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Racist quote rocksBrandeis; newspapereditor resigns inprotestcampus watch, page 3

A $1.8 millionmistake: BostonUniversity fires newpresidentcampus watch, page 3

The United Nationsuseless and hurtsU.S. interests, Beale sayscolumn, page 11

Underage drinkingshould not be top priority of Providence Policecolumn, page 11

Men’s cross countrypulls off historic winat Heptagonal LeagueChampionshipsports, page 12

Southerners atBrown proudof heritageBY KIRA LESLEYWith former Southern specialties like KrispyKreme donut shops opening in locales fromPortland, Ore., to Cranston, R.I., the Mason-Dixon is becoming less and less of a dividingline for American culture and cream-filledpastries. But Brown students with southernroots say they strongly identify with the cul-ture of Coca-Cola and “Gone with theWind.”

The number of Americans who considerthemselves “southern” has decreased overthe past decade, according to a recentVanderbilt University study.

The study found that from 1991 to 2001,the number of people living in the Southwho identified themselves as “southerners”decreased 7.4 percent, to 70 percent.

But many Brown students who hail fromthe southern states are bucking this trend.When asked if he would describe himself asa southerner, Kent Haines ’07 ofBirmingham, Ala., said without pause,“Definitely.”

Joshua Cohen ’07 of New Orleans, alsoresponded enthusiastically. “I certainlywould. I think it’s nice,” he said.

Many Brown students from southernstates claim that being a southerner is a wayof life, and Haines said beyond geographicalboundaries, being southern means having“an emphasis on decorum and beingpolite.”

Cohen says southern identity is made upof “a lot of little things,” like traditional man-ners and pace of life in daily activities. “Uphere, people move faster. They walk at afaster pace, even if they don’t have anywhereto go,” Cohen says.

Some students who strongly identifywith southern culture also recognize varia-tions in this identity. Quinney Harris ’06 ofHolly Spring, Miss., says that as an African-American southerner, he’s had a differentexperience from that of white southerners.African-American southerners experiencewhat author W.E.B. Du Bois called a “doubleconsciousness,” meaning they are alwaysaware of their identity both as AfricanAmericans and as southerners, he said.

Vidya Putcha ’07 said her experience as aminority in the South was different from theexperiences of her white friends.

Some southern students say theyencounter regional stereotyping at Brown.Putcha said people at Brown are often sur-prised to find out she is from the South.Non-southerners expect people from theSouth to be slow, uneducated and naive, shesaid.

Harris said that in some ways being asoutherner on campus is like being a minor-ity because “if you’re a southerner, you haveto prove yourself.”

But not all the stereotypes southernersencounter at Brown are negative ones.Haines says he enjoys being thought of as a“good southern gentleman.”

Many southern students say NewEnglanders lack an awareness of southernculture and southerners are equally unfa-miliar with New England culture.

“No one — very few people — knewwhere Brown was” at his high school, Cohen

see SOUTH, page 7

Krista Hachey / Herald

After the America Rocks the Vote Democratic forum in Boston, Brown students gotsome face time with presidential candidate John Kerry.

Pot and PCs: Presidentialcandidates debate

BY JANE TANIMURAPaul Buhle, senior lecturer in American civilization, urgedstudents to consider the political and spiritual potential ofradical faith at the convocation of Faith in Action month,sponsored by the Faith-Based Activism Coalition.

Buhle opened the convocation, held in Faunce House, byplaying a song by reggae artist Jimmy Cliff. The simplicity ofCliff’s music belies its great spiritual energy, which is also atthe core of all religions, Buhle said.

In his lecture, Buhle examined the dominance of the“American empire” and its influence on religion. “An empiredoesn’t just want money and power. It also wants our souls,”he said.

Later on in the discussion, Buhle predicted that faith-based organizers will have a larger societal role in the futurebecause the secular left is not doing well.

Buhle also examined the institution of religion from theHigh Middle Ages to the present. He noted the significance

Prof. examines radical faith

see BUHLE, page 7

Master Planand capitalcampaigndiscussed atmeetingBY CARLA BLUMENKRANZThe leadership of Brown’s capital cam-paign has secured several major gifts andwill announce them within the nextmonth, said President Ruth SimmonsTuesday at a faculty meeting.

Simmons and other campaign leadershave been meeting with potential donors"on a daily basis," she said, necessitatingconstant travel on her part.

The process has been "taxing butexhilarating," Simmons told facultymembers, especially after she confirmeda particularly substantial gift this week.

"I was walking on air," Simmons said,of leaving the donor’s office. "I think thisis going to be a great, great campaign."

Also in Simmons’ report to the facultywas news of last month’s CorporationWeekend. The Corporation approvedarchitect Frances Halsband’s MasterPlan, which lays out basic principles forthe University’s physical growth. Theplan, which will be on the Brown Web sitewithin the next two weeks, according toExecutive Vice President for PlanningRichard Spies, suggests in particular thereturn of houses owned by the Universityto their original use, Simmons said.

Of the 233 buildings Brown owns, over100 of them are houses, she said, andmany of them remain unused. A numberof these houses may be available for saleto faculty and staff in the near future,Simmons said, with provisions that theUniversity may also buy them back.

The Corporation also approved plansfor the Life Sciences Building and for therecently purchased 70 Ship St. building,both currently under construction.

Discussion in the Corporation’s

BY KRISTA HACHEYBOSTON — Macs or PCs? Brown’s contri-bution to the CNN-sponsored AmericaRocks the Vote Democratic forum inFaneuil Hall, featuring eight presidentialcandidates, may already be destined forthe sort of infamy once reserved for the“boxers or briefs” grilling Bill Clintontook in 1992 at a similar forum.

“Handheld, wireless,” Sen. JosephLieberman of Connecticut replied with agrin to Alexandra Trustman ’07, as othercandidates chose one or the otherbefore moderator and CNN anchorAnderson Cooper moved on to weighti-er issues.

Trustman’s question was one of thelighter moments in a debate where can-didates addressed issues such as racism,gay rights and the continued role of theUnited States in Iraq.

Several of the candidates used theevent to continue to pressure front-run-ner Howard Dean regarding a statementthat appeared in the Nov. 1 Des MoinesRegister that he wants to be “the candi-date for guys with Confederate flags intheir pickup trucks.”

“You are not a bigot, but you appearto be too arrogant to say, ‘I’m wrong,’

see MEETING, page 7

Sara Perkins / Herald

“It may be that spirituality is not the guidance for most of you,”said Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in American civilization, at theconvocation of Faith in Action month. But he still urgedstudents to,“think about it, work on it, talk about it.”

see KERRY, page 6

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BY LELA SPIELBERGA racially-charged column in The Justice,Brandeis’ weekly paper, recently caused acampus backlash against the studentnewspaper and prompted several editorsto resign from their positions.

In the Oct. 21 edition of The Justice,sports columnist Dan Passner ended hiscolumn about Chicago Cubs managerDusty Baker by quoting another Brandeisstudent as having said, “The only thingBaker has a Ph.D. in is something thatstarts with an N and rhymes with Tigger.”

Passner’s column caused controversyimmediately after it was printed.

The student-run newspaper held a pub-lic forum to apologize for the comment,but the forum was disrupted by membersof the Brandeis Black Student Union, whowalked out when Justice Sports Editor RobSiegel began to speak.

“We didn’t deliberately publish the com-ment,” Siegel said at the forum, he told TheHerald. “It was becoming this big deal andit shouldn’t have been.”

Siegel said he regretted that The Justiceprinted Passner’s column, and attributedthe paper’s mistake to careless error. A copyeditor had circled the quote, but Siegel saidhe did not read the column before thepaper was sent to the printer.

Following the forum, The Brandeisadministration asked Passner and Siegel toresign.

Three other student writers and editors,including Editor-in-Chief StephenHeyman, resigned as well, some in protestof the administration’s involvement in theaffairs of the independent paper, Siegeltold The Herald.

“Brandeisians should not attempt to ripapart The Justice for mistakenly printingreprehensible sentiments in our pages, butshould demand to know from each otherwhy such sentiments exist in our commu-nity,” Heyman wrote in his letter of resigna-tion, which he printed in The Justice.

But the resignations and forum failed toend the controversy.

On the evening of Oct. 28, studentsgathered outside the newspaper’s office forseveral hours, shouting “down with TheJustice!” and “racists,” Siegel told TheHerald.

Siegel said the staff “stood behind” himand the editor-in-chief throughout theconflict.

Several editors have publicly said thatthe administration has meddled with the

paper’s independence.“We … have not been treated as journal-

ists, but rather as muses for social justice,”former editor Yana Lovitsky wrote in herletter of resignation.

But Brandeis officials said they felt theyhad to take some action on such a sensitiveissue.

“Brandeis takes seriously its commit-ment to social justice. We must renew ourcommitment, making sure our actionsalways match our rhetoric,” BrandeisPresident Jehuda Reinharz said in a publicstatement last week.

University officials, The Justice staff andother students agree on one thing —Brandeis must work to build a communityto avoid incidents like this one happeningin the future.

Brandeis public relations representativeDennis Nealon said the university is devel-oping programming to discuss issues ofracism and equality.

Herald staff writer Lela Spielberg ’07 can bereached at [email protected].

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BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETArticles attacking the “homosexualagenda” in the Hawk’s Right Eye, a paperpublished by the Roger WilliamsUniversity College Republicans, led theadministration to temporarily freeze thepaper’s funding last month.

The controversy has administratorsand students questioning whether thepaper’s content violated civil discourse,and its editors insisting the administra-tion infringed on free speech.

Outcry was specifically directed at anarticle entitled “Banana-Rama,” origi-nally featured on the online news serviceWorld Net Daily. The three-paragrapharticle uses explicit language to detail aviolent homosexual rape that occurredin Arkansas in 1999.

Editor-in-Chief Jason Mattera pub-lished the article to supplement his ownpiece, “The Thought Police,” in theHawk’s Right Eye Sept. 30 issue.

“Homophobic stories are alwaysdwelt on, but when homosexuals are theculprits, the news is swept under the

rug,” Mattera wrote.Other articles throughout the issue

present similar arguments. In a newspiece, Mattera decries the presence ofJudy Shepard, mother of hate-crime vic-tim Matthew Shepard, at Roger Williamsduring new student orientation.

On Oct. 9, University President RoyNirschel, sent a campus-wide e-mailclassifying the paper’s content as“pornographic in nature, puerile” and“mean-spirited.” On Oct. 14, the univer-sity froze purchase orders of the paper.

Nirschel said he believes the universi-ty-imposed punishment was appropri-ate, given the paper’s transgressions, hewrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“They are being held accountable toexactly the same standards as all otherorganizations and student publicationsat Roger Williams — nothing more,nothing less,” Nirschel wrote.

The conflict was ultimately resolvedduring an Oct. 24 meeting with CollegeRepublican leaders when ProvostEdward Kavanagh ironed out an agree-

ment that allows the paper’s publicationto continue. Editors now must submitthe paper’s content to their supervisor,Professor of Political Science JuneSpeakman, a rule that had rarely beenenforced before.

“In what you put in print and how youportray others, there’s a certain level ofcivil discourse that we expect,”Kavanagh said. “This is the first timewe’ve really said, ‘OK, we’re really goingto have to sit down and codify things.’”

Kavanagh added that he understandshow a conservative organization mayfeel underrepresented at a largely liberal,northeastern institution. “But it’s not anexcuse to cross the line in civility,” hesaid.

But Mattera told The Herald thatadministrative reaction to the articlesproves the liberal bias on Roger Williams’campus.

“Those who preach tolerance do notafford tolerance to those that they dis-

RWU paper loses funding over “mean-spirited” articles

see RWU, page 7

Fury at Brandeis overracially-charged column

BU pays president to leave BY JUSTIN ELLIOTTBoston University settled on a $1.8 mil-lion severance package for its incomingninth president, Daniel Goldin, lastFriday. Goldin had not reported to a sin-gle day of work.

Goldin, the former head of NASA,signed a five-year contract in August afterBU’s Board of Trustees offered him thepresidency by a unanimous vote. But theboard’s decision Friday to rescind its offerand approve the pay-off marked anabout-face only one day before Goldinwas to take office.

The Board of Trustees appointed Dr.Aram Chobanian, dean of BU’s medicalschool, the university’s interim president.The board also accepted the resignationof John Silber, who was president of BUfrom 1971 to 1996, and chancellor for thepast seven years.

The first public sign of trouble came onOct. 25, when The Boston Globe reportedthat the executive committee of BU’sBoard of Trustees had voted to reviewGoldin’s appointment.

Herbert Voigt, chairman of the BUFaculty Council, told The Herald he react-ed with “outrage and surprise that I was

hearing through the newspapers.“I wasn’t the only one of course, I got

phone calls and e-mails wanting to knowessentially what the hell was going on,”Voigt said.

Last week marked the formation of TheFaculty Committee for the Future ofBoston University, which circulated apetition urging the Board of Trustees toinstall Goldin as scheduled. One of itsfounders, Professor of Spanish JamesIffland Ph.D ’77, said the petition, whichwas delivered to the board Friday morn-ing, includes 3,190 signatures.

“No matter what one thinks of Mr.Goldin as a potential president of BostonUniversity, you clearly can’t support theidea of creating a national scandal bybreaking away from those commit-ments,” Iffland said.

There has been much speculation onwhat went wrong between Goldin and theBoard of Trustees, with little responsefrom the University. A joint news releasefrom BU and Goldin states that “neitherparty will discuss this matter further.”

Voigt, who participated in a meeting

see BU, page 7

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TORONTO (Washington Post) — A Canadian citizen who wasdetained last year at John F. Kennedy International Airport inNew York as a suspected terrorist said Tuesday he was secretlydeported to Syria and endured 10 months of torture in a Syrianprison.

Maher Arar, 33, who was released last month, said at a newsconference in Ottawa that he pleaded with U.S. authorities to lethim continue on to Canada, where he has lived for 15 years andhas a family. But instead, he was flown under U.S. guard toJordan and handed over to Syria, where he was born. Arardenied any connection to terrorism and said he would fight toclear his name.

U.S. officials said Tuesday that Arar was deported because hehad been put on a terrorist watch list after information from“multiple international intelligence agencies” linked him to ter-rorist groups.

Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that theArar case fits the profile of a covert CIA “extraordinary rendition”— the practice of turning over low-level, suspected terrorists toforeign intelligence services, some of which are known to tortureprisoners.

Arar’s case has brought repeated apologies from the Canadiangovernment, which says it is investigating what information theRoyal Canadian Mounted Police gave to U.S. authorities.Canada’s foreign minister, Bill Graham, also said he would ques-tion the Syrian ambassador about Arar’s statements about tor-ture. In an interview on CBC Radio, Imad Moustafa, the Syriancharge d’affaires in Washington, denied that Arar had been tor-tured.

Arar said U.S. officials apparently based the terrorism accusa-tion on his connection to Abdullah Almalki, another Syrian-born Canadian. Almalki is being detained by Syrian authorities,although no charges against him have been reported. Arar saidhe knew Almalki only casually before his detention but encoun-tered him at the Syrian prison where both were tortured.

Arar, whose case has become a cause celebre in Canada,demanded a public inquiry. “I am not a terrorist,” he said. “I amnot a member of al-Qaida. I have never been to Afghanistan.”

He said he was flying home to Montreal via New York on Sept.26, 2002, from a family visit to Tunisia.

“This is when my nightmare began,” he said. “I was pulledaside by immigration and taken (away). The police came andsearched my bags. I asked to make a phone call and they wouldnot let me.” He said an FBI agent and a New York City police offi-cer questioned him. “I was so scared,” he said. “They told me Ihad no right to a lawyer because I was not an American citizen.”

Arar said he was shackled, placed on a small jet and flown toWashington, where “a new team of people got on the plane” andtook him to Amman, the capital of Jordan. Arar said U.S. officialshanded him over to Jordanian authorities, who “blindfolded andchained me and put me in a van. ... They made me bend myhead down in the back seat. Then these men started beating me.Every time I tried to talk, they beat me.”

Hours later, he said, he was taken to Syria and there he wasforced to write that he had been to a training camp inAfghanistan. “They kept beating me, and I had to falsely con-fess,” he said. “I was willing to confess to anything to stop thetorture.”

Arar said his prison cell “was like a grave, exactly like a grave.It had no light, it was 3 feet wide, it was 6 feet deep, it was 7 feethigh. ... It had a metal door. There was a small opening in theceiling. There were cats and rats up there, and from time to time,the cats peed through the opening into the cell.”

Steven Watt, a human rights fellow at the Center forConstitutional Rights in Washington, said Arar’s case raisedquestions about U.S. counterterrorism measures. “Here we havethe United States involved in the removal of somebody to acountry where it knows persons in custody of security agents aretortured,” Watt said. “The U.S. was possibly benefiting from thefruits of that torture. I ask the question: Why wasn’t he removedto Canada?”

A senior U.S. intelligence official discussed the case in termsof the secret rendition policy. There have been “a lot of renditionactivities” since Sept. 11, the official said. “We are doing a num-ber of them, and they have been very productive.”

Renditions are a legitimate option for dealing with suspectedterrorists, intelligence officials argue. The U.S. government offi-cially rejects the assertion that it knowingly sends suspectsabroad to be tortured, but officials admit they sometimes dothat. “The temptation is to have these folks in other handsbecause they have different standards,” one official said.“Someone might be able to get information we can’t fromdetainees,” said another.

Terror suspect detailsdeporting, then torture

see TERROR, page 6

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A charred vehicle lies amid fire-ravaged Middle Fork, Calif., in the San Bernardino National Forest. Officials sayfirefighters were thwarted by the enclave's location on a canyon stream in an overgrowth of trees and scrub.

Bush visits fire-ravaged areasEL CAJON, Calif. (L.A. Times) —President Bush toured thecharred forests and communi-ties of San Diego County onTuesday, as forecasts of weekendrain intensified concerns aboutpossible mudslides in the morethan 740,000 acres stripped bareby Southern California’s fires.

“When people see the scopeof the fires, the historic nature ofthe fires, they’ll realize what asuperhuman effort you all put into save lives,” the president toldfirefighters in Alpine. “We’veseen the worst of nature” but the“absolute best of mankind.”

Bush, Gov. Gray Davis andGov.-elect ArnoldSchwarzenegger viewed thedestruction of the massiveParadise and Cedar fires fromthe presidential helicopterbefore touching down in theseared community of Harbison

Canyon, east of San Diego, tocomfort families whose propertyhad burned.

The president listened as awoman told him how she hadlost all the treasured belongingsin her home. Trying to consoleher while controlling his ownemotions, Bush reminded herthat she still had “the most pre-cious things” in her life: her hus-band and her daughter.

“The best thing I can do is tolisten and hug and empathize asbest as I can empathize,” amoist-eyed Bush told reportersat the end of a 40-minute walk-ing tour of Harbison Canyon.

The president acknowledgedthat he had brought no addition-al federal fire aid for SouthernCalifornia. The federal govern-ment has promised about $3million in assistance, which isabout $1,000 for each of the

more than 3,400 homes thatburned.

The president said he hadcome here to “answer questionsas to whether or not the helpthat is available is being deliv-ered. Hopefully, I get the truth. Imean, if there is a frustration atthe federal level, I need to knowabout it.”

Above all, Bush said, he cameto determine “whether or not thehelp that is available is beingexpedited.” After hearing fromfire officials and other govern-ment representatives, Bush pro-nounced himself satisfied.

Firefighters fully containedthe Cedar fire, the largest of thewildfires, Tuesday morning andexpected to contain the fourothers by Wednesday morning,thanks largely to continued

Dean returns to internet to pollsupporters on key decision(L.A. Times) — Former VermontGov. Howard Dean, who hasused the Internet to raise muchof his campaign cash, is return-ing to cyberspace to poll sup-porters on a crucial strategicdecision: whether to forgo pub-lic financing for the presidentialprimary season.

The campaign prepared a dis-patch for posting Wednesday onDean’s official Web site, invitingbackers to voice their senti-ments over a 48-hour period.The balloting will take placeThursday through Saturday.

A decision to opt out of thesystem could dramaticallyreshape the Democratic race byallowing Dean, the party’s fund-raising leader, to raise and spendunlimited sums in pursuit of thenomination. The move couldalso set off a spiral of campaignspending by encouraging other

Democrats — chief among themSen. John F. Kerry ofMassachusetts — to opt out ofthe system as well.

President Bush already haspulled out, as he did in 2000.

Last week, while campaigningin California, Dean told poten-tial supporters he had alreadydecided to forgo public financ-ing, according to people whoattended the closed-door ses-sions.

A strategist at Dean head-quarters insisted, however, thatthe candidate’s mind was notmade up.

“This is a binding vote,” thestrategist said Tuesday night.“Whatever our supportersdecide is what this campaign isgoing to do.”

If Dean opts out, he wouldbecome the first Democrat todecline federal matching funds

since the program was started in1976, during the political reformera that followed the Watergatescandal. The move would also flyin the face of statements Deanmade earlier in the campaign,long before he became the fund-raising leader among the nineDemocrats seeking the WhiteHouse.

His Democratic rivals havealready criticized Dean for say-ing he was thinking of pullingout of the system. Advocates ofcampaign finance reform weremore forgiving, however.

“My preference would be forthe candidates to stay in, butthere are extenuating circum-stances that have been causedhere by President Bush’s deci-sion,” said Fred Wertheimer,president of Democracy 21, aWashington organization thatworks for political reform.

see FIRE, page 6

and go on,” the Rev. Al Sharptonsaid.

But Dean stood by his remark.“We’re not going to win this

country, and even worse,Democrats, if we don’t have a bigtent,” he said.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohiotook a strong stand against thewar on Iraq and supported theneed for a replacement of U.S.influence in the region with agreater U.N. presence.

“We have to acknowledge thatthe U.S. made a grave mistake inthe first place in going in there,”he said.

Lieberman expressed hisdesire to eventually let “the Iraqiscontrol Iraq” but said that hissupport for the war was derivedfrom his desire to see their nationfreed of a “homicidal maniac.”

All of the candidates wereeager to prove they knew what itwould take to win the youth vote.

“Every young person is disap-pointed by politics,” said Sen.John Kerry of Massachusetts. “I’velived with the experience of beinga young person trying to make adifference when it seems likenothing that happens is real. Ifought in the civil rights move-ment and against the war, I blewthe whistle on Oliver North; I tookon Newt Gingrich. I will be a pres-ident with a proven record of tak-

ing on special interests.”Three candidates even admit-

ted they had tried marijuana, anissue that dogged Clintonthroughout 1992 after he said heonce smoked marijauana but“didn’t inhale.”

Dean, Kerry and Sen. JohnEdwards of North Carolina all saidthey had used the drug.Lieberman, Sharpton, Kucinichand retired Gen. Wesley Clark saidthey had not, while former Sen.Carol Moseley Braun of Illinoisdeclined to answer.

Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouriwas campaigning in Iowa and wasthe only candidate to miss theforum.

An audience member askedRev. Al Sharpton to describe histhoughts the first morning hewakes up in the White House.

“I would make sure Bush hasall his stuff out and would lock thedoors so he wouldn’t come back,”Sharpton quipped.

MEETING THEIR IDOLOutside Faneuil Hall before theforum, amid the mayhem ofthrashing campaign signs andavid political activists, a scream-ing band of Brown students ral-lied for Democratic presidentialcandidate John Kerry. By the endof the night, their efforts came tofruition when they got to meet theman himself.

With transportation providedby the Kerry campaign, the unof-ficial campus group met up withKerry supporters from all over

New England. At one point during the rally, a

small legion of Bush supporterspushed through the crowd andmade their presence known.

“Oh dear, Republicans,” saidJenn Thomas GS, coordinator ofthe trip.

Thomas has been workingclosely with Kevin Patterson GS tocreate a campus organization forstudents interested in the Kerrycampaign.

“Brown is a great activist cam-pus,” she said. “Students are pro-gressive and committed to doingthings. When we go try to organ-ize going to events like this, wedon’t encounter as much indiffer-ence as some campuses do. Wecoordinate people who come tous.”

The chant “Bush is scary, wewant Kerry,” erupted as formerNew Hampshire Gov. JeanneShaheen shook the hands of eagersupporters, many of whom werecollege students from theNortheast. Shaheen was shortlyfollowed by Kerry himself.

Youth visibility at the rally andforum emphasized the politicalpotential of the youth demo-graphic, said Christina Tsafoulias‘04.

“College students and youth ingeneral play a tremendous rolethat is not really being maxi-mized,” said Tsafoulias, whointerned for Kerry at his Bostonoffice over the summer of 2002.

“In 1992, the youth vote mat-tered, and because Clinton

engaged the youth of America, hewas able to swing the votes hisway,” she said. “Student activistgroups would do very well toreach out to the apathetic andlearn how to mobilize eachother.”

Franklin Ross ‘07 said studentsshould take advantage of theirrestlessness.

“We’re young, we’re loud,” hesaid. “I was just watching TVtoday when I realized I should goto this. It’s important to pay atten-tion to things that influence ourlives even if that influence doesn’tseem direct.”

After the debate, Kerry metwith his supporters, urged themto continue their efforts andthanked them for their loyalty.

“We have 86 more days,” hesaid. “I have three words for youthat will make you want to go outand work like hell: the SupremeCourt.”

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

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Syria, where use of tortureduring imprisonment hasbeen documented by the StateDepartment and independenthuman rights organizations,maintains a secret but growingintelligence relationship withthe CIA, according to intelli-gence experts. Jordan hasstrong and long-standing tieswith U.S. intelligence.

“The Syrian governmenthas provided some very usefulassistance on al-Qaida in thepast,” said Cofer Black, formerdirector of counterterrorism atthe CIA who is now the coun-terterrorism coordinator at theState Department.

One senior intelligence offi-cial said Tuesday that Arar isstill believed to have connec-tions to al-Qaida. The JusticeDepartment did not haveenough evidence to detainhim when he landed in theUnited States, the official said,

and “the CIA doesn’t keep peo-ple in this country.”

With those limitations, andwith a secret presidential“finding” authorizing the CIAto place suspects in foreignhands without due process,Arar may have been one of thepeople whisked overseas bythe CIA.

In the early 1990s, rendi-tions were exclusively lawenforcement operations inwhich suspects were snatchedby covert CIA or FBI teams andbrought to the United Statesfor trial or questioning. ButCIA teams, working with for-eign intelligence services, nowcapture suspected terrorists inone country and render themto another, often after U.S.interrogators have tried togain information from them.

Renditions are considered acovert action. Congress, whichoversees the CIA, knows ofonly the broad authority tocarry out renditions but is notinformed about individualcases, according to intelli-gence officials.

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cool, damp weather, whichposes a threat of its own:mudslides.

Officials say any substan-tial rainfall could cause slideson denuded hills, and theNational Weather Servicewarned Tuesday that a stormwas expected to hit SouthernCalifornia on Friday night.

“Rainfall totals with thissystem certainly look impres-sive enough to keep a closeeye on, especially near burnareas where mud and debris-flow problems could devel-op,” the Weather Service saidin an advisory.

Forecasters said the rainshould continue intermittent-ly through Sunday, with “easi-ly as much as two inches” inmost of the burn areas ofSouthern California, includ-ing Harbison Canyon.


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agree with,” he said, referringto clubs that claim to supportan environment that is “anti-hate.”

Speakman, an activeDemocrat and self-described“radical” supporter of freeexpression, currently supervis-es the publication. Althoughshe briefly resigned amid thislatest controversy, Speakmansaid her belief in freedom ofspeech compelled her torenew her agreement with thepaper.

In the future, Speakmansaid she hopes for “restraint bystudents, or anyone whowrites on campus, thatrespects the feelings of thereader and adheres to certaincommonly accepted standardsof decency.”

Speakman personallyobjected to the aggressivenature of the articles, and pre-viously suggested that thepaper lighten its tone,although the suggestion wasnot acted upon.

Although Mattera disagreeswith administrative discipli-nary actions against thepaper, he said he believes thecontroversy may promote anactive dialogue between liber-als and conservatives on cam-pus.

“The intellectual debateand inquiry has risen,” he said.“It’s made more people focuson politics and they are morewilling to debate politics. Ithink this creates an environ-ment where people want toexpress their views.”

Herald staff writer RobbieCorey-Boulet ’07 can be reachedat [email protected].


RWU

with four trustees last night, saidthe board “was absolutely con-vinced that Goldin was going tocome in and wreak havoc onBoston University.”

“They assured us that theywere acting in the best interest ofBU,” he said.

Goldin had informed the boardthat he intended to overhaul thepower structure built up by Silberover the past three decades, TheBoston Globe reported Sunday.The Globe also reported thatGoldin had raised conflict ofinterest of questions abouttrustees who had business ties toBU.

At a news conference, RobertPopeo, a lawyer for the trustees,questioned whether Goldin’s tem-perament fit the job.

Voigt said part of the blame for

the reversal lay in the “rushedprocess” of finding a new presi-dent.

“Earle Cooley, chairman of thesearch committee, said he blew it,and he’s taking responsibility forit,” Voigt said.

Of the BU community, Ifflandsaid “people are upset, depressed,and have been left wonderingwhat is going to happen next.

“High quality candidates forthe job of President will beextremely wary of dealings withthe Board of Trustees,” he said.

BU students, however, seemedless concerned. As sophomoreDavid Delmar said, “it’s just achanged name. Nothing in ourlives is actually going to changetoo soon.

“It doesn’t really involve methat directly,” he said.

Herald staff writer Justin Elliott’07 can be reached [email protected]


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of religious movements in the1950s and 1960s, which wereaccompanied by the decline ofcommunism and atheism in theSoviet Union and the rise of theCivil Rights Movement inAmerica. Buhle commented thatalthough Martin Luther King Jr.sympathized with communists,he still realized the need to com-municate his message throughreligious metaphors.

“It taught white radicals a les-son,” Buhle said. “Religion hadpower that secular radicals did-n’t understand.”

After the death of King andthe rising momentum of the

Vietnam War, “a deep sense ofuneasiness” grew in Americancities, Buhle said.

Although people tend toassociate the 1960s with “drugsand sex, materialism andminiskirts,” Buhle claimed thisperiod was also a “dawning ofpeace and understanding wherematerialism and possessionbecame less important.”

After discussing and analyz-ing the history of religion inAmerica, Buhle asked the audi-ence to consider spiritualitywith more depth and under-standing.

“It may be that spirituality isnot the guidance for most ofyou,” Buhle said. But he stillurged students, “think about it,work on it, talk about it.”


Buhle

Academic Affairs Committeeaddressed the best ways toassess the University’s academicprogress, particularly in light ofacademic investments mandat-ed by the Initiatives forAcademic Enrichment,Simmons said.

Possible metrics for measur-ing academic success includethe depth of faculty engagementwith students and the nature offaculty publications, ProvostRobert Zimmer told the faculty.

At the same time, Simmonssaid the Corporation’s CampusLife Committee met with archi-tectural firm Venturi, Scott Brownand Associates, which will pres-ent recommendations for therenovation of campus life spacesat the Corporation’s Februarymeeting, Simmons said. Thecommittee also discussed creat-ing 24-hour study spaces andsatellite fitness centers.

Zimmer updated faculty onthe searches for a new dean ofbiology and medicine and deanof the faculty. A recently hiredsearch firm met this week withthe search committee for thedean of biology and medicine,while a search committee forthe dean of faculty will beassembled this year, Zimmer

said. Both positions, whenfilled, will take "more strategicroles," he said, aggressively pro-moting the University ratherthan simply reacting to day-to-day problems.

After Simmons’ and Zimmer’sreports, the approximately 40faculty members in LowerSalomon approved nominationsto faculty committees made bythe Faculty ExecutiveCommittee, and one nomina-tion to the FEC itself. The facul-ty also approved a recommen-dation to the Board of Fellows tochange the name of theGraduate Program in CreativeWriting to the GraduateProgram in Literary Arts.

“Creative writing” implies adistinction from critical writing,and connotes a "cute, curiousquality," but "literary arts"reflects the innovative quality ofthe program, according to themotion.

“We’re not interested in thegenre divisions,” said ProgramDirector Forrest Gander at themeeting.

The faculty also approved amotion to change the summeracademic calendar, submittedby Dean of Summer StudiesKaren Sibley. The change inschedule, which moves the startof Summer Session from thefirst to the third week of June,was made to accommodate thepredominant national highschool calendar, according tothe motion.

After the approval of Sibley’smotion, and with about 40 min-utes remaining in its two-hourtime slot, Tuesday’s facultymeeting adjourned.

Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 edits the campuswatch section. She can be reachedat [email protected].


Meeting

said. Harris notes that in hishometown, people are not asfamiliar with New England schoolsas they are with prestigious south-ern schools, such as DukeUniversity, the University of NorthCarolina-Chapel Hill and EmoryUniversity.

But although many southernersat Brown have pride in their her-itage, students say that in generalBrown lacks a large southern cul-tural presence. Because the“southern identity” is comprisedof many different traditions andcustoms, increasing campusawareness of this presence can bedifficult, students say.

Still, some students say theythink New Englanders are begin-ning to accept more aspects ofsouthern culture than ever before.

Judging by the recent additionof the Cranston Krispy Kreme only15 minutes away, they just mightbe right.

Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07can be reached atklesley@browndailyherald.


SouthAfter Simmons’ and Zimmer’s reports, the

approximately 40 faculty members in Lower

Salomon approved nominations to faculty

committees made by the Faculty Executive

Committee, and one nomination to the FEC

itself.

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You won’t see any waves orhear any fight songs, but you’llsee the foundations of sports-manship. There are no soccermoms or little league dads, andno one passes an offering plateasking for donations. There arejust family, friends and a smilefor those foreign to their sur-roundings.

The stars of the show — notthe ones in the pants — sit qui-etly unaware. Like ice skaters,they warm up by lapping thecourse, crossing by their com-petitors without mocking,taunting or committing person-al fouls. They could do a 4.3forty in their sleep but insteadwalk, trot and canter their wayto fame.

Some are tall, some are short,some are mean, some are sweet.Some look like cows, some soundlike birds and most smell likemanure. They go by Pip andTimmy, not Shaq and Kobe.They’re pampered with warmers,warned to behave and spoken toas if they’ll respond.

Still grasping? You’ve comethis far — don’t give out on menow.

There are no performance-enhancing drugs or recruitingviolations. The contestants wearfitted pants (had I mentionedthat?), pleated jackets, dressshirts and knee-high boots.There are numbers, but nonames, women, but no men,competition, but no animosity.

There are no coaches scoldingplayers, or players chokingcoaches. There are just contest-ants hoping a sixth sense willprovide a line of communicationwhere directions are under-

stood. In the end, it’s tough to point

out exactly what made the tripworth my time and worthy of areturn. Some would guess it hadsomething to do with women intight pants.

They’d be wrong. If you get why my trip to the

barn was worthwhile, then getout there and watch some eques-trianism. Just be sure to wipeyour feet before coming back.

Brett Zarda GS hails fromGainesville, Fla. and sometimesdresses up in tight pants.


Zarda

culmination of four years ofhard work and team effort.

“I don’t think I could haveimagined it any more perfectthan the way it ended up,” hesaid. “We’ve worked so welltogether this year, and that isexactly how it ended up in therace. This has been a dream ofours since our freshman year.”

Ahead for the Bears is theNortheast NCAA RegionalChampionships on Nov. 15,held at Franklin Park inBoston. Brown will look to useits winning momentum in itsquest to qualify for the NCAAChampionships in CedarFalls, Iowa.

Herald staff writer MelissaPerlman ’04 covers women’s crosscountry. She can be reached [email protected].


X country

“I don’t think I could

have imagined it any

more perfect than

the way it ended

up,”he said.“We’ve

worked so well

together this year,

and that is exactly

how it ended up in

the race.”

The stars of the show

— not the ones in the

pants — sit quietly

unaware. Like ice

skaters, they warm

up by lapping the

course, crossing by

their competitors

without mocking,

taunting or commit-

ting personal fouls.

They could do a 4.3

forty in their sleep

but instead walk, trot

and canter their way

to fame.

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“I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO MY FLAGand to the Republic for which it stands:one Nation indivisible, with Liberty andJustice for all.”

The original wording of the Pledge ofAllegiance is credited toFrancis Bellamy, a socialist,ex-Baptist minister and maga-zine editor in Boston at theend of the 19th Century. In1923, the words “my flag” werechanged to “the flag of theUnited States of America” toavoid ambiguity. In 1954, thewords “under God” wereadded after the phrase “oneNation.”

The Supreme Court hasagreed to hear the case fromthe U.S. Ninth Circuit Court ofAppeals after the AppellateCourt refused President Bush’srequest to reconsider its ruling in favor ofremoving the words “under God.” Thecase was brought by Dr. Michael Newdow,the father of a student in the Elk Grove,California, public school system. Dr.Newdow brought the lawsuit because heis an atheist and says that the words“under God” not only offend him but areunconstitutional.

I agree with Dr. Newdow, as did the 9thCircuit Court of Appeals, that the words“under God” are an unnecessary infusionof religion into the public school system. Iagree with the ruling for two reasons, the

first historical and the secondconstitutional. It seems to methat very few people under-stand the specific context inwhich the words “under God”were added to the Pledge, andI am confident that many willbe surprised to hear the truth.As for the constitutional ques-tion, both the wording andintent of the Constitutionseem to be enough to con-vince any reader of theunconstitutionality of thephrase in question.

The words “under God”were added to the Pledge of

Allegiance in 1954 for the sole purpose ofexposing supposedly godless communistsat the height of the Cold War communistscare. In case there is any uncertaintyabout the exact purpose of the addition,here is exactly what Congress signed intolaw: “The inclusion of God in our pledgetherefore would further acknowledge thedependence of our people and ourGovernment upon the moral directions ofthe Creator. At the same time it wouldserve to deny the atheistic and materialis-tic concepts of communists” (H.R. 1693,

83rd Cong., 2nd Sess. 1954).There are two major ideas within this

quotation (which is now law) that shouldmake us all extremely uncomfortable. Thefirst objectionable idea is that every singlecitizen must share a system of moralitythat comes directly from God — thisseems to run counter to the very notion ofindividuality the lawmakers were trying toprevent communism from undermining.The second, and more relevant point tothis discussion, is the explicit attempt todeny atheists a right to pledge their alle-giance to the flag, regardless of whethertheir atheism stems from their belief incommunism or from a myriad of otherreasons. To all those readers who find theabove quotation absurd, and more impor-tantly, irrelevant in today’s world, itshould be clear that the removal of thephrase “under God” from the pledge willnot weaken it in any way and may actual-ly make it stronger.

Whether the Supreme Court shouldremove the words because they areunconstitutional is another importantquestion. The 1st Amendment of the Billof Rights of the U.S. Constitution statesthat “Congress shall make no law respect-ing an establishment of religion, or pro-hibiting the free exercise thereof ... ” Theidea of a “wall of separation” betweenChurch and State does not actually comefrom the Constitution, although it waswritten by one of the framers of the

Constitution, Thomas Jefferson. I wouldargue that, regardless of the extent of a“separation” between Church and State,the Constitution states very clearly thatthe government shall not promote anyone religion over another (“no lawrespecting an establishment of religion”).

Yet, when the words “under God” wereinserted into the Pledge, the governmentwas explicitly promoting religions thatbelieved in a God over other religions thatdid not believe in a single God, or any Godfor that matter. Thus the phrase “underGod” is unconstitutional preciselybecause it promotes some religions overothers, and especially over atheism.

The Pledge of Allegiance as it standsnow, including the words “under God,”serves only to conflate the idea of patriot-ism with God. According to the Pledge aswritten, one cannot pledge allegiance tothe United States if he or she does notbelieve in God or believe in an alternativeconception of spirituality. The Pledge, asit is worded now, serves only to alienateuntold numbers of Americans, individu-als who are uncomfortable with religionbut who are by no means unpatriotic.What is more American than people hav-ing different conceptions of life and reli-gion? I hope the Supreme Court recog-nizes how unnecessary it is to infuse reli-gion into the Pledge and upholds theunconstitutionality of the words “underGod.”

Stop conflating religion and patriotism

Michael Littenberg-Brown ’04 refused tosay the Pledge of Allegiance in elementaryand middle school.

Why the Supreme Court should strike the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance

MICHAEL LITTENBERG-

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N I C K S C H A D E

Elephant in the cornerWyoming? North Dakota? Mississippi? What comes to mind whenmany residents of the coasts meet people from these far-off places?Unfortunately, more often than not, images of desolate trailer parkspopulated by gun-slingin’, tobacco-chewin’, Toby Keith-lovin’ red-necks.

Brunonians are no exception to this rule. While our campus at leastattempts to discuss and dissect race, gender and sexual orientation,classism and regional stereotyping, which are often connected, gar-ner less attention. Even worse, in many circles at Brown, they’re bla-tantly accepted and promoted. Who doesn’t love a good white trashjoke?

Students who don’t hail from the East Coast or California often findthemselves confronted with a barrage of stereotypes when they arriveon campus. One southern student told The Herald that people atBrown are surprised to find she’s from the South because “non-Southerners expect people from the South to be slow, uneducatedand naïve.” Another commented that “if you’re a southerner, youhave to prove yourself” at Brown.

Why this rampant discrimination on campus? Regional stereotyp-ing and classism originate for many of the same reasons other formsof bigotry do — lack of exposure. The Brown population is dramati-cally slanted toward the higher end of the socioeconomic spectrumand many students who regularly vacation in Europe proudly pro-claim they’ve been “South of the Mason-Dixon Line” or admit theydon’t travel “West of the Mississippi.” Their assumptions are moreoften based on ignorance than ill will.

The University should begin to address this blatant omission in itsprized “discourses.” Sure, classism is always listed with other “isms”on activist leaflets, and the term’s thrown around in panels from timeto time, but very little genuine discussion of its day-to-day existenceon campus takes place. Regional stereotyping is addressed even lessoften. Yet everyone gets a good laugh out of rifle-toting hunters inIdaho and slack-jawed fast food workers in Alabama.

New England is a lovely place. But so are Alabama, Kansas and yes,even Wyoming.

In Tuesday’s story about new research the purchase pricefor 70 Ship Street was incorrectly reported. Brown boughtthe property for $14.6 million.

Correction

New library chairs areworth their(discounted) priceTo the Editor:

I’ve noticed some comments in The Herald aboutthe supposed cost of the new Aeron chairs in thelibrary, most recently in one of the comics. I write tocorrect this misimpression and also to explain ourdecision to use University resources in this way.

Libraries ought to be comfortable places wherepeople are content to spend as much time as theyneed for their work. Obviously concentration is eas-ier when your back (or any other area) isn’t hurting!Unfortunately, many of the chairs in the Rockefellerand Sciences Libraries are original to the buildings(1964 and 1971, respectively) and for years studentsand faculty have complained about how uncom-fortable they are, often via our suggestion box.Moreover, from time to time the library conductsuser surveys, and over the last several years ourusers in each of these surveys brought up the needfor improved ergonomic seating. We’ve wanted to

replace the chairs for a long time, but good readingroom chairs are expensive — they must be built totake a beating and last over decades — and we sim-ply didn’t have the funds.

Through the generosity of President Simmons,who has said, “The library should be the most com-fortable building on campus,” we were given fundsto improve study areas within each of the libraries.Many improvements were made, and a high priori-ty for us was new seating in the Rockefeller, Sciencesand John Hay Libraries. We’ve had many positivecomments from students and faculty alike on thenew chairs as well as on the “soft seating” we’veadded in some places. We wish we had more suchamenities to enable folks to concentrate on theirwork in pleasant surroundings.

The Aeron chairs, because they were bought inquantity and with an educational discount, did notcost $1,000 each. They will last the libraries a verylong time and offer the ergonomics needed to pro-vide a comfortable and healthy environment for ourpatrons.

Barbara SchulzHead of Library Business Services

Nov. 4

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Providence Police need to get their priorities straight

The United Nations is unnecessary

THE WAR WITH IRAQ HAS POSED THEgreatest challenge to the legitimacy of theUnited Nations in at least a generation.When Bush I commenced the first waragainst Saddam Hussein, he enjoyed theexplicit support of the United Nations.Operation Desert Storm coincided withthe end of the Cold War and the inaugura-tion of what President Bush celebrated asa “new world order.” Thus, in the earliestmoments of the post-Cold War era, theUnited Nations emerged as the “indispen-sable global organization for a globalizingworld.” More than a decade later, the waron terror has endangered the very exis-tence of the United Nations. The organiza-tion was founded in 1945 to “take effectivecollective measures for the prevention andremoval of threats to the peace.” Its suc-cess in this mission is uncertain. Recentevents have prompted the foreign policyelite to rush to its defense. In theForeign Policy Journal, formerSecretary of State MadeleinAlbright meticulously recites theUnited Nation’s accomplishments— Namibia, El Salvador,Cambodia, Slavonia,Mozambique and Cyprus.The United Nations,however, has failed toavert some of the morenotable tragedies inrecent years — ethniccleansing in Kosovo,genocide in Rwandaand perpetual instabili-ty in the Middle East.

While the United Nations

has a mixed record as an internationalpeacekeeper, it has proven itself inimicalto the national interest of the UnitedStates. Shashi Tharoor, a U.N. undersecre-tary for public relations, argues that ituniquely serves U.S. interests becausedefining “U.S. action in terms of interna-tional law universalizes American interestsand comforts potential allies.” Yet interna-tional norms, values and principles willinevitably collide with American interests.In such situations, the national interestcannot be sacrificed on the altar of inter-national harmony.

Ultimately, the proper relationshipbetween the United States and the UnitedNations depends on the constitutionalityof the former. This issue in turn revolvesaround whether the United Nations is atreaty. It is highly unlikely that this classifi-cation applies to the United Nations in anymeaningful sense of a “treaty.” According

to legal tradition, a treaty is simply aformal agreement between independ-ent states. In contrast, the Charter ofthe United Nations more closely

resembles the constitution of agovernment, claiming powersusually reserved for states. Forexample, Article 43 states

that “(a)ll Members ... inorder to contribute to themaintenance of interna-tional peace and security,undertake to make avail-able to the Security

Council, on its call and in

accordance with a special agreement oragreements, armed forces, assistance andfacilities.” And in 1998, the United Nationsassumed judicial functions when it creat-ed the International Criminal Court — aclear violation of the Constitution.Although the Bush administrated haswithdrawn the U.S. signature from theinternational treaty that established thecourt, the incident merely illustrates thatthe United Nations is a constant threat toour national sovereignty.

Is this not what Thomas Jeffersonmeant when he warned against “entan-gling alliances?” In fact, the Declaration ofIndependence cites similar action on thepart of King George III as one of his offens-es: “He has combined with others to sub-ject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our con-stitution and unacknowledged by ourlaws.” The Framers envisioned an inde-pendent America separated by an “oceanof fire” from Europe’s incessant warfare.Liberal internationalists counter that suchextreme unilateralism is no longer possi-ble in the age of globalization. Yet we werenever more connected with the rest of theworld than the day after we declared ourindependence from Great Britain — andby extension Europe itself. And from 1792

to 1815, warfare continually consumedEurope, often involving vital U.S. interests.In each case, Presidents Adams, Jeffersonand Madison successfully navigated thenation out of war. America’s status as anindustrial and military power in 2003 onlymakes it easier to ensure our independ-ence from foreign wars. This position isnot synonymous with isolationism —rather, it merely requires skepticismtoward organizations such as the UnitedNations.

And now the war with Iraq has raisednew questions about the viability of theUnited Nations. President Bush’s responseto the Security Council’s recalcitrancesuggests that the United Nations willeither be a tool of U.S. imperialism or thestomping grounds of anti-Americans.Moreover, an organization in which Syriasits on the Security Council, Libya chairsthe Human Rights Commission and Iraqwas recently invited to chair the U.N.International Conference onDisarmament cannot continue to main-tain credibility as an advocate for humanrights and conflict resolution. It is aninternational club for demagogues,despots and mass murderers that is inneed of drastic reform. In the meantime,President Bush should withdraw theUnited States from the United Nations. Stephen Beale ‘04 is the editor of The Brown Spectator.

National sovereignty should pre-empt international solidarity

AS I WAS READING THROUGH TUES-DAY’S issue of The Herald during mylunch hour at the V-Dub, like many otherreaders I came across a headline at thetop of page three that read, “Max’sUpstairs site of underage drinking sting”(Nov. 4). When I finished thearticle, I kept thinking aboutthis story, and the more Ithought, the more upset Igot. The line in the articlethat really made my blood boil was thequote from Providence Police SergeantPeter Costello when he observed, “It(Underage drinking) is the number oneproblem downtown.” Number one, huh?Well I don’t know if the sergeant lives indowntown Providence, but with all duerespect to the officer, as a resident myselfI beg to differ.

Last week I recall receiving some verydisturbing e-mails from the Departmentof Public Safety concerning crime on ourcampus. Now just to make sure my mem-ory was serving me correctly, I went backinto my “old mail” folder and I countedthree separate attempted robberies justlast week. In two of these attempts, thefelons were successful and one of theserobberies even resulted in the victimrequiring emergency medical treatmentat Rhode Island Hospital. In all threecases, no suspects were apprehended.What makes this even scarier is the fact

that all three were roughly within a one-mile radius of my dorm — one was, infact, literally around the corner from me.

Now I’d really love for someone to cor-rect me if I’m wrong here, but if last weekis any indication, it’s not underage drink-

ing but, instead, crime that’sreally the number one prob-lem in downtown Providence.Let’s do a little a risk analysis— what is causing more harm

to our community: underage drinking orfelonious assault and robbery?

Okay, so we have a young man — we’llcall him Josiah Carberry — and he’s a 19-year-old Brown freshman. It’s Fridaynight, he’s just finished a 10-pageresearch paper, and now he wants to go

out with a couple of his friends for a fewdrinks. We’ll say he has a fake ID. So hegoes to Max’s or wherever his ID works,and he enjoys a few beers. Okay, for argu-ment’s sake, we’ll even say that poorJosiah has a few too many beers. Then heleaves.

What possible harm does Josiah pose toour community? The clearest and mostobvious harm is if he gets behind the

wheel of a car — but remember, he’sunderage — most likely a freshman or asophomore. All freshmen and most soph-omores don’t have their cars on campus.Even if they do, chances are they’re notgoing to go all the way over to BrownStadium to get their car and drive backover to Max’s when they can walk there infive to ten minutes, depending uponwhere on campus they live. Besides,they’d have to find parking on Thayer, andwe all know those motorcycle dudes havethat turf staked out at 4:00 in the after-noon. If they’re freshmen or sophomoresfrom Providence College or Johnson &Wales, they’ll probably either hop on thetrolley for a dollar or hail a cab. But any-how, an average underage drinker from

Brown like our friend Josiah will end walk-ing home, and usually a decent friend willassist a person in that endeavor if he orshe is unable to do so alone.

To be honest, as a citizen of this cityI’m a hell of a lot more afraid of encoun-tering a guy who wants to beat me up androb me than a lush like our friend Josiah.Hell, I might even get a few laughs fromthe drunk. So I think this scenario I’ve

given begs the question: How canProvidence’s police resources be usedmost effectively? I would be willing toposit that the downtown Providencecommunity would be much safer if thecops stopped this puritanical crusade oftrying to arrest college students and wentafter real criminals who are hurting realpeople. If the goal is to keep alcohol outof the hands of underage college stu-dents, here’s a news flash — it’s not goingto work. If freshmen and sophomoreswant booze, they can have their juniorand senior friends go buy it for them,even if they can’t get into a bar.

Now I’m not advocating selectiveenforcement of the law — that’s danger-ous, and all laws ought to be enforced.

However, when your objective is to pro-tect law-abiding citizens, you need to fig-ure out what constitutes the biggestthreats to the safety of those citizens andthen focus your efforts on neutralizingthose threats.

So my message to the ProvidencePolice: Stop going after us college kidsand go get the guys who are beating thecrap out of us and taking our money.

Violent crime, not underage drinking, should be the number one priority for the Providence Police

The downtown Providence community would be much safer if the cops stopped this

puritanical crusade of trying to arrest college students and went after real criminals

who are hurting real people. If the goal is to keep alcohol out of the hands of underage

college students, here’s a news flash — it’s not going to work.

Donald Trella ‘07 does machines ... that’sa fact.

DONALD TRELLAGUEST COLUMNIST

stephenbealeright

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on the united nations:

It is an international club for demagogues, despots andmass murderers that is in need of drastic reform.

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

NOVEMBER 5, 2003 · PAGE 12

I DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT EQUES-trianism. Yet, given the chance to witnessthe event live, I jumped at the offer to addto the list of sports I know more aboutthan the Average Joe.

So, what was it that I saw on my day atthe barn?

Women in tightpants, for onething, and that’snot all.

There aren’t anygames, sets, quar-

ters, periods or matches; there’s a show.It’s an odd conglomeration of events thatbrings to mind something between ice-skating and track and field, only there’s noice and no people, at least, on their feet.

“Like golf, it’s really mental, you justhave the added factor of a four-legged ani-mal that gets moody,” one contestantsaid.

There are no 300-pound men, but thereare plenty of 300-plus-pound horses.There were no spurs, no lariats, no coun-try music and only one cowboy hat. It’snot a rodeo, it’s a horse show.

Still don’t get it? Hold on, we’ll get there. There weren’t any MVPs, statues, tro-

phies or cups, but, if you performed well,you received a color-coordinated ribbon.There’s no seventh inning stretch, no fly-ing eagles, no F-16 fly-bys and nooverblown renditions of “God BlessAmerica.” However, the show did startwith a National Anthem, thankfully sungby a contestant rather than a pop star.

And yes, she was wearing tight pants. You won’t see double plays, or power

plays, but you will see plenty of horsesjumping. The intricacies and difficultiesof controlling a horse in such a refinedmanner are astounding. Hitting a majorleague fastball or crushing a 300-yarddrive down the fairway requires practiceand natural ability, and teaching a horseto obey your command demands thesame.

There is an attention to detail, formand posture that requires time, talent anda tame beast willing to cooperate. It’s notjust whether you and your partner make itover the fence, it’s how you look whileyou’re doing it. Some say that, in sports,it’s better to look good and lose than lookbad and win. In equestrianism, lookingbad and winning are mutually exclusive.

Which may explain the women in tightpants. Did I mention they ride horses?

You won’t find miles of benching, tiersof box seats, or businessmen in suits stuff-ing their faces and ignoring the game. Ifyou’d like to sit, you’ll need to provide foryourself, be it a beach chair, a picnicbench, or an old comforter.

The grass is sparse, trampled, and with-out logos. You won’t see buildings in thebackdrop or blimps in the sky, just ampletree-cover on three sides and a barn onthe fourth. It’s a small piece of country,away from the world, away from the con-tracts and away from the commercials.

But — that’s right — not away fromwomen in tight pants.

The fans don’t take pictures, cellphones are sparse and signs withacronyms of network initials are nonexist-ent. You’ll never have beer spilled on youfrom two rows above, but you may beoffered a warm cup of cider, a snack, or asandwich.

Often by a woman, wearing tight pants,who just got off a horse.

BY JINHEE CHUNGThe men’s water polo team wrapped up itsseason last week with a sixth-place finishat the Northern Division Championshipsand an overall record of 10-12.

The first game of the tournament, heldat Harvard, pit the Bears against Iona forthe second time this weekend. Though theprevious match-up resulted in a 10-7 vic-tory for Brown, Iona defeated the Bears 4-3, winning a spot at the EasternChampionships this week.

“The score was a testimony to thedefensive effort,” said Tri-Captain KeithStanski ’04. “We held them to four goals,which was an accomplishment, but offen-sively we just couldn’t put the ball in thecage.”

Brown’s three goals were scored by Tri-captain Doug Grutzmacher ’04, ThomasPayton ’07 and Andy Wiener ’06. JayFantone ’06 stopped seven shots in goal.

Despite the loss of a bid to the EasternDivision Championship, Brown rebound-ed from its defeat quickly, and soundlydefeated Connecticut College the follow-ing day, 18-4.

This time, the offense stepped up with a28 minute scoring spree. Grutzmacher ledthe way, netting an impressive six goals forBrown, in addition to three scored by tri-captain Dan Spencer ’04. Stanski, whoplayed goalie for three of the four quarters,also made an appearance as an offensiveplayer in the last quarter, and scored hisfirst goal of the season.

The younger members of the team per-formed as well, tallying eight of the tenpoints on the scoreboard. John Bourne ’07scored four goals, Alex Cripe ’07, two, andStu Thompson ’07 and Greg Harm ’06added one each as well.

In its final game of the weekend, Brownwent head-to-head with Harvard for thethird time this season. But after two wins,the Bears dropped a close game toHarvard, with a score of 8-7, and conse-quently placed sixth in the tournament.

“The Harvard game was disappointing,”Stanski said. “The defense was not intense,and our shots didn’t fall.”

Brown also had to play without theoffensive strength of Sean Tiner ’06, whowas out due to a shoulder injury, and teammembers Pat Sandys ’05 and Paul D’Avino’05, both of whom were ejected from thegame for technical reasons.

Despite the disappointments of theweekend, the team has taken great stridesover the past months, a credit to itsyounger members, Stanksi said.

“There are some really impressive peo-ple in the Brown water polo program,” hesaid. “It’s an up-and-coming team, andbound to be successful in the comingyears.”

Herald staff writer Jinhee Chung ’05 coversmen’s water polo. She can be reached [email protected]

see ZARDA, page 8

M. water polofinishes 6th atNortherns

Men’s cross country winsIvy League championship

Women inTight Pants(and horses)

Chad Faber / Herald

After 60 years of waiting, the men’s cross country team celebrates its firstHeptagonal win.

BRETT ZARDASPORTS COLUMNIST

BY MELISSA PERLMANThe Heptagonal LeagueChampionship has eluded Brown yearafter year, turning the Ivy League titleinto a trophy untouchable for over sixdecades. But all of that changed thisweekend in the hills of Van CortlandtPark in New York City, when the menwon the championship for the firsttime in Brown’s history.

The Bears outdistanced the field byplacing all five scorers among the top16 finishers. Brown’s score of 60 pointswas nine better than runner-upColumbia’s and 25 ahead of Yale’s.

“We had all these feelings about howgreat it would be to win, but we didn’ttalk about it and we didn’t think aboutwhat had happened in the past,because talking too much builds upthe pressure and people tend to chokeunder pressure,” said Brendan O’Keefe’04. “We just got down to business, gotout and got it done.”

“Getting it done” for Brown was acore group of juniors and seniors at thefront of the field. Jeff Gaudette ’05 ledthe way, finishing fifth overall with atime of 24-minutes, 15 seconds for the8K. Gaudette, who sat out most of theseason with a calf injury, remained intop shape by cross training on the bikeand in the pool.

Running in only his second race ofthe season, Gaudette improved hisperformance from last year’sHeptagonal Championship by 46 sec-onds and earned himself First TeamAll-Ivy honors.

Gaudette was followed by a closepack of Brown runners that includedPat Tarpy ’05 in 12th and Matthew

Emond ‘03, Mike DeCoste ’04 andO’Keefe in 13th, 14th and 16th respec-tively.

Tarpy, Emond and DeCoste allearned Second Team All-Ivy honors.But it was O’Keefe’s 16th place finishthat clinched the title for Brown.O’Keefe finished 13 places ahead ofColumbia’s fifth runner in a race decid-ed by only nine points.

Coach John Gregorek’s race plansent the top five Brown men out inthree groups, all of them expected torun at the front of the race. The VanCortlandt course requires a fast start toestablish a good position before thechallenging back hills.

“Historically, things don’t changeafter the 5K point in the race,”Gregorek said. “It is a combination ofthe way the course is set up, and alsothat people tend to run the race goingout fast and coasting the last twomiles.”

As Gregorek had predicted, theBrown men’s positioning hardlychanged after the first mile. All fivescorers were among the top 20 runnersin the field at the mile mark, and allfive kept their placing through the fin-ish line.

Gregorek attributed the team’s suc-cess to its upperclassmen leaders.

“Their leadership this entire seasonhas been invaluable,” Gregorek said.“The seniors showed the team how totrain and how to live away from train-ing, and set a very good example forthe younger guys to watch.”

O’Keefe said he sees the meet as the

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