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New software contract will enable online registration

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

SCT, a software company that specializes in computer programs for universities, will implement Brown’s first enterprise system, which will pave the way for putting online registration, financial aid statements and other student services online.

Computing and Information Services officials signed a 10-year contract with SCT Tuesday, Vice President for CIS Ellen Waite-Franzen wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

The University will pay a one-time licensing fee and an annual maintenance fee for the software. WaiteFranzen declined during a telephone interview to say how much the University will pay for the software and accompanying services.

Pennsylvania-based SCT will provide its Banner student information system, according to Waite-Franzen. That program will, in part, allow students to register online and see information about specific classes, including whether enrollment is limited or permission is required, she wrote.

University staff and officials considered three software vendors — SCT, Oracle and Peoplesoft — for the University-wide software license, or enterprise system.

Employees and leaders of nine different University departments — including development, financial aid and the registrar’s office — evaluated the three vendors and reported the preferred vendor to Waite-Franzen at the end of the summer.

Members of the committee declined to reveal if the group favored SCT. Waite-Franzen said the committee decided that all three software vendors had products that could have met the needs of the University, though Oracle’s see SCT, page 12

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Robinson said a CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company once told him,“The only reason I care about the environment is because the EPA makes me.”Robinson said this attitude prevents cost-effective environmental innovation and results in long-term cleanup expenditures.

Environmentalist Robinson ’64 outlines benefits of socially responsible investing

BY ALEJANDRO GOLDING

Economic gain and the environment are compatible concepts, said environmentalist Jack Robinson ’64 in a Wednesday night lecture, “Green begets Green.”

Robinson outlined the benefits of environmentally guided investments in the first of four lectures in Brown’s “socially responsible investing” series.

The lecture series was originally suggested by the President’s Staff Advisory Committee, in response to the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility

in Investing’s decision to ban University investment in tobacco companies.

Originally proposed last spring, the resolution was passed in September.

Robinson acknowledged ethical investing is “not always an easy path.” He said that, while it may not seem initially promising, environmentally conscious companies will ultimately see better returns. He cited a Duke University study which found that the return on investment of “green and cleans” significantly outperformed that of the “dirties.”

American academics and Kurdish political reps. discuss promise and anxiety in post-war Iraq at Brown forum

BY ZACH BARTER

For Lokman Ablakhi, who came to the United States from Iraqi Kurdistan, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has ushered in a period of great promise and great anxiety.

The ultimate goal, he said, is self-determination for the Kurdish people and the creation of an independent Kurdish state.

The question, however, is whether the United States will do what it takes to bring that about.

“I hope the Americans recognize the loyalty of the Kurds,” Ablakhi said. “That’s what I hope for, but I don’t know if the U.S. will do it or not.”

Ablakhi was one of almost 100 people in attendance Wednesday night at “Iraq at

War: Kurdish Prospects.” The event, a panel discussion in Lower Salomon, brought together a group of American academics and Kurdish political representatives to consider the future of the Kurds in post-war Iraq.

An estimated four to five million Kurds live in Iraq, mostly in the country’s northern regions, making them by far the country’s largest non-Arab ethnic group. Kurds also form substantial minorities in Turkey, Iran, Syria, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Edmund Ghareeb, an adjunct professor of Middle East history at American University, framed the discussion in terms of the Kurds’ ability to control their own destiny.

“Are they players or are they chips in

the high-stakes game of international politics?” Ghareeb said. “They themselves are conscious of their own Kurdishness, and that, more than anything else, makes them a nation.”

But panelists questioned the feasibility of an independent Kurdish state in the region.

Ghareeb said the idea causes concern in neighboring countries with Kurdish minorities, most notably Turkey, while others underscored the complexity of Kurdish identities.

“We all assume that there is a unified Kurdish identity there, and that is not the case,” said M. Hakan Yavuz, an assistant see IRAQ, page 12

I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 1 , 2 0 0 3 RISD students risk mono getting some lovin’ at campus kissing booth risd news, page 3

Queer Alliance lacks own building, but moves into space four times as large as before page 5

UCS supports Queer Alliance in National Coming Out Day, providing listserv access page 5

Robinson said it is a common misconception that environmental considerations cost companies money.

He emphasized that companies should stop viewing the environment as a “cost center” and begin to understand it as a “value creation.”

When an audience member posed a question about why no Fortune 500 companies were considered “green,” Robinson credited this misconception. Robinson recalled an encounter with a CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company in which the CEO said, “The only reason I care about the environment is because the EPA makes me.” Robinson said this attitude prevents cost-effective environmental innovation and results in long-term cleanup expenditures.

Robinson said corporate America “is not concerned with the environment” and consequently spends millions on fines. He said if these companies adopted environmentally sound policies they could not only avoid fines but increase their profit margins. He pointed to the automobile industry, where the refusal of America’s big three car manufacturers to adopt new environmentally friendly strategies is likely to result in “bankruptcies or inevitable mergers with their stronger, more environmentally sound Asian counterparts.”

Robinson is the founder of the mutual investment management firm Winslow Management Company. Robinson’s environmentally conscious investing strategies have been featured in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Donations, even small ones, to candidates improve chances, says Rachel Marshall ’04 column, page 15

M. tennis doubles teams dominate competition in Northeast Invitational sports, page 16

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Faculty exhibition at RISD shows diverse works of art

BY STEFAN TALMAN

A coloring book of flowers, a gleeful illustration of cake personified, a photograph of a boarded-up tenement house and a watercolor of a mall parking lot — all sit among chairs, a cabinet and more traditional works in oil in RISD’s Faculty Biennial Exhibition.

Works by famous artists usually fill the walls in the new wing of the RISD Museum — but this month, members of RISD’s faculty are the featured artists.

With pieces from all of RISD’s 16 departments — from painting and illustration to architecture and industrial design — the show offers an incredible variety of artwork.

Though more traditional media — such as painting and photography — dominate, most works offer a new twist on old forms.

One digital media production juts from a wall, beaming shifting shades of red. Nearby, a stone carving coils and uncoils in a display of inanimate objects given life.

A play on consumer culture, “Pop: Picture Frames, Flower Vases,” by Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Jeffery Michael, presents package design in which the containers actually become the objects they would have held.

And the elegant, flowing forms of RISD’s jewelry and metalsmithing faculty rest behind glass cases, sharing a wall with Professor of Illustration Trent Burleson’s Audobon-esque painting “Two Birds Fighting on a Twig.”

Other works in the exhibition are interactive. A coloring book on a small table invites museum visitors to pick up crayons and complete artists’ work.

Many of the exhibition’s works are in media not traditionally associated with the department in which their creator teaches. In the interdisciplinary exhibit, unsettling photographs by a sculpture faculty member and a ghostlike watercolor by a member of the illustration faculty share gallery space.

In almost every room, art and design, the abstract and the functional, the decorative and the utilitarian, share walls and floors without the slightest nod to their longstanding conflict.

None, as might be tempting to the conservative curator, are segregated to a separate room, categosee FACULTY, page 12

New kissing booth on RISD campus a “desperate” plea for affection

BY GABRIELLA DOOB

Amid students talking and eating on RISD’s main quad, a white cardboard booth smattered with lip imprints of various colors and sizes advertises a simple wish: “Can I have a kiss?”

At least, this was the request repeatedly made by Cassidy Fry RISD ’07 and Kate Mahoney-Cobb RISD ’07, who unveiled “The Bisouth: A Kissing Booth” on Monday.

Fry said The Bisouth’s breathy name derives from the habit among RISD students of indulging in “Snoop Dogg-speak.” He said many students call dorms the “dizorms” and the quad the “quizzad.”

But the Bisouth’s catchy marketing is anything but a business ploy. Instead, Fry said the booth is a plea from the “desperate” for a little affection and attention.

And attention they get. Students walking by gravitate to the booth to participate in the lively running dialogue surrounding the new establishment — and to donate a little love themselves.

Responses to “Can I have a kiss?” ranged from “I have a boyfriend” (met with jeers and incredulity from onlookers) to “I think I’m going to go take a nap,” to several of the non-verbal variety, both pleasant and unpleasant.

The attendants remained unfazed. “It’s a way of having fun in the quad,” Fry said. “It stresses the idea of a community where so many people are not getting anything out of fear of rejection.”

Fry, the self-proclaimed “builder and executor” of the Bisouth, said his venture is intended to remove this fear.

“It’s a way for shy people to get love,” he said.

The Bisouth — the first of its kind on RISD’s campus — is also proving to be an interesting study in human psychology. Fry observed that female passersby were willing to kiss him on the cheek but that kisses on the lips, male or female, were reserved for Kate, leading him to wonder about how comfortable some people are when entering the treacherous terrain of kissing.

“We’re getting into issues of sanity — I mean sanitation,” Fry said. “And also rejection.”

To the casual observer, most RISD students seemed remarkably comfortable with kissing on command.

While a few cynics commented the Bisouth was actually a “mono booth,” and while others attempted to steer clear of its rapidly increasing reach, the response from most was overwhelmingly positive.

A barrage of critiques and commentary followed each kissing encounter, as more and more people were

drawn in. “People here are very sexually frustrated,” one RISD student pointed out.

But the students at the Bisouth were also refreshingly open. Fry said the Bisouth was a good way of raising issues about “sex and kissing,” and he hoped the message of openness would reach Brown as well.

There is plenty of time for Fry’s message to spread, because the “desperate people wanting love” have set up semi-permanently on the RISD quad, promising to continue their activities indefinitely. Or, Fry said, at least until their cardboard booth falls apart.

Gabriella Doob / Herald

Cassidy Fry RISD ’07 and Kate Mahoney-Cobb RISD ’07, unveiled “The Bisouth: A Kissing Booth” on Monday. Fry observed that female passersby were willing to kiss him on the cheek but that kisses on the lips, male or female, were reserved for Kate, leading him to wonder about how comfortable some people are when entering the treacherous terrain of kissing.

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CAMPUS NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 5

Brown Queer Alliance will move into new, larger office space

UCS holds first open meeting; 15 community members show up

BY KRISTA HACHEY

BY KRISTA HACHEY

The Queer Alliance at Brown will soon move into a space four times the size of its current office.

Once construction on the Hillel building ends and Hillel moves out of its temporary Faunce House office, the Queer Alliance will move into the vacated space, said Ken Newberg ’05, former co-chair of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Alliance.

The LGBTA changed its name to the Queer Alliance this semester.

The Faunce office will allow existing programs to expand and provide a safe place for queer students to socialize and plan events and activities, he said.

Establishing a queer resource center at Brown will take more time, but Newberg said a Sept. 22 meeting between administrators and student advocates of a center moved the process forward.

The Queer Alliance currently operates out of a oneroom office on the third floor of Faunce. Moving to a bigger office is a crucial step toward eventually creating a resource center, Newberg said.

“You can’t really do much with the small space we have now,” he said. “But as the program grows into the office Hillel is leaving and begins to outgrow it, the development of an actual resource center will become more of a priority on campus.”

Project planners are still determining the best way to use the Faunce space, but agree it needs to be more accessible to students than the current office.

“At the meeting we talked about combining the two rooms, making one a space for employees and the other for meetings,” said Clare Johnson ’04, former LGBTA cochair and current project planner. “But keeping it open is a full-time job, and with schedules and other obligations relating to the queer community, we can’t make it accessible all the time the way staff at a resource center could.”

Attendees of the Sept. 22 meeting established a committee to create paid positions for students at the resource center. These students will be responsible for keeping the center open during the day, advocating the needs of students and publicizing programs directed at the LGBT community.

“Right now, a lot of the responsibility falls on the shoul-

In a concerted effort to strengthen its relationship with the student body, the Undergraduate Council of Students held its first official open meeting Wednesday, drawing 15 community members eager to voice their ideas about living and learning at Brown.

Discussions between UCS representatives and community members began with a request by Julia Ostrov ’04, the LGBTQ projects coordinator for the Office of Student Life, for a collaboration between the Queer Alliance and UCS in sending a campus-wide email via the UCS listserv about National Coming Out Day Oct. 11.

The Alliance is putting together an “Out List” that will run in an ad in The Herald, and the group can find no other effective way to invite students to add their names to the list, Ostrov said.

After debating whether to set the precedent of allowing a student group to use the UCS listserv — a move some representatives said would imply endorsement — UCS voted 15-6, with four abstaining, in favor of collaboration with the Alliance.

“By sending out this e-mail, which will be associated with both the Queer Alliance and UCS, we’re collaborating with a community of students to express support for an issue we feel strongly about,” said UCS Vice President Diana Jeffery ’04. “It is the responsibility of student government to support its groups.”

Ostrov said the UCS decision reaffirmed the kind of cooperation between students and their representatives that creates change on campus.

“The verdict shows a sense of solidarity and willingness to support what the members of the Brown community value,” she said.

In another effort to foment joint endeavors between UCS and the student body at large, UCS listened to community member Min Jung Park ’05 who said he wished to see a partnership between UCS and students in cooperative housing.

“A lot of students have misconceptions about this form of independent living and we’d like to correct those,” he said, ideally by hosting a concert to raise awareness.

see ALLIANCE, page 13

UCS is taking further actions to create opportunities for student ideas to be discussed and taken to new levels. UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 said he is convening a committee to build an alliance between the leaders of student groups.

“The goals are to develop a concrete cooperation between organizations, fight fragmentation and encourage teamwork,” he said. “We want to develop community responses to matters of importance and ensure that there is diversity of representation on campus committees.”

Kurji also reported the results of a recent HeraldUCS poll about student satisfaction, daily life and study preferences. He said the data from 277 respondents would guide the issues UCS address this year.

“There was an overwhelming response to seeing the Rock as a 24-hour workspace, with Josiah’s and Gate also receiving considerable votes,” Kurji said.

“Thirty-nine percent of respondents selected social spaces as needing improvement.”

He said UCS will present the data to the Corporation when it meets next week.

Director of Residential Life Richard Bova, who assumed the position Sept. 22, also attended the meeting, introducing himself to UCS and outlining his hopes for beginning his career at Brown. The former director of ResLife, Donald Desrochers, resigned abruptly from the position in January, The Herald reported earlier this year.

“I will have a critical focus on engaging students to get their perspectives on what will make their living environment better and more comfortable for them,” he said.

UCS Secretary Joel Payne ’05 introduced a proposal establishing a community service task force because he said UCS does not have a committee devoted solely to community relations between Brown and Providence. The proposal received support from the Council.

“The committee would be two-pronged,” Payne said. “One role would be to foster collaboration between UCS and other community service groups, see UCS, page 10

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 7

IN BRIEF Judge bows out of pooh case LOS ANGELES (L.A. Times) — Another one bites the fluff.

The judge overseeing the 12-year-old feud over Winnie the Pooh royalties has removed himself from the case, becoming the latest major participant to bow out of the bitter dispute between Walt Disney Co. and the family who inherited the merchandising rights for the cuddly bear.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige recently requested that the unwieldy case — with tens of thousands of pages of motions, including allegations of unsavory conduct — be moved to the county’s Complex Litigation Program. Hiroshige’s request was granted last week, a court clerk confirmed Wednesday.

Daniel Petrocelli, the lead attorney representing Disney, said Wednesday that the move should not further delay what is already one of the longest running cases in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

“It will neither delay nor speed up the progress of the case,” Petrocelli said.

Attorneys Elwood Lui and Rick McNight, who represent the mother and daughter who hold the Pooh merchandising rights, were not immediately available for comment.

The Slesinger family inherited the rights to the Pooh characters from Stephen Slesinger, a New York literary agent who helped pioneer the business of marketing cartoon characters. He obtained the merchandising rights in 1930 from Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne.

Disney acquired the rights from Slesinger’s widow, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, and her daughter, Patricia Slesinger, in 1961. Over the years, Disney has paid the family more than $66 million in royalties.

In 1991, the Slesingers sued Disney, claiming the company cheated them out of millions of dollars in royalties for a range of uses including merchandise, computer software and DVDs. Disney contends it has paid the family all that they are owed. Petrocelli said he would ask to have the case dismissed. The Burbank-based entertainment giant has said in government filings that losing the case could cost it hundreds of millions of dollars.

In July, prominent Los Angeles attorney Bertram Fields requested that he be allowed off the case for undisclosed reasons. Fields was instrumental in raising the profile of the case that had slogged through the court system largely unnoticed.

Schwarzenegger outlines plans if elected SACRAMENTO, Calif. (L.A. Times) — All but declaring himself California’s next governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday triumphantly announced a 10-step plan for his first 100 days in office and declared that if legislators don’t follow his lead, he’ll seek approval for his proposals through the initiative process.

“I am not here today to talk about campaigning,” Schwarzenegger, hoarse from the campaign, told an audience of several hundred local Republicans at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium. “I’m here today to talk about governing.”

Schwarzenegger’s speech lasted just 12 minutes and his plan ran to just one page of paper, but it was significant for its tone and purpose — compiling the disparate proposals of his campaign into one speech and presenting it under the mantle of a presumed governor-elect.

Not surprisingly, the speech infuriated aides to Gov. Gray Davis, who said it was presumptuous for Schwarzenegger to be looking beyond past the Oct. 7 election.

“I think it is profoundly disrespectful to the people of California to be measuring the drapes at the Capitol before voters have had a chance to make a decision,” said Peter Ragone, communications director for the Davis campaign.

“You don’t take a victory lap a week before the election.”

Davis spent the day campaigning for the votes of Democrats and independents whose support is essential for him to stand a chance of retaining his office.

Both the governor and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante campaigned separately with retired Gen. Wesley Clark, now a Democratic candidate for president. Both sought to downplay recent polls, including a Times poll, showing Davis trailing in his bid to beat the recall and Schwarzenegger leading both Bustamante and Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock.

McClintock admitted to being frustrated by the polls, which paradoxically show that voters widely admire him, even as most say they won’t vote for him. While he promised to keep fighting in the remaining days of the campaign, there was an air of resignation in some of his remarks, as when he said that he would work diligently with Schwarzenegger should the actor prevail.

“I will support him to the hilt,” McClintock said. “There’s not personal animosity; I actually personally like the guy. But I am very skeptical of the team he has surrounded himself with.”

From a 135-candidate free-for-all a month ago, the campaign to recall and replace Davis has pared itself down to a simple contest in its final days. The Davis campaign presents it as one of Davis vs. Schwarzenegger. Increasingly, the Schwarzenegger campaign is trying to frame it as a foregone

conclusion.

The staging of Wednesday’s event in Sacramento reinforced this impression. Rather than stand in front of a “Join Arnold” banner, as he has been doing in campaign events, Schwarzenegger stood in front of a row of palm trees — creating an iconic image of California, albeit one somewhat out of place in the Sacramento auditorium.

“We are ready to take office,” Schwarzenegger said in the conclusion to his speech. “We are ready to take action. We are ready to return California to the people.”

Inside the campaign, conversation has begun to turn to the transition. Schwarzenegger’s economic team has stepped up the pace of its meetings, and a team led by a Stanford economist is ready to roll out plans for restructuring the state’s debt, aides said.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan would work on education issues during the transition, and former Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon Jr. would be involved in economic issues, campaign officials and other Republicans said. Both men spoke at the auditorium before Schwarzenegger’s speech.

Aides — while careful to note they “aren’t popping champagne yet” — are discussing what a Schwarzenegger staff may look like. Campaign co-manager Bob White and other top officials are likely to stay on to lead a transition, but Schwarzenegger, a politician for just eight weeks, does not have a longtime cadre of political aides on which to draw for a gubernatorial staff.Schwarzenegger will spend the campaign’s final five days on the road, beginning with a four-day bus tour that starts Thursday in San Diego. That tour may resemble a victory lap, with eight rallies and thus far no scheduled availabilities with the media. On Monday, Schwarzenegger will conduct a rapid “fly-around,” visiting cities throughout the state.

Campaign officials said they plan to close out the last few days before the election with a series of positive TV commercials, replacing ones that criticize his rivals. The campaign plans to mix pro-Schwarzenegger ads with pro-recall ads at a rate of about two-to-one.

Davis, meanwhile, continued a campaign in which he has tried to delicately balance criticism of Schwarzenegger with a recitation of his accomplishments, which he hopes will resonate with Democrats in particular.

In a speech at Ventura County’s Ahmanson Ranch, which a state agency is buying to stave off development, the governor repeatedly reminded listeners that former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and many of his appointees are advising Schwarzenegger.

“I’m going to spend the remaining six days having a conversation with Democrats and independents,” the governor

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U.S. reworks Iraq resolution for added UN support UNITED NATIONS (L.A. Times) — The

United States informally circulated a new draft resolution on Iraq to key Security Council members Wednesday that includes changes, including an unofficial timetable for Iraqi self-rule, designed to win more troops and money for rebuilding the country.

While Washington is unwilling

to give up much control or change the basic framework of a political transition, it is offering the compromises as a way to address demands by France and other countries for a quick shift of sovereignty.

But diplomats say the essence of the U.S. approach remains the same, making them skeptical that the new draft will transform atti-

tudes toward the U.S.-led occupation and speed stabilization of the country. Six or seven countries, including France, said they would have abstained had the previous U.S. draft come to a vote. The fastest way to change the environment, SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan said last week, was to end the occupation.

“The longer they stay on as an occupation force, the greater the opposition will become,” Annan said in an interview published by the Sunday Times of London.

The new version of the U.S. proposal contains several concessions designed to convince Iraqis and potential donors that the occupation is temporary, and that the country will be back in Iraqi hands sooner rather than later. It does not set out a specific schedule for a political transition, but instead asks the Iraqi Governing Council to come up with a timetable with guidance from the occupation authorities and the United Nations.

The Governing Council may be able to provide a timetable that “is believable and can strive

for what we all want to achieve, but does not go into the Security Council resolution,” a senior U.S. official said. “It could serve as a gentleman’s agreement. It would give others on the Security Council a sense of what we’re trying to do and when, but prevents us from being beaten over the head if the timetable doesn’t meet all its goals.”

Instead of bowing to requests

by France and others for an immediate restoration of Iraqi sovereignty, the United States has stood by its sequence for a transfer of power: The drafting of a constitution, a referendum to ratify it, and eventual elections.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said at the United Nations last Friday that he thought elections could be held in about a year from the time work started on the constitution. But he emphasized that the United States was not setting a deadline.

Representatives of the 24member Governing Council differed on whether it would be possible to create a new government in a year. The most important

factor is security, Acting Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. In a best-case scenario, he said, it could be done. But he said he foresaw a process leading to sovereignty, not establishing sovereignty first.

“We need to accelerate the political process, but do it in a gradual way,” Zebari said. “We are looking into ways of convening a constitutional conference that gives Iraqis hope.”

Iraqis also need time to decide on the shape of their future government, he said. “The two issues that are so critical to Iraqis now are what kind of federal system they will have and the role of Islam in society. And there are very deep differences over both.”

In response to Annan’s requests, the resolution attempts to more specifically define the role of the U.N. envoy and the mission in Iraq. It specifically refers to the two sections of Annan’s July report on Iraq that outline the roles the United Nations can best play, including guiding the political transition, organizing elections and continuing humanitarian work.

The resolution portrays a multinational force as the necessary backing for a smooth political process. Although the international force would be under U.S. command, it would also report to the Security Council every six months.

While most council members agree that the United States should command a force, few are willing to send troops to a hostile area if they are seen as part of an occupation force.

“The only way to end opposition to the occupation is to end the occupation,” a council diplomat said. “And the Americans don’t want to do that.”

Changing that perception is one crucial area in which the resolution falls short, diplomats say.

After the Aug. 19 bombing of U.N. headquarters in Iraq killed more than 20 people, Annan pleaded with Security Council ambassadors for a new approach that would make it safe enough for the United Nations and others to help rebuild the country.

That would require “a radical change” in the Iraqi perception of the international presence in Iraq, he said, from occupation to stressing rebuilding. The best way to do that, U.N. officials say, is to put authority in the hands of an Iraqi provisional government, preferably within three or four months.

“The problem of sovereignty is overblown,” a senior U.N. official said. “What matters is real authority, and it rests in the hands of the coalition authority and institutions. There can be a gradual transition to a technocratic government that runs the country day to day. The constitution should not be rushed because the debate is only starting in Iraq, and a constitution is a real pact with the people.”

President Bush and Powell held intense discussions with other world leaders at the United Nations last week. The administration tried to incorporate specific requests from those talks, officials said, and after sounding out the council on the new resolution, hopes to formally introduce it by the end of the week.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 9

Drunken-driving reforms stir safety debates (L.A Times) — After a radical trans-

formation of U.S. drunken-driving laws in recent years, a new battle is shaping up over just how the federal government can reduce some of the roughly 17,000 highway deaths every year that involve alcohol.

Congress is expected in the coming months to reauthorize national transportation funding covering the next six years, and a major restructuring of drunkendriving policy is likely to occur.

“There is a schism between all of the highway safety organizations about drunk-driving policy,” said Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association, a Washington, D.C.based coalition of state organizations. “This is a lot more complicated than just saying you are against drunk driving.”

Several states this week, facing the threat of losing federal highway funding, completed significant reform of their laws.

Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell signed legislation Tuesday lowering the legal bloodalcohol level in his state, following similar action in Louisiana and other places. Now, all but five states have set a maximum alcohol level of .08 percent, down from .10 percent or .15 percent in years past.

Colorado, Delaware, Minnesota, New Jersey and West Virginia continue to permit driving at .10 percent blood-alcohol level, despite the risk of losing millions of dollars in federal highway funding. For example, Rendell said that by signing the legislation, his state avoided losing $11.8 million this year. Those states that have yet to lower their limits will have a chance to recoup lost funding if they come into compliance later.

But the push for reducing alcohol limits has yielded mixed success. Even as states have reduced legal levels, highway deaths asso-

ciated with drunken driving have begun to creep up. There were 16,572 such deaths in 1999, but 17,448 deaths in 2001 — the last year for which figures are available. And there are deep disagreements over where to go next.

On one side are safety advocates who say greater emphasis should be placed on catching and prosecuting highly intoxicated drivers, who cause the majority of fatal accidents. But others favor continuing to emphasize the message that all drinking and driving can impair safety.

The Century Council, a distillers group that has taken a major role in the drunken-driving debate, will issue a report Thursday that asserts highly intoxicated drivers with alcohol levels over .15 percent cause the majority of alcohol-related fatal accidents.

The group wants states to enact laws that raise criminal penalties for repeat offenders, impose harsher penalties for drivers caught with higher alcohol levels and require mandatory testing when police suspect a driver is impaired. Currently, only 28 states impose tougher penalties for drivers who test significantly above the .08 percent standard. And some states allow drivers to refuse breath or blood tests with impunity.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving has said it is seeking to establish a $1-billion annual fund dedicated to combating alcoholrelated highway fatalities, up from $123 million in 2001. The group also wants expanded enforcement, improvements in data collection and national standards that would outlaw open containers in vehicles.

The Bush administration has proposed strengthening and consolidating its existing grants to states, focusing on those with the highest rates of alcohol-related deaths.

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opinions piece in Columbia University’s stu-

and the other aim would be to plant the seed for UCS to start its own projects that would be open to the entire Brown community.”

Council member Divya Kumaraiah ’07 cited progress in the effort to supply the campus at accessible places with the Providence Journal and the New York Times. She said the administration has partially funded the program.

“We’ve submitted a proposal to the (Undergraduate Financial Board) to get the rest of the money,” she said. “We are still looking for a permanent source of funding.”

UCS members spoke heatedly about a recent opinions piece in Columbia University’s student newspaper encouraging a rivalry

dent newspaper encouraging a rivalry between the two schools. In response, council members passed a proposal put forth by Alumni Liason Justin Sanders ’04 and Associate Member Joseph Beals ’04. between the two schools. In response, council members passed a proposal put forth by Alumni Liason Justin Sanders ’04 and Associate Member Joseph Beals ’04.

“While UCS is hesitant to dignify a challenge that was put in such coarse terms, Brown

University is going to take the high road and allow Columbia the honor of being included in the first annual Ivy League tortoise race being hosted at Brown this spring,” Beals said.

The official UCS response to the article, Kurji said, is to urge Columbia to “bring it on.”

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SCT continued from page 1 student information component was not as strong.

The University dismissed Peoplesoft as a possibility because of a hostile takeover bid of the company by Oracle. With Peoplesoft’s future uncertain, “it would be disruptive, from the point of view of thinking about the future, if we were with Peoplesoft,” Waite-Franzen said.

The entire implementation of SCT’s software will take about three years, with students seeing online registration in January 2005, Waite-Franzen said.

“It would be nice if it were less, but realistically we’re thinking three years,” she said.

Registrar Michael Pesta, who was one of the department heads to evaluate the three vendors, said departments need the upgrade.

“We’ve been trying to do as much as we can, but the central system is 20 years old and can’t support the interactivity that’s necessary for a student to log on (and register online),” he said.

“We want students to be able to register online.”

Michael Bartini, director of financial aid, said the new software will give students more online self-service options.

“You would go to your bill (online). But what you would also hopefully see is your financial aid and the coordination between the two,” he said. Some award information is already online, but information about how much students owe is not included.

In addition to changes that are obvious to students, staff members behind the scenes will benefit, especially those that work with the University’s finance and business practices, Pesta said.

A representative from SCT could not be reached directly for comment regarding the terms of the contract or a specific timetable.

The University is still negotiating contracts for database equipment, Waite-Franzen said.

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

Iraq continued from page 1 professor of political science at the University of Utah. Yavuz said creating new ethnic states in the region would complicate rather than alleviate the situation.

Other panelists pinned their hopes on a federalist Iraqi government, granting the Kurds a measure of autonomy without partitioning Iraq.

Nijyar Shemdin, the U.S. representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government, said a federal system would provide the strongest safeguard of Kurdish political rights.

“The people of Iraqi Kurdistan have come a long way,” Shemdin said. “The time has come for the sovereignty of the state to be replaced by the sovereignty of the people.”

The most heated exchange of the evening came during the question-and-answer session, when Ablakhi told the panel he was grateful to the United States for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

“Every morning when I wake up I say, ‘Thank God for President Bush, thank God he liberated us,’” Ablakhi said. The comment drew expressions of shock and disapproval from the audience.

Eric Hooglund, a specialist on Iranian Kurds and editor of “Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies,” countered with a criticism of President Bush’s policy.

“If George W. Bush really wanted to liberate the Kurds, he would have let them have their own state,” Hooglund said to audience applause.

Smitha Khorana ’06 said she found the difference in viewpoints between the Kurdish representatives and U.S. academics interesting.

“It’s really rare that we actually hear the opinions of the groups that are being represented in academia,” she said.

But Khorana has doubts about the ability of the United States to fulfill the Kurds’ hopes.

“History just hasn’t set a good precedent,” she said.

The panel was organized by Professor of Political Science Melani Cammett, and was sponsored by the Middle East and Islamic Studies Initiatives of the Watson Institute for International Studies.

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

Faculty continued from page 3 rized by media, function or department.

What emerges from the RISD Faculty Biennial is an unspoken egalitarianism of art and design.

Artists produce design, designers produce art, and the myriad forms that emerge come together in an unassuming unity pushing toward an everyday pervasiveness of aesthetics.

Herald staff writer Stefan Talman ’05 can be reached at stalman@browndailyherald.co m.

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Meier continued from page 16 humbled the Cougars. Whew!

Hopefully, the Washington State Cougars have watched and learned their lesson and can next week play with the icy resolve of hardened mid-life professionals and end the cycle of pride meeting shame. Then again, maybe they won’t have

Guerrero continued from page 16 like that.”

Scouts, however, say Guerrero’s mistakes, though often glaring, do not reflect a lack of effort. Surrounded by more veteran talent, he could learn to make better use of his speed and powerful arm.

“I’d rather him be aggressive than be timid,” Expos G.M. Omar Minaya says. “He’s got a recklessness to his game. A lot of great players had that. People said Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente were reckless.”

Adds Sauerbeck, “Look where he’s playing at — he’s on that God-awful turf (at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium). Defensively, he’s as good as the rest. I see him out there in batting practice. He’s one of the few superstars who gets out there and actually works at it.”

Perhaps the bigger question is how Guerrero would adapt to a major market such as New York, where the fan and media attention would be far greater than what he experienced in Montreal. Many believe Guerrero would prefer to play in a less

Alliance continued from page 5 ders of student (volunteers), and they often can’t disseminate information as effectively as they’d like to,” Newberg said.

Assistant Dean of Student Life James Stascavage, an active participant in the planning discussions, said the vision of a resource center also encompasses the needs of the Brown community at large.

“There is the hope that it will serve as a resource for all community members, LGBTQ and others, regarding sexuality,” he said.

Crucial to this goal is developing a queer resource center in its own building, on par with the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and Third World Center, said Leslie Soble ’05, president of the Queer Alliance.

“It’s really important that the

to. Luckily for them, they’re playing the recently head coach-less Arizona Wildcats, who have a 1-4 record. Maybe they can afford to spend this week soaking up the adoration, the way college kids ought to do.

Luke Meier ’04 hails from Champaign, Ill. He is currently fighting for the starting quarterback spot at Notre Dame with Carlyle Holiday.

demanding city such as Baltimore or even Anaheim, but he will limit his market if he rules out the New York teams as potential bidders. He might even warm to the idea of playing for the Mets or Yankees. Mike Mussina, a native of small-town Montoursville, Pa., spoke of his dislike for New York when he pitched for the Orioles but signed with the Yankees as a free agent in 2000.

Mussina at least had the experience of playing for a high-profile team and competing in the postseason; Guerrero never has performed with such expectations.

“There’s a bright-lights factor that concerns me,” one scout said. “Some players are very comfortable being one of the lead guys but not having their names on the marquee. Right now, he’s the name on the marquee, but with that team, everyone knows he can only do so much.”

Guerrero, a native of Nizao Bani in the Dominican Republic, speaks little English and uses Expos third base coach Manny Acta as a translator. Like Manny Ramirez, Guerrero is marketable only for his playing ability. But as a five-tool talent, his ability might be enough.

center is housed in its own building,” Soble said. “A separate location would protect students’ confidentiality and be more comfortable.”

The process of creating an information and support hub for queer students and their allies will take time and a coordinated effort between student reformers and members of the administration, Johnson said.

“The University rests a lot on its reputation as a queer-friendly environment, as opposed to on what it actually does (for the LGBT community),” Johnson said. “And on the student side, there are gaps in the campaign when people graduate or when we get overwhelmed by other issues.”

While the LGBT community and its allies continue to refine their vision of the center, they are also planning other ways to increase visibility and unity, including a speaker series that

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Playing favorites Sometime soon, every Brown student will get an e-mail from the Undergraduate Council of Students. But the agenda will be the Queer Alliance’s.

The e-mail, which promotes National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, sets a new precedent for UCS’ use of its listserv access. UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 told The Herald the Council is not providing funds or administrative help — and has not been asked for such aid — to put on events related to National Coming Out Day. Yet UCS will provide the group with access to its extensive listserv for advertising the event and the Alliance’s “Out List.”

Until now, UCS has promoted other groups and their activities in its weekly e-mail to students, but listserv access has never been devoted to a single campus group.

In fact, UCS does not have a formal policy in place to guide the use of its listserv, which is the only non-administrative method of reaching all students by e-mail.

The Queer Alliance approached UCS about putting the email on the agenda only a few minutes before the start of the UCS meeting Wednesday night. The immediacy of UCS’ approval of the Alliance’s proposal suggests that the decision was made without thorough consideration.

Sharing listserv access with only one student group and after so brief a discussion sets what could be a dangerous precedent for UCS. Will it extend access to other student groups? Will gaining access be as simple as it was for the Queer Alliance last night? Or will UCS call individual votes for each student group that seeks access to the listserv, creating the potential for inequity and favoritism?

UCS should use its listserv access to spread the word about issues affecting the Brown community — like National Coming Out Day and the Brown-URI football game this weekend, which UCS does plan to promote by e-mail. But The Council needs to solidify a formal policy on how and by whom its listserv will be used.

Otherwise, it’ll look like UCS is playing favorites.

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SHANE WILKERSON

LETTERS Gorbachev should be praised for reforming Soviet Union To the Editor: I wanted to address a few of the points raised by Christopher McAuliffe in his article on Mikhail Gorbachev (“Gorby’s World,” Oct. 1). McAuliffe automatically equates repression and corruption with communism. And, while Soviet-style communism was certainly both corrupt and repressive, it does not have a monopoly on either. Reagan’s administration flagrantly flouted democratic principles by supporting the oppressive regimes of Pinochet and Marcos while by-passing the legislation of an elected representative body in order to fund violent revolutionary groups. In addition, the

economic liberalization of post-Soviet states has not succeeded in vanquishing the specter of corruption. Indeed, even in the United States, capitalism has failed to prevent fraud, war-profiteering and pandering to special interests.

We ought not to fault Gorbachev for attempting to reform Soviet-style economics while simultaneously expanding political freedoms. McAuliffe conveniently avoids mention of perestroika’s sister policy of glasnost, which focused on the airing of past Soviet abuses and the restoration of political freedoms. Although the attempt to maintain a command economy was ultimately and perhaps inevitably fruitless, the decision to pursue political liberties should be lauded, particularly in comparison with the alternative Chinese model of economic liberalization accompanied by even greater political repression.

Michael Sall ’05 Oct. 1

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 15

It’s time to pay up To affect politics, we first need to elect good politicians — and that means donating to their campaigns WHEN I WAS IN FOURTH GRADE, MY 2000 and 2002, this means that out of a total teacher asked me to explain to my class of 938 elections, in 887 (almost 95 percent) the difference between Democrats and the candidate who had more money won. In Republicans. Confident I knew the answer, many of the elections in which the candiI proudly declared, “Democrats take from date with less money won, there were other the rich to give to the poor, and prominent factors that made up for the difference, such as Hillary Republicans take from the poor Clinton’s 2000 Senate race, to give to the rich.” My teacher RACHEL MARSHALL when, despite collecting over — evidently a Republican — THE MARSHALL $10 million less than her oppowas not too pleased with what PLAN nent, Clinton’s obvious name she must have assumed was my recognition and prominence smug response. Yet this Robin Hood-esque explanation of the two parties propelled her to victory. In most of the other does reveal one fact upon which both cases in which the candidate with more Democrats and Republicans can agree: the money lost, the election and the spending undeniable influence of money in were both neck-and-neck.

As much as I believe that money should American politics. No matter what party you support, money has become what dead stay far away from politics, unfortunately voters were to Mayor Daley in the 1960s — this is a case in which the road to changing the rules of the game involves first winning the key to electoral success.

Unfortunately, some of us here at Brown the game. In order for politics to change, are slow to catch on. The Herald reported good politicians must first be elected, and last week that, according to the Federal this means they need contributions for their Election Commission, Brown students and campaigns.

Right now it seems as though it is far too faculty have donated less than $4,000 to 2004 presidential candidates. Though these easy to buy elections. The growing trend of numbers are somewhat misleading, as the filthy-rich businesspeople running for FEC only reports donations of over $200, political offices by using millions of dollars the fact remains that Brown students and of their own money is quite disturbing. faculty need to start paying up if we expect According to Project Vote Smart, a total of to see political change in the next few years. 114 Congressional candidates spent Money has been a decisive factor in near- $100,000 of their own savings in the 2000 ly all of the recent Senate and House elec- election. Close to 20 percent of these 114 tions. Using the Web site Opensecrets.org, I candidates spent over $1 million of their calculated that of the past two own money. I do not mean to say having a Congressional races in 2000 and 2002, the lot of money necessarily means one is a candidate with less money won the election weak political candidate, but it is more only 51 times. With 435 congressional seats than a little troubling when under-qualieach year and 34 open Senate seats in both fied candidates seem to win only because of their deep chests of cash. This trend indicates that all politicians are increasRachel Marshall ’04 confesses she has been known to waste money and she owns ingly dependent on financial contributions, as wealthier candidates raise the enough earrings to accessorize every financial bar higher than it has ever been. female who has ever held political office.

Rather than focusing on substance, even the most qualified candidates are forced to devote almost all of their resources toward raising money, and far more money than candidates have ever needed before. This makes them even more dependent on individual donations by … well, people like us.

Howard Dean has certainly revealed the importance of small, individual donations to total campaign contributions. Despite the fact that the majority of donations to Dean have been less than $200, Dean has raised almost $15 million in the most recent fund-raising period, with an average donation of just $79. Dean’s success in raising money has placed him $10 million above any other Democratic candidate this quarter (Kerry is the next highest with $5 million) and has even set a new Democratic record for a single quarter.

Dean raised almost $5 million more than Clinton reported in his third quarter in 1995, despite the fact that Clinton was an incumbent president and that just a few months ago, Dean ranked last among Democratic contenders.

Dean’s record-breaking fund-raising is due, in part, to the recent raise on the limit individuals can contribute under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. But the fact that most of Dean’s donations are mostly small means each small donation makes a difference. Well before Howard Dean began his money-raising frenzy, presidential candidates gained most of their money from individual contributors. According to Project Vote Smart small individual donations of less than $200 constituted almost 20 percent of the money presidential candidates raised in 2000. Howard Dean and the influence of his campaign are likely to raise this percentage considerably for the 2004 presidential elections.

Of course, President Bush’s donations put all the Democratic hopefuls back in their humble places. Bush has raised $50 million in this most recent quarter, and he hops in and out of cities daily, leaving each with a thicker wallet. Just this past Tuesday, he stopped by my hometown of Chicago, and after two stops raised over $5 million — nearly a dollar for every Cook County resident.

Knowing all of this, I am proud to announce that last week, for the first time in my life, I made a financial contribution to a political campaign. Because I am still conflicted about the presidential candidates, I donated to Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, a well-qualified, progressive Democrat who is running for the Illinois Senate against several wealthy businessmen self-financing their campaigns. Though my donation was small, I know every little bit helps and I certainly have no excuse to not give what I can.

Now is the time for all of us who care about effecting political change for this nation to put our money where our mouths are. If you cannot afford to make a contribution, donate your time by campaigning for your favored candidates or helping to raise money for their campaigns. We have learned many lessons from recent elections, the most important of which is just how close elections can get and the tremendous effect each vote, dollar and hour of time can have on a campaign. Whether you are passionate about a local, state or federal candidate, do something to help advance that candidate. The amount of money in politics is appalling, but the only way to change that is to get better candidates elected. To do that, ironically, you must first donate to their campaigns to ensure they can get elected. Because these days, voting for a candidate may not be enough.

Returning to our Golden Age When life was good, eating was pure and simple and food was a part of your life — but not your whole life.

MY GOLDEN AGE WAS FIFTH GRADE. I you discover one of your friends actually was 10 years old, my mom still picked out eats and then vomits her food into the girl’s my clothes and lunchtime involved trad- toilet during music class, where you are ing my friends Double Stuf Oreo cookies learning to play “Big Ben” on the recorder. for Fruit by the Foots. This was my golden Initially you are shocked and repulsed, but age, and probably yours, because this was then, after considering the notion for a bit, you are somewhat intrigued. the last year I lived both an Later, another friend realizes eating disorder and disordered JOANNA KELS not only can she rid her body eating free life. I don’t mean GUEST COLUMNIST of the food she consumes, but that at age 11 I began to have now she can actually deny heran eating disorder — in fact, I self the initial intake — and have never suffered from a veritable eating disorder; however, begin- hence you discover anorexia by eighth ning at 11, I, like all girls, began to live a grade.

Surely, by high school, most likely at an disordered eating life.

For girls, beginning in sixth grade, food elite boarding school in western seems to transform from something we eat Massachusetts or eastern Connecticut, one into something that consumes our very of your friends discovers Ex-Lax and now existence. For some reason, when you’re you have encountered a laxative bulimic, 11, your mother now feels you are old or perhaps an exercise bulimic who prefers enough for her to adequately assess to sweat it out rather than crap it out.

If you somehow managed to avoid these whether a certain skirt “makes you look heavy.” Moreover, lunchtime changes from veritable eating disorders, you still know a food bartering hour to a body compari- that deep down, you have not escaped son session. You and your friends begin to entirely. While you may not physically occasionally notice the differences vomit what you eat, run it off or actually between each of your bodies. You have deny your body the food in the first place, long skinny legs but Laura has a really flat you surely think about every single thing stomach and Hanna has really thin arms — you put into your body and how it will look the observations are noted by each one of on you. Whether you were lucky enough to avoid the aforementioned friends who you.

As you progress through middle school, might have influenced you to think before you eat, you surely have been rewarded by parents, friends or a boyfriend when you for Joanna G. Kels ’04 is a member of the some reason “look great” because you equestrian team and is a gender studies unintentionally dropped a few pounds. concentrator.

My intention in writing this is not to call attention to your, or my own, inadequacies; rather, this is a call to arms, so to speak. I recall my first two years at Boston College, where my teammates refused to eat before lacrosse games, more fearful of looking “fat” in their kilts than fainting on the field.

My worries are affirmed at Brown, when my teammates here make a science out of who can share riding breeches based on who is the skinniest. Finally, my concern culminates when I meet a new friend who I think is actually both eating-disorder and disordered-eating free; yet, I soon discover that tomorrow she plans to lose 10 pounds. The scariest thing of all is I know every single girl reading this editorial right now is wondering, “Is this girl, Joanna, fat or skinny?”, because that is what I would be questioning as well.

Obviously, an eating disorder is more than physical behavior. It involves emotional and mental aspects as well. So to request everyone with an eating disorder just stop it, is absurd and insensitive, I know. However, I do think we can all unite and decide to terminate our disordered eating, because this is much less severe. I don’t know about you, but I want to return to my golden age during which I just ate because I was hungry and I stopped because I was full. We ate three meals a day and snacked on ants-on-a-log because our teacher told us to. We didn’t concern ourselves yet with whether this non-fat Jiffy peanut butter would rest on

our butt or thighs. And we never noted if a friend was eating more or fewer logs than us. If a boy was mean, we didn’t think it was because we ate too much that day or looked fat in our Osk Kosh BGosh overalls — it was just because that boy sucked.

So, I am tired of hearing my friends, acquaintances, teammates and peers say, “Do I look fat”; “How much do you weigh”; “Let’s go work out instead of eating dinner”; “Didn’t she gain weight over the summer”; “She looks awesome ‘cause she is so skinny”; “I wish I was thinner”; or “I’ll have an Amstel Light or Michelob Ultra.”

Could you imagine if you reapplied all your thoughts, efforts and worries currently attached to food and body image and transferred this to doing your work, training harder for your team, offering your services to the community, taking an interest in your religion or even just taking a minute to reflect. Imagine if you could stop comparing your own body to your friends, hating yourself for eating too much or punishing yourself because you didn’t work out twice a day. Imagine if you could accept the body God gave you — and refused to allow yourself, or anyone else for that matter, to harm it. You would feel free, liberated, rejuvenated and regain part of what was great about being 10 years old. So girls, return to your Golden Age — when life was good, eating was pure and simple and food was a part of your life — but not your whole life.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 16

Brier, Goddard,Thomas and Charm capture No. 1 Taking it one and No. 2 doubles titles at Northeast Invitational game at a time?

Guerrero likely will command a deal at least as lucrative as the six-year, $85 million contract the Phillies awarded Jim Thome last winter.

“His best offensive seasons probably are ahead of him,” one general manager says about Guerrero. “That’s a scary thought.”

Guerrero missed almost two months this season because of a herniated disk in his back, but his statistics reflect his improving strike-zone judgment. He averaged a career-high 3.33 pitches per plate appearance and for the second straight season finished with a careerhigh on-base percentage and more walks than strikeouts. In 2002, a healthy Guerrero missed a 40-homer, 40-stolen base season by just one home run.

Yet, not everyone in baseball is convinced Guerrero would be a wise longterm investment. His back is a concern.

His low-key personality might not be suited for a high-profile market. And though his proficiency as a hitter is unquestioned, his game includes holes that will draw greater scrutiny if he is a major freeagent addition.

“Every series, he screws something up big,” one N.L. executive says. “He can’t run the bases. He can’t play defense. He throws well, but you don’t know where it’s going. I don’t know that you win with guys

IT IS AN ODD MOMENT FOR US CHILDhood college sports fans turned college students when we suddenly realize the athletes who always seemed bigger than life are now our peers. But nowhere is it easier to forget the youthfulness of college athletes than in college football.

Huge, tough, explosive and aggressive, there is nothing boyish about Division I football players.

They look like men — big scary ones. With their LUKE MEIER faces hidden NUTS AND BOLTS behind helmets, they leave no clue that their emotions are less callused than their NFL counterparts.

Yet these fearsome athletes are 18 to 22 years old. They have voted in only one election, and probably can’t rent a car or buy a drink. They are not paid to play football (unless they play in the SEC); it’s what they do after class and on the weekends.

For these players, the game is largely still a game.

Much of the beauty of college football lies in the emotional volatility of the players. Players who excite more easily, despair more easily and are in general more impressionable make for a more unpredictable sport. Rivalries and home field advantages mean much more to 20-yearolds playing with and for their classmates and friends than they do to 34-year-old professionals. Professionals play their 16 regular season games for whatever city drafted them, but kids take things personally. They have friends and enemies, and they have a hard time dealing with success. This last truth leads to the alwayspredictable letdown after a big home field victory in college football, a trend already greatly evidenced in the first full four weeks of the season.

In week one, Notre Dame pulled off a thrilling victory at home against the Washington State Cougars when Nick Setta hit a 40-yard field goal in overtime.

The drain of the tight emotional game was undoubtedly felt the next week, when then No. 14 Notre Dame visited rested and ready Michigan and got obliterated, 38-0.

As the Wolverines basked in the glowing reviews and talk of a national title that followed their huge home victory, another rested and ready team awaited in Eugene, Ore. This team, it turns out, would unravel Michigan’s title hopes only a week after Michigan did the same to Notre Dame.

Oregon won the game 31-27, living up to the expectations of one Oregon sportswriter, who had called the match-up the biggest sporting event in Oregon in the last half-century.

Oregon’s coaches and players vowed after the game to quickly refocus and look ahead to their next game, just as Michigan had the week prior. Quarterback Kellen Clemens, in a quote sure to make Crash from Bull Durham proud, even promised the Oregon Ducks would “take it one game at a time.”

The chain of dramatic successes followed by humbling failures nevertheless came full circle the following week, as Washington State (Notre Dame’s victim from week one) gave the Ducks a wicked comeuppance, 55-16. The Cougars humbled the Ducks who humbled the Wolverines who humbled the Irish who

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BY CRAIG MCGOWAN

Once again, the powerful doubles teams of Brown men’s tennis dominated the brackets at the Northeast Invitational with two strong victories. Co-Captain Ben Brier ’04 and Kris Goddard ’04 won the number one flight doubles, while Phil Charm ’06 and Eric Thomas ’07 took the number two flight doubles.

The three-day tournament, hosted by Brown from Sept. 26 to 28, saw teams from 18 colleges and universities competing in nine singles flights and four doubles flights. Brown entered players in the top four singles flights and the top two doubles flights, performing well across the board.

“I thought it was a much improved overall team effort,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. “This weekend we had a lot of guys who really stepped up with some major wins.”

Just like the previous weekend, at the Harvard Invitational, Brown doubles was largely in control. Brier and Goddard defeated teams from UNH, Boston College, Colgate and Hofstra en route to their title. While the team of Adil Shamasdin ’05 and Zach Pasanen ’06 lost in the first round of the number one flight to Hartford, they battled back, winning their remaining matches against Army, Lehigh and Manhattan to capture ninth place.

In the number two flight, Thomas and Charm cruised to victory, winning each of their four matches by a comfortable 8-3 margin. The team of Luke Tedaldi ’06 and Richard Moss ’06 advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to Princeton, after which they rallied back against Hartford and Assumption to take fifth place.

Brown also did well in the singles brackets, as Brier defeated Goddard for the number two singles title and Charm

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Co-Captain Ben Brier ’04 and Kris Goddard ’04 captured the doubles title last weekend. defeated Evan Ambrose of Colgate to win number four singles. However, those playing in the number one singles bracket were not as successful, as Shamasdin and Pasanen lost to Reed Hagmann of Colgate in the semi-finals and finals, respectively.

The weather made its presence felt on Sunday, as the scattered showers alternately forced matches inside and then allowed them back out. The number three singles semifinal match pitting Tedaldi against Scott Denenburg of Harvard started at 9 a.m. but, due to two rain delays, the match did not end until nearly 2 p.m..

Though Tedaldi lost 2-6,6-4,7-5, Denenburg was so exhausted that he was forced to forfeit the final.

While the majority of the team competed at the Northeast Invitational, cap-

tain Jamie Cerretani ’04 and Nick Goldberg ’05 traveled to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for the HEB Baylor Men’s Intercollegiate Tournament.

While Cerretani lost in the first round of singles play, Goldberg, an unseeded draw, advanced all the way to the quarterfinals before losing to the third seed, Alex Menichini of Texas Christian University.

The Bears are now preparing for the ECAC Championships this weekend in New York City. Unlike the previous two tournaments, the ECAC is a dual-match style tournament, in which the Bears will play as a team against other teams, rather than as individuals. A win at the ECAC will guarantee Brown a place at the National Team Indoor Championships in February.

Vladimer Guerrero: The $85 Million Question (The Sporting News) — Reliever Scott

Sauerbeck isn’t ashamed to admit it: He’s afraid to face Vladimir Guerrero. “He scares me when he comes up there,” says Sauerbeck, a former Pirate now with the Red Sox. “There’s not anywhere I can throw the ball where he can’t hit it, and he’s trying to hit it right at my head.”

Did Sauerbeck plunk Guerrero in a previous meeting? Curse him in Spanish?

Insult his brother Wilton? No, it’s just that Guerrero’s hitting approach is to go up the middle.

“When you faced Mark McGwire, if he hit it, it was going out of the park,” Sauerbeck says. “With Vladimir, it’s coming at your forehead.”

Guerrero, 27, is one of the game’s most electrifying players, a hitter equally adept at crushing pitches that are a foot over his head or an inch off the ground. Not since Alex Rodriguez in 2000 has a player this talented entered the free-agent market.

And unless the Expos’ Major League Baseball ownership suddenly wakes up and retains Guerrero as an enticement for prospective buyers, the right fielder has played his last game as a baseball vagabond.

The Mets, Yankees, Angels and Orioles are expected to be among Guerrero’s bidders, but it will be an upset if he receives anything close to the record 10-year, $252 million contract Rodriguez landed with the Rangers. The 2000 winter meetings

were baseball’s last great spending orgy.

This winter’s Hot Stove League could feature an even more extensive collection of high-end talent, but most front-office executives and player agents expect MLB’s clampdown on salaries to continue.

For the second straight year, teams will flood the market, adding to the free-agent pool by declining option years on players’ contracts and refusing to offer salary arbitration to eligible three- to six-year veterans whom they deem marginal. One general manager estimates that 275 players — about 36 percent of all major leaguers — will be available. And that number doesn’t include several stars — including Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling, Marlins third baseman Mike Lowell and Royals center fielder Carlos Beltran — who could be offered in trades.

High-powered agent Scott Boras, who represents one of this year’s top freeagent pitchers, Kevin Millwood, is in the minority who believe the market will bounce back. Boras cites the American League East as evidence of the rising demand for players. The Yankees might need to replace three starting pitchers.

The Red Sox want to add a top-of-therotation starter. The Orioles plan to spend big, and even the Blue Jays and Devil Rays expect to be active. That’s only one division Whatever form the market takes,