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Committee for Slavery and Justice hosts community discussion

PPD increases efforts to keep Hope High students in school

BY ANNE WOOTTON

BY AIDAN LEVY

The University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice encountered a few surprises during its town meeting in MacMillan 117 Tuesday night. The committee answered questions and mediated debate among members of the Brown community and the wider public, who included vocal representatives of a controversial “pro-white” organization.

The meeting was the first open forum to discuss the role of the slavery and justice committee this year. The committee — which is composed of faculty and administration as well as undergraduate and graduate students — was appointed in 2003 by President Ruth Simmons to explore the University’s relationship to slavery and the issues that relationship raises.

Though widely varying concerns were raised at the meeting, which about 30 people attended, the five members of the 15-person committee present emphasized that the exchange of perspectives and ideas taking place was the most valuable thing the committee could hope to catalyze.

“Our job is to encourage reflective, academically rigorous discussion,” said Associate Professor of History and committee chair James Campbell. “In a world rife with injustice, it’s hard to decide which injustices deserve a university’s attention. (But) if all this process becomes is us wringing our hands about the fact that in the past, some people acted badly, I think we should pack up our tent and go home.

This is about making connections — not only being informed and reflective on the past, but applying that to the present.”

Community member Jay Lambert, who was born and raised in Fall River,

“(NOW’s) whole thing is to dispel the negative stereotypes and to counter the negative media images with positive ones like positive ads,” Edelson said. “I guess it’s a little more focused on women, but everyone should love their body. … A lot of the groups (at Brown) are trying to include men also.”

But not all of the sentiments toward Love Your Body Day are positive. The event comes at a time when obesity has gained national attention as a health problem.

A vocal contingent has spoken out about the issue of an America struggling with an obesity problem versus Love Your Body Day’s encouragement to accept all types of bodies. On blogs, independent Web sites and in columns, they are claiming that NOW is ignoring the obesity problem, and perhaps perpetuating it, by condoning obesity as an

Starting today, two additional police officers from the Providence Police Department will begin patrolling the Hope High School area in order to curb loitering and more effectively enforce the school’s truancy policy.

If a student is caught off school grounds, he or she will be stopped and asked to provide a legitimate reason for the absence. If it is apparent that a student has breached school regulations, the officer will immediately transport the delinquent back to Hope, according to PPD. The offender will suffer varying degrees of consequences, ranging from community service to suspension.

Also, PPD has reinforced its patrol that covers the Thayer Street area after 3 p.m. and is collaborating extensively with Brown’s Department of Public Safety, according to a PPD representative. The additional officers will be patrolling areas near the school between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

“Our main goal here is that kids stay in school,” said PPD Lt. David Lapatin, who is in charge of the area surrounding Hope High School. “We’re willing to use some of our resources to help Hope High out with that and to keep the Brown University students as safe as possible.”

Two other resource officers already monitor Hope’s student body on a daily basis. Even though crime rates have fallen, the PPD maintains its commitment to keep students in school and ensure the safety of the community at large, Lapatin said.

“The school squad is definitely aware of Hope High students,” said Sgt. Mary Day of the PPD Youth Service Bureau. “We need to make sure the students don’t stray from the campus at lunchtime.”

The primary impetus for the increased police presence is a slew of complaints from the community about students lingering and occasionally trespassing in the area.

Lapatin said the new initiative is only loosely related to the recent assaults on College Hill. Instead, it is an urban outreach program to advocate for responsible school attendance, he said.

On Sept. 10, a group of Hope High School students committed two separate assaults near Brown’s campus, separated by a matter of minutes.

Other assaults on College Hill either did not involve Hope students or are still under investigation.

The new officers will help to prevent similar situations like the Sept. 10 group attacks in the future, Lapatin said.

“We’re not doing it out of fear that Brown University is in danger of assault,” he said. “We’re doing it because we want Brown students to feel safe when they walk the streets.

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see HOPE HIGH, page 6

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Ling Wong ’06 and Kathryn Egelhofer ’06 tested their corn-husking skills Tuesday in Faunce as part of the annual contest sponsored by Brown Dining Services’ Sustainable Food Initiative and Community Harvest Program. The corn, from Dame Farm in Johnston, will be served today in the Ratty’s Roots and Shoots line.

UCS, deans working to improve weak sophomore advising

BY GABRIELLA DOOB

Meredith Ringel ’07 would like a little guidance. As a sophomore, she will soon have to make decisions about her concentration, where to study abroad and even her plans after college.

She read the information booklet sent to sophomores over the summer. She went to the sophomore meeting. She has even talked to a sophomore dean about her concerns, but she still feels unsure.

“My biggest problem is when I go into talk to people they all say, ‘Relax, you’re on the right track, don’t worry about it.’ That reassures me, but I would still like some

direction,” she said.

Ringel went to meet with a dean but felt reluctant to share all her concerns with him. “It was the first time he had seen me in his life. I felt strange talking about my academic uncertainties to someone I had met five minutes ago,” she said. “Inside I still feel very lost.”

She isn’t the only one. Many students have reported feeling abandoned during sophomore year, and the University is taking notice, said Dean of the College Paul Armstrong.

see SOPHOMORES, page 7

Love Your Body Day aims to promote positive body images

BY LESLIE KAUFMANN

Today marks the seventh annual Love Your Body Day, an event created by the National Organization for Women that seeks to promote healthy body images among women and girls.

Citing negative body images in ads and the media as proponents of a general lack of female self-confidence, NOW has worked over the past seven years to promote a more positive and realistic image of women in the media. College campuses across the nation are participating in the event and are hosting a variety of workshops that encourage personal health and satisfaction.

Brown’s Love Your Body Day, sponsored by Students for Choice and supported by a number of organizations including the Rhode Island branch of the National Organization of Women, the men’s and women’s ultimate Frisbee teams and Health Education, will focus on informing both men and women

about how to maintain healthy body images.

“We’ll be focusing more on healthy bodies,” Student Head Coordinator Vaughn Edelson ’07 said. “We’ll be having the rugby teams and the Frisbee teams playing around on the green — just people being active and promoting healthy bodies and healthy body images.”

Other events planned include a sex toy workshop hosted by Miko Exoticwear and a masturbation video screening at night — an annual tradition.

According to the NOW Web site, an estimated 25 million women are compulsive overeaters, and approximately 80 percent of women want to lose weight. The Web site also quotes the U.K.-based Social Issues Research Centre as saying that over 80 percent of girls have been on a fad diet by the time they reach the fourth grade.

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I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 2 0 , 2 0 0 4 Three Brown students find shortfilm success with documentary about homing pigeons campus news, page 3

Harvard introduces environmental policies similar to ones implemented by Brown campus watch, page 3

Katie Miller ’04 writes about the joys of biking around Providence — despite the hills column, page 11

Keeping the Gate open later is unfair and unsustainable for workers, writes Aaron Fritschner ’06 column, page 11

Arizona State University transfer fits in well with w. soccer, leads league in saves sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “RECONSTRUCTING THE SCULPTURE OF A PYRAMID-AGE KING” 8 p.m. (Faculty Club, Class of ’52 Room) — A lecture by Florence Friedman, adjunct professor of Egyptian art and curator of ancient art emerita at the RISD musuem.

SEX TOYS 101: EXPLORING YOUR SENSUAL BODY 4-6 p.m. (Wilson 102) — The course is being presented as part of Love Your Body Day.

READING BY POET TOM PICKARD 8 p.m. (McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St.) — Tom Pickard will read selections of his poetry.

CONCERT: BEN MILLER 9:30 p.m. (The Hourglass Cafe) — Ben Miller will give a free concert on acoustic guitar.

INTERRACIAL DATING FORUM 8 p.m. (Salomon 001) — A panel of students will discuss interracial dating at Brown, followed by a question and answer session.

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SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Vegan Stir Fry Vegetables with Tofu, Mandarin Blend Vegetables, Vegetable Egg Rolls with Duck Sauce, Polynesian Chicken Wings, Chocolate Frosted Eclairs, Apple Turnovers.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Cream of Tomato, Italian Sausage and Tortellini Soup, Hot Roast Beef on French Bread, Vegan White Bean Casserole, Green Peas, Mini Eclairs.

DINNER — Quesadillas with Sour Cream and Salsa, Grilled Cheese, Steamed Vegetable Melange, Sweet Potatoes, Salmon Provenscal, Mushroom Risotto, Lime Jello, Caribbean Rum Cake.

DINNER — Vegetarian Cream of Tomato, Italian Sausage and Tortellini Soup, Herb Baked Chicken, Spinach Pie Casserole, Red Potatoes with Chive Sauce, Italian Green Beans, Stir Fry Vegetable Medley, Oatmeal Bread, Caribbean Rum Cake.

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Student film on ‘pigeon fanciers’ lands in Hamptons film festival

BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

A documentary by a group of Brown students that portrays pigeon enthusiasts in Ireland has been accepted into the prestigious Hamptons International Film Festival.

For one week last April, Daniel Murray ’05 and Peter Russotti ’05 traveled to Ireland and shot footage for a documentary on the popular practice of pigeonracing. The final result of that week, a 10-minute short entitled “PigeonMen,” which was produced by Josh Koplewicz ’05, will be screened this weekend at the film festival in East Hampton, N.Y. The film portrays a 110-mile race of homing pigeons back to their homes in the working-class town of Finglas, Ireland. Murray told The Herald that “pigeon-fancying” — the practice of breeding and racing homing pigeons — has existed in Ireland for over a century.

Pigeon-fancying is known as “the working man’s horseracing,” Murray said.

One woman in the film says, “It’s our addiction; it’s kind of a way of life.”

Murray, a modern culture and media concentrator, said he was interested in making short films, and when Russotti heard about pigeon racing in Ireland, they decided to go and try to make a documentary.

“We didn’t know anyone (in Ireland),” he said. “We just went for it.”

“These people are very emotional about their pigeons, so it was an intense week shooting,” he said.

The race depicted in “PigeonMen” is a route from

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Harvard’s ‘green campus’ initiative promotes sustainable development

BY ROBIN STEELE

Harvard University last week announced six principles to achieve environmental sustainability for future campus development projects.

The principles, announced Oct. 14, were developed primarily in response to last year’s announcement of plans to develop a new 341-acre Harvard campus in Allston, Mass., which will be the largest development plan in Harvard’s history. The principles were created by a committee of students, faculty and administrators in an effort to promote better environmental values and lower costs, Harvard President Lawrence Summers told the Harvard Crimson.

The newly developed principles promote sustainability by increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewable resources, as well as decreasing production of waste and hazardous material. The principles also aim to promote health and safety, enhance campus ecosystems, develop long-term planning tools, encourage environmental inquiry within the community and establish a system for monitoring improvements in sustainability.

Harvard has had a green campus initiative for four and a half years, which has brought about a wide array of innovations, said Leith Sharp, director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. These innovations focus on new building construction and renovation and include waste recycling, renewable energy and ground flow of water, Sharp said. The improvements, coupled with increasing student engagement, led Summers to establish the new institutional commitment to sustainability, he said.

According to Sharp, because this policy has only been public for a week, community reaction has been limited, but Harvard’s overall attempts at environmentally

friendly business practices have been rewarded with a “Go Green” business award from the city of Cambridge.

In creating these principles, the university has established a broad focus for future development. Green Campus will work to actually implement the principles and keep people engaged, Sharp said. “In a sense, we will be the engine that will continue the work,” she said.

According to the official draft of the principles, environmental and health concerns will be integrated into existing management and financial systems through four implementation elements. These include capital planning and construction, annual financial and budget planning, support for schools and departments within the university with systems for sustainability and the creation of an advisory group to continually review progress.

According to Sharp, one of the primary benefits of the green-campus initiative is the possibility of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing energy use and saving money. “It’s a fairly simple equation that resource conservation equals financial conservation,” Sharp said.

Like Harvard, Brown is also trying to employ environmental policy in new construction. But Brown has taken a slightly different approach.

“Rather than an overall policy statement, such as Harvard’s, we have emphasized the more detailed guidelines and specifications for building projects,” said Kurt Teichert, resource efficiency manager for Facilities Management.

According to Teichert, Facilities Management worked with the Brown is Green committee, created in 1990, to develop seven principles to guide the University’s

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Movie continued from page 3 Cork back to Finglas. The homing pigeons, which Murray said numbered around 1,000, are shown being driven overnight to Cork and let out at around 10 a.m. on a Saturday. Most of the birds are shown finding their way back to Finglas by Saturday afternoon.

One bird, Blue Paddy, arrives home to its distraught owner a full day late. The man holds up the bird to show the camera its blood-spattered wing and missing tail — injuries he attributes to a falcon or a hawk.

The owner becomes so upset because many pigeons that set out on a race never return home, Murray said. In one race from Paris to Dublin, he said, only one-10th of the pigeons are typically ever seen again.

The cock-pigeons are often deprived of any contact with hen-pigeons for two weeks before a race, Murray said. Then they are given a glimpse of the

females, right before they are driven to the race’s starting point.

“The idea is that they’re going to fly home to have sex,” Murray said.

Murray said he and several other students spent the summer trimming 30 hours of footage into a usable short.

“It’s taken six months, almost, to do a 10-minute film which is in decent form,” he said.

Murray said that he and his partners were surprised to win a spot in the competitive Hamptons film festival.

“This is really great — it’s a good stepping stone,” he said.

Murray and Russotti financed the film, which cost “more than a few thousand dollars” to make, Murray said.

Murray said he and Koplewicz have also started a production company, Salty Films, which is designed to “bring student filmmakers and writers together and help them produce their short films.”

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

College Board notes jumps in tuition, fees at 4-year schools (Los Angeles Times) — Tuition and fees have climbed an average of 10.5 percent, or $487, this year at the nation’s public four-year colleges and universities, the College Board reported Tuesday.

The increase was smaller than last year’s boost of 13.3 percent but still among the biggest rises in the past quarter-century.

Officials with the nonprofit group and other analysts said the latest tuition and financial-aid trends were forcing many students to go more deeply into debt than in the past to pay for their education.

Gaston Caperton, president of the New York-based College Board, called the diminishing percentage of college grants

awarded to students based on their financial need a “critical problem.” He said that the federal tax credits and deductions since the late 1990s, along with increasing amounts of scholarships for academic merit, had reduced the actual price that many affluent students paid for higher education but that those benefits had “not reached lowincome students in the same way.”

At the same time, Caperton said schools faced economic pressure to raise tuition and fees.

He cited such factors as declining state-government support for higher education and the need for schools to spend heavily on new technology and facilities to

remain competitive.

The 10.5 percent tuition and fees increase for the current school year brings the average attendance charges at public four-year schools to $5,132. With room and board charges, the overall average cost rises to $11,354.

According to College Board figures dating back 27 years, tuition rises at public four-year institutions have exceeded 10 percent only seven other times.

At four-year private schools this year, tuition and fees rose 6 percent, or $1,132, climbing to an average of $20,082. With room and board, the overall expense

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Boston chapter of National Alliance, which they described as “America’s foremost pro-white organization,” raised their concerns about the prevalence of white guilt in society today, turning heads with some of their comments. The alliance is “the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the United States,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.

“White guilt has a face, and this is it,” said Clint Esterbrook, spokesman for the chapter.

“Slavery ended a century and a half ago. Indentured servants were slaves, too. We are separatists because forced integration doesn’t work. Detroit used to be a great city. Hope High School used to be a great school, but it’s not anymore, because there are no white students there — just kids putting graffiti on the walls and pissing in the hallways.”

“Racism saturates our nation,” Allen responded. “Engaging in these conversations enlightens us on the journey to understanding better. We need to keep this in mind — we’re taking on this work to provide more informed opinions.

“I’ve been black in America for 45 years,” she added, “and I’ve never peed on a wall.”

Rev. Everett Mohammed, who came to the meeting on behalf of the Nation of Islam, expressed his satisfaction with the formation of the committee, and the necessity of their work.

“You have to remember — slaves picked the cotton for those textile mills,” Mohammed said.

“There was an African holocaust.

Servitude is not slavery. There is a lack of dialogue, information, hard data — it’s hard to quantify when you don’t know what you’re dealing with. My hopes are that the committee will establish a working knowledge, so that eventually it can come to a strong position.”

Committee member Ross Cheit, associate professor of political science, also spoke about the University’s larger responsibility to the entire country.

“Universities confront controversial issues that aren’t necessarily being dealt with well in other venues,” he said. “(Our responsibility is) to study issues, collect data, be academics — we have a strong moral authority here, because very few directives come straight from the president. By taking a position, we can influence a broader scope of people — they can learn by examining the University’s dealings.”

Audience members raised concerns about encouraging more student participation in the committee’s work, including a suggestion to add a new Liberal Learning course dedicated to issues like those explored by the committee.

Itiah Thomas ’07 encouraged the committee to dedicate its work to any slaves from whom the University might have benefited.

“We should celebrate the people who gave their lives for the success of this institution,” she said. “We can’t reverse that we benefited from that activity. More than just presenting information, there should be a celebration of those people.”

Currently, the committee’s main effort has been to organize a series of programs that will run over the course of the next two years. Open to the general public, the programs will first focus on the history of the Rhode Island slave trade and the University’s ties to slavery, including the use of slaves in the construction of University Hall. Next year, they will begin to address the nationwide question of reparations for these injustices.

The next program in the series, a panel discussion titled “The Texture of Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island,” will be Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Salomon 001. More resources, including historical essays, bibliographies and documents related to the committee’s ongoing discussion and information about grants and fellowships available to students, are available at the committee’s Web site.

continued from page 1 Mass., said committee members should take into account the history specific to southern New England, reminding the audience that Rhode Island’s economy depended much more strongly on the textile industry and immigrant mill workers, particularly children, than it ever did on slavery.

“Brown’s relationship to slavery was insignificant,” Lambert said. “(The committee) should be far more concerned with the real Rhode Island economy — 7-yearold children working in mills, not slavery, supported Brown.

“As someone born and raised in this part of the country, I expect the work that this committee does to be accessible to the typical southeastern New Englander.

Slavery was not their primary concern,” Lambert said.

“Our charge is not to look at ‘either/or’ situations or to come to some conclusion about slavery’s effect on this institution,” said Associate Provost and Director of Institutional Diversity Brenda Allen, who is also a committee member. “The silence that surrounds this subject has, to some degree, left us paralyzed to move forward. We’re talking about things people don’t talk about. It is a process of intellectual and emotional learning, and I’ve found that it gets more and more complicated the more you get into it, not clear.”

Representatives from the

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Sinclair, facing pressure, says it will air only part of film attacking Kerry’s war record (Washington Post) — Under mounting political, legal and financial pressure, Sinclair Broadcast Group on Tuesday backed away from its plan to carry a film attacking Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam record, saying it would air only portions of the movie in an hourlong special scheduled for Friday.

“The experience of preparing to air this news special has been trying for many of those involved,” Sinclair Chief Executive David Smith said in a statement.” The company and many of its executives have endured personal attacks of the vilest nature, as well as calls on our advertisers and our viewers to boycott our stations and on our shareholders to sell their stock.”

Chad Clanton, a spokesman for the Kerry campaign, which had demanded equal time to

respond to the planned airing of the 42-minute film “Stolen Honor,” said Sinclair “has been all over the map on this issue.

One thing that’s certain is that they have a partisan agenda.”

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, president of the nonprofit Media Access Project, called the Sinclair move “a surprising cavein” and said the 62-station television company “clearly felt a lot of pressure and this is an attempt to find a face-saving way out.”

Democrats have complained to three federal agencies about the Sinclair special, noting that Smith and his three brothers, who run the Baltimore-area company, have contributed heavily to President Bush and the Republican Party.

Sinclair said it will produce “A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media,” hosted by Jeff

Barnd, an anchor at Sinclair’s WBFF in Baltimore, using footage from “Stolen Honor” and other political documentaries while also examining allegations of media bias. The company now maintains it never intended to ai “Stolen Honor” in its entirety, although Sinclair commentator and Vice President Mark Hyman had told The Washington Post that the movie would air unless Kerry agreed to an interview, in which case only portions might run.

“I am not personally aware that he ever said that, but if he said it, that was not company policy at the time,” said Sinclair lawyer Barry Faber. Sinclair’s position on the film has been “evolving,” he said, and journalists and critics had made a “leap to judgment.”

“There has been a misunderstanding of what our intention

Campaigns counting on early voters FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Baltimore Sun) — As she left a South

Florida polling place, the 77year-old widow admitted that President Bush often “really annoys the living daylights out of me.” She wants the United States to “get the heck out of Iraq,” considers Vice President Dick Cheney “weird” and thinks the administration has a poor record on her pet issue, the environment.

But Sen. John Kerry hasn’t offered much of an agenda for the environment, she added. So the retired school cafeteria manager wound up voting for Bush, then split her ticket and backed Democrat Betty Castor in Florida’s red-hot Senate race.

Kerry’s failure to close the sale with one fence-straddling voter in this crucial state points up a shortcoming of the early voting trend, say critics. Those who cast ballots ahead of time don’t have the same information as those who vote on Election Day. “Suppose they catch Osama bin Laden three days before the election? Twenty million people will have voted by then,” said Curtis Gans of the nonpartisan Committee for the Study of the American Electorate.

About 32 states encourage early voting. Some, including Florida, are letting citizens vote at satellite locations, such as libraries and shopping centers.

Others offer mail-only voting (Oregon) or liberalized noexcuse absentee balloting.

Some states limit absentee voting to those who cannot go to the polls on Election Day. It’s part of a reform effort to make voting as easy as possible and reverse a long-term decline in voter participation. But a recent study by Gans concluded that early voting actually hurts turnout. States that adopted the reforms have had smaller increases in voter par-

ticipation in years when turnout increased and sharper declines when turnout dropped, he found.

The Bush and Kerry camps think early voting is a wonderful idea, though. It gives them more time to get supporters to vote and may even decide who wins the election.

Four years ago in Iowa, for example, Bush received more votes than Al Gore on Election Day. But because Gore outpaced Bush by a wider margin in early voting, he carried the state by a slim margin.

Estimates of total voter turnout this year range as high as 121 million, up sharply over the last presidential election and perhaps approaching the highest participation level since 1968. About one of every five votes is expected to be cast early.

All elections are ultimately decided by turnout. But no presidential contest in recent history has seemed more likely to turn on get-out-the-vote efforts than this one.

Both sides have organized massive door-to-door drives.

This unprecedented ground operation is a meld of old-fashioned grass-roots politics and high technology. It relies on “microtargeting” and employs “ballot chasers” and “flushers” to maximize turnout.

The most effective weapon of all, say ground-war strategists, is face-to-face contact.

That usually means going doorto-door, one of the oldest and most basic political techniques.

This year, precision-guided weapons have been added to the ground war. Partisan armies have hit the streets armed with high-tech gear, such as hand-held computers and cellphones.

“Micro-targeting” — the result of data-mining by the campaigns, which sift huge

databases to pick out likely supporters — tells field workers which doors to knock as they attempt to “flush” voters out of their homes and into the voting booth.

Here in Florida, arguably the most critical state in the country, along with Ohio, the Democrats have more than 150 paid workers and about 1,500 canvassers going door-to-door, urging voters not to wait until Nov. 2 to cast their vote.

“Both absentee and early voting are very important,” said Ken Robinson, who heads the Democratic Party’s coordinated campaign in the state, where he says Bush and Kerry are “running neck and neck.’’

In 2000, when Bush carried the state by 537 votes, a successful Republican absenteevoter program gave him a lopsided advantage over Gore.

This year, the Kerry side hopes to narrow that edge by repeatedly contacting Democratic voters who requested absentee ballots but have not yet returned them.

Mindy Tucker Fletcher, an adviser to the Florida Republican Party, said the two major parties had “basically fought to a draw” in signing up about 1 million new voters since 2000 through massive registration drives.

One advantage of early voting is to free activists for Election Day duty.

Jim Kivlon, a title agent in Broward County, in southeast Florida, slaps the rear of his blue Nissan Xterra, emblazoned with a pair of Bush stickers, when asked who got his early vote.

“I think he’s done a phenomenal job,” said the Republican, who plans to work as a pollwatcher Nov. 2 and prevent anyone from sneaking in a late vote. “We want to make sure the election ends at 7 p.m.,” he said.

was,” Faber said, “in part because it wasn’t clear to us what our intention was.”

The film features 17 former prisoners of war criticizing Kerry’s 1971 allegations of U.S. atrocities in Vietnam. Asked if the political uproar had prompted Sinclair to change its plans, Faber said, “We did not and do not make programming decisions because of political pressure.” Sinclair also generated headlines after firing its Washington bureau chief, Jon Leiberman, on Monday, for criticizing plans to air the movie.

Sinclair’s stock has dropped more than 15 percent since the controversy erupted 10 days ago.

Alan Hevesi, the Democratic comptroller of New York whose state pension fund holds 257,000 shares of Sinclair, questioned in a letter to the company Tuesday whether airing the movie would further depress the shares.

The Sinclair announcement came hours after Deborah Rappoport, a major Democratic donor with her husband Andy, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, said they had offered to buy one hour on Sinclair stations. This would finance a 42-minute version of a pro-Kerry Vietnam documentary, “Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry,” by George Butler. Rappoport said she was “deeply, deeply outraged” by Sinclair’s action and was offering $1 million more than the company’s usual ad rate in response.

Adding to the pressure on Sinclair, a group of institutional investors alleged Tuesday that Smith’s three brothers, who serve on the company board, sold millions of dollars in Sinclair shares late last year just before the stock began its decline. Prominent shareholder lawyer William Lerach said the family members would face a

lawsuit unless they repay the company.

Lerach, who has led investor lawsuits against Enron Corp., Time Warner and other corporations, is a noted Democratic fund-raiser. But he said his involvement is not political, spurred instead by institutional investors who have watched Sinclair’s stock slide from a high of $15 per share in late December to its close of $6.15 Tuesday.

Lerach noted that Frederick, Robert and Duncan Smith sold about 1.4 million shares of stock for almost $19 million as the stock was peaking at the turn of the year. The attorney, whose clients include a New York pension fund for health care workers, said the plan to air “Stolen Honor” has further hurt the company by driving down the stock price. He said Sinclair executives “should be focusing on creating shareholder value— not pressing a controversial personal political agenda at shareholders’ expense.”

Also Tuesday, James Beardsley Jr., attorney for a former Vietnam veteran who is seen in an anti-war protest in “Stolen Honor,” said he would sue Sinclair if it airs the movie. The veteran, Kenneth Campbell, now a University of Delaware professor, sued filmmaker Carlton Sherwood for libel this week.

The movie “made him look like a liar, a fraud and a fabricator” over his descriptions of military misconduct in Vietnam, Beardsley said.

Sherwood’s lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, called the suit “completely spurious,” saying Campbell isn’t even named in the film. She said the suit was used to intimidate a Philadelphia theater owner into canceling a showing of “Stolen Honor” scheduled for Tuesday.

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Hope High continued from page 1 The assault rate is very, very low. But if one person gets assaulted, that’s one too many for us.”

In addition to a more stringent attendance policy recently implemented, Hope is attempting to revitalize the academic performance of its students to meet state and national standards after consistently underperforming state averages. PPD hopes the added officers will buttress the administration’s movement to improve success rates and maintain order.

“Hope High School is going through a transition now,” Lapatin said. “There aren’t many kids that leave the campus, but there’s enough that do it that we feel like we should go in and help them out.”

The extra officers will be stationed in the area indefinitely, Lapatin said, adding that their

presence will quickly change students’ attendance patterns.

But some Hope High students have differing opinions, claiming that strengthening the police force will have either no effect or possibly a detrimental effect.

Lawrence Cunningham, a Hope High sophomore, said he doesn’t think students are going to be deterred from skipping out.

“I think it’s good because it’s against the law to miss school,” he said. “But it’s not going to be effective.”

Faviola Rodriguez, also a sophomore, said she was happy to hear about the added force. “I think it’s right,” she said. “Some kids want to get out of school because they don’t like learning.”

Ultimately, PPD is concerned about safety and nurturing responsible values for today’s students, Lapatin said.

“There’s no way you’re going to wipe out crime altogether,” he said. “You can’t. It’s impossible. But you can keep it as low as you can, and that’s what we’re doing.”

Harvard continued from page 3 actions.

These guidelines encourage the University to use environmentally conscious building designs and to consider environmental issues when making purchasing decisions.

The guidelines also include provisions for identifying the environmental and energy performance goals for each construction project. “(Brown’s guidelines) were similar to Harvard’s sustainability principles in their generality but were not formally approved by the president or trustees,” Teichert said. “There was much less of a culture around campus environmental stewardship at that time on campuses. Brown’s initiative, among a few others, has been used as a model by other schools that have adopted these initiatives more recently.”

According to Teichert, a primary strength of the Brown initiative is the link between the environmental academic programs and campus operations.

Rather than creating additional committees, Brown’s approach has been to work within existing committees, such as the Campus Planning Advisory Board, to fulfill the guidelines, Teichert said.

Teichert said Brown was ahead of the curve in implementing some of the University’s environmental policies. “We did a green building before they were called ‘green buildings’ in 1983,” Teichert said. But he added, “It’s

not like every building since then was done to that standard.”

According to Teichert, from 1992 to 2002, Brown’s electrical energy efficiency projects have significantly conserved energy and resulted in an annual savings of $3.6 million in reduced electrical consumption. This does not include Brown’s energy savings that are not directly connected to electrical use, such as those related to heating systems, window and insulation upgrades, he said.

“In the Life Sciences (Building) project and others, we are currently modeling approximately 30 percent less energy use resulting from the energy-efficient design principles than the building would otherwise use if built to current energy codes,” Teichert said.

Brown has had some environmental difficulties in the past.

During a May 1999 visit to campus, Environmental Protection Agency inspectors discovered 15 violations of federal law including those pertaining to the handling of hazardous waste. Brown settled an enforcement case with the EPA in late 2001 by agreeing to fund $285,000 of innovative environmental projects at several local high schools and pay a civil penalty of nearly $80,000.

According to an EPA press release, Brown was one of eight universities in New England against which the EPA has either proposed or levied a fine since 1999.

Teichert said many campuses that have taken on environmental initiatives more recently did it in response to EPA concerns.

Brown, on the other hand, only had to fine-tune its existing initiative, he said.

Teichert expressed concern that Harvard’s principles make no reference to existing legal standards, although he praised their attempt to set a higher standard than the bare legal minimum. In the past, colleges and universities across the country have resisted raising the environmental bar, he said.

Brown faces another environmentally focused lawsuit this year — the College Hill Neighborhood Association is currently attempting to halt construction of the Life Sciences Building on Meeting Street until further environmental assessments can be completed and further environmental and health concerns related to the project can be investigated. But the building will still be completed by its Spring 2006 goal, John Noonan, vice president for Facilities Management, told The Herald earlier this month.

In reference to the new Harvard initiative, College Hill resident William Touret, a member of the College Hill Neighborhood Association and a plaintiff in the Life Sciences lawsuit, said, “Anything that addresses environmental concerns is a good thing.”

“What troubles me is that there is no evidence that the committee (at Harvard) included evidence from the surrounding community,” he said.

“It is important to look at not what these universities like Harvard and Brown say but what they do,” Touret said.

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Body love continued from page 1 acceptable body type.

Edelson said Love Your Body Day is meant to promote both healthy body images and healthy bodies.

Sophomores continued from page 1 Though much progress has already been made, the University wants to provide better resources to give students the support they require, Armstrong said. To do so, administrators are considering a wide range of academic and advising initiatives.

The Academics and Administrative Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council of Students has met with associate deans of the college Steven Cornish and Carol Cohen to consider extending the Meiklejohn advising program to sophomores, said AAA chair Emily Blatter ’07. A list of upperclassmen who will be available as Meiklejohn advisors to sophomores will be posted on the Web within the next two weeks, Cohen said.

The committee is also planning a forum for sophomores in November, where students and professors will be invited to critique the advising system and to come up with suggestions for improving it. A report with recommendations for improvements will be submitted to Armstrong in May, Blatter said.

Ringel said she thinks this would be a particularly good idea.

“Student feedback is definitely good as long as it’s listened to.

Too often schools have forums to placate people.” But this could be very productive if the University took the students’ suggestions to heart, she said.

The committee has also discussed having a “sophomore day” in which sophomores will come to campus during winter break to discuss issues such as concentrations and career plans and become familiar with the resources available to them, Blatter said. A pilot version of this program is being planned for this year’s sophomore class in January, she said.

Armstrong said he hopes the initiatives will give sophomores a new enthusiasm about this stage of their education. “Sophomores are launching into the Brown academic experience on the foundations they laid for themselves in their freshman year,” Armstrong said. “We want to help them think of this year as an exciting time.”

Sophomores often say they feel abandoned after all the attention they received as firstyears, Armstrong said. Without the guidance of the first-year seminar program, students are forced to navigate a maze of academic choices on their way to choosing a concentration, he said.

They also have to make decisions about research opportunities, study abroad and summer internships, according to Cohen, who is also the dean of sophomore studies. “Life suddenly gets real, which is both exciting and overwhelming,” she said.

“I understand how it can be interpreted that way,” she said.

“And we want to be accepting of all body types but at the same time recognizing that eating disorders (such as) obesity hurt your body, and to love your body, you don’t want to be hurting it.”

Love Your Body Day events

will take place today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Main Green. The rain location will be Leung Gallery.

Faced with all these choices, some students start to feel burnt out or uninterested in their studies, she added. The result is the “sophomore slump.”

And just as they need advising the most, the advising system is at its weakest, Cohen said.

“Sophomores may have the greatest need for guidance and the right kind of input,” she said.

“But the needs of the other years are clearer.”

Some resources already exist to help sophomores confront these challenges. Six of the 10 academic deans are responsible for providing support to sophomores. Academic advising is largely the responsibility of 11 Randall Counselors — administrators and faculty members who deal specifically with sophomores.

Cohen said sophomore deans and Randall Counselors have been “inundated” with students during the first few weeks of classes. Of this year’s sophomores, 66 percent chose to keep their first-year advisor or selected another faculty member as an advisor, she said. The majority of the remaining 34 percent are consulting sophomore deans or Randall Counselors — approximately 475 students for 17 counselors and deans.

A sophomore chooses a Randall advisor or sophomore dean on a Web site accessible through the Dean of the College Web site or from a booklet they receive over the summer. The student can then make an appointment or, in the case of sophomore deans, visit the adviser during his or her open office hours. Randall Counselors and sophomore deans are especially helpful for sophomores who did not choose an advisor at the end of their first year, said Cohen.

Even students who already have advisors occasionally come to deans and counselors to discuss issues that they might not bring to their faculty advisors, Cohen said. “They often want a different perspective than that of their sophomore advisor or they see the problem as not right to

bring to their advisor,” she said.

Blatter said she and other sophomores have turned to Randall Counselors or sophomore deans after failed experiences with first-year advisors or concentration advisors. “Many sophomores don’t have advisors at all,” she said. “And others didn’t get the inspiration or advice they needed from concentration advisors.”

A Randall Counselor or sophomore dean will often refer students to faculty members or fellowships that may be valuable for them, said Cohen. She described the work of the sophomore deans as a series of “staging conversations” that provide networking opportunities for students.

E-mails and advising bulletins are being used to keep sophomores informed about their resources and to announce events such as the concentration fair today, Armstrong said. The sophomore advising Web site and the booklet sent home over the summer are other ways the University is trying to provide guidance while allowing students to make more decisions themselves, he said.

There is no “one size fits all” for advising in the sophomore year, Armstrong said. Instead, the University seeks to accommodate students’ diverse interests and needs and to present them with a “palette of options,” he said.

Armstrong stressed the need for a “distinctive set of intellectual experiences to give sophomores a sense of academic empowerment” — whether this means creating sophomore seminars, increasing opportunities for undergraduate research or hiring new faculty.

Armstrong said he thinks the University has one of the best advising programs in the country, but there is still a lot of work to be done. “We are never complacent about advising,” he said.

“We always want to make it better.”

Herald staff writer Leslie Kaufmann ’05 is the assistant Arts & Culture editor. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Gabriella Doob ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Director of Getty Museum resigns abruptly LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times) — The director of the J. Paul Getty Museum resigned Monday as head of the world’s richest art museum, citing broad philosophical differences with Barry Munitz, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Museum director Deborah Gribbon announced she would leave at the end of the month, in a move that some say underscores dissension within the organization.

Although no one would state the precise reasons for her abrupt departure, Gribbon’s decision seems to turn on management style and to crystallize a long-simmering debate about how the trust spends its money — on the museum or other programs.

“It has become increasingly clear that we differ on a number of critical issues,” Gribbon said in a letter to Munitz. She added that she will leave “believing as passionately as ever that museums best serve the public by collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality.”

Munitz thanked Gribbon for her work, especially for strengthening the collection, but added in an interview that “we’ve been going through all summer what our priorities are and where the resources are. There’s still an enormous commitment to the museum — the museum is the center and the core of what we do — but the board feels very strongly that it’s not the only thing that we do.”

He added he was “dumbfounded” over the departure.

Reached by phone Monday, Gribbon would not specify why

she was leaving but said that “Barry and I have differences on a range of things. They are real differences. I think this is a very important moment for the Getty.

Perhaps to a fault, I believe in the good of the institution, I think it’s better to resign than let differences become a distraction.”

A 21-year veteran of the Getty who came to the museum under the tenure of John Walsh, the previous director, Gribbon is the latest in a line of senior leaders to leave the Getty during the last few years.

Gribbon, appointed to the position four years ago, announced her departure Monday morning at the museum lecture hall, where she got a standing ovation from her staff.

William Griswold, the museum’s associate director for collections, will become acting director and chief curator. Gribbon did not say what her plans would be.

One museum employee who asked to remain anonymous said the museum had become ‘‘an extremely tense environment” and that Gribbon wasn’t “allowed to be the director of the institution and make the decisions.

There was a level of oversight and control from the trust that was significant. I think decisions were second-guessed pretty much constantly.”

Backed by the Getty endowment, the museum has vast resources but is only one of several components of the Getty cultural complex, which also includes the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Grant Program. Last year, the museum was visited by more than 1.3 million people.

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Town split over controversial unit’s action in Iraq ROCK HILL, S.C. (Los Angeles Times)

— Mike and Jim Gordon, who disagree on most matters of national importance, on Tuesday hashed out the rebellion of the 343rd Quartermaster Company over a plate of barbecue.

Jim, 49, said the soldiers should get medals for resisting an order they considered foolhardy and dangerous; if more soldiers had questioned orders in Vietnam, he said, “there’d be a lot less people buried at Arlington.”

Mike, 10 years older than his brother, said they should be punished. During the three years he spent in the Army, he learned that independent thinking is not a quality prized in soldiers; besides, he said, “You might as well know if you sign up for the Army, you might get shot at.

“If everybody in the military decided to do that themselves,” he added, “we’d be in one hell of a mess.”

The same argument was being replayed all over Rock Hill, home base for the 343rd Quartermaster Company, an Army Reserve unit now in Iraq.

Last week, members of one of the company’s four platoons refused a mission to carry a load of fuel across dangerous territory, saying that their vehicles were slow, unreliable and unar-

mored and that the fuel they were carrying was contaminated.

Since Friday, when a few soldiers’ act of defiance became a public matter, ordinary Americans have gotten a look into the world of military discipline — and they’ve drawn different conclusions. Some said the furor would not have happened had the military been more responsive to the needs of its members. Others shook their heads in disgust at the soldiers’ temerity in disobeying orders.

“I think most of us are shocked,” said Johnnie Robinson, commander of Post 2889 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. “I haven’t talked to anyone that’s ever heard of anything like this. Usually, it’s just an individual who refuses to disobey an order — just a coward.”

Like many communities in the Carolinas, Rock Hill has a high concentration of veterans.

They make up almost 12 percent of the city’s adult population, and number 17,000 in York County.

Some here, like Robinson, were transformed by combat in Korea and Vietnam. It shaped their belief systems.

Then there are those such as 19-year-old Abraham Reed, who grew up in peacetime and has watched his friends turn to the military for education or financial stability.

Reed has sided with the soldiers of the 343rd. From his friends in Iraq, he hears a steady stream of stories about commanders sending soldiers out “like stunt dummies, to get shot at.”

“I think it took mad courage,” he said.

There was a similar approving tone in a booth at Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Q, where Robert White sat Tuesday with two friends. White, who installs air conditioning and heating systems, said he liked to see soldiers and their families demand accountability from the mili-

tary.

“I think (the military) should have families involved, because it’s part of American society.

Our politics control it. Our president is the commander-inchief,” White said. “If your family’s out there dying, you should be involved.”

Many others here, however, feel chagrined that Rock Hill is the unit’s peacetime home.

Sgt. First Class Mitchell Withrip, who answers phones inside the small brick building that is the 343rd’s headquarters, has listened as several veterans called to complain about the soldiers’ defiance.

“They say: ‘Can I give you my opinion? What were those soldiers thinking about?’ “ said Withrip, who serves as the unit’s retention officer. “‘Do the mission and complain about it later,’ that was their philosophy.”

Alone in an empty building, Withrip said he had received little information about the incident except for what he’s heard from reporters. He worries that the publicity will hurt morale in the unit, a group of 120 reservists from communities all over the South who, until last week, weren’t unusual in any way.

“Basically, the 343rd is a good unit. They were a good unit, and up until now they were doing their job,” he said. Now, their future holds an exhaustive investigation, he said, and the shadow of notoriety.

The men who meet for beers at the American Legion post down the road from Withrip’s office said they were trying to withhold judgment. Many had served during peacetime, and said they could imagine justifications for questioning orders from above.

“They did get another group from the same unit to carry out the mission,” said Cecil Phillips.

“It’s not a good situation from a military standpoint, I’ll tell you that.”

Tuition

schools cost students an average of $1,300 in the 2003-2004 school year after tax breaks and grant aid were taken into account. That was down slightly, after adjusting for general inflation, from 199394.

The College Board said, however, that the comparable bottom-line figure for what students are paying for school this year probably is up, due to the big jump in tuition. The group said it couldn’t calculate a figure for this year because student-aid information was not yet available.

continued from page 4 comes to an average of $27,516.

Costs vary widely, however, and some top-flight universities quote annual costs of more than $40,000 a year.

Still, the College Board research, to some extent, found some bright spots in the collegecost picture.

The group found that tuition and fees at public four-year

Wilson continued from page 12 until the very end, and it was only Harvard goalie Katie Shields’ equally amazing play that kept Brown from walking off with a win. “(She was) phenomenal — she made some amazing saves,” said co-captain Michelle Sriwongtong ’05.

Wilson and the rest of the soccer team want to improve on

what they’ve done so far. The Bears play one of the toughest schedules in the Ivy League and have been in many close games.

“Against these top-ranked teams, we’re playing really well,” Wilson said. “We go into every game expecting to win. My goal is to do everything in my power to help us do that.”

Herald staff writer Bernie Gordon ’07 covers women’s soccer and is an assistant sports editor.

He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2004 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 9

Lawmakers ask CIA to turn over Maurer, first person internal 9/11 report to get medic alert bracelet, dies at 65 WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) —

The ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee have asked the CIA to turn over an internal report on whether agency employees should be held accountable for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, congressional officials said Tuesday.

The CIA has not responded to the request, raising concerns among some Democrats in Congress that the report is being withheld to avoid embarrassment for the Bush administration in the final weeks before the presidential election.

The report was drafted in response to a demand from Congress nearly two years ago for the CIA to conduct an internal inquiry into the performance of agency personnel before the attacks. The agency was asked “to determine whether and to what extent personnel at all levels should be held accountable” for intelligence breakdowns cataloged in a joint congressional investigation of Sept. 11.

No agency employee has been fired or faced other disciplinary measures in connection with Sept. 11 inquiries, a fact that has frustrated critics of the CIA and relatives of those who were killed in the attacks.

A U.S. intelligence official

Water polo continued from page 12 stretches of sloppy playing by both teams and missed opportunities, we didn’t let that get us down.”

Coming out of halftime, Brown went almost four minutes before setting up an offensive set. The team also missed two 4-meter shots, one in the beginning of the game and the second in the third period.

“If we had converted on those two 4-meters, the score would have been a lot tighter,” Gall said.

“I am proud of the way our guys handled those missed opportunities. It could have been devastating, but instead it just fired them up.”

St. Francis pulled its starting goalie after the half because of a coaching decision. The goalie and

said Tuesday that the document had not been provided to Congress because it was not complete. “The report is just a draft,” the official said. “It’s not yet finished, and the matter is still under review.” The official declined to elaborate or discuss the contents of the report.

But congressional officials voiced skepticism and said mounting frustration with the agency had prompted the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and the ranking Democrat, Rep. Jane Harman of California, to send a letter to the CIA two weeks ago directing the agency to deliver the report.

The existence of the letter was first reported Tuesday in the Los Angeles Times in an opinion column by Robert Scheer. The column quoted Harman as saying, “We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report. We are very concerned.”

Congressional officials said they were told that the CIA inspector general’s office had completed the report in July, but that it would not be turned over because of a request by thenacting CIA Director John McLaughlin for additional information on the report’s contents.

“The concern here is that this (delay) has gone from days to weeks to months,” a senior con-

gressional aide said on condition of anonymity. “We’re concerned that the work of the inspector general not be altered or censored or in any way precluded from coming over here.”

The ranking members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pat Roberts, R-Kan. and John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., also have inquired about the report, but they have not written a letter asking for it to be turned over, aides said. he FBI conducted a similar inquiry and provided a copy of its report to congressional committees, aides said. The FBI has not disciplined any of its employees in connection with Sept. 11, officials said.

The scuffle over the CIA report could pose a problem for the CIA’s new director, Porter Goss, who now is head of the agency he helped investigate when he was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Goss, a former Republican congressman from Florida, was a principal member of the joint congressional inquiry into Sept.

11 intelligence failures. The report was sharply critical of the CIA, and the request for an internal investigation of employee accountability was among the dozens of recommendations in that congressional investigation.

coach exchanged words, but he was not forced out of play for official reasons.

“I don’t know why there was a goalie change,” Gall said. “We are focused on what we need to do as a team. We were not concerned with the switch. All I told my guys was to keep on firing and not be afraid to shoot.”

Brown finished with six goals by five different players, but this wasn’t enough to upset St. Francis.

Two weeks ago on the team’s California trip, Brown started out with an 11-8 loss against nationally ranked California Baptist University. As usual, five different players contributed to the Bears offense, led by Wiener, who knocked in three goals.

On Saturday at the Long Beach State Tournament, Brown went 1-1, first beating Iona 10-7 and then coming up short against the host team, nationally ranked Long Beach State 14-5.

Before coming home, the Bears wrapped up the weekend with an impressive win against Occidental College, 15-7, where goalie Fantone was one of 10 players who scored for the Bears.

Brown looks to avenge the loss from earlier this month against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a rematch in Cambridge, Mass., today. This will be the Bears’ final game before Northern Championships.

(Los Angeles Times) — Linda

Collins Maurer, a champion golfer and the first member of the Medic Alert Foundation, which warns medical professionals about a person’s serious health conditions in cases of emergency, has died. She was 65.

Maurer died Oct. 13 of breast cancer at her home in Turlock, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, according to her son, Paul Maurer.

As a teenager, she cut her finger playing with an air rifle and was taken to the hospital, where she received a tetanus antitoxin scratch test. She proved to be allergic to it and went into shock.

When she recovered, her father, a medical doctor, suggested that she carry a written warning about her health condition. Through high school, Maurer wore a paper note attached to an ornamental bracelet.

Her father, Dr. Marion Collins, and her mother, Chrissie, later designed a silver identification bracelet for Linda. It was inscribed with information about all of her allergies: She could not tolerate aspirin, sulfa drugs and a type of tetanus antitoxin.

The bracelet also bore a caduceus — two serpents wrapped around a staff — the traditional emblem of the medical profession. The words “Medic Alert” flanked the emblem in red.

Maurer’s parents soon recognized the need for emergency access to the medical records of countless people like their daughter who had possibly lifethreatening health conditions.

In 1956, they launched the Medic Alert Foundation from their garage in Turlock.

It has since grown to include 4 million members worldwide, and helps save as many as 4,000 lives a year, according to Diane Lazzari, communications director for the foundation.

Members of Medic Alert have their health information on file in a central databank in Turlock. The bracelet or pendant they wear contains an emergency phone number that connects to the database, along with a list of their health conditions.

Maurer’s original identification bracelet is now in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, but she continued to wear one throughout her life.

Born and raised in Turlock, Maurer graduated from Stanford University with a degree in nursing. Soon after graduation, she married John Maurer. The couple had three children before they divorced.

From the time her children were young, she was an avid golfer and won a number of amateur golf titles, including the California Women’s Golf Association Championship, before she turned professional.

She taught golf at the River Oaks Golf Course in Ceres, near Turlock, for more than 20 years and twice won the Ladies Professional Golf Association Senior Teaching Division National Championship.

In addition to her son, Maurer is survived by her daughters, Kathryn Maurer and Karry Maurer Walker, as well as two brothers, a sister and two grandchildren.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Stopping the slump Sophomore year is sneaky. After the highs and lows of the firstyear experience, most students don’t expect their triumphant return to Brown to present an entirely new set of challenges.

Friends have already been made, preregistration has been completed and dorm rooms — for the most part — selected.

But, as this year’s sophomores are probably beginning to realize, the year is often a difficult one. Decisions about studying abroad, concentrations and plans for the future lie ahead — and in many cases, students don’t have anyone to talk to about their decisions.

More than 400 sophomores have not chosen an advisor, meaning they are relying on deans and Randall Counselors.

And while those advisors are certainly a valuable resource, their ability to provide useful and individualized advice is limited by the fact that they have often never met the students they are advising.

Brown prides itself on its open curriculum, and it touts its advising program during admission tours. But navigating the open curriculum is difficult, and it is a great help to have an advisor who knows his or her advisees and their interests.

The University’s focus on the sophomore experience is long overdue; students would not be familiar with the phrase “sophomore slump” if such an overhaul were not necessary.

But the necessity of reworking the sophomore advising system — which is simply nonexistent for some students — casts doubt on Dean of the College Paul Armstrong’s claim that Brown has one of the best advising systems in the country.

That nearly an entire year of a student’s time at Brown can be spent without an advisor is unforgivable and is certainly the most severe of grievances that students have about the entire advising system.

It is high time for the University to focus on sophomores, and the plans sketched out are promising. But it’s also time for the University to take a look at advising as a whole — while students are likely to find more support as they get older, Brown’s advising system often leaves students at loose ends at precisely the times they need the most assistance negotiating the open curriculum.

We don’t want to see the sophomore slump get displaced until the following year, when there would be even less time for students to recover from it. It would be far better for advising to be raised to a new standard for all students.

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LETTERS Reconsidering the Thayer Street hotel plan To the Editor: I am disappointed by the Herald’s continually negative portrayal of the hotel proposal for Thayer Street (“Immodest Proposal,” Oct. 12), particularly in light of the recent store closings. The hotel, which is to feature an entire first floor of new shops (investors have already been lined up), is vital to Brown and Thayer Street for several reasons: 1) As a world-class institution that regularly hosts international conferences, more than 10,000 prospective students annually and hordes of other visitors, it is embarassing that we do not have adequate facilities for them to stay. All of our peers do, and we need to pay attention to this to stay competitive.

2) Thayer Street has dangerously few willing investors at this time, let alone investors that are willing to organize an entire group of new stores.

While there are plausibly alternative solutions to the housing issues that will be raised, there is little else Thayer Street can do to compete with

Providence Place.

3) It should be understood that the proposal calls not for a “mainstream” hotel as suggested by the Herald, but a facility to be modeled on the Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, The Hanover Inn adds considerably to the charm of the campus and is revered by the community. If done tastefully, as is proposed, the hotel would add charm to an otherwise seedy-looking party of campus. (I encourage those who are concerned about losing the “residential feel” of the neighborhood to actually go look at the proposed site.)

I too miss the Indy feel that Thayer Street used to have — Jack’s Music, In Your Ear and Cafe L’Amir, were all things that drew me to Brown. But as President Ruth Simmons once said, “We must grow or we will die”. In this instance, doing something is certainly better than doing nothing, and to me, there is little question that building this hotel is the right thing to do.

Neel Shah ‘04, MD’08 Oct. 19

Cleaning up The Herald’s reporting To the Editor: On behalf of the other two recycling coordinators, Nadia Diamond-Smith ’06 and Allie Silverman ’05, and all the eco-representatives, I want thank The Herald for highlighting the new program (“Ecoreps spread word about recycling,” Oct. 19).

I would like to clarify two points about which some students might have been confused. First, the eco-representatives system is designed to take on a variety of environmental issues in addition to its

recycling efforts. Second, the article suggested that “combining cans and bottles” was an incorrect practice, when in fact both are appropriate for the same bin.

For more information about policies and practices, talk to your eco-representative, visit your recycling room and email recycle@brown.edu.

Keep Brown green!

Chris Bennett ‘07 Oct. 19

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2004 · PAGE 11

Ride or die GUEST COLUMN BY KATIE MILLER

The other day I was talking to a recent Brown graduate, trying to explain to him where I lived.

“It’s in the West End.” “Oh… how far west is that?

“Tobey St. towards Olneyville off Westminster — you know where that is?”

“Westminster, like in downtown?”

It went on. For many Brown students and graduates, Providence is made up of College Hill and downtown.

The rest of the city is a confusing jumble of streets and neighborhoods that run together in their minds. But most of these same people don’t have bicycles.

It is more than worth getting a bike here in Providence simply so that you know the city better.

Bicycles also allow you to enjoy all that Providence has to offer its wheeled citizenry.

I have visited no city better suited to bicycling.

Nothing in Providence is more than 20 minutes away by bike. Biking is always faster than walking and, on Providence’s streets, often faster than driving.

Providence has much to offer the bicyclist, from discounts at Armageddon (a record shop on Broadway) to bike paths like the East Bay path connecting India Point Park to Bristol, to bike-in movies. Bikers love Providence, and it loves us.

The joys of bicycling in Providence.

So why would someone not take advantage of all of these wonderful things? Some say that the winter is too cold for it. Yes, the winter is rough. Invest in a good pair of gloves and get some fenders and one of those fleece neck warmers. And you can always take your bike on the bus if you find the weather has turned too cold for your trip home.

Other people are scared to ride a bike in the city.

Though I have never heard of anyone getting in a serious accident on their bike, it can be scary. There are things you can do to reduce your risk, however. Wear a helmet — it has saved me more than once. Ride like you are completely invisible to drivers (because much of the time, you are). Pay attention to traffic signals and car’s turn signals — both accidents I have been in were at corners where I didn’t see the cars’ turn signals and they turned in front of me.

If you do not have a bike, there are a few options.

Most notably, Recycle-a-Bike, an anarchist bike collective, will give you a bike for 3 hours of volunteer time at their shop off Broad Street in South Providence. I recommend RAB not just because of the hot bikers that run it but because it is an amazing operation that works to de-commodify bicycles by teaching bike maintenance and giving away bikes and parts, as well as sending bikes overseas. The bike you get will probably need some work, but they will help you fix it. You can also buy a bike either at the Salvation Army or at one of the bike shops on the East Side, like the Providence Bike Shop on Thayer Street or The Hub on Brook Street.

For new buyers, try to get a bike that’s not too flashy, doesn’t have shocks, disc brakes, or suped-up suspension. Fancier bikes are more likely to be stolen. The simpler, the better. I ride a single-speed road bike because it is easy to maintain, light, fast and pretty, but really any kind of bike will do.

When buying a bike, find out if a bike is the right size by straddling the bar, putting your feet flat on the ground and lifting the bike up by the handlebars. If you can lift it an inch before it hits your crotch, it fits you. If you can’t straddle it or the top tube falls well below you, then try a different size.

Once you get a bike, ride it! Ask someone to ride the East Bay Bike Path with you — the fall foliage is going to be lovely soon. Ride around the city — you will find some interesting things just riding around. Go to Critical Mass, held the first Friday of the month, beginning at Girabaldi Park on Atwells Avenue at 5 p.m. Visit Roger Williams Park. Go find the Armory, Moshapaug Pond or Lincoln Woods. Explore the neighborhoods and old industrial areas! Wherever you choose to go, experience it by bike.

Katie Miller ’04 is a fantastic seamstress.

TE-PING CHEN

Overdue Two years of prolonged and painful negotiations have gone by, but Brown’s unionized library workers remain without a contract.

As Brown’s libraries have undergone a project of reorganization, the process has severely and inexcusably jeopardized the status of the ninety workers of United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island.

Since the temporary extension of their contract expired last year, they have worked without a contract or guarantees. And since 2002, Brown has repeatedly denied the workers the cost-of-living raises that other University employees have received. In the meantime, during the negotiations, library workers have struggled against the University’s attempts to implement higher health care costs, fuzzy job descriptions, diminishing compensation and a lack of control over their working schedule.

It has been two years. The lack of a resolution is unacceptable, and the University’s present refusal to budge on the issues is both unreasonable and unfair.

Negotiations are at a stalemate. There is blame to be placed on both sides, but the union has given much: the library workers have already absorbed higher costs in health care and pay cuts than many other workers on Brown’s campus. The current impasse is representative of the University’s unwillingness to bargain in good faith. Last week Walter Hunter, vice president of administration and official negotiator for the University, refused to meet with union members to discuss the process of negotiation. Such attitudes only stall a resolution.

Under the University’s demands, health care co-pay costs would be nearly doubled and the fee for a visit to the emergency room would be tripled. Although food services and facilities workers continue to receive the annual “merit pool” raise of 2.25 percent, this figure would be cut to 1.9 percent for the library workers — not even enough to keep up with the yearly inflation rate.

The USAW-RI has fought for fair and consistent work-

ing hours, arguing that workers should not be forced to work weekends or after midnight unless they have been explicitly hired to fill those hours. The University has balked, however, citing the need for more worker flexibility.

For workers with families, the prospect of losing sovereignty over their working schedule is particularly disturbing. Workers deserve authority over own schedules; flexibility should not mean forgoing this right.

Meanwhile, in constructing the new contract, Brown continues to issue only the most vague and general job descriptions, such that library workers fear their positions could be easily manipulated or changed without any mechanism for their input and review.

Brown projects itself as a bastion of liberal thought and openness; its promotional literature prides itself on “the partnership of students and teachers in a unified community.” Yet this conception of community leaves staff out of the equation, and the University’s treatment of its library workers demonstrates this fact.

The University’s proposals thus far are too little, too late. The process is at a breaking point. This Thursday, the deadline that USAW-RI has given the University to reach a fair resolution expires. If the administration continues to refuse to compromise, the USAW-RI will be compelled to take more drastic action: two weeks ago, the library workers voted to authorize a strike.

Brown owes the library workers their long-awaited cost-of-living raises, fairer working conditions and dignity as employees. As it stands, the university’s current recalcitrance regarding its library workers only makes a travesty of its stated mission to “serve the community, the nation and the world.”

Brown can do better. More importantly, the library workers deserve better.

After two years,

Brown library workers have no contract.

Te-Ping Chen ’07 lives in the stacks.

Overworked GUEST COLUMN BY AARON FRITSCHNER

I work at the Gate. I’ve worked there for two years and will do so until I graduate. I like it there, I like the people and until this semester my job has been very convenient. This semester, however, has been tough.

Open hours were extended until 2 a.m., keeping workers there until 2:30 for closing. Most see this either as a convenience or as a mundane matter, but it is neither for those who fill these hours.

On weekdays few come in after 1, so it seems that the added hour has been of little benefit. On the weekends people take advantage of the time in droves, but many are an hour drunker than before. Therefore they leave enormous or disgusting messes (feces and vomit at Jo’s), fling abuse or water or are impossible to deal with.

The labor situation is similarly bleak. The extension of hours and the creation of new shifts to meet those hours resulted in a major labor shortage. The closing shifts, with the dirty work and a 2:30 a.m. departure, which we have struggled to make safe, take the hit. With a dip in conditions and morale and no extra compensation, it’s simply not worth it for student workers to take a closing shift, and most don’t.

Still the Gate has remained open until 2 every night.

Why? Some people have picked up later shifts, but several shifts began the year with no workers, and all remain understaffed. The final hours have mostly been staffed thus far by unscheduled workers who come in on their nights off.

I am such an employee, and I write on my only night off in two weeks. I work double shifts many nights, cutting sharply into the time that I have to sleep, study and chill. Do I get paid for it? Yes. And I need the money. The question is: Why work an understaffed late

shift, when given a choice?

I speak only for my own motives, but I know I share them with others. I work the late shifts because somebody has to do it, and because I care. I work the late shifts because I believe my efforts will help everyone get home sooner. I’m not saying I’m a good person; I’m saying we need help.

I work the late shifts for my friends and fellow workers, because I don’t want them to get screwed by having to stay there until 3 when there is no help. I work the late shifts for my supervisors who have to be there.

One of my supervisors began the year with two closing shifts and one worker. They need my help, so I give it.

But the person who needs help most is our unit manager, Clair McClung. As unit manager, Clair has to beg people to work. Failing that, she is required to come in and do the job herself whenever there aren’t enough people, receiving no pay above her salary. In the first weeks of school, that meant that she was at the Gate almost every night until nearly 3 a.m. for free. She didn’t sign up for that, and yet she doesn’t complain.

But she suffers for a mistake that was not made by her, and that has to stop.

It is obvious to every student worker that the extra hour is bad. A thing I value greatly is the ability to recognize, admit and correct a mistake. Therefore I beseech UCS: for myself, for my colleagues, for my friends, and especially for Clair, please take this burden from our shoulders.

A plea for help

from the Gate.

Aaron Fritschner ’06 works hard for the money, so hard for you, honey.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20, 2004 · PAGE 12

Wilson ’06 fitting in nicely in net for w. soccer team

BY BERNARD GORDON

Hilary Wilson ’06 is something of a standout on the women’s soccer team.

The goalie has played every minute in goal for the women’s soccer team after transferring to Brown from Arizona State University. To put her 115 total saves this season in perspective, the next highest total in the Ivy League is Katie Shields of Harvard University with 51.

That, combined with her .878 save percentage and average of allowing just 1.31 goals per game, has made Wilson a key member of the team.

Wilson applied to transfer looking for a smaller and more academically rigorous school, and Brown jumped out as the right choice.

“I really enjoyed my experience (at Arizona State, but) academically I was looking for something different,” Wilson said. “I just fell in love with the team, and the girls were amazing. I really have a lot of respect for the coaching staff.”

At the same time as Wilson was looking for a new school, the soccer team was trying to replace All-Ivy goalie Sarah Gervais ’04 and find a new anchor for its traditionally strong defense.

“It worked out for both of us. We got lucky, and she got lucky,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince.

Since arriving, Wilson has had little trouble fitting in with her new teammates. The team has been supportive of Wilson, and she has responded in kind.

“You don’t go to college expecting to transfer, and it was something I thought was going to be difficult, (but my teammates) are really genuinely great people,” Wilson said. “I’m very privileged to be here.”

Wilson has also adjusted very quickly to Brown’s soccer program. Despite being new to the Brown program, Wilson beat out returning goalie Christina Parodi ’07 for the starting spot and quickly became the anchor of the defense that is the team’s backbone.

“One of the things about Hilary is that her maturity level is amazing … she doesn’t act like a new player,” Pincince said. “She has done an awesome job.”

Despite her excellent performance on the field, Wilson remains humble about her accomplishments, emphasizing that she sees herself as just one part of the team.

“When I came in, my goal was to contribute as much as possible,” Wilson said.

“If I’m able to make a save to help the team, I’m grateful for that.”

Wilson’s teammates are less reserved about praising her performance, saying that she is not only an excellent goalie but also a leader, on and off the field.

“It’s been close to perfect,” said cocaptain Meghan Schreck ’06. “She’s come up with huge saves for us.”

When asked if Wilson could maintain her high level of play, Pincince said he was certain she could. “She’s not just going to maintain it, she’s going to elevate it,” he said.

Pincince’s comments proved to be prophetic this past weekend when the Bears played Harvard in a key Ivy League match-up. Wilson came up huge, making save after save to keep Brown in the game and Harvard off the board, including stopping several one-on-one breakB ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Wednesday, October 20 Field Hockey: vs. Providence College, 4 p.m., OMAC Roof

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Hilary Wilson ’06 has 64 more saves than any other Ivy League goalie. After transferring from Arizona State University, she has been superb in net for the women’s soccer team. aways.

“You can’t have any doubt in your mind that the ball will go into the goal,” Wilson said about making saves during the one-on-one breakaways. “You have to stop thinking and react.”

The game went into overtime tied 0-0, and it was not until midway through the second overtime that Harvard was finally able to get a goal past Wilson.

Although the Bears lost, there were no doubts that Wilson had an amazing game. Her goalkeeping kept Brown in it

see WILSON, page 8

Pre-NCAA meet gives m. cross country tune-up for Heps

BY JILANE RODGERS

Competing on the national level for the first time this season, the men’s cross country team took 16th out of 35 teams at the pre-NCAA meet this weekend in Terre Haute, Ind. Only the Bears’ top seven men traveled to the meet to take the line with the best runners in the country, and they were tested for the final time before entering the end-ofseason championship meets.

“The guys ran aggressively,” said Head Coach John Gregorek. “We had wanted to put ourselves in the top 10 to 12 teams to put us in the race for points to try to get to Nationals, but it didn't work out. The guys still ran a great race.”

Leading the way for the Bears was Jeff Gaudette ’05, who finished 16th overall in the 242-man race, clocking 24:17 for the 8 km course. Gaudette said he followed Gregorek’s plan for the race by going out fairly relaxed yet still near the front of the race.

“Jeff stayed back a little bit and then came through nicely after the 5 (km) mark,” Gregorek said.

“I was where I needed to be up until the last mile, and I’m content with how I raced with the front pack,” Gaudette said.

Captain Patrick Tarpy ’05 crossed the line next for Brown, taking 44th individually with a time of 24:48.

Also scoring were Owen Washburn ’06 and Chris Burke ’07, who took 95th (25:17) and 117th (25:26) places, respectively. Washburn and Burke have provided invaluable depth to the team throughout the season, turning out solid performances consistently and supplying backup to frontrunners Gaudette and Tarpy.

“I got out well and was racing strongly through about four miles, but about that time I got a really bad side cramp and lost about 25 places,” said Washburn. “That was disappointing,

but it was a good experience.”

Jacob Nettleton ’08 continued to be a contributing force for the Bears, running in the fifth and final scoring position. His time of 26:06 was good for 185th place.

Gregorek praised Nettleton’s ability to remain calm and perform well in such a high-caliber meet as a first-year.

“I was really in awe of the level of competition,” Nettleton said. “I think it went well for my first race in such a talented field.”

Even though the team score suffered due to the absence of injured key runners Jordan Kinley ’06 and Herald Photo Editor Nick Neely ’07, Brown continues to be in contention for both individual and team titles in the Ivy League. In team scoring, Brown defeated both Princeton and Cornell universities and was only eight points behind Yale University. Individually, Gaudette, who finished with All-American honors last year, boasted a finish that was the second-fastest by a runner from the entire Northeast region.

“I think it’s apparent that we need to close the gap between our fourth and fifth position men to really do well,” said Washburn. “At the same time, we also know we’re right there with the other teams, given how they raced at Pre-Nationals.”

The Bears will travel to New York on Oct. 29 to defend their 2003 Ivy League title at the Heptagonal Championships.

The men will use the next two weeks to prepare for the competition ahead.

“Things are looking good going into the Heps,” said Gregorek. “There’s a lot of parity in the league this year. Almost every team has a shot, so it’ll be close. It will all come down to who's prepared on the day and who wants it more.”

Herald staff writer Jilane Rodgers ’06 covers men’s cross country. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

M. water polo takes one of three in return from five-game California trip

BY CAROLINE BRANDON

After a tough weekend out west, where the men’s water polo team recorded two wins and surrendered three losses, the team traveled back east to face off against Harvard University, Queens College and St. Francis University.

Brown was able to squeeze in a win on Saturday night against Queens, 172, but fell short at Harvard, losing 6-2 on Thursday, and at home against St. Francis, dropping a 13-6 decision on Sunday to bring the team’s overall record to an even 7-7.

On Thursday, the Bears played their first league game in over a week against Harvard.

“We knew what we had to do,” said Head Coach Jason Gall. “Although we Matt Lent / Herald came up short, I think overall it was a Thomas Payton ’07 led Brown with 5 goals good game and doesn’t really affect our in the men’s water polo team’s 17-2 win placement going into Northerns.” against Queens College.

The Bears were only down 1-0 at the While Brown might have been able half, but the Crimson’s strong defense prevented them from getting into any to slide into the second seed at offensive momentum in the second Northerns with a win against Harvard, the team is satisfied with its third-place half.

“We have to give Harvard credit,” ranking. Knowing that the Queens and said Andy Wiener ’06. “They were play- St. Francis games were just opportuniing good defense, but we were also hav- ties to play, the team looked to work on ing trouble setting up our offense with new things during these games and build up its confidence. enough time on the shot clock.”

“We knew we would be playing Fordham,” Gall said. “The Queens and St. Francis games were opportunities to pour on the intensity and work to eliminate the defensive mistakes and offensive missed opportunities that plagued us against Harvard.”

Brown came out quick against Queens, opening up a 3-0 lead after the first period. They really turned things on in the second period, when they outscored Queens 8-0. Goalie Jay Fantone ’06 made save after save, including a one-handed grab in the beginning of the third and repeated point-blank rebound attempts, to continue the shutout. In the end, Fantone did finally surrender two goals.

Thomas Payton ’07 led all scorers in the match with five, three of which came in the second period. Seven other Bears netted goals, including Alex Robb ’08, who scored his first collegiate goal.

Less than 24 hours later, Bruno was back in Smith Swim Center to face off against 10th-ranked St. Francis.

“This game was a chance for us to see what we were capable of against one of the best teams in the country,” Wiener said. “Although there were

see WATER POLO, page 9