BY ERIC BECKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

University officials Wednesday confirmedthe death of Anthony Abanto ’06.5, whowas found in his New Pembroke 1 dormroom Tuesday evening.

Abanto’s death was an apparent suicide,according to a Providence Police report. Amedical examiner’s report was not avail-able Wednesday.

Abanto, a 22-year-old mathematicsconcentrator, was described by an NP1resident as a quiet individual who kept tohimself. He was a student at the HarrowSchool in England before attendingBrown, according to a campus-wide e-mail from Dean of the College PaulArmstrong and Vice President for Campus

Life and Student Services David Greene.“It is a very difficult time. Our deepest

support and sympathy goes to the family,but we know that students have also beenaffected … and our support goes to themas well,” said Margaret Klawunn, interimdean for campus life.

The University’s first priority Tuesdaynight and Wednesday was to assist thosemost directly affected by the death, shesaid.

The dean on call Tuesday night,

• The Office of Student Life, Office of the Chaplains andReligious Life and Psychological Services will host asupport session today at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Roomof Faunce House.

• Psych Services is making extra time available to stu-dents seeking support. Daytime appointments can bemade by calling 863-3476, and after hours the clini-cian on call can be reached through Health Services at863-3953.

• Chaplains can be reached at 863-2344 during businesshours and through the Department of Public Safety at863-3322 nights and weekends.The Chaplains’ Officealso holds weekly bereavement sessions; interested stu-dents can call 863-2344.

• Suicide Prevention: If you need help for yourself or afriend, call Psych Services at 863-3476 or 863-3953 atnight; a Student Life dean at 863-3145; or talk to a peercounselor. A 24-hour national crisis hotline is also avail-able at (800) 273-TALK.

BY SHAWN BANSTAFF WRITER

The Division of Engineering is working withOak Ridge National Laboratory to forge apartnership that will enable graduate stu-dents to gain practical laboratory experi-ence.

ORNL is a multi-program science andtechnology laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn.Under the joint program, graduate studentsat Brown may spend at least a semester atORNL involved in research in a number offields, primarily materials science.

The project remains under discussion,without a set timeline. “We are still in thepreliminary stages, but I hope the firstexchanges can take place during the nextacademic year,” said Clyde Briant, dean of

engineering.Jeffrey Wadsworth, director of ORNL and

a member of the External Advisory Board forthe Division of Engineering, initiated talks.“Jeff Wadsworth was very encouraging ingetting the discussions started, and gettingboth sides talking. The planning’s beengoing on for nearly a year now,” Briant said.

The partnership would have a number ofkey objectives.

“The main purpose of this program is tobring researchers together from Brown andOak Ridge, from different fields. We also aimto aid Brown in its educational goals, and totry to recruit the best graduates for our labo-ratory,” said Lee Riedinger, associate labora-

BY CAMMIE STAROSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Department of Visual Arts’ 2005Student Exhibition poses the age-oldquestion of collegiate art: “Who amI?” Questions of race, class and gen-der are all raised — and occasionallyanswered — by the body of studentwork. Shedding last year’s emphasison sculptural and new media dis-plays, this year’s collection, currentlyon display in the Bell Gallery, is heav-ily weighted toward two-dimension-al media.

The proliferation of East andSouth Asian influence in the selec-tion is striking. “Indian Dancer,” adrawing by Komal Talati ’08, an unti-tled painting by Caroline Gray ’07and the “Pigeons” photograph by

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Tour guide Rebecca Russo ’08 held the attention of all but one potential futureBrunonian during one of many spring tours on campus Wednesday.

BY SUCHI MATHURCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Lawmakers in the Rhode Island StateSenate will consider a bill by April 14 thatwould require approved University ofRhode Island campus police officers to

carry firearms.The bill, called

“An Act Relating To Campus Security,” hasbeen introduced several times in the pastbut failed every time. Senators MichaelDamiani (D-District 18), Joseph Polisena(D-District 25) and Susan Sosnowski (D-District 37) introduced the current incar-nation of the bill Feb. 17.

Polisena said he believes the dangers oflaw enforcement necessitate that campuspolice officers be armed, so long as theyare properly trained. “The way today’ssociety is, what (officers) deal with, if theyare qualified, they should be able to carrya weapon,” he said. “I’m sure the streetsare not as safe as they were 20 years ago.Also, with the situation on college cam-

Officials confirm death of Abanto ’06.5

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Goldbergertransfers toathleticsBY KIRA LESLEYFOCUS EDITOR

Director of Admission MichaelGoldberger will take over as athleticdirector beginning July 1, President RuthSimmons announced Wednesday morn-ing. Goldberger will replace Joan Taylor,who has served as interim athletic direc-tor for the past year.

“After conducting an extensive nation-al search, it became clear that there wasonly one person in the country who ful-filled all of these (qualities desired) for anathletic director,” said Luiz Valente, pro-fessor of Portuguese and Brazilian stud-ies and comparative literature and chairof the committee that chose the new A.D.

For many students, Goldberger’sname is synonymous with acceptance orrejection letters, but he began his time atBrown as an assistant baseball and foot-ball coach. “Goldie,” a football player forformer Head Football Coach John

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flat-out hit, and designated hitterTravis Hafner is a slugging beast.C.C. Sabathia and Jake Westbrookare a strong one-two punch, andit’s unfortunate that the team’sawful bullpen (see: Rhodes, Arthurand Riske, David) will blow somany saves for them. Don’t be sur-prised if the Indians start to domi-nate this division next year, whenprospects like Grady Sizemore andJhonny Peralta come into theirown.

A.J. Pierzynski, Jermaine Dyeand Scott Podsednik are welcomeadditions to the Chicago WhiteSox’s lineup, but the team doesn’thave enough pitching or talent totake the division. And the race tostay out of the division’s cellarshould be a good one, with boththe Detroit Tigers and Kansas CityRoyals stocked with a goodamount of young talent and aneven larger number of flaws.However, if young pitchers JeremyBonderman and Mike Maroth canput it together this year, the Tigerscould make some noise now thatMagglio Ordonez has joinedPudge Rodriguez and CarlosGuillen in the lineup.

AL West: The AL West under-went the most change of the threedivisions over the winter. TheAngels, Rangers and Mariners allimproved this offseason, whilethere are huge question marks onthe Oakland squad. This will bethe first time in years that the A’swill be going into the season asunderdogs — the Angels, thedefending division champs, willbe the team to beat. Cabrera is anupgrade over David Eckstein inthe field and at the plate, whileSteve Finley is a significantupgrade over Jose Guillen in thelocker room. They join a lineupthat already includes the under-rated Garret Anderson and themonster that is Vladimir Guerrero.The Angels bullpen is one of thebest in the league, and FranciscoRodriguez should thrive in his newrole as closer.

The Mariners have added twolegitimate sluggers in AdrianBeltre, who finished second toBarry Bonds in NL MVP voting lastyear, and Richie Sexson. However,Sexson’s health will be in question,as he is coming off a season inwhich he played in only 23 games.Even the new look of the lineupwon’t be able to obscure the terri-ble Mariners’ starters (Gil Meche?

Joel Piniero? Ryan Franklin? Yikes.)Even 42-year-old Jamie Moyerwon’t be able to save them fromAnaheim this season.

The Rangers have kept intacttheir young core of sluggers —Alfonso Soriano, Hank Blaylockand Mark Teixeira are becomingannual MVP candidates, andMichael Young and Kevin Menchare strong sluggers as well. It’s ashame they have the worst pitch-ing staff in the league, as only clos-er Francisco Cordero can get any-one out.

The A’s face the biggest ques-tions this year. With aces TimHudson and Mark Mulder gone,it’ll be up to Barry Zito to regain hisCy Young form of 2002 and RichHarden to become a legitimateace. Both of these might be possi-ble, as both are having strongsprings. The success of the A’s willrely on the unproven three, fourand five starters. If the World Serieslast year was any good indicator,Dan Haren will be strong behind

Zito and Harden.In the pen, the A’s now have one

of the best bullpens in the league,adding hard-throwing Kiko Caleroand Juan Cruz, who both strike outabout a batter an inning. The A’salso have two young fireballers inHuston Street and Jairo Garcia, oneof whom should make the club outof spring training with the othernot far behind. At the plate, the A’shave retained the core of last year’ssurprisingly potent offense whileadding quintessential MoneyballerJason Kendall. The A’s should alsolook forward to having a full year ofEric Chavez, who astonishingly hasnever made the All-Star Gamedespite being one of the best all-around third basemen in thegame. In all, the A’s could make asurprise trip to the playoffs if theirfuture starts playing well now.

Senior staff writer Stu Woo ’08thinks he could pitch out of theCleveland Indians’ bullpen (see:dream, pipe).

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Anderson while both were atMiddlebury College, taughtmath at a reform school beforecoming to Brown to serve asassistant football coach at theage of 22.

Goldberger said that thoughhe was very happy with his jobin the Admission Office, he isgrateful for the opportunity toface new career challenges. Hesaid he felt he is entering theathletic department at a partic-ularly strong time, but he stillhas ideas for the department hewould like to pursue.

“I would like to talk to ath-letes and students and deter-mine issues” that they findimportant, Goldberger said.One of the biggest challengesGoldberger faces as he entershis new position is determiningwhat role athletics should playat an Ivy League institution, hesaid.

Goldberger said he believesathletes are frequently given ahard time because of stereo-types, but he stressed that ath-letes at Brown are extremelybright — among the smartest10 percent in the nation.

Goldberger said he wouldlike to break down the barrierbetween academics and athlet-ics and work toward “getting

that feel on campus that coach-es are educators and athletesare students.”

When he first arrived atBrown, Goldberger said, hedreamed of “big-time coaching,”but having held positions inadmission for over 20 years, hewas somewhat surprised to beasked to take over as athleticdirector. However, because of hispast links with the Brown athlet-ic department, Goldberger said,“it would be logical to ask.”

Though it is unusual toswitch from admission to ath-letics after 22 years in the for-mer, Goldberger said he has fol-lowed a rather unorthodox pathsince arriving at Brown, movingfrom athletics to admission andback again.

The announcement ofGoldberger as the new A.D. sur-prised some, especially sincethe University hosted visitsfrom three finalists for the jobrecently, the Providence Journalreported.

Goldberger said he hopes tohelp integrate athletics, aca-demics and social life at Brown.According to Goldberger, at aschool like Brown the threeexperiences are inextricablylinked, and all help form theBrown experience. He said he islooking forward to improvingwhat he already considers astrong department.

“This is just a great day,” hesaid.

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tory director for university partner-ships.

Riedinger said Brown graduatestudents could take advantage ofthe technology available at ORNLfor research. “We think the stu-dents at Brown could use ourlarge-scale supercomputers to runsimulations and models in a num-ber of areas,” he said.

Briant expects the program tohave a modest beginning. “We maystart with two or three studentsgoing to Oak Ridge. It may expandto more than 10 students eventual-ly, but these programs tend toreach their own equilibrium,” hesaid.

The exchange may work in bothdirections, with staff members atORNL also coming to teach atBrown. “The staff at Oak Ridge hastremendous expertise, and on theeducational front, it would be goodfor our undergraduates and gradu-ates,” Briant said.

Riedinger noted the partnership

with Brown being explored wouldbe “unique” and different fromORNL’s existing partnerships withother universities, which includethe University of Tennessee, DukeUniversity, Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University andGeorgia Institute of Technology.“We currently work with eight uni-versities in the Southeast. ButBrown would be the first casewhere it’s not geographically near,and where we try to do somethingspecial, in part focused on educa-tional goals,” he said.

The Herald first reported inJanuary that the University waspursuing a interdisciplinary pro-gram with Oak Ridge as part of “astrategic plan” to enhance partner-ships with other institutions,which several academic depart-ments have begun to pursue. TheDepartment of Neuroscience willoffer a graduate neuroscience pro-gram with the National Institutesof Health next fall, while theDepartment of AmericanCivilization’s Master’s in PublicHumanities program intends tosend students on attachments atvarious museums in the Northeast.

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Catherine Axe, coordinator ofdisability support services, metwith residential peer leaders inNew Pembroke and with resi-dents of NP1 and encouragedthem to spend the night withfriends, Klawunn said, addingthat all residents of the dormfound another place to stay.

Richard Bova, director of resi-dential life, arranged alternatehousing for the rest of the semes-ter for students in NP1 who feltuncomfortable staying in thedorm, Klawunn said.

Klawunn said Carla Hansen,associate dean of the graduateschool and student life and coor-dinator of the Women’s PeerCounseling program, met withresidential peer leadersWednesday to offer them adviceabout how to help students copewith the death and assist theRPLs directly involved in thetragedy.

Later Wednesday, representa-tives from PsychologicalServices and the offices of theChaplains and Religious Life,Student Life and Residential Lifemet with residents of NewPembroke and students who hadcalled a campus office seekingassistance, Klawunn said. NewPembroke residents received e-mails and notices underneaththeir doors informing them ofthe session, she added.

Student Life deans also con-tacted faculty members whohave students directly involvedin the tragedy to facilitate spe-cial arrangements for academicobligations, she said.

Although the University ini-tially rushed to assist studentsmost immediately impacted bythe death, Klawunn stressed thaton-campus resources are avail-able to all students who needsupport.

The Office of Student Life,Chaplains’ Office and PsychServices will host a support ses-sion open to all communitymembers today at 4 p.m. in the

Memorial Room of FaunceHouse. Support services from allthree offices are also availablearound-the-clock, Klawunnsaid.

“We want people to know thatthere are a lot of different officesworking together to offer sup-port to students … because peo-ple find comfort in differenttypes of support,” she said.

“There is a broad range ofresponses that students mighthave to the death of a friend.People tend to experience manydifferent emotions — sadness,guilt, denial, anger — and it iscommon for these emotions tocome and go over a period oftime,” wrote Belinda Johnson,director of Psych Services, in ane-mail to The Herald.

“There are several things stu-dents can do to help themselvesduring this difficult time: spend-ing time with friends and talkingabout what they’re experiencing;taking care of themselves by eat-ing and sleeping well; avoidingfeeling pressure to respond inone particular way,” she wrote.

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puses, where there’s less respectfor the law, campus police offi-cers need some protection andan ability to protect students.”

If the bill becomes law,approved officers would have togo through the Rhode IslandPolice Training Academy or itsequivalent to receive arms.

However, URI PresidentRobert Carothers has consistent-ly opposed the bill arming cam-pus police officers, said AndreaHopkins, assistant vice presidentfor public affairs. “We feel wehave the best judgment to decidewhen our employees shouldhave guns,” she said. “We don’twant it written in law.”

Polisena said similar legisla-tion has been discussed three orfour times before in the GeneralAssembly, but said he could notspeculate on prospects for thebill this session. “The bill keepsfailing on the House side; it’salways passed on the Senateside,” Polisena said. “I really don’tknow the chances of it passing —it’s very difficult to tell from yearto year.”

Arming campus officerswould only be one facet of a larg-er university effort to profes-sionalize its police force, saidURI Director of Police andSecurity Robert Drapeau. “Thebill itself is a stand-alone item —it’s not so much arming thedepartment as making it as pro-fessional as possible,” he said. “Ithink what’s beneficial to URI isthat we’re undertaking an exten-sive program to work on our lawenforcement facilities andresources.”

Hopkins said the state Senateprimarily views the bill as a safe-ty measure that would protectboth police officers and stu-dents. With the opening of theRyan Center, a large recreationalcomplex, at the Kingston cam-pus, URI has become an opencampus that attracts additionalvisitors not directly affiliatedwith the university, Hopkins said.

Despite being unwilling tosupport the bill, Carothers mayconsider arming URI officersindependently. “Our presidentsaid in last year’s speech whiletestifying for the same bill thatwe’ve been happy unarmed, and

would like to continue to beunarmed, but we will have totake new circumstances intoconsideration,” Hopkins said.

Brittany Boudreau, director ofcommunications for the URIStudent Senate, said polls havefound the majority of studentsare opposed to arming campuspolice officers, though morefavor it now than did a few yearsago.

“It would make more sensefor colleges in Providence,”Boudreau, a sophomore, said.“But (our main campus is) inKingston, and we’re in the mid-dle of nowhere, so I think moststudents feel it’s not necessary.”

Drapeau said there has notbeen any single incident that hasspurred the introduction of thebill, but given URI’s size andlocation, the potential for anytype of incident is high.

“We have the same issues andcrimes that could happen in yourhometown,” Drapeau said.“There are no specific incidents Icould point to,” he said.

Hopkins said the URI policedepartment is currently workingtowards national accreditation,which Brown already has, andwill attempt to arm their policeforce independently. But thisprocess is very expensive andcan take more than three years.Brown announced in Dec. 2003that it would begin a process toarm Department of Public Safetyofficers.

URI has consulted Brown con-cerning the arming process, aswell as other schools, Drapeausaid. “Nationally, colleges haverealized the necessity of a full-fledged police force,” he said.“Frankly, Rhode Island is behindthe curve in regards to campuslaw enforcement.”

At Brown, administrators havedeclined to release a timetablefor the arming process.

“The process is in place, it’smoving along well, the training isgoing well,” said Mark Nickel,director of the Brown NewsService.

Every institution’s police andsecurity personnel face differentcircumstances, and factors suchas Brown’s easily accessible opencampus made arming campusofficers a good idea, Nickel said.“It’s a very case-by-case basis,”he said. “What makes sense forBrown doesn’t necessarily makesense for other universities.”

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Anne McClain ’05 all showcaseEast or South Asian people ordeities in traditional garb. LucasFoglia ’05 frankly captures twostoic farmers in his color photo-graph, “Somerset CommunityGarden, Khamta and VenerableKosal.” The dragon in the pop-up “Bedtime Book” by JamesDunbar ’05 is set against QuienTruong’s ’05 painting,“Explosion,” with both appro-priating Chinese festival aes-thetics. In a break from the twodimensional, “Mommy Lamp”by Valery Estabrook ’05 providesa witty — and illuminated —comment on the stereotypicalrole of the “Asian Mother.”

In a stark black-paper-on-white-wall installation, Leslie Wei’05 gently addresses race andclass politics in a sensitive,though archetypal, illustration oftwo dry cleaners. Arthi Sundaresh’05 contributes a digital colorphoto triptych that worksthrough both ethnic and genderidentity labels. The series depictsa girl dressed in a sari, the samegirl apparently amputating herbreast, and a cropped figureholding a penis with blood drip-ping down, presumably from themissing breast — each figureshown through the reflective eyeof a mirror.

This — presumably incidental— Asian/Asian-American motifoverlaps considerably with a larg-er theme of identity and self-reflexivity. Breanne Duffy ’05, infact, titles her oil painting of onegirl making over another,“Identity.” Nicholas Monu ’06drew an unidentifiable body,complete with barcode and iden-tification number, titled “Body #102885.” Creating a compositionout of bite-sized portraits, ZoëChao ’08 works through the com-plexities of creating a single, stat-ic identity.

Jacquelyn Mahendra ’07 pro-vided the only video project,titled “Doll Studies,” which alsoserves as the soundtrack to theshow. Mechanized voicesdescribe dolls between thesounds of a man’s voice com-

manding, among other things,“show me the doll that looks likea white child … show me the dollthat looks like a Negro child.Show me the doll that looks likeyou.”

Scott Yi ’05 presents, inhumorous and unambiguousterms, his take on the negotiationof Asian-American identity. Withcomic-book-influenced render-ing, Yi depicts an Asian doctorcelebrating his material successwith a blond, white, nakedwoman.

Many of the strongest pieces,however, shy away from the iden-tity-wrought themes that domi-nate the exhibition. Becky Brown’05 won the award in the mixeddigital media category with a col-laged series of five small canvasesincorporating, among otherthings, line drawing, comicstrips, paint and transparent

paper.With a two-pronged, carved

wood piece, Stephen Niedich ’07won the sculpture award. GracieDevito ’07 won the drawing cate-gory with a large and involvedfigure study of charcoal andacrylic. Three black-and-whitephotographs of girls’ faces super-imposed on images of coastalrocks by Jessie Chaney ’07 tookfirst place for photography.Madeleine Bailey ’06 took thepainting prize with a deceptivelyserene white-on-white paintingthat revealed, upon closerinspection, pins inserted in linearpatterns.

The frequent List-goer willhave seen the majority of thestronger pieces before, and prob-ably already seen the show. Forthose who do not venture ofteninto Brown’s official home of cre-ative endeavor, however, thejourney would be a worthwhileone. The annual show displaysnot only the products of individ-ual students, but also the collec-tive influences, both predictableand unexpected, on Brown’s art-producing student body.

The 2005 Student Exhibitionwill be on display in the BellGallery, located in the lobby ofthe List Art Building, until April 3.

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Artcontinued from page 1

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The 2005 Student Exhibition in Bell Gallery, on display until April 3,addresses questions of race, class and gender.

BY MANUEL ROIG-FRANZIATHE WASHINGTON POST

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — FloridaGov. Jeb Bush again raised thepossibility that state officialswould intervene in the frantic bat-tle over Terri Schiavo onWednesday, asserting that thestate may have authority to takecustody of the brain-damagedwoman even though the federalcourts have refused to resume hertube-feeding.

A Circuit Court judge here inPinellas County issued an orderpreventing the Adult ProtectiveTeam of the Florida Departmentof Children and Families from tak-ing Schiavo from her hospice andreinserting her feeding tube, butthe possibility of an appeal orsome other move by the state lenta dramatic note to the rapidlymoving legal struggle.

Bush’s attempt to once againenter the case came the same daythat Schiavo’s parents, Robert andMary Schindler, were twice reject-ed by a federal appeals court andlost a battle in the FloridaLegislature to keep their daughteralive. Undeterred, the Schindlerspushed their case to the next courtlevel, appealing to the U.S.Supreme Court, while still hopingthat Bush would come up with away to use the power of Florida’sstate government to trump thecourts.

“I’m doing everything withinmy power to make sure that Terriis afforded at least the same rightsthat criminals convicted of themost heinous crimes take forgranted,” Bush, a Republican, saidat a late afternoon news confer-ence in Tallahassee.

Schiavo’s feeding tube has beenout since Friday, and doctors sayshe could die within two weeks,leaving her supporters increasing-ly desperate for an eleventh-hourintervention to save her. EarlyWednesday, demonstratorscamped outside her hospice inthis town across the bay fromTampa while another grouppacked into the rotunda of thestate Capitol in Tallahassee.Schiavo supporters have posted“Wanted” signs there in hopes ofpressuring nine Republican sena-tors to change their minds andsupport a law that would forcedoctors to resume the 41-year-oldwoman’s feeding.

But the intense lobbying effortfailed Wednesday afternoon whenthe Senate voted 21-18 against a

bill that would have prevented theremoval of feeding tubes fromvegetative patients, such asSchiavo, who did not leave writteninstructions about their wishes.

Before the vote, Sen. DennisJones, a Pinellas CountyRepublican, said he felt pressuredby Bush in 2003 and “votedwrong” when he supported a billbacked by the governor intendedto save Schiavo that was laterdeclared unconstitutional.

“I certainly wouldn’t make thatmistake again,” said Jones, whovoted against the Bush-backedbill Wednesday.

Jones and other lawmakerswho have declined to supportefforts to keep Schiavo alive havebeen the subject of angry Internetcommentaries, e-mail campaignsand protests. On Tuesday, Jonessaid, 20 demonstrators sat on thefloor of his local office in Seminole— a town near Schiavo’s hospice— and refused to leave. Sheriff’sdeputies had to be summoned toremove them, he said.

The Schiavo case has been pro-foundly divisive in the Capitol,occupying so much time thatsome Florida newspaper editori-als have demanded that lawmak-ers turn their attention to otherpressing state business. Even inPinellas County, opinions aresplit. When the state Senate andHouse voted last week on billsdesigned to keep Schiavo alive,half the county’s delegation voted“yes” and half voted “no.”

Republican Rep. Everett Rice,the former Pinellas County sheriff,was confronted by a lawmakerwho pushed for the Schiavo legis-lation a few days ago. “We’re say-ing a special prayer for you,” Ricesaid his colleague told him.

Bush has been the public faceof Florida government efforts toresume Schiavo’s tube feeding.His brother, President Bush, saidWednesday that “this is anextraordinary and sad case” butthat he would wait for the courtsto decide it.

Gov. Bush has spoken aboutthe case repeatedly and emotion-ally. But his storied mastery of leg-islative arm-twisting failedWednesday.

Bush based his assertion thatSchiavo should be kept alive onwhat he said was “new informa-tion” about her condition gleanedby William Cheshire, a neurologistat the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville,Fla., whom the state asked to eval-uate her condition. Cheshire hasnot formally examined Schiavo,but he did observe her at her bed-side and reviewed the videotapesof her appearing to react to herfamily. Bush said Cheshire deter-mined that Schiavo may be in a“minimally conscious,” ratherthan a “persistent vegetative”state. The distinction is importantbecause recent studies have sug-gested that patients in minimallyconscious states might have somecognitive powers and may havehope of recovery.

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Governor seeks custody ofSchiavo as parents’ appeals fail

ate after the season, but theinjury forced him to reconsiderhis options. He could eitherreturn to school and end hisBrown baseball career, or dropout and sacrifice his tuition inorder to return in 2005.

“The thought never crossedmy mind that I could play any-where else,” Kutler said. “I hadmade a commitment to myteam and Coach Drabinski and Iwanted to play one more year.”

Although Kutler ruled outtransferring to another schoolor graduating and enrolling ingrad school somewhere else, hisdecision to drop out hit a fewmore snags in the road. TheUniversity refused to redeemthe tuition money he had paidfor the second semester.

“I spoke to a few people andone dean recommended thatthe money be repaid but it didn’twork out like that. My decisionplaced an extra financial burdenon my family but they com-pletely supported me. They werehappy I decided to come back,”Kutler said.

Dropping out allowed Kutlerto focus on rehabilitating histhumb. Once out of the cast,

Kutler visited a physical thera-pist three times a week for twomonths over the summer, work-ing consistently to regain his fullrange of motion.

With eight games now underhis belt, Kutler finally feels nor-mal again despite the occasion-al stiffness and the lingeringmemory of his ordeal.

“The first weekend wastough, but I’m not worriedabout my hand anymore,” hesaid. “Games are a little differentbut I’m getting my timing backand I think I’m finally there.”

Drabinski agrees. “I think he’s100 percent. He was trying toohard at first, no question. Heneeds to relax a little more andremember that he’s one of nine

guys and he can’t hit home runsevery time up,” he said.

This season, Kutler has hit.242 with a home run and fiveRBIs as Brown has gone 1-7.However, the team is preparingfor the Ivy League portion of itsschedule and is far from con-cerned about its slow start. Asfor Kutler, he hopes to return toAll-Ivy form and rekindle thescouts’ interest, but he under-stands the odds are stackedagainst him as a 23-year-old col-lege senior coming off a devas-tating injury.

But Drabinski has no doubtsabout his star player. “Listen,the kid can hit and he will hit,”he said. “Talent-wise, he’s stillmuch more than All-Ivy.”

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Before Oklahoma Stateapproved the decision, Curryhad to sit down with schoolPresident David Schmidly, whogave Bob Knight his secondchance when Schmidly waspresident at Texas Tech.

“Our president grilled him,”Sutton said. “He told JamesOn,‘We’re giving you a secondchance. Don’t mess it up.’ ”

Curry’s boyhood dream ofplaying for the Tar Heels islong gone. But he still watchesthem, and keeps a noteWilliams, the coach who with-drew his scholarship, sentafter he landed at OklahomaState, wishing him well.

“It meant a lot,” Curry said.“It showed he wasn’t thinking Iwas a terrible kid.”

Someday, he will be remem-bered for more than a Februaryday, but not yet. At Texas A&M,

he noticed white squares ofpaper in the student section.“At first I thought they saidsomething like, ‘BeatOklahoma State,’ ” Curry said.“It was a picture of me, like‘Wanted by the OklahomaPolice Department.’ ”

The Baylor crowd was onhim too. “I was like, ‘Isn’t thisa Christian school?’ Theysaid, ‘God might forgive you.We don’t.’

“Whenever I would think,‘Man, what do I do now?’ Iwould read the Bible,” he said.“Some people were saying, ‘Heshouldn’t touch a ball. Heshould go to jail. He’s a menaceto society.’”

Curry was thumbingthrough a Bible not long afterhis arrest when he first saw thewords he now wears on hisarm: “From the depths of theearth, you will again bring meup.”

“I saw that instantly,” Currysaid. “I thought, man, this isme.”

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OPINIONS EXTRATHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005 · PAGE 9

Has political correctness destroyed humor at Brown?

Due to the preponderance of repliesto my letter to the editor (“Reaching outto athletes on their level,” March 17), Ifeel compelled to clear up misconcep-tions about my intentions. For thosewho didn’t read it, my letter was a ludi-crous story implying that athletes werenot intelligent enough to read a column(“Athletes at Brown,” March 16) by LilyRayman-Read ‘06 that praised theirintellects. It was not remotely serious, asI had assumed was implied by its out-landish nature.

First of all, I apologize to athletes whodidn’t get the joke. Many members ofthe athletic community are particularlysensitive to the “jock” myth and I didnot mean to offend them. I have nothingin particular against athletes — in fact, Iwas one in high school. As such, I agreewith much of Rayman-Read’s article;Athletes do have demanding time com-mitments, they are at least as smart asthe non-athletic population and theydeserve the respect of everyone atBrown. Why then, you might ask, did Ibother writing this letter? The answer issimple: Rayman-Read’s article, inattempting to eliminate misconceptionsabout athletes, perpetuated stereotypesof Brown non-athletes as biased andlacking in school spirit.

First, her article was predicated on

the notion that Brown’s student bodydoes not respect athletes. In my experi-ence, that is as much of a fallacy as the“jock” myth. Her accusation that ath-letes and non-athletes are unable “tointeract and maintain social relation-ships” strikes me as bizarre. Many of myclosest friends are involved in Brown

athletics, and we have no trouble inter-acting with each other. Perhaps this isbecause I am a first-year, with less expe-rience at Brown than upperclassmen.Perhaps my group of friends is an excep-tion to the rule. Perhaps a gap betweenathletes and non-athletes exists unbe-knownst to me.

But Rayman-Read’s article didn’t stopthere. It then stated, in unequivocalterms, “we have no school spirit.” Thisgeneralization is at least as one-dimen-sional and flawed as any myths aboutathletes. First, Brown students exhibitpride in their university in a variety ofways unrelated to athletics.Additionally, how can Rayman-Readassert that she “only sees athletes in the

stands” at sporting events? I have noidea how the percentage of attendancebreaks down, but my presence at suchfunctions indicates that non-athletesare cheering for Brown as well.

In short, Rayman-Read’s stereotypingof non-athletes was, to me, ridiculous.Thus, I responded in kind. And although

Zoe Ripple’s ’05 reply to my letter(“Bohlen’s stereotyping isn’t funny,”March 21) misunderstood my inten-tions, her description of my assertions as“simplistic and erroneous” was right on.That was the point. A complex, nuancedand anti-athletic statement could nothave been taken as anything but a seri-ous expression of my beliefs. A ridicu-lous stereotyping of athletes, on theother hand, could not be read as any-thing but a joke. Or so I had assumed.

So why did so many people misun-derstand my intentions? You didn’t haveto find my letter amusing to concludethat a piece of writing which referencedthe author of a children’s book series asa literary exemplar was not in earnest.

Whether you call it satire or crudehumor, it was still a joke. So why did somany people take me seriously? Has anobsession with political correctness cre-ated a community so sensitive that itcannot take a potentially provocativestatement as anything but an insult? Oris the “non-jock” myth so widespreadthat people actually believe anti-athlet-ic bias exists throughout the Brown stu-dent body in the rough and unrefinedform indicated by my letter? Either way,how can individuals such as Rippleassert that I was being sarcastic whilesimultaneously claiming that my letterwas not written in jest?

Obviously, a lot of people got the jokeand did not feel the need to voice theiropinion on the matter. The fact that somany people did not get it, however,concerns me. Satire, one of the mostuseful literary devices for pointing outand correcting absurdities within one’scommunity, becomes useless in the faceof arbitrary political correctness. Andalthough satire at Brown is not dead yet,the reaction to my letter has convincedme that it remains on life support.

Some people may think Casey Bohlen ’08has a crude sense of humor, but he likeswriting to The Herald anyways.

GUEST COLUMN BY CASEY BOHLEN

First of all, I apologize to athletes who didn’t get the joke

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A cubic zirconium to the announcement of MichaelGoldberger as the new athletic director. We hope you are aspleased to receive this appointment as the University is tooffer it to you, but does this mean the Class of 2008 will be thelast best class ever?

Coal to the never-ending keg debate. C’mon guys, put a corkin it. The whole thing is tapped out. Aren’t there more impor-tant things to take a stand on?

A tiny, guilty diamond to the unending availability of terriblekeg puns, though.

Coal to Dinesh D’Souza’s fervent wish to not let any of all ourIvy League “liberal sheep” go “unmolested.” Although, uponfurther consideration, we didn’t expect much more out of aDartmouth grad. Pervert.

Speaking of the Big Green, a sea of diamonds to made-for-TVmovies that have the audacity to mention “all the hot guysfrom Dartmouth.” That has to be the funniest line we’ve heardin a while, and it was made all the sweeter by the presence ofa fleet of boat-chomping CGI sharks eating those “attractive”men of Hanover.

A cubic zirconium to the Nice Slice. You deserve coal forbeing a carbon copy of Antonio’s, but we’re glad for theopportunity to place bets on how fast you’ll close, since ourMarch Madness brackets have tanked.

A diamond to the ingenuity of student entrepreneurs. Whoneeds a business school?

But coal to nobody starting up the business we’d really like tosee: DormBooze.com.

And a diamond to proposed tax credits for film and TV pro-duction in Rhode Island. Michael Corrente may be bestknown for his work on “Outside Providence,” but we also needto encourage more artistic gems like his “Federal Hill,” themovie that proves that even the lowliest coke dealer can scorea date with a beautiful Brown coed.

Diamonds and coal

Canceling Bioethics a terrible moveTo the Editor:

There is something gravely flawed with theUniversity’s governance if a class (and concentra-tion) as relevant and worthwhile as “Topics inBioethics” is to be canceled due to a lack of assignedresources. Having taken the class in Spring 2003, Istill find myself frequently saying in conversations,“You know, that’s an interesting topic, we discussedit in my bioethics class.” The concentration isequally worthy.

There is a simple solution to the problems con-

cerning concentrations that lack dedicated depart-ments: have the college fund the professors/lectur-ers in question, not the department. If an interdis-ciplinary department depends heavily on a depart-mental professor who leaves (i.e., Dan Brock), theDean of the College’s office should act immediatelyto ensure proper staffing/funding until such time asanother departmental professor takes the reigns.

Is this really so difficult?

Brett Cohen ’03March 21

Porter hiring nothing to celebrateTo the Editor:

The Herald’s coverage of Mark Porter’s appoint-ment as police chief is less than objective.Suggesting that Porter, an African-American, willprovide fine service because his identity reflectsdiverse communities is shortsighted. This does notexplain why people of color continue to be subjectto vast racial inequality and police brutality histor-ically under black mayors and police chiefs, mostloyal to the Democratic Party, in cities such asAtlanta, Chicago, Detroit and New York.

Institutional white supremacy is not trans-formed by a rainbow coalition of rulers, whose eth-ical claims rest on efficiently running the same oldhierarchies. Ruth Simmons has armed the campuspolice. Now seeking to mystify further with Porter,she offers no solution to racial profiling, an arbi-trary hate-crime protocol allowing some studentsto hide in their daddies’ deep pockets, and seeks tocriminalize anti-colonial political activism while

calling for diversity of debate. The Herald’s coverage implies anti-racism and

democracy are measured by the diversity of who manages and polices us from above, or at least thatsuch measures are a step in the right direction.Both assumptions are dangerous. People of colorare not “God’s humanizing agents.” Are ColinPowell, Condoleeza Rice, Ruth Simmons or MarkPorter the faces of anti-racism and democracy?

Transformation of injustice occurs through self-governing actions from below against aspiringrulers above society. To have a democracy youhave to oppose those people, not celebrate theirappointment, regardless of color. Porter’s hiringinsults anti-racist and democratic minded people.Reprimanding Simmons by direct action would because for celebration.

Matthew Quest GSMarch 22

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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2005 · PAGE 11

The reach of an oil well

Mutual seclusion

Working hard, getting nowhere fastIt shouldn’t be a news flash that

President Bush’s new budget has more badnews for the poorest Americans.

18 community development blockgrants are gone, victims of an 11.5 percentcut to the Housing and UrbanDevelopment Department. This makessense, because urban areas went over-whelmingly for Kerry. Leave it to Bush, “auniter, not a divider,” to punish people whovoted against him.

He even punishes those who can’t vote.Witness $2 billion in cuts to programs likeUpward Bound and Gear Up that preparelow-income students for college. The poor-est college students currently receiving PellGrants aren’t getting them next year, either.

$45 million will be cut from Medicaid,the healthcare program providing cover-age largely for single women and childrenliving in poverty, at a time when it is need-ed most. Medicaid now covers 50 millionAmericans; it’s no surprise that amountrose by 10 million people once Bush tookoffice and poverty began increasing.According to The Economist, Medicaidcosts per patient have risen at just overhalf the rate of private employer-basedinsurance costs. As public expendituresreach 50 percent of all healthcare costsover the next 10 years, the debate shouldhardly be over the settled question ofwhether our healthcare system willremain private. We should be talkingabout which system is more effective.Without stronger regulation of the insur-ance industry, the government can actu-ally do a better job of providing health-care.

Perhaps these cuts wouldn’t be a prob-lem if the private sector companies wereresponsible enough to provide workers

with benefits and livable wages. But — sur-prise, surprise — they aren’t. According tothe 2000 Census, 66 percent of familiesbelow the poverty line had a fully employedfamily member. The San FranciscoChronicle recently reported that a singleparent with two children living in the BayArea would need to work at least three min-imum wage jobs to care for their family’sbasic needs. Millions of Americans arestuck in poverty, despite working full-time.

There is no justification for the world’srichest nation to have full-time workersbeing paid wages that keep them and theirfamilies in poverty. Our society has alwayssaid that one can get ahead by working. Wehave always said that productive membersof society who play by the rules will beassured of a comfortable existence. Wehave not kept this credo by rewarding hardwork with an honest day’s pay.

It comes down to benefits as well. Only35 percent of low-income workers havehealth insurance provided by their employ-ers. That amount is less than half the per-centage of other workers receiving health-care from their employers, and down 5 per-cent in the last two years.

In Tennessee alone, 10,000 Wal-Martemployees and their dependents are cov-ered by Medicare — the public is paying forsomething their employer ought to. InArkansas, the company’s birthplace, 10percent of Wal-Mart employees are receiv-ing public assistance.

This problem is, quite simply, inexcus-able. And it is getting worse. The numberof full-time workers living in povertyincreased by 45 percent between 1978 and2002. This affront to hard-working citizens,to human dignity and to our nation’smorals must end. Anyone who works full-

time should be provided a decent living forthemselves and their family in return.

Fortunately, there is a pretty straightfor-ward solution: expanding the EarnedIncome Tax Credit. The EITC works by aug-menting the income of individuals whowork but still live in poverty. It is an effec-tive program, with administrative costsadding up to just 3 percent of the benefitsextended, as opposed to 16 percent forwelfare. Because it is a tax rebate, it is alsonon-stigmatizing, unlike food stamps orwelfare. Ronald Reagan, of all people,called it “the best pro-family, the best jobcreation, the best work incentive programever to come out of Congress.” The issue ofthe “working poor” could vanish if theEITC were expanded to lift all full-timeworkers out of poverty. Doing so wouldmake it possible to eliminate the difficultapplication process as well, because theonly information needed would be avail-able on tax forms possessed by the IRS —hours worked, income, and number ofdependents. This would further reduceadministrative costs while reducingdependence on welfare, food stamps andMedicaid.

Anyone with sense would see this as awin-win for America’s hardest working cit-izens. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait forsomeone with sense to take the OvalOffice. Bush wants to shrink the federalsafety net but he doesn’t want to ask hiscorporate backers to step up to theirresponsibilities as employers. I’d say eitherhave your cake or it eat, George. But some-thing tells me you’ll hold on to your own,and devour the loaves of those who canhardly afford to eat.

Rob Sand ‘05.5 is ready for spring.

ROB SAND

JOSHUA LERNER

GUEST COLUMN BY BATHSHEBA DEMUTH

I remember Stanley saying to me oncewhen we were out with the boat bringing inthe fall caribou kill: “You’re one of the lastwhite people who’s gonna get to see this.”

Then he stopped himself and said, “no,you’re one of the last people to see it.”

No one mentions people in the articlesabout the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Nevermind that the word “Gwich’in”means “people.” Never mind that Stanleyis Gwich’in and has been eating cariboumeat since he could chew. I read newspa-per after newspaper with no mention ofStanley’s people — a nation, if certaintreaties are to be believed. What the arti-cles do mention is national security.We’re going to drill oil on the arctic plainbecause of national security.

For 40,000 years there have been peo-ple and caribou in the Arctic. There arestories going so far back that in them peo-ple and caribou are the same. Stanley toldme this around a campfire on thePorcupine River. We were eating freshcaribou, barely cooked, flash-seared in apan over the spruce fire. Behind us ingathering dark, the carcass steamed onnew snow. And he told me how the peo-ple, the Gwich’in, never go to the arcticslope where the caribou calve — it is anold agreement, as old as the stories. Birthshould be given in peace.

Neither peace nor birth seem particular-ly likely under the arm of an oil derrick. Sohere is nation without security, and weknow it from being told: Without security,there is no survival.

Survival could be synonymous with thepeople and the caribou in the Gwich’in lan-guage. The three are bound to the land: theGwich’in cannot live outside it or beyondit. If one senator from South Carolina saidit was a barren place then it was onlybecause he could not see.

There are those who will claim that I ambeing a romantic, telling stories of noblesavages and Eden in the raw. To which Isay: I lived there for two years, enough timeto understand that it is not romantic toconfront a choice between starvation andgiving up everything that defines you andyour people.

There are those who will ask: “What ofour security of our nation, and of the dan-gers of foreign oil?” I say that anyone withhalf a brain and a calculator knows that thebarrels of crude under the Refuge will yieldenough oil to keep cruder Americans con-tent for six months even as it makes thecrudest of them rich.

So I desire infernal and poetic justice. Aplane crash. All 51 senators who voted toslip drilling into a budget bill — cowardsdodging filibusters in their Brooks Brotherssuits — gone down in the wilderness, starv-ing to death for lack of meat. That would do:Starvation is slow and leaves time for regret.

Regret, however bitter, does not salvagethe past. When Stanley made fire and weate meat, it was 10 miles from a cave wherethe oldest human artifact on this continentwas discovered: a piece of caribou bonechipped into a hide scraper. It stayed in acave unchanged for 40,000 years. Which isto say, marks remain in the Arctic. If youdrill oil, if you bring in the machines andpull up the earth and put down the roads, itwill scrape deep into the tundra. Thesemarks will not heal. They will be our arti-fact

Bathsheba Demuth ’06 is an independentconcentrator.

I have spent two weeks riding eleva-tors. I spent hours inside those smallcages — up, down, up, down, up — as aclass assignment. It was a social experi-ment to investigate what people do whenforced into mutual company within sucha confined space. I took the elevators atthe Rock as high as they would take me,and as low. The steel cubes of the CITwere my home one lonely Thursdaynight. And, day after day, I shot to the topof the SciLi, got out to look past theProvidence skyline and then droppeddownwards again.

Here is what I expected: students,adults, and faculty wouldenter the elevator, pushthe button for their desti-nation and then consignthemselves to silence andstare away from my direc-tion. There would be no verbal exchange,no tacit eye contact and certainly no bla-tant conversation. When the doorsopened, my fellow elevator riders and Iwould depart, one after the other —silently, as though to prove our alonenesstogether.

I found what I was looking for, but Ifound more. The truth is, during my manyvertical rides, we always found an act inwhich to engage ourselves. We fixed awinter hat that didn’t need fixing; weunzipped, then re-zipped, an overcoat;we fiddled with iPods and Discmans. Atthe very least, we stared — at the buttonconsole to our side, at the numbers abovethe steel doors or, occasionally, at nothingbut a blank spot on the ground. Some ofus leaned against walls; others planted

their feet and stood unsupported. One ortwo paced; most remained as statues,staring out into nothingness. I flippedthrough a book, and played with a pencap. But whatever we did — and we all didsomething — we did it intently, and wedid it with purpose.

The purpose, I think, was this: to leteach other know that we refused to inter-act with each other. With no words spo-ken, we told each other, “I’m busy rightnow. I know you are there, but I will notacknowledge you.” A few brave souls didglance in my direction, perhaps to checkon my behavior, and I occasionally

returned the favor. But, save for onemutual head-nod, we always averted ourgaze the moment after we haphazardlyacknowledged one another.

It is sad that we freeze and constrictourselves in this way, but I have begun tothink that behavior like this is largelyinfluenced by the sudden change inenvironment elevators provide. We stepout of a public space — in which we canwalk through the crowds without everhaving to say a word — and we step intoan enclosed space, where we are alonewith a stranger. It is a forced mutualexchange, and we don’t like to be forced.The four walls close in, and suddenlyone feels compelled to say something,anything. In such a short period of time,one finds it challenging to say anything

of meaning — even though we do know, Ihope, that “How are you?” and “Have anice day” are some of the most meaning-ful things we can ever say. So, as a result,one becomes determined not to say any-thing. And we ride along in mutualsilence.

But think of that other awkward socialencounter: the dreaded sidewalk sparringthat occurs when two strangers walktowards each other from a distance. Onehas to judge where the other will move,and then pick another path to avoid a col-lision. But doesn’t it seem that, moreoften than not, we fail to find diverging

paths, and we walk righttowards each other until wealmost collide? What a greatexample of people simplybeing unable to avoid con-tact. We try, but we cannot

escape acknowledging the fact that weare sharing this space with anotherhuman being. We are like magnets withopposite poles: We can’t help but join.There’s something comforting in thisattraction.

Maybe we can learn from the sidewalkencounter, and apply the lesson to eleva-tor rides. By being aware of the mutualseclusion elevators provide, and by mak-ing an effort to overcome that isolation,we can enjoy a bit more the short time wehave together. That may take the form ofa short conversation, or, more likely, just asmile. And when the steel doors open, wecan depart just a little more satisfied.

Joshua Lerner ’07 is not a creep. Heswears.

The steel cubes of the CIT were myhome one lonely Thursday night.

BY ROBYN NORWOODLOS ANGELES TIMES

A drawing. A name. Initials. A cross.Those are ordinary tattoos.Oklahoma State freshman JamesOn

Curry has what looks like a paragraph onhis left arm.

“Though you have made me see trou-bles, many and bitter, you will restore mylife again; from the depths of the earth, youwill again bring me up.” - Psalms 71:20.

It has been little more than a year sinceCurry seemingly ruined his career.

He was Tobacco Road’s native son, liter-ally working the tobacco fields beyond hisfamily’s door as he grew into the leadingscorer in North Carolina high school bas-ketball history — a history that includesDavid Thompson, James Worthy andMichael Jordan.

But on a February day in 2004, Currybecame one of more than 60 AlamanceCounty high school students arrested ina drug sting, facing six felony chargesafter he twice sold marijuana to anundercover officer.

His scholarship to North Carolina evapo-rated in, yes, a puff of smoke, when CoachRoy Williams rescinded it after Curry plead-ed guilty. He spent the rest of his senior yearbanned from the Eastern Alamance Highcampus in Mebane, unable even to attendhis own prom.

When Connie Curry heard a crashingsound a few days after the arrest, it took hera moment to realize it wasn’t an accident on

the highway outside their home.It was her son in his room, destroying the

souvenirs of a career.“It looked like he had torn everything off

the wall, everything but his track awards,and I just said, ‘Oh my God, JamesOn,’ andgrabbed him and told him everything wouldbe all right,” Connie Curry said. “I guess hejust thought it was the end of the world.”

His world has been reborn.When Oklahoma State plays Arizona in

the Sweet 16 Thursday night at Rosemont,Ill., Curry will start alongside four playerswho reached the Final Four last season.

In the first two rounds, when theCowboys wavered, Curry, a 6-foot-3 shoot-ing guard with the ball-handling and deci-sion-making skills of a senior point guard,pulled them through, contributing 31points and seven assists.

“It’s a blessing in disguise, everything thathappened,” Curry said, adding he no longerdwells on what-ifs. “I can’t go against God’splan. I’m thankful for this opportunity.”

Curry, averaging 9.4 points and 2.7assists while shooting 47.6 percent, said hewas not dealing drugs in high school, butdescribes himself as what his father calls “anaive country boy.”

“I got the drugs for the guy,” he said.“(But) you can’t go around pointing fingers,or with your head down. I hold my headhigh. I know our God is forgiving.”

At Eastern Alamance High, where TVtrucks filled the parking lot and the NewYork Times and Washington Post called

after Curry’s arrest, Oklahoma State T-shirtsare now “very, very prevalent,” PrincipalJoAnne Hayes said.

“He’s a great kid who made a mistake,”said Hayes, who has known Curry since hewas born.

“It was a very traumatic event for ourschool. I’m very thankful that Coach EddieSutton understands people can make amistake and will give an individual that sec-ond chance. Many, many people called me.Coach Sean Sutton and James Dickey werethe only ones who flew in and talked to me.I really respect that they took the time tolearn more about the circumstances.”

After pleading guilty, Curry was sen-tenced to three years of probation and 200hours of community service.

“Back home, picking up trash in an

orange vest, I felt like a criminal,” he said.After he arrived in Stillwater last sum-

mer, he completed his community serviceat a local church.

“Mainly painting and cleaning,” he said.Sutton has had success taking transfers

and last-chance players — well-traveledguard Tony Allen from last season’s teamwas one — and believes he made the rightcall on Curry.

“A lot of people were critical of the factwe took him,” Sutton said. “Sean and JamesDickey went back there for a week andtalked to people. What he did was out ofcharacter, and he certainly paid for it.

“He’s just a wonderful young man whomade a horrible mistake.”

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 24, 2005 · PAGE 12

The approach of April can mean only onething: the start of baseball season. In 10 dayscomes the return of pop flies, grounders toshort and random Angel Berroa errors. In

just a mere 10 days,fans will have thechance to take inthe ballpark experi-ence of buyingoverpriced beer,

eating lukewarm hot dogs and dodging JoseContreras’ wild pitches. With that in mind,let’s take a preview of the American Leaguethis year.

AL East: Again, the pennant race will boildown to the Boston Red Sox and the NewYork Yankees, and it appears that the Soxhave the edge this year. The defendingchamps’ lineup, which led the league inruns scored, batting average and on-basepercentage last year, returns almost in itsentirety, with a major upgrade from OrlandoCabrera to Edgar Renteria, one of baseball’sbest shortstops on both sides of the ball. Thepotency of the offense can be captured inthis one picture: Jay Payton, the team’s back-up outfielder, is a career .285 hitter who hit28 home runs two years ago.

In terms of pitching, the loss of PedroMartinez will be offset by the addition ofMatt Clement and David Wells. At this pointin Martinez’s career, both Wells andClement should just be as effective as he is.The also newly acquired Wade Miller, if hecan stay healthy, has the potential to be onethe best starters in the league. Keith Foulkewill anchor a solid pen that now includesformer Diamondbacks and Marlins closerMatt Mantei.

The Yankees should give the Sox a run fortheir money, but that’s contingent upon anumber of things, namely Randy Johnson’sright knee — and the cartilage in RandyJohnson’s right knee. But if both hold up,Johnson will give the team the true ace that

it lacked last year. Carl Pavano should have adecent, though not All-Star-worthy, year inthe Bronx, and should send Johnson someflowers for taking the New York media spot-light off him this year. Mike Mussina shouldrebound from his abysmal 2004 season, butKevin Brown may be at the tail end of hiscareer. In terms of offense, the Yankees alsohave a potent lineup that nearly matches upwith that of the Sox.

It’s a shame that the AL East race hasalready been universally written off to thesetwo clubs, because there is some good tal-ent in Toronto and Baltimore. The Blue Jayshave some of the best young talent in base-ball in Vernon Well and Alexis Rios, but don’thave the pitching to seriously contend.Likewise, the Orioles don’t have enoughpitching to compete, despite an alreadyhard-hitting lineup that just added SammySosa. And even having stars like Aubrey Huffand Carl Crawford won’t help the Devil Raysclimb out of the cellar this year. But it will befun to watch young hotshots Scott Kazmirand B.J. Upton — if he can remember howto field in Triple A — tear it up.

AL Central: With no significant changesin the AL Central, the Twins should again bethe favorite to take the division. JohanSantana should follow up his unreal 2004with another Cy Young-worthy year, andBrad Radke should also have a strong yearas the number two starter. Joe Nathan hasemerged as a premier closer, and shouldpreserve be able most of their wins. In all,the Twins’ pitching staff should keep thematop a mediocre division, despite theirpedestrian offense.

Keep an eye on the Cleveland Indians,though — they’re one of the youngest,fastest and most exciting teams in theleague. The team’s young core of Coco Crisp,Victor Martinez and Ronnie Belliard can

BY STEPHEN COLELLIASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Baseball season begins in spring for areason. Each team and player startsthe year anew when, appropriately,everything else in the world is startingover. For Matt Kutler ’05, this springmarks the end of a year full of strug-gles and a return to the game he loves.

Entering the 2004 season, Kutlerwas the team leader thanks to hisastounding hitting ability. He wascoming off of two straight First TeamAll-Ivy campaigns, having led theleague with 66 hits and 44 RBIs in2003, and was poised to break theschool record for career RBIs.Additionally, Kutler was returningfrom his second successful stint in theCape Cod League, a summer leaguefor top college players. With Kutler, theBears were poised to win the leaguechampionship that had eluded themthe previous two seasons.

“My first two seasons, we had beenone game away from the champi-onship game. My sophomore year, wewere three outs away,” Kutler said. “Wewere definitely going into last seasonwith the idea of contending for a title.”

With Kutler’s career skyrocketingand the team set on winning the IvyLeague, the Bears entered spring prac-tice full of confidence. That’s whenKutler’s troubles began.

“About a week before the seasonbegan it had gotten nice out and wewent outside to practice,” Kutler said.“I was playing center (field) duringpractice, and someone hit a shot outto me. I took off for it and I had to diveto make the play. When I dove, mythumb got caught in the ground andmy body kept going.”

Kutler’s gloved hand got caught inthe turf beneath him and his thumbbent backwards. “I went to see somedoctors in Providence and theyexplained to me that the ligament wastorn, so I ended up flying home thatweekend to have surgery,” he said. “Itwas the worst tear possible.”

Both Kutler and the team wereshocked.

“It was a big blow for us, especiallywith it occurring a week before wewere ready to go,” said Head CoachMarek Drabinski. “It gave a lot of theyounger guys a chance to step in andplay right away, but all of them could-n’t replace all that Matt did for us.”

Kutler flew back to his Nebraskahome as lost as he had ever been. Thekid who had never missed a game,who had been a Cape League PlayoffMVP, was denied his senior seasonbecause of a freak accident.

After surgery, Kutler’s thumb was

placed in a cast for two months. As hefollowed the team’s progress from thesidelines, Kutler found himself strug-gling with the loss of baseball.

“It was tough to watch the team,tough to read the articles about them,”he said. “Just like that, everythingchanged.”

One of the most disappointingaspects of the injury was that it short-circuited Kutler’s path to the pros. Inparticular, it was his performance inthe Cape Cod League that had origi-nally garnered the attention of proscouts.

In contrast to college games, wherealuminum bats are used, the Cape CodLeague gives scouts a better idea ofhow a player will hit as a minor lea-guer and, ultimately, a big leaguer byusing wooden bats. Kutler spent twosummers patrolling the outfield forthe Wareham Gatemen. He hit .301 inhis first season and tied for second onthe team with 15 RBIs. In the playoffs,Kutler powered Wareham to the cham-pionship, knocking in nine RBIs whileslugging .700.

Kutler remembers his time on theCape fondly. “It was an amazing expe-rience,” he said. “The level of competi-tion was unbelievable. Most of theplayers have already been drafted (bymajor league organizations). It wasprobably the best experience I’ve hadin baseball.”

After the injury, his summer days onthe Cape seemed part of a distant past,Kutler said. He was facing much biggerissues. Kutler was prepared to gradu-

Kutler ’05 looks to get back in theswing of a once-promising career

Same old East, new look Westexpected in AL this year

Ashley Hess / Herald

After missing all of last season due toinjury,Matt Kutler ’05 looks to regain theform that made him an All-Ivy player in2002 and 2003.

Curry given a second chancewith Oklahoma State hoops

see CURRY, page 8

see KUTLER, page 8

see MLB, page 3

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