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College Hill crime suspect arrested

Asian-American women relate experiences of sweatshop labor

BY ZACH BARTER

to be more done frequently but have been cut back the past few years, Nuey said.

“Most of the time, when students see security officers in the dorms, it’s because another student called them there,” she said.

Although Stout said he supports students’ ability to summon security officers to their buildings, having one walkthrough per day is a waste.

“The likelihood of a security officer on patrol being around to stop thefts or fire hazards is slim to none," said Stout.

“The cost-benefit analysis is simple: violent crime occurs outside, so that’s where security officers would be most effective.”

Officers are investigating the possibility that a suspect arrested after a robbery Saturday night is responsible for multiple crimes in the College Hill area, according to those familiar with the investigation.

The Providence Police Department apprehended the suspect at a Fox Point home after receiving an anonymous tip from a witness to Saturday’s robbery. The campus learned of the arrest in a Department of Public Safety e-mail sent Sunday afternoon.

“Often people that are caught turn out to have been multiple offenders,” said Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter. The description of the suspect and his maroon Toyota Camry matched reports given by victims of two Nov. 16 muggings along Brook Street.

Hunter said the arrest is the first made after a series of muggings on and around campus since a suspect was caught after a Sept. 22 attempted robbery under Soldiers’ Arch.

Last weekend, the University also announced several steps it is taking to increase campus safety. In addition to extending safeRIDE services two hours each evening, DPS is increasing the number of security officers on campus and arranging for extra PPD foot patrols.

“The size of our force, the hours of our force, the location of our force — these are all things that a good force changes to adjust to varying situations,” Hunter said.

Hunter said the steps are the latest in a series of measures DPS has taken during the semester to increase campus safety, including coordinating Thayer Street foot patrols with PPD and increasing patrols around Minden Hall and the edges of campus. He also said DPS at times arranged for PPD to place undercover officers on Thayer Street.

DPS plans to hire three additional security officers from an outside agency in the coming days, Hunter said. Until then, DPS will use increased overtime to cover the shifts.

The Saturday night arrest followed the robbery of an elderly woman affiliated with Brown outside her home on Stimson Avenue, according to Mark Nickel, director

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BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

Oi Kwan Lai arrived at the New York City garment factory where she worked one Monday morning to find the machines gone and the building emptied. She and her co-workers were owed $15,000 in back wages, but their boss was nowhere to be found.

Lai, now an organizer at the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association, spoke Friday in Wilson as part of a panel on labor rights for Asian-American women.

Lai worked for more than 20 years in New York City’s garment industry under what she described as sweatshop conditions. Mursheda Begum, a former domestic worker now employed by Andolan, an organization for South Asian workers, also spoke at the event.

Both women spoke through translators.

Lai said the perception of the United States in China was of “a rich country — everyone shared the illusion that everyone was doing well.” When Lai emigratsee LABOR, page 4

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Oi Kwan Lai described her experiences working in a U.S. sweatshop as part of a panel on labor rights for Asian-American women.

Student petition fights dorm patrols

BY SHEELA RAMAN

More than 1,600 Brown students have signed a petition demanding the end of daily dorm patrols.

Dorm patrols are a misuse of the Department of Public Safety’s resources, according to Jesse Stout, vice president of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, which began circulating the petition three weeks ago.

“Especially with the recent instances of assault, DPS would better serve and protect our community on the streets, where violent crime actually occurs,” Stout said. “The outside security and police force is horribly, despicably undermanned.”

The petition aims to get President Ruth Simmons to act quickly on her promise at last week’s meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students to eliminate dorm patrols, Stout said.

At the meeting, Simmons reaffirmed her opposition to health and safety patrols. Simmons told The Herald in September 2002 that dorm patrols may be a “local custom” at Brown, but they are not the best use of officers’ time.

Stout agreed, claiming the current crime wave could have been prevented if DPS’ focus were on neighborhood rather than dorm patrols.

Because of the increase in crime, DPS will be “increasing the number and variety of patrols as well as the number of outside security officers,” wrote Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene and Vice President for Administration Walter

Hunter in an e-mail to the Brown community Friday.

But Stout said the permanent reallocation of security resources from the dorms to the streets is what would protect students in the long run. Security officers may lack official police powers, but their presence on the streets would still discourage crime, he said.

Security officers currently walk through each of Brown’s 47 dorms once each day to check for possible fire and health hazards, card access problems and suspicious persons, said Michelle Nuey, assistant special services manager for DPS. A security officer does not have power to arrest anyone and has to call a police officer if he notes criminal activities, she said.

These health and safety patrols used

Rissland ’04 named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars Olivia Rissland ’04 has been named one of 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars for 2004.

The triple concentrator from Belmont, Mass., will join about 240 scholars from around the world in Oxford, England, next fall to study fulltime at England’s oldest university.

Rissland said she hopes to attain a Doctorate of Philosophy in biology, an advanced research and examination degree, in her three years at Oxford.

Besides her coursework in biology, math and classics at Brown, Rissland

has done research on viruses with Associate Professor of Medical Science Walter Atwood.

She also DJs for WBRU and edits the Brown Classical Journal.

Rissland said she has always wanted to study in England because her father was born there. She described last week’s selection process as “a rush of interviews” broken up by cocktail parties with the committee and the other nominees.

“It’s more of a way for (the committee) to get to know you, without the antago-

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nistic aggressiveness of the regular interviews,” Rissland said of the cocktails.

“Plus, you get to meet the other candidates, who are amazing,” she said.

The Rhodes Scholarships were established upon the death of British statesman and colonist Cecil Rhodes in 1902 and first awarded in 1904. Past scholars include former president Bill Clinton, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter and actor Kris Kristofferson.

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Men’s soccer loses chance at NCAA championship berth, ending season sports, page 12

Football finishes season in four-way second-place tie among Ivy Leage teams sports, page 12

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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 3

Second-wave feminism combats current apathy at RISD Museum

BY MASHA KIRASIROVA

sented a spoken word piece that explored what it means to be Filipina and Filipina American. Members spoke about being removed from the struggles first-generation Southeast Asian immigrants confront.

“I remember in childhood, I repaid my mother in sharp words. I silenced her for so long but now I want to hear her stories,” one performer told the audience.

Donning colorful robes, six women demonstrated a North Vietnamese fan dance. The dancers performed the intricate steps and flips of the wrist in unison, characterizing the dance as a symbol of unity between the people of North and South Vietnam.

Joseph Hang ’04 performed three original poems inspired by his Hmong heritage. Many Hmong live in China, Thailand and Laos.

After aiding the United States in the Vietnam War, the Hmong tribe fled persecution by the Communist party and sought refuge in neighboring nations and the United States, Hang said.

Hang’s work focused on the hardships faced by Hmong living in the United States through the lens of his own experiences.

“I recite these words remembering where I come from, when I’m told I’m just another Asian American,” he said.

The show included a retelling of a Khmer folktale.

The provocative art of the women’s movement confronts a younger, more politically reluctant generation in the exhibit “Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s,” currently on display at the RISD Museum.

Featured artists include Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer, as well as lesser-known figures, in an exhibit of predominately media- and performancebased works. “Gloria” opened in New York.

The title refers to a variety of feminist icons of 1970s popular culture: Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine; sitcom character Gloria Bunker-Stivik, Archie Bunker’s liberal daughter in “All In the Family;” the title role of John Cassavetes’s film “Gloria”; and the Van Morrison song by the same name, as performed by punk-rocker Patti Smith.

The exhibit’s curators at the RISD Museum expressed concern about the lack of activism among young women today.

“In general we’re less of an activist culture at this point than we were back then, and that applies to the women’s movement as much as things like antiwar activism,” said Judith Tennenbaum, curator of contemporary art at the RISD Museum.

“I don’t think the battles these women were fighting have been won,” she said. “If you look at the numbers of women in Congress and the Senate, they’re still very small, and women still make 74 cents to a man’s dollar.”

Breaking away from abstraction, feminist artists of the 1970s drew on the raw experience of their own lives for subject matter. The experiences often involved issues of gender relations and violence. Ana Mendieta’s “People Looking at Blood, Moffit” (1973) responds to the rape and murder of a student nurse at the University of Iowa, where the artist was enrolled.

Hidden from view, the artist took slides documenting the reactions of pedestrians as they passed by an unidentifiable bloody mess that she had placed on the street.

Carolee Schneemann’s infamous “Interior Scroll” (1975) shows the nude artist slowly extracting a small scroll from her vagina and reciting a text written on it about a conversation she had with a chauvinistic filmmaker. The performance arose in part from Schneemann’s investigations into the sanctification of “vulvic space” in ancient myths and religions.

“Some of this work is certainly meant to be attention getting, but it’s hardly erotic,” Tennenbaum said. “The art is not provocative for the sake of being provocative but to get attention for the underlying issues that are really serious.”

Tennenbaum said she, as well as other feminist activists like artist-writer Mira Schor, agree that while

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Southeast Asian culture made its way into Salomon 101 last night in the annual community show. Performances included shadow theater, storytelling, spoken word, and elaborate fashions and costumes.

SEA cultural show presents legends, dances

BY KRISTA HACHEY

With a mélange of storytelling, spoken word, dance and song, the Southeast Asian community’s annual show, Legends of the SEA, engaged the Brown community on Saturday in Salomon 101.

The Filipino Alliance and the Vietnamese Students Association co-sponsored the event.

Emcees Mai-Khanh Le ’04 and Jan Seng ’04 took a light tone while introducing the event’s theme of exploring Southeast Asian culture and its meaning in an American context.

“I realized I was Southeast Asian when I took off my shoes at the front door of Salomon,” Seng said.

The Brown Lion Dance Team brought to life the ancient Chinese traditional dance performed during religious festivals, Chinese New Year, weddings and other events meant to bring good luck. In the drama that played out, the lion tamer taunted, teased and played with the animated creatures.

Toward the end of the act, the lions stood on their hind legs and dropped their tongues to reveal the message “Good luck.”

The audience let out hoots and hollers during a Filipino folk dance comprised of waltz steps and clever courtship rituals of young lovers. Two gallant male dancers danced in white tunics and patiently played their role in the women’s game of hard-to-get.

Archipelag-a, a student group of Filipina women, pre-

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Labor continued from page 1 ed in 1979, she did not know English and had few job skills.

“Within three days, you had to wake up — this was not the American Dream,” she said.

Lai ended up hemming pants in the garment industry as a marrow worker, a position known for its heavy workload.

The standard workday was 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. under poor, unsafe conditions, she said.

Women have a double burden because they must work and take care of their children and families, she said.

“The only time I had rest was while I was sleeping, which was only five hours a night,” she said. “Slowly my back gave in, my hands, my legs — everything felt debilitated.”

Lai said there was no minimum wage or overtime and sometimes bosses did not pay their workers.

She said she first contacted CSWA after her boss packed up and abandoned the factory. Lai and her co-workers protested three times a week at a new factory, which had opened up a few blocks away. They eventually protested at the house of the CEO of the manufacturer and won back two-thirds of what they were owed, she said.

These events were “one concrete example of how Chinese Staff is organizing workers to get what they deserve,” she said.

Like Lai, Begum said she didn’t speak English when she came to America from

Bangladesh. Her brother had told her there were babysitting jobs available.

She said the first family she worked for limited her contact with her brother and made her sleep on the floor after spending all day cooking, doing laundry and taking care of two children.

After she first heard about Andolan — which means “struggle” in Bengali — Begum began attending the group’s meetings.

Begum said she learned of the minimum wage at an Andolan meeting. The group also provided other services such as free mammograms, which Begum said were important because she had no health insurance.

Begum said she is now Andolan’s first retail organizer, reaching out to other abused workers.

Begum’s translator, Andolan volunteer Chitra Aivar, said much of the mistreatment Bangladeshi workers experience in America comes at the hands of Indians, a more established immigrant community.

Aivar said United Nations diplomats often bring laborers with them and treat them horribly.

Andolan’s primary strategy since its founding in 1998 has been to bring lawsuits against these diplomats, she said. But she said that because of diplomatic immunity the lawsuits failed.

Herald staff writer Justin Elliott ’07 can be reached at jelliott@browndailyherald.com.

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The large number of students who have signed the SSDP petition proves that much of the student body is against dorm patrols, he said.

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“Hopefully, our petition will convince Simmons and the University of the urgency of this issue,” Stout said.

Herald staff writer Sheela Raman ‘06 can be reached at sraman@browndailyherald.com.

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of the Brown News Service. The suspect knocked the woman to the ground and stole her purse as she approached her home.

Someone who witnessed the crime and followed the suspect’s car phoned PPD, which dispatched several units for the chase. DPS also sent units to the area.

PPD later found the suspect’s

wants to think so.” young women today feel a sense of entitlement unimaginable for the 1970s generation, exhibitions devoted solely to women artists still elicit disdain.

“Just check some of the statistics of the international art market, and the glass ceiling drops a bit,” wrote Schor in a pamphlet accompanying the exhibition.

“And as long as being naked is still one of the best ways for a young woman to get ahead (unless making other women stand around naked is an even better way), and when, in so many other countries and cultures, women remain chattel, then we have a problem even if no one wants to think so.”

“Gloria” runs from Nov. 21 through Feb. 1 and will be supported by a series of public events.

SEA continued from page 3 Shadow theater is a Southeast Asian form of drama that dates back to the 14th century. Actors dramatized the story behind a thin drape, and the audience saw only the performers’ shadows.

Models wearing traditional Hmong dress embellished with batik, ribbon, beads and coins dazzled the crowd during the fashion show. One model sported the Barong Tagalog, a shirt

car outside a Fox Point residence and arrested him inside. The victim was taken to Rhode Island Hospital for injuries.

“The increased awareness of people in the community is what helps us catch people from time to time,” Hunter said. “It’s fortunate that we had someone call in the tip.”

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

that evolved from pre-Hispanic native-wear to Philippine national wear and is equivalent to the American tuxedo.

In the final act, performers fused the traditional with the new in a modern dance routine featuring the tinikling, the Philippine national dance. Members of the FA combined modern hip-hop dance with traditional skills needed to maneuver between two moving bamboo poles.

Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 5

Ramirez ’90 named one of world’s top 100 innovators

BY JANE TANIMURA

The prehistoric science of metallurgy landed Ainissa Ramirez ’90 on a list of the world’s top 100 young innovators published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review Magazine.

Ramirez was recognized for discovering what the Review called “the holy grail” of metallurgy: a compound that creates high-strength bonds between all inorganic materials. The compound, which combines rare-earth elements with solder metals, has the potential to transform everything from electronics to the jewelry trade.

All of the scientists honored by the Review are under 35, and several are already CEOs of multimillion dollar corporations. Ramirez said the experience has been quite humbling.

“This group of people is phenomenal,” she said.

“For me, it raised the bar.”

Early last year, Ramirez decided it would be “neat” to try to use solder — a metal gluing compound — to bind materials other than metals.

After just a few weeks of research in her laboratory at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, she discovered the universal compound.

Ramirez joined Bell Labs in 1998 after concentrating in engineering at Brown and earning a Ph.D. in material sciences at Stanford University. In January, Ramirez became assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University.

Ramirez is also researching microelectromechanical systems — small devices that move and shape memory alloys, which are materials that change their phase with heat.

Though her most notable accomplishments have been in research, Ramirez said she’s a writer at heart. She recently finished a book, “Lessons from Molecules,” that describes the interactions between atoms and humans, using analogies “to stealthily decorate chemistry” for readers who might otherwise avoid the subject.

“Everyone needs to know about science because things are becoming more science-based,” she said.

In addition to teaching and researching, Ramirez has also been fundraising for her consulting firm Scienceworks, which focuses on changing the public’s understanding of science. She is currently developing a film for the firm, which aims to depict scientists as “real people,” she said.

Although she joked she would like to win a MacArthur Fellowship, Ramirez said her real goal is to get people excited about science.

“If I can do that, then I’d say I was successful,” she said.

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Brown’s mock trial team placed first in its division and second overall against 63 other teams at the championship at Yale on Nov. 15.Team members, pictured from left to right, are Kerry Slade '04, Emily Kanstroom '05, Kate Klonick '06, Britt Eichner '07, Jared Mesznik '05, Maria Martinez-Diaz '07, Meg Walther '05 and Steven Chan '07.

Mock trial finds success in last two tournaments

BY MILES HOVIS

Brown’s mostly privately funded and uncoached mock trial team is making a reputation for itself after earning high rankings at its last two tournaments.

Last weekend, one of Brown’s two teams placed seventh out of 38 teams in the Capitol Invitational at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Emily Kanstroom ’05 was honored as the tournament’s best overall lawyer.

Two weekends ago, with seven wins and one tie, the team placed second in a field of 66 teams at an invitational tournament at Yale the weekend of Nov. 15. Another of Brown’s teams placed 15th, with five wins and three losses.

Among the 34 other teams represented at the Yale tournament were all seven other Ivy League schools and last year’s national champions, the University of Central Florida.

“We sort of apply to that orphan-made-good scenario,” said Kanstroom, co-captain of Brown’s second-place team at Yale. Co-Captain Jared Mesznik ’05 said Brown’s team has won the Yale tournament three times in the last eight years.

The team has existed for more than a decade, always without a formal coach and always with modest funding drawn from several sources. While the team receives contributions from Brown and several fundraisers, Kanstroom said its primary funding comes from private donations.

“We couldn’t be in existence if it weren’t for our private donors,” Kanstroom said.

At Yale, both Brown teams tackled a fictional case in which a hockey player is accused of mortally wounding another player with the bladed foot of a hockey stick.

Each team is required to argue for both the prosecution and the defense in a two-case match against a competitor.

When playing prosecution, the team has the opportunity to charge the defendant with manslaughter or murder.

“We always argue murder one,” Mesznik said.

With each case lasting up to three hours and each team competing against four other schools over the course of two days, the Yale competition totaled an exhausting 24 hours in trial.

Meredith Deal ’05 won an Outstanding Witness Award at Yale for her role as the accused’s ex-wife and “mistress of the deceased,” Kanstroom said. “She was a pretty sketchy character.”

Kanstroom and Mesznik said certain roles interest students whose focus is outside the courtroom. “It’s not all lawyering,” Mesznik said. “Witnesses have to be portrayed convincingly in order to validate your case.”

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Mesznik said the team’s witnesses are often theater concentrators who relish the opportunity to play unique character roles. centrators who relish the opportunity to play unique character roles.

Members of Brown’s team have a number of interests, Kanstroom said, with students planning careers as actors and journalists as well as lawyers.

Earlier this month, Brown hosted its second annual tournament, drawing 26 teams from 18 schools.

Mesznick said the response was positive from other schools.

“Some people say it’s the best invitational of the year,” he said.

“We’ve had interest expressed from more schools, but we have a cap on how many teams we can host due to funding limitations.”

The captains said Brown is unique among the competitors as an especially creative and friendly team.

“This has been a great opportunity for me (as a freshman),” said Tara Vega ’07. “Everyone on the team is really awesome. They really know their stuff.”

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WORLD & NATION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 7

Sharon’s plan is met with skepticism Energy bill might JERUSALEM (Los Angeles Times) — Aides to Israeli Prime

Minister Ariel Sharon disclosed the existence of a proposed plan to dismantle some Jewish settlements in an attempt to jump-start the peace process. But Sharon’s political foes, Palestinian officials and the Israeli public responded Sunday with a considerable show of skepticism.

Sharon told his Cabinet on Sunday that a plan for “unilateral” Israeli steps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip — details of which had been printed in all the major Israeli newspapers that morning, after a series of wellorchestrated leaks by senior members of Sharon’s staff — is under consideration. But he did not discuss the details or specifically confirm the content of the Israeli media reports.

Israel’s dismantling of so-called settlement outposts — that is, small, illegal offshoots of existing Jewish settlements in the West Bank — is mandated under the U.S.-backed “road map,” the implementation of which collapsed over the summer amid a flurry of mutual recriminations.

But the plan — even if it exists, for now, only in the form of a carefully floated trial balloon — marks the first time the Sharon government has raised the possibility of

Israel acting to uproot established Jewish settlements in the absence of Palestinian concessions.

Critics were quick to point out that Sharon spoke only of the potential relinquishing of difficult-to-defend settlements in the Gaza Strip, and of a few of the more isolated Jewish communities in the West Bank. But other observers saw it as a potentially significant step — if the Israeli leader follows through.

After a seven-month roller-coaster ride of heightened hopes and bitter disappointments over the “road map” — and the grinding day-to-day reality of more than three years of conflict — Israelis and Palestinians alike are inclined these days to look for action rather than words on the peace front.

“Anybody who is not skeptical has been on a different planet these last three years,” said Gadi Wolfsfeld, a professor of political science and communications at Hebrew University. “Whether Sharon is serious or not is very hard for anybody to tell — and until the first settlement is actually evacuated, I don’t think anyone can know for certain.”

On Sunday, Sharon struck a conciliatory stance

The regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Tbilisi’s rule in secessionist wars in the early 1990s and now function as quasi-independent states, and some fear Adzharia could join them in that status.

Abashidze, a Shevardnadze ally, told his local parliament that the developments in Tbilisi could lead to Georgian armed units being sent into the region.

“Unfortunately, the leaders of this movement are not concealing their aggressive attitude to everything, particularly Adzharia,” he told reporters in comments carried by Russian state-run television. “Everyone will stand up to defend their home, the autonomous republic, from invasion. A revolution knows no mercy, and

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Just hours after opponents of a $31 billion energy bill narrowly blocked Senate action on the measure Friday, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., met with several dozen lobbyists in a hearing room in the Dirksen Building in an effort to keep hopes for the bill alive.

The assembled lobbyists — representing farm, corn, soybean, wind, geothermal, coal, oil and gas interests that benefit from provisions in the 1,100 page bill — gave Domenici a standing ovation, and hethanked them for helping push the legislation to the brink of passage, one person who was present said.

Backers of the bill were two votes short Friday of ending debate and getting a roll call. The measure could be brought back to the floor in the next few days.

But Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Sunday on CNN’s “Late Edition” that “if we can’t get it done by Tuesday, we won’t see (the bill) until January.”

Lobbyists and congressional officials say the legislation is such a delicately balanced compromise among dozens of interest groups that altering it in any way to win over the necessary number of Senate holdouts could upset the entire structure.

A case in point, they said Sunday, is a provision that provides protection from lawsuits for makers of the fuel additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), which has been found to contaminate groundwater in several states.

Senators in both parties delivered harsh attacks on the liability waiver last week. Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who supports the energy legislation, suggested Friday that the MTBE provision could be stripped out to strengthen chances for the overall bill.

“This simple action would have the energy bill, as imperfect as it is, ready for the president’s signature this session,” Daschle said.

What Daschle overlooked was the formidable lobbying power of MTBE’s makers, many of which have close ties to Texas, home state of President Bush and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R).

DeLay made clear he would not budge, saying the MTBE provisions were part of a “true compromise that will become law.”

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Shevardnadze resigns, jubilation ensues TBILISI, Georgia (Los Angeles Times) — Bowing to pressure from tens of thousands of protesters, President Eduard A. Shevardnadze resigned Sunday, triggering wildly jubilant celebrations marked by fireworks, flag wving and dancing in the streets.

After a tense meeting with key opposition leaders that was mediated by the Russian foreign minister, Shevardnadze told reporters he was convinced there would be “a lot of bloodshed” if he exercised his authority to stay in power. “I have never betrayed my people, and therefore I believe that I must resign,”he said.

Mikheil Saakashvili, one of the opposition leaders who met with Shevardnadze, earlier told a rally of about 50,000 people in front of the opposition-occupied parliament that they would march on the president’s home if he refused to step down.

Nino Burjanadze, another key opposition leader who is speaker of the outgoing parliament, assumed the duties of acting president as provided for in Georgia’s Constitution, which calls for an election to choose a new president within 45 days.

Saakashvili, married to a Dutch woman, was educated in the United States and France and has the image of a forceful figure able to mobilize supporters with his strong rhetoric. Burjanadze, in contrast, has developed an image of quiet competence. They worked as a team to overthrow Shevardnadze through the recent weeks of protests, but they could be competitors in the presidential election.

The opposition claimed that Shevardnadze had in effect stolen an early November parliamentary election through a fraudulent vote count — a charge backed up by foreign observers and the U.S. State Department.

Demonstrators’ anger was also driven by the belief that since coming to power in early 1992, Shevardnadze, 75, had run a corrupt and ineffective government.

“We feel very wonderful, because evil has left Georgia,” said Dimitri Geladze, one of the protesters.

“Today is St. George’s Day, and it’s especially good that such a thing happened on this day. There’s a legend of St. George, that he killed a dragon and saved a woman and child. This was like that, too. We are St. Georges in this case, and we killed the dragon.”

Opposition supporters generally expressed confidence that the new leadership would be able to assert effective control of the national government and its security forces.

“It’s a very small country,” said Beka Jandieri, who was at the rally with his wife and 5-year-old son. “These are our friends and relatives in the police and army. ... In my opinion, in Georgia everything will be OK.” The opposition’s triumph may not prove complete, however, because it could trigger further challenges to the country’s territorial integrity. Aslan Abashidze, the strongman leader of Adzharia, anautonomous region on the country’s Black Sea coast, declared a state of emergency Sunday and vowed to defend his territory against the new powers in the capital.

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Pro-democracy candidates win big in Sunday’s elections in Hong Kong HONG KONG (Los Angeles Times) — Pro-democracy forces made their strongest-ever showing in local elections Sunday, defeating candidates from Beijingzfriendly parties in several key contests and adding pressure on Tung Chee-hwa’s government for democratic reform in the territory.

The victories carried added legitimacy because they came on a record-high voter turnout as residents, clearly disenchanted with Tung’s performance and the highly restrictive system that chose him, signaled their desire for change.

The results constitute the latest — and most dramatic — evidence that a massive public protest July 1 did more than just derail an unpopular anti-subversion law viewed by residents as a threat to freedom of speech. It appears to have awakened an activism for greater democracy and shifted the center of political power in the territory away from the government.

Heartened by the ability of last summer’s protest to influence the political process, thousands of additional residents — mainly young people — have registered to vote and Sunday’s election marked the first opportunity to use the ballot box.

“Earthquake, tidal wave, whatever word you want to choose, it fits,” said Michael DeGolyer, head of a project that has tracked public attitudes in Hong Kong through the territory’s transition from British colonial rule to its current status as a quasiautonomous, special administrative region of China.

Under the terms of that 1997 transfer of sovereignty, residents of Hong Kong enjoy freedom of speech and many other civil liberties denied to mainland Chinese, but suffrage rights are limited. Fewer than half the 60 members of the territory-wide Legislative

Council are chosen by popular vote, and Tung himself was re-elected two years ago by a group of 800 elite Hong Kong residents, all approved by Beijing.

According to results announced before dawn Monday, democratic candidates won 95 of the 120 seats they contested in the elections to Hong Kong’s 18 district councils. At the same time, the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong suffered heavy losses. While the councils normally deal mainly with precinct-level issues such as traffic congestion and zoning laws, the issue of democratic reform dominated several key races.

In one constituency encompassing central and western Hong Kong Island, for example, pro-democracy candidate Cyd Ho defeated her DAB opponent Ip Kwok-him in a high-profile campaign that focused almost exclusively on the candidates’ positions on two issues: the controversial anti-subversion law and the future of democratic reform. As his party’s vice chairman, Ip played a leading role in trying to help the government win passage of the unpopular bill, while prominent opponents of the initiative campaigned actively for Ho. Those same pro-democracy activists earlier this month announced formation of a lobby advocating reforms that would allow Hong Kong’s next chief executive to be chosen by universal suffrage when Tung’s term expires in 2007.

“The people have spoken loud and clear through the ballot box,” Ho said after the results were announced. “They want more political rights. I hope it sends a clear message to Tung’s administration that there should be no more delay to democratic reform.”

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Sharon continued from page 7 toward the hard-liners in his government, telling ministers that no new measures had been decided upon, and assuring them that any new plan would be put to a Cabinet vote.

Even so, the prime minister’s rightist allies threatened to bolt if the proposal were to go forward — a move that would bring down Sharon’s ruling coalition and force him to seek new governing partners.

“The removal of even one settlement automatically places us outside the government,” said Transportation Minister Avigdor

M. soccer continued from page 12 really good with the ball.”

Momentum continued to shift back and forth in the second half, and St. Peter’s took advantage of a Brown defensive miscue to score the first goal of the game. Rinaldo Chambers, St. Peter’s leading scorer, found himself alone in the Brown box with only Gomez to beat, thanks to a well placed pass by Chris Megaloudis. Chambers tapped the ball past Gomez, who had little chance to save the shot.

“In the second half we were able to get our forwards and midfielders to play combos with each other, and get the ball outside,” Markovic said.

Although the Bears had not trailed an opponent for over a month and a half, they reacted well to the St. Peter’s goal. While the Peacocks celebrated on the sidelines with their bench, the Bears lined up for the restart. The Brown offense generated chances right away, and continued to push hard for the remainder of the game.

“As soon as (they scored) we picked it right up,” said Edward Thurston ’04. “The sense of urgency was there that wasn’t there for us at the beginning of the game.”

On every Brown offensive opportunity, the ball seemed to come closer and closer to making its way into the net, but each time the ball managed to stay out, through virtue of the Peacock defense and goaltending, or the fortunes of a missed shot or the goalpost.

One change that Markovic made at the half proved to be key in keeping Brown off the board.

Markovic replaced Moschella with Pat Magewiecki, who at 6’3’’ held a six-inch height advantage over Moschella. Magewiecki made several saves and intercepted corner kicks with his hands extended, plays that Moschella may not have been able to get to.

“I made the switch because these two guys came in together as freshman and have split time ever since,” Markovic said. “I wanted to give both of the guys a shot at playing in the NCAA tournament.”

Along with the goalkeeper change, Markovic made another key move in the second half.

After scoring a goal, Markovic made player substitutions, opting for more defensive players.

He also concentrated his defense on shutting down the middle of

Lieberman, of the hawkish National Union party.

The opposition Labor Party said, in effect, that when it came to Sharon giving up settlements, it would believe it when it saw it.

“The fact is that not one settlement has been removed, construction hasn’t been frozen, and he’s barely removed a token illegal outpost or two,” said a leading Labor lawmaker, Ophir Pines.

But Pines added: “If he does follow through and implement these difficult, even painful moves, he would find a partner in Labor.”

In recent weeks, both Israel and the Palestinians have been working to position themselves

On every Brown offensive opportunity, the ball seemed to come closer and closer to making its way into the net, but each time the ball managed to stay out, through virtue of the Peacock defense and goaltending, or the fortunes of a missed shot or the goalpost. the field, where Brown has scored many goals from this year.

“We knew they would be getting a lot of set pieces, and how dangerous they were on those,” Markovic said.

Brown’s best chance to tie the game came with about 10 minutes left, when the Bears had three corner kicks in a row. On the second corner, Romaineiro sent a ball from the near side bending towards the St. Peter’s goal. The ball passed every player in front of the goal line, but a St. Peter’s defender, whose body started in the goal, headed the ball away in the last second.

With three minutes remaining, Chambers took advantage of a decreased Brown defensive presence and added his second goal of the game to seal the win.

As time expired, the Brown squad could only watch as the Peacock’s stormed the field.

Before leaving the field, the Bears gathered for their customary salute to the fans.

“They were a good team,” Noonan said. “But we prepared for a good team.”

For the five seniors, the game marked an end to four years of playing at Brown.

“I’m not disappointed,” Thurston said. “I’m not going to remember the game for the near misses. We accomplished our goals. Compared to last year, it was a testament to how hard we worked. This is where we were supposed to be.”

Herald staff writer Ian Cropp ’05 covers men’s soccer. He can be reached at icropp@browndailyherald.com.

for an expected meeting of Sharon and the new Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia.

But the process has been moving slowly, and the two men’s first-ever talks as leaders are now unlikely to take place before the four-day Muslim feast marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The holiday, the Eid al-Fitr, whose start is determined by the sighting of the new moon, will probably begin Tuesday.

Palestinians dismissed the reported Sharon proposal as mere jockeying in advance of those talks.

“These are public-relations moves only,” Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said.

Georgia continued from page 7 we must defend our people.”

The handover in Tbilisi amounted to a transfer of power between generations, from a man whose roots lay deep in the Soviet Communist Party to two youthful lawyers who can be expected to move the country toward closer ties with the United States and Western Europe.

Shevardnadze won respect in the West for his role, as Soviet foreign minister under former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, in helping to end the Cold War, and he has followed a generally proWestern policy as president.

He allowed free speech and opposition political parties but never built a genuine democracy.

Energy continued from page 7 The largest domestic producer of MTBE, Lyondell Chemical Co., formerly Arco Chemical, is headquartered in Houston, part of which is represented by DeLay. This year Lyondell’s political action committee (PAC) has contributed $10,000 to DeLay’s 2004 campaign and $5,000 to a campaign fund he controls.

Since 2000, the company has made soft-money contributions of $45,000 to the House Republican campaign committee, while also contributing to Democratic committees in the House and Senate.

Lyondell’s PAC has also chipped in $5,000 to political funds controlled by both Domenici and Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., chief House negotiator on the energy bill.

The company reported spending $900,000 on lobbying activities in the first half of this year, after nearly $2 million in 2002. Among those working on the issue is Edward Krenik, who in September quit as associate administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to join the law and lobbying firm of Bracewell & Patterson, which represents Lyondell in Washington.

The money and connections have made MTBE’s makers, which also include Valero Energy Co. of San Antonio, among the most dogged industry groups working on the energy legislation.

Within minutes after senators attacked the MTBE provisions on the floor last week, emails were sent to the offices of key lawmakers and others, “pro-

Since 2000, the company has made softmoney contributions of $45,000 to the House Republican campaign committee, while also contributing to Democratic committees in the House and Senate. viding a real-time analysis of the misstatements that were made regarding MTBE,” said Scott Segal, a Bracewell & Patterson lobbyist.

Critics charge the MTBE provisions will affect about 130 lawsuits filed by communities seeking damages for contamination. But Segal said the provision protects the manufacturers only from “defective product” lawsuits, and doesn’t preclude suits in most states against big oil companies that own or franchise service stations implicated in leaks.

A key defense of MTBE’s manufacturers is that laws enacted by Congress in 1990 mandated the use of oxygenates such as MTBE as additives in gasoline to reduce smog. But documents produced in earlier law suits show oil companies were aware that MTBE’s special properties, such as its solubility, posed serious risks of water contamination.

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Taking it outside Brown’s inability to provide basic student services — from exercise facilities to timely shuttles — is a long-standing campus lament. Considering this, failures to capitalize on what resources the University does have are inexcusable, especially when it comes to something as crucial as campus safety.

This month’s string of assaults and robberies demands that the University examine where and when it deploys its police and security officers. To this effect, the University intends to hire three additional security officers this week, Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter told The Herald Sunday.

The hiring of new security officers is a reasonable response to the obvious upswing in campus crime. But while these officers patrol the streets, at least as many will continue daily inspections of all 47 of Brown’s dorms.

President Ruth Simmons has said on several occasions that dorm patrols are a poor allocation of the Department of Public Safety’s resources. If this is the case, then the patrols should be discontinued and the officers responsible for them should be posted on Providence streets.

There is no reason why dorm patrols should not cease as early as next semester. Unlike the stalled decision to arm DPS officers, the task at hand is to limit, not extend, the authority of the department. It is easier to take awa a flawed practice than to implement a new system. There are no policies to develop nor external authorities to consult, but simply the matter of evaluating limited security resources and using them to the greatest effect.

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It takes courage to create a Velvet Revolution The crisis in Georgia was diffused because its president had the courage to see past his own political future LAST WEEKEND, GEORGIA WAS teetering opposition supporters led by Saakashvili on the brink of chaos after thousands of stormed the parliament building while The Georgian crisis provides a timely example of how opposition protesters overran Parliament Shevardnadze was addressing the new legisheads of state can put the needs of their people above and the presidential offices and declared lators.

International observers agree with the one of their leaders as interim head of state.

President Eduard Shevardnadze was forced opposition’s assessment of the election. their own — an ideal that is rarely followed these days. to flee as thousands of protesters demanded Over 400 monitors from several European These conditions, combined with a dency in Georgia when he could have plauhis resignation. He then introduced a state democracy watchdogs said the election was of emergency and Parliamentary Speaker marred by “spectacular” voting irregularities rigged election, made prolonged political sibly held onto power and used the military Nino Burdzhanadze declared herself acting and fell short of a number of international bloodshed a very real possibility. Thankfully, to fend off opposition — a familiar scenario president. Opposition leader Mikkhail standards. In particular, they said many vot- after a dramatic standoff, Shevardnadze that has riddled many a developing democSaakashvili threatened to lead a march on ers in the former Soviet republic had not finally had a change of heart and offered his racy.

Now that Shevardnadze has resigned, the presidential palace unless Mr. been registered in time to vote and there resignation. On national television he said Shevardnadze stepped down. And although had been delays and confusion over voter that although he originally had “different Nino Burdzhanadz, another opposition he initially refused to resign, he eventually lists. In addition, several polling stations did aspirations” (namely holding onto power) leader, will serve as acting president until made the right choice. By doing so, a situa- not open at all in the cities of Tbilisi and he would resign because “I see that all that is new elections are held. Saakashvili said he tion that had the potential to degenerate Kutaisi because voter lists were incorrect, happening cannot pass without bloodshed. will be working alongside her, with help If I am forced tomorrow to use the right from Shevardnadze, to maintain stability and voting there had to be extended. into protracted civil war was amicably Protests after the election quickly vested in me in such circumstances, it will and peace in Georgia. He went on to urge resolved and culminated in what is intensified into demands for lead to serious bloodshed.” His departure protesters to take down their barricades in now being referred to as a bloodless Shevardnadze’s immediate resig- came after Russian Foreign Minister Igor Tbilisi and he reiterated pledges to guaran“Velvet Revolution.” The Georgian nation. During his 12-year tenure Ivanov held mediation talks in the Georgian tee the safety of Shevardnadze and his famcrisis provides a timely example of as Georgia’s leader, this former capital Tbilisi in a bid to resolve the standoff ily. how heads of state can put the needs In a statement released by Gorbachev on opposition leaders and Soviet republic has sunk deeper between of their people above their own — an the matter, he said, “I know Mr. into economic collapse, has Shevardnadze. ideal that is rarely followed these Shevardnadze is an accomplished man Shevardnadze very well. He’s not a coward suffered a breakdown in days. government services in his own right. He has dominated public and probably realized that the time had The confrontation began and is plagued by per- life in Georgia for more than three decades. come to do what was needed to stop following a parliamenvasive corruption. The After rising to become a member of the Georgia from falling apart. In this respect I tary vote Nov. 2 that was World Bank esti- Soviet Politburo, he became foreign minis- think he has taken the correct decision.” widely seen as a prelude Gorbachev is right in commending mates that more ter under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. And a to a presidential elecarjun Shevardnadze.

By resigning, Shevardnadze year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, than half the countion in 2005, when iyengar try’s population lives he became the new nation’s leader, bringing has courageously avoided spilling blood in Shevardnadze will be outlook below the poverty order after a coup and civil war. It took a lot a young democracy, and for this, we should required by the constisublime of courage and humility to resign the presi- hope that history treats him kindly. line. tution to step down. Last Saturday, to protest what they saw as a fraudulent election, thousands of Arjun Iyengar ’05 is an IR concentrator and is not talking about the state in the southern United States.

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SPORTS MONDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 12

Young frisbee squad looks to build on fall experience in spring

BY BRETT ZARDAThe men’s ultimate frisbee team conclud-

ed its fall season by hosting and winning the Huck-aHunk of Burning Pumpkin Tournament, in Seekonk, Mass., Nov. 15 and 16.

The Bears spent most of their fall season focused on recruiting and training new players. But with an emphasis on teaching instead of winning, they found victories tough to come by.

“Fall season for us is really a program-building season for us,” said Ben Wiseman ’05. “So we try to focus a lot on working new players into our system and teaching everyone.”

The final tournament of the semester was a chance to change that. For the first time all season, the entire Ateam entered a tournament as one unit. Following several sub-par performances with younger, less-experienced squads, the Bears relished the opportunity to reassert their dominance.

“It’s nice at the last tournament when we bring the Ateam back, and we beat these teams that have been beating us all fall,” said Captain Josh Ziperstein ’05. “It’s a little frustrating getting beaten by teams you know you can beat and that you beat all spring season.”

Although the squad was at full strength, it did show some signs of rust early in the weekend, losing to Wesleyan and struggling in the first half against rival Harvard. Down 7-4 at the midway point, the Bears loosened up and returned to the form that earned them a berth in nationals five of the last six years.

Motivated by a raucous crowd, which included the Brown Band, the Bears rallied to defeat the Crimson 119.

“We were able to come out with a tough win in front of a big crowd,” Ziperstein said. “It was a big turning point in how comfortable we felt playing with each other.”

That comfort level translated into three straight wins in elimination play. A convincing 13-7 win over Wesleyan capped a successful tournament showing and avenged the earlier loss.

“To beat these guys when we needed to, it was some security that, yeah, we are the best,” Ziperstein said. “It made the fall worthwhile in people’s minds, knowing that we did the right thing in building the program. It validates what our program is doing.”

After falling in the quarterfinals at nationals last spring, the Bears return all but three players for this year’s campaign. That experience, combined with the emergence of new talent from the fall season, suggests a wealth of potential for the spring season push.

“We’re in it to win it,” Ziperstein said. “Our goal is to be the best, definitely.”

Herald staff writer Brett Zarda GS can be reached at bzarda@browndailyherald.com.

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The Bears gathered at midfield after Saturday’s loss. It was the Bears’ third first-round exit in 20 tournament appearances.

Despite strong effort, men’s soccer falls to St. Peter’s in first round of NCAA tourney

BY IAN CROPP

After 90 hard-fought minutes, Brown came up short last weekend against an energetic St. Peter’s squad, falling 2-0 and ending its bid for the NCAA College Cup Championship.

“We had chances and we played well,” said Head Coach Mike Noonan. “We got beat by a good team.”

For most of the game, it looked like Brown would give the sellout crowd a victory. Only three minutes in, a free kick by Marcos Romaineiro ’05.5 landed the ball on the foot of Ibrahim Diane ’06, and before St. Peter’s goalkeeper John Moschella could track the ball, it flew over his head, only to hit the cross bar and bounce back into play.

Brown continued to pressure St. Peter’s for most of the first half, but the Peacocks kept the Bears off the scoreboard and provided a few waves of offense, earning them the advantage in shots on goal.

St. Peter’s had only one good chance, which was thwarted by Chris Gomez ’05. After St. Peter’s Marco Orias made a few quick moves to beat Brown defenders, he lofted a shot across the box, but Gomez was in position to cover and punched the ball away as he tumbled backwards the net.

As the half wore on, St. Peter’s played a tighter defense, breaking up several Brown passes, though earning fouls in the process. Orias was issued the only yellow card of the game right before half time.

The second half started out with a less tentative St. Peter’s team going on the offensive attack.

“We knew what we were in for,” said St. Peter’s Head Coach Cesar Markovic.

“For the first 15 minutes and most of the first half, we had to weather the storm,” he said. “Once we settled down, we started playing our style and things came more naturally.”

Already having tested him in the first half, St. Peter’s forced Gomez to come up early in the second. Five minutes in, an unmarked Peacock forward chased down a ball in the Brown box. Gomez charged out to cut down the angle and dove at the shot, getting enough of it to keep the ball out of the net and let a Brown defender clear it away.

Brown cut off most of the Peacock’s opportunities before they developed, though the quick style of play brought by St. Peter’s gave them more open shots at the Brown net.

“Their formation was similar to Creighton’s, but we hadn’t played against anything like it before,” said Adom Crew ’04. “We prepared for it and defended it well.”

“What allowed them to move the ball well was their good technical speed,” Noonan said. “Their front six were see M. SOCCER, page 9

Football wins third straight game to end season with .500 record

BY CHRIS HATFIELD

The football team (5-5, 4-3 Ivy League) finished the season strongly on Saturday with a 42-10 win at Columbia (4-6, 34 Ivy League). The win, combined with Harvard’s defeat of Yale, put the Bears in a four-way tie for second place in the Ivy League.

Tailback Nick Hartigan ’06 capped off his historic season with 201 yards and three touchdowns, giving him 1,498 rushing yards for the year. The number sets a new Ivy League record for a sophomore, surpassing the previous record of 1,409.

Bruno got started early on Saturday, as tight end David Turner ’06 caught his first touchdown pass of his career to put Brown on top 7-0 early in the first quarter.

“It was the first drive, so we were trying to set the tone,” Turner said. “It was actually about an inch away from getting intercepted, and the defender made a grab for it and he missed. So when I caught it, I was wide open for the touchdown. I also got a great block from Lonnie Hill (’06).”

But Columbia did not just roll over. The Lions came back with a passing touchdown and a field goal to go up 10-7 at the end of the first quarter.

Those were the last points the Lions scored Saturday, as

Brown took over in the second quarter. The Bears took the lead back on Hartigan’s first score of the day, a 34-yard bullrush up the sideline. On the ensuing kickoff, Gavin Logan ’07 recovered a Columbia fumble to give Brown the ball on the 25-yard line. A one-yard plunge by Hartigan put Bruno up 21-10 as the half ended.

Brown dominated in the second half, continuing to pile up the points. Quarterback and Co-Captain Kyle Slager ’04 completed his second touchdown pass of the day, hitting tight end Nick Christ ’03.5 for an 11-yard score.

From there, the Bears’ running game closed out the Lions. Hartigan scored his third touchdown of the day on a two-yard run and Tristan Murray ’06 closed the scoring with a two-yard score of his own.

The Brown offense was explosive once again, as it had been for the last few games.

“Up front we dominated. Our offensive line played great as usual. Everything was working, passing (and) running,” Turner said.

Brown’s defense had a big day, wreaking havoc on the Columbia offense. Anjel Gutierrez ’05, Darren Carmon ’04 and safety Craig Young ’05 all had interceptions. Young had 11 tackles to lead the Bears, while Gutierrez added nine.

The win brought Brown’s record back up to .500 and

earned the team a tie for second place in the Ivy League.

After starting the year 1-4, the Bears rallied to win their final three games and four of their last five, with the one loss coming against eventual Ivy champs Penn.

But a few key players are graduating, and their contributions will be tough to replace next season. On offense, the Bears will lose Slager and Co-Captain Brent Grinna ’04, as well as Christ.

The defense will suffer a few more losses. Co-Captain Christian Garnett ’04 and Jesse Hawkins ’04 will be graduating from the defensive line, and behind them, leading tackler Andrew Gallagher ’04, Jermaine Griffin ’04, Nick Mellors ’04 and Darren Carmon will be moving on as well. On special teams, Tim Goobic ’04, who handled both the punting and kickoff duties for much of the season, will also graduate.

Despite the losses, there will be plenty of returning talent.

Hartigan will be back, as will the entire starting offensive line. The top two receivers for the Bears, Hill and Jarrett Schreck ’06, will return, as will Turner, who came on strong during the last few weeks of the season.

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