Tuesday, March 7, 2006

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006

Volume CXLI, No. 28

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TURF WAR Thayer Street storeowners respond to the presence of competing street vendors METRO 3

DEEP THOUGHTS Students and professors attempt to strengthen the University’s offerings in contemplative studies CAMPUS NEWS 5

MARRIAGE FOR THE MASSES Stefan Smith ’09: Push for gay marriage will benefit more than just bourgeois homosexual elite OPINIONS 11

BY MARY-CATHERINE LADER FEATURES EDITOR

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BY MELANIE DUCH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The percentage of students against plus/minus grading was higher in the UCS poll than the results of a Herald poll released Feb. 9, which found that 70 percent of students opposed the measure. “The results were about what I expected,” said Sarah Saxon-Frump ’07, president of UCS. She added that a key difference between the UCS and Herald polls is that the former was self-selecting, meaning that students with stronger opinions would be more inclined to take the poll. UCS Communications Chair Michael Thompson ’07 said the results corroborate feedback UCS members have received from students. The poll also showed 77.4 percent of respondents said they would support the University if it spent money to obtain its own source of renewable energy. 14.5 percent would not support such a policy, while 8.1 percent gave null responses. Various student environmental action groups have been pressing the University to look into alternative energy sources, according to both Saxton-Frump and Thompson. The poll contained several questions about UCS itself. Only 31.4 percent of students said they feel welcome attending UCS meetings, while 45.1 percent said they did not feel welcome. 23.8 percent of students did not provide an answer. “I was disappointed but I wasn’t surprised,” Saxton-Frump said. “(UCS meetings) can be intimidating, and we’re trying to make them more inviting.” Saxton-Frump added many of the respondents had most likely never attended a UCS meeting. “It was intimidating the first time I went to a UCS meeting,” UCS Vice President Zachary Townsend ’08 said. He added that UCS must learn how to make the organization “more open in a procedural sense and an image sense.”

The Ad Hoc Committee to Review Social Events Policy and Procedure will present a nearly 20-page recommendation today to Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene. Administrators told The Herald several weeks ago that the committee would produce a public report by Feb. 27, but it was still being revised yesterday and had only been released internally. Among the issues tackled by the report are the creation of adequate space for social gatherings on campus, the availability of metal detectors for student groups, a revision of policy concerning alcohol served at events, the regulation of advertising for events and the training and hiring of staff to monitor events on campus. Greene said he plans to permit student groups and administrators to read the report and allow ample time for a campuswide discussion on its “quality and feasibility” before any of the recommendations are implemented. He added that some of the recommendations would likely be implemented quickly, while others, such as the addition of larger spaces for social gatherings on campus, are likely to take longer. The committee, created in the aftermath of Queer Alliance’s Sex Power God party Nov. 12 and a melee on the Main Green the preceding evening that ended with shots fired, was charged with examining how “social functions are approved, promoted, managed and staffed,” with particular emphasis on student safety, according to the Web site of the Office of Campus Life and Student Services. One of the committee’s main concerns is creating space for large on-campus social events and smaller impromptu gatherings. Events held in Sayles and Alumnae halls, historically havens for large social events, have been identified as problematic, Greene said. Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president for campus life, dean for student life and the committee’s chair, said the recommendations “tighten polices and procedures that are already in place,” and no one recommendation is likely to have an overwhelming effect on Brown’s social scene. “We felt that there was some additional improvements we could make in current polices but we did not feel an overhaul of the system was in place,” she said. Committee member Zachary Townsend ’08, vice president of the Undergraduate Council of Students, said he believes that because the committee has been pressed for time, elaborate recommendations were not drawn up. He also said because of the high number of students on the committee — seven of the 17 members are undergraduate or graduate students — many of the more stringent policies proposed by administrators will not be among its recommendations. Townsend said one of his concerns with the report is the costly nature of many of its recommendations. These are particularly troubling because the Student Activities

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see REPORT, page 9

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David Brooks, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, spoke about “The Persistence of Class in American Culture” Monday evening in Salomon 101.

UCS poll finds renewable energy a plus, grade changes a minus BY SIMMI AUJLA S ENIOR S TAFF W RITER

A majority of students oppose the addition of pluses and minuses to Brown’s grading system, according to the results of the online Undergraduate Council of Students poll released to The Herald yesterday. The poll’s results also show that a majority of students supports the University finding its own renewable source of energy. The poll, which was conducted on WebCT from Feb. 27 to March 3, had 2,024 responses, representing 35 percent of the 5,853 undergraduates eligible to take it. The 37-question poll included questions on overall UCS performance, interaction with professors, economic diversity on campus, renovations in Faunce House, meal plan changes and the SafeRide service. 80.9 percent of respondents were opposed to plus/minus grading, while 14.4 percent were in favor. 4.7 percent gave no answers. A majority of students said they thought plus/minus grading runs counter to Brown’s educational philosophy and would encourage “grade-grubbing.”

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Latin band Yerba Buena to play Spring Weekend Latin music group Yerba Buena will open for rapper Common at Spring Weekend this year, according to Elizabeth Trongone ’06, president of the Brown Concert Agency. Trongone told The Herald Monday that Yerba Buena will perform on the Main Green on Saturday, April 22, followed by Common. The Herald reported in January that indie rock outfit Wilco will play at Meehan Auditorium on Thursday, April 20. Trongone said BCA sought a diverse lineup, and that Yerba Buena fit

TOMORROW

Social events committee will present report to Greene today

Brooks argues culture is key in era of ‘Bobos’ David Brooks may not have gotten into Brown as a high school senior, but last night the New York Times columnist came to College Hill and told a packed Salomon 101 that “universities have become the engines of inequality” in America, as cultural differences increasingly determine class. Brooks’ lecture was the keynote address of the 26th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference themed “One Nation Indivisible? The Persistence of Class in American Culture.” President Ruth Simmons introduced Brooks as a writer “in whose books we understand much about how we think,” quoting catchphrases from his 2000 book “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There,” which details the emergence of a bourgeois-bohemian class from the baby boomer generation. “Of all the social forces that have shaped American society, I think class may be one of the most difficult to understand fully,” Simmons said. As a commentator whose column for the Times and two recent books — “Bobos” and “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense” — often examine America’s social makeup, Brooks said he believes class today rests on cultural, not economic differences. Echoing cultural monikers from “Bobos,” Brooks described the lifestyle of America’s achievement-driven upper class, composed in part of “Ubermoms” and their children whose lives are geared toward the increasingly competitive college admissions process. But beyond the entertaining stereotypes of overachievement and materialism, Brooks said this set of Americans illustrates just how much culture now defines class in America. In an “era of human capital” where education and social environments matter more than resources, Brooks said cultural distinctions have created a “hereditary meritocratic class of highly educated people who’ve passed down their advantages to their kids.” Bloodlines may matter less today, but upbringing and family matter more, he said, citing work by University of Chicago

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well into that bill. “They were recently nominated for a (Billboard Latin Music Award),” she said. “They’re doing very well — they are very popular among the Latin scene.” It will cost BCA between $10,000 to $12,000 to bring the act to the University, she said. BCA expects to bring three additional music acts to Spring Weekend. Trongone said she expects the full bill to be finalized by late next week. — Jonathan Sidhu

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “NO ONE WILL BE WATCHING US//A SOUNDSCAPE OF BATHROOM GRAFFITI” All day, (List 221) — A sound-art experience that re-contextualizes bathroom graffiti found around campus will be running from March 5 to March 11.

AUDITIONS FOR OSCAR WILDE’S “SALOME” 5 p.m. , (T.F. Green 112) — Audition for Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” directed by Mustafsa Samdani, at Production Workshop.

“ART AND ECONOMIC HOPE IN CONTEMPORARY HAITI” 6 p.m., (Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum) — Sonia Lee and Alden Smith from Yale University will give a talk.

“THE GENOCIDE IN ME” 7 p.m. , (Smith-Buonnano 106) — The film “The Genocide in Me” portrays the experience of an Armenian-Canadian woman exploring ethnic identities and Armenian history.

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Corruption is main concern for Fogarty in campaign kickoff

A sidewalk story

Relationships between street vendors and merchants on Thayer Street vary from amicable to merely tolerant

BY JONATHAN HERMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

JOHNSTON — Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty officially kicked off his campaign to unseat Republican Gov. Don Carcieri ’65 last night at the 1025 Club in Johnston. Fogarty’s announcement drew about 250 supporters, some sporting bowties and others in sweatshirts, as he declared his campaign will focus on ridding the state of corruption. “We have to get rid of the stink, too much is at stake,” Fogarty told The Herald after his speech. “We’re going to shake up the system. This is about delivering results.” In his speech, Fogarty declared, “Corruption in see FOGARTY, page 6

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Laffey blasts Chafee ’75 for supporting sheep research Every week, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey’s senatorial campaign names a “Washington Taxpayer Rip-Off of the Week,” poking fun at unusual pork-barrel spending Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R.-R.I., Laffey’s opponent in the Republican primary, has voted for in the Senate. On Monday, the target was over $500,000 in federal aid to the Montana Sheep Institute, which develops “non-traditional adjustment strategies that will increase the competitiveness of Montana’s lamb and wool in the world market,” according to its Web site. The earmark was included in the 2005 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which Chafee voted for in November 2004. “There are all sorts of important projects throughout the country, but the federal government and the hardworking taxpayers who generously fill its coffers cannot afford

Though mobile by definition, several street vendors have become almost permanent fixtures on Thayer Street. In some cases, these sidewalk businesses are just as established as their indoor counterparts. And while at first glance the two seem not to compete, storeowners do not always view street vendors in a positive light. “It’s ridiculous that they don’t have to pay rent,” said Steven Beattie, manager of Pie In The Sky, referring to street vendors who sell their wares down the block from his store. But Beattie said he does not think street merchant Jose Ruiz, who sells accessories he makes out of leather, takes away from the store’s business because Ruiz’s products are different from those sold in Pie in the Sky. “It’s when they sell what I sell that I have a problem,” Beattie said. Still, Beattie said that he, unlike street vendors, is able to create long-term relationships with customers. “I build rapport with my customers. (The street vendors) sell and they’re gone,” he said. Tory Daines, an employee at vintage clothing store Foreign Affair, also emphasized the importance of establishing familiarity with customers. “It’s not about the merchandise … it’s about the relationship with our customers,” Daines said of both merchants and street vendors. She said she did not know of any tension between the two groups, adding that store workers and street merchants actually help each other out. Daines recalled seeing a store worker defending a street merchant when passersby were harassing him. Mary Ellen Beaudreau and Ashley Holt, employees at the Brown Bookstore, called the relationship between stores and street merchants “symbiotic” and “chill.” “As long as they’re not accosting customers as they come in, it’s just fine,” Holt said. Street merchants are not allowed to set up shop on the half of the sidewalk closer to the Bookstore, said Larry Carr, director of bookstore and services. “It creates a liability issue if they’re on our side,” he said. The other half of the sidewalk is the city’s property. Carr said the bookstore occasionally gets com-

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see THAYER, page 4

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Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty announced his candidacy for R.I. governor, joined by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., former Sen. Clairborne Pell and Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83.

CAMPAIGN 2006 NOTEBOOK

Brown has money trouble, Lawless tries to raise more BY BEN LEUBSDORF METRO EDITOR

Brown under fire for contributions Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown, a Democrat who has made anti-corruption and open government a centerpiece of his campaign for U.S. Senate, has come under fire for a possible violation of campaign finance laws. Late in 2005, Brown’s campaign apparently directed three donors, who had already contributed the maximum amount allowed by federal law to the Brown campaign, to give money to the Democratic state parties in Maine, Hawaii and Massachusetts. Those state parties then contributed money to Brown. The treasurer of the Hawaii Democratic Party told the Associated Press that the party struck a deal with Brown’s campaign for his contributors to give to the state party and for the state party to then contribute to Brown. “That is not lawful activity,” Steve Hildebrand, a consultant for Brown’s Democratic opponent, former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse, told Roll Call. “He should apologize to those parties for putting them in this position and figure out how to clean up his campaign.” But Brown has denied any wrongdoing. “All the contributions that were a part of this ‘fundraising flap’ are completely legal and fully disclosed on my federal election commission report,” Brown said in a written statement March 3. Brown has decided to return the contributions and has attacked Whitehouse for “going negative” in the primary campaign. “Rather than talk about problems facing Rhode Is-

landers — Whitehouse is trying to tear another Democrat down,” said Brown’s press secretary, Matt Burgess, in a March 2 written statement. It is unclear what effects the controversial contributions may have on the primary race. On Monday, Brown announced the hiring of a new campaign manager, Tim Patterson, a former Providence Police Department officer and Brown’s current chief of staff in the secretary of state’s office. In a written statement, Brown said campaign manager Dennis Newman decided to step down last month to be closer to his home in Massachusetts.

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Campaign continued from page 3 to fund every single one of them,” Laffey said in a press release. “It is up to our elected officials to prioritize and decide what is truly worthy of America’s tax dollars. I’m sorry to say, Montana’s wool industry is not one of them.” Laffey has described himself as a fiscally conservative, anti-tax candidate in his campaign to wrest the nomination from Chafee, a moderate Republican seeking his second full term in the Senate. Lawless brings out the stars Jennifer Lawless, assistant professor of political science and public policy, is bringing out the big guns in her primary challenge to Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I. One of the only issues separating the candidates is their positions on abortion rights — Lawless is pro-choice, while Langevin is pro-life. Lawless has tried to use the issue as a wedge to differentiate herself from Langevin and has gained some national attention for her stance. Gloria Feldt, former president of Planned Parenthood of America, held an event for Lawless in New York late last year and is “a good friend and a strong supporter for the campaign,” campaign manager Adam Deitch ’05 told The Herald in February.

Thayer continued from page 3 plaints from customers about street vendors, which he compared to loud motorcycles on Thayer Street. At the same time, Carr said “there’s an acceptance of (street vendors) on the street.” “That’s what Thayer is about,” he said. “They don’t do anything out there that would take business away from me,” said Tina Maraia, manager of Store 24. Maraia, who has worked at Store 24 for 17

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Now, Lawless will host a fundraiser headlined by Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court in 1973 and later became a senior aide to former President Jimmy Carter. “Sarah Weddington is a huge part of the reason that women have access to a full range of reproductive health options, and there is no more crucial a time than now for us to work fervently to preserve that access,” Lawless wrote in a Feb. 27 press release. The funds raised at the event will surely be appreciated by the Lawless campaign, which took out two loans totaling over $25,000 in the last quarter of 2005. In a poll conducted in February by Professor of Political Science Darrell West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy, Lawless garnered only 14 percent in a match-up with Langevin, who had the support of 58 percent of voters. The poll had a 7 percent margin of error. The event, titled, “An Intimate Evening with Sarah Weddington,” will be held at the Hi-Hat in Providence on March 14. Reed to target Chafee Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., plans to use his local popularity to help defeat his colleague in the Senate, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R-R.I., this fall. Reed boasted a 68 percent approval rating in a September 2005 poll conducted by West — the

years, said she cannot remember a time without street vendors on Thayer. She said her relationship with them has always been free of tension. “They don’t bother me so I don’t bother them,” Maraia said. Ruiz, who works outside Store 24, often comes in to chat or buy merchandise, Maraia said. “We get along well. … It’s one community,” said Ruiz, who is one of the few street merchants who works throughout most of the winter. Ruiz, who has worked on Thayer for 10 years, said he has not had problems with stores or munici-

highest for any statewide official. He said in a recent interview that he is excited about the Democratic challengers to Chafee — Secretary of State Matt Brown and former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse — who are battling to secure the Democratic nomination in September before the general election in November. “I know both very well,” Reed said in a Feb. 19 interview. “One of the things about Democrats in Rhode Island is that we’re blessed in talent.” Reed said he will campaign with the Democratic nominee against Chafee, a moderate Republican who is also facing a challenge from Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey in the Republican primary. “I’m a Democrat and I will campaign with the Democratic candidate. It’s not personal,” Reed said. “This is really about the composition of the U.S. Senate,” he added, saying a Democratic-controlled Senate will be more friendly to Rhode Island. But Reed did not directly respond when asked if he sympathized with Chafee’s precarious position as a moderate Republican in a liberal, Democratic state. “Senator Chafee makes his votes, I make mine, and on issues involving Rhode Island we work together,” he said. “I wouldn’t presume to tell him how he should vote and he wouldn’t tell me. We’re colleagues.”

pal authorities in the past eight years. He renews his permit every year and pays his taxes every three months, he said. “(Store owners) have to pay rent, but that doesn’t make them better or worse than me,” Ruiz added. “The only one that can put the law here is City Hall,” he added. Ruiz said he used to work outside the bookstore eight years ago but was forced to move. Carr said he was not aware of this incident, though he added that if Ruiz had been on the bookstore’s side of the sidewalk, he would have been asked to move. “They complain about everything,” Ruiz said of the bookstore. He said his only other conflict with store owners was four or five years ago, with the owner of a jewelry store next to Dunkin’ Donuts, which has since closed. “(The jewelry store owner) never made money, so she would come complain to me,” he said. Restaurants on Thayer must also compete with mobile food vendors such as the Chinese Food Truck, which on weekdays is parked on Thayer across from the Sciences Library. Restaurant managers, however, do not view the food truck as a significant threat. “It’s like comparing apples and oranges,” said Ray Hugh, co-owner of Shanghai. “(Food from the food truck) sits there all day. My food is fresh,” he said. Tom Liang, owner of the food truck, sees it in a different light. “My price is lower — half of (Shanghai’s) price,” he said, adding that he sells food by the volume. Meals at the food truck cost between four and six dollars. Paul Srisu, manager of the @Ease Café on Waterman Street, which specializes in Thai food, also dismissed the notion that he is in competition with the food truck. “People who have had Thai food know the difference between Thai and Chinese,” he said.

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Two alums fight modern-day slavery Polaris Project identifies trafficking victims and seeks policy reform BY REBECCA JACOBSON SENIOR STAFF WRITER

One evening in fall 2001, Katherine Chon ’02 and Derek Ellerman ’02 were discussing slavery and the 19th-century abolitionist movement when their conversation turned to the FEATURE subject of human trafficking. Neither knew much about the issue and decided to research the problem online. Their search turned up a 1998 Providence Journal article that recounted a police raid on a Providence brothel that had been operating under the guise of a health club. The story reported that six South Korean women had been trafficked into Providence, held captive and forced to have sex with health club customers. One woman had cigarette burns on her arms. All six were charged with prostitution and deported. “One of the police officers even called it slavery,” Ellerman said, “but there was no real response in the community. It shocked us that sexual trafficking was happening so close to home and that there was no community awareness that this is such a serious human rights abuse.” Ellerman said he was particularly drawn to the issue because several of his female friends are survivors of sexual assault and abuse. With further research, he and Chon learned that human trafficking and various forms of forced labor persist, in spite of U.S. and international laws against them. The U.S. Department of State estimates that between 600,000 and 800,000 people, mostly women and girls, are trafficked in the world each year and held as laborers or sex workers. About 15,000 of these are brought into the United States. Chon and Ellerman said they saw a clear need for an organization that took a comprehensive approach to the issue of human trafficking and modern-day slavery — one that fought for improved conditions on the ground as well as systemic change through policy reform. In a matter of months, Chon and Ellerman had crafted a business plan for the non-profit Polaris Project. They entered their model in the Brown Entrepreneurship Program annual business plan competition and received the second prize of $12,500. The day after their 2002 graduation, the two loaded a UHaul truck, moved to Washington, D.C. and began working. Since then, Polaris Project has grown into one of the largest non-profit anti-trafficking organizations in the country. It has established a satellite office in Tokyo, as well as grassroots chapters in Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle and Denver. Chon and Ellerman have assembled a paid staff of nine, along with a legion of volunteers. About 120 “leadership fellows” have received training from the project, learn-

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Polaris Project members demonstrated after Congress’ adoption of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. ing how to aid victims and raise public awareness. One of the primary successes Chon and Ellerman cite is their outreach work, which provides victims with crisis management, clothing, shelter and access to legal and health care. “We felt like D.C. was a great place to do systemic work, but I don’t think we knew the extent to which we would become a service organization,” Ellerman said. “Really, we’re the only type of group that’s doing this kind of outreach in the D.C. area.” Chon considers Polaris’ greatest success to be victim identification and assistance. “Having served over 60 victims of trafficking in the last year or two is a major step forward,” Chon said. “If Polaris didn’t exist, those victims would never have been identified or served, and they’d still most likely be in their situations of trafficking.” Ellerman said the establishment of a strong D.C.-based task force has also been instrumental in reducing domestic sexual trafficking, one of the most prevalent forms of trafficking in the city. He described the abuses suffered by victims as young as 12 or 13, citing cases in which children were beaten with jumper cables and wire hangers, often until their bones were broken. But now, due to coordination among several non-governmental organizations, there are “regular pimp prosecutions” and “seamless” referral processes, Ellerman said. In addition to its on-theground approach, Polaris also takes what Ellerman calls a “top-down strategy.” Polaris advocates for legal reforms to achieve systemic and structural change. Polaris staff members help states draft anti-trafficking legislation and have testified before Congress, pushing for stronger laws at the federal level. On Jan. 10, Congress unanimously adopted the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, which Ellerman thinks “will change things more for domestic sex trafficking than any other policy in the West.” Chon said there has been a dramatic increase in the level of awareness about human trafficking in the last four years. This is due in large part to Polaris’ movement-building efforts, she said. Polaris’ 120 fellows have see POLARIS, page 6

More students, faculty on campus mulling contemplative studies Group of professors pushes to make field a U. concentration BY BRENNA CARMODY STAFF WRITER

The burgeoning field of contemplative studies is beginning to gain a foothold at the University. Twenty-five students are taking UC 54: “Introduction to Contemplative Studies” this semester, and the Contemplative Studies Initiative, led by a group of faculty from a range of disciplines, is working to establish a concentration in the field. Contemplative studies is the study and identification of contemplative states of mind and the scientific basis for these states, said Professor of Religious Studies Harold Roth, who teaches UC 54. “(Contemplative studies) is bridging what people have seen as an unbridgeable gap between science and religion,” Roth said, adding, “We’re not trying to convert anyone to a religion, it’s more about exploring consciousness.” Roth said he is hoping to submit an application for a new contemplative studies concentration to the College Curriculum Council later this semester. He said he doesn’t think the CCC will consider the application until next fall, but he hopes to have a concentration available by Spring 2007. Roth said he is “optimistic” and “hopeful” but “absolutely not” confident the proposal will be accepted. If the CCC doesn’t approve the concentration, Roth said faculty involved in the initiative will “continue to advise students.” The proposed concentration will be feasible for students who want to pursue double concentrations, Roth said. There will be three basic tracks — science, humanities and creative arts. In December, the CCC approved UC 54. “(I was) totally overwhelmed from the first day of class,” Roth said. The classroom had space for 12 students, but 50 showed up, he said. A unique part of the class is the meditation lab held three times a week. Roth said this allows the students to “get a chance to try out different meditation techniques that are coordinated with readings in the class.” UC 54 grew out of a Spring 2004 Group Independent Study Project titled “Foundations of Contemplative Studies,” although it is a very different course now, Roth said. The idea for a contemplative studies concentration grew out of a Wayland seminar on the contemplative mind during the 2002-2003 academic year, according to Roth. As part of the seminar, a group of faculty met every three weeks to discuss and define various types of contemplative experiences. The seminar also included 10 lectures. Since then,

around seven professors have met to develop a contemplative studies concentration, Roth said. Eighteen faculty members participated in the Wayland seminar, in addition to faculty members from the psychology department and the Brown Medical School, Roth said. Kate MacSwain ’04 completed an independent concentration in contemplative studies in 2004. Described as a “real pioneer” by Roth, MacSwain told The Herald her independent concentration was similar to the proposed concentration but focused more on the sciences. Several students in UC 54 also expressed a general interest in the field of contemplative studies. Katherine Feeney ’07, a neuroscience concentrator enrolled in UC 54, said during her sophomore year she became “frustrated with reductionist, simplistic, even dogmatic underpinnings of (the) neuroscience discipline.” Contemplative studies provides a “middle ground,” Feeney said. Another student in Roth’s class, Paul Krueger ’07.5, said contemplative studies “gives more meaning to the science I do and what I want to do with my life.” Joel Dietz ’04, an administrative assistant in the Department of Religious Studies who does work for the Contemplative Studies Initiative, said that

the “division between academic fields didn’t seem appropriate. … (Contemplative studies) brings together the best of different fields.” For her part, Kate Ganim ’08 said that UC 54 is not what she expected. The course is “supposed to integrate neuroscience with philosophy but only takes into account Eastern religions and meditative practices,” she said, adding that they haven’t studied any neuroscience yet. In the future, Roth said he hopes to develop new interdepartmental courses in contemplative studies. Roth said there is a proposed long-term project involving cognitive testing of students in a Fall 2006 class he is teaching on Buddhist meditation. Efforts to expand the field at Brown coincide with a “growing movement in contemplative pedagogy,” Roth said. Harvard University has a mind, brain and behavior institute, while the University of Michigan and Rice University have been exploring contemplative studies. “(The University) really has a chance to do something important (and) unique: to make Brown a leader in education in a rapidly developing new area,” Roth said. “What’s different here (at Brown) is we include much more of humanities as well as creative arts,” Roth said, “(It) is more advanced, more developed, further along.”

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Polaris continued from page 5 played a fundamental role in these efforts, Ellerman said, calling them “the heart of a lot of our operations.” “We identify rising young leaders and activists in the trafficking movement,” Ellerman said. “They do so much of the work, and keep us constantly idealistic, young, passionate and fresh. Mentoring a lot of these young activists and helping them realize the potential they have to impact change is really wonderful and fulfilling.” Four years ago, Ellerman and Chon said they benefited from the advice of their own mentor, Adjunct Lecturer in Engineering Josef Mittlemann ’72 P’00 P’04. When Ellerman and Chon decided they wanted to enter the business plan competition, Mittlemann helped them construct a business model. Mittlemann now sits on the Polaris Project board. “I very much believed in what they were doing,” Mittlemann said. “They had enthusiasm, great knowledge of

the field and were addressing a need that was not being addressed. I just helped them create a framework in which they could work with their ideas and realize them.” Chon and Ellerman expressed excitement about Polaris’ future. Ellerman said there are plans to extend the project’s geographic reach in the United States and other countries. Polaris’ next public-awareness campaign will focus on the role of multinational corporations in facilitating human trafficking as well as the role consumers play in purchasing goods produced under conditions of slave labor. Chon said this campaign is still in its development stages, but, like most of Polaris’ work, will include an on-theground approach in addition to policy reform. In the growth of the antitrafficking movement, both Chon and Ellerman said they hope Polaris can serve as an example of successful entrepreneurship among young people. Mittlemann agreed. “What they’ve done is a great example of social entrepreneurship that has meaningful ramifications for the world,” he said. “This is their idea. They’re making it happen.”

Poll continued from page 1 The poll also included questions about the Napster pilot program UCS helped to begin for the current school year. 44.4 percent of respondents thought Brown should continue the Napster program, while 40.4 percent thought the program should be discontinued. 15.6 percent gave null responses. A strong majority — 72.7

Fogarty continued from page 3 Rhode Island has become a huge expense that we all pay” and said his main measures to fight corruption will be term limits for state officials and the full disclosure of “every meeting between public officials and lobbyists.” “(Corruption) is more often pursuing a personal agenda at the expense of the public good,” Fogarty said. “So when I see Rhode Island under the cloud of corruption … I know it’s time for a fundamental change in the way our state does business.” But former Senate Majority Leader Paul Kelly said term limits will be a hard sell to state legislators. “I don’t think it will play very well with senators, but the (important) question is, will it play well with the people?” he told The Herald. Anti-corruption has been a popular theme for many Rhode Island politicians over the years, though few have been

percent of respondents — said the University should provide a legal downloading service for students. Saxton-Frump said she was not surprised by the results of the Napster question because students had given her similar feedback. “(The University) is apparently trying to switch (to another program) — they think there’s a better fit,” she said. But Townsend said he was surprised by the results. He said he knew few students who used

Napster and expected a lower number of positive responses. The poll results did not include information about the sample’s composition — such as gender, class year or ethnicity — because the poll did not ask such questions, according to Townsend. “In retrospect, that’s something we should have included,” he said. Because of its methodology, the poll also did not contain a margin of error for its responses.

successful. Former Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci was first elected in 1974 on an anti-corruption platform but went to prison in 2002 for conspiracy. But Fogarty’s focus on corruption in the state government was well received by many prominent Rhode Island Democrats in attendance. Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83, who was elected in 2002 on an anti-corruption message, told The Herald statewide reform is possible. “(Reform) certainly is something he can accomplish,” Cicilline said. “I think change is always difficult and it takes a lot of persistence and hard work.” Two longtime friends of Fogarty’s, former U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell and his wife Nuala, were also on hand. “We support Charlie not only because we have known him and what a good man he is,” Nuala Pell said. “If you’re totally honest, as Charlie is, and show leadership, you’ll be able to be effective.” Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., was also at the event and told The Herald he supports Fogar-

ty’s plans to reform Rhode Island politics. “There is a real challenge here to bring transparency, to see the effort of public policy,” Kennedy said. “Charlie is talking about (how corruption) is costing us all money.” Fogarty drew wild applause from the audience when he denounced Carcieri’s expansion of the number of slot machines in the state. “He expanded gambling — the largest expansion in Rhode Island’s history — but he broke his commitment to use that money for a scholarship program,” Fogarty said. On education, Fogarty said, as governor, he would implement a freeze on tuition at Rhode Island’s public colleges and universities for all students with a B average or above. Other tuition increases would be “no more than the cost of inflation,” he said. Fogarty also discussed health care and the need for “a leader who recognizes that our smalland medium-sized businesses are the backbone of our economy and the key to job growth.”

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Protesters call student’s attack terrorism BY RICHARD FAUSSET LOS ANGELES TIMES

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — University of North Carolina student Stephen Mann has a simple definition for the attack that occurred on his campus last week: terrorism. He and other UNC students were disturbed to learn over the weekend that a former UNC student, Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, allegedly plowed his SUV into nine pedestrians on the busy campus square to “avenge the deaths of Muslims” around the world, according to campus officials. Mann, a member of the College Republicans, attended a rally organized by that group and two others Monday morning at the scene of the attack. He and a few dozen students handed out American flags and made off-the-cuff pleas for UNC students to stand united. But because they also insisted on denouncing the act as “terrorism,” the rally emerged as the latest controversy on this multicultural campus over the way language and image are deployed in conversations about Islam. Mann’s group was met at lunchtime by a boisterous, impromptu group of counter-demonstrators who argued that the rally wasn’t helping to heal wounds. Especially insensitive, they said, was the insistence on calling the incident “terrorism.” “This isn’t community building!” a man shouted. “You’re strengthening the prejudices people have against Muslim people,” said an Iranian-American named Jonathan Pourzal. “I am an Iranian-American, and (the suspect) does not represent me at all, OK?” added a sophomore named Sara Aghajanian. Mann, surrounded by about 100 people and a number of news cameras, stood his ground firmly and politely. But in the end, he seemed exasperated: “OK,” he said to the opposing group. “If we don’t call it terrorism, what do we call it?” Such sparring over the semantics of identity politics has long been a staple of life on U.S. college campuses, including UNC-Chapel Hill, one of the nation’s top public universities. But this year, Arab and Muslim issues have been particularly thorny here: In September, a columnist for the Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper, wrote an article calling for all Arabs to be “stripped and cavity searched if they get within 100 yards of a newspaper.” Last month, angry students staged two sit-ins at the newspaper after it printed a cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad. The student paper’s cartoon was a commentary on the worldwide debate over a Danish newspaper’s publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad that led to violent protests. Friday’s attack in the pedestrian zone known as The Pit brought new waves of worry over the timbre of the debate at UNC. For many, Taheri-azar — a former philosophy and psychology major

— had made a disquieting transition from the world of ideas to the world of violence. The attack, freshman Mark Godfrey said, was “very surprising in a place where ideas are usually described in letters to the editor.” Some students Monday were wondering what made Taheri-azar snap. A number of students who knew him on a casual level said he was a serious student, shy but friendly. Sophomore Brian Copeland, 20, took a history-of-philosophy class with Taheri-azar and was impressed with his knowledge of classical Western thought. The two men also worked together at a sandwich shop. “He was kind and gentle, rather than aggressive and violent,” Copeland said. Just before noon Friday, campus officials said, Taheri-azar pointed a rented Jeep Grand Cherokee at students on the crowded Pit and gunned the engine, striking nine. Six were hospitalized but soon released with minor injuries. Afterward, he drove the car a short distance away, called police and turned himself in, according to Capt. Joel Booker of the Carrboro Police Department. Law enforcement officials sent a bomb squad to Taheri-azar’s apartment in Carrboro when he insinuated that they might find clues about his actions there. Booker said officials seized a number of items, but he would not identify them. Taheri-azar was charged with nine counts of attempted firstdegree murder and nine counts of felonious assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill. The Orange County Magistrate set bail at $5.5 million. Taheri-azar could face a maximum sentence of more than 100 years in jail if he is found guilty. College officials said Taheri-azar acted alone in plotting the attack. Ken Lucas, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said the FBI had opened an investigation of Taheri-azar but declined to comment further. As the rally was taking place Monday, Taheri-azar appeared at a hearing in a county courtroom, saying he was “thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah,” according to a report by the Associated Press. The rally was co-sponsored by UNC student members of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based anti-terrorism policy group, and Americans for an Informed Democracy, a foreign-policy awareness group in Connecticut. Counter-protester Khuram Bilal Tariq, 22, said UNC remained an “exemplary” campus for Muslim students. He was concerned that the cartoon, the column and the protest showed a “lack of wisdom” on the part of some students. Rally organizer Kris Wampler felt vindicated in calling the attack “terrorism” when he heard Taheriazar’s “will of Allah” comment. “If it walks like a dog and talks like a dog ... that’s clearly what it was,” Wampler said.

Genetics cited in eating disorders BY JAMIE TALAN NEWSDAY

Two new studies show that genetics may outweigh any environmental factors in producing the eating disorders involved in anorexia and bingeing. “This is good news for patients and their families,” said Dr. Cynthia Bulik of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In the latest issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, Bulik and colleagues studied records from 30,000 Swedish twins, some with anorexia, and found that identical twins, who share identical genes, were more likely to share an eating problem compared with fraternal twins, who share half their genes, the same as non-twin siblings. In this large sample, scientists figured out that genes were responsible for 56 percent of the cases of the potentially life-threatening condition. People with anorexia — about 10 out of every 1,000 women and 29 in every 1,000 men — have symptoms that include self-starving and an obsessional belief that they are fat. Bulik and others are trying

to identify genetic risk factors so that they can better solve this puzzling eating behavior. “We have gone through far too much time blaming parents,” said Bulik, who used a 30,000-person twin registry from Sweden to identify the strong genetic contribution. “People need to understand that they are fighting their biology” and not just a psychological need to be thin. Once genes are identified, the hope is that scientists can develop drugs that work directly on these target genes. In another study published in the same journal, a team of investigators at McLean Hospital, a Harvard affiliate, found a strong genetic contribution to binge-eating. Binge-eating is far more common than other eating disorders, involving around 2 to 5 percent of the population. As the name implies, these binges are characterized by compulsive, episodic eating of large amounts of food in a short period. Dr. James Hudson, director of the biological psychiatry laboratory at McLean and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, recruited 300 people, half with

a history of binge eating, and then set out to interview their parents, children and siblings. They found that family members of binge-eaters were twice as likely to have a similar eating disorder than those without such a history. And the relatives of binge-eaters were more than twice as likely to be obese than people who don’t share this eating behavior. Binge eaters are themselves no more likely than non-binge eaters to be obese, Hudson said. They do share some other features, however: They have more mood disorders and are more impulsive. “There is very likely a genetic component,” Hudson said. Both Hudson and Bulik believe that preventions and treatments lie hidden in the mysteries of the unidentified genes. Bulik and her colleagues have identified two possible markers for genes associated with the brain’s opiate-like and serotonin chemicals. Both chemicals regulate mood, behavior and pleasure. In another study, Bulik found that people with anorexia say that starving themselves makes them calmer. Normally, hunger triggers anxiety.

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continued from page 12 Bears’ comeback to improved defense and the team’s confidence in itself. “I think the defense came up with a lot of big turnovers and we converted very well,” she said. “I think it was just the result of the momentum going our way. We believed we were going to win the whole game.” De Tolla joined Staley in registering a hat trick when she netted an insurance goal to put the Bears up 9-7. Midfielder Amie Biros ’07, coming off a four-goal performance last week against Sacred Heart University, scored her only goal of the game in the final minutes to push the score to 10-7. With five goals on the season, Biros is tied for the team lead with De Tolla. The story of the afternoon, however, was Staley’s clutch performance. Justine Lupo ’08, who was quiet against BC but delivered a big game last week

against Sacred Heart, commented on Staley’s impact. “We look at Kate as a role model,” she said. “She is a critical part of our attack and her aggressive play is contagious.” Staley was involved in three of Bruno’s first four goals, notching two of them herself and dishing out an assist to De Tolla on another one. The Eagles presented a big step up in terms of competition compared to Sacred Heart. While the Bears obtained an easy victory in their first game, this weekend’s contest was hard-fought and dramatic. Lupo spoke about the significance of the victory. “We lost to BC last year,” she said, “So beating them now provides us with a boost of confidence, and is a great way to start the season.” The Bears face an even tougher test on Saturday when they take on the No. 5-ranked University of Maryland, College Park on the FieldTurf pitch. — with additional reporting from Assistant Sports Editor Charlie Vallely

M. icers continued from page 12 Zbriger netted the first of two goals on the weekend. D’Alba finished with a career-high 51 saves and did not seem to mind the avalanche of shots he faced all night. “As far as for one game, I like facing that many shots for a flow,” he said. “But three games in three days like that become very exhausting.” St. Lawrence was once again the aggressor in the opening period the following night, holding a 15-4 advantage in shots, but Brown struck for two early goals. At the 3:35 mark, Dersch fed an unmarked Seth Seidman ’08 in the slot, whose one-timer beat Pesony top shelf. Less than two minutes later, Dersch had his second goal in as many nights to double the Bears’ lead. St. Lawrence dominated the shots-on-goal category once again in the second period, and this time neither Bruno nor D’Alba could keep

them off the scoreboard. Jared Ross scored on the power play for the Saints 2:10 into the period and later tied the game with 16:40 gone by. St. Lawrence’s two goals tarnished an otherwise impressive period for D’Alba, who made a mind-boggling 21 saves. D’Alba continued to shine in the third period, stopping all 18 shots he faced and giving his team a chance to win. Prough, Brown’s leading scorer from the regular season, netted the game-winner at the 13:29 mark on the Bears’ sixth power play, as Bruno staved off elimination for one night. D’Alba finished with a career-high 54 saves. Although Brown was sent home the following night, the close nature of each of the three games was indicative of the Bears’ scrappy nature and ability to play with anyone. “It absolutely hurts to lose those games, but at the same time I can walk away with my head up knowing that I put everything that I could up on the ice,” D’Alba said.

Wrestling continued from page 12 weight class, Kitchner’s two losses to Dziewiatkowski likely prevented him from being awarded a wild card invite into the national event. “It was my first time wrestling at EIWA Championships and I didn’t know what to expect, so I was a little nervous at first. I didn’t wrestle quite as well as I hoped to. (The loss) was frustrating enough that I’m still not over it. I’ve been going over things that I could have done differently all day,” Kitchner said Monday. The Bears just missed placing two other wrestlers, Mark Savino ’08 and sixth-seed Jeff Schell ’08. Both were bounced from the tournament one round before placement began. However, the younger Savino was also able to exact some retribution for a loss earlier in the season. In a 33-6 defeat at Cornell, Savino lost a tough 6-4 decision to Matt Easter at 141 pounds. This weekend, Savino topped Easter in the rematch, 42, after losing his first-round bout to the fourth seed, Columbia’s Sal Tirico. Schell managed to win his first match before dropping his next to the second seed, Matt Fisk from Lehigh. He bounced back to topple Matt Swallow from East Stroudberg University but was knocked from the tournament by sixth-seed Jeff Sato of Columbia. Brown could have fared better in the team portion of the meet had its heavyweight starter, Levon Mock ’08, been able to wrestle. Mock, who was in line for a top-four seed in his division based on his performance in dual meets, was unable to wrestle due to a knee injury sustained in the Bears’ season finale at Cornell. While the elder Savino will close out his career at the NCAA Tournament in Oklahoma City March 16-18, the rest of the squad has already turned its attention to next season. The Bears will graduate only Savino, Mike Ashton ’06 at 149 pounds and Dan Appello ’06 at 133 pounds. They have a wrestler who has participated in nationals in Schell, and a few more who came close, such as Kitchner, returning next season.

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Iranians hold U.S. responsible over nuclear program BY JOHN DANISZEWSKI LOS ANGELES TIMES

TEHRAN, Iran — Asadollah Habari did not vote for conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and does not see himself as an ideological hard-liner. But when it comes to Iran’s standoff with the West over its nuclear enrichment program, this worker sides with his government. “I am not that fundamentalist, but I love my country,” says Habari, a 31-year-old publishing company employee, chainsmoking on one of the benches at Tehran’s Mellat Park recently, gazing up at the spectacularly white Alborz Mountains. “We don’t like being accused by America or any other country. There are all these countries developing nuclear power: India, Pakistan, and Israel. Why don’t the Americans threaten them?” Habari represents a strong strain of opinion here: nationalism mixed with a feeling that Iran too often has been treated as an exception to the rules of international relations. It is an emotion that the government has helped fan to strengthen its hand in an upcoming face-off with the United Nations Security Council, which meets next week to consider possible sanctions against Iran. Unless there is an abrupt change in Iran’s stance, the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which convened Monday in Vienna, Austria, is expected to reaffirm its decision last month to hand the Iran dossier to the Security Council. The agency’s director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, on Monday urged all parties to continue negotiations. “The only solution I see is a comprehensive, political agreement that covers the nuclear issues, security issues, economic and political issues,” ElBaradei said in comments to reporters. “These are all interrelated ... and the earlier that we get all concerned parties back to the negotiating table the better we are able to find durable solu-

Baseball continued from page 12 until the fourth inning, when FSU tied the game. Co-captain Shaun McNamara ’06 held his own on the mound against a potent Seminole lineup until things unraveled in the fifth. McNamara uncorked a wild pitch, and shortstop Dan Shapiro ’09 committed an error amidst a flurry of hits. Four pitchers — McNamara, Ethan Burton ’06, Alex Silverman ’08 and Brian Hagerty ’06 — and two Ryan Malone homers later, FSU wrapped up a 15-run inning to take a 16-1 lead. “A couple funny bounces and a couple mistakes can turn into a big inning with a team of that caliber,” said McNamara, who took the loss. FSU scored two more runs in the sixth and three runs in the seventh, and the Bears tallied a run in the seventh and three in the ninth for a 21-5 final. Tews and Thomas each had three

tion.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington on Tuesday to discuss negotiations with Iran about a proposal to enrich the Persian Gulf nation’s uranium on Russian soil, among other issues. If sanctions are imposed on Iran, many people in the Islamic Republic will blame Washington more than their own leaders. Families often stroll along the stone, sculpture-lined paths of the park in Tehran, an oasis in the traffic-clogged megalopolis, and picnic on the grass. Some people lick huge ice cream cones purchased from a booth on Valiasr Street, one of the city’s most famous boulevards. It is shaded by trees and lined by the gutters that carry the cool runoff from the mountains through the city. But on a clear spring day, as families prepared to mark Nohruz, the Iranian new year, much of the conversation focused on what will happen to Iran if no diplomatic solution is reached in the dispute over its decision to conduct limited nuclear enrichment, which some Western governments suspect could aid a program to produce nuclear weapons. The nuclear issue has been dominating the front pages of the scores of Iranian daily newspapers on sale at kiosks along Valiasr, which passersby stop to read, if not always buy. “Iran Will Stand by Rights” and “IAEA Is Politically Motivated,” some of the headlines blared. As a good-faith measure after its vote to report Iran to the Security Council, the agency’s board of governors asked Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities. Iran refused to do so and proceeded to test centrifuges in a pilot plant. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful and that it is merely doing what other countries do in the course of developing civilian nuclear energy. Uranium must be enriched to be used for fuel in a reactor. At higher enrichment levels, it can be used in a bomb.

hits and scored a run. Hagerty pitched 1 1/3 innings, allowing five runs (four earned). Righthander Peter Moskal ’08 gave up three runs in an inning of work, and Rob Hallberg ’08 pitched a scoreless eighth. “As a staff we need to pitch a little better,” McNamara said. “We need to walk less guys and be a little bit more aggressive.” Sunday, the Bears were down 6-0 in the fourth inning when their offense finally erupted. Shapiro’s first collegiate home run plated two runs and highlighted a six-run outburst that briefly tied the game. Hughes and Larson also drove in two runs apiece during the fourthinning rally. The Bears scored more runs in the inning than they had in the previous two games combined. More impressive was that it came against Tyler Chambliss, who had held then-No. 5 University of Florida to three runs in 6 1/3 innings the previous Tuesday. There was a glimmer of hope that Bruno would head back to

Report continued from page 1 Fund is already undergoing financial stress, he said. Greene, however, said depending on the recommendations implemented, it is likely the University will help student groups financially. “We may have to create an additional fund to staff these events if we do move to a different system where there are professional staff working at events. I know student groups are al-

Brooks continued from page 1 economist James Heckman and sociologist James Coleman. A pure meritocracy means that an “obsessive” focus on kids and investment in obscure skills that will increase their college chances brings return, Brooks told an audience largely composed of students who emerged from the college application process themselves not too long ago. Citing statistics to support his observations, Brooks said these “junior workaholics of America” and their parents have increased America’s share in the global economy, balanced birth rates at replacement levels, raised productivity and sparked “moral repair.” Yet with these positive effects has come a new kind of inequality: “The rich don’t exploit the poor, they just out-compete them,” Brooks said. “We’re used to thinking about inequality as economic inequality, but to me what’s really showing up here is that it’s social inequality that drives everything,” he said. Kicking off his case for cultural determinism, Brooks added, “Social class is what we should think about, not economic class.” As a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Cold War-era Russia, Brooks said he learned economic plans could not re-shape societies. And in contemporary America, though social reforms that treat people as “economic creatures” prove ineffective and social values dominate American politics and life, Brooks said he thinks culture is the most important lens through which Americans can un-

College Hill with a win under its belt, but that notion faded in the bottom of that same inning due to a seven-run, four-hit Seminole barrage. The ’Noles tacked on two more runs, and the Bears scored one for a 15-7 final. Right-handed pitcher Jeff Dietz ’08 took the loss, pitching 3 1/3 innings in his first outing of the season. He was lifted during FSU’s game-winning rally with Hallberg, Burton and Ethan Silverstein ’07 manning the hill for the rest of the seven-inning game. “There were parts of games this weekend where we played very well,” McNamara said. “We just need to put a nine-inning game together and we’ll be looking to do that this weekend.” The team will get its chance Friday, when it opens up a threegame series in Nashville, Tenn., at Vanderbilt University. “It’s tough to look at the scores and find a silver lining,” McNamara said. “But there were some good things that we’re looking to build on.”

ready pressed for resources. We need to find a way for them to continue to operate without overburdening them with expenses,” he said. Interim social events policies regarding event admission, advertising and safety and alcohol guidelines instituted in November are likely to become permanent, Klawunn said “The committee is recommending that those be adopted,” she said. Conducting a review of campus alcohol and drug culture was not charged to the committee and is therefore not addressed

specifically in the report. “(The report) is not trying to review or evaluate alcohol policy, though we certainly talked about alcohol use,” Klawunn said. She added the committee is “not making a recommendation on (drug) policy.” Instead, it is looking at how social groups and events can handle alcohol use in better ways. The Campus Life Advisory Board Subcommittee on Alcohol and Other Drugs was given the task of reviewing policies regarding alcohol and other drugs and expects to have a report out by the end of the semester.

derstand themselves. “We’re socially embedded creatures,” Brooks said. “We don’t always behave the way economists say we behave.” Although Brooks said interviewing Americans across the country about their voting decisions strengthened his belief that values drive both political and economic differences, the national failure to discuss economic inequality after Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that Americans are not prepared to debate issues of class. “I think it’s because we haven’t learned to talk about it in ways that don’t blame people,” Brooks said. “I think that’s the essence of learning about class in America and finally solving these problems,” he said as he concluded his talk. But the question-and-answer session demonstrated that some in the audience hoped Brooks would go beyond a diagnosis of America’s cultural class divisions. “He didn’t offer a lot in the way of prescriptions,” said Katie Reisner ’07, an international relations concentrator and editorin-chief of the Brown Journal of World Affairs. Economics concentrator Phil Wood ’07 agreed, but he also said he appreciated Brooks’ cultural explanation for social inequalities — a view not fully explored in any of his economics classes. Reisner said Brooks’ cultural argument was convincing, if “reductionist,” as he focused largely on a particular subset of American society. After the talk, Reisner asked Brooks to respond to fellow Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s assertion that “the

world is flat.” “If I had the chutzpah, I wouldn’t write a book called ‘the world is flat,’ I’d write a book called ‘the world is mountainous,’” Brooks said, adding that while he is a cultural determinist, Friedman is a self-described technological determinist. Though the question elicited laughter from the audience, Reisner said she is hesitant to accept Brooks’ argument in a larger context. “He’s describing this very rarefied milieu, and he’s a member of this milieu … so you have to question what ethos he has as far as commenting on the Midwest or the heartland.” Still, both Reisner and Wood said they enjoyed Brooks’ talk. Those who missed yesterday’s lecture can hear Brooks this evening at 6:30 p.m. at the conference’s final event, a panel discussion — “Where Are We Headed? Why and How Does Class Still Matter in America?” — led by Professor of Economics Glenn Loury in Salomon 101. Loury, whose research has focused on welfare economics, race, and affirmative action, will be joined by Jared Bernstein, director of the Living Standards program at the Economic Policy Institute and Louisiana State Rep. Karen Carter, who represents New Orleans and has been involved in rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina. Brooks’ keynote Michael P. Metcalf-Howard R. Swearer Memorial Lecture honors the chairman and publisher of the Journal and Brown’s 15th president, respectively, who together founded the conference in celebration of the Journal’s 150th anniversary.

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

From polls to progress Throughout the beginning of this semester, the Undergraduate Council of Students has encountered criticism from those who claim its members are more concerned with internal, bureaucratic details than actually representing undergraduates. Though we have challenged the council’s tactics at times, we have also reiterated our belief that most members ultimately want to improve life on campus for their constituents. Last week, UCS conducted one of the most fundamental tasks of any representative body: soliciting feedback. The WebCT poll addressed issues affecting everything from how Brown students are evaluated in the classroom to how we download music. Our hope is that once the council satisfactorily copes with its most recent internal issues, members can work toward advancing an agenda that takes students’ responses into account. Granted, there are certain flaws to the council’s polling tactics, many of which its members willingly acknowledge. As President Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07 points out, the voluntary nature of the poll attracts a self-selecting population that is likely more engaged and passionate about on-campus issues than those who send UCS e-mails to the ‘Deleted Items’ folder without so much as a glance. Perhaps more concerning is the council’s failure to gather a demographic breakdown of respondents, which would provide an important lens through which to evaluate results. Still, it is not the council’s job to sit students down and make them fill out a 37-question poll. Despite the fairly modest turnout, the 35 percent of undergraduates who completed the poll deserve to see their responses reflected in upcoming agenda items. In reacting to the poll’s results, Saxton-Frump and UCS Communications Chair Michael Thompson ’07 expressed concerns about the perceived openness of council meetings. Though it is important for UCS to be transparent in its operations, we doubt there is much its members can do to get more students to turn out for a strong dose of parliamentary procedure on Wednesday nights. Instead of trying to engage more students in its actual operations, UCS should target policies that could have campuswide ramifications, such as articulately representing students’ views in the plus/minus debate, examining the University’s renewable energy options and improving meal plan, SafeRide and other services. The most effective way for UCS to improve its image among skeptical undergraduates is to generate tangible results on issues that affect large segments of the student body. If students see that poll results lead to actual improvements, they likely will be more inclined to spend 15 minutes filling out the next one.

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LETTERS Herald should continue bioethics coverage To the Editor: The opinion of my esteemed colleague Eli Braun ’06 notwithstanding (“Herald coverage of Krimsky lecture falls short,” Feb. 28), I wanted to commend The Herald for its recent coverage of bioethics: from timely reporting on Sheldon Krimsky’s lecture, to the front-page article on the demise of the concentration to the op-ed it graciously published. Bioethics matters, whether Brown chooses to

realize it or not. Here’s hoping the neglected bioethics program will continue to provide newsworthy material — and maybe, just maybe, convince apathetic administrators that it’s worth keeping around. Francesco Forin ‘06 Brown Bioethics Society March 3

Nordlinger lecture a welcome presence To the Editor: I just want to thank The Herald for sponsoring Jay Nordlinger’s recent lecture at Brown (“National Review editor surveys conservative media outlets,” March 2). In many classes I’ve taken at Brown, other guest lectures I’ve attended on campus and general discussions I’ve had with fellow students, I encounter plenty of liberal views. It is a breath of fresh air to be able to escape the class-

room and listen to someone with whom I share common political viewpoints. I hope you can continue to be more like Fox News and “middle-of-the-road” when it comes to reporting news beyond the Brown campus. Christopher Pollak ‘07 March 2

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Beyond ‘one dollar, one vote’ Federal campaign finance reform efforts have been less than inspiring; local citizens now are picking up the slack BY TE-PING CHEN OPINIONS COLUMNIST

This past January, in the wake of Texas Republican and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s resignation amid allegations of money-laundering as well as the recent Abramoff scandal, Republicans with an eye on mid-term elections touted the need for serious campaign and ethics reform. Such efforts started, sputtered and shuddered to a near halt. Last week, they died in committee. Throughout the reform debate last month, the biggest issues legislators on both sides of the aisle seemed willing to tackle were squabbles over whether to halt privately funded trips or impose tighter limits on lobbyist meals. As they quibbled over whether a ban on former government employees returning to Capitol Hill to lobby should be one or two years in length, more substantive reforms never even made it onto the table. The measures that came out of the Senate Rules Committee last week, including a ban on certain gifts and increased disclosure of lobbyist contacts, are little more than what Tom Coburn, R-Okla., dismissed them as: window-dressing. Committee Chairman Trent Lott, RMiss., has emphasized increased disclosure, which at its core is a basic and necessary part of reform. But the problem of money in U.S. politics goes much deeper than anything disclosure alone can offset. The more fundamental issue is that in the United States, unlike in the majority of democracies abroad, public officials remain dependent on private money for their election. Running for federal office is expensive

— 43 percent of U.S. Senators are millionaires. A winning campaign in the House of Representatives costs nearly $1 million, and a winning campaign for the seat in the Senate costs over $5 million. That money has to come from somewhere, and that ‘somewhere’ isn’t the average American’s checkbook. Out of the roughly $400 million from 527s that inundated the 2004 election, over $126 million came from just 25 individuals. Most Americans

els election outcomes — over 94 percent of the time, the candidate who spends the most wins. With politicians thus reliant on an elite base of donors and private-interest PACs for their re-election, it’s not surprising that when it comes to crafting public policy, conflicts of interest abound. Critics of reform argue that “money is the mother’s milk of politics,” and that it’s impossible to eliminate. This may

Sizeable campaign donations have to come from somewhere, and that ‘somewhere’ isn’t the average American’s checkbook. don’t contribute to political candidates at all — in 2002, less than 2 percent of the population made contributions of over $200 to political campaigns. Public Campaign reports that of such contributors, some 86 percent earn above $100,000, and 96 percent are white. This narrow class of donors is hardly representative of American society. What it reveals, however, is who truly holds political power in the United States. The principle of ‘one man, one vote’ is being supplanted by the reality of ‘one dollar, one vote.’ While money may not directly buy influence, it does buy access and set the agenda. And as political campaigns are increasingly driven by expensive TV issue ads, money also fu-

be so. In this case, the question to ask is where public officials should be getting their money in the first place. While federal officials continue to vacillate about reform, citizens across the country are enacting an alternative to privately funded campaigns on a local level: full public financing of elections, a system also known as “Clean Elections.” Under Clean Elections, candidates who collect enough signatures and discrete $5 contributions to demonstrate their grassroots support receive a full grant to run for office. If Clean Elections candidates are outspent by privately financed opponents, they are also eligible to receive additional matching funds. The trend start-

ed in Maine and Arizona, two states in which citizens successfully passed ballot initiatives in the late 1990s establishing Clean Elections for statewide office. In recent years, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Mexico, North Carolina, Portland, Ore. and Albuquerque, N.M. have all passed Clean Elections for some level of office as well. Today, students from the Brown and Providence College advocacy group Democracy Matters will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the Rhode Island Clean Elections Act, introduced this spring by District 3 State Rep. Edith Ajello and District 3 State Sen. Rhoda Perry, both Democrats from Providence. Although Clean Elections has been passed by voter initiative, legislators have come to embrace the system as well. Today, 83 percent of Maine state senators were elected without spending private funds. As Arizona Rep. Martha Garcia says, “It’s win-win all around — for voters and for candidates.” Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court began re-visiting the arguments of the landmark 1976 case Buckley v. Valeo, which struck down candidate spending limits and has shaped — some would argue, stymied — reform efforts ever since. The re-evaluation of the case presents a very real opportunity to reignite the national debate around campaign finance reform. The solutions are out there. The states are the laboratories of democracy, and they are leading the way. If only our federal officials would catch up.

Te-Ping Chen ’07 is a member of Democracy Matters.

The radical Q A first-year responds to a recent column by the president of Queer Alliance BY STEFAN SMITH GUEST COLUMNIST

Upon reading Josh Teitelbaum’s recent guest column, (“March of the gay penguins,” March 1), I was struck by two thoughts. First, I realized that Brown’s Queer Alliance, now run under Teitelbaum, is nothing more than a front for radicalizing and hijacking the LGBTQ agenda by those who are closed-minded and rigid in their views, unable to practice the tolerance they demand from others. My second thought had less to do with Queer Alliance and more to do with Teitelbaum as a person — just who exactly does he think he is? How can QA, an organization that, to quote Teitelbaum, prides itself on being “one big makeup case,” tolerate a leader who holds such narrow and intentionally divisive views on issues that affect us all? By catering to the “RuPaul” portion of the gay community and openly dismissing mainstream members, he uses his position in QA to provoke infighting. In the aforementioned article, rather than attempting to foster debate, or advocate other methods of assimilation, rather than offering suggestions as to how to bring the queer community together, Teitelbaum uses his 860 words to detail a rift within his organization. His article unintentionally highlights his inability to bridge that gap. By touting QA as “existing at all points of the political spectrum,” Teitelbaum

attempts to mask his obviously radical views. Teitelbaum is under the impression that because some members of the LGBTQ community have become affluent and prosperous within the “straight community,” they are somehow removed from the “struggle” and not as worthy as “regular” homosexuals. As such, they should be dismissed. He argues that these middle- and upper-class gays only favor

marriage-equality petition than from the fact that she didn’t recognize who he was or his sexual orientation, neither of which should matter anyway. He acted like a fuming diva at her own concert — is that the image of QA he wants portrayed? Teitelbaum’s views aren’t new; during the Civil Rights era, there were blacks who were able to prosper despite playing the “white man’s game.” However, other

I understand the symbolic value that comes with entering City Hall and having a magistrate recognize that the love you share with your partner is real. marriage equality so they can keep up with the more prosperous, straight middle class. Teitelbaum will surely alienate QA members by calling them pampered, bourgeois and racist. The most upsetting portion of the article is his response to “the ripe ... Brown Dem(ocratic) ... cherry” who didn’t know his identity. His cynicism and sarcasm seems directed less at her attempts to work with QA and get signatures for a

blacks labeled them sellouts because of their success. Even today, the black community dismisses leaders such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as sellouts because of their support of the Republican agenda. The only difference in this situation is that there are no cute literary allusions like “Uncle Tom” for Teitelbaum to invoke when he impugns his ideological opponents. In his article, Teitelbaum refuses to ac-

cept that marriage is just one more step on the road to equality rather than the destination. Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court Case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws, did not end racism in America, but it certainly added to the cause of racial equality. His argument that marriage is not going to cure HIV/AIDS, prevent job discrimination or even end hate crimes is at best irrelevant, and at worst an argument that could undermine incremental progress that is possible now. I agree that marriage won’t make us equal. In fact, I disagree with the idea of marriage in general. But, unlike Teitelbaum, I understand the symbolic value that comes with entering City Hall and having a magistrate — a government official — recognize that the love you share with your partner is real. Finally, having the government stand behind you and your relationship is important. What I don’t understand is how one can dismiss the idea of gay marriage simply because affluent and “bourgeois” fairies endorse it. By doing so, Teitelbaum spits in the faces of those who long only for the symbol that marriage conveys: acceptance. Maybe straight people don’t really know what’s best for “us freaks,” but it seems that our “leaders” don’t either.

Stefan Smith ’09 believes that a leader should know how to compromise.

SPORTS TUESDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MARCH 7, 2006 · PAGE 12

It’s all over in OT: Despite goalie’s 153 saves, m. ice hockey falls in three games BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS STAFF WRITER

It has been a season filled with difficult losses for the men’s ice hockey team, and it ended this past weekend in typically frustrating fashion. After rebounding from a 3-2 overtime loss to host St. Lawrence University on Friday night with a gut-check 3-2 win the following evening, Brown was unable to extend its season, bowing out of the ECACHL playoffs with a 5-4 overtime defeat on Sunday. All three games were tightly contested, but Sunday’s was the most exciting of the series. St. Lawrence held tenuously to a 1-0 lead after two periods, and it looked like the fatigue of three games in three days had set in for both teams. Seemingly out of nowhere, Brown and St. Lawrence both exploded on offense, combining for seven goals in the period. Three minutes into the frame, forward Brian McNary ’08 tied the game at one with a shot from just inside the blue line. Andrzej Sandrzyk gave the Saints the lead back at the 7:51 mark with a score from up close, but Brown responded with the tying tally less than a minute later off the stick of forward Chris Poli ’08. When ECACHL points leader T.J. Trevelyan and Mike Zbriger of St. Lawrence scored within 1:32 of each other midway through the period, it looked as though the hosts might pull away. But just 27 seconds after the Saints’ fourth goal, Eric Slais ’09 scored to cut the deficit in half, with the assist going to McNary. With 1:14 left in the game, Brown pulled starting goalie Adam D’Alba ’08 for an extra attacker. Forward Jeff Prough ’08, who scored the game-winning goal the previous night, found the back of the net with only 3.3 seconds remaining to tie the game at four and send it to overtime. Yet even with the momentum from Prough’s late heroics, the Bears were denied their first overtime win of the season yet again, as Brock McBride scored 4:28 into the extra period, ending Brown’s season. D’Alba finished with 48 saves on the

BY GEORGE MESTHOS SPORTS STAFF WRITER

BROWN SPORTS SCHEDULE TUESDAY, MARCH 7 SKIING: USCSA National Championships (at Sugarloaf, Maine)

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night, which was all the more impressive considering that it was his lowest total of the series after a 54-save performance in Saturday’s win and a 51-save effort on Friday. “I’ve never seen that many shots in a single game, let alone three games in a row,” D’Alba said. “The playoff atmosphere carries your adrenaline through. You just have to block the mental fatigue.” Having looked forward to the playoffs after a less-than-exemplary regular season, Bruno was eager to prove itself in game one of the series. Yet it was St. Lawrence that dictated play in the first period, outshooting the visitors 18-5. “St. Lawrence is a very aggressive team with a lot of skill up front,” D’Alba said. “They’re not afraid to shoot from anywhere.” Despite St. Lawrence’s huge advantage in shots-on-goal, Brown drew first blood. McNary kicked off what ended up being a six-point weekend when he controlled the rebound of a Sean Hurley ’08

Wrestling team takes ninth place at EIWA Championship

The wrestling team struggled to a ninthplace finish with 22.5 points at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships this past weekend. Despite the finish, Brown was still able to exact a measure of revenge for two of its worst losses this season — a 40-0 setback at the hands of Lehigh University and a 26-10 defeat by the University of Pennsylvania in February. More importantly, the Bears will send a wrestler to the NCAA National Competition. On Jan. 28 at the Pizzitola Center, Lehigh’s Derek Zinck, the 11th-ranked wrestler in the nation at 157 pounds, got the better of Brown co-captain Michael Savino ’06 when he pinned Savino four minutes into their match. This weekend, seventhseeded Savino returned the favor when he knocked Zinck, the second seed, out of the winner’s bracket of the tournament in

shot and knocked the puck out of the air past Saints netminder Justin Pesony for a 1-0 Bears lead. Bruno increased its lead to 2-0 at the 13:34 mark of the second period when forward Sean Dersch ’07 re-directed a shot from defenseman Paul Crosty ’06 by Pesony. Down by two, the hosts continued their barrage on D’Alba, making it 2-1 at the 15:30 mark of the second period and tying it just 56 seconds into the third. The game remained scoreless and went to overtime. The Saints struck for the game-winner just 25 seconds in, as

The baseball team was swept by Florida State University this weekend in its first series of the year. Even though Brown was outscored 48-12 over the three games, the team performed admirably in its first action outside the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center against a team then-ranked sixth in the nation that had 12 games under its belt. The Bears were shut out in their opener Friday, 12-0. Leftfielder Ryan Murphy ’08, leading off in his first career start, had half of the team’s hits with a 3-for-4 performance. Bryan Tews ’07 got the opening day assignment and yielded eight runs (seven earned) in 3 1/3 innings against the Seminoles, who were ranked second in the country in this week’s issue of Collegiate Baseball. “It’s a whole different story hitting against some of the best pitching in the nation after hitting in the OMAC under the yellow lights,” co-captain Danny Hughes ’06 explained. “Our lineup’s not a question. A few guys got off to a slow start.” Saturday, Tews manned second base and helped give Brown a 1-0 lead in the top of the first — the team’s only lead over the weekend. After Tews singled, catcher Devin Thomas ’07 doubled, moving him to third. Centerfielder Eric Larson ’07 drove Tews home with an RBI groundout to third. The Bears held their 1-0 advantage

Despite a fantastic three-game performance by goaltender Adam D’Alba ’08, the 12thseed men’s hockey team lost two more overtime games en route to a first-round exit.

Savino ’06 qualifies for nationals BY STEPHEN COLELLI SPORTS EDITOR

Bright side to blowouts for baseball in openers at FSU

the second round with a 3-2 decision. Although Zinck edged out Savino for third place later in the tournament, Savino’s fourth-place finish was enough to earn him a wild card invite to nationals. “I am pretty excited,” Savino said about his first trip to nationals. “I know (Head) Coach (Dave) Amato is elated that I’m going to nationals, but he was not pleased with the overall performance. We didn’t wrestle as well as we know we could have, and that’s frustrating.” The only other Bear to place at the championships was co-captain Shawn Kitchner ’07, who took sixth in the 167pound division. Kitchner also managed to take some of the sting out of the Bears’ disappointing team finish when he knocked off the Quakers’ Lior Zamir, 3-1. Kitchner, the third seed in the tournament, had scored a major decision over Zamir at home back in February, one of only three Bears wins over Penn that day. Unfortunately, Kitchner was unable to defeat Navy’s Craig Dziewiatkowski, losing twice to fall to sixth place in the tournament. Although he managed to defeat both the first- and third-place finishers in his see WRESTLING, page 8

Pair of hat tricks powers w. lax comeback in 10-7 win over BC BY BART STEIN SPORTS STAFF WRITER

In its second week of competition, the women’s lacrosse team reeled off five unanswered goals in a thrilling comeback to defeat Boston College 10-7, improving to 2-0 on the season. Midfielders Kate Staley ’06 and Mimi De Tolla ’08 led the Bears on offense with three goals apiece. On defense, Noelle DiGioia ’09 scooped up five ground balls to lead the team.

Down 7-5 with just over 15 minutes to play, De Tolla started the Bears’ comeback with her second goal of the day. Attacker Krystina DeLuca ’09 tied the score with her second goal of the game less than a minute later. At the 18:54 mark, Staley maneuvered her way through the Boston College defense and delivered her third goal to give the Bears a lead they would not relinquish. Staley attributed the see W. LAX, page 8

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Mimi DeTolla ’08 was one of two Bears to score three goals against Boston College.