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University Hall construction records show U.’s nuanced ties to slavery

BY ANNE WOOTTON METRO EDITOR

Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons BROWN this spring, it is unclear CONFRONTS when the report will be SLAVERY submitted or whether it will be released pubThird in a licly before summer. In series this, the third in a series on the committee and its work, The Herald examines the role of slavery in the construction of University Hall.

Framed documents line the hallway just north of President Ruth Simmons’ office in University Hall. They are reproductions of pages from the account book of Nicholas Brown and Company, which oversaw the construction of the first building on College Hill to house the University. The pages list expenses paid by the University for everything from

lumber to wages.

The record for June 1, 1770, written in meticulous, spindly script, makes note of this expense: “Paid Henry Paget, Esq. for 12 ½ Days Work of his Negro Pero.”

There are more. One of the records framed on the wall, from May 25 of the same year, reads, “To 12 days work of Earle’s Negro.” And the record for February 8, 1771, includes the entry, “To 10 Days work of Mary Young’s Negro Man.” James Campbell, associate professor of history and chair of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, calls it “history hiding in plain sight.” A 2001 report released by the University’s News Service acknowledged that Nicholas Brown and Company “apparently utilized some slave labor” in the construction of University Hall.

“Pero is a Negro. And not only that, but he’s not getting his own money. Henry Paget is getting money that would have gone to Pero,” said Robert Emlen, see SLAVERY, page 4

AURELIUS IN SPRING

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Motivations include serving their country, blowing stuff up

BY KRISTINA KELLEHER STAFF WRITER

During this year’s Commencement exercises, three members of the graduating class of 2006 will wear United States Marine Corps uniforms along FEATURE with their traditional caps and gowns. Immediately following Commencement, these three graduates will be commissioned as officers in the USMC. These students have spent the past few summers at Officer Candidates School as part of the Platoon Leader Class. After graduation, as their classmates embark see USMC, page 6 Editorial: 401.351.3372 Business: 401.351.3260

Simmons, Cicilline ’83 welcome prospective first-years

BY CHLOE LUTTS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Warm spring weather greeted the over 900 prospective students and nearly 700 parents who came to campus for A Day On College Hill.

Five Brunonians set to join Marine Corps

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Construction records contain evidence that both slaves and free blacks helped construct University Hall in the 18th century. Since then, the inside of the building has been gutted, but the original brick shell remains.

An array of speakers including Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and President Ruth Simmons kicked off A Day On College Hill by welcoming prospective students and their parents last night in Salomon 101. The program, largely designed to highlight Brown’s unique attributes for those in attendance, also included remarks from Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 — who referred to the class of 2010 as “one of, if not the single best class in the history of Brown” — and a video presenting portrayals of Brown in popular culture.

ADOCH co-coordinators Joshua Livingstone ’08 and Julen Harris ’08 congratulated the approximately 600 students in attendance on their acceptance and acknowledged the futility of conveying what Livingstone termed Brown’s “awesomeness” in a five-minute speech.

Livingstone and Harris encouraged ev-

UCS and UFB candidates outline platforms during debates

eryone to immerse themselves in the Brown community and make the most of their 24-hour ADOCH experience.

Harris introduced Simmons as “the most respected and loved person on this campus.” Prospective students who introduced themselves to, took pictures with and even hugged Simmons before the program promised the class of 2010 will carry on this adoration. After asking those standing in the back of Salomon 101 to find a seat, Simmons told students “how extraordinary it is to be your age and to have so many choices.”

“We are honored that you even thought about Brown as an option for your college education,” Simmons said.

“You are the smartest, the cutest, the savviest, the most cosmopolitan, the most extraordinary — I could go on and on. You are the best,” she told the audience. Simmons congratulated Miller on completing his job under immense pressee SPEECHES, page 4

SET IN STONE

McCracken ’08 running unopposed for UFB chair

BY SIMMI AUJLA SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Candidates for positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board proposed improvements and commented on ways to strengthen both bodies’ student outreach during a series of debates held last night in Wilson 302. Candidates were given three minutes to deliver opening statements.

They also fielded questions from their opponents and audience members before delivering closing statements. Elections will begin April 23, and students will be able to vote on WebCT.

duced the candidates for UCS president: UCS At-large Representative John Gillis ’07, Arthur Kim ’08 and UCS Vice President Zachary Townsend ’08.

In his opening speech, Gillis said he wants to heighten student awareness of UCS and eliminate a perceived “rift” between students and the council. UCS should “come to students on their own ground,” Gillis said. Regarding potential initiatives, Gillis said he hopes to make Brown more environmentally friendly and to institute universal card access for Brown IDs. Kim, who said he wants to “bring a new voice to the table,” cited several changes he would try to implement if elected, in-

UCS president Moderator Don Trella ’07 first intro195 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island

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The Brown Bear took time off from greeting prospective members of the class of 2010 to share a moment with his copper counterpart.

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “THE STATE AND DEVELOPMENT” 4 p.m. (Watson Institute) — Development studies sponsors a multidisciplinary panel on the role of the state in the developing world.

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT ARTHUR O. WILLIAMS LECTURE 4:30 p.m. (Barus & Holley 168) — Paul Grannis, a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will speak about exploring the micro world of forces and particles.

TRIPLE HELIX JOURNAL KICKOFF EVENT 5 p.m. (Bio-Med Center 202) — Professor of Geological Sciences James Head will speak about his famous Mars exploration and unveil the very first issue of the Triple Helix Journal.

DIALOGUE BETWEEN PUERTO RICAN MAINLANDERS AND ISLANDERS 6 p.m. (Third World Center) — This event provides a medium for students to discuss issues that have been part of the Puerto Rican community.

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Yale elections marred by irregularities

BY JEAN YVES CHAINON STAFF WRITER

This year’s race for president of Yale University’s College Council was marred by multiple campaign violations and incidents of ethical misconduct.

All five candidates running for president were cited for campaign violations, according to an April 11 Yale Daily News article. One candidate illegally sent spam e-mails to 600 students, while another put up a campaign Web site too early. Runner-up Larry Wise, a sophomore, faced the most serious citations, allegedly sending spam e-mails and unethically setting up voting stations on laptop computers outside a dining hall.

Even Emery Choi, the junior who won the race last week after a run-off election, was cited along with other candidates for an advertisement violation that involved improper use of the online networking Web site Facebook.com.

But outgoing YCC Vice President Marissa Brittenham, a junior, said there was nothing unusual about this year’s race.

“There were just as many violations as in past years,” Brittenham told The Herald, adding that the troubles during the campaign were only “indicative that the Election Committee really stepped up and called violations they didn’t in the past.”

Though Brittenham said the guidelines are “almost impossible to follow to the letter,” the Elections Committee and the YCC have no intentions of changing them in the future.

“We’re not going to make the guidelines any less strict,” she said, pointing out that most of the violations were relatively minor and involved only illegal advertising and spam e-mails. But she added that the

committee will continue to enforce “the penalties and guidelines aimed at leveling the playing field.”

Brittenham said there is little chance that the candidates will be any less fierce in their campaigning methods in the future. “It’s such a competitive race,” she said. “It’s a very interesting position to hold on campus.”

In an April 15 article, the Yale Daily News reported the candidates’ debacles with campaign regulations may have affected the election’s outcome. One student said the penalties the Election Committee placed on Wise, whose campaigning privileges were severely restricted on the day before the run-off election, hindered the sophomore’s chances.

But Brittenham said the citations had little or no impact on the results of the race.

“The reason Emery won was because he had the support of two other candidates” during the run-off election, she said.

This series of violations is particularly noteworthy given that Yale nourishes a tradition of producing high-profile politicians. Since 1972, a Yale alum has participated in every presidential or vice-presidential race at the national level. Four presidential candidates in 2004 — President George W. Bush, Sen. John Kerry, DMass., Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean — graduated from Yale, while former President Bill Clinton graduated from Yale Law School.

Yet the correlation between the YCC’s campaign troubles and potential future presidential candidates may be farfetched. As Wise told The Herald, there is slim chance that any of the people involved in this year’s YCC election will ever be involved in any major political campaigns in the future.

College Roundup Professor put on leave after abortion controversy A professor at Northern Kentucky University was put on leave after admitting she encouraged students to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus.

Sally Jacobsen, a professor of literature and language, will not return to the school and will retire at the end of the semester, the Associated Press reported.

According to the AP, Jacobsen acknowledged that, on April 12, she led graduate students to rip up 400 crosses that were supposed to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses. A group called Northern Right to Life had set up the display a week earlier.

Katie Walker, a representative of the group, told the AP she hopes those who destroyed the crosses will be prosecuted.

“I just hope they’re held accountable for their actions,” Walker said.

University of Michigan ends Coke boycott The University of Michigan announced last week it will end its boycott of Coca-Cola products, following the soft drink giant’s announcement that it plans to investigate its labor and environmental practices in Colombia and India.

The Associated Press reported that Michigan, in conjunction with at least 12 other schools including New York University, stopped purchasing Coke products Jan 1. after labor groups in Colombia accused Coke of conspiring with paramilitary groups to intimidate and harm workers at the company’s plants. Coke is now supporting an investigation of its plants led by the International Labor Organization,

a United Nations agency.

In a letter to Michigan, Coke officials wrote that the company is also in talks with a non-profit organization to examine practices in India, the AP reported.

CalTech hacked Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology successfully pulled a prank on the California Institute of Technology, stealing a 1.7-ton cannon from CalTech’s Pasadena, Calif., campus and transporting it 3,000 miles across the country to MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Mass.

In a press release on the Web site mitcannon.com, a group identifying itself as Howe & Ser Moving Company took credit for the prank, or hack, as it is called at MIT. The pranksters remained anonymous, as is MIT tradition, but a person identifying himself as “Tim Howe” told MIT’s student newspaper, the Tech, that 10 people traveled to California to steal the Fleming Cannon at 5:30 a.m. on March 28. But Howe would not reveal to the Tech how the prank was performed.

The cannon appeared on the MIT campus April 6. On April 10, 23 CalTech students from Fleming House, which owns the cannon, and seven CalTech alums arrived at MIT and, after much manual labor, put the cannon on a flatbed truck for its return to California. Showing that the prank was received in good humor, the Fleming House students left a miniature version of the cannon at MIT, and MIT students invited the visitors to a barbeque after the cannon’s retrieval.

—Stu Woo

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Slavery continued from page 1 Univerity curator and professor of American civilization. Emlen pointed out that the records do not necessarily implicate Nicholas Brown as a slaveowner — “it’s about him just handling the money for the college.”

A record from February 21, 1771, is less easy to decipher: “To Martha Smith, bill for 8 ½ Days Work of Abraham.” And on July 10, 1770, there is a record of an expense “To paid Mingow Negro.”

Not only is the race of the laborers sometimes unclear in the records, there are instances both of blacks being paid directly for their labor and of blacks whose wages were collected by others.

“Some of the people of color get paid their own money, and some of them don’t,” Emlen said.

He thinks this is evidence that there were free blacks working side-by-side with slaves.

A nuanced past Despite this ambiguity, there is one consistency throughout the records.

“The word slave is never used.

Ever used,” Emlen said, adding that “servant,” a popular synonym for “slave” at the time, is also absent from the pages of the account book.

“I have this mental picture of free guys and slave guys working side by side, along with these Irish guys who are shoveling sand and lugging lumber up to the fourth floor — and everybody sitting down having coffee,” Emlen said.

“It just is almost unbelievable for us to picture, but that’s the kind of inference you get from these records.”

Emlen said he has found evidence of at least three slaves who worked on the construction of University Hall. There may have been as many as four, if Martha Smith’s Abraham was indeed a slave, which Emlen said seems plausible because the records do not include his last name.

“You could go either way with it — maybe it was her 12-year-old kid who was just carrying water upstairs for the guys to drink,” Emlen said.

He mentioned one particular entry in the records for eight shillings, the price of a gallon of “W.I. rum,” to be credited to one donor’s account. The West Indian rum was ordered, Emlen said, as a treat for laborers who had finally dug to the bottom of a 30-foot well on the construction site.

“You’ve got black guys and white guys and slaves and freed men and an Indian sitting around on the job drinking rum together. It doesn’t mean that all day it was peace and love and harmony on the job site, but it’s not what we picture when we say people were enslaved to work on University Hall,” Emlen said. “So there are nuances to this. History is messy.”

Donations of slave labor It is impossible to know for sure what sort of labor slaves contributed to the construction of University Hall.

“What (slaves) did, I have no idea. They may have laid a few bricks, they may have done some prepping work — I don’t know what their skill was,” said Stanley Lemons, professor of history at Rhode Island College. Lemons said the slaves could have been day laborers or skilled laborers.

“In slavery in Rhode Island, there were no white jobs and no black jobs as you had in the South — especially in an urban context,” Lemons added. He said since slave owners in the North wanted to maximize the value of their slaves, they often taught slaves skills such as carpentry and bookkeeping.

Lemons estimated that in 1770, about a quarter of households in Providence owned slaves.

Though slave labor was unquestionably used in the construction of University Hall, it seems unlikely that Nicholas Brown and Company employed any slaves directly, taking donations instead in the form of slave

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“Brown University did not own any slaves,” Emlen said. In order to build University Hall, trustees solicited donations from everyone in the neighborhood. Hard money was scarce in the colonial period, so donors sometimes offered goods or hours of labor instead of gold or silver currency.

“I think people who had slaves said, ‘I will give you my guy for the week, or the day, and that will be my contribution,’” Emlen said.

He used an anecdote from the Browns’ records to illustrate how tightly funds were managed. Supposedly, when a widow neglected to follow up on her pledged donation to the University because her husband died and left her homeless and poor, the University’s trustees took her to court and sued her.

“I think the reason there are people of color working on this job — enslaved people — is that their services were contributed by slaveowners who pledged money to the building campaign. That’s my explanation,” Emlen said.

University Hall today Though the bricks that compose the shell of University Hall are the same bricks that were laid in 1770, the interior of the building is very different today.

From 1776 to 1783, University Hall was closed for use by American troops in the Revolutionary War. It was later used as a hospital, during which time a hole was blasted into one of its walls for the transportation of stretchers and equipment in and out of the building. Today, that part of the wall is recognizable by a dark patch of bricks. “(University Hall) is the same size and shape, and the exterior has not been substantially altered, but it was always being changed over the years,” Emlen said. He said by the 1930s, University Hall had served as classroom space, a chapel, a library and a dining hall and had to be either torn down or completely rebuilt.

“It was a hodgepodge of retro fits … and so they completely gutted it and rebuilt it,” Emlen said.

Architects working on the inside of the building aimed to recreate the “gracious, 18th-century Georgian building” reminiscent of Williamsburg that anchors Brown’s campus today, he said.

Sectarian fighting continues in Sunni neighborhood

BY BORZOU DARAGAHI AND SHAMIL AZIZ LOS ANGELES TIMES

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Urban clashes continued for a second day in a volatile Sunni Arab neighborhood of northern Baghdad, leaving at least five Iraqis dead and 20 wounded Tuesday in fighting between gunmen and Iraqi security forces.

Witnesses described sectarian gun battles between forces of the Shiite-led security forces and Sunni Arab residents. But

Speeches continued from page 1 sure, scoring a laugh when she added such pressure was only increased because the “entire nation — that is, the Thursday night Fox nation — was waiting to see whether he would admit (The OC characters) Seth and Summer.”

Simmons spoke of growth and improvements currently under way at Brown, saying it is being “done all for you — the class of 2010.” She noted the hiring of additional faculty, the upcoming completion of the Life Sciences Building and the planned Friedman Study Center to be housed in the Sciences Library.

Regarding this last project, Simmons expressed her befuddlement at student demand for 24-hour spaces and attempted “to put in a plug for sleep,” even though she acknowledged it would likely be to no avail.

She added that when students invite her to have coffee or a snack she is frequently shocked by how late they suggest meeting, saying she is always asleep by 11 p.m.

Brown is “not an easy institution to understand from the outside,” Simmons said. In a gentle dig at other universities, she said she sometimes has to explain Brown students’ oftcited status as “the happiest in the (Ivy League)” to the puzzled presidents of other Ivies.

“Whether you choose Brown or not, be aware of

Iraqi officials maintained that outside insurgents had infiltrated the city’s Adhamiya quarter and provoked clashes with police and the army, which had already left at least three people dead on Monday.

By late Tuesday morning, Iraqi army forces had moved in ,and a measure of calm had returned. Authorities had sealed off main roads into the neighborhood, and U.S. helicopters scanned the area from up see IRAQ, page 10

what a phenomenal opportunity and obligation you have because of what you have been given in life,” Simmons concluded, leaving the stage to thunderous applause.

Miller charged those accepted under Brown’s early decision program to convert undecided students and encouraged others to take advantage of ADOCH to “ask every question you ever wanted to ask.”

Miller encouraged prospective Brown students to both peruse “ all of our propaganda” and to stand in the middle of the Main Green and ultimately judge the University based on what their “heart and stomach” tell them.

“The brain is a lousy organ to make that choice,” he said.

Cicilline attempted to sell prospective students on the possibilities Brown presents for participating in the world beyond College Hill. Brown’s close relationship with Providence “allows young people from Brown to become really a part of the fabric of Providence,” Cicilline said. He also praised Brown as an important resource for the city and state.

He touted Providence’s architecture, cultural offerings, history and vibrant neighborhoods. Cicilline closed by telling the audience he has never met any Brown alum who does not love the University. “How could anyone get accepted to Brown and not come?” he asked.

The presentation concluded with a video that offered students a look at Brown’s image in popular culture. Entertaining clips from the Simpsons, the Sopranos, The OC, Sex and the City, Family Guy and some well-known movies both flattered and mocked the University.

Alex Vogel ’10 said the video gave ADOCH “a good vibe.”

He added the “speakers were funny and very persuasive (and) Ruth Simmons certainly had a way about her.”

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong addressed parents in Sayles Hall immediately before the speeches in Salomon, highlighting the unique combination of independence and guidance Brown affords students. He attributed Brown students’ happiness to the New Curriculum and praised the University faculty. The Rev. Lester Stone, the parent of a prospective student visiting from Lansing, Mich., said he thought the presentation was delightful.

“The thing I got out of it was the philosophy of Brown — of freedom as well as responsibility,” he said.

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Smart alarm clock still a dream Alums’ SleepSmart product has yet to be released

BY JONATHAN HERMAN SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A few blocks from Faunce Arch, some recent Brown alums are in the final stages of developing a product that will FEATURE wake you up for your 9 a.m. class and guarantee you’ll feel alert.

Now in their third year of working on the sophisticated alarm clock, “SleepSmart,” the alums behind Axon Sleep Research Laboratories, located on Waterman Street, are gearing up to put their company’s product on the market.

The SleepSmart headband senses your brain waves, detects your sleep cycles and wirelessly communicates with a high-tech alarm clock to wake you up at the best time possible — a light sleep stage — within 20 or 30 minutes of the set wakeup time. As for the product’s appearance, James Donahue ’05, Axon’s director of business development, said it is “a third of the size of a normal headband that is as sleek and stylish as it can be.”

So what’s the catch? It may set you back $299 to $399, according to Axon Labs’ Web site.

Donahue said it’s like investing in an iPod, only this product wakes you up refreshed in the morning.

Donahue and the other Brown alums have made a lot of progress since a casual conversation first inspired Axon President Eric Shashoua ’04.5 to develop SleepSmart in 2004.

When a friend complained to Shashoua that waking up tired had caused her to do poorly on an exam, he realized how helpful an alarm clock that wakes its user up rested could be.

Now perfecting their product, Axon’s self-described “allstar team of Brown alumni” declined to give a release date or any further details about the alarm clock. Shashoua and Donahue indicated there may be more news this September.

Hinting at future developments, Donahue said SleepSmart is just the beginning of a series of products in the works at Axon Labs.

“Quite frankly the current

product is not half as exciting as the other stuff that is out there,” Donahue said.

After an initial wave of press coverage about SleepSmart, the Axon founders have kept product details under wraps. They created a prototype and performed engineering trials at Rhode Island Hospital under the supervision of Professor of Medicine Richard Millman, director of the hospital’s Sleep Disorder Center. But all changes since have remained secret.

The young company has not published any proof of its product’s efficacy, but that hasn’t stopped prospective customers from committing in advance to shell out a few hundred dollars for the headband. Several hundred people have already reserved a SleepSmart on Axon Labs’ Web site, Donahue said.

The company attributes its early success to extensive media coverage — ranging from the BBC to Reuters News Service — and the leadership of entrepreneur David Barone and two Brown alums, Terri Alpert ’85 and Jeffrey Stibel MA ’99, who serve as Axon’s board of directors.

Axon has already garnered several awards, including a grant from the Slater Center for Design and Manufacturing. Last year the Axon team won the Entrepreneurship Program Elevator Pitch Competition and is currently a finalist for the $100,000 prize in the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition.

They may be out of school, but working at Axon Labs doesn’t mean they have abandoned the sleep-deprived existence of undergrads. Donahue said they work long hours similar to the ones they put in back at Brown to make their entrepreneurial venture successful.

He described Axon Engineer Paolo DePetrillo ’04 as “the biggest brain of the company. He doesn’t sleep ever.”

“We want this company to create value for people,” Shashoua said. “We think there is a lot of technology out there, and we can do a lot of things that seem like science fiction. (Axon’s future products are) like something out of Star Trek.”

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From left to right: Julie Penner, Sheldon Provost, Eric Shashoua ’04.5, Ben Rubin, Paolo DePetrillo, Razvan Mirica and Jason Donahue ’05 compose the team that recently started Axon Sleep Research Laboratories. Their product is an alarm clock that wakes users up at the lightest part of their sleep cycle.

Prospective students preview Brown, many with parents in tow

BY STEPHANIE BERNHARD SENIOR STAFF WRITER

Yesterday saw an influx of mapcarrying students and parents on campus to spend A Day On College Hill. ADOCH, hosted by the Bruin Club and the Office of Admission, is a program designed to introduce accepted members of the Class of 2010 — and their parents and families — to the Brown community.

This year, more people than ever are receiving Brown’s welcome: the Bruin Club, which helped organize the event, expects over 900 prospective students and nearly 700 parents.

“We’ve gotten more RSVPs this year than we have any other year,” said Joshua Livingstone ’08, an ADOCH cocoordinator. Livingstone said the University saw a particularly dramatic increase in the number of parents attending ADOCH, as only about 600 parents — at the time a recordbreaking number — attended the event last year.

The ADOCH coordinators have taken steps to accommodate the additional parents.

“We planned more events than ever for parents this year,” Livingstone said, mentioning highlights such as a concert in Grant Recital Hall and a se-

ries of faculty lectures called “Meeting of the Minds.”

Livingstone said he could not think of a reason for the rise in parental participation, but he said he is glad to have the parents here.

Julia Riddle ’08, co-chair of the parent registration committee, said she thinks parents of incoming first-years feel increasingly invested in their children’s education as college tuition prices rise.

“It does make sense that parents want to be a part of their child’s experience,” Riddle said while taking a break from greeting parents at Sayles Hall. She admitted that the high number of parents made her job “stressful” but said she was still having a good time.

“They’re behaving really well,” said Adam Kroll ’09, the other co-chair of the parent registration committee and a member of The Herald’s design staff. Riddle agreed, but she said “some are a little overprotective.”

Donna Cann, mother of Aubrey Cann ’10, said she planned to attend programming for parents, adding she already knows she could stand to give her daughter a little more space. She described dropping off her daughter at

the student registration center at Faunce House. “Aubrey said, ‘Stop following me. You can go now. Leave,’” Cann said.

She said saying goodbye was difficult, but she felt better knowing her daughter was in a place she had wanted to attend for over two years — and a place where all the people are friendly.

“There are so many people here to help us,” Cann said.

“From the first time we visited to now, everyone has been so welcoming and inviting.”

Among accepted students — both those who already know they are coming to Brown and those who are still deciding — the mood was one of mingled excitement and enthusiasm.

Most are eager to meet other accepted students who might be their future classmates.

“I saw two huge circles of students introducing themselves on the Main Green,” Livingstone said.

“I’m pretty excited to be here,” said Zach Chapman ’10, who drove down from New Hampshire with a friend. He was busy introducing himself to fellow students while waiting to be led to a residence hall. see ADOCH, page 12

Bitter-Swede farewell

The 2008 departure of Brown’s only Swedish professor will put an end to the program

BY HANNAH FURST STAFF WRITER

“Sitting in (Ann Weinstein’s) living room feels like sitting in a living room in Sweden,” said Angela Sherwin ’07, describing the setting of Weinstein’s course, SW 10-20: “Beginning Swedish.”

But this semester is one of the last opportunities for students to enjoy Weinstein’s living room — and to enjoy studying Swedish at Brown.

Weinstein will be retiring after the Spring 2008 semester, at which point courses in Swedish will be discontinued.

Weinstein teaches some of her classes at home after she injured her knee and found it difficult to walk to campus a few years ago. Today, she continues to lecture from her living room, which is decorated with a small wooden table and patterned carpet.

“Students prefer it because it gets them out of the classroom,” Weinstein said.

Weinstein’s unconventional teaching style, combined with her enthusiasm for Scandinavian culture, has attracted students to Swedish language courses for years. But now, after over 25 years at the University, Weinstein is retiring. “I’m getting old and (my) decision was made five or six years ago,” she said.

Weinstein will still teach SW 10 and SW 30: “Intermedi-

ate Swedish I” this coming fall.

She plans to take an unpaid leave in Spring 2007 to accompany her husband, Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein, to Stockholm. In Fall 2007, Weinstein will return to the University to teach for one more academic year, after which she will officially retire.

Professor of German Stud-

ies Katherine Goodman, who chairs the department, said the decision to end Swedish classes was made within the past two years by the University, her department and Weinstein. According to Goodman, students today are gravitating away from Northern European languages see SWEDISH, page 10

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USMC continued from page 1 on post-graduation trips or new jobs, they will begin their training in Quantico, Va. In total, four members of the class of 2006 are joining the Marines, but one will be commissioned in a separate ceremony, according to USMC Officer Selection Officer Captain A.J. Fielder.

Fielder said the significant number of Brown students choosing to serve in the Marine Corps does not surprise him.

“The environment up there (at Brown) emphasizes social responsibility and a commitment to improving the world,” he said.

“There is no single way that can be done, it’s all personality-driven. When you have a group of people who are exceptionally bright and motivated they realize that the Marine Corps is a good way to do that.”

But despite their shared plans for next year, the stories, motivations and objectives of Brown’s future Marines vary widely. For some, it is about serving their country in a time of war, while others view it as a prime job opportunity. For others still, joining the Marines is an adventure.

Evan Pettyjohn ’06, who will be commissioned following graduation, said he wanted to enlist when the war in Iraq began three years ago, but he was too young at the time. A strong supporter of U.S. foreign policy, Pettyjohn said he “didn’t want to be the guy who (supports the war) from the couch.”

An economics concentrator from New York, Pettyjohn grew

up in an Army family and said he believes serving one’s nation is not only admirable but a part of fulfilling one’s civic duty.

“If I spent four years living it up at college, can’t I give four years back to my country?” he said.

“It’s a privilege and honor to lead Marines. … It’s not a sacrifice, it’s a privilege.”

Though Pettyjohn and the other seniors due to be commissioned have already completed Officer Candidates School, around one-third of those attending don’t graduate from the intensive program — they either leave of their own accord or flunk out.

The school’s purpose is to weed out those less capable of operating under physical and mental stress in situations which simulate combat. In addition to 13-mile night runs in boots and gear on two hours of sleep before a full day, some candidates may be told to write 300-word essays on the spot during the night. They are forced to write in pen so the slightest mistake requires starting all over again. According to Pettyjohn, the work isn’t hard, but fighting to stay awake in dark, air-conditioned classrooms while sleep-deprived poses a real challenge.

Though these trying situations lead many who enroll in OCS to quit, Pettyjohn said, “The people I met at Officer Candidate School were some of the best people I’ve ever met, just high caliber people.”

Pettyjohn said his Brown education served him well at OCS and will continue to do so in the Marines. “Brown teaches you to think creatively,” he said, adding that Brown’s liberal arts offerings

would make a future Marine “not just an officer but a gentleman,” an imperative for the Corps.

Political beliefs may have motivated Pettyjohn’s decision to join the Marines, but they factored less in the decision of Ashley Noreuil ’06 to pursue the opportunity. An e-mail from the selection officer first sparked the applied mathematics and economics concentrator’s interest, and soon she decided to pursue what “was a good paying (summer) job, would get me in shape, allow me to try out the armed services and had no commitment.”

In Noreuil’s Iowa hometown, “the military is considered an opportunity for those who graduate high school and have no other opportunities,” she said.

A registered Democrat, Noreuil said she walks around with a Marine Corps backpack. To her surprise, she has never been harassed at Brown because of it. “(I’ve) never even had any comments on the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy,” she said. “Students here are good at separating individuals in the (armed services) from the services’ policies.”

Graduates of Reserve Officer Training Corps programs or the United States Naval Academy may have an advantage in the first few months of training because they are more familiar with the military environment, Noreuil said. “If I were from the South, sir (and) ma’am would come a lot easier,” she said. “I can pick up the technical stuff, where to pin your rank on your uniform, but the atmosphere stuff will be harder, like when it’s okay to be ‘smoking and joking’ as they call it.”

Another Brown student due to be commissioned after graduation, Matt Goracy ’06, said he considered the Naval Academy before coming to Brown but wasn’t ready to make the service commitment the institution required. A recruiter in the University post office first got him interested in joining the Marines. Goracy had no previous knowledge about the Marines training, but he figured being a Marine was halfway to becoming a Navy Seal, his original ambition.

Like Noreuil, Goracy was attracted to the Marines training program’s lack of commitment.

A varsity swimmer for the Bears, Goracy said Brown prepared him for the Marine Corps by forcing him to defend his conservative views, but he said classmates never challenged his decision to join. In fact, he spent more time defending Brown to his OCS classmates, who frequently asked how he tolerated such a liberal hotspot, Goracy said.

In addition to Pettyjohn, Noreuil and Goracy — all of whom hope to specialize in intelligence once in the Marines — Billy Wilson ’06 will also be commissioned this year in a separate ceremony.

Another senior, Christopher Rigali ’06, was ambivalent about joining the Marines, but he finally decided to postpone plans to attend law school in order to join. Looking at his other options, Rigali said, “I didn’t find anywhere else I feel I can use my natural abilities as effectively. …

I feel like if I don’t do it, I might regret it.”

As a moderate Democrat, Rigali said he has “had an internal struggle about not wanting to sacrifice yourself to something you’re not fully committed to — the war in Iraq — but wanting

to give yourself to an organization and mission you believe in.”

Though sometimes a reason to serve, Rigali said personal political beliefs were rarely discussed by students in the Marines training program.

Neither did politics motivate Christopher Pollak ’07, who also attended OCS and will be commissioned after he graduates in just over a year. Describing himself as a “southern Republican conservative,” Pollak grew up near the Parris Island Marines base in Beaufort, S.C., and said he has always wanted to join the Marines. “(You) get paid to play with toys and blow stuff up,” he said.

After graduating from boarding school in Massachusetts, Pollak said he considered the Naval Academy but chose to attend Brown because he wanted to experience a more typical college life and to row for the men’s crew team. “Annapolis would have driven me nuts. … Brown is the opposite end of Annapolis or the Marines, which makes a nice balance, it allows me to see both sides,” he said.

Rather than specializing in intelligence like the other future Brunonian Marines, Pollak wants to fly helicopters or serve as a combat engineer. According to Pollak, combat engineers build bridges and are the “military bomb squad.”

Already in shape after the spring crew season, Pollak said he loved the OCS experience because “getting paid to be there, working out, playing in the woods (was) better than a summer job or an internship or sitting in a classroom.” Learning about military history, fighting tactics and weapons, Pollak said, was “much more interesting than sitting in Econ 11 or really any class here.”

CAMPUS NEWS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006 · PAGE 7

Debates continued from page 1 cluding strengthening the advising system and making it easier for students to live off campus.

UCS should continue using the focused approach that made its involvement in the plus/minus debate successful, Kim said, adding that the council should avoid “over-ambition.” Kim also decried mishaps like the mid-year report “scandal.” Earlier this semester, the council printed an outdated, inaccurate mid-year report, wasting nearly $1,000.

Townsend argued that UCS is not disconnected from students. “We experience the same things they experience,” he said.

But UCS must be more proactive if it wishes to improve campus life, he said.

“We need to confront the administration — that’s when we’ve been most successful,” Townsend said, citing the council’s advocacy during the plus/ minus debate and the proposal to establish an academic term during winter break. “We need to sit on the ground and fight” for issues like improving residence halls and ensuring that faculty don’t shirk their teaching responsibilities, he said.

UCS vice president Vice presidential candidates Tristan Freeman ’07, chair of the council’s Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee, and Queer Alliance Co-President Josh Teitelbaum ’08 then presented their platforms.

Freeman said UCS must continue to protect students’ academic rights.

“We stopped plus/minus, but there’s a lot of bad things coming up,” Freeman said, citing the current Campaign for Academic Enrichment, the proceeds of which might go toward improving graduate programs if undergraduate students are not proactive.

“We shouldn’t become a diet Harvard or Yale,” he said. In order for UCS to act most effectively, it should become less “bureaucratic and secretive,”

Freeman said. Putting an end to internal elections would be a good start, he added.

Teitelbaum, a self-described “ultimate outsider,” said his experience with UCS had left him feeling “frustrated.” Too few students run for positions on UCS and UFB, he said, adding that he would “give a voice to students that they haven’t had.” Although he has never held a position on UCS before, Teitelbaum said his experience as co-president of QA and his work at the Swearer Center for Public Service have prepared him to successfully lead UCS. UCS treasurer Following closing statements from Freeman and Teitelbaum, the audience heard from Kevin McDonald ’08 and Vernissia Tam ’09, candidates for UCS treasurer, a position that also involves close interaction with UFB. McDonald said he would “make sure not a penny goes to waste” as treasurer. “Every cent we spend on tables and cookies is one less cent we can spend on things we need to get done,” he said, referring to money spent on UCS meetings.

Tam said she would work to make students aware that UFB “is their resource, and not something they should be intimidated by.”

UFB chair Current UCS and UFB Representative Cash McCracken ’08, who is running unopposed for UFB chair, said he hopes to create a more open and accountable UFB next year by making meeting minutes available to students. He also said he plans to create a committee of students that will serve as a watchdog for UFB, “so we can be held accountable the entire year, not just at election time,” he said.

UFB vice chair After McCracken spoke, the audience heard from the four candidates for UFB vice chair: UFB Representative Danielle Hamilton ’07, Alex Rosenthal ’08, UFB Representative Phil Wood ’07 and Kamilah Tisdale ’07 speaking for Will Cunningham ’07, who has

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served on both UCS and UFB and is currently studying abroad in Australia.

Tisdale said Cunningham’s experience with both UCS and UFB make him a prime candidate for the position, adding that, if elected, Cunningham would work to make UFB more accessible to students. “The money we allocate is not our own, we simply disperse it,” she said.

Hamilton said she has helped make UFB more accessible to students while serving as a representative on the board. She added that she hopes to extend these efforts by holding information sessions and monthly forums. Her dedication to UFB makes her the best candidate for the position, she said.

Rosenthal said he has learned how to make UFB more accessible by talking to student leaders. “I’ve done something about these problems,” he said, adding he has thought of specific ways to solve the board’s perceived communication problems, even though he has not previously served on the board.

Wood said he would increase communication as UFB vice chair by communicating directly with student group leaders and updating UFB’s Web site. His experience on UFB during the past year and his former responsibilities raising funds for the Mock Trial Club have prepared him for the position, he said.

Chafee ’75 critiques Bush administration’s fiscal policies Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R-R.I., discussed his key votes in the Senate on environmental protection, the war in Iraq and budgetary issues in Carmichael Auditorium last night before a group of nearly 50 students and community members.

After attending today’s demolition of the Jamestown bridge, Chafee appeared animated as he discussed unchecked spending on the part of President George W. Bush’s administration and thwarted budgetary reform. Five months away from a Republican Senate primary election against Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey, Chafee’s lecture centered on explaining his voting record.

Chafee said he is frustrated with the Bush administration’s support of tax cuts that are not accompanied by a decrease in federal spending.

“Three or four months after (former) President (Bill) Clinton vetoed a $400 billion tax cut plan … President Bush planned a $1.5 trillion tax cut,” Chafee said.

When explaining how to trim federal expenditures, Chafee alluded to famed bank robber Willie Sutton. “Like when he was asked, ‘Why do you rob a bank?’

He replied, ‘That’s where the money is,’” Chafee said.

In an interview with The Herald after the lecture, Chafee said

Courtesy of Matt Kozar

In a speech last night, Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, R-R.I., criticized the federal government’s spending habits. the result of the Republican Senate primary election rests on the turnout of unaffiliated Rhode Island voters.

Chafee acknowledged a concern that “if there is a vigorous Democratic primary, then that may pull away some independent voters from the Republican primary.”

The Rhode Island native said he would “play whatever cards are dealt.” But “I definitely need as many unaffiliated voters as I can get,” he added.

— Jon Herman

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Of 18,313 applicants, only 2,525 students received acceptance letters, including 542 early decision candidates — an overall rate of 13.8 percent. 1,450 students are expected to make up the final class of 2010.

Public high schoolers make up 59 percent of the admitted students. 30 percent come from private schools and 8 percent from parochial schools.

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Admitted students represent 62 countries; 10 percent of them are from outside the United States. The most represented countries are Singapore, Canada and the UK. Students of color make up 39 percent of the admitted students.

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The Herald is completely independent of the University and is advertiser-supported. It is operated by a volunteer staff of more than 100 editors, reporters, business managers, designers, photographers and artists.

Wallace Terry ‘59 (1938-2003) was the first black editor-in-chief of an Ivy League newspaper. Beverly Hodgson ‘70 was the first female editor of an Ivy daily.

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ADOCH attendees sat in Salomon 101 before welcome speeches started a little after 8 p.m. Tuesday.

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Swedish continued from page 5 like Swedish and German for a number of reasons. Goodman said Spanish, Japanese and Arabic are more popular because of the current social, political and economic landscape.

But Weinstein attributed the cutback to the University’s limited funds rather than a lack of student interest. In addition, she noted the recent pressure on the University to provide funding for science research and science courses, which often require more money because of necessary equipment.

“Every penny has to be accounted for these days,” she said, adding that “Swedish is cheap and science is expensive and something’s got to go.”

Some students, however, said they will be sorry to see the end of the Swedish program.

In addition to Sherwin, who said she supports the continuation of the program, Ariana Raufi ’09 said she will be disappointed when Weinstein leaves. “I hope Brown finds a way to perpetuate (Swedish language courses) in the future,” she said.

Weinstein first acquired her teaching role after students approached Weinstein’s husband saying they were interested in studying Swedish, she said.

Soon after, Weinstein unofficially began teaching a small number of eager students.

After petitions were made to the Department of German Studies, Weinstein was hired as a part-time lecturer, she said.

Initially, the German Studies department was only able to support Weinstein’s Swedish courses thanks to outside funds from the Brown Corporation, as the department could not afford the expense on its own, she said.

Weinstein said she has enjoyed teaching at Brown, adding that her favorite part has been interacting with students, who come from various backgrounds and disciplines. Some,

like Raufi and her brother, Alexander Raufi ’08, are of Swedish descent. Others, like Sherwin, who is concentrating in biomedical ethics, are interested in contemporary Swedish society. Sherwin said she is interested in the Swedish health care system.

“A Swedish class is like a Chinese menu,” Weinstein joked.

Political science concentrators have the opportunity to study the Swedish social service system, while pre-medical students can explore topics in Swedish health care.

“I like the mix I see — I get water polo players, feminists and political scientists and they have to talk to each other (in my class). This doesn’t happen in most classes,” Weinstein said. In addition, discussion is facilitated by the small class sizes, as most of Weinstein’s sections include fewer than 10 students.

John Bourne ’07, a history concentrator who began studying Swedish during his first year at Brown, said he enjoys this kind of interaction.

“It’s a nice little group of kids,” he said. According to Bourne, students who had trouble with Spanish and French in high school would most likely have an easier time learning Swedish because it is grammatically similar to English.

While there may be similarities between the two languages, Weinstein identified several challenges in learning Swedish, which she also counted among its benefits. “You have to be willing to make a fool of yourself … and not pretend you know the answers,” she said. According to Weinstein, this vulnerability and openmindedness ultimately makes learning a language rewarding.

As students reflect on their personal experiences in Weinstein’s classes, many said they will miss her passion for Scandinavian language and culture and her unique style of teaching.

“The reason I take Swedish is because of (Weinstein),” Bourne concluded.

Clinton sets the bar for 2008 campaign funds

BY CHRIS CILLIZZA WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Candidates eyeing 2008 presidential bids collected millions for a variety of campaign committees over the first three months of the year, with New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton far ahead of the pack.

Clinton, who faces two littleknown Republican opponents in her bid for a second term in November, raised $6 million from Jan. 1 to March 31 — outdistancing the 32 other senators seeking re-election this fall as well as her prospective rivals for the presidential nomination. Clinton has now raised better than $39 million for her re-election effort since coming to the Senate in 2001 and ended last month with nearly $20 million in the bank.

Election law allows anything left over from her Senate campaign to be transferred to a presidential campaign.

“This is a tribute to her hard work and the depth of support she’s built,” said Ann Lewis, communications director for Clinton’s campaign. Lewis added that 95 percent of Clinton’s contributions were for $100 or less.

Among Republicans, Sen. George Allen of Virginia is showing the most fund-raising muscle, collecting $1.75 million for his re-election fight and closing the quarter with $7.2 million on hand.

Unlike Clinton, however, Allen faces a potentially serious challenge this fall from Democrats Harris Miller, a former technology lobbyist, or James Webb, a Reagan administration Navy secretary. Allen is likely to spend much of his war chest to defend his seat.

Reports documenting contributions and expenditures in the first three months of 2006 were due Saturday at the Federal Election Commission.

Iraq continued from page 4 above.

“Now the situation is good and calm,” Iraqi army Maj. Gen. Jawad Rumi Daini said in a telephone interview. “Armed men from outside Adhamiya wanted to make trouble inside, and we eliminated them.”

But the district’s mostly Sunni residents blamed elements of the security forces for the troubles. They allege that specialized units of the Interior Ministry have been acting as sectarian death squads and terrorizing their communities.

“The young people of Adhamiya picked up their personal weapons to defend their neighborhoods,” said a man emerging on foot from the neighborhood near one of the checkpoints at the district’s edge. “I will not go back home today because the situation is unbearable. Every night

With the cost of winning a party’s nomination for president in 2008 estimated by political analysts and operatives to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, such a heavy focus on fundraising so early in the campaign is seen as a necessity for those candidates hoping to compete seriously.

The expectation among many strategists in both parties is that none of the top-tier candidates will accept public financing, and the spending caps that go with it, during the primary season.

As a result, all previous measures to judge fund-raising success will be obsolete come 2008, said David Plouffe, a Democratic consultant not affiliated with any potential candidate.

Plouffe said former Vermont governor Howard Dean’s $13 million cash-on-hand total in September 2003 “sent shock waves through the Democratic establishment” but predicted that by September 2007 several candidates will have double that amount in the bank and one — Clinton — could easily have triple.

Such a high fund-raising bar has forced candidates to work double-time by raising dollars not only for their own federal re-election accounts but also for leadership political action committees.

The latter are used to make donations to other candidates and cover travel expenses.

In the cases of Clinton and Allen, both spent the majority of their time raising dollars for their personal campaign committees rather than their leadership PACs over the first three months of the year — a sound strategy given that excess cash in a Senate campaign account can be transferred directly to a presidential committee, whereas dollars collected for a leadership organization cannot.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and

former Democratic Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, on the other hand, focused on taking donations for their leadership accounts. Warner collected $1.85 million through his Forward Together PAC between Jan. 1 and March 31 and retained more than $3 million in its coffers at the end of last month.

McCain has raised roughly $3 million through Straight Talk America since the leadership PAC was re-formed last summer; in the first three months of this year, the Arizona senator collected approximately $800,000.

Democratic Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Evan Bayh of Indiana chose to hedge their bets by raising money in their personal and leadership funds.

Kerry took in more than $440,000 for his Senate campaign and nearly $1 million for his leadership account over the first three months of the year, aides said.

Kerry also is sitting on more than $13 million in leftover cash in accounts created during his 2004 presidential bid.

Bayh, who has devoted more time than any other 2008 candidate to meeting and greeting donors since January 2005, raised more than $400,000 for both his Senate committee and his All America PAC. Bayh ended March with almost $10 million in his personal account and $1 million in his leadership committee.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., reported raising $741,000 for his leadership PAC in January and February. His March numbers were not available at press time.

Former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was a straggler among prospective presidential candidates, bringing in just $261,000 via his One America committee and closing the quarter with $7,000 in the bank and debts of more than $100,000.

when I sleep, I put my gun under the pillow with a bullet in the chamber.”

Iraq’s Sunni minority and Shiite majority have been engaged in a struggle for power and influence since the U.S.-led invasion.

Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish political leaders have been deadlocked in government-formation talks for months.

The political talks stumbled on Tuesday amid ongoing security woes and despite international pressure.

Witnesses described desperate circumstances inside Adhamiya. Ambulances waited at checkpoints to ferry doctors and nurses to area hospitals.

“There were no cars and no one walking in the main streets,” said Alaa Mohammed Ali, a 47year-old dealer of electrical appliances leaving the area on foot.

“Most of the families are trapped in their homes. I saw some women standing outside their homes asking for the whereabouts of their sons.”

Later, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman took the airwaves to condemn the attacks and deliver a stern warning to residents who have begun organizing themselves into neighborhood militias in what many observers see as among the most disturbing layers of armed activity dogging the country.

“These types of actions do none of you any good,” Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Razzaq said in a statement. “In the future if such actions happen the army will use force in its true sense.”

Elsewhere in the capital Tuesday, roadside bombs killed at least three Iraqis and injured 26 others.

Authorities discovered 15 dead men with their hands bound behind their backs and with single shots to the back of their heads in various parts of Baghdad in what has become an unrelenting stream of killings associated with vigilante death squads.

Lawlessness has increased over the last two days on the streets of Kirkuk, the oil-rich northern city contested by ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Turkomen.

On Tuesday, suspected insurgents shot to death an Iraqi soldier, fired mortar rounds at an Iraqi army base and blew up a passing police vehicle convoy, injuring two officers, said Capt. Abbas Khaled of the Kirkuk police.

A day earlier, gunmen ambushed cars on the road outside Kirkuk, killing one civilian and injuring three.

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Ethics lapses by federal judges persist, Ultimate review finds

continued from page 16

BY JOE STEPHENS WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — A number of federal judges have violated ethics rules in recent years by presiding over lawsuits while having a financial conflict. Others have failed to disclose that they traveled to resorts on expense-paid trips.

Interviews and documents reviewed by the Washington Post identified about a dozen such ethical lapses in recent years.

One category of problems involves stock holdings. In 2003, records show, federal appeals court judges issued rulings in at least seven lawsuits while they or their spouses owned stock in a company involved in the case or had other financial ties to a party in the disputes. The problem stock holdings ranged in value from a few thousand dollars to as much as $50,000. Federal law requires that judges remove themselves from any case in which they know they have any financial interest.

A second set of ethical lapses involves seminars held at resorts by a Montana-based group, the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment.

On at least six occasions from 2002 to 2004, federal judges accepted air travel, food and lodging from the libertarian foundation but did not list the gifts on their annual disclosure reports, as required by law, documents and interviews show. The seminars dealt with economics and the environment, but also offered the judges time for fishing, hiking and horseback riding.

The review found that some judges were repeat offenders: Previous investigations by The Post identified nearly identical ethical lapses involving two of the judges.

It is impossible to determine just how frequently judges violate ethics laws because public records are limited. A 1998 law allows judges to black out some or all information on disclosure reports before releasing them to the public. Also, many organizations keep confidential the names of judges who accept expense-paid trips, frustrating attempts to verify disclosure reports.

Ethics experts expressed surprise that such transgressions persist because court authorities reacted to earlier revelations of ethical violations with promises of reform.

“It seems to be a very blatant violation of the code of judicial ethics,” said Jeffrey M. Shaman, a judicial ethicist at DePaul University.

Stephen Gillers, a specialist in legal ethics at New York University, said the study “goes to the heart of what a judge is understood to be.”

“Congress says you cannot sit (on a case) if you or your spouse owns even one share” of stock, Gillers said. “It’s the law, and judges have to obey it.”

The findings show that new laws are needed to prevent abuse, said Douglas Kendall, executive director of Community Rights Counsel, a nonprofit Washington law firm that supplied The Post with documents outlining the problems.

“These problems are getting worse, not better, and it’s because the judiciary hasn’t taken some

simple steps to make them go away,” Kendall said.

Thomas Hogan, chief judge for the District of Columbia and chairman of the executive committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference, which oversees ethics issues, said in a statement that the lapses, while regrettable, are the exception, not the rule.

“The judiciary will continue its already widespread efforts to educate judges on their financial disclosure requirements and will develop additional tools to assist judges in identifying potential conflicts,” Hogan said.

Earlier this year, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation to ban privately financed trips for federal judges and make it easier for the public to identify stock conflicts. A Leahy spokeswoman said the senator raised the issue last month with the Judicial Conference.

In a statement, Leahy said, “Our judges must be beyond reproach — in appearance and otherwise.”

Stock conflicts The stock conflicts found involved federal appeals judges; the study did not look at conflicts involving the much larger pool of trial-level judges.

Some of the judges said they missed conflicts involving subsidiaries of companies in their portfolios. Others said they were confused by cases with multiple players or unaware of a spouse’s assets. Federal law directs judges to know their financial interests so they can quickly resolve conflicts.

Judge Bruce Selya of the 1st Circuit in Rhode Island held up to $15,000 in stock in the Federal National Mortgage Association in 2003 while participating in a lawsuit against the company. Selya sold the stock nine days after entering judgment in the case.

Selya said he was unaware of the conflict until told by The Post, explaining that “anything that involves human beings is susceptible to error.”

In 1999, a similar Post study discovered that Selya had participated in three lawsuits while owning stock in one of the companies involved. Selya blamed those problems on his investment manager, who the judge said bought stocks for his portfolio and only later supplied him with the company names.

Other judges whose disclosure statements showed that they had a financial interest in litigants in their courtrooms included Eric Clay of the 6th Circuit in Detroit, Martha Daughtrey of the 6th Circuit in Nashville, James Dennis of the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, John Coffey of the 7th Circuit in Milwaukee (two cases) and Harry Pregerson of the 9th Circuit in

Woodland Hills, Calif.

Coffey said the securities in question were held in a trust overseen by his wife that primarily benefited their adult children and from which she had drawn money. The judge said he did not believe that he was required to withdraw from such cases but would do so in the future.

In numerous other cases, judges’ disclosure reports appear to identify conflicts of interest involving stocks, but the judges contended in interviews that no true conflicts existed because they had inadvertently misrepresented their holdings on the statements.

Unreported trips In most cases, it is impossible to independently determine whether judges are complying with the disclosure laws.

That’s because most organizations that give judges expensepaid trips keep the names of the judges secret.

An exception is FREE, the libertarian foundation. In recent years it has listed on its Web site the names of participants in its seminars, which are held at a dude ranch and a historic railroad hotel in Montana.

Hundreds of judges have attended, and officials at the private, nonprofit foundation said they pick up all costs, including airfare, for 90 percent of them.

FREE estimated that food, lodging and horseback riding for one recent five-day seminar totaled $1,350 per person. Judges often bring their spouses but must pay for any additional costs incurred.

When questioned, five judges who attended seminars between 2002 and 2004 acknowledged accepting free trips but not listing them on disclosure reports. Some judges said they forgot to make the entries, while others said they were unaware of the rules.

Ethics experts questioned those explanations, pointing out that the annual financial disclosure forms, which the judges must sign under penalty of law, direct them to itemize each gift and reimbursement for “transportation, lodging, food.”

One judge who left the section blank was Peter Beer of the Eastern District of Louisiana. Beer checked a box labeled “none” on his reports for 2002 and 2004.

In an interview, Beer said that FREE had paid expenses at two seminars on a tourist ranch near Yellowstone National Park. “As far as I was concerned, that was not an item that I was required to report,” Beer said. “I never considered I was obliged to do that.”

The sponsors of the seminars disagreed.

“There’s no controversy over this — it should be disclosed,” see ETHICS, page 13

ridiculous grab in the end zone over (Harvard’s) Jack Marsh.

With that grab, we established ourselves as a serious threat to make nationals this year.”

Though Brown lost to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst 15-7 in the final round of the Yale Cup, the men of B-Mo believe the performance is perfect momentum going into next weekend’s regional competition.

“It was epic ... going on a 51 run and eventually winning on double game point 12-11,” Reid said.

The team, which relies heavily on donations from supporters to attend such tournaments, organizes and provides its own transportation and lodging on trips. The team does not recruit players from high school, and most of the players on B-Mo picked up the sport at college. But the captains think the necessary dedication and sacrifices have helped the team hit new levels of success in the past few

years.

“It attracts a certain type of person. There’s no scholarship, nothing forcing you to play,” Hopkins said. “It takes passion and intensity. Colin and I basically run the team, but the more you invest, the more you care.”

The ultimate Frisbee team will continue its quest to defend its national title next weekend at the Ultimate Players Association Sectional Championships. The men will need to advance from the competitive New England section to Northeast Regionals to keep the dream alive.

And back on the Main Green, one bright pink disc wobbled through the air, nosediving long before reaching the intended receiver on three successive attempts.

“The hardest part is having to chastise myself and hold myself back from going over and showing them how to throw it right,” Hopkins said, laughing.

“But people are enjoying doing what we enjoy doing,” Mahoney added. “They are having fun, and that’s what this is about.”

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M. club lax continued from page 16 the year-round practices or the pressure that comes from playing a major Division I sport, Savage said. Before his arrival, the team lacked the organization and the leadership seen with the rugby and ultimate Frisbee squads.

Upon assuming the presidency early this semester, Savage has spent “a pretty significant chunk” of time expanding Brown’s schedule and working to get the team into the NCLL. “Because the club is still growing, I’ve spent a lot of time just motivating people to come out and play,” Savage said.

Former varsity lacrosse players, including Clarke, Doug Faron ’06 and John Gillis ’07, are examples of players that were interested in pursuing their love for lacrosse while not committing to the time that the varsity squad required. Faron said he has found a perfect balance of competitiveness and enjoyment on the club team.

“It’s a really good way for kids not on varsity to continue to play at a pretty high level,” Faron said.

“We hope more people interested in lacrosse start turning out because a lack of numbers hurt us (over the weekend),” he added.

Clarke described the environment as “relaxed,” but he added that “there is a definite desire to win.”

Despite carrying only 13 players, the Bears almost knocked off a heavily favored Columbia team that had a roster of nearly 25 players. Playing with only three substitutes, Brown held a

2-1 lead after one period thanks to goals from John Rollo ’07 and Brian Connolly ’07. But the Lions tacked on seven goals over the next two quarters and pulled away for the 9-7 victory.

Next, Brown held its own against a similarly short-handed Yale squad. Behind Clarke’s stellar play in net and two first period goals from Rollo, the Bears won 3-2 to advance to the third-place game against the University of Pennsylvania.

With both teams tired from the long day, the two sides agreed to play two 15-minute halves instead of four 15-minute quarters.

The Bears eventually ran out of gas during the 4-1 loss, but they left the tournament encouraged by their performance.

To build off of its momentum, the team hopes to bring the Ivy League tournament to Providence some day. For now, Brown will settle for hosting conference foe Yale in two weeks.

Next season, the club sports program will be under the direction of the Department of Athletics, and Savage said he believes the move will only help the squad gain recognition and funding. He has had numerous conversations with Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger, and, with the team becoming a full-time member of the NCLL next year, he sees the club team becoming on par with the other clubs on campus in the near-future.

Now, the squad only needs to find a few more bodies interested in signing up — if not for lacrosse, then at least for the new jerseys.

“They’re pretty stylish,” Clarke said. “Plus, it’s always nice to look like a team.”

Woo continued from page 16 year’s World Cup will take place, whom the Americans are playing in the preliminary round and what the names of the three key U.S. players are.

(In case you’re wondering, the World Cup takes place from June 9 to July 9; the Americans have a tough draw in Group E against three-time champion Italy and physical Ghana, as well as the Czech Republic and three key players are Claudio Reyna, a midfielder and the squad’s captain who has battled injury problems, Landon Donovan, one of the world’s premiere strikers and goalkeeper Kasey Keller).

It’s not as if American sports have being doing so well lately. Baseball is bloated with steroid problems, and Team U.S.A. was embarrassed at the World Baseball Classic. The NBA is full of ball-hogging, brick-shooting prima donnas who, when assembled, can’t win even a silver medal in the Olympics. Even the NFL, the nation’s best-run sports league, barely averted self-destruction last month when it coerced the players’ union to agree to new collective bargaining agreement at the last minute. Hockey didn’t have a season last year (but did anyone notice — or care?) and at the Winter Olympics in Turin, good-girl Michelle Kwan and bad-boy Bode Miller proved that hype alone cannot win Olympic medals.

The only positive thing

that has happened to American sports this past year is the George Mason basketball team, the No. 11 seed from Fairfax, Va., that made it to the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four, warming the hearts of millions and evoking the image of the American Dream. But alas, the University of Florida, the perennial football and basketball powerhouse, quickly crushed that dream by destroying the scrappy Patriots en route to the national title.

So why can’t we embrace football — the real football?

The United States could sure use a distraction right now. The country is politically polarizing itself, and, at the same time, those on the left and right are becoming disgruntled with the follies of our president and the seemingly endless war in Iraq. Politics is entering baseball, as the feds are gearing themselves up to investigate steroids and Barry Bonds. And while the NBA is an exciting league, no one really wants to sit through the ridiculously long playoffs. So why not forget about the troubles of our country and, for at least a month this summer, cheer for the red, white and blue as they perform on sport’s biggest stage?

There are a couple of reasons that won’t happen. As one theory states, soccer is unAmerican, and nobody in the States, especially with today’s political climate, wants to be labeled as anti-American (and with good reason — just look at what just happened to France).

But if you glance at the three most-popular sports in the United States — football, baseball and basketball — a common theme appears. All three of those sports are American-

ADOCH continued from page 5 Leslie Lipsick ’10 said meeting people is one of her top priorities while at ADOCH, but she acknowledged that “it’s kind of awkward.”

Riddle said she thinks many of the accepted students share

born and bred, conceived by three great, dead white males.

It is only natural for Americans to follow a homegrown sport for the sake of cultural identity. (In addition, modern soccer is said to have been born in England, and, as shown by the American Revolution, us Yanks aren’t too fond of most things English.)

But I personally don’t buy into that theory. A simpler one is that soccer is simply boring to Americans. The Simpsons illustrated that point perfectly a few years ago in an episode in which the animated family attended a soccer game between Mexico and Portugal. As three Mexican players passed the ball between themselves at midfield, Springfield residents stampeded for the exits less than a minute into the game, sparking riots that eventually spread throughout town.

I try to avoid stereotypes, to varying degrees of success, but I think there is truth to the belief that most Americans have some minor form of attention deficit disorder. Americans — distracted by politics and technology — can only digest things in short, concentrated spurts, which is why football and baseball have become so popular. Basketball has managed to succeed because of constant scoring, and hockey has checking and fistfights, two American staples.

I can understand why many would be reluctant to watch 90 minutes of a game where absolutely nothing happens — as in the case of a 0-0 tie.

Oh, and ties. Americans hate ties.

Campus Watch Editor Stu Woo ’08 wears a tie to The Herald everyday.

Lipsick’s sentiments.

“I haven’t come across any who are totally relaxed,” Riddle said, adding that people still seemed to be enjoying themselves and were looking forward to the upcoming events.

Kroll agreed. “Everyone’s really positive,” he said. “There’s a lot of positive energy.”

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We’re eating more and enjoying it less, poll finds

BY CANDY SAGON WASHINGTON POST

If it seems to you that eating isn’t quite as enjoyable as it used to be, you’re not alone.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey, only 39 percent of Americans say they greatly enjoy eating — a drop from the 48 percent who felt that way in a Gallup survey in 1989.

Enjoyment of food has particularly dropped among those who consider themselves overweight — from 56 percent in 1989 to 42 percent this year — according to the telephone survey of 2,250 adults. Among those who consider their weight “about right,” 44 percent said in 1989 that they greatly enjoyed eating, while only 38 percent feel that way now.

And the reason we’re eating more but enjoying it less? In a word: guilt, says Thomas Wadden, director of the Weight and Eating Disorders Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine.

“People are feeling guilty” about what they eat, says Wadden. “Two-thirds of women report they’re dieting. One-third of men say they want to lose weight.

They’re forever checking their conscience before digging into that ice cream sundae.”

It’s also a matter of having food available all the time, he adds.

“People are eating continuously now. Food has become a recreational pastime. It’s lost its ability to mark a special occasion.”

Ironically, given the decline in eating enjoyment, Americans report they’re enjoying cooking more, with the biggest increase among men who cook.

In 1989, 25 percent of men told the Gallup poll that they enjoy cooking; in the Pew survey, that number had jumped to 32 percent. Among women, however, enjoyment of cooking has decreased from 39 percent in 1989 to 35 percent today.

We’re also having problems with portion control, the survey revealed. Nearly 60 percent of Americans say they find themselves eating more than they should either often or sometimes, and 55 percent say they eat more junk food than they should.

The biggest reason Americans say they eat so much junk food is not because they like it (44 percent found that reason enough), or because it’s cheap (24 percent) or even because it’s heavily advertised (37 percent), but because it’s convenient (73 percent).

That doesn’t surprise Wadden.

“I think in that sense, food has taken on a utilitarian purpose instead of being something enjoyable. People think, ‘I need to eat. This is easy.’ It fits their way of life.”

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BY JENNY JARVIE LOS ANGELES TIMES

DURHAM, N.C. — Two Duke University lacrosse players were arrested and charged Tuesday with the rape of an exotic dancer, but defense attorneys quickly claimed they had evidence that the two students were not at the party when the assault is alleged to have happened.

Just before dawn, Reade William Seligmann and Collin Finnerty turned themselves in to Durham County Jail to face charges of first-degree rape, another forcible sexual offense and kidnapping. A grand jury had indicted the two players — who are both sophomores — on Monday.

But lawyers for the accused, and others in a phalanx of attorneys now involved with the lacrosse team, went on the offensive.

“The grand jury only hears one side of the story,” said William Cotter, Finnerty’s attorney.

“The next jury will hear the entire story, which includes our evidence, and we’re confident that these young men will be found to be innocent.”

Kerstin Sutton, an attorney who represents a lacrosse player who was not charged, said defense lawyers had collected evidence — one player was captured on an automated teller machine security camera, and another had a restaurant receipt — and found witnesses, including a taxi driver, to show the indicted men were not at the off-campus house where the attack was said to have taken place.

“The state is going to be shocked,” she said. “We were hoping (the accuser) would pick men that we knew were not there, and she did. Now we’re ready for war. ... The state has put itself in a situation that is going to be hard to get out of.”

From the beginning, the players’ lawyers have insisted there was no rape or sex at the party.

Earlier this month, they claimed to have photographic evidence

showing that the accuser was drunk and injured before the alleged rape took place.

District Attorney Michael Nifong would not comment on the defense’s claims that the players charged Tuesday were not at the party.

Last week, defense attorneys urged Nifong to drop the case, citing crime lab results that showed no DNA evidence linking any Duke players to the alleged rape.

But Nifong, who faces re-election next month, said he was convinced a sexual assault had taken place. He issued a statement Tuesday saying he hoped to gather enough evidence to charge a third person in the case.

“It had been my hope to be able to charge all three of the assailants at the same time, but the evidence available to me at this moment does not permit that,” Nifong’s statement said. “It is important that we not only bring the assailants to justice, but also that we lift the cloud of suspicion from those team members who were not involved in the assault.”

Finnerty, of Garden City, N.Y., appeared in Durham’s Superior Court on Tuesday morning, accompanied by his father.

Seligmann, of Essex Falls, N.J., waived his court appearance. His lawyer, Kirk Osborn, described the charges against his client as “just mind-boggling.”

“It’s hard to find words to describe to you the unfairness, the miscarriage of justice, that they have charged my client,” Osborn said. “This kid is just an honorable kid. Never done anything wrong in his life. In my 32 years of experience, it’s hard to believe something like this could happen.”

In court documents, lacrosse team members who lived in the off-campus house where the party took place identified Seligmann as one of five members of the lacrosse team who did not attend the party. Osborn declined to comment on whether his client was present.

The case has raised uncomfortable issues of race and class in this southern city, straining Duke students’ relationships with Durham residents.

The accuser, a 27-year-old single mother of two and a student at North Carolina Central University, is black. The men charged, as well as 45 of the 46 members of the Duke lacrosse team, are white.

The woman was hired to perform an exotic dance during an off-campus party on March 13.

She claims she was dragged into the bathroom of the house in which the party was held and hit, kicked, strangled and raped.

The players who have been charged with the assault came to Durham from suburbs of New York City and attended private Catholic prep schools.

The mayor of Seligmann’s home town, Essex Fells, N.J., vouched for his character.

“He’s a good man, an outstanding young man,” said Mayor Ed Abott, a longstanding family friend who coached Seligmann in lacrosse. “He has always been a gentleman.”

Seligmann attended Delbarton, an independent college preparatory school for boys in Morristown, N.J., which is run

by Roman Catholic Benedictine monks. In 2004, he was named to U.S. Lacrosse Men’s Division High School All-America team.

Finnerty went to Chaminade High School, an all-boys preparatory school on Long Island run by Marianist priests.

Tuesday was the second time in five months that Finnerty has been charged with a crime.

In November, he was arrested in Washington D.C. District of Columbia Superior Court records show that Finnerty and two companions — a Georgetown University lacrosse player and a former player for Providence College in Rhode Island — confronted a stranger, punching the man in his face and body when he asked them to stop calling him gay and derogatory names.

Ethics continued from page 11 said Pete Geddes, FREE’s executive vice president. He called the judges’ failures to make the trips public “surprising and a little frustrating.”

Beer said the ranch provided “pleasant surroundings” and, after the day’s discussions, allowed time for hiking and other outdoor activities. Beer said he thought, but could not be sure, that his wife accompanied him on one of the trips.

Beer should have been on notice about his legal duty to disclose the gifts, Kendall said.

A study by the Post in 2000 found that Beer had failed to disclose an earlier FREE trip.

Some ethics experts said the lapses were especially striking because the FREE seminars have become controversial in recent years after questions about their content were raised by Community Rights Counsel. The law firm argues that FREE tilts its seminars to emphasize views favorable to the foundation’s corporate backers, something FREE and many judges adamantly dispute.

Other judges who acknowledged accepting expense-paid trips but failing to disclose them included David Sentelle of the District of Columbia Circuit Court, Gerald Tjoflat of the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta, Dudley Bowen Jr. of the District Court in Augusta, Ga., and Malcolm Howard of the District Court in Greenville, N.C. Judges who did not respond to inquiries about their attendance at the seminars included Vanessa Gilmore of the district court in Houston, Donald Walter of the district court in Shreveport, La., and Judith Barzilay of the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York. None disclosed the trips in their annual reports.

EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006 · PAGE 14

STAFF EDITORIAL

Only at Brown During the somewhat hectic programming of A Day On College Hill, students hear many reasons why they should commit to spending four years in Providence. While standard praises — including a diverse student body and the broad range of available extracurricular activities — can be found in any view book or college guide, we believe there are other features that set the University apart from its peer institutions. Since these might not get frequent mention elsewhere, we at The Herald would like to list a few of our own favorite reasons for coming to Brown. So, young ADOCH-ers, sit back, relax and prepare to be enlightened: Thanks to the New Curriculum, failed classes don’t show up on external transcripts. They just disappear. Seriously.

The social scene is so welcoming, even Fox News correspondents get in the door.

Our U.S. News and World Report ranking may be slipping, but Women’s Wear Daily named Brown “the most fashionable school in the Ivy League” in 2004. It’s not Gentleman’s Quarterly, but we’ll take it.

Brown’s pop culture credibility is undeniable, a fact only bolstered by Seth Cohen’s adamant desire to gain admission. As one Fox rep recently told The Herald, “Brown has the reputation of being the coolest of the prestigious schools. When you think of Brown, you think of John F. Kennedy, Jr.” Providence might not be New York City, but who needs the East Village when you’re busy navigating streets in the Ratty?

Though some might complain about the University’s relatively small endowment, we manage to get by, even if it means cutting our student government’s budget by 70 percent. Also, our most notable benefactor made his fortune importing Grey Goose and Jagermeister. If you ask us, that’s more impressive than 10 former presidents.

Speaking of money, while other schools might employ subtle — even tasteful — fund-raising tactics, the kickoff of Brown’s current Campaign for Academic Enrichment featured the Brown Bear dressed up in boxer shorts, President Ruth Simmons waving a magic wand and a lot of cocktails.

So, let other schools have their online registration, their graduate schools, their pluses, their minuses and their secret societies that are actually, well, secret. We’ll take the Main Green on a sunny day in a heart beat.

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LETTERS Dept. of History thrives despite faculty losses To the Editor: I write in response to a letter to the editor written by David Beyer ’07.5 (“Dept. of History ‘exodus’ misrepresented,” April 18).

I was very pleased to see Beyer’s response to Monday’s article (“History dept. attempts to cope with high turnover,” April 17). I wish to add that after several decades of dedicated service, Brown will miss two of its finest faculty members, Professor Emeritus of History Abbott Gleason and Professor of History Gordon Wood, but that history education will continue.

While taking courses with new faculty members can be a gamble, any professor can be a gamble within a department as varied as history, which has as many styles of teaching as it has fields of study within the discipline. Not all styles of teaching will match all students, and this goes for both new and established professors. Perhaps I have been lucky, but I have not regretted a single history class I have taken at Brown, with either new

and veteran professors.

Like Beyer, I was lucky enough to take classes with Wood, but I would consider my education in history incomplete if I stopped there. The broad requirements of the history concentration allow students to experience a wide variety of courses.

Limiting one’s selection of professors to the most famous faculty members, no matter how qualified, is foolish. A cautious approach to course selection that relies solely on the reputation of a few wellknown professors seems antithetical to the Brown approach to learning — the ongoing, risk-taking pursuit of knowledge and understanding.

I continue to strongly encourage fellow students to consider a history concentration. The Department of History at Brown is growing, vibrant, dynamic and certainly anything but defunct.

Jesse Cohen ’07 April 18

Outsource Brown to Harvard To the Editor: In light of the recent discussion of outsourcing the Brown Bookstore, Brown might want to look to outsourcing on a larger scale. Brown should be outsourced to Harvard.

There would be many benefits to doing this.

First, Brown’s ranking would go up immediately in all of the various college ranking systems. Second, our endowment would increase because we would have access to Harvard’s. Third, and arguably the

most important, President Ruth Simmons could become president of Harvard without abdicating her position, just as James VI of Scotland assumed the throne in England as James I. Outsourcing Brown to Harvard would solve many of the current issues we face at this university.

Sam Zuckerman ’08 April 12

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006 · PAGE 15

Hillary, interrupted Two protesters who disrupted Sen. Clinton’s speech rebut Herald criticism

BY ALDEN EAGLE AND SHAUN JOSEPH GUEST COLUMNISTS

The authors of this column participated in disrupting the April 8 speech by the ardently pro-war Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. Our critics, in particular The Herald editorial board and columnist Laura Martin ’06, raise three major objections to our action: first, that it deprived the Brown community of the “valuable resource” that Clinton’s empty phrases apparently constituted; second, that the antiwar movement has better means to win its point of view; and third, that we have potentially damaged the University’s reputation and ability to attract “big-name speakers,” “influential lecturers,” and other potentates (“A step backwards,” “Clinton protestors an embarrassment,” April 10). We wish to respond to these criticisms in order.

Clinton’s lecture was the kick-off of the “Doherty-Granoff Forum on Women Leaders.” Michael Granoff and Ellen Doherty-Granoff ’83, who founded and fund the Forum, professed in their introduction to be motivated by only by the highest ideals. It is mere coincidence, you see, that the lecture took place during a mid-term election. It is just an accident that the Granoffs are major contributors to the Democratic Party and its political action committees, having donated over $70,000 in just the last six years (not counting, of course, lecture fees). It is simple serendipity that Granoff served

on former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 transition team. And, only happy happenstance that when Granoff inaugurated his own lecture series at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, the speaker was... Clinton himself, in what the New York Times called a “presidential favor for a steady supporter.”

In other words, what Martin selfrighteously refers to as a major address on “vital issues” was, in fact, a perfectly

strategy? Has the anti-war movement not organized innumerable debates, discussions, forums and lectures? Do we not send streams of letters to newspapers, most of which are denied publication?

Is there a senator in the land who would not be buried in anti-war letters, if they did not instantly throw them away?

The anti-war movement has put millions on the streets, in this country and around the globe. The majority of the

When the ordinary machinery of democracy fails, it is your right to disrupt the operation of tyrannical government by any means necessary. ordinary act of political backsheesh, a senatorial favor for a steady supporter, as it were. We hope the Brown community feels appropriately sickened by this act of intellectual prostitution abetted

by President Ruth Simmons, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy Darrell West, et al.

On to the second point. Martin suggests that, instead of disrupting the prowar politicians who participate and support the bloodshed in Iraq, anti-war activists should write to the newspaper, hold debates and call their senators.

Three years into the war, is this a viable

world, the majority of Americans, the majority of active-duty troops and the majority of Iraqis — and the last should count first of all — want this war to end, either now or very soon. Yet our “representatives” represent this not.

Instead they bray “aye” at every “special” appropriations bill for an adventure that economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes estimate will cost over $2 trillion.

They fund the construction of enormous and permanent bases in Iraq. In the face of this massive failure of representative government, advice at the level of middle-school civics is hardly impressive.

When the ordinary machinery of democ-

racy produces no results, it is your right to disrupt the operation of tyrannical government by any means necessary. When anyone encroaches on the civil rights of others, as Clinton did when she voted for the USA Patriot Act, their own rights are forfeit. When the country’s most visible senator refuses to take any stand against domestic spying, to which we have been personally subjected (“R.I. ACLU seeks records after anti-war protest is added to list of ‘suspicious incidents’”, April 6), it is justified to expose her complicity in any venue, at any time whatsoever. To maintain otherwise is light-mindedness, or the kind of prejudice which asserts that Hillary Clinton “should not be silenced for any reason” but has nothing to say about the permanent silencing of thousands of Iraqis for “reasons” that are now known to be lies.

To conclude this point, we must repudiate The Herald’s fantastic claim that those of us who protested Clinton inside the event were somehow separate from those who protested outside. Members of the International Socialist Organization helped put together both of the protests.

There is no “good” versus “bad” antiwar movement, but one movement with people participating in different ways.

Finally, concerning potential damage to Brown’s reputation in the eyes of the senator and her ilk. Here, alas, we have no defense. We can only offer our cheerful indifference.

Alden Eagle ’03 and Shaun Joseph ’03 are members of the International Socialist Organization.

Civil war is already here Supporters of America’s presence in Iraq are in denial that civil war has already erupted

BY BEN BERNSTEIN GUEST COLUMNIST

In an opinion piece last week, Nate Goralnik argued that the United States’ ability to provide relative stability in Iraq is all that is preventing a genocide on the scale of Rwanda or Kosovo (“Sit-in for a slaughter,” April 13). Consequently, Goralnik continued, U.S. troops should remain in Iraq until a unity government has been formed and peace has been achieved. While Goralnik shrewdly illustrates the chaos and corruption currently wreaking havoc in Iraq, his analysis fails on two levels. First, the United States has not provided stability so far, but in fact has idly watched Iraq as it has collapsed into chaos. Second, there are no indications that things are turning around, but plenty of signs that the situation is worsening. While there may be a very small possibility of unity in Iraq, the cost of such peace, paid for with American lives, would be enormous. The correct response to these sad truths is not continued U.S. presence in Iraq but the pressing need for withdrawal of American troops.

The United States has been unable up until now to prevent civil war. Contrary to Goralnik’s claims, civil war is not the future of Iraq, but the present. A month ago, retired Army Maj. Gen. William Nash, a former military commander in BosniaHerzegovina told ABC News, “We’re in a civil war now; it’s just that not everybody’s joined in.” More recently, the implications of the civil war have taken on new meaning as over 1,400 lives were lost following the bombing of the Askariya Mosque in

late February. Yet Goralnik contends that the United States has provided stability. In his example, Goralnik points to the supposed consensus reached among Iraqis critical of the performance of U.S.-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

However, just two weeks ago, at the same time as a prominent Shiite cleric was in

yet one more setback in Iraq’s increasingly fractious political atmosphere. Clearly, American efforts at stabilization and unification have failed, yet some continue to believe that unity will win out.

To find evidence that America’s future position in Iraq will be worse than its current one, simply look at a quote provided by Goralnik in which Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies observes that the events in Iraq are omens of “a creeping polarization of Iraq,” marked by a “slow, steady loss of confidence, a growing process of distrust.”

America’s presence has led to chaos, not stability. The notion that our continued presence will lead to peace and unity is naïve and dangerous to our nation’s health.

The Shiite militias that frighten genocide watchdogs with ethnic cleansing are

America’s presence in Iraq has led to chaos, not stability. the midst of denouncing al-Jaafari in the Baratha Mosque, the holy site was ripped by explosions from three suicide bombers killing 71 people and injuring over a 100 more. Sunni lives were claimed in retaliatory violence by Shiite militias which most Sunnis believe to be sanctioned and supported by the Shiite controlled and U.S.-backed Interior Ministry.

Exacerbating the violence is a persistent lack of political unity.

While al-Jaafari receives support from the United States and won the elections held in Iraq some four months ago, Newsweek reports that leading Sunni and Kurdish political groups have refused to cooperate with him. In recent weeks Shiites have also called for him to step down. Hopes for stability, all acknowledge, rest on the future of the new parliament. Unfortunately, while voters chose the parliament on Dec. 15 of last year, the legislature met briefly only once last month. Scheduled to meet this past Monday, the parliament session was delayed in reaction to attacks nationwide that killed 35 people the day before. This is

trends in Iraq: an increase, not a decrease, in the number of terrorist attacks and Iraqi deaths, and an increase in the number of American troop deaths. Unfortunately, a determined group of Americans still believe that American troops can prevent more of the same.

Could the United States eventually force into place a stable government in Iraq? It is certainly possible, but very unlikely. Historical evidence supports withdrawal. Obviously every civil conflict should be looked at individually, but it can be instructive to examine U.S. history when investigating the one in Iraq. In Vietnam, after many years of troop support and economic expenditure, Americans came to terms with reality and withdrew. The Vietnamese were hostile toward the nation that murdered and tortured its citizens in events like the My Lai massacre and resistance to an American designed government was strong, fierce and

There are no indications that the situation in Iraq is turning around, but plenty of signs that it is worsening. not waiting for a U.S. withdrawal. Neither are Sunni terrorists who just last weekend killed another 50 Iraqis. American troops are not preventing a civil war, they are merely dying in it. In last weekend’s attacks, four American soldiers were killed, raising the number of dead American soldiers in April to 47, compared to 31 in March, an alarming spike that should raise concerns here at home. Here are the

effective. However, even if America could eventually prod Iraqis into agreement and peace, how many more thousands of lives would it cost America to find out? I am not willing to support such an experiment supported by so little compelling evidence, past or present.

Ben Bernstein ’09 is rooting for the Confederacy.

SPORTS WEDNESDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · APRIL 19, 2006 · PAGE 16

Brownian Motion is on the move again in 2006

YOU SEID IT

BY JILANE RODGERS ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Ashley Hess / Herald

Mary Seid ’06 earned her second Ivy League Player of the Week honor after batting .500 and helping Brown rally from a nine-run deficit against Harvard in the final inning with a three-run double.

Why Americans should embrace soccer, and why they won’t The yellow banners advertising this year’s World Cup greeted me as I arrived at the airport in Berlin, where I spent my spring break, and I didn’t stop seeing them as I made my way to my downtown STU WOO DRUNKEN STU-POR hostel through subways and bus lines.

Billboards advertised cell phone plans with the aid of larger-than-life German soccer stars, and every single store was selling “Weltmeisterschaft 2006,” memorabilia, from jerseys to beer mugs to plush lions named Goleo, the official mascot of the games. I pictured the streets of Germany’s capital filled with drunk fans, because in less than two month’s time, Berlin would become the focus of sports fans from every country in the world.

Every country in the world, that is, except the United States.

America is the land of the three-run homer, the fade-away jumper and the Hail Mary pass, not the corner kick, the yellow card or the offsides trap. Few Americans, save a handful of young mothers in suburban California, have entertained such absurd thoughts. Even fewer know when this see WOO, page 12

In science, the term Brownian motion refers to the random movement of tiny particles suspended in a liquid. On College Hill, however, Brownian Motion is the name of Brown’s men’s club ultimate Frisbee team — and the defending national champions.

Saturday afternoon was a perfect spring day and the Main Green was alive with activity. Some students tossed a football, some swung plastic bats at a wiffle ball and others lounged in the grass, soaking up the sunshine.

A small black lab, napping in the middle of the field, was disrupted from his slumber by a flash of orange across the sky above his head. A young man on the east side of the grass had lobbed a Frisbee to his friend across the way, right over the dozing dog.

“When I tell people I play ultimate Frisbee, a lot of the time I hear, ‘Oh is that the sport with the dogs?’” Reid Hopkins ’06 said, laughing. “They think it’s when you train a dog to catch things while doing flips and jumps.”

While the majority of the student body used the exceptionally warm weekend to recharge and relax in various sunny spots on College Hill, Hopkins and the rest of the men’s ultimate Frisbee team were 100 miles to the west, competing against the top New England squads at the Yale Cup. The men of Brownian Motion took second overall at the two-day, eight-game tournament, posting a 6-2 record for the weekend.

Brownian Motion, or B-Mo, entered the weekend’s competition with a much less impressive record than would be expected of the squad that ended last year as the top team in the country. Howev-

er, graduation losses, especially that of national MVP Josh Ziperstein ’05, has proven to be a tough obstacle early in 2006. Brown entered the tournament at sixth-seed.

Sixth place would not satisfy Brown, and B-Mo, under the direction of co-captains Hopkins and Colin Mahoney ’07, reestablished itself as a team to watch in the New England section by snatching silver.

Brown trounced formidable opponents throughout the tournament’s early rounds, including third-seed Tufts (1311), Boston University (12-7), Connecticut College (13-6), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (13-3) and Princeton (13-6).

The most impressive win came in the semi-final round. B-Mo beat perennial rival and top seed Harvard in a dramatic, come-from-behind victory.

Harvard came out of the gates ready to dominate the contest, with an aggressive playing style matching Brown’s in the tournament’s early rounds. At the end of the first half, Harvard’s men led B-Mo 86, and continued the momentum early in the second to make it 10-7.

Brown called a quick timeout to regroup and refocus, leading to two backto-back points for B-Mo to bring the squad within one at 10-9. But Harvard refused to go without a fight and earned the next pull and scored again. Up 11-9, the Harvard men needed only one point to secure the win.

“We followed with an (offensive) line goal and a break, tying the game at 11,” wrote Jonathan Greer ’04 MD ’08 in an e-mail newsletter. “We pulled to Harvard and what follows was actually quite amazing. Ben Saper ’07 had a huge (defensive play) followed by Colin Mahoney’s see ULTIMATE, page 11

M. club lax battles Ivy foes at its first NCLL tournament

BY STEPHEN COLELLI SPORTS EDITOR

Being a member of a club sports team tends to lengthen a student’s days. The men’s club lacrosse team learned that lesson firsthand over the weekend.

In order to participate in its first tournament as a member of the National College Lacrosse League — which includes the five other Ivy League club lacrosse squads — the team woke up before dawn on Saturday to head down to Princeton, N.J. The 13 members of Brown’s team piled into a few cars and made the journey, which lasted four and a half hours, to the Garden State.

Brown played three games during the day, winning one and losing two others by a combined five goals. Finishing up before dusk, most of the team traveled the 230 miles back to Providence that same night.

Weary but pleased after the trip, members of the team said its first experience at an NCLL-sanctioned event was extremely successful.

“It was a pretty tough trip,” said goaltender Chandler Clarke ’07. “By the end of the day I was exhausted, and I played goalie, which doesn’t involve as much running. But we performed pretty well in our first tournament. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. We have a great group of guys and team morale was very strong all day.”

Unlike some of the more visible club

sports teams on campus — notably the ultimate Frisbee and rugby clubs — the men’s lacrosse team has been closer to an intramural sport than a competitive club team in the recent past. Last year, Brown scrimmaged a few local club and high school teams but had only one game against a collegiate club. Practice times varied, and the team struggled to maintain consistent numbers when it did train.

This year, through the efforts of club president Tim Savage ’08, the team is now an associate member of the NCLL and will become a full-time member next year. Brown has accumulated a solid core of members and, with increased funding, has expanded its schedule. With help from team members Ben Kurtz ’08 and his brother Will Kurtz ’08, the squad has also purchased a new set of uniforms from Harrow Sports, a Colorado-based

sports apparel company for which the two worked.

“The team has been around for a number of years, but this is the first year it has had category III status with (the Undergraduate Council of Students), which means that we now have more than just $90 in funding,” Savage said. “We were granted approximately $3,200 this year. A good portion of that has gone toward the entry fee for the (NCLL), which we will be a full member of next year.”

Savage was motivated to increase the team’s profile because he believed there were many Brown students not playing varsity lacrosse that were interested in continuing to play the game competitively. Club lacrosse offers the competitive nature of the varsity game without see M. CLUB LAX, page 12

Courtesy of Tim Savage

The men’s club lacrosse team went 1-2 this weekend in its first competition as an associate member of the National College Lacrosse League.