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Haitian student feels impact of advancing rebellion

BY ZACH BARTER

With humanitarian aid groups warning of a potential bloodbath, Haitian rebels converged on the capital Thursday in preparation for a final assault to remove President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power.

But for Nastassia Larsen ’06, Haiti is more than just a name in the headlines — it is the place she has called home for most of her life.

Larsen, who was born in Queens, N.Y., moved to Port-au-Prince along with her Haitian-born mother and grandmother at age 5. She left the country during a period of political unrest in 1994 but returned two years later, after the turmoil had subsided and Aristide had consolidated his hold on power.

“It’s sad for me to see all the people who are suffering,” Larsen said. “It’s devastating that everything is being so destabilized.”

But Larsen, who traveled home over winter break, said she feels confident that her family is safe. Larsen communicates with her family via e-mail on a daily basis.

“I just try to keep myself informed,” she said. “I’m not really a worrier.”

The situation has prevented her 9year-old half-brother from attending school in recent weeks. Although her family would prefer to return to the United States, Larsen said it would be difficult for them to secure a flight out.

The rebels, led by a loose coalition of former military and police officials, are seeking the ouster of Aristide, the country’s leader since 1994. Aristide was first elected in 1990 but was overthrown in a military coup a year later.

A U.S. intervention force reinstalled Aristide in 1994, but support for him has steadily declined in recent years.

The international community dis-

Meghan Cohen / Herald

Students, members of the Weiner family and other members of and Hillel communities attended the dedication of the Brown Hillel’s new Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center . Mayor David Cicilline ‘83 and President Ruth Simmons were also present.

New Hillel building celebrated in dedication ceremony

BY KIRA LESLEY

Rabbi Rich Kirschen opened Thursday’s dedication ceremony for Brown Hillel’s new Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center with a passage from the Torah that described the Jews building the Tabernacle. Kirschen likened the building of the Tabernacle to the long process of planning and building the Weiner Center.

After the Tabernacle was completed, it was as if one person had built it because everyone involved had worked together, he said. “The person who made the ark was no more important than the person who made the tent pegs,” he said.

Kirschen expressed his hope that,

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like the Tabernacle, the Weiner Center will be a “space that gives meaning to a community.”

Kirschen was joined by President Ruth Simmons, who said the dedication was a truly “extraordinary moment.” Simmons said she feels the center will do much to help Hillel further realize its core teachings — bringing together students to learn about Jewish tradition, promoting peace, loving humanity and serving the community.

Mayor David Cicilline ’83 echoed Simmons’ sentiments, saying that the Center had “gracefully integrated itself

Elena Lesley ’04 will be spending the next year living and working in Asia as one of 15 Luce Scholars.

Lesley, a former editor-in-chief of The Herald, plans to work as a reporter at an English language newspaper, ideally in Cambodia, Bangkok or Hong Kong, she said.

Lesley received word on Tuesday that she was awarded the fellowship.

In addition to her work at The Herald, Lesley, a political science con-

centrator from Portland, Ore., sings in the chorus, volunteers in the acute care unit at Butler Hospital and is writing a senior thesis about the politicization of methamphetamine and crack cocaine.

She completed an internship at the Portland Oregonian this past summer, and she will be an intern this summer at the Sacramento Bee. The Luce Scholars Program provides stipends and internships for Americans up to the age of 29 who do not have extensive experience in or knowledge

of Asian countries.

The program looks for applicants who have “a clearly defined career interest with evidence of potential for professional accomplishment,” according to the Henry Luce Foundation Web site.

“I have a pretty set career path,” Lesley said. “I knew pretty early on that I wanted to do journalism.”

Lesley does not speak any Asian lansee LESLEY, page 6

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I N S I D E F R I D AY, F E B RUA RY 2 7 , 2 0 0 4 Blue Room exhibit features work of disadvantaged local high school students arts & culture, page 3

Shopping period causes shortage of teaching assistants in some classes campus news, page 5

Speakers say part of the history of civil rights movement is in personal experiences campus news, page 5

BY KRISTA HACHEY

When congressional candidate Bobby Jindal ’92, a Republican from Louisiana, first arrived at Brown as an undergraduate in 1988, he came to a campus lacking an official student political forum for his conservative views. Since founding the College Republicans during that presidential election year, Jindal has seen political reality from higher vantage points and experienced it first-hand.

Speaking in Salomon 001 to a student audience Thursday afternoon, Jindal reflected on his campaign for the position of Louisiana governor last February, which he lost in a close battle to the leading moderate Democrat, former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco.

Jindal said Louisiana was “no normal state when it comes to partisan politics,” with two-thirds of its voters identifying as Democrats.

His gubernatorial pursuits were spurred on by the fact that “Louisiana was the only state in the South that was losing population,” Jindal said.

“My choice to enter the race was shaped largely by economic issues,” he

Lesley ’04 awarded Luce Scholarship

BY MERYL ROTHSTEIN

Jindal ’92 speaks about lessons he learned as La. gubernatorial candidate

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Sarah Bowman ’05 says public exploration of sexuality is not pornographic column, page 11

W. skiing has yet another successful weekend, looks ahead to next challenge sports, page 12

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2004 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

"Machinal" leaves audience cold and disjointed, but affected

BY DANIELLE CERNY

Sophie Treadwell’s “Machinal” resembles a nightmarish modern depiction of the feminine mystique.

The production features a nameless woman forced to live a prescribed, loveless life as though she were nothing more than a machine — hence the title. Yet the ubiquitous theme of women squeezing into molds that don’t quite fit takes on a new form itself in this modern play.

Episodes — the play’s term for the traditional scene — alternate between dramatic, drawn-out entrances and intentionally exaggerated body motions carried out as though the play is stuck in fast forward. The strange dichotomy mirrors the chaos of the world that the play attempts to capture.

The strong cast that comprises this Senior Director’s Showcase rotates through the different characters of the play, regardless of the gender of the actor or character. What results is a somewhat disjointed story of a female, known only as “Young Woman,” who is swept away by the trend of marriage and children. Thus she finds herself on the verge of drowning in a life she never wanted.

The male figures in the play, though not always acted by males, constantly stroke their ties — the symbol of their power and egos. They also speak at, not to, the female characters. Thus the men and women rarely face each other when conversing, and embraces and kisses are exchanged between characters standing on opposite sides of the stage, far beyond each other’s reach. see MACHINAL, page 8

AS220 exhibit displays photos produced in University darkrooms

BY STEFAN TALMAN

“Photographic Memory,” the work of AS220’s Broad Street Studio Program now being displayed in the Blue Room Gallery, contains the work of no Brown students.

The Broad Street Studio program contains the photographic work of around 10 disadvantaged high school students from the greater Providence area.

The photographs displayed were produced in the Faunce House and Sarah Doyle Women’s Center darkrooms, using film and chemicals supplied externally.

When AS220’s basement darkrooms flooded, the program was unable to continue.

The Brown Photo Club came to the rescue, allowing the program’s participants to use its darkrooms two to three times a week. Sherri Newton, a high-school junior at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, has worked in the program for over two years and wants to continue with photography in college.

“It’s an opportunity for young people to express themselves,” she said.

“Photographic Memory” enters the Blue Room after an exhibit of Brown students’ artwork, which has already brightened the walls of public spaces thanks to the Brown Student Art Forum.

The BSAF was started by Lucas Foglia ’05, Elizabeth Klein ’05 and Leksi Weldon-Linne ’05 in the spring of 2002 and is now run by Jessica Gordon ’06. The BSAF serves as a middleman between student artists and administrators to provide public forums for the display of student artwork.

The introduction of student shows in the Blue Room is the BSAF’s most visible and central achievement: student work now rotates through one of the most heavily

trafficked spaces on campus.

Recently granted Category III status by the Undergraduate Council of Students, BSAF now has funding and plans to expand its displays to the VerneyWoolley Dining Hall and the Gate.

Two years ago Brown offered two photography classes, for which students could use darkrooms in List Art Building. There were darkrooms in the old women’s center on Meeting Street and in Faunce, but equipment and space were inadequate, Foglia said.

Now, thanks to a grant from the Undergraduate Finance Board, Brown students have the facilities to make professional-quality photographs: darkrooms, studio lights, cameras — everything a student would need, as well as a photography e-mail list to build an artistic community around the new resources. This summer the Photo Club hopes to complete the final construction, renovating the Faunce darkroom — the end of a three-year project.

Any student interested in photography now has highquality facilities in the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and Faunce House in which to develop his or her work.

View “Photographic Memory” not simply as photos, but rather as a triumph of the Brown student artistic community — it is at once a reach into the Providence youth and artistic communities, a new public forum for student artwork and the presence of facilities for all students to develop artistically.

The Blue Room Gallery’s next show, “Tropical Reflections,” in collaboration with Caribbean Heritage Week, opens March 13.

Herald staff writer Stefan Talman ’05 can be reached at stalman@browndailyherald.com.

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Hillel

Simmons said the

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new center “pre-

into the city” and was incorporating the University’s rich diversity into the Providence community.

The event was well attended by both students and other members of the Brown and Hillel communities. Prior to the speakers, whose remarks were simulcast in two overflow areas, Hillel members and others chatted over finger foods and watched a photo montage depicting scenes from Hillel events and groups that use the center. Earlier in the day, walking tours around the large center offered a closer view of the restored historical buildings.

Preserving these buildings was a major priority during the process of constructing the new center, and many of the speakers commented on the success of incorporating the old buildings into the center.

Simmons said the new center “preserves the best of our history and integrates it seamlessly” with promise for the future.

For Michaella Matt ’05, getting involved with Hillel was the “turning point” of her Brown experience, she said in a speech at the dedication ceremony.

Matt said the sense of community Hillel offered helped her through the often tumultuous transition to college. At the ceremony, Matt spoke about the organization’s significance in her life and her hopes for Hillel and the new center.

“Walking into Hillel these

serves the best of our history and integrates it seamlessly” with promise for the future. past few weeks, I feel like I’m coming home,” Matt said.

Martin Granoff P’93, president of Brown Hillel, praised the project’s architect, Cornelis de Boer, for his vision. He described de Boer as a “devout Mormon” and said he thought it was “wonderful” that a Jewish center was designed by a Mormon. Hillel should foster diversity, and both the Hillel community and building should be open to different groups of people, Granoff said.

Granoff’s children, Michael and Gillian ’93, who knew Glenn and Darcy Weiner, also spoke at the dedication.

Michael Granoff described Glenn as “a natural leader” who made others want to follow him. Glenn projected a confidence without arrogance, as well as a compassionate and adventurous spirit, Michael said.

Darcy was creative, artistic and beautiful, Gillian Granoff said. She also knew the importance of giving back to the community and served as a volunteer and a mentor.

Glenn was preparing to

begin a job at a Wall Street company and Darcy was one week away from beginning a highly selective, cutting-edge art program at New York University when the two were killed in a plane crash 10 years ago.

The Weiner Center will keep Glenn and Darcy’s memories alive and active, Simmons said.

“Glenn and Darcy Weiner don’t belong to the past but are part of the future,” she said.

Yeshiva University President Richard Joel, who served as president of International Hillel for 14 years, emphasized the role the Center will play in helping Hillel honor the values of the past and incorporate them into the future.

One of the most important of these values, Joel said, is community. Joel commented that Abraham — as opposed to other Biblical patriarchs, such as Noah — is considered the father of Judaism partially because he valued communities highly. Joel pointed to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, in which Abraham argues with God and eventually convinces him not to destroy the cities if he can find 10 righteous men living in them.

This spirit of community is exactly what the Weiner Center is designed to encourage — according to Matt, Hillel members and friends strongly believe that Hillel’s new building will serve as “a space in which to grow and a center from which to reach out.”

Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

Haiti continued from page 1 tanced itself from Aristide following legislative elections in 2000 that were described as flawed by outside observers. In the years since, domestic opponents and human rights groups have leveled numerous allegations of intimidation and corruption against the government.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Barrymore Bogues, who currently teaches the course AF20: “Caribbean History and Society Since 1800,” said he was not surprised by the uprising.

“If you have a situation where the elites are upset with you and the masses have lost faith in you, then you have a recipe for political protest,” he said.

But Bogues questioned the opposition’s motives and legitimacy, describing them as “persons of a fairly dubious political past.”

If democracy is taken to mean only electoral support, Bogues said, then “the democratically elected government at this point in time is Aristide.”

Larsen said she has trouble sorting out the claims of the warring parties.

“I don’t know what is right and what isn’t right,” she said. “I don’t support (the government), but I don’t not support it.”

The crisis has drawn extensive attention from international media, but Bogues said he reads the news with a grain of salt.

“There has been a historical way in which Caribbean and

The rebels, led by a loose coalition of former military and police officials, are seeking the ouster of Aristide, the country’s leader since 1994.

Aristide was first elected in 1990 but was overthrown in a military coup a year later.

A U.S. intervention force reinstalled Aristide in 1994, but his support has steadily declined in recent years. black countries have been represented in the American media as countries that are ungovernable, out of control and so on,” he said. “But (that image) is not quite the reality I have seen and known with my own eyes.”

Herald staff writer Zach Barter ’06 edits the Campus Watch section. He can be reached at zbarter@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2004 · PAGE 5

Shopping period, limited funds leave some classes short on TAs

BY STEWART DEARING

convey their messages, which they agreed are part of the undocumented history of the civil rights movement.

Cobb told of his arrest in the 1960s at a restaurant in then-segregated Atlanta. At the time, he was drinking coffee and speaking with former Kenyan Vice President Oginga Odinga.

Cobb also spoke about accompanying Fannie Lou Hamer to a Mississippi courthouse the first time she attempted to vote. Popularly remembered as the woman who was “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” Hamer was the co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Brock, a staunch anti-apartheid activist in the 1980s and a board member of the Radical History Review, spoke fervently about the importance of the Pan-African solidarity movement, citing the Haitian Revolution in the late 18th century as a “Pan-African movement like no other before it.”

The revolution inspired an ideological current through which Pan-Africanism, internationalism and

The confusion of shopping period and the small size of Brown’s graduate school leads to difficulties in assigning graduate student teaching assistants to undergraduate courses, professors and administrators say.

Professors in areas such as anthropology, art history, chemistry, history and French complain that they cannot get the appropriate number of TAs assigned quickly enough to their courses. But shopping period also makes accurate TA assignment difficult, administrators and professors say.

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong said, “Enrollment is uneven at Brown, especially during shopping period.

It’s hard to know how many people are actually taking a course until two weeks into the semester when shopping period ends.” He said professors need to have an official count of how many students are in a class before they can get TAs assigned in their departments.

Amy Remensnyder, a professor and graduate advisor in the Department of History, pinpointed shopping period as the main difficulty in organizing TAs. “Shopping period is great for undergraduates, but it makes it difficult to plan room size and have a course start in the first week with proper TA assignments,” Remensnyder said.

She said eliminating shopping period would be too drastic a move, but that undergraduates at many other universities survive without any shopping period, so the Brown shopping period could at least be shortened.

“I hope when we computerize registration we will have a better system for managing smaller classes and numbers for TAs,” Armstrong said.

Computerized registration, slated for implementation in 2005, will give the University a way to cap each course’s enrollment and have numbered waiting lists for limited enrollment classes.

Still, Armstrong said shopping period is something that makes Brown special and that it is here to stay.

The Graduate School allots each department a certain number of graduate student TAs, which departments can divide among their courses at their discretion.

Karen Newman, dean of the Graduate School and a professor of comparative literature, said, “Departments make an educated guess as to what their numbers will be by looking at the pre-registration numbers as well as past enrollments for the course.”

Classes with enrollments exceeding department pre-

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Judy He / Herald

AfricaFocus Editor Bill Minter, Columbia College Professor Lisa Brock and writer and activist Charlie Cobb Jr. spoke Thursday during a lecture titled “Pan-Africanism, Internationalism and Civil Rights: Restoring Connections.”

Civil rights history not complete without narrative thread

BY MELANIE WOLFGANG

Pan-Africanism and the Civil Rights Movement have produced a wealth of cultural connections left undocumented by historians, three major civil rights activists told about a dozen students in a discussion Thursday.

The talk, “Pan-Africanism, Internationalism and Civil Rights: Restoring Connections,” featured Columbia College Professor Lisa Brock, writer and activist Charlie Cobb Jr., and AfricaFocus Editor Bill Minter.

Cobb, a senior reporter for the online newspaper AllAfrica.com, spoke about his experience as field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi in the 1960s. He said that the African Americans in the South who were usually spoken for “began to learn how to speak for themselves.”

Cobb stressed the importance of understanding the organizing tradition that was at the heart of the civil rights movement. He said it is crucial for students to realize that the movement itself “has always been related to Africans” and is not exclusively a product of the 1960s.

The speakers relied on anecdotes and narrative to

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Jindal continued from page 1 said. “The rate of income growth is slowing, the state has the lowest graduating rates in the South, there is a lack of economic opportunity.”

Jindal — who studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar after graduating from Brown — described a personal campaign experience defined by rigor and intensity.

“Every waking moment, there is something you could be doing,” Jindal said. “You have 4.5 million residents, and you need to speak to as many as possible. This means you have to suspend other things in your life, like paying the bills and taking care of the house.”

Jindal’s anecdotes about approaching voters captured the ways public and private life meld together for a campaigning politician.

“The most valuable commodity you have to give is your time,” Jindal said. “Voters seem to get offended if you don’t interact with them.

I approached an individual at a

Jindal — who studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar after graduating from Brown — described a personal campaign experience defined by rigor and intensity. restaurant and he said to me, ‘I was wondering if you were going to come and talk to me, but because you did, I’m going to vote for you.’”

Jindal was going to advise the man to read over his 100-page policy proposal before forming a decision, but “you learn not to argue with people who say they’re going to vote for you,” he said.

The importance of cultivating a funding and volunteer base early on is key in any campaign, Jindal said. He sought money

from family, friends and associates to help get his initial vision off the ground.

“Raising money for a political campaign is like starting a business,” he said. “When you need help most, you call a venture capital firm and they say to you, ‘That’s a great idea, but how many investors do you have?’ When you’re seeking funding support for political pursuits, people ask you, ‘Well, where are you in the polls? How many other people have given you money?’”

Ironically, toward the end of his campaign, Jindal said he had more people interested in volunteering and contributing funds than he knew how to organize and use.

When debating “the issues,” Jindal said, a candidate is likely to encounter topics he does not value highly. Although he should address these issues as best he can, a strong candidate must stick firmly to the causes he is passionate about, he said.

“You can’t just be reactive in a campaign,” Jindal said. “You have decide what you think is most important to talk about.”

Jindal’s insistence on standing firm segued into a discussion of

political conviction in general.

Political experts claimed that if Jindal had “gone negative” and exposed the weaknesses of his opponent, he could have won the race, he said.

“I decided early on what kind of campaign I was going to run,” Jindal said. “You have to make decisions like that before you get into the race, because during the campaign, because there will be temptations to run negative ads or mortgage the house.”

Jindal said despite having lost his previous campaign, he receives positive feedback from Louisiana citizens who say they are “proud of the way you ran your campaign,” he said.

In response to inquiries from the audience, Jindal spoke about whether he felt race had been a factor in the results of the election.

“I was once asked if I thought I had lost because I’m a ‘brown’ candidate,” Jindal said. “I said, ‘Yeah, maybe there is a connection between the loss and my having graduated from Brown University.’”

On a more serious note, Jindal said he doesn’t view his campaign as having been influenced by issues of ethnicity. “I

was running against a popular moderate Democrat in a state that was mostly Democratic,” he said.

Jindal said as the South Asian and Indian American communities continue to flourish in the United States, their attentions will increasingly acquire a political focus.

“About one-fifth of 1 percent of the Louisiana demographic is South Asian or Indian American,” Jindal said. “So they really do not constitute a large voting bloc. But certainly in local races, they can begin to make a difference and increase their own visibility.”

Before running for governor, Jindal held leadership positions in the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He announced his candidacy for Louisiana’s 1st District congressional seat in late January.

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

Lesley continued from page 1 guages, but the scholarship provides a stipend for language tutoring this summer, and she will continue language classes while abroad, she said.

But because these courses will only teach her the basics of the language, she will be reporting with the help of a translator next year, she said.

Lesley learned of the scholarship through a writer at the Oregonian, and she said she was attracted to it in particular because it is “professionally oriented” and because it provided the opportunity for travel abroad. Her only previous experience abroad was a trip to Costa Rica, so the chance to go to Asia “means a huge amount to me,” she said.

It’s an “awesome program,” she said. “It just seemed like a perfect fit.”

Lesley said she learned she had won via e-mail Tuesday night. “I was totally shocked. I was convinced that I wasn’t going to get it,” she said.

Lesley began the application process by submitting an application to Brown, which then chooses two or three nominees.

The Luce Foundation, which only invites 65 colleges and universities to submit nominees, then selects the finalists. Fifteen finalists go to New York, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, representing three regions, each of which selects five winners.

Lesley will begin the fellowship Aug. 16 at an orientation in Princeton, N.J. The last Brown graduate to win the fellowship was Justin King ’96, who won the Luce four years after graduating, according to a press release from Associate Dean of the College Linda Dunleavy.

Herald staff writer Meryl Rothstein ’06 edits the Arts & Culture section. She can be reached at mrothstein@browndailyherald.com.

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Kerry, Edwards reach out to California voters SANTA MONICA, Calif. (L.A. Times) — Trumpeting core

Democratic values in the waning days before the March 2 Super Tuesday primaries, John Kerry and John Edwards reached out to voters in California with pledges of support for the poor and working class.

In a campaign day abbreviated by the Los Angeles Times/CNN candidate debate, Kerry flew into Los Angeles from Minnesota on Thursday afternoon and headed immediately to a supermarket in Santa Monica to show his solidarity with striking grocery workers.

The Massachusetts senator pushed for a benefit dear to his heart and theirs — affordable and available health care.

Edwards, a senator from North Carolina, meanwhile, spent the morning in San Francisco, imploring voters there to join him in a crusade aimed at wiping out poverty and improving the lives of millions of Americans. He continued to pound themes he has promoted for several days in Ohio, New York and eight other states that will hold nominating contests Tuesday — trade and tax policies.

“The real battleground states in this election,” he said, are poverty and class divisions.

Kerry got to Santa Monica just in time.

Less than five hours after he shook hands, signed autographs, shouted “Si se puede” (“Yes, we can”) and called the strikers “heroes to this country,” the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and the grocery chains reached a tentative agreement in the five-month dispute.

“I want to say to every single one of you that I believe that it would be better for this country if George Bush had an understanding at all of what all of you have been going through and what you’re fighting for right here on this line,” Kerry told the workers, who chanted “Kerry, Kerry, Kerry.”

“Every single one of you are heroes to this country, because you’ve been out here fighting not just for yourselves but for the right for every single person in this country to have health care,” he said.

He promised to place affordable health care at the top of his legislative agenda if he becomes president.

In San Francisco, Edwards visited the Delancey Street Project, a drug and alcohol treatment facility, where he received the endorsement of a coalition of neighborhood activist groups.

“Whenever we see misery that reveals itself in a hungry child, a homeless family or one American who is working all day long, every day, to support his family on minimum wage and still living in poverty, that’s our battleground,” Edwards said.

Appearing in San Francisco just hours before actress Rosie O'Donnell married her partner at City Hall, he was asked by reporters about his position on gay marriage.

"I think if you look at what George Bush is doing, he's trying to make it a political issue," Edwards said after speaking to nearly 300 people at the Delancey Street Project. "He's doing very little to help married couples support their families and the very struggles that people face every day in their lives. And yet he proposes a constitutional amendment that's both wrong and unnecessary."

Kiss me.

Antarctic explorations uncover two new dinosaur species (Baltimore Sun) — Scientists working in Antarctica this

winter have found fossils of what appear to be two new species of dinosaurs — a 6-foot meat-eater and one of the earliest plant-eaters ever found.

The discoveries add to the small but growing list of dinosaurs unearthed in Antarctica since 1986. Scientists said the animals adapted and thrived in a climate more akin to the Pacific Northwest than to Antarctica today.

“It was more lush,” said biologist Judd Case of Saint Mary’s College of California, a co-leader of one of the teams that reported their finds Thursday in Washington.

“You (would have seen) snow or ice back on the hilltops, but lots of trees. Cool, but not cold.”

Two teams funded by the National Science Foundation made their discoveries within days of each other in December, during the brief Antarctic summer.

The dinosaurs were separated by 2,000 miles and 120 million years. The primitive plant-eater grazed about 190 million years ago, early in the Jurassic period. The carnivore hunted at the end of the Cretaceous period, 70 million years ago.The scientists were jubilant about their good luck.

“You don’t immediately want to believe it, just in case,” said paleontologist William Hammer, of Augustana College in Rock island, Ill., who led the second team. But when it sinks in, he said, “it’s close to pandemonium.”

Paleontologists have been finding dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic since 1986, when a Argentine team found evidence of an armored plant-eater called an Ankylosaur that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs.

Subsequent expeditions have found small planteaters that lived in herds; a 20-foot meat-eater, a twolegged duck-billed dinosaur previously known only in the Americas, a 12-foot iguanadon and a variety of seagoing reptiles.

Clearly, the frozen continent was not always so frozen. Geologists say all the continents have been drifting around the planet for eons atop the Earth’s molten mantle.

Long before the dinosaurs evolved, the block that became Antarctica was at the Earth’s equator.

It later drifted southward, reaching the polar region about 100 million years ago. But it remained connected to South America and Australia by a land bridge, and its climate was milder than it is today.

Geologist Jim Martin of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology said he and Case and their team sailed last fall toward a remnant of that land bridge, the Antarctic Peninsula, which stretches toward Chile.

They sought evidence that primitive marsupials migrated from the Americas — where they originated — across Antarctica to Australia, where they thrive today.

When sea ice blocked access to Vega Island, the scientists landed on nearby James Ross Island. “We were not expecting to find any terrestrial dinosaurs,” Martin said.

But near a place called Dagger Peak, Case began to find bones and teeth of a terrestrial dinosaur that must have died at the shore and floated away.

An upper jaw with curved, bladed teeth, and lowersee DINOSAURS, page 8

Bush cracks down on unauthorized travel to Cuba with new policy WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — President Bush on Thursday announced a plan to broaden enforcement of the embargo against Cuba by stopping pleasure boaters from traveling to the Caribbean island, 90 miles south of Florida.

The new policy allows U.S. officials, if they believe a boat in U.S. waters may be headed to Cuba, to inspect that vessel, place guards on it and, if necessary, take possession of it.

The action was the latest in a series of efforts the president has made as part of a crackdown, announced in October, on unauthorized travel to Cuba. Under U.S. law, only members of Congress, people traveling for educational or humanitarian purposes, journalists and those with relatives in Cuba are permitted to visit the island.

The issue is of intense importance in the CubanAmerican community in Florida, where the president has sought voter support following his narrow win in the state in the 2000 election. His brother, Jeb, is governor.

In announcing the new policy, Bush noted that “the Cuban government has over the course of its 45-year existence repeatedly used violence and the threat of violence to undermine U.S. policy interests.”

The new restriction on boat travel to Cuba expands a policy announced by President Clinton in 1996 after Cuban fighter jets shot down two small private planes from an exile group, Brothers to the Rescue. The two planes had been

combing the waters off Cuba’s northern coast, searching for Cuban rafters trying to reach the United States. Four people, three of them American citizens, were killed.

The Clinton policy gave the Coast Guard authority to decide whether to give permission for boats to leave U.S. waters for Cuban waters. Since then, Cuban Americans taking their boats to Cuba to protest the government have routinely been denied permits out of fear that their activities could provoke international incidents, a State Department official said.

But between 1996 and 2003, the Coast Guard granted 1,500 permits to other boaters to make the trip, the official said.

“We were very concerned, from a policy perspective, about the image of American boaters going to Cuba in apparent defiance of the embargo,” said the official, who spoke on the condition that his name not be used.

The old policy was “incoherent” because, despite the travel restrictions, “the Coast Guard (was) issuing permits to boaters and yachters,” the official said.

The long-standing embargo against Cuba — imposed in the early 1960s after the communist government expropriated American companies and other property on the island — is intended to punish President Fidel Castro’s regime while showing support for the people of Cuba.

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TAs continued from page 5 dictions, such as AC153: “Technology and Material Culture in America: the Automobile in American Life” and PS22: “City Politics,” had to shift TAs around this semester to accommodate enrollments, Newman said.

The Graduate School puts a small amount of money aside to add TAs when necessary, but generally, TA numbers work out, Newman said. “Each department has to make a judgment based on resources,” she said. “We don’t want to accept

For example, the Department of Chemistry has lost funding from the Graduate School to hire TAs because of declining undergraduate enrollment in chemistry classes. under-qualified (graduate) students just so we have enough TAs.” The number of TAs available, however, is finite, Newman said. Because of Brown’s strong commitment to undergraduate education and the tough job market for Ph.D. recipients, the Graduate School has remained small, Newman said.

The number of graduate students allotted for each department is changing with chang-

ing undergraduate enrollment in courses, she added.

For example, the Department of Chemistry has lost funding from the Graduate School to hire TAs because of declining undergraduate enrollment in chemistry classes. The TA funds were transferred to other departments — particularly those in the social sciences — that have experienced rising undergraduate enrollments, Newman said.

Jeffrey Muller, professor and graduate advisor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, said, “The usual agreement is one TA for every 50 students in a class, with each TA teaching two discussion sections, thus a maximum of 25 per section. Usually we can staff this arrangement.”

In the Department of Chemistry, classes with labs always get a TA, said Christopher Seto, chemistry professor and graduate advisor for the department.

“Everyone wants a TA, but not everyone can have one,” he said.

“I try to give as many nonlab courses TAs as possible, but they don’t get priority.”

Seto said he puts no more than 17 students in a lab section but that 13 to 15 students is ideal.

Unlike the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Chemistry also uses undergraduate TAs to grade problem sets and lead a few labs in larger classes like CH33: “Equilibrium, Rate and Structure.”

“Because of the way our enrollment worked this year, we had to use undergraduate lab TAs for Chem 33,” Seto said.

“In the future, we would like to have more graduate TAs in the labs because of the safety issues.”

Despite possible shortages, two departments sharing TAs is very rare and only happens if the TA is qualified in several areas. For example, Professor of Anthropology Dan Smith said that anthropology TAs sometimes help in related departments, such as history.

Dietrich Neumann, professor of history of art and architecture, said recruiting additional graduate student TAs could be detrimental to graduate students’ academic lives.

“We have recruited older grad students who are supposed to be at home finishing their dissertation and don’t normally teach anymore,” he said.

Undergraduate TAs, however, are immune from many of these pressures. Gerald Kagan ’06, a TA for CH33, said his TA workload was reasonable and the pay was good.

Civil rights continued from page 5 anti-colonialism began to flow, Brock said.

Pan-Africanism can be loosely defined as a term for the various global movements that have shared the principles of African unity and anti-colonialism.

Brock went on to discuss the current coup in Haiti and noted that this was the year of the country’s bicentennial celebration.

“I don’t think it’s an accident,” Brock said, regarding the timing of the revolt.

Machinal continued from page 3 With no constant name and no one actor or actress portraying her, Young Woman comes to potentially represent any and every woman. When Young Woman feels overwhelmed by misery and fear, her cries are echoed by the supporting cast who shadow Young Woman’s life from the dark perimeters of the stage.

Though Young Woman knows she does not love her boss, she marries him and bears his child.

Yet every time he touches her, she cringes. Every year that goes by, she numbs.

Finally, as one could predict, Young Woman experiences a taste of love at an extramarital rendezvous in a downtown bar. The scene brings a much needed break of intimacy and hope to an otherwise disturbing play. The charm of the encounter is largely due to Priya Chalam ’06, who

Minter pointed again to the significance of recording cultural connections made during the turbulent years of these movements.

If not communicated through media and other official channels, the stories that illuminate these movements can be forgotten, Minter said.

“We’ve been activists. Our history is being lost. Even our memory is fading,” he later said.

“The story of the native Mississippians who chose between 1961 and 1964 to commit full time to the movement … simply doesn’t exist,” Cobb said.

He said he has considered composing a narrative history of this

Dinosaurs continued from page 7 leg and foot bones adapted for running added up to a kind of therapod — a meat-eater perhaps 6 feet tall that weighted 300 pounds.

It was the second carnivorous dinosaur found in Antarctica. It was smaller than Tyrannosaurus rex, Case said, but close to the size of the velociraptors portrayed in the movie “Jurassic Park.” “Not many dinosaurs ever were that size, which is one of the things that makes our dinosaur quite unique,” he said.

Like other Antarctic dinosaurs, the creature’s bones looked like those of relatives that lived elsewhere much earlier. For some reason, Antarctic dinosaurs retained their ancestors’ primitive traits. “Antarctica still holds some surprises for us,” Case said.

To the south, 2,000 miles away in the Trans-Antarctic

beautifully plays Richard Roe, Young Woman’s lover, in that scene.

The love affair is short-lived, and soon Young Woman finds herself in a struggle against death as she fights to free herself from a life she hates.

The rotating cast and lack of scenery in “Machinal” leave the audience feeling cold and disjointed at points in the play, but this is the mental state Young Woman herself is trapped in. The plot is difficult to follow at first due to the numerous nameless characters and malleable cast, but once the audience is familiar with the style, the play gains meaning and steam to carry it through to its powerful, disturbing conclusion.

“Machinal” is showing in Leeds Theatre today through Sunday at 8 p.m. with an additional show Sunday at 3 p.m.

Herald staff writer Danielle Cerny ’06 edits the Arts & Culture section.

She can be reached at dcerny@browndailyherald.com.

movement.

“That’s a fight that needs to be made that I’m prepared to take on,” Cobb said.

The speakers commented repeatedly that the civil rights movement was, at its core, international in scope.

“The civil rights movement in this country was not only a movement for itself, but the spark for other social movements,” Minter said. Similarly, he said, “particular forms of resistance in Africa have played key roles for the struggle of human freedom everywhere.”

The talk was sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and was held in List Art Building.

Mountains, Hammer and his team landed by helicopter 13,000 feet up the side of Mount Kirkpatrick, where in 1991 they discovered remains of the first Antarctic meat-eater — Crylophosaurus (“frozen crested lizard”).

This time, a mountaineer with the team found what proved to be a fossilized pelvic bone about 3 feet wide. Hammer’s team concluded that it belonged to a primitive sauropod that lived 190 million years ago — a longnecked, long-tailed plant-eater perhaps 30 feet long.

“For a sauropod, that’s kind of wimpy,” Hammer said. “The big ones were 80 to 100 feet long.”

The bones were loaded onto a ship before they could be conclusively identified, but the find is likely a species new to science.

“We do know it is the largest dinosaur that’s ever been found in Antarctica,” Hammer said.

Better still, “this could be one of the oldest sauropods in the world.”

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Track continued from page 12 Bears packed up in an extremely competitive 800-meter field that included a professional runner in Marian Burnett and an Olympian and professional in Amy Rudolph. Katherine Kosub ’04, Kate Cushing ’04, Kelly Powell ’06 and Caci Cambruzzi ’04 all made their season debuts in the event. They finished 1011-12-13, with times ranging from 2:14.75 to 2:16.50.

“At first I was shocked with how fast it felt, but it felt really

Skiing continued from page 12 weekend similar, we have a great opportunity to show everyone how good our team really is,” she said.

Stephanie Breakstone ’06 and Janet Marley-Mauzey ’07 raced to 16th and 19th places, respectively, in the slalom. In the giant slalom, Breakstone finished in 20th and Marley-Mauzey skied to 24th place.

Although sidelined with an injury sustained earlier in the season, captain Molly Sheinberg ’04 was ecstatic about the win.

“This is a goal that I have had since my freshman year, and although I was unable to compete this weekend, receiving these awards was so exciting for

good to get moving,” Kosub said of her return to the 800 after a season spent running the mile.

“As the race went on, I felt really strong.”

Brown heads to Cornell this weekend for two days of competition against the best athletes in the Ivy League. Finals for the majority of the events will take place Sunday.

Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s track and field. She can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

me and, furthermore, was a great accomplishment for Brown skiing,” she said.

“Clearly we are peaking at the right point in the season, but we all have things that we can work on individually that will help us ski even better at the Nationals,” Swaffield said. “We have the talent to win.”

“I’m just excited to see what the girls are capable of doing next weekend. They have proven that they are one of the top teams in the east, and I’m excited to see how they connect at the national level,” Finocchio said.

The team will compete against 19 collegiate teams from across the county next week in the national championships at Sugarloaf in Maine.

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epee along with Alessandra Assante ’04 and Lucy Walker ’06.

The women’s saber squad and the men’s foil squad garnered, respectively, a silver and bronze for Bruno. For women’s saber, Olivia Partyka ’06, Cristina Rodriguez-Hart ’04 and Xianne Leong ’06 surprised the field by finishing second to first-place MIT with a 23-11 finish.

Rodriguez-Hart and Partyka ended the day in fifth and ninth, respectively. Jeremy Zeitlin ’07 anchored the men’s foil squad, taking sixth overall.

Jeremy Adler ’06 and Jennifer Hausmann ’07 also had good individual showings. Adler took fourth in the men’s saber, and Hausmann placed fifth in the women’s foil.

But the collection of victories was overshadowed by Martin’s injury. Fencing against a Dartmouth College opponent, Martin was bell-guarded in the face during the bout.

“His bell-guard, which is solid metal and hides his fist, slammed into my face, and then I saw the floor,” said Martin. “I don’t really remember much of when it happened, like I don’t know how my mask came off or anything.”

After the incident and a medical break, Martin gained enough strength to defeat his opponent and challenge another fencer from Boston College.

Unfortunately, he could not continue, as he began to feel the effects of what turned out to be a concussion. He was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital

hoping to regain his

Dean plans grass-roots organization NEW HAVEN, Conn. (L.A. Times) —

Former Vermont Gov. Dean, who has kept a low profile since pulling out of the presidential race last week, says he will lay out his plans for a new grassroots organization focused on issues such as universal health care and campaign finance reform March 18.

Meanwhile, Dean’s former campaign manager, Joe Trippi, has proceeded forward with his own organization — ChangeForAmerica.com — to promote the principles of Dean’s insurgent candidacy.

It remains unclear whether Trippi’s nascent group will eventually merge with the group that the former governor is putting together.

“We’re committed to Gov. Dean and helping him,” Trippi said in an interview. “Whether that turns out to be an official thing, I don’t know.”

Dean spokesman Jay Carson said that the former governor sees the two efforts as “strong compliments to one another.”

Trippi left Dean’s campaign in late January after the former governor replaced him. He said that he and Dean remain on good terms, however, and that he spoke extensively with the former governor about his plans for creating a new organization earlier this week.

Trippi said he began his own effort in order to employ several dozen former Dean aides who managed the Web site and held other technology positions on the campaign.

“It’s about keeping this team of amazing people together,” said Trippi, who said he plans

to pay the group out of his own pocket, for now. “If you wait a month or two, they’re scattered into the wind.”

Besides defeating President Bush, the goals of the organization remain vague. The group plans to hold summits with supporters in 10 different cities in the coming weeks to define its direction. But the lack of clarity about the form Dean’s former campaign will take has caused anxiety among some of his supporters, who fear that splintering will undermine their strength.

“It is only creating more confusion,” Isabel Bau Madden, a Dean backer and writer who lives in New York City, wrote in an e-mail in response to a reporter’s query.

“For now, ‘Change for America’ looks like a temporary shelter for former Dean operatives and supporters eager for some cohesion and direction ...”

Aziz Poonawalla, a graduate student in Houston who founded DeanNation.com, posted an open letter to Trippi’s organization, asking for its members to provide more clarity about its intentions.

“The organization must open up a bit and show its hand, or the passionate support of the grass roots won’t materialize,” Poonawalla wrote.

Trippi dismissed any suggestions that ChangeForAmerica.com would undermine the organization Dean is putting together.

But the questions reflect a broader concern among some Dean supporters that their movement has been drifting

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lie. Win or lose, I am ecstatic to see this man enter the ring for another fight. I have memories of Foreman putting his two giant arms up to guard his face and being virtually untouchable. I remember him in 1994 at age 44 becoming the oldest heavyweight champion ever. I also have fond memories of him shouting out cheesy slogans like “Knock out the fat!” and then giving a little thumbs-up with a big teddy bear smile.

I live for these comebacks. I wrote a column last year about Dennis Rodman’s comeback from retirement. He hit a few bumps along the way, like getting arrested for drunken driving while doing tricks on his motorcycle outside a strip club.

But the comeback isn’t a long shot. He signed an ABA contract and in his first game grabbed 14 rebounds in 28 minutes — a rebound every 30 seconds. The Lakers have shown the most interest, with assistant coach Tex Winter saying, “He needs another week or two to be able to play at the level he is used to playing and will need a few weeks before he is ready to play in the NBA again.” Even Head Coach Phil Jackson has said that he’d “keep an open eye” for Dennis’ return.

These athletes can’t get the

juices out of their

Competition. In the meantime, he will accompany his team to the ECAC Championships at Vassar College on Saturday. for treatment.

“I gradually lost touch with my left arm, my face went numb, and I got (a) really bad headache and nausea,” Martin said. “My vision went kind of splotchy, and I got pretty confused about what was going on.”

Now recovering, Martin is hoping to regain his strength to rejoin the team in the upcoming NCAA Regional Competition. In the meantime, he will accompany his team to the ECAC Championships at Vassar College on Saturday.

Herald staff writer Zaneta Balantac ’07 covers fencing. She can be reached at zbalantac@browndailyherald.co m.

systems, and I can’t get thoughts of the athletes themselves out of mine. Who else has done this recently? Magic came out retirement in ’95, while Mario Lemieux did in 2000, both to the delight of adoring fans. competitive juices out of their systems, and I can’t get thoughts of the athletes themselves out of mine. Who else has done this recently? Magic came out of retirement in ’95 and Mario Lemieux did in 2000, both to the delight of adoring fans. Roger Clemens came out of retirement this year, but he doesn’t have any fans left except for his wife and kids, and the word on the street is that they

since the former Vermont governor withdrew from the race, despite vows from the candidate and others to press forward.

Dean’s official Web log has been filled with postings from people who say they’re now unsure if they should continue to vote for him, or cast their ballot for someone else. Some have switched their allegiance to North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who they say shares many of Dean’s principles.

Others have followed Dean’s initial request. On Thursday, a coalition of 70 Dean-related groups from around the country announced that they would work to send as many Dean delegates as possible to the convention.

And Truthandhope.org, which was founded by Eugene Hedlund, a mortgage broker in Riverside, Calif., is running $45,000 worth of radio ads in all 10 states that vote in the next round of contests on March 2, urging people to continue to vote for Dean. Dean made his first public appearance Thursday since dropping out of the race Feb. 18, thanking more than 500 supporters at a buoyant yet bittersweet rally at a hotel near Yale University.

“You have revitalized politics,” an upbeat Dean told more than 500 people assembled in the ballroom of the Omni Hotel. “A lot of times people give up. ... You can’t afford to do that, because we are fortunate enough to live in a country where politics really matters.

And politics from now on is going to be ours.”

hate him now too.

Still, there are endless possibilities for comebacks from retirement. Here is a short list of some of the comebacks I pray for: Pete Sampras, Barry Sanders, “Seinfeld,” Nolan Ryan, Johnny Carson, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Kurt Rambis, Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, “Baywatch,” Pooh Richardson, John Salley, all the NBA analysts, Tom Tolbert, Charles Barkley, Bill Walton, Kenny Smith, Bill Laimbeer, Greg Anthony, Jayson Williams (after the murder trial), the entire ’92 Dream Team, Kareem, Robert Parish, A.C. Green, “Saved by the Bell” and Rik Smits.

Do I believe that everyone and everything on this list can successfully make a comeback from retirement? Absolutely not. Would it be more entertaining than anything we’ve been watching on television?

Guaranteed.

As Foreman and Rodman make their return to the professional sports world in the next few months, I’ll enjoy it for what it is, but I’ll know deep down that it could be better.

And when MJ comes back next year, you can be assured that I’ll be watching.

Marc Lanza ’06 is from Leominster, Mass., and has numerous comebacks planned for himself over the next year.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Diamonds and coal Coal to Roger Williams University’s whites-only scholarship.

For a school that claims its students are learning to bridge the world, they seem to have only learned how to build walls.

But a diamond to the revamped African Sun for showing that there are more constructive ways to talk about race.

Coal to the end of the lip-sync contest, our annual chance to see our peers embarrass themselves to the tune of Madonna songs in the quest to get that special New Dorm suite. And a scavenger hunt? What, do you want us to search for converted lounges?

A diamond to David Greene for bearing an uncanny resemblance to former Vice President Al Gore at Wednesday night’s Undergraduate Council of Students meeting. We just hope no one steals Greene’s rightfully earned position away.

ANDREW SHEETS

And on that note, a cubic zirconium to new dorm furniture. If we’re going to continue inhaling asbestos and mold, we might as well be comfortable doing it.

Coal to the Career Development Center for thinking a communications and publications officer was the best use of its resources. If you need to hire a PR rep to get seniors into a career office, you have bigger problems than publicity.

A diamond to the gymnastics team for beating the University of Rhode Island for the first time in a quarter century. We hope the next victory comes quicker.

A diamond (ring) to “The Littlest Groom” for proving little people can be giant fame whores, too.

And coal to the registrar for making the deadline to change grade options the day after a four-day weekend. Not only were we taken by surprise, but we were still two days short of four weeks. Just because we’re Brown students doesn’t mean we can’t count.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD EDITORIAL Juliette Wallack, Editor-in-Chief Carla Blumenkranz, Executive Editor Philissa Cramer, Executive Editor Julia Zuckerman, Senior Editor Danielle Cerny, Arts & Culture Editor Meryl Rothstein, Arts & Culture Editor Zachary Barter, Campus Watch Editor Monique Meneses, Features Editor Sara Perkins, Metro Editor Dana Goldstein, RISD News Editor Alex Carnevale, Opinions Editor Ben Yaster, Opinions Editor Christopher Hatfield, Sports Editor PRODUCTION Lisa Mandle, Design Editor George Haws, Copy Desk Chief Eddie Ahn, Graphics Editor Judy He, Photo Editor Nick Neely, Photo Editor

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LETTERS Battles of races or battle of ideologies?

To the Editor: Nick Noon, in his column “Letter to Roger Williams” (Feb. 25) is guilty of either failing to research his topic properly or purposefully omitting certain pertinent facts — and thus he misleads his readers. He fails to mention that the president of the Roger Williams College Republicans, Jason Mattera, is of Puerto Rican decent and therefore a student of color. He also fails to mention that Mattera was the recipient of a scholarship open only to minority students and has been quoted as saying of such scholarships that “scholarships should be given out not based on race but on need and ability.”

Why would Noon omit these facts? Why would

Beale’s column narrowminded To the Editor: Stephen Beale’s “The gay marriage myth" (Feb. 26) is built on misleading quotes, hollow statistics, a selective view of history and a dangerous social narrow-mindedness.

Beale lists the statistics that only 50 percent of gay couples living in Vermont have entered a civil union and only 20 percent of those who have cite “legal reasons” as their main motivator. This is evidence, Beale claims, that gay people are generally not interested in entering civil unions or marriages, and don’t really care about the rights they entail. By Beale’s logic any straight or gay couple that doesn’t run to City Hall to get married or “unioned” five minutes after their first date obviously will never want to do so in their lives. Furthermore, if you were to take a poll of heterosexual married couples, I imagine very few of them would list “legal reasons” as their main motivator for getting married.

he fail to mention that a minority student of color was leading the effort to promote a satire of minority scholarships? Because if he omits these facts, he can turn this issue of minority scholarships and affirmative action from a clash of ideologies to an issue of white racism.

The disagreements between supporters and detractors of affirmative action are ideological.

The issue is not whether one wants to see a continuation of America’s white power structure, but rather whether one feels education and employment should be used to right past wrongs or as a reward to those who are most qualified for the position. Unfortunately, with his demagoguery, Nick Noon has taken the same low road as many white racists have before and transformed affirmative action from a clash of ideals into a battle of the races.

Adam Curtis ’06 Feb. 25

Beale then states, “The traditional definition of marriage is as follows: Marriage is the union of a man and a woman for the purpose of begetting and raising children.” He then says that heterosexual marriages in which the couple is unable to have children “still count.” Beale neglects to mention that the “traditional” place for women is in the kitchen and the “traditional” constitution of the United States counts a black man as three-fifths of a white. He also manages to forget that “traditionally” marriages were arranged by parents before their children hit puberty, and interracial or even interfaith marriages were forbidden by law.

Beale finishes by deeming the gay lifestyle “dangerous” to western society. However, there have been men in the past who have tried to force their view of personal purity on the whole rest of the world, believing that Protestants or Jews or blacks were immoral and dangerous to society. And things have generally not worked out so well when these men have had their way.

Seth Magaziner ’06 Feb. 26

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2004 · PAGE 11

SARAH GREEN

The Teflon president There is nothing more frustrating to a registered Democrat than the manner in which all number of scandals seem to roll off President George W. Bush’s back in the same fashion that droplets of moisture slide down the feathers of a common water fowl. So you can imagine my initial glee when the scandal of Bush’s National Guard service finally developed some adhesive power.

After all, we lefties watched our guy get torched with scandals for almost a decade — not just the indiscreet hairdressers and loose-lipped interns, but also the seemingly endless and confusing allegations revolving around, as far as I can tell, Hillary’s affinity for whitewater rafting. Oh, and the pot-smoking-draftdodging-hippie allegations. Scandal — it clung to Bill Clinton like the glaze on his favorite donuts. And all across the country conservatives tied Clinton to the train tracks and cackled into their capes as the freight train of impeachment approached.

But where Clinton said he’d never broken the laws of his state or his country when asked about his marijuana use, Bush simply refused to address rumors of cocaine use at all. And poof!

The story fizzled. During the 2000 election there was murmuring about Bush’s drunk driving and his senator’s-son brand of draft dodging. But in Bush’s case, those folly-of-youth scandals never congealed into the type of political baggage Clinton had to lug around for two terms. And everywhere liberals twirled their handlebar moustaches and muttered, “Curses, foiled again.”

But back to my glee. While at first I was jubilant that Bush’s Teflon-coated scandal-proof armor had been penetrated, I quickly became disillusioned. While it gets my indignation up to have a self-proclaimed war president lying about his own military service, it’s not really of import to the welfare of the nation.

Yet there are plenty of truly scandalous scandals just lying around, going to waste. Like the lack of weapons of mass destruction (very different from “weapons of mass destructionrelated program activities”) in Iraq and the lack of any connection between Saddam and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Of course, it’s much easier for the public to get riled up about something that exists (a stain on a dress, for example) than something that doesn’t. It’s much harder to prove a negative (no weapons) than a positive (ugly beret).

Leaking the name of a CIA agent is a scandal that matters.

Bush’s deceptions aren’t properly appreciated.

Finding out that President Bush intended to declare war on Iraq before he even knew how to spell Al Qaeda is a scandal that matters. Americans should care that on Sept. 10 three years ago, Donald Rumsfeld felt that pornography was a bigger threat to national security than terrorism. We should care that in the nine months of his administration prior to 9/11, Bush’s team fired 200 counter-terrorism agents hired by Clinton’s team. We should care that Republicans spied on Democrats’ memos in the Senate Judiciary committee, and that those Republicans then leaked the information they found in those memos to people like columnist Robert Novak (the same right-winger who published the CIA agent’s identity). It should matter that the Pentagon is exploring possible catastrophes resulting from global climate change while President Bush still refuses to admit that climate change exists. Yet these stories are either buried twelve pages into our newspapers or ignored entirely.

It seems when it comes to the President,the media are hesitant to even use the word “scandal.” A Lexis-Nexis search of the terms “Bush” and “scandal” turned up a spate of stories about John Kerry’s alleged infidelity. Only one article in the first 50 (based on a report by an Egyptian paper) popped up claiming that the lack of weapons of mass destruction was a scandal for the United States and Britain. Silly Egyptians — Americans don’t care that we haven’t found any WMD in Iraq. Why? Because liberals always knew there were no such weapons, and conservatives still think it’s only a matter of time before we find them.

As much as I wish I could wholeheartedly give in to my glee, I can’t. As tempting as it is for liberals to make the 2004 election about the war in Vietnam rather than the one in Iraq, I hope they don’t. Not because I’m above such tactics, but because at the end of the day, Republicans are just better at that sort of thing.

Whether it’s presidential sex, “partial birth” abortion or gay marriage, they seem to have a knack of getting their supporters to publicly vote on issues of private morality. Who cares if the federal deficit is so huge that Alan Greenspan thinks we have to cut back Social Security?

Democrats thirst for marketable scandals while blithely floating on an untapped reservoir of them. But all they need to do is make the real scandals scandalous.

Sarah Green ’04 prefers crullers.

Harvard drops the H Bomb GUEST COLUMN BY SARAH BOWMAN

If we are to believe Harvard University, the public airing of sexuality is sinful. This is, at least, the implication of Harvard’s Feb. 12 decision to reject University funding for H Bomb, a student magazine exploring sex-related issues.

The school’s justification? The material in the magazine — specifically, nude photographs — might be pornographic.

This claim is almost as silly as it is narrow-minded.

Harvard’s decision rests on a basic misapprehension: that open exploration of sexuality is equivalent to pornography. To set the record straight, public exploration of sexuality is a natural extension of the innate value of sex in human life, while pornography puts sex to use as an object of exploitation. It is not the representation of our bodies that is an obscene, dirty, or otherwise corrupting influence — it is the use of such representations as instruments that guarantee gratification.

Some may perceive the above distinction to be one of degree rather than one of kind; they might point out that the boundary between exploration and use is extremely hard to define. There is, for instance, the amorphous category of erotica (which H Bomb professes to encompass) which seems to exist somewhere between sex and porn and, as I understand it, embraces sexuality both as exploration and as a unit of pleasure. It seems to me that the difference between erotica and porn is the extent to which depictions aiming at such pleasure can be classified as obscene or exploitative.

Any approval of erotica thus involves broader questions of whether representations of sexuality are justifiable not only on the grounds that sex is natural, but also on the grounds that the pursuit of pleasure is a worthwhile and socially acceptable endeavor. While these distinctions may be murky, the fact remains that the students proposing H Bomb define the magazine’s goals in terms of examination and expression. A publication geared toward the shared discussion and circulation of ideas is not only acceptable but also necessary.

Indeed, what seems vital for any participant in an aca-

demic arena is Harvard’s value judgment — it devalues sexuality by assigning it the status of unacceptability. To associate the public discussion and representation of sexuality with pornography is to endorse a view of sexuality that not only denigrates our bodies as shameful, but also deems sexual concerns as unfit topics of debate and restricts them from the communal sphere.

In the context of the University, this attitude presupposes and dictates that the experience of the body has no place in (and is opposed to) the elevated discourse of scholarly learning. In effect, this separates the person from the scholar, an enforced dichotomy that is both faulty and dangerous. Humanness — and in this I include bodies and sexuality — is a valid, integral aspect of an atmosphere geared toward learning.

Harvard’s decision is questionable not only because of its devaluation of the sexual, but also because of the manner in which is Committee on College Life made that prohibitive categorization. The Committee first approved the proposed magazine on Feb. 10 only to suddenly reverse its position two days later. One is led to wonder whether the national media attention garnered by Harvard’s original support of the project played a role. If so, the implications are troubling. That Harvard may have been swayed by public-relations concerns in deciding on whether to support certain student initiatives is just as demeaning to the ideal of human learning as its refusal to support a project based on its sexual content.

We should respect the concerns of those who may be uncomfortable with such open explorations of sexuality.

Nevertheless, it is essential that we value sexuality both as a set of issues whose free expression in the public sphere is worthwhile and as a component of our humanity that cannot be set aside from our position as a community of learners.

Sarah Bowman ’05 does not do Dallas.

KATHERINE CUMMINGS

Invasion of the iPod people In the wake of this month’s characteristic onslaught of Valentine’s Day socializing (festivities romantic, reactionary and otherwise), I feel the need to pen one small rant about one distinctly anti-social trajectory in which this campus is headed. It seems the pod people have invaded College Hill … the iPod people, that is.

I do not presume to dispute the fact that music improves any situation. Obviously, life sounds better with a soundtrack, especially with a pre-programmed, über-convenient, on-the-go score. I have no problem with portable music; in fact, I will be the first to admit that I love to dance my way down Thayer to the vocal stylings of the Traveling Wilburys or Lauryn Hill. But this headphone invasion is frightening.

As much as I understand the joy of a personal symphony and respect the decision to refrain from imposing one’s musical tastes on everyone within a 40-foot radius via boombox or a car’s subwoofers, there is something about claiming public space as private that makes me uncomfortable. Something about the intense “Don’t bother me with your meaningless greetings — can’t you tell that I’m jamming out?” look plastered across the faces of students ambling about the Main Green only reinforces my fear of technology and the manner in which it is fundamentally changing human interaction.

I have been both victim and perpetrator of the “crime” of iPod-mediated antisocial behavior. On the train to Boston this past weekend, two of my traveling companions and I were plugged into our pods. I cranked the volume to Ben Folds to drown out the monotonous metallic hum of railway clatter. Nothing out of the ordinary, I suppose. The commuter rail isn’t exactly a chill place to hang out. In hindsight, however, I feel slightly disappointed about our conscious decision to isolate ourselves musically rather than remain open to the possibility of random jibber-jabber.

In all fairness, we cannot solely target Apple’s success with iPod sales for the decline in our affinity for social interaction. A host of other electronic devices — cell phones, palm pilots, CD and mp3 players — litter our streets and impede urbane person-to-person communication. When I try to picture my train experience from an observer’s perspective — three people board train

together, sit together, place headphones in ears, tune each other out — our actions seem almost as ridiculous as a couple walking down the street hand-in-hand, both gabbing away on cell phones. Sweet company.

Regardless of our intentions when we don those white wires or press that “call” button, we inevitably arrive at the same end: withdrawal from our immediate environment. On your next trip through campus, count for yourself: How many students are “plugged-in”? And, of those individuals, how many people would you have shared some form of verbal exchange with had they not simply looked through you, deaf to your attempts to breach the iPod bubble? Gauge the general reaction to your presence the next time you walk into a gathering with a phone glued to your ear. Chances are that reactions will be minimal, because the truth is that you’re not actually present.

Ten years ago, I would wager that few 12-year-olds demanded cell phones with camera capabilities. For the majority of college students, the notion of owning a personal computer was extravagant if not absurd. Yet now we survive by a mechanized network of piped-in conveniences — e-mail, NetFlix, digital cable, AIM, frozen dinners, “break and bake” cookies. And 40 gigabytes of portable music in my pocket.

I am left with a nagging fear. Is our increasing dependence upon the luxuries of technology eroding our ability to function on the purely human level?

Would we really rather zone out to the rhythms emanating from our headphones than exert the effort to negotiate social situations?

I don’t know that I am the right person to propose a method to stave of the advance of the pods and remedy this new anti-social trend. To be honest, I don’t know that I could or would sever that thin white umbilical cord and cut myself off from the source. However, I will pledge to keep the volume down and perhaps decrease the instance of campus conversations that go something like this: “Hey. ... Haven’t seen you in a while. ... How are you?”

(No answer.)

“Hello? ... “ Katherine Cummings ’05 kills them softly.

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SPORTS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2004 · PAGE 12

The art of the comeback: Big George returns

W. ski team takes first at Regionals

BY MARC LANZA

BY DAN MURRAY

What is it about athletes coming out of retirement that gets me so giddy? Was it really worth it watching a 40-year-old Michael Jordan crank his arthritic knees up and down the court only to get schooled by a 24-year-old Kobe Bryant?

In my opinion, yes, it sure was. If word gets out that MJ’s pondering a fourth stint in the NBA, I will refresh ESPN.com 300 to 400 times an hour to check for MARC LANZA updates. And then SPORTS COLUMNIST after he retires for the fourth time, I’ll be waiting in anticipation of his next comeback. I’ll still be a fan when His Airness is dropping fade-aways from behind a walker and beating off defenders with crutches.

That’s just the glamour that accompanies professional comebacks.

That brings me to this most recent gem: George Foreman announced last week that he’s coming back to professional boxing for one more fight. At age 55, he’s been eligible for AARP membership for the past five years. Is this dangerous, stupid or ingenious? Most Americans are just like me — suckers for the comeback.

Some think it will be fun to see an old man get his butt kicked. Others point to the possible formation of an entirely new sports competition: the Elderly Olympics.

This is no joke. This will be Foreman’s third stint in pro boxing, as he’s already retired twice. He holds a career record of 76-5 with 69 knockouts and 25 million grills sold. Foreman has already signed a $20 million contract for a bout, which he is adamant about having in his hometown of Houston, Texas. He says he wants to shed about 30 pounds to get down to 225 pounds, his fighting weight from 30 years ago. He also has said this bout will be a one-time occurrence, which leaves us all hoping that means he’s going to retire for a third time after the fight and not, well, die. Foreman is practically a national hero, so the last thing we need is him going into cardiac arrest on live television with two million people watching.

Health issues aside, I’m not going to

heat — so that the runners in the first heat could get seed times for Heps.

In the first final, Brown’s Alexis Hall ’05, co-captain Basia Dabrowski ’04 and Susan Kwiatkowski ’04 came through with times of 8.02, 8.31 and 8.35 respectively. In the rerun, co-captain Julia Stevenson ’04, Lauren Linder ’04, Jaylon White ’05, Lauren Hale ’07 and Hall ran times of 7.80, 7.85, 7.92, 7.97 and 8.08.

Fara Kitton ’05 gave Brown another win with her 9.05 60-meter hurdles finish. Kitton’s time was an improvement on earlier meets this season since returning from an injury.

“It’s not my best,” she said. “I have to step it up. I need to stay competitive, stay focused and put it all together.”

In the mid-distance events, four

The women’s ski team raced to another commanding victory this past weekend on the slopes of Waterville Valley in New Hampshire, winning its first Eastern Collegiate Ski Conference Regional Championship in Brown’s history.

Coach Karen Finocchio credits an incredible team effort as the key to the women’s victory. Although the team is the most skilled Brown ski team in years, “it is their positive team outlook which sets them apart from the rest,” Finocchio said.

The five Brown racers all finished in the top 25 in the regional championships and won the slalom, giant slalom and overall events.

“Obviously the girls are talented skiers, but more importantly their attitudes towards skiing are tremendous.

Their focus on the race and the team made a big difference in the season’s dynamic,” Finocchio said.

“It was an awesome weekend, and everything finally came together,” said Hilary Swaffield ’06. “We’ve had the ability to win both events all season, but it wasn’t until the Regionals that our top finishers came out so strong against our toughest competition.”

Swaffield finished in ninth place in the slalom on Sunday and sixth in the giant slalom.

Once again the women were led by the freshman duo of Kelly O’Hear ’07 and Nina DiBona ’07. The two finished second and ninth, respectively, in the giant slalom. By finishing first in the slalom, O’Hear won her fifth individual event this season and her first regional slalom event. She was the individual regional champion as well.

DiBona finished in the fourth place in the slalom.

“Obviously it has been the work of the entire team that has brought so much success this season, but Kelly’s contributions this year have been remarkable, far exceeding my expectations,” Finocchio said.

O’Hear said she was very proud to contribute to the team’s success and to be a part of the first women’s team to win Regionals.

“I hope that we can carry this momentum with us to Nationals, because if we ski to how we did this

see TRACK, page 9

see SKIING, page 9

see LANZA, page 9

Brown Sports Scoreboard Friday, Feb. 27 Men’s Basketball: vs. Dartmouth, 7 p.m., Pizzitola Sports Center Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Dartmouth, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium Women’s Basketball: at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H. Women’s Ice Hockey: at Vermont, Burlington, Vt. Women’s Swimming: Ivy League Championship, Cambridge, Mass.

Men’s Squash: Team Nationals, New Haven, Conn.

Saturday, Feb. 28 Women’s Tennis: vs. Seton Hall, noon, Pizzitola Sports Center Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Vermont, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium Men’s Basketball: vs Harvard, 7 p.m., Pizzitola Sports Center Women’s Water Polo: Brown Invitational, Smith Swim Center Equestrian: at Wesleyan, Windcrest Farm, Conn Women’s Lacrosse: at Fairfield, Fairfield, Conn.

Men’s Lacrosse: at Sacred Heart, Fairfield, Conn.

Women’s Ice Hockey: at Dartmouth, Hanover, N.H. Women’s Basketball: at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

Women’s Swimming: Ivy Championships, Cambridge, Mass.

Men’s Squash: Team Nationals, New Haven, Conn.

Women’s Track: Heptagonal Championships, Ithaca, N.Y. Men’s Track: Heptagonal Championships, Ithaca, N.Y. Fencing: ECAC/IFA Championships, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Sunday, Feb. 29 Men’s Tennis: vs. Hofstra, 10 a.m., Pizzitola Sports Center Women’s Tennis: vs. Rutgers, 3 p.m., Pizzitola Sports Center Gymnastics: Ivy League Classic, Ithaca, N.Y. Men’s Squash: Team Nationals, New Haven, Conn.

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A Brown long-jumper takes off at the USATF-NE Championships in Cambridge this past weekend.The women’s indoor track and field team had several strong performances at the meet, as they prepare for Heps this weekend.

W. indoor clears final hurdle before Heps

BY MELISSA PERLMAN

At the USATF-NE Championship Sunday in Cambridge, Mass., the women’s track and field team put on a last-minute show before heading to Cornell University for this weekend’s Heptagonal League Championships.

The meet included athletes ranging from high school to the professional level, and Brown made its presence known.

The throws squad returned to its form of previous years, finishing 1-3-4 in the shot put and 3-4 in the weight throw. According to Coach Michelle Eisenreich, her athletes are in great position for this time in the season.

“The first purpose for going (to the meet) was to practice competing and gain confidence in our ability to compete, and we accomplished that,” Eisenreich said.

Leading the way in the throws was defending indoor Heps champion Jill Lynch ’05, who threw for 44-09 1/2 feet for first place in the shot. While Lynch has yet to match her personal best this season, Eisenreich said Lynch is ready to throw far, as are her teammates.

“I expect we’ll see a lot of (personal records) and if (one) isn’t enough to win, that’s too bad,” she said.

Lynch’s first place finish was followed by teammates Laura Dudek ’07 and Grace Cunningham ’07, who threw for 39-05 and 39-04 1/2, respectively.

The sprinting squad matched the performances of its teammates with a 1-3-4 finish in the first 60-meter dash final, and a second through sixth-place showing in the second final. After officials failed to time the first preliminary heat of the 60m, it was decided that there would be two finals — one with the winners of the other four heats, and another with the runners from the first

Despite scare, fencing leaves New Englands with some hardware

BY ZANETA BALANTAC

The fencing team walked away with two victories after the 2004 New England Championships in Massachusetts Saturday, but only after saberman Adrian Martin ’06 suffered a concussion after being struck in the head.

The Bears left the competition against New England powerhouses Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis University and Boston College with one individual gold medal, one individual silver medal and two bronze squad medals, as well as an overall fourth-place finish. During the 13hour-long competition, Brown had six

top-10 finishers.

“Fencing is a very mental sport and you have to be able to dig deep sometimes to fence well,” said Peiling Li ’06.

“In other words, come up with ways to beat your opponent (and) adapt your strategy.”

All-American Ruth Schneider ’06 gave a flawless performance, winning her second New England Championship gold medal in women’s epee. Schneider’s performance not only secured her claim as New England’s top women’s epeeist but also contributed to Brown’s third place finish in women’s see FENCING, page 9