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It’s about time: Wayland clock reset

Now that shopping period is over and being to class on time mat-ters, students can once again rely on the clock atop Wayland Arch to help them stay on time. The tow-er’s clock now works, and other faulty campus clocks could soon be synchronized as well.

According to Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Man-agement, the clock had been bro-ken for a number of years and had been fi xed last semester until new problems with the clock’s rhythm began.

“We just recently fi xed the clock this past fall when we in-stalled a new electronic control-ler and replaced the lamps on the tower,” Maiorisi said. “For a while, it hadn’t been working before last fall.”

But after the clock returned to service, it became increasingly fast, said Wayland House resident Andrew Jacobs ’08.

“This is just my memory, which could be very warped, but I remember that Wayland had

all these new lights in the tower, which is great, and that the clock was working, which is also great,” he said.

“Slowly over the course of the fall semester, I noticed that it was becoming fast,” Jacobs said. “It started off a minute or two fast and then became up to 10 or 12 minutes fast by the end of the se-mester. Then I came back this se-mester, and it was 15 to 20 min-utes fast.”

Maiorisi said he believes the fast timing can be attributed to monthly load tests on the Sharpe Refectory’s generator that disrupt the clock’s controlling mecha-nism.

Facilities Management has been working with the clock con-troller’s manufacturer, Electric Time, and the distributor, About Time, to fi x the clock, but they do not think there is a problem with the clock’s physical mechanisms. Maiorisi said he expects a new control board to arrive soon.

The clock was part of the Wris-ton Quadrangle expansion of

BY PHILLIP GARACONTRIBUTING WRITER

Chafee ’75 urges Bush to return to Roadmap

Former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 criticized President Bush in a stern lecture in Say-les Hall last night for having “re-moved himself” from the Israe-li-Palestinian peace process and called for a renewed U.S. com-mitment to the goals set forth in the “Roadmap for Peace.”

“The American people should not tolerate any more mendac-ity on this matter,” Chafee said, noting that making progress in Israel was crucial to the United States’ ability to make progress in Iraq.

“Every voice that has clam-ored for a victory in Iraq, or that has spoken up against this war from the beginning, or that calls for it to end now, should rise up in unison in a clarion call for U.S. leadership on the central is-sue of Israeli-Palestinian peace,” he said. “There is no time to

waste.” Chafee expressed frustra-

tion with the president, whom Chafee said had “said all the right things” but had failed to fol-low his statements with action.

“President Bush was boldly charting brand new territory for an American leader,” Chafee said, referring to the president’s lofty rhetoric in a June 2002 speech calling for a Palestinian state and his April 2003 unveil-ing of a detailed Roadmap for Peace, developed together with the United Nations, European Union and Russia. Yet — partly because of the Iraq war and part-ly because of the president’s un-willingness to fully embrace the principle of “land for peace” — “nothing has happened,” Chafee said.

Chafee said in his speech that he wondered whether Bush was shrinking away from “land for

BY MICHAEL BECHEKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

UCS may push for DVD rental service in the Sciences Library

Students looking for a movie to watch on a Friday night may soon be heading to an unlikely source — the Sciences Library. Brian Becker ’09, chair of the campus life committee of the Undergrad-uate Council of Students, has been exploring the idea of hous-ing a DVD rental service on the 14th fl oor of the SciLi.

The project is in its prelimi-nary stages and would not be im-plemented until next September at the earliest.

Becker said he came up with the idea last spring while en-rolled in PY 30: “Personality.” In order to view fi lms he missed in class, he had to travel up to Me-dia Services on the 14th fl oor the SciLi. Students are not allowed to remove movies from the library, a restriction that Becker found

inconvenient.Becker envisioned a DVD

check-out service in the media library. After discussions with Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, interim vice president for campus life and student services, and Mark Shel-ton, leader of the library’s sys-tems and media service depart-ment, Becker began to assemble a more realistic picture of what such a service would look like.

“There’s already infrastruc-

ture set in place in the (Sciences) Library,” Becker said. “If only we could improve on it, the whole student body would benefi t.”

According to the preliminary plan, students would be able to rent DVDs from Media Services free of charge for a set amount of time. The current DVD col-lection would be supplemented either with yearly purchases or

BY CAMERON LEECONTRIBUTING WRITER

Holbrooke ’62 to help support U.’s int’l efforts

The appointment of former Am-bassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke ’62 to a post at the Watson Institute for Inter-national Studies last week formal-ized a powerful connection that has benefi ted the University in the past and will be especially impor-tant as Brown’s internationaliza-tion initiative progresses, Presi-dent Ruth Simmons told The Her-ald Monday.

The details of Holbrooke’s re-sponsibilities as a professor-at-large in the Watson Institute are still being worked out, said Geof-frey Kirkman, associate director of the Watson Institute, late last week, adding that it was still un-clear when Holbrooke would ar-rive at Brown or how often he will be on campus.

Holbrooke “just got back from Iraq” and would be in Europe un-til this week, said Media Rela-tions Specialist Deborah Baum last Thursday. In an e-mail to The Herald, Holbrooke wrote that he would prefer not to discuss the appointment until the details had been worked out.

Holbrooke, who was editor in chief of The Herald while an un-dergraduate at Brown, is a former ambassador to Germany as well as to the United Nations. His ex-tensive foreign policy resume in-cludes playing a pivotal role in brokering the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia.

“Because we are starting the international initiative, it’s much more important now than ever that we have the counsel of our al-ums who have been the most im-portant and the most visible on the international stage,” Simmons told The Herald. “He is clearly one of those people who enjoys an in-ternational reputation and some-one who knows a good deal about different parts of the world.”

Former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee ’75, who accepted a posi-tion as a visiting fellow at the Wat-son Institute this semester, said though he does not know Hol-brooke personally, his reputation is formidable.

BY MICHAEL SKOCPOLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Courtesy of Brown.eduRichard Holbrooke ’62

Christopher Bennett / HeraldLincoln Chafee ’75 delivered the 76th annual Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on Monday — the birthday of his namesake, Abraham Lincoln.

Phillip Gara / HeraldThe clock atop Wayland Arch once again displays the correct time.

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Gov. Donald Carcieri’s ’65 proposed budget for fi scal year 2008 — sub-mitted to the General Assembly on Jan. 31 — emphasizes education reform as promised in his second inaugural address and State of the State address.

“For the fi rst time in many years, the education budget will grow fast-er than the health and human ser-vices budget,” Carcieri said at a budget conference, according to a Jan. 31 press release.

Carcieri’s education budget will increase state aid for education by $46.4 million — a 3-percent funding boost across the board. The pro-posed budget includes millions for charter schools, state universities, the troubled Central Falls school district and new school construc-tion.

The budget includes plans to lay off 168 employees in several statewide departments. Carcieri specifi cally said the budget should cut services for the Department of Children, Youth and Families by reducing the maximum age of chil-dren served from 21 to 17. The de-partment currently coordinates and

monitors the education, health care and living conditions of troubled youth.

“Some programs may be affect-ed in the short run, but in the long run, these kids are going to be edu-cated in making choices,” said Pro-fessor of Education Kenneth Wong, who directs the University’s mas-ter’s program in urban education policy. “They will save public re-sources and produce a larger, well-trained labor force that will attract outside investment to the state.”

Even though Wong said he agrees with Carcieri’s initiatives so far — including an effort to connect higher education institutions with the Central Falls school district —the Central Falls school district —the Central Falls school districthe stressed the importance of view-ing Rhode Island’s performance in comparison to other states.

“Stronger fi scal leadership is not the only solution to the problems with public education. (We need to) compare Rhode Island to other states and how they manage state funding for education with property taxes,” Wong said.

Ivan Monzon ’10, a graduate ofTimes2 Academy for Engineering, Mathematics, Science and Technol-ogy in Providence, one of 11 public ogy in Providence, one of 11 public ogycharter schools in Rhode Island,

applauded Carcieri’s concern for education but was skeptical of how much an increase in funding would solve the overall problem.

“What the money should go to is extracurricular programs, so that students actually want to go to school and (stay) off the streets where they are more likely to get into trouble,” Monzon said.

“It also never helped when a teacher would tell us that this or that person was being fi red be-cause there wasn’t enough funding to keep them employed,” he added. “I remember hearing that they were going to fi re the school nurse once. It was a scary thought.”

Though Carcieri said the bud-get would increase fi nancial sup-port for teacher development, he did not mention aiding other school positions.

“Educating students is affect-ed by more than just monetary in-puts,” said Joshua Marland GS, one of Wong’s research assistants. “Stu-dents may be coming from families that really need health service sup-port — so decreasing them may have a negative effect on the stu-dents,” he said. “Let’s think about using health services within the schools.”

BY CHRISTIAN MARTELLSTAFF WRITER

Campus reacts to Carcieri’s education proposalsM E T R O I N B R I E F

State Sen. John Tassoni, D-Dist. 22, has introduced a resolution that would create a commission to study cyberbullying and cyberthreats among youths and adolescents. According to a press release, cyber-bullying is defi ned as the use of electronic means — including cell phones and the Internet — to harass another individual.

The proposed commission would comprise nine members, in-cluding educators and school administrators, social workers and a chief of police. The goal of the commission would be to examine the issue from the perspective of educators and make recommenda-tions as to how the issue can be addressed.

Current Rhode Island law does not mention cyberbullying, and most schools cannot punish students for harassment that takes place outside of school hours or off of school property.

— Sara Molinaro

Cyberbullying commission proposed

Only fi re-safe cigarettes will be available legally in Rhode Island if proposed legislation is passed by the General Assembly. State Sen. James Doyle, D-Dist. 8, has introduced a bill, modeled on a 2004 New York law, that would prohibit the sale of cigarettes that are not fi re-safe.

Fire-safe cigarettes differ from other kinds of cigarettes in that they are wrapped in two or three narrow bands of less porous pa-per. If a burning cigarette is left unattended, it is likely to extinguish when it burns down to one of the bands.

Retailers, wholesale dealers and cigarette manufacturers who do not comply with the proposed act would face fi nes as high as $10,000, according to a press release from Doyle.

Doyle’s legislation is supported by groups including the National Fallen Firefi ghters Foundation, the AARP and the National Fire Pro-tection Association. States with similar laws already in place include Massachusetts, Vermont, California and Illinois.

—Sara Molinaro

R.I. law to require fi re-safe cigarettes

The Rhode Island minimum wage rose to $7.40 on Jan.1, but it may increase again if the General Assembly approves legislation recently proposed by House Speaker Tempore Charlene Lima, D-Dist. 14.

The bill would raise the minimum wage to $7.75 next January and again to $8.00 on Jan. 1, 2009. As of Jan. 1, 2010, the Department of Labor and Training would be required by the bill to increase the min-imum wage at the rate of infl ation annually.

According to a press release, Lima said she intends to couple this minimum-wage increase with policy initiatives designed to bring more high-paying jobs to the state.

— Sara Molinaro

Proposed bill would raise minimum wage to $8 Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the University has steadily increased accessibility for the disabled on campus. But some say the Univer-sity still doesn’t meet the needs of all members of the community.

The ADA requires that Brown provide equal educational servic-es, opportunities and programs, within reason, for all faculty, stu-dents and staff, disabled or not. The responsibility for carrying out the charge lies with the Offi ce of Disability Support Services

Currently, 469 students are reg-istered with DSS, according to Di-rector of Disability Support Servic-es Catherine Axe — a number that fl uctuates depending on the num-ber of temporarily disabled stu-dents at any given time.

“I think the key thing is that we work individually on a case-by-case basis with everyone … who comes to our offi ce,” Axe said.

When the University under-takes major projects, such as con-structing new buildings or renovat-ing old ones, it takes the ADA into account. With a number of signifi -cant campus construction projects underway, DSS works closely with both Facilities Management and the Campus Access Advisory Com-mittee to ensure that compliance with ADA regulations, Axe said.

The advisory committee was a working group when it was created in 2003 but has since been made into an offi cial subcommittee of the Disability Advisory Board. “The committee’s really designed to kind of be a place where we bring together faculty, staff and students to kind of look at current issues,” said Axe, who co-chairs the com-mittee.

Thomas Gimbel ’07, who uses a wheelchair, said he thinks the efforts of DSS and the University in general have been “very good” in terms of making the campus ac-

commodating.“Obviously they still have some

progress to be made of course, but there’s always going to be a need for changes and progress. But I think it’s really good, and it’s been very good to me,” Gimbel said.

Gimbel said accessibility on campus is “a bit complicated,” not-ing that newer buildings are acces-sible, and the University is mak-ing some older buildings, such as Smith-Buonanno, fully accessible. “But then some buildings like Wil-son are completely inaccessible. So there’s just no way in,” he said.

Gimbel said one issue at Brown is the exemption to ADA require-ments for historical buildings. “Here, of course, it’s a problem. It’s a huge thing. I mean many of the departments are completely inac-cessible.”

Gimbel, a religious studies con-centrator, said he’s only been in-side the department’s building once — and that was with the aid of six people.

“Sometimes for historic preser-vation purposes we have to work within (the ADA’s) guidelines, but often there’s a way we can do it. It’s just going to involve a different type of planning,” Axe said.

But despite some challenges,

Gimbel expressed satisfaction with the University’s efforts to provide accommodations. “(Brown is) a good place and defi nitely becom-ing a better place for people with disabilities,” he said.

But not everyone is so satis-fi ed with the University’s efforts. Arkady Belozovsky, a lecturer at the Center for Language Studies, said he has found the University’s compliance with ADA regulations to be “very poor.”

Belozovsky, who is deaf and spoke to The Herald over the phone via an interpreter, expressed frus-tration with the University’s failure to provide the services necessary for deaf and hard-of-hearing mem-bers of the community that are re-quired under the ADA.

For example, Belozovsky said there is often confusion over who is responsible for paying for in-terpreter services at meetings or events — a service Belozovsky said was required of the University by ADA.

“I have to run around like a chicken with my head cut off just trying to chase some money down for the provision of interpreter ser-vices,” he said.

Belozofsky said he has repeat-edly asked the University for mon-ey in the budget for interpreting

U. continuously working to meet ADA standardsBY MADELEINE ROSENBERGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Kam Sripada / HeraldAn assistive technology room in the Friedman Study Center provides services for deaf and blind patrons.

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with a subscription to a service that would allow Media Services to rotate additional titles for tem-porary periods of time. The new DVDs would be primarily enter-tainment movies, as the existing collection is comprised of mainly educational material.

“What’s there is probably not exactly what students are looking for,” Carey said.

Carey said the University is in-terested in the DVD-rental idea and the realization of the idea will require further, more focused dis-

cussions among UCS representa-tives and administrators in the li-brary and the Division of Campus Life.

Students seem generally sup-portive of the idea. Alex Seitz ’08, who transferred to Brown in fall 2005, expressed support for the project and said his previous school had offered a similar service.

Anne LeMaster-Merrick ’08 said she would probably not use the service regularly but believed it would benefi t many students at Brown. “The only nearby rental place is Acme (on Brook Street), and it’s too expensive,” she said.

But students such as Chongsi Bi ’10 remained skeptical of the service’s effectiveness. “The fact that (Media Services) is not too popular means it might not be popular afterward,” she said, add-ing that she felt the new service would have to be heavily adver-tised in order to gain student in-terest.

In addition to the new check-out service, DVD kiosks are also being considered, Becker said. The kiosks could be locat-ed around campus and would re-quire a credit-card swipe to rent the DVDs inside.


“He’s had a long and distin-guished career that spanned all the important areas on the globe,” Chafee said, adding that Hol-brooke’s “experience brokering the cessation of wars” and knowl-edge of “the inner workings of how you bring disparate groups together” would be especially valuable to students “in these per-ilous times we live in.”

Simmons said Holbrooke is one of a number of prominent al-ums she has spoken with regular-ly and sought advice from since she came to Brown in 2001, and that she fi rst broached the possi-bility of his taking on a faculty po-sition at the University during one such conversation last fall.

When it became clear that Hol-brooke was already involved in some academically oriented work, she said, “it seemed natural for him to extend those relationships to Brown and to have a relation-ship of a more formal nature with the University.”

Holbrooke is the chairman of the executive committee of the Asia Society, an international or-ganization that promotes ties be-tween Asian nations and the Unit-ed States. He is also the chairman of the American Academy in Ber-lin, an institute he was involved in founding that is dedicated to fos-tering scholarly and cultural ex-change between the United States and Germany.

A University press release last Wednesday said one of Holbrooke’s duties would be to serve as an “in-formal adviser” to Simmons.

“I would hope that what he would do is to look over our shoul-

ders as we begin to take these steps to formalize our structure for greater international reach, that he would advise about areas of the world that are important to look at, he would advise about op-portunities that he is aware of in different parts of the world, and just generally feel welcome to in-tervene, to make those kinds of comments and to make sugges-tions,” Simmons said. “This is an invitation to him that we want his advice.”

Holbrooke, she said, has told her he is excited about the ap-pointment because “like any alum-nus who has deep affection for the University, he would like to be helpful in whatever way the Uni-versity requires.”

The University’s ongoing ini-tiative to raise its international profi le was announced last fall and has since resulted in the for-mation of an internationalization committee chaired by Provost Da-vid Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98. In addi-tion, a search committee charged with fi lling the newly created posi-tion of vice president for interna-tional affairs hopes to announce a selection later this spring.

“We intend that he will be meet-ing with some of the international committees that are getting start-ed,” Simmons said. “He has a very particular interest in certain parts of the world.”

Deepening the University’s in-volvement in Africa is one area that Simmons said Holbrooke has a particular interest in, noting that doing more in that region was among his suggestions in their fi rst conversation after she be-came president.

“It will be up to him to chose

other areas of interest that he wants to support, and I suspect that as he gets into the Universi-ty and learns more about what’s going on, he’ll fi nd lots of areas where he can add his own particu-lar perspective and commentary,” Simmons said. “He is likely to get a lot of very stimulating discus-sions going.”

Simmons said she believes stu-dents on campus will benefi t di-rectly from Holbrooke’s presence as well.

“Of all the things you remem-ber as a student … you remember less the particular days on the syl-labus where you studied — you read, for example — about it, but you’re always going to remember that you interacted with this fi gure who was actually on the ground being responsible for the poli-cies and practices you’re study-ing,” Simmons said. “Bringing in people who are primary actors in world politics — in the making of history — is a very potent learn-ing experience.”

Kirkman said he was also excit-ed at the opportunity Holbrooke would have to “bring real policy-making experience to complement the more academic view” that stu-dents get in the classroom.

Holbrooke likely will not teach any courses, at least initially, Kirk-man said, in keeping with the Wat-son Institute’s standard practice of not rushing “practitioners” who do not have signifi cant teaching experience into the classroom.

“We want to make sure he’s comfortable,” Kirkman said. “It’s a question of making sure that we fi nd the balance that makes this a great experience for him and a great experience for us.”

Brown’s campus, which was de-signed by Thomas Mott Shaw and offi cially added to the Uni-versity on June 1, 1952, following that year’s commencement exer-cises.

According to then-President Henry Wriston, the expansion was intended to stimulate student life on Brown’s campus.

In a May 12, 1952 article in The Herald, Wriston said, “If we are to show forth a primary regard for the individual, if we are to insist

upon his infi nite value and empha-size his obligation to wrestle with infi nite problems, there must be fi tting surroundings.”

The new campus completed the vision of Brown’s fourth pres-ident, Francis Wayland, who fi rst called for better student housing in the 1850s.

Meg Sarachan ’07 said the clock’s incorrect time had oc-casionally confused her on her way to class, and she was glad it was fi xed. “It sort of looks shab-by when things are broken or in need of repair,” she said, adding

that the clock on Wilson Hall is still a few minutes fast.

Maiorisi said Facilities Man-agement hopes to coordinate the University’s public clocks.

“One of the things we are look-ing into now in facilities is getting a central system that would be wireless and that would control all the outside clocks on campus so that they would be synchro-nized,” he said.

There is no timetable for the changes, and Facilities Manage-ment is still looking into the po-tential costs of such a system.

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Connie Clifford, a project special-ist for Hannaford supermarkets’ Healthy Living Initiative, showed a slide of canned lentil soup to the roughly 18 people gathered in the BioMedical Center Monday night.

“Why don’t soups earn very many stars?” she asked the audi-ence.

“Sodium,” they said in unison.She clicked to the next slide.

“How about yogurts?”“Sugar,” they answered to-

gether.Clifford explained that much

of the yogurt Hannaford stocks has too much sugar to meet the chain’s new rating system for healthy food. The new system gives products between zero and three stars based on their nutri-tional value.

The audience members were participants in Shape Up R.I., a statewide initiative to get Rhode Islanders slimmer and health-ier by competing on teams to meet fi tness or weight loss goals. Started last year by Rajiv Kumar ’05 MD’09, Shape Up R.I. is now in its second year and has about 7,000 participants, including over 400 Brown employees. Shape Up R.I. organizes workshops like Clifford’s at locations throughout the state during the competition, which runs from January to June.

As last night’s program began, some participants won door priz-es like free trips to one of several gyms, an appointment with a per-sonal trainer or a pair of ski lift tickets. Kumar then introduced the night’s lecture topic, empha-sizing the importance of educa-tion in improving public health.

“The only way we can reverse the obesity epidemic is to learn,” he said. He praised Hannaford’s star system as a “shining exam-ple” of consumer health educa-tion, adding, “what you learn to-day you can take with you any-

where.”Clifford explained the Han-

naford rating system, called “Guid-ing Star,” which she said makes choosing healthy foods cheaper and easier. “It’s a time-saver to not have to worry about reading all the labels of the foods you buy,” she said.

“Right,” the crowd murmured.Cheryl Souza, a researcher in

the University’s Center for Statis-tical Sciences, said she thought the Hannaford system was a great idea. “I wish there was something in the area,” she said. The closest Hannaford stores are in Taunton, Easton and Uxbridge, Mass.

Last night’s workshop was the fi rst Souza has attended through Shape Up R.I. She described the event as “absolutely wonderful” and said she looks forward to at-tending the other planned Shape Up R.I. activities, which Kumar said include yoga, Pilates, dance, nutrition and health cooking class-es such as last week’s “Mediterra-nean cooking” demonstration by Assistant Professor of Medicine Mary Flynn. Kumar said some participants are especially ex-cited about an upcoming basket-ball clinic at Brown’s courts with Men’s Basketball Head Coach Craig Robinson.

Shape Up R.I. teaches healthy shopping habitsBY ISABEL GOTTLIEBCONTRIBUTING WRITER

N E W S I N B R I E F

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Brown a $150,000 grant to plan for a statewide collaborative effort to apply advanced medical research to practical clinical settings.

The grant, called a Clinical and Translational Science Award Plan-ning Grant, will help researchers develop a project within the next two years. Researchers will then be able to apply for a full CTSA grant of $4 million a year.

Brown will collaborate with Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam Hospi-tal, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Women and Infants Hospital and the University of Rhode Island.

Timothy Flanigan, professor of medicine and one of the grant’s principal investigators, said the grant will “build on the continuum of clinical research and care” that already exists between local hospitals and the Alpert Medical School. Not all the institutions involved in the project have worked closely together in the past, and “the barri-ers are enormous, but that doesn’t mean we can’t overcome them,” he said.

To receive the full grant, the project will need to take a multi-disci-plinary approach to translational research, said Alan Rosmarin, asso-ciate professor of medicine and a principal investigator for the plan-ning grant.

“We can’t just do business as usual,” Rosmarin said. A collabora-tive approach to translational research could be more effective in developing new techniques, such as nanotechnology approaches and global health initiatives, he said.

In addition to “collaboratories” bringing together laboratory and clinical scientists and “cores” which will provide services for pilot proj-ects and new grant proposals, the grant proposal suggests creating an academic curriculum that could lead to a masters and doctoral program in clinical and translational science at the Med School. If such a program were formed, Brown students at all levels would “be-come more engaged and willing to participate in clinical and trans-lational research,” Flanigan said.

— Joy Neumeyer

NIH grant to fund research for clinical applications

Sheila Hogg, senior library associate specialist at the Orwig Music Li-brary, will start teaching a 10-week class this month in Irish Gaelic at the Irish Ceilidhe Club of Rhode Island in Cranston. Hogg, who said she is the only active Gaelic teacher in the state, has taught the lan-guage since the 1980s.

Hogg fi rst started teaching Gaelic in 1985 when a group of about 20 students approached her to lead a Group Independent Study Proj-ect. “I hadn’t started out thinking that was what I wanted to do,” she said. “It’s such an unusual skill that people (who want it) fi nd you.”

Since then, she has led several other GISPs and tutored Brown graduate students, especially aspiring ethnomusicologists hoping to take their exams in Gaelic.

Though Hogg hasn’t taught Gaelic to a group at Brown in the last few years, she said she would be interested if some students ap-proached her. She said she might also approach the University about teaching a class, potentially even for credit. Though she hasn’t start-ed the offi cial process of proposing such a class, Hogg is concerned that the University’s requirements for professors’ teaching hours might be untenable on top of her current responsibilities in the mu-sic library, she said.

Hogg learned Gaelic as an adult after being inspired by an Irish cultural revival in the 1970s. Hogg’s passion is sean-nos, a type of tra-ditional Irish singing.

Hogg estimates that fewer than 10 percent of the population in Ireland is able to use Gaelic as a spoken language. “A lot of peo-ple fi nd themselves learning Irish through something else, largely through contact with the music,” she said.

— Nick Werle

Brown librarian teaches Irish Gaelic

Filmed for less than $5,000, rumored to have been shot in one take and viewed over 11 million times on YouTube, OK Go’s video for “Here it Goes Again” earned a Grammy Award for the band Sunday, taking home the award for Best Short Form Music Video.

“The fact that we could make a video for one-one-thousandth of the budget of a major label video and now to win a Grammy ... it kind of makes you feel good about the world,” lead singer Damian Kulash ’98 told the Associated Press.

A statement on the band’s Web site said the win was “very, very exciting.”

The video, which runs for just over three minutes, features the four members of OK Go performing an elaborately choreographed dance on moving treadmills.

“Here it Goes Again” is not the band’s fi rst innovative video. The 2005 video for the band’s single “A Million Ways,” in which members of the band perform synchronized dance moves in a backyard, has been viewed over 1 million times on YouTube.

OK Go most recently performed at Brown last fall. The band also played at last year’s Spring Weekend. This is their fi rst Grammy Award.

— Zachary Chapman

OK Go wins Grammy for treadmills video

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Tai Ho Shin / HeraldConnie Clifford, a project specialist with the Healthy Living Initiative of Hannaford supermarkets, makes a presentation to Shape Up R.I. participants.

scored off a pass from Wilde for the second time in the weekend.

In the third period, Brown went up 4-1 at 2:55, when Sasha van Muyen ’10 defl ected a pass from Moos into the goal. Bruno’s defense was solid following RPI’s second-period goal, as Stock fi n-ished the game with 30 saves.

It was an impressive week for Brown’s defense, including goal-tender Stock, who recorded 70 saves while allowing only two goals over this week’s three games.

“All last week in practice we really focused on cleaning up our play in the defensive zone and I think that paid off in the games this weekend,” said Moore. “Stock has been solid in net for us, coming up big in pressure situations and re-ally just being the backbone of our defense.”

Saturday’s game was the last home game for Brown seniors Moos, Krystal Strassman, Ann Brophy and captain Lauren Deeb. Following the game, Deeb re-ceived the Panda Cup, the oldest award given by the team.

Despite this weekend’s league wins, the team’s playoff hopes

are still very slim. Even if Brown wins its two road games at No. 3 Dartmouth and No. 6 Harvard, the team’s playoff hopes would still depend on the outcomes of other games around the league.

But the Bears will try to do their part to control their destiny. “Get-ting three consecutive wins at this point in the season has given our team a lot of confi dence,” Moore said. “Right now we know we can do anything, and we are just itch-ing to play our next two games.”

To defeat Dartmouth and Har-vard, two powerhouse teams, the Bears will look to continue their solid play in the defensive zone.

“As a team we were executing our forecheck very well this week-end so the more time we spent in their D-zone, the less we did in ours,” Moore said. Brown must also take advantage of power-play opportunities, as it did this week-end, if the team hopes to pick up two wins next weekend.

Overall, it was an eventful week for Brown women’s ice hockey, with Moore’s 100th point, Mur-phy’s 300th win and breakthrough games for several underclassmen as Brown bid farewell to its senior leaders.

services. “I have to keep repeated-ly reminding them. And after three or four times I’m tired of doing that. I’m concerned that it’s going to affect my job as well as my work performance,” he said.

DSS has provided services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing mem-bers of the community, Axe said. She said Teletypewriters — devic-es that facilitate telecommunica-tions for the deaf and hard-of-hear-ing — were recently installed on campus in locations including the Rockefeller Library and the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center.

“We’ve never had a request that we’ve turned down just on the ba-sis of payment,” Axe said. She add-

ed that centralized funds are avail-able for interpreter services.

Axe wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that the Friedman Study Center is home to a new “assistive technology room,” which provides programs and services for both deaf and blind patrons. She said there are two similar rooms in the Rock.

Belozovsky said he had never heard of any such room. “I’ve heard nothing about that room. Nothing. Not one word,” he said.

“The Offi ce of Disability Sup-port Services is required to have speech-reading or note takers in classes, and that’s a weak area. They’re not publicizing what is available to (the students),” he said.


peace,” the idea that Israel will trade occupied territory for se-curity guarantees from its Arab neighbors — an idea that con-fl icts with the biblical interpre-tation touted by some Christian evangelicals that Israel is the promised land and belongs to the Jews.

“I wonder which group has his ear,” Chafee said.

Chafee’s lecture, the 76th an-nual Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on Interna-tional Affairs and his fi rst major speech since his defeat in last November’s midterm elections, identifi ed two recent “critical junctures” in Middle East politi-cal circumstances that the Bush administration failed to take ad-vantage of.

The fi rst, Chafee said, was in June 2003, when King Abdullah of Jordan invited Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas, then the prime ministers of Israel and the Pales-tinian Authority, respectively, to a meeting in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba. The meeting was a success, Chafee said, as Sharon articulated Israel’s commitment to a Palestinian state and Abbas called for an end to violence and terror. Even President Bush an-nounced that he was making the Roadmap the top priority of his secretary of state, Colin Powell, and his then-national security ad-viser, Condoleezza Rice.

But weeks passed, Chafee said, and “the momentum that had been building was being lost.” Abbas traveled to the Unit-ed States in July 2003 to plead with President Bush to make “visible progress” on the Road-map, but no progress followed and a deadly suicide bomb attack the next month closed the win-

dow of opportunity.“The U.S. did not provide

the leadership so badly needed at that critical moment,” Chafee said. “It was dispiriting for all the parties involved to see this prom-ising opportunity simply squan-dered,” he added.

In addition, Chafee said, “it is not entirely a coincidence that there was an intense escalation of the insurgency in Iraq in the fall of 2003.”

A second opportunity pre-sented itself after the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, Chafee said, “despite the Palestinian vi-olence and Israeli intransigence and U.S. inaction.” Abbas, con-sidered a moderate, was elected president of the Palestinian Au-thority in a high-turnout elec-tion and had a strong mandate, Chafee said.

But within fi ve months, Chafee said, “Abbas was back at the White House, as he had been be-fore, beseeching President Bush for some help in quelling the un-rest that was fomenting in the ter-ritories, so that he could shore up moderate political support.”

Though Bush responded by making a strong statement — calling for a halt to new settle-ments in the West Bank — “the evidence is clear that there was no intensive diplomatic effort to back it up,” Chafee said.

“We should have been doing everything possible to bolster this moderate leader, this strong voice for non-violence who is a true partner for peace,” he added.

Though Chafee admitted that there is no simple answer to the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict and that progress may be slow, he said a solution was far from im-possible.

“It’s not that hard,” Chafee said at a press conference after

the speech, noting that many diffi cult details of creating a vi-able two-state solution had been reasonably worked out — albeit unoffi cially — in the Geneva Ac-cord of 2003, a non-binding peace agreement crafted by ex-govern-ment offi cials from both sides of the confl ict.

Chafee said he believes fi rm-ly in the principle of “land for peace” and the creation of a “via-ble, contiguous Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel” — both of which were part of Bush’s original Roadmap for Peace.

He said the Bush administra-tion appeared to be turning its attention to the Israeli-Palestin-ian peace process once again, citing a Feb. 2 meeting of the so-called Quartet of the United States, Russia, the United Na-tions and the European Union, at which the United States pushed for three-way talks between Is-raeli and Palestinian leaders and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“We are seeing some prog-ress now, at least superfi cially,” Chafee said.

Chafee was introduced fi rst by UCS Vice President Tristan Freeman ’07 and then by Presi-dent Ruth Simmons, who called Chafee “an independent and principled leader.” Applause fol-lowed when Simmons mentioned Chafee’s vote against the authori-zation of the use of force in Iraq — the only such vote among Sen-ate Republicans.

Chafee accepted a position last month as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Watson In-stitute for International Studies after representing Rhode Island in the Senate for seven years. He was chairman of the Middle East subcommittee of the Senate For-eign Relations Committee.


Chafee ’75 calls on Bush to return to Roadmap to Peace in Israel, Palestine


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Study shows AIDS patients had relief, fewer side effects from marijuana

W O R L D I N B R I E F

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — AIDS patients suffering from debilitating nerve pain got as much or more relief by smoking mari-juana as they would typically get from prescription drugs--and with fewer side effects — according to a study conducted under rigor-ously controlled conditions with government-grown pot.

In a fi ve-day study performed in a specially ventilated hospital ward where patients smoked three marijuana cigarettes a day, more than half the participants tallied signifi cant reductions in pain.

By contrast, less than one-quarter of those who smoked “place-bo” pot, which had its primary psychoactive ingredients removed, reported benefi ts, as measured by subjective pain reports and stan-dardized neurological tests.

The White House belittled the study as “a smoke screen,” short on proof of effi cacy and fl awed because it did not consider the health impacts of inhaling smoke.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) — Within the dense warren of shops and storefronts of the Shorja market, ordinary life drummed along Monday.

Security guard Abdul-Ameer Mohammed stood at his post in front of a bank. Nail Ahmed, owner of porcelain pottery store in the market, took a break to shop for spices for his wife. Maytham Qazzaz, a plastics and nylon merchant, worked the phones.

Then the explosions erupted, yet another in a series of attacks on crowded Baghdad marketplaces. Ordinary life became engulfed in fi re, twisted metal, collapsed buildings, shattered glass, black smoke and blood. At least 78 Iraqis were killed in the attack and 166 injured. They were among the victims of sectarian violence that left more than 100 dead Monday in the capital alone.

“Every day we pray before going to work because Shorja has be-come a repeated target,” said Ahmed, recovering from injuries to his back and head at the capital’s Medical City hospital. “But what can we do? We have to work to put food on the table for our families.”

Minutes ahead of the Shorja blast, an explosion caused by a suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed belt ripped though the nearby Bab al-Sharji marketplace, killing nine people and in-juring 19.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) — As Iraqi offi cials prepare to hang another of Saddam Hussein’s former aides, they say they are determined to prevent the uproar that followed the last high-level execution, when the head of Saddam’s half-brother ripped off and rolled across the death-chamber fl oor.

Rope widths and lengths are being reviewed to ensure the cord can properly hold Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was sentenced to death Monday for the slaughter of 148 Shiite Muslims in a small farming town in the 1980s. Government offi cials are building new gallows to accommodate different-size convicts, said Basam Ridha, an aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

“We’re taking the extra precautionary steps, including creating two types of gallows: One for heavyset guys and another for normal folks and skinnier guys,” said Ridha, who was in the courtroom when a judge ordered the execution of Ramadan, a former vice president.

It was Ramadan’s second time hearing his fate, and Monday the news was far worse than on the fi rst go-around. He was sentenced to life in prison after his conviction in November. But the appeals court, refl ecting the bitterness toward the men who propped up Saddam’s Sunni-led dictatorship, decided that life behind bars was not harsh enough.

CARACAS, Venezuela (Los Angeles Times) — Ecuador announced Monday that it would miss a payment due this week on a $2.6-bil-lion bond issue but surprised international investors with a promise to pay sometime over the next month.

President Rafael Correa took offi ce last month after running an election campaign in which he threatened to default on some or all of the country’s $10.2 billion in foreign debt, describing it as “illegal.” Ecuador has defaulted on its foreign bonds three times since the ear-ly 1980s.

But since his inauguration, the U.S.-educated economist and left wing ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has sent confl icting signals on how much of the debt Ecuador would ignore or seek to re-negotiate. At one point last month, Finance Minister Ricardo Patino said the government would pay only 40 percent of what it owes to foreign creditors.

So Deputy Economy Minister Fausto Ortiz’s announcement Mon-day that his government would pay by mid-March the full $130 mil-lion in interest due Thursday caught some analysts off guard.

Explosions rip through two Shiite markets

Saddam aide’s sentence is changed to death

Ecuador to miss bond payment

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The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Jan. 2 and Feb. 8. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Po-lice Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the de-partment, the PPD or the Offi ce of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfi eld St.

Tuesday, Jan. 2:3 p.m. A person reported that

a projector was removed from a classroom in Sayles Hall. There were no signs of forced entry into the area. There are no suspects at this time.

Saturday, Jan. 6:4:05 p.m. DPS offi cers re-

sponded to a report of a suspi-cious circumstance at the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences. The reporting person said the subject had been sitting just outside the elevators for most of the day. The

caller expressed concern about the safety of the Animal Protec-tion Area. Offi cers found that the subject was associated with con-tractors working in the building and cleared the scene without is-sue.

Monday, Jan. 8:6:09 p.m. An offi cer patrolling

the area around King House ob-served several bicycle locks that had been cut outside the rear of the building. One bicycle was also found unsecured. The bicycle was taken to DPS for safekeeping.

Friday, Jan. 12:3:30 p.m. DPS offi cers re-

sponded to a report of suspi-cious circumstance at the Faunce House mailroom. The reporting person said several unknown in-dividuals could be heard tamper-ing with mailboxes. The individu-als left the area when the person called out to them.

Monday, Jan. 15:4:20 p.m. A person stated that

she observed a subject smash the window of a vehicle parked on Meeting Street and remove the stereo from inside. The owner of the vehicle was notifi ed.

Thursday, Jan. 18:7:00 p.m. Complainant report-

ed unknown persons taking her cellular phone from the dance studio at T.F. Green Hall. The phone was left unattended at the time of the incident. There are no suspects at this time.

Friday, Jan. 19:4:13 p.m. DPS offi cers re-

sponded to a report of an attempt-ed larceny on Manning Walkway. Manning Walkway. Manning WalkwayUpon arrival, offi cers identifi ed two juvenile male subjects who fi t the description provided by communications personnel. One of the subjects fl ed the area. The other was cooperative.

Saturday, Jan. 20:5 p.m. Complainant reported

arriving at her offi ce at Gerard House to fi nd her window broken by what appeared to be a beer bottle in the area. There are no suspects at this time. Facilities Management was notifi ed to re-pair the window.

Sunday, Jan. 21:12:40 a.m. A complainant re-

ported harassment by a student while leaving Poland House. The complainant declined support services that were offered. The

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Violence changing college campusBY MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE AND ZEENA KAREEMLOS ANGELES TIMES

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Zala Ghefori was walking out of her dormitory at Mustansiriya University to buy a loaf of bread when the sniper struck.

He was waiting for her by the brick back gate, opposite the bak-ery. Ghefori, 31, who is working on her doctorate in Arabic, was preoccupied with an exam she had taken.

In the moment it took her to cross, the sniper fi red.

“I felt that there was some sort of heat around me and a sound like that of the wings of birds along the way,” Ghefori said. She heard the crack once, twice, many times. She kept walking toward

the bakery, not realizing what was happening. One of the work-ers, an old woman, shouted to her to take cover.

“What brought you out at such a time when snipers were shoot-ing at you?” the woman said. “They just missed you.”

Mustansiriya, in a mainly Sun-ni Arab neighborhood, is home to a student body that’s predomi-nantly Shiite Muslim, mostly from Shiite-dominated southern Iraq. It has long been co-ed. But violence is changing that demographic.

Today, with militias and insur-gents increasingly threatening young men, Mustansiriya has be-come a mostly female campus and a battleground where the stakes for getting a degree grow by the day.

Sandwiched between the Shi-

ite stronghold of Sadr City and the mostly Sunni Adhamiya neighbor-hood, the university has seen nu-merous professors and students — mostly men — killed in sec-tarian violence since it reopened three years ago. Last month brought the deadliest attack yet: a pair of car bombs that killed 70 and wounded more than 170.

Mustansiriya’s female stu-dents increasingly fi nd them-selves caught in the sectarian fi ghting. University guards allow Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Al Mahdi militia to search the women’s dorm for snipers. Mili-tia members have cut the dorm’s power lines, held protests on cam-pus and threatened women who don’t wear head scarves. Sunni

Iran calls U.S. accusations ‘unfounded’BY KIM MURPHYLOS ANGELES TIMES

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian offi cials Monday called U.S. accusations that it is arming Shiite militias in Iraq with tank-piercing explosives “unfounded” and insisted that Iran is committed to joining a regional effort to halt the violence.

The back-and-forth charges between Tehran and Washington highlight a growing recognition of Iran’s substantial infl uence on its next-door neighbor and its ability, if nothing else, to prevent the Unit-ed States from untangling the po-litical confl icts that have plunged Iraq into sectarian warfare.

Here in the capital of the Shiite republic, it is an open secret that Iran is operating a quiet network of infl uence in Iraq that it can use either to help settle the confl ict or to prevent the United States from

reaching its goals there. Iranian offi cials insist they are committed to quelling instability they see as a threat to their own security.

Indeed, Iranians say, their im-age of an ideal settlement in Iraq looks remarkably like America’s: A strong, democratically elected gov-ernment in Baghdad (that would, by dint of Iraq’s Shiite majority, be a natural ally of Iran’s); an end to the violence, and preservation of Iraq’s territorial integrity.

But with one important excep-tion.

“The difference is, Iran doesn’t want to see the U.S. claim victory. The U.S. shouldn’t come out of this battle victorious. And Iranians perceive that the dominant part of that objective has been achieved,” Tehran political scientist Nasser Hadian-Jazy said. “It is no longer plausible for the U.S. to claim vic-tory in Iraq.”

U.S. defense and intelligence offi cials’ claims to have found Iranian-manufactured weapons in Iraq, including armor-pierc-ing projectiles similar to those believed to have killed 170 U.S. soldiers, have placed a height-ened focus on long-standing U.S. claims about Iranian involvement in the war.

In Washington, a U.S. offi cial ac-knowledged Monday that the U.S. material formed a “circumstantial” case but said military command-ers in Baghdad provided solid evi-dence of Iranian involvement.

“So while they presented a circumstantial case, I would put to you that it was a very strong circumstantial case,” said Sean McCormack, State Department spokesman. “The Iranians are up to their eyeballs in this activity,

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insurgents drop pamphlets on campus demanding that students move out. And Iraqi soldiers set up checkpoints at the university gates.

The bombings, shootings and kidnappings initially targeted men, forcing professors to dis-guise themselves and male stu-dents to drop out, which thinned the ranks of men on campus.

A round-faced woman with a ready smile, Ghefori is stub-born and unshakeable. Living in a women’s dorm, surrounded by about 175 other female students, Ghefori felt safe.

Ghefori, who needs at least two more years to complete her studies, didn’t tell her fam-ily about the sniper attack. She would transfer to a university in the north, she said, but there’s no space. Too many other students have transferred.

And so she is stuck at Mus-tansiriya, studying ancient Arabic poetry in her dorm, darting out once or twice a week.

“Terror is living with us,” Ghe-fori said. “There is not a day when there is no terror.”

Mustansiriya offi cials say at-tacks have increased in recent months. Classroom windows are pocked with bullet holes. When shooting intensifi es near Ghefori’s dorm, the building supervisor of-ten turns off the lights and moves students to the fi rst fl oor, where they are in a better position to fl ee if necessary. More students than ever are postponing their studies because of the unrest, according to the university’s assistant dean for student affairs, who asked that his name not be used for fear he would be targeted.

Female students are not tar-

gets, the assistant dean said. They just are increasingly caught in the crossfi re as Sunni insurgents from the surrounding neighborhood fi re on the nearby Health Ministry, dominated by Shiite extremists.

“When shooting starts, wom-en start screaming and the strong ones try to protect those who are freaked out,” said Fatima Selami, 29, who came to Mustansiriya to earn a doctorate in mathematics.

Selami wears a head scarf and loose, conservative clothing. But she’s still afraid that she’ll be tar-geted.

She said the recent bomb-ing left her feeling hopeless. Her fi rst thesis adviser, Mohammed Remadhan, was killed last year by insurgents who followed him home.

Her new adviser has been threatened by militias, so he scaled back his class schedule and stopped announcing class times. To advise Selami, the pro-fessor arranged a series of off-campus meetings.

“He drives his car to a certain street. After, he calls me and tells me where to fi nd him. When the car stops, he hands me the cor-rected draft and I hand him a new draft before he drives off,” she said. “This is how I fi nished writ-ing the dissertation.”

Selami expects to graduate soon and leave Iraq to join her husband, a fellow math student, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Last month, as she walked from the dorm to the classroom where she would successfully defend her thesis, Selami was sure she would be attacked.

“I thought that I was dream-ing and that a car bomb or an IED would wake me up and bring me down to earth,” she said during a break, giving a wavering smile.

very clearly, based on the infor-mation that was provided over the weekend in Baghdad.”

Here, the assertions serve a belief that America is using what Iran views as its natural infl uence on its neighbor as an opportunity to make Iran a scapegoat for U.S. failures.

“Right now, I think the United States wants to fi nd someone to share this loss. Because they have indeed lost,” said Mosayeb Naimi, a Tehran newspaper editor with long experience in the Arab world.

“The problem in Iraq is not just the (al-)Mahdi army militia or al-Qaida or any of the other military groups. It’s the Americans lack a strategy to govern Iraq,” he said. “Today, many of the groups of Iraq are making war against each oth-er, and it’s clear that Iran is more worried about security and safety in Iraq than the United States is. Because when violence increas-es in Iraq, it means the violence comes to Iran, also. So it’s not un-reasonable that Iran is increasing its (presence) there.”

Iranian offi cials went out of their way to discount the evidence of weapons without issuing a spe-cifi c, direct denial.

“They condemn us for making problems in Iraq, but they don’t have any documentary proof,” for-eign ministry spokesman Moham-mad Ali Hossaini told reporters.

“Lots of this evidence is fake, artifi cial. For example, when they

wanted to start a war in Iraq, they made plenty of evidence that there were lots of weapons in Iraq, though the investigators of the In-ternational Atomic Energy Agency said they couldn’t fi nd any weap-ons in Iraq,” he said. “Right now they’re using weapons (with cer-tain markings), but it doesn’t prove where these weapons came from.”

Political scientist Hadian-Jazy said it was relatively well known that Iran had developed a sub-stantial network of support and resources in Iraq for use as a de-terrent should the United States threaten aggression against Iran.

“Iran has developed an impor-tant infrastructure in Iraq. Intelli-gence, security, organization, peo-ple, weapons, networks, resourc-es,” he said. “But these are princi-pally for deterrence. In case any-thing happens. In case of a U.S. at-tack, these are there. And, in fact, they would like very much for the U.S. to know about it.”

At the same time, Hadian-Jazy said, it is not credible to believe Iran has engaged in large-scale weapons deliveries to the Sunni Iraqi insur-gents who have been responsible for the bulk of U.S. casualties.

“They’re not going to support al-Qaida and the Baathists in Iraq. Because they’re the ones who are killing the Shia. Yes, they’re kill-ing the Americans. But they’re killing the Shia. By no means is it acceptable for Iran to support groups in Iraq who want to desta-bilize a friendly government and kill Shias,” he said.



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Iran rejects U.S. accusations Deal would freeze N. Korea nuclear productionBY MARK MAGNIERLOS ANGELES TIMES

BEIJING — Weary negotiators from six nations reached a ten-tative agreement early Tuesday morning on the fi rst steps toward dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

The looming deal, coming after marathon talks and years of frus-tration, is believed to call for North Korea to freeze plutonium produc-tion at its main nuclear center at Yongbyon and allow international atomic energy inspectors back into the country. In return, North Korea would be provided energy assistance and related aid, which likely would be funded primarily by South Korea and Japan.

A second, more protracted phase would address disarma-ment issues.

The tentative deal is based on a one-page document circulated late last week by China calling for a several-stage agreement under which both sides take measured steps forward to ensure compli-ance and build trust.

Talks were set to reconvene later Tuesday at the Diaoyutai Guest House in Western Bei-jing. The talks involve the Unit-ed States, the two Koreas, Chi-na, Japan and Russia. All six na-tions must still sign off on the deal reached by their negotiating teams.

“We think this is an excellent draft,” Christopher Hill, the chief U.S. negotiator, said after 16

hours of talks. “I don’t think we are the problem or would be the problem.”

Any announced agreement with North Korea should be treat-ed with caution given a history of faltering compliance and broken deals. That said, some analysts expressed cautious optimism that this could be a long-awaited turning point in negotiations with North Korea’s autocratic leader-ship, which raised concern and ire across much of the world when it announced the testing of a nuclear device Oct. 9. Talks on North Korea’s nuclear program have been underway since 2003.

“There was an agreement on the key differences of North Ko-rea’s actions for denuclearization, their scope and how far they’ll go,” South Korean envoy Chun Yung-woo told reporters. “North Korea basically agreed to all the mea-sures in the draft.”

Assuming the deal is confi rmed, attention in coming weeks would shift to working groups aimed at addressing denuclearization, en-ergy requirements, diplomatic rec-ognition, timing and fi nancial sanc-tions, among others.

“This is only one phase of de-nuclearization,” Hill said. “We’re not done.”

The talks hit a wall in recent days when the North demanded huge amounts of energy aid, re-portedly upwards of 2 million tons of heavy fuel oil annually, before it would agree to begin disman-tling its program. This amount

compares with the 500,000-ton level settled on in the failed 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea negotiated by the Clin-ton administration. That deal fell apart in late 2002 when the U.S. accused North Korea of engaging in a secret uranium enrichment program.

Japan, which has specifi c issues with North Korea related to the ab-duction of several dozen of its citi-zens in the 1970s and 1980s, wel-comed the early signs of progress.

“We are closely watching the development to make sure North Korea makes the right decision toward nuclear abandonment,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a Parliamentary commit-tee session Tuesday morning.

Experts said the key to any meaningful deal moving forward will be obvious, tangible prog-ress within a matter of weeks un-der a structure that affords North Korea no room to back out of its commitments.

“We must be vigilant and keep North Korea’s feet to the fi re throughout the implementation phase,” said Don Gross, a former State Department offi cial, now a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council in Washington. “It is criti-cal to U.S. security to keep this all under tight control.”

Also key will be ensuring that any agreement has the support of hardliners in Washington and Pyongyang, respectively, who in the past have resisted accommo-dation.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007 PAGE 9

“He just missed it, but it was ex-actly where you would want to be. You want to have your best guy with a good look and a chance to win.”

The next night at Columbia, Bruno kept the game close for most of the fi rst half, but by the evening’s end, the game belonged to the Lions. Taking advantage of sloppy play by the visitors, the hosts broke a 21-21 tie with 2:43 remaining in the opening half and never looked back.

“They converted on our turn-overs, and once that happens, you’re spending your time catch-ing up,” Robinson said. “By turn-ing the ball over and giving up as many offensive rebounds as we did, it’s hard to win that way.”

Things started to snowball at the start of the second half when Bruno committed three turnovers on its fi rst four possessions. A 28-25 halftime defi cit grew to 35-25,

and Brown’s fate was sealed.“You go from being down

three to being down (10) right there,” Robinson said. “(Colum-bia) did what they had to do and made shots when we had those turnovers. I’m not down on these guys because this is the fi rst time in the trenches for many of these guys.”

Robinson said he was pleased with the effort that his team has given on defense in recent weeks. With Harvard and Dartmouth coming to the Pizzitola Center this weekend, he is now hoping that his troops can play with a lit-tle more assertiveness.

“I can see that when we start the games, guys are really fo-cused on defense, and we want to keep it that way. Now it comes down to confi dence,” he said. “I think we have to be confi dent that we can win those close games. We just have to cut down on the unforced errors, and that comes with confi dence.”

the turnaround. “We had a defen-sive plan that was simple, and we started to get away from it,” said Head Coach Jason Gall. “There were three players that we didn’t want to score, and once we real-ized who we needed to press, we started doing better. It was a good lesson learned.”

Balassone echoed Gall’s sen-timents. “I think it’s hard to keep the intensity high all the time. I’d say it showed strength to come back from that for a solid win.”

After a long but successful Sat-urday, the Bears opened play on Sunday with an easy 15-6 win over Villanova University and continued their undefeated streak by soundly beating Dartmouth’s club team 18-2 in their semifi nal match-up.

The games, though not close in score, were valuable opportuni-ties for Gall to spread playing time throughout the roster and experi-ment with different lineups. “Ex-

cept against Wagner, all 14 players played at least three or four min-utes in every game,” he said.

Harvard proved to be Bruno’s most diffi cult opponent of the day but failed to come as close in the score as Wagner had on Saturday. After a scoreless fi rst three min-utes, the Bears’ patient offensive strategy paid off with quick catch-and-shoot goals from Lauren Pre-sant ’10 and Balassone.

Defensively, the players kept close tabs on Harvard’s primary scoring threats from the begin-ning, holding the Crimson to only one goal in each period. Brown never relinquished its early lead, building it to 5-2 at the half and 9-3 at the end of a monster third quarter that included a thrilling breakaway goal by Caitlin Fahey ’07. Presant and Glick fi nished out the scoring in the fourth quarter to bring the fi nal tally to 11-4.

The championship game saw a spirited all-around effort from the Brown roster. Six players scored,

and everyone in the pool was sol-id defensively. Stephanie Laing ’10 stopped six shots in goal including a miraculous save on a fi ve-meter penalty shot.

Overall, the Bears saw the tournament as a mission accom-plished.

“We had a few goals going into this weekend,” recalled Gall. “Im-prove team chemistry, use it as an opportunity for training and condi-tioning, win and have fun. I’d say we accomplished all of them. The team defi nitely jelled — we looked like we’d been playing together for a long time.”

Presant said she was happy to see the team so successful. “It was neat to see how a lot of our players stepped up early on,” she said.

Bruno now looks two weeks ahead to a tough match-up against CWPA rival Hartwick College, who ranks 12th in the preseason poll to Brown’s 20th. After a strong tune-up weekend, the Bears are gunning to keep their streak alive.

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matter is being handled by the Of-fi ce of Student Life.

12 p.m. Complainant report-ed unknown persons removing his laptop from his room in Sears House sometime between Dec. 21 and Jan. 20. There were no vis-ible signs of forced entry, and the room was secured at the time of the theft. There are no suspects at this time.

Tuesday, Jan. 23:2:32 p.m. DPS and PPD offi -

cers responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle while crossing the street at the in-tersection of Thayer and Meeting streets. The pedestrian sustained only minor abrasions.

Wednesday, Jan. 24:9:30 p.m. Complainants report-

ed an unknown person or persons entering their room in Andrews Hall East and taking several items, including an alarm clock, an iPod and a phone. It is unknown if the door was left unsecured at the time of the incident. There are no suspects at this time.

1 p.m. Complainants reported video game equipment missing from their room in Chapin House upon their return from winter break. The two residents said they were confi dent they secured their residence prior to leaving. There are no suspects at this time.

Thursday, Jan. 25:5 p.m. Complainant reported

his laptop and iPod missing from his room in Chapin House upon his return from winter break. He said he last saw them in his room on Dec. 15. There were no signs of forced entry. There are no sus-pects at this time.

Saturday, Jan. 27:8:30 p.m. Complainant stated

unknown persons had removed two of her jackets and their con-tents, which were left unattended in a lounge in Marcy House while she was attending a party. There are no suspects at this time.

11:20 p.m. DPS offi cers re-sponded to a report of a noise com-plaint at Vartan Gregorian Quad. Upon arrival, they found about 75 people gathered in the area listen-ing to loud music. The area was cleared without incident.

Monday, Jan. 29:11:57 a.m. DPS and PPD offi -

cers responded to a minor vehi-cle accident at Brook and Bow-en streets. Neither party was in-jured.

12:48 p.m. Complainant report-ed unknown persons damaging a door to a storage area in Macha-do House. Facilities Management was notifi ed.

Tuesday, Jan. 30:12:43 a.m. Two people report-

ed that a male subject was behav-ing suspiciously as they walked be-hind him on Thayer and Charles-fi eld streets. The subject was re-ported to have stopped and stared at the two students and to have walked by their side for a short distance. Offi cers have not located anyone fi tting his description.

3:47 a.m. DPS offi cers respond-ed to a report of a suspicious per-son on Thayer Street. Offi cers found a “missing person endan-gered” huddled outside Metcalf Research Laboratory. The subject was transported to the Rhode Is-land Hospital emergency room.

Wednesday, Jan. 31:2:38 a.m. DPS offi cers re-

sponded to a report of domes-tic disturbance between two stu-dents in Graduate Center. The Of-fi ce of Student Life is handling the matter.

5:20 p.m. DPS responded to a report of a smashed front car win-dow and a stolen car stereo on Be-nevolent Street. There are no sus-pects at this time.

Sunday, Feb. 4:2:37 a.m. DPS offi cers re-

sponded to a report of loud music on Barnes Street. Offi cers found about 100 people and kegs of alco-

hol. Students were dispersed from the area and a PPD offi cer issued a summons to the residents of the building.

1:36 a.m. DPS responded to a report of a stolen laptop in New Pembroke Hall. Complainant said his room was left unsecured and unattended for about one-and-a-half hours at the time of the in-cident. There are no suspects at this time.

Monday, Feb. 5:8:14 a.m. Complainant report-

ed an offi ce chair stolen from the workout area in Keeney Quadran-gle. There are no suspects at this time.

9:54 a.m. DPS and PPD offi -cers responded to a report of an auto accident at Bowen and Hope streets. One of the vehicles sus-tained minor damage, but no inju-ries were reported.

5:04 p.m. A student reported her wallet, digital camera and sev-eral credit cards removed from her purse at a party on Barnes Street. The purse was left unse-cured and unattended at the time of the incident. A PPD report was also fi led.

Tuesday, Feb. 6:Complainant reported he

parked his 1988 Buick on Brown Street at 2 p.m., but it was no lon-ger there when he returned at 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 7:Complainant reported property

had been removed from his locker in the Sharpe Refectory. There are no suspects at this time.

Thursday, Feb. 8:5:24 p.m. An anonymous per-

son reported having witnessed a robbery at George and Ma-gee streets. DPS and PPD units searched the area for suspects, and a DPS offi cer located two of them. PPD offi cers arrested two out of the three suspects in-volved. There were no weapons displayed, and the victim of the crime was not injured.


Police Log: Theft, car accidents mark fi rst weeks of semester

Next week the Bears who are not resting for Heps will get a chance to strut their stuff at the USATF New England Cham-pionships in Boston.

The women’s track-and-fi eld squad also competed at the St. Valentine’s Day Invitational last weekend.

“The facility was state of the art, which allowed for fast times and good performances,” Lake said. “The competition is steep and deep, which helps us step things up as well.”

The day started off on a big note when Thelma Breezeatl ’10 blazed to a fi fth-place fi nish in the 55-meter dash with a per-sonal-best time of 7.15 seconds. Nicole Burns ’09 then took on a fi eld of 153 women in the 200-meter dash and managed to clock in with a 24.71, putting her in eighth. Jasmine Chukwueke ’10 rounded out the sprinting events with a 15th-place fi nish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.44.

The middle and distance run-ners had an equally successful outing on the day, starting with Naja Ferjan ’07, who recorded a fi fth-place fi nish in the 800-me-ter run. Smita Gupta ’08 raced to seventh in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 9:36.04, nar-rowly missing the school record and qualifying her for nationals, while teammate Brooke Giuffre ’10 placed 12th in the mile with a 4:57.64, a breakthrough per-formance.

“I don’t think the lack of depth in distance and mid-dis-tance are going to harm us at Heps because all of our run-ners are capable of scoring big points,” said Akilah King ’08. “Our coaches are defi nitely working hard to recruit more top distance-runners who can have a big impact on our team in the future.”

The relays proved to be strong events for the Bears, as the distance medley team brought home the gold with an 11:46.46, almost eight sec-onds ahead of the next team.

Last year’s distance medley re-lay team qualifi ed and placed eighth at nationals, but the girls will have to make considerable improvements on that time to get back to nationals this year.

The 4x400-meter relay ran to a fourth-place fi nish, clocking in behind the University of Con-necticut, Morgan State Universi-ty and Columbia, a performance made all the more impressive by the fact that they dropped the baton, a mistake that prob-ably cost them the fi rst-place fi nish.

In the fi eld events, Anja Her-grueter ’10 placed 14th in the high jump, soaring to a height of 1.58 meters. In the shot put, Danielle Grunloh ’10 and Jenna Silver ’10 placed seventh and 13th, respectively. Grunloh’s ef-fort of 12.91 meters was a per-sonal best, putting her in one of the top fi nishes in the confer-ence as a fi rst-year.

The pole vault might have been one of the biggest events for the Bears at the Invitational, with Kristen Olds ’09 and Tif-fany Chang ’08 tying for second place and Cassandra Wong ’10 and Keely Marsh ’08 vaulting to sixth and seventh place, respec-tively.

“Our pole vault squad is sol-id, and we’re counting on them to rack up big points at Heps,” King said. “With co-captain Tiff Chang and Keely Marsh leading the group, our under-classmen jumpers (Olds) and (Wong) are also stepping up and improving. As we head into our resting weeks, we have the confi dence that our pole vault-ers will deliver at Heps.”

For most of the women, this was their last meet before Heps two weekends away, but some will head to the USATF New England Championships this coming weekend in Boston.

“Mentally, we have to stay fo-cused and continue to stay close as a team,” King said. “Heps is all about being healthy, focused and competitive. If we can main-tain these assets, I think that our women’s team has what it takes to be Heptagonal champions.”

M. and w. track prepare for Hepscontinued from page 12

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EDITORIAL & LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007PAGE 10

President Simmons is right. We don’t remember the due dates on our syllabus, and we don’t expect that long after we graduate we will fondly recall studying in the Absolute Quiet Room. But we will remember wait-ing in line to hear President Bill Clinton speak. We won’t forget bumping into Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes during one of his campus visits or listening to former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso de-bate the impact of globalization on Latin America. And we often recall Seymour Hersh’s nonsensical rant about Iran, delivered in Salomon 101 as he pulled newspaper clippings out of his jacket pockets.

And that’s why we’re glad former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 and for-mer Herald Editor in Chief (oh, and Ambassador to the United Nations) Richard Holbrooke ’62 have each taken posts at the University. Bringing alums with real world policy and business experience to the University doesn’t simply connect them to Brown — it makes current students’ ex-perience all the more powerful.

Speeches and study groups like the one Chafee is leading are the opportunities that remind us we are spending four years in a unique place. As Simmons said, when recalling our college days years from now, “You’re always going to remember that you interacted with this fi gure who was actually on the ground being responsible for the policies and practices you’re studying.”

Collecting “at large” fi gures who don’t necessarily teach but do con-tribute to the University’s intellectual climate is common practice for several of our Ivy peers, but it’s relatively new to Brown. We applaud University offi cials for urging alums with what Simmons described as “deep affection” for Brown to return and invigorate the campus decades after their graduation.

In fact, we’re so fond of the practice that we thought we’d offer a few suggestions for administrators to consider as they think through future “at large” appointments.

Grammy-winning OK Go lead singer Damian Kulash ’98 could lead our hipster friends at the Indy in an MCM seminar on the YouTube ef-fect, studying how budgets that are so low they’re cool can lead to a gold gramophone and a cult following that includes The Herald’s edito-rial board.

A seminar taught by Jon Krasinski ’02, perhaps better known as Jim Halpert of “The Offi ce,” on how to really survive your internship — mastering offi ce pranks and surviving painful on-again, off-again ro-mances — would be more than welcome. And we’re sure British royal Lady Gabriella Windsor ’04 could be coaxed into showing us which fork to use once a year at the Career Week etiquette event.

Shiny labs in the LiSci might not lure Nobel prizewinner Craig Mello ’82 away from U. Mass Med School, but we think we can dig up a scan-dal that might make Kenneth Starr MA’69 consider returning to Col-lege Hill with an independent counsel position and mandate to produce a lascivious legal report.

But we understand these alums are all kept busy — whether mak-ing music videos, attending Ascot, curing cancer or investigating presi-dential escapades. If none of these illustrious alums are available, we’d settle for a Georgetown alum with silver hair who we hear might be looking for a job and some fawning attention.

I am writing to make clear statements that I did and did not make for an article in Friday’s Herald (“Two stu-dents challenge Asian American discrimination,” Feb. 9). First, I did not call affi rmative action a “necessary evil.” Putting such strong words in my mouth inaccu-rately refl ected the views I expressed regarding affi rma-tive action, which were largely in favor of this policy. I would hardly call affi rmative action “evil.” Not only does it benefi t a plethora of deserving and hardworking peo-ple, but it attempts to mitigate the racial and socio-eco-nomic obstacles in place toward higher education — ob-stacles for the most part ignored by the federal govern-ment. I suggested that although affi rmative action is not “equal” in its process according to “objective” standards like grades and SAT scores, it nevertheless results in an outcome that is fairer and more equal than the alterna-tive.

Second, I did not say that I am “ambivalent about the group and its goals.” I fully support Neil Vangala ’09 and Jason Carr ’09 in undertaking the diffi cult task of explor-ing discrimination in admissions, and this group — re-gardless of its fi ndings — is vital in creating on-campus dialogue on the issue. In fact, as an active member of the

Asian/Asian-American community at Brown, I encour-age Neil and Jason not just to meet with administrators and admissions offi cers, but to get community input and involve students in decision-making processes when they arise.

Third, I did not say that “students should focus on the lack of equality in public schools rather than affi rmative action.” We should not divert our attention away from af-fi rmative action as a policy because so far, it has been the only solution to the institutionalized racism and classism that currently hinder the brightest and most hardwork-ing individuals in getting the education they deserve.

Lastly, I encourage Brown students to talk about this controversial issue and question why so many public schools are underfunded despite the immense wealth of our country and high taxes we have to pay. Maybe when we start to make some demands of our government, when public schools in Edina, Minn., and the Bronx, N.Y., start to resemble each other a little more, affi rma-tive action truly will be a thing of the past.

Belinda Navi ‘09Feb. 9

Navi ’09 clarifi es comments on Asian American admission discrimination To the Editor:

All of us rely on our experiences to form our opin-ions, including recent speaker Nonie Darwish, and we don’t need a higher degree to express them. However, if we want to present ourselves as credible authorities to criticize a culture or society, we can’t rely solely on those experiences. We need to nuance our views by taking various sources into account in order to avoid oversimplifi cation.

A Brown student group that started last semester, Open House: Valuing Diversity in Middle East Edu-cation, attracts students from across the religious, ethnic, and political spectrum to have structured dis-cussions about the Middle East. We draw on our own experiences, but also on a variety of media, including news articles, academic literature, and pop culture to

frame our discussions. This experience is extremely challenging, but in-

credibly enriching. If you are sick of polemics, per-haps this form of dialogue is for you. Interested stu-dents should contact us at [email protected] for more information.

Anat Mooreville ‘07Joanna Abousleiman ‘09

Roxanne Horesh ’08Godhuli Bhattacharya ‘09

Joshua Stern ‘08 Co-coordinators of Open House

Feb. 9

Open House calls for on-campus Mideast dialogueTo the Editor:

Bringing them back

C O R R E C T I O NDue to an editing error, an article in Friday’s Herald (“RISD president announces plan to step down,” Feb. 9) incorrectly stated that Rhode Island School of Design President Roger Mandle received a no-confi dence vote by the faculty. The no confi dence vote was by RISD department heads.

The Fair Trade movement, promoted by Brown Dining Services and urban coffee shops everywhere, has been attracting some negative attention recently. In the Dec. 7 is-sue of the Economist, an article on “ethi-cal foods” suggested that the idea may be misguided. In the intervening months Fair Trade has become a hot topic in the blogo-sphere. This dispute, like so many others, can be introduced by reusing the old head-line: “Curmudgeonly economists question the methods of do-gooders.”

This is not a simple issue, but here’s a basic synopsis: The Fair Trade movement consists of non-governmental organizations that contract with small farmers in the third world and guarantee them price fl oors and above-market prices. This protects the rela-tively ineffi cient little guys from being run out of business by the low crop prices cre-ated by large industrial producers. The small producers’ crops (most notably coffee) are then exported to the developed world and advertised as “fairly traded.” The slightly higher price is split between retailers and consumers.

The problem, in theory, is that this ex-acerbates the original problem of low crop prices. By shielding small producers from adverse market conditions, Fair Trade en-courages them to continue to produce coffee instead of transitioning, however traumati-cally, to different pursuits. Thus, the supply of coffee on the market doesn’t decrease,

and the market prices don’t increase.Non-Fair Trade producers are hurt by

Fair Trade — but that’s kind of the point. Some big coffee producers have responded by starting their own Fair Trade divisions.

Fair Trade organizations are doing some things that no one would argue against, such as educating farmers and giving them better access to credit. These practices create hu-man capital and facilitate development. How-ever, by most accounts, Fair Trade is mak-

ing it easier for farmers to avoid the diffi cult but perhaps necessary process of moving to new crops or occupations.

It’s diffi cult to dispute that the Fair Trade movement helps small farmers in the short term. The broad, long-term effects are far more uncertain. However, I tend to side with Fair Trade’s detractors for a somewhat different reason: Selling morality is just a bad idea. Fair Trade expands the idea of consumers’ personal preferences by extend-ing it to moral preferences, like buying Fair

Trade coffee. This doesn’t make sense and sets a troubling precedent.

Markets are effi cient because consumers know what they themselves want, and that’s all they know. They serve their own prefer-ences, and this directly increases market ef-fi ciency with respect to those expressed per-sonal preferences. When consumers decide that they prefer to buy coffee that advertises itself as ethical, it just means that they prefer to think of themselves as ethical. The expres-

sion of that preference does not necessarily correspond to real ethicality — consumers are taking it on faith that their actions are truly ethical.

In other words, when I buy a Toyota over a Ford, I do it because it’s a better decision for me. I have a good idea of what’s best for me. But when I buy Equal Exchange over a generic brew, I do it for the general wel-fare of Ecuadorian farmers. That is faintly ridiculous. I have no idea what’s best for Ec-uadorian farmers. Intelligent scholars dis-

agree over it. All I know is that one coffee advertises itself as more ethical than the oth-er. It’s the rare consumer who even under-stands how Fair Trade works, let alone has the background, the will and the free time to form a defensible opinion about its effects. Whatever Fair Trade accomplishes, it ac-complishes through good faith or ignorance — take your pick.

Fair Trade is a case of over-democratiza-tion. It very loosely refl ects consumers’ opin-ions on a rough constellation of non-govern-mental economic and social programs that they know almost nothing about. This is distinct from traditional consumer activism, which I fully support. Consumers should ed-ucate themselves as much as possible and make informed decisions about their pur-chases, but Fair Trade is different because it forces moral decisions through advertising.

I doubt that Fair Trade is a bad thing, on balance. However, I dislike that it presents a complex moral package in black-and-white wrapping.

Much has been said about expressing our social consciences through consump-tion, but that actually doesn’t sound so great to me. Where will it end? What if products start labeling themselves along partisan lines? During the 2004 campaign, we already had “Dubya Ketchup” for Republicans who didn’t want to add to John Kerry’s Heinz fortune. If the Fair Trade movement has its way, shopping for mere quality will one day seem quaint.

Matt Prewitt ’08 would like extra foam in his cup of morals.

BY MATT PREWITTCOLUMNIST ABROAD

Loyal readers, this week you and I are go-ing to sink lower than we have ever sunk be-fore: we are going to write a Lifetime Origi-nal Movie.

Given the fact that nobody ever watches them, the good folks over at Lifetime get away with making these wanna-be fi lms dis-gustingly formulaic. They tend to take one of two forms. In the fi rst, a strong, independent woman is besieged by various obstacles to living a happy successful life, and in the end she overcomes said obstacles to serve as an inspiration to women everywhere.

The second prototypical Lifetime Origi-nal Movie also features a strong, indepen-dent heroine besieged by various obstacles — but in the end she succumbs to the over-whelming pressures set upon the shoul-ders of the modern woman and dies a tragic death, ultimately serving as an inspiration to women everywhere.

The obstacles that prevent these women from reaching their goals include date rape, spousal abuse and divorce. Our heroine may be a fresh-faced young teenager who discov-ers she’s been knocked up when she gets morning sickness all over the kitchen table. She might not even know how to read. After some melodramatic suffering, she inevitably transcends her myriad challenges. All of this is accomplished over the course of two tense, dramatic hours sprinkled with “you go, girl!” commercials for Kotex and Vagisil.

Just for reference, I’ll share with you the queen of all Lifetime Original Movies: “The

Burning Bed.” Starring a dewy Farrah Faw-cett as a beautiful, intelligent woman with a fat slob of a husband, the movie differs from “The King of Queens” in but one regard — the aforementioned fat slob of a husband savagely beats the crap out of his beautiful, intelligent wife on a regular basis. Poor Far-rah eventually lights her bed on fi re while her husband is sleeping in it, freeing herself and her children from the shackles of abuse. Women all over the world were made happi-

er in their womanhood, blah blah blah blah. The credits roll.

As trite and unwatchable as you and I might fi nd the phenomenon that is the Lifetime Original Movie, there are oodles of women who can’t get enough of them. This got my enterprising little mind to thinking — why not blend the Lifetime Original Mov-ie with real life and cash in? This past week alone there have been two separate inci-dents that are bound to translate beautifully into spectacular made-for-TV monstrosities.

The fi rst “based on a true story” to get my green light for Lifetime is “Lust in

Space,” based on the travails of chemically unbalanced astronaut Lisa Nowak. Nowak, a married mother of three, was a robotics specialist who fell for the pilot of her space shuttle, William Oefelein. After carrying on a torrid affair with Oefelein, she began to suspect that he was also involved with Air Force captain Colleen Shipman. Long story short, Nowak drove 900 miles in diapers to stalk Shipman in an airport parking garage. At each of the 900 mile markers she passed,

the pee-soaked Nowak could have come to grips with her sanity and returned home to her family. But, God bless her, she was in love. Ultimately, she spritzed a healthy dose of pepper spray into Shipman’s car before being arrested. Now she is being charged with attempted kidnapping and attempted murder, and if convicted, she could spend the rest of her life in jail.

What tension! What drama! I don’t know about you, but the director in me is salivat-ing. With the right cast, this epic love trian-gle could get millions of women to tune into Lifetime. I’m picturing Felicity Huffman as

the slightly deranged astronaut, Tim Allen as her philandering pilot lover and Tori Spell-ing as the terrorized other woman. That, my friends, is almost worth tuning in for.

The second part of my double feature based on events of this past week is “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” based on the life of the recently deceased Anna Nicole Smith. Over the course of 39 short years, this busty star-let got married, got rich, got widowed, got naked, got a reality show, got fat, got thin and got depressed, before fi nally getting dead. In her wake, she left a fi ve-month-old daughter and a potential fortune. At the time of writing, three separate men (one of whom is the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor) are fi ght-ing over the paternity of the little girl. Some are even suggesting that Smith fathered her daughter using the frozen sperm of her de-ceased, octogenarian, billionaire husband.

It’s a gripping story. I laughed. I cried. I even got a little turned on. If Anna Nicole’s saga can move a stony cold-hearted bastard like yours truly to tears, imagine what it’ll do to the legions of emotionally unstable middle-aged women who tune into Lifetime. If we can get Christina Aguilera to pack on a few pounds to play the title role, we’re golden.

Is it cruel of me to want to churn the trag-edy of these two women through the Life-time Original Movie construct just to make a few bucks? All I have to say is, nothing sells better than the story of a woman who has broken through the glass ceiling only to bleed to death on the shards.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go sob into a pint of Häagen-Dazs.

Adam Cambier ’09 once tried to eat a piece of charcoal he mistook for a chocolate cookie.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007 PAGE 11

ADAM CAMBIEROPINIONS COLUMNIST

Making life into a Lifetime Original Movie

Moral uncertainty at Jo’s

When I buy Equal Exchange over a

generic brew, I do it for the general

welfare of Ecuadorian farmers. That is

faintly ridiculous. I have no idea what’s

best for Ecuadorian farmers.

Is it cruel of me to want to churn the

tragedy of these two women through

the Lifetime Original Movie construct

just to make a few bucks?

Valentine’s Day is not just a Hall-mark holiday for the men’s track and field team — it was also an opportunity for the Bears to trav-el to Boston University for the St. Valentine’s Day Invitational this past weekend, the last regu-lar competition of the season for athletes who will be resting for the Heptagonal Championships coming up in two weeks.

“The BU Meet is a big in-vitational focused on individu-al performances,” said Direc-tor of Track and Field Craig Lake. “There were no team scores kept. However we can see how we stack up in the league by comparing times and distances from the weekend’s results.”

Amid an enormous field of athletes, both collegiate and pro-fessional, the Bears managed to make their mark in the final standings.

“The environment at the meet was a bit crazy,” said Grant Bowen ’07. “The number of com-petitors was extremely large compared to any other meet we attend. There wasn’t a limit to how many participants each team could bring, and unat-tached competitors competed as well. With … high-caliber com-petitors I became much more nervous than if I were at a dual meet. You have to block out the noise, and focusing becomes more difficult as well.”

Focus didn’t prove to be an issue for Jamil McClintock ’08, who began the day on the right note, racing to a third-place fin-ish in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 7.6 seconds.

In the distance events, Ste-phen Chaloner ’09 logged a ninth-place finish in the 3,000-meter run with a personal best of 8:18.33, while teammate John Loeser ’10 brought home a 12th-place finish in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 2:29.40.

Miles Craigwell ’09, a foot-ball standout in the fall, finished in fifth place in the triple jump, with teammate Reginald Cole ’10 following in eighth place, go-ing 46-01.25 and 45-05.75 respec-tively.

On the field, perhaps the most exciting performance of the day came from Bowen, who flew to a second-place finish in the pole vault with a 15-01.00. Deshaun Mars ’08 leaped to the 11th spot in the long jump with a 21-03.5, while David Howard ’09 came in at the same place in the weight throw with a 55-04.25.

In the shot put, Howard and Bryan Powlen ’10 notched as close to a one-two finish as the Bears saw all day with a fifth and 12th place respectively.

“The meet was pretty intense,” Craigwell said. “It made you fo-cus a lot more, but at times the energy amped you up to where you lost your technique. (It) was great seeing the other talent and pushed me to do better.”

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2007 PAGE 12

St. Valentine’s Invitational prepares m. and w. track for HepsBY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Women’s ice hockey Head Coach Digit Murphy earned career vic-tories No. 300 and 301 this week-end in league wins — 6-0 over Union College on Friday and a 4-1 victory over Rensselaer Polytech-nic Institute on Saturday. Hayley Moore ’08 continued her excep-tional play with two goals and four assists in the two games, extend-ing her point streak to 14 games.

This weekend’s games also saw impressive hockey from Sa-vannah Smith ’09, who contrib-uted two goals and two assists on Friday before adding a goal and an assist in the win over Rensse-laer. The two wins put Brown at 10-15-2 overall and 6-13-1 in the ECAC Hockey League, capping off a remarkable week for the Bears, which included a 2-1 up-set victory over Connecticut on Wednesday.

Brown came into Friday’s con-test looking for a win over last-place Union, and the Bears dom-inated throughout. Just 3:04 into the game, Brown went ahead on a shot by Andrea Hunter ’10, who fi nished the game with two goals and two assists. At 18:51, the team capitalized on a power-play oppor-tunity when Smith found the net for the fi rst of her two goals, as-sisted by Moore and Hunter. With the assist, Moore became the 20th player in the history of Brown women’s ice hockey to score 100 career points.

Brown blew the game wide open in the second period, go-ing up 3-0 only 35 seconds in on Moore’s backhand goal. At 6:26, Moore found Hunter in the left faceoff circle for Hunter’s second goal of the game, and at 18:03, Kathryn Moos ’07 took a pass from Lindsay Wilde ’09 and scored to give the Bears a 5-0 lead.

In the third period, Smith add-ed another goal, assisted again by Moore and Hunter, for her second consecutive multi-goal game.

“I defi nitely felt a bit more confi dent coming into the week-end,” Smith said. “It’s been nice

to be able to contribute more in these past few games, and I hope to continue in our fi nal games next weekend and next season as well.”

On Saturday, the Bears contin-ued to excel on both ends of the ice, scoring two goals on a power play in the fi rst period, and never looked back. At 14:45 in the fi rst period, Moore was once again

able to set up Smith, and Smith converted for her third power-play goal in two games.

At 3:29 in the second period, Rensselaer’s Allysen Weidner sent a bouncing shot past goalten-der Nicole Stock ’09 to cut Bru-no’s lead to 2-1, but the Bears add-ed to that lead at 7:01, when Moos

W. icers Murphy records 300th career winCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men’s basketball team dropped both games during its New York road trip this past weekend, falling 61-59 at Cor-nell on Friday and 77-68 to Co-lumbia on Saturday. The two de-feats leave Brown next-to-last in the Ivy League at 2-6 (7-16 over-all).

As far as Head Coach Craig Robinson was concerned, his team played two completely different games this weekend, managing to keep one close but getting beaten handily in the other.

“I think in the Cornell game, we played well enough to stay in the game and win it in the end,” he said. “Conversely, in the Co-lumbia game, we didn’t play well, but we were in it at half. Then we come out after half-time with three straight turn-overs, and when you’re on the road, you can’t play that way.”

The fi rst half saw both teams struggle from the fi eld, as the Bears hit just 36.4 percent of their shots — better than the Big Red’s 34.5 percent clip. The two teams were tied 25-25 at in-termission, but rather than ex-pressing disappointment over the low-scoring fi rst half, Rob-inson was pleased that his team kept the game close.

“The game (was) very impor-tant to us and very important to Cornell,” he said. “There was

pressure to play well, and when-ever you have that pressure, it’s tougher to make shots against two good defenses. I call those grind-‘em-out games, and it’s al-ways nice when you can keep a team around 30.”

Brown managed to take a 34-32 lead at the 15:05 mark of the second half, but Cornell re-sponded with a 10-0 run over the next three minutes for a 42-34 advantage. True to the form of several games this season, Bruno would not go quietly and closed the gap to two points sev-eral times in the last fi ve min-utes.

“It wasn’t too damaging to come back from, because teams go on runs,” Robinson said. “It’s just part of the game. You have to withstand their storm, and if you do that, you’ll have one of your own.”

Brown had an opportunity to either tie or win the game with 25 seconds remaining when Mark McDonald ’08 pulled down the rebound on a missed Big Red shot with the Bears trailing 61-59. Co-captain Mark McAndrew ’08, who fi nished with a double-double of 17 points and 13 re-bounds, had an open look from the corner, but his attempt was long, and Brown had another close loss to ponder.

“It was a play that we had set up specifi cally for him,” Robin-son said of McAndrew’s shot.

Sloppy play leads to two more losses for m. hoops in New YorkBY CHRIS MAHRSPORTS STAFF WRITER

BY BENJY ASHER

W. water polo dominates at weekend’s Ivy Tournament

The women’s water polo squad capped a sterling fi rst weekend with an 11-4 home victory over Harvard in the Ivy Tournament’s championship game on Sunday. Bruno, now 3-0 against varsity opponents and 6-0 overall, perse-vered through a grueling tourna-ment schedule to emerge unde-feated, gaining important expe-rience for the remainder of the season.

The Bears began their sweep with comfortable wins Saturday over club teams from Yale and Penn, cruising to lopsided scores of 17-1 and 19-1. Their fi rst chal-lenge came later that afternoon from rival Wagner College. Wag-

ner, which had only played one game beforehand, came out charging, and Brown struggled to keep up.

Despite a quick opening goal by Elizabeth Balassone ’07, the Bears fell behind 4-2 by the end of the fi rst quarter. But they man-aged to regroup and tighten up defensively, shutting Wagner out in the second quarter and tying the score 4-4 on goals from Sarah Glick ’10 and Emily Schwartz ’08.

Bruno prevailed 10-8 after a hard-fought second half during which Glick scored twice more, giving her a game total of four goals to lead the team.

Bruno’s recovering of focus on the defensive end was key in

BY KYLE ROSENBLAD CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Jacob Melrose / HeraldHead Coach Digit Murphy (with her daughter) is honored on the ice after the win against Union. It was Murphy’s 300th career win.

Jacob Melrose / HeraldSavannah Smith ’09 had three goals and three assists in two Brown wins over the weekend.

Jacob Melrose / HeraldSarah Glick ’10 notched two goals in Brown’s championship match against Harvard. Her efforts earned her second team all-tournament honors.

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