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Sketch released for suspect in possible hate crime BY ZACH BARTER

BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

Former members of the coalition that stole the March 16, 2001 press run of The Herald remain skeptical of the media, committed to political dialogue and disgusted by David Horowitz, they said in a discussion Thursday evening. Open to the entire campus and attended by about 25 students, the discussion in Wilson 102 was prefaced by a showing of a documentary made by coalition member Kohei Ishihara ’02. The 20-minute film, which was never completed, includes footage of confrontations between the coalition and Herald editors at The Herald office. At one meeting between the two parties, where the film states the editors refused to allow cameras, a tape-recorded conversation documents the editors’ rejection of the coalition’s demands and the coalition’s veiled threat to prevent distribution of The Herald. The coalition had a petition signed by 200 students demanding money from Horowitz’s advertisement, which cited reasons against reparations for slavery, be given to the Third World Center and a full page of ad space to respond to his ad. Katherine Boas ’02, one of three editors-in-chief of The Herald at the time, said Thursday she had not known coalition members had entered the office with either cameras or tape recorders. see HOROWITZ, page 5

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Former officials from the United Nations answered questions from students eager to pursue careers in the world’s largest international civil service organization at an event in Smith-Buonanno on Thursday.

Ribbon cutting marks T.F. Green opening BY ELLEN WERNECKE

Six days after it hosted its first performance, the downstairs space of the newly renovated Theodore Francis Green Hall welcomed Undergraduate Council of Students members, administrators, faculty and students for the official reopening of the building Thursday. “It’s very exciting to see people in this building after so much construction,” Margaret Jablonski, dean for Campus Life, told some 70 community

members and guests assembled to witness the symbolic cutting of a shiny red ribbon across the space, most recently the home of Production Workshop’s “No Returns.” “We started in a conference room at the Student Life office,” Jablonski said, “and out of that has come teamwork and some wonderful work” by all groups involved. Jablonski singled out PW and Musical Forum for “spending hours poring over designs” for T.F. Green. Other

Grad students manage family while studying BY MERYL ROTHSTEIN

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Like some busy graduate students, Clemency Williams GS and her husband Yann Montelle GS wake up at 6 a.m. each morning. But, unlike students who wake up to the the sound of a blaring alarm, GRADUATE Wiliams and Montelle stir when they SCHOOL hear the coos and gurgles of their at 100 nine-month-old son Pierre. Williams and Montelle are part of a limited group of grad students with children who juggle their family life with their academic one. While students with families are quick to praise both facets of their life, parenthood poses unique

Clemency Williams GS reads to her nine-monthold son Pierre.

student groups that will use the space include the Tae Kwon Do club and the Coalition of Bands at Brown. UCS Campus Life Committee Chair Ari Savitzky ’06 presented Vanessa Gonzalez ’04, a PW board member, with a plaque honoring “PW and all undergraduates involved in performing and martial arts.” “May this building be used in good health,” Savitzky read. He later called President Ruth Simmons out of the audience to help cut the ceremonial ribbon. Gonzalez called the renovated hall a “very exciting place” for the performing arts at Brown. “This place has been a stepping stone for so many writers, directors, actors, designers,” Gonzalez said. “This space has made them into who they are.” “Brown gives us a place to create, to succeed and to fail,” she said. “With this new building and everybody together, we’re going to be able to create together.” UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 was also on hand to witness the ribbon cutting. “Just seeing the energy and excitement here is a great example of collaboration

see GRAD, page 4 see T.F. GREEN, page 4

I N S I D E F R I D AY, O C T O B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 3 Medley of plays at PW shows some clear talent among student directors and writers arts & culture, page 3

History and tradition support and propel Fusion dance company, students say arts & culture, page 3

Evildoers will relish in the fall of recent WTO talks, says Barron Youngsmith ’06 column, page 7

Department of Public Safety investigators are hoping a new composite sketch will help identify the assailant in the Sept. 6 assault of a female student on Charlesfield Street. DPS, which is investigating the incident as a hate crime, released the sketch Thursday and asked anyone with information on the suspect to step forward. “The whole idea ... is to get it out there to as many people as possible who might be able to help with the investigation,” said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. DPS has been unable to locate any eyewitnesses to the assault. After leaving an off-campus party, the student was approached from behind by the suspect, who yelled a homophobic comment and struck her in the face. DPS refused to comment on an ongoing investigation and referred all questions to Nickel. The sketch, developed by the Providence Police Department in consultation with the victim, shows a college-age male with a heavy build, dark eyes and short dirty blonde or brown hair. PPD Detective Patricia Cornell, who created the sketch, said composite artists often wait several weeks before interviewing victims. Cornell developed the sketch based on a single twohour interview with the victim. “In some cases, people may be so traumatized at first that they are unable to recall what the person looked like,” Cornell said. “Normally, I wait until they’ve had time to put things in perspective in their head.” Composites are not meant to be exact depictions of suspects, Cornell said. She said artists only see SKETCH, page 4

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DPS hopes a new sketch will help identify the assailant in the Sept. 6 assault of a female student.

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Jane Urban ’07 says Parents Weekend brings free meals and emotional rollercoaster column, page 7

UMass Minutemen roll over M. ruggers 27-10 in first home game of the season sports, page 8

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Brian Dennehy to grace Trinity stage BY LELA SPIELBERG

This winter, Tony Award-winning actor Brian Dennehy will join the company of Olympia Dukakis, Spalding Gray, JoBeth Williams and other renowned film stars who have acted in plays with the Trinity Repertory Company as he double-bills in Eugene O’Neill’s “Hughie” and a Sean O’Casey one-act play to be announced. “Hughie,” which will run from Feb. 20 to April 3 in Trinity’s Dowling Theater, is a short character play. The true strength of the play, according to the Eugene O’Neill Newsletter, is “greatness on the level which O’Neill once described as ‘super-naturalism’ — not the super-naturalism which is above and separated from the natural, but rather existing within the natural world, and illuminating and enhancing it.” Dennehy, taking the role of protagonist Ernie, has had many opportunities to flex his acting muscles in popular films such as “Romeo and Juliet,” “Tommy Boy” and “Cocoon.” And acting isn’t his only talent — the Connecticut-born star has also directed several TV productions and even produced a television version of the highly acclaimed play “Death of a Salesman” (for which Dennehy won a Tony for his portrayal of Willy Loman on the Broadway stage). Trinity Rep recruited Dennehy through the college connection circuit. Marilyn Dubois, Trinity’s public relation’s representative, said, “Trinity Rep Company member Fred Sullivan Jr. went to college with Brian Dennehy’s daughter. A few years ago, Fred made arrangements for our artistic director, Oskar Eustis, to meet Brian backstage when he was doing ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ on Broadway.” After Dennehy collected his second Tony for Best Actor for that play, he signed on with Trinity. Eustis said he is very enthusiastic about Dennehy’s role in “Hughie.” “Brian Dennehy is an icon among American actors,” he said. “His matchless range and stature rank him among the great actors in American stage history. He has devoted the heart of his career to the stage in a way that very few of his contemporaries have. His performance of ‘Hughie’ will give our audience unparalleled insight into O’Neill’s work, not to mention the rare opportunity to see an enormous talent up close.” Trinity Rep plans to offer tickets to “Hughie” beginning in January.

PW’s three-for-one a sure shot BY JEN SOPCHOCKCHAI

“New Directors!,” playing at Production Workshop’s upstairs space through Monday, offers three plays for the price of one — and it’s free. The show’s three short pieces, each directed by a different person, sustain just as much energy and are as complete as any full-length production. The works are also varied enough to hold the attention of audience members throughout. The most applause-worthy segment of the show is “XYY,” written and directed by Krista Knight ’06. During a mere 10-minute conversation, an entire play’s worth of back-story is revealed between Oscar and Brook, two scientists whose conversation is a little too intimate for the lab. “Words, Words, Words,” a cute and

playful piece written by David Ives and directed by Jillian Schlesinger ’06, offers a clever take on the Columbia University study that expects three chimpanzees, when left alone to type, will eventually create their own manuscript of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Ives’ writing integrates apt quotations from the literary canon recited by chimps named after authors Kafka, Swift and Milton. The writing also fluctuates between realistic and imaginative, both of which are humorous. The one downfall of this theatrical medley, however, is “The Man Who Couldn’t Dance” by Jason Katims, which falls flat to say the least. In addition to having painfully clichéd dialogue, the piece’s conflict peaks too easily and arbitrarily arrives rather than builds. By the

time Eric, played by Marc Donahue ’07, weeps in front of the audience, there isn’t enough reason to care about his character at all. There is also a gaping hole in the directing skills of Tess Lantos ’07 — Gail and Eric are screaming at each other and a baby, also in the scene, never cries. His piece is soap opera meets afterschool special, and its dash of intellectual matter cannot disguise its phony qualities. On the whole, however, “New Directors!” is a triumph for PW. Despite its small scale, the show brings a lot to the table. Herald staff writer Jen Sopchockchai ’05 is assistant editor of the arts and culture section. She can be reached at jsopchockchai@browndailyherald.com.

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History, traditions drive in Fusion BY KATE CUSHING

“Fu-Fu!” “Sion!” You haven’t been at Brown long if you haven’t heard these shouts across campus. The exuberant cries of Fusion members announce the group’s presence and long-standing history on campus. Fusion, a student-run dance company, works to hold on to its many traditions, said Lauren Linder ’04, the group’s codirector. At each Fusion show, the most senior black woman introduces the audience to the group’s history and mission, saying, “(Fusion) is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic group of both men and women who … do not conform to the university-imposed, modern-day constraints on body shape, size, dance style and choreography.” Challenging preconceived notions of dance and continuously offering new and diverse examples of dance to the community is no easy task, said co-director Yaya Johnson ’04. But Fusion members are quick to attribute their success to the diverse backgrounds of the group’s members and the strong sense of tradition that permeates the company. According to Linder, in 1983 Paula Franklin, a black student at Brown, realized a need for more student choreography on campus. She choreographed a dance for the Fall Dance Concert that year that included seven other African-American women. The following semester, the group expanded to 23 members, Linder said. The vision the group started with — a student-run organization to showcase diverse dance forms and to provide a venue for student work — remains Fusion’s mission today, the two directors said. Fusion members also pride themselves in the group’s histo-

ry of diversity and consider themselves lucky there are so many different and talented dancers at Brown, said Laura Nave ’06. Johnson said the group has no “quota” or set criteria used in try-outs. “It’s not like there are only skinny people — we have all body types. We have people who have never danced before, and some who have been dancing for years. There has traditionally been a strong black women element and an Asian population represented, but … we do not look for a quota to fill,” she said. Members emphasized the different dance forms represented at Fusion shows. “In this year’s show (in the spring) there is a belly-dancing piece, a Brazilian piece, a West African piece, as well as hip hop, modern, jazz and ballet. But we don’t really like to identify dances as styles because they incorporate a lot of different elements,” Johnson said. As an example, Johnson said choreographing to a hip hop song does not mean the performance must be strictly hip hop. “When you label a style, like ‘modern,’ then you have to compete with people’s pre-conceived ideas about what that style is,” she said. Achieving this range of style and expression is one goal for the company every year, Nave said. “We try to live up to Paula Franklin’s vision of expressing every idea you want and not being restrained by any type of limitation or constraint.” The group’s traditions begin where Fusion holds its shows each year — in Ashamu Dance Studio. “The first Fusion piece, ‘Portrait of a Studio’ was about Ashamu. It is a very special place for us. Because it is so small see FUSION, page 5

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Grads continued from page 1 challenges to the already demanding life of a graduate student, they say. Brown’s Graduate School has 1,400 students — fewer than most university graduate programs — and only about 900 of these students live in Providence at any given time, said Associate Dean of Student Life and the Graduate School Carla Hansen. Only a small number of these have children, she said, although the University does not know the exact number of students with children because of privacy concerns. There are so few families at Brown in part because the University is not an inviting place for them, said Williams, a graduate student in the Department of the History of Mathematics. One of the challenges graduate students with families face is the unspoken stigma professors and other students attach to parenthood, said Montelle, a graduate student in the departments of

Theater Arts and Anthropology. “There’s the expectation that you’ll work less or be less focused,” Williams said, adding that this assumption is not true even if they do have less free time. “There are faculty members that feel that while you’re in graduate school nothing else should take precedence,” Hansen said. Others “understand the value of families” and that “you can be a serious academic and have a family,” she said. Parenthood also adds an additional financial burden, said Lien Quach GS, in the Department of Community Health. The average cost of centerbased childcare is $140 per week for preschool-age children, according to a study sponsored by Options for Working Parents. Even those grad students who can afford day care may not be able to get it, Williams said. Brown/Fox Point Early Childhood Education Center reserves 60 percent of its spots for people in the Brown community, said the Center’s Executive Director Chris Amirault. But, because parents can sign up for

the waitlist when their child is 18 months — the youngest children admitted are three years old — there is rarely space for eligible children of graduate students who learn they’re coming to Brown in April and May, he said. Current day care options are “absolutely inadequate,” said Williams’ mother Felicity Williams, who was visiting from New Zealand. It “totally discriminates against women that choose to have children,” she said. Because one-third to one-quarter of graduate students are international students, according to Hansen, family visits like Felicity Williams’ are a rare treat. As an international student from Vietnam, caring for her child is especially difficult without the presence of extended family members, Quach said. Yet school and family are invaluable priorities, students say, and they do what it takes to balance both. Quach’s husband cares for her three-year-old son full-time, she said. Even without the challenge of finding day care, Jamie Scurry GS

said she feels her plate is overwhelmingly full. Scurry is a part-time graduate student in the Department of American Civilization and a research associate at the Taubman Center for Public Policy, as well as a teaching assistant. Her children are eight and five years old, so they are in school for much of the day. Scurry makes dinner when she returns home, puts her children to bed by 8:30, then begins her homework, she said. It has to be about “quality of time, not quantity of time,” she said. Because she is a parent as well as a part-time student, Scurry said she feels especially removed from the graduate student social scene. But, with so little free time, she’d rather spend it with her kids than with other students, Scurry said. Williams organized an informal group of graduate student parents last semester to share tips on parenting and to create a social network, she said. She said she also hopes to establish a cooperative group of grad students with children, like her peers at Yale University, to solve the problem of day care. The University would like to do its part to ease life for students with children, Hansen said. There is currently no official family housing for grad students, but Hansen said she hopes to find apartment housing at a below-market price for families. According to the Brown University Off-Campus Listing Service, two-bedroom apartments on the East Side rent for more than $1,000 a month on average. With TA salaries hovering at around $14,500 a year, according to Hansen, living close to campus is often out of reach for graduate students without additional jobs. Williams and Montelle, however, live in a Metcalf Hall apartment because Williams is a community director for some first-year dorms on Pembroke. Williams said living among undergraduates has been a worthwhile experience for the students and her family.

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Herald senior staff writer Ellen Wernecke ’06 can be reached at ewernecke@browndailyherald.com.

continued from page 1 expect victims to be able to recall a suspect’s likeness with 70 percent accuracy. “To be able to recall what his nose looked like, what his eyes looked like, what his hair looked like, and then communicate it to someone else is a very difficult thing,” Cornell said. Cornell emphasized the difference between being able to remember what a suspect looks like and being able to recall that information for investigators. She also said sketches are only effective when part of an ongoing investigative process. “It’s a tool in the investigation,” she said. “It’s not a cureall.” Herald senior staff writer Zach Barter ’06 covers crime. He can be reached at zbarter@browndailyherald.com.

T.F. Green continued from page 1 between students and administrators,” Kurji told those assembled. “This is what we have to build.” “We at UCS have a new friend in PW,” he added. Facilities Management Projects Manager David Laplante called the experience of renovating T.F. Green Hall “a jewel for student activities people,” though, he admitted, it was not always easy. “When you’re in the thick of it,” he said, “you don’t always see the end result, just the sweat and swears.”

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Horowitz continued from page 1 The film, which describes The Herald’s editors as “experts in misrepresenting,” also includes footage of coalition rallies on the day the papers were stolen and interviews with coalition leadership about the logistics of removing the papers and about the physical and verbal threats to which they were subjected afterward. Following the showing of the documentary, several students who had been involved in the coalition were on hand to discuss their experiences with the group. Manisha Kumar ’04 said that, although the controversy was later framed as a freespeech issue, it was from the beginning about “The (Herald’s) history of insensitivity to the Third World community” in its coverage of convocations and the TWC and in its misquotes and misspelled names. Herald opinions columnist Brian Rainey ’04 echoed Kumar’s sentiments, noting that for a number of years, each spring had seen a “racial blowout,” and that on each occasion The Herald had “portrayed the Third World community as Zulu warriors.” By the time the Horowitz ad was published, “people were really fedup with The Herald,” he said. Their experience after the theft of the papers only con-

Fusion continued from page 3 and half the audience sits on the floor, there is an energy exchange between us and the audience that makes performing that much more fun and fulfilling,” Johnson said. Another part of the Fusion tradition, a dance called “The Tradition,” is performed each year. Pieces from previous years’ shows are sometimes brought back, and alumni are always checking up on them by attending performances, said Fusion member Ramel Murphy ’06. The cross-campus calls, postperformance shout-outs and introductory recitation all connect the group to its past, Linder said. “It’s great because someone can come in the group as a senior and feel just as much a part of it then if they had been dancing in the group for four years. It makes you feel a responsibility for the legacy,” Murphy said. Despite a 20-year legacy, consistently sold-out shows and alumni support, maintaining the Fusion tradition has not been easy. Space issues at Ashamu, the

firmed the coalition members’ poor impression of the media, they said. National newspapers that covered the controversy wrongly reported that the coalition “stormed” The Herald, Rainey said, and consistently distorted its positions. In the weeks that followed, The Herald continued to make factual errors as it reported on the theft of the papers and sent its reporters as “spies to coalition meetings,” Kumar said. It was at this point in the discussion that Doreen Wang ’05 requested that any Herald reporters present identify themselves, and then asked the rest of the group whether they were comfortable speaking in the presence of a Herald representative. None of the students responded. In general, students said The Herald presents more balanced coverage now than it did in the spring of 2001. But the only thing that can truly repair relations between The Herald and the Third World community may be the passage of time, Kumar said. “It’s a good thing that by May, no one on campus will have seen what happened firsthand,” she said. “That’s the way I see the campus healing.” Many of the students intimately involved with the coalition did not feel emotionally prepared to attend the Horowitz lecture Wednesday, Kumar added. According to Brenda Allen, associate provost and director

only true dance studio on campus, make scheduling increasingly difficult, Johnson said. Over the last four years, Linder said Fusion’s practice time in Ashamu has shrunk. And all dance companies struggle with space on campus, Linder said. Dance opportunity at Brown, in general, is limited, she said, with choices for introductory dance classes restricted to modern and West African styles. “A lot of people are still excluded from the dance community. It is really hard to break into, especially if you are not part of a company. … Also, even though there are a lot of companies, it is hard to find your niche,” Linder said. To combat these problems, members of Body & Soul, a board of representatives from several student dance groups, are meeting to plan the Fall Dance Concert and finding ways to incorporate more individual student work in the show, said Johnson, who is also a part of Body & Soul. The new group hopes to manage Ashamu’s schedule and deal with possible communication issues, she said. “So far it is still really hard (to coordinate practice times). But hopefully we are moving in the right direction,” she said.

of institutional diversity, those students did not miss much. “If anyone left there feeling they learned something significant about anything, that’s a shame,” she told the group in Wilson. Although the University should endeavor to present a diversity of views to students, Horowitz is not the right representative for the argument against reparations for slavery, Allen said. “That man doesn’t have a clue about race in America,” she said. “He’s a waste of time.” Quinney Harris ’06 agreed with Allen that Horowitz’s lecture was unproductive. Conservative students “used the cover of intellectual diversity” to justify using Undergraduate Finance Board funds to pay Horowitz’s expenses, when in fact “his presence here on campus wasn’t even necessary,” Harris said. “I felt insulted for our entire community,” said Daniel Bassichis ’06. Audience members “did their job” by listening respectfully to Horowitz’s talk and then, in the question-andanswer period, “tearing him apart,” Bassichis said. “He’s not a problem,” said Will Tucker ’04 of Horowitz. “He’s just an asshole.” Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 edits the campus watch section. She can be reached at cblum e n k ra n z @ b r ow n d a i l y h e r ald.com.

Ruggers continued from page 8 scoreboard. One Brown defensive lapse left the Bears down 5-0 at the half. When the second half began, UMass was forced to go into the wind and Brown took advantage of this, using the boot of Scott Wilson ’05 to place the ball deep in Minutemen territory. After another UMass try, Brown was down 10-0 but mounted a comeback. Brown’s defensive stand in the UMass zone led to a penalty against UMass and the Bears elected to kick for points bringing the score to 10-3. As the clock wound down, the

Troy continued from page 8 Panthers (+2) over the SAINTS – Carolina is in first place yet is somehow the underdog in this game. New Orleans’ defense would have trouble stopping “Timmy,” let alone Stephen Davis and Steve Smith. Jim Haslett might not be lucky enough to keep his job through another disappointing season. 49ERS (-7) over the Cardinals – Even if the calendar says that this should be a week Terrell Owens takes off, he has now realized that every stupid thing

Bears mounted a successful drive that brought them within two points of the Minutemen, but time ran out and Brown lost 10-8. According to Brandt, as the team looks ahead to playing Amherst (2-4) on Saturday, more work will be done on executing patterns and finding a good game plan. The match will determine the third-place finisher in the league. “Amherst is a smaller team than UMass, and we’re looking for that size difference to play to our advantage,” Brandt said. Herald staff writer Sam Culver ’07 covers men’s rugby. He can be reached at sculver@browndailyherald.com.

he says costs him half a million in free agent contract dollars. If this game is remotely close, I will have to start believing that the current NFL season is actually a figment of the imagination of John Cusack and/or a 10year-old-boy. Jets (+3) over the EAGLES – New York is 0-for-the-NFC East, but it could all change this week. Chad Pennington is back and earning some playing time, the Jets are riding a two-game winning street and Mercury is aligned with Mars. Apparently, Donovan McNabb has forgotten how to transform from Clark Kent to Superman.

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Diamonds and coal Coal to the PVC pipe diplomas and the whole senior portrait taking thing in general. “Happy, happy, right, tilt, happy” — sure, that’s definitely going to bring out our natural smiles. Cubic zirconium to the Underground opening again with alcohol. We’ll believe it when we see it. Coal to hour-long wait times for SafeRIDE on-call. But a diamond to the SafeRIDE van with chrome rims and tinted windows. Now that’s a PhatRIDE. Coal to the continued politicking between UCS and UFB. Some things never change. A diamond to Garry Trudeau P’06, the first such jewel to be awarded to a Yalie. Dude, dads who smoke pot are cool. And Jane Pauley P’06 is a hottie. Score, man. A diamond to don’t ask, don’t tell Facilities Management. Our turtles and extension cords are safe. Coal to students whose lecture questions make us feel sorry for them. A diamond to the veggie oil bus on the Main Green for putting a delicious, artery-clogging cooking staple to good use. Coal to the new graffiti in the Rock. Bathroom stalls are for slandering exlovers and arch nemeses, not voicing personal musings and amateur poetry. “No one can take away your thoughts unless you’re brainwashed” — how is this acceptable? A diamond to the Indiana Jones boxed set. We’ve been waiting for this before we knew what a DVD was. A cubic zirconium to the RISD students who threatened in a letter to The Herald to cut off the heads of their fellow student heroes and stuff them in pillowcases. The sentiment’s a little disturbing, but we had no idea art school kids could be so assertive.

ANDREW SHEETS

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A diamond to the much anticipated “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” a perfect blend of old and new. The meathooks are classic, but we won’t be able to eat ham for weeks.

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A cubic zirconium to the thought of three months without “Newlyweds.” But a diamond to Jessica Simpson’s proposed “Ivy League tour.” We will eat you alive, like so many buffalo wings.

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 7

I wonder if heaven got a World Trade Organization If you’re evil and uncaring, the failure of last month’s WTO talks were just what you were looking for THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE make up for the ever-increasing $36 bilto like about the collapse of the WTO talks lion in farm aid that is essentially being last month. For sadists, there’s the fact taken directly from Third World farmers that global poverty will continue at cur- every year. For lovers of artificially flavored, low rent levels rather than lifting 144 million people out of poverty through the redis- quality or chemically treated foods, those who despise fresh fruit and tribution of over $300 billion the like, you can rest easy a year to destitute nations. knowing the insidious influFor social Darwinists, ence of real Caribbean sugar, there is the assurance that African bananas and so on has $36 billion a year will continbeen kept out of America just ue to be moved directly from like the dirty people who the pockets of taxpayers like planted them. your parents* to solid, citiWe’ve all (look this up if you zen-farmer representatives of haven’t) heard a lot about the America’s heartland, such as: benefits of trade everybody David Rockefeller, who was can gain through the mutual paid $134,556 in 2001 for his BARRON YOUNGSMITH exercise of comparative corporate farms; Portland BARRON VON advantage. What about the Trailblazers basketball star NEWSPAPER benefits that people can gain Scottie Pippen, who receives from not trading? Poor coun$26,315 in payments to not farm the land he owns in Arkansas; our tries can gain a sense of pride that they very own Ted Turner, the 25th wealthiest didn’t give in to exploitation, and they can man in America, who received $12,925; gain the privilege of bilateral talks with and, of course, ousted multi-millionaire the United States, whereas before they Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, who received were constrained by the multilateral, $6,019 for his symbolic, hearty American global format of the WTO. (Although this Gothic-like presence in the psyche of the is similar to Steve Urkel having the privilege of fighting Arnold Schwarzennegger Republic. For advocates of foreign aid, you can unconstrained by anybody to back him sleep well at night because the meager up.) Not only that: The stability of their gov$17 billion budget for international assistance will constantly need to be raised to ernments will benefit because dictators will retain the ability to award their supporters with tariffs, and then they will be able to institute price controls — creating Barron Youngsmith ’06 hopes hell is a litfood and goods shortages and then allowtle bit like Cancun.

For lovers of artificially flavored, low quality or chemically treated foods, those who despise fresh fruit and the like, you can rest easy knowing the insidious influence of real Caribbean sugar, African bananas and so on has been kept out of America just like the dirty people who planted them. ing governments to distribute that food (and those Benz SL 2000s) to regime supporters. Furthermore, they will be seen as bulwarks of national pride for standing up against the West and they will lead countries of poor people, who are easier to control than not-starving people, another score for international stability and sovereignty. For imperialists, one can’t help being happy that the Third World will continue to be poor and therefore weak and subject to domination. Nothing would challenge the current world order more than a shift in the global distribution of wealth. The dictators, or worse, nascent democratic states that I mentioned above, will have nothing on which to base their tax revenues and therefore no leverage. That will take the wind out of those Third World sails. For environmentalists, there is the fact that farming will not be expanded in Third World countries, protecting untold mil-

lions of acres of rainforest. It also means Third World governments will never have the tax money to finance the necessary environmental rules that would make an expansion of world trade equitable and fair, preserve biodiversity, enforce sustainable development plans, protect natural/biological resources and reduce greenhouse emissions. Much of the world will also continue to live in urban hovels and have lots of children (as population decreases in rich nations), increasing environmental degradation geometrically. OK, so environmentalists lose either way. I don’t want to say that a multilateral, WTO- and UN- enhanced world sounds bad, of course, but why change when we can expand upon what we have now? There’s a reason those talks broke up: humanity doesn’t want to live that way. *I apologize if Ted Turner is one of your parents.

The comfort and terror of Parents Weekend A week later, your weekend is free, but your meals aren’t PARENTS: YOU CAN’T LIVE WITH THEM no parents coming for Parents Weekend, and you certainly can’t live without their and instead, to have a friend with parents free food/monetary donations. But what who can bring you along for a free gouris it that divides us from those parental met food ride. While this method leads to units and makes Parents Weekend an a definite reduction in stress and an increase in time spent chilling in the emotional rollercoaster ride of stress? Part of the problem is that our parents dorm while everyone is out stressfully dodging scary parental quesdon’t really know how to deal tions (What’s that smell from with us; we are technically across the hall?), it does not adults, yet for most of us, completely solve the parental they still own our lives in the conundrum. form of our education, our Obviously, because we are sustenance and a place to all here in college, away from live when Brown isn’t our our parents, we want to have home. This ambiguous role some space from them, but parents play makes them very few people honestly hate missed by some, loathed by to see the people with whom others and stressful to host they have usually spent at for everyone. JANE URBAN least 18 years. On a more basic level, the THE URBAN SLANT Our parents represent a life parental presence leaves us we left behind. For some peoalmost no time to do all those ple that life includes another pesky chores we usually put off until the weekend, like homework, country, culture and language. That life laundry, creating a path from the door to might be something we miss, and having the bed, throwing out a month’s worth of our parents here is a comfort, but for some, that life is the reason we came to garbage, etc. Additionally, having our parents see Brown — to escape and start over. That’s where we live is an incentive to live a lie just one of the deeper threads of stress for a weekend and clean up the place. our parents cause. For many here at Brown, Parents Cleanliness also wins us some “my child is a responsible, neat individual with Weekend is just something more orchescomplete control of college life” points trated than any other weekend, as that sometimes can be exchanged for parental visits are commonplace, sometimes to the extent that one wonders if monetary donations or a tasty meal. The ideal situation, it seems, is to have college is actually all that far away from home. When your parents take your laundry Jane Urban ’07 loves her parents, but loves home every weekend and bring it back her freedom a little more.

Having our parents see where we live is an incentive to live a lie for a weekend and clean up the place. Cleanliness also wins us some “my child is a responsible, neat individual with complete control of college life” points that sometimes can be exchanged for monetary donations or a tasty meal. for you and you rarely are without a supply of homemade cookies, you might be the envy of many in your hall, and I myself would love one of your cookies. But the college experience of shrinking clothes and turning them all pink (which is especially fun for guys who see pink as a representation of their inner weaknesses), eating cereal for multiple meals and using the microwave as a culinary necessity, is lost. I’m definitely not saying I like shrunken shirts, a pink wardrobe or a cereal and Ramen noodle diet, but it is part of college life. Without it, I doubt I would necessarily appreciate the time I spend at home. And there’s the key. Hopefully, seeing our parents last weekend reminded us there are parts of home we miss and parts we’re glad to be without. That memory makes the trip home for Thanksgiving a little more refreshing and fun. A balance is necessary between inde-

pendence, freedom, all things collegiate and the doting concern inherent to all parents everywhere. While no one wants to be pestered, in some ways it is nice to know someone is looking out for how much you eat, how much you sleep, and how much help you need with that laundry. Unfortunately, there will always be the horror stories of Parents Weekend. For example, you probably wouldn’t want to deal with your parent speaking in front of hundreds of other parents about how much he loves to embarrass his son and making cracks about his free-spirited college years (especially anything having to do with sex). My apologies to Richard Trudeau. For me, seeing my parents was stressful, but a good thing overall. I think they needed an excuse to visit New England in the fall, for one, but they were also happy to know they hadn’t sent their precious child off to college before she could take care of herself (at least I hope so, anyway).

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SPORTS FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 8

Fried chicken and NFL week 8 These picks have been made against the Skybook odds and as always are for recreational purposes only. This week’s picks were not parodied in “Scary Movie 3,” but do feature twins. (Home team in CAPS) Last Week – 8-6 Season – 55-43-4 Lock of the Week – 6-1 PATRIOTS (-5.5) over the Browns – While the “Boston area” curse should dictate that New England will lose after upsetting Miami in Florida, JOSHUA TROY SPREADING THE LOVE Cleveland’s QB carousel and porous rush defense dictate that this will not happen. The only way the team will lose is if it hires Grady Little as its new special teams coordinator and he decides to punt on all third downs. RAVENS (-1) over the Broncos – To give Denver’s QB situation some perspective, wide receiver Rod Smith is the third string quarterback this week. On the plus side though, Steve Beuerlein’s injury last week was one of the most gruesome injuries of all time. Joe Theisman and Moises Alou were on the phone to offer their congratulations. Rams (+1.5) over the STEELERS – So far this season, the Steelers’ offense has been as talented as the acting in “2 Fast 2 Furious.” With another loss, thanks in large part to the potent Bulger-Holt connection, Pittsburgh should begin the Charlie Batch Era. In terms of success, this new era falls somewhere between the Paleozoic Era and the Kordell Stewart Era. Seahawks (-1.5) over the BENGALS – Matt Hasselbeck will be motivated to win this week because his brother Tim is finally back in the NFL. They are like the Williams sisters, only a lot less talented. Cincinnati would not want to lose its unlovable loser status by putting together a two-game winning streak. BEARS (-3) over the Lions – This game has the appeal of the inevitable episode of “Cribs” from Kobe Bryant’s jail cell, which will be smaller than Shaq’s bed. Although the game has the makings of a tie just to subject fans to an extra quarter of football, Charlie Rogers’ injuries give Chicago the edge. As an aside, Mr. Bartman will not be a ceremonial captain for the coin toss. VIKINGS (-5.5) over the Giants – In the last two weeks, New York has redefined “finding a way to lose.” Do you think that, during the week, Jim Fassel shows highlights of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Boston Red Sox, and the Chicago Cubs to prep his team? After his no-look flip to Moe Williams last week, Randy Moss is going to try spinning the football on his finger and pouring a bucket of confetti on Kerry Collins’ head. Titans (-3.5) over the JAGUARS – Eddie “Mr. Irrelevant” George is as vital to Tennessee’s offense as Steven Seagal was to the plot of “Executive Decision.” Steve McNair might be the best QB, RB, TE, and K on his own team. Byron Leftwich should pretend that he is back at Marshall and treat the game as a learning experience. BUCCANEERS (-6.5) over the Cowboys – Don’t kid yourself: If Bill Parcells had taken the Tampa Bay job before Jon Gruden, the team still would have won the Super Bowl. Even though Dallas is 5-1, Tampa Bay is still the better team and it will take “The Tuna” at least a full season before he will have his team ready to knock off the defending champs. see TROY, page 5

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Brown forwards practice scrummaging as they prepare for their final game versus Amherst.

History says home is where the Yankees just don’t lose MIAMI (Newsday) — Now an anxious

Yankee Stadium awaits, unsure whether to prepare for a mad celebration or brace for the most depressing moment of the Joe Torre era. One or the other is coming within the next 48 hours in the Bronx. The Yankees are heading home to decide the outcome of the World Series, trailing the series, 3-2, after a 6-4 loss in Game 5 on Thursday night. That statement by itself should bring a reassuring exhale, because the Yankees don’t screw up a series at home. So says their history under Torre. They use each and every one of their unique advantages — ghosts, legends, mystique, aura, Jeter — to finish the job. The sellout crowd filing into the Stadium this weekend should study the fine print on the back of the ticket stub, where it probably guarantees victory in the event of a series-clinching game. The Stadium will supply a sense of security for a team shaken by changes. In a fit of panic or frustration or both, Torre made major moves to his lineup Thursday night in the midst of a tight World Series. It took guts to sit Alfonso Soriano, who had 38 homers and 91 RBIs during the regular season. Soriano sealed his fate in Game 4 by striking out twice, once on three pitches well out of the zone. Jason Giambi, who has a painful left knee that was bothering him when playing the field and perhaps a distracted head after being served a subpoena, also was not in the lineup. These moves followed Torre’s decision to utilize Jeff Weaver in extra innings in the previous game. This wasn’t the kind of week Torre expected to have in Florida. “It was just something I felt I needed to do,” Torre said of the lineup changes. Because they can’t take their lineup for granted, the Yankees must lean on their experience and history and their Stadium. They must rely on an old faithful: a creaky, leaky building that smells like beer and soft pretzels and feels like heaven for the Yankees, and a season that’s on the verge of ending. It was only a week ago when the Yankees found themselves in a similar situation. They lost Game 6 to the Red Sox, and it was almost as if the AL Championship Series was supposed to continue, just so Game 7 could happen.

Just so Aaron Boone could hit a walk-off homer and keep a good trend going. The first time the Torre Yankees came home to clinch was 1996, when this run began. When all seemed bleak for them in that Series, Jim Leyritz helped put the Braves and Yanks back on a plane bound for the Bronx, where Torre’s first championship was secured. Charlie Hayes squeezed the final out, and Wade Boggs saddled up a police horse for a victory lap. There was a sense that if the Series ever returned to Yankee Stadium, the Yankees would find a way to win. “The home-field advantage,” Torre said, “has been nice for us.” Torre’s teams have never lost any postseason series at home. The 1997 season ended in Game 5 of the Division Series in Cleveland. In 1998, the Yankees finished off the Padres in San Diego. The next year, they secured a sweep of the Braves at the Stadium. The next three Yankee seasons were decided at Shea Stadium, Phoenix and Disneyland. The biggest Yankee Stadium test was the last one. Rallying against the Red Sox after trailing 4-0, with Roger Clemens knocked out early and Pedro Martinez pitching strongly for seven innings, qualified as magic. When Boone supplied the winning whack, you knew something was working for the Yankees that night other than skill and smarts. And yet, that Game 7 has nothing on the next day or so. That’s because not only did the Marlins force a return to the Bronx, they don’t seem to care where they play. Noisy, cramped and nostalgic stadiums don’t bother them, or else they would have crumbled at Wrigley Field. Remember, the Marlins beat Mark Prior and Kerry Wood back-to-back in Chicago. They ignored all logic and denied the Cubs a World Series berth. Then they flew to New York and took Game 1 of the Series. “We enjoy playing at Yankee Stadium,” said first baseman Derrek Lee. “We’re looking forward to getting back there.” The Yankees should feel the same. Do they have any choice? They have Andy Pettitte on their side Saturday and, if necessary, history in their favor Sunday. Anything less means trouble.

Tough first half eliminates M. ruggers chances against UMass BY SAMUEL CULVER

In its first home appearance of the season, the Brown men’s rugby team (3-2) looked to put on an impressive show on their new field and in front of Saturday’s Homecoming crowd. But a larger and stronger University of Massachusetts team (5-2) had other ideas, leaving the match dominating the Bears 27-10. The first half of the game was completely controlled by UMass, as its forwards consistently moved the ball into Brown’s half of the field. UMass moved the Bears’ scrum forward repeatedly and the opposing backs continued to pound a depleted and young Brown backline. By playing wide in the middle of the field and keeping its forwards tight toward the Brown goal line, UMass was able to score three tries in the first half. The skillful Hugo Shiek of UMass successfully converted each of the three tries and a penalty kick in the first. At half, the Minutemen had a stranglehold on the Bears, with the score at 24-0. “We were unable to respond to their offensive strategy in the first half,” said Captain Josh Brandt ’04. Brandt also said Shiek made the difference in the game by converting on every kicking attempt. Brown had a more impressive showing in the second half, as it started executing its plays and prevented the UMass forwards from controlling the game. Although the Bears committed many offside penalties, they held the Minutemen to only three points in the second half. The Bears strung together several successful runs to move down the field, with Jon Morales ’05 at fly half engineering multiple drives. “We played most of the second half within the UMass 22 due to the fact that we started executing our plays,” Brandt said. Simon Salgado ’06 and Sam Hodges ’04 scored the only tries for the Bears. Both tries went unconverted; however, Brown did score three additional points on a penalty kick. The game ended with the UMass ruggers collecting their fourth straight win. In the B-side game, an experienced Brown squad lost a defensive battle 10-8 to the Minutemen. The Bears held the ball deep in UMass territory for much of the first half but were unable to get on the see RUGGERS, page 5