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Brown’s capital campaign “most aggressive” in school’s history

BY PHILISSA CRAMER

that’s higher,” Bickes said, pointing to another spot on the clearing. Bickes, who has been to every high point except Idaho’s and Wyoming’s, said a few other high points were similarly lacking in scenery.

But Jerimoth Hill is not without its dangers. Bickes said the light drizzle

Though still in its quiet phase, Brown’s capital campaign became decidedly louder last weekend.

The Corporation unveiled its leadership team for the capital campaign, which Chancellor Stephen Robert said will be “the most aggressive fund-raising campaign Brown has ever undertaken,” according to a press release from the Brown News Service.

The team of three co-chairs and two honorary chairs will be responsible for coordinating the campaign’s committees and volunteers, said Vice President and Secretary of the University Russell Carey.

They will also solicit donations themselves, he said.

Co-chairs are Corporation Treasurer Matthew Mallow ’64, National Chair of the Annual Fund Jerome Vascarello ’74 and Elizabeth Chace ’59, a member of the board of directors of the Brown Sports Foundation. Honorary chairs are H. Anthony Ittleson ’60 — who chaired the Campaign for the Rising Generation, which ended in 1996 and raised more than $500 million for the University — and Artemis Joukowsky ’55, who led the first capital campaign for the Medical School and whose efforts tripled the size of its endowment.

In its Friday meeting, the Corporation reviewed the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment and continued to develop long-term goals for the University, which will be presented at its February meeting, according to the press release.

Corporation members noted progress in faculty retention and hiring, facilities and undergraduate financial aid.

They also received reports about the new Life Sciences building and funding for graduate study, the press release said.

The Corporation voted unanimously to accept the “Strategic Framework for Physical Planning,” developed by Frances Halsband, lead architect of the Master Plan.

The Framework calls for the development of pathways within campus, consolidation

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Rhode Island’s peak foliage is set to occur around the third week of October, according to the Rhode Island Tourism Division. Some good leaf-peeping spots in Providence are the First Baptist Church, Roger Williams Park, North Main Street and Benefit Street.

U. plans to eliminate oncampus storage

BY ALEXANDRA BARSK

After several years of providing space in dorms for students to stash their stuff over the summer, Brown is getting out of the storage business.

“We are a university, not a storage company,” said Thomas Forsberg, associate director of Residential Life.

Starting this year, the University will not offer students on-campus storage primarily because of fire and health concerns, Forsberg said.

ResLife’s Web site also cited liability and better space utilization as reasons for the change.

The decision will affect the storage of belongings in general and high-security facilities during both the academic year and when classes are not in session.

No specific incident, but several ongoing health and fire safety concerns, prompted the decision, Forsberg said.

The decision “had to do with items being abandoned in storage … bugs, things of that nature. People would sneak refrigerators in without cleaning them.

Stupid kinds of things,” he said.

Forsberg also said students left “empty boxes expecting the University to somesee STORAGE, page 8

Brown’s way of joining the Highpointers Club

BY ZACH BARTER

It may lack the majesty of Everest, Denali or even Splash Mountain, but Jerimoth Hill, a Brown-owned property 20 miles west of Providence, has its own claim to fame — at 812 feet above sea level, it marks the highest point in all of Rhode Island.

Dozens of would-be adventurers turned out to climb the hill Sunday, one of only five days this year the summit is open to the public.

Although Brown owns the top of the hill, the path to it runs across an adjacent homeowner’s property. Hoping to prevent spontaneous trespassing, the homeowner agreed in 1999 to open his property on set days each year.

Chuck Bickes, head of the Rhode Island branch of the Highpointers Club, which organizes the open dates, said people have come from every state and from as far away as Brazil and Europe to climb the hill. Members of the Highpointers Club attempt to reach the highest point in all 50 states.

The Rhode Island high point itself is marked by a large rock on the side of a clearing on top of the hill, less than a fiveminute stroll from the highway. The high point affords a view of several trees and two run-down sheds.

“People argue there’s a point over there

E-mail switchover nearly complete

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

For first-years, Microsoft Outlook Web Access is nothing new — they’ve been using it to check their e-mail since arriving on campus. But for users of Brown’s old Webmail system, years of frustration end this week.

All students are now eligible to convert their Web-based e-mail clients from Webmail to OWA, said Molly Baird, a Computing and Information Services systems group manager and head of the e-mail migration project.

The Convert My E-mail tool is located on the myAccount page, which is accessible from Brown’s A to Z index on the Web. It contains detailed instructions on

I N S I D E T U E S D AY, O C T O B E R 1 4 , 2 0 0 3 College Hill’s Ward One will use $900,000 for roadwork to end in November metro,page 3

Cianci’s lawyers appeal his five-year racketeering conviction metro,page 3

Nobel laureate argues that benefits of liberal education offset costs in today’s economy page 5

how to make the transition and move old messages into the new mailbox.

Users must initiate the conversion; it does not happen automatically.

Seniors will likely receive an e-mail Tuesday alerting them to the availability of the tool, Baird said. Juniors and sophomores will be notified later in the week, she added.

After graduate and medical students were e-mailed Wednesday, about 250 students made the switch, most the same day, Baird said.

CIS is staggering the notification process to try to prevent the Help Desk see OUTLOOK, page 7

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Andrew K. Stein ’06 sends Columbia its own rejection letter on behalf of the University column, page 11

M. soccer climbs to No. 20 after defeating the Tigers 3-1 in a contentious game sports, page 12

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METRO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2003 · PAGE 3

$900,000 in roadwork set for College Hill area through the end of November

BY MONIQUE MENESES

Members of the Brown community can expect to see fewer cracks and potholes on the streets of College Hill

by December.

Roads and sidewalks are being renovated on College Hill to reduce safety hazards while driving and to tackle serious public infrastructure problems, said Ward One Councilman David Segal.

“The streets on the East Side were atrocious when I took office in January 2003,” Segal said. Since then, he said, it has been one of his top priorities to address the condition of streets within his jurisdiction, which includes part of College Hill.

According to Segal, road renovations are not easy to accomplish because, he said, “Providence is generally without nearly as much money as it needs to perform city functions.”

But bond issues from the government allocated $100 million to Rhode Island in 1996 and 2000, Segal said.

City Council members and Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 were able to divide the money and to develop plans to repair roads around the city.

Segal said he, as well as every other council member, received $2.2 million from the bonds to initiate public projects, such as sidewalk and street renovations.

Segal received a list of 200 streets and sidewalks in need of renovation. The list was then “whittled down” to 100 addresses because of the lack in funding, he said.

Segal and members of the community made the final decisions on which streets would be repaired.

On College Hill, Ward One applies to the area from Angell Street north to South Street.

“The funding for all of the sidewalk and street renovations on College Hill are being funded with this money,” he said.

The ongoing College Hill renovations will cost $900,000, Segal said.

The street and sidewalk renovations, which began in early August and are projected to end at the beginning of November, have already produced results, Segal said.

Benefit and Sheldon streets were completed in August. A stretch of Brown Street was completed last week. Among other roads on College Hill that are either in progress or on the horizon include Young Orchard Avenue and George, Power, Wickenden, Governor and Benevolent streets.

Sidewalk renovations accompany some of the street renovations, Segal said.

The goal of these renovations is “fairly simple,” Segal said.

“It is to take care of some of the roads and sidewalks that are in need and to mitigate the deterioration of the streets,” he said. see ROADWORK, page 4

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The ongoing College Hill road renovations will cost $900,000, according to City Council member David Segal.

Cianci’s lawyers argue for appeal Lawyers for former Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci were back in court last week, hoping to overturn the former mayor’s five-year racketeering conspiracy conviction.

The three-judge 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard 90 minutes of arguments from lawyers speaking on behalf of Cianci and his two co-defendants, former city employees Frank Corrente and Richard Autiello, according to the Providence Journal.

Arguments in court last week focused on whether the government’s evidence against Cianci was applicable to the racketeering conspiracy conviction. Before the hearing, the government filed a 193-page brief urging the appeals court to uphold the sentence, the Journal reported.

The judges did not rule last week. After the trial, John MacFadyen, Cianci’s appellate lawyer, told the Journal he doesn’t expect a verdict until next year.

“I have a sense from the judges’ questions that they’ll be chewing on this for a long time,” MacFayden said.

Cianci, whose city hall exploits are making waves again in a book by Providence Journal reporter Mike Stanton, was not in court last week. Cianci is currently 10 months into a 64-month sentence at a federal prison in Fort Dix, N.J. Cianci was sentenced in September 2002 on one count of racketeering conspiracy.

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Fixing the city’s two-wheelers downtown

BY ELISE BARAN

When Jasmine Bauknight ’06 walked into Recycle-a-Bike behind the City Arts building three weeks ago, she didn’t know how to fix a bike, much less how to make one.

But after just four hours of volunteer time with the community bike-fixing effort, Bauknight knows how to fix bicycles and, perhaps more impressively, how to craft her own out of spare parts.

Her newfound knowledge — and soon-to-be-completed bicycle — is thanks to Recycle-a-Bike, a five-yearold community effort that started in the basement of Trinity Church and moved to Broad Street in January. The volunteer-run organization repairs and builds bikes using the donated parts.

Neal Walsh is a member of the core group of volunteers that organizes and runs Recycle-a-Bike. The Providence-based artist spends more time near the City Arts building than most of the Recycle-a-Bike volunteers, because his studio is in the building. After a burst

pipe forced the organization out of Trinity Church, Walsh secured the unused garage behind the City Arts building.

When Walsh and other volunteers began clearing out the space, it was an old filthy, cluttered garage that smelled as bad as it looked. But the new location is better than Trinity Church in many ways, Walsh said, because it is more visible and easier for neighborhood children to get their bikes fixed.

Tom Gomes, who has been working with Recycle-aBike for two years, said the move gave Recycle-a-Bike the opportunity to start the project again with a more concrete vision.

Most volunteers come to Recycle-a-Bike with little or no knowledge of bike mechanics.

Brendan Ryan, a 25-year-old Providence resident who has been volunteering for Recycle-a-Bike for more than a see BIKES, page 4

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Roadwork continued from page 3 Street and sidewalk renovations on College Hill have long been an issue that has not been successfully addressed, he said.

Last year, Segal said, the former councilman in Ward One told residents their sidewalks were going to be repaired. He allocated $750,000 toward sidewalk renovations and $4.5 million toward the streets. But the money allocated for the renovations was not sufficient to pay contractors to complete the job.

“It was no one’s fault,” Segal said. “There just wasn’t enough money.”

Contractor Narragansett Improvements is in charge of the College Hill renovations.

Segal said the project has seen some success, but College Hill residents have reported minor inconveniences as a result of the ongoing construction.

Segal said the Brown administration has complained of the inability of certain handicapped or blind students to navigate over campus. And,

although the overall time frame of the project was made public to residents, he said it was impossible to delineate the particular time frames of each street and sidewalk being renovated. As a result, some residents have complained they were not aware of construction plans, he said.

Segal said he has assured everyone that “this will only be a temporary inconvenience.”

The project is slated to cover the period between August and November to make sure the roads are ready in time for winter, he said. If the roadwork is not completed by then, Segal said, “we’ll finish it up in the spring.”

But, he said, once the street and sidewalk renovations are completed, there still remains one problem.

“The biggest problem I’m facing post-construction is that the city doesn’t have an ongoing maintenance plan. It’s not clear what’s going to happen when the $2.2 million runs out,” he said.

Herald senior staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

Bikes continued from page 3 year, said he came to the program with no prior knowledge of bicycle mechanics.

Ryan said working on bikes with his hands has helped to shape his outlook on life.

“It has taught me that you can learn anything,” he said.

Ryan also said working with Recycle-a-Bike brought him closer to the Providence community.

More than 15 local children come through the Recycle-a-Bike gates each weekend to get a bike fixed or start “earning a bike” for themselves.

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Corporation members noted progress in faculty retention and hiring, facilities and undergraduate financial aid. of central campus and expansion beyond College Hill.

During the Corporation’s business meeting on Saturday, six new trustees took their oaths of engagement. They were elected at the group’s May 2003 meeting.

Two other new trustees — Bobby Jindal ’92, who is currently running for governor in Louisiana and Alain Belda P’05, P’07 — were not at the meeting and will be sworn in at a future meeting.

Herald staff writer Philissa Cramer ’05 edits the RISD News section. She can be reached at pcramer@browndailyherald.com.

Recycle-a-Bike is funded partially by the West End Community Grant.

In addition to “Earn a Bike,” Recycle-a-Bike has bike-in movies with volunteers ready to fix a bike during the screening, and “Mechanics a Go-Go” where mechanics make themselves available in public places. Ryan said he would also like to start satellite sites.

A handful of Brown students are regular volunteers. Max Gitlen ’04, who began volunteering last summer, encourages Brown students to bring unwanted bikes to Recycle-a-Bike even if they are not interested in volunteering. It’s better than letting them rust on bike racks during the winter, he said.

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CAMPUS NEWS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2003 · PAGE 5

Class of ’00 donates fountain in memory of classmate

Liberal education worth the price, Nobel laureate says

BY PHILISSA CRAMER

BY LOUIS TEE

When you see the new fountain outside the mailroom, remember Casey Shearer ’00.

Nearly 50 friends and family members gathered Friday to dedicate the fountain.

The class of 2000 pooled funds to create a Casey Shearer courtyard — with a fountain as its centerpiece — outside the mailroom in memory of him.

Just a week before his commencement, Shearer died of an undetected heart virus four days after collapsing while playing basketball at the OMAC. His friends and family remember him fondly for his intelligence and amiable personality and hope the fountain will keep his memory alive.

“He was all about friends.” Said classmate Alex Winnick ’00. “His friends always came first. This is about all of us contributing to preserve his memory.”

Winnick, along with Senior Lecturer in English Elizabeth Taylor and Shearer’s mother, Ruth Goldway, took turns speaking about Shearer and the new courtyard.

After the solemn ceremony, the group headed to Faunce for hot dogs from Spike’s, which named a hotdog — the “Casedog” — in honor of Shearer.

The idea of refurbishing the courtyard outside the mailroom was first brought up by Amelia Duncan ’00, who thought Brown needed a fountain.

Winnick enacted this proposal by sending letters soliciting fellow classsee FOUNTAIN, page 8

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Elizabeth Taylor, senior lecturer in English, was one of the speakers at Friday’s fountain dedication. It was in Taylor’s writing class that Casey Shearer ’00 met Alyson Grant ’99, who became his fiancée.

A Brown education might actually be a good deal.

Gary S. Becker, a Nobel laureate and professor of sociology and economics at the University of Chicago, spoke to an overflow audience in Lower Salomon Friday about the costs and benefits of higher education in an economy that is increasingly technology-driven.

In a lecture titled “Education, Human Capital and the Modern Economy,” Becker, who earned a Nobel Prize in economics for his work, said a liberal arts education often is the best preparation for this economy.

Becker focused his lecture on a quotation of Benjamin Franklin, who wrote, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

Modern research in human capital — which puts people at the center of economic life, as opposed to machinery or material resources — has affirmed Franklin’s idea, Becker said.

“All we’re doing is learning Franklin’s lesson better,” he said.

Becker said the interdisciplinary nature of graduate studies at Brown prepares its students for the modern economy.

A liberal arts education — rather than a more specialized, professionsee NOBEL, page 8

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Outlook continued from page 1 from being overwhelmed with questions, Baird said.

The new OWA interface offers a multitude of improvements over its predecessor. New messages are indicated as such, and an alert pops up as soon as new mail comes in. Instead of just using the Inbox, users can create an unlimited amount of folders for message storage. In the past, Webmail users had to sift through pages of old e-mails to find the one they sought.

In addition, a standard “Sent Items” folder keeps copies of outgoing messages, and a “Deleted Items” folder guards against accidental erasures. OWA also features folders for sticky notes and tasks and an easily accessible address book.

A full-fledged calendar is integrated. “Imagine you want to go meet with a faculty member and their office hours are not amenable to your schedule. So instead you send them a halfhour meeting request,” said Pamela Vogel, CIS associate director for communications. “They can say no, they can propose another time and they can suggest you meet at Starbucks.”

Students might also save a few keystrokes because OWA requires them to login using their AuthID, which is at most eight characters.

The newest version of OWA has even more features and will probably be rolled out to Brown users over the summer, Baird said.

The shift from Webmail to OWA accompanies the switch to a new e-mail server. The old server, Postoffice, “is an antiquated system,” said Pat Falcon, CIS communications and documentation coordinator.

CIS hopes to move all users away from Postoffice so it can shut it down one year from now, Vogel said. Webmail could be shut down even sooner, she added.

The new Microsoft Exchange server uses the IMAP protocol, which means users of desktop email clients such as Eudora or Outlook Express can benefit from the changeover as well, said John Spadaro, CIS director of systems and services.

In the current POP mode, desktop clients pull messages from the server, so the messages no longer appear in Webmail. But IMAP mode allows desktop clients to sync with the server, so the same messages and folders appear in the desktop client and in OWA. Thus, desktop users should reconfigure their clients to IMAP mode, Spadaro said. POP mode is still available, though some minor reconfiguration is also required, he added. Instructions are available at the CIS Web site.

CIS recommends students who wish to use a desktop client use Outlook Express, available from Microsoft, Vogel said. Outlook Express works the best in IMAP mode and correlates the most with OWA, she said.

CIS will continue to support Eudora, Falcon said.

Students have been waiting for the e-mail update a long time, Vogel said.

When Webmail first launched in 1999, “it was intended as a casual, occasional e-mail client,” Vogel said.

“We thought of it then in the same way … today we think of the (e-mail) kiosks,” Spadaro said.

“And I think in the beginning it

The shift from Webmail to OWA accompanies the switch to a new email server. The old server, Postoffice,“is an antiquated system,” said Pat Falcon, CIS communications and documentation coordinator. was actually used that way. And that was before everyone was so completely comfortable with Yahoo! and Hotmail and all those Web-based mail services that are so common today.”

Even by 1999 standards, “the Webmail interface was kind of clunky,” Spadaro said. But Brown was limited in its selection of Web-based clients, because not many could handle the University’s NetID system.

NetIDs, unlike traditional usernames such as the AuthID, can contain problematic punctuation marks like apostrophes and dozens of characters.

As its popularity grew, Webmail’s limitations became evident, Spadaro said. “When that whole service was sized, it was sized for a very different world,” he said. Occasionally, “it gets hung up, so connections are refused.”

The Exchange server “is more reliable in many ways,” Falcon said.

A year ago, Vice President of CIS Ellen Waite-Franzen told The Herald the e-mail update would be in place by the end of 2002. But technical difficulties then delayed the launch, The Herald reported in January.

CIS scheduled the transition for

mid- to late September, but an outbreak of worms and viruses on the network in late August caused further delays. CIS staffers, including Baird, had to devote at least two weeks to combating the outbreak, Baird said.

Creating the “Convert My Email” tool and the accompanying documentation also took time, Vogel said. “It’s easy to tell (firstyears), ‘You just start up this way,’” she said. “But when you’re talking about people who have been used to a certain way of working … you need to give them information about how to convert, how to move mail, how to think in new ways.

“My suspicion is that the students will convert a lot more easily than the staff and faculty, because students are adaptable,” Vogel added.

The documentation had to take into account the wide variety of desktop clients students might be using, Spadaro said.

CIS selected OWA from its Webbased competitors because it included a full-featured Webbased e-mail client, task lists and calendaring with powerful collaborative capabilities, Spadaro said.

“We felt it was very important to keep the students and faculty and staff on the same calendar system,” he said.

Many other universities only allow calendaring for faculty, Baird said.

The stability of a company like Microsoft was another reason for choosing OWA, Vogel said. The old Webmail system was sold from one company to another and wasn’t developed further, she said.

“Microsoft doesn’t sell things, they buy things. (OWA) isn’t going anywhere,” she added.

First-years have had few problems with OWA, Baird said. The most notable difficulty came when one student’s interface appeared in Swedish for a time, she added.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers technology at Brown. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

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Fountain continued from page 5 mates for donations for the memorial.

Winnick also recruited local artist Howard Ben Tre to design the patio and fountain. Before, the courtyard had only a small three-foot bear statue hidden among overgrown shrubbery.

Now it boasts a fountain and landscaping, Winnick said.

“It was more beautiful than what I expected and what I hoped it would be. It is a place for people to be, to study and sit

Nobel continued from page 5 al course of study — is the best choice in the modern economy, Becker said.

“We want to give people an education flexible enough to adapt to different circumstances,” he said.

And the pay can be good, Becker said, even though most graduates with liberal arts degrees do not start with highpaying jobs.

“Their trajectory is quite good, even though their starting point is much lower,” he said.

As the economy continues to feel the effect of the technology boom of the last 30 years, Becker said students with a versatile academic background will reap the biggest payoffs.

Storage continued from page 1 how magically pay for the labor to get them out of there.”

ResLife did not involve Residential Council, a student organization that advises on residential matters, in the decision to take away storage. “(ResCouncil was) consulted about it but I don’t think (ResLife) could be swayed on the issue,” said Jesse Goodman ’04, chair of ResCouncil.

But Goodman said the University’s decision was essentially financially based. Though ResLife claims it is not responsible for storage, “whenever damage is done they are forced to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to students who claim damages to whatever their items were,” said Brookes Brown ’04,

and read,” he said.

Students at the courtyard welcomed the new addition to campus.

“There used to be this strange beast-like animal that stood there quizzically. It was no magnet,” said Joseph Sills ’04. “But now people stop and pause, look at the sign and just enjoy the courtyard.”

For others, the fountain provides catharsis.

“It was really inspirational — really beautiful,” Goldway said.

“What I try to do is to keep the positive parts of my son in me.

This fountain helps me to do that,” she said.

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“As long as you’re in a dynamic economy, a good liberal arts education will always have a lot of value to it,” he said.

Becker said the costs of education, which include both the direct costs of tuition and the opportunity costs of foregone earnings while the student is in school, can be great.

But he said the costs of not educating capable young people could be even more crippling.

The decline in manufacturing jobs in America means people entering the workforce need higher levels of education to meet the demands of the economy.

“We should not prepare young people for jobs we know are not likely to be there in the future,” he said.

Becker said increased investment in higher education could reduce inequality because edu-

cation is the most efficient way for young people from lowerclass backgrounds to get ahead.

The challenge for public policymakers is to provide the opportunity for talented people to receive a quality education regardless of their backgrounds, he said.

“The disadvantage of not having this education has become so large,” he said.

President Ruth Simmons — who called the size of the crowd “positively frightening” — and Dean of the Graduate School Karen Newman introduced the lecture as part of the celebration of 100 years of graduate education at Brown.

ResLife’s policy committee chair.

Staffing storage rooms during high traffic periods was also a concern, Brown said. “These people had to be reliable because they had keys and access to all of everyone’s things.

And it’s fairly difficult to hire people for such a short period of time so they ended up having to use all kinds of very odd people,” she said.

In the past, the University hired parents of current staff members and those who were unemployed due to injury as storage personnel, she said.

ResLife is discussing how to aid students in the search for storage facilities, Forsberg said.

But because many students find storage without help from the University, “it isn’t necessarily clear that the University needs to be involved,” he said.

Though students are upset

about the decision, “(ResCouncil) definitely (has not) been inundated with complaints about it,” Goodman said.

ResLife received only one formal complaint about the decision and, according to Forsberg, “it was more of a statement of aggravation than it was a specific complaint with an expectation of doing something.”

ResLife will decide what the empty storage rooms will be used for, how program houses with large, privately owned items like furniture will be affected and whether the decision will affect students on financial aid who will have to pay for storage, Forsberg said.

“We will certainly do our best to advertise anything that we do that the student body needs to know about as soon as we make some of those kinds of decisions,” Forsberg said.

tional — really beautiful,” Goldway said.

“What I try to do is to keep the positive parts of my son in me. This fountain helps me to do that,” she said.

Herald staff writer Philissa Cramer ’05 edits the RISD news section. She can be reached at pcramer@browndailyherald.com.

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M. soccer continued from page 12 stantly won first and second balls, and our midfield did a great job of keeping pressure on them.”

Several players who had been ailing after the Columbia game showed no signs of fatigue or injury.

“The week off really helped us prepare,” said Head Coach Mike Noonan. “We got lucky (against Columbia), and the guys had something to prove to themselves against Princeton.”

Brown’s offense created scoring chance after scoring chance, and after Princeton tied the game up on a penalty kick, Brown pulled ahead of Princeton right before the end of the half. On a set corner kick, Brian Joyce ’07 tapped the ball to Romaneiro, who quickly returned the pass as Princeton defenders ran towards both Brown players. Joyce found Goldman standing five yards outside the Princeton box. After controlling the ball, Goldman then chipped a perfect pass to Crew, who was moving in from the far side of the box. While in the air, Crew used the outside of his right foot to deflect the pass into the net. An ecstatic Goldman ran to the Brown bench and acknowledged Noonan.

“It was a set play we had been working on in practice,” Noonan said. “The coaches can tell the guys what to do, but the players are the ones who do it.”

Highpointers continued from page 1 Sunday caused two people to slip on the rock.

Brown uses the hill as an observation post for astronomy classes and has a friendly relationship with the homeowner, said Dean for Science Programs and Associate Dean of the College David Targan, who recently returned from a trip to Everest with Bickes.

Targan, who takes students to the site, said the hill’s distance from city lights — not its height — makes it a prime viewing locale.

“It’s one of the darkest sky locales in the state,” Targan said.

“The properties aren’t zoned for commercial use or subdivision into condos, so there’s not a lot of light pollution.”

Brown acquired the property in 1953 through a donation from the Turner Family Foundation, Targan said. He said the University originally intended to build a permanent observatory on the site but never followed through on its plans.

Brown occasionally receives requests for permission to go up Jerimoth Hill, but Targan said he

Crew’s goal brought the Bears ahead 2-1 and proved to be the game winner, increasing his total game-winning goals to a league high of four on the year.

Princeton’s only goal came after a Brown defender dragged down a Princeton deep in the Brown box, resulting in a penalty kick. Chris Gomez ’05 guessed right on the kick and dove right, but Doug Hare’s shot hugged the post and tied the score with 10 minutes left. Brown would take the lead for good several minutes later. Gomez finished the game with seven saves, adding to his Ivy League lead in the department.

The Bears found themselves in a similar position of taking a penalty kick later on in the second half when the hard work of Crew drew a hard tackle in the Princeton box. Noonan elected the left-footed Romaneiro to take the kick and did not regret his decision as Romineiro fooled White into diving right and then knocked the ball into the left side of the net.

With their second straight Ivy League win, the Bears (6-3 overall, 2-0 Ivy) moved up in the National Soccer Coaches Association Poll to No. 20.

Commenting on the last few games and the Bears’ upcoming match Tuesday against Providence, Noonan stressed the need to stay focused. “In the end we have to be consistent in our effort,” he said.

Herald staff writer Ian Cropp ’05 is an assistant sports editor. He can be reached at icropp@browndailyherald.com.

always refers them to the Highpointers Club. American Express once contacted Targan, hoping to put an employee on all 50 high points on the same day, but he turned the company down.

Jerimoth Hill became the focus of attention this year when charges were filed against two residents for holding a pair of trespassers at gunpoint. Bickes, who said the Highpointers Club had no involvement in the episode, said 220 people showed up for the May open date after an article on the incident appeared in the Providence Journal.

“They wanted to see what the beef was all about,” Bickes said.

“And there isn’t any, at least with us.”

Love of the outdoors and desire for a challenge sparked Bickes’ interest in state high points. He said many Highpointers develop an interest simply by seeing state high points defined on Rand McNally maps.

“It’s a lot of fun if you try to learn a little bit about the area too, rather than just flying in and flying out,” Bickes said.

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

Football continued from page 12 return for a score — making the score 17-7, which is how it remained at halftime.

“That kick return was huge,” said safety/linebacker Anjel Gutierrez ’05. “He’s one of the fastest guys we’ve played against. It’s hard to prepare for someone like that when we can’t really simulate his speed in practice.”

After the break, the Bears returned fired up. On the first play from scrimmage, Hartigan broke an 82-yard run, putting Bruno five yards from the end zone. Three plays later, Slager hit Jarrett Schreck ’06 for a short TD pass. Slager spread the wealth in the passing game, hitting six different receivers for at least two completions.

Later in the third, Brown struck again. Following a punt, the Bears got excellent field position on the Fordham 41 and went right up the field for a short drive that ended with Hartigan scoring from five yards out. The Bears were put ahead for the first time all day at 21-17.

After heading into the fourth quarter with no change in the score, the outcome looked good for the Bears. But midway through the period Fordham took the lead back for good, with Eakin hitting Dudley on a 26-yard pass for the score.

Brown had one last chance, but the Fordham defense held

strong, forcing Brown to punt.

The Rams then ran out the clock.

The team plays its homecoming game this weekend against Princeton, which comes into the game after a 303 drubbing by Colgate with an 0-4 record (0-1 Ivy League).

Herald staff writer Chris Hatfield ’06 is an assistant sports editor. He can be reached at chatfield@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2003 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

A costly proposition Each spring, as students make a mass exodus from Providence, one thing stays behind — their stuff.

Whether it’s books, clothes, linens or odds and ends, it’s crammed into boxes and containers and piled into basements of dormitories around campus. In the fall, nearly forgotten items are unearthed, dusted off and returned to bookshelves, dressers and beds.

But things will be different this year. The University announced it will not provide on-campus storage, citing fire hazards, liability concerns and high cost.

Now, without free campus storage available, students have to bear the costs. Last year, a student could store up to four boxes of any size for free in low-security storage around campus. This year, four 20pound boxes stored with College Boxes, a storage company that caters to college students, could cost students more than $160. And, although the Office of Residential Life provided a list of several off-campus storage facilities, administrators neglected to provide transportation to and from these facilities.

The University’s recent decision will impact student finances. For students who live nearby, it’s a simple matter for them to pack the family car full of dorm room items and drive home. But students who fly to campus and pay transportation fees — in addition to tuition and room and board — now must choose between shipping all of their belongings home, paying for storage or scrambling to find space in friends’ off-campus houses.

Although the University’s reasons for discontinuing on-campus storage are valid, the effects on students are potentially serious. In the midst of final exams, packing and the end-of-the-year rush, it’s beyond the realm of possibility for many students to find storage, compare companies’ prices and locations and arrange transportation. In discontinuing storage, University officials thought only of what was in Brown’s best interest — less liability and lower costs. But it did not seriously consider the ramifications it would have on students.

The storage system cannot continue to function the way it did in the past, but the University did not consult with the general student body on how the system could be made better. The University seems not to have considered any option other than stopping storage entirely.

The University’s choices are many — whether it is a centralized storage location on campus, such as the basement of a Main Green building that is unused during the summer, or subsidized storage off-campus. Even providing transportation to off-campus storage facilities would help lessen the burden on students. To ignore these options and leave students fending for themselves — and their possessions — shows that the University takes little responsibility for both students and their belongings.

ANDREW SHEETS

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2003 · PAGE 11

Uncovering a veil of discrimination In many countries, freedom of religious expression is under attack SURE MANY OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH allegiance” in state educational instituthe pictures: women clad in burkhas from tions. Prime Minister Raffarin has even head to toe in monochromatic colors as said he was ready to pass a law banning all mandated by the compulsory dress code religious effects in schools and public of the Taliban regime — and a smattering offices if the state commission cannot of other places in the Islamic world. But find a compromise.

But these politicians are misguided. how many of us are familiar with the These Muslim girls are attendopposite form of oppression? ing state schools and should In several countries, Muslim consequently be able to pracwomen are increasingly ARJUN IYENGAR OUTLOOK SUBLIME tice their religion freely. It restricted as to when and where they are allowed to don the veil.

One of the major venues for this conflict has been in the classroom. The headscarf is causing such a controversy in some countries that prime ministers and supreme courts are being asked to decide if it can be worn within the confines of public schools. In France, for example, a state commission is debating whether the wearing of the headscarf flouts the longcherished tradition of separation of church and state. An MP from President Chirac’s party, Jacques Myard, told La Chaine Info TV there was a “big difference between discreetly wearing a cross, a hand of Fatima or Star of David ‘round your neck’” and a headscarf which is “incompatible with the neutrality of the school and the French Republic.” Many of these arguments are grounded in the 1994 edict passed from the Education Ministry that bars “ostentatious display of religious Arjun Iyengar ’05 is neither a Muslim nor a woman but believes this issue is of importance to those concerned about the rights of self-expression.

seems as though the French government is pushing for the suppression of religion as opposed to just maintaining the neutrality of the republic.

And there are equally “ostentatious” forms of religious expression. Shall we also discriminate and preclude Jews from wearing yarmulkes and Sikhs from wearing turbans? Shall we discriminate against everyone? Wouldn’t it be fairer to uphold one’s right to observe his or her religious faith? Perhaps the French politicians are simply using the veil issue to garner votes and play on popular xenophobia. Because there are substantial numbers of Muslim immigrants in France, the headscarf issue is also linked to widespread feelings against immigration, as was clearly seen when right-wing politician (and widely deemed racist) Jean-Marie Le Pen nearly replaced Chirac as president.

The right to wear a veil in school is further legitimized by a recent supreme court decision in Germany. In a landmark ruling, the court upheld the right of Afghan-born Fereshta Ludin to teach in public schools after she was precluded from doing so because of her headscarf.

The court justly ruled that Ludin was entitled fair access to work in the public schooling system, entitled to religious expression and that the headscarf did not violate the separation of church and state.

Ludin’s case was the second such case the court ruled on in as many months. In August, it ruled that Muslim shop assistants could not be fired for wearing headscarfs, despite managers’ complaints that they put off customers.

Cases like this demonstrate the freedom that exists in much of the Western world that allows Muslim women to sue the governments and schools when they feel their rights are violated. This, however, is not the case in other countries — like Singapore. Last year in Singapore, three young girls were suspended for wearing Muslim headscarves despite a warning from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The ban was aimed to foster homogeneity in the classrooms and promote racial harmony in the city-state. Ever since racial and religious riots wracked Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s, government policy has focused on avoiding racial and religious tension between the ethnic Chinese majority and the Malay Muslim minority. But by suppressing differences between children at such a young age, how will children ever learn to become comfortable with and recognize the differences they will confront upon graduating? And just like in France, the government is only targeting Muslim women, but what about the sizable Sikh population that is allowed to wear turbans? In fact, Karpal Singh, a leading

Malaysian Sikh lawyer, argued just that, but was banned from practicing law in Singapore because he was “interfering in internal affairs.” Sure Singapore is a beautiful, safe place — but its draconian policies are crippling and preventing the very fundamental right to self-expression.

But perhaps the irony of it all is that some predominantly Muslim countries themselves have the strictest regulations restricting women from wearing headscarves. In Turkey, for example, secular regulations ban women from wearing headscarves in public buildings. A couple of years ago an elected MP was widely believed to have been dismissed from her position because she chose to wear a headscarf to her induction ceremony. And just last year, the wife of the parliamentary speaker in Turkey, Bulent Arinc, decided not to attend one of his official receptions because of a controversy over her wearing an Islamic-style headscarf.

Many officials cite that the headscarf is a backward symbol of oppression. Well, can the headscarf be oppressive? Yes, of course — but isn’t it also plausible that women might want to observe this tradition in keeping with the Islamic ideas about the importance of modesty?

The ultimate question that should be asked is whether Muslim women have the right to wear a headscarf in public if they choose to do so. And the answer should be unwaveringly “yes” because freedom of religious expression is an intrinsic and inalienable right — a notion widely held but unfortunately inconsistently observed.

A very special letter from Brown University Why Columbia just isn’t the right fit for Brown stantial deliberation. Every application was thoughtfully reviewed on an individual basis by a selection committee made up of faculty, members of the Brown community and our staff of admission professionals. Many factors were taken into account — location, reputation, costs, social atmosphere and whether the sports teams always get tossed around like so many 72-year-old bench coaches attacking Pedro Martinez.

You may be curious about the particular measures we use to determine whether an — Columbia sophomore applicant is worthy. For a Kwame Spearman, “Creating a university to be offered rival rivalry takes tough words,” ANDREW K. STEIN STEALING YOUR status, it must first meet cerOct. 3.

GIRLFRIEND tain minimum levels of mediocrity. These rules exist Dear Columbia University, to prevent a rivalry of a blaThank you for your application dated tantly imbalanced nature. Although it is Oct. 3. After careful consideration by our tempting to accept a patently inferior submissions committee, I must regretful- university as a rival, we nevertheless ly inform you we are unable to offer you have the following minimum requirerivalry status at this time. Perhaps the ments: most difficult task we face is disappointing a potential rival. In my tenure as • Brown has an open curriculum, where Dean, I have never encountered an appli- students are trusted to pursue their own cant pool as gifted as this one. During education. There are no required classes this year alone we received over 17,000 and no distributive requirements, except applications for three slots in our rival within one’s concentration. We certainly caste. Many exceptional colleges seek a respect that the students of other colrivalry with Brown University, and we leges may not be smart or mature must thus turn away candidates who are enough to choose some of their own classes. However, we reserve the right to otherwise very qualified.

The selection process requires sub- reject any university that has 18 or more required courses. Prior to your applicaAndrew K. Stein ’06 watched the California tion, we naively doubted that any college would actually fail this very generous election returns in Arnold Lounge.

“TO FINALLY ATTAIN ATHLETIC SPIRIT, Columbians need a school that we insult frequently, love to hate, and have an irrational desire to beat. … Now, rivalries are supposed to be evenly matched. But this situation is special; Columbia needs to just slap around a school to gain confidence, exposure, and a newfound sense of glory. Thus, we should start by scraping the bottom of the barrel — the Brown teddy bears. … Welcome to the next Ivy League rivalry.”

Our decision is final, and we regret that we will be unable to re-evaluate your case. Nevertheless, as part of our evaluations process, we strive to match rejected applicants to a rival with a sports program of equal quality. Enclosed with this letter you will find contact information for the “Seven Sisters” colleges. restriction.

• In no instance will we accept a rival that requires a swimming test for its students.

It would just be far too easy to mock.

• We will allow the subway ride between a prospective rival’s campus and football stadium to be up to 20 minutes. A ride in excess of that amount is almost begging for a mugging.

• We encourage an applicant school to be mentioned in Sports Illustrated unless, of course, the commentary celebrates combined record-breaking losing seasons in both football and basketball.

• Similarly, going 0-7 in Ivy League football and 0-14 in Ivy League basketball within the past year is also grounds for so much derision that, if this were the case, we would feel compelled to publish 3,000 copies of this rejection letter and distribute it on our own campus.

• Finally, we reject any school from New York City.

Our records indicate that, out of the six aforementioned requirements, Columbia University fails no more than half-a-dozen.

We are aware of the bitter disappointment our decision may bring to your campus. Throughout our deliberations, we have kept in mind the time and effort you have put into the rivalry application process. However, our decision is final, and we regret that we will be unable to reevaluate your case. Nevertheless, as part of our evaluations process, we strive to match rejected applicants to a rival with a sports program of equal quality. Enclosed with this letter you will find contact information for the “Seven Sisters” colleges.

On behalf of our selection committee, I thank you again for your interest in Brown University. After reviewing your impressive achievements, I am confident in your ability to be a successful two-year professional school in the future. You have the best wishes of the submissions staff as you pursue your rivalry options.

Sincerely, Andrew K. Stein Dean of Submissions

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SPORTS TUESDAY OCTOBER 14, 2003 · PAGE 12

BoSox whining only falling on deaf ears

Miyako Igari / Herald

Marcos Romaneiro ’05.5 sends a free kick past a Princeton wall en route to the Bears’second Ivy League victory.

Dominating offense leads No. 20 men’s soccer to 3-1 win over Tigers

BY IAN CROPP

In an offensive onslaught, the men’s soccer team pounded the Princeton Tigers 3-1 Saturday and earned an important Ivy League victory. Both teams combined for 43 fouls and two penalty kicks in a physical and heated game.

“Princeton plays a really emotional game,” said Adom Crew ’04. “We had to be prepared, and we were.

In the end, they let their emotions get the best of them.”

The tension that mounted in the first half came to a boil early on in the second half.

As Ian Premo ’07 chased down a ball towards the near sideline, Tiger defender Jeff Hare trailed Premo and threw him to the ground as the ball rolled out of bounds.

Marcos Romineiro ’05.5 and several other Brown players greeted Hare with a push, and within seconds a melee ensued. At one point, an enraged player from the Princeton bench ran onto the field and joined the altercation. After the officials sorted out the mess, two

Princeton players were awarded yellow cards.

The red-hot Princeton tempers were no match for Brown’s offense. Although the first few minutes featured little action by either team, Brown gained momentum and scored the first goal 12 minutes into the game after a few corner kicks. Brian Perry ’06 capitalized on a rebound in front after Princeton goalie Erik White saved a point-blank shot by Jeff Larentowicz ’05.

“We wanted to be safe in the first 10 minutes and not make any mistakes,” said Matt Goldman ’04. “Once we got things together, our forwards really worked hard and got it together.”

For the remainder of the game, the Brown offense wreaked havoc on the Princeton defense, amassing 14 shots, with one hitting the crossbar and several others missing the net by less than a foot.

“We focused a lot on intensity,” Crew said. “We consee M. SOCCER, page 9

Despite a strong running game, football falls 24-21 to Fordham

BY CHRIS HATFIELD

The Brown football team (1-3, 0-1 Ivy League) nearly toppled Fordham University on Saturday before falling 24-21 at the Brown Stadium, though they have continued to improve over the last few weeks.

The Bears held the lead heading into the fourth quarter, but were unable to hang on. Fordham wide receiver/kick returner Javarus Dudley proved to be too much with his 224 all-purpose yards, including two key touchdowns on a catch and a kickoff return.

“We’ve got to start winning these games,” said CoCaptain quarterback Kyle Slager ’04. “Once we get some momentum we’ll be able to start taking these kind of games and making them ours.”

As with the last few games, Brown fell into an early hole.

Fordham got the ball first and immediately drove down to the Bears’ three-yard line, where kicker Micah Clukey hit a 20-yard field goal to put the Rams up 3-0. Brown nearly answered on its next drive, but failed to score after an incompletion on fourth and goal from the Fordham five.

“We felt that that play gave us a good chance to score,” Slager said. “We’re an aggressive team. Coach likes to be

aggressive with his play calling.”

Taking the ball over on their own five, Fordham drove the ball all the way up the field on 12 plays, finally scoring on a touchdown pass from Kevin Eakin to Jim Caffarello.

Eakin finished the day hitting on 22 of 33 passes for 255 yards and two touchdowns, becoming the Rams’ career passing leader with 3,295 yards.

From there, the game got sloppy. The next two possessions for each team ended in turnovers. Defensive lineman Pat Curran ’06 jumped on the ball after Jesse Hawkins ’04 popped it loose from Eakin’s grasp. On the next play Nick Hartigan ’06 rumbled eight yards into the end zone to narrow the Rams’ lead to three. Hartigan, increasingly the focal point of Brown’s offense, ended the day with 214 yards on 27 carries and two touchdowns to lead all rushers. His success is a change for a team that has earned a reputation for producing great receivers.

But as soon as Brown cut into Fordham’s lead, the Rams widened it again. On the ensuing kickoff, Dudley was able to scat 95 yards for a touchdown — his second career see FOOTBALL, page 9

I AM A YANKEES FAN. THAT’S RIGHT, YOU HEARD me. I like the Yankees. I love Bernie Williams. I think Roger Clemens was born in pinstripes. I think Derek Jeter is underrated. I think Don Zimmer is a pretty man. Who is going to argue with me?

We have won 26 world championships and are contenders every single year. We have the Bambino, the Iron Horse, Joltin’ Joe, the Mick and Yogi. We go into each JEREMY CHASE spring training not only hopGUEST COLUMNIST ing but expecting to be in the World Series. In fact, if things aren’t going well by July, we will buy three or four players to make us contenders, and I have absolutely no problem with that.

It’s these Boston Red Sox fans who I can’t seem to understand. They always talk about how they hate the Yankees and how the Yankees are everything that is wrong with baseball. In fact, some of them go so far as to say they hate the city of New York as a whole.

Now that’s just plain silly. Hatred should be reserved for sworn enemies, and possibly clowns.

The fact of the matter is Yankee fans don’t care about the Boston Red Sox. It’s not out of a lack of pride for our own team, or for anything to do with our own expectations. We have no reason to dislike them because they have never beaten us — plain and simple. The only reason why I root against the Red Sox is because they are usually the only team in the AL East that challenges the Yankees. I don’t hate the Red Sox and I certainly don’t hate the city of Boston.

But Red Sox fans do not feel the same way about the Yankees. Why? Well, Red Sox fans have a horrible illness called bitter envy. They have not won a World Series since the Bolshevik Revolution and still insist the “Yankees suck.” Some Red Sox fans claim it isn’t that they suck due to talent, but simply because the Yankees buy their team. Well, Boston, I hate to break it to you, but, while the Yankees do have the biggest payroll in all of baseball, the Red Sox have the fifth highest and would be the fourth highest if not for the absurd $252 million contract of Alex Rodriguez. Stop trying to make it seem like you are a small market team like the Pirates or Brewers that can’t spend the big bucks on big names. While it is true the Yankees did “buy” a few players mid-season, the Red Sox made serious bids — and often overbid the Yankees — for the same players. What Boston fans need to understand is that it isn’t whether you buy players but whether you buy the right players (see the New York Mets).

I’m sure right now there are Red Sox fans reading this article pulling their hair out, yelling “Cowboy Up,” and wondering how this pompous S.O.B. could write an article bashing the team they love so dearly.

Please understand I am not bashing your beloved Red Sox, I am bashing you, the loyal and ever delusional fan.

Right now the Red Sox and the Yankees are embroiled in their ALCS and already the Boston fans are hailing Theo Epstein as a savior and the one man who can carry the Red Sox out of their depression, or as I like to call it, their “Bucknering” of the last 80plus years.

What the Boston faithful fails to understand is that Theo Epstein and the current Red Sox organization is simply turning those lovable losers into what your city most despises — the New York Yankees. Whether you choose to call what Epstein has done savvy business maneuvering, or simply wheeling and dealing, you are buying your wins just like the “Evil Empire” Yankees. But, while you spend money, other real small market teams like the Twins, Marlins and Athletics have had, and most likely will have, more success than you … and they aren’t nearly as bitter.

So for now, I think Boston fans need to take a page from the book of the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908 yet still their fans root hard for their Cubbies. They know they suck, yet still bleed with their team. They go into every season with a glimmer of hope and, if they lose, there is always next year. If they win like they have this year, they are elated. They don’t look for scapegoats, they don’t whine about how much money other teams spend and they certainly don’t blame their woes on any curse of a man who has been dead for over 55 years.

Boston fans are angry, bitter, whiny losers. Now tell me who sucks.