Tuesday, April 19, 2005

BY ARI ROCKLAND-MILLERSTAFF WRITER

Last week, the Undergraduate Council ofStudents endorsed a proposal to moveadministration of club sports from theStudent Activities Office to theDepartment of Athletics and PhysicalEducation, allowing for the allocation ofincreased funding to club teams to pro-vide them access to varsity athletic train-ers. However, club sports teams haveexpressed a mixed response to the pro-posal, reflecting the complicated nature ofthe issue at hand.

The resolution was drafted in responseto some club sports teams’ complaintsthat they had inadequate funding for andinsufficient access to athletic trainers. TheDepartment of Athletics and Physical

Education says it currently lacks the fundsto provide club players with access tothese trainers.

Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07, UCS studentactivities and clubs chair, spearheaded theproposal, awhich also supports the cre-ation of a club sports council — to beimplemented for the 2006-07 school year— which would address a lack of fundingand support granted to club sports atBrown, she said.

The proposal stipulates that club sportswill still be governed by students, but willalso receive the same benefits granted tovarsity sports.

While many teams — newly estab-lished ones, in particular — support theproposal, seeing the opportunity for bet-ter access to needed resources, other clubteams would prefer not to move under thejurisdiction of the athletics department.

Club sports teams currently receivefunding from the Undergraduate FinanceBoard through the SAO, but theUniversity does not pay for access to ath-letic trainers.

The SAO provides the men’s clublacrosse team with $90 in social funds persemester, but according to David Meisner’07, president of the club, this amount isnegligible given the team’s other financialneeds. Meisner said the SAO money isused to offset the cost of providing train-ers for the team, an expense theUniversity does not cover.

The University requires men’s clublacrosse to have a trainer present at allofficial games in case of athlete injury.Trainers must be hired at $75 per game. Inaddition, the team must pay up to $100 agame to hire a referee. This money comesstraight out of the lacrosse players’ pock-ets, Meisner said.

In addition to the cost, Meisner said theavailability of trainers limits the numberof games the team can host — Sunday’sgame, which the other team eventuallycancelled, was in doubt because the teamdid not know if the varsity trainer wouldbe able to make it, he said.

The scarcity of trainers at practices isalso a problem, as injuries are not limitedto competition. “There’s obviously no waywe’re going to have trainers at practices, soanything that happens there, we’ll have toshuttle them down to Health Services,”Meisner said.

Still, Meisner is fairly optimistic aboutthe future of Brown club sports. “It seemslike they’re making some progress. I’vebeen pleased with the things I’ve been

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Columbia,Yalegrad studentsstrike for rightto unionize

Wallace seescommon groundbetween Buddhistintrospection andWestern science

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETMETRO EDITOR

As the semester draws to a close, stu-dent drivers may have more to worry

about than paying overdueparking tickets. Averagegas prices in Rhode Island

have risen steadily since late February,breaking state records set in June 2004,according to numbers released thismonth by the State Energy Office.

A weekly RISEO survey found that theaverage price for regular unleaded gaso-line climbed from $2.10 to $2.16 for theweek ending April 4 — the last weekresults were posted. This price has risen

by 27 cents since Feb. 28.Limited supply and increasing

demand should continue to drive pricesup as the summer season progresses,according to Mike Snitzer, weatheriza-tion assistance program manager at theSEO.

These local figures are consistentwith national trends, according to theU.S. Department of Energy, which sub-mitted a report April 7 predicting anational average price of $2.28 betweenApril and November — 38 cents abovelast summer’s prices. The average

Increased demand, politicalinstability drive up record gas prices

BY BEN LEUBSDORFSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Graduate students at Yale and Columbiauniversities began a coordinated weeklongstrike Monday to protest their administra-

tions’ oppositionto the unionizationof teaching andresearch assistants.

“We at Columbia and Yale felt verystrongly that we wanted to send a messageto our respective university presidents, andto President Bush, that graduate teachersstill demand the right to unionize on theircampuses,” said Rachel Sulkes, aspokesperson for the Graduate Employeesand Students Organization at Yale.

The strikes come after a National LaborRelations Board ruling in July, in a casebrought by the Brown University adminis-tration, that Brown graduate students arenot University employees and do not havethe right to unionize.

GESO at Yale and Graduate StudentEmployees United at Columbia have urgedall graduate students who work as teachingor research assistants not to work thisweek, and all other graduate students notto attend class in support.

Student organizers were optimistic afterMonday’s protests, the first multi-campusstrike by Ivy League graduate studentteachers.

“I’m pretty excited. A lot of people cameout and it’s a beautiful day, and we had a lotof local politicians — Connecticut politi-cians — come out and support us. So it wasa pretty positive day,” Sulkes said.

Connecticut Attorney General RichardBlumenthal, Secretary of State SusanBysiewicz and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, allDemocrats, joined the striking students atYale Monday, according to a GESO pressrelease and Associated Press reports.

Sulkes said about half of Yale’s 700 teach-ing assistants were out Monday, and she

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Mixed support for UCS proposal totransfer club sports to Dept. of Athletics

Effort comes after NLRBruled against unionizationat Brown

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Alan Wallace, a scholar on Buddhism and former interpreter for the Dalai Lama, saidcontemplation and introspection have an important place in academia.

see GAS PRICES, page 3

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see CLUB SPORTS, page 4

BY ARI ROCKLAND-MILLERSTAFF WRITER

Alan Wallace, one of the preeminentWestern scholars of Tibetan Buddhism,stressed the importance of introspectionas a mode of academic inquiry in the firstannual Mary Interlandi ’05 Lecture onContemplative Studies on Monday night.

Wallace’s lecture, “Observing the Mind:A Buddhist Approach to ExploringConsciousness,” focused on the interfacebetween traditional Buddhist methods ofintrospection and conceptions of themind, and the modern Western scientificapproach to neuroscience and physics.

This unique interdisciplinary fusionreflects Wallace’s diverse background. Hespent 14 years training as a TibetanBuddhist monk, ordained by H.H. theDalai Lama, before studying physics atAmherst College and earning a doctoratein religious studies at Stanford.

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Club athletes like Kristen Sylvester ’08,here being checked by coach KerrissaHeffernan, face a greater risk when athletictrainers are not readily available.

BUDDY IN THE SYSTEMFormer Mayor Cianci wins anotherhearing on five-year sentence, butexperts say he’ll be doing his time

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BOLTON FOR AMERICANicholas Swisher ’08: John Bolton isuniversally hated — what could bemore appropriate for our U.N. rep?

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BY PHILLIP GARASTAFF WRITER

Though attorneys for formerProvidence Mayor Vincent“Buddy” Cianci say they areencouraged by a recentappeals court decision allow-ing reconsideration of his 2002sentence, legal experts say it isunlikely the sentence will actu-ally be reduced.

Cianci is currently 28months into a 64-monthprison term for his 2002 feder-al corruption conviction asso-ciated with Operation PlunderDome. On April 7, the 1st U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals inBoston granted Cianci and twoco-defendants new hearingsconcerning their sentences,based on the January SupremeCourt decision from U.S. v.Booker, which struck downmandatory consideration offederal sentencing guidelines.

The ruling deemed manda-tory use of these guidelinesunconstitutional because itcompelled judges to considerevidence not brought before ajury during the actual trial.

Before U.S. v. Booker, feder-al judges had the “discretion tosentence anywhere withinstatutory minimums and max-imums,” according to IndianaUniversity Professor of LawFrank Bowman, who has doneextensive work on the Bookerruling. This sometimes includ-ed mandatory sentenceincreases based on facts a jurydid not consider or that ajudge may not have wanted toapply.

In the Cianci case, U.S.District Judge Ernest Torres

added a mandatory additionalsentence of two years becausehe held “position of leader-ship” when the OperationPlunder Dome offenses werecommitted. Ultimately, theBoston appeals court grantedCianci re-sentencing becauseTorres “might well have given adifferent sentence” had he notbeen restricted by the manda-tory guidelines. This, however,does not suggest that a reviseddecision will be more lenientor harsh.

While Cianci’s lawyer, John“Terry” MacFayden III, toldthe Providence Journal that heand Cianci are “pleased andheartened” by the Bostonappeals court’s decision, thegeneral consensus is thatCianci’s sentence will notchange.

Bowman went on to add, “InBooker, the court says guide-lines are unconstitutional asapplied but are still set as advi-sory.” Similarly, according to arecent press release by the pros-ecutor on the case, U.S.Attorney Robert Clark Corrente,“the Cianci case is one of thou-sands across the country affect-ed by the Booker decision. Sowe would be cautious aboutreading too much into this re-sentencing order.”

Whether or not Cianci willget a new prison sentencedepends on whether Torres feltconstrained by the federal sen-tencing guidelines and howthe judge interprets the U.S. v.Booker ruling.

“Decisions hinge more on

Cianci gets new trialthanks to Booker ruling

Rising cost of education hasschools facing budget shortfall

Chafee ’75 meets with Brownneurotechnology researchers

BY AIDAN LEVYSTAFF WRITER

Thursday, a commission of statelegislators initiated efforts toaddress the state education bud-get’s anticipated $13.7 millionfunding gap for Providenceschools — a shortfall ProvidenceDistrict Superintendent MelodyJohnson called “more critical thanit’s ever been in the history of thestate.”

State officials have proposedseveral remedies — including theimposition of a statewide sales taxon clothing items above $150 —but currently negotiations aretenuous and hypothetical, as thecommission is in its infancy.

The commission was suggest-ed nine months ago as a budgetwatchdog group to oversee theeducation funding process anddefine the minimum funding thatwill be provided for each district.However, the commission’s 10members were only determinedtwo weeks ago.

A comprehensive report wasoriginally scheduled for October2005, but officials are not confi-dent that they can meet thatdeadline. Meanwhile, theProvidence School Board mustdraft a proposal for next year’sbudget by May 1 to present to theCity Council. Following evalua-tion and potential revision, coun-cil members will then submit thebudget to the Rhode IslandGeneral Assembly.

At the Thursday meeting, thecommission elected Rep. EdithAjello, who serves College Hill, tobe its House co-chair.

“I don’t think it’s reasonable toexpect that we’re going to have anyshort-term help for Providence’s

school budget,” Ajello said. “Wewill come up with long-termanswers, and I think the commis-sion’s work will educate the stategovernment, city governmentand the public about what needsto be done.”

The commission’s formationstagnated for nine months, par-tially due to a lack of interest,Ajello said.

“Someone gets a bright ideaand they think they should do it,but they just never get around toit,” said District 12 Rep. JuneGibbs, a member of the educationbudget adequacy commission.

“Every year we’ve had the samebudget deficit, but there’s alwaysbeen something that came alongto help us out, such as tobaccomoney or federal windfall,” Gibbssaid. “Suddenly we’re up against asituation where we have the sameshortfall but we don’t have any-thing to fill the gap.”

Rhode Island education pro-grams depend more on propertytaxes for funding than any otherstate except Hawaii. Many legisla-tors are calling for property taxrelief, but this may be infeasibledue to the current deficit, stateofficials said.

Unless further state funding isappropriated, the deficit will crip-ple essential programs, schoolboard officials said. If necessary,the board is prepared to file a law-suit against the Rhode IslandGeneral Assembly.

Funding for the arts and otherelectives, as well as money forbasic supplies, will face drasticcuts due to state budget revisionsmade by Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65,Ajello said. Several guidancecounselors and elementary

school teachers were laid off inMarch.

“Unlike the federal govern-ment, the state is required to bal-ance its budget every year. As aresult we have to make endsmeet,” said Jeff Neal, Carcieri’sspokesman. Neal cited increased

BY ANNE WOOTTONSTAFF WRITER

Sen. LincolnChafee ’75, R-R.I., met with ateam of interna-tionally recog-nized Universityr e s e a r c h e r sMonday morn-ing for a presen-tation on neurotechnology byJohn Donoghue, professor andchair of the Department ofNeuroscience and director of theUniversity’s Brain ScienceProgram.

Chafee secured $2 million overthe last two fiscal years for neu-rotechnological research at Brown.The University is now requestingan additional $5 million to contin-ue its research, with hopes ofestablishing a center for neu-rotechnology at Brown in the nearfuture.

Neurotechnology is an emerg-ing field dedicated to designingdevices that attach to the nervoussystem, often the surface of thebrain itself. These devices helprestore loss of function — particu-larly for people who have suffered

spinal cord injuries or have lost alimb — through remote control ofmachines by brain signals.

Future applications for neu-rotechnology include enablingamputees to control prostheticsand, eventually, enabling the para-lyzed to move their limbs.

Donoghue created the BrainScience Program at Brown in 1998and co-founded CyberkineticsNeurotechnology Systems Inc. in2002 in order to translateresearchers’ findings into clinicalapplications for humans.

In addition to the hundreds ofthousands of people with nervoussystem disorders who could bene-fit from neurotechnology, the mili-tary could also make use of futurecapabilities in robotics and so-called “brain machines.”

Cyberkinetics is currently exe-cuting an FDA-approved clinicaltrial of a neuromotor prosthesisknown as BrainGate. The deviceenables quadriplegics to carry outtasks like controlling a television,drawing with a mouse cursor on ascreen and turning lights on andoff — using only their brains.

So far, two patients have beenimplanted with the device, includ-

ing one patient named Matthew,who was paralyzed from the headdown by a knife wound to theneck.

Neurotechnology requires opencommunication between expertresearchers in neuroscience, neu-rosurgery, computer science,applied mathematics, engineeringand physics, which is part of whatmakes the work at Brown some ofthe most cutting-edge in the coun-try, according to Donaghue.

“That’s a usual feature of manyof the scientific interactions atBrown,” he said. “There’s this mix-ture, (a) sort of seamless, border-less mixture of disciplines. … It’sunusual for people like that towork together, and that’s one ofthe most powerful aspects of thisresearch and why we can do suchcomplicated things so well.”

Donaghue cited the remarkableprogress made in neurotechnolo-gy in the last decade as evidencethat it is a “success story for gov-ernment funding.” He has xrecent-ly made great strides with ArtoNurmikko, professor of engineer-ing, to miniaturize and internalize

monthly price should peak at$2.35 in May, according to thereport.

The transitional periodbetween spring and summertraditionally generates thehighest energy prices, due tocontinued demand for heatingcoupled with a seasonalincrease in gasoline consump-tion, according to KurtTeichert, resource efficiencymanager for FacilitiesManagement.

“There’s still some call forheating, and a lot of electricalgeneration in this region is stillbased on oil and natural gas,”Teichert said. “This is the timeof year when you’re going tosee that combination.”

In addition to risingdemand, political instability inthe Middle East has causedspeculation in crude oil mar-kets, driving energy costs everhigher, Teichert said.

Snitzer said constraints onU.S. oil refineries have alsocontributed to high prices, cit-ing as an example the March

24 refinery explosion in WestCity, Texas, that killed 14 peo-ple.

“Clearly, the refining capaci-ty in the country is down …and the country hasn’t had anew refinery built in manyyears,” he said.

In the past, rising prices thatresulted from “jittery markets”have traditionally been offsetby supply spikes or diminisheddemand, Teichert said. But ashigh demand continuesunabated and countries putfurther strain on their oilreserves, “more and more ana-lysts are just looking at a steadyincrease.”

The lack of response onbehalf of drivers to the recentprice increase is “perplexing,”Teichert said. “People are soused to pulling up to the pumpand paying whatever theypay,” he said, adding that thewillingness to shell out moreand more money on gasolinemay be viewed as a status sym-bol. “Maybe they think they’reimpressing people standingnext to the gas pump,” he saidjokingly.

But recent reports indicate aslight change in consumervehicle preferences, Teichert

said. Though consumers havefavored SUVs and pickuptrucks in recent years, Teichertsaid he has seen reports thatdemand for these “heaviestvehicles” may be on thedecline.

In the long run, consumersmay alter their behavior if highprice levels do not recede, hesaid. “We should see more of ademand response to (consis-tent increases),” Teichert said.“There’s just a lot of betterthings to spend money on thangasoline.”

Divya Kumaraiah ’07, whorecently brought her car toBrown, said she has noticedthat “these prices are definitelyhigher” than in Illinois, herhome state. But Rhode Islandprices “won’t impact my driv-ing as much because I don’ttravel long distances,” sheadded.

But Stephanie Breakstone’06 said she has noticed theincrease, adding she is “veryreluctant to put gas in my car.”

“It does impact my driving,”Breakstone said. “It kind of mademe think twice about whether Iwanted to drive to Foxboro ornot … especially because I’mbroke,” she laughed.

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expects that number to increaseover the course of the week. Shesaid about 450 classes wereaffected, and some were can-celed.

She said the Yale picket linewould continue through thisweek, and on Wednesday 10 bus-loads of students will go to NewYork City to join Columbia stu-dents for a labor march and rally.

Representatives from GSEU atColumbia did not respond tomultiple requests for comment.

The graduate students at Yaleand Columbia are seeking tounionize so they can bargain col-lectively with their respectiveuniversities. They argue thatwork done as teaching assistants,research assistants and proctorsqualifies them as employees ofthe university rather than as stu-dents.

But university officials remainopposed to recognizing the stu-dent unions.

“I don’t think it’s productive tospeculate right now, but(Columbia’s) position is veryclear: The university’s relation-ship with graduate students is aneducational and collaborativeone, rather than an employer-employee relationship, and this isthe view endorsed by the NLRBand its July 2004 ruling,” saidAlissa Kaplan Michaels, a seniorpublic affairs officer at Columbia.

“It’s (Yale’s) position that agraduate student union wouldnot be in the best interests of thestudents or higher education,and that is the opinion of otherprivate universities as well,” saidTom Conroy, a spokesman forYale. “The activities by GESO thisweek are not going to alter theuniversity’s viewpoint,” headded.

The Yale graduate students arebacked by UNITE HERE, a unionof textile, hotel, restaurant andindustrial employees with morethan 440,000 active members,according to its Web site. TheColumbia students are backed byUnited Auto Workers Local 2110,a union representing clericalworkers at Columbia as well as

other office workers in New York,with over 3,000 members,according to its Web site.

“We are fully behind the grad-uate employees at Columbia andYale, and behind all graduateemployees and all employeeswho want to form unions in theUnited States,” said Andy Levin,director of the “Voices@Work”program at the AFL-CIO. “It’s per-fectly legal for Columbia and Yaleand Brown … to recognize andwork with unions,” as many pub-lic universities, such as theUniversity of California, do, Levinsaid.

Chris Hu ’06, a leader of theStudent Labor Alliance at Brown,said the SLA is “in solidarity” withthe striking graduate students atYale and Columbia, but no spe-cific actions to support the strik-ers have been organized.

“Unfortunately, it’s because ofthe actions of the Brown admin-istration that it’s so difficult forgrad students to organize at pri-vate universities,” Hu added.

The NLRB, the federal authori-ty for labor-management dis-putes, had ruled for decades thatgraduate students who assistedwith teaching, testing andresearch at private schools werenot employees of the universitythey attended and thus did nothave the right to unionize.

This precedent was over-turned by a unanimous vote ofthe five-person NLRB in 2000,when it ruled that New YorkUniversity graduate students metthe National Labor RelationsAct’s requirements for being con-sidered employees and couldform a union.

Students at several private uni-versities began to organize,including at Brown. In November2001, the NLRB ruled that Browngraduate students could vote onwhether to unionize, and thatvote was held the next month.

The ballots were never count-ed, however, as the Universityimmediately filed an appeal withthe NLRB and the votes wereimpounded.

In July 2004 the NLRB, in a 3-2decision along party lines with aRepublican majority, overturnedits 2000 ruling and declared thatgraduate students did not havethe right to unionize. The majori-ty ruling declared, “It is clear to us

that graduate student assistants,including those at Brown, are pri-marily students and have a pri-marily educational, not econom-ic, relationship with their univer-sity.”

AFL-CIO President JohnSweeney condemned the deci-sion, saying in a statement, “TheBush board (has) overturnedprecedent and ignored over-whelming evidence of the trans-formation of colleges and univer-sities into large-scale employersof low-wage academic workers.”

But Brown Provost RobertZimmer praised the decision in awritten statement, saying, “TheNLRB correctly recognizes that agraduate student’s experience is amentoring relationship betweenfaculty and students, and is not amatter appropriate for collectivebargaining.”

Mark Nickel, director of theBrown News Service, said theUniversity had no official com-ment on the strikes at Columbiaand Yale.

According to Hu, the unioniza-tion movement among Browngraduate students has been dor-mant since the July ruling.

“As far as I know, since thatdecision, there hasn’t been muchof a movement among grad stu-dents,” he said. “As far as I know,they’re pretty much disorganizedright now.”

“I think it’s mostly because theUniversity used the delaying tac-tic” of the NLRB appeal, Hu said.“While the appeal was goingthrough over the course of two orthree years, the energy sort ofpetered out” of the movement,and it is “hard to get somethinggoing in this new, hostile envi-ronment,” he said.

Levin, from the AFL-CIO,noted “the transitory nature ofthe work force” as graduate stu-dents earn degrees and move on,and also the mental pressure ofcarrying on an organizing move-ment against such opposition.“The thing that’s amazing isn’tthat Brown grads gave up but thatothers carried on,” he said.

“We’re back to the future here.… The situation for all workersorganizing right now is like it wasin the 1920s and 30s here, whenyou had to go out and just organ-ize because the law is not on yourside,” Levin said.

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the neuromotor prosthesis muchlike a cardiac pacemaker, elimi-nating the need for wires or bulkyequipment. Michael Black, pro-fessor of computer science, iscollaborating with them toimprove the neural decodingdevice so it can create signals formore complex motor tasks, likegrasping.

Donaghue praised the NIH forsupporting the “slow, steadydevelopment of knowledge” thatleads to innovation in the field,but he emphasized the need forcontinued support for develop-ment of neuromotor devices likeMatthew’s and, particularly, sup-port for their application to thepublic.

“(Neurotechnology) is a set ofresearch that takes NIH/NSF-supported basic science findingsand translates them into some-thing that will have a huge

impact on persons with disabili-ties,” Donaghue said.

No comment on BoltonIn Washington, Chafee has

drawn attention recently forwhat many believe will be hisdetermining vote in the SenateForeign Relations Committeehearings on President George W.Bush’s nomination of JohnBolton as ambassador to theUnited Nations.

Democrats are hoping thatChafee will break with party linesand vote against Bolton’s confir-mation. The Associated Pressreported that Chafee has notcommented on his intentionsince last week, when he said heplanned to support Bolton eventhough “he would not be mychoice” for the job. The Senatecommittee is expected to votetoday.

While in Providence, Chafeewould not comment on how heintended to vote, focusing onneurotechnology rather thaninternational politics.

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strain on the state budget fromthis year’s $160 million shortfall.“Any time we grant increases inone area, we have to take it awayfrom other areas,” he said.

Carcieri has proposed a $37.1million increase in the state’s totalcontribution to local education.Of this increase, $15.7 million willdirectly aid local schools, while$3.9 million will go to public char-ter schools and $800,000 to strug-gling high schools and middleschools.

Carcieri has also approved a$1.2 million investment in tech-nology to measure school andstudent performance and a $20million increase in college schol-arship aid. The state is also invest-ing $250,000 in new science andtechnology teaching specialists,and the Department of Educationwill spend $400,000 to develop astatewide curriculum to ensurean equitable learning experiencefor all students, Carcieri said in aJanuary press conference.

But district officials say

Carcieri’s budget is not enoughfor Providence’s schools.

Budget constraints are exacer-bated by other mandatory contri-butions to the state retirementfund, raises for school personneland health care costs. Due to arising student population inProvidence, debts accumulatedfrom recent building projects arealso putting a damper on nextyear’s budget, according to MaryMcClure, Providence SchoolBoard president.

“I think the governor feels hespends enough on education, butI honestly don’t see how we cancut $14 million,” McClure said.“In the best-case scenario, it’sgoing to be very difficult.”

Johnson is hoping the GeneralAssembly will hear her pleas andincrease the “inadequate” fund-ing allotted to the district, shesaid.

Johnson plans to partially alle-viate the added burden by elimi-nating some transportation costs,but she said even that might beinsufficient.

“I’m out of options,” saidJohnson, who will leaveProvidence for Fort Worth, Texas,this summer. “We have taken

everything away from our schoolsand our students that we can pos-sibly take away. It takes $40 moreto educate a child of high needs orpoverty than it does the averagestudent, but Providence gets theaverage amount, and we don’thave the average population.”

With average school spendinggrowing approximately 7 percenteach year, which is three timesthe rate of inflation, towns cannotresort to past tactics to balancethe budget, said Peter Marino,director of policy for the busi-ness-backed Rhode Island PublicExpenditure Council.

RIPEC released its critique ofthe governor’s proposed 2006budget last week, calling forenhanced fiscal discipline. ForRIPEC, this translates tostatewide tax increases, creationof a Tax Analysis Office and a uni-fied Medicaid budget, amongother changes.

Marino advocates for “priori-tizing programs” and reducingpension benefits for stateemployees to absorb the blow, hetold The Herald. “The bottom lineis that growth (of expenses) isexceeding the rate of inflation,and that can’t be sustained.”

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hearing, but I’d like to see somereal action taken,” he said.

Head Athletic Trainer RussellFiore said the sports medicinedivision of the athletics depart-ment only has the resources to beresponsible for varsity sports. ForBrown’s 900 varsity athletes, thedepartment has eight full-timetrainers and six part-time trainerswith limited availability, whichFiore said is barely adequate.

“Now if you put club sportsinto the mix, there’s just no wayyou could do it,” Fiore said.

Fiore said the same problemplagues club sports at universi-ties throughout the country. Thelack of trainers puts players ofclub contact sports in acute phys-ical danger, he said. “Those clubsports players are athletes, andthey get hurt just as much as myvarsity kids, and I think they needcare,” he said.

For teams with other sourcesof funding from endowmentsand alums, the level of fundingfrom the SAO is irrelevant.

Jay Fluck, coach of the men’sclub rugby team, said thatalthough his team suffers from alack of reliable trainers, they dohave sufficient funding bothfrom Brown and from alumdonations. Alum donationsalone total $10,000-20,000 annu-ally, he said.

Men’s rugby is different fromother club sports at Brown, Flucksaid, in that the team was estab-lished 45 years ago, and is part ofa “highly organized league.”Therefore, men’s club rugby is notunlike a varsity sport in terms oforganization, he said.

Fluck expressed concernabout implications of Saxton-Frump’s proposal, saying, “Itwould seem to me that that’s notnecessarily a good use of theUniversity’s money.”

According to Fluck, there is agreat field shortage at Brown,and that only teams who provethey have great structure and abody of regulations should beeligible to be placed under theathletics department. “I justdon’t think it makes any senseto allow any team to spring up,”he said.

Over the course of the past fewseasons, numerous club athleteshave experienced serious

injuries, from a torn ACL to a bro-ken collarbone, without anytrainer on site to provide care orassistance, according to WillCunningham ’07, UCS appoint-ments chair.

“We’re in dire need (of train-ers),” Cunningham said.

Currently, club athletes canaccess varsity trainers, but onlybetween 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., andwith a referral from HealthServices. Saxton-Frump said hernew proposal will “cut out thisunnecessary middleman” thatacts as an impediment to injuredclub athletes. Under Saxton-Frump’s proposal, injured clubathletes would be able to accesstrainers without going throughHealth Services.

Chris Talbot ’06, who startedthe men’s club hockey team thisyear, said he is “very intrigued tosee how (Saxton-Frump’s) pro-posal goes.”

Talbot said the club hockeyteam has suffered this year from alack of funds and trainers, butthat it has benefited from havingresponsible players. Being trans-ferred to the athletics departmentwould be “certainly scary,” hesaid, but also the “ideal solution”for the men’s club hockey team.

Even with University approval,club sports athletes would haveto wait until the 2006-07 academ-ic year to see these changes takehold, because the UniversityResources Committee hasalready determined Brown’sbudget for 2005-06, said Ben Creo’07, UCS Campus Life Committeechair.

Fiore said he anticipates someproblems even if these changesare implemented. Treating anathlete is “a whole dynamic pro-gram,” he said.

For example, a good trainershould know who on a giventeam is allergic to bee stings, whohas had prior concussions or dis-locations and what type of equip-ment each player is wearing. Allof these factors are extremely rel-evant, as they influence the typeof emergency care that is provid-ed. If a lacrosse player suffers ahead injury, the trainer must pulloff his or her helmet quickly, butthe procedure for doing so is dif-ferent depending on the type ofhelmet.

Therefore, a trainer’s capabili-ties are severely limited if he orshe does not intimately know themedical history of every playeron a team, Fiore said.

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PAGE 4 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005

ARTS & CULTURETHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


BY JOEL ROZEN STAFF WRITER

If anything, “bobrauschen-bergamerica” — which openedlast Thursday at Leeds Theatrewith select performances ear-marked for next weekend — willbe received by the skepticsamong us as prime evidencethat, given a chance to traverseBrown’s main stage in even themost tacky, alienating and deriv-ative emblems of pseudo-pro-found, performative Rococo, theaverage Brown theater majorwill fall all over himself to get hisname on the playbill.

The title says it all. A rhapsodyon themes of Americana, theplay attempts to recreate onstage the “junk art” techniquesemployed by RobertRauschenberg, an artist whosegiant hodgepodges of silkscreenand mundane artifacts like tiresand bed frames became popularin the 1950s and 60s. A one-word, showily chic melding ofname and country, the title waschosen by playwright CharlesMee to signify the collapsingboundaries between artist andsubject.

What comes out of this idea isa nonlinear medley of theatricalvignettes, staged to demonstratethe notion that “there is art to befound in everything” and, lessformally, to prove that a playcan, in fact, still be interestingeven if it lacks any semblance ofa story. Of course, such inten-tions would be captivating ifthey weren’t so damned unorigi-nal. From the looks of things,one might assume Mee’s hack-job to be some product of the1960s, when performance artwas in vogue and GeorgeMaciunas was busy foundingFluxus.

Like his predecessors, Meeorganizes his play scene-by-scene, each depicting a diverseelement of the human experi-ence. A mother (Aja Nisenson’07) gazes lovingly at family por-traits projected upon a hangingtablecloth; a romantically con-fused woman (Farra Ungar ’06)launches into a diatribe aboutthe emotional differencesbetween men and womenthrough a mouthful of cake; ahomosexual (Colin Baker ’08)gasps and sobs for a ponderousfour and a half minutes over therandom murder of his partner(Kurt Roediger ’07).

Unlike his predecessors, how-ever, the playwright assembledthis hyperbolic nonsense just afew years ago — 30 years afterthe swinging avant-gardes had

mobilized toward somethingnew. By the time the ensemble ishauled out on stage for a baf-flingly awkward attempt at linedancing — “No one line dancesto the frickin’ Dixie Chicks!” apeeved spectator was overheardwhispering to her date — itbecomes painfully clear thatinstead of a nostalgic look at the1960s’ creative output, the playis really just a wannabe output ofthe 1960s.

In his program notes, DirectorStephen Buescher, a visiting pro-fessor from the Brown/TrinityRepertory consortium, cited the“dynamic pull between what isin the air and what is on theground” as one of the mainthemes he tried to bring to hisstaging. If this were to be taken ashis sole mission, Buescher mighthave crafted a production ofsome depth. “Bobrauschenberg”puts the Leeds stage to good usewith a collage of action, placedon several makeshift planesabove the ground.

Also to its credit, this bric-a-brac performance has profitedfrom a company of talent behindthe scenes. With costumes rang-ing from the shimmery to theabsurd — an impertinent chick-en, its tail feathers cut from atutu and comb from a red glove,is made visually interesting —Theatre, Speech and Dancedesigner Phillip Contic has onceagain proven his expertise. Thepartnership of the department’sset and lighting designers,Michael McGarty and Tim Hett,has yielded a few delightfullyimaginative results as well.

Aiding Buescher in his questfor theatrical bootlegging, theplay’s cast is disappointing —though this may not be entirelyits fault. Of the show’s veteranactors, many have shown subtle-ty onstage in past productions,and yet here, the director seemsto have made hammy scenerychewing a top priority inrehearsal. As Phil’s Girl and Philthe Trucker, Leta Hirschmann-Levy ’08 and Christian Luening’05 overact through a romanticscene that is sure to entertain —once the two actors start rekin-dling the same sly comic ironythey have brought to other roles.

Meanwhile, Alex Clifford ’06,devilishly funny in “Cannibal!The Musical,” is left to flounderas Pizza Delivery Boy, a tongue-in-cheek bit part with lines thatmight be darkly comic if he weredirected to play them as such.Having stabbed his sister “30times,” the character is nowlooking for the man who ordered

a pizza — “I don’t go aroundpicking up pizzas if nobodyordered one,” he says absurdly.The contrast between his sinis-ter past and current focus onfood is key to delivering the role.But as played, it feels like a jokewithout a punch line.

With all this working againstit, what will save the play fromits detractors? Here, an answermight be inferred from a mono-logue delivered by actorRoedinger halfway through thesecond act. Speaking out ofcharacter about its origins, herecalls that the play really cameabout in defense of artistic free-dom. After all, one could look ata work of art and declare, “That’sa piece of junk.” But despite hisplay’s impulsive, tossed togetherappearance, he observes thatspectators “don’t really hold itagainst the show.”

Though this is probably nomore than Mee’s weak attemptat shielding his own work fromthe criticism it deserves, itmight serve to buttress anotheragenda as well. For regardless ofits nonjudgmental take on art,the show will never admit torobbing the audience of its ownfreedom to judge.

Rambling “bobrauschenbergamerica”mirrors art which inspired it

Thursday, April 21 at 3 p.m.Professor of English Paula Vogel will read from and sign her new book,“The Long Christmas Ride Home”Brown Bookstore

Friday, April 22 (runs until May 8)Boston Cyber Arts FestivalIncluding the RISD Digital Media Thesis Show and Brown Electronic Computer Music Thesis ShowFor more information see www.bostoncyberarts.org

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Wallace called it “socially irre-sponsible” to isolate the aca-demic studies of science andreligion, which are often regard-ed as disparate disciplines.

Both deeply philosophicaland profoundly pragmatic,Wallace’s speech emphasizedthe fruitful implications ofstudying the contemplativemind, both from a third-personand from a critical first-personperspective.

The critical first-person per-spective is typically neglected byscience because the modern sci-entific paradigm reveresabsolute objectivity and imper-sonality, rendering the subjec-tive “taboo,” Wallace said. Thissubjective method wouldinclude critically examiningone’s own experience duringmeditation as a form of academ-ic study.

Wallace fervently argued thatthis type of subjective, intro-spective study of the contempla-tive mind is vital, when coupledwith the more traditional third-person mode of scientificresearch. Furthermore, Wallacesaid this type of contemplativestudy should be worked into theformal American higher educa-tion system.

He cited his personal hero —19th century American psycholo-gist and philosopher WilliamJames, who said that an educa-tion that improved the individ-ual’s ability to maintain sus-tained, voluntary attention wouldbe “the education par excellence.”

Wallace spoke about a ground-breaking study he is currentlyleading, which he said will “scien-tifically prove meditation’s fruit-ful effects” through assessingchanges in the brain functioningand behavior of subjects whomeditate intensively every dayfor an entire year. Wallace spokewith a high regard for this type ofempirical scientific study, butsimultaneously noted that thisstudy would only be proving afact that “Buddhist monks haveknown for 100 generationsalready.”

Audience members reactedvery positively to Wallace’s lec-ture, and most stayed throughout

the lengthy question and answersession.

“I really thought it was bril-liant, his idea that you shouldtrain your introspective skillsbefore you can study (the con-templative mind),” said JoshuaBocher ’08.

Pablo Gaston ’05 reacted simi-larly. “He raised some really inter-esting questions I had really neverthought about before, in terms ofusing introspection as a tool,” hesaid.

Interlandi, who died in 2003,showed a great passion for con-templative studies, and wanted tocreate a concentration in thefield. She studied Buddhism, fem-inist theory and eastern philoso-phy while at Brown, according tothe Office of the Chaplains andReligious Life’s Web site.

Professor of Religious StudiesHal Roth, who had Interlandi as astudent in RS 88: “Great MysticalTraditions of Asia,” said, “Whenthe funds came up, (Wallace) wasthe first person I thought of.” Thelecture, in addition to a two-daymeditative retreat led by Wallacelast weekend, was made possibleboth by the Interlandi family andby the Francis Wayland Collegiumfor Liberal Learning, with supportfrom the Chaplain’s Office.

Roth, who has spearheaded amovement to establish contem-plative studies as a concentrationafter Interlandi’s death, said hewould like to sponsor at least onesuch retreat and lecture in con-templative studies every year atBrown. Brown’s contemplativestudies program recently receiveda grant from the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies,which will help make this goalpossible.

Roth said he was moved byWallace’s lecture, particularly itsemphasis on incorporating con-templative studies into the settingof the prestigious American uni-versity.

“I liked the way he phrased thedangers we face as a global socie-ty, and the importance of inte-grating the third person and firstperson critical modes of study,”he said.

Wallace, for one, seemedequally excited by Roth and hismission to bring a contemplativestudies program to theUniversity. “I’m very impressedby what’s happening here atBrown,” he said.

what the judge’s perspective andattitude in these situations areregarding how to view post-Booker and what facts to take intoconsideration,” said DouglassBerman, law professor at TheOhio State University.

Berman went on to add thatnow, without the federal guide-lines, “sentencing determina-tions in federal cases are subjectto greater judicial discretion.There are factors relating to theoffense that came into consider-ation in the old sentencing thatare no longer mandatory underthe new conditions.” Neverthe-less, Berman went on to say that“the guidelines continue to befollowed in the majority of cases.”

According to David Zlotnick, alaw professor at Roger WilliamsUniversity who is familiar withthe Cianci case, “I’d be willing tobet a substantial amount ofmoney that he will get the same

sentence.” This is becauseTorres’ sentence still fits in themiddle of guideline range for athe corruption charge — 57 to 71months in prison — and Torresdenied both the defense’srequest for leniency as well asthe prosecution’s request for a10-year prison term.

“Oftentimes when the sen-tencing guidelines distort thecase, they sentence at the highand low ends of the case. Herethe sentence is in the middle,which means that the judgethinks the sentencing guidelinescapture the case pretty well,”Zlotnick added.

Additionally, Bowman pointedout that even before the Bookerruling, judges could part from theguidelines if they find mitigationsnot considered. Torres did not doso in the initial sentencing.

Zlotnick also describes Torresas “a mainstream judge (who)tries to apply the guidelinesfaithfully.” Ultimately, Zlotnicksuggested that Torres would like-ly not stray from his initial ruling.

In the end, Berman said thereis a certain absurdity and uncer-

tainty in the Booker ruling thatmakes it hard to predict judicialsentences. While getting rid ofthe guidelines does limit ajudge’s power in theory, “any-thing the judge wants to findappropriate, he can find a hookto include in the sentencing.”Berman added.

“Ironically, judges end uphaving more power,” he said.“The constitutional problemthey identify and the fix don’tseem to be in harmony. It is as ifthey are trying to make us asconfused as possible.”

According to Bowman, eventhough the Booker ruling “in theshort term expands federal judi-cial sentencing discretion,” thelong-term effects are “primarilydependent on what Congress isgoing to do.”

Congress is slated to review abill that will attempt to restrictthe increased judicial discretionthat has come as a result of theBooker ruling. According toZlotnick, it is highly unlikely thatthis bill will pass in its currentform, although new legislationmay emerge by this summer.


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BY MARY CURTIUSLOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON — The Senateis set to vote Tuesday on meas-ures that could open the doorto legalizing an estimated500,000 immigrant farm work-ers and their families.

It will be the first test ofstrength in years between sen-ators who support legalizedstatus for some of the estimat-ed 8 million to 10 millionundocumented workers in theUnited States and those whoadvocate reducing illegalimmigration by tighteningenforcement and border con-trols.

Each side said Tuesday’svotes also could signal howmuch support there is in theSenate for the sort of compre-hensive immigration reformPresident Bush has said hewants Congress to enact thissession.

Bush’s proposals have metstiff opposition from someRepublicans, particularly inthe House, who say they wouldamount to amnesty for themajority of the nation’s illegalwork force.

At the core of the Senatedebate, which openedMonday, is a provision spon-sored by Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, dubbed “AgJobs.” Itwould provide a two-stepprocess for illegal farm work-ers to apply for legal tempo-rary residency, and later, per-manent residency. Any perma-nent resident then could applyfor citizenship.

Under AgJobs, those whodid at least 100 hours of agri-cultural work in the 18 monthsbefore the legislation becamelaw could apply for temporaryresidency. If that status weregranted, workers who then putin another 360 days in agricul-ture over the next three to sixyears could gain permanentresidency. Their spouses andchildren also could apply forpermanent residency.

Craig is offering AgJobs asan amendment to an $80 bil-lion-plus emergency funding

bill designed mainly to pay formilitary operations in Iraq andAfghanistan.

Even if the Senate adoptsCraig’s plan, it would face anuncertain fate. House negotia-tors likely would try to kill themeasure in talks with theSenate over the emergencyfunding bill.

But the amendment’s advo-cates say that even if AgJobsdoes not become law, theSenate’s debate has focusedattention on the need toreform immigration laws.

“It’s put farm workers on thefront burner,” said MarcGrossman, spokesman for theUnited Farm Workers union.

AgJobs supporters say theamendment, co-sponsored bySen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., would address chroniclabor shortages in agricultureand improve living conditionsfor farm workers. Grossmansaid that as many as half of thenation’s estimated 500,000 ille-gal farm workers are inCalifornia, with the rest scat-tered across other farmingstates.

Critics say AgJobs wouldgrant amnesty to immigrantswho entered this country ille-gally, and would encouragethousands — even millions —to join them.

The measure is the result ofyears of negotiation betweenfarmers and farm workers.

The White House has notpublicly taken a position onCraig’s plan. But Bush hasadvocated a broader guestworker program that wouldallow millions of illegal immi-grants to temporarily legalizetheir status in the UnitedStates, but would offer no pathto citizenship.

AgJobs’ opponents onMonday offered an alternativethat would temporarily legal-ize some farm workers butwould give them no chance ofachieving permanent residen-cy.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.,said his proposal would solvefarmers’ labor problems with-

out “rewarding” illegal workers.“We do not put anybody on a

path to legal status,” Chamblisssaid. “We grant them tempo-rary status ... they will return totheir native land.”

The votes Tuesday are tolimit debate on the immigra-tion measures.

Supporters of Craig’s pro-posal expressed cautious opti-mism that they could securethe 60 votes needed to limitdebate and pave the way for theamendment to be added to theemergency funding bill.Opponents, however, said theybelieved they could maintain afilibuster against it.

Chambliss’ measure facesopposition from Democratsand some moderateRepublicans, meaning it facesan uphill battle overcoming afilibuster.

Craig, whose state of Idahohas a large farm economy, hasbeen pushing for a floor vote onhis measure for the last fewyears.

“While we have been tryingsince 9/11 to understand andreform our immigration laws,there has been a great deal oftalk, but very little done,” hesaid Monday.

Craig argues that his billwould improve nation’s securi-ty by encouraging illegal farmworkers to step forward, identi-fy themselves and undergobackground checks to achievetemporary residency.

In Monday’s debate, severalRepublican senators objectedboth to the substance of theproposal and to Craig’s insis-tence on attaching it to theemergency spending bill.

“The supplemental (bill) isnot really the appropriateplace to be debating immigra-tion,” said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., adding that AgJobs wasfundamentally flawed becauseit offered a chance at citizen-ship to those who have brokenthe law. “We do not believethat great opportunity shouldbe granted to someone on thebasis of their illegality,” Kylsaid.

Senate vote seeks to reframedebate on illegal workers

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WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


BY DEL QUENTIN WILBERTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — The burglarvisited every room of SaraScalenghe’s District of Colum-bia apartment, stealing anexpensive digital camera and agold necklace passed downfrom her grandmother. ButScalenghe did not beginseething until she confirmedher biggest fear: Her new iPodhad been swiped, too.

The digital music playerheld 50 favorite songs, rangingfrom Mozart to Italian rap. Thedevice also contained thoughtson a looming dissertation andrecorded conversations withfriends. For Scalenghe, her pri-vacy, as well as her home, wasinvaded.

“I know it sounds silly, but itchanged everything. I was real-ly upset,” said the 34-year-oldgraduate student. “I can’texplain it. But it hurt.”

Thefts of digital music play-ers are rising, police say. Andvictims said they felt thethieves got an illicit glimpse attheir musical tastes and eventheir “souls.”

Roughly the size of a cellphone, iPods and other MP3players allow users to createunique playlists of thousandsof songs that can be taken any-where. The devices typicallysell for $100 and up; the songsare an additional expense.

Some thieves also havetaken the home computers orlaptops on which the musicwas stored. In some cases,massive music libraries — builtby painstakingly convertingcompact disc collections intodigital format — have van-ished.

Earlier this month a manwas critically wounded whenhe was stabbed and robbed ofhis digital music player as hewalked near the National Zoo.

“IPods and MP3 players arebecoming a more desirableitem, unfortunately,” saidDetective David Swinson of theD.C. police. “Burglars are taking

things they can carry withthem, and iPods fall into thatcategory. They are not going totake something they don’t havea market for or they don’t thinkthey have a market for. Theyknow they can sell iPods andMP3 players.”

Swinson said informantshave told him “fences,” whotraffic in stolen property, areputting out the word that theyare in the market for the play-ers.

Swinson, a former punk rockpromoter who owns an iPod,said of his own device, “I don’tknow how I survived withoutone. I would be destroyed ifsomeone took it.”

Swinson helped Scalengheget back her player, which wasstolen in mid-January. A fewweeks later, he was reviewingreceipts of items sold to apawnshop when he cameacross it, court records show.

The detective, who declinedto comment on the case, calledScalenghe and asked her toname the songs she had on herplayer, she said.

The songs and a serial num-ber matched the device in thepawnshop. Within a few days,Scalenghe said, she got her$300 device back.

“When I got that phonecall, I said, ‘No way,’ ” saidScalenghe.

“I was so ecstatic,” she said.“It was such a special thing tome. It was a jewel.”

Police arrested a 43-year-oldDistrict man in the break-in,court records show.

Sean Bennett, 34, aUniversity of Colorado medicalstudent touring several EastCoast hospitals, lost his devicewhen a thief ransacked his carin January.

While he grabbed lunchnearby, someone smashed hisNissan Pathfinder’s rear win-dow and grabbed his guitar, aleather jacket and his new iPod,which had been given to himby his girlfriend and inscribed:“Sean Rocks! XOXO.”

iPod devoteesrocked by thefts

Man gets 8 1/3 years for firebombing SUVsBY DAVID ROSENZWEIGLOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — A graduatephysics student was sentencedMonday to eight years and fourmonths in prison for firebomb-ing sport utility vehicles at aHummer dealership last year toprotest the auto industry’s con-tribution to pollution.

William Jensen Cottrell, a 24-year-old doctoral candidate inphysics at the California Instituteof Technology, was sentencedafter being convicted on sevencounts of arson and one of con-spiracy.

Cottrell was also ordered topay $3.58 million by U.S. DistrictJudge R. Gary Klausner. Thedefense said it would appeal.

Cottrell, who testified thatSUV dealers were “evil,” wasspared an additional 30 yearsbehind bars when the juryacquitted him of the most seri-ous charge of using a destructivedevice during a crime of vio-lence.

Cottrell must serve a mini-mum of 85 percent of the sen-tence.

Two other suspects in the Aug.22, 2003 string of arsons andvandalism are fugitives. TylerJohnson, a Caltech graduate, andhis girlfriend, Michie Oe, havebeen named as unindicted co-conspirators. They are believedto have fled the country.

Beverly Reid O’Connell, thelead prosecutor, had sought asentence that would have sentCottrell to prison for 30 years tolife.

Cottrell, Johnson and Oe areblamed for causing nearly $5million in property damage dur-ing a nighttime escapade inwhich about 125 vehicles and abuilding were damaged ordestroyed at four auto dealer-ships in the Los Angeles area.

The case attracted wide atten-tion after the Earth LiberationFront, a loose association of mil-itant environmentalists, claimedresponsibility.

The defense contended thatJohnson and Oe duped Cottrellinto joining them on what wassupposed to be a foray to spray-paint environmental protest slo-gans on gas-guzzling SUVs.

Before the trial began, U.S.District Judge R. Gary Klausnerruled out testimony aboutAsperger’s syndrome, a form ofautism marked by an impairedability to understand social situ-ations. Cottrell claimed he suf-fered from the malady.

Asperger’s syndrome — a neu-rologically based developmentaldisorder named after theAustrian pediatrician who firstrecognized it in 1944 — impairs aperson’s ability to interact withothers, but often comes coupledwith powerful intellectual gifts.

Sufferers tend to not under-stand facial expressions, bodylanguage and other nonverbalcommunications, and thus takestatements literally, missingimplied meanings and subtexts.They often lack empathy, blurt-ing out truthful but unvarnishedstatements. Once set in a courseof action, they are slow toprocess new information thatsuggests they should changewhat they are doing.

Testifying in his own defense,Cottrell said he was “mad” andleft immediately after Johnsonthrew the first of at least sevenMolotov cocktails into SUVs.About 15 vehicles and a partsbuilding were set ablaze as thefire spread.

Federal prosecutors accusedCottrell of trying to “write him-self out of the script” by placingall of the blame on Johnson andOe. They said he had beenactively involved in planning andcarrying out the arsons.

Among the witnesses called bythe government were fellowCaltech graduate students. Onesaid Cottrell told him he wasconcerned about possibly havingbeen caught on a surveillancevideotape as he helped fill bot-tles with gasoline at a Pasadenaservice station. Another saidCottrell asked her to provide himwith a false alibi for the morningof the arsons.

“Uchie pitched fabulously.She really hit her spots and keptthe ball low. She also had greatvelocity, which the hitters wereunable to catch up with,” Jenkinssaid.

In the top of the first, afterPierre-Louis hit an infield single,Jenkins hit her second two-run

homer of the weekend, givingBruno an early two-run lead.Jenkins picked up her third RBIin the top of the third when shedrove in Fleitell on a fielder’schoice. Omokaro was sensation-al, giving up only two hits to theLions.

The trend of a tough loss fol-lowing a good win continued inthe back end of the doublehead-er, in which Bruno failed to scorein the first inning for the firsttime all weekend. Columbia gotthe scoring started with an

unearned run in the bottom ofthe second, but Brown answeredin the top of the third whenFleitell hit an RBI single thatdrove in Berkes.

The Lions broke the gameopen in the fourth inning, scor-ing three runs while Brownmade two costly errors. Brownscored one run in the top of thefifth inning, but it was notenough.

“Every team in the league isdefinitely beatable. It is nice toget the first wins of the season,

but we really would have liked asweep,” Omokaro said.

Berkes pitched well again,going six strong innings, givingup six hits and four runs, none ofwhich were earned. “Marissapitched really well for us — wejust weren’t able to make some ofthe plays behind her,” Jenkinssaid.

The Bears look to start a win-ning streak against FairfieldUniversity on Wednesday inFairfield, Conn., followed by morethan a week of home games.


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offer athletic scholarships at all —and other schools that offer fewerthan six gymnastics scholarshipsmust petition for a place at theevent. Brown petitioned for con-sideration for the first time thisyear, receiving berths for threegymnasts at Nationals.

Bruno’s top gymnast, AmberSmith ’06, was unable to competein the all-around competitionbecause she is recovering from aseason-ending elbow injury.

Cavett and Forziat’s perform-ances are a positive ending to anotherwise difficult season. Theteam, already small in size, strug-gled with injury after injury duringthe regular season. For now, thetumblers will enjoy a few weeks ofmuch-welcomed rest before com-mencing summer training for nextyear’s season.

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ond on a sacrifice fly, but it wasthe last time the Big Greengenerated any offense. Tewsdid not surrender a hit or walkfor the rest of the game,evening his record at 2-2.

“He’s a good guy to throwthat seven-inning game,” saidstarting pitcher ShaunMcNamara ’06, a Herald sportsstaff writer. “He works quick,he doesn’t walk guys, and he(keeps) his pitch count low.He’s just a great ballplayer.Whatever we ask of him, hegets the job done.”

“The second through sev-enth innings just breezed by,”Tews said. “There was neverany nervousness or doubt thatwe would lose.”

The Bears plated three moreruns in the final three innings,with Bobby Wiginton ’05 dou-bling in Jimmy Lowe ’05 in thefifth to give Tews a lead hewould not relinquish.

In game two, the runs camein bunches. Trailing 2-1 afterthree innings, the Bearsexploded for six runs in boththe fourth and fifth innings offof Faiola. Paul Christian ’06 ledthe attack with a two-run dou-ble in the fourth and a two-runhomer in the fifth.

“It didn’t seem to me that(Faiola) had his best stuff,”Wiginton said. “(But) wejumped on him early. Everyone

was aggressive at the plate.”Each starter had at least one

hit in the offensive onslaught.Danny Hughes ’06 led the waywith four, while Kutler hadthree hits and two runs andChristian had two hits and fourRBIs. Lowe added a three-runshot in the fifth.

“Everybody’s starting toswing the bats at the sametime,” Hughes said. “When theguys (at the bottom of theorder) are hitting over .300,that just shows you that you’vegot a good lineup. … It’s conta-gious (and) it’s tough on theother team when, even (when)you get out, you’re still ropingthe ball.”

Jeff Dietz ’08 pitched eightsolid innings, giving up eighthits and two earned runs whileimproving to 2-0 on the sea-son.

“(Dietz has) the perfectpitcher’s mentality in that heforgets very quickly and hedoesn’t let any outside factorsget to him,” Drabinski said.“Nothing bothers him, and hecan make adjustments on thego.”

The Bears carried Saturday’smomentum into Sunday andjumped to a 9-0 lead after thefirst four innings of the firstgame. The first four runs camewith two outs in the secondwhen Tews connected on a 3-2offering for his first careergrand slam.

“He’s playing awesome rightnow,” Hughes said. “It’s a hugeboost for us to have someoneto rely on as our number one

pitcher and then step (into thebatter’s box) and not miss astep.”

The Bears scored two morein the third frame and three inthe fourth. Batting cleanup inplace of an injured Larson,Christian hit a two-run homer,his team-leading eighth of theseason.

Cramphin gave up only onerun and two hits over fiveinnings despite walking fivebatters.

“I thought he had good stuff,but his command wasn’tthere,” Drabinski said. “In thethird, fourth and fifth when hehad his command, he justbreezed through. If he had hiscommand, he would havepitched a complete gameshutout.”

In the final game, the BigGreen grabbed an early 3-0lead, getting runs in each ofthe first three innings. With thebases loaded in the fifth, theBears got a gift. Tews hit a dou-ble-play ball to third, butDartmouth third basemanMarty Hebert made an errantthrow, allowing co-captainChris Contrino ’05 and DevinThomas ’07 to score.

The Bears took a 4-3 lead inthe eighth when Christiandoubled down the left field lineto score Wiginton. Two batterslater, Lowe laid down a suicidesqueeze with the bases loadedon a pitch above his head,pushing the score to 5-3.

Dartmouth came back inthe bottom of the inning to tieit. With the go-ahead run on

second and one out, co-cap-tain Chris Davidson ’05 camein to get a groundout and astrikeout to end the threat.

“Chris came (into) a toughspot,” Hughes said. “And hethrew awesome. That’s justwhat we needed from him.”

Davidson stifled theDartmouth bats from there onout, pitching the next threeinnings without giving up a hit.

“He pretty much knew thatif he threw well, it was only amatter of time before wescored,” Cramphin said. “Hejust stepped up like the cap-tain that he is.”

The Bears finally scored inthe 11th inning when Tewslegged out a potential inning-ending double play with thebases loaded. Co-captain JeffNichols ’05 came home withthe winning run, and Davidsonclosed out the Big Green in thebottom of the inning.

“It was a great feeling (towin all four),” Cramphin said.“A great bus ride back.”

The Bears will travel toIthaca, N.Y., Wednesday tomake up a doubleheader withCornell. If they sweep, they willhave the same record as divi-sion-leading Harvard, whomthey play four times this week-end at Aldrich Field. But theBears are only focusing ontheir next game.

“We’re not looking towardsHarvard yet, because if we loseat Cornell it doesn’t matter,”Drabinski said. “We know thatwe have to take care of busi-ness.”

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BY JON HEALEYLOS ANGELES TIMES

Congress is poised to pass a billratcheting up the penalties formovie and music bootlegging,handing Hollywood a long-sought victory in its drive toprosecute pirates.

But the Family Entertainmentand Copyright Act of 2005,which the House is expected toapprove Tuesday, includes a bit-ter pill for the studios: It wouldlegalize products that electroni-cally snip offensive scenes orwords from DVDs.

The measure — which Presi-dent Bush is expected to sign —would effectively terminate alawsuit that film directors andHollywood studios broughtagainst ClearPlay Inc., a compa-ny whose electronic filters letviewers skip over violent, sug-gestive or profane sections ofDVDs. A federal judge inColorado has yet to rule on thecase.

Sponsored by Sen. OrrinHatch, R-Utah, the bill wouldmake it a federal felony to recorda movie as it was being project-ed in a theater. It also would banoffering a movie on a file-shar-ing network such as Kazaabefore it goes on sale at videostores, or a song before it isreleased for sale.

The measure would set amaximum penalty of five yearsin federal prison and a $250,000fine for first offenders. The max-imum penalties would doublefor second or later offenses.

Anti-piracylegislation hasa bitter pill forstudios

SPORTS EXTRATHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


the varsity four won by 12 sec-onds, and the novice eight andfour dominated their competi-tors with 18- and 24-secondwins, respectively. The five-boatsweep was the first of the seasonfor the women and a trend thatthey hope will continue.

“We were successfulbecause we went in with confi-dence and relaxation and wedidn’t let them get to us,”Dearborn said.

The women commended thegutsy performances of theTerrier boats and were pleasedto come out on top. “The teamas a whole did really well.Everyone pulled themselvestogether after our last race andfought hard,” said rower KelleyWhittbold ’07.

Next weekend, the womencontinue Ivy League competi-tion, hosting Columbia andCornell on the Seekonk River.“We are always looking to moveforward. This race was a step inthe right direction, and we willcarry that energy with us,” Starrsaid.

“It was a real morale boost forus that we hope draw on for therest of the season,” Dearbornsaid.

The Seekonk River was linedwith fans ready to watch themen’s team’s first home race ofthe season against Northeasternon Saturday. The first-year boatstook to the water at 2 p.m., withthe first boat winning inBrown’s only victory of the dayby almost two seconds. Thejunior varsity boat lost in atough contest that highlightedNortheastern’s strength andendurance, and the varsity eightultimately came up short despitea strong display of power andmental toughness.

Plagued by illnesses that dis-rupted the previous week’s prac-tices, the varsity boat seemed tofuel itself on willpower anddetermination alone to keep therace close.

“We are a very evenly matchedcrew (against Northwestern). Offthe start, they got ahead, but 500meters into the race we took amove, which put us three seatsup on them. Then they movedback to about even with ushalfway,” said rower ArdenBeddoes ’05.

Northeastern has done well

against other top colleges, sothe Bears were prepared for theback-and-forth battle that tookplace over the course of the race.Ultimately, the Huskies man-aged to gut it out at the finishline, winning by two seconds.

“We knew it was going to bethe kind of race it was,” Beddoessaid. “We thought it would betight all the way down thecourse. Northeastern has hadsome more races than we have,but it was definitely a promisingrace for us.”

“The outcome of the race wasobviously disappointing, buthopefully some serious trainingover the next month will bringus up to speed,” said rower EvanPanich ’07.

With the crew’s next matchset for Saturday at Dartmouth,the Bears want to take advan-tage of the promise they saw intheir race against Northeastern.“We are pretty confident goinginto Dartmouth. They get on thewater late, so the learning curvefor them is really steep. We don’tknow what to expect, but it willbe great competition,” Panichsaid.

“Both crews are going in towin it, and so it should be agood race,” Beddoes said.

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BY BEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR

A late first-half run was toomuch for the women’s lacrosseteam, who dropped an 11-8decision to No. 14 Cornell inIthaca, N.Y., on Saturday. Thedefeat leaves the Bears — whoare currently in sixth place inthe Ivy League at 1-2 — with a 3-7 overall record.

Offensively, the Bears wereagain led by Amie Biros ’07, whocontinued her explosive scoringstreak with three goals and oneassist for the Bears. The reigningIvy League Offensive Player ofthe Week, Biros has put up 12points in the last three games.

Brown started the game witha 2-0 lead in the opening eightminutes thanks to goals by Birosand Sarah Passano ’05. The BigRed, however, controlled therest of the half, notching fourstraight goals. Biros stopped therally with her second score ofthe day, but the Big Red struckagain with four seconds left totake a 5-3 halftime lead.

The second half was back andforth, as Bruno and Cornelltraded goals three times to keepthe margin constant at 8-6 withjust under 20 minutes left toplay. Jen Redd ’07, Ashley

Holden ’06 and co-captain KateStaley ’06 provided the scoringfor Bruno during that time, whileBiros and Lindsey Glennon ’06recorded assists.

The Big Red, however, talliedtwo consecutive goals — includ-ing the third of what would befour goals for first-year KatherineSimmons — to take a 10-6 leadwith 9:25 remaining.

Half a minute later, Holdenadded her second goal of thegame, but Simmons respondedwith her final score. Birosrecorded her fifth point of theday at just under the five-minute mark, but neither teamwas able to break through therest of the day for the final 11-8margin.

In goal, co-captain JuliaSouthard ’05 picked up a game-high 10 ground balls and record-ed 12 saves. The Big Red outshotthe Bears 31-17, but Bruno wasmore adept at draw controls,winning 14 to Cornell’s six. TheBig Red offense, however, did abetter job maintaining ball pos-session, garnering 11 turnoverscompared to Brown’s 25.

The Bears will return toaction Wednesday with anotherIvy contest against No. 19 Yale at4 p.m. on Stevenson Field.

BY MATT NICHOLSONSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The men’s tennis team, now20-5 and ranked No. 38 nation-ally, traveled to New York thisweekend, picking up a 6-1 victo-ry over Cornell and a 5-2 victoryagainst Columbia to move to 4-0in its Ivy League season.

The Bears imposed their willagainst the Big Red, sweepingthe doubles competition andheading into the singles with thepoint.

In singles, co-captain AdilShamasdin ’05 handed a lop-sided 6-4, 6-1 defeat to juniorBrett McKeon at first singleswhile co-captain Nick Goldberg’05 similarly dominated sopho-more Nick Brunner 6-2, 6-1 atsecond singles. Eric Thomas ’07contributed a 7-5, 6-1 win atthird singles to clinch thematch. A 6-3, 4-6(8) win atfourth singles by Richard Moss’06 and a 7-5, 6-2 win at fifth byPhillip Charm ’06 were the icingon the cake.

The match against Columbiabegan with a rare 8-2 loss by the

duo of Shamasdin andGoldberg, but Charm and Mossanswered back at second dou-bles with an 8-4 victory. Thomasand Saurabh Kohli ’08 securedthe point with an 8-6 win atthird doubles, fighting off therally of Columbia’s fraternal duo,Jimmy and Martin Moore, whosurvived four match pointsbefore succumbing.

“The doubles play was defi-nitely a key factor — our secondand third teams played with alot of heart and showed a lot offight,” Shamasdin said.

“We knew that Columbia hadbeen very tough in their firstfour Ivy matches, winning justabout every third set that theyplayed, but we took that as apersonal challenge and … wedidn’t feel that they would beable to do that to us, because ofour confidence,” said HeadCoach Jay Harris.

The two wins leave Brown asthe only undefeated team in theIvies and puts it in excellentposition to win the IvyChampionship with three

matches remaining in the sea-son. “It is really tough … to godown to New York City and beatthe hottest team in the league 5-2 on their own courts,” Harrissaid. “Our guys just battled allweekend, and we are very proudabout the wins.”

Brown hosts Dartmouth onFriday at 2 p.m. in its last homegame of the season. ForShamasdin and Goldberg, thesewill be their final collegiatematches at home.

“At this point, all we worryabout is that we play Dartmouthon Friday and that we need toget better this week … becausethey will fight like crazy for awin,” Harris said. The Bears alsolook forward to their match atNo. 43 Harvard this Sunday, acontest that could determinethe Ivy League champion.

“Our goal is to go undefeatedin the Ivies, and whatever hap-pens in other matches … weonly have one thing in mind,and that is to destroy any teamthat is in our way towards thetitle,” Shamasdin said.

No. 14 Cornell rides first-halfrun to 11-8 victory over Bears

M. tennis continues to rollwith wins over N.Y. schools


The women’s rugby team won the consolation bracket this weekend atthe Beast of the East rugby tournament.

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Students who wish to vote in elections for theUndergraduate Council of Students and UndergraduateFinance Board face few choices on their ballots. But thatdoesn’t mean they should not log on to WebCT by 10 p.m.tonight to make their voices heard.

Last year, although runoff rules were followed for the firsttime in years, observers complained about the legitimacy ofthe outcome in the presidential race, leading to a longprocess of election reform.

This year, due to the scarcity of candidates, runoffs won’thappen. But UCS faces a potentially far more severe threatto its legitimacy if students don’t turn out to vote. UCSneeds a mandate to operate effectively. The Universityadministration will pay more attention to UCS proposals ifthe student body is behind its representatives. And themore votes cast, the less time UCS will have to spend nextyear promoting awareness of its actions and the more timeit will be able to devote to accomplishing tangible goals.

As we wrote last week, it is disappointing that next year,students who are not bothering to face the voters now willbe appointed to fill vacant UCS spots in internal elections.Those candidates who care enough to collect signatures,write position statements and talk to students across cam-pus should be commended. A vote for a candidate in anuncontested race is, if nothing else, a statement of supportfor those students who actually do want to make thisUniversity a better place and are willing to go through theelection process to do it.

We sometimes hear arguments that the best way toexpress displeasure with government is by not voting.However, those who complain that student government atBrown is ineffective will only further cripple the institutionshere by not supplying them with a mandate. If studentsdon’t vote, UCS representatives won’t feel an obligation toget to work.

All of this ignores the fact that there are interesting andcompetitive races for UCS president and UFB chair withcandidates who do present markedly different choices. Solog on, read their platforms and cast your ballots. Votingtakes a minute. A student government without a mandatelasts a whole year.

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To the editor:

In response to “Students want U. to reconsidersign language program cuts” (April 15), I would liketo add as a past student of the program that,American Sign Language at Brown has enriched mylife and my involvement in the global deaf commu-nity. One reason the University claims that the ASLprogram at Brown is being discontinued is thatunlike other languages, it cannot be used whenstudying abroad. I studied abroad in Seville, Spain,where I was self-conscious of my Spanish capabili-ties and looked for other ways to delve into the cul-ture and people of a foreign country. I found thatoutlet through LSE (Spanish Sign Language) class-es, where all my classmates were Spanish and myprofessor was deaf.

Another of the University’s arguments is that ASLis not relevant to undergraduate concentrations. Iam a Community Health concentrator. Using theskills I gained in ASL and knowledge of deaf culture,

I developed my final project in a public health classon the problems that people who are deaf facewhen accessing health care services. I conductedinterviews with members of the Deaf community,Dept. of Health, and the Commission on the Deafand Hard of Hearing.

Another reason the University puts forth for end-ing ASL classes is that the program needs to beexpanded and developed in order to not be “defi-cient.” Yet I was able to volunteer as a counselor andtranslator at a summer camp for children who weredeaf because of my experiences here with ASL

When the University labels the current ASL class-es as “deficient,” I take it as an insult to the beauti-ful experiences that I have had.

Jessica Zerillo ’05April 16

University’s rationale for cutting ASL fundingis unfounded and insulting

C O R R E C T I O N

In an April 15 article, “Students want U. to reconsider sign language program cuts,” The Heraldincorrectly said Jim Lipsky had not been informed that the University had been considering cuttingthe American Sign Language cuts. According to Lipsky, he had been warned by the director and asso-ciate director of the Center for Language Studies that the Academic Priorities Committee was consid-ering cutting the program. The APC made the decision to eliminate ASL through its own discussions,and no members of the Center for Language Studies department, including the directors, wereinvolved in the decisionmaking process.

Also, the first quote attributed to Lipsky should have read as follows: “One of the students who wasparticipating in the program heard about the program change when she was in the academic priori-ties committee meeting, (and) the student told her instructor and who then passed it on to me.”

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Challenging Simmons and the Rainbow Coalition

White supremacy has not gone away. It is a system ofinstitutionalized racism that suppresses the self-govern-ment of people of color.

It exists right here at Brown. In March 2002, PresidentRuth Simmons hired notorious ex-NYPD chief WilliamBratton to advise her on whether or not to arm the Brownpolice. Bratton instituted random friskings of pedestriansin New York communities of color, leading to the murderof Amadou Diallo, an innocent, unarmed West Africanman. After Diallo’s slaughter, many students of color oncampus were not so quick to trust Bratton, but apparent-ly Ruth Simmons was: She took his advice and armed theBrown police.

Simmons made a further mockery of the idea of “pub-lic safety” when she let the perpetrators of a hate crimeagainst two queer students of color on campus off thehook. As often happens at Brown, where there is no con-sistent hate crime protocol, the Simmons administrationswept the incident under the rug because one perpetra-tor’s father was a prominent politician.

Perhaps to smooth over tension around these events,Simmons recently hired Mark Porter to preside overBrown’s arming process. The Herald identifies Porter as agood choice by suggesting that his African-American her-itage will appease minorities on campus and give “credi-bility” to arming the police (“Porter will be the first blackchief in RI,” March 22).

This year, Anti-Racist Action has attempted to linkstruggles against such racism in the United States to inter-national struggles against white supremacy as an empire.We are pressuring the Simmons administration to with-draw any investments it may have in the colonial settlerstate of Israel. In a highly undemocratic response,Simmons refuses to even disclose Brown’s investments.

Meanwhile, students tell us not to worry about suchthings because Condoleezza Rice is taking care of theproblem through the much-vaunted “peace process.”Closer observation shows, however, that Rice presidesover the diplomatic wing of the U.S. empire, and thissham “peace process” serves to pacify Palestinian self-defense while the Israeli military continues to murder

civilians. Here we see Simmons, Porter and Rice all deeply impli-

cated in the system of white supremacy. And yet thereseems to be confusion on this campus, where some haveidentified these very leaders as “anti-racists.” Simmons,Porter and Rice are all black, right? Isn’t the presence ofblack people in the bureaucracy “progressive?”

ARA refuses to wallow in this confusion. We assert thata racist bureaucracy is still racist even if it is lead by peo-ple of color. We find ourselves living in the era of what we

call the Rainbow Coalition, a form of white supremacyrun by a “progressive” ruling class including people ofcolor. After the national liberation era, the “white man”cannot govern by his own cultural justifications alone;white supremacy can only survive with a veneer of phonymulticulturalism and “diversity” from above. When DPSracially profiled two Brown students on the Main Greenwhile looking out for “vandals” from Hope High School,many antiracists on campus mobilized against the arm-ing process. Simmons, a master of public relations, paci-fied them by showing up at an organizing meeting to con-vince students of color that she “understood” their frus-

tration because of her own identity. After this show ofsympathy, she proceeded to arm DPS anyway.

Now her politically correct supporters on this campustell ARA that we should not fight Simmons because she isa black woman and she is doing the best she can. This iswhy while white men like Harvard president LawrenceSummers actually come under fire when they supportracist policies, the ruling class can rest assured that atBrown, Simmons will keep some students of color satis-fied and can expect the support of a fan club of white lib-erals who, regardless of what she does, will defend her astheir only black friend.

The Rainbow Coalition was created at the expense ofheroic anti-racist struggles. Our forebears made manygains, but now their histories are being appropriated andco-opted as the cultural justifications for the existence ofour new rulers. The strength of these justifications placesSimmons, Rice and Porter as the vanguard of institution-alized racism in our day.

In response, we are striving for the rise of new anti-racist movements. In this, movements for the autonomyof people of color and a genuine multiracialism are thesame struggle. Whether we organize in people-of-coloronly communities or whether we organize in multiracialgroups, it is time to take on the Rainbow Coalition. Thetime has come for a new assault on white supremacy andempire, to organize in response to how history has movedand how our overseers’ methods have changed, to sweepaside all aspiring rulers, regardless of their color, toembrace all sincere and committed people in a non-sec-tarian, but uncompromising path to self-government.

Anti-Racist Action has made some humble steps in thisdirection this year, standing up to Simmons and callingfor divestment from apartheid in Israel. Please join us inthe continuation of this struggle at a rally Wednesday, 1p.m. at University Hall, where we will hold the Simmonsadministration accountable for its support for whitesupremacy.

Dara Bayer ’08 and Yesenia Barragan ’08 are members ofARA.

Five reasons why Bolton should represent America

GUEST COLUMN BY DARA BAYER AND YESENIA BARRAGAN

NICHOLAS SWISHER

The ruling class can restassured that at Brown,

Simmons will keep somestudents of color satisfied

and can expect the support ofa fan club of white liberals

who, regardless of what shedoes, will defend her as their

only black friend.

Congressional Republicans are having a difficult timedefending President Bush’s choice of John Bolton asUnited Nations Ambassador. Democrats are letting loosea barrage of criticisms against the former arms-controlofficer, turning his confirmation hearings into a politicalcircus. Bolton has been called a “quintessential kiss-up,kick-down sort of guy” who “abuses his authority with lit-tle people;” Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., referred tohim as a “bully” in need of “anger management.” I’m hereto give Republicans facing these callous attacks five rea-sons that John Bolton should represent the United Statesin the United Nations I trust that these five reasons alonewill easily win over any Bolton-doubters in Congress.

Number One: He has a mustache. The Washington Postrecently ran an article that rebuked Mr. Bolton’s personalgrooming: “Tidy the curling, unruly locks at the nape ofhis neck, tame the volume at the crown, reel in the wingsflapping above his ears, and broker a compromisebetween his sand-colored mop and his snow-coloredmustache.” But I don’t want my ambassador to look like adandified fop. Bolton doesn’t comb his hair or trim his’stache for anyone. Perhaps one day his mustache willjoin the ranks of famous American mustachioed politicossuch as Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland and HowardTaft.

Number Two: Bolton is undiplomatic. Just look at theman’s style. Says Richard Perle, a former Pentagon advis-er who has worked with Bolton at the AmericanEnterprise Institute: “He is very tough-minded and is notromantic about trusting promises, particularly promisesof regimes that have a history of saying whatever theyneed to say to accomplish their purposes.” He grufflyadvocates hard-line foreign policy and has repeatedlyspoken of single-handedly overthrowing the NorthKorean regime. Bolton is like Rambo, except less tactful —exactly we need for a U.N. diplomat.

Number Three: He has no respect for the United

Nations Congressional Democrats are making a greatdeal over Bolton’s 1994 comments pertaining to theUnited Nations — like how he once said of the U.N. head-quarters, “If (it) lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit ofdifference.” He said of the Security Council, “If I wereredoing the Security Council, I’d have one permanentmember: the United States.” It certainly sounds like hehas no respect for the United Nations. Perfect! The UnitedStates hasn’t given a damn about the United Nations forthe past two decades, so why should we start now?

Appointing a considerate ambassador with a deeprespect for the United Nations would be completely un-American.

Number Four: His name is “Bolton.” For all I know,John Bolton could be Michael Bolton’s comparativelycaustic older brother. Appointing Mr. Bolton to theUnited Nations brings to mind the messianic image ofMichael Bolton standing upon a craggy plateau beltingout the United States’ song to Turkmenistan and

Myanmar. Michael Bolton and John Bolton should bepermanent fixtures on the list with grandmas, apple pieand baseball.

Number Five: He’s universally hated. What’s moreAmerican than being hated by everyone else in the world?According to The New Republic, North Korea has calledBolton “rude,” “human scum,” “an animal running aboutrecklessly” and “an ugly fellow who cannot be regarded asa human being.” Kim Jong Il is certainly a good judge ofcharacter. An aggressive, dislikeable, uncouth ruffian?That sounds exactly like the sort of man who would rein-force the United States’ image in the world!

So there you have it — the five indisputable reasonsJohn Bolton should be confirmed as U.S. ambassador tothe United Nations.

Senate Democrats can huff and puff but it seemsthey’ll fail to blow John Bolton’s house down. Why? Theircriticisms of Bolton are identical to Republicans’ praise.Democrats contend that Bolton is bullheaded and ideo-logically-driven; Republicans agree and say that’s exactlywhat the United Nations needs. With these kinds of argu-ments, there’s no way the Democrats can win.

The Democrats could have used Bolton’s nominationas a chance to reconsider the United States’ position inthe United Nations, burst a hole in the Republicans’ uni-fied front, and regain respect for multilateral foreign pol-icy. Instead, it’s turned into a narrow discussion aboutsome insulting comments Bolton made in 1994.Regrettably, Congressional Democrats squandered yetanother opportunity and turned Bolton’s confirmationinto a pointless spectacle.

If Senate Democrats cannot convince the Americanpublic that we deserve otherwise, Bolton should be con-firmed as ambassador. He has all the qualifications —come on, he does sport a great mustache.

Nicholas Swisher ’08 listens to Michael Bolton.

The United States hasn’tgiven a damn about the

United Nations for the pasttwo decades, so why should

we start now? Appointing anambassador with a deep

respect for the U.N. would becompletely un-American.

BY JUSTIN GOLDMANSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The softball team picked up itsfirst two league wins of the sea-son over the weekend againstCornell and Columbia toimprove its record to 2-6 inleague play and 8-13 overall. Thewins this weekend showcasedgreat pitching from the Bears’senior co-captain UchennaOmokaro ’05. The Bears also dis-played an offensive burst result-ing in nine runs in their firstgame against Cornell.

In the first contest of theweekend, Brown explodedoffensively, getting 11 hitsagainst Big Red pitching. Thetone was set early when RachelFleitell ’06 led the game off witha single and was driven in on adouble by Jaimie Wirkowski ’06.With Wirkowski on second,Courtney Jenkins ’07 came to theplate and promptly launched atwo-run home run over the left-field fence to give Brown a three-run lead. “I knew the Cornellpitcher well because I faced herlast year. I was thinking linedrive, not home run, but then itwent over the fence,” Jenkinssaid.

In the top of the third inning,Wirkowski made her presencefelt again, hitting a solo homerto center to push the lead to 4-0.The Bears were able to tack onone more run in the bottom ofthe inning to give themselves a5-0 lead. The five runs weremore than enough for Omokaro,who had a stellar game on themound, pitching a completegame while striking out two,only giving up one hit and noearned runs. The 9-1 victoryimproves her record to 5-5 over-all for the season.

Offensively, Wirkowski was astandout, going 3-for-4 whiledriving in two for the Bears. Theoutburst offensively is a greatsign for Brown as the Ivy Leagueseason continues. “We werementally prepared to hit. Theyare a good hitting team, too, andwe were just excited to play

another good hitting team,”Omokaro said.

Jenkins added, “We are allgood hitters. Rachel started offvery well for us, and once oneperson starts hitting well, it hasa domino effect on the team.”

The luck for Bruno did notcarry over into the secondgame, as the Big Red took a 3-2victory. Brown had anothersolid game offensively, getting10 hits in the contest, but aftertacking on two runs in the firstinning, the Bears were shut outthe rest of the game whilestranding eight runners.

“We need to give ourselvesmore of an opportunity toscore and just keep fighting,”Omokaro said.

In the top of the first inning,Fleitell got things started with adouble down the right-field line.A bunt single by LaQuishaPierre-Louis ’08 moved Fleitellto third. After a line out and astrike out, Bruno executed anexcellent double steal in whichPierre-Louis stole second whileFleitell was able to steal homeas Brown caught the Big Rednapping.

The next batter, Amy Baxter’08, hit a single down the right-field line to bring in Pierre-Louis. Unfortunately, thosewould be the only runs Brunowould get the entire game, asthey were unable to put pres-sure on the Big Red and unableto get the big hit to break thegame open.

With the score tied at two inthe bottom of the sixth, Cornellput its first runner, Ashley Wolf,on base on an infield single, andshe advanced to third on twopassed balls. She was driven inon a sacrifice fly by SarahRuben, which proved to be thewinning run.

Marissa Berkes ’05 pitchedwell for Bruno in the loss. Shepitched six innings, giving upseven hits and only two earnedruns while striking out two.

On Sunday, Bruno traveled toNew York City to face Columbia.The first game had a familiartrend, as Brown was able toscore early. The early offensewas all Omokaro would need asshe pitched her second straightshutout.

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

APRIL 19, 2005 · PAGE 12

BY MADELEINE MARECKISPORTS STAFF WRITER

Two of Brown’s leading gymnastscompleted their seasonsThursday as the University’s firstgymnasts to participate in thenation’s highest collegiate gym-nastics meet.

Performing their routines atthe same time, Sarah Cavett ’06and tri-captain Melissa Forziat’05 competed at the USAGymnastics Nationals held atCornell University. Cavett tookpart in the uneven bars and fin-ished 41st with a 9.125, andForziat scored 9.350 in the floor

exercise, good for 45th.Although they failed to

advance to the finals, both Cavettand Forziat were honored tohave the opportunity to com-pete.

Cavett said she was disap-pointed with her routine,attributing the uncharacteristi-cally weak performance to an offday.

“I’ve been pretty consistentthis season, but I didn’t do verywell,” she said. “I felt I could havemade it to finals … but it was areally fun week, and it was still abig honor to take part (in

Nationals).”Forziat, on the other hand, did

not leave her last collegiate gym-nastics meet with any regrets.

“The few days at Nationalswas a perfect experience,” shesaid. “It was all about going outthere and having fun and beingable to compete one last time.There was lots of support frommy teammates and coaches …from people I’ve known through-out the various stages of mycareer. I was wrapped up in themoment, and now it’s hitting me(what I accomplished).”

Forziat also reflected on her

career at Brown.“It’s an incredibly bittersweet

feeling that a huge part of myidentity is done. It’s a bit of reliefthat I got through (all four years),but it’s very sad,” she said. “It’snice to look back on (my career),and look on it so fondly. I’vemade so many connections withpeople and traveled to so manydifferent places.”

This is the first year that anyBrown gymnast has participatedat Nationals. Brown — which asan Ivy League school, does not

BY CHARLIE VALLELYSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The baseball team could nothave asked for a better weekend.The Bears swept two double-headers from Dartmouth inHanover, N.H., and put them-selves in prime position to chal-lenge Harvard for the Red RolfeDivision title. Led by Bryan Tews’07, who threw a two-hitter in

the first game Saturday and hit agrand slam in the opening gameSunday, the Bears (16-14, 8-2 IvyLeague) dominated the BigGreen both on the mound andat the plate.

“It was a complete weekend,”said starting pitcher JamesCramphin ’06, who started thefirst game on Sunday. “Younever really have weekends

where the pitching, batting anddefense come together. … Wepretty much beat Dartmouthevery way you could possiblythink of.”

On Saturday, the Bears wonthe first game, 4-1, behind Tews’seven-inning, complete-gamegem. In game two, the Bears’potent lineup touchedDartmouth ace Josh Faiola for13 runs in a 17-4 win. OnSunday, Brown won anotherlopsided affair, pounding out 13hits while allowing only three enroute to a 10-4 victory. Theweekend finale was the closestcontest, as Dartmouth rallied totie the score at 5-5 and force thegame into extra innings. But theBears held on, winning 6-5 in 11innings to complete the sweep.

“I think that we have a teamthat is capable of playing anytype of game,” said Head CoachMarek Drabinski. “In the secondand third games, we beat up onDartmouth, (but in the fourth)we played small ball. … It wasgreat to show that we can win aclose one and we can win alaugher.”

The Bears took the lead in thefirst inning of the series whenEric Larson ’06.5 doubled downthe left-field line, scoring MattKutler ’05 from first. Dartmouthtied it in the bottom of the sec-

BY SARAH DEMERSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The weather was beautiful andthe temperature was mild onSaturday — perfect conditionsfor a crew race. The day producedmixed results for the Bears, withthe women winning all their con-tests against Boston Universityand the men falling to toughNortheastern University squadsin every event except the first-year race. Despite the results, itwas a strong opportunity to getin some good racing and realizewhat needs to be worked on forthe rest of the season.

The women rose at dawn totravel to Boston and competeagainst the Terriers. Eager to

rebound after last week’s toughlosses to Ohio State Universityand the University of Michigan,the Bears were anxious to getback on the water and improvein some aspects of their racing.

“Practices went well this week.We worked on things we learnedfrom the last race, and were hop-ing to have a consistent andstrong race this time,” said rowerCatherine Starr ’05. “We werelooking to race really well.Boston University is a toughcompetitor, but we had to race itlike any other race.”

“You never know what you aregoing to get. You just have toexpect they’ll go really fast,” saidrower Rachel Dearborn ’07.

Having raced the same courseagainst Radcliffe April 2, thewomen were familiar with thelayout and arrived ready for afight. At the starting line the var-sity eight felt a confidence andrelaxation about the race thatthey carried to the finish line.“Ten strokes in, we felt like wewere going to have a good race.We just kept walking on them,”Dearborn said. “We had half alength on them by the end of ourstart and we kept it up.”

The varsity eight ended upwinning by over six seconds,coming in with a time of 6:28.5.Both the second varsity eight and

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

SOFTBALL: at Fairfield (DH)

Baseball in contention for Ivycrown after sweep of Big Green


Chris Davidson ’05 pitched 3 2/3 innings of hitless ball in Brown’s extra-inning victory over Dartmouth in the game two of Sunday’sdoubleheader.

BROWN SPORTS SCOREBOARD

Softball splits weekendwith Cornell, Columbia


Courtney Jenkins ’07 hit a pair oftwo-run home runs as the Bearssplit two doubleheaders.

Brown sends tumblers to Nationals for first time

Women’s crew sweeps BU TerriersMen struggle against Northeastern in first home race of the season

see SOFTBALL, page 8

see GYMNASTICS, page 8

see W. CREW, page 9

see BASEBALL, page 8

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