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U. accepts 15.8 percent of applicants for Class of 2008

UCS passes same-sex marriage resolution UCS discusses parking, storage see page 5

BY AMY RUDDLE

The Office of Admission has mailed acceptance letters to 15.8 percent of applicants to the incoming Class of 2008, a slightly higher rate of admission than the 15 percent of applicants accepted to the Class of 2007.

At the end of March, acceptance letters were mailed to 1,874 of the 13,387 regular decision applicants, Director of Admission Michael Goldberger wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Those who decide to matriculate will join the 538 students who committed to attend Brown under Early Decision.

The rate of admission for the Class of 2008 could change based upon whether the admissions office turns to the approximately 750 students on the waitlist. If necessary, the admissions office will begin considering waitlisted students in May. Of the current group of admitted students, 51 percent are female and 49 percent male, Goldberger wrote. This ratio continues the University’s trend of enrolling more women than men. The current ratio is 53 percent female students to 47 percent males, according to the admissions office’s Web site.

“The geographic distribution is pretty similar to last year — both for applicants and admits,” Goldberger wrote. Students from all 50 states have been admitted, although New York and California are the most common home states, with 326 and 317 students admitted, respectively.

The pool of admitted students is more racially diverse than the current student population, with 9 percent African American, 15 percent Asian American, 9 percent Latino, 2 percent Native American, 7 percent foreign citizens and 46 percent Caucasian. The remainder of accepted applicants chose not to identify their ethnicities, Goldberger wrote. In total, 35 percent of admitted students are people of color, as compared to the 29 percent of the current student population comprised of students of color.

Public school students make up 54 percent of those accepted, with 34 percent from private schools, 7 percent from parochial schools and 3 percent unknown, Goldberger wrote.

The Class of 2008 is the second class to be admitted on a completely needblind basis, and the number of students receiving financial aid will not be available until May 1. Goldberger wrote that the average University scholarship ranges from $20,000 to $21,000, in addition to loans.

While statistical trends among both applicants and accepted students seem similar to those of previous years, “the most important statistic will be who comes,” Goldberger wrote. Admitted students have until May 1 to decide to matriculate at Brown.

BY KRISTA HACHEY

secting knowledges and cultures and experiences. … I want to explore that.”

In his speech, Henry expressed ambivalence about the current focus of the LGBT movement on gay marriage, saying it has been used as an electionyear distraction from broader issues of social justice.

“I … cannot say that I have been engaged in the struggle for same-sex marriage or domestic partner benefits as

The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution in support of same-sex marriage by a 16-4 vote at its Wednesday night meeting, after about an hour of debate about whether UCS should make such a resolution.

The resolution calls on state legislators to “oppose that legislation which would restrict the rights of homosexual couples to marry, and to adopt that legislation which ensures due process and equal protection under the law by extending the right to marry to all couples, regardless of sexual orientation or gender.”

The UCS resolution was coauthored by Campus Life Chair Ari Savitzky ’06, Class Representative Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07 and Class Representative Schuyler von Oeyen ’05, in response to four bills dealing with same-sex unions that are currently being debated in the Rhode Island House.

Rep. Arthur Handy (D-Cranston) has introduced a bill to legalize samesex marriage, while Rep. Victor Moffitt (D-Coventry) has introduced a competing bill to ban it.

Although UCS’s resolution passed by a sizeable margin, some council members and other students expressed doubts about its efficacy in encouraging tolerance across the state and at Brown.

Class Representative Ethan Wingfield ’07 said he believes it is unlikely that a UCS resolution would effect policy change. Wingfield also

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At Wednesday’s Pride Month convocation, speaker Imani Henry emphasized integration.

Pride Month speaker redefines “gay issues”

BY SARA PERKINS

The keynote speaker at the Pride Month convocation, held Wednesday, emphasized the need to integrate the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights with other progressive protest and resistance movements.

Imani Henry, a first-generation Caribbean-American female-to-male transgender performer and political activist, spoke about the connections among issues of capitalism, imperialism and racism and the LGBT movement.

The theme of this year’s Pride Month, organized by the Queer Alliance in cooperation with other campus offices and organizations, is “Intersections.”

“We think it’s pretty much our job and one of our central causes to look and see how issues intersect and to never look only at one different angle,” said Queer Alliance Advocacy Chair Dan Bassichis ’06, who arranged for Henry to speak.

“He is a huge voice in interlocking struggles and battling against racism, homophobia, transphobia, the war and global imperialism,” Bassichis said. “He is incredibly articulate about how systems of power and social justice intersect.”

In his introduction, Bassichis said he met Henry on Friendster, a social networking Web site.

Meg Caven ’06, event coordinator for Pride Month, said understanding the many strands of her own identity has been vital to understanding the intersections between social groups and movements. “Nobody’s identity, queer or otherwise, is singular. I am a series of inter-

“S with distinction” usually awarded quietly Distinction marks appear only on internal transcripts

BY STEWART DEARING

Brown awards the grade “S with distinction” but only as an internal notation that is not released to outside parties and is often not even apparent to students unless they ask, according to University Registrar Michael Pesta.

The distinction is an internal calculation tool for the registrar. Pesta said.

When Brown introduced the S/NC grade option in 1969 with the institution of the New Curriculum, it also added the “S with distinction” option.

The distinction exists to ensure that students are not penalized for taking S/NC courses in the calculation of magna cum laude graduation honors, according to Jonathan Waage, professor of biology and senior advisor to the

Administrators, professors read the Daily Jolt but can’t do much about what they see campus news, page 5

Author says Latinos with psychological problems have trouble seeking help campus news, page 5

dean of the college.

At the end of the year, the Registrar awards magna cum laude honors to approximately the top 20 percent of the graduating class. These students are identified by the number of A’s and S’s with distinction they have received relative to the average course load, which for eight semesters is 32 courses.

Even if a student has taken more than the average of four courses per semester, the student’s potential for receiving honors is still calculated using the average course load. A student who had received a total of 16 A’s and S’s with distinction out of 36 see DISTINCTION, page 4

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004 · PAGE 3

RISD Student Alliance discusses orientation leader training, gallery space

BY ALEXIS KUNSAK

At its Wednesday night meeting, the RISD Student Alliance received updates about student gallery space plans for the Chace Center, discussed the training of first-year orientation leaders and drafted questions for President Roger Mandle, who will meet with the Alliance next Wednesday.

Lizzy Cross RISD ’04 said the Student Gallery Board met with Director of Campus Design and Exhibitions James Hall Tuesday night to discuss plans for the second floor student gallery space in the Chace Center, which is slated to open in 2008.

A board composed primarily of students, but also of faculty members, Office of Student Life administrators and RISD Museum representatives will choose artwork to display in the gallery, Cross said.

Proposals for two-week-long exhibitions will be submitted by students to the board.

“It is a chance for students to have their work installed by a professional for a really great-looking show,” Cross said. “OSL will continue looking for other more casual spaces as well, so that students will still have a variety of other opportunities.”

During a discussion about the annual first-year orientation program, Orientation Leader Natalie Lui RISD ’05 said four days of training for new leaders do not adequately prepare them for their jobs.

“I was thinking we could form of committee of students to help revise the program,” Liu said. But Director of Student Life Blair de St. Croix cautioned that more training would strain RISD’s already tight budget.

The Alliance split into four discussion groups to suggest questions for next Wednesday’s Alliance Meeting

with Mandle. The issues addressed by the groups were the RISD Museum, student space, interdepartmental collaboration and safety. Each group presented its ideas to the rest of the Alliance.

Joe Gebbia RISD ’04 reported several ideas for closing the gap between students and the Museum, including online access to the museum’s collection, better publicity for museum events and classes devoted to the museum’s collections and administration.

“Students need to be informed that only 4 percent of our tuition actually goes to the museum,” Gebbia said.

Seth Gass RISD ’04 spoke about the future of student spaces on campus.

Students would benefit from a combined performance and social space, student parking, better fitness facilities and an interdepartmental studio area, Gass said.

Interdepartmental cooperation is problematic because of credit restrictions and tensions between individuals,” said Tighe Butler RISD ’04.

“Collaboration between related majors could be very beneficial, but it is difficult,” Butler said.

“Communication needs to open up because students sometimes sense the discord between other department heads and their own.”

General safety concerns expressed by students included air quality in studios and management of chemicals and other waste, all monitored by the college’s Environmental Health and Safety Department. Another student safety issue is the lack of available information about SafeRIDE, students reported to the Alliance.

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

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Marriage continued from page 1 said campus unity was at stake.

“Do we want to leave a legacy of unity, or a legacy of engaging students in battles against one another?” he asked the council.

Stephen Beale ’04 said the resolution lacked an appeal to ideological pluralism and “conveyed the false impression that all students speak with one voice on this issue.”

But UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 told The Herald that the aim of the resolution is not to alienate.

“We’re speaking on behalf of the students who currently feel alienated and don’t feel safe on campus, which is paramount as well,” Kurji said. “There will never be 100 percent support for a resolution, but we hope to further debate and capture a greater sense of pluralism on this issue.”

Class Representative Melba Hannah Melton ’06 expressed

Pride continued from page 1 intimately as others,” he said.

“For me, as an activist, there have been other issues and, frankly, crises facing the LGBT movement that I have been more focused on over the years.”

Henry used issues such as AIDS and health care to illustrate the connections between issues of capitalism, racism, violence and homophobia. “The AIDS struggle itself exposes the U.S. health care system as one that is for rich people and inaccessible to a majority of people in the U.S., and I would like to say that the fight for domestic-partner benefits for LGB people is truly the fight for access to health care and health care benefits for our partners and our families.

“We also need to expose the lie that somehow LGBT people are only interested in LGBT issues or rights. I think it’s

Distinction continued from page 1 courses taken would have a cum laude ratio of 16/32, or 50 percent.

Distinction marks only appear on internal transcripts and are not released to outside parties, even at the student’s request, Pesta said.

A common misconception among students is that an asterisk next to a grade on a transcript indicates a distinction mark. But Pesta said this asterisk actually denotes a course with a mandatory S/NC grading policy.

To see distinction marks, a student must ask the Registrar, he said.

Waage also clarified that according to the official grading sheet, A’s with distinction do not exist — professors have the option of marking “with distinction” only alongside an S grade.

Still, some professors check the distinction column when submitting letter grades.

Waage attributed the error to carelessness. “Faculty are like students, we don’t read everything,” he said. “It’s one of those things that is a high priority for a

concern that UCS had not sought enough student feedback, while other council members highlighted ways campus opinion has been solicited, including UCS’s open-door policy and on-campus debates.

Von Oeyen said that while leaders must act as public representatives, they must also trust their personal convictions.

“We’re more than just a mirror of public opinion,” he said. “We are here to do the right thing.”

About five non-UCS members attended the meeting, but no official Queer Alliance representative was present. Some UCS members questioned the absence of a representative, particularly because UCS had waited to debate the issue until the end of Wednesday night’s Pride Month Convocation.

Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students. She can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.

always important to say that LGBT people have been on the forefront of absolutely every struggle in this country,” he said.

However, Henry cautioned the audience against equating gay rights activism with prior movements for racial equality and civil rights. “The history of African American people in the United States needs to be seen in a distinct way, like no other,” he said.

Henry identified the recent increase in attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq as a struggle against imperialism. “(Iraqis) have had their president taken out of their country, and then they are forced to live under U.S. occupation in what most see as colonial and racist (conditions),” he told The Herald.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 edits the Metro section. She can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

portion of the student population, but professors don’t even think about it,” he said of distinction marks.

Pesta said the registrar records but does not consider A’s with distinction. “Faculty may give an A with distinction to indicate a student could be worthy of cum laude, but there isn’t necessarily an overlap,” he said.

According to Waage, there are some practical uses for distinction marks. Students may use them on resumes, or to determine which professors will write them the best recommendations, he said.

Still many students say they don’t understand the system or see it as compromising Brown’s flexible grading policies.

“They should stick to just normal grades, because the other form (distinction marks) encourages unnecessary competition between students,” said Daniel Skelly ’05.

Waage said the administration is reluctant to clarify the grading system. “You don’t want students to play games with grades and try to work the system,” he said.

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Many forces contribute to psychological disorders among Latinos, speaker says

BY CAMDEN AVERY

The word “love” is tattooed on Shane Feldman’s left forearm. On his right, the word “hate.” He explains, somewhat sheepishly, that he stands somewhere in between the two. As both a victim of violence and someone who works to help children with psychological disorders, Feldman has walked a line between trusting and despising others, he told The Herald.

In a lecture Wednesday night titled “Psychologically Afflicted Latinos Going to Prison,” Feldman, the author of “Burn: A Bipolar Memoir,” addressed the issue of racism in the United States and the resulting unavailability of psychological help for Latinos. He said racist trends in the United States “are getting worse in general.”

As a Jewish Italian, Feldman said lecturing about Latino social dilemmas — and even researching such issues — feels “presumptuous” because he isn’t Latino. But he wants to help people “understand that (people with psychological problems) are the same as everyone else,” Feldman told The Herald after the lecture.

Feldman said he feels a capacity for understanding issues of Latinos in psychiatry because “I do suffer from a great deal of psychological problems,” including bipolar disorder, impulse disorder, anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

He also said he had been the victim of several cases of sexual and physical violence related to psychological disorders, which gave him insight into other people’s experiences in psychiatry.

Feldman said his interest in people of color and psychiatry was sparked during his first psychiatric treatment, which he attended after he was sexually see FELDMAN, page 6

UCS hears presentations on parking, summer storage

BY KRISTA HACHEY

Undergraduate Council of Students members were briefed at their Wednesday night meeting on this year’s summer storage options and next year’s on-campus parking availability.

The University plans to contract a private storage company this summer in place of providing on-campus storage.

Brown Student Agencies President Reynaldo Gomez ’04 worked with Director of Housing Rich Bova to establish a relationship with Campus Shipping and Storage Co. The company currently services Boston College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston, Harvard and Tufts universities.

Dean of Student Life Margaret Jablonski told UCS reasons for the change include “liability issues, issues of theft,

abandonment of property and the ineffective staffing process of hiring employees for a couple weeks at the beginning and end of summer.”

Gomez said BSA will distribute boxes to students, establish pick-up and drop-off locations and serve as the contract holder with the company. Bova said the Office of Residential Life will provide BSA with $4,000 for its efforts in the contract’s first year.

BSA predicted that storing a bicycle will cost students $47, while storing a 4-cubic-foot box will cost $42 and a 1.5cubic-foot box will cost $15. A $50 refundable deposit is also required by the storage company.

Campus Shipping and Storage promises flexibility and see PARKING, page 6

Faculty and administrators read Daily Jolt but can’t control content

BY MELANIE WOLFGANG

Students often post to the Brown Daily Jolt content they wouldn’t necessarily want their professors to see. But while faculty members and administrators actually do read the Jolt, they have no authority to censor student posts.

Begun in 1999 as one of the two original sites in the Daily Jolt Network, the Web site offers public forums and an archive of memorable quotations from professors, as well as coupons, a marketplace and listing of daily events, which appeal to the entire University community.

Most University professors and administrators are reluctant to speak about their readership of the Jolt. While some are not even aware that the Web site exists, many admit to knowing professors who habitually — or even obsessively — read its forum postings and archive of professor quotations. Professors have also been known to mention the Jolt in passing during lectures. Most, however, will not admit to visiting the site themselves and do not wish to be quoted discussing it.

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Associate Professor of Philosophy Bernard Reginster said he does not often read the Jolt but has visited it. Upon being asked whether his colleagues read it, he replied emphatically, “They certainly do.” Professors who visit the Web site are not limited to the Department of Philosophy, he said.

Given the anonymity of many contributions to the Web site, there is the potential for posts — whether in the forums or in student-submitted professor quotations — to be either offensive or erroneous. This possibility raises the issue of whether students can be held responsible for their posts and whether the University has any right to censor objectionable posts or correct misleading ones.

“When you have a forum where people can hide behind false monikers, you necessarily or inevitably end up with a forum where people will say things for which they are not willing to take responsibility,” said Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene. “That’s see DAILY JOLT, page 7

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Parking continued from page 5 convenience, Gomez said, and will return property according to the dates students specify for returning to campus in the fall.

Administrators also discussed short and long-term changes to the on-campus parking system.

Both student parking spots and Providence parking meters will see a rate hike in coming years.

The University will raise the annual parking fee from $320 to $450 for next year and plans to raise it to market rate over the next four years, said Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter, who chaired the University’s Ad Hoc Transportation Committee.

Revenue from increasing the price of parking will go to longterm solutions like the construction of a garage near the Jewelry District, Hunter said.

“The increases in parking rates are modest,” Hunter said. “The need is compelling, and we need to address to transportation issues if we are to grow as a university.”

Hunter said the city plans to

Feldman continued from page 5 assaulted at age 10 by a black man. During therapy, he learned that of all racial minorities, Latinos are treated for psychological disorders the least.

This phenomenon can be attributed to several factors, he said, including the fact that many Latinos do not have health insurance.

Another reason many Latinos do not seek help is stranger anxiety, a psychological disorder Feldman described as “being afraid of people you don’t know,” specifically those of different races.

As a result, he said, people of different races tend to avoid interaction. Latinos perceive their lack of regular interaction with whites as intentional racism, and so they have difficulty seek-

increase the number of parking meters on campus, as well as their cost, while decreasing the parking time limit. The cost of parking violations increased from $10 to $15 last August.

The ad hoc committee was formed under pressure from Brown’s neighbors to reduce the number of cars on College Hill. It announced Monday that there will be 500 on-campus parking spots for students next year, a reduction from the 640 spots available this year, because of an agreement between the University and the city that will prohibit overnight parking at the stadium.

Hunter discussed the University’s plans, still in an early phase of development, to provide incentives for students to leave their cars at home. Alternate transportation options could include a rental car service available to students 21 and older and a pilot program with Rhode Island Public Transit Authority passes subsidized by the University.

Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students. She can be

ing help from psychiatrists, who are predominantly white, he said.

Feldman went on to discuss sources of racism against Latinos in the United States. He mentioned what he called outwardly racist policies such as expedited U.S. citizenship granted to immigrants who enlist in the armed forces.

Feldman said the media perpetuates racial stereotypes, further harming Latinos’ self-image, and said post-Sept. 11 stress and the pressures of a poor economy have generated “displaced anger” toward Latinos.

Seeking a greater understanding of limitations facing Latinos who need psychiatric help is primarily a way to ensure that everyone receives adequate psychiatric treatment regardless of race, Feldman said.

The lecture, part of Latino History Month, drew a small audience to Wilson 102.

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Daily Jolt continued from page 5 not a useful or productive environment for discussions.”

According to Brown Daily Jolt staff member Tiffany Beres ’05, the Jolt can track IP numbers for anonymous messages. An IP number is a computer’s electronic “fingerprint,” and the Jolt’s logs of IP numbers can help identify the computer that generated a specific post. In a case of serious offense, the police — not simply a University administrator — would need to request that the Jolt track a user’s IP address.

“In a community like ours, I think we have to have a fairly high tolerance for people to be able to express offensive ideas, but we should also expect that people be held responsible for what they say,” Greene said.

The Jolt staff aims to keep the forum an open space for student discussion. “We want to build a community where everyone feels free enough to express their opinions,” Beres said.

Greene, who said he does not usually read the Jolt, said potentially offensive speech in Jolt forums does not pose a public relations problem for the University, both because the Jolt is not officially connected with the University and because its staff removes the most offensive posted material.

Jolt staff member George Matthews ’05 confirmed that the Jolt is “independent of Brown.”

According to Computing and Information Services, the Jolt does not use University server space.

In addition, the Jolt staffers “have taken their job very seriously” when members of the Brown community have raised issues regarding Web site content, Greene said.

“My understanding is that the editors of the Daily Jolt have been extremely responsible and receptive when individuals have complained about the content of the messages that have been posted,” he said.

Beres clarified that she and her fellow Jolt staffers do not have the power to remove offensive posts, but they may report offensive material for removal by the Jolt headquarters centered in Boston.

Individual users can also be blocked.

Furthermore, Jolt readers can rank posts. Posts are “ranked down” and cannot be viewed when they receive consistently low rankings from users.

The forum policy stipulates that abusive, off-topic or commercial posts are prohibited. Posts that are in violation of federal or state law and those that are harmful to minors may also be removed.

Generally, however, Jolt postings are not a serious cause for concern among University administrators.

“I think that prospective students and (current) students are very savvy consumers. They tend to be able to weed through Web sites and publications and pick out what they think is an accurate depiction of university life,” Greene said.

Herald staff writer Melanie Wolfgang ’07 can be reached at mwolfgang@browndailyherald.com.

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Dream Job continued from page 12 Dream Jobbers got along, and so we’re all continuing our friendship.

BZ: If you could only take one catchphrase you wrote with you, and you have to leave the rest at the “Dream Job” office, which would you take?

MH: I don’t really use a lot of catchphrases. I’m not a catchphrase kind of girl. But there was one that I didn’t get to use because it wasn’t appropriate that I would’ve liked to. I would’ve liked to use “the new hotness.”

BZ: Have you seen an increase in attention from the public?

MH: Yeah, a little bit. It’s weird.

I don’t even know if it exists, but you’re also more self-aware.

Today, I got a strange letter in my P.O. box from some crazy guy in Florida.

BZ: So you may have a stalker now?

MH: I could have a stalker. I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from very supportive people throughout this process who I don’t know.

And I’ve gotten a couple of Match.com requests, so that’s kind of fun.

BZ: Okay, word association: Tony Kornheiser.

MH: Very sarcastic. (imitating Kornheiser) “Zachariah Selwyn, I do declare.”

BZ: Al Jaffe.

MH: I think he became the true superstar of the show.

BZ: Kit Hoover.

MH: Very sweet.

BZ: LaVar Arrington.

MH: (Imitating Arrington) “I agree with Kit.” BZ: Stuart Scott.

MH: The main camp counselor for the summer camp that was “Dream Job.” He was like the director that everybody loved and you went and talked to when you got homesick.

BZ: Take home any good souvenirs?

MH: I got a couple of cool things. We went to Bristol on the Friday before the final show, and this one radio guy brought up how I had the worst odds of any-

Lacrosse continued from page 12 the only blemishes on its record, Brown has made great strides for the season. What sets this year’s team apart from those of previous years is its ability to pull out close games. Three of the six games played so far have been decided by two goals or fewer, with Brown emerging victorious.

“We have so many different

one to win the contest in USA Today. So, we’re all about to leave, we’re standing outside the ESPN radio booth, and Dan Patrick’s producer comes over and tosses me a T-shirt with a picture of Linda Cohn and says, “That’s for having bad odds. You’ll do fine.”

That was a pretty cool pick-up.

Nobody else got that.

BZ: Any initial reservations about joining a reality show?

MH: I definitely had reservations. It was initially supposed to be in a house, but then the producers decided that wasn’t what they wanted for ESPN, so they made it a hotel setting. I think that facilitated a relationship where we supported each other, and that made it really fun.

BZ: So, if there’s ever a “Dream Job” vs. “Apprentice” All-Star Challenge …

MH: I think we can take them.

I feel like they’ll have too much internal dissension, and we’ve got youth on our side. But that would be a fun thing.

BZ: Where do you go from here?

MH: I’m pursuing possibly doing a part-time freelance column for this small little paper in the Chicago area. Ideally, I’d like to go into broadcast stuff, because I feel like writing is inherently involved in that. And I want to one day get back to ESPN. It’s kind of up in the air right now. I felt like I improved so much in six weeks, and it was really only six days. So that’s something that I take with me, and hopefully people recognize that potential and that I’m committed to improving.

BZ: Final question. Since you’re now the resident sports expert, is this the year for the Red Sox? MH: No, this is the year for the Cubbies. You guys might get to the World Series, but we’re going to beat you. I know I’ve just alienated anybody who once thought I had potential in the New England market.

Herald staff writer Brett Zarda GS covers “Dream Job.” He can be reached at bzarda@browndailyherald.com.

people that can go in and make plays,” Anneberg said. “We have people that come off the bench with fresh legs. For some of these tougher games, we’re not quite as tired as the other team.”

Brown travels to New York City on Friday to take on the Columbia University Lions.

Herald staff writer Chris Mahr ’04 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s lacrosse. He can be reached at cmahr@browndailyherald.com.

Track continued from page 12 the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill and Duke University tracks. The decent weather and top-of-the-line facilities did the Bears well, according to Johnson.

Throwers Jill Lynch ’05, Laura Dudek ’07 and Donahue all took full advantage of the competitive field at Duke, coming through with first, fourth and eighthplace finishes, respectively.

Donahue followed her personal record performance in Raleigh with another strong showing, four feet and two inches shy of her best. Lynch won the shot put event with a 46-11.00 throw, an outdoor personal record by seven inches.

Dudek, however, had the most outstanding performance of the weekend with her schoolrecord-setting throw of 145-06 in the javelin. Dudek, only a firstyear, impressed Johnson with her ability to excel at such a high-caliber meet.

Also earning praise from Johnson was Stevenson, who followed her fast 400-meter

split in the relay a week earlier with an open 400-meter time of 55.83. Stevenson’s time earned her a fifth-place finish in the seeded final and moved her up to seventh all-time on Brown’s top-10 list.

Stevenson, who spent the majority of the week in North Carolina working out a contracted muscle in her hamstring, said she was not surprised with her fast time.

“I expected it. It was a (personal record) but it didn’t feel like it,” she said. “I was a little preoccupied with my leg, and my heart wasn’t in it. Despite those things, I was able to break 56, so when my heart is in it, I want to break 55. That’s my immediate goal.”

Stevenson’s goals for the season are similar to those of many of her teammates. Cushing has her eyes set on running in the 4:20s for the 1500 and 2:10 in the

800-meter. Teammate Naja Ferjan ’07 hopes to win the Heptagonal Championship in the 800-meter and qualify for the National Championships.

With such high expectations and a short outdoor season ahead, Johnson said it is important that the Bears focus on improving each week. He expects the improvement to start at home this weekend at the Brown Invitational, something his athletes are also looking forward to.

“Some people were upset with their performances this week,” Cushing said. “I think that’s only fuel for the fire. For me personally, I want to fix what went wrong.”

Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s track.

She can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Civic engagement At its Wednesday night meeting, the Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution in support of a bill currently in the Rhode Island legislature that would legalize same-sex marriage. The primary question UCS addressed before approving the resolution is whether it is appropriate for a student governing body to take positions on state issues, over which it has no real control.

But control and efficacy are not the central issues when it comes to the decision to vote on same-sex marriage. As a representative body, UCS has a mandate to engage with issues that are important to Brown students. And while not all Brown students have solidified their positions on samesex marriage, it is clear that the Brown community is grappling with issues of gay rights.

Over the past year, a number of homophobia-related incidents on campus have been reported, including the assault of a student, and none of them have been resolved.

At the same time, Brown’s LGBT community has become much more vocal, particularly about the fact that many LGBT students simply do not feel comfortable on campus.

As illustrated by the opening of an expanded LGBT center early this semester and Wednesday night’s Pride Month convocation, the campus had set a gay rights agenda long before UCS drew up its schedule for this week’s meeting.

Regardless of the outcome of its issue, UCS had an obligation to engage with current controversy over gay rights and, particularly, in light of potential state legislation, with the issue of same-sex marriage.

As UCS members recognized, it’s not likely that its resolution will singlehandedly push the bill through the state legislature. But with the approval of the resolution, the council sent a clear signal to Rhode Island politicians about what Brown students believe and confirmed for LGBT students that Brown believes in them.

SHANE WILKERSON

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2004 · PAGE 11

ARTA KHAKPOUR

“Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

In 1898, the United States went to war with Spain over a lie. An explosion, most likely caused by a coal fuel accident, had destroyed the USS Maine in Havana harbor. Yellow journalism spun the event as Spanish aggression, and the United States launched what became its first truly imperial war. At its conclusion, the United States — still an awkward, somewhat immature nation struggling with self-definition — held dominion over most of Spain’s old colonies, including Cuba, the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico.

Empires grow up. A century later, having overthrown democracies in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Congo (1960) and Chile (1973), and supported countless dictatorships and terrorist regimes elsewhere, the United States is significantly more comfortable in its superpower mode. We shun the term “empire” now more than ever, but it’s hard to think of another word for a country with scores of overseas military bases, carrier groups and cruise missiles in striking range of any point on the globe — a country that is unilaterally occupying a nation of 25 million people.

The original, empire-creating sin of 1898, the lie of the Maine, is far behind us, but Spain still haunts us today. President George W. Bush and his aides spun a new lie, or rather a whole series of them — weapons of mass destruction, Iraq’s terror connection, the Saddam Hussein-9/11 link — and Spain was dragged to war on behalf of the United States.

Last month, the people of Madrid paid a tragic price for our president’s lie. Participating in the U.S. invasion against the will of 90 percent of the population made Spain a new target in the blood feud of our times, between neo-imperialist U.S. hawks and Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. The dead in Madrid, of course, were as innocent as their fellow victims in New York City, Baghdad, Dar Es-Salaam, Washington D.C. and Kabul.

“We love death and you love life” was the chilling statement attributed to the al-Qaeda perpetrators of the Madrid massacre, but it’s hard not to re-apply that motto to the hawks of the Bush regime, who call for ever-increasing Pentagon budgets, an end to nuclear research bans and a foreign policy based on the explicit mandate of U.S. hegemony. It’s difficult to imagine military strategies like the “shock and awe” bombing campaign, the creation of new nuclear weapons and the production of unmanned drones with assassination capability (the famed Predators) to be the work of men who “love life.”

America will learn its imperial lessons the hard way.

A Pax Americana, secured by military might, is endorsed by the Project for the New American Century, playpen of neoconservatives such as Vice President Dick Cheney and former Pentagon advisor Richard Perle.

In Iraq, we’re beginning to see the true nature of this neocon mission. In stark contrast to the occupation of post-war Japan, where the United States emphasized building a native Japanese economy and infrastructure, post-war Iraq has become a yard sale where 100 percent of the local economy is up for foreign ownership — the kind of deal that would make colonial Brits green with envy.

Having participated both in the United States’ earliest moment of imperial realization and in its most

recent adventure, Spain has decided to cut out of that deal. The Socialist victory in the recent elections is a jab right at the heart of Bush’s supposed “coalition of the willing,” but the administration shouldn’t be too surprised. Unilateralism, after all, means never having to say sorry, ask permission or play nice with others. In President Bush’s words, “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.”

In this way, Bush is like his father, who, after the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian commercial jetliner and killed 290 people over the Persian gulf, said, “I will never apologize for the United States of America — I don't care what the facts are.”

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Spain, which was a shining beacon of the “New Europe” just last year, has become Old Spain again, alongside its continental neighbors France and Germany. The effects are yet to be felt in full. Following Spain’s lead, Honduras (a nation with no particular reason to antagonize the United States) has threatened to withdraw its troops and support from occupied Iraq.

The masses who opposed the war in countries like Italy are now clamoring for the same, and they, like the people of the United States, have only to wait for the election booth to make their point.

At the end of the Spanish-American War, the United States built a military base on its new acquisition of Cuba: Guantanamo Bay. Still running, it is now a holding pen for hundreds of detainees — prisoners of the amorphous war on terror — held indefinitely without trial or charge. Old Spain, looking back at its one-time colony and all it has come to represent, is glad to be rid of it.

Arta Khakpour ’05 is an archaeology and Middle East Studies concentrator.

China and America, and places between GUEST COLUMN BY MANDY TANG

Write an autobiographical paper that develops some specific thesis regarding your experiences “living between cultures” and support with examples from your life.

An awful paper topic. A swift, kick in the gut of distaste and fear. I didn't want to analyze, dissect, organize or synthesize my life. If I had it my way, I would write entirely in clichés.

The most challenging aspect of being an international student! The difficulty of culture shock! I totally broadened my horizons! Clichés. Anything to avoid, gloss and skip over the emotional confessions entirely. The truth is, I hate talking about my life. I am so afraid of being trite, I fall back on long winded sentences, full of painstaking detail but empty of feeling — “The grey, long winters in Beijing were freezing as we breathed slowly to filter out the charcoal-filled air.” Because in my mind, the reader will never know what I’m talking about.

The abridged version: Hong Kong; Deerfield, Ill.; Naperville, Ill.; Hong Kong; Beijing; Providence; New York City. A lifetime of packing oversized boxes, boarding 747s, overcoming the dull sweep of jetlag.

While I want people to stop questioning my background and saying it's so “interesting” with foggy, confused expressions on their faces, I also need people to acknowledge that I am a product of my experiences.

Mostly, I want people to know me — to ask about my life, one piece at a time. I suffocate whenever I tell my living history, because it only seems to get more complicated.

My parents seem so well adjusted, moving from place to place and never looking back.

“You shouldn't miss anything, Mandy,” my father would say. “Live in the moment and enjoy what you have.” When I moved from Illinois to Hong Kong, I was 12. I didn't know how to “live in the moment.” I missed my friends. I didn't speak Cantonese. I'd never had shark fin's soup or real dim sum. I went from suburbia (read: bike rides, local grocery stores, sweat pants) to fidgeting in uncomfortable, designer clothes at the Hong Kong Bankers Club.

Suddenly, we were in the investment banking circuit, and everything was Proper. I had to know about silver-

ware, my classmates flew business class and everyone had live-in maids.

In Hong Kong, I didn't fit in. Most typical Cantonese girls are tiny, frail creatures with impeccable skin and hair. They have small figures, giggle often, exude an enviable femininity. I was tall, hid my figure with big clothes, had boobs. And glasses, and zits. Lots of zits. I was told that I was fat, since I was 5’6’’ and weighed 120 pounds.

My parents scolded me often because I wasn't ladylike. I laughed too loud, talked back and wouldn't take no for an answer. Maybe boys will like you more if you keep your mouth shut, they would say. I became an observer, watching, listening but never taking part in controversy or making a stand for anything extreme. How could I take a position on anything when everything around me was always moving?

Packing and unpacking a living history.

People talk about diversity at Brown every day. Race, money, class, power, the color of your skin. But the most destructive, pervasive factor for me is feeling uncomfortable with my background. Not ashamed, or embarrassed by any means. But just uncomfortable.

There are too many unanswered questions and people, quite frankly, expect answers. Put yourself in a category, please. Let me shape you into a bite-sized morsel and devour you as an intellectual appetizer. Yum, that diversity tastes GOOD. Quick! What groups do you identify with! What are you! Cultural efficiency. What an idea.

Beijing. I lived there from 1997 to 2000; the city was a startling mix of angular high rises and dirt-filled peasant land. As soon as I spoke, they knew I was different.

“Why is your Chinese so bad?” they demanded. I'm trying, I'm trying so hard, I would want to scream. “I grew up in the States,” I would explain. Sometimes, if I felt

spiteful, I would shoot back, “Why is your English so bad!” Immature, I know. In the end I would be shot down with the inevitable, “what are you?”

I'd have to choose. Some days I would say “I'm from America.” Other days, it would be “Hong Kong.”

Sometimes, I would just give up and say, “Yes, I'm Korean/Japanese/Not Chinese.” So much for homecoming.

By the time I was 18, I had lived in 11 different houses.

I didn't go abroad my junior year because I needed to live in one place consecutively. If you walk into my room now, it is overflowing, crammed and bulging with stuff.

Books I've never read, papers from freshman year, clothes that don't fit anymore, outdated receipts. I save everything. Probably an unconscious mechanism developed from moving so often, a fictional artistry of my past “homes” to fill my current one.

I came to Brown in 2000, excited and wide-eyed, but didn't vote in the presidential election. My friends were furious at me. Don't you care about politics? About what could happen if Bush came to power? Fists in the air, nearly screaming at me.

“I've been in China for the past six years,” I said, “and I don't know enough about American politics yet,” was my diplomatic answer. Oh, all right then, they would say.

The truth is, as much as I hate to admit it now, I simply didn't care. Yes, I'm an American citizen, but I've never felt American. Why would I have felt an allegiance or responsibility to a country that I hadn't been to in six years? To a country whose pop culture I connected with, but whose politicians were meaningless to me?

I realize that my heart throbs to the beat of capitalism, not patriotism. Subtle pangs of guilt strike. I know I should feel more gratitude, appreciate baseball, keep up on domestic politics, but I don’t. Sob. My temporal suitcase is wide open, dangling the opportunity of moving on, getting out, seeing the rest of the world.

Nomadic defense mechanism? Probably. Being honest? Absolutely.

Mandy Tang ’04 is a sociology concentrator.

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SPORTS THURSDAY APRIL 8, 2004 · PAGE 12

W. track starts season with strong finish at Raleigh Relays

Haskins ’04.5 recalls “Dream Job” experience

BY BRETT ZARDA

The final episode of the ESPN reality show “Dream Job” aired during spring break, concluding the nationwide search for the next “SportsCenter” anchor. Brown’s own Maggie Haskins ’04.5 made it to the final four before bowing out in the two-hour finale to eventual winner Mike Hall. Haskins spoke with The Herald about her oncamera experience.

BZ: What aspect of the competition did you find the most difficult?

MH: I think it was how hard I had to work on my presentation those first few weeks. I’d never really done anything on camera, so you really have to learn what appears jarring on the TV. BZ: Now that this is over with, do you want to stay in front of the camera, or would you prefer to write or produce?

MH: I really had a blast doing field reporting, and I feel like that’s a combination of everything. I’d still want to do anchoring, and I’m not closing off any possibilities. But I feel like field reporting allows you to incorporate all the mediums, and that was really fun. That would be my actual dream job, and now I can say that.

BZ: Which one contestant did you think was underrated and the judges were too hard on?

MH: This is easy: Nick Stevens. So funny, and he got the smug factor right away, and that sucked for him. He was just so smart and intelligent and witty that I was just shocked that he had such a rough time with the judges. The entire cast was just mystified by that labeling.

BZ: If you had to pick a winner, who would you have picked?

MH: I’d go with Mike (Hall).

BZ: And is that solely based on his on-camera performance?

MH: (laughing) Solely based on oncamera performance.

BZ: Did you think bringing up your alleged relationship with Mike was appropriate on camera?

MH: I just thought it was funny.

Obviously somebody at the show had leaked this rumor to the (New York) Post, and I just thought it was hysterical, because when in my life has any sort of relationship news even been relevant to the rest of the world?

BZ: OK, so on behalf of the male population at Brown, I have to ask whether that was just a reality-show fling or whether it’s continuing.

MH: Um, well … every one of the see DREAM JOB, page 9

BY MELISSA PERLMAN

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Sarah Passano ’05 scored five goals en route to a 10-9 victory over Harvard University March 26, earning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors.

With two victories over break, w. lax looks to rise up

BY CHRIS MAHR

After six well-played games during and following spring break, the women’s lacrosse team, currently 4-2, appears poised to surpass last year’s 5-9 record.

Brown tasted victory in its first Ivy League game of the season, defeating Harvard’s squad 10-9, in Cambridge, Mass. on March 26. Leading the way was Sarah Passano ’05, who netted five goals, three of them in the final 10 minutes of the game.

After a back-and-forth first half that ended with the teams deadlocked at four, Harvard had taken a 9-7 advantage by the game’s final 10 minutes.

It was at this stage that Passano took over the game, knifing through the Crimson defense with three goals in four minutes, with the game-winner coming at the 54:29 mark.

Passano’s performance earned her Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week honors, which co-captain Christine Anneberg ’04 had won the previous week.

Brown won its third-straight game of the season against Monmouth University, 13-11, March 31 in West Long Branch, N.J. While the Harvard game was all about Passano, the game against Monmouth was the epitome of a team victory. Ten players scored for Brown, with seven earning assists on Bruno’s 13 goals.

As in the Harvard contest, the game was tied 6-6 at halftime. After Monmouth scored the initial goal of the second half, Brown responded with five unanswered

goals and held on for the two-goal victory.

Kate Staley ’06 paced Brown’s attack with three goals, and Ashley Holden ’06 and Passano contributed three and two assists, respectively. Also of note were eight saves by Jessica McNell ’06, in her first game since her commitments to the gymnastics team ended for the year.

The team came home to Providence for its final spring break game, against 11thranked Dartmouth College Sunday afternoon. The Big Green outscored Brown 113 during the final 20 minutes of the first half for a 14-6 edge heading into halftime.

Brown executed better and played stronger defense in the second half, outscoring Dartmouth 5-4 in the game’s final 30 minutes, but ultimately fell 18-11 to the Big Green.

“Having such a large margin in the first half against a team like Dartmouth is just too much to come back from,” said Head Coach Theresa Ingram. “It says a lot about our girls that we were able to come out in the second half like we did and put up a fight.”

Staley led Brown’s attack against Dartmouth with three goals, despite the fact that she had spent the previous night in the hospital with what was initially believed to be appendicitis. Anneberg and Emily Blanton ’04 each netted two goals.

With losses to two top-15 teams — the University of Maryland and Dartmouth — see LACROSSE, page 9

Jayne Finst ’04 competes in final NCAA Regional Gymnastics Championship

BY BROOKE WOLFE

Jayne Finst ’04 could not have ended her college gymnastics career any better than with her outstanding performance at the NCAA Regional Championships.

After becoming the first woman to be named ECAC Gymnast of the Year twice consecutively, Finst capped off the season with her best performance ever at Pennsylvania State University Saturday.

Finst undertook a challenging routine at the meet “so she could prove to herself that she could do it,” said Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne. After the meet, coaches from other schools

approached Finst to tell her how impressed they were with her performance, Carver-Milne said.

Finst traveled to the championships with Carver-Milne, Assistant Coach Tim O’Leary and teammate Melissa Forziat ’05, who came to support Finst at her third and final NCAA regional meet.

Finst is the first Brown gymnast to qualify for the NCAA Regionals three years in a row and this year scored 9.6 on the vault, 9.2 on bars, 9.75 on beam and 9.7 on the floor. Although she finished one point short of qualifying for the national meet, Finst said she feels

“completely satisfied” and has “no regrets” about her performance.

But she added that it has been difficult to contemplate the end of her gymnastics career. Finst has competed in gymnastics since she was two years old, but since gymnasts rarely compete beyond the collegiate level, she will now move on to other pursuits.

“The whole year was very emotional for me,” Finst said.

Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe ’04 covers gymnastics. She can be reached at bwolfe@browndailyherald.com.

The bus ride was long and the North Carolina weather was not perfect, but the women’s track and field team made its spring break trip well worth the drive.

The Bears spent their eight days in North Carolina training, resting and competing. The team opened up the trip and the outdoor season at the Raleigh Relays March 26 at North Carolina State University. With their focus on continuing the momentum built up during the indoor season, the women held their own against some of the best teams in the country.

“We knew making the transition from indoor to outdoor, we couldn’t slow it down too much,” said Head Coach Robert Johnson. “For the most part, we rose to the occasion. When you hear names like North Carolina State, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Seton Hall and Duke, as a competitor it gets you excited and motivated to compete.”

Jen Donahue ’05 started things off strong for the Bears with a 164-02 mark in the hammer throw, beating her personal record by 17 feet. Donahue won her section, which was good enough for ninth overall.

“Jen’s big PR came despite heavy drills and training the week before. It just all came together,” said Throwing Coach Michelle Eisenreich. “Jen’s amazing attitude and big throw really set the stage for the rest of the week. She got the rest of the team going with her positive energy.”

Kate Cushing ’04 represented the distance squad well with her season debut in the 1500-meters. Cushing’s time of 4:37.50 was far from her best but still registered as her fastest season-opener ever.

“From where I started to where I finished last season was a big difference,” Cushing said. “I think (my fast opening time was due to) the strength of one more year.”

Cushing’s ninth-place showing in her section earned her 25th place overall.

“I felt comfortable in the race.

Aerobically I felt great, but I just didn’t have any kick in my legs,” she said.

Along with the strong performances of Donahue and Cushing came the consistency and success of the Bears’ sprint relays. The 4x100-meter team finished 15th overall with a time of 47.92, the 4x200 squad finished 17th in 1:41.27 and the 4x400 team placed 12th with a time of 3:49.13. Co-captain Julia Stevenson ’04, a member of both the 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams, led the latter with a blistering split of 55.1.

“This season I am thinking about meeting my full potential,” Stevenson said. “All four years I have been plagued with injuries, and I’m looking forward to running without having to make excuses.”

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