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Feedback mostly favorable for new faculty allocations

BY ZACH BARTER

Feedback from departments has been varied but mostly positive after last month’s announcement of the second round of allocations for new faculty positions.

“There’s inevitably excitement in some areas among people who see significant opportunities, and there’s also inevitably considerable disappointment in others,” said Provost Robert Zimmer.

In a March 17 letter to the faculty, Zimmer shared the decisions of the Academic Priorities Committee, which authorized the creation of 36 new faculty positions after reviewing nearly 160 requests.

Searches for the new positions will begin within the next two academic years, and Zimmer said he expects the first appointments to be in place within 18 months.

The new searches will be in addition to 17 searches underway from the first round of allocations last year. The Initiatives for Academic Enrichment call for the recruitment of 100 new faculty members over the next five to seven years.

With the allocations, the committee, composed of six faculty members and the senior academic deans, sought to further relationships with external academic partners, strengthen existing departments and programs and

launch several multidisciplinary initiatives.

The allocations provide for joint ventures with the Rhode Island School of Design, the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Trinity Repertory Company, as well as new appointments for 13 existing departments.

The allocations also provide for the recruitment of faculty directors for several new multidisciplinary programs. The new programs include a Humanities Research Center, a Center for Computational Biology, an Environmental Change Initiative and an Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences.

Zimmer said the new initiatives build very directly on the openness and innovation of Brown’s academic environment.

“I think Brown has a culture which is very open to thinking about problems from the perspective of many disciplines,” Zimmer said. “What these programs are designed to do is, in a certain sense, capture some of the great value of that culture in a different way than Brown has been able to do before.”

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Carr House, home of the English Department, was officially dedicated in a ceremony Monday afternoon.

English Dept. dedicates its new home at Brown

Fifteen people — all of them the top-ranked candidates in their respective applicant pools — have accepted offers to join the faculty this fall, he added. Other searches are ongoing, while some have been closed, Crossgrove said.

“I’d never even imagine a university going through something like this, certainly not in the last 30 years,” Campbell said of Simmons’ goal to add 100 Full Teaching Equivalents over six years. Departments have been teaming with one another to submit bids for positions to the Academic Priorities Committee, Campbell said. One department alone submitted eight bids, he added.

“As a student of literature myself, I am especially happy to celebrate the preeminence of this event,” Simmons said.

“Sometimes there are mumblings that English has little meaning … but it inspires human acts, provides the colors and hues of our perspective and helps us define ourselves in useful and enduring ways,” she said.

Chair of the English Department Nancy Armstrong said the new space was in line with its status as “one of the best departments on campus and possibly the nation.”

The building was especially welcome as the English and Creative Writing faculty had previously been housed in several different locations across campus, Armstrong said. The new building provides the sense that “one belongs to a cohesive, collective community,” he added.

The new building was constructed as a result of cooperation between architects, administrators, Corporation members and donors, said Vice Chancellor of the Brown Corporation Marie Langlois. “It took so many individuals to drive the building from the earliest sketch it was on the drawing board to the thrilling complex it is today,” she said.

Langlois said the idea for the

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see ENGLISH, page 4

BY JOANNE PARK

A world-class department finally has a fitting place to call home.

President Ruth Simmons and faculty members from the English Department gathered Monday at the McCormack Family Theater to dedicate the new spaces for the English and Creative Writing departments, located at 68 1/2 and 70 Brown Street, and at the Paolino Family Building, located at 107 Angell Street.

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Profs, admins discuss faculty hiring at UCS

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

William Crossgrove, associate dean of faculty, and James Campbell, professor of American Civilization and Africana studies, discussed the University’s faculty hiring process with the Undergraduate Council of Students at its Monday meeting. The Council’s Admission and Student Services Committee has studied ways to increase student involvement in the hiring process throughout the year.

Crossgrove provided Council members with an overview of the process, in which departmental search committees engage in a long series of requests, authorizations, recruitment campaigns, application reviews and interviews.

To make the undergraduate admission program as selective and competitive as the search for faculty positions, 130,000 high school seniors would have to apply to Brown each year, Crossgrove said.

After the process is complete, the academic department finalizes its rankings of applicants for the job. “As of this year, we’re sort of discouraging departments from going beyond the top two candidates (for a position) because we’re really trying to get the best people we can,” Crossgrove said.

Despite difficult economic times, 52 searches are underway this year alone, spurred by President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment, Crossgrove said.

I N S I D E T U E S D AY, A P R I L 8 , 2 0 0 3 WaterFire organizers hope to hold 14 full fires despite financial difficulties metro, page 3

Alex Schulman ’03 gives readers a chooseyour-own-adventure for the Iraq war opinions, page 9

Gates talks on Encyclopedia Africana

BY MOMOKO HIROSE

Inspired by WEB DuBois’ unfulfilled dream of compiling a black Encyclopedia Britannica, Henry Louis Gates Jr. fashioned “The Encyclopedia Africana,” he told audience members, including President Ruth Simmons, in Salomon 101 Monday night.

Gates is a director of the WEB DuBois Institute for AfroAmerican Research at Harvard University and was the keynote speaker for the dedication of the English Department’s new home at 70 Brown Street. He spoke about DuBois and his struggle to develop a black Encyclopedia Britannica in 1909.

“DuBois woke up one day and announced that he had a dream, an insight,” Gates said. “And the insight was this: that the most efficacious way to fight antiblack racism would be the editing of a comprehensive encyclopedia about the entire black world — the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica.”

Gates said DuBois had problems with funding and failed to complete the project after three attempts. In 1962, at the age of 94, DuBois managed to write a table of contents and sent a cable to Martin Luther King Jr. about the project. But after King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Roy Wilkins, emcee at see GATES, page 4

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METRO TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 · PAGE 3

Former Wampanoag chief suing R.I. for 34 square miles of land

BY ZOE RIPPLE

A former chief of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe is suing the state of Rhode Island for 34 square miles of land in Cumberland and Woonsocket, but without the tribe’s consent.

Wilifred Green, a former chief of the Wampanoag Tribe, has filed a suit claiming on behalf of the group that land taken during King Philip’s War is rightfully the property of the Wampanoag people.

According to Earl Pasbach, Green’s attorney, an agreement between colonists and Wampanoags made during colonization in the 1600s guaranteed the tribe “a competent portion of land” in what is now Cumberland. But after the war between Native Americans and the colonists in the late 1600s, the victorious colonists drove the Wampanoags off of the land that Green claims in his suit is theirs, as specified in the agreement.

Green’s suit specifies 34 square miles of land in Cumberland and Woonsocket.

“We are still studying it,” said Jeff Neal, spokesman for Governor Donald Carcieri ’65, in reference to the suit.

The executive counsel’s office met with Wampanoags about two weeks ago to discuss the suit, Neal said. During the meeting, they were “given an opportunity to explain their history and grievances.” see WAMPANOAG, page 4

Tough economy drowns WaterFire

BY ADAM STELLA

Rough economic times are taking their toll on WaterFire, the sculpture installation created by artist Barnaby Evans ’75. WaterFire Providence announced a short 2003 schedule a few weeks ago, attributing an abbreviated season to fundraising difficulties.

The non-profit organization WaterFire Providence raises about $1 million each year for a season’s worth of WaterFires. The donations come from corporate, government and individual sponsors.

Though WaterFire Providence hopes to hold 14 full fires this season, only nine have been formally announced. The organization also plans to hold between six and eight partial fires, two of which have been formally announced. Last year there were 13 full fires and 8 partial fires.

Not only a tourist attraction, WaterFire has become a symbol of Providence’s renaissance since it began in 1994.

An economic impact study conducted by WaterFire Providence revealed that half of WaterFire visitors come from outside the state, bringing in considerable consumer dollars.

Each WaterFire draws crowds of 20,000 to 80,000 people to the area, said Steve Kumins ’82, WaterFire Providence director of development.

“On WaterFire weekends, hotels sell out, restaurants fill up and you can’t find a parking space in many lots,” Kumins said. “Millions of dollars of new spending comes into the state.”

WaterFire Providence expects to receive between $50,000 to $100,000 from the city and state governments this year, less than what was donated in 2002. Earned income from the fires, including T-shirt sales and money from food vendors, accounts for about 10 per-

cent of the total costs. Corporate and individual sponsors donate the remainder of the necessary funding.

Securing funding from a “strapped” corporate sector has been difficult this year, Kumins said. Corporate contributions make up a significant percentage of the total costs of lighting the fires.

Dealing with the new administrations of Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and Governor Donald Carcieri ’65 has also slowed the fundraising process, Kumins said.

In response to lagging corporate donations this year, WaterFire Providence is planning a direct appeal to the public in weeks ahead. Last year, about 700 individual donors gave about $100,000.

WaterFire Providence hopes to collect more donations from individuals who attend the WaterFires this year, Kumins said. Last year over 600,000 people attended the WaterFires, but WaterFire Providence only collected $9,000 in on-site donations.

The Brown Alumni Association and the Brown Medical School co-sponsor a WaterFire each year for commencement weekend. The BAA and the Medical School together to contribute about $8,000 this year, which makes them co-sponsors of the May 25 WaterFire.

Normally, the date of the WaterFire weekend is determined by the lead sponsor, who must donate $30,000.

But, WaterFire Providence ensures there is a WaterFire for commencement weekend because the organization recognizes the importance of WaterFire to the Brown community.

“WaterFire is an opportunity to bring together parents and alumni,” said Lisa Raiola, vice president for alumni relations. see WATERFIRE, page 4

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Faculty continued from page 1 pered their reactions to the fate of their specific proposals with enthusiasm for the planning process as a whole.

Professor John Modell, chair of the Department of Education, which received none of the four positions it requested, said genuine thought and vision was going into the hiring process.

“It takes nerve to step back from the parochial interests of the specific departments and take a fresh look at the needs of the University as a whole, and I’m confident that they’re doing that,” Modell said.

Professor Massimo Riva, chair of the Department of Italian Studies, said Brown’s effort to expand the faculty was particularly extraordinary at a time when universities across the nation are fighting the effects of the down economy.

Italian studies received both of the positions it requested — one a joint appointment with the Department of Comparative Literature and the other for a professor of early modern Italian history.

“In general, this whole academic enrichment initiative has been very positive for Italian studies,” Riva said. “These two new hirings should allow us to expand and consolidate our undergraduate and graduate program as well.”

Zimmer said faculty input has been extremely helpful as the University continues to move forward on the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment.

“One of the things that’s been extremely positive about the entire process has been this enormous release of energy from the faculty in thinking about the

English continued from page 1 new building started ten years ago. The “practical, yet beautiful” building reflects the combination of old and new ideas, as the new location “blends seamlessly into the neighborhood,” she said.

Langlois specifically thanked former Mayor Joseph Paolino P’06 for his donation to the building’s construction.

“At a time when the nation’s mood is somber … it is even

Wampanoag continued from page 3 Not all Wampanoags agree with the suit. Michael Markley, first councilperson and tribal spokesman for the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe, said that, although Green sued on behalf of the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe, in reality, “we are not suing anyone.

“We are not involved with any land claims,” he said, speaking on behalf of the tribal council of the Seaconke Wampanoag tribe.

Green did not return calls seeking comment.

Green, a former chief of the tribe, has had no conversations with the tribal council about

future of Brown, the future of their disciplines and the future of various multidisciplinary projects,” Zimmer said.

Zimmer emphasized, however, that the allocations were only one step in an ongoing process to expand the faculty.

“There will certainly be a lot more work that the Academic Priorities Committee does, that the faculty does,” Zimmer said.

“There is ample opportunity for people to continue to participate in the process.”

Herald staff writer Zach Barter ’06 can be reached at zbarter@browndailyherald.com.

Saltman continued from page 12 mean, women just got the right to vote 80 years ago. I think it should be at least another 80 until they can play through at Augusta. 2083 has a certain ring to it if you ask me. Regardless of whether Burke pickets or not, the golf alone should be as entertaining as golf gets, so tune in as Woods laps the field with his inferior clubs.

The NBA playoffs will also start up in a few weeks as the Lakers try to become the first team since the Celtics of the 1960s to win four straight titles.

Like past years, the actual championship will be determined during the Western Conference Finals, as no team from the East has a realistic shot to win in a seven-game series. The Lakers, most likely the seventh seed, will be the favorite to win again. If they win, I heard Shaq will go into production on Kazaam II: The Revenge. In addition to Los

more important that we not forget the socially restorative role of the university,” President Simmons said. “The written and spoken word holds tremendous power.”

Simmons used the occasion to dedicate the Adele Kellenberg Seaver ’49 Professorship in Creative Writing to Professor of English Paula Vogel. Vogel is “the type of professor any young playwright would dream of having,” Simmons said. “We are so fortunate to have Paula Vogel here. … I will continue to expect the unexpected from her work.”

suing and never sought nor received approval for suing Rhode Island, Markley said.

Green is genealogically connected to the Seaconke Wampanoags, said Markley, and, despite Green’s five-year absence from tribal meetings, Markley said the door is open to him returning.

“We’d like him to come back and come to meetings,” Markley said.

Green is using information gathered and presented during meetings in 1996, Markley said.

Although the information he is using and the case he is making may be legitimate, Green’s actions are not endorsed by the Seaconke Wampanoags, Markley said, and “he is off doing his own

WaterFire continued from page 3 Brown and Providence host many parents of graduating seniors and alumni who return for reunions that weekend.

Older alumni are amazed by the changes that Providence has undergone during the 1990s and WaterFire is an opportunity to showcase the city’s renaissance, Raiola said.

“It’s a focal point and a point of pride for the city,” she said.

The BAA views its contribution not only as entertainment

Angeles, Sacramento, San Antonio and Dallas will also vie for the title and will probably face and beat New Jersey, Philadelphia or Indiana in the finals. It will be tough for the Lakers to repeat, seeing as how they will not have home field in any of the series. But don’t count it against them if Rick Fox takes a break from doing Radio Shack commercials and plays basketball for a change.

Regardless, the playoffs should be entertaining until they get to the finals.

Even though the weather outside is freezing, rest assured that you can stay in your room and watch good sports until June. By then the temperature should break 40 and baseball games will have resumed. Even the weather can’t stop the destiny of the Red Sox versus Cubs World Series.

Jeff Saltman ’03 hails from outside Washington, D.C., is a history and economics concentrator and cries every time he sees “Steel Magnolias.”

Seaver helped run HarvardTefford Clothiers after her father’s death. Upon her graduation from Brown with a bachelor of arts degree in English, Seaver worked in retail sales and insurance, eventually becoming an elementary school teacher in Massachusetts.

The Adele Kellenberg Seaver ’49 Professorship in Creative Writing was established in May 2002.

Herald staff writer Joanne Park ’06 can be reached at jpark@browndailyherald.com.

thing.”

Markley speculated that Green started his own non-profit called Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe of Rhode Island, but the organization is not affiliated with the Seaconke Wampanoags, says Markley, and the Web site maintained by the organization is not the tribe’s official site.

Green was a chief from 1997 to 1998.

Wampanoag people appoint and depose their chiefs, and Green was removed from his position of chief after a business meeting in 1998, Markley said.

“The people voted him out,” he said.

Herald staff writer Zoe Ripple ’05 can be reached at zripple@browndailyherald.com.

“It’s important that Brown continue to be a good citizen to the community.” for the University’s many guests, but also as investment in the cultural life of the city.

“It’s important that Brown continue to be a good citizen to the community,” Raiola said.

“The weekend is a real bonanza for the city.”

WaterFire Providence is trying to promote itself both

nationally and internationally and has been profiled in a Brazilian magazine, as well as the Baltimore Sun and Town and Country magazine.

Each year WaterFire tries to announce its schedule a few weeks earlier than the previous year to attract more visitors, but this year WaterFire announced the schedule a few weeks later than planned because of fundraising issues, Kumins said.

Herald staff writer Adam Stella ’05 is the assistant metro editor.

He can be reached at astella@browndailyherald.com.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is chair of Harvard’s Africana Studies Department.

Gates continued from page 1 the speech, read DuBois’ cable to the audience and announced that DuBois had passed away that night.

Gates said he first heard about DuBois’ dream in 1969 as an undergraduate at Yale University.

“I was one of 96 black undergraduates at Yale,” Gates said.

“We were all looking for role models, and I found Dr. DuBois.”

Gates said he spent 25 years trying to bring the encyclopedia to life, but was rejected by every publisher he contacted.

“Everyone thought it was a great idea, but as soon as I said we needed $2 million, their eyes would glaze over,” Gates said.

In 1995, he managed to get $125,000 to create a prototype demo CD. At the time, Gates said, he didn’t even know what a CD was. Gates said the deal fell through even after he had created a 45-minute demo.

But he finally found a willing patron in Bill Gates.

After negotiations and various setbacks, Frank Pearl of Perseus Books and Microsoft ended up funding the project, on the condition that the encyclopedia of 2 million words be completed in 18 months, Gates said.

“So in November of 1998, 18 months after we signed the contract with Microsoft, we shipped not two million words, but 2.25 million words,” Gates said. “On January 15 — Martin Luther King Day — 1999 dedicated in honor of the great Nelson Mandela and in memory of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, Encarta Africana was born.”

Presenting the encyclopedia on a projection screen to the audience, Gates navigated

through the program, pointing out the various media clips, timelines, interactive maps and library included on the CD. “Every generation of scholars … of the African, AfricanAmerican orientation has had to reinvent the wheel. We had no memory,” Gates said. The work of past scholars’ work is important, and “when I came along as a graduate student studying English, I could go there and I could stand on their shoulders.”

Gates added scholars can now stand on the shoulders of the encyclopedia and stressed the importance of this compilation.

“I really did not want a subsequent generation to have to scramble around like we did,” Gates said.

“Now, for 40 bucks, you get Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, DuBois, Malcolm X and thousands of other people … It’s fantastic. … None of us could get all that material before,” Gates said. “All of the expressive aspects of black culture dead on the page, and now you can just see them. … You can feel all that energy.”

Gates has won various awards for his writing, including the American Book Award in 1989.

Nancy Armstrong, chair of the English Department, said Gates was chosen for the keynote address because of his literary work and cultural critique.

“No one has transformed that discipline more profoundly than Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” Armstrong told the audience.

“He has pluralized our field, made it richer, more diverse, home to alternative literary histories and notions of literary value.”

Herald staff writer Momoko Hirose ’06 can be reached at mhirose@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 · PAGE 5

Impact of war on global economy looks benign (Washington Post) — The impact of the war in Iraq on the global economy is looking more benign each day.

Whether an economic rebound is at hand, however, remains very much in doubt.

The weekend news from the battlefield suggesting that Iraqi resistance to the U.S.-led attack is crumbling has reinforced mounting confidence among analysts and investors that the war’s depressing effects on the world’s major economies will prove relatively shortlived. But the lifting of the war clouds still leaves old problems — in particular, the hangover from the financial bubble of the 1990s — and new threats, such as the SARS virus, which are restraining economists’ forecasts.

The ambivalence about the outlook was apparent in global financial markets monday. Reflecting euphoria about the war, Japan’s Nikkei 225-stock index rose 2.18 percent, followed by even bigger rallies in Europe.

Germany’s DAX index surged 5.84 percent, London’s FTSE 100 index gained 3.18 percent and France’s CAC 40 index was up 3.44 percent.

U.S. markets opened sharply higher as well, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising about 240 points in the morning. But by the end of trading, U.S. stocks had given back most of their gains as the upbeat mood about the war began to fade in the face of such worries as first-quarter corporate earnings reports, which are due to begin next week. The Dow closed at 8300.41, up 23.26 points, or 0.3 percent.

The recoveries in most markets from deeply depressed prewar levels — Germany’s DAX index, for example, is up 28 percent since March 12 — are grounded in the widespread sense of relief that the most horrendous potential problems stemming from the war show no signs of materializing. Indeed, events appear to be proceeding more or less as outlined in the most economically beneficial scenarios that analysts developed before the war, in sharp contrast with the bleak forecasts in which oil prices were envisioned topping $80 a barrel.

“Is there substantial damage to oil production? No. Is Israel going to get involved? No. Is the war’s duration long? No, it seems as if it’s going to be in the one- to twomonth time span,” said Stefan Schneider, chief international economist at Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt, who participated in one scenario-building exercise at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “And as for other decisive factors we considered — can the war be confined to Iraq? The answer seems to be that although in neighboring countries things are boiling, they’re not exploding yet. And oil prices are now below 25 bucks.”

Even so, Schneider is far from ebullient about the chances that economic growth will surge in the months ahead. “We might see some improvement, but no dramatic rebound,” he said, citing as his major concern the excessive capacity that many corporations built in the roaring 1990s.

“It is very difficult to assess how much of the bursting of the bubble has been sweated out of the economy.

Based on some of the U.S. numbers in the fourth quarter, it looks like corporate restructuring has gone some way, but in Europe, corporate spending is still likely to be quite sluggish.”

The recent market rallies, some analysts contend, are based more on emotion than economic reality. “Who’s looking at the data?” David Rosenberg, chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch, asked clients Monday in a newsletter distributed as stocks were soaring.

Last week, Rosenberg noted, government figures showed that non-farm payrolls in the United States fell 108,000 in March, along with a downward revision for February; and factory orders dropped 1.5 percent in February.

In addition, Japan’s quarterly survey of business sentiment showed that pessimists outnumber optimists by 10 percentage points, indicating that the world’s second-largest national economy remains mired in stagnation. And in Europe, the purchasing managers’ index slipped in the worst showing since January 2002.

The big unknown, of course, is whether such figures reflect fundamental weakness or the war’s effect in keeping businesses and consumers from spending because of uncertainty over the outcome.

Rick Loomis / L.A.Times

Marines cross the Diyala River on the eastern edge of Baghdad.

U.S. forces push into Baghdad (Washington Post) — U.S. forces made their deepest thrust

into the center of Baghdad Monday, seizing two palaces built by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and a wide swath of the city, but sustained casualties when a rocket wiped out an Army brigade’s command post.

An Iraqi missile slammed into the U.S. tactical operations center of 3rd Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, killing at least two American soldiers and two journalists, believed to be from Germany and Spain, military officials said.

Fifteen soldiers also were hurt, which is significant because it is likely to impede the headquarters operation of the brigade. Because the brigade represents a significant portion of the combat strength of the division, that could affect U.S. operations on the ground in Baghdad. It was unclear whether the Iraqis scored a lucky shot or have direction-finding equipment which detected electronic emissions of the brigade’s radios and other communications equipment.

As U.S. troops continued to expand their control of the capital on the 19th day of the war, President Bush arrived in Northern Ireland to meet with his wartime coalition partner, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to discuss a postHussein Iraqi government and other issues. Bush pushed for the war to topple Hussein and to disarm what he said were weapons of mass destruction being hidden by the Iraqi government.

The role of the United Nations in a post-Hussein government was expected to be one area of contention at the meeting. Blair supports a deeper role for the United Nations than does Bush, who seeks a transitional governing authority consisting of Iraqi exiles and people living in the country now.

At the United Nations Monday, Secretary General Kofi Annan said he expects the world body to play a key role in rebuilding Iraq after the war and said this would bring legitimacy to the effort. He also announced that he was naming Rafeeuddin Ahmed, a Pakistani national and former associate administrator of the U.N. Development Program, as his special adviser on Iraq.

“I do expect the U.N. to play an important role, and the U.N. has had good experience in this area,” Annan said before a meeting of the U.N. Security Council he called to discuss the issue.

In Iraq, Persian Gulf commander Tommy Franks, in charge of what the Pentagon calls Operation Iraqi Freedom, visited troops in three areas for the first time as American troops were encircling the capital city of 5 million people to control access. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, in a briefing at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar, said encircling the city would help prevent escape by Iraqi government leaders and keep out any Hussein sympathizers.

Meanwhile, U.S. forces sustained additional casualties in operations along the southern part of Baghdad.

In an accident believed to be of “friendly fire,” two Marines were killed when their armored troop carrier took a

direct hit from an artillery shell while attempting to cross a bridge over a canal on the outskirts of Baghdad, Reuters reported.

More than 80 U.S. troops are believed to have been killed, taken prisoner or are missing in action since the conflict began April 20. Two American journalists have died in the past few days. U.S. military authorities have said thousands of Iraqi soldiers have been killed in the fighting.

As U.S. forces continued to hunt for weapons of mass destruction, a U.S. officer told Reuters that U.S. biological and chemical weapons experts believe they may have found an Iraqi storage site for weapons of mass destruction south of the central Iraqi town of Hindiyah.

A military source who declined to be identified said there were unconfirmed reports there could be sarin — a highly lethal nerve agent that causes death by suffocation — at the site. Iraq is believed to have used sarin against Kurdish Iraqis in the 1980s.

“Our detectors have indicated something,” said Major Ross Coffman, a public affairs officer with the U.S. 3rd Infantry.

“We’re talking about finding a site of possible WMD storage. This is an initial report, but it could be a smoking gun,” he said.

No chemical weapons have yet been found, and Iraqi forces have not thus far employed chemical weapons, as U.S. officials had feared. Brooks said, however, that the threat has not yet passed even though some soldiers were being allowed to remove their bulky, hot chemical protection gear. He said that decision was being made by tactical commanders on the ground who were able to assess the danger in the area in which they were operating.

He said the sight Monday of U.S. tanks in downtown Baghdad fostered a growing sense of “cautious optimism” but cautioned against premature exuberance, saying U.S. forces know they still have many battles ahead. He said the Iraqi military still has some military power and command and control ability but no overarching structure of control over operations. He said Iraqi fighters have put up occasionally impressive resistance in the face of the U.S. advance in Baghdad.

“Some of the fights have been fights that are worthy of respect for forces that unfortunately may be dying for a regime that does not have a future, and we take that into account. We don’t take for granted that there still will be some actions in a variety of places,” Brooks.

Explosions rocked Baghdad Monday amid heavy bombing after troops and tanks from the 3rd Infantry Division reached the center of the city and entered the grounds of the sprawling Republican Palace, Hussein’s main office and security compound, as well as the smaller Sijood Palace.

Scenes of destruction were visible at the sites, which have come to embody Hussein’s three-decade-long grip on Iraq.

Tanks were shown rumbling down the city’s vast military parade ground, and soldiers toppled a large statue of Hussein astride a horse.

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Health officials hopeful they can contain the spread of SARS WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — The

government’s top scientists expressed cautious confidence Monday in their ability to control the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the United States, even as the number of SARS cases worldwide climbed above 2,600.

Joined via satellite by a top official of the World Health Organization, the scientists told a Senate committee that “extraordinary” cooperation among local, national and international health agencies has slowed the epidemic and boosted efforts to prevent and treat the disease.

“The world has responded as we hoped it would,” the organization’s Dr. David L. Heymann said from Geneva. “We believe we will be able to contain the epidemic.”

The overwhelming response to the disease is due, at least in part, to the health agencies’ efforts to prepare for smallpox and other possible bioterror attacks, the officials said.

“Two years ago, I don’t think we could have done this,” said Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Investments made in response to anthrax and bioterrorism have really paid off.”

Yet the battle to contain SARS is far from over, the officials said.

“We’re still in an evolving epidemic, so it is folly to predict

When committee Chairman Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., held up a blue and white surgical mask and asked about its role in SARS prevention, Gerberding promoted what she said is a far more effective tool: the small yellow “health alert notice” airline passengers coming into the United States from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam are receiving. where it’s going to go,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“We can be hopeful,” added Gerberding, “but we need to be prepared for the worst.”

Key to such preparation, Gerberding said, is preventing the disease’s spread by limiting unnecessary travel to Asia, where SARS originated, and identifying cases as quickly as possible.

When committee Chairman Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., held up a blue and white surgical mask and asked about its role in SARS prevention, Gerberding promoted what she said is a far more effective tool: the small yellow “health alert notice” airline passengers coming into the United States from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam are receiving.

Federal health agencies have distributed more than 300,000 of the notices, which tell passengers in six languages that their travel may have exposed them to SARS. The notice advises travelers to monitor their health for at least 10 days, watching for fever with a cough or difficulty in breathing, and to see a doctor immediately if such symptoms develop.

The alert — which Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., noted is not printed in Spanish — also tells passengers who get sick to inform their doctors about their travels. The World

Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and other national health organizations have also instructed doctors to ask patients with such symptoms if they recently traveled to Asia.

“The most important step is identifying somebody who may have the condition,” Gerberding said. The next step is to “immediately isolate” persons who are infected so that the disease doesn’t spread to health care workers, family members and others, she said.

So far, just 148 suspected SARS cases have been identified in the United States, and most of them are relatively mild, Gerberding said. Only half the infected patients have developed pneumonia, and none has died.

Scientists at 11 laboratories around the world are collaborating on efforts to identify the new coronavirus that causes the disease, which is believed to have spread from animals to humans in China’s Guangdong province.

Officials hope that identification of the virus genome, which could be completed “within days,” will help scientists develop tests and treatments for SARS. No effective drugs are available now to combat the disease.

A preventive vaccine could be ready for testing in humans in a year or so, Fauci said, but widespread availability of such a vaccine is probably several years away.

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Bush, Blair meet to discuss Iraq BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Newsday)

— After a walk through the gardens of a centuries-old castle, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair settled in Monday for a two-day meeting aimed at resolving the details of how Iraq will be governed after the current conflict ends.

The two leaders also are scheduled to talk about plans for easing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and accelerating the fitful peace process in Northern Ireland, according to U.S. and British officials.

The third meeting between Bush and Blair in just over three weeks is occurring at a hopeful moment for their combat forces in Iraq, and the battlefield successes are prompting both leaders to look ahead, according to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. “The hostilities phase is coming to a conclusion,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Belfast. “It’s time for all of us to think about the post-hostilities phase.”

But Blair and Bush still have some lingering differences over that phase, and it remains unclear whether they will have settled them when their summit concludes Tuesday with a joint news conference. British and U.S. officials both played down expectations of a final agreement.

Blair and his government continue to argue for an expansive United Nations role in postwar Iraq, including U.N. supervision of a conference of Iraqis to choose a new government. The Bush administration, still smarting over the U.N. Security Council’s failure to back military action in Iraq, wants the world body’s role limited to performing humanitarian functions and giving a general blessing to a postwar government that the United States and its British ally will dominate.

“The coalition, having spent the treasure, having taken the political risk and having paid the cost in lives, must have a leading role as we transition from a phase of hostilities to post-hostilities to reconstruction, to putting in place a representative government that belongs to the

But there is even some disagreement over the timing of the first phase. Kelly told reporters he anticipated it lasting about 90 days, while U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Sunday it could be six months or more before an interim regime were installed.

Iraqi people,” Powell said.

Both Powell and Blair’s official spokesman, Tom Kelly, played down the degree of disagreement. They said the two leaders broadly agree on a three-phase transition after Saddam Hussein is ousted: an initial period in which American and British officials, backed by their soldiers, run Iraq; an “interim Iraqi authority” that includes both exiles and antiSaddam forces inside the country; and finally a permanent government operating under a new constitution.

But there is even some disagreement over the timing of the first phase. Kelly told reporters he anticipated it lasting about 90 days, while U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Sunday it could be six months or more before an interim regime were installed.

Powell said Washington wants to “quickly establish” the interim authority but declined to set a timetable. He said a group of U.S. officials would be traveling to Iraq this week “to begin the process of bringing together the group that would constitute the authority.”

Bush has traveled to Belfast — a venue of Blair’s choosing — to send two other messages: A commitment to release a “road map” for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement once a new Palestinian Authority Cabinet is confirmed, and support for a final push for peace in Northern Ireland.

Blair and other European leaders badly want U.S. support for a new effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. The original idea of the road map was that it is to be accepted as is,

but a top Israeli official said Saturday his government would propose 15 amendments and would walk away from negotiations if they are not accepted.

Unlike his predecessor, Bill Clinton, Bush has invested little time or energy in supporting the Northern Ireland peace agreement, whose fifth anniversary comes on Thursday. Blair and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern hope to use the anniversary to push the contending parties — especially the Irish Republican Army — to undertake “acts of completion” that would settle the conflict once and for all.

The current U.S. administration’s lack of attention to the issue was perhaps reflected in the official White House schedule for the trip, which carried the title, “The trip of the president to Belfast, Ireland” — a major faux pas to Northern Ireland’s Unionists who bitterly reject any notion of inclusion in the Republic of Ireland.

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UCS continued from page 1 This spring, the APC announced the first 34 granted positions, to be filled over the next two years, Campbell said.

Departments had submitted over 160 bids, he said.

“The process is utterly opaque to students,” Campbell admitted.

Last spring, students were upset after a Latino studies professor, who had been quickly hired as a one-year temporary replacement for a retired professor, could not return to the University since the department was not authorized to invite the professor to stay without running a search, Campbell said.

Campbell recently participated in one of the “first successful searches from the students’ perspective,” according to Rahim Kurji ’05, Admission and Student Services Committee chair.

Faculty and administrators share students’ concerns for good classes taught by good teachers, but they also are concerned with maintaining Brown’s reputation

of scholarship, Campbell said.

“That’s not to discount teaching at all,” Campbell added.

“Personally, I think … the finest teachers I ever had were also the finest scholars.” Nevertheless, faculty in the field are the best judges of the best scholars, Campbell said.

“The danger of saying the physicists will hire the physicists and the political scientists will hire the political scientists is people like people who broadly share their points of view and methodologies and opinions,” Campbell said.

Campbell outlined several ways students can make their voices heard in the hiring process.

Students can organize to advocate the addition of various courses and fields they believe are underrepresented in the curriculum, he said.

“During the (search) process, one of the things students can do and should do is attend the lectures (given by candidates for a position and) meet candidates when they’re here,” Campbell said. “If your department does not have policies to ensure that students are invited to these pub-

lic lectures and that times are set aside for students to meet with prospective candidates … then you’ve got to work on your department,” he said.

Finally, students “can insist that teaching be valued more highly than it is,” Campbell said.

“There’s one teaching prize in this whole University. There are very few structured places in which excellent teaching is recognized.”

Campbell said a variety of factors contribute to the lack of student participation on search committees. A search is very time consuming, he said. Additionally, faculty members have a vested interest in whom they hire, Campbell said. “When you hire a faculty person, you’re actually hiring who’s not only going to have the office next to yours, but be one of the people you have intellectual exchanges with for the next 40 years,” he said. “So you actually take it really seriously. If you get this wrong, it can be a really bad thing in your life.”

UCS also heard a report from its delegates to the Ivy Council’s spring conference. All Ivy League schools face rough financial situations, though only Brown and Dartmouth College are planning budget cutbacks, said Representative Charley Cummings ’06. Yale University is expecting its biggest tuition hike since 1995, he said.

Though the University of Pennsylvania’s student government maintains an annual budget of over $1.3 million, UCS has more money per student, Cummings said.

Many Ivies have intriguing programs to build community, said Representative Diana Jeffery ’04. Princeton University uses “parent” and “grandparent” classes of alumni to foster bonds to the school among current students, she said. At Cornell University, “block captains” keep off-campus students in touch, she added.

Princeton, which hosted the conference, also has a centralized electronic board on campus that lists upcoming events, said Justin Sanders ’04, Campus Life Committee chair. As UCS works to implement a campus-wide events calendar for Brown, Sanders said Princeton’s version could be a model.

Twenty-eight people attended last night’s information session for potential candidates for UCS positions, said Deepa Kumaraiah ’03, UCS vice president. Other future candidates must attend tonight’s session at 7 p.m. in the Blue Room, she added.

UCS voted to recognize two new student organizations as Category I groups: The Next Thing, an association of queer students of color, and Tikkun, a Mideast issues group that says it is both pro-Israel and proPalestine.

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

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OPINIONS EXTRA TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 · PAGE 9

Wartime Fantasy, Part II The Iraq War, redesigned as a “choose your own adventure” OPTION A: THE U.S. SETS UP AN ADVI- ships in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, sory government in Baghdad to last from which breeds resentment in the “Arab 10 to 15 years, with a military arm that street.” occasionally subordinates the provisional OPTION A: The coalition strategy of Iraqi pluralism when internecine problems arise. “We told you so,” the antiwar “softening up” Republican Guard positions by aerial bombardment crowd says. “It was a colonial prior to ground assault war, fought to expand comes under fire for killing American empire.” innocent civilians. Civilian OPTION B: After brusquely deaths render this an unjust capturing and trying various and criminal war, the antiwar Ba’ath Party elites, the U.S. crowd insists. provisional force departs after OPTION B: The relentless a year, leaving a nominally push of coalition ground democratic but fragile Iraqi forces toward Baghdad leaves coalition government to rule, supply lines vulnerable to financed by the Western-rejuterrorism and ambush by venated oil industry. Scattered ALEX SCHULMAN BORN TO RUN Saddam’s militias. The antiviolence between Kurds, war crowd laments the Sunnis and Shi’ites ensues, as Pentagon’s disregard for the well as rumors of interference lives of American soldiers. from Turkey and Iran. “We told you so,” the antiwar crowd says. “‘Helping OPTION A: Chemical weapons are Iraqis’ was just a pretext for war fever, and now we’re letting the region slide back fired upon coalition forces as they enter Baghdad, and chemical-tipped warheads into chaos.” are launched into Israel and Kuwait. A OPTION A: Rage in the “Arab street” biological weapons program is also found topples governments in Pakistan, Egypt after the regime falls, and materials may and Saudi Arabia. Islamism is gaining be missing, in the hands of terrorists. ground, the antiwar crowd informs us, “Look at how Bush’s relentless drive to and it is all Bush’s fault for pursuing a war put the entire world in danger!” the antiwar crowd laments. spurious war against an Arab nation.

OPTION B: Scattered remnants of OPTION B: After a surge of protests, status quo ante-bellum returns across the chemical weapons are found around board. Edward Said once again chastises Baghdad, along with very rudimentary America for propping up stale dictator- evidence of nuclear and biological programs. “Hah,” the antiwar crowd sneers, “so all this talk of WMDs and forced disarmament was a hoax, and Hussein never Alex Schulman ’03 is an English concenpresented any clear and present danger!” trator.

OPTION A: Rage in the “Arab street” topples governments in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Islamism is gaining ground, the antiwar crowd informs us, and it is all Bush’s fault for pursuing a spurious war against an Arab nation.

OPTION A: All told, it is agreed that around 3,000 Iraqi civilians died in coalition bombing. An incensed antiwar crowd notes the parallel inherent in that number, and claims Bush has entirely squandered any moral authority the United States may still possess.

OPTION B: Bush takes Sept. 11, 2001, as a sign that we are too spread out and thus too hated, and, wanting to disengage from the volatile Middle East, leaves Saddam Hussein alone. His hands somewhat freed, Hussein wages a “dirty war” on the relative autonomy of the northern Kurds and the contingents of southern Shi’ites who may be seditiously allied with Iran. In the last ten years of Hussein’s rule, 10,000 are killed in the regime’s dying attempts to preserve its security state. When Saddam dies, rule is initially passed on to his sons (of dubious legitimacy and sanity) and the land quickly turns to bedlam, with the military dissolving into warring cliques dominated by local officers. When the smoke has cleared and a decently stable government has replaced the Ba’athists, 50,000 more have died. The left shakes its head ruefully, emphasizing that the blood is on

Western hands for drawing artificial colonial borders that ignored ethnic divisions, and then supporting, either tacitly or directly, autocracies brutal enough to quiet them.

OPTION A: A terrifying litany of crimes against humanity is revealed as the coalition de-Nazifies Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld admits that our backing of Hussein in the 1980s was a gross moral outrage, and he puts himself and others on trial for war crimes.

OPTION B: The antiwar left glumly admits that if it had been up to them, in the space of 13 years, Kuwait would be the 19th province of a strengthened Iraq, Kosovo would be part of a “greater Serbia” still ruled by Milosevic’s fascists, the Taliban would still be in power, and Hussein and his sons would still be wreaking havoc on their own people.

The absurdity of that last set is of course self-evident — which is to say that the protest crowd may have plenty in common with the unrepentant hawks they apparently hate. Indeed, being wrong means never having to say you’re sorry.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Finding faculty Few Brown students realize their professors survived a much more rigorous selection process than they did to end up at the University. But to make Brown’s undergraduate admission program as selective and competitive as the search for faculty positions, 130,000 high school seniors would have to apply to Brown each year, Associate Dean of Faculty William Crossgrove said at a UCS meeting Monday night.

This makes the University’s task of finding 100 new faculty members in six years under President Simmons’ academic enrichment initiatives all the more daunting. And although some students have complained that they should have more of a voice in the search and selection processes, this would probably only make an extremely complicated and timeconsuming endeavor even more so. Students do not have the necessary background — or investment in the University — to serve in positions of significant responsibility during the hiring. While many of us can judge what we consider good teaching ability, few can determine what constitutes first-class research except those who have done it themselves.

And as Professor James Campbell said, “when you hire a faculty person, you’re actually hiring … one of the people you have intellectual exchanges with for the next 40 years.”

It would be very easy for students to make bad decisions and then move on after their four years at Brown are over.

But professors and administrators feel the pressure of knowing that a mistake could haunt them for decades.

This doesn’t mean students can’t — or shouldn’t — help in other ways. We can lobby the administration for classes in underrepresented fields and faculty in certain academic areas. We can inform ourselves about the options through lectures given by the candidates and even meet our potential future professors. But we can’t assume a position of importance as great as those who will serve with the selected for years to come.

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SHANE WILKERSON

LETTERS Herald inconsistent in Billions are more praising film festival “silenced” than Perle To the Editor:

To the Editor:

In yesterday’s staff editorial (“Stars in our eyes,” April 7) you cited how Tim Robbins’ and Julia Stiles’ recent appearances at Brown “(brought) prestige and visibility to Brown” thanks to the efforts of the “dedicated Ivy Film Festival volunteers.” On Friday you also gave the festival coordinators a diamond for making us all feel special (“call us star struck,” I believe, was the phrase).

I was rather surprised. Given your inflamatory editorial coverage of the Brown Concert Agency’s exhaustive efforts to poll student opinion and bring a memorable lineup to Brown for Spring Weekend within their limited budget (and trust me I know that they are “dedicated” — my roommate is the treasurer and he tears his hair out), I would have expected your commentary on the film festival’s keynote speakers to run like this: “Coal to the clueless staff of the Ivy Film Festival for bringing an actor/director whose last critical hits were ‘Dead Man Walking’ and ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ nearly ten years ago — HELLO, did they mistake this year for 1995? And what’s with that sellout Julia Stiles, whose last big hit was that awful ‘Save the Last Dance’ (2001)? We’d take indie credit over big names any day.”

Just so no one’s confused on my opinion, Stiles blew me away as Ophelia in Michael Almareyda’s “Hamlet” (2000) and I think Robbins’ last directorial effort (“Cradle Will Rock,” 1999) was an underappreciated masterpiece. They’re doing good work and have vibrant careers, as still do the Wallflowers, Lisa Loeb and Joan Jett, even if they don’t have the “prestige” they found all too fleeting. You buy into the very “flavor of the month” teenie-bopper mentality that you claim to be above by bagging on an artist for being “out of style” in spite of good work they’ve done in the past. A lot of people liked and still like “One Headlight,” and many of them (horror of horrors) are at Brown, though obviously none of them are Herald editors. Meanwhile, I haven’t read a thing in The Herald about renowned indie filmmaker Todd Haynes’ imminent visit to Brown, on the heels of his recent critical acclaim for “Far From Heaven.” Does The Herald only take on music snobs for their editors and not film snobs? I think we need to remedy that.

Great job, Peck. And great job, Dustin. Your work for our benefit makes us proud, not the name-brand prestige you are able to bring to Brown.

Herald editors and several students condemned the protestors who interrupted Richard Perle’s speech. Predictably, they framed their condemnation as the liberal defense of free expression against unreasonable, intolerant extremists. These champions of free speech demonstrate a troubling lack of engagement with social realities. “Freedom of speech” is not an abstract value. Contrary to popular sentiment on campus, invoking freedom of speech is not tantamount to flipping the world onto “default equality mode.” This knee-jerk protection of “free speech,” as though “free speech” always means the same thing regardless of specific historical and social circumstances, is too easy and too often becomes a protection of the status quo.

Herald editors claimed that the protestors were “silencing” Perle. Richard Perle, however, as an advisor to the Bush administration and capitalist profiteer, is considerably less “silenced” than the overwhelming majority of people on this planet, some of whom currently face the threat of death by starvation, gunfire and aerial bombardment, directly (though not completely) due to Perle’s recommendations. It is disingenuous to claim that protestors stifled “free expression” and “debate.” We need to recognize that the power relations that position the Richard Perles of the world behind podiums (with microphones and moderators) while Iraqi civilians are positioned beneath cluster bombs, condition free speech. Yes, that great, unconditional right can only be considered in the context of certain material conditions: Who is accorded time and space to speak, who has access to media, who is privileged by their race, citizenship, class position, gender.

The protestors who dropped fliers on the crowd and held up their bloodstained hands made a tactical decision to stage a direct action. You may disagree with those tactics. But stop posing “free speech” as the alternative to “silencing” and “intolerance.” Free speech is already premised on the silencing of voices. We should be working together, through many means, with many tactics, to challenge the roots of this silencing, instead of wasting our breath — and our free speech — condemning protestors.

Paul Greenamyer ’04 April 7

Joanna Ruocco ’02.5 April 7

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2003 · PAGE 11

Some bad news A look at media coverage during war OVER THE PAST WEEK, FOR THE WAR WITH IRAQ HAS gained tremendous support. The outlook of the war in the minds of Americans has gone from a complete risk to a success story. Television, radio, magazine and newspaper coverage of the war have been instrumental in shaping the views and attitudes of American throughout the war with Iraq. What most people don’t realize is the biased nature of the media that powerfully shapes their own public opinion on war.

We Americans get a very limited view of the war by looking at our television sets and reading newspaper headlines. As the media companies race to be the first to put out a breaking story, the integrity of journalism and news coverage among even the best sources, such as the Associated Press, Reuters and the New York Times comes into question. News bureau offices and journalists abroad are also being pressured to provide a constant flow of information for dissemination. The result is an inevitable lack of journalistic integrity.

What is most troubling is how controlled our information is. Pulitzer-Prize winning SCHUYLER VON OEYEN reporter Peter Arnett, who also covered the ALL THINGS Vietnam War was fired by NBC for engaging CONSIDERED in conversation with the Iraqi press. Arnett was troubled that a milk-producing civilian building was destroyed and reported as the destruction of an arms facility. Arnett probably erred in judgment by granting the conversation, but his prompt removal shows a larger textbook case of several instances of such selective reporting that fail to make the press.

A number of lessons about media coverage can be expounded from the American experience in Vietnam. In that war, the American government limited several reports that Arnett and others submitted in the early 1960s that detailed how poorly the war was going. As a result, support for the war in the early and mid1960s was much higher than it should have been. On the opposite side of the coin, the 1968 Tet offensive served as a damaging blow to American public opinion, even though the American soldiers recovered quickly and dealt substantial casualties to Vietcong and National Liberation Front forces in the remainder of that year. In this manner, the news media has the power to bias American public opinion considerably, even when it attempts to report as objectively and completely as possible.

The Bush administration’s confidence in a relatively brief military victory in Iraq is trumpeted by its willingness to let journalists into the region in large numbers. This essentially raises the stakes for them because early success bolsters public opinion quickly but early setbacks could do just the opposite. So far, the political calculus for the Bush administration in terms of media support has been favorable. Antiwar rallies highlighted considerable initial skepticism among many Americans, but the post-Sept. 11 culture of fear of terrorism and positive early media success stories, including low numbers of American casualties (under 100 at this writing) and images of forces surrounding the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, quickly muted criticism.

It will take a considerable amount of time afterward to fully gauge to any meaningful degree to what extent Iraqi civilian casualties were recorded inaccurately as military casualties and which factories were actually military targets. Like Vietnam, the use of guerrilla war tactics makes it extremely difficult to distinguish between civilians and combatants, and the American and British forces have little rational choice but to assume the latter when their own lives and those of their fellow military personnel are on the front line.

In addition to misinformation and skewed reporting in both the media and government intelligence authorities (which are also pressured to present positive findings to the administration), the war with Iraq considerably alters the coverage of domestic politics and concerns. As the latest imagery and reporting of the war with Iraq hits the front page of the press each day, something else is missing print space. Massive budget shortfalls uniformly across communities, open presidential candidacy debates and reeling social programs are muted considerably each day the war rolls on.

My purpose is not to suggest that war media coverage is always nefarious, but rather to educate people about the skewed information they receive every day. Indeed, the American press is certainly less problematic than the yellow press of blatant false lies circulated by the Iraqi Minister of Propaganda in local Arabic papers.

Rather, please remember that the selective media kaleidoscope lens magnifies itself during times of war even here, and the images on the TV set are, as Vietnam veteran Tom Supprock says, but a small “jigsaw piece in a very large puzzle.”

Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 is officially a political science and history concentrator as soon as he gets his concentration forms in.

One (Dys)functional family IT TURNS OUT THAT THE WORLD IS NOT READY buddy. With the war at full blast now, we see much for columns by Adam Stern on serious issues. After less of this natural Bush, and much more of the ideal my recent attempts at this type of writing, it became father – a trend for which the administration should clear that my readers just do not approve of any be praised.

The vice president, Dick Cheney, has always been such style. To be clear, my less than serious columns have never led to an inundation of praise and the country’s favorite within the administration. His national reputation reminds me of that celebrity, but at least they did not result uncle who everyone loves because he is in hate mail and death threats. So hoping everything that the father is not. Cheney to avoid such hostility in the future, I will provides a delicate balance for the family, proceed with a slew of columns which which is why we are all so nervous when he have the sole purpose of being entertaingoes in for his umpteenth angioplasty. ing and maybe even witty, though both Hang in there Uncle Dick, we need you are reaches. The first of these writings is around. about paralleling the Bush administraThe Secretary of Defense, Donald tion to one (dys)functional family.

Rumsfeld, is probably the administrator With the war in Iraq in full swing, the who has received the most airtime in average American is exposed to a record these trying times. Rumsfeld is comnumber of press briefings and interviews ADAM STERN pletely no-nonsense. He does not answer with top administrative officials.

ADAM’S RIB questions he does not want to answer, Personally, I feel that I have grown to and he often belittles reporters for even know and love the current administrabringing up certain issues. Because of his tion in a “no family is perfect, but at least we share the same DNA” sense of the word. Since we age and old-fashioned attitude, Rumsfeld reminds are all entrenched in this war together, I feel the fam- me very much of a grandfather, perhaps one who ily analogy works because when families go through fought in a past war and loves to regale you with his some sort of major stress, the members of the family tales of bravery. I have no idea why, but knowing that often seem to come together in a unified manner. The Grandpa Rumsfeld is running the show makes me war is definitely a stressor, and many Americans are feel warm and fuzzy inside.

Then there’s General Tommy Franks, who technibecoming increasingly aware of the personalities, strengths, and deficits of our current administration. cally is not part of the family but is such good friends As president, George W. Bush is trying to fulfill the with Grandpa from back in the day that we call him familial role of the responsible, caring and dedicated Uncle Tommy – even though he really scares us and father. Well, at least his speech writers and policy makes us have bad dreams at night. I have no doubt advisors are trying to portray this image. The presi- that Franks is a fantastic general, but he definitely dent falls short, however, when he is forced to speak needs to work on his public appeal if he wants to be a his own mind, as in impromptu question and answer beloved member of the family (an issue which he sessions. With his constant smirk and cowboy probably cares nothing about).

Then there’s Ari Fleischer, who is clearly the annoyresponses, I get the feeling that he is really one of those fathers who tries a little too hard to be his kid’s ing cousin who you might just despise if he were not in your family. Couldn’t they get CJ from The West Wing?

Adam Stern ’06 would like to make it clear that the I wish I could make more ridiculous parallels and Bush administration is nothing like his family, which obscure references to our country’s leaders, but I would probably not have invaded Iraq in the first just don’t watch that much CNN. place.

Gotta Prada bag with a lotta toys in it RECENTLY, I READ AN ARTICLE IN VOGUE THAT and playing dress-up was all the rage. Barbie existmentioned a three-year-old child matching her ed, but it was not yet possible for her to visit her mother’s ultra low-cut Diesel jeans with her own own ATM. In those good old days, when candy bars, boot-cut Diesel jeans and carrying a matching not rappers, were fifty cents, it was Barbie’s breast mini-Louis Vuitton bag when they went out. “Mom size, as well as the fact that if she was a real girl she would die because there would be no knows best,” tittered Vogue. Yeah, right. room for her intestines, that was tres For me, Louis Vuitton was always a scandale. Parents worried that she promythical designer, happily and glammoted a negative body image and that orously existing only on shows such as her hot pink convertible would divert “Sex and the City,” or draping movie impressionable little girls’ attention stars almost equally mythical. I was from things that really mattered. content with this division.

Those parents should have felt so Hollywood celebrities wore clothing lucky. Already FAO Schwartz has quite with price tags untouchable for mere eclipsed that hot pink convertible with mortals; normal adults wore brands their miniature but mobile $30,000like Old Navy; and children were lucky dollar Humvee for intrepid children if their socks matched. Vogue was a ALEXANDRA TOUMANOFF with big backyards. nasty shock.

WHAT’S A GIRL Tipper Gore protested modern I had barely finished reeling over the GOTTA DO? music’s raunchy lyrics, but today’s toys fact that a three-year-old had more fashare far more terrifying. A relative of ion than I did, not to mention the horrimine once advised her daughter that fying, ridiculous notion that I was actually comparing myself in any way to a three year-old, “It is just as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor one.” The 2003 version of that line is: “why when I heard about a possible root of the problem.

This problem is the brand new Barbie ATM. It is have your child play for free when he or she can apparently now the fad du jour among six-year-old play for $30,000?”

It seems that young children have become the fashionistas to escort Barbie to plastic ATMs on the floors of chic baby bedrooms and pretend to have new millennium’s trophy wives, and their toys and her buy the mini-Louis Vuitton bag that hangs in clothing must reflect their elevated status in the community. Next thing we know, there will be the closet.

Back in my day, when dinosaurs roamed the “Barbie Botox” and “Dolce and Gabbana Barbie.” earth, my friends and I had Barbie and Skipper go to Cosmogirl, a spin-off of Cosmopolitan, recently the beach. Baking with ready-made brownie mix leapt into the hands of teenage girls everywhere.

Soon we may see “Cosmokid,” a magazine exclusively for children under six, dispensing invaluable advice on how to best apply MAC makeup when the Alexandra Toumanoff ‘06 is glad to have feet that nanny isn’t looking during nap time. are flat.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS TUESDAY APRIL 8, 2003 · PAGE 12

Cow bell? Sports only cure for spring fever FOR ONCE, THE TERM “SPRING FEVER” actually makes sense. If you stay outside too long, you’ll definitely get a fever and possibly frostbite. This is supposed to be the best time of the year for sports, in addition to the weather. The Final Four, NHL playoffs, Masters and NBA playoffs all happen in quick succession over the next two months. At the same time, the weather warms up and people start going outside and actually playing sports. I guess El JEFF SALTMAN Niño didn’t get the SALT N’ PEPA memo.

Nonetheless, even though you can’t go out and play football unless you feel like diving on the frozen tundra of Wriston Quad, it is still the best time of the year for sports, hands down.

First, there is the Final Four, which unfortunately came to an end last night, but still provided three weeks of great games. Well, great games aside, from that Kansas vs.

Marquette debacle to Drew Nicholas’ firstround miracle shot to Arizona’s near loss to Gonzaga, to Carmelo Anthony’s almost single-handed defeat of Texas, this year’s tournament has been a great one. While not at the level of last year’s tournament for personal reasons, this tournament provided the best in sports for three weeks. In no sporting event are upsets as common, because the tournament is a winner-take-all event, unlike the NBA or NHL. As a result, the end of March always signifies the beginning of the peak for sports.

Now that the tournament has come to its conclusion, it’s time to turn our attention to a sport we can relate to at the moment: ice hockey. For the huge portion of the population that doesn’t even realize that hockey is played all year, now is the time to tune in and watch some quality hockey. For example, people probably don’t even realize that Marty Turco, the goalie for the Dallas Stars, set a new single season record for goals against average with 1.72. I have a feeling if Pedro set a new mark for ERA in a season there would have been a little bit more coverage.

Once again, this year’s playoffs feature the usual suspects with Dallas, Detroit and Colorado being the favorites from the Western Conference. Even though it seems like there are no real Cinderellas in the NHL, the hockey playoffs are probably the most entertaining in professional sports. The fact that games can go on until 3 a.m. and that there is so much riding on every goal makes for an intensity that really can’t be matched.

Also, with a few fresh, dynamic teams like Ottawa and Vancouver, this year’s playoffs could prove to be more entertaining than ever.

In addition to the history that Turco made this year, Tiger Woods is going for history at the Masters. (As a side note, could the two women who actually read my column please refrain from reading this portion, as it is prohibited by policy?) Woods is going for his third straight Masters, though he may have to deal with the extra obstacle of Martha Burke, who will be counted as an extra sand trap for the weekend. Burke may or may not picket Augusta National’s refusal to admit female members. She doesn’t seem to understand that these things take time. I see SALTMAN, page 4

Baseball begins Ivy season with split

BY CHRIS HATFIELD

After a rough start to the season, the baseball team (7-17-1) appears to finally be putting things together. After dropping both ends of its doubleheader with Vermont on Wednesday, the Bears split both doubleheaders to Ivy opponents Princeton and Cornell over the weekend.

The Catamounts were able to spoil the Bears’ home opener on Wednesday, winning 7-2 in the first game and 11-2 in the second. James Cramphin ’06 got the start for the first game and was followed

by Jason Priede ’04.5 and Harris Frankel ’04.

Errors proved to be the Bears’ undoing in this one, as four errors led to three unearned runs. Brown’s offense seemed to come in spurts for the entire day, as Bobby Wiginton ’05.5 went 3-4, Bobby Deeb ’04 went 2-2 with a run and an RBI and Matt Kutler ’04 was 2-4 with the other RBI. Justin Lebowitz ’03 would start the back end of the doubleheader, giving way to Shaun McNamara ’06, Frankel and Cameron Johnson ’06, who each threw an inning. One bright spot for Brown was back-to-back home runs from Jeff Nichols ’05 and Paul Christian ’06 in the second, but the Bears’ bats fell silent from then on.

On Saturday, Bruno opened the Ivy League season at Princeton, winning the first game 7-3, then dropping the second 8-6. Joel DeMaria ’04.5, one of the pleasant surprises for Brown so far, threw a complete game to start the day. The offense finally showed up, highlighted by a five-run first inning. Christian had a huge day, going 3-4 with four runs batted in. Cameron Mitchell ’05 and Nichols each went 2-4 with two runs scored and an RBI in front of Christian, while Wiginton was also 2-4 with a run scored.

Sam Jennings ’04 got the start in the second game. After getting hit hard, he gave way to Priede who pitched six solid innings in relief before finally being relieved by Dan Spring ’03. Deeb and Kutler had their standard great days at the plate — Deeb going 3-5 and scoring a run and Kutler going 2-5 with three RBI and two runs scored.

Sunday saw the Bears swing into Ithaca, splitting two close ones with

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The baseball team is next in action on Wednesday in a doubleheader with URI. Cornell. They dropped the first 7-6, then took the weekend’s final game 3-2. Chris Davidson ’05 started the day on the rubber and was relieved by McNamara, who had a solid outing, and Spring. At the plate, it was more of the same, as most of the offense came from the top six spots in the order. Kutler and Nichols were both 2-4, with Kutler scoring one run and Nichols scoring two. Cramphin

threw a nine-inning gem in the second game to lead Brown to the win. Mitchell brought Nichols in on a triple, while Johnson brought him in on a sacrifice fly.

Deeb scored the other run on a wild pitch.

This week the Bears travel to play instate rival URI on Wednesday before playing host to Columbia on Saturday and Pennsylvania on Sunday.

Men’s crew takes two in Boston Women’s golf wins at Bucknell

BY LILY RAYMAN-READ

With double practices during Spring Break, not to mention all the training done in the fall, the men’s crew team pushed itself to get into top form for this year’s races.

The team has certainly put in the effort necessary to make its mark this season, Kevin Garrity ’03 said.

“I think much of our success is a result of the team’s commitment this entire year,” he said. “We trained very hard during the ‘rest period’ and the hard work is paying off.”

The team got the season off to a triumphant start March 30. The three crews swept away the competition from Syracuse University, with the varsity eight winning with a time of 5:49.6 and the second varsity matching that time. The disappointed Orangemen also had to watch Brown’s freshman boat race an impressive time of 5:54.3.

Last weekend the Bears faced Boston University on the cold and windy Charles River in Cambridge, Mass.

“Most of the other races that were scheduled also for that day were can-

celled, but the Brown and BU crews braved the elements to race,” said Matt Oyen ’06.

In the unpleasant elements, all of the Brown boats still managed to win, coming away with its second sweep of the season. The varsity eight rowed a time of 5:55.0, the second varsity a time of 6:08.04 and the freshmen once again performed solidly with a time of 5:56.82.

On April 12, the men face Harvard, a definite rival, and a very skilled crew team.

“Hopefully we can learn from these races and get better for this week’s race against Harvard,” said Colin Cassady ’03. “Harvard is a very good team, but I think if we race aggressively we will find ourselves in a position to win.”

“The race has been a highly contested rivalry the past few years,” Garrity said. “Everyone is excited to see what we can accomplish.

Sports staff writer Lily Rayman-Read ’06 covers men’s crew. She can be reached at lrayman-read@browndailyherald.com.

The Brown women’s golf team captured first place at the Bucknell Lady Bison Spring Invitational with a 36-hole total of 651, holding off a hard-charging Long Island squad by just a single stroke.

Harvard finished three shots back at 654, while first-round leader St. Francis (Pa.) also faltered on Sunday and finished at 657, four shots ahead of Bucknell.

Cleveland State (682), Dartmouth (684), St. Mary’s (Ind.) (698), Wagner (716), Monmouth (720), Central Connecticut (732), Lehigh (740), Kutztown (787) and McDaniel (809) rounded out the field.

Coach Mike Harbour’s team was led by Elizabeth Carpenter ’04, who carded a two-day 161 (78, 82). Tara Fiscella ’03 also had a strong tournament with a two-day 162 (81, 81).

The Bears were solid throughout the lineup with Jennifer Bley ’05 shooting a two-day 164 (85, 79) and Eleanor Thomas ’06 carding a two-day 169 (82, 87). Amy Behrman ’05 also contributed by shooting 87-83-187.

—Brown Sports Information