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Cancelled classes cause problems for students, departments

Panel participants discuss future of leadership

BY MELISSA PERLMAN

BY BEN GRIN

At the beginning of this semester, students who were intrigued by the listing for HI102: “Medieval Spain: Land of Three Cultures” in the Course Announcement Bulletin might have gotten a surprise when they went to shop the class — it had been cancelled.

This cancellation was not unique to the history department. Throughout the University, classes are canceled each semester because of problems with faculty availability.

According to Registrar Michael Pesta, lack of student interest rarely causes a course to be cancelled. Instead, departments typically cancel courses when faculty are unavailable to teach them.

A professor might become unable to teach a course if he or she receives a research grant, retires or teaches a graduate course instead, in place of a retiring professor, said James McClain P’07, chair of the Department of History.

The problems students and departments have with cancellations arise mostly because of the timing of the Course Announcement Bulletin’s publication, McClain said. Academic departments submit materials for publication in the CAB 12 to 18 months before the semester begins. At that point, it is often impossible to tell whether faculty will be available to submitted courses.

The percentage of sections of classes cancelled this semester is about the same as the 5 percent cancelled in past semesters, Pesta wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

But some departments have been hit harder than others.

Of about 60 sections scheduled in the history department for this semester, 13 were cancelled, including four junior semisee CANCELLED, page 4

Judy He / Herald

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Barrymore Bogues spoke Thursday night in a lecture titled "The Haitian Revolution and its Meanings for Freedom."

Haiti’s political situation is result of complex social history, speaker says

to undergo renovation over the summer, changing the number of students they house.

The number of rooms pulled from the lottery varies from year to year, depending on the number of requests DSS receives, said Jesse Goodman ’04, chair of Residential Council.

Forsberg said his office doesn’t necessarily know which rooms will be available for students to choose.

“The specific rooms that will be pulled are not determined well in

The lecture, which drew a crowd of about 30 to Wilson 302, focused on how issues pertinent to the revolution 200 ago are echoed in Haitian politics today.

It was planned well in advance of the current political upheaval in Haiti, and was originally intended as a celebratory gesture to mark the bicentennial of the Haitian Revolution as part of Caribbean Heritage week.

The topic changed after the recent rebellion in Haiti and President JeanBertrand Aristide’s Feb. 29 resignation.

Bogues emphasized the complexity of the situation, saying Haiti’s former colonial status and history of popular infighting in part caused current instability. His historical evaluation pointed primarily to centuries-old neglect of the importance of the Haitian Revolution.

“The revolution has been silenced by history, thought of and written about as a mere slave revolt,” he said.

But because the nature of the Haitian Revolution differed from the French and American revolutions, Bogues claimed it provides a different insight into the nature of liberty. Unlike the analogous struggles in France and the United States, revolution in Haiti was

see HOUSING, page 4

see BOGUES, page 6

BY MILES HOVIS

The revolution and current political climate in Haiti provide insight into what defines the capacity to be free and human, said Associate Professor of Africana Studies Barrymore Bogues in a Thursday night lecture titled “The Haitian Revolution and its Meanings for Freedom.”

Pulled rooms can surprise students at housing lottery

BY KATE GORMAN

Each year, the wait for housing lottery number assignments is torturous for undergraduates. But even students with good numbers may not be able to pick the room of their choice.

Rooms are pulled from the housing lottery for a variety of reasons every year, said Thomas Forsberg, assistant dean of student life. The University pulls rooms for first-year housing (including counselor locations), program housing assignments, accommodations needed by Disability Support Services and spaces that are scheduled

Urban planner describes his new vision for downcity area metro extra, page 5

A Rhode Island politician, the chief executive officer of a toy company and the chairman of the Rhode Island Foundation defined the role and meaning of modern leadership in a forum discussion Thursday night.

The forum, titled “21st Century Challenges for Leadership,” was moderated by President Ruth Simmons in Salomon 101. Panelists were Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown, Hasbro Chief Executive Officer Alan Hassenfeld and Rhode Island Foundation Chairman Pablo Rodriguez.

Brown, who currently serves on the board of numerous Rhode Island and national organizations, defined leadership as the process of “fundamentally changing things” and fighting constant resistance.

“To lead means to fight,” he said. “It means to fight because that’s what it takes to change things, and it usually means to fight for longer than you thought it would take.”

Hassenfeld defined leadership in terms of social and corporate responsibility.

Hasbro oversees the donation of millions of toys to needy children, he said.

Hassenfeld stressed the importance of philanthropy and social responsibility.

“Not to be socially responsible is just not to be tolerated,” he said.

Hassenfeld set forth specific rules for leaders. A leader must never ask someone to do what he would not, and must lead not by words alone but by example, he said. It is essential not to impose American values on societies that don’t share them, he added.

“When you talk about corporate responsibility and corporate social responsibility, philanthropy is a wonderful thing, but it is only one leg of a manylegged table,” Hassenfeld said.

Rodriguez focused on the importance of principles, describing the assumption of leadership as one of the best and worst moments of his life.

“The leader is the person that when faced with circumstances that don’t feel see LEADERSHIP, page 6

Judy He / Herald

Rhode Island Foundation Chairman Pablo Rodriguez, Hasbro Chief Executive Officer Alan Hassenfeldand Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown spoke on the challenges of modern leadership during a forum moderated by President Ruth Simmons Thursday night.

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Athlete of the Week Tanara Golston ’04 excelled even as a firstyear sports, page 12

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THIS MORNING FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 2 Coup de Grace Grace Farris

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, AIR QUALITY AND RESPIRATORY HEALTH IN DELHI: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS 12 p.m. (Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall) — Professors Andrew Foster and Naresh Kumar will discuss their work in progress on the air quality, residential patterns and respiratory health responses in Delhi.

THE ETHICS OF SPEAKING: FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS FROM WOMEN WRITERS AND ARTISTS FROM ISLAMIC SOCIETIES 1 p.m. (Joukowsky Forum,Watson Institute) — with Shahrnush Parsipur (novelist), Assia Djebar (filmmaker and writer), Shirin Neshat (filmmaker), Livia Tenzer (editorial director, Feminist Press), Rabeah Ghaffari (filmmaker) and Reda Bensmaia.

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Updated production of “Misanthrope” exposes characters’ and society’s flaws

BY LELA SPIELBERG

Director Spencer Golub’s decision to set Molière’s 17th-century play “The Misanthrope” in the 1960s forces the audience to consider the play in the context of contemporary society.

Throughout the play, the audience is alternatively sympathetic to and aggravated by Alceste (Matt Biagini ’05), the misanthrope, who claims to desire a society free of deceit and false pretension but cannot live without a woman, Celimene (Sharon Ambielli RUE), who embodies these very qualities.

“The Misanthrope” climaxes in the heat of Celimene’s deceptions, when all her suitors, most importantly Alceste, demand to know which of her words are true.

Celimene’s duplicitous behavior has been revealed by a jealous woman, Arsinoe (Vanessa Gonzalez Echarte ’04), who hides behind piety to conceal her own flaws and insecurities.

Alceste scorns the other characters, who, quite literally, dance between fulfilling the aims of self and society. But Alceste’s unwillingness to accept any situation not wholly ideal to him ultimately results in his unhappiness.

On the other hand, the characters who balance sincerity and social obligation, Philinte (Mahdi Salehi ’04) and Eliante (Ellen Darling ’04) are relatively content when the curtain closes. see MISANTHROPE, page 8

Hallucinogenic artwork stresses connectedness, creators say

BY DANIELLE CERNY

Nothing guarantees a crowd like the promise of explicit drug use — or at least the chance to hear about explicit drug use and vicariously experience the high through the artwork it inspired.

“Psychedelic Art Extravaganza” did just that. The event, in Metcalf Auditorium Thursday, featured a video presentation of psychedelic artists discussing their mediums, motivations and motifs and included a slideshow of their pieces.

Though the artists who appeared on the video all had unique interpretations of their experimentation with different drugs, they all echoed the sentiment that narcotics gave them a sense of interconnectedness with and understanding of the world around them that they tried to translate into visual representation.

The video’s first speaker, Alex Grey, described his artwork, which he explained as images of human figures releasing their energy when they have freed themselves from the prison of their molecular bonds through the use of narcotics.

Alex opened with slides inspired by his first LSD trip, which he experienced with his wife and fellow speaker at the conference, Allyson Grey. The pieces depicted the “interconnectedness” that stemmed from their trip and the intimacy it spawned.

“Artwork came to be about normal, everyday things … like sex when you’re tripping,” Alex said. “We were intersecting with everyone else and everything else.”

Allyson Grey similarly said all her art sprung from her profound experiences with LSD. Allyson’s artwork is devoid of the human images that consume her husband’s art. Instead she uses oil colors to emphasize the idea that humans are made of cells and

systems that occur in three different states: chaos, order and secret writing.

Allyson said these three states defined every aspect of life. “We’re all cut-out pieces of the chaos we live in,” she said. Order, on the other hand, is where people briefly find respite from the chaos through the use of drugs.

Secret writing is the “window between chaos and order” that represents the secret writing of all the religions, Allyson said.

Allyson’s pieces focused on color and the interaction of shapes and used such thick layers of oil paint that the pieces seemed to oscillate on the two-dimensional surface.

Mark Henson, another speaker in the video, used marijuana and LSD as his artistic muses. His art is an attempt to crystallize his hallucinations into some more tangible form.

Henson made the transition to psychedelic art when he read a Life magazine article in high school about LSDinspired art.

The article featured a painting that resembled how Henson had painted his room while experimenting with lesser drugs. Henson said he realized he was onto something and went to the local McDonald’s the next week to score some LSD. Henson said he learned that by taking large doses of LSD and mushrooms he became a “disciple of knowledge” and drugs became “a learning tool.”

Despite the inspirational power of meditation, Henson said, it was easier to duplicate his inspiration with the aid of LSD, so he gave up the drug as a social activity and started using it for meditative purposes in order to see PSHYCHEDELIC, page 9

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Cancelled continued from page 1 nars. McClain said his department was forced to cancel courses because a large number of professors left for the semester to do outside research. Also, the department faced a number of unexpected retirements, he said.

When a professor retires, the department begins a job search for a replacement. If the job search fails, the University provides funding for a visiting professor to teach two courses, forcing the department to cancel at least one other course, McClain said.

Full-time professors teach an average of four courses per year.

Even if the job search is successful, the new professor may have a different area of expertise than the retired professor, forcing the department to replace scheduled classes with ones in the new professor’s field, McClain said.

McClain said the History Department’s need to offer specific graduate seminars can also affect the availability of professors to teach undergraduate courses.

Because the history department is required to offer a minimum number of seminars to graduate students, undergraduate courses are often cancelled to make faculty available to teach them, he said.

The visiting professors Brown hires to replace faculty on leave often have experience teaching undergraduate courses but lack experience with graduates, McClain added.

The decision to cancel courses is ultimately up to the individual academic departments, and each department has a different protocol for canceling courses. Nancy Armstrong, chair of the Department of English, said the English department does not cancel undergraduate courses so that professors can teach graduate courses.

When an English seminar for graduate students is underenrolled, the department will sometimes open the seminar to undergraduates, she added.

Armstrong said the English department typically will cancel a course if fewer than six students

Housing continued from page 1 advance, but on the day of a lottery the room inventory for a particular segment is posted,” he said.

The University waits until the last minute to make the room inventory list because requests from DSS are often not finalized until then, Forsberg said.

“If there is any question in my mind about putting a particular room into the lottery, I can’t in good conscience put it in,” he said. “It wouldn’t be fair, because if the room hadn’t been in the lottery to begin with, the students could have easily picked another room.”

The University also reserves the right to pull rooms claimed in the lottery, although it rarely does so, Forsberg said. Rooms not claimed in the lottery are placed in the summer waitlist inventory.

DSS coordinator Cathie Axe said one suite is outfitted with special equipment for students with physical disabilities, and,

Because the history department is required to offer a minimum number of seminars to graduate students, undergraduate courses are often cancelled to make faculty available to teach them, McClain said. are in attendance at the end of the first week of shopping period. If the cancelled course was slated to be taught by a graduate student, the graduate student is usually reassigned to assist with an overenrolled course.

Armstrong said the classroom environment is an important consideration in canceling courses. A seminar with only three students can be just as ineffective as an over-enrolled section of a lecture course, she said. “(The English department doesn’t) want to cancel courses.

It’s a bureaucratic nightmare for us,” she said. Typically, the departments adds more classes than it cancels, she added.

Nathan Schneider ’06 said he was disappointed to find that an English class he had planned to take had been cancelled. “It would be nice to know why,” he said.

Schneider said he would have liked to try to mobilize students to get the course reinstated if it had been cancelled because too few students signed up for it.

But Pesta said it is “pretty rare” for a course to be cancelled because not enough students pre-register for it. The registrar’s office tries to notify students, either by e-mail or by mail, when a course is cancelled, he said.

Online registration, scheduled to begin with the Fall 2005 semester, will make it easier for students to determine which courses have been canceled, Pesta said.

along with a few other “accessible spaces,” it is more likely than others to be pulled.

To request particular housing accommodations, students must fill out a DSS Housing Accommodation Form, meet with Axe and provide documentation for their injury, handicap or mental illness, Axe said.

DSS must feel confident that a student’s request for special housing is legitimate, Axe said.

“To ensure that everything stays fair, the documentation a student must provide is not simply a few written sentences. A family doctor friend can’t just write something out,” she said. “we need thorough documentation. We talk to the student to fully understand the problem and maybe even with their doctor.”

Whether a room is pulled on students’ behalf is contingent on their specific needs, but usually, DSS requests that they first enter the housing lottery.

“Once the student gets their number, the Residential Life Office determines whether that number could possibly get them

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CAMPUS NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 5 METRO EXTRA

Downcity Providence still needs work, planner says

BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

Judy He / Herald

Anna Beatrice Scott, an assistant professor at the University of California-Riverside, performed Fish Tales, River and Other Female Parts in Sayles Hall Thursday night as part of the RISD-Brown Performance Art Series.

Providence should consider bulldozing elements of I.M. Pei-designed Cathedral Square as part of a plan to “complete and connect” downcity Providence, according to urban planner Andres Duany.

Duany’s presentation was the culmination of a week of nine public meetings and was held Thursday night in the Grand Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel with Mayor David Cicilline ’83 in attendance.

Duany took the stage in front of a capacity crowd in the 17th-floor room, which provided spectacular views of much of the city he proposed overhauling.

The meetings covered a range of topics on the future of the downcity area, which includes City Hall, Trinity Repertory Theater and the Biltmore Hotel — from connections to the West Side to building codes.

Duany’s presentation included a slide show with aerial photographs and detailed drawings of his ideas. All of Duany’s proposals aimed to create an improved, more unified downcity, with expanded parking and increased access to surrounding neighborhoods.

“As in nature, in urbanism everything is tied to everything else,” he said.

Of Duany’s wide-ranging recommendations, the most forcefully delivered was his plan to raze the Bishop McVinney Auditorium in Cathedral Square.

Duany called Cathedral Square a “disgrace.”

“Nobody likes it. There was a kind of strange unanimity here,” he said.

Duany also suggested that the Holiday

Inn hotel and adjacent LaSalle Square, next to the Civic Center, should be revamped. He said the hotel was a product of the low point of Western architecture — the 1970s. Although some developers have plans to construct a traditionalist veneer for the building, Duany rejected the idea in favor of a radically modern modification or addition.

“This thing is a modernist building — take it for a drive,” he said.

Duany also pointed to the dilapidated brick sidewalks downtown as a preventable embarrassment and suggested concrete as an affordable alternative.

Despite his critical recommendations, Duany offered a bright outlook for downcity and Providence as a whole.

“The failure of the promises of suburbia have been such that people are coming back to the cities,” and Providence will “ride that,” he said.

The planned project to move Route 95 outside of downtown will be a significant improvement, Duany said. “It’s gonna be like taking off some tight clothing.”

Even more important is the city’s “very good genetic material,” Duany said.

Although Providence was “trashed” in the 1960s and 1970s, it is a fundamentally well-designed city, he said. Its sophisticated grids and narrow streets still exist, even if they sometimes have to be uncovered.

“Westminster Street is one of the great streets in the United States,” Duany said.

“To have a street so intimate in the urban see DOWNCITY, page 6

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Leadership continued from page 1 quite right, that are uncomfortable and that just put the hair behind your neck up, steps up to the plate and says, ‘I can do that.’ As long as you are doing it on principle, as long as what you are trying to accomplish comes from your heart,” he said.

During the question-andanswer period, an audience member asked the three panelists whether they think leadership or policies will determine the outcome of the presidential election.

Both Brown and Hassenfeld predicted a combination of

Bogues continued from page 1 founded not on a political assertion of inalienable rights, but on a more visceral need for freedom from enslavement.

Bogues contrasted the foundations of the Haitian constitution, signed in 1805, with those of the U.S. Constitution.

“The U.S. Constitution provided for universal equality only in rhetoric,” Bogues said.

“Neglected were women, African Americans and Native Americans — the ghosts of America.”

Haiti, however, stated in its constitution that all men and women were equal. For a time, women even successfully demanded “equal wages for equal work,” preceding the American feminist movement by decades.

But disparity eventually arose among the inhabitants of Haiti, one cause of the nation’s current troubles, Bogues said. He discussed the Haitian class system, made pronounced by the subjugation of the primarily black peasantry by elite, French-influenced mulattos.

“I have never met an elite class with such hostility toward the popular majority,” Bogues said.

“There is hatred and disdain there that you cannot imagine.”

Bogues said this hostility is a result of cultural dissonance. The elite, with Western “sensibilities” acquired from their French rulers, looks down upon peasant practitioners of voodoo and other “backward” cultural behaviors. This cultural condescension is also what impedes Haiti in international affairs, Bogues said.

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core” makes it a treasure.

He said Providence’s architectural strength lies not in great buildings, but in its coherence; there is a “modesty to the architecture here that is becoming,” he said.

Duany also presented several possible locations, including the old Providence Journal Building, for a six-screen movie theater proposed by a developer.

Depending on its placement, the theater could be a powerful binding force for downcity, he said.

Duany praised Cicilline’s

both, agreeing that voters should pay as much attention to the people a candidate surrounds himself with as to the candidate himself.

But Rodriguez reinforced the importance of the topic of discussion, saying the race is entirely based on leadership.

“Being a principled leader is what is going to make it for me,” he said. “When I see a president that appoints people to a scientific committee that have no scientific credentials, then that is not a principled leader.”

Simmons, who moderated the panel, spoke briefly at its opening, telling the audience it is important to talk about leadership in light of contemporary

society’s flawed examples.

“Leadership is a common challenge for all of us,” she said.

The forum was the first event in the Leadership in a Changing World series. It was sponsored by the Brown Entrepreneurship Program, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Office of the President. Other sponsors included the Dean of the College, the Office of Student Life, the Office of Campus Life and Student Services and the Undergraduate Finance Board.

As an example, he pointed to a recent segment on the current situation in Haiti on the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor,” which degenerated into merely “a seven-minute filler about the voodoo culture in Haiti,” according to Bogues.”

He also cited broader political trends that undermine the international reputation of the Haitian people.

“The Western question is, do Haitians have the moral competency for effective self-government?” Bogues said. “The questions we as Americans should ask ourselves is to what extent can we rightfully impose our concepts of democracy on other nations?”

Bogues faulted the U.S. government for its removal of Aristide from office. He claimed that by mandating that Aristide resign in order to be escorted safely out of Haiti, the U.S. undermined the Haitian constitution, which states that a president, legally elected, maintains the right to hold that office for six years. Aristide’s term would have ended in February 2006.

“The difference between (February 2004) and (February 2006) in a political time frame is not that great,” Bogues said. “If Aristide needed to be removed from office, it could have been done via a legal election (in 2006).

“In forcibly removing him, the powers that be have opened the gates for the rebel military faction headed by Guy Philippe to assume power,” he added.

“These people are thugs, soldiers in the death squads of the ’90s.”

Asked with whom the people of Haiti sided, Bogues said the majority of the population has no strong allegiances to Aristide

Bogues said the

appointments to the Transit Agency, Police Department and Planning Department as huge improvements over the last administration.

Cicilline attended the presentation and thanked Duany at its conclusion.

“I think tonight’s presentation has really captured my spirit,” he said, and “it’s gonna require us to think big.”

Developer Arnold “Buff” Chace, who introduced Duany, said more than 1,200 people participated in the week’s events.

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

Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

majority of the population has no strong allegiances to Aristide and his party, opposition parties or the militant faction that now currently occupies the capital, Portau-Prince. and his party, opposition parties or the militant faction that now currently occupies the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Bogues noted the historical tendency of Haitians to withdraw from reliance on the state in turbulent times, the product of a long-held tradition of cynicism.

The people feel betrayed by Aristide because he failed to follow through on plans for economic improvement, but they have no great desire to side with Philippe and his army, he said.

Nor, he said, are they given great reason to trust the international community.

“There is a Haitian proverb: after the mountains, more mountains,” Bogues said. The tribulations of the Haitian population, he said, are not likely to end or lessen at any point in the near future.

Herald staff writer Miles Hovis ’07 can be reached at mhovis@browndailyherald.com.

The planned project to move Route 95 outside of downtown will be a significant improvement, said urban planner Andres Duany.

“It’s gonna be like taking off some tight clothing.”

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WORLD & NATION FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 7

Bush unleashes attack ads against Kerry WASHINGTON (Baltimore Sun) — President George W. Bush’s campaign unleashed its first negative ads Thursday, attacking Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as a candidate who would raise taxes by billions of dollars once in office and who would weaken U.S. defenses against terrorism.

Set to ominous music, one new television ad — ready to run nationwide on cable television and on local stations in 18 targeted states — says Kerry’s plans in his first 100 days in office would include raising taxes “by at least $900 billion” and weakening the Patriot Act that is “used to arrest terrorists and protect America.”

The ad finishes with: “John Kerry: Wrong on taxes. Wrong on defense.”

The campaign’s decision to go after Kerry in its advertising almost eight months before the election appears part of a strategy by the cash-rich Bush team to

define its Democratic opponent early, before the Massachusetts senator has time to campaign heavily and characterize his own record for voters.

The Bush campaign released a similar radio ad Thursday to air in the same markets. It also unveiled a separate new television ad that is more positive, saying that Americans face a choice in November and that “we can go forward with confidence, resolve and hope. Or we can turn back to the dangerous illusion that terrorists are not plotting and outlaw regimes are no threat.”

Matthew Dowd, the Bush’s campaign’s chief strategist, said in a conference call with reporters that now is a “window of opportunity” to contrast the president’s record and agenda against Kerry’s. He noted that, on the heels of some closelyfought Democratic primaries, “voters are

paying very close attention” right now.

The new ads are likely to spark a debate over the wisdom of negative campaigning, and they put Bush in a position no president has ever found himself. New campaign finance laws require presidential candidates to state in their ads that they endorse the message. So Bush Thursday became the first commander in chief to tie himself so explicitly to negative advertising.

Just before the narrator begins attacking Kerry in the negative television ad, images of Bush flash across the screen as the president says: “I’m George W. Bush. And I approve this message.”

The new ads immediately triggered a public battle between the two campaigns over who is more negative. Bush campaign aides said Kerry began airing negative ads attacking Bush in September.

Aristide supporters take to streets again PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (L.A. Times) — Angry

supporters of former President JeanBertrand Aristide, accusing the United States of having abducted their idol, attempted to march Thursday on the National Palace, seat of Haiti’s new leadership, but were driven off by police firing tear-gas grenades.

The crowd of 2,000 retreated into the hillside slum neighborhood of Bel Air, smashing car windshields and pillaging the paltry stands of sidewalk merchants.

Gunshots, including staccato bursts of what sounded like automatic weapons, split the noontime air, and police blamed bands of heavily armed pro-Aristide thugs who are well ensconced in the impoverished area.

At least two deaths and a half a dozen injuries were reported.

Though Haiti’s new prime minister, Gerard Latortue, has called for reconciliation and a government of national unity to end his homeland’s appalling poverty and endemic instability, many of the Haitians who marched and chanted in the hot sun said the absent Aristide, who resigned and fled into African exile Feb. 29, remains their country’s sole rightful leader.

“We already voted, and we have only one president in Haiti: Jean-Bertrand Aristide,” said Bob Moliere, a leader of Thursday’s demonstration. “He was the victim of a plot. It was a kidnapping by (President George W.) Bush and (French President Jacques) Chirac.”

“Bush terrorist!” was the cry raised at one point by the marchers, who wound for more than two hours through narrow, stinking streets in Bel Air where wild pigs root for nourishment in open-air sewers.

Carolyn Cole / L.A. Times

HAITI: Pro-Aristide supporters with an array of umbrellas to protect them from the heat marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

An epidemic built on ignorance PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (L.A. Times) — “Best to stay away from that one.”

That was the whispered warning about Liony Accelus when neighbors, fellow drivers on the tap-tap bus runs and even some lifelong friends concluded that the evil eye had given him AIDS. “They thought it was a voodoo spell that was making me sick,” the 36-year-old father of four said of the time, just two years ago, when he weighed 105 pounds and was too weak to hold his head up. “I thought so too, because I was having so many mechanical troubles with the van as well.”

Haiti’s AIDS epidemic, fueled by ignorance, rages on despite education and medical breakthroughs that allow people in wealthier countries to live with the disease.

Compounding the suffering of the 350,000 Haitians infected with HIV, an ingrained prejudice tends to cast the ill as defective and not worthy of sympathy or respect.

Although progress has been made in lowering the incidence of new infections in the last two years, breaking the vicious cycle of poverty that propels the AIDS epidemic is such a herculean task that it daunts even the most committed relief workers. And an effort to broaden the use of lifesaving antiretroviral drugs has become enmeshed in the bitter and divisive political crisis gripping the country, with many foreign relief programs that refuse to provide aid directly to a dysfunctional government instead putting it in the hands of nongovernmental agencies that are criticized as ineffective.

At least 30,000 Haitians die of AIDS complications each year. More than 100,000 are too sick to care for their children, leaving 200,000 minors abandoned, many of them living on the streets of Port-au-Prince, the overcrowded and staggeringly impoverished capital. They sleep in alleys flanked by mud-laden mounds of trash and overflowing sewers, begging or stealing food from other slum dwellers, coming of age without schooling or much prospect of employment.

It is these lost children who enter in ignorance the most vulnerable age group for HIV infection: the 15- to 24-year-olds who make up half of Haiti’s population of 8.5 million.

The percentage of HIV-positive incidence among those tested for the virus that causes AIDS has been on the decline for more than a year from a 6.1 percent zenith, said Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist who has spent more than 20 years in medical relief work in Haiti. The decrease suggests that massive efforts undertaken to

see AIDS, page 8

In wake of Madrid train bombing, ‘all of Spain cries’ MADRID, Spain (Baltimore Sun) — Fernando Gonzalez was apologetic Thursday, partly for his struggle to speak English but mostly for his tears, which he could not stop.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” said the 37-year old truck driver, who lives in the capital’s Atocha neighborhood, less than a mile from the train station of the same name, which took the brunt of 10 bombs that exploded here Thursday.

“I’m sorry,” he said again, “but today all of Spain cries.”

Thursday was a day of tears in a city known for its bright gaiety, a day of trepida-

tion in a city known for its optimism.

Everywhere — in the city’s cafes and restaurants where red-eyed women and red-eyed men sat silently or talked in low voices, on the roads eerily missing the usual cacophony of car horns, in the neighborhood of Atocha, where people walking dogs stood and gazed at the station hit so hard — there was an unmistakable deflation of people usually pumped so full of pride in their country.

“This is not like Spain,” Gonzalez said standing next to a bouquet of flowers left at the station. “What happened is more like

Baghdad or, I’m sorry to say, like what happened to New York.”

That comparison — to continuing attacks by militants in Baghdad and the events of Sept. 11, 2001 — was made over and again by people here. Spain has had its battles with home-grown militants, but nothing that could compare with Thursday’s carnage.

This is not a Middle Eastern country with factions battling for power. It is not known to be anyone’s Great Satan.

Mercedes Molina Hernandez is 61 and lived in New York for 32 years, working as a

seamstress, before returning to Madrid and the Atocha neighborhood in 1997 to care for her sick mother. She was out for a stroll Thursday night — “I needed a breath,” she said — and had finally stopped crying when she was asked to talk about her morning.

“I heard all these ambulances and could hear fire trucks — I knew them from the horns — and so I turned on my television,” she said, and her tears returned, just like the truck driver’s, just like people standing silently outside the train station holding flowers, placing them gently on the ground.

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Misanthrope continued from page 3 Of course, Molière and Golub, a professor of theater, speech and dance, would have us realize “The Misanthrope” is not that simple.

Even the action on the set is multifaceted. There is movement on several levels of the stage at one time. Often, French and English are spoken at once.

Monologues are punctuated by cap-gun noises and dance routines. Often, two blind men (Claire Karpen ’04 and Caitlin Marshall ’05) break into song.

Some of this action is mediated by Du Bois (Sargon de Jesus ’07), listed in the program as “a translator of sorts,” but ultimately the audience is faced with a barrage of stimulation during many scenes.

Despite this, the plot is relatively easy to follow. What is difficult to understand is the character development, the motivations

behind each individual’s actions — who is true and who is phony — and if these two qualities overlap more than the self-absorbed characters would like to think.

The play is intense and runs a full two hours, but it is not without comic relief. Oronte (Abe Smith ’04), one of Celimene’s many suitors, provides the audience with cheesy sonnets and slapstick comedy, occasionally lifting the mood of the play above the sentiments of its tortured main characters.

Though it is sometimes hard to navigate, “The Misanthrope” creates a sense of fluidity, using songs, dancing and the continual mix of background music to help the audience view the play. The characters in Molière’s work move to the rhythm of compromise and flattery in a society that could not exist without the hypocrisy that Alceste so condemns.

The decade-appropriate costumes and music also suggest to the audience that this hypocrisy

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encourage safe sex may be having some influence. Still, in Haiti, home to 90 percent of all AIDS patients in the Caribbean, more than 100 people die of the disease every day, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Academy for Educational Development.

Haitians in the countryside have begun learning to embrace the victims of AIDS, many of whom return to their native villages to die after despairing of getting treatment in the cities. But that nascent rural solidarity bucks an urban tide of discrimination and stigma, Farmer said.

He complained that the Haitian public health community was slowing down the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, arguing that the limited funds should be spent on infrastructure and other health aid that would help people with curable diseases. “They say you can’t use these drugs in places like Haiti because of the lack of healthcare infrastructure and the risk of developing resistance,” Farmer said. “But we can use these drugs, and we have to use them. It’s the job of a doctor to take care of the sick.”

A passionate campaigner for antiretroviral therapy for the tens of thousands here who need it, Farmer demanded to know “who are we saving this for?”

Farmer has been fighting back on his own, through the Bostonbased Partners in Health nonprofit program that has him dividing his time between a Harvard Medical School teaching post and a clinic he founded in the Haitian village of Cange. He began treating 60 local AIDS patients in advanced stages of the disease in late 1998 with medicines bought with donated money.

The therapy is now available to more than 2,000 people nationwide through a program Farmer created from an existing tuberculosis treatment and monitoring network. Each day, 700 deputized community health workers fan out across the mountains to deliver the lifesaving pills directly to AIDS victims.

The success of the Cange program has reinvigorated prevention efforts, Farmer said, and he believes it has also helped reduce the stigma of AIDS in the countryside.

“If you have access to care, it’s a whole different ballgame with stigma,” Farmer said. He argues that showing AIDS patients they can live with the disease is the best way to get them to face it.

Even those who know to seek medical help say they often meet with rejection. Despite a decade of education aimed at dispelling misconceptions about AIDS, health-care professionals have been known to turn away the infected.

Beaujour Saurel, an electrician diagnosed as HIV-positive five years ago, suffered a cut on his arm last year that sent him to General Hospital, the main health-care facility in the capital.

“I told the doctor in the emergency room to put gloves on because I’m HIV-positive,” Saurel recalled. “He refused to treat me.

He just walked away.”

Such incidents, though said to be declining, drive efforts by advocacy groups to establish a network of specialized AIDS clinics throughout the country.

Misanthrope” creates a sense of fluidity uses songs, dancing and the continual mix of background music to help the audience view the play. is as present in more familiar settings as it was in the royal courts Molière observed.

Herald staff writer Lela Spielberg ’07 can be reached at lspielberg@browndailyherald.com.

“In Haiti, there are no laws protecting the rights of AIDS patients.

Employers can ask workers to get tested and fire them if they refuse,” said Jean-Paul Milord, a human rights advocate with the Association of National Solidarity for AIDS Patients. The association chronicles incidents of discrimination and lobbies for legal protections. But its activists complain that too few Haitians are willing to risk public disclosure of their illness to complain about mistreatment. Milord recalled a recent case in which a woman was fired from her job because she was HIV-positive. She refused to complain to authorities for fear her husband would lose his job if her infection became known to his employer.

The Association of Industries in Haiti disclosed in its watershed report, “Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS,” drafted last year, that employers’ costs of dealing with infected employees are staggering compared with the costs of prevention. Industries spend about 15 times more on health care, sick leave and funeral attendance than on education, the employers group reported.

Members of the group are among a vanguard of Haitian employers to embrace a commitment to fight discrimination against those with AIDS by adopting a policy worked out by the Academy for Educational Development. The program covers about 7,000 factory workers in Port-au-Prince, estimated Gessy Aubry, Haitian director of the project, which also operates in the Dominican Republic, India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Ukraine and Vietnam.

With so many Haitians jobless, employers have had little problem replacing workers who contract HIV. But growing numbers of young managers and factory owners are taking a more sympathetic approach to victims of the epidemic sweeping their country, Aubry said.

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Psychedelic continued from page 3 enhance his art.

Henson’s pieces focused on human images and their natural existence with nature.

This emphasis on nature is meant to inspire peace and happiness, he said. “By distracting people with sex and loving, we’ll have less fighting. … War is the enemy of all of our art,” Henson said.

Though the artists’ explanations of their works gave insight into an otherwise mysterious art form, an intermission of Nico Clark’s “Summertime” provided the direct mental stimulation most of the audience had probably expected from the event.

“Summertime” is a computeranimated short film that depicts the dance of nature and the interconnectedness of all living things.

Golston continued from page 12 of teammates, Golston spent hours honing the skills that would etch her name in the record books. During her firstyear campaign, Golston was not a consistent starter, but she played in all 27 games and came in third on the team for assists.

She would not look back.

Coach Jean Burr attributes Golston’s early success to her versatility and determination.

“Tanara made the transition from point to a backcourt player,” Burr said. “She got comfortable with her skills, combining passing with her shooting, and her teammates got comfortable with her.”

Rotating positions to shooting guard, Golston steadily

Ultimate continued from page 12 By winning all its Saturday games, Brown gained a bye straight into the quarterfinals.

The team would need all the rest it could get before playing defending the national champion, Wisconsin.

Brown jumped out to an early lead against Wisconsin, creating a three-point gap. As a team, Brown played excellent defense, with Neale Mahoney ’05 contributing big stops on defense.

Brown’s offense was also productive, and the team cruised

Equestrian continued from page 12 ’06 took home fifth and sixthplace ribbons, respectively.

2003 Individual Walk-Trot National Champion Galyn Burke ’05 continued her success with a second-place ribbon in the Advanced Walk-Trot-Canter Division. Jen Bain ’04 placed third and Catrina Joos ’07 sixth in the same division.

Promising young star Dana Liljegren ’07 enjoyed a win and personal best in her Beginner Walk-Trot-Canter class, while Joanna Kels ’04 took home a

When “Summertime” premiered at the Brooklyn International Film Festival, it won the Audience Award for Animation. Since then, it has garnered four other film awards.

In the seamless animation, “Summertime’s” visuals flawlessly melt into one another and bring the audience on a three-dimensional tour of a drug-induced dream Clark had that took 10 years to translate into media.

The video provides constant mental stimulation, gliding over the top of an albatross’s wings into a dense forest where a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, which rests on an embracing couple, who are swept over by a wave transporting a group of dolphins above an underground volcano that gives birth to the sun.

While the speakers in the video try to capture their hallucinations in a frozen image, Clark compiles

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improved her all-around game, adding her name to the list of the team’s high scorers. As a junior, Golston found herself in a starting position and gave a teamMVP performance that helped lead Brown to a second-place finish in the Ivies.

With the Class of 2004 at the lead, Brown is the team to beat this year. Captain Miranda Craigwell ’04 said Golston has been a big part of this reputation.

“She was very demanding of her teammates performancewise but was respected because she held herself to the same standards and met them every day in practice and in every game,” Craigwell said.

Friends and teammates reinforce the idea that Golston pushes herself to the limits and expects the same from her team-

mates. Nyema Mitchell ’04, who scored her 500th career field goal off a pass from Golston against Columbia, noted that playing with Golston has pushed her to improve her game.

“Her competitiveness and personal drive is contagious,” said Mitchell, named Thursday to first team All-Ivy. Golston was named to the All-Ivy second team.

But some players said credit should be given where credit is due.

“I can honestly say that Tanara deserves the success she’s had this season,” Craigwell said. “She is as unforgiving to herself as she is to her teammates, and after all the effort she has devoted to making herself a better player and person, she deserves the fruits of labor that she now enjoys.”

42:52 mark, Brown got another breakaway goal, this time from Sarah Passano ’05, with Holden getting her second assist of the game, putting Brown up 6-4.

Following the Passano goal, UNH called a timeout.

Afterward, the Wildcats responded, netting three goals in less than three minutes to gain a 7-6 edge at the 45:39 mark. After goals from Anneberg and Biros, UNH tied the score at 8-8.

Staley scored what appeared to be the game-winner with 27 seconds left on a breakaway, the assist going to Anneberg. But the Wildcats refused to go quietly, tying it up at nine with six seconds left and sending the game into overtime.

It was at this point that Anneberg used her experience to take over, scoring two goals in the first three-minute overtime period in a 12-second span, putting the home team up 11-9 going into the second overtime period.

“Having her out there with a lot of strength helped put us up by two goals,” Ingram said.

Halfway through the second overtime period, Holden pushed Brown’s lead to three with a goal off a penalty shot. UNH responded with a goal at 65:10, but it was too little too late as Brown escaped in a heart-palpitating fashion.

“The draw control was huge for us, and we knew that in the first three-minute overtime,” Ingram said of her team’s success in the extra frames.

“Leadership played a huge part for us as well.” “(The biggest success in overtime) was definitely our center draws. Laurel Pierpont did a great job,” Anneberg said. “We were also able to bring the ball down the field, work some plays, keep it away from them and then get some shots.”

Even with the victory, Brown

fighting.” the images of his dream into a hypnotic hallucination the audience can experience with him. “(“Summertime”) utilizes the technology to tell a story that could not have been told any other way,” the official “Summertime” Web site said.

Psychedelic Art Extravaganza was presented by Brown Students for a Sensible Drug Policy as part of Psychedelic Week.

Herald staff writer Danielle Cerny edits the Arts & Culture section. She can be reached at dcerny@browndailyherald.com.

out of the half, the time cap went on and Stanford pulled away for an 11-8 win.

Although Brown made it to the semifinals last year at Stanford, it appeared to have the potential to go further this season. The team has picked up several strong new players, including Reid Hopkins ’06, Michael Pozar ’06, and Colin Mahoney ’07.

The team returns to the field March 27 for the Easterns Tournament in Wilmington, N.C.

into the half with a comfortable 8-5 lead.

The time cap went on at the start of the second half, which would end the game when either team reached 10. Brown continued its excellent play on offense and defense, winning the game 10-7.

In the semifinals, Brown faced its rival Stanford, which has defeated Brown at every meeting in the past two years.

Brown and Stanford traded points at the beginning of the game, working their way to a 6-6 tie. But Stanford was able to string together two points in a row to take the half 8-6. Coming

Herald staff writer Craig McGowan ’07 can be reached at cmcgowan@browndailyherald.com.

third-place ribbon and Connie Lee ’05 and Natalie Forbes ’05 placed fourth.

In the open fences division, Ledsinger won her class after an excellent round. Jacqueline Bialo ’04 and Brustlein also showed great skill and poise with second and third-place finishes.

Intermediate fences also went smoothly, with a triumphant win by Warshaw-Reid and fourth and fifth-place finishes for Heinecke and Jess Mendelson ’07, respectively.

Abrecht claimed first place in a nearly flawless round, followed by another great ride by

Roemer, who placed third in her contest.

“We can definitely still win the region — we’re only 16 points behind Roger Williams,” Ledsinger said. “We just need to have great performances in the next two shows.”

Even if Brown does not capture the regional title, the team will most likely send several individuals to Regionals, Zones and even Nationals.

The Bears travel to Johnson and Wales University in two weeks, where the team hopes to sweep the competition and regain its lead before the postseason championships begin.

We got some big games against some national leaders coming up so it’s important to start out on a high,” Anneberg said. cannot afford to be satisfied, with its landmine of a schedule posing challenges only continued hard work and preparation can hurdle.

“We got out of our game plan a little bit, but that’s just a matter of having time to work things out,” Ingram said about Tuesday’s game. “We’re definitely going to be working on our transition game. Today there were times where we relied on the ball traveling in just one person’s stick.”

“We got some big games against some national leaders coming up, so it’s important to start out on a high,” Anneberg said. “Today we got to see what we have to work on in practice this week.”

Brown will be preparing for what could be its biggest game of the season, a tussle with the third-ranked University of Maryland Friday night at Stevenson Field. The Terrapins went undefeated in winning the 1999 NCAA Championship and reached the national semifinals in 2003.

“We’re really excited. We can’t wait to play them. Every year it’s a great game,” Anneberg said of Friday’s matchup. “We always give them a good run. This week we know exactly what we have to work on, and we just have to stick to the game plan.”

Herald staff writer Chris Mahr ’07 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s lacrosse. He can be reached at cmahr@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Diamonds & coal A diamond to the new 24-hour study space in New Pembroke #4. If we lived in New Pembroke, we wouldn’t want to sleep there, either.

Coal to putting club sports under the jurisdiction of the Department of Athletics. You’re telling us the people who brought Brown the tortoise-racing club can’t manage some horseshoe matches?

A diamond to events planned by the new Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. We’re pleased to see the University come through on its promise to provide intellectual diversity, although we’d also like to hear more from the conservative end of the academic spectrum.

Coal to the lack of space for large lectures and performances.

We’d start a group to push for a lecture hall, but we wouldn’t have anywhere to meet.

A diamond to the “satanic” May Day rites of 1993 outside the old railway tunnel. Add some abandoned shopping carts, administrators and Thayer Street habituates, and you’ve got yourself a real Spring Weekend.

But a diamond to Spring Weekend’s Thursday concert, with Reel Big Fish, Blackalicious and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and one more to the prospect of Sleater-Kinney at the Saturday concert. (Note to Brown Concert Agency: Your “girlfriend” might not know, but we do.)

Coal to making a corporate scapegoat out of our favorite homemaker. Martha, you cook it just right.

A diamond to AS220 for its collaboration with the Rhode Island Training School and support for Broad Street Studios, engaging local kids, in and out of prison, with the Providence art scene.

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And a diamond to Providence’s art scene. What is Providence’s art scene, you ask? In the words of Providence artist Alex Grey, it’s about “normal, everyday things ... like sex when you’re tripping.”

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 11

SARAH GREEN

Election etiquette Dear Ms. Green, Last night my boyfriend and I were watching television, when suddenly we channel-surfed past David Horowitz. Here’s the problem: I’m seriously about to order one of those Marc Jacobs t-shirts emblazoned with Hillary Clinton’s face. So when my boyfriend said he liked Horowitz (who, at that moment, was claiming that slavery continued for “only about 80 years after we inherited it from the British Empire” as if it were some sort of bureaucratic oversight) I screamed louder than, well, I won’t say his name but it rhymes with “Doward Hean.” How are we going to make it until November without resorting to manslaughter or, even worse, breaking up?

need is a little refresher course in political etiquette: “politiquette.”

What we need here are some guidelines. First, I think it would serve all of us well to recall a simple adage of lawyers everywhere: If the facts are on your side, argue the facts. If the law is on your side, argue the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, attack the other guy.

This simple formula can help us all to decode

What would Emily Post say?

—Alarmed on Angell Street Dear Alarmed, Relax — breathe. Although we are undoubtedly muddling through one of the most polarized eras in our nation’s history, it’s important to remember that no one’s yet been caned in the Senate.

You know it’s gotten ugly when each side of the political spectrum simply assumes that the other side is lying (or, when feeling generous, “misinformed”).

There used to be good reasons for being a conservative. Fiscal responsibility, anyone? George, look at me when I’m talking to you! And there was also a time when “liberal” was not synonymous with “adulterer.”

Perhaps in this time of partisanship, what we

what’s really going on during the 2004 election season, whether your nightly news is followed by Larry King Live or The O’Reilly Factor. Be suspicious of ad hominem attacks, whether they deride one candidate’s less-than heroic military record or resort to outright name-calling. (I doubt “flip-flopper” is designed to describe John Kerry’s choice of summer footwear.) Someone who argues with nary a fact or a law probably has recourse to neither.

Another classic political tactic to watch out for: the straw man argument. Candidate P will mischaracterize Candidate Q’s position in such a way that P can easily yet dramatically eviscerate it. A straw man argument is a rhetorical slight of hand. For example, look at this line from President George W. Bush’s State of the Union: “We have faced serious chal-

lenges together — and now we face a choice. We can go forward with confidence and resolve — or we can turn back to the dangerous illusion that terrorists are not plotting and outlaw regimes are no threat to us.” Of course, you’re supposed to hear that and say, “Preposterous! Of course we can’t turn back time!

I’m voting Republican!” But what Democrat stood up and said, “Osama bin Laden?” (Remember him?)

“Please. America’s more threatened by the Yeti.”

Also note how using the straw man Bush was able to slide from “terrorists” to “outlaw regimes.”

Though it’s hard to tell from the syntax, these are actually two different things.

Lastly, and my personal favorite: the slippery slope argument. If you vote for X, you’re really voting for Y and then it’s only a matter of time before we have Z upon us. Ban assault weapons today, and tomorrow the sun will rise on a world where peashooters require background checks. Recognizing gay marriages will mean it’s only a matter of time until sin, moral degeneracy and really excellent interior design spread from sea to shining sea.

Yet what if this polite, rational approach doesn’t catch on? What if liberals still slam their martini glass angrily down onto their coffee tables constructed of 95 percent post-consumer recycled products? What if conservatives continue to aim their bulbous SUVs at the ’93 Subaru with the “Wage Peace!” sticker?

In that case, Alarmed, my advice to you is to turn dirty politics into talking dirty — nothing’s hotter than a murmured “I’ll be your minority whip, baby.”

Sarah Green ’04 always says the magic word.

DAN POULSON

Martha Stewart died for our sins Okay, the headline for this column was a bit of a stretch, I admit. Martha Stewart is clearly not Jesus.

However, I firmly believe that Stewart, the domestic doyenne previously known more for her informal rose arrangements than her insider trading habits, was an unfortunate victim of an overzealous and reactionary government campaign hell-bent on punishing figurehead personalities for trivial noncrimes rather than bear the messier task of managing the corporate scandals of Enron, Tyco, et al.

If there were any justice in the world, Stewart’s show would still be on the air, and I’d be at home right now learning the secrets behind a truly flavorful hollandaise sauce.

Take as Exhibit A the fact that Stewart was never formally charged with insider trading, the offense the government originally accused her of.

Stewart nabbed a relatively meager $52,000 profit when she followed her broker’s advice to sell her stock in ImClone Systems in December 2001, shortly before news broke that the company’s cancer drug Erbitrux had been denied FDA approval.

However, the government never attempted to prove that the company’s founder, Sam Waksal, provided Stewart with the confidential details of the company’s plight, a clear violation of securities policy.

Rather, the feds charged Stewart and her broker with lying by claiming that the sale was part of a prearranged agreement.

Even then, the most serious charge that the government could bring against her — that her strategy of lying to prosecutors was a ploy to inflate the stock of her own company and deceive investors in Martha Stewart Omnimedia — was dismissed by the judge on the grounds that the prosecution hadn’t established sufficient evidence for its claim.

Still, the subtleties of the government’s case were largely lost on media pundits (some of whom con-

tinued to refer to it as an “insider trading” scandal) and most likely on the jury itself. The relatively brief time (three days) that the jury took to deliberate on this rather complex case should have raised some eyebrows.

As the Wall Street Journal dryly reported when deliberations began last Thursday, “the jury made a couple of mistakes in its questions, asking for materials not in evidence and showing confusion on

Reasons why the homemaking über-goddess should be exonerated. whether or not an interview with authorities was taped.”

But perhaps the jury figured out its collective ass from its elbow and reasonably concluded, despite contradictions in the government’s case, that Stewart blatantly lied to prosecutors.

Should fibbing be considered a crime? Probably.

But should someone serve three years in prison for panicking, for contradicting oneself in the process of cooperating with the feds? That seems less certain. Most of us have lied under similar circumstances — for example, when we get pulled over by a traffic cop for speeding — with the notable exception that we don’t usually face a federal inquiry the morning after.

And while Stewart may very well become a poster

child for the government’s new efforts to crack down on white-collar crime, it’s important to note that unlike the Enron and Tyco scandals, no employee’s 401(k) was affected by Stewart’s actions, and nobody’s pension plan was liquidated.

As Slate.com’s Henry Blodget pointed out, the only real victims of Martha’s indiscretions, ironically, were taxpayers who paid for the costly prosecution, and the shareholders in Martha Stewart Omnimedia, who lost $250 million following the delivery of the guilty verdicts Friday.

If anything, Martha should be convicted of hubris and denial. Her defense team offered only one witness and failed to distance her name from the sometimes unflattering testimony offered by the lawyers of her stockbroker and co-defendant Peter Bacanovic.

Moreover, while putting Martha on the stand may have been a risky gamble, her decision not to testify was an even riskier one: she rejected the plea bargain offered her in 2002, the penalty for which would have been a $200,000 fine and no jail time.

Then again, Stewart’s reputation was all about risks and a steadfast refusal to compromise. She was a hugely successful and gutsy entrepreneur who single-handedly chatted up a small-scale catering business into a multi-million dollar domestic empire.

Kings feared her and a nation of middle-aged housewives adored her.

Her name was inseparable from the flawless vision of what she represented: a hearty DIY work ethic coupled with refined, principled taste.

It remains to be seen whether her new incarnation as a martyr will have the same resonance as her old one. If it does, we can all go back to calling her Queen of the Shrews.

Dan Poulson ’04 has a mean recipe for hollandaise sauce.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS FRIDAY MARCH 12, 2004 · PAGE 12

Hard work led to personal success for Golston ’04

BY ASHLEY BRANCA

Mark Cho / Herald

Laurel Pierpont ’04 had two goals despite pressure from University of New Hampshire defenders in Brown’s 12-10 overtime win Tuesday.

W. lacrosse takes season opener in OT

BY CHRIS MAHR

With a roster containing seven seniors, the women’s lacrosse team emerged victorious in its season opener, a 12-10 overtime thriller against the University of New Hampshire Tuesday afternoon at Stevenson Field.

Led by a quick-strike offense and a defense that was often impenetrable, Brown was able to hold off a very respectable Wildcats squad.

“Being able to win a game this close over an opponent we have a lot of respect for gives us a lot of confidence,” said Head Coach Theresa Ingram. “We’ve got seven wonderful seniors who have been working so hard for the past three years, and this season’s very important to them and all of us.”

The game got off to an inauspicious start for Brown, as a strong UNH ride five minutes into the game led to two goals, giving the Wildcats an early advantage.

But Brown responded less than 30 seconds later, as a nice defensive clear by co-captain Laurel Pierpont ’04 resulted in an a goal

by Amie Biros ’07 at the other end.

Pierpont’s defensive prowess

proved to be an omen for the rest of the half, as Brown held UNH to two goals over the final 10 minutes of the period, while getting one goal from Kate Staley ’06 and two from Pierpont, resulting in a 4-4 halftime score.

“The team defense really came together,” said co-captain Christine Anneberg ’04.

“Our whole defensive unit was very good, with (goalkeeper) Julia Southard ’05 making a lot of huge saves,” Ingram said. “In front of her we had Ashley Branca ’04, Debbie Mendel ’04 and Emily Blanton ’04, a great defensive unit working out there.”

Brown came out firing on all cylinders to begin the second half, keeping the ball on the UNH side of the field for first 10 minutes.

The Bears’ hard work paid off at 38:36, with Anneberg scoring the first of her four goals on a breakaway courtesy of an assist from Ashley Holden ’06.

Brown maintained the pressure, getting lots of shots on goal and continuing to prevent any easy clears for the Wildcats. At the see LACROSSE, page 9

Like most Division I athletes, Tanara Golston ’04 came to Brown as a high-school standout, prepared to test herself in the big leagues.

Unlike most Division I athletes, Golston would spend the next four years demonstrating ATHLETE she is nothing OF THE like any WEEK of her predecessors or peers. As her record-setting performance this weekend proved, this baller is in a league of her own.

In Friday’s game against

BY CRAIG MCGOWAN

The men’s ultimate frisbee club team, Brownian Motion, started its season off with a bang last weekend, making it to the semifinals of the highly competitive Stanford Invitational.

Though the team has yet to practice on grass this year, Brown went undefeated in pool play, defeating the University of Wisconsin in the quarterfinals before falling to host and eventual champion Stanford University.

“It was really exciting to play well and do well,” said co-captain Josh Ziperstein ’05.

Brown began the tournament with a game against the College of William & Mary, the top seed in their pool and fourth seed in the tournament. Brown, which defeated William & Mary at last year’s national tournament, took the game 12-10.

The gymnastics team won easy victories over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Springfield College at a meet held at MIT on Tuesday. The team had already beaten Springfield once and MIT twice this season, and this winning trend continued as Brown placed in the top two in all four events, and the top five on the beam.

Kate Slawsky ’07 placed in the top four in all three of her events, showing great promise for the team.

On the beam, Gina Verge ’04 took first place a 9.8, followed

by Mandi Baughmann ’06 with 9.65, Melissa Forziat ’05 with 9.55, Kate Slawsky ’07 with 9.4 and Jayne Finst ’04 with 9.15.

Brown also swept the top four places on the bars, with Verge leading the team again with a score of 9.6, followed by Sara Cavett ’06, Finst and Kelly Moran ’05.

The vault also won Brown points, with team members scoring in the top three. Finst took first in the vault with a 9.5, Verge took second and

Slawsky was third with a score of 9.275.

Finally, the floor exercise gave Brown the top two positions. Finst was first with a 9.45, followed closely by Slawsky with a 9.4. Verge finished in fourth with a 9.3.

The Bears will compete in their final home meet of the season against the University of Bridgeport and Rhode Island College Sunday. The meet was originally scheduled for last Friday, but a malfunction with the bar apparatus forced a postponement.

BY AMANDA BURDEN

The second pool game matched the team against the University of California-San Diego. San Diego had an effective deep zone it had used to great effect against Humboldt State University.

Brown played excellent defense throughout the game, at no time more evident than toward the end.

After Ben Galeota-Sprung ’05 dove to break up a pass that would have put San Diego in position to score, Brown took the disc and marched down the field to take the lead, which it would not relinquish en route to a 13-10 victory.

In its final game on Saturday, Brown faced the last seed in the pool, Humboldt.

Though the team was tired from its two previous games, Brown shut down Humboldt’s offense and prevailed 13-9.

The equestrian team made a strong comeback Saturday, capturing a third-place finish at the University of Connecticut, an improvement from last weekend’s fifth-place finish at Wesleyan University. In total, the team scored 32 points out of a possible 47, maintaining its third-place position in the region, behind Roger Williams University and UConn.

“Brown definitely has the talent and potential to catch up to Roger Williams,” said captain Leila Ledsinger ’05. “Everyone rode very well Saturday, and we saw a lot of personal bests for the season. We just need to use the kind of positive and supportive spirit from this show to regain the lead in the region.”

Usually gaining the most comparative points in the flat portions of competitions, Brown did not fare as well Saturday morning, as the judge ranked many strong flat competitors below their typical placements.

But the show concluded on a high point for Brown, as several riders took home first-place ribbons in the lower divisions and over-fences classes.

In the open flat division, 2003 team MVP Jamie Peddy ’06 placed fourth, while Severine Brustlein ’04 and Cindy Willner ’04 both took home fifth-place ribbons and Alexis Marcuvitz ’06 placed sixth.

In the intermediate flat division, Jade Palomino ’07 and Gillian Heinecke ‘07 both won their respective classes. Despite a nice ride, Katherine WarshawReid ’05 placed sixth in her intermediate flat contest .

Rachel Roemer ’06 led the way for the novice flat division with a much-needed win.

Ariana Arcenas ’06 and Heidi Abrecht ’07 followed with strong second-place finishes, while Kate Rae ’05 and Mallory Kass

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Strong start for Brownian Motion at Stanford Invitational

MIT and Springfield still no match as gymnastics takes easy victory

BY BROOKE WOLFE

Columbia University, Golston broke both the Brown and Ivy League records for assists in a season. She and her teammates celebrated by planting kisses on the leather.

If only it could always look that pretty — but no one knows better than Golston that all that matters is hitting the target. For Golston, hitting her mark comes easy, but only after years of hard work.

Golston joined the squad her first year with the intention of climbing her way up the playing time ladder.

Joined by a competitive class

Don’t call it a comeback: equestrian takes third

BROWN SPORTS SCHEDULE Friday, March 12 Women’s Ice Hockey: vs. Princeton, ECAC Quarterfinals – Game 1, Meehan Auditorium, 3:30 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Harvard, ECAC Quarterfinals – Game 1, Meehan Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

Women’s Lacrosse: vs. Maryland, Stevenson Field, 7 p.m.

Baseball: at University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Women’s Track: NCAA Championships, Fayetteville, AR Men’s Tennis: Blue/Gray Classic, Montgomery, Ala. Men’s Track: NCAA Indoor Championships Saturday, March 13 Women’s Ice Hockey: vs. Princeton, ECAC Quarterfinals – Game 2, Meehan Auditorium, 2 p.m.

Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Harvard, ECAC Quarterfinals – Game 2, Meehan Auditorium, 7 p.m.

Baseball: at University of Florida Gainesville, Fla. Men’s Lacrosse: at Fairfield, Fairfield, Conn.

Women’s Water Polo: vs. Connecticut College,

Cambridge, Mass.

Women’s Water Polo: at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

Men’s Tennis: Blue/Gray Classic, Montgomery, Ala. Sunday, March 14 Women’s Ice Hockey: vs. Princeton, ECAC Quarterfinals – Game 3, Meehan Auditorium, 2 p.m. (if needed) Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Harvard, ECAC Quarterfinals – Game 3, Meehan Auditorium, 7 p.m. (if needed) Softball: vs. Central Connecticut, Erickson Athletic Complex, noon Women’s Lacrosse: vs. Colgate, Stevenson Field, 1 p.m.

Women’s Tennis: vs. UAB, Pizzitola Sports Center, 1 p.m.

Gymnastics: vs. RIC and Bridgeport, Pizzitola Sports Center 1 p.m.

Baseball: at University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Women’s Water Polo: vs. Connecticut College, Cambridge, Mass.

Women’s Water Polo: at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

Men’s Tennis: Blue/Gray Classic, Montgomery, Ala.