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BY MELANIE WOLFGANGEven the moon was caughtwearing red Wednesday eveningas the Boston Red Sox earnedtheir first World Series victorysince 1918.

October’s total lunar eclipse,nicknamed the “Blood Moon”after its reddish hue, mayaccount for the Sox’s seeminglyeffortless 3-0 shutout of the St.Louis Cardinals. It may alsoaccount, in part, for the odd

behavior of Brown’s Red Sox fansthroughout campus last night.

A jubilant crowd gatheredoutside Josiah’s immediatelyafter the Red Sox clinched thegame by throwing out St. Louis’Edgar Renteria at first base. Lessa riot than a celebration, thecrowd marched up ThayerStreet, linking arms and high-fiving car passengers throughopen windows. Horns blared.Students chanted. Cameras

flashed. Helicopters circledoverhead. Police officers lookedon in amusement, soundingtheir sirens intermittently tokeep the crowds from blockingtraffic.

“Can I get a cigarette for theRed Sox?” one student prompt-ed another as they watched thecrowd pass.

The group of about 200 stu-

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Rising GOP star Jindal ’92favored to win House seat

History dept. building to berelocated to make room for WalkBY JANE PORTERPeter Green House, the three-story, 10,000-square-foot build-ing that currently houses part ofthe Department of History, willbe moved to a new location tofree the space for the planned“Walk” connecting thePembroke campus to LincolnField. At a meeting lastWednesday, representatives ofthe history department and theplanning office discussed thelogistics of the move.

Built in 1868 and renovatedfive years ago, Peter GreenHouse is currently home tomany of the history depart-ment’s offices, its administrativeoffice and a classroom.

“We know that it’s going to bemoved,” said Professor of

History Tim Harris P’03, actingchair of the department. “It’sgoing to be inconvenient forthose people who have officesthere. The hope is that we canminimize inconveniences.”

At last week’s meeting, Harrisdiscussed dates and logisticsregarding the move withMichael McCormick, director ofplanning, and Karen Mota, aca-demic department manager forthe history department.

The building will be moved toaccommodate the constructionof the Walk, a walkway runningparallel to Thayer Street andstretching from Lincoln Field tothe Pembroke campus. The Walkwill be designed in conjunctionwith Sidney Frank Hall, a newacademic facility that will stand

on Angell Street. It is possiblethat construction of the Walkwill eventually require theUniversity to relocate otherbuildings as well, McCormicksaid, but at this point it isunclear whether that will benecessary and which buildingswould be affected.

Last week’s meeting was apreliminary step in the planningof the move, Harris said. PeterGreen House will be movedapproximately 250 feet from itscurrent location on Angell Streetto the corner of Brown andAngell streets, which is currentlythe site of a University-ownedparking lot.

Steel beams will be inserted

BY CAMDEN AVERYIncreasing faculty diversity is onegoal of Brown’s largest facultyexpansion in decades; to accom-plish this, the University is using atargeted hiring program createdas part of the Plan for AcademicEnrichment.

Of the 100 faculty positionsthat will be added over the nextseveral years, 25 are allocated tothe Target of Opportunity pro-gram, which allows departmentsto bypass the normal searchprocess to specifically recruitscholars they deem “extraordi-nary.”

Brenda Allen, associate provostand director of institutional diver-sity, said one of the University’sobjectives with the Target ofOpportunity program “is to bringracial and gender minorities tothe faculty.”

According to Associate ProvostNancy Dunbar, the program seeksto increase not only racial andgender diversity, but also intellec-tual diversity. Dunbar said “tar-get” individuals are identified“because of their ability to diver-sify the intellectual terrain, toprovide a unique or diverse per-spective.”

Typically, the University hiresfaculty members to fill existingpositions, such as when a profes-sor retires or otherwise leaves theUniversity. The Target ofOpportunity program, Allen said,allows departments to create newpositions to accommodate schol-ars they choose to recruit.

Under the targeted hiring pro-gram, departments identifyscholars who are “extraordinary,”Allen said, and write a proposalthat President Ruth Simmons, the

provost and deans review. If theyapprove the proposal, depart-ments can begin recruiting.

“Whatever it takes to sell theacademic environment here, wehelp the departments to achieve,”Allen said, adding that this some-times includes taking a candidateto dinner or arranging conversa-tions with other faculty members.

The program’s purpose is toallow the University to recruit“outstanding faculty with greater… flexibility,” Allen said. Thisflexibility is rooted in the pro-gram’s expedited hiring process,she said. Target of Opportunityallows the University to identifyan individual for immediate hireand avoid the process of commit-tee approval, which slows hiring,she added.

Target of Opportunity hiring isfaster, according to Allen, becauseit doesn’t require placing adver-tisements and forming a pool ofcandidates to choose from.

Renowned author John EdgarWideman came to campus inSeptember as a Target ofOpportunity hire, Allen said.Wideman — who has won an O.Henry Award for short fiction andtwo PEN/Faulkner Awards — hasdual appointments in the depart-ments of Africana studies andEnglish. He is teaching one grad-uate seminar this academic year.

Wideman said his recruitmentprocess “went on for six or fourmonths” — significantly shorterthan the standard process.

According to Dean of theFaculty Rajiv Vohra P’07, “the(standard hiring) process is actu-ally pretty long. … Many of the

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Nick Neely / HeraldBoston Red Sox fans spilled onto Thayer Street late Wednesday evening after the team won the WorldSeries title, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in the fourth game of the best-of-seven series. Celebrationson College Hill were relatively peaceful, with a heavy police presence keeping things in hand.

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Brown fans celebrate peacefully

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After retirement of olddirector, Argentineecologist takes overEnvironmentalStudiescampus news, page 3

RISD students useinternships, alumniconnections toachieve success aftergraduationrisd news, page 3

Alexandra Toumanoff’06 battles theinsidious forces ofnature — right in herdorm roomcolumn, page 11

Nate Goralnik ’06thinks it’s time forAmerica, not theUnited Nations, torun the worldcolumn, page 11

M. tennis ends fall sea-son with successfulshowing at weekendtournament; one play-er gets to quarterfinalssports, page 12

Jindal, who ran forgovernor last year,would be only Brownalum in HouseBY JUSTIN ELLIOTTBobby Jindal ’92 is not the typicalLouisiana politician. The son ofIndian immigrants — his birth

name wasPiyush —and a con-v e r t e dCa t h o l i c ,

Jindal, at only 33, is running forCongress in a district that gaveconsiderable support to formerKu Klux Klan Grand WizardDavid Duke in the 1991 gover-nor’s race.

Nevertheless, after a meteoric

rise through Louisiana state gov-ernment, a position in George W.Bush’s administration and anear-win in last year’s gubernato-rial race, Jindal, a conservativeRepublican, is ahead in the raceto represent the FirstCongressional District and ispoised to become the onlyBrunonian in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives.

Jindal, who last year was elect-ed to the University’s Board ofTrustees, won a RhodesScholarship after he graduatedmagna cum laude from Brownwith a degree in biology and pub-lic policy. For two years he stud-ied politics at Oxford University,and from there, he rapidly movedfrom a job as a consultant to

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LIVE ON LINCOLN9 p.m.-midnight (Lincoln Field) —The annual celebration of autumnwill feature live music, free food andstudent performances.

ELECTION DEBATE8 p.m. (Salomon 001) —A debate about election issuesbetween the Brown Democrats, theBrown Republicans and theStudents for Liberty, hosted by theBrown Debating Union and theACLU.

LECTURE: DONNA BRAZILE6:30 p.m. (Salomon 101) —In 2000, Donna Brazile became thefirst African American woman tohead a national presidential cam-paign. The Democratic strategistwill speak about the implications ofnext week’s presidential election.

PERFORMANCE: JAZZ COMBOS8 p.m. (Grant Recital Hall) —The Brown University jazz comboswill perform. Free and open to thepublic.

LECTURE: ADDRESSING THE OBE-SITY CRISIS4-5 p.m. (CIT) —Representatives of the Departmentof Community Health and theBrown Medical School will speakabout the buregoening obesity cri-sis and the need to marry scienceto advocacy.

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BY KATE GORMANOn Jan. 1, Osvaldo Sala, professor at the School ofAgronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, willbecome the director of the Center forEnvironmental Studies and director of theEnvironmental Change Initiative. Sala was chosenat the end of last semester after the retirement ofHarold Ward, professor emeritus of environmentalstudies. Ward founded the center in 1981 andserved as its director until last spring.

Sala said he wants to add a focus on global stud-ies to complement the strengths of the currentdepartment. “I see no big weaknesses in thedepartment, just opportunities to grow in areassuch as global environmental sciences, strengtheninterdisciplinary studies,” he said.

Sala is an internationally recognized ecologistand will bring expertise to Brown, said CarolineKarp, senior lecturer in environmental studies andthe interim director of the center. “He has experi-ence working in large programs nationally andinternationally — he took a teaching sabbatical atStanford University and has also worked at WoodsHole,” she said.

Sala received his B.Sc. from the University ofBuenos Aires and his master’s degree and Ph.D.from Colorado State University. He is currently thesecretary general of the Scientific Committee onProblems of the Environment, a Paris-based inter-

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Argentine ecologist tobecome director ofenvironmental studies

RISD students enter tough job market,aided by internships and alum connectionsBY LISHAN SOHEstablishing a career as an artist is notoriously difficult,and RISD students rely heavily on internships and con-nections with alums to break into the art world.

Jacqui Alexander RISD ’05, an illustration major, willstart her first formal internship at the Klemens Gasser &Tanja Grunert Inc. gallery in New York City this winter.She used online resources made available by RISD’sAlumni and Career Services to secure her employment.RISD’s Alumni and Career Services Web site has close toa thousand postings for part-time and full-time jobs,internships and freelance opportunities.

“They have an extremely comprehensive database,”Alexander said.

Alexander said she was looking forward to integrat-ing her artistic skills with real-world demands, an expe-rience only an internship could give.

Alexander also emphasized that the woman whohired her for her internship at the gallery is a RISD grad-uate.

RISD’s career services department is merged withalumni relations, and the two offices share one build-ing. This forms a powerful networking medium for stu-dents and alums alike to “get into the artistic circle,”said Tom DesLongchamp RISD ’07, a film, animationand video major.

Director of Alumni and Career Services StevenWhitten, who joined RISD’s career services department18 years ago, said he thinks internships serve as crucialpreparation for the working life of a RISD alum, evenventuring so far as to say that he would like to seeinternships made a graduation requirement at the col-lege.

According to Whitten, post-graduation surveys con-ducted by RISD students reveal that around 67 percent

of students in each class do an internship over thecourse of their undergraduate career, and half of thesedo at least two. Whitten said these statistics encouragedhim. “No experience is more important than an intern-ship experience,” he said.

RISD students repeatedly stressed the crucial impor-tance of networking; many attributed more than half ofinternship and job-search success to having contactsand connections with people working in the field. “It’sall about who you know,” said Jared Zimmerman RISD’05, a graphic design major who will also receive a spe-cial Bachelor of Graphic Design degree in 2006.

Zimmerman spent part of last summer interning atthe DIY lifestyle magazine Readymade in Berkeley,Calif. Later in the summer, his boss recommended himto an industrial design company, Lunar, which hejoined as an intern. Zimmerman said he is confident ofan offer of employment should he ever decide to returnto the company, but he has his sights set on graduateschool for now.

RISD students and administrators agree that know-ing professionals in the field greatly increases a stu-dent’s chance of finding internships and employmentupon graduation. But “it’s undeniable that there is a lotof luck involved as well,” DesLongchamp said.

Most RISD students establish connections by takingon project-based, commissioned work during thesemester and school vacations. DesLongchamp said hetries to work “on as many projects as possible one afteranother” in order to meet people who can “point me inthe right direction.”

Students said projects not only help them navigatewithin the complex professional network of the artistic

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Fortune 50 companies to succes-sive appointments as secretary ofLouisiana’s Department of Healthand Hospitals, president of theUniversity of Louisiana systemand assistant secretary in theDepartment of Health and HumanServices under the Bush adminis-tration.

When the representative of theFirst Congressional District, whichincludes conservative suburbs ofNew Orleans, resigned to run forthe U.S. Senate, Jindal — thoughhe is originally from Baton Rouge— moved to the area fresh off hisunexpectedly strong showing inthe governor’s race. According toStephanie Grace ’87, a columnistfor the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Jindal’s entry into therace precluded what would typi-cally be a hard fight for a seldom-vacant seat.

“He’s the virtual incumbent,which is very unusual (for) anopen congressional seat,” she said.

Jindal’s most prominent oppo-nent, State Rep. Steven Scalise,failed to get any traction anddropped out of the race in August.Jindal is “the 800-pound gorilla,and there’s nothing (Scalise) coulddo,” Grace said.

Jindal’s five remaining oppo-nents “have no money and noone’s ever heard of them,” she said.

Now, leading in an uncompeti-tive race, Jindal is “going throughthe motions,” Grace said.

Jindal has raised over $2 millionand spent about $1 million,according to an analysis of FederalElection Commission data by theCenter for Responsive Politics’Web site. The Jindal campaign didnot run TV ads until last week andhas donated money to Republican

candidates around the country.In last year’s gubernatorial race,

Jindal’s first foray into electoralpolitics, he was a dark horse. Heran on the strength of his resume,conservative values and his charis-ma.

According to Grace, one of thesurprises of the race was that “hehas really good political instincts,(though) he’d always been abureaucrat.”

In Louisiana’s unique electionsystem, instead of party primaries,every candidate runs in a generalprimary on Election Day. If nocandidate receives 50 percent ofthe vote, the top two vote-gettersadvance to a runoff, held a monthlater. In the gubernatorial primary,Jindal won the clear plurality of thevote, earning 33 percent, withDemocratic Lieutenant GovernorKathleen Blanco coming in secondwith 18 percent. However, Jindallost the runoff, garnering 48 per-cent of the vote to Blanco’s 52 per-cent.

Jindal told The Herald last weekthat he credited his strength in thegovernor’s race in part to “thevalue of having detailed policies.”Jindal’s campaign released about100 pages of point-by-point policypositions about issues facingLouisiana.

“I think voters are tired of thetraditional politicians that givethem easy answers instead ofdetailed policies,” he said.

“It was a risk — many politicalexperts would’ve cautioned us notdo it — but I’m proud of the factand grateful for the fact that votersresponded so well to it,” he said.

Jindal said some expertsblamed his defeat on his failure tostrike back when Blanco ran nega-tive ads in the race’s final weeks.

“One of the things we feltstrongly about is that you can winby telling voters why they shouldvote for you, not why they should-

n’t vote for your opponent ... and Igot no regrets about last year,” hesaid.

Jindal does not hold the politi-cal views of a stereotypical Brownalum. He supports PresidentBush’s policies on terrorism andIraq, he favors aggressively lower-ing taxes and he wants the govern-ment to crack down on frivolouslawsuits. Jindal, who was presidentof the Brown College Republicans,said he enjoyed his time at Brownprecisely because he was political-ly outnumbered.

“Certainly having a minorityviewpoint at Brown forced me toreexamine my beliefs — the basisfor those beliefs — and it forcedme to learn to explain thosebeliefs,” he said.

Jindal said that “there were cer-tainly quite a few people that weresurprised that I had the views Idid,” but “I found the Brown com-munity very respectful, even whenwe disagreed.”

But as a student, Jindal said hedid not see himself entering poli-tics. He came to Brown as a PLMEstudent, intending to become apracticing physician. But after histime at Oxford, he accepted astring of jobs and ultimately aban-doned the idea of medical school.

Jindal said he originally decidedto enter the gubernatorial racewhen he saw more and more of hisfriends leaving Louisiana becauseof a grim economic picture.

“I decided after realizingnobody else was going to talkabout the issues I thought wereimportant that it was up to me if Iwanted to force those issues to thefront,” he said.

Grace, the columnist, attributedJindal’s dominance of the currentrace in part to the perception thathe would wield a lot of influence inCongress.

“People see a young, energetic,smart guy ... (who) has a lot of

Washington contacts,” Grace said.“The feeling is that he would bemore than your average fresh-man.”

According to Grace, a “carpet-bagger” label has not hinderedJindal’s success in the race, largelyon account of his popularity.Jindal’s wife is from the FirstDistrict, but the entire family,including his daughter and infantson, moved there only lastFebruary.

Grace said Jindal does not oftentalk about his ethnicity, thoughshe said that some people think helost votes last year in northernLouisiana because of his race.

“I’m sure there are people whoare not going to vote for him (thisyear) because he’s Indian,” shesaid, but added that she thoughtothers like the idea that Jindal mayreflect favorably on Louisiana’simage on racial issues. White

supremacist and formerKlansman David Duke was electedto the state legislature fromMetairie, an area in the FirstCongressional District, in 1989.Duke also reached the runoff inthe 1991 gubernatorial election.

Jindal told The Herald that if heis elected, he hopes to get on aHouse committee that deals withhealth care issues. He said hewould try to employ his back-ground in health care to push forMedicaid reform and work foraffordable, high-quality insurancefor all.

Chris McAuliffe ’05, president ofthe Brown College Republicans,told The Herald he was enthusias-tic about Jindal’s success.

“I think it’s really cool for us,”McAuliffe said. “I think it will bereally good for Brown ... to have ahigh-profile Republican comefrom the school.”

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people who were just hiredwere approved a couple ofyears ago.”

Though the Target ofOpportunity program acceler-ates the hiring process, Allensaid the standard hiring sys-tem is necessary to ensureconsideration of less visibleprofessors who might other-wise not be hired by Brown.

One-quarter of the 100planned positions in the Planfor Academic Enrichment areTarget of Opportunity open-ings.

Thirty-seven of the 100 fac-ulty positions have alreadybeen filled, and during the nextfour to five years, 10 to 15 willbe added annually. But admin-istrators are not sure howmany of the new faculty mem-bers were hired under theTarget of Opportunity pro-gram.

The calculation of faculty

hired is complicated by howfaculty members are catego-rized — professors can beTarget of Opportunity hires,standard Plan for AcademicEnrichment hires or replace-ment hires, Allen said. In addi-tion, some people theUniversity considers to be inone category could also beincluded in another.

The situation is “not disor-ganized,” Vohra said. “It is,however, complicated by thefact that not each individualwe hire corresponds to exactlyone position.”

Allen said keeping track offaculty hired through theTarget of Opportunity programis difficult because there is “toomuch going on, lots of thingsare happening simultaneous-ly.”

“It’ll take a while” to clarifyan exact number of positionsfilled through the program, shesaid.

Herald staff writer CamdenAvery ’07 can be reached at [email protected].

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community, but also allow themto continuously improve asartists.

Internships vary in availabili-ty and nature across concentra-tions. Industrial design, graphicdesign and other design majorsare more career-oriented thanother students, particularlythose with majors in the finearts, such as painting and sculp-ture, according to many stu-dents. But competition for greatinternships is intense acrossdisciplines in the art world, stu-dents said, emphasizing theircommitments to staying com-petitive in the job market byfocusing on improving theirartistic skills.

Caity Kennedy RISD ’06, apainting major, said studentsshould constantly work on proj-ects so they do not “get stuck”and can continually improvetheir art. “We work hard to tryand get better at what we do, notto try and impress,” Kennedysaid. “Attending art school helpsus develop our skills so that wecan do better in the future.”

Kennedy said she is notapprehensive about securing aninternship, adding that anycompetition she does feel onlyinspires her to improve herself

as an artist. RISD students also use per-

sonal Web sites to enhance theiremployment prospects. Somestudents, such as Kennedy, usetheir Web sites primarily to keepin touch with friends and familyfrom home and to show lovedones their work, but others saythe personal sites are necessarypublic platforms for showcasingtheir visual credentials, as wellas publishing their resumes.

Students hope prospectiveemployers will contact themthrough their Web sites.“Potential employers are able tosee all your work at once,”Alexander said. “It’s an onlineportfolio for anyone’s easy refer-ence.”

RISD’s Alumni and CareerServices takes time to critiqueeach student’s portfolio. “Wewant to equip each student withthe tools that they need in orderto succeed in the real world,”Whitten said. “RISD prides itselfin educating our students tothink, to know that they are notliving in a vacuum. They shouldpossess the necessary skills tobe able to strike a balancebetween their incredible artistictalent and dealing with practicalissues in the real world.”

“It is so much a part of anartistic education and shouldmost definitely be a professionalprerequisite for all RISD stu-dents,” Whitten said.

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disciplinary group of scientistsstudying environmental issues.

To date, Sala’s research hasbeen on grassland ecology, saidJennifer Plaut, program internat the Center for EnvironmentalStudies. He has recently beenstudying biodiversity in arid andsemi-arid climates in Patagonia,she said. “He is a world-famousscientist, he has experienceworking on international com-mittees and he will be reallyvaluable here.”

Plaut said she expects Sala’sexperience working with peoplefrom different backgrounds willhelp him direct theEnvironmental ChangeInitiative.

As director of the center, Salawill support the existing cur-riculum and work with the fac-ulty on creating new academicprograms that will continue togenerate highly respecteddegrees, Karp said. As directorof the Environmental ChangeInitiative, Sala will look acrossacademic units to generateresearch programs on subjectssuch as human impact on theglobal climate and the effects ofclimate change on marine life,Karp said.

Plaut said Ward had manycontacts in Rhode Island whohelped deepen the scope of thedepartment; Sala will have todevelop his own contacts.

Sala said when he becomesdirector in January he will listento faculty and students and notchange anything in the depart-ment for the first six months. “Iam aware of all the good thingsthe center does — the facultyand students have strong con-nections and there is a highquality of teaching, the center isstrongly involved in local envi-ronmental issues and I want topreserve all that,” he said.

Karp said the center’s currentstaff expects Sala to organize thecenter around the interests ofBrown faculty and students,rather than changing its focus.“He will see what people hereare committed to, and won’t dic-tate the future,” she said.

The Environmental ChangeInitiative is a part of PresidentRuth Simmons’ Plan forAcademic Enrichment. Sala saidwith the new initiative Brownwill become a destination forpeople who are interested in theenvironment. “It will fosterinterdisciplinary projects, therewill be a series of seminars and Iam going to bring in guest lec-turers and hire three new facultymembers,” he said.

Sala said the initiative will beprimarily geared toward facultyand graduate students, but thatit will complement and enrichthe undergraduate program byadding new classes to theundergraduate curriculum.

Herald staff writer Kate Gorman’07 can be reached [email protected].

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Harvard again,” Gall said. “I thinkthat alone is motivation to win.”

Regardless of the outcome ofthese games, the Bears will be backin the pool for more action onSunday to wrap up the tourna-ment.

With a win in the first roundagainst Fordham, Brown will guar-antee a top-four finish, whichwould qualify the Bears forEasterns. That tournament will beheld Nov. 13-14 at BucknellUniversity in Lewisburg, Pa.

Herald staff writer CarolineBrandon ’07 covers men’s waterpolo. She can be reached at [email protected].

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underneath the house at fre-quent enough intervals toenable the structure to be liftedwith a hydraulic lift system androlled up the hill, McCormicksaid.

“We are trying to make themove solve some problemsrather than just being in theway,” McCormick said. “We arejust beginning that process.”

The relocation of Peter GreenHouse might provide an oppor-tunity to construct additionalbasement space for the depart-ment, Harris said. The housewill be placed on top of an elec-trical substation that is beinginstalled underground to servevarious buildings in the area —a project McCormick said isbadly needed.

Peter Green M.A.’80, whoreceived his master’s degree inhistory, donated funds in 1999towards the renovation of thebuilding in honor of his latewife, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green,who died of cancer at a youngage, Mota said. Green was atrustee at the time of his dona-tion and is still a member of theCorporation.

After renovations in 1999 thatincluded repainting and re-car-peting of the interior, installingnew bookcases, updating light-ing and completing heating andcooling systems, the buildingwas given the name Peter GreenHouse. Large oil paintings ofGreen and his late wife hang inthe foyer of the house.

“A good sum of money wasinvested into this building. Itwould be a shame now in fiveyears, to throw that money awayby tearing down the building,”Mota said.

The house boasts hand-carved spindles along its stair-case, marble fireplaces andcherry wood paneling. “It’s abeautiful old building that has alot of character to it, and it’sbeen recently renovated so it’sup to code,” Mota explained. “Idon’t see any sense in destroy-ing it. If we need to do anything,moving would be the answer.”

The University is movingPeter Green House partly in theinterest of historic preservation,but also because preservingsmall houses allows the

University to stay within zoningrestrictions when it builds larg-er structures such as Frank Hall.

Due to zoning restrictions,University buildings located onthe periphery of the Browncampus can be no larger thanthree stories high, McCormickexplained. The University isworking to consolidate the coreby moving smaller houses likePeter Green House to the out-skirts of the campus. Freeing upthis space will enable largerstructures, like Sidney FrankHall, to be built closer to thecampus’s core, making betteruse of the space available.

Peter Green House is one of105 houses owned by Brown,each lending a great deal to thecharacter of the campus,McCormick said.

“The size of the buildingmakes it useful as an academicspace,” he added.

The move will take place noearlier than the summer of2006, said McCormick,who is working closely with fac-ulty members to ensure thatinconveniences are kept to aminimum.

“It would have to be doneover the summer,” said Harris.“We could not afford to lose anyoffice space during the year.”

At last week’s meeting, Harris,Mota and McCormick discussedthe possibility of setting uptemporary offices in trailerswhile the building is beingmoved.

McCormick is currently com-municating with house moversand the Providence BuildingDepartment to figure out thecost and feasibility of this proj-ect.

Although Peter Green Houseis one of the biggest structuresthe University has attempted tomove, McCormick said he hopesthe house can be transported inone piece.

How and when the buildingwill be moved will be deter-mined by the cost of the Walkand the resources available, saidBrendan McNally, special assis-tant to Executive Vice Presidentfor Planning Richard Spies.“There are many questions,”McNally said. “It’s still too earlyfor anyone to know thoseanswers.”

Herald staff writer Jane Porter’06 can be reached [email protected].

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al team greatly diminishesBrown’s chances for an at-large bid for the NCAA tour-nament. Postseason aspira-tions for the Bears hingeupon the Ivy League champi-onship. With a 2-2 record andthree games remaining,Brown must win out andhope that the teams with oneloss drop a few games.

“There is still a glimmer ofhope, and we are still fight-ing,” Diane said. “I believe wecan still win the Ivy champi-onship, and there are 26 otherguys on the team who feel thesame way.”

One thing the Bears haveworking for them is the parityof the Ivy League. Of the 16Ivy League games played thusfar, only two games have beendecided by more than twogoals. But because each teamonly plays seven games, evenone loss makes it difficult toearn top billing in the league.

“Every game (in theleague) will be hard-fought.It’s a tooth-and-nail battle tothe end,” Wiercinski said.“When there is parity, youexpect that one loss won’tcost you the league, butbecause there are so fewgames, it can put you out ofreach.”

As the team moves into thefinal stretch of the season, theBears try to maintain a posi-tive outlook.

“Morale is really impor-tant, because we have adecent amount of disap-pointing losses,” Wiercinskisaid.

This Saturday, the Bearswill try to move up in the Ivystandings as they face a strug-gling University ofPennsylvania team that iswinless in its last four games.

Herald sports editor Ian Cropp’05 can be reached at [email protected].

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WASHINGTON (Washington Post)— Lawmakers Wednesdayabandoned efforts to passlegislation restructuring theU.S. intelligence systembefore Tuesday’s election,with some warning that itmay be impossible to reachan agreement even in timefor a lame-duck session inmid-November, according tolawmakers and staff mem-bers.

The four chief House andSenate negotiators failedonce again to reach agree-ment on the extent of budgetpowers to grant to a newnational intelligence director,as part of a major reorganiza-tion of the intelligence com-munity. Although both sidesvowed to keep talks going,there no longer was a sense ofurgency to complete theirwork before the election, asthe White House and con-gressional leaders had vowedto do after the commissionthat studied the Sept. 11,2001, terrorist attacksreleased its report and rec-ommendations this summer.

The leaders of the Sept. 11commission, former NewJersey Republican governorThomas Kean and formerrepresentative Lee Hamilton,D-Ind., have been pushingfor quick legislative action,aided by public support fromthe families of victims of theattacks on the World TradeCenter and the Pentagon.Some relatives of victims,furious over the impasse,said President Bush andHouse Republicans who havepushed for controversialadditions to the commis-sion’s recommendationswould be blamed by votersfor the failure to achieve acompromise.

Commission memberTimothy Roemer, D-Ind., alsoa former representative, saidthe effort “looks to be as deadas a doornail.”

“The people holding thehammer are the presidentand a few HouseRepublicans,” Roemer said.

But some analysts con-cluded that Bush andDemocratic challenger JohnKerry do not see the impasseas a major issue in their cam-paigns, despite previous callsfor swift action to strengthenthe nation’s intelligence gath-ering apparatus and reducethe likelihood of another ter-rorist attack on the UnitedStates.

Political scientist JamesThurber said Wednesday thatBush could have broken theimpasse and forced a com-promise with a phone call toHouse Speaker DennisHastert, R-Ill. Bush’s failure todo so, he said, indicates thatthe White House does not seethe matter’s resolution asbeing vital to his re-electionbid.

“The president has beendisengaged from efforts onthe Hill, especially in the lastthree weeks,” said Thurber,director of AmericanUniversity’s center for con-gressional and presidentialstudies. “He may be listening

to people from theDepartment of Defense, andin the end he wants it bothways” — being viewed asworking for a bill but notpushing so hard as to causewaves in the Pentagon.

The talks are over compet-ing 500-page bills that wedrafted in response to dozensof recommendations of theSept. 11 commission.Commission leaders and vic-tims’ families favor theSenate bill over the Houseversion, which contains anumber of controversialintelligence issues as well aschanges to immigration laws.The stalemate stems in partfrom a turf war over controlof the intelligence budget,with advocates of thePentagon attempting toretain control over $40 billionof annual intelligence spend-ing.

The four chief House andSenate conferees intend toresume discussions Thursdayon the House’s controversialimmigration and lawenforcement provisions. OnFriday, a nationwide confer-ence call will allow the “bigfour” leaders of the confer-ence, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. JosephLieberman, D-Conn., to bringthe other six House and 11Senate conferees up to dateon the talks.

While the four issued astatement saying they hadmade some progress, Senateand House aides said lateWednesday that tentativeagreements reached earlieron budget authority for thenational intelligence directorhad been reconsidered by theHouse Republicans. “We werepushed back to where wewere last week,” said a seniorSenate aide.

That triggered a statementfrom House DemocraticLeader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,calling the conference “a fail-ure.”

A sidelight to the negotia-tions, which some Senateaides say triggered therenewed Republican intransi-gence, was an unsolicitedmemo supporting the Houseproposed budget compro-mise that was written byPhilip Zelikow, the Sept. 11commission’s executivedirector. The memo, receivedlast Saturday afternoon bythe conferees, “shocked”Kean and Hamilton andangered the Senate bill sup-porters, according to a sourceparticipating in the confer-ence.

Both Hamilton and Keansaid Monday they still sup-ported the Senate position onbudget authority, butdescribed the House propos-al as moving toward compro-mise. Meanwhile, Rep.Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.,chairman of the HouseArmed Services Committeeand quarterback for the pro-Pentagon conferees, hashelped publicize the Zelikowmemo as a backup for hisposition.

Lawmakers give up onpre-election intel deal

Partisan suspicions run high in swing statesMILWAUKEE (Los Angeles Times) —The vast open rotunda soaredabove them as they waited by thehundreds to register and castabsentee ballots inside City Hall,the 19th century landmark mod-eled after a long-forgotten Dutchguildhall. It was a predominantlyblack crowd, and people sang “WeShall Overcome.”

But Yuri Nielsen was unmoved.Sitting on a hard chair near thefront of the line, legal pad on hisknee, the 26-year-old RepublicanParty worker cared about just onething: Catching the notorious“Cigarette Lady,” who four yearsago trolled the city’s homelessshelters trading smokes and beerfor votes for Democrats.

Now, Nielsen said, he was“looking for any group that comesin with one person telling themwhat to do.” That, he said, wouldbe “a definite red light for ‘smokesfor votes.’”

Martha Love, head of theMilwaukee Democratic Party, wasindignant. “It’s plantation style,”she said. “He’s just sitting there,watching. It’s an owner mentali-ty.”

If Nielsen’s fears seem a bit dra-matic, or if Love’s comparison of apoll watcher with a slave ownerseems exaggerated, theynonetheless reflect the extraordi-narily rancorous and mistrustfulatmosphere that pervades battle-ground states in the final days ofthe presidential campaign. InWisconsin, Ohio, Missouri,Pennsylvania, Oregon and otherkey states, Democrats andRepublicans seem convincedtheir opponents are bent on steal-ing the election.

“There’s meanness, and it’scoming from the gut, from deepdown inside of us,” said Jim Gill,director of adult ministry at St.Joseph’s Church, who has sched-uled an ecumenical election-

night prayer service to begin thereconciliation. “It’s about morethan issues. There’s a fear aboutthe world, about our country,about moral issues.”

Each side sees the Nov. 2 bal-loting as a critical choice betweenclashing values and ideas aboutwhere the United States should beheading. Each state, precinct andvolunteer organization is con-vinced its efforts alone standbetween the nation and a cata-strophic miscarriage of electoraljustice.

Partly, this is a result of the2000 election, in which George W.Bush lost the popular vote butwon in the Electoral College aftera heated battle over how the vot-ing had been carried out and theballots counted. Florida dominat-ed the news, but bitter memoriesof voting problems linger in otherclosely contested states.

Also, this year’s surge in newlyregistered voters has come largelyfrom urban areas that are pre-dominantly Democratic andblack or Hispanic. In Clevelandand surrounding CuyahogaCounty alone, registration hasincreased five-fold, officials say.Democrats fear GOP machina-tions to disenfranchise these vot-ers. Republicans fear the newvoter lists are rife with fraud.

Missouri Republicans, forexample, recently accusedDemocratic groups in St. Louis offiling hundreds of fraudulentvoter application cards.

“Right now,” Democrat JohnBowman recently fired back,Republicans are “trying to takethis election from us. But we’regoing to monitor this election, weare going to lawyer this election,and we are going to win.”

It’s not just party spokesmenwho talk that way. Such feelingscan be found at the grass roots.

Consider Mabel Lee, 71, of St.

Louis, who said she had alreadycast an absentee ballot for Sen.John F. Kerry. But “how do I knowmy vote is going to be counted?”she asked.

“There was so much troublelast time I want to make sure theycount it.”

Among Democrats in St. Louis,and especially blacks, that is acommon concern. The city expe-rienced election chaos in 2000. AJustice Department investigationconcluded that large-scale disen-franchisement of black voters hadoccurred. This time, while mostanalysts expect Missouri to go forBush, Democratic supporters saynewly registered voters couldchange that.

Sara Howard, communicationsdirector of America ComingTogether, a pro-Kerry group, esti-mated that there were 125,000new voters in Democratic areas inSt. Louis, Kansas City, Springfieldand Columbia.

Local election officials, operat-ing under a consent decreesigned with the JusticeDepartment, insist they are doingtheir best to avoid problems. “Wehave had an unprecedented effortto clean up the rolls,” DarioGambero, chairman of theElection Board, said last week.

But those efforts, though laud-ed by nonpartisan groups, appar-ently have done little to improvethe electoral climate.

America Coming Togetherrecently distributed more than100,000 fliers in black neighbor-hoods featuring a civil rights-eraphotograph of a fireman blastinga black man with a fire hose. “Thisis what they used to do to keep usfrom voting,” the caption said. Onthe back, the flier saidRepublicans were still seeking toblock the black vote by breaking

FDA wrongly approved anthrax vaccine;soldier inoculations must stop, judge rulesWASHINGTON (Washington Post) —The Defense Department mustimmediately stop inoculatingsoldiers with anthrax vaccine, afederal judge ruled Wednesday,saying the Food and DrugAdministration acted improperlywhen it approved the experimen-tal injections for general use.

FDA violated its own rules byapproving the vaccine late lastyear, U.S. District Court JudgeEmmet Sullivan said the manda-tory vaccination program—which has inoculated more than1.2 million soldiers since 1998—is “illegal.”

Sullivan wrote that his ban oninvoluntary vaccination willremain until the FDA reviews theanthrax vaccine properly or untilPresident Bush determines thenormal process must be waiveddue to emergency circumstances.

The Defense Department hasrequired many soldiers serving inIraq and Afghanistan to be vacci-nated and has punished andsometimes court-martialed thosewho refused. The departmentexpanded its anthrax and small-pox vaccination programs in Julyto include troops stationed inKorea and other areas in Asia andAfrica, despite complaints fromsome soldiers that the vaccinemade them sick.

In a statement, the DefenseDepartment said it is reviewingthe decision and will “pause giv-ing anthrax vaccinations until the

legal situation is clarified. ... DoDremains convinced that theanthrax immunization programcomplies with all the legalrequirements and that theanthrax vaccine is safe and effec-tive.”

In his decision, Sullivan wrotethat the FDA’s approval wasinvalid because it did not meetrequired review standards andfailed to seek the necessary pub-lic comment.

“Congress has prohibited theadministration of investigationaldrugs to service members with-out their consent,” he said. “ThisCourt will not permit the govern-ment to circumvent this require-ment.”

“The men and women of ourarmed forces deserve the assur-ance that the vaccines our gov-ernment compels them to takeinto their bodies have been test-ed by the greatest scrutiny of all—public scrutiny. This is theprocess the FDA in its expertjudgment has outlined, and thisis the course this court shall com-pel FDA to follow,” Sullivanwrote.

The judge ruled on a suit filedin March 2003 by six service menand women who argued that theFDA never properly reviewed thevaccine for its ability to protectagainst inhalation anthrax. Thesuit claimed that the drug wasnever shown to be effective, andthat some vaccinated soldiers

have experienced extremefatigue, joint pain and temporarymemory loss after being vacci-nated.

The vaccine, made by BioPortof Lansing, Mich., is given as aseries of several shots.

Mark Zaid, an attorney for thesix who has also defended morethan a dozen soldiers court-mar-tialed for refusing the vaccine,said one of his clients was abreast-feeding mother who didnot think the vaccine was safe forher child.

“We will now initiate an effortto ensure the government revers-es all punishments that wereimposed for refusing an order totake the vaccine,” Zaid said. Healso will seek compensation forsoldiers who were physicallyharmed.

“As we’ve seen in Iraq, therewasn’t any actual threat fromanthrax, so there was never anyreal need for the vaccine,” Zaidsaid.

Sullivan initially ruled in late2003 that the FDA had neverapproved the vaccine andordered inoculations to stop.Eight days later, the FDAapproved the vaccine based onan application made 18 yearsearlier, and the inoculation pro-gram resumed. Wednesday’s rul-ing concluded the agency did notfollow its own rules in decidingthe vaccine was safe and effec-tive.

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and are not dependent upon any-one else.”

The team had plenty to keepthem busy over the course of theweekend. Matches generallystarted at 8 a.m., so the team wasout on the courts supporting eachother from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. By

that time, they were all tired fromcompetition, so they joined eachother for a meal and watched theBoston Red Sox game. Even whenfellow teammates were not play-ing, the Bears scoped out othermatches.

Other successes in singles playincluded Shamasdin andThomas, who both advanced tothe singles round of 16.Shamasdin had to defeat MikhailBekker (Penn) 6-4, 6-4 in the sin-

gles round of 32 to advance, whileThomas beat his opponent, DanHanegby (SUNY-Binghamton), 7-6 (4), 6-3.

This tournament concludedBruno’s fall season. In the spring,the team will shift its focus backto taking the Ivy League title.

Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe’07 covers men’s tennis. She can bereached at [email protected].

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dents continued on, crossingPembroke Campus and thenmarching down Brown Street. Atone point the “march” quickenedinto a light jog as an increasingnumber of students stampededonto the Main Green, where theyquickly formed a large circle, link-ing arms, bumping chests, singingNeil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”and even lighting a small fire. Warypolice officers watching the scenequickly stomped out the fire.

Hiro Tanaka ’08 said that “whatwas momentous” about the Sox’svictory was that their status hadalways been comparable to “anuntied knot” — something wasalways left undone. Now that it’sfinally finished, Tanaka said, “It’sthe beginning of a beautiful newhistory.”

He also commented that all RedSox fans, whether they heard thevictory on the radio or watched iton TV with a group of friends, felt aconnection between the 1918 RedSox team and every team the RedSox had fielded since then. It wasas if there was, Tanaka said, “somefiber that ran through them all.”

James Tierney ’06, MatthewNicholson ’07 and MichaelYamartima ’06, all decked out inRed Sox jerseys, were preparing to

leave for Boston to be a part of thecelebration. “It’s a lot of peopleacting pretty irresponsible,”Tierney said.

Providence Police OfficerMichael Harris said that he and hisfellow officers certainly expectedcrowds at Brown, but their realconcern was with campuses likethe University of Rhode Island inKingston, where they expectedmore excessive rioting.

If the underdog status ofBoston’s team has united Americainto a so-called “Red Sox Nation,”many fans wonder what will nowbecome of the team that couldn’t.

“We won’t rest on our laurels,”said Jessica Kerry ’08.

Keith Hankins ’08 noted thatthe Red Sox don’t expect victory -“They earn it,” he said.

Many students also posited alink between the long-awaited RedSox victory and the possibility ofsuccess for the Democrats in thepresidential election. “Hopefullythis is just a prelude to a Nov. 2 vic-tory for Mr. Kerry,” said DaveBedar ’05.

Massachusetts native andHerald staff writer Katie Larkin ’08echoed Bedar’s comment, sayingthat the Sox and Democratic victo-ries will “definitely go hand inhand.”

Dan Leventhal ’07 and MarkTumiski ’08 both noted that theirgrandfathers would have loved towitness a Sox victory at the World

Series. “(My grandfather) alwayscomplained they didn’t take thepitchers out soon enough,”Levanthal remembered.

Linnea Sanderson ’06, whowatched the game with a friend atTortilla Flats, a bar on Hope Street,commented that both she and hercompanion were shaking whenthe game ended. Sanderson’s earli-est childhood memory was duringthe 1986 baseball season when,during a broadcast of the Sox atthe World Series, her uncledropped her.

Sanderson noted that the quickvictory this year for the Sox“almost made it seem too easy.”And while the apparently effortlesswin was perhaps less suspensefulthan expected, Sanderson addedthat the team is fun to watch. “Thedynamic they have is fabulous,”she said.

In the study of geology,Sanderson said, there is a phe-nomenon known as magneticreversals, in which magnetic poles“almost switch directions.”Tomorrow morning, Red Sox fanswill wake up to a complete reversalof fortunes, Sanderson said.

And while the total lunareclipse won’t occur again until2007, Red Sox fans everywhere canalways look to next season.

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

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the rules, “like they did in Floridaand St. Louis” in 2000.

Republicans were furious atwhat they described as racialdemagoguery. Ed Gillespie, chair-man of the GOP NationalCommittee, denounced ACT for“using a 40-year-old photo andassociating it with the RepublicanParty to suggest intimidation.” Hecalled the flier “unethical anddespicable.”

Meanwhile, Missouri GOPleaders accuse St. LouisDemocrats of gathering flawed,and sometimes fraudulent, newvoter registration applications. Inthe mayoral primary in 2001,Republicans noted, a number ofdead people turned up on cityvoter rolls, including at least threedeceased alderman.

And last year, temporary work-ers from a group called theAssociation of CommunityOrganizations for Reform Now, orACORN, were found to have sub-mitted hundreds of voter applica-tions with invalid names.

“It’s a legitimate worry,” saidJack Bartling, an aide toRepublican Sen. Christopher S.Bond.

But Mike Lueken, one of thetwo GOP members of the four-member St. Louis Election Board,said there had been “no intent tocommit fraud” on the part of thevoter registration groups. “The

rolls are generally in good shape,”he said. “The quality of the cardshas been high after we met with(the voter registration groups) todiscuss early problems.”

Everywhere, it seems, the pres-idential campaign is awash inreports of fraud, dirty tricks andintimidation.

In Ohio, within little more thana week, the Board of Elections inCuyahoga County received com-plaints of voters being contactedby people they said claimed to befrom the election board: OneCleveland woman said her moth-er received a call from such a mantelling her, falsely, that the loca-tion of her polling station hadchanged.

Another woman said two menposing as election officialsknocked on her door and saidthey had come to pick up herabsentee ballot.

An elderly woman in a subur-ban senior center complainedabout a call telling her the Nov. 2election had been postponeduntil Nov. 3.

“It’s happening more andmore,” said Board of ElectionsAdministrator Jane Platten.

Michael Hackett, deputy direc-tor of the Board of Elections inFranklin County, which includesthe capital Columbus, said hisoffice was getting similar calls. Atfirst they were “sporadic,” hesaid, but now there are “a lot ofthem.”

The Ohio Voter ProtectionCoalition, an alliance of voterrights groups, plans to look into

the calls. “You can’t believe thatpeople could be that sneaky andbackhanded,” said EmilieKarrick, spokeswoman for thecoalition.

In Florida, where Democratsinsist Republican voting officialsswayed the election in Bush’sfavor four years ago, Democratshave already filed nine lawsuitsalleging that state officials — ledby Secretary of State GlendaHood, an appointee of GOP Gov.Jeb Bush, the president’s brother— have conspired to disenfran-chise minority and low-incomevoters.

Liberal voting rights activistssay Hood blocked the opening ofearly-voting sites in black com-munities, for instance, whilestacking a list of banned voterswith the names of blacks.

This spring, Hood tried to keepsecret a list of convicted felons —who are not allowed to vote inFlorida — who had been removedfrom the voting rolls; a Floridanewspaper obtained the list andfound glaring inaccuracies.

“They’re trying to scare peopleaway from the polls,” chargedMatt Miller, a Florida spokesmanfor the Kerry campaign.

For their part, Republicanshave accused Florida Democratsof violating state campaignfinance laws by colluding withunions, outside fundraisinggroups and other supporters.

“They’re breaking the law andno one seems to care,” said MindyTucker Fletcher, a senior adviserto the Florida Republican Party.

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Fritz Brantley, Features Editor

Jeremy Beck, Film Editor

Jonathan C. Liu, Music Editor

To the Editor:

I write in response to the slew of letters andcolumns that have been written in regard to theextended hours at some of the on-campus diningfacilities. It seems that there is at least one obvioussolution: The extra hour from 1 to 2 a.m. during week-nights should be eliminated.

Everyone is saying that there are few customersduring this time, and it seems to just be a taxingendeavor for the workers to have to stay when theymay have classes the next day as well.

It sounds as though the same people are workingall of the late-night shifts; if they only have to work onFriday and Saturday nights, it might not be asexhausting. The money currently used to pay all theworkers during the week could go toward perhaps

doubling the pay of those students during the late-night shifts and perhaps to monitors or police topatrol the facilities while they are open that late.

I think it’s a great idea to extend the hours on theweekends. The University is catering to students’social and academic needs. People will probably con-tinue to use the extra hour to satiate their late night-munching post-boozing needs, but destructive andrude behavior should never be tolerated. Regardless,I think the issue can be solved by looking at supplyand demand in the facilities and maybe some extramonetary incentive. While working for DiningServices is great, I think it is the money that talks.

Rachel Kitson ’05Oct. 27

Solving the student labor problem

Columnist slanders undergrad TAs

C O R R E C T I O N

An article in Wednesday’s Herald incorrectly identi-fied Dartmouth College’s men’s cross country teamas the second-place finisher at the 2003 Pre-

Nationals tournament. Dartmouth actually earnedfourth place, and Columbia University placed sec-ond.

To the Editor:

Benjamin Bright-Fishbein (“Undergraduate TAsneed to go,” Oct. 25) chides undergraduate teachingassistants for being somehow inherently inferior ateducating students than their grad student brethren.

In almost every case I have found, undergraduateTAs have taken the class more recently, and becauseof the competitive nature of the applicant pool, theyare bound to be far more motivated than a graduatestudent who is required to TA a course. For that mat-ter, there is no reason to assume that the averagegraduate student has taken the course he or she TAsat all, as most students here for grad school did notattend Brown as an undergraduate.

Furthermore, Bright-Fishbein insinuates through-out his column that undergraduate TAs somehowreplace professors as the primary teaching device.This is ridiculous. Undergraduates supplement theformal instruction of a professor, usually by holdingoffice hours, help sessions or sections. You are, in fact,“paying $40,000 to be taught by the world’s most edu-

cated minds,” and if you need help in addition to this,the guy down the hall who took the class last year andis now an undergraduate TA will be happy to helpyou, too.

Finally, it is an insult to everyone at this universityin general, and the biology department in particular,to say that you were “offered the option to be a TA forBio 20 ... after having taken AP Biology two yearsprior.” You may have been encouraged to apply, butthat is no guarantee you would have gotten the job. Aposition as a Bio 20 TA is notoriously difficult to get. Ithas a very competitive and capable applicant pool.Furthermore, to say that Brown “would feel it neces-sary to hire you to teach a class” is misleading. If youhad been hired, you would have overseen labs andheld office hours, but certainly would not have beenteaching the class. Indeed, if even you think youwould have made a terrible teacher, I can guaranteethat you would have not been hired.

Aaron Myers ‘07Oct. 26

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


“Forget the United Nations. America should run theworld.”

It feels delicious when I say it, but most of my friendsdon’t think I’m being serious.

“Nate, keep it in your pants,” they say. Actually, I amserious. America should run the world. Here’s why.

First of all, someone should be in charge — I thinkmost Brown students agree with that. A globe left to itsown devices is an ugly place, full of African genocides,Arab terrorists, Brazilian trade deficits, Chinese Taiwan-grabbers, Japanese whale-eaters, Canadians who clubbaby seals — really nasty stuff. Rwandan mass graves andIranian nuclear programs are the price we pay for existingin Hobbesian anarchy.

Clearly, then, there is evil in the world and sufferingthat screams out to a higher power for mercy. That’swhere international law comes in.

Diplomats in search of peace and prosperity havecrafted frameworks, contracts and covenants regulatingeverything from nuclear proliferation to telecommunica-tions markets, giving the U.N. Security Council theauthority to use economic and military means to complywith established norms.

Now, liberal internationalists love this stuff. They seethe U.N. as a beacon of humanity in the dark and thornyjungle of power politics, and they imagine that the legaldocuments and file folders wielded by U.N. delegationsare going to change the world. The rhetoric in statementslike the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights couldn’t bemore agreeable to the liberal ear. The mistake that themultilateral girly-men make is not that they believe inuniversal norms — it is that they trust international bod-ies to enforce them.

Think about it this way: If you believe in internationallaw, you are probably also the kind of person who hatesBush’s military tribunals on the grounds that they areprocedurally unjust. Laws, after all, are only as just as thestructures that apply and enforce them.

That is why the framers of the Constitution took spe-cial care to ensure justice and impartiality by setting up asystem of checks and balances that separated the legisla-tive, executive and judicial functions of the government.

Liberals of the Ashcroft-hating variety start screaming

and hollering every time the Bush administration evenmildly abridges the rights of suspected terrorists.

My question to them is this: If Ashcroft’sConstitutional vision gives you the creeps, what aboutthe U.N.?

The U.N., for example, lacks any meaningful separa-tion of powers between the legislature and the judiciary.The nations that apply the law are the same nations thatmake the law. And when a legislative assembly is respon-sible for weighing accusations against its own members,the process becomes hopelessly politicized. Simply recallthe bitter debates between Republicans and Democratsover the meaning of the word “is” during the Monica

Lewinsky impeachment hearings. The point is that law applied by legislators is not law at

all — it’s just politics masquerading as legalism. That’swhy the United States did not call out Saddam after hemassacred the Kurds in the late 1980s: The two countrieswere allies against Iran.

And then there are conflicts of interest so blatant thatthey make Enron look like the government of Finland.When member nations decide whether Iran is in compli-ance with non-proliferation agreements or whether theSudanese government is resolving the crisis in Darfur,they don’t just have politics to think about; there are alsovested interests.

With respect to Darfur, New York Times columnistDavid Brooks observed, “The Russians, who sell militaryplanes to Sudan, decided sanctions would not be in theinterests of humanity. The Chinese, whose oil companieshave a significant presence in Sudan, threatened a veto.

And so began the great watering-down.”It gets worse. When considering whether a country is

violating international agreements, member nations alsohave to decide whether they’re willing to make the eco-nomic and military sacrifices necessary to support thelaw.

What American jury in its right mind would ever con-vict a defendant of a crime if they knew it was their job tokeep him in jail for the next 20 years? No wonder the U.N.failed to call the Rwandan genocide by its proper name —no one was interested in taking casualties in the Africaninterior.

International law, then, is a mirage. In Kosovo, NATOcircumvented the U.N. (and a likely Russian veto) andbombed Serbia itself. In Rwanda, everyone just keptquiet or lied about what was going on. In the former case,the U.N. was unnecessary; in the latter, it was useless.Japan and Germany both signed the Kellogg-Briand Pactof 1928 that banned war forever. The rest is history.

If the U.N. won’t enforce the law, then there’s no pointin waiting for its approval before invading Iraq, establish-ing a demilitarized zone in Darfur or bombing Iran’snuclear weapons program. Global politics isn’t “Law &Order” — it’s John Wayne. If you want to see that justice isdone, you have to take the law into your own hands.

Politely referring pressing crises like nuclear prolifera-tion and ethnic cleansing to international bodies is asurefire way to make sure that nothing gets accom-plished.

So we face a choice. Should Sudan determine thefuture of Darfur, or should we? Should developing anuclear arsenal be up to Iran’s evil mullahs, or should itbe up to us?

It is natural to get morally squeamish about being theworld’s policemen, but liberals need to grow up. Mommyis not going to fix it for us. Only we can. If we fail to actearly because we’re too worried about violating diplo-matic customs, then we place the fate of the world in thehands of our enemies. As Machiavelli wrote, “Time, driv-ing all things before it, may bring with it evil as well asgood.”

Nate Goralnik ’06 is a rhinestone cowboy.

International law, John Wayne style

Why America

should run

the world.

ALEXANDRA TOUMANOFF

The other night I had a standoff with a mosquito. I won. The fact that it bit me means nothing. Every

warrior has a few wounds. I was sitting in my room calmly doing homework

(OK, reading a magazine, but since I want to be a jour-nalist, it’s essentially the same thing) when I heard ahigh-pitched buzzing that sounded like a competitionbetween Lucille Ball and a lawnmower. I looked up inhorror and saw the biggest mosquito I had ever seenknocking itself against my wall.

It was the size of a half dollar. “Holy ...” I screamed, leaping out of my seat and

flinging Vogue at the wall. The mosquito dodged themagazine as skillfully as a ballet dancer.

“Get out!” I yelled.“Bzz, bzzz,” it said. “Make me.”“Look,” I said, lowering my voice conspiratorially.

“I can’t make you leave, and you know it. You’re toohigh up for me to reach. Just please, leave?”

“Ha ha,” it said, sticking its stinger out at me. “Bzz.” “Fine,” I said. “Two can play this game.” I left the room and tiptoed around the suite’s com-

mon area, pretending to clean and watching rerunson MTV to distract the mosquito. Every five minutesor so, I went back on tiptoe and peered into my roomto see if the mosquito had flown away, died or gottenstuck in an old Starbucks cup. But every time I looked,it was still making camp.

At 4 a.m. I couldn’t take the ads for “Girls GoneWild” anymore. I decided if I was this tired, the mos-quito must be tired. I shook out the sheets and thencarefully wrapped myself up like a mummy so that the

mosquito could not get in. “Ha ha, mosquito thing, tryand bite me now,” I thought. Sucker.

I woke up with a bite on my nose.The thing had obviously tried to hit me when I was

down. It had cheated. Oh, it was war. The next day, the mosquito and I stared at each

other once again. Faced with a standoff, I did whatany normal strategist, such as Napoleon or Custer,would do. I called my dad.

“Can you come kill a bug for me?” I whispered. “Why are you whispering?” he said. “It might hear me,” I squeaked. “Bzzz!” said the mosquito. “I have you now, Luke

Skywalker.”“I’m 3,000 miles away,” said my father. “Why don’t

you kill it?””But that would be wrong.” I said. “I couldn’t kill it.” “You were going to let me kill it.”“That’s entirely different.”

My friend walked in a few hours later to see mehuddled in the corner wearing every piece of clothingI own and waving a carved stick. “What are youdoing?” she asked.

“Intimidation,” I told her. I lowered my voice,because it was listening.

She looked at me curiously. “That evil mosquito bit my nose,” I told her. “Is that all?” she asked. Then she killed it. She’d def-

initely become the man of the suite. I could not believe that my opponent was gone. It

was a wonderful thing, but still, my victory seemedempty. Perhaps it was because I had let my friend fightmy battle for me. Then I spied a giant spider crawlingdown my wall.

I looked toward my suitemate.“If there were no spiders then imagine how many

mosquitoes we’d have,” my friend said soothingly.“Spiders are our friends.”

Tell that to the maniacal black eight-legged poisonsaber with too-shiny eyes dangling from the ceiling,rubbing its front legs together. It can’t wait to take apiece out of my nose.

“I bet it’s a black widow,” I said.“It’s a daddy long-legs,” my friend said. What does

she know? She thinks she knows everything aboutnature, just because she grew up in upstate New York.

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 is a political science concen-trator.

Writer vs. mosquito

Hoping that the

insect you try to kill

with a magazine doesn’t

have malaria.

NATE GORALNIK

BY BROOKE WOLFEThe men’s tennis team success-fully finished a long weekend oftennis at the ITA RegionalChampionships, competingagainst the best teams in theregion, which included playersfrom Sweden and Switzerland aswell as from schools closer tohome, like Cornell University.The tournament was not scoredas a team meet, but the Bearsshowed their prowess in singlesand doubles against top compe-tition.

“As a team we did well andshowed some improvement,”said Nicholas Goldberg ’05.Goldberg said he was happywith how he played until hisquarterfinal match, when he lostto Harvard University’s MartinWetze 6-4, 6-4.

Goldberg had advanced bybeating Jimmy Moore ofColumbia University 6-4, 7-5 inthe singles round of 64 and thenAvid Puranen of Virginia Techafter a grueling split set, 7-6(7),4-6, 6-3.

Goldberg advanced the far-thest of the team, but said he“could have played better” in thequarterfinals.

The top doubles team forBruno was Saurabh Kohli ’08and Eric Thomas ’07, whoadvanced to the semifinals.They defeated GeorgetownUniversity 8-1, Harvard 8-4, theState University of New York-Binghamton 8-6 andPennsylvania State University 8-4 to advance to the final four.But Harvard had another toughduo in the semis, and the Bearslost 8-4.

The duo of Goldberg and AdilShamasdin ’05 also had a strongdoubles performance. The pairdefeated Hofstra 8-1 and Cornell8-2 before falling in a closematch in the quarterfinal roundto Harvard 9-7.

“Both singles and doubles arerewarding in a lot of aspects,”Goldberg said. “Adil and I have alot of fun when we play together,but there’s something about thestrategy of singles that I like —you control your own destiny

Wednesday, October 28

Women’s Soccer: Brown 1, Providence 0

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 28, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY IAN CROPPComing into Tuesday’s gameagainst Boston University, themen’s soccer team had nostreaks to speak of, winning orlosing. In a 2-0 loss to theTerriers, Brown (6-5-2) contin-ued its game-to-game ups anddowns after a 2-0 victory overCornell this past Saturday.

Brown controlled the ball formost of the first half, but BU tal-lied the only goal of the first half.

“We possessed the ball andmoved it around really well, butwe were not moving it forward,and we didn’t threaten their goalmuch,” said assistant coachScott Wiercinski. “On their goalwe made one bad touch and onebad choice, and they got the ball.It wasn’t just one breakdown buta mistake in a couple of differentareas.”

The loss to the Terriers, inwhich Brown outplayed BUoverall, was reminiscent ofmany of Brown’s close lossesthis year.

“It kind of stinks, because itwas one of those games whereyou do most of the things cor-rectly and make one or two mis-takes and it costs you the game,”said Ibrahim Diane ’06.

In addition to the costlydefensive letdown in the firsthalf, Brown suffered severaloffensive lapses. Right after theBU goal, the Bears stormeddown the field and Dianecrossed a ball into the middle ofthe field, but two Brown playersfailed to convert on clear oppor-tunities.

“Luck has not been on ourside, but this year we’ve madeour own bad luck at times,”Wiercinski said. “We are payingthe piper for not capitalizing onchances we have created.”

Brown had fewer scoringchances in the second half, butthe game was not out of reachuntil BU scored with just a littlemore than three minutes left.

“We didn’t take care of the ballas much and got a little bitoverexcited at times,” Wiercinskisaid. “At times our decisionsseemed panicked and not asconstructed as they should havebeen. Our game plan was good,but we failed to execute.”

The loss to a mediocre region-

BU hands m. soccer another toughloss, but hope still alive for Ivy title

Shawn Ban / Herald

Ibrahim Diane ’06 and the men’s soccer team face an uphill battle for theIvy League championship, despite the conference’s parity this season.

B R O W N S P O R T S S C O R E B O A R D

BY PHILIP BUFFUMThe Indoor Tennis AssociationNortheast RegionalChampionship is not a tourna-ment that many on the women’stennis team look toward eachyear, as the team usually onlysends one or two players. Butthis year, four women qualifiedfor the tournament, givingBrown a much bigger contingentthan usual.

Brown’s four returning players— captain Alex Arlak ’05,Amanda Saiontz ’07, MichellePautler ’07 and Daisy Ames ’07— competed in the tournament,held this year at the University ofPennsylvania, but came up withonly two wins.

“It’s pretty much feast orfamine,” said Head Coach PaulWardlaw. “But it’s a good setting,because I got to see us playagainst the best in the region.”

Of all the teams who attend-ed, Wardlaw estimated that just ahandful of them sent more play-ers than the Bears. The College ofWilliam and Mary, University ofPennsylvania, HarvardUniversity and the University ofMaryland each had more thanfour players at the tournament,Wardlaw said. Of the others,

Virginia Tech and VirginaCommonwealth University hadabout the same representationas the Bears, but all the otherschools only sent one or twoplayers to compete.

Arlak won her first match 6-2,6-1 over Lauren Galatie of SacredHeart University. She then ran

into Diana Srebrovic of theUniversity of Virginia, who hasbeen ranked as high as No. 270 inthe WTA world tennis rankings.Arlak, who described her playthis weekend as “nothing spec-tacular,” lost to Srebrovic 6-1, 6-3. The other three Bears all lost intheir first matches.

The Bears’ other victory camein doubles, with Arlak teamingup with Ames to win 8-5 over aColumbia University pair in thequalifying rounds. However, theythen lost 8-2 to the University ofWest Virginia. Saiontz andPautler also formed a doublesteam, but lost in their firstmatch.

The women’s tennis teamplays its final fall tournamentthis weekend at DartmouthCollege. The Big GreenInvitational, like the ITA, is heldindoors. The team is focusing ondoubles in preparation for thistournament, according toWardlaw, who hopes the teamcan “end on a high note” beforetaking a short winter break.

The team will begin the regu-lar season almost as soon asclasses resume next semester,with a home date againstColgate University on Feb. 5.

W. tennis sends four players to regional indoor tournament

Judy He / Herald

Alex Arlak ’05 was one of fourwomen from Brown competing atthe ITA Northeast Championshipslast weekend.

With Northerns at home,m. water polo good bet to qualify for EasternsBY CAROLINE BRANDONAs the men’s water polo team’sregular season comes to a close,the run for a championshipbegins here at home with theNorthern DivisionChampionship Tournament, tobe held this weekend at theSmith Swim Center.

After finishing sixth last year,Brown hopes to qualify for themore competitive EasternChampionships later inNovember by finishing in the topfour.

Much to their pleasure, theBears drew a favorable match-up— as the third seed, Brown willplay its first match on Saturday at1:30 p.m. against FordhamUniversity, a team it beat 15-3 atthe beginning of the season.Brown finished in a three-way tiewith the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and Iona Collegefor third in the Eastern confer-ence but got the third-place seedbecause of a plus-3 goal differen-tial in head-to-head games withthe two teams. MIT and Iona areseeded fourth and fifth, respec-tively.

“I think if we play well, we canbeat Fordham,” said Head CoachJason Gall. “But at end-of-the-year tournaments, teams haveseen each other play enough thatthey are able to scout their com-petition. I expect this game to bea lot closer.”

The Bears expected a full weekof practice to polish up a few last

things after finishing the seasonOct. 20, but Greg Harm ’06 andco-captain Paul D’Avino ’05 suf-fered injuries, forcing the team totry out some creative and differ-ent things in the water. Harm suf-fered a twisted ankle and frac-tured foot, while D’Avinoreceived a nasty poke to the eye.Both have been cleared to playthis weekend and are expected todo so.

“We have had some reallygood practices this week,” Gallsaid. “As I have said all year, this isa team — things don’t revolvearound one player. Everyoneunderstands they have to beready to go.”

Although Brown has only hadtwo home games this year, Gallbelieves playing at home givesthem a slight advantage.

“We anticipate a lot of fans,”Gall said. “But most importantly,being at home gives us more timeto rest, and it is comfortable,both in and out of the pool.”

If Brown beats Fordham, it willplay the winner of the gamebetween Harvard University andConnecticut College at 8:30 p.m.on Saturday. The Bears are out forrevenge against likely opponentHarvard, which beat them 6-2just two weeks ago. If Brown losesto Fordham, it will play the loserof that game at 5:30 p.m. onSaturday.

“Of course we want to play

ITA Northeast bringssuccess for several on m. tennis squad

see M. TENNIS, page 9

see WATER POLO, page 5 see M. SOCCER, page 7

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