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Students feel unsafe despite stepped up DPS efforts BY DANIELLE CERNY

ing of the concept of democracy and said it can ultimately lead to U.S. domination and can ultimately contradict the true function of democracy — to create a global civil society. “We are in a crisis because preventive diplomacy is being replaced by preventive wars against perceived threats,” he said. Gorbachev addressed the war in Iraq more directly in a press conference at Maddock Alumni Center before the lecture. “This war should not have been started,”

Despite several new initiatives by the Department of Public Safety to protect the campus, including more officer patrols and an expanded shuttle service, nearly half of students polled by The Herald last week said they feel somewhat safe or less on campus. Given these changes, DPS Sgt. Stephen St. Jean said he was surprised by the poll results. “We are trying as hard as we can to make students feel as safe as possible,” St. Jean said. Stephanie Chu ’06, who told The Herald Monday she “somewhat agreed” that she felt safe on campus, said she agreed with St. Jean. Brown has the necessary security in place, Chu said. The problem is that not enough students are using it. The emphasis should be placed on raising awareness about the safety precautions already available and making sure students know the appropriate numbers to call, she said. “Students should be more aware that they’re living in a city,” Chu told The Herald, “and take more precautions themselves, such as walking in groups.” Recent changes with DPS include increasing the authorized force to 23 campus police officers — a 43 percent increase over previous years, Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter told The Herald in an e-mail. By reducing routine patrols of the interior of residence halls, DPS increased police visibility on campus grounds. Dorm rounds are now only for fire, health and safety inspections. DPS also instituted new swing shifts to increase the number of on-duty officers at critical parts of the evening. DPS is also holding bi-weekly meetings with the Providence Police Department and RISD

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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University.

Gorbachev tells Brown crowd world is losing sight of ideal global democracy BY MONIQUE MENESES

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, told an audience of more than 1,500 people Monday afternoon that the world is losing sight of the ideal democratic, global society. Gorbachev was on campus Monday to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University, handed to him by President Ruth Simmons. Gorbachev delivered his speech, titled “Democracy’s Impact on Globalization” on Lincoln field. It was translated from Russian. Politics and politicians alone won’t solve the world’s problems, Gorbachev said. He emphasized the importance of having a global civil society where all nations and people are involved in political processes at national and international levels. “There is a problem with political and social relationships in the global society, and the future of a democratic world order hinges on this problem,” he said. This is not the first time Gorbachev has seen room for improvement in the international community. He is recognized for his role as a visionary leader and as the force behind reforms in the Soviet Union from 1985 through 1991. Through policies such as perestroika and glasnost, which focused on governmental restructuring, Gorbachev helped to loosen the Communist Party’s grip on his country during the Cold War era, leading to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the beginning of a democratic Russia. But Gorbachev said hopes generated by the new Russian democracy and the end of the Cold War were eventually replaced by disillusionment.

“Many people are losing faith in attaining change through democratic means,” he said. Democracy’s impact on globalization is clear to Gorbachev — the world is far from his ideal of a democratic world order. Instead, he said, world politics are going through a period of “crisis.” He used the United States’ role in the war in Iraq as an example of this “crisis” and suggested the misuse of democracy can be detrimental to the “new world order,” which emphasizes community over the individual. Gorbachev cautioned against the twist-

Architect Eisenman discusses Berlin Holocaust memorial BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

What most Germans wanted from the Holocaust memorial now taking shape in Berlin was “a Rodin with seven weeping Jews under a tree,” said its architect, Peter Eisenman. “Everyone would have been happy and everyone would have gone home.” But this is precisely what Eisenman, self-proclaimed enemy of the “Holocaust industry” and self-described reluctant Jew, refused to give them, as he told a full house in Salomon 101 Monday night. Instead he said he developed, initially in collaboration with sculptor Richard Serra, a memorial that “makes you feel awful about being lost in time and space.” Plans for the memorial call for 2,700 unmarked concrete slabs, some as tall as 15 feet, uniformly concentrated across a four-acre site in the center of Berlin. When construction ends next summer, Eisenman estimated, his decontextualized memorial will stand as an alternative to the information-based, explanatory model of the Holocaust Museum in see EISENMAN, page 5

Judy He / Herald

In his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Architect Peter Eisenman said that he wanted to create something that “makes you feel awful about being in space and time.”

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The second Patriot Act is even worse than the first, says columnist Sarah Greene ’04. column,page 11

Andrew K. Stein ’06 writes a eulogy for student shuttle and escort service column, page 11

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T W. soccer co-captain tears ACL and team loses to Big Green in season’s first Ivy game sports, page 12

Football falls to Harvard after winning game against Albany last week sports, page 12

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Former inmate recalls experiences on death row BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

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Paris Carriger was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery in 1978 and released from prison in January 1999. He spoke to students about being an inmate on Arizona’s death row.

Wearing worn black jeans, pointy-toed boots, a sweatshirt that read, “I survived the death penalty” and an “Execute justice, not people” pin, Paris Carriger spoke to about 50 students Monday night, sharing memories from his 21-year experience as an inmate on Arizona’s death row. Carriger, who was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery in 1978, was released from prison in January 1999 after an 11-judge panel ruled he had the right to a new trial. Rather than wait two years for a new trial, Carriger chose to leave prison immediately, entering into a plea bargain with the state of Arizona. His record still says he is guilty of second-degree murder and robbery. Carriger’s journey from free man to death row and back again is littered with strokes of incredible chance for better and for worse. Carriger said that when Robert Gibson Shaw was murdered in 1978, he was fingered and convicted thanks to testimony from a former friend, Robert Dunbar, who was rewarded with immunity for another crime. Dunbar’s testimony has convicted 11 Arizonans, Carriger said, but because these other men are not on death row, they have not benefited from the appeal options Carriger was able to use. Although an appeal did finally free Carriger, the appeals process was one of frustration. “It puts a sheen or a polish on a conviction, makes it seem like the government was searching for the truth,” he said. In actuality, he argued, the government’s concern is not the truth, but maintaining an inherently flawed system that gives the American people a false sense of security. Carriger said his state-appointed public defender was inexperienced, so he wrote his first five appeals himself. Then, after nine years in prison, Dunbar, the man whose testimony convicted Carriger in 1978, confessed to the murder of Shaw. But fate turned on Carriger once again. While the state investigated the new information, Dunbar, whose health took a see DEATH ROW, page 4

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Death row continued from page 3 sudden turn for the better, withdrew his confession, Carriger said. As the legal process wore on Carriger said he realized, “I was going to die.” Prison, which Carriger described as “a magnified grave made of steel and stone” was a place where Carriger served others, by acting as an “inmate paralegal,” and witnessed the inequalities of the justice system firsthand. The average death row inmate is between 20 and 25 years old with an IQ that is barely on the low side of normal, Carriger said. Their education is usually that of a fourth or fifth grader. “These are people designed by society to be our whipping boys,” he said, noting African Americans are especially at risk. Black people who kill whites are 10 times more likely than other murderers to

receive the death penalty, Carriger said. Carriger said he was stabbed 31 times during his 21 years in prison and that guards encouraged many of these fights. Carriger said that as his anger toward the state grew, he saw fighting and destroying prison property as a way “to make the state look bad.” He also said he was not above playing prison politics just because he was innocent. “Most of what’s in the prisons are mental midgets, and that favored me,” Carriger said, describing how he would play the other inmates off against one another in order to keep himself out of trouble. He thus kept his record clean in anticipation of future appeals. Carriger’s final appeal came in 1995 and, once again, involved a fair amount of luck. “I’m not living because the law worked,” he said, but instead because the final court that ruled on his case was comprised of six liberals and five

conservatives. The U.S. Supreme Court chose to let that court’s decision stand, effectively ruling Carriger’s first trial had been illegitimate. In the almost four years since he left prison, Carriger said he has lived on a few hundred dollars a month from the state of Arizona and that any money he accepts for speaking engagements is deducted from those payments. He is classified as disabled and was in a wheelchair for four years because of muscle atrophy. Today, Carriger takes anti-hallucinatory and anti-anxiety medications and has been on constant painkillers for seven months. Large open spaces can provoke anxiety attacks after 21 years in a five-foot cell, Carriger said. The former citizen of death row also said he was haunted by almost 40 different recurring execution nightmares and sleeps only one or two hours each night. To relax, Carriger said, he likes to drive his truck slowly and go fishing early in the morning. He is working on writing three books, he said, but the process is difficult because of the memories writing forces him to recall. Carriger said his vision of a reformed criminal justice system would include two tracks –– one for those who can be rehabilitated and should spend no longer than five years incarcerated, and another for those whose crimes reflect mental disabilities. Those criminals, Carriger said, should spend the rest of their lives in a mental institution. “The biggest business in the U.S. right now is crime and punishment, prisons and all the accoutrements thereof,” Carriger said. “It’s the biggest employer. … But jail is not a place for anyone that wants an honorable answer.” Carriger was brought to Brown by Alexandra Gross ’04.5, who has known Carriger her entire life. Gross’ mother, a psychologist, communicated with Carriger via letters beginning in the 1980s, and Gross said she and Carriger struck up a pen-pal relationship when she was a very young child. “He has been a source of wisdom and inspiration for me my entire life,” Gross said in her introduction in Wilson 102. Herald senior staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

Poll continued from page 1 to improve Brown’s force, Hunter wrote. Brown’s Special Service Bureau now includes a Special Victims Unit, with the manager of special services being appointed the special victims coordinator, he wrote. The special victims coordinator is in charge of providing victim and witness assistance, particularly in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault and hate crimes. DPS has always offered shuttles, safewalk, escorts and safety lectures in an attempt to keep students as safe as they can, St. Jean told The Herald. The available shuttle service was improved by recent safety changes, including the addition of new routes and the expansion of the area for on-call service, Hunter wrote. But the transition to a professionally run shuttle service has been difficult for students. Some avoid taking the shuttle because of experiences with drivers who lack

Gorbachev continued from page 1 he told reporters. “I predicted the U.S. would win militarily. I was right. I predicted keeping things under control internationally would be difficult; I was right. All these things came true and even turned out for the worse.” Although the future does not look bright, he said, there are things that can be done to improve the situation in Iraq. “We need to find a way to unite the efforts of U.N. Security Council members because stabilization is in the common interest for all of us,” he said. During the lecture, Gorbachev said the problem today is not that there is too much democracy but that there is too little. He suggested the international community find ways to expand democracy and apply it to relevant situations. “Democracy itself needs democratization,” he said, which will come about through a process of decentralization. “We need political action not only by politicians but by civil society.” In response to a student’s question about what he would do differently during his time as president if given the chance, Gorbachev said he would start with more reforms as a wiser, more experienced person. He acknowledged that he had made some mistakes along the

knowledge of the campus and their routes, students told The Herald Sunday. Off campus, the Thayer Street Improvement District hired a security firm to patrol the street and is in the process of making other improvements. All of these changes have led to greater success in apprehending criminals, Hunter wrote. “In the past, people were notified only about the crimes, not the captures,” he wrote. “Last week’s capture of a robbery suspect was a great collaborative effort that included RISD, PPD and Brown.” Jeffrey Boaz ’06 said he would have “agreed” with the statement that he felt safe on campus had he been polled, but he said he always looks over his shoulder when he walks alone at night. The best way to stay safe, St. Jean said, is to not take any chances and use the safety services that Brown offers. “If students use what we have in place,” he said, “they should have a good, safe year.” Herald senior staff writer Danielle Cerny ’06 can be reached at dcerny@browndailyherald.com.

way. “We acted too late in reforming the Communist Party, and we acted too late in taking steps to stabilize the financial situation and the consumer market,” he said. But, he said, “I have no regrets.” Gorbachev received a standing ovation from the audience. “I thought he was well-spoken and articulate,” Arjun Iyengar ’05 said. But others felt there were some questions Gorbachev had left unanswered. Sergei Khrushchev, son of former president of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev and senior fellow of the Global Security Program at Brown University, told The Herald that although he enjoyed the speech, Gorbachev did not address how the international community can achieve his ideal of a global civil society. “He told us where you have to go, but he did not say how we have to accomplish it,” he said. “Everybody knows that we must live better, but the problem is how will we be able to live better? (Gorbachev) did not answer this question.” Gorbachev’s lecture was part of the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture series on International Affairs. Herald senior staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

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Eisenman continued from page 1 Washington, D.C., and others like it. The memorial could also become a “skateboard heaven” and the perfect medium for graffiti, if visitors choose to put it to those uses, Eisenman said. “If that’s the way Berliners want to treat this, so be it,” he said. “We’ll see what happens.” Eisenman’s philosophy about his project is in sharp contrast with the traditional way a Holocaust memorial is expected to bear witness. Rather than synthesizing and

Goldman continued from page 8 Thursday, but it could still happen. In the National League, there is the same sort of intrigue. The second team America loves to see lose, the Chicago Cubs, are division champions, their first since 1989. The Cubs have three of the best pitchers in baseball in Kerry Wood (14-11, 3.20 ERA), young, southern California fireballer Mark Prior (18-6, 2.43 ERA) and fellow young sensation Carlos Zambrano (13-11, 3.11 ERA). But, they are facing a very potent offense with a lot of playoff experience. The Braves lineup is absolutely deadly. With four players with over 100 RBIs, and five players with over 20 HR, this lineup has exhausted even the best of pitching staffs. Sammy Sosa may have to cork everyone’s bats in order to stay with this offense. The Braves pitching, although not as dominant as in years past, is no slouch. John Smoltz and his impressive 45 saves is joined by a solid quartet of starting pitchers — Russ Ortiz, who oh-bythe-way had 21 wins, Greg Maddux, who eclipsed 15 wins for the 15th straight year, Mike Hampton, who is thanking the Rockies management everyday for getting him out of Coors Field and Horacio Ramirez, who went 12-4 this year and threw the Braves’ first complete game of the season (yeah, that was Ramirez) — who have the ability to send the Northsiders home early once again.

rationalizing the tragedy, Eisenman said the Berlin memorial will speak primarily through silence. With the exception of an informational area underground, the site remains unmarked, he said. The slabs will be made of concrete because “it was the dumbest material we could think of.” But despite his commitment to creating a new way of representing the Holocaust, Eisenman said he has never seen himself as a Jewish architect. Raised in a Jewish family that always had a Christmas tree, Eisenman said his background was unrelated to his interest in the project and gave him no special insight into the

Holocaust as he and Serra developed their proposal. In fact, when Eisenman suggested a collaboration to Serra, it was in part because he was unaware Serra was Jewish, he said. But the sculptor wasn’t on the project for long. After two hours of listening to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s reservations and proposed revisions, Serra expressed to Kohl “the feeling that you’re going to ruin the project,” ending the collaboration. “That’s the difference between artists and architects,” Eisenman said of Serra, whom he said he still considers a friend. “Sculptors don’t compromise, but architects

Lastly, that storied franchise no one has come to see, the Florida Marlins. Youth has been injected in this team after Jack McKeon, who is no spring chicken at 72, took over managerial duties midway through the season. He was helped by 21-yearold high-leg-kicking phenom Dontrelle Willis who went 13-6 with a 3.41 ERA, but Willis did struggle a bit in the second half of the season only going 5-3. The two pests at the top of the Marlins lineup, Juan Pierre and Luis Castillo will cause problems for the Giant’s pitching. Pierre had the first 200 hit season in Marlins history while Castillo hit .314 with 187 hits. If these two can continue to get on base and set the table for Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, Derek Lee, Juan Encarnacion and Mike Lowell, fresh off his injured hand, it could be problems for the Giants. But, the Giants have Barry Bonds and no one else does. Florida manager Jack McKeon said they would not allow Bonds to beat them but he will anyway. No one has done what Bonds has done in the past three seasons, and the whole “Bonds does not show up in the postseason” thing is over. He will beat them even if McKeon says he won’t let them. The rest of the Giant team is no slouch. Ray Durham and Marquis Grissom have both been very pleasant surprises while 87-year-old Benito Santiago is still very solid protecting Bonds. If it weren’t for Eric Gagne’s pesky perfect season, Jason Schmidt would be the Cy Young Award winner. This

team is geared for another run, and Barry Bonds is just the person to take them there. There it is. Playoff baseball, a great precursor to the fall classic. Hopefully, it will be as crazy as a Red Sox-Cubs World Series. Justin Goldman ’07 hails from Philadelphia. He’s something clever.

don’t have that liberty. “I myself am a B-plus architect,” Eisenman added, with a smile. “If I get 80 percent on a controversial project, that’s stunning.” After Gerhard Schroeder assumed the chancellorship in October 1998, it seemed the memorial might not be built at all, Eisenman said. What saved the project was the insistence of the German Jewish community that the memorial’s opponents were anti-Semitic, he said. Suddenly, he said, its execution was mandated by German legislation. Along with this institutional status came vigorous, productive public debate, Eisenman said —

as opposed to stunted conversations about the World Trade Center memorial. Eisenman said he is stunned by how few critics have attempted to tackle Daniel Liebskind’s plan for the site, which he added has been “bastardized” by developers and commercial architects. “If what is happening to Daniel Liebskind had happened to us in Germany, I would have publicly resigned,” he said. Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 edits the campus watch section. She can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

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Safety at any cost Most Brown students face a common dilemma several nights a week: walk home down a deserted street or hang out on a lonely corner waiting for the shuttle to come. Neither option is particularly appealing. But given our general impatience and hectic schedules, most of us will opt for the former. No wonder almost half of Brown students feel somewhat safe or less on campus. Part of this general uneasiness is a lack of initiative, but part is also logistical. As students told The Herald last Sunday, the shuttle and escort services are not particularly convenient or easy to use. If they were more efficiently run, students would be more apt to take advantage of them. The shuttle service suffers from two major problems — lack of regularity and unclearly marked stops. If Brown could set up a bus stop-like situation, with better-labeled stops, clearly posted schedules and maybe even benches, ridership would dramatically increase. Although the escort service is more individually-tailored to students’ schedules, it has on major flaw — it stops running at 3 a.m., sometimes earlier. If you’re up late studying in a friend’s lounge or typing in a C.I.T. cluster, you’re out of luck. How can the University explore the potential for 24-hour study spaces when they don’t have adequate nighttime transportation? Even extending shuttle and escort hours to 5 or 6 a.m. would dramatically improve students’ safety. Students shouldn’t have to feel the need to look over their shoulders on lonely walks home. The shuttle service’s resources may be stretched as thin as its budget allows, but when it comes to student safety, money should be no object.

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LETTERS Students are contributing to political campaigns contrary to Herald article To The Editor: RE: “Brown faculty, students donate less than $4k to 2004 candidates” (September 26): Last Friday the Herald reported that only one Brown student has contributed to a candidate for the 2004 presidential election, according to the Federal Election Commission database. Unfortunately, the article failed to note several important facts. First, the FEC’s database only displays contributions of $200 or more. Many students can only afford much smaller contributions. Second, identifying yourself as a Brown student is optional when donating funds to a campaign. Additionally, contributions from the third quarter

(July to September), the most politically active quarter thus far in this primary, have not yet been reported and included in the FEC database. Many Brown students have indeed contributed to a 2004 presidential candidate, most notably to Howard Dean. While the individual contributions might be small, it is significant that thousands of college students nationwide are suddenly making an important financial contribution to support a candidate who they believe offers hope for a better future. Students are showing an unprecedented level of civic involvement in the political process. On campus, Brown Students for Dean has been fundraising and campaigning since the summer. Last night we hosted a party to raise funds and participate in Dean’s “largest conference call in history.” The contributions of hundreds of thousands of Americans, including Brown students, are changing the face of American politics. More Brown students should join this historic effort to make an important and influential statement by financially supporting a candidate this election because their future is at stake, too.

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 · PAGE 7

Candles in the wind A eulogy for student drivers as Brown completes its first, sad month of safeRIDE EARLY ONE MORNING IN MID-MAY, Dylan, the student drivers gave us “shelter the Brown Shuttle’s student drivers shuf- from the storm.” And did these captains of the Brown fled off their Brunonian coil. Only the paternal dispatcher and the sibling drivers ferry ask for much in return? No! They of Shuttle and Escort were present to hear were emotional camels, able to endure barren stretches without human contact the death knell’s stoic toll. or creature comforts. In (Disembodied, static-type exchange for their fidelity and voice.) consistency, they had only “Dispatch to all Shuttle and three requests: (1) No food or Escort units: the time is 3 a.m. alcohol. (2) Do not slam the Student-run shuttle service door. (3) Take your trash with has ended forever. Drop off all you. your passengers, do not pick We are here not to mourn a up any new ones and return to demise, but to celebrate 75 Charlesfield. Park along the renewal, for that is surely what back fence, front facing the drivers would have wanted. out. Take up your clipboards, Although a hundred student trash, etc. Thank you for 24 ANDREW K. STEIN drivers now sleep with the years of service. It’s time to YOUR PLACE unemployed fishes, they have bring it in.” OR MINE? gone on to a better place. Take “Bring it in.” The student comfort my fellow traveler, for drivers of Shuttle and Escort St. Christopher, the patron brought us all in, into the warm embrace of two sliding doors, six saint of shuttle drivers (really), has found a passenger seat, and one direction: for- few of these lost souls a job driving the ward. Always forward. At no more than 25 library’s reshelving cart. “Next stop: periodicals.” miles per hour. Today we celebrate 24 years of student Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stayed these drivers from drivers, a promising life cut tragically the swift completion of their appointed short by the cruel knife of the so-called rounds. Mostly. They kept us warm when “General Laws of Rhode Island, Section we were cold, dry when we were wet, 31-10-5.” It was a life of both strengths indulged when we were indolent. In the and flaws. And, no, the student drivers actually comprehensible words of Bob were not perfect. Take, for example, their hermetic distaste for large crowds. Yet, I ask you: Who among us does not underA poetic summary, by Andrew K. Stein ’06: stand the desire to stick to no more than We used to have a great shuttle service / exactly six of your friends? Let he who is Brown messed with it / Now we have a without anthropophobia cast the first mediocre shuttle service

With 10 shuttles departing each hour, a trip to exercise at the OMAC was never unreasonable, and we were a healthier and better-looking college for it. The student drivers made us pretty. stone. Yes, the drivers of the shuttle would go only one way, but in that sense they were always moving toward the future. The shuttle route was simple and elegant — a minimalist and utilitarian masterpiece. Like Toucan Sam, the shuttle drivers withstood the tedium of loops. Besides slacking off on weekends — as we all do — the student drivers were consistent, unfailing rocks of aegis. In the veritable chaos that is the 10-hour period from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m., they represented a daily nirvana of order and dependability. Last year they provided 70,000 rides. They visited us every six minutes. And the student drivers rarely asked for ID, because they trusted us unfailingly. More than anything, the student drivers and their virginal white Dodge Caravans made this Brobdingnagian campus a cozier and more intimate place to live. At a fragmented college with an elusive social life, the shuttle made it easy to get out and meet new friends. With 10 shuttles departing each hour, a trip to exercise at the OMAC was never unreasonable, and we were a healthier and better-looking college for it. The student drivers made us pretty. (Deep breath. Quieter.)

The Class of 2007 has entered Brown. Father Goldberger has (yawn) anointed these first-years “the best class ever.” However, their experience of the ersatz shuttle is one of cold professionalism. They know only of confusing routes and 20-minute waits. Fourteen hundred Brown students will, alas, have no memories of our beloved chariot drivers. Some may say the student drivers have been “replaced.” Yet, I ask you, can you “replace” a favorite teddy bear? Can you “replace” a best friend? Can you “replace” a mother? You may have their car keys, Mr. safeRIDE, but you will never have their hearts. I dare say the student drivers felt love for us. We will never know for certain, but all the signs were unmistakably there. Kindness. Warmth. Attention. Fidelity. Trust. Wanderlust. Alternative Rock. If that is not love … I do not want to know what love is. (Pause. Collect yourself.) The Bible tells the story of King David, who wrote many poems and songs in praise for his God. One translation of his psalms, however, stands out above the rest. It is a message of thanks echoed through countless generations. “The Lord is my Shuttle. I shall not walk.”

The Patriot Act reloaded While we’re focused on the Clintons’ behind-the-scenes maneuvers, the Bush administration readies another Patriot Act READING THE PAPER, WATCHING THE because (altruistic version) they think Clark nightly news or listening to the radio, would best lead the party and country for you’d think Bill Clinton was still in office. the next eight years, leaving them applaudWhile right-wing pundits continue to ing on the sidelines, or (Machiavellian verpaint former White House residents Bill sion) they think his muddy-the-waters canand Hillary as public enemies one and two didacy is their ticket back to the White (or two and one), the current right-wing House in 2004 or 2008. Which is more like residents of the White House continue to the Clintons?” But someone has to lead the Democrats, paint over our civil liberties. Clintonmania, though it has lain mostly and it seems that only Clinton is up to the task. The reason the dormant since its Monicagate Republicans have taken power heyday, is still prone to inflamis that their party works in a unimation at even the slightest fied, no-McCains-need-apply, provocation. When California’s top-down way. While unfortuNinth Circuit Court of Appeals nately, this means that when famously postponed the recall moderates emerge, looking to election two days after Bill combine fiscal conservatism Clinton went to church with with a degree of social liberalism California Gov. Gray Davis, (so you can have your tax cuts right-wing radio announcer and your gay marriage, too), Roger Hedgecock announced, they only briefly threaten the “Clinton comes to town and a SARAH GREEN party’s central command before day later two of his appointees BETTER THAN CATS they are again shunted to the on the appellate court decide side. But at least Republicans to nix the election. … This is are capable of winning electhe stuff of a banana republic.” William Safire also characterized Bill tions. Meanwhile, in Democratistan, a Clinton as a kind of Holy-Arkansan- baker’s dozen of presidential candidates flit Emperor with the kind of pull Machiavelli to and fro across the political landscape like only had wet dreams about. Last week, in a attention-deficient schoolchildren at recess. But despite the fears of the Clinton cracolumn entitled “Clintons Anoint Clark,” he described Democratic presidential candi- zies, the former president and the senator date Gen. Clark as a politically naïve pawn, from New York do not pose a real threat to “surrounded by the Clinton-Gore mafia,” the nation. The real threat comes not from whom the Clintons are using to further the man who used to be in the White their own power-grasping ends — com- House, nor the woman who may one day plete control of the Democratic party, and, return to it, but from the man currently livultimately, what Safire calls “a Restoration.” ing there — the man at the top of the He concludes his column with the paranoid Republican pyramid. While Bill Clinton contents himself with surmise, “Either (the Clintons) are for him golf, Hillary’s book tour and the occasional speech, is George Bush contenting himself Sarah Green ’04 prefers J. Crew.

with decoupage, flower arrangements and the occasional threat to national wildlife preserves? I think not. Patriot Act II. Like most sequels, this one promises to be worse than the original. If you don’t know what the Patriot Act is, I suggest you call your local Internet provider and have them check the connection to your hermitage. Patriot II purports to strengthen the Patriot Act, but its language is vague and its provisions redundant. If passed, like any law, it can be used in as many ways as it can be interpreted. For example, the Mann Act of 1910 (part of a series of immigration laws) prohibits the transportation of women across state lines for “immoral purposes.” Although the law was aimed at curbing prostitution, pro-life types are now suggesting it could be used to inhibit access to abortion. So John Ashcroft’s attempt to show the government hasn’t been invoking its power to snoop on you doesn’t mean that one day the government won’t snoop on you. “The bottom line is not so much what may or may not have been done in the past, but what might be done in the future,” said Representative Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is sponsoring legislation to protect bookstores and libraries from the Patriot Act. And he’s not alone in his critique — it’s not just libertarian librarians (say that five times fast) who are criticizing Patriots I and II. Congress is growing increasingly skeptical of Patriotesque legislation, on both sides of the aisle. The House of Representatives — controlled by Republicans — recently voted against socalled “sneak and peek” searches, which allow the government to “delay” notifying the subject of its investigation that he or she is being scrutinized.

But even as Congress discusses scaling back the original Patriot Act, here comes Attorney General John Ashcroft arguing for Patriot II. In a recent speech, Ashcroft asserted, “According to these breathless reports and baseless hysteria, some have convinced the American Library Association that under the bipartisan Patriot Act, the FBI is not fighting terrorism. Instead, agents are checking how far you have gotten on the latest Tom Clancy novel.” But in case the (apparently idiotic) ALA has convinced you the government does care about the 32 times you checked out the Koran, Ashcroft also reassures us that the Patriot Act has never been used to check up on what the public is reading. Really. ‘Cause in May, the Justice Department claimed it had contacted libraries at least 50 times as part of its antiterror investigations and refused to say whether it had taken information from library records. Ashcroft went to great lengths to discredit the ALA’s reaction to the Justice Department’s power-grab and did his best to belittle the importance of any data gleaned from libraries. But if it’s such an unimportant part of the law, then why is Ashcroft embarking on a publicly-funded goodwill tour to strengthen it? If the government hasn’t even used certain provisions of the old Patriot Act, what is the sense in expanding those provisions? Essentially, the White House is saying, “We really, really, really need a new Patriot Act to give us more power to spy on all Americans, because we haven’t used the power we already have. Trust us.” And that, more than anything the Clintons have been up to, is the stuff of a banana republic.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 · PAGE 8

Stingy Dartmouth defense tops women’s soccer

Playoff fever

BY CHRIS MAHR

NOW THAT THE BASEBALL REGULAR season is over, there is much to be excited about. This postseason has the makings of something spectacular. With so many story lines, where should we begin? Why not begin right here in New England. It is crazy enough that the Cubs and the Red JUSTIN GOLDMAN Sox, both of SPORTS GUY America’s cursed franchises, are in the postseason together. The scarier thing is that both of these teams could end up facing each other in the World Series. Let’s start with the Red Sox. The experts say good pitching always beats good hitting, but that is not the case with this year’s Red Sox. Though Oakland has two of the best starters in baseball in Barry Zito (14-12, 3.30 ERA) and Tim Hudson (16-7, 2.70 ERA), with budding stars Ted Lilly (12-9, 4.18 ERA) and Rich Harden (5-4 4.52 ERA) close behind, the Red Sox offense is too good. There has not been an offense like this in the major leagues since, well, this year, with the Atlanta Braves — but offensively, the Red Sox are the American League version of the Braves. It is pick your poison with this lineup. With eight players who have over 80 RBI, there is no one to pitch around. It doesn’t bode well for opposing pitching that the batting champion, Bill Mueller, and the runner-up, Manny Ramirez, are in the same lineup. Those two, along with emerging MVP candidate David Ortiz as well as doeverything shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, free agent pickup Todd Walker and lastly Trot Nixon (who should shave his Fu Manchu mustache), make this a lineup no team wants to run into. Pedro Martinez (14-4, 2.22 ERA) is ready to put this whole pitching staff on his back and carry them into the next round. This will not be an easy task because there are also some big bats in the A’s line-up. Reigning AL MVP Miguel Tejada has stepped up since his slow start in the beginning of the year, finishing with 27 home runs and 106 RBI while hitting .278. Midseason pick-up Jose Guillen has been a true spark to the lineup, finishing with 23 home runs and 78 RBI while battling a hand injury in the latter part of the season. Eric Chavez turned in a very nice 29 home runs and 101 RBIs while hitting .282. However, the A’s have not won a first-round playoff series since the first Bush administration, and this year should not be any different. The Bronx Bombers will also have no walk in the park in the first round of the playoffs. Although it doesn’t seem like the Twins have beaten the Yankees since Pat Burrell hit over .210, anything is possible. It is true that all signs point to the Yankees. They went 7-0 against the Twins in the regular season. All of the Yankee pitchers have pitched well against the Twins in their careers, led of course by Mike Mussina who is 20-2 lifetime against the Twins. However, the Twins finished the season very strong and won their second straight AL Central Division title. They overtook the Royals and the “promising” White Sox to repeat as division champions. If the Twins are able to steal a game on the road, and the home crowd gets behind them waving their towels in that dome, who knows what can happen. The Yankees are still the favorite, but to steal a phrase from Al Pacino, “on any given Sunday, any team can beat any team.” In this case it is any given Tuesday or

In its first Ivy League match of the season on Saturday, the Brown women’s soccer team suffered a dual blow. Bruno dropped the game 3-0 to the Dartmouth Big Green, and lost Co-Captain Kristin Ferrell ’04 for the season, thanks to a torn ACL. Ferrell, the team’s leading goal scorer, suffered a torn ACL at the outset of the second half, an injury that will sideline her for the remainder of the season. The first half saw action on both sides of the field, with neither team able to put the ball in the net, leaving the score at 0-0 at halftime. Bruno continued to fight hard, as CoCaptain Rachel Roberts ’04 launched a shot that was inches from going in at the far post. Thirteen minutes into the second half, senior forward Lea Kiefer scored what turned out to be the gamewinning goal for Dartmouth. After a Jennie Tonneson goal in the 72nd minute, Kiefer would add one more score with seven minutes remaining. The game summary may have suggested a tale of two halves, but Saturday’s game was anything but that. “When it was 1-0, we had a chance to tie it up,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “We had six opportunities in a row to score. Ten minutes after that they scored their second goal. We still don’t have Kim (Lavere ’06) or Molly (Cahan ’04), and we lost Kristin in the second half. All those little things make a difference.” The three goals scored by Dartmouth on Saturday were the first Brown had allowed in two and a half games. Additionally, Brown had scored two or more goals in four consecutive games until this match. “We did not expect the power they had,” Pincince said. “They haven’t had a lot of games (this year) where they’ve scored a lot of goals.” However, the strong defensive effort

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Co-captain Kristin Ferrell ’04 suffered a knee injury that knocked her out of the game. by the Big Green came as no surprise. “They’ve always had a stingy defense,” Pincince said, “though not so much this year. We had some good chances to go up 1-0 and tie it 1-1. We just have to continue to put away the opportunities we get.” The Dartmouth game was a tough one, but the gauntlet that is the Ivy League will not get any easier in the coming weeks. “In the last several years, we have had to be ready to play an incredible game every time,” said Pincince of the Ivy League schedule. “There is no easy

game in this league. It is extremely tough.” One need look no further than the other Ivy League openers this past weekend to see this. Harvard defeated Penn 2-1, Cornell shut out Columbia 30, and Princeton downed Yale 4-2. “There were a lot of goals scored this weekend,” Pincince said, indicating that Dartmouth’s offense will not be the last source of fire power Bruno will see this season. Brown’s season continues when the Bears face the Providence College Friars on Wednesday.

Turnovers plague football in loss versus Harvard BY CHRIS HATFIELD

The Brown football team (1-1, 0-1 Ivy League) came back down to earth Saturday after its opening day win at Albany last week, losing at Harvard 5214. The Bears squad showed its youth, as the Crimson double-threat quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick took control of the game early and never let go. The start of the game was promising for Bruno. After winning the toss and choosing to defer, Anjel Gutierrez ’05 picked off his second pass of the year on Harvard’s first play of the game, giving the Bears’ offense excellent field position. But Bruno couldn’t capitalize on the opportunity when a 42-yard field goal attempt by Paul Christian ’06 missed. “If we score on that first possession, it’s probably a whole different game,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. Things only got worse on Brown’s next possession. A Brown receiver made an incorrect read, running the wrong route for the situation. As a result, quarterback Kyle Slager ’04 was picked off by Harvard defensive back Chris Raftery, who returned the ball 23 yards for the first touchdown of the game. Brown quickly answered back, driving the ball 82 yards on six plays on its ensuing drive. Slager dumped the ball off to tailback Nick Hartigan ’06 for a 14-yard score to cap the drive and knot the score

at seven to end the first quarter. “Our defense had Harvard off-balance and their defense had us off-balance. It was a pretty defensive game for the first quarter,” Slager said. On the first Harvard drive of the second quarter, Fitzpatrick avoided a blitz by the Bears and found receiver Brian Edwards for a 42-yard scoring strike. This would be the first of seven consecutive drives for Harvard that ended in points, where Fitzpatrick threw for four touchdowns and ran for two. Missed assignments and hesitation by the Brown defense were keys to Harvard’s success. Harvard went into halftime with a 287 lead, but with the score 35-7 in the third quarter, Hartigan finally broke out of what was a rough day overall, exploding for a 61-yard run. Slager found tight end Nick Christ ’04 all by himself on a play action pass to put the finishing touch on the drive. But that would end the scoring for the Bears, as the Crimson added two touchdowns and a field goal before the final whistle to win by 38 points. “Harvard’s a good football team,” Estes said. “You can’t play a good football team and turn it over three times and expect to win.” Next week promises to be just as tough for Bruno, as it plays host to the

University of Rhode Island in the annual Governor’s Cup game. Brown leads the all-time series with a record of 64-21-2, but the Rams have won the Cup the last two years. URI’s offense has been outstanding so far this season, averaging just under 35 points a game, while its defense has been improving steadily. The Rams are riding a two game winning streak entering this weekend’s showdown, evening their record at 2-2. As usual, Estes points to mistake-free football as the key to defeating the Rams. “We’ve got to do what we can to keep drives going,” Estes said. “Their quarterback is a great runner, and they’ve got two fullbacks who run real well also. If you key on the quarterback, then the guys around him will kill you.” The task will also be made tougher with the absence of tri-captain fullback Brent Grinna ’04, as well as the possible absences of tri-captain defensive lineman Christian Garnett ’04 and safety Craig Young ’05, who are both listed as questionable. In addition to the prestigious matchup, Bruno is glad to finally be playing its first home game after playing two on the road. Herald staff writer Chris Hatfield ’06 covers football. He can be reached at chatfield@browndailyherald.com.

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