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Kerry supporters on campus react to concession Though mostly subdued, students and faculty express sadness, concern

BY CHRISTOPHER CHON

After a flurry of developments yesterday — starting in the morning with news that Sen. John Kerry phoned President George W. Bush to congratulate the incumbent on his win and ending with Kerry’s official concession speech and Bush’s declaration of victory to the nation — Brown students, particularly Kerry backers, were left to accept the reality that the election was over and Bush had been reelected.

Without the controversy that accompanied the 2000 election, the mood among the mostly Democratic student body on campus yesterday was subdued. Most students expressed sadness and acceptance, but some Democrats also admitted to disappointment in Kerry and the Democratic Party.

After deciding that Ohio was statistically out of reach, Kerry called Bush to concede defeat. At 2 p.m., Kerry officially addressed the nation from Boston with a concession speech that called for unity between the two parties. Bush followed with a speech of his own in Washington officially claiming victory and promising to reach out to the Democrats.

Courtney Davis ’08, a member of the Brown Democrats, said she did not watch Kerry’s official concession speech because she was too upset that the Democratic candidate had conceded.

“Most Democrats were in the mindset that it was a fight to the finish, but a concession was like giving up,” she said. “There was so much momentum outside of Kerry’s camp to propel the election forward and allow him the win — it’s disheartening. I

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Brown students gathered on the Main Green Wednesday afternoon and walked to Kennedy Plaza in protest of Bush’s reelection.

Brown ranks 41st on list of top RISD NEWS With graduation colleges for African-Americans looming, RISD seniors look to the future

BY BEN GRIN

Though Brown has a higher rate than most universities of both AfricanAmerican tenured faculty and graduation of African-American students, the University ranked a modest 41st on Black Enterprise Magazine’s list of the best colleges and universities for African-Americans.

Although Brown moves up one spot from the previous year, this places

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Brown below Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell and Yale universities. Dartmouth College and Princeton University did not make the list.

The ranking system was devised by Thomas LaVeist, professor of health policy, management and sociology at

gains in the Senate, where they picked up four seats, and the House, where they added at least four seats, expanding their majority in both chambers.

“President Bush will not have a lonely victory, but instead will have more teammates in the United States Senate who will work with him,” said Sen. George Allen of Virginia, who led the GOP’s Senate campaign effort.

The results of Tuesday’s election starkly outlined the nation’s political divide, in red and blue relief. Nationwide, Bush led Kerry by 3.5 million votes, with 99 percent of precincts reporting.

The president carried 29 states with 274 electoral votes, four more than the number needed to win the White House.

Victories in Iowa and New Mexico, where he was leading but the vote count was not final, would give him 286. Kerry won 19 states and the District of Columbia, for 252 electoral votes.

States that were red for Republican or blue for Democratic in 2000 stayed that way — with the exceptions of New

RISD staff, students and administrators acknowledge that the job market for fine art and design has suffered because of the poor performance of the economy over the past few years. Art remains a luxury, so employers continue to be reluctant to employ art school graduates.

But the college’s Alumni and Career Services department provides a variety of job search programs that attempt to give students the tools to navigate the job search in competitive fields, such as inviting employers to campus for portfolio reviews, holding workshops on the job search process and forging new ties between the local business and design communities.

In the past, applying for 10 to 15 jobs would usually return about three to five interviews, but now students typically apply to up to 60 employers to be offered the same number of interviews, said Assistant Director of Alumni and Career Services Kevin Jankowski. “(The market) has been tough,” said Jean Blackburn, head of the illustration department. “This is why it has become an important priority to alert seniors to the pertinence of thinking about and planning for their immediate future as early as possible.”

RISD students also acknowledged the competitiveness of the market. “Art directors receive tons of applications every day,” said Jesse Lefkowitz RISD ’04. “Students put together lots of promotional material like

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Kerry concedes; Bush prepares for second term (Los Angeles Times) — After a bruising White House campaign and an outcome that hung briefly on a single state, President Bush accepted Sen. John Kerry’s concession Wednesday, outlining an extensive second-term agenda while extending a hand to his political opponents.

Kerry, acknowledging he would fall short in the pivotal state of Ohio, called Bush at midmorning to cede the fight, reaching him in the Oval Office. Hours later, the president strode into a flag-filled rally to the sound of “Hail to the Chief” — a flourish he rarely uses — to lay claim to another four years in the White House.

Citing the high turnout in Tuesday’s election, Bush termed the 51 percent of the national popular vote a “historic victory,” and called for changes to Social Security, a revision of the federal tax code and continued efforts “to help the emerging democracies of Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Addressing Kerry supporters, Bush looked directly into the television cameras and said, “a new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation.”

“To make this nation stronger and better, I will need your support, and I will

work to earn it,” said Bush, who became the first presidential candidate to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote since his father in 1988. “I will do all I can do to deserve your trust.”

About an hour earlier, in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, Kerry sounded his own note of reconciliation, a calming coda to an election marked by great vitriol.

“America is in need of unity,” said Kerry, his voice growing thick as he thanked his family, staff and supporters. “I hope President Bush will advance those values in coming years. I pledge to do my part to bridge the partisan divide.”

Kerry’s running mate, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, sounded a more confrontational tone in his introduction of Kerry, as if delivering the first speech of the 2008 campaign.

“The battle rages on,” a sober Edwards told the audience. Then, reprising the signature line of his stump speech, he vowed to “keep marching toward one America, and not stop until we get there.”

But the political terrain has grown steeper for Democrats.

In Washington, Republicans celebrated

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RISD alum makes design project into a commercial success; Obey Giant reaps international fan base risd news 3

Herald columnists respond to Tuesday’s election — and their opinions run the gamut column, page 11

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W. tennis loses before final rounds, but individual players’ successes lead to early victories sports, page 12

Fencing has successful weekend tournament, with several strong individual performance sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “ONLY DEATH CAN PART US: MESSAGES ON WARTIME POEM POSTCARDS” 4 p.m. (Lownes Room, John Hay Library) — Sponsored by the Mellon Graduate Workshop and the Department of English, this lecture will feature University of Illinois Professor of English Cary Nelson. He is also the founding director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

SOUTH ASIAN IDENTITY WEEK CONVOCATION 7 p.m. (List Art 120) — Suketu Mehta, author of “Maximum City,” will speak on the topic “South Asia: Assembling the Mosaic.”

LECTURE: ID MAGAZINE 7 p.m. (RISD Auditorium) — Julie Lasky, editor-in-chief of I.D. Magazine, will speak about design in the media in a free lecture. I.D. is a leading magazine covering the arts, business and the design culture.

“BEING ASIAN IN HOLLYWOOD” 8 p.m. (Salomon 001) — Parry Shen, star of “Better Luck Tomorrow,” will speak as part of Asian American History Month.

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MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Chicken Pot Pie, Herb Rice, Mandarin Blend Vegetables, Pancakes, French Toast, Home Fries, Kielbasa, Hard Boiled Eggs, Fudge Bars, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Roll.

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2004 · PAGE 3

RISD ’92 spreads message of dissent RISD links with Fairey with “Obey Giant” art campaign Chinese schools

BY JANE TANIMURA

BY SHAWN BAN

With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy expected to continue, RISD officials say they hope to improve the school’s relationships with three top design schools in China, partly in the hopes of bringing Chinese students to Providence.

For 10 days this summer, RISD President Roger Mandle visited the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and the Shanghai University College of Art and Design. The purpose of his visits was to establish relations and collaborations between RISD and Chinese art faculty and students.

Mandle’s visit was not the first such RISD delegation to travel to China. Relations between RISD and the three top Chinese design schools have been gradually improving over the last six years, said Eva Laporte, director of international programs. Last year, Jay Coogan, associate provost of academic affairs, and John Terry, dean of fine arts, also made a summer journey to China.

“We’ve been having visitors from China over the last six or seven years,” Laporte said. “A number of delegations have been going to China.”

While the Chinese design institutions initiated relations between the schools, Ming Ren, a parttime RISD faculty member who is an alum of CAA in Hangzhou, played a crucial role in establishing ties. “Ming Ren has been instrumental in developing these relationships and getting RISD connected to all sorts of people and schools in China,”

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The Obey Giant art campaign founded by Shepard Fairey RISD ’92 started by accident. When he was a sophomore, Fairey was looking at a magazine for stencil ideas for a Tshirt when he stumbled upon a “funny wrestling ad” of Andre the Giant — the former pro wrestler popularized as the “gentle giant” after his appearance in the movie “The Princess Bride.”

Fairey toyed with the image to create a stenciled face of Andre, delineated in bold black lines and tightly cropped in a black box. Stamped underneath the icon was the command: obey.

Fifteen years later, more than 1 million stickers and 15,000 posters of the Obey Giant icon have been posted around the world. What started as a test in reverse psychology that asked people not to blindly obey has now made Fairey one of the most popular street artists of his generation. The Obey Giant art campaign is one of the most ambitious in recent history.

Fairey’s representation of Andre the Giant has become especially visible in recent years with the popularity of his Obey Giant clothing line. Obey Giant merchandise has been especially well-received in Asia, and Fairey has opened stores in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. His clothing is also sold in boutiques across the United States. In Providence, it is sold at RISD Works on 10 Westminster St. and occasionally at Urban Outfitters.

Even though the Obey Giant campaign started as something fun, over the years its message has evolved into an experiment of reawakening people’s curiosity about their environment, Fairey said.

“To me now, it’s symbolic of encouraging people to question what they’re assaulted with,” he said.

The icon did just that for Associate Professor of Political Science John Tomasi, who is a big fan of Obey

Giant. He owns two T-shirts, a belt, several stickers and posters, all of which feature the logo.

Tomasi became interested in Obey Giant after seeing stickers of the icon posted all around Providence. He thought that the icon was the perfect “metaphor for danger of conformity at Brown,” he said.

“Brown, being a welcoming place, has a price to be paid for that comfort, especially with regulation to individual freedom of thought,” he said.

Tomasi gave out items of Obey Giant clothing as raffle prizes for the Free Your Mind Conference, an event he organized last month that addressed problems with Brown’s ideology, in addition to social and political issues.

But before raffling the T-shirts off, Tomasi had them “doctored up” to instead spell out “disobey,” he said.

Fairey said that once art is out in public, it’s fair game for interpretation. In fact, it’s what his art provokes people to do — to question.

“Things in public really do take on a life,” he said.

Though Fairey identifies his art as freethinking and rebellious, he admits that it wasn’t always this way. When he was little, his art used to be mostly still-lifes of tanks and airplanes. The conservative atmosphere of Charleston, S.C., where Fairey grew up, fostered that narrow way of making his art, he said.

But when he was 14 and became involved in the skateboarding and punk rock scene, he started to see art as a way of channeling his frustration. Like the musicians of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Fairey wanted to “follow the path of least resistance” in his own art and to make art that “captured their spirits,” he said.

At RISD, being exposed to artists who rejected tradi-

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41st continued from page 1 Johns Hopkins University.

According to LaVeist, the primary variable in ranking the colleges was the African-American graduation rate at each respective institution.

Also included in the ranking calculation was a survey sent to 1,855 African-American college administrators nationwide. The survey asked administrators to rate their respective schools and peer institutions on the perceived quality of each school’s social and academic environment for African-American stu-

dents. African-American students at these schools were not given the survey, Laveist said, because students would have limited information about the social and academic environments at schools other than the ones they were attending.

LaVeist said the primary intention of the ranking was to develop a diverse list of 50 schools that effectively reach out to AfricanAmerican students. He said the enormous heterogeneity of the schools included in the list — which incorporates schools large and small, public and private, historically black and mostly white — underscores the fact that what is best for one student may not necessarily be best for anoth-

er.

“The point of the list is not to say that school number three is better than school number 14. …

(The point is that) here are 50 schools that do a good job of educating African-American students,” LaVeist said. He said a lot of schools get caught up in the “horse race” aspect of the list, and while this feature of the ranking system may create healthy competition among schools, the utility of such comparisons is limited.

The strict applicability of the Black Enterprise survey indeed appears limited when compared with other published lists that also attempt to rank the top schools for African-Americans.

A 2002 survey published in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education entitled “Ranking America’s Leading Universities on Their Success in Integrating African Americans” came up with markedly different results. This publication named Brown as the 10th best university on its success at integrating African-Americans, behind only Princeton and Harvard among Ivy League universities.

Princeton, which failed to make the top 50 Black Enterprise Magazine list, was ranked third in the JBHE ranking. The JBHE survey used 13 variables in calculating the rankings, while the Black Enterprise Magazine survey only used four.

According to the 2002 survey, more than 4 percent of Brown’s tenured faculty are black, the second-highest percentage among the academically top rated universities. The JBHE article, however, says Brown’s 5.9 percent African-

American percentage of the student body is “no better than middle of the road.”

Annie Cappuccino, senior associate director of college admission, said Brown has recently made a number of strides in reaching out to African-American students. She mentioned the move to need-blind admission that began with the class of 2007 and the $100 million Sidney Frank donation for financial aid this year as factors that should make Brown more accessible to students of color.

She added, however, that Brown administrators see areas for further improvement. “We tend to feel that there are always ways for us to improve and expand our reach to communities that may not be thinking about us automatically but have really talented students,” she said.

Cappuccino said Brown is doing “many of the same things as the other Ivy League schools” in terms of minority recruitment and creating a comfortable atmosphere for students of color.

She warned prospective students against placing too much emphasis on the results of one survey. “I think that there’s always going to be some usefulness for a survey, but it’s important for students not to rely on one survey for choosing a group of colleges that are going to be good for them,” she said.

Eldridge Gilbert ’05, a Third World Center student coordinator who acted as co-chair of the Organization of United African Peoples his sophomore and junior years, said Brown provides a number of resources for AfricanAmerican students. He said the

Third World Center has been an invaluable social and academic resource throughout his time at Brown. The office of the Dean of the College also offers a number of beneficial services to students of color at Brown, he said.

“There are a number of administrators, deans, staff and faculty alike who are open to being resources for black students — black students who take advantage (of these resources) get to make the most of their Brown experience in a lot of different ways,” he said.

But Gilbert said that despite Brown’s reputation as a beacon of progressive values and diversity, Brown is no utopia for students of color. “I’ve had some very jolting experiences with diversity that are reasons to question what Brown claims to be,” he said. He said Brown has a long way to go in terms of black student enrollment, percentage of black faculty and staff, and socioeconomic diversity.

Gilbert said the enormous amount of independence Brown gives its students can create problems for those needing support.

“For as many resources as Brown has, sometimes the resources aren’t as centralized as they should be,” he said.

Furthermore, Gilbert said many of the best resources for students of color in the administration are overstretched. “Even though there are many deans and administrators who make themselves resources, certain individuals within the administration get heavily relied upon by students, which makes it difficult for them to help everyone who has a need,” he said.

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Same-sex marriage bans fire up both sides (Los Angeles Times) — The successful efforts to amend 11 state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage has energized both sides of the highly contentious issue.

Defenders of traditional marriage say voters’ resounding support for state measures that limit marriage to a union between a man and a woman proves that a federal marriage amendment is inevitable.

Advocates of gay and lesbian marriage sounded equally determined Wednesday as they vowed to move ahead with efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, New Jersey,

Connecticut — and very likely within the next year, California.

With five new Republican senators elected Tuesday, opponents of same-sex marriage maintain, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution could be introduced and conceivably passed as soon as the next congressional session.

“We are very encouraged,” said Carrie Gordon Earll, spokesperson for Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colo. “Basically, what the people said (Tuesday) was: Don’t mess with marriage.”

But Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in New York,

Israeli legislator Burg to speak tonight Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Israeli Knesset, will speak at Hillel today at 8 p.m.

Burg, a member of the Labor Party, is known for his liberal views on Zionism.

Burg left the Knesset in 1995 to work for several Jewish social causes, including the Jewish Agency for Israel, which helps Jews immigrate to Israel, and the Claims Conference, which negotiated for the restoration of Jews’ property in Europe.

Burg is known for his open attitude toward Palestinians; he was the first Knesset speaker to invite his Palestinian counterpart to address Parliament, according to the Hillel Web site.

Burg has also acknowledged that Zionism is changing; he has written that today’s Jews do not view Israel the same way the Jewish state’s founders did, and Zionism will continue

to erode as Jews increasingly favor cooperation with the Palestinians rather than wanting Israel to be a purely Jewish state.

Zionism has been the subject of some controversy on campus this semester. On Oct. 13, Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, gave a lecture articulating his sharp criticisms of Palestinians, support for a Jewish state and skepticism about the possibility of reaching peace through compromise. Klein’s speech drew a heated response from students who took offense with his assertion that there are “higher cultures” and “lower cultures.”

Burg’s speech is titled “Struggling Toward Peace in Times of Terror.” He will speak at 8 p.m. at the Brown Hillel building.

— Herald staff reports

said the vote was only round one of a very long fight.

The 11 states that passed constitutional amendments Tuesday joined seven others that earlier adopted measures to define marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution.

In Mississippi, the amendment won 86 percent support; Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky all polled at least 75 percent support for their amendments, and North Dakota came close to that figure. In Montana and Utah, at least two-thirds of voters supported the amendment; in Ohio, the figure was 62 percent, and in Michigan, 59 percent.

The vote was closest in Oregon, where 57 percent approved the ban. Most of the opposition in Oregon came from Multnomah County, where Portland is located, and where earlier this year more than 3,000 gay and lesbian couples were married before a judge drew a halt to the practice.

Sean Cahill, policy institute director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said Wednesday that same-sex marriage supporters raised and spent close to $2.8 million to fight the amendment in Oregon. He said his organization dispatched 12 staff members to work against the Oregon amendment, and recruited 70 volunteers from the state.

He said opponents of the measure spent $2.3 million in Oregon, not including expenditures from individual churches.

Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry in New York, said Wednesday that a similar line of attack would be employed if Congress introduces a federal amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

But Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute of Concerned Women for America in

Washington, said Wednesday that foes of same-sex marriage sense that momentum is on their side after the strong state amendment votes.

“People are already moving to enact constitutional amendments in other states — specifically, I can think of Pennsylvania and Illinois,” Knight said. “Letters have

already been sent to (Republican) party leaders urging them to join the marriage bandwagon.”

In May, Massachusetts became the only state to permit gays and lesbians to marry, following a ruling by that state’s highest court.

Knight predicted, however, that

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Jobs continued from page 1 flyers and name cards which they send out every three to six months in hope that their work will stand out.”

Margot Livingston RISD ’95, a career counselor and media specialist at RISD’s ACS, emphasized the significance of these visual methods to catch employers’ attention. She also advocated the use of personal Web sites to display student work, citing their convenience and ease of availability to art directors.

Michael Neff RISD ’04, a photography major, is now the director of Janet Borden Inc., a photo gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. He described RISD as a “happy little bubble” where students concentrated fully on improving their artistic skills.

But “towards senior year, you must start to get people to look at your work,” Neff said.

That process often begins with departments.

According to Blackburn, the illustration department holds classes that prepare seniors for entering the working world. Classes like “Portfolio Preparation,” “Professional Practice” and “Entrepreneur” get students to think about the various markets they can break into, as well as methods of self-promotion. “Entrepreneur” requires students to display their work along Benefit Street during RISD’s annual alumni weekend. “This allows students to network, and find out from alumni what is marketable,” Blackburn said. “It teaches them to deal with the public and with the feedback they receive about

their work.”

Similar courses are also offered in other departments, and career services works closely with faculty to integrate their programs into these classes. As part of the syllabi, ACS hosts workshops, and counselors go into studios to give presentations on topics like the principles of business, said Steven Whitten, director of ACS. During RISD’s winter session, ACS offers a six-week career program in partnership with Bryant College. Called the Center for Design and Business, it was established in 1997 to unite the design and business communities for purposes of economic development.

According to the program’s Web site, its goal is to develop stronger and more profitable businesses by combining design and business skills. “This acts like an incubator to support designbased entrepreneurs,” Jankowski said. The program is open to both current students and RISD graduates, and it also acts as a powerful networking medium.

During the peak period of RISD seniors’ job search, which is typically from late February to May, the four counselors at ACS juggle 60 hourlong appointments with individual students each week.

“Seniors who seek career services for help with their job search are nervous for a variety of reasons, but usually they are afraid of the unknown, especially if they haven’t interned before,” Livingston said. “We try to help students navigate through the opportunities that are out there and then provide them with the resources to start their search. We encourage them to be proactive.”

Tim Belonax RISD ’04, a graphic design major, said he found ACS extremely useful in helping him find employment.

Belonax is currently interning at a publishing company, Chronicle Books, in San Francisco. He has also interned at various companies over previous summers, including a graphic design firm and an advertising firm. Belonax said he was using his first year after graduation to find his niche.

Interning after graduation is not an anomaly, Jankowski said.

“The industry is usually more accommodating towards fresh graduates,” Jankowski said. “After that first or second year following graduation, you start to become regarded as competition (to working artists).” Jankowski encouraged experimentation.

“That way you can network and meet more people, as well as learn the ropes of working in the real world,” he said.

Nessie Ruiz RISD ’05, a photography major, agreed. Ruiz has already been offered employment

by George Lange RISD ’78, a photographer with whom she interned last summer. “I found out about so many things that I didn’t think I needed to know.

There is so much more out there that we can’t learn in school that we have to find out about.”

Belonax concurred. “In the working world you are in a position that is very different from the classroom setting,” he said. “Here you are working with people who are 10 to 20 years your senior and at different points of their lives.

You have to learn to work with people.”

ACS also warns students about this stark change of environment.

“Suddenly there are so many more

people students will have to answer to. Starting out they will have to answer to their bosses, their clients, so many more people than they are used to answering to,” Jankowski said. “There are now strict deadlines to be met and solid goals to be set. We have to put them at a point of awareness of this.”

RISD emphasizes the educational aspects of the job search.

Companies invited to campus to give portfolio reviews are told specifically that their role is to provide constructive criticism, not to recruit. Companies even hold mock, unrehearsed interviews with seniors in front of an audience to show the students what they are looking for in a

W. tennis continued from page 12 the semifinals. Alex Arlak ’05 and Ames also advanced to play on Sunday.

Since no Brown player advanced to play on Monday, the fall season officially ended Sunday night. Until the Bears’ first match of the spring on Feb. 5, when they host Colgate University, the players will continue to practice and condition. The team is looking forward to success in the spring.

“We’re feeling positive,” said Wardlaw, who in his first year as head coach has inherited a very young team. “We’re a real solid group with no real dropoff talent-wise. There’s a balance, and that’s a good thing because it means everyone’s competing really hard together as a team.”

If the team has a weakness, it is that it does not have a player who is a bona fide number one — someone Wardlaw can count on as an automatic win. “Somebody will have to

Bandwagon continued from page 12 TV once things are going well.

My buddy Davs, a Massachusetts-native Yankee fan (we’ve warned him he’s going to Hell, yet he insists), is always intrigued by the phenomenon of the “die-hard girl Red Sox fans” who graffiti their AIM profiles with “GO SOX! THIS IS THE YEAR” and similar encouraging cheers. They tend to pop up every September; it’s like their breeding season. As the season comes to a close, they fade back into their “I could seriously give a crap about anything relating my local sports team” mode. The true die-hards are too disgusted to harass them or personally question their loyalty, so we just shake our heads and scoff while hoping that they

potential candidate for employment.

The goal for RISD educators and administrators is to help students become adaptive to the ever-changing art industry, which Blackburn describes as one where “fluid combinations” of skill sets are needed. For example, an illustrator could work in the film industry as an animator, or perhaps in the field of digital media.

Jankowski and Livingston agreed, adding that RISD courses focus more on imparting conceptual knowledge than technical skills, allowing students to apply their expertise in a flexible manner to a wide variety of artistic vocations. step up,” Wardlaw said.

Much of the uncertainty, of course, is rooted in the fact that the Bears are extremely young. Other than Arlak, the team is composed of three sophomores and four firstyears.

It is because of this youth that Brown is not regarded as an Ivy League title contender this spring, despite being ranked as high as 75th in the nation last spring. But there is optimism that the team can succeed.

“We’ll do pretty well with our new coach,” said Arlak.

“He’s coaching us well … and as a team we’re improving.”

Ashley Pariser ’08 said she is finding tennis in college very different from high-school competition. “Tennis is an individual sport,” Pariser said.

“But on this team, I have people cheering for me, pulling for me.”

This young Bruno team, Pariser said, is very much like a “family.” Pariser echoed her coach’s and captain’s sentiments by saying, “We’re only going to get better.” somehow lose their Internet connectivity and access to all media.

This may seem harsh, but something has to be said for the fans who diligently read hundreds of articles and columns, watched thousands of hours of meaningless games, studied Hot Stove discussions and went to sleep on many a night dreaming about their team. Out of respect to these troopers, the bandwagon fans must silence their naïve passion. They must abstain from writing cheesy slogans in their profiles and feigning allegiance to the true fan base. They must become more knowledgeable and follow the team even when it’s not the playoffs or a crucial part of the schedule — they must become us. Either that, or shut the hell up while I’m watching the game.

Marc Lanza ’06 is cool.

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Fairey continued from page 3 tion encouraged him to see art as a medium for social commentary. He became especially interested in screen printing, a printmaking technique that uses stencils to create a color image on fabric. This art form gave Fairey the “freedom to try more,” he said.

Immediately after creating the Obey Giant logo, Fairey posted stickers of the icon all over Providence, even over advertisements for former mayor Vincent Cianci, to see how the public would react. The stickers drew a lot of attention from people who wondered what the sticker stood for. The hype inspired Fairey to spread his campaign to Boston and New York.

By his senior year at RISD, Fairey was already making Obey Giant T-shirts.

Much of his past and current projects have strong political messages that capture Fairey’s personal beliefs. For example, on one shirt, Fairey, an antiwar advocate, depicts President George W. Bush holding a bomb. Next to the image is the message, “Or was it hug babies and drop bombs?”

Inspired by the high-contrast art of Jamie Reed, the graphics artist who created controversial album covers for the Sex Pistols, Fairey uses bold images accompanied by bold slogans in his work, to simplify the essence of what he is trying to convey.

“If anything, that’s the principle I’ve

Fencing continued from page 12 With another gold under her belt, she will undoubtedly be a force to be reckoned with in the fencing world this season.

Saberist Olivia Partyka ’06 could also have a great season — she won Brown’s second gold, a remarkable accomplishment given that she has only one year of experience. Not far behind her veteran counterpart, Charlotte Gartenberg ’08 placed 10th in women’s saber.

Gartenberg, a former Junior Olympic qualifier, will be another fencer to watch this season.

In women’s foil, Hausmann, another one of Brown’s solid performers from last season, took fifth place. Despite a hardfought battle, she was not able to beat the top fencers of MIT and Wellesley College, dropping

adhered to — never compromise art by making it overly decorative for the sake of showing off my abilities,” he said.

Fairey said this political and sometimes contentious art is cathartic for him, even though he recognizes that it has gotten him into trouble in the past.

Earlier this year, Fairey was charged with criminal mischief and trespassing for putting up one of his street images on a blank billboard in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Despite the risk, Fairey said that exercising his right to free speech was worth getting arrested.

Because “art should be for the masses, a utilitarian thing,” it needs to be made accessible to the public, Fairey said. He tries to do this through his street art and clothing line, he said.

Critics say Fairey could be pushing his cause more effectively by engaging in political activism directly rather than through public art — some say his street art just comes down to a “stupid sticker,” he said. But Fairey emphasized that he is an artist, not a politician, and that creating political art is the most effective way he can express his beliefs.

“The medium is the message,” he said.

In reflection of his career, Fairey is planning to write a book that documents the Obey Giant campaign; its planned title is “Supply and Demand: 15 Years of Absurdist Propaganda.”

Currently, he is designing album covers for the musical groups Interpol, Black Eyed Peas and Billy Idol and showcasing some of his other artwork at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles.

two slots down from her thirdplace finish in last year’s competition.

“I didn’t do well as I personally had last year, but I was happy with my performance,” Hausmann said.

The tough competition did not stop these fencers from doing their personal best. Filling out the women’s lineup are team co-captain and foilist Nanette Milner ’06 as well as epeeist Christine Livoti ’08, who took ninth and 10th in their events, respectively.

On the men’s side of the mat, foilist Jeremy Zeitlin ’07 anchored his squad by winning his event and taking the third gold for Brown, an excellent addition in his college fencing career to his 24th-place finish at last season’s NCAA Championships.

Other top performers from the men’s squads included epeeist Adrian Martin ’06 and

China continued from page 3 Coogan said.

One of the main objectives of improving ties with the Chinese design schools is to raise RISD’s profile and attract more Chinese students to apply for both undergraduate and graduate programs.

Coogan noted that RISD has turned its focus to China recently because it has the largest group of people from any one country who are college-age and are potentially interested in coming to America.

Traditionally, South Korea has provided RISD with its largest number of international students, but this balance could change if more Chinese students knew enough about RISD, Coogan said.

Terry said China is currently experiencing the type of economic development that has been underway for many years in Korea. “The Korean economy has been developed enough that a lot of students have been able to afford to come to America. Right now, that’s happening with China. A lot of Chinese students are finding the means to come to America,” he said.

Several commercial design projects are being developed between RISD and the three Chinese design schools. As the Chinese economy continues to grow, rapid architectural development provides countless opportunities for collaborative projects, Laporte said.

“There are a number of discussions of our being involved in the design of the

saberist Dan Dorsky ’05, who finished fifth and seventh, respectively.

Overall, Brown placed at least one fencer in the top eight of each event in the competition.

The team seems poised to build on its success for future meets.

“We’re going to continue to work in building our condition-

infrastructure that’s being built in China, possibly subway systems, or Olympic constructions. It’s hard to say if anything will come of it,” Coogan said.

RISD’s Center for Design and Business could open an office in China to assist companies, especially start-ups, that seek design and business advice, Coogan added.

In addition, RISD and the Chinese institutions could establish faculty and student exchange programs. RISD students could apply to spend a semester abroad at one of the three Chinese design schools, while one or two Chinese students could study at RISD for a semester to increase their exposure to Western art and design, Laporte said.

“There has been some interest among RISD students who do architecture in the exchange program. It’s a great opportunity for them to go to China and witness what is actually happening, a wonderful education for our students,” she said.

RISD students were warm to the idea of studying abroad in China, but some cited potential problems.

“It sounds great,” said Leah Wolff RISD ’06, a printmaking major. “We already have an exhibition where we send work over to China and they send work over here. I really would be interested, if I could afford to take a semester off here.”

Gu Ji RISD ’06, a painting major, voiced similar sentiments.

“It sounds like an interesting program, but one of the problems is definitely finance,” he said. “There is a very high cost involved in exchange programs overseas, and I’m not sure I will be able to afford it.”

ing and strength for the next competition and really helping the new members of the team get as much practice as they can before the upcoming events, so that they can come in strong and to allow the older members to regain what may have been lost over the summer,” Hausmann said.

Their efforts will be tested at the Northeast Fencing Conference meet at the University of New Hampshire on Nov. 20.

Herald staff writer Zaneta Balantac ’07 covers fencing. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Marriage continued from page 5 “same-sex marriage will not survive in Massachusetts.”

Knight went so far as to suggest that “President Bush should send a bouquet of flowers” to the members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who wrote the decision legalizing

Whipple continued from page 12 friends with. I think the closeness between the schools is a unique aspect of the Ivy League. We were all having similar experiences.”

Despite all of his athletic achievements at Brown, Whipple remembered his time at Brown more for how it prepared him for the future.

“Brown was great in so many ways,” said Whipple. “It has a lot to do with me being with the Steelers.”

Chris Berman ’77, the host of ESPN’s “NFL Countdown” and “NFL Primetime” and a friend of Whipple’s, was one of many people encouraging the Steelers to consider Whipple for the quarterbacks coach position. Whipple also attended Brown with Steelers owner Dan Rooney’s daughter.

Of course, playing experience and recommendations only go so far when trying to land a job in the NFL. Whipple’s successful head coaching stints at Brown and UMass were what really appealed to the Steelers.

When Whipple was named Brown’s head coach before the 1994 season, the team had been mired in a losing stretch.

F. hockey continued from page 12 advantage in shots. However, the Crusaders held the lead the entire game, and Brown’s lone goal came only in the last 10 minutes of the game.

“Their defense hung in there, and it was a matter of inches — we did get a corner with no time remaining on the clock. I was pleased we played very well,” Norris said.

Samantha Lloyd ’07 came up big for Bruno, putting one past the Crusader goalie in a breakaway situation.

same-sex marriage there.

But some political analysts were more inclined to lay responsibility for the same-sex marriage on San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who authorized city officials to issue more than 4,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples earlier this year. The California Supreme Court stopped the marriages, and is expected to hear a constitutional challenge to state marriage laws

within two years.

Newsom reacted defensively Wednesday, saying the “activist judges” in Massachusetts took the first step toward legalizing samesex marriage.

Asked Wednesday if same-sex marriage had coalesced the conservative vote, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, said: “I think it gave them a position to rally around.

The whole issue was too much, too fast, too soon.”

“Before we got there, the program was struggling a little bit,” said Whipple. “We were able to get it turned around. I left before the Ivy Championship (in 1999), but a lot of the kids on that team were kids that were there when I was, kids we recruited.”

After resurrecting the Brown football program, Whipple took the top position at UMass and revitalized that team as well.

Whipple took a team that had won 19 games in the previous four years and won a national championship in 1998, his first season on the job. His career record of 49-26 was the secondbest mark in UMass history.

Having turned around two major collegiate programs in 10 years and serving as a head coach for the past 16, Whipple said the decision to move on was an opportunity he could not turn down.

“The transition has been easier than I thought it would,” said Whipple. “I had been in charge for 16 years. I was dealing with every aspect of the team. Now I am fortunate enough to be working with a great staff and I can really focus on one thing, which is helping Ben and the other quarterbacks.”

Not long before Whipple arrived in Steeltown, he realized that he might be working with a

special type of player.

“They never told me they were going to draft Ben,” Whipple said.

“However, I thought that Ben was the one who would probably be there at number 11. I was the only one who had seen him, and the more I got to know him and his family, the more I liked him.

There were three great quarterbacks out there, but Ben had the biggest upside.”

The knocks on Roethlisberger were that he had struggled against stiffer competition at the University of Miami-Ohio (he threw four interceptions against Iowa in last season’s opener) while feasting on the weaker teams in the Mid-American Conference. He wasn’t as polished as the other two big-name quarterbacks, Eli Manning and Phillip Rivers, who were both from power conferences.

“The competition stuff was never an issue,” said Whipple.

“Look at Byron Leftwich and (Chad) Pennington. If you can play, you can play. Ben loves to compete, and had he stayed in school he would have won the Heisman this year. There was no hesitation when we were considering Ben.” Fortunately for the Steelers, both of their off-season quarterback acquisitions have been continuing their history of success.

“We played really well that game, and we were working together really well as a team.”

Hodavance said. “We just didn’t finish the ball down at the other end, and they finished the ball when they came into our circle.”

These last three games were a chance for the Bears to prove they had their heads in the game after sporadic performances all season. The team remains optimistic despite the losses and is focusing on winning the final game of the season against Yale University on Saturday.

“Even though we didn’t win the last two games, we definitely improved a whole lot and were playing a lot better those two

games,” Hodavance said.

“Hopefully on Saturday, everything will come together and we will play well, and we’ll win, too.”

Norris believes that the final game is less important to next year’s success in terms of the team’s mentality.

“It is really up to this year’s juniors to have that commitment over the summer so we can be in a better frame when we start our preseason,” Norris said. “Where we are right now is where we should start our preseason.”

Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers field hockey. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Election continued from page 1 Hampshire, which Bush won four years ago but Kerry nabbed Tuesday; and most likely Iowa and New Mexico, both of which supported Al Gore four years ago.

Polarization appeared to drive turnout, boosting the vote to the highest level since 1968, another campaign fought against the backdrop of a controversial war. Just about 120 million people cast ballots Tuesday, or 59.5 percent of the voting-age population. Christian conservatives and younger voters turned out in particularly high numbers.

After months of rancor, feelings were still raw Wednesday as the results — joyous to some, crushing to others — began settling in.

“I see this election as clearly decisive for the Republicans,” said a delighted Robert Hayworth, 36, who works in the financial service industry in Seattle. “It’s going to be smooth sailing for their agenda at least for awhile.”

In Boston, 18-year-old Jessica Posner was among about 20 students who marched outside Faneuil Hall, urging Kerry not to give up. She called the idea of a second Bush term “terrifying.”

Reaction continued from page 1 thought we were stronger than that and a little bit more gutsy.”

“There wasn’t anything (Kerry) could say that could make people feel better,” said Swathi Bojedla ’06, who attended what would have been Kerry’s victory party in Boston’s Copley Plaza and returned to campus Wednesday at 4 a.m. Bojedla said some of her friends are so disappointed they are planning to “take a permanent semester abroad” and others are planning to form a “campus solidarity group” to cope with the Kerry loss.

Rashi Kumar ’06 said he watched Kerry’s concession speech in the Lower Blue Room with about 70 other students, some of whom were crying. “I was so inside my own head that I didn’t pay attention to the atmosphere,” he said. “People didn’t want to stay and watch (Kerry) say those words.” Kumar said she left in the middle of Kerry’s speech.

Quinn Sivage ’08 said he was too disappointed to talk to other students about Kerry’s concession and instead watched the speech alone in his room in Andrews Hall.

“My generation will be dealing with his war, fighting his war, paying the debt that he racks up,” she said.

Like the red-blue geography, the breakdown of the balloting was also similar to four years ago.

Bush again carried the vote among men, whites, rural residents and the more religious, while Kerry won the vote among minorities, city dwellers and the more secular, exit polls found.

The president improved his vote among several traditionally Democratic constituencies, including women, blacks, Latinos and Jews. But he won by building on his support among traditional GOP loyalists, as many were quick to note.

Religious conservative leaders served notice Wednesday that they expected Bush to make good on their hopes to limit abortion, appoint conservative federal judges and hold the line on gay marriage.

“Now that value voters have delivered for George Bush, he must deliver for their values,” said the Rev. James Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which has strongly opposed same-sex marriage.

Bush’s priorities should include “the defense of innocent unborn

human life, the protection of marriage, and the nomination and confirmation of federal judges who will interpret the Constitution, not make law from the bench,” Kennedy said.

Others also cited gay marriage as a key issue that drove conservatives to the polls.

“Clearly, the supporters of traditional marriage helped President Bush down the aisle to a second term,” said Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, a conservative lobbying group. He referred to 11 statewide ballot measures opposing gay marriage that passed Tuesday, including one in Ohio.

For several hours on election night and early Wednesday, the Buckeye State was the center of the political world, in the way Florida was four years ago.

With 20 electoral votes, the state appeared to hold the balance in the White House contest, with the outcome resting on approximately 150,000 provisional ballots that had been laid aside for later tabulation.

The mood in the Bush and Kerry camps moved in opposite directions throughout a tense evening.

One longtime friend of Kerry said the senator was optimistic heading into Tuesday’s election,

He said the message former vicepresidential candidate John Edwards presented during his introduction of not giving up the fight to count every vote, and the message Kerry gave of the election being lost had two “very different tones.” He said the Democratic party was, once again, unable to send a clear message to the nation.

“They wanted to say two different things,” Sivage said. “I told someone that now it’s time for the Democratic party to get some balls.” He said students in Andrews were not as angry as they were accepting of the results.

Not only were students disappointed, but professors were affected by the election results, as well. Bojedla said Assistant Professor of Political Science Jennifer Lawless was “really depressed” and “in a funk” during her 8:30 a.m. class PS 112: “Campaigns and Elections.”

Jessica Delforge ’06 said Professor of History Carolyn Dean “definitely had problems giving her lecture” Wednesday in HI 126: “Modern European Women’s History.”

“She introduced her lecture by saying she was sorry if she seemed at all uncomposed. She was obviously very flustered,” Delforge said. “She was very surprised at

the results of the election and that Kerry had decided to concede so early.”

Delforge said she thinks that a lot of the professors and students were “just really surprised that the election was over so early,” but she admitted that in a way, she respected Kerry for conceding as soon as it became evident his loss was inevitable.

Professor of Slavic Languages Robert Mathiesen took time out of UC 82: “Magic in the Middle Ages” to talk about his opinion of the trend toward conservatism in the country, Zander Ebin ’07 said.

Mathiesen told the class to expect a reconfiguration of the party system so that it consists of only two Republican parties — one conservative and the other moderate, Ebin said, calling the prediction “rather apocalyptic.”

But though most students and professors who supported Kerry expressed their disappointment and grief in a subdued manner, a group of about 100 students congregated by the flagpole on the Main Green at midnight in what was termed a “scream session.”

The 100 or so students screamed as loudly as they could to let out their frustration over the election.

— With additional reporting by Sara Perkins

energized by the jubilation of big crowds and sensing that he had finally found his voice as a candidate. When early exit polls showed him leading in several key states, Kerry and his aides were buoyant.

Strategists for Bush called key supporters around the country, urging them not to panic.

Spirits began sinking among Kerry advisers as the night passed and the Bush vote mounted. With the race narrowed to Ohio, strategists on both sides up stayed up until almost dawn, assessing their options. Bush and Kerry had both gone to bed.

The senator remained in seclusion Wednesday morning in his mansion on Beacon Hill. Bush showed up for work at the White House.

As more information arrived from Ohio, Kerry decided he did not want to put the country through lengthy litigation, his campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, later told reporters. Bush was ahead in the state by about 136,000 votes, making it virtually impossible for Kerry to catch up.

“His whole premise over the course of this campaign was that we needed to find ways to bring this country together,” Cahill said.

“He immediately just decided that in order to go forward in a time of war, it was not something he wanted to put the country through.”

Kerry placed his call to the president. Bush later described their conversation as “very gracious.”

When the Democrat’s motorcade slowly rolled up to Faneuil Hall, the plaza filled with cheers and applause, as people perched on ledges to catch a glimpse of the candidate.

Kerry spoke for 15 minutes, frequently interrupted by applause and several standing ovations. His tone was even, if occasionally rueful. Speaking of his campaign team, Kerry said, “I wish — you don’t know how much — they could have brought this race home for you.”

But, he said, “The outcome should be decided by voters, not a protracted legal process.

“I would not give up this fight if there was a chance that we would prevail,” he said. “But it is now clear that even when all the provisional ballots are counted, there won’t be enough outstanding votes for us to be able to win Ohio.

And therefore, we cannot win this election.”

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Moving on Congratulations are due to Brown’s Republicans — they may be a small minority here, but they can rest assured that that is not the case in the country as a whole.

But with due respect to conservative Brunonians, we now address the members of the Brown community who voted for John Kerry, who do not agree with the policies of President George W. Bush and whose reactions to his reelection range from disappointment and confusion to anger and despair.

On a liberal campus in a Democratic state in a solidly Democratic region, it is sobering to realize that nationally, we are in the minority. Kerry won 60 percent of the vote in Rhode Island but only 48 percent nationally. As Rhode Island’s Democratic congressmen won reelection handily, Republicans consolidated their control of both houses of Congress.

Discrimination based on sexual orientation has not fully disappeared from Brown, but it was still jarring to watch voters in 11 states ban same-sex marriage and, in seven cases, civil unions.

More than a fifth of voters said the most important issue to them was “moral values,” a phrase that has become a code for socially conservative positions on issues such as reproductive freedoms and gay rights. But “moral values” means something else to many of us. Compassion is a moral value; so are social justice, individual liberty and respect for the environment.

These are the values that should sustain liberals’ faith in America and motivate them to stay engaged.

The instinct of many liberals is to retreat into their blue enclaves, licking their wounds and daydreaming about a Kerry presidency. The need to mourn is understandable. But surrendering and abandoning politics is no way to change the status quo. Liberals must stay involved in the political process at every level, keeping up the fight to make their voices heard. You might not have voted for Bush, but he is still your president — and he is as accountable to you as he is to the most conservative voter.

In the meantime, however, the country faces at least two years of Republican control of the federal government. If you feel politically disenfranchised, remember that you are not powerless. Involvement in community organizations will let you serve the people you fear are being left behind. Advocacy on the issues that are important to you will send a message to public officials that accountability to their constituents does not end when the elections are over. Moving to Canada accomplishes none of this — there’s much you can still do at home.

DANIEL L AWLOR

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2004 · PAGE 11

Brown, you’re my big crybaby GUEST COLUMN BY DANIEL HERNANDEZ

When I sat down to eat my pizza at Antonio’s yesterday, a man came on the radio and started to sing in a stuttering voice about changes.

David Bowie was mocking me. The $50 that I contributed to John Kerry had not yielded him victory in my home state of Florida or nationally.

He is just another in a long line of gentleman losers, just like me. It is fascinating — yesterday, even the trees on the Main Green seemed sullen, resigned to the last moments before the snow.

Most of the leaves were gone.

I hadn’t noticed until after John Kerry lost, but perhaps the writing was always on the wall. If I had allowed myself to admit this fact, I might have been able to prepare more appropriately for the plunge towards reality. Upon waking, my girlfriend called me from over at our rival institution in New Haven. I proceeded to pick a fight with her. My suitemates inform me that no one cares about the day-to-day happenings of Herald columnists, but I will share this anecdote with you as an example of what not to do now that the curtain has been drawn down on four years of righteous indignation.

My girlfriend felt that the best thing to do is to cling to some hope that the next four years will not be as bad as we flip-floppers have predicted.

This angered me. I responded with a burst of misplaced outrage. I derided her friends for voting Bush, I derided my state, my countrymen, our president and his band of swine. I might have mentioned that everyone that voted for Bush should be “shot into the fiery heart of the sun.”

Does this sound familiar? Perhaps you yourself have had this conversation with a close friend or bitter rival. Do you feel disgusted with yourself for wanting to stay optimistic or are you ashamed that you want the next four years to be a disaster as a means of affirming your clarity of vision?

I understand. I flirted with trying to be optimistic for a few hours during my travels down Thayer Street, but David Bowie killed any chance of that optimism surviving on any longer. A friend of mine sent me a text message right after that, inviting me to numb my pain with chemicals. I declined but did bring her a dozen donuts as my contribution to the numbing process. We talked for a while, watched the Real World and came to no firm conclusion as to why we lost.

Perhaps this has been your response, a feeling of helpless stasis? Well, my friends, it is time to let that go.

I say this to you, Brown University, and to our coalition of the willing: stand firm. Now is not the time for turning on each other, nor is it the time to anesthetize our minds into oblivion. We are in store for some hard times. We must resolve ourselves not to a single battle, but to a protracted campaign.

This campaign will be forged here and now, in the shadow of the 2000 election, in the shadow of the 2004 election. We must resolve to carry on this fight not only during election time, but during the course of our lives. I am not only speaking to those who go out and protest, to those who damn the Man; I am speaking to those people who quietly cling to the liberal — yes, liberal — values that I and many others hold dear.

You could feel it on Thayer Street. The guy at Antontio’s was wearing a shirt that said “Free Speech.” Even the comic book shop denizens were cursing the fate of our country between rounds of Magic the Gathering. To paraphrase Ralph Ellison, look to the underground and it will speak to you.

When I left my friend’s room, I decided I needed a treat. I went to the costume shop above the post office, and the proprietors kindly allowed me to buy a royal purple suit jacket. As I walked back to my dorm, I reached into the breast pocket and found a brand new cigar. That’s got to count for something.

Daniel Hernandez ’06 can’t trace time.

It’s not that bad GUEST COLUMN BY MATT LAWRENCE

Before I make my argument, I would be remiss if I did not mention that something happened Tuesday night that all Brown students should be proud of. As you know, many Democratic Brunonians have been giving up their weekends over the course of this campaign to volunteer in nearby swing states of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, and their voices made a difference — Kerry won both.

For many Brunonians, Bush’s reelection is a cloud without a silver lining. But it’s not all that bad — really. Yes, we can all look forward to four more years of Bush, but don’t buy your ticket to Canada just yet. There are a lot of good reasons not to be discouraged. Here are a few: Iraq: Iraq is a mess, but electing Kerry would not have made the war go away. U.S. intelligence was wrong about why to go in, as were U.S. strategists about how to win. Kerry and many of his supporters had the naïve idea that he could come in with a fresh view and make everything better. This was all too reminiscent of Nixon’s “secret plan” to end the war in Vietnam.

There is no easy answer in Iraq, but do not doubt that Bush, who remembers “Mission Accomplished” as well as anyone, now realizes the difficulties. Bush has the experience and knowledge of the situation to bring about a resolution that will be good for both the United States and Iraq.

Furthermore, the Bush administration is now in the midst of reducing U.S. peacetime troop presence around the world, a plan that Kerry opposed. Most Brown students would agree that the fewer troops we have abroad, the better.

Terrorism: This one is easy. Laugh all you like at the duct tape, color coding and photographs of Bush buddy-buddy with Saudis in “Fahrenheit 9/11.” The fact remains that there has not been an attack in the United States since 9/11.

Abortion: Bush is unlikely to have an impact on Roe v

Wade. Today the concept of stare decisis — the idea that the court should reverse one of its decisions only with a very good reason — is more important than the issue of abortion itself. Even if Bush does manage to appoint three or more Supreme Court justices, it is very unlikely a change would be made, especially with the active, well-organized and vocal pro-choice lobby in this country. Even if the decision were reversed, this lobby would make it unlikely that many states could illegalize abortion.

Economy: Though Bush’s first term saw a net job loss, the major precipitating factors of this recession: the tech bubble collapse, Sept. 11 and the exposure of corporate corruption and malfeasance, were a long time in the making. Bush inherited the recession — he did not create it. He quickly addressed the situation with an aggressive system of tax cuts designed to jump-start the economy, and our present rate of growth shows that it has worked.

As for his deficit spending, it is a fact of the past two decades of presidential politics that the party in power spends while their opponents lament their spending. The occasional exception is a brief period of fiscal responsibility created by challengers who found themselves in power after criticizing deficit spending.

Incumbents tend to realize that more important than how much we owe is how much we produce. Bush, like many Democratic presidents, got us out of an economic crisis with deficit spending. Dubious? Look at the trends in any number of economic indicators, like the increase in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the decrease in inflation and unemployment. These numbers speak for themselves.

The next four years will be okay.

Matthew Lawrence ’06 is a Republican, but he insists that he doesn’t eat babies whole.

Goldwater revisited GUEST COLUMN BY MAHA ATAL

Wednesday morning at Brown, sleep-deprived students grappled with the shock of Tuesday’s Republican victory.

But in talking to my fellow students, I was struck by the failure of that shock to prompt any new questions. My fellow Democrats at Brown were talking of provisional and oversees absentee ballots, clinging to the hope that they might be able to swing this election on a technicality.

But this is not 2000, and Ohio is not Florida. What is clear, especially now that Kerry has conceded, is that this election did not hang on paper chads — Bush won by a large margin of the popular vote and as of this writing, will carry the electoral college 286 to 252.

Instead of attributing this loss to the errors made by the Kerry campaign in certain states or the structure of voting procedures, perhaps we should open our eyes to the possibility that Americans simply did not like John Kerry and what he and his party had to say.

Maybe America today is just a fundamentally conservative country where liberal values, as articulated by Democrats, no longer resonate.

I have always assumed that liberals, especially liberals like John Kerry (whose blue-blood background and perceived arrogance render him difficult for voters to connect to) will have a hard time playing in the heartland — that thesis is an old political record. But I, like most Democrats, have also assumed that this was a problem of tone, something clever campaigning could overcome, by giving Democrats the “just-folks” accessibility achieved by Republicans.

As I sat glued to CNN in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, it became clear that it’s a much deeper issue. The crucial state, Ohio, was one where Kerry’s policies should have played well, especially on jobs and the economy. But Ohio is also a state that is starkly conservative on social issues like gun control, abortion and gay marriage. Ohio, and consequently this election, was lost on values. Are the values of the Democratic Party irrevocably out of sync with the values of Americans?

CNN’s commentators seemed to think so. Tucker Carlson of “Crossfire,” though far from my favorite pundit, made a good point in equating what is happening to the

Democratic Party now to what happened to Republicans after Barry Goldwater's loss to Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Goldwater was a radical conservative who opposed President Eisenhower’s use of troops in Little Rock, Ark., and considered the Republican platform of his time “dime-store New Deal.” His loss challenged Republicans to re-evaluate their identity and to reconstitute their ideology without completely relinquishing their principles. As Carlson explained, they spent a generation “writing books and going to think tanks” and came back strong with conservatism as we have it today.

As painful as it might be, it might be just what we need.

When Kerry’s loss is coupled with the Republican gains in the Senate and the House (even taking down Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle), it becomes clear that liberalism’s position in America is tenuous at best.

In fact, this identity crisis of the left is a global phenomenon. In Europe, where the populace has grown increasingly conservative, Social Democrats like Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder and England’s Tony Blair have had to embrace a number of conservative ideas to survive. But they still face significant difficulties resonating with voters, because they have failed to address the underlying ideological issue. In the long run, re-formulating might be a wiser choice than covering it up with folksy rhetoric for the short term.

Some might argue that we did this with President Bill Clinton, the New Democrat, in the 1990s. but his success had more to do with his personal charisma, and the party at large does not seem to have caught on.

Brown is an undeniably liberal school; its students are the next generation of liberal leaders. We have the privilege of spending four years where our only responsibility is to think — who better then to come up with a new liberalism than us? Perhaps if we spend less time wallowing in the minutiae of what went wrong on Tuesday and more time figuring out what to do right for the next 20 years, the left can become once again a viable force in America.

It’s time to reconsider what it means to be liberal.

Maha Atal ’08 looks fabulous in a bowtie.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2004 · PAGE 12

Bandwagon fans need to knock it off Some scholars have recently attempted to answer the question, “Who is the single most annoying fixture in sports?”

Most fingers instinctively point to Tim McCarver, the rambling and MARC LANZA senile Fox comLANZA, NOT TONY DANZA mentator who makes up first names and openly roots for his favorite team. I, however, am compelled by an unadulterated hatred for all bandwagon fans to cast my vote for their cult.

These are the individuals, often not sports fans, who become the most passionate supporters of the local sports team when it makes a run deep into the playoffs. At no time in the past few years has there been a more nauseating example of this than with the Red Sox’s playoff runs this year and in 2003.

There is no task more excruciating than watching a game with these people. I’m throwing empty cans at the television and smashing my head against walls, letting out shrieks of agony and causing permanent vocal chord damage. Meanwhile, they clap like infants and employ the “Yaaay!” cheer (the same one used by parents when their newborns eat a spoonful of Gerber) at non-deserving plays. I think I’d rather watch the game with George Steinbrenner and Gilbert Gottfried.

I’m not just blowing off steam here.

The New England Patriots have put together one of the greatest football teams of all time, nearly a dynasty, and yet even as a Massachusetts native I refuse to wear “Go Pats!” shirts and pretend I’m a fan. I wasn’t watching the Pats when they were a mediocre team, so who am I to feign passion and love for them just because they’re on a roll?

This is the mentality I’m trying to pass on to the bandwagon fans, to the Jimmy Fallons who declare their allegiance and say that they’ve “converted” on national

see BANDWAGON, page 6

Former football head coach Whipple ’79 adjusting smoothly to life on NFL staff

BY STEPHEN COLELLI

Four days after the Boston Red Sox ended the Curse, the Pittsburgh Steelers ended the Streak.

The New England Patriots had not lost a football game since September 28, 2003 — a span of 21 games. Their NFL-record streak was shattered thanks in large part to the play of the NFL’s top rookie through the first half of the season, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The 11th pick in this year’s draft is a 22-year-old rookie with only five career starts in the league, but he is already working on a league record of his own: he is only the second quarterback in league history to win his first five starts.

As Roethlisberger continues to win games for the Steelers, Mark Whipple ’79 is helping his young protégé shine at the position he once excelled at for the Bears.

Whipple quarterbacked Bruno to second-

Judy He / Herald

BY PHILIP BUFFUM

The women’s tennis team finished an encouraging autumn with a successful showing at the Big Green Invitational in Hanover, N.H., last weekend. Although no Brown player made it to the finals, six singles players won matches to advance to play on Sunday, while the doubles teams all won matches over the two

“Living in Arizona was great because we played all year round,” Whipple said. “It was a big change going (to Brown) because I went from playing 13 or 14 football games a year to 9 or 10 games and getting snowed out in baseball. The cold weather was tough to deal with during baseball season, because we would always start late.”

Whipple had never seen the campus when he decided to attend Brown.

However, he quickly settled into life on College Hill. Playing sports was an easy way to meet people.

“The best part about playing in the Ivy League was the ability to meet kids at other schools,” said Whipple. “I met so many kids at the other (Ivy League) schools playing sports that I became

see WHIPPLE, page 8

Road unkind to field hockey in two losses

BY KATHY BABCOCK

Ashley Hess / Herald

Samantha Lloyd ’07 scored the field hockey team’s only goal at Holy Cross on Tuesday.The Bears fell 2-1 and have only one game left.

Fall season ends on high note for w. tennis at Dartmouth

Amanda Saiontz ’07 advanced to the semifinals in both singles and doubles at the Dartmouth Invitational.

place finishes in the Ivy League in 1977 and 1978 and also earned four varsity letters playing shortstop for the baseball team. Now, he is the Steelers’ quarterbacks coach, working daily behind the scenes with one of the biggest stories of the NFL season.

“Ben was certainly a ‘can’t miss’ prospect,” Whipple said. “But I could not say I could have predicted him playing this well this early.”

Whipple has a lot of experience with success. After his playing career at Brown, he went on to coach the Bears from 1994 to 1997. He led Bruno to a 24-16 record during his tenure and then compiled a 4926 mark in six years coaching the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Whipple’s career in football began while growing up in Phoenix, where he played both baseball and football.

days as well.

If the way the team played this fall is any indication, the spring has the potential to be a very special season, according to Head Coach Paul Wardlaw and his players.

The matches on Saturday, the first day of the tournament, could hardly have gone better for Wardlaw’s squad, with Bruno winning nine of 12 matches.

Amanda Saiontz ’07 led six singles players who made it to Sunday, winning 4-6, 6-3, 11-9 in an exciting A-flight match.

Only one Brown player failed to make it to Sunday: Daisy Ames ’07 fell to the tournament’s number one seed.

Sunday proved less fortunate for the Bears, as none advanced to the finals on Monday. Saiontz won 6-1, 6-4 to make it to the semifinals, but lost to the top seed 0-6, 6-1, 10-2. Anita Ivancevic ’08, playing in the B-flight, won her first match on Sunday 6-2, 6-4, before losing to the number one seed in her flight, 7-5, 6-2.

In doubles, Saiontz and Michelle Pautler ’07 played well, advancing by winning 8-1 and 8-4, before losing 8-6 in

see W. TENNIS, page 6

The field hockey team has spent a lot of time on a bus in the past week — to no avail.

The Bears dropped an Ivy game Sunday, 2-0, against the University of Pennsylvania and fell 2-1 Tuesday at the College of the Holy Cross. The team had hoped to maintain focus in its last four games, sending a message that it would be strong in the future even if it had to chalk this year up to experience. That did not happen, leaving the Bears at 5-10 and 2-4 in the Ivy League with one game remaining.

“I think with Penn we played well enough to win, but our Holy Cross game is the best I’ve seen us play all year,” said Head Coach Carolan Norris. “It has actually come together for us, and I hope that they can carry that into Yale.”

One of the redeeming qualities for the Bears this season was first-year goalie Kristen Hodavance ’08, who has been starting since Brown’s game against the University of Vermont and gave a strong rookie performance.

“I loved getting in there and playing,” Hodavance said. “I don’t see myself as a

freshman thinking ‘Oh my God, I’m starting.’ I’m a goalkeeper, and I’m getting in, and I’m playing. I think of myself as a goalie rather than as a freshman sometimes.”

Goalie Katie Noe ’05 had been a starter since her first year but suffered an injury early in the season. However, Noe was able to come in for the final minutes against Holy Cross on Tuesday. The coaches will decide on Friday if Noe is well enough to start on Saturday. But regardless of Noe’s status, Hodavance has done very well in goal, quelling fears about goaltending next year. She made three saves against Penn and two against Holy Cross.

The Bears were out-shot 8-1 against Penn on their slow turf, even though players felt the game was competitive.

“We definitely showed up and played and competed, but they just out-shot us and finished,” Hodavance said. “But we were in the game — it wasn’t like they were totally dominating.”

The loss to Holy Cross was more surprising, considering the Bears held a 14-4

see F. HOCKEY, page 8

Fencing squad opens season with three gold medals at “The Big One”

BY ZANETA BALANTAC

Mixing 15 schools, 260 players and driving ambition together in one tournament always generates a tough competition.

This pressure, however, did not stop the fencing team from stepping up to the challenge at “The Big One,” an individual tournament held at Smith College last weekend.

Head Coach Atilio Tass had stressed that the players must do more than concentrate on their own matches this season.

“Coach this year has really been pushing to have a strong support, high energy, and enthusiasm for our team members and to really be there in competitions cheering each other on,” said foilist Jennifer Hausmann ’07.

This effort to remain positive seemed to help the team in this competition.

Despite both the men and women finishing with losing records last season, at this meet, Brown walked away with nine top10 finishers and gold in three of the tournament’s six events. Team members were

pleased with the team’s improvement from their showing at last year’s meet, which features powerhouses like Boston College, Tufts University, Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“I knew that the competition is always strong at the Big One,” said captain and two-time All-American Ruth Schneider ’06. “Traditionally, it’s our warm-up tournament, and it’s a time when we get all of our new recruits and our new teammates a chance to fence. And we did remarkably well, winning three of the six events.”

For the women’s squads, the team showed great promise from both rookie and veteran fencers.

In women’s epee, Schneider nabbed the first gold for Brown, outplaying 43 other fencers in the process. This came as no surprise after her fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships last season and 12th-place finish the year before.

see FENCING, page 7