Monday, December 2, 2002

Students protestcancellation ofswimming, diving atDartmouthpage 3

With smallpox vaccine,Brown prof teams upwith U.S. gov to fightbioterrorism threatpage 3

Bill Louis ’06 says thepolitical right and leftmust clearly delineatetheir policiesguest column, page 11

Men’s basketball claimsfirst win of the seasondespite absence of EarlHunt ’03sports, page 12

Athletes on three fallteams claim leaguehonors for individualperformancessports, page 12

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President Ruth Simmons was ecstatic when the Brown Corporation endorsed herInitiatives for Academic Enrichment in February. It now appears that budget problems willslow down the implementation of some parts of her plan.

Budget woes aroadblock toaggressiveenrichmentinitiativesBY CARLA BLUMENKRANZThe current economic slump may forcethe University to make substantial budgetcuts and delay plans to bring new facultyto campus, increase wages and implementother elements of the Initiatives forAcademic Enrichment, President RuthSimmons told The Herald Tuesday.

Simmons said she asked ElizabethHuidekoper, the new vice president forfinance and administration, to explore waysto conserve University resources to balancethe budget and keep her plans afloat. TheBudget Committee and the UniversityResources Committee, which replaced theAdvisory Committee on UniversityPlanning, will assist Huidekoper in thiseffort.

Following an upcoming meeting of theCorporation’s Budget and FinanceCommittee, Simmons said the Universitywill be prepared to announce any budgetcuts or delays to the Initiatives forAcademic Enrichment. The University willmake an announcement before the end ofthe semester, she said.

“We’re talking about strengthening ourrevenue streams in a number of ways, andwe’re certainly talking about reducingexpenditures,” she said. She cited vacancysavings and the new Brown First policy assuccessful measures that conservedUniversity resources during the past year.

Brown First, which requires Universitydepartments and student groups to retaininternal services over outside vendors, hasdrawn some criticism from student groupsand University departments.

In the coming year, delays to the $78.8million Initiatives for Academic Enrichmentcould also ease the strain on the Universitybudget and keep the plan viable.

For instance, the current plan calls forthe addition of about 100 faculty positionsover the course of five to seven years. If nec-essary, this time frame could be expandedto about seven to nine years, Simmons said.

The plan initially included increases tothe median faculty salary and to the mini-mum wage for staff, which would rise from$9 to $10. These changes could also bereevaluated or delayed in the comingweeks, Simmons said.

Simmons cautioned that concessions tothe poor economic climate should notexceed what is necessary or compromisethe quality of a Brown education. She alsoemphasized that the University does notcurrently intend to lay off staff members inresponse to current budget constraints.

“We have to have the budget reasonablyin balance, but we also have to keep inmind that things will change,” she said.“We shouldn’t make draconian cuts thatwill hamper our ability to continue tobuild on our strengths.”

Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05covers the Office of the President. She canbe reached at [email protected].

BY JULIETTE WALLACKThe first of two asbestos inspectionsof University residence halls foundno contamination on campusdespite concerns that a broken pipein a Goddard House social roomreleased the carcinogen into the air.

Last Thursday’s inspection cameafter members of the Delta Phi fra-ternity and their parents expressedconcern about possible dangersassociated with the broken base-ment pipe, Director of the BrownNews Service Mark Nickel told TheHerald.

Delta Phi members notifiedFacilities Management on Nov. 7 thata four to five foot section of the base-ment pipe was broken. That after-noon, Stephen Morin, director ofOffice of Environmental Health andSafety, closed the room.

On the afternoon of Nov. 7, theUniversity also hired an asbestosabatement contractor, who repairedand cleaned the basement.

The University also took air sam-ples of the room, which “confirmedthat no asbestos fibers were found inthe air samples,” according to aUniversity press release.

But Goddard residents say theirbasement was contaminated.

Zach Worden ’04 said theUniversity informed members ofDelta Phi that asbestos had beenfound in the basement. Worden saidUniversity representatives met withmembers of the fraternity to reassurethem that their health was not atrisk, but he found it concerning thatit might not be safe in the basementof Goddard House.

Rob Chen ’05 was one of the DeltaPhi members who alerted theUniversity to the suspicious materialin early November.

Chen, along with members of hispledge class, first noticed the brokenpipe last year, he said. Then, thisyear, pledges were responsible forcleaning the social room on a regularbasis.

Chen said the group disposed of amajority of the material surroundingthe pipe “one Friday afternoon andthen called Facilities Management torepair the pipe.”

He and his fellow pledges had“joked about it, never knew whetherit was asbestos,” Chen said. But aGoddard House custodian men-tioned offhandedly to Chen that thematerial around the broken pipemight be asbestos.

The University first “tried toassure me that it’s not” asbestos,Chen said, but “they hadn’t comedown there to inspect it.”

The Office of EnvironmentalHealth and Safety visited and closed

Inspection inGoddard Housefinds no asbestoscontaminants

BY LISA MANDLEAdministrators reaffirmed their commit-ment to implementing the Initiatives forAcademic Enrichment at last Monday’sUniversity Resources Committee meetingdespite Brown’s recent budget woes.

The meeting of the committee, formerlyknown as the Advisory Committee onUniversity Planning, was closed to the

Brown communi-ty and to the press.Assistant ProvostBrian Caseyreviewed theadministrators’presentations withThe Herald lastTuesday.

Dean ofFaculty MaryFennell told thecommittee thatthe increase in

faculty salaries this year appears to havegiven Brown a sizeable gain in average fac-ulty compensation relative to its closestpeer institutions, Casey said. Althoughdata will not be available until February,Fennell “anticipates we will have movedup strongly in comparison to our peers,”Casey said.

Fennell also emphasized her commit-ment to bringing 100 new faculty mem-bers to the University as part of theInitiatives for Academic Enrichment,

Casey said. The University is currently searching for

40 faculty members, some as replace-ments and others for new positions, hesaid.

President Ruth Simmons told TheHerald that the plan to add 100 facultypositions over the course of five to sevenyears could be delayed to about seven tonine years.

Fennell asked the URC for additionalfunds for faculty startups. She did not askfor a specific amount, Casey said.

Dean of Biology and Medicine DonaldMarsh cited a lack of space as the primarypressure point on the Division of Biologyand Medicine at the URC meeting.

Marsh told URC that construction ofthe Life Sciences building on Meeting andBrown streets would be just the first stepin addressing the space needs, Caseysaid.

Construction on the Life Sciencesbuilding may begin as soon as next aca-demic year.

The proposed construction of the LifeSciences building on the East Side is a par-ticularly controversial issue, and theUniversity is facing opposition from EastSide residents over parking, pollution,noise and other issues associated with theproject.

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong

Despite budget shortfalls, U. officialsreaffirm commitment to academic goals

Paul Armstrong

see URC, page 5see ASBESTOS, page 5

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BY BAMBOO DONGA Brown professor is working in conjunction withthe government to combat bioterrorism.

Dr. Andrew Artenstein, associate professor ofmedicine and an expert on infectious diseases, isresearching a new method to quickly produce thesmallpox vaccine.

He is conducting studies to determine whetherthe vaccine developed from the new method is aseffective as the old one.

In the new method, derivative smallpox virusesare grown in laboratory tissue cultures rather thanin cattle tissues, which take longer. The new methodof developing smallpox vaccines is expected tospeed up the process and make it easier for the vac-cine to be produced in larger quantities.

“It’s just a more advanced and modern way ofproducing vaccine,” Artenstein told the ProvidenceJournal.

He said in an interview with the George StreetJournal that bioterrorism is unique because thepathogens used are manmade. He said few physi-cians have clinical expertise in dealing with theserare infectious diseases.

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket,where Artenstein is conducting his research, is oneof three sites in the United States chosen to test the

With vaccine research,Brown prof teams upwith government tocombat bioterrorism

see SMALLPOX, page 4

BY JESSICA SPRADLINGHanover, N.H. (U-Wire) — Hundreds of chanting studentsprotested the elimination of Dartmouth’s swimming anddiving teams at the houses of Dean of the College JamesLarimore and College President James Wright.Administrators recently announced the cuts, whichbecome effective at the end of the winter season.

Notified only an hour before information on the cutswas released to the public, team members and coacheswere shocked and dismayed by the news.

Athletes and non-athletes alike expressed their outrageat the lack of communication between the administrationand the student body.

As part of the overall budget reductions across theCollege, the athletic department faces a nearly 2.5 percentreduction in its $10.8 million budget.

Fifty-three Dartmouth men and women are currentlyon the swimming and diving team, representing about 5percent of the total population of varsity student-ath-letes.

The athletic department decided to eliminate theaquatic teams as opposed to spreading its $260,000 budg-et reduction across all athletic teams, a measure adminis-trators said hasn’t worked well in the past.

After a day of long meetings, the swim teams, alongwith the 2003 Class Council, scrambled to organize a rallyin the Collis Center.

At the gathering, many students voiced complaints notonly about the team eliminations, but about their frustra-tion at what they felt was the administration’s refusal tolisten to student opinions. Members of Student Assemblyand Palaeopitus said that despite College Provost BarryScherr’s and Wright’s promises of greater communicationbetween students and administration on budget cuts,students had been totally unaware of cuts to the swim

team.Another student at the rally added that the administra-

tion was “totally divorced from what the students want.”After several impassioned speeches, including one by

Student Body Vice President Julia Hildreth ‘05, MilesHarrigan ‘03 led the crowd of students across campus toLarimore’s house, where they were met by several cruisersfrom the Hanover Police.

After Larimore did not appear, the crowd moved toWright’s Webester Avenue mansion, where their shoutsalso received no response.

As the students marched across campus, the originalcrowd from Collis was joined by students who heard theircheering, or were brought by friends who had run back totheir dorms. At its peak, the crowd was at least 300strong.

The student demonstration was colorful, and includedsinging the alma matter as well as cheers such as, “Downwith Jim — let us swim” as well as “Wright is wrong.”

Despite the fact that he had “tremendous regard” forthe swim teams, College President James Wright said thatacross the board budget cuts in the athletic departmentcompromised the quality of programs the College wasable to offer.

Because of this, Wright said that he “totally supported”the decision made by Athletic Director Joann Harper tocut the swimming and diving teams.

Larimore said that cutting the swimming and divingteams was a last resort after two years of cutbacks in theathletic department. Larimore said he “felt that in the cur-rent situation there had been enough problems encoun-tered with the across-the-board approach” to athleticcuts.

Larimore met with swimmers for over three hours todiscuss the elimination of their program.

Dartmouth students organize to protestcancellation of swimming, diving programs

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effectiveness and safety of thenew vaccine.

The vaccine is being producedby Acambis, a Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company.

State officials announced thispast July a plan to inoculate allhealth workers in Rhode Islandagainst a possible smallpox ter-rorist attack, according to an ABCNews report. Rhode Island offi-cials said that in case of an emer-gency, they wanted to be able to

shield state residents from abioterrorist attack.

State health officials said at thetime that mass immunizationswould require a tremendousamount of organization andpreparation. Because RhodeIsland is a small state, emergencyinoculations can be given if theneed arises.

Artenstein, who used to workat the Walter Reed Army Instituteof Research in Silver Spring, Md.,is a leading researcher in hisfield. He has appeared at numer-ous national conferences tospeak about anthrax and small-pox.

continued from page 3

Smallpox

the 2002 season with 323 kills,ending her Brown career with1,151, second all time in Brownhistory. Cooper also had 101blocks and was among theLeague’s best in hitting percent-age, kills and blocks. Angela Dunn’03 had 250 kills, placing herfourth in career kills at Brown with1,079. Dunn also had 62 aces, justone behind fifth all time.

Defender Dustin Branan ’03started in each of Brown’s 17games this year and was a solidpresence, especially in the air forBrown’s backfield. His offensivestatistics include one goal andone assist on the season and twogoals and three assists on hiscareer. Branan ends his tenure onCollege Hill having played in atotal of 62 games for Brown, help-ing the Bears to 21 shutouts. Hewas also named as an All-Ivy

League selection three times. Forward Adom Crew ’04 start-

ed off the season strongly, goingon a six-game scoring streak andleading the league in scoringuntil an injury sidelined him inearly October. Despite the abruptend to his season, Crew finishedthe year tied for the lead in goalsand second in scoring.

Goalkeeper Chris Gomez ’05ended his sophomore season asthe Ivy League leader in saveswith 73, including a season-highten saves in a league match onOct. 18.

— with reports from BrownSports Information


Honors Goalkeeper Chris

Gomez ’05 ended his

sophomore season as

the Ivy League leader

in saves with 73.

asked URC for funding for administrativesupport for the First Year Seminar pro-gram, Casey said.

The program is offering approximately30 seminars this academic year.Armstrong hopes to increase the numberof seminars to 60 over the next two years,

Casey said.A r m s t r o n g

also requestedadditional fund-ing to improveBrown’s summerstudies programand offer morecourses, Caseysaid.

The programcreated a rev-enue surplus ofover $500,000this past year,Casey said.

A r m s t r o n gsaid that studentinterest in inter-national pro-grams was large-ly unaffected bythe attacks ofSept. 11, 2001,Casey said.

The facultyvoted lastTuesday to

change the name and charge of theAdvisory Committee on UniversityPlanning to the University ResourceCommittee.

Last Monday’s meeting was the first asthe URC.

Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 coversURC. She can be reached [email protected].


URC

the room within 30 minutes of beingnotified of the complaint, accordingto a University press release.

After the inspection, though,Facilities Management informedChen that it was asbestos, he said.

The subsequent University-com-missioned studies did not turn upharmful levels of asbestos, but Chensaid what the University studied inGoddard’s basement was “a smallfraction of what was actually in theroom, because we had alreadycleaned it up.

“They had a panel come in and talkto us about how it wasn’t harmful lev-els,” Chen said. “We just think it’s kindof bullshit because we’ve been in thatspace for about a year, because there’sno way to simulate what it was like.You can’t really tell now.”

The University discussed the situa-tion with members of Delta Phi butdid not notify other Goddard resi-dents, including Emily Kanstroom ’05,an independent who lives in thefourth floor suite directly above DeltaPhi’s rooms. She said she had heardnothing about the possible contami-nation, but she finds it concerningthat there might be asbestos in thebasement of the building where shelives.

Kanstroom said she had been in theDelta Phi section of the basement.

Mike Blitstein ’03, who also lives inGoddard but is a member of AlphaDelta Phi rather than Delta Phi, saidhe had not been informed that therewas a suspicion of asbestos.

“I haven’t heard anything,” he said,and as far as he knew, the only main-tenance that had been done in the

building was on a heater in AlphaDelta Phi’s lounge.

In mid-November, the Universityrequested two inspections of theroom by the Occupational andEnvironmental Health Center ofRhode Island in response to Goddardresidents’ concerns that the pipe wasinitially damaged over a year ago,Nickel said.

“Once (the pipe) was broken orcracked — nobody is sure when thathappened, but it began to deterioratesteadily,” Nickel said.

Dr. Thomas Hicks, who conductedthe state environmental health cen-ter’s first inspection last Thursday,found no asbestos in the air sam-ples.

Hicks will return on Dec. 12 to con-duct additional tests, Nickel said.

“For a while everybody was all

intense about” the possibility ofasbestos exposure, Nickel said. “Butthe more we found out about it, itlooks like the University did respondin a timely way.”

Chen said the pipe has beenrepaired in recent weeks, but he does-n’t feel it is a comprehensive repair.

“They went in and said they sealedit up and patched it up. It doesn’t evenlook that patched up,” Chen said.Parts of the piping are still exposed,he said, making the repair seem like a“quick fix.”

The University’s AsbestosOperations and MaintenanceProgram periodically inspects build-ings for possible asbestos contamina-tion.

The program has removed “hun-dreds of tons of asbestos-containingmaterials from campus facilities andreplaced them with asbestos-freematerials,” according to a Universitypress release.

No matter what the studies thus farprove regarding asbestos in the air,Chen said he and other members ofthe fraternity are concerned abouttheir health.

Chen said his roommate com-plained of light-headedness andcoughing while cleaning the socialroom before the University inspec-tion, and Chen said he also felt light-headed during the cleanup. Althoughthe basement is officially Delta Phi’ssocial space, Chen said people otherthan members of Delta Phi have beendown there.

“We have parties,” he said. “Tonsand tons of people have been downthere not affiliated with our fraterni-ty.”

The broken pipe was not related toa fire that took place in the Goddardbasement on Nov. 15, Nickel said.

— with Herald staff reports


Asbestos “They had a panel come

in and talk to us about

how it wasn’t harmful lev-

els. We just think it’s kind

of bullshit because we’ve

been in that space for

about a year, because

there’s no way to simulate

what it was like. You can’t

really tell now.”

Rob Chen ’05Member, Delta Phi

Dean of the

College Paul

Armstrong

also request-

ed additional

funding to

improve

Brown’s sum-

mer studies

program and

offer more

courses.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2002 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 5

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Kissinger, Mitchell pledge to severany conflict-of-interest ties WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Former secretary of stateHenry Kissinger and former Senate majority leader GeorgeMitchell, who will head the new commission to look intothe Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Sunday they would severrelations with any clients that are involved in their investi-gation.

They also said they would conduct an aggressive, wide-ranging inquiry over the next 18 months. While addingthat it was “premature” before the other eight commission-ers are named to say whether or not President Bush, for-mer President Clinton or even foreign leaders or foreignintelligence agencies would be called for questioning,Kissinger did not rule it out.

“We will follow the facts where they lead,” Kissinger saidon CNN’s “Late Edition.”“When there is felt to be the needthat there’s information that only the president mighthave, that’s when that question will arise and that’s whenwe will pursue the facts with the leaders,” he said.“If theylead in the direction of the need for looking into theactions of foreign countries or what foreign countriesknew, my personal recommendation will be to explorethat,” he added.

The possibility that conflicts of interest could arisebetween Kissinger’s clients of his New York-based consult-ing firm and the targets of the 9/11 investigation wasraised Sunday by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Appearing onNBC’s “Meet the Press,” Kerry said,“I think it is going to beextraordinarily important for Dr. Kissinger to prove to thenation that he comes to this without any linkages thatcould remain suspect.”

Asked on Fox News Sunday about Kerry’s remark,Kissinger said,“If there are any clients that are involved inthe investigations, I will certainly sever my relations withthem. But I cannot conceive that there will be any.”

Bush and GOP allies in Congress planquick push for more tax cuts WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Buoyed by the midterm elec-tions — and with an eye on the next campaign —President Bush and GOP congressional officials plan to usetheir new clout to push for early action on legislation tocut taxes and promote economic growth.

Some analysts question whether such measures areneeded to boost an economy that shows signs of recover-ing. But the Bush administration wants to plow ahead —and fast.

The White House has its political antennae tuned asmuch to the economy of November 2004 as of January2003, Republicans close to the administration say. At theleast, Bush and his aides want to ensure that he cannot beaccused of benign neglect toward the economy — a criti-cism that helped topple his father’s administration in 1992.

“I don’t think there’s a huge clamor” for an economicgrowth package, said a senior House Republican leader-ship aide.“But they are not doing it for two months fromnow; they are doing it for two years from now.”

Among the options under review are proposals thatspeed up scheduled reductions in income tax rates, boostthe child tax credit from $600 to $1,000 and cut taxes ondividends from investments.

Even though Congress doesn’t return until January,White House officials are moving aggressively to lay thegroundwork for action early next year.

Bush’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, metMonday with senior GOP congressional aides to strategize.Representatives of major business groups went to theWhite House on Tuesday to discuss tax cuts and the econ-omy with Lindsey and Bush’s chief political adviser, KarlRove. Bush’s economic advisers gave him options toreview over his holiday weekend at his ranch nearCrawford, Texas, GOP sources said.

The momentum behind new economic measures is oneof the most vivid examples of how Washington’s policylandscape has been transformed by the 2002 elections.With Republicans grabbing control of the Senate andexpanding their House majority, they can contemplatepassing tax cuts that were unthinkable as long asDemocrats controlled the Senate.

“That’s one thing you can bet on in 2003: There will bemore tax relief,” said Mark Isakowitz, a lobbyist with closeties to the GOP.

Kerry explores bid for presidencyWASHINGTON (L. A. Times) — Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., saidSunday that he is forming an exploratory committee thisweek in anticipation of a 2004 bid for the White House.

“It’s an enormous step and it’s not one I take lightly, butit’s one that I’m excited about,” the decorated VietnamWar veteran said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s a chal-lenge.”

Kerry’s move was widely expected. Once he files thepapers to launch a committee, he can begin raisingmoney to gauge whether he has backing as a serious pres-idential candidate.

A formal announcement of his candidacy is “down theroad some months,” he said.

A recent Los Angeles Times Poll of Democratic Partyinsiders found strong support for Kerry as the party’spresidential candidate.

The poll found no clear-cut favorite, but when read alist of 10 prospective nominees, 19 percent of those sur-veyed named former Vice President Al Gore, the party’spresidential candidate in 2000, as their top choice, and 18percent named Kerry.

Nearly half those polled said Gore should sit out therace.

The Democratic field is expected to be crowded.Vermont Gov. Howard Dean already is exploring a bid.Missouri Rep. Richard A. Gephardt and North CarolinaSen. John Edwards also have expressed interest. Gore hassaid he will make up his mind by January. His runningmate in 2000, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut,has said he will run if Gore doesn’t.

“There are good people who are standing up. There areothers who will contest. That’s part of the process,” Kerrysaid Sunday.

“I want this to be a contest of ideas, and I want it to bebased not on my running against anybody, but runningfor a vision for this country.”

There is, he said, “deep anxiety” in America about “jobsecurity, income security, retirement security, healthsecurity, education security, physical, personal security

and, of course, national security. And, I think, literally onalmost every issue facing the country, I believe there is abetter choice for this nation.”

Soon after graduating from Yale University in 1966,Kerry entered the Navy, where he served on a gunboat inthe Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

He was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and threePurple Hearts for his combat service. When he returnedfrom Vietnam, he began questioning U.S. involvement inthat conflict, becoming a spokesman for VietnamVeterans Against the War.

Kerry, 58, was a lawyer and prosecutor inMassachusetts before being elected lieutenant governorin 1982. He was elected to the Senate two years later andwas unopposed when he ran for a fourth term inNovember.

In the Senate, he helped lead the investigation into theIran-Contra affair — in which money from secret U.S.arms sales to Iran in the early 1980s went to supportrebels in Nicaragua, in violation of congressional limita-tions — and helped expose scandals at the Abu Dhabi-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, whichclosed in 1991 after it was linked to secret weapons deals,drug money and terrorists.

Kerry has been a vocal critic of President Bush’s policyagainst Iraq, urging that Bush first go to the UnitedNations.

Kerryeventually voted for the congressional resolutionsupporting U.S. action against Baghdad. He voted againstthe Gulf War in 1991.

He has been sharply critical of Bush’s Middle East poli-cy, repeating his complaint Sunday that the administra-tion has disengaged from that area of the world during itsfirst year in office.

He also opposes Bush’s tax cuts, saying they favor therich.

“As people get to know me in the course of this, they’llknow the things that I have fought for and the things Istand for,” Kerry said on NBC.

Farmer a witness to Kenya bombingsMSUMARINI, Kenya (Washington Post) — A fisherman wholives less than two miles from the Israeli-owned hotel thatwas bombed here Thursday said that minutes before theattack he noticed a four-wheel-drive vehicle idling on hisproperty with two men inside acting suspiciously.

But Khamis Haro Deche, who lives in a mud hut andearns no more than $6 a week, said he did not call thepolice because he does not have a telephone.

Deche said he approached the men in the vehicle andthey said they were waiting for a friend. The driver of thecar shook Deche’s hand but said nothing, Deche recalled.The man appeared to be trying to hide something on thepassenger’s lap, blocking Deche’s view when he peeked inthe car. But Deche was able to see 10 cellular phones onthe dashboard.

“I shook hands with fires and I didn’t know,” Deche said.“My heart is burned. They have spoiled our life in Kenya.”

Deche, 39, might have been one of the last people tospeak to the bombers before they blew up the ParadiseHotel. He gave police the cars license plate number, whichhe said he remembered because he was concerned thatthe men would commit a robbery in the area.

The details of the encounter were the latest clues in theinvestigation of the terrorist attacks on two Israeli targets inMombasa. At 8:30 a.m. Thursday a green Pajero packed withexplosives crashed into the hotel lobby, killing 10 Kenyans,three Israelis and three bombers. Moments earlier two shoul-der fired surface-to-air missiles narrowly missed a Boeing 757as it took from Mombasa’s airport bound for Tel Aviv.

Israeli and Kenyan officials say Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network is the main suspect in the attack. Al-Qaedais widely blamed for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassiesin Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people died, most ofthem Africans.

Kenyan police are holding 10 suspects they seized froma boat. But Israeli officials questioned their involvement inthe attacks because they have been detained sinceMonday.

U.S. officials have said a likely suspect might be al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, a Somali group with links to al-Qaedaactive in East Africa.

With increased tensions over the speed and accuracy ofthe investigation, Kenyan and Israeli officials sparredSunday over who would handle the evidence. Kenyanpolice said they had found two fragments of the bomb,

which Israeli bomb experts said they wanted to take toIsrael to be analyzed.

Chaos filled the crime scene Sunday, with passers-byable to pick up and sift through pieces of evidence. Parts ofvehicle were left out in the rain, and Israeli investigatorswere visibly frustrated.

Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharon, said hisgovernment wantedmore control of theprobe. Sharon sentinvestigators fromthe Mossad spyagency to Kenya afterthe bombing to help.

“We are cooperat-ing with the Kenyangovernment,” Gissinsaid. “I think up tonow they were very,very much coopera-tive, but one mustunderstand that theywere not geared to

this kind of a threat or they don’t have the necessaryresources or technological capabilities that would enablethem to deal with that.”

Julius Sunkuli, Kenya’s internal security and defenseminister, defended his country’s handling of the investiga-tion despite its lack of resources.

Kenyan police said they have interviewed dozens of wit-nesses and people who were in the hotel at the time of thebombing, and have visited Deche at his home twice.

Deche said that around 8 a.m. his 13-year-old daughter,Sophia, told him a car was sitting on his property. Hejumped out of bed to see what was going on. “I was imag-ing that they wanted to buy a goat,” said Deche, who is afarmer.

The man in the passenger’s seat spoke Swahili, an offi-cial language in Kenya, with an Arabic-accent. There wereblack markings on the heads of both men, Deche said,which devout Muslims often have from bowing duringprayer.

Shortly after walking back to his home, Deche heard theexplosion at the hotel.

U.S. officials have

said a likely suspect

might be al-Ittihad

al-Islamiya, a Somali

group with links to

al-Qaeda active in

East Africa.


JENIN, West Bank (L.A.Times) — Once busy providingPalestinian refugees with aid, the United Nations com-pound here is empty except for a few U.N. investigatorspiecing together the events that led to the death of theircolleague, Iain Hook.

The Israeli armed forces have admitted that one ormore of its soldiers shot Hook, 54, in the compound Nov.22, but the circumstances surrounding his death remainbitterly contested.

The military says armed Palestinians were using thecompound as a sniper nest and soldiers fired into whatthey believed was enemy territory.

U.N. officials adamantly deny that. “At no time didarmed gunmen enter the compound,” said Paul McCann,a spokesman for the U.N. Works and Refugee Agency,where Hook worked.

The anger is rooted in the Israeli government’sdecades-long resentment of the what it perceives as theU.N. agency’s support for the Palestinian political cause.The agency, for its part, sees the Israelis as careless whenit comes to Palestinian civilians and those who work withthem. UNWRA was created in 1948 specifically to helpPalestinians who fled or were forced from their homes asIsrael declared itself a state.

But Hook’s shooting in particular has heightened thetensions. His death — the first of a foreign U.N. employeesince the Palestinian intifada began 26 months ago — hasrefocused attention on civilian casualties in the occupiedterritories, which have become so frequent that the indi-vidual circumstances are often left unexamined.

On the day Hook died, Israeli soldiers shot a 12-year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Musleh Balalwa, who wasthrowing stones at them in the Jenin camp.

Five days later, soldiers shot and killed Jihad Natour, 22,as he walked through the West Bank city of Hebron bang-ing the traditional Ramadan festival drum at 3 a.m. towake Muslims for their pre-sunrise meal before therequired sun-up to sundown fast. And Saturday, a 16-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed on his way home fromschool in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said Israeli soldiersfired on a group of teens as they neared an army outpost;the Israelis say they only fired warning shots.

In the case of Hook’s death, the search for explanationsonly confirms the difficulty of sorting out the truth.

A few things are undisputed: Hook, an Englishman,

had arrived in Jenin six weeks earlier. A veteran of U.N.postings in Afghanistan, East Timor and Kosovo, he wasused to charged situations.

His assignment was to oversee a $27 million project torebuild some 400 homes, destroyed by Israeli forces whenthe Jenin camp was under siege in the spring. Staff at theRed Crescent Society, the Muslim version of the Red Cross,and at the Jenin hospital knew him, as did Israeli militaryliaison officers.

On the morning of Nov. 22, Israeli soldiers entered theJenin camp in search of Abdullah Wahsh, a leader ofIslamic Jihad wanted in connection with an attack on abus that killed 14 people in October. Wahsh’s suspectedhide-out was a house fewer than 150 feet from the U.N.compound. A 7-foot concrete wall, topped with 3 feet ofchicken wire, surrounds the U.N. offices.

A corrugated metal roof covers much of the com-pound’s area to shield it from the pounding summer sun.

Residents say the soldiers stormed into the neighbor-hood about 8 a.m. and took up positions surroundingWahsh’s suspected hide-out.

Several entered the home of Tafiq Farhad, just up thestreet and on the opposite side from the U.N. compound.Farhad, 36, shows a visitor one of the rooms where the sol-diers took up positions.

The neat living room on the third floor has three win-dows overlooking the U.N. compound. The floor is litteredwith bullet casings, which one of his little daughters playswith absently. Farhad says that the casings were left by thesoldiers and that U.N. officials told him not to move them.

By 9 a.m., Hook, worried about his staff, called Capt.Peter Lerner, the military’s liaison with internationalgroups. “He wanted me to confirm there was a militaryoperation,” Lerner said. “I said, ‘Stay inside the building,away from the windows and close to the walls.’ “

What happened next is less clear. Some witnesses say that there were repeated bursts of

gunfire from soldiers and Palestinian gunmen facing off inthe streets near Wahsh’s hide-out.

Meanwhile, Palestinian civilians in the U.N. compound,some of them women and children, were unable to leave bythe front gate because of the shooting and called to neigh-bors to help them, said Caoimhe Butterly, an Irishwomanwho has been working in the camp since April.

As she came around the back of the compound,

Butterly said, she saw Palestinian youths hacking withpickaxes on the wall to chip a hole large enough for peo-ple to climb through. “There had been armed resistancein that area earlier that morning, but at that time, thesmall number who were fighting had left,” she said. At12:53 p.m., Hook made another call to Lerner, which wasrecorded on Lerner’s voice mail, a tape made available toreporters last week. “Just making a progress report. We’repinned down in the compound and the ‘shabab’ haveknocked a hole in the wall. I’m not happy about it. I’m try-ing to keep them out.”

The term shabab can be used to describe either youthsgenerically — or gunmen.

“There was no fighting for tens of minutes, maybe ahalf hour, before Iain was shot,” said McCann, the U.N.spokesman.

“Iain realized that armed elements were trying to gainentrance to the compound. He approached them and toldthem they were jeopardizing the safety of all his staff andthe neutrality of the compound, and they accepted it andleft.”

Absolutely wrong, say the Israelis, who contend therewas shooting from the U.N. property.

“Iain told us they were trying to get in, and on at leasttwo occasions, there was direct fire at (Israeli) troops fromthe compound,” said Lerner. In addition, he said theQatar-based al Jazeera TV network broadcast a video lastSunday that showed “empty cartridges inside the com-pound and Palestinians picking them up.”

Lerner implied that Hook had been forced to givearmed men entry. “This isn’t the first instance when U.N.officials were held at gunpoint by armed Palestinians,” hesaid.

Whatever the situation, a little after 1 p.m., Hookwalked out of one of the trailers, holding an object — nowbelieved to be a cell phone by Israeli and U.N. sources —and took a step or two into the open area of the com-pound. A moment later, a bullet penetrated his back.Hook’s staff called the Red Crescent ambulance service.The driver sped to the compound, only to be stopped byan Israel tank and jeeps about 50 feet from the gate.

A U.N. ambulance, called by the agency’s Jerusalemstaff, ran into the same problem. After a 20- to 25-minutedelay, it went around the back of the compound, saidOthman Talib, a nurse who was in the ambulance.

Dispute wears on over death of U.N. worker in Jenin

WASHINGTON (L. A. Times) — The death toll from crashescaused by drivers talking on their wireless phonesappears to be rising significantly as the devicesbecome a must-have accessory for many Americans.

A study being released Monday by HarvardUniversity’s Center for Risk Analysis estimates a rate of2,600 deaths a year in such crashes, compared with thesame researchers’ estimate of 1,000 fatalities only twoyears ago.

“The amount of time people spend using their cellphones while driving has increased, probably reflect-ing the fact that it is becoming cheaper to use thedevices,” said research scientist Joshua Cohen, thestudy’s author.

The Harvard study also estimated that 570,000injuries a year and 1.5 million crashes resulting inproperty damage can be blamed on wireless phoneuse.

The study will feed into a national debate that pitspersonal freedom and convenience against safety con-cerns.

Two federal agencies have recently stepped upefforts to understand how wireless phone use maycontribute to accidents. The National TransportationSafety Board is investigating wireless phones as apotential contributing factor in several recent seriouscrashes.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationis launching a study of how wireless phone use affectsindividual drivers, using the government’s driving sim-ulator facility in Iowa.

Nationwide, there is no uniform measure for track-ing accidents in which wireless phone use may havebeen a factor. The Harvard study used mathematicalmodels to estimate the risk of injury and death as wellas the costs and benefits of using wireless phoneswhile driving. The risk analysis center is part ofHarvard’s School of Public Health. The study conclud-ed that the escalating costs of wireless phone-related

accidents are erasing the economic benefits of unre-stricted use of the devices by drivers.

Previous economic analysis by Harvard researchershad found that the benefits of being able to readilycommunicate for business or pleasure while on theroad clearly outweighed the social costs of injuries anddeaths in accidents.

Cohen’s latest calculations found that the costs arenow roughly equal to the benefits.

“The risk is growing, but the benefits are not keep-ing up,” Cohen said. Such conclusions could bolsterthe case for restricting wireless phone use by drivers.

This year, at least 22 states considered legislation torestrict wireless phone use while driving, according tothe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. So far, onlyNew York has enacted a partial prohibition. It does notallow drivers to use hand-held phones. New Yorkersmay use devices adapted for hands-free use, which areusually voice-activated and come with an earpiece andmicrophone.

It is too early to tell whether New York’s law, whichwent into effect last year, is saving lives. A preliminarystudy indicated that the law had changed the behaviorof motorists, and use of hand-held phones appears tobe down by about 50 percent.

Wireless phone use is by no means the biggest men-ace on the roads. Alcohol-related crashes accountedfor 17,448 deaths last year, while accidents involvingspeeding took 12,850 lives, according to federal statis-tics.

But much less is known about the link betweenwireless phone use and crashes than about the effectsof alcohol or speeding. In most states, accident reportforms used by police do not collect information onwhether drivers were on the phone.

The wireless phone industry — which has morethan 128 million customers — has refused to turn overcustomer records that would allow researchers to pin-point whether drivers were in fact on the phone at thetime of an accident.

A 1997 study of Canadian drivers who agreed tohave their wireless phone records scrutinized foundthat the risk of an accident was four times greaterwhile a driver was using the phone.

Cohen, the author of the Harvard study, said federaland state agencies should commission more researchbefore any decision to restrict wireless phone use. Thatway lawmakers can be sure that the solutions they

come up with will work. Although New York’s ban on hand-held phones has

generated widespread interest, Cohen said researchindicates it might not be the most effective approach.The Canadian study found that hands-free phones didnot appear to reduce the risk of getting into an acci-dent.

Crashes “may result from drivers’ limitations withregard to attention rather than dexterity,” theCanadian authors suggested.

The wireless phone industry strongly opposesrestrictions on motorists, but it has launched a safetyeducation campaign that discourages drivers fromengaging in stressful conversations while behind thewheel, and urges them to avoid using their phones inbad weather, heavy traffic or while driving in unfamil-iar territory. The industry encourages the use ofhands-free phones.

“There are laws already in place that allow an officerto stop and ticket a driver for distracted driving,” saidKim Kuo, a spokeswoman for the CellularTelecommunications and Internet Association. “Wefeel it’s going to be ineffective if you just pass laws andignore the need for education.”

Study: wireless phone use leads to more road deathsA study that will be released today byHarvard University’s Center for Risk Analysis estimates a rate of 2,600deaths a year in crashes caused bydrivers talking on mobile phones

The wireless phone industry strongly

opposes restrictions on motorists,

but it has launched a safety educa-

tion campaign that discourages driv-

ers from engaging in stressful con-

versations while behind the wheel,

and urges them to avoid using their

phones in bad weather, heavy traffic

or while driving in unfamiliar

territory. The industry encourages

the use of hands-free phones.

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WASHINGTON (Baltimore Sun) — As it courtsmilitary and diplomatic support amongallies for a possible war against Iraq, theUnited States is also quietly reaching outto a longtime adversary — Iran — in hopesthat it will stay on the sidelines in a newPersian Gulf conflict.

Since last summer, when they beganlaying the groundwork for a confrontationwith Iraq, U.S. officials have signaled awillingness to make contact with Tehran’sclerical regime to explain their goal of dis-arming Saddam Hussein and to seek Iran’scooperation. “We need to see what eachother is about here, and see if we can workthat out,” a senior Bush administrationofficial said.

In an August speech, Bush adviserZalmay Khalilzad said that despite U.S.criticism of Iranian policy, the UnitedStates was open to discussions with Iranabout Iraq. He added, “We seek an Iraqwhich is unified, stable, representative,protective of the rights of minorities, andno longer a threat to its neighbors. Thisshould be in Iran’s interests as well.”

Addressing the United Nations on Sept.12, President Bush made a point of sayingthat Iran was threatened by Iraq’s failure tocomply with U.N. mandates — Iraq hadfailed to account for missing Iranians,among other foreign nationals, he said;Iraq continued to harbor terrorists thatdirect violence against Iran; and in thepast Hussein “has gassed many Iranians.”

The American overtures come at a sen-sitive time for the Iranian regime. Nervousabout the United States’ long-term inten-tions in the Middle East, Iran’s clericalleadership is simultaneously crackingdown on dissidents clamoring for a moreopen political system and facing econom-ic problems, including a chronically highjobless rate.

The United States has pressed morethan 50 allies for help in case of a war withIraq, and this weekend two high-levelenvoys, Deputy Defense Secretary PaulWolfowitz and Undersecretary of StateMarc Grossman, begin a mission to seekcooperation from Turkey and other NATOallies.

American officials, who have limitedgoals in dealing with Iran, scoff at the ideaof a drastic improvement in relations.Bush labeled Iran as part of an “axis of evil”in his State of the Union speech this year.The United States accuses Iran of beingthe world’s leading sponsor of terrorismand of actively supporting violence againstIsraelis by Palestinian militants andLebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas.

But they hope to reach an understand-ing that would keep Iran out of a U.S. con-flict with Iraq and cooperative during theperiod of reconstruction after an expectedAmerican victory.

Iran avoided involvement during the1991 Persian Gulf War and showed a meas-ure of cooperation last year during themost intense phase of the U.S.-led war toremove the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Although the United States broke diplo-matic relations with Iran after militantsthere took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehranand held American diplomats hostagemore than 20 years ago, it has slowlyreopened channels of communication,using them to talk about Iraq.

On the surface, Iran would seem eagerto cooperate in destroying Hussein’sregime. Hussein launched a brutal eight-year war with Iran in 1980. Having seen itstroops victimized by Iraqi chemicalweapons, Iran has reason to want Iraqstripped of weapons of mass destruction.

But the Iranian regime is nervous aboutwhat it fears are Washington’s intentions tomake Iran a future target of America’s waron terrorism.

“Encirclement is what they’re afraid of,”said Edward S. Walker, president of theMiddle East Institute in Washington, whomet in New York early this fall with Iran’sforeign minister, Kamal Kharrazi.

With a new U.S.-backed government inAfghanistan on its eastern border andNATO member Turkey to the west, Iranwould find itself nearly surrounded bycountries more or less allied with theUnited States if American troops were tooccupy Iraq and help install a new, pro-Western government.

In a speech to the United Nations

Security Council in October, Iran’s U.N.ambassador, Javad Zarif, said a U.S. attackon Iraq “will inevitably fuel further resent-ment everywhere — not just in Iraq. It willsow seeds of new hatred that will feedinstability for years to come.”

He also spoke obliquely about pro-Israel “ideologues” who, he said, “seek tofurther their own aims and remake theworld in their own peculiar image.”

In his meeting with Walker and other

American Mideast specialists in the fall,Kharrazi was “very polite” but also “veryfirm that he didn’t see how Iran could workwith this administration, given the posi-tion the president had stated publicly andthreats from some quarters of the admin-istration,” Walker said.

Iran has various ways of causing troublefor the United States, analysts say. It couldencourage major attacks against Israel byHezbollah — its client guerrilla organizationbased in Lebanon, provoking Israel into acounterattack that could trigger a wider war— or by its allies in the militant PalestinianHamas movement. Iran could also want touse its allies among Iraq’s Shia to gain influ-ence in a new Iraqi government.

During the Afghan campaign, U.S. offi-cials saw Iran playing a double game.While not undermining the U.S. war effort,Iran failed for months to arrest and extra-dite al-Qaeda members crossing theAfghan border into Iran. After the war, Iraninfiltrated forces linked with the IranianRevolutionary Guards into parts ofAfghanistan.

Walker said that during his meetingwith the Iranian foreign minister,“Kharrazi said, ‘We’re a bystander in thisone (the confrontation with Iraq).” But Idon’t really believe that. Their interests aretoo intimately involved in that long bor-der.”

U.S. officials have refused to divulge thesubstance of their quiet communicationwith Iranians or to say whether Iran hasgiven a pledge of cooperation.

But the senior administration officialindicated that Washington wants to send amessage of reassurance.

“They should be reassured by the factthat they could well have a neighbor thatwill no longer pose a threat to them,” theofficial said. “They should welcome theemergence of an Iraq that is focused onrebuilding the country, that has noweapons of mass destruction. No one’stalking about turning Iraq into anAmerican colony. That’s ridiculous.”

“I don’t see where Iraq becoming a nor-mal country is in any way a problem forIran,” the official said.

U.S. quietly lobbying Iran to stay out of Iraq affairs“They should be reassured

by the fact that they could

well have a neighbor that

will no longer pose a threat

to them,” the official said.

“They should welcome the

emergence of an Iraq that

is focused on rebuilding

the country, that has no

weapons of mass destruc-

tion. No one’s talking about

turning Iraq into an

American colony. That’s

ridiculous. I don’t see

where Iraq becoming a

normal country is in any

way a problem for Iran.”

Senior OfficialBush administration


Pigs fly in China as ‘AnimalFarm’ takes center stage BEIJING (L.A. Times) — The whis-pers hissing through Chinesetheater circles these days centeron a single question: Can pigs fly?

Some observers say yes,because they thought they’dnever see the day when GeorgeOrwell’s classic critique ofCommunist excess, “AnimalFarm,” would be served up formass consumption in China. Yetthere it is, adapted for the stage,at the Central Academy ofDrama’s Experimental Theater indowntown Beijing.

Others, however, are waiting tosee whether these particular pigs,the dictatorial leaders in Orwell’sbarnyard revolution, will fly withChinese audiences — and withthe authorities in the lastCommunist behemoth.

With unintended irony, thestage version of “Animal Farm”opened Nov. 15, just hours afterthe Communist Party unveiledthe new leaders who will rule thiscountry virtually unchecked forthe next five years.

As China-watchers scrambledto parse the new party lineup,theatergoers in Beijing tried tointerpret the meaning of a textfamiliar to high school studentsin the English-speaking worldbut practically unknown here.

A scathing indictment of total-itarianism, “Animal Farm” firstappeared in Britain in 1945.Orwell’s novel of an animalutopia gone bad was anovernight success in the West,and spawned phrases that haveentered the vernacular, such as“four legs good, two legs bad”and “some animals are moreequal than others.”

Those slogans have been pre-served in director ShangChengjun’s theatrical adaptation,

a quirky production that com-bines a large cast, “Lion King”-like costumes, a revolving stageand eclectic music ranging fromklezmer to tango to the etherealCeltic strains of the singer Enya.

But crucially, Shang hastweaked parts of the book andshifted its original emphasis inorder to send a different messageto audiences — one more palat-able, perhaps, to official censors.

Orwell intended the story toserve as a fable of the corruptingeffect of absolute power. Thebook focuses on the pigs wholead the overthrow of the farm’sowners but who become astyrannical and murderous as thehuman beings they replaced.

What Shang insists he wants toconvey instead is the danger ofapathy and abdication of con-science on the part of the masses,not the ruthlessness and moralbankruptcy of the masters whooppress them.

“The novel stresses what thepigs did as the ruling class. What Iwanted to stress was not the rul-ing class, but the horses, thesheep and the chickens, the ani-mals that represent the massesand their attitudes. I wanted tocriticize them for being selfish,indifferent, ignorant, fatuous andlazy,” said Shang, 30.

“Many foreign journalists haveasked me whether this play hintsat something about China,” headded, “but I told them, ‘Youshouldn’t think of it that way.’ “

Whether this is a sly case ofdoublespeak by Shang is hard totell, for at least a portion of theaudience one recent evening sawthrough the veil — and wereastonished at the play’s daring ina land where Communist rheto-ric still abounds.

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Craig Powell ’00Nov. 25

The University responded swiftly to complaints raised by mem-bers of Delta Phi fraternity that their Goddard House basementsocial space was possibly contaminated with asbestos. Butschool officials neglected to inform Goddard residents who arenot members of Delta Phi about the possible health hazards.

Within 30 minutes of being notified of the complaint, theOffice of Environmental Health and Safety visited, cleaned andclosed the room, the Brown News Service reported. VicePresident for Campus Life and Student Services Janina Monterocorresponded with both Delta Phi fraternity members and theirparents regarding the possible contamination. And althoughtests found “no asbestos fibers … in the air samples,” theUniversity neglected to notify residents of Goddard House whoare not members of Delta Phi that they were testing their resi-dence for possible asbestos materials, residents said.

We hope the University would notify not only members ofDelta Phi, but all residents of Goddard who could be affected bya dangerous carcinogen. Even more troubling is that despiteUniversity claims that no asbestos was present, Delta Phi mem-bers said University representatives told them that asbestos hadbeen found in the basement.

Asbestos was used heavily in construction prior to the 1970s. Itis no longer used because exposure to the mineral causes cancerand other deadly diseases. While it is reassuring that theUniversity’s Asbestos Management and Maintenance Programresponds to these issues, it is troubling that Brown had suchpoor communication regarding recent reports of and tests forasbestos contamination.

All residents of buildings reported to have or inspected forasbestos materials should be informed of such reports or inspec-tions. The University should continue to respond to inquiriesregarding asbestos in a timely manner. Furthermore, Brown shouldconduct ongoing examinations of its numerous buildings that aremore than 30 years old to ensure that similar problems do not arise.

University officials assure students that residential buildingsare safe, but the recent happenings question the certainty withwhich they make this claim. Student safety should be one ofBrown’s top concerns. But the University’s failure to engage inprudent communication with all students who could be living ina contaminated area is an unacceptable oversight that overlooksthe welfare of some students.

Ill Communication

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


Republicans won’t own up to protecting drug giant Republican domestic terrorism bill proves strange sanctuary for one of party’s biggest donors, Eli Lilly

WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH SIGNED OFFon legislation creating his HomelandSecurity Department on Nov. 25, lawmak-ers, defense contractors and millions ofother U.S. citizens were ecstatic. But thethousands of autistic children and theirparents who found out thatthe Homeland Security billprohibits them from suing EliLilly, the drug manufacturerthat they allege developed andsold vaccines with the autism-causing preservative thimersol, were notas happy. The refusal of the government toallow families to bring Eli Lilly to court toestablish anything more than causal linkprotects the drug company from ade-quately responding to claims that theypoisoned and killed children.

While the thought of the governmentusing domestic security legislation to pro-tect drug companies that allegedly poisonand kill children is horrible in and of itself,it is even more disturbing that nobody onCapitol Hill is taking responsibility foradding the Eli Lilly protection provisioninto the bill.

Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., sought unsuccessfully to sneak aprovision protecting Eli Lilly from poten-tially damaging multi-million dollar law-suits into legislation that was to increasethe availability of vaccines. But now, Fristtold the New York Times he has no ideahow protection for Lilly became part of

the Homeland Security legislation. AndFrist isn’t the only one who cannotremember how protecting Eli Lilly againstlawsuits from the parents of autistic chil-dren poisoned by the drug giant becamepart of the “war on terror.” A spokesman

for House Majority LeaderDick Armey told theWashington Post that theprovision became part of thebill at the request of theWhite House. But a White

House spokesman told the New YorkTimes that “It’s a mystery to us how it gotin there.”

Something doesn’t sound right. Itseems impossible that a provision pro-tecting a drug company that contributesmillions of dollars to Republican politicalcampaigns can just magically appear in apiece of legislation on Capitol Hill.Somebody must be behind this and allsigns point to Bush. In fact, the presi-dent’s father was a member of Eli Lilly’sboard of directors in the 1970s. The WhiteHouse budget director is a former Eli Lillyexecutive. And Sidney Taurel, the chair-man of Eli Lilly, is an advisor to the presi-dent on national security. If that wasn’tenough, Lilly gave more money to politi-cal candidates in the 2002 election seasonthan any other drug company. Of the $1.6million the drug maker donated, 79 per-cent went to Republicans (Center forResponsive Politics).

It’s strange that the Republican orgroup of Republicans who are responsiblefor protecting Eli Lilly against these law-

suits are not claiming credit. After all, theguy who went to bat for the drug compa-ny probably stands to get millions more indonations during the next election sea-son. But maybe politicians don’t want tobe perceived as the defenders of compa-nies that poison children. That makessense. After all, there are thousands ofparents who contend that their childrenare now either autistic or dead as a resultof Eli Lilly’s vaccines.

Frist and others may counter that theHomeland Security legislation doesn’tcompletely rule out any sort of compen-sation to these families. Complaintsagainst the company will now be chan-neled to a federal program that providesliability protection for vaccine manufac-turers. But this program compensates thefamilies of people poisoned or killed by

such vaccines to a maximum of $250,000,all of which is federally funded.

Obviously, no amount of money canmake up for the loss or poisoning of achild. And it is silly and heartless toassume that grieving families would beappeased if they could sue Eli Lilly in courtfor millions of dollars. But now that thedrug giant doesn’t have to spend moneyon payments to the families of children itallegedly either poisoned or killed, Eli Lillycan continue donating millions to politicalcampaigns. And legislation protecting thedrug maker against similar lawsuits cancontinue to appear mysteriously on legis-lation as part of the “war on terror.”

The Eli Lilly case sets a horrible prece-dent that allows our lawmakers to pro-pose and pass legislation without anyaccountability. We may never know whichsenator, representative or member of theexecutive branch was responsible forsneaking this provision into theHomeland Security bill.

Nevertheless, concerned citizens andparents of children allegedly poisoned orkilled by Eli Lilly unsuccessfully proposedan amendment to the Homeland Securitylegislation. And Democratic senators, likeDebbie Stabenow of Michigan, vow torepeal the provision through future legis-lation. So there is hope for those tragical-ly affected by Eli Lilly. And maybe in thefuture, legislation with a million-dollarprice tag that protects drug companiesthat poison or kill children will not myste-riously turn up in domestic security legis-lation.

Herald Editor-in-Chief Seth Kerschner ’03likes to come inside.

I RECENTLY RECEIVED AN E-MAILfrom one of my favorite (Republican)high school teachers. Among otherthings he said, “You’re probably well onyour way to being indoctrinated by andtoward the left. That’s ok, most will gothrough that process andsome will eventually recoilthemselves from it.” Gee, thatsounds incredibly frighten-ing. “Indoctrination” doesn’treally have a nice connota-tion. Most often when I’ve seen the wordindoctrination, it was associated withNazis or Communist “re-education.”Thinking further, it seems to me that theword “indoctrination” is usually usedwhen referring to the dissemination ofideas (forced or otherwise) by someoneor some group perceived as bad or evil.

Could my teacher perceive the U.S. leftas inherently bad? Most definitely. Ascrazy as it may sound to students atBrown, many people feel that liberalismis flawed (and even crazier, that numberof people in the United States is aboutequal to the number of people that findconservatism inherently flawed.)

I responded to my teacher saying that,“I haven’t joined the InternationalSocialist Organization yet, but I haven’tbeen wearing my ‘I love Karl Rove’ pineither.” I think I’ve successfully avoidedbeing “indoctrinated” by either the left orthe right thus far. In keeping with thequestioning spirit and the skepticism ofsocial and political norms that liberaleducation is supposed to foster, I refuseto accept that, out of the only two choicesavailable to me, the contemporary left or

the contemporary right (in their varyingdegrees of extremism), one choice holdsall of the answers to the world’s problems.

One of the main problems that our dualparty political system (and humanity’srelentless desire to throw everything into

neat little categories) has isthat it has inculcated the ideathat every idea or policy mustbe branded as either leftist orrightist. This unfortunateinclination has led to the larg-

er problem of branding people as leftist orrightist. It’s assumed by society that onewho is labeled rightist espouses the corre-sponding body of “rightist” ideology (thisworks the same way for leftists). Thisassumption may not hold true.

However, since it is a human charac-teristic to categorize everything neatly,one who sees himself as a liberal may tryto mold his own feelings to fit in the “lib-eral ideological mold,” regardless of hisor her real inclinations (after all, if a lib-eral doesn’t espouse the entire body ofliberal ideology, what is he? Not really aliberal or a conservative? Most of us can-not bear to live with that ambiguity —we’ve gotta have a name).

This has become a trap. People arebeing forced to try to decide whetherthey identify more with liberals or con-servatives and are then forced to modifytheir own ideology to fit that of their cho-sen political mold. This stifles creativityand creates a political atmosphere that isanything but accepting to new andpotentially helpful ideas. Everybody isafraid of an idea until it somehowbecomes identifiable with either liberal-ism or conservatism. (Then, only abouthalf of Americans are afraid of it). Theproblem is that most ideas can’t really fit

neatly into one of the two categories thatare available. So, we better jam thoseideas in there, right?

One of the things I learned in kinder-garten is that you can fit a round peg intoa square hole if you push hard enough,but the peg and the hole unfortunatelybecome mangled in the process. It’s real-ly funny to look at how liberal and con-servative ideologies have been mangledin this way over the years.

During the 19th century, if you favoredhands off economic policy and the rightof the individual to choose what he orshe did in his or her spare time, then youwere called a liberal (Malthus andRicardo, whose theories earned econom-ics the nickname of “the dismal science,”would surprisingly have been called lib-erals). A conservative was a person whofavored government intervention in eco-nomic affairs and saw no problem withrestrictions on the activities that citizenscould engage in during their spare time.

In 20th-century western politics, itseems these economic views have beenreversed, while the social stances of lib-

eralism and conservatism have justbecome convoluted (i.e., You should beable to smoke pot but not have the free-dom to own guns; you should be pro-life,yet support the death sentence and be ahawk). Really, it’s amazing anyone canrationalize advocating such seeminglymutually exclusive policies, but it’s doneby a great many Americans under theprotective flags of the left and the right.

I think that people shouldn’t be afraidof a new idea or policy just because it hasbeen tagged with the label “leftist” or“rightist” ideology by some fool onCapitol Hill. Likewise, no one should becompelled to oppose a seemingly helpfulidea or policy simply because it has beentagged as ideology of the political groupwith which they don’t identify.

The U.S. left and right would do well toconsider relying less on past associationswith regard to specific policies (which atthis point have become so convoluted asto make their “real” stance on the natureof government inscrutable) and to figureout what they really stand for. At leastthen we’d be able choose our politicalassociations based on whether we wantgovernment to act as our mommy andprotect us from ourselves or just to act asa cohesive force in maintaining the statein which we live, while providing amplefreedom for all citizens.

If it is true that incorrigible humannature compels us to throw everythinginto neat little categories, providing uswith a clear choice between uniformlysmall (military included) and unobtru-sive government and a large mommy-likeone to protect us would at least provideus with two choices that we wouldn’thave to compromise our own principlesto support.

Disentangling convoluted stances in U.S. politicsThe left and right in the United States need to decide what policies they really stand for

SETH KERSCHNERGUEST COLUMN

BILL LOUISGUEST COLUMN

This is Bill Louis’ ’06 first column for TheHerald.

“It seems impossible that a

provision protecting a drug

company that contributes

millions of dollars to

Republican political cam-

paigns can just magically

appear in a piece of legisla-

tion on Capitol Hill.”

“The U.S. left and right

would do well to consider

relying less on past associ-

ations with regard to spe-

cific policies ... and to fig-

ure out what they really

stand for.”

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

DECEMBER 2, 2002 · PAGE 12

Several Bearsearn top IvyLeague honors

W. indoor trackhopes to sprintto success in ’03

S C O R E B O A R D

N F L / N C A A S C O R E S

BY ADAM STERNAfter a sluggish start to the season for theBrown’s men’s basketball squad, the holi-day weekend gave the team at least onereason to be thankful: Bruno acquired itsfirst victory on Saturday against Navy. Justdays prior, however, Brown’s team fellshort against Wagner College. Bruno nowsports an overall record of 1-4, not havingplayed any Ivy League games to date.

Brown’s victory over Navy featured theemergence of a dominant player inPatrick Powers ’04. Noting the need topick up the slack for injured Brown starEarl Hunt ’03, Powers scored a careerhigh 32 points in Bruno’s 97-92 overtimewin. Throughout Hunt’s mature collegecareer, he had never missed a game, astreak that ended at 85 consecutivestarts.

Powers came out shooting, scoring 16first-half points as Brown secured a 45-27lead. His early dominance included 5 of 6shooting from the field, featuring fourdunks and two of two shooting frombeyond the arc.

“Pat Powers has always had the abilityto score,” said Brown Head Coach GlenMiller. “With Earl out of the lineup, wewere given the opportunity to give himmore playing time. He really stepped upoffensively.”

In the second half, an impressive Navyrally allowed for the Midshipmen to gainthe lead. With 5:10 remaining in thegame, the Bears were trailing by fivepoints and it appeared that they mightsink to 0-5 on the season. With key playsfrom Powers and Jason Forte ’05, Brunomanaged to send the game into over-time.

With the score tied at 90, Forte’s free

throw provided Brown with the lead inOT, 93-92. Luke Ruscoe ’06 then had asignificant steal with 15.9 secondsremaining and was sent to the line wherehe made both free throws. This gave theBears a 95-92 lead. Forte put the icing onthe cake by converting two free throwswith 1.2 seconds left after stealing theball.

Other key players in the Brown victorywere Mike Martin ’04 and Alai Nuualiitia’03. Martin scored 12 while Nuualiitiacontributed 11 points.

Bruno may have been inspired toachieve its first victory because of thedevastating loss to Wagner last Tuesday.Although Brown defeated Wagner (1-1)last year 103-100 in a shootout, this year’ssquad did not fare as well.

Wagner jumped out to an early 17-7 leadin the opening minutes. Brown then quick-ly bounced back, scoring eight straightpoints. Late in the first half, however,Brown’s shots would not fall, and Wagnerwent on a 17-2 run. By halftime, Wagnerwas up 40-27.

Throughout the second half, theSeahawks used the long-range jumper tomaintain their lead, while Brown struggledto keep up. In the end, Wagner defeatedBrown by a score of 81-69.

Brown’s leading scorers wereNuualiitia and Jaime Kilburn ’04.Nuualiitia scored 13 — all in the secondhalf — and Kilburn added 11.

Bruno opens a homestand tonightagainst Ohio University. The game beginsat 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

Sports staff writer Adam Stern ’06 covers themen’s basketball team and can be reached [email protected].

Men’s basketball picksup first win in overtime

Emily Hunt / Herald

Earl Hunt ’03 missed the last two basketball games with a thigh injury.

BY KEELY THARPBrown women’s track and field has gar-nered 13 team championships since theOutdoor Heptagonal Games’ inception in1977 and the Indoor Heptagonal Games’creation in 1981. Head Coach RobertJohnson looks to continue the tradition ofexcellence. The indoor season has begun,with much enthusiasm on the part of thewomen participating.

Last year’s results were disappointingfor the team, as the women lost both theirindoor and outdoor crowns. Finishingfourth at the Indoor Championships, theteam regrouped enough to improve to asecond place finish at the OutdoorChampionships. Despite all the bannersalready hung in the OMAC, the women’strack and field team is not satisfied withanything but a first place finish..

This year, Cornell is again the team tobeat, returning the main group of scoringrunners from its championship team.Brown struggled against Cornell’s depthlast year, but the large group of freshmanon this year’s team will attempt to replaceand improve upon the positions vacatedby last year’s seniors. Coach Johnsonbelieves that this year’s team is well-rounded and has many event areas thatare capable of scoring.

In the jumps, the team will look toDominique Bosa-Edwards ’05, who scoredas a freshman, to continue to improve inthe triple-jump. Kim Fogarty ’03 will pro-vide points in the long jump and hep-tathlon. Ashley Wall ’05 and KatieRowinsky ’04 will provide leadership andpoints in the high jump. Pole vault is led byOutdoor Heptagonal Champion LaurenContursi ’03.

With no freshman female throwers,Coach Michelle Eisenreich expects RachelleSeibolt ’04, Jill Lynch ’05 and JenniferDonahue ’05 to literally carry the weight intheir events and improve upon their per-formances from last year. At last season’sOutdoor Championships, Seibolt finishedfifth in the hammer and Lynch finished sev-enth in the shot put and eighth in the dis-cus. Seibolt is one of the team’s captains.

The sprint/hurdle squad is captained byBasia Dabrowski ’04 and returns manyscorers. The 55-meter hurdles will be ledby Fara Kitton ’05 and Rowinski, with theaddition of several freshman as possiblescorers. Coach Johnson looks to LaurenLinder ’04, to improve upon her excitingoutdoor season with scores in the 200meter dash indoor. Jaylon White ’05 will belooked upon for consistent placing in the55-meter dash. With Emily McElveen ’04and Julia Stevenson ’04 back healthy, aninstant impact will be provided for theteam in several events. Keely Tharp ’03 willbe expected to score in the 400-meter dashand be a part of a competitive 4 x 400-meter relay team.

Losing the most seniors were the dis-tance and mid-distance parts of the team.Julia Devanthery ’04 and Rosie Woodford‘03 captain a group of women ready to runindoor races after its cross-country season.

This year the team is full of enthusiasmand has a more positive attitude than lastyear, which is already coming through inpractices and training.

“I’m feeling really good about the sea-son,” said Dabrowski. “I think we can winback our Heps crown.”

“We’re going to surprise a lot of people,”Dabrowski added.

Keely Tharp ’03 is a member of thewomen’s track and field team.

BY JERMAINE MATHESONEleven players on the football team,women’s volleyball team and men’s soccerteam were singled out for their strong playthis fall when selections and honorablementions for the All Ivy teams and All-New

England teamswere announced.

Chas Gessner’03 led the nationwith 11.4 catchesper game includ-ing a 24-catchp e r f o r m a n c eagainst RhodeIsland. Gessnerended the yearwith 114 recep-tions. He con-cludes his colle-giate career 292catches for 3,408yards and 36touchdowns, allranking near thetop of Division I-AA football.Though hurt formost of the sea-son, Joe Rackley‘03 rushed for100 or moreyards in Brown’sfinal threegames, including148 yards againstD a r t m o u t h .Rackley endedhis senior yearrushing for 572

yards on 150 carries and five touchdowns.Joel Barone ’03 led the team with 76 tacklesand a season-high 16 tackles againstHarvard. Barone picked off a pass on thefinal play of the season to preserve aBrown victory versus Columbia. JeremiahWatts ’03 was second on the team in tack-les with 73 including 7 tackles for loss for29 yards. Hunter Young ’03 was third onthe team in tackles with 56. Young made 13tackles versus Harvard and 12 tackles ver-sus Towson. Tightend Chris Walther ’03had a strong season with 35 catches for345 yards and caught three touchdownpasses.

In volleyball, Jessica Cooper ‘03 finished

Football

WR Chas Gessner ’03First Team All Ivy

RB Joe Rackley ’03Second Team

TE Chris Walther ’03LB Joel Barone ’03LB Jeremiah Watts ’03S Hunter Young ‘03,Honorable Mention

Volleyball

Jessica Cooper ’03First Team All Ivy

Angela Dunn ‘03Honorable Mention

Men’s Soccer

Dustin Branan ’03Adom Crew ’04Chris Gomez ‘05 NSCAA All-NewEngland Third Team

Men’s Ice Hockey

BROWN 1, RPI 1 (OT)Union 4, BROWN 1

Women’s Ice HockeyBROWN 4, Providence 4 (OT)Harvard 3, BROWN 2

Men’s Basketball

Wagner 81, BROWN 69BROWN 97, Navy 92 (ot)

Women’s BasketballBROWN 64, Providence 62Maine 60, BROWN 51Drake 75, BROWN 67

NFL

New England 20, Detroit 12Dallas 27, Washington 20Pittsburgh 25, Jacksonville 23Green Bay 30. Chicago 20Baltimore 27, Cincinnati 23Kansas City 49, Arizona 0Indianapolis 19, Houston 3Tennessee 32, NY Giants 29Buffalo 38, Miami 21Carolina 13, Cleveland 6Atlanta 30, Minnesota 24Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 3San Francisco 31, Seattle 24Indianapolis 19, Houston 3San Diego 30, Denver 27

NCAA

No. 1 Miami 49, Syracuse 0Oklahoma State 38, No. 4Oklahoma 28No. 5 Georgia 51, Georgia Tech 7No. 6 USC 44, No. 7 NotreDame 13No. 10 Texas 50, Texas A&M 20No. 22 Florida State 31, No. 11Florida 14UNLV 36, No. 13 ColoradoState 33No. 15 Colorado 28, Nebraska 13

see HONORS, page 4

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