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An independent newspaper serving the Brown community since 1891 BOY MEETS CANDIDATE “Boy Meets World” star Ben Savage gave $500 to Brown professor Jennifer Lawless’ campaign in early 2006 CAMPUS NEWS 5

BROWN LOW ON GREEN U.S. Senate candidate Matt Brown recently had to ﬁre four campaign staffers due to lack of funds METRO 3

In colonial Rhode Island, slavery played pivotal role

POLITICS ON THE PLAYGROUND Trevor Gleason ’07 analyzes a study ﬁnding that childhood temperament indicates future political leanings OPINIONS 11

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UFB cuts 70% from next year’s UCS budget

MODERN-DAY SLAVERY

Higher student activities fee means higher budgets for other groups

Trade with slave-based economies implicated New England colonies

BY MELANIE DUCH SENIOR STAFF WRITER

tions because there are already networks that service the needs of consumers,” he said. The network will be most advantageous to “organizations whose operating footprint is most consistent with the state’s borders,” Panoff said, citing as an example the state government, especially public safety agencies, which have operations in currently disconnected areas such as lakes and rivers. Other potential beneﬁts include improving communication and connectivity for educational institutions, the health

With a significantly expanded budget due to a $10 hike in the student activities fee, the Undergraduate Finance Board “had the opportunity to increase the budgets for a lot of groups” for 2006-2007, though the Undergraduate Council of Students took a notable $10,000 budget reduction, according to UFB Chair Swathi Bojedla ’07. Among the groups with significant budget increases are the Brown Concert Agency, which received about $20,000 more than it did last year, and the Brown Film Society, which received an additional $5,000 for next year, according to UFB’s budget reports, which were made public Monday. UCS applied for $14,750 for the 20062007 school year, roughly comparable to this year’s budget of $14,394.80. But the council was allocated only $4,313.40. “The reason (for UCS’s budget cut) is that for UCS meetings — there is one every week — they spend $240 to have tables and chairs set up by a facilities manager,” Bojedla said. “That cut alone was $6,000 from their budget,” she said. “(UFB) didn’t really think it was appropriate to give that much money for table and chair set-up given that a lot groups set it up themselves,” she continued. “Even in UFB, we come early and we set up tables and chairs for our meeting,” she said. Zachary Townsend ’08, vice president of UCS, said though he believes the cut is “significant, especially considering the $100,000 increase in (revenues from the) student activities fee,” he generally agrees with UFB’s decisions. “I don’t know why we can’t set up our own tables,” he said. Townsend added that though he is unsure whether UCS will appeal the decision, he believes it is unlikely.

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see BUDGETS, page 4

BY ANNE WOOTTON METRO EDITOR

Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to BROWN President Ruth SimCONFRONTS mons this spring, it is unclear when the reSLAVERY port will be submitSecond in a ted or whether it will be released publicseries ly before summer. In this, the second in a series on the committee and its work, The Herald examines the context of slavery in colonial Rhode Island and some of the committee’s educational undertakings. Though North American ships represented a relatively small portion of the global slave trade, Rhode Island was the epicenter of the North American slave trade. At

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Katherine Chon ’02 (right), co-founder of the anti-human trafﬁcking organization the Polaris Project, and Beatrice Fernando, a former slave, spoke last night. see CAMPUS NEWS, page 5 least two-thirds of North American slavetrading voyages each year were from the colony. Before the American Revolution, Newport was the chief slaving town in Rhode Island. Afterward, it was replaced by Bristol largely because of the DeWolf family, which owned a plantation in Cuba and was the biggest slave-trading family in the nation. The infamously cruel slave trader James DeWolf got his start as the captain of a ship owned by the Brown broth-

ers’ father, according to James Campbell, associate professor of history and chair of the committee. About 1,000 Rhode Island ships completed the Triangle Trade Route between North America, the West Indies and Africa, but an estimated ﬁve to six times as many made the bilateral trade route to the Caribbean. Rhode Islanders depended on industries related to sugar production besee SLAVERY, page 4

Rhode Island set to become ﬁrst wireless state BY CHLOE LUTTS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Rhode Island is set to become the first state with a comprehensive wireless network, starting with a pilot METRO program slated to launch this week in Providence. The first antenna installed for the network will be at the top of Brown’s Sciences Library, one of the highest points in the Ocean State. Brown is a “partner in the infrastructure side of the house and the application side of the house,” said Melissa Withers, communications director for the Business Innovation Factory, the non-profit

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The top of the Sciences Library will be home to the ﬁrst antenna of the state’s pilot wireless program.

behind the project. Representatives from the University are on the advisory committee guiding the pilot program, and the University will be one of the first organizations to use the network during the pilot. In cooperation with the Rhode Island Department of Education and local K-8 schools, 12 students from Brown participating in the Rhode Island Teacher Education Renewal project will take advantage of the wireless broadband connection. Though the current program is limited, it will allow the project’s organizers to work out any problems that may appear before the final program is put in place. Bob Panoff, a Massachusetts-based consultant, said he first came up with the idea of the statewide wireless network. He said Rhode Island’s size makes the project possible. “Rhode Island is a tiny little place and that has always been a competitive disadvantage,” he said. But the statewide wireless network will turn the state’s size into an advantage by making “integration and collaboration not only within organizations but between organizations” more “mobile and flexible,” he said. Panoff praised the University’s support for the project, saying, “Brown obviously has been very generous and very supportive.” He noted particularly the University’s willingness to allow use of the educational band in the radio spectrum and the SciLi itself. Use of the wireless network will probably not be free, Panoff said, though several business models are under consideration. He said the project seeks to market itself to a number of Rhode Island businesses and organizations. The project is “targeting organiza-

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Rowley’s ‘Out of Ivy’ now on bookshelves For $19.99, Brown students can now learn why the New Curriculum should be abolished and Queer Alliance should be censured — at least, according to one conservative alum. “Out of Ivy: How a Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative” by Travis Rowley ’02 appeared on shelves at the Brown Bookstore Monday. Copies of the self-published take on Brown and its student body were dropped off at the bookstore on Saturday, according to Lori Dalesio, an assistant buyer at the bookstore. “Travis came in approximately a month ago, and he told me he had written a book about his experience here at Brown,” she said. The bookstore agreed to carry it, and it is available in the section for books by Brown alums, she said. As of Monday afternoon, there had been about seven inquiries about the book but no sales, Dalesio said.

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Rowley told The Herald in March that he wants his book to be a catalyst to reform Brown. “My upbringing really disagreed with what I saw at Brown,” he said. “I was insulted almost the entire time.” Some students received e-mails promoting the book Monday afternoon, including a flyer that says Brown should reinstate the ROTC and “Abolish the Third World Center (like, tomorrow).” According to Stephanie Birdsall, lead communications specialist at Computing and Information Services, the message was probably sent to a mailing list Rowley created by “harvesting” student e-mail addresses from the Electronic Address Book on the University Web site. Birdsall said she did not know how many students received the e-mails, which she referred to as “spam.” —Ben Leubsdorf News tips: herald@browndailyherald.com

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH ROOTEDNESS” 5 p.m. , (68 Waterman St., 2nd Floor) — Blair Nelsen, Jessica Beckerman and Terah DeJong, 2005-06 Royce Fellows, will present their ﬁndings from a conservation unit in the Amazon. “WALKING THE MIDDLE GROUND: BEING A RED POLITICIAN IN A BLUE STATE” 7:30 p.m. , (Carmichael Auditorium) — Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 will discuss his role as a leading Rhode Island Republican.

“HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: SEXUAL SLAVERY IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD” 8 p.m., (Barus and Holley 168) — Katherine Chon ’02, co-director of the Polaris Project, will speak about what is being done to stop human trafﬁcking. PANEL ON THE IMAGE OF CHE GUEVARA 8 p.m., (Foxboro Auditorium) — Ernesto “Che” Guevara is best known as that face on all those T-shirts, but his image is divisive. Come hear from student panelists about how he is perceived in the Latino community.

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Election 2006: the Senate money race Brown’s money, staff woes endanger Senate run The competition may have just been squeezed out of the Democratic primary for Rhode Island’s 2006 Senate election. Secretary of State Matt Brown’s prospects dimmed as he fired four key staff members Friday due to lack of funds. “The campaign is paring down,” said Matt Burgess, the campaign’s director of communications, who was among those fired. In addition to Burgess, Finance Director Bob Pilon, Field Director Rich Pelletier and Media Consultant MacWilliams Robinson have left the campaign, Burgess said. Brown’s campaign has only $35,000 on hand for the September primary election, though his campaign has another $330,000 earmarked for the general election, according to campaign finance numbers provided to The Herald by the campaign. Under federal election law, contributions earmarked for a general election cannot be used in a primary. Observers say the Brown campaign’s money and staff woes may prove crippling. “You can’t really win a major Senate campaign on $35,000, and it’s a very competitive primary,” said Darrell West, professor of political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy. Much of Brown’s funding has come from individuals outside the state interested in unseating incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R-R.I., according to Jennifer Duffy, a Rhode Island native and managing editor of the non-partisan Cook Political Report. “Those are the donors who leave you first, especially in this cycle where there are a lot of places for their money to go,” Duffy said. “I think he is going to run into some problems raising money out of state.” But Tim Patterson, Brown’s campaign manager, remained optimistic. “We’ve been at this for over a year, and we still have five months to go,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “Our campaign is re-organizing and bringing in new people. Everyone else in this Senate race is a millionaire — we’ll run leaner and smarter.” This was the second staff shake-up for Brown’s campaign in just a few months. Patterson, a retired Providence police sergeant, replaced Dennis Newman as campaign manager in February. Brown has outspent all other candidates for the Senate seat — on both sides of the political line. His campaign’s initial strategy involved spending almost half a million dollars on early advertising to boost name recognition and financial support. Apparent Democratic frontrunner and former state Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse showed restraint and did not respond to Brown’s early television advertising spree, Duffy said. The result is campaign war chest now totaling almost $1.4 million, which will prove a difficult challenge for Brown to overcome. In a surprise turn of events, Brown’s funds have been eclipsed by those of Marines veteran and political outsider Carl

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Sheeler, who is also running BY JONATHAN HERMAN Both Sen. Lincoln Chafee in the Democratic primary. SENIOR STAFF WRITER ’75, R-R.I., and Cranston According to numbers proMayor Stephen Laffey are vided to The Herald, Sheeler’s campaign awash in greenbacks for their Repubhas $211,000 on hand for the primary, lican Senate primary duel, but Laffey’s mostly in loans. Only $87,000 has come fund raising has kicked into high gear from funds raised. and may leave Chafee behind. Brown’s strategy to win early name Chafee has more cash on hand for recognition left him on shaky ground, the primary election — $1.5 million, acWest said. cording to reports filed with the Federal “He front-loaded his strategy and it Election Commission. But Laffey has acgave him a temporary boost in the (Brown celerated ahead of Chafee, raising more University and other) poll(s),” West said. money than the incumbent since Janu“But his campaign was hijacked by the ary, according to Nachama Soloveichik, campaign fund scandal and that has reLaffey’s press secretary. Laffey’s campaign raised $328,000 in ally torpedoed this whole candidacy.” the first quarter of 2006, with $901,000 Brown’s campaign has been troubled on hand for the Republican primary, acsince his apparent manipulation of campaign finance laws became public. His cording to Soloveichik. campaign solicited donations from conLaffey has received significant contributors to the Maine, Massachusetts tributions from out of state thanks to his and Hawaii state Democratic parties in endorsement from the Wall Street-based exchange for $25,000 in donations to his Club for Growth, said Jennifer Duffy, a campaign from the three state parties. Rhode Island native and managing ediThe situation is currently under investitor of the Cook Political Report. Most of Chafee’s contributions have gation by the Federal Election Commiscome from within the state, said Ian sion. Lang, Chafee’s campaign manager. “Brown’s situation is complicated,” Chafee raised a total of $300,203 during Duffy said. “Here is a guy who wants to the first quarter. run a campaign on ethics, but then here Money is less of an issue for Chafee, he has an ethics issue.”

though, whose personal fortune is well over $1 million, according to his 2004 U.S. Senate Financial Disclosure Report. “The money will be there no matter what (for Chafee),” Duffy said. “If he has to write a check to his campaign, he obviously will.” Chafee may have caught a major break thanks to fading campaign hopes for Democratic primary candidate and Secretary of State Matt Brown campaign, Duffy said. “While not having a primary certainly would be better for Whitehouse and the Democrats, not having a primary will be better for Chafee,” Duffy said. “The less competitive the Democratic Primary is, the easier Chafee will have getting independents (to vote) in a Republican primary.” A majority of registered Rhode Island voters are unafﬁliated, and only 38 percent are registered Democrats. The state’s election laws allow for unafﬁliated voters to temporarily register as a Republican or a Democrat on the day of the primary and participate in either of those elections. “Getting out the vote is (vital) … and Chafee is trying to bring out as many independents as he can,” said Darrell West,

Ocean State losing federal dough, report says BY SONIA SARAIYA STAFF WRITER

Rhode Island is receiving less federal aid relative to the tax revenue it sends to the federal government, according to a recent report by the Rhode Island Policy Expenditure Council. The March report shows that, from 1994 to 2004, Rhode Island dropped from 21st to 31st nationally in terms of federal money to the state per dollar of federal taxes. Gary Sasse, executive director of RIPEC, cited two reasons for the trend. “Our income is probably growing quicker than income(s) of other states,” he said. “Generally, in states with high income, because of the progressive federal tax system, we send more to Washington.” Also, he said, “the federal government doesn’t have the money to spend”

because of the current federal budget squeeze. 55 percent of federal money that returns to Rhode Island, Sasse said, comes in the form of direct payments to individuals, such as social security or Medicare benefits. Though changes to this funding at the federal level could affect individuals, Sasse said it is “not clear what impact that would have on the state.” 30 percent of federal aid comes in the form of payments to the state to support Medicaid, transportation and other programs. Sasse said the relative reduction in federal aid would likely affect this funding, which currently totals about $2 billion a year. That, Sasse said, could create “potential issues for the state budget.” Rhode Island’s current budget woes make the report more ominous. The state is already facing a $300 million budget

deﬁcit. The loss of federal grants was “one of the reasons (Gov. Don Carcieri ’65) this year had to propose changes to Medicare” and Medicaid, Sasse said. Jeff Neal, Carcieri’s press secretary, also pointed to Medicaid as an example of a program affected by declining federal aid. “Rhode Island will be receiving $35 million less in funding for Medicaid programs in the coming ﬁscal year than it did this year,” Neal said. “Either the state has to make that up, or those services cannot be paid for.” Neal, who said he had not read the RIPEC report, said while the state needs more revenue, raising taxes might not be a viable solution. “Rhode Island currently has the sixthhighest tax burden. There’s not a lot of see FEDERAL AID, page 4

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Budgets continued from page 1 Bojedla said she expects the cut to be “controversial,” but she stressed the reduction is not ﬁnal and encourages UCS to continue dialogue with UFB. She added that UFB has yet to “see why (UCS) should be treated differently than other student groups.” BCA’s budget increased in part because of a deal made between UFB and BCA last year. According to UFB’s budget reports, last year’s agreement “allowed for (UFB) to spend an additional $20,000 (earned by BCA) on student groups in a year where we would have had to cut funding severely without such help,” Bojedla said. “At the end of the year last year, (the $20,000 given to UFB by BCA) made a huge difference for UFB,” Bojedla said. “We decided to give it back to the BCA.” She also cited the “very successful” concerts BCA has had in recent years. Joe Posner ’07, the publicity director of BCA, said he is unsure how BCA will use the money next year. “Prices are always going up,” he said, adding that

the money probably reﬂected the rising cost of Spring Weekend and a reimbursement of the “loan” last year. Posner said he hopes to get more student input on how BCA plans concerts and uses the funds in the future. Watershed, an environmental and cultural journal for Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design, received an additional $2,000 per semester, according to Bojedla. Watershed wrote in its budget proposal, “Because we are no longer able to rely on the Center for Environmental Studies and the Creative Arts Council to supplement our printing, we nervously turn to UFB for a greater percentage of our printing costs than in the past.” Bojedla said UFB chose to support Watershed because “it is a high-quality publication.” The Brown Film Society received an increase in its budget as well — from $12,542 to $17,586 — because it “dramatically increased attendance” at its screenings, Bojedla said. The budget had been cut in previous years because of sparse attendance. Overall, Bojedla said “there weren’t many cuts at all” because of the increase in the student activities fee.

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Federal aid continued from page 3 room left to raise taxes,” he said, adding Carcieri plans to cut taxes to encourage economic growth. Neal said the state must instead “reduce the rate of growth in spending,” which has increased at a rate of 8.5 percent each year. State Rep. Edith Ajello, D-District 3, said Rhode Island’s federal representatives should work to get the state more funding from the federal government. “Our state senators — Senator (Jack) Reed (D-R.I.) and Senator (Lincoln) Chafee (’75, R-R.I.) and Representatives (Patrick) Kennedy (D-R.I.) and (Jim) Langevin (DR.I.) — are the ones most likely to

Slavery continued from page 1 cause of the paramount role rum played in the early economy of the colony. There were 22 rum distilleries in Newport in 1770, according to Campbell. Prosperity in colonial Rhode Island was generated primarily through trade with slave-based economies, not through the slave trade itself. Trading on a routine basis with the West Indies, one could make three voyages in the same time it would take to go to Africa and back, according to Stanley Lemons, professor of history at Rhode Island College. While the return was lower for these trips, it was almost guaranteed. “While the vast majority of merchants never engaged in the slave trade, they made their money trading with slave-based economies. Historians all agree that the economic development of New England would have gone a lot slower if it weren’t for trade with these slave economies,” he said. In addition to trade with slavebased economies in the West Indies, many farmers who were opposed to slavery still beneﬁted from a national market that sold products like horses, mules and corn in the South, according to Lemons. “It’s like the world economy today. The nature of economic systems is that you end up having to trade with people who do things you don’t like because they have stuff you want or need, or they’re your market,” he said. Though the Rhode Island General Assembly made it illegal for Rhode Islanders to be involved

be helpful,” she said. But she added the state will have to also “find alternate sources of funds,” though she said she does not know what those might be. Carcieri and RIPEC both support an amendment to the state constitution that would limit the annual rate of growth of state spending to the Consumer Price Index plus 1.5 percent as well as hold local property tax increases to 4 percent each year. According to an April 12 press release from Carcieri’s office, the “state government could have spent $543.8 million less in general revenue funds in (fiscal year) 2005 if state spending growth had been restrained by this constitutional amendment since (fiscal year) 1996.”

“Ultimately, we need to make Rhode Island affordable for Rhode Islanders,” Neal said, citing the amendment as a way to accomplish this. The General Assembly has held hearings on the amendment. According to a recent RIPEC survey, 72 percent of voters said they would vote for it. Sasse said “efforts to reduce federal domestic spending because of the federal budget deﬁcit” could further diminish the amount of federal aid that Rhode Island receives. He noted the diminishing New England population relative to that of the southern and western regions of the country could result in less political power at the federal level for Rhode Island and its neighbors, thereby resulting in less federal aid.

in the African slave trade in 1787 — ironically, passing the ﬁrst law of its kind in America — this ruling was ignored. Abolitionist Moses Brown ultimately pressed for his brother John to be prosecuted under the federal Slave Trade Act of 1794. At the time of the creation of Moses’ abolition society, John Brown wrote an angry letter to the Providence Gazette, complaining the society was “created not to ruin only one good citizen but to ruin many hundreds within the United States” who were involved in slavery or the slave trade. In 1800, John Brown voted against a bill in Congress to strengthen the same federal act under which he had been prosecuted. Moses Brown turned to textile manufacturing, only to be reminded by his brother that the cotton for his cloth would be harvested by slaves. Moses’ textile factory was also responsible for what was known at the time as “Negro cloth,” a cheap, coarse material sold to southern plantations for slave clothing, Campbell said.

Island’s implications in the slave trade are often skimmed over in history books, according to Morgan Grefe Ph.D. ’05, director of the Center for Education and Public Programs at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Members of the GRP have also created a traveling exhibit about the failed voyage of the Sally, which is currently touring libraries in Rhode Island and will be on permanent display in the gallery at the John Brown House. “(The Browns) were an extraordinary family in terms of their wealth and their position for hundreds of years — but at the same time, their stories are very much a part of the American story,” Grefe said. “If (we aren’t) studying things like slavery to understand the responsibility we have in making choices now, then why are we really studying it at all?” she asked. Grefe said one of her goals in educating children about slavery is to get them to think about the meaning of one person being so many different things — a lover of education, a supporter of the arts and a slave trader. The discussion about slavery is “a conversation most Americans don’t even know how to begin to have,” Campbell said. He stressed the need to look at America’s history “with new eyes — not regret for the past, which is inevitably self-congratulatory, but comparing it to issues in our own time.” “One hopes that the report is the beginning of a conversation, not an end,” he said. “This can’t be exhausted in a (series of presentations). What we’re trying to do is bring forward a set of questions, not a set of answers, (so that) debate will unfold on more historic ground.”

A mission to educate One of the committee’s primary focuses has been education, according to Campbell. In conjunction with the Choices Program at the Watson Institute for International Studies, members of a student Group Research Project overseen by Campbell have published “A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England,” a curriculum for Rhode Island elementary schools. Students usually study Rhode Island history in fourth or fifth grade, but the realities of Rhode

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Lawless pulls in more money, endorsements but still trails Langevin

U. employees on their own when paying parking tickets

Vice Chancellor Langlois ’64, actor Ben Savage among contributors

BY CAROLINE SILVERMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

On the cramped streets of College Hill, it is not unusual to see a car or vehicle in violation of parking regulations, whether double-parked or left in an illegal zone. For some University employees who must run several errands during a given day as part of their jobs, the neighborhood’s parking shortage can be particularly troubling. “Parking on the East Side is difﬁcult for every employee,” said Gretchen Willis, director of Dining Services. Willis added that employees sometimes need to move their own cars during the day to

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The University will not pay its employees’ parking tickets, even those received while driving a Brown-owned vehicle. avoid getting a ticket. Though Willis acknowledged that in some situations it might seem appropriate to have the University pay for parking tickets received when driving University vehicles, “if you pay one, it opens up the ﬂoodgates.” As a result, any Dining Services

employee who receives a parking ticket has to personally pay the fee. “We tell folks that we don’t have the ability to pay parking tickets,” Willis said. “It’s the University’s policy that we don’t pay them.” see TICKETS, page 6

Former slave tells story of modern-day bondage BY ANNE WOOTTON METRO EDITOR

Beatrice Fernando — who spent part of her life as a domestic slave in Beirut, Lebanon — told her story Monday night as part of ongoing programming organized by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Fernando was joined by Katherine Chon ’02, co-founder of the Polaris Project, a non-governmental organization that works to aid victims of human trafﬁcking and increase awareness of the issue. About 50 people came to the event in Smith-Buonanno 106. The U.S. government currently estimates that 800,000 human beings are trafﬁcked globally each year. Chon said one critical voice for the Polaris Project to hear is that of a survivor, since “not many people come to that point.” Fernando is one such survivor. Born in Sri Lanka, Fernando voluntarily traveled to Beirut when she was 23 years old under the pretense that she would be hired as a housemaid through an agency there. She was promised (but never received) 2,000 rupees — the equivalent of $20 — each month, an amount of money she said she had never even seen before.

Fernando said she felt she had to leave Sri Lanka because she had married young, had a baby, been separated from her husband and was living at home with her parents. There, she made the decision to sign up with the agency. “As a child, I learned to hide from pain, to ﬁnd comfort and solutions on my own,” Fernando said. She said she was taught not to share her problems with anyone else — not even her family — in order to maintain respect within her community. Fernando said this lack of awareness is what kept her from realizing she was the victim of crime and taking steps to speak out about her experience. “We shield ourselves from knowledge, rules and regulations, myths and superstitions,” Fernando said. “Twenty years I’ve been asleep.” Fernando worked for several families in Beirut, where she was usually fed leftovers, such as chicken bones, or nothing at all. She said she realized just how bad things were when the woman employing her beat her with a brush after she caught her crying one morning. The woman told Fernando if she ever caught her crying again, she would kill her. From then on, the woman fre-

quently beat Fernando’s head against a wall, locked her inside her fourth-ﬂoor apartment and told the guards outside to shoot Fernando if they caught her trying to escape. “I knew, today or tomorrow, the death is coming,” Fernando said. She even began to question God, whom Fernando said had often been her only source of solace. “I told him, ‘You show me a see FERNANDO, page 6

A year into her campaign to unseat Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Jennifer Lawless has gained momentum in fund raising, but she still trails the incumbent in polls and the overall money race. Lawless raised more money in the first quarter of 2006 than in any previous quarter, bringing in $44,000 between Jan. 1 and March 30, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Since she ﬁrst announced her campaign in April 2005, she has raised just over $124,000. Her campaign has spent $34,000 so far this year and has $86,000 in cash on hand, a boost from the $76,000 on hand at the end of 2005. “We are optimistic about our ﬁnancial numbers,” said Adam Deitch ’05, Lawless’s campaign manager. “Jen had a strong quarter to start off 2006.” But Lawless’s fund raising continues to trail that of Langevin, who she is challenging in the Democratic primary for the

2nd congressional district on Sept. 12. Langevin’s campaign brought in $84,000 in the ﬁrst quarter, bringing his total haul for the campaign to over $509,000. His campaign spent over $57,000 this quarter. Langevin has a three-to-one advantage in cash on hand, with almost $269,000 to Lawless’s $86,000. Langevin also led Lawless — 58 to 14 percent — in a February poll of likely Democratic primary voters conducted by Darrell West, professor of political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy. The poll question had a margin of error of 7 percent. “We’re right on target and things are right where we’d like them to be,” said Joy Fox, Langevin’s press secretary. But the Lawless campaign is hoping to close the fund-raising gap this spring and summer, bringing in help from a Washington, D.C.-based consultant, Ken Christensen. The campaign paid Christensen’s consulting ﬁrm a total of $13,500 in February for his services. “He spent almost a week see CAMPAIGNS, page 6

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Campaigns continued from page 5 with us over a month ago, going over a lot of issues pertaining to fund raising,” Deitch said, adding that he believes the consultation will help fund raising take off in the run-up to the September primary and, if she defeats Langevin, the November general election. “Jennifer Lawless will have the funds she needs to win in September and November,” Deitch said. Lawless got a boost in the ﬁrst quarter with an endorsement from the National Organization for Women Political Action Committee, which contributed $500 to her campaign. She was previously endorsed by three other organizations — the Women Under Forty PAC, the Women’s Campaign Fund and the National Women’s Political Caucus — and earlier this month was endorsed by the Business and Professional Women PAC. Lawless also garnered donations from Vice Chancellor Marie Langlois ’64, who contributed $500 to her campaign,

and “Boy Meets World” star Ben Savage, who has given a total of $500 this cycle. “Like many individuals across the state and country, Ben Savage believes Jen Lawless is the best candidate for this district,” said Deitch, who added that Lawless met Savage while she was a graduate student at Stanford University. The Lawless campaign also received $2,100 from the nowinactive 2004 Senate campaign of Blair Hull P’95 P’06, who gave Lawless the same amount last year. Hull’s previous donation was one of several that sparked ethical questions last fall after The Herald reported Hull’s daughter, Courtney Hull ’06, was having her senior honors thesis graded by Lawless and had also contributed to her campaign. Lawless returned the donations made by Courtney Hull and another thesis student, Nick Hartigan ’06, in October 2005. Earlier this year, she agreed not to accept contributions from her students or their parents. But Hull is no longer writing a thesis and “therefore, nothing is being graded or advised by Jennifer Lawless,” Hull wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

Deitch said the Lawless campaign has experienced an inﬂux of volunteers and interns from local colleges, though Brown students have made up “a relatively small percentage of volunteers and interns.” He said the full-time campaign staff will increase from its current number of four to about 20 this summer. “The campaign is moving into a phase where Jen and volunteers will be on the phone with voters and knocking on doors pretty constantly,” he said. “Jen’s campaign is going to be about individual conversations with voters.” Fox said the Langevin campaign is “humming along” and is considering ad buys and direct mailings in the near future. “We will continue to treat this race like any race and keep working to win the support of the voters in the 2nd congressional district,” Fox said. Lawless will campaign for the primary and, if she wins, the general election while teaching a full course load, Deitch said. “Jen will be fulﬁlling all of her duties as a professor at Brown, up through the primary in September and the general in November,” Deitch said.

Fernando continued from page 5 miracle! Until then, I won’t talk to you,’” she said. But nothing changed. Fernando finally made her escape when she leapt from the fourth floor balcony of the apartment one morning. She prayed to God again for the first time right before she jumped. “In case I died, I wanted God on my side,” Fernando said. “I said, ‘Father Lord, I don’t know if I am doing the right thing. If I’m not, please forgive me.’”

Tickets continued from page 5 Ann Hoffman, associate director of Dining Services, said the office doesn’t “condone illegal parking.” Other offices that require their employees to drive University vehicles during the day have similar policies in place. Facilities Management employees who receive parking tickets are “responsible to pay for it themselves,” said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president of Facilities Management. The drivers “are responsible while driving the vehicle,” he added. Fred Yattaw, manager of Mail Services, also said employees from his office that receive parking tickets will not be bailed out by the University. Maiorisi said he believes this policy “came from the (University) Controller’s Office,” adding, “I guess if it comes from the Controller’s Office that’s the University’s policy.” A representative from the Controller’s Office could not be reached for comment for this article.

Fernando was in a coma for 21 days. During that time, nurses and doctors at the hospital later told her, she frequently shouted things like, “She’s going to kill me,” which alerted them to her dangerous situation. After a brief recovery period, Fernando was sent home to Sri Lanka and ultimately came to the United States with a friend to start a new life here with her son. Fernando published a book about her experiences, titled “In Contempt of Fate,” in 2004, the same year she became involved with the American Anti-Slavery Group, which coordinates many of her talks nationwide today. “They gave me the platform to

Facilities Management has by far the largest number of vehicles on campus, operating a collection of 45 trucks and vans, according to Maiorisi. The ﬂeet of maintenance vehicles typically can be seen traveling across campus during the day. When not in use, the vehicles are parked in a lot at 295 Lloyd St. Mail Services has only one vehicle, while Dining Services has two. When Dining Services vehicles are not in use, employees can make use of three off-street parking spots behind the Sharpe Refectory. But because the vehicles travel frequently during the day, the parking arrangement can make for a “do-si-do” situation, Willis said. Willis said parking tickets are “sometimes” an issue for Dining Services employees, but this has only occurred “once or twice” within the past ﬁve years. Because employees pay their own parking tickets, Maiorisi said “we don’t really track” how many tickets are accumulated by Facilities Management drivers. If an employee received too many tickets, he said, it wouldn’t be seen as a problem unless the violations interfered with the employee’s driving capabilities.

be the voice,” Fernando said. Still, Fernando said she has never addressed the topic of her life as a slave with her own mother. “Building awareness is the way to go,” she said. Chon agreed, and saying though legislation can help increase the number of human traffickers prosecuted in the United States, it does not make a big enough difference by itself. “It doesn’t matter where, when or to who (slavery happens),” Fernando said. “You are my brothers, my sisters, my mothers, my fathers, my aunts and uncles. We are all connected in the human spirit. Yesterday is gone — we cannot go back and fix it. All we have is right now.” Chon said she was spurred to get involved in the fight against human trafficking when she was a student at Brown and read in the Providence Journal about six South Korean women who had been promised well-paying jobs and security in America but were ultimately forced into prostitution at a local massage parlor. In the last two years, the Polaris Project has provided support services to over 75 victims of human trafficking, whom Chon said have been mostly women and children used as sex slaves. She said 17,500 human beings are trafficked into the United States each year and that human trafficking is the largest growing criminal activity in the world. “This is something that is happening in our own neighborhoods, here in the U.S., and it’s something we need to be alerted to,” Chon said. In his introduction, James Campbell, associate professor of history and chair of the slavery and justice committee, commended Chon and Fernando. “There are ways in which we, too, live in a world in which there are gross injustices, including slavery,” he said. “These two people are amongst my heroes,” he said, not just because they are willing to lament the existence of slavery in today’s world, but because they are acting “in specific, concrete ways to end it.”

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POLICE LOG

Curious student escorted from roof of the Rock BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between April 7 and April 13. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, the PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St. Friday, April 7: 12:44 p.m. Complainant reported seeing graffiti on another student’s door in Jameson House. The student living in the room left at approximately 11:30 p.m. on April 6 and returned at approximately 12:30 a.m. on April 7 to find graffiti on the dry erase board on the door. Saturday, April 8: (No time specified.) Complainant reported that on April 7 she noticed a scratch running from the hood to the trunk of her car, which she had parked in Lot 58 at approximately 1 p.m. on April 3. There are no witnesses or suspects at this time. 2:44 a.m. A DPS officer reported a card access machine in Lot 68 sustained heavy damage. Facilities Management was notified. Sunday, April 9: 2:30 a.m. Complainant reported an unknown female assaulted her at an off-campus establishment on the corner of Thayer and Angell streets. Emergency Medical Services transported the complainant, who sustained minor injuries, to Rhode Island Hospital. 6:25 p.m. Complainant reported his Dell laptop was stolen from his room. A suspect was described as a white male with black hair in a ponytail. Officers searched the area for the

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suspect in vain. Monday, April 10: 5 p.m. Complainant reported that an Ethernet cord was stolen from a room in Wayland House sometime between 5 p.m. on April 7 and 9 a.m. on April 10. There are no suspects at this time. Tuesday, April 11: 2:58 p.m. Complainant reported that $100 was removed from a secured cabinet in Hillel House sometime between 4 p.m. on April 7 and 9 a.m. on April 10. There are no suspects at this time. Wednesday, April 12: 8:45 a.m. A custodian reported three windows left open in a classroom on the first floor of the Metcalf Research Laboratory on the evening of April 11. 10:45 p.m. Complainant reported that his laptop was missing from his friend’s residence on Williams Street. PPD detectives are investigating the incident. Thursday, April 13: 2:40 p.m. DPS officers responded to a report of a student on the roof of the Rockefeller Library. When officers reached the roof, they found the student, who said he accessed the roof out of curiosity, and escorted him from the area without incident. DPS asked Facilities Management to secure the roof hatch. 3:55 p.m. A DPS officer assisted the PPD with a multiple motor vehicle accident on College Street. No injuries were reported. Source: Department of Public Safety

Prosecution attacks Skilling as liar BY CARRIE JOHNSON WASHINGTON POST

HOUSTON — Telling former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling that “the most important thing the jury has to rely on is your word,” prosecutor Sean Berkowitz attacked Skilling’s credibility in six hours of crossexamination designed to cast him as a liar who made use of selective memory. Skilling, who developed a reputation for being intemperate during Enron’s heyday, maintained his composure Monday, although he sometimes talked over the prosecutor and suggested the jury see alternative documents. At one point Berkowitz interjected, “This’ll probably work a little better if we do this the way I want to do it, Mr. Skilling, OK?” Later, he cautioned Skilling not to make “speeches.” The primary focus of the government’s attack was not the maze of complex business partnerships for which Enron has become infamous but something far simpler: a $15 million stock sale by Skilling shortly after he left the Houston energy company. The sale occurred just three months before Enron filed for bankruptcy protection, costing thousands of employees their jobs and retirement savings. Skilling stands accused of 28 criminal charges, including insider-trading, fraud and conspiracy counts that could send him to prison for more than a decade if he is convicted. Skilling previously testified that he did not recall a Sept. 6, 2001, attempt to sell 200,000 shares of Enron stock, what prosecutors call his single biggest trade at the time. The trade was aborted for technical reasons, but shortly thereafter Skilling took steps that would give him clearance to sell without notifying company insiders about the details. He ultimately sold 500,000 shares Sept. 17, 2001. For the first time in the 12week-old case, prosecutors

played an audiotape of Skilling telling securities regulators in December 2001 that “there is no other reason other than Sept. 11 that I sold Enron,” adding, “Oh, I agonized over it.” Government lawyers reminded the jury Monday about his Sept. 6 attempt and implied he used the terror attacks as a cover story to unload stock before the public became aware of Enron’s mounting financial problems. Berkowitz also highlighted what he called an unusual pattern of sales by the Skilling family in 2000. Skilling’s former wife sold 225,000 shares in October 2000, reaping $14 million, and his then-girlfriend, Rebecca Carter, sold 21,000 Enron shares the following month, netting $1.65 million. Neither woman appeared in court Monday. Skilling said the sales were a coincidence. The exchange produced one of the more intense moments of cross-examination, which could consume most of the week. “In fact, I was talking to my brothers at the break and they said, ‘You didn’t tell us to sell,’ “ Skilling testified shortly after a 15-minute recess. Berkowitz pounced on the opportunity, asking Skilling to identify another person with whom he had conferred: jury consultant Reiko Hasuike, who presumably offered advice about how to better persuade the eight-woman, four-man jury. Several jurors looked at each other, then Hasuike, who has regularly visited in the courtroom since the case began, with surprise. Some of them continued casting glances at her as the day progressed. Skilling’s lead defense lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, tried to deflect the moment by consenting to Hasuike’s Web site being ad-

mitted as evidence, “assuming there’s no objection to my offering his jury consultant’s Web site.” Unlike Hasuike, prosecution consultant Jo Ellen Demetrius, best known for working with the defense in the O.J. Simpson criminal case, has appeared only once, Jan. 30, to assist prosecutors with jury selection. Berkowitz raised questions about Skilling’s memory, pointing out that he told securities regulators under oath in 2001 that he invested about $3,000 in an Internet start-up that did business with Enron. Skilling amended his answer Monday, saying he poured in about $60,000. The prosecutor followed up, showing jurors a total of $180,000 in checks that Skilling had invested in the venture, operated by a woman whom Skilling said he had once dated. Skilling testified he did not take the issue to the board, even though such a step might have been required under Enron’s conflict-of-interest policy. He said he thought he discussed the issue briefly with fellow defendant and former chairman Kenneth Lay, but that he had put nothing in writing. Prosecutors said, in all, the company did $450,000 worth of business with Enron, one of its three biggest customers. “I vaguely remember,” Skilling testified. “This was a relatively small investment, so I don’t know that I spent a lot of time on it.” Prosecutors spent more than two hours questioning Skilling about Enron’s troubled international assets, a pet project of Lay’s, who is likely to take the witness stand as early as next week. Government lawyers contend both men failed to tell investors about more than $5 billion in losses within the international divisions.

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Paleontologists report ﬁnding new meat-eating dinosaur BY GUY GUGLIOTTA WASHINGTON POST

Paleontologists digging in the arid Patagonian wilderness of Argentina Monday reported ﬁnding the remains of a meateating dinosaur as big as Tyrannosaurus rex and perhaps clever enough to bring down its prey by hunting in packs. Researchers said that by working together the dinosaurs may have been able to kill animals much bigger than themselves, including the 125-foot, 100-ton Argentinosaur, the plant-eating behemoth that may have been the largest land animal that ever lived. “Whatever they could cut out, they would go after,” said paleontologist Philip Currie, of Canada’s University of Alberta. “They were really bulky animals, but Argentinosaurs were even slower. You only have to be faster than whatever you’re chasing.” The new discovery, in Argentina’s southern Neuquen province, added fuel to an ongoing debate about the behavior of predatory dinosaurs that were themselves so large and unwieldy that some researchers have speculated the adults may have had to forsake hunting for scavenging. But Currie said the Argentine deposit had the remains of at least seven animals from 18 feet to 40 feet long, suggesting they may have been a herd or family in which different group members could provide either speed or strength. “It’s certainly an intriguing idea,” said paleontologist Peter Makovicky, of Chicago’s Field Museum. “The problem, though, is that when you have only one incidence you really don’t know what’s going on.” Also, added University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, it would be a mistake to dismiss the larger predators as muscle-bound plodders. “They weren’t ballet dancers, but they would have been something

to reckon with,” he said. “This wasn’t the body of a scavenger. These were active animals.” Reporting in the current issue of the French journal Geodiversitas, Currie and Rodolfo Coria, of the Museo Carmen Funes, in Plaza Huincul, Argentina, named the new animal Mapusaurus roseae, after the word for “Earth” in the language of Patagonia’s Mapuche Indians, and the first name — Rose — of the anonymous woman who funded the research. Currie said in a telephone interview that the researchers found hundreds of bones in a 100-ton sandstone deposit. Currie said the fossils were 100 million years old, and appeared to have been carried away by a flash flood. “The river was running very fast when they were buried in it,” Currie said. “It was a single event in a short amount of time.” Currie said the deposit did not contain the bones of any other species of dinosaur, a rare occurrence for meat-eaters. Currie said the Mapusaurs — similar to other Southern Hemisphere predators — were probably slightly bigger than T. rex, found only in the Northern Hemisphere. Although both animals were large, bulky “macropredators” that walked on their hind legs and used their teeth as their basic weapons, there were significant differences. “Maposaurs have long, thin skulls with knife-like teeth and jaws that can close very fast,” Currie said. “T. rex has a short skull with powerful, bananashaped teeth better for biting through bone.” T. rex was equipped to attack and destroy animals its own size, Currie said, but Mapusaurs perhaps could “go in, strike, pull and see what to do next,” a strategy that could work against larger animals, especially if the predators attacked together — the prehistoric equivalent of a pack of wolves cornering a bison.

Vodka, elixir of the masses BY JOSEPH TARTAKOVSKY LOS ANGELES TIMES

In fall 1977, the state vodka monopoly of the Polish People’s Republic filed suit in an international trade court claiming that vodka had first been distilled in Poland. For this reason, it argued, only Polish firms had the right to sell the clear alcohol in foreign markets under the name “vodka,” just as champagne produced outside France’s Champagne region usually must be labeled “sparkling wine.” An incredulous Soviet Ministry of Trade initially ignored this as a joke. Who doubted that vodka was as Russian as St. Basil’s Cathedral? But it was a particularly pernicious joke, touching the tender parts of the Russian soul, not to mention Warsaw Pact solidarity. The Soviet trade ministry grudgingly asked the Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR to investigate. When state archives revealed little about vodka’s Russian provenance, the task fell to a historian named William Pokhlebkin. After years of painstaking research, he concluded that vodka was probably first distilled in a Moscow monastery between 1440 and 1478, decades before its alleged appearance in Poland. Etymologically, vodka in Russian means “little water.” And because the average Russian guzzles a world-best 5.2 gallons per year, a little water has gone a long way in damaging the collective body politic. A few years ago, the Finnish physician directing the Russian office of the World Health Organization explained: “If you did this in Finland, half the population would be dead in a year. This is clearly not normal.” The Russian people dis-

Wireless continued from page 1 care sector and mobile workers, according to a fact sheet from the BIF. A second pilot program will be launched in two or three weeks in Newport, R.I., which will be used by the Rhode Island Port Security Project to provide Internet communications to ﬁrst

W. crew continued from page 12 niﬁcant distance between itself and its competitors at the start of every race. Despite holding a lead, and often a large one, in each race, the Bears still sprinted to the ﬁnish line at the end of the races. “We sprint at the end of every race, no matter where we are in relation to the other boats,” Reynolds said. “The sprint is part of every race … there is no shutting down.” The Bears displayed their strength by making quick work of their opponents in the varsity eight race, the top competition of the day. Bruno soundly defeated runner-up BU and broke

agreed. “It’s our way of life. How can we stop drinking with a climate like ours?” said one. From another: “Our people are willing to live in poverty, but if the government tries to make them stop drinking, it might lead to social unrest. Nobody can make us stop drinking.” Not that the powers didn’t try. In 1917, the Bolsheviks banned vodka and condemned drunkenness as a “social evil irreconcilable with the proletarian ideology,” perhaps because they believed, as Friedrich Engels had stated, that drinking was the bane of the working classes. It is probably closer to the truth to say that work was the bane of the drinking classes. No vocation without intoxication, cried the workers, and in 1924, the ban was reversed — an early instance of Soviet utopianism succumbing to Russian reality. It was downhill from there. Alcohol consumption rose through the decades, and not until the 1980s did the government try again to limit it. Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika included a “war on drunkenness.” Alcohol consumption began to decline. At the same time, there emerged unusual shortages of cologne, mouthwash and other alcoholcontaining substances, as well as sugar, which can be employed in home brewing. Ultimately, instead of defeating alcoholism, perestroika ended in history’s biggest hangover. So, as Lenin asked: “What is to be done?” Pokhlebkin was not only a historian but a Soviet patriot, and when his research was published as a book (“A History of Vodka”), he added a chapter lamenting what he saw as Russia’s descent into alcoholism. Drunkenness, he argued, is incompatible with socialist principles; it undermines worker morale and productivity. Some of his proposals were radical by Russian standards —

revoking the licenses of drunk drivers, encouraging people to attend clinics (Alcoholics Anonymous was banned under the Soviet Union) — but he did make one point that National Rifle Association members will recognize and all votaries of free will can endorse: Vodka doesn’t intoxicate people, people do. It follows that to avoid drunkenness, the people must simply drink properly. Today, working Russians have as much need as ever to know how Pokhlebkin’s principles might answer Lenin’s question. It might go something like this: A good proletarian doesn’t have a drinking problem, except when he can’t find a drink. Vodka, after all, is the oil that keeps Russia’s gears turning. Funerals, folk holidays and festivals all require it. The informed worker knows that vodka’s therapeutic merits far surpass those of the Soviet-Russian mental health system. Nor would he tempt fate by trekking out into the snow — best known for destroying invading armies — without a fortifying swig or three. This winter, during Moscow’s cold spell, one circus trainer served his elephant a bucket of vodka for warmth. The ungrateful pachyderm lost his sense of decorum and proceeded to destroy the circus’ only radiator. Russia is a land that has stumbled fatefully from Third Rome to Third International to Third World, and vodka has always been there to help things along. In 1982, the tribunal appointed to decide the matter of vodka’s origin ruled in the Soviet Union’s favor, affirming that genuine vodka was Russian — or Russian vodka was genuine, whichever it was. A happy conclusion, followed shortly by the fall of communism in Europe, to which we can always raise a glass and say, as they do in Russia, not without a touch of irony: Na zdarovye — “To your health!”

responders in Narragansett Bay. Funding for the project has come “from a variety of sources,” including private organizations and the state and federal governments, Panoff said. Though not for proﬁt, the ﬁnal network should be economically self-sustaining, he added. The network will be built on a WiMAX transport core with WiFi technology at the consumer interface edge, allowing for construction of fewer base stations

than a WiFi-only network would require but offering compatibility with most end-user devices, according to the BIF fact sheet. Rhode Island, besides being the smallest state in the union, also provides an excellent testing ground for the network because of its heterogeneous composition, which offers urban, suburban and rural environments in a relatively small geographical area, according to the BIF fact sheet.

seven minutes on the 2,000-meter course, finishing in 6:56.4. BU was timed at 7:08.7, while UMass and Texas finished in 7:12 and 7:16.5, respectively. The second varsity eight had an equally impressive outing. It finished first in 7:05.5, well ahead of the second-place Longhorns, who were left well behind with a time of 7:24.2. Brown’s dominance at the competition was reinforced when the team took the top two spots in the varsity four race. The B squad cruised in at 7:57.55, and the A team finished second in 8:12.67. BU came in nine seconds later to claim third. The novice eight race was a bit closer. Texas almost overtook the young Bears but eventually settled for a finish two seconds behind Brown.

According to Reynolds, Saturday’s races illustrated one of Brown’s best attributes — its depth. “The amount of depth we have was very apparent (at the races),” she said. “It was really impressive to ﬁeld so many boats.” Reynolds also praised the team’s success and attributed it to the Bears’ unity. “Everyone was cheering for each other and for all of our boats. (The camaraderie) speaks highly of the program,” she said. Next Saturday, Brown will head to Ithaca, N.Y., to take on host Cornell and Columbia. “They are both really fast,” Reynolds said. “(But) our team has been really working hard the past couple of weeks. … We’re looking forward to racing Cornell and Columbia.”

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After tight play early, w. lax blasted 17-8 by No. 12 Cornell BY TOM TRUDEAU SPORTS STAFF WRITER

At the start of the women’s lacrosse team’s match-up with No. 12 Cornell at Stevenson Field Saturday afternoon, it appeared the Bears would be able to keep up with their high-ranked guests. But the Big Red finally got going near the end of the first half with nine unanswered goals to end a 2-2 tie, overpowering the Bears for the rest of the afternoon to pick up a 17-8 victory. With the loss, the Bears fell to 1-2 in the Ivy League (4-7 overall). “I think we came out really strong and fired up,” said defenseman Lauren Vitkus ’09. “They called timeout (with the score tied at two) and we just lost our focus a little bit. We have to play for a whole 60 minutes.” Indeed, Brown ran with Cornell in the first half as if it had no idea it was playing the 12th-seeded team in the country. The game was scoreless until the 8:34 mark of the first half, when Cornell’s Allison Schindler gave the Big Red the 1-0 lead. Co-captain Kate Staley ’06 answered with a free position shot just over two minutes later to tie the score, and after Cornell re-took the lead, attackman Bethany Buzzell ’09 once again tied the score. After that, the contest turned into a

M. lax continued from page 12 quarter) we didn’t score, and we had been pretty steady answering them,” Nelson said. “We had a couple bad turnovers, and we only had three or four possessions against them in that quarter.” Though the Quakers had a firm grip on the momentum heading into the final 15 minutes, the Bears refused to go away. Buckley scored with 7:07 remaining, and Madeira followed with his second goal of the game just 51 seconds later to make the score 9-8. However, that would prove to be the final margin, as the Bears were unable to find that elusive tying goal. “We have great kids, and they wouldn’t give up,” Nelson said. “During that run (in the third quarter), we called time out

game of runs that came out in Cornell’s favor. Brown watched as the Big Red scored nine straight goals, falling behind 11-2 early in the second period. But Brown bounced back. First Vitkus capitalized on a free position shot to get things going. Then Amie Biros ’07, Mimi DeTolla ’08 and Staley each added goals of their own to bring both the Bears and the crowd back into the game, prompting Cornell to call a timeout. “We started to do the things that we concentrate on doing and we were able to pull together more,” DeTolla said. “We demanded that from each other because we realized the first half wasn’t characteristic of our team.” But Brown gave up a goal immediately following Cornell’s timeout. After Staley’s bid for a third goal clanked off the post, Cornell ran off three more goals to take a commanding 15-6 lead. Buzzell and Biros each added their second goals of the game to cut the lead to 15-8 with 4:10 left to play, but it was too little, too late. Cornell goaltender Maggie Fava made big saves down the stretch, and Brown’s offense struggled to penetrate, find cutters and find room to operate in the offensive zone. The Bears will try to bounce back Wednesday when they travel to New Haven, Conn., to take on Yale.

and said that we have to get back to basics, and we did. We even killed off two penalties in the fourth quarter, but we couldn’t get any shots in the last two minutes to tie it up.” “We wanted that game badly and almost got it but just ran out of time,” Buckley said. “At this point in the season it hasn’t been perfect, but every game we’re giving it our best effort, and we’re going to continue to do that.” Despite being winless in the Ancient Eight, the team has not given up on its season just yet. The Bears are eager for the next opportunity at their ﬁrst Ivy win, which comes Saturday at Stevenson Field against Dartmouth at 1 p.m. “I think we just need to keep working to get better,” Nelson said. “Our game against Dartmouth is a big game. It would be nice to get a big win and be part of (the Spring Weekend festivities).”

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16th place. Binghamton and URI took first and second at the tournament. Though the women’s team finished third of three teams at the Dartmouth Triangular — held at the Cape Cod Country Club in Hatchville, Mass. — their combined score of 642 was only three shots off of Harvard’s pace. Dartmouth finished second with a score of 640. Tiffany Wade ’08 had the tournament’s best individual score, shooting a 77 and a 75 for a two-day total of 152. Karin Freed ’09 placed eighth with rounds of 79 and 82. Both the men’s and women’s Ivy League Championships will be held this Saturday and Sunday at the Ballyowen Golf Club in Crystal Springs, N.J. —Charlie Vallely

slipped past the Bears’ solid defense, they ran into the wall of Deggelman, who stopped seven shots in the victory. Paige Lansing ’07 had three steals in the win, one on a particularly tricky play in which she ducked underwater and surfaced as the pass was thrown to intercept it. “It’s one of those plays we always goof around with at practice, but she actually pulled it

M. crew continued from page 12 lor ’09. “To totally spend yourself over 2,000 meters and to have such a worthy opponent take the sweat-soaked shirt off his back and put it in your hand … it’s amazing.” In the other races, the junior varsity eight fell by just

W. tennis upsets Columbia for ﬁrst Ivy win in dramatic fashion BY BART STEIN SPORTS STAFF WRITER

With the entire women’s tennis team anxiously looking on, Michelle Pautler ’07, ahead 5-4 in the third set of her match against Columbia University’s Lauren Shearer, settled in for her fifth match point. The match was crucial for the Bears because Pautler’s point presented an opportunity to break a 3-3 tie in the contest and propel the team to its first Ivy League win of the season. Ignoring the pressure of the situation, she did not disappoint. With Pautler at the net, her opponent tried to lob a shot over her. But Pautler connected on a shattering overhead to take the match 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 and secure the squad’s first victory. The win improved the Bears’ record to 5-11 on the season and 1-3 in Ivy League play. Bruno desperately needed the type of victory it attained on Saturday. The previous day, the Bears came out very flat against a beatable Cornell squad that was 1-2 in the conference. The Big Red rolled to a 5-2 win. The only two Bears to capture victories were Daisy Ames ’07, playing first singles, and Amanda Saiontz ’07, who had a dominating win at second singles. Saiontz came from behind to take her match by a score of 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. Against Columbia, however, it was the bottom of the lineup that carried the team to victory. After a sweep of the doubles draw gave the Bears a 1-0 lead, Saiontz and third singles player Ashley Pariser ’08 both fell in straight sets. Ames fought valiantly at first singles but eventually succumbed in a three-set tiebreaker, 0-6, 6-0, 6-7. Those three losses left Brown’s fourth, fifth and sixth singles players with the job of bringing home the win. Brett Finkelstein ’09 and Sara Mansur ’09, the dynamic first-year duo, each contributed dominating straight-set victories to pull Bruno even. With the score tied 3-3, all eyes turned to Pautler, who came through when needed at sixth singles. Pautler’s win was anything but easy. It was clear she was feeling the effects of two straight days of tennis, especially after not playing for months because of injury. “I was physically exhausted,” she said. “But I wasn’t going to let my team down. I

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Brett Finkelstein ’09 won in singles and in doubles with Daisy Ames ’07 as the women’s tennis team won its first Ivy League match against Columbia. tried to block those feelings out.” Head Coach Paul Wardlaw said he was impressed with Pautler’s performance in a tough situation for a player still easing her way back into competition. “To Michelle’s credit, she was very composed in such a pressure situation,” he said. “Michelle tends to be a fiery player with lots of emotion, but she remained calm. She did a great job.” Columbia boasted a 3-1 conference mark heading into the contest and was considered a very formidable opponent for the Bears. With the team’s three remaining matches against Dartmouth, No. 15 Harvard and Yale, Wardlaw hopes the win inspires the team to make a run at a winning record in the league. The Crimson is the league’s top team, and the Bulldogs are fourth. “I think there are a lot of monkeys being lifted off of people’s backs in this win,” Wardlaw said. “Sara and Brett got their first Ivy wins of the season, as did Michelle, and the team as a whole got its first Ivy victory. It should relax everyone as we head into the rest of the season.” The Bears will face Dartmouth at home on Friday at 3 p.m.

off,” Deggelman said. The win came after Gall put the team through a three-hour practice only an hour before. The practice gave the team a chance to go over ﬁlm from its game against Michigan the prior weekend, as well as get in a good pool workout. “We were really tired going into the game, so it was a good endurance test to help us prepare for our upcoming tournaments,” Blaxberg said. The Bears head to Cambridge, Mass., this weekend for the Northern Championships, pitting them

against two familiar foes — Hartwick College and Harvard University. Brown has faltered twice against Hartwick this season, 135 and 13-7, though the second game was considerably closer until the fourth quarter. Brown has a chance to beat the Crimson for an unprecedented fourth time this season, winning 3-2, 6-5 and 10-6 in earlier meetings. “I know we’re going to win (against Harvard),” Blaxberg said. “We’ve worked so hard all season.” According to Deggelman, playing their upcoming oppo-

over a second, 6:25.4 to 6:26.8. In the varsity four race, Brown’s boat ﬁnished third among three Northeastern entries. The team’s next race is against Dartmouth, a crew that has been decimated by graduation and injury and is currently the only Ivy outside the top 20. The real test for Brown will come the weekend after, when the crew travels to New Jersey for a race against Princeton.

“Last Saturday was one of the greatest days of my life,” said co-captain Ben Harrison ’07. “We now can look forward to Princeton in a couple of weeks with a lot of confidence after accounting for one of the toughest programs in the country.” Brown’s race against Dartmouth is scheduled for 3:15 p.m. Saturday on the Seekonk River.

nents many times in-season makes it easier in practices to pinpoint speciﬁc defenses and offenses that will be of use. “We can deﬁnitely win this tournament, and we really want to win our region (in two weeks at the Eastern Championships),” Bassalone said. “We’re going to take everything one step at a time.” The top two teams from the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championships, hosted by Brown April 29-30, will advance to the NCAA Championship Tournament.

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

Focused funding While some students requesting money for campus organizations have seen the Undergraduate Finance Board as a secretive barrier to fulfilling their various roles, the board has outdone the Undergraduate Council of Students at its own job — forwarding the interests of the student body. UFB’s move to cut UCS’s funding by 70 percent, thereby eliminating what UFB Chair Swathi Bojedla ’07 described as $6,000 in room set-up fees, moves beyond the often symbolic efforts advanced by UCS. The purpose of UFB is to distribute among student groups money raised by the student activities fee paid by each undergraduate. This ensures Brown’s campus is flush with organizations that serve and represent the diverse interests of the student body. UFB did well, then, to provide an additional $5,000 to the Brown Film Society, which has drawn more students to its events this year, and $20,000 more to the Brown Concert Agency, which provided part of its earnings from popular campus events to stave off budget cuts to other groups last year. These examples stand out as instances of student groups actively serving a broad range of students. UCS meetings, on the other hand, rarely seem to draw more than the council’s own members. To be sure, UCS’s proposed “J-term” and changes to the meal plan seem likely to come to fruition, and, if so, will benefit future students. UCS also accurately gauged students’ opinions on the plus/minus issue and successfully mobilized to voice their opposition. But representing students is about more than meeting with administrators and passing resolutions on issues over which UCS has little control, such as an end to the ban on postseason play for Ivy League football. At its worst, UCS has fallen into a litany of mishaps and misjudgments this semester, such as the production of $1,000 in botched midyear reports or the poorly constructed and publicized timetable for UCS elections. UCS has been beset with internal conflict as well, culminating in the serving of impeachment notices to most of the executive board during its March 1 meeting. As Bojedla told The Herald, UFB has yet to “see why (UCS) should be treated differently than other student groups.” Until UCS can command the same respect and interest from students that other groups have garnered, we see no reason why its budget should be raised from its new level. And, furthermore, we recommend that UCS follow UFB’s lead and expend its efforts on what is best for students, rather than grandstanding on less relevant issues.

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LETTERS Professor supports anti-war protesters To the Editor: The only thing more predictable than The Herald’s denunciation of antiwar protesters at Hillary Clinton’s speech on April 8 was your editorial’s (“A step backward,” April 10) silence regarding the actual political substance of what the protesters were doing and saying. Are there any circumstances in which you would support the disruption of a public appearance by a wealthy, powerful politician who acquiesced to a genocidal war based on lies and imperialist arrogance? Do you have anything at all to say about the content of the heckler’s question: “Is it leadership to support the war?” Your claim that the an-

tiwar cause was “severely diminished” simply because a group of activists were willing to interrupt the polite decorum of a campus event and speak truth to power isn’t credible to me. To those who protested last Saturday night, I say “congratulations and solidarity!”

William Keach Professor of English April 10

Dept. of History ‘exodus’ misrepresented To the Editor: I would like to apologize to the Department of History for my words in yesterday’s article (“History dept. attempts to cope with high turnover,” April 17) about faculty attrition. My words were taken out of context. I was under the impression that several faculty members were engaged in a mass exodus, when in fact only two professors are leaving. And, as Professor of History Timothy Harris said in the article, their departures are coincidental. The article itself is much ado about a non-issue. I should have taken a closer look at what actually was happening instead of just talking about a situation about which I was uninformed. In fact, every single history professor who has

taught me has been great — even amazing. I would eagerly recommend to anyone every professor that I have taken a course with so far. What I hoped to convey was that when a student takes a class with a new professor, he or she goes in blind. Because some familiar names are leaving, it is very hard to know what the new professor and the class are going to be like. However, from what I’ve heard, all the new professors are great instructors. My uncertainty was unfounded.

David Beyer ’07.5 April 17

CO R R E C T I O N A review in yesterday’s Herald (“PW’s ‘Salome’ modernizes Oscar Wilde’s classic play,” April 17) misidentified the director of “Salome” as Mustafa Sardini. The director’s name is Mustafa Samdani GS.

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It takes a village... to alienate a child A study reveals that paranoid children in Berkeley grow up to be conservatives — how can politicians capitalize? BY TREVOR GLEASON OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Jack Block, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, recently published a study that traced long-term personality traits. Conducting this study over the course of several decades, Block only recently decided to include a few questions relating to political identification. The results are enough to send even the most iron-skinned Republican into defensive paroxysms — children who had been whiny, paranoid and annoying toddlers had this nasty little tendency to turn into conservatives. Meanwhile, selfreliant and happy children were likely to become liberals. And, though the articles I’ve seen on the study don’t mention it, I’d imagine that members of the Green party were those children who simply ate too much paste. To be fair, baby conservatives growing up in Berkeley, Calif., who feel that the world is working against them may be justified in their paranoia. If there’s a place where four-year-olds would be alienated for their belief in low taxes, limited government and preventing Tinky-Winky from ever being able to adopt, it’s Berkeley. Still, maybe we can gain something from this study besides the speculative jokes about Rush Limbaugh’s bad childhood. Conventional wisdom has long accepted that teenagers go through a rebel-

lious phase, but imagine if our childhood dictated our deepest political beliefs. For all of the ideological sparring that takes place on campus, individuals are rarely swayed from their original perspective, be it conservative or liberal. Maybe this isn’t so much a matter of stubbornness

bution, but surely you’d see exactly the opposite in more conservative locales. Some poor Texas youngster who spends his or her formative years feeling massively alienated might sensibly return the favor by, say, joining a commune and becoming a vegetarian. In some bizarre

If there’s a place where four-yearolds would be alienated for their belief in low taxes, limited government and preventing Tinky-Winky from ever being able to adopt, it’s Berkeley. or poor persuasive abilities but rather the fact that we’ve been locked into our political paradigms by how pampered we were while in diapers. Still, this one study doesn’t give us the whole picture. It makes some amount of intuitive sense that kids who feel disenfranchised in Berkeley might end up becoming arch-conservatives out of retri-

compromise between nature and nurture, nature chooses our playing field but nurture ultimately decides which team we end up playing for. Suddenly, politicians have an incentive to keep their supporters’ kids content while simultaneously making sure their enemies’ children lead miserable lives. Before, politicians usually depended on making sure

their supporters got pork barrel kickbacks, but now they have a whole other side of the spectrum to play — actively interfering in the affairs of their opponents to make sure their children wind up switching teams. Want to maintain a Republican stronghold for decades to come? Find a way to shorten the school day and eliminate the dreaded concept of “time-out.” Hand out gold stars to children who make crayon drawings of oil rigs and Jesus. Looking to enact the eventual demise of the opposition party? Put itching powder in all the clothes at Gap Kids and pass a law requiring all public schools to serve lunches composed of meatloaf so as to foil would-be vegetarians. The beauty of this, of course, is that the children’s anger will be directed at their parents. Even though it is the government that’s really out to get them, think about it — most adults can’t reliably make that distinction. Children, having no one else to thank or blame, are bound to target Mom and Dad. Just try to find a better explanation for how No Child Left Behind is being implemented. All I’m saying is that 10 or 15 years down the road, when an entire generation mysteriously turns out to be nearly wholly Republican, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Trevor Gleason ’07 knows it’s not really paranoia if everyone actually is out to get you.

Revolution spreads to Peru Peru’s runoff pits Garcia against Humala, a “face-off between two phenomena ... sweeping Latin America” BY MICHAL ZAPENDOWSKI OPINIONS COLUMNIST

The protagonist of our story, Lt. Colonel Ollanta Humala, was born in 1963 in Ayachuco, a city lodged in the Andes symbolically halfway between Peru’s capital, Lima, with its affluent upper class and its teeming slums, and the old capital of the Incan Empire, Cusco. Like Evo Morales, who ran a successful campaign to become head of state in neighboring Bolivia, Humala is a politician who rose out of nowhere to rally the impoverished indigenous masses of his country. Most Latin American countries have relatively homogeneous, Spanish-speaking mestizo populations. But in the more indigenous countries, like Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru, politics is a battle between the Spanish-speaking and the indigenous society, an unresolved conflict that has been going on since the first conquistador debarked in the Americas. Humala first entered history in 2000, when he led a failed military uprising in the Andes against the corrupt, authoritarian neo-liberal government of Japanese-Peruvian businessman Alberto Fujimori, currently rotting in a Chilean jail. The uprising failed and Humala was arrested but later amnestied by his nation’s parliament once the political situation had changed. Humala, like the governing lieutenant colonel in nearby Venezuela (Hugo Chávez), combines revolutionary socio-economic rhetoric with militant nationalism. He promises, among other things, to throw out foreign companies from Peru and nationalize the country’s mines, an industry that has long been a bastion of de facto slavery. Chávez, who has drawn international attention for his

outspoken assaults on U.S. authority in the region (nicknaming the inhabitant of the White House alternatively “Hitler Danger Bush,” “Señor Danger” and “the greatest terrorist in the world”), has strongly endorsed Humala’s campaign. In the first round of the election, the insurgent colonel faced down two opponents, both of whom were seasoned politicians who had already staked out their electorates: Lourdes Flores, a conservative Catholic close to Peru’s upper class, and Alan Garcia, a social democrat in the style of President Lula in neighboring

elected in neighboring Chile. One must also stand for change, and Flores’ close ties to the Peruvian business community undermined this, despite her efforts to expand her electorate by swapping her conservative attire for a shirt and blue jeans and paying visits to the slums of Lima. Under the recent string of neoliberal governments, Peru has achieved a remarkable rate of economic growth (6.7 percent), but this has remained isolated in the most developed sections of the country and has not changed the desperate situation of the majority of

The United States has seen its “big stick” in Latin America evaporate as democracy has swept the region. Brazil who had become Peru’s youngest president 20 years ago only to have his administration overwhelmed by internal guerrilla violence and disastrous hyperinflation. Early exit polls from more developed parts of the country predicted a tight run-off between Humala and Flores, but when the votes from the eastern mountain regions started to come in, Humala’s lead expanded (31 percent), and Garcia narrowly edged out Flores (24 percent to 23 percent) to face Humala in the runoff . Flores’ defeat shows it’s not enough to be a woman to inspire the impoverished Latin American masses desperate for change, as Michelle Bachelet had successfully done when she was recently

Peru’s population who live beneath the poverty line. Flores’ voters are more likely to stay at home than to choose between the disastrous record of Garcia and the revolutionary specter of Humala, who in their eyes is “Señor Danger.” This means the second round of Peru’s election is going to be a direct face-off between two phenomena that have been recently sweeping Latin America: the nationalist-indigenous radical left that has taken power in Venezuela and Bolivia, and the centre-left style of government that has taken power in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and, though not officially until later this year, in Mexico. The Peruvian election has got every-

thing backwards, as it proceeds from the general election, in which the left overwhelmingly defeated the right, to the primary between two leftist candidates. Humala’s campaign poses a bold thesis. In Peru, “independence has come, but… the unknown men and women of color, their sons and daughters with their empty stomachs, the youth and students with no prospects for the future, the workers with no end to their workweek, the quechuas, the aymaras, the ashkanikas ... the invisible, the Peruvians, are still waiting for their independence. Refounding our Republic is a historical necessity.” Ex-President Garcia is going to have a hard time stopping this political steamroller. If the experience of Chavez in neighboring Venezuela is a valid precedent, a United States that has seen its “big stick” in Latin America evaporate as democracy has swept the region is about to see its hemispheric hegemony rolled back a little further. The previous Peruvian government was close to the White House, and North American taxpayers spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to eradicate the coca crop Humala promises to legalize. And if the experience of the neighboring Venezuelan revolution is a valid precedent, the middle and upper classes of Peru are about to get a dose of the same type of exclusion and “invisibility” that the rest of their nation has suffered for generations. Revolutions are rarely kind to those who oppose them, and as another American leader once remarked, sometimes “you’re either with us or you’re against us.”

Michal Zapendowski ’07 is with them, even though his gringo ass has a laptop.

SPORTS TUESDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · APRIL 18, 2006 · PAGE 12

Brown crews cruise, both now in top 10 No. 7 Northeastern no match for 4th-ranked men BY STEELE WEST SPORTS STAFF WRITER

No. 4 men’s varsity crew comfortably defeated No. 7 Northeastern University, and Brown’s freshman boat tasted its first collegiate success on the Charles River in Boston Saturday morning. The ease of the varsity eight’s win for the Dreissigacker Cup, given to the winner of the Northeastern-Brown race, provides strong justification for the U.S. Collegiate Rowing Poll’s ranking of the surging program. With the dismal performance of the United States Naval Academy against Syracuse University in an embarrassing 11-second loss this weekend, it appears that the title race in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges has narrowed to No. 1 Princeton, Brown and a Harvard crew down on confidence and out of form after its first loss in three years to Brown last weekend. The varsity race was all but over by the 1,000-meter mark, as the Huskies trailed by open water. Despite Northeastern’s fight to show why it is a top-10 crew, the second half of the 2,000 meters was purely academic. The Bears passed the finish line in 6:02.7, over six seconds ahead of Northeastern, to give Head Coach Paul Cooke his first win over Northeastern since he took over as head coach in 2001. “Last week was both physically and emotionally draining, so to back it up like this was incredible,” he said. “(Northeast-

ern’s boats) are one of the best crews in the country, so this win is very important to us.” The freshman boat settled into its pace quickly, determined not to become one of the few freshman boats in Brown’s history to lose its first two races. The Bears led the entire race, and while never shaking the Huskies, they were never in serious danger en route to picking up their first dual win and their first betting shirt, which the losing boat traditionally hands over to the winners after a dual race. “It is such a rewarding feeling to win a shirt,” said Armen Taysee M. CREW, page 9

Golf squads prep for Ivy League Championships The men’s and women’s golf teams both had their ﬁnal tuneups for the Ivy League Championships over the weekend, but their events were of a different

BY MADELEINE MARECKI SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s crew team continued a strong start to its season Saturday with a dominant performance amid perfect conditions in Boston. On a busy day with numerous other races taking place on the Charles River, the Bears squared off with Boston University, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Texas at Austin. Bruno swept all ﬁve races with impressive margins of victory, highlighted by the varsity eight’s 12-second victory over runner-up BU.

The varsity eight boat, which is ranked 10th in the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association/U.S. Rowing national rankings poll, improved to 5-2 with the win. The second varsity eight remained undefeated, and the novice eight is now 6-1. Entering the meet as the favorites, the Bears took nothing for granted. Brown took charge from the outset of the race, according to Katie Reynolds ’06. The team used its strategy of “going out hard and ﬁnishing harder” in each of its races. Bruno built a sigsee W. CREW, page 8

BY AMY EHRHART SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s water polo team bashed Connecticut College 144 on Saturday to improve to 1115 overall heading into its last two weekends. Brown led from the start, jumping to a 3-0 firstquarter lead and a 5-1 halftime lead on two second-quarter goals from Alexis Blaxberg ’08, who had a team-high four on the day. One of those goals came on a four-meter penalty shot that she easily put away. She also drew three ejections. Blaxberg said match-ups played a part in her scoring outburst. “(Head Coach Jason Gall) expects scoring from everyone, but it can all depend on who ends up guarding you,” she said. “Everyone got good experience, and we did all the little things well.” “It was fun to see Alexis do well, she had some good moves,” said goalie Anne Deggelman ’08. Co-captain Liz Balassone ’07 punched in three goals and drew two ejections, and Kristin Cuthbertson ’09 and Emily Schwartz ’08 chipped in with two goals apiece. “A lot of different people got to play, which was good,” Balassone said. “And it’s usually a pretty solid win against (Connecticut College).” The few times the Camels

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Alexis Blaxberg ’08 (10) had four goals and drew three ejections in the women’s water polo team’s 14-4 win.

Brown in brief: gymnasts at nationals, golfers in Ivy prep Anderson ’09, Smith ’06 shine at USAG Nationals Five members of the gymnastics team competed at the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Nationals in Ithaca, N.Y., over the weekend, bringing their seasons to a close. Brittany Anderson ’09 gave the Bears’ best individual performance, posting a score of 37.1 and ﬁnishing 14th out of 106 competitors. Anderson’s best event was the vault, in which she notched a score of 9.525 that was good for 11th place. Amber Smith ’06 posted the best score in a single event, earning a 9.55 on the beam to place 12th. Her overall score of 35.225, the Bears’ second-best performance, earned her 21st place. Sarah Durning ’08, Sarah Cavett ’06 and Jessica Pouchet ’06 also competed at the tournament. Jessica McNell ’06, who qualiﬁed, did not participate.

No. 10 women sweep ﬁve matches in Boston

W. water polo thrashes Conn. College after 3-hr. practice

magnitude. While the women fell to a pair of familiar foes, Harvard and Dartmouth, the men competed against 15 of the best squads in the region at the Division I New England Championship. The men took fifth at the event — held at Triggs Memorial Golf Course in Providence on Friday and Saturday — with a team score of 598. The Bears also placed second among the four Ivy League schools in the field, finishing one stroke behind Yale and 13 strokes ahead of both Harvard and Dartmouth. Larry Haertel ’08 led the Bears with a two-day score of 145 and placed fifth in the individual standings. After shooting a 76 on Friday, Haertel shot a threeunder 69 on Saturday. Haertel finished four strokes behind the leaders — Jeff Woniewicz of Bighamton University and Ben Spitz of the University of Rhode Island, who won in a tiebreaker. Danny Wallis ’06 shot an opening round 70 but followed it up with a 77 to give him a final score of 147 and a share of 11th place. Conor Malloy ’09 took one more stroke and finished in see BRIEFS, page 9

see W. POLO, page 9

Almost there: m. lacrosse nearly topples No. 7 UPenn, falls 9-8 Squad still seeking ﬁrst Ivy win after 4th-quarter comeback falls short BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s lacrosse team suffered its sixth straight defeat Saturday, dropping a tough 9-8 decision at the No. 7 University of Pennsylvania to fall to 0-3 in the Ivy League (2-8 overall). Had it not been for a disappointing third quarter in which Brown was outscored 5-0, the outcome might have been different. “We had a bad spurt in the third quarter but our guys played well,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. “Again, we struggled on the faceoffs, so (Penn) had the ball a lot more than us. Still, this was a game within our reach.” The Bears knew they would have to come out sharp to have any chance at an upset win, and for the first 30 minutes they hardly looked like a team in the midst of a five-game losing streak. Midfielder and co-captain Will McGettigan ’06 paced the visitors with two first-quarter goals. Along with additional tallies from midfielder Jeff Hall ’08, attackmen Dave Madeira ’07 and Tyler Gaffney ’07, and defenseman Pat Ryan ’07, Bruno was able to hold a 6-4 lead at halftime. “We had the ball a good amount, and we shot well. Those two things right there are the key to offense,” said attackman Alex Buckley ’07. “We were more patient with the ball, and I think we had it a little more.” But, as the case has been several times this season, Brown was unable to maintain its strong effort from the first half in the second. Penn roared back from its two-goal deficit with a dom-

inating third quarter and led 9-6 heading into the fourth. “We played very well defensively, except for that spurt in the third quarter, and (in the third see M. LAX, page 9

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Will McGettigan ’06 had two goals in a loss to the University of Pennsylvania.