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BY ERIC BECKSENIOR STAFF WRITER
Talib Kweli will perform in MeehanAuditorium on Thursday, April 21, theBrown Concert Agency confirmedMonday.
Kweli, a Brooklyn-based rapper, willnot headline the Thursday night con-cert, said BCA Chair Randi Siegel ’05.He will be the supporting act for aheadliner who she said has yet to beconfirmed.
“Although we haven’t yet announcedour main act for Thursday, it will beawesome,” she said.
Kweli’s Spring Weekend appearance
will cost BCA $20,000, Siegel told TheHerald.
Kweli joins Ben Folds in the SpringWeekend lineup, which Siegel said willeventually include between four andsix acts, depending on the fees of theperformers.
Siegel said the UndergraduateFinance Board increased BCA’s budgetfor this year from approximately$89,000 to the current $105,000.
The budget increases are especiallyappreciated because the UFB budget istighter than ever, Siegel said, citing a 20percent increase in groups funded byUFB but no increase in the studentactivities fees that constitute UFB’sfunding.
This year’s BCA budget is the secondlargest in its history — only last year’sfunding of $124,000 was higher.
But the problem, Siegel said, is thatthe music industry is drasticallyincreasing its fees.
She pointed to Maroon 5, whichcharged $25,000 last year but wanted$150,000 when solicited by BCA for thisyear’s Spring Weekend.
Kweli is touring to support hisSeptember 2004 album, “The BeautifulStruggle,” his second solo effort afterwell-received collaborations with Hi-Tek and childhood friend Mos Def.Considered by reviewers to be morecommercial than 2002’s “Quality,” itfeatures collaborations with FaithEvans and Mary J. Blige. His first single,“I Try,” was produced by Kanye West.
Kweli announced the SpringWeekend tour date on his Web site. Heis the second act confirmed for theannual bacchanalia, after Ben Folds,who will headline Saturday’s MainGreen show.
BY KIM STICKELSSTAFF WRITER
The Undergraduate Council of Studentswill not move to Instant Runoff Voting, inaccordance with the results of the referen-dum held last Tuesday through Friday inwhich 2,174 undergraduates voted.
The referendum received 64.6 percentof the vote, just shy of the 66.6 percentneeded to pass.
Charlie Cummings ’06, vice president ofUCS and chair of the independentElections Review Commission — whichendorsed IRV, although UCS did not —said that although IRV did not pass, “therewas a real campus dialogue that we triedto foster surrounding Instant RunoffVoting.”
Formed last fall to address the past elec-tion and suggest reforms, the ERC dis-banded after making recommendations toUCS, Cummings said. IRV is one of over 30solutions the committee suggested,Cummings added.
“I’m dismayed the IRV referendum did-n’t pass,” said Schuyler von Oeyen ’05, UCSalumni liaison. “However, I would actuallyprefer a plurality system,” he added. “Inthe meantime, we’ll have to deal with thecurrent system, which, however flawed,has worked in past years.”
Also included in the WebCT survey were13 poll questions, gauging student opinionon issues ranging from whetherUniversity-subsidized RIPTA tickets wouldbe put to use to lifting the campus ban onkegs.
66.7 percent of respondents appear tohave opposed the ban on kegs, althoughsome voters complained that the wordingof the question was confusing. UCS willvote on a resolution to eliminate the ban atits weekly meeting tonight.
“I have faith in this resolution to bringkegs on campus that is safe for all stu-dents,” said Brian Bidadi ’06, Admissionand Student Services Committee chair, ina statement. “Not only is the student pop-ulation behind this resolution but also
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Dana Frankel ’08, Anthony Johnson ’08 and Stephen Babish ’08, members of theBrown Band,“the world’s only ice-skating band,” performed their last ice show of theseason after Saturday’s men’s hockey game against Clarkson.
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ResidentialProgrammersbecome‘CommunityAssistants’
Talib Kweli added toSpring Weekend roster
Clickers openconversationsin classroomsBY NICOLE SUMMERSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
To outsiders, some classrooms at Brownmight be confused with live tapings of “WhoWants to be a Millionaire?” as six professorsthis semester have opted to “ask the audi-
ence” using digitalPersonal ResponseSystem clickers.
Though by nomeans a lifeline, clickers allow professors topoll their students on anything from theirpredictions of an experiment to their per-sonal backgrounds.
Through PRS, professors pose a multiple-choice question on an overhead to whichstudents use their individual clickers torespond. A bar graph then emerges withinseconds to display the overall results of thepoll.
Currently about 260 students use PRS intheir courses. Though the system was firstadopted by physics professors to gaugetheir students’ level of understanding, pro-fessors from a wide range of departmentsincluding ethnic studies, biology, environ-mental science and public policy are nowfinding clickers helpful in generating feed-back, understanding the collective views ofthe class and finding out student demo-graphics.
The anonymity of PRS is integral to itsfunctions in the classroom environment, asit “allows students a way to express view-points that they might not want to expressout loud,” said Associate Professor ofPolitical Science Ross Cheit, who has usedclickers in PS 10: “Introduction to PublicPolicy” and PS 105: “Ethics and PublicPolicy.” Consequently, class conversations
TECHNOLOGYin the classroom
see CLICKERS, page 4
BY HANNAH MILLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Residential Programmers will get a newname — Community Assistants — andexpanded responsibilities next semester,but some current RPs are unsure whetherthe changes will make the program moreeffective.
The new title is more suitable for theirjob, which encompasses more than justprogramming, said Assistant Dean ofResidential Life and Student Programs B.Afeni Cobham, who oversees the pro-gram.
“The term Community Assistant seemsmore in correlation with what they actual-ly do,” she said.
The stipend for RPs will increase from$1,250 per year this year to up to $2,000 inthe fall, Cobham said.
New and returning CAs received their
see RPS, page 9
see IRV, page 4
HOOPS GO DUTCHM. ball snaps out of their slumpagainst Yale, while the women takePenn but tail the Tigers.
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focus on: public artNew York’s ambitious The Gatesdraws a fanatical following to rivaleven the late Donkey in the Boat.
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1959 —A staff member at The Herald wasengaged by forces from the women’s col-lege to the north in a vicious snowballexchange — he would emerge victorious.For the full story of this encounter, pleasesee www.browndailyherald.com.
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CHARLES LONG: MORE LIKE A DREAMTHAN A SCHEME 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. (List Art Center) —An exhibition of recent sculptural worksby California artist Charles Long at theDavid Winton Bell Gallery.
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BY STEFANIE SIMONSCONTRIBUTING WRITER
“The Gates” lights up Central ParkNEW YORK — It is a “majestic proces-sion” to David Ellis ’07.5. But to SarahStaveley-O’Carroll ’03, it’s “justanother bunch of pretentiousartists.”
Like art critics, Brown studentshave mixed reactions about “TheGates.” Nonetheless, Brunonians havetaken the time to see the piece before the Feb. 27 end ofits installation in New York City’s Central Park.
“The Gates” is a temporary public arts projectdesigned by French artist Christo and his spouse andpartner Jeanne-Claude. The artists designed 7,500 16-foot high “saffron” rip-stop curtains (“the same color asJeanne-Claude’s hair” according to “Gates” worker AndreCruz). The gates arch over 23 miles of the park’s path-ways. The bright color of the art contrasts with the neu-tral tones of a winter in the snowy Central Park, while thecurtains’ movement in the wind is intended to under-score the beauty of nature’s activity.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomedthe project with the stipulations that it could not perma-nently alter the park and would not be an expense to tax-payers. The installation cost nearly $21 million ofChristo and Jeanne-Claude’s private funds to build. Thecouple will not directly earn any additional profits from“The Gates.” Although the park gift shop currently sells“The Gates” memorabilia, those profits go directly to aCentral Park conservation fund called “Nurture NewYork’s Nature,” according to NYC.gov.
Along with materials and construction expenses,much of the project’s cost covers the salaries of peoplelike Amy, Andre Cruz and Jo Ann Silverman, three of 200official project employees. “The Gates” does not acceptvolunteers. Instead, workers are paid hourly at min-imum wage.
Jo Ann said she is proud to be a “Gates” “groupie”working to “maintain the integrity” of the project.Her maintenance tool: a tennis ball skewered onto aretractable pole used to untangle the wind-blownfabric. According to Amy, Jeanne-Claude passes thepark in her Mercedes to point out to workers whichgates need untangling.
The artists also compensate their employees withdaily breakfast and dinner, and exclusive auto-graphed memorabilia (“Two items each!” Jo Annsaid). At 7 a.m. they greet workers, often with jokes.
The “quirky odd couple,” as Andre called them,especially likes to tease workers with “Anyone fortennis?”
Christo is like a “Bulgarian Woody Allen,” accord-ing to Amy.
After 37 years of public art installations, the cou-ple are international celebrities. In 1976, “RunningFence” spanned 24.5 miles of California’s Sonoma andMarin counties from the hills to the water. In 1983, theyused pink fabric floating in water to encircle Florida’sBiscayne Bay in “Surrounded Islands.” Their next proj-ect, “Over the River,” will be in Colorado, and they arealready looking for workers, according to their Web site.
All of their works are temporary. At 16 days long, “TheGates” is the longeststanding project.People are rushing tosee it before it is takendown.
“Everything else willstay in New York,” saidBarbara, a visitor fromCalifornia who choseto see “The Gates” oversome of the city’s otherattractions. She visitedthe park four days in arow “to see ‘TheGates.’” There were250,000 people in thepark during daylighthours on Saturday,according to Jo Ann.
Some visitors have an artistic interest in the installa-tion, carrying around Nikons and Canons with zoomlenses and tripods or 8 mm cameras. Others have atourist’s interest, using camera phones to take picturesof their children or small dogs in sweaters in front of“The Gates.”
The variety of people in the park reflects the constantdiversity of the city itself. A woman in a mink coat walksnext to a man wearing no shoes. A man with a thick Irishbrogue leans down to his son and, pointing to theorange curtains, says, “Now that’s the power of an idear.”Out-of-towners arrive from across the globe to experi-
ence “The Gates.” Astrong German contin-gent has followedChristo since his 1995project, which drapedthe Reichstag, theGerman parliamentbuilding, in fabric, Amysaid.
The project alsoattracts New York resi-dents for a variety ofreasons. Local entre-preneurs fill nearbystreets with hotdogstands and caricaturebooths. Andre gotinvolved because heneeded a job. Jo Ann walks in the park every day andafter watching the installation process felt that the proj-ect was nearly hers anyway. Amy recently moved to thecity and is working on the project from beginning to endto meet people.
Bloomberg is also taking advantage of “The Gates.”Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been proposing thisinstallation since 1979, but Bloomberg is the first mayor
to approve of the project. In a letter to the public onNYC.gov, he said New York is “the cultural capital of theworld,” and added that “thought-provoking and inspir-ing public art adds to this experience.” His acceptanceof “The Gates” coincides with a visit to the city from theInternational Olympic Committee, which is currentlyconsidering New York’s bid for the Summer Olympics in2012.
“The Gates” is freeto all visitors, at leastuntil Feb. 27, whenworkers will begin todisassemble the proj-ect and recycle itssteel, aluminum andvinyl. The exhibit’spresence will onlyexist in pictures,memory and the smallsamples of unusedsaffron tapestry, whichare given out as sou-venirs daily.
And those are valu-able swatches. Theartists spent $48,000creating these free
souvenirs, for which they intentionally purchased extrafabric. The day the curtains were unfurled, the sampleswere sold on eBay for as much as $80 apiece, Jo Ann andAndre recall. Now they are listed for as low as 99 cents.
Workers are prepared to discuss visitors’ questionsabout Christo, Jeanne-Claude and “The Gates” project.The most frequently asked question: “Can I have somefabric?” The answer is usually no, they’ve run out. Eachworker gives out approximately 600 square swatcheseach day. The park’s video cameras and security staffguard against fabric theft. One worker was fired onSaturday for the unauthorized trading of fabric samples
for other “Gates” memorabilia. Amyand Jo Ann have both had to calmpark visitors upset that their swatchdidn’t look exactly like the hangingcurtains. According to Amy, who par-ticipated in the original installation,weather damage, such as rain andsnow, has slightly altered the originalfabric.
Brown strives to strengthen public arton campus“(‘The Gates’ is) a hap-pening” that has“pushed a button” forpeople, said Jo-AnnConklin, director ofthe Bell Gallery andmember of Brown’sPublic Arts Commit-tee. Conklin notedthat the news mediahas helped to promotethe frenzy over “TheGates.” On its openingday, major newspa-pers from the RockyMountain News to theWeekend Australianpublished articles
about the project.Conklin recalled how Paola Pivi’s “Untitled (Donkey)”
also pushed a button for the Providence communityduring its temporary stay on the side of the SciencesLibrary. Faculty and Providence residents embraced theSciLi mural of a donkey in a rowboat as a “mascot” asmuch as students did. Conklin explained that manyneighbors who usually complained about Brown’s
infringement on the local community congratulatedthe University on the donkey mural.
Under the encouragement of Chancellor EmeritusArtemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87, Brown’s Public ArtsCommittee has been bringing public art to campuson rotation for over two years. Conklin likes to bringart outdoors and to the public because it can be“wonderful and whimsical,” especially because its“surprise effect can be an enhancement” to theviewing experience that is “never in effect in a muse-um,” she said.
Aside from Pivi’s piece, the current public art oncampus is “tame and established,” said StevenLubar, professor of American civilization and thenew director of the John Nicholas Brown Center ofAmerican Civilization.
Lubar came to Brown this year as a former curatorat the Smithsonian in Washington. He said “TheGates” is not his favorite Christo piece, but he is
happy that the project makes people “think about land-scape.” In fact, Lubar said he would like to see the sametheme continue to grow at Brown.
In his time studying museums and memorials, Lubarhas discovered that “good art comments about theplaces that surround it.” Brown is “a remarkable publicspace. … (Let’s) call attention to that,” he said.
Several students echoed Lubar’s sentiments. Whilemany students were indifferent when asked about cur-rent public art on campus, they responded enthusiasti-cally to mentions of Pivi’s piece. About the donkey, KaiCarter ’06 said, “I loved it … (because) I made up my ownstory and interpretation. Plus, it was on top of (the)SciLi, which is boring and ugly.”
For Conklin, public art at Brown is a growing project.She said art by recognized artists, like Roy Lichtenstein’s“Brushstrokes” — currently on display behindMacMillan Hall — is financially and logistically conven-ient for the University. Many established artists havefoundations that loan their pieces to the University at nocost. In cases like these, Brown is only financiallyresponsible for the art installation and short-term main-tenance. It is more expensive to purchase art, whichincurs the additional expenses of storage and long-termmaintenance.
Although the Public Arts Committee started with seedmoney from President Ruth Simmons’ discretionaryfund, it is currently sustained by private donations.Unlike many peer institutions, Brown does not have anart museum. Because of this absence, public works of artat Brown are important as “status symbols” that makethe campus “livelier” and more “respectable” to demon-strate that “art is important in life” and to Brown,Conklin said.
Nonetheless, the school hopes to obtain more worksby present-day artists. In the long term, Conklin hopesto juxtapose “old-school (works from) when art was
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Pushing buttons: Public art and the community
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often become more dynamic assurprising results of the poll “givestudents legitimacy to express cer-tain viewpoints,” Cheit said.
Associate Professor of Amer-ican Civilization Matthew Garcialinked the use of clickers in hisclassrooms to President RuthSimmons’ push for intellectualdiversity on campus, saying they“liberate people who think theymight be part of a minority.”
Many students like the click-ers. “In liberal arts classes, (usinga clicker) makes it easier toanswer a question posed by aprofessor honestly,” said LilianaOrnelas ’07.
In addition to helping create amore intellectually safe anddiverse environment for students,clickers have helped physics pro-fessors Richard Gaitskell and JayTang with “just-in-time teaching”— they can better tailor their lec-tures to the conceptual needs oftheir students because of theinstant feedback.
Despite the positive effects ofclickers on teaching and the class-room environment, many stu-dents and professors lament thetechnological difficulties of PRS.Professors have found the soft-ware of the system hard to hook up
correctly and the logistics of set-ting it up time consuming.
Computing and InformationServices Instructional Techno-logist Siobhan Ross said she isaddressing the technologicalproblems surrounding PRS andexpects the logistics of the systemto improve because the currentcompany that owns it, InterWrite,was recently bought by a largercompany.
PRS cost the University about$4,000 to $5,000. Currently stu-dents in courses requiring clickersborrow them from the SciencesLibrary and return them at the endof the semester, free of charge. Atsome other schools, students buytheir clickers as they would buy atextbook, but Brown wants to con-tinue its practice of keeping stu-dents free of the financial burdenassociated with PRS, Ross said.
The use of clickers is part of agrowing effort by the University tobring technology into classroomsto create a more interactive learn-ing environment. As part of thiseffort, some professors have alsostarted to use SchoolPad, aportable notepad that allows pro-fessors and students to project thework they do in class on an over-head screen that the entire classcan see.
Clickers will most likely contin-ue to have a growing presence oncampus — more clickers havebeen ordered for next year.
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many leaders of large studentgroups.”
Some UCS members disagree.“I wonder how many of these stu-dents are aware of what the healthconcerns are,” von Oeyen said.
Students strongly favored cre-ating an optional J-term overwinter break, with 74.5 percent ofrespondents in favor. “Wereceived over 2,000 individualopen-ended responses” to aquestion about the structure of apotential winter term,Cummings said. UCS memberswill sort through the responses inthe coming weeks.
“(We’re) happy that this issuehas such resounding supportfrom the student body,” ZacharyTownsend ’08, UCS communica-tions chair and a Herald copyeditor, said in a statement. “Since
winter break a lot of studentshave been discussing this (issue)themselves, and it is clear nowthat this is a real priority to thestudent body.”
UCS’s Academic andAdministrative Affairs Commit-tee will form an ad-hoc commit-tee to generate possibilities for awinter term by the end of theyear, said AAA Chair Emily Blatter’07 in a statement.
Respondents split almost 50-50 on raising the $136 studentactivity fee, an increase suggest-ed to UCS by the UndergraduateFinance Board.
Results from the poll questionon what cable TV stations studentswould prefer are still pending.
UCS members said they werepleased that many studentsvoiced their opinions. “Lastweek we saw an impressivelylarge turnout,” said UCSPresident Joel Payne ’05 in astatement. “I can’t thank thestudent body enough.”
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BY GABRIELLA DOOBSTAFF WRITER
Six candidates for the directorship of the newInstitute for Archaeology and the Ancient Worldvisited campus this month, according to Dean ofthe Graduate School Karen Newman, who chairsand organizes the search committee.
While here, the candidates meet with the com-mittee to “discuss their vision,” tour theUniversity, give talks and meet some of the gradu-ate students they may be working with, Newmansaid. The last candidate to visit campus, MichaelDietler, an associate professor of anthropology atthe University of Chicago, will speak on “ColonialEncounters, Entanglements, and Transformationsin the Ancient Western Mediterranean: the Viewfrom Lattara” on Thursday.
The committee received a large number ofapplications for the directorship. It reviewed themand asked a few people to send in samples of theirwork, including two articles representative of theirscholarship. The committee then decided on six can-
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BY CHRISTOPHER CHONSTAFF WRITER
Emphasizing the public’s lack of accurate informationabout American Indians and the need in the communityto maintain traditional American Indian culture, formerCherokee Nation chief, author and activist WilmaMankiller delivered her keynote lecture billed as “A Call toAction” at last weekend’s second annual Ivy Native CouncilConference.
“Each fall across America, schoolchildren learn themyth of Columbus discovering this new land,” Mankillersaid. “Only the most enlightened teacher will teach thatthis land called ‘America’ was not new to the indigenous.”
Held for the first time last year at Dartmouth College,the Ivy Native Council Conference was founded to creatediscussion among American Indian students from Iviesand other schools across the northeast about issues direct-ly affecting American Indians, such as implementing cul-turally relevant curricula, establishing support systemsand providing internship and career opportunities.
This year, the University and the student organizationNative Americans at Brown hosted the conference. Therewere information sessions on business, medicine and art,with panelists ranging from Patrik Johansson M.D., GS ’91,to William Yellow Robe Jr., an American Indian playwrightand visiting lecturer in Africana Studies.
Kicking off the conference Saturday morning, PresidentRuth Simmons spoke in Salomon 101 about the challengesthat face young American Indians today.
“By choosing to be here (at this conference) you haveactively distinguished yourself,” Simmons said. “You haveaccepted the challenge to become leaders. Not to abandonyour values, your culture and all that you bring, but in factto make sure that the essence of that is incorporated inwhat we do.”
Simmons called for students to consider academiccareers and to join institutions later in their lives not asstudents but as teachers. She called the lack of American
Indian students and professors at universities a “crisis” butsaid Brown’s 27 percent increase in applications fromAmerican Indians for the class of 2009 is proof that theUniversity’s work to diversify the student body is payingoff.
“One of the most important things is to remembereveryday how it is you came to be here,” Simmons said.“Once you forget that, the battle is lost. Someone madegreat sacrifices, and the recollection of those efforts is all-important for us to be able to go forward in an ethicalway.”
Mankiller echoed many of Simmons’ sentiments. Shesaid American Indians must fight negative media cam-paigns in order to improve public perception but alsonever forget traditional values and culture.
“Native people in this country are the keepers of themost ancient knowledge of North America,” Mankillersaid. “This is the land of our ancestors; we’re not fromsomeplace else. We have important knowledge to share,knowledge which has sustained us so far, and knowledgewhich will be beneficial to the rest of the world.”
Mankiller said there is a “clear, direct link” in public per-ception and public policy, emphasizing that media attacksnegatively influence government policy. She pointed outCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “erroneousattacks” against “gaming tribes” — and his subsequent vic-tory in the recall election. In the weeks leading up toCalifornia’s recall vote, Schwarzenegger’s paid advertise-ments claimed that then-governor Gray Davis had allowedAmerican Indian tribes in the state to run lucrative casinoswithout paying taxes.
Mankiller called for young American Indians to fightsuch misconceptions in the media in order to improvepublic image.
“We’re not in the national consciousness,” she said. “Weare all quite accustomed to conducting work and living
American Indians still fighting negative public imageU. bringscandidates forarchaeologyinstitute directorto campus
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didates to bring to campus,Newman said.
Candidates hail from theUniversity of Michigan, StanfordUniversity, the University ofCalifornia at San Diego,University College in London,and the University of Chicago.
Each candidate has spoken orwill speak on campus as part ofa lecture series entitled “OldWorld, New Archaeologies” thatruns through Feb. 24.
The search for a new directorbegan this past summer afterthe retirement of ProfessorEmerita Martha SharpJoukowsky ’58 P’87 from theposition of director of theCenter for Old WorldArchaeology and Art. After herretirement, Martha Joukowskyand husband Artemis
Joukowsky ’55 P ’87, chancelloremeritus, gave a gift to theUniversity to create the newInstitute for Archaeology andthe Ancient World.
The Institute will serve as aninterdisciplinary center with afocus on the ancientMediterranean region andWestern Asia. It will incorporatethe existing Center for OldWorld Archaeology and Art andbring together faculty fromdepartments as diverse as clas-sics, history of art and architec-ture, anthropology, Egyptology,and religious and Judaic studies.
The Joukowskys’ gift will alsoprovide funding for research,including library resources, off-campus fieldwork and the reno-vation of Rhode Island Hall,where the Institute will be locat-ed, Newman said.
In addition, the gift providesfor the hiring of a director for thecenter as well as one additionalfaculty per year for four years.
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lives in a society that knowsalmost nothing about our historyand our lives.”
This has led to many awkwardand amusing situations in herpersonal life, Mankiller said.
She recalled one interview witha reporter from New York whosincerely asked if the former chiefrode a horse to work.
“I said to myself, ‘I think I’mgoing to take this guy for a ride,’”Mankiller said. She told thereporter, “I rode a horse to work.My husband and I had a teepee.We had it sitting right along theedge of a creek. He fished every-day, hunted for food.”
American Indians are still per-ceived as either “mystical chil-dren of nature” or “murderers.”They are “objects of curiosity,”not people with “valuable knowl-edge and gifts” to share with theworld, Mankiller said.
“The task at hand is to focus onvery carefully thinking, ‘What arethe bases of knowledge and skillsthat I need to acquire in order tohelp keep our families strong,communities and governmentsstrong? To capture, preserve andmaintain traditional life systems,to help us reframe our issues, tohelp us protect our image?’”Mankiller said. “‘What are the
skills I need to do that?’ That’syour task.”
Several students from Brownand other Ivies and universities inthe northeast — including a largecontingent from DartmouthCollege — attended the confer-ence.
Jennifer Edwards ’05, a mem-ber of Native Americans at Brown,said open discussion is crucial.
“It’s important for there to bedialogue,” Edwards said. “Howcan people know about Nativepeople if they can’t learn aboutthem in school?”
She said she was happy withthe advancement of AmericanIndian causes at Brown but wish-es for more in the future.
“Hopefully in the near future,President Simmons and otherpresidents will be able to collabo-rate and work together to encour-age Native students to completetheir degrees and to recruitNatives,” Edwards said.
Mankiller also emphasized theimportance of looking forward.She recalled her favorite Mohawkproverb: “It’s hard to see thefuture with tears in your eyes.”
“It’s my favorite saying becauseI think it personifies where we areas a people,” Mankiller said.“Don’t be angry all the time aboutthings that happened in the past,and don’t be worried and upsetabout things that are going onright now. But keep moving for-ward, keep moving forward.”
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WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2005 · PAGE 7
BY MICHAEL A. FLETCHERAND KEITH B. RICHBURGTHE WASHINGTON POST
BRUSSELS — President Bush Tuesdaydismissed as “simply ridiculous” theidea that United States was preparing toattack Iran, but he warned that he waskeeping all his options open as hisadministration tries to prevent Iranfrom developing nuclear weapons.
Concerns about Iran were among theissues Bush discussed Tuesday in meet-ings with NATO and European Unionofficials during the first foreign trip ofhis second term. Bush also expressedunease about an EU proposal to lift aban on arms sales to China.
In a more positive development forthe White House, Bush emerged fromthe meetings with modest pledges fromthe staunchest opponents of the war inIraq to help train and equip securityforces there.
The commitments mean that all 26NATO nations have now agreed to helptrain Iraqi security forces, a develop-ment hailed by both U.S. and Europeanofficials as evidence that they have putaside their deep disagreements over theinvasion of Iraq.
“Twenty-six nations sitting aroundthat table said it’s important for NATOto be involved in Iraq,” Bush said.
“That’s a strong statement.”But despite the new level of coopera-
tion in the effort to stabilize Iraq andwhat both sides call a new, improvedtone in discussions between the UnitedStates and Europe, serious divisionsclearly remain over Europe’s plan to liftits arms embargo on China and how tohandle Iran’s suspected attempt toacquire nuclear arms.
Europe would like the United Statesto get involved in ongoing talks withTehran by offering the Iranian govern-ment security and economic guaran-tees in exchange for abandoning itsnuclear ambitions — an overture theWhite House has flatly opposed.
The U.S. posture has led to growingconcern in Europe that Bush is consid-ering military action against Iran. Bushhas repeatedly said he wants diplomacyto work in Iran, even while saying hehasn’t ruled out the military option.
“This notion that the United States isgetting ready to attack Iran is simplyridiculous,” Bush said during a newsconference Tuesday evening. “And hav-ing said that, all options are on thetable.”
Earlier in the day, Bush said he wasdeeply concerned that an EU proposalto lift a 15-year ban on arms sales toChina would “change the balance of
relations between China and Taiwan.”Europeans dispute that, saying thatthey could build in safeguards to armsales that would allay American con-cerns.
Despite his reservations, Bush saidhe would consider European views onthe issue. “They think they can developa protocol that ... shouldn’t concern theUnited States,” Bush said. “And I saidI’m looking forward to seeing it.”
Several European policy analystssaid they believed Bush’s trip is goingfar toward mending the transatlanticrift that had developed during his firstterm—with disputes rising over theKyoto climate change treaty, theInternational Criminal Court and, later,the invasion of Iraq.
They took note of the fact that Bushspent three nights here in the city con-sidered the “capital of Europe,” andventured into the heart of Europe’s bur-geoning new bureaucracy, the toweringEuropean Commission building.
“I was very impressed,” said CharlesGrant, director of the Centre forEuropean Reform, a London-basedthink tank. “Of course it’s only words —but in diplomacy, words set the tone.”
The visit “does imply that Bush 2 is
Virginia man charged with plotting to kill Bush Bush’s 2006budget wouldscrap or reduce154 programsBY JUDY SARASOHNTHE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — From $4 million foran agriculture biotechnology programto $18 million for foreign-languageassistance for small elementary and sec-ondary schools and $489 million forcongressionally earmarked Environ-mental Protection Agency projects,President Bush’s fiscal 2006 budget plancalls for elimination of or drastic cuts in154 programs.
The cuts would amount to $15.3 bil-lion in savings over the fiscal 2005 budg-et as enacted by Congress, according tothe administration. In addition, thepresident proposed major changes in 16programs that his budget says wouldresult in an additional $4.7 billion ingross savings.
The president’s entire fiscal 2006budget, not including a supplementalrequest for military costs related to Iraqand Afghanistan, amounts to $2.57 tril-lion.
In a 233-page document detailing theprogram terminations, cuts and othermoney-saving proposals, the adminis-tration said it was guided by three prin-ciples: “Does the program meet thenation’s priorities”? Is it an appropriateuse of taxpayer dollars? And does it “pro-duce the intended results”?
For instance, the AgriculturalMarketing Service’s biotech program,which Bush proposes to cut by $4 mil-lion, was started in 2002 to develop itsability to test non-grain commoditiesfor bioengineered traits. The programwas to establish a fee for service toaccredit private labs to perform the test.Bush wants to kill the program “due to alack of demand for these servicesamong the private sector.”
In another case, the administration
Bush says talk of invading Iran ‘ridiculous’
BY TOMAS ALEX TIZONLOS ANGELES TIMES
STERLING, Alaska — She does it withouteven thinking, as soon as she steps out ofthe truck: a sweep of her eyes across thesky for a sign of bald eagles. They’re ascommon here as ravens, as hawks, butthey’re bigger and easier to see from adistance. Maybe a single circling eaglewill spiral down to the spot where lies herson — or his body, whatever is left of it.
Dolly Hills has come to think alongthose lines.
She is 53, one moment sprightly, thenext sorrowful. Her grown son Richard,the younger of her two children, hasbeen missing since last February. Shebelieves he is dead, his remains some-where in the woods or waters near thisKenai Peninsula town.
Around here, scavengers are thequickest to locate a corpse, whether of ashot grizzly or a mortally woundedmoose, or a 37-year-old man on a simpleerrand who vanished into the subzerocold.
Richard Hills was one of 3,323 peoplereported missing in the state last year,not a record but far higher, in ratio topopulation, than anywhere else in theUnited States. On average, about five ofevery 1,000 people go missing every year,roughly double the national rate. SinceAlaska began tracking the numbers in1988, police have received at least 60,700reports of missing people.
As everywhere else, most cases involverunaways who eventually return home orare found. But Alaska has the highestpercentage of people who stay missing.Investigators have compiled a list ofabout 1,100 people who remain lost. Thisin a state with a population of 650,000.
“We live in a place,” Dolly Hills says,“where people disappear.”
It’s now happened twice in her life. In1962, outside a small village in WesternAlaska, she said, her 13-year-old brother,William, took a skiff onto the KvichakRiver and was never seen again.Presumed drowned, the boy was notreported missing, which happens notinfrequently in the bush. The number ofpeople whose bodies are never account-ed for probably far exceeds official talliesof the missing.
People vanish by accident and bydesign, by fluke of nature or quirk of cir-cumstance, by foul play, misstep and badluck. There are so many ways in Alaska toget lost, and so many reasons why thelost may not be found.
Between the western tip of the
Alaska, landof the lost
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Alaska State Trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson points out the Kenai Peninsula, whereRichard Hills vanished. Pushpin flags mark active missing-persons cases.
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BY JERRY MARKONTHE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutorsTuesday unveiled sweeping terrorismcharges against a Virginia man, accusinghim of plotting to assassinate PresidentBush and trying to establish an al-Qaidacell in the United States.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali conspired withconfederates in Saudi Arabia to eithershoot Bush on the street or kill him witha car bomb, prosecutors said. The six-count indictment, unsealed today, saysAbu Ali sought to become “a planner ofterrorist operations” in the same vein asleading al-Qaida figures associated withthe Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon.A U.S. citizen who grew up in Falls
Church, Va., Abu Ali had been detained ina Saudi prison for 20 months beforebeing flown back to the United StatesMonday. His case became highly visiblelast summer when his parents filed a law-suit, alleging that the United States gov-ernment had arranged for him to be heldby the Saudis and that U.S. authoritiesexpected he would be tortured there.
The torture allegation emerged againtoday as Abu Ali appeared in U.S. DistrictCourt in Alexandria, Va. His lawyer,Ashraf Nubani, told U.S. MagistrateJudge Liam O’Grady that Abu Ali hadbeen whipped and handcuffed “for days
at a time” in a Saudi jail. He offered toshow the judge the evidence in the court-room.
Judge O’Grady declined, telling AbuAli: “You are in the custody of the U.S.Marshals, and I can assure you that youwill not suffer any other torture or humil-iation while in the marshal’s custody.”The judge set a detention hearing forThursday and ordered Abu Ali held untilthen.
Family members said they were grate-ful that Abu Ali had been returned home,but they ridiculed the charges and thegovernment’s handling of the case. “The
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about art” and exploring shapes,space and color “with contem-porary works which naturallyhave political” overtones, shesaid.
Lubar said universities havethe privilege of hosting morepolitical works than can govern-ment-supported venues such asthe city of New York.
But Conklin is careful to saythat Brown’s public art will beaimed at “lifting people’s spir-its” and less towards “heavy,”overtly political or sociallycharged art.
Conklin said she is excitedthat the new Life SciencesBuilding on Olive Street willincorporate a stylized glassfaçade of a handprint byPittsburgh artist Diane Samuels.She hopes that future Universityprojects will incorporate art intotheir building plans. She alsolooks forward to finding a piecefor the Watson Institute as thecommittee’s next project.
In the meantime, the commit-tee will continue its efforts sothat the Brown community cancontinue to enjoy public art onits own campus.
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“The Gates” will remain in New York’s Central Park until Feb. 27.
acceptances over the weekend.The current job description
covers everything from planningsocial events to dealing withpeer-to-peer crises. Thoughthose roles will remain largelyunchanged, CAs will take on sev-eral new responsibilities, such asaccompanying inspectors onhealth and safety inspections inthe dorms, and will act under amore structured set of guide-lines.
RPs are responsible for creat-ing a greater sense of communitywithin upperclass residencehalls. They work withCommunity Directors, facultyfellows and other RPs to programinitiatives, such as movie nights,in order to maintain a positivecommunal environment in theirrespective residential neighbor-hoods, Cobham said.
“I was receiving feedbackfrom sophomores who said theyfelt they had been dropped afterthe freshman year unit experi-ence,” said Cobham, whose mis-sion has since been to providesupplemental residential sup-port for upperclassmen. “It isoften assumed that upperclass-men want independence anddon’t need peer support in thedorms, but that’s just not true,”
Cobham added.Though Cobham was enthusi-
astic about the program’s mis-sion, several current RPs aremore skeptical of their impact onresidential communities andexpress doubt that the upcomingname change will do anything tosignificantly enhance the pro-gram’s effects.
Michael Santos ’07 is an RP forGraduate Center Tower B. Thisyear, he has planned severalactivities, including movie nightsocials and a program on study-ing abroad. “The toughest thingis to get people to attend theevents,” he said. Santos also saidthe budget for social program-ming — $200 a year — is too slimto really have an impact. “Freefood usually gets people tocome,” he said, “but we can’tprovide that with the currentbudget.”
Also, some dorms simply arenot conducive to social activities.Santos has had to hold his movienights in Wilson Hall, “which dis-couraged students from attend-ing,” he said. “No one wanted towalk there.”
The upcoming changes don’tappear to address some issuesraised by current RPs. However,Santos reapplied and wasaccepted over the weekend. Hesaid he hopes that the new, morestructured program will allowhim to play a greater role in hisdorm community.
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Aleutian Chain to the easternedge of the Alaska Panhandle lie39 mountain ranges, 3,000rivers, 5,000 glaciers and morethan 3 million lakes, all of whichoffer nooks and envelopes forbodies to slip in and remain hid-den forever.
The mudflats are like quick-sand, the snow storms like blan-kets that cover all tracks andtraces, and for half the year, thedays are like nights.
In charge of searching thisvast terrain are the Alaska StateTroopers, whose field officersnumber just over 300. It worksout to about one trooper forevery 2,300 square miles, orabout the size of Delaware.
This, according to Lt. CraigMacDonald, the department’ssearch and rescue supervisor,points to what makes his job sodifficult: When someone getslost, the search areas can be aslarge as many states, and con-siderably more rugged.
So much of the terrain isunknown. Often when searchersenter a remote area, it will betheir first time there — a distinctdifference from other placeswhere volunteers usually searchareas familiar to them.
In Alaska, human settle-ments, including the largestcities, lie in the middle ofwilderness.
“From this building, you canwalk five minutes and be indeep woods,” says MacDonald,
sitting in his Anchorage office.“You can go a mile, two milesout, and never be found. It hap-pens all the time.” So many ofthe stories of the vanished beginroutinely, even innocently.MacDonald rattles off case aftercase, the narratives boiled downto bullet points.
• Erin Marie Gilbert,Girdwood. July 1995. Rode witha friend to a community fair.The car stalled in a parking lot,and the friend went for help.When the friend returned,Gilbert was gone. She was neverseen again.
• Hiroko Nemoto, EastLansing, Mich. June 1998. Lastseen leaving a youth hostel inWasilla. She had bought a trainticket to Whittier and a ferryticket to Valdez. No one knows ifshe made those trips. No traceof her has been found.
• Michael Timothy Palmer,Town of Palmer. June 1999. Rodehis bicycle out of a subdivisionand was not heard from again.The bicycle was found in theLittle Susitna River. The boy’smuddy shoes were discovered ina field.
• Richard Hills, Soldotna.February 2004. Drove toAnchorage to pick up a pay-check. His truck was found in asnow bank outside Sterling,about 15 miles from home. Thekeys were in the ignition. Hiswallet and cash were on thefront seat. His footprints led to aspot on an isolated road a half-mile away, then ended.
MacDonald worked the Hillscase. He and Dolly togetherhave retraced Richard’s steps.
They’ve walked the route withvolunteer searchers, familymembers and psychics. Searchdogs repeatedly lost his scent inthe same place, as if Richard haddissolved into air.
Dolly, at the moment, is walk-ing that same stretch of road,near the spot. It’s only 10 min-utes from where she and herhusband live, and she drives outthere occasionally. It’s a narrow,gently winding dirt road, bor-dered on each side by forest. Theroad leads to some fishing cab-ins and vacation homes alongthe Kenai River.
She scans the woods, the sky.She peers down long driveways,her breath gusting white cloudsin the air. The temperature isjust above zero.
“In my heart, I know he’sgone,” she says. “I can feel it.Ricky and I were bonded. Wewere close. Ricky is not someonewho disappears. Somethinghappened to him.”
In the days after his truck wasdiscovered, fliers were postedalong the Highway 1 corridorthat connects all the little townsin this part of the peninsula. Thephoto shows a handsome man— sun-bronzed skin, whiteteeth, boyishly mischievouseyes just below a skier’s cap —cradling a glimmering salmon inhis hands.
Richard grew up on the KenaiPeninsula. He worked as aroughneck on the North Slope,but always came home toSoldotna, where his longtimepartner, Heidi Metteer, and theirthree children waited for him.Heidi said Richard never failedto call home.
She shares Dolly’s feeling thatRichard was a victim of foulplay. Richard could not havesimply become lost and failed tosurvive the elements. He was astrong man, resourceful and fit.“He knew these woods!” Dollysays in frustration.
But MacDonald isn’t con-vinced. His 23 years of conduct-ing search and rescues are rifewith stories of experienced hik-ers, climbers, hunters, even sur-vivalists, who didn’t think itcould happen to them.
In Richard Hills’ case, thereare, in trooper lingo, “equallyplausible alternative infer-ences.” MacDonald, with prac-ticed professional detachment,lists some possibilities:
Richard could have lost con-trol of his truck, slid into thesnow bank and injured himself.He could have been disorientedand walked for help. He waswearing jeans, a turtleneck anda Carhartt work jacket, whichwould have been no match forthe cold — below zero evenwithout wind chill.
He could have been pickedup by a snowmobiler, whichmight have explained why histracks ended so abruptly. Hemight have been taken some-where and killed, although Hillshad no known enemies.
To keep warm, Richard couldhave crawled into thick brush ora hole in the ground, or buriedhimself underneath something— a log, a boulder, debris.MacDonald once found a losthunter who had wrapped him-self in the bloody hide of a newlykilled moose, the brown furmaking him almost impossibleto detect.
It was cold enough forRichard to suffer hypothermiawithin 90 minutes, and to freezeto death in hours.
Animals could have found the
body in the spring, devoured ormoved it. Bears are sometimesknown to bury their kills forlater. Foxes and birds could havetaken apart the corpse and scat-tered it over a wide area. This isknown among Alaska searchersas “the critter element.”
A short walk from Richard’struck is the Kenai River, a wide,swift, light-green ribbon of gla-cial water that courses throughthe peninsula to Cook Inlet.Hills could have fallen into theriver and drowned. Wheneveranyone goes missing near abody of water in Alaska, there’s ahigh probability that person isat the bottom. Water accidentsand drowning are suspected inmore than half of all vanished-persons cases.
Bodies that sink into Alaskanwaters tend to stay sunk. Inwarmer climates, corpsesdecompose and generate gasesthat eventually raise them to thesurface. Alaska’s frigid waterstend to preserve corpses, andglacial silt — fine dust createdby glaciers grinding down rockover centuries — gets into cloth-ing and crevices, and furtherweighs down the bodies.
Richard felt comfortable onthe Kenai River. One of hisfavorite fishing spots was justdownriver from his truck.
“If he’s in there,” MacDonaldsaid, “we’re not going to findhim.”
Searchers in Alaska, salutedby the public for their skill anddaring, in private seem to dwellmore on the people they don’tfind.
Paul Brusseau, a member ofone of the state’s most respectedsearch teams, can talk in greatdetail of the many barriers tofinding a body. Brusseau helpslead the Alaska Search andRescue Dogs. He is one of about1,100 on-call volunteers — mostwith day jobs — whom policedepend upon to look for themissing.
Brusseau, who makes woodmoldings for a living, said asearcher can be right on top of abody and not see it, obstructedby snow and ice, or thick brush,or debris kicked up by a windstorm.
But the most difficult search-es, he said, involve people whodon’t want to be found.
Alaska lies at the end of thecontinent, and many who comehere are end-of-the-roaders:people fleeing or seeking onelast chance, dreamers andschemers, and loners hoping toconduct a life — and in somecases, a death — in private.
“If someone wants to drop offthe face of the earth and nothave anybody know,” Brusseausaid, “this is one place you cando it.”
James Miller didn’t want any-body to know. An eccentric witha wild streak, Miller had had his15 minutes of fame when, in1993, he para-glided into theoutdoor ring of a nationally tele-vised boxing match betweenEvander Holyfield and RiddickBowe.
He was dubbed the “FanMan,” and spent 10 days in jail.He later pulled off other publicstunts that got him in trouble.
In 1996, he moved to Alaskato start anew, but soon after wasdiagnosed with diseased arter-ies. He underwent three bypasssurgeries and fell deep intodebt. In September 2002, Millerdisappeared. Police and familymembers spent a month lookingfor him. Six months later,
hunters bushwhacking theirway through thick woods foundhis body. Miller had hangedhimself from a tree. Police saidhe had chosen the remoteResurrection Trail in theChugach National Forest, veer-ing deep off-trail to a spot thatmight not have been discoveredfor years, if ever.
For every case like Miller’s,there are those of untold otherswho won’t be found.
Kristin Marie Snyder left anote saying she didn’t want any-body to look for her. She was 35,an environmental consultant inAnchorage, last seen in February2003. Friends later told investi-gators she had been feeling sadand unsettled.
Searchers found her pickup ata seaside campground inSeward, 127 miles south ofAnchorage. The note was insidethe truck. Camp operatorsreported that a single kayak wasmissing, and police speculatedthat Snyder, an avid kayaker,took the boat onto ResurrectionBay. The bay opens up into theGulf of Alaska, and beyond that,to the Pacific Ocean.
“It makes you want to crysometimes,” said PaulaSweetwood, the seniorresearcher and statistician forthe clearinghouse for missingpersons. A division of the AlaskaState Troopers, the clearing-house collects data from everypolice agency in the state.
A few feet from Sweetwood’sdesk, across from the hundredsof files that she tends with suchcare, hangs a mural-sized mapof Alaska.
Tiny push-pin flags mark thespot of every active missing-persons case in the state. Redflags, the most numerous, indi-cate water-related cases; greenstands for ground; blue for any-thing involving aircraft; yellowfor suspected homicides or sui-cides; and black for unidentifiedremains. It is a crowded swath ofcolors.
Says Sweetwood: “You feelworse for the people looking forthem.”
Back in Sterling, Dolly Hillsvisits regularly with her son’sfamily — Heidi Metteer andtheir children. Sometimes Dollyand Heidi drive out to the spotwhere Richard’s truck wasfound.
Dolly is trying to organizeanother search party to drag theKenai River in the spring. There’sone stretch in particular thatshe’s been brooding about: abend some few hundred yardsdownriver. It’s the only way inher mind to break down thesearch into comprehensibleparts. Otherwise, the Kenai istoo big. Alaska’s too big.
Heidi, a coffee-shop manag-er, recently filed a court petitionto declare Richard legally dead.The petition would allow her toget financial help from the state.More importantly, the familywould be able to hold a memori-al.
“Up till now,” Heidi said, “Idon’t have anything to say,`Look, this is what happened toyour dad.’ “
MacKenzie has come tobelieve her father is dead butcan’t say so. Katibeth sees himin dreams that are hard to dis-tinguish from the real world.The youngest, 6-year-oldCalvin, continues to think that,like their dog Daisy that ranaway, his dad went to do hisown thing for awhile and soonwill return.
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Alaskacontinued from page 7
proposed scrapping $476 millionin congressional earmarks forspecific projects and locationsthrough the Health Resourcesand Services Administration ofthe Department of Health andHuman Services. The administra-tion said Congress directed thatamount to more than 900 hospi-tals, universities and other insti-tutions that did not have to gothrough the agency’s merit-basedawards basis.
For the U.S. Postal Service,which generally does not get tax-payer dollars for its operations,the administration proposes tostop reimbursing it, as requiredby law, for lost revenue attributa-ble to legislatively mandatedreduced mail rates. Congress in1994 had authorized $1.2 billion
to repay the USPS in $29 millionincrements. Bush proposes toend the $29 million appropriationbecause “USPS is now benefiting
from pension savings of approxi-mately $3 billion per year” as aresult of other legislation to re-estimate its pension costs.
government has lied to us fromthe first day,” Abu Ali’s father,Omar Abu Ali, said outside thecourthouse. He described hisson as a peaceful, scholarlyman who was arrested in June2003 while taking his finalexams at the University ofMedina.
“Everything the governmenthas said is lies upon lies uponlies,” Omar Abu Ali said.
But prosecutors defendedtheir handling of the case andsaid they had struck a blowagainst terrorism. “After thedevastating terrorist attack andmurders of Sept. 11, the defen-dant turned his back onAmerica and joined the cause ofal-Qaida,” said Paul J. McNulty,the U.S. Attorney in Alexandria.
Defense lawyers said Abu Aliwould plead not guilty. He ischarged with conspiracy to pro-vide material support to al-Qaida; contributing services toal-Qaida; receipt of funds andservices from al-Qaida and pro-viding material support to ter-rorists. If convicted, he faces upto 80 years in prison under fed-eral law.
The indictment said Abu Alifirst went to Saudi Arabia in2000 and lived with someoneidentified only as “Co-conspira-tor 1.” When he returned toSaudi Arabia in September2002, Abu Ali told this co-con-spirator “of his interest in join-ing al-Qaida,” the indictmentsays.
Abu Ali then gradually metother conspirators in SaudiArabia and discussed plans tokill Bush in 2002 and 2003 withsomeone identified only as “Co-Conspirator 2,” the indictmentstated. Abu Ali allegedlyobtained a “religious blessing”for the assassination plot fromsomeone called “Co-Conspirator 3.” It was notimmediately clear how far theassassination plot may haveprogressed.
On several occasions, theindictment says, Abu Ali dis-cussed with a conspirator howhe could provide support to al-Qaida, “including conducting aterrorist operation and estab-lishing an al-Qaida cell in theUnited States,” the indictmentsays. Abu Ali allegedly alsoreceived training in weaponsand explosives while in Saudi
Arabia and received moneyfrom al-Qaida co-conspiratorsthat he used to purchase a cellu-lar telephone and a laptop com-puter. Abu Ali was studying atthe University of Medina whenSaudi authorities arrested himand 18 or 19 other men suspect-ed of having connections topeople involved in the bombingon May 12, 2003, of threeWestern residential compoundsin Riyadh. The bombing killed23 people. The men werebelieved to be a jihadist cell intraining, U.S. officials have said.
Abu Ali’s name also surfacedduring the recent case of agroup of Northern Virginiamen accused of training forjihad overseas by playingpaintball in the Virginia coun-tryside. The FBI became inter-ested in Abu Ali because heknew some of the men convict-ed in that case, U.S. officialshave said.
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very different than Bush 1,”Grant added. “If he can at leastgo through the motions of tak-ing the European Union seri-ously, because the expecta-tions are so low I think theywill certainly forgive him forbeing the Big Bad Bush of thefirst term.”
Guillaume Parmentier,director of the French Centeron the United States, said of theBush trip in a telephone inter-view from Paris: “It is atmos-pherics — but that was the aim.The aim was to change theatmosphere, and to that extent,he’s succeeded. I don’t know ifhe’s changed any minds.”
Still, a schism is emergingbetween Washington and someof the countries — particularlyFrance and Germany, amongothers — that DefenseSecretary Donald Rumsfeldfamously labeled “OldEurope.”
Specifically, Paris, Berlinand other capitals would liketo see the EU become the keyinstitution linking Americawith Europe, so they weredelighted at Bush’s visit to EUheadquarters. But the UnitedStates remains committed toseeing NATO as its primaryconnection to the continent —and Bush pointedly spentmore time at NATO headquar-ters, where he lunched with
the alliance leaders and held amini-summit with the newUkrainian president, ViktorYushchenko.
Bush is spending much ofhis time on his fence-mendingtrip meeting with some of themost vocal critics of the war inIraq. He met with BelgianPrime Minister GuyVerhofstadt and dined withFrench President JacquesChirac. Wednesday, he isscheduled to meet withGerman Chancellor GerhardSchroeder. Before returninghome Thursday, Bush plans toconfer with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin.
“The major issue that irri-tated a lot of Europeans wasIraq,” Bush said at a news con-ference. “I understand that. Ican figure it out. And the keynow is to put that behind us,and to focus on helping a newdemocracy succeed.”
Apart from the UnitedStates, 15 NATO nations haveat least a small contingent oftroops on the ground in Iraq,while all the others have com-mitted to providing money orexpertise to help train Iraqisecurity forces both inside andoutside the country.
France Tuesday became thefinal NATO member to committo the training effort, whichhas been joined in recentweeks by Germany, Greeceand Belgium. Still, the UnitedStates is providing the vastmajority of both troops andmoney for the Iraq effort.
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the 2002-2003 season, but cameoff the bench on Saturday.
Tuesday against Yale, Brownavoided digging itself into a holeearly, opening the game with a 10-0 spurt on the shoulders of Forteand Jeppesen. Brown maintaineda lead at or around double digitsfor the duration of the half asseven Bears found their way into
the scoring column, resulting in a36-27 halftime lead.
Brown went cold to start thesecond half, missing its first fiveshots, and Yale crept back into thegame with good shooting anddefense. The Elis took their firstlead of the game, 56-55 on anEdwin Draughan jumper with 4:11to play. After Draughan hit one oftwo free throws to make it 57-55,Ruscoe responded on the otherend with a dunk and got fouled.He sank the subsequent free throwto give Brown the lead, 58-57, one
that they would not surrender.On Yale’s next possession, Forte
grabbed a defensive rebound andsunk a three-pointer on the otherend to give Brown a 61-57 lead.Yale got it down to 65-64 on a treyby Eric Flato, but failed to scoreagain. Forte, Ruscoe and Jeppesencombined to go 5-of-6 from thecharity stripe in the final 21 sec-onds to seal the win.
During Coach Miller’s five yearsat Brown, the Bears have pridedthemselves in their strong scoringattack. Miller’s teams have led theIvy League in scoring the last fouryears, and he has coached three ofthe top four scorers in Brown bas-ketball history in Earl Hunt ’03,Alai Nuualiitia ’03 and Forte. Thisseason, the Bears have struggled.Despite boasting Forte, the IvyLeague’s leading scorer, the Bearsrank seventh in field goal percent-age at 41.3 percent.
“We’re relying on freshmen toscore, and it’s tough because youhit a wall during your freshmanyear,” Forte said. “It’s a long sea-son, and everyone has seemed togo into a slump at the same time.”
This weekend Brown travels toDartmouth and Harvard, lookingto avenge back-to-back losses tothe Big Green and Crimson twoweeks ago.
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period. Zucker passed the puck toKatie Guay ’05 who fired it low forthe score. Myria Heinhuis ’06 alsotallied an assist on the play. TheBears held their two-goal leaddespite several strong attempts bythe Saints.
“I think the key to our winagainst St. Lawrence was a reallydisciplined forecheck and the kidsreally executed the game plan,”Murphy said. “That is what I’d likethem to come away with at theend of the weekend: When we exe-cute our game plan, we win. Whenwe don’t, we don’t win and it’s asimple as that.”
Despite giving up an early goal,O’Hara Shipe ’08 recorded a phe-nomenal 26 saves between thepipes.
“We’d like to solidify our goal-tending rotation and you have tosay that O’Hara played very wellagainst St. Lawrence,” Murphysaid. “So we’re hoping to makethat announcement (as to whowill start) near the end of theweek.”
However important goaltend-ing is to the Bears, it was the otherpieces, which came together
against the Saints that gave them awin.
“Goaltending is always impor-tant for any team, if you don’t havea good goaltender you’re notgoing to go very far,” McLaughlinsaid, “Our goalies have been pret-ty strong all year and they havebeen keeping it up, but that is onlyone aspect of the game.”
The Bears were hoping to carrythe momentum from their upsetinto their next game, but they didnot, falling to Clarkson 3-2 in anunexpected loss.
“I don’t know why we lost toClarkson. I told the kids after thegame that rarely am I at a loss forwords,” Murphy said. “It was justone of those games that a coupleof the goals that went in were kindof crazy and we couldn’t comeback, I don’t know if we were emo-tionally drained from the nightbefore or what.”
Clarkson took the lead in thefirst period when Meaghan Parkgot open and took advantage ofthe opportunity, scoring at 11:35.Bruno came back in the secondperiod when Christine Holdredge’07 fired a shot off and HeatherLane ’08 picked up the reboundand scored. Guay also assisted.Unfortunately for the Bears, theGolden Knights got on boardagain at 7:42 on a goal that was
attributed to Jill Nolan, but wasmore the result of defensive colli-sions and miscommunications byBrown.
“We just didn’t play very wellagainst Clarkson,” McLaughlinsaid.
However, the Bears did notquit, and at 5:05 in the third peri-od Moos passed to Ramsay, whogot off a shot that Moore redirect-ed for a goal to tie the game. Buttwo minutes later Andrea Malutascored for Clarkson and the Bearswere unable to recover, eventuallyfalling 3-2.
“Maybe at some level the kidswere looking past Clarkson andthinking that they could just showup and win,” Murphy said. “Wedon’t want to be in any danger ofdoing that again.”
In the team’s view, the winagainst St. Lawrence overshadowsthe loss to Clarkson, but it issymptomatic of the entire season.The team has a great deal ofpotential and ability, but does notalways perform.
“I think our team lacks a littleconsistency at this point in time,but we’re doing some goodthings,” Murphy said. “Who wouldhave thought we’d beat the num-ber five team in the country? Thekids need to believe and I thinkthey will down the stretch.”
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basket.”Brown traveled to Princeton
Saturday to take on a team theyhad previously defeated 63-62 ona pair of last-second free throwsby Andrea Conrad ’05. This timearound, it was Princeton’s KatyDigovich who sank two freethrows with five seconds left tosecure the upset.
In a back-and-forth game, nei-ther squad was able to establishmuch of a lead. Princeton went upby nine with just over eight min-utes left in the first, but basketsfrom Hayes, Lena McAfee ’07 andseven straight points fromRobertson helped Bruno close outthe half trailing 27-25.
“She got her offensive threat
back,” Burr said of Robertson.“Princeton could not stop her.”
The second half was just asclose, with both teams tradingbaskets until Princeton gained aneight-point margin with 3:36 left.Brown worked its way back intothe game and retook the lead ontwo free throws from Hayes. Aftera defensive rebound, Princetontook the ball downcourt whereDigovich corralled an offensiverebound and scored to putPrinceton up 51-50. Anne O’Neal’08 missed a layup on the follow-ing Brown possession andDigovich sank both free throws toseal the victory.
“We struggled on the secondnight,” said Conrad. “All of our(Ivy) losses have come on the sec-ond night. They also out rebound-ed us, which is rare because welead the league in rebounding.”
The Tigers scored 10 points on
10 offensive boards in the secondhalf. The Bears also shot just 33.3percent for the game, including a2-of-19 effort from the bench.
“We weren’t able to get anyoffensive production from oursubs,” Burr said. “Our shootingpercentage was extremely lowfrom the bench. We had peopletake six to eight shots and notcome up with any points.”
The Bears will play their lasthome games of the season thisweekend, taking on first-placeDartmouth (9-0 Ivy) and second-place Harvard (7-2). A sweep willget the Bears back on track in theirpursuit of an Ivy title.
“It is pretty exciting to be in aposition to win an Ivy champi-onship and to have the top teamon your floor on Friday night,”Burr said. “You can’t ask for a moreexciting opportunity or match-up.”
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SPORTS EXTRATHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 13
BY KATIE LARKINSPORTS STAFF WRITER
On Sunday the women’sindoor track team traveled toCambridge, Mass. to competein the USA Track & Field NewEngland Championship meet.A select group of Brown ath-letes competed against severalarea teams, including Harvard,whom they will face again nextweekend in the Ivy LeagueHeptagonal Championships.
“This one was a relatively bigmeet in terms of the number ofpeople that were competingand there was some prettydecent talent,” said DistanceCoach Rick Wemple.
The meet was highlighted bypersonal bests. JulieKomosinski ’05 recorded a sea-son best time of 5:00.36 in themile and placed fifth, goodenough to qualify for theECACs. Michol Monaghan ’07won the 5,000-meters with anew personal record of17:28.83. The race putMonaghan tenth on Brown’sall-time Top Ten indoor recordboard. It also ranks her tenthamong Ivy competitors.
Jaylon White ’05 placed sec-ond in the 60-meter dash with atime of 7.92 seconds, while
Lauren Hale ’07 followed with afifth place finish. Hale alsoplaced fifth in the 200-meters.Lauren Snizek ’07 took secondplace in the 400-meter dash.
“I think that it puts morepressure on me to perform bet-ter because we’re trying to peakat the end of our season beforewe go into the championships,”said Snizek. “At the same timeall of our performances aren’texactly where we want them tobe, we’re still looking for themto be a bit stronger.”
Akilah King ’08 took third inthe 400-meter dash, whileEmily Lewis-LaMonica ’06came in fifth. The womensecured the fourth through sev-enth places in the 800-meters,with Anna Willard ’06 finishingfirst for the Bears. In the 60-meter hurdles Fara Kitton ’05placed third with a time of 8.95.
In field events co-captain JillLynch ’05 placed second in theshot put with an ECAC qualify-ing throw of 45-5.25, whileJennifer Donahue ’05 tookfourth in the weight throw.Lynch’s throw places her at thetop of the league.
A small group of athletes stillpreparing for Heps were cho-sen to compete in Sunday’s
meet, their performances pos-sibly indicative of what willoccur this coming weekend.
“I can’t say that (USATF-NE)is a good indicator because wehad a very limited group ofpeople competing,” Wemplesaid. “I think it’s a good indica-tor for those who competedthis weekend who will then goon and compete at Heps. Theentire jumps crew did not com-pete and some of our other ath-letes who we knew were prettymuch set for the Heps meet didnot compete either. For the ath-letes who did compete I think itis a good indicator for themand for us as a team.”
Even though there weresmall numbers on the track, formany competitors the meetwas one last chance to show-case their talent before theHeps next week.
“There was good competi-tion at the meet, and at thesetypes of meets you have to dowhat you have to do for theteam,” Komosinski said. “Thatwas kind of what it was about,really showing that you canmake a difference at theHeps.”
The Heptagonal Champion-ships take place Feb. 26.
W. track shows toughness at Fast Track Invitational
BY BERNIE GORDONSPORTS STAFF WRITER
The wrestling team finished offtheir dual-meet season on astrong note this weekend,defeating Harvard 31-10 onSaturday in Cambridge. TheBears were led by co-captainMike Pedro ’06 and ShawnKitchner ’07, both of whompinned their opponents. Brunois now 6-9 overall and 2-3 in theIvy League.
“It was a good way to end theseason,” said Assistant CoachMike Burch. “Not only becausewe won, but because we werewrestling pretty well. You want
to see the guys wrestling at theirsharpest (at this point in theseason).”
The Bears’ season outlookimproved dramatically with thereturn to the lineup of Pedroand Heath Lohrman ’05. Pedrohad been out with a knee injury— although he wrestled thefinal match of last week’s victo-ry over Sacred Heart University— and Lohrman had a virus thatcaused him to miss time overthe past two weeks. The Bearsare still missing Shawn Cully’06, who is out for the season,but Doran Heist ’06 and LeoSaniuk ’08 will hopefully returnnext week.
“We definitely struggled withinjuries,” Burch said. “We havea young team, and injuries canreally hurt us (because we lackexperienced backups).”
Burch praised the freshmenon the team for stepping up andfilling the gaps left by injury,and for being able to wrestle indifferent weight classes onshort notice. Because ofinjuries, the Bears’ lineup hasbeen shifted throughout theseason. Even with a mostly-healthy team against Harvard,Lohrman and Pedro had towrestle up a weight class tocover the absence of Heist andSaniuk.
“I mean, it’s not that big of afactor,” said Pedro, downplay-ing the injuries. “Everyone outthere is going to give 100 per-cent and do the team proud.”
Saturday, Harvard started thematch by giving the Bears a gift
and forfeiting the 125-poundweight class. Dan Apello ’06quickly followed with a 10-2major decision to give the Bearsan early 10-0 lead.
Harvard fought back, withMike Baria posting an 11-0major decision over MarkSavino ’08. Dominic DeNunziogave Harvard its second victorywith a 5-3 overtime victory overTim Smith ’06 to narrow the gapto 10-7.
That would be the closest thescore would get as the Bearstook control of the match. MikeSavino ’06 got things startedwith a 5-4 win at 157 pounds,and Kitchner, filling in for Heistat 165 pounds, followed with hissecond-period pin to give theBears a 20-7 lead.
Lorhman looked strong in hisreturn to the lineup, posting a5-0 victory. Joe Walton ’08defeated his opponent 7-3 andPedro finished the surge withhis own pin to give the Bears thefinal total.
With the lineup healthierthan it has been all season andthe dual meet and Ivy seasondone, the Bears now look to theEastern Intercollegiate Wrest-ling Association Champion-ships March 5-6 at the NavalAcademy in Annapolis, Md.They will be looking to place inthe top five at the champi-onships, as well as win as manyindividual championships aspossible.
“There’s no reason why weshouldn’t be top five,” Pedrosaid.
Healthier lineup propels wrestlers toseason-ending win over Harvard
BY JILANE RODGERSSPORTS STAFF WRITER
The men’s track and field teamsent a limited squad toCambridge, Mass. this weekendto compete at the New EnglandChampionships.
With the HeptagonalChampionships only a weekaway, most men rested in prepa-ration for the Ivy League compe-tition. The athletes who didcompete used the meet as achance for a final tune-up or tofinish out their season.
No team score was tallied, butfour men were the top collegiateathletes in their events: KentWalls ’06, Christian Tabib ’07,Mike Piche ’05 and Luke Renick’08.
Walls took third overall in theweight throw, hitting 51-06.5.His throw was six inches betterthan the next collegiate com-petitor, Ivy rival James Rhodesfrom Harvard.
Leading the charge in the800-meter run was Tabib, whocrossed the line in 1:55.98 toearn second place. Establishinghimself at the front of the racefrom the start, he paced theBears for the duration of the dis-tance and was closely followedby Jordan Kinley ’06, who tookthird in 1:56.14.
Piche also had a solid day forthe middle-distance squad,coming in second in the milerun. His time of 4:13.33 was only.09 seconds behind the winner,though he was in the middle of apack with one lap to go.
“It went well,” said Piche. “Itwasn’t necessarily a fast race,but it was a smart one.”
Piche used the final 100meters to overtake several menand close in on the leader. Histime was a personal best andqualifies him for the IC4AChampionships in two weeks.
“It was good to see that myspeed’s there,” he said.
Coming in third overall,Renick highlighted the day forthe sprint crew as he clocked22.66 for the 200-meter dash,four places above the next colle-giate athlete. It was his secondevent of the day, as he had com-peted in the 60-meter dash ear-lier. He took sixth overall, sec-ond for collegiate competitors,with a time of 7.18
“It was a good weekend offinal preparations,” Piche said.“We’re focused and excited forthe big one coming up next.”
The Bears will travel back toHarvard this weekend to take onthe rest of the Ivy League at theHeptagonal Championships.
BY MADELEINE MARECKISPORTS STAFF WRITER
Struggling with injuries and ill-ness, the gymnastics team fell toboth Yale and the University ofBridgeport this past Saturday in itssecond home meet of the season.
Yale captured the team crownwith a score 189.700, whileBridgeport scored 183.650.Brown finished the day with183.125.
While Yale was expected to bea tough opponent, the team wassurprised by Bridgeport’s per-formance.
“We learned our lesson thatwe can’t go in thinking we canbeat any team,” said Head CoachSara Carver-Milne.
Bruno entered the meet withlittle more than half of its mem-bers participating and struggledin terms of depth. Brown’s lack ofdepth was particularly evident inthe vault. Only five Brown gym-nasts took part, creating a pres-sure situation in which all fiveathletes had to hit their routinessince each of their scores wouldcount toward the final teamscore. Bruno put forth a goodeffort in the event, with threegymnasts posting scores in the9’s. Sarah Durning ’08 took sec-ond place with 9.6, while AmberSmith ’06 and co-captain MelissaForziat ’05 recorded 9.575 and9.300, respectively.
In addition to the poor healthof the team, questionable scoringhampered Bruno.
“The scoring on beam was notrepresentative of the routines. Itwas very frustrating and it didn’t
help the situation. It added insultto injury,” Carver-Milne said.
Despite its disappointing fin-ish, the team did have some solidindividual performances. Inaddition to her routine on vault,Forziat finished first for the Bearson beam with 9.050 and had ahuge win in the floor exercise,scoring 9.775.
Smith was the top finisher forher team in the all-around, post-ing a 36.850. She captured twothird place finishes, in the vaultand the floor exercise. SarahCavett ’06 took third on theuneven bars with 9.700.
The meet also marked the sea-son debut for co-captain MayaVadiveloo ’05, who was able tocompete on the beam after along layoff from a shin injury.Despite not being in top formphysically, the squad was in bet-ter shape mentally.
“I thought in a lot of ways thismeet was a great improvementover our last meet,” said Forziat.“Last meet, if something wentwrong, or even if someone hit aroutine, it became a pattern. Inthis meet, everyone focused onher own routine. This meet wasdefinitely an improvement inmental strength.”
Looking for her team to put upa solid performance at Saturday’sbig meet this weekend at Yale, theIvy League Classic, Carver-Milnesaid, “We are going to train hardthis week. We’re going to trainthrough Ivies and not take abreak. The team is very motivat-ed and knows what needs to getdone.”
Gymnasts finish thirdbehind Yale, Bridgeport
M. track uses NE meet toprep for Heptagonals
Ashley Hess / Herald
Dan Appello ’06 scored a 10-2major decision in Brown’s 31-10win over the Crimson.
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Because Instant Runnoff Voting received support from 64.6 per-cent of the less than 40 percent of undergraduates who voted onthe referendum, it will not be implemented in the comingUndergraduate Council of Students elections. After makingmore than 30 suggestions, the Elections Review Commissioncreated last fall has disbanded. So what are we left with? Whatwill guarantee that students will have confidence in the processand results of elections?
The insufficient support of IRV should not be seen as anendorsement of the unconstitutional back-room deals thatoccurred in the past, allowing a winner to be declared evenwhen no candidate received a majority. That the outcome of theelection is determined in part by the will of the candidates isinsufficiently transparent for a student government.
And the results of the WebCT vote should certainly not beconstrued as support for the existing run-off system.Resentment over the controversial presidential election lastspring is what led to the creation of the ERC in the first place.
The spring election made it clear that a number of factors,most notably turnout, can distort campus elections, misrepre-sent majority sentiment and conceal undercurrents of opinion.That this referendum fell just 2 percent shy of the two-thirdsmajority needed to enact an IRV system should not distortUCS’s actions from here. A clear majority of voters supportedIRV — the best sign yet that there exist undercurrents of changeamidst the UCS constituency.
With the next UCS elections scheduled for the end of thissemester, there has not yet been an opportunity to examinewhether the system formerly in place has been effectivelychanged. Though the ERC has disbanded, its job is not trulydone. UCS should formally create a permanent ERC to be calledinto action following every election to field the concerns of can-didates and constituents and ensure the continuous trans-parency of the electoral process.
The UCS Election Board does oversee elections as theyprogress, but an institutionalized ERC would give UCS the per-manent benefit of hindsight. And the non-UCS members on theERC provide an important outside perspective.
The results of the referendum should not mean the end ofelection reform — indeed, UCS has dozens of other ERC recom-mendations to consider. The referendum must be the beginningof what should be an ongoing practice of allowing the studentbody to determine what it wants its elections to look like.
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J O S E P H N A G L E
Military recruiters aren’t the problem
To the Editor:
Why does having a good time depend on havingalcohol? Let’s check with Brown University PublicSafety to see how many late-night and violent-crime calls are related to alcohol.
And what is the drinking age in Rhode Island?Just some sober thoughts.
Joseph GibsonBrown University Staff
Conference ServicesFeb. 16
To the Editor:
In response to Sweeney-Taylor’s “Military goes toschool” (Feb. 16), there is nothing wrong with beingan “ammunition-strapped soldier” instead of abusinessman or teacher. Condescending remarkslike this fail to serve a purpose. There are outstand-ing Brown graduates serving in uniform whodeserve far more respect than that.
While military recruiters capitalize on the fact thatthey are much more likely to enlist students fromHope High than from other area schools, they are notthe source of the dropout problem.The situation atHope High has little to do with military recruitment,money or even teachers. Teachers have custody oftheir students for seven hours each day and recruiterssee those kids twice each school year.
The problem stems from the 17 other hours ofthe day when parents are in charge. It is the par-ents’ responsibility to instill the high value of edu-cation in their children and high dropout rates arean indicator that this is not happening.
Money and a reduction in high school militaryrecruitment are not going to fix the real problem,which is the lack of guidance and support in thehome.
By the time military recruiters come to a highschool the damage has already been done: they arenot to blame.
Meghan Gourley ‘05 Feb. 16
No need for kegs
To the Editor:
Schmalzbach (“Liberals in Cobb County,” Feb.15) asserts that the disclaimer in Cobb County’sbiology textbooks put liberals “in a bind.”According to Schmalzbach, this “bind” arisesbecause the stickers’ message ends on the words:“Material should be approached with an openmind, studied carefully, and critically considered.”
Schmalzbach seems to accept the fact that partof the disclaimer was suspect: if the entire dis-claimer had simply been, “evolution is a theory,not a fact,” then, as Schmalzbach writes, “thiswould be a short column.” I will not argue hereabout what exactly is wrong with this part of themessage because Schmalzbach appears to agreewith the court on at least this much.
However, Schmalzbach points out, apart from
the anti-evolutionary sentiment of the stickers,they also included some liberal words of wisdom.
One would think it obvious that tacking on asound piece of advice to a distortion of sciencedoes not make that distortion any less perverse. Todemonstrate this point through extremity, considerthe following recommendation: “Kill gays. UpholdAmerica.” If one opposes this sentiment, is onetherefore unpatriotic? No. One is not.
Perhaps Brian Schmalzbach would like toexplain, if he still thinks that these stickers werenot supporting a “theocratic style of government,”why they were pushed for so forcefully by a groupof zealous, concerned Christians.
Michael Bosworth ‘07Feb. 16
Evolution stickers distort science
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UCS Quixote
Exactly what in God’s name is thepoint of the Undergraduate Council ofStudents’ plan to divide the campus intofive representative regions?
Two serious objections spring to mindat first glance. First, the rational justifica-tion for the proposal is muddy at best andtotally nonexistent at worst. The underly-ing assumption seems to be that these fiveregions have widely disparate interests.What is it that makes the demands of stu-dents in Grad Center different than thedemands of those in Minden? Are therumors true? Do inhabitants of certaindorms really share certain characteristics?Are all freshmen environmental studiesconcentrators really placed in Hope? Areall those who have personal butlers origi-nally housed in the posh strongholds ofLittlefield and Andrews? Are all the sketchykids purposely placed together in the civi-lizing shadow of New Pembroke Three andFour’s PVC-pipe bear sculpture?
Even if these speculations were true,most people move from dorm to dormyearly. There is no lasting allegiancebetween a Brown student and his or her“region.” Constituents will never lobbyfor long-term changes if they can’t expectto see any benefit from regional represen-tation. In fact, constituents may knowmore about the needs of their previoussurroundings than the needs of their cur-rent region.
Furthermore, a regional system neces-sarily encourages regions to demand
regional benefits. What can a regionalrepresentative demand except more sodamachines for Zone Five or a fitness centerfor Zone Three? Benefits should go toplaces where they are most needed, notthe regions with representatives best ableto manipulate the system.
If Zone Four elects a total basket caseand Zone Five elects Karl Rove incarnate,then the stage will be set for limousineservice between New Dorm and the Gatewhile Grad Center remains frozen circa1974. The debate will inevitably devolveinto a system where “My region needsmore couches!” will become the norm ofUCS discourse.
Secondly, this proposal pointlesslyadds yet another layer of bureaucracy.One of UCS’s prime motivations for theregional system is “bridging the gapbetween student government and stu-dents.” How will regionalization accom-plish this goal? The last thing UCS need sis a cohort of officeholders whose job is toask for more ice machines.
UCS makes concerted efforts to showit is “in touch” with the student body.While the regionalization proposal mayhave served to differente Joel Payne’scampaign from others, it only retardsUCS’s long-term goal of becoming more
relevant in the eyes of its constituents.UCS does not seem irrelevant for lack ofrepresentatives.
People can sense when an organiza-tion is actually improving their lives.Students think UCS is pointless becausethey perceive it to be a warren of endless-ly-churning, masturbatory bureaucracy.Adding five new jobs plus a job whoseonly job is to keep an eye on those jobswon’t help change that perception.
Joel Payne’s election was not a man-date for his regionalization plan, butrather an endorsement of a UCS thatseemed willing to personally engage itselfwith constituents. But handshakesshould be translated into concreteimprovements, not committees to exam-ine the feasibility of a catchphrase. UCSshould keep in mind that actions speaklouder than words, and strive to do whatit can with what it has by bringing resultsto the student body as whole.
At this point, however, it seems like“regionalization” is just a buzzword. Ifstudents see UCS successfully affectingchange, they’ll take the initiative to go toUCS with their concerns. Otherwise, noarmy of representatives from arbitrarilydrawn provinces can convince them tocall on student government when some-thing needs improvement
Barron Youngsmith ‘06 and Rob Montz‘05 are management consultants fromthe West.
The FCC and the SuperbowlThe Super Bowl festivities seemed a lit-
tle vanilla this time around. In what can only be considered gross
overcompensation for last year’s debacle,this year’s half-time show was headlinedby Paul McCartney in a suit. The songs heperformed were pre-screened by NFLofficials for potentially offensive lyrics.The performance’s raciest moment waswhen McCartney stripped off his jacket—only to reveal a long-sleeved shirt under-neath.
As writer Bob Garfield told “GoodMorning America,” “This year, the SuperBowl is interesting not because of whatads they’re showing but what ads they arenot.” Notably cut: a Budweiser ad thathad a delivery boy opening a beer withJanet Jackson’s costume, a spot for a coldremedy featuring Mickey Rooney’s barebackside, and a minister lusting after aLincoln pick-up.
The edgiest ad shown was, like theBudweiser ad that got cut, a spoof of lastSuper Bowl’s “wardrobe malfunction”incident. Though the company hadshelled out $4.8 million for two airings ofthe 30-second spot — which the Fox net-work itself had screened for content -—the ad only ran once. After seeing the spotduring the first quarter of the game, NFLofficials contacted Fox in medias res andasked them to pull the second showing,apparently considering it too edgy in thepost-Jackson world.
This may seem a lot of wolf-crying forwhat essentially amounts to some toned-down ad copy. But though I hate to startdown the slippery slope of crying censor-ship, the question is whether the FCC hasoverstepped its bounds by intimidatingnetworks into submission.
You may remember the immediateaftermath of the Jackson incident: theOscars went to a five-second tape delay sothey’d have time to cut or bleep any spur-
of-the-moment actions; the Grammyswere delayed five minutes.
The ripples, however, keep spreading.The FCC itself won’t pre-screen broad-casts, because according to an FCCspokeswoman, “that would be censor-ship,” so 66 ABC affiliates in eight statesrefused to broadcast Saving Private Ryanfor fears of potential indecency fines. InMay, a popular college radio stationswitched to an entirely pre-recorded for-mat. Other stations that previously dab-bled in the risqué during “safe harborhours” between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. toneddown their broadcasts in the fear that thehours were no longer safe.
We are entering a place where the con-tent of the airwaves is subject to tyrannyof the minority — and a very small minor-ity at that.
In 2003, the year before the Super Bowldebacle put broadcasting indecency onthe map, the FCC received 240,000 com-plaints. After the Jackson incident — astunt that sparked 540,000 complaints allits own — the trend continued. By the endof 2004, FCC fines totaled $7.7 million,compared to only $48,000 four years ago.
Why the sudden outrage? Has thequality of programming really taken thatmuch of a dive? Has the public suddenlybecome more concerned about theshows being broadcast in their home?
Neither is the case. In 2003, fully 99.8percent of the 240,000 complaints camefrom a single conservative watchdoggroup — the Parents Television Council.Meanwhile last October, the Fox networkwas fined $1.2 million for an episode ofMarried By America — a program, in poortaste or not, whose primary indecencyoffense was an episode featuring pixilatedstrippers. Yet this whopping $1.2 millionfine was prompted by the mere 90 com-plaints the FCC received in response tothe broadcast.
Furthermore, when pressed by aFreedom of Information Act, a review ofthe complaints themselves reveals thatonly 23 separate individuals sent the 90complaints. And among those 23, onlythree people had taken the time to com-pose a personal letter of complaint — therest just sent form letters.
In an op-ed in the New York Times,FCC chairman Michael Powell defendedthe FCC, arguing that it is not the volumeof complaints but the content of the pro-gramming that results in fines. The FCCdecency guidelines, however, are far fromhard and fast: indeed, they boil down tofive regulators voting on whether anutterance of the word “dick” on Scrubswas meant to be “sexual or excretory” incontext.
The end result is what is commonlycalled the chilling effect: If three dissatis-fied customers out of an audience of mil-lions can be the impetus for $1.2 millionin fines, what broadcaster will ever takerisks?
As distressing as the situation is,Congress continues to move in the wrongdirection. Rather than pushing for media-tion and clear-cut definitions of indecen-cy, bills with strong bipartisan supportbefore the House and Senate currentlypropose raising the maximum per-inci-dent indecency fines by more than 15-fold.
While the FCC ostensibly tries to avoidthe role of censors, blurry regulations andoutrageous fines effectively stifle freedomof the airwaves, forcing networks to self-censor anything that could even poten-tially cross the line. Until something isdone, look forward to a lot more vanillaprogramming.
Donald Tetto ‘06 would like to thank hisroommate for watching the Super Bowland telling him about it afterward.
DONALD TETTO
As many Brown students know, cross-regis-tering at the Rhode Island School of Design canfeel like Mission: Impossible. Courses are diffi-cult to get into, and the entire process is aquagmire of red tape, paperwork and approvalhunting.
As a RISD student, it pains me to say that thefeeling is more than mutual. However,although the registration process can be ardu-ous, it is also not impossible.
If you plan on taking courses at RISD, thereare some things to keep in mind:
Scheduling-wise, RISD has three types ofcourses: studio, foundation and everythingelse. Studio courses are hands-on courses thatrun the gamut from drawing to glass blowingand generally run from 1 - 6 p.m. and 11:20a.m. - 4:20 p.m. on Wednesdays.
Foundation courses are known as “bootcamp” for freshmen; they run from 8:00 a.m. to6:00 p.m. and meet once a week.
Non-studio courses are divided into art his-tory (ARTH), liberal arts (LAEL) and historyphilosophy social sciences (HPSS). Thesecourses are much shorter and meet multipletimes a week for about two hours.
That’s a brief rundown on what the coursesare like. You can obtain a course catalogue one-line or pick up a paper copy from the Registrar’sOffice at 20 Washington Place on Watermanand North Main.
Many higher-level courses such asCharacter Design and Advanced FigureSculpture are so popular that they are difficultfor even RISD students to get into and are usu-ally restricted to seniors in the department.Oftentimes instructors must accept the RISDstudents before Brown students to help RISDstudents fulfill certain requirements. Contactthe teacher to ascertain the status of your par-ticular class.
Foundation courses and other courses areusually pretty open. As a Brown student youstand a good chance of getting into most soph-omore-level classes.
If you plan to register, the first thing that youshould do is go to intranet.RISD.edu and findthe teacher’s email. Alternately, call (401) 454-6100, press 0 for the operator and ask to betransferred to the department to speak to theteacher. Introduce yourself, it always helps.Additionally, if you wish to meet the teacher,come to one of his or her current classes.
Regardless of what people tell you, alwayscome to the first class. During initial registra-tion, classes fill up quickly, so RISD students areencouraged to register for any remaining classesjust to have enough credits to use as placehold-ers while looking for other classes. Trust me, Iwork at registration — this is routine practice.There’s a lot of discrepancy between the numberof people actually registered and those whoactually show up. Some teachers pass around asign-up sheet, so get there 15 minutes beforeclass starts. Stay for the entire session.
If you picked the appropriate course level,you should hopefully get in. If you don’t, keepat it — I once had to attend four full class ses-sions before I got in.
RISD’s semester started this past Monday.But if you would like to register for classes atRISD next semester and need help findingteacher contact info, class times, etc. I wouldbe more than happy to help you. Drop me aline at [email protected].
Cross-registration between RISD and Brownshouldn’t just be an advertising gimmick. Youcan do it. The more students that do it, themore Brown and RISD’s administrations willhave to work together. With enough studentswe can make cross-registration less of aheadache and a better reality for students onboth sides.
He Zhu is a student at RISD.
Registering atRISD
GUEST COLUMN BY HE ZHU
GUEST COLUMN BY BARRON YOUNGSMITH AND ROB MONTZ
‘Regionalization’is just a buzzword.
BY BEN MILLERSPORTS EDITOR
The women’s basketball team returns toclasses today having earned their secondstraight weekend split, knocking offdefending Ivy League champion Universityof Pennsylvania 76-69 on Friday but falling53-50 against Princeton Saturday. The splitleft the Bears at 15-8 overall and third in theIvy League at 7-3.
“I’m extremely proud of the team. Theygave a huge effort in both games,” saidHead Coach Jean Marie Burr. “Our defenseput us in a position to take the game atJadwin Gym and our defense handed us thegame at Penn.”
As usual, Brown was anchored by SarahHayes ’06 and Holly Robertson ’05. Hayes,who was named a District I Second TeamAcademic All-American by ESPN theMagazine last week, scored a career-high 23points against Penn and shot 12-of-13 atthe foul line. Robertson scored a season-high 24 points and grabbed eight reboundsthe following night.
“(Hayes) is tremendously consistent, ahard worker who contributed in every areawith strong leadership,” Burr said. “Shedoes whatever is needed to win. Having aguard that can rebound and score insideand out is a huge advantage. I would likeher to shoot more, but she likes to set herteammates up.”
The Bears came into Philadelphia look-ing to avenge a 47-43 defeat back on Jan. 29.In that game, Penn center Jennifer Fleischerdominated Brown with 16 rebounds. Nothelping matters, the Bears shot 29.1 per-cent for the game.
On Friday, the Bears came out firing, tak-ing an early 9-2 lead. The Quakers thenturned to Fleischer, who scored five straightpoints to bring the lead down to two. Fromthere, the lead went back and forth untilPenn unleashed a torrent of three-pointers.A shot from downtown by Karen
Habrukowich put the Quakers up 37-25with 3:16 to go before the half.
Bruno refused to falter despite Penn’s sixfirst half three-pointers. Robertson hit twothree-pointers of her own and added alayup to take Brown into the half down 39-33.
The next 20 minutes began on a downnote for Bruno as the Quakers pushed thelead back to twelve. It was Robertson whobrought the Bears back again, draininganother three-pointer that ignited a 21-0Bruno rally. Once they took the lead, theBears refused to give it up, at one pointgoing up by 13. Bruno was especially domi-nant inside, outscoring the Quakers 34-16in the paint, with 20 of those points comingfrom Robertson.
“We took control of the tempo muchmore with our defense,” Burr said. “Welooked like we were in better shape. Evenwhen we got down, we extended ourdefense to full court, got the board andcame down quickly to get a good look at the
SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
FEBRUARY 23, 2005 · PAGE 16
BY KATHY BABCOCKSPORTS STAFF WRITER
The women’s ice hockey team triumphedover fifth-ranked St. Lawrence University4-2 on Friday only to fall to a much lesserteam, Clarkson College, 3-2 on Saturday.The Bears finish the weekend 12-13-2overall and 9-8-1 in the ECACHL. The vic-tory over St. Lawrence dramaticallyimproves their chances of receiving adecent berth in the playoffs.
“The bottom line is when I left the lock-er room I said if you had lost to St.Lawrence and beaten Clarkson you wouldhave been worse off, so forget about theloss to Clarkson and focus on the next tworegular season games,” said Head CoachDigit Murphy. “It’s a new season in theplayoffs.”
The Bears started off badly against St.Lawrence, allowing a goal in the first 22seconds of play from Chelsea Grills. Brunoalso allowed a goal within the first minuteagainst Mercyhurst last weekend.
“I have no idea why we get scored on soearly, I don’t know whether it has to dowith preparation,” said Amy McLaughlin’05. “It might just have been how our sea-son has been going the bounces just don’tseem to want to go our way.”
The Bears quickly bounced back on apower play goal by Jessica Link ’05 at 2:58.Margaret Ramsay ’06 and Kathryn Moos’07 provided assists on the play. Soon after,
Hayley Moore ’08 scored on a high shot togive Bruno a lead they would not relin-quish for the remainder of play. Moos andMcLaughlin assisted on the goal.
“We stuck to our systems and playedtough,” McLaughlin said. “We outplayedthem the entire game. We got on boardearly and it’s always easy when you havean early lead.”
Brown increased their lead at 8:47 inthe first period when Keaton Zucker ’06forced a turnover and passed the puck toLink who fired it into the net for her sec-ond goal of the game. St. Lawrence retali-ated a minute later on a 5 versus 3 powerplay when Emilie Berlinguette managedto get off an unassisted goal. The Bearsended the first period with a 3-2 lead.
The Bears added an insurance goal on apower play five minutes into the second
W. icers knock off No. 5 St. Lawrence,but stumble against lowly Clarkson
Nick Neely / Herald
Holly Robertson ’06 scored 44 points andgrabbed 17 rebounds over the weekend.
W. hoops beats Penn with bigrally, but falls to Princeton
Ashley Hess / Herald
Jessica Link ’05 scored the game-winning goal in Brown’s 4-2 upset of No. 5 St.Lawrence.The forward leads the team in points with 23.
IVY LEAGUE “BASKETBALL U.” POWERPOLL
PENN QUAKERS (28)15-8, 8-1 IVY
215 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #1YALE BULLDOGS
9-13, 5-4 IVY
190 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #3
BROWN BEARS
10-13, 3-6 IVY
35 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #8
DARTMOUTH BIG GREEN
8-15, 5-5 IVY
132 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #6HARVARD CRIMSON
10-13 / 5-5 IVY
122 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #4
COLUMBIA LIONS
12-11 / 3-7 IVY
47 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #5
CORNELL BIG RED
11-12, 6-4 IVY
144 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #2
PRINCETON TIGERS
12-11 / 3-6 IVY
86 POINTS / PREVIOUSLY #7
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18
Men’s BASKETBALL: University of Pennsylvania 79,Brown 62Women’s BASKETBALL: Brown 76, Penn 69Men’s ICE HOCKEY: St. Lawrence 3, Brown 0Women’s ICE HOCKEY: Brown 4, No. 5 St. LawrenceUniversity 2Women’s SQUASH: Howe Cup, Princeton, N.J.SKIING: at St. Anselm Carnival, Pat’s Peak, N.H.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Men’s BASKETBALL: Princeton 69, Brown 52Women’s BASKETBALL: Princeton 53, Brown 50Men’s ICE HOCKEY: Brown 5, Clarkson 2Women’s ICE HOCKEY: Clarkson 3, Brown 2WRESTLING: Brown 31, Harvard 10Men’s TENNIS: Brown 7, Navy 0EQUESTRIAN: 1st place (UConn Show) SKIING: at St. Anselm Carnival, Pat’s Peak, N.H.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20
GYMNASTICS: Yale with Bridgeport, 1 p.m., PizzitolaCenterMen’s TENNIS: No. 28 Wake Forest 5, Brown 2Women’s TENNIS: Brown 7, American 0Women’s SQUASH: 7th (Howe Cup at Princeton)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Women’s TENNIS: Old Dominion 4, Brown 3
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Men’s BASKETBALL: Brown 70, Yale 64Men’s ICE HOCKEY: No. 11 Harvard 3, Brown 0
WEEKEND SPORTS SCOREBOARD
BY SHAUN MCNAMARACONTRIBUTING WRITER
After a pair of 17-point losses to first-placeUniversity of Pennsylvania and sixth-place Princeton this past weekend, themen’s basketball team (10-13, 3-6 IvyLeague) snapped their four-game IvyLeague skid Tuesday night with a 70-64victory over Yale.
On Friday night, Penn (15-8, 8-1) rolledinto Providence and controlled both endsof the floor, winning 79-62. They boastedfour players in double figures, led by TimBegley and Ibrahim Jaaber, who poured in22 points each. Along with his 22 points,Jaaber grabbed nine rebounds and pickedup three steals. He was also instrumentalin holding reigning Ivy League Player ofthe Year Jason Forte ’05 to just four shotattempts. Forte finished with eight points,more than 11 below his season average.No Brown player reached double figuresin scoring and the Bears shot a shockinglypoor 4-of-23 from three-point range.
“The way the whole team has struggledfrom the outside has been strange,” saidco-captain Luke Ruscoe ’06.
Coupled with Brown’s cold outsideshooting was Penn’s domination of thepaint as they out-rebounded the Bears 51-26. The game was not as close as the finalscore indicates as Penn used a 38-12 runin the second half to open up a 31-point
lead. The Bears closed the gap to 17behind strong play from Keenan Jeppesen’08 (nine points, five steals) and MarcusBecker ’07 (seven points, four steals).Brown featured four first-years for anextended period in the second half as co-captains Forte and Ruscoe watched fromthe bench.
Brown’s struggles continued the nextnight, as Princeton (12-11, 3-6) opened upa 26-point margin in the second half andcruised to a 69-52 victory. Forte tallied 26points for Bruno, but no other Bear scoredmore than five. Princeton was led by All-Ivy guard Will Venebles with 18 points,four assists, four steals and five rebounds.Mike Stephens chipped in 15 points forthe Tigers, who torched the nets in shoot-ing 65 percent from the field while theBears shot a pedestrian 37.8 percent.
“They hit some tough shots in the sec-ond half, but it was also a combination ofus not playing great defense andPrinceton getting those shots,” Forte said.
Head Coach Glen Miller mixed up hislineup for this game, as three first-yearsfound themselves in the starting lineup.Adolphe Coulibaly ‘08 and Jeppesen bothstarted at forward and Mark MacDonald‘08 was the starting center. Ruscoe hadstarted 54 consecutive games dating to
Win over Elis ends Ivyskid for m. basketball
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see M. HOOPS, page 12
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