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University to raise parking fees, plans alternative transportation

$222 million raised so far in campaign quiet phase

BY SARAH LABRIE

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

A plan to provide students with alternative transportation after cutbacks to student parking this fall has been approved by the University and will include new shuttle routes to Kennedy Plaza and the Jewelry district and possibly off-site parking, said Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter. The plan, designed to reduce the number of cars on campus, was developed by the Ad Hoc Transportation Management Committee, composed of students and faculty and chaired by Director of Real Estate and Administrative Services Abigail Rider. “We provide parking as a convenience for students and faculty,” Rider said. “We just do not have the flexibility to encourage additional cars to come to College Hill.” Due to complaints from neighborhood residents, overnight student parking in the stadium lot will not be available to students next year, reducing the number of on-campus spots from 640 to 500. Parking will still be offered to graduate students and medical students and to seniors and juniors; parking will be available to students on the basis of seniority. The cost of parking on campus for one year will rise from $320 to $450, an amount still “much, much cheaper” than what the city would charge, according to Hunter. Employee parking rates will rise from $200 to $330 as a pre-tax payroll deduction. The Initiatives for Academic Enrichment call for extensive construction, another factor that motivated attempts to reduce on-campus parking, Hunter said. Hunter said he hopes the plan will promote a sense of community among students by encouraging carpooling and shuttle use. The University plans to promote ride-sharing by allowing carpoolers to split the cost of a parking spot and by giving groups higher priority than individuals on the parking-spot waiting list. “The plan will make for a better envi-

nation of media from a licensed source is that in order to avoid illegal activity, “you need the consent of the copyright holder,” Lamboy said. Anime Brunonia writes letters to obtain this consent from companies whose licensed films they want to show, asking permission to show the anime in a public forum, Dilg said. Dilg said he has been more lax in this process than previous society presidents and has, on a few occasions,

The University has raised $222 million in the quiet phase of its capital campaign, but it must raise “considerably more” before the official launch of the campaign, President Ruth Simmons said at the April faculty meeting, held Tuesday. Also at the meeting, Provost Robert Zimmer said he is disappointed that feminist theorist Judith Butler has declined Brown’s offer to lead its new Humanities Center. Butler is currently a professor at the University of California-Berkeley. Zimmer noted that the University is trying to establish a relationship with Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory. That institution — which is not a weapons lab — owns instrumentation that can’t be replicated at any university, no matter how wealthy, he said. In her report, Simmons recapped diversity issues facing the University in what she called a “post-Michigan decision world,” referring to last summer’s Supreme Court decisions upholding but restricting affirmative action. She said her experience has shown that programs like the Third World Transition Program lead to better experiences for and higher retention rates of minorities. “I do remain persuaded that none of our programs should exclude based on race,” she added. “TWTP addresses transition issues for students of color. There may be students from many backgrounds interested in (these issues).” Simmons also addressed the media frenzy surrounding the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. “It is unfortunate that many reports have mischaracterized the work of the committee,” she said. The committee is examining many issues and is not intended to solely answer a “yes-or-no question on reparations,” she said. Simmons said the University will distribute clarifying materials to alumni, many of whom have shown interest in the “parameters” of the committee’s work. Simmons also delivered and reflected on University news. The search committee seeking a vice president for campus life and student services has compiled a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed, Simmons said. One of those candidates was on campus Tuesday, she added. The committee to find a new vice president for public affairs and University relations has also established a list of finalists, she said. Commenting on acceptance letters recently mailed to potential members of the Class of 2008, Simmons said undergraduate applications rose from last year, although the acceptance rate is currently higher than it was at this time last year. Fifty-one percent of accepted students are

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Warm weather brought students to Pembroke Field for a late afternoon game of ultimate frisbee.

Some endowed seats vacant, but U. says most are filled Weeks after Levinger chair is filled and lawsuit is filed, Brown administrator says unfilled endowed seats are the exception to the rule BY JONATHAN ELLIS

Before he began an unpaid leave from the University last fall, Sumit Guha was the St. Purandara Das Distinguished Professor of South Asian History. But now, with Guha living in New Jersey to complete an outside fellowship, the money for the endowed Das position isn’t going anywhere. Guha’s endowed chair is one of Brown’s more than 120 endowed professorships, according to Associate Provost Nancy Dunbar, who called empty endowed chairs the exception to the rule. Empty endowed professorships drew attention in February when the Levinger Family Trust filed suit against the University for waiting too long — over nine years — to fill an endowed

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professorship in the Levinger name. Just three weeks after the lawsuit was filed in Providence Superior Court, the University awarded the position to Professor of Medicine Alfred Buxton. Vice President and General Counsel for the University Beverly Ledbetter told The Herald the timing was “coincidental.” The exact number of chairs that still remain unfilled depends on “what you count as unfilled,” Dunbar said. Guha technically still holds the Das position, though he currently resides in New Jersey. Other endowed professors often take sabbatical leave. And when junior faculty members earn tenure, they give up any endowed titles they occupy, see CHAIRS, page 6

Fan-subtitled anime complicates Brown club’s legality BY AMY RUDDLE

Anime Brunonia, Brown’s anime club, says it tries to follow copyright law to the letter, but complying with the laws can be difficult considering the complex legislation and array of downloadable anime material. “All the things we do are for fan exposure and sharing — we’re not trying to flout the law,” said Cisco Dilg ’04, president of Anime Brunonia. Anime Brunonia sponsors free weekly screenings of films from the club’s library in Barus and Holley, but the

society does not have a license to show the movies to a public audience like the Brown Film Society does, Dilg said. Since the society’s library consists mainly of commercial DVDs, the screenings could violate copyright law preventing the showing of movies in a public forum. But according to Yolanda Lamboy, associate counsel to the University, a license is not always needed in order to show a film in a public forum. What is essential to understanding copyright legislation and the dissemi-

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Natalie Smolenski ’07 says Providence isn’t a renaissance city for everyone column, page 11

Forget differences; vote President George W. Bush out of office, Alex Schulman ’03 writes column, page 11

M. tennis team ready for Ivy League play after losing to Virginia Tech sports, page 12

W. tennis splits up for two competitions while training in North Carolina over break sports, page 12

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Applicants’“demonstrated interest” grows in importance at colleges nationwide BY KATE GORMAN

High school students hoping to gain an edge in the college application process are flooding admission offices with cards, letters, phone calls and gifts — and a recent study suggests many schools take notice. The study, done by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, found that 55 percent of participating schools said they consider “demonstrated interest” when evaluating applicants. Thirty percent of the 595 schools polled said the factor was of “moderate or considerable” importance — more than said the same of SAT II subject tests or race and ethnicity. Brown does not consider demonstrated interest when evaluating applicants, according to Director of Admission Michael Goldberger. The same is true at Stanford University, Dartmouth College and many other highly selective schools. But applicants who demonstrate a lack of knowledge about Brown in their applications or alumni interviews could be hurting their chances of admission, Goldberger said. “If the applicant did not know the Brown curriculum, we would assume that the candidate really knows little about Brown — and that would hurt chances for admission,” he said. Goldberger said Brown evaluates applicants strictly on their academic and personal strengths. “The high school course load and grades of an applicant are most important, and a match to the requirements of the Brown curriculum is second most important,” he said. Brown assumes all students who apply want to come to Brown and are treated accordingly, Goldberger said. Opponents of demonstrated interest say it unfairly disadvantages low-income students who do not have the financial resources to visit schools and advisors

encouraging them to “demonstrate interest.” But at other top-tier private schools, such as Emory University, admission officers defend the practice. “Strong interest in Emory, as evidenced by careful research, contacts with admission officers and a campus visit, can certainly be a tip factor in highly selective admissions,” said Daniel Walls, dean of admission. The admission office at Emory keeps track of the number of contacts students make with the school and students’ attendance at information sessions. Walls said the process is comparable to the preference most colleges and universities show for early-decision candidates because these applicants have identified the school as their first choice. At Emory, demonstrated interest is one of many factors influencing admission decisions. “Other factors that we take into consideration when evaluating applicants are special talents, legacy status, geography and unusually strong letters of recommendation,” Walls said. “When a prospective student lists their reason for applying to Emory as ‘the strong reputation of your school of engineering,’ we question their level of Emory research and we question an admission spot, since Emory does not have a school of engineering,” Walls said. George Washington University also considers demonstrated interest when evaluating undergraduate applicants. GWU Assistant Admissions Director Kristen Kaczynski said demonstrated interest is one of many factors the university considers when evaluating applicants. “The most important things we look at are the applisee ADMISSIONS, page 9

UCLA study highlights spiritual growth on campuses BY KIRA LESLEY

Religion and higher education are often considered enemies in the battle for the hearts and minds of America’s youth. But a recent study conducted at the University of California-Los Angeles Higher Education Research Institute shows that religion is alive and well on college campuses nationwide. The goal of the study, which is being headed by HERI directors and UCLA professors Alexander Astin and Helen Astin, is to track the spiritual growth of students during their college years, according to the HERI Web site. In spring of 2003, a pilot survey was administered to approximately 12,000 undergraduates attending a representative sample of 46 schools who had participated in a freshman survey three years before. By comparing the data of these two surveys, investigators were able to report preliminary findings. According to the study, 77 percent of college juniors agreed with the statement that all humans are spiritual beings and 71 percent said they find religion to be personally helpful to them. Seventy percent of students said they had attended a religious service in the past year. Brown is no exception to the high level of religiosity on campuses, said University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson. Statistics compiled by the Chaplains Office in 1997 placed the percentage of Brown students who identify with a religious group at 95. The largest religions were Roman Catholicism at 25 percent, Judaism at 20 percent, Protestantism at 13 percent and “Other” – which includes Baha’i, Jainism, Sikhism, Animism, Zoroastrianism and see SPIRITUALITY, page 7

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continued from page 1 ronment for academic enrichment,” Hunter said. Other possibilities for alternative transportation include a contract with RIPTA and an increase in the frequency and number of shuttles running to and from off-campus sites. Brown is currently negotiating a trial deal with RIPTA that would allow students to ride for free or at reduced prices in the fall.

Anime continued from page 1 shown films he has not received permission to screen, but “there’s never been an instance where a licenser has said ‘no’ and we have shown a film,” he said. Most companies are grateful that their films are getting exposure, Dilg said, adding that most people who are introduced to anime through the club later buy anime because of their interest in the genre. But one form of anime has recently come under fire from distributors who say it constitutes copyright infringement. “Fansubbing,” the process by which a fan takes an animated show from television or film and subtitles it, then makes it available for download on the Internet before the show is licensed for distribution in the United States, is one of the “gray areas” in anime, Dilg said. Dilg said the club’s library contains some fansubbed materials, although it no longer acquires fansubbed materials because the Web sites where they were once available have gradually disappeared. “There are fewer shows people are able to fansub legally,” Dilg said. “It’s hard to find stuff that isn’t commercially licensed.” Fansubbed materials are considered legal by many who enjoy anime, because they are not bound by U.S. copyright and because those distributing the subtitled materials are not doing so for profit. “The main reason we’d show fansubs in the past is because they’re a lot cheaper,” Dilg said. The group gets $120 in Undergraduate Finance Board funding per semester for purchasing videos, and at $20 to $25 per commercial DVD, showing more than one series is impossible, Dilg said. The club often relies on its members’ personal anime collections to supple-

The University plans to build an off-campus parking garage to account for future growth, but size and location of the structure and the timeline for construction have not been established. Plans call for Brown to provide transportation between campus and the site. The plan was developed from recommendations made by a committee of students and faculty. UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 said he is disappointed by

ment the library’s collection, Dilg added. Fansubs, in contrast, only cost the price of a video cassette or compact disc, plus the cost of shipping if the fansubber distributes by mail rather than the Internet. The total cost generally comes to around $8, which makes adding to a library much more feasible, Dilg said. An example of the disappearance of fansubbed films is the show “Infinite Ryvius,” which was screened at the end of last semester by the club and has since been copyrighted by its distributor Bandai, Dilg said. Any further distribution or screening of the film without permission from Bandai would be a violation of U.S. copyright law. Still, many fansub organizations are not aware that, whether or not they distribute translated materials for profit, and regardless of U.S. licensing for materials, fansubs do violate Japanese copyright law, according to the online Anime News Network. According to an article published by the network in June 2003, Japanese copyright law protects the originally licensed author’s right to distribute and translate the work, so fansub groups may not necessarily be licensed to translate the works. Japan and the United States are also members of an international agreement known as the Berne Convention, whereby each country can seek copyright protection for materials beyond the borders of its own nation. Under the Berne Convention’s terms, Japanese materials hold their copyright within U.S. borders, regardless of whether an American company has been licensed to translate and distribute them. “Japan would be entitled to the same rights as U.S. copyright laws,” Lamboy said, adding that if Japanese distributors sought to enforce these rights in the United States or intended to seek damages, they could.

the reduction in parking spots but thinks the proposed alternatives, particularly the possibility of RIPTA student passes, will be good for undergraduates. Hunter said he thinks the plan will be welcomed by students and faculty. “It’s comprehensive, the increases are very modest and the need is compelling,” he said. Herald staff writer Sarah LaBrie ’07 can be reached at slabrie@browndailyherald.com.

In turn, she added, if a distributor of materials on the Internet doesn’t have the right to disseminate those materials, and someone downloads those materials and shows them, the downloader “could be part of the chain of infringers” the original license holder’s copyright. “Everything stems from the rights of the original copyright holder — if they want to pursue you, that’s a different issue. I couldn’t say if (Anime Brunonia) is breaking any laws,” Lamboy said. “Legally, there is no difference between ‘fansubs’ and ‘bootlegs.’ In the eyes of the law, both could be seen as damaging to the market,” the Anime News Network reported. Although several Japanese companies, including Bandai, have warned against fansubbing materials and have confiscated non-licensed products, the companies have not yet prosecuted fansubbing organizations, according to the Anime News Network. Lamboy said many companies will not bring actions against individuals infringing on their copyright because infringement has to do with harm to the copyright holder. “In this instance, fansubbers may not be pursued,” because fansubbing spreads awareness of anime and may actually encourage people to buy anime, he said. As a result, fansubbing “may be considered a good thing — it may not cause damages,” Lamboy said. The legality of fansubs has never been spelled out to animation clubs, Dilg said. “I definitely took my cues from other clubs around the country,” he added. While he stressed that fansubs were a minor part of the club’s library, he said, “I’ll stop using fansubs now that this has been brought to my attention.” Herald staff writer Amy Ruddle ’06 can be reached at aruddle@browndailyherald.com.

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Faculty continued from page 1 female. Director of Admission Michael Goldberger expects the Class of 2008 to comprise 1,430 students, Simmons said. Accepted students had higher average class ranks and SAT verbal and math scores than their counterparts last year, Simmons said. Minority acceptances also increased, with 22 Native Americans accepted this year, 10 more than last year. Simmons said it is too early to report on graduate admission, but noted that international applications fell this year. Peer institutions also saw fewer applicants from abroad because of terrorism concerns, she said. Faculty initiatives during the meeting included a successful motion to institute a two-year pilot program that will accept applications to the Medical School from students at colleges and universities other than Brown. Zimmer had announced the proposal to open the Medical School’s application process at last month’s faculty meeting. At Tuesday’s meeting, Interim Dean of Biology and Medical Sciences Richard Besdine said that, at present, the lack of a standard admission process makes the school “essentially invisible” to the outside world, he said. Students in the Program in Liberal Medical Education make up two-thirds of each Medical School class, Besdine said. But a smaller number of PLME students completing their undergraduate degrees in 2005 and 2006 opened up eight to 10 spots for the pilot program, he said. Besdine told the Herald last month that there are 10 to 12 open spots. The spots will also be open to non-PLME Brown undergradu-

ates, Besdine said. Currently, he said, fewer non-PLME Brown students enter the Medical School than do students in its Early Identification Program, which draws students from Tougaloo, Providence and Rhode Island colleges and the University of Rhode Island. In response to a faculty member’s question, Besdine said the open application process is not an attempt to enroll better students than PLME students, whom he called the “foundation of the Medical School class.” The motion carried unanimously by a voice vote. The faculty also voted to move Commencement to the Sunday before Memorial Day beginning in 2005. An ad hoc committee on

Commencement, formed at the end of the last academic year, proposed the date change, which will shorten Commencement weekend to three days from four. “This model will allow for some modest cost savings (primarily by avoiding the holiday pay necessitated by holding Commencement on Memorial Day),” the committee wrote in a report to the faculty. The model “more importantly reduces the amount of un-programmed and/or poorly programmed time parents and alumni currently experience on Sunday,” the committee wrote. Interim Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Melanie Coon ’78 said see FACULTY, page 9

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Chairs continued from page 1 temporarily increasing the number of open positions. “Since I’m on unpaid leave, it’s not costing them anything,” Guha said. “(The University) could have hired a substitute to teach South Asian history.” Instead, he said, a visiting instructor is teaching HI158: “History of Modern South Asia.” The visiting instructor, Neeti Nair, is teaching one course in South Asian history this year, at a cost presumably “way less than what a $2 million endowment yields,” Guha said. Had Guha remained at Brown this year, he would have taught three courses, according to the Brown Online Course Announcement. If an endowed position is filled, the University distributes 4.5 to 5.5 percent of the 12-quarter trailing average of the market value of the endowment, Elizabeth Huidekoper, vice president for finance and administration, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. That policy “has a way of smoothing for fluctuations in the market value while ensuring that we maintain the purchasing power of the endowment over time,” Huidekoper wrote. Guha, whose resignation will become effective July 1, said he was disappointed about the future of the Das professorship. “What I anticipate is that they will take years and years to fill it,” he said. The position was created in 1994 and not permanently filled until Guha’s appointment in 2000, he said. The Department of

Portuguese and Brazilian Studies’ Vasco da Gama Chair in Early Modern Portuguese History has never been filled, Guha said. It was endowed in March 1997. Dunbar said, “It’s hard to imagine that it’s difficult to recruit faculty. But in truth, many searches are very difficult.” The process is further complicated because the authority to appoint endowed chairs rests with the Corporation, which acts on recommendations of the president, who in turn hears from the provost, Dunbar added. Endowed professorships in broad areas, such as the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, a chair currently held by Professor of History Abbott Gleason, take a shorter time to fill, Dunbar said, while specialized chairs often require longer searches. But Guha said the University administration could provide the Department of History with more replacement funds in his absence. The department, in turn, could allocate more of those funds to South Asian history, rather than putting them towards European and American studies, he said. Regardless of whether an endowed chair is unfilled or a professor is simply on sabbatical, the University tries to provide compensatory funds, though not always to the complete satisfaction of departments and students, Dunbar said. “The most important thing to remember is our responsibility to follow the donor’s wishes,” she added. The terms of some gifts include backup clauses to provide funding in an area when a professorship cannot be filled, she said, but other agreements only provide for faculty salaries. “We’re quite careful that we’re using the funds in the language of the gift agreement,” Dunbar said. If an agreement does not contain a backup clause, “the income (from the fund) goes unspent and accumulates in a restricted account for future use once the position is filled,” Huidekoper wrote. Unfilled chairs do not represent a systemic problem at the University, Dunbar said. “In fact, we would like to have some more chairs to fill,” she said. As part of the upcoming capital campaign, “the University is striving to encourage gifts to work in the realities of the academic world,” Dunbar said. “We would encourage donors to give the University some flexibility in meeting their wishes — which is not to say we would ever use funds from an endowed chair for some other purpose.” A typical endowed professorship costs $3 million, Dunbar said, though some medical positions can reach as high as $5 million. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers faculty and administration. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

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Spirituality continued from page 3 Wicca, among others – at 20 percent. Forty to 60 percent of the Brown community is active in a religious organization, more than in any other activity, Cooper Nelson said. People often hold stereotypes of Brown as a college without a strong religious presence, but these stereotypes do not hold up to the facts, she said. The UCLA survey also reported a tendency for undergraduates to view themselves as less spiritual over time and a drop in the number of students who frequently attended religious services from 52 percent freshman year to 29 percent junior year. Such statistics have raised questions about religion’s ability to survive in an academic environment. Kathleen Loughlin ’07 said her parents were worried that Brown’s environment would be hostile toward her Roman Catholic faith. Loughlin, who has attended church services since childhood, has continued attending services every week at St. Joseph’s Church on Hope Street. Loughlin said she has not had trouble maintaining her faith at Brown because “at some point in your life you have to take responsibility for your own faith … and I just did it four years earlier.” Cooper Nelson said using religious-service attendance statistics to determine a campus’s religious environment can be misleading. First-year college students encounter a wealth of intellectual and spiritual diversity that may cause them to reflect upon their faith and express their spirituality in different ways, but that does not mean their participation in religion overall has declined, Cooper Nelson said. Many students actually become more religious during their time at Brown, she said. “Where would I expect to find spiritual growth and development happening? At the table in the Ratty, over pizza at The Gate,” Cooper Nelson said. Cooper Nelson said that as students age, they often practice spirituality through more varied activities, such as performing community service, rallying to raise awareness of hate crimes or debat-

ing the validity of reparations. For Matt Hamilton ’05, practicing his faith has meant participating in faith-based organizations. Hamilton, a Roman Catholic and founder of the Faith-Based Activism Coalition, said he became more interested and active in Catholicism after a Zoroastrian friend asked him about the Christian mystical tradition. Being exposed to different beliefs prompted him to learn more about his own faith, as well as faiths that were unfamiliar to him, he said. As head of the Faith-Based Activism Coalition, Hamilton said he aims to “build solidarity among religious communities with social justice issues in Providence, Brown and the world.” The coalition promotes interfaith dialogue and volunteerism, and members attended the international anti-war protest in New York City in February 2003. Students’ ability to practice their faiths through varied means probably contributes to the decline in service attendance during the college years, Cooper Nelson said. But she said this does not necessarily mean that students’ spirituality declines over these years. For Najma Amin ’04, attendance at services often had more to do with time constraints than her level of spirituality. “I feel like I’ve kind of followed a bell curve” with respect to active participation in services, said Amin, who served as president of the Muslim Students Association at Brown from spring of 2002 to fall of 2003. During her first year at Brown and again this semester, a busy schedule has kept Amin from attending services frequently, she said. Amin said she attended services most frequently during her sophomore and junior years, but that did not mean her commitment to her faith was deeper then. The UCLA project is a longterm one, and the research team is planning to administer a revised questionnaire to approximately 90,000 students beginning school at 150 colleges and universities this fall, the Web site said. The results of the survey will be distributed in 2005. Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com

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Kent Walls ’06 also hit a personal best of 152-6 in the discus. On the track, Matt Emond ’04 raced the 5,000-meter run for the first time this year for a personal record of 14:28.40, also making his mark on the top-10 board. Emond’s time ranks seventh in the event outdoors. Chris Burke ’07 tied his own best in the event, coming in at 14:52.55. Coming off his win at the indoor Heptagonal meet, high-jumper Ray Bobrownicki ’06 remained consistent, even with the transition to outdoors. His jump of 6-10 3/4 keeps him undefeated in the Ivy League this year. Hurdling for the Bears, Christian Tabib ’06 debuted in the 400-meter intermediates, clocking in at 55.29 seconds, while Daveed Diggs ’04 raced the 110-meter highs with a time of 14.81 in the preliminary round. The 4x400 team returned to the track to close out the weekend, eclipsing its time from the Raleigh Relays with a 3:15.87. “As a relay, we were able to improve from the previous meet, which sets the stage for a strong season,” Owen said. The men will compete next at home when they host the Brown Invitational on Saturday.

two sets to prevail at the No. 5 spot. Despite a huge lift from the team’s first-years, Brown was unable to prevail in the finals, losing 4-3 to UC-Irvine. The host team came away with the doubles point, as well as the top three singles matches, to clinch the win. Saiontz led the way for the Bears in the bottom half of the singles slots, posting a strong 6-4, 6-4 win. Ames and Pautler followed with straight-set wins at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions, respectively. Taylor called the match against UC-Irvine “winnable.” “After that match, I adjusted No. 1 and No. 2 doubles, pairing different people with each other, and this seems to be an improvement,” she said. Beck also said she was disappointed with the outcome of the final match, and she partly blamed fatigue for the loss. “Having it be the third match in a row was definitely a factor for some people on the team,” she said. Following the tournament,

years, Brown was

Admissions continued from page 3 cant’s high school transcript, recommendations and test scores. Demonstrated interest — from sending letters to visiting the school — is secondary,” Kaczynski said. The required essay portion of the application counts as demonstrated interest at George Washington because “it shows how interested the student is in us,” Kaczynski said. Herald staff writer Kate Gorman ’07 can be reached at kgorman@browndailyherald.com.

Faculty continued from page 5 alumni leaders were pleased with the proposed change, although a faculty member questioned whether the leaders’ sentiments were representative of all alumni. The committee recommended the University continue to hold reunions on Commencement weekend, an arrangement it called “magical.” The motion carried by a voice vote, with about four votes against. Brown has held Commencement on Memorial Day — the last Monday in May — ever since the faculty adopted a new academic calendar in 1981. Next year’s Commencement will now occur Sunday, May 29, 2005. Because the amendment to the Faculty Rules does not take effect until July, this year’s Commencement is still scheduled for May 31. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers faculty and administration. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

unable to prevail in the finals, losing 4-3 to UC-Irvine. Brown fell against two highranked teams. Against No. 74 Loyola Marymount University, the team picked up one singles victory in the overall 6-1 loss. Against No. 49 California State University-Long Beach, Brown lost by the same score. Beck carried both of her singles matches in straight sets in the No. 3 slot, providing the Bears’ only points. Taylor said the California trip gave the team a strong foundation of match play for the intense weeks of Ivy League competition ahead. “Our goal for the Ivies is to have fun competing and fight hard in each match,” she said. Herald staff writer Robbie CoreyBoulet ’07 covers women’s tennis. He can be reached at rcoreyboulet@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Spot removal The Ad Hoc Transportation Committee released a plan this week that calls for the construction of an off-campus parking garage to replace existing on-campus student parking over the course of the next five years. The committee presents a number of plausible arguments for shifting student parking off campus, including the alleviation of vehicle congestion on College Hill. But the most compelling argument of all for moving student parking off campus is that it was mandated by the city of Providence. Specifically, in exchange for city approval of architect Frances Halsband’s master plan for campus expansion, Brown agreed to eliminate overnight parking at the stadium, according to the committee’s report. The elimination of stadium parking, which the University has announced will be effective this fall, constitutes a reduction of the number of parking spots available to students from 640 to 500. Although 140 spots may not seem like very many, they comprise over 20 percent of existing, on-campus student parking. The committee’s plan provides a number of proposals for how students can get around Providence next semester without their cars, including more frequent shuttle service between campus and downtown and subsidized RIPTA passes. But subsidized rental car services would benefit only the relatively small population of students 21 and older. And the proposal to give groups better parking lottery numbers than individuals overlooks the fact that only a car’s owner can obtain insurance coverage. More fundamentally, the plan does not provide for students who cannot afford not to bring their cars next fall and will be denied on-campus parking spots. Students who bring cars to campus drive them to jobs, medical appointments, community service projects and other commitments they could not fulfill if they did not have their own means of transportation. These students will drive their cars back to Brown next fall whether or not the University provides them with parking, only increasing the College Hill congestion the transportation committee was charged with reducing. Before the University eliminates stadium parking, it needs to figure out what to do with all those cars.

NICK SCHADE

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2004 · PAGE 11

Against theocracy GUEST COLUMN BY ALEX SCHULMAN

The Germans have a word with no real English equivalent, zeitgeist, that points at something like a cultural “sign of the times.” We may now be at a moment of congealing. The prognosis offered a few short years back about Sept. 11 banishing the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s has proved too hasty: The current swirl of rancor about gay marriage, cultural permissiveness and Mel Gibson’s bloody passion play show that neither side has given up culture politics. In a seemingly discrete series of O’Reilly-friendly talking-head debates — stem cell research, public funding to religious charities, “partial-birth” abortion and now, gay marriage, the travails of Christ and Janet Jackson’s indecency — I see a more serious pattern. Put simply, what President George W. Bush truly represents above all else is not big oil, and not the grandiose geopolitics of a “neocon” coterie, but rather the homegrown voices of theocracy, a millenarian Bible-Belt fundamentalism that wants the values of a minority religious sect to hold for the majority. Being a successful wartime president does not make up for this, morally or strategically. The Democratic Party has hardly been my friend on issues of, say, censorship, but in general a John Kerry presidency will be worth the return to Clinton-era geopolitics if it also means stepping back from this very bleak and dangerous precipice. A president who proposes the first constitutional amendment since Prohibition that would curtail civil rights instead of extending them does not deserve to wear the mantle of a defender of the free world. When the same conservative movement that claims to speak the truth against Islamic fundamentalism indulges itself deriding the “breakdown in values” that accompanies gay marriage or the televised flash of a breast, all while lavishing unconditional praise upon the preposterous and nearly pornographically single-minded ultraviolence of Mel Gibson’s passion play, there is something rotten in Denmark. What has been astonishing is how narrow the terms of these

Bush’s flaying of our secular values must come to an end. debates are. The supposition that homosexuals deserve basic civil rights because they are the equal citizens of a secular state should precede the requisite legal wrangling about federalism and constitutional inviolability, two historically elastic concepts that have been used for evil as well as good through the years, and should also trump all hypocritical drivel about the “sanctity of marriage” in a country with a 50 percent heterosexual divorce rate. Regarding Mr. Gibson, the trumped up charge of antiSemitism should not prevent conservatives from asking themselves why fetishizing flayed skin and the most extreme bloodlust is not only defensible but praiseworthy simply because the body under the knife is Jesus. Incidentally, aside from the questions of Caiphas and Pontius Pilate, there is absolutely no textual evidence in the Gospels for the unrestrained brutality of Gibson’s film, a curiosity sedulously avoided by most of the film’s defenders. The credit Gibson does to the meaning of Christ’s actual life and teachings is near nil. He of course has a right to make any film about it he likes, just as anyone is perfectly entitled to consider it a privately rhapsodic religious experience. What shall not stand, though, is a political cult that wants to erode the secular framework of our nation simply on the basis of this single old story. Similarly, Janet Jackson’s brief nudity may have been in bad taste, and parents justified in claiming the Super Bowl is a family event that should be free of R-rated material. However, it is a pseudo-despotic mentality that uses this relatively harmless event to frame a cultural pogrom: and anyone who doubts this is going on should pay attention to Howard Stern’s recent travails and the grand plans of a Federal Communications Commission headed by Colin Powell’s son. And the decision on stem-cell research, far from being a pragmatic weighing of contested social and moral values, was an edict of religious totalitarianism. There is value in neoconservative as well as classically conservative philosophy. But the devil’s alliance between plutocracy and Judeo-Christian millenarian extremism must end, for the common future of all Americans. Thus, beyond even disagreements on the tax cuts or the Iraq adventure, we must vote George W. Bush out of office in 2004. Alex Schulman ’03 is currently a graduate student in the political science program at the University of California-Los Angeles.

War on whistleblowers GUEST COLUMN BY DOUG FRETTY

PARIS — We’re being told again and again, as the 9/11 Commission goes about its work, that the Bush administration is not the Clinton administration. In fact, the Bush administration avoids all things Clintonian like kryptonite. Whereas Clinton saw global conflict in terms of civilizations, Bush sees it in terms of nations. Whereas Clinton’s weapon of choice was counter-intelligence, Bush’s sidearm is the military. But there’s one important lesson that the Bushies have learned from the Clintonites: Keep your secrets, and keep them good. His tenure rife with scandal, Clinton classified everything but the proverbial cocktail napkin, and it seems these days that Rove, Ashcroft and Wolfowitz are determined to show him up. In the past two years Bush has moved to classify documents some 44.5 million times. It took Clinton a whole second term to rack up that figure — and he had a former intern to contend with. The Justice Department has also been zealously enforcing the “state secrets privilege” in a number of civil, criminal, and federal cases. Referred to as the “nuclear bomb” of legal maneuvers, the state secrets privilege can terminate any case believed to threaten national security or diplomatic relations.

Remember that whole transparency thing? The Supreme Court set precedent for the privilege in 1953 and, recognizing its awesome power, warned in the decision that the measure is “not to be lightly invoked.” But what does “lightly” mean, really? Surely, George Tenet did not act lightly when he halted the case of Jeffrey Sterling. Sterling was a CIA agent who sued his New York branch for racial discrimination, only to be gagged by the state secrets privilege.

Later, the CIA made public the details of the Sterling case — all those nasty secrets that would have jeapordized our national security. (Sterling, by the way, is still waiting for his day in court.) William Weaver, a University of Texas-El Paso professor, has written a study on the “state secrets” history and faults the Bush administration for overusing this legal poison pill. The Justice Department employs the privilege “with offhanded abandon,” Weaver claims, citing a single case in which the privilege was invoked 245 times. Lightly, indeed. Now the administration wants to use “state secrets” in the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who last week made the shocking statement that U.S. intelligence knew months in advance that al-Qaeda planned to hit a skyscraper with a plane. Edmonds had been fired after making formal complaints within the FBI that the translation department was corrupt and inefficient. Of course, John Ashcroft couldn’t use the state secrets privilege to keep Edmonds from giving the 9/11 Commission a three-hour debriefing session. But he does plan to use the privilege to keep her from obtaining any proof of her allegations — she has repeatedly sued the FBI for access to her translations under the Freedom of Information Act. “This is not hearsay,” Edmonds insists. “These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily.” The Bush administration is learning the hard way that every government employee they spurn is a whistleblower in the making. When one such as Richard Clarke makes the front pages, the White House’s best defense is a quick, ugly smear campaign. And while they can’t get a muzzle on Sibel Edmonds, they can keep her on a leash. The Justice Department has informed her that her case will probably be held up until some time after — you guessed it — November. Doug Fretty ’05 is studying abroad in Paris this semester.

A renaissance for some, not all GUEST COLUMN BY NATALIE SMOLENSKI

You’re walking down Thayer Street when you see him out of the corner of your eye. Bedraggled, he’s sitting at the wall of a building, extending a Styrofoam cup listlessly before him. You feel for him, yet you know that a bit of change won’t solve what he’s going through. But what will? Is there any way to help a man so desperately down on his luck? In Providence, the homelessness situation is dire. The “Renaissance City” reforms introduced under Mayor Vincent Cianci did wonders to polish up the city’s image, but, if you’ll forgive me for borrowing from Shakespeare, they “but skin and film the ulcerous place,” concealing a grim reality that most people would rather ignore. Providence has the fourth-highest child poverty rate in the entire country, with over 5,000 people entering the Rhode Island shelter system every year. To make matters worse, African Americans are six times more likely than whites to enter emergency shelters. The lack of affordable housing is the main culprit. Unfortunately, Brown University has done its share to exacerbate the problem by allowing large numbers of students to live off campus, thereby greatly driving up housing rents in surrounding areas. All these statistics translate into a massive homelessness problem that city administrators would prefer to keep concealed. To this effect, they have passed numerous laws that basically criminalize public homelessness. Someone can be arrested for failure to move, vagrancy (having less than $20 on one’s person), “aggressive” panhandling and other violations. The enforcement of these laws is arbitrary because they are not applied to most people, but rather targeted exclusively at the homeless community. But harassment of the homeless doesn’t stop with these laws; the covert reality of police brutality and humiliation consistently plagues their lives as well. Back-alley beatings, away from the eyes of street-goers, are commonplace. A homeless person drinking coffee is liable to have his drink smelled and investigated to

determine its alcoholic content. An elderly homeless man recounted to me the story of one particularly notorious policeman who instigated a physical confrontation with him as he sat reading in a public library. When the man nearly had a heart attack, an ambulance had to be called, and the officer demanded that the medics “hand him over” as soon as his blood pressure had stabilized. Recently Cathy Rhodes, the director of People to End Homelessness, was arrested for standing near a street and holding a sign proclaiming that she could be arrested for standing near a street and holding a sign. The charge was “failure to move,” the sentence up to 30

Accused of “failure to move.” days in prison. Her charges were thankfully dropped, but she had the major advantage of having a place to live. The gentrification of Providence, while perhaps rendering the city more attractive for tourism and business, comes at the expense of betraying a large faction of the local population. A Brown student organization called Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere, in conjunction with People to End Homelessness, is organizing to work with Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and the City Council to make the poor and the disenfranchised of Providence one of their highest priorities. We expect it to be an uphill battle, as reform is never achieved overnight. But perhaps together we can give our brother on Thayer something besides a couple of quarters. Natalie Smolenski ’07 encourages you to fight homelessness by contacting HOPE at provhope@yahoo groups.com.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY APRIL 7, 2004 · PAGE 12

Top-ranked opposition prepares m. tennis for start of Ivy League play BY CRAIG MCGOWAN

The men’s tennis team posted two victories and one loss in three extremely competitive matches last week. The Bears lost to Virginia Polytechnic Institute 5-2 at home on March 27 but squeaked out a road win against Old Dominion University 4-2 two days later. To close out the week, the team lost a heartbreaker to the College of William & Mary, 4-3. The matches, all against ranked teams, marked some of the toughest competition the 44th-ranked Bears have faced all year. Brown enters the Ivy League season with a 12-4 record. The loss to William & Mary marks the first time the Bears have lost the doubles point all season. The Bears began spring-break play with a home match against 41st-ranked Virginia Tech. The team shuffled its normal doubles lineup for the match, teaming Adil Shamasdin ’05 with Nick Goldberg ’05 rather than with his usual partner, co-captain Jamie Cerretani ’04. Cerretani played instead with co-captain Ben Brier ’04, while co-captain Kris Goddard ’04 and Zach Pasanen ’06 comprised Brown’s third doubles team. Shamasdin and Goldberg got the team off to a good start with an 8-5 win over Stephane Rod and Soren Spanner. While Goddard and Pasanen dropped their match 8-3, the 58th-ranked team of Cerretani and Brier clinched the doubles point for Brown by defeating Andreas Lauland and Arvid Puranen 8-6. But in singles, Virginia Tech came back strong. Goldberg was the lone winner for the Bears, defeating Puranen 6-4, 6-2, as Virginia Tech earned a 5-2 victory. “I think we ran into a very hot team that definitely played as well as they can play,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. “We definitely didn’t play our best tennis as a team.” Following the loss to Virginia Tech, the Bears went on the road, sweeping the doubles point against Old Dominion and winning the match 4-2. The team of Cerretani and Shamasdin,

currently ranked 11th in the nation, started off strong for Brown, defeating Niklas Oskarsson and Izak van der Merwe 8-5. Goddard and Pasanen continued the strong play with a 9-7 victory, and Brier teamed with Goldberg for an 8-5 victory to complete the sweep for Brown. Cerretani, ranked 87th in the nation for singles, had his hands full against 12thranked van der Merwe, falling 6-3, 6-1. But Goldberg got the momentum rolling for Brown when, down two breaks in the third set, he came back to win his match against Zoltan Csanadi 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Brier and Pasanen also contributed wins to clinch the match for the Bears. “That was a really, really good win for us,” Harris said. The Bears’ trip through Virginia concluded at William & Mary. The team dropped a hard-fought match against the 49th-ranked Tribe, losing the doubles point for the first time this season. Cerretani and Shamasdin had the only doubles win for the Bears, defeating 38thranked Geoff Russell and Steven Kane 9-8. Goddard and Pasanen fell to Sean Kelleher and Stephen Ward 8-5, while the team of Brier and Goldberg lost 8-6 to Alex Fish and Jeff Kader. Despite the doubles loss, Brown rallied somewhat in singles to split the matches. Goldberg and Cerretani switched places in the lineup, and Goldberg subsequently suffered his only singles loss of the week, to 47th-ranked Kader, 7-5, 6-1. Cerretani, however, recorded his only singles win of the week, defeating Kelleher 6-3, 6-7, 1-0 (10-7). Shamasdin and Brier also recorded wins for the Bears, while Eric Thomas ’07 and Pasanen both lost close matches. Ultimately, it was the doubles point that gave William & Mary the victory. Brown begins Ivy League play on Friday when the team travels to the University of Pennsylvania. Herald staff writer Craig McGowan ’07 covers men’s tennis. He can be reached at cmcgowan@browndailyherald.com.

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Dallas Dissmore ’05 anchored the 4x400 relay for men’s track at the team’s meets in North Carolina over break. At the Raleigh Relays, his 47.7 time was a personal best.

Spring break in North Carolina gives men’s track a week of hard training, competitive meets BY JILANE RODGERS

The men’s track and field team traveled south over spring break for a week of training and competition in North Carolina. The Bears’ participation in two challenging meets was highlighted by several personal bests and two Brown top-10 performances. The trip kicked off at the Raleigh Relays on March 27. Although only a limited squad

Playing all matches,“Sensational Six” reach finals of UC-Irvine tourney BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

The women’s tennis team split six matches over a spring-break road trip that included a second-place finish at the University of California-Irvine Invitational. The team improved its record to 8-6 for the spring season, despite the loss of varsity singles starter Kimberly Singer ’06, who left the team during the California stretch. With the loss of Singer, the team’s limited but experienced line-up now stands at six healthy players. The team has the minimum number of players needed to compete, which requires that everyone provide singles and doubles contributions. “We cannot afford any injuries or illnesses throughout our Ivy season,” said Head Coach Norma Taylor. The Bears kicked off the break with a 52 win against Boston University, winning the top matches in both singles and doubles. The team showed composure and confidence against the Terriers, pulling

out tough matches to ensure the victory. At No. 1 doubles, the team of captain Victoria Beck ’04 and Kerry Meath ’05 led the way with an 8-6 victory. Alexandra Arlak ’05 and Michelle Pautler ’07 followed with another 8-6 win in the No. 2 slot. Brown capitalized on its strength in singles, winning all but two of the six matches. Arlak’s endurance enabled her to pull out a three-set match against Lindsey Dynof, claiming the No. 1 position by a score of 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. Meath completed another strong day for the Bears with a three-set win over Elena de Mendoza, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. The team’s injuries forced Beck to play at the No. 4 singles position, and she responded with a dominating 6-1, 6-3 showing. Beck had earlier planned to sit out singles for the year and focus on doubles competition. Singer fell in straight sets to freshman Erin Katims, who has posted an impressive 13 wins at No. 3 singles for the

Terriers. Amanda Saiontz ’07 also faltered in straight sets, losing 6-4, 6-3. At the UC-Irvine Invitational, Brown rolled over unranked Idaho State in the first round, winning all completed matches and dropping only one set. Key contributors included Meath, Arlak, Beck, Saiontz and Ames, who all turned in both doubles and singles victories. The University of Portland proved to be a tougher match for the Bears in the second round, but key singles wins propelled Brown into the finals of the Invitational. Arlak and Beck continued their impressive play with three-set wins at No. 1 and No. 2 singles, giving momentum back to the Bears after the team dropped the doubles point. Saiontz also turned in an impressive win at No. 4, rebounding from a tough first set to win her match, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Ames added another win, this time needing only

participated due to the long travel days before the meet, several athletes performed well, including Paul Rosiak ’07, who made his college debut in the javelin with a mark of 184-10. The 4x400-meter team timed in at 3:16.54, with co-captain David Owen ’04 leading off, splitting 48.9, and Dallas Dissmore ’05 closing with a 47.7 split. “I felt good,” Dissmore said. “I had an injury bothering me, but I was able to run through it. I’m happy with my time, and more importantly, with the team’s time.” The split was Dissmore’s fastest 400 ever. The team devoted the rest of the week to intensive training at Duke University, keeping its focus on the bigger meets to come later in the season. Still, the squad showed few signs of fatigue at the Duke Invitational on April 2 and 3, where a number of athletes opened their outdoor seasons. Throws Coach Michelle Eisenreich described the week of workouts leading up to Duke as “really strong and solid.” That training showed, as Jake Golenor ’06 threw the discus 166-7, a personal best by over two feet that moved him to fourth on Brown’s all-time top-10 list. “Jake’s been dying to throw the discus for half a year now,” Eisenreich said. “He really got out there and competed hard, which is great for how early it is in the season.” see TRACK, page 9 B ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Tuesday, April 6 Softball: Brown 6, Stony Brook 1 Softball: Stony Brook 2, Brown 1 Wednesday, April 7

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Baseball: vs. Rhode Island, 2 p.m., home (DH)