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BY AIDAN LEVY Starting as early as December, Departmentof Public Safety officers will be assigned topatrol specific campus regions in an effortto facilitate communication between DPSand the Brown community. The initiative,spearheaded by Lt. Kevin Andrews, isintended to accelerate the crime investiga-tion process and streamline communica-tion between the community and lawenforcement officials.

Ultimately, the initiative, known as “com-munity policing,” should build a safer, moreconnected community, Andrews said.

“A lot of older people would say it’s goingback to the era of the foot cop, but it’s morecomplicated than that,” Andrews said. “Awide array of service-oriented organizationsin the community is involved.”

Currently, each DPS officer patrols a largecampus region — North Campus or SouthCampus. Under the new system, each willpatrol a much smaller territory. With com-munity policing, 30 DPS officers will negoti-ate which regions will be their territory.Regions are small — for example, WristonQuad is a region by itself. Each region will becovered during three daily shifts.

Assignments will last one to two years,but a concrete figure will emerge as the plandevelops further. Currently, DPS is hiringnew officers to fill the positions of two offi-cers who are transferring out of the depart-ment in coming weeks.

When the interviewing process has con-cluded and the community policing plan isput in place, officers will be encouraged tofamiliarize themselves with residents of

BY MARY-CATHERINE LADERThe Rhode Island Workers’ Safety Act,signed by Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 lastsummer, will ban smoking in all publicfacilities beginning March 1, 2005.Approved by the General Assembly onJune 17, the law forbids smoking in bars,clubs, restaurants, malls, sports arenas,offices, taxis and any place of employ-ment.

Only smoking clubs, such as cigar bars,and Rhode Island’s two gambling facilities— Lincoln Park and Newport Grand — areexempt from the ban. Though bars withClass C or D liquor licenses and fewerthan 10 employees can wait until Oct. 1,2006, to implement the policy, very fewlocations around the Brown campus qual-ify for the provision.

Most College Hill restaurants do notcurrently allow smoking. Those that doare accepting the policy without opposi-tion, and some suggest it is a positivechange.

“I quit smoking six months ago, so for

me it is a blessing,” said KostasKarampetsos, general manager ofKartabar on Thayer Street. “From myunderstanding everybody thinks it’s agood thing.”

Both Kartabar and Paragon currentlyallow smoking at the bar (and restaurant,although with limits), but will implementthe ban when it comes into effect inMarch.

Fish Company, however, tentativelyplans to prohibit smoking sometime inJanuary. A Fishco bar manager said heexpects the ban will hurt business.

Jennifer Roberts, general manager ofParagon, said that while the law will affectevery food and beverage business in thestate, some Rhode Island towns arealready smoke-free and “pretty mucheverybody just gets used to it.”

“You’re not going to stop going out to arestaurant or a bar because you’re notallowed to smoke,” Roberts said. “They’regoing to come here or they’re going to stayhome.”

Nicholas Mackris, co-owner and man-aging partner of Andreas, is similarlystraightforward about the change. “It’s nota negative thing, and obviously we’regoing to have to comply,” Mackris said.“But a lot of college kids smoke … so I dothink it’ll affect businesses around thisarea in particular.”

But many Brown students expressedrelief that they would no longer be victimsof secondhand smoke. “As an asthma suf-ferer, I’m looking forward to the ban,” saidGreg Kuwaye ’08.

Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, NewYork, Florida, California, Delaware, Idahoand Utah and several cities — includingBoston — already have smoking bans inplace. Students from those places say eat-ing in partially smoky restaurants hasbeen far more of an adjustment than theupcoming ban will be.

“I’ve gotten so used to eating a burgerat a bar and tasting the burger instead of

BY JANE TANIMURAConfusion about where and whenannual room inspections would be con-ducted has left some students com-plaining that they were fined unfairly bythe Office of Residential Life.

Since Oct. 27, ResLife inspectors havebeen performing the first round ofplain-sight inspections in select resi-dence halls across campus. The secondround, which will cover all other resi-dence halls, will be conducted in thenext three weeks.

In accordance with ResLife protocol,inspectors will knock on a resident’sdoor, enter and then record any viola-tions per a checklist, a process that

takes only a few minutes, said AssistantDean of Student Life Thomas Forsberg.

If a resident has violated any rules,the inspector will leave a copy of thechecklist in the room. Inspectors con-fiscate some unauthorized materials,especially candles, upon inspection,and they will revisit other rooms tomake sure students have made requiredchanges to décor and removed otherillegal materials.

In serious cases, failure to correctthese violations will result in referral tothe disciplinary system, Forsberg said.

Some students who were fined dur-

Dorm inspections leave somestudents unhappy with ResLife

‘I can’t talk rightnow, I’m in class’Professors try creativestrategies to stop cell phoneinterruptionsBY JUSTIN ELLIOTTThe proliferation of cell phones in mod-ern society has been felt everywhere, fromthe roads to subway cars to concert hallsand movie theaters. Brown’s classroomsand lecture halls are no exception.

A decade ago, students would neverhave recognized the sound of a cell phonecutting into a lecture or breaking up a dis-cussion. But Gus Crothers ’07 said HI 135:“Modern Genocide and Other CrimesAgainst Humanity,” has regularly beeninterrupted this semester. “I can say thatprobably in every lecture you can hear acell phone, but that’s the case in every biglecture class I have,” he said.

Crothers said he did not think his pro-fessor should do anything “but set a goodexample by turning off his cell phone,which he made sure to do after his phonewent off in one of the early classes.”

Alana Firl ’07 said she has heard cellphones ring in each of her courses thissemester except her 8:30 a.m. physicsclass. Firl added that she was extremelyannoyed by students comparing ringtones in one class.

“I’d like to see all cell phones collectedand burned,” she said.

According to Christine Rosen, a senioreditor of the technology journal NewAtlantis, “What we’re seeing on collegecampuses and classrooms, we’re seeing inmany public spaces.” The author of arecent article, “Our Cell Phones,Ourselves,” said she’s observed “a Jekyll-and-Hyde thing that goes on with cellphones, because those of us that havethem like to think that we use themthoughtfully in public space.”

College Hill bars prepare for smoking ban

Communitypolicinginitiativecould startnext month

see POLICING, page 8

see SMOKING, page 6

see RESLIFE, page 4

see PHONES, page 6

Nick Neely / HeraldA Providence police officer stood watch at Faunce Arch as a student walked home to Pembroke campus Tuesday night.

RISD’s solardecathlon team getsready to competeagainst 18 schools intwo-year competitionrisd, page 3

NPR correspondentMara Liasson ’77 tospeak on 2004election thisafternooncampus news, page 5

Alexandra Toumanoff’06 isn’t so sure whatshe thinks about fengshui — but her momreally likes itcolumn, page 11

Marie Hopkins RUE’08 writes that thefinancial aid situationisn’t fair for transferand RUE students column, page 11

Two members of themen’s tennis teamhave successful week-end at Dartmouthcompetitionsports, page 12

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“ELECTION 2004: A WASHINGTONINSIDER’S VIEW”4 p.m. (Salomon 101)—A lecture from Mara Liasson, nation-al political correspondant forNational Public Radio.

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RISD students compete in two-year-long solar decathlonBY CHELSEA RUDMANIn the fall of 2005, RISD will be oneof just 19 schools competing at theU.S. Department of Energy’s sec-ond Solar Decathlon, a competi-tion designed to raise awareness ofalternative energy sources andproduce viable options for solar-powered housing.

With two schools coming fromacross international borders, theDOE hopes that the competitionwill raise both national and inter-national awareness of alternativeenergy sources.

The goal of the competition isto design and build a self-sustain-ing, energy-efficient and aestheti-cally pleasing solar-poweredhome that provides inhabitantswith electricity and running waterand a well-designed, comfortableliving space. In the fall of 2005, thefull-size houses will be displayedon the lawn at the National Mall inWashington, D.C., but RISDSOLAR plans to begin construc-tion of its house this spring on thebanks of the Providence River.

Each participating team hasapproximately two years to plan,design and build its house. Before,during and after the 10-day com-petition in Washington, D.C., thepublic will be able to visit thehouses and learn about the use ofsolar power. Judged in 10 different

categories ranging from architec-ture to communications, designsmust balance a variety of function-al demands to win.

RISD’s participation in the SolarDecathlon began with AdjunctProfessor of Architecture JonathanKnowles. In the summer of 2003,Knowles approached one of hisstudents with the idea. Four dayslater, a few of his students sent aproposal to the Department ofEnergy. The team, which nameditself RISD SOLAR, was chosenfrom approximately 30 applicantsand is the only art school partici-pating in the competition, as wellas the only school without an engi-neering department.

Other faculty members workingon the project include WilburYoder, a co-head of the projectwith Knowles, and Peter Tagiuri,chair of the architecture depart-ment, who works to recruit stu-dents to RISD SOLAR and inte-grate the resources of all of RISD’sdepartments. So far, a total ofapproximately 45 students haveworked on the solar house. Theseinclude several Brown students,such as Marika Shioiri-Clark ’05,who is currently enrolled in thearchitecture class affiliated withRISD SOLAR, “One to One.” TheRISD team has received outsidehelp from engineers through local

companies such as Entech.After its initial proposal was

accepted in summer 2003, theRISD team spent the fall semesterand winter session drawing upthree initial designs and research-ing solar panels. In spring 2004,the team selected a final designand submitted its plans to theDOE. Since construction wasapproved in September, RISDSOLAR has been building proto-types of the house’s various com-ponents to test out the functional-ity of their designs and the effec-tiveness of different materials.

RISD SOLAR Spokesperson andFundraising Committee ChairCristina Zancani-Tabena RISD ’05expressed her team’s strengths,writing in an e-mail, “We …believe that the ultimate designsuccess will be in interdisciplinarycollaboration. RISD offers thegreat advantage of having all thedisciplines of art and design, andintegrating them could bring forththe assets of our institution.”

The biggest problem for theteam has been fundraising. Thecollege has given RISD SOLAR agrant of $40,000, but the teamneeds to raise $400,000 in total forthe project, Zancani-Tabenawrote.

see SOLAR, page 6

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ing the first round of inspectionsnow say they were not given ade-quate warning about the inspec-tions.

“They didn’t make it clear thatthey were checking the rooms,”said Ted McCarthy ’07. Inspectorsconfiscated McCarthy’s hookahfrom the common room of hisfriend Jamie Kidwell ’07.

When Kidwell went to retrievethe hookah from the Departmentof Public Safety, officers theresaid because it did not smell likemarijuana, she could have itback, Kidwell said.

Still, even though her fourother suitemates had nothing todo with the incident, Kidwell saidthey have all been asked to meetwith Associate Dean of StudentLife Terry Addison for a non-dis-ciplinary meeting.

“My main complaint is that it’san inconvenience. I don’t thinkeverybody (in the suite) shouldbe responsible,” Kidwell said.

But Forsberg defended theseinspections, saying any studentswho did not receive ResLife e-mails about the inspections were“isolated incidents.”

Forsberg said students werenotified prior to the inspections,in accordance with ResidentialLife’s Health and SafetyInspections Code, which isdescribed on ResLife’s Web site.

In addition to the e-mail sentout to all residents onWednesday, another e-mail thatdetailed the inspecting processand the times the examinationswere to occur was sent threeweeks ago. Flyers were also post-ed on the doors of residencehalls, Forsberg said.

But Mario Desouza ’05, wholives in New Dorm and was citedfor sleeping with the door to hissuite open, said he never saw anyflyers or received an e-mail. Afterthe inspection, two of his room-mates ended up being locked outof their rooms by the inspectors,he said. Inspectors are requiredto lock doors when they leave,even if they are unlocked whenthey arrive.

Nicholas Friesner ’05.5 said

although he knew informationabout the inspections was outthere, he did not think the noticeswere visible enough. Friesnersaid he found the flyer on theback door of Barbour Hall, wherehe lives, only after he was finedand actively searched. ButFriesner said he and his tworoommates never received an e-mail.

“I only saw one flyer in thewhole building and it’s the mostnondescript thing I’ve ever seen,which leads me to believe thatthey didn’t want us to know aboutit,” he said.

When Kidwell was trying tofind out more about ResLife’spolicies online, she said theprocess of looking for informa-tion was “like a loop” — she wasconstantly referred to one Website and then another.

Friesner has already set up anappointment with Director ofHousing Richard Bova and plansto ask that fines be waived for allresidents who did not receivenotification.

But Forsberg said proving thatsome students didn’t receive thee-mail will be difficult becauseResLife computers never report-ed a system error after it was sent.

Forsberg said the inspectionsare not intended to get studentsin trouble but to ensure a safeenvironment in all the residencehalls.

“Our goal is prevention,”Forsberg said.

Although ResLife has pub-lished brochures and sent out e-mails about health and safetyissues in the residence halls,Forsberg said room inspectionsare still the most effective way ofreducing violations because theyaffect students the most immedi-ately.

“The fact that we’re findingviolations proves that otherresources haven’t worked,” hesaid.

Forsberg said it’s still too earlyto determine whether violationrates have increased since lastyear because inspections of allresidence halls have yet to becompleted. Assistant Director forOperations Jacqueline Newcombsaid some buildings have had sig-nificantly fewer violations thanothers.

ResLifecontinued from page 1

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Los AngelesTimes) — Yasser Arafat, the guerril-la chieftain who juggled armedresistance and political diploma-cy, died at age 75 Thursday inParis, leaving a dual impressionon the world: the iconic symbolof the Palestinian struggle fornationhood, and the embodi-ment of a revolutionary whocould not make the transition togovernance.

Revered and reviled, Arafatforced the plight of thePalestinian people into interna-tional consciousness and made itthe defining conflict of the 20th-century Middle East. He con-vinced even his enemies thatPalestinians had the right to astate of their own, then failedtragically to deliver it. Locked tothe end in a showdown withIsrael, Arafat saw many of his

erstwhile supporters desert himas he appeared increasingly ananachronism, apparently unableto truly forswear violence orembrace the rule of law.

The only leader mostPalestinians have ever known,Arafat came tantalizingly close toestablishing the state he dedicat-ed his life to winning. For signingthe 1993 Oslo, Norway, peaceaccords with Israel, he shared theNobel Peace Prize with his Israelipartners, Prime Minister YitzhakRabin and Foreign MinisterShimon Peres, then made a tri-umphant entry into the GazaStrip to become the elected headof the Palestinian Authority, rul-ing a territory made up of thestrip and a patchwork area in theWest Bank.

By the time Arafat died, how-ever, he and the Palestinians hadlost much of what they hadgained, as Israel expanded Jewishsettlements and re-occupiedsome lands amid a surge inPalestinian attacks.

Arafat was a decrepit shadowof the leader he once was,shunned by a White House wherehe was once an honored guestand trapped in the ruins of hisIsraeli-battered headquarters inthe West Bank, his graft-riddenPalestinian Authority all but col-lapsed.

Especially as a younger, more

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Award-winning NationalPublic Radio political corre-spondent Mara Liasson ’77will present a “Washingtoninsider’s view” of the 2004election today in Salomon 101.

Liasson, who concentratedin American history at Brown,has covered four presidentialelections and the aftermath ofthe Gulf War for NPR since shejoined in 1985 as a generalassignment reporter. She nowreports on politics and nation-al policy issues on NPR’s “AllThings Considered” and“Morning Edition” and on theFox News Channel’s “SpecialReport with Brit Hume.” Sheserves as a panelist on “FoxNews Sunday” and appears onPBS’s “Washington Week” and

other political programs.Liasson has also worked in

print journalism. She took aleave of absence from NPR in1988 to attend ColumbiaUniversity as a recipient of aKnight-Bagehot Fellowship ineconomics and business jour-nalism. She sits on the boardof Freedom House, a nonparti-san pro-democracy think tank.

Liasson’s lecture, “Election2004: A Washington Insider’sView,” is being sponsored bythe Taubman Center for PublicPolicy and AmericanInstitutions and is this year’sJohn Hazen White Lecture. Thelecture, which begins at 4 p.m,is free and open to the public.

— Christopher Chon

NPR correspondent tospeak this afternoon

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies

see ARAFAT, page 7

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“In fact, our use is quitethe opposite — most peopledo pull out the phone andstart talking,” she said.

When cell phone ownerstell researchers both thatthey use their phones con-scientiously in public spaceslike classrooms and that theyare horrified by others’behavior, “it’s what sociolo-gists call the actor-observerparadox,” she said.

Rosen added that “someof (the rude behavior) is hereto stay ... but I like to thinkthat the pendulum willspring back towards themanners end.”

Professors at Brown havetried different strategies tominimize cell phone disrup-tions in class.

Assistant Professor ofPolitical Science JenniferLawless has a uniqueapproach.

“I tell them at the begin-ning of class that if their cellphones goes off, they have totake the call,” Lawless said.

Lawless said the methodhad been a good deterrent,as the only phone that hasrung was her own.

“I did not take the call,”Lawless said.

Professor of BiologyKenneth Miller, who teachesBI 20: “Foundations of LivingSystems,” which typicallyenrolls 300 to 400 students,said he has an effective wayof preventing cell phone dis-ruptions. On the first day ofclass, “I invited all the stu-dents to join me in exercise”by standing up to turn offtheir phones, he said.

“I would say most classeswould not have a cell phonego off, but in the ones thatdid, you can immediatelyspot them, you know, rippingthrough their backpacks,”Miller said.

Associate Professor ofEnglish Daniel Kim, whoteaches EL 61: “Introductionto Modern andContemporary Literaturesand Cultures,” a large classrequired for English concen-trators, said he thinks in bigclasses students try to bemore careful about turningoff their phones.

Kim said he doesn’t seecell phone disruptions as toobig a problem because “everytime it’s happened they’rejust so incredibly mortifiedthat it doesn’t happenagain.”

Herald senior staff writerJustin Elliott can be reachedat herald@browndailyher-ald.com.

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tasting half burger and half MarlboroRed that it’s weird going to places andtasting food with the mix of ciga-rettes,” said Boston native and non-smoker Luke Harris ’07.

Charisma Levonleigh ’08 fromSanta Barbara, Calif., said that whileshe favors the ban, she is sympathet-ic to the effect it will have on herfriends who do smoke. “In NewEngland because the winter is so bad,I feel bad asking people to step out-side and smoke,” she said.

A sophomore who described him-self as a “purely social smoker” saidhe has seen the effect a smoking banhad on the sidewalks of his home-town, New York City. “It pisses smok-ers off and some actually stop smok-ing, but the real smokers just smokeoutside,” he said. “So you have a herdof smokers outside, and you can’twalk, and babies can’t be pushed ontheir strollers, and it creates a wholenew form of societal atmosphere.”

State Sen. Susan Sosnowki, whosponsored the law, said she expects itwill change the state’s atmosphere forthe better. After pushing similar legis-lation for the past three years, herefforts were rewarded by a StateSenate vote of 25-7 on May 3 with thesupport of several organizations,including the American CancerSociety and Heart and LungAssociations.

“It’s time we cleaned the air inRhode Island,” she said.

Smokingcontinued from page 1

“Fundraising has been ourbiggest hole,” Knowles said. Theteam has received donations fromcorporations and private individu-als and is also looking to receiveassistance in the form of donatedmaterials. RISD SOLAR recentlyentered a competition to win solarpanels from energy super-giant BP.

Next semester, RISD SOLARwill begin construction of itshouse on the waterfront inProvidence, not far from the archi-tecture building. The house will beopen to the public until gradua-tion, and the team is hoping forplenty of local publicity so it can,as Knowles said, “promote whatwe’re doing.” Next fall, the mod-ule will be partially disassembledand transported to Washington,D.C.

During the three-week displayperiod in the capital, approxi-mately 100,000 visitors are expect-ed to visit the solar houses,Knowles said. Real estate agentsand developers are expected to beamongst them, scouting for mod-els that might ultimately be mass-produced. Knowles said he would“like to sell (the house) to anenlightened developer,” but thatanother option would be to keepthe prototype as a working labora-tory resource for RISD and Brownstudents.

There is “definitely” a future forsolar power in the United States,Zancani-Tabena said. “I thinkpeople will consider it more andmore. There’s no pollution. It’snatural. … These (houses) are thefirst experiments in terms of mak-ing a great design for (solar) hous-ing.”

With rising demands, droppingcosts and improved efficiency,solar power is already on the risein the United States, Knowlespointed out, adding, “This is thenext technology.”

Solarcontinued from page 3

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The Las Vegas Bowl ismiffed because it has to waitfor the regular season to endDec. 4, because a Pac-10 teammight drop into its lapdepending on the outcome ofUCLA-USC or California-Southern Mississippi.

Meanwhile, the Emeraldand Silicon Valley bowls,knowing they virtually haveno shot at a Pac-10 school,already are shopping for freeagents.

“It’s downright unfair,”Kunzer-Murphy of the LasVegas Bowl said.

So is this what happenswhen you have too many bowlgames?

Bingo.This year, more than ever,

major conferences may havetrouble providing teams fortheir tie-ins.

Part of the reason is an 11-game season requires that ateam have a winning record tobe bowl eligible. There isNCAA legislation pending thatwill allow for 12-game seasons— meaning 6-6 gets you to theHouston Bowl — but thatwon’t happen until 2006.

This year’s mad scramblehas bowl officials scouringbottom-feeder conferencesfor teams that have six victo-ries.

“You have to be half-whacked to work in this busi-ness,” Kunzer-Murphy said.

The big winners this yearmay be the Western Athletic

and Mid-American confer-ences, which in some yearshave had bowl-qualifiedteams that don’t get a sniff.

Last year, Northern Illinoisof the MAC went 10-2, defeat-ing Maryland and Alabama,yet sat home for the holidays.

This year, ironically, therecould be a bidding war forAkron.

“Every bowl game in thecountry is going to have theWAC and the MAC,” Kunzer-Murphy surmised.

Somewhat amazingly, themost sought after free agentright now is 7-2 Navy.

“Navy is like the cute girl onthe corner that everyone iscourting,” Kunzer-Murphysaid.

Bowls desperate for schoolsare hocking their bowl wareslike trinkets on a sidewalk. LasVegas is selling, well, LasVegas, and the fact that itshost teams get to stay at theHard Rock.

Incredibly, the shortage ofavailable schools has notslowed the prospect of addi-tional bowls — games inDenver and San Diego arebeing proposed.

Pacific 10 CommissionerTom Hansen said there’s noth-ing the NCAA can do to stopthe proliferation.

“The marketplace willdetermine which ones sur-vive,” he said.

Hansen said he envisions ayear when a bowl will not beable to fill its commitmentsand the game will have to becanceled.

With any luck, it could hap-pen this year.

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robust man, Arafat exuded anundeniable charisma. He couldcharm skeptical visitors, playfullytease children, rally enormouscrowds with vows to march onJerusalem. In his prime, he couldspeak of moderation in his questfor a Palestinian state but stillsanction an attack in Israel if thetiming seemed right. The hatredhe conjured in his enemies waseasily matched by the devotion ofhis supporters who lionized him.

A turning point, in a lifereplete with them, came with thecollapse of the Camp David sum-mit convened by PresidentClinton in the summer of 2000.Many blamed Arafat because herejected Israeli Prime MinisterEhud Barak’s offer of limitedPalestinian sovereignty over partsof the West Bank and Gaza Strip.Arafat dismissed the offer asinadequate.

By that October, a new intifa-da, or uprising, had erupted,sparked in part by what some sawas an inflammatory visit toJerusalem’s Temple Mount byAriel Sharon, then an oppositionleader.

Israel, which had once accept-ed Arafat as a partner in peace,bitterly repudiated him as thearchitect of the escalating milita-rization of the intifada.

A backlash against Barak led tohis defeat at the polls andbrought Sharon to power. Underthe hard-liner and his right-wingLikud Party, polarizing rhetoricand violence from both sides

see ARAFAT, page 9

Arafatcontinued from page 5

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their particular region and anyonewho regularly visits or works in theregion during their shift, in orderto establish a viable line of com-munication. Officers will first con-tact residential counselors and willlater branch out to meet adminis-trators, faculty and students.

However, community policingcan only be effective with the fullcooperation of the community,Andrews said. “DPS is just the cat-alyst to get the communityinvolved in crime prevention,” hesaid. “The community needs totake an active role in keepingBrown a safe place.”

Andrews emphasized that off-hand comments and suggestionsmay prove to be significant ele-ments to solving an ongoing inves-tigation or deterring a crime. “Itmay seem that it’s really nothing,but a little thing like spotting someguy on a corner every morningmay have something to do with acrime.”

While community members arecurrently allowed to discuss con-cerns with DPS, Andrews feelscommunity policing will cause adramatic improvement in com-munication. “Through constantinteraction, community membersbecome more comfortable with anofficer and apt to voice their con-cerns,” he said.

Michelle Nuey, manager of spe-cial services for DPS, said shebelieves community policing will“maximize the relationshipbetween officers and the commu-nity.” By stationing officers in per-manent locations, “Officer A willknow X, Y and Z in a building.They’ll be able to establish a clearand prolonged post. It definitelyfacilitates police-community rela-tions if you can put a name with aface,” she said.

The new system engenders aquicker response, with officersclosely in touch with a small com-munity, rather than a centralizedpatrol less aware of specific cam-pus regions. While officers willpatrol a small area, this will not barthem from responding to callsfrom other areas. But respondingto crimes is not the primary goal ofinstituting a community policingprogram, Andrews said.

The hope is that communitypolicing will be a more effectivemeans to deter crimes from hap-pening at all, but the communitymust play a role, he said. “As far asresponse to crimes that may occur,it will more or less stay the same,but we want to be more than anorganization that responds asthings happen.”

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up for us, since each playerneeds to play a certain amount,”Blumenkranz said.

Although the outcomes oftheir matches do not have aneffect on their league standing,both went to the tournament tocompete.

“Every tournament is impor-tant,” Scherer said.

In doubles action, the pairlost to Harvard’s Parker andScott Denenberg, 8-5. This wasnot the first time they playedtogether — they competed in afew doubles matches this sum-mer as well as a few times this

M. tenniscontinued from page 12

see M. TENNIS, page 9

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD PAGE 9

season.“They barely got by us,”

Blumenkranz said. “We are awork in progress. We definitelyhave to improve.”

Scherer has high hopes forthe duo.

“We’re just learning to playwith each other, but we are get-ting better,” he said.

The Bears will enjoy a briefwinter break until they competeagain on Jan. 22 at BostonCollege.

Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe’07 covers men’s tennis. She canbe reached at herald@browndai-lyherald.com.

M. tenniscontinued from page 8

intensified. Israel now held Arafatpersonally responsible for thedeaths of hundreds of Israelis in awave of suicide bombings andother attacks.

And Arafat’s own people, worndown by decades of struggle withIsrael, began to lose faith in him.The bloody confrontation —which has claimed the lives ofmore than 1,000 Israelis and morethan 3,000 Palestinians — wasdriven, Palestinians said, byIsrael’s refusal to relinquish theJerusalem site known to Muslimsas the Noble Sanctuary and toJews as the Temple Mount, or topromise that Palestinian refugees,and their descendants, who losttheir homes in the 1948 war thatended British rule and createdIsrael, could return.

To Palestinians, Arafat’s refusalburnished his image as anuncompromising nationalist. ToIsraelis, it sealed his slide frominterlocutor to an enemy many ofthem considered to be nothingmore than an unreconstructedterrorist.

As suicide bombings increased,Sharon launched an all-out waron Palestinian militants, declaredArafat persona non grata andreoccupied the West Bank. In2002, Israeli troops floodedArafat’s Ramallah compound,known as the Muqata, destroyingmost of the structures, battlingArafat’s bodyguards and cuttingoff all outside access.

His final decline came withinthe sandbagged, crumbling wallsof the Muqata. The diplomats anddignitaries no longer visited. Hishealth faded mysteriously and hewas reported to have briefly lostconsciousness. His senior aideswere quickly assembled. Arafatfinally agreed to leave the WestBank for urgent medical care, butonly after Sharon reversed himselfand promised to allow Arafat toreturn once he had recovered.Some say Sharon did so knowingArafat would not be returning, atleast not alive.

At dawn on Oct. 29, a smilingbut frail Arafat was led to the park-ing lot of the Muqata and hoistedinto a Jordanian military helicop-ter. It carried him away into lead-en skies as a small group of sup-porters waved and wept. FromJordan, he was taken to a hospitalnear Paris.

With his death, Arafat leaves hispeople in the midst of economic,political and security crises, bereftof a leader who once captured theworld stage, and longing for theirshared dream of independence.

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Most people agree that Brown students are, to a point,capable and intelligent. Students here juggle busy academ-ic, extracurricular and social lives and somehow manage tokeep everything together.

So it’s mind-boggling to think about how many Brownstudents are unable to turn their cell phones off when theyenter a classroom. Students in large lecture classes reportphones ringing on a daily basis, and professors must devisecreative methods to remind students to turn off theirphones.

It’s true that many Brown students have important posi-tions on campus and need to be reachable, and it’s under-standable that people want to know when someone is try-ing to reach them.

But it’s also true that students want to be able to focus onlectures, classroom discussion and their education, ratherthan their neighbor’s cell phone. We’re not paying $37,000 ayear to hear your new Motorola play Kanye West’s “All FallsDown” or Britney Spears’ “Toxic” — we can turn the radioon for those. Being considerate of your fellow studentsmeans turning your cell phone off.

It’s that kind of consideration for others that led stateofficials to impose a ban on smoking in bars and restau-rants. Scheduled to take effect on March 1, the ban ensuresthat a nonsmoker’s meal — not to mention his health — willnot be ruined by second-hand smoke.

Sure, smokers are not sitting in clubs and bars blowingsmoke directly into nonsmokers’ faces. But they are impos-ing the effects of their harmful and disgusting habit on peo-ple who have not consented to such effects.

It is distressing that a law is required to force people to beconsiderate of their neighbors, but these laws work. In citiessuch as New York and Boston, restaurants and bars contin-ue to thrive, despite smoking bans that were heavily debat-ed when first proposed.

The same principle works here on campus; professorswho address the problem of cell phones ringing in classesface the nuisance head on, and a firm policy regardingphones ringing in classes is necessary. It’s disappointingand somewhat surprising Brown students can’t turn theirphones off on their own, but clearly some prodding is need-ed.

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I wanted to make a few quick points in reply toEmily Dietsch’s column (“Staying the Course,” Nov.8). Though I believe she had good intentions, hercolumn seriously misreads the situation theDemocratic Party finds itself in (or, rather, made foritself).

Dietsch writes that we need to “stay the course,but louder, stronger and more effectively.” Theproblem is that the “course” that the DemocraticParty is now on, and has been on for some time, isone that caters to the poisonous political culturewhose terms are set by the right. What this countrydesperately needs is not more of the current mess,but an unapologetic progressive movement thatwill step out of the boundaries of current politicaldiscourse and capture the imaginations and inter-ests of the millions of disillusioned Americans whodon’t see their basic concerns being addressed byeither mainstream party.

It is a shame that the Democrats and their sup-porters put so much effort and money into trying tomarginalize the only anti-war, anti-Patriot Act, anti-death penalty, pro-gay marriage (the list could goon) candidate, Ralph Nader. The only thing that willstop the right-wing drift of American politics is amovement from the left that will force political

issues onto the table that need to be addressed in aprogressive way. Otherwise, the rank and file of theDemocratic Party can be as progressive as theywant, but the leadership of the party will ultimatelyignore them and continue to play the right wing’sgame.

If there is no movement to the left of theDemocrats that will force them — with the threat oftaking a significant amount of votes — to addressimportant issues in a new and progressive way, theywon’t do it. They have no reason to if they areassured that, no matter what, we progressives willhave to vote for them because there’s nothing elseto do.

What we on the left need is the self-confidencethat if we put our ideas out there with honesty andfrankness, Americans will listen seriously to usbecause we are addressing their concerns in waysthat they need to be addressed. The current trend ofthe Democratic Party, underneath it all, shows atotal lack of self-confidence in progressive ideasand a horrible lack of faith in the American people’sprogressive potential. Unless the party changes its“course,” further disillusionment is in store.

Derek Seidman GSNov. 10

Dietsch misrepresents Democrats’ situation

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 11

If Democrats are unable to assert a compelling messageto voters in 2008, they will spend another term in exile.Democrats must reshape the liberal-conservative spec-trum; as so many have said, they must reclaim the pop-ulism which has been monopolized by those interests whobenefit from culture war, class division and Republicanismin its current form.

In the style of the times, I propose adding privacy to theBill of Rights. Amendments-as-political-devices are all therage. So maybe one to secure our bodies, families and pri-vate lives as our own respective business could begin tomarginalize a toxic values debate and hasten the em-blue-ment of the West and its electoral troves.

An amendment guaranteeing that “the right of all per-sons to privacy shall not be violated” would bolster widelyassaulted freedoms. If privacy is not implicit in the FourthAmendment's right “to be secure in (our) persons, houses,papers and effects, against unreasonable searches andseizures,” perhaps that’s because the people who wrote theBill of Rights lived in a society impossibly different from ourown. Just to make it especially clear whose liberty was to bemost prized in this new country, though, our foundingfathers included an amendment explaining that the specif-ic rights mentioned in the bill “shall not be construed todeny or disparage others retained by the people.”

Yet it would take more than a century and a half, duringwhose waning years states sterilized “imbeciles” and con-traception was widely illegal, for privacy to gain favor. In1948, the United Nations declared privacy a universalhuman right, and in 1965 the U.S. Supreme Court struckdown a Connecticut anti-contraception law and estab-lished a broad view of privacy as a set of “penumbral”rights, derived from the First, Fourth and Fifth amend-ments.

After 1965, a definition began to emerge from theAmerican courts: Privacy is a fundamental right; it is per-sonal, not property-based; and it includes the right to one'sbody, a basic level of sexual freedom, a woman's right tochoose and security of one's personal information. Yetwithout sufficiently explicit constitutional protection, pri-vacy is routinely trampled. Web users are scammed daily onthe “Internets,” the government is butting in on the taxpay-ers’ intimacy, prisons are filling needlessly with drugoffenders who are accorded no rights over their own bodiesand television is strangling America deeper into existentialcrisis. Isn’t it time to bestow on all persons the dignity thatcomes with the right to be left alone?

President Bush’s proposed amendment to ban gay mar-riage never had much of a chance in Congress, but it servedits electoral purposes well. The amendment’s basic state-ment — “gay marriage is a national problem” — framed theensuing electoral politics, and forced the Left into the dam-aging and narrow position of defending gay marriagealone, rather than advocating broad civil rights, fundamen-tal equalities or limited federal government intervention inAmericans’ lives. A privacy rights amendment doesn’t needto pass — nor should it, necessarily. It just needs to send aclear message: that individual liberty, not religious or moralpurity, must be protected to save America's soul.

Democrats must play offense to win — we need to go outand actually convince voters that we stand for something.We need to build majorities without compromising or crap-ping out, even as we seek long-term change. Why doAmericans support civil unions even as they vote against gaymarriage? Why does the president support these semanticarrangements even as he pushes a federal ban? Most peoplebelieve what you do in your personal life is your own busi-ness and not the government’s. This sentiment resonatesperhaps more in the west than in the Northeast, given thelatter’s puritan root, and the former’s progressive past.

From the prairie to the coasts, towering institutions haveinvaded private life, warping American individualism into anational complex. Voters are desperately seeking answersto fundamental questions about the nature of our society,and Democrats must posit some of their own.

If Democrats express concerns about the direction ofAmerican life as a common dilemma of individual liberty,they can begin to isolate fanatics and unite populist con-servatives, moderates, and liberals and libertarians. Theycan break the GOP in New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado,Arizona and Montana by portraying them as in the hands ofextremists. They can define the terms of our political dis-course; they can play the game and win. Americans willvote for tolerance and liberty — Democrats need to bring itto them direct.

Ari Savitzky ’06 wears the deepest shades of blue.

Privacy rights nowARI SAVITZKY

Brown supports its domestic students as well as anyother large university does — with one glaring exception:Transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education stu-dents fall between the cracks when it comes to financialaid. The hurdles to solving this problem are enormous,officials say, but what is most troubling is that little actionseems to have been taken to tackle the problem.

The University does not currently consider RUE andtransfers along with the rest of the student body when itdoles out aid. In fact, both programs appear to be strictlybudget-driven, and this budget is outside of the normalaid reserves. While transfer studentsare currently admitted to Brownunder a need-blind admissionsprocess, absolutely no Universityfunds are allocated to support them.RUE students are still admitted need-aware, with an annual budget thatincludes only a small allocation foraid. (Only two of the 2003 RUE admitsreceived any University funds.)Prospective RUE students who havesignificant need are often declinedadmission based on finances, not onacademic qualifications.

While I commend the University for pushing for need-blind admissions, I think there are some internal issues forthose that are already admitted that need serious redress.First, segregating RUE and transfer aid from the rest of theUniversity coffers is unfair and wholly unethical. Olderstudents, special students, former military, those whotook time to raise a family, late bloomers and anyone elsewho started at another institution are denied aid. Second,while not true for other full-time students, if a RUE ortransfer student is not awarded aid in the first year they areineligible for funds in future years. At the very least, andperhaps most important, RUE and transfer students

should be considered eligible for aid after they are full-fledged members of the student population.

RUE and transfer students are thousands of dollars indebt. A large percent will graduate with six-figure debtsafter four years at Brown. That is staggering. The adminis-tration would not let a regular admit take on that amountof debt; for most students, if there is need, that need is atleast partially met.

The University Resources Committee, which advisesthe University on financial issues, met Monday to discussfunds allocation for next year. RUE and transfer students

attended to voice concerns.Provost Robert Zimmer’s non-committal response to these stu-dent worries was, “What I can sayis we take the problem seriously.... When we feel we can address it,we will.” RUE and transfer stu-dents fear this day will nevercome.

The subject of financial andinstitution aid for RUE and trans-fer students needs to be tackledonce and for all. For the provost to

place the matter on the back burner yet again, until when-ever the University feels it is ready to address it, is abhor-rent.

Something is seriously wrong with this picture. Brownsupports diversity in the student body in most matters, yetit discriminates against RUE and transfers in regard to aid.We are a part of this community, we will be alums andmany of us have already proven ourselves in business andsocial circles. Apply the same rules for aid to us that youapply for all other students.

Marie Hopkins RUE ’08 is vice president of the ResumedUndergraduate Student Association.

RUEing the aid situation

An unfair financial

aid policy hurts

RUE and

transfer students.

My mother became obsessed with Feng Shui twoyears ago. I came home late to discover her rabidlydusting the guest room. We never dust in our house.Why clean something that inevitably replaces itself?

“What’s wrong?” I asked, worriedly. Then I spotted avacuum cleaner in the corner. This was obviously acrisis. She pitifully waved a dirty rag. “You know howthe guest room is the Prosperity Room?”

“Uh huh.”“Well. It turns out ... it’s not.”“What do you mean? It’s on the left, farthest from

the front door ...” Mom cut me off. “I forgot to include the garage in

my calculations. Going from there, the ProsperityRoom is actually behind the guest room in the backyard, where your baby sister dug her pit. Our ProsperityRoom is missing!”

“Are you telling me that instead of a Prosperity Room,we have a Prosperity Pit?” I asked.But our spiritual journey had onlybegun. It turned out that our frontdoor was in the wrong place. TheFeng Shui expert, who had been onOprah, recommended knockingdown the entire front wall andrebuilding it with the door at a moreFeng Shui friendly angle. My fatherobjected to the cost so instead myfamily placed a giant bowl of salt bythe door. The salt acted as a talisman, fighting the evilenergy of the door. It was also good for tripping guests.

With so much spiritual progress, we consulted a sec-ond Feng Shui expert. According to this one, our prosper-ity room was not where my little sister had dug her pit. Itwas the garage.

This, if possible, was spiritually worse than the pit. “The garage?” my mother moaned. “We keep cars in

there!”“Yeah, and aren’t there spiders?” asked my sister.“And expired earthquake emergency provisions,” my

mother said. “Imagine the damage outdated soup cansare inflicting on our money energy!”

We cleaned. But the Feng Shui expert said it wasn’tenough. We teetered on the chasm of spiritual disaster.What we needed, she said, were goldfish.

We needed life in the garage, the expert explained. We

needed color. We needed movement. Goldfish were theobvious solution.

With our prosperity mending, the Feng Shui expertdecided to take a gander at my room. We stood in silenceas she surveyed the piles of clothes and textbooks andconsidered in what direction she should flee. Nobody butthe cockroaches was talking.

“I am feeling considerable yin energy here,” she said.“Is that a good thing?” I asked weakly. “No. Yin is the dark. Yang is the light.” She gestured

grandly like a realtor in a ballroom, scratching heracrylic nails down a wall that had once been white.“Yang is happiness, breathing spaces. Yin is dark,ghostly. It lies in a dead room like a rotted lily pad ona stagnant pool.”

“Oh,” I said. “That sucks.”She stepped over my piles of stuff and glared at me.

“Your bed’s in the wrong place,” she accused.“It is?” I asked. “I’m, uh,

sorry.”“Don’t apologize to me.

Apologize to yourself. And yourbookshelves! They block animportant channel of yang. Themess! It is truly amazing that inthis room, you manage to getout of bed in the morning.”

My mother looked very con-cerned and was taking notes.

“So, what can I do?” I asked. “Paint the walls a differentcolor?”

The Feng Shui expert clutched at her chest and landedin a heap on a pile of clothes. A pizza crust fell out ofthem. “Paint the walls?” she gasped. “That’s like askingwhat you can do for your skin when your very bones areout of alignment.”

My mother gasped.“So, what can I do?” I asked, getting comfortable on

another pile. “Clear out the crap,” she said. I perked up. “You mean I should throw away the

textbooks that I’ve had since eighth grade?”She wilted. “Oh, my god. YES.” “Cool.”

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 keeps it real.

Arranging prosperity

One student’s

encounter with

Feng Shui.

GUEST COLUMN BY MARIE HOPKINS

ALEXANDRA TOUMANOFF

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

NOVEMBER 11, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY JUSTIN GOLDMANThe end of the women’s soccer team’s sea-son was bittersweet — the team finished7-10 and 2-5 in the Ivy League — but theBears did get some positive recognitionfrom the Ivy League. Five players madeeither honorable mention All-Ivy or firstteam All-Ivy this year.

Co-captain Meghan Schreck ’06, HilaryWilson ’06, Jill Mansfield ’07 and KathrynMoos ’07 all earned All-Ivy honorablementions, but the lone first team selec-tion was Kim LaVere ’06.

LaVere had an outstanding season asthe Bears’ sweeper, anchoring a strongdefense and providing solid team leader-ship throughout the season.

“Kim had a great season,” said HeadCoach Phil Pincince. “She is a junior, andthis was her best season.

“I have a lot of confidence in her. Thiswas a well deserved honor,” he said.

Teammates agreed that it was nice forLaVere to get recognition, especiallybecause she plays sweeper, a positionthat most people who aren’t soccer fansoften don’t appreciate the importance of.

“Kim does not get the credit shedeserves. She is probably the best sweep-er in the league. It was a nice honor forher to have made first team All-Ivy,”Schreck said.

Schreck’s honorable mention capped aseason in which she led the team in scor-ing, with 14 goals, while shouldering theburden of responsibility as a co-captain.

“Meghan is an outstanding leader,”Pincince said. “She really takes care ofeverything on the field and off the field.She was in exclusive company being acaptain as a junior and she handled itvery well.”

Schreck said she was happy to havebeen recognized by the league as an All-Ivy selection, but it did not give her com-plete validation on the season.

“It wasn’t something I expected orneeded, but I am happy to have been

selected,” Schreck said.Wilson, a transfer from Arizona State

University, had an outstanding and All-Ivy-worthy first season. She tied a recordfor saves by a Brown goalie this season,with 145 saves, which included routinesaves as well as game-saving ones.

“Hilary really deserved to make firstteam,” Schreck said. “She couldn’t havehad a better year. On top of everythingsoccer-related, she had to come in andadapt to a whole new environment. Thiswas really a great year for Hilary.”

Mansfield and Moos earned All-Ivymentions for their consistently solid play.Mansfield continued to wow the crowdwith her famous flip throw-ins.

“She improved her ability to beat peo-ple one-on-one this year. She has alwaysbeen good defensively, but this seasonshe was very strong attacking as well,”Pincince said.

Moos did not have as many goals asshe had last year, when she captured IvyLeague Rookie of the Year honors, but shestill scored 11 points this season, secondonly to Schreck.

“She is someone that the opposingteam always had to reckon with,”Pincince said.

After losing six games by two goals orfewer this season, the Bears look toimprove next season as all five of the All-Ivy selections return.

Bowls could bescrambling forqualified teams

Bill Pijewski / Herald

Kim LaVere ’06 was named First Team All-Ivy this year, following an honorable mentionin 2002. Four other Brown players were named honorable mention All-Ivy.

Despite what the NCAA told JeremyBloom or what NHL fans want tobelieve, sports and business are inextri-cably linked. I will include poker as a

sport and a busi-ness. I promisethat this will bemy only mentionof a game — Imean, sport —

where sweaty, balding men exhibitdominant control of their facial musclesto intimidate or beguile opponents. Andaccording to Buddy Cianci’s definitionof a business, if money is being “right-fully taken” from a “willing” party andgiven to another, “respectable” partypoker fits the bill.

So what are some cases of the twoworlds colliding?

The NHL, the owners, the players andthe fans (given in order of descendingwealth) all know that hockey is the pre-pubescent poster child for the sport andbusiness dilemma. Hockey is the sportand the NHL is the business, with theformer taking a back seat to the latter.Right now, the best we can hope for is agovernment subsidy or the return of theIntolerable Acts with a hockey clauseslapped on. (With the departure of John

Ashcroft, the prospects of this are look-ing bleaker and bleaker.)

Just as Bo Jackson knows baseball,football and cricket, George Foremanknows boxing, cooking, naming chil-dren (all of his children are namedGeorge) and, most recently, housecleaning. With his Lean Mean GrillingMachines, he proved more than hisworth in the business world. Now he hasintroduced a home cleaning system,which will probably sell like hotcakes. Ifanyone can sell weapons of massdestruction to Iraq and then convincethe New York Times that it actually did-n’t happen, I’m sure it would be him.

Michael Phelps is a good athlete, buthe made a bad business decision. Whatwas he doing driving drunk? I’m disap-pointed, for the obvious reason that hecould have been going home with justabout any girl wherever it was that hewas drinking. He should be jailed for hispoor decision-making, in addition to hisdrunk-driving charge. I don’t thinkmany sponsors will be calling him uptoo soon, unless they happen to be thesame ones sponsoring NASCAR events.Stick to the water, Mike.

There are plenty of sports productsthat have gone kerplunk faster than

Fidel Castro’s baseball career. The XFL,for example, was a great idea in practice.I’m sure anyone who has watched“SportsCenter” has seen Tom Emanski’sDefensive Drills video — possibly evenseen the video back-to-back-to-back —and never, ever wanted to buy it.

There are some products that do notwork with the diamond-ring principle,wherein if you make someone’s maritaland sexual wellbeing depending uponthe purchase of a product, it will bebought. The defensive drills video doesnot fit that description in most states,though not the 10 of 11 where citizenshave decided that there are specificmorals in sports.

As much as I have scoffed at the rela-tionship between sports and business, Iam morally obligated to praise the handthat feeds me. Without business, Iwouldn’t have the opportunity to ana-lyze sports while being remunerated atthe current salary of NHL players. Idoubt the NCAA is profiting off mylabor, and I sure hope nobody at Brownis. I must warn anyone who tries: BuddyCianci eventually will get out of jail.

Herald sports editor Ian Cropp ’05 enjoysthe GCB.

Sports and business are a match madein heaven, purgatory or college

Five earn All-Ivy recognition for w. soccer, LaVere ’06 named to first team

(Los Angeles Times) — Wanted by bowl com-mittees: college football teams with sixvictories. Must have quarterback, headcoach, fight song, ability to travel on shortnotice. Mascot optional.

Welcome to Operation Saturation.The era of having more bowl-game

slots than bowl-eligible schools may soonbe upon us.

With less than a month left in the sea-son, 36 schools have reached the six-winthreshold required for bowl participation,leaving 20 schools with work to do inorder to satisfy the bloated 28-bowl-gamemarket.

“It’s a frightening scenario,” Las VegasBowl executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy said this week.

Consider the Las Vegas Bowl’s plight: Itis supposed to get the Pacific 10Conference’s fifth-place team to matchagainst a Mountain West opponent.

The problem is the Pac-10 may nothave a fifth-place team that is bowl eligi-ble.

In fact, this year, if USC goes to theOrange Bowl, there’s a strong chance thePac-10 might not be able to fill four of itsseven bowl tie-ins.

Situation: Four Pac-10 schools are locksfor postseason play: USC, California,Arizona State and this weekend’s winnerof UCLA-Oregon (both schools are 5-4).

If USC ends up in the Orange Bowl andCalifornia goes to the Rose, Arizona Statemoves up to the Holiday Bowl.

The Sun Bowl is assured of getting aPac-10 team, but after that it’s “Katie barthe bowl-room door.”

The Insight Bowl, which gets the No. 4pick, stands a reasonable chance of get-ting a Pac-10 team, but it could be toughluck for the Las Vegas, Emerald andSilicon Valley bowls, all of which may bescrambling to fill vacant slots.

BY BROOKE WOLFEThe men’s tennis team finished completeteam action two weeks ago, but this pastweekend two first-years competed in theDartmouth Invitational.

Neither Scott Blumenkranz ’08 norMichael Scherer ’08 traveled to the OmniRegional Championships, so both need-ed to play a few more matches to comeout even with those teammates who did,according to Head Coach Jay Harris.

Scherer and Blumenkranz each com-peted in two singles and two doublesmatches. Scherer won his first matchagainst Harvard’s Robert Parker 6-2, 6-3,but fell to Manhattan College’s ElanCohan 11-9. Scherer went into a third-settiebreaker, also known as a super-break-er, rather than going into a third set. Helost by only two points in what he calleda “nerve-racking but exciting” match.

Blumenkranz lost his first match toPedro Genovese from Marist College on aclose call, eventually ending the match 6-4, 6-4. He came back to defeat CalebGardner from Harvard 6-4, 7-6.

“(This tournament) is more of a warm-

M. tennis sendstwo to competeat Dartmouth

see M. TENNIS, page 8

see BOWLS, page 7

IAN CROPPCASH CROP