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Burst pipe causes flooding, damage in Minden Hall BY MONIQUE MENESES

itage,” until the city was “strangled by the highways,” he said. The opportunity to remedy history came when the Providence River Bridge reached the end of its life span. Intended to last only 40 years and carry half the

A bathroom pipe exploded in Minden Hall Sunday afternoon, flooding parts of the building and soaking students’ belongings. The pipe burst in the bathroom of room 707 at 3:50 p.m., causing water to spread through parts of the seventh floor and drip down as far as the basement, according to Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. Gil Davis ’06, a resident of room 707, said that when he flushed the toilet, the pipe attaching the toilet to the wall broke. Corrosion had weakened the pipe, said Joe McDevitt of Facilities Management. After the pipe broke, “water started spraying horizontally,” Davis said. “I dodged it.” Davis said he called Facilities Management to inform them about the situation. During the 20 minutes before Facilities Management came, hall residents used towels and plastic containers to barricade the overflow in the bathroom. McDevitt said he replaced the pipe with non-corrosive brass fittings while custodians cleaned up the floors below. Workers will re-plaster the wall tomorrow, he said. Facilities Management shut down the water supply to Minden at 5:30 p.m. and restored it at 6:50 p.m., according to an email sent by Service Response to all Minden residents. Davis’ roommate, Cameron Colpitts ’05, said he was on a bike ride when the pipe broke. Although the carpet in his room was saturated by water, Colpitts said nothing was damaged. “It’s exciting. More drama,” he said.

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A burst pipe in this Minden Hall bathroom started flooding that damaged student property in the building Sunday afternoon.

Memorial celebrates Vranek ’04 as serious student who valued friends BY KIRA LESLEY

Friends and family gathered in Manning Chapel Friday afternoon to celebrate the life of Francisco Metha Vranek ’04, who died in a car accident in his home town of Tenerife in the Canary Islands while returning to campus over winter break. Ann Dill, associate professor of sociology, remembered Vranek as a “brilliant student” who was mastering three concentrations — economics, public and private sector organizations and international relations. Vranek also grasped a wide range of subjects, including European history and astronomy, she said. Vranek always took advantage of the opportunities before him and managed to take away something positive from difficult situations, Dill said. He used his experiences as an international student and a student pursuing a career in investment banking to form plans to aid Brown in better helping students achieve their potential, she said. He suggested ways that see VRANEK, page 4

Planned highway redevelopment points to a changing Providence BY SARA PERKINS

The opportunity to undo a mistake is rare, and experts are seizing on the chance to undo some of the mistakes in Providence’s history, speakers said at an urban studies conference this weekend. Urban planners attending the second annual Harriet David Goldberg Conference on Urban Affairs Sunday discussed plans to redirect Interstate 195 over a new bridge further south of downtown. The skyline-friendly bridge, just beyond the Fox Point hurricane barrier, would replace the Providence River Bridge and elevated highway. I-195 currently cuts off a portion of the waterfront and isolates the Jewelry District and hospitals from the rest of downtown. Speakers agreed the highway policies of the 1950s, which threw two major interstates together in the middle of an industrializing city, were a massive mistake. But with the undoing comes a host of small but vital opportunities — to reclaim the waterfront, reconnect the neighborhoods and make downtown more economically viable. The history of waterfront development is a sordid one, said Thomas Deller, director of the Providence Department of Planning and Development. Providence’s development has left “our backs turned to our water, backs turned to our her-

Korean labor movement has evolved in past decades, speaker says BY AMY RUDDLE

To understand South Korea’s labor movement, worker experiences must be taken into consideration, said Hagen Koo, professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii, in a Friday lecture in Salomon 001. Koo said it is essential to “see the development process from the standpoint of human experiences” in order to understand Korea’s unique economic growth. “When it comes to Korean labor, one often has an image of militant labor strikes. In many TV scenes of Korean strikes we (see) Korean strikers wearing red headbands and red jackets, pumping their fists toward the sky, shouting slogans in unison, sitting cross-legged …

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and often ending their strikes with a violent clash with the public police,” Koo said. These images have created two different interpretations of the Korean labor movement. Foreign newspapers often “regard Korea as a country with endemic strikes,” even going so far as to label South Korea a “strike kingdom,” Koo said. This interpretation often scares foreign business investors, who do not want to be involved with large unions and choose to move their businesses to other low-wage countries, primarily China, Koo said. However, this view is being chalsee KOO, page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T M. ice hockey has disappointing weekend, tying with Union and losing to RPI sports, page 8

M. basketball secures weekend victories over Harvard and Dartmouth sports, page 8

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Council sponsors multidisciplinary art initiatives BY GABRIELLA DOOB

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The men’s ice hockey game against Union College, which ended in a 2-2 tie, brought students, alums and local families to Meehan Auditorium Friday night. The Bears suffered a 4-0 loss to visiting Rensselaer Polytechnic

The work of the Creative Arts Council has not gone unnoticed. From a large-scale orchestral performance March 6 to the growing body of sculptures on campus, CAC has had a visible impact on the artistic life of the University. Created six years ago to “cultivate and support the creative arts,” according to its online mission statement, the council owes much of its recent growth to a $1 million endowment given by Lawton Wehle Fitt ’74 two years ago. Among its many projects, CAC sponsors an artists-inresidence program that brings four to five distinguished artists to Brown each year for up to one semester, said Richard Fishman, professor of visual arts and chairman of CAC. High-profile figures such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Sondheim and Eric Bogosian have also been invited for briefer visits. Last year, Gordon Willis, the cinematographer for the “Godfather” movies, spoke and conducted workshops, Fishman said. CAC also provides significant funding for student and faculty art projects. Each semester, a $5,000 grant is available to students. The grant drew 80 proposals this year. CAC hopes to double student grant funds next year and broaden grant opportunities for faculty, Fishman said. Another prospective project is the creation of a center for the creative arts. The center would include studios, performing spaces, multimedia labs and gallery spaces and would be available to students, faculty and artistsin-residence. CAC has submitted a proposal for the center to the University, Fishman said. CAC has developed “very, very well” since its establishment six years ago and has increasingly come to represent the range of creative activity on campus, Fishman said. Three years ago, an advisory board of alum and parent artists was created. The Council itself includes two faculty at large, two undergraduates, a graduate student and a representative from the provost’s office, he said. Fishman also emphasized that CAC hopes to increase its involvement in community projects. Currently, Fishman is working with students to create a 60-footlong tile wall at India Point Park. CAC has also begun work see CAC, page 5

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Urban continued from page 1 amount of traffic it does today, the bridge must be rebuilt. To Deller, this represents “an opportunity to fix a mistake” and relocate the highway, he said. The highway relocation is underway, with about $200 million already invested in the project, said Lambri Zerva of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. The greatest improvements will be in the “drivability” of the roads, with “challenging” merges and left-hand

exits removed. Spaces to be opened for development include the downcity swath I-195 divides, the interchange where it meets Interstate 95 and other waterfront areas. Each site presents unique opportunities and challenges, and the battle against suburban-style and undesirable development is difficult and ongoing, presenters said. Meanwhile, sites on the East Side will be spruced up as part of a larger plan from William Warner Architects. The Wickenden Street overpass, currently a haven for pigeons, a magnet for graffiti and

a pedestrian nightmare, will be redone with parking, new lighting and materials resistant to pigeons and spray paint. The pedestrian walkway over I-195 to India Point Park will be replaced by a more congenial “entry point to the park,” said William Warner’s Glen Fontecchio. Planners will also connect the East Bay Bike Path to the park via an underpass at India Street, he said. Several designers urged a second look at plans to demolish the bridge. Colgate Searle, RISD professor of landscape architecture, presented the “Upcity Crossing” proposal, which would use the bridge to link neighborhoods across the river and create a mixed-elevation neighborhood around the bridge’s ramps. Fontecchio suggested that the bridge could be rebuilt, using the original pilings, as a pedestrian bridge and for utility lines. Derek Bradford, RISD professor of landscape architecture, summarized the momentum of

Vranek continued from page 1 Brown could help students prepare their resume and interview styles and strengthen relations among international students, she said. Dennis Michaud, assistant professor of sociology, seconded Dill’s description of Vranek as an exceptional student and person, saying, “Metha was one of the smartest students I ever had.” Michaud said he and the other students in his class often relied on Vranek to lead discussions. He described Vranek as bright, positive and “up.” Vranek was “just a joy to be with. Just a joy,” Michaud said. Faculty reflections were followed by a photo montage showing Vranek with many of his friends. Captions recounted Vranek’s love of fun, travel, and his family and friends. Photos showed Vranek giving presents to his friends, eating at Tokyo restaurant in Providence and sliding down an ice-encased playground slide. Friends remembered Vranek as a constant source of support and encouragement. Eric Neuman ’04 recalled Vranek’s unusual determination, whether in studying, working to make himself healthier or helping to ease international students’ transition to college life. Vranek put a tremendous amount of effort into his job applications, writing and rewriting them many times, Neuman said. Even so, Vranek was always there when a friend or family

Spaces to be opened for development include the downcity swath I-195 divides, the interchange where it meets Interstate 95 and other waterfront areas. the planning as, “Move on Providence, move on.” The conference was titled “Providence on the Move: The Highway and the City.” Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 edits the Metro section. She can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

member needed him, making late night trips to Johnny Rocket’s and rearranging his class schedule so he could spend more time with his girlfriend of three and a half years, Neuman said. He had a knack for sensing people’s needs, and “friends always came before school or whatever task occupied him,” he said. Arman Kamenov, who first met Vranek at a Swiss boarding school, said Vranek helped him get through a difficult transition during Kamenov’s freshman year at Harvard University. Kamenov said his weekly visits with Vranek eased the loneliness he first felt in college. Their long conversations and trips to Viva, for which Vranek sported a tight black shirt and “sideburns which were in need of some serious trimming,” lifted his spirits, Kamenov said. “I never had any doubt he would succeed in whatever he set his mind to in life,” he said. Vranek had secured his dream position in the international investment firm Deutsche Bank for after graduation, Neuman said. As word of Vranek’s death spread, the University received calls and letters from around the world — a testament to the farreaching impact Vranek had on people’s lives, Neuman said. “He was an amazing person and an amazing friend, and I am grateful to have been fortunate enough to know him when we did,” he said. Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ‘07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

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A-Rod continued from page 8 more irritable and impulsive and generally more senile (I mean this in a medical sense). So when faced with the likely prospect of a salary cap in baseball’s near future, as well as a cap on the length of his own life, there was practically no stopping Steinbrenner from swooping in on the rebound and getting A-Rod. I say “practically” because there was not a 100-percent likelihood this would happen, until our friend Aaron Boone tore his ACL playing basketball. Right then and there, it was a done deal. That was it. The Yankees needed a third baseman, they could one-up the Red Sox in a way they had only once done before, Steinbrenner could calm down for a day and the revolving door of Yankee players could keep on spinning, taking with it a player who failed the Yankees during the 2003 postseason (Soriano). That is the Steinbrenner way, and you knew it had to happen. It was, for all intents and purposes, already done.

There is a bright side, though. Luckily for everyone else in the league, the Yankees are keeping Derek Jeter at shortstop and moving A-Rod, one of the best defensive shortstops in the league, who is miles ahead of Jeter, to third base. It is a big time misuse of resources — Jeter is not just bad at short, but statistically one of the worst in terms of his range and the effect he has on the game defensively. And no longer will A-Rod’s legacy include the accolade of “greatest shortstop ever,” which will please the legions of fans A-Rod has just turned into his enemies. Perhaps he will be the face of the Yankees, but he is also now the face of baseball’s biggest problem. So in April, when you see Bronson Arroyo plunk A-Rod in the late innings of a blowout, and fans at Fenway are yelling with glee, don’t be surprised. For three years now, A-Rod has had it coming. Assistant sports editor Eric Perlmutter ’06 and his enormous contract were acquired by The Herald when his high school felt it could not be competitive while paying him.

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The race for the Ivy League title has now become a four-team race, as Yale fell to Harvard on Saturday night. Princeton (7-1) sits in first place, following a weekend sweep of Cornell and Columbia universities, after a midweek loss to the Quakers. Demonstrating the evenness of the league, Princeton needed overtime to knock off the Lions on Saturday. The Bears have a halfgame lead over Penn (5-2) for second place, while Cornell sits alone in fourth at 5-3, as the team is in the midst of a three-game skid. The Bears will now have a chance to capture a share of first place this weekend, when it heads to Penn and Princeton. While a sweep will guarantee the team at least a first place tie, two losses will make a NCAA bid nearly impossible.

on a joint project with RISD that revolves around the recent removal of the diseased elm tree “Elmo” from its home outside the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies. Mark Domino, a graduate assistant working closely with students on the “Elm tree project,” described it as merging disciplines from art to philosophy around the image and metaphor of the felled tree. The desire to “merge the boundaries” between art forms and support cross-disciplinary initiatives is a particular goal of CAC, Fishman said. Even as the council “advocates the growth of individual art departments and entities,” it also aims to “foster a sense of community and interrelationship” between disciplines, he said.

But other Minden residents disagreed. Shara Hegde ’05 lives in room 607, directly below the pipe break. Hegde said she was sitting at her computer when one of her friends messaged her, telling her a pipe had exploded on the seventh floor. At that moment, water started pouring down her closet, onto her mattress and from the ceiling of her bathroom, she said. Apart from clothes and sheets, Hegde said she was able to clear most from items from her room before they were damaged. Hegde said she was “angry” that there was no immediate response from the University addressing the issue. Nickel said before the University can respond to a call, it needs a “final report on the damages.” “The (University’s) first priority is to make repairs and restore water services,” he said. But Molee Leng ’05, of Minden 507, said she thinks the University owes Minden residents more. “I think the University should clean the carpets and replace everything that can’t be used,” she said. “I don’t think I’ll be able to use my mattress again.”

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04 is a former sports editor and covers the men’s basketball team. He can be reached at jtroy@browndailyherald.com.

Ice hockey Koo continued from page 1 lenged by international labor groups who are “impressed by Korean workers’ fresh militancy and their ability to pose staunch opposition to neoliberalists,” Koo said. Now, Korea is seen as a leader in the international movement against neoliberal globalization, he added. Koo said this scale of labor militancy and mass unionization was virtually unknown in Korea three decades ago. Although working conditions were poor during Korea’s rapid industrialization, several incidents have made the labor movement what it is today, Koo said. Inhumane conditions in factories were a way of life during Korea’s rapid growth. Korean workers had “the distinction of the longest work week in the world until a couple of years ago,” Koo said. During the 1960s and 1970s, “workers did not speak the language of exploitation” and did not have a clear concept of their rights, Koo said. This changed in 1970, when Chun Tae-Il, a worker in a small garment factory, immolated himself during a street protest against the injustice he and his fellow workers received. “While his body was engulfed in flames, he was holding a booklet of labor standards laws in his hand, and he was shouting, ‘We are not machines — let us rest on Sundays, abide by the labor standard laws, don’t exploit workers,’” Koo said. Chun’s protest became a powerful symbol for the working class’s call for humane treatment and the recognition of workers’ constitutional rights, Koo said. The self-immolation also drew the attention of the international community and Korean intellectuals to the dark side of South Korea’s economic growth. By the 1980s, Korean churches began to help women workers

with a grassroots movement to support humane working conditions. Korean students later took over the role of the church, becoming “the most active and politicized segment in South Korea,” Koo said. During this decade, 3,000 to 4,000 students left their universities to go work in factories and help workers recognize their rights and organize unions, Koo said. Labor militancy reached new heights in 1987, when the government was unable to control strikers who were demanding democratic reforms. During the next three months, “the whole country was engulfed by an unprecedented level of labor unrest. The number of labor disputes that occurred during this short period exceeded the total number of disputes that occurred during the past two decades of rapid industrialization,” Koo said. This form of militancy and high levels of union organization continued to characterize the labor movement. Koo said the South Korean government has played a large part in creating this militancy by using crude and repressive methods to reform the labor movement and by punishing workers for organizing unions. The Korean state’s recent institution of legal frameworks for resolving labor problems has the potential to promote more mature industrial relations and help repair the legacy of past labor reform neglect, Koo said. Koo’s speech, entitled “Work, Culture, and Class Identity in Korea,” was the fifth annual Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies. The series was designed to promote understanding between East Asia and the United States. Herald staff writer Amy Ruddle ’06 can be reached at aruddle@browndailyherald.com.

continued from page 8 Nathan Marsters was on top of his game, stopping 12 shots in the first frame and 30 in the game for the shutout. After a scoreless first, the Engineers got on the board 11 minutes into the second period. RPI captain Scott Basiuk fired a slap shot through traffic from the center point that found its way into the goal. The Engineers quickly took Brown out of the game, scoring 41 seconds into the third period on a wrist shot by Kirk McDonald from the left face-off circle. It looked like the Bears might get on the scoreboard with a power play midway through the third, but the play backfired when McDonald blocked a shot attempt, raced down ice on a twoon-one and dished the puck to Ben Barr, who tapped his seventh goal of the season past Danis for the shorthanded score. To make matters worse, RPI scored its fourth and final goal a minute later. “I’m at a loss for words,” Grillo said after Saturday’s loss. “Both nights we came out hard in the first period, and both nights we were flat in the second. We went from playing some real good hockey last weekend to playing some pretty average hockey this weekend.” “This weekend needs to be a learning experience,” Ford said. “But we need to move on. We’re still in the driver’s seat with first place in the ECAC.” Brown remains two points ahead of Colgate University as it heads into next weekend’s games on the road against St. Lawrence and Clarkson universities. The Bears will come home to finish the regular season, hosting Dartmouth College and the University of Vermont. Hobey Baker Award-hopeful Danis had a season-high 42 saves on Friday night and 30 saves on Saturday, stopping an impressive 72 of 78 shots faced this weekend. Grillo said the

Herald staff writer Gabriella Doob ’07 can be reached at gdoob@browndailyherald.com.

goalie’s play was not the reason for the team’s disappointing results. “I don’t think you can put anything on Yann. We didn’t do much to help him,” he said. “In my mind he is still the best goaltender in the country by far.” Danis is two games shy of breaking the Brown record for career wins as a goaltender, currently held at 43 wins, by Kevin McCabe ’77.

Herald staff writer Monique Meneses ‘05 is The Herald’s features editor. She can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

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Artistic enrichment With RISD down the Hill and music, theater and visual art departments of our own, it’s clear that Brown is positioned in the midst of a bustling art scene. Tour guides and college guidebooks tout Brown as the “creative Ivy,” and it’s a reputation that draws some to the campus. Indeed, Brown students are artsy, independent and creative, and the University does its best to nurture those qualities in some students. But while the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment aim to facilitate independent thinking and creativity in the traditional academic classroom, financial support for the creative arts is conspicuously absent. Professor of Visual Art Richard Fishman, chairman of the Creative Arts Council, listed for The Herald what Brown needs to continue to be a viable center of creative activity. As the CAC has prepared its list, President Ruth Simmons has articulated hers, but somehow the arts haven’t made it on. There is no mention in the initiatives of the creative arts space the CAC has proposed, and requests for a large performing space capable of holding a sizeable audience have not been directly addressed. On a smaller scale, students have trouble finding music practice rooms at peak times, and reserving studio space in List Art Building is difficult and must be done far in advance. Brown has directed some funds toward the arts in recent years, renovating the home of Production Workshop and creating a multimedia lab for the Department of Modern Culture and Media. However, there are other components of the arts — especially traditional visual art and music — that are neglected. This serious omission could threaten Brown’s rightful reputation as the “creative Ivy.” It’s relieving to see that private ventures such as the CAC are stepping up where Brown can’t to support the arts. But as it commits to sweeping reforms of the academic and campus life of the University, Brown should ensure that private groups do not have to bear this burden. When the next incarnation of the initiatives arrives in our mailboxes, we hope to see concrete steps Brown plans to take to preserve the role of the arts at the University.

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LETTERS Buttu should stop wailing about the wall To the Editor: Legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team Diana Buttu argues that Palestinian violence cannot end until Israel withdraws from the occupied territories (“Advisor to Palestinian government says end of occupation will stop violence,” Feb. 12). Yet Israel has repeatedly offered to return the great majority of the land it conquered amidst a war launched against it from those very territories simply in return for peace, only to encounter Palestinian rejections of these offers as “not good enough.” Buttu does not mention the myriad statements by the Palestinian leadership that an Israeli withdrawal will be used as a springboard for the annihi-

lation of the Jewish State. Israel is asked by its assailants to withdraw to the borders from which it was attacked. When it refuses to return a small portion of the land essential to protect it from future attacks (in exchange for which it offers an equal amount of land elsewhere), or when it builds a wall to protect its population from repeated, indiscriminate massacres of its civilians, these are used as yet more excuses to attack it. Buttu asserts that the wall Israel is building to keep out Palestinian terrorists is a roadblock to peace. I would think that terrorist attacks themselves, not efforts to thwart them, would merit that criticism. Joshua Samson Marcus ‘04 Feb. 12

In defense of Professor Hazeltine To the Editor:

To the Editor:

Professor Barrett Hazeltine should not be criticized for bastardizing the Brown curriculum. He is simply an intermediary who facilitates an opportunity for students to take advantage of the curriculum the administration is supposed to support. Brown professors do not need to be babysitters, which is something Hazeltine understands. If professors feel the need to execute authority and limit the potential of the most ambitious and proven students in the world, then they don’t deserve the privilege of teaching at Brown and should consider a position as a warden in one of our country’s maximum security prisons.

If one were to survey a random selection of Brown alumni and ask them which professor had the biggest affect on their life or career, there is no doubt that Barrett Hazeltine would top that list. Why? Because he offers that which few professors at Brown — or elsewhere — are able to: an infectious enthusiasm aimed at promoting learning in a variety of subject areas. Professor Hazeltine’s love for Brown and his students is unrivalled. I took several classes with Professor Hazeltine while at Brown, including an independent study. There is no doubt in my mind that those course selections were some of the most important I made and have served me all too well since graduating. Most alumni would agree. A decision to uproot Professor Hazeltine’s legacy by limiting how he can teach is a disservice to current students and an insult to his former students and dearest friends. Brown should think long and hard before instituting such restrictions. Ira Magaziner would agree.

Chase Hogoboom ’03 Feb. 13

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OPINIONS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2004 · PAGE 7

CHRIS MCAULIFFE

Entitlements for all? Less than two weeks ago, a column by Ellen Hunter (“The Real Race Candidate,” Feb. 4) ran in this space, declaring that the true perpetrators of the race card in American politics are Republicans, as illustrated by George Bush’s subtle appeals to the latent racism of white southern voters. Indeed, there is an undeniable correlation between race and party identification, although to blame this solely on right-wing scare tactics strikes me as facile. The sad fact is that presidential politics in this day and age are infused with an obsession toward parceling out as many race, sex, age and class-defined voting blocs as possible, then proceeding to frighten and pander toward these respective groups with little concern for the truth. This sort of campaigning is very good for politicians, though not so good for the American people. Conservatives, an increasingly rare breed these days, believe that policy should be enacted in accordance with constitutional principles. The “general welfare clause,” invoked by the left so often in support of faddish social programs, was in fact intended to deny this result. Rather than excusing massive entitlement programs designed to buy off certain interest groups — minorities, seniors, the poor — this clause was originally meant to prevent policies not designed to promote the “general welfare” of the entire population. However, the temptation to employ a divide-and-conquer strategy on the American electorate is perhaps too powerful for most politicians to resist. Recent “conservative” presidents, with the notable exception of Ronald Reagan, have all too easily demonstrated their willingness to trump law with politics. And why should they not? For decades, Republicans have made halfhearted attempts to slow the rate of growth of federal entitlements, only to be savaged by progressives for “abandoning” one or another defenseless constituency. George Bush has learned his lesson: it pays off handsomely at the polls when one is “compassionate,” as demonstrated through the issuance of well-intentioned but ineffective group benefits. Thus, he unflinchingly calls himself a “conservative” while enacting the largest and (potentially) most economically devastating entitlement program since the days of Richard Nixon. Such sentimentalized group-benefit policies extend far beyond

Both political parties know how to play favorites. Bush’s funding of prescription drugs for seniors. The administration’s recently-repealed steel tariffs would have exacted a terrible toll on the greater economy, but very well may have won Bush the backing of bluecollar workers in the Midwest. Similarly, the Bush administration is responsible for a titanic farm bill, including the likes of garbanzo bean subsidies the Newt Gingrichera Congress eliminated 10 years before. The motivation behind these types of programs is obvious: the farmers are forever indebted to the president, while he gambles that the rest of us won’t even notice. Some politicians take this strategy even further by claiming that those who oppose their pet projects are uncaring or possibly even personally biased against the recipients of such aid. This least-common-denominator approach to identity politics lends itself naturally to the playing of the race card, on both sides of the political spectrum. Every idiotic comment Trent Lott utters on the subject of race only further motivates Bush to prove he is “compassionate.” Hence, when the issue of affirmative action came before the Supreme Court, the administration lapsed into wishy-washy “diversity” language, forgoing an opportunity to take a principled stance against racial preferences for the good of the entire country. Bush’s insipid attack on quotas was therefore only a lame attempt to appease conservatives by assailing the functional equivalent of a program he supports, not a coded appeal to white racists. Democrats, as always, continue to break new ground in this race to carve up and apportion the American electorate. After conducting a filthy smear campaign against Bush’s judicial nominees, depicting them as dangerous, bigoted extremists, Democrats found themselves on the defensive when the president appointed the distinguished Charles Pickering to the federal bench while Congress was in recess. Two of the more odious Democratic front-runners (Wesley Clark and Howard Dean) wasted no time in condemning the president for appointing a “racist” judge. They were talking about the same Charles Pickering who spent his career fighting the Klan in the south when Republicans (conservatives, back then) were supporting civil rights legislation in greater numbers than Democrats. The left has succeeded in turning Republicans from true conservatives into eunnuchs, scared to death of being labeled as “insensitive” or “uncaring” and settling for “compassionate.” The Democrats have played the “identity” card so expertly as to make the other party appear guiltier. But make no mistake; they’re both guilty. Chris McAuliffe ’05 is a political science concentrator.

A clone of Doug’s own GUEST COLUMN BY DOUG FRETTY

PARIS — Forget the growing shadow of whitecollar outsourcing. Forget the scary prospect of a long-term “jobless recovery,” and the tasteless joke running around Macintosh to “Think India.” You see, there’s a new bogeyman on the tech street, in the form of the remarkable cloning experiment by South Korean genetic engineer Woo Suk Hwang. Hwang’s successful cloning of a human stem cell line marks a new frontier in gene therapy. It also indicates just how far behind American genetic research has fallen in the past three years. Out of 30 human blastocysts (embryonic clusters of about 125 cells), the Seoul lab cloned a line that went on to produce muscle, bone and other tissue. According to the scientific community, such “polypotent” stem cell cultures could eventually produce heart, lung, brain and nervous tissue, possibly reversing the effects of paralysis, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and Parkinson’s. This breakthrough happened in South Korea and not the United States because on Aug. 9, 2001, the Bush administration blocked all federal funding of the creation of new stem cell lines. Bush ignored protests from the National Institutes of Health that the private sector could not adequately fund this important field of research. The protests from the NIH were prophetic: because venture capitalism favors industries that become profitable quickly, most companies avoided stem cells. Of those that did invest, most ran out of money after a few years. Even pioneer companies such as Scotland’s PPC Therapeutics, which cloned the sheep named “Dolly,” are floundering. PPC and all its assets will be sold off this year. If things continue under the current federal stranglehold, our best-case scenario is a worldwide genetic sporting tournament in which Americans are spectators. The worst-case scenario is a marked brain drain from the American scientific community. This isn’t like outsourcing, whereby jobs disappear but continue to benefit U.S. companies. Once a Ph.D. is gone, it’s gone.

Oh, the places those Ph.D.s will go! Already China, England and Israel are developing sophisticated cloning research programs. Singapore is surging ahead with a $287 million biotech lab called — get this — “Biopolis.” And the Bush administration is only making matters worse. Instead of proposing a ban against human cloning, the President’s Council on Bioethics has asked Congress to ban all forms of cloning, an approach that is simply alarmist.

It looks like Jeb is as close to a clone as we’ll get. It is clear that council Chairman Leon Kass and President Bush see the stem cell debate as a cultural war between the reverent and the diabolic. Banning cloning and shunting stem cell advancement is simply another plank in the president’s Theocracy Project, the same crusade promoting an unprecedented consitutional affront called the Federal Marriage Amendment. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. California is proving a small haven for stem cell scientists, who currently enjoy large endowments at Stanford University and the University of California at San Francisco. In addition, the California ballot this November will include a proposition for $3 billion in stem cell grants for the state’s universities. If passed, it will represent a bold American effort to stay competitive in the worldwide genetic tournament. Game faces on, Cali voters: if the past is precedent, there’s no doubt you’ll make the right choice. Doug Fretty ’05 is spending a semester in Paris, where he is known to the locals as “Mr. (Expletive) Wisconsin.”

Dividing the waters GUEST COLUMN BY PROFESSOR JEFF ALBERT

As Israel continues construction of its separation barrier in the West Bank, and the White House hints it may support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral actions to disassociate from the Palestinians, critics are quick (and correct) to be angered by new limits on Palestinian movement and the apparent appropriation of significant amounts of Palestinian territory. The International Court of Justice in the Hague will soon host hearings on the legality of this separation, and while Israel will not officially participate, at least one Israeli non-governmental organization will appear outside the Court with the remnants of a bus blown up by Hamas terrorists, in order to argue that the Israeli measures constitute appropriate and necessary policy to protect the lives of Israeli civilians. What is sometimes forgotten is that Israel and Palestine compete not only over land but over water. Much of the eastern Mediterranean is arid or semi-arid, and over the past several decades the combined populations of Israel and Palestine (as well as Jordan, which is hydrologically linked) have grown so large that human freshwater needs have pushed up against the limits on freshwater availability in the region. Nearly all of the water in this landscape is shared water. That is, it overwhelmingly occurs in the form of rivers and aquifers that cross geopolitical boundaries. Israel controls most of this water, Jordan somewhat less and Palestine by far the least, on both absolute and per-capita bases. The Israelis and Jordanians struck a rather precarious water agreement in their 1994 peace treaty, but did so largely by pretending the Palestinians did not exist. Meanwhile, it is safe to

assume that no resolution of the PalestinianIsraeli conflict will be achieved without an agreement on water. That agreement today seems as remote a possibility as ever. What is so unfortunate about the current violence is that the most efficient way to deal with the water crisis is to consider the hydrologic system as a unitary whole, rather than to separate the resource on a basis that is largely a function of the distribution of military might. In the nottoo-distant future, significant volumes of new freshwater supply will need to be produced in order to support human needs. This can occur in a number of ways, including importing water from wetter regions (which has already begun on a small scale with an Israeli contract to buy Turkish river flows and convey them to Israel via retrofitted oil tankers) and desalinating the Mediterranean, among others. But such measures are expensive, and by refusing to politically engage, the Israelis and Palestinians are also refusing American, European and Japanese foreign aid reservoirs that could help defray these new costs. Perhaps as the crisis deepens and human suffering from freshwater scarcity becomes intolerable, Israelis and Palestinians will finally realize they share a common environmental challenge that transcends their political and land disputes. My hope is that they will not wait until then. Jeff Albert is a lecturer in geological sciences and environmental studies. He is a former Israeli water official and will appear as part of the panel “A Background on the Middle East Water Resource Conflict” Tuesday.

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SPORTS MONDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2004 · PAGE 8

Blowout wins at Harvard and Dartmouth put men’s hoops in second in Ivies BY JOSHUA TROY

Nick Neely / Herald

Chris Swon ’05 scored a goal in Friday’s 2-2 tie against Union College at home.The following night Brown fell to visiting Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 4-0.

Late goals lead to tie, loss at Meehan for m. ice hockey BY JAMES FELDMAN

The men’s hockey team, ranked 10th in the nation, suffered two setbacks this weekend, tying Union College Friday night and losing to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute the following evening. Brown appeared to be in control of Friday night’s contest until the final minutes. The Bears jumped to a 1-0 lead in the first period when Captain Scott Ford ’04 picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and scored on Union goalie Kris Mayotte. Brown added to its lead five minutes into the third period, when Cory Caouette ’06 beat a Union defenseman to a loose puck and fed a perfect pass to Chris Swon ’05. Swon corralled the puck and fired a wrist shot to put Brown up 2-0. “(Caouette) made the play happen, I was just there to finish it,” Swon said. The Dutchmen did not get on the scoreboard until the final two minutes, 26 seconds of the game. Union’s Jason Visser was able to knock a third rebound past goalie Yann Danis ’04 after a scramble in front of the net. One minute, 20 seconds later, Union defenseman Matt Vagvolgyi evened the score, firing a wrist shot from the point that beat a screened Danis on the blocker side. While Union deserves credit for its per-

Weekend Sports Results Friday, Feb. 13 Men’s Ice Hockey – Brown 2, Union 2 Women’s Basketball – Harvard 70, Brown 64 Wrestling – Columbia 21, Brown 19 Men’s Basketball – Brown 91, Harvard 67

Saturday, Feb. 14 Men’s Tennis – Brown 7, Rutgers 0; Brown 7, URI 0 Women’s Ice Hockey – Harvard 5, Brown 2 Women’s Basketball – Brown 78, Dartmouth 68 Men’s Ice Hockey – RPI 4, Brown 0 Skiing – Second place, MacConnell Division Men’s Swimming and Diving – Cornell 128, Brown 113 Wrestling – Cornell 33, Brown 3 Men’s Basketball – Brown 84, Dartmouth 64 Women’s Water Polo – Brown 14, Wagner 2; Michigan 9, Brown 4

Sunday, Feb. 15 Gymnastics – Brown 190.375, Springfield 183.425 Women’s Ice Hockey – Harvard 4, Brown 3 (OT) Women’s Water Polo – Brown 11, Marist 3; Brown 8, George Washington 3

severance, Brown Head Coach Roger Grillo said he was disappointed with his team’s performance in the final period. “I feel like we had a lot of chances to put the game away,” said Grillo. “We’re better then that, and we gave up two bad goals.” “I think that tonight’s game was pretty evident of what happens when you don’t play 60 minutes of hockey,” Ford said. “They came out in the second and third periods and they worked hard and they wanted to get that win, and we just packed it in.” Brown came out with renewed vigor in the first period of Saturday’s game against RPI, but once again, the effort didn’t last. RPI exploded for three third-period goals to secure a 4-0 victory over the Bears, ending Brown’s six-game streak. The Bears had several good scoring chances in the first period, but RPI goalie see ICE HOCKEY, page 5

To have a shot at winning an Ivy League championship in men’s basketball, a team cannot afford to lose league games to lesser opponents. Yet, with the parity in the conference, this is easier said than done. With the Bears hitting the road to face Harvard University and Dartmouth College, which had two wins between them entering the weekend, the team knew it had to come away with a sweep. So when the buzzer sounded on Saturday night, giving Brown (10-11, 6-2 Ivy) its second straight win by at least 20 points, the Bears had done what they needed to do. Trailing by one with 15:01 to play in the first half against Harvard (2-6, 3-18) Friday, the Bears put together an 11-0 run to take a 18-10 lead and never looked back. In the stretch, reigning Ivy League Player of the Week Patrick Powers ’04 and Jason Forte ’05 each drained three-pointers and Jamie Kilburn ’04 added two baskets. Over the rest of the half, Brown opened up leads as large as 16 but no smaller than six. Bruno was supported by a large group of traveling fans, including parents, alumni and students. For the half, Powers led the team with 15 points, making five three pointers. Kilburn added 12 points on five of five shooting, while Forte notched nine points. Mike Martin ’04 led the team with five assists and Luke Ruscoe ’06 had four assists, but it was point guard Forte who played the pivotal role in leading the team’s ball movement. The Crimson was led by Matt Stehle, who had 10 points, the team’s lone player in double figures. “(Powers) came out looking for his shot early on and got a few three-pointers to fall,” said Head Coach Glenn Miller. “It is not too often that I will tell Pat that he is taking a bad shot.” In the second half, it was more of the same. Forte led the team with 14 secondhalf points and five assists. His quickness and dribbling skills created opportunities for teammates, and all five starters reached double figures for the first time in league play. After leading by as many as 25, Brown closed out the game with a basket by P.J. Flaherty ’07 basket and a 91-67 win. Forte

finished with a game-high 25, with Kilburn and Powers adding 20 and 17, respectively. Martin and Ruscoe each finished with 10 apiece. Aside from Forte, all of the starters finished with at least five rebounds. “We worked all week on our patience on offense,” Miller said. “We are at our best when we are willing to make multiple passes on a possession, and tonight we did that.” Stehle was Harvard’s leading scorer with 18 points and tied for the team lead with seven rebounds. Kevin Rogus added 12 points and Michael Beal added 10. On Saturday, the team’s seniors put their undefeated record against Dartmouth on the line. The game was another test for the three seniors (Power, Martin and Kilburn), and they set a new Brown record for wins in a career — 58. With the stage set for a trap game, and the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University on the horizon for next weekend, the team came out of the gate sluggish despite promises the night before not to look past the struggling Big Green. “If we get beat by Dartmouth, I’d like to think it will be because they played better than us, not because we were unprepared,” Miller said following the Harvard game. With a little over four minutes to play in the first half, the Bears trailed 38-30. Nevertheless, with a potential title on the line, the team recovered and put together a 13-0 run to close out the half. Forte, Martin and Powers each drilled shots from beyond the arc to give Brown a 43-38 lead at the midway point. For most of the second half, the Bears controlled the game, but the Big Green pulled within eight at 65-58. But down the stretch, Bruno proved to be too much and picked up an 84-64 victory. Once again, Forte led the team, scoring 23 points and dishing out a team-high five assists. Powers finished with a double-double with 22 points and 12 rebounds. Martin chipped in with 18 points and four steals, with Kilburn adding 17 points and six boards. Dartmouth was led by Steve Callahan, who scored 15 points. see BASKETBALL, page 5

A-Rod to the Yankees: it had to happen We should have seen this coming. Ever since Alex Rodriguez signed his 10-year, $252-million deal back in December of 2000, the phrase “A-Rod is a New York Yankee” was likely to be ERIC PERLMUTTER uttered. Anyone PERL MUTTERS who knows anything at all about markets, baseball, and George Steinbrenner could have predicted it might come to fruition. So when this weekend brought the trade talks in which A-Rod and an obnoxious sum of money went to the Yankees in exchange for Alfonso Soriano and a player to be named later, I shouldn’t have been surprised. Disappointed in humanity? I think so. Angry? Definitely. But surprised? No way — it was almost like déjà vu, only it had never happened before. We knew, back in 2000 when A-Rod signed with the Texas Rangers, that there was absolutely no way in Grady Little that he was going to stay with them for 10

years. He put the team in a financial bind, the pitching just wasn’t there and 10 years is too long a stay for an athlete like A-Rod who wants to win. Especially in this day and age, where fidelity to one’s team is a laughable concept, his departure was all but certain — it was only a matter of when and where. We also knew that 2000 was the time of peak value of player contracts. $25 million a year? That’s just gross. I remember thinking that day, “This man is going to kill baseball.” (More on this in a moment.) So combine the fact that A-Rod was going somewhere, sometime, with the fact that the market was headed for a major correction and we have only a handful of teams that could afford to take on his salary: both New York teams, the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers. There are other rich teams, but after having had three years sucked into the black hole in Texas, the “chances of winning” criterion was probably highest

on his list, and the Orioles, for example, don’t win. Fast forward to December of 2003. The time had come for A-Rod’s midlife crisis, and Boston was his oasis. We were all gripped by the trade talks — A-Rod to Boston, Manny Ramirez to Texas, and Magglio Ordonez and Nomar Garciaparra switching teams. Yet many of us Red Sox fans were hoping it wouldn’t get done. We didn’t want the Red Sox to be “the team that killed baseball.” As it turned out, of course, the trade fell through, mainly due to money: the Red Sox didn’t want to take on so much, and the players’ union wouldn’t allow Rodriguez’s contract to be restructured so that he cost less. We now shift to Act Two, in which all hell breaks loose and our supporting actor, George Steinbrenner, goes nuts. After having lost the World Series in 2003, he was out to avenge. He was also older, see A-ROD, page 5