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BY ASHLEY CHUNG STAFF WRITER

Even after taping for “Survivor: Guatemala” ended and he returned home to Pittsburgh, Rafe Judkins ’05 was sworn to secrecy about the show. Now that his $5 million non-disclosure contract with CBS has ended, the Brown alum can freely discuss everything from how he prepared for life in the Guatemalan wilderness to his feelings about being voted off in the final episode and his plans for a post-“Survivor” future.

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BY ALISSA CERNY STAFF WRITER

Getting there Rafe Judkins ’05 sent in his preliminary audition videotape for “Survivor: Guatemala” in January 2005. Of FEATURE over 100,000 applicants, he was one of the lucky few who lasted through multiple callbacks. For the rest of spring semester — his last at Brown — Judkins was swamped with secondary interviews and callbacks in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. He had to leave campus for weeks at a time, and, unable to share the real reason for his absences, Judkins could offer no better explanation to his puzzled professors other than that he “had to go back home for a while.”

“I realized that it was a long shot to get on the show, and even if I didn’t, I would still be failing out of Brown,” Judkins said.

“In the end, I barely graduated.”

His extended absences turned out to be worthwhile, however, when Judkins learned on May 15 that he would be going to Guatemala. He immediately told his roommates, who started to help Judkins train for the show after they finished celebrating.

During the next month, Judkins deliberately put on an extra 15 pounds so he would have more weight available to lose while in Guatemala. He also worked with free weights and hired a physical trainer, though he could not tell the trainer for what he was preparing.

“Oh, it’s kind of a wilderness activity … that’s really intense,” Judkins explained to his trainer. “And I don’t really know what

to the one that brought about the civil rights movement, arguing that current circumstances warrant strong collective action to counter inequality.

Though members of the civil rights movement of the 1960s were able to use legal means to forward their cause, that route to equality has been exhausted, Bond said. The current fight for equality, he reasoned, therefore requires new weapons. “If there is more to be done, we have more to do it with,” he said, adding that although American society is no longer racially segregated, it is “more difficult to attack now than ever before.”

Speaking to a racially diverse crowd that often interjected with shouts of approval, long bouts of laughter and three separate standing ovations, Bond began his criticism with the Bush administration’s war in Iraq.

“When wars are fought to save democracy, the first causality is usually democracy itself,” he told the audience.

The potential addition of pluses and minuses to the University’s grading system — a controversial proposal drafted by Dean of the College Paul Armstrong — is at the top of the College Curriculum Council’s agenda for discussion at the first meeting of the semester tomorrow.

The CCC initially scheduled a vote on the issue for its Dec. 13 meeting, but the committee postponed taking any action due to concerns over lack of student awareness and input. The proposal regarded amendments to Section 9 of the Faculty Rules, which addresses grading and examination, and would change the language to include the phrase “plus and minus distinctions may be awarded to letter grades.”

If the CCC votes to approve a proposal to adopt a plus/minus system, the issue will proceed to the Faculty Executive Committee, which is made up of roughly a dozen faculty members. If approved by the FEC, pluses and minuses will be incorporated into the grading system, according to Armstrong. But it is unclear when this change would occur.

Tristan Freeman ’07, communications chair of the Undergraduate Council of Students, sent an e-mail to the student body in December to notify students of the upcoming vote in order to generate awareness of a change that might otherwise have been decided with little input or notification.

In addition, UCS passed a resolution calling on the CCC to delay its vote until a time when UCS was in session, The Herald had resumed publication and students were not distracted with finals. The CCC complied with this request.

“The UCS resolution definitely awakened the CCC. We wouldn’t have proceeded hastily, but it clarified just how big of a deal

see BOND, page 8

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Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, spoke at Salomon 101 on Saturday for the convocation of Black History Month.

Chairman of NAACP board opens Black History Month

BY MELANIE DUCH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

One of the self-proclaimed “six people in the whole universe who can honestly say, ‘I was a student of Dr. (Martin Luther) King,’” Julian Bond kicked off Black History Month Saturday night with a sharp critique of several key Bush administration policies and what he described as a lackluster response by Democrats. The talk filled Salomon 101 nearly to capacity.

Bond, the current chairman of the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, began his speech with a narration of the American civil rights movement in which he quoted at length poignant speeches by King and several other civil rights leaders. But he quickly turned to more contemporary issues.

Though he was quick to remind the audience that the NAACP is a strictly non-partisan organization and that he is “not a Democrat,” Bond largely compared the current political state

see RAFE, page 7

Pagan ’06 remembered as passionate, active student with “irresistible grin” The passion with which Luis Pagan ’06 approached his various commitments — which ranged from community service to theater projects — was complemented by an uncanny gift for making those around him feel comfortable and welcome, according to a collection of friends and family members who gathered in memory of the Brown senior Sunday afternoon.

The memorial service, at which President Ruth Simmons spoke, filled Sayles Hall nearly to capacity. Pagan passed away earlier this month while vacationing in Mexico.

After a brief candle-lighting ceremony, Pagan’s friends Almaz Dessie

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Rafe Judkins ’05: From the Main Green to the Mayan ruins

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’07, Isel Garcia-Renart ’06, Kira Neel ’05, Alicia Pantoja ’06 and Maythinee Washington ’03 shared a variety of colorful memories of Pagan. Some prepared their own essays or poems and others read from relevant works of literature or sang a favorite song.

Chaplain of the University Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson spoke next, stressing the importance of giving thanks for Pagan’s life despite overwhelming grief. “We know from our sorrow that we have thanks to give,” Nelson said. After her comments, the RPM Singers of Rites and Reason Theatre, in which Pagan participated, sang the gospel song “Hush, Hush, Somebody’s Callin’ Mah Name,” driving many in attendance to

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Fusion jazz graces Grant Recital Hall

BY ANDREW LIM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Grant Recital Hall was packed so densely Saturday night that you could barely walk down the aisles without trampling seated students and professors REVIEW anxiously awaiting Gabriel Alegría and his Afro-Peruvian Jazz ensemble.

The lights dimmed and the show began, curiously enough, with a lone cowbell.

Emerging one by one and drumming on cajones (hollow wooden boxes), cajitas (little boxes) or quijadas (a horse jawbone-turned rattle), the band created a polyrhythmic medley that pounded with the trancelike, intoxicating rhythms of traditional coastal Peruvian percussion.

Although Afro-Latin jazz music from Brazil and Cuba has been established for generations, the Afro-Peruvian jazz idiom has until recently been confined to the World Music realm, and Alegría’s band is introducing its fusion style into mainstream commercial jazz.

“We’re not the first,” Alegría said. “But what we’re doing differently is using a jazz inflection and attitude.”

“Un Rezo,” Alegría’s 2002 debut album, features this distinctive blend of traditional coastal Peruvian percussive rhythmic patterns and contemporary jazz.

The group — based in the jazz-salsa scene in Lima, Peru — consists of Alegría on trumpet and fugal horn, Laura Andrea Leguía on tenor saxophone, Jocho Velazquez on acoustic guitar, Joscha Oetz on double bass, Hugo Alcázar on drums and Freddy “Huevito” Lobatón playing cajones and other percussion. The ensemble met for the first time in December 2005 but, as Oetz pointed out, Lima’s jazz scene is “small but interesting” and “everyone knows everyone.” The group has been touring around the East Coast for two weeks and will also play at the University of Southern California and in the Los Angeles area before returning home to Lima.

The group broke into a fiery interpretation of Miles Davis’ “So Near, So Far,” played with a Peruvian festejo groove. “Festejo means celebration,” joked Alegría in

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an earlier interview, “and it’s all about erotic fun.” The band moved right along into an incredible rendition of George Gershwin’s “Summertime,” played to a scorching landó groove. The raunchy horn melody crooned over punctuating rhythm section hits. Though the night featured many cleverly reworked standards — including Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” and Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints” — the set included originals by Alegría and others from their upcoming release.

Throughout the performance the band exuded a relaxed and carefree onstage presence. Lobatón, probably the most animated character of the group, chuckled and bantered freely with Alcazár as they playfully faced off in alternating solos on “Summertime.” At times the musicians looked as if they were caught in a trance: brows furrowed in concentration, they yelled exclamations and laughed and joked in Spanish mid-performance.

Despite the light-hearted camaraderie onstage, it was obvious that the members are masterful, top-caliber musicians. Alegría’s fugal horn solo on “El Mar” pierced the rhythm section’s foreboding, moody soundscape with soaring trills and bold melodic lines. “Buscando a Huelito” started as a tribute to the post-bop traditions of 50s-era Charles Mingus with the independent, contrasting horn and sax lines moving back and forth between syncopated unison and embittered dissonance.

Alcazár, Velazquez and Oetz seamlessly transformed the groove from atmospheric ambience to a sultry relaxed landó tempo and a blisteringly fast swing throughout every song. Leguía’s robust sax solos had a breathy yet assertive tone, and throughout each song Lobatón’s unrelenting hand drumming gave a unique pulse and drive to each solo.

Perhaps the most memorable solo of the night involved no instruments at all, when Lobatón, a threetime national Zapateo champion, performed this traditional Peruvian tap-dance, which was peppered with jumping, thigh-slapping and boot and Charlie Chaplin-

Four walls of a small room in the Carriage House Gallery of the John Nicholas Brown Center are covered with Ben Katchor’s comic REVIEW strips. They are wallpapered in overlapping gray watercolor prints that bleed into each other and reach deeper than most literature — let alone most comic books — dares. “The Insomniac’s Mansion and other Picture Stories,” a display that forays into the world of comic book artist Ben Katchor, was curated by Brown and art students from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Katchor’s world is almost imaginary; it teeters on the edge of fantasy and reality, a line that seems to grow finer throughout his work. The city Katchor depicts as the backdrop to all of his stories is recognizable but not fully identifiable. No matter how mundane it sometimes seems, there is always one thing that throws you off, like when a word such as “loo” or “elastoplast” pops up in an otherwise English sentence. You still understand it, but how you comprehend it has changed.

Many of the comic strips on display are from “Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District,” one of Katchor’s most recent collections. Knipl is a recurring character in Katchor’s comic strips.

The beauty supply district in Katchor’s picture story is a collection of storefronts and businesses, which specialize in such items as symmetry, understatements, elaboration and spontaneous expression — supplies for creating beauty in a work of art. Katchor’s comics often literalize figures

see JAZZ, page 5

see KATCHOR, page 6

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CCC continued from page 1 the grade changes would be and how important students’ opinions are,” said CCC member Freya Zaheer ’06.

The Sheridan Center reports The CCC first discussed changes to the grading policy in response to a series of reports, including the Grade Inflation Survey, released by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in January 2002. The survey of 181 Brown professors and 94 teaching assistants found that more than 80 percent of faculty and graduate students favored the addition of pluses and minuses to the current grading system and that a majority of teachers use pluses and minuses while grading assignments throughout the course of a semester.

However, the CCC believed that this data alone was insufficient to merit a change in the grading system, citing the importance of considering the effect of grades both inside and outside of the Brown community. They recommended first consulting the students, faculty and TAs through a series of polls, web resources, forums and surveys. To date, no such action has occurred.

“In the survey we tried to look at grades in a broader context at Brown. We view this as a very important faculty issue that it is important to discuss and ultimately come to a conclusion on,” said Rebecca More, director of the Sheridan Center.

Survey questions also addressed the possibility of reinstating D’s and including NC’s on personal transcripts. These issues were met with little interest, and many teachers felt that a grading system with more grading options would make it even less necessary to include D’s as a possible grade.

According to Zaheer, there is no current movement toward reviving D’s.

“While I definitely understand that a lot of students are opposed to a change in the grading system, we need to remember that there are other constituencies at Brown and a major one of them is the faculty. If they have to report grades they want to be able to do so accurately, and we owe them that consideration,” Zaheer said.

The Sheridan Center poll also cited grade inflation as a reason to consider a plus/minus grading system. Because the student body generally views a C as a below average grade, a B has become the average, while an A now denotes above average, rather than exceptional, work, the survey report explained. In addition, due to the wide range of quality a B can reflect — from almost a C to almost an A — many professors expressed the pressure to inflate high B’s to A-minuses, which then become A’s. This move is to avoid disappointing students who would have earned a B-plus if such a grade were possible, according to the report.

A bid to combat inflation Armstrong’s proposal cites recent inflationary trends and the hope that a B will once again become an acceptable grade as rationale for the change.

“Many faculty feel, as do I, that with the increase in A’s and decrease in B’s and C’s, it is not possible to communicate with students about the quality of their work or differences in the quality of work,” Armstrong said.

Following a series of seven meetings, the CCC released a report on the grading system at Brown in February 2003. They noted a perceived problem with grade inflation at the University throughout the 1990s. In 1992, A’s comprised 38 percent of all grades awarded. This number rose to 44 percent in 2001, while C’s

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accounted for less than 5 percent and NC’s only 2 percent.

Some students do not believe that grade inflation is necessarily a symptom of the University’s grading system. “I think that high grades achieved by Brown students are a result of the high caliber of students Brown admits,” Freeman said.

Grade inflation is not unique to Brown. In 1966, A’s accounted for 26 percent of all grades at Harvard University. By 1996, this figure had risen to 46 percent, according to the CCC report.

It remains uncertain whether the addition of pluses and minuses would actually affect the distribution of grades awarded at the University. “Other universities use systems that include pluses and minuses and still experience grade inflation,” Zaheer said.

“The only way to truly end grade inflation would be to adopt an extreme policy like Princeton’s,” Zaheer said, referring to the Princeton University policy implemented in 2004 that capped the amount of A’s awarded to students at 35 percent.

Impact on the New Curriculum In a report to the Sheridan Center in January 2002, University Registrar Michael Pesta explained the significance of the New Curriculum and the current grading system at Brown.

“To further de-emphasize the negative effects of the quantitative assessment of the old grading system, the authors of the reforms also eliminated pluses and minuses, did away with the grade of D (which was considered to be a failing grade) and withheld the entry of an NC grade from the transcript,” Pesta wrote, also stating that these changes encouraged students to experiment with new courses and focus on the pursuit of knowledge.

Freeman is one of many students who oppose changes because of a similar philosophy.

“Personally, I think that pluses and minuses will change the culture of cooperation at Brown which is so unique, especially (for an) Ivy League school. When

the difference between an A and an A-plus is based on the person sitting next to you and the class curve, a competitive atmosphere not based on learning is going to develop,” he said.

Armstrong disagrees with these sentiments and said that he does not believe the lack of pluses and minuses is as vital to the spirit of the New Curriculum as the ability to experiment in new areas without the fear of failure and be able to drop a class until almost the last day of the semester.

“If anything, I think there is already too much competition at Brown for A’s because nothing else is acceptable. I’ve had students crying in my office after I gave them a B. I think it’s plausible that with the inclusion of A-minus and B-plus grades competition might actually decrease,” he said.

“It’s important to make the distinction that these changes don’t actually represent a change in the curriculum because grades are already assigned at the University. There is a difference between changes in the grading system, and changes in the curriculum,” More said.

Concern over student input At the final UCS meeting of last semester, UCS members expressed their concerns and suspicions about the lack of student notification before the proposed CCC vote last December. “I can’t tell you how odd (it) is” that the CCC did not follow its own advice to consult students, said Zachary Townsend ’08, chair of the Admissions and Student Services Committee.

The CCC has not yet set a date for a vote on the proposal.

Before the final decision is made, UCS plans to present students with a variety of opportunities to express their opinions, including a series of forums, UCS meetings to facilitate discussion with administrators and a WebCT poll, Freeman said.

This poll will represent the first attempt to survey students on their opinion of changes to the grading system.

“We’re really going to advertise

the poll in hopes of inspiring a higher than average percentage of student participation,” Freeman said. He said he hopes that between 60 and 70 percent of students will vote as opposed to the usual 30 percent.

“I received an unprecedented amount of e-mails in response to the UCS resolution — over 30 e-mails within two hours. People were so thankful for the way UCS represented them,” he said.

Freeman will present “A Resolution Calling to Involve Students in the Potential Change to the Brown Curriculum” at this year’s first UCS meeting. His resolution calls for the coordinator of Academic and Administrative Affairs to help organize a forum, for UCS members to discuss the issue with students during dorm rounds and for Armstrong to attend UCS meetings to discuss the proposal. Armstrong said he would be happy to attend.

“I think it would be great to have a faculty forum to air these issues. The students need to realize that ultimately the FEC (Faculty Executive Committee) is going to decide this issue. All the CCC can do is recommend the proposal.

Students need to get faculty to take this issue seriously by engaging them in a discussion under the pretense that there will be a vote this spring,” Armstrong said.

There are some students who would welcome change. “Pluses and minuses would allow a student earning a B-plus to be distinguished from the student with a B or B-minus. It’s a big difference,” said Shyam Sundaram ’08, a member of the CCC. “A wider range of grades gives students a better assessment of their work.”

“Some people think the changes should coincide with the Banner program to implement online registration. However, since that deadline is unsure there are others who don’t favor waiting that long,” Zaheer said.

“The most important thing students should know is that we definitely care about their opinions — whether for or against the proposal — we will listen,” Zaheer said.

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U. to decline compensation for Katrina aid

BY HANNAH LEVINTOVA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University has decided not to accept any funds made available under a Department of Education act designed BROWN & to compensate KATRINA schools that aided affected students in Second in a the aftermath series of Hurricane Katrina. The act, signed by President George W. Bush on Dec. 30, 2005, makes $10 million available to the Secretary of Education to allocate to about 1,000 eligible institutions that took in displaced students after the disaster.

Brown took in 59 undergraduates and 27 graduate students as part of its relief effort.

Each school can receive a share of the total funds available based on the number of affected students who applied for federal student aid at that institution in relation to the total number of affected students who applied for aid at all eligible institutions, explained Samara Yudof, Department of Education deputy press secretary. So far, 99 eligible institutions have received money.

“Our goal in giving money

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After receiving a cheering, standing ovation, the band regrouped onstage for arguably the best song of the night, the explosive “Footprints.” Oetz’s solitary bass purred with a pensive introduction, soon

to victims of Katrina is a shared belief that education is a remedy, education is an elevation … and that’s why we aren’t taking the money,” said Molly DeRamel, director of media relations.

DeRamel also mentioned that Brown was one of the only Ivy League institutions to offer direct aid to students whose homes and families had been devastated by the hurricane.

“You have to remember that it wasn’t just universities that got wiped out,” she said.

“Brown really stepped up to the plate in helping students return to their education. Not just here but there too. … It just doesn’t make sense for Brown to take that money,” DeRamel said.

Brown is not the only university that has chosen to forgo this money. Princeton University, which has made a comparable effort to help students affected by Katrina, has also decided not to accept any available funds.

“We didn’t do it out of any monetary obligation, we did it because we saw a need there that needed to be filled,” said Cass Cliatt, Princeton’s media relations manager.

The University of Pennsylvania is also not planning on accepting the money, according to a Jan. 11 article in the Daily Pennsylvanian.

joined by Alegría’s sizzling fugal horn line. The remaining members joined in with a tight, syncopated groove in which the entire ensemble seemed to rhythmically mesh into a unified sound. The organic polyrhythms and the band’s trademark sudden changes in dynamics and form are unlikely to be forgotten by anyone who attended the show.

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Renowned history of math collection faces uncertain future

BY KAM SRIPADA STAFF WRITER

The narrow paths between the book-crammed shelves at the Department of the History of Mathematics in Wilbour Hall might induce claustrophobia. And the stacks of yellowing, oversized photocopies are occasionally tall enough to hide a small child.

The collection comprises a large part of the late David Pingree’s world-renowned library, which includes material from Sanskrit, Arabic, Jewish, Egyptian and Persian cultures.

When Pingree died in November, the history of mathematics department lost its last full-time professor, leaving the future of its remaining members, as well as Pingree’s collection, uncertain.

Since then, the department — which the University had previously slated to shut down at the end of this semester — has successfully determined positions for its members, but the fate of Pingree’s collection of texts from around the world remains unresolved.

Pingree had intended to donate his collection to the University after his planned retirement in May. He imagined the library as a “separate research unit” with all its parts together and not in storage, according to Toke Knudsen GS, one of the two remaining history of mathematics graduate students.

“It’s a legacy we want to preserve and we’d like to see it stay at Brown,” said Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P ’07. However, he added that the University must realistically assess the available facilities before relocating the collection from Wilbour Hall and Pingree’s home.

“We find ourselves running up against the space constraint,” he said. “Pingree knew that we had not identified a perfect place.”

According to Vohra, the University will await the results of an independent appraisal of the collection before making its final

decisions.

While Vohra said that there are no plans to sell any part of the collection, he recalled discussions among Pingree, librarians and members of the administration and said that explicit conditions had not been laid out. Pingree’s texts could be stored in a variety of forms, from a one-floor special collection to shelves in multiple libraries to partial storage in an accessible off-site facility, Vohra said.

“I don’t think Brown is moving fast enough on this issue,” wrote Alice Slotsky, assistant visiting professor of the history of mathematics and the department’s last remaining faculty member, in an e-mail.

“I get inquiries from all over the world about the preservation of this library in its present state, intact and in one place. It’s crucial to scholars to keep it that way.”

The collection, which Pingree accumulated throughout his long academic career, totals at least 25,000 books plus photocopies and texts on microfilm.

“There is a lot of literature, lots of philosophy,” said Sam Hough, a bookseller from Cranston hired by Pingree’s wife, Isabelle, to appraise the collection. “The other day I found a book on Indian dance and another one on Indian medicine.

For David it all linked.”

In fact, three shipments of new books have arrived at the department since Pingree’s death.

“His wife had to call those companies to tell them the news,” Hough said.

Hough has been working on the collection off and on since May and said he is nearing completion of his appraisal. Within the “staggering” collection, Hough has uncovered “manuscripts that just don’t exist anywhere else.”

Hough said he shares Slotsky’s concerns and hopes that Pingree’s wishes are respected.

“There are people beyond Brown interested in the collection, who understand it, who respect it,” Hough said. “The University,

in the last few administrations, hasn’t really cared. They just want to stash this stuff in the Science Library.”

New arrangements for remaining scholars In anticipation of Pingree’s retirement, the department stopped accepting applications to its graduate program several years ago. Pingree had planned to continue working with the department’s two remaining graduate students on their dissertations after his retirement.

After Pingree’s death, Sheila Bonde, dean of the graduate school, stepped in to make sure the grad students were on track to finish their studies.

“Bonde is overlooking the grad students with constant concern and care,” Slotsky wrote. “Her office and e-mail are always open to them and she calls them just to check in.”

Since November, both grad students have finalized the committees that will read their dissertations. After completing the dissertation process, both students plan to pursue careers in academia. Knudsen anticipates spending at least three more semesters at Brown before graduating, though he expects to have an academic job “perhaps in the field of the history of science” since there are no history of math departments anywhere else in the world, he said.

Slotsky will continue teaching at Brown with a new appointment as a visiting professor in the classics department. She and the department have already arranged her courses and schedule for next year.

“So far it’s a very happy marriage,” she wrote. “My students read lots of genres — historical inscriptions, myths, magic — in fact not a lot of astronomical or mathematical material (as they did in the history of mathematics department), so this is a step forward for the field of Assyriology at Brown.”

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Pagan continued from page 1 tears.

Simmons followed Nelson with a brief, subdued address directed to Pagan’s family.

“I wonder if you know how honored we are that you supported Luis’s decision to study here at Brown University,” she said.

Ann Dill, associate professor of sociology and Pagan’s concentration advisor, expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to guide Pagan, saying she was never sure who was the teacher in their relationship.

“He spoke from the authority of experience, humility and one who is a leader for others,” she said.

Dill also focused on Pagan’s ability to maintain a wide and eclectic circle of acquaintances.

“Luis was indeed a part of many communities,” she said, adding that his “irresistible grin” was a foolproof instrument for making friends.

Pagan’s friends created a vivid image of the senior as one who provided unconditional love and support. Makini Chisolm-Straker GS said she would normally turn to Pagan during troubling or stressful times.

“I cried myself to sleep again last night,” she said, reading from a poem she wrote titled “january 12, 2006.”

Elmo Terry-Morgan, associate professor of Africana studies and artistic director of Rites and Reason Theatre, remembered

Katchor continued from page 3 of speech and metaphors, thereby exposing a new aspect of something that seemed to be easily understood.

Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in American Civilization, sees Katchor’s art as a kind of protest.

“Ben is protesting, in his own way, the assimilation of architecture, language and everything else into the corporate city and suburbs,” Buhle said.

“He does this best by recapturing fragments of the past, making them eloquent and humorous.”

Katchor has been drawing dark, complicated comic strips for more than 20 years. The son of a Polish Jewish immigrant, Katchor was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., surrounded by Yiddish culture and classic comics, both of which strongly influenced his work. The main characters in his picture stories are Jewish, and they inhabit a fanciful and imaginative reflection of the world Katchor grew up in. One of Katchor’s picture books, “The Jew of New York,” tells the story of the man who tried to create a Jewish homeland in upstate New York in 1825. Katchor starts with that single fact to create an entire fictional world around it, filled with an assortment of quirky Jewish New Yorkers.

Even though Katchor’s comics have a decidedly Jewish influence, the prominent ideas and themes are so American that anyone can appreciate his work. What he has to say about consumer culture, changing times and dissatisfaction with everyday life is relevant to everyone.

Katchor chiefly works in gray watercolor, a prism of black and

Pagan as a “classy guy” and a “charmer” who “knew he was a charmer.”

Terry-Morgan recounted the social and financial difficulties Pagan faced as a child and stressed what an accomplishment it was for him to make it to and succeed at Brown.

To know Pagan, Terry-Morgan said, was to love him. “He walked into our lives, and he walked into our hearts. Let’s appreciate that,” Terry-Morgan said.

After Terry-Morgan spoke, the lights dimmed so that a photographic montage prepared

by Rites and Reasons Theatre could run as a backdrop to more words from Pagan’s friends.

Though several of the photographs caused people to laugh, most of the attendants were tearful by the time the lights were raised once again.

The service concluded with a rendition of “This Little Light of Mine” led by the RPM Singers.

As they sang, those in attendance stood and people circled Sayles lighting candles that were passed out at the beginning of the service.

In her speech, Dill asked the congregation to “hold in our hearts the passion Luis had for social justice,” adding that, “If we can, then Luis will still be walking among us.” As the candles glimmered throughout Sayles, it seemed that Pagan’s loved ones had found a way to keep him in their hearts.

A reception followed the service at Leung Gallery in Faunce House.

white and every shade in between.

Gray characters emerge from this world: the President of the Metropolitan Tap-Water Runners’ Association, a man who believes that the entire world should be organized like a butcher shop and an architect who plans the death of the sidewalk. Katchor’s shadowy world often attempts to draw the lines between absurd and ordinary and points out the strangeness of everyday activities, as well as the importance of the inane.

The artwork on display has been organized around prominent themes in Katchor’s work. According to Ani Mukherji GS, the teaching assistant for the class that organized the display, “The intent was both to capture the main social themes in Katchor’s work and also elucidate those themes that spoke most profoundly to the students.”

The few full-color strips are futuristic and satiric, using color to highlight the gaudiness of consumer culture.

Katchor’s characters marvel at apartments with bathtubs as deep as aquifers, where the management discourages the use of non-buoyant soap. Other strips contain the modern marvels of walk-thru walls, lighting that adjusts according to one’s complexion and houses that change to reflect the state of the bed sheets. The incredible thing is that Katchor’s “future” is often so close to reality, or what our reality is fast approaching.

Absurd as his world is, Katchor’s work has the ability to comment on our culture in a very real way.

“The Insomniac’s Mansion and other Picture Stories” is on view in the Carriage House Gallery of John Nicholas Brown Center until Feb. 7 and is open from 2 to 4 p.m.

MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 7

Rafe continued from page 1 I’m going to have to do. I just need to be prepared for … well, pretty much anything.”

As another way of preparing, Judkins had also audited a spring course on Mayan civilization: AN 52: “Classic Mayan Civilization,” taught by Professor of Anthropology Stephen Houston. The class focused on the ancient civilization that once flourished in present-day Central America, and Judkins learned about Mayan customs as well as the flora and fauna of Guatemala and the surrounding region.

“The class gave me some background in the area and Mayan civilization,” Judkins said. Later on, during the season finale of the show, he would be the only member of the final four contestants who would choose not to partake of a sacrificial offering of burnt chicken, out of respect for the Mayan ceremony.

Houston remembered Judkins as “a friendly-looking, smiling, red-haired fellow who always sat at the back of the class,” adding that he was astonished to later see Judkins on the show. While Houston didn’t regularly watch “Survivor,” he did visit the show’s Web site to monitor Judkins’ progress.

“I was pleased to see him doing so well,” Houston said. “It’s great that he got something out of the class, and I think it’s great that Brown had such a nice guy representing the school.”

Judkins gained additional preparation for the show from his experience in Brown Outdoor Leadership Training. He credited the program as being the “best preparation” he had and said that it gave him extra confidence going into the show despite being one of the youngest participants.

“BOLT really gave me the tools to go out there — not just because it was outdoors, but also because I learned about communication and diversity and leadership. It taught me so many important skills,” Judkins said.

In the wild In June, a helicopter dropped him off in the Guatemalan jungle.

Judkins successfully survived for almost 40 days, outlasting 15 other contestants. By the time the season finale aired Dec. 11, Judkins was one of the final four competitors, along with Danni Boatwright, Stephenie LaGrossa and Lydia Morales.

Judkins did well at the start of the episode, winning the first immunity challenge by running through a large maze to collect puzzle pieces and assembling them into an image before three other contestants. He secured a spot in the final trio.

“I really liked all of them,” Judkins said of the other three contestants. “We all got along really well, and it was hard to vote someone off.” In the end, however, Judkins, Boatwright

and LaGrossa voted off Morales.

The three remaining contestants then went on to face the final immunity challenge.

Whoever won it would advance to the final two and be allowed to choose another contestant to advance and face the jury. Both Boatwright and LaGrossa had promised to take Judkins if either of them won immunity in the round, so Judkins felt his position was secure.

The final immunity challenge was a test of balance and stamina in which the three competitors had to balance on a small, wobbling platform that tilted 360 degrees in all directions. If at any point their feet touched the ground or poles for support, they would be disqualified.

For the first hour, each player was allowed to hold onto two ropes to maintain his or her balance. After the hour had passed, however, they had to release one rope. At this point, both Boatwright and LaGrossa slipped, losing their balance and struggling to keep their feet from touching the ground. Judkins managed to maintain his balance on the platform a little longer.

“I thought that since they (Boatwright and LaGrossa) had slipped, I had won the challenge!

And I was thinking ‘Wow, I just won a million dollars!’” Judkins said.

However, the challenge continued as Judkins lost his balance.

The three contestants struggled to keep their feet from touching the ground by holding onto the single rope and leaning their backs on a pole in a wall-sit position. According to Judkins, it was easier for Boatwright to balance between the platform and pole because she was taller, while Judkins was in a great deal of pain. Eventually, his foot touched the pole as he struggled to stay upright, and Judkins was eliminated from the challenge.

After LaGrossa lost, Boatwright won final immunity.

A fateful decision At this point, Judkins decided to relinquish his promised spot in the final two.

“Danni felt that if she took me, she would lose whereas if she took Steph she would win,” Judkins said. He told Boatwright that she didn’t have to keep her promise, saying that she should “make the best decision for herself.”

“I didn’t want to strong-arm her,” said Judkins, who after speaking with Boatwright still thought she might take him to the final two. In the end, however, he was voted out. Judkins maintains that he does not regret his decision. Though he did want to win, he acknowledged that he was better-off financially than Boatwright.

“I decided that if she really needed the money, that she could betray me,” Judkins said.

“I mean, it’s still a betrayal, but I was the one who put both of them (Boatwright and LaGrossa) into the position that they had to take me to the final two if either of them won. That just wasn’t

right.”

Back home During the time Judkins spent in Guatemala, his family created elaborate stories to keep his participation on the show a secret. Fortunately, Judkins and his younger brother, Landon Judkins ’09, had previously planned a 15-month world trip together. Landon had planned on deferring his admission to Brown for one year, but the trip was cancelled so that Rafe could participate in “Survivor: Guatemala.” Most of the family’s friends and relatives, however, still thought the trip was on schedule, so they were told that both Rafe and Landon were on a farm in Norway. Those who were in Pittsburgh, however, knew that Landon was at home, so these friends were told that Rafe was in Greece studying sea turtles.

“It was pretty much entirely fabrication,” said Landon, who had known about his brother’s intentions to go on the show as early as January of 2005.

Landon Judkins said that he had not been too worried about his brother. “I’d seen a few seasons of ‘Survivor,’ and I figured he’d be able to handle it,” he said. “Of course, the Guatemala season turned out to be the toughest ‘Survivor’ yet, but Rafe’s pretty tough too. I figured he’d be okay.”

Though many of his relatives and friends were initially excited, they were also nervous, particularly because he wouldn’t be able to communicate with them about the show at all. But the general worry turned out to have some positive side-effects.

“Normally, after graduation a lot of friends lose touch, but my friends would keep calling each other to ask how I was doing,” Rafe said. “It brought everyone

together.”

Outside of friends and family, many of Judkins’ fans have also come together to support their favorite “Survivor.” The “Rafe Judkins Fan Club” on TheFacebook.com and the fan site designed by Landon Judkins — www.rafejudkins.net — are just two examples of online sites dedicated to Judkins. In the latter site’s guestbook, people from all over the world voice their support. One young fan wrote, “I am Jack and i am nine years old and live in sydney australia. You and Stephenie were my favourite survivors.” Another fan wrote, “I loved the game you played and everything you brought to what we saw on the air. I think you changed the face of survivor.

Thanks for putting yourself out there. Your courage, heart, and honesty spoke to many of us.”

Judkins said his newfound fame takes some getting used to, particularly when fans recognize him and approach him in supermarkets and other public places.

“It seems weird that an experience that was so personal to me was watched by all of America,” he explained. But Judkins went on to emphasize that the recognition also had its positive sides.

“As a gay man, I really appreciate the fact that fans have come up to me and said that I changed their views and inspired them,” he said. During a recent trip to visit his old high school, Pittsburgh ‘s Sewickley Academy, the school threw a “Rafe Day.” “All the kids were wearing Rafe T-shirts,” Judkins said. “My high school used to be so conservative that gay teachers weren’t allowed to openly come out of the closet.

But the students were being inspired by me ... a gay man and

role model. It felt really good, and made me feel better about how I played the game.”

Judkins also recommended the reality television experience to college undergraduates as “the best summer internship” possible.

“I was blind-folded, flown in a helicopter and dropped off in the jungle, and I had to survive for almost 40 days. I had to make friends and make tough decisions. And now, I feel so much more self-reliant and more confident in myself as an individual. I left the show feeling like I could do anything.”

He acknowledged that Brown students in particular have a unique sense of independence that networks look for when choosing people for the shows.

“Of course,” Judkins added, “most Brown students are also too socially conscious to even watch reality TV, let alone apply to be on one of the shows!”

Now, as he pursues his dreams of becoming a screenwriter in Los Angeles, Judkins says he feels confident in his ability to succeed. “Survivor” also helped him along his path, giving him contacts in the industry and making it possible for him to secure meetings with agents he would not have been able to arrange otherwise. And until his career takes off, he is able to support himself now through speaking engagements and autograph appearances.

Of course, there is also that $85,000 prize he won as the second runner-up, which he invested to provide a “safety bubble” while out in Los Angeles.

“This way, if things don’t go well, I’ll still have something to fall back on,” Judkins said, showing that his “Survivor” mentality is still intact.

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Bond continued from page 1

The war in Iraq has “as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion,” he said, adding that the administration used Sept. 11, 2001 as “an excuse to wage war in Iraq.”

Bond went on to imply that if nothing is done, America’s political climate will likely worsen. “Now, they want to write bigotry into the Constitution … to amend the Constitution to create a class of second-class citizens,” he said of Bush’s push

to make gay marriage illegal.

A supporter of affirmative action, Bond said that it has been “under attack not because it has failed, but because it had succeeded,” pointing to what he called a rising number of educated black citizens. He dismissed claims that affirmative action ultimately hurts those it aims to help, even citing Bush as an example of affirmative action. “What about those that got a good job because dad was the president of the U.S.?” he asked.

Bond argued that the Bush administration uses Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as “human shields” against

criticism on human rights issues.

He added that, in actuality, the administration’s “idea of compassion is to say ‘Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.’”

The Democratic Party, however, did not escape Bond’s criticism either. “Too often they’re not an opposition,” he said, “They’ve been absent without leave. … When one party is shameless, the other can’t afford to be spineless.”

Bond ended his speech by urging the audience to take action. “By the year 2050, blacks and Hispanics will make up 40 percent of the population,” he said, urging blacks and Hispanics not to fight one another, but instead fight together.

“We’ve never wished our way to freedom, instead we’ve always worked our way,” Bond said. “All of us are implicated in the continuation of inequality.”

During the question-andanswer session, students asked how to tackle issues such as urban education and the 2008 presidential election. Bond responded by saying the NAACP will make sure that as many black voters are registered as possible and encouraged the audience to join the NAACP, which he said accepts people of all races.

Professor of Political Science Marion Orr, who shows one of his classes clips from “Eyes on the Prize,” the acclaimed documentary on civil rights that Bond narrates, said he was honored to introduce Bond. He added that he hopes everyone in the audience — whom he said was about the same age as King was when he began pressing for social change — would glean inspiration from the talk.

“I thought he had a very funny way of presenting some of the issues facing African Americans and Americans in general,” said one attendee, Stefan Lallinger ’08. “It was very entertaining and eye-opening. He inspired me to be more critical of both political parties and not just focus my attention on criticizing one party.”

Wrestling continued from page 12 Drexel and Lehigh and you could see we just ran out of steam at the end. But the fact was nobody wrestled with any intensity (against the Mountain Hawks).

Lehigh had some guys out with injuries and we felt like we could compete with them going into it, but they beat us with three JV guys. Give them credit because they are very tough but we didn’t wrestle smart at all.”

Following the two onepoint defeats, Brown entered the match against the ranked Mountain Hawks looking to win three or four matches and keep the score close in order to salvage the weekend. If the Bears hung around long enough, they believed they might be able to steal the match from the formidable Lehigh squad late.

However, the Hawks won the first three matches and never looked back, and the Bears could do little to halt the momentum.

“We came out a little outgunned, a little outmanned and once they get on a roll like that its hard to stop it,” said co-captain Michael Savino ’06. “You want to get a win to stop the bleeding, but then you see all your big guns going down and it’s tough.”

In almost every match, the Bears dug themselves large holes from which they could not recover as they scrambled to accumulate points. The lone exception for the Bears in the Lehigh loss was the performance of Mike Ashton ’06 at 149 pounds. Ashton wrestled in second position for Bruno and almost pulled off an upset of last year’s ECAC runner-up in his weight class, Lehigh’s Matt Ciasulli, before falling 7-4.

“These are long weekends for us,” Aston said. “That’s not an excuse, everyone knew we had three matches. But we lost two close matches, which is tough, and by the third I think guys were a little drained.”

Although the Lehigh loss was disheartening, especially given the way Bruno had competed against strong teams from Purdue University, No. 23 University of Wisconsin-Madison and American University earlier this season, the losses to Army and Drexel were what frustrated the team most. Against both squads, Brown won five of the 10 matches, but lost due to the ability of the

Black Knights and the Dragons to accrue bonus points in their victories. Army scored two major decisions to Bruno’s one, which proved to be the difference on Saturday. On Friday, Brown forfeited the 174-pound bout when Branden Stearns ’09 failed to make weight. The defaulted match gave Drexel six points and provided the Dragons with the winning margin.

“It was a rookie mistake,” said Savino of the forfeited match.

“A six-point swing is tough to overcome. We all were out there trying to pull out major decisions to make up for it. It was a freshman mistake, but he apologized to the team and we moved on. I thought the guys all really battled back after it.”

Knowing that they would eventually surrender six free points, the Bears started the match with some impressive individual wins. Mark Savino ’08 scored a major decision against his opponent at 141 pounds, while Shawn Kitchner ’07 and Levon Mock ’08 also won their matches at 165 pounds and heavyweight, respectively.

Against Army, Savino recorded another major decision, while wins by Mock, Kitchner, Michael Savino and Dan Appello ’06 at 133 pounds put Bruno in position to win. However, Army managed to eke out the victory with the extra major decision.

“Shawn Kitchner had a great win for us this morning,” Amato said of Kitchner’s 9-4 defeat of the Black Knights’ Jon Anderson.

“I don’t know, maybe the past two matches were a little too emotional (leading to a letdown against Lehigh).”

The Bears are resolved not to dwell on a disappointing weekend. With the University of Pennsylvania — No. 22 in the nation — and Princeton visiting town next weekend, the team simply cannot afford to.

“We’re going to just put this behind us,” Savino said. “You’ve got to let it go. Penn and Princeton are here next weekend and there are going to be a lot of alumni here.

We are going to try to get some big crowds out for those matches.

They’re both tough teams, but I think we match up real well with them, so I’m excited and I’m going to make sure everyone else is excited too.”

The Bears will host the Quakers Friday at 3 p.m. and Princeton on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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M. hoops continued from page 12 Miller said. “We could have put the game away if we had just done reasonably at the line. … But our offense is starting to come together (and) for a young team to build some confidence with some wins, it’s big.”

Dartmouth jumped to an early lead, scoring 10 straight points to go up 1910 with 8:42 left in the first half. But the Bears responded with a 9-0 run as Jeppesen began to assert himself. After coming up with a defensive rebound, he took off down the court and found Mark McAndrew ’08 for an open threepointer. McAndrew drained it despite losing a shoe earlier in the play, cutting Dartmouth’s lead to 19-17. On the next possession, Jeppesen found his own shot, nailing a jumper to tie the game.

Jeppesen finished with a career-high 25 points on 9-of-12 shooting to go along with six steals, four rebounds and three assists. Twenty-one of Jeppesen’s points came during regulation, helping the Bears force overtime.

“He’s getting a lot of time, he’s getting more comfortable and more aggressive,” Miller said of Jeppesen, who played 49 minutes on Friday. “He was huge for us.”

Ruscoe, who has been battling an ankle injury that sidelined him for the Harvard game, also came up big for the Bears, logging 33 minutes off the bench and sinking a clutch jumper at the end of regulation. Trailing 55-53 with 29 seconds left, Miller drew up a play for point guard Marcus Becker ’07, but the play broke down. Ruscoe, the team’s lone senior, stepped up and drained a jumper just inside the arc with 10 seconds on the clock to tie the game. “(Ruscoe’s shot) was tremendous for us,” said forward Scott Friske ’09. “He’s a great leader on the floor. … He just created his own shot, and it was a good shot.”

In the first overtime, the Bears scored the first six points, taking a 61-55 lead on free throws by Becker and layups by Jeppesen and Friske. But Dartmouth clawed back and tied the score at 64-64 when Calvin Arnold hit a jumper with 16 seconds left. On the next possession, Jeppesen drove the lane for the last shot but lost control of the ball as the clock ran out, the score still knotted at 64-64.

Guard Damon Huffman ’08, who missed two key free throws in the first overtime, made up for it in the second extra frame by draining two threepointers. The second one gave the Bears a 71-67 lead with 2:07 to play.

“I was on his case just about the whole game,” said Miller, who thought Huffman lagged on defense but stepped up late.

“Those were some big shots he hit.”

W. hoops continued from page 12 second half on a 10-1 run that pushed its lead to 48-29. After that, it was difficult for the Bears to get back into the game because of Dartmouth’s continued hot shooting. In the second stanza, the Big Green went four for four from threepoint land and 51 percent from the floor overall.

This time, Brown could not keep pace, shooting just 22 percent from the floor in the second half. “We were just off in the second half,” Hayes said.

“When our offense is not clicking, our defense struggles too.”

King-Bishcof was the only Bear in double figures with 14 points. Cullen led all scorers with 21.

Determined to secure at least one victory on the weekend, Brown came out hard the next night against Harvard.

Dartmouth’s Leon Pattman responded with a three that cut the lead to 71-70. But Becker made one of two free throws and the Bears came up with a critical stop on the other end of the floor. Ruscoe made one of two free throws to push the score to 73-70 with one second left to wrap up the hard-fought win.

On Saturday, against a Harvard team that came in with a 10-6 record overall and 2-1 mark in the Ivy League, the Bears’ defense had no answer for Jim Goffredo.

The sharp-shooting guard caught fire, hitting five of five three-pointers and a free throw over a span of 3:10 late in the first half. He drained another three with 29 seconds left before halftime to give the Crimson a 45-23 lead, their largest of the game. Goffredo finished the half with 22 points and had 30 by game’s end with eight three-pointers — one shy of the Harvard single-game record.

“We had to do a better job of knowing where he was,” said Miller of Goffredo, who found himself wide open for many of his first-half shots. “I felt to start the game he didn’t get too many open looks, but then we lost track of him and he got hot. He’s one of the better shooters in our league.”

The Bears struggled to get their own offense going in the first half, hitting nine of 23 shots and only two of 9 from downtown. The Crimson also crushed Bruno on the boards, ripping down 20 to the Bears’ eight.

“Harvard did a good job pressuring us and we just didn’t execute the way we should have,” Jeppesen said. “We just need to go back to practice and run through our stuff and get things together.”

The Bears played better in the second half, outscoring Harvard 35-30. While the Crimson pulled back on their defensive pressure, Miller felt that his team still made a marked improvement from the first half.

“In the second half we started to run the offense better,” he said. “No doubt about it. We struggled in the first half just getting into our offense, but in the second half the game opened up a little bit for us and there was much better execution.”

Despite turning the ball over six times, Jeppesen had another strong game, scoring a team-high 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting to give him four straight games with double-digit points. Center Mark MacDonald ’08 also shot well, netting four of six three-pointers and scoring a season-high 16 points.

Tri-captain Ruscoe did not enter the game. His ankle responded poorly to playing 33 minutes the night before.

The Bears return to action on Friday when they travel to Philadelphia to take on the league-leading University of Pennsylvania Quakers. On Saturday, they travel to Princeton, N.J. to face the Tigers.

Bruno kept the lead throughout the first twenty minutes, en route to a 32-24 halftime lead.

However, the Crimson showed a lot of resolve, battling back in the second half and eventually taking the lead.

“The crowd got behind them and they definitely fed off that,” Hayes said. “We also started sending them to the freethrow line and they capitalized.”

After a Crimson free throw with under five seconds to go tied the game at 62, Hayes got open 30 feet from the basket, and Kelly hit her with a great inbounds pass from under the Brown hoop. Hayes took two dribbles and pulled up just inside the arc. She calmly drained a two-pointer with four-tenths of a second remaining.

“Colleen just heaved it and I was there,” Hayes said. “I was pretty surprised to be as open as I was.

Normally in those situations, teams try to deny everything.”

“That was not really the play that was

Bourgeois continued from page 12 Wemple resigned, Lake was hired to take Johnson’s place, Gregorek resigned, Jerome Romain was hired as assistant coach for jumps and multi events, George Evans was hired as assistant coach for sprints and hurdles, former jumps and multi events coach Anne Rothenberg took an anticipated step back to pole vault specialist to help Romain’s transition and Bourgeois joined and left the staff.

“I guess you never get used to coaches coming and going, but there’s been so

W. icers continued from page 12 goaltender O’Hara Shipe ’08 faced an almost identical barrage of shots by Cornell. Using her stick to stop the initial shot, Shipe next turned aside a redirected slap shot and then hung on to a wrist shot to keep the game scoreless.

The second period began with the score still tied at 0-0. Shipe once again came up big in the first five minutes of the period, poking away the puck on a 2-1 odd-man rush. Brown skated well at even strength, retaining possession of the puck deep in Cornell’s zone for over a minute and a half on one shift.

However, on Cornell’s first power play of the game, Jen Munhofen’s slap shot popped up and over Shipe so that Briane Schmidt had only to tap the puck in to give the Big Red a 1-0 lead.

Cornell struck again on the power play at 15:07, when Brittany Forgues roofed an impressive backhanded shot to extend the lead to two.

With just over three minutes to play in the period, Keaton Zucker ’06 took a pass from Moore and made a quick move on the defender to give herself the room and angle to take a shot, which she snuck by Baronick to bring the team within one goal.

The Bears were unable to complete the comeback, though. In the third period a desperate Brown attack lost the puck to Halina Kristalyn, resulting in a breakaway. Kristalyn made a move to her backhand. The Big Red forward slid the puck between the goalie’s legs to give Cornell a 3-1 lead that held up the rest of the way.

“We had no luck,” Murphy said of her team who outshot the Big Red 2713. “We definitely played down to the competition. You have to show up for every game.”

The Bears returned to the ice on Saturday afternoon and played a

drawn up in the huddle,” Kelly said. “But I knew Sarah could beat her defender, so I threw it and I knew she would be there.”

Hayes led the Bears with 16 points, while Kelly added 15. It was a good game for Kelly, who bounced back from a tough shooting performance against Dartmouth to help secure the win.

“We played a lot better as a team on Saturday,” Kelly said. “We passed the ball a lot better and got a lot more open shots.”

Brown returns home next weekend against the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton for its first Ivy home games after winter break.

“We play very well at home, so it will definitely be good to be back,” Hayes said. “With no Ivy League tournament, we have to make sure that we win every game on our home court if we want to be champions.”

Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. both nights at the Pizzitola Center.

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many changes by now we’ve gotten accustomed to the fact that things are changing,” said distance runner Chris Burke ’07. “When two coaches leave in the middle of the season you learn things can happen.”

Bourgeois declined to comment on his departure, but team members commented on the way he handled his decision.

“He didn’t reveal any of his frustrations, which was very professional,” said distance runner Nick Neely ’07. “We have no idea why he left. … He didn’t want a situation like we had earlier (with Gregorek’s departure).”

Lake did not respond to e-mails or phone calls.

complete game from start to finish in beating Colgate.

Moore opened up the scoring seven minutes into the contest with a perfect wrist shot into the top corner of the net.

“Hayley’s goal was unbelievable,” Murphy said. “That was an incredible shot and she put it right under the crossbar. She knew it was going topshelf.”

In the second period, the Bears continued to out-play Colgate.

Goaltender Nicole Stock ’09, who got the start in net stopped all seven shots she faced.

“We have three really good goaltenders,” Stock said. “You just have to be ready to come in and play. The team played really well in front of me.”

With just under seven minutes gone by in the second, a shot by Savannah Smith ’09 bounced to Ashlee Drover ’06, who buried the puck to give the Bears a 2-0 lead.

Brown maintained control of the game in the third period. Opening up the period on the power play, the team continued to apply pressure, trying to put the game out of reach. Zucker did just that, collecting the puck from behind the net and banking it off Colgate goaltender Brook Wheeler’s legs for an improbable third goal.

Brown coasted the rest of the way, only allowing Colgate to take three shots.

The Bears will resume their quest to remain on top of the ECACHL standings when they travel to Cambridge to face Harvard on Friday.

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Keaton Zucker ’06 had goals in both games this weekend, giving her eight on the season.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

The spirit of ’69 For three days in May 1969, a series of faculty meetings addressed reforms to the curriculum that had been developed in a massive Group Independent Study Project three years earlier.

On the second day of the meetings — which were held in Sayles Hall and partly broadcast on the Main Green by loudspeakers — classes were cancelled and hundreds of students cheered and booed outside Sayles in response to the debate within.

The 80 students and 15 faculty members of the GISP produced a 418-page paper on education at Brown. By the end of the meetings, the faculty had approved the New Curriculum.

That was the right way to make decisions about the curriculum.

Now, the grading policy approved during those meetings over 30 years ago faces potentially dramatic changes, yet the beginnings of the debate saw alarmingly little discussion.

In December, we breathed a sigh of relief when the College Curriculum Council — a body made up of a handful of students, faculty and administrators — postponed making a recommendation on allowing pluses and minuses into Brown’s grading system. The CCC will discuss the issue again Tuesday. Once the CCC makes its recommendation, the Faculty Executive Committee, which has no student members, will make a decision on the matter.

The CCC first examined the grading issue in view of a 2002 survey, conducted by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, that found 80 percent of Brown faculty and graduate students were in favor of adding pluses and minuses to grades. A 2003 CCC report on grading called for extensive consultation with students through polls, forums and surveys.

The consultation never happened.

We wonder why Dean of the College Paul Armstrong, who chairs the CCC, drafted and introduced a proposal to add pluses and minuses to Brown’s grading system without following the 2003 recommendations. We also wonder if this is the right time for the dean of the college, whose resignation was announced just two weeks ago, to lead a discussion about grading at Brown.

The CCC should follow its own recommendations and undertake a major project to discuss grading with undergraduates, who will be far more affected by any change than the faculty. Students live with their transcripts for their entire lives, beginning the moment they walk out of the Van Wickle Gates. Open up Sayles Hall and let the meetings begin — that’s the spirit of ’69.

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LETTERS Kennedy/Abramoff link misrepresented To the Editor: In the Jan. 27 article “Kennedy Caught Up in Abramoff Scandal,” The Herald misleads its readers.

For the record, Jack Abramoff is a Republican.

From his early days with the College Republicans to his massive fundraising for President Bush, he has always been a Republican. All his donations have been to Republicans. All those indicted for receiving his bribes are Republicans. It makes sense that Patrick Kennedy, the Democratic head of the Indian Affairs Committee, would have received campaign contributions from Indian tribes. Sadly, it also makes sense that, unaware he would defraud them, Indian tribes hired Jack Abramoff to lobby Republicans. Most groups try to influence both sides on Capital Hill. But it makes no sense, and is fundamentally untrue, that this somehow makes contributions from Indian tribes “Abramoff-linked.”

It’s not the tribes whose hands are tainted; rather,

it’s Abramoff’s and the Republicans’. When it comes to the Abramoff scandal, the difference between Republicans and Democrats could not be clearer: many high-level Republicans got illegal bribes from Abramoff, while the same could not be said for a single Democrat.

That the GOP attempts to confuse Americans into believing that this massive scandal is somehow “bipartisan” is not surprising. That The Herald would reproduce such nonsense is. For anyone who wants to know how Saddam came to be “linked” with Al-Qaeda, simply consider the way that the mainstream media, including The Herald, is once again regurgitating the right-wing’s inverted logic.

Zachary Rynar ’06 Jan. 28

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The same article incorrectly referred to a 10 percent increase in last year’s regular decision applicant pool. That figure actually refers to the increase in total applicants last year.

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OPINIONS

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006 · PAGE 11

Morning for Iran’s neoconservatives

BY BARRON YOUNGSMITH OPINIONS COLUMNIST

There was a time when the word “Shi’ite” was synonymous with Islamic fundamentalism. Following Iran’s 1979 revolution, television images of Persian hostage-takers swarming the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the Iranian-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah kidnapping officials in Beirut, hijacking airplanes and leveling U.S. marine barracks all helped crown the Shi’ite Muslim radical — and thus the state of Iran — as the archetypical face of global terrorism.

Iranian clerics discovered in fundamentalist Islam a working formula to combat Western domination.

The ideology enabled them to succeed both at deposing the Shah at home and forcing U.S. troops to retreat from their deployments in the region.

Islamic militancy got results where Arab nationalism did not. Like the French and Russian revolutions before it, Iran’s revolution held the promise of overthrowing monarchs throughout the region and spreading a newlyminted model of society to neighboring countries.

Since then, however, not a single country in the Middle East has successfully imitated the revolution that held such promise in 1979. Global terrorism is now considered the franchise of an angry Saudi entrepreneur, rather than the descendants of Darius and Xerxes.

The fearsome ayatollahs chose to spend the 1990s halfheartedly invalidating the election bids of liberal reformers and

subtly encouraging widespread drug use as an alternative to civil unrest. Student protests became rampant. Confidence in the state fell to an all time low. As Jimmy Carter put it, Iran was suffering from malaise.

Indeed, the Iran-Iraq War induced a loss of moral confidence in the Islamic Republic worse than that of the United States in Vietnam.

Over the course of an eightyear war waged against fellow Muslims, the Iranian government repeatedly compromised its country’s ideals. It was then revealed that Iran had accepted arms shipments from the United States and Israel. By the time peace finally arrived, punishing inflation and a drastic drop in government oil revenues had corroded the theocratic society, sapping its ability to spread Iran’s values to the rest of the Muslim world. Instead, what followed was a decade of uneven consumerism, flirtation with reforms and leadership that came to be seen as wishy-washy and elitist in the eyes of the electorate.

It makes sense, then, to think of the Islamic Republic’s new administration as a bunch of Iranian neoconservatives, attempting to reinvigorate the Iranian dream after a decade of soul-searching and decline. Their agenda marries reinvigorated traditional values with a muscular, prosletyzing foreign policy.

As the neoconservative philosopher Leo Strauss advocated, the new Iranian

administration is using conflict with foreign powers as a tool for domestic rejuvenation while concurrently advancing their foreign policy goals.

Certainly, thumbing their noses at the UN,

she catalyzed Britain by winning a small war in the strategically insignificant Falkland Islands, giving her the political stature to become the ideological vanguard of her era.

By openly driving to develop nuclear weapons, the ayatollahs have made a bet equal to George Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. A strategic logic similar to Bush’s is also at work in Iran: If we don’t do it now, things are going to get worse in the future.

And confrontation with the West will reshape the ideological and political landscape of the Middle East, simultaneously building support for Ahmadinejad’s domestic appeals to traditional values, renewing populist resentment against the urban liberal “status quo” and rehabilitate Iran’s national purpose. Iranian flag stickers will appear on pickup trucks and window displays from Tehran to Bushehr. It will again be morning in Iran.

And, like the neoconservatives in the United States, the Iranians’ vision of a theocratic Middle East will run its course until it is inevitably circumscribed by real-world limits on Iranian power. But before that happens, Shi’ite theocracy may again become an entity respected and feared in the Islamic world.

The Iranian agenda marries reinvigorated traditional values with a muscular, proselytizing foreign policy. building nuclear weapons, threatening to make good on the destruction of Israel and giving European diplomacy the cold shoulder can only produce two outcomes. The first potential result: both Israel and the United States will attack Iran, uniting Iran’s population against the West and catapulting them back to leadership of the Islamic world. Or the second: Iran succeeds in developing a nuclear bomb, immensely raising the stature and leverage of its Islamic theocracy.

This is a big gamble for a government to take with its own country. But it is a reasonable risk, given that the Iranian regime was on a certain trajectory towards either liberal reform or collapse just three short years ago. It is worth remembering that Margaret Thatcher’s policies were headed for the dustbin until

Barron YoungSmith ’06 is the outgoing editor of the Brown Journal of World Affairs.

Oversimplified sweatshop debate worse than actual sweatshops

BY JACOB SCHUMAN OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Jason Carr ’09’s article, “Antisweatshop activists miss the point” was one of the most original, sophisticated and thought-provoking arguments that I have ever been privileged to read. Surely no one in history, nor at Brown, nor even in the past semester at The Herald (see: “Blame Democrats for workers’ plight,” Nov. 2, or “Let the economists take care of it, OK?,” Oct. 7 and also “Wal-Mart: a friend with benefits,” Sept. 15) has ever already made Carr’s blindingly brilliant observations on the realities and consequences of minimum wage and antisweatshop legislation. When all the complexities of free trade economics, political systems, immigration laws, education policies, indigenous cultures, development strategies and the natural environment are taken into account, Carr’s simple declaration that “Sweatshops exist because the workers want to work there,” perfectly and completely sums up the entire issue. Campus discourse has been elevated to new heights of erudition and intelligence. Thank you.

Whew! After writing that first paragraph, I feel like I’ve been working in a sarcasm sweatshop!

Despite what Jason Carr and, to be

fair, the Student Labor Alliance would both like you to think, the reality of the sweatshop controversy is actually incredibly complicated and it has no easy, black and white solution. Like for all divisive issues, it would be misguided and obtuse — some might even say

or work safety laws, then businesses would have no reason to build factories in those countries in the first place and thousands of workers would lose their jobs and their livelihoods.

Sweatshops also provide a high quantity of inexpensive goods that allow poor consumers in other nations to afford products that they may not have been able to otherwise. Additionally, no one is physically forcing sweat-shop laborers to take low wages, work long hours and suffer under hazardous conditions — if she doesn’t like it, then little 11-year-old Najwa can just quit her job and instead spend her time at home playing with her dolls while her family starves to death. It’s her choice, after all.

Carr’s article ends here, leaving a gaping vacuum where a more skilled and reasonable advocate would recognize the complexity of the issue and the potential validity of some of his opponents’ claims.

For instance, one could consider the increasing number of worker riots in China, the repeated (foiled) attempts

by Latin American laborers to unionize and the recent overwhelming popular elections of left-wing anti-globalization leaders Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Venezuela and Bolivia, respectively, which all suggest that perhaps Carr is erroneous in his assertions that Third

American satirist H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.” stupid — for someone to claim that there are clear and simple “right” and “wrong” answers to this problem and that one’s opponents are merely pursuing the incorrect course. In intelligent debate, it is vital to recognize both the weaknesses of one’s assertions and the viewpoints of one’s opponents. Carr’s article fails not because of its argument, but because it refuses to consider its own fallibility.

Carr’s article contains several accurate points supporting the necessity of sweatshop labor. If the United States stopped importing goods from countries without minimum wage

World laborers actually want to work in sweatshop factories. The fact that child labor did not disappear in the United States until legislation was passed banning the practice is another point that a writer who truly sought a full understanding of the issue would acknowledge. Though Carr styles sweatshops as “supposedly exploitative factories,” a more sincere activist might recognize that businesses paying low wages in unsafe conditions because laborers have no other option but to work in their factories is the textbook definition of “exploitation.”

American satirist H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.” Carr’s article is an uncomplicated, unhesitating and absolute rejection of the anti-sweatshop movement — and it is an outstanding exercise in thoughtlessness, inanity and intellectual dishonesty. Advocates who are unafraid of recognizing that no issue can be distilled to a plain right and wrong and still retain their confidence are ultimately more capable of producing mature, convincing and successful arguments. Intelligent discourse, which values true understanding above mindless propaganda, requires intellectual honesty, open-mindedness and the ability to appreciate and acknowledge all sides of an issue.

Hopefully, The Herald’s opinions pages will reflect this in the future.

Jacob Schuman ’08 is your homeboy.

SPORTS MONDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · JANUARY 30, 2006 · PAGE 12

After thrilling 2 OT win, Last-second jumper against Harvard salvages weekend split for w. basketball m. hoops brought back down to earth by Harvard

BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

This weekend was a test for the women’s basketball team. If the Bears could go into both Harvard and Dartmouth and win, they would establish themselves as one of the top teams in the Ivy League. However, Dartmouth was not ready to give the Bears that chance, and Bruno fell 73-51 Friday night. The Bears rebounded the following night, barely getting past Harvard 6462 on a jumper by co-captain Sarah Hayes ’06 with less than one second left.

Brown once again had trouble in Hanover, where it had not won since 1995. The Big Green, who are fifth in the nation in three-point shooting, shot 11-for-15 from behind the arc, taking the lead the lead with 12:32 left in the first half and not looking back.

“They executed really well,” Hayes said. “They were getting open, and when they were open, they were hitting everything.”

Brown kept it close in the first half with some hot shooting. Ashley King-Bischof ’07 and Colleen Kelly ’06 both had three-pointers in the early going to give Bruno a 13-12 advantage. That would be the last lead that Brown would see the entire game, as the Bears had no answer for Dartmouth’s

BY CHARLIE VALLELY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Ashley Hess / Herald

Co-captain Sarah Hayes ’06, here against South Dakota State, hit a jump shot with .4 seconds left to propel the women’s basketball team to a 64-62 victory over Harvard Saturday night.

Jeanie Cullen.

Whenever Brown got close, Cullen responded. With the score 23-21 with seven minutes to go in the first half, Cullen scored five consecutive points to push the lead to 28-21. She then added another late three to push the Big Green’s lead to 10. Cullen ended the first half with 18 points and three threes.

In the half, Dartmouth shot 7for-11 from three-point range and 50 percent from the floor.

Brown was able to keep pace, shooting 4-for-9 from beyond the arc and 51 percent from the floor to go into the half trailing 32-28.

Dartmouth opened the

The men’s basketball team played two games at the Pizzitola Center over the weekend; the first took extra time to decide, the second was over before halftime.

On Friday, the Bears beat Dartmouth, 73-70, in a doubleovertime thriller, overcoming poor free-throw shooting with timely jumpers and a careergame from forward Keenan Jeppesen ’08. But on Saturday night, the Bears lost to Harvard, 75-58, allowing the Crimson’s Jim Goffredo to explode for 22 first-half points that all but put the game out of reach.

Now 6-11 overall and 2-2 in the Ivy League, the Bears traded punches with the Big Green for most of the game.

Neither team led by more than six points over the last 34 minutes of play, and the Bears did not clinch the victory until forward Luke Ruscoe ’06 pulled down a defensive rebound with four seconds left in the second overtime. After the game, Head Coach Glen Miller was relieved

to have come away with the win, especially given that his team hit only 20 of 35 free throws.

“Our foul shooting killed us,” see M. HOOPS, page 9

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Forward Keenan Jeppesen ’08 led the Bears in scoring in both games this weekend.

W. ice hockey now on top of ECACHL standings Wrestlers fall by one point twice before after split in New York Lehigh blowout over trying weekend see W. HOOPS, page 9

BY TOM TRUDEAU SPORTS STAFF WRITER

BY STEPHEN COLELLI SPORTS EDITOR

Losses come in two different forms: heartbreakers and blowouts. The wrestling team tasted both types of defeat this weekend, emerging disappointed but unbowed. Brown dropped an 18-17 decision to Drexel University at the Pizzitola Center on Friday and

then fell to Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association rivals from the United States Military Academy, 17-16 and No. 14 Lehigh University, 40-0, on Saturday. The trio of setbacks dropped the team’s record to 1-3 in the conference and 4-6 overall.

The back-to-back one-point losses heading into their tough-

est match of the weekend against Lehigh did not bode well for the Bears. The team started off poorly against the Mountain Hawks and was never able to slow them down, despite the absence of top wrestlers Cory Cooperman, ranked third in the country at 141 pounds, and Troy Letters, ranked third at 165 pounds.

“This was probably the worst we wrestled all year,” said Head Coach Dave Amato following the Lehigh match. “We had two heartbreaking losses earlier to see WRESTLING, page 8

The women’s hockey team managed a split of its two home games this weekend, first being upset 3-1 by Cornell and then rebounding to dominate Colgate University 3-0. The Bears had no luck in the first game, but needed none in the second, skating hard from start to finish. The weekend leaves the Bears atop the ECACHL for the moment at 9-3-1 (10-8-2 overall).

“I’m impressed that our kids were able to bounce back and pretty much play a flawless game,” said Head Coach Digit

Murphy of Saturday’s victory.

On Friday night against the Big Red, who picked up just their second conference victory in the win, unlucky breaks, defensive miscues and poor penalty killing hurt the Bears.

Midway through the first period, Hayley Moore ’08 singlehandedly put pressure on Big Red goaltender Beth Baronick, taking three shots in a span of 30 seconds. Her final try, a hard, accurate wrist shot was held by Baronick to stop the relentless attack.

Only minutes later, Brown see W. ICERS, page 9

Coaching turnover continues as new m. distance coach Bourgeois ’93 leaves

BY CHRIS HATFIELD SPORTS EDITOR Ashley Hess / Herald

Mike Ashton ’06 dropped close matches against Drexel and Lehigh.

BROWN SPORTS SCOREBOARD FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 M. BASKETBALL: Brown 73, Dartmouth 70 (2 OT) W. BASKETBALL: Dartmouth 73, Brown 51 M. ICE HOCKEY: No. 5 Cornell 4, Brown 3 (OT) W. ICE HOCKEY: Cornell 3, Brown 1 M. SWIMMING: Harvard 194, Brown 104 WRESTLING: Drexel 18. Brown 17

M. SQUASH: Brown 8, Bowdoin 1; Brown 8, Colby 1 W. SQUASH: Brown 8, Bowdoin 1 W. SWIMMING: Brown 222.5, Cornell 77.5; Brown 186, Columbia 114 M. TRACK: Brown 73, Cornell 72, Harvard 25 W. TRACK: Cornell 82.5, Brown 41, Harvard 35.5 WRESTLING: Army 17, Brown 16; Lehigh 40, Brown 0

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 SUNDAY , JANUARY 29 M. BASKETBALL: Harvard 75, Brown 58 W. BASKETBALL: Brown 64, Harvard 62 M. ICE HOCKEY: Colgate 5, Brown 2 W. ICE HOCKEY: Brown 3, Colgate, 0 SKIING: 5th of 10 (Brown Carnival)

GYMNASTICS: Brown 181.9, Ithaca 181.075, MIT 176.65, R.I. Coll. 171.2 M. SQUASH: Brown 5, Bates 4 W. SQUASH: Brown 8, Bates 1

A season marked by coaching turnovers for the Brown track and field/cross country program continued last week when Men’s Assistant Distance Coach Sean Bourgeois ’93 resigned after just three months with the team.

Bourgeois sent an e-mail to members of the men’s distance team late last week telling them of his decision to leave.

A former distance runner for Brown, Bourgeois was hired to replace John Gregorek, who

resigned from his position as assistant cross country and track coach in late September.

But Bourgeois’ role was much different than Gregorek’s had been. Players speculated that he was more involved with “recruiting and administrative” duties, since he was not always at practice. Instead, Director of Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Craig Lake served as the primary distance coach for both the men’s and women’s squads.

“I think one thing that I was a bit surprised about was that he didn’t have much of a role

working with us day to day,” said cross country captain Owen Washburn ’06. “That was different because the men’s and women’s distance teams had always had separate coaches.”

Since May 2005, when Robert Johnson stepped down as the director of men’s and women’s track and field and cross country, there have been a number of changes in the coaching staff of Brown’s track and field program: women’s distance coach Rick see BOURGEOIS, page 9