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The Bush administration and its neoconservative advisers are pursuing a myopic agenda for regime change in the Middle East, despite the failure of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to establish INSIDE meaningful democA Herald interview racy thus far, with Hersh, page 4 according to New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh. In the 39th annual Meiklejohn Lecture, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersh tracked the chronology of events from Sept. 11 to Abu Ghraib, interjecting skeptical analysis of U.S. relations with Iran, Pakistan and neo-conservative ideology based on his 46 years of experience covering national security issues. Alexander Meiklejohn, member of the Class of 1893, a Brown professor of philosophy and Dean of the College, was a firm advocate of academic and press freedoms. Supreme Court Justice William Douglas gave the first Meiklejohn lecture in 1963. Other speakers have included former Attorney General Janet Reno and a mix of judges, lawyers and academics. Hersh’s reputation as an unrelenting investigative journalist, best known for exposing the My Lai massacre in 1969 and Abu Ghraib prison abuse in May 2004, made him a fitting selection for this year’s lecture because of Meiklejohn’s strong advocacy of the First Amendment. But Hersh did not speak on press freedom at length and never mentioned the First Amendment. Instead, he delivered a lengthy analysis of President George W.

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“Sy Hersh redeemed my belief, and that of so many others, that justice will prevail and triumph,” Radack said. “He gave legitimacy to what I shouted alone into the darkness for three years.” Radack also quoted a note Hersh had written her that read: “There may be no truth, but there will always be history.” Hersh’s own speech traced the “alternative history” he said he has been writing for the past three years. “I’m gonna tell you

President Ruth Simmons announced on March 1 a 5.5 percent overall increase in faculty salaries, reflecting a continuous effort within the Plan for Academic Enrichment to upgrade the faculty by attracting the most desirable new professors and keeping successful existing professors. When the University approved Simmons’ Plan for Academic Enrichment in 2002, one of its goals was for Brown to become more competitive with peers for the best incoming teachers and professors, said Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07. “It was pretty clear four or five years ago that the faculty salaries were behind our competition by a quite substantial amount. So there has been an attempt to catch up, so to speak,” he said. The recent attempts to increase staff salaries have been successful, as pay raises at Brown are now higher than the typical yearly increase at other universities, which is about 4 percent, Vohra said. Ultimately, Vohra characterizes Brown’s current situation as “not nearly as dismal as it was four or five years ago.” According to Vohra, of the 5.5 percent total salary increase, 3 percent is known as the merit pool, which is given to all departments to allocate based on production. Of the remaining 2.5 percent, 1.5 percent is given out for promotions

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh drew a full audience in Salomon 101 Tuesday as he spoke about his experiences investigating the Bush Administration and its operations in the Middle East. Bush’s foreign policy, disparaging the “beyond-belief bad” situation in Iraq and declaring “Iran on the target list — big time.” Jessleyn Radack ’92 introduced Hersh, whom she described as her “inspiration, mentor, kindred spirit and hero.” Hersh wrote about Radack, a former Department of Justice ethics lawyer, after she garnered media attention in 2003 for leaking emails to Newsweek implicating the department in ethics violations in the case of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.

Pembroke to be renovated for Humanities by 2008 BY KIM STICKELS STAFF WRITER

Seeking to foster interdisciplinary inquiry within the greater context of the humanities, the Cogut Humanities Center will take residence in a renovated Pembroke Hall sometime in 2008, according to Richard Spies, executivevice president for University development and senior advisor to the president. The University announced the planned renovation after the Corporation approved a lead donation of an undisclosed amount from Deborah Cogut and Craig Cogut ’75 at its February meeting. The renovation to Pembroke Hall, which will cost “in the neighborhood of $10 million,” Spies said, will feature a small addition to the north side of the building to accommodate an elevator, handicapped restrooms and a new entrance that will help to unify the buildings of the Pembroke campus. The remainder of the Coguts’ gift will endow the Center and allow it to fund seminars, visiting professors, faculty and student research. “It’s a great building that’s just tired now but matches up beautifully with the program (to host the new Center),”

Spies said. “It’s useful for seminars and informal gatherings and a great resource for the campus.” Dedicated in 1897 and built at a cost of $37,601.06, Pembroke Hall was originally the center of the Women’s College at Brown. Currently, it houses the Career Development Center and several classrooms. Spies said the new entrance would link the building to Smith-Buonanno and Alumnae Hall. Pembroke Hall predates the other Pembroke campus buildings — no rear entrance was necessary when it was first constructed. Renovating Pembroke was one of many recommendations in New York architect Frances Halsband’s “Strategic Framework for Physical Planning.” The advising architect to the University conducted a 15-month study to assess the status of University buildings. Approved in October 2003, the document also recommended that the University demolish Perkins Hall, T.F. Green Hall and the Young Orchard Apartments. The Brown Humanities Center, which was founded in 2003, sponsored “Situating the Humanities” lectures in

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EM & LO’S SEX EDUCATION FOR ADULTS 8 p.m. (Carmichael Auditorium) — This no-holds-barred evening of skits, games and videos is sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Brown Democrats and Students for Choice.

UNITED BY CIVIL WAR 7 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) — Hear personal experiences about the civil wars in Lebanon, Columbia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. The student panel discussion is sponsored by BRIO.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005 · PAGE 3 It’s easy to be in the doldrums during early March. Classes are in full swing and midterms loom.Winter refuses to be subdued and the only major holiday offers little celebratory fun aside from drinking — a fortification against the cold but hardly out of the ordinary for many students. The dreariness of March makes it an ideal time to see and do something new. So this week, Focus braved arctic conditions, curt interview refusals and even the occasional ignominy of being mistaken for a prostitute in order to compile information on some Providence spots that you might not know much about, but probably should.

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CAV is probably the easiest place in Providence to spend $4,503.75 on lunch. That’s $3.75 for a cup of clam chowder — and $4,500 for an authentic antique Buddhist sculpture. A combination restaurant/antiques shop, CAV, located at 14 Imperial Place in the Jewelry District, boasts one of the most unique atmospheres of any restaurant in Providence. Started by owner Sylvia Moubayed in 1990, CAV feels as much like a museum or international art gallery as it does a restaurant. From the first step inside, customers are treated to a visual celebration of color, light and texture. Overhead hangs a series of chandeliers, the largest of which bears a tag reading: “Handmade, one hundred percent hand cut Austrian glass chandelier

— $3,300.” Over the edges of each table hangs a thick, polychromatic tablecloth enlivened by geometrical shapes. Around the corner, a row of drums doubles as a table, and stylized African figurines gaze out from corners and cases. The food, music and aesthetics are all part of Moubayed’s vision. In her informational handout, Moubayed describes CAV’s mission to showcase “the unique and the handmade to delight and restore you.” Moubayed herself is a world traveler, said manager Frank Warren. She has toured Africa and Asia in search of antiques to add to CAV’s offerings. Moubayed is currently vacationing in Thailand, but work and play are often connected in the antique business, and she is no

doubt also searching for antiques on her trip, Warren said. “Her goal is to make people’s experience here special, unique, spiritual,” he said. A large part of the CAV experience is authenticity. Other than the chandeliers, which the restaurant has specially made, all the antiques for sale are originals. This includes everything from the Siamese cat figurines nestled in a bed of coffee beans to the “very rare” imported Burmese Shan lion statue that dates to around the 16th century and was just sold for $2,300. Items like these have made CAV a hot spot for in-the-know antiques and art collectors. “We’ve had art dealers and museum specialists come in here and they’re surprised see CAV, page 7

Underwater oddity Nearly every Brown student has seen the signs — plain white rectangles marked with a red star and an arrow pointing toward the Russian Sub Museum. But surprisingly few students have ever taken the stroll across the Point Street Bridge, past the massive Narragansett Power building and alongside intimidating water storage cylinders to arrive at the elusive sub museum. Located at Collier Point Park, off Allens Avenue, the museum’s major attraction is Juliett 484, a 300-foot-long diesel-powered nuclear cruise missile and Cold War veteran that also “starred in”

the Harrison Ford film “K-19.” The museum is open yearround, and for those who’d rather not face the inclement weather, the sub museum’s Web site now includes a virtual tour of the Juliett 484. The spookiest time of year to visit the museum — and the time most students visit — is around Halloween, when the submarine is transformed into a haunted house. Vaughn Edelson ’07 visited the haunted submarine this past Halloween and said that although the decorations were cheesy, “the Russian sub haunted house is see SUB, page 8

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Round Again Records offers quality, not flash BY CAMDEN AVERY SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Mixed signal If you’re looking for something new to do that doesn’t involve braving the cold — or even moving, for that matter — tune in to WRIB-AM 1220. Tucked away amongst the shrubbery and abandoned railroad tracks that line the east bank of the Seekonk River, WRIB serves up an eclectic fare of Christian and Spanish-language programming. Over the years, WRIB has taken many different forms. According to the station’s Web site, WRIB broadcast its first show in 1946. Offices were originally located in the Narragansett Hotel in Providence, while the transmitter was stationed in East Providence on the Seekonk. Programming has adapted to

different audiences and at times has included everything from rock to country to the current mix of foreign language and religious programming. Daytime power at the station is 1,000 watts projected from a single 210-foot non-directional tower (by comparison, WBRU’s puts out about 20,000 watts). For a small operation, WRIB’s coverage is surprisingly good, and the station continues to adapt and persevere despite pressure from bigger chains. The current programming lineup may not be in line with most Brown students’ interests, but it is ideal for those who want to brush up on their Spanish skills and stick it to Clear Channel at the same time.

Round Again Records has hunkered in the same, whitewashed brick basement at 278 Wickenden St. for 25 years. Over time, it has carved its identity into the minds of local music fans as a store devoted to excellent quality and selection. Thanks to this reputation, Round Again remains anchored on Wickenden even as other record stores have faded in and out. Though the taste of Round Again’s customers has changed over the years — ’70s soul is popular again, for example, said owner Steve Kotler, whereas when the store first opened, those records couldn’t be given away — it has continued to be a mainstay for East Side music lovers. Started without esoteric ambitions, Round Again was nothing more than a source of income for Kotler, also the store’s sole employee, after he lost his job as manager of The Improv, a renowned comedy club in New York City. “I needed something to make some money, pay the rent,” he said. “But it turns out, I really like it.” Although he fell into the business casually, Kotler is passionately devoted to the

record store, and it shows in the quality of his records. “I turn down 20 (records) for every one I buy,” he says. “Condition is everything.” The record cleaner — an oversized wooden box with a turning mechanism and built-in brush — that occupies a corner of Kotler’s desk is a testament to his methodical care for records and his demand for quality. More often than not, a visitor to Round Again will encounter Kotler cleaning a new acquisition. He makes a point of repeating the procedure on every record that comes into the store before putting it up for sale. Since the store’s establishment, Kotler has built a wide-ranging collection of music, composed mainly of his impressive selection of seven- and 12-inch records. Though a slim portion of Kotler’s inventory is CDs and stereo equipment, he said most of his sales are records. He added that although many of his customers are college and high school students, most of his records sell to an older demographic, and that the store “has a much older see RECORDS, page 7

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Hersh continued from page 1 what’s on my mind,” he began. Often criticized for a liberal bias, Hersh made no attempt to disguise his sentiments about the Bush administration or the neoconservatives whose “distinct, definable … palpable” ideology he said has driven Bush’s foreign policy. “The problem is that George Bush is convinced he’s doing the right thing,” Hersh said. “It doesn’t matter how many body bags come back. At some level he thinks he’ll be vindicated.” Hersh continued a scattered and disparaging summary of the military’s interrogation tactics in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay and the administration’s resistance to media pressure. “It doesn’t matter what we write, we can’t shape (Bush),” Hersh said. “If you think it’s a little terrifying, it is. Other (presidents) felt the heat, this guy doesn’t.” The current government’s attempts to erase its actions with words, Hersh said, presents a further challenge to reporters who “have to listen to words, write words.” Hersh’s reputation for breaking stories of government secrecy — which has earned him five George Polk Awards and a Pulitzer Prize — has largely been built on his cultivation of anonymous government sources. Hersh referred frequently to his trademark insider sources and wondered aloud about how to describe anonymous sources “without burning them.” Hersh implied that the current Congress does not provide him with good sources. “You can’t get them to play, they don’t want to risk it,” he said. “They bring new levels of meaning to the word ‘supine,’ ” he added. Reiterating ideas from his recent work for the New Yorker, Hersh said the administration is justifying the military’s abusive treatment of prisoners such as that in Abu Ghraib under the “constitutional guise” that the commander-in-chief can do whatever necessary to make conditions safer for troops on the battlefield. He questioned the success of the Iraqi elections nearly six weeks ago. “Where is the democracy in this? Why don’t we have a prime minister? Who

do you think is interfering with the process?” Hersh said, adding that the administration would like current Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to lead Iraq. Though he said the neoconservative commitment to democratic change is sincere, Hersh doubted that Bush would actually prefer the results of regime change in the Middle East, specifically in Lebanon, Syria or Pakistan. “Has (Bush) thought about anything beyond just a moment?” Hersh said. “Democracy doesn’t mean an end to terror, but in the neocon mantra it does.” Mentioning undemocratic or dubious leadership in Tunisia and Kyrgyzstan, Hersh criticized the selectivity of the Bush agenda for regime change. The events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the arrest of John Walker Lindh gave the administration a “ticket to ride, because we were collectively angry,” Hersh said. “We could have worked with the Taliban,” Hersh said, emphasizing the Islamist regime’s internal divisions. While most Americans believed the war on terror was “over” by 2002, Hersh said he has documents — which he would have turned into a book, had Bush lost the 2004 election — indicating the Bush administration had already decided to go to war in Iraq. “If you thought this was sheer madness and said as much, you … didn’t get your year-end bonus, people weren’t talking to you,” Hersh said, describing the pressure in Washington at the time for career intelligence officials to support action in Iraq. “You gotta drink the Kool-Aid.” Hersh’s current outlook for Iraq was particularly negative. “We’re at a point where we’re almost dealing with willful malfeasance,” Hersh said. “If there’s salvation it won’t be anything that any of us do, it’ll be the boots on the ground.” He suggested the situation might deteriorate into civil war and said the description of those opposing U.S. forces as “rebels” or “insurgents” is misleading. “We use the word rebels, insinuating we won the war,” Hersh said. “But we’re fighting a war against people we went to war against (in the first place) — it just turned out they didn’t fight the war in the same time scale we did.”

The abuse tactics Hersh wrote about in May 2004 were not dissimilar from those “senior senators” told Hersh were being used in Guantanamo Bay, he said. “Here’s what the rules were: Do whatever you goddamn please — don’t kill ’em, but do whatever you want,” Hersh said. Looking ahead, Hersh said the Bush administration is investigating bombing targets in Iran and ignoring European requests for multilateral diplomatic efforts. Much of Hersh’s speech echoed his writing in the New Yorker, particularly his thoughts on Iran. “None of the information was new,” Benjamin Bright-Fishbein ’07 said. “I’ve read about most of it in the New Yorker before. But the chronology he laid out was what I found fascinating.” “I love chronology as a journalist,” Hersh said, citing the

military’s awareness of Abu Ghraib abuses months before he was leaked an internal report on the incidents, written by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba. Toward the end of his speech, Hersh contrasted his experience tracking down soldiers involved in the My Lai killings in Vietnam with the difficulty of reaching those from Abu Ghraib. Derek Seidman GS said he found Hersh’s “depth and stream-of-consciousness” style compelling. “Smart, vocal liberals are few and far between these days,” said Madelyn Morris ’08. During the lecture and question-andanswer session, however, there were no conservative voices to be heard. None of the questions challenged Hersh’s pointed statements about neoconservative ideology or his controversial claims about Iran — which the administration has at least par-

tially denied. The only heated exchanges occurred when Hersh urged students to skip prefacing comments and get to their questions more speedily. “Let’s go, let’s go,” Hersh said. “I want to get out of here by 9.” Despite his preference for brevity and sobering analysis — characteristic of a longtime newspaper reporter — Hersh said Americans should be able to expect the same honesty and distaste for lying from their government that they do from their families. “It’s a bad bargain,” he said. “We demand (honesty) in our own lives, but don’t even begin to expect it from our leaders.” As his speech neared its end, Hersh reflected on his own journalistic career for the first time. “I think if there’s a general principle in my work, it’s holding people to the highest standard possible,” he said.

going to rationalize that? Does that mean if we have an election in Iraq tomorrow it’s going to be a Shi’ite republic? (laughs) These guys are off the wall. Getting back to your question about bias. It’s really simple, honestly. I’ll tell you what my bias is. It’s that I’m really against this war. And then the next question is: How hard is it to be against this war in Iraq? Come on, how hard is it? Is anybody in his right mind — I haven’t met many people who aren’t against it, including people who are fighting in high levels.

... It’s funny that the story came up before 9/11 … because a lot of people in 9/11, a lot of people knew me because of that story, a lot of officers I would call up knew about that story, so you never know. The McCaffrey story was an amazing story, longest (published) in the New Yorker since “Hiroshima” by John Hershey. 25,000 words, and it didn’t get the bounce. And that bothered me because I wrote about killing 400 Iraqis.

QUESTIONS FOR SEYMOUR HERSH The Herald sat down with Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh before his speech Tuesday night. Herald: Did Abu Ghraib redeem you as a journalist? Are people listening to you more now? Hersh: I can’t change people’s perception, but I certainly got more attention. Who wouldn’t? It’s a hell of a story, and because of the irony of having done (coverage of the 1969 Vietnam War massacre) My Lai, it was an obvious sort of bookend. … … But if you look at the stuff I did in the New Yorker in the last 10 years, you’ll see I was going after Bush pretty hard, Clinton too, on the bombing in Baghdad and the allegations that Saddam tried to kill Bush and troubles inside the U.N., UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) — you’ve probably read these stories. I think two months before 9/11, I wrote a long, complicated story about the corruption of Mobil Oil in Russia. That was before Enron. At that time no one could believe a company could be that bad, and then Enron came along and that validated it, but we were already in 9/11. So I can understand people seeing (a liberal bias), but there’ve been eight million profiles done on me, and the price of profile writing is the same. I have trouble with the same things and the same old stories always show up. Let’s see — I scream at people, I intimidate people, and I just say OK, I did it that way.

Herald: Which of your stories did not receive the attention you feel they deserved? Hersh: The McCaffrey story I loved. (On March 2, 1991, according to Hersh’s May 2000 New Yorker story, Maj. Gen. Barry McCaffrey ordered his 24th infantry division to attack a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard division after a general cease-fire had been called in the Gulf War. McCaffrey claimed the Iraqis had attacked first.) But I love all my children, I love them all. It was a great story, but it didn’t get a lot of attention. A lot of army officers didn’t like what he did. He attacked a retreating army. He’s a very bright guy, by the way, and engaging, and very competent, but he did the wrong thing, and a lot of army officers knew it. …

Herald: Are there any stories or books you regret writing, either because of their content or the damage they did to your reputation? Hersh: No. Everybody’s written crappy stories. I regret none of the books, not even the Kennedy book (“The Dark Side of Camelot,” 1997). There were stories I wrote in the New York Times that were bad. During Watergate there were things I wrote that were wrong. There’s always stories you regret, always things you regret. But not since 9/11. Herald: What direction will your reporting take now? Hersh: There’s other issues. We still don’t know what happened in the (Iraqi) prisons, what happened with the people we captured there that disappeared. Those are the issues I’m interested in. — Mary-Catherine Lader

Herald: Most of your bestknown work has been about the activities of Republican administrations. Do you think Republican administrations are more inclined to secrecy and provide better material for investigative journalism? Hersh: It’s not about that. I thought Clinton was a disaster. It’s not about that. Herald: How will Lebanon change the Bush agenda? Hersh: Obviously, (Bush) sees a connection between what happened in Lebanon and his democracy, but I wonder. … You know, today there’s what, a half million people in Hezbollah. The Shi’ites march. How’s he

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Johnny Lin ’07 listened to Seymour Hersh answer questions from Meiklejohn advisors Tuesday afternoon, before giving the 39th annual Meiklejohn Lecture in Salomon 101.

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Bush calls Middle East democracy terror’s antidote BY JIM VANDEHEI THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — President Bush said Tuesday a fledgling democratic movement that he sees spreading through the Middle East is essential to defeating terrorism, and warned Syria and Iran against thwarting the “momentum of freedom” and fomenting instability in the region. “The chances of democratic progress in the broader Middle East have seemed frozen in place for decades,” Bush said at the National Defense University at Fort McNair. “Yet, at last, clearly and suddenly, the thaw has begun.” Following up on his inaugural pledge to “end tyranny around the world,” Bush demanded that Syria immediately withdraw its troops from Lebanon, called on both Syria and Iran to stop terrorist activities in the region, and directly pressed for open presidential elections in Egypt. Speaking at a war college where Dwight Eisenhower and Colin Powell studied, Bush, for the first time, claimed some measure of credit for the democratic changes taking place in the Middle East and sought to explain how these developments will make the United States safer from terrorists. In the past months, Iraq and the Palestinians held democratic elections, Egypt and Saudi Arabia signaled their intentions to open up their voting processes — although in a very limited fashion — and the Lebanese people took to the streets and forced the resignation of the Syrian-controlled government. Events, some largely outside Bush’s control, are setting the tempo for democracy in the Middle East as much as the president’s policies. Lebanon, a nation rarely mentioned by Bush until the popular uprising, dominated Tuesday’s speech, while Iraq, the central focus of U.S. foreign policy, received only passing mention at the end of the address. “All the world is witnessing your great movement of conscience,” Bush told the people of Lebanon. “The American people are on your side. Millions across the Earth are on your side.” Bush, who views the events as vindication of his policy, is hoping to build on recent developments by putting pressure on Syria and Iran to relent to international demands, and by pushing Cairo, Riyadh and others in the region toward democracy. “No matter how long it takes, no matter how difficult the task, we will fight the enemy, and lift the shadow of fear and lead free nations to victory,” he said. He called authoritarian rule the “last gasp of a discredited past.” The president sent a stronger message to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who recently announced plans to open up elections in his country to other parties even though his government will control who participates. Bush, putting Mubarak on the spot, delineated what he would consider acceptable conditions for elections in Egypt:

“freedom of assembly, multiple candidates, free access by those candidates to the media and the right to form political parties.” Bush condemned Syria and Iran for their ties to terrorists, and for the first time, he publicly accused Syria of harboring the group responsible for a suicide bombing last month in Israel. “America and other nations are also aware that the recent terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was conducted by a radical Palestinian group headquartered in Damascus,” he said. Aides said the president considered this an important speech on terrorism at what he called a “time of great consequence.” He enlisted adviser Michael Gerson, the author of Bush’s most memorable firstsee DEMOCRACY, page 8

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Salaries continued from page 1 and retention — keeping Brown professors who have competing offers from other schools. The remaining 1 percent is distributed as equity or compensation for extraordinary merit and accomplishments. These funds are not distributed equally from department to department — they are given out if a department has historically been underfunded or if professors within a department have been highly published and active over the last year. The salary increases can also allow departments to expand the range of scholarly work in their fields by bringing in professors with cross-disciplinary expertise. John Tyler, associate professor and chair of the Education Department, said his department has been able to introduce a wider range of classes as a result of the Plan for Academic Enrichment. The plan is set up so the salary increases can be flexible and address departments’ immediate needs. For example, if a well-liked professor at Brown gets a competing offer from another university, the department can allocate a larger amount of its resources towards matching the offer. According to Tyler, this is what happened when he had competing offers from other schools. “Personally, the University responded very aggressively when I had an offer from an outside university. They sent the message that they wanted me to stay.” Similarly, the plan allows Brown to match competing offers for a desirable new faculty member. “When we do get inquiries from abroad, the administration has been helpful for us. We make sure that when we do get a new hire, the standards are high and we go after them with our best resources,” said Andrew Foster, professor and chair of the Department of Economics. Even with the recent increase,

Brown’s median professor salary of $113,000 is behind the average salary at other top universities. Still, Vohra and department chairs Tyler, Foster and Department of Political Science Chair Alan Zuckerman, who have all been active in hiring faculty lately, agree that Brown can remain competitive in attracting the best faculty because of the University’s unique environment. The opportunity to teach interested students who have no core requirements, to live in Providence and to work with an administration committed to upgrading the level of scholarly work all serve as incentives with which Brown can attract the best faculty. Nevertheless, what seems to be paramount for Vohra and the department chairs in making new hires, replacing faculty and retaining faculty is getting people who are not only leaders in their respective fields but also are excited to be at Brown. The consensus is that Brown is looking for professors who love to teach and deal with undergraduates. “A professor could come to Brown and lock themselves in their office and literally shovel papers under their door and do quality research and be published, but they would be missing out on 75 percent of what is really good at Brown, which is working with quality people and across disciplines,” Tyler said. Can the 5.5 percent increase make an impact in future faculty hires and retention? Recent trends indicate it will. “We have had very few problems getting new faculty, and we have had very few problems keeping faculty over the past two to two-anda-half years,” Zuckerman said, when asked about changes since the introduction of the Plan for Academic Enrichment. However, according to Vohra, the trend of increasing salaries at a high rate needs to continue in order for Brown to continue to attract the best faculty. “We are not at a situation where we can say we have (increased salaries over the last few years) and we are fine,” he said.

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Records continued from page 3 demographic than the average record store.” While speaking with The Herald Tuesday, he trimmed the edges off a Nat King Cole black-and-white he is preparing to frame and add to his wall, pausing to put bebop jazz on the stereo. The store is the basement of a one-time house on Wickenden — a small, carpeted room filled with records and decorated in a profusion of music memorabilia. Kotler understands the importance of his selection and the atmosphere of his store, and the way his store impacts customers. As he explains to one customer, “That’s the magic of the store.” He said his collection of posters and photographs — which includes advertisements for the Rolling Stones fan club, posters for Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Woodstock and many lesserknown local artists — was acquired gradually and unintentionally; he didn’t seek any of the items for collection. One poster, for example, which advertises a concert for Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys, Kotler took off a telephone pole in Austin, Texas 30 years ago, when he attended the concert. The door to his storage room is adorned with a Johnny Cash poster, also from the 1970s, which was a gift from a friend. Despite the collection’s eclectic, impromptu origins, its breadth is formidable and hints at the range of music Kotler makes a conscious effort to maintain. (He has autographed pictures of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Duke Robillard.) His music selection, which he tries to keep varied, ranges from ABBA to Chuck Mangione. Kotler is unassuming, immediately making disclaimers about his knowledge of music — though he tries to know something about the music he carries, he says he is not very knowledgeable about music in general. And, although he is frequently able to offer advice about which Joan Baez record might make a good introduction to her work, for example, he is also unafraid to say if he knows nothing about the Keith Jarrett albums he has in this store. Equally unpretentious is Kotler’s approach to his past. While working as a club manager in New York, he had the opportunity to meet people like Pat Benatar, Jay Leno and Rodney Dangerfield, but when pressed about these acquaintances, he changes the subject, seemingly embarrassed. “How is that relevant to my life now? It isn’t,” he said. Kotler said he chose this job, as his previous ones, because it

accommodates his need to spend time with his friends and keep hours that suit him. “That’s what I like. … I don’t like to work very hard. … All I’ve ever had are hangaround jobs,” like his job at The Improv and, before that, a motorcycle shop. For Kotler, this kind of employment is not a luxury, but the only kind he would ever consider. The only relevant aspect of his employment, Kotler said, is the flexibility necessary to spend time with friends and socialize. “Now the record store is where I hang out with my friends, instead of The Improv.” He added, “I’m just a guy who comes to work every day. As with everybody with a small business, it’s hard. It’s a day-today grind.” Despite the constant challenges of owning a small business, Kotler remains passionate about his job. He hates to see records mishandled. “Some people come in here and throw them around like Frisbees,” he said. “Then when I tell them to be careful they look at me like I’m a monster.” He chuckles. “Well, I’m a monster.” “By the way,” he adds. “They’re called ‘records,’ not ‘vinyls.’ God, that annoys me.”

Pembroke continued from page 1 the fall, bringing scholars from around the country to Brown. Interim Director Carolyn Dean expects that with the guidance of new Director Michael Steinberg, who will leave Cornell University this year, and a new location, “faculty will be energized, able to explore new areas (and) develop new research (that will) impact heavily on undergraduate and graduate teaching.” The renovation of Pembroke Hall and establishment of the Cogut Center is a key element in the University’s Plan for Academic Enrichment, which identified 10 areas of strategic focus in February 2004. One of the goals embodied in the plan is to foster multidisciplinary initiatives. With the opening of the Humanities Center, Brown will “foster interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchange among humanities faculty at

Brown, in the U.S. more generally, and abroad,” Dean wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Another element of the University’s master plan is the creation of The Walk, a greenlined pathway from Lincoln Field to the Pembroke campus. Along with the Life Sciences Building and the planned Sidney E. Frank Hall, Pembroke Hall will help to bridge the gap between the Pembroke campus and the rest of the campus, Spies said. Plans to move the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women from Alumnae Hall to Pembroke Hall have also been discussed extensively, but according to a spokesperson for the Pembroke Center, the Corporation has yet to officially approve these plans. Plans for the Cogut Humanities Center are malleable and will largely be determined based on what ideas Steinberg brings to the table, University officials said. “At the moment everything is open to consideration,” Dean said.

CAV continued from page 3 that the stuff we had wasn’t encased,” Warren said. CAV’s museum-quality offerings have inspired many regular customers. “There’s plenty of people who come here on a daily basis just looking for antiquities,” Warren said. High-end merchandise and upscale dining have earned CAV accolades, including “Best Restaurant” (Providence Monthly), “Best Atmosphere” (R.I. Monthly) and “Most Worldly Bar” (New England Cable Network’s “Phantom Gourmet”). CAV’s pristine African art and handmade woven rugs also landed the restaurant a spread in Architectural Digest. But despite the pervasive atmosphere of sophistication, Warren said that exclusivity did not fit with Moubayed’s vision. According to Warren, “If someone came in here off the streets, (Moubayed) would let them eat here,” because ultimately, “it’s about fulfilling people.”

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term addresses who was recently promoted to a top policy position, to help craft the carefully worded speech, White House aides said. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., a supporter of Bush’s policies in the region, was rewarded with a front-row seat and a mention by Bush. Throughout the speech, Bush said the spread of democracy is crucial to defeating terrorists and safeguarding the United States from another attack. “It should be clear that the advance of democracy leads to peace because governments that respect the rights of their people also respect the rights of their neighbors,” he said. “It should be clear the best antidote to radicalism and terror is the tolerance kindled in free societies.” Picking up an argument he made throughout the 2004 campaign, Bush said America is safer is because the administration is targeting terrorists and regimes that harbor them. “When terrorists spend their days struggling to avoid death or capture, they are less capable of arming and training to commit new attacks,” he said.

Bush praised several allies, including Britain and Pakistan, for stepping up efforts to track down terrorists, even as Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, remains at large. “Many governments have awakened to the dangers we share and have begun to take action,” he said. The president acknowledged that there are still many obstacles to democracy in the region. With successful elections behind them, the Iraqis are struggling to put together a democratic government amid continued violence and ethnic and religious strife. The United States, which has suffered more than 1,500 military deaths since invading the country a year ago, has more than 135,000 troops there helping to defeat a persistent insurgency and to get the new government up and running. In his speech, Bush did not mention the estimated 500,000 protesters who took to the streets of Beirut Tuesday to condemn the United States — not the Syrian government. White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters that the president was “glad to see people peacefully express their

views,” but that the protest served as a reminder of the hostilities Bush — and democracy — face in many areas of the Middle East. Bush did not signal if the United States will assume a larger role in international talks to verify that Iran is not building nuclear weapons, but he prodded that nation to follow the trends of its neighbors. “We look forward to the day when Iran joins in the hopeful changes taking place around the world.” Some Democrats criticized Bush for glossing over how he will prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, as well as how he intends to protect U.S. borders, ports and buildings from terrorists. “He did not mention the two great, unfinished reform projects we must complete if we are to be safer: reform of our intelligence capabilities, and the protection of our biggest homeland security vulnerabilities,” Sen. Jon Corzine, N.J., said. But Bush said there is a larger purpose to his strategy. “We are also determined to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.”

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rier’s history alive as part of larger Rhode Island naval history. According to the USS Saratoga Foundation Museum Web site, the foundation acquired the submarine to support its long-term vision to display the two ships — former Cold War adversaries that were both decommissioned in 1994 — side by side as a Cold War museum and monument to a peaceful relationship between Russia and the United States.

continued from page 3 excellent for people who are easily scared, especially by people in costumes who jump out at you from dark places.” The submarine currently belongs to the USS Saratoga Foundation, which provides the support for keeping the supercar-

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W. lax continued from page 12 a goal by co-captain Kate Staley ’06, who drove in from top and bounced a shot past Quinnipiac goalie Ashley Thompson. “Our team looks for options coming off the drive,” Staley said. “We had a hard time today because of the catching and throwing conditions.” As much trouble as the Bears may have had on offense, the Bobcats struggled even more. Quinnipiac got just one shot off in the entire game, and every drive to the goal was successfully forced down the side by the Bruno defenders. Brown doubled its lead a few minutes later on a goal by Jen Redd ’07. Redd added another at 19:20 on a pass from Ali Holland ’08 for a 3-0 advantage. Bruno pushed its lead to what proved to be the final margin with just over seven minutes left in the half on a goal by Amie Biros ’07. The Bears had a couple more chances before the horn blew, including a pointblank shot on the goal, but were unable to convert. In the second half, the Bears picked up where they left off, getting good looks at the goal but being unable to get the ball through the pipes. Sarah Passano ’05 had a nice opportunity on a fast break, but the ball deflected off the post. The cold also started having an effect upon the players. One Bobcat was shaking so hard that an assistant coach had to put her gloves on for her. Brown was not immune either — both Staley and Passano suffered frostbite on their feet.

The cold started having an effect upon the players. One Bobcat was shaking so hard that an assistant coach had to put her gloves on for her. Brown was not immune either — both Kate Staley ’06 and Sarah Passano ’05 suffered frostbite on their feet. “We practice in rain like that all the time, but today was especially cold because of the wind,” Staley said. “We were getting shots off, but I couldn’t even feel my hands at the end.” Despite the low score, McDonald was pleased with the offense. “Going into the game, we knew we had a lot of offensive options and threats,” she said. “Our strength is that a lot of people can do a lot of different things. Everyone was going hard to the cage and taking a lot of risks offensively.” With Brown clearly dominating Quinnipiac and the Erickson Athletic Complex field conditions deteriorating, the referees decided it was unsafe to continue play, calling the game with just over 10 minutes remaining. Because 80 percent of the contest had been completed, the result was official. “This is just a starting point for us,” Staley said. “We need to improve 100 percent from where we are.” In Saturday’s loss to Holy Cross, the Crusaders jumped out to an early 2-0 lead before Redd scored Brown’s first goal of the season midway through the first half. The Crusaders answered with a goal by Trish

Sutton before the half to take a 3-1 lead into the final 30 minutes of play. Sutton and Redd traded goals to start off the second half, but the Crusaders increased their lead to 5-2 10 minutes in. Staley responded with two goals over the next six minutes, but another Holy Cross score put the game out of reach. “Both Staley and Redd played with a lot of heart and hustle in the second half,” McDonald said. “Their teammates began to feed off their hearts and intensity.” It was a frustrating game for the Bears, who took 20 more shots, had 10 fewer turnovers and scooped up 20 more ground balls than their opponents. “It was a disappointing loss,” Southard said. “We were all pretty upset. We outplayed them in every single category except scoring.” This Saturday the Bears will go on the road to take on the perennially powerful University of Maryland, College Park, which went undefeated in capturing the 1999 NCAA Championship and advanced to the national quarterfinals a year ago. “We’re totally excited,” Southard said. “We are going there looking for an upset.”

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with his final three of the game to push the lead back to eight with 4:36 remaining. If Yale had not realized the game was over at that point, Ruscoe made it official as he slammed home a two-handed jam off an inbounds play with less than four minutes left. The Elis packed it in after that with a missed shot and a turnover on their next two possessions, and Forte finished them off with four free throws down the stretch. For the game, Forte went 16-of-18 from the line, but two misses in the final 69 seconds tainted an otherwise pristine performance. “Yeah, I always seem to do that,” Forte said when asked about his near perfect streak. With the win, Forte ended his career with 60 wins under his belt, second only to the Class of 2003, which posted 63. Miller acknowledged that Forte would be missed greatly next season. “We all wanted him to win this one,” he said. “We wanted him to have a good game, but we wanted him to win. This hasn’t been the ideal situation for him this season — every senior wants to go to the NCAA tournament, but I give him a lot of credit for his effort this year.” The win was also something the team looks to build on next year with everyone sans Forte returning. “It is definitely a good win for us,” Miller said. “It gives us a little momentum heading into the spring.” The night, though, belonged to Forte. “I couldn’t accomplish all the things that I accomplished without the help of a lot of people, starting with Coach Miller, who recruited me,” Forte said. “I’m grateful for the experiences I had here and the guys who helped me out along the way, especially the other coaches on the staff. The older players set a great example for me when I first got here, and the younger guys have been real fun to play with. I’m sure they will continue to succeed in the future.”

was unable to field a third doubles team. Brown took the doubles point with Alex Arlak ’05 and Daisy Ames ’07 winning first doubles, and Kelley Kirkpatrick ’08 and Ashley Pariser ’08 taking second doubles, both with 8-4 victories. With their victory, Kirkpatrick and Pariser improved to 5-1 on the spring. “Kelley and Ashley have been doing great as a doubles team together,” Arlak said. “They apply everything we work on in practice for doubles, which shows in their matches.” Amanda Saiontz ’07, playing in the first singles spot, neutralized the only real threat posed by Rutgers, dropping the first set before beating firstyear Katrina Elder-Bush 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Arlak followed suit, winning in the second spot 6-3, 6-1. Brown’s own first-year phenom, Anita Ivancevic ’08, turned in an impressive performance from the third spot, serving junior Alina Balasa a 6-0, 6-4 defeat. “It was good that Anita was able to finish her opponent off easily. That kind of win will boost her confidence for our matches in the future, which will be a lot harder than this one,” Arlak said. “To play (third singles) on this team is an honor,” Ivancevic said. “We are all competitive and strive to do the best, and in doing so we make each other better.” Given the injuries on the Rutgers squad and the dominating performances by the Brown lineup, fourth and fifth singles were a foregone conclusion. Ames and Michelle Pautler ’07 soundly defeated their competition in straight sets, winning 6-4, 6-3 and 6-1, 6-3 respectively. Though glad to get a win, the Bears kept perspective on the significance of the match. “Rutgers was not very strong, and with us playing well, we were able to handle them rather easily. They also forfeited two spots so that made it even easier,” Arlak said. The squad will continue to train hard as it prepares to host Boston College March 18, its first home match since the season opener against Colgate University.

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Is this thing on? Big-name Speaker: “I hate Bush. Here’s why.” Student: “So, what can we do to stop him?” Speaker: “Just keep doing what you’re doing.” Sound familiar? Too often, guest speakers arrive at the University to dispense little more than conventional wisdom. Some don’t even bring notes and show an obvious lack of preparation. It’s not that we didn’t appreciate Seymour Hersh’s lecture Tuesday night. Seeing one of the most prominent investigative journalists of the last half-century was worth a trek in the driving snow. It was a wonderful opportunity to hear from a man who makes a living talking to sources, not audiences. But Hersh’s speech was primarily a chronology of the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 actions, many of which, though originally secret, are now well known — thanks to people like Hersh. We hoped to hear more. We do not mean to single out Hersh. His talk was just one of many recent campus lectures that have fallen short of our expectations for clarity, appropriate topicality, organization, originality and focus. But Hersh was on campus to give the Meiklejohn lecture, which typically involves issues relating to the First Amendment, and he barely touched on the topic. Instead, he followed the same anti-Bush talking points referred to by many recent campus speakers. Guests like Howard Dean, Ralph Nader and Noam Chomsky have all spoken to the Brown community as if speaking to a rally full of supporters, rather than an intellectual community prepared and willing to consider more subtle ideas and information. The problem is that the Brown community has been satisfied with this trend among speakers. When big names are invited to speak, there needs to be an expectation by the sponsoring groups that the speakers have something original to say. The Creative Arts Council ensured that Dustin Hoffman P’07 would give the best possible presentation by providing structure and multimedia support. Are we misguided in hoping for more from speakers? We love when big names come to campus, but a big name alone does not an interesting speech make. In a bid to improve intellectual diversity at Brown, President Ruth Simmons last month announced the creation of a new fund to bring in a wider variety of speakers. We submit that the problem may not be that most speakers here are liberal. It may be that we do not expect enough from them.

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LETTERS Drinking from aluminum cans accelerates global warming To the Editor: As an alum who’d love to see the return of the keg to campus, I feel compelled to defend these friendly 15.5 gallon containers of liquid goodness from Jeremy Mak’s wild diatribe (“UCS keg stand unfounded,” March 8). If I had more time, I’d address all of the ways in which his column is wrong, but I’ll stick to this one point: Kegs are undeniably better for the environment than cans. The reason? Aluminum takes a massive amount of energy to extract from the ground, purify and convert into a usable form. If you crunch the numbers, you’ll find that the 12-oz. aluminum can is quite possibly the most resource-intensive beverage container ever created by mankind. In contrast, plastic cups require much less energy to produce. Although plastics production does

involve the use of some non-renewable resources, it is far less energy-intensive than aluminum. Why is this important? The factories that produce beer cans and party cups are powered by electricity. Electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels. And the more fossil fuels we burn, the more we accelerate global warming. The consequence? Every time you drink from a can instead of a cup, you make the polar ice caps melt just a little bit faster, and the Ocean State moves one step closer to being swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean. So, please, think of the children, and drink your beer from kegs.

Carl Takei ’02 March 8

Same-sex marriage issue threatens to set back progressive agenda To the Editor: Tuesday’s article regarding the campaign for same-sex marriage (“Same-sex marriage bill brought to R.I. Senate a second time,” March 8) was misleading in that it implied universal support for the notion among members of the Brown Democrats. In fact, some in the organization are in opposition; I resigned from the club’s E-Board partly in protest of other members’ zealous support of the initiative. In an ideal world, I would want society to recognize a legal union between any two consenting adults. America in the Bush era, however, is far from ideal. As someone born and raised in a red state, I have first-hand knowledge of how bitterly divisive a cultural issue “equal marriage” is to so many in midAmerica. Passage of same-sex marriage legislation in Rhode Island might be a boon to a relatively small number of couples here, but it will antagonize

cultural conservatives across the rest of the country and bolster their belief that blue states are fundamentally out of touch with their “values.” This will only undermine the larger progressive agenda to which we liberals are dedicated, and possibly even set back the fight for civil rights in those states. Important as this issue may be, we as Democrats cannot allow a moral stand on one relatively small matter to stand in the way of potential progress we can make on our key issues such as Social Security, education, health care, environmental protection, workers’ rights and building constructive foreign policy. The trend over the past several decades has been increased tolerance of gays; we should wait a decade or two until same-sex marriage is an issue upon which the American people can reach a consensus. Jesse Adams ’07 March 3

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2005 · PAGE 11 JACK SWEENEY-TAYLOR

A piece for counselors February’s Corporation meeting revealed some fantastic news about Brown’s upcoming spending. Beyond the tens of millions of dollars directed toward academic resources, Brown will be adding $3.77 million more to next year’s financial aid funding, including an encouraging reinstitution of transfer financial aid. Our graduate students also got a nod from the Corporation, with an increased $1.2 million in graduate tuition support and $1 million in stipends and health insurance. The gains are a first step toward atonement for the University’s embarrassing role in last summer’s National Labor Relations Board decision to eliminate graduate students’ right to organize. Brown’s effort to pay more dues to its most important constituents — its students — comes as a relief to anyone who is tired of contending with the University’s stinginess. But despite such commendable changes, a group of students on campus are still agitating for University support. Brown’s counselor program, which includes minority peer counselors, resident counselors, and women’s peer counselors, is an essential resource for students making their first-year adjustments. Yet counselors’ demands for adequate compensation repeatedly go only half-considered by the administration. Last spring, a stipend-raise campaign brought by counselors and the Student Labor Alliance won only a piddling $250 increase and a promise that the University would “re-examine” the program in 2005-06. What needs to be re-examined is unclear; counselors find appreciation amongst their peers and are a staple of Brown’s dorm life. All that demands scrutiny is the lingering state of abysmal counselor stipends. Currently, counselors receive $1,250 per year, or about $2.87 per hour if you go by the University’s expectations for a 15-hour workweek. That’s almost $4 below Rhode

Island’s minimum wage, though minimum wage doesn’t apply where workers aren’t considered employees. Just as last summer’s NLRB ruling declared that grad students on the University payroll must consider themselves as “voluntary” participants in an educational program, so must counselors divorce themselves from the idea of being independent employees. Nonetheless, their jobs include plenty of responsibilities. From multiple weekly meetings to planned unit events to personal advising, peer counseling involves a series of fixed commitments. There are monthly general body meetings and weekend training sessions at the start of each semester, and every year MPCs arrive on campus two weeks before the rest of us to coordinate the Third

Notre Dame University of Chicago University of Pennsylvania UC Berkeley University of Michigan Northwestern Princeton Washington University Georgetown

room and board room and board room and board room and board room and board room, 16-meal plan room, 10-meal plan room, 10-meal plan room, partial-meal plan, $700 ‘debit dollars’

Carnegie Mellon University of Virginia Duke Columbia Brown

$4,900 half-board and $2,880 $1,000 & $2,400 meal plan board and $600 $1,250

Brown needs to start fairly stipends that would fill out the work-study requirement, compensating our MPC’s, which runs around $2,250. That would be a $1,000 WPC’s and RC’s for their work. increase on the current stipend, and would save counWorld Transition Program. Brown likes to justify its meager compensation by emphasizing that counselors should be motivated by the position and not by money. But meanwhile, other schools find a way of rewarding their counselors — and honoring the counseling system — with stipends that are between and three eight times the size of Brown’s. Look at this chart and you’ll find a spread of schools with ranging endowments but with a shared ability to reimburse their counselors. Room and board at Brown is $8,474 a year, and of the 14 schools listed in the chart, 11 of them offer at least half of that. When considering a reasonable demand on the administration, Brown students could push for counselor

selors on financial aid from having to carry multiple jobs on top of their commitment to their first-years. But why should Brown leave itself so far below par? If the University cares about the continued success of the program, it should take a cue from other schools about what level of payment befits the position. Free room and board would not only allow counselors to focus more intently on their job, but it would also show that the University acknowledges the unusual commitment they make to the community. Counselors and first-years alike have much to gain from peer guidance. The Corporation can feel good about next year’s budget when it factors in some overdue compensation. Jack Sweeney-Taylor ’06 is with the Student Labor Alliance in seeking counselor compensation.

DANA GOLDSTEIN

Between minimum wage and a moral conscience In our consumption culture, buying and not buying are becoming preferred modes of activism. Isn’t it easier, after all, to boycott labor-abusing Wal-Mart than to lobby for a national living wage? Anti-Bush groups tried — and failed — to organize a zero-consumption day to coincide with the president’s second inauguration, hoping that pro-democracy masses would terrify Wall Street and send stock prices raining down on Bush’s parade. Although this endeavor didn’t come to fruition, it does seem that a subculture of affluent consumers is increasingly willing to make market choices that reflect its humanist values. From socially conscious mutual funds to Chipotle, a new chain of all-organic Mexican fast-food restaurants (McDonald’s is the majority share-holder), it seems we want more than just a product in exchange for our money: We want good karma. The poster child for this trend is American Apparel, a hipper-than-thou California-based clothing manufacturer that brags on its Web site, “We are trying to rediscover the essence of classic products like the basic Tshirt, once an icon of Western culture and freedom. Our goal is to make garments that people love to wear without having to rely on cheap labor. ... American Apparel sees all of its employees as long-term investments.” Despite reports that American Apparel stifled a unionization movement among its workers, the company is undeniably more responsible than the average manufacturer. All its garments are made in a Los Angeles factory where the average wage is $12.50 per hour. The lowest wage is $8.00 per hour. Curious to check out American Apparel and attracted to its simple-chic image, I recently visited its store at 64th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. The décor was modernist white and silver; the patternless, 100 percent cotton, made-in-America clothing was folded neatly in little Lucite drawers. Everything seemed scrubbed clean. Then I looked up. On a television mounted in the corner, a film was playing. On the screen, groups of brown-skinned factory workers described, in accented English, the benefits of American Apparel employment. They said things like “this is a community” and “we feel our work is valued.” Something seemed off. I knew social responsibility was American Apparel’s marketing shtick, but doesn’t

videotape of smiling, immigrant workers take things just a bit too far? Was this exploitative, or was I just unwilling, as a consumer, to be forced to look into the eyes of the people who sewed the fabric I was fingering? It’s hard to enjoy your social justice karma when utterly creeped out. Later, when I went to the American Apparel Web site, I saw I could download free “behind the scenes footage” of the “Girls of American Apparel” calendar photo shoot. The footage featured quirkily beautiful models during their costume changes, shielding their breasts with nothing but a few fingers. The clincher of the calendar’s sales pitch? The models’

I know social responsibility is American Apparel’s marketing shtick, but doesn’t a video tape of smiling, immigrant workers take things just a bit too far? It’s hard to enjoy your social justice karma when utterly creeped out. images were “never retouched.” How authentic. Like the Republican-funding marketing geniuses behind the faux-vintage clothing chain Urban Outfitters, American Apparel founder Dov Charney has tapped into the fundamental, yet unarticulated, aesthetic sensibility of a segment of our generation. We want simple clothes in soft fabrics that hang just right. We want asymmetrical lines and patchwork patterns to show off our inner bohemian. We want to look effortless, but authentic, “never retouched.” Personally, I put my money down at American Apparel because the bras didn’t have any annoying clasps or frilly accou-

trements, but were still cut with a sexy, plunging V. As for the living wage thing: That felt good, but ultimately had little to do with my desire for something new to wear under my favorite sweater. Charney agrees with me about American Apparel’s style-before-substance priorities. In a Los Angeles Business Journal interview last May, he claimed he was tiring of the laudatory press frenzy surrounding his company’s labor practices. “I think it is a secondary appeal and I’m getting a little bored with it myself,” Charney pooh-poohed. “It’s too P.C. It’s like, big deal. I’m de-emphasizing it.” But what about that videotape I saw? It’s been almost a year since Charney gave that interview, and American Apparel’s marketing strategy certainly has not changed. Could the tape’s creepiness actually be a good thing? I’ve never worked in a factory and I never will. Nobody I know works in a factory. I’m vaguely aware that the mass-produced clothing I wear is made by poor people in factories. But thoughts about that are uncomfortable and awkward, perhaps because they force me to confront the disparity between my political ideology of justice and my economic priority of consumption at reasonable — and preferably even “bargain” — prices. During the presidential election, we heard a lot about the “off-shoring” of U.S. jobs and the financial hardships endured by even dual-income families. Americans of all classes seem to be worried about the justice of our market-driven economic system — hence the legs of John Edwards’ “two Americas” oratory. Right now, only one America can afford to shop at Whole Foods and American Apparel — upper-middle class consumers are able to pay a premium of a few dollars in pursuit of that social justice karma. And there is no doubt that chains like American Apparel are offering needy people decent employment. But in the long run, organic foods, minimum wages and clever marketing won’t solve our essential dilemma. How will America satisfy both its consumerism and its core conscience? It won’t be as easy as buying bras. Dana Goldstein ’06 is 100 percent authentic, never retouched.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS WEDNESDAY MARCH 9, 2005 · PAGE 12

All-America honors given to Hartigan ’06 and DeOssie ’07 BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS EDITOR

The football team continued to be rewarded for its respectable 2004 season this week. Tailback Nick Hartigan ’06 and linebacker Zak DeOssie ’07, both of whom were first team All-Ivy performers, were selected to the 2004 Football Gazette AllAmerican Team Monday. Hartigan received second-team honors, while DeOssie made third team. For Hartigan, the selection comes four-and-a-half months after a season in which he cemented his place as one of the Ivy League’s top running backs. The junior from Fairfax, Va., set single-season school records for carries (323) and rushing touchdowns (17) and also rushed for 1,263 yards, good for second alltime behind his own record of 1,498 yards from the 2003 campaign. For his performance, Hartigan was named to All-Ivy and All-New England first teams for the second straight season and also received third team All-

America honors from the Sports Network. Hartigan was named a first team CoSIDA National Academic All-American, Brown’s first since 1987, for his exemplary performance on the field and his 3.87 GPA as a political science concentrator. In registering 98 total tackles (53 solo), nine tackles for loss and five sacks, DeOssie displayed the football genes passed on to him by his father Steve DeOssie, a longtime player in the NFL. With DeOssie playing in only his second season as a linebacker — he was a quarterback in high school — the Brown defense emerged as one of the league’s best, ranking second in the league in total defense. During the season, DeOssie earned Ivy League Player of the Week after recording 13 tackles and an interception against Yale on Nov. 6. His third team Gazette All-America selection comes on the heels of being named both first team AllIvy and a first team All-Atlantic Region All-American.

Solid doubles play propels m. and w. tennis to victory BY MATT NICHOLSON SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Both the men’s and women’s tennis teams earned impressive wins this weekend, with the men upsetting No. 60 Old Dominion University 5-2 at home, and the women shutting out Rutgers University 7-0 in Piscataway, N.J. The men’s team, 8-2 on the spring season and ranked No. 63 nationally, began its match with its first doubles team, Adil Shamasdin ’05 and Phillip Charm ’06, defeating ODU’s No. 35 duo of senior Izak van der Merwe and sophomore Nathaniel Grover 8-5. Bruno took the point for doubles when Saurabh Kohli ’08 and Eric Thomas ’07 won second doubles 8-5, and clinched a doubles sweep when Nick Goldberg ’05 and Richard Moss ’06 rolled 8-2 in third doubles. “We came out with the necessary energy and determination … and our momentum propelled each of us in the singles,” Moss said. The momentum picked up as Shamasdin gained a victory at first singles, knocking off van der Merwe, a first team AllAmerican and the nation’s No. 7 college player, in a dramatic 6-3, 7-6 (3) match. “This win further accentuates (Shamasdin) as one of the leading players in collegiate tennis,” Moss said. “Adil’s positive energy brings out the

best in all of us.” “I just let my game out. I was playing well and played the big points better than he did,” Shamasdin said. “I don’t think we lost too many games on the other courts in the half hour that followed Adil’s win,” said Head Coach Jay Harris, describing the effect of such a win on the rest of the players. “(ODU) definitely was a bit deflated and our team was inspired.” Inspiration carried Brown to three more singles victories, securing the match. Thomas posted a hard-fought 6-4, 1-6, 62 win in third singles, while Moss made quick work of junior Adriano Mello 6-2, 6-3 in the fourth spot to clinch the match for Brown. The team leaves Wednesday for Montgomery, Ala., to compete in the four-day Blue/Gray Invitational Tournament. The Bears went 2-1 in last year’s tournament, falling to Virginia Commonwealth University, then rebounding to beat Fresno State University and North Carolina State University. The women’s team rebounded from last weekend’s loss at Boston University and improved to 4-2 on the season as it throttled Rutgers, 7-0. Rutgers, which has battled recurrent injuries this season, see TENNIS, page 9

M. hoops downs Elis in Forte’s finale BY STEPHEN COLELLI ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

While the snow swirled outside the Pizzitola Center last night, Jason Forte ’05 was heating up the gym inside. Forte ended his collegiate career and the 200405 men’s basketball season in style, as he led the Bears with 29 points, eight assists and eight rebounds in a 75-65 defeat of Yale. When Forte was asked how meaningful such a sold allaround effort was for him on his Senior Night, he shifted the focus back to the team. “I was just glad to get the win,” Forte said. “(Playing basketball at Brown has) been a beautiful experience for me. It’s given me a platform to perform, and hopefully the younger guys will carry this over into next season.” Before the game, Forte walked to center court accompanied by his mother, Wanda Hightower. Head Coach Glen Miller joined them as Forte received a plaque commemorating his numerous achievements. As soon as the game started, however, Forte and the rest of the Bears were all business. Forte drained a long threepointer to put Brown on the board three minutes in. After a Yale layup, Luke Ruscoe ’06 hit a short jumper to cut the Bulldogs’ lead to 6-5. The remainder of the first half turned into a slugfest, as the two teams combined for 23 fouls and racked up 23 free throws between them. As has been the case recently, Brown struggled from the field, shooting 38 percent for the half. However, Bruno drilled five threes in the first 20 minutes to keep the score reasonably close, with Forte and Damon Huffman ’08 hitting two apiece. Forte was also his usual reliable self from the charity stripe, as the Ivy League’s leading freethrow shooter went 8-of-8 for

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In his final collegiate game, co-captain Jason Forte ’05 went for 29 points in a 75-65 win over Yale. the half. Down 37-35 at the break, Bruno took it to the Bulldogs in the second half. The Bears took their first lead, 39-37, on a P.J. Flaherty ’07 hook shot. The team came out crashing the boards with tenacity. At 15:50 Huffman, with two Bulldogs draped all over him, was able to tap a loose ball to Forte on the defensive end. On the ensuing possession, Huffman was able to split two defenders with a bounce pass to Forte, who calmly sank a three for a 47-43 lead. The Bears outrebounded Yale in the second half by 11, with guard Marcus Becker ’07 chipping in with six offensive boards.

“We said at the half that it was going to come down to the team that wanted the game more,” Miller said. “We missed a few shots and had a few turnovers, but we had a lot of hustle. Marcus’ effort was just that.” The Bears began to wear down Yale and took a 54-47 lead on Huffman’s fourth three of the game, forcing Yale Head Coach James Jones to call a timeout. The Bulldogs refused to concede, and they responded with 7-2 run to make it 56-54 in favor of Brown with nine minutes left. Bruno composed itself, however, as Huffman capped a run see M. HOOPS, page 9

W. lax overcomes inclement weather, Quinnipiac to climb to 1-1 on season BY BEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Ashley Hess / Herald

Kate Staley ’06 scored Brown’s first goal in the Bears’ first win of the 2005 season.

The women’s lacrosse team picked up its first win of the season Tuesday, a 4-0 victory over Quinnipiac University that was called with 10:11 left in the second half due to inclement weather. The victory was the first for new Head Coach Keely McDonald ’00, whose Bears fell to College of the Holy Cross 6-5 on Saturday. “I think the women came out much harder and more focused today,” McDonald said. “Our defense did a nice job working on stopping their attack from getting organized.” “Coming off our first game was a huge disappointment,” said goalie and co-captain Julia Southard ’05. “We knew we wanted to play huge team defense. The mentality was that

we had each other’s backs no matter what.” Playing in a torrential downpour that alternated between rain and hail, the Bears took the lead just 5:08 into the game on see W. LAX, page 9 SPORTS SCOREBOARD TUESDAY, MARCH 8 Men’s BASKETBALL: Brown 75, Yale 65 Women’s LACROSSE: Brown 4, Quinnipiac 0 WEEKLY AWARDS Men’s ICE HOCKEY: Chris Poli ’08, ECACHL Rookie of the Week Men’s BASKETBALL: Jason Forte ’05 and Damon Huffman ’08, Ivy League Honor Roll YEARLY AWARDS 2005 WRESTLING ALL-IVY Second Team: Dan Appello ’06 and Doran Heist ’06 Honorable Mention: Mike Savino ’06 and Mike Pedro ’07