Wednesday, November 12, 2003

BY LELA SPIELBERGJust because SARS occurrenceshave become less common inrecent months doesn’t mean theworld’s battle with the disease isover, Dr. Stephanie Factor ’85warned Brown students in StarrAuditorium Tuesday night.

Factor now works in New YorkCity as the medical director of theBureau of Direct EmergencyManagement, a division of theCenters for Disease Control andPrevention. She traveled toTaiwan last spring with the CDC tohelp control the SARS epidemic.

She spoke about her experi-ences in Asia and about the sever-ity of the SARS epidemic as part ofAsian American History Month.

Giving a brief sketch of theprogress of the SARS epidemicworldwide, she said Chinese offi-cials first alerted the World HealthOrganization of the disease inFebruary of 2003. In the previousfour months, 305 cases of a pneu-monia-like respiratory syndromehad been reported.

The symptoms of SARS — feverand respiratory difficulty — areambiguous, which is probablywhy it took so long to recognizethe disease as something new,Factor said. Yet, in order to con-tain the disease, SARS must be

diagnosed early in its progression,she said. People who die of SARSusually die after 10 days due torespiratory failure.

“One of the things that is sodangerous about the disease,”Factor said, “is that we don’t knowexactly how it spreads.”

Factor and her colleagues at theCDC think the disease spreadthrough indirect contact of resi-dents at a hotel in China. There,

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President of HamptonU. orders newspapersburned after cafeteriacontroversymetro, page 3

Community policing atYale is labor intensivebut works: crime down57 percent since 1990metro, page 3

Underage drinkingdoes lead to violenceon campus, FrancesMandak sayscolumn, page 7

Peace in Sri Lankadepends on endingpower struggle,Iyengar ’05 sayscolumn, page 7

Volleyball loses threegames to Harvard,comes close vs.Dartmouthsports, page 8

BY ELLEN WERNECKEWhen comedian Dan Ahdoottook the stage Tuesday night, noone — terrorists, concernedparents or the furniture —escaped his wit.

Starting from a seat in theaudience, where he cheered forhis own introduction, Ahdootroared through his hour-longset, entitled “Iranian andJewish: How Funny is That?” in ahot, stuffed Lower Salomon.

“Anyone PC, leave now!” hedeclared. “You’re all coals, notdiamonds.”

The Brown Hillel-sponsoredAhdoot spoke candidly abouthis experience growing up asthe child of Iranian Jewishrefugees and his own mixedheritage.

“I don’t think the (UnitedStates) exploits its refugeesenough,” Ahdoot said. “I mean,you have the Cuban exiles whoswam all the way here, but howmany Cubans are on the U.S.Olympic swim team?

“The worst is having immi-grant parents from a ThirdWorld country,” he said. “Oh, a

bucket isn’t good enough forDanny, he must have a TOILET.

“I never went to sleep-awaycamp,” Ahdoot claimed. “I wentto belly-dancing camp, and Ican’t use that to pick up girls!”

As the title of his show sug-gests, Ahdoot got the mostlaughs — and the most mileage— from mocking his own con-tradictory nature.

“During the diaspora, a fewJews were accepted into Iran,”he said, explaining his heritage.“My family’s been living therefor hundreds of years.

“My friends say when I getdrunk, I throw rocks at myself,”Ahdoot said. “But in Iran, see, Iwas circumcised with a scimi-tar, which is why I’m such a rarebreed.”

Ahdoot even gleaned jokesfrom new security regulations.

“I was Iranian for 23 years,right until Sept. 11,” Ahdootsaid. “Now I’m Puerto Rican.

“It’s like airport security’splaying a game — duck, duck,terrorist!” he said. “But I under-

Comic Ahdoot exploresIranian-Jewish heritage

Mediaerupts overstaged CNNdebateBY SARAH LABRIEAlexandra Trustman ’07 said itwasn’t her idea to ask what onemedia critic called “the mostridiculed question at CNN’s Rockthe Vote.” Her defense, publishedas an opinions column in TheHerald Monday, instantlysparked nationwide scrutiny ofthe debate and a response fromCNN Tuesday morning.

Trustman asked eightDemocratic presidential candi-dates whether they preferredMacs or PCs at the Nov. 4 debateheld in Boston. In her Heraldguest column, she said CNN fedher the question that made heran object of mockery on campusand across the country.

National news organizationsincluding the Washington Postand The New York Times pickedup the story early Tuesday morn-ing, and CNN quickly issued astatement regretting the incident.

“In an attempt to encourage alighthearted moment in thedebate, a CNN producer workingwith Ms. Trustman clearly wenttoo far. CNN regrets the produc-ers actions,” a CNN spokesmantold The Herald.

A spokeswoman for CNN toldthe Los Angeles Times that theincident was isolated and that noother questions had been plant-ed.

Trustman’s assertion that CNNplanted the debate question hasled some to doubt the news net-work’s integrity in how it handledthe debate. Although members ofthe debate’s audience who wereslated to ask questions were noti-fied in advance of the topic theywere to address and the order inwhich they were to speak, it wasextremely unusual for the net-work to actually plant a question,

Online course registration may come at theexpense of the New Curriculum, facultyargued at a College Curriculum Councilmeeting Tuesday.

The CCC devoted most of its meeting todiscussing the planned Enterprise online reg-istration system and its potential to under-mine Brown’s academic culture.

University Registrar Michael Pesta told theCCC that the Enterprise system will enforceprerequisites and cap limited-enrollmentcourses, while giving professors overrides onboth, and without incurring extra charges tothe University.

“The question is, do we change the busi-ness or the system?” Pesta asked.

The committee acknowledged that theimplementation of the new system couldengender change outside of automation,such as altering the length of the shoppingperiod and other deadlines. CCC membersacknowledged the necessity of a shoppingperiod, but questioned some students’ meth-ods.

“Shopping is chaos,” said Paul Armstrong,dean of the college. “But I understand thatstudents want to maintain the ability to seecourses in action.”

“Since choice is so important to what we’reabout, it should be designed to give studentsas much information as possible,” he said.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Christopher Conway said he was reluctant tochange the “Brown culture” that shoppingentails, but that his experiences had not beenvery good.

“Students shop intensely and in a weirdway,” he said. “A student will come to me fora signature and then not appear in class forthe next two weeks.”

Associate Professor of Chemistry WilliamSuggs argued against a stricter enforcementof deadlines in registration.

“The essence of Brown is that everything isnegotiable,” Suggs said. “By making a lot ofhard and fast deadlines, we’re making a large

SARS threat not over,Dr. Factor ’85 says

ResCouncil heard two propos-als dealing with gender issuesin on-campus housing duringits meeting Tuesday.

Transgender students aresometimes uncomfortable intraditional dorm situations,and Brown should providealternative housing options forthem, said Luke Woodward’04, a representative from theQueer Alliance.

Woodward presented twoproposals, one for the creationof “gender-blind” housing for

first-year students and anoth-er for increased coed housingfor upperclassmen.

“Gender-blind” means stu-dents wouldn’t have to specifytheir gender when applying forhousing, said ResCouncil chairJesse Goodman ’04.

Woodward said transgenderfirst-year students are usuallyassigned to singles, which canfoster segregation when otherfirst-years are living in dou-

New online registration could impact University culture

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Comedian Dan Ahdoot, a freelance writer for Comedy Central’s"Crank Yankers," took the stage of Salomon Tuesday night, crackingjokes about his Iranian-Jewish heritage.

ResCouncil discussestransgender housing

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BY EMIR SENTURKNeighborhood policing is new to College Hill, with an EastSide substation announced last month to open on BrookStreet But at Yale University and in the city of New Haven,police describe a similar system that’s labor intensive —but it works.

Over the past decade, New Haven has been experienc-ing a downward trend in its overall crime rate. Since 1990,crime has fallen nearly 57 percent in the city, a dropChairman of the New Haven Board of Police CommissionRichard Epstein attributes to the effectiveness of the city’scommunity policing program.

The decentralization of the city’s policing system “takesthe role of policing from more than just enforcement intothe realm of social work,” Epstein told the Yale Daily Newsin October.

“It’s the opportunity for police officers to get to knowthe neighborhood,” he said.

The New Haven Police Department includes 10 com-munity substations, one of which lies only three blocksfrom Yale’s campus. Management teams of local businessleaders and concerned residents participate in policingby serving as liaisons between community members andthe police.

Under the community policing model, officers alsohave regular beats, allowing for regular encounters withcommunity residents.

“All of New Haven has benefited, notably those areasadjacent to campus,” said Michael Morand, Yale’s associ-ate vice president for New Haven and State Affairs.

NHPD’s decade-old system provided a template forthe Providence Police Department’s move toward decen-tralization, which replaced its old “pinball patrol.”

The University reached an agreement with the PPD inSeptember to create a new substation in a Brown-ownedbuilding on Brook Street. The substation is one of ninecreated in each of the city’s nine police districts, anddesigned to function like those in New Haven.

New Providence Chief of Police Dean Esserman is theman for the job, according to Morand.

“Not only will Providence be lucky to have ChiefEsserman, but Brown will benefit from having him incharge,” Moran told The Herald. The innovative nature ofa community policing program mirrors the innovation ina University town, he said.

But neighborhood policing is no walk in the park, YalePolice Chief James Perrotti told the Daily News.

“The downside to community policing is that it’s verylabor-intensive and takes a lot of resources,” Perrotti said.Such demands have kept the Yale Police Department fromstrictly following the NHPD’s model.

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BY DANA GOLDSTEINWhen Hampton University’s school-funded studentnewspaper refused to print a letter from actingPresident JoAnn Haysbert on its front page, the admin-istration confiscated and burned all 6,500 copies of TheHampton Script’s Oct. 22 issue.

Haysbert’s letter responded to an article about thecitation of the Virginia university’s cafeteria with 30health code violations. Students had seen dead flies androaches in their food, The Script reported.

The standoff between the newspaper staff andHampton’s administration began when Talia Buford,editor-in-chief of The Script, attended an administra-tive meeting on Sept. 30 where the violations were dis-cussed. Buford said the staff of the bimonthly paperdecided to hold the story on the health code violationsfor the Oct. 22 issue, which would also feature a storyabout the Princeton Review’s ranking of the universityas among those with the “worst cafeteria food” and“dorms like dungeons.”

In retrospect, Buford told The Herald, holding thestory was a mistake. On Oct. 17, The Script’s facultyadvisor told Buford that Haysbert wanted The Script toprint her memo responding to the health code viola-tions on the paper’s front page. The memo had beensent by mail to all of Hampton’s students, faculty andstaff, Buford said, so The Script’s staff thought, “Wedon’t need to put it on the front page because everyoneknows about it already.”

Buford said she also talked the matter over with TheScript’s faculty advisor, who agreed it was outside jour-nalistic convention to print a letter on the front page.Haysbert was not swayed by this argument. On Oct. 21,before The Script was distributed but after the paperhad been printed with Haysbert’s memo on page three,Buford learned from the paper’s advisor that the uni-versity president wanted to pull the paper.

The next day, when The Script was slated for distri-bution, the entire press run was carted away from thenewspaper’s office by Hampton University truckingservices, Buford said. The editor-in-chief said she laterlearned the 6,500 papers had been incinerated.

Buford immediately entered into a series of talkswith Haysbert, in which the acting president told theeditor-in-chief that if The Script wanted to print its Oct.25 homecoming issue, it would have to do so with hermemo on the front page.

Buford said she stressed to Haysbert that printing thearticle on page three was not a slight, but rather a deci-sion to stick to the norms of journalism.

“(Haysbert) said she hadn’t read the article, she had-n’t seen the paper. We didn’t understand it,” Buford said.“Her line was, ‘If I respond to something, then it’s frontpage news.’ She felt the local media had given unfaircoverage and this was her chance to get the administra-tion’s view out using a Hampton venue.”

Sarita Scott, Hampton’s director of university of rela-tions, denied repeated requests for comment on theadministration’s position, referring The Herald to theuniversity’s press releases.

Script staff members decided they would rather sac-rifice having a Homecoming issue than reprint thepaper with Haysbert’s memo on page one. But on Oct.24, The Script reversed this decision and agreed toreprint the issue in exchange for the creation of a uni-versity taskforce to address journalism issues on cam-pus.

According to a statement released by the administra-tion, the taskforce, which will include Buford, otherjournalism students, journalism faculty and adminis-trators, will “look at operations, including the role ofThe Script, the student staff and faculty advisors.” Inaddition, the administration agreed that in future dis-agreements with The Script, the paper’s faculty advisorwill act as a mediator.

On Oct. 25, the reprinted Script was distributed withHaysbert’s memo on the left side of the page and an edi-torial disclaimer on the right side. The disclaimer read,“The editorial staff of The Hampton Script does notagree with the placement of this memo. The placementgoes against all principles of journalism. … We haveagreed to the placement of this memo in order to pre-serve the future of the university newspaper.”

Buford, a print journalism major, said she was notworried about how this controversy will affect the repu-tation of Hampton’s Scripps-Howard School ofJournalism. Visiting professors who have worked asjournalists for the Washington Post, The New YorkTimes and the Wall Street Journal defended The Scriptduring its confrontation with the administration,Buford said.

“I think just the fact that we decided to stand up forourselves showed that we are learning something inthis school,” she said.

Buford said she is unsure about whether The Scriptwill ever choose to pursue independent funding andsever its ties with the university administration.

“Our main thing isn’t being independent, but having

Community policingold news at Yale

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Hampton U. president ordersstudent newspapers burned

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Washington Post columnistHoward Kurtz said.

“CNN is clearly embarrassedby this revelation,” Kurtz said.

In her column, Trustmanwrote that the question she askedat the forum was fed to her by aCNN producer the morning of

the event. She added that she wasconfused by the insignificance ofthe topic, and that she construct-ed a new, more relevant questionabout technology. During theforum, Trustman was told thatshe could not ask her new ques-tion because “it was not light-hearted enough.”

“I was handed a notecard withthe Macs or PCs version of theClinton boxers or briefs ques-tion,” Trustman wrote, adding “itwas clear to me that the questionwould be asked regardless ofwhether or not I was the one toask it.”

But what Trustman couldn’thave predicted was the backlashher question would provokewithin the Brown community.Before asking her question,Trustman identified herself as afirst-year at Brown. Columnistsand an editorial cartoonist in TheHerald as well as anonymousposters on the Brown Daily Joltdenounced Trustman for repre-senting the University in a nega-tive light.

Kurtz told The Herald that hecame across Trustman’s columnafter it was linked to Jim

Romenesko’s media news blog,one of the most popular sourcesfor industry news on the Web.Kurtz said he thought it wasimportant to publicizeTrustman’s rebuttal because “lotsof people, including me, hadmade fun of the Macs or PCsquestion. It was enlightening tolearn that it wasn’t her idea.”

Trustman declined to com-ment.

Herald staff writer Sarah LaBrie‘07 can be reached [email protected].

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change in the philosophy of theUniversity.”

“Faculty want maximum flexi-bility and the ability to have thefinal say in course enrollment,” headded. “Students want the same,but they’re not going to get it.”

The meeting, opened by CCC

Vice Chair and Associate Professorof Computer Science ThomasDoeppner, also examined a newdiversity initiative headed byProfessor of History and Directorof the Center for Race andEthnicity Evelyn Hu-Dehart, andopened a debate on the currenttuition credit policy, anotherEnterprise issue, with ExecutiveAssociate Dean of the College,Robert Shaw.

—Ellen Wernecke


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editorial independence,” shesaid. “I don’t care if we’re fund-ed by the university, as long asthey don’t tell me that I can’tpractice what I’m learning atthe journalism school.”

Herald senior staff writer DanaGoldstein ’07 can be reached [email protected]


Hampton

of Public Safety and the PPD, andincreased police presence on theEast Side the tying of officers toset geographical regions areamong the improvements tocome in Providence, DPS ChiefPaul Verrecchia told The Herald.

Herald staff writer Emir Senturk’05 can be reached [email protected].


Yale

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residents from Guangdong,China, where the disease firstoriginated, had indirect contactwith international visitors whocould have brought SARS back totheir respective countries, includ-ing the United States, Vietnamand Canada.

The CDC determined thatSARS may be spread through indi-rect or direct contact with infectedpersons or through the air, Factorsaid. SARS can also be transmittedthrough respiratory secretions,which is why healthcare workersworking with SARS patients wearprotective face masks, eye gog-gles, hair nets, booties and gowns.

“We wore masks so long inTaiwan that when I saw my col-leagues whole faces for the firsttime when we returned to NewYork I could barely recognizethem,” Factor said.

When Factor arrived in Taiwan,the outbreak was actually in itssecond wave. The first wave ofincidents in late March and earlyApril had died down quickly, andTaiwanese officials thought theyhad contained the disease.

By mid-April, symptomsappeared in a healthcare workerand soon spread to severalpatients in the hospital. Manyhealthcare workers were so afraidof contracting SARS that they quittheir jobs. The epidemic becameso severe that the hospital wherethe disease originated was closedfrom April 27 to May 8.

The CDC worked with govern-ment health officials from Taiwanto create many precautionarymeasures, Factor said. Personsinfected with SARS were isolatedin pressure specific hospitalrooms. People who had direct orindirect contact with infected per-sons, or who had just visited acountry with a severe epidemic ofSARS were quarantined for tendays, the maximum incubationperiod for the disease.

“Quarantining is a difficult anddesperate measure,” Factor toldaudiences. “It must balance safetyof the greater population with therights of the individual.”

Over 100,000 residents ofTaiwan were quarantined.

Taiwanese officials mandated

strict preventative measuresagainst the spread of SARS. Anyperson going into a restaurant,hotel, office or airport had to bescreened for a fever, the prelimi-nary symptom of SARS. Workersin mass transit, restaurants, andhotels all had to wear protectiveface masks.

When an audience memberasked Factor why the internation-al health community respondedto SARS so urgently, Factor said itwas because the symptoms, trans-mission and results of the diseaseare extremely ambiguous.

“This ambiguity is very threat-ening to a disease like SARS thatcan spread like wildfire. It has ahigh mortality rate. We don’t haveany vaccines against it. We don’thave any means of treating it,”Factor said.

Factor also had more disap-pointing news to deliver. SinceSARS is a coronavirus, it might bea seasonal phenomenon. Factorsaid no one is sure if SARS waseliminated or if it simply wentaway because it was the end of aseasonal cycle. It may come back,she said. Officials just have to waitand see.

Factor said Brown studentsshould maintain a positive out-look that she remembers her for-mer classmates being so wellknown for.

“At Brown we always used to

sing this song,” she said. “I knowit’s corny, but we shall overcome.”

Students reacted positively tothe lengthy presentation.

“She offered a really interestingperspective from the viewpoint ofone country. The media coverageof SARS was usually so general-ized,” said Rashmi Kudesia ’04.

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


SARS

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stand that if there was any timefor national security that time isnow.

“I mean, anyone with eye-brows thicker than their pinkymust be stopped,” Ahdoot said.

Ahdoot’s take on the war inIraq involved a dissection of bothsides’ motives and actions.

“The shock I understood —the awe, not so much,” Ahdootsaid.

“You know how there wasalways that random car drivingaround during bombing raids?”he said, discussing his CNNaddiction. “That’s how you knowthere’s an Iraqi fraternity goingthrough hazing.”

He later mocked the funda-mentalist “terror schools” andcompared terrorist recruitmentto college admission.

“Well, I applied early decisionto al-Qaeda, but my safety isHamas,” Ahdoot quipped. “I’m

majoring in Jihad and minoringin Infidels.”

Ahdoot himself attendedJohns Hopkins University andwas en route to Cornell MedicalSchool when he decided to pur-sue a career as a comedian.

“I said to myself, I need somemore economic security,” Ahdootsaid. “So I’m going to become astand-up comic.” He claimed hisfather still kept a “med schooltimeline,” in which he reviewedwhere Ahdoot would have beenwere he still at medical school.

“He looks at the calendar like,‘Oh, you just made an A in anato-my, way to go Daniel!’” Ahdootjoked. “He says, ‘Oh, we’re send-ing you to Thailand with the girl-friend you met in the emergencyroom. But that’s not what hap-pened, is it, my son?’”

During the latter half of theshow, Ahdoot attempted todemonstrate his prank-callingskills, honed as a freelance writerfor Comedy Central’s “CrankYankers,” by dialing a few cam-pus numbers. Audience mem-bers tried to hold in the giggles as

Ahdoot asked SafeRIDE for a liftfrom the Mohegan Sun Casino(they weren’t fooled) and madestrange requests of other campusdepartments.

He garnered the biggestlaughs, though, when he calledthe flustered mother of JoelSilberman ’05 pretending to beSilberman’s residential counselorreporting a drug violation.

In keeping with his sponsors,Ahdoot also touched on aspectsof Jewish life.

“Where my Jews at? Where mynon-Jews at?” Ahdoot called as hestrode to the microphone.

Later, he told a 13-year-oldmember of the audience to holdonto his yarmulke in case of areceding hairline.

“That’s going to come in handyin like twenty years,” Ahdoot said.“I mean, sure, I have a recedinghairline but at least I have pro-ceeding eyebrows.”

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


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bles.Single-sex housing can also

be socially distressing fortransgender students,Woodward said.

“These are a lot of hurdlesthat the average Brown stu-dent doesn’t have to gothrough to get safe housing,”Goodman said.

Goodman said the Council— which has advocated anexpansion in coed housingoptions for several years — willdiscuss the proposals thisweek.

—Philissa Cramer


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UnderestimationOne question has eluded much debate in the national contro-versy surrounding a Brown student’s recent appearance onCNN: Why do media think all 18- to 31-year-olds are idiots?

After asking eight Democratic presidential candidateswhether they preferred Macs or PCs at a “Rock the Vote” eventlast week, Alexandra Trustman ’07 came under intense criti-cism from fellow students throughout campus. Within hoursof her query, buzz was circulating about the girl who had sul-lied Brown’s reputation with her inane question.

In response, Trustman wrote an op-ed piece defending her-self in The Herald. But the column, rather than merelysquelching criticism at Brown, opened up CNN to nationalscrutiny. In the piece Trustman claimed that she had been fedthe question by a producer and, when she presented a moreintelligent version, was told that it wasn’t “lighthearted”enough for the show’s intended 18- to 31-year-old demo-graphic.

Who makes up these rules? Granted, some students wereallowed to ask more complicated questions, but even thinkingthat the show should create more artificial “lighthearted”moments is an insult to young viewers and young voters.Judging by the response Trustman’s appearance received, theproducers were obviously way off in their estimation of thetargeted demographic’s intelligence and maturity.

In the future, media outlets should realize that sensible,reasoned debate, not lame jokes, is the way to attract poten-tial young voters.

We know when we’re being catered to. And we don’t like it. Trustman shouldn’thave given in to CNN’smanipulatedquestioning format

To the Editor:

Regarding Alexandra Trustman ’07 Op-Edexplaining her scripted question in the “Rock theVote’ debate (“Don’t shoot the messenger,” Nov. 10),there appears to be no concern about a nationalnetwork attempting to “modulate” the debate toshow candidates in a certain light. Does she notbelieve the younger voter engaged enough to comeup with their own meaningful questions?

Are students at so eager to cooperate in a schemeto slant the public perceptions of the candidates?

Rather than working so hard to rationalize heractions, she might answer why she thinks cannedquestions in a national debate are appropriate tobegin with.

Roger SameckNov. 11

To the Editor:

Funny that Alexandra Trustman ’07 scolds Brownabout good journalism (“Don’t shoot the messen-ger,” Nov. 10), but then permits a broadcast journal-ism giant to give her a specific question for thedebate with dubious journalistic but obviouslyentertainment-minded intentions.

Carrie O’ConnorNov. 11

The location of the next fencing competition was incor-rectly identified in last Friday’s Herald. The tournamentwill be Nov. 15 at the University of New Hampshire.

Correction

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Why underage drinking should be everyone’s concern

IN THE GUEST COLUMN, “PROVIDENCEPolice need to get their prioritiesstraight,” (Nov. 5), Donald Trella arguesthat Providence Police should be morefocused on stopping robberies thancracking down on underage drinking.What Trella fails to see is thevery strong connectionbetween alcohol and crime aswell as the very different waysthat these two problems haveto be addressed.

Trella’s portrayal of Josiah Carberry asthe underage student drinking at a bar tocelebrate finishing a research paper andthen quietly walking back to his dorm isone picture of underage drinking. But it’snot the only one.

Another picture of underage drinkingis the memorable off-campus party inFox Point this September, when Brownstudents walked on cars and urinated onpeople’s property. The Herald rightlywrote an editorial condemning this kindof behavior, and the student responsiblefor the party was very apologetic to thecommunity. While it wasn’t underagedrinking at a bar, it is a clear example ofwhy the police take underage drinking

seriously: it leads to fights, vandalism,assault and the disruption of neighbor-hoods and communities. It is estimatedthat alcohol is involved in over 50 per-cent of property crimes, robberies,assaults and family violence.

And if Fox Point seems likeworlds away from campus,consider this: Several studiesestimate that between 50and 80 percent of violence

on college campuses is alcohol-related.Ninety percent of campus sexual assaultsinvolve alcohol, and a study of collegemen in New England found that thosewho drink heavily are four times as likelyas moderate drinkers to be involved inphysical fights.

At Brown, approximately 50 percent ofnon-academic discipline cases involvealcohol. Of all cases that result in separa-tion from the University, 85 percentinvolve alcohol or other drugs. And someof the problems related to alcohol will gounseen by those who aren’t affected: youwon’t be getting a campus-wide e-mailabout vandalism in a dorm, ER visits forintoxication or a date rape that happenedSaturday night.

Fortunately, the vast majority of stu-dents are not involved in violent or mali-cious behavior because of drinking.However, the police don’t know ahead of

time if our friend Josiah is someone whowill amble back to his dorm or if he willstart walking on cars. They also don’t knowif he will get behind the wheel of a car.

Even more importantly, they don’tknow if he is “a nice Brown student” orsomeone who might rob a nice Brownstudent who’s ambling back to his dorm.Providence Police have a responsibility tothe entire community, and I have to won-der if the long-time residents of Fox Pointwould see this work as a “puritanical cru-sade” or welcome relief.

Finally, this isn’t an either/or proposi-tion. Publicizing the efforts to stop under-age drinking is part of the deterrent. Justlike advertising speed traps will slow peo-

ple down on the road, the same approachapplies to underage drinking. But that tac-tic doesn’t work on stopping robberies;instead the police rely on eyewitnessaccounts and analyzing crime patterns.That kind of investigation won’t be some-thing you’ll read about in the papers.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m worriedabout these robberies, too. I study the e-mails we all get to figure out how I cankeep myself safe. Students shouldn’t haveto be afraid when they are walkingaround campus. And we should continueto be vigilant about police efforts to pre-vent these crimes. But it isn’t the only jobProvidence Police have to do. Just askyour Fox Point neighbors.

THE EUPHORIA GENERATED BY ANextended spell of non-fighting in SriLanka, which was widely welcomed thereand abroad, has been gradually eroded bythe recent happenings on the island. Thereare many actors intimately involved in thepeace negotiations in Sri Lanka, such asPresident Kumaratunga, Prime MinisterRanil Wickremasinghe, Norwegian media-tors, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE), the Indian government and theUnited States. But while all the main play-ers seem to be keen on peace, they are evi-dently still not at peace with each other.The decision of Sri Lankan PresidentChandrika Kumaratunga to impose a stateof emergency is the latest incident in thebitter rivalry between her and PrimeMinister Ranil Wickremasinghe — and itthreatens to hamper all the gains made inpeace talks thus far. The irony is that whileboth leaders believe in a negotiatedsettlement to the civil war throughdevolution of power to the TamilTigers, they just seem unable toback each other.

The divisions between the pairhave driven Sri Lankan politics formore than a decade but havebecome even more apparentsince the last general elec-tion in December 2001.Mr. Wickremasinghe’sUnited National Party(UNP) won that elec-tion, partly with amandate to curb thepowers of the presi-dent, and was forcedinto an intensely diffi-cult period of co-habi-tation withKumaratunga. Mr.Wickremasinghe had

lost to Mrs. Kumaratunga in the presidentialelections two years earlier, a result manybelieve was swayed by a sympathy vote — aTamil Tiger suicide bomber had blown him-self up close to Mrs. Kumaratunga on thelast day of the election campaign, seriouslyinjuring her and killing more than 30 others.And during the current peace initiativesbrokered by Norwegian mediators,Kumaratunga has become progressivelymarginalized.

Consequently, this past week,Kumaratunga suspended Parliament,took control of the powerful ministries ofdefense, the interior and communicationsand dispatched a small number of troopsto guard crucial government institutions.Her declaration of emergency gave hersweeping powers. She only recently hasbacked down somewhat, canceling thestate of emergency and calling on all

political parties to form a governmentof “national reconciliation” with her.

The steps are foolhardy andthreaten to jeopardize the fragilepeace process. And althoughKumaratunga can in part explain her

actions by a “concern for nationalsecurity,” her true motives are

transparent enough: She isacting to redress a political

vendetta. This is espe-cially evident since shehas overtly embarrassed

Wickremasinghe bychoosing to act whenhe was abroad in

Washington meetingPresident Bush and

other American offi-cials.

It must be conced-

ed, however, that Kumaratunga has cer-tainly been through a lot during SriLanka’s bloody history. She was only 14when her father was murdered, in thecountry’s first major political killing, andshe stood on her doorstep and watched apolitical rival shoot and kill her husband,a film star and rising politician. And itcertainly doesn’t help that the details ofher personal life are gossiped about inlocal newspapers, many of which aredominated by allies of Wickremasinghe.Nonetheless, her self-aggrandizingactions are inexcusable.

The move by President Kumaratungato seize control of the security apparatusof the country has been seen as cause forconcern. Many are rightfully worriedabout what this unprecedented step willmean for the peace process. The primeminister has been quite blunt about therisk to the peace process and he has, ineffect, abdicated responsibility for it, say-ing he needs powers over defense if he isto continue running it. He has askedPresident Chandrika Kumaratunga totake over the process. However, hisspokesman, GL Peiris, said everyoneinvolved in the peace process — includ-ing the Tamil Tigers — would have toendorse President Kumaratunga leadingnegotiations. Wickremasinghe is appar-

ently banking on the Tigers coming outon his side to refuse to talk peace with hisrival, the president. That would allow himto claim he is the only man who can bringpeace to Sri Lanka, in contrast to thepresident, who says she is saving thenation from the Tamil Tigers who stillwant a separate state.

And it is no secret that Kumaratungadoesn’t enjoy the best of relations withthe Tamil Tigers since she was nearlyassassinated by them. After she tookoffice as president in 1994, her hopes of apeace settlement with the rebels fadedwhen they sank two government war-ships during talks. She then unleashedwhat she called “war for peace” — whichachieved nothing — and she lost hercredibility among many due to her inabil-ity to deliver a lasting peace.Consequently, she is in no position totake over the peace process as some crit-ics of Wickremasinghe have demanded.

The political confrontation betweenKumaratunga and Wickremasinghe needsto end, and although it is fairly clear whoshould yield, it remains unclear who willactually give in first. Wickremasinghe hasdone a monumental job and should con-tinue his government’s handling of thepeace talks.

If anything, the political infighting hasdone nothing but slow the diligent diplo-matic process.

Brinkmanship in Sri LankaIf peace is to be achieved, the increasingly bitter rivalry between the prime minister and president needs to end

Arjun Iyengar ’05 is an IR concentrator and proud to be Tamil.

Irresponsible drinking is a huge factor in on-campus crime and violence

The police don’t know ahead of time if our friend

Josiah is someone who will amble back to his dorm or

if he will start walking on cars. They also don’t know if

he will get behind the wheel of a car. Even more

importantly, they don’t know if he is “a nice Brown stu-

dent” or someone who might rob a nice Brown student

who’s ambling back to his dorm.

FRANCES MANTAKGUEST COLUMNIST

Frances Mantak is the Director ofHealth Education at Brown UniversityHealth Services.

arjuniyengaroutlooksublime

The political confrontation between Kumaratunga and

Wickremasinghe needs to end, and although it is fairly

clear who should yield, it remains unclear who will

actually give in first.

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

NOVEMBER 12, 2003 · PAGE 8

Volleyball loses three close gamesto Harvard, struggles vs. Dartmouth

Nick Neely / Herald

Kim Highlund ’04 (center) and Karalyn Kuchenbecker ’06 (right) want to finish the season’s final weekend with victories.

After Maine shut-out,W. hockey surrenders3 goals in B.C. lossBY LEXI COSTELLOThe Brown women’s ice hockey team split in its openingweekend at Meehan Auditorium, shutting out the MaineBlack Bears, 1-0 Friday, and suffering only its second loss in19 games Saturday against the Boston College Eagles, 3-1.

Although a modest two-goal weekend for the Bearsreflects the team’s struggle with execution, Coach DigitMurphy and the players are confident in their potential thisupcoming season.

“Winning is about the mental edge, being able to playunder pressure, and maintaining that intense desire to getthe job done,” said Murphy. “These girls have a lot of poten-tial and they want to compete. I still need the proof thatthey can execute.”

Katie Guay ’05 did just that, scoring Brown’s first unas-sisted goal of the season eight minutes into the first periodto earn the early advantage over the Black Bears (1-3-2).This game winner would be Brown’s only goal in the seasonopener, although the girls outshot Maine 40-25 in this fast-paced, physical battle. The Brown Bears continued to dom-inate this first period, keeping the puck consistently inMaine’s defensive zone with their trademark quick passing.

The physical play carried over into the second period asBrown received two penalties in the first five minutes forhigh-sticking (Lindsey Glennon ’06) and body-checking(Myria Heinhuis ’06), to Maine’s one. While the power playsresulted in breakaway efforts for both teams, neither squadcould capitalize on these opportunities.

Captain and senior goalie Katie Germain ’04 said theteam’s 0-10 power play conversion rate over the weekendcould be attributed to “how inexperienced we still are as anew, young team. We were all over the ice and disorgan-ized. The power play will flow better with practice.”

Going into the third period with a 1-0 lead, the BrownBears faced a more aggressive Maine team that accumulat-ed nearly half of its 25 shots on goal in these final 20 min-utes. The tempo went back and forth between both defen-sive zones. While Brown failed to add an insurance goal,Germain ’04 turned back a furious Maine attack in the lasttwo minutes to earn her seventh shutout of her career.

Murphy recognizes the strengths and weaknesses exhib-ited by her Bears in the season opener victory. “We battledand we kept our composure in crunch situations. Weplayed good defensive zone coverage and got the jittersout,” Murphy said. “However, our attention to the systemwas deficient, which kept us from capitalizing on opportu-nities.” The following afternoon, the Brown Bears failed toget the job done against Hockey East’s fourth rankedBoston College (3-1-0), falling 3-1 to the Eagles in a disap-pointing weekend closer. While Krissy McManus ’05,scored Brown’s only goal in the third period, assisted byLindsey Glennon ’06, the goal was quickly answered by theEagles’ third goal, and could not compensate for the Bears’first 20 minutes of sloppy play.

The Eagles took an early lead, scoring on a power play inthe first 12 minutes of the game. Boston College scored itssecond goal with only one minute left in the period, as a BCshot deflected off of a Brown defenseman.

Trailing 2-0 going into the second period, the Bearscame out fired up, dominating the Eagles with quickerpassing and several shots from the point by McLaughlin.While the girls blasted 21 shots to Boston College’s two,Eagle’s goalie Lisa Davis turned back every shot anddefended her team’s lead into the third.

In an intense final period, there was a controversialBrown goal called back for an offsides penalty, making ittougher for the team to mount a comeback.

On the Bears’ failure to reach the net on 33 of their 77shots over the weekend, forward Kerry Nugent ’05 said,“We need to start finishing what we are capable of start-ing.”

The weekend split demonstrates that any team can posea threat at any time. Murphy recognizes the improvementin women’s collegiate hockey. “Scholarship opportunitiesare making the league better,” Murphy said. “If we embracethis as a good thing, step up to the competition and allow itto make us a better team, we can win.”

As the girls prepare for the upcoming weekend seriesagainst the number one ranked University of MinnesotaGophers (6-0-0 overall), Murphy plans on utilizing theBears’ signature passing game, strengthening the defensivezone, and taking more selective shots on goal.

The Brown women’s ice hockey team will face theGophers at Meehan Auditorium this Saturday, followed bya noon game on Sunday.

BY KATHY BABCOCKBrown women’s volleyball dropped two matches on theroad this weekend in one of the weaker performances ofthe season. The Bears seemed to be picking up momen-tum in their last few matches, but 3-0 losses to bothHarvard and Dartmouth brought it to a halt.

“I think a lot of what happened was just our defensebroke down,” said Kim Highlund ’04.

Bruno faced the Crimson in Cambridge, Mass. onFriday, losing in three close games 28-30, 29-31 and 29-31.

“We were having our problems on Saturday, saidCoach Diane Short. “This year is all about confidence —we just don’t have enough confidence. I think that is thebiggest hurdle that they have to go through, and that willimprove next year.”

The individual statistics were a little lower as well,with the notable exception of Rikki Baldwin ‘07, whomade 24 kills in the game. Next to Baldwin, Lauren Gibbs’06 had the most kills with 10. On the other side of thenet, Harvard was led offensively by Mariah Pospisil andKatie Turley-Molony, who both notched 14 kills in thegame. Elvina Kung ‘05 led the defense with 14 digs aswell as three service aces. Highlund tallied 12 digs on theevening. Leigh Martin ‘06 had 52 assists and three aces.Martin surpassed the 2,000 mark for assists last weekendand should be moving into the Brown record books soondespite being a sophomore. Brown has had strong indi-vidual performances all year despite its record.

“Two people don’t carry a volleyball team. Even threedon’t — you need everybody playing at the top of theirgame to win,” Highlund said.

The Bears played the Crimson very close and forcedthe last two games over the regulation limit of 30 points,but were unable to carry the game despite a strong per-formance. The team has been working in practice to tryto solve its problems, but so far has not been able to takethings from practice into games.

“We’ve gotten so much better in practice. We’re havingreally tight games against each other and I don’t under-stand why it hasn’t rolled over to matches,” Highlundsaid.

The Dartmouth game, however, was a disaster. Not

only did the Bears drop three quick games, 23-30, 28-30,and 18-30, but the Big Green statisticians were havingcomputer problems so the Bears coaching staff will haveto go over the film in order to tally accurate statistics.Highlund and Martin both need accurate stats for theirplaces in the record books.

Baldwin led the Bears’ offense at outside hitter.Martin also had a strong game, but the overall effort waslacking. The team fell apart against the Big Green whomthey had previously beaten.

“I think we were physically upset after that matchbecause we’ve never just not played,” Highlund said. “Ithink we came in on Monday with the intensity and thementality (of), let’s just have pride and win these lastthree matches.”

Another explanation for the Dartmouth game wassimple lethargy.

“I know a lot of the players study before the game andI think that always slows you down physically if you’resitting down all day. Or if you’re sitting in front of a tele-vision — anything where you just sit down slows yourreaction time a bit,” Short said. “But that is part of travel-ing and that is another thing that, with experience, peo-ple learn to deal with better.”

The team has its next three matches at home, facingColumbia and Cornell this weekend and Yale the follow-ing Wednesday.

“It’s our last weekend, having one senior on the teamand having family there, I look for us to forget about thepast and look toward the next three matches,” Shortsaid.

Highlund as a senior captain has, in many ways, thesymbolic gipper for the team in these last games.

Highlund is as puzzled as anyone else as to why theobviously talented team cannot step up to win matches.

“(In) pressure matches it’s hard (for us) to get up tothat level. The funny thing is that we do it against eachother in practice,” Highlund said. “The intensity that wehave in practice is almost greater than in our games. Idon’t know why that is.”

Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers volleyballand can be reached at [email protected].

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