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Facilities union agrees to contract

Work begun on multimillion dollar research facilities

BY LISA MANDLE BY SAMUEL CULVER

Brown is spending more than $134 million on two state-of-the-art biomedical buildings after more than 12 years of forgoing construction on research facilities. By September 2004, a newly purchased space in the downtown Jewelry District will be renovated. The 105,000 square feet of space will house labs, offices, support facilities and conference spaces, and $10 million in sponsored research is expected to occur annually. Brown purchased the 80-year-old building in May 2003 for $143 million. The purchase price included a parking lot with room for 140 cars. The renovations are still in the demolition phase, according to John Noonan, associate vice president of Facilities Management. When the building is complete, 150 researchers will work there. Twenty-five of those researchers will be faculty members, and the other 125 workers will be students and independent researchers. “This building will create a center for genetics, genomics and proteomics and related sciences, where we can connect clinically relevant research to hospitalbased research,” said Richard Besdine, interim dean of bio-med medical affairs. Researchers will move into the jewelry district space in August, after the $39 million renovation is complete, Besdine said. The last time the building was renovated was in 1965. “We are very excited about this; it is an opportunity that didn’t exist a few years ago. The Division of Biology and Medicine had stopped recruiting new faculty because we didn’t have enough space to accommodate them,” Besdine said. The Ship Street project will be completed two years before the long-delayed $95 million Life Sciences building, which

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"Elmo," the American elm outside the Watson Institute, is set for removal this month after being infected with Dutch elm disease.

“Elmo” dead at 100; one of the last of its kind BY KIRA LESLEY

The Brown campus will lose a landmark this month when “Elmo,” the American elm that shades the entrance to the Watson Institute is cut down. The tree, which has outlived the other elms of its generation on the Brown campus, contracted Dutch elm disease last spring. Other elms planted around the same time as Elmo succumbed to Dutch elm years ago, but Elmo remained healthy, said Patrick Vetere, grounds superintendent for Facilities Management. He called Elmo’s perseverance “quite an accomplishment.” American elms are highly susceptible

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to Dutch elm disease, Vetere said. In the past, American elms were the most popular street tree in America because they tolerate pollution well and are ideal for shade, he said. Some Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis and Chicago have seen their elm population ravaged by Dutch elm disease. In these cities, elms were planted close together in rows, creating a “cathedral” of foliage over the street, according to Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. When one tree contracts Dutch elm, see ELM, page 4

Jeffrey Masson looks for truth in Freud BY GABRIELLA DOOB

In 1975, Freudian psychoanalysts estimated that only one in 1,000,000 people had experienced childhood sexual abuse. Now, psychologists estimate that figure is closer to one in five. Jeffrey Masson’s work has contributed to this shift. But the sexual abuse expert said during a lecture Monday in Wilson that many people are still unwilling to grasp the extent of abuse in modern society. In his lecture, “Child Sexual Abuse, Recovered Memory and Freud’s Seduction Theory,” Masson described his struggle to convince a reluctant community of psychologists and psychiatrists that childhood memories of sexual abuse are frequently repressed and later recovered by victims.

With the reissue of Masson’s 20-yearold book “The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory,” comes a revival of the debate that once cost Masson his license to practice psychoanalysis as well as his rights as director of the archives of Freud letters. Masson described the confusion he felt when, during his training to become a Freudian psychoanalyst, he was warned that women would come to his office falsely claiming to have been sexually abused as children. It was thought that through these claims women were voicing their sexual fantasies rather than actual experiences, he said. Only a complete reading of Freud’s letters to his best friend, Wilhelm Fliess, gave see ABUSE, page 5

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Writer Jeffrey Masson spoke to a full crowd in Wilson 101 about issues of child sexual abuse and recovered memory.

I N S I D E T U E S D AY, N O V E M B E R 4 , 2 0 0 3 Max’s the site of Providence Police underage drinking sting operation metro, page 3

It's time to take religion to the streets, says Matthew Hamilton '05 column, page 7

Columnists debate Red Sox coach Grady Little’s post-World Series firing sports, page 8

Facilities workers at Brown under a new, independent union negotiated another three-year contract with the University last month. Library and food services workers remain without contracts. The University’s contract with facilities workers expired Oct. 12, said Karen McAninch, provisional business agent for United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island, the union representing Brown’s facilities and library workers. The library workers have been without a contract for over a year. Facilities and library workers were previously represented by Service Employees International Union Local 134 along with food services workers. In late August, the facilities and library workers voted to leave SEIU and form an independent union, USAW-RI, The Herald reported. The split was prompted by SEIU’s plan to incorporate the Providence local under a Boston chapter. Negotiating as a new union was “a little bit of an experiment,” but “it did not negatively impact facilities’ ability to get a good contract,” McAninch said. Negotiations were straightforward, she said. The University and the union were able to reach a contract that was “acceptable to both sides,” said Director of the Brown News Service Mark Nickel. The union hoped to receive improved pensions and wages and keep benefits intact in the new contract, McAninch said. The accepted contract includes the exact pension improvement that USAW-RI proposed, McAninch said. Wages were not increased as much as the union asked, she said. They asked for increased wages of 3.25 percent for the next two years and 3 percent for the third year, she said. The final wage increases provide a 3 percent increase for the first year and 2.25 percent increase for the subsequent two years, she said. However, workers with 20 years of service, which is a substantial number of people, will get an additional 1 percent increase in the final two years, she said. The union was not as happy with changes in benefits, though the changes are not as bad as they look, McAninch said. Copayment for prescription drugs went from three dollars to a three-tier system ranging from $5 to $30 depending on the medication, she said. However, the new system covers drugs not included in the old benefits, she said. Co-payment for other services was raised from 5 percent to 6 percent, McAninch said. Changes to the definition of sick time and excessive use of sick time benefited the University in some respects and workers in other ways, McAninch said. The starting rate for custodians was also raised to $11.58 under the new contract, McAninch said. Overall, the new contract is “pretty bare bones,” McAninch said. Dan Paiva, a mechanic with Facilities see UNION, page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Brown women’s Field hockey team misses out on title, but wins three sports, page 8

Women’s soccer drops last home game of season to UPenn in a 2-1 loss sports, page 8

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Max’s Upstairs site of underage drinking sting BY MONIQUE MENESES

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Some of the underage drinkers who were arrested in Thayer Street establishments such as Viva and Max’s Upstairs may have been Brown students, according to the Providence Police. In past weeks, police arrested one person in Viva and three in Max’s.

Underage Brown students could find themselves in trouble next time they head to Max’s or Viva for a drink. Since the beginning of the academic year, Providence Police officers have been hitting Providence bars and clubs in a quest to reduce underage drinking. “(Underage drinking) has reached epidemic proportions,” spokesman for the Providence Police, Sergeant Peter Costello said. “It is the number one problem downtown.” Costello would not reveal which locations are police sting targets, but he said downtown Providence has the highest concentration of underage drinking. One Thayer Street establishment has been affected by the new police efforts. During a Sept. 11 sting, officers arrested several Max’s Upstairs patrons, and last week, Max’s appeared before the Providence Licensing Board for serving alcohol to underage drinkers. Max Gallagher, owner of Max’s Upstairs, said his establishment has a “strict” policy of only admitting those who are 21 and over after 10 p.m. “We’re not interested in having underage drinkers here,” he said. During the sting operation in September, police questioned and arrested three girls in Max’s who they suspected were underage drinkers. He told The Herald he let the girls into the establishment because they had IDs that appeared legitimate. Gallagher said he made the girls sign an “underage book” — a book that “frees up the establishment from any fine” should the girls’ IDs prove to be fake. “It puts responsibility on the students saying that their ID is legitimate,” he said. The police operation revealed the IDs were fake. Gallagher said he believes the three suspects are area college students. “They could have been from Brown, from RISD, from Johnson and Wales,” he said.

Rescue runs to colleges and universities in the area have increased recently, Costello said. In the past two months, approximately 70 percent of arrested underage drinkers have been students from colleges like Brown and Johnson and Wales. Police units in each precinct identify “problem places” and concentrate on them, he said. A typical weekend or weeknight for police includes hitting bars and nightclubs rumored to be serving alcohol to underage drinkers, the Providence Journal reported. The first time an establishment is caught serving alcohol to minors, officers give owners a warning, Costello said. “If (owners) aren’t conforming the second time we come, we make arrests,” he said. Within the past five weeks, police have made approximately 60 arrests, he said. Costello said several Brown students have been arrested in the past few weeks. He declined to give their names. But Cheryl Ferreira, manager of Department of Public Safety Special Services, told The Herald she hasn’t heard anything about Brown students being arrested for underage drinking. “If there was something, the Providence Police would have notified us,” she said. Costello said some students lie about who they are, making it difficult for police to verify where a student is enrolled. Johnson and Wales has given the police a student roster to check names against during their sting operations, he said. Unlike Johnson and Wales, Brown has not provided a list of enrolled students. “We’re formulating a list of names (of arrested students) as we speak,” Costello said. “We’re working with Brown to obtain a student roster.” Underage drinkers who are arrested are charged with possession of alcohol. Those accused face a court appearance and could be fined between $250 and $1,000, Costello see STING, page 4

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Meier continued from page 8 Pedro then walks triumphantly from the mound to sit next to the mastermind who had faith in him to get out of the inning and basks in his almost certain Game 7 victory. After the game Grady Little explains, “When you’ve got the best pitcher in baseball you leave him out there as long as he can go. There’s nobody I want out there on that mound more than Pedro Martinez.” In the other locker room Joe Torre starts answering questions about whether he thinks he’ll return to manage next season after failing to take Steinbrenner’s Yankees to the World Series for the second straight year. Oh, the fickle world of baseball. In truth, Little is about as deserving a scapegoat as the poor 26-year-old, foul-ball snatcher formerly known as

Steve Bartman now in the witness protection program somewhere outside Chicago. Cubs fans didn’t want to blame golden boy Mark Prior for blowing a three-run lead in the eighth any more than Boston wanted to blame Pedro. Fortunately for them, they didn’t need to turn on the sensational Dusty Baker because some fan had the audacity to move his hands toward the flying object hurtling toward him from the sky. Bostoners had no such luxury, as the Yankees’ rallying hits all stayed free of fan interference. And so the coach who led the Red Sox to two straight 90-win seasons is out on the job market. As Tom Candiotti said plainly in his analysis for ESPN.com, “What led to Little’s demise was his decision to stick with Pedro Martinez.” Unfortunately for Little, the Red Sox didn’t make the decision to stick with their manager. Luke Meier ’04 hails from Champaign, Ill.

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said. Some of the underage drinkers who have been arrested may have been Brown students in Thayer Street establishments such as Viva and Max’s Upstairs, Costello said. In past weeks, police arrested one person in Viva and three in Max’s. Costello said he did not know whether or not these were Brown students. Since the police stings began two months ago, Gallagher said he has seen a slight drop in the number of customers in Max’s on any given night. “I think people are a little more reluctant to go out at night,” he said. But some Brown students haven’t heard about the police stings and told The Herald that police sting or not, they were still going to go out on the weekends. “I haven’t heard anything about this,” said Liz Anderson ’07. “It doesn’t really affect me.” Gallagher said he hopes the police stings don’t threaten his business. “Hopefully, the legal students are not chilled by this,” he said.

the disease quickly spreads to the other trees on the street through root contact, he said. Dutch elm is a vascular disease spread by fungus-carrying beetles that live in a tree’s bark and by root contact. It chokes off passage of nutrients, causing a yellowing and curling of the tree’s leaves and eventually the death of the tree, Nickel said. Elmo is not located close enough to other elms for root contact to be a problem, Nickel said. The University is removing the tree to prevent beetles from spreading to the nearest elm, which is located on Lincoln Field. No one will know exactly how old Elmo is until the tree is cut down, Vitere said, but he estimates its age to be about 80 to 100 years. Nickel said the tree was an integral part of the design of the Watson Institute. During the construction of the building just a few years ago, workers were cautious not to disturb its roots, he said. The architects also took the tree’s shape and size into account when designing Watson, Nickel said. “Watson is such a horizontal

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

Sox continued from page 8 Pedro was the right move, but he should have been pulled when Hideki Matsui came to bat. To start with, five of the last seven hitters before Matsui had gotten a hit, beginning with Jason Giambi’s solo home run in the seventh. Grady didn’t care. Matsui is a lefty, and Alan Embree, a left-handed pitching specialist, was warm in the bullpen. Grady didn’t care. According to Peter Gammons, the ultimate baseball scribe, opponents hit .370 off Pedro after he topped 100 pitches. A batting average of .370 would have won the batting title in either league. But when Matsui strolled to the plate, Pedro had thrown 115 pitches. Grady didn’t care. Does this seem repetitive to anyone? Grady visited the mound to talk to Pedro, but their conversation might as well have been about Orso, Cheetah and the Broome Street Bar. Pedro told Grady he was fine and could continue pitching. Wow, that’s a shock. We really expected Pedro, the epitome of a passionate, fiery ace pitcher, to ask out of the biggest ballgame of his career. The only example we can think of involving an ace asking out of a crucial game was in 1986, when Roger Clemens allegedly asked out of Game 6 of the World Series against the Mets in the sixth inning. We all know how that game turned out, and Red Sox Nation still hasn’t forgiven Rocket. So why would Pedro even dream of asking out, no matter how tired he was? Still, Grady didn’t care. Furthermore, this isn’t just a case of hindsight being 20/20. Fans all over Red Sox Nation, and the whole nation, were screaming at their TVs as Grady returned to the dugout to allow Pedro to face Matsui. Even Tim McCarver, the Jughead of color commentary, questioned the decision. Grady had a gut feeling and he went with

thing that having the presence of a vertical structure” helped balance the design aesthetically, he said. As of yet, there are no definite plans for what will happen to the area where Elmo currently stands, said John Noonan, associate vice president of Facilities Management. Most likely another plant will be replace the tree, he said. Once the bark is stripped, the wood is still usable, Vetere said, and the University is forming plans for its use. Noonan said the University may use the wood in collaboration with RISD as part of an art seminar and project. Nickel said that over the years, the University has taken very good care of its trees. The elms are treated and pruned twice a year, he said, and Brown has one of the largest elm collections in North America. The tree created a pleasant environment for many, and people who use the Watson Institute will miss Elmo’s presence, Nickel said. There is “a whole aesthetic that goes into the planting of trees here that most people are unaware of,” he said. Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

it, ignoring all the statistical information that clearly indicated it was time to pull Pedro. This is why he deserved to be fired as manager of the Red Sox. But we aren’t done yet. Even though we have proved that his blatant disregard of statistics is reason enough to fire him, there are still many more reasons. First of all, the Red Sox are a team in transition. Following the 2004 season, nearly half of the starting cast will be free agents, including Pedro and Nomar. The Sox are already trying to deal super slugger (and super head-case) Manny Ramirez. The team that takes the field in 2004 will be vastly different from the 2003 edition, and the 2005 Red Sox will bear little resemblance to either of the previous two years — other than Theo, whom we are ready to name GMfor-Life and Supreme Emperor of Red Sox Nation. The Sox need a manager who can guide them through this tough transition period, and Grady Little is clearly not that guy. The Sox are looking to redefine the job of a baseball manager. They want someone who will be more like a head coach in football. The Sox need a skipper who will manage a large, instructive and detailoriented coaching staff which will spend great amounts of time on individual instruction with players and studying film, rather than sitting around telling incoherent old stories about playing in the minors while smoking cigars and drinking beer. Grady Little is a classic cigar guy, and if you have ever heard a press conference with him you know that he is totally incoherent. He would be great as manger of the Durham Bulls, and would get along quite well with Crash Davis, but he does not fit at all in the new manager model. The Red Sox obviously need someone new. They need a guy in the Theo Epstein mold, who is young, from outside the baseball good ol’ boy network, Ivy League educated, and passionate about his team.

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Field hockey continued from page 8 commitment to Brown field hockey. “I think more than anything, the six of them have demonstrated real perseverance through everything — injuries, workouts, playing and not playing — and they remained committed through it all,” said Head Coach Carolan Norris. “You don’t find many teams in the Ivy League with six seniors. It is very easy to pack in and not complete the four years. It is a reflection of their dedication to the team.” Pierpont took the opportunity to reflect on the season and her classmates. “I am proud of our class and how we evolved over the years,” Pierpont said. “As a class we came a long way. We lead the team to a great season this year — the best that I have had in the (past) four years.” While recognition was important for the Bears, the moment appeared to overwhelm them at the start of the game. Penn came out pressuring, and Brown was sloppy in the opening 10 minutes. Penn capitalized and scored early on a breakaway goal by Liz Lorelli, just eight minutes into the game. The goal, though, served as a catalyst for the Bears. “The goal fired everyone up,” Buza said. “It worked to our advantage that they scored because it forced us to realize ‘OK, we really have to start playing. This game isn’t going to come easy.’” The Bears immediately refocused on the game at hand. In an effort to move the ball up-field effectively the Bears capitalized on Penn’s inability to block up free hits quickly. By taking the free hits faster, Pierpont said, the Bears “opened up a lot of space on the field,” which translated into increased breakaways on offense. With 11:47 left in the first half, Pierpont put the Bears on the board, scoring on a rebound off the goalie’s pads. The game remained tied for the next 30 minutes of play as both teams pressured the opponent’s defense, but Bruno’s defense (only 3 goals allowed in the last three games) stood strong. Overall, Brown’s defense allowed only nine shots on goal and goalie Katie Noe ’05 recorded five saves on the day. Noe’s effort against Penn lowered her goals against to 1.68 per game. Norris also noted that Harwood, Kristen Vincent ’06 and Julia Kelderman ’05 were key in

preventing Penn from getting quality looks inside the circle. Carleton ended the stalemate and scored with the winning goal with 13:43 left in the second half. Entering the game the Bears were hoping to knockoff Penn to set up a third place showdown against Yale (9-6, 4-2). Prior to Saturday, it appeared that first and second place in the Ivy League were all locked up. Princeton (11-5, 6-0) clinched its 10th straight Ivy League title the week before and Harvard (11-5, 42) had only one blemish on its Ivy record, but as Norris said earlier this season, “anybody can win on any given day in the Ivy League.” This proved true on Saturday. Though Harvard defeated Brown, Penn and Yale, the Big Green caught up to the Crimson on Saturday and upset Harvard 4-3 in overtime. With Harvard’s loss, Brown and Yale are now playing for a share of second place in the league, with Brown having an outside chance for an at-large selection to the NCAA tournament. Pierpont believes the success of this year’s squad is not only the result of skill but attitude. The support and improved team play has been evident in its past four wins, so much so that Norris said “these last couple games I have been more or less able to watch the team play, and just make little adjustments. They know what they are doing out there.” The Bears hope to carry the momentum from these previous four wins into New Haven on Saturday, and fulfill the goal they set on Oct. 18. Herald staff writer Maggie Haskins ’04 edits the sports section. She can be reached at mhaskins@browndailyherald.com.

Ship St. continued from page 8 is scheduled for completion in April 2006. According to the George Street Journal, this 168,800 square foot building will support more than 50 new laboratories in addition to more than 50 faculty members and 11 researchers. The two buildings will produce $23.4 million in annual federal research support. Herald staff writer Samuel Culver ’07 can be reached at sculver@browndailyherald.com.

Abuse continued from page 1 Masson an insight into a gross omission — that “almost all the material that dealt with child sexual abuse had been taken out by Anna Freud.” A particularly gruesome example of the nearly lethal rape of a three-year-old girl by her father prompted Freud to assert that a line from Goethe — “Poor child, what have they done to you?” — should be the model for psychoanalysis. Freud’s daughter, Anna, removed this line, part of what Masson calls “one of the most significant passages in all of the writings of Freud,” saying “my father was wrong. … People would only be confused if I left it in.” Freud eventually did come to

Union continued from page 1 Management, said he thought Brown could have offered more. “All people see is how Brown throws money around on campus” with construction and the purchase of a new house for the provost, Paiva said. During negotiations in 2000 when the union was asked “not to make waves with the new president,” the union offered the 1997 contract with no raise, Paiva said. He had hoped the University would reciprocate the union’s generosity this year, he said. “But what are you going to do when you hold all the cards?”

the conclusion that the “source of psychopathology … is sexual abuse,” Masson said. When Freud attempted to present his work to a group of psychiatrists, the prevailing opinion was that it sounded “like a scientific fairytale.” In response, Freud wrote, “a void is forming around me. The word has been given out to abandon me. I am completely isolated.” Ironically, this is much the same reaction Masson received from his colleagues. Rather than the enthusiastic response Masson expected from having uncovered such an important series of letters, Masson was labeled as “paranoid” and “nuts” and told that he wasn’t “thinking like an analyst,” he said. He was removed from his position as director of the Freud archives and his license to practice psychoanalysis was revoked. Masson’s criticisms were chal-

lenged by a vocal crowd that included students, professors, a doctor who works with children, numerous psychologists and a worker at a correctional institution. Along with Ross Cheit, an associate professor of political science and a researcher in the areas of child sexual abuse, Masson fielded a variety of probing questions and led a lively discussion. In his answers, Masson acknowledged the “vulnerability of memory” and said it was possible that a poorly conducted interview filled with leading questions could prompt a child to agree to claims of abuse that were false. However, Cheit added that while there is much concern that a child will say abuse happened when it didn’t, there is inadequate concern about the opposite problem, that “people can suggest to kids that they were not abused.”

he said. McAninch said she will be meeting with Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter to try to “jump start” negotiations for library workers whose contract expired over a year ago. There is frustration on both the union and University sides and the issue needs a different perspective, she said. The University’s contract with food services workers, represented by SEIU, also expired in October and has yet to be renewed. Nickel said talks about the food services contract are ongoing. The University is “encouraged and optimistic” about reaching a mutually acceptable

contract, Nickel said. But he could not guess when such an agreement might be reached. A representative from SEIU Local 134 did not return The Herald’s calls for comment. USAW-RI currently represents approximately 350 people, but expects to reach 600 members soon, McAninch said. By June the union hopes to have 600 people, Paiva said. Providence Public Library workers have already joined USAW-RI, and workers from Fleet, Providence College and Bryant College may also join, he said. Herald senior staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

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Tree hugging We didn’t know how much you mattered until today, but Elmo, we’ll miss you. The 80- to 100-year-old elm outside the Watson Institute is easy to ignore. After all, it is just a tree. But it’s also one of the more important residents of Thayer Street, adding a touch of vitality to the beautiful but somewhat chilly new glass-andbrick structure it guards, not to mention a bit of shade during the week or two of warm weather students experience in Providence each year. The elm, once ubiquitous on the main streets of towns across the country, is almost a forgotten relic in the 70 years since Dutch elm disease made its first appearance on this side of the Atlantic. At Brown, one of the last specimens in the area was carefully preserved, almost like a museum piece, during construction on architect Raphael Vignoli’s Watson Institute. That’s why the University needs to find a fitting replacement for Elmo. It may not need to be a tree, but something just as aesthetically pleasing that can be enjoyed in the near future. By the time a newly planted tree grows to the size of Elmo, the shine will be off the Watson Institute, which will be remembered by its first generation of students, professors and staff as a stark brick rectangle in a concrete desert. If a fountain, statue or other vertical entity was constructed in front of the building, Vignoli’s vision for his building and its corner of Thayer Street would remain intact.

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A front page photo in Friday’s paper depicted a performance of the Tang Soo Do club. The Faith-Based Activism Coalition was mis-identified in a Monday Herald article.

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Currently a writer-at-large for Vanity Fair, Brenner was a staff writer at The New Yorker and a contributing editor at New York. Her work has appeared extensively in Vogue. Her explosive article on Jeffrey Wigand and the tobacco wars, one of the longest and most compelling reports in Vanity Fair’s history, became the basis of the1999 feature film, The Insider, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. Brenner is the author of five books, including the New York Times extended paperback best-seller, Great Dames: What I Learned From Older Women, and the best-selling House of Dreams: The Binghams of Louisville.

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2003 · PAGE 7

Reclaiming religion as a voice for liberation Religious communities have tremendous potential to use their common ideals to fight against imperialism and poverty I HAVE A FRIEND WITH REVOLUTION- around them are U.S. Christians who, at ary political persuasions that have led best, are imitating Christ’s call to action him to civil disobedience and jail cells on in weak and patronizing ways, deigning more than one occasion. He told me once to “help the poor” rather than siding with he would convert to Catholicism in a sec- poor and oppressed people who are ond if he saw all the priests of the United attempting to liberate themselves. And at worst, they see Christians States marching out of their such as Bush who ignore this churches into the streets, MATTHEW and other potentially radical chanting, praying and calling HAMILTON gospel messages while selecfor an end to state-sponsored GUEST COLUMNIST tively quoting Jesus in order violence and imperialism. He to justify wars of imperialistic told me he will remain outaggression. With such side of the fold as long as religious people speak of justice and peace in hypocrisy, is it any wonder people stop their sermons while failing to put their going to church? Every Christian who bodies and souls on the line. Christianity blames this nation’s loss of faith on secumust prove itself through radical commit- lar humanism, feminism or the gay rights ment to its ideals of justice and love; if it movement needs to consider the possifails to do this through concrete revolu- bility that perhaps it is Christians themtionary action, then its sermons about selves who, in their lack of commitment the fellowship of all human beings will to Christian values of justice, liberation and love, have alienated their daughters fall on disillusioned ears. Another radical friend, himself a and sons. Just as religious ideals have lost their Protestant, told me churches are empty on Sunday because Christianity has “split fervor, so have progressive ones in this its pants” in its support of slavery, colo- lukewarm political climate. With the nialism, war and the ruling classes. As a Right so effectively in power now, people Christian, I agree. Christianity is embar- yearning for liberation will have to work rassed before its own God and its own extremely hard to organize their opposipeople; it has been on the wrong side too tion. In order to keep this dissent susoften. Many are not impressed by its tainable — in order to keep from burning track record. They hear the Gospel mes- out — people striving to express their sage: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, humanity against a dehumanizing sysbecause he has anointed me to bring tem can draw from the spiritual strength good news to the poor. He has sent me to and community fellowship that religious proclaim release to the captives and belief and practice can bring. Activists need to question the idea that recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of “religion is the opium of the masses.” the Lord’s Jubilee.” But all they see The vast majority of everyday people are in fact religious, and they often phrase Matthew Hamilton ‘05 is a member of the their opposition to the ruling powers using religious language. Activists need Faith-Based Activism Coalition.

to recognize that religious communities often serve as important sources of strength, communion and support for oppressed people, and they often form a foundation for community organizing. Rather than going into a community and trying to organize it from scratch, activists should honor and work with the religious groups within that community, groups that have already been organized by the people themselves. The best way to undermine the power of the religious Right is to build alliances between radicals and religious folks. The Right often responds to criticism by demonizing its opponents as secular humanists, atheists or people who have betrayed tradition in the name of a destructive individualism. But if our critique contains voices of faith, such a dismissal will be impossible. To counteract the religious Right using religious language will effectively undermine its base of support. This last tactic will only be viable if people of all faiths work together with mutual respect and reciprocity. The powers that be have very successfully maintained their legitimacy by manipulating religious differences and pitting religious groups against each other. The Right in the United States has claimed Christianity as its own and has scapegoated “Islamists” as the enemy, justifying deportations and special registrations of Muslim communities. In response, it is not enough for us to use Christian language to speak against the religious Right, for a “Christian Left” would obscure the voices of Muslims and other people of faith, excluding those most affected by the Christian Right’s misuse of power. We

need multifaceted religious involvement in struggles of resistance, not a monolithic Christian Left. People of faith must organize together, in solidarity with each other, in a viable interfaith movement, using the best ideals and language from each of our traditions to argue for a common justice and a common peace. In a true interfaith movement, each member would pledge that she will never allow her tradition to be co-opted and used to hurt the other members. We need to show that religion as a body calls for religious freedom, that an injury to one is an injury to all, and that we refuse to be pitted against one another. It is my hope that this sort of movement is currently growing on campus and around the world. As a religious person who hopes for justice, I share my friend’s dream. One day I hope to see the priests, the leaders of my community, marching out into the streets opposing injustice, singing the words of the Virgin Mary: “My Soul magnifies the Lord. … He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly.” But these priests will not be the first to hit the streets; like true Christian leaders, they will be following the people themselves, the Body of Christ, who, inspired by the Spirit, will have already taken the radical peace of the Sanctuary and Altar out into the middle of the World. And the priests, following their flocks in chants and song, will join with hundreds of communities of faith rallying outside — Buddhists and Muslims and Christians and Hindus and Jews and Jains — workers and families and youth and elders, all calling for justice, all renewing our spirits together in love and solidarity.

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SPORTS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2003 · PAGE 8

Grady Little: a whipping boy HINDSIGHT IS ALWAYS 20-20. SO OF course it was obvious that Pedro Martinez had to be pulled in the 8th inning of Game 7 of the ALCS against the Yankees. After all, he did look tired that inning and as we all know now, he gave up the tying runs. Thus Grady Little has been asked to shoulder responsibility for the Red Sox collapse because he chose to leave his tired ace on the mound to protect a slim lead against the arch-villains and his tired ace failed. LUKE MEIER The result was disBOLTS AND NUTS astrous, but was the decision itself? Granted, Little’s firing may mostly have to do with conflicting baseball philosophies between himself and the new sabermetrics front office in Boston. But let’s not forget when and why the firing question was first broached publicly and discussed. All talk at that time centered around what was perceived almost universally as a tremendous managerial blunder that had kept the Sox under the curse. “How could he leave Pedro in!? — Fire him!!” Little hit the nail on the head a few days after that game when he lamented he was being put on the chopping block for the result of one decision — not for the decision, but for it’s result. Little realized he fell victim to the fake punt syndrome (FPS) of sports fans. Coach makes a gutsy decision (e.g. fake punt late in the game), and fans wait and watch to determine whether it was an intelligent decision. Judgment is suspended until fate determines the outcome — and then the same decision either makes a coach a genius or a great fool. Had one at bat gone differently, Grady Little is hailed a genius. Instead he is unemployed. The love felt for Little before that fateful walk to the mound in the middle of the eighth was overwhelming. He was the manager who understood his players and transformed them from the squabbling underachieving Sox to the team-oriented squad that shaved their heads (excepting the famous Johnny Damon mullet) for the playoffs. He was such a team guy that even he shaved his head! He was the motivator who kept hope alive during the Oakland series. Against the Yankees, he was the brilliant coach who stuck with a struggling Nomar Garciaparra before watching his shortstop break out and go 4-5 to help win the pivotal game six. He was the brilliant coach who trusted his team to win that sixth game against the Yankees, saving Pedro to pitch a well-rested Game 7. Had he ridden his ace to the Series, that pitching decision would have been the talk of baseball and Bostoners would have boasting about their “wicked smaht” coach rather than clamoring for his removal. But as we know now, things didn’t turn out that way. The pitch that sank the S.S. Little was blooped by Jorge Posada into shallow center with the bases loaded, scoring the two tying runs. Had Jorge hit that pitch better he may have hit a nice liner at Garciaparra or Todd Walker, ending the inning with a quick, clean double play. Imagine the scene then. “And that’s why the players love Grady Little,” gushes the announcer, “because he really believes in his guys.” see MEIER, page 4

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Molly Carleton ’04, one of the six seniors that were honored before playing their final home game, scored the winning goal in a crucial matchup against Penn on Saturday.

Win over Penn puts field hockey Leaving Little in contention for second place behind as Sox change course BY MAGGIE HASKINS

Following a tough 2-0 loss to No. 8 Princeton on Oct. 18 that knocked the Brown field hockey team (11-5, 4-2 Ivy League) out of contention for the Ivy crown, the team decided the only thing it could do was run the table for the final five games. If they could accomplish this task the Bears would assure themselves a top three finish in the Ivy League and a record of 12-5, a marked improvement on the 7-9 record in 2002. Brown made relatively quick work of Providence, Cornell and Holy Cross and entered the final two weeks of the season in a three-way tie for third with UPenn and Yale — the Bears’ final two

opponents. On Saturday, the Bears struggled early against the Quakers (106, 3-3 Ivy League) but came back to win 2-1. The final home game of the season was emotional from the start. During pre-game introductions, the Brown coaches, players and fans took time to recognize the achievements of the Class of 2004. Lizzie Buza ’04, Molly Carleton ’04, Meaghan Harwood ’04, Nora Pickens ’04, Laurel Pierpont ’04 and Margaret Pulvermann ’04 were accompanied onto the field by their parents as they were honored for their four-year see FIELD HOCKEU, page 5

Strong Penn defense limits W. soccer to one goal in 2-1 defeat BERNIE GORDON AND CHRIS MAHR

The women’s soccer team (9-4-2, 3-3 Ivy League) dropped its last home game of the season to University of Pennsylvania (8-5-3, 2-3-1 Ivy League), 2-1, Saturday at Stevenson Field. Kathryn Moos ’07, the leading goalscorer for the Bears, had Brown’s lone goal. In a physical game marked by many fouls on both sides — as well as three yellow cards — Brown came up just short. “They haven’t changed in three years … This was the most physical game of the year,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. Brown jumped out to an early lead with Moos’ goal off of a cross from Michaela Sewall ’04, 23:28 into the match. Penn answered less than 10 minutes later, though, when Robin Watson scored off of an indirect kick. But Penn would not be satisfied with a tie, and with less than a minute left in the half, Jenna Linden took the ball on a breakaway and shot it past a diving Sarah Gervais ’04 for the eventual game

winner. Despite many opportunities for the Bears in the second half, the Penn defense, especially goalie Vanessa Scoto, denied them a score and held on for the win. The Bears had a total of eight shots on goal in the half, as well as two corner kicks. “Every game in the Ivy League could go one way or the other; it’s just who comes up with a big play,” Pincince said. “We’ll just prepare for next week.” The team travels to New Haven to face Yale (9-6-1, 2-3-1 Ivy League) this Saturday for the last game of the regular season. The game has important postseason implications, as the Bears, currently third in the Ivy League standings, hope to capture one of the 37 at-large bids for the NCAA tournament. After Saturday’s setback against Penn, the Bears are confident that they will rebound to enter the tournament. “We are a good team, and good teams lose games; all we need is a good week of training,” Roberts said. “We’ll gear up and put our best foot forward at Yale,” Pincince said.

SO YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING. NOBODY is actually arguing that the Red Sox should have retained Grady Little as their manager, right? Sure, Grady had a nice run. The Sox won over 90 games in each of his two seasons as manager, and advanced to the ALCS this past season. The players JAMIE SHOLEM DAVID REIDY love playing for POINT/ him, and have said COUNTERPOINT so publicly. So what’s not to like? Well, there are many things not to like, namely his decisions. Everyone has made a great fuss over his decision to leave Pedro in to pitch the eighth inning against the Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS, but this decision did not get him fired. This decision was merely indicative of the underlying issues and problems with his managerial style. The braintrust of the Red Sox, General Manager Theo Epstein, owner John Henry and Chief Executive Officer Larry Lucchino are part of the New School of Baseball Thinking. The New School philosophy, developed by sabermetrics pioneers like Bill James (now an advisor to Theo), and first implemented by Billy Beane in Oakland, places a great deal of emphasis on statistical analysis. They have stats upon stats about every player, and can probably tell you what Nomar’s average is at night, on grass, against pitchers who are unfaithful to their wives and prefer blonde strippers named Roxy. And then there is Grady. As the Sports Guy Bill Simmons said so perfectly, “This man would hit on 19 at a blackjack table because ‘he had a feeling.’” Grady is the classic example of an oldschool baseball hunch manager. Let’s break down the instance of leaving Pedro in the game as a prime example of how Grady disregards all forms of statistical analysis. Starting the eighth inning with see SOX, page 4