Wednesday, February 23, 2005

W E D N E S D A Y FEBRUARY 23, 2005

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Volume CXL, No. 19 HOOPS GO DUTCH M. ball snaps out of their slump against Yale, while the women take Penn but tail the Tigers.

METRO 3

focus on: public art New York’s ambitious The Gates draws a fanatical following to rival even the late Donkey in the Boat.

FOCUS 3

focus

IRV falls short by 2%

TODAY

TOMORROW

snow showers 37 / 16

mostly sunny 30 / 16

Residential Programmers become ‘Community Assistants’

76 TROMBONES LED THE ICE CAPADES

BY KIM STICKELS STAFF WRITER

The Undergraduate Council of Students will not move to Instant Runoff Voting, in accordance with the results of the referendum held last Tuesday through Friday in which 2,174 undergraduates voted.

The referendum received 64.6 percent of the vote, just shy of the 66.6 percent needed to pass.

Charlie Cummings ’06, vice president of UCS and chair of the independent Elections Review Commission — which endorsed IRV, although UCS did not — said that although IRV did not pass, “there was a real campus dialogue that we tried to foster surrounding Instant Runoff Voting.”

Formed last fall to address the past election and suggest reforms, the ERC disbanded after making recommendations to UCS, Cummings said. IRV is one of over 30 solutions the committee suggested, Cummings added.

“I’m dismayed the IRV referendum didn’t pass,” said Schuyler von Oeyen ’05, UCS alumni liaison. “However, I would actually prefer a plurality system,” he added. “In the meantime, we’ll have to deal with the current system, which, however flawed, has worked in past years.”

Also included in the WebCT survey were 13 poll questions, gauging student opinion on issues ranging from whether University-subsidized RIPTA tickets would be put to use to lifting the campus ban on kegs.

66.7 percent of respondents appear to have opposed the ban on kegs, although some voters complained that the wording of the question was confusing. UCS will vote on a resolution to eliminate the ban at its weekly meeting tonight.

“I have faith in this resolution to bring kegs on campus that is safe for all students,” said Brian Bidadi ’06, Admission and Student Services Committee chair, in a statement. “Not only is the student population behind this resolution but also

BY HANNAH MILLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sara Perkins / Herald

Dana Frankel ’08, Anthony Johnson ’08 and Stephen Babish ’08, members of the Brown Band,“the world’s only ice-skating band,” performed their last ice show of the season after Saturday’s men’s hockey game against Clarkson.

Talib Kweli added to Spring Weekend roster

BY ERIC BECK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Talib Kweli will perform in Meehan Auditorium on Thursday, April 21, the Brown Concert Agency confirmed Monday.

Kweli, a Brooklyn-based rapper, will not headline the Thursday night concert, said BCA Chair Randi Siegel ’05.

He will be the supporting act for a headliner who she said has yet to be confirmed.

“Although we haven’t yet announced our main act for Thursday, it will be awesome,” she said.

Kweli’s Spring Weekend appearance

see IRV, page 4

UCS REFERENDUM & POLL RESULTS

NO 682 YES 1243 Should UCS amend its constitution to use an Instant Runoff System in Executive Board elections?

NO 1026

www.browndailyherald.com

An independent newspaper serving the Brown community since 1891

YES 968

Are you in favor of raising the student activities fee to account for inflation and more student groups?

Almost At least never weekly 444 374 Few times At least a year monthly 762 473 If the university were able to get free RIPTA passes for all students, how often would you use it?

In favor 654

Not a priority Very 217 high 484 Medium Someto low what 703 641 How high of a priority should it be for the University to build a concert hall?

NO 518

YES 1516

Opposed 1368

Kegs are currently prohibited on campus. Are you in favor or opposed to this measure?

Editorial: 401.351.3372 Business: 401.351.3269

Would you be in favor of offering an optional J-term during Brown’s winter break?

will cost BCA $20,000, Siegel told The Herald.

Kweli joins Ben Folds in the Spring Weekend lineup, which Siegel said will eventually include between four and six acts, depending on the fees of the performers.

Siegel said the Undergraduate Finance Board increased BCA’s budget for this year from approximately $89,000 to the current $105,000.

The budget increases are especially appreciated because the UFB budget is tighter than ever, Siegel said, citing a 20 percent increase in groups funded by UFB but no increase in the student activities fees that constitute UFB’s funding.

This year’s BCA budget is the second largest in its history — only last year’s funding of $124,000 was higher.

But the problem, Siegel said, is that the music industry is drastically increasing its fees.

She pointed to Maroon 5, which charged $25,000 last year but wanted $150,000 when solicited by BCA for this year’s Spring Weekend.

Kweli is touring to support his September 2004 album, “The Beautiful Struggle,” his second solo effort after well-received collaborations with HiTek and childhood friend Mos Def. Considered by reviewers to be more commercial than 2002’s “Quality,” it features collaborations with Faith Evans and Mary J. Blige. His first single, “I Try,” was produced by Kanye West.

Kweli announced the Spring Weekend tour date on his Web site. He is the second act confirmed for the annual bacchanalia, after Ben Folds, who will headline Saturday’s Main Green show.

195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

Residential Programmers will get a new name — Community Assistants — and expanded responsibilities next semester, but some current RPs are unsure whether the changes will make the program more effective.

The new title is more suitable for their job, which encompasses more than just programming, said Assistant Dean of Residential Life and Student Programs B. Afeni Cobham, who oversees the program.

“The term Community Assistant seems more in correlation with what they actually do,” she said.

The stipend for RPs will increase from $1,250 per year this year to up to $2,000 in the fall, Cobham said.

New and returning CAs received their see RPS, page 9

Clickers open conversations in classrooms

BY NICOLE SUMMERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

To outsiders, some classrooms at Brown might be confused with live tapings of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” as six professors this semester have opted to “ask the audience” using digital TECHNOLOGY Personal Response in the classroom System clickers.

Though by no means a lifeline, clickers allow professors to poll their students on anything from their predictions of an experiment to their personal backgrounds.

Through PRS, professors pose a multiplechoice question on an overhead to which students use their individual clickers to respond. A bar graph then emerges within seconds to display the overall results of the poll.

Currently about 260 students use PRS in their courses. Though the system was first adopted by physics professors to gauge their students’ level of understanding, professors from a wide range of departments including ethnic studies, biology, environmental science and public policy are now finding clickers helpful in generating feedback, understanding the collective views of the class and finding out student demographics.

The anonymity of PRS is integral to its functions in the classroom environment, as it “allows students a way to express viewpoints that they might not want to express out loud,” said Associate Professor of Political Science Ross Cheit, who has used clickers in PS 10: “Introduction to Public Policy” and PS 105: “Ethics and Public Policy.” Consequently, class conversations see CLICKERS, page 4 News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THIS MORNING WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 2 Coreacracy Eddie Ahn

O N T H I S D AT E 1959 — The Annmary Brown Library at 21 Brown St. obtained what scholars believed to be the first world map, St. Isidore’s “Etymologiae,” printed in Germany in 1472. The map is designed with a large area designated as Asia at the top and two smaller areas, Europe and Africa, connected via narrow bands.

1959 — A staff member at The Herald was engaged by forces from the women’s college to the north in a vicious snowball exchange — he would emerge victorious.

For the full story of this encounter, please see www.browndailyherald.com.

Source: Brown Daily Herald archives

Jero Matt Vascellaro

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS SCHOLARSHIP TO PRACTICE: WHAT HAVE DEVELOPMENT PRACTIONERS DONE WITHOUT OUR INSIGHTS 4 p.m. (McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute) — With Peter Uvin, associate professor of international humanitarian studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and adjunct faculty, Watson Institute for International Studies.

CHARLES LONG: MORE LIKE A DREAM THAN A SCHEME 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. (List Art Center) — An exhibition of recent sculptural works

by California artist Charles Long at the David Winton Bell Gallery.

Chocolate Covered Cotton Mark Brinker

MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Buffalo Chicken Wings w/ Bleu Cheese Dressing, Carrot and Celery Sticks, Parsley Potatoes, Carrot Casserole, Magic Bars, Apple Turnovers

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

DINNER — Talapia Provensale Couscous, Italian Vegetable Saute, Asparagus Spears, Italian Bread, Orange Jello, Orange Delight Cake, Italian Meatballs

DINNER — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Country Wedding Soup, Roast Turkey with Sauce, Shells with Broccoli, Mashed Potatoes, Bread Stuffing, Steamed Vegetable Melange, Green Peas, Italian Bread, Orange Delight Cake

How to Get Down Nate Saunders

CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Philatelist’s buy 6 Mythical support person 11 Some tag players 14 “Aunt __ Cope Book”: 1979 bestseller 15 TV sports pioneer Arledge 16 A Cole 17 Monsoon phenomenon 19 Away, idiomatically 20 Dilemma 21 Reduces, as pressure 22 Fall heavily 23 Gales 25 Jacob’s twin 27 Transportation for a Mud Hens’ game 33 Wine holders 36 Indianapolis pros 37 Teachers’ gp.

38 Ferrara ruling family 39 Burn myrrh, say 40 Banned pollutants 41 Corn unit 42 Sermonize 43 Dianne of “The Birdcage” 44 Garnish a burger 47 Work the land 48 Reduced in price 52 Handle things 54 Boy Scouts founder __Powell 58 Harvester’s haul 59 Sapporo sash 60 Picnic in the Parthenon 62 Good, in Grenoble 63 Prefix with type 64 Freed 65 Implore 66 Quivering tree 67 Coffee shop item DOWN 1 Belgrade natives

2 Characteristic 3 Kind of acid 4 Comic strip magician 5 Trident-shaped letter 6 Met highlight 7 Heavy weights 8 Ore store 9 Licorice liqueur 10 Large number 11 It may be peddled 12 Poi, basically 13 Intersection sign word 18 Brooder’s place 22 Crony 24 Maj. in the arts 26 Brillo rival 28 Large amount 29 Scout master?

30 Actress MaryKate or Ashley 31 Ball VIPs 32 Hops dryer 33 Average grades 34 Quickly 35 Maintaining, as a razor 39 They give you leverage 1

2

3

4

40 German dog 42 Lennon’s love 43 Got the gold 45 Corrida call 46 Isle of Mull neighbor 49 Rocky ridge 50 Feature of Canaan, but not Canada 51 English Derby site

H E C H E

B A L G I A S T M E A R O S

A L T O S

R E E L

I N T E R D I C O M A R L M Y L M F A C O T A R S T E H A

N A R C

6

18

20

21

7

8

E L L I P R I S E T E M A I L D T Y A N G R E I S L O A N

34

9

29

E P H

M E S A S

U N L I T

S T E M S

11

12

13

31

32

50

51

S S T

Raw Prawn Kea Johnston

02/23/05 10

26

30

36

37

39

40

42

44

M A C A R O O N

19

25

35

41

S E T D E S I G N

22

28

38

E L I L A O S K I D I R E E T T E M A I C L H O

16

24 27

43

45

46

47

48

53

54

55

56

49

57

58

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

N O A H

xwordeditor@aol.com

5

17

52

A G O E N A Y R P L A C H A R T L A I R K I E L

15

23

Homebodies Mirele Davis

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: S H O W Y

14

33

52 Restaurateur Bob for whom a salad is named 53 Double-reed instrument 55 At the summit of 56 See 57 Type of jacket 60 UV index monitor 61 Mom’s offering

66

By Alan Olschwang (c)2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

67

02/23/05

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD, INC. Editorial Phone: 401.351.3372

The Brown Daily Herald (USPS 067.740) is published Monday through Friday during the aca-

Business Phone: 401.351.3260

demic year, excluding vacations, once during Commencement, once during Orientation and

Jonathan Ellis, President

once in July by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. POSTMASTER please send corrections to P.O. Box

Sara Perkins, Vice President

2538, Providence, RI 02906. Periodicals postage paid at Providence, R.I. Offices are located at 195

Ian Halvorsen, Treasurer

Angell St., Providence, R.I. E-mail herald@browndailyherald.com. World Wide Web:

Daniel Goldberg, Secretary

http://www.browndailyherald.com. Subscription prices: $179 one year daily, $139 one semester daily. Copyright 2005 by The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. All rights reserved.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 3

Pushing buttons: Public art and the community for other “Gates” memorabilia. Amy and Jo Ann have both had to calm park visitors upset that their swatch didn’t look exactly like the hanging curtains. According to Amy, who participated in the original installation, weather damage, such as rain and snow, has slightly altered the original fabric.

BY STEFANIE SIMONS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“The Gates” lights up Central Park NEW YORK — It is a “majestic procession” to David Ellis ’07.5. But to Sarah Staveley-O’Carroll ’03, it’s “just another bunch of pretentious artists.”

Like art critics, Brown students O have mixed reactions about “The Gates.” Nonetheless, Brunonians have taken the time to see the piece before the Feb. 27 end of its installation in New York City’s Central Park.

“The Gates” is a temporary public arts project designed by French artist Christo and his spouse and partner Jeanne-Claude. The artists designed 7,500 16foot high “saffron” rip-stop curtains (“the same color as Jeanne-Claude’s hair” according to “Gates” worker Andre Cruz). The gates arch over 23 miles of the park’s pathways. The bright color of the art contrasts with the neutral tones of a winter in the snowy Central Park, while the curtains’ movement in the wind is intended to underscore the beauty of nature’s activity.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed the project with the stipulations that it could not permanently alter the park and would not be an expense to taxpayers. The installation cost nearly $21 million of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s private funds to build. The couple will not directly earn any additional profits from “The Gates.” Although the park gift shop currently sells “The Gates” memorabilia, those profits go directly to a Central Park conservation fund called “Nurture New York’s Nature,” according to NYC.gov.

Along with materials and construction expenses, much of the project’s cost covers the salaries of people like Amy, Andre Cruz and Jo Ann Silverman, three of 200 official project employees. “The Gates” does not accept volunteers. Instead, workers are paid hourly at minimum wage.

Jo Ann said she is proud to be a “Gates” “groupie” working to “maintain the integrity” of the project.

Her maintenance tool: a tennis ball skewered onto a retractable pole used to untangle the wind-blown fabric. According to Amy, Jeanne-Claude passes the park in her Mercedes to point out to workers which gates need untangling.

The artists also compensate their employees with daily breakfast and dinner, and exclusive autographed memorabilia (“Two items each!” Jo Ann said). At 7 a.m. they greet workers, often with jokes.

The “quirky odd couple,” as Andre called them, especially likes to tease workers with “Anyone for tennis?”

Christo is like a “Bulgarian Woody Allen,” according to Amy. After 37 years of public art installations, the couple are international celebrities. In 1976, “Running Fence” spanned 24.5 miles of California’s Sonoma and Marin counties from the hills to the water. In 1983, they used pink fabric floating in water to encircle Florida’s Biscayne Bay in “Surrounded Islands.” Their next project, “Over the River,” will be in Colorado, and they are already looking for workers, according to their Web site.

All of their works are temporary. At 16 days long, “The Gates” is the longest standing project.

People are rushing to see it before it is taken down.

“Everything else will stay in New York,” said Barbara, a visitor from California who chose to see “The Gates” over some of the city’s other attractions. She visited the park four days in a row “to see ‘The Gates.’” There were 250,000 people in the park during daylight hours on Saturday, according to Jo Ann. Some visitors have an artistic interest in the installation, carrying around Nikons and Canons with zoom lenses and tripods or 8 mm cameras. Others have a tourist’s interest, using camera phones to take pictures of their children or small dogs in sweaters in front of “The Gates.”

The variety of people in the park reflects the constant diversity of the city itself. A woman in a mink coat walks next to a man wearing no shoes. A man with a thick Irish brogue leans down to his son and, pointing to the orange curtains, says, “Now that’s the power of an idear.”

Out-of-towners arrive from across the globe to experi-

N

P

U

B

L

I

C

A

R

ence “The Gates.” A strong German contingent has followed Christo since his 1995 project, which draped the Reichstag, the German parliament building, in fabric, Amy said.

The project also attracts New York residents for a variety of reasons. Local entrepreneurs fill nearby streets with hotdog stands and caricature booths. Andre got involved because he needed a job. Jo Ann walks in the park every day and after watching the installation process felt that the project was nearly hers anyway. Amy recently moved to the city and is working on the project from beginning to end to meet people.

Bloomberg is also taking advantage of “The Gates.”

Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been proposing this installation since 1979, but Bloomberg is the first mayor

to approve of the project. In a letter to the public on NYC.gov, he said New York is “the cultural capital of the world,” and added that “thought-provoking and inspiring public art adds to this experience.” His acceptance of “The Gates” coincides with a visit to the city from the International Olympic Committee, which is currently considering New York’s bid for the Summer Olympics in 2012.

“The Gates” is free to all visitors, at least until Feb. 27, when workers will begin to disassemble the project and recycle its steel, aluminum and vinyl. The exhibit’s presence will only exist in pictures, memory and the small samples of unused saffron tapestry, which are given out as souvenirs daily.

And those are valuable swatches. The artists spent $48,000 creating these free souvenirs, for which they intentionally purchased extra fabric. The day the curtains were unfurled, the samples were sold on eBay for as much as $80 apiece, Jo Ann and Andre recall. Now they are listed for as low as 99 cents.

Workers are prepared to discuss visitors’ questions about Christo, Jeanne-Claude and “The Gates” project.

The most frequently asked question: “Can I have some fabric?” The answer is usually no, they’ve run out. Each worker gives out approximately 600 square swatches each day. The park’s video cameras and security staff guard against fabric theft. One worker was fired on Saturday for the unauthorized trading of fabric samples

T

Brown strives to strengthen public art on campus “(‘The Gates’ is) a happening” that has “pushed a button” for people, said Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the Bell Gallery and member of Brown’s Public Arts Committee. Conklin noted that the news media has helped to promote the frenzy over “The Gates.” On its opening day, major newspapers from the Rocky Mountain News to the Weekend Australian published articles

about the project.

Conklin recalled how Paola Pivi’s “Untitled (Donkey)” also pushed a button for the Providence community during its temporary stay on the side of the Sciences Library. Faculty and Providence residents embraced the SciLi mural of a donkey in a rowboat as a “mascot” as much as students did. Conklin explained that many neighbors who usually complained about Brown’s infringement on the local community congratulated the University on the donkey mural.

Under the encouragement of Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87, Brown’s Public Arts Committee has been bringing public art to campus on rotation for over two years. Conklin likes to bring art outdoors and to the public because it can be “wonderful and whimsical,” especially because its “surprise effect can be an enhancement” to the viewing experience that is “never in effect in a museum,” she said.

Aside from Pivi’s piece, the current public art on campus is “tame and established,” said Steven Lubar, professor of American civilization and the new director of the John Nicholas Brown Center of American Civilization.

Lubar came to Brown this year as a former curator at the Smithsonian in Washington. He said “The Gates” is not his favorite Christo piece, but he is happy that the project makes people “think about landscape.” In fact, Lubar said he would like to see the same theme continue to grow at Brown.

In his time studying museums and memorials, Lubar has discovered that “good art comments about the places that surround it.” Brown is “a remarkable public space. … (Let’s) call attention to that,” he said.

Several students echoed Lubar’s sentiments. While many students were indifferent when asked about current public art on campus, they responded enthusiastically to mentions of Pivi’s piece. About the donkey, Kai Carter ’06 said, “I loved it … (because) I made up my own story and interpretation. Plus, it was on top of (the) SciLi, which is boring and ugly.”

For Conklin, public art at Brown is a growing project.

She said art by recognized artists, like Roy Lichtenstein’s “Brushstrokes” — currently on display behind MacMillan Hall — is financially and logistically convenient for the University. Many established artists have foundations that loan their pieces to the University at no cost. In cases like these, Brown is only financially responsible for the art installation and short-term maintenance. It is more expensive to purchase art, which incurs the additional expenses of storage and long-term maintenance.

Although the Public Arts Committee started with seed money from President Ruth Simmons’ discretionary fund, it is currently sustained by private donations.

Unlike many peer institutions, Brown does not have an art museum. Because of this absence, public works of art at Brown are important as “status symbols” that make the campus “livelier” and more “respectable” to demonstrate that “art is important in life” and to Brown, Conklin said.

Nonetheless, the school hopes to obtain more works by present-day artists. In the long term, Conklin hopes to juxtapose “old-school (works from) when art was see GATES, page 9

PAGE 4 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005

Clickers continued from page 1 often become more dynamic as surprising results of the poll “give students legitimacy to express certain viewpoints,” Cheit said.

Associate Professor of American Civilization Matthew Garcia linked the use of clickers in his classrooms to President Ruth Simmons’ push for intellectual diversity on campus, saying they “liberate people who think they might be part of a minority.”

Many students like the clickers. “In liberal arts classes, (using a clicker) makes it easier to answer a question posed by a professor honestly,” said Liliana Ornelas ’07.

In addition to helping create a more intellectually safe and diverse environment for students, clickers have helped physics professors Richard Gaitskell and Jay Tang with “just-in-time teaching” — they can better tailor their lectures to the conceptual needs of their students because of the instant feedback.

Despite the positive effects of clickers on teaching and the classroom environment, many students and professors lament the technological difficulties of PRS. Professors have found the software of the system hard to hook up

IRV continued from page 1 many leaders of large student groups.”

Some UCS members disagree.

“I wonder how many of these students are aware of what the health concerns are,” von Oeyen said.

Students strongly favored creating an optional J-term over winter break, with 74.5 percent of respondents in favor. “We received over 2,000 individual open-ended responses” to a question about the structure of a potential winter term, Cummings said. UCS members will sort through the responses in the coming weeks. “(We’re) happy that this issue has such resounding support from the student body,” Zachary Townsend ’08, UCS communications chair and a Herald copy editor, said in a statement. “Since

correctly and the logistics of setting it up time consuming.

Computing and Information Services Instructional Technologist Siobhan Ross said she is addressing the technological problems surrounding PRS and expects the logistics of the system to improve because the current company that owns it, InterWrite, was recently bought by a larger company.

PRS cost the University about $4,000 to $5,000. Currently students in courses requiring clickers borrow them from the Sciences Library and return them at the end of the semester, free of charge. At some other schools, students buy their clickers as they would buy a textbook, but Brown wants to continue its practice of keeping students free of the financial burden associated with PRS, Ross said.

The use of clickers is part of a growing effort by the University to bring technology into classrooms to create a more interactive learning environment. As part of this effort, some professors have also started to use SchoolPad, a portable notepad that allows professors and students to project the work they do in class on an overhead screen that the entire class can see.

Clickers will most likely continue to have a growing presence on campus — more clickers have been ordered for next year.

winter break a lot of students have been discussing this (issue) themselves, and it is clear now that this is a real priority to the student body.”

UCS’s Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee will form an ad-hoc committee to generate possibilities for a winter term by the end of the year, said AAA Chair Emily Blatter ’07 in a statement.

Respondents split almost 5050 on raising the $136 student activity fee, an increase suggested to UCS by the Undergraduate Finance Board.

Results from the poll question on what cable TV stations students would prefer are still pending.

UCS members said they were pleased that many students voiced their opinions. “Last week we saw an impressively large turnout,” said UCS President Joel Payne ’05 in a statement. “I can’t thank the student body enough.”

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

CAMPUS NEWS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005 · PAGE 5

U. brings candidates for archaeology institute director to campus

BY GABRIELLA DOOB STAFF WRITER

Six candidates for the directorship of the new Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World visited campus this month, according to Dean of the Graduate School Karen Newman, who chairs and organizes the search committee.

While here, the candidates meet with the committee to “discuss their vision,” tour the University, give talks and meet some of the graduate students they may be working with, Newman said. The last candidate to visit campus, Michael Dietler, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, will speak on “Colonial Encounters, Entanglements, and Transformations in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: the View from Lattara” on Thursday.

The committee received a large number of applications for the directorship. It reviewed them and asked a few people to send in samples of their work, including two articles representative of their scholarship. The committee then decided on six cansee INSTITUTE, page 6

American Indians still fighting negative public image

BY CHRISTOPHER CHON STAFF WRITER

Emphasizing the public’s lack of accurate information about American Indians and the need in the community to maintain traditional American Indian culture, former Cherokee Nation chief, author and activist Wilma Mankiller delivered her keynote lecture billed as “A Call to Action” at last weekend’s second annual Ivy Native Council Conference.

“Each fall across America, schoolchildren learn the myth of Columbus discovering this new land,” Mankiller said. “Only the most enlightened teacher will teach that this land called ‘America’ was not new to the indigenous.”

Held for the first time last year at Dartmouth College, the Ivy Native Council Conference was founded to create discussion among American Indian students from Ivies and other schools across the northeast about issues directly affecting American Indians, such as implementing culturally relevant curricula, establishing support systems and providing internship and career opportunities.

This year, the University and the student organization Native Americans at Brown hosted the conference. There were information sessions on business, medicine and art, with panelists ranging from Patrik Johansson M.D., GS ’91, to William Yellow Robe Jr., an American Indian playwright and visiting lecturer in Africana Studies.

Kicking off the conference Saturday morning, President Ruth Simmons spoke in Salomon 101 about the challenges that face young American Indians today.

“By choosing to be here (at this conference) you have actively distinguished yourself,” Simmons said. “You have accepted the challenge to become leaders. Not to abandon your values, your culture and all that you bring, but in fact to make sure that the essence of that is incorporated in what we do.”

Simmons called for students to consider academic careers and to join institutions later in their lives not as students but as teachers. She called the lack of American

Indian students and professors at universities a “crisis” but said Brown’s 27 percent increase in applications from American Indians for the class of 2009 is proof that the University’s work to diversify the student body is paying off.

“One of the most important things is to remember everyday how it is you came to be here,” Simmons said.

“Once you forget that, the battle is lost. Someone made great sacrifices, and the recollection of those efforts is allimportant for us to be able to go forward in an ethical way.”

Mankiller echoed many of Simmons’ sentiments. She said American Indians must fight negative media campaigns in order to improve public perception but also never forget traditional values and culture.

“Native people in this country are the keepers of the most ancient knowledge of North America,” Mankiller said. “This is the land of our ancestors; we’re not from someplace else. We have important knowledge to share, knowledge which has sustained us so far, and knowledge which will be beneficial to the rest of the world.”

Mankiller said there is a “clear, direct link” in public perception and public policy, emphasizing that media attacks negatively influence government policy. She pointed out California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “erroneous attacks” against “gaming tribes” — and his subsequent victory in the recall election. In the weeks leading up to California’s recall vote, Schwarzenegger’s paid advertisements claimed that then-governor Gray Davis had allowed American Indian tribes in the state to run lucrative casinos without paying taxes.

Mankiller called for young American Indians to fight such misconceptions in the media in order to improve public image.

“We’re not in the national consciousness,” she said. “We are all quite accustomed to conducting work and living see MANKILLER, page 6

PAGE 6 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005

Mankiller continued from page 5 lives in a society that knows almost nothing about our history and our lives.”

This has led to many awkward and amusing situations in her personal life, Mankiller said.

She recalled one interview with a reporter from New York who sincerely asked if the former chief rode a horse to work.

“I said to myself, ‘I think I’m going to take this guy for a ride,’” Mankiller said. She told the reporter, “I rode a horse to work.

My husband and I had a teepee.

We had it sitting right along the edge of a creek. He fished everyday, hunted for food.”

American Indians are still perceived as either “mystical children of nature” or “murderers.”

They are “objects of curiosity,” not people with “valuable knowledge and gifts” to share with the world, Mankiller said.

“The task at hand is to focus on very carefully thinking, ‘What are the bases of knowledge and skills that I need to acquire in order to help keep our families strong, communities and governments strong? To capture, preserve and maintain traditional life systems, to help us reframe our issues, to help us protect our image?’”

Mankiller said. “‘What are the

Institute continued from page 5 didates to bring to campus, Newman said.

Candidates hail from the University of Michigan, Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, University College in London, and the University of Chicago.

Each candidate has spoken or will speak on campus as part of a lecture series entitled “Old World, New Archaeologies” that runs through Feb. 24.

The search for a new director began this past summer after the retirement of Professor Emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 P’87 from the position of director of the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art. After her retirement, Martha Joukowsky and husband Artemis

skills I need to do that?’ That’s your task.”

Several students from Brown and other Ivies and universities in the northeast — including a large contingent from Dartmouth College — attended the conference.

Jennifer Edwards ’05, a member of Native Americans at Brown, said open discussion is crucial.

“It’s important for there to be dialogue,” Edwards said. “How can people know about Native people if they can’t learn about them in school?”

She said she was happy with the advancement of American Indian causes at Brown but wishes for more in the future.

“Hopefully in the near future, President Simmons and other presidents will be able to collaborate and work together to encourage Native students to complete their degrees and to recruit Natives,” Edwards said.

Mankiller also emphasized the importance of looking forward.

She recalled her favorite Mohawk proverb: “It’s hard to see the future with tears in your eyes.”

“It’s my favorite saying because I think it personifies where we are as a people,” Mankiller said.

“Don’t be angry all the time about things that happened in the past, and don’t be worried and upset about things that are going on right now. But keep moving forward, keep moving forward.”

Joukowsky ’55 P ’87, chancellor emeritus, gave a gift to the University to create the new Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.

The Institute will serve as an interdisciplinary center with a focus on the ancient Mediterranean region and Western Asia. It will incorporate the existing Center for Old World Archaeology and Art and bring together faculty from departments as diverse as classics, history of art and architecture, anthropology, Egyptology, and religious and Judaic studies.

The Joukowskys’ gift will also provide funding for research, including library resources, offcampus fieldwork and the renovation of Rhode Island Hall, where the Institute will be located, Newman said.

In addition, the gift provides for the hiring of a director for the center as well as one additional faculty per year for four years.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

WORLD & NATION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005 · PAGE 7

Virginia man charged with plotting to kill Bush

BY JERRY MARKON THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors Tuesday unveiled sweeping terrorism charges against a Virginia man, accusing him of plotting to assassinate President Bush and trying to establish an al-Qaida cell in the United States.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali conspired with confederates in Saudi Arabia to either shoot Bush on the street or kill him with a car bomb, prosecutors said. The sixcount indictment, unsealed today, says Abu Ali sought to become “a planner of terrorist operations” in the same vein as leading al-Qaida figures associated with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World

Trade Center and Pentagon.

A U.S. citizen who grew up in Falls Church, Va., Abu Ali had been detained in a Saudi prison for 20 months before being flown back to the United States Monday. His case became highly visible last summer when his parents filed a lawsuit, alleging that the United States government had arranged for him to be held by the Saudis and that U.S. authorities expected he would be tortured there.

The torture allegation emerged again today as Abu Ali appeared in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. His lawyer, Ashraf Nubani, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Liam O’Grady that Abu Ali had been whipped and handcuffed “for days

at a time” in a Saudi jail. He offered to show the judge the evidence in the courtroom.

Judge O’Grady declined, telling Abu Ali: “You are in the custody of the U.S. Marshals, and I can assure you that you will not suffer any other torture or humiliation while in the marshal’s custody.”

The judge set a detention hearing for Thursday and ordered Abu Ali held until then.

Family members said they were grateful that Abu Ali had been returned home, but they ridiculed the charges and the government’s handling of the case. “The see ALI, page 11

Alaska, land of the lost

BY TOMAS ALEX TIZON LOS ANGELES TIMES

STERLING, Alaska — She does it without even thinking, as soon as she steps out of the truck: a sweep of her eyes across the sky for a sign of bald eagles. They’re as common here as ravens, as hawks, but they’re bigger and easier to see from a distance. Maybe a single circling eagle will spiral down to the spot where lies her son — or his body, whatever is left of it.

Dolly Hills has come to think along those lines.

She is 53, one moment sprightly, the next sorrowful. Her grown son Richard, the younger of her two children, has been missing since last February. She believes he is dead, his remains somewhere in the woods or waters near this Kenai Peninsula town.

Around here, scavengers are the quickest to locate a corpse, whether of a shot grizzly or a mortally wounded moose, or a 37-year-old man on a simple errand who vanished into the subzero cold.

Richard Hills was one of 3,323 people reported missing in the state last year, not a record but far higher, in ratio to population, than anywhere else in the United States. On average, about five of every 1,000 people go missing every year, roughly double the national rate. Since Alaska began tracking the numbers in 1988, police have received at least 60,700 reports of missing people.

As everywhere else, most cases involve runaways who eventually return home or are found. But Alaska has the highest percentage of people who stay missing.

Investigators have compiled a list of about 1,100 people who remain lost. This in a state with a population of 650,000.

“We live in a place,” Dolly Hills says, “where people disappear.”

It’s now happened twice in her life. In 1962, outside a small village in Western Alaska, she said, her 13-year-old brother, William, took a skiff onto the Kvichak River and was never seen again.

Presumed drowned, the boy was not reported missing, which happens not infrequently in the bush. The number of people whose bodies are never accounted for probably far exceeds official tallies of the missing.

People vanish by accident and by design, by fluke of nature or quirk of circumstance, by foul play, misstep and bad luck. There are so many ways in Alaska to get lost, and so many reasons why the lost may not be found.

Between the western tip of the see ALASKA, page 10

Bush’s 2006 budget would scrap or reduce 154 programs

BY JUDY SARASOHN THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — From $4 million for an agriculture biotechnology program to $18 million for foreign-language assistance for small elementary and secondary schools and $489 million for congressionally earmarked Environmental Protection Agency projects, President Bush’s fiscal 2006 budget plan calls for elimination of or drastic cuts in 154 programs.

The cuts would amount to $15.3 billion in savings over the fiscal 2005 budget as enacted by Congress, according to the administration. In addition, the president proposed major changes in 16 programs that his budget says would result in an additional $4.7 billion in gross savings.

The president’s entire fiscal 2006 budget, not including a supplemental request for military costs related to Iraq and Afghanistan, amounts to $2.57 trillion.

In a 233-page document detailing the program terminations, cuts and other money-saving proposals, the administration said it was guided by three principles: “Does the program meet the nation’s priorities”? Is it an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? And does it “produce the intended results”?

For instance, the Agricultural Marketing Service’s biotech program, which Bush proposes to cut by $4 million, was started in 2002 to develop its ability to test non-grain commodities for bioengineered traits. The program was to establish a fee for service to accredit private labs to perform the test.

Bush wants to kill the program “due to a lack of demand for these services among the private sector.”

In another case, the administration

Jedediah Smith / Los Angeles Times

Alaska State Trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson points out the Kenai Peninsula, where Richard Hills vanished. Pushpin flags mark active missing-persons cases.

see FDA, page 11

Bush says talk of invading Iran ‘ridiculous’

BY MICHAEL A. FLETCHER AND KEITH B. RICHBURG THE WASHINGTON POST

BRUSSELS — President Bush Tuesday dismissed as “simply ridiculous” the idea that United States was preparing to attack Iran, but he warned that he was keeping all his options open as his administration tries to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Concerns about Iran were among the issues Bush discussed Tuesday in meetings with NATO and European Union officials during the first foreign trip of his second term. Bush also expressed unease about an EU proposal to lift a ban on arms sales to China.

In a more positive development for the White House, Bush emerged from the meetings with modest pledges from the staunchest opponents of the war in Iraq to help train and equip security forces there.

The commitments mean that all 26 NATO nations have now agreed to help train Iraqi security forces, a development hailed by both U.S. and European officials as evidence that they have put aside their deep disagreements over the invasion of Iraq.

“Twenty-six nations sitting around that table said it’s important for NATO to be involved in Iraq,” Bush said.

“That’s a strong statement.”

But despite the new level of cooperation in the effort to stabilize Iraq and what both sides call a new, improved tone in discussions between the United States and Europe, serious divisions clearly remain over Europe’s plan to lift its arms embargo on China and how to handle Iran’s suspected attempt to acquire nuclear arms.

Europe would like the United States to get involved in ongoing talks with Tehran by offering the Iranian government security and economic guarantees in exchange for abandoning its nuclear ambitions — an overture the White House has flatly opposed.

The U.S. posture has led to growing concern in Europe that Bush is considering military action against Iran. Bush has repeatedly said he wants diplomacy to work in Iran, even while saying he hasn’t ruled out the military option.

“This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous,” Bush said during a news conference Tuesday evening. “And having said that, all options are on the table.”

Earlier in the day, Bush said he was deeply concerned that an EU proposal to lift a 15-year ban on arms sales to China would “change the balance of

relations between China and Taiwan.”

Europeans dispute that, saying that they could build in safeguards to arm sales that would allay American concerns.

Despite his reservations, Bush said he would consider European views on the issue. “They think they can develop a protocol that ... shouldn’t concern the United States,” Bush said. “And I said I’m looking forward to seeing it.”

Several European policy analysts said they believed Bush’s trip is going far toward mending the transatlantic rift that had developed during his first term—with disputes rising over the Kyoto climate change treaty, the International Criminal Court and, later, the invasion of Iraq.

They took note of the fact that Bush spent three nights here in the city considered the “capital of Europe,” and ventured into the heart of Europe’s burgeoning new bureaucracy, the towering European Commission building.

“I was very impressed,” said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank. “Of course it’s only words — but in diplomacy, words set the tone.”

The visit “does imply that Bush 2 is see IRAN, page 11

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 9

Gates continued from page 3 about art” and exploring shapes, space and color “with contemporary works which naturally have political” overtones, she said.

Lubar said universities have the privilege of hosting more political works than can government-supported venues such as the city of New York.

But Conklin is careful to say that Brown’s public art will be aimed at “lifting people’s spirits” and less towards “heavy,” overtly political or socially charged art.

Conklin said she is excited that the new Life Sciences Building on Olive Street will incorporate a stylized glass façade of a handprint by Pittsburgh artist Diane Samuels.

She hopes that future University projects will incorporate art into their building plans. She also looks forward to finding a piece for the Watson Institute as the committee’s next project.

In the meantime, the committee will continue its efforts so that the Brown community can continue to enjoy public art on its own campus.

RPs continued from page 1 acceptances over the weekend.

The current job description covers everything from planning social events to dealing with peer-to-peer crises. Though those roles will remain largely unchanged, CAs will take on several new responsibilities, such as accompanying inspectors on health and safety inspections in the dorms, and will act under a more structured set of guidelines.

RPs are responsible for creating a greater sense of community within upperclass residence halls.

They work with Community Directors, faculty fellows and other RPs to program initiatives, such as movie nights, in order to maintain a positive communal environment in their respective residential neighborhoods, Cobham said.

“I was receiving feedback from sophomores who said they felt they had been dropped after the freshman year unit experience,” said Cobham, whose mission has since been to provide supplemental residential support for upperclassmen. “It is often assumed that upperclassmen want independence and don’t need peer support in the dorms, but that’s just not true,”

Nick Neely / Herald

“The Gates” will remain in New York’s Central Park until Feb. 27.

Cobham added.

Though Cobham was enthusiastic about the program’s mission, several current RPs are more skeptical of their impact on residential communities and express doubt that the upcoming name change will do anything to significantly enhance the program’s effects.

Michael Santos ’07 is an RP for Graduate Center Tower B. This year, he has planned several activities, including movie night socials and a program on studying abroad. “The toughest thing is to get people to attend the events,” he said. Santos also said the budget for social programming — $200 a year — is too slim to really have an impact. “Free food usually gets people to come,” he said, “but we can’t provide that with the current budget.”

Also, some dorms simply are not conducive to social activities.

Santos has had to hold his movie nights in Wilson Hall, “which discouraged students from attending,” he said. “No one wanted to walk there.”

The upcoming changes don’t appear to address some issues raised by current RPs. However, Santos reapplied and was accepted over the weekend. He said he hopes that the new, more structured program will allow him to play a greater role in his dorm community.

PAGE 10 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005

Alaska continued from page 7 Aleutian Chain to the eastern edge of the Alaska Panhandle lie 39 mountain ranges, 3,000 rivers, 5,000 glaciers and more than 3 million lakes, all of which offer nooks and envelopes for bodies to slip in and remain hidden forever.

The mudflats are like quicksand, the snow storms like blankets that cover all tracks and traces, and for half the year, the days are like nights.

In charge of searching this vast terrain are the Alaska State Troopers, whose field officers number just over 300. It works out to about one trooper for every 2,300 square miles, or about the size of Delaware.

This, according to Lt. Craig MacDonald, the department’s search and rescue supervisor, points to what makes his job so difficult: When someone gets lost, the search areas can be as large as many states, and considerably more rugged.

So much of the terrain is unknown. Often when searchers enter a remote area, it will be their first time there — a distinct difference from other places where volunteers usually search areas familiar to them.

In Alaska, human settlements, including the largest cities, lie in the middle of wilderness.

“From this building, you can walk five minutes and be in deep woods,” says MacDonald,

sitting in his Anchorage office.

“You can go a mile, two miles out, and never be found. It happens all the time.” So many of the stories of the vanished begin routinely, even innocently.

MacDonald rattles off case after case, the narratives boiled down to bullet points.

• Erin Marie Gilbert, Girdwood. July 1995. Rode with a friend to a community fair.

The car stalled in a parking lot, and the friend went for help.

When the friend returned, Gilbert was gone. She was never seen again.

• Hiroko Nemoto, East Lansing, Mich. June 1998. Last seen leaving a youth hostel in Wasilla. She had bought a train ticket to Whittier and a ferry ticket to Valdez. No one knows if she made those trips. No trace of her has been found.

• Michael Timothy Palmer, Town of Palmer. June 1999. Rode his bicycle out of a subdivision and was not heard from again.

The bicycle was found in the Little Susitna River. The boy’s muddy shoes were discovered in a field.

• Richard Hills, Soldotna.

February 2004. Drove to Anchorage to pick up a paycheck. His truck was found in a snow bank outside Sterling, about 15 miles from home. The keys were in the ignition. His wallet and cash were on the front seat. His footprints led to a spot on an isolated road a halfmile away, then ended.

MacDonald worked the Hills case. He and Dolly together have retraced Richard’s steps.

They’ve walked the route with volunteer searchers, family members and psychics. Search dogs repeatedly lost his scent in the same place, as if Richard had dissolved into air.

Dolly, at the moment, is walking that same stretch of road, near the spot. It’s only 10 minutes from where she and her husband live, and she drives out there occasionally. It’s a narrow, gently winding dirt road, bordered on each side by forest. The road leads to some fishing cabins and vacation homes along the Kenai River.

She scans the woods, the sky.

She peers down long driveways, her breath gusting white clouds in the air. The temperature is just above zero.

“In my heart, I know he’s gone,” she says. “I can feel it.

Ricky and I were bonded. We were close. Ricky is not someone who disappears. Something happened to him.”

In the days after his truck was discovered, fliers were posted along the Highway 1 corridor that connects all the little towns in this part of the peninsula. The photo shows a handsome man — sun-bronzed skin, white teeth, boyishly mischievous eyes just below a skier’s cap — cradling a glimmering salmon in his hands.

Richard grew up on the Kenai Peninsula. He worked as a roughneck on the North Slope, but always came home to Soldotna, where his longtime partner, Heidi Metteer, and their three children waited for him.

Heidi said Richard never failed to call home.

She shares Dolly’s feeling that Richard was a victim of foul play. Richard could not have simply become lost and failed to survive the elements. He was a strong man, resourceful and fit.

“He knew these woods!” Dolly says in frustration.

But MacDonald isn’t convinced. His 23 years of conducting search and rescues are rife with stories of experienced hikers, climbers, hunters, even survivalists, who didn’t think it could happen to them.

In Richard Hills’ case, there are, in trooper lingo, “equally plausible alternative inferences.” MacDonald, with practiced professional detachment, lists some possibilities: Richard could have lost control of his truck, slid into the snow bank and injured himself.

He could have been disoriented and walked for help. He was wearing jeans, a turtleneck and a Carhartt work jacket, which would have been no match for the cold — below zero even without wind chill.

He could have been picked up by a snowmobiler, which might have explained why his tracks ended so abruptly. He might have been taken somewhere and killed, although Hills had no known enemies.

To keep warm, Richard could have crawled into thick brush or a hole in the ground, or buried himself underneath something — a log, a boulder, debris.

MacDonald once found a lost hunter who had wrapped himself in the bloody hide of a newly killed moose, the brown fur making him almost impossible to detect.

It was cold enough for Richard to suffer hypothermia within 90 minutes, and to freeze to death in hours.

Animals could have found the

body in the spring, devoured or moved it. Bears are sometimes known to bury their kills for later. Foxes and birds could have taken apart the corpse and scattered it over a wide area. This is known among Alaska searchers as “the critter element.”

A short walk from Richard’s truck is the Kenai River, a wide, swift, light-green ribbon of glacial water that courses through the peninsula to Cook Inlet.

Hills could have fallen into the river and drowned. Whenever anyone goes missing near a body of water in Alaska, there’s a high probability that person is at the bottom. Water accidents and drowning are suspected in more than half of all vanishedpersons cases.

Bodies that sink into Alaskan waters tend to stay sunk. In warmer climates, corpses decompose and generate gases that eventually raise them to the surface. Alaska’s frigid waters tend to preserve corpses, and glacial silt — fine dust created by glaciers grinding down rock over centuries — gets into clothing and crevices, and further weighs down the bodies.

Richard felt comfortable on the Kenai River. One of his favorite fishing spots was just downriver from his truck.

“If he’s in there,” MacDonald said, “we’re not going to find him.”

Searchers in Alaska, saluted by the public for their skill and daring, in private seem to dwell more on the people they don’t find.

Paul Brusseau, a member of one of the state’s most respected search teams, can talk in great detail of the many barriers to finding a body. Brusseau helps lead the Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs. He is one of about 1,100 on-call volunteers — most with day jobs — whom police depend upon to look for the missing.

Brusseau, who makes wood moldings for a living, said a searcher can be right on top of a body and not see it, obstructed by snow and ice, or thick brush, or debris kicked up by a wind storm.

But the most difficult searches, he said, involve people who don’t want to be found.

Alaska lies at the end of the continent, and many who come here are end-of-the-roaders: people fleeing or seeking one last chance, dreamers and schemers, and loners hoping to conduct a life — and in some cases, a death — in private.

“If someone wants to drop off the face of the earth and not have anybody know,” Brusseau said, “this is one place you can do it.”

James Miller didn’t want anybody to know. An eccentric with a wild streak, Miller had had his 15 minutes of fame when, in 1993, he para-glided into the outdoor ring of a nationally televised boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe.

He was dubbed the “Fan Man,” and spent 10 days in jail.

He later pulled off other public stunts that got him in trouble.

In 1996, he moved to Alaska to start anew, but soon after was diagnosed with diseased arteries. He underwent three bypass surgeries and fell deep into debt. In September 2002, Miller disappeared. Police and family members spent a month looking for him. Six months later,

hunters bushwhacking their way through thick woods found his body. Miller had hanged himself from a tree. Police said he had chosen the remote Resurrection Trail in the Chugach National Forest, veering deep off-trail to a spot that might not have been discovered for years, if ever.

For every case like Miller’s, there are those of untold others who won’t be found.

Kristin Marie Snyder left a note saying she didn’t want anybody to look for her. She was 35, an environmental consultant in Anchorage, last seen in February 2003. Friends later told investigators she had been feeling sad and unsettled.

Searchers found her pickup at a seaside campground in Seward, 127 miles south of Anchorage. The note was inside the truck. Camp operators reported that a single kayak was missing, and police speculated that Snyder, an avid kayaker, took the boat onto Resurrection Bay. The bay opens up into the Gulf of Alaska, and beyond that, to the Pacific Ocean.

“It makes you want to cry sometimes,” said Paula Sweetwood, the senior researcher and statistician for the clearinghouse for missing persons. A division of the Alaska State Troopers, the clearinghouse collects data from every police agency in the state.

A few feet from Sweetwood’s desk, across from the hundreds of files that she tends with such care, hangs a mural-sized map of Alaska.

Tiny push-pin flags mark the spot of every active missingpersons case in the state. Red flags, the most numerous, indicate water-related cases; green stands for ground; blue for anything involving aircraft; yellow for suspected homicides or suicides; and black for unidentified remains. It is a crowded swath of colors.

Says Sweetwood: “You feel worse for the people looking for them.”

Back in Sterling, Dolly Hills visits regularly with her son’s family — Heidi Metteer and their children. Sometimes Dolly and Heidi drive out to the spot where Richard’s truck was found.

Dolly is trying to organize another search party to drag the Kenai River in the spring. There’s one stretch in particular that she’s been brooding about: a bend some few hundred yards downriver. It’s the only way in her mind to break down the search into comprehensible parts. Otherwise, the Kenai is too big. Alaska’s too big.

Heidi, a coffee-shop manager, recently filed a court petition to declare Richard legally dead.

The petition would allow her to get financial help from the state.

More importantly, the family would be able to hold a memorial.

“Up till now,” Heidi said, “I don’t have anything to say, `Look, this is what happened to your dad.’ “ MacKenzie has come to believe her father is dead but can’t say so. Katibeth sees him in dreams that are hard to distinguish from the real world.

The youngest, 6-year-old Calvin, continues to think that, like their dog Daisy that ran away, his dad went to do his own thing for awhile and soon will return.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 11

Ali continued from page 7 government has lied to us from the first day,” Abu Ali’s father, Omar Abu Ali, said outside the courthouse. He described his son as a peaceful, scholarly man who was arrested in June 2003 while taking his final exams at the University of Medina.

“Everything the government has said is lies upon lies upon lies,” Omar Abu Ali said.

But prosecutors defended their handling of the case and said they had struck a blow against terrorism. “After the devastating terrorist attack and murders of Sept. 11, the defendant turned his back on America and joined the cause of al-Qaida,” said Paul J. McNulty, the U.S. Attorney in Alexandria.

Defense lawyers said Abu Ali would plead not guilty. He is charged with conspiracy to provide material support to alQaida; contributing services to al-Qaida; receipt of funds and services from al-Qaida and providing material support to terrorists. If convicted, he faces up to 80 years in prison under federal law.

The indictment said Abu Ali first went to Saudi Arabia in 2000 and lived with someone identified only as “Co-conspirator 1.” When he returned to Saudi Arabia in September 2002, Abu Ali told this co-conspirator “of his interest in joining al-Qaida,” the indictment says.

Abu Ali then gradually met other conspirators in Saudi Arabia and discussed plans to kill Bush in 2002 and 2003 with someone identified only as “CoConspirator 2,” the indictment stated. Abu Ali allegedly obtained a “religious blessing” for the assassination plot from someone called “CoConspirator 3.” It was not immediately clear how far the assassination plot may have progressed.

On several occasions, the indictment says, Abu Ali discussed with a conspirator how he could provide support to alQaida, “including conducting a terrorist operation and establishing an al-Qaida cell in the United States,” the indictment says. Abu Ali allegedly also received training in weapons and explosives while in Saudi

Arabia and received money from al-Qaida co-conspirators that he used to purchase a cellular telephone and a laptop computer. Abu Ali was studying at the University of Medina when Saudi authorities arrested him and 18 or 19 other men suspected of having connections to people involved in the bombing on May 12, 2003, of three Western residential compounds in Riyadh. The bombing killed 23 people. The men were believed to be a jihadist cell in training, U.S. officials have said.

Abu Ali’s name also surfaced during the recent case of a group of Northern Virginia men accused of training for jihad overseas by playing paintball in the Virginia countryside. The FBI became interested in Abu Ali because he knew some of the men convicted in that case, U.S. officials have said.

Iran continued from page 7 very different than Bush 1,” Grant added. “If he can at least go through the motions of taking the European Union seriously, because the expectations are so low I think they will certainly forgive him for being the Big Bad Bush of the first term.”

Guillaume Parmentier, director of the French Center on the United States, said of the Bush trip in a telephone interview from Paris: “It is atmospherics — but that was the aim.

The aim was to change the atmosphere, and to that extent, he’s succeeded. I don’t know if he’s changed any minds.”

Still, a schism is emerging between Washington and some of the countries — particularly France and Germany, among others — that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously labeled “Old Europe.”

Specifically, Paris, Berlin and other capitals would like to see the EU become the key institution linking America with Europe, so they were delighted at Bush’s visit to EU headquarters. But the United States remains committed to seeing NATO as its primary connection to the continent — and Bush pointedly spent more time at NATO headquarters, where he lunched with

Budget continued from page 7 proposed scrapping $476 million in congressional earmarks for specific projects and locations through the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. The administration said Congress directed that amount to more than 900 hospitals, universities and other institutions that did not have to go through the agency’s merit-based awards basis.

For the U.S. Postal Service, which generally does not get taxpayer dollars for its operations, the administration proposes to stop reimbursing it, as required by law, for lost revenue attributable to legislatively mandated reduced mail rates. Congress in 1994 had authorized $1.2 billion the alliance leaders and held a mini-summit with the new Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko.

Bush is spending much of his time on his fence-mending trip meeting with some of the most vocal critics of the war in Iraq. He met with Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and dined with French President Jacques Chirac. Wednesday, he is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Before returning home Thursday, Bush plans to confer with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“The major issue that irritated a lot of Europeans was Iraq,” Bush said at a news conference. “I understand that. I can figure it out. And the key now is to put that behind us, and to focus on helping a new democracy succeed.”

Apart from the United States, 15 NATO nations have at least a small contingent of troops on the ground in Iraq, while all the others have committed to providing money or expertise to help train Iraqi security forces both inside and outside the country.

France Tuesday became the final NATO member to commit to the training effort, which has been joined in recent weeks by Germany, Greece and Belgium. Still, the United States is providing the vast majority of both troops and money for the Iraq effort.

to repay the USPS in $29 million increments. Bush proposes to end the $29 million appropriation because “USPS is now benefiting

from pension savings of approximately $3 billion per year” as a result of other legislation to reestimate its pension costs.

PAGE 12 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005

W. hoops continued from page 16 basket.”

Brown traveled to Princeton Saturday to take on a team they had previously defeated 63-62 on a pair of last-second free throws

by Andrea Conrad ’05. This time around, it was Princeton’s Katy Digovich who sank two free throws with five seconds left to secure the upset.

In a back-and-forth game, neither squad was able to establish much of a lead. Princeton went up by nine with just over eight minutes left in the first, but baskets from Hayes, Lena McAfee ’07 and seven straight points from Robertson helped Bruno close out the half trailing 27-25.

“She got her offensive threat

W. hockey continued from page 16 period. Zucker passed the puck to Katie Guay ’05 who fired it low for the score. Myria Heinhuis ’06 also tallied an assist on the play. The Bears held their two-goal lead despite several strong attempts by the Saints.

“I think the key to our win against St. Lawrence was a really disciplined forecheck and the kids really executed the game plan,” Murphy said. “That is what I’d like them to come away with at the end of the weekend: When we execute our game plan, we win. When we don’t, we don’t win and it’s a simple as that.”

Despite giving up an early goal, O’Hara Shipe ’08 recorded a phenomenal 26 saves between the pipes.

“We’d like to solidify our goaltending rotation and you have to say that O’Hara played very well against St. Lawrence,” Murphy said. “So we’re hoping to make that announcement (as to who will start) near the end of the week.”

However important goaltending is to the Bears, it was the other pieces, which came together

M. hoops continued from page 16 the 2002-2003 season, but came off the bench on Saturday.

Tuesday against Yale, Brown avoided digging itself into a hole early, opening the game with a 100 spurt on the shoulders of Forte and Jeppesen. Brown maintained a lead at or around double digits for the duration of the half as seven Bears found their way into

back,” Burr said of Robertson.

“Princeton could not stop her.”

The second half was just as close, with both teams trading baskets until Princeton gained an eight-point margin with 3:36 left.

Brown worked its way back into the game and retook the lead on two free throws from Hayes. After a defensive rebound, Princeton took the ball downcourt where Digovich corralled an offensive rebound and scored to put Princeton up 51-50. Anne O’Neal ’08 missed a layup on the following Brown possession and Digovich sank both free throws to seal the victory.

“We struggled on the second night,” said Conrad. “All of our (Ivy) losses have come on the second night. They also out rebounded us, which is rare because we lead the league in rebounding.”

The Tigers scored 10 points on

10 offensive boards in the second half. The Bears also shot just 33.3 percent for the game, including a 2-of-19 effort from the bench.

“We weren’t able to get any offensive production from our subs,” Burr said. “Our shooting percentage was extremely low from the bench. We had people take six to eight shots and not come up with any points.”

The Bears will play their last home games of the season this weekend, taking on first-place Dartmouth (9-0 Ivy) and secondplace Harvard (7-2). A sweep will get the Bears back on track in their pursuit of an Ivy title.

“It is pretty exciting to be in a position to win an Ivy championship and to have the top team on your floor on Friday night,” Burr said. “You can’t ask for a more exciting opportunity or matchup.”

against the Saints that gave them a win.

“Goaltending is always important for any team, if you don’t have a good goaltender you’re not going to go very far,” McLaughlin said, “Our goalies have been pretty strong all year and they have been keeping it up, but that is only one aspect of the game.”

The Bears were hoping to carry the momentum from their upset into their next game, but they did not, falling to Clarkson 3-2 in an unexpected loss.

“I don’t know why we lost to Clarkson. I told the kids after the game that rarely am I at a loss for words,” Murphy said. “It was just one of those games that a couple of the goals that went in were kind of crazy and we couldn’t come back, I don’t know if we were emotionally drained from the night before or what.”

Clarkson took the lead in the first period when Meaghan Park got open and took advantage of the opportunity, scoring at 11:35.

Bruno came back in the second period when Christine Holdredge ’07 fired a shot off and Heather Lane ’08 picked up the rebound and scored. Guay also assisted.

Unfortunately for the Bears, the Golden Knights got on board again at 7:42 on a goal that was

attributed to Jill Nolan, but was more the result of defensive collisions and miscommunications by Brown.

“We just didn’t play very well against Clarkson,” McLaughlin said.

However, the Bears did not quit, and at 5:05 in the third period Moos passed to Ramsay, who got off a shot that Moore redirected for a goal to tie the game. But two minutes later Andrea Maluta scored for Clarkson and the Bears were unable to recover, eventually falling 3-2.

“Maybe at some level the kids were looking past Clarkson and thinking that they could just show up and win,” Murphy said. “We don’t want to be in any danger of doing that again.”

In the team’s view, the win against St. Lawrence overshadows the loss to Clarkson, but it is symptomatic of the entire season.

The team has a great deal of potential and ability, but does not always perform.

“I think our team lacks a little consistency at this point in time, but we’re doing some good things,” Murphy said. “Who would have thought we’d beat the number five team in the country? The kids need to believe and I think they will down the stretch.”

the scoring column, resulting in a 36-27 halftime lead.

Brown went cold to start the second half, missing its first five shots, and Yale crept back into the game with good shooting and defense. The Elis took their first lead of the game, 56-55 on an Edwin Draughan jumper with 4:11 to play. After Draughan hit one of two free throws to make it 57-55, Ruscoe responded on the other end with a dunk and got fouled.

He sank the subsequent free throw to give Brown the lead, 58-57, one

that they would not surrender.

On Yale’s next possession, Forte grabbed a defensive rebound and sunk a three-pointer on the other end to give Brown a 61-57 lead.

Yale got it down to 65-64 on a trey

by Eric Flato, but failed to score again. Forte, Ruscoe and Jeppesen combined to go 5-of-6 from the charity stripe in the final 21 seconds to seal the win.

During Coach Miller’s five years at Brown, the Bears have prided themselves in their strong scoring attack. Miller’s teams have led the Ivy League in scoring the last four years, and he has coached three of the top four scorers in Brown basketball history in Earl Hunt ’03, Alai Nuualiitia ’03 and Forte. This season, the Bears have struggled.

Despite boasting Forte, the Ivy League’s leading scorer, the Bears rank seventh in field goal percentage at 41.3 percent.

“We’re relying on freshmen to score, and it’s tough because you hit a wall during your freshman year,” Forte said. “It’s a long season, and everyone has seemed to go into a slump at the same time.”

This weekend Brown travels to Dartmouth and Harvard, looking to avenge back-to-back losses to the Big Green and Crimson two weeks ago.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS EXTRA FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 13

Healthier lineup propels wrestlers to season-ending win over Harvard

Ashley Hess / Herald

Dan Appello ’06 scored a 10-2 major decision in Brown’s 31-10 win over the Crimson.

BY BERNIE GORDON SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The wrestling team finished off their dual-meet season on a strong note this weekend, defeating Harvard 31-10 on Saturday in Cambridge. The Bears were led by co-captain Mike Pedro ’06 and Shawn Kitchner ’07, both of whom pinned their opponents. Bruno is now 6-9 overall and 2-3 in the Ivy League.

“It was a good way to end the season,” said Assistant Coach Mike Burch. “Not only because we won, but because we were wrestling pretty well. You want

to see the guys wrestling at their sharpest (at this point in the season).”

The Bears’ season outlook improved dramatically with the return to the lineup of Pedro and Heath Lohrman ’05. Pedro had been out with a knee injury — although he wrestled the final match of last week’s victory over Sacred Heart University — and Lohrman had a virus that caused him to miss time over the past two weeks. The Bears are still missing Shawn Cully ’06, who is out for the season, but Doran Heist ’06 and Leo Saniuk ’08 will hopefully return next week.

“We definitely struggled with injuries,” Burch said. “We have a young team, and injuries can really hurt us (because we lack experienced backups).”

Burch praised the freshmen on the team for stepping up and filling the gaps left by injury, and for being able to wrestle in different weight classes on short notice. Because of injuries, the Bears’ lineup has been shifted throughout the season. Even with a mostlyhealthy team against Harvard, Lohrman and Pedro had to wrestle up a weight class to cover the absence of Heist and Saniuk.

“I mean, it’s not that big of a factor,” said Pedro, downplaying the injuries. “Everyone out there is going to give 100 percent and do the team proud.”

Saturday, Harvard started the match by giving the Bears a gift

M. track uses NE meet to prep for Heptagonals

BY JILANE RODGERS SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s track and field team sent a limited squad to Cambridge, Mass. this weekend to compete at the New England Championships.

With the Heptagonal Championships only a week away, most men rested in preparation for the Ivy League competition. The athletes who did compete used the meet as a chance for a final tune-up or to finish out their season.

No team score was tallied, but four men were the top collegiate athletes in their events: Kent Walls ’06, Christian Tabib ’07, Mike Piche ’05 and Luke Renick ’08.

Walls took third overall in the weight throw, hitting 51-06.5.

His throw was six inches better than the next collegiate competitor, Ivy rival James Rhodes from Harvard.

Leading the charge in the 800-meter run was Tabib, who crossed the line in 1:55.98 to earn second place. Establishing himself at the front of the race from the start, he paced the Bears for the duration of the distance and was closely followed

by Jordan Kinley ’06, who took third in 1:56.14.

Piche also had a solid day for the middle-distance squad, coming in second in the mile run. His time of 4:13.33 was only .09 seconds behind the winner, though he was in the middle of a pack with one lap to go.

“It went well,” said Piche. “It wasn’t necessarily a fast race, but it was a smart one.”

Piche used the final 100 meters to overtake several men and close in on the leader. His time was a personal best and qualifies him for the IC4A Championships in two weeks.

“It was good to see that my speed’s there,” he said.

Coming in third overall, Renick highlighted the day for the sprint crew as he clocked 22.66 for the 200-meter dash, four places above the next collegiate athlete. It was his second event of the day, as he had competed in the 60-meter dash earlier. He took sixth overall, second for collegiate competitors, with a time of 7.18 “It was a good weekend of final preparations,” Piche said.

“We’re focused and excited for the big one coming up next.”

The Bears will travel back to Harvard this weekend to take on the rest of the Ivy League at the Heptagonal Championships.

and forfeiting the 125-pound weight class. Dan Apello ’06 quickly followed with a 10-2 major decision to give the Bears an early 10-0 lead.

Harvard fought back, with Mike Baria posting an 11-0 major decision over Mark Savino ’08. Dominic DeNunzio gave Harvard its second victory with a 5-3 overtime victory over Tim Smith ’06 to narrow the gap to 10-7.

That would be the closest the score would get as the Bears took control of the match. Mike Savino ’06 got things started with a 5-4 win at 157 pounds, and Kitchner, filling in for Heist at 165 pounds, followed with his second-period pin to give the Bears a 20-7 lead.

Lorhman looked strong in his return to the lineup, posting a 5-0 victory. Joe Walton ’08 defeated his opponent 7-3 and Pedro finished the surge with his own pin to give the Bears the final total.

With the lineup healthier than it has been all season and the dual meet and Ivy season done, the Bears now look to the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships March 5-6 at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. They will be looking to place in the top five at the championships, as well as win as many individual championships as possible.

“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be top five,” Pedro said.

Gymnasts finish third behind Yale, Bridgeport

BY MADELEINE MARECKI SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Struggling with injuries and illness, the gymnastics team fell to both Yale and the University of Bridgeport this past Saturday in its second home meet of the season.

Yale captured the team crown with a score 189.700, while Bridgeport scored 183.650.

Brown finished the day with 183.125.

While Yale was expected to be a tough opponent, the team was surprised by Bridgeport’s performance.

“We learned our lesson that we can’t go in thinking we can beat any team,” said Head Coach Sara Carver-Milne.

Bruno entered the meet with little more than half of its members participating and struggled in terms of depth. Brown’s lack of depth was particularly evident in the vault. Only five Brown gymnasts took part, creating a pressure situation in which all five athletes had to hit their routines since each of their scores would count toward the final team score. Bruno put forth a good effort in the event, with three gymnasts posting scores in the 9’s. Sarah Durning ’08 took second place with 9.6, while Amber Smith ’06 and co-captain Melissa Forziat ’05 recorded 9.575 and 9.300, respectively.

In addition to the poor health of the team, questionable scoring hampered Bruno.

“The scoring on beam was not representative of the routines. It was very frustrating and it didn’t

help the situation. It added insult to injury,” Carver-Milne said.

Despite its disappointing finish, the team did have some solid individual performances. In addition to her routine on vault, Forziat finished first for the Bears on beam with 9.050 and had a huge win in the floor exercise, scoring 9.775.

Smith was the top finisher for her team in the all-around, posting a 36.850. She captured two third place finishes, in the vault and the floor exercise. Sarah Cavett ’06 took third on the uneven bars with 9.700.

The meet also marked the season debut for co-captain Maya Vadiveloo ’05, who was able to compete on the beam after a long layoff from a shin injury.

Despite not being in top form physically, the squad was in better shape mentally.

“I thought in a lot of ways this meet was a great improvement over our last meet,” said Forziat.

“Last meet, if something went wrong, or even if someone hit a routine, it became a pattern. In this meet, everyone focused on her own routine. This meet was definitely an improvement in mental strength.”

Looking for her team to put up a solid performance at Saturday’s big meet this weekend at Yale, the Ivy League Classic, Carver-Milne said, “We are going to train hard this week. We’re going to train through Ivies and not take a break. The team is very motivated and knows what needs to get done.”

W. track shows toughness at Fast Track Invitational

BY KATIE LARKIN SPORTS STAFF WRITER

On Sunday the women’s indoor track team traveled to Cambridge, Mass. to compete in the USA Track & Field New England Championship meet.

A select group of Brown athletes competed against several area teams, including Harvard, whom they will face again next weekend in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships.

“This one was a relatively big meet in terms of the number of people that were competing and there was some pretty decent talent,” said Distance Coach Rick Wemple.

The meet was highlighted by personal bests.

Julie Komosinski ’05 recorded a season best time of 5:00.36 in the mile and placed fifth, good enough to qualify for the ECACs. Michol Monaghan ’07 won the 5,000-meters with a new personal record of 17:28.83.

The race put Monaghan tenth on Brown’s all-time Top Ten indoor record board. It also ranks her tenth among Ivy competitors.

Jaylon White ’05 placed second in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.92 seconds, while

Lauren Hale ’07 followed with a fifth place finish. Hale also placed fifth in the 200-meters.

Lauren Snizek ’07 took second place in the 400-meter dash.

“I think that it puts more pressure on me to perform better because we’re trying to peak at the end of our season before we go into the championships,” said Snizek. “At the same time all of our performances aren’t exactly where we want them to be, we’re still looking for them to be a bit stronger.”

Akilah King ’08 took third in the 400-meter dash, while Emily Lewis-LaMonica ’06 came in fifth. The women secured the fourth through seventh places in the 800-meters, with Anna Willard ’06 finishing first for the Bears. In the 60meter hurdles Fara Kitton ’05 placed third with a time of 8.95.

In field events co-captain Jill Lynch ’05 placed second in the shot put with an ECAC qualifying throw of 45-5.25, while Jennifer Donahue ’05 took fourth in the weight throw.

Lynch’s throw places her at the top of the league.

A small group of athletes still preparing for Heps were chosen to compete in Sunday’s

meet, their performances possibly indicative of what will occur this coming weekend.

“I can’t say that (USATF-NE) is a good indicator because we had a very limited group of people competing,” Wemple said. “I think it’s a good indicator for those who competed this weekend who will then go on and compete at Heps. The entire jumps crew did not compete and some of our other athletes who we knew were pretty much set for the Heps meet did not compete either. For the athletes who did compete I think it is a good indicator for them and for us as a team.”

Even though there were small numbers on the track, for many competitors the meet was one last chance to showcase their talent before the Heps next week.

“There was good competition at the meet, and at these types of meets you have to do what you have to do for the team,” Komosinski said. “That was kind of what it was about, really showing that you can make a difference at the Heps.”

The Heptagonal Championships take place Feb. 26.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 14 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Election aftermath Because Instant Runnoff Voting received support from 64.6 percent of the less than 40 percent of undergraduates who voted on the referendum, it will not be implemented in the coming Undergraduate Council of Students elections. After making more than 30 suggestions, the Elections Review Commission created last fall has disbanded. So what are we left with? What will guarantee that students will have confidence in the process and results of elections?

The insufficient support of IRV should not be seen as an endorsement of the unconstitutional back-room deals that occurred in the past, allowing a winner to be declared even when no candidate received a majority. That the outcome of the election is determined in part by the will of the candidates is insufficiently transparent for a student government.

And the results of the WebCT vote should certainly not be construed as support for the existing run-off system.

Resentment over the controversial presidential election last spring is what led to the creation of the ERC in the first place.

The spring election made it clear that a number of factors, most notably turnout, can distort campus elections, misrepresent majority sentiment and conceal undercurrents of opinion.

That this referendum fell just 2 percent shy of the two-thirds majority needed to enact an IRV system should not distort UCS’s actions from here. A clear majority of voters supported IRV — the best sign yet that there exist undercurrents of change amidst the UCS constituency.

With the next UCS elections scheduled for the end of this semester, there has not yet been an opportunity to examine whether the system formerly in place has been effectively changed. Though the ERC has disbanded, its job is not truly done. UCS should formally create a permanent ERC to be called into action following every election to field the concerns of candidates and constituents and ensure the continuous transparency of the electoral process.

The UCS Election Board does oversee elections as they progress, but an institutionalized ERC would give UCS the permanent benefit of hindsight. And the non-UCS members on the ERC provide an important outside perspective.

The results of the referendum should not mean the end of election reform — indeed, UCS has dozens of other ERC recommendations to consider. The referendum must be the beginning of what should be an ongoing practice of allowing the student body to determine what it wants its elections to look like.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

JOSEPH NAGLE

LETTERS Military recruiters aren’t the problem To the Editor: In response to Sweeney-Taylor’s “Military goes to school” (Feb. 16), there is nothing wrong with being an “ammunition-strapped soldier” instead of a businessman or teacher. Condescending remarks like this fail to serve a purpose. There are outstanding Brown graduates serving in uniform who deserve far more respect than that.

While military recruiters capitalize on the fact that they are much more likely to enlist students from Hope High than from other area schools, they are not the source of the dropout problem.The situation at Hope High has little to do with military recruitment, money or even teachers. Teachers have custody of their students for seven hours each day and recruiters see those kids twice each school year.

PRODUCTION Peter Henderson, Design Editor Katie Lamm, Copy Desk Chief Lela Spielberg, Copy Desk Chief Matt Vascellaro, Graphics Editor Ashley Hess, Photo Editor Juliana Wu, Photo Editor

BUSINESS Ian Halvorsen, General Manager Daniel Goldberg, Executive Manager Mark Goldberg, Senior Financial Officer Lisa Poon, Marketing Manager Abigail Ronck, Senior Accounts Manager Kathleen Timmins, Senior Accounts Manager Laird Bennion, Senior Project Manager Elias Roman, Senior Project Manager Jungdo Yu, Senior Project Manager Laurie-Ann Paliotti, Sr. Advertising Rep. Susan Dansereau, Office Manager POST- MAGAZINE Fritz Brantley, Editor-in-Chief Adrian Muniz, Executive Editor Sarah Gordon, Calendar Editor Abigail Newman, Theater Editor Josh Cohen, Design Editor Marissa Hauptman, Photo Editor Ruthie Baron, Features Editor Jeremy Beck, Film Editor Paul Levande, Assistant Film Editor Jesse Adams, Music Editor

Annie Koo, Night Editor Taryn Martinez, Sonia Saraiya, Copy Editors Senior Staff Writers Camden Avery, Alexandra Barsk, Eric Beck, Mary-Catherine Lader, Ben Leubsdorf, Jane Porter, Stu Woo Staff Writers Marshall Agnew, Zachary Barter, Danielle Cerny, Christopher Chon, Stewart Dearing, Gabriella Doob, Kate Gorman, Jonathan Herman, Leslie Kaufmann, Aidan Levy, Allison Lombardo, Meryl Rothstein, Joel Rozen, Jen Sopchockchai, Jonathan Sidhu, Lela Spielberg, Robin Steele, Stefan Talman, Jane Tanimura, Melanie Wolfgang, Anne Wootton Sports Staff Writers Kathy Babcock, Zaneta Balantac, Stephen Colelli, Lexi Costello, Ian Cropp, Justin Goldman, Bernard Gordon, Katie Larkin, Matt Lieber, Shaun MacNamara, Chris Mahr, Ben Miller, Eric Perlmutter, Jilane Rodgers, Marco Santini, Charlie Vallely Accounts Managers Steven Butschi, Rob McCartney, John Nagler, David Ranken, Joel Rozen, Rukesh Samarasekera, Ryan Shewcraft Project Managers In Young Park, Libbie Fritz Design Staff Deepa Galaiya, Annie Koo, Allison Kwong, Jason Lee Photo Staff Marissa Hauptman, Judy He, Matthew Lent, Nick Neely, Bill Pijewski, Kori Schulman, Sorleen Trevino Copy Editors Chessy Brady, Jonathan Corcoran, Eric Demafeliz, Leora Fridman, Allison Kwong, Katie Lamm, Suchi Mathur, Cristina Salvato, Sonia Saraiya, Lela Spielberg, Zachary Townsend, Jenna Young

Meghan Gourley ‘05 Feb. 16

No need for kegs To the Editor:

EDITORIAL Jonathan Ellis, Editor-in-Chief Sara Perkins, Executive Editor Christopher Hatfield, Senior Editor Lisa Mandle, Senior Editor Meryl Rothstein, Arts & Culture Editor Melanie Wolfgang, Arts & Culture Editor Justin Elliott, Campus Watch Editor Stephanie Clark, Focus Editor Kira Lesley, Focus Editor Robbie Corey-Boulet, Metro Editor Te-Ping Chen, Opinions Editor Ari Savitzky, Opinions Editor Chris Mahr, Sports Editor Ben Miller, Sports Editor

The problem stems from the 17 other hours of the day when parents are in charge. It is the parents’ responsibility to instill the high value of education in their children and high dropout rates are an indicator that this is not happening.

Money and a reduction in high school military recruitment are not going to fix the real problem, which is the lack of guidance and support in the home.

By the time military recruiters come to a high school the damage has already been done: they are not to blame.

And what is the drinking age in Rhode Island?

Just some sober thoughts.

Why does having a good time depend on having alcohol? Let’s check with Brown University Public Safety to see how many late-night and violentcrime calls are related to alcohol.

Joseph Gibson Brown University Staff Conference Services Feb. 16

Evolution stickers distort science To the Editor: Schmalzbach (“Liberals in Cobb County,” Feb. 15) asserts that the disclaimer in Cobb County’s biology textbooks put liberals “in a bind.”

According to Schmalzbach, this “bind” arises because the stickers’ message ends on the words: “Material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered.”

Schmalzbach seems to accept the fact that part of the disclaimer was suspect: if the entire disclaimer had simply been, “evolution is a theory, not a fact,” then, as Schmalzbach writes, “this would be a short column.” I will not argue here about what exactly is wrong with this part of the message because Schmalzbach appears to agree with the court on at least this much.

However, Schmalzbach points out, apart from

the anti-evolutionary sentiment of the stickers, they also included some liberal words of wisdom.

One would think it obvious that tacking on a sound piece of advice to a distortion of science does not make that distortion any less perverse. To demonstrate this point through extremity, consider the following recommendation: “Kill gays. Uphold America.” If one opposes this sentiment, is one therefore unpatriotic? No. One is not.

Perhaps Brian Schmalzbach would like to explain, if he still thinks that these stickers were not supporting a “theocratic style of government,” why they were pushed for so forcefully by a group of zealous, concerned Christians.

Michael Bosworth ‘07 Feb. 16

CORRECTIONS POLICY The Brown Daily Herald is committed to providing the Brown University community with the most accurate information possible. Corrections may be submitted up to seven calendar days after publication.

CO M M E N TA RY P O L I C Y The staff editorial is the majority opinion of the editorial board of The Brown Daily Herald. The editorial viewpoint does not necessarily reflect the views of The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Columns, letters and comics reflect the opinions of their authors only.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR POLICY Send letters to letters@browndailyherald.com. Include a telephone number with all letters. The Herald reserves the right to edit all letters for length and cannot assure the publication of any letter. Please limit letters to 250 words. Under special circumstances writers may request anonymity, but no letter will be printed if the author’s identity is unknown to the editors. Announcements of events will not be printed.

ADVERTISING POLICY The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. reserves the right to accept or decline any advertisement at its discretion.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 15

Registering at RISD GUEST COLUMN BY HE ZHU

As many Brown students know, cross-registering at the Rhode Island School of Design can feel like Mission: Impossible. Courses are difficult to get into, and the entire process is a quagmire of red tape, paperwork and approval hunting.

As a RISD student, it pains me to say that the feeling is more than mutual. However, although the registration process can be arduous, it is also not impossible.

If you plan on taking courses at RISD, there are some things to keep in mind: Scheduling-wise, RISD has three types of courses: studio, foundation and everything else. Studio courses are hands-on courses that run the gamut from drawing to glass blowing and generally run from 1 - 6 p.m. and 11:20 a.m. - 4:20 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Foundation courses are known as “boot camp” for freshmen; they run from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and meet once a week.

Non-studio courses are divided into art history (ARTH), liberal arts (LAEL) and history philosophy social sciences (HPSS). These courses are much shorter and meet multiple times a week for about two hours.

That’s a brief rundown on what the courses are like. You can obtain a course catalogue oneline or pick up a paper copy from the Registrar’s Office at 20 Washington Place on Waterman and North Main.

Many higher-level courses such as Character Design and Advanced Figure Sculpture are so popular that they are difficult for even RISD students to get into and are usually restricted to seniors in the department.

Oftentimes instructors must accept the RISD students before Brown students to help RISD students fulfill certain requirements. Contact the teacher to ascertain the status of your particular class.

Foundation courses and other courses are usually pretty open. As a Brown student you stand a good chance of getting into most sophomore-level classes.

If you plan to register, the first thing that you should do is go to intranet.RISD.edu and find the teacher’s email. Alternately, call (401) 4546100, press 0 for the operator and ask to be transferred to the department to speak to the teacher. Introduce yourself, it always helps.

Additionally, if you wish to meet the teacher, come to one of his or her current classes.

Regardless of what people tell you, always come to the first class. During initial registration, classes fill up quickly, so RISD students are encouraged to register for any remaining classes just to have enough credits to use as placeholders while looking for other classes. Trust me, I work at registration — this is routine practice.

There’s a lot of discrepancy between the number of people actually registered and those who actually show up. Some teachers pass around a sign-up sheet, so get there 15 minutes before class starts. Stay for the entire session.

If you picked the appropriate course level, you should hopefully get in. If you don’t, keep at it — I once had to attend four full class sessions before I got in.

RISD’s semester started this past Monday.

But if you would like to register for classes at RISD next semester and need help finding teacher contact info, class times, etc. I would be more than happy to help you. Drop me a line at hzhu@RISD.edu.

Cross-registration between RISD and Brown shouldn’t just be an advertising gimmick. You can do it. The more students that do it, the more Brown and RISD’s administrations will have to work together. With enough students we can make cross-registration less of a headache and a better reality for students on both sides.

He Zhu is a student at RISD.

UCS Quixote GUEST COLUMN BY BARRON YOUNGSMITH AND ROB MONTZ Exactly what in God’s name is the point of the Undergraduate Council of Students’ plan to divide the campus into five representative regions?

Two serious objections spring to mind at first glance. First, the rational justification for the proposal is muddy at best and totally nonexistent at worst. The underlying assumption seems to be that these five regions have widely disparate interests.

What is it that makes the demands of students in Grad Center different than the demands of those in Minden? Are the rumors true? Do inhabitants of certain dorms really share certain characteristics?

Are all freshmen environmental studies concentrators really placed in Hope? Are all those who have personal butlers originally housed in the posh strongholds of Littlefield and Andrews? Are all the sketchy kids purposely placed together in the civilizing shadow of New Pembroke Three and Four’s PVC-pipe bear sculpture?

Even if these speculations were true, most people move from dorm to dorm yearly. There is no lasting allegiance between a Brown student and his or her “region.” Constituents will never lobby for long-term changes if they can’t expect to see any benefit from regional representation. In fact, constituents may know more about the needs of their previous surroundings than the needs of their current region.

Furthermore, a regional system necessarily encourages regions to demand

regional benefits. What can a regional representative demand except more soda machines for Zone Five or a fitness center for Zone Three? Benefits should go to places where they are most needed, not the regions with representatives best able to manipulate the system.

If Zone Four elects a total basket case and Zone Five elects Karl Rove incarnate, then the stage will be set for limousine service between New Dorm and the Gate while Grad Center remains frozen circa 1974. The debate will inevitably devolve into a system where “My region needs more couches!” will become the norm of UCS discourse.

‘Regionalization’ is just a buzzword.

Secondly, this proposal pointlessly adds yet another layer of bureaucracy.

One of UCS’s prime motivations for the regional system is “bridging the gap between student government and students.” How will regionalization accomplish this goal? The last thing UCS need s is a cohort of officeholders whose job is to ask for more ice machines.

UCS makes concerted efforts to show it is “in touch” with the student body.

While the regionalization proposal may have served to differente Joel Payne’s campaign from others, it only retards UCS’s long-term goal of becoming more

relevant in the eyes of its constituents.

UCS does not seem irrelevant for lack of representatives.

People can sense when an organization is actually improving their lives.

Students think UCS is pointless because they perceive it to be a warren of endlessly-churning, masturbatory bureaucracy.

Adding five new jobs plus a job whose only job is to keep an eye on those jobs won’t help change that perception.

Joel Payne’s election was not a mandate for his regionalization plan, but rather an endorsement of a UCS that seemed willing to personally engage itself with constituents. But handshakes should be translated into concrete improvements, not committees to examine the feasibility of a catchphrase. UCS should keep in mind that actions speak louder than words, and strive to do what it can with what it has by bringing results to the student body as whole.

At this point, however, it seems like “regionalization” is just a buzzword. If students see UCS successfully affecting change, they’ll take the initiative to go to UCS with their concerns. Otherwise, no army of representatives from arbitrarily drawn provinces can convince them to call on student government when something needs improvement Barron Youngsmith ‘06 and Rob Montz ‘05 are management consultants from the West.

DONALD TETTO

The FCC and the Superbowl The Super Bowl festivities seemed a little vanilla this time around.

In what can only be considered gross overcompensation for last year’s debacle, this year’s half-time show was headlined

by Paul McCartney in a suit. The songs he performed were pre-screened by NFL officials for potentially offensive lyrics.

The performance’s raciest moment was when McCartney stripped off his jacket— only to reveal a long-sleeved shirt underneath.

As writer Bob Garfield told “Good Morning America,” “This year, the Super Bowl is interesting not because of what ads they’re showing but what ads they are not.” Notably cut: a Budweiser ad that had a delivery boy opening a beer with Janet Jackson’s costume, a spot for a cold remedy featuring Mickey Rooney’s bare backside, and a minister lusting after a Lincoln pick-up.

The edgiest ad shown was, like the Budweiser ad that got cut, a spoof of last Super Bowl’s “wardrobe malfunction” incident. Though the company had shelled out $4.8 million for two airings of the 30-second spot — which the Fox network itself had screened for content -— the ad only ran once. After seeing the spot during the first quarter of the game, NFL officials contacted Fox in medias res and asked them to pull the second showing, apparently considering it too edgy in the post-Jackson world.

This may seem a lot of wolf-crying for what essentially amounts to some toneddown ad copy. But though I hate to start down the slippery slope of crying censorship, the question is whether the FCC has overstepped its bounds by intimidating networks into submission.

You may remember the immediate aftermath of the Jackson incident: the Oscars went to a five-second tape delay so they’d have time to cut or bleep any spur-

of-the-moment actions; the Grammys were delayed five minutes.

The ripples, however, keep spreading.

The FCC itself won’t pre-screen broadcasts, because according to an FCC spokeswoman, “that would be censorship,” so 66 ABC affiliates in eight states refused to broadcast Saving Private Ryan for fears of potential indecency fines. In May, a popular college radio station switched to an entirely pre-recorded format. Other stations that previously dabbled in the risqué during “safe harbor hours” between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. toned down their broadcasts in the fear that the hours were no longer safe.

We are entering a place where the content of the airwaves is subject to tyranny of the minority — and a very small minority at that.

In 2003, the year before the Super Bowl debacle put broadcasting indecency on the map, the FCC received 240,000 complaints. After the Jackson incident — a stunt that sparked 540,000 complaints all its own — the trend continued. By the end of 2004, FCC fines totaled $7.7 million, compared to only $48,000 four years ago.

Why the sudden outrage? Has the quality of programming really taken that much of a dive? Has the public suddenly become more concerned about the shows being broadcast in their home?

Neither is the case. In 2003, fully 99.8 percent of the 240,000 complaints came from a single conservative watchdog group — the Parents Television Council.

Meanwhile last October, the Fox network was fined $1.2 million for an episode of Married By America — a program, in poor taste or not, whose primary indecency offense was an episode featuring pixilated strippers. Yet this whopping $1.2 million fine was prompted by the mere 90 complaints the FCC received in response to the broadcast.

Furthermore, when pressed by a Freedom of Information Act, a review of the complaints themselves reveals that only 23 separate individuals sent the 90 complaints. And among those 23, only three people had taken the time to compose a personal letter of complaint — the rest just sent form letters.

In an op-ed in the New York Times, FCC chairman Michael Powell defended the FCC, arguing that it is not the volume of complaints but the content of the programming that results in fines. The FCC decency guidelines, however, are far from hard and fast: indeed, they boil down to five regulators voting on whether an utterance of the word “dick” on Scrubs was meant to be “sexual or excretory” in context.

The end result is what is commonly called the chilling effect: If three dissatisfied customers out of an audience of millions can be the impetus for $1.2 million in fines, what broadcaster will ever take risks?

As distressing as the situation is, Congress continues to move in the wrong direction. Rather than pushing for mediation and clear-cut definitions of indecency, bills with strong bipartisan support before the House and Senate currently propose raising the maximum per-incident indecency fines by more than 15fold.

While the FCC ostensibly tries to avoid the role of censors, blurry regulations and outrageous fines effectively stifle freedom of the airwaves, forcing networks to selfcensor anything that could even potentially cross the line. Until something is done, look forward to a lot more vanilla programming.

Donald Tetto ‘06 would like to thank his roommate for watching the Super Bowl and telling him about it afterward.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 16

W. icers knock off No. 5 St. Lawrence, but stumble against lowly Clarkson

W. hoops beats Penn with big rally, but falls to Princeton

BY BEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Ashley Hess / Herald

Jessica Link ’05 scored the game-winning goal in Brown’s 4-2 upset of No. 5 St. Lawrence.The forward leads the team in points with 23.

BY KATHY BABCOCK SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s ice hockey team triumphed over fifth-ranked St. Lawrence University 4-2 on Friday only to fall to a much lesser team, Clarkson College, 3-2 on Saturday.

The Bears finish the weekend 12-13-2 overall and 9-8-1 in the ECACHL. The victory over St. Lawrence dramatically improves their chances of receiving a decent berth in the playoffs.

“The bottom line is when I left the locker room I said if you had lost to St. Lawrence and beaten Clarkson you would have been worse off, so forget about the loss to Clarkson and focus on the next two regular season games,” said Head Coach Digit Murphy. “It’s a new season in the playoffs.”

The Bears started off badly against St. Lawrence, allowing a goal in the first 22 seconds of play from Chelsea Grills. Bruno also allowed a goal within the first minute against Mercyhurst last weekend.

“I have no idea why we get scored on so early, I don’t know whether it has to do with preparation,” said Amy McLaughlin ’05. “It might just have been how our season has been going the bounces just don’t seem to want to go our way.”

The Bears quickly bounced back on a power play goal by Jessica Link ’05 at 2:58.

Margaret Ramsay ’06 and Kathryn Moos ’07 provided assists on the play. Soon after, WEEKEND SPORTS SCOREBOARD FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 Men’s BASKETBALL: University of Pennsylvania 79, Brown 62 Women’s BASKETBALL: Brown 76, Penn 69 Men’s ICE HOCKEY: St. Lawrence 3, Brown 0 Women’s ICE HOCKEY: Brown 4, No. 5 St. Lawrence University 2 Women’s SQUASH: Howe Cup, Princeton, N.J. SKIING: at St. Anselm Carnival, Pat’s Peak, N.H. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Men’s BASKETBALL: Princeton 69, Brown 52 Women’s BASKETBALL: Princeton 53, Brown 50 Men’s ICE HOCKEY: Brown 5, Clarkson 2 Women’s ICE HOCKEY: Clarkson 3, Brown 2 WRESTLING: Brown 31, Harvard 10 Men’s TENNIS: Brown 7, Navy 0 EQUESTRIAN: 1st place (UConn Show) SKIING: at St. Anselm Carnival, Pat’s Peak, N.H. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 GYMNASTICS: Yale with Bridgeport, 1 p.m., Pizzitola Center Men’s TENNIS: No. 28 Wake Forest 5, Brown 2 Women’s TENNIS: Brown 7, American 0 Women’s SQUASH: 7th (Howe Cup at Princeton) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Women’s TENNIS: Old Dominion 4, Brown 3 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Men’s BASKETBALL: Brown 70, Yale 64 Men’s ICE HOCKEY: No. 11 Harvard 3, Brown 0

Hayley Moore ’08 scored on a high shot to give Bruno a lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of play. Moos and McLaughlin assisted on the goal.

“We stuck to our systems and played tough,” McLaughlin said. “We outplayed them the entire game. We got on board early and it’s always easy when you have an early lead.”

Brown increased their lead at 8:47 in the first period when Keaton Zucker ’06 forced a turnover and passed the puck to Link who fired it into the net for her second goal of the game. St. Lawrence retaliated a minute later on a 5 versus 3 power play when Emilie Berlinguette managed to get off an unassisted goal. The Bears ended the first period with a 3-2 lead.

The Bears added an insurance goal on a power play five minutes into the second see W. HOCKEY, page 12

The women’s basketball team returns to classes today having earned their second straight weekend split, knocking off defending Ivy League champion University of Pennsylvania 76-69 on Friday but falling 53-50 against Princeton Saturday. The split left the Bears at 15-8 overall and third in the Ivy League at 7-3.

“I’m extremely proud of the team. They gave a huge effort in both games,” said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr. “Our defense put us in a position to take the game at Jadwin Gym and our defense handed us the game at Penn.”

As usual, Brown was anchored by Sarah Hayes ’06 and Holly Robertson ’05. Hayes, who was named a District I Second Team Academic All-American by ESPN the Magazine last week, scored a career-high 23 points against Penn and shot 12-of-13 at the foul line. Robertson scored a seasonhigh 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds the following night. “(Hayes) is tremendously consistent, a hard worker who contributed in every area with strong leadership,” Burr said. “She does whatever is needed to win. Having a guard that can rebound and score inside and out is a huge advantage. I would like her to shoot more, but she likes to set her teammates up.”

The Bears came into Philadelphia looking to avenge a 47-43 defeat back on Jan. 29.

In that game, Penn center Jennifer Fleischer dominated Brown with 16 rebounds. Not helping matters, the Bears shot 29.1 percent for the game.

On Friday, the Bears came out firing, taking an early 9-2 lead. The Quakers then turned to Fleischer, who scored five straight points to bring the lead down to two. From there, the lead went back and forth until Penn unleashed a torrent of three-pointers.

A shot from downtown by Karen

Win over Elis ends Ivy skid for m. basketball

BY SHAUN MCNAMARA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

After a pair of 17-point losses to first-place University of Pennsylvania and sixthplace Princeton this past weekend, the men’s basketball team (10-13, 3-6 Ivy League) snapped their four-game Ivy League skid Tuesday night with a 70-64 victory over Yale.

On Friday night, Penn (15-8, 8-1) rolled into Providence and controlled both ends of the floor, winning 79-62. They boasted four players in double figures, led by Tim Begley and Ibrahim Jaaber, who poured in 22 points each. Along with his 22 points, Jaaber grabbed nine rebounds and picked up three steals. He was also instrumental in holding reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Jason Forte ’05 to just four shot attempts. Forte finished with eight points, more than 11 below his season average.

No Brown player reached double figures in scoring and the Bears shot a shockingly poor 4-of-23 from three-point range.

“The way the whole team has struggled from the outside has been strange,” said co-captain Luke Ruscoe ’06.

Coupled with Brown’s cold outside shooting was Penn’s domination of the paint as they out-rebounded the Bears 5126. The game was not as close as the final score indicates as Penn used a 38-12 run in the second half to open up a 31-point

lead. The Bears closed the gap to 17 behind strong play from Keenan Jeppesen ’08 (nine points, five steals) and Marcus Becker ’07 (seven points, four steals).

Brown featured four first-years for an extended period in the second half as cocaptains Forte and Ruscoe watched from the bench.

Brown’s struggles continued the next night, as Princeton (12-11, 3-6) opened up a 26-point margin in the second half and cruised to a 69-52 victory. Forte tallied 26 points for Bruno, but no other Bear scored more than five. Princeton was led by AllIvy guard Will Venebles with 18 points, four assists, four steals and five rebounds.

Mike Stephens chipped in 15 points for the Tigers, who torched the nets in shooting 65 percent from the field while the Bears shot a pedestrian 37.8 percent.

“They hit some tough shots in the second half, but it was also a combination of us not playing great defense and Princeton getting those shots,” Forte said.

Head Coach Glen Miller mixed up his lineup for this game, as three first-years found themselves in the starting lineup.

Adolphe Coulibaly ‘08 and Jeppesen both started at forward and Mark MacDonald ‘08 was the starting center. Ruscoe had started 54 consecutive games dating to see M. HOOPS, page 12

Nick Neely / Herald

Holly Robertson ’06 scored 44 points and grabbed 17 rebounds over the weekend.

Habrukowich put the Quakers up 37-25 with 3:16 to go before the half.

Bruno refused to falter despite Penn’s six first half three-pointers. Robertson hit two three-pointers of her own and added a layup to take Brown into the half down 3933.

The next 20 minutes began on a down note for Bruno as the Quakers pushed the lead back to twelve. It was Robertson who brought the Bears back again, draining another three-pointer that ignited a 21-0 Bruno rally. Once they took the lead, the Bears refused to give it up, at one point going up by 13. Bruno was especially dominant inside, outscoring the Quakers 34-16 in the paint, with 20 of those points coming from Robertson.

“We took control of the tempo much more with our defense,” Burr said. “We looked like we were in better shape. Even when we got down, we extended our defense to full court, got the board and came down quickly to get a good look at the see W. HOOPS, page 12 IVY LEAGUE “BASKETBALL U.” POWERPOLL

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

PENN QUAKERS (28) 15-8, 8-1 IVY 215 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #1 YALE BULLDOGS 9-13, 5-4 IVY 190 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #3 CORNELL BIG RED 11-12, 6-4 IVY 144 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #2 DARTMOUTH BIG GREEN 8-15, 5-5 IVY 132 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #6 HARVARD CRIMSON 10-13 / 5-5 IVY 122 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #4 PRINCETON TIGERS 12-11 / 3-6 IVY 86 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #7 COLUMBIA LIONS 12-11 / 3-7 IVY 47 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #5 BROWN BEARS 10-13, 3-6 IVY 35 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #8

Voting for the PowerPoll is conducted by a panel of 28 voters, consisting of the four senior Basketball U. staff members and three members of the media from each school. http://www.basketball-u.com/