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Slavery and Justice Committee brings nat’l media to Brown

Possible transfer of club sports to athletics dept. concerns department, athletes BY MELISSA PERLMAN

Things are going well for the men’s club soccer team. As an Undergraduate Council of Students-funded activity, the team gets $1,500 each semester. That’s enough to buy uniforms and travel to competitions each season. But next season, buying uniforms might be the least of the club’s problems, according to member John Redgrave ’05. As the Undergraduate Council of Students explores transferring jurisdiction over all club teams to the Department of Athletics, Redgrave said he fears his team could be eliminated. Management of club sports is currently divided between the athletics department and the Undergraduate Council of Students. Athletics manages club sports that are not duplicated on the varsity or recreational level, including sailing, rugby and ultimate frisbee, while UCS manages club sports such as soccer, tennis, lacrosse and field hockey. Clubs controlled by the athletics department have access to the field space surrounding the Olney-Margolies Athletics Center, trainers and insurance. Clubs managed by UCS have none of these privileges. If the Faculty Committee on Athletics and Physical Education approves the transfer of all club sports management to the athletics department, as UCS has proposed, some clubs will likely be eliminated unless athletics receives a substantial increase in funding, according to Matthew Tsimikas, assistant athletics director. Adding six more club teams to the rossee CLUB SPORTS, page 4

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Traditional South Asian dances and dress featured prominently in Friday night’s South Asian Student Association’s annual cultural show.The two-and-a-half hour performance featured more than 30 acts and drew an overflow crowd to Salomon 101.

SASA show exhibits traditional, Western- influenced sides of South Asian culture BY KRISTA HACHEY

The South Asian Students Association called this year’s cultural show “Masti,” a Hindi word meaning “fun and energetic.” The event, held Friday night in a packed Salomon 101, lived up to the name as it showcased 18 acts and included nearly 100 performers. “The show is a representation of what that culture means to many different students — sometimes this involves sticking strictly to the traditional South Asian culture, and sometimes this means portraying a culture that fuses both the South Asian and American experience,” SASA Events Committee Co-Chair Seema Vora ’06 told The Herald. The night began with a “face-off”

between Kathak, a North Indian classical dance form, and Step, the rhythmic and stomping dance form that is popular within African American communities. Former Herald Senior Editor Kavita Mishra ’04, wearing bells on her ankles and traditional dress, demonstrated the quick footwork of Kathak and engaged in a back-and-forth game of imitation with the step team, whose black, clunky boots provided an interesting contrast to Mishra’s bare feet. Among the first-act performances was a short segment of a Varnam, which choreographer Arya Shekar ’05.5 said is normally 35 to 40 minutes long. see SASA, page 4

NYC protest draws disparate elements

It’s been almost one year since President Ruth Simmons established the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice and almost eight months since Brown Alumni Monthly reported on it. But the national media has just caught on. The Providence Journal was the first major newspaper to cover the story, on March 4, followed by a frontpage story in the New York Times March 14. Reactions to the coverage have revealed a culture clash between the slow-moving, reflective world of academia and the fast-paced, deadline-driven cycle of journalism. At the committee’s first event, a Thursday panel featuring five professors, Committee Chair and Professor of American Civilization James Campbell expressed frustration with media coverage of the committee, which he said has focused primarily on the “sexy” issue of reparations. The committee is embarking on what amounts to a two-year research project on the politically charged issue of the University’s — and the nation’s — legacy of slavery. It is slated to publish recommendations in the spring of 2006 about how Brown can come to terms with its historical ties to the slave trade. While acknowledging the committee is “in the position to make an intervention in a national debate,” Campbell told The Herald last week that the media will have to wait to find out exactly what that intervention will be. “Part of the reason we’re spending the next two years is because we don’t know enough — we as individuals and we as a society,” he said. see MEDIA, page 8

A year later, student anti-war groups struggle with identity BY SARA PERKINS

At 6:15 a.m. Saturday, Fokion Burgess ’07 finished writing the phone number for the New York City office of the American Civil Liberties Union on his forearm and began passing his black markers around on the charter bus parked outside Faunce Arch. “In case you get arrested,” he explained, then rattled off the number to around 20 assorted student activists. Six hours later, the dreadlocked, tiedyed first-year student was barely visible weaving between men trailing giant Palestinian flags, a chanting group of Haitians supporting their ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and a group of small old ladies with signs attached to their sunhats who were distributing stickers saying “Stop the War! No Police State!” An estimated 200 Rhode Islanders, on a

bus caravan organized by the Providence chapter of ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), attended a march in New York City to mark the first anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. The students who attended the anti-war protest, one of several in cities around the world, were not all members of any single on-campus organization. Vanessa Huang ’05, who sold bus tickets, found participants by putting up fliers and sending information to listservs, she said. The event showcased the broad coalition of groups and causes that have become incorporated into the anti-war movement and the challenge to campus anti-war organizing at Brown and other colleges and universities. see ANTI-WAR, page 6

Haskins ’04.5 makes “Dream Job” finals

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Representatives from many different causes marched in New York City Saturday on the first anniversary of the war in Iraq.

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I N S I D E M O N D AY, M A RC H 2 2 , 2 0 0 4 Inventive student works on display in annual Bell Gallery exhibition arts & culture, page 3

Taiwanese dance group to perform as part of Taiwanese Cultural Week arts & culture, page 3

Despite terrorism striking nearby, Brown students in Spain go on with lives abroad campus news, page 5

On Sunday night’s live episode of ESPN’s “Dream Job,” Maggie Haskins ’04.5 learned that she will progress to the final round of the elimination series. Haskins will compete for a one-year sportscaster’s contract next Sunday night at 9 p.m. The winner will be determined by Internet or text message votes from viewers during the broadcast. Visit www.espn.com for information on how to register to vote. — Herald staff reports

Rob Sand ’05.5 says hip hop might be the Democrats’ answer a successful campaign column, page 11

Jason Forte ’05 earns Player of the Year; basketball has three men make all-Ivy teams sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS LATINO HISTORY MONTH CONVOCATION 7:30 p.m. (C.V. Starr Auditorium) — Emmy Award-winning journalist Ruben Martinez will speak about the challenges that Latinos face in the media.

THREE CHAIRS,TWO CUBES: A FESTIVAL OF UNDERGRADUATE NEW PLAYS 8 p.m. (Production Workshop) — A festival of short, student-directed plays by undergraduate writers. Tickets will be available at the door starting an hour before the show each night. Admission is free.

Four Years Eddie Ahn

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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2004 · PAGE 3

Taiwanese dance troupe visiting Brown in first New England tour

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Bell Gallery features student works in exhibition BY MASHA KIRASIROVA

Clouds Dance Theatre, a professional Taiwanese dance troupe, will be performing and hosting a workshop this week as part of Taiwan Culture Fest 2004. The troupe will perform eight pieces over an hour and a half beginning at 8 p.m. in Salomon 101 on Tuesday. At the workshop on Monday, three members of the troupe will teach the basics of Taiwanese folk dance. Clouds Dance Theatre has traveled to Holland, Germany and Israel. It aims “to inherit and carry on the art of Taiwanese folk dance and foster professional artists within Taiwan and to offer audiences a chance to understand and appreciate Taiwanese folk dance through performances,” according to the group’s Web site. Eva Wu ’06, communications chair for the Brown Taiwanese Society and commissioner of special projects for the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Student Association, saw Clouds Dance Theatre perform in Israel and was so moved by the performance she thought the group should perform in the United States. “I felt like they touched an international audience,” she said. The group’s program will include Taiwanese aboriginal and classical dances and mainland Chinese dances. There has been some controversy over the group’s repertoire because sometimes its dancing is considered too Chinese, Wu said. Wu said she has worked for nearly a year to bring Clouds Dance Theatre to New England. The group arrived in New England Wednesday and is spending 10 days at several schools, including Brandeis University, Boston University, Smith College, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Columbia University, in addition to Brown. The Taiwanese government and the host schools are sponsoring the tour. Clouds Dance Theatre is not charging the schools for the performances and workshops, but the schools are providing rooms and food for the dancers. Monday’s workshop is free and will take place at 4 p.m. in Leung Gallery. Tuesday’s show is free, and tickets are available in the post office. — Elise Baran

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The 2004 Student Exhibition features an eclectic collection as varied in concept as it is in the material and media utilized. Animation, sculpture, painting, photography, furniture, pottery and mixed media works are brought together in this collage of Brown student talent, currently on display in the David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center. The front lobby displays “Chair and 10,000 Pins,” by Amanda Norman ’04, the pins protruding out in a yellow halo. In the same room, the animated “First Kiss,” by Chris Smith ’05, captures the morbid sexual awkwardness between a despondent pair of figures in a macabre style reminiscent of cartoonist Roman Dirge. “Squirrel Wallpaper,” by Beth Brandon ’04, covers the far wall to the left of “Rorschach in Blot,” by Katherine Mann ’05, an abstract blob of conglomerated little creatures loosely defined by sets of cartoonish eyes and ambiguous little hairs. The majority of the exhibit is housed in the gallery adjacent to the lobby. In the middle of the room, “Anatomically Correct Passionflower,” knitted by Tatyana Yanishevsky ’05.5, floats three feet off the ground, attracting visitors with its textured, bulbous mohair sex organs encircled by a large canopy of patterned lavender petals. This seductive creature all but dwarfs its counterpart, “Plant with Root Modules,” another attempt to capture biological floral aesthetic with yarn. A corner piece by Jamie Kaufman ’04 precariously balances an exploded desk within a mountain of newspaper spanning some 15 feet of vertical space. Overwhelmed by information, the structure of the organizational instrument succumbs to violence and destruction. A similar collegiate frustration is captured in her peeling chalkboard in the main lobby. The written text, actually notes from a comparative literature class, begins with “I have completed the construction of myself” and ends with scribbles, doodles and bizarre, perplexing queries like “Who is the beast?” The right side of the board peels and melts, unable to support the text, betraying the same weakness under the stress of information as the desk. A small white putty knife, presumably the author’s destructive instrument of choice, is wedged against the chalkboard’s bottom frame.

The mouthwatering “Juicy Fruit on Canvas,” by Risa Puno ’04, references abstract expressionism using sweetsmelling gum instead of paint, making one want to not only touch but also gnaw at the art on the wall. Peeking into the interactive video box in the main hall and powering its rotating crank, one can experience the detailed mechanical drawings of Michelle Higa ’04 as they move, rotate and click over abstracted urban skylines. In another technologically inspired mixed media composition, “Mapping, Red?” Ellen Schneiderman ’05 plays with a range of materials, layering paint over stretched fabric that creates a resemblance to a topographical map. Using subtle complementary color combinations, Schneiderman responds to the weave of cloth playing on the pattern but occasionally disassociates with it using light application of oils. Some of the more comical pieces include a painting by Zeynep Saygin ’05 of a woman’s breast spilling out of a dark pink corset. The lush reds and pinks, the provocative breast and “full Renaissance gear” including the enormous lace collar, pokes fun at Baroque painting, particularly Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. “Some people take their work too seriously,” Saygin said at the opening to explain the joke. The hyperrealist, starkly light emptiness of “Gas For Less,” by Anna Knoell ’04, evokes an isolation similar to that of Edward Hopper. The mouthwatering “Juicy Fruit on Canvas,” by Risa Puno ’04, references abstract expressionism using sweet-smelling gum instead of paint, making one want to not only touch but also gnaw at the art on the wall. These and other remarkable student works will be on display at the Winton Bell Gallery through April 4. Herald staff writer Masha Kirasirova ’05 can be reached at mkirasirova@browndailyherald.com.

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SASA continued from page 1 Performed by Shekar and Praveen Basaviah ’05, the piece captured the intriguing and graceful forms of the Hindu epic figures Krishna and Radha. The two performers moved with fluidity and startling quickness and created a dynamic between each other with expressive eye glances, coordinated to the beat of the music. Dramatic gestures in the Varnam mimic the rhythmic vocal sounds of the “nattavungam” technique used in the music. “The sounds don’t actually mean anything — they’re just important for their aesthetic,” Shekar said. “It’s an integral part of the style of dance and is something every dancer eventually has to learn.” Shekar, who took a semester off last spring to study dance in India, said the piece exhibited her first attempt at choreography. “In the process I learned a bit about myself, my ‘dance sense,’ how I’m trying to develop and where I need improvement,” she said. Shekar said SASA participants strive every year for community involvement among both South Asians at Brown and the student community at large. “I think this was the most people I’ve ever seen involved in the show in my time at Brown,” she said. “It’s also pretty telling that each year alumni come back to see it and support us. It’s a fun challenge to work with so many people, and the best part of it is meeting new people and solidifying friendships in the process.” Through a series of personal monologues, members of the South Asian Women’s Collective

Club sports continued from page 1 ter of 37 varsity teams and seven club teams the athletics department already manages would only decrease each team’s “piece of the pie” under the existing budget, he said. “We know once (team management) switches, it’s going to be a major struggle for us,” Redgrave said of the club soccer team. “Since we don’t get much support from the athletics department, we most likely would be the first team to be cut.” Tsimikas also questioned the purpose of UCS-run club teams that duplicate varsity and recreational sports. “You don’t want to accept (the club teams) if they are going to fail,” he said. “To say, ‘C’mon down’ is not fair to the existing teams or the other teams with images of how it will be.” Men’s ultimate frisbee captain Josh Ziperstein ’05 said he thinks simply incorporating club sports into the athletics department would not address the real problem facing students who participate in club athletes. “There need to be more fields, money and resources,” he said. “It won’t solve the problem by just pushing (club sports) over to athletics.” UCS Student Activities Chair Rob Montz ’05 acknowledged

honored women who have kept tradition in their lives. The student speakers, who are part of a more progressive generation, shared humorous and heartfelt anecdotes about the ways traditional Hindu views of women have put a subtle strain on their family relationships. “We don’t want to grow up to be like them, but we admire them,” Bharati Kalasapudi ’07 said. With an accompanying slideshow, Parendi Mehta ’07 described a much-loved grandmother whose beliefs in arranged marriages and honoring the first-born son was distancing for her granddaughters. When on the phone with Mehta’s family, it was her 22year-old, first-born grandson to whom Mehta’s grandmother wanted most to talk. “But as long as she’s smiling on the other half of the world, it doesn’t matter,” Mehta said. Neel Shah ’04, an acoustic guitar singer/songwriter, performed an instrumental guitar piece inspired by the timbre and melodic patterns of sitar music. The second act of the show included a fashion show, a medley of Bollywood classics and group performances infused with both Western and Indian music and dance. Performers in a bhangra dance routine choreographed by Basaviah said, “We are dhol addicts,” referring to the principal drum used to create the beats in bhangra music. Bhangra is an energetic folk dance from the Punjab region of India and is used to celebrate the seasons and rains, Basaviah told The Herald. “Indian music, whether it be bhangra, classical or Bollywood, has been heavily influencing and being influenced by western music, like hip-hop,” he said.

Audience members were vocal about their excitement for the group acts, which included acrobatic feats with dancers suspended and swinging from the shoulders of other dancers. “Everyone who hears bhangra music can’t help but fall in love with it,” Basaviah said. “It just makes you want to get up and dance forever to such tight beats.” SASA president Rashmi Kudesia ’04 told The Herald the annual show allows members of the South Asian community to share a culture that has been somewhat misrepresented in American society. “South Asia is entering the mainstream American consciousness, politically skewed through media coverage of nuclear arming, outsourcing and so forth,” he said. “Culturally, our heritage gets distorted through the usage of religious and ethnic images by Madonna and on lunchboxes and disrespectful clothing and other consumer products. “Each culture has a lighter side, and the celebratory nature of dance and song in South Asia is a major part of what I hope the audience perceived,” Kudesia added. Audience member Samuel Hodges ’04 said he knew many of the performers and that a virtue of the show was its inclusion of many students. “Feeling the excitement coming out of the senior dance, as I watched people who I’ve enjoyed to know over the past four years pour out emotions with the promise of their last semester here, really moved me,” he said. Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.

Men’s ultimate frisbee captain Josh Ziperstein ’05 said he thinks simply incorporating club sports into the athletics department would not address the real problem facing students who participate in club athletes. “There need to be more fields, money and resources,” he said.“It won’t solve the problem by just pushing (club sports) over to athletics.” that “people higher up don’t necessarily want to take them on, because that’s just more stress on their system and more things they have to worry about. “But it’s only six new club sports,” he said. “It wouldn’t be a large transfer of power, but it would make it a lot easier at the end of the day.” He also said that if the transfer occurs and the athletics department declines to fund some clubs, UCS will fund them as long as necessary. The primary reason for transferring UCS-managed club sports to the athletics department would be current safety concerns, according to Montz. “Some of these teams right now will go and compete over the weekend and we have no idea if they’re gone or not,” Montz said. “If (players) got

hurt, it would mean big problems for the University.” Tsimikas said that whatever the ultimate decision is about club sport management, it will be entirely for the benefit of the students. “Students should trust that (the University is) doing the best for the student experience and the safest and best practices,” Tsimikas said. “It’s going to take time. The administration needs to spend some (money) to make students happy and to put them at ease.” FCAPE will meet April 16, and Tsimikas said he expects a more final decision will be made then. Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 is an assistant sports editor. She can be reached at m p e rl m a n @ b r ow n d a i l y h e r ald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2004 · PAGE 5

Brown students safe in Madrid; study-abroad programs take precautions against crises BY LEE CHU

When bombs exploded on trains in Madrid, Spain on March 11, killing 202 people, the Office of International Programs relied on reports from Boston University program directors to ensure that Brown students studying in Madrid were safe. All 11 Brown students currently in Madrid are studying through BU’s program. By noon on the day of the bombing, OIP had reports from BU and all other programs hosting Brown students in Spain that the students were accounted for and safe, according to OIP Director Kirstin Moritz. Assistant OIP Director Christine Kelly-Vereda, who advises students studying abroad in Spain, e-mailed the students to offer Brown’s support. No students responded to the OIP e-mail, and the OIP took the lack of response as confirmation that the students were safe, Moritz said. Students studying abroad are always asked to contact the directors of their programs in emergency situations, Moritz said. Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, emergency procedures for study abroad programs have been updated yearly, she said.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, emergency procedures for study abroad programs have been updated yearly, said OIP Director Kirstin Moritz. Many study abroad programs now provide students with cell phones for emergencies and ask them to call home and check in with personnel as soon as a potentially dangerous situation arises. In case phone connections don’t work, students are advised to use e-mail. The system worked quickly and efficiently following the Madrid bombings, according to Moritz. Still, Emily Nemens ’05, who is studying abroad in Madrid, wrote in a March 15 e-mail to The Herald that she felt “paranoid.” “I always said I wanted to

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move to a big city with a public transportation system that could take care of me, and I think I lost that on Thursday,” Nemens wrote. “There have been sirens and helicopters for the last three days, ever since 8:30 (a.m., March 11).” “Outside my window my neighbors are banging pots and pans in solidarity,” Nemens wrote. The OIP relies on NAFSA: Association of International Educators, which posts safety news on the Internet, including U.S. State Department travel warnings. Program closings are rare and usually temporary, and they only occur when there is clear evidence of ongoing danger, Moritz said. Students are currently prohibited from travel abroad to Israel, Kenya, Turkey and Nepal, countries for which the State Department has issued travel warnings. But Moritz predicted that warnings for all except Israel will have been revoked by the summer. In the case of a program closed by an ongoing threat such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, arrangements are made for students to return to the United States within one week.

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Student branch of council brings arts to campus BY LESLIE KAUFMANN

The Student Creative Arts Council, a subdivision of the Creative Arts Council, was recently established to generate better relations between the CAC and students and to increase artistic awareness at Brown. The CAC is devoted to promoting interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts on not only a campus level, but on national and international levels as well. The SCAC was created to give students a voice in its proceedings. “It’s a bridge from the undergraduates to the head (of the CAC),” said SCAC member Laini Nemett ’06. “Students are there to express what we need.” The SCAC consists of two representatives from each sector of the creative arts on campus, including the departments of music, visual arts and theatre, speech and dance, as well as the Program in Literary Arts. “The point is to be interdisciplinary,” said SCAC member Corey Solinger ’05. “Right now we have a lot of VA concentrators,” she added, saying that some programs, such as the Program in the Literary Arts and the Department of Music, are currently underrepresented. Among its responsibilities, the SCAC plays an active role alongside the CAC in conducting the Mini-Grant program, which

sponsors student art projects each semester. Nemett said the SCAC is interested in developing a Web site and an arts festival to promote artistic awareness on campus. The Web site would boast a forum for artists to communicate with each other, as well as a calendar listing upcoming arts events on campus and in the community, she said. “Things don’t get out as much as they should, and people don’t know about a lot of cool things that are happening,” she added. The arts festival would be held over the course of a weekend and include such events as musical and theatrical performances, as well as a forum for artists to sell their work. “I really want to see the arts festival next semester,” Solinger said. “I think that it could really bring the campus together in the arts. We have a lot of really good artists here, and I feel like they don’t get seen a lot.” Through its affiliation with the CAC, the SCAC receives funding and other resources that are not available to other student groups. Nemett said she hopes to join with other groups to generate an even greater awareness for the arts on campus. She sees the SCAC as a “blanket group” for other art groups on campus. “It’s a really amazing thing that could happen for the school,” she said.

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Anti-war continued from page 1 Socialist networks, unaffiliated anarchists, anti-occupation Haitians, Filipinos and Palestinians, feminists, racial activists, gay rights groups, antiimperialists, anti-corporate activists and supporters of Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) presidential bid were amply represented at the event. Organizers estimated over 100,000 attendees, while city officials believe there were significantly fewer. By the time the rally began at noon, Madison Avenue was either congested or packed to a standstill between 23rd and 40th Streets, and most of the demonstrators never saw the small stage from which speakers and performers were broadcast. The 1 p.m. march wound down Madison and up Sixth Avenue for several hours, overseen by a sizable police force. One officer was surreptitiously allowing participants to leave through his segment of metal fencing around the route, while most officers adhered to a policy in which marchers could exit onto the sidewalks or side streets only at several designed points. The officer said his chief concern was not the students and elderly protesters whom he was mostly allowing through. “You have to watch out for professional agitators,” he said, but he said he was most concerned about “you know, outside elements.” Some organizers acknowledged that some Americans might fear terrorist involvement in the march. One group, UnCon 2004, enlisted Burgess and others to dis-

tribute leaflets, urging those who planned to protest the Republican National Convention in New York City in September to use exclusively non-violent means to avoid lending inadvertent support to President George W. Bush. Jeff Carleton ’03 came to the march with his girlfriend, a member of State University of New York-Binghamton’s Students for Peace and Justice, which organizes students “against occupation and excessive military spending,” according to one member and which brought 16 to 20 students to “crash” at one student’s house on Long Island. Carleton, who is currently living in Brooklyn, N.Y., had been one of several students who countered anti-war protests at Brown by chalking statements like “Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You” on the sidewalk outside the Sharpe Refectory last March. “Initially I was all for the war,” he said, but allegations that the Bush administration lied about and exaggerated intelligence that supported the war have left him “kind of in between,” he said. “Coward,” his girlfriend called him with a smile. “You’re sitting on the fence.” Emily Rak, a freshman at the University of Vermont, came with a large group, some of whom were affiliated with UVM Students Against the War, others with the International Socialist Organization and still others with local Burlington, Vt., groups. “It takes lots of campaigning and organizing to maintain involvement” in the anti-war group on campus, she said. “There’s a lot of interest, but not a lot of people who come to meet-

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Organizers estimated there were more than 100,000 march attendees,while city officials believe there were ings,” agreed Emily Spare of Columbia University’s anti-war group. “I don’t know why!” Organizing students around nothing more than opposition to the war has proved increasingly difficult since the war began, participants and several Brown activists said. The necessity of forming coalitions among many groups can dilute the anti-war message or drive away people who oppose the war but do not necessarily support the other causes involved. Students Against the War in Iraq, formed last year before the start of the war, changed its name at the end of the Spring 2003 semester to the Student Anti-War Coalition to reflect a broader

focus. “At the end of last (school) year, people were really poised to take the anti-war movement further, because I think we all knew that the significance of Iraq was not just the specific case of the Bush administration making war against Saddam Hussein’s regime, but it was rather symbolic of their larger approach to foreign policy,” said Emma Rebhorn ’06, one of the students who originally organized SAWI and who helped to lead SAWC until it stopped meeting at the end of the fall semester. “This year, there was a lot of disarray and confusion, and this was not unique to Brown — it happened across the country to student groups, to adult groups, to whoever,” Rebhorn said. “There was confusion about how we were going to approach the question of the U.S. occupation, if people were going to call for a multilateral occupation, a U.N. occupation.” Rebhorn — who did not attend this weekend’s march — said the confusion, coupled with internal debate about the group’s breadth of focus, caused SAWC membership to dwindle. “I personally was really discouraged with the group, because there is absolutely no point, no efficacy in having meetings where the same five people come,” she said. The Brown College Democrats, initially members of Brown’s SAWI, officially withdrew from the coalition group in the early fall. “We were in SAWI, and we decided at the very beginning of the last semester to withdraw from that … simply because the state of events in Iraq had changed such that there was no point in being against the war in Iraq anymore,” said Ethan Ris ’05, president of the College Democrats, who did not attend the march. The war had already happened, Ris said, so opposing it “was like being against water.” Participation by individual members of the Democrats, Ris said, dropped off after the first few meetings. “People got pretty disillusioned due to sort of dominance by the ISO,” he said. “To their credit, (ISO members) were the sort of the instigators of the coalition,” but their rhetoric “turned people off.” “Certainly not the majority, but the views most energetically expressed (within SAWI) were very radical and sort of unsatisfactory. … Hoping that U.S. troops die is not good for anybody,” he said. “At the end, there were only two or three of our hard-core

Democrats” still participating, “mostly to argue.” Scott Ewing ’05, who attended the march, agreed that SAWI’s inclusion of disparate ideological elements had driven people away. “I felt ultimately as though the movement was hindered by a lack of activism and that the movement also scared off people who were perhaps opposed to the war but didn’t want to be associated with or forced to be exposed to other fringe issues or groups,” he said. “I think strategically, if one wants to make a statement against the war on as big a scale as possible, it’s not helpful to have other groups promoting their causes during the event,” Ewing said. As an example, he pointed to a group that had begun chanting gay-rights slogans. “‘No gay Jim Crow, homophobia’s got to go,’ which is a fine sentiment that has nothing to do with the Iraq war,” he said. Incorporating new issues into their missions might reduce membership in some activist groups, but Huang said organized activism cannot ignore issues like race, class, imperialism and globalization. On the bus, she distributed an “open letter to activists concerning racism in the anti-war movement” written by Elizabeth Martinez, who has taught workshops at conferences on the subject of “white activists” ignoring issues of race and class, Huang said. Huang’s position was reflected by posters at the march that protested the “poverty draft” and by the participation of satirical groups like “Billionaires for Bush.” Some campuses are simply hostile to anti-war group organizing, no matter what the depth or subject matter, said Dennis Szulc and Damien Scott, two freshmen at St. John’s University who came to the protest independent of any group. “No one wants to make trouble,” Scott said. “It’s a controversial issue at a small Catholic school,” Szulc agreed. Their friend Melissa Loftus, a student at the Art Institute of New York, said her mostly commuter school had very few student organizations and “no real campus life,” making it an unlikely platform for organized opposition to the war. Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 edits the Metro section. She can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

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Pharmacists may be allowed to deny morning-after pill ST. LOUIS (Los Angeles Times) — Pharmacist Matt Hartwig got

a call recently from an employee in a drugstore he owns in rural Missouri. A woman had come in with a prescription for the “morning-after” pill, which can prevent most pregnancies if taken within three days of unprotected sex. The pharmacist on duty had refused to sell it to her. Although the federal government classifies the pill as an emergency contraceptive, the pharmacist said he considered it a form of abortion. He told the woman he was morally opposed to providing it. And Hartwig backed him up. “As a pharmacist, you’re required to do no harm, just like nurses and doctors are,” he explained. “I believe you have a right not to fill a prescription if you think it will harm the patient or the unborn child.” Missouri lawmakers are weighing whether to guarantee that right in state law. Legislation filed here and in at least five other states would let pharmacists refuse to dispense the morningafter pill without fear of losing their jobs. Each bill is slightly different, but most aim to shield pharmacists from lawsuits and protect them from disciplinary action — both from their bosses and from state regulatory boards — if they refuse to provide the pill as a matter of conscience. A few offer the same protection to pharmacists who object to other contraceptives, such as birthcontrol pills. Abortion-rights advocates say they are baffled by the flurry of legislation in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina and Washington, as well as Missouri. In their view, even anti-abortion groups should support easy access to the morning-after pill because it reduces unwanted pregnancies and thus cuts down on surgical abortions.

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But people who believe life begins at conception view the high-dose hormones as baby killers, because they can block fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. Addressing a Missouri legislative committee this week, Republican state Sen. John Cauthorn declared that pharmacists should not fear punishment for what he called having enough “semblance of character to protect the rights of the unborn.” Abortion-rights advocates counter that pharmacists should not be second-guessing patients and their physicians. “They have an ethical obligation to meet the needs of the patient,” said Susanne Martinez, vice president of Planned Parenthood. “We don’t want to see barriers put in front of women who need a prescription filled. That could hurt a lot of people.” Marketed as Plan B and Preven, morning-after pills have been sold in the United States since 1998, with modest success. Barr Pharmaceuticals, which recently bought the rights to Plan B, estimates emergency contraception sales at $12 million to $15 million a year. Wal-Mart does not sell the pills. “It’s a business decision, not a moral judgment,” a spokeswoman said. Several other major chains, including Walgreen’s and CVS, stock Plan B but allow pharmacists to opt out of filling prescriptions — as long as they refer the patient to a colleague who will provide the pills. In January, however, the Eckerd drugstore chain fired a Texas pharmacist for refusing to sell the emergency contraceptive to a rape victim, saying he had violated company policy. That incident outraged anti-abortion groups — and made legislation to prevent such firings a priority.

WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) — In the spring of 1989, Supreme Court Justice Byron White, once a star running back for the Detroit Lions, was the guest of the Detroit News at the annual press dinner of the Gridiron Club. When the paper’s publisher bought him a drink, White casually asked how the planned merger of the city’s two newspapers was going. “It’s before your court,” the publisher informed White. A few weeks later, the justices voted to take up the case — but without White. He had withdrawn from the deliberations, apparently concerned that his having just been the unwitting guest of a party to a case before the court might create an appearance of partiality. During the same period, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia got together once a month to play poker. Sometimes they were joined by the Reagan administration’s solicitor general, Charles Fried, the government’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court. That same spring, Fried strongly urged the justices to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. Fried’s poker partners participated fully in the case. “I was an occasional player. It was very small stakes,” Fried, a Harvard law professor, said last week. “The work of the court was not discussed.” As the two incidents show, and as the current controversies over the outside activities of Scalia and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underscore, the Supreme Court justices have quite different views on how they should manage their

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Media continued from page 1 In the wake of the Times story about the committee, news stories and columns appeared last week in the Boston Globe, the Guardian of London, USA Today, the Indianapolis Star, the Anchorage Daily News and dozens of other newspapers. Fox News, the Associated Press, the “Today Show,” local television news stations and several conservative radio talk shows also reported on the committee’s work. Professors, students and administrators involved with the committee say they are not surprised by the attention their work has received from the international media, although some say they are disappointed by the tenor of the coverage, which has tended to focus on the hot-button issue of whether the University will pay financial reparations to the descendants of slaves. At the panel Thursday, tensions between the media and participants came to a boil. At one point during the question and answer session, British journalist Joanna Walters, reporting for the Guardian, became so frustrated with the speakers’ negative characterizations of the press that she prefaced her question with a request for mercy. “It’s very easy to blame the media,” she told the panel. “But you let the cat out of the bag, and it’s a hot issue.” At the event, Campbell voiced particular frustration with the New York Times’ story, which ends by quoting Simmons as saying, “If the committee comes back and says, ‘Oh it’s been lovely and we’ve learned a lot,’ but there’s nothing in particular that they think Brown can do or should do, I will be very disappointed.” Campbell told the audience he feared the Times’ framing of Simmons’ statement has led people to believe that she is pushing the committee toward advocating financial reparations.

Justices continued from page 7 social and professional lives so as to avoid creating an appearance of partiality. Some, like the late White and Justice John Paul Stevens, have been especially wary of appearing as though they favored one side or the other in a legal dispute. Last spring, for example, Stevens debated dropping out of the pending case on affirmative action because one of his former clerks, Jeffrey Lehman, was the dean of the University of Michigan law school. A white student’s challenge to the school’s admissions policy became the test case for the national dispute. The other eight justices “unanimously and very firmly” insisted he should stay in the case, Stevens told lawyers at a Chicago bar meeting last summer. Stevens, a registered Republican at the time of his appointment, has been careful to separate himself from partisan and ideological causes and maintained a reputation for independence and impartiality. When his colleagues intervened in the 2000 Florida election dispute to stop the recount and thereby to ensure that

Campbell said the Horowitz incident was “truly lamentable” and informed his early interest in the committee. “One of the things the Horowitz ad suggested to us was that rather than leave this history to lie there and an occasional cinder to burst into flames, that we should take it on and discuss it without fear,” he said. “We now have said to the country that we want to have an open, searching discussion, and we will take seriously the opinions of people across the political spectrum,” he said. Professor of Political Science Darrell West, whose work looks at the intersection of politics and the mass media, said that while the media might oversimplify the issue, coverage of the committee will benefit the University. Both the Boston Globe and USA Today published columns calling Simmons courageous for addressing the issue of slavery. “It’s hard for the media to grasp all of the complexities of the slavery issue 150 years after the fact,” West said. “But it’s easy to grasp onto reparations as the representation of that issue. “I think the news coverage has been pretty positive,” he added. “I think Brown is getting a lot of credit for tackling this subject.” Seth Magaziner ’06, one of three undergraduate members of the committee, was interviewed last week by the “Today Show” and the Boston Globe. He agreed with Campbell that the Times’ article is too “narrowly focused,” but he said he thinks media coverage generally has been positive. “I knew from the start that this was important and somewhat unprecedented,” Magaziner said. “I thought that the media had become bored with the (reparations issue), so I was a little surprised, but pleasantly surprised overall.”

“One of the unfortunate conclusions that some have drawn from the oversimplified press coverage that we’ve had so far is that the committee’s conclusions are somehow predetermined and, worse still, that somehow President Simmons is trying to pressure us to reach some conclusion or other,” Campbell told The Herald before the event. “I genuinely have not the slightest inkling of what she thinks about the question of slave reparations.” But despite Campbell’s criticism of the Times’ coverage, he told a group of reporters after the event that the University consciously chose to stonewall news outlets other than the Times until the paper printed its March 14 front-page story. In an interview with The Herald last week, Campbell, himself a former journalist, said he wasn’t surprised at the media’s rush to frame the issue around reparations. American society has trouble dealing with complex issues and tends to polarize quickly on matters of race, he said. “The committee is going to learn about the range of different approaches to questions of historical injustice,” Campbell said. “Monetary reparations seem to be the model in which discussions in the United States today are framed, but if you look across the world and you look across time, there are a variety of different ways that societies have attempted to confront legacies of historical injustice and move forward. … We should learn from those.” A number of news stories, including an Associated Press report distributed around the country, have recalled the reparations-related controversy that erupted at Brown in March 2001, when conservative provocateur David Horowitz placed an antireparations advertisement in The Herald. Three days after the ad appeared, The Herald’s press run was stolen by student activists, and campus and nationwide discussions on free speech ensued.

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 edits the RISD News section. She can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

Republican George W. Bush would win the White House, Stevens worried in dissent that the ultimate loser would be the court’s standing as “an impartial guardian of the rule of law.” But others reject what they see as a hypersensitivity over potential conflicts of interests. They stress that justices have friends who are lawyers and government officials and insist that those friendships do not prevent a justice from deciding legal questions fairly. Harvard’s Fried dismissed the concerns over Justice Scalia’s duckhunting trip with Vice President Dick Cheney as “utter garbage. It is contemptible, election-year garbage,” he said. “Steve Breyer is one of my best friends, and he votes against me every time I appear in court. Washington is a town of government people, and it is stupid to say that if they sit together at dinner, it raises some sort of conflict.” The justices are quick to say they always prefer not to have to withdraw from a pending case simply to maintain the appearance of impartiality. Stevens’ decision not to step aside in the affirmative action case proved crucial to the outcome. The Michigan policy prevailed on

a 5-4 vote, with Stevens in the majority. White’s recusal in the Detroit newspapers case proved crucial, too — and it carried an ironic twist. The justices split 4-4 in the case, which cleared the way for the newspaper merger to go forward. White had been a strong defender of the anti-trust laws and a likely ally of those who were challenging the merger. “The effect of his recusal was that we lost,” said William Schultz, a Washington lawyer who represented the union employees. As Scalia and Ginsburg have said recently, the justices frown upon recusals because of the likelihood it will create an evenly divided court. “There is no one to replace us,” Ginsburg said in response to questions about her involvement with the NOW Legal Defense Fund. The better way to maintain impartiality — and its appearance — experts in legal ethics say, is to avoid the conflicts in the first place. “First and foremost, you should avoid putting yourself in situations where you need to consider disqualification,” said retired Los Angeles Judge David Rothman, the author of California’s handbook on

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M. ice continued from page 12 ence honors is captain Scott Ford ’04, who was named the ECAC’s Best Defensive Defenseman. Ford finished the season fifth in scoring among ECAC defensemen with 15 points, 11 of which came on power plays. He also was named First Team All-Ivy and Honorable Mention All-ECAC. “It’s nice to get personal honors, but I would rather see the team playing right now,” Ford said. Brown’s playoff run was cut short in the second round of the ECAC playoffs by a red-hot Harvard University team, which went on to beat Dartmouth College and Clarkson University to win the ECAC championship. “Harvard hit their stride at the

W. hoops continued from page 12 a few games into the season, earned the first All-Ivy selection of her career. She was the team’s third-leading scorer at 11.0 points per game and second on the team in rebounds with 6.6 per game. Her .502 field goal percentage led the Bears and was sixth in the Ivies. Hayes, who was last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, was the team’s best rebounder and seventh-best in the Ivy League, with an average of 6.9 rebounds

Pill continued from page 7 “Pharmacists are now on the front line of the abortion issue,” said Denise Burke, staff counsel for Americans United for Life, a national anti-abortion group. “No one should ever be put in the position where they have to violate their conscience or risk losing their job.” The debate could be moot within a few months. Five states have passed laws allowing pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception without a prescription. And federal officials are considering letting Plan B be sold over the counter nationwide. Yet anti-abortion activists continue to press the issue. They point out that at least 45 states shield doctors and nurses who refuse to participate in abortions. Only South Dakota explicitly extends the same protection to pharmacists. In Missouri, pharmacists are

end of the season, and they are playing really well right now,” said Ford. Ford says he’ll greatly miss Brown hockey. “It’s very bittersweet for me. I am upset that we’re finished, but at the same time we’ve come a long way. The team really worked hard together to put some pride back in Brown hockey.” Freshman sensation Brian Ihnacak ’07 was named both Ivy League Rookie of the Year and ECAC Co-Rookie of the Year, an honor he shared with Cornell goaltender David McKee. Ihnacak, who led all rookies in scoring with 30 points, was also named to the ECAC’s All-Rookie Team. Other Bears to be honored were Robinson and Les Haggett ’05, who were named to the Second Team All-Ivy, and Vince Macri ’04, who was an All-Ivy Honorable Mention.

per game. With her second consecutive Honorable Mention honors, Hayes also led the Bears in steals with 2.04 per contest, secondbest in the Ivies. A scoring and rebounding threat, Hayes was the Bears’ fourth player to average double figures in points, with an average of 10.2 points per game. Herald staff writer Ben Miller ’07 covers women’s basketball. He can be reached at bmiller@browndailyherald.com.

divided on the proposed legislation. The bill would allow pharmacists to refuse to transfer a contraceptive prescription to another drugstore. That strikes Darran Alberty as unfair to patients. “At least you should offer to find another pharmacy in town that would fill it,” he said from behind the counter at D&H Drug in Columbia, Mo. Ron Fitzwater, executive director of the Missouri Pharmacy Association, says he’s concerned about the bill’s effect on patients in rural areas. Some small towns have only one druggist, and some women don’t have the transportation to reach a bigger city. With a prescription like Plan B, any delay in getting the drug could diminish its effectiveness. “We support pharmacists’ rights,” he said. “The key is ensuring patients access.” Hartwig, who says he opposes abortion, is unsure about the proposed bill himself. He personally does not view Plan B as abortion;

W. ice continued from page 12 in the ECAC semifinals against Harvard, as the team dropped a 2-1 decision in double overtime Saturday afternoon in Schenectady, N.Y. Harvard took the early 1-0 lead five minutes into the game with a rebounded goal that caught captain Katie Germain ’04 off guard. After more than 10 minutes of head-to-head hockey, Bruno knotted the game at 1-1 when Keaton Zucker ’06 notched her 14th goal of the season at the 17:05 mark. “We came to the game prepared and played that way,” Zucker said. “We kept our edge and played the game that took us here.” The Ivy rivals traded momentum back and forth in the second period, with both teams collecting several unfinished scoring opportunities in front of the net, including two off-the-post shots. Aggressive defense at both ends of the ice kept the score leveled at one going into the third. The Crimson dominated the Bears from the opening faceoff in the third, as Brown had trouble with its passing game and getting the quick shots on the net. Harvard out-shot Bruno 12-5 in the period, winning the one-on-one battles and taking more selective shots from outside the crease. Due to stellar goaltending, the game was pushed into overtime,

The debate could be moot within a few months. Five states have passed laws allowing pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception without a prescription. he considers it contraception. So when the pharmacist at his rural drugstore refused to dispense the hormone pill, Hartwig was sympathetic — but he made sure another pharmacist on duty was willing to take the job. Otherwise, he said, he might have driven out himself to make sure the patient received the pills she needed.

which the two powerhouses had also played when they met earlier in the season. Both teams remained scoreless in the first 20-minute overtime, but it was Harvard that scored less than six minutes into the second to clinch the victory. “Saturday’s game was truly a great battle between two great teams,” said co-captain Kelly Sheridan ’04. “The puck just went the wrong way, and I could not be more proud of the way our team ended the season physically and mentally.” Harvard went on to defeat St. Lawrence University 6-1 in the finals for the ECAC Championship. The Bears (18-11-2, 12-5-1 ECAC) captured fourth place in the ECAC final standings. Herald staff writer Lexi Costello ’06 covers women’s ice hockey. She can be reached at lcostello@browndailyherald.com.

Wrestling continued from page 12 first-period pin of Brady Reinke of the University of Wisconsin. Travis Frick of Lehigh knocked Ciarcia out of the tournament in the quarterfinals, after a close 2-1 match. The tournament marks the end of Dies’ and Ciarcia’s collegiate wresting careers, as well as the end of the Bears’ season. Dies and Ciarcia were part of a strong senior class, which led the Bears to an eighthplace finish in the EIWA this year. Herald staff writer Bernie Gordon ’07 is an assistant sports editor and covers wrestling. He can be reached at bgordon@browndailyherald.com.

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Image control The Committee on Slavery and Justice is big news, whether or not the University wanted or expected it to be. And President Ruth Simmons’ charge to the committee is momentous — to direct a group of individuals to investigate the University’s connection with slavery is certainly an incredible task. It is difficult for us to fathom how hundreds of years of wrongdoing and cruelty can be investigated at all or where to start. But for all of the attention being paid to the committee, we have very little knowledge of what the committee is doing and how it could affect Brown’s future. The University must acknowledge the danger of leaving the committee’s deliberations private when its existence is under such heavy public scrutiny. The media focus on monetary reparations is unfortunate. But regardless of the committee’s view of its public image, it must come to terms with what that image means for the University’s future. The University is currently embarking on a major capital campaign that identifies academics, campus life and financial aid as priorities — nowhere in its initiatives are reparations for slavery. The committee must choose how highly it wants to prioritize Brown’s response to slavery in relation to the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. We acknowledge that rectifying the wrongs done by the Brown family could be more important to the University than the capital campaign that will guarantee its future. But if that is the case, the committee and Simmons should publicly acknowledge it. And if it is not the case, the committee should make that clear, because even if the committee does not eventually recommend that the University pay monetary reparations, the idea of campaign funds being redirected toward reparations could scare off potential donors to the University as long as reparations remain an official option. Simmons said she will be disappointed if, after two years, the committee does not produce recommendations for action by the University. We add to Simmons’ concern the belief that if the committee inadvertently sets back a set of overarching University initiatives years in the making by allowing its privacy to feed into a misleading public image, that, too, would be a shame.

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LETTERS A transition program for those with disabilities?

Keeping the “spirit” of TWTP intact with white students involved

To the Editor:

I was delighted to see the excellent point brought up by Ruth Tilley's letter (“Race not the only division in Brown student body,” March 19). Individuals with disabilities, also, and the challenges we face are too often left out of the dialogue. This marginalization is world-wide, of course, and by no means limited to Brown, but ideally a university such as ours would take steps to meaningfully include such a large and underrepresented minority. Too often, we are relegated to second-class status, not by the actual limitations imposed by our disabilities themselves, but by the attitudes of others. I'm not saying that a week-long forum for incoming disabled first-years is necessarily the right solution (though it might be a nice start), nor can I claim to speak for other students with disabilities. However, to essentialize any one aspect of an individual's life, be it economic, racial or physical, undermines the ideals of tolerance, inclusion and openness which purport to be so important to Brown.

My concern is not that the presence of white students would negatively affect the program — I believe TWTP can become an invaluable experience for all incoming students. However, significant institutional support is necessary to create a similar intimate workshop setting that could accommodate the entire first-year class. The hour-long “diversity” workshops offered during orientation cannot approach the three to fourday TWTP experience of intense all-day activities on race, class, sexuality and gender. In addition, the core of TWTP is the passionate, dedicated, underpaid or unpaid students and staff who believe fiercely in the program's value and necessity. The ratio of first-year students to peer facilitators must be kept in order to preserve the spirit of TWTP. Rather than simply chastising the coordinators of TWTP for being exclusory, I hope that its critics will recognize the intense amount of work and love that makes the program possible and support its organizers in bringing this amazing experience to a larger community.

Matthew Weber ’04 March 19

Michelle Higa ’04 March 19

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OPINIONS MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2004 · PAGE 11

ROB SAND

Reinventing our hip-hopcracy Washington, D.C. — Picture this: On March 25, you walk into Dream. Dream is Washington, D.C.’s biggest hip-hop club, replete with four floors, VIP suites and numerous bars. Dream always brings in big acts and huge, scantily dressed crowds. Last week the Young Gunz performed, and Method Man worked the stage. But tonight is a night like no other. Sean “P. Diddy” Combs will be in attendance and may perform. The same goes for Q-Tip. DJ Biz Markie is manning the ones-and-twos as you make your way inside. It is truly an All-Star night at Dream, and the $50 you dropped on your ticket was well worth it. But the fun doesn’t stop there. Suddenly Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe is in front of you. You holla at him and nod to his boys before you pass by. As you weave through the crowded dance floor, a Georgia drawl suddenly comes through the massive speakers. Thinking, “No way Andre 3000 and Big Boi are here,” you look up to the stage. But in front of Biz Markie is no member of Outkast, but former President of the United States Jimmy Carter. The crowd is getting into it, giving Jim-E C. mad props as he flips crazy freestyle rhymes. Jim-E C. finishes up his set and replaces Biz Markie at the turntables. The crowd is getting crunk as he scratches through Nas, Biggie Smalls, 50 Cent and, as a tribute to his homies, OutKast. But just as he fades into “Rosa Parks,” out steps “the first black President,” sporting Harlem’s finest bling and spitting rhymes into the mike. MC Slick Willie Clinton’s appearance sends the crowd into a frenzy, and you find yourself crushed towards the stage. The stampede only grows as the normally corpse-like John Kerry grabs a mike and begins to battle Clinton, and you feel the last of the air leave your lungs when “The Reverend” joins them and Dennis Kucinich starts breakdancing while Jim-E C.

scratches furiously. It is one of the greatest moments in hip-hop. Or politics. Or something. Now I admit, this match-up seems about as strange as this Iowa boy trying to write about hip-hop as though he is a part of it. But unlike me, these hip-hop stars and these legendary Democrats are not faking it. While Bill Clinton may not start rapping, he, Terry McAuliffe, Jimmy Carter and, supposedly, the whole field of Democratic candidates will actually be at Dream on March 25. P. Diddy, Q. Tip and Biz Markie will really be there too. Tickets really are $50. It is an official fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee, and Democrats see it as a chance

Democrats make a play for the J. Kizzle generation. to get youth and minorities involved with the party and involved with making donations. It will actually be Clinton’s second (public) appearance at Dream, the first having been at the first “Young Democrats United.” The fundraiser/concert/party will run until 2 a.m. and features an open bar and a buffet. I have no idea what the balance will be like between consuming alcohol, dancing, platform development and grassroots organizing, but I hope to check it out. Politicians and Hollywood celebrities now often intermingle, and Democrats can find many of their big donors on movie sets. Musicians have also been getting heavily involved with the Democratic Party. This was perhaps most noticeable in the recent primaries,

with various stars endorsing candidates. Madonna stumped for Wesley Clark, and Coldplay’s Chris Martin endorsed John Kerry in his Grammy acceptance speech. Until recently, though, the connection between hiphop and politics has been less visible. This could be because the connection is ignored by mainstream media outside of the occasional article on Russell Simmons, but it remains true. This fundraiser, though, could be the beginning of a new relationship with benefits for both sides. Hip-hop has been a refuge for those ignored and discriminated against by a larger society. If Democrats recognize the hip-hop community as a strong potential constituent, it could lead to greater visibility of and a new addressing of urban concerns in both heterogenous and homogenous communities. Making hip-hop a political issue could bring greater attention to hip-hop culture, and perhaps the current emphasis on its more violent elements will end. Perhaps more thoughtful, positive, or politically and socially concerned members, such as Mos Def, Jurassic 5 and Jonzi-D will be more widely acknowledged. In return, Democrats may gain access to the massive amounts of money associated with many rap stars. But more importantly, they may stop taking the urban vote and the black vote for granted. As more city-dwellers and minorities get involved with party activities, they can influence its direction and point the party towards a number of issues it seems to have forgotten. That would be a win-win for both the Democratic Party and the country. As would seeing Bill and Hillary getting freaky-deaky on the Dream danc floor. Rob Sand ’05.5 is spending this semester backup dancing for Iowa’s Tom-izzle Hark-nizzle.

BRIAN RAINEY

The Jesus chainsaw massacre Like many others, I almost walked out of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” The unnecessary violence was bad enough, but the anti-Semitism and historical absurdities were intolerable. Among other errors, the ubiquity of Latin in the film is just silly, because almost all of the occupying Romans, recruited from Syria and other west Asian provinces, would certainly have been speaking Greek or Aramaic. Even worse, the Roman troops were not even speaking classical Latin — it was Church Latin! The crucifixion, the focus of the film, was also riddled with nonsense. Everybody and their brother knows that the nails went into the wrists of the crucified, not the palms of their hands. Additionally, in Gibson’s film, Jesus’ smooth, completely formed cross was taken out of pictures from a children’s Bible storybook. Research done on crucifixion has shown that Jesus would not have carried the entire cross, just the beam. (The 1975 film “Jesus of Nazareth” does a much better job of portraying crucifixion historically.) Gibson’s recklessness and nonchalant attitude towards history and scholarship show that the film is not about portraying what Jesus truly experienced. Rather, it is just another gratuitously violent film involving Mel Gibson (for example, “Mad Max,” “Payback,” “Braveheart,” “Lethal Weapon”). In many films featuring Gibson, the protagonist experiences torture that no ordinary human would have been able to survive. In “Lethal Weapon,” Gibson’s character is subjected to savage beatings and electric shock torture, yet in the end he finds the strength to kick the tar out of the enemy anyway. This unrealistic depiction of violence finds its way into “The Passion.” A person subjected to the beating and torture depicted in “The Passion” would have been at least unconscious and probably dead long before reaching Golgotha. But Gibson must keep

Jesus alive and conscious to horrify the audience with his own bloodlust. Surely, portrayals of Jesus’ crucifixion should be violent — even disturbing — in order to capture the brutality of Roman occupation. The violence in “The Passion,” however, is so obnoxious that Jesus’ suffering in the film cannot be taken seriously. Gibson’s contempt for history and scholarship can also be blamed for the film’s obvious anti-Semitism, which defenders have had to go through somersaults to deny. Film critic Roger Ebert, in his glowing review, sug-

A callous, inaccurate and anti-Semitic representation of Jesus’ last hours. gested that the film is not anti-Semitic because it “reflects a range of behavior on the part of its Jewish characters, on balance favorably.” To be fair, some Jews are presented positively, and the Roman soldiers who torture Jesus are not shown favorably. But random instances of virtue from very minor Jewish characters and the cruelty of some nameless Roman characters do little to take away from the overarching “Roman versus Jew” theme running throughout the film. On more than one occasion, Gibson seems to go out of his way to contrast Jewish sadism and barbarism with Roman reason and humaneness. When Jesus is arrested and taken to the

Sanhedrin, two Roman soldiers pass by the trial and ask about the commotion. One of the High Priest’s guards lies to the Romans about the nature of the arrest because, obviously, if the rational, reasonable Romans were to find out about this Jewish kangaroo court they would have done something to stop it. Gibson painstakingly shows Pontius Pilate’s angst about what to do with Jesus. First, if this was really a film about Jesus’ suffering, why spend an inordinate amount of time on Pilate’s internal struggles anyway? Second, Gibson even turns Pilate’s wife, mentioned in one verse in one gospel, into a major character to reinforce the virtue and goodness of the Romans. Conversely, Caiaphas, often surrounded by a screaming crowd of bloodthirsty Jews, is a crude comic-book villain who, even after Jesus is torn to shreds by Roman whips, coldly tells Pilate to “crucify him!” Numerous critics have pointed out that Gibson could have taken just as much time to show Caiaphas’ political dilemmas as he did Pilate’s without deviating from the gospel accounts ( John 18:14). As a Protestant, I am embarrassed that the founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther, was a rabid anti-Semite who used the gospel accounts in his “On the Jews and their Lies,” later quoted by the Nazis. This is one example of the appalling anti-Semitism perpetuated by Christians, and anyone who makes a film about Jesus’ death should bend over backwards to put the story in its historical context. Gibson’s refusal to do that arrogantly denies the real pain and suffering inflicted on Jews by Christians. Brian Rainey ’04 should have bought a ticket for “Eurotrip” and snuck in to see “The Passion” so he would not have given financial support to Gibson.

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SPORTS MONDAY MARCH 22, 2004 · PAGE 12

M. basketball places three on All-Ivy; Forte ’05 named Player of the Year

Danis ’04 signs with Habs, men’s icers rake in honors

BY JOSHUA TROY

BY JAMES FELDMAN

All season, the men’s basketball team exceeded expectations. Despite the loss of two of the top three scorers in school history, the Bears (14-13, 10-4 Ivy) finished the season tied for second place in the Ivy League and set new school records for consecutive winning seasons and the most wins over a four-year span. And when it came to endof-year honors in the Ivy League, the Bears once again went above and beyond. Leading the way was Jason Forte ’05, who became the third Brown player ever to be named Ivy League Player of the Year, after Peter Moss ’80 and Jim Turner ’86. In an exceptional season, Forte became the first Brown player ever to lead the Ivies in points (21.4 per game) and assists (5.79 per game) during the same season, and he was a unanimous selection to the First-Team All-Ivy. Selected for the All-Ivy Second Team were Patrick Powers ’04 and Jamie Kilburn ’04. Powers finished the season as the third-leading scorer (18.0 points per game) in the Ivy League, while tying Forte for the league lead in steals. Against Columbia University in the Bears’ second-to-last game, Powers set a new Brown record for three-pointers in a season, ending with a total of 77. Kilburn ended his Brown career with the Ivy League’s fourth-highest scoring average for a season, notching 15.6 points per game. He also led the league in blocks and field goal percentage, the latter for the second straight season. Following the loss of three senior starters, the Bears will turn to Forte next season to lead them toward that elusive NCAA berth.

12th-leading point scorer in Division I, twice earning ECAC Player of the Week honors. In her three-year career, Link has totaled 129 points, with 67 goals and 62 assists in 97 games. Forward Krissy McManus ’05 was recognized with All-Ivy Honorable Mention. As Brown’s third-leading scorer, McManus collected 21 points on the season, with 11 goals and 10 assists. The women’s season ended

Men’s ice hockey goaltender Yann Danis ’04 added a few more accomplishments to an incredible season in net for the Bears this week. On Thursday, Danis was named both ECAC Player and Goaltender of the Year, becoming the first Brown player to bring home either honor and the first player ever to win both awards in the same season. Danis was also named one of 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker award, given annually to the best college hockey player in the nation. The winner of the award will be announced April 9 during the Frozen Four in Boston. For Danis, it was just a beginning to the excitement. On Friday, he signed a contract with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. Danis and teammate Brent Robinson ’04 are currently in Hamilton, Ontario, skating with the Hamilton Bulldogs, the Canadiens’ AHL affiliate. Robinson signed an amateur try-out contract with the Bulldogs. Danis finished the season second in the nation with a save percentage of .942 and third in the nation with a goals against average of 1.81. In addition to his save percentage and goals against average, Danis also set school records of 43 career wins and 13 career shutouts in his four seasons with the Bears. Joining Danis in all-confer-

see W. ICE, page 9

see M. ICE, page 9

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04 covers men’s basketball. He can be reached at jtroy@browndailyherald.com. B ROWN S PORTS S COREBOARD Friday, March 19 Men’s Tennis: Brown 7, Maryland — Baltimore County 0 Saturday, March 20 Men’s Lacrosse: Brown 10, No. 16 UMass 5 Women’s Ice Hockey: ECAC Semifinals — Harvard 2, Brown 1 (2 OT) Equestrian: First place at Johnson & Wales, Rehoboth, Mass. Baseball: Appalachian State 6, Brown 1 Baseball: Brown 11, Appalachian State 5 Gymnastics: ECAC Championships — Penn 193.65, Cornell 192.425, Brown 191.225, Yale 191.05, James Madison 189.9, William & Mary 189.875 Softball: Boston College 3, Brown 2 Softball: Brown 9, Maryland — Eastern Shore 1 Sunday, March 21 Women’s Tennis: Boston College 4, Brown 0 Softball: Brown 3, Maryland 1 Softball: Boston College 9, Brown 7 Baseball: Appalachian State 6, Brown 5 Baseball: Brown 5, Appalachian State 2

Mike Braca

Yann Danis ’04 was recently named ECAC Player and Goaltender of the Year. It was also announced on Friday that he had signed a contract with the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens through the 2005-2006 season.

Two w. icers named to All-Ivy as team falls in ECAC semifinals BY LEXI COSTELLO

Despite an unfortunate end to the season with a loss to Harvard University this weekend, the women’s ice hockey team took home plenty of honors. Defenseman Amy McLaughlin ’05 ends the 2004 season with selections to the First Team All-ECAC and All-Ivy squads, making her the only Bear to earn both honors this year. McLaughlin was a huge contributor to Brown’s success, playing smart, aggressive offen-

sive and defensive hockey in all of Bruno’s 31 games. This season, she collected 25 points, tallying 6 goals and 19 assists. Throughout her career, McLaughlin has notched a total of 50 points, scoring 14 goals and collecting 36 assists in 68 games. Also earning postseason honors was assistant captain Jessica Link ’05, who took home First Team All-Ivy and Second Team All-ECAC selections. Link led Brown with 48 points this season, notching 28 goals and 20 assists, and finished the

Mitchell ’04 one of four Bears named to women’s hoops All-Ivy BY BEN MILLER

The women’s basketball team was rewarded for its secondplace Ivy League finish with four selections to the All-Ivy teams. Nyema Mitchell ’04 was the Bears’ lone selection to the First Team, while Tanara Golston ’04 and Holly Robertson ’05 were voted onto the Second Team. Sarah Hayes ’06 was named an All-Ivy Honorable Mention, giving the Bears the most All-Ivy players in the league. Mitchell, who was named to the Second Team All-Ivy in 2002 and 2003, led the Bears in points per game at 15.5 and was seventh in the Ivy League. Mitchell also led the Bears in blocks per game at 2.04, good for second in the Ivies. Her 6.2 rebounds per game were third for the season on the team. Mitchell ends her career as

the fourth player in school history to record more than 1,000 points and 700 rebounds. In her last game, she broke the school record for career games played with 107. Golston, who had an outstanding season spreading the ball around, handed out 188 assists on the year. Her average of 7.0 assists per game was seventh in the nation and first in the Ivies. She retires as Brown’s third all-time leading passer with 409 assists. With 12 points per game, Golston was Brown’s second leading scorer and 12th in the Ivies. She was also second on the team in steals with 1.96 per game. Robertson, who worked her way into the starting lineup just see W. HOOPS, page 9

At NCAA’s, Dies ’04 and Ciarcia ’04 just short of All-American honors BY BERNIE GORDON

Both Brown wrestling captains entered this weekend’s NCAA Wrestling Championships unseeded and departed among the top 12 wrestlers for their respective weight classes. Co-captains David Dies ’04 and Nick Ciarcia ’04 reached the consolation quarterfinals Friday in St. Louis, MO, losing close matches to finish just short of earning All-American Honors. Dies and Ciarcia would have had to win their final matches to be named AllAmericans. Dies, entered at 149 pounds, started off strong with three wins, including a close 6-5 victory over No. 9-seeded Ty Eustice of the University of Iowa and an 8-3 domination of No. 8 Matt Storniolo of

Pennsylvania State University. In the quarterfinals, Dies faced an old adversary, No. 1seeded Jesse Jantzen of Harvard University. After losing a hard-fought match to Jantzen, 5-2, Dies entered the consolation bracket, where he dropped a 7-6 heartbreaker to Jeff Ecklof of the University of Oklahoma. The loss knocked him from the tournament and ended his chances of being named AllAmerican. Ciarcia, entered at 184 pounds, stumbled out of the gate, losing 8-6 to Dan Pitsch of Oregon State. But Ciarcia came back strong in the consolation bracket, including a see WRESTLING, page 9