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UCS considers TWTP, samesex marriage resolution

EP membership illustrates gender gap in business leadership

BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

BY CAMDEN AVERY

At Wednesday night’s Undergraduate Council of Students meeting, three representatives introduced a resolution supporting same-sex marriage in Rhode Island. UCS will vote on the resolution at its next meeting, on April 7.

UCS also discussed President Ruth Simmons’ comments at last week’s question-and-answer session regarding the Third World Transition Program and upcoming opportunities for the student body to talk with Department of Public Safety officers about interactions between students and police.

At the end of the meeting, UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 announced he will not seek a second term and will instead work on campus issues in tandem with Simmons and Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene.

The same-sex marriage resolution was introduced by Campus Life Chair Ari Savitzky ’06, Class of 2005 Representative Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 and Class of 2007 Representative Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07.

The resolution, which von Oeyen read aloud at the meeting, supports Rhode Island Senate bill S2705, which would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. In the resolution, the authors state that because the UCS Constitution pledges to support the rights of Brown students, UCS should support the LGBT population of the University by adding its voice to the chorus calling for legalization of same-sex marriage.

The resolution also references the 14th Amendment to the U.S.

President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene.

After Kurji’s announcement, four UCS members told The Herald they plan to run for UCS president — Brian Bidadi ’06, representative at large; Sonia Gupta ’06, admissions and students services chair; Joel Payne ’05, secretary; and Ari Savitzky ’06, campus life chair.

Bidadi said he had been planning to run for president even before Kurji decided not to enter the race. The cornerstones of his campaign will be “diversity” and “equality,” Bidadi said.

He said he supports opening up the Third World Transition Program, making the campus more accessible to students with disabilities and extending the

countries in sub-Saharan Africa and listed the countries in the region that the United States regards as strategically important.

She also described the Bush administration’s HIV/AIDS and poverty alleviation programs. Frazer concluded by discussing the administration’s efforts to end Africa’s civil wars.

In the question-and-answer session that followed her lecture, several questions were posed about President George W. Bush’s HIV/AIDS initiative and its focus on abstinence education. Other questions focused on the United States’ involvement in Liberia and Africa’s role in the war on terror.

Frazer’s presentation was off the record because members of the National Security Council, with the exception of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, are prohibited from speaking to the press, she told The Herald.

Thomas Lax ’06, who attended the talk, said he thought Frazer was “very articulate, intelligent and knowledgeable,” and that Bush is “lucky to have her as part of his National Security Council.”

“There were definitely some issues I got another perspective on,” he said. Lax said although he did not agree with all of Frazer’s points, he will be better able to formulate his own opinions after hearing her lecture.

“I think it’s really interesting to hear

Advocates for women’s rights in the workforce often search for professions in which the gender ratio could reveal something about an underlying inequity.

But unequal opportunities for men and women aren’t always the cause of such discrepancies.

Brown’s Entrepreneurship Program is an example of this phenomenon — of the 24 members of the EP’s Leadership Team, only eight are women.

Joshua Butler ’04 and former Herald Executive Manager Joshua Miller ’04, co-directors of the EP, both said they often think about how to recruit more women. Men looking to join the program are far easier to find than women, they said.

Butler said one possible reason for this disparity is that the program struggles with its image. “We have a stigma of ‘big business,’” he said.

In an effort to incorporate more women into the program, the EP recruits female students from relevant classes and departments.

Still, the low level of female involvement is cause for concern, or at least close inspection, according to Butler.

Eighty men in line to join the leadership board would be displaced by an equally qualified female applicant, he said.

Butler also speculated that the EP has fewer women than men on its Leadership Team because there is a women-only leadership program, the Organization of Women Leaders.

Though the group is on hiatus this semester because of a decline in membership, OWL co-president Kimberly Boortz ’05 said that when active, the program had 15 to 20 active members.

According to Boortz, the organization was not exclusively for women, although few men were involved.

OWL began as a branch of the EP, then separated and was altered to include all aspects of women’s leadership roles in society. The program originally was founded to illustrate that “there are opportunities for women to excel in business,” Boortz said.

Because of its specific focus, OWL might attract female members who might otherwise participate in the EP, Butler said.

As a result, the participation of women in the EP is low because of ample opportunities for women in leadership programs, not in spite of them, according to Butler and Miller.

Brown’s microcosm of entrepreneurial leadership, in which options for female students abound, is hardly representative of the business world.

Women comprise less than 10 percent of Fortune 500 company boards.

Throughout the 1990s, the number of women in senior management wavered

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Jendayi Frazer, senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council, spoke Wednesday night during an off-the-record lecture in Salomon 001. Frazer discussed some of the Bush administration’s foreign policies.

National Security Council official discusses African affairs, off the record

BY BEN GRIN

In an off-the-record lecture Wednesday night, Jendayi Frazer, senior director for African affairs at the National Security Council, talked about the Bush administration’s Africa policy to a small audience in Salomon 001.

Frazer discussed U.S. relations with

Kurji will not seek re-election; Bidadi, Gupta, Payne, Savitzky to run for UCS president next year

BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

At the conclusion of Wednesday night’s Undergraduate Council of Students meeting, President Rahim Kurji ’05 announced he will not seek another term.

Kurji said his decision was an emotional one that he considered throughout the semester. This year’s UCS has accomplished more than any other in the recent past, he said.

“I’ve loved serving the community,” Kurji told UCS members. “I will continue to do that next year, and hopefully serve the nation and the world in the future as well.”

Kurji said he plans to continue to participate in University governance next year by working directly with President Ruth Simmons and Interim Vice

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Sol LeWitt’s work, idea, practice exhibited at RISD Museum

24-hour studio access, 15 Westminster design on agenda at Student Alliance meeting

BY STEFAN TALMAN

BY ALEXIS KUNSAK

Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt gained fame in the 1960s, but he’s not one to languish as an art celebrity.

Rather, his work still vibrates with pleasure, energy and, most of all, ideas, now manifest in an exhibition at the RISD Museum.

The exhibition, running until May 2, features four of LeWitt’s works in the museum’s main foyer: “Wall Drawing #327” and “Wall Drawing #328,” recently purchased by the museum, which have only been executed once before in Tokyo in 1980 are displayed.

On a black rectangular background, two geometric forms filled with vertical or horizontal lines glow in white crayon. The dual tensions of contrasting form and line, and black and white make the wall drawings resonate like taut guitar strings. Significantly large works, they hang over the viewer, white lines pushing out from the void of blackness.

The adjacent wall carries a new mural conceptualized by LeWitt for the exhibition. Bright blocks of primary and secondary color acrylic pulsate outward in an almost physically affronting circle. The mural clings there like the sun at noon, looming with a heavy warmth.

The vibrant lines and geometrics of LeWitt’s wall paintings inhabit another dimension in “Inverted Six Towers” (1987), a large, white sculpture from his “Open Cube” series. Made from painted wood, it measures over seven feet cubed, dominating the center of the room. The outline of blocks rather than

At its Wednesday meeting, the RISD Student Alliance followed up on reports from student representatives about their meetings with department heads and addressed concerns about money spent on dining services.

Department representatives reported varying success in efforts to obtain 24-hour studio access. Printmaking Department Head Andrew Raftery and the Department of Public Safety have confirmed that seniors in the department will have 24-hour studio access, Departmental Representative Noah Breuer RISD ’04 reported.

“The printmaking seniors all got together and convinced our department head that we needed 24-hour access to our own studio spaces, and since there is only 13 of us, she took care of it, and Public Safety has a list with all of our names on it,” he said.

Department of Painting Representative Mike Anderson RISD ’04 said students should be made aware of the option to apply for 24-hour studio access.

“I think we need to send out a mass e-mail to all students with the link to the form used on the Intranet to apply for extended studio hours. Most people don’t know that they can take advantage of that,” he said.

Claudia del Castillo RISD ’06, representative to the Illustration Department, said she was looking for other illustration majors to help her work on issues such as 24hour studio access and studio space for sophomores.

Department of Apparel Design representatives reported that they met for the first time with their department head, Mary Kawenski. “Funding for student shows had never been discussed before, so it was a good start,” said Christina DiFabio RISD ’05.

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Furniture Department representatives met with Department Head Rosanne Somerson to discuss the possibility of arranging a new five-year furniture program culminating in a Bachelor of Fine Design degree, as opposed to a Bachelor of Fine Arts. At least a year would be needed to approve the plans for accreditation, the representatives said.

Department of Graphic Design representatives met with Department Head Nancy Skolos this week to address concerns about senior shows and portfolios, Departmental Representative Joe Gebbia ’04 reported.

Two weeks ago, in light of upcoming budget cuts, the Alliance formed a committee to look into the possibility of inefficient use of funds in the dining halls.

“The council of the dining hall is very open to suggestions from students about their operations,” said Alliance Assistant Treasurer Danielle Buckley ’07.

Five students joined a new committee to work on the design of the 12th-floor student space in the 15 Westminster Street building. The 12th floor will replace the Tap Room as a gathering space for students, although large amounts of window space make the floor less versatile than the Tap Room in terms of displaying art works or screening films.

“We are trying to find students excited about reorganizing the space and carrying the project into the next year for this committee,” said Alliance President Suzannah Park ’05.

Habitat for Humanity in Providence is looking for RISD students to get involved in the building of two houses on Putnam Street on Saturdays, said Alliance Recording Secretary Amy Fitzgerald ’06.

Herald staff writer Alexis Kunsak RISD ’05 can be reached at akunsak@browndailyherald.com.

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Africa continued from page 1 someone who’s up there in terms of who makes decisions for the country and the world,” he said.

Lax added that having the opportunity to ask Frazer questions made him feel less disconnected from the political process.

Ariana Balestrieri ’06 said the lecture was “very informative and very straightforward” but lacked detail and analysis about some of

LeWitt continued from page 3 their actualization, “Inverted Six Towers” traces, rather than asserts, physical space. The structure is a suggestion of what could be more so than what actually “is.”

In the abstract conceptualization rather than the material realization of an object, we approach the significance of Sol LeWitt. The conceptual artist emphasizes the ideas from which the work emerges rather than its physical presence.

As LeWitt explained in “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” published in 1967, “When the artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decision are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.”

LeWitt did not paint the large

the policies Frazer discussed. But “that’s sort of to be expected, as she’s representing the Bush administration,” she said.

“The question-and-answer session was helpful in providing the detail on certain issues,” she added.

Before being appointed to the National Security Council in February 2001, Frazer worked as an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Frazer has also served as a politi-

cal-military planner with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Department of Defense and worked on African security issues at the State Department and the United Nations Development Programme.

Frazer’s lecture, titled “Bush Administration Africa Policy: A Focus on Results,” was sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies as part of the Directors Lectures Series on Contemporary International Affairs.

circular mural. He did not draw the white crayon lines. He did not assemble the sculpture.

LeWitt created the plan. He conceived the instructions — sketches, dimensions and colors — and left the actual work to draftsmen. According to a museum pamphlet, one of LeWitt’s assistants recreated the blackand-white line drawings.

Meanwhile, the mural was realized by a team consisting of RISD students and the museum’s technical crew, supervised by LeWitt’s studio.

LeWitt’s absence from the work’s production asserts that “the idea itself, even if not made visual is as much a work of art as any finished product,” as LeWitt wrote. We should read the exhibition less in terms of what we actually see and more in terms of the ideas behind the art. We should admire or criticize the

works not just as aesthetic products, but rather as concepts realized.

But this is difficult. LeWitt’s work is very real and very big. The irony is that work so conceptually driven has such great visual impact. The circular mural and wall drawings work well as explorations of color, form and line.

LeWitt is working in the realm of the abstract, which doesn’t have size in any real sense. Yet while his conceptual project is without size — or color, pattern or form, for that matter — these aspects are realized to a much greater extent than so many works for which they are central. One feels that when LeWitt chose to embrace the conceptual, his works were given the room to expand.

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NCAA continued from page 8 loud when he heard Packer would be assigned to cover his game in the Meadowlands.

Packer, apparently, didn’t think it was so funny. The New York Daily News reported Wednesday that Packer went to CBS and tried to beg off the assignment, although the network denied it.

Martelli hopes the furor he helped create will not overshadow the actual playing of Thursday night’s game.

“He’s a professional; he has a job to do,” Martelli said of his Packer spat. “I’m a professional; I have a job to do. One of my jobs is to make sure he has a clear picture of my team and of this wonderful university I represent. As long as he doesn’t reach over the end line and steal or deflect the ball, he has a job to do and I have a job to do, and nothing will interfere with those things from happening.”

Other guard matchups to consider: St. Joe’s senior Jameer Nelson vs. freshman Chris Paul of Wake Forest might be the most anticipated showdown in this year’s tournament.

Nelson is the heart and soul

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of the Hawks, a savvy veteran who averages 20.6 points and 5.2 assists per game.

Nelson has already been named first-team All-America and will likely win the John R. Wooden Award. Here’s why: In two NCAA tournament games, he has averaged 28.5 points.

Paul has been so good as a freshman there may be no need for him to become a sophomore. Wake Forest has needed Paul to pull out two squeakers so far: a one-point win over Virginia Commonwealth and a four-point win over Manhattan.

Against Manhattan, Paul rescued Wake Forest with a 29point effort.

As guards go, Martelli may fear Paul more than he fears Packer.

Martelli says Paul reminds him of former Texas guard T.J. Ford, last year’s national player of the year.

“This kid can really kill us,” Martelli said.

More guard play?

Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh will pit two of the nation’s best guard tandems in John Lucas III and Tony Allen vs. Julius Page and Carl Krauser.

Whether any of these guards can steal the spotlight from Martelli-Packer, well, that remains to be seen.

Butler said the “(EP) program represents the real world” — one that is male-dominated, with the exception of these women-only groups.

At the same time, he said he realizes “one of the challenges is that we have to even out the inequalities that still exist in the system.”

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Candidates continued from page 1 Curricular Advising Program and small seminars to sophomores.

Bidadi said he is most proud of his work to allocate $100,000 this semester toward short-term improvements to the campus’s infrastructure to aid disabled students. He also cited as past successes his work restoring the mural on the first floor of Faunce House and increasing the visibility of student artwork.

Gupta is running on an unofficial ticket with vice-presidential nominee Charley Cummings ’06, currently the academic and administrative affairs chair.

This year, Gupta, along with Savitzky, worked toward initiating 24-hour study spaces, satellite fitness facilities and improved dining hours, to be implemented later this semester. Gupta also said she was particularly proud of her committee’s work on the Talent Quest program, which sends Brown alums to selected high schools across the country to recruit “talented students of color and economically disadvantaged students,” according to its Web site.

A Gupta/Cummings administration will focus on diversity through better student services, the candidates said.

“I think we do a great job talking about diversity, but we don’t utilize diversity,” Cummings said.

Gupta added, “It’s about providing something for the community that makes them want to come together.”

Payne, the only member of the Class of 2005 currently in the running for president, began his work on UCS as communications coordinator last year. This year, he established the Community Service Task Force, which organized a clothing drive last semester and is planning a Student Workers Appreciation Week in April.

Payne said a more personalized form of student government

and diversity, including “intellectual diversity,” will shape his campaign. He said the campus should be divided into quadrants, with students living in each quadrant building a relationship with a particular UCS representative.

“I feel like a lot of the campus is disenchanted with what we’re doing on campus,” he said. “If I’m elected, they’re going to get the honest opinion of the UCS. … We’re definitely going to confront issues head on. I think there’s a hesitance on council sometimes to govern, and I think that’s unhealthy.”

Payne also said he would like to establish a committee to examine how conservative voices can better be heard on campus, even though “we may not always agree with students from a conservative slant.”

Savitzky was the only candidate to say last night that his decision to seek the presidency had been contingent on Kurji’s decision not to run. He said he is most proud of bringing the New York Times and Boston Globe to the dining halls, sponsoring a UCS resolution on same-sex marriage and working toward better communication between students and the Department of Public Safety in the wake of recent biasrelated incidents.

Savitzky also worked with Gupta’s student services committee on establishing 24-hour study spaces and satellite fitness centers and renovating study spaces within dormitories.

Savitzky said he was moved to run by a broad vision for UCS. “I don’t think student government is a joke — I think we can accomplish things,” he said. “I think we can give students a seat at the table in every decision this University makes. That is the goal.

And I think the University would be better for it.”

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ‘06 edits the RISD News section.

She can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

UCS continued from page 1 Constitution, the Rhode Island Constitution and the Rhode Island General Laws on Domestic Relations in order to argue that marriage is a right that cannot be withheld from any couple.

Seth Magaziner ’06, a member of the Brown College Democrats Subcommittee on Gay Rights, appeared before UCS to urge expediency in supporting the resolution. Because the Rhode Island General Assembly meets for only five months every year, legislators push through their agendas quickly and may have already voted on same-sex marriage by the end of spring break, Magaziner said.

“It would raise a lot of eyebrows if word got out that Brown UCS had considered this issue and not acted,” he said, pointing out that the Student Senate at the University of Rhode Island recently attracted media attention by supporting a similar resolution.

Student Activities Chair Rob Montz ’05 asked the authors of the resolution if they knew of any precedent of a UCS decision affecting the state’s General Assembly. Von Oeyen responded that it would be impossible to note definitively what effect the resolution would have, but that passing it would send a message that UCS is serious about defending the rights of Brown’s LGBT population.

Eric Neuman ’04 asked the authors of the resolution if they had polled the University’s LGBT students on whether they supported same-sex marriage.

Savitzky said they had not.

In a discussion about UCS’s meeting last week with Simmons, Kurji urged UCS members to consider how they could work on issues of diversity. At last week’s meeting, Simmons announced her support for an integrated TWTP. Michael Serill ’06 told UCS he knew of a white first-year who called TWTP organizers last summer to ask to be admitted to the program but was told TWTP was closed to white students.

The Herald reported Thursday that the University decided prior to the Fall 2003 semester to allow all students to attend the program, but continued to invite minority students only to TWTP. Associate Dean of the College Karen McLaurin-Chesson, director of the Third World Center, told The Herald last week that if a white student in the Class of 2007 had requested to attend TWTP, he or she would have been admitted.

Secretary Joel Payne ’05 said he believes there is now an application process for TWTP and said the program will probably be changing in many ways.

“It would be helpful if over the next few weeks, we got all our facts straight,” he said.

Savitzky announced that on April 14 at 6:30 p.m., there will be a roundtable discussion with the Department of Public

Safety where students can discuss police protocols and procedures and work toward establishing trust and respect between officers and students, especially in light of recent bias-related crimes on campus.

Director of Public Safety Paul Verrecchia is considering establishing “community policing” on campus, so that particular officers regularly patrol certain areas, Savitzky said.

UCS also discussed ongoing projects, including negotiating with the administration on summer storage space, ironing out policies for club sports, bringing more student art to public spaces on campus, working with Computing and Information Services to improve the Brown Online Course Announcement and organizing an April 13 conference to discuss the Diversity Perspectives program.

The Swiss Association was constituted as a Category I student group, the Brown Pre-Law Society as a Category II group and Watershed magazine, which will focus on writing and artwork about the outdoors, as a Category III group. According to the UCS Code, a publication must produce one issue before it can become a Category III group, but because Watershed needed the funding in order to produce their first issue, UCS voted to make an exception.

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

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004 · PAGE 6 S T A F F

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Calling all candidates At Wednesday night’s Undergraduate Council of Students meeting, the campaign for next year’s UCS president began.

Almost immediately after current President Rahim Kurji ’05 announced that he will not seek reelection next year, four current UCS members announced their campaigns for the office.

Serving as UCS president is a difficult and time-consuming job, and a good candidate has experience with the kind of diplomacy the position requires. It is likely that the candidate who has developed the set of skills necessary to be an effective president has served on UCS before. But it isn’t definitely true, and it certainly isn’t true for the many other positions that will be filled through general election at the end of April.

In these positions — which include committee chairs and class representatives — external candidates would add important voices to campaign debates, bringing to light issues that have not always been UCS priorities.

All four presidential candidates are active participants in UCS, and all four will likely present platforms in the coming weeks that reflect serious thought and commitment to Brown.

Productive discussions within UCS promise to shape the University as it implements President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment.

But the current candidates aren’t the only students on campus who think seriously about issues affecting undergraduates, and the issues defined by UCS’s traditional role on campus and prioritized by the administration are not necessarily the ones students care most about.

UCS members also have a degree of familiarity with administrators that most students do not enjoy. A candidate with the perspective of a regular student could be more willing to criticize University policies when appropriate and change the status quo than one who knows the relevant administrators personally.

So as the local campaign season rolls toward the election at the end of the academic year, candidates will develop platforms, students will choose their favorite candidates and groups will endorse the candidates that best represent their priorities.

But we sincerely hope some students will develop more than a passive understanding of the options open to them. We hope that a few students not currently affiliated with UCS will dare to enter the UCS candidate pool and announce their own candidacies, for president or for another position.

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LETTERS The Herald: fair, balanced and (mostly) right To the Editor:

To the Editor:

In a March 24 article (“Faculty committees continue to adjust, one year after reorganization”) The Herald paraphrases me as saying, “the size of salaries often depended on who was chairing the FAC when the decisions were made.” The chair of the FAC does not set salaries. Academic department chairs have this responsibility.

Today’s editorial comments on the new system of faculty governance developed by the Task Force on Faculty Governance that I chaired and concludes that it “is not the best possible solution,” an opinion with which I concur. It is experiencing growing pains. The Herald’s article quoted me correctly on this point. The new system of governance changes the relationship between the faculty and the administration. Whenever such a change happens, it takes time for both parties to sort out their relationship at the operational level.

The task force set the stage for the change but did not and should not have spelled out the details of the operations of the new and newly reconstituted committees.

The editorial board of The Herald has consistently objected to the closing of meetings of the University Resources Committee, as it does in today’s editorial. While I personally believe that most URC meetings should be closed, an opinion based on three years of service on its predecessor, it is a matter that is worthy of investigation when the faculty re-examines the results of the new committee structure in a few years.

I wish to clarify one of the points raised and attributed to me in the article, “Simmons plans to teach after capital campaign launches” (March 23). On balance, The Herald is to be congratulated for an informative and timely piece. The critical clarification concerns my statement to the effect that faculty members spend eight hours per week on the normal course.

First, I actually suggested a range of eight to 10 hours a week as a (barest) minimum. In making this statement, I was making not so much a universal reference about most faculty in most courses, but more a depiction of professors teaching courses with which they have great familiarity (often because they have taught a specific course many times), and an exceptional degree of academic background and knowledge. In reality most courses taught by faculty take more than this minimal amount of time, and this estimate does not include the indispensable, complementary reading, research and thinking always accompanying good classroom teaching.

Second, I made this statement in the context of commenting in particular about college and university presidents who choose to teach and that the likely picture in those cases is that they normally cannot afford much more than this amount of time from the intense and demanding responsibilities of their office (a point nicely underscored in the article). A reasoned guess is that those presidents noted in the article and others who do teach are simply not able to invest much more than this amount of time to teaching. As I point out, it is a great thing when presidents do teach, but even when they do, they are unlikely, for understandable reasons, to dedicate the time most faculty find essential as necessary level of dedication to preparation and to their students.

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In “Journalist predicts bitter fight for White House, says it’s tough to forecast winner” (March 24), Sen. John McCain was referred to as a Democrat from New Mexico. He is a Republican from Arizona.

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2004 · PAGE 7

SARAH GREEN

Book of revelations For a while now, my frequent forays into bookstores have become tainted. Nestled amongst the Jonathan Franzens and Zadie Smiths are a number of proudly partisan polemics. You don’t even have to pick up these books to tell what side of the rift they’re on. Look, there’s one with Bill Clinton gazing out to the horizon, sunlight playing across his noble brow as he stares into the sunset; next to it, one with a surly Clinton squinting and clamping a golf tee in his teeth. Over there, a book cover featuring current President George W. Bush stalwart in front of the American flag, and over here, one showing Bush waving around a large saw.

So when Richard A. Clarke’s “Against All Enemies” debuted on Monday, I was dubious. But despite my doubts, I stopped into the College Hill Bookstore to look for it.

You see, on Sunday night I watched Clarke on “60 Minutes” (yes, I am secretly middle-aged) and found his revelations chilling. Clarke quite possibly knows more about terrorism than any other American, having held the top counterterrorism position in three consecutive White Houses. When he says the Bush team didn’t think al-Qaeda was “an urgent issue,” despite evidence to the contrary, it’s hard to write him off. So taking a copy of his book to the register, I slid my much-abused credit card across the counter, to a woman engrossed in, voila, the same book.

But ere my credit card had cooled, I was aware of the all-pistons-pumping Republican attack machine.

Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush White House tried to cast blame for the incident on the Clinton administration. The administration’s latest tactic is to blame Clarke while simultaneously discrediting him — either he’s a disgruntled ex-employee, or he’s trying to sell books, or he’s looking for a job with the Kerry campaign (which he swore under oath Wednesday he would not accept if it was ever offered).

Vice President Cheney claimed Clarke wasn’t part of the “loop” and then swiveled around to suggest that Clarke is upset at his own failures in countering terror-

ism. (Hint: it’s his fault!).

But Clarke is a registered Republican, not some partisan hoo-ha. True, he was Clinton’s “terrorism czar,” but he also served under two Bushes and a Reagan. As a career government employee, could it be that he genuinely believes the American people have a right to know when their government is failing them? It does not bode well for Bush that his own top people have morphed into whistleblowers, and are fleeing his administration in indignation. Clarke is only the latest to speak out. Paul O’Neill, General Eric Shinseki, Joseph Wilson and Richard Foster are also among the vociferous and damned.

The Bush administration is resorting to its typical hodge-podge of assertions, innuendos and accusations to strip Clarke of his integrity. In a manner remi-

Could Richard Clarke make an Aznar out of Bush? niscent of the tactics right-wingers used against Bill Clinton in the 1990s, they’re throwing everything they can think of at Clarke, regardless of whether these accusations even fit with each other, just waiting for something to stick.

And just in case attacking Clarke doesn’t work, the Bush administration is playing the other side of the game as well and resorting to Clintonian evasions. They say there’s “no record” of the President being in the Situation Room at a time Clarke claims to have talked to him there. They bicker over whether they had a “plan,” a “strategy” or a set of “options.” Where they can’t equivocate, they deny.

On Monday, Press Secretary Scott McClellan characterized Clarke’s accusations as “just flat-out wrong.” He added, “This administration made going after al-Qaeda

a top priority from very early on. The very first major policy directive of this administration was to develop a comprehensive strategy to eliminate al- Qaeda.”

Gee, if that were true, Clarke’s whole book would be worthless. So let’s see what exactly Bush did during his first month in office, shall we? In between Jan. 20 and Feb. 20, 2001, he pushed for that 1.6 trillion-dollar tax cut, pressed his education agenda and bombed Iraq (just in case you were wondering if Paul O’Neill was telling the truth about Bush having Iraq on his agenda from the outset). LexisNexis, ever my trusty sidekick, turned up 640 news articles from that month, from New York-based sources alone, involving the words “President Bush.” In searching among those articles, how many contained references to al-Qaeda? Exactly one — and that single, solitary one discussed the president’s relationship with Israel.

Clarke’s revelations are crucial not only to the Sept.

11 commission or to the war in Iraq, a course of action he characterizes as “like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.” There are also implications in his book for the March 11 bombing in Madrid. Commentators, columnists and talking heads across America have (mis)characterized that tragedy and the ensuing electoral upset of Spanish Prime Minister Aznar as a victory for al-Qaeda. What these pundits fail to grasp is that, unlike Americans after Sept. 11, the Spanish did not look to their government for comfort but instead held their leaders accountable for what they saw as negligent and reckless behavior.

The American people clearly think Clarke has something of value to add to this international conversation about terrorism: estimates are that some 16 million people watched his interview on “60 Minutes,” and his book is ranked first in sales on Amazon.com. But do his revelations have the ability to elicit from Americans a desire for accountability rather than comfort? We might not know until November.

Sarah Green ’04 needs to stop buying books in hardback.

Welcome to the liberal left GUEST COLUMN BY SCOTT EWING

This past Saturday, I took a bus from Brown to New York City to participate in a demonstration against the war in Iraq. I have been somewhat disappointed by the lack of focus the anti-war movement has had, and I was not too surprised when, as we traveled along, several individuals passed back various flyers related to everything but the war on Iraq. I was in the process of facetiously suggesting to Jackie Herold ’07 that perhaps the protest propaganda would become increasingly divergent as the day went on, when the overhead television screens lit up.

“Oh good, maybe we’ll get to see a movie,” she said.

And we did. The organizers of the trip surprised us with a video broadcast of Fidel Castro, dressed in fatigues, speaking loudly to us from Cuba.

As we marched down Madison Avenue, there were numerous tables set up with books for sale from the International Socialist Organization, and almost every 50 feet we were offered a newspaper from a communist or socialist group. Then, just after I smelled someone in the crowd smoking a joint (presumably calling for the legalization of marijuana) a large group of protesters came up behind me chanting gay rights slogans. Based on the various messages disseminated thus far, it seemed that we were marching for Palestine, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, socialism, communism, gay rights, numerous political candidates, the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal and an end to racism ostensibly rampant within the anti-war movement itself.

Then I looked up to my left and saw a large banner that read “FreeKingofPop.com” and a group of people playing Michael Jackson’s version of “Come Together” loudly to the cheering crowd. I suppose we protested for Michael Jackson’s immediate acquittal as well.

Anti-Bush slogans were abundant on posters and often somewhat humorous. “Mr. Bush, You’re Fired!”, “Stop Mad Cowboy Disease” and “Bush-Satan 2004” were fairly typical. Anarchists were also present in several groups, though they were quick to assert that they were not an organization. “The Raging Grannies” stood and sang funny anti-war songs, and the “Billionaires for Bush,” dressed in suits and furs, chanted slogans such

as, “Buy more stuff!” and “For more wars!”

It is important to note that there were anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators marching peacefully, many with poignant messages. One woman who carried a poster that said “Stop the 9-11 Cover Up” explained to me that she had worked on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center and had called in sick on the day of the attacks. She believes the government knew more than it now admits and that it should have tightened security at airports, which “could have saved her 60 friends who died.”

There were also counter-protestors outside the barricades. One older woman named Anna, originally from Russia, approached and spoke to me about her views.

“I want my president to go kick their fucking asses,” she said, “The Muslims kill their children, they kill their wives. They don’t have no (sic) conscience. (The Muslims) don’t understand humanity the way we do.

Most of the Muslim world, all they think about is food and fuck. They are jealous because we have Mercedes, and they have fucking donkeys.”

I thanked her for her (atrocious and absurd) comments, which ran much longer than I have reported here, and left quite confident that she did not have much personal experience with the Arab world, or Islam in general.

Another counter-protester, Craig Milem, asserted that “the peace movement is the source of terrorism.”

Craig, a financial analyst in New York, and his counterprotest group, tried to march with the anti-war protesters, but were stopped by a wall of people chanting, “Racist! Sexist! Anti-gay!”

The anti-war protesters then moved forward and forcefully pushed Craig and his group out of the barricades, eventually with the assistance of the police. The protesters began to chant, “Whose streets? Our streets!

Whose streets? Our streets!”

I said to a police officer standing near me, “It’s ironic that the anti-war demonstrators are resorting to violence to remove the counter-protesters.”

Dan Meyers, a New York attorney standing by, overheard me say this. He replied angrily that this was the

type of distortion that was typical of the press, and demanded to know who I was writing for. When I told him I was a student at Brown, he said that he was shocked that as a member of “a supposedly progressive institution,” I would report on seeing the anti-war protesters act violently.

As I got back on the bus at the end of the day, I began to wonder to what extent these types of protests are effective forms of activism. And what impact does such a diverse agenda expressed throughout the march have on the central cause?

I asked Vanessa Huang ’06, a Brown student organizer of the trip, what she thought about the satellite issues that surrounded the protest, and she responded, “I wouldn’t call them satellite issues.”

Another one of the organizers of the trip, Providence resident Alex Gould, explained some positions of the sponsoring organization, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism: “Israel is the second leading terrorist state after the United States. The state of Israel is a racist settler state and a theocratic fascist state. Gaza is an open-air prison where Israelis shoot Palestinians at will, and the State of Israel must be abolished.”

I believe protest as a form of activism does have some utility. The publicity surrounding the thousands of protesters against the war may help to decrease terrorism against civilian targets by humanizing Americans in the eyes of the Arab world, something the bombing will never do. But I suspect these protest marches have very little impact on our government’s decision making.

While listening to the chant, “This is what democracy looks like!” I thought to myself that it was a rather pathetic manifestation of democracy. It is, after all, only a meaningful democratic expression if the government actually listens to the protesters. And in a circus of comedy acts and funny songs, with messages that ranged from demanding the immediate release of Saddam Hussein to the creation of a communist United States, it is no wonder the liberal left is not taken seriously.

Scott Ewing ’05 isn’t joking around.

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SPORTS THURSDAY MARCH 25, 2004 · PAGE 8

Towers ’04 leading 4-0 men’s lacrosse up national rankings

BY ROBBY KLABER

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Athlete of the Week Charles Towers ’04 and the men’s lacrosse team are off to a strong 4-0 start.Towers had five goals in Brown’s upset of then-No. 16 UMass this weekend.

Equestrian jumps up to second in region with first place finish at RWU

BY AMANDA BURDEN

The equestrian team enjoyed a dominating victory Saturday at Johnson and Wales University, where it swept the competition and inched closer to capturing the regional title. Brown began the show in third place behind Roger Williams University and the University of Connecticut but wrapped up the day with the second place position in the region, leaving the Bears only 12 points behind Roger Williams in the regional rankings. With an impressive 38 points, Brown shined in each division, showing the team’s remarkable depth.

“The team did really well this weekend,” said captain Leila Ledsinger ’05. “Everyone recognized the need to pull together and give a strong performance, and as a result, we won the show and were consistently high in the ribbons.”

Ledsinger took home a high ribbon when she won her open flat class after her ride. It was no surprise when Jamie Peddy ’06, who competed for the prestigious Caccione Cup at the IHSA National Championship in Tennessee last year, followed Ledsinger with another win, scoring seven points for Brown in her open flat class.

From the open division to the walk-trot portion of the show, Brown demonstrated a streak of excellent performances. The Bears supplemented their high-scoring offensive rides with equally important defensive performances, which blocked the competition from gaining points and moving up in the regional ranks.

Katherine Warshaw-Reid ’04 had a particularly successful day in the intermediate division. After winning her fences contest in a nearly flawless round, Warshaw-Reid went on to place second in the intermediate flat.

Her overall combined 12 points made Warshaw-Reid the high-point rider among the Bears Saturday.

Gillian Heinecke ’07 is new to Brown’s equestrian team, but her effective riding skills have made her a pillar of the team this year. With a tremendous ride in her flat class Saturday, Heinecke earned a first-place finish in the show ring and helped set the stage for one of the strongest finishes the Bears have enjoyed all season.

Among the remaining riders, Ariana

Arcenas ’06 and Grace Peloquin ’07 both won their novice flat classes. Jennifer Fauth ’05, Dana Liljegren ’07 and Jen Bain ’04 won their walk-trot-canter competitions by dominating the competition with poise and strength. Bain’s performance qualified her for the individual championships at the upcoming regional competition at UConn.

The final competition was also laced with blue ribbons for Brown, as Jennifer John ’06 won her walk-trot class with a ride that surpassed her contenders by leaps and bounds.

The Bears are confident that in the next two shows, they have what it takes to gain the 12 points needed to outshine Roger Williams and win the region.

“We are still second place in the region, but this show definitely demonstrated the team’s talent and willingness to fight to regain the lead,” Ledsinger said.

The team’s next show is Saturday at Connecticut College.

Athlete of the Week Charles Towers ’04 is doing everything possible to ensure that the men’s lacrosse team has a recordbreaking season. Towers scored a careerhigh five goals to lead the team to a 10-5 win over No. 16 ATHLETE University of MassachusettsOF THE Amherst last WEEK Saturday, and his efforts this season have helped Brown get off to a 4-0 record — its best start since 1992.

Towers is quick to acknowledge that his success this season has largely been due to his teammates, who have done a great job in setting him up around the net.

“During the first four games, my teammates have done an awesome job of getting me the ball in the right situations. My ability to score is due to my teammates finding me at the right times, in the right situations,” Towers said.

Towers leads the team with 11 goals and 14 points overall. He is very strong around the net and not only knows how to get open, but also excels at finishing the play, according to his teammate Chazz Woodson ’05.

“Charlie is such a great scorer because he knows how to finish the play,” said Woodson. “He is able to get open very easily, and then is outstanding at finishing around the net. We rely on him to put points on the board for us, and he does everything he can to help us win.”

Towers’ teammates were impressed by his great game against UMass and said they hope to see similar performances from him throughout the remainder of the season.

“Charlie was on fire last weekend, and it was extremely fun to watch him,” said Chris Mucciolo ’05. “He scored very timely goals for us. He started off strong and kept that type of intensity throughout the entire game. He was also able to score towards the end of the game, putting the nail in the coffin.”

According to Mucciolo, Towers is so dominant on the field because he is a complete player. He is very smart on the field and is able to make a lot of plays because he is constantly hustling to the ball.

Mucciolo also said that although Towers scores many goals, he is an unselfish player on the field.

Teammates all agree that Towers has proven himself a leader both on and off the field.

“Charlie leads by example. He always is doing what is supposed to be done,” Mucciolo said. “He is a great leader because he pushes other players on the team to reach their potential. Off the field, he keeps the mood light, but during practice and games, he is focused and serious.”

The team’s success this season has come as a result of the players’ new and improved attitude, according to Towers.

“The team had a really bad season last year, and so our record negatively affected the team’s attitude. We are doing everything we can to change last year’s negative attitude. We have been able to change the attitude because we have a fairly young team, and all of us are taking practices and each game very seriously. There is a lot more trust on this year’s team, and that has had a positive effect on the team as well,” Towers said.

The team’s ultimate goal for the season is to win the Ivy League Championship and attain a berth in the NCAA tournament. Towers said that during his previous three seasons, the team underachieved, but this season, the team is off to a great start.

“The seniors have decided to turn the program around this year. Everyone on the team has worked hard to ensure this. As a senior, I want to make sure that I do not leave anything behind — I want to leave all my energy out on the field,” Towers said.

The team has played all of its games on the road so far, and the traveling has not been easy for the young team, which boasts 10 first-years. But each new player has performed well for the team and has been able to stand up to the challenge of playing at the collegiate level.

Towers said he views each game as a “business trip” and realizes that both he and his teammates will have to continue to work hard so that the team can achieve its final goal.

“As long as we maintain our current attitude and intensity, we should be successful,” Towers said. “We will continue to learn from each other so that we can continue to improve and make this a great season.”

Herald staff writer Robby Klaber ’07 can be reached at rklaber@browndailyherald.com.

Guard play, on, off court is focus of East Rutherford Regional (Los Angeles Times) — Thursday night’s two-game NCAA semifinal set at the East Rutherford Regional is all about guards, some of whom actually will be playing against each other.

In order of pregame intrigue, here’s the backcourt breakdown: Phil Martelli vs. Billy Packer.

The skinny: Martelli is head basketball coach at top-seeded Saint Joseph’s, which plays No. 4 Wake Forest in one regional semifinal game at the Continental Airlines Arena. (No. 2 Oklahoma State and No. 3 Pittsburgh tip off in the early game).

Martelli, a former point guard, helped lead Widener University to the NCAA tournament in 1975 and 1976.

Strengths: Tremendous coach and motivator with a keen sense of humor.

Has led St. Joe’s to a 29-1 record this year and a top seeding in the East Rutherford

bracket.

Weaknesses: Hair.

Packer is a longtime college basketball analyst for CBS. He’ll be calling Thursday night’s double-header — the St. Joe’s-Wake Forest game will be televised to 68 percent of the country.

Packer is a former guard from Wake Forest. In the 1962 NCAA tournament, his clutch shooting helped Wake Forest defeat St. Joe’s in overtime.

Strengths: Packer doesn’t mince words. For instance, after this year’s pairings were announced, he said on national television he didn’t think St. Joe’s deserved a top seeding.

Weaknesses: Hair, and some would say basketball analysis. In calling last week’s subregional game between Syracuse and Maryland in Denver, Packer pronounced the game over after Syracuse jumped to a 16-point, second-

half lead.

In the final seconds, Maryland freshman guard D.J. Strawberry missed two shots that could have sent the game to overtime.

Oops.

How it shakes out: Martelli called Packer a “jackass” for saying his team didn’t deserve a No. 1 seeding. Despite the fact that St. Joe’s is still playing in this tournament and two top-seeded teams — Kentucky and Stanford — are not, Packer is not backing off his original stance. This week Packer told the Charlotte Observer, “I wasn’t completely out to lunch.”

Take special note of the word “completely.”

In a conference call with reporters this week, Martelli said he laughed out see NCAA, page 4