BY ELLEN WERNECKESix days after it hosted its firstperformance, the downstairsspace of the newly renovatedTheodore Francis Green Hallwelcomed UndergraduateCouncil of Students members,administrators, faculty and stu-dents for the official reopeningof the building Thursday.

“It’s very exciting to see peo-ple in this building after somuch construction,” MargaretJablonski, dean for CampusLife, told some 70 community

members and guests assem-bled to witness the symboliccutting of a shiny red ribbonacross the space, most recentlythe home of ProductionWorkshop’s “No Returns.”

“We started in a conferenceroom at the Student Life office,”Jablonski said, “and out of thathas come teamwork and somewonderful work” by all groupsinvolved. Jablonski singled outPW and Musical Forum for“spending hours poring overdesigns” for T.F. Green. Other

student groups that will use thespace include the Tae Kwon Doclub and the Coalition of Bandsat Brown.

UCS Campus LifeCommittee Chair Ari Savitzky’06 presented Vanessa Gonzalez’04, a PW board member, with aplaque honoring “PW and allundergraduates involved inperforming and martial arts.”

“May this building be used ingood health,” Savitzky read. Helater called President RuthSimmons out of the audience tohelp cut the ceremonial ribbon.

Gonzalez called the renovat-ed hall a “very exciting place”for the performing arts atBrown.

“This place has been a step-ping stone for so many writers,directors, actors, designers,”Gonzalez said. “This space hasmade them into who they are.”

“Brown gives us a place tocreate, to succeed and to fail,”she said. “With this new build-ing and everybody together,we’re going to be able to createtogether.”

UCS President Rahim Kurji’05 was also on hand to witnessthe ribbon cutting.

“Just seeing the energy andexcitement here is a greatexample of collaboration

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Sketchreleased forsuspect inpossiblehate crime BY ZACH BARTERDepartment of Public Safetyinvestigators are hoping a newcomposite sketch will help iden-tify the assailant in the Sept. 6assault of a female student onCharlesfield Street.

DPS, which is investigating theincident as a hate crime, releasedthe sketch Thursday and askedanyone with information on thesuspect to step forward.

“The whole idea ... is to get itout there to as many people aspossible who might be able tohelp with the investigation,” saidMark Nickel, director of theBrown News Service.

DPS has been unable to locateany eyewitnesses to the assault.After leaving an off-campusparty, the student wasapproached from behind by thesuspect, who yelled a homopho-bic comment and struck her inthe face.

DPS refused to comment onan ongoing investigation andreferred all questions to Nickel.

The sketch, developed by theProvidence Police Department inconsultation with the victim,shows a college-age male with aheavy build, dark eyes and shortdirty blonde or brown hair.

PPD Detective PatriciaCornell, who created the sketch,said composite artists often waitseveral weeks before interviewingvictims. Cornell developed thesketch based on a single two-hour interview with the victim.

“In some cases, people may beso traumatized at first that theyare unable to recall what the per-son looked like,” Cornell said.“Normally, I wait until they’vehad time to put things in per-spective in their head.”

Composites are not meant tobe exact depictions of suspects,Cornell said. She said artists only

see SKETCH, page 4

BY MERYL ROTHSTEINLike some busy graduate students, ClemencyWilliams GS and her husband Yann Montelle GS

wake up at 6 a.m. each morning.But, unlike students who wake up tothe sound of a blaring alarm,Wiliams and Montelle stir when theyhear the coos and gurgles of theirnine-month-old son Pierre.

Williams and Montelle are part ofa limited group of grad students with children whojuggle their family life with their academic one.

While students with families are quick to praiseboth facets of their life, parenthood poses unique

Coalitionsays Heraldmisled itsreaders,sent spiesBY CARLA BLUMENKRANZFormer members of the coali-tion that stole the March 16,2001 press run of The Heraldremain skeptical of the media,committed to political dialogueand disgusted by DavidHorowitz, they said in a discus-sion Thursday evening.

Open to the entire campusand attended by about 25 stu-dents, the discussion in Wilson102 was prefaced by a showingof a documentary made bycoalition member KoheiIshihara ’02. The 20-minutefilm, which was never complet-ed, includes footage of con-frontations between the coali-tion and Herald editors at TheHerald office.

At one meeting between thetwo parties, where the filmstates the editors refused toallow cameras, a tape-recordedconversation documents theeditors’ rejection of the coali-tion’s demands and the coali-tion’s veiled threat to preventdistribution of The Herald. Thecoalition had a petition signedby 200 students demandingmoney from Horowitz’s adver-tisement, which cited reasonsagainst reparations for slavery,be given to the Third WorldCenter and a full page of adspace to respond to his ad.

Katherine Boas ’02, one ofthree editors-in-chief of TheHerald at the time, saidThursday she had not knowncoalition members had enteredthe office with either cameras ortape recorders.

Ribbon cutting marks T.F. Green opening

Grad students managefamily while studying

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Medley of plays at PWshows some cleartalent among studentdirectors and writersarts & culture, page 3

History and traditionsupport and propelFusion dancecompany, students sayarts & culture, page 3

Evildoers will relish inthe fall of recent WTOtalks, says BarronYoungsmith ’06column, page 7

Jane Urban ’07 saysParents Weekendbrings free meals andemotional rollercoastercolumn, page 7

UMass Minutemenroll over M. ruggers27-10 in first homegame of the seasonsports, page 8

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Former officials from the United Nations answered questions from students eager to pursue careers inthe world’s largest international civil service organization at an event in Smith-Buonanno on Thursday.

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BY LELA SPIELBERGThis winter, Tony Award-winning actor BrianDennehy will join the company of OlympiaDukakis, Spalding Gray, JoBeth Williams andother renowned film stars who have acted inplays with the Trinity Repertory Company ashe double-bills in Eugene O’Neill’s “Hughie”and a Sean O’Casey one-act play to beannounced.

“Hughie,” which will run from Feb. 20 toApril 3 in Trinity’s Dowling Theater, is a shortcharacter play. The true strength of the play,according to the Eugene O’Neill Newsletter,is “greatness on the level which O’Neill oncedescribed as ‘super-naturalism’ — not thesuper-naturalism which is above and sepa-rated from the natural, but rather existingwithin the natural world, and illuminatingand enhancing it.”

Dennehy, taking the role of protagonistErnie, has had many opportunities to flex hisacting muscles in popular films such as“Romeo and Juliet,” “Tommy Boy” and“Cocoon.”

And acting isn’t his only talent — theConnecticut-born star has also directed sev-eral TV productions and even produced a tel-evision version of the highly acclaimed play“Death of a Salesman” (for which Dennehywon a Tony for his portrayal of Willy Lomanon the Broadway stage).

Trinity Rep recruited Dennehy throughthe college connection circuit. MarilynDubois, Trinity’s public relation’s representa-tive, said, “Trinity Rep Company memberFred Sullivan Jr. went to college with BrianDennehy’s daughter. A few years ago, Fredmade arrangements for our artistic director,Oskar Eustis, to meet Brian backstage whenhe was doing ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’on Broadway.” After Dennehy collected hissecond Tony for Best Actor for that play, hesigned on with Trinity.

Eustis said he is very enthusiastic aboutDennehy’s role in “Hughie.”

“Brian Dennehy is an icon amongAmerican actors,” he said. “His matchlessrange and stature rank him among the greatactors in American stage history. He hasdevoted the heart of his career to the stage ina way that very few of his contemporarieshave. His performance of ‘Hughie’ will giveour audience unparalleled insight intoO’Neill’s work, not to mention the rareopportunity to see an enormous talent upclose.”

Trinity Rep plans to offer tickets to“Hughie” beginning in January.

Brian Dennehy tograce Trinity stage

PW’s three-for-one a sure shotBY JEN SOPCHOCKCHAI“New Directors!,” playing at ProductionWorkshop’s upstairs space throughMonday, offers three plays for the priceof one — and it’s free.

The show’s three short pieces, eachdirected by a different person, sustainjust as much energy and are as completeas any full-length production. The worksare also varied enough to hold the atten-tion of audience members throughout.

The most applause-worthy segmentof the show is “XYY,” written and direct-ed by Krista Knight ’06. During a mere10-minute conversation, an entire play’sworth of back-story is revealed betweenOscar and Brook, two scientists whoseconversation is a little too intimate forthe lab.

“Words, Words, Words,” a cute and

playful piece written by David Ives anddirected by Jillian Schlesinger ’06, offersa clever take on the Columbia Universitystudy that expects three chimpanzees,when left alone to type, will eventuallycreate their own manuscript ofShakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Ives’ writingintegrates apt quotations from the liter-ary canon recited by chimps namedafter authors Kafka, Swift and Milton.The writing also fluctuates between real-istic and imaginative, both of which arehumorous.

The one downfall of this theatricalmedley, however, is “The Man WhoCouldn’t Dance” by Jason Katims, whichfalls flat to say the least. In addition tohaving painfully clichéd dialogue, thepiece’s conflict peaks too easily and arbi-trarily arrives rather than builds. By the

time Eric, played by Marc Donahue ’07,weeps in front of the audience, there isn’tenough reason to care about his charac-ter at all. There is also a gaping hole inthe directing skills of Tess Lantos ’07 —Gail and Eric are screaming at each otherand a baby, also in the scene, never cries.His piece is soap opera meets after-school special, and its dash of intellectu-al matter cannot disguise its phony qual-ities.

On the whole, however, “NewDirectors!” is a triumph for PW. Despiteits small scale, the show brings a lot tothe table.

Herald staff writer Jen Sopchockchai ’05is assistant editor of the arts and culturesection. She can be reached at jsop-chockchai@browndailyherald.com.

BY KATE CUSHING“Fu-Fu!”

“Sion!”You haven’t been at Brown long if you haven’t heard these

shouts across campus. The exuberant cries of Fusion membersannounce the group’s presence and long-standing history oncampus.

Fusion, a student-run dance company, works to hold on toits many traditions, said Lauren Linder ’04, the group’s co-director.

At each Fusion show, the most senior black woman intro-duces the audience to the group’s history and mission, saying,“(Fusion) is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic group of both menand women who … do not conform to the university-imposed,modern-day constraints on body shape, size, dance style andchoreography.”

Challenging preconceived notions of dance and continu-ously offering new and diverse examples of dance to the com-munity is no easy task, said co-director Yaya Johnson ’04.

But Fusion members are quick to attribute their success tothe diverse backgrounds of the group’s members and thestrong sense of tradition that permeates the company.

According to Linder, in 1983 Paula Franklin, a black studentat Brown, realized a need for more student choreography oncampus. She choreographed a dance for the Fall DanceConcert that year that included seven other African-Americanwomen. The following semester, the group expanded to 23members, Linder said.

The vision the group started with — a student-run organi-zation to showcase diverse dance forms and to provide a venuefor student work — remains Fusion’s mission today, the twodirectors said.

Fusion members also pride themselves in the group’s histo-

ry of diversity and consider themselves lucky there are somany different and talented dancers at Brown, said LauraNave ’06.

Johnson said the group has no “quota” or set criteria used intry-outs.

“It’s not like there are only skinny people — we have all bodytypes. We have people who have never danced before, andsome who have been dancing for years. There has traditional-ly been a strong black women element and an Asian popula-tion represented, but … we do not look for a quota to fill,” shesaid.

Members emphasized the different dance forms represent-ed at Fusion shows.

“In this year’s show (in the spring) there is a belly-dancingpiece, a Brazilian piece, a West African piece, as well as hip hop,modern, jazz and ballet. But we don’t really like to identifydances as styles because they incorporate a lot of different ele-ments,” Johnson said.

As an example, Johnson said choreographing to a hip hopsong does not mean the performance must be strictly hip hop.“When you label a style, like ‘modern,’ then you have to com-pete with people’s pre-conceived ideas about what that styleis,” she said.

Achieving this range of style and expression is one goal forthe company every year, Nave said. “We try to live up to PaulaFranklin’s vision of expressing every idea you want and notbeing restrained by any type of limitation or constraint.”

The group’s traditions begin where Fusion holds its showseach year — in Ashamu Dance Studio.

“The first Fusion piece, ‘Portrait of a Studio’ was aboutAshamu. It is a very special place for us. Because it is so small

History, traditions drive in Fusion

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challenges to the already demand-ing life of a graduate student, theysay.

Brown’s Graduate School has1,400 students — fewer than mostuniversity graduate programs —and only about 900 of these stu-dents live in Providence at anygiven time, said Associate Dean ofStudent Life and the GraduateSchool Carla Hansen. Only a smallnumber of these have children,she said, although the Universitydoes not know the exact numberof students with children becauseof privacy concerns.

There are so few families atBrown in part because theUniversity is not an inviting placefor them, said Williams, a graduatestudent in the Department of theHistory of Mathematics.

One of the challenges graduatestudents with families face is theunspoken stigma professors andother students attach to parent-hood, said Montelle, a graduatestudent in the departments of

Theater Arts and Anthropology.“There’s the expectation that

you’ll work less or be less focused,”Williams said, adding that thisassumption is not true even if theydo have less free time.

“There are faculty membersthat feel that while you’re in gradu-ate school nothing else shouldtake precedence,” Hansen said.Others “understand the value offamilies” and that “you can be aserious academic and have a fam-ily,” she said.

Parenthood also adds an addi-tional financial burden, said LienQuach GS, in the Department ofCommunity Health.

The average cost of center-based childcare is $140 per weekfor preschool-age children,according to a study sponsored byOptions for Working Parents.

Even those grad students whocan afford day care may not beable to get it, Williams said.

Brown/Fox Point EarlyChildhood Education Centerreserves 60 percent of its spots forpeople in the Brown community,said the Center’s ExecutiveDirector Chris Amirault. But,because parents can sign up for

the waitlist when their child is 18months — the youngest childrenadmitted are three years old —there is rarely space for eligiblechildren of graduate students wholearn they’re coming to Brown inApril and May, he said.

Current day care options are“absolutely inadequate,” saidWilliams’ mother Felicity Williams,who was visiting from NewZealand. It “totally discriminatesagainst women that choose tohave children,” she said.

Because one-third to one-quar-ter of graduate students are inter-national students, according toHansen, family visits like FelicityWilliams’ are a rare treat.

As an international studentfrom Vietnam, caring for her childis especially difficult without thepresence of extended family mem-bers, Quach said.

Yet school and family areinvaluable priorities, students say,and they do what it takes to bal-ance both.

Quach’s husband cares for herthree-year-old son full-time, shesaid.

Even without the challenge offinding day care, Jamie Scurry GS

said she feels her plate is over-whelmingly full.

Scurry is a part-time graduatestudent in the Department ofAmerican Civilization and aresearch associate at the TaubmanCenter for Public Policy, as well asa teaching assistant. Her childrenare eight and five years old, so theyare in school for much of the day.

Scurry makes dinner when shereturns home, puts her children tobed by 8:30, then begins herhomework, she said. It has to beabout “quality of time, not quanti-ty of time,” she said.

Because she is a parent as wellas a part-time student, Scurry saidshe feels especially removed fromthe graduate student social scene.But, with so little free time, she’drather spend it with her kids thanwith other students, Scurry said.

Williams organized an informalgroup of graduate student parentslast semester to share tips on par-enting and to create a social net-work, she said.

She said she also hopes toestablish a cooperative group ofgrad students with children, likeher peers at Yale University, tosolve the problem of day care.

The University would like to doits part to ease life for studentswith children, Hansen said. Thereis currently no official family hous-ing for grad students, but Hansensaid she hopes to find apartmenthousing at a below-market pricefor families.

According to the BrownUniversity Off-Campus ListingService, two-bedroom apartmentson the East Side rent for more than$1,000 a month on average. WithTA salaries hovering at around$14,500 a year, according toHansen, living close to campus isoften out of reach for graduate stu-dents without additional jobs.

Williams and Montelle, howev-er, live in a Metcalf Hall apartmentbecause Williams is a communitydirector for some first-year dormson Pembroke. Williams said livingamong undergraduates has been aworthwhile experience for the stu-dents and her family.

Herald senior staff writer MerylRothstein ’06 can be reached atmrothstein@browndailyherald.com.

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expect victims to be able torecall a suspect’s likeness with70 percent accuracy.

“To be able to recall whathis nose looked like, what hiseyes looked like, what his hairlooked like, and then commu-nicate it to someone else is avery difficult thing,” Cornellsaid.

Cornell emphasized the dif-ference between being able toremember what a suspectlooks like and being able torecall that information forinvestigators. She also saidsketches are only effectivewhen part of an ongoinginvestigative process.

“It’s a tool in the investiga-tion,” she said. “It’s not a cure-all.”

Herald senior staff writer ZachBarter ’06 covers crime.He can bereached at zbarter@browndaily-herald.com.

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between students and admin-istrators,” Kurji told thoseassembled. “This is what wehave to build.”

“We at UCS have a newfriend in PW,” he added.

Facilities ManagementProjects Manager DavidLaplante called the experi-ence of renovating T.F. GreenHall “a jewel for student activ-ities people,” though, headmitted, it was not alwayseasy.

“When you’re in the thick ofit,” he said, “you don’t alwayssee the end result, just thesweat and swears.”

Herald senior staff writer EllenWernecke ’06 can be reached atewernecke@browndailyher-ald.com.

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and half the audience sits on thefloor, there is an energy exchangebetween us and the audience thatmakes performing that muchmore fun and fulfilling,” Johnsonsaid.

Another part of the Fusion tra-dition, a dance called “TheTradition,” is performed each year.Pieces from previous years’ showsare sometimes brought back, andalumni are always checking up onthem by attending performances,said Fusion member RamelMurphy ’06.

The cross-campus calls, post-performance shout-outs andintroductory recitation all connectthe group to its past, Linder said.

“It’s great because someone cancome in the group as a senior andfeel just as much a part of it then ifthey had been dancing in thegroup for four years. It makes youfeel a responsibility for the legacy,”Murphy said.

Despite a 20-year legacy, con-sistently sold-out shows andalumni support, maintaining theFusion tradition has not beeneasy.

Space issues at Ashamu, the

only true dance studio on campus,make scheduling increasingly dif-ficult, Johnson said. Over the lastfour years, Linder said Fusion’spractice time in Ashamu hasshrunk.

And all dance companies strug-gle with space on campus, Lindersaid.

Dance opportunity at Brown, ingeneral, is limited, she said, withchoices for introductory danceclasses restricted to modern andWest African styles.

“A lot of people are still exclud-ed from the dance community. It isreally hard to break into, especiallyif you are not part of a company. …Also, even though there are a lot ofcompanies, it is hard to find yourniche,” Linder said.

To combat these problems,members of Body & Soul, a boardof representatives from severalstudent dance groups, are meetingto plan the Fall Dance Concert andfinding ways to incorporate moreindividual student work in theshow, said Johnson, who is also apart of Body & Soul. The newgroup hopes to manage Ashamu’sschedule and deal with possiblecommunication issues, she said.

“So far it is still really hard (tocoordinate practice times). Buthopefully we are moving in theright direction,” she said.

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Panthers (+2) over the SAINTS –Carolina is in first place yet issomehow the underdog in thisgame. New Orleans’ defensewould have trouble stopping“Timmy,” let alone Stephen Davisand Steve Smith. Jim Haslettmight not be lucky enough tokeep his job through another dis-appointing season.

49ERS (-7) over the Cardinals– Even if the calendar says thatthis should be a week TerrellOwens takes off, he has nowrealized that every stupid thing

he says costs him half a millionin free agent contract dollars. Ifthis game is remotely close, Iwill have to start believing thatthe current NFL season is actu-ally a figment of the imaginationof John Cusack and/or a 10-year-old-boy.

Jets (+3) over the EAGLES –New York is 0-for-the-NFC East,but it could all change this week.Chad Pennington is back andearning some playing time, theJets are riding a two-game win-ning street and Mercury isaligned with Mars. Apparently,Donovan McNabb has forgottenhow to transform from Clark Kentto Superman.

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scoreboard. One Brown defensivelapse left the Bears down 5-0 atthe half.

When the second half began,UMass was forced to go into thewind and Brown took advantageof this, using the boot of ScottWilson ’05 to place the ball deepin Minutemen territory. Afteranother UMass try, Brown wasdown 10-0 but mounted a come-back. Brown’s defensive stand inthe UMass zone led to a penaltyagainst UMass and the Bearselected to kick for points bringingthe score to 10-3.

As the clock wound down, the

Bears mounted a successfuldrive that brought them withintwo points of the Minutemen,but time ran out and Brown lost10-8.

According to Brandt, as theteam looks ahead to playingAmherst (2-4) on Saturday, morework will be done on executingpatterns and finding a good gameplan. The match will determinethe third-place finisher in theleague.

“Amherst is a smaller team thanUMass, and we’re looking for thatsize difference to play to ouradvantage,” Brandt said.

Herald staff writer Sam Culver’07 covers men’s rugby. He can bereached at sculver@browndaily-herald.com.

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The film, which describesThe Herald’s editors as “expertsin misrepresenting,” alsoincludes footage of coalitionrallies on the day the paperswere stolen and interviews withcoalition leadership about thelogistics of removing thepapers and about the physicaland verbal threats to whichthey were subjected afterward.

Following the showing of thedocumentary, several studentswho had been involved in thecoalition were on hand to dis-cuss their experiences with thegroup. Manisha Kumar ’04 saidthat, although the controversywas later framed as a free-speech issue, it was from thebeginning about “The(Herald’s) history of insensitivi-ty to the Third World communi-ty” in its coverage of convoca-tions and the TWC and in itsmisquotes and misspellednames.

Herald opinions columnistBrian Rainey ’04 echoedKumar’s sentiments, notingthat for a number of years, eachspring had seen a “racialblowout,” and that on eachoccasion The Herald had “por-trayed the Third World commu-nity as Zulu warriors.” By thetime the Horowitz ad was pub-lished, “people were really fed-up with The Herald,” he said.

Their experience after thetheft of the papers only con-

firmed the coalition members’poor impression of the media,they said. National newspapersthat covered the controversywrongly reported that thecoalition “stormed” TheHerald, Rainey said, and con-sistently distorted its positions.

In the weeks that followed,The Herald continued to makefactual errors as it reported onthe theft of the papers and sentits reporters as “spies to coali-tion meetings,” Kumar said.

It was at this point in the dis-cussion that Doreen Wang ’05requested that any Heraldreporters present identifythemselves, and then asked therest of the group whether theywere comfortable speaking inthe presence of a Herald repre-sentative. None of the studentsresponded.

In general, students said TheHerald presents more balancedcoverage now than it did in thespring of 2001. But the onlything that can truly repair rela-tions between The Herald andthe Third World communitymay be the passage of time,Kumar said.

“It’s a good thing that byMay, no one on campus willhave seen what happened first-hand,” she said. “That’s the wayI see the campus healing.”

Many of the students inti-mately involved with the coali-tion did not feel emotionallyprepared to attend theHorowitz lecture Wednesday,Kumar added.

According to Brenda Allen,associate provost and director

of institutional diversity, thosestudents did not miss much. “Ifanyone left there feeling theylearned something significantabout anything, that’s ashame,” she told the group inWilson.

Although the Universityshould endeavor to present adiversity of views to students,Horowitz is not the right repre-sentative for the argumentagainst reparations for slavery,Allen said.

“That man doesn’t have aclue about race in America,”she said. “He’s a waste of time.”

Quinney Harris ’06 agreedwith Allen that Horowitz’s lec-ture was unproductive.Conservative students “usedthe cover of intellectual diversi-ty” to justify usingUndergraduate Finance Boardfunds to pay Horowitz’sexpenses, when in fact “hispresence here on campus was-n’t even necessary,” Harris said.

“I felt insulted for our entirecommunity,” said DanielBassichis ’06. Audience mem-bers “did their job” by listeningrespectfully to Horowitz’s talkand then, in the question-and-answer period, “tearing himapart,” Bassichis said.

“He’s not a problem,” saidWill Tucker ’04 of Horowitz.“He’s just an asshole.”

Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 edits thecampus watch section. She canbe reached at cblu-menkranz@browndailyher-ald.com.

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Diamonds and coalCoal to the PVC pipe diplomas and the whole senior portrait taking thingin general. “Happy, happy, right, tilt, happy” — sure, that’s definitely goingto bring out our natural smiles.

Cubic zirconium to the Underground opening again with alcohol. We’llbelieve it when we see it.

Coal to hour-long wait times for SafeRIDE on-call. But a diamond to theSafeRIDE van with chrome rims and tinted windows. Now that’s aPhatRIDE.

Coal to the continued politicking between UCS and UFB. Some thingsnever change.

A diamond to Garry Trudeau P’06, the first such jewel to be awarded to aYalie. Dude, dads who smoke pot are cool. And Jane Pauley P’06 is a hot-tie. Score, man.

A diamond to don’t ask, don’t tell Facilities Management. Our turtles andextension cords are safe.

Coal to students whose lecture questions make us feel sorry for them.

A diamond to the veggie oil bus on the Main Green for putting a deli-cious, artery-clogging cooking staple to good use.

Coal to the new graffiti in the Rock. Bathroom stalls are for slandering ex-lovers and arch nemeses, not voicing personal musings and amateurpoetry. “No one can take away your thoughts unless you’re brainwashed”— how is this acceptable?

A diamond to the Indiana Jones boxed set. We’ve been waiting for thisbefore we knew what a DVD was.

A cubic zirconium to the RISD students who threatened in a letter to TheHerald to cut off the heads of their fellow student heroes and stuff them inpillowcases. The sentiment’s a little disturbing, but we had no idea artschool kids could be so assertive.

A diamond to the much anticipated “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” a per-fect blend of old and new. The meathooks are classic, but we won’t beable to eat ham for weeks.

A cubic zirconium to the thought of three months without “Newlyweds.”But a diamond to Jessica Simpson’s proposed “Ivy League tour.” We willeat you alive, like so many buffalo wings.

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“Write no Evil – the Challenge ofJournalism inZimbabwe”

Geoff Nyarota founder of The Daily News,Zimbabwe’sonly independent daily newspaper,acclaimed interna-tional journalist and defender of the free press

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 7

THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONEto like about the collapse of the WTO talkslast month. For sadists, there’s the factthat global poverty will continue at cur-rent levels rather than lifting 144 millionpeople out of poverty through the redis-tribution of over $300 billiona year to destitute nations.

For social Darwinists,there is the assurance that$36 billion a year will contin-ue to be moved directly fromthe pockets of taxpayers likeyour parents* to solid, citi-zen-farmer representatives ofAmerica’s heartland, such as:David Rockefeller, who waspaid $134,556 in 2001 for hiscorporate farms; PortlandTrailblazers basketball starScottie Pippen, who receives$26,315 in payments to notfarm the land he owns in Arkansas; ourvery own Ted Turner, the 25th wealthiestman in America, who received $12,925;and, of course, ousted multi-millionaireEnron CEO Kenneth Lay, who received$6,019 for his symbolic, hearty AmericanGothic-like presence in the psyche of theRepublic.

For advocates of foreign aid, you cansleep well at night because the meager$17 billion budget for international assis-tance will constantly need to be raised to

make up for the ever-increasing $36 bil-lion in farm aid that is essentially beingtaken directly from Third World farmersevery year.

For lovers of artificially flavored, lowquality or chemically treated foods, those

who despise fresh fruit andthe like, you can rest easyknowing the insidious influ-ence of real Caribbean sugar,African bananas and so on hasbeen kept out of America justlike the dirty people whoplanted them.

We’ve all (look this up if youhaven’t) heard a lot about thebenefits of trade everybodycan gain through the mutualexercise of comparativeadvantage. What about thebenefits that people can gainfrom not trading? Poor coun-

tries can gain a sense of pride that theydidn’t give in to exploitation, and they cangain the privilege of bilateral talks withthe United States, whereas before theywere constrained by the multilateral,global format of the WTO. (Although thisis similar to Steve Urkel having the privi-lege of fighting Arnold Schwarzenneggerunconstrained by anybody to back himup.)

Not only that: The stability of their gov-ernments will benefit because dictatorswill retain the ability to award their sup-porters with tariffs, and then they will beable to institute price controls — creatingfood and goods shortages and then allow-

ing governments to distribute that food(and those Benz SL 2000s) to regime sup-porters. Furthermore, they will be seen asbulwarks of national pride for standing upagainst the West and they will lead coun-tries of poor people, who are easier to con-trol than not-starving people, anotherscore for international stability and sover-eignty.

For imperialists, one can’t help beinghappy that the Third World will continue tobe poor and therefore weak and subject todomination. Nothing would challenge thecurrent world order more than a shift in theglobal distribution of wealth.

The dictators, or worse, nascent demo-cratic states that I mentioned above, willhave nothing on which to base their taxrevenues and therefore no leverage. Thatwill take the wind out of those Third Worldsails.

For environmentalists, there is the factthat farming will not be expanded in ThirdWorld countries, protecting untold mil-

lions of acres of rainforest. It also meansThird World governments will never havethe tax money to finance the necessaryenvironmental rules that would make anexpansion of world trade equitable andfair, preserve biodiversity, enforce sustain-able development plans, protect natu-ral/biological resources and reduce green-house emissions.

Much of the world will also continue tolive in urban hovels and have lots of chil-dren (as population decreases in richnations), increasing environmental degra-dation geometrically. OK, so environmen-talists lose either way.

I don’t want to say that a multilateral,WTO- and UN- enhanced world soundsbad, of course, but why change when wecan expand upon what we have now?There’s a reason those talks broke up:humanity doesn’t want to live that way.

*I apologize if Ted Turner is one of yourparents.

I wonder if heaven got a World Trade Organization

The comfort and terror of Parents Weekend

PARENTS: YOU CAN’T LIVE WITH THEMand you certainly can’t live without theirfree food/monetary donations. But whatis it that divides us from those parentalunits and makes Parents Weekend anemotional rollercoaster ride of stress?

Part of the problem is that our parentsdon’t really know how to dealwith us; we are technicallyadults, yet for most of us,they still own our lives in theform of our education, oursustenance and a place tolive when Brown isn’t ourhome. This ambiguous roleparents play makes themmissed by some, loathed byothers and stressful to hostfor everyone.

On a more basic level, theparental presence leaves usalmost no time to do all thosepesky chores we usually putoff until the weekend, like homework,laundry, creating a path from the door tothe bed, throwing out a month’s worth ofgarbage, etc.

Additionally, having our parents seewhere we live is an incentive to live a liefor a weekend and clean up the place.Cleanliness also wins us some “my childis a responsible, neat individual withcomplete control of college life” pointsthat sometimes can be exchanged formonetary donations or a tasty meal.

The ideal situation, it seems, is to have

no parents coming for Parents Weekend,and instead, to have a friend with parentswho can bring you along for a free gour-met food ride. While this method leads toa definite reduction in stress and anincrease in time spent chilling in thedorm while everyone is out stressfully

dodging scary parental ques-tions (What’s that smell fromacross the hall?), it does notcompletely solve the parentalconundrum.

Obviously, because we areall here in college, away fromour parents, we want to havesome space from them, butvery few people honestly hateto see the people with whomthey have usually spent atleast 18 years.

Our parents represent a lifewe left behind. For some peo-ple that life includes another

country, culture and language. That lifemight be something we miss, and havingour parents here is a comfort, but forsome, that life is the reason we came toBrown — to escape and start over. That’sjust one of the deeper threads of stressour parents cause.

For many here at Brown, ParentsWeekend is just something more orches-trated than any other weekend, asparental visits are commonplace, some-times to the extent that one wonders ifcollege is actually all that far away fromhome.

When your parents take your laundryhome every weekend and bring it back

for you and you rarely are without a sup-ply of homemade cookies, you might bethe envy of many in your hall, and Imyself would love one of your cookies.But the college experience of shrinkingclothes and turning them all pink (whichis especially fun for guys who see pink asa representation of their inner weakness-es), eating cereal for multiple meals andusing the microwave as a culinary neces-sity, is lost.

I’m definitely not saying I like shrunk-en shirts, a pink wardrobe or a cereal andRamen noodle diet, but it is part of col-lege life. Without it, I doubt I would nec-essarily appreciate the time I spend athome.

And there’s the key. Hopefully, seeingour parents last weekend reminded usthere are parts of home we miss andparts we’re glad to be without. Thatmemory makes the trip home forThanksgiving a little more refreshing andfun.

A balance is necessary between inde-

pendence, freedom, all things collegiateand the doting concern inherent to all par-ents everywhere. While no one wants to bepestered, in some ways it is nice to knowsomeone is looking out for how much youeat, how much you sleep, and how muchhelp you need with that laundry.

Unfortunately, there will always be thehorror stories of Parents Weekend. Forexample, you probably wouldn’t want todeal with your parent speaking in front ofhundreds of other parents about howmuch he loves to embarrass his son andmaking cracks about his free-spiritedcollege years (especially anything havingto do with sex). My apologies to RichardTrudeau.

For me, seeing my parents was stress-ful, but a good thing overall. I think theyneeded an excuse to visit New England inthe fall, for one, but they were also happyto know they hadn’t sent their preciouschild off to college before she could takecare of herself (at least I hope so, any-way).

Jane Urban ’07 loves her parents, but lovesher freedom a little more.

Barron Youngsmith ’06 hopes hell is a lit-tle bit like Cancun.

JANE URBAN

THE URBAN SLANT

BARRON YOUNGSMITHBARRON VON NEWSPAPER

For lovers of artificially flavored, low quality or chemi-

cally treated foods, those who despise fresh fruit and

the like, you can rest easy knowing the insidious influ-

ence of real Caribbean sugar, African bananas and so

on has been kept out of America just like the dirty peo-

ple who planted them.

Having our parents see where we live is an incentive to

live a lie for a weekend and clean up the place.

Cleanliness also wins us some “my child is a responsi-

ble, neat individual with complete control of college

life” points that sometimes can be exchanged for mon-

etary donations or a tasty meal.

A week later, your weekend is free, but your meals aren’t

If you’re evil and uncaring, the failure of last month’s WTO talks were just what you were looking for

BY SAMUEL CULVERIn its first home appearance of the season,the Brown men’s rugby team (3-2) looked toput on an impressive show on their newfield and in front of Saturday’sHomecoming crowd. But a larger andstronger University of Massachusetts team(5-2) had other ideas, leaving the matchdominating the Bears 27-10.

The first half of the game was complete-ly controlled by UMass, as its forwards con-sistently moved the ball into Brown’s half ofthe field. UMass moved the Bears’ scrumforward repeatedly and the opposing backscontinued to pound a depleted and youngBrown backline. By playing wide in themiddle of the field and keeping its forwardstight toward the Brown goal line, UMasswas able to score three tries in the first half.The skillful Hugo Shiek of UMass success-fully converted each of the three tries and apenalty kick in the first. At half, theMinutemen had a stranglehold on theBears, with the score at 24-0.

“We were unable to respond to theiroffensive strategy in the first half,” saidCaptain Josh Brandt ’04. Brandt also saidShiek made the difference in the game byconverting on every kicking attempt.

Brown had a more impressive showingin the second half, as it started executing itsplays and prevented the UMass forwardsfrom controlling the game. Although theBears committed many offside penalties,they held the Minutemen to only threepoints in the second half. The Bears strungtogether several successful runs to movedown the field, with Jon Morales ’05 at flyhalf engineering multiple drives.

“We played most of the second half with-in the UMass 22 due to the fact that westarted executing our plays,” Brandt said.

Simon Salgado ’06 and Sam Hodges ’04scored the only tries for the Bears. Bothtries went unconverted; however, Browndid score three additional points on apenalty kick. The game ended with theUMass ruggers collecting their fourthstraight win.

In the B-side game, an experiencedBrown squad lost a defensive battle 10-8 tothe Minutemen. The Bears held the balldeep in UMass territory for much of thefirst half but were unable to get on the

MIAMI (Newsday) — Now an anxiousYankee Stadium awaits, unsure whetherto prepare for a mad celebration orbrace for the most depressing momentof the Joe Torre era.

One or the other is coming within thenext 48 hours in the Bronx.

The Yankees are heading home todecide the outcome of the World Series,trailing the series, 3-2, after a 6-4 loss inGame 5 on Thursday night.

That statement by itself should bringa reassuring exhale, because theYankees don’t screw up a series athome. So says their history under Torre.They use each and every one of theirunique advantages — ghosts, legends,mystique, aura, Jeter — to finish the job.The sellout crowd filing into theStadium this weekend should study thefine print on the back of the ticket stub,where it probably guarantees victory inthe event of a series-clinching game.

The Stadium will supply a sense ofsecurity for a team shaken by changes.In a fit of panic or frustration or both,Torre made major moves to his lineupThursday night in the midst of a tightWorld Series. It took guts to sit AlfonsoSoriano, who had 38 homers and 91RBIs during the regular season.

Soriano sealed his fate in Game 4 bystriking out twice, once on three pitcheswell out of the zone. Jason Giambi, whohas a painful left knee that was bother-ing him when playing the field and per-haps a distracted head after beingserved a subpoena, also was not in thelineup. These moves followed Torre’sdecision to utilize Jeff Weaver in extrainnings in the previous game. This was-n’t the kind of week Torre expected tohave in Florida.

“It was just something I felt I neededto do,” Torre said of the lineup changes.

Because they can’t take their lineupfor granted, the Yankees must lean ontheir experience and history and theirStadium. They must rely on an old faith-ful: a creaky, leaky building that smellslike beer and soft pretzels and feels likeheaven for the Yankees, and a seasonthat’s on the verge of ending.

It was only a week ago when theYankees found themselves in a similarsituation. They lost Game 6 to the RedSox, and it was almost as if the ALChampionship Series was supposed tocontinue, just so Game 7 could happen.

Just so Aaron Boone could hit a walk-offhomer and keep a good trend going.

The first time the Torre Yankees camehome to clinch was 1996, when this runbegan. When all seemed bleak for themin that Series, Jim Leyritz helped put theBraves and Yanks back on a planebound for the Bronx, where Torre’s firstchampionship was secured. CharlieHayes squeezed the final out, and WadeBoggs saddled up a police horse for avictory lap. There was a sense that if theSeries ever returned to Yankee Stadium,the Yankees would find a way to win.

“The home-field advantage,” Torresaid, “has been nice for us.” Torre’steams have never lost any postseasonseries at home. The 1997 season endedin Game 5 of the Division Series inCleveland. In 1998, the Yankees finishedoff the Padres in San Diego. The nextyear, they secured a sweep of the Bravesat the Stadium.

The next three Yankee seasons weredecided at Shea Stadium, Phoenix andDisneyland.

The biggest Yankee Stadium test wasthe last one. Rallying against the RedSox after trailing 4-0, with RogerClemens knocked out early and PedroMartinez pitching strongly for seveninnings, qualified as magic. WhenBoone supplied the winning whack, youknew something was working for theYankees that night other than skill andsmarts.

And yet, that Game 7 has nothing onthe next day or so.

That’s because not only did theMarlins force a return to the Bronx, theydon’t seem to care where they play.Noisy, cramped and nostalgic stadiumsdon’t bother them, or else they wouldhave crumbled at Wrigley Field.Remember, the Marlins beat Mark Priorand Kerry Wood back-to-back inChicago. They ignored all logic anddenied the Cubs a World Series berth.Then they flew to New York and tookGame 1 of the Series.

“We enjoy playing at YankeeStadium,” said first baseman DerrekLee. “We’re looking forward to gettingback there.”

The Yankees should feel the same. Dothey have any choice? They have AndyPettitte on their side Saturday and, ifnecessary, history in their favor Sunday.Anything less means trouble.

SPORTS FRIDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 24, 2003 · PAGE 8

These picks have been made against theSkybook odds and as always are for recre-ational purposes only. This week’s pickswere not parodied in “Scary Movie 3,” butdo feature twins. (Home team in CAPS)

Last Week – 8-6Season – 55-43-4Lock of the Week

– 6-1PATRIOTS (-5.5)

over the Browns –While the “Bostonarea” curse shoulddictate that NewEngland will loseafter upsettingMiami in Florida,Cleveland’s QBcarousel andporous rushdefense dictate that

this will not happen. The only way the teamwill lose is if it hires Grady Little as its newspecial teams coordinator and he decidesto punt on all third downs.

RAVENS (-1) over the Broncos – To giveDenver’s QB situation some perspective,wide receiver Rod Smith is the third stringquarterback this week. On the plus sidethough, Steve Beuerlein’s injury last weekwas one of the most gruesome injuries of alltime. Joe Theisman and Moises Alou wereon the phone to offer their congratulations.

Rams (+1.5) over the STEELERS – So farthis season, the Steelers’ offense has beenas talented as the acting in “2 Fast 2Furious.” With another loss, thanks in largepart to the potent Bulger-Holt connection,Pittsburgh should begin the Charlie BatchEra. In terms of success, this new era fallssomewhere between the Paleozoic Era andthe Kordell Stewart Era.

Seahawks (-1.5) over the BENGALS –Matt Hasselbeck will be motivated to winthis week because his brother Tim is finallyback in the NFL. They are like the Williamssisters, only a lot less talented. Cincinnatiwould not want to lose its unlovable loserstatus by putting together a two-game win-ning streak.

BEARS (-3) over the Lions – This gamehas the appeal of the inevitable episode of“Cribs” from Kobe Bryant’s jail cell, whichwill be smaller than Shaq’s bed. Althoughthe game has the makings of a tie just tosubject fans to an extra quarter of football,Charlie Rogers’ injuries give Chicago theedge. As an aside, Mr. Bartman will not be aceremonial captain for the coin toss.

VIKINGS (-5.5) over the Giants – In thelast two weeks, New York has redefined“finding a way to lose.” Do you think that,during the week, Jim Fassel shows high-lights of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the BostonRed Sox, and the Chicago Cubs to prep histeam? After his no-look flip to Moe Williamslast week, Randy Moss is going to try spin-ning the football on his finger and pouringa bucket of confetti on Kerry Collins’ head.

Titans (-3.5) over the JAGUARS – Eddie“Mr. Irrelevant” George is as vital toTennessee’s offense as Steven Seagal was tothe plot of “Executive Decision.” SteveMcNair might be the best QB, RB, TE, and Kon his own team. Byron Leftwich shouldpretend that he is back at Marshall andtreat the game as a learning experience.

BUCCANEERS (-6.5) over the Cowboys –Don’t kid yourself: If Bill Parcells had takenthe Tampa Bay job before Jon Gruden, theteam still would have won the Super Bowl.Even though Dallas is 5-1, Tampa Bay is stillthe better team and it will take “The Tuna”at least a full season before he will have histeam ready to knock off the defendingchamps.

see TROY, page 5

Tough first halfeliminates M.ruggers chancesagainst UMass

Ian Cropp / Herald

Brown forwards practice scrummaging as they prepare for their final game versus Amherst.

History says home is wherethe Yankees just don’t lose

Fried chickenand NFL week 8

JOSHUA TROYSPREADING THE LOVE

see RUGGERS, page 5