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Fourth-year Ph.D. candidate is U.’s first Muslim chaplain

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One year after facing cutbacks, ASL looks to expand offerings

SHARING IS CARING

BY NATHALIE PIERREPONT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

BY OLIVER BOWERS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rumee Ahmed arrived on campus a little over a month ago to fill the longanticipated role of associate Muslim University chaplain. Staff members at the Office of the Chaplain and Religious Life said they believe this position will help promote awareness of Islam on campus.

Brown has a dearth of Muslim faculty members and is one of the only schools in the Ivy League without an Islamic Studies department, according to Ahmed and University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson.

Hiring a Muslim chaplain has been a priority for the OCRL since reorganization of the office was approved in 1998. Over the past year, a search committee that included students, faculty and top administrators sought an experienced academic who would actively contribute to the University rather than merely serve as a representative of the Muslim community.

“They should come believing whatever they believe,” Cooper Nelson said, but she also stressed the need for someone in Ahmed’s role to “be Brown.”

Ahmed earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 2001 from the University of Maryland, College Park. He continued his studies at Abu Nour University in Damascus, Syria and Qur’an College in Karachi, Pakistan, focusing in Arabic language studies, Islamic jurisprudence and Urdu literature. Since 2001 he has been working toward his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. He is currently in his fourth year of a program that combines current Islamic studies and philosophy of religion courses.

Throughout his schooling, Ahmed has been a leader in Muslim campus organizations and community youth

Nearly one year after students responded to planned cutbacks to the American Sign Language program by distributing bright blue “Save ASL” buttons on the Main Green, the revived program’s new head has plans for future expansion.

Last February, students enrolled in ASL courses encountered a problem: the program as students knew it was scheduled to be phased out. Lacking a full-time staff and the resources of a full department, the ASL program was to be transferred to the Continuing Studies program. Students enrolling in classes would have to pay a fee for entry and would not receive University credit.

Some students, including Kimi Anderson ’08, decided to organize a protest to persuade administrators to keep the program running. Students collected signatures in support of the program and took their case to President Ruth Simmons as well as the Undergraduate Council of Students. “We came up with ideas to get people in the community involved and make people aware of what was going on,” Anderson said.

After weeks of student protests, the

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Yaheng Wang ‘07, a ChinaCare Volunteer, helped three-year-old Ava Mei Sowers with arts and crafts as part of the Chinese New Year festival. According to recent data, student volunteerism may be on the decline at Brown.

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Sudan researcher says the world can be doing more to stop genocide

BY REBECCA JACOBSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER

American institutions of higher education must divest from companies that engage in “genocidal complicity” in Sudan, said Eric Reeves, professor of English language and literature at Smith College to a nearly full Smith-Buonanno 106 last night.

Reeves, who has spent the past seven years working as a Sudan researcher and analyst, began his divestment campaign a year and a half ago. He said, however, that he receives ambivalent responses from universities and colleges.

“Why don’t institutions of higher education declare unambiguously that they will not invest in genocidal complicity?” Reeves asked. “Is there no

threshold at which we begin to screen our investments on a political or moral basis?”

At least 400,000 civilians have been killed and over two million displaced since a government-supported militia campaign of ethnic cleansing began in early 2003, Reeves said. Quoting author Elie Wiesel and comparing the current situation with the Holocaust, Reeves said the genocide in Darfur results from both the actions of the killers and the apathy of bystanders. He cited the international community as particularly unresponsive, adding that questions as to why there has not been more forceful worldwide action must be heard with “the greatest of moral urgency.”

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Lamp starts fire in dorm closet of King House

BY JONATHAN HERMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A fire broke out in a student’s closet at King House, located at 154 Hope St., yesterday around 3 p.m., attracting Department of Public Safety officers and five Providence fire engines. An overheated lamp ignited nearby clothes in the closet of John Champlin ’08, according to King House resident Siti

Nur Sarah Morris ’08.

The aftermath of the fire left Champlin’s room covered in plaster, with charred plaster and tile in his closet. Morris said firefighters broke down the door of Champlin’s neighbor to ensure that the fire had not spread.

The doorway of that room has since been sealed with plywood.

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A lamp in a closet is thought to be the cause of a small fire that began yesterday at King House.

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arson, though Champlin’s roommate, Abe Lubetkin ’08, reassured them there was no foul play involved, Morris said.

“The fire was completely accidental,” Lubetkin told The Herald.

It is not entirely clear what type of lamp caused the fire, but King House residents told The Herald that they suspected a halogen lamp started the fire.

After the fire was discovered, Joss Whittaker ’06 tried unsuccessfully to put out the fire with an extinguisher before exiting the building and waiting outside with the rest of King House’s residents for firefighters from the Brook Street company to arrive, said King House resident Keren Klimovsky ’08.

“Ironically it took longer for the firemen to respond to a real fire than to the fake fire this past September,” Morris said, referring to a false alarm last semester caused by an alarm system malfunction.

Champlin could not be reached for comment Thursday.

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THE HERALD POLL

Support for arming generates little shock

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The results of a Herald poll released last week — which revealed that 60 percent of students approved of the decision to arm Department of Public Safety police officers — did not surprise students and administrators.

Only 12 percent of students expressed strong disapproval of arming, while 18.7 percent somewhat disapproved. In contrast, 41.1 percent of respondents said they somewhat approved of the decision and 18.9 percent strongly approved. 9.3 see ARMING, page 6 Do you approve or disapprove of the decision to arm Brown police officers?

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS HIGH TEA 4 p.m., (Goddard House, Patriots Court) — Alpha Delta Phi invites all to enjoy in its annual tradition of high tea and finger foods galore. Semi-formal attire is requested.

HAMLET 8 p.m. (Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington Street) — All weekend and until March 4, Trinity Rep takes on Shakespeare’s masterpiece for the first time in 42 years.

BLITZ THE PITZ 7 p.m., ( Pizzitola Sports Center) — Join the Brown women’s basketball team as it battles Harvard. We’re out to break the all-time attendance record and need your help! Let’s “Blitz the Pitz”!

CONTRA DANCE 8 p.m., (Leung Gallery) — Wikipedia says contra dance is “folk dance styles in which couples dance in two facing lines.” No partner or experience necessary.

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LUNCH — Vegan Paella, French Green Beans with Tomatoes, Vegan Patties Onion Rings, Spicy Black Bean Veggie Patties, Sliced Turkey and Roast Beef, Manhattan Clam Chowder, Vegetarian Cream of Potato Soup, White Pesto Pizza, Sausage & Mushroom Pizza, Shepard’s Pie, Mocha Angel Dessert

LUNCH — Vegetarian Barley Soup, Chicken Gumbo Soup, Shaved Steak Sandwich with Mushrooms, Garbanzo Bean Casserole, Mexican Succotash, Jamie’s Spiced Chicken Wings, Baked Manicotti, Corn & Broccoli Casserole, German Sausage Chowder, Chicken Fingers, Cappuccino Brownies

DINNER — Vegan Sauteed Veggies with Sunflower Seeds, Rice Pilaf, Asparagus Cuts with Lemon, Baked Acorn Squash, Baked Potatoes, Egg Bows & Fagioli, Breaded Pollock Fillets with Tartar Sauce, Rice pilaf, Asparagus Cuts with Lemon, Grilled Chicken, Chocolate Cake

DINNER — Roasted Honey & Chili Chicken, Egg Foo Young, Sticky Rice, Butternut Squash with Shallots and Sage, Green Beans, German Sausage Chowder, Kareem’s Catfish, Grilled Chicken, Vegan Savory Plantains, Cheesy Grits Souffle, Sauteed Broccoli,

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Athletics dept. to undergo NCAA recertification Officials expect to find lack of diversity in athletics staff

BY JONATHAN SIDHU ARTS AND CULTURE EDITOR

The University’s athletics department will undergo a recertification in compliance with National Collegiate Athletic Association accreditation reg-ulations to determine if athletics is sufficiently integrated into the school community. Required every 10 years, the process will yield a report that is expected to reveal that the diversity of athletic staff continues to be limited, committee members say.

In addition to a steering committee,

three subcommittees will oversee the recertification process: one focusing on academic integrity, another on governance and commitment to compliance and a third on equity and student-athlete welfare.

These committees are comprised of a diverse array of Brown community members, including students, faculty, staff and alums.

“The whole idea is to get involved a broad representation of the University community,” said Dick Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the

president and chair of the steering committee. “It’s designed to include in the process as many perspectives as possible. This is partly at the specifications of the NCAA and partly our own instinct,” he said.

Michael Goldberger, director of athletics and a member of the steering committee, said failing the accreditation is unlikely. “I don’t think Brown is particularly worried about not passing,” he said. “This department is an amazingly good

When Rachel Moore ’92 first worked for the American Ballet Theatre — one of the most famous dance companies in ARTS & the world — in the CULTURE 1980s, she spent her days leaping and pirouetting with the rest of the corps de ballet. Now, armed with degrees from Brown and Columbia Business School, Moore has returned to ABT to lead the business side of the company.

Before Moore’s appointment as executive director of ABT in April 2004, the company had perennial financial problems. “When I came to ABT there

had been a lot of change in the staff and directors. Morale w as low,” she said. Since Moore joined the company, it has shaken off its persistent financial problems and increased its endowment from $8 to $15 million. ABT is now operating at a modest budget surplus for the first time in six years.

The erratic nature of non-profit income makes Moore’s job especially challenging. “Non-profit arts institutions are not the most stable economic models. You are always fragile because half of your income is donations and that can vary radically from year to year depending on the economy and any number of factors,” she said.

Over the next five years, Moore

Brownsnacks.com to begin delivery from local restaurants

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plans to build an endowment for ABT that will prepare the company for any financial bumps in the road ahead.

Moore said the key to her success was her experience in the ballet world as a dancer with ABT from 1984 to 1988. “Because I had danced with the company, I knew the culture very well, and I was a known quantity. The artistic side of the institution trusted that I wouldn’t sell them down the river,” she said.

Moore said she first became involved in ballet when she decided to casually take some ballet classes with a friend at the local art center in Davis, Calif. “By the time I was 13, I was taking

Too much homework, snowy sidewalks and laziness may deter students from trekking to a Thayer Street restaurant and leave FEATURES them longing for a delivery option instead. Starting this coming Wednesday, the founders of Brownsnacks.com hope students will turn to them for a solution.

Ben Kussin ’08 said he came up with the idea for a restaurant and snack delivery service over winter break. A sophomore transfer from George Washington University, Kussin said he had yet to find a job at Brown and thought starting his own business might be a good way to keep busy.

“There are so many awesome restaurants (on College Hill), and I never understood why they didn’t deliver food,” Kussin said. “And my parents were kind of harassing me to do something other than school,” he added.

He contacted his cousin, Chris Stout, a sophomore at Curry College in Milton, Mass., and the two began planning their business. They surveyed the Thayer Street fare, and as Kussin began negotiating contracts with restaurants, Stout, who has a web development company, designed the Web site.

As of next week, Brown students will be able to order food from Paragon, Subway, the Nice Slice or Shanghai restaurants. Prospective customers can log onto the company’s Web site, create an account

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Snacks continued from page 3 by providing their name, dorm, phone number and e-mail address, order from the menu of their preferred restaurant and “check out” using PayPal or pay with cash on delivery, Kussin said.

Based on deliveries Kussin made this week to test the system, he said he expects the delivery time — which includes the time between placing the online order to meeting Kussin at your door — will be 25 minutes. Most deliveries will likely be to on-campus residence halls, Kussin said, though he intends to expand to off-campus housing.

But “if it’s too far way, I’m sorry, we’re riding bikes,” he said.

Kussin said his test runs suggest the business will be making seven or eight deliveries an hour, but he said prospective profits are not the driving force behind the venture.

“Whether I make money or not is not the be-all and endall,” Kussin said. “If I broke even I’d be happy.”

Although the site also offers sodas and snacks, Kussin said these are sold by item to go along with a meal, rather than in bulk. For that reason, he said, Brownsnacks.com and the other student-run food delivery service on College Hill, Dormsnacks.com, which delivers snacks in bulk once a week, are unlikely to damage each other’s business.

“I don’t see any kind of competition at all,” Kussin said.

Chuck Smith, owner of the Subway franchise on Waterman Street, said he is happy to be a part of Brownsnacks.com.

Smith heard of Kussin’s new venture from an acquaintance at Paragon, took a look at

the Web site and struck up negotiations for a contract.

Kussin said contracts with the restaurants ensured that his business would not have to charge fees on top of the restaurants’ prices. The final cost of a meal courtesy of Brownsnacks.com includes a 17 percent delivery charge in addition to the food cost and Rhode Island’s meal and beverage tax. He added that “tips are appreciated, but not expected.”

“Doing delivery through a third party is definitely worthwhile for us and it’s easier for people who are studying,” Smith said. “It might start out a little slowly until word gets around,” he said, but he thinks the idea makes sense on College Hill.

Smith said he is unsure what impact the service will have on Subway’s sales, but “if it’s good for business, we’re certainly interested in continuing.”

Al Read, who owns Nice Slice pizza on Thayer Street, said he got involved with Brownsnacks.com not to increase business, but “more because I was interested in working with Ben to see what he could do.”

If business for Brownsnacks. com booms from the outset, Kussin may be spending more time on his bike than studying or sleeping. The site offers delivery from 3 to 11 p.m.

Sunday through Thursday and 3 p.m. until 12 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and, for now, Kussin is the only delivery person.

“If I have 20 orders the first night, I’d be extremely happy, and I’d also be screwed,” he said.

He has, however, posted an advertisement with the University’s Student Employment Office and hopes to hire other students to help out in the near future.

“Hopefully I won’t be delivering every night of the week,” Kussin said.

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ASL continued from page 1 administration reversed its decision to cut back the program and hired Professor Arkady Belozovsky to take over SI 1020: “Introductory American Sign Language,” SI 30: “Intermediate American Sign Language I” and SI 40: “Intermediate American Sign Language II” starting in Fall 2005. “It’s pretty clear that (a sign language program) was something that there was a demand for among undergraduates,” said Beth Bauer, senior lecturer in Hispanic studies.

Still, Anderson conceded that the popularity of ASL at the University is still not as high as it could be. “I feel like we made an impression last year,” she said referring to the student protests, “but I wish there were more people that actually ended up taking the class.”

The question now is what the future of the program holds. Belozovsky said he has plans to add another set of courses to serve as

Moore continued from page 3 ballet classes six days a week and it had become my passion in life,” she said.

At age 18, she came to New York to fulfill her dream of dancing with ABT. While she loved dancing and working with artists of such high caliber, dancing is not a “career for the faint of heart,” she added. “It’s a very difficult career,

a continuation of the curriculum’s intermediate offerings within the next three years.

Belozovsky said he would also like to offer courses in deaf studies, such as deaf history and deaf culture. The program could use “a variety of (deaf studies) courses so students can get a perspective (on deaf culture),” Belozovsky, who is deaf, said through an interpreter.

He also said that he would like to offer a concentration in the department at some point in the future.

All of this, however, depends on student interest. “I would prefer to get a foundation of students first and then later start a petition to get more support for ASL (and) deaf studies courses,” Belozovsky said. He added that this process will probably take about three years.

Both students and faculty seem to have reacted favorably to Belozovsky. “All indications are that he is a terrific instructor and we’re very pleased with him,” said Merle Krueger, associate director of the Center for Language Studies.

Anderson also praised the professor. “He really pushes us to our limits on what we know and what we want to learn. He really requires you to put a lot of time into the class, but I think it’s great.”

Krueger said he is watching student interest closely as efforts to expand the program are considered. “We’re very interested in the issue (of whether to expand the program) and we want to keep a close eye on what student interest is, and what the demand for the program is,” he said.

Students like Anderson have already expressed their interest in the expansion of the program.

“I feel like I know a lot coming out of SI 40 but I feel like I’d know a lot more if there were (SI 50 and SI 60) available to us,” Anderson said. She added that she would definitely double-concentrate in ASL if possible.

But Anderson is optimistic and encourages Brown students to try out the program for themselves.

“It’s a different type of language,” Anderson said, “and I hope that people will just give it a shot.”

highly competitive and extremely physically demanding. It’s an intense experience.”

After an injury forced her to leave the company, Moore came to the University as a Resumed Undergraduate Education student. “I always knew that I would eventually go back to school. My father was an economics professor, so a college education was always very important to my family,” she said.

As a 24-year-old seasoned pro-

fessional ballet dancer applying to college, Moore was attracted to the University’s open-minded admissions policies. “Brown was one of the few schools that was accepting of nontraditional students. Most of the other Ivy Leagues would not look at you if you if you were over the age of 19 or 20,” she said.

Moore was inspired by the University’s supportive intellectual environment. “I couldn’t believe that I was given this huge opportunity to read books and talk about things just for the intellectual inquiry. There was no professional outcome that had to happen,” she said.

After graduating with degrees in ethics and political philosophy, Moore attended Columbia Business School. She began her career in non-profit management in 1994 as a development officer for the National Cultural Alliance. Before moving back to ABT, she served as director of Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education.

Although she no longer dances, Moore said she still feels she is a part of the creative process of producing ballet.

“Even though I am not creating the art, it’s very satisfying to know that what I am doing is making sure that great art gets to people,” she said. “Just having a balanced budget is not inspiring unto itself.

But a balanced budget that will ensure that you can do Swan Lake to the highest quality, raising the bar of what constitutes excellence in art — that’s an inspiring goal.”

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Feminist for life Winn wants support for pregnant students

Unofficial CDC numbers show decline in student volunteerism

BY ALISSA CERNY STAFF WRITER

Despite survey responses indicating the percentage of Brown students undertaking community service projects may be on the decline, leaders at the Swearer Center for Public Service say they have not noticed this trend.

A survey conducted by the Career Development Center last spring reported that student volunteerism at University had declined.

While 65 percent of the class of 2002 had participated in community service while at Brown, only 51 percent of those surveyed from the class of 2003 reported taking part, according to Peter Hocking, then-assistant dean of the college and director of the Swearer Center, who provided The Herald with the numbers in March.

The CDC has not yet calculated the official percentages of this year’s survey, according to Christopher Cruz, the office’s communications and public relations officer. However, the CDC’s unofficial numbers state that 259 out of 700 members of the class of 2004 — about 37 percent — who have responded thus far reported that they pursued community service projects while at the University. However, it is

The vice president of Feminists for Life, Sally Winn, spoke out against the common linking of the feminist and pro-choice movements and advocated the financial support of pregnant college students in front of an audience of about 30 in Wilson Hall last night.

“Pro-life feminism is not an oxymoron. Early women’s activists were anti-abortion,” Winn said, listing famous feminists like Susan B. An-thony, Elizabeth Stanton, Sarah Norton and Elizabeth Blackwell who held strong anti-abortion beliefs.

“They recognized abortion as a sign that society had failed women and they strived for laws to protect women,” Winn said.

Winn believes that men, rather than women, were responsible for the link between the second feminist movement of the 1960s and the right to an abortion. “‘The Feminine Mystique,’ the book credited with reawakening feminism, did not even mention abortion in the first edition; it wasn’t added until later editions.

The National Organization of Women didn’t add abortion to its list of concerns until 1966,” Winn said.

Addition of the abortion issue to the feminist movement was not inspired by the concerns of women, but rather by two men, Bernard Nathanson and Lawrence Lader, she said.

“Lader was concerned with population growth, and Nathanson had seen a botched abortion and wanted to make the procedure legal. They lobbied for the overturn of anti-abortion laws in statehouses across the country, without success. Then they saw the upcoming women’s and civil rights movements and realized it was their opportunity,” Winn said.

According to Winn, Nathanson and Lader attempted to gain female support for the legalization of abortion by convincing Betty Friedan, author of “The Feminine Mystique,” that the only route women could take to being paid, educated, promoted and respected like men was to act like men by controlling their fertility. When this angle failed, they eventually swayed Friedan with the shocking statistic that 10,000 women died during illegal abortions every year — a fact that was later disproved after Freidan had already declared her support.

In response, NOW adopted the issue of abortion with the statement that it is “the most fundamental right of women, without which all other rights are meaningless,” Winn said. “That means abortion is more important than the right to vote, attend college, be equally promoted and own property. Are all these rights really meaningless without the right to an abortion?”

According to Winn, women have abortions for two reasons:

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Vice President of Feminists for Life Sally Winn spoke Thursday night in Wilson Hall. lack of emotional or financial support. It’s not about controlling their bodies, its about being coerced by family members and partners who think that having a child is a bad idea, Winn said.

Winn claimed the statistic that one in five abortions is performed on college students is due to the fact that universities make it either directly or indirectly impossible for a woman to have a child and complete her education.

“We are women, not men. We have children, get over it,” Winn said. “Why should a woman have to sacrifice her career goals to have a child? We refuse to choose between women and their children. Women deserve better than abortion, and it’s time to empower them.”

Winn, who became pregnant herself while a student at Indiana University, knows the difficulties facing pregnant women attempting to go to school. Pregnant women are often forced to drop out of school or have abortions because of the lack of housing, daycare and maternity coverage provided by most universities, Winn said.

“Some schools will actually pay for the cost of a student’s abortion as part of their health coverage, but not for the costs of labor and delivery,” Winn said.

Winn works to set up pregnancy forums at universities in order to address the issue of assisting pregnant students who have chosen not to have an abortion. The first forum was held at Georgetown University in 1997 and led to the creation of available housing and daycare for all pregnant undergraduate students.

Other goals include adding diaper docks to campus bathrooms and making it possible for women to maintain

scholarships and financial aid while taking a year off school after pregnancy. Winn expressed interest in creating a pregnancy forum at Brown to bring together students from both ends of the abortion debate.

“If you are pro-choice, you’ve got to be pro all the choices, including the choice of the women who want to have a child and stay in school,” Winn said.

Winn believes that in most cases it is possible to bring both pro-life and pro-choice advocates together to work towards her goal of improved resources for pregnant students.

“It is challenging to work with people at the ends of the spectrum. There are fringe elements to every movement. But when you get a bit closer from the edges of the debate it is possible to reach agreements and work together,” Winn said.

Feminists for Life also worked for the passage of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2005, which provides $10 million yearly in grants for schools where women who have decided to have a child are provided the resources to complete their education.

“Our main goal is resources for pregnant … students,” Winn said.

Feminists for Life does not support abortion under any circumstances, including rape and incest. Winn referred to abortion as “violence against women.”

“We have white men oppress blacks to achieve success and men oppress women in order to achieve success. Women do not need to oppress another entire subgroup in order to achieve their success by dehumanizing the life of an unborn child,” Winn said.

Brown Students for Life sponsored the talk.

questionable whether these figures accurately reflect the level of student participation in community service because not all students answer this particular question on the survey, Cruz said. He added that when percentages like those provided by Hocking last year are calculated, they are a combination of CDC data and data collected by the Swearer Center.

At the time, Hocking attributed the decline to several factors, including a conservative political climate that he said diminished the importance of community service. Still, leaders at the Swearer Center say they have not noticed a decline in volunteerism among Brown students, though the focus of their efforts may have changed, according to Alan Flam P’05, senior fellow at the Swearer Center and senior associate University chaplain.

“There has been a movement to make service exotic, like we have to travel to Haiti or New Mexico to do service when five minutes away there is community work to be done,” Flam said.

He also mentioned that an increasing number of students arrive at the University from high schools where community service is a mandatory part of see VOLUNTEER, page 6

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Ahmed continued from page 1 groups. He is currently involved in Peace Projects, a group of intellectuals that discusses modern theories and Islamic thought. He is also a member of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning, a division of the American Academy of Religion, and a board member for an international forum called the Children of Abraham Institute.

The OCRL hopes Ahmed’s hiring will inspire a greater educational effort to understand Islam by members of the Brown community. “The climate is good here. People are very open, considerate of different viewpoints,” Ahmed said.

Muslims are underrepresented at the University and at other colleges throughout the country, even though there is a high percentage of Muslims within academia, according to Ahmed. Cooper Nelson hopes the University’s efforts will increase the international enrollment of Muslim students in the future.

According to Nelson, the OCRL has served as an “incubator” for new programs promoting underrepresented groups in the past, as it when it helped create the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and the Third World Center in the 1970s.

The OCRL plans to collaborate with student groups and local community organizations to increase awareness of Islam on campus.

In addition to combating the “ignorance and ridicule” Islam faces throughout the world, Cooper Nelson said she thinks it is important to “institutionally

reflect the needs of the scholars and world around us.”

Often frustrated by the academic environment and the pressures to publish, Ahmed said he believes the job of associate chaplain is perfect for him. “I may be in academia but I’m an activist at heart — it’s what I wake up every morning to do.”

Ahmed said he wants all Muslims on campus, including those not associated with the Brown Muslim Students’ Association, to feel comfortable expressing their religious identities. However, he is perhaps an even bigger advocate for interfaith communication, understanding and appreciation, recognizing the importance of issues that cut across religious lines. He said he strives to create a “safe open space to express religiosity and to allow us all to grow as human beings.”

It is his regard for Brown’s rich diversity and potential that will be beneficial for all students on campus, according to Saad Yousuf ’08, a member of the BMSA. Ahmed has been working with his colleagues in the OCRL, his wife, Ayesha, the incoming Muslim chaplain at Connecticut College, the BMSA and others to organize activities for the Brown and local communities.

He is currently working on the March of Remembrance and Hope, a student trip to Poland. Other projects include a lecture series titled “Islam and Practice,” the Muslim Awareness Week in March and “Muslim Encounters,” which is an opportunity for graduate students to make presentations on campus and build an intellectual Islamic community.

Arming continued from page 1 percent expressed no opinion in the poll, which had a 4.6 percent margin of error.

The strong support contrasts markedly with the 56.1 percent of students who disapproved of arming in another Herald poll conducted in April 2003. 34.1 percent expressed approval in that poll, which had a 7 percent margin of error.

In December 2003, President Ruth Simmons informed the Brown community that the University had decided to arm DPS police officers. Soon after her announcement, the Arming Oversight Committee was formed to “ensure that the standards that were important to this community were met at each stage,” said David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services and a member of the committee. Early last month, licensed campus police officers began carrying firearms.

Several administrators on the committee, including Greene and Walter Hunter, vice president for administration, said they were not surprised by the results.

“The more people learn about how careful and thorough the preparation has been, the more they are supportive of it,” Hunter said.

Volunteer continued from page 5 the curriculum, though he said he is unsure how this affects students’ attitudes toward community service in college.

While these requirements may heighten the enthusiasm of some students, they may turn others away toward other extracurricular activities.

“I feel that students coming to Brown have a tremendous sense of idealism, a desire to contribute in some positive way to the world and I don’t see a diminishment in that. I’ve

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“Every concern the (Undergraduate Council of Students) had was considered very professionally by the arming committee,” said Michael Thompson ’07, chair of the council’s Communications Committee. “They were willing to listen to concerns of the student body,” he added.

Chief of Police Mark Porter expected the high support because “the University has listened to folks. “People had voiced their opinions and concerns, particularly when it came to policy and oversight,” Porter said.

Porter thought the 160 hours of training officers were required to undergo before last month’s arming was another reason many students supported the move.

“These are some of the highest standards in the country in terms of training,” he said.

Hunter cited different possible reasons for the high rate of student approval. “One might have been in favor because of the shooting” — referring to a November incident in which shots were fired on the Main Green — “or the training or for some other reasons,” he said.

Two DPS officers witnessed the shooting and saw the perpetrator flee, though they were prevented from pursuing him because of a disengagement policy previously adhered to by DPS officers.

“I don’t think it’s one particular

thing (that led to high approval of arming), but certainly the recent shooting and the fact that the police couldn’t respond to that was one thing,” Thompson said.

Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal said he was not surprised by the results, though he did say it is “strange and counterintuitive” that more students approve of arming today than in 2003 despite the fact that Providence crime rates have declined in the past few years. “People aren’t able to make contextual analysis when they haven’t been here that long,” he said. Segal added that the arming of officers was “less abrupt of a transition” for students because many have been on campus since the decision was made in 2003.

Some students did not anticipate the poll’s results. “I was surprised it was that high, but I was pleased. I was expecting more of an outcry,” said Michael O’Mara ’07.

Ari Savitzsky ’06, a member of the Arming Oversight Committee, said he was surprised the results showed that such a clear majority of students approved of arming.

“I thought it would be 50-50,” he said. Savitzsky added that Brown students were more comfortable with the idea of arming because the decision to arm officers was made a few years ago. “That’s why there’s no hardcore opposition,” he said.

been here for almost 24 years,” Flam said.

Flam asserted that the level of student volunteers has remained consistently high throughout his years at Brown.

The number of programs offered by the Swearer Center has also held steady over the past six years, he said. A guide of resources and programs lists 42 different opportunities and avenues to volunteer in Providence, ranging in areas from “housing and hunger” to “art and society.”

Roger Nozaki, director of the Swearer Center and associate dean of the college, said he agrees with Flam that student

volunteerism remains steady, citing a Feb. 14 Herald article that reported the University is ranked No. 13 among mediumsized colleges and universities producing volunteers for the Peace Corps.

Katie Kinsey ’09, a member of the CityGirls mentoring program run through the Swearer Center, said she volunteers “because I feel like it is the point of college in a way.

I mean I’m a student, and my biggest responsibility is doing my homework, otherwise I just have free time. Also, I keep hoping that I’ll find something that will really inspire me that I will want to do for the rest of my life.”

Though Kinsey said she believes that “in general there’s a lot of enthusiasm within the student body to volunteer and there are a lot of different opportunities,” she also thinks the University could offer more programs that appeal to a wider variety of students.

“I think there are few programs that are well organized and few accomplish something really tangible and productive,” she said. “I think there’s a lot more good intention than actual accomplishment.”

While students like Kinsey find community service rewarding, others choose to dedicate their time to other pursuits.

“I don’t volunteer because frankly I am going to owe huge sums of money to this fine institution of higher education and I need to start collecting that money now,” said Will Guzzardi ’09. “So I tutor, I’m looking for other jobs and trying to live the frugal life.”

Mike Gartner ’09 echoed this desire to pursue paid extracurricular activities.

“I am so busy, so if I do have time to do something, it’s going to be something where I can make money,” he said.

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Some in congress object to Arab port operator

BY PAUL BLUSTEIN WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — The management of major U.S. ports taken over by an Arab-owned company? What was the Bush administration thinking when it allowed such a thing?

That is the question being asked by members of Congress from both parties. Their indignation is aimed at the $6.8 billion purchase by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates, of a firm that handles most operations at ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

At a news conference Thursday, a bipartisan group of seven House and Senate members demanded that an interagency task force on foreign investments, which approved the transaction, examine it more closely. The group contended that although the UAE may have a strongly pro-U.S. government, the country was traversed by some of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers and its banking system has been used by groups affiliated with al-Qaida.

“Our ports are major potential terrorist targets,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. “I strongly urge the administration to thoroughly investigate this acquisition.”

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said, “Handing the keys to U.S. strategic ports to a regime that recognized the Taliban is not a sound next step in our war against terror.”

Taken aback by the uproar, administration officials defended approval of the deal by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a panel with representatives from 12 U.S. agencies that reviews foreign takeovers of U.S. companies or possible risks to national security.

The company that currently operates the ports, they noted, is foreign—Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., a British firm —and its employees in U.S. ports, who are mostly Americans, are expected to do the same work they’re doing now. Furthermore, Dubai Ports World, which won a bidding war this month for the company, has proven itself to be a reliable partner in screening cargo headed for the United States.

And once cargo arrives, federal agents would continue their current level of inspections, regardless of who runs the ports.

“This company will be subject to any U.S. laws that apply to port security, and will be obliged to have a port security plan that we will review,” Stewart Baker, the assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said in a phone interview. “So if there’s a falloff in compliance on security here in the United States, we’re not completely lacking in ability

to respond to that.”

The flap has some potentially major implications beyond the port security issue, as illustrated by the readiness of administration officials to comment on the decision made by the committee, which deliberates in secret.

After many years in which foreign investment in the United States has become generally welcome as a generator of jobs, Congress has recently become more wary of purchases by certain foreign interests. Last year’s takeover by a Chinese company of International Business Machines Corp.’s personal computer business aroused concern that China might gain access to sensitive technology.

Although the administration brushed off worry about that deal, congressional opposition to the Chinese takeover of Unocal Corp., the international oil firm, helped transfer ownership of Unocal to another U.S. oil giant.

That controversy also inspired plans by powerful members of Congress to tighten the 1988 law that created CFIUS. Talk of major changes in the law has subsided, but the Dubai Ports World deal could reignite the effort. If the administration is perceived as not vetting the deal carefully enough, congressional skeptics of foreign investment may feel obliged to take matters into their own hands, said Todd Malan, executive director of the Organization for International Investment, which represents the U.S. subsidiaries of many foreign companies. Malan was especially concerned because CFIUS did not conduct a 45-day investigation on top of the initial 30-day review that it usually gives to foreign purchases of U.S. businesses.

“There’s obviously a very broad interest in Congress in this particular transaction, and we hope that it doesn’t lead to broad changes in the CFIUS process,” Malan said. “Clearly, a larger number of members of Congress would have been more comfortable if this transaction had gone to the full investigation phase.”

DP World, the company at the center of the controversy, has been aggressively expanding since 1999 from its home in Dubai into operating ports in many other parts of the world, including Asia, Europe and South America. The takeover of Peninsular and Oriental would make it one of the three biggest port operators in the world, with companies from Denmark and Hong Kong.

Normally, such a company will be checked out by CFIUS for any “derogatory” information before being allowed to invest in a sensitive U.S. business, Baker said. In this case, the Homeland Security Department already knew the company well, he said.

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Cheney shooting case closed in Texas

BY JOHN POMFRET WASHINGTON POST

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The sheriff’s department responsible for investigating Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting of a Texas lawyer has closed its investigation and decided no criminal charges are warranted, according to a report released Thursday.

The Kenedy County Sheriff’s Department report largely corroborates the accounts of the shooting given by Cheney and Katharine Armstrong, whose family owns the 50,000acre ranch where the incident occurred. Cheney shot Harry Whittington, 78, a prominent Austin lawyer, while hunting quail last Saturday afternoon.

The report, written by Chief Deputy Gilbert San Miguel Jr., quotes Cheney and Whittington as saying the shooting was an accident. They said no one was drinking alcohol during the hunt, according to the report.

Interviewed in his hospital room in Corpus Christi, Whittington expressed concern only that the incident would hurt hunting’s image in Texas, the report said.

“Mr. Whittington did speak of the incident and explained foremost that there was no alcohol during the hunt and everyone was wearing the proper hunting attire of blaze orange,” the report said. “Mr. Whittington again reiterated that this incident was just an accident.”

Hospital officials have declined to say whether Whittington was given a blood alcohol test when he was admitted.

In his first public comments on the shooting, President Bush said Thursday in Washington that he is satisfied with Cheney’s account of what happened.

“I thought the vice president handled the issue just fine,” he said. “I’m satisfied with the explanation he gave.”

Whittington developed an abnormal heart rhythm Tuesday when a birdshot pellet moved in his chest. His condition improved Thursday at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, hospital officials said. David Blanchard, the hospital’s director of emergency services, said he is confident Whittington will continue to recover. “We feel very confident to reasonable medical certainty that there is no other pellet or birdshot that poses a threat to Mr. Whittington,” he told reporters.

Cheney discussed the incident publicly for the first time Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, and he took blame for the shooting. Previous statements by Armstrong, who witnessed the shooting, indicated that Whittington may have been to blame.

“You can’t blame anybody else,” Cheney said. “I’m the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend.”

The vice president did not release any word of the shooting at the time, deferring to

Armstrong, who called reporters in Texas on Sunday morning.

Cheney defended his decision, saying his first concern was for Whittington’s health.

The sheriff’s 21/2-page report says that San Miguel began his investigation at the Armstrong Ranch at 8 a.m.

Sunday, 141/2 hours after the shooting occurred. Cheney told San Miguel that a hunting party of seven, riding in three vehicles, was looking for quail in a pasture when dogs located a covey. Whittington, interviewed in his hospital room, told San Miguel that he hit two birds in that covey. Then a hunting guide, Bo Hubert, discovered a second covey. Cheney, who had not shot any birds in the first covey, walked 100 yards with Pamela Pitzer Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to try his luck with the second. He carried a 28-gauge Italian-made shotgun.

Whittington told the sheriff’s department that he looked for his downed birds and then walked over to the hunting vehicles.

Armstrong, the report said, then told him to join Cheney and Willeford in their hunt for the

second covey. So Whittington followed after them.

Armstrong had told reporters earlier this week that Whittington “came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn’t signal them or indicate to them or announce himself.”

Meanwhile, quail had been scared from the second covey.

Cheney told the sheriff’s department that a single bird flew behind him and he followed the bird by line of sight in a counterclockwise direction, not realizing Whittington had walked up from behind and had positioned himself approximately 30 yards away. Standing on a small hill, Cheney fired down, spraying Whittington’s face, neck and chest with birdshot. “Cheney told me the reason Harry Whittington sustained the injuries to his face and upper body,” the report said, “was that Mr. Whittington was standing on ground that was lower than the one he was standing on.”

After interviewing Cheney on Sunday, San Miguel returned to the ranch on Tuesday to see the pasture where the shooting occurred.

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Election decision provokes joy, anger

BY CAROL WILLIAMS LOS ANGELES TIMES

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Conga lines of jubilant Haitians thronged the dusty, trash-filled streets of the capital Thursday to celebrate a negotiated conclusion to their troubled Feb. 7 presidential election that gave poor-man’s idol Rene Preval a first-round victory.

But the decision by Haitian electoral officials to remove 85,000 blank ballots from the equation, allowing Preval to clear the 50 percent hurdle and avoid a runoff, angered the candidates who trailed a distant second and third. Although both conceded that Preval had widely outpolled them, they lambasted the reconfigured tabulation as foreign-instigated capitulation to violence and said it was likely to cast a pall of illegitimacy over Preval’s tenure.

The 3 a.m. announcement by the Provisional Electoral Council halted a 10-day escalation of tensions among voters who watched Preval’s share soar to more than 60 percent in early counting, then steadily dwindle as ballots arrived from farflung regions with other preferences — and amid mounting indications of fraud and ballotstuffing.

Preval was down to 48.7 percent early Monday when seething anger at what many perceived to be a conspiracy boiled over into violence. Preval supporters erected barricades of flaming tires and junked cars and brought the capital to a standstill. One protester was killed by gunfire, several were wounded and the entire nation shuddered at the vision of a return to the deadly chaos that surrounded President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s flight to African exile in February 2004.

Preval appealed to his supporters Tuesday to demonstrate “peacefully and intelligently,” and the menacing disruptions ceased. But the specter of uncontrolled violence if a first-round Preval victory was denied compelled U.N. officials, foreign diplomats and Haiti’s appointed interim government to huddle at the National Palace for days in search of a compromise.

Preval ended up with 51.15 percent of the 2.2 million votes cast. His political party, Lespwa,

Arabs continued from page 7 in some of our cargo and port security measures,” Baker said.

“Remember, our interest in port security extends well beyond the United States. If we discover weapons of mass destruction inside a U.S. port, we’ve already lost. So we do a lot of screening abroad, and our general experience with this company has been positive.”

The extra 45-day investigation wasn’t necessary, Baker said, because the company approached CFIUS in late November, when it decided to bid for Peninsular and Oriental.

So the committee had “at least a few weeks longer” than the

which means hope in Creole, was poised to win several seats in a two-house legislature that will be widely divided, encouraging coalition-building and collaboration.

The 63-year-old presidentelect kept a low profile after the council’s decision, celebrating with aides and family until dawn but declining to speak to supporters or reporters gathered outside his campaign headquarters all day Thursday.

Aides said he was planning a nationwide address today.

Critics of the compromise showed no reluctance to make their views known.

“We are the victims of a coup d’etat of ballots,” fumed Leslie Manigat, the 75-year-old former president who trailed Preval with 11.8 percent of the vote and would have been the man to face him in a March 19 runoff. “A second round would have been a learning experience for this country. But instead, violence was rewarded.”

Charles Henri Baker, a white garment factory owner whose candidacy was a lightning rod for the class and race issues that rile Haiti, accused the electoral council of going “above and around the law.”

“Something should be very clear: This was not an election, it was a selection,” said Baker, 50, who ran third with 7.9 percent of the vote.

“Now every time there’s a problem, Mr. Preval’s partisans will take to the streets and we’ll have to do what they want. That’s a scary thought,” said Baker.

Some in the polarized political community welcomed the electoral council’s decision as the start of a healing process.

Evans Paul, considered only a year ago to be a promising presidential successor, polled only 2 percent and graciously bowed to Preval as the man who showed he can take up the cause of representing the masses.

Representatives of the international community praised the decision as a fresh start for Haiti, which was once the most productive colony in the Caribbean but slid into debt, poverty and despotism after its 1804 independence.

“We want this government to succeed,” said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “This is a chance for a country that has had too few chances.”

standard 30 days to look into the ramifications of the takeover, he said.

Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., of the House Homeland Security Committee said, “I am not convinced that the system that’s used is satisfactory in a post9/11 world.”

“They just seem to do an analysis of what’s known about the company — is there anything known showing that they’re a threat?” said King, who met with Baker and other administration officials Thursday. “To me, much more of an investigation is required. If someone was nominated for a sub-Cabinet post in this administration, they would get far more scrutiny than this company, which will be running major ports in this country.”

Darfur continued from page 1 in this place?” Reeves said. “How can it be that the deliberate, ongoing, ethnically targeted destruction of Darfur’s African tribal peoples would bring no greater response from the international community?”

Reeves said that instead of confronting the central government in Darfur over its genocidal policy, “the international response has been to substitute disingenuousness for blunt truths and to offer expediency in place of civilian protection.” He said the global community needs to do more than provide food, shelter and medical services. Reeves also stressed the importance of supplying protection for the humanitarian groups dispensing

NCAA continued from page 3 one, which is true of most institutions like Brown.”

Goldberger said despite being optimistic that Brown will pass, the committees intend to focus on how the Department of Athletics can improve.

“The fact that we’ll probably pass this is not a reason to not take this seriously,” he said. “Instead, there will be areas where we’ll discover we’re not as good as we should be.”

Goldberger noted that though the evaluation process is still under way, he foresees the department’s diversity as a slight concern.

“Diversity is one thing that is important to the NCAA,” he said.

“I don’t think our department is as diverse as it should be.”

Howard Chudacoff, professor of history and a co-chair of the subcommittee on governance and commitment to compliance, said diversity among staff was also a problem 10 years ago during the last recertification process.

“The larger issue is the way in which athletics reflects the larger community and American

W. icers continued from page 12 Saturday, is not the offensive juggernaut that St. Lawrence is, but the Golden Knights have given up the fewest goals in the league and have assembled a well-rounded attack.

“Clarkson is very tough

such aid. At present, the African Union provides the primary security force in Darfur, which Reeves likened to placing one policeman in London and asking him to control all crime.

“The AU has not the military ability, the logistical capacity, nor the operating cohesion required by the extraordinary demands for security in Darfur,” Reeves said.

But many in the international community refuse to see the situation in Darfur as genocide, and Reeves said that United Nations military sources have told him that Western nations, including the United States have little intention of providing bolstered military support. As a result, humanitarian operations will be forced to withdraw, leaving the civilian population “balanced precariously on a knife edge,” Reeves said.

In the face of genocide, Reeves said it is difficult to

determine how to respond “with appropriate urgency and efficacy.” He acknowledged that divestment will not stop genocide tomorrow, but said it is a step toward changing the regime in Khartoum, the capital of Darfur.

Only with the democratization of power in Darfur will there be peace in Sudan, he said.

The Darfur Action Network sponsored Reeves’ lecture.

Political Action Chair Scott Warren ’09 said he was pleased with both the turnout for the lecture and Reeves’ informed speech. He added that the talk was particularly pertinent because the Brown Corporation will vote on Feb. 25 whether to divest from Sudan.

“Our hope is that Brown will divest,” Warren said. “Yale divested (Wednesday), and this would make us the fourth Ivy to divest. We hope to keep the ball rolling.”

society,” he said. “There we have tried hard but not succeeded in terms of making the athletic administration and the coaches diverse and reflective of the general population.”

Spies told The Herald that if this perceived lack of diversity is confirmed in the report, the University will present a plan to resolve it to the NCAA. Chudacoff said the University benefited in several ways from the last accreditation.

“One of the major things that happened over the last 10 years is the integration of the Brown University Sports Foundation into the larger apparatus of University administration and development,” he said.

He also said the previous accreditation process facilitated further understanding of the athletic community at Brown, but that much still needs to be learned.

“We certainly have gotten to know more of the academic aspects of student athletes. We still need to know a lot more,” he said.

Goldberger agreed there is still much to learn. “I think that it’s important that we do this,” he said. “I think it’s important that an organization holds us to a certain

standard so we can improve.”

Spies echoed Goldberger’s sentiment that this is a chance for reflection on the role of athletics at the University.

“We see this as an opportunity to look at what we are doing in this area and to ask the questions the NCAA wants us to ask and to ask ourselves questions we normally would not ask,” Spies said. “Are the programs being offered to students in a way that is to the benefit of the students? Are we really putting student welfare first and foremost?”

Chudacoff said much of the accreditation process is tedious. “In many ways it’s really a reflection of the intense bureaucracy that the NCAA is,” he said. “The recertification process is extraordinarily detailed and picky.”

“But on the other had, the information that comes about from all of this — particularly the kind of extra credit work we are doing, will help improve Brown athletics and the institution as a whole,” he said.

Goldberger said he expects the University will submit its report by the end of the semester. The NCAA will also appoint a visiting committee to evaluate the University in November, he said.

because they’re a hard-working team,” Murphy said. “They don’t give up a lot of goals … (but) they’re beatable. We have the ability to (beat them), but we have to play (hard for) three periods.”

There is also some extra incentive for Bruno to end this weekend on a high note. These will be the last regular season home games for the squad’s five seniors.

“It’ll be emotional,” said defenseman Ashlee Drover ’06.

“If anything it’ll motivate us to play better. I’m looking forward to a great weekend.”

“You’re at the rink every single day for four years so it’ll be bitterwsweet,” said Maria Heinhuis ’06.

Should Brown fail to capitalize on the weekend, the Bears will turn their attention to Princeton in hopes of sharing the Ivy League title and a better position in the ECAC tournament. The Bears take on the Tigers next Friday at Princeton. The combination of a win against Princeton and a Princeton victory over Yale the next day would give Brown a share of the championship and possibly a top-four seed in the tournament.

“Any championship is a good thing,” Murphy said. “There are very strong teams in the Ivies and if we can beat Princeton and win it that says a lot about our squad.”

For now, though, the Bears aren’t ready to concede the ECAC title. “Right now the focus is on the ECAC,” Drover said.

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AOTW continued from page 12 compete?

I really like Harvard’s pool, which is great because championships are there … I grew up at the Harvard pool, diving with Keith (Miller), who is the Harvard coach, and his wife Agnes. They had a Junior Olympics team, and I dove with them for five years at the Harvard pool, so it’s like home turf for me … I really feel comfortable in that atmosphere.

How do you get rid of that lovely chlorine smell?

I don’t. It’s getting worse actually. I asked the coach once and he said that the chlorinator broke and that they have to put it in themselves … Whenever I shower in the morning, I reek of chlorine, if I wet my hair I smell like chlorine. My friends are like, “Jess…” It just stays with you.

Have there been any bumps in the road this season?

I actually injured my back

Colelli continued from page 12 one factor all seem to stress is their devotion to competition.

Recruited mainly by the football program, Brown felt he could perform successfully in both sports at the collegiate level.

Although he said his football coaches do not necessarily enjoy being without his full focus in the off-season, his decision to attend Brown over other schools was influenced by the athletic program’s willingness to let him pursue both paths.

“I knew that I could do both sports, and I love to do both sports,” Brown said. “Brown was really the only one that looked at me for both.”

An added benefit is that track and field is a good way to train for football. As a discus thrower, Brown works on his strength and throwing motion all winter, which helps him coming off the edge from his defensive end position in the fall. This same logic applies for wideout Paul Raymond ’08, widely regarded as the fastest member of the football team, and running back Brandon Markey ’07, who both joined the sprint squad over the winter to work on marinating and improving a key aspect of their football game — speed.

It seems that very few athletes today have the time or their school’s blessing to pursue two different sports in Division I athletics. Specialization and time constraints often conspire to restrict those athletes from doing more than one sport.

The relatively high number of two-sport athletes at Brown is in keeping with the University’s overall mantra: pursue as many diverse activities as you can, so long as it makes you happy.

at the Dartmouth meet in November and the trainers didn’t want me to dive. I didn’t practice for two weeks, and then I went out and dove at the Princeton meet anyway, which wasn’t smart, but all I could think about was how it was senior year. Then I injured my ankle right before the Yale meet.

What’s your concentration?

I’m a neuroscience major. I’m doing research with Will Heindel, and although he’s a psych professor, he works with neuroimaging. I’m working with him on Alzheimer’s research.

Are you looking to do it postgrad?

I’m pre-dental right now, so I’m taking my dental boards this summer. But it might take me a year or two at random jobs for me to, oh, find myself.

When will the season end for you?

I qualified for (Zone A) NCAAs, and this year it’s exciting because it’s the first year I get to go with other people. Two

While I must agree with his first point, don’t throw the Ivy League under the bus.

The Big East is the best basketball conference in the land and every night a team at the bottom of the standings can rise up and knock off a team at the top. Well, maybe not every night — South Florida will never beat Connecticut as long as the two are in the conference together (and you can quote me on that) — but the Big East is as good as it gets in college hoops.

However, that does not mean I would never bother walking up to the Pizzitola Center because I would rather walk downtown to the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. At the very least, telling someone you are on your way to the Pitz is much cooler than telling them you are heading to the Dunk.

The basketball played in the Ivy League is consistently some of the most competitive in the nation. Each year the Ivy representative in the NCAA Tournament battles some team with recruiting and monetary advantages. Remember that less than three years ago the Pitz was packed every night as Brown bat-

others on the diving team, Dana Meadow (’07) and Kai Robinson (’09) qualified as well. It’s in Annapolis, Md. (at the Naval Academy.) Top two in each event go to nationals.

What will it be like for you after the season to just a typical senior?

It will be really fun. … It’s been hard with my roommates not on the team. It mixes things up, because I get to be around different people, but they can go out any day of the week while I have to still focus for the next two weeks.

Next year, what will you miss the most about Providence and Brown?

I’ll miss being around all my friends at one particular time in my life. Never again will I be around so many people, so much excitement, so much enthusiasm. Brown has a certain atmosphere about it that I love.

It’s so nice to be able to walk into any building on campus on any given day and know at least a few people and see those smiling faces.

tled perennial league champs Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania for the right to go to the Big Dance. And it has only been a decade since the Tigers knocked defending national champion UCLA from the tourney.

The Bears’ home wins this year over Dartmouth (in two overtimes) and Columbia were both exciting, well-played affairs that exemplified what college basketball is supposed to be about. If you think the Bears’ home rematches with Penn and Princeton next weekend will be boring, poorly played affairs, think again.

Just because the Bears are not in the race this year does not mean they are not worth the price of admission or that the Ivy League is not as good as advertised. On the contrary, Ivy League basketball is everything it is billed to be and more. It’s not the Big East, but it is the Ivy League.

W. hoops continued from page 12 been doing a lot of rebounding drills all week in practice,” said Colleen Kelly ’06, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week.

In order to win, Brown will have to do a better job defending Rollins than it did covering another 6’3” post player, Becky Brown of Princeton. Brown scored 21 points against Bruno, including 15 in the second half of a losing effort.

If Brown can contain Rollins and get past the Crimson, it will tip-off against the Big Green on Saturday with first place on the line.

“It is nice because we don’t have to worry about anyone else except ourselves,” Kelly said. “We know if we win both games this weekend then we will be in first place.”

Dartmouth brings its 70 conference record to the Pizzitola Center. The Big Green also boast the number two scorer in the league in Jeanie Cullen. The 5’10’’ Cullen is averaging 15.2 points per game from the two guard spot and is shooting 49 percent from behind the arc. Her 65 three-point field goals lead the league.

“They are a good threepoint shooting team,” Kelly said. “Not just her (Cullen), but the entire team. We have been working on getting out to all the shooters and making sure

that every shot is contested.”

The Big Green also featurestwo other players who are averaging in double figures.

Ashley Taylor is scoring 12.5 points per game, while Angie Soriaga has been good for 11.6 a contest.

One player that Brown will not have to worry about is 6’4” center Elise Morrison, who is out for the season due to foot surgery. Morrison led the Big Green in scoring last season with 15.9 points per game and was a preseason player of the year candidate.

Saturday’s game will be an interesting contrast of styles, as Dartmouth leads the league in points per game (71.8), field goal percentage (45 percent) and three-point field goal percentage (44.2 percent).

Brown, on the other hand, leads the league in scoring defense at 60.8 points per game and steals at 11.3 per game.

“It is exciting to go into a game with so much on the line,” Hayes said. “We know that we are going to be ready to play and we know they are going to be ready to play. It is going to be a battle.”

While Brown does not boast the overall offensive prowess that Dartmouth does, it does possess the highest scoring tandem in the Ivies with Hayes at 15 points per game and Kelly at 13.6 points per game.

If you are not going away for the long weekend, stop by the Pizzitola Center at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Sports Editor Stephen Colelli ’08 secretly works for the Big East and would prefer the Drunkin Donuts Center over any other

Ivy League is no Big East, but Big East is no Ivy League An article in last week’s College Hill Independent discussed one Brunonian’s preference for Big East basketball over Ivy League basketball and his decision to attend Providence College games over Brown’s.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

Diamonds and coal A diamond to warm weather and all those conservationists for saving Brown a half million dollars in reduced energy costs.

Unfortunately, the University is hemorrhaging money through the chain of steaming holes in the Main Green.

Coal to our dysfunctional cousin, John Brown University, for comparing gayness to smoking in a hospital. Here in Providence, we allow both cigarettes and homosexuality, sometimes together.

A sympathetic diamond to David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services, and other administrators who are willing to take our parents’ phone calls. But we’re not that sympathetic — you didn’t have to live with them for 18 years.

Coal to getting Rhode Islanders to lose weight … c’mon, let Lil’ Rhody be the biggest something.

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A cubic zirconium to the “SmartRide Tracker.” Though a nifty feature, isn’t this just another Web site to help Brown students stalk their crushes?

A diamond to the student who risked potential sanctions and angry administrators to report the theft of a keg from his University-owned off-campus house. We’d tap that.

Coal to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which cut Rhode Island’s homeless funding after its application fell half a point short of the 82 points needed to get a full grant. One half-point? At Brown we dispense with such trivial distinctions.

A diamond to former women’s icers Becky Kellar ’97, Katie King ’97, Kathleen Kauth ’01, Kim Insalaco ’03 and Pam Dreyer ’03 for leading Canada and the United States, respectively to undefeated records at the Olympics in Torino. Can anyone say gold medal showdown?

A diamond to four-day weekends and all the sarsaparilla we plan on drinking.

And lastly, an armored diamond to us. If Vice President Dick Cheney shoots his friends, we don’t want to find out what he does to people who give his wife coal.

LETTERS The Herald’s Ward 1 coverage superficial To the Editor: After reading Ethan Ris ’05’s letter to the editor (“Segal’s personal attacks disrespectful,” Feb. 15) in response to a column published on Monday (“Segal supporters: Funny money funds Ward 1 opposition,” Feb. 13) exposing the sources of his campaign financing, I can’t help but wonder whether Ris is getting overly defensive. Monday’s column was not ad hominem in character. In fact, save for the final three paragraphs, it was not much of an opinions piece at all. Rather, it was a journalistic recounting of information which anybody with a modem and some free time could have discovered for themselves. After reading the piece, the real shock was not any “vile, personal attack” against Ris, but how badly the authors of the column scooped The Herald’s news reporters.

While it is laudable that he wants to make the Ward 1 City Council race strictly about the issues, so far Ris has only issued vague statements about his

vision for Ward 1 and his general disappointment with Councilman David Segal’s leadership. Let’s hear some specifics from Ris. And, for The Herald: When will we see any real reporting about what local residents in Ward 1 want from their City Council?

It seems as if every time there has been an article about the Ward 1 City Council race, The Herald only quotes Ris or other Brown students who support Ris, making blanket assertions about Fox Point’s discontent with its current representative. If Fox Point is so upset with Segal’s performance, then they should go on record to express it. Otherwise, we have only the partisan assurances of the candidate and his various acolytes which, when printed in isolation, are more appropriate for the op-ed page than for The Herald’s front page.

Benjamin Yaster ‘05 Feb. 15

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To the Editor: I was surprised by Queer Alliance Co-President Josh Teitelbaum ’08’s statement that “some (Queer Alliance) members are marriage supporters, and others are not” (“Brown Dems, Queer Alliance turn out in support of same-sex marriage,” Feb. 15).

There are many conservative arguments against marriage equality, but I gather that Teitelbaum was referring to some extreme liberal members of the Queer Alliance who don’t believe that the LGBTQ community should “assimilate” into heteronormative society. I would like to personally voice my disgust with this view. This is a classic case of the LGBTQ community being too liberal for its own good. This stance implies that because some queer people would prefer not to “assimilate” to the “straight world” that none should be able to.

Call it marriage, call it union, call it the “Two Fags and a Family” law; I don’t care. All I know is that any two people in America should be able to commit to each other in a loving, life-long partnership, and that they should be able to share the same rights as any other two people who make that commitment, regardless of their sex. Any queer who would deny the natural right of another to marriage needs to think twice. If the current queer rights movement is a true civil rights struggle then any queer who opposes equal rights should feel, as Nancy Rose put it, “embarrassed, just like (our) parents and grandparents are ashamed now when they look back on slavery.”

Max Chaiken ’09 Feb. 16

CO R R E C T I O N S An article in yesterday’s Herald (“Residents miffed after CPC drops discussion of waterfront zoning proposals,” Feb. 16) misspelled the name of lawyer Andrew Teitz.

A caption in yesterday’s Herald misidentified women’s squash player Erin Andrews ’07 as Charlotte Steel ’09.

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OPINIONS

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006 · PAGE 11

Nobody is laughing The refusal of many Western news sources to reprint the Jyllands-Posten cartoons is tantamount to censorship

BY LAURA MARTIN OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Tensions are mounting as protests against a Danish editorial cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed continue to escalate. On Friday, protests expanded to Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, where over 1,000 protesters chanted, “Long live Islam. Destroy Denmark. Destroy Israel. Destroy George Bush. Destroy America.” Large demonstrations have also occurred in Kabul, Dhaka, Islamabad, Beirut, Damascus and Gaza. On Feb. 6, at least eight people were killed in Afghanistan, as security officers tried to suppress violent protests. Despite these international security threats, large news media organizations and American newspapers have refused to depict the editorial cartoon. Incomplete coverage of the situation is nothing short of censorship.

Certain Muslim groups are offended by the editorial cartoon since Islamic tradition explicitly prohibits the depiction of Allah and the Prophet.

Despite the dramatic response, the cartoons have been republished in over 30 countries, with editors announcing that the intention behind reprinting the cartoons is to support free speech.

Several American news sources have not reprinted the cartoon, including the Chicago Tribune, which stated that “The Tribune has chosen not to publish the cartoons because editors decided the images inaccurately depicted Islam as a violent religion, and that it was not necessary to print the cartoons in order

to explain them to readers.” Ironically, the cartoon, which was intended as a critique of self-censorship, has now spurred massive censorship of the cartoon itself and has led to arrests of editors in Jordan, Yemen and Malaysia.

The irony of the violence following the publication of the cartoon in Jyllands-

depiction of the Prophet with a bomb in his turban.

The American people deserve to see the cartoon and make their own personal judgments about the ongoing international crisis. We do not need our news sources filtering information for us. One may argue that printing the cartoons is akin

The American people deserve to see the cartoon and make their own personal judgments about the ongoing international crisis.

Posten, a daily Danish newspaper, is that the cartoon was accompanying an article titled “Profound fear of criticism of Islam,” in which writer Kare Bluitgen recounts how he has not been able to publish his children’s book about Mohammed’s life because so many editors feared the Islamic response. Publishers cited the murder of film director Theo van Gogh and the attack on a lecturer at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Denmark, in which a lecturer was assaulted by five assailants who opposed the lecturer’s reading of the Qur’an to non-Muslims attending the lecture. To go along with the article, editors decided to have artists submit their renditions of how they would illustrate Islam. Some cartoon panels were simply of a bearded man or a crescent moon, with the most controvesial being a

to yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, and therefore not reprinting the cartoons does not constitute an assault on free speech.

Perhaps we feel secure enough in America to believe that freedom of speech is never impinged upon. But it is these moments of indifference that whittle away at the public’s concept of free speech.

Critics state that the controversial depiction of Mohammed only enforces the stereotype of Islam being connected with terrorism. Yet it has not been cartoons that spur Westerners to connect Islam with terrorism; it has been fundamentalist violence, like that which followed the publication of the JyllandsPosten cartoons, that connects Islam with terrorism in Western consciousness.

Obviously, the violent response does not represent the vast majority of

Muslim people. Yet Westerners tend to lump Muslims into one group, perhaps because the leaders of many protesting countries are themselves fundamentalist, and often leaders of a country shape our perception of an entire region. 17 Islamic countries have demanded that the Danish government apprehend and severely punish the cartoonists. The Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Arab League have demanded that the U.N. impose international sanctions upon Denmark. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has responded that “the (Danish) government refuses to apologize because the government does not control the media or a newspaper outlet; (punishment) would be in violation of the freedom of speech.”

Islamic leaders cannot expect Denmark to apologize when Denmark upholds the value of free speech. Islamic people cannot take offense when people outside of their religious faith do not follow their religious code. On the same note, the West cannot expect its values and customs to be openly embraced by Islam.

The Danish cartoon is symptomatic of an ever-widening chasm between Islam and the West, one which our generation will not be able to ignore. The issue has allied Europe with America and Muslim countries with one another, creating two axes which were not previously united over a single issue. Isolationism is seeming more and more appealing.

Laura Martin ’06 would like all news to be in cartoon form.

Putting the “ow” in Powerball Tomorrow’s $365 million Powerball Jackpot is the largest in history, but the odds aren’t in your favor

BY BEN LOGAN GUEST COLUMNIST

Psssst. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, since we do kind of live in our own little bubble on College Hill, but the Powerball lottery jackpot is $365 million for Saturday night’s drawing. What? The sale of lottery tickets is taxation on people who are bad at math, you say? But this is the largest jackpot in American history!

The guy in front of me at the East Side Mini Mart just bought 20 tickets for the drawing. He looked like a smart dude, so I figured he was onto something.

I did a little math, and I’ll let you in on a little secret: it looks like each ticket is actually worth $2.89 if you multiply the chance of winning each prize by the amount of the prize. Even if the grand prize was the only prize offered, the ticket would be worth about $2.50! So, how aboutyou and I buy a ticket? It only costs a dollar. Heck, let’s buy a hundred!

Its not too often we’ll get a chance like this.

You’re in? Great. Ah, but there’s a decision to be made with the grand prize, if and when we win it. How do we want it paid? If we choose the “lump sum” option and receive our winnings immediately, we only receive a paltry $177.3 million of the $365 million, according to Powerball.com. The other option is to receive annual payments over the next 30 years that will add up to $365 Million. But most financial advisors would tell you that the lump sum will go further because it can be invested in the

Did I mention that there is a significant chance that we will be splitting the jackpot with other ticket-holders? short-run, while the annual payments under one of Anna Nicole Smith’s old premight lose a lot of value over the next few Trim Spa mattresses. Our expected value of decades due to inflation. Let’s be a smart $2.89 for the grand prize alone has made a sad decline to $0.75. (All of the mediumwinner and take the lump sum.

So we’ve got our hypothetical $177.3 sized prizes, which lose similar amounts of million. But there’s another problem with expected value, probably cost us another winning the big one: Uncle Sam is going to nine or 10 cents in total). want his cut. According to the Powerball Wait. Did I mention that there is Web site, “if a significant the winner chance that we Expected values of Powerball ticket per price takes the will be split(lump sum, ting the jackthey) will pot with other 1 in 146,107,962 * $365,000,000 = $2.50 have to pay ticket- holders?

1 in 3,563,608 * $200,000 = $0.168 state and fedAfter doing a 1 in 584,431.85 * $10,000 = $0.01711 eral taxes... little research 1 in 14,254.44 * $100 = $0.007 The amount pok-ing around 1 in 11,927.18 * $100 = $0.0084 will vary, but the official Web 1 in 290.91 * $7 = $0.024 it will likely be site, it appears 1 in 745.45 * $7 = $0.0939 somewhere that we have 1 in 126.88 * $4 = $0.0315 close to half about a 40 1 in 68.96 * $3 = $0.0435 the cash ampercent chance ount.” So our of having to split Total expected value = $2.89 $177.3 milthe prize with lion lump sum payment shrinks further one other ticket-holder when the jackpot to $95 Million. That is, unless we decide to gets this big and about a 10 percent move to Aruba, or perhaps hide the cash chance of having to split it with two other

people. It is unlikely to have to split the prize with more than two other ticketholders, but overall the risk of splitting the prize decreases the expected value of the lump sum from 75 to 60 cents if my probabilities of multiple winners are accurate.

Whew. We’re done taking apart the jackpot. Guess I should have thought about these things before I got us both all excited. So what are we left with? A ticket worth $0.89, by my new math. We are also left with a pretty depressing reality — it might just never be a good idea to buy a Powerball ticket.

That is, unless we get at least 11 cents worth of enjoyment in holding a yellow ticket that might be our ticket to becoming millionaires. The entertainment value — just imagining what our lives would be like if all the stars aligned and we won the big prize — might make it worth buying a ticket for Saturday’s drawing.

So I’m not saying you shouldn’t consider buying one ticket — maybe buy one and split it with a friend, as it won’t cut your entertainment value in half and might even increase it. And you might find it really exciting to watch the little ping pong balls of destiny bounce around with $365 Million on the line. But for me, the magic is gone; I want out of this deal. I’ll be saving my 100 pennies for a rainy day.

My name is Ben Logan ’07, and I am a compulsive gambler.

SPORTS WEEKEND THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FEBRUARY 17, 2006 · PAGE 12

Double trouble: w. icers face two top-10 teams this weekend

BY TOM TRUDEAU SPORTS STAFF WRITER

With just over a week left in the regular season, the women’s ice hockey team faces its biggest weekend and biggest challenge of the year. The Bears will take on two ECACHL powerhouses in No. 2 St. Lawrence and No. 8 Clarkson, who are first and third in the conference, respectively. After going winless in their last three games, the Bears have fallen from first place to fourth, five points behind St. Lawrence and one behind Clarkson.

“We’ve struggled with consistency all year,” said Head Coach Digit Murphy. “I thought we had a handle on it. Apparently we don’t. We have to stay focused for three periods. If we do that, then we can beat these teams.”

Another question mark for Brown coming into the weekend is who will start

Ashley Hess / Herald

Hayley Moore ’08 leads Brown with 29 points in only 25 games this year. The Bears will look to Moore for offense this week against high-scoring St. Lawrence.

in goal. In recent weeks, O’Hara Shipe ’08 has stepped into the starting goaltender spot, but she suffered a concussion on Feb. 6 when she was hit by a car while rollerblading. The injury kept her out of practice for a week before her return Monday. If Shipe cannot go, then it will likely be Nicole Stock ’09 who gets the nod. The first-year netminder gave up three goals in the third period in a 3-1 loss to Yale on Tuesday but has typically been at her best in conference play, putting together a 0.84 goals-against average and .962 save percentage.

The Bears have been carried all season by good defense and strong goaltending and they will need more of the same this weekend. Despite their position in the league, the Bears rank just seventh overall in scoring. Only two players have reached double digits in goals scored — Hayley Moore ’08 (16) and Keaton Zucker ’06 (10) — and the team will need to find some offense from other sources if it hopes to score on two of the country’s best goaltenders in St. Lawrence’s Jess Moffat and Clarkson’s Kira Hurley, who boast minuscule goals-against averages of 1.37 and 1.14, respectively.

Friday’s opponent, St. Lawrence, has the league’s best offense and features seven players with 20 or more points on the season. Brown, by comparison, only has two over 20, Moore and Zucker, with the next closest Bears totaling 10 points.

The Saints’ Sabrina Harbac, one of the league’s most dominating skaters, has recorded 20 goals and 31 assists on the year. In the Jan. 14 meeting between the two teams at St. Lawrence, a 4-1 win for the home team, Harbec scored a goal and assisted on two others.

“St. Lawrence has a very, very highly skilled team,” Murphy said. “They’re big, strong and fast. They’re going to be a tough team to beat. We have to play our ‘A-plus’ game.”

Clarkson, Brown’s opponent on see W. ICERS, page 8

Athlete of the Week: Jessica Larson ’06, diver/neuro major JILANE RODGERS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Diving team captain Jessica Larson ’06 broke an 18-year school record in the 3meter dive at Yale last weekend. Larson tallied 308.69 points, crushing second place by a 54-point margin. Although the Bulldogs narrowly defeated the Bears, 160-140, Larson claimed the top spot in both the 1-meter and 3-meter dives, remaining undefeated in dual competition.

Herald: Did you expect to break the school record going into the Yale meet?

Larson: Against Harvard, which was our first dual meet, I missed the record by, I think, a point and a half. My coach hadn’t wanted to scare me so he didn’t tell me my score throughout that meet.

On my last dive, I didn’t put any oomph into it, and so afterwards I was afraid I had missed my chance. Throughout the season, I didn’t know if I’d get another opportunity. Diving is a weird sport — it’s judged on how they perceive you, it’s not timed like in swimming where there’s a clear-cut winner. It can really depend on how the judges are scoring on a given day.

What did you change at Yale?

At Yale I just had a strong meet. I was nervous for it, but I guess it helped me. It was my last chance because at championships they tend to score very low, sometimes up to a point and a half lower. So breaking (the record) on my last try senior year was very special.

Do you have rituals to prepare for meets?

I actually try to not get excited, because then I tend to get too shaky, which isn’t good for diving. It’s more of a process of getting calm, taking a step back and not worrying about the actual competition. I just remember to take the day one dive at a time.

Diving sounds like such a random sport to most people. Did you play anything else growing up that led you to it?

I did gymnastics, and I was also a swimmer. I was balancing on the board one day when I was eight and the coach told me I should try out for the diving team. It really took off during eighth grade and freshman year of high school.

Then I had to choose between soccer, which I’d done for 11 years, and diving.

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First place up for grabs as w. hoops hosts two Ivy foes

BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The women’s basketball team’s goal at the start of every campaign is to finish the season in first place. If the Bears manage two wins this weekend, they could accomplish that goal a few weeks early. Standing in their way is Harvard, fourth in the Ivy League, and first-place Dartmouth, which also happens to be the defending champion.

On Friday night, Brown hosts the Crimson in the annual “Blitz the Pitz” game. Not only would a Brown home victory over Harvard be the first during the current senior class’ tenure, it would also avenge a disappointing home loss to the Crimson last year that gave them a share of the Ivy title.

The Crimson are looking to overcome an earlier 64-62 home loss to Brown in which Sarah Hayes ’06 hit a gamewinning jumper with one second left.

“We know (Harvard is) going to come ready to play because they have had success here in the past and also because we beat them at their place earlier this season,” Hayes said.

Harvard, like Brown, is a perimeteroriented team with a good frontcourt presence. It has three players averaging

Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff

The Bears must contain Jeannie Cullen in order to leapfrog Dartmouth into first place in the Ivy League. Cullen is currently third in the nation in 3-point percentage. double figures in scoring, led by Katie Rollins at 11.4 points per game this season. Rollins is also second on the team in rebounding at 4.2 per game.

“We know that they are a good rebounding team so we have been working on boxing out and we have also see W. HOOPS, page 9

Brown ’08 another one of U.’s two-sport stars There are so many Brown athletes participating in two varsity sports that The Herald failed to include a prominent one in last week’s article on the six football players who also play spring sports.

Kai Brown ’08 has been a major STEPHEN COLELLI contributor on the football team and BROWN SUGAR on the track team as a discus thrower for the past two years.

During the football team’s run to the Ivy League title last fall, Brown played an important role on the defensive line in the second half of the season. He recorded eight tackles for a loss in the last four games of the season as Bruno rolled to its first-ever outright crown.

For the track team, Brown has been a solid addition to the throws squad. He placed sixth in the discus at last year’s Heptagonal Championships with a throw of 149 feet, 3 inches and has helped Bruno to some impressive wins this winter.

Brown is yet another example of the surprising number of athletes on College Hill using their talents in multiple disciplines instead of focusing solely on one sport. The impressive aspect of this trend is that these athletes choose to work with two teams despite

the major time constraints placed on their schedules.

“I’m always busy,” Brown said. “I wake up every day for winter football workouts at 6:45 a.m. and then lift for football. I have track practice all afternoon and I’ll have football workouts starting in the spring. I still have to do all my schoolwork on top of that. I’ve had to learn how to budget my time.”

Each athlete playing multiple sports has his or her own reasons for taking on the demands of a second sport, but see COLELLI, page 9

Ashley Hess / Herald

Kai Brown ’08, shown here returning a squib kick last fall, has been an important member of both the football and the track teams at Brown.

BROWN SPORTS SCHEDULE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 M. BASKETBALL: at Harvard W. BASKETBALL: vs. Harvard, 7 p.m., Pizzitola Center M. HOCKEY: at St. Lawrence W. HOCKEY: vs. St. Lawrence, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium SKIING: at Colby Sawyer Carnival (Mt. Sunapee, N. H.) MEN’S SQUASH: Team Championship, (Princeton, N. J.) W. WATER POLO: vs. GWU (Princeton Invitational) WRESTLING: at Columbia, 1 p.m., vs. Wagner, 2:30 p.m.

SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 18 M. BASKETBALL: at Dartmouth W. BASKETBALL: vs. Dartmouth, 7 p.m., Pizzitola Center EQUESTRIAN: at Connecticut

M. HOCKEY: at Clarkson W. HOCKEY: Clarkson, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium SKIING: Colby Sawyer Carnival (Pat’s Peak, N.H.) M. SWIMMING: vs. Yale, 12 p.m., Smith Center Center M. SQUASH: Team Championship (Princeton, N. J.) W. TENNIS: Boston University, 12 p.m., Pizzitola Center W. WATER POLO: vs. Indiana (Princeton Invitational) WRESTLING: at Cornell SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 19 M. TENNIS: vs. Virginia Tech, 11 a.m., Pizzitola Center W. WATER POLO: vs. Princeton (Princeton Invitational) FENCING: at New Englands M. SQUASH: Team Championship, (Princeton, N.J.) M. & W. TRACK: at USATF-New Englands