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Some units swell to 80+ students under new system; peer counselors struggle BY LISA MANDLE

defined herself. Brought up in a household exposed to various religions, Dean attended a Jewish school but was taught how to cross herself correctly before mass. She also spoke of her first day as a Brown professor, young and nervous, during which a student mistook her for another student. “These experiences are pretty banal versions of the constant and complicated psychological and cultural negotiations all of us are forced to engage in,” she said. “They aren’t always pleasant, but they keep you alert. You are forced to think at every minute about where you are and who you are and mostly about who you are not.

Changes to the first-year unit system designed to even the workload for peer counselors led to some unintended consequences, as many counselors faced the daunting task of getting to know 80 or more new students. This year’s first-years were divided into 22 units with approximately 80 students in most units, said Jennifer Bauer ’06, a residential counselor in Emery-Wooley. Bauer has 78 first-years and four counselors in her unit. Last year the residence halls were divided into about 30 units. The counselor-to-student ratio ranged from 1:8.7 to 1:20 depending on the unit, said Director of Student Life Jean Joyce-Brady. That spread narrowed this year, with units falling between a 1:15 to 1:22 ratio. The national average counselor-to-student ratio is 1:40, Joyce-Brady said. The restructuring came in response to complaints from counselors about the disparity in the number of first-years they were responsible for, she said. But several counselors said that even though the difference in ratios of counselors to first-years shrank this year, their overall workload increased with the size of their units. “The kids always have someone to go to, but it is harder for counselors to make sure we know all of the firstyears,” Bauer said. There are about 90 counselors, Bauer said. In the past, most units had one residential counselor, one minority peer counselor and one woman peer counselor. Now units have between three and five counselors, with the number of RCs, MPCs and WPCs varying from unit to unit. Some units must share WPCs, Bauer said. “Being responsible for 40 students last year was difficult. Having 80 makes it that much harder,” said Zahara Kassam ’05, an MPC in Morriss-Champlin last year. Counselors have to memorize all of their first-years’ faces and get to know something special about each, even though there are other counselors in the unit, she said. The administration intended for each unit’s counselors to “work with the ratio model” by having each counselor be able to provide support for the entire unit, but focus on bonding with only a portion of their firstyears, Joyce-Brady said. But not everyone got the message. “It may be that communication needs to be strengthened,” Joyce-Brady said. “It’s not a reasonable model to

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Professor of History Carolyn Dean gave the Convocation address inside the OMAC due to inclement weather. In addition to the changed setting, students were invited to walk through a cardboard cutout of the Van Wickle gates.

Rainy weather puts a damper on 2007 Convocation festivities BY DANA AYOUB

Gray skies and empty gates greeted the 240th Opening Convocation yesterday. A few hapless students who hadn’t heard Convocation was moved to the OMAC due to rain milled aimlessly about the Van Wickle gates. Welcome, Class of 2007. Those fortunate enough to find their way to the OMAC heard the last speeches of Orientation, which covered everything from the weather to how to think critically. President Ruth Simmons welcomed all students, staff and faculty, telling them that “memories are not made by fair weather” and she was “just as happy to see you all here as I would be to see you on the Green.” Even though it did not rain during Convocation, the decision was made in the morning to move the event inside because of morning drizzle. The ceremonial procession through the Van Wickle Gates was also initially cancelled, though the Gates were left open all day for first-years who wanted to walk through. But after the speeches, Simmons announced that all could return to the Green as usual for the formal process ion of the Class of 2007. To the entering class, Simmons said “learning will take place in these halls and you will be changed for it” while professors “will engage you as partners of learning.” She ended her proclamation by advising students to “cherish your time here.” Professor of History Carolyn Dean delivered the keynote address, entitled “Critical Thinking.” Her speech stemmed from an evaluation she received last semester, in which a student criticized her for not defining critical thinking, even though she demanded it from the class. She found the definition hard to explain and told the incoming class she would try “to get at this elusive thing everyone says you should and will learn to do and some professors have the temerity not to define.” To clarify the intangible term, Dean related two anecdotes, the first of which described the multiple ways she

Brown Annual Fund exceeds goals by $700,000 BY ELLEN WERNECKE

Even amid a University-wide fiscal crisis and a national economic recession, the Brown Annual Fund celebrated a record year, exceeding its financial goals by $700,000. The Brown Annual Fund experienced a 15 percent increase in gifts in the past fiscal year, raising a total of $19.7 million in the period ending June 30. The success of this year’s campaign was primarily due to three challenge grants, large gifts dependent on the number of donors who participate in the fundraiser. The challenge grants, offered by Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62, the Joukowsky family and an anonymous alumnus, increased both the number of gifts and their amounts, said Annual Fund director Tammie Ruda. One of the largest areas of growth came from Brown’s most recent graduates, as the Joukowsky family challenged the classes of 1993 to 2003 to give to the

Annual Fund. The number of donors from those 10 classes alone rose 22 percent from last year, Ruda said. “This year’s giving represented an enormous vote of confidence,” said Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and special advisor to President Ruth Simmons. “At a time when the economy was as tough as it was, for people to step up to increase the level of support shows an incredible boost for the University and what the president has proposed,” Spies said. “The University needs growth (in the Annual Fund) to keep the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment on schedule,” Ruda said, adding that none of the University’s projects are tied directly to the Annual Fund, tuition or other sources of revenue. “We’re underwriting some of the most exciting projects on campus right now.”

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Confronting his addition, Ian Cropp ’05 explains sports gambling’s allure sports column, page 12

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CAMPUS NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 3 SUMMER STORIES: A CONTINUING SERIES

Simmons paints a rosier picture for the future BY SARA PERKINS

After a first day of classes and a hectic rained-out convocation, the faculty met Tuesday for the first time in the 2003-04 academic year. Most of the faculty present said they were just glad to be dry. That wasn’t all they were thankful for. Following a spring that featured hard budget cuts and grim economic re-forecasting, the budgeting actually produced a small surplus. The Brown Annual Fund exceeded its goals, investments returned 6.5 percent and support for research increased 17 percent in the last year, President Ruth Simmons told those assembled in Lower Salomon. The University has hired 33 new faculty members, and the Class of 2007 is the first to be admitted under the new need-blind admission policy — all positive steps, she said. Simmons and Provost Robert Zimmer outlined the year’s goals and initiatives, introduced the shuffled administrative lineup and pointed to the tangible evidence of summer progress. “There has been an unprecedented amount of construction across campus — I’m sure you’ve been inconvenienced by it,” Simmons said. The University acquired new see FACULTY, page 7

Ochs ’06 promotes racial integration in S. Africa BY SCHUYLER VON OEYEN

This summer, Elizabeth Ochs ’06 learned South Africa is a land of economic extremes. While volunteering for Tikkun, a South African Jewish organization that promotes racial integration, she visited a co-worker at his home, a shack in one of South Africa’s poor townships. The same day, she moved into the oceanfront house of an affluent Cape Town host family. “There are hundreds of children in the townships who have never seen the ocean,” Ochs wrote in a personal statement. “And likewise there are hundred(s) of children in town who have never walked through the townships.” During her four weeks with Tikkun, Ochs worked as a counselor at two different camps for children and volunteered as an administrative assistant in the program office. Her experience was funded primarily by the Bronfman Foundation. Founded four years ago, Tikkun runs cross-cultural camps, after-school programs and community centers. Diversity programs that integrate persons of Jewish descent with the neighboring African communities are paramount to Tikkun’s mission. At the program’s week-long camp for sixth and seventh graders, Ochs met a diverse group of children. Most of the campers were black or multi-racial, although there were some Jewish campers as well. The children faced many initial barriers to cross-cultural interaction, including both ethnicity and language. Most of the black campers spoke the language of Xhosa; the multi-racial campers mainly

spoke Afrikaans, and the Jewish campers spoke English. “English was the most common language that everyone knew, but many could not speak it well,” Ochs said. “This made the process of establishing cross-cultural understanding more difficult, but the experience was very rewarding in the end.” Ochs said she found a Jewish girl crying on the steps of her bunk bed one night because she was the only non-Xhosa speaker in her group. “Integration is not comfortable, but

often people can only begin to struggle with their own identities when they are in a place of discomfort,” Ochs wrote in her statement. After consoling the camper, Ochs paired the girl with a translation partner, who could speak both Xhosa and English. “Such incidents were challenges for the campers as well as for me as a counselor,” Ochs wrote. “They were crucial to the camp experience as well.” see OCHS, page 7

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Elizabeth Ochs ’06 volunteered as a camp counselor this summer in South Africa for Tikkun, a South African Jewish organization that promotes racial integration.

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WORLD & NATION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 5

Customs, immigration agents to be trained as air marshals WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Customs and immigra-

tion agents will be trained as air marshals to significantly boost the number of federal officers who can protect passenger flights in emergencies, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday. But government officials said it was unlikely that all 5,500 agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would qualify and be deployed as marshals, partly because it would leave no one to do the agents’ work. Instead, the plan is to have more officers with air marshal training available under high-threat conditions or in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. “This gives us a ‘surge capability,’” Ridge said. “More people being able to do more things when we need it.” In a speech keyed to the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Ridge also announced new procedures for questioning passengers arriving at U.S. airports from overseas, initiatives to improve communication between federal and local authorities and a technology program aimed at countering the threat of bioterrorism. He spoke at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative public policy center in Washington. “We’ve made significant progress toward shoring the necessary layers of homeland security that have made America safer,” Ridge said. “And yet clearly our work is not done. In homeland security, we have to be right thousands of times a day. A terrorist only has to be right once.” The air marshal announcement was part of an ongoing internal realignment of the Homeland Security Department, created at the beginning of the year from 22 disparate government agencies.

Lieberman offers plan to widen health coverage for Americans WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Sen. Joseph Lieberman, DConn., accusing President Bush of neglecting the nation’s health care crisis, unveiled a proposal Tuesday to provide care to 31 million uninsured Americans within 10 years. On a visit to Broad Acres Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md., the Democratic presidential candidate laid out a detailed health plan that in the early stages would target children, unemployed adults and people over the age of 50 who have retired but do not yet qualify for Medicare. “George W. Bush didn’t create these problems — but he has turned his back on them, and by doing so, he’s made them worse,” Lieberman said from a pint-sized lectern in the school library. “He’s let the sickness and side effects in the health care system spread and get worse.” A moderate Democrat who was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000, Lieberman said that he has devised the most economical plan of those offered by the Democratic contenders, an assertion supported by independent analyst Kenneth Thorpe. “My plan will provide coverage to more than 31 million currently uninsured Americans — at the lowest per person cost of any presidential candidate,” Lieberman said. Thorpe, a Clinton administration official who teaches health care economics at Emory University, estimated that Lieberman’s proposal would cost the federal government $53 billion a year, or $747 billion over the next decade. According to Thorpe’s analysis, Lieberman’s plan covers about the same number of uninsured but for significantly less money, in part because it takes longer to be phased in. A plan offered by Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., would cost $2.5 trillion over 10 years, and former Vermont governor Howard Dean’s proposal would cost $932 billion, according to Thorpe’s analysis. The plans of Democratic Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and John Edwards, D-N.C., would reach fewer people, Thorpe found. Like several of his opponents, Lieberman would expand government health programs such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, called CHIP, though

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“George W. Bush didn’t create these problems — but he has turned his back on them, and by doing so, he’s made them worse,” Lieberman said from a pint-sized lectern. he would offer more generous subsidies to middle-income families. And Lieberman would create two new private insurance programs to be administered by the government. Modeled after the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Lieberman’s MediKids and MediChoice would offer guaranteed, comprehensive coverage through large, low-cost purchasing pools. To keep the cost down, Lieberman would cap insurer profits at 2 percent, as the federal program does now. His aides predicted that insurers would be willing to accept limited profits in exchange for the “tens of thousands, if not millions, of new customers.” As president, Lieberman said, he would streamline costly and burdensome paperwork in the medical system and push for more evidence-based medicine. He would also guarantee laid-off workers two months’ insurance and establish a tax credit for long-term care insurance. Lieberman made his announcement at Broad Acres to spotlight the school’s health center, which provides comprehensive physical and mental health care to children and uninsured parents. If elected, he would increase federal grants for such centers, he said. “I want to see if we can open thousands more school-based health centers,” he said after a tour of the Linkages to Learning center. Lieberman did not specify where he would find the money for his health proposal or for a proposed $150 billion American Center for Cures.

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Planned activities stressed integration and cross-cultural understanding. Among the various topics included in the program’s curriculum were Israeli custom, African dance and lectures and educational workshops discussing problems such as the spread of HIV/AIDS. Ochs encourages other Brown students to consider involvement in cross-cultural programs in Africa, and saw her time with Tikkun as a good way to learn how to promote racial integration in the United States. “It was a very empowering experience to be working there,” Ochs said. “Tikkun is not about forcing Jewish principles, but rather about providing a space for common dialogue and giving back.”

You rarely have the luxury of not thinking,” Dean added. The second story involved a German literary critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, also a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. He was invited to a party to honor the publication of a new Hitler biography. The author, however, was Hitler’s Minister for Armaments and War Production, and, according to Ranicki, “one of the worst war criminals in the history of Germany … Albert Speer.” In this story, Speer and Ranicki, the antitheses of one another, converse until Speer tells Ranicki that Hitler “would have been content with this (book), he would have liked it.” “If to think critically means to be highly self-conscious about how we must all negotiate our identities in complicated ways whoever we are, how might you approach this episode?” she

Herald staff writer Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 can be reached at svonoeyen@browndailyherald.com.

Faculty continued from page 3 property at 70 Ship St. and is renovating the Horace Mann building, Hill House and Barus and Holley and Metcalf laboratories in an effort to improve the physical plant, she said. Planning for further campus improvement will result in decisions later this year, Simmons said. Possible facilities to be discussed include the construction of a campus center, fitness center and new dorms. She encouraged faculty members to participate. The budget cuts weighed heavily on the proceedings. Simmons lamented the “draconian” measures — including the hiring freeze and departmental budget cuts — that were necessary last year. “When the economic climate is bad, other dominoes get knocked down,” particularly financial aid, she said. “I think we did pretty well in

W. Soccer continued from page 12 and we played well.” The Bears tied Agliani 0-0. While the 3-1-3 record is something to be proud of, the team will benefit most from the early experience. Unlike previous years when Brown lacks the same game experience as its opponents in early stages of the season, the team this year has seven games under its belt. More importantly, all 23 players saw extended time in those games. “We have gotten to experiment and try different things on the field. We have a very good understanding about our capabilities,” Pincince said. Though the Class of 2007 could not attend the trip, the five incoming freshmen bonded over the summer during Brown soccer camp. Early this week the entire team completed a ropes course to further team bonding. Pincince credits much of the positive attitude and performance of this year’s squad to the

what we were able to preserve.” Simmons also addressed the University’s relationship with the city and state. While she joked about receiving a fund-raising request from the reelection committee of Mayor David Cicilline ’83, she and Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior advisor to the president, frankly discussed the voluntary payment of over $1 million to the city. Part of the payment will be in property taxes on newly acquired real estate that would otherwise be tax exempt. “We’ve made a contribution, and we can stop it,” Spies said. “We’ll do it as long as it seems sensible for the University. “The mayor has made it clear to us that he wants more cooperation. … It’ll be an ongoing dialogue,” he said. At the request of Governor Donald Carcieri ’65, Simmons is also serving on a panel to investigate the Rhode Island State Police raid on a Narragansett smoke shop in July.

leadership of the team’s 10 seniors. The recruiting class of 2004 is the first in 10 years to remain in the program all four years. “Look at any sport here at Brown,” Pincince said, “the attrition rate is 50 percent. You recruit a class of 10, you are hoping to get five seniors to stick with it all four years. This class is all with us. … They have made one heck of a commitment to the program.” The team, with a legitimate shot at winning the championship, kicks off its Ivy schedule against Dartmouth on Saturday, Sept. 27. “We want to compete for the title. Last year we were in every game. Princeton won the Ivy Championship and we lost 2-1. We think we are going to take a giant step forward. (The team) is not hoping to take that step — they are ready to take the step.” The team will face off against Vermont (2-0) on Stevenson Field this Friday at 7:00 p.m. Sports editor Maggie Haskins ’04 can be reached at mhaskins@browndailyherald.com.

asked the first-years, and then ended with “I’ll leave you to think about that.” She told the audience her anecdotes had been a longwinded way of explaining that you should question and challenge everything. The speech was “one of the better speeches I’ve heard this orientation,” said James Kytta ’07, although other students found the speech rambling and irrelevant. “I thought it was a little unfocused,” said Josh Cohen ’07, though he found the story about the ghetto survivor interesting. Some first-years were glad they could walk through the Gates together, while others didn’t believe they might have missed one of Brown’s most important ceremonies. Said Vanessa Adams ’06, “I’m sure in four years I’ll be glad I did it.” Herald staff writer Dana Ayoub ’05 can be reached at dayoub@browndailyherald.com.

Professor of Biology Anne Fausto-Sterling, chair of the Faculty Executive Committee, lauded the success of efforts to increase faculty diversity, particularly by the Faculty Affairs Committee, recalling the days when she was one of only a dozen tenured females on the faculty. “Change is possible, albeit slow,” she said. She also highlighted the work of the Academic Priorities Committee, which works to balance the allocation of resources to established programs and smaller, struggling projects. The meeting ended with a reception at the President’s House at 55 Power St. Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

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Units continued from page 1 say that a person needs to know 75 students extremely well.” Brian Lee ’06, an MPC in West Andrews, said the layout of the residence hall and the personalities of the people living together are the most important factors in determining how the unit functions. “The people make the unit, not the numbers,” Lee said. “Last year in Keeney there were 70 people on three hallways and two floors so it was tough to meet people because it was so spread out. This year all of West Andrews is a unit, so even though it covers five floors it’s easier to access,” he said. With 85 first-years and five counselors in his unit this year,

Annual Fund continued from page 1 Spies said this year’s Annual Fund would support “the things that are most important for the University” — from maintenance support and financial aid to faculty salaries and improvements in computing structure — in keeping with the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. “I think the reason we’ve been successful is that people under-

“we have a larger unit but it’s a lot tighter” than last year, he said. Dav Dryer ’07 had no complaints about his multi-story unit in West Andrews. “I think it’s great to have a more moderate size break down, something between your whole class which is unmanageable and your hallway, where you are friends with everyone,” Dryer said. Dryer said the ratio of students to counselors in his unit is “perfect” with one counselor per hallway, allowing students to find support as individuals or small groups. Based on the high turnout for this year’s “Battle of the Units” during orientation, “definitely people feel like part of a unit,” Bauer said. Herald senior staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

stand the importance of moving forward with the president’s initiatives,” Spies said. “These goals have really inspired people to step up to the plate.” The Joukowsky family grant was offered by former Chancellor Artemis Joukowsky Jr. ’55, Professor of Old World Archaeology and Art Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 and Michael Joukowsky ’87. Herald senior staff writer Ellen Wernecke ’06 can be reached at ewernecke@browndailyherald.com.

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click of a mouse, you can siphon money from your Swiss bank account to an online gambling site “stationed” in Guadalajara. Americans love convenience and what better way to bet than on the Internet? Just now, I placed a $500 bet on a Pop Warner football game, a $1,000 bet on Seabiscuit IV to win at Yonkers and a $5,000 bet on my first intramural flag football game. Yes, betting does heighten interest in the sports world, but sometimes it drains the purity from the game. Just like drinking, it can be done responsibly, but sometimes walking the line isn’t easy.

Sydney, or those of 12 other tests from 1996-2000. Last Thursday, the day after The Times identified Young as the unnamed athlete from the Sydney Games, Rogge sent letters to the U.S. Olympic Committee and the IAAF “strongly urging’’ them to “pursue the matter.’’ Pound, the WADA president, called last Wednesday for the IOC to strip the U.S. 400 relay team of its medals because of Young’s 1999 test. Rogge indicated last week that the matter is of “extreme urgency.’’ He also said that the IOC stands ready to take “any measure or sanction against any person or party concerned depending upon the evolution of this case.’’

Assistant sports editor Ian Cropp ’05 has never won a bet.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Shaky transition It would have been a good idea, if everyone had gotten the memo. When first-years invaded dorms in past years, some counselors were charged with transforming multi-story units containing 70 or more students into a cohesive community, while others had the relatively easy task of managing 40 students in a few connected hallways. The administration promised that this year counselors and first-years would arrive to something different. And they did — but not what the Office of Student Life intended. The office decided to even out the student-to-counselor ratio campus-wide, creating larger units where an increased number of counselors could oversee smaller, intra-unit groups. But counselors say they now just feel responsible for twice as many first-years. Getting to know 40 people in a short time is tough. Over 80 may be impossible. First-years might not be able to tell the difference — there were probably just as many parties and friendly neighbors as in the days of smaller units. But for some counselors who remembered their first year, to “work with the ratio model” is to go against tradition, not to mention memories of attentive counselors. OSL determined the new unit structure well before counselor training, yet some counselors still felt overwhelmed and frustrated. Although the changes to the peer counseling system have been couched in impersonal terms of ratios, the larger units fundamentally change the way first-years interact with their counselors. Counselors can provide support for all of their first-years. But, under the new system, they should concentrate on truly getting to know only a fraction of their units, rather than attempting to meet all first-years equally. Judging by the reaction of some counselors, that goal was never articulated. So counselors reverted to their instincts — to be a friendly face and attentive to everyone under their watch, with mixed results.

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LETTERS Behind the hoopla, Cali. recall is just politics as usual To the Editor: It is preposterous for Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 to suggest, as she does, (“And now from the state that brought us Ronald Reagan,” Sept. 2) that “the masses have snatched the reins of power” in California, or that “Republican bigwigs are apoplectic” about the recall election. U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa, a San Diego-area Republican who made tens of millions as a car alarm magnate, spent $1 million of his own money to hire armies of signature gatherers, which made the recall election possible. Former California Governor Pete Wilson is the co-chair and

some say the brains behind Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign. The Republican establishment is only too happy that this is occurring, and only too happy to rally around the supposedly unconventional movie star/candidate, except for those on the far right who are upset about his positions on gay rights and abortion. To suggest that this election represents some challenge to the two major parties is also silly. Ninety-six of the 135 candidates are Democrats or Republicans, and of course the media attention now focuses on — surprise! — one prominent Republican (Schwarzenegger) and one prominent Democrat (Cruz Bustamente). The recall may seem novel on the surface, but really it is still politics as usual. Peter Ian Asen ’04 Sep. 2

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File sharing is here to stay The RIAA and their corporate allies must rethink their strategy to fight P2P I’M A POP FAN. I’LL ADMIT IT FREELY. I whether you’re taking the newest luxury listen to the music that most people our car by Lincoln or “In The End” by Linkin age shun like snails shun Morton’s Park. I do not, however, share the RIAA’s Iodized Salt. Teen pop, pop-rock, pop- obsessive need to end file sharing as we country, even pop-rap and pop-punk are know it with sting operations and litigaall genres I embrace. I refer to the host of tions. The RIAA fails to understand why people so eagerly flaunt copyTRL as “Carson” as if we right law and thus do not know were on a first-name basis JOHN BROUGHER how to effectively combat it. and I argue with people So why do people boot up about whether the “Stop” CAN’T STOP WinMX instead of going to remix of Britney Spears’ THE BROCK their local Wal-Mart? Well, in “(You Drive Me) Crazy” was addition to Wal-Mart’s unsaan improvement or not. Pop is more than just music to me — pop is a vory labor practices, there is really one way of life. And that’s precisely why the major reason why people file-share recent Recording Industry Association of instead of buy: the high prices of CDs/DVDs/software and it’s a simple America crackdowns irk me so much. The RIAA and others, including movie consumer cost-benefit analyses. Buying the beautiful Michelle Branch’s production companies and even computer application and game developers, new album “Hotel Paper” almost cost have recently begun stepping up efforts this columnist $20. A score full of dollars, to fight file sharing. Subpoenas have gentle readers! That’s like four trips to been issued, charges have been filed East Side Pockets or one-sixth of my EC against gross violators of copyright law 111 textbook. To put it another way, this and the big corporations are gunning for columnist (and you all too, no doubt) you. The message is simple: Obey the law lack the supply of green to buy a CD or face the consequences. Although their every time we hear a song we like on the tactics are harsh, the core moral issue radio. Although it may seem like a cop-out seems fairly simple, right? Well, it is — but there is also much more to it than because of laziness and a disregard for intellectual property, downloading more that. Is file-sharing stealing? It is, according closely resembles an econometric-style to one of the major assertions of produc- decision than a legal one. Basic economtion companies. They liken using file- ic theory states that when presented with sharing programs to shoplifting. And you multiple choices, we choose the one that won’t see this columnist disagree with benefits us the most at the least cost. that particular point. Stealing is stealing, Considering that many times you want only a particular song and not a whole body of work by an artist, the choice is between an already-overpriced album John Brougher '06 loves swashbuckling with the track you want or the two minand is entering his second semester as an utes it takes to download that one opinions columnist.

Stealing is stealing, whether you’re taking the newest luxury car by Lincoln or “In The End” by Linkin Park. I do not, however, share the RIAA’s obsessive need to end file-sharing as we know it with sting operations and litigations. desired song off of the peer-to-peer network. In essence, you are being asked if one song is worth the $15 to $20 you have to fork out for a whole CD. Frankly, few of us would say one song is worth that much unless a strange masked assailant held us at gunpoint and said “Say that one song is worth $15 or die.” Even in such a situation, I’m not sure I would say it. I mean, Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance” was a horrific album. Listening to every non-title track was like eating cardboard boxes, but without the reassuring sweetness. Because of this inherent problem with current media retail pricing, sending elite cyber-SWAT teams into campuses may scare some file sharers into hiding, but it will not fix the fundamental problem. 1984-style music police notwithstanding, pop fans like myself are still put in a terrible bind — most of the songs we listen to are by one-hit wonder bands. Buying the album would be like throwing your money into a garbage bin, burning the trash and then burying the bin in Mozambique. High-profile arrests and teams of anti-piracy lawyers are a shortterm solution, at best, to the file sharing problem. The most likely long-term answer to file-sharing is simple and is already slowly

gaining popularity — legal alternatives to Kazaa, LimeWire and their many clones. The focus on individual tracks and the low prices have already made Apple’s iTunes incredibly popular, giving you the ability to download a song for a buck. In this way, would-be MP3 pirates can get their favorite melodies without shelling out the buckets of cash for a whole album. Similar pay sites are cropping up for both music and movies, but so far most of the iTunesalikes lack a wide selection, have a confusing interface and/or require a subscription-style commitment. Much improvement must be done before these sites become viable alternatives to getting “The Matrix: Reloaded” from a guy in Singapore that has an early release VCD burned on his computer. To the RIAA and their corporate allies who bemoan “mounting losses” — wake up: File sharing is here to stay. Shaming offenders hasn’t worked yet, nor has incessant whining about revenue decreases; after all, how does one feel pity for a multibillion-dollar industry’s financial plight? Stop sending in the cavalry and get a long-term solution. You want to make money, fine — corner the market on file sharing alternatives. The key word here is choice, my rich RIAA friends, not crackdown.

Cheaper medicine means less medicine Importing pharmaceuticals from Canada is bad for our health AROUND THE WORLD, MILLIONS OF find themselves increasingly under attack people are sick and dying of diseases like by selfish and misguided politicians from cancer, diabetes and AIDS while American around the world who demand access to pharmaceutical companies race against American miracle drugs but refuse to pay the clock to develop the medicines neces- for them. Recent calls to violate American sary to save their lives. Given the financial patents by producing cheaper generic verand legal risks involved, the work drug sions of American drugs are only the latest makers do is heroic. To bring a single drug in a systematic effort by the world community to extract freebies from to the market, drug makers drug makers. Already, countries have to spend an average of like France and Canada have $802 million on research and imposed rigid price controls development, conduct over a that allow their citizens to purdecade of rigorous clinical trichase American drugs far below als and assume enormous their true market value. Thus, legal liabilities. To make matAmericans are forced to bear ters worse, drug makers only the burden of paying for fully recover the costs on 30 research and development of percent of new drugs. Even new drugs while the rest of the first-rate drug maker Bristolworld reaps the benefits. Meyers Squibb spent $16.5 NATE GORALNIK ORDERS FROM With experts predicting that billion between 1990 and 2002 THE BOSS healthcare will gobble up 18 without making a single percent of America’s annual breakthrough. However, economic output by 2012, it’s charging relatively high prices has enabled drug companies to recover about time our government forced other their costs and maintain adequate cash countries to end the price control scam that flow to continue to research and develop allows them to live like parasites off of cutthe medicines that will make the differ- rate American drugs while we foot the bill ence between life and death for millions of for research and development. Instead, a majority coalition of mostly Democrats in current and future disease victims. But while American pharmaceutical the House of Representatives recently companies continue to make life-saving passed a hopelessly misguided bill that accomplishments at a feverish pace, they would allow Americans to take part in that scam by re-importing cut-rate drugs from pharmacists in Canada and elsewhere. While drug makers wage war against disNate Goralnik ‘06 is already homesick ease, Democrats and liberal Republicans for Arizona.

seem intent on waging war against drug makers. The House bill has scary implications for the long-term health of America and the world. The Food and Drug Administration has emphasized it has no way of verifying the authenticity or the quality of drugs imported from other countries. Canadian middlemen could pass unsafe or ineffective imitations purchased from factories in Asia and Africa onto unsuspecting American customers. According to the American Medical Association, importing drugs from unknown foreign sources “makes patient harm a real possibility.” The House bill would also harm consumers in foreign local markets. Reimportation would give foreign pharmacists an incentive to export their inventories to the rich American market, which would create shortages in local markets all over the globe. Treatments would become unavailable to those who need them most. Already, American drug companies are almost totally unable to generate cash flow abroad. While America makes up only 50 percent of the global pharmaceuticals market, it generates the vast majority of its profits. If Americans, too, were allowed to consume drugs purchased at an artificially depressed price, revenues for drug makers would plunge, starving them of the cash flow necessary to finance research and development. Drug makers would be forced to cancel programs to

develop potentially life-saving treatments for diseases like cancer and AIDS. Furthermore, as lower wholesale prices eat away at drug makers’ gross margin, treatments that today only generate a small profit would likely become unprofitable. Drug companies, seeking to downsize, would be forced to either take these drugs off the market or raise prices significantly. The result would be a shortage of life-saving medicine. Fortunately, the House bill isn’t likely to survive the upcoming Senate vote. Fiftythree senators recently signed a letter condemning the bill, and Senate Republicans find pressure from the pharmaceutical lobby hard to resist. Our politicians should know by now a government can’t simply fix the price of a commodity at whatever amount it desires without causing serious imbalances of supply and demand. But with healthcare costs consuming an ever-growing share of our national income, price controls will continue to be one of those bad ideas that never seems to die. By developing safe, effective medicines, drug makers are making some of the most important achievements in human history. No cause has ever been so pressing or so universal as the fight against disease. Left-wing demagogues who attack drug companies in the name of the sick and the dying will only make their lot worse in the end. Let’s make sure pharmaceuticals have all of the funds they need to continue saving lives.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 12

IOC to crack down on doping

Why TV’s latest reality craze is a card game BEFORE THIS SUMMER I DIDN’T KNOW what Texas Hold’em was. Then I saw the World Championship of Poker, which ranked second in airtime behind some story about a basketball player. I never thought a card game would ever be alluring enough to watch on television, but throw cold hard cash into the mix and I and most of America would watch just about anything, even high stakes Yahtzee. You don’t need to be a history IAN CROPP major to realize REEKS OF CROPP gambling has been in the blood of Americans ever since the formation of the nation. Judging by the sheer enormity of the industry, it seems like the lucrative industry/addictive habit is showing few signs of abating. Similar to many of the acts considered vices, gambling has been given the euphemism of entertainment by those who support it. From the local lottery to the fantasy football league to Foxwoods casino, gambling is hard to escape. Though there are many forms of gambling, sports gambling has become one of the most popular for many good reasons. Every sports fan is a self-proclaimed genius. With a high level of assurance he can tell you why some 8th round draft pick will prove to be more useful than a new box of jock straps, how Michael Vick’s injury will affect the Falcons and whether or not Kobe Bryant is guilty. It only follows then that with such profound knowledge, money can be made, so the bet is made, although the unforeseen last minute field goal ends up proving the sports genius dead wrong. Pride, which happens to be one of the seven deadly sins, is a close cousin of gambling. Many people are proud of their sports team — or just too blind to realize there is no hope — and can be lured into the most ludicrous bets (for reference, check the case of my wallet vs. Super Bowl 25-28). Betting with these sorry sacks is tantamount to stealing, but at least it won’t put you in a cell with Buddy Cianci. Sports betting usually has an exciting game deciding the outcome of the bet. Casinos, also quite popular, fill the same niche, although games like baseball are a lot slower than roulette and it takes a few hours to lose your paycheck, not a few spins. But sometimes the casino games are not interesting enough, or rigged, so when the “Guess the number behind my back,” or “Which hand is it?” game wears thin, a football game becomes a bit more enticing. In most sports sections, you can find the latest line giving the over/under points a team is favored. It was not established to console the horrible teams and their woeful fans (although as a Buffalo Bills and Boston Red Sox fan, I have little else to cling onto), but to provide the gambling world with a more attractive contest. Honestly, who would bet on a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers without a 15-run spread? In recent years, the Internet has revolutionized sports gambling. Betting used to require going to purchase a ticket, or even calling a bookie, but now with the see CROPP, page 9

the Bears lost seven games by one goal – the team snatched a victory in the closing minutes on a goal by Christine Serdjenian ’06. On Aug. 19 the Bears faced off against FC Berne, a Swiss 1st Division Team, in Switzerland. Playing in the main stadium with a capacity of 15,000, the Bears destroyed Berne, winning 7-0. With a 3-0-1 record the team heading to Italy on Friday, Aug. 22 and began a grueling three-game stretch in three days. The team proved their mettle in each of the matches. The only controversy of the trip came in the first game in Italy against Bardolino. With the Bears down 1-0 and surging at 35 minutes into the second half the Italian official ended the game. With translators in hand Head Coach Phil Pincince was told the Italian coach had asked the official to end the game 10 minutes early to preserve his teams victory. Controversy aside, the Bears played their best game that evening with over 750 Italian fans watching. Less than 24 hours later the Bears were on the field again in Lanzo, Italy, taking on Como 2000 in 98-degree heat — not the only challenge that day. “When we got (to the field) we found out the field was real small, only 60 yards across,” Pincince said. “The field size made it a very physical game.” The game ended in a tie but there was no rest for the Brown team as it played the final game of the trip against Agliani in Fanano, Italy, at 10:15 the next morning. Once again heat — 103 degrees — and an ill-sized field greeted the Bears. “It was the biggest field we played on. Nobody complained though. It just made us tougher. We just sucked it up

(L.A. Times) — The International Olympic Committee, in a clear signal of urgency and import, proposed Monday that it work with the World Anti-Doping Agency to jointly investigate the case of U.S. sprinter Jerome Young, who competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics despite testing positive the year before for a banned steroid. The case could mean the loss of the gold medals won by the U.S. 400-meter relay team in Sydney, Australia. “In combining the experience and force of both organizations, the IOC believes that better results can be achieved,’’ the IOC said in a statement. A clear indication of the matter’s significance is that IOC President Jacques Rogge issued the proposal as he appeared Monday at a ceremony in Beijing with senior Chinese government and leading Olympic officials to formally launch the marketing program for the 2008 Summer Games, expected to generate unprecedented Games-related business opportunities. “The letter to WADA is a further step highlighting the importance that the IOC gives to this case,’’ the IOC statement said. WADA President Dick Pound said in a telephone interview, “We welcome this continuing close cooperation with the IOC in the fight against drugs in sport. We will certainly be more than willing to help in this matter.’’ The proposal for a joint inquiry was issued one day after Young won a second gold medal at the world track and field championships in Paris, anchoring the winning U.S. 400 relay. Last Tuesday, he won the individual 400 title. In Sydney, Young ran the first leg in the opening and semifinal rounds of the 400 relay. He and five others won gold when the U.S. team, anchored by Michael Johnson, cruised to an easy victory in the finals. Young, 27, of Fort Worth, acknowledged last Thursday that he tested positive in 1999. The next day, he said he had “never committed a doping offense’’ — a distinction that stops well short of a denial that he was the unidentified Olympic gold medalist who tested positive before the Games, was initially found liable of a doping violation, then on appeal was cleared to compete by USA Track & Field. The hearing and appeal process was conducted in secret. The case for years has fueled suspicions outside the United States that U.S. authorities were engaged in a cover-up. U.S. officials say they were merely abiding by confidentiality rules, not furthering a coverup. Without his successful appeal, Young faced the likelihood of a two-year suspension that would have kept him out of the 2000 Games. Because the USATF hearing and appeal were conducted in secret, the International Assn. of Athletics Federations — track’s worldwide governing body — had no chance to review the case before Sydney. In nandrolone-related cases involving athletes from other nations, even those cleared by their national federations, the IAAF had acted to bar competitors from the Sydney Games. In January, the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled USATF did not have to disclose to the IAAF details of the unnamed U.S. athlete who competed in

see W. SOCCER, page 7

see IOC, page 9

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Hayley Sennott ’04 scored in the 3-2 victory over Wacker Munich.

W. soccer European tour BY MAGGIE HASKINS

This year the Brown women’s soccer team started its season a bit differently — by playing seven exhibition games in Europe. On Aug. 14 the 23 returning soccer players touched down in London for a 12-day romp through Europe that saw the Bears dominate its foreign competition in four countries before fading on the Italian leg of their trip. This is not the first time the team has traveled abroad. According to NCAA Division I rules a team is allowed to play abroad once every four years. Last time, Brown visited Canada, England, Holland, Germany, France and Belgium. This trip found Brown visiting England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Brown kicked off its trip with a pounding of the Queens Park Rangers 7-0. The dominating was truly an entire team effort with seven different Bears scoring in the game. Meghan Schreck ’06, Dana Muhlfelder ’06 and Kristin Ferrell ’04 opened up a 3-0 in the first half, and Tory Manchester ’06, Jamie Johnson ’06, Rachel Roberts ’04 and Julie Herrold ’04 all found the back of the net in the second. The Bears followed their strong opening by attending a professional match of West Ham United vs. Sheffield United. The next day the team traveled to Salzburg, Austria, and took on TSV Pfersee. Sarah Gervais ’04 recorded another shutout in goal but the Brown offense was unable to score, ending the game in a 0-0 tie. In Game 3 of the trip the Bears began exercising some of last year’s demons in Munich, Germany. With a 2-1 lead on goals by Kim Hagner ’05 and Hayley Sennott ’04 after the first half, the Bears opponents’ Wacker Munich tied the game 2-2. Bucking a trend —last year