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BY KATE CONSIDINEBrown Dining Services and an interdis-ciplinary student group led by LouellaHill ’04 are taking steps to offer stu-dents more fresh, locally grown pro-duce.

The initiative began last semesterwith the implementation of theCommunity Harvest Program, whichbrought farmers’ markets to WristonQuadrangle in September and October.

“We saw great success with it, andit’s a great thing to interact with thelocal farmers, “ said Peter Rossi, BuDSassistant director of produce purchas-ing. According to Rossi, after the pro-gram began last fall, the consumptionof apples in the dining halls more thandoubled, and, according to surveysconducted by the group, students arehappy with the new choices.

“We have seen a great amount ofinterest and enthusiasm with this newprogram,” Hill said.

BuDS is also making strides in incor-porating locally grown produce into itsdaily menus.

“We try to use local products when-ever we can, but it’s hard to plan menusthree weeks in advance,” said BuDSAdministrative Dietician BridgetVisconti.

When the Community HarvestProgram was instituted last semester,Rossi and BuDS Executive Chef JohnO’Shea made changes to the diningmenus to incorporate more fresh pro-duce from the market.

At the same time, Hill started hersenior thesis on community foodassessment, as part of her environmen-tal studies concentration with a focus

on food studies. “We are looking at the food sheds,

which are the geographical areas fromwhich nutrients are pooled to feed apopulation,” she said.

During the fall of her junior year, Hillstudied abroad in the Italian country-side, where she learned how to makesheep’s milk into cheese and about theimportance Europeans place on fresh,homegrown produce.

Hill has been working with AssociateDirector of Dining Services VirginiaDunleavy to promote the link betweenlocal farmers and Brown.

“We are laying the foundations forwhat will hopefully become of Brown’sfood systems,” Hill said.

Rossi said BuDs is happy to workwith the interdisciplinary group andthat he has also met with the RhodeIsland Department of Agriculture tohelp facilitate the link between local

Reel Big Fish and Blackalicious will perform at the April 22 show during thisyear’s Spring Weekend, according to David Galea, assistant to Reel Big Fish’s agentat The Agency Group in New York.

The bands will join Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at the Thursday night per-formance. Bela Fleck’s representatives confirmed in January that the ensemble ispart of the lineup.

David Margolius, administrative chair of BCA, would neither confirm nor denyany of the performers officially lined up for the weekend concerts, which will alsoinclude a Saturday afternoon show.

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New documentaccompanyingtranscripts willexplain GPApolicyBY SARA PERKINSStudents worried about explaining whythey have no official grade point averageto skeptical human resources and gradu-ate school admissions interviewers willsoon have a new ally.

The College Curriculum Council hasapproved a document that clarifiesBrown’s policy of not calculating an offi-cial GPA for students’ transcripts. Thefour-paragraph statement explains thatwhile students may choose to make theirown GPA calculations, the University hasnot done so since the introduction of theNew Curriculum in 1969. Brown’s“unique grading system” invalidatescomparisons to the GPAs given by otherschools, according to the statement.

“All students and alumni who choosenot to compute a GPA on resumes, appli-cations or wherever else it may berequested are acting consistent withBrown’s educational policy,” it reads.

The document will be made availableto students through the Web site of theDean of the College and through theCareer Development Center, said Deanof the College Paul Armstrong, whochairs the committee.

This method of communicating withgraduate schools, fellowships andemployers has been in developmentsince last October, when the councildecided to spend about $100,000 to

Student group working tolink BuDS, local farmers

Reel Big Fish, Blackalicious to play annual Spring Weekend

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Leaders from student groups attended the second meeting of the Campus Affairs Committee in Leung Gallery Tuesday night.InterimVice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene led a brainstorming session about potential functions of theplanned campus center,and Director of Institutional Diversity Brenda Allen led a discussion about pluralism at the University.

see LOCAL FOOD, page 4

see GPA,page 4

BY JONATHAN ELLISBrown ranked sixth out of the academicinstitutions with the 50 largest endowmentsin return on investment over the last threeyears, President Ruth Simmons announcedat last week’s faculty meeting.

The University saw an annual averagereturn of 3.3 percent over the three fiscalyears, with the fiscal year ending June 30,according to Elizabeth Huidekoper, vicepresident for finance and administration.

Brown’s figure easily beat the median — aloss of 1.8 percent — for the top 50 academ-ic endowments over the past three fiscalyears. The mean was a loss of 1.7 percent,Huidekoper said.

The rankings were released in January aspart of the National Association of Collegeand University Business OfficersEndowment Study. Because the study’soverall results are confidential, Huidekoperwould not say which universities rankedhigher than Brown.

The upward trend comes despite the S&P500 index’s loss of 11.3 percent over the pastthree years.

“We clearly have a strategy that’s verysuccessful in a bad market,” Huidekopersaid.

Vice President and Chief InvestmentOfficer Cynthia Frost attributed the endow-ment’s gains under poor market conditionsto a diverse investment portfolio, but shesaid predictions of poor market perform-ance were not the reason the BrownInvestment Office implemented this diver-sity.

“It’s something we always do,” Frost said.“It’s a policy for all seasons. We don’t try totime when the market goes up or down.”

Frost said the diversified approach iscommon to institutions with large endow-ments. “Yale and Duke (universities) tendedto do the best over the long term,” she said.

The University has a “huge allocation” inwhat Frost termed “alternative assets,”including hedge funds, real assets and pri-vate equity.

Frost said the strategy is neither conser-

see ENDOWMENT, page 4

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Families sueUCLA overcadaver salesLos Angeles (U-WIRE) — While University of California-LosAngeles officials expressed regret for criminal allegationsinvolving its Willed Body Program at a press conferenceMonday, relatives of those whose bodies were donated tothe program filed a lawsuit against UCLA.

UCLA’s attorney, Louis Marlin, said he expects addition-al lawsuits to be filed against UCLA because of the recentdiscovery that parts of cadavers donated to the universitymay have been sold illegally.

The new lawsuit seeks class action status and allegesthat UCLA officials were aware donated bodies were beingsold illegally.

Henry Reid, the director of the program, was arrested byuniversity police at his residence in Anaheim on Saturdayand charged with grand theft. Ernest Nelson, who is not aUCLA employee, was arrested early Sunday morning inconnection with the theft and charged with knowinglyreceiving stolen property.

Reid and Nelson posted $20,000 and $30,000 bail,respectively, and are scheduled for arraignment Tuesday.

Police searched the Willed Body Program Departmenton Monday, searching for more evidence in the case.

University officials say Nelson was able to sell body partswith Reid’s help.

But Nelson said the story is different and that he cut upnearly 800 cadavers with the full knowledge of UCLA offi-cials along with Reid, according to a Los Angeles Times arti-cle published Monday.

“I call one of the most prestigious universities in theworld, their director gives me the protocol, I follow thatprotocol, and they charge me with receiving stolen bodyparts?” Nelson told the Times. “If I wasn’t supposed to bethere, why couldn’t they tell me that? It was not done insecret.”

Nelson also told the Times he visited UCLA’s body freez-er at the Medical Center twice a week, carrying a saw in his

see CADAVERS, page 8

BY ZACH BARTERWhen the Brown Lecture Board distributed tickets forfilmmaker Spike Lee’s lecture last semester, studentslined the halls of Faunce House hours in advance.Hundreds of fans, however, left the building empty-handed.

The problem, students and administrators say, isthat Brown lacks something many of its peer institu-tions already have — an auditorium able to accommo-date crowds for big-name speakers and events.

“There’s a feeling among the entire board that weneed a larger space to hold these lectures,” saidLecture Board Co-President Lindsey Murtagh ’04.“We’re definitely lacking when it comes to space.”

Salomon 101, the largest fixed-seating lecture hallon campus, has a capacity of 594 people, according toMary Sullivan, room coordinator for University events.The next largest, C.V. Starr Auditorium in MacMillanHall, seats 300, while List Art 120 seats 228 andSalomon 001 seats 224. Alumnae Hall and Sayles Hall,which use temporary seating, have capacities of 653and 600, respectively, Sullivan said.

Brown currently enrolls 7,400 students.Cornell University, with a total enrollment of 19,500

students, has an auditorium capable of holding 6,000people, as well as a performing arts and lecture centerwith 1,900 seats and a classroom with a capacity of760. The large auditorium hosts concerts, universityceremonies and big-name speakers.

Yale University, with a total enrollment of 11,200students, has a 2,700-person auditorium for cere-monies, performances and lectures, while PrincetonUniversity, with 6,600 students, has a 1,400-personchapel and a 900-person auditorium for large speech-es.

Dartmouth College, with 5,200 students, has a 900-person auditorium used mostly for performances,although its largest classroom has only 340 seats.

Although Princeton often has to simulcast speech-es, as it did when Secretary of State Colin Powell visit-ed recently, space concerns “very seldom” occur, said

Tom Quirk, the school’s conference manager.“Most often people say they’re impressed” with

Princeton’s buildings, Quirk said. “Our facilities cer-tainly don’t seem to be falling behind in any way.”

Yale press officer Dorie Baker expressed similar sen-timents.

“In general, we can accommodate the number ofpeople who want to see these speakers,” she said.

At Cornell, Chuck Lyons, a conference servicesaccounts representative, said the school “does well forits size” and that space constraints are “very rarely” aconcern.

Lyons said he was surprised that Brown operateswithout larger auditoriums. Brown’s situation putsCornell’s in a far better light, he said.

But although Brown may be lagging behind its peers,administrators say they recognize the problem andhope to fix it.

David Greene, interim vice president for Campus Lifeand Student Services, said the need for a larger venuehas figured prominently in campus-life planning.

Administrators have discussed how such a venuemight fit into plans for a campus center, as well as thepossibilities of converting current campus facilities orusing nearby spaces.

“It’s not the easiest problem to solve, but hopefullywe can be creative about it and find an effective way toaddress the issue,” Greene said.

At Providence College, where the largest fixed-seat-ing lecture hall holds only 175 people, events are fre-quently held in local venues, including the Dunkin’Donuts Center, the Rhode Island Convention Centerand Providence hotels.

“There’s always a need for more space,” said PCAssistant Director of College Events Deirdre Driscoll.“If we feel the space we have here is inadequate, we tryto find alternative space in the Providence area.”

The school has a strategic plan in place and will soon

Brown’s lecture hall capacity smallcompared to peer institutions

see LECTURE HALL, page 8

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farmers and distributors. “I have spoken to our distribu-

tors and told them that we areinterested in local produce, so itforces them to look locally, too,”Rossi said.

Hill said she hopes her inter-disciplinary group will receive agrant to create an electronicclearinghouse that would facili-tate purchasing between Brownand local growers.

If the electronic program isdeveloped, it will enable BuDS tolook online for local produce andhelp it plan menus in advancebased on what is available.

“Brown needs an organicfarm and the opportunity for stu-dents to take field trips to see theecology of the state,” Hill said.

Yale University is at the fore-front of the movement to providestudents with fresh and organicproduce. The university owns itsown organic farm outside NewHaven, Conn.

Hill said she hopes Brown willsoon follow suit. “We eventuallywant to incorporate local milk,eggs, honey, berries and othervegetables from nearby farms,”she said.

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remove a GPA calculator fromthe new Enterprise registrarprogram, said Jordan Elpern-Waxman ’04.

“My concern is that theUniversity do its part to makesure that their policy about notcalculating GPA is more than alegal fiction,” Elpern-Waxmansaid.

Members of the council dis-puted whether the statementshould be printed on the back of

official transcripts, to supple-ment the brief explanation ofthe grading system that appearsthere now. Brittany Bagley ’05said she felt that doing so mighthurt students who chose topresent their own calculation.“It’s just Brown not undermin-ing its students,” she said.

Discussion of the statement’splacement on the transcript willcontinue, Armstrong said.

One concern, voiced byAssociate Dean of BiologicalSciences Marge Thompson,dealt with the use of GPA byconcentrations in determining

honors and thesis eligibility. “There’s just this irony that

struck me,” she said. “The hon-ors thing has really been bother-ing me.”

Armstrong said he wouldreview the concentrationrequirements in the CourseAnnouncement Bulletin anddiscuss a change with the rele-vant concentrations and depart-ments.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06edits the Metro section. She can bereached at [email protected].


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vative nor aggressive, whileHuidekoper called it “progressive.”

Frost and her team do not makedecisions about individual invest-ments, but rather choose externalportfolio managers, Huidekopersaid. “They won’t say, ‘Let’s buyIBM.’ They say, ‘Let’s use the peo-ple who have this particular strate-gy,’” she said.

Frost did not attribute Brown’ssuccess to any single decision. “It’sa sum of doing a lot of things well,”she said. “It’s like hitting a lot ofsingles rather than going for ahome run.

“We try not to make any bigbets,” she added. “The Universitycan’t afford to have us mess up.”

Frost said there is always roomfor improvement. “Within eachinvestment class, we try to pick thebest managers,” she said. The diffi-culty, she said, is that “the onesthat were the best in the pastmight not be the best going for-ward.”

Huidekoper said the endow-ment’s success will help Brown’snascent capital campaign. “I thinkit’s very effective to have a goodinvestment record as you’re goinginto a campaign,” she said.“People want to know they’re giv-ing to a place that’s well managed.”

The return on the University’s

investment in the most recent yearwas 6.5 percent, Huidekoper said.The mean return for the top 50universities was 3.8 percent, shesaid. Brown’s ranking for the yearhas not yet been determined,Huidekoper said, though she esti-mated it would be at least in thetop quarter.

All of the endowment’s growthin the fiscal year ending June 30came in the first half of the 2003calendar year, Huidekoper said.

Harvard University saw returnsof 12.5 percent in the past fiscalyear, the Harvard Crimson report-ed. Yale University had an 8.8 per-cent return on investment,according to the Yale Daily News.

According to study results pub-licly available from NACUBO,Brown’s endowment stood at justover $1.46 billion at the end of fis-cal year 2003, the 25th largest inthe nation but the smallest in theIvy League. The next-lowest IvyLeague endowment wasDartmouth College’s, at 20th in thenation with $2.12 billion. Harvardtopped the list with $18.85 billion,while Yale was a distant second at$11.03 billion.

Brown continues to makegains this fiscal year. The endow-ment rose 12.8 percent from July2003 to January of this year,according to Frost. Huidekoperattributed much of the endow-ment’s recent success to Frostand her 15-person investmentteam. “The interesting thing is

(Frost) was hired three yearsago,” Huidekoper said.

Before coming to Brown, Frostwas a portfolio manager for theDuke University ManagementCompany.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis’06 can be reached [email protected].


Endowment Frost did not attribute

Brown’s (endow-

ment’s) success to any

single decision.“It’s a

sum of doing a lot of

things well,” she said.

“It’s like hitting a lot

of singles rather than

going for a home run.

“We try not to make

any big bets,” she

added.“The

University can’t afford

to have us mess up.”

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Literaturemediates difficultconversations,author says

Mark Cho / Herald

Author Nelly Rosario integrated a discussion of Haitian-Dominican relations into readings from her work Tuesday nightin Salomon 101.

BY LESLIE KAUFMANNLiterature can be a medium for public conversation,author Nelly Rosario said in a Tuesday night lecturetitled “The Great Divide: Haitian-Dominican Relationsin Literature.”

Her lecture, which drew a crowd of about 30 toSalomon 101, focused on issues such as self-determina-tion, politics and tips for writers.

Adam King ’06, co-chair of the Latin AmericanStudent Organization, introduced the author. “I wantedto bring in someone new and fresh, and I saw (Rosario’s)book on my shelf and thought she would be perfect,” hetold The Herald after the lecture.

Rosario received a Bachelor of Arts in environmentalengineering from the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writingfrom Columbia University.

She said the shift in her career aspirations came asshe realized writing was more satisfying for her.

“I never did my problem sets (in college) until the lastminute, because I would stay up late dying and I missedhome, so I would just write all these vignettes. It was justmy way of travelling back, and before I knew it, it justkept going,” she said.

In a lecture that combined personal commentarywith readings from her first novel, Rosario encouragedthe audience to speak openly about any issue, a conceptshe said she believes to be the “function of fiction.”

“I want to sort of talk about the things that peoplewant to have smokescreens around,” she said in a state-ment that set the tone for the evening.

Rosario read from her first novel, “Song of the WaterSaints,” tying the idea of self-rule to her description ofher character Graciela.

“That was basically her issue — this issue of self-rule,of how do you rule yourself, of how do you take posses-sion of yourself,” she said.

Rosario’s novel, which describes Haitian-Dominicanrelations in the 20th century, follows characters through

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Judge sentences sniper Muhammad to deathLawmaker’sgay son takesmarital vows SAN FRANCISCO (L.A. Times) — The diamondin the ring he held had been passed downby his father. So had his bearing, thestance of a former fighter pilot andPersian Gulf War veteran.

But it was the painful distance betweenfather and son that stood at the fore asDavid Knight, the gay son of California’sleading opponent of same-sex marriage,wed his longtime partner here onTuesday.

“I’m not here to confront my father;I’m here to confront his politics,” the sonof Republican State Sen. William “Pete”Knight said carefully. He did not want tohurt his 75-year-old parent, he said, butneither could he “just hide from him.”

The middle son of the conservativeauthor of Proposition 22, which definedmarriage as being solely between a manand a woman, David Knight, now a 43-year-old woodworker, and JosephLazzaro, a 39-year-old specialist in interi-or architecture, kissed and held hands asthey were pronounced “spouses for life”under the landmark rotunda where morethan 3,600 gay and lesbian couples havemarried since Feb. 12.

The two men, partners for 10 years, livein Baltimore, Md., and had a civil unionceremony two years ago in Vermont. But,they said, they felt compelled to travel toKnight’s home state when San Franciscobegan issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples last month.

In a wave of civil disobedience that theelder Knight has denounced as a “sham”and a “sideshow,” gays and lesbians havebeen married in New Mexico, New Yorkand Oregon, in addition to the cere-monies here that have been solemnizedin defiance of state law.

Tuesday’s ceremony, conducted at CityHall by a deputy marriage commissionerwho gasped, “How brave, how mar-velous,” when he was told afterward whothe younger Knight was, lent an intenselypersonal footnote to a highly public issue.Although many parents struggle whenthey learn that a child is gay or lesbian,most families work through such issues inprivate. The powerful rift between politi-cian and son, however, has for severalyears now been a poignant subtext toCalifornia’s same-sex marriage debate.

Sen. Knight, who represents a solidlyconservative Republican district, becamenationally famous as the driving forcebehind Proposition 22 — or the “Knightinitiative,” as it was colloquially known —which passed with more than 61 percentof the vote four years ago. His well-fund-ed Proposition 22 Defense and EducationFund has since gone to court to challengeSan Francisco’s decision to issue marriagelicenses to gays and lesbians.

Failing to attractindustry,reunited Berlinfosters artisticrevivalBERLIN (Washington Post) — On the third floorof a building in central Berlin recently, anartist put paint to canvas while two youngwomen down the hall talked with a talentagency about getting listed online. Onefloor below, a theater rolled the first show-ings of the evening; at street level, CafeZapata was thick with patrons and thescent of beer and cigarettes.

In the euphoria that followed thebreaching of the Berlin Wall, no industrialenterprise with thousands of jobs answeredthe call to move to Berlin. Nor did any bigbank or securities firm. But the city gavebirth on its own to places such as theTacheles Art House, six stories of creativeenergy in the half-rehabbed hulk of a 1909shopping arcade.

As Berlin searches for the prosperity thatunity promised but never delivered, manypoliticians, academics and business peoplehere wonder if it hasn’t been looking in thewrong place. In this view, Berlin’s future liesin a melding of the city’s vibrant counter-culture and intellectual life with developermoney, official permits and a continuingsurplus of floor space to create jobs andoptimism.

In vacant buildings across the old EastBerlin, outposts like Tacheles have sprung

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Rebecca Walther works on a canvas in her studio in Berlin’s Tacheles At House, formerlya shopping arcade and, earlier, an office of the Nazi secret police.The unification ofBerlin in the late 1980s promised prosperity that never arrived, leading somedevelopers to believe the city’s future lies in investment in its vibrant countercultureand intellectual life.

MANASSAS, Va. (L.A. Times) — Rejectingpleas for leniency, a judge on Tuesdaysentenced John Allen Muhammad todeath for leading a two-man sniper teamthat killed 10 people in random attacksin the Washington, D.C., area.

The judge, LeRoy Millette of thePrince William County Circuit Court,could have reduced the sentence to lifein prison after a jury recommended thatMuhammad be executed. But Millettesaid he found the Persian Gulf War veter-an’s crimes “vile almost beyond compre-hension” and concurred with the panel’sverdict, reached in November after athree-week trial.

Millette set an execution date of Oct.14, which likely will be delayed byappeals. Since 1977, when the U.S.Supreme Court reinstated the deathpenalty, Virginia has executed 89 prison-ers, second only to Texas.

“I have nothing to do with this case,”

Muhammad told Millette in a barelyaudible voice. He added: “You do whatyou have to do and let me do what I haveto do to protect myself.” He nodded tohis attorneys in an apparent gesture ofthanks.

Muhammad was led by two deputysheriffs into the courtroom, where fami-ly members of some of the victims wait-ed silently. Dressed in an orange prisonjump suit, his hair bushy and his beardscraggly, Muhammad appeared to be adifferent person from the clean-shavenman with military bearing and close-cropped hair who had sat stoicallythrough his trial in Virginia Beach —showing no emotion or remorse and sel-dom even acknowledging his attorneys.

“There are no winners today,” saidBob Meyers, whose brother, DeanMeyers, a Vietnam veteran, was fatallyshot while pumping gas at a Manassasstation in October 2002. “This was not a

victory. But it was something that had tohappen, and it was done right.”

The sniper attacks by Muhammadand his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo,then 17, terrorized Washington, D.C.,and suburban Virginia and Maryland —causing school sporting events to becanceled and playgrounds closed. Theywere arrested Oct. 24, 2002, while sleep-ing in their car at a Maryland rest stop. Inthe battered 1990 Chevrolet Caprice,authorities found a semiautomaticBushmaster rifle with scope, maps ofneighborhoods the killers had staked outand a global positioning system.

Malvo, a native of Jamaica, was triedseparately in Chesapeake, Va., where ajury recommended Dec. 23 he be sen-tenced to life in prison without parole.Formal sentencing will be heldWednesday. The judge cannot overrule

see SNIPER, page 9

see BERLIN, page 8

up, many of them former squat-ter colonies gone legit. Theirstock in trade is art, music, pub-lishing and software.

“You can see them asseedbeds,” said HartmutHaeussermann, a HumboldtUniversity professor who studiesBerlin’s post-wall evolution. Thecity’s best hope are “these devel-opments everywhere in thesederelict places.”

As the wall recedes into histo-ry, Berlin has 18 percent unem-ployment, 1 1/2 times the nation-al rate. Its government strugglesunder $64 billion in debt. Theeconomy is so lifeless that air-ports of this largest city (popula-tion 3.4 million) in this most pop-ulous country of Europe offer nota single nonstop flight to theUnited States.

A speculative constructionboom in the 1990s, based onexpectations that Berlin wouldbecome the new center ofEurope, turned some areas into

towering galleries of architecturalchic. But it did little to addressfundamental economic prob-lems left behind by the Cold Wardivision: Berlin hasn’t learnedhow to live without the huge Westand East German subsidies thatno longer flow. And big employ-ers have little reason to pay thehuge cost of moving here,beyond answering sentimentalcalls to re-create the Berlin of acentury ago — proud nationalfocus not only of government butalso business, finance and indus-try.

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the Year. With quickness as hismain attribute, Nelson is great atgetting in the lane, drawingdefenders and hitting an openshooter. He is currently second inthe A-10 in assists, with 5.4 pergame, and third in the A-10 inscoring, with a 20-point average,while shooting 49 percent fromthe floor. On senior night, whenNelson’s jersey was retired, St.Joseph’s Coach Phil Martelli wept.

Nelson might get most of theattention, but he is by no meansthe only standout on the St.Joseph’s team. Nelson’s backcourtrunning mate, junior DelonteWest, has emerged as one of thenation’s best two-guards. West, aleft-handed player, has a beautifuljump shot from inside and outsidethe three-point line. He also movesextraordinarily well.

Two other players worth men-tioning are, unsurprisingly, alsoperimeter players. Pat Carroll is aleft-handed version of his brotherMatt, who played at Notre Damelast year, while senior TyroneBarley is the best defender in theconference. Barley is also thesource of much of Nelson’s suc-

cess, according to Martelli. If it hadnot been for Barley’s toughdefense on Nelson in practice,Nelson would not be the player heis today, Martelli has said.

Carroll, meanwhile, is a perfectcomplement to Nelson and West.He has incredible range on hisjump shot, shooting 46 percentfrom behind the arc while averag-ing 10 points a game.

History is also on St. Joe’s sidefor going deep into the tourna-ment. The last two teams to finishthe season undefeated in the regu-lar season were Indiana State in1979, with Larry Bird, and theUniversity of Nevada-Las Vegas in1991, with Larry Johnson. Bothteams made it to the Final Four.

With such incredible parity incollege basketball this year, St. Joe’shas been an absolute joy to watch.The Hawks don’t have seven andeight McDonald’s All-Americanson their team like Duke and NorthCarolina do, but they play hard,trust each other and know how towin. I might be biased as aPhiladelphian, but I hope you’lljoin me in rooting for the Hawksthis March.

Philly native Justin Goldman ’07brings the blue-collar style of hishome city to class each day, so don’t


Goldman

hand to disassemble cadaversand collect various body parts togive to clients.

The Times also reportedNelson was charged $704,600 for496 cadavers over a period of sixyears, according to invoices pro-vided by a law firm representingNelson. Each cadaver cost rough-ly $1,400.

At a Monday press conference,Marlin said he could neither con-firm nor refute Nelson’s storyuntil the investigation had beencompleted.

University officials becameskeptical earlier this year whenan attorney for Nelson sent a let-ter demanding that he be paid$241,000 for parts he was forcedto return to UCLA.

According to a New York Timesarticle published Tuesday,Nelson’s attorney faxed copies offive checks totaling $36,000 thatwere payable to Reid as part of aneffort to back Nelson’s claims.

Under federal law, body partsare not supposed to be sold forprofit, and bodies are not to besold for commercial purposesoutside the university.

J. Thomas Rosenthal, chiefmedical officer of the UCLAMedical Center and associatevice chancellor of the UCLADavid Geffen School of Medicine,said for over a year, policies that“would not let body parts effec-tively leave UCLA” have been inplace.

An average of 175 peopledonate their bodies to UCLA’sWilled Body Program each year,and there is currently a waitinglist of 11,000 people who haveagreed to donate their bodies.

“It has always been our intentto treat these people’s remainswith dignity and respect,” saidGerald Levey, dean of the UCLASchool of Medicine and vicechancellor of UCLA MedicalSciences.

“These alleged crimes violatethe trust of the donors, their fam-ilies and UCLA,” Levey said. “Weare deeply saddened.”

Chancellor Albert Carnesaleechoed the sentiments in a state-ment.

“I am, of course, deeply con-cerned about the emotional painthat this situation has caused thefamilies of those individuals whohave donated their bodies. Pleaseknow that we are shocked andangered by the despicable behav-

ior of those involved,” he said. University police said they had

not obtained a warrant for aUCLA employee placed on leavenearly two weeks ago but thatthey were hoping to question theindividual in relation to the case.

Monday’s press conferencerevealed that UCLA’s more than50-year-old program has beenput in a fledgling position — itmust completely reform theWilled Body Program even as thecriminal investigation proceeds.

“We have lots and lots of infor-mation that we are going to haveto sift through,” said UCPD’s act-ing Chief Karl Ross, adding that itis going to take roughly one totwo weeks to go through the data.

Ross said after the informationis sorted, police will make a deci-sion as to what actions need to betaken.

Reforming the Willed BodyProgram also will prove difficultbecause its image has beenunder fire for close to a decadeamid allegations of unethical andillegal practices.

In 1996, a lawsuit was filedagainst UCLA by an attorney rep-resenting the families of nearly18,000 participants who allegedthe university handled the bodies“without dignity.”


Cadavers


Berlin

many generations and locations.Though she started out with

an autobiographical sketch, inwhich she described a struggleto define her cultural identity,Rosario said her novel does notcontain stories drawn from herexperience.

“You explore all the sides ofyourself and where you’vebeen,” she said.

Political undertones also ranstrong throughout the evening,with Rosario calling the historydescribed in her novel “brutalstuff.”

But she said she would notshy away from discussing diffi-cult topics, including the recentpolitical coup and civil unrest inHaiti.

Still, she said, “Writing thatsection (of the novel) was verydifficult because it reflects an

ugly side of our culture which(makes us) reshape our notionand our perceptions of our-selves.”

Rosario also encouraged thewriters in the audience to useher as a resource and ask anyquestions they might have,exclaiming, “Writers, get mewhile you got me!” She encour-aged the writers to develop theirown style and to take criticism aslearning experiences.

When asked by an audiencemember what she hopes readerswill take away from her work,Rosario said, “I’ve had peoplecome and talk to me, and it’s likethey read two different books, soas a writer you cannot thinkabout your reader. I think thatwhen you feel like you’re beingmanipulated by a writer, it’s adelicate thing.”

Rosario is currently anadjunct assistant professor atColumbia and at work on hersecond novel.


Rosario

add new buildings, she said.Construction crews will breakground on a new performing artscenter in April.

Brown administrators said theneeds and histories of differentschools are important factors toconsider when comparing facili-ties.

Greene pointed out that manyschools need venues to hold lec-ture classes with enrollmentsupwards of 1,000 students.

Dick Spies, executive vice presi-dent for planning, said large audi-toriums at several schools areproducts of fortuitous circum-stances or unique demands.

“We’re just in the unfortunateposition of never having had thecircumstances to produce thatkind of a facility, and we’re havingto deal with it now,” he said.

Spies said administrators aren’truling out any options at thispoint.

Although Lecture Board mem-

bers have informally expressedconcerns to administrators,Murtagh said it’s difficult for stu-dents to press for such a long-termproject.

“It’s definitely a need, but it’snot our immediate focus,” shesaid. “Even if it happened, wewouldn’t be here to see it.”

Herald staff writer Zach Barter’06 edits the Campus Watch sec-tion. He can be reached [email protected].


Lecture hall “We’re just in the

unfortunate position

of never having had

the circumstances to

produce that kind of

a facility, and we’re

having to deal with it

now,” Spies said.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2004 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 9

started off the Bears’ second dayof competition. Two events later,Brumberg continued to tally uppoints by taking fifth place in the400-yard medley. Flooding thefinals heat in the next event, the100-yard butterfly, Brown swim-mers Allen, Zimmerman andMatt DelMastro ’05 finished inthird, seventh and eighth places,respectively.

Subsequently, 32 points wereawarded to Brown when Moorsout-touched the second-placefinisher in the 200-yard freestyleby three hundredths of a second.Next, DelMastro took the stageagain in the 100-yard breast-stroke. His time, although two-and-a-half tenths slower than hisschool-record-breaking per-formance earlier that day, wasgood enough to put him atfourth place.

The 800-yard freestyle relayteam, comprised of Allen,Brumberg, Wang and Moors,

placed fourth, signaling the endof competition for the day.Brown was in sixth place aftertwo days, with Princeton leadingthe pack.

Moors kicked off the final dayof competition for Brown with afourth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke. Allen againshowed his prowess by breakinghis own school record in the pre-liminaries of the 200-yard but-terfly, the final individual eventof the meet. Despite swimming afew tenths slower in finals, hefinished fifth and managed totake his third top-six finish of themeet. The final points added toBrown’s total came from the 400-yard freestyle relay of Moors,Zimmerman, Wang and Allen,but Navy’s first-place points inthat event propelled it past theBears and into sixth place over-all. Princeton hung on to win themeet.

Head Coach Peter Brown saidhe was satisfied with his team’sperformance. “I thought we madethe most of what we had. We wereobviously thin in some events,

and that really hurt us. Recruitingwill definitely cure some of thoseproblems as long as the leader-ship is in place,” he said.

The Bears look forward totime off before returning to thepool for off-season training.

Herald staff writer Aron Gyuris’04 covers swimming. He can bereached at [email protected].


Swimming

ultimately won the tiebreak,handing the Bears a 9-8 loss, butthe Bears still held a 1-0 lead inteam score heading into the sin-gles.

In singles, Brown continuedto play excellent tennis, winningthe first set in each of the firstfour singles matches and neverlooking back. Cerretani, ranked81st in the nation coming intoSunday’s match, faced 22nd-ranked Coetzee at number-onesingles. Feeding off his andShamasdin’s close match loss indoubles, Cerretani came outblazing, winning the first set 7-5before running away with thesecond set 6-2 for the win.

Harris said the win was cru-cial to helping Cerretani regainhis focus and confidence in hisgame after a straight-set loss tounranked Ravi Pathanjali ofWestern Michigan March 2.

“For Jamie to beat (Coetzee)in straight sets at home isabsolutely huge,” Harris said.

Goldberg, who hails from

Albuquerque, N.M., kept thewinning going for Brown,defeating Kowalski 6-4, 6-7, 6-1to give Brown a 3-0 lead.Shamasdin took out his frustra-tion over the doubles loss on hissingles opponent, defeatingAkhavan 6-4, 6-2 to seal the winfor Brown.

Freshman Eric Thomas ’07continued his excellent play forthe Bears, defeating Hodzik instraight sets 6-1, 7-5. Thomashas now won three matches in arow and is 8-3 this spring.

Pasanen finished the matchfor the Bears, coming throughwith a victory despite droppinghis first set. Pasanen defeatedGers 4-6, 6-4, 1-0(5).

New Mexico captured its onlysingles victory at number four,where Stotland defeated Brier 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

The Bears travel south thisweekend for the annualBlue/Gray Tennis Classic inMontgomery, Ala.

Herald staff writer CraigMcGowan ’07 covers men’s ten-nis. He can be reached at [email protected].


Tennis

it to reach the consolation semi-finals. Unfortunately, Jenkinsreinjured his ankle during thematch, forcing him to default theremainder of the tournament.

“(Jenkins) showed a lot of grit,wrestling on only three days’practice,” Amato said. “Had hebeen playing (a different sport),it’s likely that he would havebeen unable to participate.”

The final senior and placer forthe Bears was co-captain AdamSantee ’04 at the 174-poundweight class. Entering the tour-nament unseeded, Santee wasdefeated by eventual championBrad Dillon of Lehigh University,but Santee bounced back toreach the consolation semifinalsand earned sixth place in hisfinal match as a collegiatewrestler.

“It was great for Adam (toplace) — it was great that all fourseniors placed, and it’s a tributeto them,” Amato said.

The tournament also left theBears with something to look for-ward to next year, with all foursophomores a close match awayfrom placing.

“We were in pretty good posi-tion Saturday night. Greg Pace(’06), Dan Apello (’06), MikeAshton (’06) and Lee Beane (’06)all lost Sunday morning (in closematches), and if they had wonthey would have placed,” Amatosaid.

With a strong core returningnext year, the Bears hope theycan break into the top four of theEIWA. Meanwhile, Dies andCiarcia get one more weekend ofcollegiate wrestling with theopportunity to represent theBears in the NCAA tournamentand chase their dreams ofbecoming All-Americans.

The tournament will be heldnext week in St. Louis, Mo.

Herald staff writer Bernie Gordon’07 is an assistant sports editorand covers wrestling. He can bereached at [email protected].


Wrestling

Swaffield and O’Hear bothearned All-American status inthe slalom event.

The biggest surprise of theweek also came on Friday. Afterrecovering from an ACL injurythat sidelined her for most ofthe season, captain MollySheinberg ’04 skied extremelywell for the Bears, placing 28thoverall. Sheinberg finished witha time of 1:55.51.

Despite an overall disap-pointing performance by thewomen, Sheinberg said sheremains optimistic for thefuture of the team.

“We showed up ready to beon the podium, but in ski racing,anything can happen, and forthe first time all season, it allhappened to our team,” shesaid. “Luckily, the team is soyoung. The girls will definitelybe able to make adjustments toland on the podium next sea-son.”

The women return all theirtop skiers next season, includ-ing four All-Americans.

“Overall, it was a strong sea-son,” Swaffield said. “We wereconsistent most of the timebecause we had, and have, so


Skiing

the jury and issue the moresevere penalty of death.

Muhammad’s attorneysmade final pleas to spare hislife in papers filed Friday and inaddressing Millette Tuesday.They said the convicted sniperhad been a loving father tothree children, had served hon-

orably for 10 years in the Armyand had been changed by thebreakup of his marriage andthe resulting loss of his chil-dren.

“He is not a born killer,”defense attorney JonathanShapiro said. “He was subject-ed to many adversities.” Whilegranting that a jury had foundhim guilty “of these atrociouscrimes,” Shapiro saidMuhammad “is not the devil”

and was capable of changing. No clear motive for the

sniper attacks was establishedduring Muhammad andMalvo’s trials. But testimonyrevealed that the pair hadasked authorities for $10 mil-lion to end the killings, andprosecutors had said thesnipers wanted to use themoney to set up an all-blackcolony in Canada founded onracial justice.


Sniper

Head Coach Peter

Brown said he was

satisfied with his

team’s performance.

“I thought we made

the most of what we

had. We were obvi-

ously thin in some

events.”

The biggest surprise

of the week also

came on Friday. After

recovering from an

ACL injury that side-

lined her for most of

the season, captain

Molly Sheinberg ’04

skied extremely well

for the Bears, placing

28th overall.

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L E T T E R S

Saving Brown’ssummer storage

To the Editor:

Emir Senturk is absolutely right when he saysthat the University’s decision to eliminate on-cam-pus storage for this summer is a disaster (“Thefleecing of Brunonia,” March 8). The last weeks ofthis semester will be a nightmare of logistics andfinances as students deal with outside companiescharging whatever they want to store their boxes.The fall will be even worse, as those same compa-nies — which have terrible track records on timelyreturns of boxes — wreak havoc on their customerson a campus-wide scale.

However, Senturk did not go far enough in plac-ing the blame for this impending debacle. TheUniversity has cited relatively minor financial ben-efits (staff for opening the storage spaces andinsurance coverage) for its decision to end on-cam-pus storage. The Office of Student Life, theUndergraduate Council of Students and theUndergraduate Finance Board ought to immedi-ately pool their resources to cover this cost for thecoming summer. And in the future, the storagecosts should be built back into the University’sbudget. The absence of storage space would great-ly diminish students’ quality of life; for a smallamount of effort and finances, the Office of StudentLife, UCS and UFB could actually fulfill theirresponsibilities to look out for the student body.

Ethan Ris ’05March 9

Executive positionscannot be outsourced

To the Editor:

Yesterday’s letter by Michal Zapendowski(“Column on off-shoring misses humanitarianangle,” March 9) violates common sense when itsuggests that corporations should be required tooutsource not only low-level jobs such as program-ming, but also corporate executive jobs. The differ-ence that Zapendowski misses is that low-leveltechnical jobs such as parts production and pro-gramming do not require much interactionbetween the company and the worker. Physical ordigital components are concrete things that can bemade anywhere, but you have to be at the office tomanage a corporation.

It is also silly to imply that the governmentshould force companies to outsource executivejobs. There is no reason that the government

should ever force a corporation to hire someone torun an office that he will never enter simplybecause it buys off-shore auto parts. There is alsono reason to assume that there is anything nefari-ous about outsourcing only unimportant jobs.American companies are naturally going to domost of their important work in America.

The bottom line is that most menial jobs thatrequire little or no skill — being a third-rate pro-grammer, all appearances to the contrary, does notrequire any real skill other than the ability to readand write English — are simply cheaper to performabroad. Foreigners are more able to accept less paybecause of a lower standard of living and are gener-ally happier to do so. The solution for America isnot to raise tariffs and impose legislation prevent-ing outsourcing, but to take advantage of our soci-ety’s benefits and give Americans the skills theyneed to perform higher-level jobs.

Bernard Gordon ’07March 9

Grade pointStudents’ words carry quite a bit of weight in the Brown

community, and as students we are fortunate to have the earof the administration and faculty.

But in the outside world our words don’t mean as much. Nomatter how loudly we speak in the years following our gradua-tion, we have little to recommend us to admission offices oremployers but our newly inked diplomas and transcripts.

Yet it is in our explanations of our transcripts — with noofficial grade point average calculated — that we need to beheard.

We are grateful to the College Curriculum Council for pro-ducing a statement that explains to employers and graduateschools why University graduates are awarded neither GPAsnor class ranks. Many employers simply do not understand theunique nature of a Brown education and the grading system itrequires, and we thank the University for recognizing thisproblem.

However, the statement does no good if it does not carry asmuch weight as the transcript it accompanies. Instead of ask-ing students to print out or pick up copies of the statement,the University should allow us to request an official copy to beincluded with transcripts ordered from the Registrar.

It’s not that we want to avoid the trip to print out a copy atthe library or pick one up at the Career Development Center.Rather, we recognize that in most situations outside CollegeHill the University’s words carry more weight than its students’.If an explanation of our official transcripts is necessary, thenthat explanation should look as official as the transcriptsthemselves.

A letter that comes directly from the administration and isincluded with our certified transcript has the de facto supportof the administration and faculty — an endorsement of incal-culable value. Coming from the administration, the statementsounds like an explanation. Coming from a single student, itsounds like an excuse.

We will leave Brown as beneficiaries of the principles of theNew Curriculum. But it lies with the University to provide aninstitutional definition of the ways the Brown curriculum hasshaped us. Allowing us to request that this explanatory letterbe included with our transcripts will help the University do so.

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In Haiti, elected president and talented priest JeanBertrand Aristide sold himself as a savior to his bru-talized people. He has now been forced out by arebellion in one of the world’s most destitute and cor-rupt countries. In the past several days, Haiti hasexperienced, along with looting and general chaos,actual rejoicing over news that Aristide has resignedand fled the country.

But weeping would be more appropriate — per-haps not for Aristide, who was a disappointment asthe nation's first freely elected president, but certain-ly for Haiti and its brief experiment with democracy.

Although Aristide's supporters described him asan embattled defender of democracy, his opponents(whose political project, beyond the now-fulfilled desire to oust Aristide, is still notdiscernible) saw him as nothing but the lat-est in Haiti's long line of autocrats —arguably the worst of those autocrats, somesaid, for betraying the people's trust afterhis election.

Alone, he negotiated with senior U.S.officials until his departure, insisting thathe should serve his elected term, ending in2006. Just hours before Aristide steppeddown, he had gone on local television tosay that his resignation was “out of thequestion.”

Finally the pressure from the interna-tional community was too much, and hewas escorted to the airport in Haiti’s capi-tal, Port-Au-Prince, by U.S. Marines atdawn. According to some, he resisted whilegoing up the stairs alongside the aircraft.There have even been allegations made byAristride’s friends in the U.S. that he wasblatantly kidnapped and flown out of thecountry — a claim heatedly denied bySecretary of State Colin Powell at a recentpress conference.

Nonetheless, Western countries likeFrance and the United States have been

overwhelmingly happy with Aristride’s “self-imposedexile.” In a statement, President George W. Bushstressed that Aristide's departure would help Haitibreak from its past and begin a new chapter. Andeven United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annansaid the vote to send troops to Haiti showed that theinternational community was standing by Haitians intheir hour of need.

Despite Aristide’s blatant misuse of power, the wayhe was removed from office sets a dangerous prece-dent for democratic governments everywhere. P.J.Patterson, chairman of the Caribbean regional groupCaricom (which had been trying to find a power-sharing solution for Aristide and his opposition), has

been the most outspoken critic of the treatment ofAristide. In an interview in Jamaica, he stated, “Ifyou're elected as president of a country, don'tdepend on the United States to respect the rule oflaw.”

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) was more blunt.“We are just as much a part of this coup d'etat as therebels, as the looters, or anyone else,” said Rangel,who explained that the Bush administration “made itabundantly clear that Aristide would do best by leav-ing the country. Which means that the rebels, thelooters ... (were) given to believe that they shouldnever, never, never accept Aristide as the president.”

Reflecting on his years of experience in the SenateForeign Affairs Committee, presidentialcandidate John Kerry (D-Mass.) also criti-cized the Bush administration, stating thathe would have “been prepared to sendtroops immediately, period.” Though headmitted Aristide was “no picnic,” Kerrywould have stopped the rebels from takingover Haiti’s capital. Bush aides dismissedthe announcement as Kerry playing poli-tics. If the troops were deployed as Kerrysuggested, however, the U.S. might haverisked overstretching its already strainedresources, stretched as they are toAfghanistan and Iraq.

Nonetheless, what lesson hasWashington delivered by systematicallyundermining Aristide all these months, andwhen the going got tough, strengtheningthe hand of roving bands of thugs bent onAristide's unconditional ouster two yearsbefore his term was set to expire? That's nothow democracy works. While the WhiteHouse is keen to foster democracy in theMiddle East, it seems complacent aboutprojects closer to home.

Arjun Iyengar ’05 is a biology and interna-tional relations concentrator.

Friday night’s opening of the Tikkun Community’sNational Student Conference in Salomon 101 allowedTikkun co-chairman Cornel West and guest speakerMedea Benjamin to express their personal views onthe political turmoil in the Middle East. Benjaminand West repeatedly stressed the importance of citi-zens worldwide becoming politically active, lest con-trol of their countries fall entirely in the hands of awealthy self-promoting elite minority.

During their speeches, both West and Benjaminretold the plight of “democratically elected” Haitianpresident Jean-Bertrand Aristide to demonstrate thepertinence of the return of democratic power to thepeople.

Benjamin and West evidently believed Aristide wasdemocratically elected and that the United States-backed ouster of Aristide conflicted with the demo-cratic rights of Haitian citizens. They were mistaken.Aristide was not democratically elected for his cur-rent presidential term. It is a grave blunder to com-pare the removal of dictator-like President Aristide tothe ignored democratic rights of the Iraqi people.

Since the French conceded defeat in 1804, Haitianshave, to reference the title of Gandhi’s autobiography,“experimented with truth.” These experiments haveyielded the same sad results, time and time again: Anelected representative of the people does not alwaysensure the protection of the majority’s basic rights.

The exploitation of corrupt leaders such as Aristidehas created a situation not much different from theone prior to the revolution in 1804. An elite groupthat comprises less than 1 percent of the general pop-ulation is still in control of over fifty percent of theresources. The majority of Haitians are still impover-ished and die from starvation and treatable diseases.The average life expectancy of a Haitian citizen is just

50 years. How could a country that started with suchpromise become reduced to the status of the poorestcountry in the Western hemisphere?

When Aristide was democratically elected as pres-ident in 1991, he was a champion for the Haitian peo-ple. He had dared to oppose the brutal and undemo-cratic Duvalier regime. He also created youth centersand programs to feed and educate the poor.

But today, Aristide is one of the many vicious lead-ers that taint the region’s history. Since Aristide’sreturn to Haiti in 1994 (with the help of the Clintonadministration), he has evolved into the corrupt andvicious leader he is today. He has killed any potentialpolitical opposition and rivalry. He even formed his

own personal gang, the chimères, to terrify Haitiancitizens into meek compliance. During the 2000Haitian presidential election, Aristide used thechimères to intimidate and silence opponents,threaten dissenting voters and stuff the ballot box. Heis now a man who callously murders his own coun-trymen, steals international aid from the same starv-ing people of Haiti he once championed and has fur-thered the downfall of the Haitian economy.Presently, one U.S. dollar is equivalent to 43 Haitiangourde.

Benjamin repeated Aristide’s claim that he was kid-

napped and forced to leave his country when hewanted to “die in the name of democracy.” In reality,the U.S. saved Aristide’s life. The country’s leader waswhisked away in an American jet just as the rebelsbroke through the blockade of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The rebels would have forced Aristide’sresignation or killed him.

Cornel West also denounced the rebels leading thenew Haitian revolution, saying that he would nottrust anyone utilizing violent methods to claim thegovernment in the name of democracy. West basical-ly compared the rebels to gangsters when, in fact,these rebels are the start of the return of politicalpower to the Haitian people. Despite how criminalthese rebels may appear to outsiders ignorant ofHaiti’s situation, we in the United States should bethe last to pass judgment. Guy Phillipe and the rebelsare no guiltier of using violence to liberate theircountry than their American counterparts of 1776 ortheir successful Haitian ancestors of 1804.

Yes, people’s democratic rights must be protectedand upheld. Yes, Americans need to rouse themselvesfrom their dangerously apathetic states. Both thesethings are true. Yet I can’t help but worry. Despitetheir strong support of political awareness, Benjaminand West were surprisingly oblivious to Haiti’s trou-bled state.

Though not necessarily deliberately, they miscon-strued the facts to bolster their arguments. I cannotsit idly by and allow them to spoon-feed incorrectinformation, unwittingly persuading students igno-rant of Haiti’s situation to support a vicious and mur-dering politician.

Dorothy Marcello ’07 hasn’t sat idly by since before shecould walk.

Haiti is better off with Aristide gone

Tikkun speakers cham-

pion a democratically

elected thug.

GUEST COLUMN BY DOROTHY MARCELLO

ARJUN IYENGAR

Supporting an anti-democratic Haitian coup

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SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 10, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY BERNIE GORDONThe wrestling team had a strong show-ing this weekend at the EIWA tourna-ment at the University of Pennsylvania,with all four seniors placing in the topsix and an eighth-place team finishoverall.

Based on the results, the team willsend co-captains David Dies ’04, whofinished second, and Nick Ciarcia ’04,who finished fifth, to the upcomingNCAA tournament.

“We wanted to place (as manywrestlers as possible), and two out of 10is not great, but all 10 guys wrestled ashard as they could, and that’s all youcan ask of them,” said Head CoachDavid Amato.

Dies led the Bears, winning his firstfour matches. His path to the finalsincluded a 4-3 overtime win over GregAustin of Rutgers and a 1-0 victory oversecond-seeded Dustin Manotti ofCornell University, who defeated Diesearlier in the season in Ithaca. Facingtop-ranked Jesse Jantzen of HarvardUniversity, Dies hung tough but lost thematch 5-2.

“David Dies had a great tournament.He showed a lot of grit and determina-tion, and he is on course to achieve hisultimate goal, which is, if not to win

Nationals, to become an All-American,”Amato said.

Ciarcia had a rough day in theextremely competitive 184-poundweight class. He entered the tourna-ment as the No. 2 seed but was upset inthe second round by Rudy Medini ofRutgers, sending Ciarcia to the consola-tion bracket. Still, he refused to be dis-couraged and won three of his next fourmatches to take fifth.

Ciarcia will also represent the Bearsat the NCAA tournament, havingearned a wild-card bid on the strengthof his season performance.

“(Ciarcia) had a bad tournament forhis standards, (and he’s) probably dis-appointed, but he’s still going tonationals,” Amato said.

The next placer for the Bears wasSean Jenkins ’04, who finished sixth inthe 165-pound weight class. Jenkinswas suffering from a severe high anklesprain suffered in last week’s matchagainst Harvard, but wrestled through

BY ARON GYURISThe men’s swimming season ended thisweekend with the Brown team taking sev-enth place at the Eastern InterscholasticSwimming League Championships atPrinceton University. In total, the teamposted 14 top-eight swims and 29 finalssplashes for an aggregate 640 points, only19.5 points behind the sixth-place finish-er, Navy.

Over the course of the meet, swimmerscompete each morning for the chance tobe among the 24 athletes to return thatnight. The eight slots in the champi-onship final are especially coveted, butalso important are the remaining 16openings in the consolation and bonus

finals.The Brown team’s first finals swim in

the tournament came in the 200-yardindividual medley. Max Allen ’04 claimedto have not swum the event in five years,but his sixth-place finish overshadowedhis alleged inexperience.

In the same event, Eric Brumberg ’06put points on the scoreboard by roundingout the finals heat. Also finishing in thetop eight that day was the 400-yard med-ley relay team with co-captain JeffersonMoors ’04 on backstroke, P.J. Santoro ’04on breaststroke, Allen on butterfly andco-captain Tim Wang ’05 anchoring thefreestyle leg. Their time in the event brokeBrown’s previous record.

The 200-yard medley relay team’s sev-enth-place finish, with backstrokerMoors, breaststroker Santoro, butterflierAllen and freestyler Matt Zimmerman ’05,

BY DAN MURRAYThe women’s ski team ended its seasonwith a disappointing finish, capturingsixth place last week in the USCSANational Championships in Sugarloaf,Maine.

In Wednesday’s giant slalom event, thewomen faced high winds and anextremely icy track on the race course.Although only three women finished thefirst run, the team maintained a second-place position going into the final run,but it could not pull out the win.

Nina DiBona ’07 and StephanieBreakstone ’06 finished their runs at2:23.94 and 2:27.86, placing 10th and19th, respectively. Hilary Swaffield ’06finished 60th overall, after a tough sec-tion forced her off the course.

Janet Marley-Mauzey ’07 finished hersecond run of the day in the top 15. Butafter falling on her first run, she finished80th overall.

Young star Kelly O’Hear ’07 did notcomplete her giant slalom run. O’Hearwas the individual regional championwho led the Bears to a second-place fin-ish in the league two weeks ago.

“We knew what we were capable ofgoing into nationals, but we just had badluck,” she said. “Ski racing is completelyunpredictable, and unfortunately theodds did not fall in our favor at nation-als.”

The Bears finished 10th in the giantslalom, with both DiBona andBreakstone earning All-American status.

On Friday, visibility was low, withheavy fog clouding the bottom half of theslalom course.

Despite these conditions, O’Hearrecovered her dominant style, placingwith the fifth-fastest time in her secondrun. She finished eighth overall in theslalom.

Swaffield’s strong skiing earned her16th place overall, while Marley-Mauzeyfinished in 23rd place with a time of1:52.09.

BY CRAIG MCGOWANThe 58th-ranked University of NewMexico men’s tennis team came toProvidence last Sunday with onethought on its mind — revenge.

After suffering a 4-3 home loss toBrown last year, the Lobos were deter-mined to return the favor. But the52nd-ranked Bears had other ideas enroute to a 6-1 victory, which extendedtheir overall record to 10-2 (8-1 in thespring).

The match paired two excellentdoubles squads against each other.Against 16th-ranked HarvardUniversity March 5, New Mexico cap-tured the doubles point despite losingthe match 6-1.

“If we could step up and win thedoubles, it would kind of break theirback,” said Head Coach Jay Harris.

Brown’s top doubles team, JamieCerretani ’04 and Adil Shamasdin ’05,who were ranked seventh in thenation, entered the match undefeatedthis spring after capturing the doubles

title at last fall’s ITA Northeast Regionaltournament.

On Sunday, Brown doubles stayedtrue to form, playing excellent tennisthroughout the match. Nick Goldberg’05 teamed up with co-captain BenBrier ’04 to defeat Jasmin Hodzik andHenry Gers 8-3.

Zach Pasanen ’06 partnered with co-captain Kris Goddard ’04 and defeatedDivan Coetzee and Hiroud Akhavan, 8-6. In a match in which the leadchanged three times, Pasanen andGoddard seized on two break points tocapture the doubles point for Brown.

While two wins secured the doublespoint for Brown, the closest of thematches was still underway. Cerretaniand Shamasdin, matched up againstRyan Stotland and David Kowalski,were behind 3-2 after New Mexico cap-tured two early breaks. From there,both teams held their serve, sendingthe match to an 8-8 tie. New Mexico

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David Dies ’04 took second in his weight class at the EIWA Championships thisweekend. He and Nick Ciarcia ’04 will now head to the NCAA Tournament.

M. tennis easily beatsranked New Mexico

Brown Sports Scoreboard

Tuesday, March 9

Women’s Lacrosse: Brown 12, UNH 10 (OT)

It’s time for St.Joe’s to getsome respectIt’s getting to be my favorite time of the year— March — and the college basketball reg-ular season is over. We get to see the smaller

conferences getsome recognition astheir tournamentsare shown on ESPN,while the big-timeconference tourna-

ments position teams for the NCAAChampionship.

But one of the best stories this season hasbeen a small school with a small player thathas simply beaten everyone.

With Stanford University’s loss this week-end, tiny Saint Joseph’s University standsalone as the only undefeated team in all ofcollege basketball. On Monday, the WestPhiladelphia school, with a student body of3,800, received its first number-one rankingin school history — one that is welldeserved.

It is almost impossible to beat everyopponent you face in this day and age, butthat is exactly what the Hawks have done.Some might speculate that the Atlantic 10 isnot the best conference, but St. Joseph’s issecond in the RPI rankings, with four winsagainst the top 50 teams in the RPI and 11other wins against the top 100. The Hawkshave beaten third-ranked GonzagaUniversity on a neutral court, as well asBoston College, Villanova University and theUniversity of California-Berkeley on theroad.

The Atlantic 10 might not be the ACC, butit is deserves more respect than it is given.The A-10 has three teams in the top 50,while the Pac-10 only has two and the BigTen three.

And now the Hawks are more than a nicestory. They play tough defense, holding theiropponents to 38-percent shooting (27-per-cent shooting from behind the three-pointline), while allowing a paltry 60 points agame. They press and trap the whole game,most of the time with four perimeter play-ers, and shoot 42 percent from behind thearc. It is impossible not to love them — theyreally do it all.

St. Joseph’s is led by senior JameerNelson, undoubtedly the best point guard inthe nation and the new favorite for Player of

Disappointingfinish to strongseason for skiers

Wrestling sends two toNCAAs after EIWA meet

Army nips m. swimming forsixth at EISL Championships

JUSTIN GOLDMANGOLD STANDARD

see GOLDMAN, page 8

see SKIING, page 9

see TENNIS, page 9see SWIMMING, page 9

see WRESTLING, page 9

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