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U. rejects Israel divestment proposal

BY CHRISTOPHER CHON STAFF WRITER

President Ruth Simmons accepted a recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investing and rejected the proposal for divestment from Israel set forth by Anti-Racist Action and promoted by a coalition of groups at a protest Feb. 11.

The ACCRI recommended that Simmons reject ARA’s proposal for divestment from Israel, all Israeli corporations and any U.S. corporations doing business with Israel, according to a copy of the ACCRI’s report provided to The Herald by Marisa Quinn, assistant to the president.

“Members of the ACCRI agree unanimously that the proposed divesture did not meet the standards set in (the ACCRI Charter), and consequently we advise that you do not accept the recommendation for divesture,” ACCRI Chair and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies Harold Ward wrote in the Feb. 15 document to Simmons.

Quinn confirmed in an e-mail to The Herald that Simmons accepted the committee’s recommendation. Simmons’ letter to ARA “conveys the University’s position on this issue,” Quinn wrote in her email.

Ward declined to comment.

ACCRI Charter paragraph 1-e-vii says divestment is appropriate only when it “will likely have a positive impact toward correcting the specified social harm and no other effective means of achieving a positive impact within a reasonable time appears to exist.”

The charter, part of the faculty rules and regulations, also says divestment should be recommended “when the company in question contributes to social harm so grave that it would be inconsistent with the goals and principles of the University to accept funds from that source.”

In a private letter addressed to ARA member Dara Bayer ’08, Simmons explained her decision to accept the

ACCRI’s recommendation and reject ARA’s demands for divestment, Quinn said.

Bayer and ARA, however, refused to provide Simmons’ letter to The Herald.

ARA did not have an official comment about the president’s decision. Bayer said the group will give its official response and disclose the president’s letter early next week.

The group is not disclosing the letter until next week because “(ARA’s) specific request (to Simmons) was for a public response, and she hasn’t given that to us.

By not making a public response, she hasn’t been accountable to the Brown community,” Bayer said.

On Feb. 7, ARA, the Democratic Solidarity Committee and Brown Alumni for Divestment submitted their demands for the University to divest from Israel and all corporations doing business with Israel. see DIVESTMENT, page 9

U. officials discuss possibility of coed Grad Center suites UCS calls for increase in student activities fee

BY LAURA SUPKOFF STAFF WRITER

Margaret Klawunn, interim dean for campus life, and David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services, told the Undergraduate Council of Students at its Wednesday meeting that they are considering a Residential Life Council proposal to make some Grad Center suites coed optional.

The proposal would convert 285 beds in four- and five-person suites in Grad Center into coed optional housing. The administration sought the opinion of UCS members as well as the rest of the student body. “We want to take this to the broader community,” Greene said.

The conversion of the suites would mean a 35 percent to 40 percent increase in coed optional housing on campus, according to Adam Deitch ’05, a member of ResCouncil.

Greene said he worried about rushing the proposal through in time for this year’s housing lottery — applications for the first segment, five- and seven-person suites, are due March 11. “One of the things we can’t be sure of is if we’re going to miss why making 280 beds coed optional is not a good idea,” Greene said.

UCS also unanimously approved a resolution that calls for a $20 increase in the student activities fee to account for a dramatic rise in the number of student groups over the last year.

There has been no increase in the fee,

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New Humanities Center director to bring ‘dynamism’ to job CONTINUING CORPORATION COVERAGE TODAY:Cogut Humanities Center director appointed.

TOMORROW:$20 million gift for new professorships

BY STU WOO SENIOR STAFF WRITER

If Brown was looking for a world-class scholar to head its new Cogut Humanities Center, the University appears to have found the right person for the job.

“Michael Steinberg will bring dynamism and excitement to the new Humanities Center,” wrote Professor of History and current Humanities Center Director Carolyn Dean in an e-mail to The Herald. “He is a reputed scholar in both music and history, and the ideal person to lead a Center devoted to promoting interdisciplinarity and crosscultural exchange.”

Currently a professor of modern European history at Cornell University, Steinberg won the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Berlin Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin, and in 2003-2004, he was also the Anna Maria Kellen Fellow at the Academy. A well-regarded author, he won the Austrian national history prize in 2001 for his book “Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival.” A music scholar as well, he is currently the associate editor of the Musical Quarterly.

Steinberg’s resume impressed the Corporation, which named Steinberg the first director of the Cogut Humanities Center on Saturday. The see STEINBERG, page 7

UCS is considering making suites in Grad Center coed next year. other than a special raise exclusively funding the Special Events Committee, since 2000. After the proposed $20 raise, the resolution provides a formula to adjust the fee annually, which is “just a recommendation for the Student Activities Committee to use,” said Student Activities Committee Chair Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07.

UCS passed a statement of support concerning renewable energy that officially puts UCS behind the Brown Environmental Action Network’s efforts to bring renewable energy onto campus.

Also at the meeting, six students were chosen to serve on the UCS Elections Board. Divya Kumariah ’07, Kevin McDonald ’08, Avram Robbins ’05, Jacob McAuliffe ’06, Ashley Noreuil ’06.5 and Sarah Lester ’08 will represent the nonUCS community on the board, which will have extra work this year in determining election policies in light of the many recommendations made by the Elections Review Commission.

Vance Hynes ’05, John Gillis ’07 and Dave Bronfman ’07 will serve as the UCS members on the board, which will be chaired by

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Broken sprinkler in Wilson Hall forces evacuation Wilson Hall was evacuated Wednesday after a sprinkler head on the first floor broke around 10:35 a.m. and sprayed water for about 10 minutes.

“We had one of our electricians enter the building to do some work,” said Carl Weaver, director of physical plant at Facilities Management. “As he entered the building with his ladder, the ladder hit the sprinkler head and it went off.”

“Those things are very sensitive,” said Lt. Brazil of the Providence Fire Department, part of an engine company dispatched to the scene. The firefighters left after they verified there was no sign of fire.

Students and faculty inside the building heard a loud bang and the sound of water spraying from the ceiling near the back of the main entrance area on the first floor. The alarm sounded a few seconds later and the building emptied.

“Well, it’s not a swimming pool.

That’s a good thing,” a firefighter at the

195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

scene told a group of evacuated students.

The front entrance and part of the first floor of Wilson were briefly closed so the water could be cleaned up, said Stephen Morin, director of environmental health and safety.

Personnel from Facilities Management could be seen bringing a heavy-duty vacuum cleaner into the building, and outside contractors were brought in to repair the sprinkler and “to do some advanced dehumidification for a basement telecommunications area,” Morin said.

There was “a fair amount of water intrusion” in Wilson 102, Weaver said, as well as some water intrusion in the basement telephone room.

The cost of the cleanup effort will not be known for several days, he said.

“We’re going to chalk this up to an absolutely understandable accident,” Weaver said.

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THIS MORNING THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005 · PAGE 2 Coreacracy Eddie Ahn

WORLD IN BRIEF Bush to redouble push for Social Security plan plan slipping, Bush is confident he is winning the first phase of the public debate over Social Security and has no plans to significantly alter his strategy for enacting the most dramatic changes ever to the venerable system, according to senior White House officials who have talked to Bush. Several congressional Republicans, however, said they do not share Bush’s optimism and questioned his strategy for enacting changes this year.

THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — President Bush plans to intensify his campaign to win public and congressional support for restructuring Social Security, warning that it would be bad idea to delay action as the Senate Republican leader has suggested and politically unwise for lawmakers to oppose private accounts, White House officials said Wednesday.

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ANNE RICHARDS (INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE) ON THE TSUNAMI AND U.S. RESPONSE 7 p.m. (Wilson 102) — Anne C. Richard, vice president of International Rescue Committee, will speak about the tsunami, the U.S. response and the future of U.S. development policy. Before IRC, Richard was chief advisor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

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Horowitz promotes ‘academic bill of rights’ in R.I. Senate

BY SHAWN BAN STAFF WRITER

Controversy is looming over the proposal of a bill in the State Senate that would establish an academic bill of rights for Rhode Island’s three state colleges.

The bill is modeled on a draft academic bill of rights designed

by Students for Academic Freedom, a national organization with ties to conservative activist and author David Horowitz.

Republican senators Leo Blais and Kevin Breene and Democrats Michael Damiani and Leonidas Raptakis proposed 2005-S 0392, “An Act Relating to Higher Education,” on Feb. 10.

The bill includes a clause directing the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education to “adopt an academic bill of rights designed to ensure the academic freedom of students and faculty at the state’s institutions of higher learning, such that grading and hiring will not be tainted by consideration of the political, religious, or nonreligious beliefs of students or faculty, and designed to ensure that the state’s educational campuses are an environment of open discourse lacking any quality of indoctrination.”

The bill would affect the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island.

The chain of events that led to the introduction of the bill began in a fall 2004 class at Rhode Island College. Bill Felkner, a graduate student in

social work, received a failing grade from James Ryzcek, director of field education in the School of Social Work, in “Policy and Organizing.” Felkner disagreed with the professor’s opinion regarding educational benefits for people on welfare.

The case received local publicity, and Brian Bishop, a talk show host on WLKW-AM, contacted Breene to push for an academic bill of rights.

Horowitz, who has been a vocal proponent of the academic bill of rights, has a history with Brown. In March 2001, The Herald printed an advertisement submitted by Horowitz titled “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks — and Racist, Too!” A student coalition condemned The Herald’s decision to print the ad and removed 4,000 copies of the paper from distribution points. Horowitz later gave a lecture at Brown in October 2003 titled “Academic Freedom: A Vanishing Ideal at Brown.”

Brad Shipp, national field director of SAF, said the organization supported the bill but was not making any efforts to directly lobby for it. “Academic freedom is an important issue, and we support the bill. But I certainly have not spoken to the four senators,” he said.

One organization opposing the bill is the American Association of University Professors. The AAUP released a statement in December 2003 condemning SAF’s draft legislation as a threat to academic freedom. see HOROWITZ, page 4

University endowment returns up in 2004

BY MARY-CATHERINE LADER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

University endowments experienced unusually high investment returns in 2004, averaging 15.1 percent, according to a report released in January. The report, compiled by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, surveyed 741 American institutions whose endowments had a combined value of $267.2 billion — the largest value in the 33-year history of the study.

Institutions with smaller endowments typically use the NACUBO report first as a benchmark of success and then as a guide for selecting investment managers, according to NACUBO Public Affairs Manager Damon Manetta. Last year’s increase was the greatest since 1998, but given losses in recent years, the five-year average return of 3.8 percent still represents an overall decline in endowment value when adjusted for inflation. “This one-year spike is an unusual circumstance,” Manetta said.

Of the schools included in the study, those that invested more heavily in stocks and equities performed better than those with more significant

bond holdings. However, this analysis is slightly simplistic for institutions such as Brown, whose endowments are over $1 billion and generally managed by investment offices rather than a university board committee.

“NACUBO data is useful to some extent, but each school is unique and its investments are tailored to its own requirements,” wrote Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Cynthia Frost in an e-mail.

Frost and Executive Vice President for Finance and

Administration Elizabeth Huidekoper both said they were pleased with Brown’s 16.1 percent return on investment for fiscal year 2004, which outperformed the NACUBO median.

While the report noted that results did reflect a general economic upturn, individual investment strategies are important. Larger endowments have successfully invested less in traditional areas and “more towards types of alternative see ENDOWMENT, page 4

e-TOKE.com scores students’ pot use

BY NICOLE SUMMERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

How long has it been since you last used marijuana in any form? How much money would you estimate you spend on marijuana in a typical week?

These are just two of the many questions posed to college students by eTOKE.com, an online survey designed to let students examine their personal mar-

ijuana use and see how it compares to that of students at their own college and in the rest of the country.

E-TOKE, which stands for Electronic THC Online Knowledge Experience, was developed by Scott Walters, assistant professor of behavioral sciences at the University of Texas School of Public Health and Douglas see E-TOKE, page 9

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Horowitz continued from page 3 Frank Annunziato, executive director of the University of Rhode Island chapter of the AAUP, said the bill would curtail the very freedoms it claims to protect. “We oppose this bill, because it’s not what it says it is.

It is designed to create academic chaos and invite attacks on professors,” he said.

He cited the clause “quality of indoctrination” in the bill as something that could be misconstrued to “prevent professors from raising tough questions.”

Annunziato also said there was no need for additional legislation, as most universities already have internal policies governing academic freedom.

“Every institution has policies in place to protect students. We don’t need more legislation enshrining this. We do not need to be monitored in this way.

This bill is designed to make everyone into milquetoast,” he said.

Endowment continued from page 3 investment, like hedge funds, private equity and international equity,” Manetta said.

“We did better than if you just had all the money in an index fund,” Huidekoper said.

“It’s not just economic upturn, but also because of asset allocation and good managers.”

Brown’s Investment Office, headed by Frost, manages the $1.65 billion endowment by determining long-term goals and asset allocation, but leaves individual investment decisions to external managers selected through a “stringent due diligence process” and according to specific criteria — including social responsibility, Frost said.

She said there have been no major changes in investments since divestment from tobacco stocks in September 2003.

Alternatively, Harvard University, which has an endowment of $22.1 billion that ranks first in terms of total value, and the University of Texas, ranked third at $10.3 billion, both have internal management companies. However,

In an interview with The Herald, Horowitz dismissed the arguments given by the AAUP as “spurious.”

He said the AAUP had vested interests in preventing the academic bill of rights from becoming law. “These people are insecure and they’re scared of hiring peers who disagree with them. Entrenched power never gives up without a fight, and they’re not going to give up easily,” he said.

Horowitz argued the bill would protect the principle of academic freedom in universities, pointing to the high ratio of liberals to conservatives in faculties as evidence of imbalance.

“Students are only getting one side of the story, and you can’t get a good education that way, with a one-sided faculty,” he said.

He cited Brown as an example of an institution that has begun to recognize the importance of academic freedom. The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution on academic freedom modeled on the academic bill of rights in April 2004, and President Ruth

Simmons addressed academic diversity in her Spring Semester Opening Address on Feb. 1.

“Ruth Simmons, who I have a lot of respect for even though her political views are very different from mine, has taken the lead in supporting intellectual diversity. Steps need to be taken to protect institutions like Brown,” Horowitz said.

Similar legislation has been proposed in a number of states, including Ohio and Tennessee.

Only one state, Colorado, has passed such a bill so far, while a similar bill is currently being deliberated in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Rhode Island Senate Committee for Education is currently deliberating the bill before it goes on the calendar.

Both SAF and AAUP said representatives would attend hearings when dates are announced.

“Whether the bill passes this time, I don’t know. But in the long run, I think eventually it’ll be passed. Academic freedom is an inevitability,” Horowitz said.

Annunziato was more blunt about his hopes for the bill. “I hope that it gets killed,” he said.

compensation for these companies’ managers has created controversy, most recently at Harvard Management Company, where the six highest-paid managers received a combined $100 million in compensation in 2003. The HMC made headlines in January when President and Chief Executive Officer Jack R. Meyer announced he would leave to start a private fund.

With the smallest endowment in the Ivy League for decades — ranked 25th overall — Brown’s Investment Office faces different challenges.

“Since we have a smaller endowment, we aren’t as aggressive as some other (institutions),” Huidekoper said.

“Brown’s strategy is to invest a little more defensively than some other institutions, and that’s the Investment Committee of the Corporation that makes that call.”

Frost described the portfolio as “designed for all seasons” through wide diversification that supports endowmentspending power in the long run.

Last weekend the Corporation approved the contribution of $66.7 million of the endowment to the University’s 2005-2006

operating budget — an endowment draw of approximately 5.27 percent. Last year’s strong returns had little impact on that decision, because endowment growth is “more relevant to the long-term financial plan” than the yearly budget, Huidekoper said.

According to Huidekoper, the per-student endowment of $219,000 — up from $195,000 last year — better indicates Brown’s ability to support students with its endowment, compared to peer institutions, because of the University’s smaller student population.

Still, the University has been behind by a wide margin for decades.

“It is highly unlikely that we can catch up with any of our peers through superior investment returns alone,” Frost said.

“To close the gap Brown needs exceptional fundraising.”

Although Huidekoper said substantially increasing the endowment is a goal in the long run, she and Frost are pleased with what the 2004 results mean for Brown.

“Most importantly, the University is on firmer financial footing than one year prior,” Frost said.

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Capital projects call for aggressive fundraising

BY ERIC BECK SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The University will spend more than $155 million over the next two years and nearly $335 million over the next five years on buildings and infrastructure improvements. The ambitious capital improvements and growing overall budget — increased 8.2 percent for next year — require aggressive fundraising, administrators said at a faculty meeting Tuesday.

The capital budget of $155 million for the next two years, set by the Corporation at its meeting last weekend, will allow the University to complete renovations to Pembroke Hall and the Sciences Library and the construction of the Life Sciences building, in addition to improvements to infrastructure and fire safety in buildings around campus, said Elizabeth Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration.

The University’s five-year capital plan estimates building construction and improvements totaling $333.6 million, Huidekoper said. The plan calls for construction of Sidney E. Frank Hall and the Nelson Fitness Center and ongoing infrastructure improvements and renovations to student life and academic spaces, she said.

Huidekoper told the faculty that the two-year budget includes architectural planning for Frank Hall and the fitness center, but ground will not be broken until full funding is secured — probably not within the next two years. But President Ruth Simmons said the timeline was still uncertain.

To fund the capital projects and overall increased spending, the Corporation approved a tuition increase of 4.9 percent — raising the cost of a Brown education above $40,000. But the tuition hike is only part of the

Fennell finalist for Ohio State opening Former Dean of the Faculty Mary Fennell has been selected as one of three finalists in Ohio State University’s search for a new executive dean of its Colleges of Arts and Sciences.

Fennell, a professor of sociology and community health, recently returned from a round of interviews on the Columbus campus in mid-February.

The executive dean oversees 41 departments and schools with over 1,000 faculty, according to the OSU Web site.

OSU opened the position to applicants last year following the former executive dean’s retirement on June 30. The search, headed by a search committee appointed by the OSU provost, will come to a close early this month.

After submitting their applications and undergoing prescreening interviews, the three finalists were chosen to visit the OSU campus and participate in open forum interviews with faculty, staff and students.

“Attendance at the open forums has been remarkably good,” said Melinda Nelson, assistant executive dean of OSU’s Colleges of Arts and Sciences and the search coordinator. The forums were designed to allow candidates 15 minutes to describe their

backgrounds and interest in the position, with an additional 45 minutes of question-andanswer from the audience.

Following the three visits, the search committee will make its recommendation to the provost, who will make the final decision. Two of the participants — including Fennell — have completed their visits, with the third candidate scheduled to complete his final visit on March 9. The provost will announce the decision shortly thereafter.

The other two finalists hail from the University of Washington and OSU itself, according to the OSU Web site.

Fennell served at Brown as dean of the faculty for four years, beginning in 2000. She resigned at the end of the 2003-2004 academic year and was replaced June 1 by Professor of Economics Rajiv Vohra P’07. As dean of the faculty, Fennell worked to prepare academic departments and other academic units for an increase in faculty size by reviewing each department’s instructional and research programs.

Fennell declined to comment.

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new income.

Huidekoper said an increase in the endowment is necessary to fund the University’s future plans, citing the need to raise $40 million in endowment this year.

Susan Howitt, associate vice president for budget and planning, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the University’s long-term plan calls for a $400 million increase in the endowment by 2009, including the $40 million to be raised this year.

Gifts totaling $65 million still need to be secured to fund the capital improvements in the five-year plan, Howitt wrote.

The endowment for Sidney Frank Scholars will pay out $2.25 million next year, according to the report.

The budget also assumes the Brown Annual Fund will grow by 10 percent next year, providing $27 million in unrestricted revenue, according to the URC report.

To cover the $155.2 million capital budget for the next two years, the University will borrow $105 million, Huidekoper said, adding that the balance will come from existing borrowed funds, reserved money, the operating budget and gifts totaling $25 million.

The loans will be paid off by 2011, meeting the Corporation’s requirement that the University’s budget be balanced in five to seven years, she said.

In other business, the faculty voted Tuesday to add a second staff member to the URC.

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Patrick Davidson, who, as the Associated Press described it, “manhandled” Wake guard Chris Paul, drawing a foul nearly immediately. He was pulled just two minutes later to an ovation by the Duke fans.

While Davidson may have little in common physically with Ingram, there seems to be little difference between the two. In fact, just look at the stat line. For Davidson: five minutes played, no shots, no points, no rebounds, one foul. For Ingram: four minutes played, no shots, no points, one rebound, five fouls.

The change in fan behavior has been possibly the worst result of this new play style. The Temple natives continued a legacy of poor Philadelphia sportsmanship, spitting on and taunting Bryant as he lay on the court in pain, while Duke gave a standing ovation to a guy who is 996 career points away from 1,000.

It seems clear to me that while what Chaney did was wrong, and he deserves whatever suspension is handed down by the NCAA, he is far from the only offender. It’s unfortunate that it took the premature end to a young man’s basketball career for this problem to come to light. I can only hope that this incident sparks a motion to return to the pure athletic, fundamental game that was first envisioned when those peach baskets were hung in that Springfield, Mass., gym back in 1895.

Charley Cummings ’06.

Kumariah will be the student representative to the University Resources Committee.

The Brown Undergraduate Community Council student positions were also announced. Emma Tai ’07.5 and Robert Klaber ’07 will be representatives for two years, and the one-year positions will be filled by Kate Brandt ’07 and Teresa Tanzi ’07. After the one-year term,

At 6’6” and 250 pounds, sports editor Ben Miller ’07 nonetheless maintains a reputation devoid of goon tactics in Brown intramural basketball.

Steinberg continued from page 1 center was renamed after a lead donation from Deborah Cogut and Craig Cogut ’75.

As the appointed director of the center, Steinberg said his goal is to promote collaboration between the humanities departments at Brown.

“We’re going to start by giving the Brown faculty the most opportunities that we can to use the center to promote their research and to make the center a place for collaboration and for dialogue for the humanities,” Steinberg said. “The humanities really do depend on conversation.”

Steinberg said all humanities departments would be involved with the center, although he also invites faculty from other departments and institutions to participate.

Brandt’s and Tanzi’s positions will become two-year posts as well, staggering the elections.

Dave Beckoff ’08 was elected the newest voting member of UCS in internal elections, replacing Natalie Schmid ’06, the former chair of the Campus Life Committee, who resigned for personal reasons.

Ben Creo ’07, formerly the appointments chair, was elected to Schmid’s position as Campus Life chair. His nowvacant position has not yet been filled due to a question concerning the ability of a BUCC member to serve on the UCS executive board.

“We’re also to hoping to start conversation with other institutions like the Watson Institute and Pembroke Center,” Steinberg said.

The center would also host seminars and social events, Steinberg said.

This will be Steinberg’s first teaching stint at Brown.

Along with his duties as director of the new center, Steinberg will also be a professor of history and music, although he does not yet know what he will teach this fall.

Steinberg said the strength of the humanities departments at Brown, as well as the Plan for Academic Enrichment, made it an easy choice for him to accept the job.

“I (thought the job) was totally irresistible,” Steinberg said. “I was thrilled when they asked me to do it. I think it’s been the most exciting job in the country for a couple of years, and I think Brown is a wonderful place.”

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e-TOKE continued from page 3 Van Sickle, acting dean of students at San Diego State University. The program’s counterpart is e-CHUG.com, which surveys students about their alcohol use. E-CHUG is currently used by 117 colleges around the country and has proved successful in making students aware of the amount of alcohol they consume, Walters said.

The e-TOKE site is designed to “give students very specific feedback that they can use to decide if they should cut down (their use),” Walters said. The idea is that students who use marijuana will take the survey and more accurately assess their behavior, which will then influence them to seek help. At the end of the survey, students are provided with the contact information of a professional at their school with whom they can talk if they are concerned

about their use.

The program also aims to make students aware that not everyone is using marijuana.

“The perceived culture norm and the actual cultural norm are different variables,” said Jane Jones, coordinator of alcohol and other drug education at Colgate University, which is one of six schools where e-TOKE is being tested.

The other institutions are San Diego State, Duke University, Texas A&M University, the University of Nebraska and the University of San Diego.

If the program proves successful, it will be marketed to colleges and universities around the country for $575 a year starting at the end of March.

Walters said e-TOKE is part of a growing effort to address the increasing presence of marijuana on college campuses. A study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in 2001 revealed that from 1993 to 2001, the percentage of college students

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tending style).”

While Danis is a more stylistically graceful goaltender, D’Alba has remarkable reaction speed and the uncanny ability to stop pucks even when he appears to be out of position. “Adam relies more on his raw talent. He has amazing reflexes and his skills have really shown through,” Haggett said.

“I don’t know if you’re ever going to replace a Hobey Baker finalist like Yann Danis,” Grillo said. “But right now, Adam is way ahead of where Yann was at the same age. Adam’s improvement is going to be a matter of how he develops physically and mentally over the next few years.”

While D’Alba’s coach did not want to speculate the goalie’s potential, his captain had some thoughts.

“I have no doubt that as D’Alba gets more experience, he will become one of the best goaltenders in the nation,” Haggett said.

In a document claiming “Israel = White Supremacy,” the groups wrote that “any Zionist — that is anyone equating Jewish identity and heritage with defense of the state and ruling class of Israel — is an accomplice of white supremacy and empire.” The document also said the groups would “not relent until the undemocratic institutions on this campus are shaken; we will not stop until our tuition is no longer used to support injustice here and overseas in Palestine.”

ARA’s demands were forwarded to the ACCRI, which is made up of three students, three elected faculty members and three alums. The ACCRI subsequently submitted its report to Simmons.

Although the ACCRI as a body had no official comment, Zachary Teutsch ’05, a student member of the ACCRI, said he personally thinks Simmons made the correct decision in supporting the ACCRI’s recommendation.

“The proposal for divesture

Skiing continued from page 12 With O’Hear’s and Swaffield’s outstanding performances this season, they stand a good chance to make the U.S. National world cup team, Leblanc said.

The team also features Elgort, Janet Marly-Mauzy ’07, Jamie Johnson ’06, Mallory Taub ’08 and Meaghan Casey ’08, who will ski as an alternate.

“Sophie Elgort and Janet Marley-Mauzy are both pretty important, because they have (each) been our third finisher pretty consistently,” Swaffield said.

“I want to keep skiing how I have been and keep putting in some good results for the team,” Elgort said.

The Bears will leave on Monday for McCall, Idaho.

Competition will begin on March 9 and continue through March 12.

who use marijuana went up from 23 percent to 30 percent.

While studies show increasing marijuana use among college students, some colleges might not want to subscribe to e-TOKE because it could serve as bad public relations if it appears they are advertising a marijuana problem on their campus, Walters said.

Brown has not considered the possibility of subscribing to e-TOKE if it is marketed, said Frances Mantak, director of health education. The University has a program similar to e-CHUG called MyStudentBody.com, which gives students the opportunity to examine their personal behaviors and beliefs regarding alcohol, STDs and tobacco. MyStudentBody.com has been a helpful resource for Brown students, but it has been a challenge to get people to use it, Mantak said.

Though Brown has not subscribed to e-TOKE, anyone can go to the Web site and take a survey at www.eTOKE.com.

was imprecise and included the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies that do business in the world,” Teutsch said. “Most of those companies are not particularly or directly culpable for any of the problems that exist today. They were asking for the University to divest from hundreds of companies, almost every major company you could think of.”

Companies targeted by ARA included were Microsoft, AT&T, Morgan Stanley, General Electric, Time Warner and Royal Crown Cola. ARA also targeted military contractors such as Textron, Raytheon and Caterpillar.

Still, Teutsch applauded ARA’s efforts to push the University to be more socially responsible.

“I understand their deep passion and sense of moral purpose. I just disagree on this specific issue and hope that as they spend more time looking into the issues more deeply, they can understand the specific impacts of divestment as a tool,” Teutsch said. “In some cases, divesture is absolutely the correct and only moral response. This didn’t appear to be one of them.”

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Unlocking Grad Center Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene and Dean for Campus Life Margaret Klawunn announced at Wednesday’s UCS meeting that the Office of Student Life is considering turning 285 beds in Grad Center into optional coed housing. They are soliciting student input, they said, before making a final decision.

Under their proposal, only suites with bathrooms that are lockable from the interior can be considered for coed housing.

ResCouncil has recommended making all of Grad Center coed for two years running, but without success. The issue preventing Student Life from making all Grad Center suites optionally coed, they say, is one of privacy.

For members of the administration who haven’t spent much time recently in dorms on campus, we have some details we’d like to share. The exterior doors of multi-toilet restrooms, found in dorms such as Andrews, Keeney and New Dorm, have been duly equipped with the all-important locks … which have then been duct-taped to allow open access. The setup is very convenient for taking showers — fumbling for a key with a towel on is just so awkward — and for answering nature’s call when visiting a friend in a different dorm. More importantly, the fact that all 600 students living in Keeney — male and female — can access any bathroom in the building hasn’t proved to be a problem.

The lesson here is that students create situations they are comfortable with. In dorms across campus, many bathrooms have become coed by default without complaint, while elsewhere students live on same-sex hallways. Ultimately, sharing a suite of singles with between three and five students of their own choosing will afford students far more privacy — regardless of the gender make-up of the suite — than is available in many of the other dorms. With coed housing as limited as it currently is, especially for rising sophomores, it is not uncommon for coed groups of friends to split along gender lines and make up the difference with students they are not as close with. Single-sex suites are no guarantee of a comfortable bathroom situation.

If the whole issue of coed housing really hinges on locking bathroom doors, what is stopping the University from installing proper locks in Grad Center? If money is the issue, why don’t we just switch the Grad Center locks with the ones in Keeney bathrooms, since those aren’t being used anyway?

But this is just our two cents. We encourage the rest of you to share your opinions with the Office of Student Life at OSL@brown.edu.

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LETTERS Dartmouth student weighs in on the anti-Brown To the Editor: I read with interest Neale Mahoney’s screed, “Dismissing the Anti-Brown,” (Feb. 24). Mahoney trundles off to Princeton University and finds his “grand expectations” stymied. Regrettably, he cannot discern the caricatured student he imagines — an effete fancy boy prancing around among “Beamers and Mercedes, cuff links and caviar,” preparing to join up with those wicked I-bankers and likeminded conservatives.

Well. I suppose I don’t like Princetonians any more than Neale Mahoney does. But if I went gamboling off in search of a stereotype, looked around intently, and could not find it, I would conclude that such a stereotype is probably off the mark.

This is not the tack that Mr. Mahoney takes.

“Princeton students are lame,” he writes. “Not lame for their identity, but lame because they shy

away from it.” Brunonians, on the other hand, “live their politics” (a little to the left of Chairman Mao, I’d wager). They have a “funky edge.”

“Princeton is no anti-Brown,” he concludes. “We’re different, not only for our political standing but also for the conviction and commitment we bring.

So what is the anti-Brown? Is it Harvard, Yale, or maybe Dartmouth?”

Ah, yes, old Dartmouth College. At present, I’m spending my last year up here on the Hanover Plain, and I can assure Neale Mahoney that Dartmouth is, in fact, the Anti-Brown. Dartmouth students are not shrill, pretentious, doctrinaire or insufferable. Most of all, they do not just plain suck.

Joseph Rago Hanover, N. H. Feb. 25

Brown’s quality of life has been improving To the Editor: Major construction plans and faculty hirings get the headlines, but it seems Adam Nelson hasn’t been paying much attention to the changes that don’t make The Herald (“Little improvements mean a lot,” Mar. 3). In the last five years, particularly since Ruth Simmon’s arrival, Brown has made a concerted, conscious effort to improve the superficial quality of college life.

The creation of satellite fitness centers, increased security officers at night and open access to wireless networks are all recent and

appreciated changes. Furthermore, anyone who experienced the Ratty, V-Dub and Pembroke dorms during the turn of the millennium will tell you how lucky we are today. Of course, not every desire can be instantly gratified (I think we’re all holding our breath for 2-ply), but in a period of ambitious expansion and growing financial aid, Brown’s creature comforts have distinctly improved.

Xander Boutelle ‘05 Feb. 25

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2005 · PAGE 11

Not-art is the new Art GUEST COLUMN BY STEFAN TALMAN

I want you to consider Brown’s new Life Sciences building art. Only at night.

Stand on Thayer or Meeting Street after dark and look up.

The cab drivers in New York, I am told, were most angry about Jean-Claude and Christo’s “The Gates” project in Central Park.

Why? They were angry that $20 million was used for such a superfluous exercise in aesthetics. That Jean-Claude and Christo financed the project themselves didn’t matter. Unlike the perhaps equally pointless (or not?) works safely isolated from the masses — in the Met, Whitney, and as if tucked away in maximum-security prison, the Dia-Beacon — “The Gates” punished park users in saffron orange.

Was it art? No. After the New York Times proudly called “The Gates” the most important public art project of the 21st century, the perspective shifted from viewing “The Gates” as art to viewing them as spectacle. The last New York Times review I read at first dismissed “The Gates” as any kind of aesthetic project — large, awkwardly proportioned rectangles? Saffron orange? Police barricades? Instead, it quickly lapsed into a commentary on the quiet and excited hubbub of New Yorkers and tourists walking through the park, feeling themselves part of something “larger than them.” Nice. The country fair had a similar effect when I was a child. Against lateAugust dusk, the orange and red churning gleam of “the Zipper,” cotton candy flavored red and blue, and cute yellow duckies that you could pick up and pet. So soft!

Not. Art. Does it matter? No. It brought New Yorkers together into some semblance of a community — a feat rarely seen and commendable. It brought more tourists to New York, bringing the city badly needed tax revenue — perhaps Bloomberg can now afford social services.

Does it open a super-secret, back-door loophole into the world of art? Yes. Not-art is the new Art. Here, buried in the middle of my opinion, is the point: I want you to consider Brown’s new Life Sciences building art. Only at night. Stand on

Thayer or Meeting Street after dark and look up. A massive grid of dark steel girders climbs into the sky, recollecting Sol LeWitt’s white structural sculptures — the steel cuts a grid, ordering Providence’s blue dusk like Anges Martin’s rigid paintings.

But these references are partially obscured.

White, translucent plastic covers the building’s front two-thirds. Inside, bare, hanging light bulbs glare through the night. The effect is sublime: The structure emits a subtle white glow through the entire night. Such an exercise, on this scale, recollects Jean-Claude and Christo’s draping of the Reichstag with a similar material. Yet their material was left largely to sway in the wind, as if a giant curtain had closed on Germany’s past, consciously reminding German tourists of this fact. We might read the Reichstag project as Germans’ collective venture into the future — closing a literal curtain on Act One of their history. Dismantling the project, opening the curtain, they entered Act Two. The Life Sciences Project, plastic tightly gripping its steel structure, seeks not to draw a curtain on the past, but openly protect the future. It acknowledges both its strengths — the powerful steel beams — and its weaknesses — its exposure to the chilly winds of Ivy elitism. Scaffolding, irregularly climbing the Project’s sides, quietly echoes its inner structure. Irregular, fragile and ephemeral, the scaffolding works not to emulate but to express the Project’s weaknesses within the grander scale of human history. The Project places its emotions on the outside.

Jean Claude and Christo’s Reichstag Project didn’t glow. The Life Sciences Project, glowing through the night — expensive, but unlike The Gates, holding an innate greater purpose (Science! Progress!) subtly illuminates the Providence skyline as a beacon of the future.

Stefan Talman ’05: clever, witty, pretentious.

JOSHUA LERNER

Why can’t we be friends?

It was an early Saturday morning last October when I found myself leaving Philadelphia by train, trapped next to a group of Brown and Penn students. As we made our way to the Philly suburb where we’d soon be canvassing door-to-door, I thought to myself how we, students from two different schools, were united for the day: We were there together to help Sen. John Kerry get elected.

But soon conversations between students of different schools took the form of mini-competitions, and my prideful feelings of unity evaporated. The Penn students chided us for taking all of our classes pass-fail and for having it easy; the Brown kids defended themselves by alluding to Penn as a place for no-fun workaholics.

Overhearing the petty contest, a classmate said to me: “I don’t get this school rivalry thing. As students, as young people, we have so much more in common than we do differences. There’s so much more that binds us together than that divides us. Why the hostility?”

Looking back on nearly two years of college life, my classmate’s words still maintain their relevance. School rivalries are immature, misinformed and, worst of all, grounded in stereotypes and generalities. By engaging in the type of empty rhetoric I heard on the train that morning, we take what we don’t know about another place and, instead of trying to

understand it or relate to it, degrade it as much as possible. Or we take the best qualities of our own environment and exaggerate them in an attempt to characterize our whole school population. Both exercises begin as competition and thrive on misunderstanding and ignorance.

But college is where we go to combat ignorance, isn’t it? Here, the goal isn’t just to learn, it’s to learn about new people, places and ideas and accept these onceforeign subjects with an open mind. As

end. His goal: to compare Brown students with Princeton students, and figure out which group is better. His results?

Princeton students are “lame,” while Brown students stand out in their “conviction and commitment” to political and ideological causes.

Now, I don’t think that the author actually believes that all Princeton students are lame, but it seems that he does think that most are. He also believes that most are conservative. And preppy. And filthy rich. By the same token, in comparison,

We might be quick to shake our heads at a racial joke rooted in stereotypes, but we are likely to applaud a mode of thinking that generalizes students at other colleges in the same misinformed way. supposedly mature college students, we might be quick to shake our heads at a racial joke rooted in stereotypes, but we are likely to applaud a mode of thinking that generalizes students at other colleges in the same misinformed way.

Take Neale Mahoney’s “Dismissing the anti-Brown” (Feb. 24). In this opinions column, Mahoney gives us his strange pseudo-ethnography, which he conducted while visiting Princeton for a week-

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Mahoney explains that most Brown students are free-spirited, liberal and slightly poorer. Which makes us, what, cooler?

What’s so dangerous here is not just that Mahoney dismisses an entire group of students as lame. It’s that he uses the same tactic, reversed, to paint a brighter picture of the students on this campus than the one they actually deserve. By declaring that all Brown students show

“conviction and commitment” to humanitarian causes, citing the charity tables in the post office as an example, Mahoney attempts to simplify our student body as near-perfect, as though we have achieved the pinnacle of political activism. The truth is that a large percentage of students here do not engage in any activism or service in the community, and by saying they do, Mahoney fails to look inward at our student body and critique it honestly. If we keep turning away from our shortcomings, we can never reflect on those shortcomings to ultimately make change for the better.

My point here is not just that stereotypes are bad. Most of us agree that they are. But when we talk about college rivalries, we continue to condone language that employs these generalities. The truth is that college students may have more in common than people in any other age cohort. Whether attending a community college or a so-called upper-tier school, whether in the Midwest or in New England, students can find unity in their dedication, to some extent, to the pursuit of learning and self-growth, in their knowledge that they will play a role in the future successes or failures of this world.

That goes for any college student, no matter what the school.

Joshua Lerner ’07 is a Princeton student in disguise.

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SPORTS THURSDAY MARCH 3, 2005 · PAGE 12

D’Alba ’08 admirably filling skates of Danis ’04 in goal

Judy He / Herald

With a save percentage of .932 and 2.05 goals against average, Adam D’Alba ’08 is continuing the legacy of stellar Brown goaltending left by Yann Danis ’04.

BY JAMES FELDMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Men’s hockey Head Coach Roger Grillo knew he had big skates to fill last spring following the graduation of Yann Danis ’04, Brown’s All-American goaltender and Hobey Baker Award finalist. If you had asked Grillo who would replace Danis as the starting goaltender, it is unlikely that his answer would have been Adam D’Alba ’08.

Yet so far this season, it has been the first-year from Glencoe, Ill. who has carried the Bears at times. D’Alba has amassed an impressive 12-8-2 record in 22 appearances in net for the Bears.

Heading into this weekend’s playoff series against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, D’Alba sports a save percentage of .932, third-best in the country, and is ranked 12th in the nation with a 2.05 goals against average.

D’Alba’s dominance in net has come as a complete surprise, considering that he was the third-string goaltender behind Scott Rowan ’05 and Kevin Kliman ’06 at the start of the season. It didn’t take long for D’Alba to crack the ECACHL STANDINGS Men’s ICE HOCKEY Team ECACHL 1. Cornell 18-2-2 2. Harvard 15-5-2 3. Colgate 14-5-3 4. Vermont 13-6-3 5. Dartmouth 14-8-0 6. Brown 9-11-2 7. St. Lawrence 9-12-1 8. Union 8-13-1 9. Clarkson 7-13-2 10. Princeton 6-14-2 10. RPI 6-15-1 12. Yale 3-18-1

Pts. 38 32 31 29 28 20 19 17 16 14 13 7

Overall 22-4-3 18-8-3 20-9-3 17-11-4 17-10-3 14-12-3 14-16-2 12-18-2 11-18-3 8-18-3 14-18-2 4-23-2

Women’s ICE HOCKEY Team ECACHL 1. Harvard 17-1-2 2. Dartmouth 16-4-0 3. St. Lawrence 14-3-3 4. Yale 12-7-1 5. Princeton 10-7-3 5. Brown 11-8-1 7. Colgate 9-7-4 8. Clarkson 7-12-1 9. Cornell 3-16-1 10. Vermont 3-17-0 11. Union 0-20-0

Pts. 36 32 31 25 23 23 22 15 7 6 0

Overall 20-6-3 23-5-0 24-4-4 14-14-1 16-8-5 14-13-2 14-13-4 12-14-6 3-21-3 5-24-3 5-25-1

SPORTS SCOREBOARD THURSDAY, MARCH 3 AWARDS Women’s ICE HOCKEY: O’Hara Shipe ’08, ECACHL Goaltender of the Week Honors (2/28)

starting lineup, though, and he made the most of his collegiate debut, stopping 44 shots in a 2-1 win over then-No. 7 University of Minnesota-Duluth.

D’Alba turned heads around the league by remaining unbeaten in his first seven starts at 6-0-1.

“We knew Adam would make an impact, but we didn’t think it would be right away,” said Grillo. “He’d played well at the level he was at before Brown (Junior A), but it is a jump up to play college hockey.”

D’Alba, however, had his eye on the starting job all along. “I came in with a mindset where I expected to be the starter. I didn’t want to come in and be a backup goalie,” he said.

His stellar goaltending has won him various honors this season. He has been named the ECACHL’s Goaltender of the Week three times, Rookie of the Week twice, and in late January, he received U.S. College Hockey Online’s Defensive Player of the Week award.

“D’Alba’s been a great addition to our team. He has played with confidence since his very first game, and that really carries through to the rest of the team,” said captain Les Haggett ’05.

D’Alba knew there would be added pressure in the shadow of a hockey great like Danis. “Yann did extraordinary things for the program,” he said.

D’Alba even sites Danis, who now plays for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL, as one of the reasons he chose to come to Brown. “The Brown hockey program has produced a lot of great goalies like Yann, and I hope that I can bring that kind of success, too,” D’Alba said.

While D’Alba has put up numbers as a freshman similar to those of Danis during his record-setting senior year, the two goalies play with distinctly different styles.

“Yann was a more polished goaltender,” Haggett said. “He was all about cutting down (the shooter’s) angles and he had perfected the butterfly (goalsee M. HOCKEY, page 9

Following victory at Regionals, skiing looks for top three finish at Nationals

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After a fourth-place finish in giant slalom at Regionals this weekend, Hilary Swaffield ’06 will travel to the slopes of McCall, Idaho for Nationals with six other Brown skiiers.

BY JUSTIN AMOAH STAFF WRITER

The women’s skiing team has qualified for the USCSA National Championships after finishing in first place in the giant slalom last weekend at the USCSA Eastern Regional Championships. With their time of 6:25.89, the Bears wound up on top for the third straight week.

Even though three Brown skiers fell, the Bears still managed to come in fifth in the slalom with a team time of 5:09.99. Brown finished the weekend third overall, behind MacConnell Division rivals University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Boston College.

After leading the Bears to the top spot in the MacConnell Division in the regular season and finishing the season last week with her first win of the season in the slalom, Kelly O’Hear ’07 led the Bears with a second-place finish in the giant slalom.

Her combined two-run time of 1:25.29 left her just 0.62 seconds out of first.

“She skied really well, was solid and was for sure the leader of the team,” said cocaptain Hilary Swaffield ’06.

Swaffield and Sophie Elgort ’08 showed that the Bears continue to be a threat in the giant slalom by finishing fourth and 12th, respectively.

“I was pretty consistent this weekend,

but it was really stressful on Saturday because three of our top five girls fell, so I knew I had to finish the run pretty fast,” Elgort said.

Still feeling the effects of a knee injury she suffered last year, Elgort was the Bears’ most consistent competitor over the weekend, also finishing 10th in the slalom.

“She managed to grit her teeth and stick a couple super-solid runs in for us,” said Head Coach Michael Leblanc.

“She’s doing amazing, considering she’s in pain half the time,” Swaffield added.

At Nationals, the skiers will have to acclimatize quickly to both Idaho, where they will race at an altitude of 7,000 feet, and the tough competition.

“The Western kids are going to have a big advantage in that aspect,” Leblanc said.

The Bears will face off against 16 other schools, including Sierra Nevada College, which features three ex-World Cup skiers.

“The top-five times coming from our region are some of the most competitive teams that are going to be there, and Sierra Nevada is the only team we need to be concerned about,” Swaffield said.

Despite the hefty competition, Swaffield said it is very likely the Bears will finish in the top three.

Leblanc agreed. “There is absolutely a chance that we can do something at Nationals, but it’s going to take an extreme amount of focus,” he said.

Also up for grabs will be a spot on the U.S. National World Cup team, Leblanc said. The international competitors from Sierra Nevada will not be able to qualify for the spot, giving Swaffield and O’Hear, the team’s top skiers, extra incentive.

Swaffield, whose sister, Whitney, qualified for the U.S. World Cup team last year while competing for Plymouth State University, said she thinks she and O’Hear have a good chance at Nationals.

“Considering that Kelly and I have been placing in the top five pretty consistently, her in both events and me especially in the giant slalom, I think that we both have a good chance of making top five at Nationals,” Swaffield said. see SKIING, page 9

The goon takes over in college hoops Anyone who has ever played an organized game of basketball can spot them the instant they step on the court. Their moves are as acrobatic as a gorilla’s, and their dribbling skills are as good as Rob BEN MILLER Schneider’s next THE CHAMPAGNE movie. In a game OF COLUMNS filled with grace and athleticism, these players are like the goofy kid with two left feet at the high school dance. No, I’m not talking about Shawn Bradley. The players I’m describing are the “goons,” or “enforcers.”

The enforcer is a stock character in the world of sports archetypes. Generally found in hockey rinks, he (or she) is best described as an intimidator whose lack of athletic skill and grace is made up for with sheer nastiness and physicality. They beat and check, push and foul, leaving a trail of bruises and wounds in their wake.

Unfortunately for basketball, the enforcers are trading their skates for high tops and invading the hardwood. This dark secret came to light last week when John Chaney, the Hall of Fame coach of Temple University, inserted Nehemiah Ingram into a game against St. Joseph’s University.

Ingram promptly picked up more fouls than minutes played and was disqualified after just four minutes. But Ingram managed to do more to change the game of basketball in his four minutes on the court than anyone since Kermit Washington punched Rudy Tomjanovich in an NBA game back in 1977.

For those not familiar with the story, Ingram knocked St. Joe’s senior John Bryant to the ground. The collision resulted in a broken right arm for the forward, ending both his season and his career. After the game Chaney admitted that he put Ingram in the game with instructions to foul as a way of protesting what the Temple coach believed were illegal screens set by the Hawks. In that same press conference, he also formally labeled Ingram a “goon” and finally acknowledged what has been a disappointing trend in the college game.

Anyone who has watched men’s collegiate basketball over the past few years has been well aware of the seemingly endless parade of unathletic squads whose sole talent is playing rough and physical. While announcers heap praise on these teams as being “blue-collar,” it is time to recognize them for what they are: just plain dirty. A blue-collar play in basketball is leaping

across the court for a loose ball, shadowing a guard up and down the court, or fighting to keep position with a good, clean box-out and then leaping up into the air to corral the offensive board. Just because you can hack and hold someone does not make you hardnosed.

While there are many offenders of this sort in the college game, there are a few in particular that come to mind. The best example of thugs is not just a team, it’s an entire conference: the Big Ten. Made up of football powers such as Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio State, the conference fields many teams that play what is closer to football than the graceful game created

by James Naismith. The 11-team conference has gotten better in recent years due to a changing of the guard at a few schools (most notably Wisconsin), but it still has some games that could make a hockey player cringe.

Duke University is little better. The school that featured Matt Christensen — who was in school for longer than Van Wilder — has also displayed “goon tactics” as of late. In a Feb. 20 win over Wake Forest, Coach Mike Krzyzewski started guard see MILLER, page 7