BrownDailyHeraldPROVIDENCE, R.1., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1986 TWENTY CENTS

NCAA CallsFor Drug TestsFor Play-Off Bound TeamsMay Affect BrownXC,Water Polo, W. Soccer

By Rob Adler

Any Brown team that participatesin NCAA-sponsoredchampionshipswillhave toundergo drug testing, asa result of recently enacted NCAAlegislation.

In the planning stages for over ayear andahalf, the legislation statesihat the NCAA could test collegealhletes for both performance-enhancing and recreational drugsprior to post-season playoffs andfootball bowl games.

Currently, there is some confusionover whatsteps the NCAA will takeif an athlete tests positive. Ifurinalysis discovers illicit drugsbefore the playoffsbegin, he or shewill be ruled ineligible for 90 days,and liable for further testing at anylime. Whether or not there will beconsequences for the teamis unclear.

If anathleteis testedpositivea se-cond time, he or she wouldlose hisor her eligibility for thecurrent andsucceeding academic year in all

sports.The NCAA will keep secret the

name of anyone who does testpositive, and will direct them tocounseling.

"TheNCAA is puffing thisup asapositive, rehabilitativefocus," said\rlene Gorton,anassociate directorof athletics.

The NCAA didnot state whethera positive test prior to selection willmake the team ineligible for the com-petition, or whether only the in-dividual willbe ruled ineligible.

"They have not madeit clearyetwhat their policy will

-be," said

Brown Athletic DirectorJohnParry'67. "Most administrators feel itshould be on the individual."

Parry said theBrown administra-tion is in the process of making adrug-testingpolicy for athletes,buthe expects that "essentially it willbevery supportiveof someonewith anaddictiveproblem,but not suppor-tive of a Drovider or a dealer."

Inall likelihood, women'ssoccer,

mens waterpoioana cross-country

runners will be the first Brownathletes affectedby the legislation.The only action the Brown athleticdepartment will take before theplayoffs begin is to educate theathletes on drug testing, how it isdone, and what to expect.

"Any team that looks like theywill be incontention, we will run aseminar for themon what the drugsareand how the test is done," saidParry.

The impetus for NCAA drugtesting was to prohibitperformance-enhancing drugs to preserve com-petitive equity in college athletics,Parry explained— a movement"clearly paralleling the Olympicmovement."

"They (the NCAA) believe andhave been challenged to cleanup thegame, and preserve its integrity,"said Parry. "All ofus deep downwant to protect against the com-petitive advantage of a drug like

Economics Department

Downward TrendBy Mike Silvestri

Adrienne Hynek '87 planned to concentrate in economics her fresh-man year,until she took Economics 1. This spring she will graduatean economics concentrator, but Hynek says that "If Ihad to judgeon that class alone, 1 wouldn't have done it."

Vernee Ho '87,anApplied Math-Economicsconcentrator, put tog-clher an independent study her junior year witheconomics professorsDave Runkle andDon McClure. The class gaveHo a chance to writea computer programforecasting theeffect of unemployment andwageson business failures from real-lifedata.

Ho is the exception.Very few econconcentrators areable topursueindependent study or thesisprojects. Only twoa£e enrolled this sem-ester in Economics 199, The department's thesis writing courses.

"It's verydifficult, Ithink, to link two econcourses together," saidHo.

Enrollments in the economics department have increased over thepast several years,and there are currently 184 concentrators in Eco-nomics, Applied Math-Economics, and Math-Economics. Yet manycomplain that prospectiveconcentrators are turned off by lower-levelcourses that place too much emphasison theory. Faculty size has alsonot kept pace with enrollment, andconcentrators find that there arenoupper-levelseminarswithlimitedenrollments.Few professors, whoalso overseegraduate students' dissertations, are also able to sponsorsenior theses.

The economicsdepartment had requestedthree additionalpositionsin the fall of 1985, but the university staffing plan, whichcoulddeter-mine Brown's academicdirectionfor the next 15 years,cut 2'A posi-tions. After department chair William Pooleallegedly threatened toresign, theuniversity decidedtohave the departmentevaluatedbytwooutside observers beforemaking any cuts.

UCS Calls For Univ. ToSet Asian-Am. Admit Policy

By Bryan Walpert

-—'The -uhdeTgratfaafe""Council ofStudents disclosed a statementyesterdayon Asian American admis-sions at Brown, calling for the ad-ministration to establish a clearAsian Americanadmission policy.

Prior to this, Brown PresidentHoward Swearer

'addressed the

council on the need for students,faculty and administrationto worktogether to achieve their goals.

The statement onadmissions, en-titled Asian AmericanAdmissionatBrown University, refutedarguments thecollege Admission of-ficeused todefend thecurrent AsianAmericanadmit rates,andcalledforSwearer, Dean of the College Har-riet Sheridan, and Director of Ad-mission James Rogers "jointly to

establish an admission policy forAsian Americans immediately."

A policy is needed, according tothe statement, because the rateofad-mission for Asian Americans is"lower than the overall admit rateand lower than the admit rateofallother subgroups."

Asian American admissions hit alow of 14 percent for the class of1987. Though this increased to 18.6percent for the class of '88, the ratedecreased to 17percent for the classof '89and to 15 percent for the classof '90. Overalladmissionsareabout20 percent.

According to theUCS statement,the AdmissionOfficehas defendedthe admissionratesby asserting that"Asian Americanapplicants receiverelatively low non-academicratings," and that these applicants

are "predominantly pre-med."According to UCS President Ken

Rivlin, "thereis ah elementof racialdiscriminationin the admissionpro-cess...the arguments used to defendthe current numbers are flawed."

The UCS statement calls for ef-forts on thepart of Rogers to "sen-sitize admission officers" to the"Asian American experience." Italso calls for a definition of"predominantly"and "pre-med"asused by the Admissions office.

The UCS statement is a "call toactionof the administration," accor-ding toRivlin, anddoesnot proposespecific policies.

"We're not passing the buck,"said UCS coordinatorof AdmissionsandStudent Services Debby Javelin'89. "Idon't think we(UCS)arean

Kcllv Ferguson/Herald

PropertyofBrown University— The site of the land on whichthe University plans to builda dormitory.

Net Cost To Be Only $400,000

Brown Buys Land for DormBy Greg Feldberg

VOLUME CXX, NUMBER 87

Brown has purchased the finalproperty of the East Side blockwhereanew dormitoryhas longbeenplanned,after more thana decadeofnegotiations.

The deal,completedTuesday, willgive Brown the remainder of theblock_ between Brook, Power,Thayer andCharlesfieldstreets, mostof which is now a Brown-ownedparking lot.

Under theagreement, Brownbuysfrom the AlfredRingvette family for$1 millionthe land which currentlyholds a gas station, a conveniencestore and a laundromat.

But thenet cost of the acquisition10 the university will be about$400,000 after the complicated termsof the dealare enacted,according toVice President for Administrationand Finance Frederick Bohen.

Construction of the new dor-mitory is scheduled to begin nextspring and complete by the fall of1988. It will house about 400 up-

perclass students and will includesuites of four single bedrooms withshared living rooms, much like thepopular New Appleby and YoungOrchard Apartments.

Another part of the deal stipulatesihat the side of the dorm facingBrook Street will be leased toretailers,similar to the shopsinNewPembroke on Thayer Street.

The loss of parking space will bemade up by increasing the capacityof existing lots andpossibly buildinga two-levelgarage on the lot acrossthe street, according to Director ofResidential Life Arthur Gallagher.

Though Brown had been in-terested in buying the remaininglandon the block since the early 19705,negotiations were delayed repeated-ly for various reasons. Bohen,Brown's chief negotiator in the pro-cess, said thenegotiations werestall-ed because "thepeople whoownedthe property wanted more moneythan Brown was comfortable pay-ing."

InMarch 1985, Bohen offeredthe

Ringuettes$500,000. They asked for$1,500,000. "They thought they hadus," Bohen said.

But in September, a localdeveloper, Levitt and Associates,stepped in. They bought anoptionto buy the building for $1 millionand immediately called Bohen towork out a joint venture.

After bouncing around severalideas,Brown agreedto buy the landthis week,but will re-sell theproper-ty for $1 million toLevitt once thebuilding is completed. So the landitselfwill cost theuniversity nothing.Bohen calculated that the $400,000figure takes into account the costs ofthe transactionand of demolishingthe current buildings.

Levitt will also reimburse theuniversity for the cost of construc-ting the parts of the building thecompany hopes to develop.

Bohensaid thenet cost theuniver-sity ispaying comesout toabout $20per square foot. "Iconsider that areal deal," considering the current

William Poole

TESTING,see page 8

ADMISSIONS, see page 7ECON, see page 4

LAND, see page 7

admission policy group."Members of the Asian American

Students Association Waldo Feng'87 andMaxineLee '88 said theyaresatisfiedwith the UCS statement asa first step.

Feng said senior administrators,faculty, students, and alumni areunhappy with the Asian Admissionssituation. "If everybody is unhap-py," Fengsaid, "somethingshouldbe done. This is a first step."

The UCS statement is based on a1983 AASA statement on AsianAmericanAdmissionsas well as thereports from the subcommitteesofthe facultyCommitteeonAdmissionand Financial Aid, theCorporationCommitteeon MinorityAffairs, andtheCorporation Committeeon Ad-mission and Financial Aid.

Swearer SpeaksUniversity President Howard

Swearerspoke tothe councilyester-day about theneed for cooperationbetween studentsand theadministra-tion to achieve common goals.

Swearer said the public and themedia are unawareof the needs ofprivate institutions of higher learn-ing like Brown. This is evident,hesaid, in thenew taxbill that willhurtBrown's ability to raise money andpay teaching assistants.

According to Swearer, faculty,students and theuniversity have to"pull together" to let the publicknow"what the criticalneedsof theuniversity are."

costson the East Side, Bohen said.In return for allowing the con-

tracts to end early, the two com-panieswillbegiven first shot at thevacant spots in thenewbuilding onceit is completed. In the meantime,both will be allowed to stay until

Brown begins demolishing the cur-rent buildings in the spring.

Bohen said the laundromat willbeallowed to operate in the Brown-owned building off Thayer Streetwhere the Savoy Liquor Store onceoperated.Once the new dormitory iscompleted, the laundromat will beable toeither operate there, orhavefirst dibs on the contract forwashingmachines in the building.

The new dormitory ispart of therealizationof theuniversity's "East

Sector Plan," whichresultedin 1980from acorporationstudyof univer-sity housing.

"The sense was that we had ashortageof student housing that con-tinues to grow," said Gallagher.

Gallagher said the new dormitorywill be a relief for students whowould live offcampus because theydidn't think they could get housingin one of the popular dorms.

The dormitory will have somekind of courtyard inside, andpossiblyanarch to get in, Gallaghersaid. Other characteristics of thebuilding werebased on recommen-dations fromtheResidentialCoun-cil, a groupof students who advisethe residentiallife office.

For instance, Gallagher said, thesuites willhave"gangbathrooms,"usedby about adozenstudentseach.They willhelpstudentssocialize, headded. "We frankly feel that withupper class students, you have tocreate situations where they canmeet," Gallagher said.

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