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Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter and Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene spoketo a group of seven at a forum responding to the decision to arm campus police Tuesday night.

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETThree of the nation’s top colleges thatdefied admission regulations to institutesingle-choice early action policies sawbig changes in the number of studentsapplying this year.

Harvard University,Stanford University andYale University all adoptedearly action policies this

year that prohibit college applicantsfrom applying early to other schools, butnot from applying elsewhere even afterthey are accepted.

Last year, Harvard’s early action pro-gram permitted students to apply simul-taneously to multiple early action

schools. But now Harvard early appli-cants may not submit any other earlyapplications, although they are not com-mitted to matriculate at Harvard ifaccepted.

The change has caused a significantdrop in early applications to the HarvardClass of 2008, with the number of appli-cants falling from 7,615 last year to 3,894this year.

At Stanford and Yale, the new policyreplaced binding early decision policies,bringing a 62 percent increase in applica-tions to Stanford and a 42 percentincrease to Yale, according to the NewYork Times.

Harvard expected the policy change to

decrease its applicant pool. “The peoplewho were applying to multiple otherplaces are no longer in our early system,”said Harvard Director of UndergraduateAdmission Marlyn McGrath Lewis. “Sothe number of applications has declinedto just about where we expected it to.”

For Stanford and Yale, the change tosingle-choice early action marks the endof binding early decision policies at bothschools, resulting in an increased earlyapplicant pool for this year.

The possibility for single-choice earlyaction at Brown is “certainly somethingthat we’re talking about,” said Director of

Applications jump with new policy at Stanford, Yale

Times article misleading,financial aid directors sayBY KIRA LESLEYPrivate universities with the wealthieststudent bases receive a larger share ofgovernment funding for financial aid,the New York Times recently reported.

But the numbers don’t tell thewhole story, according to financial aiddirectors at local colleges.

Some of this discrepancy is due tothe fact that schools with wealthierstudent bases also tend to have highertuition, said Michael Bartini, directorof financial aid at Brown.

Although the Times article pointsout that some expensive schools, suchas Sarah Lawrence College, receive lessfederal money than other schools withcomparable tuition, Bartini said the

difference might be attributable toschools’ abilities to document theirneed.

A computerized system that deter-mines financial aid allocations wasdevised in the 1970s, said HerbertD’Arcy, executive director of financialaid at Providence College. Up to thatpoint, distribution of governmentfunds was determined manually andthe process was subject to regionalnumber fudging, he said.

Under the new automated system,the government gleaned informationfrom individual university databases.

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Admins. clarifyDPS arming atpoorly attendedmeetingBY SARA PERKINSThe decision to arm campus police wasreached after careful consideration of com-munity concerns, administrators told theseven students who attended a forum onarming in Starr Auditorium on Tuesdayevening.

At the event, students aired concerns toVice President for Administration WalterHunter and Interim Vice President forCampus Life and Student Services DavidGreene, including the fact that city officialssuch as Mayor David Cicilline ’83 and WardOne Councilman David Segal are opposedto the move. Most of the questions wereaimed at the process of making the deci-sion and asked for specific informationabout why there was a need for officers tobe armed.

Hunter listed three situations in whichthe Department of Public Safety’s policy ofdisengagement had prevented an officerfrom acting effectively and where armedpolice officers could have acted more effec-tively, without necessarily even drawingtheir weapons. These included an incidentin which a Brown officer had interrupted anattempted rape but had to be called offfrom pursuing the man when the depart-ment learned the suspect was armed.

“There have been at least 10 situations inthe last 10 years” when armed officerscould have acted, Hunter said.

Of particular issue was the BrownPolice’s inability to make car stops becausethey are unarmed. Hunter referred to an

“Cranky”artist createsactivist cardsBY MERYL ROTHSTEINPresident George W. Bush makes KathConnolly ’89 cranky. And 8,000 peoplearound the country are about to learn justhow cranky she is when they open their hol-iday mail this year.

Last summer, she founded Card CarryingLiberal, a political card company with abrazenly liberal agenda, said Connolly, whois also senior assistant director at theSwearer Center.

Her premiere line of holiday cards com-bines traditional season’s greetings withanti-Bush sentiments. One card reads “trimthe tree/uproot the Bush.” Another displaysthe message “Dreaming of an old-fashionedWhite Christmas” on the front, but “and anew White House” on the inside.

After yelling at her newspaper all sum-mer long, Connolly said she decided tochannel her frustration by adapting her tra-dition of sending homemade cards tofriends and family into a political statement.

“I felt that it was going to be difficult togive a usual message of peace given all thethings that are happening in the world,” shesaid.

She said she wanted to capitalize on peo-ple’s habits of sending cards to voice a mes-sage of protest. “What if those messages alsopointed out that this would be a great timeto vote for someone else?” she said.

Connolly said she thinks of Card CarryingLiberal as a “broad grassroots program thatpaid for itself,” although it is, in fact, a pri-vate company. “I thought it would be a moreelegant commentary if this protest … tookthe form of a private company,” she said.And, “I thought it made the joke even fun-nier.”

She donates half of the profit to charitiesdetermined by votes customers place at theend of their order.

Connolly said the company is currentlybreaking even, but her cards are top-sellersat Okiedokie, a Providence gift shop,according to the store’s owner, JohannaFisher.

But this is not how she measures success,Connolly said.

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New campus journalpublished with “bigname,” as well asstudent authorscampus news, page 3

Nate Goralnik ’06 says“liberal antiwar nuts”do not represent theDemocratic Partycolumn, page 11

Marc Lanza ’06 picksNBA early season sur-prises, as well as whatwe all expectedsports column, page 12

W. basketball losesfour straight games inrecent play, bringingoverall record to 1-4sports, page 12

Wrestling pins downan impressive fourth-place finish at theKeystone Classicsports, page 12

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BY MICHAEL RUDERMANIn its first edition, “Perspectives: An Israel Review” boastsarticles by such big names as U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,Harvard University Professor Alan Dershowitz and BrandeisUniversity President Jehuda Reinherz, alongside Brown stu-dents and professors.

The culmination of a year-long effort, “Perspectives” wasprinted this fall. Two-thousand copies are being circulatedon campus.

Edited by Joshua Marcus ’04, the journal includes articlesboth critical and supportive of Israel, but all are built on thefoundation that Israel has a right to exist and defend its cit-izens, he said.

Megan Nesbitt, assistant director of Brown Hillel, saidshe was “impressed by the commitment to diversity ofopinion” that she witnessed as the journal was assembled.

Marcus said raising the level of discussion was his mostimportant commitment. He believes dialogue about Israelhas become too polarized and that there is a thirst for betterunderstanding and knowledge about the Middle Eastnation, he said.

“It’s really a breath of fresh air on campus,” he said.Alison Klayman ’06, who was one of 13 student authors,

called the journal “an incredible success” because “theoverwhelming reaction has been that people are impressedwith the wide range of topics and the quality of the arti-cles.”

The journal examines Israel from a political standpoint,but includes articles about “everything from Israeli archeol-ogy to Israeli cinema,” Marcus said. “So often, conversationabout Israel becomes so ‘sloganized’ that actual intellectualexploration about this place can be left by the wayside.”

President of Brown Students for Israel last year, Marcusobtained a $7,500 grant from the Avi Chai Foundation at thetime to compile the journal. He said he used connections

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The Brown Hillel, which is set to reopen in February, will keep 500 copies of “Perspectives: An Israel Review,” which it mayuse for fund-raising purposes. Many of the articles in the student-produced journal were written by big names like thepresident of Brandeis University and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

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incident where a police officersaw a car fitting the description ofone involved in an incident, butcouldn’t make the stop becausedoing so would have endangeredhim.

“To have an unarmed policeofficer make a car stop is aninsane action on the part of thedepartment,” said DPS Chief PaulVerrecchia.

Hunter said he was not sur-prised by any of the queries. Hecited the “broad-based support”for arming, particularly theUndergraduate Council ofStudents’ resolution. “Their sug-gestions were very constructive,”he said, and the concerns aired byUCS and students in forums andvia e-mail were taken intoaccount.

“We’re going to keep peopleinformed of what we’re doing”and have an open trainingprocess, he said.

Hunter promised that dormpatrols, which were the subject ofa Students for Sensible DrugPolicy petition signed by 1,600students in November, would end.

“Ending the dorm patrols issomething we’re going to do, andwe’re going to do it immediately,”he said.

One attendee said that, wherehe came from, people carriedguns to prevent police harass-ment. “Will Brown students have

an opportunity to counter-arm?”he asked.

Although the answer was a firm“no,” Hunter emphasized theinvolvement of students in vettingofficers and had Verrecchiadescribe the lengthy process ofchoosing officers to join the force,which involved tests with stan-dards “a little bit higher, I believe,than even in some of the munici-palities.” The candidates face aninterview committee made up ofdeans and a student representa-tive and undergo backgroundchecks for criminal activity andfor anti-social behavior in theirneighborhoods.

The process “looks at the can-didate to see how they fit into themission and goals of the depart-ment” and the Brown community,Verrecchia said.

If the student on the board ofselection doesn’t feel comfortablewith an applicant, the applicantdoesn’t continue in the process,Hunter said. Successful candi-dates, he concluded, “like theenvironment, like students andwant to make this place safe.”

Asked about alternative, non-lethal weapons, Hunter describedhis research into tazers, whichhave only a 21-foot range and aresingle-shot incapacitators. “Weare taking a look at tazers, (but)not as an alternative to firearms,”he said. Other options were con-sidered but rejected for theirinsufficient stopping power, hesaid.

Hunter and Greene acknowl-edged the University was actingagainst the advice of the mayor.

“We have a historically strongrelationship” with the city, butthat “doesn’t mean we’re going toalways agree with the people inthe administration of the city,”Hunter said.

Although University adminis-trators delayed their decision totake into account the city’s newcommunity policing initiatives,which include a new substationin University-owned space onBrook Street, and asked consult-ants Bratton Group LLC to re-examine their recommendationthat the police be armed in lightof the change, they did not

change their conclusions, Huntersaid.

Hunter said that an oversightstructure will involve students,faculty, staff and members of theProvidence community, and willexamine every situation in whicha weapon is drawn, even if it is notdischarged. There will also be“some appropriate civilian reviewof complaints against officers.”

But, because campus policeofficers are called upon to “play arole that they don’t play in a city,”including responding to medicalemergencies and student com-plaints and participating in thedisciplinary system, they will notrelease full police reports, Huntersaid.

“There are things in thosereports that are inappropriate toshare with the community,”Hunter said, including federallyprotected information. TheProvidence Police release theirincident reports with confidentialmaterial, like the names of rapevictims, removed.

“I would feel differently about itif there were a way to separate outthe criminal activity” from thesensitive information and privatesituations, Greene said.

UCS’ Wednesday night meetingwill allow time for students tovoice further concerns about arm-ing, according to an e-mail sent tothe community by the CouncilTuesday.

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

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from the Brown communityand simple persistence to solic-it submissions from high-pro-file writers. Half of the articles,selected after a call for submis-sions last spring, were writtenby students.

The money received fromthe grant was spent on publi-cation costs, Marcus said. Ofthe 2,500 hundred copiesprinted, 1,500 were left for dis-tribution to think tanks, mediaorganizations, governmentofficials and students. Fivehundred copies will stay withBrown Hillel, which may usethe journals for fund-raisingpurposes, Nesbitt said.

The journal is free and avail-able to students in the FaunceHouse post office this week, shesaid.

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


JournalAsked about alternative, non-lethal

weapons, Hunter described his research into

tazers, which have only a 21-foot range and

are single-shot incapacitators.“We are taking

a look at tazers, (but) not as an alternative to

firearms,” he said.

The money

received from the

grant was spent on

publication costs,

Marcus said.

years ago were able to docu-ment their needs for financialaid. I suspect that’s the casewith Sarah Lawrence,” D’Arcysaid.

Bartini and D’Arcy alsopointed out that the accuracyof the Times article has beenchallenged recently. Shortlyafter it ran, Mark Kantrowitz,founder of the financial aidWeb site FinAid.org, sent an e-mail to colleges around thecountry criticizing some of thearticle’s points, D’Arcy said.

According to the article,Brown received an average of$169.23 per student whoapplied for financial aid inorder to run its Perkins loanprogram in the 2000-2001 aca-demic year, whereas StanfordUniversity received $211.80and the median collegereceived only $14.38.

D’Arcy questioned the accu-racy of the Times’ analysis offederal aid data that producedthe article’s statistics.

“I really struggled on howthey came up with these dollaramounts,” he said.

The problem underlying all

of the issues surrounding dis-tribution of federal aid is ageneral lack of funding, Bartinisaid. Just because needy stu-dents at Brown receive morefederal money than needy stu-dents at some other schoolsdoesn’t mean the former aren’tdeserving of the funds, Bartinisaid.

In evaluating the federalfinancial aid distribution sys-tem, Bartini said it is importantto look at what’s best for allinstitutions.

For Bartini, this means“additional resources for allinstitutions,” he said.

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


the upperclassmen,” Brown said.“I feel good about this group ofguys, and I’m optimistic abouttheir ability to make some posi-tive steps forward for the pro-gram.”

Brown looks to challengePrinceton and Harvard’s domina-tion of the Ivy League. Additionaltests will come from Yale and adeep Columbia team. Thus farBruno has posted wins overUMass, URI and Navy and lossesto Dartmouth and Princeton.

“We’re going to continue tomove forward,” Brown said. “Youcan always get better at some-thing. You need to.”

The season continues Dec. 8when the team travels to Harvardto face last year’s runner-up.

Herald sports staff writer ChrisMahr ’07 covers men’s swimming.He can be reached [email protected].


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Aid D’Arcy questioned

the accuracy of the

Times’ analysis of

federal aid data that

produced the arti-

cle’s statistics.

“We’re going to con-

tinue to move for-

ward,” Brown said.

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Admission Michael Goldberger. “Officially, right now those

three schools are out of compli-ance with NACAC, which is thegoverning body of college admis-sion,” he said.

According to NACAC’s currentguidelines, an early action schoolcan not limit the number of earlyapplications submitted by a stu-dent, as long as these are to othernon-binding programs.

Brown will probably not makea decision until NACAC deter-mines whether the new admis-sion option is acceptable,Goldberger said.

“I don’t think we’ll make anychanges this year,” he said.

Goldberger said he was satis-fied with Brown’s early decisionprogram, saying he believed suchchanges do not significantlyaffect the end result of theprocess.

“In the end, I don’t thinkwhether you’re early action, earlydecision or multiple early actionchanges who ends up in yourclass by more than half a dozen

kids,” he said. “Kids are prettysharp about where they want togo, how they’re going to apply andwhat the policies are.”

Because the applicant pool issmaller under early decision,more attention can be given toeach application, Goldbergersaid.

But critics of early decision saythe policy can lead high schoolseniors to make premature deci-sions or limit their financial aidoptions, according to the NewYork Times.

“Stanford’s change I think sig-nified a recognition that bindingpeople early in their senior year isnot good for students, and wrong,as we believe it is,” Lewis said.

Goldberger said he agrees earlydecision may pose problems andis not a commitment to be takenlightly.

“We always advise kids that ifthey think that early decision isgoing to limit their financialoptions from other schools, thenthey shouldn’t apply early,” hesaid.

Herald staff writer Robbie Corey-Boulet ’07 can be reached [email protected].


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She said her Web site receivesroughly 100 visitors a day, and shehas sold more than 8,000 cards sofar.

“For me, if one person organ-ized a protest and 8,000 peopleshowed up, that’s wildly success-ful,” she said.

Connolly also measures her suc-cess by the feedback she hasreceived, like the order form that isnow hanging in her office with thewords, “Madam, you are a genius,”written on it in red calligraphy.

Equally encouraging, she said,was her first piece of hate mail, ane-mail about the separation ofchurch and state.

Connolly said she hopes hercards will increase awareness thatthere are a number of ways to bepolitically engaged.

Each of her cards comes with a“Card Carrying Liberal” member-ship card, entitling the bearer to“their own informed opinion,” andthe e-mails customers receivewhen they place an order andwhen the order is shipped includesa reminder to vote and to considertheir own forms of creative protest.

“Packing up a box is not socialchange,” she said, but she’s proudthat she’s doing something everyday to encourage people to endBush’s presidency.

She runs the company basicallyby herself, with help from herfriends, she said. When not work-ing full-time at the Swearer Center,Connolly checks electronic orders,responds to questions, packagesthe cards and brings them from the“shipping department,” alsoknown as her living room, to thepost office.

Connolly came up with theideas for the text and general con-cepts for the graphics, and LauraTan ’02 provided all the design forthe cards and Web site. Connollymet Tan through the SwearerCenter.

Connolly said she currently hasno plans to make Card CarryingLiberal her full-time job, thoughshe is working on a line of anti-SUVValentine’s Day cards, “because Ijust don’t like SUVs.”

So why is she so cranky?“George Bush puts me in a badmood,” she said. “I think it’s ’causeI’m a Brown grad.”

Herald senior staff writer MerylRothstein ’06 can be reached [email protected].


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rigid and serious conventions ofswimming competition, the meetis still regarded as a serious event.

The Brown squad outper-formed the Green in nine of 12events. Leading the way wasLarson, who swept both the one-and three-meter diving events.Following not too far behind, theswimmers, fighting in quartets,took first place in the 200-yardbreaststroke, 300-yard medleyand 500-yard free relays, as wellas shutting out both first and sec-ond places in the 100- and 200-yard free and the 200-yard backrelays.

Victorious, the Bears boardedthe bus once again and headedhome to the Ocean State. The fol-lowing morning, the road-wearyBears suited up once more to bat-tle the Princeton Tigers at home.Opening with a sensational 200-yard medley relay, consisting of

Jessica Brown ’05, Kopra,Elizabeth Wong ’06 and Daniels,the Bears were neck-and-neckwith their league rivals for thefirst part of the meet, down only11 points at the first diving break.

Making waves against theTigers were Daniels with a triplevictory, taking the 50- and 100-yard free and the 100-yard back;Ashley Wallace ’07 with a first-place finish in the 200-yard but-terfly; and Wong with the onespot in the 100-yard butterfly.Alexis Skoda ’05 and McCoyplaced second in the 200-yardindividual medley and 200-yardfreestyle, respectively. Despitethe strong resistance from theBears, Princeton managed topull away and secure their victo-ry.

The results of the weekend,however, could not be measuredby box scores alone.

“We came out of our biggestweekend of racing more focusedand more aware of who we are asa team,” Daniels said.

Her teammate Pullman

agreed, saying, “everyone swamwith heart — especially onSunday.”

The hard weekend in manyways brought the team togetherfor the first time, but it is definite-ly not the last.

Head Coach Peter Brown,opening his third season with theBears, said, “Overall we racedhard and, considering where weare at training-wise, posted timesthat indicate to me that we are ontrack to take things to the nextlevel in January.”

Along with their male counter-parts, the lady Bears will migratesouth over winter break to sharp-en their skills. The two squadswill resume competition againstthe Pennsylvania Quakers on Jan.17.

“The second half of the yearwill require stronger performanc-es from everyone,” Brown said,“(but) I am optimistic that, whenthings shake out by the end of theseason, we will be a better teamthan we were last year in bothswimming and diving.”


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lane with a fury. I believe hedeserves NBA player-of-the-month honors for November.

2. The Orlando Magic are theworst team in the league. How didthis happen? They were a playoffteam last year. They still have per-haps the best player in the NBA inTracy McGrady. They didn’t loseany players worth mentioning inthe off-season, nor have any ofthe non-playoff teams from lastyear gotten significantly better. Ithought maybe it was Doc Rivers’sfault after they started the seasonat 1-10, but then they fired himand went on to lose the next fivegames. They are on a 15-gamelosing streak and their recordstands at 1-15. With JuwanHoward, Drew Gooden andTyronn Lue, McGrady’s support-ing cast isn’t atrocious, but thisteam just can’t get it done. GrantHill’s career has less life in it thanMichael Jackson’s, but I feel baddissing him when his ankles arecrumbling worse than Jackson’snose. The blame for the team’sperformance can only be put onhis physiological deformitiesbecause everyone knows that ahealthy Hill paired with T-Machas NBA Finals written all over it.

3. The Timberwolves still can’t

make it happen. Minnesota wascredited with having one of thebest off-seasons in the leagueafter snatching Sam Cassell fromMilwaukee, Latrell Sprewell fromNew York and MichaelOlowokandi from the Clippers.Team executives believed theyfinally had given Kevin Garnettthe supporting cast he needed totake the Wolves out of the firstround of the playoffs, where theyhave exited seven — yes, SEVEN— seasons in a row. They havebeen disappointing at best thisseason with a 9-7 record, placingthem eighth in the WesternConference. It’s time to trade KGand rebuild because what they’redoing there isn’t working.

4. Vin Baker is making peoplecry like they’re at a chick flick.The feel-good story of the year:The guy came back from alco-holism and is averaging 15points and seven rebounds agame. There wasn’t a soul on theplanet who thought he couldresurrect his career after hisdecrepit performance last sea-son, when he averaged 5.2 ppgand 3.8 rpg. I cringed watchinghis awkward running on thecourt, his incessant travelingviolations and air-balled layups.Rumors had him showing up forpractice at noon with booze onhis breath. He goes to detox allsummer, sheds 20 pounds and isalmost back to his old self.

Boston fans cheer him everytime he touches the ball, andpractically every post-gamepress conference has a 20-minute session devoted to hisresurgence. Vinny is loving liferight now.

5. Sac-town isn’t ready to liedown. All the analysts wrote theSacramento Kings off this sea-son, claiming that with Webber’sinjury, Hidayet Turkoglu’s depar-ture and Vlade Divac’s agingbody, the team would no longerserve as the third member of thebig trio (Lakers, Spurs andKings). Yet the Kings are rightthere at 11-4 with the third-bestrecord in the league. Theyhaven’t actually lost that muchdepth. Brad Miller, an All-Starlast year, is more than an ade-quate replacement for Turkoglu.He’s currently averaging close to14 points and 10 boards pergame. Mike Bibby, BobbyJackson and especially PejaStojakovic have stepped up inthe absence of the team’s bestplayer. Webber should be backbefore 2004. If everyone returnsand the team retains its health, Isee the Kings as being a clear-cutsecond to the all-star team play-ing in Los Angeles (and I don’tmean the Clippers).

Marc Lanza ’06 writes a weeklycolumn. Oh, that’s right. You’dbetter believe it.


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ing factor in the game. They shotalmost 40 foul shots and made 30of them, and we didn’t get to theline as much as they did.”

Mitchell and Hayes led thescoring for the Bears once again,each putting 11 points on thescoreboard for Brown.

In its match against UMass,Brown was up by 11 in the firsthalf, but lost the lead to UMass bythe end of the half. The secondhalf saw several lead changes, butin the last few minutes UMassscored six unanswered points toend the game 55-52.

Tuesday night’s game at home

brought the Bears another lossagainst Rhode Island, butRobertson managed a double-double with 10 points and 10rebounds. Tanara Golston ’04brought on a season-high eightassists along with eight points.Although the team led by onepoint at the end of the first half,16 turnovers led to 20 points forthe Rams, which would continue

their lead for the last eight min-utes of the game.

Despite the ups and downs ofthe last few weeks, team mem-bers said the team has a lot tolook forward to in the comingmonths. With new assistantcoaches and talent, the Bearshave an optimistic outlook on theseason.

“Our defense is definitely thestrongest part of our game and wehave great team chemistry. That’sgoing to override any small prob-lems that we come into contactwith in the future,” Conrad saidbefore the Rhode Island game.

Herald staff writer Jinhee Chung’05 covers women’s basketball.She can be reached [email protected].


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part of our game and

we have great team

chemistry.”

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No excusesOne secretary armed with a black marker negates the Brown administra-

tion’s entire argument against releasing full police reports.

If a member of the community or the media wants to understand the

details of the Providence Police’s response to a crime — be it a triple homi-

cide or a 10-second fight outside a bar — they can receive all relevant infor-

mation simply by walking into the PPD’s record office and requesting a

police report. An administrative assistant then prints the report and, if the

crime involves a sexual assault or the victims are minors, blacks out any

information that could reveal sensitive information.

Brown’s police do “play a role that (Providence Police) don’t play” in the

city, as Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter suggests. PPD do

not respond to medical emergencies or participate in the University’s pri-

vate disciplinary system. But just because Brown Police obtains some infor-

mation, often sensitive, that cannot — and should not — be released to the

public does not mean all other information legitimately in the pubic inter-

est should also remain hidden.

There is no justifiable reason for why the Department of Public Safety

does not simply black out a victim’s name, address and identifying traits

and then provide a full account of the crime and police activity.

The other concern raised by Interim Vice President for Campus Life and

Student Services David Greene — that criminal activity cannot be separat-

ed from sensitive information — is also without merit. That same secretary

with a black marker could determine whether a report deals with a crime or

a “closed” incident. And just as every public police force in the country

trusts its employees to make that distinction when releasing information

about sexual assaults, DPS could easily trust almost any of its staff to make

that decision on a case-by-case basis.

The cost to the community was considerable before DPS officers were

armed and will only become more serious when the police receive their

guns. Were the November break-ins on Wriston Quad isolated incidents, or

did they come after a string of reports of suspicious persons in the build-

ing? Are off-campus parties really getting more out of control, or are neigh-

bors portraying Brown students unfairly? Most importantly, how do mem-

bers of the Brown community know their police need guns if they do not

have access to the full reports of DPS responses to violent assaults?

Since announcing its arming decision, the administration has empha-

sized that it will proceed only with maximum transparency and community

input. These claims remain hollow so long as DPS officers can continue to

operate without any fear of their actions being independently scrutinized.

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Antiwar freaks are stealing the Democratic Party“A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL,” BOBDylan sang in 1963. Liberal Democratsthink every day is a rainy one in Bush’sAmerica, but a new study by the PewResearch Center shows the hard rain isfalling on the Democrats, whose partyaffiliation has slipped from 51 percent ofAmericans in 1977 to a mere 31 percent in2003. What’s going on here? No, HowardDean, it’s not that the “Democratic (read:anti-war) wing of the Democratic Party” isunder assault by a neoconservative cam-paign of mass deception. The problem isthat the Democratic Party has beenhijacked by liberal antiwar nuts who donot represent Democrats and do not rep-resent America.

You see, the Democratic Party usedto stand for something very differentfrom what it stands for today. Whileinward-looking Republican admin-istrations were asleep at the wheelduring the 1920s, Wilson, FDR andTruman fought evil on everyfront so that kids around theworld could grow up in freesocieties. Like their pred-ecessors, Kennedy andJohnson loved America,and they were notembarrassed to use forceto promote justice andprosperity in the face ofcommunist aggres-sion. (And no, they did-n’t care what Francehad to say.)

Does this remind any-

one of the current president? It should. Nowonder many of today’s neoconservatives(the staunchest support of the Iraq war,including neocon godfather Irving Kristol)were Democrats during the 1960s. More onthat in a moment.

But the Vietnam War profoundly alteredDemocratic values. In the hippie movement,opposition to the war converged with arejection of authority and of American val-ues in general. By 1969, the Party’s activistcore was growing increasingly opposed tothe war and increasingly disillusioned withthe overall strategy of containing commu-nism. The result was the disastrous candida-cy of George McGovern, who ran not just

against the Vietnam War, but against theentire Truman/Kennedy tradition ofintervening abroad to safeguarddemocracy. What followed was twodecades of disappointing candi-dates, all of them soft on commu-nism and weak on defense. The

party ceased to representAmerica in its struggle for

freedom and insteadturned inward, panderingto a loose coalition ofnarrow-minded special

interest groups whilethe Republicans werebusy winning the ColdWar: so began the

Party’s downward spiralin the polls.

Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson made theTruman/Kennedy Democrats’ last stand,running against Carter for the 1976 nomi-nation on a classic, pro-intervention plat-form. The Jackson camp included NormanPodhoretz, one of the oldest and mostnotorious neocons; Frank Gaffney Jr., amajor neocon intellectual and outspokensupporter of the Iraq war; Elliot Abrams, asenior official in the Bush administration;and William Kristol, the prominent neoconwho founded The Weekly Standard. ButJackson’s pro-American agenda could notsurvive in the post-hippie DemocraticParty, which nominated Carter and usheredin four years of shamefully weak foreignpolicy. And so Jackson’s supporters wereforced to embrace Reagan, the only candi-date willing to defend America againstcommunist aggression. These men didn’tleave the Democratic Party: the DemocraticParty left them.

Today, Americans shaken by the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks desperately needstrong leadership in a dangerous world.But once again, wildly anti-war activistswho are way out-of-step with the pro-warDemocratic mainstream are running theshow, donating the money, attending therallies and going to the polls. As analystCharlie Cook has shown, very liberalDemocrats are massively over-represent-ed among the so-called “likely primaryvoters” you see in the polls. Thus, the pollnumbers are misleadingly tilted in favor

of unelectable antiwar candidates likeHoward Dean, leaving mainstreamDemocrats disenfranchised. AverageDemocrats are losing out. The party isbeing hijacked.

Bruce Reed, chairman of theDemocratic Leadership Council, worriesthat if presidential candidate HowardDean pulls the party too far to the (anti-war) left, “It’ll be a disaster for the partyand the country.” He’s right. Democratscan only fight for freedom at home if theirleaders are willing to fight for freedomabroad. Nothing unites the American peo-ple like a strong foreign policy, whichreaches across partisan lines and gives allAmericans a sense of security andstrength. When Bill Clinton took a hard-line stance on Iraq in 1998, even the fire-breathing Republican Senator Trent Lott,declared, “Despite any current controver-sy, this Congress will vigorously supportthe president in full defense of America’sinterests throughout the world.”

It’s time to put an end to the vast exo-dus of proud Americans from theDemocratic Party. FDR, Truman, Kennedyand Reagan were successful not justbecause they were more competent thantheir opponents, but because theyinspired Americans to unite behind ourcommon values and the idea of a strongAmerica leading the free world. Cynicalanti-war extremists have stolen too manyDemocratic nominations. It’s time for truecore Democrats, who love America andare not afraid to defend it, to take the partyback.Nate Goralnik ’06 shouts out to his hot neighbors in Unit 2.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

DECEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 12

Early surprisesof NBA season SOME THINGS WERE JUST EXPECTED TOhappen in the NBA this season. TheLebron-Melo Show has been hyped upsince Draft Night and has thus far lived up

to expectations.Everyone knew theregular seasonwould just be atime for the Lakersto relax and stretch

out before they hold a victory parade indowntown LA next June. They’ve cruised toa 14-3 record, the best in the NBA, and arean undefeated 10-0 at home. Also, it haspretty much been established that the onlythree certainties in life are death, taxes andthat the Clippers will perennially suck.

But what about the unexpected? Whathas shocked basketball gurus Dr. JackRamsey, David Aldridge and Marc Lanza?Here’s a list of the early season’s surprises:

1. Baron Davis is the MVP of the firstmonth. Out of nowhere, the guy is third inthe league in scoring (24.3 ppg) and assists(8.2 apg), second in the league in steals(2.82 spg) and fourth in minutes (40.6mins). He has led a team with practicallynobody to an 11-6 record, good enough forfourth best in the NBA. In his short careerhe has been plagued with back problemsthat have prevented him from becomingthe star the Hornets hoped they draftedwith the third pick in 1999. Now he hasshed 15 pounds and is in the best shape ofhis career. He’s been draining threes (bythe way, he leads the league in three-pointers made) and slashing through the

see LANZA, page 9

MARC LANZASPORTS COLUMNIST

Ciarcia ’04 leadswrestlers to 4th atKeystone Classic

dspics

Tanara Golston ’04 (left) has been the team’s defensive stopper while Nyema Mitchell ’04has dominated the opposition’s frontcourt and made the All-Tournament team.

W. basketball opens season withvictory but loses four in a row

M. swimmersseek to outpacelast year’s times

W. swimmers open Ivy actionwith one win on long roadtrip

BY CHRIS MAHRAfter a 4-7 regular season record and aneighth-place finish at the EISLChampionships last year, the Brownmen’s swimming and diving team looksto move up in the Ivy League this year.

Led by Co-Captain Jefferson Moors’04, a returning Second Team All-Ivymember, Eric Brumberg ’06, anotherreturning Second Team All-Ivy memberin the 400 individual medley, and co-Captains Brian Wood ’04 and Tim Wang’05, Brown is poised to surpass last year’send results.

“We want to be better than last year,”said Head Coach Peter Brown. “Thatencompasses a lot: team records, dualmeet records and NCAA bids. The pri-mary focus is just swimming faster.”

Three meets into the season, Brunolooks impressive, thanks in part to a vig-orous month of training leading up tothe season, Brown said.

“So far we’ve competed well, and Ifeel good about our training founda-tion,” he said. “The thing you do in thefall is train hard and see where you’re at.If you don’t establish certain things inthe fall you won’t have anything to buildon.”

The optimism around this year’steam can also be attributed to goodleadership and growing team chemistry,he said.

“What kind of team you havedepends on the leadership you have,and we have some good leadership from

BY CRAIG MCGOWANThe Brown wrestling team grappled itsway to a fourth-place finish at theKeystone Classic on Nov. 23. Ridingthe championship efforts of CaptainNick Ciarcia ’04, the Bears scored 97.5points, behind Rider, host Penn andfirst-place Hofstra.

“I thought we were improved fromthe week before,” said Head CoachDave Amato.

Ciarcia, wrestling at the 184-poundweight class, defeated opponents fromPenn, Boston University and Hofstraen route to his title. Currently rankedNo. 12 in the nation according toAmateur Wrestling News, Ciarcia best-ed No. 17 Brad Christie of Hofstra inthe semifinals 5-2 and defeated No. 13Paul Velekei of Penn in the finals 3-2.

Ciarcia was not the only Brownwrestler to shine that Sunday. CaptainDavid Dies ’04, coming off of his victoryat the Bearcat Open on Nov. 15, placedsecond at 149 pounds. After a dominat-ing first match, in which he pinnedMatt Burton of the Virginia MilitaryInstitute in 2:32, Dies defeated ChrisVondruska of Hofstra 3-2 and TidePrater of Virginia Tech 6-0. In the finals,Dies wrestled a close match with ReedCarpenter of Virginia Tech before falling3-1. Carpenter has since moved to No.17 in the Amateur Wrestling News rank-ings, while Dies is ranked 18th.

At 157 pounds, Brown had twowrestlers place with Mike Savino ’06taking fifth place and David Saadeh’06 taking sixth. Saadeh, who wasunseeded, defeated No. 5 AndrewDonofrio of Virginia Tech to advanceto the quarterfinals.

Brown had several wrestlers loseclose matches in the quarterfinals,including Clinton Hicks ’05 at 125pounds, Dan Appello ’06 at 133pounds and Mike Ashton ’05 at 141pounds. After losing, however, theBears came back in the consolationbrackets, with Appello taking sixthplace.

“I felt after our guys lost the firsttime, they wrestled hard to place ashigh as they could,” Amato said.

Several additional wrestlers placedfor Brown, as Sean Jenkins ’04 at 165pounds and Mike Pedro ’06 at 174pounds took third place in theirweight classes and Lee Beane ’06 atheavyweight placed fourth. Jenkinscame up short in a 5-2 decisionagainst Ralph Everett of Hofstra in thesemifinals, but wrestled back to defeatChris Smith of Virginia Tech 3-2 forthird place.

Pedro also lost in the semifinals,falling to Matt Herrington of Penn 10-4. Like Jenkins, Pedro wrestled back inthe consolation bracket, topping GregCallahan of Penn 6-3 for third place.Beane lost in the semifinals toCarmelo Ferraro of Rider 3-1 and thenfell to Jared Hymen of American 8-2 inthe consolation finals.

Brown heads west for the Las VegasOpen next weekend. Unlike theKeystone Classic, Brown will only beallowed to enter one wrestler perweight class. Wrestle-offs for the varsi-ty lineup will take place this week todetermine the roster for the Las VegasOpen.

Herald staff writer Craig McGowan ’07covers wrestling. He can be reached [email protected].

BY JINHEE CHUNGThe women’s basketball team returnedfrom a tough weekend in Fairfield, drop-ping two games to Delaware and UMass inthe Coca Cola Classic. The Bears thenreturned home Tuesday night to meet asimilar fate against Rhode Island with a64-59 loss, bringing them an overall recordof 1-4.

The team opened up the season athome on Nov. 21 with a 69-52 victory overFairleigh Dickinson. Holly Robertson ’05and Nyema Mitchell ’04 led the Bears inscoring, with 19 and 18 points, respective-ly. Together, Robertson and Mitchell made70 percent of their shots by the end of thegame.

Brown’s Nov. 26 match pitted the teamagainst Illinois-Chicago. Although theBears were down 12 points at halftime, thewomen managed to claw their way back to59-59 by the end of four quarters. ColleenKelly ’06 led the Bears on offense, scoring

11 points in the first half alone, and team-mate Sarah Hayes ’06 scored with 12 sec-onds remaining to tie the game

Despite relinquishing their lead to theBears, the Flames came back in overtime,taking the lead for good late in the period,with a final score of 76-71.

“We started out pretty good, beatFairleigh Dickinson, and then we had atough loss against Chicago right beforeThanksgiving,” said Andrea Conrad ’05.“We only lost the Chicago game by a few,so we played well. Our defense was prettysolid, but we just couldn’t finish on theoffensive end at some points.”

The following Delaware and UMassgames during Thanksgiving Break turnedout to be close matches as well.

“On Saturday we played well againstDelaware, but got into a lot of foul trou-ble,” Conrad said. “That was the determin-

BY ARON GYURISThe women’s swim team opened up its Ivyschedule with a big triple-header weekendon the road, facing its two biggest rivals,Harvard and Princeton, as well as an up-and-coming squad from Dartmouth. Theweekend started off Nov. 21 with a disap-pointing 198-102 loss to the Crimson, con-tinued the next day with a 130-75 domina-tion of the Big Green and culminated onNov. 23 with the exhausted Bears falling tothe Tigers, 178-122. The late addition ofthe Sunday meet against Princeton pro-vided the Bears with the unique opportu-nity of simulating the endurance-demanding Ivy League Championships,the season’s last meet, early on in the year.

“We decided as a team that we’d hit theweekend head-on and think of it as athree-day meet, like we will face in Marchat Ivies — just with a lot more swimming,”said Co-Captain Elizabeth Daniels ’04.

Daniels, true to her words, finished first

in both the 50- and 100-yard freestyle inCambridge. Despite her strong showing,as well as first-place finishes by JessicaLarsen ’06 in the three-meter diving andthe 400-free relay team, the Harvard teamultimately outscored the Bears. (Co-Captain Emily McCoy ’04, Eileen Robinson’06, Toni Pullman ’04 and Daniels com-prise the 400-free relay team.) Second-place finishes went to McCoy in the 200-yard free, Emily Brush ’07 in the 100-yardbackstroke and Karlyanna Kopra ’07 in the100-yard breaststroke.

Back on the bus, the Bears headednorth to Hanover, NH. The meet againstDartmouth, consisting of all relays, isunorthodox in that it features such uncon-ventional events as the 300-yard medleyrelay, the 200-yard backstroke relay andthe 100-yard free relay. Although theevents at the meet may not conform to the

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