Offi cially, his course is canceled, but that won’t stop G.E. Erikson, professor emeritus of medical sci-ences, from teaching it anyway.

Since he retired in 1990, Er-ikson had been teaching a Uni-versity course every semester pro bono, he said. But late in De-cember, he received a letter from Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron telling him that his two classes, one that would have been

taught this semester and another in the fall, had been canceled be-cause they were not affi liated with any department, which violated University rules.

After receiving the letter, Er-ikson decided he still wanted to teach. So he will, by holding “Ven-tures in the History of Biology, Medicine, and Public Health,” formerly UC 102, as an informal course twice a week over this se-mester. It will be free of charge, he said, to Brown students, commu-nity members and whoever else

wants to attend.“It’s something that I very

much enjoy learning about and helping other people learn about,” he said.

Still, Erikson said he was up-set with the way University of-fi cials canceled his classes. The former professor said he told ad-ministrators about the affi liation problem in 2005 and offered to work with them to fi nd a solu-tion. But he said Bergeron and the University decided to cancel his classes without consulting

him fi rst, a move the veteran pro-fessor, who had taught at Brown since 1965, called “unfair” and “unjust.”

“It’s inconceivable that they treated me this badly,” Erikson said. “It’s certainly not collegial, not hearing my side of the story … and wiping my course out.”

Bergeron said in an e-mail to The Herald that Erikson’s class-es were canceled because they lacked “proper departmental

In October 2002, then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75 of Rhode Island was the lone Senate Republican to vote against authorizing the invasion of Iraq. “The last thing we want is “The last thing we want is “unnecessary confl ict,” he told The Herald on Monday.

This semester, Chafee will lead an undergraduate study group at Brown centered on the same belief — that nations should try their best — that nations should try their best —to avoid violent confl ict.

Chafee joined the Watson Insti-tute for International Studies Jan. 7 as a distinguished visiting fellow, the fi rst former senator from Rhode Island to join the institute, accord-ing to Associate Director Geoffrey Kirkman ’91.

“(The job is) perfect because in-ternational relations was the area I

enjoyed most in my time at the Sen-ate,” Chafee said.

Chafee said he is looking for-ward to “the chance to do some-thing different” from politics. Af-ter graduating from Brown in 1975 with a degree in classics, he worked as a farrier, a blacksmith who shoes horses, in Montana and Canada for several years before he returned to the Ocean State and was elected to the Warwick City Council in 1986.

In 1992 he became mayor of Warwick, and in 1999 then-Gov. Lincoln Almond appointed Chafee to fi ll his father’s Senate seat after John Chafee passed away. Chafee won a full term in 2000, but he was defeated in his re-election bid by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in November.

“It’s been a long stretch of being

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After two years of planning, the $4 million Susan and Richard A. Friedman Study Center is now open to students as a 24-hour study space. Located in the base-ment, lobby and mezzanine lev-els of the Sciences Library, the 27,000-square-foot center con-tains new, brightly colored fur-niture, a cafe and dozens of new computers.

The SciLi basement — Level A — now houses over 65 com-puter workstations, a multime-dia workstation area, two con-ference rooms, eight private group-study rooms featuring dry-erase walls and an assistive technology room for the vision and hearing impaired.

The center has also been out-fi tted with entirely new lighting

and furniture, some designed for “serious study” and some “nap-worthy,” according to Katherine Wolford, project di-rector for Campus Life and Stu-dent Services. The basement windows now look out onto sev-eral new gardens, some still un-der construction, on the library terrace, while the main SciLi reference and checkout servic-es, previously located in the lob-by, are now on Level A.

Though the fl oor structural-ly comprises one large, rectan-gular room, furniture and deco-rative barriers break it into sev-eral sections. Signs with deci-bel levels, ranging from zero to 50, denote how quiet students should be in a specifi c area.

The revamped lobby con-tains the new Friedman Cafe,

Friedman Study Center opensBY STEPHANIE BERNHARDFEATURES EDITOR

Canceled course won’t stop professor from teachingBY STU WOOFEATURES EDITOR

President Ruth Simmons is not a serious candidate for the presiden-cy of Harvard University, accord-ing to a Jan. 10 report in the Har-vard Crimson, but her name con-tinues to appear in media reports covering the school’s search for a new leader. Perhaps in response to those reports, Simmons blunt-ly indicated Tuesday that she will not be leaving for Harvard.

“I feel extremely fortunate to do what I do at Brown. I can think of no better job. I am not a candi-date for the Harvard presidency,” Simmons said in a statement to The Herald.

In December 2006, Simmons was one of 30 potential candidates on a list that Harvard’s nine-mem-ber search committee gave to the school’s Board of Overseers, as reported by the Crimson and the New York Times. But since then, that list has been pared down and no longer includes any Ivy League presidents, according to reports leaked to the press over the past several weeks.

Convincing someone to take what many consider the most prestigious job in higher educa-tion is not as easy as it sounds. Simmons gave her fi rst explic-it denial yesterday, and offi cials from Columbia, Princeton, Stan-ford, the University of Cambridge and the University of Pennsylva-nia, among others, have all said they would not accept Harvard’s presidency.

Simmons, who earned her Ph.D. at Harvard, originally sug-gested to a group of parents at an Orientation event in September that she would not accept a posi-tion at the Cambridge, Mass., uni-versity.

“I was just saying that I was very happy and satisfi ed to be at Brown and that I could think of no better job,” Simmons said in a September interview with The Herald. “I think I even conceded

Simmons not in running for top job at HarvardBY ROSS FRAZIERNEWS EDITOR

Though she hid it well behind a smile, Deek-sha Gupta ’10 had a marathon travel jour-ney back to Brown. After a four-hour drive from her hometown of Chandigarh, India to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Del-hi, 10 hours on a plane to London’s Heath-row Airport, a 20-hour stopover in England, seven hours on a second plane to Boston, a missed bus at South Station, a commuter rail ride to Providence, a taxi cab to Brown and a swan dive into her bed in Keeney Quadrangle, Gupta was fi nally back.

“I was literally falling over by the time I

made it here,” said Gupta, who was feeling the effects of a 10.5-hour time difference. “Once I got into bed, I thought I’d never leave.”

In addition to jet lag, Gupta has had to adjust to the biting Providence weather, which dipped into the teens over the week-end. But Gupta said that the greater con-trast was the presence of snow, which is sel-dom seen in her Indian hometown.

“It’s really pretty,” Gupta said of the white patches dotting the Main Green. “But it’s cold.”

In nearby Caswell Hall, California native Autumn Graham ’09 adjusted to the cold weather by trying to keep her mind off of

it and thinking instead about all the work ahead of her as classes start.

“When I came in, I felt pure dread at the sight of snow, but now it’s not so bad,” she said. “I have a two-page to-do list, so I don’t have time to think about snow — I’m stress-ing out.”

One item on Graham’s list is planning a spring break trip, which for now is a men-tal refuge of sun and warmth from the grey skies of Providence.

“I’m really happy to see all my friends,” she said. “But break is never too short.”

For Jill Lambiase ’10, the trip back to Brown hit a rut when, minutes before her arrival on campus, she realized that she had

forgotten her laptop at home. Luckily for her, Lambiase’s home is East Greenwich, R.I., so she made a quick U-turn and drove 15 minutes back to her house.

With no redeye fl ight, no jetlag and no weather change, Lambiase’s return to Brown has been relaxed.

“I’ve been sleeping in a lot, so the big-gest adjustment for me will be waking up early for class,” she said. Then she smiled and added, “On second thought, there might not be much adjustment at all.”

Transition to life at Brown has been eas-ier still for Meredith Daniels ’07, who spent

Snow and State of the Union mark students’ return to campusBY CHAZ FIRESTONE SENIOR STAFF WRITER

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Christopher Bennett / HeraldFormer Senator Lincoln Chafee ‘75 in his offi ce at the Watson Institute.

Christopher Bennett / Herald/ Herald/The Friedman Study Center in the Sciences Library, now open to students, ad-dresses the long-standing need for a 24-hour study space on campus.

Chafee takes Watson postBY SIMMI AUJLAMETRO EDITOR

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NO CREDIT HURTS J-TERMIts 19 participants loved January@Brown, but UCS representatives and admin-istrators are looking to in-crease enrollment

MOCHA: A YEAR LATERThe student-created on-line course catalog cel-ebrates its second spring shopping period but faces an uncertain future

QUIGLEY THROWS DOWNSean Quigley ‘10 takes on Sean Quigley ‘10 takes on Sean Quigleypolitical correctness, the Ver-botsgesetz and Europe’s new Iron Curtain

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Last month, the University ac-cepted 523 of the 2,307 early de-cision applicants to the Class of 2011 — making the University the most selective for early deci-sion admission in the Ivy League for the second consecutive year.

The early decision accep-tance rate at Brown, 22.7 per-cent, remained constant from the previous year. However, the actual number of accepted stu-dents decreased slightly as the number of early applications de-clined by about three percent.

The University rejected 293 applications, or about 12.7 per-cent of the applicants, accord-ing to Dean of Admission James Miller ’73. The remaining 1,491 applicants, comprising 64.6 per-cent of the pool, were deferred.

“It was a pretty strong group of people applying early deci-sion,” Miller said. “We ended up deferring a large number to compare them with the regular decision pool.”

With its 22.7 percent early decision acceptance rate, Brown remained the most selective in

the Ivy League for a second year, though early admission num-bers for Cornell were not avail-able. After Brown, Columbia had the second lowest acceptance rate at 24.4 percent, slightly be-low Princeton’s rate of 26.2 per-cent. The University of Pennsyl-vania accepted 29 percent of its early applicants, and Dartmouth accepted 29.7 percent. Cornell has not yet released early admis-sions fi gures, but last year it had the highest Ivy League accep-tance rate at 46.7 percent.

Harvard and Yale universi-ties, which have single-choice early action programs, were the most selective schools for ear-ly admission in the Ivy League. Yale accepted 19.7 percent of early applicants, while Harvard accepted 21.8 percent.

The gender imbalance — fe-males heavily outnumber males — among Brown applicants con-tinued this year. “It’s a national phenomenon,” said Miller. He estimated that males totaled only 41 percent of the early deci-sion pool. “It was about the same as last year.”

Next year, Princeton, Har-vard and the University of Vir-

ginia will eliminate their early admission programs, and Miller speculated that early admission statistics might change as a re-sult. “Everybody’s trying to fi g-ure out what it will mean,” Mill-er said. “It will have an effect. It may end up increasing applica-tion pools, but I don’t think any-one knows for sure.”

According to admission offi -cials, one possible result of the elimination of early admission programs at those schools is that both early and regular appli-cant pools might increase next year. Students who want the se-curity early admission programs provide might now apply to other schools with early admis-

sion programs, such as Brown. Also, those students who would have previously been accepted early to Princeton or Harvard and would not have applied else-where will now apply to a range of schools, raising the number of regular-decision applications na-tionwide.

Changes in the numbers of applicants and the acceptance rate might prove fascinating to admission offi cers and other observers, but to the applicants themselves, only one thing mat-ters — their own admission de-cision.

Daniel Mahr ’11, a senior at

The pilot run of January@Brown, the not-for-credit academic program held over win-ter break, has gotten mostly positive reviews from the program’s participants and from administrators involved in supervising it, de-spite garnering only one-fi fth the participa-tion that planners had hoped for.

Spearheaded by the Undergraduate Council of Students and supported in large part by a grant from the Offi ce of the Presi-dent, January@Brown enrolled just 19 stu-dents. Organizers said last semester they expected to cap enrollment at 100.

“I was surprised,” said Tristan Freeman ’07, vice president of UCS. “We were con-cerned at fi rst.”

But despite the unexpectedly small size of the pilot, most said January@Brown was a success. Many students said they en-joyed the tight-knit community, and all of the program’s teachers reported that their intensive classes were successful academ-ic experiences.

“We had hoped (the enrollment) would be higher,” said Russell Carey ’91 MA ’06, interim vice president for campus life and student services. “But I’m not discouraged at all.”

“For a pilot program, it was as successful as we ever could have hoped,” said Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron.

Because of the low enrollment, three of the six classes that UCS had selected from 17 proposals last semester were cancelled. The professors whose courses were can-celled were notifi ed in mid-December and were paid a “course development alloca-tion” for the work they had already done, said Ricky Gresh, director of student activi-ties, who supervised day-to-day operations of the program.

The 19 participants in the pilot program this month enrolled in one of three classes: “Caught in the Web: The Internet, Politics and Public Policy,” “From the Iron Age to the Iron Chef: Food, Culture and History” and “Storytelling and Urban Engagement: Providence Narratives.” The last course had 11 students, while the other two cours-

es had just a handful of students each.Sara Damiano ’08, academic and admin-

istrative affairs chair of UCS, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that initial feedback indi-cated some students were deterred by the $580 cost of the program, though fi nancial aid was made available. She also suggested that the low enrollment might be due to the fact that this was January@Brown’s fi rst year and that UCS did not begin publicizing the program until late in the fall semester.

But Freeman said the biggest problem facing January@Brown is the lack of aca-demic credit, which he said he tried to get for the program but failed.

“Right now, January@Brown is too short,” he said, adding that administrators do not yet want to award credit for the num-ber of hours spent in the winter courses. He said the lack of credit was “absolutely” the biggest reason for the discrepancy between the program’s actual enrollment and the sig-nifi cant interest in a January term that UCS had perceived among students.

In a WebCT poll conducted by UCS last spring, 58 percent of students said they

would consider participating in a winter pro-gram that was for credit.

Steven Cornish, associate dean of the College, whose planned course, “Revolting Styles: Resistance and Meaning in British Popular Culture,” was canceled due to low enrollment, wrote in an e-mail to The Her-ald that the only way to prevent a repeat of this year’s mistakes is to offer academic credit.

“That is a big step that I am not sure Brown is willing to take at this point,” he wrote.

Bergeron said, however, that she was “very interested in taking up the ques-tion” of of fering credit for the winter break program. “It seems very impor-tant,” she added.

But Antoinette Pole, postdoctoral re-search associate in public policy and in-structor of winter term course “Caught in the Web,” said offering the courses for cred-it could possibly diminish other aspects of the program that appealed to students.

U.’s early decision acceptance rate remains lowBY JAMES SHAPIROSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Low enrollment for January term pilot blamed on lack of creditBY MICHAEL BECHEKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Princeton University’s board of trustees agreed Sunday not to increase tuition for the 2007-2008 academic year. According to Princ-eton’s announcement, this is the fi rst time since 1967-1968 that there will not be an in-crease. Though tuition will remain steady at $33,000, room and board will be raised to $10,980 — a 4.2 percent increase in the to-tal cost per student. The school increased tu-ition by 4.9 percent last year and 5 percent in 2005.

Princeton offi cials said “strong perfor-mance by the university’s investments and generous giving by alumni” enabled the de-cision, and a committee composed of stu-dents, faculty and staff said the tuition freeze represents the university’s commitment to making the Princeton experience accessible “to all qualifi ed students.”

According to the College Board, tuition and fees increased an average of 5.9 percent nationally for the 2006-2007 academic year at private four-year colleges and universities. Colleges typically raise tuition annually to cover salary increases and other expenses.

Brown’s tuition for the next academic year will be set by the Corporation — the Univer-sity’s governing body — at its February meet-ing. Tuition for the current academic year is $33,888, and the total cost of $43,754 repre-sents an increase of 4.7 percent from the pre-vious year at the February 2006 meeting.

— Michael Bechek

Princeton board freezes tuition

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which sells hot and cold bever-ages, pastries, packaged foods, soups, sandwiches, sushi and sal-ads to go — all of which can be paid for with fl ex points. Students can eat in the basement or on the mezzanine.

The mezzanine has undergone few changes other than a new carpe. According to University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi, it will remain a quiet study space.

Planning for the Friedman Center began in February 2005 after the University received a $5 million gift from Susan Pilch Friedman ’77 P’08 and Richard A. Friedman ’79 P’08. The Friedma-ns chose to support a study center with their gift because students at the time expressed a “very clear need for accessible, safe, central 24-hour study space,” according to Russell Carey ’91 MA‘06, inter-im vice president for Campus Life and Student Services.

“An exciting thing about this project is that students who are here will actually be able to enjoy it,” Carey said, referring to the rel-atively short period between the Center’s inception and completion.

Unlike the Plan for Academic En-richment’s other physical expan-sion initiatives, many of which will take several years to complete, the Friedman Center has taken only two years to implement.

Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior advisor to the president, said the short turnaround was partly be-cause the Friedmans quickly pro-vided their promised fi nancial support.

“They were really excited about it,” Spies said.

The center that opened this week was an “incredibly imagina-tive way to use what was original-ly just a very big empty space,” he added.

“Whether you’re going to be there for half an hour or half a day, it’s going to be a place where you’ll feel comfortable,” Spies said.

To ceremonially open the new center, Campus Life and Student Services will host a celebration in the SciLi tomorrow at 11:30 p.m. The fi rst 100 students to show up will receive free gifts, and free food will be available throughout the event. A video iPod raffl e will take place at midnight.

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as a Harvard alum that that was a perfectly respectable place, and I wish them the best as they search for a president. I look forward to welcoming that person as a fellow president.”

But as coyness is a trademark of potential presidents being courted by search committees, not everyone was put at ease by Simmons’ earlier statement and her offi ce’s unwillingness to com-ment on the process over the past several months. Her counterparts at Princeton, Penn, Columbia and Cambridge gave more forceful and repeated denials of interest than she did.

But Simmons did tell the Prov-idence Journal in 2005, before ex-Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned, that the Brown presidency would be her last job.

Signs indicate Harvard may look internally to fi ll the top post, with law school dean Elena Ka-gan and Radcliffe Institute for Ad-vanced Study Dean Drew Gilpin Faust mentioned as likely candi-dates. Nobel laureate and bio-chemist Thomas Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is also said to be under-consideration.

Last year, Harvard professor Judith Ryan and Cornel West, for-mer Harvard and current Prince-ton professor, publicly suggested Simmons for the post.

She is also frequently men-

tioned in media reports on the issue. The Chronicle of Higher Education described Simmons as “among the names that came up most frequently,” and the New York Times published her photo with an article on the Harvard search earlier this month.

Simmons, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Princeton President Shirley Tilghman are probably named in media reports so frequently because they ful-fi ll many of the criteria Harvard may be seeking and not because they are actual candidates, said Stephen Nelson, an associate pro-fessor of educational leadership at Bridgewater State College and author of “Leaders in the Cruci-ble: The Moral Voice of College Presidents.”

“My guess is none of those women have ever been serious because of timing issues, not be-cause of their capacities,” Nelson said. Each of the three women is in the beginning or middle of her presidency, and all are generally well-liked and successful fund-raisers, so Harvard might be seen as acting in bad faith by hiring the leader of an institution with which it directly competes, Nelson said.

“If you’re going to steal a se-nior administrator from some-where else — like the University of Michigan — that’s one thing,” he said. “It’s another thing when you get more geographically proximate like in the Ivy League … but also in a fairly close colle-gial working relationship.”

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As students headed home for win-ter break at the end of last semes-ter, many took advantage of a new shuttle service to Providence’s T.F. Green Airport. Undergradu-ate Council of Students leaders and administrators both hailed the service as a student govern-ment initiative that benefi ted stu-dents.

UCS President John Gillis ’07 said the service, which ran 11 times each on Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 and seven times on Dec. 21, was “very successful” and proved even more popular than expect-ed.

“The service was well publi-cized,” said UCS Vice President Tristan Freeman ’07. “A lot of stu-dents heard about it.”

Gillis and other UCS members fi rst considered starting a shuttle service after learning that other universities, such as the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, had similar programs. UCS developed the program and handled logistics for the rides, and the University pro-vided most of the fi nancing. Gillis, who led the project, said UCS had originally expected that fi ve to 10 students would ride in each shut-tle, but 20 to 30 students showed up for each ride.

Gillis and other members of UCS determined that by provid-ing a centralized service to stu-dents, the University could lower the overall cost to the community. Gillis estimated that roughly 2,000 students fl y out of T. F. Green be-fore a long break. If students paid for their own shuttle services at $11 per shuttle ride, he estimat-ed the student body as a whole might spend between $10,000 and $20,000 on transportation ahead of each break. Instead of cost-ing students around $15,000, Gil-lis said organized shuttle rides would cost the University roughly $1,500 — and students could ride

for free.The Undergraduate Finance

Board determined that funding the shuttle service was outside its purview, said UFB Chairman Cash McCracken ’08, so UCS turned to Campus Life and Student Servic-es for fi nancing. Campus Life pro-vided most of the $1,500 cost, ac-cording to Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Ser-vices Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, and UCS helped foot the bill with money received last year through fundraising.

Though UCS had originally planned to rent a van, a school bus proved more cost-effective, and as students turned up in large numbers, the bus’s extra space proved useful, Gillis said.

Gillis said he hopes the ser-vice will continue and perhaps be repeated for spring and Thanks-giving break travel. He noted that operating a van service before these shorter vacations is easier than services provided at the end of exam periods because many students depart at once.

Gillis added that he hopes the money to run the shuttle will be provided by Campus Life in the future, since the service has prov-en popular with students. Free-man said he also hopes the ser-vice will be continued because it’s “really convenient” for students fl ying out of Providence.

Carey said Campus Life is “en-thusiastic about continuing it in some way.” His division will as-sess the program based on the number of students who used it in December and their feedback about the service, he said.

“(The shuttle is a) terrifi c ex-ample of an effective student gov-ernment initiative that we could partner with and make happen in a fairly short” timeframe, Carey said.

Freeman agreed. “(It’s) a re-ally good example of how UCS can make Brown a better place for students.”

Airport shuttle proves popularBY OLIVER BOWERSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The 34-year-old Smith Swim Center underwent extensive repairs to its roof over winter break after it was deemed unsafe for use by the Uni-versity. Structural problems in the building’s roof were fi rst detected in November, but the swim center was not closed until Dec. 20, when the fl aws were confi rmed by engi-neers and the original architect of the building. The center reopened for use on Jan. 17.

In a Dec. 20 University state-ment, Michael Chapman, vice pres-ident for public affairs and Universi-ty relations, said the University de-cided to close the swim center in or-der to “ensure the safety of Brown’s athletes and members of the local community who use the facility.”

Because the closure of the cen-ter occurred over winter break, the 14 athletic teams who use the facil-ity were not signifi cantly affected.

“I hate to put it this way, but the timing was pretty good,” said Mi-chael Goldberger, director of ath-letics.

Goldberger said those most af-fected by the closure were resi-dents of the community who have memberships to certain Brown athletic facilities. Goldberger said there are about 280 community memberships, which include both individual memberships and family memberships.

Kit Elsworth ’09, a member of the men’s swim team, said the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams were in Florida on a planned training trip for much of the period that the swim center was closed.

“We weren’t expecting it to open until mid-February, so we had a plan in place for what we were go-ing to do in the meantime, but for-tunately it opened shortly after we got back from Florida (on Jan. 16),” he said.

The men’s and women’s swim teams used facilities at Seekonk High School in Seekonk, Mass., for two days but were able to get back in the pool at the Smith Swim Center by Jan. 18. The diving team trained at Roger Williams College in the interim.

Elsworth said the teams didn’t notice any problems with the cen-ter during the fall season and he felt the University kept the teams who use the facility well-informed on the status of repairs.

Paul Dietel, assistant director of design and construction for Fa-cilities Management, said poten-tial problems with the facility’s roof were fi rst noticed in November dur-ing a follow-up inspection to locker room renovations. Benn & Associ-ates Inc., the company performing the inspection, noted areas in the roof in need of further review and recommended that Brown contact the original architect of the center before performing any repairs, Di-etel said.

The Smith Swim Center, which was built in 1973, has a hyperbolic paraboloid structure, a design pat-ented by the facility’s architect Dan-iel Tully.

According to Dietel, when Tully reviewed the facility on Dec. 19, he expressed concern over “structural asymmetry” in the center’s roof.

Swim center reopens after safety concernBY ZACHARY CHAPMANSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Eunice Hong / Herald

The Smith Swim Center was closed for nearly a month after engineers discovered structural fl aws in the building’s roof.

It has been a year since fi ve com-puter science concentrators decid-ed to re-invent the Brown Online Course Announcement as Mocha.

“It started over winter break last year,” said Daniel Leventhal ’07, who created the site along with friends Dave Pacheco ’07, Adam

Cath ’07, Dave Hirshberg ’08 and Bill Pijewski ’07. “We were just talking about how much BOCA sucks.”

“I just remember looking over BOCA and thinking, ‘This interface is so terrible, I bet I could spend a couple hours and make it way bet-

ter,’” Pacheco said.Hundreds of hours later, the

team had created Mocha, a stu-dent-run alternative to BOCA that was initially hosted on Pacheco’s computer before fi nding a perma-nent home on the Department of Computer Science’s server as mo-cha.cs.brown.edu.

Creating the service ended up taking more time than any of the

site’s creators said they had ever imagined, and they are still work-ing on it now. The team released an upgraded version of the site last week.

“(The site) looks better, makes more effi cient use of screen real estate, it works in more brows-ers,” Cath said, adding that many of the bugs corrected by the team were identifi ed by user-submitted

reports. Mocha appears popular among

students, and the site’s creators es-timate that as many as three-quar-ters of the undergraduate popula-tion has used the service, based on visitor tracking.

“I really like it,” said Sally Grap-in ’09. “It’s really useful for me, be

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STAFF WRITER

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WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDWEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2007 PAGE 7

WALTHAM, Mass. (Washington Post) — Former President Jimmy Carter flew north to Brandeis University to speak on Tuesday of his hurt at the personal attacks by some American Jews that fol-lowed publication of his latest book, “Palestine Peace Not Apart-heid,” which urges Israel to turn away from a policy of creating “Bantustans” on the West Bank.

“This is the fi rst time that I’ve ever been called a liar and a big-ot and an anti-Semite and a coward and a plagiarist.” Carter paused and squinted at the audience. “This has hurt me.”

At the same time, he acknowledged, with a fl ash of his trademark smile, that he did not simply stumble into the title of his new book. “I can see it would precipitate some harsh feelings. I chose that title knowing that it would be provocative.”

WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) — I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby feared that White House offi cials were conspiring to make him the fall guy in the CIA leak scandal and maneuvering to insulate political strate-gist Karl Rove out of concern that an indictment of Rove would dam-age the Republican Party, Libby’s lawyer argued Tuesday.

In opening remarks at the perjury and obstruction trial of the for-mer chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, defense attorney Theodore Wells Jr. portrayed Libby as a sympathetic fi gure who was following orders to rebut the claims of an administration war critic who was married to a CIA offi cial, Valerie Plame. But Wells said Libby came to believe he had lost the support of the administration he had sought to defend.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (Washington Post)— The Hezbollah-led oppo-sition cut roads in Beirut and across Lebanon with burning tires, uprooted trees, incinerated cars and barricades to enforce a strike Tuesday aimed at toppling the government, paralyzing the coun-try and embarrassing Lebanese officials ahead of an international aid conference. Clashes erupted along the country’s crisis fault lines, leaving at least three people dead and scores injured in the worst violence since the protests began in December.

Fires at dozens of barricades sent black smoke billowing against a pale blue sky, framing the capital in scenes redolent of war. Along the airport highway, the opposition sent trucks and bulldozers to pour more rubble on roadblocks set up by dawn, forcing some passengers to drag their luggage on foot to the air-port, where airlines canceled flights.

SAN FRANCISCO (Los Angeles Times) — The racial tensions of the civil rights era marched back into this city Tuesday when eight for-mer radicals — some now husbands, grandfathers and community organizers — were arrested in connection with the 1971 shotgun murder of a white police offi cer.

The men — including a real-estate appraiser and a Los Angeles Coun-ty employee both living in Altadena — were mostly taken into custody during early-morning raids in California, New York and Florida. They are accused of being part of what investigators called a fi ve-year conspiracy starting in 1968 to kill police offi cers throughout the United States.

A joint state and federal task force identifi ed seven of the arrest-ed as former members of the Black Liberation Army, a violent out-growth of the Black Panthers.

Jimmy Carter makes ‘peace’ mission to Brandeis but stands by controversial Mideast book

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3 dead as opposition paralyzes Lebanon

Defense lawyer says Libby was ‘sacrifi ced’

BY PETER BAKERWASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — President WASHINGTON — President WBush implored lawmakers and the nation Tuesday night to give him one more chance to win the war in Iraq and avoid the “nightmare sce-nario” of defeat while presenting a domestic agenda intended to fi nd common cause with the new Dem-ocratic Congress on issues such as energy and immigration.

Politically wounded but rhe-torically unbowed, Bush gave no ground on his decision to dispatch 21,500 more troops to Iraq despite a bipartisan cascade of criticism. Addressing for the fi rst time a Congress controlled by the other party, Bush challenged Democrats “to show our enemies abroad that we are united in the goal of vic-tory” and warned that the conse-quences of failure in Iraq “would be grievous and far-reaching.”

“I respect you and the argu-ments you have made,” Bush told skeptical lawmakers from both parties in his sixth State of the Union address and the fourth since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. “We went into this largely

united—in our assumptions and in our convictions. And whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure. Our country is pursuing a new strategy in Iraq and I ask you to give it a chance to work.”

With new House Speaker Nan-cy Pelosi (Calif.) sitting behind him in a sign of the power shift on Capitol Hill, Bush congratulated Democrats on their victory in the November midterm elections and reached out to them with ideas to expand health-care coverage, overhaul immigration laws and improve education performance. In his most ambitious new pro-posal, he laid out a plan to reduce projected gasoline consumption in the United States by 20 percent over the next 10 years.

“Congress has changed, but our responsibilities have not,” Bush said. “We are not the fi rst to come here with government divided and uncertainty in the air. Like many before us, we can work through our differences and achieve big things for the Ameri-can people.”

Yet his approach contrasted with the last two presidents to ad-dress an opposition Congress af-

ter their parties lost midterm elec-tions. Ronald Reagan conceded mistakes in 1987, as did Bill Clin-ton in 1995. Clinton moved to the middle so conspicuously that the opposition leader who gave the offi cial response noted that he “sounded pretty Republican.” Al-though Bush acknowledged two weeks ago that “mistakes have been made” in Iraq, he appeared unchastened Tuesday night and took no responsibility for his par-ty’s defeat or errors in offi ce.

Democrats seemed unim-pressed by his governing blue-print and signaled that they are in no mood to meet him in the mid-dle. Long before Bush arrived in the House chamber to deliver his remarks, Democratic leaders and allied interest groups rushed out statements blasting his domestic proposals as rehashed ideas, emp-ty rhetoric or fl awed concepts that would create other problems. But the divide between president and Congress was most infl amed by his leadership of a war approach-ing the four-year mark.

“The president took us into

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BY JOHN HORN AND GINA PICCALOLOS ANGELES TIMES

HOLLYWOOD — Most days, ev-eryone in Hollywood assumes the world revolves around them. But as the nominations for the Acade-my Awards proved, show business is revolving around the world.

In saluting movies that often were made outside the nation’s borders and that grappled with disquieting international issues such as terrorism, global warming and the personal costs of war and violence, Oscar voters on Tues-day honored a collection of mov-ies that were decidedly not Holly-wood-centric.

The plots of three best picture nominees (“Babel,” “The Queen” and “Letters From Iwo Jima”) unfold overseas. Four of the fi ve women competing for the best ac-tress Oscar (Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Kate Winslet) are not American. Brit-

ain’s Paul Greengrass (“United 93”) and Stephen Frears (“The Queen”) were nominated for best director, as was Mexico’s Alejan-dro Gonzalez Inarritu (“Babel”).

“The world is changing, and I think that the fi lm community is now a global fi lm community,” Gonzalez Inarritu said. “It’s not anymore about cultural barriers or language barriers. It’s emotion and humanity. We are using the power of cinema to cross borders. We are understanding that now there’s a cultural connection that needs to happen. Most fi lms can reveal the nature of other coun-tries and other people around the world.”

The Spanish-language fas-cism story “Pan’s Labyrinth” was nominated not only for foreign-language fi lm but also for origi-nal screenplay and cinematogra-phy. Other fi lms that earned best actor nominations — Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Blood Diamond” and

Forest Whitaker’s “The Last King of Scotland” — were inspired by African economics, politics and in-ternal strife.

At the same time, the Oscars surprisingly spurned the year’s most typically Hollywood produc-tion, “Dreamgirls,” from its most prestigious race. Even though the big-budget musical collected a leading eight nominations, the DreamWorks movie was not nomi-nated for best picture, and neither was the studio’s “Flags of Our Fa-thers.” DreamWorks also was shut out of the animation race, with no nominations for either “Over the Hedge” or “Flushed Away.”

Another notable absence was Sacha Baron Cohen, who some people had predicted would be nominated for best actor for his outrageous mockumentary “Bo-rat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefi t Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” The fi lm was nom-inated for adapted screenplay.

Academy nominees speak global language

3 Decades Later, 8 Ex-Radicals Are Arrested

in public service as my full time job,”he said. “This is a chance to catch my “This is a chance to catch my “breath and focus on just dealing with international issues and trying to make the class lively,” he added.

Chafee’s appointment also re-fl ects change for the Watson Insti-tute, Kirkman said. Most Watson faculty members are academics, he said, and the institute wants to em-ploy more people like Chafee with “real-world experience.”

“It’s a real challenge for research institutes to bridge the gap between academics and policy- policy- policy making,” he said. “It’s exciting to get someone here who has a different vantage point in every respect.”

Chafee’s appointment is “a great thing for Brown” and “a great op-portunity for students,” said Brett Heeger ’08, an International Rela-tions concentrator who said he hopes to join Chafee’s study group. “The “The “connections he has in addition to his own experience makes it likely that he will be able to bring in world lead-ers and terrorism experts, so stu-dents will learn from people who are making important policy decisions,”Heeger said.

Chafee, a former member of the Senate Foreign Relations commit-tee, said he plans to utilize those con-nections — he has invited experts — he has invited experts —he met while serving in the Senate to speak about crises in the Middle East and other global hot spots at his study group. The group will meet bi-weekly, is not for credit and is limited to juniors and seniors concentrating in International Relations. Several guest speakers have already accept-ed, he said, though he declined to name them.

Chafee said he will deliver guest lectures in some classes, but he said he felt that as a fi rst-time instructor, teaching a for-credit class would not be “the best way to start.” He said he has no “solidifi ed” plans for research yet and is unsure if he’ll teach any for-credit classes in the future, but he is looking to hire an undergradu-ate assistant.

The Watson Institute does not make public the stipend fellows re-ceive, but Chafee said his stipend will be “more than I made as a mayor and less than I made as Senator.”

How long Chafee will remain on College Hill is not yet clear. He em-phasized that he has not decided on his plans for the future, and his post at Watson is a temporary one. But he said he may remain longer if he fi nds that his “skills have any harmony with this position. I expect they will, but I want to make sure.”

Chafee said he couldn’t comment on the possibility of leaving politics completely for the academic world. “(I’d) better answer that in May, when the study group has conclud-ed,” he said.

Chafee admitted that he is “a little bit scared” about teaching. He said he worries whether he will be able to challenge students and keep them interested in the material. “I’m no dif-ferent from any teacher before their fi rst class,” he said.

“I want to see how this class goes,” he said. “If I want to do some-thing, I want to do it well. I can’t just parachute into Brown University. I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew.”

For now, Chafee said, he will fo-cus on attracting interesting speak-ers for his study group and preparing for the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memo-rial Lecture on International Affairs next month, when he will speak on the Quartet Roadmap to Israeli-Pal-estinian Peace.

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After losing his November 2006 re-election bid to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, former Sen. Lincoln Chafee joined the Watson Institute for International Studies as a distin-guished visiting fellow on Jan. 7. He spoke with The Herald on Monday about his new position at Watson, his experience as a blacksmith in Montana and Canada and specula-tion that he might run for governor of Rhode Island in the future.

The Herald: What are you most excited about this semester?

Chafee: I think the chance to do something different … I’ll put 100 percent of my energy into it, but the pace is a lot different from political life where you don’t get much of a chance to focus on a subject.

Will you start to miss the fast pace of politics?

No, this is perfect. It’s a perfect chance to switch gears a little bit.

Do you think your skills might be better suited for a job as a visiting fellow than as a senator?

I’d like to think I was a good senator. There are very few votes I would do differently, even with the time to refl ect back.

Of all the roles you’ve played — as a classics student and wrestler at Brown, as a horse-shoer in Montana,

as the Republican mayor of the largely Democratic Warwick and as a moderate in a conservative-con-trolled Senate — which allowed you to accomplish the most?

They’re all different. The horse-shoeing and the mayor stand out. The horse-shoeing be-cause it was a completely differ-ent life, working on the race track where I didn’t know a soul. The people who had me shoe their horses were judging me solely by the quality of my work. It wasn’t, oh, your dad’s governor or sena-tor or anything like that, they didn’t know what it was, they didn’t know where Rhode Island was. They judged me solely by the quality of the job I was doing, and that was very satisfying, to be able to first of all survive, and sec-ond of all to do well on my hors-es. My horses ran well, and I had some good stables I was shoeing for. One of my horses that I shod set the track record in Edmonton and that gave me a lot of confi-dence, which served well for fu-ture challenges. I can survive in a demanding atmosphere.

Then mayor. Being an execu-tive is so different from being on the nine-member city council or the 100-member U.S. Senate. Yes, you have to work with the legis-lative body. I had to work with a Democratic council, but I put to-gether a team … and that was fun.

That was a great job.

Even now, do you miss that? Changing life for a small group of peo-ple rather than working nationally?

I’ve never taught before, but I assume it’s satisfying. I remember all my teachers. So this is perfect. It’s doing something that’s not changing to great extent anything in the world, but I think there’s go-ing to be a lot of satisfaction.

Are you considering running for governor in 2010?

I know people are talking about that, but it’s absolutely not some-thing I’m considering right now. It’s four years away, and I’ll be fo-cused on just this semester. I’m try-ing to do a good job with this.

Do you have any regrets about your campaign against Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse?

I really don’t. I knew what I was up against. I understood the dy-namics right from the beginning, that this was going to be a referen-dum on the Republican leadership of the US Senate. I understood the dilemma Rhode Island voters were faced with.

You’ve said you think your loss will help the country move in a new direction. Do you think the Demo-crats are taking full advantage of this opportunity?

It’s too early to tell, but cer-tainly with the presidential elec-tion starting so early, that’s going to overshadow anything that Con-gress does because the candidates are coming out of Congress — Mc-Cain and Clinton and Obama.

So you think the 2008 presi-dential race will impede Congress’ progress?

Yeah, there’s going to be differ-ent agendas, rather than focusing on what is in the best interest of the United States of America. There will be dueling agendas mixed in.

What do you think about Presi-dent Bush’s recent announcement to send an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq?

To me it sounds as though he doesn’t have the support of the military on this. This is a decision he’s making as commander in chief. Certainly the military respects the chain of command and he won’t hear from those in uniform. But the retired offi cers are those we’ll be hearing from.

Do you have parting thoughts about the months ahead?

It’s great to be here, it really is. I’m very fortunate. I’m looking for-ward to my study group. I’m a little bit scared, but it’s still good.

— Simmi Aujla

Q & A WITH LINCOLN CHAFEE

cause it points out the confl icts” in course scheduling.

“Mocha’s made shopping for classes much easier this semes-ter,” said Dave Gagnon ’10. “I wish I knew about it last semester.”

Some students use Mocha religiously.

“There’s one kid in Andrews who has visited Mocha more than anyone else,” Leventhal said, add-ing that the student has visited

Mocha more than the site’s cre-ators. “This kid must just love shopping for classes.”

But Mocha may not live past this year: Four of its fi ve creators will graduate this spring, and its University-run rival BOCA is slated to be replaced by the Uni-versity’s new Banner program later this semester.

“Obviously, when Banner comes out, we’ll have to take stock and decide what’s the future of Mocha,” Cath said. “If Banner comes out and it’s good, then you

don’t need Mocha anymore, and that’s great. Basically, we want an easy way to shop for courses, and whether we do that or the Univer-sity does it, we don’t really care. If Banner goes up and it’s better, then we’ll can Mocha.”

As for impending gradua-tions, the team members say they aren’t thinking too far into the future.

“We’re not that far in the pro-cess of handing over power,” Cath explained. “We will talk about it later in the semester.”

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this war recklessly,” said freshman Sen. James Webb, D-Va., a former Marine who was tapped to give the formal response. Accusing Bush of disregarding warnings by national security experts before invading Iraq, Webb added: “We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the pre-dictable — and predicted — disar-ray that has followed.”

The speech came at the nadir of the Bush presidency to date, with the war grinding on, ever-widening bloodshed and no end in sight, two-thirds of the pub-lic turned against him in opinion polls and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress.

Even as they sought to revive his political viability with the na-tional address, White House offi -cials spent part of Tuesday mon-itoring reports from Iraq, where a U.S. security helicopter crash killed fi ve American civilians,

amid disputed claims that it was shot down. And they nervously watched the opening of the per-jury trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief aide, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, whose law-yer asserted that the White House made him a scapegoat in the CIA leak case to protect Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove.

Bush devoted about half of his speech Tuesday night to Iraq and foreign policy, largely recapitulat-ing his familiar argument that the war is the central front in a broad-er battle with terrorists and rep-resents a “generational struggle that will continue long after you and I have turned our duties over to others.” He linked Sunni insur-gents, Shiite extremists, al-Qaida terrorists and Hezbollah militants as arms of a broader radical move-ment but acknowledged that the mission in Iraq has changed from deposing Saddam Hussein to stop-ping sectarian violence.

“This is not the fi ght we en-tered in Iraq, but it is the fi ght we are in,” he said. “Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned and our own security at risk. Ladies and gentle-men, on this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle. So let us fi nd our resolve and turn events toward victory.”

He did not directly debate Democrats’ proposals to cut off funding for more troops in Iraq but asked them to let him try his new plan. “In the end, I chose this course of action because it pro-vides the best chance of success,” he said. “Many in this chamber understand that America must not fail in Iraq because you un-derstand that the consequences of failure would be grievous and far-reaching.”

The immediate consequence

he envisioned was an Iraqi capital plunged into anarchy. “If Ameri-can forces step back before Bagh-dad is secure, the Iraqi govern-ment would be overrun by ex-tremists on all sides,” Bush said. “We could expect an epic battle between Shia extremists backed by Iran and Sunni extremists aid-ed by al-Qaida and supporters of the old regime. A contagion of vi-olence could spill out across the country—and in time the entire region could be drawn into the confl ict.”

Bush repeated his call to create a bipartisan advisory council on the battle with terrorists and pro-moted his administration’s plan to permanently expand the U.S. mili-tary by 92,000 soldiers and Ma-

rines over fi ve years to ease the burdens of fi ghting simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and conducting counterterrorism op-erations elsewhere.

Sitting in fi rst lady Laura Bush’s box during the speech were fi ve decorated Iraq veter-ans, including Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michelle Barefi eld, who sur-vived three attacks by makeshift bombs at Baghdad International Airport, repulsed an enemy as-sault with her M-16 rifl e and was awarded the Bronze Star. The White House also invited a do-mestic hero, Wesley Autrey, a New York construction worker who earned acclaim by jumping onto subway tracks to save a man who had fallen during a seizure.

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Phillips Exeter Academy in Ex-eter, N.H., was one of the 523 hopeful Brunonians who made the cut. He attributed his accep-tance to a strong academic profi le paired with a number of extracur-ricular activities that pertained to engineering, his main fi eld of interest. Mahr builds computers in his spare time and heads the technology and communications committee in his high school’s student council.

“I think that might have made

a difference on my application because for engineering you sub-mit two additional essays, and in those I was really able to ... go into detail and I had concrete evi-dence of interest in those fi elds,” Mahr said.

Lauren Levine, a senior at Ac-ton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Mass., who was deferred by Brown, devised what she facetiously termed “Opera-tion Brown Acceptance.” She described her scheme as “a fi ve-point plan to stay optimistic and do everything in my power to

make sure it goes well,” which includes sending an extra recom-mendation and an updated list of accomplishments, visiting Brown again and contacting the admis-sion offi ce, her interviewers and a professor to fi nd out how she can maximize her chances of ad-mission in April.

Levine said that Brown’s open curriculum was the main draw for her. “I don’t know exactly what I want to do when I grow up. I’m re-ally curious about lots of different subjects, so I love the freedom to explore whatever interests me.”

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support.” But she added that he was “offered the opportunity to re-submit his courses to the (College Curriculum Council).”

Erikson, 86, said it was possi-ble that administrators might have wanted to force him into retire-ment because of his age and recent heart attack.

Blanche Greene-Cramer ’07, one of Erikson’s former students, also speculated that Erikson’s health may have been a factor. She took UC 102 in the spring of 2005 and his fall course, UC 101: “Art and Anatomy,” last semester, but she dropped the latter par-tially because of Erikson’s health problems.

“Because of Erikson’s dete-riorating health, he had to cancel

classes several times and was not able to hold offi ce hours regular-ly,” she said.

Greene-Cramer believes that his health, combined with Erik-son’s controversial teaching style — she said several of his students did not like how unstructured the course was — may be the real rea-sons the classes were canceled.

The reason the University gave for canceling the courses “is pretty superfi cial,” she said. “I was actu-ally stunned for the reason given.”

Bergeron said it was “wonder-ful” that Erikson will teach the class informally.

Greene-Cramer echoed her sentiment.

“I think it’s great that he’s keep-ing going with it,” she said. “It was more of an informal process even when it was University-affi liated.”

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most of her break on campus as student coordinator of the Uni-versity’s inaugural winter term, January@Brown. While her class-mates were traveling the world and enjoying global cuisine, Dan-iels said she often found herself seated on one of the faded red cushions of an eerily empty Ratty.

“Usually, the Ratty is packed at all times of the day, but there was almost nobody there,” Daniels said. “Can you imagine walking around the Main Green without a person in sight?”

Despite giving up much of her free time to work for January@Brown, Daniels said she was more than happy to spend her break in what she called her “mini-city.”

“I’m one of those weird kids at Brown who loves Providence, even though I’m from Chicago, which is obviously a big city,” she said.

Daniels said that January@Brown also gave her the opportunity to do things in Provi-dence that she wouldn’t normally have done, including salsa danc-ing and ice-skating.

“I’m really happy that I got to be a part of Brown’s fi rst January term,” she said.

Few watch State of the UnionAmid all the commotion of

planes, trains, automobiles and Ratty trays, one of the biggest po-litical events of the year seemed to slip under the radar of most Brown students. President Bush’s seventh State of the Union ad-dress — the fi rst ever to feature a woman on the podium, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — was delivered yesterday at 9 p.m.

Yet despite the immediate and historical signifi cance of an address that dealt with hot-but-ton issues such as the Iraq troop “surge” and the United States’

dependence on foreign oil, few Brown students interviewed by The Herald watched last night’s speech. Gupta, Graham, Lambi-ase, Daniels and other students told The Herald they were not aware of the president’s address, and most said they were not inter-ested in watching it anyway.

Public televisions in the Lower Blue Room broadcast Bush’s open-ing remarks to a modest crowd of no more than 15 students, many of whom had their backs to the screens.

But two Brown students kept their eyes glued to their television sets — Tor Tarantola ’08 and Zack Drew ’07, presidents of the Brown Democrats and College Republicans, respectively. Both students weighed in on the speech and the lack of cam-pus enthusiasm about it.

“President Bush has one of the lowest approval ratings in his-tory,” Tarantola said, referring to the most recent Gallup Poll, which put Bush’s approval at 36 per-cent. “You don’t have to watch his speech to know what he’s doing.”

Drew said he felt that students’ hostility toward Bush is less cred-ible if they don’t watch the presi-dent’s speeches.

“A lot of people on our cam-pus feel that if you’ve heard Bush speak once, you know what he’ll say every other time,” Drew said. “But people can’t argue their points against Bush with legiti-macy if they don’t listen to him speak.”

Both Tarantola and Drew said they believe political awareness among students is important, re-gardless of which party a student supports. They said they plan to dis-cuss the State of the Union address at their groups’ next meetings.

As the State of the Union ad-dress concluded and the last stu-dents arrived after journeys long and short, the campus quieted in anticipation of the start of spring classes.

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These concerns prompted the Uni-versity to close the Smith Swim Cen-ter the following day.

Acting on Tully’s concerns, the University contacted Simpson, Gumpertz and Heger, an engineer-ing fi rm, to evaluate the roof’s struc-ture. Dietel said the fi rm, which was more familiar with the specifi c struc-ture of the Smith Swim Center, con-

curred with Tully’s opinion and rec-ommended that repairs be made to the facility.

Laminated veneer lumber beams were installed at three locations in the facility to provide support for the roof, but the repairs are only tempo-rary. According to Dietel, the Uni-versity plans to make permanent re-pairs to the Smith Swim Center over the summer, but it is too early to de-termine the cost of the project.

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The program was both an aca-demic and a social experience for the students and their instructors.

“I think that the program was a success,” wrote Jordan Rosen-blum ’05 GS in an e-mail to The Herald. Rosenblum taught “From the Iron Age to the Iron Chef” with Daniel Ullucci ’04 GS.

“Dan and I led a group tour to Federal Hill,” Rosenblum said. “Surprisingly, many students had never been there. The fact that they now know where to shop for and eat good Italian food makes it worth it alone.”

Jamal Shipman ’07, who took the class “Storytelling and Urban Engagement,” wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that he found the experience valuable. “I’ve lived in Providence for so long, but I real-ly didn’t know much about its his-tory, so it was eye-opening in that sense.”

In addition to classes, which met for three hours each day for eight days, students participated in frequent afternoon and eve-ning events, including a weekend trip to Boston, ice skating at Ken-nedy Plaza, the Providence Mar-tin Luther King, Jr. Day break-fast, consultations with career services, a stargazing trip to the observatory, dinner at a Federal Hill restaurant and a conversation with Associate Professor of Histo-

ry James Campbell, who chaired the University Steering Commit-tee on Slavery and Justice.

Students were housed together in Graduate Center and ate most meals at the Sharpe Refectory, which remained open during win-ter break.

“The concept seems so Brown — small classes, learning for the sake of learning and lots of inde-pendence,” Rosenblum wrote in his e-mail.

“I made some great friends at January@Brown,” Shipman wrote, “which is nice because, as a senior, I don’t get the opportunity to meet new people often. I would love to see January@Brown take off in the years to come.”

The idea for a January term, which had been considered for some time, was fi rst acted on by UCS in Spring 2005, when a com-mittee led by then-UCS Represen-tative David Beckoff ’08 looked at models of January terms at other schools and wrote an “initial jus-tifi cation” for the idea of a winter program.

Freeman then led a UCS com-mittee last April that drafted a more in-depth proposal for what it called “The Winter Experience.” The proposal provided justifi cation for such a program and outlined a detailed plan, which included run-ning a pilot with 100 to 200 stu-dents this winter.

A planning committee of two

coordinators from the administra-tion, two student coordinators and fi ve members of UCS, including Freeman and Damiano, met week-ly beginning in October to bring January@Brown to fruition.

Currently, the future of January@Brown appears bright, and it seems very likely that the program will return next winter.

“I really hope that we will be able to launch it again,” Bergeron said. “I see it as a very potentially powerful program.”

Freeman said UCS will work hard to make January@Brown lon-ger next winter so that it can offer academic credit.

“I think we can do it,” he said.Karen Sibley, dean of summer

and continuing studies, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that she had heard only secondhand informa-tion about the success of the pro-gram, but that “a range of involved folks think this has benefi t for stu-dents during the break period.”

In the next month, accord-ing to Damiano, UCS will evalu-ate this year’s program — par-ticipants fi lled out surveys at the end of the program — and create a detailed proposal for next year’s January@Brown.

“We think that this year’s pilot created a strong foundation that we can build on for future years,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Her-ald, “and we are excited to plan for January 2008.”

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when I got there,” he said. “I just made sure to have fun and play my game.”

Part of “playing his game” meant that Daniels would display his versatility. Daniels played for-ward his entire career at Brown and for most of his soccer life. However, in one of the games at the combine, a midfi elder went down with an injury which forced a center back to play in the mid-fi eld. The injury left a void in the defense and Daniels’ coach asked him if he could fi ll that position.

“When the coach fi rst asked me to play center back, I was a little reluctant,” he said. “I played there during the spring season two years ago, so I had a little experience there, but I wasn’t overly thrilled about playing there again.”

Daniels’ strong performance on the backline raised eyebrows by showing he could help prevent goals as well as he could score them.

Daniels is the third player in three years that Noonan has seen drafted. FC Dallas also drafted goalkeeper Chris Gomez ’05 in 2005 and Keith Caldwell ’06 was chosen by the Colorado Rapids in last year’s MLS Supplemen-tal Draft. Daniels credits Noon-an’s system in preparing him for MLS, especially his emphasis on instruction.

“(Noonan) really does a good job teaching all the aspects of the game,” he said. “He teaches all the mental and physical aspects of soccer. He really does a good job teaching versatility which is a big reason why players develop under him.”

Even after a strong showing at the combine, Daniels was still un-sure if he would get drafted. How-ever, right before the draft, he got a call from Noonan that changed his mind.

“Coach called me and told me that the (Los Angeles) Galaxy was looking at me and they were pick-ing 20th,” he said. “That was right after they signed David Beckham, so there was a lot (of coverage) surrounding them.”

Although Daniels watched the draft in New York City with forward Jamie Granger ’07 and Granger’s brother, only the fi rst round of the draft was televised, so the three raced to Granger’s broth-er’s apartment in order to fi nd the second round results.

“We watched the fi rst round at this bar in Manhattan,” Daniels said. “But after the fi rst round was over, we took the subway all the way back to Brooklyn to fi nd out where or if I got drafted.”

Daniels discovered that he had been drafted in a very unorthodox manner. After arriving back at the apartment, he logged onto a com-puter and scrolled down all the picks to see if he found his name.

“I looked at all the picks and saw my name at 18th,” Daniels said. “At that moment I was very overwhelmed. It was like every-thing that I had been working for had fi nally paid off.”

Soon after Daniels found out the good news, Dallas’ head coach and general manager called to congrat-ulate him. Now, Daniels is back on campus for the start of the semes-ter, but in two weeks he will travel to Dallas to begin training with the team. The team has exhibitions in Puerto Rico and Brazil that Dan-iels wants to take part in.

Amid the excitement of being drafted, Daniels is still focused on graduating.

“I have come this far, and grad-uating is very important to me,” he said. “The MLS is weird. Once you get drafted, they expect you to drop everything and alter your life for them. This is a great opportu-nity for me, but graduating is still a top priority.”

Daniels will be in Dallas from February until late March. While he is there, he plans on taking classes at a neighboring university in order to fulfi ll the requirements he needs to graduate. Despite hav-ing so many obligations, Daniels is very excited for the opportunity to play professionally.

“To play soccer as a job is a dream come true,” he said. “I have been playing soccer for a large portion of my life, so to be able to continue that is excellent.”

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M. soccer’s Daniels Dallas-bound after going 18th in MLS draft

or of the season. Rosen was named Rookie of the

Week on Jan. 2 by the ECACHL for the second time this year for his efforts at the Wells Fargo Denver Cup. Rosen stopped 67 of 70 shots as the Bears went 1-0-1 in the com-petition. A few days after earning Rookie of the Week, Rosen was named the nation’s top freshman netminder for December by the HCA. He is currently ranked sec-ond in the country in save percent-age at .939.

Two w. soccer stars snag postsea-son honors

Awards kept pouring in this sea-son for women’s soccer forward Kathryn Moos ’07 and midfi elder Jill Mansfi eld ’07. In early Decem-ber, Moos was selected for 2006 NSCAA First Team All-Region, while Mansfi eld was named to the All-Region Third Team. A couple of weeks later, both players received All-New England Women’s Inter-collegiate Soccer Association rec-ognition. Moos earned First Team All-NEWISA honors, while Mans-

fi eld earned Second Team recog-nition. SoccerBuzz also recognized both athletes by awarding First Team Northeast All-Region status to Moos and Third Team Northeast All-Region honors to Mansfi eld. Moos also earned Fourth Team All-American by SoccerBuzz, mak-ing her the only Ivy League player to earn All-American accolades.

The multiple awards were no surprise based upon their perfor-mances. Moos was the leading scorer in the Ivy League this past season with 36 points and 15 goals and was a unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection. She fi nished the season ranked fi fth in the nation in points per game (2.12) and goals per game (0.88). Mansfi eld was also First Team All-Ivy and was second on the team in points, tal-lying 19. She was second in the Ivy League in assists, with seven.

Postseason honors were also extended to one of Brown’s stand-out rookies. Bridget Ballard ’10 garnered a position on the North-east Region All-Freshman Squad by SoccerBuzz. This season she started all 17 games and tallied fi ve goals.

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on-two break. Prough managed to speed ahead and buried a shot in the back of the net, tying the game at 17:58. Poli and Hunter Thunell ’10 both earned assists on the goal. The point was the fi rst of Thunell’s

college career.The second period was score-

less, but Brown erupted for four goals in the last 20 minutes of play. The fi rst of these was a short-hand-ed goal, Brown’s second of the sea-son, and it occurred when Sean Dersch ’07 scored off of a two-on-

one break with Sean Hurley ’08 at 5:13. But 27 seconds later, the Big Red answered back, tying the score at 2-2.

After 15 minutes of back-and-forth play and Brown clinging to a 3-2 advantage thanks to a Brian McNary ’08 goal at 9:55, Ryan Gar-butt ’09 put the game out of reach at 18:03. The goal was the fourth time in the past seven games Gar-butt has tallied.

Hoping to close the margin, the Big Red pulled its goalie immedi-ately after Garbutt’s goal for an ex-tra attacker. The tactic backfi red, however, and Muncy buried an open-net goal with 23 seconds left in play to give Brown its fi rst win of 2007.

“The guys are all doing great,” Grillo said when asked if any play-ers particularly stood out as key contributors over the vacation. “It’s hard to narrow it down to just one or two because it really is a team effort. Hurley had a great weekend though. He is just play-ing phenomenal hockey. And the team’s leaders, (assistant captain Antonin) Roux (’07) and (captain) Dersch are tremendous and really do a great job. Rosen is, of course, continuing to be solid in net, and that really helps us.”

The ECACHL representatives agreed with Grillo’s assessment of the team’s standouts this past month. Hurley earned ECAC Play-er of the Week honors this week after recording three assists over the weekend’s two-game series. At the start of the month, Rosen, who has been integral to the Bears’ suc-

cess, earned both ECAC Rookie of the Week honors and the ECAC’s Goalie of the Week award in early December.

“I don’t really know what to say about the awards,” Rosen said. “It’s nice to get them and all but I just think I’m fortunate. Almost anytime a goalie gets something like this it’s a function of the team in front of him.”

Brown’s strong showing this weekend took the sting off of what had been a diffi cult winter break. The fi rst action the team saw over the holiday occurred during the Wells Fargo Denver Cup, an annu-al tournament in Denver for top Di-vision I college teams from around the country. The Bears faced the University of Massachusetts-Low-ell on Dec. 29 in the fi rst round of competition and tied the River-hawks 1-1.

While the game offi cially counts as a tie for statistical purposes, a shootout determined which of the teams advanced to the next round. The Bears were knocked out of the tournament and into the consola-tion round after losing the shoot-out.

“Our game at Denver was def-initely not our best of the year,” Rosen said. “Nobody really knows what happened. … They came out fl ying and we just weren’t ready to play. That’s a team we could have and should have beaten. We were lucky to get out with a tie. I guess the good thing about the game was we didn’t play near to our poten-tial and still managed a tie, which shows how good we really can be

when we come to play.”The following day, the Bears

faced Mercyhurst College and de-feated the Lakers 3-2 in overtime. Dersch scored the game-winning goal off a pass from forward Jer-emy Russell ’10 at 1:22 into over-time play.

On Jan. 6, the Bears traveled to New Haven to play their second game of the season against Yale. The trip was a disappointing one for the Bears, who lost to the Bull-dogs 4-3.

The team made a second trip to Connecticut the following weekend to battle then-20th ranked Quinnip-iac University and Princeton. That turned into another unsuccessful weekend for the Bears, who lost to the Bobcats 5-1 and to the Tigers 3-2 in overtime.

After seven consecutive games on the road, the Bears will resume play at home this weekend, fac-ing Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Friday and Saturday nights in Meehan Audito-rium. Both games will be crucial for the Bears because victories in league games will help solidify their position in postseason tour-nament play.

“We are practicing pretty con-sistently, and we have been all year,” Poli said. “The team has really good habits in terms of al-ways coming to the rink prepared to work hard and be mentally fo-cused, and this work ethic is really starting to pay off for us. For this weekend, we just hope to build on these past two games and play that these past two games and play that these past two games and plasame way. If we do, we’re all set.”

season. He is now sixth in the conference in scoring and 10th in rebounding.

“Mark has done and exceed-ed everything we’ve asked him to do,” Robinson said. “And now it’s turning into consisten-cy. He’s really expecting to play well every time [we] go on the court.”

The rest of Brown’s winter break schedule produced mixed results, with McAndrew’s strong play the one consistent theme. A hot start fueled Brown in its win over Hartford. The Bears led by 14 at intermission and increased their advantage to 25 midway through the second half. Against the Hawks, McAndrew scored a career-high 30 points to lead the Bears to highest point total since scoring 100 against Harvard in February 2004.

Over New Year’s, the Bears played in the Flint Hills Resourc-es Islander Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas. Brown won its fi rst game of the four-team tour-nament in come-from-behind fashion. The Bears found them-selves facing a seven-point half-time defi cit against Western Il-linois but went on a 16-4 run to open the second half and bury the Leathernecks. In the tourna-ment fi nal, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi used superior athleti-cism and home court advantage to beat the Bears 71-57.

“Texas A&M (-Corpus Chris-ti) was the most athletic team we’ve played all year,” said McAndrew. “They play a very aggressive, attacking style. They made things tough for us be-cause they have quick and ath-letic guards and a lot of height on their front line.”

The Bears then suffered heartbreaking losses in their fi -nal two non-conference games of the season. Against the Uni-versity of California-Davis, who carried a 1-10 record entering the game, Brown traded baskets with the home team through much of the game and emerged with a three-point lead at the 1:05 mark of the second half. But after a UC-Davis lay-up and a missed three-pointer by Brown, the Aggies received the ball un-der their own basket trailing by one with nine seconds left to play. UC-Davis drove the length of the court, and Vance Oliver buried a three-pointer just be-fore the fi nal buzzer, giving the Aggies a 49-47 victory.

The Bears’ trip to Southern Methodist University provided the second chapter in the Bears’ late-game struggles. Marcus Becker ’07 hit a free throw with 46 seconds to play to tie the game at 50-all and stole the ball on SMU’s ensuing pos-session. But Damon Huffman ’08 misfi red on a chance to end the game in regulation. Brown led briefl y in overtime, but the Mustangs took the lead and then

sealed the victory on a three-pointer with six seconds to play, giving SMU an insurmountable 60-56 lead.

“UC-Davis was a very heart-breaking loss because we gave them a chance to win it, which we never should’ve done,” said Chris Skrelja ’09. “Being a Con-ference USA team, [SMU] had more talent than some of the other teams we’ve played, and we gave a very spirited effort but just let it slip away in the end.”

Robinson was not disap-pointed with the way his team played against SMU. “We came out ready to play and were close with them the whole game,” he said. “We had a shot to win it against them … we could have easily won (both the SMU and UC Davis games) and been 3-1 on the road trip.”

Brown’s rut continued in its fi rst home game in three weeks, the Ivy League opener against Yale. The Bears fell behind by double digits early in the sec-ond half, missing open shots that would have given Brown a chance to get back in the game. The Bears cut the Bulldog lead to three in the second half but came no closer the rest of the way and suffered a 56-42 defeat.

This weekend, Brown will try to improve its Ivy League record when it travels to Dartmouth and Harvard for games on Fri-day and Saturday evening.

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A warm winter break in Philadelphia was rendered much colder by the absence of ABC’s hit series “Lost,” forcing me to watch the only programming that enjoys a more passionate love-hate relationship with its fans and detractors — the eve-ning news. Though the last episode of “Lost,” which portrays the adventures of a group of castaways stranded on a mys-terious tropical island, ended in an excru-ciating cliffhanger, my anxiety was quick-ly soothed. Indeed, it soon became appar-ent that clues as to the future of the series were strewn across the nightly reports from ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.

It is a popular, if somewhat cliché, tech-nique for opinions columnists to explain a very serious political issue by employing a relatively fl ippant metaphor. However, the potentially momentous implications of inverting this paradigm of college jour-nalism are rarely explored. Though a less dedicated fan may consider it clever to use the show “Lost” to comment on the confl ict in the Middle East, my priori-ties are deducing what will happen in the coming half-season of Lost without be-Lost without be-Lostcoming distracted by the details of inter-national news. In fact, it is the television show “Lost” that can be analyzed by us-ing the war in Iraq.

The parallels between “Lost”’s myste-rious island and the Middle East crisis are obvious — both are unfamiliar re-gions, both are the results of think-tank research gone wrong and both are full of people who want to kill us for reasons we don’t understand. These shared char-acteristics, among others — though the presence of polar bears on the “Lost” is-land throws a wrench in the equation — allow “Lost”-junkies and news fans to forecast the future of the television series based on recent developments in current events.

The past has already proven this tech-nique highly effective. On Feb. 22, 2005, al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the Gold-en Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, a sacred shrine of Shiite Islam, in a strike that fur-ther infl amed sectarian tensions and po-tentially ignited the confl ict into a civil war. Fast forward a few months. In the season fi nale of season two of “Lost,” the hatch, a symbol of Iraq since the charac-ter Locke discovered it and became ob-sessed with unlocking its entrance and later the mystery of its “button,” also ex-ploded, this time literally. If only we had been paying closer attention to the news,

this last plot-twist could have been as pre-dictable as Donald Rumsfeld’s resigna-tion.

Today, the Middle East crisis remains equally powerful in determining what will happen on Lost once it returns from its Lost once it returns from its Lostwinter hiatus. President Bush’s loss of both houses of Congress in the November 2006 midterm elections likely means that the character Locke, who is a similarly stubborn and impulsive man of faith, will lose the support of the other castaways on his drive to become their new de fac-to leader. As Locke’s popularity and job

approval rating sinks to new lows, Jack’s — the symbol of rationality, caution, bad-ass doctorness and, clearly, the Demo-cratic Party — star will rise. The adminis-tration’s planned “troop surge,” in which more than 21,000 American soldiers will be sent to Iraq, perhaps suggests a future of revisiting the “Lost” stars’ forgotten plan to form an army of survivors to help combat the nefarious “Others.” Finally, my fellow Losties should be ready for Sun’s murder of the “Other” Colleen to spark a more direct and violent confronta-tion between the two opposing groups on the island, just as the botched executions

of former Iraqi President Saddam Husse-in and his aides infl amed Sunni anger at the Shiite-majority government.

Of course, analyzing a frivolous issue like “Lost” with a rather more serious top-ic like the war in Iraq opens just as many questions as it provides answers. Can the future of Jack, Kate and Sawyer, trapped on a new island offshore of their previous outpost, be foretold using the confl ict in Lebanon? Does Muqtada al-Sadr, the re-bellious Shiite cleric who controls the Is-lamist “Mahdi Army” militia, represent Sawyer of the castaways or Juliet of the “Others”? How does the lovable Hurley fi t into all this international/island intrigue? And why, if they are all clearly supposed to symbolize the characters from the tele-vision show, are none of the public fi gures involved in the crisis as physically attrac-tive (except for Tony Snow, total babe)?

Much like the entrails of a sheep, a deck of tarot cards or an interpretation of dreams, the confl ict in Iraq can be a powerful metaphorical tool in predict-ing the future of “Lost” and analyzing the series’s enigmas. Proud supporters of Jack, Locke, Kate and the rest of the gang should closely follow events in the Middle East as they unfold in the com-ing weeks. In all likelihood, they guard secrets to the rest of season three, and, if we’re lucky, maybe even season four. Nevertheless, it’s important not to lose focus on the priorities. Remember, no matter what our leaders say, where they go or what they spend, there are real fi c-tional characters whose well-nonbeings depend on their decisions.

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Though the Soviet Union is long gone, Sir Winston Churchill would be just as fright-ened. And while President Reagan made certain that the Reds would never again pose a serious challenge to liberty abroad, a new disease has begun to spread across Europe — a disease far more subtle and consequently far more devious. I refer not to the socialism that has seized con-not to the socialism that has seized con-nottrol of Western Europe or to the vast in-fl ux of immigrants who refuse to assimi-late into a foreign land. The iron curtain of which I speak is something quite famil-iar to us at Brown University — political correctness.

In 1947, in the wake of World War II and the plethora of revelations that sur-faced regarding Nazi atrocities commit-ted at concentration camps throughout central and eastern Europe, the Austrian government enacted a form of legisla-tion known as the “Verbotsgesetz.” “Ver-botsgesetz” criminalizes any person who denies or trivializes the Holocaust. The most famous example of the law’s en-forcement occurred in November 2005, when David Irving, a British author and revisionist historian, was arrested for Ho-locaust denial.

Speaking of revisionist historians, will Howard Zinn be locked up anytime soon?

Jokes aside, I do not honestly want Zinn to be arrested. While I may not agree with him, he offers a fresh perspective. For

the same reasons, Irving should not have been arrested.

Criminalizing historical opinions, ir-respective of their acceptance among the greater academic community and their propensity to of fend, is a deplor-able form of modern tyranny. What re-ally disgusts me is the fact that Irving was actually sentenced to three years in prison for his denial — even though he was deported from Austria under probation on Dec. 21, 2006 and forbid-den to return. Ironically, this very same sort of censorship and government re-striction was commonplace under Nazi rule. The Austrian government might as well have arrested Irving in the mid-

dle of the night and ordered his papers and books burned.

Examples of similar laws abound across Europe. In Germany, it is crimi-nal to spread neo-Nazi propaganda and to display Nazi symbols, such as the swastika. For instance, the German rock group Landser (“foot soldiers”) was found guilty of spreading anti-Jewish and anti-foreign rhetoric in 2003. Its leader, Mi-chael Regener, was imprisoned after los-ing several appeals in 2005 and is current-ly serving a term of over three years. The German government has offi cially out-lawed the rock band.

Outlawed. Let the ridiculousness of these measures sink in. Instead of con-fronting the despicable hatred espoused

by this band and exposing its fallacies through truth and reason, the German government decided to ban it. It almost seems as if they are incapable of discredit-ing Nazism except through force. In this context, it is ironic that many contempo-rary Germans accuse America of being “fascist.”

In France, the situation is just as dis-appointing. The French are notorious for taking things beyond reasonable limits, from the divine right of kings to the vio-lence of the French Revolution to their current censorship laws. In March 2004, the French Parliament, with the unbri-dled support of Herr Chirac, passed leg-islation that banned all people from don-

ning “ostensible” religious articles in pub-lic schools. Christians cannot wear large crosses, Jews cannot wear kippahs and Muslim women cannot wear veils. Pre-sumably, every Frenchman can still wear a white fl ag.

In addition to the assault on the rights of the religious, the French have passed a law that criminalizes the denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide in Turkey. Passed in October 2006, this law imposes a fi ne of up to € 45,000 (approximately $60,000) and up to one year in prison for voicing denial of the genocide.

Recall that once upon a time, in 1749, the French authorities imprisoned the philosopher Denis Diderot because his ideas did not conform to the Crown and

the Church. Now, dissenters in France are imprisoned because their ideas do not conform to politically correct secularism. History does indeed repeat itself. Maybe after another invasion the French will fi -nally get their act together — assuming that we even bother to save them again.

Such government actions are dis-graceful, as they usurp one of the most basic rights in a civil society — freedom of speech and opinion without fear of re-prisal. These freedoms, and the ensu-ing clash of ideas, are paramount for the emergence of truth, and thus essential for any thriving civil society.

In his inaugural address of 1801, Pres-ident Thomas Jefferson had this insight to offer on the tolerance of controversial opinions: “(E)rror of opinion may be tol-erated where reason is left free to com-bat it.”

In contemporary Europe, such wisdom falls on deaf ears. Why must offensive symbols and ideologies be banned? Must the Austrian and German governments resort to censorship in order to prove that Holocaust denial and Nazi ideology are erroneous? Must the French govern-ment criminalize the denial of a histori-cal genocide? And is it truly so offensive to see religious people wearing signs of their faith that those too must be crimi-nalized?

Government repression is creeping across Europe. An iron curtain of censor-ship legislation is slowly being erected.

Alas, it seems Europeans have forgot-ten that true political liberty encompass-es all people and all beliefs. Safeguards es all people and all beliefs. Safeguards es all people and all belieffor free speech and opinion are meant precisely for the ideas and people that we fi nd most offensive.

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Why must offensive symbols and

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An iron curtain has descended across the Continent

SEAN QUIGLEYOPINIONS COLUMNIST

The men’s basketball team start-ed and ended its winter break ac-tion with a fl ourish. It crushed the University of Hartford 95-82 on Dec. 22 and then beat West-ern Illinois University 63-59 on Dec. 29 to close the year on a pos-itive note. After enduring a four-game losing streak to start 2007, Brown came from behind to beat Yale on Saturday to earn its fi rst win in the Ivy League. The Bears’ record is now 6-11 overall and 1-1 in the Ivies.

After falling to Yale at home two weeks ago, Brown needed a victory in New Haven to avoid falling too far behind the rest of the Ivy pack. Yale took the lead in the last minutes of the fi rst pe-riod and fi nished the half down six. When the second half began, Mark McAndrew ’08 immedi-ately took over. After two quick fouls, with only four minutes played and zero points, he went 4-of-5 from three-point range and scored 27 points in the second half. With two minutes remain-ing, he poured in fi ve points in 45 seconds to turn a 66-67 defi -cit into a 71-67 lead. The Bears hung on and escaped New Haven with a 76-71 victory. McAndrew said his second-half scoring was baffl ing.

“It’s hard to fathom,” he said. “At halftime (Head Coach Craig Robinson) was chewing me out for getting those two fouls and said it would probably take me the whole half to warm up. I

thought so too, but on the fi rst possession of the second half I hit two free throws which felt good … then a few possessions later I swished a three and the light just went off.”

For his efforts, McAndrew won this week’s Ivy League Play-er of the Week award, his second Player of the Week honor of the

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M. hoops down Yale to snap winter break skid, gain fi rst Ivy winBY PETER CIPPARONESPORTS EDITOR

When the men’s soccer team lost to Duke University in the sec-ond round of the NCAA tourna-ment this fall, Andrew Daniels ’07 thought his soccer career was over. “Obviously, we had a bitter taste in our mouths from the loss,” he said. “But I was completely content with the way my four years (at Brown) went playing college soccer.”

But on Jan. 12, Daniels was giv-en an opportunity to continue his playing career when he was select-ed 18th overall in the 2007 Major League Soccer SuperDraft by FC Dallas.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Head Coach Mike Noonan noti-fi ed Daniels that he would be one of the players invited to the MLS combine January 4-7 in Fort Lau-derdale, Fla. It took a little while for the news to settle in.

“Honestly, I didn’t really think about the combine all that much when I fi rst heard about it,” he said. “When I got home for Thanksgiv-ing, I was sending out my resume and trying to make contacts to get another job.”

When Daniels arrived at the combine, he was loose and fo-cused. “I wasn’t really nervous

M. soccer’s Daniels Dallas-bound after going 18th in Major League Soccer draftBY JUSTIN GOLDMANSPORTS EDITOR

For most students, winter break is a time for low-key relaxation. However, some varsity athletes have had more eventful vacations. Throughout break, a fl urry of post-season honors were bestowed upon several athletes who played fall sports, and a few Bears picked up some early recognition for win-ter sports.

M. and w. hoops earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors

Mark McAndrew ’08 and Cath-erine Schaper ’09 of the men’s and women’s basketball teams, were both named this week’s Ivy League Players of the Week.

McAndrew has been impres-sive all season, and he saved the Bears from a close defeat against Yale on Saturday. Brown was down 67-66 with two minutes left in the game, but the junior guard helped regain the lead and secure the squad’s fi rst Ivy League victory of the year with a three-pointer and a lay-up to put Brown up for good at 71-67. McAndrew scored all 27 of his points in the second half.

Also on Saturday, Schaper helped sink Yale to secure the women’s team’s fi rst Ivy League victory, 67-60. Schaper, a forward, shot 8-for-10 from the fi eld and 5-for-6 at the foul line and tallied fi ve rebounds and two steals. Of her ca-reer-high 21 points, 18 came in the second half.

W. track’s Ferjan ’07 impresses with record-breaking time

Middle-distance specialist Naja

Ferjan ’07 opened the women’s track team’s indoor season with a bang, breaking the school record in the 1,000 meter run. Ferjan took fi rst at the University of Rhode Is-land Sorlein Memorial Classic on Saturday, fi nishing in 2:50.43 and eclipsing the mark set last year by All-American Anna Willard ’06 by more than two seconds. Ferjan was previously ranked sixth all-time in the event for the Bears.

M. water polo’s Gartner ’09 grabs postseason honor

A hand injury at the beginning of the season could not keep men’s water polo player Mike Gartner ’09 out of the pool for long, and it cer-tainly did not prevent him from re-gaining his form from last season.

Gartner missed the Bears’ fi rst 14 games, but he made up for his absence in the latter part of the season by racking up 41 goals, good for fourth on the team. Even though he missed almost half the season, Gartner was so impressive that the Collegiate Water Polo As-sociation named him an Honorable Mention All-American for his ef-forts. Gartner was named CWPA First Team All-North last year.

M. icers Rosen ’10 top rookie in ECACHL for December

Men’s hockey goaltender Dan Rosen ’10 continued his impressive season over winter break. He was recognized by the Hockey Com-missioners Association National Rookie of the Month in December and earned his third ECACHL hon-

Multiple athletes garner honors, awards over breakBY MADELEINE MARECKIASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Judged solely by its winter break record of 2-3-3, the men’s ice hockey team has played at a me-diocre level over the past fi ve weeks. However, Brown’s vic-tory over No. 15 Cornell and its tie with Colgate University this past weekend were two of the team’s best results of the season. Its most recent play leaves the team’s record at 8-7-4 overall and 4-6-2 in the ECACHL.

“We played some solid, very solid hockey over the break,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. “The team did a lot of positive things, and it’s fi nally paying off, as we could see last week-end. I just tell the guys that if they continue to skate hard and do those little things, they’ll be rewarded.”

On Friday night, Brown faced off with Colgate in Hamilton, N.Y. Colgate scored a short-handed goal midway through the fi rst period, but Brown fi nally an-

swered back on its seventh pow-er play of the night. At 17:12 into the second period, forward Aar-on Volpatti ’10 slapped a rebound past the Colgate goaltender to tie the score at 1-1. The goal was the fi rst of Volpatti’s college career.

With 12 seconds left in the second period, Colgate reclaimed the lead with an even-strength goal. But the Bears struck right back with forward Sean Muncy ’09 tying the game just 3:46 into the third period when he tipped in a shot from defenseman Sean Hurley ’08. Neither team scored in the rest of the period and goal-tender Dan Rosen ’10 made four saves during the extra period to preserve the tie.

On Saturday night, the Bears traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., to face No. 15 Cornell. Brown had not defeated the Big Red on its home ice since a 5-4 win in February 1995 and that did not look likely to change when Cornell struck fi rst, 7:46 into the fi rst period.

Brown spent much of the period on the penalty kill and as a result had very few scor-ing chances. Late in the period, however, forward Eric Slais ’09 won a defensive zone face-off and sprung linemates Chris Poli ’08 and Jeff Prough ’08 on a two-

M. icers’ undefeated N.Y. trip makes up for diffi cult January

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W. HOCKEY: Brown 6, Yale 46, Yale 46,M. SQUASH: Brown 5, Amherst 4, Amherst 4,W. SQUASH: Brown 9, Amherst 0, Amherst 0,

SPORTS SCOREBOARD

BY ELIZA LANE

Ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoFC Dallas selected Andrew Daniels ’07 of the men’s soccer team in the second round of the MLS SuperDraft on Jan. 12.

Ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoAfter being held scoreless in the fi rst half against Yale on Saturday, Mark McAn-drew ’08 exploded for 27 points in the second half as Brown pulled out a 76-71