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Shalom and Shira Krinsky raise their hands in favor of latkes, supported by debator EveBienenstock, professor of applied mathematics.The vote, however, resulted in a 13-13 tie.

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BY MELANIE WOLFGANGNostalgia, existentialism and triumph wereamong the topics discussed at Wednesdaynight’s Latke-Hamentaschen Debate, spon-sored by Brown Hillel.

The event, which added a little flair totypical college forensics, featured Professorof Applied Mathematics Elie Bienenstockarguing for the superiority of the latke andRISD Professor of English Michael Finkchampioning the hamentasch.

Hamentaschen are triangular pastriesthat often have fruit filling and are tradi-tionally served during Purim, a holiday cel-ebrating the Jewish victory over the evilroyal advisor Hamen.

Latkes, on the other hand, are composedof grated potatoes and are typically eatenduring Hanukkah.

“I think it was a fair-balanced look at an

important issue facing all generations,” saidJeff Yoskowitz ’07.

Fink, in an entertaining six-minutespeech, held that the hamentasch wasmore “freeing” than its latke challenger,because it can be filled with anything fromprunes to poppy seeds.

The hamentasch also boasts “designflexibility” since it can be folded in a varietyof ways, he said.

“(Purim) is a holiday of liberation, andthe hamentaschen is a symbol of that,” Finksaid.

In support of the latke, Bienenstock gavea Power Point presentation on the signifi-cance of the “johnny cake.”

In a series of humorous slides applyingthe latke to neurological and mathematical

Hamentaschen portrayed asliberators, latkes as logical inHillel-sponsored debate

UCS discussesmeal planchanges,housing lotteryscavenger huntBY KRISTA HACHEYGretchen Willis and Virginia Dunleavy,director and associate director ofBrown Dining Services, met withmembers of the UndergraduateCouncil of Students Wednesday to dis-cuss imminent changes to dining atBrown.

By the first semester of next year,“meal zones,” the specific times set forbreakfast, lunch and dinner, will beeliminated to increase flexibility of themeal plan, Willis said.

“This is something the student bodyhas wanted (that UCS) has also beenfighting on their behalf for a longtime,” said UCS President Rahim Kurji’05.

Willis also announced plans toextend late-night dining service. Bynext year, BuDS hopes have adequatestaffing to extend hours for Josiah’sand the Gate to 2 a.m., Willis said.

“Labor is among the toughest nutsto crack,” she said.

Dunleavy also highlighted recentBuDS projects, including an expandedcommunity harvest program support-ing the local farm industry. She saidshe plans to solicit student feedbackregarding expanded menus, the newpizza vending machines and coopera-tive efforts with local businesses likeDunkin Donuts and Ben and Jerry’s.Dunleavy also envisions an “aestheticfacelift” for certain aspects of the din-ing halls, she said.

UCS Associate Member EmilyBlatter ’07 raised the possibility ofusing meal credits in the Blue Room,but Willis said it isn’t feasible. “If weallowed 3,700 students to potentiallyuse their credit there, it would not beable to function. Until we move to alarger venue, we’d just get pummeled,”she said.

Inflationoutpacinglibrary’s budget,limitingacquisitions BY KATE CONSIDINEThe disparity between rising book costsand the Brown’s library budget has cre-ated a budget crunch limiting thelibrary’s ability to purchase new materi-als.

The cost of library materials has goneup faster than the prices of other con-sumer goods, meaning libraries’ budg-ets must be stretched to pay for expect-ed inflation and the increased materialcosts, said Richard Spies, executive vicepresident for planning.

In recent years, Brown’s library sys-tem has received an annual budgetincrease of between 1 and 3 percent,but a $1 million one-time increase in2003 didn’t have a large effect on thelibraries’ ability to make new acquisi-tions, according to Bill Monroe, head ofthe collection development depart-ment.

“This situation is not unique to theBrown library. Every university strug-gles with this, but we have been slowerthan some places to recognize this,”Spies said. No single factor led to thechronic underfunding of the library, hesaid, though the recent economicdownturn is partly to blame.

It is only when the University pro-vides a budget increase big enough tocover inflation that the libraries canbegin to think about increasing the sizeof their collections, according to PatPutney, head of acquisitions.

“The library has been trying to dealwith inflation and to build the collec-tions and provide faculty and studentswith the resources they need,” Putneysaid.

For this fiscal year, the library’sacquisitions budget was held flat duringthe regular allocation cycle, meaningthat it received the same amount ofmoney it did last year.

Still, “the library did better thanmost” departments in the regular budg-

see LIBRARY, page 6see DEBATE, page 4

BY STEWART DEARINGBy combining art and historical research,Michael Ray Charles, associate professorof art at the University of Texas-Austin,said he makes his work effective as socialcommentary.

Charles researches imagery of AfricanAmericans throughout history and triesto look at the images in a new way andexplain them in his own work, he said ina lecture Wednesday afternoon in ListAuditorium..

“My work is about communicatingcertain ideas about blacks — stereotypesof relationships between whites andblacks, advertisements, pop culture andword play,” he said.

Charles began his work in graduateschool at the University of Houston bystudying 19th-century advertisementsfor minstrelsy.

Minstrelsy “contributed to a lot of con-cepts of blackness and our perception ofthem in the entertainment business,” hesaid.

These early advertisements, especiallythose made after the end of slavery in theUnited States, frame what an adult blackmale was supposed to be in society,Charles said.

He showed several 19th-centuryadvertisements for the circus, which he

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Commentary arises through research and relevance, artist says

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Professor and artist Michael Ray Charles discussed the confluence of politics andaesthetics in his work at a Wednesday night lecture in List Auditorium.

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Rachel Marshall ’04says women’s abortionrights might be on theway outcolumn, page 11

Religion is not a goodreason to ban gaymarriage, according toLaura Martin ’06column, page 11

Gymnastics takesthird place out of fourteams in Ivy Leaguecompetitionsports, page 12

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Deans Advisory Councilto revise lab fees policy,responding to studentcomplaints of misuse

Mandle hears student feedback onbudget, solicits further input

BY ALEXIS KUNSAKMore than a year after the Student Alliance firstvoiced concern about misused departmental labfees, students say they are still feeling uninformedabout why lab fees are so high and how the funds arespent.

After the Alliance discussed the issue in Nov. 2002,Lizzy Cross RISD ’04 formed a council of students toinvestigate the issue. The Deans Advisory Councilresponded to the Alliance’s concerns, promising tocreate new guidelines for monitoring lab funds.

Cross, who revived the issue at the Feb. 11 Alliancemeeting, said that by next year, new rules drafted bythe Deans Advisory Council will make certain that labfees apply only to field trips and materials used bystudents, not to costs related to the physical plantand utilities of departments.

“(Provost of Academic Affairs) Joe Deal and thedeans of the school are checking into all of the labfees being charged now to students, and becausesome departments are using them to boost their ownbudgets, we are hoping the total in fees, about$400,000, can be cut in half,” Cross said.

Luke Gasparro RISD ’05, who sat on the studentcouncil investigating lab fees, said he became inter-ested in the issue after hearing complaints fromfriends.

“I wanted to look into it because I had heard aboutsome problems,” he said. “Mainly, the textile classlast year that had their lab fees spent on flowers dec-orating the classroom, and it seemed like somethingstudents needed to show concern about.”

Because of large discrepancies in lab fees amongdepartments, students say they would have liked toknow what each department’s lab fees were at thetime they chose their majors. Lab fees are publishedby the registrar in the course announcement bulletinand automatically billed to students registered in theclass.

The Department of Apparel Design, for example,charges no lab fees, whereas some courses in theDepartment of Industrial Design charge $300 in labfees to provide wood supplies and a tool kit some stu-dents said they already owned.

“It would be nice to know exactly how muchmoney is spent on which supplies, because there arealways other ways of financing projects independ-ently,” said Ryan Peloquin RISD ’05, an industrialdesign major.

“It seems that some classes have done a better jobexplaining the fees than others,” said Sarah HoopesRISD ’06, a film, animation and video major. “Myexperimental film class this semester was very clearabout the expenses.”

Within some departments, such as painting, stu-dents disagree about whether lab fees are being spentwisely.

Painting major Jessica Soininen RISD ’06 said,“Lab fees haven’t been outrageous for me. I under-stood where they were going, and it was nice to havesupplies available for some classes without beingresponsible for everything on your own.”

But Cross, who is also a painting major, said, “Labfees should be more about the materials studentsneed to work with. A $50 fee seems excessive forpainting students simply so they can use a studiospace in class. Repainting the room and physicalplant expenses shouldn’t be part of that.”

Even students who approve of their own depart-ment’s use of lab funds say they are aware of com-plaints from their peers.

“I haven’t paid that much attention to it, but wedon’t have fees in illustration,” said AnthonyWeinstock RISD ’05. “I’m sure painting has to paymore for their ventilation and toxic material disposalsystem than we do.”

Sean Springer RISD ’05 said, “I haven’t beenexposed to the waste of money personally, but peoplecomplain about it a lot. Students also complain moresometimes if they didn’t like the teacher or didn’tunderstand the class.”

Herald staff writer Alexis Kunsak RISD ’05 can bereached at [email protected].

BY DANA GOLDSTEINIn a poorly attended town hall meeting Wednesdaynight, President Roger Mandle pledged to establish offi-cial means for students to respond to RISD’s budgetdeficit and led students and administrators on a three-dimensional, computer-simulated tour of the proposedChace Center building.

Formerly called the RISD Center project, the ChaceCenter will consist of a completely remodeled MemorialHall and a new building situated next to it.

Mandle opened the meeting, held in the Tap Room, bysoliciting questions from the nine students in atten-dance, who were joined by seven administrators.Spurred by a string of questions posed by Bryce Bounds’04.5, as well as input from Student Alliance PresidentSuzannah Park ’06 and other Alliance members, Mandleattempted to explain the causes and effects of what hesaid was a $2.5 million budget shortfall for the 2003-2004fiscal year.

Reiterating parts of his Feb. 10 letter to the RISD com-munity, Mandle said small tuition increases were notenough to make up for RISD’s increased expenditures onenergy costs, health insurance coverage for employeesand the effects of an economic downturn.

Because RISD plans its budget in three-year chunks,the school is feeling fiscal pressure this year, althoughthe stock market has begun to improve.

Mandle told students that tuition will continue toincrease, but assured them that it will do so at a slowerrate than at RISD’s peer institutions.

“As high as our tuition is, your education costs usmore than your tuition supplies,” Mandle said. “An acuteway to say it is that you’ve already gotten a scholarshipwhen you pay your tuition.”

That “scholarship” is provided by earnings fromRISD’s $220 million endowment, which is the largestendowment of any American art school, Mandle said.

“We’re actually very fiscally solvent, but it’s myresponsibility to keep us so. ... We are still functioning offearnings,” Mandle said, adding that other schools, suchas Brown, had reserve funds from their endowments tocarry them through the economic downturn.

Asked to give examples of how money will be saved,Mandle said the administration is considering cuttingback the $60,000 the school spends to provide employ-ees with cellular telephones. Mandle also cited new fac-ulty contracts in which RISD faculty members agreed topay higher health insurance premiums, on par with thepremiums paid by RISD staff members.

When students asked Mandle to explain how theycould assist in the search for money-saving opportuni-ties, Mandle first suggested they bring their concernsand ideas to their advisors and Director of Student LifeBlair De St. Croix, in attendance at the town hall meet-ing.

But after further discussion, Mandle agreed to workwith the Student Alliance during the next two weeks tosolicit student opinion about areas where money couldbe saved. Mandle told Park he would write an e-mail toencourage the Alliance’s new undergraduate depart-

mental representatives to draft lists of places withineach department where students feel funds are poorlyused.

Mandle also led the students and administrators on avirtual tour of the Chace Center. If RISD stays on trackon its fundraising for the project, which is conductedoutside the constraints of the annual budget, construc-tion will begin next December, and the center will openin the fall of 2008.

The six-story Chace Center will include gallery spacefor both students and the RISD Museum, several eater-ies, a new home for the Department of Painting, class-rooms for liberal arts courses, studios for Foundationand drawing classes, a 200-seat auditorium and a bal-cony overlooking the city. The facade of the buildingincorporates brick and translucent, reflective glass.

Park said the Alliance continues to be concernedabout the loss of Memorial Hall student gallery space,but Mandle said as much student space will be availableafter the completion of the Chace Center and new dor-mitories and student life space at 15 Westminister St.

“Think creatively about the different uses each spacewill have,” he said.

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 edits the RISDNews section. She can be reached [email protected].

BY JENNIFER COSTAThe RISD Anime Culture Club’s unofficial collectionof downloaded anime films feature mostly “cheese-ball stuff,” said Associate Director of Student LifePaul Connelly, but the club’s student leaders saidtheir large binder of illegally downloaded movies ispopular with students.

Because the Anime Culture Club is a studentgroup whose movie collection is not funded by thecollege, administrators from the Office of StudentLife said they would not interfere in the dispersal ofthe illegally downloaded films. The RISD Libraryhouses a collection of legitimate anime material inits video collection.

“They have their own collections — we have noright to interfere,” said Director of Student Life Blairde St. Croix. “(RISD) has nothing to do with the vio-lation of copyright laws.”

The highly casual system of students borrowingfilms from the binder is exclusive to members of theclub, Connelly said, but Anime Culture ClubPresident Liz Eck said the movies were available forall interested RISD students to borrow.

Within the club itself, the collection is popular,Eck said. The club has close to 100 members, and theeasily accessible compilation is useful for catchingup on topics discussed at club meetings, she added.

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concepts, Bienenstock pointed tothe science of the snack.

He provided formulas for suchspoofs as the LLL — the Law ofLarge Latkes and revealed sec-tions of the human brain thatactually resemble latkes. He alsomade reference to the “latkomor-phic activation of the occipitalcortex.”

Although the debate ostensiblyfocused on the two Jewish treats,the choice of professors also intro-duced to the discussion a subtle,underlying contest between artand science — or even RISD and

Brown.“There is a tyranny about

logic,” Fink said in response toBienenstock’s presentation.

Fink maintained that hamen-taschen supporters are “open toexperience” while latke support-ers are essentially narrow-mind-ed, which is especially appropri-ate, he said, given the flatness of alatke. “Hamentaschen has sub-stance,” Fink said.

Fink also noted the “nostalgic”dessert’s historical connections,suggesting that the hamen-taschen bear a striking resem-blance to the shape of Napoleon’shat, thereby linking the Jewishpeople to the age of Napoleon.

He noted that Napoleon liber-ated the Jews from the ghettoes ofEurope, although they werestripped of their Jewish identity.

The hamentasch is a uniquely“existential food” that is alsointensely personal and tri-umphant, Fink said.

Bienenstock, on the otherhand, drew a grave parallelbetween the French word “lamen-tation” and the Jewish food“hamentaschen.” Fink repliedthat the dessert’s connection with“lamentation” represented theJews’ ability to feel sorrow — inessence, their humanity.

At the close of Fink’s speech,moderator Brown Hillel RabbiMitchell Levine joked that Fink

had made “latke good points,”and Bienenstock ultimately saidthat “as long as we can eat it,” bothfoods are equally appealing.

The audience also voted, byshow of hands, that they wereessentially split on the issue.

“It affirmed my faith in thelatke,” said Anat Mooreville ’07.

A popular discussion amongJewish scholars, the Latke-Hamentaschen debate is notunique to Brown Hillel. It has alsobeen held at other colleges, suchas Williams College andMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology.

University of PennsylvaniaProfessor Robin Leidner pub-lished a materialist-feministanalysis of the issue, and BarnardCollege President Judith Shapiroapplied her own feminist andpost-modernist twists to thedebate, suggesting that the latkeand hamentaschen could be con-sidered “semiotic representationsof the two sexes.”

“Brown Hillel shows its supportfor both the latke and hamen-taschen by shaping the Hillelbuilding like a latke and by hang-ing pictures of hamentaschen inits social hall,” said event organiz-er Eli Braun ’06.

The debate was followed bydessert and was held in the newBrown Hillel building at 80 BrownSt. About 45 students attended.

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has examined for the patterns ofclothing and facial expression ofthe African American clowns andperformers.

Charles juxtaposed theseadvertisements with his ownpaintings, which satirize them, asa means of social commentary onstereotypes of African Americans.

“When I look at this (advertise-ment), I ask the question, whataspects of blackness were exag-gerated and for what purpose?”he said.

According to Charles, AfricanAmericans are placed under astereotype in which “blackness”has to function in opposition to“whiteness. ” In these advertise-ments, African Americans areseen as humorous and childlike,he said.

Charles cited the movie “SpaceJam” as a modern example of theassociation of black people withchildlike figures.

“I don’t want to seem like I amthis angry black man,” he said. “Iam just concerned that this is

where we are now.”Charles said he would not crit-

icize Michael Jordan for makingthe movie, because it broughtJordan so much success, but hedoes not like the message itsends.

“Black athletes have thepotential to be heroes,” he said.“They should use their dispos-able money to help young blackswho have ambitions to be cre-ative and who don’t want to justgo to college and get any job thatpays well.”

He encouraged AfricanAmericans to question represen-tations of themselves in themedia.

Other blacks often do notunderstand Charles’ success asan artist, he said, and think thathe has betrayed his African-American identity.

“I seemed white to them, intransition, never able to occupythat which I seek,” he said.

But through his art, Charlessaid he tries to prove that even ina field dominated by white men,African Americans can break outof media-imposed stereotypesand live up to their ambitions.


Charles

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Consumers are receivingfewer unsolicited phone calls, but some telemarketershaven’t given up their fight against the government’sdo-not-call list.

The American Teleservices Association, which repre-sents many call centers, announced Wednesday itwould ask the Supreme Court to hear its challenge to arecent appeals court decision upholding the nationalanti-telemarketing registry. Executive Director TimSearcy said in a statement the appeal was necessarybecause “commercial speech is under attack.”

But a larger telemarketing group, the DirectMarketing Association, which represents the companiesthat make the products that are sold by the call centers,said it would not appeal the unanimous decision the10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel issuedFeb. 17. President H. Robert Wientzen said his associa-tion decided not to appeal because “we do not want torisk more bad publicity.”

The split seems to reflect the fact that the do-not-calllist has had more of an impact on the companies thatactually make the calls. Both trade groups saidWednesday that the anti-telemarketing registry hasforced some telemarketing firms to shut down some call

centers or lay off some workers, and in some cases hirecheaper labor overseas.

Although there are no precise numbers yet, “the do-not-call list has taken a bite out of the industry,” Searcysaid in a phone interview.

Meanwhile, the companies that make the productsbeing sold are finding other ways to market their goodsand services — by mail, Internet, and even old-fash-ioned magazine and newspaper ads, Wientzen said.

More than 57.8 million phone numbers have beenregistered to the list, which went into effect in October.Every time telemarketers call a number on the list, theyrisk being fined up to $11,000 from either the FederalTrade Commission or the Federal CommunicationsCommission.

Since the registry went into effect, federal regulatorshave received more than 160,000 complaints. The FCChas issued eight citations, the first step in the regulato-ry enforcement process. The FTC has yet to file a com-plaint.

Lois Greisman, an associate director at the FTC, saidthe agency is “hard at work at several fronts,” althoughit could be weeks before an action is brought.Meanwhile, she said, “compliance has been terrific.”

A recent survey by Harris Interactive showed thatmore than 90 percent of consumers who registered theirnumbers with the list said they were receiving fewertelemarketing calls, including 25 percent who said theyhave received no calls.

The appeals court overturned a lower court rulingthat found the do-not-call list was unconstitutionalbecause it unfairly restricted commercial sales callswhile allowing calls from charities or politicians. Theappeals court panel said the telemarketing registry wasa valid restraint of commercial speech because it “tar-gets speech that invades the privacy of the home, a per-sonal sanctuary that enjoys a unique status in our con-stitutional jurisprudence.”

Several commercial speech experts said Wednesdaythey doubted the Supreme Court would take the case,partly because the panel’s opinion was unanimous andthere has been no conflicting opinion from another court.

Given the national importance of the issue, the courtcould agree to consider the issue, said Laurence Tribe, aHarvard University law professor. But, he said, thereported decrease in telemarketing calls has made a“quantitative and qualitative impact on homeowners’tranquility” that could justify the restrictions.

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Bush, Kerry come out swinging(Los Angeles Times) — Appealing for money and support,President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) swung into the 2004 general election Wednesday,launching an eight-month battle that promises to pickup where the polarized 2000 presidential campaign leftoff.

Bush was in Los Angeles, raising money for an adblitz that starts Thursday and seeks to polish an imagescuffed by months of Democratic attacks.

Kerry, freed of serious primary opposition, moved toconsolidate his control over the Democratic Party andbegan the search for a running mate by choosing a vet-eran Washington hand to oversee the process. A vicepresidential selection is not expected for several weeks.

The senator from Massachusetts then flew to Florida,the epicenter of the bitter 2000 election fight, to cam-paign ahead of the state’s Tuesday primary. A top prior-ity was raising the money needed to compete withBush’s record campaign treasury, now $150 million andgrowing. Kerry stated his goal succinctly: “We’re goingto raise as much as we can as fast as we can.”

In Raleigh, N.C., Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) official-ly exited the race at an exuberant rally at the high schoolattended by two of his children. Fatigue etched in hiseyes, he endorsed Kerry as someone who “has what ittakes” and declared, “I’ll do everything in my power tomake him president of the United States.”

While Edwards said for weeks he was not interestedin being Kerry’s running mate, aides quietly acknowl-edged he would likely accept the job if offered.

Others mentioned include Florida’s two Democraticsenators, Bob Graham and Bill Nelson, who cam-paigned Wednesday at Kerry’s side.

Thanks to a front-loaded primary calendar, theDemocratic nominating fight was settled earlier thanany in modern history, leaving Kerry relativelyunscathed and in a position to rally a party that is high-ly energized and strongly united.

But the rapid conclusion also makes for an unusuallylong general election campaign, which leaves Kerry at aconsiderable financial disadvantage.

The Bush team moved quickly to exploit its edge,plotting a TV campaign expected to last months andseek to define Kerry for voters before he has an oppor-tunity to effectively fight back.

The ads will air starting Thursday on several nationalcable TV outlets and in selected broadcast markets inmore than a dozen battleground states. The campaigndeclined to name the targeted states or describe the sizeof the ad buy.

With titles such as “Safer, Stronger,” “Tested” and“Lead,” the ads underscore the Bush strategy of portray-ing the president as a steady hand in turbulent times.They flash images harking back to the terrorist attacksof Sept. 11, 2001, including pictures of firefighters tolink the president to the heroes that day, and alsoinclude footage of Bush at work in the White House andtaking the oath of office.

“The Kerry campaign has run 15 or 16 negative ads invarious markets around the country, spent millions ofdollars on those, and it’s one of the things that we know

as a campaign we have to confront in the initial stages,”Matt Dowd, a Bush reelection strategist, told reportersat a screening of the new ads at campaign headquartersin Arlington, Va.

Even as he scrambled for contributions, Kerry wasnot going entirely undefended.

The group MoveOn.org announced it would launchanti-Bush ads on Thursday to counter the president.Wes Boyd, president of the left-leaning organization,said it would broadcast ads in 17 states attacking thepresident’s economic policies as unfair to workers andfiscally irresponsible.

The selective targeting by both sides underscoredone of the truths of the 2004 election: Far from being a50-state campaign, the race is likely to come down to adozen or so states that were close in 2000 and probablywill be again. They include Florida, Ohio, Michigan,Missouri, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Iowa,Nevada, New Hampshire and West Virginia.

And like 2000, strategists for both parties agree, theNovember election is likely to be close.

Bush enjoys many advantages, including incumben-cy and a slight tilt in the Electoral College, resultingfrom population shifts that put a few more electoralvotes in states he is expected to win. But at the sametime, some of the heaviest job losses under his adminis-tration have come in the battleground states of theMidwest.

“He can’t get rid of that hump on his back,” said EdSarpolus, an independent polltaker in Michigan, wherejob losses have driven Bush’s approval ratings below the50 percent danger level for an incumbent.

While the president is expected to campaign heavilyon national security issues and his anti-terrorismefforts, Sarpolus said his polls of Michigan voters showmany there believe, “It’s more of a terror to lose yourjob. That’s the focus here, jobs and the economy.”

The general election also promises to present voterswith some of the starkest policy choices they have facedin many years.

“We’ve got the whole doctrine of preemption in ourforeign policy, enormous cutting-edge social issues likegay marriage. There’s the whole question of the econo-my and how to get it up and running, and what our roleis in the global economy,” said Q. Whitfield Ayres, aRepublican polltaker in Washington. “There are somewho will argue there are not a lot of differences betweenthe two parties. But I think most voters will see signifi-cant differences.”

During the session with Florida voters, Kerry brieflyaddressed the need to beef up homeland security andgive greater support to America’s first responders, thepolice, fire and emergency medical services that are animportant line of protection against terrorism.

He accused the Bush administration of under-fund-ing its own education reform measure, and reiteratedhis call to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiestAmericans.

Kerry then swung into an appeal for donations,

Haitian rebel leaderdeclares missionaccomplishedPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Los Angeles Times) — As Marines inHumvees began patrolling Haiti’s capital, rebel leaderGuy Philippe declared his mission accomplishedWednesday and said his forces would lay down theirarms now that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide hadfled into exile.

More than 2,000 soldiers from nations includingthe United States, France, Canada and Chile havearrived in Haiti in the three days since Aristideresigned, but Port-au-Prince has continued to beplagued by looting, destruction and revenge killings.On Wednesday, the U.S. Marine commander here saidforeign forces were now ready to begin stepping intothe security void and protecting Haitian citizens.

Caribbean nations, however, announced theywould refrain from taking part in the peacekeepingeffort to protest what they see as the unsavory roleplayed by unnamed Western countries — presumablyFrance and the United States — in Aristide’s ouster.

The 15-nation Caribbean Community, whichincludes Haiti, had pushed the United NationsSecurity Council to send an international protectionforce to Haiti three days before Aristide’s departure,but that plea was rebuffed. After Aristide departedHaiti on Sunday for exile in Africa, the SecurityCouncil quickly approved an international stabiliza-tion force and Marines began arriving.

“We could not fail to observe that what was impos-sible on Thursday could be accomplished in an emer-gency meeting on Sunday. We are disappointed in theextreme at the failure to act,” said P.J. Patterson,Jamaica’s prime minister, on behalf of the Caricomnations. The group also called for the United Nationsor some other independent body to investigate thecircumstances of Aristide’s departure.

Aristide, who became Haiti’s first democraticallyelected president in 1990, has accused the UnitedStates of forcing him out in what he called a “modernkidnapping” and a “modern coup d’etat.” Haiti’sneighbors believe he was coerced into fleeing.

The Haitian leader, already deposed in one coup in1991, left his country Sunday as Philippe’s rebelsadvanced on the capital, vowing to capture the presi-dent and put him on trial for corruption and humanrights abuses. Washington and Paris, fearing a blood-bath if the rebels and armed street gangs loyal toAristide confronted each other, strongly suggested heshould resign for the good of the country.

In Washington on Wednesday, the top U.S. diplo-mat for Latin America defended the administration’sdecision not to shield exiled Aristide from approach-ing rebels last weekend, saying the United Statesshould not risk its soldiers’ lives for failing govern-ments.

Appearing before a House subcommittee, Assistant

Telemarketing industry divided over challenge to do-not-call list

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The members also discussedwhether BuDS could attractmore seniors to the meal planby offering a seven-meal plan.Willis said similar plans hadbeen implemented in the past,catering to certain groups likestudents living off-campus, butthat generated backlash fromthose students who weredenied access to them.

Willis said increasing diningoptions open to certain classeswould require “an understand-ing that trade-offs must bemade and that a freshman willnot be able to have the samelevel of flexibility and numberof options as a senior mayhave.”

Campus Life Chair AriSavitzky ’06 asked how FaunceHouse’s future status as a build-ing open 24 hours a day willaffect Dining Services. Willissaid her office plans to keep theCampus Market open until 3a.m. but that hours depend onsales.

“If people use the resource,we’ll keep it open,” she said.

During the Executive Boardreport, Kurji lauded the open-ing of the new LGBTQ ResourceCenter in Faunce.

“As long as some students dolive in fear or uncertainty, wemust continue to work togethertoward a campus climate that isaccepting and embraces all dif-ference,” Kurji said.

In an effort to give students agreater voice in the shaping ofcampus life improvementsapproved this week by theCorporation, UCS has sent let-ters to student leaders, invitingthem to a meeting Tuesday togenerate ideas and debate,Kurji said.

Dean for Campus LifeMargaret Jablonski briefed thecouncil on a meeting with resi-dent counselors last week.Based on feedback from coun-selors, the University will offersingles, rather than doubles, toPerkins Hall counselors nextyear.

Jablonski also said everyoneat the meeting, both studentsand administrators, agreed thatthough counselors are paidfairly, they are not paid as wellas counselors at other peerinstitutions.

Next year, there will be a 25percent raise in counselors’stipends, and improvementswill be made to the “compensa-tion package” they receive, shesaid.

Class of 2006 Representative

Natalie Schmid ’06 proposedthat the Office of Student Lifelook at the possibility of givingcounselors free housing. Shealso brought up the benefits oftrying to increase the numbersof juniors and seniors in theprogram to enrich mentoring.

Admissions and StudentServices Chair Sonia Gupta ’06received UCS’s “Bear Hug”award for her work on therecent scavenger hunt. She saidthe activity captured UCS’sbroad vision of an enhancedsense of community on cam-pus.

“You saw people on cellphones, using code names,walking around in chef’s hatsfrom BuDS,” she said.

“It was also a great collabo-rative effort with (theUndergraduate Finance Boardand) Residential Life, and myown committee came togetherlike no other.”

While only four teams par-ticipated in last year’s lip-synccontest, there were 114 teamsand between 500 to 800 stu-dents involved in this year’shunt.

Herald staff writer KristaHachey ’07 can be reached atk h a c h e y @ b r o w n d a i l y -herald.com.


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et cycle, because its funding washeld flat rather than being cut,Provost Robert Zimmer told TheHerald in November.

But because of inflation, hold-ing the acquisitions budget flatmeant the department had lesspurchasing power than it did lastyear.

Library administratorsrequested that Zimmer allocateadditional funds to the acquisi-tions budget to prevent cuts. Hein turn put discretionary fundstoward a one-time $250,000 allo-cation to the library.

Zimmer said a financial crunchmeant the University was not ableto allocate additional funds to thelibrary as part of the regularbudget process.

Acquisitions costs, whichinclude buying books and journalsubscriptions, are increasing at amuch higher rate than any othercosts, Zimmer said, making it dif-ficult for University budgets tokeep up.

In making extra allocations,“we were very focused on ensur-ing that our investments went todirectly enhance academic pro-grams,” including the library,Zimmer said.

In 2003, the libraries projected2005 prices for academic jour-nals, included the cost of inflationin those estimates and sent thosefigures to the administration,Putney said.“We are really hopingthat the University will provide aninflationary increase for librarymaterials,” she said.

Monroe said that Brown hasnever funded its libraries at “thelevel that it needs to support thegraduate and research programs.”When the University began to bemore research-focused, a tightbudget did not allow the library toadjust the collection in certainareas, he said.

Monroe said that when he firstbegan working at Brown therewas about a 10 percent librarybudget increase for a few years,but that annual increase did notcontinue.

Right now, the Brown librarysystem lacks necessary materialsin the areas of humanities andforeign languages, and libraryadministrators would like toincrease those collections, Monroesaid.

But “if the (price of the) scienceserials go up each year by 10 per-cent, then that is where the moneygoes, because if you don’t cancelthe serials, then the money has tobe paid up front,” he said.

The University ResourcesCommittee and the InformationResources Budget Group decideand manage the library system’sbudget, and administrators arelooking at how to cut costs, par-ticularly because materials con-tinue to increase in price.

The increased cost of books,electronic products and journalshas forced administrators to allo-cate funds differently anddecrease the book-binding budg-et, Putney said.

Currently, the library generallybinds all paperbacks as an inex-pensive preservation measure,she said.

— With Herald staff reports


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Veterans groupscritical of Bush’sVA budget WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Military veterans havealready played a prominent role in the 2004 presidentialcampaign, helping to propel one of their own to theDemocratic nomination. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) iscounting on strong support from his fellow veterans inthe general election battle against President George W.Bush.

And Kerry may be getting an unintended boost fromthe Bush administration’s proposed budget for theDepartment of Veterans Affairs in the next fiscal year.

After three years of mostly cordial relations with theadministration, leaders of veterans’ organizations and aunion that represents VA workers are voicing strong criti-cism of Bush’s fiscal 2005 budget plan. They say it wouldonly worsen the backlog in processing disability claims,reduce the number of VA nursing home beds just as thenumber of veterans needing long-term care is swellingand force some veterans to pay a fee simply to gain accessto the VA health care system.

In a statement issued shortly after the budget wasreleased, Edward Banas, commander in chief of theVeterans of Foreign Wars, called the VA’s health carespending proposal “a disgrace and a sham.”

VA officials reply that spending for health care willincrease under the budget, but that tough choices had tobe made because of the soaring budget deficit and limitson spending.

According to John Gage, president of the AmericanFederation of Government Employees, the VA is callingfor a reduction of 540 full-time jobs in the VeteransBenefits Administration, which handles disability, pen-sion and other claims by veterans.

“VBA is under such pressure to get the caseload down,and now they are going to cut the staff,” he said. “Thesethings don’t make sense on their face.”

Mark Catlett, the VA’s principal deputy assistant secre-tary for management, said only 35 of the jobs that wouldbe eliminated through attrition involve employees whoprocess disability claims, in which the backlog problem ismost severe. He said the elimination of many of the jobswould be the result of a consolidation of the department’spension processing functions.

see VETERANS, page 9

Disney’s board removes Eisner as chairmanPHILADELPHIA (Los Angeles Times) — Walt Disney Co.’sMichael Eisner, hobbled by a powerful shareholderrevolt, was removed as chairman of the boardWednesday but will remain chief executive, an arrange-ment certain to keep controversy swirling around thefamed entertainment company.

The board’s unanimous decision to strip Eisner ofthe title he has held for nearly 20 years came after anraucous annual shareholder meeting Wednesday thatclosed with a dramatic announcement: Eisner hadfailed to carry 43 percent of shares cast for his re-elec-tion to the board.

The magnitude of the number surprised companyexecutives and Wall Street experts, who promptly saidso many shareholders had lost faith in the company’smanagement that sweeping changes were needed.Usually board members are elected with barely a whis-per of protest.

Installed as Disney’s chairman late Wednesday wasformer U.S. Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) the board’spresiding director, who helped craft the strategy to sep-arate the jobs of chairman and chief executive.Mitchell’s elevation drew immediate fire from criticsbecause shareholders also had delivered a blow to hiscredibility. He failed to win 24 percent of the votes cast,also an unusually high number.

Dissident shareholders question Mitchell’s ability tooversee Eisner because of his vocal support of the exec-utive. He also has drawn fire from critics for havingbusiness ties to Disney in the past while sitting on theboard.

Some observers say that by relinquishing the chair-manship, Eisner’s historically strong grip on day-to-daymanagement will be weakened. Critics argue that themove is merely cosmetic and that nothing short of hisdeparture from the company would end the controver-sy.

“It’s not about fence mending,” said Patrick McGurn,senior vice president of Institutional ShareholderServices, which advised stockholders to vote no. “Theyhave to rebuild an entire dam. The flood waters havewashed over it.”

Christy Wood, chief investment officer for theCalifornia Public Employees Retirement System, whichwithheld its 9.9 million shares from Eisner, agreed: “It’stoo little too late. It’s not enough. Shareholders aremaking a bigger statement.”

But the board, in its statement, made clear thatEisner would not be pushed out the door of the king-dom he has ruled, at times, with the sheer force of hispersonality.

“While making this change in governance, the boardremains unanimous in its support of the company’smanagement team and of Michael Eisner, who willcontinue to serve as chief executive officer. ... the boardhas confidence in the strategic direction of the compa-ny,” the statement said.

A source close to the Disney board said Eisneragreed to step aside as chairman and that some direc-tors initially questioned how shareholders would reactto appointing Mitchell chairman. Mitchell alsoexpressed some reluctance, according to the source,who said the board ultimately believed he was “the bestman for the job.”

The shareholder vote culminated several weeks ofbitter campaigning by Eisner’s backers and his chiefdetractors, former directors Roy Disney and StanleyGold. The two sides spent millions of dollars wooinglarge institutions and small shareholders.

Many stockholders, who feel the company’s leg-endary reputation and economic vitality has been tar-nished by bad management moves, latched onto thegrass-roots campaign that began with a modest“SaveDisney” Web site created by Gold and Roy Disney.

Company executives badly miscalculated the poten-tial strength of the movement, which drew momentumfrom the timing of two major blows: the breakup of theprosperous relationship between Disney and PixarAnimation Studios as well as the unsolicited takeoverbid by cable giant Comcast Corp.

On Wednesday, Comcast executives said they wouldnot sweeten their bid but did ask to meet with Disney’sindependent directors, those who do not hold manage-ment jobs in the company. Comcast said the voteagainst Eisner and Mitchell showed that shareholdersbelieved Disney would be better served by new owners.

The board’s decision to replace Eisner as chairmanfollowed a shareholder gathering that, for the first time,brought together the combatants. In some ways, themeeting resembled a cross between a bitter politicalconvention and a family picnic. More than 3,000 share-holders walked past 75 giant Mickey Mouse statueswhile a Donald Duck danced to “Beauty and the Beast”with Cinderella through the Pennsylvania ConventionCenter.

Inside the Grand Hall the tone took a harder edge. Atone point, Disney turned the floor over to Gold andDisney. Eisner watched as the two blistered him withcriticism and urged that he be fired. Shareholdersgreeted the two with whoops, with a large number giv-

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their sixth in eight years. Of course,this had a lot to do with the returnof Michael Jordan, who led histeam to championships like hewas leading William “Refrigerator”Perry to the buffet line.

Was Jordan’s subsequentdeparture the last straw for theEast? Yes, along with Larry Bird’sin 1992, Isiah Thomas’ in 1994,Moses Malone’s in 1995 and JoeDumars’ in 1999, among others.

Really, it’s indisputable. Before1998, the East won eight of theprevious 10 NBA championships.After 1998? None. The reason is,the players were gone.

Why didn’t they reload on newtalent? That’s easy. Let’s take alook at the 1998 draft. First therewas bad luck. Of the top fivepicks, four went to the West. Thenthere was stupidity. Toronto, ofthe East, got a great player inAntawn Jamison, but traded himinstead to the West’s Golden StateWarriors. The same story goes forBonzi Wells in Detroit and DirkNowitzki in Milwaukee, whowent to Portland and Dallas,respectively.

The rest of the East’s pickswere just terrible, especiallyChicago’s attempt to replace thegaping hole left by Jordan: Corey

Benjamin, whose four-yearcareer has come to a close aftertopping out at a whopping 7.7points per game.

It’s a vicious cycle. Besidesdraft day, the only way to get bet-ter players is to sign premier freeagents, and premier free agentsgo to teams that have money andwin. The money and wins, inturn, tend to go wherever the pre-mier free agents land. Since thiscycle is self-perpetuating, theEast remains with nothing andthe West goes on shoppingsprees.

Sure, general managers in theEast have not always been wrongsince 1998. They’ve had the occa-sional superstar — TracyMcGrady in Orlando and AllenIverson in Philly, for example —but they haven’t had the cash orgumption to surround them withothers, with the possible excep-tion of Indiana.

Can the East turn it around?Sure it can. The conference is badenough that top draft picks forthe next several years shouldkeep going to Eastern teams. Butif Eastern teams keep making ter-minal mistakes and don’t keeptheir few superstars happy, it justwon’t happen.

Andrew Tobolowsky ’07 thinksthis column will make you likehim.


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anced attack on offense.With the departure of All-

American Jon Thompson ’03,Brown’s 15th all-time leadingscorer, the Bears are looking toTowers, Mucciolo, Tuohey andothers to fill the gap and returnthe Bears to the postseason.

The Bears continue theirseason this weekend againstthe University of Vermontbefore coming home to hostthe University ofMassachusetts-Amherst onMarch 20.

Herald staff writer BernieGordon ’07 is an assistantsports editor and covers men’slacrosse. He can be reached atb g o r d o n @ b r o w n d a i l y -herald.com.


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Secretary of State Roger Noriegasaid that while the United Statescannot choose which foreigngovernments it must deal with,“we do have to decide where weput American lives at risk,” andshould not put them in danger“merely to keep (governments)in power a little bit longer.”

The choice should be basedon “whether we think it’s aviable, sustainable investmentfor American foreign policy,”Noriega said. He also describedAristide as “not a reliable per-son.”

While dropping support forAristide, the administration hassaid it does not believe the rebelsshould have a role in Haiti’sfuture government. Someamong Philippe’s Front for theLiberation of Haiti are convictedkillers and war crimes suspectsfrom previous regimes, andinternational human rightsagencies have been demandingtheir arrest and prosecution.

Philippe was summoned tothe residence of AmbassadorJames Foley early Wednesdayand told to make good on hispledges to disarm and departPort-au-Prince as soon asAristide was driven from power.Marine Col. Mark Gurganus alsoconferred with Philippe.

“We asked him to honor whathe said he would do and laydown his weapons,” saidGurganus, who met withPhilippe for about 10 minutes. “Iasked him to help contribute tothe stability and I will tell you Iwas very happy with hisresponse. I think he’ll be a manof honor, and I think he’ll dowhat he said.”

Philippe, who just a day earli-er had proclaimed himself com-mandant of a resurrectedHaitian army, said his groupwould bow out of the capitalnow that troops of the multina-

tional security force aredeployed and have promised toprotect the Haitian people.

“We have decided to lay downour arms,” a subdued Philippetold journalists at a hotel thathas been his base. “The Frontfrom now on has no menpatrolling the streets.”

Philippe said his men wouldturn their arms over to interimPresident Bonifant Alexandre,the former Supreme Court chiefjustice sworn in three hours afterAristide departed, but it wasunclear when.

After several days in which theMarines said they had no man-date to protect Haitians fromviolence, Gurganus saidWednesday that he had commit-ted foreign forces to stepped-uppatrolling of Port-au-Prince.Marines rolled out of theNational Palace grounds inHumvees to survey the rubble-strewn downtown area, whereprivate businesses have beenlooted and burned by pro-Aristide gunmen and slum-dwellers have swarmed behindthem to grab goods in the gang-sters’ wake.

The multinational troopshave orders to protect foreignnationals, diplomatic property,some key Haitian governmentinstallations and citizens whoare at risk of bodily harm. ButGurganus said they have nomandate to disarm either therebels or pro-Aristide gunmen.

“I’m not interested in who’sgot the weapons. I’m interestedin everyone who’s got weapons,”said the Marine commander.“We’re not interested in choos-ing sides.”

Despite the more activestance of international forces,looting continued at the capi-tal’s ransacked port and anindustrial park. A gun battlebroke out in Port-au-Prince’s LaSaline slum in the late morningbetween rebels and armed sup-porters of Aristide when the for-mer attempted to disarm the

latter. While the chaos that has pre-

vailed in much of Haiti prevent-ed any accurate count of victimssince the rebel uprising beganFeb. 5, officials at the capital’smorgue said they had received30 corpses since Sunday, whenthe body count was thought tonumber over 100.

As Aristide gunmen havedestroyed businesses and ledthe capital’s poor on wantonlooting sprees, business ownershad welcomed the rebels as theonly force capable of containingthe lawlessness.

“Originally there was thebelief that we could legitimizethis,” businessman Andre Apaidsaid of the rebels. “It was madeclear that everybody needs help(protecting their property), butwe wanted his movement toanswer to civilian authority.”

The only remaining vestigesof Aristide’s government arePrime Minister Yvon Neptuneand a handful of Cabinet mem-bers in hiding for fear of rebelreprisals. On Wednesday,Neptune declared a “state ofemergency,” though it wasunclear what that would entailgiven that the government hasbeen able to exert almost nocontrol on the streets.

The first step toward seating anew prime minister and Cabinetwas taken late Wednesday, whenthe former president’s LavalasParty and opposition politicalforces both named their repre-sentatives to a three-membercommission that will nextchoose a seven-member Councilof Sages. The commission alsoincludes a U.N. official designat-ed by the international commu-nity.

Alexandre, the commissionand the council will then name aprime minister to replaceNeptune and a new Cabinet togovern together with the sagesuntil presidential and parlia-mentary elections can be organ-ized.


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sounding much like former rivalHoward Dean by pitching hiscampaign Web site and urgingdonors to chip in “$10, $50,$100.”

“I need your help. I need youto work,” Kerry pleaded. “If weget a million people to take partin this ... we can fight back andreclaim our democracy.”

Later, the campaign

announced that Kerry hadraised $1.2 million on theInternet in a period of less than24 hours after he effectivelyclinched the Democratic nomi-nating by winning nine of 10 so-called “Super Tuesday” states.The Kerry campaign declaredthat a record, topping Dean’sbest 24-hour performance bymore than $400,000.

Soon after arriving in Florida,Kerry announced that JimJohnson, a banker, Washingtoncivic leader and former aide to

Vice President Walter Mondale,would oversee his search for arunning mate. Kerry said heexpected the process to takeseveral weeks; he has until thenominating convention in Julyto make a choice.

Kerry aides, meantime, metwith staffers of the DemocraticNational Committee to discussplans to integrate the party’soperations with Kerry’s cam-paign. One change could be areduced role for the party’schairman, Terry McAuliffe.


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Catlett said the lower staffinglevels proposed in the budgetassume an increase in productiv-ity by VA employees.

“We clearly have a responsibil-ity to get more productive,” hesaid.

The more contentious issueinvolves the VA’s sprawling healthcare system. The budget calls forspending $29.5 billion for veter-ans’ health care in the fiscal yearthat begins Oct. 1, a 4.2 percentincrease over current spending.

But critics in the veterans’organizations say the budgetwould effectively cut health carespending because about $2.4 bil-lion of the total would come notfrom congressional appropria-tions but from fees and othercharges collected from third par-ties and from veterans them-selves.

Under the budget, some veter-ans would have to pay $250 a yearto use the VA health care system;their co-payments for a 30-daysupply of a prescription drugwould also more than double,from $7 to $15. The proposedchanges would affect only theveterans with no service-relatedhealth problems whose relativehigh income places them in thetwo lowest priority classifica-tions.

VA officials estimate that thenew “user fee” would produceabout $268 million a year andthat the higher pharmacy co-payment would add about $135million a year in revenue. Theyalso project that these highercosts will prompt about 200,000of the affected veterans to dropout of the system and get theirhealth care elsewhere.

John McNeill, deputy directorof the VFW, credited the Bushadministration with increasingthe VA’s health care budget dur-ing the last few years. But, headded, “just as they are gettingclose (to the needed level ofspending), this proposal retro-grades everything. It doesn’teven take care of the inflationfactor.”

Linda Bennett, AFGE’s legisla-tive director, was equally criticalof the proposed cuts in nursinghome care, which she saidwould reduce the number offull-time VA nursing home bedsto 37 percent below the level setin law by Congress in 1998. Shesaid the VA has been trying tomove more veterans into state-run nursing homes and “non-institutional” settings, such ashome health care programs.

“I look at it as a signal that theVA would like to get out of thebusiness of taking care of veter-ans in their old age,” Bennettsaid.

But Catlett said long-term

care at home is usually “betterand preferred” to a nursinghome, and that the VA is directlyor indirectly providing long-term care to more veterans thanever.

“We’re trying to get the rightbalance,” he said. “There willalways be VA nursing homes.”

Catlett also said the user feeand higher co-payments for thelowest priority veterans wouldhelp the department pay for itscore mission — to care for low-income veterans, especiallythose with service-related healthproblems.

Last year, Congress rejected asimilar proposal for a user feeand higher co-payments, and itmay do so again. But the con-gressional debate will almost cer-tainly become embroiled in pres-idential politics as Bush and hisDemocratic opponent vie for theallegiance of veterans.

Bob Wallace, executive direc-tor of the VFW’s Washingtonoffice, said even veterans whowould not be affected by thebudget proposals “hear that theircomrades are affected by it, andit bothers them.”

Whether that will hurt Bush inthe fall is unclear, but AmericanLegion National CommanderJohn Brieden said: “This suredoesn’t help him. The PR on thisis not good. I expect theDemocrats ... to beat Bush overthe head with this.”


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ing them a standing ovation. “Shareholders have waited

too long and have spoken tooclearly,” Gold said. “MichaelEisner must leave now.”

When Roy Disney took thestage he glanced at Eisner, thenall but dared the executive to

stop him from talking beyondthe allotted 15 minutes the twowere told they could have.

“I don’t care what the currentmanagement may tell you,”Disney said. “The plain fact is,you can’t fool all the people all oftime, nor can you succeed inbusiness trying to get by on thecheap.”

Eisner and Disney executivesdefended the company during

their lengthy presentations,although they acknowledgedthat ABC’s prime-time ratingshave been a disappointment, ashave Disney’s retail stores, manyof which are now for sale. ButEisner sought to present anupbeat message overall. “Yourcompany has the managementskill and the creative talent tocontinue on its growth trajecto-ry,” he said.


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L E T T E R SComic insensitiveto waterfowl and immigrantsTo the Editor:

Blathering Blatherskite! Wednesday’s “My BestEffort” offered humor based only in ignorance. Thecomic, which poked fun at Duck Tales‚ was clearlyintended to draw amusement from former fans ofthe show, but I do not see how any fan of Duck Tales(or the comics by Carl Barks upon which it wasbased) could have found the comic amusing.

In defense of Uncle Scrooge, allow me to answersome of the questions Newman and Goralnik raisein the comic. First, why doesn’t Scrooge put hismoney in cash? Scrooge McDuck was a destituteScottish immigrant who faced adversity to build afortune in the United States. Scrooge worked hardfor every penny he earned, and he loved eachpenny. The idea of trading in the fruits of his laborfor simple cash merely reflects the danger of alien-ation inherent in our capitalist system.

Second, why not put the money in a bank? As Imentioned above, a bank would turn his realmoney into electronic statistics, alienating himfrom the fruits of his labor and taking away the pur-pose in his life. Finally, Newman and Goralnik ask,why did this show make so much sense as a kid?The answer is obvious. Scrooge was a duck wholoved his money and connected with it on a deeplypersonal level. He represented the antithesis of ourdisconnected capitalist world, where the fruits ofour labor have no meaning beyond their monetaryvalue. He was a beautiful duck.

Matthew Lawrence ’06March 3

Halperin columnsadly reflective ofBrown ignoranceTo the Editor:

Anthony Halperin’s column (“Lies the Viva-Buxtoncrowd told me,” March 2) reflects the prevailing atti-tudes at Brown. Being international aroused curiosityfrom my classmates, but most queries were on the levelof “are there polar bears in Helsinki?” (Yes, in the zoo.)

As a recent immigrant I remembered the difficultyof transition and studying in a new language andoffered support to those who had just come over.Emergence of friendship because of a shared experi-ence of immigration is obvious. For the few interna-tionals at Brown, being scattered amongst the unitsgave the opportunity to meet a variety of people. SomeAmericans cherished the friendships down the hall;others laughed at our accents.

For the first time in my life I found in Buxton a groupof people with origins as diverse as my own who canshare common experiences. Not everyone in Buxton isinternational: rather half are Americans. Nonetheless,if you are wondering about Kashmir, you can walkdown the hall and have an Indian and a Pakistani ami-cably talk you through it, an experience difficult to findelsewhere.

Viva remains a mysterious entity to many Brownstudents. I recommend to the mystified ones to go inthere and see it for yourself. It is a restaurant-bar withdancing just like Max’s. It is where some people go, asothers go to Max’s. However, I have never heard anyonebeing harassed on Thayer Street for going to Max’s. Ihave been harassed on my way to Viva with “See he’sgoing to Viva, all the rich euro-trash go there to docoke.”

Factually, the average international is wealthier thanthe average American. A demographic fact, since theUniversity gives very limited financial aid to interna-tionals. By your and your parents donations to theAnnual Fund and the Fund for InternationalAdvancement you can ensure that this injustice doesnot persist.

Jyri Wilska ’04Former Vice President, Buxton International House

March 2

College students of the 21st century expect a lot from theirschools, including fitness centers, late-night dining, deluxe liv-ing facilities and a wide variety of extracurricular activities. Butthese are all perks — the core function of the university is toeducate, and the primary tools of education can be found inlibraries.

Or at least, they should be.At Brown, the libraries’ acquisition budget is inadequate to

meet all of Brown’s needs, given the high costs of academic liter-ature and the high caliber of scholarship. Library administratorshope this shortfall can be ameliorated by the upcoming capitalcampaign, but considering Brown’s history of shortchanging itslibraries, we are not confident the collection will get the atten-tion it so desperately needs.

Consistently denying the libraries the resources they need hascreated problems no other improvements can undo. The collec-tion’s size is smaller than at many of Brown’s peer institutions,and the recent thinness of the acquisitions budget means thecollection is also older. We can’t do cutting-edge work withoutaccess to cutting-edge information.

The University’s collection of foreign-language resources isamong its major weaknesses — it cannot expect to cultivate tol-erance and worldliness among its students if it doesn’t givethem the tools to study works from other cultures in their origi-nal form. Participation in consortium lending programs givesstudents access to more resources, but being able to requestbooks from other universities is not the same as having astronger collection here. And the libraries rarely have more thanone copy of most books — a problem when students who takeclasses together also research together.

The value of further academic enrichment is diminishedwhen Brown’s resources can’t keep up its institutional growth.The University’s Plan for Academic Enrichment calls for newclasses across departments, but there’s no point in adding class-es if the library cannot also add relevant books to its collection.

Brown can be a great university without a student center or aconcert hall. It already is. For that matter, it could still be a uni-versity without dormitories or dining facilities. But without astrong library it is nothing more than a collection of peoplestriving to know more than their school can tell them.

Fundamental reading

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Ten years ago, Brown sent a delegation of 400 stu-dents to Washington, D.C., to march in support ofwomen’s rights. This year, as activists from aroundthe country prepare for what is being billed as thelargest rally in history in support of women’s repro-ductive rights, the list of Brown students committedto attending consists of a whopping 38 names.

This dramatic drop in the number of studentsinterested in supporting choice issues reveals thatour generation takes reproductive rights for granted.Students should not be so apathetic. In three years inoffice, the Bush administration has delivered theclear message that women’s reproductive rights inthis country are anything but secure.

We all know about the partial-birth abortion banthat passed this past year, and most of us have seenthe disturbing photograph of the president signingthis legislation into law, surrounded by grinningwhite, male congressmen.

For many, the photograph solidified the terrifyingtruth that male political leaders were attempting tocontrol women’s bodies, as the legislation prohibitedthe procedure misleadingly known as “partial birthabortion” from ever being performed, even in caseswhere the health of the woman is in danger.

This past week another damaging bill passed theHouse, further endangering the security of a woman’sright to choose. The Unborn Victims of Violence Acthas been proposed in Congress for years, but it wasonly after pregnant Laci Peterson was murdered thatthe bill gained some much-needed momentum topass by a vote of 254 to 163.

Now referred to as “Laci and Conner’s Law” inmemory of Peterson and her unborn child, the actincreases the penalties inflicted on anyone whoassaults a woman and either hurts or aborts her fetus.According to the legislation, the assailant would beindicted and tried for committing a crime against thefetus.

The conspicuous and admitted goal of this bill is togrant the fetus personhood. Should the bill pass intolaw, it would set precedent for denying women accessto abortions, as the fetus would gain increasing legalstatus.

A counter bill — one that would have heightenedpenalties for inflicting violence on a woman thatresults in the loss of her pregnancy without grantingthe fetus personhood status — failed by a vote of 229-186.

More troubling still are the Federal DrugAdministration’s delays in offering emergency con-traception over the counter. Despite the fact thatemergency contraception — essentially a larger doseof birth control pills — is already available over the

counter in five states and is safer than aspirin, theFDA has pushed back its decision.

This is no doubt due to political pressure from theright, who claim that making the pill over the count-er will increase teenage promiscuity. Yet emergencycontraception becomes less and less effective thelater it is used after unprotected sex. Forcing womento wait for doctors to grant them prescriptions onlyincreases the number of unplanned pregnancies.

Finally, there is the panic over our federal courts.Bush has continuously appointed radically conserva-tive, anti-choice judges to open benches, and, ofcourse, we are all still fearfully anticipating a poten-

tial Supreme Court vacancy. As soon as one of the several justices who is con-

templating retirement actually leaves, Bush is likelyto appoint an anti-choice justice to the most impor-tant court we have. Roe v. Wade is supported by a slim5-4 marginal vote. Should Bush get his nominee, it ismore than possible that this precious decision couldbe overturned.

According to a report by the Alan GuttmacherInstitute, a reproductive health research organiza-tion, an estimated 43 percent of American womenwill have had an abortion due to an unplanned preg-nancy by the age of 45.

Many of us take our reproductive rights for grant-ed, believing that Roe v. Wade has permanentlysecured our access to abortions, contraceptives andthe right to control our own bodies. As a result, we aredecidedly apathetic about fighting for reproductiverights.

The times have changed, however. We can nolonger merely look the other way and hope that whenwe turn back around most of what we once had willstill remain.

That is why, on April 25, more than one millionmen and women are expected to go to Washington,D.C., to rally in support of women’s reproductiverights at the March for Women’s Lives. If you cannotattend the march, please consider donating to helpsend other Brown students to the march ([email protected]), or ask your parents to considerhelping us out.

Of course it is easier to pretend that we will all con-tinue to have access to our reproductive rights. But itis time for our generation to stand up and demon-strate that we will never go back.

Rachel Marshall ’04 can guarantee that she will beboth drunk and pissed off on the bus on the way toD.C. this April.

And like that — poof, they’re gone!

Abortion rights

taken for granted

might disappear.

The astute political commentators of “Family Guy”once used Peter Griffin as their mouthpiece, stating“Hey Lois, it's the two symbols of the RepublicanParty; an elephant and a guy that's afraid of change!”

Memo to my beloved Republican Party: Hurrah forpro-life. Tax cuts? Excellent idea. Private health care— you rock my world. Using a constitutional gay mar-riage ban as a platform issue in the 2004 campaign?Hold on a minute…

President Bush has adopted the Federal MarriageAmendment proposed by Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.). In response Patrick Guerriero, leader of theLog Cabin Republicans, the largest gay organizationin the GOP, states, “We don't want history to recordthat we stood silent when our president and our partytried to write discrimination into the U.S.Constitution.” Until this point, Bush had the supportof many gay Republicans.

Despite pressure from social conservatives, he didnot rescind Clinton’s executive orders baring employ-ment discrimination against homosexuals.

Bush also appointed homosexuals to many promi-nent and mid-level positions, including MichaelGuest as ambassador to Romania. The turning pointin the administration’s attitude came in November,when the Supreme Court overturned a Texas sodomylaw in the case Lawrence v. Texas. EvangelicalChristians placed extreme pressure on the adminis-tration to intervene.

Opponents of gay marriage list three major argu-ments: Marriage is defined as a union between a manand a woman for procreation, gay parents cannotraise children in a normal environment and gay cou-ples are more likely to separate.

All of these arguments tie into the definition offamily.

It is the societal tradition of the United States thatdefines marriage as a monogamous union between aman and a woman. Contrary to common opinion,this tradition has not remained stagnant andunchanging throughout history.

In his article “The gay marriage myth” (Feb. 26)Stephen Beale wrote, “The institution of the marriagehas been the one social constant that has survivedthe fall of the Roman Empire, barbarian invasions,the disorder of feudalism and tumult of modernsocial and political revolutions.”

This worldview ignores the various definitions

that marriage has embodied. Which “institution ofmarriage” has survived the ages? Is it polygamousmarriage, concubines, extended family units living inthe same household, religious unions, divorce bans,legal unions, incestual unions, dowries or arrangedmarriages?

Marriage has had many modes, each legitimate inits respective time period. It is the importance offamily that has remained constant.

Marriage of the 21st century is not the marriage ofour grandparents. The sexual revolution and the pro-liferation of birth control pills in the 1960s increasedthe acceptance of premarital sexual relationships.

The threat of potential pregnancy became less of areason to pursue marriage. Increasing college atten-dance rates have also pushed back the age of mar-riage and family-rearing.

Technology and the career-oriented attitude ofcontemporary society have glorified independenceand de-emphasized the family. The skyrocketing ofdivorce rates supports this theory.

For every two marriages in the 1990s, there wasone divorce. Finally a movement exists in which thefamily is emphasized and valued: the movement forgay marriage rights.

By rejecting the notion of gay and lesbian families,the Republican Party undermines the very thing inwhich they are fighting for — the renaissance of theAmerican family.

Republicans are not the only opposition — a LosAngeles Times poll reported that 43 percent ofCalifornian Democrats support a constitutionalamendment to ban gay marriage.

Bush and many politicians on both sides of theaisle would rather have a child remain in an orphan-age than be adopted by a gay couple who haveexchanged wedding vows — yet they claim to valuethe family.

Marriage in the 21st century has become a seculartradition. There are two very different aspects to mar-riage: There is the religious sacrament, and there arethe legal benefits. The Church, as a private institu-tion, has the obvious right to restrict marriage inwhatever manner it deems appropriate. The state,however, must extend the civil aspect of marriage toensure equlaity for every citizen.

Laura Martin ’06 is one of many awaiting the return of“Family Guy” to the airwaves in 2005.

The changing American family

Republicans who value

family should choose

marriage for all.

LAURA MARTIN

RACHEL MARSHALL

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 4, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY ERIC PERLMUTTERIn its first home series of the season, the18th-ranked women’s water polo teamswept the competition at the BrownInvitational last weekend. The Bearsdefeated Iona College 9-7, the University ofSt. Francis 15-1 and, in an exhibitionmatch against the New York Athletic Club,pulled out a 7-6 overtime victory.

This was a crucial bounce-back for theteam after a 7-5 loss to No. 15 HartwickCollege a week and a half earlier.

The Iona match was close from start tofinish, with the Bears holding a one-goallead until close to the end of the game,when Jackie Parente ’04 scored the insur-ance goal with a quick re-direct.

“We missed a lot of opportunities inthat game,” said Head Coach ToddClapper. “We didn’t really rest for thatweekend, so I think in our third game ofthe day we were pretty beat up.”

Although the NYAC game was only anexhibition, the club team composed large-ly of former collegiate players presentedthe Bears with their toughest test. TheBears played hard, knowing this matchwas one of many in preparation for thespring Eastern Championships.

“They had a pretty good team, and thiswas probably the third time this seasonwe’ve been tested,” Clapper said. “It wasgood to have the overtime win in thatgame.”

Conversely, the game against St. Franciswas hardly competitive. In the 15-1 rout,Allison Biner ’06 led the team with threegoals, while Claire Angyal ’07, DianaLivermore ’05 and Elizabeth Balassone ’07netted two apiece.

Although the team won its third test ofthe year, its second one ended less fortu-

nately. On Feb. 23, the Bears lost toHartwick, a team of comparable skill thatBrown will face later in the season, poten-tially in the ECAC Championships.

“Hartwick came out and got the win,”Clapper said. “They put away their oppor-tunities. We probably had about a quarterand half where we didn’t play up to form,where we kind of gave them the goals, andthey kept the lead and ended up winning.”

The Bears’ next competition is in aleague tournament March 13 at HarvardUniversity.

Herald staff writer Eric Perlmutter ’06 is anassistant sports editor and covers women’swater polo. He can be reached at [email protected].

BY BERNIE GORDONThe men’s lacrosse team opened its sea-son Saturday with a 10-5 win at SacredHeart University. The Bears spread thescoring out among six different players,giving the team a varied attack thatSacred Heart was simply unable to stop.Midfielder Chris Mucciolo ’05 led theway with four goals, and attackman andtri-captain Charles Towers ’04 was closebehind with two.

“(We want) a more balanced attackthis year,” Towers said. “In every sport,unselfish play benefits the team, and(we want to do) whatever we can do towin the games.”

The Bears jumped out of the gatewith two quick goals from Towers, bothassisted by Kyle Wailes ’06. Following agoal by Chazz Woodson ’05, the Bearshad a 3-1 lead.

Sacred Heart, however, managed topull back and tie the game at three inthe second quarter, flooding the fieldwith 15 shots by the end of the firsthalf.

That was the last threat from SacredHeart, though, as the Bears pulled awayearly in the third quarter following twogoals from Mucciolo — one late in thefirst half — and one from BrittonDerkac ’05.

Mucciolo is a “natural midfielder,more comfortable (than as an attack-man),” Towers said. “He’s stepped it upconsiderably and is our best attackingmidfielder.”

The third-quarter push essentiallyended Sacred Heart’s chances of win-ning the game. Sacred Heart wouldscore twice more, but goals from tri-captain Rich Tuohey ’04 and DavidMadiera ’07, as well as two more fromMucciolo, kept the Bears ahead.

Key to keeping the Pioneers out ofreach was goalie and tri-captain MikeLevin ’04. Levin, an All-American, post-ed 16 saves on the game. His domi-nance has become a common theme inthe Bears’ wins over the past few years.

“Mike has been great since his soph-omore year, when he first started. He’sone of the best handful of goalies in thenation, and he has no problem stop-ping most of the shots on goal,” Towerssaid.

The Bears are hoping the momen-tum will continue as they look to cap-ture their seventh Ivy League title thisyear and return to the postseason. Toaccomplish that, Brown has madesome changes from last year’s 4-10team.

According to Towers, defense — anarea the team struggled with last year —has been completely revamped thisyear. The team also has a more bal-

BY BROOKE WOLFEThe gymnastics team earned third placeout of four teams competing at the IvyLeague Classic Sunday. The Bears tallied193.500 points, below the University ofPennsylvania’s 194.175 and YaleUniversity’s 193.75.

Although all Division I schools arerivals, the teams showed a more compet-itive edge this weekend while competingagainst Ivy schools.

Brown came into the meet seededfourth and remained in that positionafter three out of the four rotations werecompleted. But by the end of the compe-tition Brown was ahead of CornellUniversity, always a close rival. Despitenot coming out at the top, the Bears wereable to finish ahead of what they hadexpected.

Co-captain Jayne Finst ’04 won the IvyTitle in the all-around competition with ascore of 39.175 and placed first in thebeam with a 9.825. Gina Verge ’04 placedthird in the all-around with a score of38.925 while earning second place on thefloor with a personal record score of

9.900.Some younger Brown gymnasts also

helped boost the team’s overall score,enabling the Bears to defeat Cornell.Jessica McNell ’06 took sixth place in thevault with a score of 9.725, and MelissaForziat ’05 tied for fifth with teammateVerge on the beam with a score of 9.625.

Throughout the season, the Bearshave always looked better conditionedthan their competitors.

To increase the Bears’ fitness duringthe fall, Head Coach Sara Carver had herteam up by 7 a.m. for cardiovasculartraining and weight training twice aweek. During the season, the team hastapered its training but still continuedwith intense strength training in the gymto give it the extra edge.

“Training involves more than justgymnastics,” Carver said earlier in theseason. “It is a combination of all theircardiovascular and strength training thatadds to their superb physical fitness.”

The Bears will travel to Rhode IslandCollege Friday to compete against RICand Springfield University.

Season openerat Sacred Heartsuccessful for m. lacrosse

Judy He / Herald

Jeanie Ward-Waller ’04 defends her NYAC opponent during Saturday’s BrownInvitational.The Bears went 2-0, beating Iona College and the University of St. Francis,as well as defeating the New York Athletic Club in overtime 7-6.

Gymnastics squadexceeds expectations atIvy League Classic

W. water polo reboundsfrom Hartwick loss tosweep Brown Invitational

THE ATLANTA HAWKS, DRIVEN BY ANinsatiable need never to have fans again,determined about a month ago to jettisonany talented player on their roster.

The Hawks recently traded awayS h a r e e fA b d u r -Rahim, theheart of theteam, whoaveraged 20

points and 10 rebounds over the last cou-ple years; Theo Ratliff, the game’s premiershot-blocker; and Dan Dickau, a talentedyoung point guard with tremendousupside.

Who did they get in return? The fan-attacking, weed-smoking, profanity-expectorating Rasheed Wallace and WesleyPerson. This almost made sense, because’Sheed is at least talented. But then theHawks sent Wallace to Detroit for JoelPrzybilla, Bob Sura and a first round-draftpick. Przybilla and Sura’s stats combineddo not even equal either Shareef’s orRasheed’s. It’s like trading the Ninja Turtlesfor Shredder and then trading Shredder forMy Little Pony and a bag of chips.

So the Hawks still have Jason Terry andStephen Jackson, who will combine eachnight for about 35 points and somebreathtaking ugliness (especially fromStephen “The Lizard Man” Jackson). Anyway you scratch it, it’s a weird trade. But inthe Eastern Conference? This stuff is parfor the course.

The Hawks’ trades are simply the latestin a long line of extraordinary masochismdating back to … well, when?

Good question. Let’s start with this:When was the last time there was a reallygood Eastern Conference team?

The last time the East won a title was1997-1998, when the Chicago Bulls wonthe last of their three consecutive titles,

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