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Some transfer students asked to switch rooms, despite U.’s efforts BY STEVE MOILANEN

Some transfer students will be forced to move into vacant dorm rooms at the end of the semester, despite having the impression that they could stay in their temporary housing locations for the entire year. Originally, the University told 31 transfer students they would have to move, but after many students expressed dissatisfaction about the plan, administrators are working to minimize the number and impact of the moves. Because there was insufficient permanent housing for all the transfer students at the beginning of the year, the 31 transfer students were placed in temporary housing in converted lounges. According to Richard Bova, director of residential life, transfer students in temporary housing were given a letter when they came to campus that said that they would be asked to move at the end of the first semester. But Rebecca Neipris ’06 said she does not remember the letter suggesting that the housing was temporary. “Our letter said nothing about the short term,” she said. As a result, Neipris said, she was under the impression that she could remain in converted housing for the entire year. And at a meeting during orientation, Interim Dean for Campus Life Margaret Klawunn again gave students the impression that they could remain in temporary housing all year, students said. Klawunn said that at that meeting, she tried to explain the distinction between temporary housing and converted housing. She recalls that she said temporary housing would be used for just a short period of time and anyone in temporary housing would be obligated to move in

see TRANSFERS, page 7

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Richard Moss ’06 has a book signed by Randy Cohen, the New York Times Magazine’s ‘Ethicist,’ Tuesday night at Brown Hillel.

‘Ethicist’ emphasizes individuals’ and community’s responsibility to uphold morals BY STEPHANIE CLARK

New York Times “ethicist” Randy Cohen is not qualified for his job — or so he insisted to a large audience at Brown Hillel Tuesday night. Identifying himself as an “accidental ethicist,” Cohen said that in a democracy, ethics should be questions that every ordinary citizen can answer. Every member of a community has an obligation to make that community bet-

Police step up oncampus presence in response to crime wave Student unhurt in mugging on Williams Street Monday night BY LESLIE KAUFMANN

Redoubled efforts by the Department of Public Safety and Providence Police Department are bringing an increased police presence to campus, according to a campus-wide e-mail sent Tuesday night by Vice President of Campus Life and Student Services David Greene and Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter. Both the number of patrols and the level of support from plainclothes officers and detectives will be upped as a result of a meeting between DPS and

PPD leaders Tuesday. These efforts come after weeks of increased police presence in response to a rash of muggings and assaults on and near campus. In the most recent assault, a female Brown student was mugged on Williams Street at approximately 7:05 p.m. Monday night, according to an email sent by the Department of Public Safety. The victim was not injured and her attacker was not apprehended. The robber approached the victim near the intersection of Williams and Governor streets, carrying what appeared to be a long-barreled weapon tucked under his right arm.

see CRIME, page 3

ter, he said. Cohen is the author of a column in the New York Times Magazine titled “The Ethicist,” which features his responses to various ethical dilemmas sent to him by readers. He began as a writer on “Late Night with David Letterman” and has also written a book called “The Good, the Bad and the Difference,” which is based on his column. Cohen led a lecture and ques-

Religious values aren’t only for Republicans, according to Jacob Izenberg ’08 column, page 11

Fokion Burgess ’07 says the candidates didn’t talk about issues that affect those who need the most help column, page 11

see ETHICIST, page 4

University considers additional locations for Class F parties BY JANE PORTER

In response to the strict enforcement of fire code regulations that went into effect this year, the University is taking steps to expand options for program house parties. Facilities throughout campus are being evaluated for their potential use as Class F party spaces, said Ricky Gresh, director of student activities. The search for new party spaces is one of the alternatives to holding Class F parties in large University facilities. Gresh met with members of the Greek Council, Undergraduate Council of Students and a program house last week to discuss alternate party spaces. “We went through the whole campus and looked through every building,” he said of last week’s meeting. “We brainstormed all the spaces on campus and which ones might lend themselves to be social or event spaces.” Gresh would not specify

which spaces are being considered. The ideal space would have a capacity of about 200 people and would be close to the center of campus, he said. No new venues have yet been approved as acceptable spaces for such events. Spaces like the ballroom in Alumnae Hall, with its low-hanging chandeliers, and Sayles Hall, with its extensive collection of oil paintings, are not conducive to large student parties, Gresh said. Holding events in these buildings is expensive and takes a great deal of planning and management, said Phil O’Hara, assistant director of student activities. Groups must pay for equipment, additional security and cleanup costs and are liable for any damage done to the facilities. “We know our house top to bottom,” said Xander Boutelle ’05, president of Phi

see PARTIES, page 4

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I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 0 , 2 0 0 4 Rob Sand ’05.5 thinks it’s time for Democrats to make politics about morals, too column, page 11

tion-and-answer period titled “An Evening with the Ethicist,” co-sponsored by Brown Hillel, the Department of Philosophy, the chaplain’s office and The Herald. Although Cohen deals with a serious subject, he takes a lighthearted approach in his column that was also apparent in

Chris Hatfield ’06 thinks the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers just might have what it takes sports column, page 12

Zak DeOssie ’07 is simply following his father’s example as the Bears’ rising star quarterback sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “PROTECT YOURSELF, PROTECT YOUR COMMUNITY AGAINST CRIME” 1 p.m. (MacMillan 115) — This safety presentation by the Department of Public Safety will provide information on crime prevention and risk-awareness education for all community members.

“GOODBYE GREEN PASTURES” 8 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) — National People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spokesperson Loring Harkness will present this lecture on the history and environmental impacts of animal agriculture.

FELLOWSHIPS: WRITING A SUCCESSFUL FELLOWSHP PROPOSAL 6:30 p.m. (Swearer Center for Public Service, 25 George St.) — This workshop will cover the elements of strong fellowship proposals and various strategies for approaching proposals. Participants will look at examples of other successful proposals.

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MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Brown Rice Garden Casserole, Kale and Linguica Soup, Cheese Pizza, White Pesto Pizza, Pancakes, Grilled Breakfast Sausage, Buffalo Chicken Wings, Magic Bars, Apple Turnovers.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Country Wedding Soup, Chicken Andouille, Shrimp Jambalaya, Vegetable Strudel with Cheese, Magic Bars.

DINNER — Sundried Tomato Calzone, Asparagus Spears, Hamburgers, Cavatini, Talapia Provencale, Hawaiian Pizza, Grilled Chicken, Italian Vegetable Saute, Italian Meatballs, Orange Delight Cake.

DINNER — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Country Wedding Soup, Roast Turkey with Sauce, Spinach Stuffed Squash, Mashed Potatoes, Bread Stuffing, Italian Bread, Orange Delight Cake.

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Underground Railroad expert highlights importance of trail BY ELIZABETH MAPLES

Challenging the conventional wisdom that history is all in the past, Spencer Crew ’71 outlined the debated history of the Underground Railroad, the myth surrounding it and the necessity of understanding its enduring relevance Tuesday night. Crew’s speech, this year’s George Morgan lecture, was titled “The Struggle Against Slavery: The Story of the Underground Railroad” and was the latest installment in the lecture series sponsored by the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The Wayland Collegium cosponsored the event, which brought Crew to campus from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, where he is the executive director and CEO. On Monday, Crew led a discussion after the screening of the PBS documentary, “Unchained Memories,” an event also supported by the committee. Characterizing the Underground Railroad as a “successful interracial movement” that should serve as an inspiration to those who are not free today, Crew told The Herald on Tuesday that most contemporary issues spring out of history. “The question is, are (historical injustices) really in the past?” Crew said. “The legacy of race continues to plague us.” During his lecture, he focused on the sometimesuncertain history of the Underground Railroad and its legacy, rather than overtly discussing their implications. He characterized the United States as entangled in slavery well before the Civil War, pointing out that the country produced seven-eighths of the world’s cotton and that the White House was occupied by someone sympathetic to slavery for 50 out of the 72 years between the

Washington and Lincoln presidencies. “Slavery was probably the most dominant economic and political force of that century,” Crew said. “We were the OPEC of cotton in the 19th century.” After covering the historical background, Crew spent most of his lecture talking about the most valiant and often most overlooked participants in the Underground Railroad — the slaves themselves. Historically, Crew said slaves “were seen as a sidebar,” but he said they took proactive roles and faced simultaneously losing and gaining the most from their choice to pursue freedom. “For each person, you were going against the laws of the land, you were going against the majority of the population,” Crew said. He presented several stories — some that were passed down orally, others that were later documented — of courageous slaves who escaped enslavement through the Underground Railroad’s network. Henry Box Brown, a slave from Virginia, mailed himself in a box with the help of abolitionists and arrived in Philadelphia as a free man. The fabled Aunt Betsy hid her family under piles of vegetables to be delivered from Kentucky to the free Ohio and then set them loose after crossing the Ohio River. In all of Crew’s stories, the slaves reached freedom through the complicated and often unorganized network of people that composed the Underground Railroad. Crew also highlighted the importance of free black communities in the North that protected escaped slaves, citing Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati as the hubs of these communities. Crew said

see SLAVERY, page 7

Crime continued from page 1 After taking the student’s handbag and cell phone, the robber was seen entering the passenger side of a beige vehicle with unknown plates, according to the e-mail. The police were unable to confirm whether the object was actually a weapon, and at no point was it actually pointed at the victim. The e-mail described the perpetrator as “possibly a light skinned Hispanic male” who was wearing a light-colored T-shirt, baggy pants and hoop earrings. He was 5’5” with black hair slicked back and had long sideburns. Though the Monday crime has not been solved, PPD has arrested several suspects in conjunction with earlier crimes and through interrogation has determined that the crimes are unrelated, according to a campus-wide e-mail sent by Hunter on Friday. In that e-mail, Hunter also wrote that DPS and PPD have both taken steps to increase the number of officers patrolling the campus and surrounding area, and that DPS is currently working with the Department of Facilities Management to discuss improving the lighting in certain areas.

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Parties continued from page 1 Kappa Psi. “We know all the ins and outs and all the liabilities.” Understanding such liabilities becomes trickier when student groups are using facilities they are much less familiar with, he said. The Office of Residential Life provides groups with a $500 subsidy for each party held in these larger facilities. But the crucial issue lies not in the financial difficulties of holding such events but in the “flavorless social scene” they offer to students, Boutelle said. He is concerned that such “flavorless” events are pushing students away from the oncampus social scene. “There is a loss on campus that I don’t think is being paid enough attention to,” he said. In response to such student feedback, the Student Activities Office and Department of Public Safety have been looking for safe and more appealing alternatives, Gresh said. Occupancy limits in program houses were recently revised to include the spaces available in house libraries. As a result, the capacity was increased to 125. This additional space enables houses to increase the size of their parties by about 15, O’Hara said. Libraries were not included when space capacities were originally calculated because they were not considered areas of assembly, according to

Stephen Morin, director of environmental health and safety. According to fire code standards, assembly areas generally hold 50 or more people. “They were added at the request of the greeks,” Morin explained. Occupancy limits are calculated based on the amount of available space within a given facility, allotting 7 square feet per person, Morin said. O’Hara said he hopes the change will encourage groups to have more in-house parties that abide by fire code restrictions. “I think that was helpful because I see more functions being held in those areas,” Morin said. “That’s our legal limit, so that is what we are able to do.” After capacities were increased, Boutelle’s fraternity held the first in-house Class F party of the year two weeks ago. The party did not exceed occupancy limits, and Boutelle said it was a success. Party managers were at the door throughout the night controlling the number of people entering, said Chris Talbot ’06, Phi Psi social chair. Notes from last week’s meeting regarding potential party spaces will be reviewed, and possibilities will be presented to David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services. “This will hopefully trigger a more intense look at some specific possibilities,” Gresh said. Herald staff writer Jane Porter ’06 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com

Ethicist continued from page 1 his lecture. After a disclaimer about his lack of official credentials — “I’d feel better about the job if I did have a Ph.D. and a bigger apartment,” he joked — Cohen focused his talk on the concept of ethics as civic duty. “Ethics are not just what we do in crisis,” he said, saying that one must address the conditions that lead to a dilemma, not just the decision itself. As an example, Cohen discussed the decision of whether to give money to a homeless person on the street. The ethical dilemma does not only take place in the moment of decision about whether to give the person money, Cohen said — an ethical person goes home and takes action to fix the conditions that cause homelessness in the first place. Cohen emphasized the reciprocal responsibility between a society and the individuals who live in that society. He said people’s behavior can be changed if the conditions and expectations of the society are changed, calling it the “transforming power we have over society.” He used the example of crowds vying for cabs outside Madison Square Garden in New York City. Once a line and the words “cab line” were painted on the sidewalk, people voluntarily waited their turn instead of fighting. Without outside intervention, individuals in a closed society can sometimes lose their sense of what is right if their surroundings

or their peers are corrupt, Cohen said, giving the prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison as an example. Cohen said emphasizing individual responsibility is not enough. “Hold people responsible for their actions, but don’t stop there. You have to create conditions in which people will be inclined to behave better,” he said. On the other hand, he said people must consider the effect that their individual actions will have on the greater community. Cohen discussed three methods that have traditionally been used as guidelines when making ethical decisions. The first is transparency, which is the idea that the way for a person to be ethical is to behave as if his or her actions can be seen by everyone. However, Cohen said this method is flawed because there are some acts that, while not unethical, require privacy — such as showering. “The desire for privacy is not a confession of wrongdoing,” he said. The second method Cohen mentioned is that of categorical imperative. This is the idea that before engaging in an action, one should ask oneself, “What if everyone did this?” The problem with this theory lies in the fact that there are some situations for which a variety of responses is necessary — for instance, credit card companies would go out of business if everyone paid their bills on time, he said. The last and most widely used method to test the morality of one’s actions is the application of religious standards. Cohen said this method is a problem because the beliefs of a particular religion cannot be universally applied, and because many people who use this method hold selective views of their religion’s concept of morality. “I rely on none of these,” Cohen said. He was then left to explain his own standards of ethics and the method he uses to solve the preponderance of ethical dilemmas

people pose to him. “I am in favor of anything that will increase the supply of human happiness,” Cohen said. He favors kindness, compassion, fairness and generosity, as well as individual liberty and freedom of expression. The challenge of making ethical decision is in reconciling all of these principles, he said. As for the specifics of his job, Cohen joked that it only made him more aware of his own shortcomings. “Writing this column hasn’t made me the slightest bit better,” he said. The most common questions he receives are “duty to report” questions — whether a person has an obligation to report another’s wrongdoings. Cohen believes it depends on the situation. “You must come forward when not doing so will result in direct imminent harm to a specific person,” but not simply society at large, he said. Another frequent type of question Cohen is presented with is the “cheap rationalization” question. These are essentially questions that ask Cohen to justify obviously bad behavior, he said. “All of us want to think we’re essentially a good person,” he said. “Even the axe murderer, as he’s about to sink the axe into his victim, is thinking ‘Yeah, I have my reasons.’” When trying to decide on an ethical course of action, law is an “interesting” place to start, Cohen said. But it must be kept in mind that “what’s legal and what’s ethical are not necessarily the same thing.” “Law is simply an official roster of what is and is not permitted in a society,” he said. For Cohen, the attempt to build a better society is the bottom line. “We are not isolated individuals but members of a community, and our ethics must reflect that,” he said.

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floor. Liberal groups who have opposed Bush’s nominees view the tactic with alarm. Elliot Mincberg, the vice president of the People for the American Way Foundation, said Tuesday any effort to exact a pledge from Specter to support such a move “would be an astonishing example of almost senatorial blackmail.” Those groups and most Democrats say it is up to Bush to set a bipartisan tone with his Supreme Court nomination, negating the need for a filibuster fight.

continued from page 5 is safe in light of his efforts to clarify his remarks and pledge his loyalty to Bush. But other influential Republicans have asked that Specter meet behind closed doors with the Judiciary panel and with his fellow Republican senators, and later appear publicly, to state that as chairman, he would do whatever was necessary to give Bush’s nominees yes-or-no votes on the Senate

Herald senior staff writer Stephanie Clark ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Specter is pressured to back filibuster ban

Arafat’s death could prompt first election since 1996

WASHINGTON (Baltimore Sun) — The raging

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Los Angeles Times)

fight over the federal judiciary that has long divided the two parties has now sparked a heated Republican tussle on Capitol Hill, as conservatives and moderates feud over how much power President Bush should have to advance a new Supreme Court nominee. Sen. Arlen Specter, the moderate Pennsylvania Republican in line to chair the Judiciary Committee, is under strong pressure from conservatives in his party to promise he would support a move to give Bush’s nominees an up-or-down vote in the Senate, by helping Republican leaders force a change in a nearly century-old rule to prevent judges from being blocked by a filibuster. It is highly unlikely that the change will occur, say senior aides on both sides, but an intensive push for it was reawakened last week when Specter, a supporter of abortion rights, touched off a firestorm in his party’s ranks by saying Bush would have trouble winning confirmation of an anti-abortion rights Supreme Court nominee. The issue has taken on greater urgency in recent days, after Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 80, revealed that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and delayed his return to the court, indicating that his retirement could be imminent. A promise to help alter long-standing Senate rules is part of the penance some Republican conservatives are demanding from Specter, whose comments were widely interpreted as a veiled warning to Bush against nominating conservatives who oppose abortion rights. The strong reaction — which has reverberated around the country, prompting a flood of phone calls to Capitol Hill and a “pray-in” Tuesday to block Specter from the chairmanship — made it clear that conservatives see the judicial fight as a gauge of Bush’s power in his new term, and that they plan to use it to stretch the limits of the president’s clout as he sets out to achieve his goals. “It’s one of the key issues on which they voted for President Bush — those 59 million people who did so,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is among the conservatives pressing Specter to endorse the filibuster rule-change. “People expect, and they regard it as a fair process, where nominees go through the (Judiciary) committee, and then go to the floor, and then people get an up or down vote.” Specter has said his comments last week were taken out of context. He said he simply meant to acknowledge the mathematical reality of the Senate; even after their gains on Election Day, Republicans still have only 55 votes in the Senate — short of the 60-vote majority they need to overcome Democratic filibusters. Democrats used filibuster tactics last year to block five of Bush’s lowercourt judicial picks. “What I was saying was that when you have to have 60 votes in order to cut off debate. . . and you have 55 Republicans, that’s an issue we have to face,” Specter told CNN this week, “and it is just a political fact of life.” But the fifth-term Pennsylvanian has nonetheless had to spend the past week mending fences with his colleagues — especially conservatives — and pledging that as chairman, he would work to win approval of Bush’s nominees in the Judiciary panel. Specter did not respond Tuesday to

repeated requests to his Senate office for an interview. Specter has long advocated changing Senate rules to ensure that judicial nominees could get through the Senate committee process and to the floor within a set time — a revision that would deny senators the right they have now to block any nominee from the floor. He has reiterated his support for such a procedure in private conversations with colleagues in recent days, senators and aides said. Conservatives, however, want Specter to go further, and endorse a move that would effectively end the right of senators to use a filibuster to block a presidential nominee. Changing Senate rules can take as many as 67 votes, so Republicans would likely have to resort to essentially shortcircuiting regular Senate procedures to set a new precedent — to alter the filibuster rules. Under that scenario, Republicans could ask their presiding officer — most likely Vice President Dick Cheney — to rule that it was unconstitutional to require more than 51 votes to confirm a nominee. Republicans would have to muster only a simple majority to sustain that ruling — thus setting a new precedent that judicial nominees could not be filibustered. The rule-change tactic was last used by Democrats in 1975. Most regard the move as highly unlikely in a chamber that prizes precedent above virtually everything else, and extremely dangerous in an institution that depends on compromise to operate. Senate leaders, who have long regarded the filibuster rule-change as a last resort in the judicial fight, have not asked Specter to sign onto it, senior Republican aides said Tuesday. A week before Republicans will meet on Capitol Hill to elect new committee chairmen, most said that they believe that Specter’s post

see FILIBUSTER, page 4

— Ambulance driver Talal Eideh has a message for officials who may soon confront the question of how to replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian president: Follow the law and put it to a vote. “There should be elections. The people ought to decide who takes his place,” said Eideh, 43, who added that he was not politically involved. “We don’t want others to choose for us. We want to be the ones to make a choice.” Arafat’s deteriorating condition — and the fact that his death would remove Palestinian society’s dominant figure —is prompting reformers and ordinary residents to press for filling the vacuum through open elections rather than backroom bargaining. The so-called Basic Law, which serves as a constitution for the Palestinian Authority, spells out how presidential succession is to be handled. Under that law, the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Rawhi Fattouh, takes over as caretaker for 60 days, when an election would be held to select a new president. Despite the law, there is no guarantee that a presidential election would occur if Arafat dies, analysts say, because elections have been scrapped in the past. Supporters of a presidential vote, which would be the first in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1996, say it may be the only way to make certain that a new leader can boast enough public support to govern after the passing of a chief as popular, if often ineffective, as Arafat. “There is a great opportunity to have free, democratic elections, and this is the only way to ensure that you have a legitimate leadership,” said Mustafa Barghouthi, head of the reformist Palestinian National

Initiative. But several factors may make a swift election unlikely. For one thing, Arafat would also be succeeded in his separate role as chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the internationally recognized body from which the Palestinian Authority draws its power. That post, in many ways more powerful and prestigious than president, seems likely to be assumed by Arafat’s PLO deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, a former Palestinian Authority prime minister seen as having a weak public following. Moreover, some Palestinian officials say they aren’t sure that an election campaign is feasible when Israeli roadblocks, checkpoints and closures severely limit movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. If candidates can’t move freely to campaign, they say, elections would be pointless. Palestinian leaders say they are not focusing on succession arrangements as long as Arafat is alive. But a highranking Palestinian official, National Council head Selim Zaanoun, suggested Saturday that the parliament might have to revise the succession law if limitations make an election unworkable. Under such a change, Zaanoun said, the new PLO chairman would become president of the Palestinian Authority until elections could be held. Justice Minister Nahid Rayyas agreed, saying that a change in the law might be needed “to fill the gap” in the event Arafat died. Such talk does not comfort election supporters. While the prime minister runs the government from day to day, the president holds important powers, such as signing or vetoing legislation, overseeing Palestinian emissaries

see ARAFAT, page 9

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Ashcroft, Evans resign from Cabinet WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — John Ashcroft, the combative attorney general whose anti-terrorism policies made him the focus of a fierce national debate over civil liberties, resigned Tuesday along with Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one of President Bush’s closest friends. The departure of Ashcroft, 62, marks the exit of one of the most controversial and influential figures of Bush’s first term, a man who provided reliable fodder for Democrats on the campaign trail and served as a visible representative of the evangelical Christians who played a crucial role in re-electing the president. In a five-page handwritten resignation letter to Bush— dated Election Day but released Tuesday—Ashcroft took credit for declining crime rates and preventing additional terrorist attacks during his tenure. “The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,” he wrote. But Ashcroft, who had his gallbladder removed in March after he was hospitalized for

pancreatitis, also wrote that the “demands of justice are both rewarding and depleting” and that “the Department of Justice would be well served by new leadership and fresh inspiration.” Bush said in a statement Tuesday night that Ashcroft “has worked tirelessly to help make our country safer” and has “transformed the department to make combating terrorism the top priority.” The resignations were the first departures from Bush’s Cabinet since the re-election, and administration officials said they came for very different reasons. Ashcroft—aware of the controversy he provoked and, according to friends, exhausted after his illness—pre-emptively offered his letter before the White House initiated a formal discussion about his future. Evans, 58, often described as Bush’s best friend, was eager to return to Texas to rejoin family members, who had already moved back. A White House official said Bush considered Ashcroft’s res-

ignation at Camp David over the weekend and decided to accept it this week. Ashcroft said in his letter that it was handwritten “so its confidentiality can be maintained.” Many administration officials have said they would like Ashcroft’s former deputy, Larry Thompson, to succeed him. But Thompson, who would be the nation’s first African American attorney general, recently became a senior executive at PepsiCo in Purchase, N.Y., and has indicated he is not interested, officials said. Among other contenders are White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, who would be the first Hispanic attorney general, and Marc Racicot, a former Montana governor who was chairman of Bush’s re-election effort, administration officials said. Ashcroft’s deputy, James Comey, would be considered, but administration officials said they did not foresee him getting the nod. Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Gov. George Pataki also are on the handicap lists of administration

insiders. Most are considered more moderate than Ashcroft. Ashcroft’s own nomination was the subject of a pitched battle in the Senate, which confirmed his appointment in February 2001 by a modest margin along partisan lines. In a message to Justice employees Tuesday, Ashcroft said he would continue to serve as attorney general until his successor is confirmed. Ashcroft, the son and grandson of Assemblies of God ministers, spent most of his political career as an attorney general, governor and U.S. senator in Missouri. He explored a run for president in 1998 as the candidate of the religious right. But Ashcroft became the nominee for U.S. attorney general after losing his re-election bid in November 2000 to another former Missouri governor, Mel Carnahan. Carnahan had died in an airplane crash several weeks before the election; his wife served in his stead. Ashcroft was thrust into a

see ASHCROFT, page 7

U.S. continues push into Fallujah NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (Washington Post)—U.S. forces pushed into the

heart of Fallujah on Tuesday, encountering roadside bombs, rockets and gunfire on the second day of a battle to wrest control of the city from insurgents. Army and Marine units that entered Fallujah from the northeast and northwest on Monday night had fought their way to the city center and beyond by Tuesday night, U.S. commanders said. Soldiers with the Army’s 1st Infantry Division made their way to the southeastern part of the city, a neighborhood of factories and warehouses where they expected to find guerrillas waiting for them. Instead, the district was relatively quiet, though the units reported being fired on by women and children armed with assault rifles. “There were multiple groups running around shooting at us,” said Air Force Senior Airman Michael Smyre, 26, of Hickory, N.C., an airstrike spotter attached to the 1st Infantry who was wounded when a rocket hit his armored vehicle. “You could see a lot of rubble, trash everywhere. It was real nasty-looking.” Marines fighting to the west of the Army units advanced to the main east-west highway that divides Fallujah and reported persistent resistance from insurgents firing from mosques. The U.S. military said 10 U.S. troops and two members of Iraq’s security forces were killed in the first two days of the battle, the largest military operation since the U.S.-led invasion last year. U.S. and Iraqi leaders hope the assault will break the grip of insurgents who have held Fallujah for nearly seven months. Some Iraqi political and religious groups condemned the push into Fallujah, a stronghold of Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority. A leading Sunni organization, the Iraqi Islamic Party, quit the country’s interim government, and Sunni clerics on Tuesday made good on threats to call for a boycott of January elections. Harith Dhari, head of the pro-insurgency Association of Muslim Scholars, said balloting would occur “over the corpses of those killed in Fallujah.” Insurgents elsewhere in Iraq, meanwhile, continued a strategy of mounting attacks. In Baqouba, a restive city northeast of Baghdad, armed bands attacked two police stations. Police officials and the U.S. military said the attacks were beaten back. A car bomb at an Iraqi National Guard camp outside the northern city of Kirkuk killed three people and wounded two. And two U.S. service members were killed in a mortar attack on a base in Mosul, also in the north. In Baghdad, where insurgents on Monday night detonated a car bomb outside a hospital treating victims of two car bombs outside churches, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi imposed a curfew from 10:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. U.S. fighter jets made low passes over the capital, a show of strength rarely seen since the 2003 invasion.

see FALLUJAH, page 8

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Ashcroft continued from page 6 central role in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He presided over an expansive federal dragnet that apprehended and deported hundreds of Arab and South Asian foreign nationals on immigration violations, but resulted in relatively few convictions for terrorism. Ashcroft helped shepherd a package of stringent anti-terrorism measures, the USA Patriot Act, through Congress, and used the new powers to dramatically restructure the mission of the FBI and Justice Department, which became primarily focused on thwarting another attack. Ashcroft came under persistent assault from Democrats, civil libertarians and even some Republicans, who questioned the Justice Department’s use of secretive court proceedings and aggressive surveillance and search techniques. The Supreme Court also rebuffed one of the Justice Department’s central antiterrorism strategies, ruling in June that men detained indefinitely without charges as enemy combatants by the U.S. military were entitled to lawyers and access to U.S. courts. Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, compared Ashcroft to A. Mitchell Palmer, who oversaw raids targeting thousands of alleged radicals as

Transfers continued from page 1 the near future. Implied in that statement, Klawunn said, was that those in converted housing could stay there indefinitely. Transfer Counselor Michael Thompson ’06.5 said Klawunn’s statements assured him and his advisees that they could remain in converted housing the entire year. Laura Healy ’07, who is being forced to move from her Woolley Hall room, said she was under the wrong impression from both “the letter we received during the summer and also from the discussion we had during orientation.” The lack of communication persisted until Nov. 1, when Chad Mank, director of housing, sent an e-mail to the students in temporary housing reminding them that they were obligated to move by the end of the semester.

Slavery continued from page 3 he hoped that the “cooperation, bravery and courage” of the participants in the Underground Railroad would serve as an example of how individuals can make a difference. This sentiment is echoed in the mission of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which opened its doors in August 2004.

attorney general in the Woodrow Wilson administration. “This attorney general has been one of the most divisive forces in the Bush administration,” Romero said. “His legacy will show that he was one of the worst attorney generals in American history, with an outright hostility for civil liberties and overt disdain for critics. ... If President Bush wants to make good on his promise to unite the country, he can do no better than to start with the attorney general.” But leading Republicans argue that Ashcroft helped transform the Justice Department and FBI at a time when the United States is under persistent threat of attack from al-Qaida and other terrorist groups. “His service came at a challenging time in our history,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said in a statement. “His dedication and commitment to fighting the war on terror has been critical to ensuring the safety of all Americans in our homeland.” A longtime friend of Ashcroft’s expressed bitterness that the White House had originally welcomed him as a lightning rod who drew criticism away from Bush, then decided not to stand by him. “He was something to offer to evangelicals,” said the friend, who declined to be identified. “They used him and now they’re done with him and he’s being tossed aside.” In his letters to Bush and

Justice employees, Ashcroft focused in part on accomplishments other than fighting terrorism, including increased prosecutions for gun crimes, a crackdown on drug trafficking and the convictions of top executives at Enron, Worldcom and other companies for corporate crimes. Ashcroft pushed the legal envelope on many hot-button issues. His department endorsed an expansive interpretation of the second amendment right to bear arms and sought to gain access to edited records of abortion patients from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America as it defended the Partial Birth Abortion Act in a lawsuit. On many issues, Ashcroft’s responses to criticism were often confrontational. He told a stunned Senate Judiciary Committee in December 2001 that criticism of government tactics “only aids terrorists,” and said two years later that librarians worried about FBI surveillance powers were “hysterics.” This April, Ashcroft, testifying before the Sept. 11 commission, characterized a legal memo written by one of the panel’s Democratic members as the “single greatest structural cause for the September 11th problem.” The bipartisan commission and many legal experts disputed the claim. Ashcroft plans to give speeches, join corporate boards and perhaps work with universities, administration officials said.

“As was explained at the time of your assignment this assignment will end in December if you have not already moved by that time,” the e-mail read. Students said the e-mail came as a surprise, and it wasn’t until they expressed their dissatisfaction to administrators that it became clear that there was confusion about the policy. “I wasn’t expecting the email,” Healy said. Thompson said that the e-mail came as a shock to everyone that he knew. Bova and Klawunn said the University is working to rectify the situation. Originally, all 31 of the students in converted housing were told they had to move at the end of the semester, but after administrators worked to allow as many as possible to stay, about nine of the 31 students are being obligated to move, Bova said. The other 22 will be allowed to stay for the rest of the year, he said. According to Bova, the nine students that are being forced to

move are those who occupy the only lounge space in a residence hall. Many of these lounges include the buildings’ only kitchens, situations where Bova said other residents needed to have their lounges back. Bova said the administration is working closely with the nine students who will have to move to make the transition as easy as possible. “We’re not going to throw them into the abyss,” he said. According to Klawunn, the students will receive their choice of available housing, and every effort will be made to insure that roommates are kept together in a group. Additionally, Bova said the University has hired a moving company to help the students, should they want the service. Even with efforts to make the transition as smooth as possible, students say being forced to move will be difficult. “Having to move is hard; having to move after being told you could stay is harder,” Thompson said.

Appointed in 2003 by President Ruth Simmons, the committee is sponsoring a series of events surrounding the questions of slavery, reparations and the University’s past and future involvement in both, particularly regarding the University’s ties to the slave trade. “The objective was not only to examine the institution’s history but also to try to enrich a conversation that too often unfolds in a point-counterpoint

kind of way. Americans don’t know how to talk about race and slavery,” said James Campbell, associate professor of history and chair of the committee. Events sponsored by the committee will continue through next fall, when Campbell said the committee hopes to figure out what it is “supposed to think, conclude and do.” The committee will submit a report to the Brown community by the spring of 2006.

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Fallujah continued from page 6 At a news conference in Baghdad, Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, the commander of foreign military operations in Iraq, said the assault on Fallujah had so far “achieved our objectives on or ahead of schedule.” He added, “I think we’re looking at several more days of tough urban fighting.” The general said the battle plan as a whole was on course. “We felt like the enemy would form an outer crust in defense of Fallujah. We broke through that pretty quickly and easily,” Metz said. “We also then anticipated him breaking up into small three- to six-person detachments or squads, which we’ve seen throughout the day, today especially.” Witnesses said that by Tuesday night, U.S. and Iraqi forces controlled the Jolan, Mualimeen and Askali neighborhoods in the north of Fallujah. They also held the Rawdha Muhammediya mosque, headquarters of the insurgent fighters and the mujaheddin shura, the city’s selfappointed government. The assault pushed insurgents into Shuhada and other neighborhoods in the southernmost part of the city, where they are fighting and hiding behind buildings and houses, witnesses said. Metz said that because U.S. forces formed a “very tight” cordon around the city Sunday night, the enemy “doesn’t have an escape route” and eventually would be cornered. But Sheik Abdul-Sattar Edatha, the spokesman for the shura council, said most foreign fighters had already left the city. The U.S. military had estimated that there were 2,000 to 3,000 foreign fighters in the city, many of them part of a network linked to Jordanian-born guerrilla leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. “Militarily speaking, the city falls under the U.S. forces’ control,” Edatha said. “The foreign fighters won’t stay here and die. They lost the battle. They spread in other places.” On Tuesday night, Fallujah’s eerily empty streets were littered with shattered concrete and dead bodies, said a resident shaken by a missile strike on the second story of his family home.

DeOssie continued from page 12 filling holes like a linebacker,” Estes said. “He was 210 pounds, but it was obvious he was going to fill out.” Linebackers are typically the most active players on defense, and DeOssie is not an exception. His team-leading 77 tackles attest to the fact that DeOssie is always around the ball, but it is his four sacks and the five pass deflections that show how much DeOssie does for the Bears. “I’ve been blitzing a lot,” DeOssie said. “I love coming off the edge, which of the three linebackers is usually my job.” The ability to rush the passer on some plays and drop back into coverage on others is one of the things DeOssie said has helped him become a more complete linebacker this season. “The transition from blitzing

Insurgents cloaked in checkered head scarves carried wounded fellow fighters to mosques. Civilians caught in the crossfire were gathered in a hospital donated by the United Arab Emirates and flying a blue and white UNICEF banner. There, medical workers low on bandages and antiseptic bound wounds in ripped sheets and cleaned torn skin with hot water. The Jolan and Askali neighborhoods seemed particularly hard hit, with more than half of the houses destroyed. Dead bodies were scattered on the streets and narrow alleys of Jolan, one of Fallujah’s oldest neighborhoods. Blood and flesh were splattered on the walls of some of the houses, witnesses said, and the streets were full of holes. Some of the heaviest damage apparently was incurred Monday night by air and artillery attacks that coincided with the entry of ground troops into the city. U.S. warplanes dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs on the city overnight, and artillery boomed throughout the night and into the morning. “Usually we keep the gloves on,” said Army Capt. Erik Krivda, of Gaithersburg, Md., the senior officer in charge of the 1st Infantry Division’s Task Force 2-2 tactical operations command center. “For this operation, we took the gloves off.” Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water. Insurgents reported being attacked with a substance that melted their skin, a reaction consistent with white phosphorous burns. Kamal Hadeethi, a physician at a regional hospital, said, “The corpses of the mujaheddin which we received were burned, and some corpses were melted.” In addition to ripping open entire neighborhoods, the armor assault also brought into the open an insurgent command that until this week remained shadowy even to Fallujah residents. Ex-generals from the former Iraqi army’s Republican Guard passed written orders, complete with official stamp, to subordinates who snapped salutes, witnesses said. Iraq’s new army, formed after occupation authorities dismantled the armed forces that had

served during the rule of Saddam Hussein, is taking part in the fight against insurgents in Fallujah, primarily as a rear element to help clear areas once U.S. forces have moved through. Marine commanders have declined to comment on the offensive, deferring to Iraqi officers. On Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Qadir Muhammed Jasim characterized the offensive as “a holy task to fight for Fallujah people.” “We will fight to the last drop of our blood to free our people,” he said at a news conference just outside the city. “We will fulfill the tasks we’ve been asked to do, with the cooperation of our friends.” Jasim said that resistance had been lighter than expected and that the Iraqi soldiers were in good spirits and eager to finish the operation. “The operation is going very precise and with a very small number of casualties,” he said. “In every place, we finish an operation, our forces start to distribute aid, food, clothes, blankets and even money. ... We are very sure that we are moving in the right way and will do the tasks we are asked to do very precisely.” Metz repeatedly praised Iraqi forces, saying they have “acquitted themselves very well in this fight.” Metz said the Iraqi soldiers have been used especially to search the city’s 77 mosques. “In several mosques today, lots of munitions and weapons were found, and they were found by those Iraqi soldiers,” he said. Metz’s account suggested a marked improvement among the Iraqi troops in recent months. In April, the last time U.S. commanders tried to use Iraqi forces in Fallujah, a battalion of freshly trained Iraqi troops refused to go. A senior Iraqi official said it was too early to tell how the Iraqi forces performed. “During the operation you always hear they’re doing good,” said Industry Minister Hachim Hasani. “After the operations are finished, we’ll find out.” Hasani’s political organization, the Iraqi Islamic Party, quit the interim government Tuesday to protest the Fallujah offensive. But Hasani, who opposed the U.S. Marine siege of the city earlier this year, quit the party Tuesday and retained his Cabinet post. “Iraq is larger than any party,” Hasani said. “Things should be done through the government, not outside the government.”

to covering receivers is something that has become easier for me now that I’m more comfortable in the defense,” DeOssie said. It was apparent at last week’s game against Yale how much DeOssie’s comfort level is increasing; he made one interception and tipped a pass that led to another interception. The former quarterback had Yale quarterback Alvin Cowan wishing DeOssie was still playing under center. The Bears’ playbook for the Yale game also featured a new way to use DeOssie’s talent. DeOssie lined up at wideout on third and goal early in the third quarter and barely missed making a touchdown grab. When asked whether DeOssie might be making a regular appearance on the offensive side of the ball in goal line situations Estes laughed and said, “If (opponents) keep lining up 5’5” corners against him, then yes.

We haven’t gotten too many opportunities to run it before, but it’s something we have worked on.” The versatility that DeOssie has displayed so far this season has combined with his knowledge of the game to make him one of the Ivy League’s top linebackers. “Zak could play any position we put him at and (playing) a lot of snaps (doesn’t) wear him out,” Estes said. “He’s an intelligent football player. He sees something before it happens and makes a break before anyone else.” Given his familiarity with the NFL, the possibility of following his father into the pros has crossed DeOssie’s mind. “It’s always a possibility in the back of my mind,” DeOssie said. “If it happens it happens, but right now it’s too far down the road to worry about. I’m concerned about finishing out the season strong.”

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Steelers continued from page 12 Steelers’ success is their topranked running game, which averages 160.8 yards per game. Even with Duce Staley out last week, Jerome Bettis found the fountain of youth and had his best rushing game since 2001. When both backs are healthy, the Steelers’ game plan keeps both fresh, making the run game a weapon it can use even when coming from behind. The Steelers’ one loss this season was the only game in which they did not rush for over 100 yards — hardly a coincidence. It will also be interesting to see if quarterback Ben Roethlisberger can keep up his current Rookie of the Year pace. Many have compared his season to that of Tom Brady three years ago, when he filled in for an injured Drew Bledsoe to take the Patriots to their first Super Bowl. That season, the Patriots built their offense around simple game plans that did not ask much of Brady, which is essentially what the Steelers have done this year.

Arafat continued from page 5 abroad and serving as commander in chief. Hani Masri, a commentator who writes a column in the semi-official Al Ayyam newspaper, said political insiders might view elections as a threat to their power and resist holding them. This would be especially true, he said, among the old guard within Arafat’s Fatah movement, which dominates Palestinian politics. “Elections will mean the end of Fatah’s hegemony,” Masri said. Such a vote could toss a wild card into Palestinian politics by providing a route to power for a new generation of reformers or a fresh stage for militant Islamist groups, such as Hamas, which boycotted previous elections. Hamas said recently that it would take part in municipal elections scheduled to begin next month, and leaders have suggested that the group would be involved in future national elections. Palestinians have not voted since 1996, when Arafat won in a landslide. . Palestinian authorities indefinitely postponed a national election scheduled for early last year, blaming Israeli restrictions. The Palestinian government launched a voter-registration drive this fall in preparation for a future vote for president and parliament, although no date was set. Officials said they signed up more than 1 million Palestinians, or about twothirds of those eligible. Yacoub Khattab, an unemployed former hotel worker in Ramallah, said allowing the public to determine Arafat’s successor would be a “step for democracy.” He was hard-pressed, however, to name anyone he viewed as a suitable replacement. “There is nobody like him,” said Khattab. “It’s going to be difficult.”

The main difference is that Roethlisberger has much better weapons to work with. Staley and Bettis are far superior to the combo of Antowain Smith and Kevin Faulk, with whom Brady won two Super Bowls. The Steelers’ top three wideouts — Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress and Antwaan Randle El — are superior to any such group in the league. Then, of course, there is the defense that held the Patriots and Eagles to 30 combined rushing yards the past two weeks. Even after the losses of Pro Bowl defensive lineman Casey Hampton and Pro Bowl cornerback Chad Scott for the year, the defense keeps improving. The team’s perennially outstanding linebacker corps, led this year by Joey Porter and James Farrior, with Kendrell Bell hurt, has been the heart of the defense. The maturation of safety Troy Polamalu is also key. The Steelers’ best hope to continue their current winning streak is to pray that opposing offenses don’t figure out how to exploit a defense that, on paper, should not be playing as well as it is. But all the analysis in the

world cannot point out the true heart of the Pittsburgh Steelers: Head Coach Bill Cowher. After 12 years at the team’s helm, Cowher has amassed a 122-77-1 record, posting only three losing seasons and reaching the playoffs eight times. For all the press that Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick deservedly gets, it’s time that Cowher be recognized as being in the same class, even if only for putting up with Kordell Stewart for all those years. While questions about whether the Steelers are for real have been answered with a resounding “yes” the last two weeks, it remains to be seen if they can keep up with the teams they just embarrassed. If Roethlisberger continues to mature on the job and the defense can hold, especially with Bell easing back into the lineup, expect to see Cowher’s familiar jutting jaw and spit-riddled tirades well into January. Chris Hatfield ’06 has been considered for the next few spots of the Brown intramural totem pole but at this point doesn’t strike fear into the hearts of his opponents.

Nascar continued from page 12 football team, say UCLA, winning three games in a row and not getting close to the conference championship because they had a slow start,” explained one NASCAR spokesman. “Look at Jimmie’s start. He was 11th, 10th, 37th and 32nd in his first four races. He’s lucky to be as close as he is.” Criticism of NASCAR points is nothing new. Since 1985, when Bill Elliott won 11 races and lost the championship to Darrell Waltrip, who won only three times, there have been movements to make winning more lucrative in the standings than consistent finishing. The system, in which a winning driver gets as few as 10 points more than the runner-up, stems from the preWinston Cup era, when drivers, notably David Pearson in the Wood Brothers Ford, ran only selected races and often did not contend for the championship. Winning races, particularly the big ones such as the Daytona 500, were considered more important than the championship. There

were as many as 55 races on the schedule, sometimes two on the same date, so no one could make them all. One of the changes made when R.J. Reynolds Tobacco put its Winston stamp on the series was to make the championship more significant than individual races. Consistency became key. Last year, Newman won eight races and finished sixth in points; Kenseth won one and the championship. In 1972 Terry Labonte won only two races to 10 for Gordon yet won the title, and in 1993 Rusty Wallace won 10 to the senior Earnhardt’s six but lost to the Intimidator. When the new format was introduced this year, the points system remained as it has been. A driver gets 180 points for winning and five more for leading a lap. The second-place driver gets 170 points. If he also leads a lap he, too, gets five bonus points. If he leads the most laps, he gets five more bonus points and his total of 180 points is only five fewer than the winner’s 185. After the 2004 champion is crowned, there may be some tweaking of the points system to weight winning heavier before the 2005 season opens.

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Safe choice While we like to think that we know right from wrong, we are certainly not experts in ethics. We’re college students, not Ph.D.’s in philosophy. Randy Cohen, who writes the “Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine, doesn’t have a Ph.D. in psychology, either. As he told an audience at Hillel on Tuesday night, he’s no more qualified for his job — dispensing ethical advice to readers — than we are. Cohen called himself an “accidental ethicist,” an ordinary citizen who has somehow ended up giving ethical advice to other ordinary citizens — people who, just like Brown students, have the responsibility of upholding and improving their communities. According to Cohen, people who live in a democratic society are obligated to make that society better. Cohen mentioned an important distinction between law and ethics. Harming another person is both illegal and unethical. But failing to prevent harm, while legal in most cases, is also unethical. We have obligations to this community — to nurture it, to improve it and to protect it. Though the Department of Public Safety and Providence Police Department are our primary means of protection, we also have an obligation to do what we can to keep each other safe. On Tuesday, the same day as Cohen’s lecture, members of the Brown community received an e-mail from administrators regarding the recent crime wave on College Hill. Though police are stepping up patrols and the University and city are working together to improve lighting near campus, the administrators appealed to students’ sense of right and wrong. It is up to us to alert police if we see something suspicious — even if we don’t know the person who might be in trouble. It is also our responsibility to accompany friends who would otherwise be walking alone at night, to use shuttle and Safewalk services and to encourage others to use them as well. Cohen would agree. If someone is hurt by our inaction, we are behaving unethically by hurting the communities in which we live — both Brown and College Hill. As residents of a democracy, we are obliged to leave this place better than we found it. There’s no better way to start than by keeping our classmates and fellow community members safe.

JOSEPH NAGLE

LETTERS Fleischmann’s comic inaccurate To the Editor: I found Akiva Fleischmann’s comic “Intensive Care Eunuch” (Nov. 9) to be highly offensive. For someone who attends Brown, he doesn’t seem to have a grasp on diversity. If you actually look at the gender studies department, there are very few listings available for classes. It is an under-stocked department and should have a larger curriculum that can compete with the

other heteronormative departments such as history (Dead White Men). Not only was Fleischmann’s comic offensive to me, but I have never found it funny in its entire run in The Herald. When it is not insulting minorities, it is stealing jokes from other sources. Andrew Miklos ’08 Nov. 9

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2004 · PAGE 11

ROB SAND

Reclaiming the moral high ground The presidential election has been over for a week. I'm talking now about 2006 and beyond. We Democrats need to redefine the “moral values” debate. Moral values was the largest issue on voters minds, and 80 percent of those voters when for Bush. Yet these “values” have largely amounted to abortion and homosexual rights. The “values” vote can be swung to Democrats, however, if we change the conversation to incorporate additional widely shared values. When I say “Republicans” in this column, I refer to their leaders, because I believe many Bush voters hold values beyond those mentioned above and are disappointed that he does not share them. If we show that we do, we can win. For too long, Democrats have advocated positions, proposals and policies without relating them to the fundamental values from which they are derived. This needs to end; Democrats need to start talking hearts, not minds. Many of these values are Christian values but are widely held outside of religion. Consider humility, or fairness. Humility is not 2.6 million full-time workers and their families living in poverty while CEOs make 419 times as much. Increasing Social Security taxes for wage earners, and then cutting taxes to disproportionately benefit the rich while bankrupting the Social Security need by those wage earners, is not fairness. Another winning value for Democrats is “love thy neighbor,” or simply the idea of helping the needy and downtrodden. George Bush talks of compassionate conservatism, but he cut housing aid for the urban poor. He redefined 6 million workers out of their qualification for overtime pay. He refuses to extend unemployment benefits to those who have recently lost their jobs. If Republican leaders bring up values, liberals must bring up how they refuse to help the needy. They haven’t learned to share. What about cleaning up after yourself? Republicans seem to think it’s okay to inhabit this earth and not leave it cleaner than you found it for the next generation. Do we not, when we are a guest at someone else’s house, try to leave it cleaner than we found it? Why, then, do Republicans write our energy bills behind locked doors, with special interests? Why have they cut Superfund cleanups? Why do they make upgrading pollution filters on coal plants a voluntary act? Along those same lines, do we give our kids a bill for food, shelter and clothing once they turn 18? Do we make loans to them for college and then charge interest on them? We should not be bankrupting the next generation so that we can live beyond our means. We cannot be so selfish. And even on abortion, Republican leaders don’t walk the walk. If someone truly, deeply wants to prevent abortion, for example, he or she would work to provide alternatives. Republicans refuse to fund safe-sex education. Abstinenceonly education doesn’t work; Bush instituted it while governor of Texas, and Texas now has the fifth-highest teenage pregnancy rate. Republicans profess valuing a “culture of life” but do not seem concerned about the quality of that life, as they continually ignore the needs of those who have abortions because they cannot afford a child or do not want to raise one in the environment they live in. Look at what has happened in other nations: Making abortion illegal doesn’t end it, but only makes it unsafe and undocumented. If we want to prevent abortion, we must focus on education, raising people’s incomes and rebuilding our inner cities and rural areas so that potential parents have hope for their potential children. The point is that the left has forgotten to talk about a whole slew of values, not positions or policies, that are dear to it. Many of my friends at Brown and I share values, but not religion, and thus rarely does it come up. But I am a Christian, and I will not sit quietly as my religion is exploited and misrepresented by Republican leaders. If you share my values but are uncomfortable with my associating them with religion, that’s unfortunate; remember, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., framed the civil rights movement with religion, while not excluding people without it. We need to work together. Because my faith is private, you may have never heard me mention religion before in three years at Brown. But religion has the power to create movements in the blink of an eye, and if the forces opposing us invoke it, we should as well. Rob Sand ’05.5 just put it on the line.

Dems gotta have faith GUEST COLUMN BY JACOB IZENBERG

If there was one prevailing factor in the presidential election, it was faith. Faith brought unprecedented numbers of voters to the polls for George W. Bush and made it a “sin” to vote for John Kerry in the eyes of some church leaders, and many of their followers. Faith handed the Republicans unprecedented control of every branch of government, a control likely to strength in coming years unless the Democrats wage the faith war on their own terms. I have heard talk from many friends and relatives in recent days about the hopelessness of the current political battle being waged to decide where the national political focus will be. The Democrats are the self-described party of inclusion and tolerance. This is something we cannot and will not abandon, something that defines us and makes us so wonderful. Still, we are a party filled with the faithful, in a country filled with the same, and so there is absolutely no reason why we cannot let our faith draw people to us. A fear of alienating our most liberal voters has led Democrats to tread lightly on matters of faith. We are constantly defending ourselves against accusations that we are godless, and we have let the Republicans define faith and use it against us. This is where we have lost, and lost huge. This is also the very territory on which to turn the tables and win the faith war. Why is it that those aspects of faith that tend to work for more traditional Republican values seem to be the only aspects of faith and religion ever brought into politics? Why is it that only those tenets of the Bible that single out certain groups of people for discrimination

seem to find their way into the public policy debate? Why is it that Republicans have successfully made marriage and abortion the only important issues in that faith war? It is because the Democrats have failed miserably to define any other issues of religion and belief and demonstrate how well they play into Democratic ideology. Aren’t the notions of assistance to the poor and aid to the sick mainstays of Christianity, Judaism and Islam alike? Does not God reward those who bring peace to the world, and punish those who wage war without just cause? And surely, if one believes that Earth is a creation of God, then how can the Republicans justify their reckless policy regarding its protection? In a time when the implications of government action reach far beyond matters that can be addressed in a purely religious context, the Democrats have lost control of the direction of our country, and as a result, our future. In order to regain the trust and the votes of the majority of Americans, Democrats can, and perhaps must, look to those tenets of Western faith that we as party already embody. We do not need to alter our ideology in the least — we simply need to alter our message and our context. In this way we can draw countless wayward religious factions back to the Democratic party and continue to fight the righteous fight for rights, justice, peace, the planet and the true American way.

Religious values are also

Democratic ones.

Jacob Izenberg ’08 has some faith in the sound. It’s the one good thing that he’s got.

America the fascist GUEST COLUMN BY FOKION BURGESS

Like many people on Brown campus, I was very disappointed by the outcome of the election. However, I was not disappointed so much with the failure of John Kerry’s campaign; his loss in the Electoral College and his concession didn’t bother me in the least. My disappointment is with the America that has been projected by this election, the apparent consent that Americans have given to the Bush agenda and the implications for our country and for the world. The most urgent issue in America today is not jobs, same-sex marriage, a woman’s right to choose or even the war in Iraq. The most urgent issue is the state of our democracy. The current “security over liberty” trend we have been facing in this country is one that threatens democracy everywhere, and while this trend has been prevalent for years, nobody in recent memory has better embodied that trend than President George W. Bush. As we have seen from the Abu Ghraib scandal, along with the torture and humiliation of British citizens recently released from Guantánamo Bay, torture and imprisonment at the hands of the American military and prison system is rampant. Under the Patriot Act, the executive branch now has the authority to “detain” anyone suspected of being a terrorist, without requiring any public justification or evidence. This places a great deal of power into the hands of a select few who have no obligation to answer to the people. Countless psychological experiments have revealed that these kinds of abuses happen constantly whenever one group of people is given a tremendous amount of unchecked power over another group. The kind of power given to military personnel in Abu Ghraib is exactly what the Patriot Act has given to the Bush administration and intelligence officials, and it is producing a wealth of horrors too numerous to list. The systematic deportation of anyone seeking asylum in the United States (reminiscent of when the American government sent a boat full of refugees from the Holocaust back to Germany to be exterminated) and the mass detention of anyone thought to be threatening (reminis-

cent of the Japanese internment camps during World War II) immediately come to mind. Along with the combined effects of a racist drug war and felon disenfranchisement in this country, our government is seeking to marginalize people of color, drug users, Muslims and political activists and prevent them from having any say in the political discourse of our country. These acts are not only horrors in and of themselves, but they are fundamental attacks on democracy. With the executive branch targeting political activists and critics of the government (which I have seen firsthand), it is evident why the system of checks and balances, which the Bush administration is effectively nullifying, were established in the first place. All this, however, is not to imply that John Kerry would have solved any of these problems. Yet the fact that the American people would vote for President Bush, even after the atrocious attacks on democracy committed by his administration, shows that the American people are either not educated or not concerned about these issues. It would not resonate with mainstream discourse on American politics to say that our government approaches fascism. Nevertheless, we should pay heed to Pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous warning: “In Germany, first they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak out.” Mainstream America is not composed of the people who have seen these horrors firsthand — namely Arabs, Muslims, political activists, immigrants, drug users and the disenfranchised. But as Niemoller warned, and as past experience has shown, we must vigilantly defend the rights of everyone in order to defend ourselves.

Mainstream people ignore drug users,

people of color and political activists.

Fokion Burgess ’07 is probably a vegetarian.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2004 · PAGE 12

Steelers rising to the head of 2004 NFL class

DeOssie ’07 following family tradition in becoming elite college linebacker BY STEPHEN COLELLI

BY CHRIS HATFIELD

Although the NFL season is more than half over, there are still plenty of questions to be answered. In recent years, parity has reigned supreme, but never more so than this year. Beyond the top three teams (the Steelers, Patriots and Eagles), there is total chaos. Teams like the Colts, Chargers, Falcons, Broncos, Jets and Vikings could all be considered for the next few spots on the NFL’s totem pole, but none of those teams exactly strikes fear into the hearts of opposing teams. And what about those top three teams? Anyone who’s spent a reasonable amount of time following the NFL this season would agree that these three teams are the class of the league this year. However, after easily defeating both the Pats and Eagles, the two trendy Super Bowl picks in the preseason, the Steelers must be considered the best team in the league right now. As Ric Flair would say, “To be the best, you have to beat the best,” and the Steelers have done just that in the past two weeks. Not only did they beat the last two undefeated teams in the NFL, they trounced them. Neither New England nor Philadelphia was in the game after halftime. Even worse for those two teams was that Pittsburgh exposed their biggest weaknesses for the whole league to see — New England’s lack of depth at running back and defensive back, and Philly’s undersized defense that can’t stuff the run and lackluster running offense that can’t convert on third downs. Pittsburgh’s biggest challenge the rest of the way will be to prove it can play its style of football against any team in the league. It is no secret that the key to the

Nick Neely / Herald

see STEELERS, page 9

Linebacker Zak DeOssie ’07 has been a standout this season. He was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Bears’ win at Yale on Saturday.

New NASCAR ‘playoff’ system is doing just what its creators had hoped (The Washington Post) — Love it or loathe it, the controversial new Nextel Cup points system is doing precisely what NASCAR President Brian France said he hoped for when the Chase for the Championship was announced. “We need more excitement in the fall, more to talk about, more to write about when the season is running down and football is getting so much attention,” France said shortly before the 2003 season began. With two races remaining, Sunday at Darlington, S.C., and Nov. 21 at Homestead, Fla., five drivers are within striking distance of leader Kurt Busch, the Ford driver from Las Vegas who has led from the start of NASCAR’s 10-race playoff. More pleasing to NASCAR is that two marquee names, Earnhardt and Gordon, are in the hunt. Jeff Gordon, the four-time champion, is second, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., emotional winner of last Sunday’s overtime race at Phoenix, is third, only six points behind Gordon. Their positions would be reversed if Earnhardt had not been penalized 25 points for using a vulgarity on national television after winning at Talledega, Ala., early in October. Those two Chevy drivers, along with

the late Dale Earnhardt, Junior’s father, account for more than 80% of NASCAR’s merchandise sales. Jimmie Johnson, who won three Chase for the Championship races in succession, is one point behind Earnhardt, with veteran Mark Martin still in the hunt, 54 behind Johnson. The other five, Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman, Elliott Sadler, Matt Kenseth and Jeremy Mayfield, are too far back. Rarely have there been more than two drivers with a shot at the Cup bonus with two races remaining. Last year, for instance, Kenseth had the championship clinched before the series reached Homestead. Kenseth had won only one of 36 races and resulting criticism was instrumental in changes being made in the points system, one that had been unchanged for three decades. The old system used cumulative points from all 36 races. The new system cut the season in two — the first segment of 26 races to determine the 10 finalists, and the second one of 10 races, the Chase for the Championship. The points were so structured that only the 10 leaders after 26 races would be eligible for the championship. Some drivers, particularly Newman, were against the change. Most, however, said

they would wait and see how it played out. “I like it,” Gordon said after the Phoenix race. “I think it’s a positive thing. ... There is no arguing that it has certainly added more excitement and entertainment to the season.” Busch, who won the Chase opener at New Hampshire and has held his lead, said, “NASCAR has implemented a new program that has (given us) a whole new outlook, a different outline and format to achieve the championship. I believe this format is better because your team has to be best at the end of the year, but on the other hand you had to go through 26 races to get to the final 10.” When Johnson won three consecutive races, yet still couldn’t overtake Busch for the lead, there were grumbles. In the first two races Johnson won, Busch finished fourth and fifth. Johnson gained only 20 points in each race. Only when Busch suffered early engine problems at Atlanta and finished 42nd when Johnson won again did Johnson move into a challenging position. “It was no different than a college

see NASCAR, page 9

Football runs in the blood of Zak DeOssie ’07. The reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week is just carrying on the family tradition. DeOssie’s father, Steve, was a standout linebacker for Boston College in the early 1980s and went on to play for the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, New York Giants and New England Patriots in the NFL. Steve DeOssie was a member of the 1990 Giants team that won Super Bowl XXV. Having a father in the NFL might seem like every little kid’s dream, but to DeOssie, his dad just happened to play football. “It was great growing up with my dad playing football,” DeOssie said. “But from my point of view it wasn’t that big of a deal. He was always just my dad in my eyes. If you weren’t in my situation it might seem pretty cool, and it was, but he was still my dad to me.” DeOssie’s football pedigree was only enhanced during the summers he spent working as a ball boy at the New England Patriots’ training camp while in high school. At the time, DeOssie was playing quarterback at Phillips Academy, so he got to throw to receivers during practice. One of DeOssie’s favorite memories is when the coaches let him run plays during a practice. “I actually got a few reps one day during seven-on-seven drills,” DeOssie said. “(Backup Patriots quarterback) Rohan Davey had gone home to Mississippi to attend a funeral, and there were only two quarterbacks, Tom Brady and Damon Huard, in camp. Coach (Bill) Belichick told me to take a few snaps, so I ended up throwing some passes with the starting offense during one of the drills.” Training camp taught DeOssie a lot about football. But the most important thing DeOssie learned did not deal with X’s and O’s. DeOssie said the best part of working at camp was seeing how the athletes focused on their jobs on a daily basis. “You learn how to act around those guys,” DeOssie said. “You learn how to compose yourself on and off the field.” DeOssie’s extensive background in the game has led to his success on the field this season. DeOssie played often last season — his first as linebacker — but he has taken a leadership role on the field this season. “Zak is immense on defense,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “He can make plays on either side of the line of scrimmage, and he hits very well.” DeOssie spent the off-season in the weight room and worked to get acclimated to the Bears’ defense. The transition from offense to defense took some getting used to, but it didn’t take him too long. “He played quarterback in high school, but he also played free safety, and he was

see DEOSSIE, page 8 B ROW N S P O RTS H O N O R S All-Ivy Awards Women’s Soccer: First Team — Kim LaVere ’06 Honorable Mention — Meaghan Schreck ’06, Hilary Wilson ’06, Jill Mansfield ’07, Kathryn Moos ’07 Field Hockey: First Team — Kristen Vincent ’06 Second Team — Brooke Townsend ’06 Honorable Mention — Lindsay Boris ’06 Weekly Awards Football: Zak DeOssie ’07, Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week Steve Morgan ’08, Ivy League Rookie of the Week Men’s Soccer: Kevin Davies ’08, Ivy League Rookie of the Week