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BY ELISE BARANA professor, a refugee, two studentsand a first-generation American — allhad their own stories, but could alsospeak to the plight of immigrants sinceSept. 11, 2001.

“The War on Immigrants: ADiscussion Panel on Immigrant Rightsin the U.S.” was held last night inhonor of Asian American HistoryMonth.

Andrew Leong, a professor atUniversity of Massachusetts-Boston,began the panel. He has a law degreeand has been studying and advocatingimmigration rights throughout hiscareer.

The 1996 legislation, named“Contract with America,” hinderedimmigrants’ access to health care andincreased the kinds of situations inwhich they could be deported. Leongsaid the Patriot Act, enacted after Sept.11, 2001 to expand government sur-veillance powers, is like the Japanese-American internment laws duringWorld War II.

“We simply don’t learn from ourmistakes,” he said.

Sangeeta Tripathi ’04 followedLeong with a different view. She spentthe last year in New York City workingwith immigrants from Pakistan andother countries suspected by theUnited States to harbor terrorists. Sheemphasized the new, stronger, post-Sept. 11 relationship between immi-gration agencies and the New YorkPolice Department.

Tripathi also stressed the recentindustry of private prisons, which arenot as expensive to run as federal onesand are often in rural areas. It is diffi-cult for detainees to get representation

in the rural areas, exacerbating theproblems many immigrants face afterthey are detained, she said.

Nancy Prerk — who came to theUnited States as a refugee fromCambodia — said in her experience,one of the greatest difficulties forimmigrants is the language barrier,especially in the health care legal sys-tems. She works at the CambodianSociety in Providence with KagnaoneSom and Sarath Suong, who were alsoon the panel.

Som spoke of her experience grow-ing up in the United States as the childof Cambodian refugees and of herwork with the Providence YouthStudent Movement. She said her moth-er was taught to accept minimum wage

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Musician and lecturercovers 1,000 years ofmusic in one night atRISD performanceRISD news, page 3

RISD strikespartnership withHope High; will teach,give scholarshipsRISD news, page 3

Intellectual diversityat Brown is a debateworth having, saysRosengard Subotnikcolumn, page 11

Dems’ bickering mayhelp them see wherethe party stands, saysvon Oeyen ’05column, page 11

Sabermetrics can beapplied to football aswell as baseball,Perlmutter sayssports, page 12

BEAN planscampaignagainsttable-slipsBY MONIQUE MENESESStudents are used to seeing the tables inthe Ratty littered with table-slips — but ifBEAN gets its way, groups might have tofind alternative means of publicizingcampus events.

The Brown Environmental ActionNetwork is currently laying the ground-work for a proposal aimed at eliminatingtable-slipping in campus dining halls.

Allison Silverman ’05, co-president ofBEAN, said the goal is part of the group’sconservation effort.

“We’re trying to save paper and table-slips are extremely wasteful,” she said.“You find about 15 table-slips on a tableper meal. That’s three meals per day,seven days a week.”

Although the organization is still inthe planning stage of the campaign toeliminate table-slips, Silverman said thecampaign has a lot of potential and hasbeen on the group’s agenda “for sometime.”

Many student groups and University-affiliated services rely on table-slippingto promote and inform students ofevents happening on campus.

Ollie Rasini ’04, a member of thesketch comedy group IMPROVidence,said the group relies “heavily” on table-slipping to promote its weekly shows.The number of students that attend ashow on a given night is directly correlat-ed with how many table-slips arechurned out to promote the event, shesaid.

“The weeks that we’ve table-slippedless, we seem to have less of a turnout,”she said.

Christopher Yee ’04, coordinator of theAsian American Student Organization,said his group table-slips for generalbody meetings and events the group putson for the whole campus. Table-slipsusually target students who want some-thing to look at or read while they areeating, he said.

“It’s just a great way to enjoy eatingyour lunch or dinner — when you’re eat-ing your food you get to see everythingthat’s going on, on campus,” he said.

He said table-slipping is an “effective”way of publicizing events, particularly forfreshmen and sophomore students.

Benjamin Schnapp ’07 said he usuallyreads table-slips at meals.

“Sometimes I read them for the enter-tainment. It’s something to do while eat-ing, but most of the times I read them tofind out what’s going on,” he said.

But table-slipping is not the only wayto “get a group’s message out,” Silvermansaid. Radio, newspapers and the DailyJolt are alternate ways to promote andinform students about events.

“Paper does not necessarily have to beused,” she said.

But Frances Mantak, director ofhealth education, said she disagreed.

UCS passesfile-sharingmeasureBY KRISTA HACHEYThe Undergraduate Council of Studentspassed a resolution on file sharing at itsWednesday night meeting that it plans topresent at the Ivy League fall conferencein two weeks.

The document urges the RecordingIndustry Association of America and uni-versity administrators to seek legal alter-natives to illicit file sharing on universitycampuses. It was drafted by Councilmembers Charley Cummings ’06 andLuke Meier ’04, a Herald sports colum-nist.

“UCS wants to recognize the interestson both sides, but we want to protectindividual students from being madeexamples of and being fined huge sumsof money,” Meier said.

The RIAA prosecuted four undergrad-uates at three colleges in April, eventual-ly forcing them to pay fines ranging from$12,000 to $17,000. To steer Brown stu-dents away from such consequences,Computing and Information Services islooking into a program that wouldrequire students to pay a fee in order toaccess a file-sharing network with otherRhode Island schools.

Kate Wolford, project director in theOffice of Campus Life and StudentServices, and Phil O’Hara, acting directorof the Student Activities Office, attendedthe UCS meeting to increase visibility ofthe SAO and the duties it undertakes.

“We realize that not everybody isaware of what SAO does,” Wolford said.The office is a hub for financial servicesand helps student groups plan lecturesand parties, save money and connectwith each other, she said.

“We’re also trying to reduce theamount of red tape students have to gothrough to get things done,” Wolfordsaid.

After constituting six new studentgroups, Student Activities Chair RobMontz ’05 presented a list of studentgroups that no longer receive official

Immigrants faced challengesbefore Sept. 11, panelists say

BY DANIELLE CERNYA panel of five representatives involvedin the recent Yale University laborstrikes spoke to the Brown communitylast night about the evolution and impli-cations of Yale’s labor movement.

The rift between Yale administratorsand union workers that culminated in athree-week strike this past Septemberstems from a deep-rooted history oftension, said organizer for Local 34Adam PaHen.

Yale’s first labor union was formed in1968. The year brought a sudden changein the work force and the job positionsbeing filled that caused many workers tofeel their contracts were unfair, PaHen

said.As a result, strikes broke out that year

and again in 1971, 1974 and 1977 —making labor protests at Yale “prettyroutine,” he said.

Antonio Lopes, autopsy technician inthe Department of Pathology at Yale,said the relationship between laborersand the administration in the past 20years has been “horrific.”

“Yale is first in labor discord in thenation,” he said.

Lopes holds two jobs: one for Yaleand an equivalent part-time job for thestate of Connecticut. He said it was the

Yale union workers describe strike

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see BEAN, page 6

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see YALE, page 7

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BY ALEXIS KUNSAKMany people think the term “popular music”describes the latest Britney single on the radio.

In a lecture and performance titled “1,000 Years ofPopular Music,” Richard Thompson, modernmusic’s best kept secret with an acoustic guitar,delved into the unfamiliar history of past hit songsFriday in the RISD Auditorium.

“Everyone defines popular music differently,”Thompson said. “And people don’t have great taste,en masse. You can avoid the nauseating end of thecampfire repertoire though.”

Thompson — who has released 23 albums sincehis stint as a guitarist in the rock group FairportConvention in the 1960s — made Squeeze’s hit song“Tempted” a sing-along, engaging the audiencemembers.

The centuries flew by during his performance,which included the oldest known canon “LouderSing Cuckoo,” written in 1256 by a British monk andBritney Spears’ hit “Oops! … I Did it Again,” writtenand mixed in Sweden.

Thompson — who called attempting orchestralarrangements alone with only an acoustic guitar “abit pathetic” — seemed as comfortable singing “Iam a Pirate King” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s“Pirates of Penzance” as he was singing “Cry Me aRiver,” the 1950s hit recently re-popularized byJustin Timberlake.

Thompson’s performance included songs fromalmost every era of musical composition, but hefocused on the development of pop music inBritain.

“If I had to pick a favorite, desert island sort of

Rock guitarist plays1,000 years of pop

An infusion of RISD at Hope HighBY MICHAEL RUDERMANStudents at Providence’s Hope High School are reapingthe benefits of being down the road from one of thenation’s premier art colleges.

Last week, RISD and Hope High officially announcedtheir collaboration to spread arts education.

RISD faculty will help craft curricula for Hope, offerhigh school students visual arts education at the RISDMuseum and provide two Hope students with full schol-arships to the school.

“We believe art and design are essential to a com-plete education, and colleges should bring ourresources and expertise to bear to improve publicschools,” said RISD President Roger Mandle in a pressrelease. “RISD’s innovative partnership with Hope HighSchool will demonstrate the positive impact of thesekinds of collaborations on the quality of the educationof all students.”

The main component of the RISD-Hope collabora-tion involves curriculum development for Hope’s newArts Small Learning Community. In its first year, theASLC is a school within Hope High comprised of 500students who expressed interest in the visual and per-forming arts.

Paul Sproll, head of RISD’s department of Art andDesign Education and director of the Center for theAdvancement of Education, worked closely with Hopeadministrators to create the curriculum for the newschool. He proposed the idea of a collaboration to Hopeadministrators during the summer of 2002. The twoschools have spent a year “exploring what each of uscould bring to the partnership,” he said.

Sproll said both schools worked “to provide a pro-gram that is particularly strong in the discipline of thearts but also particularly strong in the integration of artswith other subjects.”

Sproll said that it is natural for arts to be integrated inall aspects of the curriculum at the elementary level,but in high schools, it is rare. He said he hopes that theASLC curriculum achieves enough success to become anational model.

Two RISD graduate students will also teach in theASLC. RISD has sent graduate students to Hope in thepast, and they have had “enormous success,” Sprollsaid.

The collaboration will offer ASLC students programsat RISD throughout the academic year. Once a week inthe fall and the spring, ASLC students attend Studio inthe Museum, through which they learn about works ofart in the RISD Museum and work on their own projectsunder the supervision of RISD graduate students.

In the winter, Hope students can attend an intensivestudio session led by a designer, where they can work ona project alongside RISD graduate students. This winter,an industrial designer will lead the studio.

Both programs will be offered free of charge.RISD also established two full scholarships for quali-

fied Hope graduates. Sproll said he hopes the scholar-ships will “challenge the art teachers (at ASLC) to have arigorous program that provides competitive applicants.”

Sproll said that the school is partly working with theASLC to encourage students to attend RISD. But “ourinterest is not just in producing students to come to artschool or even our art school, but that they have a greateducation, irrespective of whether they go to art schoolor not,” Sproll said.

The first student to benefit from the scholarship, JoseCastillo RISD ’07, entered this fall with an interest indesign apparel.

Sproll wants the RISD-Hope High partnership pro-gram to expand over time, he said. He recently appliedfor a federal grant to provide professional developmentoptions for Hope teachers. RISD gift officers are alsoseeking external funding for an after-school program,he said.

Both RISD and Hope administrators will monitor thepartnership’s success, Sproll said, and in three years,officials from the two schools will formally assess thepartnership and its programs.

Herald staff writer Michael Ruderman ’07 can be reachedat [email protected].

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GUATEMALA CITY (Newsday) —Alone and seven months’pregnant, teenager CarolinaMendoza Velasquez thoughtshe had found guardian angelswhen a Guatemala City couplehired her as a live-in maid andsaid she could continue work-ing for them after she gavebirth.

But the day after Mendozadelivered Luis Enrique in May,she said, the couple locked herinside a Guatemala City clinic,wrenched her newborn sonfrom her arms, and forced herto sign papers giving him upfor adoption.

“They said my baby wouldgo to a family in the UnitedStates and have a better life,”recalled Mendoza, 17. “When Itold them I wanted to keephim, they said, ‘If you don’tsign, we’ll kill you.’”

Mendoza’s story is commonin Guatemala, the No. 1 sup-plier per capita of foreign chil-dren adopted in the UnitedStates. Between one-third andone-half of Guatemalan chil-dren exported for adoption inrecent years have been takenfrom their biological parentsillegally through bribery, coer-cion or outright theft, prose-cutors and international childadvocates say.

“Guatemala is starting tobecome a baby factory for richcountries,” said Sandra Zayas,the country’s special prosecu-tor for crimes against womenand children, who is investi-gating 95 cases of potentiallyfraudulent adoptions tonations including the UnitedStates. Adoption agencies andlawyers here and in the UnitedStates adamantly deny wide-spread problems.

Guatemala is the latest ofseveral countries where adop-tions have come under inter-national scrutiny. Its practicesunderscore the difficulties inmeeting wealthy nations’demand for adoptive children

without trampling the rights offamilies in poorer ones.

Canada, Spain, Ireland andthe Netherlands have sus-pended adoptions fromGuatemala in recent years.The United States has resistedcalls to do the same, althoughit has suspended adoptionsfrom Cambodia since 2001and from Vietnam sinceJanuary because of allegedbaby trafficking in those coun-tries.

“We are concerned,” StuartPatt, a State Departmentspokesman, said of allegedadoption rackets inGuatemala. “When it happens,it’s a disgrace. But we do whatwe can to prevent it.”

The U.S. government hasimplemented DNA testing andother procedures to ensurethat Guatemalan babiesbound for the United Stateshave not been stolen, Pattsaid. Critics say those meas-ures are insufficient.

Adoption practices in thisdesperately poor CentralAmerican nation — wheremost abortions are illegal andcontraception is almost non-existent — made headlinesrecently when Costa Ricanauthorities discovered nineGuatemalan babies in the cap-ital of San Jose that theybelieve were awaiting illegalsale abroad.

Guatemalan adoptionsbegan as a humanitarian prac-tice for orphans of this coun-try’s brutal 1960-96 civil warbut mushroomed into an esti-mated $50-million-a-yearbusiness after the conflictended. U.S. parents usuallyspend about $20,000 to adopta Guatemalan baby, much ofwhich goes to facilitators andlawyers in Guatemala.

Nearly 3,000 Guatemalanchildren were adopted lastyear, up from 512 a decadeago, according to governmentfigures.

Guatemala struggleswith adoption

Security holds up school suppliesBAGHDAD, Iraq (Washington Post) —The smiling children swarmedthe theater at Al FarouqSecondary School and grabbedat the stacks of navy shoulderbags. A gift from the Americangovernment, the bags werestocked with goodies such asnotebooks, rulers, geometry sets,and a real treat — premium-quality No. 2 pencils, somethingthat had been hard to come byunder the previous regime.

It was a small but importantvictory for the U.S.-led occupa-tion.

“We are very happy today. Wenever used to have bags likethese,” said 11th-grader DhiaAqeel, who like other boys in theschoolyard was proudly wearinghis across his chest.

Delivery of the student kits isone of the more visible projectsin the Bush administration’sgrand plan for rebuilding Iraq.Unlike more long-term effortssuch as creating democraticcouncils, training nurses andrebuilding water systems, thebags being handed out to 1.5

million schoolchildren nation-wide are a tangible sign of howthe new government is makingpeople’s lives better.

Delivering these kinds ofbasic supplies was supposed tobe the easy part. But in a placewhere the airports are closed tocommercial traffic, ports areoperating at limited capacity,and roadside ambushes, hijack-ings, kidnappings and bombsare daily hazards, it’s become alogistical nightmare.

Route maps and deliveryplans must be reworked con-stantly on the news — or rumor— of the day, a reality that hasthrown both timetables andprice tags askew.

“People think the war is over.That’s not true. We’re still in atransition, and if things go a bitslower and cost a bit more forsecurity, that is how it has to be,”said Robert Gordon, who worksfor Creative AssociatesInternational Inc., theWashington-based companythat is overseeing the distribu-tion of school supplies on behalf

of the U.S. Agency forInternational Development.

The months-long journey ofthe student kits, chalkboardsand other education supplieshelps explain why the recon-struction is proving more diffi-cult than anticipated. It’s a storythat has taken the governmentthrough the forests of China,barges on the Persian Gulf, dustyroads in Kuwait, a secret ware-house in south Iraq — and anambush on the highway toTurkey that left one trucker inthe hospital.

It’s difficult to estimate howmuch all this has added to thebottom line for reconstruction.But the bill has more than dou-bled in more than a few cases,including the delivery of newcurrency and the importing ofcement.

That includes the premiumpaid for imported goods vs. localgoods; overtime, hazard pay andinsurance for truckers; extrastorage for items; and compen-sation for stolen or damagedgoods.

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"The bags are a nice thing, but they came very late," says Heba Talib, 19, right, a senior at Baghdad HighSchool for Girls.The months-long journey of student kits, chalkboards and other education supplies to Iraqischoolchildren helps explain why the reconstruction is proving more difficult than originally anticipated.

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thing, then the traditionalmusic of the British Isleswould always be closest to myheart,” Thompson said.

Thompson’s performancemoved chronologicallythrough English and Scottishballads about King Henry Vand abusive mothers tomedieval Italian dance music,which he introduced as “asong about having a good timefrom the country that gave uswife-swapping and racy films.”Popular work songs from theindustrial revolutions in bothEngland and America wereupbeat and filled with unionsand train whistles.

When it came to famedcountry singer Hank Williams,though, Thompson said, “I’llnever get the accent right, soI’ll sing it very English.”

Thompson said the musicindustry today threatens tohomogenize popular musicand silence the diverse influ-ences that have made musicalhistory so rich.

“When the fresh ideas comearound, the suits sign everyone of them just in case,” hesaid. “The wild (artists) disap-pear and we are shown theultra-clean marketable musicin a big corporate package.”

Thompson spoke about thechallenge of covering otherartists’ songs, saying he findsthe process rewarding but thatthe product is often shockinglydifferent from the original.

“Joni Mitchell always saidthat songs become your chil-dren, and when they are cov-ered it’s like you’ve lent themout. They’ve stayed aroundwith someone else and comeback smoking and drinking,”he said.

Part performer and part his-torian, Thompson gave back-ground information on manyof the songs he played. Hecalled the advent of rock ’n’roll a “giant creative cross-roads” in musical history.

Rock music blended a tradi-tional British sound with newcultural influences, includingthe blues, Thompson said.

“American culture would bepretty damn boring withoutthe African Americans,” hesaid. “They seemed to be theonly ones who knew how tohave an absolutely great timein America in the South.”

An audience of RISD facultyand staff and some students inHalloween costumes respond-ed enthusiastically toThompson’s performance,eliciting an encore featuringmore recent songs, includingone by The Beatles.

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Mantak uses table-slips toinform students of topics rang-ing from dating violence to sex-ual assault. Because people areunlikely to come to programson these topics, she said table-slips are “essential.”

“We’re targeting an audiencethat is sitting down and eating,”she said.

Unlike members of BEAN,who contend that table-slip-ping is a waste of campusresources, Mantak said table-slipping is, in fact, relativelyresource-efficient.

“A lot of people are exposedto one sheet at a time, whereasmore paper will be used if weresort to an alternative — mail-box stuffing,” she said.

Student group members saidalthough posters, e-mail blitzesand Daily Jolt postings are a fewalternatives to table-slipping,no other method is as effective.

Rasini said postering is diffi-cult because of the limitedspace on campus for studentgroups to “legally” place theirposters.

“For example,” she said, “Wecan poster inside the freshmendorms, but even then it’s onlyone or two posters maximum.”

Silverman said BEAN is work-ing on a list of alternatives thatcan be used to reach a compro-mise on the campaign’s goals incase the proposal is rejected.Alternatives such as an elec-tronic board in the Ratty andthe V-Dub where students canview the day’s events whilewaiting in line for their food ordouble-sided table-slips areviable options “in case table-slipping cannot be abolished,”she said.

The next step for BEAN, shesaid, is getting statistics for thecampaign and soliciting sup-port from students and studentgroups on campus. She said thegroup plans on forming a list ofreasons stipulating why stu-dents shouldn’t use table-slipsas a means of communication.

“Eliminating table-slippingwill benefit the student com-munity more than hurt it,” shesaid.

But Mantak said although“it’s great to look at the environ-mental impact of everything wedo,” it is equally important tounderstand the reality of the sit-uation.

“There is a reality that weneed to get the information outthere,” she said. “Table-slips arean easy way of doing that.”

Herald senior staff writerMonique Meneses ’05 can bereached at [email protected].


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UCS backing and benefitsbecause they failed to signinto the SAO.

“If they don’t respond, thenthey get deconstituted,” hesaid.

The Break Dancing Clubwas included on the list,which some Council mem-bers debated because thegroup is still active. Withinmoments, a representativefrom the group arrived fromthe club’s meeting in a nearbyroom in Faunce to vouch forthe group’s current activestate. The student said theclub had just filed its formsthat day.

Student Life Chair AriSavitzky ’06 gave a follow-upon the UCS-led tour of thecampus that aimed toacquaint architects from thefirm Venturi, Scott Brown andAssociates with campusspaces and needs. He said thetour sparked an importantdialogue that he hoped to seecontinue between UCS andthe architects.

Savitzky also said short-term efforts to create twosatellite athletic facilities aregaining momentum. “I was inthe V-Dub recently and I sawan associate director of ath-

letic facilities walking aroundwith a tape measure, sothings are beginning to hap-pen,” he said.

Several Council membersreported progress regardingtheir personal “pet projects.”Representative Schuyler vonOeyen ’05 worked successful-ly with Assistant ProvostBrian Casey to drop the $25charge to non-musiciansusing Steinert practice rooms.

Administrators had hopedto use the fee to purchasemusical instruments, butthey now know that studentsneed access to the building,Communication Chair TimBentley ’04 said.

Admissions and StudentServices Chair Sonia Gupta’06 announced that the Bear’sLair will now be open until 9p.m. on Fridays andSaturdays.

UCS took a few momentsto award certificates to Classof ’06 Representative MelbaHannah Melton and UCS’first-year representatives forcoordinating Halloweenevents.

The meeting’s agendaincluded time for communitymembers to take the floor,but none did.

Herald staff writer KristaHachey ’07 can be reached [email protected].


UCS

$4.50 an hour discrepancybetween his pay checks thatcaused him to join in the protests.

Local 34, a union of 3,000 cleri-cal and technical workers, andLocal 35, a union of 1,000 serviceand maintenance workers, repre-sented Yale laborers who sharedLopes’ anger.

These strikes marked the firsttime Yale used an outside nego-tiator to deal with the conflict.

Yale paid $400,000 to the well-respected labor negotiator,PaHen said. The negotiator pro-duced a potential contractfavored by 2,400 out of 2,800Local 34 members, he said.

Lopes said the university’soriginal promise of a new rela-tionship between laborers andthe administration was just theadministrators “blowing a lot ofsmoke,” because after the nego-tiator released his final proposal,he was removed from the negoti-ations and the proposal wasabandoned.

Arielle Levin Becker, a reporterfor the Yale Daily News, said thereasons for the negotiator’sremoval were unclear. She saidenraged union members claimYale fired him, but the negotiatorsays he left because he felt thesides would never agree on acompromise.

Next, Yale offered workers acontract that Lopes said was “amere pittance of what we felt weneeded to make gains.”

Lopes said the new proposalreinforced his view of the “veryelitist attitude on campus. Likewe’re just there to do our jobs anddon’t really matter.”

After the failure of the negotia-tor’s proposal, the first of the 2003strikes broke and lasted one week.

The strike ended with promis-es of continued negotiations.When the university refused toalter its original proposal, thelaborers planned a second strikefor the commencement of theschool year.

Freshman Helena Herring, a

member of the UndergradOrganizing Committee, said shereceived a letter from Yale threeweeks before the school yearstarted informing her of the esca-lating union-university conflict.Herring was welcomed to campuson the first day of freshman orien-tation by picket lines and demon-strations of civil disobedience,she said.

The labor unions were joinedby the support of Yale studentsand New Haven residents, saidUOC member senior AlekFelstiner.

As protests escalated, Felstinersaid involved students feltincreasingly isolated from theirpeers.

Yale sent the message that “thisis not something you should careabout. This is between us and thestaff we employ,” he said.

Many Yale professors wereforced to move their classes offcampus to avoid picketers.Herring’s English class was heldon the top floor of a local bar forthree weeks of the strike.

Yale administrators tried toplay the “waiting game,” PaHensaid, extending the conflict over20 months and 120 negotiatingsessions without making signifi-cant changes to its offer.

After the three weeks of strik-ing, Yale sent President RichardLevin to talk with union leadersfor the first time in a year and ahalf. Negotiators also broke downinto smaller groups and progresswas finally made, Lopes said.

The strike broke with theemergence of an acceptable con-tract. Lopes said it was the bestcontract Yale laborers have everhad.

Lopes said the strike “was thebest spent three weeks of my life,”despite the financial loss he suf-fered.

The panel was organized byBrown’s Student Labor Alliance.

Yale administrators did notrespond to the Alliance’s invita-tion to appear on the panel.

Herald senior staff writerDanielle Cerny ’06 can bereached at [email protected].


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28-30 and 26-30 before rallying towin the third 30-26. They droppedthe last game of the match 20-30.Highlund led the team with 37digs setting a school record fordigs in a match, while Kasten alsopitched in 26 digs. The Bears’offense was led by Gibbs, whoposted 16 kills. Kung notched ninekills and 21 digs playing out ofposition in the front court.

One of the problems the Bearsfaced over the weekend was thatKaralyn Kuchenbecker ’06, a con-sistent offensive leader, was outwith a back injury.

“It was definitely a change forthe reserve being out there andplaying all the way around. Wehad Elvina (Kung) hitting frontcourt, so that definitely causedconflict and confusion betweenpeople because we are so used toour routine,” Martin said. “It’shard to tap a new player and (haveher adjust to) all of the sudden hit-ting which hasn’t been there for awhile. I think we did a pretty goodjob pulling it together.”

As the season winds down theBears are faced with a losingrecord, and only a few matchesleft.

“As a team we’ve come togetherthese last couple games. We have areally young team as everybodykeeps saying; it’s hard for every-body to just mesh really quicklyand start winning,” Martin said.“There’s not much time left, so wecan’t bring back all those lossesand the teams that we have beat-en have been really good teams.

Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock’05 covers volleyball. She can bereached at [email protected].


Volleyball

when she was in the refugeecamps.

“It’s not right,” Som said,choking up.

She also said that when sheapproached her mother abouther situation, her motherresponded that there was noth-ing she could do, but that she“hopes that her children can beher voice against injustice.”

“We thought it was a refuge,but it really isn’t,” Som said.

Suong enrolled at Brown in1998, but is taking some timeoff to work at the CambodianSociety and PrYSM, a lobbyinggroup against the deportationof Cambodians and otherSoutheast Asians to their nativecountries.

Suon focused on how whenimmigrants are deported, theygo back to a “home” countrythey may not have visited inyears and cannot relate to.Tripathi also said manyPakistani immigrants who aredeported end up in jail inPakistan.

In response to a questionabout citizenship, Prerk saidfiling children as citizens canbe challenging. Many immi-grants do not understand thatonce they become citizenstheir children are eligible forcitizenship, but it is not auto-matically granted. If one oftheir children commits a crime,then their lack of citizenshipbecomes a real problem.

The final comment camefrom an audience member,who said the forum’s topic wasconnected to a larger “war ondissent,” comprised of issueslike abortion, anti-immigrant

legislation and the Patriot Act.The United States was usingthese measures to “reshape theworld,” he said.

Harold Lee ’06, who helpedorganize the panel, said hehoped it would raise awarenessabout the struggle of Asian-American immigrants.

Herald staff writer Elise Baran’07 can be reached [email protected].


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children are eligible

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Harvard taking five penalties, twoof which lead to a five-on-threeadvantage for Brown. After failingto score on their first two-manadvantage, the Bears opened thescoring halfway through the peri-od.

Michael Meech ’05 intercepteda Harvard pass and set up ChrisSwon ’05, who found an openingin the Harvard defense and thenroofed the puck over goalie DovGrumet-Morris’s shoulder.

Brown continued to mountpressure, and minutes later, afterHarvard received a penalty forhaving too many men on the ice,Noah Welch went to the penaltybox on a cross check and put histeam two men down. The Brownpower play set up shop in theHarvard zone and put Grumet-Morris to work, forcing him tomake several saves. With only 10seconds remaining in the firstpenalty, Cory Caouette ’06 burieda rebound off of a Ford shot fromthe point to bring the score to 2-0. By the end of the second peri-od, Brown led 19-11 in shots.

“I thought we had better scor-ing chances throughout thenight,” said Head Coach RogerGrillo. “We did an especially goodjob with the puck — we havegood balance this year with play-ers that can do exciting thingsoffensively.”

“All four lines were going,”Caouette said. “Our special teamswere working and everyone wascontributing.”

The Bears went 1-6 on thepower play and killed all fourHarvard power plays.

“Last year our power play wasbig for us, we scored a lot of goalsand many times it was the differ-ence,” Ford said. “Anytime youget a goal (on the power play) andanytime you can keep them off

the board (while shorthanded)it’s a bonus.”

A desperate Crimson turned itup in the third, but to no avail, asthey were met by a strong defen-sive effort. Most of the nine shotsregistered by Harvard in the thirdperiod came from the outsideand led to very few secondchances. The Bears were able tomaintain their physical intensityin the third period, frustrating thetalented Harvard squad.

“The thing that impressed methe most and shocked Harvardwas how hard and tough weplayed along the boards, or thedirty work, so to speak,” Grillosaid.

Everyone on the Brown sidewas more than satisfied with theoutcome and the effort. “We werefaster and quicker,” said BrentRobinson ’04, last year’s leadingscorer. “We got to lose pucks firstand hemmed them in their zone.Our shots (went) through, andthe defense played well back atthe point.”

And of course, there was goalieYann Danis ’04. In the 139 meet-ings between these two teamsover 105 years, Brown has onlyshut out Harvard three times, andDanis owns two of thoseshutouts. Danis made 20 saves onSaturday night, 13 fewer than hemade on average in games lastyear, and for his performanceearned ECAC goalie of the weekhonors, the eighth of his career.

“Yann is definitely the key,”Ford said. “We emphasize our endfirst, and we work from our goal-tender out. It helps having a guylike Yann back there. He’s the back-bone of the team. Having himback there puts a lot of confidencein us and lets us open it up.”

The game was the only ECACaction of the weekend, with allother teams playing non-leaguegames. Brown will travel up norththis weekend to face Dartmouthand Vermont. Though Grillo waspleased with the performance, henoted it was only one game.

“The guys understand that inorder to be consistently success-ful at this level, the highest levelof college hockey, that founda-tion of hard work and effort hasto be there every night. If not, youcan end up on the back end of aloss.”

With a full week of practice,the Bears will have plenty of timeto prepare for the preseasonECAC No. 3 Dartmouth.

“We’ll be doing a lot of specialteams work this week, that reallyhelped us out a lot againstHarvard,” Robinson said. “Wehaven’t beat Dartmouth atDartmouth for a while now, sothat’s what we’re shooting for thisFriday.”

Herald staff writer Ian Cropp ’05 isan assistant sports editor. He canbe reached at [email protected].

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M. hockey

West will surely give the Kingssome trouble, unlike in the past.

Last but certainly not least isSacramento’s nemesis, the L.A.Lakers, who are now essentiallyan all-star team with Gary Paytonand Karl Malone coming into theorganization after taking big-time paycuts. Though the num-bers they will put up for theLakers are important, the signifi-cance of their presence is quali-fied by experience, maturity andleadership. They’ll be able to putout the fires between Kobe andShaq and will be able to keep theLakers’ heads in the game. The

Glove and the Mailman are inL.A. for one reason and that is towin a championship - not toshow off to the media, not to startfights in practice, and certainlynot to prove themselves on thecourt as the best player on theteam.

It seems that all the teams inthe Western Conference haveimproved, some more drasticallythan others. However, while theother GMs were putting togetherthe pieces of championship-cal-iber teams, the Kings werescrambling to conserve what theyhad: a team that was second best.If they were sucessful in main-taing the status quo, they shouldconsider themselves lucky. Butwith star-studded lineups in LA,

Dallas and Minnesota, as well asmore experienced teams underbetter coaching in Houston andL.A. (Clippers), the Kings will findit difficult to remain number two.Granted, they still have Bibby,Webber, Peja and Christie, butwith a terrible performance inthe preseason and Webber on thebench until December with aknee injury and a pending sus-pension by the NBA,Sacramento’s season does notlook too bright. It seems theiropportunity to be Kings of theWest is now out the window.

Chris Song ’04 hails from Albany,N.Y., and is happy that the Kingsare at least better than theGolden State Warriors.


Song

of all, I’m only working with nineweeks worth of stats, which is asmall sample. These numberscould very well tell us nothing.Secondly, there is a crucial dis-tinction between football andbaseball that prevents “pointsscored” from being an accuratemeasure of success: In football,running the ball eats the clock. It

lets your defense rest, and givesthe opposing team less time tohave a chance to score. In base-ball, on the other hand, eachteam gets the same number ofouts by rule, and thus an equalamount of time to score runs. Soperhaps instead of using “pointsscored” as a criterion, we shouldbe using point differential, orsomething more sensitive to thetime factor. As it turns out, pass-ing still yields better returnsthan rushing, relative to pointdifferential instead of points

scored. So we have at least a little bit of

reason to doubt that hard-nosedfootball is back in style as a win-ning formula. I don’t claim to bemathematically rigorous here –there are probably statistics stu-dents slamming me like Pedro didZimmer. All I’m showing is that it’sneat to think about football in anew light.

Eric Perlmutter ’06 hails fromChappaqua, N.Y. He thinks it’sreally neat to play with numbers.


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Table slip-upOld growth forests, Bhopal, global warming and now … table-slips.Perhaps BEAN’s success in convincing the University to not accept a newpaper contract with Boise Cascade unless the company changed its log-ging policies has gone to the collective heads of Brown’s environmental-ists. Because only that could explain how a student group, coming offone popular and practical success, could throw away its credibility byattempting to do away with the only means most student (not to men-tion administrative) groups have of successfully publicizing events — orcauses — of their own.

True, there are serious downsides to table-slips — they use preciouspaper and cause extra labor for beleaguered BUDS workers. But althoughthe death of table-slipping would be an impressive victory for BEAN andthe trees, it would be a disaster for everyone else.

Should BEAN succeed, not only will IMPROVidence have poorlyattended shows, but dozens of student groups working to improve thelives of others or raise awareness of important issues at Brown andbeyond, will be left with a much softer voice.

Smooth recoveryAlthough this year’s Council got off to a shaky start with last month’sListserv debacle, UCS has made a quick recovery and is back on track. Trueto their promises, members have found ways to address small issues thatmatter to students and can improve the quality of life on campus.

Proving to students that UCS can do more than send e-mails, the well-organized “Annual Program,” distributed in mailboxes this week, detailsspecific plans for the Council’s future. These included both importantlong-term issues and the smaller things that will help improve student lifeon a day-to-day basis.

And as the Council showed in this week’s meeting, the wheels arealready in motion to make things happen.

Representative and Herald staffer Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 recentlyspearheaded an initiative to remove a $25 fee from Steinert practicerooms, enabling poor musicians to practice their piano, voice and otherinstrumental skills,

Thanks to UCS efforts, the Bear’s Lair will now be open until 9 p.m onweekends, making Brown’s less-than-ideal exercise situation a little bit bet-ter.

It’s good to see UCS members tackling areas where they can actuallymake an impact. Keep up the good work.

Column onequestriansmisinformed, sexist

To the Editor:

Re:“Women in Tight Pants (and horses),” Nov. 5. As much as the author has tried to convince

readers that his sexism and ignorance were a meansto attract reader attention (as he wrote in com-ments posted on The Herald Web site), I don’t seehow it is at all appropriate for you to mock andbelittle a varsity sport (that has ranked third in thenation in recent years) in the sports section. Saying“in equestrianism, looking bad and winning aremutually exclusive, which might explain thewomen in tight pants. Did I mention they ride hors-es?” You tell us, “I don’t know much about equestri-anism.” Well, if you don’t know the details and rulesof a sport, be a reporter, get out your notebook andactually interview a handful of girls on the team.Interview the coach. Why were there no attributedquotations from team members in his column?Probably because no real athlete would say some-thing sensationalist enough for his column on“equestrianism” (this repeated misuse of the termfurther exemplifies his lack of knowledge about thesport). While he may have gotten the attention ofhis readers who would ordinarily be “bored” by acolumn about equestrians, he alienated sportsreaders, women and athletes with his unresearchedcolumn. It’s not effective journalism to revert tosexism and then simply defend it as humor.

Chloe Thompson ‘04Julia Devanthery ‘04Amanda Burden ‘04

Kate Cushing ‘04Nov. 5

Brown student’sappearance on CNNdebate is good, buther question is dumbTo the Editor:

I think it’s a great thing that some Brown stu-dents took time out of their crazy exam schedulesto appear at CNN’s “America Rocks the Vote” (“Potand PCs: Presidential candidates debate,” Nov. 5).

As a large population of potential voters, weshould have our voices heard, but when our voices(namely the voice of a self-identified Brown first-year) ask the leading Democratic candidates forPresidential election, on live television, “PC orMacs?” we are reminded that not all of us take realdebate seriously. Please, exercise not only yourfreedom of speech, but also your freedom ofthought.

Ling Wong ‘06Nov. 4

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Debate over diversity of thought needs to continue

A party divided?

AS OF LAST WEEK THE COUNTDOWNtimer to presidential Election Day 2004 isnow under one year, or 366 days, accordingto House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt’sofficial campaign Web site. But the impor-tant number for the Gephardt campaign is74, which is the number of days from todayuntil the Iowa Caucus. The press has hypedthe Iowa Caucus into the do-or-die day forGephardt, who understandably skippedTuesday night’s “Rock the Vote” presiden-tial forum to campaign there, where pollssay he is in a statistical dead heat with for-mer Gov. Howard Dean. As such, it was theother eight Democratic candidates whostepped into the national spotlight onTuesday to try to gain the appeal of othercollege-aged students like you.

The candidates were in a sense trying toappeal to a younger demographic,although the CNN broadcast made it obvi-ously viewable to the whole country.Still, it is important to recognize thatmany of the candidates are espe-cially reliant on younger voters andtherefore may have altered theirstrategies somewhat. A Galluppoll released yesterday sug-gests retired Gen. Wesley K.Clark has the best rela-tionship with youngervoters aged 18-29, pollingat 17 percent, followedby Dean with 14 percent,Sen. Joseph Lieberman,D-Conn. with 13 per-cent; and Rev. AlSharpton with 12 per-cent. Two candidatespolling very highly national-ly, Gephardt and Sen. John

Kerry, D-Mass., only polled 6 percent and 5percent respectively within this demo-graphic. Gephardt could have clearly bene-fited had he shown up to the event, but onthe other hand he didn’t have a lot to losebecause he polls at 14 percent among vot-ers 30 and older, just 1 percent behindClark and 2 percent behind Dean in thatdemographic.

However, as I said before, although Rockthe Vote was geared toward young voters, itwas viewed widely around the country. Assuch, some of the observations made atthis event can be applied more generally.Although some of the questions were moretrivial, most inquires were relevant to cur-rent affairs and the campaigns. Deanfound himself mired in a debacle over hisrecent comment that he wanted to be thecandidate “for guys who fly Confederateflags on their pick up trucks,” drawing firefrom Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) himself a

Southerner, and Sharpton. Dean’s cur-rent position is very precariousbecause he is being attacked from theleft by Sharpton and Edwards and

then from the right by a conserva-tive Democrat, Sen. Zell Miller,(D-Ga.) who is backingPresident George W. Bush

because he believes Dean issaying this only to appeal tothe South when he in fact heis an out-of-touch elitistNortherner who can’t under-stand Southern values.

Dean may have lost somepolitical points on Tuesday

night because the Confederate flag com-ment only heightened suspicions that he isarrogant and unwilling to admit he waswrong on certain issues. Dean alreadyreversed his stance on the Cuba embargo,now favoring to keep the status quo ratherthan lift the embargo as others such asClark have proposed. Dean continues toenjoy his front-runner status, and there isno doubt his novel approach not only hasled to the largest campaign war chest ofany Democrat, but that he is in effectinducing a continuing dialogue over whatdirection the Democratic Party should go:Are they exclusively concerned with disen-franchised racial minorities, or do theywant to appeal to poor southern whiteseven if it risks alienating minorities? Dothey want to embrace an economically lib-eral platform epitomized by Dean,Gephardt and others that breaks with themoderate approaches of Lieberman, Clarkand former President Bill Clinton? Are theDemocrats in favor of rights for homosexu-als, and how far do those rights extend?

Questions about these issues were askedat Tuesday’s night’s debate, and even whenthey weren’t directly addressed, these big-ger themes percolated in the background.The Confederate flag debate representedthe first question in full light. When theissue of gay rights arose, Clark gave anespecially memorable reaction when hegave an anecdote about a friend of his thatwas against homosexual rights until Clarkasked him if he would still love his son if hewere gay, and if he would want that son tohave the same basic opportunities in life as

everyone else.At Rock the Vote and other recent

debates, the Democrats at times showedsome signs of unity and respect for oneanother and at other times showed divi-sion. Responding to a question, Sharptonreceived thanks from his fellow candidateswhen he said “Any Democrat on this stagewould do a better job than George Bush.”But some of the candidates’ attacks againstone another have led many observers,including one of my friends, to concludethat “the Democrats are killing themselveswith all of these divisive attacks, and theywill never be able to pick up the pieces andput up an effective campaign againstGeorge Bush and GOP mastermind KarlRove.” Intra-party divisions are inevitablewhenever there is contested nominationfight. The Democratic Party is more a coali-tion than a political party in some respectsright now, and the Republicans are gener-ally more united around a central message.

It is for this reason that I think whatDean has done to the party may be con-structive in the long run. Divisive momentsover policy issues may help the Democratswake up and fully explore their party’s pol-icy options and rediscover their ideologicalcore, especially considering that just 365days ago the GOP whipped the Democratsin the 2002 midterm elections because theDemocrats came off as “Bush-lite” on for-eign policy and other issues. Consideringmuch public foreboding about an uncer-tain economic and foreign policy future in2004 and beyond, the Democrats may justbenefit by exploring all of their options inthese debates so that they are better pre-pared for whatever climate the future elec-tion season brings them.

Although attacks abound at recent Democratic forums, candidates could benefit from substantive debate on policy issues

A STUDENT’S OP-ED PIECE, PUBLISHEDin The Herald the day after David Horowitz’sappearance at Brown, brought home to mehow little I know about much of the Browncurriculum. For several weeks, now, I havebeen brooding over one state-ment in particular: “Horowitzseemed to be unaware of awhole body of knowledge andliterature concerning post-colonial studies — a body of lit-erature on which many if not allof my classes in a wide varietyof disciplines here at Brown have beenbased.” The information this statementconveyed about the Brown curriculum star-tled me. What is a musicologist, or anyscholar with little or no connection to post-colonial studies, to make of it?

As I understand it, post-colonial studies isbased on a theory (or a group of related the-ories) — post-colonialism — about how cul-tural, economic, political and social relationshave developed and operate around theglobe. It is a theory that shapes the manner inwhich scholars select, contextualize andinterpret certain objects of study. The case fortreating the studies this theory generates aseither hard knowledge or a canonic literatureis not self-evident: Post-colonialism is nei-ther a scientifically provable hypothesis nor aguarantor of quality. What post-colonialism

does seem to be is an academic ideology —that is, one of many potentially clarifying, butalso debatable, frameworks in which schol-ars can define and analyze what has hap-pened in the past, or is happening now, in

humanly constructed worlds. Others have characterized

post-colonial theory moreharshly. One example is thehearing held last June by theSubcommittee on SelectEducation, a subcommittee ofthe U.S. House Committee on

Education and the Workforce. Entitled“International Programs in Higher Educationand Questions about Bias,” this hearing con-sidered whether to withhold federal fundsfrom university area studies centers thatmight be biased by post-colonial theory.Among the witnesses who testified wasStanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the HooverInstitution and contributing editor to theNational Review Online, who earned his doc-torate at Harvard and did post-doctoral workat the University of Chicago. Speaking forhimself, rather than for any institution, Kurtzcharacterized academic area studies basedon post-colonial theory as “politically one-sided programs” that “tend to purveyextreme and one-sided criticisms ofAmerican foreign policy.” Kurtz argued thatan increase in funds for the kinds of area-study programs currently supported underTitle VI of the Higher Education Act would“only stifle free debate”; and he called for thecreation of a supervisory board to oversee the

use of Title VI funds. Such a board might con-sist of the “Secretary of Education (Chair ex-officio); National Security Advisor (Vice-chair ex-officio); Secretary of State; Secretaryof Commerce; Director, NationalEndowment for the Humanities;Commander, National Defense University;and four additional presidential appointees,”or the designees of all such members. Kurtznoted that supervisory boards exist for manycomparable federal programs.

I don’t have the requisite knowledge toevaluate Kurtz’s remarks. Furthermore, I cansee a danger as well as a benefit in congres-sional hearings such as these. The danger, aserious one, is that subjecting any sort of uni-versity program to government regulationcan be a first step in the dismantling of aca-demic freedom. Yet such hearings also offeran arena in which to draw public attention toissues that might otherwise remain unexam-ined outside of university walls. On Oct. 29,for instance, as reported the next day in TheBoston Globe, a panel of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committeeconvened a hearing on “the lack of intellectu-al diversity in America’s colleges and univer-sities.” (Interestingly, the Senators at thishearing were all Republicans; the witnesses,Democrats). According to the Committeechair, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., the goal ofthis hearing was not to propose legislationbut simply to increase awareness of a possi-ble problem.

Likewise, my purpose here in citingStanley Kurtz’s testimony is simply to rein-

force awareness that more than one viewexists, among educated people, about post-colonial studies. Some at Brown may beinclined to dismiss Kurtz’s views as too far tothe right to be worthy of their attention.Before yielding to that temptation, however,we might do well to reflect that some peopledo take Kurtz’s views seriously. The U.S.House of Representatives, for example,whose constituencies are mostly non-aca-demic, is now considering legislation toimplement his proposal.

My own concern, however, is local ratherthan national: what role do post-colonialstudies play in the curriculum here at Brown?Whether one approves or disapproves of thetheory in such courses is beside the point. Ifpost-colonial studies are indeed based on aset of like-minded ideologies, then I am trou-bled by the information that “many if not allof the ... classes (taken by a last-semester sen-ior) in a wide variety of disciplines here atBrown have been based (on the literature ofpost-colonial studies).” Doesn’t this informa-tion support the charge, by figures such asHorowitz, of an ideological imbalance in ourcurriculum? I, for one, would welcome a dis-cussion of this question.

* Texts of all the witnesses’ testimony canbe found at http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/108th/sed/titlevi61903/wl61903.htm; Kurtz’s testimony can be found athttp://edworkforce.house.gov/hear-ings/108th/sed/titlevi61903/kurtz.htm.

Students should graduate knowing about more than one way to think about important societal questions

Rose Rosengard Subotnik is a professorof music at Brown.

ROSE ROSENGARDSUBOTNIK

GUEST COLUMNIST

Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 thinks more young people need to get politicallyinvolved, because the decisions made by our leaders will affect them the most.

schuylervon oeyen

the sky’sthe limit

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

NOVEMBER 6, 2003 · PAGE 12

I’M GOING TO START THIS COLUMN witha simple question: What would happen ifwe tried to apply sabermetrics to football?Maybe it’s obvious that I’m still trying tohold onto the baseball season, but that

aside, I have alwayswondered whenand how the statis-tical approach tobaseball would findits way to the othermajor sports. Itseems like a coolidea, an untappedfield of study. Thereare some big limita-tions on the effec-tiveness of “footballsabermetrics” andwhat it can tell us,but it deserves

exploration nonetheless. So, in the oft-spo-ken words of Tara Reid, “Let’s get it on!”

First, we need to establish the basics, andrebuild this from the ground up. In the“real” baseball sabermetrics, practically allanalysis is focused on the creation of runs.For those of you unfamiliar with baseball,runs win games. If your team scores moreruns in a given game, you win (I don’t havespace for a mathematical proof here – justtrust me). So it follows that when evaluatingstats, there should be a focus on the num-ber of runs a given action creates. Lots ofcrazy stuff can happen in a game, but in thelong haul, if a team scores more runs thanits opponents, it will win games. Everythingcomes down to runs; they are the currencyof victory.

So in football, the equivalent of runs cre-ated would be points scored. Never in NFLhistory has there been a game won by theteam with fewer points — this explains thereputation of the Cincinnati Bengals. It isimportant to point out, though, that theusefulness of sabermetrics in football isinherently limited by the fact that a teamplays only 16 games a season. This is a sta-tistical limitation — unlike in baseball,everything doesn’t “even out” over thecourse of a football season. Last year’sMiami Dolphins were fifth in the league inpoint differential, yet missed the playoffs.

But let’s keep going anyway. Let’s try toanswer this question: So far this year, is run-ning the ball actually more effective thanpassing? I can’t tell you how many times I’vebeen standing in line at the Ratty only tohear someone say to his friend, “Hey dude,you know the NFL? The running game isback!” Everyone from John Clayton to Josethe Card Swiper will tell you about how aneffective running game has been crucial,how teams are running the ball more andbetter and that old school, defensive foot-ball is back after a year on sabbatical.

Personally, I’m not so sure. I think thatpeople have “Jamal Lewis/Stephen DavisFever” and are over-generalizing. Fourquarterbacks are on pace to break 4000yards, just as four quarterbacks did lastyear. If the playoffs started today, four of thetop six quarterbacks would be in (as judgedby QB rating), compared to only two of thetop six rushing leaders.

Let’s see what the numbers say. Usingnumbers through week nine and some sta-tistical mumbo-jumbo you don’t need toworry about, I found there is actually a sub-stantially higher correlation between teampassing yardage and points scored thanrushing yardage and points scored.Translation: Running the ball doesn’t meanmore scoring, and consequently, it doesn’tmean more winning.

Now, there are a few catches here. First

The Sacramento Kings were always secondbest to the Lakers during their champi-onship run from 2000 to 2002. The rivalryis considered one of the best in NBA histo-ry, with a Western Conference series that

went to sevengames in 2002 anda bit of name-call-ing between theplayers as well,such as Shaq call-ing his opponents

the “Queens.” However, after a relativelyunsuccessful off-season, the Kings nowfind themselves even farther from the top.

Because of their depth, Sacramento hasalways fared well against all teams, espe-cially the Lakers. With Mike Bibby runningthe offense, the Kings go to Chris Webberfor the inside game and Peja Stojakovic forsome outside shooting. In addition, thebench consists of solid players such asKeon Clark and Hedo Turkoglu. On theother hand, since the Lakers only hadShaq and Kobe, Sacramento found them-selves beating the Lakers when the twostars were having a bad day for one reasonor another (Shaq’s big toe hurting due tohis weight, Kobe and Shaq pointing fingersat each other, etc.). The depth of the Kingsmade them a superior to teams likeMinnesota, who only had Kevin Garnett,and Denver, who had, well, nobody.

Gone are Turkoglu, Pollard and KeonClark, and with them the deep bench thatthe Kings have relied upon so heavily.Rather, they acquired Brad Miller andAnthony Peeler, two decent players whowill be expected to fill their shoes.Compared to what the other teams in theWest have done to improve their teams,the Kings have now become a team full ofmediocre players.

Meanwhile, the MinnesotaTimberwolves have transformed from anaverage team in the Western conference toa serious competitor to win it all. With aseries of seemingly brilliant moves by GMKevin McHale, superstar Kevin Garnettnow has the supporting cast he lacked inyears past. The T-Wolves acquired SamCassell, Latrell Sprewell and MichaelOlowakandi during the off-season, and indoing so, they’ve gained the firepowerneeded to top the Kings. If the three new-comers get along with KG and Wally, andadapt well to Coach Flip Saunders’ system,Minnesota will be in the top four in itsconference come next spring.

Members of the Dallas Mavericks, ateam that is very similar to Sacramento,with a talented starting cast and a deepbench, have created some breathing roombetween themselves and the Kings bytrading for Antawn Jamison and AntoineWalker. Add these two stars to a lineup thatalready included Michael Finely, SteveNash and Dirk Nowitski, and there are noholes to be found in this Dallas team,which can now get scoring and defensefrom anyone on the court. Like the Lakers,the Mavs will have to find a way to make allthese stars happy. If they can, the tradeswill have solidified the Mavs status evenmore as one of the best in the West.

Younger teams are becoming moreexperienced while the Kings are aging. InHouston, Jeff Van Gundy takes over ayoung talented squad with Steve Francis,Yao Ming and Cuttino Mobley. MikeDunleavy enters a similar situation in LA,taking over a talented, but misguided,Clippers squad. Denver drafted rookiephenom Carmelo Anthony and traded forthe underrated point guard Andre Miller.These three below-average teams in the

see PERLMUTTER, page 9

West catchingup with Kings

Sabermetricsand the NFL

see SONG, page 9

M. icers kick off season in stylewith victory over no. 9 Harvard

Strong individual efforts notenough, as volleyball drops two

dspics

Goalie Yann Danis ’04 recorded 27 saves in the victory over Harvard. His performanceearned him ECAC Goalie of the Week honors for the eighth time in his career.

CHRIS SONGSPORTS COLUMNIST

ERIC PERLMUTTERPERL MUTTERS

BY IAN CROPPThe men’s hockey team (1-0-0, 1-0-0ECAC) completed a hat trick of sorts lastSaturday. For the third consecutive year,Brown opened its season by beating No.9 Harvard (0-1-0, 0-1-0), this year by ascore of 2-0.

Last year, the Bears pulled off whatmany considered an upset by blankingthe then-nationally ranked Harvardteam 4-0 at Meehan Auditorium. Afterfinishing last season fourth in the ECACand being picked No. 4 in the preseasonECAC coaches’ poll and the Media Poll,Brown was no longer an underdog, buta contender. And the Bears did morethan contend — they dominated thepreseason ECAC as No.1 in Cambridge.

“I don’t think we tried to change any-thing from last year,” said Captain ScottFord ’04. “We just came in wanting towork hard and play hard on the road.”

Although the Bears have only prac-ticed for a few weeks this year, theycame out sharp and focused.

“From the drop of the puck through60 minutes, we played hard,” Ford said.“We beat them to loose pucks, playedphysical and out shot (Harvard) for thefirst time in as long as I can remember.”

In a scoreless first period, Brown heldthe advantage in shots, 9-8, as well asscoring opportunities. The second peri-od featured much more open play, with

see M. HOCKEY, page 9

BY KATHY BABCOCKBrown volleyball (3-14, 2-7) dropped twothis weekend to Ivy rivals UPenn (16-4,9-0) and Princeton (13-5, 6-2), losingboth games 3-1. The Bears played astrong match against Penn, but wereunable to pull out a win against the Ivyleader.

After staying with the Quakers formuch of the first game, Bruno faltered atthe end. The second game witnessed astrong effort by the Bears, an effort theywere able to sustain throughout asstrong defense propelled Brown to a 30-28 win.

“We had an amazing defensive gameagainst Penn. Everybody was doingeverything we were supposed to do,”said Leigh Martin ’06. “Our coach wasreally happy with how we played defen-sively, but we just couldn’t put our hitsaway, which is a huge part of the game.Penn just doesn’t make mistakes, ever. …That is where we lost it — we made moremistakes than they did.”

Penn went on to win the next twogames 26-30 and 22-30. Both gameswere closer than the score indicated.

Brown held its own for most of the con-test until Penn was able to take the leadfollowing some mistakes by the Bears.Lauren Gibbs ’06 notched 21 kills andfour digs. Also with 11 kills, VictoriaKasten ’07 recorded the first double-double of her career with 20 digs.Offensively, Martin was key with 56assists. Defensively, the Bears were led asusual by Kim Highlund ’04 who had anastonishing 35 digs, while Elvina Kung’05 was also essential with 25 digs.

The team fared similarly the next dayagainst Princeton falling again in fourmatches. However the play was not asgood.

“We went into the game really want-ing to win, but we just let them get a fewpoints on us and then we just lost it fromthere,” Martin said. “It’s very mental withus — they get a couple of points on usand … we just don’t have the momen-tum to get it back. When we’re underpressure, we just have trouble fightingback.”

Bruno dropped the first two games

see VOLLEYBALL, page 8

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