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W E D N E S D A Y NOVEMBER 20, 2002

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Grad school requests more funds from ACUP

Budget woes have Univ. considering staff layoffs

BY LISA MANDLE

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Dean of the Graduate School Karen Newman and Vice President for Research Andries van Dam asked the Advisory Committee on University Planning for additional funding on Monday but did not present proposed budgets for the upcoming fiscal year. The meeting was closed to the Brown community and to the press. Assistant Provost Brian Casey and Associate Vice President for Budget and Planning Andries van Dam Susan Howitt reviewed Newman’s and van Dam’s presentations with The Herald on Tuesday. Newman reviewed this year’s $26 million Graduate School budget and requested an unspecified amount of additional funds for Fiscal Year 2004 to cover health care and insurance costs. Van Dam presented an overview of the newly created Office of the Vice President for Research and requested an unspecified amount of funds for new staff positions in research administration and the intellectual property and technology transfer offices. At the meeting, Newman cited rising health care costs and an increasing admission yield due to improved stipends and the weakened economy as pressure points on the Graduate School budget, Casey said. The University began covering full health care expenses for graduate students this year, he said. The Graduate School will receive an additional $2 million this year as part of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment fund and expects to receive an additional $1 million each year for the next two fiscal years, Casey said. Newman plans to use the funds available during the 2003-04 academic year to increase first-year fellowships, increase summer support for students and to support additional teaching assistantships and additional dissertation completion fellowships. Other funds would be used to increase travel funds for students and increase money spent on recruiting, Casey said. Newman intends to use Initiative Funds for Fiscal Year 2005 to increase stipends, teaching assistantships, dissertation fellowships and summer support, he added. Casey said the Graduate School is moving closer to providing five years of support for all doctoral students. The newly-created Office of the Vice President for Research coordinates the groups involved with research at Brown. The office manages compliance with University policy and governmental laws related to research. It is also responsible for intellectual property agreements and

Predicted budget shortfalls may force the University to cut staff, but the implementation of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment will not be delayed, Executive Vice President for Planning Richard Spies said Tuesday. Spies cautioned that though the University is still in the “early stages” of looking at what can be done to balance the budget, “there probably will be” staff layoffs or cutbacks. But he affirmed that funding for President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment is not in jeopardy, and the University’s timetable for implementation is on track. An article in Monday’s issue of the Dartmouth cited Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service, as saying funding problems and a poor economic outlook had delayed the beginning of Simmons’ initiatives. Nickel told The Herald on Tuesday that is incorrect, and the plan is still on schedule. “There’s no question of the University’s continuing commitment,” he said. Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations, echoed Nickel’s sentiment, saying the University is still “moving forward on the academic enrichment initiatives.” The initiatives, which the Corporation approved in February, call for sizeable investments in faculty expansion, network upgrades, graduate programs, library improvements and need-blind admission. Need blind is still on track to begin for the Class of 2007, Freid said, and departments have begun more than 40 searches for new faculty members. Though departments are using some of those 40 searches to look for professors to fill open spots, others are for new positions. In an effort to get Simmons’ initiatives on track, the University recruited 33 visiting faculty for this academic year, Freid said. It’s “too early to predict how many of those (searches) will be completed” during this academic year, Freid said, which is why the faculty expansion has a general five-to seven-year timetable. “We know by practice that searches take time, and it is important not to rush things,” she said. The University wants to “get the top people in the field. … I think the academic enrichment is our first priority, and every department is working to make sure we move forward on elements of the program.” The expansion of the computer network has not been delayed by fiscal concerns, and more network upgrades are scheduled for next summer, Freid said. But the focus on the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment has not erased other financial concerns at the University. With the recent economic downturn, there is no question that “things are less favor-

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Nelson Kiang, professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined a discussion Tuesday night about scientist Wen Ho Lee.

Profs consider ramifications of US vs. scientist Wen Ho Lee BY SARA PERKINS

The 1999 espionage accusations against Wen Ho Lee were a U.S. attempt to cast China as the world’s next great enemy before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks supplied new anxiety, speakers suggested Tuesday. Associate Professor of American Civilization Robert Lee and Nelson Kiang of Harvard University and MIT discussed the political, economic and racial causes and implications of the 1999 Wen Ho Lee espionage case in a discussion sponsored by the Brown Taiwan Society. The Taiwanese-born scientist was accused of giving information on the W88 Nuclear Warhead to Chinese scientists, fired by the Department of Energy and incarcerated in solitary confinement for nine months before eventually pleading guilty to one count of mishandling information, a felony. The discussion was preceded by two video clips — a Today Show interview with Wen Ho Lee after his release from prison and a 60 Minutes piece on then Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson’s factual inaccuracies in his prosecution of the Los Alamos scientist. The latter compared the accusations and claims made by Richardson, who was elected Governor of New Mexico this year, to the facts later established in the case. The Clinton administration, under attack for its close economic ties to

China, was suffering an “immediate political crisis” at the time of the trial, Robert Lee said. “You see the kind of political corruption that Secretary Richardson was willing to engage in to circle the wagons around the idea of (the administration) being tough on China,” he said. Kiang, the son of a Chinese consul to the United States, said the case was “very reminiscent of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial.’ … Wen Ho Lee is clueless about who was after him.” With the FBI so focused on prosecuting Lee, it missed the actual spy — if there ever was one, Kiang said. “If there was a mole in Los Alamos, that mole still exists,” he said. Both professors touched on the idea that China was built up in the mid1980s to be a major enemy. “Now that the Soviets are no longer a danger, who are the next candidates whom we have to knock off to remain No. 1?” Kiang asked. The shift, he said, was hastened by the 1985 conviction of CIA Deputy Section Director Larry Chin on charges of espionage, conspiracy and tax evasion. Now the United States needs China’s cooperation in the war on terror, Kiang said. Meanwhile, China has become a center of education to rival the United see CHINA, page 4

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I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 0 2 AIDS Center wins $7.5 million grant to continue, intensify its research page 3

Anna Lappe ’95 says ‘thought traps’ prevent progress on the world’s hunger problems page 3

Union Rep. Jim Riley takes Wal-Mart to task, previews Thursday’s ‘Day of Action’ page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Chris Senio ’04 says United States should not take lead role in the ‘war on terror’ column, page 11

Women’s hockey ties Minnesota-Deluth in rematch of last year’s national title game sports, page 12

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WORKSHOP — “The Macro Mincerian Approach for the Dynamics of Creative Destruction,” Joonkyung Ha, Brown. Room 301, Robinson Hall, 4 p.m. CONCERT — Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble. Grant Recital Hall, 8 p.m. READING — Ruth Margraff. McCormack Family Theater, 8 p.m.

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ACADEMIC WATCH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 2002 · PAGE 3

AIDS center wins $7.5 million grant to expand research BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

The local Center for AIDS Research, which is associated with the Brown Medical School, Tufts University and Miriam Hospital, received a $7.5 million dollar grant to support continued AIDS research. The grant, awarded by the Centers for AIDS Research, constitutes an increase in funds from similar grants the previous four years. “We’re increasing the scope of our research,” said Dr. Charles Carpenter, CFAR director and professor of medicine. One of the most important results of the grant money will be the continuation and expansion of a program encouraging patients infected with HIV to take their medicine, Carpenter said. The mortality rate from HIV has dropped 85 percent since the current medications were made available, Carpenter said. The remaining deaths are usually people who cannot or do not take their medication. “We try to help people take their medicine for HIV by having someone visit them at their home every day for the first three months,” Carpenter said. “We also are changing their therapy so they take the medicine at the same time every day.” The medication has to be taken on a regular schedule, Carpenter said. If it is not taken regularly, the virus will persist. “You need to have a level of the antiviral drug in the blood high enough to prevent the virus from multiplying and not becoming resistant to the medications. That’s a huge potential problem,” he said. The home visits are cut back to twice a week, then once a week, then discontinued. “It’s amazing how good the results have been,” Carpenter said. The grant money will also fund work on potential HIV vaccines, Carpenter said. However, “we’re not that close to having a vaccine,” he said. see GRANT, page 4

Lappe ’95: ‘Thought traps’ prevent progress on world hunger, awareness problems BY ALAN GORDON

When Anna Lappe ’95 was a first-year at Brown, she experienced an embarrassing but mind-opening incident. While sitting in what she thought was her anthropology lecture one morning, Lappe noticed that the professor and TAs were different and that all the notes were about European history. Despite the many signs that she was in the wrong class, Lappe only realized it when a friend informed her. Her inability to think creatively in the classroom is an example of what Lappe calls a “thought trap.” Tuesday night, Anna Lappe spoke to about 80 people in MacMillan 117 concerning the traps people fall into when thinking about globalization and hunger, and promoted the book she recently co-authored with her mother Francis Moore Lappe, “Hope’s Edge.” “How is it that we have created a world that none of us as individuals would choose?” Lappe asked. She said that in the last 30 years “food has actually become a crisis for half the world’s population,” with 800 million people going hungry. In “Hope’s Edge” she mentions five thought traps that hinder peoples’ ability to solve the world food problem. One such trap is the belief in the food scarcity model. According to Lappe, there is not only enough food in the world to feed us all, but enough “to make us all chubby.” Lappe added that the belief of food scarcity ironically exacerbates the hunger crisis. As an example, she mentioned people who use pesticide on their land because they are frantic to produce food. In effect, this ends up harming the farmland. Another thought trap Lappe outlined was faith in the free market. She said her ideas are sometimes criticized for being reductivist and simple, but to her, nothing could be more simple than the theory invisible hand of the free market.

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Anna Lappe ’95 spoke Tuesday about the common traps people fall into when discussing world hunger.

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Grant continued from page 3 A third aspect of the research involves dealing with young women who have HIV and want to have children. “We’re trying to make sure that those people who want to have children can go through with this successfully,” Carpenter said. This research has been successful, and “we haven’t had any infected child in this state for the past several years,” he said. One of the goals of the research is “to make absolutely sure that everybody in Rhode Island who has the HIV infection has access to the best possible care,” Carpenter said. “We want to make sure they have all the medication they need to treat the disease. That’s a major, major objective.” The Medical School works closely with Tufts University to fulfill these goals. “We collaborate on almost everything we do,” Carpenter said. “We have strengths that they don’t; they have strengths that we don’t” The schools focus in different areas of research, with

Brown conducting more drug trials and studying HIV infection in women, Carpenter said. The incidence of HIV in women is higher in Rhode Island than in other states, he said. Tufts does more work on the metabolic complications of treatment because it has a superb pharmacology program, he said. There is also an overseas component to the research. The Brown team works in south India and Cambodia, among other places. “We’re looking at how to make best use of the drugs available and how to make more drugs available there. We also want to make sure people who need the drugs are taking them properly.” Through this latest grant, Carpenter said he hopes to ensure that “drugs are not only available, but that the patients who need (medication) know they need it and can get the support they need to take it regularly.” Stephanie Harris ’04 edits the academic watch section. She can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

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States, with an influx of international students from Taiwan and Third World nations — a “Since fact that is not ackSept. 11, nowledged in the U.S. (2001) … media, he said. China is no Like the 1985 murder of longer the Vincent big threat.” Chin in Detroit, “the Wen Ho Lee Nelson Kiang case providProfessor, Harvard ed a rallying U.and MIT point” for Asian Americans who had previously been disunited, Kiang said. “Since Sept. 11, (2001), this has died down a little, because China is no longer the big threat,” he said.

able today than even six or 12 months ago,” Spies said, and Brown is facing the same problems that other universities around the country are having. The Corporation has made a commitment to the Simmons’ initiatives, though, and the University will “never lose sight of the goals,” Spies said. Leaders will make “whatever adjustments elsewhere first” before changing the initiatives, he said. Those adjustments could include tightening the budget in certain parts of the University in an effort to make up for ballooning financial aid costs. The needblind admission funds are part of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment and thus independent of the normal financial aid budget, but the weak economy has left more students seeking aid. “We are supporting more students with increased financial aid,” Freid said. Predictions indicate that the University will have to add $3 million to the $38 million budgeted for aid this fiscal year. That money will most likely come from elsewhere in the University budget after the Budget Office receives cost projections from each department this autumn, Freid said. Outside of financial aid, it’s “too early to say which areas will have additional revenues and which areas will need additional support.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

one way to pay for what we’re talking about is to reallocate resources.” Richard Spies Vice President for Planning “The University will make adjustments for that over the year” that will result in a balanced budget, Freid said. Spies said Simmons has cautioned members of the University community that “we simply have to — all of us — make sure we live within our budgets.” In effect, that will “preserve the University resources for the academic enrichments,” he said. “We have said from the beginning that one way to pay for what we’re talking about is to reallocate resources,” Spies said, which could include a smaller staff for certain University operations. That does not necessarily mean laying people off, Spies said, because many areas of the University have a high rate of turnover; those empty positions might simply not be filled. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 covers faculty and administration. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

Hatfield continued from page 12 their conference last season, and are arguably the hottest team in hockey right now also. Then, of course, there are the Patriots, which started this whole odd string of good luck. Their championship brought hope back to this hardened, skeptical town, reminding fans of the glory days when all Boston teams were contenders. Hopefully you found this journey insightful or even entertaining. Possibly you have already stopped reading to go read somebody rant about Republicans in the opinions section. Either way, just know that I bleed red, white, blue, green, black and gold. Chris Hatfield ’06 hails from Salem, Mass.

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CAMPUS NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF DPS reports theft of laptop, rings Vehicle damage, malicious mischief and the larceny of a laptop computer, two cell phones, a wallet, chairs and sample class rings occurred between Nov. 5 and 17, according to Department of Public Safety reports. On Nov. 6 at 3:15 p.m., a woman working at the Brown Bookstore noticed that two University sample rings were missing from her display case. She noticed a tall man loitering around the case beforehand. The man later returned and asked questions about the rings. Brown Police unsuccessfully searched the area for the man. A man parked his car in Lot 88 at 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 16. When he returned at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 17, he found that the passenger side window was smashed and that his dashboard CD player and his mountain bike were stolen from the car. Between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Nov. 15, a student left his New Pembroke room unattended and unsecured. Upon returning to his room he found that his $2,000 Compaq Presario laptop was stolen. On Nov. 9 at 3:15 a.m., a woman placed her purse on the patio at Sears House and left for a few minutes. When she returned she found that the purse, which contained contained $90 in cash and a Nokia cellular phone, was missing. At 3:45 p.m. on Nov. 5, two men were seen removing office chairs from MacMillan Hall, putting the chairs in a green car and then leaving the area. Further investigation led to an apprehension of the subjects and the subsequent return of the chairs. Between 6 p.m. on Nov. 13 and 9 a.m. on Nov. 14, a woman’s wallet was stolen from a table in the Ratty. Between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Nov. 5, a man’s cellular phone was stolen from his unsecured room in Everett House. A cellular phone was stolen from Bronson House Nov. 17. —Sam Shulman

Union leader takes Wal-Mart to task BY JONATHAN SKOLNICK

Union Representative Jim Riley of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 328 said “Always Low Wages” should replace “Always Low Prices” as WalMart’s guarantee in a presentation Tuesday night in Smith Buonanno Hall. In an impassioned attack on Wal-Mart’s corporate practices, Riley said the country’s largest retailer is using illegal and threatening tactics to ensure its workers don’t unionize. “It is a ruthless, ruthless company that is breaking down the moral fiber and the whole aspect of organized labor in the United States,” Riley said. Riley showed a video that sought to demonstrate some of the tactics Wal-Mart uses to discourage its workers from organizing. Stan Future, a store manager who appeared on the video, described how he came to realize he was being used “to profile people to see if they would be open to the union’s message and fire them.” Another woman on the video said Wal-Mart went so far as to terminate employees who said the word “union” inside the store more than once. One reason why employees don’t simply leave WalMart to work for another company is because WalMart “is sort of like a weird little cult,” Riley said. In an introductory video shown to all new employees, actors portray workers who disparage the idea of unionization, telling the newcomers how much they have to lose by unionizing, Riley said. A clip of this WalMart employee video was included in the video Riley showed the audience. “Wal-Mart is slowly and surely destroying any hope that anyone can have a decent job in the retail food industry,” said Riley, whose union chapter represents nearly 14,000 employees for companies such as Bradlees and Stop & Shop.

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Union Representative Jim Riley lashed out at Wal-Mart management for its treatment of labor Tuesday night. In addition to its anti-labor stance, Riley said WalMart also discriminates against women and homosexuals. see RILEY, page 6

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Riley continued from page 5 “Right now, Wal-Mart is involved in the biggest sexual discrimination suit in the history of the U.S. judicial system,” he said, arguing that Wal-Mart has a “glass ceiling” that prevents women from attaining high-level positions. A woman in California won a $500,000 lawsuit where she claimed Wal-Mart fired her because of her homosexuality, Riley said.

Icers continued from page 12 one of the top teams in the nation,” Nugent said. “We kind of had the jitters in the first period.” The first Minnesota goal came from Winny Brodt, who scored on a power-play. At 12:32 the Gophers added to their lead with a goal from Krissy Wendell assisted by Natalie Darwitz. Brown responded with a goal from Lindsay Glennon ’06 assisted by Jenny Rice ’03. Brown went into the second trailing 2-1. In the second period, the dynamic pair of Darwitz and Wendell inflicted two goals on the Bears. At 5:06, Wendell passed it from the corner to Darwitz right after she exited the penalty box. Darwitz scored from the

Lee continued from page 12 lost to the Wizards by 45 points. That’s right, 45. And they’ve improved since then only by benching Baker. Seattle on the other hand, unexpectedly leads the Lakers and the Kings in the Pacific division. I guess dropping that dead weight of pastry did a whole world of good. Milwaukee sent Glenn Robinson to Atlanta for Toni Kukoc: The Bucks claim that they have better team chemistry now that Big Dog is gone and Ray Allen can take verbal swipes at him from a safe distance. That may be true, but the Bucks haven’t exactly been dominating, while Robinson became the first Hawk ever to open the season with three consecutive 30-point games. When the two teams meet on December 5, get ready for Big Dog to take a huge bite out of the star of He Got Game. Ray Allen might as well

Hoops continued from page 12 Hunt made one of two free throws with 48 seconds remaining to make the score 66-65. Brown recovered the ball back by way of a jump ball with thirteen seconds to go in the game. After a Brown timeout, Jason Forte ’05 dribbled to the top of the key and saw Hunt on the left side. Hunt drove the baseline and thought he was fouled as he pulled up for a jump shot, but no call was made as the ball was deflected, and the game came to a close. The second loss came against Belmont on Monday. After two

Riley also focused on “WalMart National Day of Action,” planned for Thursday. At 102 locations across the country, from Maine to Alaska, concerned citizens and union members will mobilize in hopes of getting Wal-Mart’s employees to demand unionization, he said. The plan is relatively simple, Riley said. “We’re going into the stores, and we’re talking to the workers” about their right to unionize, he said. He expects nearly 300 people to attend the event at the WalMart in Seekonk, Mass.

Riley said he hopes that following the rally, “we’ll start getting some calls” from employees who want to unionize. He said in the past when workers started complaining, a few representatives from the company’s Bentonville, Ark., headquarters were sent to diffuse the situation. Following the national day of action, Riley said he hopes the company will be overwhelmed. More information on the event can be found at www.walmartdayofaction.com. The presentation was sponsored by the Student-Labor Alliance.

center of the ice. Darwitz scored again with four seconds remaining. Wendell passed her the puck, and she chipped it past Dreyer. In the third Darwitz scored at 2:05, again assisted by Wendell. It was her third goal of the game and her second hat trick in nine games. The score at this point was 5-1. Brown managed to control the rest of the game. Margaret Ramsay ’06 retaliated first scoring at 6:33. Then Cassie Turner’03 scored from Karen Thatcher ’06 with two minutes left. This brought the score to 5-3; the Bears were not able to fight their way out of such a deep hole. “In the second and third period we gained a lot of confidence because we realized we could keep up with them,” said Nugent. “We were making a few mental mistakes, but we gained confidence

and. tried to come back, and we did a bit but not quite enough.” Dreyer tallied 25 saves in this game and the Gophers’ Jody Horak had 22. Due to Dreyer’s outstanding 64-save weekend she was named the ECAC goalie of the week. Brown also moved from seventh to sixth in the national rankings. “Our big problem is just executing and not always looking for the pass and shooting and going to the goal, but that just takes time and practice so we’ll get it,” Nugent said. The Bears are next in action this Friday when they entertain Cornell at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

change his name to He Hate Me. Cleveland sent Andre Miller to the L.A Clippers for Darius Miles: It sounded stupid for the Cavs to send their best player away just because they are unwilling to pay him what he deserves next summer. And even though Miles has incredible athleticism and the Cavs upset the Clippers during the first week of the season, that rationale still sounds stupid. When it applies to basketball, Cleveland most certainly does not rock.

Eddy Curry: His physique has been compared to that of the diminutive Shaquille O’Neal his rookie year. And like Shaq early in his career, Curry has a limited shooting range. But he is bulking up and making the most of his sizable posterior so far this season. It will be a while yet however, until he can begin to solve The Pythagorean theorem. Or as Shaq says: “There is a answer (to The Pythagorean theorem), but by the time you figure it out, I’ve got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we’re planning for the parade.” Classic proof from The Big Aristotle. One thing has not changed from last season though. As my roommate says, the Knicks’ chances of making the playoffs are like the title of Steven Seagal’s new movie. They’re “Half Past Dead.”

Sports staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers the women’s ice hockey team. She can be reached at kbabcock@browndailyherald.com.

Super Sophs Kwame Brown: Finally showing some of the potential that made him the first high schooler to ever be drafted number one, Kwame is tearing it up underneath the basket, showing a developing post game in addition to great rebounding ability. I wonder though if one good season will be enough to prevent people from forgetting him once new high school phenomenon Lebron James shows up. Ah, those pesky little high school kids.

Hanyen Andrew Lee ’06 hails from Hong Kong and appreciates Steven Seagal, but only when he’s being mocked on Mad TV.

tight halves, Jaime Kilburn ’04 scored the first four points in overtime to give Brown a 72-68 lead. Following a lay-up by Belmont’s Adam Mark, Nuualiitia made a lay-up and Forte added a free throw to give the Bears a 7570 advantage with 2:47 left in overtime. Belmont bounced back by scoring the next eight points, first taking a 76-75 lead with 1:47 left to play and then adding two free throws with 48 seconds remaining to take a three-point lead. The Bears came within one point on a lay-up by Forte with 20 seconds remaining, but a Belmont player then connected on four of four foul shots in the last 16 seconds to add the nail in the coffin.

The final score was 83-77. Although Brown lost, Nuualiitia played excellent basketball for the Bears, pulling down 16 boards and scoring 17 points, featuring his 1,000th career point. He moved into 17th place on Brown’s all-time scoring list with a total of 1,009 career points. Brown will play again next Saturday, Nov. 23, against Providence College at the Dunkin Donuts Center. After defeating the Friars last season, the Bears’ cross-town rivals will surely be looking for revenge. It is safe to assume that this week will feature intense practices as Bruno tries to defend its place as the top basketball program in Providence.

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IN BRIEF NATO summit offers Bush, Schroeder chance to mend their relationship PRAGUE, Czech Republic (L. A.Times) — The chief object of sus-

pense as NATO countries gather to formally accept seven new members is whether President Bush and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder can make nice. Looming over the NATO summit is the impending showdown with Iraq — an issue that is not expected to take center stage but nevertheless will assume a prominent role in private discussions throughout. Whether to take military action against Iraq is just the latest weight to burden the U.S. relationship to Germany. Despite their recent falling-out, Bush, who arrived here Tuesday, has no plans to sit down with Schroeder to try to heal the rift — even though both men have tete-a-tetes scheduled with other foreign leaders while in the Czech Republic. But many expect there will be opportunities to right the U.S.-German relation, which is so central to NATO’s well-being at a time when the alliance must ponder a new role for itself in a radically changed world. "I’m sure they’ll see each other at NATO," Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser, said recently. Bush knows that the summit "isn’t going to be a success if the centerpiece of the meeting is a continued frosty, noncommunicative relationship between the United States and Germany," said James B. Steinberg, deputy national security adviser in the Clinton White House. The Bush-Schroeder breach stems from the chancellor’s reelection campaign, when he ran strongly opposed to war in Iraq.The president was further angered when one of Schroeder’s ministers was quoted as comparing Bush’s tactics to those of Hitler. After Schroeder eked out a hard-fought victory, Bush snubbed him by not placing a traditional congratulatory call. He also ignored a letter from Schroeder.The leaders finally had a short telephone conversation on Nov. 8. The coolness of the relationship, and the efforts to win a detente, are not expected to detract from the summit. Bush’s three top priorities on his 11th trip abroad as president are to help usher into NATO the seven new members, combat terrorism, foster the alliance’s transformation in a post-Sept. 11, 2001, world, and continue forging "a new relationship" with Russia.

Senate Clears Way for Creation of Homeland Security Dept. WASHINGTON (L.A.Times) — The Senate overwhelmingly approved the most sweeping government shake-up in a halfcentury on Tuesday, passing a bill that will create a new Cabinet department responsible for reducing the nation’s vulnerability to terrorist attacks. The Senate vote, 90-9, followed House passage last week of a virtually identical measure to forge a Department of Homeland Security out of two dozen government agencies. For the first time, one government agency will be responsible for coordinating protection of the nation’s borders, coastlines, airports, landmarks, utilities and other major facilities, both public and private.The new agency, expected to have more than 170,000 employees, will also help lead the nation’s defense against potential chemical, biological or nuclear attacks by terrorists. Bush pushed hard for the bill following the Republican triumph in this fall’s midterm elections, and Tuesday’s action handed him a major victory as the 107th Congress drew to a close with several key Senate votes. He will sign the homeland security bill as soon as lawmakers iron out minor differences between the Senate and House versions and send it to the White House. The bill’s enactment will set in motion the most extensive reorganization of the executive branch since the creation of the modern Defense Department and intelligence agencies in the late 1940s. That change was a major legacy of World War II and the Cold War.The new homeland security agency is part of Washington’s response to last year’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In a telephone call from Air Force One while flying to Prague for a NATO summit, Bush congratulated Republican leaders as the bill neared passage. “We’re making great progress in the war on terror,”Bush said via speakerphone.“Part of that progress will be the ability for us to protect the American people at home.This is a very important piece of legislation.”

Oil tanker sinks off Spanish coast PARIS (Washington Post) — A stricken oil tanker laden with 20 million gallons of fuel oil broke in two and sank Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s northwestern coast, raising fears of an ecological disaster larger than the Exxon Valdez spill if the oil’s containers split open on the ocean floor. The Prestige, a Greek-managed ship sailing under a Bahamas flag, has already lost about 2.5 million gallons of highly toxic fuel oil from a 50-foot-wide crack that its hull sustained during a storm last Wednesday, and from rupturing and sinking Tuesday about 150 miles off the coast of Spain’s Galicia region. The crew was airlifted to safety before the ship sank. The ship’s containers appeared to be intact, but shipping experts and environmentalists said it was only a matter of time before they burst, either from damage caused by falling 11,800 feet and hitting the ocean floor or from rusting. The Prestige was carrying almost twice the 11 million gallons of Alaskan crude that was lost by the tanker Exxon Valdez off the coast of Alaska in 1989. That spill contaminated 700 miles of coastline, according to Greenpeace. There was some hope that the low temperatures at the bottom of the Atlantic might keep the tanks intact and solidify the fuel oil, preventing it from spreading. Pumping out the oil for salvage at a depth of more than two miles would be extremely difficult. Before the ship went down, salvage workers trying to save it had been battling unseasonably high winds producing 16-foot waves. The oil spill has already caused havoc on Spain’s normally pristine Galician coast, with thick dark sludge washing up on beaches, thousands of birds and fish caked in oil and the region’s fishing industry, known for its lobster, brought to a halt with all fishing prohibited. Fuel oil is heavier and more toxic than crude oil, and more difficult to clean up after spills. The ship’s loss produced a new round of finger-pointing and recrimination in European capitals, with some officials blaming the European Union for not taking tougher action against aging vessels such as the Prestige.

EU officials in Brussels and in Strasbourg, France, countered that governments could take the initiative themselves. Under EU rules due to take effect in July, 25 percent of all ships would be inspected before entering EU ports, and ships flying flags of convenience would be singled out for inspection. Also under the new rules, all single-hull tankers, deemed less safe than double-hull tankers, would be phased out by 2015, beginning with the older ones. Other single-hull vessels would still be allowed. The new rules were put in place after a similar disaster off the French coast in December 1999, when the tanker Erika discharged about 2.8 million gallons of oil. Both the Prestige and the Erika were built in Japan during the shipbuilding boom of the mid-1970s, and experts said those ships are now showing the stress of age. The Prestige was built in 1976. Tuesday’s disaster brought calls for the new regulations to be implemented sooner than the EU timeframe requires. But any change is likely to be vigorously opposed by the shipping industry, which feels that the older vessels have complied with existing rules and are subject to regular inspection, and to ban them immediately would place an unfair financial burden on the industry. French President Jacques Chirac fired the first salvo in the blame game, telling reporters Tuesday, “I am horrified by the inability of those in charge — politically, nationally and particularly at the European level — to take action which permits these ships, which are fit only for the dustbin, to carry on.” Chirac told reporters that the time had come to “urgently take draconian measures,” without specifying what they would be. In Strasbourg, the EU transportation commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, said individual European governments could move on their own to toughen the regulations on tankers, without waiting for the EU-wide rules to take effect. She wrote to EU leaders Tuesday urging them not to wait until the July deadline to begin enforcing the stricter rules.

Iranians affected by Iraq’s weapons KARAJ, Iran (L. A. Times) — His frail body perched on a pillow, Ali Shakiebeinejad whispered a few words at a time through a green plastic mask connected to an oxygen canister. “I first noticed the beautiful smell. It was sweet, like garlic or roses,” the former shoe repairman recalled. A deep racking cough interrupted him. “But I didn’t know what it was.” Then only 19, the Iranian was too preoccupied with the rout of his military unit and his impending capture by the Iraqis. And for the next 27 months he was a prisoner of war. Five years ago, the growing number of unusual symptoms — a worsening cough, constant respiratory infections, gum disease that caused his teeth to fall out, pounding headaches and excessive weight loss — were finally diagnosed. Doctors told Shakiebeinejad that he was a victim of mustard gas, the chemical weapon most used by Iraq during its eight-year war with Iran. Fourteen years after the war’s end, Shakiebeinejad represents the lingering — and in many cases unanticipated — impact of Iraq’s use of chemical weapons. Fears that Iraq might still have such weapons of mass destruction — from mustard gas to nerve agents such as Tabun to a nuclear weapons program — drove the U.N. Security Council on Nov. 8 to unanimously approve a resolution calling on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s regime to disarm or face “serious consequences.” In a declassified report, the CIA estimated in 1991 that Iran suffered more than 50,000 casualties, including untold thousands of deaths, from Iraq’s use of several chemical weapons. But Iran claims the tally has since soared as both troops and civilians have developed the telltale symptoms up to 15 years later because low-dose exposure deferred physical deterioration or collapse. “We are beginning to understand that we may only have seen the tip of the iceberg. We may not yet have seen the majority of victims,” said Dr. Farhad Hashemnezhad, a young pulmonary specialist who has reluctantly become an expert on chemical weapons. “Many patients don’t know that their complaints — coughing, tightness in the chest, difficult respiration — have anything to dowith chemical weapons, especially after all these years,” the doctor said. “At least 20 percent

of the current patients are civilians who didn’t think they were close enough to be exposed.” One of the common causes of civilian casualties was use of water contaminated by chemical weapons, he said. Doctors became so concerned by the growing number of cases that the government two years ago started putting ads in Iranian papers calling on anyone who had been in specified areas during the war to report to one of the nation’s 30 centers for the disabled and get medical checkups. What the ads did not say, to avoid panic, was that the areas had been hit by Iraqi chemical weapons. Shakiebeinejad, who at 33 weighs only 107 pounds, is not expected to live more than six months, doctors have told his wife. His closest army buddy during the battle at Al Shalamshah died several weeks ago. “There are more and more like him. They’re like candles, day by day they’re melting,” said Mohammed Aliani, deputy director of the Center for the Disabled here in Karaj, an industrial city about 25 miles northwest of Tehran. At the Sasan Hospital in Tehran, Mohsen Kompany, a former car mechanic, resembles an emaciated concentration camp survivor: yellow skin tightly covering jutting bones. He too is permanently attached to oxygen. Kompany, 34, remembers the smell of newly mown grass when the Iraqis dropped mustard gas bombs on his army unit. But he remembers little else, as he has the memory of an early Alzheimer’s patient. Doctors say he will die any day. Like most of the current cases, Kompany was targeted in the last two years of the war. Iraq first starting developing its chemical-weapons capability in the early 1970s, deliberately enrolling students in foreign schools with the goal of developing “a pool of technically competent scientists,” according to a second declassified CIA report. But Iraq was often clumsy in its early usage of the weapons between 1983 and 1986, U.S. intelligence says. The Iraqi military frequently fired chemical-laden artillery shells or dropped bombs in unsuitable weather, “with wind carrying the agent toward their own troops,” the CIA report says. Pilots also released bombs and rockets from altitudes too high to have much impact or too low for their fuses to function.

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Close to joining EU, Czechs confronted with darker past KRAVARE, Czech Republic (Washington Post) — Horst Kostritza was 15 at

the end of World War II, and he remembers well the retribution meted out by the newly liberated Czechs against local ethnic Germans like him who were caught on the wrong side of history. There were executions. There was imprisonment for those deemed Adolf Hitler’s collaborators. And there were mass expulsions of many of the rest. “They were told to get out the next day,” he recalled. People could take only 80 to 90 pounds of baggage. It was well organized in this town, he said. There were no forced marches like elsewhere. The deportees were collected on trucks, taken to a regional center and deposited on trains bound for Germany. Those who were expelled had their property confiscated, said Kostritza, one of the few to stay behind. The Czechs took over. Historians estimate that 3 million ethnic Germans were forcibly removed from their ancestral homes in the Czech areas bordering Germany widely known as the Sudetenland. Now those events are the focus of a dispute between the Czech Republic and two of its neighbors, Germany and Austria. Ancient sensibilities are clashing

with national pride in a struggle over who gets to write this messy chapter of history. With the Czech Republic set in December to receive an invitation to enter the European Union (EU), some advocates of the Sudeten German deportees say the time is right for the government in Prague to issue a formal apology and to repeal the Benes decrees — named for the Czech leader of the time, Eduard Benes — that legalized the expulsions. They are also calling for compensation for ethnic Germans whose property was confiscated. But for Czech officials, the matter is closed — whatever happened to the ethnic Germans, they say, was fair retribution for their role in supporting Hitler’s aggression and was compensation for the years of Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. German deportees have formed potent lobbying groups that keep the debate alive, and the issue has reached the highest levels of government. In March, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder canceled a trip to Prague after Czech Prime Minister Milos Zemen called the Sudeten Germans “Hitler’s fifth column.” Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel has come out in favor

of repealing the expulsion decrees. The long-simmering issue was revived among Germans after the 1989 Velvet Revolution overthrew communism in Czechoslovakia. The new government allowed property confiscated by the Communists after 1948 to be restored to its previous owners. But nothing was given to Sudeten Germans whose property had been seized earlier. Czech officials say most Czech victims of Nazism never received compensation from Germany — it linked the payment issue to a general property settlement with the Sudeten Germans. When Czechoslovakia peacefully divided in 1993, the western segment, the Czech Republic, inherited the Sudeten issue. Czech political leaders are adamant that there can be no formal apology or repeal of the Benes decrees, which were ratified by the parliament of Czechoslovakia. While some leaders concede that certain conciliatory “gestures” may be needed to assuage Germany and Austria once the country enters the EU, they also warn that any outside pressure on the Czech Republic could create a backlash. “Strictly from the legal point of view, we have no problems,”

Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda said in an interview. “But we still have the problem of political or moral gestures. ... It is up to the Czech cabinet to decide if, when and what” gestures might be coming. But he warned, “to us, it is very counterproductive if there are initiations coming from outside.” “There is no question of any official repeal of the decrees,” said Michael Zantovsky, who chairs the foreign affairs, defense and security committee of the Czech senate. He said a recent EU report bolstered the Czech position, that nothing in the decrees is incompatible with EU laws. “Legally, we’re off the hook,” Zantovsky said. “Morally, I think there is a sense that during the Second World War, atrocities were committed by the Nazis for which Germany and Austria took responsibility, and after the war, acts were committed by the newly liberated countries, including Czechoslovakia, which were morally indefensible, and that any decent person should say I’m sorry for.” Germany and Austria have said they will not veto Czech membership in the EU over the Sudeten issue. But their demands for a repeal of the decrees have helped make many Czechs luke-

warm about joining the group — only about half the population supports EU membership, according to published opinion polls. Many Czechs say that repealing the decrees would amount to a revision of history and would fail to recognize that the Germans were the aggressors in the war and thatmany ethnic Germans supported Hitler’s territorial claims. For ethnic Germans like Horst Kostritza, who heads a group called the Circle of the Friends of Germany, it is a matter of setting the historical record straight. “I know the Germans are the main guilty party,” he said. “They started the war, and millions of people were killed. But that doesn’t give a right to the other side to retaliate.” While he said the decrees should not be repealed entirely, he added, “The Czech government should also recognize that it did some bad deeds.” This region had been variously Prussian and German since the mid-1700s, and only became part of Czechoslovakia after World War I. “All the people who lived here during those 200 years accepted Prussian and German culture,” Kostritza said. “After 1920, the local inhabitants became strangers in their own country.”

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Lappe continued from page 3 “There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market,” said Lappe, quoting Dwayne Andreas, the chairmen of Arhcer Daniels Midland. The goal of “Hope’s Edge,” Lappe said, was “to help people out of these traps.” To this end, she and her mother traveled extensively, talking to people about world hunger and their ideas for ending it. One place Lappe visited was Kenya. There she talked to onetime Kenya University Professor Wangari Maathi, the first woman in East Africa to receive a Ph.D. in biological sciences, and the founder of the Green Belt Movement — a network of people who combat the desertification of Kenya by planting trees. Wangari and the Green Belt activists planted 20 million trees since its inception in 1977, Lappe said. Better still, the movement grew into an important lobby that empowers women, attempts to protect the public forests, and seeks to replace export crops with edible and natural crops, she said. “The movement has grown from a tree-planting movement to … a pro-democracy movement,” Lappe said. Another place where people

ACUP continued from page 1 technology transfers. Van Dam told the ACUP that while the Office of Research is now only incurring expenses, the hope is that University investment in research will bring revenues, Casey said. Van Dam was “very optimistic about changes that could be

are breaking thought traps, according to Lappe, is Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The city of Belo Horizonte declared healthy food a right of all citizens. This unleashed a swarm of recent creative initiatives, she said. To better inform its citizens about the availability of food, the Belo Horizonte government publishes a weekly list of the cheapest place to buy 40 common foods. This puts a downward pressure on food prices, Lappe said. Other projects Belo Horizonte undertakes include partnering with local farmers to give school children produce for their lunches, and fortifying flour with eggshells. Lappe said that what is most striking about the projects of Belo Horizonte is how simple and inexpensive they are. The initiatives “didn’t use more of the city budget, but made it work better,” said Lappe. Lappe also spoke of the Landless Workers Movement or MST of Brazil. This group lobbies for the Brazilian government to distribute land in accordance with the Brazilian Constitution, which provides that unused land go to landless Brazilians. Largely in response to the MST, the government settled almost 400,000 families between 1995 and 1999, according to one MST organizer. This group again shows how people can pressure their governments

made” and targeted the Office of Research Administration and the Brown University Research Foundation for expansion, said undergraduate representative Andrew Horesh ‘04. Casey expects both Newman and van Dam to return to the ACUP in the spring after they have more thoroughly reviewed the organization and budgets of their respective departments. Both Newman and van Dam assumed their current positions

“There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market.” Anna Lappe ’95 Author through land policy, Lappe said. As an example of the power of people to challenge corporations, Lappe told a story about taking on media giants. While Lappe observed 100,000 people at the Oct. 26 protest of the war with Iraq in Washington, D.C., both the New York Times and National Public Radio reported the following day that thousands of people were in attendance. Lappe and “thousands of (other) people” wrote letters to NPR and the New York Times. Within one day, NPR apologized for its misrepresentation, and within three days the New York Times changed its reported number of protestors to 100,000. Her lecture was the keynote event of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, sponsored by the Student Hunger and Homelessness Action Coalition. Herald staff Alan Gordon ’06 can be reached at agorodn@browndailyherald.com.

on Oct. 1 of this year. They succeeded Peder Estrup, who held the title of dean of the Graduate School and research. After Estrup stepped down last April, Provost Robert Zimmer announced that the position would be split into the two positions of dean of the Graduate School and vice president for research. Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

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Make firing a last resort The University announced Tuesday that although President Ruth Simmons’ academic renewal plans will proceed ahead at full steam, the University may have to layoff staff members. While it is reassuring that the administration remains committed to need-blind admission and other important aspects of Simmons’ plans, it is important that Brown’s leaders prioritize and avoid firing staff and threatening University employees’ job security. Despite a $3 million deficit for the 2002-03 academic year and an even larger projected deficit for the upcoming year, the University remains committed to need-blind admission. We are pleased that Simmons and the Office of Financial Aid are still supporting this policy that has heightened importance during depressed economic times when families will have greater difficulty paying the Brown tuition. In addition to remaining committed to implementing a needblind admission policy for the Class of 2007, administrators told The Herald that plans to expand the faculty significantly are still underway. Revitalizing Brown’s academic enterprise — a central aspect of Simmons’ vision — will only occur if the University invests significant resources in bringing talented, innovative and inspiring new faculty members to Brown. This is one aspect of academic renewal that cannot wait until after the economy recovers. At the same time, certain aspects of Simmons’ plans are too costly and too vague to pursue during this economic downturn. Computing and Information Services, which recently asked for tens of millions of dollars but presented no precise plan for what it intends to do with the money, should carefully review these spending priorities. These far-reaching and unclear plans should be postponed until after Simmons’ upcoming capital campaign secures the roughly $1 billion dollars she said it aims to raise. It is unfair and dishonest that the University is considering firing staff members to pay for computing upgrades that could cost upwards of $20 million. Either CIS’ proposal should be trimmed or the department’s plans should be postponed. Putting off CIS’ vague and costly network improvement plans to avoid firing staff members is the decent and right thing to do. We expect our administrators to make a similar value judgement if need be. At the same time, the University could look to eliminate staff positions when people retire, as administrators recently told The Herald they are looking to do.

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LETTERS ‘Latino American’ a redundant appelation

Machado House Piano Lounge for a free taste of Puerto Rican cuisine. Fernando Bobis ’03 Nov. 19

To the Editor: As one of the two co-chairs of FEP, la Federación de Estudiantes Puertorriqueños, I wanted to thank The Herald for the very nice coverage of our event, the Puerto Rican Culture Week 2002 Convocation (“Denial of racism poses barrier to Latino civil rights, alumna says,” 11/19). In the past we have not felt justly covered or properly represented in The Herald, and I am sure that I am not the only Puerto Rican, or Latino, on this campus that was pleased with the article. I had one small correction to make with regard to the opening phrase: “Latino and Latino Americans.” Latino is perfect, but instead of Latino Americans, the proper term to use is Latin Americans (without the “o” at the end), because to say “Latino Americans” is actually redundant, as someone from any Latin American country is not Latino until he or she comes to the United States. Before their arrival in the United States, Latin Americans would not really have much occassion to refer to themselves as Latinos, unless attempting to unite politically across oceans, which does happen sometimes and is the sole basis for using the term Latino here in the United States — to unify. Otherwise, outside of the United States, Latin Americans refer to themselves based on their nationality (i.e. Colombianos, Mexicanos, Bolivianos). Also, here in the United States, Latino is more often than not a term embraced by those who do not accept the governmental label of Hispanic. Last but not least, 88 people were in attendance at the Convocation, and we'd love for as many or more people to come to our Sabor de Puerto Rico event on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. in the

People should express dissent in polite and respectful manner To the Editor: Mark de Regt's ’74 letter (“Johnston’s advocacy of death penalty shallow, unfounded,” 11/18) in response to Heather Johnston's ’06 piece on the death penalty (“Supporting the death penalty in the U.S. a necessary evil,” 11/15) disappointed me. Brown University's students (current and former) are supposed to conduct themselves in a respectful and mature manner, but de Regt's letter lacked these essential qualities. Is it really necessary for an alumnus to so viciously attack a college first-year journalist? It is rude and unproductive to label someone's work “a remarkable display of sophistry,” as he did. The overall tone of de Regt's letter is so critical of Johnston's reasoning that it even distracts the reader from de Regt's actual views on the death penalty. There are more appropriate styles to express one’s dissent. Published writers open themselves up for criticism. People who disagree with someone else should express their opinions in a thoughtful manner and not descend to childish attacks. Immature rhetoric (by either the writer or the respondent) will only discourage others from expressing their views, and it will stymie the public debate of issues. De Regt should cut a college first-year some slack and write in a more respectful manner. Adam Greenwood ’03 Nov. 19

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2002 · PAGE 11

Seniors: Have you mastered the Senior Scurry? As the fourth year of college winds down, seniors inevitably must master a few smooth moves Other seniors can visualize the steps IF THERE’S ONE THING YOU LEARN BY the time you’re a senior, it’s that college to the Future Foxtrot in their head. The goes by fast. Yes, you can use your Brown challenge is to get their feet to follow education to analyze the irony of how col- along. For these people it’s best to break lege, the supposed best time of our lives, the move down into even smaller steps only lasts four years. But, as first semester and take them one at a time (e.g. GRE/LSAT, application already nears its final stages, a essays, transcript ordering). more important realization When learning any dance, hits: you have approximately positive feedback by a profive months to complete all fessional is essential, and your unfinished business at these foxtrotters may have to Brown. The result? The Senior go in search of recommendaScurry. tions if not offered up front Much like the popular party by their professor. To get the dance of our junior high years, positive feedback that you so the Electric Slide, we can think desperately need, you may of the Senior Scurry as a dance have to woo new professors made of multiple steps. To do CAMILLE GERWIN BEYOND to join you in the dance. the Senior Scurry, you just THE BUBBLE Seniors in this situation sudhave to master a few basic denly become active particimoves. pants in class and even venture to see the professor in office hours Figuring Out the Future Foxtrot This step is more difficult for some than after three years of never stepping in a others. Some particularly swinging seniors department building. This sub-step of the Future Foxtrot is have already mastered this move by spinning into a cushy job after working their called the Sucking-Up Swing. With magic in a sexy summer internship. Those understanding professors that enjoy of us not in this category may get a little helping their students succeed, it can be jealous, thinking these swinging seniors an effective tactic for mastering the have all the luck. But on the bright side, we Foxtrot. Of course, there are also the swaying don’t have to worry about being dumped by our fickle firm with the stinging words, seniors. Sometimes they just need more time to learn the Future Foxtrot. They may “It’s not you, it’s the economy.” put off learning the steps or they may just sway back and forth, trying to decide Camille Gerwin ’03 has found a distinct where to put their feet. link between too much coffee and use of Once all three of these types of seniors extended metaphors.

get in the groove, they will easily master the Figuring Out the Future Foxtrot. Prowling around Providence Pirouette It’s important to remember that this next move is a speed step. As you progress to this step, you will become aware of the abundance of unexplored territory that lies at your feet (or rather at the foot of the hill). Some of this territory may have been previously inaccessible to you because of age restrictions. As many seniors may have just come of age by the time they advance to the Providence Pirouette, the drive to learn this step will be even stronger. The challenge is to discover as many new haunts as possible in a limited amount of time while still performing the Future Foxtrot. This has been considered by some to be the most enjoyable step of the Senior Scurry, but it is also the most dangerous. For performing the Providence Pirouette in excess can result in a fall that will hinder your progress in the Future Foxtrot. Racing for Romance Rumba Most of the steps of the Senior Scurry can be done solo. But if you desire a dance partner, you may end up doing the Romance Rumba. Normally, the Romance Rumba can be performed at a slow to moderate pace. But with only a short amount of time left at Brown, seniors often want to rush the move, as they realize that the selection of prospective dance partners will probably decrease after gradua-

tion. This step can actually be performed well at a quicker pace, as long as you are careful not to scare off the potential partner. But if performed too slowly, you may run out of time to dance with your desired partner. Unfortunately, the risks associated with this move often keep Brown seniors from even attempting it. Seeming all Sentimental Salsa No explanation will help you master this step. All of a sudden you just get it, as you realize that your days at Brown are numbered. Even though you’ve been to the same party year after year, always vowing to never go again, you’ll be suckered into making your appearance one last time, even though you should probably be working on the Future Foxtrot instead. In fact, the words “last time” are commonly sung along to the Sentimental Salsa, and seniors use the phrase to convince others to join them in the dance. You may also detect unusual behaviors among seniors, such as running naked with doughnuts or avoiding walking over certain stairs. These actions are a part of the Sentimental Salsa called the Tradition Tango. For most people these odd behaviors subside after graduation. Have you got it? As you learn the basics of the Senior Scurry, you inevitably will add your own style and flair to the moves. Most importantly, don’t get discouraged. With a little practice, we will all master the steps and dance down College Hill together in caps and gowns.

The right foreign policy isolates US in our time of need The United States must be wary of fighting a war on too many fronts without the support of allies ON NOV. 18, U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS all regimes that harbor terrorists as terrorconfirmed that a recent audio tape broad- ists themselves, we cheer because we feel cast on the Qatar-based television net- that he is right. Terrorism should not be work, “Al-Jazeera,” contains the voice of al tolerated, and anyone who is willing to Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. On the turn a blind eye to it has no business holdtape, bin Laden spews typical al Qaeda ing political power. However, this attitude has backed the United States rhetoric, criticizing U.S. forinto the position of being the eign policy, and warning that world’s anti-terrorist police if the United States and its force, and this is not fair. allies don’t change their imperialist ways, they should The United States is the expect further attacks. most powerful nation in the Nothing new here, but what is world and because of this its important is that the recordgovernment feels that the task ing references the bombing of before it is one that it can a Bali nightclub, an event that accomplish. Fighting terrortook place on Oct. 12. It ism is a necessary and noble appears that for the first time, goal, but there must be some CHRIS SENIO BOTTLES OF CHRIS we have positive proof that self-imposed, definite limits bin Laden is still alive. For to what we alone can achieve. more than 13 months, the To do the rest, we need a lot United States has been more support from our allies. engaged in a “war against terror,” and The United States deposed the Taliban while there have been some modest in Afghanistan with relative ease, but to accomplishments, the U.S.’ primary tar- ensure that Afghanistan enjoys sustained get eludes it. Without the capture or killing democratic rule, it is necessary for the of the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, United States to maintain its military pres2001, attack, victory in the war against ter- ence. The assassination of Afghan Vice ror (if this is even possible) would be a President Abdul Qadir in July and the dubious claim indeed. failed assassination attempt of President I have no doubt that the federal govern- Hamid Karzi in September clearly demonment is dedicating a tremendous amount strate that, while the Taliban may be disof its resources to the war against terror, persed, it has plenty of supporters eager to but I am a little concerned about our grow- reclaim power. Maintaining order in ing involvement in foreign countries that Afghanistan is a formidable task, requiring could possibly pose a threat to the United significant military and intelligence States one day. In principle, of course, such resources. However, it seems to be only a policy seems sound. When President one front of our multi-pronged war George W. Bush addresses the nation and against terror. With weapons inspectors reentering announces that the United States will treat Iraq, the United States may find itself with no choice but to launch a military strike Chris Senio ’04 thinks the world is a scary against Baghdad, which would inevitably place.

lead to a second Gulf War. Whether or not you believe we should go to war with Iraq is irrelevant at this point. Bush’s trumped up rhetoric has seemingly placed the matter out of U.S. hands. By issuing a final ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Bush has effectively said that whether or not this country goes to war with Iraq is up to Iraq. According to Bush, if weapons inspectors find what they are not supposed to find, the United States has “no choice” but to protect freedom and go to war. At this point, U.S. inaction in the face of an Iraqi violation would seriously undermine our credibility. There are only so many times Bush can say he is giving Saddam “one last chance” before he has cried wolf so many times that the world stops listening. Bush has made it clear; this is Hussein’s last chance to avoid a war. Therefore, it is very possible our war will take on an additional, second front. As if these two situations weren’t enough to consume our military and intelligence resources, earlier this week, North Korea announced it has a nuclear weapon. At the time of press, there was some linguistic confusion about whether or not the North Korean statement claims that the nation actually possess a nuclear weapon, or merely the right to own such a weapon. Regardless, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believes North Korea has enough plutonium to make “one or two nuclear weapons,” which is “one or two more” than I personally want in Pyongyang. North Korea was previously mentioned by Bush as belonging to an “axis of evil,” and it is possible that this could develop into another situation that U.S. intelligence and/or military must monitor and devote its resources to. On top of all this, the United States has

deployed troops in the Philippines, to train their military and police in counter-terrorist measures, so that they may more effectively deal with the Abu Sayyaf and other terrorist organizations believed to be connected with al Qaeda. How many more places can the United States be until it stretches itself so thin that it is no longer effective anywhere? I am not advocating the removal of troops from anywhere. Nor am I advocating that U.S. intelligence stop monitoring the situation in any one location where terrorists may be training or plotting. I only worry that the United States seems to be harboring more than its share of the war against terror, a war effort in which all nations should participate in accordance with their means. I believe that the United States should lead the effort in the one or two tasks that are most manageable and pose the most immediate threat, and our allies should assist with the rest. All of the U.S.’ allied nations pledged solidarity after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against Washington and New York, but their support seems to be waning. I have written time and again that the war against terror is a global war, a war in which all governments must participate because this war is a war of ideologies. Civil society must fight to protect the very idea of government, which terrorist organizations undermine when they try and influence policy by attacking civilian populations. That is not how one does things in the 21st century, and unless the United States gets more support from its allies and the war effort becomes truly international in nature, I fear that the United States may needlessly lose some of the next battles in our ongoing war to protect what is right.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

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Trading places, not spaces, for NBA teams

No-mah silly whining for Boston fans

OLD FACES IN NEW PLACES. PLAYERS that were supposed to be good, yet sucked last year, but are actually good now. Those are some of the most intriguing subplots of the new NBA season, and I’d like to break down the impact so far of some of the trades of this past off-season, as well as provide the skinny on some m u c h - i m p r ov e d second year players.

WITH THIS BEING MY FIFTH COLUMN for The Herald, I feel that it is time for me to come out — I am a Boston sports fan. Please do not confuse me with these bandwagon jumpers who came on board after the Patriots won the Super Bowl and consider themselves true fans because they went to one of the championship parades. No, I am a true-blooded Boston fan – that means ALL of the teams, ALL of the time. Right now, there is no better place to be in the CHRIS HATFIELD pro sports world OUT OF LEFT FIELD and I would like to allow you to peer in to the incredibly twisted, scarred and slightly psychotic mind of the Boston sports fan. First, you need to learn the basics. In casual conversation, our teams are referred to as the Pats, the Sox, the B’s and the Celts, not their full names. We exalt these squads relentlessly when they are doing well, but we tear them apart just as badly when they are not performing up to our standards. (Note: We do this out of love, the way you relentlessly make fun of your friends when something bad happens to them.) The mere mention of anything New York makes us cringe with fury, and hatred of the LA Lakers, Montreal Canadians and, due to recent events, the Pittsburgh Steelers should be considered extra credit. As for our history, it is a long and storied one. However, college-aged Boston fans were not alive for almost any of this. Until recently, the last Boston sports championship was the Celtics in 1986. The years since have basically been filled with only disappointment. The Celtics Bird-McHaleParish years ended without any preparation by the team for such a time. After a few years struggling to make the playoffs, the team brought in coaching wiz Rick Pitino to solve everything. Well, the “solving everything” part never happened, and he was unceremoniously run out of town. The Red Sox were slightly more successful. They won a few division championships, and even made the World Series in 1986 (hellooooo Bill Buckner.) However, despite repeatedly having one of the highest payrolls in the league, the Sox always found a way to lose, usually to the Yankees. The Bruins had similar success, losing in two Stanley Cup finals. The final straw came when they missed the playoffs in 1997 for the first time in thirty years, followed by consecutive playoff misses in 2000 and 2001. This in the NHL, where 16 of the 30 teams make the playoffs. Despite all of this, the worst team in Boston was still the Patriots. Highlighted by a 1-15 record in 1990, the team was one of the laughing stocks of the NFL. They did manage to make the Super Bowl once, but got embarrassed by a far superior Green Bay team. However, Boston has recently become the place to be. The Red Sox still give fans hope, then collapse late in the season, but that is still better than sucking for the whole year. The Celtics came within a few Paul Pierce free throws of making the NBA Finals last year, and have started hot this year. The Bruins had the best record in

Trades Denver sent Antonio McDyess to New York for HANYEN ANDREW LEE Nene Hilario and KARAOKE SINGER Marcus Camby. No question, even though McDyess is a marquee player and even if Hilario turns out to be a complete bust, Denver wins this deal. Simply put, McDyess can’t do much while sitting on the sidelines with a knee injury for the second year in a row. Seattle sent Vin Baker to Boston for Kenny Anderson and Shammond Williams. With apologies to Boston fans, Baker is a waste of space. Departing owner Paul Gaston just had to take a swipe at the franchise before selling it off and walking away with $390 million. I don’t know why, but he seems to have taken perverse pleasure in ruining a team that unexpectedly made the Eastern Conference Finals in his last year as owner. Now with Baker and his weight ruining the team chemistry and Anderson not around to pass the ball to Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce, the Celtics see LEE, page 6

At Notre Dame tourney, men’s hoops loses two squeakers BY ADAM STERN

Men’s basketball began its season with two disappointing losses at the Guardian’s Classic at Notre Dame. Contrasting high hopes for success, Bruno fell short to Indiana University Purdue University at Indiana by one point and lost in overtime to Belmont University. Despite intense efforts from a variety of Brown players, Bruno lost 66-65 in the first round of the Guardians Classic. The IUPUI Jaguars led for most of the game, including a 34-25 advantage with two minutes left in the first half. Brown was able to cut the gap with a dunk by Alai Nuualiitia ’04, a threepoint basket by Earl Hunt ‘03 and a layup by Luke Ruscoe ’06 at the buzzer to trail 34-32 at the half. Hunt scored 15 points in the half and 22 in the game, the most by any Brown player on the night. IUPUI came back, however, leading by as many as 10 points in the second half. The Bears again managed to decrease the deficit and came within one point when Hunt’s three-point basket with 2:41 remaining brought the score to 65-64. Odell Bradley then hit one of two free throws with 56 seconds left to play to increase IUPUI’s lead to 66-64. see HOOPS, page 6

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The women’s hockey team plays host to Cornell, Colgate this weekend in Meehan Auditorium.

W. Icers tie in rematch of National title game BY KATHY BABCOCK

Women’s ice hockey traveled to Minnesota this weekend to play the nation’s two top-ranked teams. The team faced second-ranked Minnesota on Saturday and first-ranked Minnesota-Duluth on Sunday. They tied Duluth 1-1 and lost to Minnesota 5-3. “It was a good learning experience, our game against Minnesota,” said Kerry Nugent ’05. “We came into Duluth much more confident, and I guess we did have a little bit of revenge against them (Duluth) because they beat us in the finals last year. But I do think we were more prepared and more confident going into that game.” Duluth and Brown both played strong games, but Brown as usual played in a very physical manner, and Duluth managed to score on their third power play of the first period. Joanne Eustace slipped it by Pam Dreyer ’03 to score the Bulldogs’ only goal of the game. She was assisted by Navada Russell and Maria Rooth. “Our penalty kill did really well in the game,” Nugent said. “We had a lot of penalties which we usually do. It just collapsed for a moment and they scored on a good play.” Later in the period, Nugent took a shot that hit the post, but the pole gods favored the Bulldogs. At the end of the period, Dreyer had eight saves, and Duluth’s Patricia Sautter had seven. The Bears finally managed to get the

puck past Sautter eight minutes into the second period when Katie Guay ’05 scored with an assist from Marguerite McDonald ’04. Guay almost scored again in the period when she went on a breakaway and shot from right in front of the goal, but Sautter managed to stop it. Both goalies had 10 saves in the second period. In the third period, Dreyer kept the Bears tied, making 16 saves while at the other end of the ice Bruno managed only three shots on goal. The most dramatic moment came with a minute left — Hanne Sikio fired it at Dreyer, who caught it in her glove sending the game into overtime. “Our goalie Pam Dreyer played outstanding the entire weekend,” Nugent said. “It just doesn’t always go our way and it takes us a little time to get going just as last year, so we’re getting there.” Neither the Bears nor the Bulldogs were able to score in overtime, and the game ended in a tie. Dreyer had 39 saves. Duluth outshot Brown 40-21. Bruno had faced the University of Minnesota the previous day and taken a tough loss. The Golden Gophers came out strong, gaining and keeping an early lead. They took a 5-1 lead before Brown was able to rally. “We were pretty scared in the beginning. We haven’t really played a game that tough yet, and we knew they were see ICERS, page 6

see HATFIELD, page 4