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AmeriCorp out of funding crisis, but City Year still faces cuts

BY SUCHI MATHUR

AmeriCorps and its affiliated programs are continuing to recover from last year’s funding crisis with a bigger budget nationwide, but membership in Rhode Island remains stagnant.

Nationally, AmeriCorps membership has grown to 75,000, a record high since the program’s inception in 1993, said Sandy Scott, spokesman for AmeriCorps.

Bipartisan support in Congress led to a large funding increase this year, Scott said.

AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that focus on meeting critical needs in areas including education, public safety, health and the environment. Its main purpose is to provide manpower to existing non-profit and community service organizations. After successfully completing a term of service, members enrolled in the National Service Trust are eligible to receive an education award which can be used at qualified institutions. One year of full-time service corresponds to an education award of $4,725, while shorter terms correspond to smaller awards, according to the AmeriCorps Web site.

Prior to 2003, Rhode Island Americorps received about $3 million in federal funds and supported 12 programs, said Rick Benjamin, acting co-executive director of the Rhode Island Service Alliance. But budget cuts in Washington, D.C., meant that during 2003, the state’s AmeriCorps funding could support only three programs, Benjamin said. AmeriCorps in Rhode Island currently has approximately $2.3 million in federal money, which supports eight programs, he said.

The Rhode Island chapter of Campus Compact administers all AmeriCorps positions for students currently enrolled at Brown who want to work in the program part-time. Brown had 20 slots this year and last year for students wishing to serve as corps members, said Claudia DeCesare, assistant director of health programs at the Swearer Center.

DeCesare, who also coordinates offcampus work-study and AmeriCorps for the University, said she has had to turn interested students down in the past.

“There was a time last year when it was

see AMERICORPS, page 4

Local TV reporter Taricani convicted of contempt for not revealing source

BY DANIELLE CERNY

Local television reporter Jim Taricani was found guilty of criminal contempt Thursday for refusing to name the source of a secret FBI videotape used in the 2002 “Operation Plunder Dome” trial of former Mayor Vincent Cianci and associates.

Taricani, a reporter for WJAR Channel 10, NBC’s Providence affiliate, will face sentencing Dec. 9 and could receive up to six months in prison. Chief U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres said there was no way of knowing exactly what the sentence would be until he had reviewed all of the evidence, but Taricani “ought to be prepared for any eventuality at the time of sentencing.”

Yesterday’s ruling was the end of a three-year attempt by the court to learn the source of the secret tape, which was given to Taricani in violation of a court order. WJAR aired the videotape, which showed Cianci associate Frank Corrente accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, before Corrente and three codefendants were tried on corruption charges. The trials resulted from a fouryear-long public corruption investigation nicknamed “Operation Plunder Dome.”

Taricani was found in civil contempt last March for refusing to reveal the tape’s source and was fined $1,000 a day as a result. WJAR, which covered Taricani’s fines, paid a total of $85,000 before the court ruled on Nov. 4 that the fines were not sufficient to force Taricani’s compliance with the court order. Torres then gave Taricani one last chance to reveal his source before being found to be in criminal contempt.

Yesterday, Taricani’s chances ran out.

Before the ruling, Taricani’s lawyer, Martin Murphy, made a final attempt to

avoid a criminal contempt ruling.

Murphy argued that criminal prosecutions of this nature had a chilling affect on the “ability of reporters to gather news.”

Murphy also argued that Taricani should not be found guilty because he had been acting on good faith and a belief that his conduct was protected by the law.

But Torres emphasized that Taricani was not on trial for airing the video. The crime was instead his refusal to reveal the tape’s source — a direct violation of a court order. Moreover, Torres said that good faith and a misunderstanding of the law was not a defense against a criminal contempt charge.

“The issue is a very simple one,” Torres said. There was a lawful court order of reasonable specificity, which Taricani willfully violated. The evidence is “clear, overwhelming and undisputed,” Torres said.

Torres pointed out that Taricani was given numerous opportunities to comply with the court order and the court had attempted to reason with Taricani on several occasions.

Taricani, who received a heart transplant several years ago, was given a week to submit medical information to the court, which will be used to place him in the appropriate facility upon sentencing.

After the ruling, Taricani read from a written statement: “When I became a reporter 30 years ago, I never imagined that I would be put on trial and face the prospect of going to jail simply for doing my job.

“Although I am willing to go to jail, I think it is wrong that journalists should

see TARICANI, page 3

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Backstage crew member Natalie Hirsch ’08 checks lighting from center stage before a performance of “Fucking A” in Leeds Theater Thursday night.

Behind the scenes, technical artists make shows happen

BY ANNA ABRAMSON

Technical theater artists at Brown might not be visible on stage, but the final product of their labor is anything but invisible. These students are responsible for sets, sound, ARTS & CULTURE design, costume, props, lighting, stage managing and much more.

Technical artists say it is logical that their work should occur in the background, because they aim not to highlight their own technical work but to use that work to illuminate the director’s vision for the show.

Adam Immerwahr ’05, who has been involved in numerous projects, including directing, stage managing and acting, said that the better behind-the-scenes work is, the less the audience will notice it.

“If we do this great, no one is ever

GTech is the future of downtown Providence, modern design and all, writes Alexander Bernstein ’07 column, page 7

Women’s basketball returns multiple players, looks ahead to strong season with senior leadership sports, page 8

see THEATER, page 3

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I N S I D E F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 9 , 2 0 0 4 Ethan Ris ’05 doesn’t believe in gay marriage — at least not the type that the government regulates column, page 7

going to think about how we did all this,” he said. “They’re going to think, wow, you couldn’t have done that any other way.

Our goal is transparency, to make everything seem natural.”

There are many different types of technical artist — each show typically has a lighting designer, costume designer, sound designer, set designer, scenic artists, stage managers and production managers. Production managers have more of an administrative job that requires them to attend meetings and monitor the budget, among other tasks.

As a show nears its opening, more crew members are needed to put into effect what other artists have worked on for months.

In the months leading up to a show, technical artists are an indispensible part

With only one junior and one senior on the team, men’s basketball is relying on new recruits sports, page 8

Two senior runners reach the NCAA championships and the end of their Brown cross country careers sports, page 8

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR KEIR MARTICKE ‘06 3:30 p.m. (Manning Chapel) WOMENS BASKETBALL HOME OPENER 7 p.m. (Pizzitola Center) — Cheer on the women’s basketball team as it takes on Temple University in its first home game of the season.

Free with student ID.

MEZCLA’s FALL SEMESTER SHOW 6:15 p.m. (Salomon 101) — MEZCLA will present another dynamic performance. Cost: $6.

THE ONE RHODE ISLAND PLATFORM Noon (Hillel) — Come learn about the One Rhode Island Platform, poverty in Rhode Island and how to help.

WIND SYMPHONY CONCERT 8 p.m. (Sayles Hall) — The Brown University Wind Symphony, under the direction of Matthew McGarrell, will perform with the Rhode Island College Wind Ensemble, conducted by Robert Franzblau in a massed band performance of Ron Nelson’s Resonances, music by J.S. Bach and Percy Grainger’s “The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart” featuring organist Stephen Martorella.

TOMORROW’S EVENTS EAST ASIAN CULTURAL SHOW AND DINNER 7 p.m. (Andrew’s Dining Hall) — This year’s East Asian Cultural Show will feature food from Lemi's and Brown Catering as well as the most varied selection of acts yet including Lion Dance, Breakers, KBToys, Offbeat and Revelasians.

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WRITING BEYOND BROWN: AN ALUMNI SYMPOSIUM 1-4 p.m. (Crystal Room, Alumni Hall) Recent graduates of Brown University who participated in the Writing Fellows Program as undergraduates return to campus to speak about ways in which their writing skills have had an impact on their careers. After a panel presentation, audience members will have an opportunity to meet in small workshop groups with the speakers.

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Theater continued from page 1 of the process. Todd Lipcon ’07, the light designer for Brownbrokers’ upcoming production of “Psyche” and sound designer for the mainstage production of “Measure for Measure,” has an elaborate computerized lighting plan detailing the roughly 150 lights that he plans to hang next week for “Psyche,” which opens Dec. 2.

The light plan includes an image representing each individual light with its own unit number, its size, color and position. In addition to sample light colors, Lipcon has a board of costume samples to guide him in his choices.

He explained that it is essential to coordinate these aspects of the production because lighting is “a response to the scene. … It’s artsy.” He said lighting requires plenty of trial and error before the lights can complement and enhance what is on stage. Lipcon also said that for “Psyche,” which requires a challenging set design, “we don’t have the budget to make an entire underworld, so it’s pretty much up to the lighting to change it from Olympus to the underworld to Athens.”

Erica Rotstein ’06, who is currently serving as costage manager for “Psyche,” spends six days a week, four hours each day at rehearsals, a time commitment not even required of all actors. In addition to that rehearsal time, the stage manager is also responsible for coming early to set up, locking up at night, attending meetings and handling any unforeseen problems that arise. In the week before a show goes up, Rotstein said, “I basically live in the theater.”

For a director, Rotstein said, the time commitment cannot be quantified because the “director is literally thinking about this 24 hours a day.”

Immerwahr said that as a stage manager, he would expect to be at rehearsal from 7 to 11 p.m. every night except Saturday and put in an additional hour of work outside of that scheduled time.

Rebecca Mintz ’08, who has been helping out with the set and lights for “Psyche,” estimated that she spends 6-8 hours a week on the work.

The artists don’t seem to mind the time commitment, though. “I love being at rehearsal every night,” Rotstein said, adding, “It is stressful — I never know what’s going to come at me on a given evening.” Rotstein said she particularly enjoys the opportunity to see the evolution and “ins and outs” of a production. “I love watching it happen from this end,” she said.

Students involved in technical theater said shows are always in need of more technical staff — even those with no experience. “It’s so easy to get involved,” Immerwahr said. “People are begging you.” He pointed to the “sheer amount of shows” each year — estimates range from 40 to 80, including productions by Sock and Buskin, Production Workshop, Musical Forum and other groups. In many cases, students with no prior experience can be trained as they go along, he said.

Production Workshop offers support in the form of assistant positions, apprenticeships and mentors, he added.

Technical theater artists at Brown appreciate the opportunity to shift back and forth between different positions, experiencing time both on stage and behind it. “Brown is extraordinary at teaching people how to become well-rounded theater artists, not just actors,” Immerwahr said.

He said actors with experience in technical theater have an advantage when they enter the theater world outside Brown — when working as actors, they are able to communicate more effectively with crew members, and when not acting, they still have a wide range of options for careers in theater.

Taricani continued from page 1 face this type of threat simply for doing their jobs,” Taricani continued.

In response to questions from reporters, Taricani said his biggest personal concerns about jail were his health issues.

While Taricani said he was “anxious and nervous” about the possibility of going to jail, he said he had “no regrets whatsoever.”

Yesterday’s ruling, and the proceedings leading up to it, have garnered a great deal of media attention because of their implications regarding the conflict between journalists’ rights to inform the public and defendants’ rights to a fair trial. Several other cases around the country also involve the leaking of information to journalists in direct violation of the law; those cases have yet to go to trial.

“I wish all of my sources could be on the record, but when people are afraid, a promise of confidentiality may be the only way to get the information to the public, and in some cases, to protect the well-being of the source,” Taricani read from his statement.

After the ruling, WJAR released a statement expressing the station’s profound disappointment with the conviction and said it stands by Taricani and supports his decisions not to disclose the tape’s source.

“No reporter should have to pay such a terribly high price for honestly and legally reporting the news,” the statement read.

Herald staff writer Danielle Cerny ’06 edits the Campus Watch section. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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M. b-ball continued from page 8 Bears’ sixth man at the Guardians Classic, chipping in with 11 points against Missouri. The Bears will carry six other freshmen, all of whom Forte described as very talented. “Once the freshmen realize how good they can be, we should have a very good season,” Forte said.

Miller returns to the Bears’

AmeriCorps continued from page 1 questionable — we weren’t really sure if the programs were going to be able to continue,” she said.

“I don’t publicize it far and wide, because I like to make it available first to students who are eligible for work study, so they can use their hours to put toward their 300-hour obligation to AmeriCorps,” DeCesare added.

“This is for off-campus workstudy only.”

Maggie Grove, executive director of Rhode Island Campus Compact, runs Scholarships for Service, a part-time AmeriCorps program accessible for students enrolled in college. Grove said because the program’s current grant was awarded under the administration of President George W. Bush, she expects the level of funding to remain stable.

Campus Compact is a collaboration of more than 900 universities and college presidents dedicated to advocating the civic duties of higher education. President Ruth

Cross country continued from page 8 through a process of trial and error.

“It’s easier as a coach to pull someone back than to have to drag them along,” Gregorek said. “It’s all part of that drive you need to succeed.”

In that sense, Gaudette and Tarpy do have more in common — they have the same competitive drive.

“I think that they even tend to compete in workouts,” Gregorek said. “But they help each other out and feed off each other, even if it’s unspoken.”

Due to his ability to balance all facets of collegiate life and still put the team first, Tarpy was voted as this year’s captain by his teammates, and he takes it all in stride.

His trademark is a worn, tiedyed Maine t-shirt that he wears on runs almost daily. Even in inclement weather, the brightgreen pattern is proudly on display over warmer clothes. Its presence at practice is standard, and there is something lacking when it is not a part of the pack. And, much like Tarpy, it has consistently brought energy to the team through the

bench for his sixth season. His resume at Brown includes four consecutive winning seasons and a National Invitational Tournament appearance in 2003, the Bears’ second postseason appearance ever. He was also named the insider.com Ivy League Coach of the Year in 2003 after the Bears posted a 12-2 record in Ivy games.

As is typically the case, Princeton and Penn are the preseason favorites in the Ivy League. Those two teams took

the top two spots in the preseason Ivy League media poll, in which Brown was ranked fourth, just behind Yale. To have a shot at knocking off the “two P’s,” Brown’s underclassmen will need to develop quickly.

Brown takes a short road trip tonight to play the University of Rhode Island at 7:30 p.m. The squad’s home opener is scheduled for Dec. 3 at 7 p.m., when the Bears play defending America East Conference champion Binghamton University.

Simmons is a member of Campus Compact.

Last year, AmeriCorps membership was capped at 50,000, Scott said. “We had a difficult year in 2003, and we were very grateful to turn around very quickly with a record budget,” he said. “We believe that was a sign of the growing recognition of the value of AmeriCorps to communities and to our nation.”

City Year, an affiliated program focused on sending volunteers to urban environments, has suffered huge setbacks after the budget cuts in the summer of 2003, said Elizabeth Winangun, recruitment director of Rhode Island City Year.

The organization had only 40 positions funded in 2004 and 2003, a sharp decrease from the previous number of 69, Winangun said.

Despite overall AmeriCorps growth, Winangun said she believes City Year will suffer in the long term because of Bush’s emphasis on channeling federal funds to faith-based groups.

“Bush prefers funding faith-based organizations, so that takes away from organizations that may have been funded for a long time, but

aren’t faith-based,” she said.

“I find that a lot of faith-based organizations have AmeriCorps funding which they didn’t have before, which is taking away from organizations who have a record of success, and may instead be going to some programs who don’t have experience running AmeriCorps programs,” Winangun said.

Benjamin acknowledged that the emphasis of national community service has changed, but he pointed out that the one faithbased AmeriCorps program running in Rhode Island ended this year. The Bush administration favors programs that mirror its priorities, he said, not specifically faith-based programs.

“After the pause, when funding was restored, it was tied to things like homeland security,” Benjamin said.

Nationally, Scott said, AmeriCorps is one of the largest employers of college graduates.

“Since Sept. 11 we’ve seen a surge of interest in AmeriCorps on college campuses,” he said. “We’re grateful so many college graduates have answered the call to service.”

years.

Despite his loud shirt, Tarpy chooses to lead the team by example rather than fiery speeches. He tries to pass down what he has learned from the runners before him.

“The team is the most important part of my life here at Brown,” Tarpy said. “It is about all of the upperclassmen passing down attitudes of dedication to the younger guys.”

He’s known to be good-natured, which is a necessity in order to live in an apartment with three other male distance runners.

Housemate Eamonn O’Connor ’05 explains that Tarpy’s casual attitude makes him easier to live with.

“He’s not exactly one to volunteer to do the dishes, and he should probably stay out of the kitchen,” said O’Connor. “But just like in running, when things need to be done, he gets them done.”

And Tarpy and Gaudette knew how to get things done this fall.

The last time Brown had two individual qualifiers for the NCAA National meet was 1987.

“They’ve gone back and forth all season,” Gregorek said. “But I expect them both to come out of nationals as All-Americans.”

Gregorek knows that both have given everything to the team and

that this week will be their reward.

“It would be selling us short to say that Jeff thinks of nothing but his running and that I don’t care,” Tarpy said. “We’re more than that.

We care too much about the team to be just that. Because I know I can go on 14-milers and think of nothing but cross country and that there is much more to Jeff than running.”

Twenty teammates will anxiously wait in Providence to hear news of Gaudette and Tarpy’s race.

It will be thoughts of those men that are in the front of their minds when the gun goes off.

“Running at Brown is not about running for yourself,” Gaudette said. “It’s about running for your coach and your teammates, people I consider family. Pat and I have the honor to represent them, so we will do our best to make them proud.”

So on Monday they will race one last time as cross country teammates. They began these last four years at the same point, and now they will fittingly end it together. Sometimes they just took different roads along the way.

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

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Sailing continued from page 8 tain Edward Young ’05, one of the factors that has enabled Brown to enjoy its success this season is the team chemistry.

“Our team is meshing really well,” Young said. “There are a lot of people who are good enough to sail, but the fact is that we are all there as a team.

It’s so easy on so many teams to compete against each other, to see who gets to sail on the big regatta, but we are all about putting that past us and it’s working out great.”

And of course, it helps that the team has a throng of skilled sailors.

“Everyone can go out there and perform, not just two or three boats,” Young said.

The team has seen much improvement over the past few years, which can be traced to the arrival of Head Coach John Mollicone. In 1999, Mollicone came to Brown to coach both the co-ed and women’s teams.

“Before John, the previous coach didn’t really take things seriously. John has upped the

W. b-ball continued from page 8 respectively. She is also a threepoint threat, having hit 19 last year. “(She) must be really consistent as a rebounder,” Burr said. “She must have a big year for us.”

Perhaps the biggest unknown for the Bears is that of co-captain Andrea Conrad ’05, who appears to be fully recovered from a series of injuries that forced her to miss all of last season. A forward who scored over 1,000 points in high school, Conrad has yet to have an injury-free season, but if she stays healthy this season, she could be capable of producing some impressive numbers.

“It is great to have her back,” Hayes said. “She helps (Robertson) out a lot on the boards. She is a great leader, and her spirit and energy are needed.”

With an established interior game, the Bears will rely on Colleen Kelly ’06 to be their main threat from behind the arc. Kelly, whom Burr calls the team’s unsung hero, was Brown’s best long-range option last year, sinking 22 of her 78 attempts. This year, the Bears hope to add an additional three-point threat in adidas All-American Amy Hunckler ’08, who set the record at her high school for most threepointers in a year, with 67.

With defense being the main creed of Burr’s style of coaching, it comes as little surprise that the Bears were the stingiest team in

level of intensity,” Ward said.

“When he started we were lucky to have four or five boats in the water for practice, and now we have 18 or 19. And every sailor on the team has been recruited by him.”

For years before Mollicone’s arrival, the team rarely broke into the top 20 in national rankings.

“We wouldn’t be anywhere if it weren’t for what John did for the team,” Hale said. “He not only put us back on the map, but back on the top of the pile.”

Last year the sailing team saw equal success, with the co-ed team finishing the fall season ranked third in the nation and the women’s team finishing ranked first.

This year, the women’s team continued its excellence and finished ranked third amid heavy competition.

In the final fall regatta, the women’s team competed at the Atlantic Coast Championships.

After a third-place finish, behind host College of Charleston and Yale, the women’s team dropped from its previous No. 2 ranking to No. 3.

With only four team members, the women’s team does not

the Ivies in terms of both opponents’ field goal percentage and scoring. Given that past success, the Bears will continue to focus on shutting down opponents with their active and physical defense.

“What gives us confidence is our defense,” Burr said. “We have the depth to pressure the ball. This team believes in defense, and when you believe in something, it is going to happen.”

The Bears also like to confuse their opponents by changing schemes constantly throughout the game.

“We do that so teams don’t know what we are going to throw at them,” Hayes said. “We can match up with any team very well.

We play good one-versus-one defense as well as excellent help defense.”

To complement the returning veterans, Burr has brought in a first-year class with a great deal of potential. In addition to Hunckler, Bruno welcomes guard Anne O’Neal ’08. An accomplished scorer who averaged over 20 points per game in high school, O’Neal was named the Georgia Gatorade High School Player of the year for basketball her junior year and for softball in her senior year.

With such a deep and experienced roster, Burr has put together a tough schedule for this team, beginning with tonight’s game against the defending Atlantic-10 champion Temple University. The Owls, who are coming off an NCAA tournament bid, will tip off against the Bears at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Sports Center.

have the same personnel luxury afforded to the co-ed squad, at least not in competition.

“We all practice together,” said Annie Davidson ’05 of the co-ed and women’s team. “As our co-ed team is getting better they push us at practice, so (our performances) are an entireteam effort.”

During the season, the teams practice four days a week at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston.

Last weekend’s action marked the end of the fall season, and the teams will be back in action in mid-February, or as soon as the water thaws.

With talent spread out across the classes, the team hopes to be able to stay on top for a while, but the competition will not get any easier — the co-ed team will have the most difficult schedule in college sailing for the next year.

Herald sports editor Ian Cropp ’05 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Diamonds and coal A diamond to biology professor Ken Miller ’70 for defending evolution to the citizens of Cobb County, Ga., who appear to be stuck in Dayton, Tenn., circa 1925. But a sticker to creation science, because students should really be allowed to hear both sides of the contentious debate on the “theory.”

Speaking of the reality-based community, a diamond to local reporter Jim Taricani, who was found guilty Thursday of contempt for refusing to reveal a source for stories relating to the Plunder Dome scandal. We bet Buddy could have kept you out of prison — too bad your journalistic integrity helped put him there.

Coal to living under pyramids on the East Side — after all, some of our buildings were built by slaves. But a diamond to the Life Sciences Building, which resembles not pyramids but Legoland, which was built by Danes.

Coal to the Public Theater of New York City for stealing away Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Trinity Repertory Company and professor of English. But a diamond to the theater’s service to New York, which will only be enhanced by the arrival of the greatest facial hair not to appear on Name That Beard.

A diamond to the 15,000 bunnies that took over the Convention Center this week for the American Rabbit Breeders Association National Convention. Another diamond to the poor soul who has to clean up after those wascally wabbits.

Ask President Ruth Simmons to tell you about the time she got stuck in a boat in the middle of a lake. Man, that story will be worth a thousand diamonds.

A cubic zirconium to Undergraduate Council of Students President Joel Payne ’05. By securing concessions for student groups from Brown First, he came through on one of his two major campaign promises. But “Mission 50 percent accomplished” just doesn’t have that presidential ring to it.

Diamonds to students who play poker on campus and run naked through the libraries. You’re what make Brown the 61stbest university in the world.

Ultimately, a diamond to penultimania.

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DANIEL L AWLOR

LETTERS Transfers also lose out in housing, advising To the Editor: As has been illustrated by the numerious articles and letters, financial aid for transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students is a blemish on the University’s record (“Shah clarifies his opinion on transfer aid,” Nov. 18). However, it should be noted that the designation of second-class student extends beyond financial aid.

Sophomore transfer students are routinely placed in freshmen dorms. I personally was placed in a triple lounge in Andrews. Moreover, I didn’t know where I was living or who I was living with until the day I arrived on campus.

Furthermore, transfers are not privileged to the same advising system that first-years are. Transfers do not have Meiklejohns or Curricular Advising Program advisors. Some transfers are not assigned a single advisor, period.

Finally, transfer students are given a makeshift orientation program. Through no fault of the coordinators, the transfer orientation program is just not backed by the same resources that the freshmen orientation is.

All of the above aspects speak to a systemic problem rooted deep in many university structures. This lack of attention and resources for transfer students substantially hampers transfer students’ ability to integrate academically and socially. So when you cannot recoup $36,000 in lost aid, are given a meager orientation program, are placed in a triple in a freshmen dorm and have no supporting advising structure, it’s hard to get excited about the “Brown experience.”

Sachin Shah ’05 Nov. 18

Column about Gonzales on the mark To the Editor: Sarah Bowman’s ’05 apprehension toward John Ashcroft’s successor, Alberto Gonzales, is well founded based on his history of selective enforcement of law, as well as his support of tactics that blur the line between torture and interrogation (“Maintaining the status quo,” Nov. 18).

Some Democrats, including Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., have expressed relief that Gonzales doesn't seem to be as radical as his predecessor. Schumer said: “It’s encouraging the president has chosen someone less polarizing. We will have to review his record very carefully, but I can

tell you already he’s a better candidate than John Ashcroft.”

It’d be extremely dangerous to the best interests of America for Democratic congressional leadership to rubber-stamp Gonzales’ nomination without a full investigation of his record. Gonzales may not be as openly radical as Ashcroft, but his record raises serious questions about his commitment to American ideals of law and justice.

Tristan Freeman ’07 Nov. 17

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An article in Thursday’s paper (“Awareness of crimes is up, but crime rate same as last year”) incorrectly reported that the Department of Public Safety would hold a safety presentation on Nov. 25. That presentation actually occurred on Nov. 15.

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2004 · PAGE 7

GTech’s investment in Providence GUEST COLUMN BY ALEX BERNSTEIN

Last week the Brown Real Estate Investment Club and the Entrepreneurship Program co-hosted a panel discussion about the planned GTech headquarters to be built in the heart of downtown Providence. GTech recently agreed to move its world headquarters from West Greenwich to Providence in exchange for a generous package of tax breaks as well as a 20-year exclusive contract to operate the state’s lottery.

The GTech project will be the largest and most significant development in the downtown area in more than a decade. The proposed 12-story building will occupy a parcel on the corner of Francis Street and Memorial Boulevard, part of the Capital Center Special Development District, a 77-acre development zone located in front of Providence Place Mall and down the street from the State House.

The building itself, designed by Spagnolo, Gisness and Associates, will be a sleek structure made of glass and metal designed to integrate with the surrounding pedestrian area as well as create a new retail corridor.

Last week’s event brought key players in the GTech development to campus for a discussion about the project and its impact on the Providence community.

The panel itself included Dick Galvin, president and founder of Commonwealth Ventures; Al Spagnolo, principal and co-founder of Spagnolo, Gisness and Associates, Inc.; John Gilroy, project executive for Gilbane Building Co.; and Erik Dyson, senior director of real estate at GTech.

Dyson began the discussion by explaining how the project was conceived. When GTech Holdings Corp, an international gaming and lottery corporation, decided to relocate its world headquarters, it narrowed its list of cities down to Boston and Providence.

Ultimately, the state of Rhode Island and the city of Providence offered a more attractive deal, including state and city tax breaks topping $8 million in addition to a 20-year no-bid lottery contract (about four times longer than the typical contract). Once the deal to bring GTech to Providence was finalized, the next

step was finding and assembling all the pieces necessary to construct and operate a building large enough to accommodate its needs. GTech expressed no interest in owning the building, because real estate is outside of its core business. Therefore, it found Commonwealth Ventures LLC, which, in association with USAA Real Estate Co., agreed to finance and manage the building.

The panel described the complicated process of

The company’s new headquarters will help both Brown and greater Providence. getting approval for the planned building from both the Capital Center Commission and a myriad of other state and local agencies.

Architect Al Spagnolo described how the approval process altered the design of the building by taking into account the various concerns of committee members and Providence residents.

Yet despite the developers’ willingness to alter their plan to meet the demands of the community, not all Providence residents are pleased with the design of the GTech headquarters. Some have criticized the building’s design for its use of materials that seem out of place in historic downtown Providence.

Some residents, most notably the father of Mayor David Cicilline ’83, have complained that the modern aesthetic of the building will not fit in with the more traditional architecture in downtown Providence.

However, the building’s design was received warmly by most Brown students in attendance. Joshua Koplewicz ’05 likened the design of the new GTech headquarters to other architectural landmarks: “The building’s design is evocative of the great office buildings of the international style, such as the Lever House. It’s distinctly different from anything that exists in Providence, and thusly I think it’s a welcome addition to the community.”

Despite departing from Providence’s architectural tradition, GTech’s development will positively affect the downtown landscape. Robert Reichley, a member of the design committee and previously an executive vice president of public affairs and external relations at Brown, points out, “We should have the courage to design and build buildings that have the language of our time — a modern language.”

Reichley is right. The city and residents of Providence should learn to embrace the virtues of modernity while simultaneously respecting and preserving the traditions of its past.

By all accounts, the panel was a tremendous success. In addition to the explanation of real estate development logistics, the panel offered bits of industry wisdom, such as when Galvin noted: “The real money is made in filling up the last 10 percent (of the building’s occupancy).”

After the formal presentation, the featured guests fielded questions about the design, the obstacles they encountered while soliciting the approval of numerous committees and the intended use of the retail space and the two commercial floors not being occupied by GTech.

The panel received thunderous applause and promised to keep the best interests of Providence and Brown in mind throughout the construction of the city’s newest $80 million skyscraper.

Alex Bernstein ’05 is on the executive board of the Brown Real Estate Club.

ETHAN RIS

Leave marriage to the church I am against gay marriage. To be fair, I am against marriage in general, when we’re talking about a government-sanctioned institution. The government doesn’t do christenings. I don’t recall having to fill out a form at a county office before my bar mitzvah. There has never been a funeral approved by a state official.

Today, 217 years after the U.S. government was forbidden from enacting any law “respecting an establishment of religion,” the state is still overseeing a religious rite. In the passionate debate over the definition of marriage, Americans must ask themselves if their government should be in the marriage business at all.

The time is right for a compromise. As homosexuality rapidly becomes acceptable within mainstream values, the push to specifically deny rights to gay and lesbian Americans is increasingly limited to religious fundamentalists who treat every word of the Bible as unquestionable truth.

While these fundamentalists must not be underestimated in either numbers or loudness, they are unquestionably on the margins.

Vice President Dick Cheney has long supported equal rights for homosexual couples who wish to form a legal union. Recently, even President Bush, the most conservative president in three generations, announced, “I don’t think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement.”

So what is holding up the equal protection for all citizens guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, a guarantee which would surely apply to gay Americans as much as it does to African-Americans?

The government’s job is to uphold individual rights,

not religious institutions. State governments should leave the practice of marriage and all its baggage to churches, synagogues and mosques. Instead, they should simply issue the same basic guarantee of rights — call it a civil union or any other name — to every couple that applies for one. For most Americans, the marriage process would be very much the same as it is today: a stop to fill out a civil contract and then a ceremony at the religious institution of one’s choice.

Prevent government from interfering with religion by separating the two.

Religions that don’t want to recognize the unions would be under no obligation to do so.

The idea would be controversial at first, simply because it would require a change in citizens’ comprehension of government’s place in their lives. But such changes have been made before, as recently as the 1980s, with the large-scale deregulation of industry.

If Americans can deal with airline overexpansion and power grid failures, they can deal with a government that no longer meddles with religion.

This process starts, of course, right here in the Ocean State. Roger Williams, Rhode Island’s founder, didn’t just practice freedom of religion. He invented it.

With Vermont and Massachusetts already guaranteeing equal protection to all their citizens and Connecticut poised to do the same, Rhode Island could become an island of intolerance in the midst of progress.

Instead, we should grab the mantle of moderation and start a movement that fulfills the promise of equal rights while actually providing bonuses for both true conservatives and religious fundamentalists. The conservatives would see a smaller government, and the fundamentalists would see more moral authority ceded directly to churches.

The best way to prevent government from tampering with religion is to thoroughly separate the two.

The colonists of Roger Williams’ Rhode Island weren’t anti-religion; in fact, in many cases they were much more religious than their counterparts elsewhere.

They simply understood that the state should not tamper with the affairs of the church. Religious institutions should be responsible for the moral implications of human actions; government should be responsible for the implementation of human rights.

Ethan Ris ’05 is a political science concentrator.

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SPORTS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2004 · PAGE 8

Sailing earns number-one ranking

Tarpy ’05 and Gaudette ’05 could not be more different despite same success

BY JILANE RODGERS

BY IAN CROPP

Not many teams at Brown can claim they are the best in the nation. After the club co-ed sailing team finished in first place at the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship last weekend at MIT, it can lay stake to this claim as the team garnered the number-one ranking in Sailing World’s College Sailing Rankings. The women’s team finished an impressive third.

“We were really excited, to say the least,” said Richard Hale ’06.

“It’s the sort of thing we all knew we could do, and we were waiting for the opportunity to do it.”

Prior to the recent top billing, the team had been ranked No. 4, but it dominated just about every competition this fall.

One week before the Atlantic Championship, the team won the Thames River Race at the University of Connecticut and went on to win the Shell Trophy at MIT. “It took a while for us to get started this fall,” Hale said. “We had to shake some of the bugs out in September, but after the second week in October, we haven’t lost an event.”

At the Atlantic Championships, the Bears raced three 420-class boats with a female and male team member in each boat. According to cap-

see SAILING, page 5

Brown’s top two distance runners appear strikingly similar on paper.

Jeff Gaudette ’05 and captain Patrick Tarpy ’05 enrolled at Brown after being recruited because of their successful high school careers in small towns in Maine. On their resumes, each lists the honor of making firstteam All-Ivy twice in cross country and concentrations in historical fields, though Tarpy prefers modern Europea to Gaudette’s ancient Egypt and Greece. Both sport the clean-cut look mandated by Head Cross Country Coach John Gregorek. Most recently, they qualified as individuals to compete at the NCAA National race Monday in Terre Haute, Ind. That may be where the similarities end.

While both have dedicated the past four years of their lives to the cross country and track teams, they have taken different approaches to achieving their goals. “They’re different in some of their personality traits,” Gregorek said. “Jeff is sort of strict with his routines, and Pat tends to be a little more relaxed.”

Gaudette admits he tends to be introverted and a little on the obsessive side when it comes to running. He follows a daily schedule so precise that it rivals that of most correctional facilities, and his post-run training room routines would cause most psycholo-

Nick Neely / Herald

Jeff Gaudette ’05 and Patrick Tarpy ’05 (bottom far right) have paced the men’s cross country team all season.They will compete as individuals at the NCAA Championships on Monday on Terre Haute, Ind. gists to diagnose him with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Spending up to two hours in the weight and training rooms doing his now infamous ritual can be time-consuming, but for him, the rewards outweigh any negatives.

“I know where people are coming from when they think I’m over-the-top, because not everyone understands the competitive nature and drive I have for run-

Men’s cagers among youngest in country

BY SHAUN MCNAMARA

Coming off of two consecutive second-place finishes in the Ivy League, the men’s basketball team is looking to raise a championship banner at the Pizzitola Center for the first time since 1986. But to capture that elusive Ivy title, the Bears are counting on the fast development of one of the youngest teams in NCAA Division I basketball.

Head Coach Glen Miller’s team has just two upperclassmen in cocaptains Jason Forte ’05 and Luke Ruscoe ’06, and six sophomores and seven first-years fill out the roster. The team graduated starters Jamie Kilburn ’04, Patrick Powers ’04 and Mike Martin ’04, leaving a large load on the shoulders of a group of mostly unproven underclassmen.

Forte will direct the Bears’ offense when he returns from a suspension stemming from an altercation in a preseason practice. Last season’s Ivy League Player of the Year led the league with 21.4 points and 5.8 assists during Ivy play, becoming the first player to do so in the Ivy League.

Forte also has a shot at another piece of Ivy history. With 10 wins this season, other than Princeton and Penn, Brown will be the only team to win 40 games in a fouryear span since Columbia did so in 1968-1971; Forte has been the only member of the team for all

four years. For Brown to be successful this season, Forte needs to be on top of his game.

“This is my fourth year in the program, so I know the physical demands of the season,” Forte said. “The key to another successful season for me will be staying focused.”

While Ruscoe started all 27 games last year, his role will be more significant this season, as he is expected to be one of the top scorers and rebounders on the team. If the first two games of the season are any indication, Ruscoe is up to the challenge. He scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the team’s season opener against the University of Missouri and followed up with a career-high 25 points against Sam Houston State University.

Ruscoe is also strong on defense — he was fourth in the Ivies with 1.6 steals per game last season. “I’m still expecting to contribute in all aspects of the game, but on the offensive end I’ll be more aggressive,” Ruscoe said.

A strong supporting cast of underclassmen will aid Ruscoe and Forte. Sam Manhanga ’07 and P.J. Flaherty ’07 are expected to be regular fixtures in the starting lineup. Manhanga earned nine starts last season and recorded a career-high 20 points against Maine Fort-Kent on his

way to being named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the week of December 1, 2003.

Flaherty contributed in many crucial Ivy League games last season.

“P.J. and I have both improved a lot since last year. We’re starting to play very well together,” Manhanga said.

Marcus Becker ’07 has started at point guard in Forte’s absence and will still see plenty of minutes when Forte returns. Becker, a tremendous athlete, saw action in all 27 games last year and logged nearly 20 minutes per game.

Miller will also rely on a talented class of seven first-years. “I’m confident that our first-year players will be able to pick up our system and make significant contributions throughout the season,” Miller said.

Several first-years have already contributed to the Bears’ attack.

In his collegiate debut, Damon Huffman ’08 earned a spot in the starting five and scored 16 points against Missouri, converting five of his seven attempts from behind the arc. Huffman’s brother Trevor led Kent State University to the Elite Eight in 2001 and is currently playing overseas.

Adolphe Coulibaly ’08 was the

see M. B-BALL, page 4

ning,” Gaudette said. “But then they also can’t understand how I feel after a good race. There’s no greater joy for me than giving everything I have to this team.”

Gaudette said he was forced into running when his high school basketball coach cut him from the team in order to make him join the track team. While he initially fought the decision, seven years later, he cannot imagine life

without it.

“After graduation I want to run for an elite development club and train for the 2008 Olympics,” Gaudette said.

With Gaudette always looking to improve, it has been a lesson in patience for both him and Gregorek. Over the years they have learned how to compromise

see CROSS COUNTRY, page 4

Success for w. basketball will ride on new leaders

BY BEN MILLER

After losing three highly touted seniors, the women’s basketball team has some big holes to fill coming into this season.

However, with a continued emphasis on defense, coupled with an effective inside-outside game, the Bears are looking to improve on last year’s 16-11 record and finish in the top two of the Ivy League for the third consecutive year.

The look of this year’s team will be very different without Nyema Mitchell ’04, Tanara Golston ’04 and Miranda Craigwell ’04 on the court for the Bears. The team leader in scoring and blocked shots, Mitchell was one of only four players in Brown’s history to score 1,000 points and grab 700 rebounds. Golston was a prolific floor leader, breaking the Ivy record for most assists in a season with 188. Craigwell provided the intangibles, leading the Bears as a captain for three seasons, and always provided the defensive stop when needed.

“It was a very athletic class with a lot of experience,” said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr.

“They combined well on assists, rebounds and defense.

Now we have players that need

to step up in roles that are more results-oriented.”

Two players who have already produced for the Bears in the past but will need to take an increased load this year are Sarah Hayes ’06 and Holly Robertson ’05. A quick and tenacious defender and rebounder, Hayes excels at driving to the basket and finishing in the lane. She earned honorable mention All-Ivy last year, leading the Bears in rebounds and steals, and was fourth in scoring. The former Ivy League Rookie of the Year is becoming a bigger leader on and off the court as she takes on point guard and captain’s duties.

“Being the floor general is important,” Hayes said.

“Communicating and making sure everyone knows what is going on at all times is my main job.”

At 6’5”, Robertson towers over many opposing centers.

She uses her size to her advantage on defense to clog the lane, and she arcs baby hooks far above defenders on offense.

Robertson was second on the team in rebounds and third in scoring per game at 6.6 and 11,

see W. B-BALL, page 5