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Marticke ’06 had passion for life, friends say

BY DANIELLE CERNY

The spirit of Keir Marticke ’06 seemed present in the aisles of a local drugstore in Hudson, Ohio, as four of her closest friends recounted their memories of Keir on Saturday afternoon.

Keir died in her sleep on Oct. 4 while studying abroad, but her friends did not focus on her death as they shopped for the glue, glitter pens and stickers they would use to make collages of Keir for her memorial service the following day.

Instead, they recalled with laughter and fondness their memories of their four years with Keir at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson.

Mackenzie Keyser said she and her friends had probably amassed more than 300 photos of Keir for the collages.

Keyser had been flipping through old photographs since the moment she found out about Keir’s death — for her, making the collages took on a therapeutic role.

“We’re just going to decorate the posters and make it really happy,” Keyser said.

Keyser said she remembered vividly the girls’ “V.I.P. dance parties” in high school, where she, Keir and their friends would drink wine, watch “Sex and the City” and dance in their living rooms — no boys allowed, she added.

Yet Keyser said she was always impressed by Keir’s ability to balance her fun-loving side with her serious work ethic. “She was limitless, ambitious, goal-oriented — nothing would get in her way,” Keyser said.

Keyser recalled how Keir, a dedicated lacrosse player who played for Brown’s varsity team, had injured her knee while playing lacrosse her senior year of high school.

“She had to have reconstructive surgery. But she was captain of the team, so she just kept going to watch the practices, did rehab and went to the gym every day so there’d be no other reason she couldn’t play once her knee had healed,” Keyser said.

But Keyser said Keir did not reserve this level of dedication for sports alone.

Keir’s intense passion also shone through in her journals and poetry — she was a prolific writer.

Allison McCarthy remembered constantly finding scraps of paper that Keir had used to jot down phrases and lines she would later use in her poetry.

This mix of confident athleticism and quiet self-reflection could even be seen when Keir drove around town in her Durango, which she named “Ringo the Rango,” friend Emily Gillig said.

“She was a little girl driving a big, silver Durango listening to Ani DiFranco,” Gillig said with a laugh.

But despite the breadth of Keir’s interests, all four friends agreed that the constant in everything Keir did was her intensity.

see MARTICKE, page 4

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Poker games, such as this one Thursday night in the Lower Blue Room, are popping up all over campus.

Poker popularity ups the ante for campus games

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

About three times a week in the Lower Blue Room, a group of about 25 students huddles around tables playing variations of poker, including the ever-popular Texas Hold ’Em, in sessions that last up to six hours.

While some people take time to interact with other players, the atmosphere is largely focused on “making money as opposed to just socializing,” said Scott Goldberg ’05.

Some players, Goldberg included, wear headphones so they can focus on the game free from distraction.

“It’s just business,” he said.

Across campus in the Minden Hall lounge, a group of anywhere from five to 15 upperclassmen meets a few times a week to play in what participant Jon Hasebe ’05 called a more “laid-back” environment.

“We become pretty close, everyone who joins the group and who comes pretty regularly,” Hasebe said. “It’s just kind of to improve your game and meet new people.”

These two scenes offer contrasting images of a game many say has taken off in popularity in the past year, particularly on the Brown campus. While some student poker enthusiasts enjoy the opportunity to socialize with other players, others compete strictly for the financial payoff.

Jared Mesznik ’05, who started the Lower Blue Room group with four of his friends in October 2003, said more than 130 students have played or shown interest in the group, which started out meeting just one time a week for two hours each session.

On Fridays, the group’s most popular day, Mesznik said around 40 people tend to show up.

Mesznik said the group features a consistent core of about 10 students, with about 20 others who “wander through” during the course of any given session. Although individual sessions tend to last up to six hours, many students opt to remain for only two or three before cycling out, he said.

Mesznik said he takes pride in the high level of play his group offers. “The best players at Brown play in my game — hands

down,” he said.

Some of Brown’s more avid poker players say the game’s popularity has increased significantly since ESPN began broadcasting the World Series of Poker in May 2003.

Mesznik said he has noticed a “significant increase” in the number of players on campus. “The quality of players has gone up, as

Administrators, students say new appointment policy at Health Services is running smoothly campus news, page 3

Independent State Senate District 3 candidate Barry Fain says Brown should let him speak to students column, page 7

see POKER, page 4

New business program secures committee’s approval Sophomores will be able to declare the COE concentration next spring

BY ALLISON WHITNEY

The College Curriculum Council approved the creation of the new multidisciplinary business-related concentration yesterday. The Program in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship will be available when current sophomores choose their concentrations this spring.

COE will have three tracks within the A.B. concentration: business economics, organization studies, and entrepreneurship and technology management.

These tracks will eventually replace the currently available concentrations in business economics, public and private sector organizations, and engineering and economics, respectively.

The tracks are unified by a set of eight foundation courses that will be required of all concentrators. The eight courses include two in each of the following areas: mathematical skills, economics and market theory, organizational theory, and entrepreneurship and technology management.

Current concentrators in the three programs that COE replaces will be able to continue with their concentrations but will not be able to file for a double

concentration with one of the new tracks.

The timeline for discontinuing the current concentrations has not been set.

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong said that question will be re-examined after the COE program has been put in place.

The CCC passed the proposal with a vote of 13 to 1 after a discussion with the heads of the economics, engineering and sociology departments and a representative from the provost’s office.

Members of the CCC voiced concerns during the discussion that included the large number of course requirements for the concentration. The lowest is the organizational studies track, which has 14, while the entrepreneurship and technology management track has 17.

David Lindstrom, associate professor and chair of the sociology department, defended the number of requirements, arguing that it will reduce the number of students who feel they need to pursue double concentrations.

Clyde Briant, professor and dean of engineering, argued that the entrepreneurship and technology management track requires a heavy course load to “make it legitimate.” He said the 17 courses were essential in order to give students a solid grounding in engineering.

see COE, page 4

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well as the number of players who just want to give it a shot,” he said.

Goldberg, who participates in several games across campus, said this publicity has drawn a number of new players, while renewing interest for those who already

Sheila Dugan ’07 describes the trials and tribulations of a job handing out samples at Wal-Mart column, page 7

Men’s and women’s cross country teams prepare for Friday’s Heptagonal Championships sports, page 8

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS RHODE ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES “CONCERT NO. 1” 8 p.m. (Alumnae Hall) — The Rhode Island Chamber Music Series will present the Czech Nonet, which includes works from Martinu, Ward, Lutoslawski and Dvorak.

Tickets will be available at the door, and advance tickets can be obtained by calling 863-2416 or contacting Books on the Square.

LAW SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVE VISITS 1-3:30 p.m. (Petteruti Lounge) — Representatives from the following law schools will be available to answer questions and speak with prospective students: University of Miami, Case Western Reserve University, University of Connecticut and Washington University.

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CAMPUS WATCH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2004 · PAGE 3

New appointment policy running smoothly at Health Services

College uses non-existent donations to fund building

BY MARY-CATHERINE LADER

BY JUSTIN AMOAH

Two months after Health Services eliminated non-emergency walkin appointments, the new system is running smoothly, and students are beginning to adjust to the changes.

Health Services began its appointment-only policy Aug. 30 in an effort to cut down patients’ waiting time and maximize provider availability. Until this academic year, students had the option of scheduling appointments in advance, but most patients walked into the offices after class only to wait in line with other sick and sniffling students.

The new system was in development for a year before being implemented this fall. Edward Wheeler, director of Health Services, said a handful of employees with differing roles meet once a week as the “It’s About Time Team” to monitor the system and discuss further improvements.

According to team member and office manager Jennifer Hodshon, the transition has been free of any major problems. “We talked to a lot of health services who had made the change to appointments from walk-ins so

we could foresee staff needs, and we made some equipment purchases,” she said.

The only problems Health Services staff noticed have been routine. “Most problems were things like people were booked for the wrong time or mistakes we made as we were learning to use the system, rather than problems with the system itself,” Wheeler said.

As well as training the staff to do scheduling, the transition to an appointment system required the conversion of a few spaces into exam rooms and the increase of some part-time employees’ hours. Each medical provider now has a specific workspace of two exam rooms and one medical assistant assigned to help the provider stay on schedule by getting patients to the exam room, taking their vital signs and checking that their medication is up to date. Medical assistants can now also do routine birth control checks and EKGs, saving doctors’ and students’ time.

The department plans to measure a series of indicators — patient volume, average wait time, double-booked appointments and “do-not-keep-

appointments” — in the next two weeks. Additionally, a phone survey will be conducted in late November and a more formal survey will follow in February.

“We felt we had to give the system two months to get out the bugs, get used to it, before we started measuring it,” Wheeler said.

But he said his sense is that students are responding positively to the change. “We feel confident that our volume is up,” he said. “We’re taking that as a good sign that hopefully means that access is improved.”

Both Wheeler and Hodshon said they believe most students are now aware that they need an appointment at Health Services.

“We have had students who have come to front desk and are surprised to hear we don’t have a walk-in system anymore,” Wheeler said. “But most of those (students) we’ve given an appointment that day or the next, and they seem to be OK with it.”

“We sent out bookmarks, we went to all the orientations and used Brown Daily Herald advertisements,” Hodshon said. “We

see HEALTH, page 5

Seven years after being promised more than $100 million from a single donor, Saint Mary’s College of California found itself the victim of a cunning real estate-fraud plan and without a penny of the promised money.

Debra Holtz, media relations officer at Saint Mary’s, said that though the college is still fiscally healthy, the scandal will cause a significant delay in the school’s capital improvement projects.

Between 1997 and 2003, the then-“anonymous” donor, whose identity remained secret to all but a few college administrators, pledged a series of donations totaling $121 million to Saint Mary’s, a small Catholic liberal arts school in the San Francisco area.

Between 2000 and 2003, Conrad Colbrandt — the “anonymous” donor — served as a member on Saint Mary’s Board of Regents, which advises the trustees and manages the college’s endowment. He is the president of Tacol and Forefront Properties and planned to give Saint Mary’s the

money he would receive from a real estate opportunity.

But the real estate opportunity turned out to be a hoax, perpetrated by John Banker, an 84-year-old ex-convict, according to an Oct. 14 police report.

Banker has no previous ties to Saint Mary’s.

Banker conned Colbrandt and countless other investors into believing that PepsiCo Inc. would sell its restaurant land to their investment group, which would in turn lease the land back to the corporation. The cost of the lease would cover the investment and provide a huge profit.

But Banker had never been involved with PepsiCo Inc., and reports say that he has now fled the country with about $9 million of investors’ money.

Banker has a history of bad real estate deals — his real estate license was revoked in 1980, when he was sentenced to 64 months in state prison after being accused of 43 counts of grand theft and forgery, according to the police report.

see ST. MARY’S,page 5

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Poker continued from page 1 knew the game.

“The TV definitely made poker look really cool,” he said.

Despite the expansion, poker continues to be a male-dominated pastime at Brown. Goldberg said more women are beginning to show interest, but the number of female participants remains low and others are more likely to watch than take an active role in the game.

“Last year I just remember one girl playing,” he said. “This year I’ve seen two girls play.”

Goldberg said he is attracted to the social aspects of the game, although the possibility of winning money enhances his incentive to compete.

“I kind of have an addictive personality,” he said.

Many of Brown’s more involved players say that because of the vast amount of literature available on the game, the skill component has become more important.

“All the other forms of gambling I’ve been a part of are basically just luck,” Goldberg said. “You need skill (in poker) to be good.”

New players can improve their game by learning basic skills and reading up on techniques and strategy, said Goldberg, who himself has read several books on the game. “(This basic knowledge) will probably make you a marginally winning player over someone who just didn’t look into that,” he said.

Yet the possibility of losing money is still present even for experienced players, particularly when playing Texas Hold ’Em, the game’s most popular variation and the featured event in ESPN’s World Series of Poker coverage.

In this version, each player is dealt two cards face down. After the initial round of betting, three additional cards are dealt face-up in the middle of the table. Players combine their two cards with these “community cards” to construct the best possible five-card hand. Another round of betting ensues, followed by the fourth

community card, another round of betting and the final community card. At this point, players undergo a final round of betting before revealing their cards.

Goldberg said many groups play “no limit” — bets can be of any value — which adds to the game’s suspense and tension.

“It’s more exciting because there are so many swings to it,” he said. “You can lose all the money that’s in front of you or double the money you have in front of you.”

Both Goldberg and Hasebe said skilled players tend to profit in the long run, although the nature of the game leads to some short-term setbacks.

“Ever since I’ve been playing poker I’ve definitely made money off of it,” Goldberg said. “But there definitely have been times when I’ve lost a lot.”

Hasebe said his own profits vary from game to game.

“I’ve won more than I’ve lost, but I do take swings,” he said.

“Everyone does.”

Goldberg, who picked up the game the summer after his sophomore year, said the opportunities

to compete in various forms have increased along with the game’s popularity.

During the summer, for example, he said he competed in online games at PartyPoker.com, one of many popular online poker sites.

These sites allow players to compete in several hands simultaneously, a situation Goldberg acknowledges is “dangerous” but potentially lucrative.

“I was putting in, like, two or three hours a day,” he said. “I haven’t really played online anymore, because it’s kind of addictive and I want to try to get away from that.”

COE continued from page 1 Another issue brought up was the number of courses that can overlap for double concentrations. The committee made the decision that students will not be able to double concentrate in COE and one of the concentrations that it replaces.

While the program will begin in the fall of 2005, Andrew Foster, professor and chair of economics, said hiring additional faculty is critical

Marticke continued from page 1 “In every aspect of her life she wanted to excel. She wasn’t OK with average,” said Mary Wutz.

Keir’s older brother, Drew, echoed that sentiment: “You could always tell how strongly Keir felt about everything she did.”

That might be why even though Keir’s friends and family described Keir’s eyes as “hazel,” “piercing green” and “big and brown,” one aspect of their description remained consistent: their “intensity.”

“If I had to use a word to describe Keir, it would be intensity,” Drew Marticke said. Even back in middle school, when Keir would do arts-and-crafts projects or play her brothers in street

Part of the appeal of online gambling stems from the relative inexperience of some of the competitors, he said. These novices are more likely to be found online as opposed to on campus or in more formal gambling settings.

“A lot of the players (online) aren’t that good … and they just don’t know how to play the game properly,” he said. “In a casino, usually the players are a little bit more experienced.”

Herald senior staff writer Robbie Corey-Boulet ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com. over the next three years. Foster said the CCC’s approval of the program will provide the endorsement needed to attract new faculty to Brown.

A COE program director, executive committee and curriculum committee will be appointed to oversee curricular issues.

In his introductory remarks, Assistant Provost Brian Casey stressed that the program will continue to be refined as more resources become available and also to ensure that it meets the needs of business-oriented students. hockey, Drew said it was always clear how hard she was trying.

This intensity for everything she undertook only increased as Keir got older. In fact, it was because of this intensity that Keir’s family encouraged her to continue her neuroscience studies abroad in Australia for a semester.

“I was always telling her she needed to chill out,” Drew said.

“We wanted her to experience the fun-loving culture down there, and I think she did.”

Larissa Ezzio ’06 played lacrosse with Keir and was with Keir at her grandmother’s house in Cape Cod the day she left for the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

“Keir couldn’t wait to go abroad,” she said. “She’s different from me in the fact that where I

see MARTICKE, page 5

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Marticke continued from page 4 would be really hesitant to even go abroad, she just looked at it as this intense experience, this new thing, new environment.”

Ezzio said Keir seemed extremely happy in Australia: “I’ve landed on my feet by way of a forward role… sorta like my first surfing excursion: I got thrashed around a ton, but it was all good fun,” Keir wrote to Ezzio in a July 29 e-mail.

Ezzio said Keir’s experience with surfing was representative of the way Keir approached every aspect of her life.

“She would go surfing for hours even though she’d never surfed before. That’s just an example of how when she wanted to do something, she actually did it,” Ezzio said.

“The reality of life is that people who are too passionate about one thing are no fun,” Drew said.

“My sister was into a lot of things.

She was an adventurer in her activities and her travels.”

This sense of adventure took Keir to four continents in two months — the last was Asia, when Keir and other American students from the University of New South Wales went to Thailand and Vietnam for their spring break.

Drew said Keir’s father had served in Vietnam during the war and while he didn’t know if that

St. Mary’s continued from page 3 But no one at Saint Mary’s looked into Banker’s background.

“It was accepted on the basis of faith,” Giles Miller, a member of the college’s board of trustees at the time of the pledges who and has since retired, told the New York Times. ‘‘Faith is a big thing in religion.’’

Nicholas More, a chairman on the Board of Trustees at Saint Mary’s, wrote, “The scheme incorporated the use of false documents, many lies and misleading representations, forgeries and false identities. It was sophisticated enough to fool many individual investors, including experienced accountants, attorneys and entrepreneurs.”

Banker insisted to Saint Mary’s officials that the donor’s name be undisclosed because PepsiCo Inc. executives would kill the deal if the donation became public, because he did not want any of his five exwives to learn about his potential income from PepsiCo. In anticipation of the donation, Saint Mary’s trustees borrowed $17 million for the construction of a new $26 million science building

was why Keir chose to travel there, he thought Keir was influenced by their father’s experience. In fact, the journal she was keeping while in Vietnam was written as though addressed to him.

In one of her entries, Keir described sitting in a small café in Saigon while observing the unfamiliar culture that surrounded her.

“This week I can tally an ability to say ‘thank you’ in 31 languages,” she wrote. “What else do you need to know? In Vietnam maybe ‘I’m sorry.’”

As Keir sat and watched a young waitress serve her mint leaves and shrimp rolled in rice, she wrote in her journal, “I am not in her country to buy things at a fourth of their Western price.

I want to know about her life, her first kiss, her father.”

Though it is unclear where Keir contracted her viral infection, she passed away in her sleep in Vietnam from acute heart failure caused by double hemorrhagic pneumonia. Since the illness took over quickly and with no obvious symptoms, the news of Keir’s death came as a shock to her friends and family.

Ezzio, like Keir’s friends from high school, said she found she could only forget the pain by remembering what a beautiful person Keir had been. The day after she received the news of Keir’s death, she went to the Providence Animal Rescue League, where Keir loved to vol-

unteer, she said. On the verge of tears, Ezzio asked if they had any kittens to adopt.

Ezzio spent the next several hours sitting and playing with a litter of five kittens. By the time she left, she had adopted a small, white-faced kitten with gray hair that darkened as it went down her back.

Though the kitten is still too small for Ezzio to take home, Ezzio has already named her — Divi.

“It’s short for ‘divinitas,’ which is Latin for ‘one’s divine nature,’” Ezzio said.

Ezzio said the word meant a lot to Keir, who believed in remaining true to her divine nature in every aspect of her life.

The day before Keir left for Australia, she had the word “divinitas” written below her bellybutton in henna to see how it would look. She intended to have it permanently tattooed there when she returned from abroad.

Even though Keir never got to put the lasting mark of “divinitas” on her skin, her passion for life and pursuit of her “divine nature” made a permanent mark on those who were lucky enough to know her — in the name of a kitten, the glitter of a collage and the fond memories of her friends and family.

and began planning new buildings and major renovations on campus.

But Holtz said, “We are in sound financial health. We never put these pledges into our financial statements. They were something we hoped to get. It made our capital improvements go faster, but it has no effect whatsoever on our day-to-day operations.”

Saint Mary’s spent approximately $30 million in anticipation of the donation and now has a long-term debt of approximately $53 million, according to the college’s Web site.

The scandal has had no effect on the school’s operating budget or endowment, but it will cause a significant delay in the capital improvement projects, Holtz said.

Brother Craig Franz, president of Saint Mary’s, recently announced his resignation. In a letter to the Saint Mary’s community he wrote, “In the weeks since we disclosed the unrealized pledges, it has become clear to me that evolving perceptions about my leadership would make it increasingly difficult for me to effectively inspire our alumni and others to support the College now and in the future. I am stepping aside now because my para-

mount interest is in seeing Saint Mary’s move forward.”

This year Brown has received numerous donations from alumni, including more than $100 million donated by Sidney Frank and $20 million donated by Fredric Garonzik ’64, Jonathan Nelson ’77 and an anonymous alum. But according to Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA’71, Brown’s senior vice president for University advancement, Brown is at no risk of losing these pledges.

“At Brown we have safeguards in place in terms of the review of gifts and prospects for gifts that make any incidents such as that which happened at Saint Mary’s impossible,” Vanden Dorpel said.

Vanden Dorpel said donations that are put towards building projects are spent as the money comes, unlike at Saint Mary’s, which began spending the donation before receiving any money.

Vanden Dorpel said Brown does an appropriate amount of research and is always aware of the donors they are dealing with.

While donors are allowed to leave their personal identity undisclosed if they wish, Vanden Dorpel said the University requires a signed gift agreement and will not accept a donation without knowing who the donor is.

Herald staff writer Danielle Cerny can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Health continued from page 3 used every venue possible to get the word out.”

Gillian O’Reilly ’08 said her residential counselor told her she needed to call ahead for an appointment. She called the 24hour hotline at midnight with a bad cold and scheduled an appointment for the next afternoon. “It was definitely better

than going to my doctor at home, because I hardly had to wait,” O’Reilly said.

But the department’s efforts to spread the word have not reached everyone. “I wasn’t aware that we couldn’t walk in,” said Jennifer Shea ’06. “But I can see how that would be a lot better.

“I didn’t like having a line of people behind you when you’re trying to say what’s wrong because it’s private,” she said.

“It’s better on the phone.”

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2004 · PAGE 6 S T A F F

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Engineering change It’s surprising to hear that the College Curriculum Council voted Tuesday — almost unanimously — to form the Program in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship.

The new program, slated to begin next fall, will ultimately replace the concentrations in business economics, public and private sector organizations and engineering and economics. It is a change that makes a great deal of sense: under the current setup, students interested in business and entrepreneurship must choose among three overlapping but unrelated concentrations in three different departments.

But though the plan is a good one, we are surprised that the CCC was so quick to adopt it. In adopting the COE program, the University has committed to eventually eliminating three popular concentrations, which will take away turf from three academic departments; to finding a director and staff for the new program; and to reevaluating its approach to business, by broadening the requirements for a business-related concentration. These are steps that we would ordinarily expect to see bogged down in miles of bureaucratic red tape and years of administrative debate and indecision. It is refreshing to realize that this does not always have to be the case.

We hope the success of the COE program is not unique, and we encourage administrators and other departments to look further than the study of business to find places where duties overlap and student needs are not met efficiently. A prime example is the organization of campus and student life, where the redundant hierarchy can leave students confused about who is in charge and who they should contact if they need help.

We’ve seen no results of a planned reorganization that was announced two years ago, when former Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero left Brown. At the time, the University was planning to restructure the hierarchy and distribution of duties in Montero’s office, but that restructuring has not materialized.

Though Montero’s position has since been filled, there are other opportunities for change. For example, the positions of dean for campus life and director of student life are both being filled by interim administrators. If the University truly wishes to make sure that all student needs are met at optimal efficiency, the office of campus life would be a good place to turn next.

After all, efficiency is an idea any economics — or COE — concentrator can appreciate.

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LETTERS Advocate for BuDS lacks professionalism To the Editor: In response to Brian Corcoran’s ’06 guest column “Why I work at the Gate” (Oct. 21): We must say our first reaction is disappointment in his lack of professionalism. The student managers voiced their concerns at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting just a week and a half ago, and a meeting has been scheduled to continue our ongoing dialogue with Brown Dining Services Student Manager Diana Frey ’05.

In the issue of fairness, we would like to clear up some misconceptions that Corcoran may have.

When the issue was first presented to us, there were three main areas of concern: late-night transportation, student behavior and staffing. UCS is hesitant to simply eliminate the extra hour of service, which benefits all students, because of workable glitches in the system.

Already, we have addressed the transportation concerns of student managers. As the SafeRIDE shuttle ends service at 3 a.m., student managers expressed worry that they had to walk home late at night. As it is too expensive to extend the SafeRIDE service an extra half-hour, Transportation Services has committed to providing taxi service for all managers who are unable to make the shuttle.

UCS completely agrees that student workers have been treated poorly in some instances, and that vomiting, verbal abuse and one instance of defecation are conditions that no worker anywhere should have to deal with. However, shouldn’t we find a way to fix this behavior without taking away the privileges of the entire student body?

Contrary to Corcoran’s claims, we have no authority over where police officers are posted and have encouraged them to walk through during late night hours.

Does Brown really want to be a place where

police officers must constantly monitor late-night eateries?

We sympathize with the struggle to find student workers. Across all college campuses, the number of student workers is steadily decreasing. As the student government, we do not want to meddle with the internal workings of another student-run group. Also, as many BuDS managers feel the staffing situation will be ameliorated by addressing these prior concerns, we are open to any further suggestions which they may present to us.

In response to the claim that we have been languid in our efforts to understand a BuDS perspective, please note that we just received the schedule for group staffing and are currently working to find a time that works for everyone. Secondly, we spent three nights monitoring different eateries during the last two hours of service so that we could better understand your complaints.

No one wants the Gate and Josiah’s to close an hour early. No one wants student workers to suffer in their academics or in the enjoyment of their jobs.

What the UCS Campus Life Committee wants, and what we hope BuDS will commit to joining us with, is to solve this problem to the benefit of both parties. We also ask all students to treat BuDS workers with respect. We all lose when we bite the hand that feeds us.

Natalie Schmidt ’06 Colin Brown ’08 Deanna Chaukos ’08 Ben Creo ’07 Sara Damiano ’08 John Gillis ’07 Zachary Townsend ’08 Halley Wuertz ’08 UCS Campus Life Committee Oct. 25

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2004 · PAGE 7

One ballot, two elections GUEST COLUMN BY BARRY FAIN

On Nov. 2, the students of Brown will be asked to cast their ballots for the next president of the United States.

Most of you have studied the issues, watched a debate or two and have a pretty clear reason to choose one candidate over the other.

With a war going on, you know how important it is that you be participants, not spectators in this one.

Many of you will probably cast your vote for John Kerry.

(For the record, so will I.) You will also have the opportunity to decide whether you want to send Patrick Kennedy back to Washington as a congressman.

But then you will have to decide whether to continue down the ballot and vote in two local races (one for state representative and the other for state senator) for candidates that you probably have never heard of and about whom you know very little.

As the independent candidate in the State Senate race, I urge you to get to know us.

Brown students, representing as you do some of this country’s best and brightest, are an underutilized asset to the electorate. The problem is that you do not have very much information to make an informed decision on the local races.

Articles about each of the candidates appeared in Tuesday’s Herald. Maybe an ad or two will appear, and that’s it.

The process at Brown is unfortunately stacked against independent candidates like myself. One of the reasons is that Brown doesn't allow independent candidates true access to the campus.

School policy is that “outsiders” like me can't appear on the campus unless invited by a recognized student group. Yet “insiders” like my opponent, a 14-year Democratic incumbent, can be invited by the Young Democrats to appear. Young Independents, where are you when I need you?

I have even attempted to enlist the help of your student council to arrange a debate, but no luck. In any

case, it is unlikely an entrenched incumbent would agree to debate a first-time candidate like me. Is there a better way? Sure. My suggestion to the Brown powers that be is that you take a portion of your lower campus and turn into a mini-Hyde Park, where non-student speakers (candidates or otherwise) could come to present their cases, at least in election years.

Since I am the long time editor-publisher of the East Side Monthly (the free newspaper/magazine that is distributed to every home here on the East Side), I am hop-

Trying to get attention as an independent candidate is not the easiest task. ing some students are familiar with my stands in support of liberal issues, my outrage at the arrogant, often corrupt one-party legislature we have on Capitol Hill and my commitment to neighborhood empowerment.

(We make five to six pages available free of charge to any local neighborhood organization that wants it in each issue.)

Again for the record, I have been active on the East Side for years, as a successful businessman, charitable leader — I am on the board of United Way — and community activist. I have even had time to be a local soccer coach, too. (I actually played for the University of Pennsylvania against Brown back in … well, a long time ago.)

In terms of policy, I consider myself both a social lib-

eral (pro-choice, pro-gay marriage) and a fiscal moderate. Right now Rhode Islanders pay considerably more in taxes than our neighbors in Connecticut and Massachusetts do. Part of this is because our income tax system is archaic; part of it is due to the tradition of waste and insider dealing that represents the current culture in the legislature.

Students might not know that the Democrats currently control 85 percent of the legislature here. This one-party domination produces arrogance and a lack of transparency in terms of forcing legislators to be accountable for their votes.

I would join Secretary of State Matt Brown's call to put all votes and budget expenditures online. We also must do something to create jobs (better funding of our entrepreneurial centers would be a good place to start), so that if some of you students come to love our state, you'll actually be able to find the employment to keep you here.

And since I'm an ex-hippie from the 1960s, you don't have to worry about my position on legalizing medical marijuana.

So Brown students, check me out on my website FainForSenate.com. Or call me at 453-3937 and I'll meet you for a coffee or a beer (off-campus of course). The only hope for more open government is to elect candidates with the independence (there's that word again) to cast their votes for what’s right, not what’s dictated by party leadership.

On Nov. 2, get out there and vote. And if you feel you know enough about what I stand for, well, I’d be honored if you then continue down the ballot. But regardless, please tell President Ruth Simmons that Brown needs to do something to protect our Independents.

Barry Fain is an independent candidate for State Senate in District 3.

SHEILA DUGAN

My summer gig at Wal-Mart The only real work experience I have featured me serving samples of iced tea in plastic cups the size of shot glasses at a Wal-Mart Supercenter. My official job title was “in-store product demonstrator.”

Not directly affiliated with Sam Walton and his lowprice retail empire, I worked as an independent contractor. I promoted products like Oxy-Clean and Campbell’s Soup.

The job required nothing more than a smile and the ability to arrange plastic tablecloths on a card table. I stood for six hours a day, unable to chew gum, drink or read. It required little brainpower, only the ability to interact with a variety of people.

I never knew how easily I navigated through the human race, politely avoiding those I disliked.

Here I was forced to remain in a five-foot radius near my table, coming into contact with housewives, teachers and mechanics. I spoke to immigrants whose English I could barely detect beneath their thick accents. I also spoke to Americans whose English I could barely detect beneath their thick Southern accents.

My favorites were the children, freed from school and hiding their boredom with summer. They searched for sugar among the women who proffered samples to their families in an attempt to get them to purchase their product.

As they grabbed the choice item with their fingers, revealing thin crescents of dirt beneath their fingernails, I satisfied their need for high-fructose corn syrup with samples of cookies, candy or a new fruit juice.

They shyly thanked me, called me “ma’am” and left

after a couple of seconds.

The adults lingered near the table, tasting the food with their mouths slightly open as they chewed, ready to spit it into the napkin if they hated the taste.

If I handed out samples of food, they asked me if it was low-carb. It was my job, but once I heard the hundredth person proselytize about the miracles associated with the Atkins Diet, I wanted to scream.

For the first time in my life, I realized people were not as smart as I would have liked them to be. A woman

In which a career working at Wal-Mart is cast aside in favor of a sleek resume. once gave her child a portion of the Glad Press ’n’ Seal Plastic Wrap.

Ignoring the possibility that her young child could suffocate on it, she attempted to sell me lotion from Mary Kay and gave me a free sample of the product. My hands were very soft that day.

Even more amazing were the men who took it upon themselves to hit on me. Perhaps they found hairnets, a black apron and plastic gloves sexy. Never in my life

have I received so much attention. I am not a catch, not even able to get a second glace from the homeless men on Thayer Street easily wooed by the promise of coffee.

One persistent fellow insisted on taking me to the beach. He ignored the fact that I lacked the well-toned body familiar with treadmills and gyms that would make such a trip pleasurable.

Despite the unending influx of people, I became bored filling my hours with neurotic behavior. I counted the napkins and pamphlets. I filled out the required paperwork associated with my job with a care and precision unseen since I learned cursive in elementary school.

Arranging the cubes of cheese or cups of Goldfish crackers in straight little rows on a tray, I stared at the thin silver minute hand on my watch, anticipating my break.

At the end of the summer, I acquired a new ice cream scoop, a box full of paper napkins and several aprons embossed with company names. Whatever I learned remains hidden, waiting to be unearthed by maturity. I only think of this now because of the emails I receive from the Career Development Center announcing internships at prestigious firms or notable think tanks.

Desiring one of these, I am thinking of how to transform my experience in a bulleted blurb on my résumé.

Sheila Dugan ’07 is a political science concentrator.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27, 2004 · PAGE 8

Strong m. cross country team looks to bring home second straight Heptagonal title

BY JILANE ROGERS

In a league where close finishes are more common than not, the men’s cross country team understands that defending its Ivy League Heptagonal Championship title will be a hard-fought battle. This Friday, Brown’s top 12 men will compete in New York City against the rest of the Ivy League in a race in which five schools have the ability to claim the conference title.

In 2003, only nine points separated Brown from runner-up Dartmouth College, and the competition this year promises to be even tougher.

With Brown in contention for both the team and individual titles, Head Coach John Gregorek said the team’s success will hinge upon remaining composed and confident.

“It serves us well to not go in as the predicted favorite,” Gregorek said. “We know what we are capable of but don’t have the pressure. The key to last year was to go in relaxed and calm.”

The Oct. 16 Pre-National Invitational served as the season’s best preview for Heptagonals, as seven of the eight Ivy League teams took to

the course that day. Scoring only the Heptagonal teams, a mere 23 points stood between the first and fifth-place teams, with Brown finishing fourth in the projection, just barely behind Columbia University, Dartmouth and Princeton University and on top of Yale University.

Brown returns its top two finishers from last year’s Heptagonal meet — captain Patrick Tarpy ’05 and Jeff Gaudette ’05. Both runners have the ability to take the individual title.

“Pat and Jeff are great leaders.

It’s their one-two punch makes us such a threat in the Ivies,” said Chris Burke ’07.

Having two top runners is key for the team.

Both have the ability to take the meet’s individual title, meaning the Bears “could easily place two men in the top five,” Gregorek said.

Tarpy debuted at the Murray Keatinge Invitational in Maine, where he took first place, outpacing a talented Dartmouth team, and finishing more than 12 seconds faster than its top runner.

Tarpy said his team will travel

to Van Cortlandt Park ready to “follow John’s strategy, run together, run proud and compete.”

Also debuting in Maine was Gaudette, who took the runnerup spot, making the duo a real threat for the rest of the Ivy League. He continued his success the next week at PreNationals, where he led the Bears and clocked the secondfastest time for an Ivy competitor. Gaudette is also the thirdfastest returning runner from last year’s Heptagonals and the highest Ivy finisher at the NCAA National meet.

To compliment Tarpy and Gaudette’s front-running, the Bears have benefited from the recent success of Owen Washburn ’06 and Burke. After the graduation of the third, fourth and fifth men from last year’s championship team, Washburn and Burke have helped to make a seamless transition.

Washburn is competing in his first cross country season, having been sidelined for the previous two years with injuries and illness.

Serving as Brown’s third man, Washburn’s consistency has

been invaluable. His strong finishes at both the Murray Keatinge and Pre-National Invitationals have considerably lowered the team score, and he said he plans to do the same at Heptagonals, where competition will be tight.

“Every single spot in the race will be particularly valuable, so my goal is to place ahead of at least the third runner from the other teams in the hunt,” Washburn said.

Making the transition from a freshman runner to a varsity competitor came naturally to Burke. Improving greatly from his freshman year, Burke has scored in each meet he has run.

He enters the Heptagonals race as Brown’s essential fourth man and he has followed Washburn closely in each race.

“This Friday, I can’t change what I’ve been doing all season,” Burke said.

In a race that historically has come down to the fourth and fifth-place men, depth is essential. While Brown has produced a solid top four, costly injuries and illnesses, including those of Herald photo editor Nick Neely ’07 and Jordan Kinley ’06, have limited the Bears’ squad. Both

After last year’s disappointing finish, w. cross-country hopes to improve at Heps

BY KATIE LARKIN

Coming off an impressive second-place finish in the New England Championships and a three-week break, the women’s cross country team will compete Friday in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in New York City.

The Heptagonals this year will be especially important for the Bears because of last year’s disappointing last-place finish.

Columbia, Princeton and Yale universities are all major contenders from the Ivies that will be vying with Brown for top billing this year. Columbia will be seeking its third straight Ivy League title but may find it difficult to compensate for the loss of two All-Ivy runners to graduation.

The Bears look to have a strong showing Friday despite some setbacks in training due to injury and sickness.

“We’ve lost some key people, but those who are healthy are dedicated and strong. We’ve all been working hard this season, and we’re up for a challenge,” said captain Julie Komosinski ’05.

Among those who are unsure about competing at Heptagonals is Annie Hatch ’06, who finished first for the Bears in two meets this season.

Coming back from illness are Anna Willard ’06 and Anya Davidson ’06, who were

Brown’s top two runners last season.

Lacking a full squad, the women will look to Komosinski, Michol Monaghan ’07, Emma Sarro ’05 and Herald staff writer Jilane Rodgers ’06 for solid performances. Also back competing with the varsity squad for Friday’s race will be top runner Naja Ferjan ’07, who is new to cross country this year.

“Without our full team competing, we will heavily rely on (Ferjan’s) talents,” said Rodgers.

Ferjan finished first for the varsity group in the first two meets of the season.

This will be the first meet of the season at the Van Cortlandt Park course for the Bears and is also the most difficult course so far this season. Located in the Bronx, the course is flat for a mile at the beginning and at the end with a mile of hills in the middle.

To prepare for the race, the women have been running lower mileage but extra hills in practice and incorporating speed into workouts in order to get a faster start.

“Last year we didn’t get out fast enough as a pack, and a lot of slower teams beat us to where the course narrows. This year, we aren’t going to let that happen — we’re going to run a lot smarter,” Komosinski said.

Without key runners, the Bears will have to rely more

Dan Grossman ’71

Naja Ferjan ’07 finished first for the Bears in their first two meets of the season and will be Brown’s top runner at the Heptagonals. heavily on strategy at the Heps.

The women, however, say they are up for the challenge and will look for younger runners to step up and fill in for those veterans who cannot compete.

“We have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

We’re ready to go out there and

give everything we have,” Rodgers said.

The Bears will race Friday at 12:30 p.m.

Herald staff writer Katie Larkin ’08 covers women’s cross country. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Dan Grossman ’71

The men’s cross country team returns its top two finishers in last year’s race to Heptagonals Friday in New York City. men were top finishers for Brown earlier in the year and will take the line in New York to try to fill the fifth and final scoring position.

“There are four or five men who could step up on Friday to close the gap,” Gaudette said.

Jacob Nettleton ’08 filled the role at Pre-Nationals, and despite being a first-year, he has experience on the Van Cortlandt course.

“All the work I’ve done thus far has been done with the team goals in mind. I am happy to have contributed to the team, but I know there is far more to be done,” Nettleton said.

Also competing in his first Heptagonals is Eamonn O’Connor ’05, who was the top Bear Brown finisher at the New England Championships. After four years of frustrating injuries, he eagerly anticipates the opportunity to help keep the title in Providence.

“Heps is traditionally about the seniors, and being my one and only shot at competing at this meet, I don’t intend on holding anything back,” O’Connor said.

“We’ve struggled to produce a consistent fifth man, but there are a number of us eager to lay our name to the position on Friday,” he said.

While the Bears’ ultimate goal is another team championship, the success of each individual will be the deciding factor in a race that remains too close to predict.

“Nothing will be given to us, but nothing is out of reach,” Burke said. “It will be a matter of who wants it the most on Friday.”

Herald staff writer Jilane Rodgers ’06 covers men’s cross country.

She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

B ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Tuesday, October 26 Men’s Soccer: Boston University 2, Brown 0 Wednesday, October 28 Women’s Soccer: at Providence, 3 p.m.

Field Hockey: at Holy Cross, postponed