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Students at otheruniversities facedifferent types ofhousing woescampus watch, page 3

NortheasternUniversity cancelsannual spring concert,citing Super Bowl riotcampus watch, page 3

Ellen Hunter ’04 writesthat Iraq’s history mustbe considered whenplanning its futurecolumn, page 11

W. tennis has successful weekend,despite star player’sinjurysports, page 12

Doubles teams key tom. tennis team’s suc-cess in weekendtournamentsports, page 12

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At a Tuesday night debate on gay marriage, representatives of several campus groupsdefended their views. Clockwise from top left, Eric Neuman ’04,Will Newman ’04, StephenBeale ’04 and Seth Magaziner ’06 all debated.

Gay marriagedebate drawsrange ofopinionsBY BRIAN SCHMALZBACHOpinions on gay marriage varied widelyat a debate that drew a diversity of cam-pus groups.

“Marriage is changing, and that’s OK,”said Seth Magaziner ’06, representing theCollege Democrats. Thousands of gaycouples have married in the past month,yet the institution of marriage has notcollapsed, he said.

Groups including the Brown CollegeDemocrats, College Republicans, BrownACLU and Students for Liberty cametogether last night in Salomon 001 for“Gay Marriage: A Debate.”

Arguing against the inevitability of gaymarriage in the United States, Heraldopinions columnist Stephen Beale ’04,representing the Brown Spectator, saidsuch an idea precludes debate. “Weshould be able to choose our future,” hesaid.

Eric Neuman ’04, of Students forLiberty, began the debate for the pro-gaymarriage side by stating that “privilegesmust be equally applied by the govern-ment.”

There is no traditional definition ofmarriage, so the way one defines mar-riage determines how one feels about theissue, Neuman said.

Beale said the issue of gay marriage isabout culture and tradition, not rights.“There is no right to marry in theConstitution. People claim rights thataren’t rights,” he said.

“Tradition is self-justifying,” and thetraditional definition of marriage in oursociety is “the union of one man and onewoman for the purpose of begetting chil-dren,” Beale said.

Later, he added that his definition ofmarriage could be justified without refer-ence to tradition through moral philoso-phy.

Ethan Ris ’05, president of the CollegeDemocrats, asked why the benefits con-servatives see in marriage could not beexpanded to the LGBT population. Bealesaid when a previously limited group ofprivileges is expanded, “it loses appeal.”

Herald comic artist Will Newman ’04,of the Brown Debating Union, redirectedthe issue to the role of government.Marriage is not a right, and “the govern-ment won’t provide me a spouse,” hesaid. He also warned of the danger ofenacting progressive change and spend-ing political capital before the majority isready to accept an issue.

Newman said he supported civilunions for gay couples. When asked byBrian McGuirk ’06 if “separate could everbe equal,” Newman and Beale disagreed.“If you’re going to give everyone the priv-ileges of marriage, just call it marriage,”Beale said.

Newman disagreed and favoredextending those privileges but said, “Wecall the tradition for creation of childrenmarriage.”

Peer counselorprogram willbe reexaminedfor 2005-2006BY LISA MANDLEOne year after the traditional first-yearunit system was reorganized to distrib-ute counselors’ workloads more evenly,administrators are considering revamp-ing the peer counseling program.

The Office of Student Life plans toreview the entire peer counseling pro-gram and look at issues of staffing andcompensation once a permanent VicePresident of Campus Life and StudentServices has been found, according toDirector of Student Life Jean Joyce-Brady. The University is consideringchanging the responsibilities of minori-ty peer counselors and possibly nothousing MPCs within first-year units,she said.

Counselors and organizers have“seriously discussed” whether living indorms facilitates minority peer coun-seling, Joyce-Brady said. MPCs havehistorically had both residential andcampus-programming responsibilities,she said.

Most MPCs agree they need directinteraction with first-years, said BrianLee ’06, an MPC in Andrews Hall, butsome counselors question whether theMPC program should be part of the co-counselor structure in conjunction withresidential and women’s peer counsel-ing, he said.

MPCs are working to more clearlydifferentiate their roles from those ofother peer counselors, he said. MPCswill continue to live in dorms but will beless involved with planning birthday

Nadelmann puts drug policy reform in historical perspectiveBY ZACH BARTERThe fight to reform drug policy parallelsother movements in United States histo-ry, according to a national leader of theeffort.

“We see ourselves standing on theshoulders of and learning from othermovements for political and social jus-tice in American history,” said EthanNadelmann, founder and executivedirector of the Drug Policy Alliance, in aTuesday night lecture in C.V. StarrAuditorium.

The lecture, which drew about 80 stu-dents and community members, beganwith Nadelmann asking how many peo-ple in attendance supported the war ondrugs. One student raised his hand.

Nadelmann provided a litany of rea-sons for his opposition to the war ondrugs, including its creation of a vio-lence-ridden black market, its effect onHIV transmission and its incarcerationof millions of Americans.

But he said the core principle drivinghis work is his belief in people’s sover-eignty over their own bodies.

“No one deserves to lose what’s pre-cious to them — their freedom, theirfamilies, their livelihood — because ofwhat they choose to put in their body,”Nadelmann said.

The anti-drug camp in the UnitedStates has taken on a fanatical character,he said, calling the war on drugs “thedark side of the American psyche.”

“It’s a quasi-religious feeling,” he said.“It’s this conviction that there’s some-thing viscerally, morally, biblicallywrong” with putting drugs in one’s body,he said.

Nadelmann, who taught at PrincetonUniversity before moving into drug poli-cy, also spoke about the origins andfuture of the movement. He stressed theimportance of building coalitions with awide range of communities and keepinga long-term focus.

“There is a growing movement, agrowing number of people in the U.S.who believe that the war on drugs isdoing more harm than good,” he said.“Building a powerful national advocacyorganization is fundamental to our suc-cess.”

Nadelmann compared marijuanalegalization efforts to the gay rightsmovement, saying “cultural transforma-tion” can result in acceptance for drugusers. Media images of drug users asmoral, successful people are crucial tothe effort, he said.

Nathaniel Lepp ’06, vice president ofStudents for Sensible Drug Policy, whichorganized the lecture, said Nadelmann’smessage begins with awareness of cur-rent drug policy.

“We’re hoping that people understandthe importance of opposing the drug waras it’s currently being waged,” Lepp said.

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Northeastern U.cancels Ludacrisconcert after SuperBowl riotBY ZACH BARTERA decision by the president of Northeastern University tocancel the school’s spring concert — headlined byLudacris and Jurassic 5 — has provoked outrage andprotest among students.

The move comes as part of the administration’sresponse to post-Super Bowl rioting near the school’sBoston campus, which resulted in the death of a stu-dent’s brother. Northeastern officials have used the riotsas a starting point to reexamine campus culture and theschool’s often-strained relations with its neighbors.

“A lot of people on campus felt that this wasn’t the timeto host a gigantic, riotous concert,” said Christine Phelan,assistant director of communications at Northeastern.

Lawyers for the school have said Northeastern will notlose any of the $195,000 it had budgeted for the April 2event. Phelan said administrators are hoping to schedulea big-name speaker — possibly former President BillClinton — in place of the concert.

Administrators understand that students are upset bythe decision, but hope students see the need to strength-en their relationship with the outside community, Phelansaid.

“It’s certainly not the average Northeastern studentwho’s out there rioting after a football win,” Phelan said.“It’s unfortunate that everyone has to be punished for theactions of a few.”

But some students say administrators went too far by

Bigger housing crunch, computerizedlottery common at other collegesBY SHEELA RAMANBrown students might gripe about the housing lottery everyspring, but they are all guaranteed a place to live. At othercolleges, students are sometimes forced off campus andinto scarce, expensive housing by their sophomore years.

At Harvard and Yale universities, students do not gothrough a campus-wide housing lottery because they areassigned to particular residential houses, where they eatand live until graduation.

But at many public universities and other Ivy LeagueSchools — including Princeton University, the University ofPennsylvania, Columbia University and Dartmouth College— only first-years are guaranteed on-campus housing.Upperclassmen at these schools must either move off cam-pus or participate in a competitive Web-based room lotterybased on seniority, according to the schools’ Web sites.

At Dartmouth, the lottery is held every 10 weeks due tothe university’s trimester system, according to GwenWilliams, assistant to the director of housing for the college.Students complete an online application, designating theirpreferred building and room types, and then attend a sen-iority-based lottery to select their rooms. After their firstyear, students can opt to live off campus, and they areencouraged to do so, Williams said.

But since it is often difficult to find adequate off-campusliving in the small town of Hanover, N.H., sophomores mostoften decide to stay on campus, Williams said. This tenden-cy creates an intense housing crunch every fall, in which180 to 200 rising sophomores are placed on a summer wait-list, not knowing whether they will have rooms until lateAugust or early September, she said.

“This uncertainty makes both students and parents real-ly nervous, but no system will be perfect,” Williams said. “Iknow that most other schools face this type of crunch.”

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, with an

undergraduate population of about 16,000 students, faces asimilar housing crunch on a much larger scale.

“We guarantee space for our 2,800 to 3,000 incomingfreshmen, but beyond that there is always a housingcrunch. We can rarely provide housing for transfers or stu-dents who wish to return to residential housing after livingoff campus. As rents continue to rise, there have been morestudent complaints about this,” said Rick Bradley, UNCdirector of housing.

Bradley said UNC has begun allowing first-year studentsto live off campus in an effort to open up more space oncampus. Still, most students have elected to live in thedorms.

At Brown, the situation is different — instead of a waitlistto gain access to dorm rooms, there is a waitlist to obtainoff-campus permission.

“Since Brown considers itself a residential college, oursystem takes care of student needs pretty well in terms ofhousing,” said Jesse Goodman ’06, president of ResidentialCouncil. “Hardly anyone is left sleeping on friend’s couchesfor lack of a place to live,” he said.

Unlike at many other schools, Brown has not computer-ized its housing lottery, and this year, for the first time, it didnot allow rooms to be squatted, Goodman said.

To improve the housing situation for Brown students,Goodman said ResCouncil is currently considering imple-menting an online application process and reinstatingsquatting. ResCouncil is also looking into increasing thenumber of coed suites, according to Goodman. “We’re cur-rently researching our options, and hopefully next year wewill work something out with (the Office of) Residential Lifethat will be even better for Brown students,” he said.

Herald staff writer Sheela Raman ’06 can be reached at [email protected] CONCERT, page 4

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canceling the show. “It’s ridiculous,” said sopho-

more Brian Driscoll. “If they cancancel our Springfest for someridiculous, trumped-up reason,what can’t they take away fromus?”

Driscoll said the decision showsthe school cares more about itsimage than its students.

“They took something that a lotof people worked hard for and gotrid of it,” Driscoll said. “Honestly, ifit was a Neil Diamond show, Idoubt they would have canceledit.”

Students had voted to tripletheir annual activities fee in hopesof drawing a big-name act.Previous Springfests have featuredthe Mighty Mighty Bosstones, theRoots and They Might Be Giants.

Michael Romano, president ofNortheastern’s StudentGovernment Association, said theconcert represented majorprogress in student life since theschool’s days as a predominantlycommuter campus.

“The Ludacris show was lessabout the concert than aboutwhat it represented, about thelevel of student activity on thiscampus,” he said.

But Romano also recognizedthat the campus climate needssignificant change.

“We have a lot of repairing todo and a lot of serious issues toaddress with the community,” hesaid.

Student leaders are planning aday of community service andoutreach in place of the concert.

Romano said he hopes the daywill mark “the first step of manyin sending the message that wecare about the community.”

David Margolius ’06, admin-istrative chair of the BrownConcert Agency, said he was notsurprised that Northeastern stu-dents were upset by the deci-sion.

Although Margolius said hedoubted Brown administratorswould ever cancel a SpringWeekend show, he was unsurewhether BCA would be able torecover fees from bands if a con-cert were canceled.

“The worst thing that couldhappen to us is a rain-out onSaturday,” Margolius said. “Idon’t think the University would(cancel the show) with all themoney on the line.”

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

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Neuman concluded theaffirmative position by argu-ing that “we should be attack-ing every problem in oursociety.”

Proponents of gay mar-riage should work to con-vince skeptics that a changein policy is the right course ofaction, he said.

Beale encouraged theaudience to “try to under-stand the issue from my per-spective, so that you can bet-ter understand your own.”

“When Stephen (Beale)looks at America, he thinkssome traditions should beindefinite,” Magaziner toldThe Herald after the debate.“I think change is America’sgreatest tradition.”

Beale told The Herald hewas satisfied with the debatealthough the opposed sidesspeak “two separate lan-guages.” While most debatesare founded on shared moralvalues, the gay marriagedebate is a “clash of ortho-doxies,” he said.

Rob Montz ’05, presidentof the Brown Debating Union,moderated the debate.


Marriage

parties and other social events.Attendance at events such as theBlack History MonthConvocation and MPC commit-tee group meetings will no longerbe mandatory for MPCs. “We’vegot enough meetings as is,” hesaid.

The examination of MPCs’roles will be part of the Office ofStudent Life’s review in the nextyear, Joyce-Brady said.

Last spring, the Universityrestructured the peer counselingprogram to equalize the student-counselor ratio across first-yearunits after peer counselors com-plained about unbalanced work-loads. In the past, there werebetween eight and 25 first-yearsper counselor, Joyce-Brady said.The restructuring — implement-ed this fall — led to fewer first-year units and a ratio of between16 and 21 first-years per coun-selor, she said.

“Feedback in general has beenpositive,” Joyce-Brady said. But“we fell short in terms of trainingpeer counselors to think strategi-cally” about working in largerunits, she said. Counselors beganthe year expecting to get to knowall the first-years in their units, animpossible task when some unitshave up to 80 students acrossmultiple floors.

Joyce-Brady said counselorsneed to think about “carving upunits” so that every studentknows at least one counselor.“There is still disagreement aboutwhether that’s a reasonableapproach,” she said.

“You hear different thingsabout not having enough RCs orunits being too big, but in gener-al it’s a pretty good system,” saidMaureen Suhendra ’07, who willbe an RC in Unit 4 next year.

But Suhendra said she doesn’tknow how counselors will unifythe 75 to 80 students who will bein her unit next year. “It’s going tobe a challenge,” she said. Thisyear’s Unit 4, which spans two

floors, has struggled to make unitmembers known to each other,she said.

Nick Bauer ’07 will be an RCnext year for an 80-person unit.This year, his unit in Keeney has54 first-years. “It seems like a lotmore,” he said. “It’ll be more diffi-cult to get around and get toknow everybody,” he said.

Counselors will have to workas a team and balance theirdesire to get know as many stu-dents as possible with the geog-raphy of their unit, Joyce-Bradysaid.

Some room changes will bemade next year to place coun-selors in more centrally locatedrooms within their units, Joyce-Brady said. But these changes willbe constrained by the locationsof singles within first-year build-ings. She cited parts of KeeneyQuadrangle, Emery-Woolley Halland Morriss-Champlin Hall asparticularly challenging areas.

Though initially unable toattract enough qualified appli-cants, the peer counseling pro-gram has filled all 79 positions forRCs, MPCs and WPCs afteraccepting a second round ofapplications, Joyce-Brady said.

Peer counseling programswere able to fill only 70 of the 79positions available from the firstbatch of applicants, she said. Theprograms received more than 70applications but felt that only 70applicants met the qualifications,she said.

With nine positions open, theprograms accepted a secondround of applicants to fill theremaining spots, Joyce-Bradysaid. Between 40 and 50 studentsapplied during the second wave,and the programs had to turnaway many qualified applicants,she said.

“We’re feeling great” about thefinal selection of peer counselors,Joyce-Brady said. There will be 26RCs, 31 MPCs and 22 WPCs nextyear, Joyce-Brady wrote in an e-mail. Because many studentsapplied to more than one pro-gram, it is not possible to saywhether one program was partic-

ularly short of applicants, Joyce-Brady wrote.

Students cited several reasonswhy qualified applicants werescarce during the first round.Suhendra said the first round wasnot well publicized. Some stu-dents also decided to apply to theprogram after learning moreabout the housing lottery, shesaid.

Bauer applied during the sec-ond round and was accepted tothe RC program. The deadline forthe first round was at a point inthe semester when he was stilladjusting to Brown and “over-whelmed with work,” he said. Butonce the deadline had passed,Bauer said he regretted notapplying and was pleased to havea second chance.

A 25-percent pay increase forall of next year’s peer counselorshas also been approved, accord-ing to Joyce-Brady. Next year’scounselors will receive $1,250 forthe year, she said.

The pay raise was institutedafter a meeting between theOffice of Student Life and a groupof peer counselors earlier in thesemester. The peer counselorscame to the meeting with threemain concerns: compensation,unit size and the fact that somepeer counselors in Perkins werehoused in doubles, Joyce-Bradysaid.

In addition to receivingincreased pay, next year’s coun-selors will all be housed in sin-gles, Joyce-Brady said.

“The pay raise is especiallyimportant for MPCs, because alot of people of color are onfinancial aid,” Lee said.

The coming review might alsolook at the possibility of a LGBTpeer counseling program,according to Joyce-Brady, whosaid she was aware that discus-sions about such a program haveoccurred but has not received aformal proposal.

Lisa Mandle ’06 is The Herald’sdesign editor. She can be reachedat [email protected].


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Subsidy cut planned for student loansWASHINGTON (Washington Post) —House Republicans areconsidering legislation aimed at reducing governmentsubsidies for a federally supported student-loan pro-gram, a step that critics say could lead to sharpincreases in the long-term cost of going to college.

The Republican proposals, which are in draft formand have not been circulated, could shake up the $35-billion-a-year student-loan industry. Among the ideasbeing considered, according to lobbyists for bothsides, is a major revamp of the present system of per-mitting recent graduates to consolidate student loansat fixed interest rates.

Because it is widely believed that a rise in interestrates is inevitable, a move to variable interest rateswould likely mean higher bills for millions of collegegraduates over the next few years. But it could permitthe government to use the money saved from subsi-dizing artificially low interest rates to help low-incomestudents.

As a prelude to a formal debate on the changes, theHouse Committee on Education and the Workforcewill hear arguments for and against fixed-rate studentloans Wednesday.

Supporters and opponents of loan consolidationhave submitted widely divergent estimates of the costsof keeping the present system for the student and thetaxpayer.

A spokesman for the committee, David Schnittger,said Republican leaders are crafting a bill to reautho-rize student-aid components of the Higher EducationAct, which is due to expire in September. He said theRepublican majority is opposed to “runaway entitle-ment spending” and wants to produce a bill that is“fiscally responsible.”

The Republican emphasis, Schnittger said, will beon “expanding college access for low-and middle-income students who are currently aspiring to attain ahigher education” rather than on providing long-termbenefits to “people who aren’t even students.”

Under the present system, which has been in placesince the mid-1980s, graduates are permitted to con-solidate several different student loans into a singlelong-term package at a favorable interest rate.

Graduates have been rushing to lock in government-guaranteed 30-year interest rates of between 3.5 per-cent and 4.1 percent, well below the rate offered forhome mortgages.

As long as interest rates are low, the program coststaxpayers nothing and may even be profitable,because the government charges lenders a service feeof about 1 percent a year for guaranteeing the loans.But if interest rates rise over the next 10 years, as manyeconomists predict, the government would have tomake up the difference between the market rate andthe fixed, consolidated rate, and costs could soar.

The student-loan industry is split on how to dealwith the looming budget crunch. Most big lenders,including Sallie Mae, which claims a 29 percent shareof all outstanding loans, would like to do away withconsolidation on the grounds that it is becoming fartoo costly over the long run for taxpayers. Small loan-consolidation companies are fiercely opposed to anychanges, fearing that they could be driven out of busi-ness.

Sallie Mae recently commissioned a study that pre-dicted the consolidated-loan program will cost tax-payers at least $35 billion over the next eight years.

“The nightmare scenario is that the student-loanprogram will hemorrhage money as interest rates goup, and Congress will be obliged to make cuts in otherareas in order to pay for it,” said Kevin Hassett, direc-tor of economic policy studies at the AmericanEnterprise Institute and one of the authors of the SallieMae study.

Henry Howard, president of the U.S. EducationFinance Group, a leading loan-consolidation compa-ny, said college graduates could end up paying twiceas much in interest if the fixed-rate system is aban-doned.

Most Democrats are strongly opposed to anyattempt to abolish fixed-interest-rate student loans,said Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), the rankingDemocrat on the House Education Committee. Butanother Democrat, Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), saidhe would support a cutback in the program if themoney saved would go to low-income students.

U.S. image abroad ison decline, Pew pollfindsWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — A year after the start of the Iraqwar, mistrust of the United States abroad has intensified,and ill will toward America has begun to erode support forthe U.S.-led war on terrorism, according to a global atti-tude survey released Tuesday.

The ongoing study of public opinion in nine countrieswas conducted by the Pew Research Center for the Peopleand the Press in February and March — before last week’sbombings in Madrid, Spain, and the subsequent defeat ofthe Spanish government that had contributed troops tothe Iraq war. Spain was not included in the survey.

But the study illuminates the widening gulf betweenthe American public’s beliefs and those of key U.S. allies— a divide that thrust itself into the public eye Sundaywith the surprise defeat of one of the Bush administra-tion’s staunchest allies on Iraq and the war on terrorism,Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.

While most Americans say they believe the war to oustSaddam Hussein helped in the global fight against terror-ism, majorities in Germany, France and Turkey, and halfof those surveyed in Britain and Russia, said they thoughtthe U.S.-led Iraq war undermined the struggle against ter-rorism.

Large majorities in Britain, Russia, France, Germany,Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan and Jordan said the war hadleft them with less trust in the United States. But 58 per-cent of Americans said the opposite.

Large numbers in every country surveyed — besidesthe United States and Britain — said they believed thatAmerican and British leaders lied when they claimed Iraqhad weapons of mass destruction and that the UnitedStates is not sincere in its motives for the war on terror-ism. Only Americans said they had more confidence thanbefore the war that the United States wanted to promotedemocracy around the world.

“It is disturbing that Americans are the only ones sur-veyed who believe the war in Iraq helped, rather than

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hurt, in fighting al-Qaida,” saidMadeleine Albright, who servedas secretary of state underPresident Clinton. “It is alsotroubling that the Iraqi conflicthas caused each of the othercountries polled to lose confi-dence in America’s honesty andcommitment to democracy.”

The Pew poll has been care-fully studied in the past by theBush administration and vari-ous government and privatecommissions grappling withAmerica’s declining standingabroad and growing anti-American sentiment in much ofthe Muslim world. An alarmedState Department also has com-missioned its own polls, whichhave found trends similar tothose cited by Pew, according toofficials who have seen the data.

U.S. officials had argued that,while the plummeting populari-ty of the United States was causefor deep concern, it had reachedits likely low point during thelast Pew survey conducted inMay 2003, shortly after the endof major combat in Iraq, andthat it would likely rebound.

The new poll did show somebright spots, such as less appar-ent hostility in some nationswith Muslim majorities. Forexample, the percentageexpressing a very unfavorableview of the United Statesdropped in Turkey from 68 per-cent in May 2003 to 45 percentin this survey; in Pakistan from71 percent to 50 percent; inJordan from 83 percent to 67percent; and in Morocco from53 percent to 46 percent.

However, large majorities stillviewed the United States unfa-vorably. And while the UnitedStates and Europe share a hor-ror of Osama bin Laden,President George W. Bush wasrated even less favorably thanbin Laden in Jordan, Moroccoand Pakistan — a key ally in thewar on terrorism and the huntfor the most-wanted terrorist.

Moreover, nearly half of

Pakistanis, as well as 70 percentof Jordanians and 66 percent ofMoroccans, said suicide attacksagainst Americans in Iraq werejustified. Even 31 percent ofTurks surveyed agreed.Complete results can be foundonline at www.people-press.org.

The survey found a signifi-cant erosion of U.S. standing inBritain, a development that,together with the Spanish elec-tion results, could prove threat-ening to Bush’s most importantally, British Prime Minister TonyBlair. Only 43 percent of Britonssurveyed said they believed Blairmade the right decision in usingforce against Iraq, down from 61percent last May. Support for thewar among Americans fell from74 percent to 60 percent in thesame period.

Although European leadershave stressed their desire toimprove ties with the UnitedStates — and argued that suc-cess in rebuilding and democra-tizing Iraq is in every nation’sinterest — trans-Atlantic ten-sions in public opinion areunabated. Growing majoritiesin Britain, France and Germanywant the European Union to beas powerful as the United Statesand want their foreign policyand security arrangements to beindependent from Washington,the survey found.

“It’s a fact, whether we like itor not, that there’s a huge prob-lem with the credibility ofAmerica in Europe andbeyond,” a senior Europeandiplomat said Tuesday.

The problem is due not sim-ply to the failure to findweapons of mass destruction inIraq, the diplomat said, but alsoto what he called the“Guantanamo element” — theview, especially amongEuropean youth, that theUnited States is not the defend-er of freedom, civil liberties andother ideals that it purports tobe. The United States has beenholding hundreds of terrorismsuspects, including Europeancitizens, at its base inGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, with-out access to lawyers or formalcharges — some for more thantwo years.

“The negative fallout amongthe public, especially theyoung, idealistic public, may bemore extensive than those inthe Bush administration think,”the diplomat warned.


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Opposition gathers against‘cap-and-trade’ mercury ruleWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Abipartisan group of senators, aformer head of theEnvironmental ProtectionAgency, and health, labor andreligious groups urged the Bushadministration Tuesday to with-draw its controversial proposalto curb mercury emissions frompower plants.

They said the plan was tooweak to protect public healthand that the internal process thatproduced it was so slantedtoward industry that the finalrule would not survive legal chal-lenge.

In a letter to EPAAdministrator Michael Leavitt,Sen. James Jefford (I-Vt.), theranking minority member of theEnvironment and Public WorksCommittee, said the EPA hadviolated requirements calling foragencies to review alternativesand disclose their analysis whenproposing a major regulation.

Jeffords also referred to the“proposal’s gross inadequacies incontrolling mercury.” In addi-tion, he called on Leavitt torequest an investigation by theagency’s inspector general “intothe allegations of undue industryinfluence in the rulemakingprocess.” He said it appearedthat EPA political appointees andWhite House officials had“worked to skirt, if not directlyviolate, the law and rules of ethi-cal behavior.”

An agency spokeswoman saidTuesday that work on the mercu-ry rule is ongoing and no judg-ment “should be made until therule is finalized in December.”

EPA officials said, at this point,they stand by their “cap-and-trade” approach to regulatingmercury, which creates market-oriented incentives for coal-firedutilities to clean their emissionsor instead buy “credits” fromthose that do.

“Our goal and our commit-ment remains the same: to

reduce mercury emissions by 70percent,” said Cynthia Bergman,the spokeswoman.

Leavitt said this week that hewas directing his staff to under-take additional studies andanalysis of the mercury proposal,which was announced inDecember, shortly after he tookoffice. He said he considered thispart of the “normal process,”which he suggested could resultin changes to the proposal. Heemphasized that the administra-tion was the first to propose reg-ulations that would limit mercu-ry emissions from power plants.

President Bill Clinton’s EPAadministrator, Carol Browner,said the Bush proposal “is funda-mentally flawed. It can’t with-stand a legal test. And it must bewithdrawn.” Speaking at a newsconference hosted by Physiciansfor Social Responsibility, she saidBush administration officials“decided where they wanted togo before they completed theanalysis, and then they cookedthe analysis to get to where theindustry was willing to be. That isnot the way a regulatory processshould operate.”

Jeffords and Browner said theywere largely responding to astory in the Los Angeles Times onTuesday that disclosed that EPApolitical appointees hadbypassed agency professionalstaff and a federal advisory com-mittee last year to develop a mer-cury-emissions rule preferred bythe White House and industry.

The Times also reported thatEPA staffers said they were toldnot to undertake routine eco-nomic and technical studiescalled for under an executiveorder and requested by the advi-sory panel.

Significant verbatim languagefrom utility lobbyists was includ-ed in the proposal.

Also Tuesday, senators PatrickLeahy (D-Vt.) and OlympiaSnowe (R-Maine) reiterated an

earlier plea to scrap the EPA’sproposed rule. They have collect-ed nearly three dozen signatureson a letter urging Leavitt to sub-mit a new proposal.

Critics say the EPA should reg-ulate mercury under the provi-sions of the Clean Air Act, whichcall for much steeper and earlieremissions reductions than theagency has proposed.

Christie Whitman, who head-ed the agency last spring whenEPA staffers said they were toldto forego the normal analysis ofthe mercury proposal, saidTuesday that she supportedLeavitt’s decision to order newstudies. She said he had theoption of publishing the findingsbefore the deadline for publiccomment and well before thefinal rule was enacted.

Still, Whitman said, “Ideallyyou have the underlying analysiswhen you go out with a rule.” Shereiterated that she never request-ed that her staff not produce itsnormal analysis or skew the dataand, had she known that washappening, “I would havestepped in.”

In support of Leavitt’sapproach, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the chairman of theEnvironment and Public WorksCommittee, believes, accordingto a spokesman, that “this con-troversy is testament to thelength environmentalists will goto politicize the normal workingsof government.”

A recent study found thatabout 60,000 children a yearcould suffer learning disabilitiesfrom mercury exposure beforebirth. This can happen whenpregnant women eat fish fromwaters contaminated by the mer-cury emitted from power plants.

But coal and utility executiveswarn that overly aggressive regu-lation of the nation’s 1,100 coal-fired plants could seriously dam-age those industries as well asthe national economy.

Earlier in the day,Nadelmann delivered a speechto students in PS40: “Conflictand Cooperation inInternational Politics.”Nadelmann also spoke beforethe medical community atMemorial Hospital and tookpart in a local talk-radio show.

SSDP hosted a receptionwith Nadelmann for faculty,legislators, doctors and stu-dents Monday night.

Lepp said he was pleasedwith the turnout at the event.

“I’m thrilled to see a lot ofnew faces here,” he said.

Herald staff writer Zach Barter’06 edits the Campus Watch sec-tion. He can be reached atz b a r t e r @ b r o w n d a i l y -herald.com.


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WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —President George W. Bush’sadministration and theDominican Republic agreed thisweek to remove almost all traderestrictions between them overthe next decade, while keeping alid on how much sugar theCaribbean island nation canexport to the United States.

The agreement would allowDominicans to gradually boosttheir sugar exports to the U.S.market, but limits the amount ofthe increase and maintains stifftariffs for exceeding those caps.

The pact would essentially addthe Dominican Republic to theproposed Central American FreeTrade Agreement, or CAFTA,which would reduce commercialbarriers between the UnitedStates and Costa Rica, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras andNicaragua, “expanding the circleof friends and neighbors whohave agreed to tear down the tariffwalls that block trade,” U.S. TradeRepresentative Robert Zoellicksaid in a written statement.

While the DominicanRepublic’s economy is small com-pared with the U.S. economy, theBush administration has pursuedsuch agreements with severalindividual countries in hopes ofprodding others to continuenegotiating a proposed Free TradeArea of the Americas that wouldinclude most of the nations in theWestern Hemisphere, and to pro-vide a push to the stalled WorldTrade Organization global tradetalks.

Jack Roney, director of eco-nomics and policy analysis for theAmerican Sugar Alliance, anindustry trade group, called thechange in Dominican sugarexports “a very, very modestincrease indeed,” adding, “We’repleased it’s not greater.”

Critics of sugar quotas say thetrade limits prop up the pricespaid by American businesses andconsumers while hurting poor

sugar exporting countries tryingto compete in global agriculturemarkets.

The increase in the DominicanRepublic’s sugar cap is “not signif-icant,” said Dale Hathaway, a sen-ior fellow at the National Centerfor Food and Agriculture Policy,and a former undersecretary ofagriculture in the Carter adminis-tration. “It’s fairly clear thisadministration is absolutelyunder the control of the sugarpeople and not going to upsetthem in an election year.”

Zoellick’s spokesman, RichardMills, responded that “tough com-promises were made in a fewareas” to seize “the chance toopen markets and expand oppor-tunities for our workers, farmersand exporters.”

The Dominican Republicbecame the eighth country toreach a free-trade pact with theUnited States since December —joining the Central Americans,Australia and Morocco — and theBush administration has said itplans to continue negotiatingmore such agreements this year,even as trade heats up as an elec-tion year issue.

Democrats have blamed theBush administration’s economicpolicies for the loss of U.S. jobs toglobal competition. Republicanshave responded by decrying pro-posed new trade restraints as“economic isolationism.”

Some Democratic lawmakershave said CAFTA will not win con-gressional approval because itlacks sufficient protection for therights of workers in the CentralAmerican countries. Zoellickresponded to one such commentlast week on Capitol Hill, saying,“The reason CAFTA can’t pass isbecause we have a bunch of eco-nomic isolationists using labor asan excuse.”

The administration is consult-ing with Congress on when it willsend the agreements to CapitolHill for approval, Zoellick said.

U.S., Dominicansagree on trade terms

(Los Angeles Times) — FormerPresident Bill Clinton, whodespite his enormous popularityamong Democrats played littlepart in the 2000 campaign, onTuesday launched a 10-day effortto raise money for Sen. JohnKerry’s (D-Mass.) White Housebid.

In an e-mail sent out to 2.3 mil-lion Democrats — the combinedmailing lists of the Kerry cam-paign and the DemocraticNational Committee — Clintoncalled upon party faithful torespond to Republican attacks by“flooding” Kerry headquarterswith donations.

Clinton beseeched Democratsto raise $10 million in 10 days tohelp the Massachusetts senatorbattle President George W. Bush,who has collected more than $150million for his re-election bid.Clinton will also appear at afundraising gala on March 25 inWashington, along with formerPresident Jimmy Carter and manyof Kerry’s one-time rivals for theDemocratic presidential nomina-tion.

Clinton never endorsed a can-didate in the race, and, untilTuesday, had largely remained onthe sidelines in the 2004 cam-

paign until Tuesday. “Today, you and I can send a

powerful message to John Kerry,”Clinton said in his e-mail. “Wecan promise him that we willnever let him stand alone in theface of Republican attacks. ... But,don’t wait to act. Join me in mak-ing March 16, 2004, a day you andI will always remember — andone Republicans will never for-get.”

Experts on the presidency saidClinton’s fundraising prowessshould prove a boon for Kerry andthat he could help the presumednominee increase turnout amongminority voters in the Novemberelection.

But the experts also said Kerryneeds to make sure he is not over-shadowed by the former presi-dent or too closely linked to him.

Clinton “will help energize thebase and loosen the dollars fromthe donors. That’s what he’s beingbrought in to do,” said StephenWayne, professor of governmentat Georgetown University inWashington and author of “TheRoad to the White House.”

Wayne said that in the fall,Clinton’s campaign skills “canbring in a large AfricanAmericanand Hispanic voter turnout” forKerry.

Wayne also said that amongsome voters, “It may very well bethat when people think of Clintonnow ... they’ll think of the econo-my under Clinton compared withthe economy under Bush, foreignpolicy under Clinton comparedwith foreign policy under Bush,”and that Kerry will benefit fromthat comparison.

Still, Clinton remains one ofthe most polarizing figures acrossthe nation’s political landscape. AGallup survey late last year asked1,006 adults to rank their feelingsabout the former president on aspectrum from negative to posi-tive; while the majority viewedClinton favorably, sentiment wasbunched at the two extremes ofthe scale — very positive and verynegative.

One worry for Kerry is that

extensive reliance on Clintoncould energize those voters whostill vilify him.

A former senior adviser toClinton, who asked not to beidentified, also warned that he“sucks up so much of the oxygenin a room” that Kerry’s campaignadvisers need to “strike an appro-priate balance” in using him.

The adviser added that “at theend of the day, you have to makeyour own sale” as a presidentialcandidate.

Charles Jones, a retired politi-cal scientist at the University ofWisconsin, said, “You certainlydon’t want it to appear that Kerryis somehow not his own man.That’s always a tricky thing. Youdon’t want it to appear that, ‘Gee,I’ve got to call in Bill Clinton tohelp myself.’”

Clinton was kept at arm’slength during the 2000 presiden-tial campaign by Democraticnominee Al Gore, who was seek-ing to replace the man who hadmade him vice president. Gorewas concerned that voter angerover the Monica Lewinsky scan-dal, which led to Clinton’simpeachment would hurt theDemocratic ticket in several keystates.

But after he lost the tight andcontroversial election, Gore wascriticized for not tapping Clintonto help rally minority voters inFlorida and Arkansas, the formerpresident’s home state. Bush car-ried both those states.

“The way Gore handledClinton in 2000 is inexplicable,”said the former Clinton adviser.“He ended up with the worst ofboth worlds. For people who did-n’t like Clinton, he got tagged withthat baggage. For those who likedClinton, he got none of the credit”for the successes of the previouseight years.

Kerry aides welcomed Clinton’sefforts Tuesday and immediatelyplastered the former president’svisage across the campaign’s Website. But it remained unclear whatClinton would be doing for Kerryin coming months.


Bears this season. Beck said the doubles point

was a “convincing” confidenceboost for the team.

Daisy Ames ’07 and AmandaSaiontz ’07 were unable to closeout the third doubles match,falling to Nadia Dellarcipreteand Samrin Tanzeem.

Singles once again proved tobe Bruno’s strength, as the teamdropped only two sets in win-ning all six matches.

Arlak once again used a fast-moving game to make quickwork of her opponent, beatingde Boer at the No. 1 position, 6-2, 6-1. Meath’s impressive playcarried over from her doubleswin, allowing her to post astraight-set win over Elsholz atNo. 2, 6-3, 6-0.

Singer had a dominating winat No. 3 in what Taylor called an“outstanding” match. The 6-0,6-1 win over Jansma gave herthe “Team Bear Award” for theday, Taylor said.

Singer was effective in closing

off points and coming in off ofshort balls, something that shehas been trying to improve, shesaid.

“I just stayed really aggressiveand I was really focused,” Singersaid.

The Class of 2007 made sever-al major contributions, asSaiontz, Ames and Pautleradded straight-set wins at theNo. 4, 5 and 6 singles positions,respectively.

“I think we were a muchstronger team than them,” Becksaid. “Even without our No. 1player we managed to beatthem.”

The team’s schedule tough-ens considerably from here,beginning with next Sunday’sroad match against No. 66Boston College. The Bears willpractice hard this week inpreparation for the BC match, aswell as for an upcoming tourna-ment at the University ofCalifornia-Irvine, Taylor said.

Herald staff writer Robbie Corey-Boulet ’07 covers women’s tennis.He can be reached at [email protected].


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Clinton launches $1-million-a-day drive for Kerry

Bruno took its first lead ofthe season by scoring threeruns in the fourth. Lowe led offby showing his wheels, makingit all the way to third on athrowing error. Outfielder PaulChristian ’06 plated Lowe witha double, and Hughes scoredChristian and outfielder DevinThomas ’07, a Gainesvillenative, with a double of his ownthree batters later.

The bottom half of theinning proved to beMcNamara’s last, as the Gatorstook the lead back with threeruns of their own. But ClintDykehouse ’07 was able tocome in and put the fire out,keeping the score 4-3. Browntied the score at the top of thefifth, as Christian’s sacrifice flybrought in Chris Contrino ’05.

Dykehouse held Floridascoreless in the sixth, and SamJennings ’04 came in to throwthree more scoreless innings. Inthe first extra frame, Floridawas able to get a runner acrosson Mike Mahan ’07, who took

the loss. The loss of closer DanSpring ’03 to graduation andthe MLB draft hurt the Bears’late-inning performance.

Co-captain Bobby Deeb ’04had two hits to go with twostolen bases on the day.Christian and Hughes had twoRBI apiece, and Contrinoadded the fifth.

The third and final game ofthe series was not pretty forBruno, as Florida scored earlyand often on its way to a 14-1victory. Starter JamesCramphin ’06 gave up 13 of theFlorida runs in five innings, butonly five of them were earned.Hughes went two for three onthe day, bringing his average to.440 for the series. Contrinodrove in Christian for the Bears’only run.

After seeing modestamounts of playing time lastseason, Hughes remainedhumble about his breakoutweekend. “I got some pitches tohit,” he said. “When you getpitches like that, hopefully youget a good swing in and it falls,and that’s what was happen-ing.”

This weekend the Bears con-

tinue their road swing whenthey head down to Boone, N.C.,to play twin doubleheadersagainst Appalachian StateUniversity (2-15).

Herald staff writer ChrisHatfield ’06 edits the sports sec-tion and covers baseball. He canbe reached at [email protected].

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“It was a bit shocking for us howwell we played doubles all week-end,” said Head Coach Jay Harris.

Against 11th-ranked VCUThursday, Brown doubles cameout blazing. The Bears swept thedoubles point, dominating theVCU teams. Brown’s first doublesteam, the seventh-ranked duo ofco-captain Jamie Cerretani ’04 andAdil Shamasdin ’05, controlled the39th-ranked team of FlorianMarquardt and Arnoud Lecloerec,handing the VCU team an 8-4 loss.

Brown’s other doubles teamsfollowed the lead of Cerretani andShamasdin. Co-captain KrisGoddard ’04 teamed with ZachPasanen ’06 to defeat Pedro Nietoand Marton Ott 8-5, and Brier andNick Goldberg ’06 came out aheadof Fransesc Lleal and Sergi Arumi8-3.

Despite Brown’s excellent dou-bles play, VCU justified its num-ber-one seed with standout singlesperformances. In singles play, onlyBrier won his match, defeatingMarquardt 6-2, 6-4. Cerretani,ranked No. 100 in the nation, suf-fered a 6-1, 2-6, 6-0 defeat at thehands of 84th-ranked Nieto.

Brier played excellent tennisthroughout the entire weekend,winning all three of his singlesmatches and teaming withGoldberg for three doubles victo-ries. In singles, Brier did not dropa single set in his three matchesagainst VCU, Fresno State and NCState.

“(Brier) could have easily beenon the All-Tournament team. It’shuge to have one of our captainscome out and play that well,”Harris said.

Brown came back in the conso-lation bracket Friday with some-thing to prove. Matched against ateam ranked over 20 places higherthan theirs, the Bears knew theywere in for a challenge. What theydid not expect was a 4-0 victory.

Doubles once again came outon fire for Brown. Goddard andPasanen dominated their oppo-nents in 8-2 victories, and Briergot another of his six wins byteaming with Goldberg to defeatAlex Krohn and Andy Sinn 8-2.

With the doubles point clinched,Cerretani and Shamasdin did notfinish their match.

In singles, Brown needed towin only three matches to securethe victory. The Bears took thefirst set in all six singles matches,and Brier quickly added hisfourth win of the tournamentover Sergui Modoc 7-6, 6-3. EricThomas ’07 added a huge win atnumber four singles, defeatingCharles Irie 7-6, 6-3, andShamasdin closed out the matchwith a 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 victory overStefan Suta. Though he did notfinish his match, Cerretani wasleading 51st-ranked Greg Shearer7-6, 6-5 when play was stopped.Pasanen and Goldberg also didnot finish their matches.

Saturday brought Brown’s finalmatch of the tournament, onethat had special meaning for thejuniors and seniors on the team.Jon Choboy, currently the headcoach at NC State, was thecoached at Brown until the sum-mer of 2002 and coached all of thejuniors and seniors currentlyplaying for Brown.

Nostalgia aside, Brown doublesonce again began on the attack.As in the match against FresnoState, Brown’s top doubles teamof Cerretani and Shamasdin wasunable to finish its match due tothe extremely strong play of theother two teams. Goddard andPasanen dominated Val Banadaand Dennis Myers 8-3 while Brierand Goldberg defeated ConorTaylor and Andre Iriarte 8-3.

Again, Brown needed onlythree singles matches to clinchthe win. Brier won his sixth matchof the weekend, defeating JonDavis 6-4, 6-0. Pasanen earned hisfirst singles win of the weekend,coming out ahead of Myers 6-1, 6-4. For the second match in a row,Shamasdin clinched the win bydefeating Banada 6-2, 6-2.Cerretani, Thomas and Goldbergdid not finish their matches.

Brown returns to the courts toplay the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Friday at thePizzitola Sports Center.

Herald staff writer Craig McGowan’07 covers men’s tennis. He can bereached at [email protected].


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Continuing and widespreadsteroid use has the potential todestroy the integrity of baseball asmuch as Pete Rose’s betting did.The negative effects of bothsteroids and gambling on base-ball are undisputed — but whyone is currently considered worsethan the other could lie only inMLB’s indecisive stance on per-formance-enhancing drug use.

Where Major League Baseballdiffers from most professionalsports is in its failure, until recent-ly, to test for steroid use, and in itsunwillingness to penalize playersfor steroid use. The currentrumors of widespread steroid useand its implicit acceptability inthe public eye can be comparedto the days of heavy gambling inbaseball at the turn of the 20thcentury.

In 1918 and 1919, multipleincidents of betting on baseballarose, most notably the eightChicago “Black” Sox who threwthe World Series for a few thou-sand dollars. Until that time, bet-ting on baseball had been tacitly

accepted. Cap Anson, a baseballlegend (and Hall of Famer) at theturn of the century, reportedlyopenly bet on his team on a regu-lar basis.

Not only was this behavior tol-erated, it was deemed under-standable and even honest to beton yourself and your team. Thisall changed with the Black Soxscandal, which forced baseball totake a resolute anti-gamblingstance once it became evidentjust how damaging betting was tothe integrity of the game.

This is what needs to happenfor steroids and baseball at thisturn of the century. Maybe it willtake a heartbreaking scandal thatrocks the foundations of the gameto teach the association thatsomething needs to be done.

The only real differencebetween what doped-up playersare doing to the game of baseballand what Charlie Hustle did isthat only Hustle’s action is reflect-ed in a rule painted in large printon the wall of every major leagueclubhouse in America. It’s timefor a new rule to be written. It’stime for MLB and the union toadmit that steroids can ruin base-ball.


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Baseball Dykehouse held

Florida scoreless in

the sixth, and Sam

Jennings ’04 came in

to throw three more

scoreless innings. In

the first extra frame,

Florida was able to

get a runner across

on Mike Mahan ’07,

who took the loss.

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Measuring unitsDuring the first weeks of the fall semester, it’s common tosee enormous groups of first-years in the Sharpe Refectoryand around campus, under the homemade banners of theirresidential units. This year, those groups got even bigger, asthe Office of Student Life’s reorganization of units enlargedsome to include up to 80 students.

The intention was to even out residential counselors’workload, measured by the ratio of first-years per counselor.That ratio currently ranges between 16 and 21 first-years percounselor, whereas previously RCs might be responsible foras few as eight or as many as 25 first-years.

Counselors have responded positively to the new system,Director Jean Joyce-Brady told The Herald. But Joyce-Bradydid not mention the reactions of first-years, whose well-being is the goal of the counseling program.

The problem with unwieldy units is not just that first-years have difficulty getting to know their counselors. It isthat they have difficulty getting to know their unitmates.Units are crucial for first-years during orientation andthroughout the year. But when units swell to encompass asmany as 80 students, they seem likely to lose the sense of acohesive community.

This cost does not seem worth the benefit of evening outRCs’ workloads. Counselors in the largest units are stillresponsible for 21 first-years each — not much of a reduc-tion from 25. And the strict breakdown of students per coun-selor does not reflect the quantity and quality of counselingindividual first-years receive. Certainly, it does not justifychanging unit size, a number with a more direct relevance tothe first-year experience.

There is still time for OSL to rework units for the Class of2008. The 79 counselors selected could be distributed over29 units, rather than 22, reducing average unit size fromabout 65 to about 50 first-years. Under this reorganization,no unit would have fewer than three counselors. The onlytradeoff would be an increased disparity in counselors’workload. But we trust that rising upperclassmen whochoose the responsibilities of counseling are mature enoughto accept an uneven counselor-student ratio to keep the unitexperience meaningful.

To the Editor:

I was glad to see Gabriella Doob’s story about ourefforts to enforce the English Requirement and tohelp students improve their writing (“Writingrequirement, previously ignored, is now enforced,”March 15). I am also grateful for your editorial sup-port of this effort. I am writing to correct theimpression the story may inadvertently have creat-ed, however, that the Registrar was somehowresponsible for the neglect that the requirementhad fallen into. The Faculty has delegated the

responsibility for enforcing the writing requirementto the Office of Dean of the College, so any lack ofclear direction about this requirement in the pastoriginated from and must be addressed by thisoffice. The Registrar’s Office has indeed been mosthelpful in working with my office to get us the infor-mation we need so that we can contact the studentswho need assistance.

Paul ArmstrongDean of the College

March 16

Registrar not at fault for Brown’s unenforcedwriting requirement

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


The Know Nothing anti-immigrant nativists are atit again. Writing in the journal Foreign Policy,Harvard University Professor Samuel Huntingtonwarns that the American way of life is threatened bythe menace of the brown peril. The harried, scaredprofessor predicts a scenario of Latinos flooding theUnited States and dragging it to the lowest levels.

With sweeping generalizations and no supportingempirical data, Huntington foretells the degrada-tion of civilization as we know it, caused by Latinohordes sneaking into the United States and refusingto assimilate with the dominate Anglo culture. AsHuntington sees it, Latinos are uninterested in theupward mobility characteristic of other ethnicgroups and shun middle-class American values.

Insulated in his Harvard office, Huntington hasmissed the rapid rush of Latinos into the main-stream during the past 25 years in every corner ofthe country. Latinos are voting, spending, and par-ticipating in every aspect of American society —more so every day.

We have heard the dire prophesies of the anti-immigrant negativists before. For all his erudition,Huntington too easily rests his arguments for immi-grant exclusion policies on the same flawed premis-es that blinded previous Chicken Little, anti-for-eigner doomsayers.

Gloomy predictions of the end of civilization aswe know it led to a 100 years of successive laws andpractices with racist intent and horrendous tolls inhuman suffering. Among them are the racially-motivated Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the harshexclusionary quotas of the Immigration Act of 1924,the internment of Japanese Americans during WorldWar II and the refusal to grant asylum to EuropeanJews fleeing Nazi genocide. These proclamations

were based on flawed assumptions, inflamed rheto-ric and racial stereotyping.

We have learned that we should have known bet-ter when confronted with the challenge of new ordifferent people seeking the protections of democ-racy in this country. But Huntington does not seemto have learned much from his study of history. Hehas learned even less about contemporary Latinos.

Huntington and a rapidly growing anti-immi-grant America First coterie propose measures tohalt the flow of Latinos, Asians and other non-

Anglos into the United States. These neo-nativist,wall-and-moat advocates ignore the contributionsgeneration after generation of immigrants havemade to the United States since its founding.Germans, Irish, Italians, Jews, Asians and otherseach have assimilated and shared their heritagesand energies — notwithstanding hard resistance totheir arrivals and intense discrimination at everystep.

Latinos are but the latest group adding to theAmerican mix, although many have been here for

generations. While Huntington insists that Latinosare different from past immigrants, he fails to notethe rapidly expanding Latino middle-class, risingnumbers of college-educated Latinos in a variety offields, melding of Latino business people into themainstream or the surprising rate of intermarriagebetween Latinos and others in this country.

Huntington makes a huge error when he writes,“As their numbers increase, Mexican Americans feelincreasingly comfortable with their own culture andoften contemptuous of American culture.”

From coast to coast, Latinos are working hard inkitchens, households, gardens, slaughter housesand fields, opening and managing businesses ofevery kind, joining our armed services in dispropor-tionate numbers and participating in government,volunteer and civic affairs at every level.Huntington writes that Mexican immigration “couldconsolidate the Mexican-dominant areas of theUnited States into an autonomous, culturally andlinguistically distinct, and economically self-reliantbloc within the United States.”

No, Professor Huntington, American civilizationis not going to collapse under the weight of Latinoimmigrants. Latinos will continue to provide vitalityand productivity to all aspects of American life, justas past immigrant groups have bestowed benefitson their adopted nation. The sooner negativist anti-immigrants comprehend that our national andglobal economies demand recognition of the realitythat Latinos are here to stay and want to participate,the easier it will be for us to embrace and appreciatethe differences that make America a strong andvibrant democracy.

Marisa Hernandez-Stern ’05 brings the pain.

El pueblo unido

Without the American public’s awareness, the dis-course on the future of Iraq has been constrained bypolitical correctness. Imagine the senator who arguesthat Iraqis are incapable of self-governance. The sen-ator would be derided as racist for suggesting thatuneducated, barbarian Iraqis cannot peaceably existabsent of the United States’ paternalistic watch. Orconsider a hypothetical State Department memo pro-posing that the United States dissolve Iraq into two orthree new states. Such a proposition would be calledundemocratic for questioning the strength and uni-versality of democratic ideals. Furthermore, it wouldreek of the underlying U.S. interest in controlling theregion’s resources.

The problem here is that the boldest ideas neverreceive due consideration. The American governmenthas framed a limited range of options for Iraqi recon-struction that the public uncritically accepts.

Two widely accepted givens are particularly dis-turbing. First, we grant that the quickest peacefulturnover to the Iraqi people is most desirable, underthe assurance of President George W. Bush’s firm June30 deadline. Second, we view the nation of Iraq as ageographically defined, sovereign entity whose bor-ders must be preserved. Both of these assumptionspreclude solutions that might ultimately lead to morestable democracy and lasting peace in the region.

The public accepts that a handover of Iraq is desir-able as soon as a democratic government is in placeand the country is stabilized. This idea is powerfulbecause many Americans, including me, believe thatdemocracy is the most just and most ideal system ofgovernment. Furthermore, after World War II, we havelearned that democracy can thrive in formerly author-itarian countries.

But Iraq is different. In “Ethnic Groups in Conflict,”Duke University political scientist Donald Horowitzidentifies factors contributing to patterns of ethnical-ly motivated violence, genocide and secessionistmovements. For these factors democracy is no cure.

Kurdish separatism dates back to the 16th century.The Kurds have recent experience with self-rule(recall that the Kurds essentially ruled themselvesunder the protection of the no-fly zone), a geographi-cally defined region of Kurdistan and demand politi-cal sovereignty. At the very least, ethnic tensions inIraq will not fade overnight.

The United States, unable to manage election

booths or protect American lives in ethnic crossfire, isfinally paying notice to the strength of ethnic tensionsin Iraq. The most recent proposals for managing eth-nic tensions in Iraq have been quite clever: a hardlydemocratic caucus structure, proportional expansionof the existing governing council and/or so-calledpartial elections to take place in Iraq’s “secure”regions.

Last week’s interim constitution contains a three-person presidency and de facto veto power for Kurdsand Sunni Arabs which will impede any government

action, angering any or all of the country’s three majorethnic groups. Even if we arm Iraqis with the mostcreatively constructed “democracy,” it’s not likely thatany future government will peacefully manage ethnictensions.

Undue regard for Iraq’s sovereignty and nationalborders precludes consideration of broader optionssuch as dividing the country into more stable regions.We preserve current borders with respect for Iraq’shistory and people, for international bodies commit-ted to current borders and for the restraint with whichbig powerful countries should address weakernations. Does it seem to you that the United States’recent primary principles of foreign policy arerestraint and respect for international bodies?

The hypocrisy and absurdity of this rationale is justas comic. Iraq’s national borders are not the result ofsome sensible act of God. Instead, the British carvedIraq, an arbitrary, flawed and unstable territory fromthe Ottoman Empire’s leftovers in 1920. They then leftthe state independent in 1932, only 72 years ago.

At least one foreign policy expert, Leslie Gelb, pres-ident emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations,has dared to consider a three-state solution. She pro-poses dividing Iraq among Kurds in the north, Sunnisin the center and Shiites in the south. This solutionwould be difficult, considering U.S. interests in Turkeyand the lack of resources in the Sunni region. But per-haps dissolving Iraq would bring greater peace andstability down the line. To that end, U.S. foreign poli-cy options cannot be hamstrung by political correct-ness.

Ellen Hunter ’04 is not hamstrung by political correct-ness either.

GUEST COLUMN BY MARISA HERNANDEZ-STERN

ELLEN HUNTER

Taking Iraq’s borders for granted

Anti-immigrant

nativists should

give the

Latino-bashing a rest.

President Bush accepts

the reconstruction of an

arbitrary state line.

S P O R T S S C H E D U L E

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 17, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY CRAIG MCGOWANThe men’s tennis team headed south lastweekend for the Blue/Gray CollegiateInvitational in Montgomery, Ala. The52nd-ranked Bears posted a record of 2-1for the weekend, extending their record to10-2.

The tournament featured 16 of thenation’s top college teams, and though theBears were unseeded, they were deter-mined to do well. In the first round, Brownwas drawn into the bracket against the No.1 seed, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity. Despite the bad luck, Brownfought hard before falling 4-2.

In the consolation bracket, the Bears

rebounded, dominating 30th-rankedFresno State University 4-0. Led by co-cap-tain Ben Brier ’04, who went 6-0 on theweekend, Brown kept the momentumrolling, blanking North Carolina StateUniversity 4-0.

“The whole team played on a differentlevel than it had the whole season,” saidBrier.

Doubles, the team’s strength all year,continued to be a major force on the court.Brown did not lose a doubles point allweekend and in fact did not lose a doublesmatch against any team.

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETThe 75th-ranked women’s tennis team(5-2) cruised to its fifth victory in a rowon Sunday, sweeping unrankedUniversity of Alabama-Birmingham 7-0. But the victory was dampened bythe news that No. 1 player StephanieFalconi ’06 will be out for the rest ofthe season with a knee injury.

Head Coach Norma Taylor saidFalconi tore her ACL duringThursday’s practice, and the teamreceived word Tuesday that the injurywill sideline her for the remainder ofthe spring season.

Captain Victoria Beck ’04 expresseddisappointment about Falconi’s injury.

“We’re going to have to make allnew teams,” she said.

Kim Singer ’06 agreed Falconi’sinjury will have a major impact on theBears’ lineup and performance.

“It’s going to be really hard for ourteam,” she said. “Not having her is def-initely going to show against thetougher schools.”

As has been the case throughout theteam’s injury-plagued winning streak,players rose to the challenge of thealtered line-up and put in several con-vincing performances.

“I am very proud of the team’s per-formance Sunday and their ability toadjust,” Taylor said. “It’s great to win at7-0 and to see all of the singles playersstep up after (Falconi’s) injury.”

Kerry Meath ’05 had a strong day inboth her matches, winning straight-set matches at No. 1 doubles and No. 2singles.

At the No. 1 doubles position,Meath and Beck combined their solidnet skills to pull out a tiebreak win, 9-8(7-3) against Femke de Boer andMarrit Jansma. The match markedBeck’s return from oral surgery, whichforced her to sit out both matches twoweeks ago.

Alexandra Arlak ’05 and MichellePautler ’07 continued their impressivedoubles play with an 8-4 victory overAnnemieke Elsholz and Julia vonSamson, securing what was only thesecond doubles point win for the

BY CHRIS HATFIELDThe baseball team (0-3) started its sea-son this past weekend against the bestcompetition it will face this season,dropping three games to the Universityof Florida (18-3).

The 16th-ranked Gators brought theirwinning streak to 14 in a row with thevictories, but they were not the blowoutwins that might have been expectedfrom the uneven match-up. The Bearsdropped the first game 14-8 on Friday,fell 6-5 in extra innings in the secondgame Saturday and dropped the seriesfinale on Sunday, 14-1.

Heading into the weekend, the Bears’lineup took a major hit as captain MattKutler ’04 was lost for the season after

tearing ligaments in his right hand. Thetwo-time First Team All-Ivy leftfielderhad just been named Baseball America’sPre-season Ivy League Player of the Yearand would certainly have broken theBrown records this season for career hitsand runs batted in.

Despite the loss of its best player, theteam headed down to Gainesville, Fla.,to take on the red-hot Gators. The firstgame got off to a bad start for Brown, asFlorida’s 18-game experience advantageshowed. Starting pitcher Chris Davidson’05 was knocked around for 12 runs inthree innings. The Bears managed torally, starting with a three-run fourth,but they had dug themselves too deep ahole in the early innings and eventually

fell 14-8.The Bears were led by shortstop Jeff

Nichols ’05, who went 2 for 5 with twoRBI and one run. Designated hitterDanny Hughes ’06 had Brown’s onlyhome run of the weekend, a two-runbomb to left that followed an RBIground out by co-captain James Lowe’05. Davidson took the loss.

The next day was a different story, asthe Bears and starting pitcher ShaunMcNamara ’06 came out with renewedenergy. Florida got on the board with arun in the first inning, but thenMcNamara settled down, holding theGators scoreless for two innings.

Judy He / Herald

Jamie Cerratani ’04 and the rest of the men’s tennis team turned in an outstandingperformance at the Blue/Gray Classic this weekend, taking two of three games.

Superb doubles play form. tennis at Blue/Gray

Wednesday, March 17

Women’s Lacrosse: vs. Boston College, 4 p.m. (rain dateThursday)

UAB no matchfor w. tennis,even withoutinjured Falconi

Baseball opens season with threelosses to seasoned U. of Florida squad

A little over two months ago, after morethan a decade of lies, Pete Rose finallycame clean about betting on baseball. Thereasons behind the admission were

undoubtedly self-motivated — hehad only two yearsleft before he couldbe reinstated intobaseball and then

voted into the Hall of Fame by sports writ-ers, and the only way Commissioner BudSelig would ever consider reinstating himwas if he issued a full confession. Confesshe did, and simultaneously lined his pock-ets with profits from interviews, articlesand most notably a book, “My PrisonWithout Bars.”

Rose was on all major news channels fora week in January. It seemed that everysports writer and journalist fromPoughkeepsie, N.Y., to Santa Cruz, Calif.,had something to say about Charlie Hustle.The same issues were brought up over andover, in countless articles and messageboards: Rose’s timing was terrible, he prof-ited from his admission and he just didn’tseem sorry. In the end there was nothingleft but, “We’re glad you said it, Pete, but itwasn’t good enough.” And then just asquickly as he had appeared, he vanished.

Two months later, Pete Rose is not evena blip on the “SportsCenter” ticker. Butmaybe it is now, in light of rumors and alle-gations of steroid use among the leagues’top players, that Rose needs to be remem-bered most. His mistakes should serve as areminder of how easily the integrity ofbaseball can be shattered, and how impor-tant it has become that every player doeshis part to keep it intact.

Last summer Jose Canseco, among oth-ers, estimated that 45 to 85 percent of ballplayers were using steroids. In response tothese allegations and complaints fromwithin the baseball community, Seligstepped up to the plate this fall and insti-tuted steroid tests. A steroid-use rate of 5 to7 percent was found, although the accura-cy of this figure was questionable. Wary ofstepping on the toes of the all-powerfulplayers’ union, the MLB organization heldtests under conditions that left manydoubtful of their reliability.

Because the tests were conductedanonymously and in the period beforespring training, it is rumored that manyplayers simply opted to wait to start theirsteroid cycle until after testing was fin-ished. Several team trainers reported a lossin body weight of 25 to 30 pounds from afew All-Stars, and one player was reported-ly seriously injured after a significant lossin muscle mass. In addition, under the pro-posed testing guidelines, anonymity ismaintained until the second positive test isregistered, and no serious action such assuspension is taken until the athlete hastested positive five times.

Recently, Barry Bonds’ trainer has beenindicted on federal charges of providingsteroids to athletes. Though Bonds hasdenied charges that he himself has takensteroids, the possibility that one of thegreatest hitters in baseball could be underthe influence demonstrates the fragility ofthe game and the importance of a levelplaying field.

Why Pete Rosestill matters

see W. TENNIS, page 8 see M. TENNIS, page 9

see KLONICK, page 9

KATE KLONICKSPORTS COLUMNIST

see BASEBALL, page 9

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