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Pipe problems could cause heat loss A hot water line running under the Main Green developed a leak Wednesday evening, prompting emergency repairs and the possible shutdown of hot water and heating service to as many as 46 University buildings.

According to on-site workers from Facilities Management, possible reasons for the leak include frozen pipes or a crack in their insulation. The pipe did not burst but rather began leaking, causing steam to billow out of vents in front of Hope College. Soon after, cracks releasing steam developed in the sidewalk from the Main Green to Lincoln Field between Sayles Hall and the Salomon Center, the workers said.

Workers cordoned off both areas and began digging up an approximately five-

foot by twelve-feet hole in the sidewalk next to Sayles in what one worker said was an attempt to “expose the pipe and try and repair it tonight.” That attempt appeared to be unsuccessful.

An e-mail from Facilities Management to all on-campus residents Wednesday evening warned that University buildings might temporarily lose hot water and heating service, but it is not clear whether such a disruption actually occurred.

The e-mail indicated that if repairs were not completed by sunset, heat would be restored late Wednesday and repairs would resume today. As of press time, steam was still billowing out of two parts of the Main Green, though nearby Hope College had heat and hot water.

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Workers dug a 12-foot hole to repair a hot water pipe under the Main Green yesterday.

City Council speaks out against ‘Sex Week in literature form’ will arrive at Brown Friday U. contractor Magazine distributed as part of Sex Week at Yale

BY CHLOE LUTTS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The Providence City Council passed a resolution Feb. 2 declaring Martins Maintenance, a janitorial contractor currently employed by the University, a “Business Non-Grata” — or unwelcome business — in Providence.

The contractor has been accused of workplace assault and other illegal practices.

The resolution, introduced by Ward 9 City Councilman Miguel Luna, “strongly and emphatically discourages all building owners, private businesses, and municipal buildings and entities in our city from hiring Martins Maintenance.”

Martins Maintenance is currently contracted by the University to clean late-night eateries. The University has been planning for several months to bring the work back under the auspices of Brown’s cleaning service, but there is no existing timetable for this transfer, said Mark Nickel, director of University communications.

Brown contracted Martins Maintenance three years ago when the University extended the hours of some

of its dining facilities. Bringing the work back in-house is “not simple” and will require setting up a third shift for Brown’s staff, Nickel said.

Nickel said he was not aware of the Feb. 2 resolution, adding that the University’s relationship with Martins Maintenance remains unchanged.

The resolution references a complaint filed by Luis DaSilva, a former employee of the contractor, alleging workplace assault, harassment and illegal firing. The National Labor Relations Board authorized the complaint shortly after it was filed in November.

The assault and firing by DaSilva’s supervisor were allegedly in response to the janitor’s communication with union organizers from the Service Employees International Union.

Martins Maintenance is now compelled to offer a settlement to the wronged workers, according to Dan Bass, local organizer of the SEIU’s Justice for Janitors movement. If the company fails to do so or the settlement is not satisfactory, the NLRB will bring the case to court.

The Feb. 2 resolution also cites see MARTINS, page 9

BY MELANIE DUCH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Yale students want to know about sex.

They’re just too embarrassed to ask.

At least that’s what the schedule for this year’s Sex Week at Yale, which begins Feb. 13, suggests.

Born of the remains of a Jewishinspired “Kosher Sex Week,” Sex Week at Yale is a biannual event that brings sex therapists, former Catholic priests, porn stars (this year, porn veteran Jesse Jane of “Pirates” fame will be participating in a panel called “The Real Porn In The Morn”) and writers to Yale’s campus to facilitate a week’s worth of discussion on topics ranging from “The Art of Mackin’” to “Homosexuality and Religion.” But why?

Yale is known for a lot of things: educating the intellectual elite of America, harboring secret societies of skulls and bones and producing presidents, among others. Sex, however, is just not one of them.

“I think there is a disconnect between the way sex is taught and the way students actually experience it. Not enough people talk seriously about it,” said Sex Week Director Dain Lewis, a junior history major at Yale. “Sexuality is really responsible for

Women outnumbered in University faculty

As female undergraduate population increases, gender gap in the faculty remains

BY JILL LUXENBERG STAFF WRITER

When Morenike Adetula ’06 was trying to choose a concentration in her sophomore year, she was troubled that, at the time, she knew of only one female professor among the more than 30 members of the economics department’s faculty.

Since then, she said, “a few more” female economics professors have been hired, but the striking imbalance that remains can be “discouraging” to interested female undergraduates who may lack role models in the department.

Although Adetula has played an active role in the department, serving as head of its department undergraduate group, she said she recognizes that other female students may not be as willing to get involved.

Adetula’s story illustrates a problem faced by many colleges across the country.

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undergraduate concentrators at the universities surveyed were female.

Last week, The Herald reported on a growing gender gap in the University’s undergraduate student body. In 2004-2005, the undergraduate population was 54 percent female, yet among the faculty, women held only 31 percent of tenure or tenure-track positions.

From a courtroom to the Office of Institutional Diversity Despite the current gender imbalance in the faculty, the University has made significant progress over the past 30 years.

In 1975, a female faculty member brought a lawsuit against the University, alleging sex discrimination in hiring, promotion, contract renewal and tenure. The case was settled out of court for $1.1 million in 1977, and the University signed a consent decree, or agreement, to reform employment policies and address gender discrimination.

Brown immediately granted tenure to four women and see GENDER, page 7 195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

shaping a person’s self-confidence, and it’s under-discussed in a serious manner in our society. The events bring the issues to the forefront and let people know that it’s okay to talk about it. Everyone’s struggling with the same thing.”

Lewis, who got involved with Sex Week after attending a lecture in 2004 called “Finding the G-Spot,” said that this year, the week welcomes the addition of a full-color glossy magazine, which will be distributed for free at Brown on Friday. “(The magazine) was originally intended as a byproduct of the week. We thought students would benefit from a glorified schedule with informational tidbits and Sex Week particulars,” said Soren Sudhof, the magazine’s editor-in-chief and Sex Week’s operation director. Eventually, though, Sudhof said that it expanded to include informative and explicit articles on sex and sexuality by 20 contemporary writers, as well as photographs and other illustrations.

“It’s Sex Week in literature form,” Lewis said.

The cover of “Sex Week at Yale: The Magazine” features a female Yale student — clad only in earrings and red underwear with “Yale” written across the bottom — looking coyly over her shoulder at the camera, almost as though she isn’t aware that someone is taking a picture of her halfnaked.

Lewis said the magazine, in which only Yale students serve as models, does not contain any nudity.

“We wanted to make sure we could justify everything to our moms,” he said.

Sudhof, with the help of two Yale Herald editors, spent about 10 weeks e-mailing, calling and meeting with authors to collect articles and found that most people were very receptive to the idea.

“We tried to get something for every taste and interest,” Sudhof said.

Although the centerfold of the magazine is an article on how to make a girl orgasm, which “doesn’t leave much to the imagination,” according to Lewis, he said the magazine is “clean and classy.”

Molly Dillon, a sophomore at Yale who modeled in the magazine as a girl attracted to a man in a homosexual relationship, said she was not nervous about being in the risqué magazine.

“I have seen some of the shots; they see MAGAZINE, page 4 News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com

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SECONDHAND CLOTHING AND FASHION IN AFRICA 5:30 p.m., (Manning Hall) — Karen Tranberg Hansen, professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, speaks about Western charities and non-profits who sell castoff clothing to Africans and others in the Third World every year.

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R.I. may lose federal money for homeland security

BY TAYLOR BARNES CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rhode Island could lose some federal funding for homeland security this year under new guidelines, but some officials say they are optimistic the state will be able to maintain its current programs.

Rhode Island received $21.3 million in 2004 and $16 million in 2005 from the Department of Homeland Security to pay for emergency equipment and “regional response teams,” which are trained for incidents ranging from chemical spills to terrorist attacks that result in mass casualties, according to John Aucott, homeland security director at the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency.

Aucott said the state’s urban search rescue team has already seen action, deployed to Mississippi to assist in the recovery effort after the hurricane season of 2004.

Beginning this year, DHS will

require states to declare how they will spend federal funding before they receive their allocations. States “may not receive all of the funding that they request,” according to a DHS guide to the program.

“I am hopeful that we’re going to do a very good job” presenting Rhode Island’s homeland security needs, Aucott said.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., announced Monday that DHS will allocate $1.7 million to Rhode Island for emergency preparedness in 2006, but it was not immediately clear if the allotment would affect the state’s future funding from DHS. A related DHS program, the Urban Area Security Initiative, funnels security money to 50 cities seen as being at high risk for terrorist attack and other disasters. Funding for homeland security is being shifted to the cities, leaving less for individual states. However, no cities in Rhode Island are eligible for that funding.

Though the prospect of decreased

funding has worried some state officials, residents of the Ocean State should “take solace in the fact that the federal government thinks we’re not in harm’s way,” said John Riendeau, the defense industry manager at the state’s Economic Development Corporation.

In past years, Rhode Island’s ample homeland security funding allowed the state to distribute money to every city and town, according to a Jan. 6 article in the Providence Journal. Decontamination teams, chemical emergency crews and mass casualty response teams have been developed throughout the state, Aucott said.

But now, with greater competition for funding, the state is unsure it will be able to fund each town directly and might instead have to focus on regional programs, Aucott said.

Even if Rhode Island does receive less federal money this year, see DHS, page 9

Brown leads Whitehouse, both close gap with Chafee ’75 in new poll

BY BEN LEUBSDORF METRO EDITOR

Secretary of State Matt Brown has a slight lead over former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse in the race for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R-R.I. Either man would give Chafee a run for his money in November, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Brown has the support of 31 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, while Whitehouse is backed by 25 percent, a 6 percent difference just outside the question’s 5 percent margin of error. Whitehouse had led Brown 32 to 16 percent as recently as last September, according to the survey, which was conducted Feb. 4 through Feb. 6 by Professor of Political Science and Director of the Taubman Center Darrell West.

A whopping 44 percent of Democrats say they are still undecided

in the Senate race, with the primary still almost seven months away. Longshot candidate Carl Sheeler received negligible support in the poll.

While happy with the results, Brown is “not taking stuff for granted,” said Matt Burgess, the campaign’s press secretary.

“Matt (Brown)’s going to keep working hard to earn the support of people in Rhode Island,” Burgess said.

Whether Brown can keep his current level of support, West said, “is the $64,000 question.”

Brown’s “numbers came up because he’s been on the air advertising, and Whitehouse has not been advertising,” West said.

“There’s no guarantee his numbers will hold up once White-house starts advertising, and right now Whitehouse has a lot more money.”

Mindy Myers, Whitehouse’s campaign manager, called Brown’s lead in the poll “temporary and

artificial.”

“Having spent over a million dollars and being on television the past four weeks, it’s not at all surprising to see a bump in Brown’s numbers,” she said.

But Burgess saw it differently.

“I think that this dramatic 20 point movement in the polls can’t be explained as the result of a few weeks of television ads,” he said. “It’s because Matt Brown stands up for what he believes in. It’s the kind of politics people are hungry for.”

West said Brown will need to raise more money to sustain his advertising blitz, especially once Whitehouse begins running his own ads. Brown had about $480,000 in his campaign fund at the end of 2005 and has made several ad buys since then.

Whitehouse had almost $1.6 million on hand at the end of last year.

According to the poll, either Democrat would give Chafee — a see POLL, page 6

City Council authorizes tax on Thayer Street property owners

BY ROSS FRAZIER SENIOR STAFF WRITER

On Jan. 5, the Providence City Council authorized a tax on Thayer Street property owners that will be used to renovate the University’s main shopping thoroughfare.

In December, the council’s Committee on Ordinances recommended the approval of a petition from a group of Thayer Street property owners to form a district management authority to maintain and update the street. The City Council’s final authorization of the DMA paves the way for a tax of up to 5 percent to be levied on the street’s commercial property.

Under a 2001 Rhode Island law, a group of commercial property owners may form a corporation and then petition the local city council for the right to become a district management authority. A DMA — known as a Business Improvement District in many other states — is provided with special powers normally reserved for government bodies, such as the power to tax, maintain public utilities, construct public infrastructure and perform landscaping.

On College Hill, the DMA is known as the Thayer Street Improvement District. According to a 2003 University press release, the city of Providence, Brown and the 10 largest property owners on Thayer established TSID more than three years ago to collect voluntary capital contributions for the upkeep and improvement of the street.

“That was the first effort. The whole idea of improving Thayer was going to be based on voluntary contributions. Over time, it became clear that to make see THAYER, page 4

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The City Council recently approved the formation of a district management authority to oversee improvements to the business district.

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Thayer continued from page 3 it really succeed, a DMA petition would be necessary,” said Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations.

Stephen Lewinstein, one of the largest property owners on Thayer, will likely chair the board of the TSID. The board will consist of nine members — seven appointed by the consortium of property owners and two others appointed by the mayor, according to Chapman. They will be responsible for setting the exact level of the extra tax, allocating funds and managing individual projects as well as an overall plan for revitalizing Thayer. The board has not yet had its first meeting and no definite plans are in place.

“Changes might include replacement and repair of some of the sidewalks, improvement to intersections, new lighting fixtures, new signage and new trees. All of this would be in an effort to make sure that Thayer remains a vibrant and successful part of the Brown community,” Chapman said.

Brown originally contributed $350,000 to the TSID and has since offered to pay the first 25 percent of the group’s initial operating budget, according to Chapman.

The city also contributed $400,000 in bond revenues for initial startup money.

Under the new law, commercial property owners along Thayer Street will be charged up to 5 percent of their property taxes for use by the TSID. While Brown owns many buildings along Thayer Street, such as the Sciences Library, MacMillan Hall, several residence halls and the Watson Institute, it will only pay the tax for its commercial properties, such as the Brown Bookstore and several other properties.

Some merchants have expressed concern and opposition to the TSID. Bryan Creighton, owner of Morrison Office Supply, said it was unfortunate that the government had to become involved.

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“If the individual property owners paid more attention, perhaps it wouldn’t come to this,” he said.

“Most of the shop owners take care of their own storefronts. I don’t see why they’re talking about cleaning up and not making real changes. They have been talking about this for years, but they’re not talking about widening the street, shortening the street or putting in more parking,” said Steven Beattie, co-owner of Pie in the Sky. The cost of the extra tax will be passed on from property owners to store owners through rent, even though store owners will have little input in the improvement process, Beattie said.

But Chapman said merchants will be represented.

“It’s possible that there will be people on the board of the DMA who are both property owners and merchants. Second, the property owners recognize that the merchants need to have a mechanism for their voice to be heard on the future of Thayer,” Chapman said. “Ultimately, the health of Thayer is dependent on the success of the merchants.

Therefore, I believe that the DMA will work out a mechanism so that merchants have an opportunity to bring their voices to the table as the DMA does its business,” he added.

While several store owners seemed disappointed by the prospect of higher rent, only one merchant officially objected to the DMA. Eric Chaika, owner of the Red Carpet Smoke Shop, is one of the last remaining merchants in the Thayer Street area that also own the property out of which their businesses operate. The smoke shop is located across from the SciLi on Waterman Street.

Chaika initially objected to the tax after receiving a letter from Lewinstein. The letter, which he showed to The Herald, threatened to petition for a tax and put a lien on his property if he did not begin making capital contributions.

Lewinstein could not be reached for comment.

“People want diverse, quirky shops here, but how the hell can a sole proprietor afford the rent on Thayer? High rent limits the number of quirky shops you can have,” Chaika said.

Chaika, whose family has owned the smoke shop since the 1960s, recalled a time when Thayer Street was made almost entirely of sole proprietors. “If you wanted your shoes repaired, you went to Jay’s. If you needed clothing, you went to Palmer’s.

Palmer’s is a Starbucks now,” he said.

When asked about Brown’s effect on Thayer Street, Chaika motioned to the SciLi and said, “The University has always operated with blithe disregard for this community. It is a government unto itself.”

Chaika wrote to Ward 2 City Councilwoman Rita Williams, who sponsored the TSID’s petition in committee, explaining why he should be excluded from the district. In the letter, which he released to The Herald, Chaika said that he does not stand to benefit from having a part of the DMA — he is not on Thayer Street, he is a specialized business that does not attract large numbers of passersby and he is a very small property owner.

“I am the David to their Goliath,” he wrote to Williams.

“While it is understandable to me that landlords wish to maximize their rental income, for these same people to bemoan the lack of diversity of business on the street seems hypocritical and ingenuous.”

Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal voted to pass the law allow-ing the tax, but only after the TSID agreed to draw out Chaika — whom Segal called “a good owner, he keeps his street front clean, shovels his walkway” — and add a sunset clause requiring the DMA to be reauthorized in three years. Segal agreed to vote in favor of the DMA “only after they agreed to continuing discussions regarding panhandling, the homeless and posting bills on streetlights.”

The editors tried to get a range of high-profile schools across the country at which to distribute and enlisted friends at those schools to physically hand out the magazines.

According to Sudhof, they made the decision to circulate the magazine nationally because they “worked really hard on it and … wanted everyone to see it.”

Sudhof said that the magazine, which will be distributed for free, will be seen by at least 25,000 students on Friday.

The magazine is sure to please Brown students upon its arrival in Providence, Lewis said.

“The editors of the (Yale) Herald were showing it to their staff and everyone really liked it,” he said.

“It’s fantastic. The magazine is brilliant.”

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UCS resolution pushes for council rep. in plus/ minus meetings

BY SHEELA RAMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In order to ensure undergraduate interests are represented in the debate over adding pluses and minuses to the grading system, the Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution Wednesday night to secure permission for one of its representatives to attend meetings of the College Curriculum Council and the Graduate Council concerning the issue.

Although there will likely be a University-wide forum within the next month to allow students to express their opinions about the grading change, the private meetings will decide how the forum operates, said Tristan Freeman ’07, chair of the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee.

“We have been very surprised at the results of closed meetings involving the CCC before. It seems like the interests of UCS are not always represented as they should be,” said Freeman, who drafted the resolution. “It is important that this time we make sure Brown students are heard in this decision that will drastically affect their future.”

As another part of the resolution, which passed with 19 yeas, 3 nays and 3 abstentions, UCS will also add a question concerning the grading debate to its WebCT student poll this semester. The poll is scheduled to begin Feb. 27.

Cash McCracken ’08, UCS representative to the Undergraduate Finance Board, provided the only substantive opposition to the proposal.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to insert ourselves into that kind of setting,” he said.

“If the CCC is not doing their

job properly, we should take action, but I am confident they can do their job this time and we should not be meddling in their affairs.”

In response to McCracken’s objection, Freeman said the lack of mention of UCS in recent Herald articles concerning the plus/minus proposal indicates undergraduate interests are not being considered as heavily as they should be in deciding the issue. “We shouldn’t have to read (The Herald) to find out that the CCC is voting tomorrow or that it is planning to hold a forum with the graduate student council,” he said.

There were not enough supporters of McCracken’s position to warrant a debate, so the council moved directly to voting on the resolution, pausing only for minor amendments to its structure and wording.

“I agree it might not necessarily be our place to be in the (CCC) meetings, but it is our place to at least ask the CCC whether they would let us in,” said Benjamin Boas ’06.5, appointments chair. “I don’t see why we should shoot ourselves in the foot right now.”

In other business, Boas said he is looking to widen the applicant pool for the student position currently open on the University Resources Committee. Boas said he will pick a sophomore for the two-year position based on an e-mail application form he recently sent out to the undergraduate community. The application is due Friday, he said, and an applicant will be selected by the following Friday.

He said the URC, which includes two undergraduate representatives and sets the University’s annual budget, is the see UCS, page 6

Alcock to oversee expansion of interdisciplinary archaeology institute

BY SARA WALTER STAFF WRITER

The University’s new Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World rang in the new year with a new director: Professor of Classics Susan Alcock, who says she wants to build the interdisciplinary institute into “as big of an octopus as I can.”

Most recently a professor at the University of Michigan, Alcock responded to the University’s advertisement announcing the position and was interviewed on campus last February. In addition to a formal interview, Alcock gave a public lecture, spoke with students and met with many people, including a search committee, before being hired last year.

“We conducted a very competitive search,” said Katharina Galor, visiting assistant professor of old world archaeology and art. “She’s really a star in the profession,” Galor said, adding that, “She’s ambitious, effective, energetic, young, and also a very accomplished scholar.”

Alcock, who spent September doing fieldwork in Armenia, said one of her goals is to inform Brown students that there is much more to archeology than digging. Alcock’s work is sometimes called “landscape archaeology.”

“I don’t dig. I do regional survey. It’s a form of investigation of tracing the earth’s surface and finding human remains,” she said.

The institute was able to hire Alcock thanks to a gift from Professor Emerita of Old World Archaeology and Art Martha Joukowsky ’58 P’87 and Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87 intended to help transform the former Center for Old World Archaeology and Art into the new institute. Currently located at 70 Waterman St., the institute is expected to move into Rhode Island Hall in the next two or

three years, Alcock said.

“In Rhode Island Hall there are many vital units to the University and the transfer has to be made without disrupting those units,” she said. The inside of the building is going to be completely renovated and, because of its convenient location, is “intended to be gregarious.”

The institute will bring together faculty that are currently scattered throughout various departments, including see ALCOCK, page 9

Min Wu / Herald

Susan Alcock is the new director of the University’s Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, which she will help expand over the next several years.

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W. squash continued from page 12 won the first two sets, but fell victim to a strong comeback

by Ted Newhouse, losing 4-9, 5-9, 9-1, 10-8, 9-2. Rifkin fell behind two sets to one and was unable to complete a comeback attempt, dropping a 5-9, 9-1, 9-7, 5-9, 9-1 match.

Patrick Haynes’07 said the experience was sobering. “It’s

tough to come up against a team like Dartmouth under such circumstances,” he said.

“They have been here before and really understand the pressures of such a meaningful tie. But we’ve learned from them and all we can do is take that with us into next season.”

Both teams come up against Yale at the Pizzitola Center on Saturday. The women play at 1 p.m., with the men following at 3 p.m.

Senate continued from page 3 moderate Republican seeking a second full term in the Senate — a tight race in the general election.

Whitehouse trails Chafee by just six points, 40 to 34 percent, down from a 13-point Chafee lead in the fall. Brown is only two points behind Chafee, 38 to 36 percent, closing the 23-point gap that existed in September.

These questions had a 3.5 percent margin of error.

“Rhode Island is a Democratic state and Chafee is facing a very close race with either Democratic candidate,” West said. “The best Chafee was able to do was 40 percent, and in an election year that is definitely flashing warning signs for him,” he added.

Chafee’s campaign manager, Ian Lang, echoed West’s remarks on the challenges Republicans face in strongly Democratic Rhode Island.

“I think that the important thing to remember is that there are no easy races for Republicans in Rhode Island,” Lang said. “We always knew this was going to be close, but we think that once we set out Senator Chafee’s long history of service, voters will do what they’ve done before and return him to office.”

The poll indicated that either Democratic candidate would defeat Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, a conservative who is challenging Chafee in the Republican primary. Whitehouse leads Laffey 44 to 29 percent, and

Football continued from page 12 “To score in big meets you need depth, and they will bring that along with a competitive edge,” Renick said.

Evans agreed.

“They will all play a big role, definitely,” he said. “They know how to win after that football season and they will bring that same mentality to the track.”

Brown is ahead of Laffey 47 to 24 percent.

“Even Mayor Laffey’s most ardent supporters have to be worried about his electability in the general election,” Lang said.

Laffey’s campaign responded by lashing out at the poll itself.

“Time after time, the Brown University poll has been skewed to the left. It is not surprising then that these Brown University polls never reflect Steve Laffey’s true strength,” wrote Nachama Soloveichik, Laffey’s press secretary, in an e-mail to The Herald.

Soloveichik cited the fact that 41 percent of the poll’s sample consisted of Democratic primary voters as evidence of “a dramatic over-sampling of liberal Democrats,” and also noted the University’s poll from October 2002, which had Democrat Myrth York leading Republican Don Carcieri ’65 by seven points a week before the gubernatorial election, which Carcieri won by 10 points.

UCS continued from page 5 most powerful position given to an undergraduate because it involves contributing to the University’s significant financial decisions. In addition, committee members are privy to confidential financial information. Last year, Boas said he had over 50 applications for the position. This year, however, the number of applicants has

Raymond especially has the potential to have quite an impact.

Although he only ran track “a little bit” in high school and has missed most of the grueling training and conditioning done in the winter, Raymond is enjoying learning from his new teammates and has the promise to propel the team to greater success in the indoor 60-meter and outdoor 100meter dashes.

Renick views Raymond as the missing link in the Bears’ 4x100 relay, which he said has the potential to win at the Heptagonal Championships.

Bringing the rings to the diamond Nyadjroh, Nuzzo and Vita will bring different backgrounds to the baseball diamond this season.

Nyadjroh was recruited out of high school in Massachusetts to play both football and baseball, and he will take first-year Nuzzo under his wing as he does the same. Vita, on the other hand, decided to walk-on this season.

Although they all have experience playing in high school, the transition to college ball for the two newcomers will prove to be challenging.

“Baseball is a sport where repetition is of the utmost importance. It takes time to perfect one’s swing or to throw a certain pitch exactly where you want it, so missing fall practice at times can hurt your performance in the spring,” Nyadjroh said.

Nuzzo, whose father played professional baseball and cultivated his son’s passion for the sport, agrees.

“It’s tough to miss spring football and fall baseball,” Nuzzo said. “But it’s an opportunity for me to play, and I’ll do my best to play hard. It’s my job to earn the spot on the team, and I’ll work hard to do it.”

The poll did not measure support for either Chafee or Laffey in the Republican primary because, according to West, “there aren’t many Republicans in the state and no one really knows where the Independents are going to go” in primary voting.

In other Rhode Island races, the poll showed Carcieri with an 11-point lead over his Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty. State Sen. Elizabeth Roberts ’78, a Democrat, has a commanding lead over Republican Kernan King in the race for lieutenant governor, 41 to 16 percent.

In Rhode Island’s District 2, Rep. Jim Langevin, D.-R.I. easily leads his challenger in the Democratic primary, Jennifer Lawless, an assistant professor of political science and public policy.

Langevin has the support of 58 percent of likely voters versus 14 percent for Lawless and 28 percent undecided, with a margin of error of about 7 percent. been significantly fewer.

“People think you have to know econ or math to for this job, but you actually just need to care a lot about Brown,” he said.

UCS also elected Vernissia Tam ’09 as its Ivy Council visiting delegate for policy.

Her opponent for the position was Miguel Blancarte ’09. As visiting delegate, Tam will participate in policy meetings with student councils from across the Ivy League to consider issues that affect all the schools.

He and his fellow teammates are determined to put in all the work necessary to get geared up for their opener against Florida State University in Tallahassee.

“If we were not good enough to make a significant impact on the team, then the baseball coach would have cut us,” Nyadjroh said. “Two championships in one year would be nice. Two diamond rings … wow.”

And with the strength, depth and work ethic of the team, a championship is possible. The Bears were picked to have the second-best record in the Ivy League in Baseball America’s conference preview, one game behind Harvard.

Captain Shaun McNamara ’06 said he is thrilled to have the athletes on the team and believes they will contribute early. Their first game is still a month away, so they have plenty of time to work out where and how the newcomers will be best utilized.

While Nyadjroh brings the experience of two years on the team as an outfielder, Nuzzo will look to strengthen the infield.

Vita will add depth to the outfield and pitching ranks.

And with much of the roster returning after a second-place finish in the Red Rolfe Division last season, the three have a serious shot at a sizing for another ring.

“I would consider this season a failure if we didn’t win a championship,” McNamara said.

All six talented athletes are poised to get back to the top with their new squads, while their teammates are just as hungry for a title and are welcoming the fresh competitive spirit the players are bringing.

It must be true what they say: the best championship is always the next one.

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Gender continued from page 1 additional compensation to another.

A monitoring committee was formed to help create and implement goals and timetables for adding women to the faculty, as well as develop written standards for faculty employment.

In the first decade following the case, the number of female faculty rose from 12 percent to 20 percent. Since then, the percentage of women in the faculty has steadily continued to rise.

Despite the changes, a University petition to terminate the consent decree in 1989 was rejected by court ruling.

Instead, Brown was ordered to grant 13 more women tenure by 1991. The decree was finally terminated in the early 1990s after a faculty vote determined the qualifications had been met, according to Associate Provost and Director of Institutional Diversity Brenda Allen.

Allen’s office was created in 2002 exclusively to monitor diversity issues.

Among other things, her office helps compile statistics on gender and other diversity issues for the University and works with individual departments to ensure that faculty-hiring searches take diversity concerns into account.

Gender in the hiring process When searching for a new faculty member, departments are not under any obligation to hire based on diversity, but the administration can encourage them to “make an extra effort,” said Elizabeth Doherty, director of faculty affairs.

Each department must submit a hiring plan that is expected to look at the existing demographics of the department as well as those in the academic discipline as a whole. Departments can signal that they are encouraging females to apply by placing advertisements in publications such as the Women’s Review of Books.

Departments’ shortlists of candidates are reviewed by the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, which checks whether the list’s demographics are representative of the field and whether “the department has really made every effort to address the

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inequity (that may already exist) in the department,” Doherty said.

Before departments offer a position, they must file a compliance report on their consideration of diversity issues.

“There really are a lot of checks on the system and many opportunities for conversation at different stages of the process,” Doherty said.

The Target of Opportunity program, instituted in 2004 as part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, allows departments to truncate the normal hiring process and access more resources to bring in professors who can fill gaps in the existing faculty. These hires are not necessarily based on a need for increased diversity or gender balance, but Allen said many of the resources have been directed toward that objective.

Allen said that the physical sciences have been a special target for the program — as of 2004, only 9 percent of the physical science faculty was female.

The problem, however, also stems from the lack of women in the pipeline of available hires.

Doherty said explanations for the gender disparity in the physical sciences are complex.

“What is it that happens to women? Is it that other fields are more attractive or is that academia is more hostile? I think it’s probably some of both,” Doherty said.

Monitoring women’s issues Once a month, the University’s Committee on the Status of Women meets to examine and discuss women’s issues for faculty, staff and undergraduates.

But on Tuesday evening, the faculty unanimously approved the committee’s request to streamline its focus to only those issues that concern faculty.

“The committee has been around for so long that �we have to update,”� according to Catherine Dubé, chair of the committee and senior lecturer in community health and family medicine. �Brown is ahead of the game� in comparison to peer institutions, Dubé said.

The committee has worked with the University to implement the “stop the clock policy,” which allows women to take maternity leave without an effect

on the limited time period they have to achieve promotion. Additionally, the committee identified various daycares around the University’s campus that can provide childcare for faculty.

Dubé attributes an increased access to information and statistics on diversity at Brown to President Ruth Simmons.

“There is a sense that (administrators) are willing to get through some of the secrecy so that we can decide where to place our efforts,” she said After noticing that women compose roughly 31 percent of tenure-track faculty, 38 percent of research faculty and 72 percent of lecturers, the committee decided to look at class differences among these different types of faculty.

Dubé related her own experience of inequality. After her promotion to senior lecturer, she assumed that, like those promoted to associate professor, she would receive an honorary degree from the University. When she made the request, however, she was told that only those on tenure track receive honorary degrees.

“I think that’s fundamentally unfair,”� Dubé said.�”It’s such a simple thing that the University can do to provide equity.”� She wrote a letter to Simmons with the committee’s support, and at a meeting last year, the Brown Corporation changed the policy. During Commencement exercises this year, senior lecturers, along with the rest of their colleagues, will receive honorary degrees for the first time.

Also in May, the committee will host a faculty forum in which Simmons and Allen will present their findings on gender-related issues at the University.

It’s not just Brown…

Gender gaps in the faculty extend beyond Brown and may be even more significant at other schools.

“When compared to other Ivies, we’re doing well. We’re all about the same — between 27 to 32 percent,” Allen said.

Lee Warren, associate director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University, said that “Harvard is just terrible in terms of (gender balance) for senior and tenured faculty,” but that “more and more” the

university is making the necessary changes.

She added that Harvard has just begun compiling gender statistics like those that Allen and others have been putting together at Brown for four years.

Warren said Harvard’s gender monitoring process was started in response to the now-infamous remarks made by President Lawrence Summers last year, in which he speculated that “innate” gender differences contributed to the lack of women in scientific fields. “When the president makes a remark like that,” Warren said, “it becomes something that gets discussed.”

She said the gender gap in faculty poses problems for female students when they begin to seek mentors. Warren said that although many male faculty members are good with female students, they are not necessarily “speaking the same language as their students.”

Back at Brown, Adetula said that the two economics courses she took from a female professor — Lecturer Rachel Friedberg — were two of the most interesting courses she has taken in the department.

“I’m not sure whether it was the subject matter of EC 111 (“Intermediate Microeconomics”) and EC 162 (“Introduction to Econometrics”), whether the material itself was just more interesting, or whether it was that her lectures were really upbeat, or maybe that she is younger than many other professors in the department,” she said.

A look ahead While the gender imbalance will take time to equalize, female students looking for female role models can find individuals outside of their departments.

Adetula said she has two advisors — her male concentration advisor and her female academic advisor — and that, for her, the gender gap has not been much of an issue.

Warren said that although universities can take steps to address gender disparities now, significant results may take time to emerge.

“It’s a long-term process,” Warren said. “These things don’t just happen overnight.”

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Fencing continued from page 12 Despite being disappointed with the day’s final results, the team did take note that Columbia, which has won 32 Ivy League titles since the inaugural 1955-56 season, including the last five, was far from the worst team it could have lost to.

“We had never seen an Ivy League competition program.

We were looking at all the Ivy League champions and

Columbia had won about 60 percent of the time,” Sheehy said.

Next week, both teams will compete in a schedule that is “similar … if not identical” to this past weekend’s, Tass said. The Bears will lead off with Harvard and Penn, have a long break, then face Yale.

In a match earlier this season, the men’s team defeated the Bulldogs and the women narrowly lost, though they competed without Hausmann and foilist Nanette Milner ’06.

Controversy swirls over antidepressant use in pregnancy

BY ALAN ZAREMBO AND RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR LOS ANGELES TIMES

Three studies published over the past week have sparked new concerns over the health risks of taking — and not taking — antidepressants during pregnancy.

Two of the studies point to possible dangers to the fetus, and in response to the latest study, released Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, the Food and Drug Administration announced it is considering tougher warnings on the drugs’ use.

But separate research, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that mothers who stop taking the drugs run a high chance of slipping back into debilitating depression.

Taken together, the studies represent an increasingly difficult conundrum for mothers and doctors.

“These data make me feel all the more cautious about using antidepressants in pregnancy,” said Dr. Victoria Hendrick, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. “But it’s still something I’m going to do because I see very, very depressed women.”

Prozac and other antidepressants known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors enhance the action of the brain chemical serotonin. Since being introduced in the late 1980s, the

drugs have become the standard treatment for depression.

The range of effects of manipulating serotonin levels is not well understood. For example, serotonin can cause blood vessels to constrict. It also serves as a growth factor, helping organize neural circuitry in a maturing brain.

The FDA has already begun to strengthen warnings concerning the use of the drugs in pregnant women. In December, the agency ordered a new warning label for paroxetine, sold under the brand name Paxil, after two studies linked it to heart defects in newborns.

The agency’s new concern involves a lung problem known as persistent pulmonary hypertension, which normally occurs in one in 1,000 births.

The researchers found six times that risk in infants born to women on antidepressants.

The team interviewed 377 mothers of babies born with the condition and found that 14 had taken antidepressants in the second half of pregnancy. In a control group of 836 mothers with healthy children, just six had taken the drugs, according to the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The lung ailment leads to inadequate oxygen levels in the blood. Most babies recover. In severe cases it can cause deafness, neurological problems or death.

“We find the association they have reported with this very serious condition to be very worrisome,” said Dr. Sandra Kweder, deputy director of the FDA’s Office of New Drugs.

Christina Chambers, an epidemiologist at the Univeristy of California, San Diego, who led the research, cautioned that “even with a six-fold increase,

W. tennis continued from page 12 it was clear Ames was giving a little extra to attain her first victory of the spring season.

Nearly every point included long baseline rallies, and Ames played with an intensity she seemed to be lacking in her first two matches.

The story of the day, however,

you’re still talking about a fairly low risk.”

On Tuesday, a study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine bolstered previous reports that babies born to mothers on antidepressants can suffer signs of withdrawal in the first few days of life.

Nearly a third of 60 newborns exposed to the drugs as fetuses experienced symptoms that included tremors, gastrointestinal problems and sleep disturbance, according to the study.

Two of the infants in the study suffered seizures. In most cases, the symptoms peaked in two days and then began subsiding.

When the researchers reviewed 37 cases of women taking paroxetine, they found that the symptoms did not occur at low doses.

The risks — and the unknowns — make it tempting for women to give up antidepressants for nine months.

The odds are against them.

Researchers, led by Dr. Lee Cohen of Harvard Medical School, tracked 201 women who were taking antidepressants around the time they became pregnant. Some 68 percent of those who discontinued the medications relapsed into depression, compared to 26 percent of those who kept taking the drugs.

There are few studies on the effects on how a mother’s depression, left untreated, affects the health of the fetus.

“These depressed women might not be eating right,” Hendrick said. “They might be losing weight. Women might be suicidal. They might be more prone to smoking and drinking.”

was the performance of the first-years. Finkelstein, who displayed mental toughness in staving off a first-set comeback by her opponent in a 6-4, 6-0 victory, commented on the day’s performance.

“I feel like the team knows now that they can rely on us.

It should make it easier for everyone knowing that we can step in and fill our roles. It was a big win.”

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DHS continued from page 3 Riendeau said, the past few years’ ample funding will continue to benefit the state, having created “more awareness” of the need for preparations in the event of an emergency.

In past years, Brown personnel have participated in several training sessions run by RIEMA,

Martins continued from page 1 allegations that Martins Maintenance commits workers’ compensation premium fraud by under-reporting the number of people it employs. Martins Maintenance claims to employ approximately 300 employees, Bass said, but the SEIU believes they actually employ a significantly larger number.

Additionally, the resolution refers to the company’s violation of the Ordinance Relative to Displaced Workers, a law passed last August with the support of the SEIU. The law requires new janitorial contractors hired by businesses or building owners to continue to employ any and all janitors working under old contractors in that location for 90 days.

Martins Maintenance is the first and only company to have

according to Stephen Morin, the director of Environmental Health and Safety. The staff in this office are trained hazardous material responders and work closely with the Providence Fire Department to respond to incidents, he said.

Domestic preparedness training sessions in association with RIEMA still continue for Brown officials. Weapons of mass destruction training sessions will begin this week, according to Morin.

violated this law, Bass said.

The SEIU worked with “allies on the City Council” to pass the resolution, Bass said.

The resolution “sends a strong statement to the community that we insist that companies respect workers’ rights,” he said.

Martins Maintenance has not publicly responded to the resolution, though the owner, Manny Martin, attended the Feb. 2 council meeting with his lawyer, Bass said.

Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal called the resolution an important “organizing tool” that “will definitely have an effect” in some places. However, he acknowledged that it is not legally binding for individual companies.

Segal said that the council has passed similar resolutions before that employed milder language, but this is the first advocating action “against a specific business.”

Alcock continued from page 5 anthropology, art history, Egyptology and classics, according to Galor.

“The institute is great because it’s going to be one of these large umbrellas on campus where a lot of us that deal with the distant past, particularly the archaeology of the distant past, can get together and discuss what we have in common,” said Stephen Houston, professor of anthropology. “The institute is, we hope, our future club house,” he added.

Alcock said she wants to broaden the off-campus network connected with the institute as well, and intends to use the University to make connections up and down the East Coast.

Plans for the institute include seminar series and conferences. Currently, applications are be-ing accepted for two visiting professors next year and there is the possibility of additional hires. The institute will also enrich the graduate student curriculum while still boosting undergraduate archaeology, Alcock said.

The number of graduate applications has increased this year — according to Galor, the department has received 52 applications for its doctoral program this year.

Students are looking forward to the new institute.

“We’re all really excited about the changes. We have a new, nicer space, access to lectures and an addition to (the) full-time faculty,” said Cecelia Feldman GS. Feldman said students have the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of the institute as well, whether it is by helping clear space or giving input about speakers who will visit the department.

“Susan Alcock is amazing.

Everyone that I’ve talked to that’s met her is just overwhelmed with how kind and outgoing she is,” said Juliana McKittrick ’07, a student in AN 250: “The Archaeology of Empires,” which is taught by Alcock.

“Just from talking to her, we all have confidence that she can make the institute incredibly strong and has that leadership potential.”

Many opportunities are being offered to undergraduates in the department as well.

According to McKittrick, many professors are opening up their digs to students, including Galor, who is planning to bring about 10 or 15 students to her ongoing excavation site at Apollonia Arsuf in Israel this summer. The institute is also co-sponsoring a major conference on the archaeology of Jerusalem that Galor has been organizing for this year.

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the city,” Galor said.

The institute is also looking into organizing a student dig at the First Baptist Church on North Main Street, possibly to be led by Houston, which could be part of a course about the archaeology of College Hill, according to Alcock.

Galor said Alcock has already begun to make positive changes and that the “conditions and settings” of the institute are ideal to create a department that could compete with the top archaeology programs in the United States.

Being very new to campus, Alcock said she is open to all comments, questions or “bizarre e-mails.”

“This term, a lot of it is just meeting as many people as possible and getting the word out that the institute is coming,” she said.

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

Keeping the lines open Without question, the University’s relationship with its neighbors on College Hill and the city of Providence in general has been strained at times. Residents often complain about the behavior of Brown students at off-campus parties as well as construction projects linked to ongoing physical expansion.

Brown’s continuing growth will surely enhance its visibility in the neighborhood — for better or for worse.

The perception that the University acts “as a government unto itself” that “has always operated with blithe disregard for this community” — a sentiment voiced by local shop owner Eric Chaika — does nothing to improve its relationship with local residents. In an effort to prevent further discontent, we believe the University should further strengthen its ties to municipal bodies.

The Providence City Council is a fine place to start. Last month, the council approved the formation of a district management authority — known as the Thayer Street Improvement District — that could lead to a 5 percent tax levied against Thayer Street’s commercial property owners.

Improvements to the struggling business district are a long time coming, and we commend the University’s preliminary $350,000 contribution to the TSID as well as its offer to finance 25 percent of the group’s initial operating budget.

Still, this effort may prove counterproductive if it alienates small business owners like Chaika, who clearly does not believe that the University cares about the character of the city it inhabits. Before lending heavy financial support to the TSID, the University should ensure that a mechanism is in place so that merchants feel included in the process, a goal expressed

by Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations.

More recently, the council passed a resolution on a matter that — on its surface — carries less immediate importance for much of the Brown community. The decision of the council to condemn Martins Maintenance, a janitorial contractor that has faced allegations of workplace assault and other illegal practices in recent months, signifies a desire to protect the city’s labor force. Martins Maintenance is currently under contract to clean several of Brown’s late-night eateries. That University administrators were seemingly unaware of the council’s resolution against the contractor underscores the need for Brown to renew its involvement in local affairs.

We don’t see the University as indifferent to its effect on Providence. However, we’re not the ones who need convincing.

A few active steps highlighting Brown’s concern for neighbors’ interests could do much to enhance its local reputation and ease the implementation of ambitious growth proposals.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD EDITORIAL Robbie Corey-Boulet, Editor-in-Chief Justin Elliott, Executive Editor Ben Miller, Executive Editor Stephanie Clark, Senior Editor Katie Lamm, Senior Editor Jonathan Sidhu, Arts & Culture Editor Jane Tanimura, Arts & Culture Editor Stu Woo, Campus Watch Editor Mary-Catherine Lader, Features Editor Ben Leubsdorf, Metro Editor Anne Wootton, Metro Editor Eric Beck, News Editor Patrick Harrison, Opinions Editor Nicholas Swisher, Opinions Editor Stephen Colelli, Sports Editor Christopher Hatfield, Sports Editor Justin Goldman, Asst. Sports Editor Jilane Rodgers, Asst. Sports Editor Charlie Vallely, Asst. Sports Editor PRODUCTION Allison Kwong, Design Editor Taryn Martinez, Copy Desk Chief Lela Spielberg, Copy Desk Chief Mark Brinker, Graphics Editor Joe Nagle, Graphics Editor

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JOSEPH NAGLE

LETTERS Editorial cartoon offensive To the Editor: During a week when news coverage has focused on the global Muslim reaction towards the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, first published in Denmark and then republished in many other countries including Norway, Austria and France, it is of little doubt that Roxanne Palmer’s Feb. 7 cartoon was inspired by current events.One of the main concerns of the global Muslim community is the actual sketching of Muhammad; any drawing of the prophet Muhammad, or any prophet for that matter, is not permissible and deemed highly offensive in the religion of Islam. It is believed that depicting religious figures may lead to idolatry, which is prohibited in the religion.

At first viewing of Palmer’s cartoon, we stood paralyzed with incredulity and attempted to make some sense of the act. We tried to focus on the redeeming message in the cartoon: Islam and Christianity do not teach acts of violence as claimed by some of its followers. However, the more we called to mind the absolute furor that has erupted across the globe over the Denmark newspaper’s publication of blatantly offensive pictorial images of prophet Muhammad, the more unable we were to curb the rising flood of emotion. Pure and utter indignation.

Out of all possible modes of conveying her

particular message, which is as noted above not incendiary, Palmer made the crucial blunder of using the mechanism that stands at the center of the scandal. The pictorial representation of prophet Muhammad is viewed by a large portion of the current Muslim population — domestic and international — as unequivocally offensive. While the message of the dialogue in the cartoon is that religion should not be used to justify violence, this message could have been addressed in writing instead of using the picture.

For some of us, the publication of this cartoon was more hurtful than that in the international press because it was printed by members of our own Brown family. Brown is known for students who possess a unique ability to critically analyze their surroundings while maintaining a sense of humanity and compassion. The publishing of this cartoon leaves us asking what kind of community has Brown become when we exercise our freedom of speech for the intent of offending and deeply hurting others?

Qadira Abdul-Ali ’06 Kira Jumet ’06 Tereen Alireza ’06 Feb. 7

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Also, a photo caption in the women’s tennis recap (“A tale of two matches: w. tennis wins, loses big in weekend split at the Pitz,” Feb. 8) incorrectly identified Alexa Baggio ’09 as Ashley Pariser ’08. The caption also incorrectly stated that Pariser missed much of last season with an injury.

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2006 · PAGE 11

There is a better way... for Democrats The Democrats’ inability to form a cogent agenda portends electoral failure

BY TREVOR GLEASON OPINIONS COLUMNIST

I don’t think there are many people who watched the State of the Union who honestly expected to hear anything out of President George W. Bush’s mouth that they could not have predicted. Short of the suspicion that he might announce plans to invade, say, Burundi, most of those who tuned in to the speech did so more out of a desire to see the oft-bizarre camera shots of the audience than they did to actually listen to Bush. On that note, I’m still suspicious as to why CNN zoomed in on Rumsfeld when Bush started talking about young girls who are sold into slavery. Whether brilliant comedic timing or a scandal just waiting to break, only time will tell.

Ultimately, it was the Democratic rebuttal to the speech that proved to be much more revealing. Tim Kaine, the newly elected governor of Virginia, was chosen to respond to Bush and lay out what will ostensibly be key elements of the Democratic agenda. In the interest of full disclosure, I must say I only closely followed what he was saying for the first minute or two. The fact that his left eyebrow was a solid two inches higher than and twice the size of his right one left me in a state of infantile giggling for much of the rest of the speech.

The next day, armed with a transcript and a lingering fear of Kaine’s Cheshire Cat-like smile, I decided to see what had actually been said. Having a copy of Kaine’s speech in front of me helped me to see the overarching theme, obvious to anyone with an attention span. That

theme? “There is a better way.” This phrase, repeated at least eight times throughout the speech, hammered in the fact that, well, there’s a lot of room for improvement. This is of course true for people from virtually all sides of the political spectrum. No matter their political views, few could honestly tell you they didn’t have at least a few serious reservations about the current administration.

Still, just saying that there is a better way and actually telling us what that

state level, with many examples from Virginia. While this might seem good for Kaine, all of the things he talked about took place under Mark Warner, the previous governor of the state. To be fair, Warner was well regarded by both Democrats and Republicans alike and proved to be immensely popular throughout the state. On the other hand, Kaine, who had been lieutenant governor under Warner, more or less squeaked by to his own electoral victory by riding on Warner’s coattails.

The Democratic response failed to differentiate itself from what Bush had just proposed as well as failed to promote any position that wasn’t chosen just for the sake of opposition. better way is are two extremely different things. Kaine didn’t quite get that part across, failing even to be self-aware enough to stop grinning while talking about how Bush is “wreaking havoc on local school districts.” To Kaine’s credit, he listed a variety of successful initiatives that Democrats have worked on at the

So, the Democratic plan seems to be, at its most basic level, to have the entire party channel the essence of Mark Warner at all times. Failing that, they’ll just pay attention to what Bush does and then do something different. From education to energy to Social Security, the Democratic response failed to differentiate itself

from what Bush had just proposed as well as failed to promote any position that wasn’t chosen just for the sake of opposition.

Yes, Bush has messed up some things, at times rather badly. However, the fact that he has painstakingly painted a giant bullseye on his back over the course of the past five years doesn’t excuse Democrats from their failure to come up with a more coherent strategy than simply being “antiBush.” Rather than just slapping down bad ideas coming out of the White House, they need to develop a concrete strategy of their own.

In 1994, Republicans won overwhelming victories on the basis of their “Contract with America,” which, regardless of your feelings for its efficacy, can at least be realized as a relatively concrete plan. The Democratic Party must follow the GOP’s example; even if it miraculously regains some sense of electoral success, without any coherent agenda to offer voters. it will find itself struggling to actually do anything. Just as Gingrich was able to orchestrate the 1994 victory by playing to the Republicans’ perceived strength, Democrats need to take the fact that they are more trusted on such issues as health and Social Security and actually propose plans that show they have some vision and direction for this country. All of their advantages will be for naught if they limit themselves to nothing more than armchair referees who enjoy making fun of Bush’s mangling of the English language.

Trevor Gleason ’07 knows that human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

The perfect entrance essay A seventh-grader’s perfect day merits Secret Service investigation — and admission to Brown

BY ADAM CAMBIER OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Right now, a seventh-grader just across the Providence River is smiling. Sure, he may have just technically committed a felony and threatened some of America’s most beloved icons, but in doing so he has done something thousands across the country have been unable to do — write the perfect entrance essay for Brown University.

I think what I’ve just shared with you warrants some explanation. On Jan. 31, a seventh grade class in West Warwick received an assignment to write a onepage description of their perfect day.

I would imagine that most students in the class hoped for typical middle school trifles — to be asked out by their crush, to catch a winning touchdown pass against another school’s B-team in the game that weekend or maybe for the Patriots to win the Superbowl again.

But for our soon-to-be classmate things were different. Our friend’s perfect day included physically harming President George W. Bush, killing Oprah Winfrey and executives from Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart and attacking a Walgreens pharmacy.

Is this a sick child’s cry for help or a ploy to set foot in Brown’s hallowed halls?

I’m sure most of you would see this as the former, but the situation is much more complex than that. Let’s break down the young man’s perfect day exploits one by one.

For starters, he wants to do things to Bush that probably aren’t fit for mention

in this family column — or at least not for mention in the news services that first reported the story on the as-of-yet unreleased essay. Although threatening the president is a felony — for which the essay’s author is currently under Secret Service investigation — I would venture a guess that a significant chunk of our school’s 6,000-strong population wouldn’t mind at least throwing a pie at Bush à la Ann Coulter. Clearly, this portion of his “perfect day essay” shows that he would fit in well with the typical

implies a negative body image. Oprah’s death would make a statement against being unhapy with one’s body image and mark a retun to acceptance of one’s body and eating habits, just as everyone at Brown is assuredly delighted with their own body image. Although just slightly radical, the essay obviously points out that the young man is self-confident, a trait that the admissions office strives for in its new students.

Finally, the threats against CocaCola and Wal-Mart executives imply

Everything this anonymous seventhgrade student includes in his perfect day exemplifies him as a selfconfident, proactive individual in perfect step with the spirit of Brown.

Brown student.

Next up is his threat to kill Oprah.

Now let me say first that I must disagree with his essay on this point: any woman who has the guts (so to speak) to wheel out a red wagon filled with 65 pounds of lard on national television automatically becomes my new hero. The unidentified boy’s threat against Oprah, though, might likely be related to her aforementioned stunt and its inherent message that focusing on substantial weight loss

the seventh-grade student’s deep understanding of the meaning of liberalism and the distribution of wealth.

The death threats to said executives stem from the student’s feeling that these companies are doing “inappropriate things.” Beyond the anti-corporate stance so popular here at Brown, the essay matches perfectly with political debates raging even here on The Herald’s opinions page. Issues raised by these two companies’ actions — like American

cultural imperialism and the illegal use of sweatshop labor — are discussed weekly in this space. The student’s threat against the companies shows the author’s proactive nature in ending such flagrant violations of human rights and, hopefully, ending the incessant and usually repetitive debates about these same topics. Lastly, the owners of Wal-Mart, the Walton family, are the 10th through 14th richest people in the world with around $20 billion apiece, according to Forbes Magazine. Their elimination would be a radical way to demonstrate the ideals of Marxism and keeping wealth out of the hands of the few, which is a rather ironic sentiment one finds often here on College Hill.

All in all, this one-page essay is a subtle masterpiece, the consummate application essay to Brown. Everything the seventh-grade student includes in his perfect day exemplifies him as a self-confident, proactive individual in perfect step with the spirit of Brown.

Even his attack on Walgreens exhibits favoritism in favor of CVS and hence exemplifies Thayer Street pride. So, to the anonymous and courageous young man who penned this work of art, I say: rest assured. Along with your Secret Service questionnaires in the mail will soon be arriving your acceptance letter to this esteemed University, and it won’t be long before you take those first brave steps through the Van Wickle Gates.

Adam Cambier ’09’s perfect day includes Oprah giving him a car.

SPORTS THURSDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FEBRUARY 9, 2006 · PAGE 12

Gridders still running and hitting ... but now for track and baseball

BY SARAH DEMERS SPORTS STAFF WRITER

Every college football player searches for the same thing at the end of the season: a championship. All the early-morning runs; the endless weightlifting; the agility work; the time spent watching film; all the rainy, cold days on which they still get up, put on their pads and practice — at the end of the day its what adds up to a championship.

It is no wonder that by the end of the season the players need their winter break.

But six members of the Brown football team aren’t ready to wait for the fall for intercollegiate competition.

Instead of kicking back and dreaming about the diamondand ruby-encrusted championship ring they have coming, they are going out for another sport.

“The football players are testing their skills in different sports simply because they know that they have the ability to be successful,” said Adjatay Nyadjroh ’07.

Brandon Markey ’07, Jamie Gasparella ’06 and Paul Raymond ’08 will run for the track team, while Nyadjroh, a football and baseball player since his freshman year, will suit up with quarterbacks Anthony Vita ’07 and Matt Nuzzo ’09 on the baseball field this spring.

“We have some layoff at the end of the (football) season and we are all competitive,” Raymond said. “As athletes, we jump at any opportunity to compete if we have the time.”

Sprinter Luke Renick ’08, now teammates with Markey, Gasparella and Raymond, said that the three are fitting in well.

“It’s really exciting to have the new faces,” Renick said. “They are all real good athletes, and they pick up things quickly. In practices, we are just trying to show them the ropes and lead them through workouts because they haven’t really done it since high school.”

The new sprinters hope not only to bring athletic gifts to the table but also a good

attitude and a tough, competitive edge.

“I have some big shoes to fill,” Markey said of replacing Nick Hartigan ’06 as Brown’s featured running back. “I want to be the best player I can be, and this is extra work I can do on top of spring training (in football). I want to work on my speed so come August I am ready to go … we have 10 fingers and only one ring.”

A passionate athlete, Markey is looking to push his new track teammates in practice and get the team some extra points in meets in the short sprints.

His teammate Gasparella, a unanimous All-Ivy selection at cornerback, will graduate in May, and so has no fall season for which to train. He will focus this spring, instead, on reaching his long-time goal of running the 400-meters in under 48 seconds.

After running track in high school, Gasparella followed the team at Brown but never found the opportunity to join. When the 2005 football season ended, he decided instead of skateboarding all spring, it was his chance to try to make his sub-48 goal come true. He talked to Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Craig Lake and Assistant Coach for Sprints and Hurdles George Evans and walked on to the team.

Gasparella hopes to bring a will-doanything mentality to the track, and is thrilled to finally be out there running after so many years as a spectator.

“Brown hosted the outdoor Ivy League Championships a few years ago and I was so excited to watch the 4x400 (meter relay) that I had to get up and go to the top of the bleachers because my stomach started to get butterflies,” he said.

Now he will be looked upon to use that adrenaline as a 200- and 400-meter runner and a potential leg of 4x400-meter relay.

Markey, Gasparella and Raymond are going to add the depth to the track team that it has been missing, Renick said. see FOOTBALL, page 6

Even with injury-riddled lineup, w. tennis beats UMass handily

BY BART STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

If there were any questions about the depth of the women’s tennis team, they were answered Wednesday in the Bears’ dominating 6-1 victory over University of Massachusetts Amherst.

With unexpected injuries to Kelley Kirkpatrick ’08 and Amanda Saiontz ’07, and Anita Ivancevic ’08 and Michelle Pautler ’07 already out, the Bears turned to their first-years to step in and fill the void.

Alexa Baggio ’09, Brett Finkelstein ’09 and Sara Mansur ’09 responded. The trio captured three singles victories in convincing style. Kara Zeder ’07 also helped to cope with the changes by notching a victory at No. 5 singles, and Ashley Pariser ’08 played up a position at No. 2 singles and earned a win.

Mansur, who has not lost at singles yet this season, and highlights what is turning out to be a stellar first-year group.

“Sara is one of our team’s most aggressive players and she is learning quickly how to balance that aggression with consistency,” said Head Coach Paul Wardlaw. “She is playing really well right now.”

For Baggio, it was her first match of the season, and her 6-1, 6-2 win caught the attention of the older players on the team, including Saiontz, whose injury forced the changes to the lineup.

“I am really impressed with the way the freshmen performed today,” Saiontz said.

“They had tough spots to fill and didn’t let us down. They never give up for a second — it’s great to watch.”

The only loss for the team was at No. 1 singles, where Daisy Ames ’07 suffered her third consecutive defeat, 6-4, 7-5.

For those watching the match, however, see W. TENNIS, page 8

Left: Meg Boudreau / Herald; Right: Dan Grossman ’71

Jamie Gasparella ’06 helped the football team to its first outright Ivy League title in the fall. Now a sprinter on the track team, he is helping another squad chase an Ivy crown.

W. fencers upset Princeton, men lose twice in Ivy League debut

BY CHRIS HATFIELD SPORTS EDITOR

It’s been a long road to Ivy League competition for the fencing teams, a road that finally ended Sunday when the team competed in its first-ever Ivy League Championship. Both the men and women showed that they would not be pushovers, with the women picking up an upset victory over Princeton.

Fittingly, the Bears had to travel a long road to get there, trekking more than nine hours up to Ithaca, N.Y. — after picking up Assistant Coach Gerry King in Connecticut — for the first of two Ivy competitions. Each team competed against Columbia and Princeton, and the women also squared off against Cornell, which only fields a women’s team.

The highlight of the meet was the women’s squad’s 14-13 win over Princeton. The sabre squad led the way, winning 7-2 behind three victories each from Charlotte Gartenberg ’08 and Olivia Partyka ’06. The deciding match was won by All-American epeeist Ruth Schneider ’06, which pushed the team score to 13-12.

“I think it’s safe to say that nobody really expected us to beat Princeton,” Schneider said. “It was a great victory.

There were a lot of crucial bouts and every squad stepped up.”

The women’s team nearly finished the day with a winning record, narrowly losing to Cornell 15-12 in its final match after a momentum-killing two-hour break. Brown came out of the break poorly, and the fencers were not

mentally ready to resume competition, Schneider said.

All three squad matches against the Big Red were decided 6-3, with the foilists as Brown’s lone victor. Jen Hausmann ’07 (3-0) and Herald Design Editor Allison Kwong ’08 (2-1) led the team in that weapon, while tri-captain Schneider and sabreist Deborah Gorth ’09 also turned in 2-1 performances.

As usual, Schneider was in top form throughout the day, leading all Brown fencers with a 7-2 record, including three wins in a 22-5 loss to Columbia.

Gartenberg was the only other Brown fencer to post a winning record, ending with a 5-3 mark. “(Ruth is) a senior leader on the team,” said Head Coach Atilio Tass.

“Now she’s understanding the game at a greater level. It’s all coming together for her in the times we most need it.”

The men did not fare quite as well but did come out of the day with a positive outlook heading into this weekend’s half of the Ivy Championship.

“We had a bad day, but the good side of that is that we didn’t get killed on a good day,” said tri-captain and epeeist John Sheehy ’07. “We know we can improve.”

After falling hard to Columbia, 261, the men stepped up a bit against Princeton. The Bears lost 18-9, but the sabre squad of Sam Levine ’08 (3-0), tri-captain Jeremy Adler ’06 (2-1), Dan Mahoney ’07 (1-1) and Mike Groth ’09 (1-0) pulled out a 7-2 win. Levine led the men, pulling out a 3-3 record. see W. FENCING, page 8

M., w. squash bowled over by Big Green

BY STEELE WEST SPORTS STAFF WRITER

With both the men’s and women’s squash teams riding impressive winning streaks, Sunday’s matches against Dartmouth at the Pizzitola Center were key in their quests to work their way into the top eight nationally. However, both dropped decisive 8-1 matches to the Big Green.

The seventh-ranked women’s team’s winning streak ended at five, as the Bears were unable to compete with sixth-ranked Dartmouth. The team’s only shining light was Charlotte Steel ’09, who recorded yet another win in a very impressive debut season for Brown at third seed. Her win came at the expense of Dartmouth’s Becca Louks in

four sets 9-3, 4-9, 9-2, 10-9. Every other Brown player was defeated in fewer than five sets.

“This was a big contest and we really never rose to the occasion,” Steel said.

“All we can do is try and turn it around against Yale.”

Fifth-seed Breck Haynes ’09 remained upbeat given the nature of the loss. “It wasn’t great, but sometimes that happens,” she said. “We have been doing great lately, but to their credit they were very, very good on Sunday.”

The men’s squad suffered a similar blow. The 10th-ranked men’s team barely put up a fight against the rapidly improving eighth-ranked Dartmouth.

The 6-5 Bears anticipated that the 12-4 Big Greens would be a tough opponent, especially given the form they

demonstrated against Colby College and Bowdoin College last week, where they did not lose a single match. Coming off an 8-1 victory over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the week, the Brown team felt confident that they could handle the challenge.

Outclassed in most matches, however, the Bears could do little in the face of the Dartmouth onslaught.

Edward Cerullo ’08, playing at third seed, was Brown’s only successful player. After losing the first set to Hank Alexander 9-0, he came back to win the next three sets.

Fourth-seed David Krupnick ’06 and fifth-seed Brian Rifkin ’06 both suffered heartbreaking five-set losses. Krupnick see W. SQUASH, page 6