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Black History Month begins with deconstruction of social progress

The Rev. Dr. Eric Michael Dyson launched the University’s celebra-tion of Black History Month Mon-day evening with a convocation key-note speech about “the nuanced and complex notion” of social progress “invested with racial realities.” The address, a response to this year’s theme for Black History Month, “Beyond Brown v. Board of Edu-cation: 21st Century Concepts of Progress in an Era of Increased So-cial Freedom,” drew a large crowd in Salomon 101.

Dyson, who taught at Brown from 1992 to 1994, is currently a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of several books, including “Is Bill Cosby Right?” and “Come Hell or High Water: Hur-ricane Katrina,” and hosts his own syndicated radio show.

Daliso Leslie ’09, the Third World Center programmer for the month’s activities, said he became interested in Dyson after reading his book, “Is Bill Cosby Right?” Published after a series of controversial comments Cosby made in 2004, the book an-alyzes Cosby’s criticism that the black community needs to take re-sponsibility for social problems that affect many black Americans.

“(Dyson) actually took a look at Cosby’s statements,” Leslie said of the speaker’s book. “ (Cosby) didn’t think before he spoke. … (There were) a lot of things he said that he didn’t take into account.”

Leslie said he “was really im-pressed by (Dyson’s) comments” and that Dyson’s speaking ability made him an ideal choice for the keynote address.

Following a welcome from Leslie, Professor of Africana Studies Tricia

BY AUBRY BRACCOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

$100 million gift renames Med School

Millionaire entrepreneur War-ren Alpert has given $100 million to the Medical School, which has been renamed for him. Alp-ert’s gift — tied with a 2004 do-nation from liquor magnate Sid-ney Frank ’42 as the single larg-est in Brown’s history — will be used in part to fund a new build-

ing for the Med School, bolster scientifi c research and med stu-dent fi nancial aid and endow at least two new faculty positions, University offi cials and Warren Alpert Foundation representa-tives announced at a press con-ference Monday.

“Never did I anticipate any-thing so momentous or remark-able as this moment,” said Dean of Medicine and Biological Sci-ences Eli Adashi. “This gift ex-ceeds all expectations.”

Provost David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 said the donation will dramatically enhance the 35-year-old Med School’s national reputation. “This gift essentially allows us to make up for a cen-tury of lost time,” he said.

Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 and Providence Mayor David Cicil-line ’83 both said they expect the gift to be a boon to both life sciences research and the lo-cal economy. “This will allow an enormous amount of investment in biomedical research,” Cicil-line said. “The limits to that are virtually without limits.”

Kertzer told The Herald that University offi cials have already considered in general terms how the donation, which will be paid out over time, will be allocated.

The Corporation, the Universi-ty’s governing body, will discuss at its meeting next month how the donation affects the Med School’s strategic plan, he said.

“All the things we imagined in (the Plan for Academic En-richment) — this allows us to do that at a higher level,” said Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and se-nior adviser to the president. “I don’t think any of us thought we’d have a new Medical School building in our lifetimes.”

President Ruth Simmons was expected to speak at the press conference to announce the gift, but she was unable to do so because of a medical prob-lem. She appeared briefl y mid-way through the press confer-ence but left the room shortly thereafter, apparently due to a nosebleed. Later, she was well enough to attend a luncheon for representatives of the Alp-ert Foundation yesterday after-noon, said Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations.

Alpert, who is 86 years old and in poor health, did not ap-pear at the press conference but was represented by his nephew and foundation president, Her-bert Kaplan. “I was invited last week to meet the new president of Northeastern University, but I said I couldn’t go because I don’t have any money left,” Ka-plan joked at the press confer-ence.

Alpert’s gift is distinctive not only because of its size but also because of the relatively few restrictions placed on how the money should be used, Univer-sity offi cials said. Alpert’s “un-

BY ROSS FRAZIERNEWS EDITOR

Med students, faculty respond

As University offi cials reveled in the excitement of a $100 million donation to the Medical School, Med students and faculty spent Monday pondering the gift’s im-plications.

“The extraordinary gift was not only welcome but essential to continue the transition from the early years to a leading med-ical school in the country, on par with the medical schools of uni-versities in Brown’s peer group,” said Martin Keller, professor of psychiatry and human behavior and chair of the department.

The gift will “improve medical education for all levels — medi-cal students, interns, residents

and fellows,” said Neel Shah ’04 MD’08, president of the medical student senate.

“The excitement in class this morning was palpable,” said Kartik Venkatesh ’06 MD’10. But Venkatesh noted that the money’s effects won’t be seen at the Med School for eight or 10 years and so won’t directly benefi t current students. While they may not reap the benefi ts of new faculty or research mon-ey, all med students will have to get used to the school’s new name. The Med School will now be known as the Warren Alpert

BY KRISTINA KELLEHERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

With landmark gift, Alpert values Providence ties

Warren Alpert, who donated $100 million to the medical school now named for him, is a self-made mil-lionaire whose ties to Providence led him to support medical educa-tion at Brown.

Alpert was born in 1920 to Goodman and Tena Alpert, both immigrants from Lithuania. He grew up in the economically de-pressed town of Chelsea, Mass.

“He was the poor kid in the poor city,” said Herbert Kaplan, Alpert’s nephew and president of the nonprofi t Warren Alpert Foun-dation.

After high school, Alpert at-tended Boston University and re-ceived a bachelor of science de-gree in 1942. He joined the U.S. Army shortly after graduating and served in military intelligence dur-ing World War II. Alpert landed in Normandy on D-Day, Kaplan said. He was awarded the Purple Heart in 1945.

When Alpert had fulfi lled his military service, he enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Ad-vanced Management Program. “He heard it was a place to make money,” Kaplan said. Alpert suc-cessfully completed the program, and with the help of the GI Bill of 1944, which provided educational funding for veterans, received his master’s degree in business ad-ministration in 1947.

In 1950, Alpert came to Provi-dence and started his own busi-ness, a small oil-marketing com-pany with limited capital and an offi ce on Eddy Street. Warren Eq-uities Inc. quickly fl ourished and became one of the largest inde-pendent gasoline and convenience store marketers and one of the leading independent wholesale pe-troleum marketers in the North-east. The company’s products are sold at over 400 Xtra Mart stores.

“He worked very hard, and he put pressure on the people he worked with,” Kaplan said of Alp-ert.

“He never took a vacation,” said

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Austin Freeman / HeraldThe Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson spoke in Salomon 101 Monday night to kick off Black History Month.

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Christopher Bennett / HeraldGov. Donald Carcieri ’65 (left) and Warren Alpert Foundation President Herbert Kaplan at Monday’s press conference.

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PROJECT ARISE ARRIVESThe grant program will bring together U. professors and R.I. public school science teachers to improve the quality of science teaching

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Students looking for a cheap, quick haircut will soon have a new option on College Hill. Supercuts will move into the space above specialty gift shop Only In Rhode Island at Thay-er and Cushing streets in roughly two months’ time, according to a spokeswoman for Supercuts’ parent company, Regis Corporation.

Until 2004, the national hair-dressing chain had a shop at 288 Thayer Street, where J & J’s Candy Bar is now located. The company describes itself as a “male-focused, affordable” chain, and though it has over 2,000 locations nationwide, its Seekonk, Mass., location is current-ly the closest to Brown.

Justin Glavis-Bloom ’07 used to get his hair cut at the old College Hill Supercuts location. “I thought it was great,” he said, adding that he has since switched to getting hair-cuts at Salon Kroma. Though it’s “a lot more expensive,” he enjoys get-ting his hair cut by the same stylist every time.

Of the three salons closest to campus, Salon Persia will be the closest salon to the new Supercuts — only a block away. But Salon Per-sia stylist Sara DeCristoforo said Salon Persia’s stylists have “more

experience” than Supercuts’ em-ployees.

Still, Supercuts’ prices are lower than those of the existing Thayer Street salons. A haircut at Super-cuts’ Seekonk location is $13.95, while women’s haircuts at Salon Persia are $50 and men’s are $25. Haircuts for women at Salon Kroma start at $40 and men’s are $25 and up, and at Squires Salon on Euclid Street, women’s cuts start at $35 and men’s at $25, but prices can run as high as $60 depending on the

style.But despite its cut-rate prices,

Supercuts won’t be trimming Pro-fessor of Religious Studies Harold Roth’s hair. He said he used to get his hair cut at Michael Anthony’s hair salon, which until last year oc-cupied a space in the basement of Faunce House. In an e-mail to The Herald, he wrote of Supercuts: “I have little idea what they are and little interest except that this contin-ues the destructive homogenization of Thayer Street.”

BY RACHEL ARNDTSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Supercuts to open on Thayer StreetN E W S I N B R I E F

The Au Bon Pain on Thayer Street reopened Saturday after nearly six weeks of renovations, resulting in updated decor and lighting, a largely new staff and a few additions to the menu, said General Manager Anuj Bidani.

“It’s been packed since then,” he said. After a soft opening on Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., the cafe opened of-

fi cially Saturday morning at 7 a.m. High-backed cushioned booths along the windows are the most visible change, but Bidani said they aren’t the only one. The menu now offers a “Create Your Own Salad” option for $5.89, panini sandwiches for $6.19 to $6.79 and rice bowls for $6.49 to $6.79.

Three-quarters of the approximately 25 employees are also new to Au Bon Pain, Bidani said. Recruited in early January and trained at other Provi-dence Au Bon Pain locations, employees “feel proud of working on an open-ing team,” he said.

“No one has quit yet,” he added. Reaction from customers has been equally positive, Bidani said. “They

love the decor and love the food,” he said. Vidya Putcha ’07 praised the new lighting and booths, but customer Charu Gupta ’07 said he “didn’t even know they had new food.”

— Simmi Aujla

Au Bon Pain reopens with new decor

Lindsay Harrison / HeraldA sign hangs in the window of the Thayer Street store that will soon be home to a Supercuts.

Beginning this summer, Rhode Is-land high school biology and neu-roscience teachers will receive materials and training from Brown professors and graduate students. A three-year, $636,000 grant by the National Center for Research Resources earlier this month will fund the program, called Project ARISE: Advancing Rhode Island Science Education.

Project ARISE will begin in Au-gust with a two-week workshop on inquiry-based approaches for teachers. During the school year, instructors will have access to mo-bile lab equipment, supplies and trained lab consultants for their classes and will meet every two months to evaluate what they’ve gained from the program. In the spring, a “nature of discovery sym-posium” will invite participating teachers and students to campus to present results of projects gen-erated by the program.

Lecturer in Neuroscience John Stein, Senior Lecturer in Educa-tion Lawrence Wakeford and Jen-nifer Aizenman, a scientist and

curriculum design specialist in the division of summer and con-tinuing studies, fi rst proposed the program. It is intended to help the state’s science teachers meet new science standards for public schools approved last year by the Rhode Island Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Educa-tion.

“It really gives teachers a chance to bring concepts to their students that are relevant and im-portant today,” Aizenman said of the program. “Everyone eats ge-netically modifi ed foods. How are they made? Why are they in our food supply? Should we be con-cerned? Our whole way of teaching this content is going to be an inqui-

ry-based way of learning. Science is all about asking questions.”

This year’s workshop, which will be held from Aug. 6 to 17, will provide teachers with four mod-el lesson plans on subjects such as detecting genetically modifi ed foods using polymerase chain re-action, using DNA analysis to study human ancestry and evolu-tion, sensing oxygen and carbon dioxide to assess cellular respira-tion and measuring EKGs, EEGs and nerve cell activity with record-ing equipment.

“What is truly exciting about ARISE is that it offers teachers pro-fessional development training in

BY JESSICA ROTONDISTAFF WRITER

Project ARISE to provide science teacher training

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The Rhode Island state minimum wage increased to $7.40 per hour on Jan. 1, up 30 cents from $7.10 per hour. The increase — effective for workers aged 16 years and older — is the fi nal stage of a law passed in early 2006 that mandated raising the minimum wage by a total of 65 cents in two incre-ments. The fi rst stage of the law increased the minimum wage from $6.75 to $7.10 and went into effect on March 1 of last year.

— Sara Molinaro

Providence’s living wage ordinance, passed by the City Council’s fi nance committee on Dec. 18, would require businesses receiving new city tax breaks and nonprofi t organizations receiving grant funding from the city to pay workers a minimum of $10.19 per hour. The City Council approved the ordinance, which was backed by former Ward 1 City Councilman David Se-gal, once on Dec. 22, but the ordinance, which needs to be passed twice by the full City Council to become law, has not been voted on a second time. The largest nonprofi t organization affected by the ordinance would most likely be the Providence Public Library, and wages of Brown employees would not be affected, according to Segal.

— Sara Molinaro

Debit cards will soon be used to distribute unemployment insurance bene-fi ts, replacing unemployment checks, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training announced last week. The debit cards, which will be supplied by JP Morgan Chase, can be used to take cash out of an ATM or pay at stores accepting Visa cards.

Under the new system, recipients without a bank account will have ac-cess to their benefi ts without having to pay check-cashing fees. ATM trans-actions using the new debit cards will be surcharge-free at machines run by Washington Trust, Allpoint and Chase banks. Recipients of unemployment insurance will also be able to receive payment just 24 hours after they are approved for benefi ts.

Cardholders will be able to check their balances on the Internet or by calling a toll-free phone number. Funds represented by the debit cards are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and fully covered by federal banking regulations.

— Sara Molinaro

R.I. minimum wage rises to $7.40 per hour

Living wage ordinance won’t affect U. employees

Debit cards replace R.I. unemployment checks

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derstanding of the value of fl ex-ibility is unusual,” Spies said.

Alpert, who received a Purple Heart for his service in World War II, graduated from Boston Univer-sity in 1942 and was a member of the fi rst class of Harvard Busi-ness School. He made his fortune largely by distributing fuel and groceries to more than 400 gas stations and convenience stores along the Eastern seaboard. Alp-ert is the founder, chairman and sole owner of Warren Equities Inc., which he founded in Provi-dence in 1950. Currently, the com-pany is listed in Forbes magazine as one of the 400 largest privately owned U.S. companies.

Alpert’s foundation has previ-ously given millions to Harvard Medical School and Mt. Sinai Hos-pital, but his donation to Brown is by far the foundation’s largest.

Neil Steinberg ’75, vice presi-dent for development and direc-tor of the Campaign for Academic Enrichment, and Larry Zeiber, se-nior associate dean for medical ad-vancement, originally approached Alpert’s foundation last summer about making a donation. Stein-berg, the former CEO of Fleet Bank-Rhode Island, said his rela-tionship with Alpert dates back to Steinberg’s days as a banker.

Steinberg, Adashi and Alpert’s representatives continued to dis-cuss the gift throughout the sum-mer, and a formal agreement, which included renaming the Med School as the Warren Alp-ert Medical School, was proposed in October. Several sources indi-cated this timeline was unusually short, particularly for a gift of this size.

The donation was still not a done deal when members of the foundation visited Brown on Jan. 22. “I had the opportunity to talk to them about the ways the gift would enhance medical educa-tion, I think that was very impor-tant to them,” said Neel Shah ’04 MD’08, president of the medical student senate.

“Everything really came to-gether in the last couple of weeks,” Spies said.

The Corporation’s advisory and executive committee formal-ly accepted the gift and approved the Med School’s new name dur-ing a special meeting on Jan. 18, and a fi nal agreement was signed in University Hall on Jan. 26, ac-cording to a campus-wide e-mail from Simmons. Corporation ap-proval is required for all gifts to the University of $1 million or more.

Because an agreement has been signed and approved by the

Corporation, the Med School’s name has already offi cially changed. The University will work up a visual identity and up-date Web sites and logos for the Med School “very soon,” Chap-man said.

Kertzer told The Herald that members of the Corporation had no objection to renaming the Med School and were excited about the gift’s potential to attract addi-tional resources.

“I thought someone might have said something, but they were very much in favor of the change,” Kertzer said. “The ex-citement was palpable.”

Alpert’s donation is a signifi -cant windfall for the University’s campaign to raise $1.4 billion by 2010. The gift brings the funds raised so far to $935 million.

The Med School and the Di-vision of Biology and Medicine have expanded rapidly in the past several years through the Plan for Academic Enrichment, hiring an additional 19 tenure-track pro-fessors since 2002 with plans for at least 20 more. The Med School also plans to increase enrollment to 400 by 2011. Last year, the Uni-versity acquired seven properties in the Jewelry District, where an expanded Med School will be lo-cated, Simmons said at the Nov. 7, 2006 faculty meeting.

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Med School named for $100 million donor

Medical School of Brown Uni-versity.

“Some will undoubtedly ex-press concern with losing our identity with the name change. I don’t believe this will be the case,” said James Wilkerson MD’08, vice president of the medical school senate. “We are not losing the Brown name or the identity that comes with it, but rather expanding the reach of Brown into the community.”

“It’s not unusual to name a school after someone who makes a donation of this size,” said Ag-nes Kane, professor of medical science. “We need the money. As a young medical school, with young alumni, we don’t have a huge endowment.”

Part of the donation will fi -nance construction of a new Med School building that will likely be located in the Jewelry District. “Being able to move the school closer to the hospital will draw the clinical and pre-clinical communities closer, allowing for more interaction between stu-dents and faculty,” Wilkerson said.

“The building itself will have a huge impact on medical edu-

cation,” Shah said, stressing the benefi t of having all med students “housed in the same place.” Currently, med students spend most of their fi rst two years on College Hill and move away from campus to the hospi-tals for their clinical rotations in their fi nal two years.

“We didn’t have the space on campus and in the hospitals nec-essary,” Kane said. “The Jewelry District is really up-and-coming and bio-med research is a grow-ing industry.”

The donation will help fund research, faculty recruitment and new research facilities. It will help “bring top scientists here,” Keller said, adding that “we’re at a point in the history of medicine where we need to build transla-tional research,” or research that fi nds practical applications for scientifi c discoveries.

Some of the $100 million will also be used to provide fi nancial aid for med students — an in-creasingly important need as tu-ition continues to escalate.

“The opportunity costs of be-coming a doctor are rising — a lot of my colleagues are coming out of school with six fi gures of debt, more than $200,000 in some cases,” Shah said.

Med students and faculty consider gift’s impact

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More than 30 Brown students spent winter break fl oating in the Dead Sea and riding camels in Jerusalem while on a Birthright trip to Israel. The trip, which was organized by Brown Hillel, took place between Jan. 9 and Jan. 19 and also included several stu-dents from Johns Hopkins Uni-versity and the College of William and Mary.

Hillel also helped organize a winter break trip to Thailand for eight Brown students through American Jewish World Service.

The students on the Birthright trip to Israel spent three days in Jerusalem, touring the Old City and visiting the Western Wall, said Benjamin Bregman ’02 MD’07, one of the trip’s leaders. After leaving Jerusalem, the group trav-eled to Afula and played with chil-dren at a day care and orphanage facility for at-risk children before moving north to Galilee and the Golan Heights.

Sophie Waskow ’07 said she en-joyed traveling with other Brown students. “(The trip) is defi ned by the people you’re with and how good a guide you have. I think we lucked out on both.”

Waskow especially enjoyed visiting the Western Wall. “I’m not religious — to see people that moved by religion was very inter-esting and unique,” she said.

Though Waskow said she had diffi culty interacting with the chil-dren in Afula because she does not speak Hebrew, she noted, “Be-

ing silly is kind of a universal lan-guage of kids.” Some of the chil-dren she and the group met with will be traveling to Providence in March as part of a tour for their singing group, she said.

Also accompanying the Hil-lel group were two Israeli ex-sol-diers who acted as guards, Breg-man said, adding that there were no problems with safety on the trip. “(There was) a joke that the guards did nothing. One put a Band-Aid on,” Bregman said.

During the trip, the students met up with a group of seven young Israeli soldiers and had an opportunity to learn about their lives, Bregman said. “We had a wonderful group of Israeli sol-diers and we developed tremen-dous relationships,” he said.

Waskow said she found mili-tary life demystifi ed after meet-ing the Israeli soldiers. “The obvi-ous conclusion to come away with was, ‘Wow, they’re just like us,’” she said. Waskow also said she became desensitized to the pres-ence of guns after seeing armed security guards at so many loca-tions.

Bregman said the trip was “very coordinated and organized.” Throughout the journey, guides with specialized training for lead-ing groups of college-aged Ameri-cans led the tour, he said.

Rabbi Serena Eisenberg ’87, executive director of Hillel and the tour’s other leader, said the best aspect of the trip was “trav-

Hillel led winter trips to Israel, ThailandBY ROBIN STEELESTAFF WRITER

As many students begin think-ing about applying for off-campus housing, they can take comfort in the knowledge that they’ll no longer have to trudge to Wayland House to watch a mandatory vid-eo. Students seeking University approval to live off campus can now do so from the comfort of their dorm rooms, and most say it has made the process simpler.

Residential Life abandoned its paper-based system in favor of an online system in 2005.

“The old system required stu-dents to come into the office, pick up a form, complete the form and then we had to file it,” said Rich-ard Bova, senior associate dean for residential life. “The new, au-tomated system allows students to complete the form wherever and whenever they want.”

Ann Kidder ’08, who applied for permission to live off campus starting last semester, was part of the first group of students to fill out an online application for permission, available at ResLife’s Web site at http://reslife.brown.edu.

“It was really easy,” Kidder said of the online approval pro-cess. “I was approved seconds af-ter I filled out the form.”

Kevin Burns ’08 said he had a similarly positive experience with the online system.

“There were some forms with all the information we had to read and fill out,” he said. “It was very

convenient.”Aside from the ease of the pa-

perless process, a notable differ-ence between the old system and the online system is the Power-Point presentation displayed on the Web site, which replaced a video students had been required to watch at the ResLife office.

Though the new presentation conveys the same information as the old one — how to be a good neighbor, how to keep track of rent and other responsibilities — there seems to be a greater risk of students passing over and ignoring the information in the new presentation than had been the case before.

Bova said the online applica-tion cannot be submitted until all slides of the PowerPoint presen-tation have been seen by the ap-plicant. But some students may click through the slides with-out reading the information on them.

Kidder and Burns both said they did not pay close attention to the online presentation, which they felt presented information they already knew.

“I read it, but not so thorough-ly,” Kidder said, while Burns said that he “glanced at” the presen-tation.

“A lot of the things that were on the presentation should have been obvious to anyone think-ing of living off campus,” Kidder said. “It was more like a checklist of things I had already done, in-stead of a list of things to do.”

Elizabeth Fison ’07, who fi led

for permission using the paper-based system, said not much has changed in that respect.

“I felt like I knew what I was doing already and that I didn’t need more information,” Fison said, adding that she recalled signing up for a time slot to watch the video but never actually made the appointment.

“I kept meaning to watch the video,” she said. “But it wasn’t en-forced.”

Paul Baier ’08 did watch the vid-eo, but he echoed the sentiments of Kidder, Burns and Fison.

“It didn’t do much for me,” Baier said. “I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t already know that stuff.”

But Bova cautioned against ig-noring the PowerPoint presenta-tion, which he said provides criti-cal information to students think-ing about living off campus.

“It has great information about being a good neighbor, some poli-cies and most defi nitely safety and security,” he said. “I think it would be very irresponsible of any stu-dent to keep clicking.”

The new process is easier for administrators as well as students, 1,484 of whom applied for off-cam-pus permission last year, accord-ing to Bova.

“I think it’s great that they’ve gone electronic,” Fison said. “On-line would have been a lot easier.”

Bova said feedback from stu-dents on the new system has been nothing but encouraging.

“We received about 10 e-mails,” he said. “All were very positive.”

Students praise online off-campus approval processBY CHAZ FIRESTONESENIOR STAFF WRITER

Bananas are the next target of the campus fair-trade movement, as members of Oxfam at Brown seek to increase the University’s offer-ings of fair-trade products in the dining halls.

“The (fair-trade) movement has been really big in the coffee in-dustry, and other industries are starting to have fair trade too,” said Hope Turner ’08, former co-president of Oxfam at Brown. “We haven’t been able to get fair-trade coffee into the dining halls, so we decided to expand” to bananas.

Oxfam decided to advocate for fair-trade bananas in the din-ing halls after representatives from a fair-trade banana company came to Brown last semester to discuss their cause. Dining Services bought a box of fair-trade bananas in late November, giving some to Oxfam for sale at a sustainable alternative gift fair and giving away the remainder in the Sharpe Refectory.

Though she said the University has not yet made any offi cial de-cision on the banana proposal, Turner remained optimistic. “I think there’s a good chance that fair-trade bananas will be offered, if not in the dining halls then in some of the other eateries like the Blue Room or the Ivy Room.”

— James Shapiro

Oxfam fi ghting for fair-trade bananas on campus

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal ’91.5, R-La., will challenge incumbent Loui-siana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat, in the 2007 gubernatorial election. Blanco defeated Jindal in the 2003 runoff election by a 52-48 percent margin.

“Our state, our communities and our families have been through some very tough times. There is clearly a hunger for a new approach to governing,” Jindal said in a Jan. 23 post on his Web site announc-ing his candidacy.

Jindal’s chances in the race seem promising. A recent poll showed Jindal with a 24-point lead over Blanco in a head-to-head race, ac-cording to a Jan. 28 article in the Shreveport Times.

Blanco has been criticized for her role in the state’s lackluster re-sponse to Hurricane Katrina and the slow pace of recovery in the state.

A native of Baton Rouge, Jindal was elected to the House of Rep-resentatives in 2004. He had previously served as head of the Loui-siana Department of Health and Hospitals and assistant secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. After graduating from Brown, he received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University in England.

— Zachary Chapman

Jindal ’91.5 to seek La. governorship

Using 3-D video recordings and a laser-imaging device, Brown re-searchers have developed new insights into the aerodynamics of bat fl ight patterns. The results of the study, funded in part by the Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research, may lead to advances in the fi elds of evolutionary biology and engineering.

The research casts doubt on traditional assumptions about the evolution of bats from other fl ying mammals. Stark differences be-tween squirrel-type gliding wings and bats’ thin, fl apping wings decrease the possibility of a close relationship between the two types of animals, according to Associate Professor of Biology Sharon Swartz, a collaborator on the project.

The study holds particular promise for biomimetics, a fi eld of en-gineering that uses organisms’ natural functions as a model for me-chanical designs. “We want to understand bat fl ight and be able to incorporate some of the features of bat fl ight into an engineered ve-hicle,” said Kenneth Breuer ’82, professor of engineering, in a Jan. 18 University news release.

— James Shapiro

U. scientists study bat fl ight

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is the favorite candidate of Rhode Island Democrats for president in the 2008 election, according to a poll conducted Jan. 27 by Darrell West, professor of political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy.

If the primary were held now, 33 percent of voters who said they would likely vote in the Democratic primary said they would vote for Clinton. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., came in second in the survey, with the support of 15 percent of likely voters, followed by former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., with 8 percent of likely voters.

In a general election match-up between Clinton and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, 49 percent of Rhode Island voters said they would support Clinton, 36 percent favored McCain and 15 per-cent were undecided. Voters also favored Clinton over other poten-tial Republican nominees — former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

The survey polled 475 registered voters in Rhode Island over one day. The poll had a margin of error of 5 percentage points, except for the questions on the Democratic primary race, which had a margin of error of 6 percent.

— Zachary Chapman

R.I. likes Hillary and Cicilline ’83, new poll says

Courtesy of Hannah LevintovaStudents ride camels during a Birthright trip to Israel sponsored by Brown Hillel.

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cutting-edge science research, us-ing the latest technology that is not always available in public schools,” said Linda Jzyk ’74, an education specialist for science and technol-ogy at the Rhode Island Depart-ment of Education. “It will bring us up to speed in biology, biotechnol-ogy and physiology in 2007.”

Tony Beck, program director for the Science Education Partner-ship Award that provided the grant for the program, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that initiatives like Project ARISE bring many impor-tant lessons to teachers, students and their families.

“We also want to show all stu-dents that they have the talent and opportunities to envision careers in medicine, clinical research, drug discovery and the basic sci-ences,” he wrote.

Fifteen teachers from Rhode Island high schools will be admit-ted into the ARISE program each of the program’s three years. Jyzk said teachers are encouraged to apply as part of a team from their school, since collaboration among teachers will ensure the program has a lasting effect on school cur-riculums. She said special consid-eration will be given to teachers from high-need school districts, defi ned as those where at least 20 percent of the student popula-tion receives free or reduced price lunches.

Aubrey Frank GS and Megan Gasparovic GS will help instruct teachers this year as part of Proj-ect ARISE, and William Holmes GS will be in charge of trouble-shooting when mobile units are brought into classrooms this fall, Aizenman said.

Holmes, a fi rst-year graduate student in the department of Mo-lecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, said the ARISE program offered him the oppor-tunity to have a positive effect on students. “Here at Brown, we are doing cutting-edge science and (through Project ARISE we are) teaching that same science to teachers, who in turn teach it to kids,” he said.

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Bevin Kaplan, Kaplan’s daughter and Alpert’s great niece.

Alpert is still the chairman of the company he founded. War-ren Equities currently grosses over $1 billion in annual sales, em-ploys more than 2,000 people and is ranked by Forbes as one of the 400 largest privately owned com-panies.

In 1986, Alpert founded the Warren Alpert Foundation, a phil-anthropic effort funded solely by Alpert himself. The Foundation’s original purpose was to grant an annual $150,000 award, known as the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, to a leading scientist or re-searcher in the fi eld of medicine.

Since 1986, the foundation has enabled Alpert to make many do-nations supporting medical ed-ucation, research and practice. Among the most signifi cant are a $20 million gift to Harvard Uni-versity in 1993 to name a research center at its medical school and a

$15 million gift to Mt. Sinai Hospi-tal in New York City.

According to Kaplan, Alpert chose Brown as the recipient of his largest donation because he wanted a way to give back to the Providence and Rhode Island com-munities.

“His relationship was with Providence,” Kaplan said. “He wanted to motivate science and health care in this state.” He said Alpert has made several small do-nations over the years but other-wise had no prior connections to the University.

“There’s a sort of beautiful har-mony with him having his business here and now knowing his legacy will be wedded with Brown,” Bev-in Kaplan said. “He thought the best way to better mankind was through medicine, and in that way this gift makes a great deal of sense.”

Neil Steinberg ’75, vice presi-dent for development and director of the Campaign for Academic En-richment, fi rst met Alpert 25 years

ago when Steinberg was a banker at what used to be Independent National Bank, and Alpert was his client.

He said Alpert was a “very dynamic man” whose gift would be “transformative” for the Med School. “It was a great opportunity for them, a great opportunity for us,” Steinberg said.

Making a major donation to health care was “the kind of thing he wanted to do as he contemplat-ed his immortality,” said Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA’71, senior vice president for University advance-ment, of the aging and infi rm Alp-ert. Vanden Dorpel said the Uni-versity would reap many benefi ts from a gift large enough to name the Med School after Alpert. Be-yond providing ready resources for improvement, the gift would boost the Med School’s visibility and “catapult us up” in national rat-ings, Vanden Dorpel said.

“There’s a lesson with these self-made men: They give back,” Steinberg said.

Rose introduced Dyson. Rose called Dyson a “tour de force” and commended his “unfl inching courage” and ability to challenge people of opposing views.

During his speech, Dyson cit-ed race, gender and class as com-plex components of the “notion of progress” and criticized the use of “black bodies” “as the litmus test” for determining how far the nation has come since Brown v. Board of Education abolished segregation in public schools in 1954.

“If we’re going to measure … progress, we can’t do it in a racist fashion,” he said.

Dyson addressed the multi-faceted issue of progress with illustrative, often critical and oc-casionally humorous referenc-es to pop culture, including rap artists, the degradation of black women, the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake “wardrobe malfunction” Super Bowl scan-

dal, the Bill Cosby controversy and Oprah.

At the end of the speech, he encouraged affl uent and well-edu-cated blacks to “muster the moral might” to address issues of pover-ty within their community.

Following a standing ovation, Dyson answered questions from the audience.

“I thought it was very chal-lenging and engaging,” Cory McAlister ’09 said of the speech.

Madalasa Bista ’08 said Dy-son “was very well-spoken” and called the address “beautiful.”

Programs for Black History Month will be held throughout February. Princeton professor and author Cornel West is sched-uled to speak on “The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.” on Feb. 2 at 4 p.m. in Salomon 101. Leslie said he is particular-ly excited for “Stomp the Yard,” which “looks into the history of step shows” and the Black Love Forum and Dating Game sched-uled for later this month.

Dyson deconstructs social progress in black America

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Equipment lacking for surge troops; added forces must make do, offi cials say

WASHINGTON — Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Ma-rine Corps, which are short thou-sands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to sup-ply the extra forces, U.S. offi cials said.

The increase would also fur-ther degrade the readiness of U.S.-based ground forces, ham-pering their ability to respond quickly, fully trained and well equipped in the case of other military contingencies around the world and increasing the risk of U.S. casualties, according to Army and Marine Corps leaders.

“The response would be slow-er than we might like, we would not have all of the equipment sets that ordinarily would be the case, and there is certainly risk associated with that,” the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. James Conway, told the House Armed Services Committee last week.

President Bush’s plan to send fi ve additional U.S. combat bri-gades into Iraq has left the Army and Marines scrambling to en-sure the troops could be support-ed with the necessary armored vehicles, jamming devices, ra-dios and other gear, as well as lodging and other logistics.

Trucks are in particularly short supply. For example, the Army would need 1,500 special-ly outfi tted — known as “up-ar-mored” — 2 1/2-ton and fi ve-ton trucks in Iraq for the incom-ing units, said Lt. Gen. Stephen Speakes, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for force development.

“We don’t have the (armor) kits and we don’t have the trucks,” Speakes said in an in-terview. He said it will take the

Army months, probably until summer, to supply and outfi t the additional trucks. As a result, he said, combat units fl owing into Iraq will have to share the trucks assigned to units now there, lead-ing to increased use and mainte-nance.

Speakes said that although another type of vehicle, the up-armored Humvee, continues to be in short supply Army-wide, there would be “adequate” num-bers for incoming forces, and each brigade would receive 400 fully outfi tted Humvees. But he said that to meet the need, the Army would have to draw down pre-positioned stocks that would then not be available for other contingencies.

Still, U.S. commanders pri-vately expressed doubts that Iraq-bound units would receive a full complement of Humvees. “It’s inevitable that that has to happen, unless fi ve brigades of up-armored Humvees fall out of the sky,” one senior Army offi -cial said of the feared shortfall. He anticipated that some units would have to rely more heav-ily on Bradley Fighting Vehicles and tanks that, although highly protective, are intimidating and therefore less effective for many counterinsurgency missions.

Adding to the crunch, the U.S. government has agreed to sell 600 up-armored Humvees to Iraq this year for its security forces. Such sales “better not be at the expense of the American soldier or Marine,” Speakes told defense reporters recently, say-ing that U.S. military needs must take priority.

Living facilities in Iraq are an-other concern for the additional troops, who would be concen-trated in Baghdad, Army offi -cials said. The U.S. military has closed or handed over to Iraqi

forces about half of the 110 bases established there after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Decisions are being made on where to base incoming units in Baghdad, but it is likely that, at least in the short term, they would be placed in ex-isting facilities, offi cials said.

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, the new top U.S. commander in Iraq, has requested that additional combat brigades move into Iraq as quickly as possible. But accel-erated deployments would mean less time for units to train and fi ll out their ranks. Brigades are re-quired to have an aggregate num-ber of soldiers before deploying but may still face shortages of specifi c ranks and job skills.

Meanwhile, the demand for thousands more U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan is worsening the readiness of units in the United States, deplet-ing their equipment and time to train, Army offi cials said. “We can fulfi ll the national strategy, but it will take more time and it will also take us increased ca-sualties to do the job,” Speakes said.

Army Chief of Staff Peter Schoomaker testifi ed last week before the House Armed Ser-vices Committee that, regarding readiness, “my concerns are in-creased over what they were in June.”

“To meet combatant com-manders’ immediate wartime needs, we pooled equipment from across the force to equip sol-diers deploying in harm’s way,” he said. “This practice, which we are continuing today, increases risk for our next-to-deploy units and limits our ability to respond to emerging strategic contingen-cies,” he said. He called for addi-tional funding to fi x “holes in the force” and “break the historical cycle of unpreparedness.”

BY ANN SCOTT TYSONWASHINGTON POST

Israeli resort hit by Palestinian suicide bomber

JERUSALEM — A young Pales-tinian set off an explosives-laden backpack in a bakery in the Red Sea resort of Eilat on Monday, kill-ing himself and three other people in the fi rst suicide attack against Is-rael in nine months.

The blast occurred far from Ei-lat’s beachfront hotel strip, a popu-lar tourist destination, thanks to an Israeli army reserve offi cer who unwittingly had agreed to drive the hitchhiking bomber toward the city but became suspicious and dropped him on a remote bypass road.

As police summoned by the offi cer closed in, the backpacker walked to a poor neighborhood, entered the only shop open and ig-nited 33 pounds of explosives, offi -cials said. The 9:36 a.m. blast killed the Lechamim Bakery’s two own-ers and an employee, the only oth-er people inside.

Two Palestinian groups, Islam-ic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Bri-gades, claimed joint responsibility for the bombing and said it was meant to encourage rival Palestin-ian factions to stop fi ghting each other and “point the guns” at Israel instead.

Israeli leaders said the attack jeopardized a 2-month-old truce ac-cord between them and Palestin-ian leaders in the Gaza Strip. The bomber was identifi ed by the two militant groups as a 20-year-old male from Gaza whose family said he had left home on a suicide mis-sion three days earlier.

“This is an escalation, and we shall treat it as such,” Israeli De-fense Minister Amir Peretz said as he convened an emergency meet-ing of top security offi cials in Tel Aviv. “No terror organization will get away. The cease-fi re will not

prevent us from hitting them.”The blast also cast a shadow

over U.S. Secretary of State Condo-leezza Rice’s plan to hold a three-way meeting in February with Is-raeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas on ways to revive peace talks.

Abbas has been unable to stop sporadic Palestinian rocket fi re from Gaza in violation of the cease-fi re. Some rockets have come from the al-Aqsa group, which is loose-ly affi liated with his Fatah move-ment.

Suicide bombings have become rare in Israel, and Monday’s attack prompted Israeli television stations to break into programming with live coverage from the scene. The bakery and neighboring shops were shown in shambles, with shat-tered glass, loaves of bread, metal bread trays and body parts strewn on the bloodstained sidewalk.

Benny Mazgini, 45, told Israel Radio that he watched from a bal-cony across the street as a man in a black winter coat and a backpack entered the bakery. It was 53 de-grees outside.

“I said to myself, ‘What’s this id-iot dressed like that for?’ ” Mazgini recalled. “I went inside, and a few seconds later I heard a massive ex-plosion.”

Yossi Voltinsky, a lieutenant col-onel in the Israeli army reserves, said he saw the oddly dressed young man on the side of the road north of Eilat while driving to work at a hotel. The man signaled for a ride. Voltinsky stopped, thinking the man might have missed the bus to work.

“As soon as he entered the car, I saw that he was very nervous,” the offi cer told Israel Television. “His coat was tightly closed, and

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eling to Israel with these incred-ible Brown students and falling in love with the country through the eyes of twenty-year-olds.” Eisen-berg said she previously lived in Israel for several years and had traveled to Israel as a Brown stu-dent, thanks to a scholarship she received through Hillel to study at the Hebrew University in Jeru-salem.

Bregman and Eisenberg both said the only downside of the trip was not having time to do more. Bregman noted that the majority of students who went on the trip had not previously been involved in Hillel. “Already, a couple of people on the trip came in for the fi rst time,” he said.

Hillel may offer an additional trip to Israel in June, Eisenberg said, noting that Hillel provides support for anyone wishing to travel to Israel.

As the Birthright group trekked through Jerusalem, Sa-mantha Pohl, program direc-tor for Hillel, accompanied eight Brown students on a service-ori-ented trip to Thailand. The trip, which lasted from Jan. 9 to Jan. 21, was facilitated by the Ameri-can Jewish World Service, an or-ganization that “seeks to raise funds and awareness for issues of global poverty,” according to Pohl.

Hannah Perrin ’08, who went on the trip, said she had long hoped to visit Thailand and fi rst learned about the trip after seeing a table slip in the Sharpe Refecto-ry. After fl ying to Bangkok, the group traveled to a small village along the Burmese border.

While athere, the students helped local volunteers build a sewer system and a trash inciner-ator, Perrin said. “I think we pro-vided a lot of entertainment for (the villagers) because we defi -nitely did not know how to dig ditches,” Perrin said.

Perrin said she enjoyed the cultural experiences, which in-cluded a visit to a monastery and a meeting with three sex workers to hear about their experiences. She said she especially loved min-gling with the villagers and hear-ing about their lives. “(The trip) made me question and re-evaluate everything I believed,” she said.

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3. The promising start had the

Bears hopeful they would snap Bowdoin’s seven-match winning streak. However, Brown dropped six of its last seven matches, with its lone win coming from co-cap-tain Daniel Petrie ’07. He easily dispatched his opponent in the number one slot, 9-4, 9-5, 9-2.

Despite the loss, co-captain Patrick Haynes ’07 was pleased with the team’s effort, and said, “Bowdoin really showed up (to play).”

“Bowdoin really played as well as they could, and we were a tad off our game,” LeGassick said.

Haynes echoed his coach’s sentiment in regard to the lack of team cohesion. The Bears were missing two key players: Jacob

Winkler ’09, unable to play due to a back injury, and North Whip-ple ’08. The absences of the two teammates forced other players into higher positions than usual, which might have contributed the somewhat disappointing re-sult, according to Haynes. Both missing players are expected to be ready to play next Friday when the team joins the women’s team for the match at Williams

College. One bright spot on the day

was the fan support. “We had a really good show-

ing, which was great to see,” Haynes said.

LeGassick remained optimis-tic as well. “The best part of the season begins on Friday against Williams and then continues until late February,” he said.

in the fi eld events, where under-classmen repeatedly put points on the board. In the shot put, Bryan Powlen ’10 pulled in a fi rst-place fi nish with a 15.01-meter toss. In the same event, David Howard ’09 placed fourth with a 14.93 throw and he also took home silver in the weight throw with a 17.01-me-ter toss.

Ikenna Achilihu ’08 bagged a second-place fi nish in the triple jump with a leap of 14.21-meters, while Mike Woods ’09 brought home a bronze in the pole vault with a 4.25.

The Bears hit the road again this weekend, traveling to the Glegengack Invitational at Yale on Friday.

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he wore a strange hat. His eyes expressed tremendous stress. He sat in the back and didn’t speak. He only signaled with his hand that he wanted to reach lower Ei-lat, the resort area.”

“I understood right away that this is probably a suicide bomb-er,” he added. “It was pretty clear there was a bomb in his bag.”

Voltinsky said he drove to a sparsely populated stretch of the Eilat bypass road, stopped the car and, after a tense argument, per-suaded the passenger to get out. Then he called the police and tried to stay on the suspect’s trail. But the man broke into a run and es-caped, the offi cer said.

Mayor Yitzhak Halevy said he was worried that the attack could scare tourists from Eilat, which

counted 2 million visitors last year. The city’s 57,000 permanent residents have been largely insu-lated from the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict, but its economy was hurt when many travelers canceled vis-its during and after Israel’s war in Lebanon last summer.

Police and army units set up checkpoints across the city, but “at this point there is no panic or people leaving Eilat,” said Shabtai

Shay, general manager of the city’s hotel association.

In their joint declaration of re-sponsibility, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade identi-fi ed the suicide bomber as Mo-hammed Siksik. Relatives said he was unemployed, dejected over the death of his 7-month-old daughter and driven to avenge his best friend’s killing by Israeli troops.

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We know University offi cials are giddy about the hefty checks they’ll be receiving from the Alpert Foundation in the coming years, and they’re under pressure to draw up a strategic plan for the money’s potential use ahead of next month’s Corporation meeting. As administrators scuttle around University Hall in ex-citement, pondering the possibilities of $100 million, we thought we’d offer a few suggestions. Here’s what $100 million could buy for the Alpert Medical School:

149,253,730 Band-Aids

10,000,000 disposable syringes

2,763 years of Alpert Med School tuition

3,225,806 sets of scrubs

4,347,826 disposable scalpels

1,666,666,667 small latex gloves

1,450,326 Gray’s Anatomy textbooks

5,002,501 sets of “Grey’s Anatomy” Season One DVDs

6,309 appendectomies

10,000,000 bottles of Tylenol

1,785,714 bedpans

8,333,333 cases of tongue depressors

4,255,319 lab coats

1,000,000 meningitis vaccinations

5,707,762 stethoscopes

2,857,142 aneroid sphygmomanometers

23,529,411 refl ex hammers

228 neurologists’ annual salaries (or 3,333 journalists’ yearly wages)

1 Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences, give or take $7m

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The Janjaweed fanatics committing genocide in Dar-fur will not be dissuaded by feel-good regional confer-ences and Ivy League art exhibits. A torrent of Ameri-can unilateral air strikes coupled with regime change in Sudan, on the other hand, offers a realistic solution for dealing with the crisis. Perhaps Brown Darfur

activists should consider channeling their admirable energy toward advocating a plan which might actual-ly help the Darfur victims suffering everyday as the United Nations stands by idly.

Pratik Chougule ‘08Jan. 29

Action, not art, will solve DarfurTo the Editor:

L E T T E R S

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007 PAGE 11

TEL AVIV, Israel — Over the past few months, I’ve informed nearly everyone I know of my plans to spend the spring study-ing in Tel Aviv. It’s not at all like telling peo-ple you’re going to Barcelona — it’s really more like telling people that you’re joining the military. Nearly everyone has some sort of reaction. Most people begin with mild sur-prise. Then they tense their brow a bit, move their head back a few millime-ters, and think for a tic before doing anything else. Then they usually ask an explor-atory question like “Why Tel Aviv?” and proceed to change the subject. By and large they aren’t rushing to judgment, just struggling to update the Matt Prewitt fi le in their men-tal database. It creates confusion and dis-tance.

Supporters of Israel have a dramatically different reaction. When I tell these people where I plan to study, they usually relax the muscles in their face, nod approvingly and say something to the effect of “good for you.”

Spending a semester in Israel is a political act, whether I want it to be or not. The nervous energy that hangs over these trifl ing exchanges back in the States is just an aperitif for the lightning storm of political confl ict that animates Israel itself. I actually see that as Israel’s main attraction — I am drawn here largely by the intensity of feeling that infuses the place.

Unfortunately, as a result of that same intensity, discussion of Israel is fre-quently distorted or even precluded by emo-tionality and factionalism. When people of radically different political leanings try to discuss Israel, conversation usually degen-erates into nasty insinuations of ignorance and inhumanity before substantive issues are even broached. I’m not suggesting that the Arab-Israeli confl ict is just a misunder-standing — it is certainly much more than that. But at least within America, we really ought to be able to raise our level of dialogue on the subject.

There is a tendency on both sides to impose a framework of “pro-Israel” or “anti-Israel” over every person and argu-ment related to the Jewish state. Extremists on both sides frame the debate this way, but when reasonable people succumb to these terms, they lose control of the discourse.

It’s a lazy way of simplifying the confl ict. Individuals who publicly opine on Israel will quickly fi nd themselves swept into a vortex of polarities — one side offering an ideologi-cal home, and the other side behaving with appalling hostility. The extremists on each side of the debate are, perversely, almost justifi ed in sacrifi cing nuance to counterbal-ance their frothing opposition.

I don’t presume to tell Israelis or

Palestinians how to conduct themselves. But in the rest of the world, where the Israeli-Arab confl ict plays out in ideological proxy wars, we can make a difference by rejecting this framework and making it possible for cooler heads to achieve prominence.

The way forward is to think of Is-rael as a normal state — it has been around for over half a century now. While Israel’s unique circumstances often justify unique behavior, the throngs of supporters who think it should continue to operate with im-punity outside of international norms de-serve to be marginalized. That said, Israel

exists, and people who object categorically to the state or its actions shouldn’t be given any more respect than someone who has basic objections to the exis-tence of Mexico or England.

In Israel, the virulent strain of nationalism from the early 20th century was bottled up and preserved. It functions

much like a hazardous weapon that they have been unable to dismantle due to per-sistent immediate threats. In America and elsewhere, though, we have the advantage of detachment. It’s a small step (and it’s eas-ier said than done), but we need to employ our clear-sighted impartiality to marginalize extremists and diffuse the mechanisms of polarization that frustrate intelligent debates on this subject. I hope that when our genera-tion runs America, the terms “for Israel” and “against Israel” will be nonsensical — out-side of a soccer match.

Matt Prewitt ’08 is spending the spring semester at Tel Aviv University.

Europe has come a long way

Talking about Israel

Individuals who publicly opine on

Israel will quickly find themselves

swept into a vortex of polarities.

MATT PREWITTCOLUMNIST ABROADCOLUMNIST ABROADCOLUMNIST A

Europe has come a long way — Winston Churchill would be proud. Not only has Eu-rope been at peace for the longest period of time since the Thirty Years’ War, but strong alliances have been forged between former enemies, and political extremism has been displaced by democracy. The Iron Curtain has been demolished. cultural and economic bridges have been erected in its place. De-spite a variety of social problems, Europe in its current state is a continent to be proud of — especially as a German.

You can imagine my shock at reading Sean Quigley’s column (“An iron curtain has descended across the Continent,” Jan. 24). It displays not only a fl agrant ignorance of the culture and history of Europe as a whole, but in its zealous idealism, it overlooks the responsibilities associated with free speech. Furthermore, in calling Germany and Aus-tria tyrannical, it is an affront to the very principles these governments have sworn to uphold.

To begin, I would like to examine the “free speech” Mr. Quigley accuses Europe of repressing. Idealistically, shouldn’t Ger-many and Austria allow every individual to voice their opinion without fear of reprisal, no matter how misguided and untenable their position? This right is guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Po-litical Rights, ratifi ed in 1976 and now legally binding in 150 nations:

1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

2. Everyone shall have the right to free-dom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart infor-mation and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, and through any media of his choice.

However, in his argument, Mr. Quigley

does not consider the Covenant’s crucial third paragraph:

3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph two of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

1. For respect of the rights or reputa-tions of others;

2. For the protection of national secu-rity or of public order, or of public health or morals.

In other words, freedom of speech is a right to be exercised with great responsibil-ity — and in Europe, this is taken very seri-ously. Thus “Volksverhetzung” (incitement of hatred against part of the population) clearly does not fall under free speech according to the International Covenant. Therefore, the arrest and dissolution of a band spreading anti-Semitic and xenophobic messages has nothing to do with censorship or repression — such opinions are not protected as free speech. Germany is not “censoring” racial hatred — it is endeavoring to defend minori-ties from hostility and oppression.

In fact, Germany and Austria are not the only countries to have such laws. The Unit-ed Kingdom ruled incitement of ethnic or racial hatred a criminal offense in 1986, and since then, France, Ireland, Sweden, Singa-pore and Canada have passed similar laws. Furthermore, seven European nations have signed a treaty defi ning revisionism — the denial or minimization of genocides and crimes against humanity — as a form of hate crime, and therefore punishable by law.

Laws such as the “Verbotsgesetz” and its German equivalent were not written in a vac-uum: they are products of a distinct era of history. In the case of Germany and Austria, it was the end of World War II. Germans and Austrians were forced to accept that the gov-ernment in which many of them had invest-ed all their hopes, energies and even their lives was directly and indubitably responsi-ble for the extermination of 6 million Jews,

Sinta and Roma, disabled people, homo-sexuals and other minorities. German cities were ravaged, razed to the ground by Allied bombings. The German population was left utterly destitute, many of them refugees, dis-placed and without possessions. Those who outlived the war were left irreparably trau-matized. The very last thing Germany want-ed to create in its new constitution was an opportunity for tyranny to re-emerge.

I would entreat Mr. Quigley to ask my for-mer schoolteacher, who survived the bomb-ing of Berlin and its subsequent rape by the Soviets, whether the rock group “Landser” should be allowed to perform. Perhaps he could explain to my old neighbor, who was imprisoned and tortured in Dachau for hid-ing banned books, that the lies espoused by the putative historian Irving should be al-lowed to embolden future neo-fascists.

In view of the cultural history that sur-rounds the “Verbotsgesetz,” it becomes evi-dent why Holocaust denial and revisionism is considered a hate crime. Not only is it an invidious offense to those who suffered from such persecution, it represents a potent feeding ground and source of justifi cation for neo-Nazism. As such, the governments of Germany and Austria see it as their duty to combat revisionism in order to safeguard their nascent democracies.

Yet the “Verbotsgesetz” aims at more than precluding future dictatorship: it al-lows a culture overshadowed by atrocities, misery and grief a chance to heal. It gives a deeply wounded people a chance to regain their footing. This sapling of a new society, so horribly disfi gured by war, has to be pro-tected from the infl ammatory machinations of political extremism, lest it collapse into fascism once more. This is not cold idealism — it is not ridiculous, tyrannical or oppres-sive. It involves real people, real scars and a very arduous and slow process of healing. And it is far from over.

Derek Bangle ‘10 is a fi rst-year student.

BY DEREK BANGLE GUEST GUEST GUES COLUMNIST

I am appalled by the misleading his-torical information presented by Ozge Can Ozcanli GS, Cengiz Pehlevan GS and Mert Akdere GS in their column (“Slavery and justice report misleads on Armenian ‘genocide,’” Dec. 6). In their attempt to dis-pel the Slavery and Justice Commission’s use of the term ‘genocide’ to describe the Turks’ mass killings of Armenians during World War I, the authors fail to mention the Ottoman Turks’ premeditated plan to exterminate all Armenians living in East-ern Anatolia. The authors state that “Dur-ing the relocation process, hundreds of thousands of Armenians were killed by famine, epidemics or by attacks from Mus-lim gangs and some corrupt policemen.”

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians did indeed die of famine, epidemics and vi-olence. Yet the authors fail to explain that the Ottoman Turks prohibited deportees from supplying themselves with food and medication, a decision the government foresaw would result in signifi cant deaths among men, women and children. Fur-thermore, the Ottoman government spe-cifi cally chose the most violent and ruth-less soldiers, most of whom were released prisoners, to facilitate the relocation, which resulted in the rape and killing of many in-nocent people.

Experts estimate that about 1 million Ar-menians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. If this number does not communi-cate the degree of devastation, then per-sonal accounts of the atrocities should. An American diplomat visiting Lake Goeljuk, one site of mass murder, found the bodies of nearly 10,000 Armenians dumped into ra-vines. The New York Times ran hundreds of articles in 1915 alone, describing the de-portations as state-sanctioned genocide. Henry Morgenthau, the United States ambassador stationed in Constantinople, met two of the masterminds behind the Armenian deportation and wrote later in his memoirs: “When the Turkish authori-ties gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact … I am confi dent that the whole histo-ry of the human race contains no such hor-rible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignifi cant when compared to the suffer-ings of the Armenian race in 1915.”

Whether we call it ethnic cleansing, mass murder or genocide, we must ac-knowledge the atrocities that occurred at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. I am sad-dened that the three authors who wrote to the Brown Daily Herald, to say nothing of the current Turkish government, continue to deny that such atrocities occurred. The debate on nomenclature may go on, but, in the scheme of things, it is irrelevant. What really matters is that acts like those com-mitted by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War are still being committed today in places like Darfur. These types of heinous crimes will continue as long as the world looks the other way while gov-ernments commit mass murder and claim self-defense.

Adam Akullan ‘07 is standing up for what’s right.

BY ADAM AKULLANGUEST GUEST GUES COLUMNIST

There is ample evidence for

the Armenian genocide

Coming off a successful meet last weekend at the Sorlein Memorial Indoor Classic, the women’s track and fi eld team faced the best the Ivy League had to offer this weekend. On Saturday, the team traveled to Cambridge to compete against Cor-nell and Harvard and the day turned out to be a split decision. The Bears fell to Cornell 94-47 but buried Har-vard 47-18.

“Going into the meet, we wanted to compete to our ability and give our all,” said Director of Track and Field Craig Lake. “We had a number of athletes do just that, but we have a number of athletes that have more to give as well. As an athlete, each year you are more experienced and stronger, so it should be a goal to continually improve and have per-sonal bests. We had a number of these this weekend.”

The biggest thrill for most of the athletes was a chance to compete against Cornell, the reigning Ivy League champions.

“(We were) excited to get our fi rst taste of Ivy action,” said Akilah King ’08. “Our goals going into the meet were to crush Harvard and compete with Cornell by winning as many events as possible. Since we do not have the depth that Cornell has, it was important for us to win most of our points by getting fi rst (places).”

The day began on a resound-ing note with Thelma Breezeatl ’10 blazed to fi rst-place fi nishes in both the 60-meter dash and the 200-meter dash with times of 7.62 and 25.40, respectively. King wasn’t too far behind in the 200. She recorded a third-place fi nish in the 200 with a time of 25.67

Nicole Burns ’09 had the Bears’ other win in the running events on the day. She took fi rst in the 400-me-ter dash with a time of 55.97.

With the sprint events down, the middle and distance athletes kept the pace. Smita Gupta ’08 blazed to asecond-place fi nish in the mile, and Naja Ferjan ’07 and Emily Bourdeau ’10 recorded second- and fourth-place fi nishes in the 800-meter run. The 4x400-meter and 4x800-meter relays both came in second, right behind the Cornell squads.

The fi eld events allowed the Bears to accumulate some points. In the shot put, a strong event for the Bears over the past few weeks, teammates Jenna Silver ‘10 and Alex Hartley ’10 locked up the top two positions with throws of 12.67 meters and 12.46 respectively.

In the long jump, volleyball star Rikki Baldwin ’07 made her track and fi eld debut by placing second with a jump of 5.41 meters, just .03 behind fi rst place.

“Rikki is a great addition to the team,” King said. “After losing (All-American triple jumper) Britney Grovey (’06) last year, we really need our jumpers to step up. Not only was this her fi rst meet, she only took one jump which placed her in fi rst until the last jump. As she con-tinues to improve, I think that Rikki is going to be our best-kept secret at (Heptagonals).”

The Bears will now turn their at-tention to this weekend’s meet at the Giegengack Invitational at Yale.

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007 PAGE 12

W. track dismantles Harvard but no match for CornellBY SARAH DEMERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The wrestling team came up just short against a back-to-back help-ing of some stiff competition this weekend. Brown lost to No. 24 Le-high University 30-15 on Saturday and suffered a 23-10 defeat at the hands of the United States Mili-tary Academy on Sunday. The set-backs leave the Bears’ record at 1-7 overall and 1-4 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Associa-tion.

Brown has been competitive in the six matches since the Lone Star Duals at the beginning of the month, but the team has a 1-5 re-cord to show for its effort.

“There is no doubt that we wrestled below our capabilities in the season so far,” said Assistant Coach Mike Burch.

Some key injuries have contrib-uted signifi cantly to the squad’s struggles.

“Three of the four co-captains, … Leo Saniuk (’08), Shawn Kitch-ner (’07) and David Saadeh (’07), all incurred signifi cant or season-ending injuries,” Burch said. “It is a big challenge to compensate for these injured wrestlers … after losing a lot of graduates last year and the remaining seniors to inju-ries this year, 7 out of 10 wrestlers on the team are fi rst- and second-year wrestlers.”

In their match against Lehigh, the Bears’ few veteran wrestlers

led the way. Matt Gevelinger ’09 won a 5-3 decision in the 184-pound weight class. At 149 pounds, Lenny Marandino ’09 picked up six points for the Bears when his opponent had to forfeit due to an arm injury suffered late in the third period.

Although the team match had already been decided, the best in-dividual showing of the day came when co-captain and heavyweight Levon Mock ’08 pinned No. 17 Paul Weibel just 1:52 into the match.

In the dual against Army, the Bears were tied with the Black Knights 10-10 at the conclusion of the sixth match but were unable to secure any victories in their fi nal four bouts.

Jeff Schell ’08 secured a 9-1 ma-jor decision at 133 pounds, and at 157 pounds, Tom Fazio ’09 won a 4-2 decision. Bran Crudden ’10 fol-lowed by posting another win for Brown with a 4-3 decision at 165 pounds. According to Burch, the weekend’s duals prove that the team’s young wrestlers, though still lacking in Division I experi-ence, show great potential for fur-ther improvement.

As an upperclassman, Schell said he is attempting to fi ll the holes left by the injured senior captains.

“With the injured captains out for the season, I feel more pres-sure to perform better,” Schell said. “In the match against Army, I was more aggressive and less de-

fensive. I executed my techniques well and was able to secure the win for the team.”

Gevelinger said a big problem the team faces is consistency, not-ing that he “wrestled very well against Lehigh but did not do well the next day against Army.”

Burch also noted the team’s inconsistency. “Right now, the coaches and the wrestlers are

working together to correct mis-takes and yield better results in the future,” he said.

At the season’s halfway mark this weekend, the squad will face its fi rst Ivy League opponents. The Bears will wrestle the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania and Drex-el University in Philadelphia on Friday and travel to Princeton on Saturday.

Grapplers can’t hold on in losses to No. 24 Lehigh, Army

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men and women’s squash teams hosted Bowdoin College on Saturday at the Pizzitola Center, and both teams raced out to hot starts against the Po-lar Bears. The seventh-ranked women’s team held to form and recorded a resounding 9-0 shut-out of the Polar Bears, but the men’s team faltered late with its 3-3 tie devolving into a 6-3 loss.

The women’s team pushed its record closer to the .500 mark with the win, to 4-4. The men’s squad dropped to 1-5.

Laura Pyne ’10 set the tone for the women’s team with a big win in the third match. Finding herself trailing two games to one after a 9-2 defeat in the third game, Pyne battled back and pulled out a 3-2 victory in which she dominated the fi nal game, winning 9-0.

“Coming off a hard inter-session, this win was really im-portant because it gave us the confi dence that we need mov-ing ahead for the rest of the sea-son,” Pyne said.

Tri-captain Erin Andrews ’07 helped fi nish off Bowdoin with a 3-1 victory in the No. 1 posi-tion. Andrews was pleased with the team’s play and said it would create some momentum for its next contest.

“This really helped us get ready for our match next week, which will be our toughest test all season,” Andrews said of next Friday’s match at Williams College.

“The players need to really

pick up the intensity of the prac-tices next week in order to com-pete well against Williams and Dartmouth ... two strong oppo-nents,” said Head Coach Stuart LeGassick.

On the men’s side, things looked promising when Adam Greenberg ’10 won in the third match and Mark Goldberg ’07 fi nished off his opponent in the sixth match to force a 3-3 tie. Greenberg came back from a 2-1 defi cit to win, outlasting his opponent in a hard-fought, fi ve-game victory. Similarly, Goldberg dropped the fi rst two games but won the next three games convincingly, 9-6, 9-0, 9-

W. squash ices Polar Bears, 9-0; m. squash crumbles in 6-3 lossBY JASON HARRISCONTRIBUTING WRITER

BY HAN CUI

The men’s track team had its hands full on Saturday when it traveled to Cambridge to face Harvard and Cornell. Although the Bears put up several stand-out performances, the reigning Ivy League champion Big Red rolled to an easy victory. Brown fi nished in second place with 36 points, well behind Cornell’s 108 points but ahead of the Crimson’s 18.

“We need more depth and are recruiting hard to ensure this for the future,” said Direc-tor of Track and Field Craig Lake. “Cornell’s team is ex-tremely large and loaded with talent. It is our goal to build a similar type of well-rounded program, and we are already on our way there.”

Although the Big Red could not be challenged in most events, the Bears managed to place a top-four fi nisher in 12 out of 15 events.

“The mentality for the meet was focus,” said sprinter Jamil McClintock ’08. “Personally, I was relaxed and I felt the whole men’s team felt the same.”

The day opened with Paul Raymond ’08, a two-sport spe-cialist from the football team, racing to a second place fi n-ish in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.04 seconds. Next, Mc-Clintock posted a second-place fi nish in the 60-meter hurdles with an 8.22 second mark.

It became clear that silver would be the color of the day for Brown when Sean O’Brien ’09 ran to a second-place fi nish in the 800-meter run with a time

of 1:53.38 and Christian Escare-no ’10 also put up a second-place showing in the 3,000-meter run, recording an 8:26.18. Chris Burke ’07 ran to a fourth-place fi nish in the same event with a time of 8:27.10.

Stephen Chaloner ’09 gave Brown some much-needed points with a fi rst place fi nish in the mile event, with a time of 4:11.87. That was a personal best by almost nine seconds.

“It was fantastic to see (Chaloner) have a huge per-sonal breakthrough and to run with such confi dence and run to his potential,” Lake said. “He is an athlete that struggled a little in terms of adjusting to college, then was sidelined with illness. Many in Steve’s situation might have given up or quit because he wasn’t one of our best, but instead (he) got tougher and re-ally proved himself this week-end.”

Teammate Nick Sarro ’08 rounded out the scoring in that event with a fourth-place fi nish. Though the Bears put out a rela-tively young squad in the meet, the team members feel the younger contributors are mak-ing major strides.

“With a limited amount of se-niors, we do depend on a lot of underclassmen to contribute,” McClintock said. “In order to be successful as a team, we need them to step up and be consis-tent. At the same time, this team doesn’t lack leadership. People on the team know they are in a leadership position no matter what year they are.”

That mindset was evident

M. track struggles against Big Red

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

BY SARAH DEMERS

Ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoMark Goldberg ’07 spotted Bowdoin’s Peter Cipriano a two-game lead before running off three straight wins to claim the match in Saturday’s competition.

Ashley Hess / Herald File PhotoBrown suffered two setbacks this weekend, but Levon Mock ’08 pinned the nation’s 17th-ranked wrestler, Paul Weibel of No. 24 Lehigh, in just 1:52 on Saturday.

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