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Panelists debate future of IsraeliPalestinian conflict BY STEWART DEARING

The status of democracy in Israel must be considered from the Palestinian perspective, said one speaker at a panel discussion on the Arab-Israeli conflict Tuesday night. Issam Aburaya, a postdoctoral fellow in political science, was one of four guests on the panel, which drew more than 400 people to Salomon 101. Each panelist represented a different view on the subject. The panel was part of “Democracy & Peace,” a day-long series designed to explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Professor Kenneth Stein, professor of contemporary Middle Eastern history, political science and Israeli studies at Emory University, said a strengthened government in Israel will lead to peace and equality. Stein said Israel exists amidst “a uniquely Jewish political culture,” which has developed from the history of the Jewish people. “The history of Israel’s evolution was dominated by a sense of insecurity and a desperate need to survive. As Israel becomes more secure in its tenure, it has released control over Palestinians and gradually allowed them more freedom within the state,” he said. But Yoav Peled, professor of political science at Tel Aviv University, said it’s important to focus on the need for peace before democracy. “Violence undermines democracy,” he said. “As long as Palestinian territory is under Israel’s rule, there is no way democracy can work.” Aburaya, a Palestinian Israeli citizen, argued that Israel originated as an authority to suit Israeli-American interests and suppresses interests of Palestinians. “The conflict in this area must be reexamined and questions of democracy reasked to include Israeli Palestinian rights,” and mutual recognition of pain would be the first step toward understanding and a

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Four academics, including Issam Aburaya (far right), a postdoctoral fellow in political science, expressed different views on the IsraeliPalestinian conflict at a panel in Salomon 101 Tuesday night.

Simmons updates faculty on campus initiatives, current challenges

had to think quickly, she said. The roundtable panels, some of which consisted of professional athletes, would say “(St. Louis Rams quarterback) Kurt Warner throws like …” and point to a contestant, who would then finish the sentence, Potts said. ESPN invited 150 “stand-out” contestants to continue on to the regional rounds in Atlanta, Ga., Louisiana, New York City and Chicago, Ill. A final round of 35 hopefuls competed in New York the

She also said the University will soon announce the creation of six new endowed chairs for teaching, which will be “very lucrative” for the faculty members who receive them. The University expects to put $8 million toward need-blind admission by fiscal year 2005, Simmons said. “Early signs are that (potential donors) are responding very well to the financial aid initiative,” she said. Brown has already invested $15 million to improve its network and classroom technology and administrative systems, Simmons said. The University hopes to have its admissions, financial aid, record-keeping and registration systems all running under the Banner enterprise system a year from now, she said. “Imagine — Brown University, (and) we don’t have online registration,” she said. Over the next decade, the University will devote an estimated $300 million to facilities rehabilitation and construction, Simmons told the faculty. The sum is in addition to $200 million worth of projects already completed or underway. But the level of financing available and individual donor wishes will dictate the sequence of upcoming projects, Simmons said. The challenge is convincing donors to forego their personal interests and put money toward “what’s best for Brown,” she said. The breakneck pace of renovations will continue for the foreseeable future, Simmons said. “I see no alternative to a

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BY JONATHAN ELLIS

President Ruth Simmons delivered an update to faculty members on the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment at a faculty meeting Tuesday, previewing the broad physical and financial growth the University will undergo in the coming decade. Also at the meeting, faculty members introduced four of this year’s Faculty Scholars. Simmons detailed many of the actions already underway as a result of the initiatives. The University has sent out so many materials about the plan that people sometimes correct her when she misspeaks about the proposals while fundraising, Simmons said. Simmons said she has been on the

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road for the past few weeks, and she told the faculty, “Traveling for the campaign is a very large part of my job.” Simmons said she is preparing to present a long-term plan to the Corporation at its meeting this month. She lauded the Corporation for its earlier decision to authorize advance funds for the immediate execution of some elements of the initiatives. While Corporation members were initially “nervous” about those investments, they are “now wondering whether they did enough,” she said. Simmons did not elaborate on how those funds were put to use. Immediately after the Corporation meeting, the University will begin announcing recent donations in batches, Simmons said.

Haskins ’04.5 to appear on ESPN reality show as finalist for ‘SportsCenter’ anchor position BY KIRA LESLEY

Four weeks ago, Maggie Haskins ’04.5 was planning to graduate in May and begin the search for a job as a lowly production assistant. A few days later, a producer from ESPN called her and asked, “Hey, do you mind if we throw a wrench in that?” Now Haskins, former sports editor for The Herald, may be on the fast track to a job as a national sports anchor on ESPN’s marquee show, “SportsCenter.” Last September, Haskins entered ESPN’s nationwide search for contest-

ants for the network’s upcoming reality TV show, “Dream Job.” In December, the 10,000 Americans who tried out were whittled down to 12 finalists who will appear on the show, competing for the ultimate prize — a one-year contract to be a SportsCenter anchor. During the original 29-city tour in September, groups of about 30 contestants at a time were given a seven-minute sports trivia test, said Keri Potts, an ESPN spokesperson. Then about 10 contestants in each city were taken in for roundtable discussions in which contestants

I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, F E B RUA RY 4 , 2 0 0 4 New Web sites claim to give high school seniors their chances of college admission campus watch, page 3

University of Pennsylvania announces new president campus watch, page 3

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Women’s ice hockey team sees weekend success, rises to second place in rankings sports, page 12

Women’s swimming pulls out victory by combining old and new sports, page 12

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Web sites use statistics to predict students’ college admissions BY MONIQUE MENESES

With the click of a mouse and for an $80 fee, anxious parents can find what the odds are that their sons and daughters will be accepted into universities such as Brown, Dartmouth College and Yale University on Web sites like ThickEnvelope.com and CollegeConfidential.com. Grant Ujifusa, one of the founders of ThickEnvelope.com, said the purpose of the Web site is “to provide a credible second opinion about a student’s chances” of getting into a university. Ujifusa and his business partner, fellow Harvard alum Richard Sorensen, came up with the idea over lunch in August 2003. After accompanying his son on several campus tours, Sorensen complained about their inadequacy, Ujifusa said. “He came back from those sessions completely befogged. He though there ought to be a better way,” Ujifusa said. For $79.95, students and their parents can fill out ThickEnvelope.com’s online application and, within seconds, are directed to a page detailing the student’s chances of being accepted into each of the 80 colleges on the site. Students using the service must provide information such as SAT I and SAT II scores, numerical or percentile class rank, class size and grade point average. There is also a section on the application to list the students’ extracurricular activities, community service and leadership skills. “We think we can model reality,” Ujifusa said. For example, Ujifusa said, SAT I verbal scores carry more weight in the admissions process than SAT I math scores because fewer students score a perfect 800 on the verbal SAT I. More specifically, essays at Brown are not as important as teacher recommendations, while interviews count for next to nothing, he said. Other Web sites offering a statistical evaluation of prospective applicants work with similar formulas. Dave Berry, founding partner of CollegeConfidential.com, said the Web site uses a formula that takes into account scores and grades to calcu-

late a student’s academic index. The statistics — combined with an “in-depth” analysis of writing samples, legacy status, examples of leadership and other factors — determine the student’s chances. The service costs a total of $89. But Berry said his Web site is unique in taking into account applicants’ personal qualities. “That’s the differentiating factor between us and Web sites like ThickEnvelope.com,” he said. “In my opinion, there is no way that a computer can actually differentiate the subtleties about non-quantitative things.” But some parents prefer not to get too personal. Susan Ruben of Cleveland, Ohio — to whom Ujifusa referred The Herald — said she used ThickEnvelope.com for her 11th-grade son. Said she preferred ThickEnvelope.com’s somewhat formulaic analysis. “The purely statistical model appeals more to me, because it is less subjective as opposed to speaking to one person,” she said. Ruben said she first learned about ThickEnvelope.com in late January. Without telling him, she said, she entered her son’s statistics. “There were schools where he was in the 80 and 90 see ADMISSIONS, page 7

Penn chooses Princeton provost Gutmann as new president Three years after Brown made history as the first Ivy League university to appoint an African American president, the University of Pennsylvania marked another first last month when it tapped Princeton University Provost Amy Gutmann as its next president. The selection of Gutmann, who will take over from departing Penn President Judith Rodin in July, makes Penn the first Ivy to select consecutive female presidents. Penn’s board of trustees announced its decision Jan. 22, culminating a search process that began with Rodin’s announcement of her resignation in June 2003. Gutmann will join Brown’s Ruth Simmons and Princeton’s Shirley Tilghman as the current female Ivy presidents. Gutmann heads to Philadelphia after 28 years at Princeton, where she was first appointed a professor of politics in 1976. Simmons was a vice provost at Princeton from 1992 to 1995. Gutmann has said strengthening Penn’s undergraduate school and increasing the endowment are top priorities for her term. — Zach Barter

Students who show ‘demonstrated interest’ may advance in admissions, some colleges say MADISON, WIS. (U-Wire) — As some schools become more

competitive, admissions officers are beginning to take into account an applicant’s effort to contact the school, called “demonstrated interest.” Selective colleges such as George Washington University in Washington, D.C., use demonstrated interest as a “tip factor” in the admissions process to gauge the level of interest a student has in the school. “It’s not a critical role, but it’s one of the many things we consider,” GWU Assistant Director of Admissions

Michael O’Leary said. Demonstrated interest is tracked in many ways. A college can make note of meetings and interviews with the student, campus visits, inquiries, letters and emails. GWU takes interest into account throughout the admissions process and can also use it as a sort of tiebreaker if the applicants are especially competitive. “It’s been a part of the process since I started worksee INTEREST, page 7

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Faculty continued from page 1 decade or more of upheaval on the campus to get the space we need. We are just so far behind,” she said. Along with Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning, Simmons gave faculty members a peek at architect Frances Halsband’s master plan, still in its “very, very early stages.” “As you know, we started a couple years ago saying, ‘There’s no space left on College Hill — we’re going to need to leave College Hill and do something drastic,’” Simmons said. But Halsband proved that idea wrong, she said. According to Spies, Halsband has estimated that 300,000 square feet of space could be developed in the area between the Main Green and the Pembroke campus, bounded on the east and west by Brown and Thayer streets. Half of that space would be developed along a proposed pathway between Pembroke and the Main Green, dubbed “The Walk.” Halsband was inspired to create “The Walk” after seeing students walk through parking lots and past dumpsters on their way to Pembroke, Simmons said. And a proposed campus center has drawn “considerable donor interest,” which could hasten its planning, she said. But even with Halsband’s master plan, the University will “eventually have to have more of a presence off College Hill,” Simmons said. Nonetheless, Brown will likely have to sell the Old Stone Bank — which it has owned since 1995 — because it cannot find a suitable use for the building on Main Street, Simmons said. Simmons also said she has formed a committee composed of real estate and investment experts devoted exclusively to long-term planning, in order to make life easier for “our successors 20 years from now.” Improving Brown’s national

“I see no alternative to a decade or more of upheaval on the campus to get the space we need. We are just so far behind.” name recognition is also an important goal, Simmons said. Many alumni on the West Coast have told her Brown is not publicized enough there, she said. Simmons said she was happy to see a quote from Professor of Political Science Darrell West in Saturday’s edition of the New York Times and encouraged others affiliated with Brown to get the University’s name in the media. Simmons said the years ahead will be challenging, but the final slide in her presentation about the Plan for Academic Enrichment proclaimed, “IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!” Later in the meeting, faculty members introduced four of the seven 2003-2004 Faculty Scholars. The winners are “some of the brightest and most dedicated students at Brown,” Dean Perry Ashley said. The winners included Tanwen Ellis ’04, Eugene Fukudome MD ’04, Julia Glenday ’04 and Daniel Harkett GS. Associate Professor of Psychology Ruth Colwill reported on behalf of the University Retirement Policies Review Committee. Brown’s faculty is aging, she said, but with retirement rates declining, bringing in fresh faces is difficult. “Research institutions like ours are very comfortable places, and nobody wants to give up their job,” she said. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers faculty and administration. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

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Haskins continued from page 1 weekend of Dec. 12, Potts said. The first day, the contestants had to answer more sports trivia questions, which meant keeping abreast of recent sports news, Haskins said. The next day, they watched a 45-second highlight clip and had 15 minutes to write copy for it and perform it for the judges, she said. Directly after that, Haskins said she conducted an interview with Stuart Scott, one of the main anchors of “SportsCenter.” At the end of the weekend, Haskins said, the judges called the candidates into a room and announced the names of the 10 contestants who would move on to the televised competition. Haskins was named an alternate. Haskins said she was disappointed when she heard the news. “I had wanted it really badly,” she said. But about a month later she received a call saying the network had decided to use 12 contestants for the TV show and Haskins was one of them, she said. Potts said “Dream Job,” which begins in late February, is different from some other reality TV shows in that it focuses more on contestants’ potential abilities as anchors and less on their personal interactions. The contestants will not live together, she said. Haskins said the show’s serious nature appealed to her. “They don’t want fights over orange juice or laundry detergent,” she said. “They made that pretty clear.” Everyone who is there deserves to be there, she said. Haskins will not be the only Brunonian appearing on the show — Lori Rubinson ’86, a marketing executive from New York, N.Y., is also a finalist, according to the “Dream Job” Web site. The group also includes a retail manager, an actor and a comedian. Contestants range in age from 21 to 40 and hail from all over the country, according to a “Dream Job” press release. At 21, Haskins still has a lot of time to build her career. The avid sports fan said she has always loved playing and watching sports, but it wasn’t until she started writing for the sports section of The Herald her first year at Brown that she thought, “Not only do I love this now, but I can love this as a career.” Haskins said she wants to explore broadcast journalism and after graduating may attend school for the field. She said she hopes her experience on “Dream Job” will help her in her future job search. For the time being, Haskins is taking classes part-time and working to finish her history thesis on Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Housing Project. She said regardless of the outcome, being on the show will be “a great learning experience and an adventure.” Unlike some reality TV shows where the winners disappear when the competition is over, the producers of “Dream Job” fully expect the winner to play a significant role on “SportsCenter,” Potts said. So if things go as Haskins would like, Americans will be seeing a lot of her next year. Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

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Lieberman bows out after weak finish in Delaware (Washington Post) — Sen.

Joe Lieberman, a moderate Democrat up against flashier and more liberal rivals, Tuesday night ended his quest for the Democratic nomination after finishing weakly in every primary he contested. After running a distant second in Delaware, where he had invested his hope and most of his resources over the last week, the Connecticut senator decided to withdraw from the field, campaign officials said. Early returns from Delaware showed Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as the likely winner, based on an exit poll of 30 precincts representing about half the votes cast. Lieberman was locked in a tight race for second with former Vermont governor Howard Dean, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and former Gen. Wesley K. Clark. Lieberman was counting on a strong showing in Delaware to spark his flagging campaign, especially after a disappointing fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary last week. He spent more time than any other candidate in Delaware, which usually gets scant attention from candidates because it is small and yields few delegates. The Connecticut senator was also running poorly in other states that voted Tuesday. Based on early returns, he was running sixth in both Missouri and South Carolina, behind Kerry, Clark, Dean, Edwards and even the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is considered an overwhelming underdog. Lieberman had been dogged by questions about the future of his candidacy since his showing in New Hampshire. He returned to Washington Tuesday after-

noon after several campaign stops in Wilmington, Del. He took a long nap at his D.C. home and planned a serious of radio interviews with stations in Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina — where primaries or caucuses were held yesterday — before heading to a hotel in Arlington, Va., to watch the returns and meet with supporters. In addition to Delaware, Lieberman focused on Oklahoma and Arizona, where he was endorsed by the state’s largest newspaper, the Arizona Republic. Even as Democrats inside and outside the campaign wondered why he was pressing on, Lieberman released a detailed schedule of stops in Virginia on Wednesday, starting with his trademark “Cup of Joe” with patrons at an Arlington diner at 8 a.m. and ending with a town hall meeting in Salem. By Tuesday night, however, he had reconsidered. The returns figured to be a disappointment for the presidential ambitions of an ever-amiable candidate who entered the election season as one of the bestknown and better-financed challengers, due in part to his status as Al Gore’s running mate in 2000. Lieberman’s campaign seemed to deflate slowly as the months wore on, with polls rarely showing him rising about single-digit levels of support. Instead of what Lieberman sunnily referred to in New Hampshire as “Joe-mentum,” his campaign gathered no-mentum. Lieberman had been widely considered to be the most likely of the seven remaining candidates to leave the race. He joined Florida Sen. Bob Graham, former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt on the sidelines. Lieberman built his candidacy around what he called “mainstream” ideas — primarily, a rollback of President Bush’s tax cuts except for middle-class taxpayers, support for NAFTA and other free-trade agreements and an aggressive foreign policy, including support for the pre-emptive removal of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Panel continued from page 1 sustainable peace, he said. Shukri Abed, a professor from the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., justified Palestinian violence. Abed emphasized the importance of democracy in creating a peaceful society. But, he said, “It is impossible to have a full-fledged democracy when 20 percent of the population are considered second-class citizens.” He said Palestinian violence is an understandably human attempt to win civil liberty from an overbearing state. University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson moderated the panel.

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Interest continued from page 3 ing here in 1985, but it’s become more of a big deal in the last five to seven years,” O’Leary said. Many colleges that do not use demonstrated interest see it as insincere and irrelevant to the admissions process. University of Wisconsin Assistant Director of Admissions Tom Reason said there is no need for such practices at his school. “Why would we? It’s not a qualitative or quantitative basis for who more deserves to be admitted,” he said. Reason does not think many schools consider demonstrated interest. “I don’t think it is widely held. It’s safe to say it’s probably only used in a tie-breaking circumstance,” Reason said. The National Association for College Admissions Counseling conducted a survey recently to gauge how many colleges use this factor in admissions. The

Admissions continued from page 3 percentile range, and there were others where he was in the 20 percentile range,” she said. Ujifusa said the probabilities the service can give a student ranges between 5 and 90 percent. Ruben said although the $80 price tag was a shock, the service was worth it. “I thought my experience was positive and I would recommend it to others,” she said. Nancy Bratteli of Paris, Texas, said she decided to use CollegeConfidential.com because her son John, then 18, attended a small-town high school. “We just didn’t know how he would stack up against the best students in the country,” she said. Bratteli said she worried about her son’s chances after reading online and in the Princeton Review “how many ‘1600s’ were not getting into top schools.” Bratteli said the process was efficient and accurate. “Our son was accepted at Rice,

NACAC received 595 responses to several questions about use of demonstrated interest. When asked if colleges consider demonstrated interest, 33 percent affirmed they did use it in admissions. When asked how important demonstrated interest was in the admissions process, 30 percent of colleges noted it was considerable or moderate and 26 percent said it was of limited importance. Shakira and Kellie Carim are sisters who were accepted to RISD and Carleton College. Kellie believes interviewing and meeting with admissions made a positive difference in her application. “For a small school like Carleton, I think it’s important that admissions consider who really wants to be there,” Kellie Carim said. Kellie’s sister Shakira was put on the waiting list for admittance to RISD, and she made sure to call often to check her status. “I called every day, practically,

MIT and Caltech, and was waitlisted at Princeton, which was exactly Mr. Berry’s prediction,” she said. Despite favorable reception from parents, high school counselors and college admission officers remain wary of online prediction services. “When people are sort of in the for-profit business, you have to be a little bit skeptical about it,” said Michael Goldberger, Brown’s director of admissions. Goldberger said quantitative factors like SAT scores are only part of the story when it comes to Brown admissions. “To try and say your chances of admission are X and Y based upon your GPA or SAT scores goes so short of what we look for,” he said. But Ujifusa said statistic evaluations are comparable to daily weather forecasts. “It’s like saying that there’s a 40 percent chance of rain tomorrow,” he said. “It’s a probability.” Herald staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 is The Hera;d’s features editor..She can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

asking if they were accepting my group or not. They made a note that I had called and asked every time, and I feel that the school saw that I was interested and then let me in,” Shakira Carim said. According to O’Leary at GWU, taking demonstrated interest into consideration is becoming more popular, especially with colleges that are becoming more competitive. However, Reason believes demonstrated interest is not as popular as some may think. “It’s by no means that huge of a factor,” Reason said. Still, O’Leary sees demonstrated interest as the first step in building a relationship with GWU’s applicants. “It’s a way of developing communication with our students,” he said.

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Now comes the hard part for Kerry (Washington Post) — Sen. John

Kerry excelled as a scrappy underdog in Iowa and toughtalking combat veteran since then. Now comes the hard part, Democratic officials say: closing the deal on a front-running campaign for his party’s presidential nomination while avoiding the errors of his past. Coming off last night’s victories, Kerry is planning on presenting himself in the day’s ahead as the undisputed leader, according to his advisers, fighting it out in every state instead of cherry-picking like his rivals. Some advisers envision a quickkill strategy with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean going down in Wisconsin on Feb. 17 and Sen. John Edwards, the Democratic candidate they fear most, dropping out soon after. The macho image of Kerry as a combat hero willing to stand up to President Bush will continue to dominate ads and speeches, though advisers anticipate the election to turn on domestic concerns such as

jobs and health care. Democrats and even some Republicans said Kerry has shown he’s capable of neutralizing the GOP’s historical edge on national defense and focusing the fight on the economy, health insurance and a people-versus-the powerful message that Al Gore ran and lost on in 2000. Kerry will try to rally the party by ringing up endorsements and reaching out to skeptical Democrats, including Dean supporters. His campaign is also looking to capitalize financially, starting with two fundraisers on Thursday in New York City. Still, Kerry isn’t in the clear yet, and some Democrats still worry he could re-emerge as his own worst enemy. As the front-runner last year — before the Dean boom — Kerry stumbled badly enough to give party donors pause and prompt some Democratic insiders to essentially write off his candidacy. The knock on Kerry back then was he failed to connect with voters and often muddled his campaign message with

long-winded and sometimes confusing explanations of his position on the Iraq war and other issues. And he presided uncertainly over a faction-ridden campaign. Several Democrats close to Kerry said their one of their chief concerns remains his tendency to reinforce through his words and appearance unflattering stereotypes of liberalism, elitism and detachment, though all of them pointed to steady improvement in recent months. “The old John Kerry cannot return to the scene,” said Donna Brazile, Gore’s campaign manager in 2000. “If he returns, he will face a very difficult summer.” “There’s no possibility” of that happening, Kerry told reporters as his charter plane flew into Spokane, Wash., Tuesday. “This is a great team we have and they’re on the front burner; they’re in high cylinder, high gear and we’re going to stay in high gear. As far as I’m concerned it’s full speed ahead and we’re not playing cautious here.” Doug Hattaway, a Bostonbased consultant who is neutral in the primary contest, said Kerry’s stumbles through the fall reminded him of the staff turmoil and spotty performance of Al Gore and his team in 2000. But this time, argued Hattaway, it appears Kerry has “internalized those lessons” and put in place a highlydisciplined team led by Mary Beth Cahill and former New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen to clean up the campaign. Gore allowed the problems to persist and eventually consume and in some ways define his campaign, Democrats say. After changing his campaign style, often appearing looser and less scripted at events, Kerry has been riding a wave of positive views about his electability to the top of national polls. He also benefited greatly from the decision of every rival except Dean to run an upbeat, often attack-free, campaign, party strategists said. This allowed Kerry to run a markedly positive and Bush-focused campaign over the past few weeks.

Swimming continued from page 12 University in a battle for third place in the Ivy League. After a 20-day layoff, Brown will then travel to Harvard University to compete in the Ivy League Championships Feb. 26 to Feb. 28. Herald staff writer Chris Mahr ’07 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s swimming. He can be reached at cmahr@browndailyherald.com.

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Track continued from page 12 shot put. The defending indoor Heptagonal Champion threw for 42’7”. Allison Brager ’07 also scored for Brown, with a thirdplace finish in the pole vault. Despite competing with a smaller team due to injuries, the Bears came through with a number of strong performances. According to Johnson, the team

Hockey continued from page 12 the game-winner from mid-ice. Brown denied an initial Tiger rush and outshot Princeton 17-8 going into the third period. Zucker scored her eighth goal of the season with assists from Link and Glennon with under two minutes to play, securing the 3-1 victory. “We all knew the importance

should be in full swing in time for the USA Track and Field New England Championships on Feb. 22. Until then, the women will put in their best effort this weekend at the University of Rhode Island Invitational. Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s track. She can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

of this weekend,” Zucker said. “From the drop of the puck Friday night until the very last second against Princeton, we played to win because we realized there was no other choice.” Germain tallied 27 saves in her second outstanding performance of the weekend. The Bears return to action this weekend as they travel to Cornell and Colgate universities in another make-or-break series.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Characterizing campaigns Ten years ago, the University of Pennsylvania inaugurated former President Judith Rodin, and more than two years ago, Rodin spoke at the inauguration of President Ruth Simmons. The symbolism was obvious — Rodin was the first female Ivy League president, and Simmons, the second, was in some sense her successor. Given Rodin’s 2003 resignation, and with Brown poised to execute its Initiatives for Academic Enrichment, we cannot help but consider Penn’s success under Rodin. During Rodin’s reign, donations doubled, reaching more than $400 million annually and funding major renovation projects and initiatives. Physical expansion of the university and transformation of surrounding West Philadelphia also marked Rodin’s term. Working with the local community helped guarantee Penn’s safer streets and upcoming expansion. At Brown during yesterday’s faculty meeting, Simmons outlined her long-term plans, which include substantial physical growth and require a hugely successful campaign. If Simmons’ initiatives and campaign go as planned, Brown will undergo a decade of growth not unlike what Penn saw with Rodin. In short, Rodin and Simmons have more in common than gender. For Simmons to live up to the lofty goals she has set, she would do well to take cues from Rodin. The University must cooperate with College Hill to facilitate Brown’s growth, just as Rodin worked with Philadelphia residents and officials. Similarly, Brown’s capital campaign, currently in its quiet phase, must foster a sustained increase in annual giving, as Penn’s did. But what worked for Penn might not always work for Brown. Brown lacks Penn’s graduate schools, a crucial element of Penn’s fundraising success, and must negotiate physical expansion within the confines of a historic district. As the University prepares to embark on a sustained capital campaign, it’s important to remember what distinguishes Brown from its peers. Just as universities’ outlooks on education differ, so should their capital campaigns. The success of Brown’s campaign should be measured not only in dollars but also by its fidelity to the University’s principles in the collection and distribution of funds. Penn’s success should encourage us but not confine us. We cannot succeed by imitation — Brown’s greatest strength is its individuality, and this unique school will succeed best with a unique campaign. We’re not Penn, and we like it that way.

NICK SCHADE

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2004 · PAGE 11

JONATHAN LIU

ELLEN HUNTER

The primary gaze

The real race candidate

With his own candidacy rendered unviable by charges of that most amorphous of racial code words, “demagoguery,” Al Sharpton has settled into the position of sage observer, the conscience of a Democratic Party that neither deserves nor wants one. In a long line of astute comments, perhaps Sharpton’s most prescient was his admonishment in a Dec. 10 debate that Al Gore’s endorsement of then-frontrunner Howard Dean amounted to a “bossism” — a cynical backroom strategizing — that co-opts democracy. The implication was that party leaders are trying to revert to a Tammany Hall dynamic, where the central qualification of office is the second-order question of electability and not a candidate’s primary quality, ability. What the Reverend miscalculated, however, was the power of perpetual beta-male Gore. As Dean’s heavily endorsed campaign falls into a sort of bemused self-parody and John Kerry surges on a platform best described as Vanilla with Vietnam Sprinkles, it is clear that, in the Democratic Party, the leaders are no longer the wielders of bossism. The cynical politicking Sharpton decried is now the province of a class far less equipped for political patronage: namely, the voters. Awash as voters are in the reporting of electoral machinations and, moreover, the reporting of such reporting, they have now fetishized the minutiae of politics in a way once reserved for the most idle of the leisure class. The Jan. 18 cover story of the New York Times Magazine calls them “meta-voters” who, like the bosses of the past, internalize the measures of political life — poll numbers, demographic breakdowns, even such laissez-faire doohickeys as PBS’s “Frontline Presidential Market” (where Bush now stands at $366 a share; Sharpton, $3) — as the point itself. Politics

An uneasy relationship between voters and the media. becomes self-perpetuating — politics is the end to its own political means — and, in this environment, it is no wonder that “electability” has become the central issue of the campaign. Every voter is now a pundit and every caucus or ballot box is merely a precursor to the real contest: the exit-poll commentary. Jeff Greenfield and Judy Woodruff (or Candy Crowley, if you are so inclined) have become the new sex symbols of this meta-political age. With familiar anchors and coverage of media coverage, every newscast is now a parody of The Daily Show. The result of voters gazing at voter behavior, evident in the way pro-Kerry fervor passed from Iowa to New Hampshire, is a profound alienation from actual personal desires, from actual individual decision-making. That’s what makes this year’s overarching theme — “Anybody’s better than Bush” — so unsettling. Is the truth that we’ve all embraced the black-and-white worldview and the utter lack of nuance that has formed the cornerstone of Dubya’s certitude? Is the truth that, regardless of the results in November, he’s already won? I’d like to think not. Or, more honestly, I’d like to think that the voters think not. Maybe this new voter self-awareness is the sign of something positive; after all, isn’t “bossism” by the voters preferable to the Boss Tweed alternative? And yet, progressive reformers had something more in mind than just the devolution of cynical strategizing from leaders to citizens when they boosted the primary system to prominence. Progressivism itself, with its recalls, referenda and reforms, requires a level of responsibility higher than that offered by the American character. The very bearings of democracy — a multitude voting independently in order to create a mandate — are being challenged by the media and informational structures created to report on it. And yet John Edwards’ strong South Carolina finish last night was at least partially due to strong support among black voters. Nevertheless, the media has decreed that Kerry, with his impressive victories, will remain the frontrunner as long as electability remains the top issue. And so I, as a political boss like everyone else, officially endorse Al Sharpton. Not because he’s the only one who acknowledges his trade as theater — he isn’t. I endorse the Rotund Reverend because he is just simply the best dancer. “Jonathan Liu ’07” bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum.

To prove that electability, this year’s Democratic buzzword, is the main factor influencing voters in Democratic primaries, a commentator on Rhode Island’s NPR affiliate showed that black voters were willing to abandon Al Sharpton. To his surprise, the commentator found that in the most heavily black county in South Carolina, the majority of blacks did not intend to vote for Al Sharpton. Black voters rehashed electability to explain supporting Edwards, Kerry, Dean or Clark. Sharpton polled lower than expected because his entertaining candidacy poses no threat to the Bush presidency. The reporter announced, “Instead of voting race, black voters are voting electability.” This reporter’s supporting evidence is flawed for at least two reasons. First, the commentator makes the common assumption, that “voting race” means supporting the black candidate with the obviously race-based campaign message. But that assumption misidentifies the race candidate in this election. In fact, President Bush, not Al Sharpton, is the race mobilizer, the candidate who stirs racial sentiments and whose support (and opposition) is most directly correlated with race. Second, the commentator wrongly implies that for blacks, voting race and voting electability are contradictory. To vote race means choosing the candidate who most strongly appeals to our sense of racial group identity. For blacks, voting race is voting electability, a product of the anybody-but-Bush atmosphere in this primary season. Incidentally, there is such a thing as "voting race" for whites as well. Consider Bush’s appeal to white southerners. Bush’s appeal to white racial sentiment is subtle, yet deliberate. It is the continuation of Nixon’s 1968 “Southern Strategy,” the divide-and-conquer tactic luring blue-dog Democrats from the Solid South. Bush maintains the Republican tradition of conjuring resentment of “the blacks,” the lazy, violent freeloaders who get over on the system and take what rightfully belongs to hardworking whites. For “guys with Confederate flags in the back of their pick-ups,” Dean’s target group, the message is clear: Bush represents my group against those who threaten to destroy my way of life. This is how Bush and the Republican Party, supportive of corporate interests and wealthy individuals, have taken poor white southerners for fools.

Bush emphasizes otherness with subtle code words and phrases. While the Supreme Court considered affirmative action, President Bush made straw-man arguments against strict quotas in university admissions, which next to nobody supports, to recharge white ethnic sentiments. Bush’s childlike obsession with “good” and “evil” extends beyond concern for terrorism, reminding us that we, inhabitants of the “civilized” world, must protect ourselves from a distant other. The President’s usagainst-them theme perks up white ethnic sentiments lingering from the days of the “war on drugs,” “tough on crime” and “welfare queens.” President Bush divides the South by asserting himself as the race candidate for whites. The numbers show that President Bush’s manipulations have polarized voters along racial lines, particularly in the South. In 2000, Bush won 54 percent of the national white vote, commanding 70 percent of white southerners’ votes. Our nation was over 25 percent nonwhite in 2000. Still, 95 percent of Bush voters were white. The 2000 election was the most partisan in history for blacks. Ninety percent of blacks voted for Gore, 4 percent more than supported Clinton in 1996. Though blacks are only 13 percent of the total population, they comprised a

Appealing to whites is part of the Bush plan. whopping 18.9 percent of Gore’s support. Blacks overwhelmingly supported the unglamorous Gore, because Al Gore is not George Bush. Indeed, blacks voted anybody but Bush in 2000. Democrats face a dilemma this primary season. They must choose to vote for a candidate on factors that may conflict, such as whether the candidate agrees with the voter’s position on Iraq and whether the candidate is electable. For black voters who consider race, there is no dilemma. “Voting race” is not voting for any particular candidate, it’s voting against Bush. Don’t get it twisted. Al Sharpton may parade around, dressed up in the stuff of the race candidate, but Bush is made of it. Ellen Hunter ’04 is a political science concentrator.

Bringing back Liberia GUEST COLUMN BY NICHOLAS BAYARD

“Tell me what I have done or failed to do. Once I am told, should I die in peace, knowing the cause of my death.” These were the words of William Reeves, a Liberian schoolteacher, in the morning hours of Oct. 12, 1985, after he was handcuffed without charges, thrown in the back of a pickup truck and taken to the Camp Whisnant military installation in the small town of Zwedru. The armed prison guard, a loyalist of Samuel Doe, the lead conspirator of the 1980 coup on the Liberian government, pleaded with Reeves to cooperate and go to his prison cell without a fuss. After spending most of the day in a prison cell, Reeves noticed that the Doe loyalist soldiers had inexplicably deserted their posts. He escaped the military installation that day, only to live through the fatal shooting of his son a few years later and the civil war that has left his once-promising country in ruins. In the late 1970s, Liberia was one of Africa’s most stable countries. Since then, Liberia has been reduced to one of the worst humanitarian crises of the past two decades due to rebel insurgencies and civil unrest. The costs of a 14-year civil war are even greater than the 200,000 dead and the 300,000 displaced Liberians who have fled to Sierra Leone, Ghana or, as in Reeves’ case, the United States. There is a generation of young people in Liberia whose childhood memories consist only of war, hunger, disease and death. Unfortunately, a subsection of that generation has taken part in the fighting itself. Children as young as age seven were forcibly recruited throughout the 1990s and early 2000s as soldiers, given arms and sent to the front lines of battle. The rehabilitation of these children is one of the most pressing issues facing post-civil war Liberia. The warlord responsible for much of the violence of

the past 14 years, Charles Taylor, has lived under political asylum in Nigeria since August. In his place is 54-yearold businessman Gyude Bryant, elected as interim president for his apparent neutrality and consensus-building skills. He will soon take part in an international donor conference in New York to raise the funds necessary to reconstruct Liberia. On Saturday, the Providence community will gather at a charity concert and festival to raise awareness and money for humanitarian relief efforts in Liberia. Live for Liberia! will feature recording artists from Africa and the eastern United States as well as speeches by Brown President Ruth Simmons and Hassan Bility, recipient of the 2003 Amnesty International/United Kingdom Human Rights Journalism Under Threat Award. Now that the interim government is in place in Liberia, peacekeeping forces are on the ground and a democratic general election is slated for 2005, the international community is presented with the opportunity to ensure that human rights are served and educational needs are met. Had he not committed his life to education and consensus building, William Reeves, former principal of the Tubman-Wilson Institute and Bishop Juwle High School in Liberia, might not have escaped with his life that day in 1985. In a strange twist of fate, he had found himself face-to-face with not only a gun-toting rebel, but also a drop-out from the very same school where he had served as principal. As Mr. Reeves demonstrated, the struggle for education can prevail in such times of trouble, but is too often ignored in favor of tempting and deadly alternatives. Nicholas Bayard ’ 04 is chairman of Live for Liberia! Inc.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4, 2004 · PAGE 12

W.swimming crushes Cornell, Columbia

Women’s track takes second with solo efforts

BY CHRIS MAHR

BY MELISSA PERLMAN

The women’s swim team (11-2, 4-2 Ivy League) appears to be peaking at just the right time, as Bruno continued its winning ways Saturday with an impressive dual meet victory over Cornell and Columbia universities. Brown defeated the Big Red handily, 244-54, and also downed Columbia, 205.95-94.5. As in the previous three meets, several seniors led the team, which also received contributions from underclassmen. “My main expectation was to show good team spirit and togetherness, not to mention compete and race hard,” Head Coach Peter Brown said. “I thought that we did that today.” Co-captains Liz Daniels ’04 and Emily McCoy ’04 once again spearheaded Brown’s strong performance. Daniels took first in both the 50-yard and 100yard freestyle and second in the 100-yard butterfly. McCoy placed second to Daniels in both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle events. Both were also a part of the winning 200-yard medley and 200yard freestyle relay teams. Further senior contributions came from Lindsay Hoban ’04. Hoban finished first in the 100-yard backstroke and third in the 200-yard backstroke. Toni Pullman ’04 finished third behind Daniels and McCoy in the 100-yard freestyle. Yet despite strong performances from the senior class, the first-years and sophomores nearly stole the show again. Becky Kowalsky ’07 (200-yard freestyle), Ashley Wallace ’07 (200-yard butterfly), Emily Brush ’07 (200-yard backstroke), Meredith Cocco ’07 (100-yard butterfly) and Bridgette Cahill ’06 (1000-yard freestyle) all emerged victorious in their events. Katie Schlesinger ’07 (200-yard freestyle) and Karlyanna Kopra ’07 (100yard breaststroke) also contributed to the underclassmen effort, finishing second in their events, while Julia Lippe-Klein ’07 (100-yard breaststroke) and Elizabeth Wong ’06 (100-yard butterfly) both placed third in their events. In the diving portion of the program, Jessica Larsen ’06 took first and second in the one-meter and three-meter diving events, respectively, while Amy Latinen ’07 finished third in both diving events. When all was said and done, Bruno had finished first in 11 of the afternoon’s 14 events, with second and third place finishes as well. “I think we’re getting more and more of a collective effort,” Brown said of the team’s impressive showing. “More and more of our depth is showing, and I think we’re coming together more and more. It’s the time of season you have to start performing, and I think we’re doing that.” Now at 11-2 for the season, Brown looks poised and prepared for the rest of the season, not to mention the Ivy League and NCAA Championships a few weeks down the road. “We’re on a definite upswing — we’re developing some good momentum,” Brown said. “As a coach, that’s the kind of thing you want to see at this time of the year, and I think that we’re definitely moving in the right direction.” Bruno concludes its regular season this Friday when it travels to Yale

seconds left in the game. “We knew how huge this game was for the Ivy, ECAC and NCAA,” said Kerry Nugent ’05. “This added pressure demanded our intensity, and our passing game sealed the victory.” Starting goalie and co-captain Katie Germain ’04, recently named ECAC Goalie of the Week, posted 20 saves against the Bulldogs, her first of two stellar games during the weekend. The following afternoon at Princeton, Bruno edged out its Ivy rival 3-1. The Tigers got on the board first, scoring on a delayed penalty call midway through the opening period. Brown responded with 15 seconds left in the period, as Link blocked a Princeton point shot and skated the length of the ice to score the tying goal. Bruno’s momentum carried over into the second stanza when Brown’s defense, led by Germain, denied the Tiger attack. “We were very disciplined and prepared defensively for this team,” Germain said. “We played aggressively, because speed is our weapon and because we knew Princeton was tired.” Thirteen minutes into the second period, Lindsey Glennon ’06 netted her third goal of the season, picking the puck off the boards and wristing

Facing the depth of the Cornell University team and the field strength of the hosting Harvard University team, women’s indoor track put together a strong showing that was good enough for second place this past Saturday. Brown had 38.5 points compared to the Big Red’s 96 and the Crimson’s 24.5. Cornell overpowered the Bears by stacking each event with as many as six athletes. The Cornell team ended up claiming first place in 11 of the 14 total events. Head Coach Robert Johnson said he was not surprised by Cornell’s dominance but had hoped his team would finish stronger. “Cornell was tough,” he said. “They’re the defending indoor and outdoor conference champions and have tons of depth. I thought we might score a little more than we did.” Leading the way for the Bears was the distance squad, which racked up 14 points, including three second-place finishes and one win for the three events. Katherine Kosub ’04 started the distance squad’s dominance with a secondplace finish in the mile. Usually an 800meter runner, Kosub ran in the event for only the second time in her career. Her time of 5:00.45 was a personal best by three seconds. Caci Cambruzzi ’04 followed in fifth place with a time of 5:05.95. “Since it was one of my first times running the event, I felt no pressure,” Kosub said. “I was hoping to have a solid performance to prove to myself that I could do this event.” While seniors Kosub and Cambruzzi made their presence felt in the mile, teammate Naja Ferjan ’07 debuted in the 800-meter race with a fast time. Her 2:12.59 was less than a tenth of a second behind the first-place finisher from Cornell. Ferjan was followed by Anna Willard ’06 in sixth place, with a time of 2:15.25. Rounding out the day for the distance team were Meredith Crocker ’05 and Nora Sullivan ’06 in first and second place, respectively, for the 3000 meters. Crocker’s time of 9:49.25 was a 17-second improvement, but was expected because of the high intensity in her recent training. “I was hoping to break 10,” she said. “I’ve been feeling strong, so I just wanted to qualify for the seeded heat at (the Heptagonal Championships).” Crocker’s time puts her in the front of the Ivy League for now, but she will not run the event again until the league championships. In the field events, Ashley Wall ’05 scored five points by winning the long jump with a 5.43-meter leap. Ferjan, crossing over from distance, finished fourth. Brittany Grovey ’06 followed up Wall’s win by dominating the triple jump with a 40’2” jump. She was trailed by teammate Dominique Bosa-Edwards ’05 in fourth. “When I run, I am making sure I am aggressive, attacking and holding my knee up,” Bosa-Edwards said. “I’m healthy now and want to put it all together.” Jill Lynch ’05 came up big in the field events with a second-place finish in the

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Jessica Link ’05 was named Ivy League Player of the Week after earning four points in wins over Yale and Princeton. Katie Germain ’04 also earned Ivy Goalie of the Week.

Women’s ice hockey second in league after weekend sweep BY LEXI COSTELLO

The women’s ice hockey team (10-5-2, 6-1-1 ECAC) defeated Ivy rivals Yale and Princeton universities in its biggest weekend to date, bringing Bruno closer to the Frozen Four in March. Friday night against the Bulldogs, Brown netted a 2-1 victory in New Haven, Bruno’s 33rd consecutive win against the Bulldogs. Jessica Link ’05, who was recently named ECAC Player of the Week, set the pace for Brown 28 seconds into the game, netting her 13th goal of the season, with Amy McLaughlin ’05 and Keaton Zucker ’06 earning assists on the play. The rush continued for Brown in the second period. Krystal Straussman ’07 increased the Bruno lead to 2-0, posting a quick corner goal during an aggressive series of rebound shots. “The early lead we’ve needed all season came against Yale,” said CoCaptain Kelly Sheridan ’04. “We had the sense of urgency we needed to come out strong, and this continued for 60 minutes of quick hockey.” Brown demonstrated the same dominance in the third period. The defense kept the puck out of Bruno’s half of the ice while the offense continued to rush the net. Despite the women’s aggressive play, Brown went scoreless in the final frame. Yale tallied its one and only goal, scoring with 50