return its NEH grant, Krech said. The University is currently evaluating possible uses for the site as part of the development of its master plan covering all University-owned properties, said John Noonan, associate vice president of Facilities Management. “We’ll wait to see what the proper use and need of the University is in regards to that property,” Noonan said. Proposals for potential uses of the building have abounded in the past, including housing the Annenberg Institute for School Reform or simply selling the property. The Haffenreffer Museum, in the meantime, remains optimistic that President Ruth Simmons and her administration can resolve the museum’s dilemma as part of their bold new vision for the University.

“The 18-mile distance is too great in most cases to overcome,” Krech said, adding that a significant majority of Brown students never visit the museum. “Our goal has always been to bring the museum as close to the heart of campus as we possible can.” He said that discussions are currently underway with the president’s office regarding both a long-term and short-term solution, which might include designating a space to serve as a satellite museum for Haffenreffer to showcase a portion of its 100,000 items. “President Simmons is interested in bringing this museum closer to town where it can function as a university museum closely tied to its campus community, which is something it can’t do now,” Krech said. But Smith expressed misgivings about any resumption of the plans to move Haffenreffer to the Old Stone Bank building, stressing that there are many more factors to consider besides location and square-footage. “It’s a beautiful building,” Smith said. “In many ways, it’s a great place for displaying and exhibiting, but it’s not very flexibly built. If it were to be used, it would be very difficult to figure out how that space would be made to work.”

were Jeff Gaudette ’05, Matt Emond ’04, Brendan O’Keefe ’04 and Jeff Tomlinson ’03. Gaudette was running in only his second race of the season, after spending the early part out with an injury. “Jeff didn’t run where he wanted to, but he still ran a personal best time, which puts him in the top 50 Brown performances,” Gregorek said. The team is putting the Heps behind it and looking forward to the NCAA regional meet in two weeks. “The main thing is that we’re using the disappointment from this race as motivation for the NCAA qualifiers. We still have a chance of qualifying. We know

that the fitness is there,” Gregorek said. “We need to do a better job of pairing up and working together as a team. If we can do that we have a good shot at it.” The team also feels it has a good chance if it can perform up to their potential. “We know there is a lot of potential still in this season, we have a good chance to beat teams that we lost to, and make it to Nationals,” O’Keefe said. “This is the most talented team we’ve had in the past couple years, and it’s all about everyone having a good race.”

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

Herald sports staff writer Joanna Grossman ’03 covers the men’s cross country team. She can be reached a jgrossman@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Let’s talk about sex Eight years ago, Brown was one of the first institutions of higher learning to offer undergraduates the unique and important opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary study of sexuality through the Program in Sexuality and Society. While administrators at peer institutions like Harvard University continue to create roadblocks for students and faculty who seek to study human sexuality, Brown’s concentration program in sexuality still exists. But the program is hanging on by a thread. Since Professor of English and creator of Brown’s Program in Sexuality and Society David Savran left Brown for the City University of New York, the University’s sexuality concentration has fallen apart. None of the four course requirements for concentrating in Sexuality and Society are being offered this year. And, along with Savran, approximately seven of the program’s founding faculty left Brown in recent years. While Brown’s sexuality concentration is falling apart, some peer institutions are picking up our slack. Duke University, for example, plans to offer seven courses in its Program in the Study of Sexualities next semester alone. The study of sexuality should not join the list of academic areas in which Brown has fallen behind its peers. Now, with President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Renewal and her plans to bring 100 new faculty to Brown, the University should commit to hiring professors who bring the same passion to the program that its founders had eight years ago. Sexuality is one of the most ambiguous aspects of modern society. And as such, it is too often ignored and left out of important discussions. Contemporary culture makes too many assumptions and broad generalizations when it comes to the topic of sexuality. The University should not contribute to this avoidance of the topic of sexuality. At Brown, we pride ourselves on holding open-minded, progressive discussions on all aspects of society and culture. Sexuality should not be taboo at Brown today as it was in our grandparents’ generation.

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Brown Republican grads should be pictured in The Herald To the Editor: I think it is interesting that despite the fact that two Brown graduates were elected to two of the highest positions in Rhode Island government, Providence Mayor and Governor of Rhode Island, their pictures were not in The Herald today. Instead The Herald chose only to print pictures of Democrats in the Rhode Island election. Is this blatant bias, or does The Herald just not support graduates from Brown who are members of the “evil” Republican party? I am not a Republican, but I do feel that The Herald should show a little bit more objectivity and loyalty to graduates from their own school. Congratulations Brown alumni, regardless of party affiliation, who were elected this week and are making a difference in today's government. Greg McLaughlin ’03.5 Nov. 6

ISC separate group in charge of scholarships To the Editor: We are writing in response to the article “New group will fund international scholarships.” (11/6) As President of the International Scholarship Council (ISC), President of BRIO, and Vice President of the ISC respectively, we are keen to clarify certain misconceptions that may be drawn from the article. The BRIO Endowed International Scholarship was created by BRIO in 1996. It started as a collabo-

ration project between BRIO and the Office of International Advancement and Volunteer Engagement (IAVE) to raise funds, both on and off campus, which will provide scholarships to international applicants. Since 1996, there has been an increasing interest and support for both BRIO and the Scholarship Fund. The ISC was formed in an effort to branch out the resources for both causes, BRIO and international scholarships. With two separate groups, BRIO will focus on raising cultural awareness on campus, while the ISC will assume the responsibility of raising funds for the International Scholarship. Both groups are working closely together to promote the common goals of supporting international diversity and financial aid in Brown. IAVE has been very supportive to both BRIO and the ISC in promoting the BRIO Endowed International Scholarship. In 1999, BRIO and IAVE fundraised enough money for the first scholarship. Last year, IAVE raised the funds for a second scholarship. Moreover, IAVE has given the ISC a platform in numerous campus events, such as Commencement Weekend and Parents Weekend, and has provided the funds for the International Scholarship Week. It has also helped in organizing mailings and receptions for parents and alumni to reach people outside the Brown campus. We do appreciate The Herald taking an interest in the ISC and BRIO, as well as in the need to support international scholarships at Brown. We welcome future articles addressing these groups and the important work that we do. Hector Pro ’03 President, ISC Humbir Nerker ’04 President, BRIO Laura Lehmann ’04 Vice President, ISC Nov. 6

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2002 · PAGE 11

No one should care whether or not people kill babies Sacrifice in the name of survival is one of the oldest, and most important human instincts WOMEN’S HEALTH AND ABORTION ly aberrations. They are easily dismissed have been prevalent issues on campus since, sooner or later, they go away, but lately. Articles in The Herald, table slips they do occur and are bad for the body. at the Ratty and guest speakers have Just because broken bones heal, for been promoting the spread of informa- instance, does not mean they are tion on these two topics. Commotion healthy; the healed bones are weaker than before the injury, and over abortion has surfaced, so is a woman’s body after especially in light of the fetal an abortion. Technically, rights bills floating around abortion is merely the Congress. The protestors removal of living tissue have begun to march. Prowithin the body, a kind of choicers are sickened by the cosmetic surgery, except burned-alive fetus pictures that the skin and cartilage with which pro-lifers associated with the latter do demonstrate and fem-nazis not have a brain, a heart, shake their fists at conservalungs or other appendages tive future housewives. SHIRIN LUA OSKOOI as does the former. Like cosSo tumultuous do these YOU’RE SO VAIN metic surgery, abortion is arguments become that usually risky and unnecesmost lose sight of the facts. sary. Pro-choicers argue that Pro-lifers argue that pregnancy is natwomen deserve the right to expunge life from their bodies, liberally asserting ural and should be carried out through women’s rights while conservatively the birth of the child. Yet pregnancies clinging to society’s moral standards by are also both unhealthy and risky. refusing to admit that abortion is the Giving birth is 10 times more dangerous than a first-trimester abortion, which, murder of a helpless human. Pro-lifers argue that no one has the contrary to many pro-life pamphlets, right to kill another, inside or outside a has no effect on a woman’s ability to woman’s body, conservatively imposing conceive or carry future pregnancies to their own morals while liberally hiding term. (See Curtis J. Young, Turning behind laws that restrain individual Hearts Toward Life: Market Research for rights. Like the very tenets of their Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Family beliefs, most information spread by Research Council; Shari Plunkett, both sides is contrived; both sides leave “Ministering to the Needs of Women: out vital data to hide their own contra- First Resort, Inc.,” National Right to Life dictions. However, the whole debate is News, January 1998.) It is important to what is truly contrived because neither note, however, that late-term abortions do affect a woman’s ability to conceive side should even care in the first place. Pro-choicers concern themselves and carry future pregnancies to term, with the physical health of a woman, yet which pro-choice pamphlets tend to they promote the right of a woman to overlook. Pro-choice advocates argue that a choose. This is contradictory because abortion is a very unnatural process, woman should not have to put up with defies the struggle to procreate and is the unpleasantness of a pregnancy if she physically unhealthy. Aftereffects gener- does not want to. The pro-life counter to ally include bleeding, intense cramping, this is that a woman must put up with soreness and several other painful bodi- the unpleasantness of a pregnancy for the sake of the child. Survival instinct dictates that one must do all that one Shirin Oskooi ’05 doesn’t care.

can to live contently and one must procreate. Concatenating these two seemingly contradictory views is the menstrual cycle. Is the menstrual cycle a monthly punishment, or a reward for not getting pregnant? The answer is subjective and unimportant, as is the debate between pro-choice and pro-life positions. Contrary to the pro-life point of view, some children should not be born — be it because of health risks, living conditions or another reason the pro-choicers have explicated within their pamphlets. Contrary to the pro-choice point of view, fetuses are children, even if one does not admit this publicly. Many individuals refuse to admit this fact because the legal system will intervene and take abortion rights away if they do. Anyone who lives in such denial that he refuses to consider this point should go to http://www.sexualwisdom.com/ video.html and look at the fetuses (or for quick, image-less breakdown of fetal development, go to http://www.wcpc.org/fetal.html.) One who adamantly endorses the right to terminate a pregnancy should know about the fetus and the consequences of their actions. These images should not disgust a person who does not consider a fetus human. Then again, murder should not disgust anyone. Animals kill each other for survival and, before laws were established, humans did too. The legal order established within society is stifling and keeps people from acting in the best possible way to ensure their own survival. If a woman wants to kill her own offspring, born or not, she should be able to do so. There exist many species that eat their offspring (filial cannibalism), including hamsters and some fish species, in order to ensure their survival or nurture their other young. Even if advantageous, human beings are not permitted to kill one another, proving that while laws distinguish the complex-

ity of man’s brain from that of animals, they can also work against advancement. A fetus is human, and aborting it is murder — we need not sugarcoat brutal truths here. But death, however viciously it may come about, is inevitable. The child within a woman’s body is really just a parasite, and if it bothers a woman so much, let her destroy her genes. A woman should be granted her right to happiness, her survival instinct. If a woman killing her unborn child elicits any feeling from another, the feeling should be gladness, for that woman has made it easier for everyone else’s genes to live on — the very purpose of life. Abortion is one of the safest surgical procedures known. The death rate for terminations of a pregnancy is a fraction of one percent: one death for every 530,000 performed at eight weeks or less, when over half of all abortions take place (Plunkett). Abortion is, conversely, also the deadliest surgical procedure known. Counting the dead children, there are 530,001 deaths for every 530,000 abortions performed at eight weeks or less. Nearly 100 percent of the time, a child dies, and sometimes the child is strong enough to take the mother with it. The difference between these two perspectives is not that the former is pro-choice and the latter is pro-life. The difference is a cushion society forces us to place in our language. Without that cushion, individuals would believe that abortion is wrong because society forces us to disparage murder. People fear saying that murder is okay sometimes and not other times because, quite justifiably, they fear a murdering frenzy would result. They fear that in this murdering frenzy, they might be killed, and so they set up laws to protect themselves. People should not care so much about death because as A. Sachs put it, “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives.”

President George W. Bush stemmed stem cell research It is not conservative to oppose stem cell research, but it is extreme; Bush must reevaluate his decision FIFTEEN MONTHS HAVE ELAPSED porters of such research, including since President Bush called a halt to fed- Senators Orinn Hatch of Utah, Trent eral funding for research on new lines of Lott of Miss., Strom Thurmond of S.C., pluripotent stem cells. That decision, Gordon Smith of Ore., former Senator which placed him squarely at odds with Connie Mack of Fla., former President the majority of Americans and many of Gerald Ford and former First Lady Nancy Reagan. the most respected leaders These prominent conserin his own party, rested upon vatives have joined the growa highly misguided approach JACOB APPEL GUEST COLUMN ing chorus of leading sciento the ethical questions tists who believe that involved. Subsequent develresearch on pluripotent stem opments in the availability of pre-existing stem cell lines have revealed cells may hold the clues to curing such that his decision rested upon several scourges as Alzheimer’s disease, highly flawed factual assumptions as Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and leukemia, and may help victims of well. At the times of the President’s deci- spinal cord injuries to walk again. They sion, an ABCNEWS/Beliefnet poll also understand that these breakrevealed that Americans supported fed- throughs — if the appropriate research eral funding for stem cell research by a is properly funded — may be only a few margin of more than two-to-one. years away. But most importantly they recognize Supporters included not only traditional liberal constituencies, but also a that stem cell research has nothing at all majority of Roman Catholics and to do with the destruction of human life: Evangelical White Protestants. Some of small cell clusters produced in petri the nation’s staunchest opponents of dishes are not human being and are not abortion are among the strongest sup- even potential human beings; unless they are implanted in the wombs of women — and surely no one suggests Jacob Appel ‘95 is an instructor in the conscripting women in which to implant Department of Community Health at them — they will remain small cell clusBrown.

ters indefinitely. The President justified his halt to federal funding on the grounds that many lines of pluripotent stem cells already existed and that these would be available to researchers. Yet of the 64 lines cited by the Bush Administration in Aug. 2001, fewer than 10 are now available to the scientific community. Roger Pederson, a leading California-based investigator who has since taken his laboratory to England, points out that these lines were cultivated with mouse cells and are all but ineligible for transplantation to humans. In addition, even if these lines were all made widely available, even if all the challenges of keeping the fragile cells alive were surmounted and all the patent battles resolved in favor of expanded access, most researchers currently believe these 64 lines will not come close to satisfying the needs of medical science. In short, the President made his decision upon one set of facts. Since it appears those facts have turned out to be inaccurate, it would seem prudent to reexamine that decision. Unfortunately, what should be a rather straightforward scientific matter has been clouded by a small group of

vocal extremists. While we should certainly allow these individuals the right to wallow in their superstition and ignorance — much as in a free country we permit people to advocate a geocentric model of the universe and a flat earth — we should not let them impose either their scientific illiteracy or their moral bankruptcy upon the rest of us. Nor should we allow our President to succumb to their political pressure. This is especially the case when the cost in human lives and human suffering will be so great. It is highly likely that the incoming U.S. Congress will vote on a measure to renew federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. You can substantially increase the chance of its passage by taking a moment to write to your Senators and your member of Congress to urge them to take a passionate and public stand in favor of this life-saving research. In Rhode Island, the senators are John Reed and Lincoln Chafee. The two members of the House of Representatives are Patrick Kennedy (District One) and James Langevin (District Two). The life you save may be that of someone you love, or even your own.

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SPORTS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2002 · PAGE 12

They’re due: Red Sox need to look to their future I KNOW IT IS TECHNICALLY THE baseball off-season, but in practice there is no such thing for the Boston Red Sox nation. As much I hate to admit it, the Sox are in the middle of tough times. Despite the fact that they had three pitchers in the top five in ERA and were second in the league in batting average, last season was disappointing. But I’m not referring ERIC PERLMUTTER PERL MUTTERS to the team’s sub-par finish, 10.5 games behind the New York Yankees. Nor am I referring to the problems with Manny Ramirez not hustling on the field, not running out a ground ball and having trouble with the suffocating New England press. None of that matters right now. Sox fans have learned that the best way to stay alive is to try to forgive and forget (though this may be tough to do — right, Bill?). The future is ours. The problem, though, is that the future is beginning to look a bit murky. For starters, we have no general manager and our top candidates, Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics and J.P. Ricciardi of the Toronto Blue Jays, are officially staying put. Finding a GM won’t be a problem, but you have to wonder if the candidate they bring in will have the experience necessary to guide this club through tough times. Speaking of GMs, the last one, Dan Duquette, must have thought he was doing the Sox a favor by cleaning out the team’s farm system. His constant win-now strategy and his poor draft picks (minus Nomar Garciaparra, of course) have left the see PERLMUTTER, page 6

Volleyball digs out a win vs. Dartmouth After a winless road trip against Columbia University and Cornell University, the volleyball team returned home this weekend to face Harvard University and Dartmouth College. In two close contests, the team fell to the Crimson before vanquishing the Big Green. The Bears lost to Harvard in five games in the Pizzitola Gymnasium. Brown lost the first game 30-27 but rallied back to win the next two games 30-22 and 33-31. Harvard then took the fourth game 30-27 and the fifth and deciding game 15-9. Karalyn Kuchenbecker ’06 led the way for the Bears with 19 kills and 20 digs, her ninth double-double of the year. Co-captain Angela Dunn ’03 also recorded 19 kills, as Jessica Cooper ’03, a Herald staff writer, added 14 kills. Leigh Martin ’06 added 67 set assists and three aces, while Kim Highlund ’04 led the Bears in digs with 23. Coming back on Saturday, the team defeated Dartmouth in four games. The Bears won the first two games 30-19 and 3022. The Big Green took the third game 32-30, but the fourth game went to the Bears 30-27. Dunn recorded 28 kills in the match, putter her over 1,000 for her career. Dunn also added 14 digs for a double-double. Cooper recorded 12 kills, upping her total to 1,083 and is now 16 kills away from being second all-time at Brown. Ceneca Calvert ’03 recorded 15 digs and is now fourth in career digs at Brown with 969. To cap off the weekend, Dunn was named Ivy League Player of the Week. The Bears are now 8-13 overall and 4-5 in the Ivy League with five Ivy League matches left in the season. They will play host to Columbia and Cornell this weekend in the Pizzitola Gym. — Brown Sports Information

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High expectations, disappointing finish for men’s cross country at the Heptagonal Championships BY JOANNA GROSSMAN

Members of the Brown men’s cross country team competed in the Heptagonal Championships at Van Cortdland park in New York City Friday. Unfortunately, their high hopes were not realized. They finished a disappointing fifth out of nine teams, which consisted of the eight Ivy League schools and the U.S. Naval Academy. “This was an extremely disappointing team finish,” said head men’s distance

Coach John Gregorek. “I felt strongly that we had a chance to win the team title this year, and certainly finish no lower than second or third.” The Brown runners started well, but the race did not fall in to place the way they would have liked. “We were all disappointed, especially since we’d had some really good races coming in to this one. We were really going for the win, and once we realized that wasn’t going to happen, I guess it was hard to

come up with an alternate plan,” said Brendan O’Keefe ’04. “We were really confident going in, which can be great, but also makes it difficult if things don’t go the way you want.” The first Brown finisher, Pat Tarpy ’05, had an excellent performance. He finished sixth overall with a time of 25:01 — a 30second personal record for Tarpy. Gregorek was pleased with his performsee CROSS COUNTRY, page 9