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BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZCampus antiwar activists willband together for a walkout thismorning but remain dividedabout how to advocate peace ina nation already at war.

“The antiwar sentiment isthere,” said Riana Good ’03,president of the Green Party atBrown, “but a lot of times it’sdifficult to funnel it. I believethat there are many peoplelooking for ways to voice theirdissent, but it’s often difficult tofind the avenues that peoplefeel most comfortable with.”

This morning, campusactivists in the Students AgainstWar In Iraq coalition will partic-ipate in a walkout and rally onthe Main Green. Organizers,who stand in solidarity with theCampus Antiwar Network,according to SAWI, plan todemonstrate against the warand speak out at an open mic.

“We feel strongly that weneed to act, and act more thanever, given what’s going on inIraq,” said Elizabeth Sperber’06, of SAWI.

Although many of the BrownCollege Democrats will partici-pate in today’s walkouts, thegroup remains more ambiva-lent than others about how torespond to the invasion of Iraq,said its president, Ethan Ris ’05,a Herald staff writer.

While some of the CollegeDemocrats believe they should

focus on supporting U.S.troops, Ris said he sees no rea-son to cease to dissent.

“A lot of people in the clubfeel very small right now, butthat doesn’t mean we’re going tostop being very vocal,” he said.“The best thing college studentsand anybody else in the countrycan do right now is be very loud

BY JULIA ZUCKERMANMany Republicans on campusexpressed support for militaryaction in Iraq on Wednesday andthe desire to see a short war, butsupport for the war is not unani-mous among conservatives.

“I think we’re all hoping to seea very short war,” said JosephLisska ’04, vice president of theCollege Republicans. He said hehopes the Iraqi army surrenders

on a large scale, following theexample of the 17 soldiers whosurrendered last night.

Lisska said warnings that thewar could be long and difficultshould not deter those who sup-port it. “War by its nature is a dif-ficult act,” he said, adding thisfact “should not come as a sur-prise to anyone, and should not

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BY DANA GOLDSTEINAs the first missiles flew overBaghdad Wednesday night,President Ruth Simmons, Deanof the College Paul Armstrongand University Chaplain Rev.Janet Cooper Nelson addressedthe Brown community at a spe-cial Undergraduate Council of

Students meeting in Salomon101. UCS President Allen Feliz’03 introduced the speakers,saying the purpose of the eventwas “to seek comfort at thisvery tough moment.”

In a gravely deliveredspeech, Simmons addressedthe impending violence and

outlined the responsibilitiesshe hoped Brown studentswould fulfill during the conflictin Iraq. Promises that war willbe rapid and cause relativelyfew casualties do not excusecitizens from “their democratic

U.S. STRIKES IRAQWar lightsup predawnsky in Iraq

Airstrike reflectsincreased U.S.intelligenceWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — It wasan incongruous way to start awar: a single airstrike at dawn, aterse four-minute statementfrom President Bush — and thena strange silence.

But military planners havebeen saying for months that thiswar will not resemble any otherrecent conflict, including itspredecessor, the 1991 PersianGulf War. They have already beenproved right.

Instead of the “shock and awe”that U.S. generals had promised,the first assault against Baghdadwas a quick precision airstrikeaimed at eliminating IraqiPresident Saddam Hussein orother members of his leadership.Instead of a hail of fire, the firsttelevision pictures from Baghdadrevealed a largely quiet sunriseand empty gray skies.

In his statement from theWhite House, Bush offered noclarion call for the liberation ofIraq, no Churchillian phrases, butrather 30 understated sentencesannouncing “the early stages ofmilitary operations.”

Officials said the raid onBaghdad occurred because a“target of opportunity” hadappeared; this was not the mainevent, merely one more prelimi-nary bout. In fact, U.S. andBritish aircraft that patrol “no-fly” zones over Iraq have beenstriking air defenses for weeks.

On Wednesday, in anotherescalation, they struck for thefirst time at Iraqi ground artilleryacross the border from the mainallied ground force in Kuwait.

But the British and Americanland forces remained poised inthe desert, still waiting for theorder to advance.

“This was not the way the airwar was supposed to begin,” saidMichele Fluornoy, a former sen-ior Pentagon adviser now withthe Center for Strategic andInternational Studies, aWashington think tank. “Everymilitary analyst has been sayingthey’re going to wait for the coverof night and they’ll come in mas-sively. This was none of thosethings.”

The impromptu strikes againsta residence outside Baghdadindicated a hope by U.S. strate-gists that they could bring thewar to a quick end by killingSaddam. They also reflected thelessons of the recent war in

BAGHDAD (L.A. Times) —With thun-derous explosions over Baghdad,the United States launched a pre-liminary salvo at dawn Thursdayin what President Bush called “abroad and concerted campaign”to drive Saddam Hussein frompower and disarm Iraq.

Air raid sirens blared, and yel-low and white tracers from Iraqiantiaircraft fire streaked acrossthe city. As several large explo-sions rocked the capital, a ball offire flared in the southern sky. Aquick succession of bright yellowflashes appeared over an areanear the airport.

“The opening stages of the dis-armament of the Iraqi regimehave begun,” White Housespokesman Ari Fleischer declaredshortly after 9:30 p.m. EST

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U.S.soldiers don their chemical warfare protection suits at the Mutlaa desert checkpoint,north of Kuwait City.

Simmons, others address Brown community

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President Simmons, Dean of the College Armstrong and Chaplain Cooper Nelson spoke Wednesday.

As Iraq war commences, student reaction is divided

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ACLU sues U.Maryland for violatingstudents rights to freespeech on campuscampus watch,page 3

Major changes to comein U. libraries, thanksto plannedreorganization campus news,page 5

Founding fathers areturning over in theirgraves, says StephenBeale ’04opinions, page 13

War is a non-fictionstory, not a fairy talesays AllisonLombardo ’05opinions, page 15

Bears fall to Virginia 89-73 in first-ever NITappearance, endingseasonsports, page 16

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BY JULIA ZUCKERMANThe Maryland chapter of the American CivilLiberties Union has initiated a lawsuit accusing theUniversity of Maryland of violating its students’right to free speech by restricting public speakingand distribution of literature to specific areas of theCollege Park, Md., campus.

Representatives of the state and campus chaptersof the ACLU said the restrictions are too stringentand arbitrarily enforced. “Reasonable restrictionson free speech are allowed,” said Stuart McPhail, co-president of the campus ACLU. “But the campus isgoing overboard.”

At issue in the debate are two university docu-ments governing demonstrations and public speak-ing. One, the subject of the lawsuit, governs the useof physical facilities by student groups. It limits pub-lic speaking and leafleting to a small area in the cen-ter of Maryland’s campus.

“The rest of the campus is absolutely speech-free,” said Stacey Mink, a spokeswoman for theMaryland ACLU. She said the “marketplace of ideas”present at most universities is missing at Marylandas a result of the policy.

“We believe that the suit was brought in responseto a policy that does not address what the ACLUthinks it addresses,” said George Cathcart, aspokesman for the university.

Cathcart said the policy could be construed as

ACLU challengesspeech restrictionsat U. Maryland

BY SARA PERKINSBrigham Young University recently hit upon a nearlyunprecedented solution to transform its champion clubsoccer team into a regional powerhouse — buy a profes-sional franchise and treat the club like an authentic minorleague team.

Soccer, a sport whose popularity and support domesti-cally has lagged significantly in comparison to elsewherein the world, draws nowhere near the same number of fansat BYU as football and men’s basketball, the school’s twomoneymaking sports programs.

The men’s soccer team has played at the intercollegiateclub level since its creation, and coaches and BYU admin-istrators agree that its level of play is above the other teamsin its league, said David Duff Tittle, associate director forexternal relations in the athletic department. The team haswon six of the last seven National Intramural-RecreationalSports Association championships with ease, he said.

“They were just dominating the league,” Tittle said.An upgrade to varsity status, however, was financially

impossible, he said. BYU did not have the money to addanother varsity-level team, and the addition of men’s soc-cer would have necessitated the creation of a matchingwomen’s team under Title IX rules. “We would have need-ed $1 million worth of funding” to mount two teams, Tittlesaid. “We’ve been working very aggressively over the lasteight or nine years to become compliant with Title IX. …We’re struggling to fund our athletics as it is.”

Men’s soccer coach Chris Watkins instead decided totake his team out of collegiate sports, buying a franchise inthe Premiere Development League. The PDL is a summerleague for college-age and pre-professional soccer players.The BYU Cougars will be the first PDL team to be basedexclusively out of a university athletics program.

The franchise cost around $40,000, funded by dona-tions from alumni, players’ parents and the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tittle said. It will contin-ue to receive the same funding as other club teams at theuniversity and will hopefully recoup its operating costs —estimated between $60,000 and $150,000 — from endorse-ments (Adidas has already offered $20,000 per season),ticket sales and possibly in the future by selling televisingrights, Watkins said.

Meanwhile, “(the players) are very excited to competeat a higher level,” he said.

But being a varsity team would have been problematicfor other reasons as well, Watkins said. Aside from themoney, the NCAA places specific restrictions on its teams,including limiting the team’s international travel to onceevery four years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daySaints encourages its members to travel and “representour church internationally,” Watkins said. Because of theinternational popularity of soccer, team travel “made a lotof sense as a missionary tool for our church,” he said.

Receipts from games will “completely fund our interna-tional travel” twice a year, Watkins said. The team will playtwo preseason exhibition games against teams inMonterrey, Mexico, in late April.

The NCAA would not have been willing to make excep-tions for BYU’s travel, Watkins said. “They’re not a groupknown for their ability to adjust.”

The PDL has other advantages for BYU. “At BYU, wedon’t do anything besides go to church on Sundays,”Watkins said. The PDL made accommodations so thatnone of BYU’s games would fall on Sunday.

The entire season also takes place during the summer,after classes end. “These guys won’t miss a single day ofschool,” Watkins said. Practices began in January and runsix days a week. “From an academic standpoint that makesgreat sense,” Watkins said. Students have had to shuffle

Brigham Young University acquires soccerfranchise to keep champion team playing

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responsibility to probe rigorouslythe causes and consequence ofwar,” Simmons said. She saidsuch “civil discourse” was a hall-mark of the University setting,and part of “a process by whichour government is continually re-informed of the opinions of thepublic that it represents.

“I urge that you not make thiswar — however brief, howeverminimal, however complex — adistant issue that you perceive atthe comforting peripheral of yourdaily lives,” Simmons said to around of applause.

In one of the most pointedstatements of the speech,Simmons said, “Advocates of war,I suppose, should have their say,and so should advocates ofpeace.” She went on to tell stu-dents, “Don’t look for classes tobe cancelled — they won’t be. …Our task is to continue to dowhat we do best and that is toinquire.”

Simmons described universi-ties as having a pivotal role toplay in the coming conflict.“Universities must cling, cling totheir commitment to the dispas-

sionate search for truth,” shesaid. “The danger of self-interestoverwhelming truth is most acuteat these moments.” Simmonssaid the battlefield was not theplace for orderly resolution, butthat the Brown community could“cast the vote for peaceful resolu-tion by maintaining our commit-ment to debate and examinationdespite our innermost doubtsand fear.”

“Develop your intelligence inthe service of the world,”Simmons said. “If only we hadthe kind of leadership that thisintelligence ought to produce,imagine how different the out-come of conflict could be.”

Simmons reminded the audi-ence that University staff mem-bers have been called up foractive military duty and that rela-tives of those in the Brown com-munity will be directly affectedby the violence in Iraq. “Terrorand war acknowledge no inno-cent or bystanders,” she said. “Allpay a price.”

Simmons ended the speechwith a direct request. “Rememberto bring this conflict close toyou,” she said. “And finally, I askthat you continue to pray everyday for the safety of all thosecaught in this conflict, whether

friend or foe.” In his remarks preceding

Simmons’ speech, Armstrongspoke of the University’s continu-ing commitment to teaching andlearning. “This is a time when it isvery easy to lose site of the com-plexities of the important issuesthe nation faces and to fall intosimplifying rhetoric,” he said.“The values of inquiry and civildialogue, especially concerningmatters about which women andmen of good wills may disagreepassionately — and with goodreason — are especially presentand precarious now.”

Armstrong said Brown hasresponded to the Code Orangeterror alert with a “crisis manage-ment plan” that can be viewed onthe Brown Web site.

Following Simmons’ address,Cooper Nelson asked the audi-ence to deal with the war in amanner “deeply and profoundlyhuman.” Quoting writer and for-mer president of the CzechRepublic Vaclav Havel, she said,“We still don’t know how to putmorality ahead of politics, tech-nology and economics.”

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein’06 can be reached at [email protected].

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internships and other summerobligations to be in Provo, Utah —where BYU is located — for theentire summer, he said, butarrangements are being made.

The decision to circumvent theNCAA in boosting the level ofcompetition for the team raisesconcerns that BYU is, in fact,avoiding its responsibility to pro-vide equal opportunities tofemale and male athletes, accord-ing to Title IX defenders in arecent New York Times articleabout the team. Although Tittlesaid the team is still classified as aclub team within the universityathletics department, it is playingat a higher level of competitionand commitment than other clubteams, without any women’s teambeing advanced to match it.

Watkins said that his movewasn’t meant to weaken Title IX,but to address the needs of hisschool, faith and players. “I thinkthis fits us uniquely. Others mayfollow us, but for different rea-sons.

“Who knows, maybe we’re thepied pipers here. But I don’t thinkso,” he said.

Groups of women at BYU havesought to form club teams in fieldhockey, water polo and ice hock-ey, but have not yet succeeded,the Times reported.

The NCAA has not contactedBYU, Tittle said, and NCAA repre-sentatives did not return TheHerald’s calls for comment. TheTimes reported that the NCAAwould be examining BYU’s deci-sion.

The team will not recruit oroffer scholarships, Watkins said.While the team has always “triedto pick out the best soccer play-ers” and endorse their admission,“we’d give money back to the uni-versity before we start giving outscholarships. We want peoplewho want to come here.”

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 canbe reached at [email protected].

restricting speech but in prac-tice only governs space reserva-tions. It was created to reducelittering and pedestrian trafficcaused by outdoor vendors, hesaid.

“It looks worse (on paper)than it is in practice,” he said.

Cathcart said the university’sfree speech policy is outlined ina different document, a sectionof the event management hand-book. That policy states, “TheUniversity of Maryland sup-ports the right of individual stu-dents or student organizationsto dissent and to demonstrate,provided such demonstrationsdo not disrupt normal campusactivities or infringe upon therights of others.”

The policy outlined in thehandbook allows students andorganizations to hold scheduleddemonstrations and rallies inseveral outdoor locations on thecampus.

The policy’s purpose “is notto restrict free speech, but tomake sure there is some con-trol,” Cathcart said. He addedthat the university is currentlyrevising the policy but did notspecify what changes werebeing made.

“The policy isn’t reallyenforced strictly,” McPhail said.“It’s enforced selectively.”

The campus chapter becameaware of the policy a year and ahalf ago; the state ACLU askedthe university to change the pol-icy a year ago, but the university“flat-out refused,” McPhail said.The state chapter filed suitMarch 6 in district court, withtwo students and the campusACLU chapter as plaintiffs.

The case is awaiting schedul-ing from the judge, and theMaryland attorney general, whohandles suits against the uni-versity, must file a responsebrief, Mink said.

The campus ACLU is collabo-rating with the student govern-ment to draft a new student bill

of rights, including respect forfree speech as defined in the Billof Rights, McPhail said.

Because it is public, the uni-versity has to “meet a higherstandard when it comes toimposing free speech restric-tions,” Mink said, calling thecase “a core speech issue.” Theuniversity is under the jurisdic-tion of one of the most conser-vative courts of appeals, but shesaid she is confident the ACLUwill prevail.

Herald staff writer JuliaZuckerman ’05 edits the campuswatch section. She can be reachedat [email protected].


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BY ZACH BARTERWhen renowned rare-book collector anddealer Maury Bromsen graduated fromjunior high school in 1932, his parents pre-sented him with an autograph book thatincluded a page entitled “Your Favorites.”For “favorite author,” he chose RudyardKipling. For “favorite composer,” he choseCamille Saint-Saens. But it is his choice for“favorite hero” that continues to intrigueBromsen over 70 years later.

“Any normal boy would have put BabeRuth or Abe Lincoln or GeorgeWashington. Do you know who I wrote?‘Simón Bolivar,’” Bromsen said. “So yousee, this neurosis of mine goes back manyyears.”

Over the next seven decades, Bromsen’sinterest in the life of Bolivar, the SouthAmerican revolutionary, evolved from achildhood hobby to a lifelong pursuit, ashe amassed the largest collection ofBolivar-related materials outside of SouthAmerica.

Today the collection sits in the JohnCarter Brown Library, and on March 12,President Ruth Simmons presentedBromsen with the President’s Medal inrecognition of his lifetime dedication tocollecting materials related to the historyof colonial Spanish America.

The Medal, which has been awarded sixtimes since its creation in 1994, is the high-est honor a Brown president may bestow.It is intended to honor a person who hasachieved distinction in a particular field.

In 1996 Bromsen was named honorarycurator and bibliographer of LatinAmericana at the library. In 2000 he donat-ed his collection of Bolivar portraits,iconography and manuscripts to thelibrary.

Although the Library of Congress, thepresident of Venezuela and Harvard, hisalma mater, also expressed interest in thecollection, he said his decision was an easyone.

“Brown’s library is by far the largest col-

lection ever assembled of books aboutcolonial America,” Bromsen said. “My col-lection fit in like a glove.”

Bromsen, who made the donation inmemory of his parents, said it was impor-tant to him to keep the materials together.

“There’s a wealth of potential researchin that collection,” Bromsen said. “I want-ed something here in the United States forthe American people to appreciate.”

Included in the donation are Bromsen’stwo most prized acquisitions — an 1827portrait of Bolivar purchased from thefamily of William Randolph Hearst Jr., andan 1825 order signed by Bolivar appoint-ing Antonio Jose de Sucre as GrandMarshal of Ayacucho. Ayacucho, in Peru,turned out to be the decisive battle in the

war for independence in Spanish America.Norman Fiering, director of the John

Carter Brown Library, said the library hasbenefited immensely from its connectionwith Bromsen.

“Our relationship with (Bromsen) hasbeen very important, both for us as alibrary and for me personally,” Fieringsaid. “I’ve learned so much from him.”

Fiering, who first met Bromsen in 1984,said he has never ceased to be impressedby Bromsen’s passion and devotion to hisfield.

“He just has an extraordinary knowl-edge of the bibliography — about thebooks that have been published and about

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BY DANA GOLDSTEINWith the beginning of warWednesday night and Spring Breakaround the corner, college studentsthroughout the country are facingthe decision whether to cancel travelplans. Although USA Today reportedWednesday that some travel agen-cies are predicting a 5 to 10 percentdrop in bookings should war begin,travel industry professionals say can-cellations of already-booked tripshave increased only slightly.

Mark O’Brien, general manager ofQuikbook, a Manhattan hotel book-ings service, said, “Over the pastweek or so we have seen a slightincrease in cancellations, but noth-ing really out of the norm.”

Most major airlines have adoptednew ticketing policies to accommo-date travelers unwilling to fly duringwar. Many are allowing customers tochange or postpone travel without afee.

According to CNN, many airlinesare preparing to cancel internationalflights. Although overseas travel hasattracted the most alarm, CatherineStrauss ’06 left Wednesday for NewYork, from which she will travel toLondon and then Nigeria. Straussbrushed off the possibility ofincreased danger due to war withIraq.

“I’m not scared,” she said. “I don’tthink that my particular plane will beone of the zero planes that will beterrorist targets.”

Kate Schrire ’06, who plans to flyto California Saturday with severalmembers of her first-year unit, alsosaid her plans were undeterred bythe war.

Schrire said she believes passen-gers will no longer allow a few indi-viduals to gain control of an aircraft.“It boils down to statistics,” she said.“But let’s say technically there was aterrorist on the plane. (Sept. 11,2001) has changed what people thinkabout flying, what people thinkabout terrorism.”

Alexandra Barton-Sweeney ’03was still unsure of her travel plans onWednesday night. Although she wasexcited about her planned Saturdaydeparture for Barcelona, Spain,Barton-Sweeney said she was weigh-ing conflicting advice from her fami-ly and professors, who are worriedabout her travelling, and her friends,who are urging her to carry out thetrip as planned.

President George W. Bush’sannouncement that military actionhad begun will not be the determin-ing factor in her decision, Barton-Sweeney said. “I have to talk to Momtomorrow and just see how I feel.”

At Wednesday night’s specialUndergraduate Council of Studentsmeeting in Salomon 101, Dean of theCollege Paul Armstrong said stu-dents travelling during Spring Breakshould consult the U.S. Departmentof State’s guidelines for internationaltravel.

“Please execute caution withoutallowing yourself to be paralyzed,”he said.

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06can be reached at [email protected].

BY JULIETTE WALLACKThe University community could seemajor changes in library services as soonas the administration implements aplanned reorganization that will lead toenhanced operations and increased openhours, according to Mark Nickel, directorof the Brown News Service.

Unionized library workers have saidthey will fight the changes until theUniversity meets their demands, whichwould mitigate the effects of the reorgan-ization on current staffers.

Surveys and focus groups conducted inthe past several years showed libraryusers would like to see increased libraryservices and staff on evenings and week-ends, Nickel said.

In an effort to meet that need, the reor-ganization is “trying to re-deploy the staffresources in a way that makes the mostsense for the end users,” Nickel said.

Though not related directly to theplanned administrative reorganizationUniversity officials are exploring now, thelibrary systems’ restructuring comes at atime when many areas of the Universityare examining their operations, Nickelsaid.

Change instore for U.libraries

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The Rock could see major changes as the result of planned reorganization. see LIBRARY, page 6

BY AKSHAY KRISHNANEven though he’s stationed in a politi-cally unstable region, security officerSean Cowland’s concerns are for hisfamily at home in Cranston.

Sean, an officer for the Departmentof Public Safety who was recently calledup for military reserve duty in theMiddle East, wants “to make sure thatour financial and spiritual needs aretaken care off,” said his wife SelenaCowland. “Some of his worries wereremoved knowing that we have somany friends and family.”

Sean Cowland, who is a member ofthe Rhode Island National Guard,would have completed one year in hisemployment with DPS on March 25,wrote Michelle Nuey, DPS assistantmanager for special services, in a e-mail to The Herald.

Selena Cowland, who is also a mem-ber of the Rhode Island National

Guard, told The Herald that her hus-band left the state in early January. Shesaid he held a neutral view on the war.

“My husband and I are both in themilitary and we have a similar out-look,” she said. “We have tried to keepneutral and instead of focusing on the

see DPS, page 6

Simmons honors Bolivar rare-book collector, dealer

DPS officer Sean Cowland, stationedin Iraq, thinks often of his family

Photo courtesy of Selena Cowland

DPS officer Sean Cowland and son.

War a concernfor travellers

see BROMSEN, page 10


politics, we have focused onspending time with each otherand our son.”

Sean Cowland was slated tobegin his training at the RhodeIsland Municipal Police TrainingAcademy on March 17 to becomea campus police officer, Nueywrote.

Selena Cowland said her hus-band was not allowed to disclosehis location and the nature of hismission.

“Sean wrote in his e-mail aboutthe beautiful landscape surround-ing the area where he is presentlystationed. He also wrote that thecountry that he is presently inseems very much a third worldcountry. He really feels bad for thechildren in this country,” she said.

Sean Cowland has been sta-

tioned outside of the UnitedStates previously, his wife said.

“He has been stationed inKorea before. But we’ve alwaysbeen stationed together, so this isour first time apart,” she said.

Chief of Police Paul Verrecchiasaid Sean Cowland was as anextremely valuable employee toDPS, in an e-mail to The Herald.

“We have received positivefeedback from students about hisapproachability and interactionwhile on duty,” he wrote.

“It is a great loss to our depart-ment, for I am positive he wouldhave been an outstanding cam-pus police officer. We look for-

ward to his safe return,”Verrecchia wrote.

Selena Cowland said she wasproud of Sean Cowland and allthe members of the NationalGuard.

“It’s difficult to leave yourfamily as a part of your duty. It’s areally hard job and stressful,” shesaid.

“I’m very proud of Sean,” shesaid.

Sean will be on active duty forone year, Nuey wrote.

Herald staff writer Akshay Krishnan’04 covers crime.He can be reached [email protected].


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The restructuring also comesas the libraries receive addition-al support from President RuthSimmons’ Initiatives forAcademic Achievement.

“The library is a key part ofthat,” Nickel said, but officialsbegan considering the needs oflibrary users almost six yearsago, before the arrival ofSimmons and her initiatives. Theprocess “picked up some speedas it went along,” he said.

The libraries are some of themost important places on cam-pus, Simmons told The Heraldlast week.

“It is not an afterthoughtwhen it comes to thinking aboutconditions or compensation,”she said.

When the implementation iscomplete, which Nickel said heexpected would happen “ratherrapidly” once plans areapproved, “I think (students will)probably see a library that isstaffed more consistently acrossthe whole range of libraryhours.”

During those hours, thelibraries will have “a strongerand better organized librarystaff,” Nickel said, partlybecause “everybody who worksin the library will be working indifferent groups.”

Nickel said that thoughchanges in staff duties make upa major part of the reorganiza-tion, there is “certainly no reduc-tion in staff” planned.

“The intent of reorganizationis to make use of the staff,” hesaid, so it wouldn’t make senseto cut the number of employees.

The impetuses for the reor-ganization are the evolving serv-ices libraries offer.

“Libraries have changed,”Nickel said, particularly withmaterials in different formatsthan they were a few years ago.But, he said, “the ways in whichlibraries are organized at Brownhave not changed much toreflect” that evolution.

Now, he said, patrons can takeadvantage of library services“without even setting foot in thedoor,” he said, and that, com-bined with increased demandfor high-level services duringweekends and evenings, neces-sitated the reorganization.

Though plans are not final asof this point, and Nickel said

details are not yet available, hesaid part of the reorganizationwill involve “taking some tasksthat are performed in libraries”and outsourcing them.

That outsourcing and otherproposed changes, includingstaffing desks on weekends andevenings, will give library work-ers the opportunity to have moreinteraction with patrons, Nickelsaid.

But whether or not improvedservices are available to theUniversity community, somemembers of the library staff aredissatisfied with the reorganiza-tion plan.

Of the 175 non-studentlibrary employees, 84 are mem-bers of Service EmployeesInternational Union Local 134.Those members’ contractsexpired Sept. 30, and with thereorganization in the works atthat point, negotiations havedragged on for more than fivemonths.

When the contract expiredlast fall, the University’s plans forthe reorganization were unclear,Karen McAninch, business agentof SEIU Local 134, told TheHerald at the time. Union mem-bers contended the Universityhad not provided them withenough information about therestructuring and how their jobscould change.

Negotiators worked throughthe winter and three contractextensions, and the last exten-sion expired Feb. 28, leavingunion members working with-out a contract and thus with theright to authorize a strike.

After months of negotiations,reorganization remains the chiefstumbling block. McAninch said“involuntary transfers” are theunion’s main issue. Union mem-bers say “involuntary transfers”could allow the University to putthem in areas of the library withwhich they are unfamiliar.

Also at the crux of negotiationsare more specific job descrip-tions, “anchoring” workers intheir current jobs and makingclear in advance what hours staffmembers will need to work.

McAninch said the union is“trying to work with theUniversity,” but members aregetting frustrated with thelengthy negotiations and theissues surrounding the reorgani-zation. The University did show“some movement” on “some ofthe issues” during a recent bar-gaining session, McAninch said,

but the only new resolution wasan agreement that allows all cur-rent staff members to bid fornew jobs formed as part of thereorganization.

Nickel said a recent agree-ment ensured staff memberswould not be forced to leave thebuildings in which they current-ly work. For example, he said, astaff member who works in theRock now would not be asked tomove to Orwig.

“That kind of … upset servesno one,” he said, and it isn’t “inthe University’s interest to havewhat amounts to a hugeupheaval.”

Nickel said newly formedpositions resulting from thereorganization will give workersa greater degree of flexibility andmore responsibility, butMcAninch told The Herald unionmembers need more specific jobdescriptions than have beenprovided thus far.

“The University is willing toprovide a greater degree ofspecificity for some of the jobdescriptions,” Nickel said.

The University has noplanned timetable for imple-mentation, Nickel said, thoughofficials hope to begin and finishthe restructuring over the sum-mer.

But McAninch said, “TheUniversity indicated that theyhad a deadline of the end of themonth to get things resolved.”

The union also hopes to “getcertain commitments out of theUniversity by a certain date,” shesaid. But, she said that in discus-sions late last week, “the waythat (the University was) phras-ing it was, ‘We’re going to basi-cally decide on March 31 thatthis is it. This is as far as we cango’” in negotiations. McAninchsaid if that happened and nego-tiations ended, a strike could belikely.

She said she is hopefulprogress can still be made in thenegotiations. “It’s certainly notthe end of the trail,” she said.

Vice President forAdministration Walter Hunter,Executive Vice President forFinance and AdministrationElizabeth Huidekoper, andDirector of Personnel LaborRelations Pat Dodd declined tocomment on any aspect of thereorganization.

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack’05 can be reached [email protected].


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“It is a great loss to our department, for I am

positive he would have been an outstanding

campus police officer. We look forward to his

safe return,” Verrecchia wrote.

CAMPUS NEWSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


Cassie Ramirez / Herald

BEARER OF NEWSA sign on the Main Green Wednesday urged participation in peace action.

UCS resolutionargues againstResLife comm.

Doctor and authorstresses importanceof relationships

BY JONATHAN ELLISThe Undergraduate Council of Studentspassed a resolution arguing against theformation of a residential life oversightcommittee at its meeting Wednesday. TheCouncil also spoke with Vice President forAlumni Relations Lisa Raiola ’84 about theBrown Alumni Association’s refusal tosponsor alcohol-related off-campusSenior Nights.

The Council postponed its regularlyscheduled Monday night meeting somembers could attend former AttorneyGeneral Janet Reno’s lecture. Last night’smeeting was cut short so UCS could showits support at the campus communitygathering that it co-sponsored on theimpending war in Iraq .

The residential life resolution, authoredby UCS Representative Andy Golodny ’03,a member of Residential Council, statedUCS “is firmly against the creation of aseparate, unaccountable committee onresidential policy at Brown.” The commit-tee would be charged with presenting a listof recommendations for the University’shousing system by November.

ResCouncil recently passed its own res-olution calling the proposed group a“cumbersome and inefficient” attempt to

BY SARA PERKINSWhen infectious disease specialist andauthor Dr. Abraham Verghese moved toJohnson City, Tenn., in the mid-1980s totreat AIDS patients, he was told he would-n’t get clients in such a rural environment.By the end of his first year, he had seen 100people with HIV in the town of 50,000.

At a Wednesday lecture, Vergheseshared the lessons he gleaned from hiswork in Johnson City, namely that HIVinfection often gave patients the opportu-nity to reconnect with family.

His first rural AIDS patients, whom hewrote about in his book, “My OwnCountry,” often returned home when theycould not manage their infections on theirown and found themselves reconnectingwith parents, Verghese told his Salomonaudience.

“We’re all going to die … but if you havethe HIV infection you cannot put that outof your mind,” he said. “One emotioncomes leaping out of this compressed life,and that is the question: What has beenthe meaning of my life? … They found thatmeaning resided in the successful rela-tionships that they have formed over a life-time, particularly with their parents.”

Verghese, an Ethiopian-born ethnicIndian whose medical education was

see UCS, page 8see DOCTOR, page 8


“subvert the student governanceprocess,” The Herald reportedWednesday. Golodny said he wasparticularly concerned that Deanfor Campus Life MargaretJablonski wanted to appoint stu-dents to the committee herself.UCS currently appoints themembers of ResCouncil.

Vice President for Campus Lifeand Student Services JaninaMontero defended Jablonksi’sproposal of the committee, say-ing the administration had“absolutely no intent whatsoeverto replace the existingResCouncil.

“I’m not sure that there’s any-thing that’s ‘unaccountable’”about the committee, Monterosaid. “There’s issues of fairnesshere, which I hope all of you willaddress,” she added.

Golodny said he believedJablonski had no intent to under-mine the existing system of stu-dent governance, but the pro-posed committee would do so.ResCouncil currently has thepower to do everything the newcommittee could do, he added.

“As president of theUndergraduate Council, I believethat it is my duty to make surethat the existing structures thatwe have that empower our stu-dent body are maintained,” saidUCS President Allen Feliz ’03. Headded that the Office of StudentLife had good intentions and helooked forward to working withall parties involved to address thehousing issues at hand.

UCS Representative Swan Lee’05 said there had been someconcerns about diversity onResCouncil, but Golodny saidUCS should take it upon itself toaddress that issue.

Most Council membersagreed with the resolution inspirit, but some took issue withthe harshness of its wording. Theresolution passed 12-5 with oneabstention.

Raiola was on hand to answerquestions about the BAA’s rela-tionship with the senior classand its officers. “The decision tosuspend the BAA’s promotion,

endorsement (and) support of(Senior Nights) is not a policydecision,” she said. “It is a meas-ure … that was taken in responseto concerns. I hope I wouldn’t befoolish enough to create policybased on an incident thatoccurred one night.” She likenedthe BAA’s reaction to theresponse of Governor DonaldCarcieri’s ’65 to the club firetragedy in West Warwick lastmonth.

When asked whether the BAAconsidered the effect its decisionwould have on fundraising,Raiola said, “No, that’s not myconcern.

“I don’t think the BAA does aparticularly good job of allocat-ing its resources currently tobuild alumni-student connec-tions throughout the time stu-dents are here,” she said.

Raiola said elections for nextyear’s senior class officers wouldproceed, but asked students tohelp define the roles of thoseofficers.

UCS awarded the HypnatyamDance Company and Studentsfor the Democratic ProcessCategory I status, and it decon-stituted 18 inactive groups.

The Council inducted MaritzaSantibanez ’06 and MarisaHernandez-Stern ’05 as associatemembers.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis’06 covers the UndergraduateCouncil of Students. He can bereached at [email protected].


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interrupted by the Ethiopian civilwar, began his career as an infec-tious disease specialist at BostonCity Hospital and then inJohnson City. “I was assured thatHIV was such an urban disease”that it would not appear inTennessee, he said.

“It wasn’t that the town was ahotbed of sexual intrigue (thatcaused the outbreak) — though itwas,” he said. The infectionsmostly belonged to young gaymen who had escaped the suffo-cation of the small town for larg-er cities and then returned home.Verghese wrote about this para-digm of migration in JohnsonCity and said he received wordfrom other small-town doctorsthat similar patterns prevailed intheir areas.

He also talked about the stig-ma of AIDS that he and hispatients became associated. “Ifelt that there were more peoplewho wanted to come see me butwere afraid of whom they wouldsee in the waiting room,” he said.

One of his patients committed“suicide by police,” brandishing agun in order to force an officer toshoot him. “He has been killed bywhat it meant to have the virus inthat small town.

“AIDS was really a litmus testof how people behaved,” he said.Other doctors balked at treatinghis patients and it was so difficultto have autopsies done on AIDSvictims that Verghese visited sev-eral of his patients’ homes andtook post-mortem biopsies oftheir major organs himself.

Verghese read a letter writtenby one victim to his mother,which was delivered a monthafter his death. The man wrote,“This has been the best part ofmy life. I have had the opportuni-ty to get to know my familyagain.”

Verghese gave the 11th annualHarriet W. Sheridan Lecture,which was endowed in honor of aformer dean of the college and isalways dedicated to literatureand medicine.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins’06 can be reached [email protected].


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“I’m not sure that

there’s anything

that’s ‘unaccount-

able’” about the com-

mittee, Montero said.

“There’s issues of

fairness here, which I

hope all of you will

address,” she added.

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Wednesday in Washington, or5:30 a.m. in Baghdad. Forty-fiveminutes later, Bush told theAmerican people that he hadordered coalition forces to strike“selected targets of militaryimportance” in Iraq.

A government source inWashington said the air attack wasaimed at a “target of opportunity,”which the source described as“senior elements of Iraqi leader-ship.” The target was on the out-skirts of Baghdad, the sourceadded, in a “residential facility.”The source declined to saywhether the target might havebeen Saddam or his sons, Udayand Qusai, who hold key positionsin the Iraqi government.

Three hours after the attack,Saddam, wearing a military uni-form, black beret and glasses,appeared on state television andhurled defiance at the U.S. presi-dent. “The criminal little Bush hascommitted a crime againsthumanity,” Saddam said.

Seconds into his speech, thebroadcast went off the air butcame back on a short time later.The broadcast opened with thenational anthem and a picture ofSaddam with the Iraqi flag, and hestarted his comments by a readinga Quranic verse.

Saddam switched back andforth between two sets of papers,on which his remarks appeared tobe handwritten. His remarks werelaced with religious terms andmilitary hyperbole.

Iraqi television said the speechwas live, coming just a few hoursafter the first air raids as if to provethe Americans had missed theirtarget. But it was not possible toconfirm that the broadcast wasindeed live. Soon afterward, atleast one other top Iraqi official

appeared on the air. Bush had given Saddam 48

hours to relinquish power andflee. The explosions began about90 minutes after the deadlineexpired. A military official at theU.S. Central Command in Doha,Qatar, suggested the air strike waslimited and not part of whatwould become a wider blitzkrieg.

“These are opening stages ofwhat will be a broad and concert-ed campaign,” Bush said in his tel-evised address from the OvalOffice at the White House. “Wehave no ambitions in Iraq exceptto remove a threat and restorecontrol of that country to its ownpeople.

“Our forces will be cominghome as soon as their work isdone.”

The preliminary attack, report-edly by about three dozenTomahawk cruise missiles andbombs dropped from F-117stealth bombers, was likely to befollowed by other limited attacksduring the following 24 hours,even before a main air assaultbegins, a senior defense officialsaid.

By its own accounts, the UnitedStates planned to overwhelm theIraqis with shocking firepower,using Tomahawk cruise missiles,precision-guided bombs and elec-tronic jamming devices. The out-gunned Saddam hoped to drawU.S. and allied British troops intodeadly and difficult urban warfareas he makes a last stand inBaghdad or possibly his homeregion of Tikrit, to the north.

Even before war began, muchof the Middle East — and theworld — was tight with tensionand dread. Aid workers in neigh-boring Jordan and Kuwait bracedfor thousands of war refugees.

Seventeen Iraqi soldiers sur-rendered to U.S. forces along theKuwaiti border Wednesday,reported the U.S. CentralCommand, headquartered in

Doha, Qatar. Fifteen of the Iraqisentered Kuwait from the west, andtwo others crossed along Highway80, which travels north-southfrom Iraq into Kuwait, militaryspokesmen said.

U.S. officials were eager tospread the news of the surrender,citing it as evidence that a persist-ent propaganda program wasworking. Tons of leaflets — 2 mil-lion on Wednesday alone — havebeen dropped over parts of Iraq byAmerican aircraft to persuadeIraqi forces to give up, return totheir barracks or at least hold fire.

U.S. Marine and Army mecha-nized and infantry battalionsrolled through a fierce sandstormWednesday afternoon and movedinto position along Kuwait’snorthern border with Iraq, whileSaddam’s forces were reported tobe concealing weaponry and air-craft and mounting defensesaround Baghdad.

At the same time, the UnitedStates sent warplanes to attackIraqi missile systems and artillerynear the southern port city ofBasra, about 40 miles from theKuwaiti border. Rear Adm. JohnM. Kelly, commander of a three-carrier battle group in the PersianGulf, said the strike responded toIraqi attempts to shoot down U.S.and British aircraft.

A senior military official saidthe artillery posed a danger to thethousands of American andBritish soldiers as they moved evercloser to the Iraqi border.

“They were aimed at ourtroops,” the official said.“Obviously, as the potential forhostilities gets closer and closer,you have to get to a point whereyou can jump off.”

During the afternoon andevening Wednesday, armed secu-rity guards fanned out through-out Baghdad and took up defen-sive positions along its southernedge. Some residents headed forbomb shelters or into the coun-

tryside in a desperate attempt toescape. Others assumed defen-sive posts along sandbag-linedintersections and atop govern-ment buildings.

Then a pall seemed to settle onthe city, accentuated by hazy skiesturned yellow by the desert sand-storm. A city of 6 million peoplebecame a place of empty streetsand worried silence.

Deputy Prime Minister TariqAziz appeared before journaliststo belie rumors that he haddefected or been killed. He pre-dicted a long, bloody battle if theUnited States invaded. “I am car-rying my pistol,” he said, “to con-firm to you that we are ready tofight the aggressors.”

Information MinisterMohammed Said Sahaf warnedthat American soldiers faced “cer-tain death.”

In Israel, the governmentordered all citizens to have theirgovernment-issued gas maskswith them at all times. Many

Israelis fear Saddam will launchmissiles at their country filled withbiological or chemical poisons.

He fired Scud missiles at Israelduring the 1991 Persian Gulf War,but they were armed with conven-tional warheads.

In Germany, ChancellorGerhard Schroeder said Germanywould allow American militaryplanes to use its airspace on theirway to the Persian Gulf, despitewidespread opposition among theGerman people to war with Iraq.But Schroeder reaffirmed that noGerman soldiers would take partin any fighting.

Similarly, in Saudi Arabia, KingFahd vowed that his kingdom,intent on giving diplomacy everyopportunity to disarm Iraq, wouldnot participate in war. In anaddress to his people, Fahd saidnone of his armed forces would“by any means trespass by oneinch into Iraqi territory.” He saidIraq should not be subjected “tomilitary occupation.”


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At the Al-Alwiya Maternity Hospital a nurse sits on beds positioned inthe hallways for possible war casualties. He says he will workthroughout the conflict.


still more we can work on, but it’sheading in the right direction,which is what’s important,” shesaid.

With stiff competition expectedin California followed by thealways-tough Ivy schedule, theBears have yet to see just howgood they can be. A reemphasis ondoubles, invaluable experienceand maybe a little more team spir-it could be the difference betweena positive or disappointing season.

“We have a talented team,”Taylor said. “We have a very youngteam, so they still have a lot tolearn, but I think that the talent isthere. It’s just a matter of perform-ing consistently when we havegame day.”

Sports staff writer Brett Zarda GScovers women’s tennis.


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the books about the books thathave been published,” Fieringsaid.

In the early 1950s, Bromsenheaded the Section onBibliography as a member of theDepartment of Cultural Affairs ofthe Pan American Union (laterthe Organization of AmericanStates). There he established theInter-American Review ofBibliography, a quarterly journal

that continues today. Born in New York City in

1919, Bromsen traces his fasci-nation with Bolivar and colonialLatin America to a book hereceived for performing as acomedian in an elementaryschool play. The book, entitled“The World’s Greatest Men,”featured a chapter on Bolivar,who Bromsen refers to as “theGeorge Washington of LatinAmerica.”

Bromsen moved to Boston in1953, where he established a firmspecializing in the sale of rarebooks and manuscripts. In addi-

tion to his donations to Brown,Bromsen has made two endow-ments to the Boston PublicLibrary — one for acquisitionsand one for an annual lecture —and has made gifts of rare booksto the University of Florida.

Still, Brown has a special placein Bromsen’s mind.

“I have a very great relation-ship with Brown,” Bromsen said.“I love Brown, and I love the qual-ity of the students at Brown.”

Herald staff writer Zach Barter’06 can be reached [email protected].


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and very outspoken.”Last night, members of the

Greens marched to down-town Providence for peacevigils and protests, whichincluded a human peace signformed around the StateHouse and a “primal scream”on the steps of the FederalBuilding at midnight, Goodsaid.

“The Green Party is vehe-mently opposed to this costly,pre-emptive invasion, and wemourn all of the victims ofwar,” Good said. “We supportour troops by demanding thatthey be brought home.”

Following the walkout,members of SAWI and NotAnother Victim Anywhere willgather once again on the MainGreen before they join further

protests downtown. SAWI’santiwar effort is “obviouslystepped up a notch becausewe’re in a whole new situation,”Sperber said, with no intent tomodify its message due toongoing attacks.

Although no campusdemonstrations have beenplanned beyond this week,SAWI hopes to bring “busloadsof Brown and RISD students” toWashington, D.C. on April 5, forthe Campus AntiWar Network’sfirst rally, Sperber said.

The College Democrats alsohave no concrete plans for thecoming weeks, but have con-sidered distributing a newslet-ter, Ris said, which wouldexplain the group’s oppositionto war and its thoughts on thereconstruction of Iraq.

Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 can be reachedat [email protected].


Left

affect their opinion on whetherthe war is just.”

Stephen Beale ’04, chair ofYoung Americans for Freedomand a Herald Opinions colum-nist, said the war is inconsistentwith conservative ideology. “Ithink this is an unnecessarywar,” he said.

Beale said he is saddened thatmany view the pro-war positionas conservative. “Just as conser-vatives oppose intervention inthe economy, they shouldoppose intervention in foreignpolicy.”

Pre-emptive war violates bothprinciples and tradition of U.S.involvement in war, Beale said.“This is really an imperial ven-ture in the Middle East, andthat’s not conservative at all.”

“I think (Bush) is handling itreasonably and very even-hand-edly,” said Frank Kwok ’03, amember of the CollegeRepublicans. “I have faith in him.”

“I’m just tired of SaddamHussein,” said Jeb Berman ’05,who identified himself as a con-servative.

Berman said he was primarilyglad military action has begunbecause it ends a long wait forwhat had always seemed aninevitable war. “Everyone, espe-cially our government, hasknown what was going to hap-pen” for months, he said. “I’mglad that something’s finallyhappened.”

Joshua Marcus ’04, who repre-sented the pro-war position in a

debate last month, said the warrepresents an affirmation ofprinciples of international law.

“War is terrible, but inactionin the face of terror is also horrif-ic,” he said. “The vast majority ofthe Iraqi people want Saddamout.”

Marcus identified himself as amoderate liberal, and said hetakes an interventionistapproach to foreign policy. Hestressed the magnitude ofSaddam’s human rights abusesand the threat of attacks againstthe United States, and said theUnited Nations Charter supportsthe United States’ right to defenditself unilaterally.

“The only thing Saddamrespects and understands is thelanguage of power,” he said.

Some students who supportthe war criticized antiwaractivists. Lisska said while someprotesters are informed and rea-sonable, others are demagogueswho merely want to “air theirgrievances.”

“It’s a shame, because they’reprotesting so ineffectively,” hesaid.

Marcus called antiwaractivists “hypocritical” and “sim-plistically ignorant,” and saidleaving a genocidal dictator inpower was not a peaceful solu-tion.

“I love peace as much as anyof those peace activists,” he said.“What type of peace are theypromoting? Peace on whoseterms?”

Herald staff writer JuliaZuckerman ’05 can be reached [email protected].


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Afghanistan, where U.S. forcesmay have missed a chance tostrike at Osama bin Ladenbecause they acted too slowlyon reports of his whereabouts.

“They didn’t want to repeatthat again,” said Loren B.Thompson, a military analyst atthe Lexington Institute inArlington, Va. “What this strikeshows is that they’re willing tobend the plan to go afterSaddam.”

The reason for the change intactics was apparently whatdefense officials call “actionableintelligence” — a reliablereport on the immediate where-abouts of a high-ranking Iraqitarget.

“What it’s demonstrating isthat the quality of our intelli-gence in Iraq has increasedenormously,” Fluornoy said.“What we may be seeing issome (Iraqi) people decidingthat they want to be on the win-ning side, and they want to tryto avert the war, so they’re talk-ing.”

The air and ground campaignin Iraq will include other unex-pected elements designed toterrify and disrupt the Iraqiregime, defense officials said.One may be daylight airstrikes,which officials said can be per-formed safely because precisionbombs can be dropped by air-craft flying high out of range ofantiaircraft batteries.

“They’re going to do things

differently,” said Eliot A. Cohen,a defense analyst at the JohnsHopkins School of AdvancedInternational Studies. “TheAmerican military, when youget down to it, can be creative.”

Col. Gary Crowder, a seniorAir Force commander, toldreporters at a Pentagon newsconference Wednesday thatplans call for unleashing 3,000munitions in the first two daysof the campaign, 10 times thenumber of bombs and missilesused in the opening days of the1991 war.

“I do not think our adversaryhas any idea what’s coming,”Crowder said.

What’s more, the vast majori-ty of the munitions to be used inthe coming war are precision-guided; only 10 percent were in1991.

Much of that aerial onslaughtwill be aimed at communica-tions, transportation, airdefense and military targets.Crowder said the precisionweapons will enable U.S. forcesto disable Iraqi military andcommunications systems withfewer airstrikes and less dam-age to surrounding structures.

“The point here is we don’thave to attack everything, nordo we have to destroy every-thing,” Crowder said.

“Baghdad will not look likeDresden,” he said, referring todevastation wrought by the car-pet bombing of the German cityin World War II.

In his Oval Office remarks,Bush took pains to warn thatvictory may not be easy or swift.“A campaign on the harsh ter-

rain of a nation as large asCalifornia could be longer andmore difficult than some pre-dict,” he said.

And he warned the public,almost for the first time, that evena successful war will likely resultin a long and thorny Americaneffort to build a new Iraq.

Military experts note, more-over, that Saddam may have laidplans for retaliation and coun-terattack that could produceunpleasant surprises.

“What strikes me most aboutthis conflict is the enormousrange of risk it entails,” saidTerry L. Deibel, a strategist atthe National War College. “TheUnited States will clearly prevailbut there could be high costs.”

Still, some Bush aides saythey believe a short, successfulwar is more likely — and muchof the public, both in the UnitedStates and the rest of the world,appears to have adopted thatcomforting assumption.

This war is unusual in oneother important respect, foreignpolicy experts said: It isAmerica’s first “preventive war”in modern times, an audaciouscampaign to seize a MiddleEastern capital and topple itsregime.

As such, it is the first large-scale application of what hasbeen called the “BushDoctrine,” the president’s argu-ment that hostile regimes thathold chemical, biological ornuclear weapons are so danger-ous that they merit pre-emptiveattack.

“The reaction around theworld will depend on how it

goes,” said Helmut Sonnenfeldtat Washington’s BrookingsInstitution, a former aide to for-mer Secretary of State Henry A.Kissinger. “If it’s smooth andefficient, a lot of the outcry willgo away. If it’s a successful warand Saddam and a lot of his

cohorts disappear and we canput together a reasonable post-war regime this idea of ‘preven-tive war’ may be validated.

“But if it’s not, there will bean outcry in many parts of theworld, and probably more ter-rorism, as well,” he warned.


Airstrike


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THUCYDIDES, THE FOUNDING FATHERof history, identified three possiblemotives for war: fear, honorand interest. In the case of yes-terday’s anti-climactic attackson Iraq, only fear could impelour President to make war withneither the authority of theUnited Nations SecurityCouncil, nor the approval ofthe American people. Only fearcould drive the American peo-ple to consent to an illegal warthat violates our Cold War tra-dition of defensive deterrenceand containment. Fear existsonly in the absence of knowl-edge — it is nothing less thanthe apprehension of the unknown. Thisfear is a symptom of the post-Sept. 11,2001 world and reflects the deep uncer-tainties that plague American foreign poli-cy. For if the U.S. military cannot even

locate the mastermind of the Sept. 11attacks, how can it predict the next attack?

It is especially tragic thatthese fears have fueled theimperial designs of a smallgroup of conservatives clas-sified as “neoconservatives.”Many of these individualsjoined the conservativemovement during the ColdWar because they supportedPresident Reagan’s aggres-sive anti-Communist foreignpolicy. These ex-liberals andex-Stalinists interpret thewar on terrorism as the suc-cessor to the war on commu-nism.

Their ambition is matched only by theirbrazen honesty. As early as Oct. 2001 theneo-conservatives called for action againstIraq. On October 15, Rich Lowry ofNational Review wrote that “[e]arly indica-tions are that Iraq had a hand in theSeptember 11 attacks. But firm evidenceshould be unnecessary for the U.S. to act.”By the end of the column, Lowry uncovershis full-fledged dream of a democratic

Iraq. By the time he concludes, Sept. 11and the necessity of obliterating al-Qaidahave escaped Lowry’s mind. Instead Lowrywrites, “The entire effort [invasion of Iraq]would represent a return to an enlight-ened paternalism toward the Third World .... The ideal would be to duplicate the bestof British colonialism.” Other neoconserv-atives have expressed their opinion thatafter Iraq, President Bush should cyclethrough other axis of evil nations, includ-ing Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.One commentator, Norman Podhoretz,caught up in the moment, called for“World War IV,” which he defined as thefight against “militant Islam.”

To be sure, Western civilization is in alife and death struggle with Islam, but thatfight must properly begin with addressingthe unhealthy levels of Muslim immigra-tion pouring into Europe. Conservativesseek to conserve Christendom, not expandit, whereas the project of the neoconserva-tives represents a malignant mix of liberalidealism and conservative jingoism, pro-ducing unbridled imperialism.

If we win the war and subjugate Iraq asa client state, we will have violated what it

means to be an American. Our foundingfathers fought a war against the BritishEmpire to preserve republican ideals fromthe corruption of the British Empire. Thesemen were steeped in the writings of classi-cal authors like Virgil, Tacitus, Cicero,Plutarch and Thucydides, who deploredempires and saw them as a threat torepublics. And these men understood thatthe spirit of empire ultimately corrodesthe spirit of liberty: the two cannot coexistindefinitely. A state that does not respectthe rights of other nations will not longabstain from abridging the liberties of itsown people.

It is somewhat fitting that the begin-nings of a formal American empire are inwhat was once Babylonia. Throughoutthe Bible, Babylon epitomizes moraldecadence. In Revelations 18:2, the angel“with a mighty voice” calls out to John:“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! ... thekings of the earth have committed acts ofimmorality with her, and the merchantsof the earth have become rich by thewealth of her sensuality.” Sadly, theangel’s words also describe ImperialAmerica.

Why I have yet to protest the warBanners and chalk are doing nothing to convince the undecided

I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A PROTEST. I haveseen the chalk on the Main Green and thetables in the post office and I have formedopinions which I pronounce loudly whenamongst friends, but no further. As Iwatched our cowboy of aPresident declare that war hadbegun, I wondered why I wasnot one of the people who hadwritten, “Make your voiceheard” in chalk across theMain Green. I realized that Idid not write it in chalk because I actuallywanted my voice to be heard.

Before I take up arms against taking uparms, I need answers that tie-dyed T-shirtshave yet to give. What should my voice say?How can I make it be heard?

Everyone seems to know what my voiceshould say. The College Democrats wantme to shout “Regime change in Texas!” TheRepublicans like to point out France’s fee-ble antiwar justifications in tableslips at theRatty. I do not want to spout hackneyed slo-

gans or tired rhetoric. First I want the facts.Then I want an open discourse. Instead ofone side shouting its slogans, I want debate.I want prowar people to hear and listen toantiwar arguments, digest those argu-

ments, and then respond. I wantthe antiwar people to supporttheir claims in the face of logicalopposing arguments. I want tosee both sides hear each otherand defend their steadfaststances. Only then can I create

my own informed opinions. Only then willmy voice be my own voice.

Once I decide what to shout from therooftops, how do I get to the roof? Should Iset up shop in the P.O. for the next month?Should I chalk the Main Green? Should Iwalk out of a class?

No. The tables at the P.O. and the chalk-ings are just an extension of one-sided slo-gans. They do not inspire me to action.They do not sway my opinions. They onlytrip a wire in my brain that activates the “It’spropaganda – just keep walking” voice.(Incidentally, Bush the Younger tripped thatwire on Monday night.)

However, I am clearly leaning toward anantiwar stance, so maybe I should partici-pate in the walkout. But what message isthat effort sending? I would be walking outon an antiwar professor. Maybe if Brownprofessors were pro-war, or maybe if stu-dents at Bob Jones University walked out,then it would shake things up a bit. ButBrown? If Brown students protest the war,will anyone be surprised? Will the bombsstop falling?

I refuse to hit my head against a brickwall. I can yell “No War for Oil!” at the top ofmy lungs for four years straight, and Bushwould not hear me. It’s like that children’sgame, Jenga. In Jenga, there is a tower ofblocks. Each player removes a block untilthe tower collapses. The walkouts, theprotests, all seem to be doing the simplemaneuver of taking blocks off the top of ourJenga tower. But I want to push on the blockthat will cause the whole tower to comecrumbling down. I need an action to take.Workers took action by forming unions.African Americans registered to vote andboycotted segregated buses. Womenburned their bras and marched into the job

market. Anti-Vietnam War protestersburned draft cards. What can I do towardsregime change in Texas, instead of just say-ing I want it? In the words of The Beatles,“You say you want a revolution/Well youknow/We all want to change the world. ...You say you got a real solution/Well youknow/We’d all love to see the plan.”

We need to look at how we got to thispoint. There are profound mistakes in oursociety that must be addressed at theirroots. If regime change is what we want, weneed to elect other leaders. To elect other,hopefully better, leaders, we need to havequality candidates and empowered voters.For quality candidates and empowered vot-ers, we need educated and intelligentpoliticians and citizens. But this is gettinginto a whole other topic of U.S. reforms thatI will leave for another day.

It seems that the metaphorical hasstruck noon, and Bush has the showdownhe wants. I am not telling others to stopprotesting, but if you want me to take up acause, I want my time and effort to shakethe ground beneath the cowboy’s feet. Ifyou find a way to do that, let me know.Dana Kroplick ‘06 hails from Roslyn, NY.

Stephen Beale ‘04 believes that criticismduring war is the duty of responsiblecitizenship.

STEPHEN BEALERIGHT WORDS

DANA KROPLICKGUEST COLUMNIST

IRAQ WAR BEGINS, STUDENTS WEIGH IN

The empire strikes firstThe war in Iraq violates the spirit of our republican heritage

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S H A N E W I L K E R S O N

A time for vigilanceYesterday’s military action was neither a complete victory for those in support ofa war with Iraq, nor a defeat for those who have been actively protesting it. Thestruggle has just begun, and the winners and losers of the pre-war debate willnot be determined — until the conclusion of hostilities and the start of therebuilding process, if ever. Americans should therefore not silence their opin-ions, no matter where they fall on the political spectrum.

As President Ruth Simmons told students last night, our role in this war asacademics is to maintain “our commitment to debate and examination despiteour innermost doubts and fear,” to cling “to the dispassionate search for truth.”Following blindly either political jingoism or liberal propaganda will only causemore damage in the long run. Scrutinize the government’s actions whether youagree with them or not, remain vigilant in your analysis of the ongoing war andpolitics, and if research or events lead you down a different path, don’t be afraidto amend your opinions.

Yesterday, the first missiles in a once-hypothetical war roared over the skiesof Baghdad. We have moved on to a new stage in our struggle to understand anddiscuss this war, but while the nature of the debate has certainly changed withyesterday’s strikes, our discussion and critiques should be no less vigorous.

For those who have opposed this war, months of protests, ranging from faststo chalking the sidewalks of the Main Green, may seem to have been for naught.But this is not the time to give up hope. If you cannot stand the thought of Bushas our commander-in-chief, begin working on the campaign of a better candi-date. If you believe that the president will not stop at simply overthrowingSaddam, make your voice heard before your congressperson votes againstfuture attempts at regime change. Most importantly of all, keep an open mindand don’t ignore potential positive developments just because disaster nowseems imminent.

Those strongly in favor of this war will also have to remain vigilant. Do notsimply wave the war banner blindly. If you believe this interventionism willimprove the lives of Iraqis, hold Bush to his promise to foster a democracywhere the people control their natural resources and their government.

For the many members of the Brown community unsure about the currentpolitical situation, digest the arguments of pro-war and antiwar groups, but donot be intimidated by the visibility of their opinions, or afraid to espouse a morenuanced view. Not all conflicts can be easily summed up on a slab of concrete orin a three-word slogan. And if you simply feel uninformed, take this opportunityto catch up on events. You do not have to be an expert in order to engage inmeaningful discourse — because Thursday night, the rules all changed and weentered a world where the future is much harder to predict.

As students, we have a special responsibility to uphold well-reasoned debate.Despair, narrow-mindedness, silence and ignorance are poor substitutes forcritical participation in what may be a turning point for our democracy.

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Fighting the good fight

WHEN I WAS A KID, I USED TO READ HISTORICAL FICTION.A little nerdy, I admit, but I was enchanted by the past. Its re-cre-ation through fictional heroes, and especially heroines, invokedfantasies of romantic love letters across seas, emotional anguishat the news no one wants to hear and, of course, the ever-happyending.

During the Persian Gulf War, when I was nine, I announcedto my family at Thanksgiving that I thought a war would be a

great idea. Who doesn’t want to have awar, I wondered, unaware of the horri-fied looks everyone was directing at mymother. I calmly explained to the flab-bergasted crowd that war would putsome excitement in my small life, give

us something to feel passionately about and create a world fullof yellow ribbons and handwritten letters. Logically, I thought,“who doesn’t want a little excitement in their life?”

To this day, I remember my utter astonishment as my fami-ly members reprimanded me on my appalling thoughts.Everyone, including a nun, a doctor, a nurse, my father andmost importantly my grandmother, tried to explain to me thatwar was not something one could read about in fiction andunderstand. War killed people, not always people you knew,but sometimes them too. War killed kids my own age and splitup families like ours.

On the eve of war, I am reminded of that Thanksgiving andam still ashamed of how foolish I was. War is not romantic —whatever cause we are fighting for, pretense or reality, war iswar. Over what, I still don’t care. War is complicated, but I stillhave a hard time seeing how destroying human life can be jus-tified.

I’m sure President Bush has his reasons. I, at times, surprisemyself when I catch my thoughts leaning in a hawkish direc-tion. I will not lie and say that I am not afraid of another ter-rorist attack. I try to be honest with myself, but violence issomething I will never understand.

As the hostilities in Iraq begin, I still catch myself dreamingup stories of military bravery, citizen heroes and tearfuldepartures and the joyful returning of soldiers. But then incontrast, I think of those from my high school who have beenstationed overseas for the past year and await orders. I think ofIraqi families who are stuck, awaiting crashes at night. I thinkof Americans who are scared of more terrorism.

At school, we have the luxury of remaining detached. None of usare over there sleeping nightmared nights. Only a few of us willsign up to fight. None of us had to make the decision, preemp-tive or waiting. None of us has experience enough to understandwhat it means to be at war.

But many of us know others our age in the Marines or mili-tary. Many of us have various experiences and opinions andhomes that make us feel differently. All of us were affected bySept. 11, 2001. All of us will continue to be affected by what wesee in the upcoming months. Most of us will engage in discus-sion or try to make a difference.

The debate will become more heated in the upcomingweeks, as the world intensifies as we have never seen before.Although sometimes it is easy to believe our government hassome kind of self-interest in war and misguided power trip intaking us there, no one can wish for a war-filled future.Political consequences aside, the war which will be the meansto a different future is readily accepted as the path we wouldwish not to take. Whether you believe we are forced to take itor not, no one can look to the future, without some kind ofsadness that this thing we call war has happened once again.

I hope that once in a while, no matter how we feel aboutforeign policy, we can all once again learn, as I did as a child,that war never benefits anyone. Wherever one stands on thisissue, during the debates and protests of the next few months,it’s important to remember that no one here wants what hor-rors war entails.

War benefits no one

ALLISONLOMBARDO

GUEST COLUMNIST

WITH WAR UNDERWAY, THE WORLD IS LIKELY TOchange forever. The case can be made that on Sept.11, 2001, we truly entered the 21st century, and thatthis war with Iraq is the first war of thenew century.

Formerly, the United States neverwould have considered a pre-emptiveunilateral strike against another state. But,Sept. 11 changed that. We learned first-hand what incredible damage and loss oflife a few determined individuals caninflict. Imagine how much worse anattack directly supported by a sovereignstate could have been. When you com-bine a sovereign state’s financial and sci-entific resources with a terrorist organiza-tion’s will and determination to useweapons of mass destruction against civil-ian populations, you have a recipe for themost serious threat to international peace and thedemocratic way of life: state-sponsored terrorism.

In no way has it been proven that Iraq was in anyway responsible for Sept. 11. But, given SaddamHussein’s utter disregard for human life and utter dis-regard for international efforts to maintain peace inthe Middle East, it should not be altogether surprisingthat our government has concluded that SaddamHussein poses a serious enough threat to the UnitedStates that he must be removed. Whether or not youagree with this assessment, at this point, it is stronglyin our interest to support it.

President Bush is not an idiot. Scoff if you like, butthat statement is correct. He may not be the smartestYale graduate in its 300-plus-year history, he probably

isn’t even as smart as the average Herald reader, butdo not dismiss his decision as uninformed. He hassurrounded himself with some of the best political

and military minds in the world and hascome to a very difficult decision. This is notabout oil. If you think it is, you’re kiddingyourself. If this were about oil, the situationin Iraq would have been handled muchbetter and it would have been resolved adecade ago. President Bush is not riskingthe lives of hundreds of thousands ofAmerican soldiers and Iraqi civilians togain access to Iraqi oil fields from which wealready benefit. The decision to deposeSaddam by force was made to ensure thesecurity of the United States, and now thatour intentions have been made abundant-ly clear, we must absolutely proceedbecause, if we don’t, he will surely come

after us any way he can.President Bush lost the international public rela-

tions battle against Saddam. He did a lousy job build-ing an international coalition, largely because he keptchanging the reasons for why war is necessary. Weheard everything from “eliminating the threat ofweapons of mass destruction” to the need for “regimechange.” It is little wonder that in the eyes of the restof the world, Bush’s credibility has suffered. However,the fact remains: Saddam is a ruthless dictator whoposes a threat to us. For us to allow Saddam to remainin power after months of failed diplomacy would beto guarantee future terrorist attacks with Iraqi sup-port. To turn away from Saddam now would be theequivalent of pointing a gun to his head and thenturning our back on him and slowly walking away. Forbetter or worse, this war must proceed. Let us hopethat it is as quick and bloodless as possible.

CHRIS SENIOBOTTLES OF

CHRIS

WALL FLYERS SCREAM “PEACE IN IRAQ” AND“No War in Iraq!” in large, angry letters. At first, apasserby might instinctively agree. The concept ofpeace is sweet and safe, like freshly baked Mrs. Fieldscookies, and when put in these simple terms, seemsjust as easily obtained. But these state-ments gripping our outdoor surfaces likelocusts accomplish nothing. As withmany emotionally charged slogans, theyoversimplify the situation.

Those who agree will continue to agree,and those who do not have undoubtedlythought before arriving at their opinionsand will not perform an about-facebecause they have been visually assaultedwith platitudes.

In addition, these signs are misin-formed. They make it seem to the unin-formed observer as though peace reignsnow in Iraq and that an oil-imbibing,bullet-spewing George W. Bush shouldleave well enough alone.

But there is no peace in Iraq. Just ask the Kurds inthe north of the country. Saddam has wiped out thou-sands of their villages and, according to SabriaNaama, a Shiite from Northern Iraq talking to theWashington Times, “People are waiting patiently forAmerican troops to walk in and liberate the country.”An estimated four million Iraqis have fled their coun-try in fear for their lives and, according to Mrs. TanyaGilly, a member of the Kurdish opposition speaking inthat same article, many of these refugees trust thatAmerican removal of Saddam Hussein is their ticket

back home.Obviously, Saddam’s regime and the Iraqi people

do not get along like Oompa Loompas in WillyWonka’s chocolate factory. Yet the press largely neg-lects the Kurdish plight. The media also barely lost

ink regarding the 10,000 Shiite Muslimswho demonstrated in New York in favorof war on March 9, or about the letterWomen for Iraq wrote to Bush, thankinghim for promising liberation, andadding, “Those who have taken to thestreets with signs reading, ‘No War onIraq’ are misled. It is Saddam who hasbeen waging war on the people of Iraq.”But, Alice Walker’s arrest at a peace

march was highly publicized. Drownedin a sea of antiwar press, “bipartisan”boats rapidly sink in the water of well-intentioned pacifism.

The situation in Iraq is more slipperythan spilled blood. Nobody wants war,except perhaps Saddam’s sons, who

were eager to fry up Americans in a pan of nukes forlunch, until their more diplomatic father cautionedthem to wait until we attacked first, in order to try tocurry world sympathy. To say that we must have warto bring peace may sound like an oxymoron, but itwould be a crime to leave the Iraqi innocents to die atthe whim of a truly oil-imbibing and bullet-spewingdictator as dangerous as a giant knife in an electricalsocket.

There is no easy answer, and any flier or article thatdoesn’t at least give an honest shot at telling bothsides of the story is not to be trusted.

As they are, these simple, self-righteous signspreach to the choir and do nothing to convince thosewho disagree.

ALEXANDRATOUMANOFFWHAT’S A GIRL

GOTTA DO?

The tough cookie that is Iraq

Chris Senio ’04 will miss the “Showdown Iraq”theme music.

Alexandra Toumanoff ‘06 is a product of bi-coastalmulticulturalism.

Allison Lombardo ‘05 is a political science concentrator fromNew Jersey who lives up in North Caswell.

No matter where we stand,war should never be celebrated

The pros of liberating Iraq’s people complicate the case of antiwar activists

IRAQ WAR BEGINS, STUDENTS WEIGH IN

War is far from the ideal solution but, at this point, it is our best option

For the fifth time this season, Yann Danis’04 was honored as the ECAC Goaltenderof the Week. He helped lead the Bears to aseries win, two games to one, over Yale inthe ECAC quarterfinals, while advancingto the ECAC championship for the firsttime since 1994.

Danis earned “First Star” recognitionin the deciding game on Sunday night,stopping 35 shots in a 4-0 shutout as theBears posted just their second shutout inECAC playoff history. The shutout was hisfifth of the season and the eighth of hiscareer, as the All-American candidatebuilt upon the Brown records he alreadyowns.

Danis helped to give the Bears a 1-0lead in the series in game one, stopping 41shots while earning “Third Star” honors inthe 4-3 overtime win. He stopped 15 shotsin the third period and five in overtime, asBrown won its first overtime game of theseason and its first game at Yale since1996. The next night, despite a 2-1 loss tothe Bulldogs, Danis was named the “ThirdStar” again, stopping 34 of 36 shots.

Brent Robinson ’04, a one-time ECACPlayer of the Week, made his third appear-ance on the ECAC Honor Roll, scoringthree goals on the weekend. The Bears’

leading scorer with 38 points, Robinsonnetted the game-winning goal at 9:40 ofovertime in the first game to give the Bearsthe 1-0 series lead. In the deciding game,he notched his 14th goal of the season togive Brown a 1-0 lead in the game, whichthe Bears never relinquished, adding anempty-netter to ice the win.

Brown, which has a 16-12-5 overallrecord, will face top-seeded No. 2 Cornellin the first ECAC semifinal on March 21 at3:30 p.m. at the Pepsi Arena in Albany, N.Y.The game will air live on NESN and willalso air on the YES Network and Leafs TVon tape-delay.

—Brown Sports Information

BY NICK GOUREVITCH AND JOSHUA TROYThe men’s basketball team’s historic seasoncame to a close last night with a 89-73 lossat the University of Virginia in Brown’s first-ever NIT appearance.

While the Cavaliers jumped out to anearly 18-6 lead, the Bears performedadmirably, cutting the lead to a single pointearly in the second half before the hostswent on a 21-7 run to take the lead forgood.

The defeat closed out the careers of twoof the program’s most accomplished play-ers, Earl Hunt ’03 and Alai Nuualiitia ’03.The pair put up 11 and 10 points, respec-tively. Unfortunately, Nuualiitia saw limit-ed action due to picking up two fouls earlyin the first half.

Patrick Powers ’04 led all Brown scorerswith 18 points on red-hot eight for 12shooting. Powers joined the team just intime for warm-ups, as he was inConnecticut due to a death in the family.He also led the team with six rebounds.

Jason Forte ’05 added 14 points and foursteals. He also set the school’s single-sea-son assist record with six more dishes toadd to his year-long total. Jamie Kilburncontinued his torrid field goal percentage,making four of six shots for eight points.

In the first half, G.J. King ’05 came off thebench and helped the Bears keep the gameclose with five points and solid defensiveplay. He finished with eight points andthree rebounds.

In the end, the difference in the gamewas poor three-point shooting from theBears — they went 3 of 16 from behind thearc — and Brown’s inability to come upwith an answer to the Cavaliers’ star, TravisWatson. Watson finished the game with 29points and 12 rebounds.

The Bears finished the season with a 17-12 record, tying the mark for most wins inschool history. Moreover, last night’s sea-son finale was only the third postseasonappearance in school history.

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For the first time since 1994, the men’s ice hockey team heads to the ECAC semifinals.The Bear’s play Cornell, the number two team in the country, on Friday at 3:30 p.m.

Women’s tennisgoes back to Cali

For men’s hoops, season comes to anend with 89-73 NIT loss at Virginia

ECAC Goalie of the Week Danis ’04leads men’s icers into ECAC Semifinals

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Alai Nuualiitia ’03 (above) and Earl Hunt ‘03 finished up their stellar Brown basketballcareers on Wednesday.The two finished as the third,first leading scorers in school history.

BY BRETT ZARDAThis weekend begins a much-needed hiatusfrom the rigors of campus life for the major-ity of the Brown community. For thewomen’s tennis team, Friday afternoon willsignal not a break, but the start of a crucialWest Coast road trip.

The Bears will fly out to California onFriday and compete in five dual matchesover the weeklong break. The annual tripprovides agreeable climates, extensivetraining time, valuable match play and aretreat-like chance to bond as a team.

“We get to practice outside, which isimportant because when we come back ourmatches will be outside,” said CarolineCasey ’03. “Every time I’ve gone to Californiaand come back, the team has always beencloser, which sets us up really well for the Ivyseason. We get to spend ten days togetherand it makes the team a lot more cohesive.”

The team that returns from the Westmust be prepared to play seven consecutivematches that will close out the year and willgreatly determine the relative success of thesquad.

The early part of the spring season fea-tured both ups and downs for the Bears.Three intensely contested matches in thepast weeks followed a few easy wins and atough loss to start the season. A road trip toVirginia two weeks ago handed the Bearstheir only two-game losing streak buthelped to stress a key component of dualmatches.

“The thing that came away from theVirginia weekend was that the doublespoint is really crucial to us,” Casey said. “Thedoubles point sets a really good tone forgoing into singles and gets people reallypositive. A lot of times it’s the differencebetween winning and losing.”

That fact held true in Sunday’s impressive4-3 victory over Boston College, raising theBears’ overall record to 7-4. Once again, thedoubles point proved the deciding factor.Thankfully for Bruno, the teams of KerryMeath ’05 and Alex Arlak ’05, Victoria Beck’04 and Stephanie Falconi ’06 and MarianaLee ’06 and Kimberly Singer ’06 were able tosweep the doubles matches and earn thecritical point.

Choosing a singles and doubles line-upfrom a team with such amazing overall par-ity consistently proves difficult for HeadCoach Norma Taylor.

“The key was to try to find the right pair-ings in doubles that would work, becausethat’s a little trickier to find out what’s thebest pairing at each spot,” Taylor said.

With five freshmen contributing heavilyto the squad, forming the much-neededteam chemistry has been as tough as choos-ing which players should play specific posi-tions.

“One of the challenges we’re going tohave this year is trying to get our whole teamto behave like a team and not be dividedinto this very young group of people andeverybody else,” Taylor said. “And I thinkthat we’re working very hard on that, and Ithink that the California trip will bring theteam a lot closer together with that manydays together fighting other teams side byside and living in the hotel and travelingtogether.”

Singer echoed the words of her coachregarding team unity: “It’s been a little hardbecause with so many freshmen it’s, in someways, divided the team into the freshmenand then upperclassmen. So we’ve beenworking more towards building a morecohesive team.”

Meath said she has seen the progress shehoped for both on and off the court. “It’scoming; it’s definitely getting there. There’s

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