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While Brown students could choose from 24 foreign languages when picking classes this year, there may be one missing from that list in the fall — Swedish. Brown currently offers four beginning and intermediate Swedish classes through the German department. Ann Weinstein, coordinator of the Swedish program, has been teaching the language at Brown since 1982, but has decided to retire at the end of this academic year. “Several years ago it was decided that at my retirement Swedish would be discontinued,” the 67-year-old instructor wrote in an e-mail that her husband, Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein, provided to The Herald. “These very small programs are vulnerable. I am sad Swedish will no longer be available.” Katherine Goodman, a professor of German studies who chairs the department, wrote in an e-mail that “the decision was not made by the Department of German Studies alone.” The change “was based on a number of complex issues which continued on page 4

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No first rule for Fed. Hill fight club By Chaz Firestone Features Editor

Cecily Dubusker wore a pointy red party hat as she taught proper workout posture to a handful of female twenty-somethings. She over-arched her spine (“this is what not to do”) and then collapsed into a slouch (“neither is this”) before settling into a “flat-back” position somewhere between the two. Then, lowering herself into a half-squat, she mimed two dumbbells with her fists and lifted them up to her

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The Coed Fight Club for Girls, a local workout group, is neither coed nor a fight club. But it is for girls.

chest. Islay Taylor scrunched up her face and shot Dubusker a cynical look. “Cecily, you look like a dinosaur.” A loud roar erupted from Dubusker, who stomped around the cement-floored studio and clawed fruitlessly at Taylor with Tyrannosaur arms as she kicked off another meeting of the Coed Fight Club for Girls. Self-styled as “a ragtag assemblage of Providence’s most motivated exercisers,” CFCFG is

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a group of fitness freaks and performance artists — “a Curves for the post-irony crowd,” Dubusker said. Neither coed nor a fight club, the group is certainly for girls, about 10 of whom show up to semiweekly meetings at the club’s de facto headquarters, a converted Federal Hill auto garage. Mostly artists and students in their midto-late 20s, the girls don booty shorts, brightly colored spandex continued on page 6

U. officials knew freshman faced child porn charges By Alex Roehrkasse Senior Staff Writer

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respond or declined to comment. Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger wrote in an e-mail that he and others had been instructed not to speak on the issue. One of Zolnierczyk’s teammates wrote in an e-mail that the hockey team has “been given strict rules not to comment or even respond to e-mails, phone calls or questions at all” concerning the case. The coaching staff has not returned repeated requests for comment by The Herald. Though the case has received coverage in the Canadian press since September, Zolnierczyk played 16 games for the ice hockey team this season, which began in late October and ended last week. Zolnierczyk last played on Feb. 16 against St. Lawrence University. It is not clear exactly when University officials became aware of the charges. Yesterday, Zolnierczyk’s arraignment was once again postponed in provincial court in Port Alberni, British Columbia. The adjournment until March 27 was

The University should create a center for the study of slavery-related issues, said faculty on a committee looking into making the study of slavery-related issues more central at Brown in a report recently submitted to the Provost and the President. The recommendation is the latest in the University’s ongoing effort to come to terms with its historic entanglements with slavery, a saga that began five years ago with President Ruth Simmons’ nationally scrutinized decision to appoint the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. That committee spent three years investigating Brown’s history, and then issued a 107-page report outlining the University’s ties to slavery and recommended that officials take action in response. Then, in February 2007, Brown’s highest governing body responded to the report, endorsing 12 ways it could begin to make amends for its historical connection to slavery. Just more than one year later, a step toward one of those proposals has been completed with the report to Simmons and Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 from a committee established to investigate an initiative for teaching and research on slavery and justice. The committee officially submitted its report on March 5, said Professor of Economics Glenn Loury, chair of the committee— a few months later than the committee had hoped when it began its work a year ago. The Office of the Provost has not yet made the report public, but it’s likely that the report will be released within the next couple of weeks, wrote Vincent Tompkins ’85, deputy provost and member of the committee, in an e-mail to The Herald. Loury said the committee suggested topics of focus for its proposed center, including “the interplay between the history and legacy of slavery” and “questions of justice.” “The center could start with the historical experience of slavery in the Americas and move out from that to do research on broader questions of massive disappearances, society-wide injustice,” Loury said. “In the Slavery and Justice report, slavery and the Atlantic slave trade represented crimes against humanity,” said Professor of Africana Studies James Campbell, chair of the Slavery and Justice Committee and a member of the committee Loury chairs. “Part of the recommendations we made in the original Slavery and Justice report is that any center should have that broad conceptual and comparative perspective,” Camp-

Harrison Zolnierczyk ’11 was released from the men’s hockey team on Feb. 21, the same day the Providence Journal published an article about criminal charges the Canadian native faces in British Columbia. But University officials were aware of the charges before the article’s publication. Director of Media Relations Molly DeRamel told The Herald that University officials “were aware of the matter” before Zolnierczyk, whose arraignment on charges of child pornography and voyeurism was postponed in court yesterday, was released from the team. DeRamel would not elaborate further. University representatives have since repeatedly declined to clarify the process behind Zolnierczyk’s release, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as preventing the disclosure of such information. Other than media relations officials, University personnel contacted by The Herald did not

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Brown Opera performs a classic myth By Lauren Pischel Contributing Writer

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Fusion Dance Company performed its 25th anniversary show last night.

Fusion brings dancing styles together for old time’s sake By Andrea Savdie Assistant Arts & Culture Editor

This weekend, Fusion Dance Company is presenting its 25th anniversary show, which features dances with influences ranging from street art and Chinese public parks to female body image and “The O.C.” The show opened Wednesday and will run through Sunday in Ashamu Dance Studio. True to Fusion’s multicultural and diverse character, the performance not only includes a wide variety of dance styles — flamenco, hip-hop, modern and jazz — but also blends them creatively to an eclectic mix of music. For those who have never seen flamenco danced to Queen or anything danced to Imogen Heap, this year’s Fusion performance will be a first. The show opens with the seductive, playful jazz number, “Don’t Tell Mama,” which was also performed last semester at the Fall Dance Concert. The piece, choreographed by Ashley Chung ’08, creates the atmosphere of a dim cabaret club. Dancers lip-synch and gesture theatrically in “Don’t Tell Mama,” which draws from musical theater to create an amusing piece that seems to parody its sources.

Moving from the cabaret to the bedroom, “Antithesis,” a darker piece choreographed by Owen David ’08, explores the violent side of love with “questions of domination, control and ownership,” according to the show’s program. Wearing only underwear, the dancers move lustfully and aggressively to Nine-Inch Nails’ “Just Like You Imagined,” stopping to mime shouting or breathe heavily. “I tend to make more think-y dances,” David said. “Moving for the sake of moving is very beautiful, but I like to make dances a little more compelling — give audiences something to think about, make their skin crawl, turn them on in some way.” One of the most powerful pieces in the show, “Antithesis” fulfilled David’s intentions. The dancers had to do a little more acting and bring in continued on page 4

Opening tonight, Italian opera “Orfeo ed Euridice,” performed by Brown Opera Productions, takes a new look at the Greek myth of tragic lovers. Composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the opera tells the tale of Orfeo (Sarah Hersman ’10) venturing into the underworld to retrieve his love Euridice (Nadine Dardee ’10). The opera has only three characters, each played by a woman in this performance because of the vocal range required by the roles. BOP performs this classical opera with powerful singers, dynamic dancers and a strong chamber orchestra from March 14 to 16 in Alumnae Hall. This production was revolutionar y when first performed in 1762 because of the simplicity of its plot. BOP embraces this purity and continues the opera’s tradition of innovation with an exquisite set, vivacious dancing and impassioned song. This production focuses on the themes of accepting change, man’s response to death and the irony of true love. The opera engages the spectators from the beginning. It opens with a chorus of mourners holding candles and somber cloaks processing through the audience toward the tomb of Euridice. The mourners ascend the stage and meet the grieving Orfeo, strewn across his lover’s sarcophagus. Orfeo threatens to kill himself

but is stopped by the appearance of Amore (Alex Bacovik ’10). She states that the gods, moved by Orfeo’s profound grief, will allow him to venture into the underworld and retrieve Euridice. But he cannot look at her until they have once again reached the world of the living. Orfeo embarks on his journey to the netherworld, with only his lute, which the producers replaced with a bronze hourglass, to protect him from the specters of hell. Once in Hades, Orfeo encounters the Furies, played by dancers with teased hair and smoky eyes. They are “female personifications of vengeance,” said choreographer Elise Nuding ’11. In a venting of emotion, the Furies dance themselves into a frenzy “of bitterness and spitefulness,” Nuding added. The dancers rhythmically taunt Orfeo in an attempt to scare him away, but with a resonating aria — an operatic soliloquy — he tames the Furies and passes into the Elysian Fields to find his love. After the two lovers reunite, Euridice begins to question why Orfeo will not look at her — has death made her ugly or has he been unfaithful, she wonders. The opera finishes with an ironic and well-staged conclusion, adding a slight twist to the classic ending. The opera derives it power from the passion behind it. “Opera and its grandness (are) so compelling,” said Masumi Hayashi-Smith ’10, director of “Orfeo ed Euridice.” “It

is pure and complex at the same time.” Opera may be seen as an art form of the Old World, but it is innovative here. It breaks the fourth wall and engages the audience from the actors’ entrance to the intricate set, said set designer Emily Dunne, a Rhode Island School of Design senior. Two serene white cr ystalline mountains fill the stage. The crystals then flow out into the audience and entwine the orchestra pit. The inspiration for the set comes from “platonic solids, Greek mountain scapes and classical orders,” Dunne said. This set is “my architectural crowning achievement,” she added. During the arias, images of blossoming flowers and fields that mirror the lyrical motifs are projected onto the white facades of the mountains, creating a visual bouquet that engages the audience. “Orfeo ed Euridice” is the most classical performance BOP has yet produced. Founded in 2005, the group produces one major opera annually. BOP staged Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Medium” — a 1950s opera — in 2006 and a modern interpretation of Enrique Granados’ “Goyescas” in 2007. BOP’s previous two per formances filled the house to capacity, Hayashi-Smith said. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, with a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday. Admission is free.

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continued from page 1 include the shifting needs of students for foreign language study,” said Goodman, though she did not identify what those needs were. Anne Weinstein serves as the head instructor for all of the Swedish classes. But her husband, Arnold Weinstein, who has taught at Stockholm University, said he often assists her in class. “It’s strange being in a class taught by a husband and wife,” said Graham Anderson ’10, a Herald opinions columnist currently enrolled in beginning Swedish. “They sometimes get into small arguments over the material.” Anderson said he would not be devastated if Swedish were not offered next year, but he would be disappointed. “I don’t think it’s very becoming of a school to just cancel a language if the instructor retires,” he said. Currently, the Office of International Programs does not require students to have studied Swedish to enroll in the University’s program with the University of Stockholm, making it one of only four study abroad programs at Brown without a language requirement. Though he does not intend to study abroad in Sweden, Anderson, who also knows French and German, said he enjoyed learning another language — especially when the Swedish introductory course did not require more than three class times a week. By contrast, other language classes at Brown meet usually four or fives times a week. Arnold Weinstein said Brown sends five to 10 students to Stockholm every year. “Sweden is a fabulous country to study, with a political culture and standard of living that are, to my thinking, quite eye-opening and instructive to Americans, for (the Swedish have) solved a good many of the social problems that are staring us in the face,” Arnold Weinstein said. Margaret Merritt ’11, another student in beginning Swedish, said she was excited to take the language this year, especially since she is a quarter Swedish and still has family living in Sweden. She is considering studying abroad and applying for an internship in the country. “I am very upset by” the change, she said. “Another student in the class and I are looking into doing a (Group Independent Study Project) for Swedish next year if another professor is not hired,” she said.

bell said. But he added, “That doesn’t reflect a desire to somehow dilute any prospective center’s focus on slavery. The reason we’re having this discussion is because of what happened in this country, specifically the country’s long trafficking of Africans.” Loury said the report recommends the prospective center study the legacies of slavery in contemporary society and named such potential topics as “racial inequality” and “the massive racial disproportion in our prisons.” The report also suggested collaboration with departments like Africana Studies, Urban Studies and Ethnic Studies, Loury said. “Some of the initiatives would involve new courses,” said Associate Professor of Political Science Sharon Krause, another member of the committee. Krause said the center would also hold conferences and symposiums. Loury said the center would involve faculty and students in research and would bring in outside scholars. The creation of a center would integrate research and teaching on slavery-related issues into the University’s life, Loury said. “The creation of a new institute or a center was the best way to ensure an institutional presence in an ongoing way into the indefinite future,” Loury said. “We recommend in the report that endowment funds be raised to support the basic activities of the center in perpetuity.” Loury said he anticipates fund raising will be necessary for the center’s creation and support. The committee will appear before the Academic Priorities Committee to present its proposal, Loury said. “Anything that happens has to go past (the APC),” he said. The APC, chaired by Kertzer, makes recommendations to Simmons about academic programs. The APC meeting, which had originally been planned for March 18, was recently postponed, Loury wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. The committee will discuss the report after Simmons has reviewed it, Assistant Provost Shelley Stephenson wrote in an e-mail, adding that the meeting will be held in April at the soonest. Slow progress on fund A commitment to endow a $10million Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence to assist Providence public schools made the biggest headlines of the initiatives approved by the Corporation last February, but most of the money for that project remains to be raised. There is currently $300,000 in the endowment fund, Simmons wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“I have been raising funds for the endowment and have received favorable responses from a number of potential donors,” Simmons wrote. “I expect additional gifts will be committed to the endowment before the end of the academic year.” The fund received $250,000 for immediate use from an anonymous donor in October, but none has been allocated to projects in Providence public schools yet, Assistant to the President Marisa Quinn said. The committee in charge of the fund has asked the superintendent of the Providence public school district to consider spending priorities, Quinn said. But the superintendent has made no specific suggestions yet, she said. The committee itself, led by three alums, has met once since the announcement was made last year, and not all of the members could attend that meeting, Quinn said. She added that the committee will meet in the next month or so to discuss criteria for reviewing projects and proposals.

A Mississippi connection Among the other proposed responses to the Slavery and Justice report, the Corporation recommended strengthening the bond between Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Jackson, Miss. Brown has had a student exchange program with Tougaloo since 1964. Valerie Wilson, director of the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership, said she has presented Simmons with a list of items that could accomplish this goal. One is the installation of a “smart” classroom on Tougaloo’s campus, Wilson said. Such a classroom could include technology that makes teaching easier, such as interactive electronic whiteboards. Wilson said the classroom would allow Brown and Tougaloo to share curricula and academic expertise at lower cost. The classroom would also allow faculty from Brown and Tougaloo to co-teach courses, Wilson said. The “smart” classroom installation could be accomplished sooner than other proposals Wilson has sent to Simmons, Wilson said. But not enough concrete decisions have been made to discuss funding for such a project, said Elizabeth McCurdy, program coordinator for the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership. According to Wilson, another proposal is a research conference between Brown and Tougaloo about slavery-related issues examined from Tougaloo’s perspective. “The research conference has been agreed to in concept,” Wilson said. She said the conference may be held at Tougaloo in spring 2009. Tougaloo administrators and faculty are scheduled to visit Brown next month to discuss the research conference and develop it further, Wilson said.

Other proposals that faculty and administrators will discuss in April include the participation of Tougaloo faculty as part of Brown’s contingent in the Trilateral Reconnections project, Wilson said. The Trilateral Reconnections project is a form of collaborative scholarship among Brown’s Department of Africana Studies, the University of Cape Town in South Africa and the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, Wilson said. Another project underway is the re-enactment of the trial of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, McCurdy said. In 1955, Bryant and Milam were tried for and acquitted of the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, galvanizing the Civil Rights movement. The transcripts from the trial were recently released, McCurdy said. She said the BrownTougaloo Partnership would like to stage re-enactments of the trial on both campuses. “The format would be very interactive,” McCurdy said. The staged productions would involve attendees as jurors and other participants in the trial, she said. McCurdy said there is currently no timeline for the production but that Simmons has indicated support for this and other items suggested for strengthening Brown and Tougaloo’s bond. Waiving tuition to help R.I. In addition to the Providence school fund, an effort at community outreach called for by the University’s official Slavery and Justice response involved waiving tuition for 10 masters students in the Department of Education annually. That program will enroll its first students in the 2008-09 academic year, Quinn said. Eight students will pursue masters degrees in teaching and two will pursue masters in urban education policy. In exchange for the waived tuition, recipients will commit to three years of service in low-income schools in Rhode Island following graduation, said Kenneth Wong, chair of the Department of Education. Wong said the graduate program is in the process of admitting the first-ever group of fellows for the upcoming academic year, and it has already received nearly 40 applications for the 10 spots. “We are quite pleased that there are that many applicants interested in working in Rhode Island and Providence for three years,” Wong said. Wong said the department is happy with the diversity and quality of the applicants, who must submit an additional essay explaining their passion for urban education or educational policy and why they are wellsuited to work in Rhode Island after graduation. While the program is a “significant investment on the part of

• Create a commission that would decide how to memorialize the impact of slavery in R.I. • Consider how to institutionalize the study of slaveryrelated issues • Strengthen relationship with Tougaloo College • Raise money for a $10-million endowment for Prov. public schools • Waive tuition for 10 master’s students in the Education Department who would agree to work in Providence-area public schools for three years after graduating

Brown,” Wong said, the potential payoff is significant, too. “In three years, we’ll have 30 of these people,” Wong said. “In 10 years, we’ll have 100 of these folks. A lot of these students and fellows are very committed to urban education improvement.” Wong said the program would help Brown expand its partnership with Rhode Island’s low-income school districts. “In order to make sure that our inner-city minority students have equal opportunities in the marketplace, we need to invest in public education,” Wong said. “Education is such an important part of social mobility in the long run.” Considering commemoration A 10-member committee for the public commemoration of slavery’s history in Rhode Island, formed in response to another proposal of the Corporation, has met five or six times, Quinn said. A formal committee chair has not been named, Quinn said, but Simmons has been acting in that capacity. She said the committee members have visited other museums and exhibits to see examples of historical commemoration, but they have not decided what form a memorial will take or where it will be located. “The feeling, generally, is that this is a very complicated and complex arena,” Quinn said. She said the committee, which includes representatives from the University, city and state government officials and a former director of Rhode Island Black Heritage Society, will probably spend the next year reviewing their thoughts and feelings about the memorial. Brown may approach Providence and the state of Rhode Island about undertaking a joint project in addition to an on-campus memorial, wrote Simmons. “It is to be noted that a memorial might take the form of an annual event, a physical site or a ceremony rather than a monument,” she wrote.

Fusion draws from break dance, ‘The O.C.’ in final Ashamu performance continued from page 3 stories of past relationships to create the piece, David said. Other pieces are less cerebral, like the upbeat hip-hop piece “Don’t think ... just dance,” choreographed by Annesley O’Neal ’08 to a mix of music by artists like 50 Cent and Chris Brown. The lights got brighter when dancers took the stage to perform “The Dearly Beloved,” also choreographed by Chung and named after the second season finale of television show “The O.C.” The performance uses a song

from the show, Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek,” and dancers moved gracefully to the heavily emphasized vocal harmonies. Chung created the dance because she really liked the song, she said. At first she thought it was just a series of pretty movements, but throughout the rehearsal process it became very personal and emotional, she said. Melissa Martinez ’08, who, according to the program, spent two months taking flamenco classes in Barcelona while she was abroad, choreographed the flamenco dance “Mad Beats and Skirt Swings.” During the first part

of the piece, a couple dances to the clapping of several other performers standing to one side of the stage. Eventually, Queen’s “Innuendo” comes on and the clapping dancers join in, using their colorful skirts and imaginary castanets to accompany the rhythmic stomping. Jake Ricciardi ’09’s “Jook n’ Jive at the Crabbuckit” is an original blend of dance styles intended to examine the influence of swing-era jazz on 1980s break dancing and modernday hip-hop, Ricciardi said. With suspender-clad performers combining movements from styles such as

the Charleston and break dancing, the piece traces “the evolution of jazzinfluenced social dances,” according to the program. Like the jazz traditions and street styles it draws on, the dance effectively balances freestyle movement with the structure of group performance. The “upbeat and fun” piece is meant to show the performers “dancing hard, sweating hard and loving it the entire time,” Ricciardi said. This year’s show is particularly meaningful, one of the dancers announced, not only for the graduating seniors, but for the entire company since it will be the last year they have

the opportunity to use Ashamu. Because the Department of Theater, Speech and Dance is trying to expand and offer more classes, student groups will not be allowed to rehearse in Ashamu starting next semester, Ricciardi said. Along with other student groups, Fusion is trying to rally support to “push for the Corporation to put performing arts on their agenda,” Ricciardi said. The company is asking audience members to sign a petition during the show. Performances are tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

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Protesters, donated shoes take stand on state budget By Colin Chazen Contributing Writer

More than one hundred pairs of used shoes made a winding path through the State House Thursday, from the rotunda up to the governor’s office, as part of a demonstration against proposed budget cuts. Members of the group Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere collected and placed the shoes as part of a protest against Gov. Donald Carcieri’s ’65 plan to reduce the state budget in part by cutting funding for social services programs, said Meghna Philip ’11, a co-coordinator of the group. The demonstrators also held a press conference at the state house about the proposed cuts, she said. The shoes are meant to say, “Don’t take a step backwards,” said Megan Smith ’10, the other co-coordinator of the group. The “Shoe-In” was held with the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless and the Rhode Islandbased organization People to End Homelessness. They protested what HOPE organizers call the governor’s failure to live up to his promise to create enough new housing to accommodate every person displaced by the closing of the Welcome Arnold shelter in Cranston last year. HOPE collected the shoes in boxes around campus. Each pair

of shoes was intended to represent about one bed that has not been replaced since the closing, organizers said. “It seems like the governor and the state in general has gotten very caught up in the economics of the issue and has lost sight of the fact that these are real people that face devastating effects if these changes are put in place,” Philip said. Although they are separate issues, Jim Ryczek, executive director of Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, said he and other organizers are trying to link the closing of Welcome Arnold and the newest round of budget cuts. “There’s a pattern here in the governor’s thinking,” he said. “He’s reportedly trying to look out for all Rhode Islanders, but he’s trying to balance the budget on the backs of Rhode Island’s poorest.” The students also placed an information table on the Main Green on Thursday and urged people to call the governor’s office and object to the budget cuts. HOPE grew out of a Swearer Center for Public Service winter break project in 2005, said Alan Flam P’05, a senior fellow at the Swearer Center. That January, a group of around 30 students lived at the Beneficent Church on Weybosset Street while working on projects within the community. When existing shelters filled

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Student group Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere placed shoes in the State House rotunda before donating them to the homeless. up because of high demand in the cold weather, the church opened its doors and became a temporary shelter to the homeless as well as the students, Flam said. The experience galvanized the students, who became part of the vanguard of a movement to open a new shelter, he said. At the end of their project, Flam urged the students to continue their work. He said he wanted to see them try something beyond the usual panels or awareness events that students often organize in response to housing issues, he said. The students formed HOPE as

an organization designed to work “in solidarity with people that are homeless,” Smith said. The group, which receives funding and guidance from the Swearer Center, is involved with a number of local housing organizations. They are also help administer Rosemary’s Way, a local women’s shelter. The demonstration’s student organizers said they hope to convince legislators to object to Carcieri’s plan and look elsewhere for places to cut the budget. After the demonstration, the shoes were recollected to be distributed to the homeless community.

Following tree toppling, sculpture to be dismantled By Susan Kovar Contributing Writer

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A tree fell on an art installation on the Quiet Green over the weekend. The installation will be partly taken down.

Patrick Dougherty’s installation of saplings on the Front Green was supposed to be on view for only a year, but it has lasted for a year and a half. But after an elm tree fell on the sculpture last weekend, the University is finally considering taking it down. “It was very upsetting, both for the beautiful elm and the piece,” said Professor of Visual Art Richard Fishman. “It was quite a shock.” The piece was installed in the fall of 2006. Fishman, who is on a

Donahue ’11 cashes in as virtual arms dealer First-year’s mom got him into Second Life By Caroline Sedano Senior Staff Writer

Before setting foot on Brown’s campus, Evan Donahue ’11 made thousands of dollars creating weapons to summon damned souls and create rifts in space-time fabric to suck in adversaries. The weapons systems were for the virtual world of Second Life, a popular online role-playing game. But the money — more than $20,000 — was very real. “Second Life is like an empty world in which users can do whatever they want,” Donahue said. “Some people can meet friends and talk or build fantastic landscapes. Some people fight with each other. I program things for people to fight each other with.” Started in 2003 by Linden Labs, Second Life is an online world with

a similar concept to EA Games’ The Sims. In Second Life, a player creates an avatar and then is free to network, get a job, buy a house, buy clothing, have sex or fight other “residents” — as users do in the video game World of Warcraft. Some companies (Toyota and Calvin Klein), bands (Oasis) and even presidential candidates (John Edwards) have a presence in Second Life. Second Life is built to mimic real life. Following the lead of Wikipedia — the pages of which can be edited by anyone — any user can create programs for this online world. But unlike in The Sims, Second Life users can create items and then buy or sell them for “Linden Dollars,” which translate into real U.S. Dollars. Thousands of Second Life users have bought Donahue’s combat systems, which cost between $4 and $12. In February, users made $328,122 in transactions in Second Life, according to the Second Life Web site. The Web site also says that there are

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more than 12 million Second Life users, and about 1.3 million have logged on to the world in the past 60 days. Somewhat strangely, Donahue discovered Second Life through his mother. Donahue said his mother, an English professor at Duke University, was looking at the virtual world’s social aspect and had the program up on her computer. “I was bored and clicked on it and realized what I can do, but I didn’t really expect to make money,” he said, adding he created one weapon system a couple years ago, and the other before coming to Brown last summer. Second Life itself provides tools for anyone to create items and programs within the virtual world. Donahue took some programming courses in high school, but said mostly he figured it out on his own. Donahue thinks that his weapons, which he said at one point were continued on page 6

subcommittee that plans public art on campus, said the University now plans to take down the broken pieces of the installation, which was set up in the fall of 2006, to see if parts of it can be salvaged. Dougherty said that his installations are designed to last for about continued on page 6

An Amtrak train struck three railroad workers Thursday afternoon just north of the Providence station, killing one and injuring the other two. At about 1:15 p.m., the northbound Acela train number 2154, which runs from Washington to Boston, hit the two Amtrak employees and one contractor, all of whom were inspecting the rails, according to an Amtrak statement. It is unclear which worker was killed, and the two injured workers were rushed to a local hospital, the statement said. Vernae Graham, an Amtrak spokeswoman, had no information Thursday night beyond the company’s statement. Following the incident, traffic was suspended on the Providence-Boston line until 3:48 p.m., when service re-commenced. Train 2154 was released after investigation and continued to Boston. Slight delays were expected to affect traffic yesterday evening but there should be no significant schedule changes today, the statement said. MBTA trains continued to run throughout the day, and their schedule is unaffected by the incident, the Providence Journal reported. In the area where the workers were hit, the maximum train speed limit is 55 mph. Train 2154 was operating below that limit when the workers were struck, the statement said. Train 2154 was transporting 162 passengers and six employees when the workers were hit, the statement said. — Max Mankin

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Nature takes ‘Fight Club’ girls break a sweat in bar, music video gigs out public art on Green continued from page 1

and Flashdance-style leg warmers and take guidance from Dubusker, the club’s founder.

continued from page 5 two years. “Nature often takes them back,” he said, noting that other pieces have been destroyed by excessive snow, trees falling on them and the sculptures themselves drying out. He said he thinks that after the installations begin falling apart, it is necessary to take down the broken pieces. “They still need to look good,” he said. Public art on campus is planned by a committee of faculty and staff. Members of the committee include Fishman, David Winton Bell Gallery Director Jo-Ann Conklin, President Ruth Simmons, University Curator Robert Emlen and Professor of History of Art and Architecture Dietrich Neumann. Fishman said that even before the elm fell, he had been receiving heartfelt e-mails from students and community members praising the installation. “We didn’t realize that it would have such a strong presence,” Fishman said. Dougherty called the emails a “true compliment,” adding, “I think it is one of my better pieces.” Steven Aguiar ’11 said he enjoyed the installation. “I thought it added personality to the Quiet Green,” he said. “I definitely like it, but I haven’t seen it recently,” said Jennifer Chung ’11. “I think it would be great if they could preserve it. I remember being impressed with it at orientation.” The elm tree has a long history on campus. Raymond Butti, senior library specialist on scholarly resources and archives, said University archives have in-depth information on the national epidemic of the Dutch elm disease, which was brought over to the United State from Europe in the late 1920s and had ravaged the population of Dutch elms by the early 1970s. He said that strong hurricanes in 1938 and 1954 also had an effect on the elm tree population on campus. The elms that are now on campus were memorialized at just about the same time the Dougherty installation was put up. Fishman used a crosssection of an actual elm tree that fell in front of the Watson Institute for International Studies to cast elm sculptures as part of the Elm Tree Project, in which a bronze bench will be installed on the Walk. Additionally, great care was taken during construction of the Watson Center to preserve the elm that stands at its Thayer Street entrance. Fishman said Simmons was responsible for bringing Dougherty’s work to campus. Simmons saw Dougherty’s work when she was president of Smith College, Fishman said, and was impressed by it. Fishman said the subcommittee is currently focusing on artwork in new campus buildings and does not have a new sculpture scheduled.

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‘Absolutely sinister’ “Tonight is special,” said cofounder Rebecca Zuch. “We’re working our backs.” “Let’s grab some clubs!” Dubusker said as she handed out bowling pin-shaped weights borrowed from the Brown women’s tennis team, where Dubusker is an assistant coach. The girls paid close attention to the 27-year-old, a former tennis standout at Drake University. She confidently swung the hefty clubs across her body in a “baseballthrow-like motion” as she offered instruction to exercisers with skills as eclectic as their outfits. “You know, like, a charity baseball league?” Dubusker said. “Throw the way they throw.” A sardonic Taylor again provided the color commentary, this time clutching the heaviest set of clubs and swinging her arms in wide circles: “I wonder if this is how the rock lobster swims.” It wasn’t always like this. A year and a half ago, Dubusker and Zuch were looking for a way to stay fit in the winter months and decided to form a workout group with their more active friends. Adapting the exercise regimen of the tennis team, Dubusker introduced the group to “cardiovascular weightlifting,” a hybrid of the two styles meant to cherry pick the best of both. “CFCFG has very humble origins,” Dubusker said. “It used to be just four of us working out in our living room.” But interest in the group increased steadily, and soon the girls outgrew their modest Broadway Street apartment. “Plus, the chandelier started shaking,” Zuch said. So the group packed up their weights and moved a few blocks south to the spacious Washington Street art studio of painter and group member Josie Morway. Along the way, the group acquired a MySpace page and its misleading moniker. By this time, word of the group had spread around the city’s trendier circles. But CFCFG’s formal introduction to the Providence scene came this past January, when the group’s Taylor-led public relations arm landed the girls a guest bartending gig at E+O Tap, a popular bar down the street from Morway’s studio. Holding liquor in one hand and dumbbells in the other, the girls served drinks to surprised

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At E+O Top Bar, Stephanie Farrar, right, of the Coed Fight Club for Girls, shows off “feats of strength.” but excited patrons while dancing to pump-up music. Bar co-owner Mike Kelly liked the theatrics — and the draw — enough to invite the girls over for a second night, expecting much of the same. But what he didn’t expect were the newly minted uniforms — green, blue or red booty shorts with a cursive CFCFG logo and white tank tops with a cartoonish print of an intoxicated strongwoman crushing a horse. “It was absolutely sinister,” Kelly said. “I’ve never seen anything like that.” This time, the girls opted for a “feats of strength” theme and arm wrestled, weight lifted and piggybacked their way to another successful night, topping off more than a few glasses in the process. “Cecily goes out there lifting huge guys and I lock it down on the register,” Taylor said. “I say things like, ‘Darling would you like another drink?’ and they say, ‘Two,’ ‘cause you called them ‘darling’ and there’s tits and ass all over the place.” Call on them With two bartending gigs under their stretchable waistbands, CFCFG is looking ahead to bigger and better projects, and they’re wasting little time. In addition to being “back muscle day,” last Thursday was also the first rehearsal for the club’s next and most audacious undertaking — a move-for-move recreation of Eric Prydz’ “Call on Me” music video, to be shot next month.

Set in a dance studio, the original music video features eight women in peak shape and revealing clothing performing sexually suggestive and often challenging workout moves. The girls have their work cut out for them, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their faces. Zuch has taken the logistical lead on the project and typed up a chronological list of all the video’s steps. She stood at the front of the studio and called out moves like “Inhalation Star” — reaching above your head and lowering your arms to the side with spirit fingers — and “Towel Solo” — a titillating, one-woman sequence with a sweaty cloth. The girls responded enthusiastically, making up for a lack of coordination with an excess of effort. “I’ve been growing my hair out for eight months to make this happen,” said Dubusker, whose brown locks are nearing shoulder length. “My hair has never been as long in my life as it is now.” And though they’ll be sure to perform in full CFCFG attire — “we are Providence’s largest buyers of American Apparel,” laughed Dubusker — the girls haven’t settled on a location. “We could shoot it at WaterFire,” Dubusker said. “That’s more than WaterFire deserves,” shot back Emily Walter. A sisterhood Underneath the booty shorts and leg warmers, CFCFG is still the workout club it was more than a year ago, if a little more glamorous.

The girls are serious about fitness, and they certainly break a sweat. Dubusker leads a fast-paced, high-rep workout, pushing her clubmates to curl, jump and squat their way into shape. She combines leg lifts with crunches and introduces obscure exercises like “the complex,” which lives up to its name and combines explosive jumps with butt-firming squats. “No one’s ever barfed,” Zuch said, “but we will have a commemorative trophy when someone does.” “More like a commemorative bib,” quipped Dubusker. But for the club founder, the camaraderie and sisterhood of the group has made CFCFG especially meaningful. “People realize they’re stronger for being in the group than they would be on their own,” Dubusker said. “With the tennis team, it’s like there’s a higher power we’re working for, and it’s the same idea here — we’re all sort of riding on each other’s motivation.” “It’s sort of an interesting mirror in my life,” she added. “I get to do the exercises with the team and then with my friends.” But for all her philosophizing, the athletic extravagance of her club is what truly drives Dubusker — after all, it’s in her blood. “My mom went white-water rafting when she was eight months pregnant with me,” Dubusker said. “When she told me, she was like, ‘I was the only one who didn’t get tossed!’”

First-year uses skills to get rich off Second Life continued from page 5 the second-most popular item sold in the Second Life marketplace, are so successful because of their complexity. These aren’t simple guns that obey real-world laws of physics — instead, the weapons “basically allow you to do a wide range of nasty things to people and wide range of ways to protect yourself,” he said. One of the combat systems is the “Souls of the Damned Summoning Crystal.” The weapon’s title is self-explanatory — the Second Life Exchange, a marketplace similar to eBay, describes the crystal as something that will “command the undying souls of ancient warriors and direct them to kill, torture, or imprison your opponent, or protect

you and alert you to danger.” The other system Donahue designed is the “Overlord Combat System.” It provides users with a package of offensive and defensive weapons, such as “dark rift,” which “tear(s) open the fabric of spacetime to create a void that will suck in nearby avatars,” according to the Second Life Exchange “It is an interesting exercise in programming in a unique environment,” Donahue said. “You want to create something that can beat the things that everyone else can create.” Weapons are only one aspect of Second Life’s bustling trade. Products from clothing lines, animals — even Michelangelo’s frescos to decorate your Second Life house — are sold and traded every day

for real money. This means that people like Donahue are making quite a lot of money. In 2006, Wired Magazine reported that Anshe Chung was the first person to make $1 million on Second Life through real-estate developments in the virtual world. That same year, Jennifer Grinnell quit her job as a furniture-delivery dispatcher to earn four times as much as a clothing designer on Second Life, Wired reported. “People sell basically whatever you can imagine,” Donahue said. But Second Life isn’t just a marketplace. Many universities around the country, including Harvard and San Jose State University, in California, use Second Life as teaching tools in their classrooms. With more than $20,000 in his

(real-life) bank from only two programs, Donahue has no immediate plans to program more products for Second Life. And he doesn’t seem to know what to do with all the money he’s already made. “I’ll probably hold onto it until it doesn’t seem like that much,” he said. Other than the money, Donahue’s experience with Second Life has given him the opportunity to speak about the virtual world at Duke and in MCM 0230: “Digital Media” at Brown. “I think anything that sort of captures this evolution of a social phenomenon deser ves this academic analysis,” he said. “Professors are using Second Life as a looking glass for ideas about globalization, identity and place.”

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Clinton courts superdelegates at home WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Having perfected the art of town hall meetings on the campaign trail, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is now holding them in a more comfortable setting: her living room. On Wednesday night, Clinton hosted several dozen members of Congress at a private reception at her house on Whitehaven Street in the District of Columbia. Most of the guests were confirmed supporters, many from New York and Arkansas, making it something of a friendsand-family affair. But the real mission of the evening was to court unaligned lawmakers — who are also superdelegates in the party’s nominating process — especially those from important states. And at least one, Rep. Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, chose to use the session to pose the kinds of questions voters usually aim at him rather than treating it as a polite political cocktail party. Officially undecided on which candidate to back, Altmire said he asked Clinton what she expected superdelegates to do if Sen. Barack Obama winds up having won the popular vote and the larger number of delegates in a majority of states. As on Thursday evening, Obama was leading Clinton in overall delegate totals 1,602 to 1,497, according to an Associated Press tally. A total of 2,025 delegates are needed to secure the nomination. Clinton replied that superdelegates exist for a reason, and should use their own judgment as to which would be the best general election candidate for the party. But Altmire said he wasn’t so sure. “If Sen. Obama is in that position, it’s going to be very hard to overturn that,” Altmire, a freshman from the western part of Pennsylvania, said Thursday. But he added, “She’s likely to do really well in my district and in Pennsylvania, so that’s another consideration.” He said he’s been bombarded with calls from both campaigns, but doesn’t mind. “I really want to hear from both sides,” Altmire said. “I feel an obligation to do as much as I can to get to know the two candidates.” The two-hour event (cocktails, followed by brief remarks from the candidate and a gather-round-the-hearth question session) came as both Clinton and Obama returned to Washington for a turn at their day jobs in the Senate, a forum in which they both crossed paths with each other and were also immersed in the potentially rich pool of superdelegates who work alongside them on Capitol Hill. Clinton’s event focused on House members — a letter sent out afterward said about 60 attended — and Obama was reportedly meeting with unaligned members on Thursday as well. — Shaleigh Murray and Anne Kornblut

Florida Dems propose ‘do-over’ vote WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Florida Democrats, seeking a solution to the dispute over its delegates to the party’s national nominating convention, Thursday proposed a do-over primary in June that would be conducted largely by mail, though even the idea’s sponsors expressed pessimism that the plan will ever be implemented. Party chairman Karen Thurman proposed the vote-by-mail primary in a message sent to state and national party leaders and officials in the campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, calling it the only option available to resolve the impasse and assure that Florida’s delegation is seated at the Denver convention. Both Florida and Michigan held presidential primaries in January, earlier than was allowed under Democratic National Committee rules, and both states were stripped of their delegates and denied seating at the coming national convention. Now, with Obama and Clinton in a tense battle for the Democratic nomination in which every delegate is crucial, both states have been exploring options for a new vote that would win approval of the DNC and the two presidential candidates. Thurman’s plan calls for the primary to be held on June 3, the last Tuesday of the nominating season, with ballots mailed out at least two weeks prior to that date. The state party estimated the cost at between $10 million and $12 million, with wealthy donors expected to pick up the cost. But even in offering the proposal, Thurman sounded gloomy about its chances of winning acceptance. The Associated Press reported that when she was asked to rate the proposal’s chances of being accepted, she replied, “I have a feeling that this is probably closer to not than yes.” Earlier this week, Democratic House members from Florida — including supporters of both Clinton and Obama and those who are still neutral — announced their opposition to a new primary, including one conducted by mail. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., on the other hand, had suggested a vote-by-mail primary as a way out of the current impasse. DNC Chairman Howard Dean, appearing in Florida on Wednesday, expressed concern about the divisions among state Democrats. “Here’s the bottom line,” he told CNN. “We’d like to find a way to seat Florida and Michigan. We’d like to do it in a way that’s fair, that both sides believe is fair. Fair to the voters but also fair to the campaigns.” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said the Illinois senator would like to see Florida Democrats and DNC officials reach agreement but noted that there were logistical hurdles to a vote-by-mail plan that “neither the state party nor the congressional delegation seem to think are surmountable.” Clinton’s campaign continued to press for either a revote or for simply seating the delegates in the state, which she carried easily. “We believe that the votes of the approximately 1.7 million people who participated in the Florida primary should be counted,” said spokesman Phil Singer. “If that’s not possible, we think a state primary that doesn’t leave the taxpayers with the bill is the best way to ensure that those voters are not disenfranchised.” — Dan Balz

Report: FBI misused info-gathering power By Dan Eggen Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The FBI continued to improperly obtain private telephone, e-mail and financial records five years after it was granted expanded powers under the USA Patriot Act, according to a report issued Thursday. In a review focusing on FBI investigations in 2006, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine found numerous privacy breaches by the bureau in its use of national security letters, or NSLs, which allowed the FBI to obtain personal information on tens of thousands of Americans and foreigners without approval from a judge. The findings mirror a report issued by Fine’s office last year, which concluded that the FBI had improperly used the letters to obtain telephone logs, banking records and other personal data for three previous years, from 2003 to 2005. The pattern persisted in 2006, Fine concluded in the report issued Thursday, in part because the FBI had not yet halted the shoddy record-keeping, poor oversight and other practices that contributed to the problems. He also said it was unclear whether reforms enacted by the Justice Department and FBI last year will address all the issues identified by his investigators. “The FBI and Department of Justice have shown a commitment to addressing these problems,” Fine said in a statement. “However, several of the FBI’s and the Department’s corrective measures are not yet fully implemented, and it is too early to determine whether these measures will eliminate the problems with the use of these authorities.”

The findings reignited criticism Thursday from Democrats and civil liberties groups, who said the FBI’s repeated misuse of its informationgathering powers underscores the need for greater oversight by Congress and the courts to protect the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, drew a comparison between the FBI’s NSL abuses and the Bush administration’s push to enact a new surveillance law that would expand the government’s ability to spy on Americans without warrants. President Bush has threatened to veto a bill introduced this week by House Democrats that would place more limits on surveillance capabilities than the administration favors and would not give telecommunication companies immunity from lawsuits for past aid they provided the government. “At the same time the administration is trying to intimidate the Congress into giving it additional spying power, we find out yet again that it has abused its authority to pry into the lives of law abiding Americans,” Conyers said in a statement. Justice spokesman Dean Boyd said in a statement that Fine’s report “should come as no surprise” because it focused on a period prior to the time a host of procedural changes were introduced at the FBI, including creation of the Office of Integrity and Compliance to oversee the use of security letters and other special powers. “The Inspector General correctly emphasizes the need for sustained oversight of the FBI’s use of NSLs and

concludes that the senior leadership of the Justice Department and the FBI are committed to addressing these issues and continue to devote significant energy, time, and resources to this effort,” Boyd said. According to Fine’s report, the FBI continued to rely heavily on national security letters in counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cybercrime investigations, issuing nearly 50,000 of the documents in 2006 alone. Nearly 200,000 were issued from 2003 through 2006, the report said, and were used in a third of all FBI national security probes during that time. Fine said that FBI employees “selfreported” 84 possible violations of laws or guidelines for the use of NSLs in 2006, which “was significantly higher than the number of reported violations in prior years.” But Fine noted that his office already had begun its initial probe into NSLs by that time, which might have contributed to the increase. The violations that were reported by the FBI included issuing NSLs without correct authorizations, the “over-collection” of telephone or Internet records and making improper requests in the letters. About a quarter of the incidents were the result of mistakes by telephone or Internet providers, but many of those cases should have been caught by the FBI earlier, Fine said. Thursday’s report did not address allegations related to other documents, including “blanket NSLs” and exigency letters, that have been used by the FBI to gather vast amounts of data without court oversight. Fine said he will issue a separate report on those issues in coming months.

Governor-to-be Paterson says he’s ready By Keith B. Richburg and Robin Shulman Washington Post

NEW YORK — Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who on Monday takes over the leadership of a state still stunned by the swift downfall of its governor in a sex scandal, Thursday declared himself ready to take over and said, “Now we have to get New York back on track.” “I am prepared,” said Paterson, speaking to reporters in the state capitol, Albany. “At this point, it is time to get back to the business of the state.” Acknowledging the unusual circumstances that have thrust him to the spotlight, Paterson said, “I did not get to this position in the way that most people have or that most people would want.” As Paterson spoke in Albany, the departing governor, Eliot Spitzer, spent another day out of public view in his upper East Side Manhattan apartment, making no appearances and issuing no statements despite the media throng encamped outside. And 55 blocks to the South, in the city’s Flatiron district, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the 22-year-old prostitute whose alleged February liaison with Spitzer in a Washington hotel was monitored by federal agents, also remained out of sight in her apartment building, with another media throng outside. According to federal law enforcement sources, agents wiretapping Spitzer recorded him making ar-

rangements with a high-end escort service, Emperors Club VIP, to meet a girl named “Kristen” — identified in media reports as Dupre — at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, and transferring money to one of the escort service’s front companies. After their two-hour tryst, the governor paid the prostitute an additional $4,300, according to a complaint. Spitzer announced Wednesday that he would resign, but he still faces the possibility of legal charges. These could include trying to hide the payments to the escort service to avoid federal bank reporting requirements and paying Dupre’s train fare to Washington, an act that could violate a federal stature called the “Mann Act,” originally instituted to combat “white slavery.” The U.S. attorney in Manhattan has not said whether any charges will be filed against Spitzer. In New York, johns who use prostitutes are not normally prosecuted. Current and former prosecutors not involved in the investigation said that charges of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate travel for the purpose of prostitution, would be unusual enough to expose the Justice Department to criticism. Based on what is now publicly known, the prosecutors said, Spitzer’s legal problems may center on whether he structured escort service payments in small increments to keep to evade IRS reporting requirements. In all likelihood, they said, senior Justice Department officials would be consulted about bringing any case.

Paterson, asked whether Spitzer should be prosecuted, was sympathetic to his friend, while acknowledging that others might not be so forgiving. “I think he’s suffered enough,” Paterson said, but he added that others who feel betrayed by Spitzer “probably think whatever punishment he might get wouldn’t be enough.” “This is why we have dispassionate law enforcement that looks into these situations,” Paterson said. “We should leave it in their hands and support them, which I do.” Dupre, meanwhile, faces her own legal problems. She has received a grand jur y subpoena to testify against the four owners charged with operating Emperors Club VIP, according to Dupre’s lawyer, Don Buchwald. Buchwald said he would not confirm that Dupre was “Kristen.” He said, “I can’t say more than generally confirming the accuracy of the personal information about Ashley” that appeared in media reports. Asked how the young woman was doing in the intense glare of the New York media spotlight, Buchwald said, “Under the circumstances, she’s doing fine.” Daniel Parker is a lawyer for Cecil Suwal, one of the four charged with running the escort service. “Any case as scandalous and lurid as this one would be overwhelming for anybody accused of committing a crime. My client was arrested and accused of being part of this prostitution ring,” he said. “It’s overwhelming for her.”

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continued from page 1 jointly requested by the prosecution and defense. Zolnierczyk’s arraignment has been postponed several times since it was first slated for Oct. 11. Zolnierczyk faces two counts of voyeurism and three counts of child pornography, said Port Alberni Provincial Crown Counsel Gordon Baines, who is prosecuting the case. The charges were sworn in court in July 2007, said Cpl. Robert Foster, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A representative from Baines’ office confirmed that the prosecution and defense had jointly requested a postponement of Zolnierczyk’s arraignment until March 27, but could not confirm whether a plea would be entered on that date. Zolnierczyk’s lawyer, Richard Fowler, could not be reached for comment. Baines said the adjournment was expected because the prosecution is still in the process of disclosing to the defense its case against Zolnierczyk. The charges against Zolnierczyk for the production, distribution and

accessing of child pornography carry a minimum sentence of 90 days in jail and a maximum sentence of 18 months prison time, Baines said. The voyeurism charges carry a minimum sentence of discharge without criminal record and a maximum sentence of six months jail time, he said. “In Canada, our justice system is one based on common law, so there is a lot wider range of sentences possible for any offense,” Baines said. Zolnierczyk is being jointly charged with former Alberni Valley Bulldogs teammate Bradley Harding, who has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing in May, Foster said. Foster said that, because the case is before the court, he could not comment on the investigation of the alleged crimes except to confirm that they had occurred in the fall of 2006. But, he added, “This is a couple of guys who did something stupid. However, they’re going to pay for it.” Canwest News Service reported on Feb. 15 that the case concerns a sex video of an underage girl that was produced by Zolnierczyk and Harding, who then posted the video on YouTube.

By Carol Williams Los Angeles T imes

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — The Navy defense lawyer for a Canadian prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan six years ago accused the Pentagon Thursday of doctoring evidence to make his client appear guilty. In pretrial motions in the case of Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was wounded and arrested by U.S. forces, Lt. Cmdr. William C. Kuebler said the Army commander for the Khost region of eastern Afghanistan originally reported that the person who threw a grenade that killed Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer also died in the firefight. Two months after the commander’s July 28, 2002, report, he altered his account to say Speer’s attacker was “engaged” by U.S. forces, Kuebler said. The officer was identified only as Lt. Col. W. The government has listed the commander as a potential prosecution witness in Khadr’s trial. Kuebler had sought to interview the lieutenant colonel but was denied access by the prosecution. At Thursday’s hearing, he appealed to the Army judge handling Khadr’s case, Col. Peter Brownback, to make Lt. Col. W available to explain the changes. Kuebler also was seeking access to Khadr’s medical and interrogation records from the weeks he spent in U.S. militar y custody at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul before his transfer here. He is asking for video tapes of Khadr at Bagram undergoing “enhanced interrogation” while recovering from two gunshot wounds to the back. Brownback promised to rule before departing Guantanamo on Friday, today but his decisions on motions argued here this week are unlikely to be made public immediately as censors in Washington, D.C., vet them first for

classified information. Kuebler told journalists that the altered firefight report was “consistent with the proposition that the government manufactured evidence that made Omar look guilty.” He also said Khadr had been mistreated by a U.S. militar y interrogator at Bagram, a soldier identified as Sergeant C who was court-martialed and disciplined after the death of another prisoner at Bagram. Asked if the government had revised documents to back the accusations against Khadr, the tribunal’s deputy chief prosecutor, Army Col. Bruce Pagel, replied: “No.” He declined to respond further. Government reports have contended that Khadr was the only enemy combatant to sur vive the July 27, 2002, clash in which Speer was mortally wounded. Speer died eight days later. Revising the combat repor t suppor ts “the myth that has grown up around this case that Omar was the only person alive at the compound” when the Special Forces unit entered after a massive bombardment, Kuebler said. Brig. Gen. Thomas Har tmann, legal adviser to the convening authority who ser ves an attorney general-like role for the war-crimes tribunal, confirmed Thursday that the Pentagon was “increasing the progression of cases” and would continue to accelerate the process in coming months. He disputed contentions by the chief defense counsel, Army Col. Steve David, that only nine militar y lawyers are available to defend 14 charged suspects, versus 31 attorneys for the prosecution. The defense has 10 uniformed lawyers now, four civilians who can act as co-counsel and another eight on the way, Hartmann said.

“We are moving mountains to make sure the defense has the resources it needs,” Hartmann said. The prosecution has more staff, the general said, because its burden is greater than that of the defense in having to prove the guilt of each accused beyond a reasonable doubt. The administration’s hopes of speeding up the trials were likely dashed by the sessions this week, which raised more legal questions and issues. A 33-year-old Saudi, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza Al-Darbi, was arraigned after Khadr’s hearing but declined to enter a plea or decide whether to accept his militar y defense lawyer. He is charged with aiding al-Qaida and plotting to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Al-Darbi, a brother-in-law to one of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, was arrested in Azerbaijan, sent to a third countr y for brutal interrogation and subjected to abuse by U.S. soldiers once transferred to Bagram months later, said his Army attorney, Lt. Col. Brian Broyles. While Al-Darbi was polite and responsive and wore the white tunic and trousers denoting the most compliant of prisoners, by putting off his plea his case remains at the same impasse of all four defendants who have been brought before the commission so far for arraignment. It has been more than six years since the first of nearly 800 terror suspects arrived at Guantanamo. All but 275 have been released or repatriated, and of those, 14 have been charged with war crimes. Also Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the U.S. government demanding disclosure of Guantanamo prisoners’ descriptions of waterboarding and other coercion at the hands of CIA interrogators.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops instead killed six Afghan civilians on Thursday, while U.S. forces acknowledged carr ying out a cross-border missile strike that reportedly killed four civilians in Pakistan. The civilian deaths on both sides of the border came days before a new Pakistani government is due to be sworn in —one that may prove a less pliant ally in the U.S.led fight against Islamic militants than President Pervez Musharraf has been. Pakistan on Thursday sharply protested the cross-border strike, which it said killed four civilians early Wednesday in the tribal area of North Waziristan. A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan said the strike, which was carried out with precision-guided munitions, had been aimed at Taliban militants. The U.S. spokesman, Maj. Chris Belcher, said Pakistani authorities had been informed of the strike, but only after the fact. The target was a compound about one mile inside Pakistan where senior aides to Siraj Haqqani, a prominent Taliban commander, were believed to be sheltering. Fighters often slip back and

forth across the rugged, unmarked frontier, and Pakistan’s tribal areas have become a haven for militant groups. The NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan said this week it considers Haqqani the most dangerous Taliban commander in the Afghan war. He is blamed for orchestrating scores of suicide bombings and other attacks, including one last week that killed two NATO soldiers and injured more than a dozen Afghan civilians. Thursday’s attack in Kabul, near its international airport, was aimed at a two-vehicle U.S. military convoy. In addition to at least six civilians killed, more than a dozen others were wounded. Western news agencies reported that the Taliban claimed responsibility. Afghan President Hamid Karzai called the bombing a cowardly attack, one of many he said was meant to harm innocent civilians. However, public anger over such attacks by militants often rebounds against Karzai’s government and the presence of more than 50,000 foreign troops. Fighting between insurgents and NATO-led forces has mainly been concentrated in the country’s south and east. Afghan officials said Thursday that at least 41 militants had been killed by U.S. and

Afghan forces in clashes a day earlier in the southwestern province of Nimruz. The U.S. attack Thursday into Pakistan highlighted a highly sensitive issue in the two nations’ relations. Many Pakistanis consider the strikes a violation of national sovereignty, but Musharraf’s government is thought to have given tacit assent for some missile strikes aimed at senior Taliban and al-Qaida figures, usually carried out with unmanned aerial drones. One such strike in North Waziristan at the end of January killed Abu Laith al Libi, a senior associate of Osama bin Laden. But strikes that kill civilians instead of militants invariably spark a public outcry. Belcher, the military spokesman, said it had been carried out on the basis of “reliable intelligence” placing Haqqani associates in the walled compound that was hit. Pakistan’s chief military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, said the dead were two women and two children. Pakistan’s two main opposition parties, which won last month’s elections and are now forming a coalition government, have said the strategy against Islamic militants needs retooling, perhaps to include negotiations with the insurgents.

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M. hoopsters take different paths to awards continued from page 12 team honors this year after averaging 14.9 points per game, fifth best in the league. Huffman was also one of the league’s most accurate shooters, making 48 percent of his field goals and 45 percent of his three-pointers. He will graduate with Brown’s all-time threepointers record, with 223 made. But McAndrew and Skrelja took a more unlikely route to the league awards. McAndrew said that as he and Skrelja walked to practice yesterday, they talked about how they went from “sitting at the end of the bench” for a losing team in the 2005-06 season to “having professors and students walking up to (us) and congratulating (us) on the year.” McAndrew, a Barrington native, was supposed to be the story of the local boy doing good. But after averaging about 13 minutes and four points per game his freshman year, he seemed to fall out of favor with former Head Coach Glen Miller. In his sophomore year, McAndrew’s playing time was reduced to only 10.3 minutes per game, the fourth-lowest average on the team. But his junior year saw a new coach in Robinson and, for McAndrew, new energy. Out of nowhere, it seemed, McAndrew became the league’s top scorer, with 15.8 points per game. He earned his first first-team All-Ivy award. This year, McAndrew led the

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league again in scoring, with 16.5 points per game. He also finished 10th in the league in rebounding from his guard position, with 5.0 per game. McAndrew was a contender for the league’s Player of the Year award, but lost to Louis Dale, the Cornell guard who helped lead the Big Red to a 14-0 league season and its first NCAA Tournament trip in 20 years. But McAndrew said he wasn’t disappointed. “I really feel that the award should go to the best player on the best team,” he said. McAndrew said he did feel honored to be named to the AllIvy first team for the second year in a row. He becomes the seventh Brown player to be named to the first team two or more times. “To repeat the award, it’s definitely a difficult accomplishment,” he said. “I always felt the pressure to perform for the team and myself.” But McAndrew said he felt even more glad for Skrelja’s recognition. Skrelja, who ran the team’s offense as a sort of point for ward, passed up many shots on offense “for the good of the team,” McAndrew said. Skrelja said he didn’t think much of it when Robinson announced the award winners to the team after practice on Wednesday. But he finally felt proud after thinking about what he went through over the past three years. The Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., native attended a top basketball high school in Connecticut and

had the goal of being the best freshman in the league when he first got to Brown. But he had a difficult first year, dealing with homesickness and a losing team. After his freshman year, in which he played in all 27 games and averaged 13.6 minutes per contest, he was poised to become one of the team’s top players in his sophomore year. But he missed about 12 weeks of the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, and struggled to catch up with the rest of the team after he healed. Completely recovered this season, Skrelja demonstrated his versatility, finishing second in the league in assists per game (4.0) and third in rebounds per game (6.7). He also scored 8.6 points per game and led the team with three double-doubles. Still, Skrelja said the award offers little consolation for him, since the Bears fell just short of the league title to Cornell. He said he is determined to help his team win the conference next year. But first, the Bears are hoping that this season is not over yet. On Sunday, after the NCAA Tournament selection show, they’re hoping for a call from a representative of either the National Invitational Tournament or the new, 16-team College Basketball Invitational. The players haven’t yet decided if they’ll gather on Sunday to watch the NIT selection show, but they said they’ll be keeping a close eye on college basketball results that day.

Rochelson ’09: Keep an eye on these youngsters continued from page 12 scouts have already labeled him the best starter on the staff, and he has yet to give up a hit in five innings of work. In 2007, BaseballAmerica ranked Hughes as baseball’s best pitching prospect. If he can regain the brilliant control he displayed in the minors — his walks per nine innings jumped from 2.51 to 3.59 when he graduated Triple-A — Hughes will be one of the best pitchers in the game. Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants, RHP, age 23 Tim “Baby Face” Lincecum (pronounced “lin-suh-come”) made his debut last year for the Giants with an enormous amount of hype to live up to. His first game was televised nationally on ESPN, and he’d been lauded for months as a backflipping, franchise-saving wunderkind. Perhaps the hype was a year early — Lincecum was good, but failed to immediately justify the comparisons to Sandy Koufax. This year, Lincecum comes in with a guaranteed spot in the rotation and a new, biting slider to complement his curve and fastball. In the minor leagues, Lincecum struck out an unheard-of 15 batters per nine innings; if he can even come close to approaching that kind of dominance, the 5-foot-10 righty will be unstoppable. Clay Buchholz, Boston Red Sox, RHP, age 23

Major League Baseball sees China as market for untapped riches By Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times

BEIJING — Leadoff batter Peng Zixuan has been playing baseball all of four months and his stance is a bit wobbly. But after a few swings, he smacked an infield single past the mound and eventually rounded the bases to score the first run of the game. Peng is more than an enthusiastic 10-year-old. He embodies the hope and future of Major League Baseball in China, which is hosting its first games ever here this weekend, between the Dodgers and the Padres. Peng and his teammates plan on attending. This seed program at Beijing’s Fengtai Elementary School No. 1 is part of an ambitious MLB plan to expose 100,000 elementary school students in five cities to a sport that many Chinese find complicated and equipment-laden, in a nation where balls are more often kicked or bounced than whacked with a bat. Despite its success in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, baseball faces an uphill battle in this market of 1.3 billion increasingly affluent consumers. Soccer and basketball have a big head start, while football, wrestling, tennis, cricket and rugby are all bucking for a foothold. NASCAR is sniffing around. And hockey hasn’t ruled out a play down the road. “It’s kind of a land grab now that harkens back to the gold rush,” said Paul Swangard, head of the University of Oregon’s sports marketing center. “There are a lot of prospectors seeing if they can find a vein.” Many of the newcomers also underestimate the amount of cash, patience and political connections it takes to succeed in this market, analysts added. Even Peng’s long-term loyalty isn’t assured. As soon as the half-inning

game wrapped up Wednesday, he and his teammates ran off joyfully to play soccer. “I really don’t know any American baseball players,” he said. “My hero is Yao Ming,” the Houston Rockets basketball star. This weekend’s games will be played at the new Wukesong stadium, built for the August 8 to 24 Beijing Olympics. On Thursday, workers painted the stands and hung Dodgers and Padres flags at the 12,000-seat venue. The jet-lagged Dodgers arrived late Thursday from their training camp in Vero Beach, Fla. They’ll work out Friday before the exhibition games Saturday and Sunday. “You want to hope you light a fire that starts a burning passion for baseball,” said Charles Steinberg, the Dodger’s executive vice president of marketing. “If that happens, those that count the money will have their day.” That day could produce a windfall for those who get it right. While some estimates place the Chinese sports market at around $10 billion a year, a fraction of America’s $300 billion, that’s tripled over the past decade and is expected to continue growing rapidly, according to Terry Rhodes, co-founder of Shanghai-based Zou Marketing, which is running the Play Ball! program. For sponsors, sports is also an excellent way to reach 16- to 30-year-old Chinese, a market of some 400 million people eager to buy the shoes, shirts, cell phones and even milk products their sports stars hawk. “It’s weird economics,” said Andrew Messick, international marketing head with AEG/Staples Center. “In China, the 50-year olds aren’t the ones with the money, it’s the 25-year olds.” Promoters of the game say baseball suits the Chinese physique and character with its emphasis on agility and teamwork over size. Analysts

also give MLB points for the ambitious grass-roots school, important in building a fan base from scratch. The league is training coaches, working with sports and education authorities and has donated thousands of bats, balls and gloves to participating schools. But baseball faces huge challenges in China, including some shared by other sports. Perhaps most fundamentally, there are relatively few soccer fields, and almost no baseball diamonds. Even the Wukesong baseball facility is reportedly slated for demolition after the Olympics. “It’s a problem,” said Zhang Heng, director of the Beijing Sports Game Management Center. “And in Beijing, a lot of real estate developers fight to take over the fields we have.” While MLB eventually hopes to build diamonds on its own dime, Peng and most other youngsters in MLB’s Play Ball! program now use soccer fields. One of the reasons the program targets elementary students, organizers said, is because they can’t hit the ball very far. Baseball also will no longer be an Olympic sport after 2008. This makes it a low priority in China’s Soviet-style system, which funnels promising youngsters into special camps that train them relentlessly for gold medals and national glory. MLB officials say they’re aware of the difficulties but are in it for the long haul. “We don’t have any illusions,” said Paul Archey, the league’s senior vice president of international operations. “We don’t expect to play two games and see everything change overnight.” Even as soccer has lost momentum in recent years — the victim of corruption scandals and poor results, including China’s defeat by Kuwait — basketball is emerging as the model for newcomers. The game is simple to play and

understand and uses little equipment. And Yao Ming has ignited Chinese interest in the NBA. In many ways, however, the NBA is reaping the dividends of a far broader effort that goes back decades. The league has been broadcasting games locally for 20 years and has developed scores of school programs over many years amid claims that some 300 million people play the game here. It’s also built up important government contacts over many years, nurtured “guanxi,” or connections, and paid lots of bills. “When we took the Rockets and the (Sacramento) Kings to Shanghai in 2004, we had to bring in the seats, the floor, the locker room,” said Heidi Ueberroth, the league’s marketing head. “I’d emphasize the importance of very long-term relationships.” MLB isn’t disclosing what its China budget is or how long it’s willing to wait for a return on its investment, but it’s almost certainly outgunned by the NBA, which has a $250-million war chest, four offices in China with 100 employees and capital in reserve. China has a long history of frustrating starry-eyed foreign businessmen who underestimate the impediments, convinced they can make a fortune. In the end, analysts say, which sports succeed and which don’t depend in large part on how long the leagues can hold out, experts say, and how much pain they can tolerate. In the meantime, Major League Baseball has its work cut out for it. “The Dodgers? Never heard of them,” said Shang Hongwei, a 23-year old hotel manager shooting hoops near Tiananmen Square. “But I follow the Rockets closely and understand Yi Jianlian just joined the (Milwaukee) Bucks. I really love the NBA.”

Besides the un-spellable name, it’s good to be Clay Buchholz. He throws a 97-mph heater when he’s not throwing the best curveball in the Sox’s organization. The 22-year-old threw a no-hitter in his second career start. And he’s dating Penthouse Pet of the Year Erica Ellyson. Thanks to Curt Schilling’s serious shoulder injury, Buchholz looks likely to nail down a spot at the back of the rotation. His contribution might be hampered by a strict innings limit, but Clay will be brilliant when he’s on the mound. His 1.59 ERA last year, including no home runs allowed, provides a taste of what Buchholz can offer. There are concerns that he doesn’t have enough body mass to endure a whole season, and that his lack of control allows a dangerous amount of base runners. But these questions will be answered as the season goes on. I predict that Tim Lincecum will win my Junior Cy Young Award this year. His high-90s fastball and incredible strikeout rate make mediocrity seem very unlikely. Plus, while Lincecum is mowing down the weak National League West, Buchholz and Hughes will be facing each other and their tough lineups. Nevertheless, keep an eye on all three of these kids.

Interested in other talented, attractive 20-somethings? Ellis Rochelson ’09 invites you to check out his Facebook account.

Wrestler on way to NCAA champs continued from page 12 finally decided I wanted to wrestle again. And so I got a new goal and started working for it. Are you excited or nervous about Nationals? (Laughs.) Yeah. All of the above? Yeah. The pressure’s kind of off because getting there was my goal. Are you excited to be going with other teammates? Yeah, they’ve both been there before, so, you know, I won’t be a lost little puppy. ... It’s definitely helpful. So what does a biology concentators do over his summers or potentially after Brown? Or have you not thought about any of that yet? This summer, I’m doing research here at Brown. I’m going to stay and wrestle and train. Next year ... I guess vet school is kind of the idea right now. ... I was a farm kid growing up ... and now I’m here at Brown, so somehow, I want to smash those two things together. What’s your favorite animal? Let’s go with puma, or like, mountain lion. Are you kind of like a mountain lion when you wrestle? I wouldn’t say that’s true. But would you aspire to be like a mountain lion? I guess, definitely, you could say that.

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Diamonds and coal Coal to Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn. Just when we thought we knew everything about the evolutionary history of ctenophores, you had to come along and prove us wrong. A diamond to medical students for getting the Friedman Study Center to open at 8 a.m. on weekends. We’re surprised you can get up that early after the blood-soaked, drug-filled bacchanalia that is Date-a-Doctor. Coal to Abilene Christian University students who complained that the university’s giving iPhones to incoming freshman was un-Christian. We would’ve given you a diamond, but we remembered what Jesus said: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24) To Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and her chanting, a diamond — or anything, actually, to make it stop. Coal to Evan Donahue ’11, who made more than $20,000 by creating weapons such as the “Souls of the Damned Summoning Crystal” for the virtual world of Second Life. It’s definitely not as cool as our “Headlines from Hades Thrower of Flame.” Pwned! You’re such a n00b! A sly, under-the-table diamond to the Brown Concert Agency. Hey — it’s cheaper than the going rate on Craig’s List. A cubic zirconium to the study abroad students who pick up a certain new habit overseas. We’d give you a coal, but you’d probably just smoke it.

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Coal to the grad student who may have found a way to reduce the temptation to drink alcohol. A cubic zirconium to the student who was punched in the face by an angr y woman after she rollerbladed alone to Kennedy Plaza at 9 p.m. Um, haven’t you heard of safeROLLERBLADETOKENNEDYPLAZAALONEAT9PM? A posthumous diamond to former President Henry Wriston, who told admission officers not to admit anyone “who had been denied admission elsewhere.” If he were still around, a certain “independent” publication wouldn’t be. (P.S. We’re ready to kick(ball) your asses.) Coal to the elm tree on the Front Green that fell during the weekend, crushing the art sculpture and hobbit home. Now where will Donahue live?

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To the Editor: The editorial in yesterday’s paper (“Our theory of computation,” March 13) managed to misunderstand the subject it tried to address and misinform about the offerings provided by the Computer Science Department and Brown at large. First, the Computer Science Department’s emphasis on concentrators has in no way detracted from its offerings for non-concentrators. It is certainly the case that most or all upper-level CS classes are not appropriate for students without a large number of pre-requisites, but this is the case for virtually all sciences. It is unreasonable to expect professors to make upper-level courses accessible to students without the pre-requisites, and doing so would be unfair to concentrators who expect to further their own studies. Second, the editorial is apparently unaware of the details of the CS department’s offerings for non-concentrators. It is misleading to describe CSCI 0020: “Concepts and Challenges of Computer Science” as being “simple.” The class teaches about the “principles of web design and user interfaces,” that the editorial requests. The CS department also offers CSCI 0040: Introduction to

Scientific Computing and Problem Solving. Both of these are targeted exclusively at non-concentrators. Indeed, the CS department offers more courses targeted at nonconcentrators than most science departments. Third, the author is apparently unaware of the other options Brown offers for technology education. Brown currently offers the PASS program for free, with classes on many subjects, including introductions to “Coding Web Pages,” “Advanced Image Editing Tools and Techniques,” and “Database Basics.” This program seems to address most of the concerns about Brown’s offerings. Finally, it is misguided to expect that it is easy to find faculty who want to teach introductory courses at a major research institution, where the science departments employ leaders in their fields. It is a gift that Professors Don Stanford and Alan Usas offer CSCI 0020 and CSCI 0040, respectively, and it should not be taken for granted. Aaron Myers ’07 GS Department of Computer Science March 5

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Corrections An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Fellows give late-night aid for writers in need,” March 12) reported that the Writing Fellows’ presence in the libraries is only temporary and that fellows will be in libraries every day. In fact, the program will run for the rest of the semester, and fellows will only work in the libraries Sunday through Thursday. In Wednesday’s Herald (“Water polo splits weekend games,” March 12), it was reported that Alexis Blaxberg ’08 leads the women’s water polo team in ejections drawn, with 26. In fact, Herald Senior Staff Writer Joanna Wohlmuth ’11 leads, with 27 ejections drawn.

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Obama and the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter? BY LINDSEY MEYERS Opinions Columnist Many Americans listen to Barack Obama and hear a message of hope, but I look at Obama and think of Jimmy Carter. Lest you think this comparison is faulty, pause for a moment to consider the striking similarities between them. Like Carter, Obama is a good and upright politician who appeals to a nation desperate for change. In fact, just as Americans were attracted to Carter’s honesty in the aftermath of Watergate, many are now drawn to Obama’s earnestness following the debacle that has become the Bush presidency. And just as Carter was a decent man singularly unqualified to deal with an evil world, many are now raising the same concerns about Obama. So, perhaps it is not surprising that we are hearing distinctly Carter-like echoes from the Obama campaign. For example, Michelle Obama reportedly said in a campaign speech that her husband “is the only person in this race who understands that, before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls.” While this is a stirring, almost evangelical, message, it is also a historically ironic one. Indeed, its suggestion of a national miasma is freighted with the historical baggage of Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech of 1979, the one where he blamed America’s ills on a national malaise. In much the same way Carter appeared to sermonize to America in that speech, Obama is now preaching to his choir of supporters. And as his wife so intriguingly suggests, he seems to be asking Americans to confess the sickness of their souls, so

that his candidacy can become the source of their secular salvation. Just as Moses freed the people of Israel from bondage, the subtext of Obama’s message is that he has come to deliver disaffected Americans from the long night of their political exile under Bush. The effectiveness of this message can be measured by the increasingly vigorous measures Hillary Clinton is taking to combat

cian. To paint him as a false messiah, she has said he provides only empty hope. And to tarnish his saintly image, she has accused him of political dirty tricks. In fact, Hillar y reminds many of the boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s fair y tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” who informs the crowd of the Emperor’s nudity. However, where the crowd listens to that boy, it remains unclear whether Hillary’s campaign will have such a

Obama is attempting to take a page from the Reagan playbook by spreading a message of hope.… But in time the euphoria will fade, and Americans will no longer be content to use Obama’s rhetoric as a blank canvas upon which to paint their hopes and aspirations. it. In what one of her aides sardonically described as a “kitchen sink” approach, Hillary is trying to do everything she can to stop the onslaught of Obama’s campaign. To deconstruct the powerful sway of his message, she has characterized him as an empty rhetori-

fairy tale ending, notwithstanding her recent wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. If Obama is still the leading Democratic presidential candidate, he should not forget the biblical injunction of politics that, what the American people give they can also take

away. If Obama thinks other wise, he need only consult Jimmy Carter. After Carter’s “Crisis of Conscience” speech, his popularity soared. But it eventually nosedived when Americans concluded that the ills of the nation were caused by his ineffective leadership rather than their malaise. Thus Ronald Reagan easily defeated Carter for the presidency when he told a countr y longing for optimistic assurance that it was “Morning in America” again. To Obama’s credit, he is attempting to take a page from the Reagan playbook by spreading a message of hope. Indeed, some wags might say that his campaign has become the political equivalent of Prozac for an electorate despondent over the Bush presidency. But in time the euphoria will fade, and Americans will no longer be content to use Obama’s rhetoric as a blank canvas upon which to paint their hopes and aspirations. When that shift in the national zeitgeist occurs, Obama will have to replace his soft hope with a realpolitik of hard solutions. It is hard to predict when this tipping point will occur. But when it does, as it eventually must, Obama must avoid becoming the victim of the expectations he has created. It is one thing to create hope. But it is quite another to fulfill that hope. Thus if Obama is not careful, the strength of his campaign may eventually undermine his bid for the presidency. Like Jimmy Carter before him, Obama may learn the hard way that Americans don’t like it if you can’t fix what you say is broken.

Lindsey Meyers ’09 has been following the Democratic primaries in the U.K., where functions for American presidential candidates are forbidden to serve Kool-Aid

Disfranchisement.org BY Jeremy Feigenbaum Guest Columnist At this point, most of us agree that something must be done about the voters in Michigan and Florida. Without their voices being heard, the other remaining states will cast their ballots in the Democratic Primary and then we will wait — anxiously, impatiently — until the convention, when a nominee will be chosen with (hopefully) as little fighting as possible. Not a great scenario. As time goes by, it seems increasingly likely that the Democratic Party will hold a re-vote because, despite the costs, Democrats cannot afford to ignore any primary voters, especially those pesky ones in Florida. So I was interested to read Max Chaiken’s recent column (“An Experiment in Democratic Creativity,” March 12) in which he suggested a re-vote via the Internet. Ultimately, I am forced to conclude Internet elections would harm our democratic aspirations. Leaving aside obvious issues, like the security concerns and improbability that such a novel idea could be instituted quickly (a re-vote would probably happen in June), I believe that electronic voting is wrong on its ideological merits. Admittedly, I love the idea of making it easier for citizens to vote. Low voter turnout for both primar y and general elections is dispiriting. But e-voting cannot be the solution, because it only helps specific groups of people.

Take myself as an example. For me evoting is a fantastic solution. Rather than send an absentee ballot to New Jersey or walk to Salomon (okay, not a great example; I live in Hope), I could simply click a few buttons and fulfill my role in the democratic process. My Bubbe, on the other hand, would have a harder time. A Florida voter herself, Ruth Misler does not own a computer. I do

necessarily make voting any more difficult for my Bubbe. But by increasing access so selectively, e-voting leaves her behind and affects many more people. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “while 88 percent of 18-29 year-olds now go online. ... 32 percent of those age 65 and older say they use the internet.” In effect, electronic voting will provide most of us with easier access to voting, but

In effect, electronic voting will provide most of us with easier access to voting, but will exclude our grandparents. But the age gap is hardly the only one in play. realize that my Bubbe will still, under the e-voting proposal, go to a polling station and vote. But the fact that my obstacles to voting and hers are so disparate is undoubtedly a form of disfranchisement. E-voting does not

will exclude our grandparents. But the age gap is hardly the only one in play. While 91 percent of adults living in households earning more than $75,000 annually use the Internet, only 53 percent

of those in households earning less than $30,000 a year can say the same. And similar disparities exist between more and less educated cohorts. So where have we seen this demographic gap before? An affluent, young, and educated group compared with an older, less educated, and lower-class group should sound at least vaguely familiar to all of you. If you have watched CNN this past year you should know that the former are generally Obama supporters, while the latter are seen as Hillary’s demographic. I would love for Florida and Michigan voters to see a debate about the candidates’ (few) policy divisions or about their different visions for where the US should be going and how they will get us there. And then I would like for the voters to choose. There is no good reason to give one candidate’s supporters such an unfair procedural advantage. It would be nice if Florida, Michigan, and the Democratic Party could find a way to hold elections at a low cost. But financial considerations do not justify leaving whole groups of voters behind. In the United States we live by the idea of one person, one vote. This should not just mean that ever yone has the same right to vote but, also, that they have the same opportunities to vote. My obstacles to voting should not be removed, while my Bubbe’s and so many others’ remain.

Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11, a Clinton campaign volunteer, thinks e-voting will contribute to obesity

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Jr. Cy Young: Three men hoopsters named All-Ivy This wrestler grapples with Which kid pressure, wild will deliver? mountain cats By Stu Woo Senior Editor

As I approach my 21st birthday, a strange realization has slowly dawned on me. The baseball players that I love, these far-off gods of talent and fame, are my age. The Yankees’ Phil Hughes is 21 years old. Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants is 23. The Boston Red Sox have 22-year-old Clay Buchholz. They’re just Ellis Rochelson like us — they MLB Exclusive text message, they eat pizza, they shy away from drugs and alcohol — y’know, stuff us kids do! But this year, they’ll be busy competing for what I call the Junior Cy Young Award. Which of these up-and-coming pitchers will take the crown in 2008?

Philip Hughes, New York Yankees, right-handed pitcher, age 21 Hughes had a tantalizingly frustrating year for the Yankees in 2007. He showed flashes of undeniable potential, such as no-hitting the Rangers for six-plus innings before pulling his hamstring and hitting the disabled list for three months. Hughes’ return to the majors was less awe-inspiring as he regained his strength, posting a 6.40 ERA in August. But he finished the year strong, going 3-0 in September with 2.73 ERA and throwing 3 2-3 scoreless innings in the playoffs. Barring injury, Hughes is likely to improve upon his 2007 season as he gains confidence, composure and a steady job in the rotation. Hughes greatly relies on his knuckle curve, and it seems to be working this spring — some continued on page 9

On Wednesday, a two-year benchwarmer, a former freshman phenom and a prized recruit who took two years to find his potential were recognized as three of the best men’s basketball players in the Ivy League. Guards Damon Huffman ’08 and Mark McAndrew ’08 were named to the All-Ivy first team, with the latter a unanimous selection, while swingman Chris Skrelja ’09 was picked for the All-Ivy second team. The postseason awards recognized the trio for leading their team to a record-setting season, in which the Bears (19-9, 11-3 Ivy) finished the league in second place and set records for most wins and fewest losses. “It feels great,” Huffman said. “It kind of verifies all the work you’ve done.” But he was quick to add that the honors were a result of the team’s overall success: “When your team wins, you’re much more likely to get individual awards.” Though the Bears’ three AllIvy representatives jelled on the court this year, they took ver y different paths to earning the honors. Huffman’s first-team award was perhaps the most expected. The Petoskey, Mich., native has starred since he first stepped on the court in the 2004-05 season, when he was named the league’s Rookie of the Year after scoring Ashley Hess / Herald 8.4 points a game and making 41 Mark McAndrew’s ’08 Ivy League-leading 16.5 points per game scored him first percent of his three-pointers. team All-Ivy honors. Teammate Damon Huffman ’08 also made the squad. But the guard then hit a sophomore slump. The next season, my freshman year,” he said, “and All-Ivy Honorable Mention after Huffman finished second on the after my sophomore year, when I scoring 14.7 points per game, team with 10.4 points per game, realized I needed to work harder seventh best in the league, in his but made just 39 percent of his and train to do better, that’s what first season under Head Coach field goals and 29 percent of his I did.” Craig Robinson. He earned firstthree-pointers. Huffman’s hard work paid off continued on page 9 “I think I got complacent after the next year, when he earned an

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W. hoops players and gymnast grab All-Ivy, ECAC awards Women’s basketball Though the women’s basketball team struggled this season and finished last in the Ivy League, captain Annesley O’Neal ’08 and Sadiea Williams ’11 were recognized for their strong seasons. O’Neal received an All-Ivy honorable mention in her final season in a Brown uniform. She led the Bears in scoring with 7.6 points per game. Even from her guard position, the 5-foot-6 O’Neal was third on the team in rebounds with 4.5 per game. She also led the team in three-pointers made, steals and assists, while running the show for Bruno at the point. O’Neal’s senior leadership was evident, as she logged the most minutes on the team and started 22 of 28 games. O’Neal finished her career in second place on Brown’s all-time appearance list, with 108. Her 16 points on senior night almost propelled Bruno to an upset over Dartmouth. Williams was named to the All-Ivy rookie team. She was the best of a young cast who supported O’Neal, the only senior. Williams was second on the team in scoring and led the team with 4.8 boards per game, though she is a guard. Her performance, along with strong support from a number of sophomores, are a positive sign for the team, which hopes to improve its record next year.

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Guard Sadiea Williams ’08 was named to the All-Ivy rookie team for her contributions to the women’s basketball team this season.

Gymnastics In gymnastics, Izzy Kirkham-Lewitt ’10 was given the ECAC Coaches Choice Award for her 9.450 score on the beam in Brown’s close loss to Bridgeport on Sunday. The score was good enough for sixth in Kirkham-Lewitt’s first competition since January, when she was injured in the Bears’ first meet. Her performance was particularly important because the team was hurting from a wave of winter sicknesses. Brown will look for continued contributions from her as the season hits the homestretch. — Jason Harris

By Whitney Clark Sports Editor

Matt Gevelinger ’09 qualified Sunday for the NCAA championships at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships at Franklin and Marshall College. Gevelinger had the team’s top finish, coming in third in the 184-pound weight class. This

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK will be Gevelinger’s first trip to the NCAA’s, where he will be accompanied by teammates Levon Mock ’08 and Jeff Schell ’08, who will be making their second trip to the championships. To test his confidence before the championship, The Herald gave him a grilling and named him Athlete of the Week. Herald: When did you start wrestling? Gevelinger: Competitively? Like fourth grade probably. It was a big thing in my town. How was growing up in Wisconsin? If you think of the typical Wisconsin, stereotypical place: dairy farms, cows, cheese. That’s what I grew up on. You played football in high school. Why did you choose to do wrestling in college? I was a lot better at wrestling. I mean I’m not good enough to play football in college. Actually, watching the games at Brown, I’m glad. My knees thank me everyday that I don’t play football. How was it different coming from Wisconsin to Brown? Was it a hard transition? It wasn’t a hard transition. It was a very different world. Brown’s got a lot of trees and things, but it’s a concrete jungle compared to what I grew up in. Did you always want to go to Brown or did you look at other schools? I looked at other schools. … It was a weird, long twisted tale of how I got here. Tell me about that a little bit. I mean I got recruited a little bit, and I didn’t know if I actually wanted to wrestle in college. So I ended up getting wait-listed. And I think I found out I was going to Brown like June 3 of senior year. ... Once I decided I wanted to go, I wanted to go. But it didn’t happen until late. Did you have any back-up schools? I was going to (the University of Wisconsin at) Madison. I had a roommate, a dorm. I was going to Madison, but then plans changed. So you said you weren’t sure you wanted to do wrestling in college. What tipped the balance for you? I won state my senior year. The month afterwards I was kind of lost.I didn’t know what the hell to do. So I continued on page 9