Tuesday, November 16, 2004

T U E S D A Y NOVEMBER 16, 2004

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Volume CXXXIX, No. 111

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College Hill residents voice frustration with Brown’s growth

With U. focused on long-term faculty goals, ‘non-regular’ professors soldier on

At meeting, city officials discuss development plans

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

Providence residents voiced their concerns on issues ranging from the University’s recent construction projects to public drunkenness on Thayer Street in a forum Monday night concerning the future of College Hill.

The meeting, sponsored by the College Hill Neighborhood Association and held at the Moses Brown School, featured presentations from Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and Thomas Deller, director of the Department of Planning and Development.

Cicilline took time to address broader citywide issues and highlighted improvements in public safety, neighborhood planning and economic development made under his administration.

“I don’t think you can talk about the future of College Hill in isolation,” he said.

Cicilline emphasized improvements in public safety, gains he said are primarily the result of improving relations between the Providence Police Department and Brown police officers.

College Hill residents voiced specific concerns regarding changes in the neighborhood. Many of these issues involved the expansion of “institutional land use” by the University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

The construction of the Life Sciences Building drew particularly heated criticism from several residents, who said the large scale of the project cheapens the neighborhood’s residential appeal.

The Life Sciences Building “has changed the whole character of this hill,” Gerry Immon said, to applause from the crowd. “I feel like I’m living underneath the pyramids.”

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als such as posters, Cummings said.

Along these lines, the ERC plans to recommend a system in which candidates are limited to a number of points and a monetary restriction, he said.

According to Cummings, the ERC is also recommending that the Elections Board eliminate restrictions on campaign-related e-mail sent by candidates and their friends and supporters, due to the fact that this is impossible for the board to regulate. Cummings said misuse of e-mail has been the most frequent campaign violation in the past, and abolishing the restriction will lower the number of violations overall.

Cummings said the endorsement process will change if the e-mail restriction is lifted. According to Cummings,

Bucking a national trend, the University is focusing on full-time, tenure-track faculty appointments, rather than parttime, adjunct professors. But though administrators point to advantages in having such non-regular professors, some of them do not receive the same pay and benefits, such as health insurance, that their colleagues enjoy.

Non-tenure track professors include visiting professors and lecturers, who are usually full-time instructors at other schools; adjunct professors, who are part-time instructors paid on a percourse basis; and lecturers, who are fulltime faculty not required to conduct research on the road to tenure.

Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07 said that though the number of visiting professors and adjuncts can vary from year to year, there are only 42 lecturers and senior lecturers currently employed, representing a fairly small portion of the 628-member faculty. Vohra said he wasn’t sure how many faculty members are non-regular. The count of 628 does not include adjunct, visiting or other nonregular professors.

“I think it’s important for the education we want our students to have that we have” mostly tenure-track faculty, Vohra said, adding that tenure-track faculty represent “investments in education and research that will provide long-term benefits to the University and to the students.” According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, in 1998 part-time faculty made up 42 percent of professors nationwide, an increase of 22 percent from 1970. Some schools, such as Westark College in Arkansas, have done away with tenure altogether to allow for a more flexible faculty.

But Vohra said Brown and other “elite universities” are bucking this trend by focusing on full-time positions, and the expansion of the faculty by 100 professors under the Plan for Academic Enrichment will consist of regular faculty alone, “mostly tenure-track faculty” and “maybe a few lecturers.”

But Vohra did note that adjunct professors, who are non-regular faculty, have “professional qualities that make them suited for teaching certain kinds of courses, not as full-time academics,” but as professional artists who teach in the art department or professional engineers who teach in engineering.

One of these adjuncts is Robert D’Andrea, a certified public accountant with the Providence firm Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. D’Andrea co-teaches EC 71: “Financial Accounting,” a course

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At a Monday night forum sponsored by the College Hill Neighborhood Association, Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 spoke about the future of College Hill.

Immon and other residents stressed the importance of preserving pedestrian access to the neighborhood, an element they believe is compromised by such largescale developments.

“We don’t want the six-story buildings … and I hope they don’t build any more,” Alma Sanderson said. “A lot of people here aren’t too happy with Brown.”

Residents also expressed frustration with Thayer Street’s growing nightlife scene, a trend some say increases public drunkenness and other incidents that disturb the peace and violate College Hill’s status as a residential neighborhood.

“I feel like I’m living on Bourbon Street,” one resident said.

Deller said part of the problem is due to the approval of liquor licenses for Thayer Street establishments. He said the issue “is something we’re aware of.”

Deller used the meeting to outline two of the planning department’s current initiatives, which address land-use concerns and zoning ordinances in the city.

Under the Neighborhood Investment

Project, the Planning Department will draw up land-use maps for each of the city’s 25 neighborhoods and address other issues concerning residents of each area, Deller said. Once the Planning Department completes this research, it will solicit feedback from residents through town meetings and discussions to gain a “clear vision” for future planning efforts in each neighborhood.

The planning department then hopes to revise these land-use maps to address residents’ concerns, producing complete neighborhood plans by October 2005.

Deller said this process will help the city deal with the increase of proposals from developers looking to take advantage of Providence’s “hot real estate market.”

“We haven’t been given clear direction in what we want,” Deller said, in reference to plans for further development in the city. The planning department’s primary goal is to maximize financial gains from these potential developments while main-

see GROWTH, page 4

UCS’s Elections Review Commission looking at variety of possible changes

BY ROBIN STEELE

Since its formation this fall, a committee started by the Undergraduate Council of Students has been examining a range of problems in past UCS elections and preparing recommendations on election reform. Among the issues it has examined are the definition of a polling place, campaigning via e-mail, endorsements and campaign spending.

The Elections Review Commission is not empowered to change the rules, but it will be making recommendations to the UCS Elections Board and UCS as a whole on ways to run elections more effectively and efficiently, including possible changes to the UCS elections code.

The ERC has held seven meetings so far this year and will hold two more before the end of the semester.

According to Charley Cummings ’06,

UCS vice president and chair of the ERC, one of its primary areas of focus has been to clarify the UCS elections code and fix problems that have arisen in the past.

“The initial goals (of the ERC) were to correct the problems of previous elections, in light of the elections process as a whole,” Cummings said.

Michael Thompson ’07, an ERC member, said many of the changes the commission is recommending are long overdue.

According to Cummings, ambiguity in certain parts of the current UCS code caused problems in the past. An issue that has been in contention in the past is the definition of a polling place. The current code also empowers the Elections Board to design a points system to regulate candidates’ use of campaign materi-

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Football team is unable to make a comeback against Dartmouth Saturday, loses 20-7 sports, page 8

Despite suspension of star guard Jason Forte ’05, men’s basketball performs well versus Missouri sports, page 8

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS LOCKS OF LOVE DRIVE 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Sayles Hall) — Stylists from Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization providing hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children undergoing medical hair loss, will give free haircuts to students willing to donate hair.

“REGENERATION: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART FROM CHINA AND THE U.S.” 5:30 p.m. (List Art Center, Room 64)— Participating artist Yun Fei-Ji will discuss changes in contempary Chinese art.

LEAD POISONING IN RHODE ISLAND 8 p.m. (Wilson 102) — Members of the community will speak about lead poisoning and the housing stock in Rhode Island.

“HISTORY, MEMORY AND TERROR IN THE AFTERMATH OF APARTHEID” 8 p.m. (McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street) — Novelist Tony Eprile ‘79 will present this lecture sponsored by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, the International Writers Project and the Africa Group.

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BROWN IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC INFO SESSION 4 p.m. (Rhode Island Hall 106) — Professor of Slavic Languages Masako Fidler will discuss opportunities for Brown students in the Czech Republic. Fidler will also cover application procedures.

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TOMORROW ’S EVENTS RHODE ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: AMERICAN STRING QUARTET 8 p.m. (Alumnae Hall)— The American String Quartet will perform works by Mozart, Bartok and Brahms.

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Three professors receive awards for teaching excellence

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

As President Ruth Simmons, faculty members, trustees and students honored the first three recipients of the Royce Family Professorships in Teaching Excellence at a dinner at the president’s house Monday night, one thing was without doubt: Teaching students is the most important part of a Brown professor’s job.

The Royce professorships are awarded to faculty “who have demonstrated innovation in teaching and strong dedication to students’ intellectual development,” according to the Brown News Service. The first three recipients are Barrymore Bogues, professor of Africana studies and chair of the department; Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Sheila Bonde; and Professor of Geological Sciences Karen Fischer.

The professorships, approved by the Corporation in February, will eventually provide a total of six professors with an annual stipend of $20,000 and a “teaching excellence fund” of an additional $20,000 annually to support scholarly activities, including the employment of undergraduate assistants, according to the Brown News Service. The appointed professors will serve terms of three years.

The program is the brainchild of Charles Royce ’61 P’92 ’94 ’08, who has served two terms as a University trustee and is a former director of the Brown Sports Foundation. “Teaching is so integral

see ROYCE, page 4

15,000 rabbits hop into town for annual breeders’ convention

BY SHAWN BAN

For dog lovers, the Westminster dog show offers the opportunity to see the top members of each breed, all vying for the coveted “Best in Show” award. And for rabbit lovers, the American Rabbit Breeders Association National Convention provides the opportunity to see 15,000 rabbits compete for the top prize.

For five days this week, the Rhode Island Convention Center in downtown Providence plays host to the rather unique guests. The rabbits and their breeders arrived in town Sunday for the 81st ARBANC, and Mary Blauss ’06 has been involved in helping to bring the show to town.

Blauss and her family are members of the New England Rabbit and Cavy Club, which won the bid to host the convention in Providence for the first time this year.

Blauss’s mother, Susan, is in charge of publicity for the event. Mary Blauss spent much of the last week at the Convention Center helping to set up the cages, hay and shavings for the rabbits.

“My role in organizing this has been small, because I’ve been busy with school,” Blauss said. “Mainly I’m involved in raising awareness of our club and setting up.

There’s been a lot of planning, a lot of time and effort involved.”

The convention, which began on Sunday and runs until Thursday, has attracted more than 1,500 breeders from across America, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan, who collectively brought more than 15,000 rabbits and cavies — or guinea pigs — to be entered into the show. Forty-three different breeds of rabbits are represented at the convention, from the more common varieties such as Netherland dwarves and Holland Lops to the unusual types such as Flemish giants.

Judging for the show began Monday and continues

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today. Rabbits are judged according to the standards for their breed, and points are awarded for criteria such as thickness of wool and hindquarter size. Prizes are awarded to the highest-scoring rabbit of each breed, which then compete for the prize of “Best in Show.”

Apart from the main show, there are many other events involved with the convention. Buying and selling of rabbits takes place on the convention floor, and there are booths devoted to each breed of rabbit represented.

In addition, a number of booths sell merchandise ranging from “The Rabbit Medicine Chest” to hats and stuffed toys made from rabbit fur.

Blauss’s love for rabbits is rooted in her family background. Susan Blauss explained that the family went to its first rabbit show when Mary was 8 years old, and returned with a Holland Lop. They have been breeding rabbits ever since. The Blausses currently have about 90 rabbits at their home in Carver, Mass., and entered four rabbits to be judged for the show.

Blauss said the club faced a number of difficulties in organizing an event of this scale, including tackling the logistical details.

“Every detail from fire codes and food arrangements and booth displays and donations from grain companies and so much more had to be considered even before the process of getting entries for the show could take place,” Blauss said.

“It’s manageable on a small-scale of maybe (100) or 200 rabbits. But when you’re talking about 15,000 bunnies, there’s just the craziness of organizing everything,” she added.

Finding accommodations for the breeders was anoth-

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taining each neighborhood’s character and history, Deller said.

This focus on preservation means that the department will be reluctant to consider any large-scale “suburban-style” retail projects.

“We want the city to feel like a city,” Deller said.

The planning department is also in the process of developing new zoning ordinances for individual neighborhoods, a process Deller said he hopes to complete by the end of March. If the department remains on schedule, these revised ordinances will become law by mid-June, he said.

The planning department has spent eight months reformatting ordinances in light of recent legal challenges to its decisions on certain developments, Deller said. For example, when the department rejected one proposed project, the developer successfully challenged the ruling in court, he said.

In order to prevent further undermining of the department’s authority, Deller said the department plans “to rush forward to revise zoning ordinances to conform with state law.”

The meeting was “more about laying the groundwork of what we’re trying to do,” Deller told The Herald. “I thought the group responded fine.”

Barbara Harris, president of the College Hill Neighborhood Association, said the meeting gave officials the opportunity to present to residents a general outline of future plans.

“We wanted to give feedback to the city,” she said.

Residents offered mixed responses to the meeting. While some said they appreciated the broad overview of the city’s planning agenda, others said they thought the presentation and discussion could have dealt with more issues specific to College Hill.

Victoria Veh said she believed the presentation’s content was “appropriate for this point in the process.”

Sara Bradford said an overview of the city’s planning process “is something the neighborhood is interested in, because (residents) want to be a part of the process.”

But Immon said he was disappointed the meeting did not address many specific issues pertaining to College Hill.

“I think we had an overview. … This neighborhood needs more discussion,” he said.

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and intuitive, but on the other hand, we don’t acknowledge it enough,” Royce said in a speech. “We don’t quite put the emphasis on teaching in the way we should and could,” he added.

Royce later told The Herald the inspiration for the program occurred many years ago.

“Teaching has always been a part of the fabric at Brown,” he said. “There are not many university colleges. The whole idea is a relatively unique one on the planet.

“Brown is practically the poster child for this,” Royce added. “Others mimic what we do. But we don’t really have a way of celebrating it. This seemed natural.”

Faculty continued from page 1 designed to give students a basic knowledge of accounting. “We’re here to provide these people practical background and experience that comes with our jobs,” he said.

D’Andrea said the extra work — on top of a full-time job — is “so worth it” because he loves teaching. “We learn as much from these guys as we teach them, I think,” he said.

Lecturers, on the other hand, can be full-time instructors, and “except for tenure, they have the other privileges that come with being part of the faculty at Brown,” Vohra said. Lecturers are not required to conduct research toward receiving tenure, so they can focus on teaching, and they are especially common in foreign language classes and in the Expository Writing Program, Vohra said, where “we need to have good professors.”

According to Elizabeth Taylor, a senior lecturer and director of the Expository Writing Program, the program is taught entirely by a combination of lecturers and visiting lecturers, professional writers who are “teaching what they know and love.”

There are also financial advantages to having these faculty: Vohra said that though it is not a given that lecturers and visiting faculty are paid less than tenuretrack faculty.

“I would think that’s probably true.” Selma Moss-Ward P’02 ’06, a lecturer in English, said a “lecturer is paid far less than, say, an assistant professor” for what can be a comparable or greater workload.

Adjuncts are paid on a per-

Simmons said Royce was a determined donor. “In this case, Chuck Royce made it clear from the outset that he wanted this gift to focus on teaching,” she said. “In this case the donor had everything to do with the way the program took shape.”

Bogues, Bonde and Fischer said they plan to use the Royce money to expand upon their work in the classroom. Bogues studies and teaches Africana political philosophy, cultural politics and intellectual history and recently published the acclaimed “Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals.”

“People are not empty vessels to pour knowledge into,” Bogues said. Good teaching “is what I like to call critical pedagogy.”

Bonde agreed. “Teaching is a conversation,” she said.

course basis, though D’Andrea said, “We get paid a fair price for what we do.”

And according to Donald Stewart, director of Academic Resources in the Provost’s Office, non-regular faculty, including adjuncts and visiting lecturers, do not receive the same benefits that regular faculty such as lecturers and tenure-track professors do. Though they can buy into the Brown health plan at a greater cost than regular faculty pay, the assumption is that they are full-time employees elsewhere and that those jobs will provide benefits.

But some professors find that this isn’t the case.

“I enjoy what I teach. I love my students. I am treated disrespectfully by the administration,” Moss-Ward said. She has been teaching at Brown since 1987 and currently teaches four courses a year. She previously has had a series of one-year contracts, but she is now being told she will be offered a three-year contract to become a visiting lecturer.

That change in designation would result in her losing her health insurance, pension, life insurance and tuition credit for her son, a Brown student. She estimated that she stands to lose between $25,000 and $35,000 a year in benefits — the same benefits that other regular, full-time faculty receive.

There are “plenty of people willing to do my job without benefits,” Moss-Ward said. She accused the administration is being “cheap” and “callously indifferent to the welfare of a loyal, long-term employee.”

But Stewart said the University is trying to standardize how various positions, such as lecturer, are defined across departments.

“It’s a question of faculty rules

“This award is really bestowed on my colleagues and students who have continued that conversation over 20 years at Brown.”

Bonde is the undergraduate adviser for the history of art and architecture department, and she has shown commitment to academic diversity by teaching courses outside her primary area of study, Vohra said.

Fischer, an adviser to underclassmen, concentrators and Resumed Undergraduate Education students, analyzes seismic data to model the Earth’s interior. “Collaboration (with students) makes every day really fun and exciting to come to work,” she said.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 edits the Metro section. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

and how they apply to appointments,” not a financial decision, he said. Though the English department’s budget did go down somewhat this year, “they have an allocation to spend, and they choose how to spend it,” he said.

“We were able to make some specific exceptions to the rules that differentiate non-regular from regular faculty, giving some of our non-regular faculty the benefits of regular faculty. We can no longer make those exceptions,” said Nancy Armstrong, chair of the Department of English. She added that though she wishes all professors had full benefits, the rising cost of health care makes this infeasible.

Susan Doyle-Shedd, a visiting lecturer in visual art, agreed that it is “very expensive to have benefits for everyone.” Doyle-Shedd teaches occasionally at Brown but is “long-term part-time” faculty at RISD, where she has taught for 13 years in addition to working as a professional artist.

Doyle-Shedd buys into RISD health insurance at about $1,100 per year to cover herself and her husband, a small-business owner, at a higher expense than it would be were she a regular faculty member. She says that she could buy into the Brown health plan for “effectively the same cost” but that her employment at RISD is more dependable than her work at Brown.

Chandra Harris, an adjunct visiting professor in Italian studies, is also covered by non-Brown health insurance, in this case through her partner. She said that “it would be bad” if she didn’t have that option, though, as she would not receive benefits from the University, and said that she was lucky that she is “not one of those people” in that situation.

But Vohra emphasized that though these non-regular professors add to the curriculum in ways full-time academics can’t, “it’s much better to have people who have a long-term obligation and a long-term commitment to the University,” and he said that is where the University’s focus will remain.

“One of the things that is likely to happen when we have these positions filled is that we will rely less on adjunct and visiting professors,” he said.

Herald staff writer Ben Leubsdorf ’08 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Elections continued from page 1 the ERC has decided to keep official endorsements by student organizations but will recommend changes to simplify and better regulate the process. The ERC has not yet decided whether to support endorsements for Undergraduate Finance Board candidates, but it intends to recommend that its eventual decision be included in the election code.

The ERC discussed the definition of a polling place for online elections in one of its first meetings and will recommend a code change that expands the restriction of campaigning in polling areas to include a restriction against campaigning in and around public computing areas and where voting is known to be occurring, Cummings said.

During last year’s elections, supporters of one presidential candidate brought laptop computers to the Main Green and encouraged students to vote.

Supporters of another team of candidates held a party in an oncampus suite where attendees were also encouraged to vote.

The ERC has also decided to recommend a change in the way that the Elections Board is selected: a majority of the board will not be UCS members.

Thompson said he strongly supported changing the makeup of the Elections Board.

The ERC will also be offering recommendations to the Elections Board on how they can begin to publicize the election earlier, in order to make sure that none of the positions go uncontested.

The ERC will recommend that the number of student signatures needed by each candidate to run for UCS president and vice president and UFB chair

Football continued from page 8 With 1-8 Columbia coming in to town this weekend for the last game of the season, Estes wants to make sure his team maintains its confidence despite this week’s setback.

“I told our team all week long

and vice chair will be raised from 200 to 500, Cummings said. All other UCS and UFB representatives will need 400 signatures, up from 200, while class representatives will need 100 signatures on their petition rather than 50.

This change was suggested to encourage candidates to go out and talk to people in light of the lifted restriction on e-mailing, Cummings said.

The issue of technical difficulties on WebCT, which arose during last year’s election have already been addressed for this fall’s elections of UCS Class of 2008 representatives, Cummings said. He said Computing and Information Services took more precautions before these elections than they had for past elections.

In terms of possible changes to the voting process itself, the ERC has looked at keeping the current system, which provides for a run-off between the two candidates with the highest plurality; changing to a system in which a candidate who achieves a plurality of more than five percent wins; or changing to a system of instant runoff voting.

Ultimately the ERC has decided that the current system is not very effective and will be recommending to UCS that a referendum on instant runoff voting be put to the undergraduate student body, he said. Cummings said he thinks it likely that the executive board of UCS will approve this recommendation and the referendum vote will take place early next semester.

According to Cummings, the ERC also worked to address smaller issues. They will also be discussing in the future the issue of whether candidates for UCS president will be required to run on a ticket with a vice-presidential candidate.

Recommendations to UCS on potential code changes will be presented at the UCS meeting

how dangerous Dartmouth was, but sometimes you change the focus from how good you are to how dangerous they are, and then you have a fear of making a mistake,” Estes said. “This week I want us to know that we are the dangerous team.”

Herald staff writer Ben Miller ’07 covers football. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

on Wednesday and will be voted on at a meeting on Dec. 1. The ERC will also present its recommendations to the UCS Elections Board on Dec. 1.

Recommendations to UCS need to pass by a two-thirds majority to be enacted.

The ERC is made up of 12 members who were selected by UCS President Joel Payne ’05 and Cummings and confirmed by the UCS general body.

According to Cummings, members were chosen to make the board diverse in terms of both ethnicity and opinions on election issues. The commission is primarily upperclassmen because they would have the greatest perspective on past elections, Cummings said.

Cummings said that there are no commission members who are currently on UCS or who have been candidates in the past, other than himself.

Megan Saggese ’06, an ERC member, said the ERC’s diversity of disciplines and interests allows it to represent the student body. She said the problems that arose during last year’s election indicate the importance of the ERC.

M. soccer continued from page 8 scoring and carried the team in its 3-2 win over Columbia earlier this year. Larentowicz has had his share of special moments as well — he scored the game-winner in overtime against Hartwick College and was named All-Tournament MVP of the Yale Classic.

Rabbits continued from page 3 er problem. “A lot of the hotels were wary when they heard that we wanted to host a rabbit show. They didn’t want to allow pets in the hotels,” Blauss said.

Blauss said being involved in the organization of the convention has been a positive learning experience for her, even though it involved a lot of work.

“I loved getting to be behind the scenes at the convention. I have been to several in the past, and each time they were very enjoyable, but having the knowledge of how much work it took to arrange and run the

convention has made me appreciate it so much more,” she said. “For my family, it has been a wonderful experience of really being able to work together.”

Her mother echoed her sentiments. “For us it was a great family experience, organizing the show. Dogs have the Westminster dog show, and this is like the Westminster of the rabbit world,” Susan Blauss said.

While Mary Blauss said she hopes her entries perform well in the competition, ultimately how her rabbits fare is unimportant compared to the success of the show. “Whether our rabbits win or lose, it will certainly be an experience I will never forget,” she said.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004 · PAGE 6 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Rewarding teaching Speakers at Monday’s dinner honoring the first recipients of the Royce Family Professorships in Teaching Excellence emphasized that strong teaching is what makes a Brown education distinctive. We agree. That’s why Brown should reward anyone who contributes to classroom education — not with named professorships, necessarily, but at least with basic health and retirement benefits. Brown usually does this; it offers a healthy benefits package to its tenure-track faculty. But the University is now threatening to end benefits to some instructors who currently receive them, and to significantly reduce the benefits available to new instructors.

Brown assumes that adjunct faculty and visiting lecturers have other full-time jobs that provide benefits. But that isn’t necessarily the case — for many instructors, including those in foreign language departments and the expository writing program, their Brown jobs are their primary source of income.

For many students, these instructors will be the most memorable of their college careers. They work as hard as regular professors on developing challenging and worthwhile courses. But because they are working so hard, and because teaching, and not research, is their passion, they often don’t have isn’t another full-time job to provide for health care or pensions. By not offering them the benefits afforded to other faculty, the University fails to recognize the dedication to Brown these faculty have exhibited.

The University hopes to phase out adjuncts and visiting professors in hopes of replacing them with tenure-track professors who will make long-term commitments to the University.

Ultimately, this will be good for Brown. But it sends a terrible message to prospective employees that Brown can take away pension and health benefits without any notice.

A better solution would be to phase in a new benefits system gradually, so that no instructor would lose benefits he or she currently receives. Given that many of these non-regular professors do have other full-time jobs, the number of professors who would take advantage of such an offer would likely be small.

But whatever the size of the financial commitment, Brown should be willing to make it for the short time it would be needed. Caring for its current faculty and keeping Brown an attractive destination for other academics should be two of the University’s highest priorities. We already know that rewarding strong teaching is one.

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LETTERS A note from the editors An article in Monday’s paper on actions by the Undergraduate Council of Students’ Elections Review Commission, as well as Monday’s staff editorial, gave an incomplete and inaccurate representation of the actions of the commission (“UCS considers instant runoff voting,” “Out of focus,” Nov. 15).

The Herald reported correctly that the commission has recently been considering whether to implement instant runoff voting. But we were wrong to conclude that this was the only issue on the commission’s agenda. On Monday, members of the Elections Review Commission made available to The Herald internal minutes from the commission’s meetings in mid-October and early November. The minutes are not publicly available, but they contain information that should have been included in Monday’s article and editorial. In writing the editorial, we referred to the current version of the UCS constitution and election code, which is posted on UCS’s Web site.

In fact, the commission has already considered several other election issues — including some of the problems that, in our editorial, we accused it of ignoring. The commission has already agreed to recommend changing the wording of UCS’s election code to reflect UCS’s switch to online voting.

The updated code will clarify where candidates may campaign: They may not campaign in public computing areas or where voting is known to be occurring. The commission will also recommend changing the makeup of the UCS Election Board so that the board includes fewer UCS members.

Our article and editorial reflected the information that was available to us and to the public as of Sunday night. But although our error was not made knowingly or with malicious intent, it remains a serious mistake. To our readers, and to the Elections Review Commission, we apologize.

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004 · PAGE 7

TE-PING CHEN

Exercising the moral mandate Last Tuesday in negotiations brokered by the African Union, the Sudanese government signed two accords in Abuja, Nigeria, towards a resolution of genocide in Darfur.

Such agreements are feel-good fodder for the international media, yet these latest resolutions are likely only the latest installment in Sudan’s litany of broken promises. Since the failure of last April’s ceasefire and subsequent dictums issued by the United Nations, the Khartoum regime has continued to flagrantly flout such decrees with near-total impunity.

Already, the Abuja accords come in the wake of the deaths of over 70,000 Darfurian civilians and the steady attrition of the millions displaced. There is little reason to believe that this most recent round of negotiations will change the Khartoum regime’s contempt for international humanitarian law.

In what amounts to scarcely more than a reiteration of the terms of the April 8 ceasefire, the Sudanese government promised last week to stop obstructing the flow of international aid to Darfur's civilians and banned so-called “hostile” military flights over the region.

That sounds promising, but this past April, Sudan pledged to do nearly the exact same thing. During the last ceasefire, Sudan vowed to ensure access for humanitarian aid workers and refrain from “any act of abuse on civilian populations.” Yet the government has systematically violated such assurances, denying visas and aid workers’ access while the aerial bombings of civilians, burning of villages and crops and widespread rape and murder have relentlessly continued.

Although last week’s settlements are regarded as a major diplomatic coup for the African Union and deserve to be treated as such, Sudan’s promises will not be kept without concerted international pressure.

The Khartoum regime has already violated the

terms of the peace: Only hours after signing the Abuja agreements, Sudanese forces were tear-gassing Darfur’s El-Geer refugee camp.

According to U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard, when the attacks began, “U.N. agencies and partner groups were immediately withdrawn from the area for their

International pressure is necessary for peace to happen in Sudan. own safety.” The Sudanese police’s assault continued unchecked.

That same day, across the Atlantic, President George W. Bush was holding his first post-election press conference. Flushed with victory, he jousted with reporters, touted his accumulation of political capital and cited the dawning of a new season of hope for the world.

But if President Bush is truly earnest about the United States’ desire to fight for freedom throughout the Muslim world, he should devote some significant political capital to pushing for an international resolution in Sudan. The United States currently leads the world in humanitarian aid for Darfur, but while aid

can help Darfur’s displaced survive, it poses no permanent solution to the crisis at hand.

To date, plagued by a lack of political will, the U.N. Security Council has languished in a state of ineffectual lassitude, as last month’s passage of Resolution 1546 demonstrates. The text of the resolution contains only the most veiled of allusions to possible oil embargoes against the Khartoum regime — a manifestation of recalcitrance on the issue on the part of France, China, Russia, Pakistan and Algeria.

The Sudanese government believes that such threats are ephemeral and unsubstantiated, and rightfully so. When it comes to sanctions against the Sudanese government, the Bush administration should exert its political clout to pressure Russia and China (each possess substantial economic ties to Sudan) into backing off their threatened vetoes on the matter.

A month ago during the presidential debates, Bush and Sen. John Kerry argued that the presence of African Union peacekeepers in Darfur could somehow save the situation. Yet as of a week and a half ago, barely 600 of the promised 3,320 peacekeepers were on the ground, and analysts believe that at least 12,000 more troops are needed to stabilize the region.

Their mission is underfunded, their narrow mandate as “observers” insufficient. Last week, as the ElGeer refugee camp was attacked and aid workers fled, the African Union’s peacekeepers could only look on as refugees were rounded up and gassed.

The present situation is unacceptable, and the international community’s delays are inexcusable.

Darfur demands immediate attention.

President Bush, this is your moral mandate.

Te-Ping Chen ’06 spends political capital like it grows on trees.

A letter to Ruth GUEST COLUMN BY DONALD TETTO

Dear President Simmons, As a future alum of this prestigious university, I am concerned that my hypothetical endowment will not get, if you will, the most bang for its buck. So I write you today with a modest proposal.

You'll have to double-check my numbers, but if my napkin-back calculations are correct, I’ve discovered a way for the University to save $3.2 million a year, effective as soon as this coming fall.

As you are no doubt aware, the average financial aid package for members of the Class of 2007 was $26,630.

This is certainly a worthwhile expenditure, but it's also an expensive one — financial aid cost the University $38 million for the incoming class of 2007 alone.

Imagine this, though. For the class of 2009, we hold a lottery in which the names of 120 incoming students are randomly drawn, and those 120 students are summarily denied financial aid for their entire stay at Brown. That way, Brown can have a cool $3.2 million to spend elsewhere, while still meeting the financial needs of 92 percent of the incoming class!

Does this sound callous? Too great a sacrifice to make?

Well, Brown is already doing it.

In September, the 112 were transfer students, and the other eight were part of the Resumed Undergraduate Education program. These students and the hundreds of others who matriculated in previous years are an integral part of the Brown community. They serve as teaching assistants and work campus jobs, start clubs and join Greek life, organize events and write for The Herald. In short, they contribute to and are as much a part of campus life as anyone who

arrived as a first-year.

And yet, financially, they are treated as second-class students on this entirely arbitrary basis.

In response to the untold number of complaints received from transfer and RUE students, the University has come up with nothing but excuses. The simple fact, however, is that this denial of desperately needed aid is indefensible.

Here is a simple solution, and one that doesn’t deny aid to any students who need it: Next year, put us on the books as ’09ers. Please. Just pretend that we’re incoming first-years, and pocket the difference when

How to pay the financial aid of transfer and RUE students. we mysteriously graduate a year or two early.

If those 120 students who were robbed of aid this fall had been pooled with the first-years, the average award would have decreased only $2,000.

I realize that $2,000 can make a lot of difference to those incoming first-years who are in need. Believe me, though: $24,600 could make a much bigger difference to transfer and RUE students who are every bit as

needy.

But even that calculation assumes a static financial aid allotment. Brown, however, meets the needs of all students who arrived here as first-years even when their circumstances change.

Often, I’m sure, the University increases the award to students who most need it and likewise decreases the award to students who are no longer so needy. And this is not even to mention aid recipients who drop out, take time off or transfer to another institution.

In short, while the University’s budget may be finite, the amount of financial aid awarded to individual students is quite fluid. Again and again, however, transfers are told that it just doesn’t work that way, that the system doesn’t account for them.

That’s a pretty poor excuse. Any system that arbitrarily ignores a group of students is a flawed one. I would hope that the dire financial straits of hundreds students would be sufficient impetus for the University to shake things up.

Sadly, this does not seem to be the case. It is a shame that those students who changed their lives or their college experiences just to come to Brown are the most ignored when the University balances is books.

We came here because we love this school. And — all joking aside — we do hope to generously donate after graduation.

Unfortunately, there will be a pesky $100,000 debt to take care of first.

Donald Tetto ’06 transferred to Brown.

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SPORTS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2004 · PAGE 8

Big Green spoils m. soccer’s Ivy title run

BY CAMERON STEWART

The men’s soccer team (8-7-2, 50-2 Ivy League) competed against Dartmouth (5-0-2 Ivy) this weekend to defend its Ivy title and receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Unfortunately the Bears were unable to come away with a win — they fell to the Big Green 2-1.

As of last week, Brown, Princeton and Dartmouth were all in the running for the championship. Dartmouth had already captured at least a share of the Ivy title last weekend with a 1-0 win over Cornell. On Saturday afternoon, Princeton lost to Yale, 4-2, giving Brown a shot at beating Dartmouth and sharing the Ivy title. A Dartmouth win would grant the Big Green sole possession of the title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The cold weather and slippery conditions affected the Bears’ play this weekend. From the beginning of the game, Brown seemed sluggish and couldn’t use its speed on the slippery ground.

The effect of the weather could be seen in the scrambled offensive play and disorganized scoring opportunities as both teams struggled to find their footing.

“Dartmouth plays a muddled attack, and often it is their offensive style to play scrambled in front of the net,” said Head Coach Mike Noonan.

Twenty minutes into the game, Brown was already down by two.

Both Dartmouth goals were scored off chaotic play in front of the net. The Big Green’s first goal came only nine minutes into the game, when a ball was sent past goalkeeper Chris Gomez ’05, who stepped out of the net in an attempt to smother a loose ball.

The second goal was scored soon after, off a rebound. A Brown defender blocked an initial shot that was then volleyed toward a crowded box, after which a deflection off a Brown defender redirected the ball to the top left corner of the goal.

Despite the two early goals, Gomez played solidly and fin-

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Marcos Romaneiro ’05 finished his senior season with a leagueleading nine assists, but Brown was unable to secure a share of the Ivy League title and NCAA tourney birth, falling to Dartmouth, 2-1. ished with five saves.

“It was just one of those games where things don’t go your way,” said Andrew Daniels ’07. “All of their goals were scored when the ball bounced their way.”

Brown was able to recoup after Dartmouth’s two messy goals, but when the whistle blew, the Bears had not overcome the two-goal deficit. Brown cut Dartmouth’s lead down to one in the 36th minute of play in the first half.

Marcos Romaneiro ’05 sent a ball to Ben Brackett ’07, who scored off his own rebound. The goal was Brackett’s second of the season.

Romaneiro, who leads the league in assists, tallied his ninth of the season.

“Our team responded well to Dartmouth’s goals and played with intensity. The referee could have made better calls, but our players played well,” Noonan said. “It’s a disappointing result and I wish our season lasted longer, but what can you do?”

The pace of the game changed after the Bears scored, as Brown dominated the Big Green for the

remainder of the first half and the entire second half. The corner kick differential by half clearly showed the change in momentum: Dartmouth led corner kicks 9-3 in the first half, while Brown came back to lead corner kicks 10-1 in the second half. The Bears pressured Dartmouth’s defense with their steady ball control and did not allow a shot on their own goal during the entire second half. Although the Bears controlled the ball on offense and had some strong scoring opportunities, they were not able to capitalize on their shots and even the score.

“Our attack was playing well and we were pressuring them with everything we had,” Daniels said. “It just seemed like we weren’t going to score. We couldn’t get through their defense and put the ball in the net. We had lots of corner kicks and many balls sent in from the wings, but we couldn’t capitalize on our shots.”

After winning the Ivy title seven of the past 11 years, Brown has established a reputation for fielding strong teams. On the other hand, Dartmouth has had a rollercoaster ride the past three years in Ivy League competition, finishing first in the Ivy League in 2002, last in 2003 and first again this year.

“Dartmouth’s success this year stemmed from a change in personnel and fewer injuries. This season our personnel changed as well — we lost a player who usually capitalized on attack. We had many chances to score this year but often couldn’t put ball in the net,” Noonan said.

The game was the last for seniors Gomez, Romaneiro and captain Jeff Larentowicz ’07. Gomez, regarded by many as the best goalie in the Ivy League, if not the Northeast, leaves behind a legacy.

Having started 40 games prior to his senior year, Gomez has earned numerous accolades, including First-Team All-Ivy in 2003. Romaneiro led the team in

see M. SOCCER, page 5

Even without Forte ’05, m. basketball squad is tough competition for Missouri

BY CHRIS HATFIELD

On the heels of the suspension of its star player and only senior, the men’s basketball team nearly pulled off a huge upset in Columbia, Mo., last night, falling by only eight points to the University of Missouri, 68-60.

On Saturday, the team suspended indefinitely co-captain Jason Forte ’05, last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year, according to the team’s weekly press release. According to ESPN’s Web site, Forte was suspended for “behavior detrimental to the team.”

Without Forte, the Bears were forced to trot out a starting lineup consisting of a junior, three sophomores and a firstyear to open the season in the first game of the Guardians Classic. All five players who came off the bench were also

first-years.

With Missouri playing its first game in its new, sold-out, 15,000-seat Paige Sports Arena, the task facing the Bears was more daunting than playing a perennially strong Big 12 team on its home court. With only one returning starter, co-captain Luke Ruscoe ’06, Bruno proved to be up to the challenge, falling behind by no more than 11 points the entire game.

The Bears were led by shooting guard Damon Huffman ’08, who went 5-for-7 from beyond the three-point stripe in netting 16 points. Ruscoe tallied a double-double, finishing with 14 points and 10 rebounds while going 5-for-6 from the field.

Coming off the bench, Adolphe Coulibaly ’08 had 11 points.

Had Brown done better from the free-throw line, the game

might have been even closer. As a team, the Bears were 9-for-17 from the charity stripe, a meager 52.9 percent.

Brown stayed right with the Tigers for most of the game, taking it into halftime down 33-32.

Missouri finally gave itself a cushion about midway through the second half, taking a 49-40 lead with 12:04 left to play.

The Bears will face Sam Houston State University today at 6:30 p.m. in the second round of the Guardians Classic. The team then has away games at the University of Rhode Island on Friday and Wright State University on Sunday to finish off its first week of play.

Herald staff writer Chris Hatfield ’06 edits the sports section. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Football drops 20-7 decision to Dartmouth

BY BEN MILLER

After being shut out for the first three quarters, the football team rallied late in the game but fell short to Dartmouth 20-7 in Hanover, N.H. The loss to the previously winless Big Green eliminated any chance for Bruno (5-4, 2-4 Ivy League) to finish with a winning conference record.

“We were very flat and unemotional, which I have never seen in this football team,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “I can’t point to one thing. Lots of balls were dropped, we missed plays and they made all plays they had to make.”

Bruno went up to Dartmouth hoping to build off its come-frombehind win against Yale the previous week and to continue to eat up yards on the ground behind its workhorse, running back Nick Hartigan ’06. This past week Hartigan was honored for his offfield performance, being named a CoSida District I Academic AllAmerican.

However, instead of Hartigan breaking loose, it was Dartmouth first-year Chad Gaudet who had the big game, gaining 137 yards.

Hartigan, meanwhile, was held to 65 yards on a mere 15 carries, both well shy of his averages of 33.6 and 127.4, respectively.

Hartigan’s decreased rushing totals were due in large part to the Big Green’s seizing an early lead.

“They have a good defense, but they did not stop Hartigan — we stopped running him,” Estes said.

“He had some good runs in the first quarter. If circumstances were different, Hartigan would have had a great day.”

The game began with what Estes described as a “boring” first quarter, as both teams had long drives that ate up large chunks of time. Both teams got the ball deep in the other’s territory, but it was Dartmouth who came away with points, nailing a 29-yard try, while Bruno came up short, literally, as a field goal attempt by Steve Morgan ’08 did not have quite enough distance on it.

“There were not many possessions,” Estes said of the first quarter. “You never could get any momentum going in your way. All the things that could have started to go our way did not.”

Bruno trailed by three points going into the second, and things continued to go poorly when Dartmouth linebacker Joe Gibalski hit quarterback Joe DiGiacomo ’07 as he was throwing. The ball popped loose and was recovered

by Dartmouth, giving them possession at the Brown 7. Three plays later they ran it in, putting Brown in a 10-0 hole.

“I could tell when (DiGiacomo) came out that he was not throwing the ball well and seemed to have no focus,” Estes said. “(Anthony) Vita (’07) was not ready to go, so we went with Matt Hostetler (’06).”

Unfortunately, Hostetler never had time to throw and was sacked on three consecutive plays, prompting Estes to put DiGiacomo back into the game to

start the second half.

The second half did not go any better, as Dartmouth started with a long kickoff return that led to a 20-yard field goal. A few minutes later, the Big Green found the end zone again, this time via the air, eating up over six minutes on a 68yard drive.

With Dartmouth holding a 20point lead in the early part of the fourth quarter, Estes spread the offense out and started passing consistently. The different style worked, as Brown moved the ball to the Dartmouth 9-yard line, where Bruno went back to Hartigan, who ran the ball the rest of the way for his 13th touchdown of the year, the second-most in the Ivies.

In the waning moments of the game, Bruno continued to battle as DiGiacomo moved the ball through the air to the Dartmouth 16. Two runs by Hartigan gave Brown a first down at the 4-yard line. On first down, DiGiacomo hit receiver Jarret Schreck ’06 in the end zone, but he was unable to hold on to the ball. Brown then ran three more passing plays, but none connected, and they turned the ball over on downs, effectively ending any chance of a comeback.

“I needed two more possessions,” Estes said. “If I try to run it, and we don’t get it in, the clock keeps running. If (Schreck) had caught that first pass, that would have made it 20-14 with 4:02 left and two timeouts, and we would have had a chance to win the game.”

It was a frustrating game for DiGiacomo, who for the second week in a row was given the starting job, as Vita continues to recover from a sprained wrist suffered against the University of Pennsylvania. After having a stellar game last week, DiGiacomo was inaccurate, completing 19 of 44 passes for 201 yards. He also lost one fumble and threw an interception.

Schreck, meanwhile, continued his stellar season, hauling in 11 passes for 140 yards. The 5’9” receiver has now gained over 100 yards receiving for the second week in a row and now leads the league in receiving yards with 921.

Defensively, Zak DeOssie ’07 yet again showcased his playmaking ability, intercepting Dartmouth’s last play of the first half on his own 3-yard line and returning it to the Dartmouth 36.

The Bears also had solid performances from Craig Young ’05, who registered 10 tackles, Tim Cotter ’06, who had seven solo tackles, and James Frazier ’06, who had two and a half tackles for a loss and one of Bruno’s five sacks.

see FOOTBALL, page 5 B ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Monday, Nov. 15 Men’s Basketball: Missouri 68, Brown 60 Tuesday, Nov. 16 Men’s Basketball: vs. Sam Houston State (Guardians Classic, University of Missouri) Women’s Ice Hockey: vs. no. 4 Harvard, Meehan Auditorium