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BY ADAM STELLAProvidence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 will meet withPresident Ruth Simmons and other leaders of the city’scolleges and universities over the next few months tosolicit direct monetary contributions tohelp alleviate the city’s financial woes.

The University has resisted calls fordirect monetary contributions in the pastand maintains that its non-monetary andindirect monetary contributions compen-sate for its tax-exempt status.

The University supports raising the state’s Paymentin Lieu of Taxes contribution, in which the state gov-ernment pays the city for land that is owned by tax-exempt institutions, Executive Vice President forPublic Affairs and University Relations Laura Freid toldThe Herald in November.

But President Ruth Simmons said she “would bevery concerned about any effort to hold Brownresponsible” for taxes.

“As soon as the city begins treating the University asa corporation it will mean very damagingthings for the quality of the institution,” shesaid.

“(Brown) has been around a long timedoing things for the community preciselybecause of its not-for-profit status,”Simmons said.

The University donated $350,000 to the Health andEducation Leadership for Providence program lastyear, which has worked on projects such as improvingteacher training, creating lead-safe centers andimproving the quality of education at Hope HighSchool, Freid said.

Simmons also said Brown-trained medical person-nel treated West Warwick fire victims and theUniversity’s “intellectual capital” has produced manyof the city and state’s top officials, including the mayorand governor. Brown also provides an incentive forpeople to visit and settle in the area, she said.

The University is also helping the city and stateenlarge their tax bases by contributing to economicgrowth. Freid pointed to the Ocean State HigherEducation Economic Development andAdministrative Network, which she said was designedand developed by the University to promote economicgrowth. The University also recently created the posi-tion of Vice President for Research, which is chargedwith attracting venture capital firms to Rhode Island.

“We are very committed to partnerships with the

Cicilline ’83 will meet with Simmons and other u. presidents tosolicit contributions for the city’s impending budget shortfall

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BY DANIELLE CERNYThe motivations, actions and conse-quences of a war with Iraq were scruti-nized Tuesday night through the lens ofthe United States’ historic relationshipwith the Middle East.

Elliott Colla, assistant professor ofcomparative literature, presented“Interest, Influence and Intervention: TheMiddle East and United States ForeignPolicy” in Metcalf Auditorium. The lecturewas the second in a series on the warsponsored by Faculty, Alums and StaffAgainst the War.

Colla opened the lecture reassuring thepacked auditorium that despite a lack ofpunctuation in the blackboard’s message,“Why War in Iraq,” that “this is not a talk ofwhy war should or shouldn’t happen. It isa question about the issue.”

Colla focused on the effort of the U.S.government to draw attention away fromthe historical connections of terroristactivity to specific Middle East nations.Colla specifically quoted Richard Pearl,

one of Bush’s top Middle East advisors,who said “terrorism must be decontextu-alized.”

The Bush Administration has redefinedterror to be broad enough to justify a warwith Iraq, Colla said.

“As outrageous as this may seem, it isthe closest the Bush administration hascome to a coherent policy with the MiddleEast,” Colla said. “Decontextualization isthe logic behind Rumsfeld and Cheney’sfamous decision to attack Iraq in themoments following Sept. 11, even thoughit was as clear then as it is now thatSaddam Hussein had nothing to do withthose attacks.”

“I want to underscore how importanthistorical knowledge is to those of us whooppose the administration’s current warefforts,” he said.

In order to understand the motivationfor war, Colla said, the public must havehistorical knowledge of the longstanding

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Elliott Colla,assistant professor of comparative literature, lectured in Metcalf on Tuesday.

Colla scrutinizes war with Iraq

Underground will reopenwith changes to operation

U. Corporation meetingfocuses on next 15 years

BY LISA MANDLEThe Underground is slated to reopenMarch 7, with several changes to its opera-tion. The space will become a 21-and-overbar serving alcohol on Fridays andSaturdays only, Dean for Campus Life andStudent Services Margaret Jablonski andUnderground Manager Ally Dickie ’03 toldThe Herald.

Students will need their Brown ID andpossibly additional proof of age to get intothe pub on nights when alcohol is served.Underground staff will use a Brown cardswiper and a list of SISD numbers with cor-responding birthdays to prevent the entryof underage students, Dickie said.

Though the option of remaining openon other nights without alcohol exists, it isnot likely to happen frequently, Dickie said.Attempts last semester to open theUnderground without alcohol were notsuccessful — it is hard to staff such nightsbecause workers receive no tips and bands

are not interested in playing at an emptypub, she said.

The Underground will also no longer beentirely student-run, Dickie said. A super-visor from the administration will be pres-ent on nights when alcohol is served and aDepartment of Public Safety officer will beat the door for the first weekend, Jablonskisaid.

Dickie said she was looking forward tohaving a lot of bands at the Underground,especially because performance space atthe Production Workshop is under con-struction.

Students expressed skepticism towardthe idea of turning the Underground into a21-and-over venue. “I don’t think I’ve everseen anyone there over 21,” said LawrenceHeston ’06.

Beginning in the fall the Undergroundwill be open as a coffee house or café envi-

BY PHILISSA CRAMERAt last weekend’s annual winter meeting,the University’s Corporation focused onBrown’s direction over the next 15 years andapproved a 4.4 percent increase in overallstudent charges.

The Corporation, a group of trustees andfellows of the University, evaluated andbuilt upon President Ruth Simmons’Initiatives for Academic Enrichment,approved at last year’s winter meeting. Themeeting also addressed the University’sfinancial affairs.

Corporation members discussed a widespectrum of long-term goals for theUniversity, Simmons said, including plansto expand the size of the faculty, improvethe undergraduate experience andenhance University facilities.

According to yesterday’s University press

release, the Corporation considered an ini-tiative to expand the faculty beyond the 100new positions approved last year.

The Corporation also considered plansto renovate campus dining facilities like theRatty and reduce the average class size byexpanding seminar course offerings,Simmons said.

“The focus on undergraduate educationis the most important thing,” she said.

The meeting addressed changes to facil-ities, support and programs in the graduateschool, the press release said.

Implementing the changes couldincrease the University’s budget by as muchas 40 percent in the next 10 to 15 years,according to the press release. Last year, theCorporation endorsed an increase of $36

see UNDERGROUND, page 6

see BROWN CORP., page 4see COLLA, page 4

D.H.H.S. makesBrown the home of aglobal organizationheadquartersmetro,page 3

CCC votes down grad-ing policy change, butsays discussion isn’tover page 5

Affirmative action isevil because it hurtsblacks, says AlexSchulman ’03column, page 11

The “Blame America”camp should beblaming France, saysNate Goralnik ’06 column, page 11

Men’s tennis topshighest-rated oppo-nent ever, no. 17Wake Forest, at homesports, page 12

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Brown grad finalist for physics awardA recent Brown graduate was a finalist for the prestigiousLeRoy Apker Award given by the American Physical Societyfor outstanding undergraduate achievements in physics.

Jesse Thaler ’02, whose senior thesis in physics dealt withblack hole formation, was one of six finalists. Finalists for theaward receive $2,000, and the physics department at thenominee’s school wins $1,000, according to the award’s Website.

Thaler said he assumes he was nominated by his thesisadvisor, Professor of Physics Antal Jevicki. He did not knowhe was in competition for the award until he was notified hewas a finalist, he said.

Last September,Thaler went to Washington, D.C., to meetwith the Apker committee and present his findings.The win-ners were announced in January.

Thaler began his research with an UndergraduateTeaching and Research Assistantship the summer after hisjunior year. Unsatisfied with the fact that his research, whichdealt with matrices, was not groundbreaking,Thaler askedJevicki for something more exciting to work on,Thaler said.Jevicki had recently read an article about black hole forma-tion that looked accessible to an undergraduate,Thaler said.The two decided to take it to the next level, looking into amodel for whether black holes could form in particle collid-ers.

“I had no idea what I was getting into when I got started,”Thaler said.“Although the math was easy … the researchwas aimed at a much higher level than I was at. As an under-graduate, I had to struggle to understand what was goingon,”he said.

Thaler, who is now a graduate student at HarvardUniversity, said he hopes to continue his research with thehelp of quantum field theory, which he is currently studying.

“The fact that I was able to make a contribution to thefield was pretty awesome,”Thaler said.

—Stephanie Harris

BY STEPHANIE HARRISA global organization that provides valuable resources tophysicians, public policy makers, the media and con-sumers has its U.S. headquarters at Brown — yet most peo-ple do not even know it exists.

The U.S. Cochrane Center was recently established atBrown with the help of a $2.3 million grant from the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services. Althoughthere has been a center in Providence for 10 years, it did notascend to the status of headquarters until this year.

The worldwide Cochrane Collaboration is “a global net-work that promotes evidence-based healthcare for the pur-pose of enabling patients and doctors to make informeddecisions about treatment and care,” according to theorganization’s Web site. It puts together all of the informa-tion about how different treatments and inventions inhealth work in one location, said Kay Dickersin, an associ-ate professor of community health and director of the U.S.Cochrane Center.

The collaboration maintains a database of over 350,000clinical trials on everything from medications to treatmentoptions for a variety of diseases to diagnostic methods, pre-ventative methods and rehabilitation. The databaseincludes trials from all over the world.

The trials cover all topics of “intervention,” whichDickersin defined as any time “a doctor or physical thera-pist or some sort of provider does something to intervenewith a patient, to make a change in that person’s health ordiagnose a health condition.” Topics are as varied as theefficacy of mammography, methods of counseling to getpeople to stop smoking and whether the wearing of hippads by the elderly helps prevent hip fractures. Reviewsalso cover non-medical topics such as the value of contin-uing medical education courses for physicians.

The database also includes over 1,500 systematicreviews, which pull together the results of all the trials thatask a similar research question and combine the data toform a more comprehensive answer. These reviews, which

are done by over 8,000 worldwide volunteers, are updatedwhen new relevant trials are performed. Dickersin calledthese reviews “meta-analysis.”

The reviews “are bottom up rather than top down,”Dickersin said. “People are interested in a research prob-lem and they volunteer to do a review. … It doesn’t work totell people what to do when you don’t have the money topay them,” she said.

The reviews are organized into 49 groups based onhealth conditions such as heart problems, back problemsand eyes and vision.

The collaboration also maintains a consumer Web sitethat gives short synopses rather than technical reviews,Dickersin said.

“For example, if you were interested in whetherEchinacea is useful in curing colds, you can go to theCochrane Center database and look up all the clinical tri-als,” Dickersin said. After examining the best clinicalresearch in the world, you can decide whether Echinaceaseems to be effective, she said.

The information provided by the collaboration is usefulto physicians and consumers who wish to analyze the ben-efits of a certain treatment, but it is also used by policymakers. In their health care plans, “states have to decidewhich drugs to pay for, which drugs work best for given sit-uations like allergies, diabetes, or depression,” Dickersinsaid. “They look at a Cochrane review to see the informa-tion, then they choose a drug,” she said.

The media and advertisers often use Cochrane reviewsas well, Dickersin said. When new reports come out, thelarger media that subscribe to the collaboration’s journalget the information immediately. Smaller media that donot subscribe can request a copy of a report from the cen-ter. The reviews that are expected to cause the biggest reac-tion are published on the collaboration’s Web site,Dickersin said.

U. hosts Cochrane Center global HQ

see COCHRANE, page 9

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million in spending over threeyears for the academic enrich-ment initiatives.

Simmons said she is confidentthe University can raise the fundsdespite a current economic down-turn.

“If you were to look back at thegrowth of the University’s budgetin the last 10 years, the rate ofgrowth would exceed (40 per-cent),” she said.

The Corporation approved a 4.4percent increase in overall charges— including a 4.8 percent rise intuition — for undergraduates forthe 2003-04 academic year tocover some of the rise in theUniversity’s operating expenses,according to the press release. Italso set the endowment draw at5.125 percent, a change that willprovide a 2-percent increase inrevenue for the University.

But Simmons said Brown wouldalso have to change its fundraisingtactics to achieve the financialgoals outlined at the meeting.

“We’re going to have to improveour sources of revenue,” she said,identifying doubling the BrownAnnual Fund, more aggressivefundraising and a growth in out-side support for research as poten-tial sources.

Vice President for Finance andAdministration ElizabethHuidekoper said administratorsused the meeting to promote theirvision for the University.

While past Corporation meet-ings have focused on setting short-term goals, University administra-tors are now attempting to coordi-nate many changes over the next

decade, Simmons said.“What is different is instead of

adopting a plan a year at a time, weare looking ahead 10 to 15 yearsand trying to decide on priorities,”she said.

Huidekoper said the intentionbehind the meeting was “to havethe board understand what …kinds of programs and facilitieswe’d like to see develop.”

Administrators andCorporation members engaged inconstructive dialogue throughoutthe meeting, she said.

“Like any diverse group,(Corporation members) all con-tributed where they had questionsor recommendations or enthusi-asm or concern,” Huidekoper said.

Other Corporation actionsincluded the appointment ofFernando Cardoso, former presi-dent of Brazil, to a professor-at-large position and the endorse-ment of new multidisciplinaryventures at the University, accord-ing to the press release.

“Brown has been especiallysuccessful” in crafting multidisci-plinary programs, Simmons said.“Adding to that reputation will bein the best interest of theUniversity.”

Simmons said Provost RobertZimmer will announce plans forspecific multidisciplinary initia-tives and centers that will uniteBrown with community institu-tions and other universities.

“We want to build on whatBrown is known for — the supportfor the pursuit of independentlearning,” Huidekoper said.

Herald staff writer Philissa Cramer’05 covers finance and administra-tion. She can be reached [email protected].

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relationship between the UnitedStates and the Middle East, sincethe issue is not simply a matter ofterrorist prevention.

“History over there is notsomething we just watch fromover here,” he said. The UnitedStates has played an active role inthe Middle East for decades, andthose ties are crucial to deter-mining how Iraq and the UnitedStates have reached their currentconflict, Colla said.

Colla outlined the economicinterests the United States has inthe Middle East, including oil,weapons and free trade.

Colla also said the U.S. mediahas divided Middle Easternnations into three categories —allies, moderates and rogues. Butthese categorizations recognizenations by their ruling elite’s alle-giance to the United States, andfail to express the sentiments ofthe masses in each country, hesaid

He said these classificationsalso reinforce hypocritical foreignrelations of the United States inthe region, including appropria-tion of loans and military aid andtolerance levels for the develop-ment of nuclear weapons.

Though the war has not begun,Colla said that outcomes forcountries could already be pre-dicted based on their classifica-tions.

“Even at this distance however,some aspects of a post-war sce-nario are very predictable — U.S.installed puppets in Afghanistanand Iraq, the Arabian Gulf underdirect U.S. military control, mak-

ing rogue states further isolatedand the majority of the Arabworld, i.e. the moderate coun-tries, destabilized to variousdegrees.”

It is important, Colla said, tonote who would stand to gainfrom a war with Iraq. The UnitedStates would potentially controlIraqi oil and could even pull theworld oil markets away from thenations of the Organization of thePetroleum Exporting Countriesthat currently control the market.

Turkey is already receivingsubstantial payments for use ofits military bases and borders andhas requested control over theKurdish region of northern Iraqshould the U.S. war succeed, hesaid. Israel would also be in aposition to benefit from the war.The Israeli government has oftenurged the United States to engagein war against Iraq because itwould sideline their major oppo-nents in Lebanon and distractother nations from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This wouldgive Israel more freedom in howthey dealt with Palestine, includ-ing measures as extreme as eth-nic cleansing, Colla said.

“Most Americans will gain littlefrom this suffering. If anything,there is reason to believe

Americans will suffer conse-quences of this war as local com-munities see their health, educa-tion and welfare resources divert-ed to pay for expensive weapons,mercenary arming and militaryoccupation,” he said.

Colla then questioned if therewere any movements progres-sives in the United States couldsupport.

“It’s a sad legacy that theUnited States has failed toencourage the emergence of civilsociety institutions. And withoutsuch institutions, one cannotexpect to find the democratic, lib-eral and open groups one wouldlike to find,” he said.

Though they have not receivedas much media coverage, Colladid point out two specific foreignorganizations he felt were goodstarting points for the antiwarmovement to support.

Ta’aygush is comprised ofJewish and Palestinian Israeliactivists who have attempted toensure fair treatment of thePalestinians living under theIsraeli occupation. The Initiativefor Personal Rights is a group thatattempts to regulate governmentintervention in citizens’ lives andespecially helps minorities,women and homosexuals.

It is through learning aboutthese groups and the historicalrelationship between the UnitedStates and the Middle East, Collasaid, that will help guide move-ments to change the UnitedStates’ current policies and itsdrive toward war.

Herald staff writer DanielleCerny ’06 covers campusactivism. She can be reached [email protected].


Colla The U.S. media has

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and rogues.

BY CASSIE RAMIREZThe College Curriculum Council voted 7-2on Tuesday not to recommend to theFaculty Executive Committee thatchanges be made to the current gradingsystem. The vote effectively ends debatewithin the CCC on whether to add plusesand minuses.

“I hope people don’t interpret this asthe end of discussion,” said CCC memberSean Yom ’03. “It should be seen as thebeginning. Just because we (didn’t vote tomake recommendations for change)doesn’t mean reforms shouldn’t be made,”he said.

Yom said he voted against change“given the fact that no unambiguous evi-dence has shown that adding pluses andminuses has an effect on grade inflation.

“Adding pluses and minuses is not theonly option. The faculty should considerother options such as giving better feed-back in class and writing more course per-formance reports,” he said.

A motion was unanimously passed toform a subcommittee of the CCC respon-sible for writing a report summarizing thediscussions that took place during thissemester’s CCC meetings.

Members said they believe making thereport available to the Brown communitywill allow the different groups advocatingfor and against pluses and minuses to bet-ter understand each other. The CCC’s owndebates have raised concerns importantto the faculty, undergraduates and gradu-ate students involved, but the group itself

was unable to come to a consensus.“Making a report is good, (and we

should do it),” said Sam Brenner GS, CCCmember and co-president of the GraduateStudent Council. “But it’s still a disservice.People aren’t going to care about reports;they’re going to want results.”

“We’re not saying to disregard the(Sheridan Center) polls, but the pollsaren’t aimed at the central issues,” saidCCC member and Professor of Ecologyand Evolutionary Biology JonathanWaage. “We do owe an explanationthough and we can make recommenda-tions in policy and practice,” he said.

In other news, the CCC discussed therising cost of textbooks at its Tuesday

meeting. Dean of the College PaulArmstrong said he heard students werechoosing classes according to whetherthey could afford the textbooks. “Weshould be very concerned as a faculty,” hesaid.

Lawrence Carr, head of the BrownBookstore, presented statistics showingan increase in the costs of textbooksbetween 1997 and 2001, and several CCCmembers noted the Office of FinancialAid has not increased the money it givesstudents for books and supplies to matchthis rise.

But if a student with financial aid has

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BY MERYL ROTHSTEINThe Western idea of feminism cannotbe universally applied, said panelistsin yesterday’s discussion, “Women’sRights Today: Revisiting TheirConnection with Human Rights,”which analyzed the “universalistapproach” to feminism and human-ism.

The universalist approach, saidFadwa El Guindi, adjunct professor ofanthropology at the University ofSouthern California and one of thefour panelists, purportedly addressesthe issues of the entire world, yet iscurrently subject to political systemsand cultural boundaries.

“The universalist approach tofeminism has to be deconstructedand then reconstructed,” El Guindisaid.

We should not project our Westernunderstanding of feminine issues tointernational cultures, said panelist

Westernapproach tofeminism notuniversal,panelists say

see PANEL, page 8

CCC votes against grading policy change

BY SAMANTHA PLESSEREating disorders aren’t just one person’smedical or psychological problem —they require a team approach to be over-come, Katie McCoy, Brown’s nutritionist,told a small gathering in Wilson HallTuesday night.

In the talk, “The Psychology andPhysiology of Eating Disorders,” McCoyand Dr. Cynthia Ellis, a clinical psycholo-gist with Psychological Services and oneof two specialists dealing with eating dis-orders at Brown, gave brief talks about

their jobs on campus and the nature ofeating disorders in general.

In industrialized countries, food sup-ply is not a problem, yet eating disordersare more common, Ellis said.

“The million-dollar question is whatcauses eating disorders — it could be avariant in genes, a problem in seratoninreuptake — we just do not know,” shesaid.

Eating disorders can also be hard to

Team approach required to overcomeeating disorders, U. nutritionist says

see CCC, page 9

see NUTRITION, page 9


city,” Freid said.The Rhode Island School of

Design shares the University’sbelief that its current contribu-tions to the city more than makeup for the fact that it does notpay property taxes, said AnnHudner, director of externalrelations at RISD.

Hudner pointed to RISD’swork with the community as evi-dence of its commitment toimproving the city. Some ofRISD’s contributions includehaving design teams helping atHope High School, a newlyopened business incubatordowntown, the many confer-ences it holds in the city and its“direct relationship” with AS220,a Providence arts center.

“We produce activity that pro-duces an economic effect,”Hudner said. She added thatRISD produces “intellectual rev-enue” for the city.

Hudner said she believes thecity’s financial difficulties can besolved in other ways and thatdrawing more revenue from uni-versities will not solve theselong-term problems.

“The city needs to look at whyit is so reliant on property taxes,”she said.

Brown also believes the city istoo dependent on propertytaxes, Freid said.

“The city’s problems … arethe result of the loss of theindustrial-commercial tax base,”she said.

That sentiment was echoed inthe Providence ManagementTask Force report, a documentput together by the RhodeIsland Public ExpenditureCouncil to assess the city’s over-all financial situation, whichcited the city’s “over-depend-ence on property taxes” as a rea-son for the city’s current finan-cial woes. It suggested the citypursue “revenue diversification”through a variety of means,including updating and linkingmunicipal fees such as parkingtickets and licensing fees toinflation.

Cicilline acknowledged thecity’s overdependence on prop-erty taxes but said he believesthat reevaluating the relation-ship between the city govern-ment and the colleges and uni-versities should be part ofaddressing the problem.

“It is simply not acceptablefor a university or a hospital tosay ‘It’s not our problem,’”Cicilline said. “(Providence’s)problems are their problems.This is a shared responsibility.”

Hudner expressed frustrationwith the notion that the city’suniversities are an economicdrain.

“(Providence), at times, is avery discouraging place to be,”she said. “You’re constantly hav-ing the finger pointed at you andtold you’re draining (the city’s)lifeblood.”

Herald staff writer Adam Stella’05 is the assistant metro editor.He can be reached [email protected].


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ronment on weekdays atlunchtime and in the earlyevening, Jablonski said. Theadditional space will help allevi-ate pressure on the Blue Room,which is often crowded, she said.On Fridays and Saturdays, theUnderground would againbecome a pub, she said.

The conversion of the spacewill allow the University “to haveboth more social space that weknow we need on campus foreveryone and still have a pub-like atmosphere for studentswho are 21 and over,” Jablonskisaid.

Changing the Underground

into a coffee-house environmentwill require some one-timeimprovement costs, includingfood storage and cooking facili-ties, Jablonski said. The floor mayalso be redone, she said. She saidthe next step is to work withUniversity Food Services to aid inthe conversion to a coffee house.

The Undergraduate FinanceBoard’s contribution to theUnderground has yet to beresolved.

Jablonski said organizers areworking to make the space non-smoking in the fall but may pro-hibit smoking this semester aswell.

A fire marshal inspected theUnderground and GraduateCenter Bar yesterday in responseto Thursday’s club fire in West

Warwick. Director of StudentActivities David Inman had notreceived the results of the inspec-tion as of Monday afternoon anddid not know when they wouldbe available.

“Barring anything I don’t knowabout, I’m presuming that theUnderground is up to code” andwill be opening on March 7,Inman said.

Jablonski said she would notrule out the possibility of theUnderground working towardbeing a pub for all students in acouple of years.

Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06covers the Office of Campus Lifeand Student Services. She can bereached at [email protected].


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I N B R I E F

Blix says Iraq shows signs of realcooperationUNITED NATIONS (L.A. Times) — Iraq has offered its firstsigns of “substantive cooperation” by turning up twobombs, one possibly filled with a biological agent,inspections chief Hans Blix said Tuesday, while Canadaoffered a compromise proposal designed to bridge thegap between the United States and France.

But U.S. officials said that neither the cooperation norcompromise offered enough to persuade them tochange their plan to ask the Security Council for a mid-March vote to disarm Iraq by force. They said they willcontinue intensive diplomatic efforts to win badly need-ed support.

Blix said Tuesday that he has received eight lettersfrom Iraq in the last several days with information onpast weapons programs, including the recent discoveryof two R-400 aerial bombs at a site where Iraq had dis-posed of biological weapons before. One of them is filledwith “a liquid that appears to be biological,” he said,adding that it would be tested soon.

After denying in 1991 that it had a biological weaponsprogram, Iraq admitted in 1995 that it had produced 155R-400 bombs that were filled with anthrax, aflatoxin andbotulinum toxin. It said that the bombs were buried dur-ing the 1991 Gulf War and later destroyed, and that mostof the related documents were destroyed with them.

But in a letter delivered to Blix over the weekend, Iraqiauthorities said they recently discovered handwrittendocuments about the disposal of prohibited items in1991.“There are pieces of evidence that are coming for-ward but we still have to see this evidence,” he said. Headded that he regarded the disclosures as “positive” stepsby Iraq, which he said had previously only offered helpwith the inspections process, not substance.

“This is cooperation on substance,” the inspectionschief told the Los Angeles Times.“Substance is if you findweapons, you can destroy it, if you find documents it mayconstitute evidence. That’s not process.”

Iraq has yet to agree to begin destroying dozens of Al-Samoud 2 missiles by Saturday because experts foundthat their range exceeds the U.N.-mandated 150-kilome-ter (93-mile) limit. CBS news said Iraqi President SaddamHussein hinted in an interview with anchor Dan Ratherthat he would not dispose of the missiles, but Iraqi lead-ers said Tuesday that the question was unresolved. Iraqmaintains that the missiles would not travel beyond thelimit when weighted down with a payload, fuel and guid-ance system and asked for more technical talks. But Blixsaid the matter is not open for negotiation.

“We told them what they need to do,” he said. Blix willinclude the letters in a written report to the council dueby March 1 and answer ambassadors’ questions in a spe-cial meeting on March 7.

U.S. officials say that the report may be Blix’s lastbefore they ask the council to decide that Iraq is not seri-ous about disarming, and authorize military action. TheWhite House rejected Iraq’s sudden weapons revelationsas too little, too late.“I suspect we’ll see him playinggames. The world will say disarm and he will all of a sud-den find a weapon that he claimed he didn’t have,”President Bush told reporters after meeting with theNational Economic Council.

But the Security Council remains deeply divided onwhether inspectors have had an adequate chance to ridIraq of its nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponsalong with the bombs and missiles designed to deliverthem.

Canada, a noncouncil member, has suggested that Iraqmust answer unresolved questions on its weapons pro-gram by March 28.

If Iraq has not fully complied with inspectors by then,the council would authorize “all necessary means” to dis-arm the country by the end of the month. The deadlinewould be close enough to keep pressure on Iraq to dis-arm, the Canadian position paper said, but would allowsufficient time for judging whether Iraq is offering sub-stantial evidence that it has disarmed.

The proposal splits the difference between the twochoices now facing the council—to declare within threeweeks that Iraq has squandered its final chance to disarmvoluntarily, as the United States, Britain and Spain pro-posed Monday, or the French-German suggestion tostrengthen and extend inspections for at least fourmonths.

WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) —The Pentagon is telling theWhite House and Congress that defeating Iraq andoccupying the country for six months could cost asmuch as $85 billion, according to sources—consider-ably more than what senior administration officialshave said in public.

Combined with aid for regional allies such asTurkey, the price tag for the conflict could top the $100billion mark, twice the war costs cited last month byDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and an amountthe White House dismissed as outlandish last fall.

And the tally could rise still further. Indeed, someclose to the process say war planners have no firm gripon the conflict’s final costs, a fact that is causing con-sternation among administration policy-makers asthe nation edges closer to war.

“It’s like watching numbers roll higher and higheron a slot machine,” said one State Department official,who asked not to be identified.

This official said that during recent interagencymeetings, White House budget aides “put their handsover their ears and said, ‘We’re not listening.’”

“ ‘We can’t take any more requests. Get a grip on thisprocess and figure out exactly what you’re planning,’ ”the official remembered the aides as saying. “Theybasically said ‘Get a hold of yourselves.’ ”

A spokesman for the Office of Management andBudget refused to comment on that account Tuesdayand said the administration had yet to settle on theamount it would ask Congress to provide. PresidentBush’s budgets for both this fiscal year and nextincluded no money for war with Iraq.

“The president has not yet been presented with anynumbers” for war costs, said OMB communicationsdirector Trent Duffy. The costs are “all subject to deci-sions the president has yet to make,” said Duffy, “so it’spremature to speculate what they might be.”

Bush himself suggested Tuesday that war costsmust come second to national security.

“There are all kinds of estimates about the cost ofwar,” the president told reporters after a session withhis new economic advisers. “But the risk of doingnothing, the risk of the security of this country beingjeopardized at the hands of a madman with weaponsof mass destruction, far exceeds the risks of any

action.” Sources said Bush had been scheduled to meet

Tuesday with Rumsfeld and OMB Director Mitchell E.Daniels Jr. to discuss war costs and the price of a U.S.occupation of Iraq. No details were available.

Washington has been abuzz about a war’s impacton the federal budget and the economy since last fall,when former White House economic adviserLawrence B. Lindsey estimated the conflict’s costscould run between $100 billion and $200 billion. Otheradministration officials rushed to dismiss the estimateand Lindsey was subsequently fired.

Since then, lawmakers, OMB and CongressionalBudget Office analysts and outside experts have gen-erally estimated that the immediate costs of war—deployment of U.S. troops, fighting and early occupa-tion—would be between $50 billion and $60 billion. Inrecent interviews, Rumsfeld put the price tag at “under$50 billion.”

Analysts cautioned that the new, $80 billion-to-$85billion cost estimate may not cover exactly the sameground as previous estimates and may represent moreof an opening bid by the Pentagon in coming negotia-tions with OMB and Congress than a measured tally ofwar costs.

The new figures do not include such costs as aid toallies. Sources said that separate from the $80 billion-plus, the State Department will ask Congress for anextra $10 billion to $18 billion for aid to allies. And thefigures do not include a prolonged occupation of Iraqby U.S. and coalition troops after a war. A top Armyofficial testified Tuesday that the occupation couldrequire “several hundred thousand soldiers.”

Word of the new war cost figures sent independentanalysts scrambling for their calculators and CapitolHill staffers wondering aloud how Congress would beable write a budget for next fiscal year when such hugeamounts are missing from this year’s spending plan.

“These are considerably higher numbers than whatpeople had been anticipating,” said Steven Kosiak, aveteran defense analyst with the Center for Strategicand Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank.“They suggest that either the size of the force is goingto be bigger, or the length of the conflict is goinglonger,” he said.

Pentagon puts war cost near $85 billion

HOUSTON (L.A. Times) — NASA investigators acknowledgedTuesday that many pieces of the space shuttle Columbiavaporized in the atmosphere as re-entry began on Feb. 1and will never be discovered.

Despite an exhaustive effort by more than 4,000searchers in East Texas, little more than 10 percent of thespace shuttle—about 8,100 pieces—has been recovered.

Investigators might retrieve less than 20 percent of the179,000-pound orbiter, members of an independentpanel appointed by the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration to investigate the loss of the Columbiasaid in interviews Tuesday.

Asked whether much of the debris, particularly thelighter pieces, might have burned up altogether in theEarth’s atmosphere, retired Navy Adm. Harold W.Gehman Jr., the panel’s chairman, said: “Absolutely.”

NASA has recovered only a few large pieces, includingone of the shuttle’s three main engines, which plowed 15feet into the ground in Texas.

G. Scott Hubbard, a member of the Columbia inves-tigative board and the director of NASA’s Ames ResearchCenter in Mountain View, Calif., said the 20 percent esti-mate is “very preliminary.” The most massive and heavypieces of the shuttle were more likely to survive thescorching heat of re-entry, which can produce tempera-tures greater than 3,000 degrees.

Some of the pieces that have been recovered, however,are “beginning to talk to us,” Gehman said. At a newsconference Tuesday, he displayed a photograph of one ofColumbia’s heat-resistant tiles, discovered in Powell,Texas, 30 miles west of Fort Worth.

The tile, once smooth and white, was severely dam-aged from heat that appeared to melt away its top layerand by forces that left a giant scoop mark on its bottom.But it isn’t clear yet whether the damage was causedbefore the breakup or when the tile flew by itself throughthe atmosphere after the breakup.

Gehman also disclosed that investigators have locatedanother tile in Littlefield, Texas, west of Lubbock and far-

ther west than any other known piece of debris. Althoughanalysis of that fragment has just begun, investigatorssay the tile was once attached to a portion of the shuttleknown as its “glove,” where the top of the wing attachesto the fuselage.

Gehman said the board would take a close look atwhether the Boeing Co.’s analysis of potential damage tothe shuttle’s heat-resistant tiles during a Jan. 16 liftoffaccident was adequate.

Among other things, the board will look at Boeing’sdecision to transfer more than 1,000 jobs from SouthernCalifornia, where the orbiter was designed and built, toits Houston office.

There are concerns that the company’s engineers inHouston were not as well prepared for safety-relatedassignments as the more experienced staff at its plant inHuntington Beach, Calif., which had been doing tiledamage analyses. Boeing has said repeatedly that itstands by its assessment of the liftoff accident, in whichits engineers predicted a “safe return” for the Columbiaand its seven-member crew.

Also Tuesday, two members of the investigative boardsaid in interviews that the panel will investigate whetherNASA retains a culture of stubbornness and recalcitrancewhen it comes to sharing information—particularly thesafety concerns of low-level and midlevel engineers.

In a series of internal e-mails released late last week,engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center inHampton, Va., suggested that they were concerned dur-ing Columbia’s mission that the launch incident had leftthe shuttle badly damaged. But their e-mails indicatedthat they had been unable to persuade top NASA admin-istrators to take their theories seriously.

One engineer said NASA treated requests for addition-al information like “the plague.” Another suggested thatNASA was being secretive in its treatment of the liftoffaccident, when several pieces of material believed to befoam insulation fell from an external fuel tank and struckthe left side of the shuttle.

NASA says much of shuttle vaporized in re-entry


Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, pro-fessor of law at Emory University.

Panelist Jacqui Alexander,chair of the Department ofGender and Women’s Studies atConnecticut College, emphasizedthe importance of taking localfeminism into account and avoid-ing viewing women’s rightsthrough the Western frame of ref-erence.

“In spite of the notion thatthere is something called univer-salism, feminism is not somethingthat can be ‘cut from the West’ andget placed upon local conditions,”Alexander said.

Alexander said that the Westernconception of violence is limitedto physical violence, yet econom-ic, religious and state-sanctionedviolence exists. Feminism needsto move away from this miscon-ception as well as cultural rela-tivism, the idea of the “first world”as distinct from the “third world,”that exists within the movement.

El Guindi’s presentation dis-cussed the correlation betweenfeminism and veils, both religiousand secular. The Western assump-tion that veils are undesirable and

limit women’s freedom is a resultof a lack of context and culturalawareness, El Gunidi said. To dis-pel the misconception that veilingis a consistently oppressive tradi-tion, El Guindi played a video ofan American Muslim woman whocalled her veil empowering andhumanizing.

An-Na’im received applausewhen he said America’s foreignpolicy “is one of the major obsta-cles for the protection of universalrights internationally.” Thenation’s counter-terrorism policydenies non-citizens minimal pro-tection. This inequity of protec-tion gives the country “no stand-ing to challenge anybody else forwhat they do,” he said.

Jacqueline Bhabha, adjunctlecturer in public policy at theKennedy School for Government

at Harvard, said women seekingpolitical asylum have been dis-criminated against.” While themajority of refugees are women,the overwhelming majority ofthose granted asylum are male,she said.

This was previously becausegender-specific issues, such asrape, were not specifically enu-merated as forms of persecutionin the definition of a refugee,Bhabha said. Feminist criticism ofthe narrow refugee law has result-ed in changes in the laws in theUnited States, Canada and theUnited Kingdom, among otherplaces, Bhabha said. She said dis-crimination still exists, however,because fewer women have themeans necessary to apply for asy-lum.

Audience member LynnetteFreeman ’05 said that the discus-sion “taught how human rightsand feminism are seen from aWestern perspective.”

About 50 people attended thepanel in Petteruti Lounge. Thediscussion was sponsored by thePembroke Center Associates andthe Department of Anthropologyand was moderated by RogaiaAbusharaf, visiting assistant pro-fessor of Africana and genderstudies.


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There is also the issue of stick-ing it out for the good of the team— to prioritize the needs of themany over the desires of the one.Yao Ming retains his loyalty to theChinese national team, unlikeWang Zhi Zhi, who tossed hisnational commitments into atrash can on Sunset Boulevard. Yaois now enjoying widespread atten-tion and respect from both sides ofthe Pacific, while Wang is playingfor the Clippers. On a side note,Yao has proved correct my predic-tion of dunking on Shaq and gonefurther by rejecting him threetimes in the same game.

Some say, “Change is goodwhen things are bad,” and somesay, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

But these axioms don’t indicatethat time has to be taken into con-text in difficult situations. I wouldsuggest for athletes going throughhard times with their teams to“stay calm and see how things playout,” as I think that patience istruly a virtue — in life and insports.

These days it appears that theword “home” carries no meaningfor professional athletes. Even ifthey forge strong bonds in onearea, they are often drawn awayfor the desire for a temporarilybetter situation. However, the oneswho do stay and work through thedifficulties reap the rewards. AsDorothy once said, “There’s noplace like home.”

Hanyen Andrew Lee ’06 hails fromHong Kong and is proud of his FarEastern roots.


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recapture both the titles they wonin the 2001 seasons.

For the seniors on the team,this is their last chance to moveonto or up Brown’s top ten indoorperformance lists. One of Brown’stop women performers has beenLauren Contursi ’03. She is thenumber one ranked pole-vaulterin Brown’s history.

“As a senior whose track andfield career is closing in, I justwant to give it all I have got,” said

Contursi. With all the success Brown has

experienced in the past two years,one aspect of the team wasnoticeably absent — the throw-ers. In the last two years, HeadCoach Robert Johnson brought ina new throwing coach and agroup of continually improvingyoung throwers.

“This meet will be our firstchance to show the league thatBrown throws has finally arrivedand that we will be a thorn in theside of the other schools for a longtime to come,” said Throws CoachMichelle Eisenreich.


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in the seeded race, which is sureto help their overall performance.

“It’s really going to take every-one stepping up and really put-ting it all on the line to competeas best as possible next week-

end,” Buechel said.The team leaves on Friday to

travel to Dartmouth College inHanover, N.H., for theHeptagonal Championships.

Sports staff writer JoannaGrossman ’03 covers the men’s trackand field team. She can be reachedat [email protected].


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A recent example involved thestudy of which type of electrictoothbrush works the best. Theleading company was able toadvertise that their product did infact produce the best results.

“In the U.S., we don’t hear somuch about (the CochraneCollaboration),” Dickersin said. “Ithink one of the reasons is the waywe pay for health care.” In othercountries where the governmentpays for health care, the govern-ment “is very interested in findingout what (drugs and treatments)work and what doesn’t work. Inthis country, there is less of amotivation for the government tosupport this thing,” she said.

However, Dickersin is hopefulthat this will change. The receiptof two large federal grants indi-cates that “things are changing,”she said.

The first of four Cochrane cen-ters in the United States, theBrown center recently became theU.S. headquarters. The other cen-ters in Boston and San Franciscoare now considered branches.

“We have the support of theother centers,” Dickersin said.“They are excited about our takingthe lead.” As headquarters, thecenter at Brown fulfills a numberof functions that the other centers

were unable to do, includingtraining, helping groups joiningthe collaboration get started, talk-ing to the press and distributingother types of information aboutthe collaboration.

The U.S. center is the centralfunnel for new information that ispublished. New information isprocessed electronically in theU.S. center and gets put onto theCochrane library, where othercenters, consumers and reviewerscan access it.

“We’ve been involved in theCochrane Collaboration since itsbeginning 10 years ago,” Dickersinsaid. The Providence center,which Dickersin said was the mostactive in the United States, tookover as headquarters with thesupport of the other centers. Overthe years, it has received a numberof grants that helped fund itsactivities.

The Cochrane Collaborationbegan 10 years ago when thefounder, Iain Chalmers, puttogether a similar databasefocused on information aboutpregnancy, childbirth and new-born babies. He and his researchassistants, including Dickersin,decided to expand this to all ofmedicine.

Herald staff writer StephanieHarris ’04 edits the academic watchsection. She can be reached at [email protected].


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spent more than the allottedamount of money on textbooks,the student can possibly worksomething out with the Officeof Financial Aid, said MichaelBartini, director of financialaid.

Carr said the BrownBookstore does its best to keepcosts down for students. Hesaid 30 percent of textbooksales are from used books —“twice as much as other col-leges like Harvard and Duke.”

The problem, he said, is pub-lishers are competing with usedbooks. “It’s a captive market,”he said.

The CCC also discussed tac-tics publishers use to woo stu-dents away from used text-books, including new additionsthat feature additional graphicsand electronic components.

Course packets are also alarge expense, Carr said.Seventy percent of the cost ofthe packets is spent on royal-ties, he said.

The increase in textbookprices has perhaps led to anincrease in course reserves atthe Rockefeller Library, saidBonnie Buzzell ’72, head of theRock’s circulation department.She said over 6,000 books are

currently on reserve, as well asat least 500 copies of materialsfrom professors, such as coursepackets. Professors have alsotaken to posting required read-ing online, which studentsprint out free of charge at theRock and the Sciences Library,leading to “a huge cost increasein printing at the library andprobably with CIS as well,” shesaid.

Herald staff writer CassieRamirez ’06 covers the CollegeCurriculum Council. She can bereached at [email protected].


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diagnose, McCoy said.“So many people with prob-

lems with eating do not haveall of the clinically definedsymptoms, so we use the termdisordered eating patterns todescribe those whose thinkingabout food gets in the way oftheir enjoyment of life,”McCoy said.

Both anorexia and bulimiacan consist of binge and purgebehavior, Ellis said.

For these reasons, McCoysaid that she did not careabout giving an individual adiagnosis but rather aboutimproving the quality of life forthose who wanted help withtheir diet or food intake.

Brown approaches some-one who has an eating disor-der through a team approachwith a medical professional, apsychologist and a nutrition-ist, McCoy said.

“Fixing the eating doesn’tnecessarily fix the disorder, asthe eating problem is a symp-tom of more underlying symp-toms,” she said.

Visits to Health Services orPsychological Services areconfidential, McCoy added.

The event was part of EatingDisorders Awareness Week.


NutritionThe CCC also dis-

cussed tactics pub-

lishers use to woo

students away from

used textbooks,

including new addi-

tions that feature

additional graphics

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Open it upDespite months to contemplate the Underground’s future since itsclosure in October, the University’s current plan for the bar all butensures that the Underground is headed for permanent irrelevance.

On weekdays, the bar will — no doubt with expensive renovations— serve as overflow space for the Blue Room. Friday and Saturdaynights, the Underground will attempt to compete for the attention oflegal drinkers not looking to venture off-campus, a market long cor-nered by the Graduate Center Bar. Eventually underage drinkers willno doubt find a new way to cheat the system and get caught, and theUnderground will once again close for retooling.

Perhaps the campus should have expected such an impracticalsolution from the same minds that have seen the pub closed almostannually. And the campus should not sit idly by allowing failed over-seers to once again run the bar into the ground at Universityexpense.

The Office of Campus Life and Student Services is on the righttrack in attempting to diversify the Underground’s mission. But theadministration could go further — and ensure that the Universitywould never need to deal with the wayward bar again — if it openedup the Underground’s future to proposals from the student body.

The Undergraduate Council of Students deserves credit for pres-suring the University to expand exercise facilities at the Bear’s Lairand for advocating other improvements in student services. Yet theCouncil appears from its public discussions to only have beenperipherally involved in the Underground’s fate.

UCS could act as a launching point for wider discussion in thecommunity about what to do with what is essentially student space.The best ideas may now be hidden in the internal discussions of astudent group or even a conversation between two friends. Withminimal effort from UCS and the administration, those ideas — anda vastly better future for the Underground — could be brought tolight.

But what cannot be allowed to happen is for the Underground tofade from memory as one of Brown’s most popular student spaces.That appears to be the course those who control it have set and towhich higher administrators seem resigned. Brown has one moresemester to find a better solution, and both students and adminis-trators need to take advantage of that window.

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Gubata misinterpretswomen who find otherwomen attractive

To the Editor:

Kate Gubata ’03 makes a disturbing generaliza-tion in her February 25 column. She seems to implythat whenever a female makes a statement regard-ing the attractiveness of another female, the firstfemale engages in “male behavior.” Ms. Gubata, Ibelieve you have misread the feminist (and perhapspost-feminist) propaganda. Nowhere in that handylittle pamphlet “How to be a feminist” does it statethat I must find all women equally attractive. Basedon my own personal preferences developedthrough a variety of experiences, I may select onewoman over another. Nor does it say that my con-ceptualization of “attractiveness” came from myfather’s ideas of beauty. I must assure you that mymother had far more to do with my development ofaesthetics than my father. Knowing my maternalgrandfather, I suspect this pattern holds for mymother as well. Also, given that stereotypical

notions of beauty vary significantly across the globe(or did, until Westernizing influences overwrotethem), it is unfair to say that a woman of one cul-ture is universally “ugly” or “attractive” to a womanof every other culture.

Ms. Gubata, what you are ultimately implying isthat all women who date women do so to fulfillmale fantasies. Worse, you are implying that we areall magically endowed (pun intended) with malecharacteristics. I find those suggestions as repug-nant as the constant entreaties from certain of mymale friends that I bring a video camera on mydates. That you end your column with a slight ver-bal support of the LGBT communities, that youyourself may be in those communities, does little totemper the underlying message: lesbians arewanna-be men. Splash. That was 30 years ofprogress being tossed out the window into a puddleof melting snow.

I enjoy my sexuality. I enjoy beautiful (by my ownstandards) women. Do not reduce over 20 years ofgenetics, hormones, society and personal experi-ence to “patriarchy.” It is never that simple.

Veronica Gross ‘01Feb. 6

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LATELY, I’VE INCREASINGLY NOTICED A DISTURBING TRENDin much of the recent criticism of President Bush’s policy of“regime change” in Iraq. Instead of debating the merits of thepolicy, these critics are quick to blurt out, “But we gave him hisweapons.” The Blame America camp of left-wing critics charac-terize the Reagan administration as a bloodthirsty governmentlacking any moral qualms about funneling chemical weaponsinto Iraq in return for oil and arms deals.

Now let’s be reasonable for a second. Yes, the Reagan admin-istration gave Iraq material support during its war with Iran.This support, like that given to the Soviet Union during WorldWar II, aided the defeat of a terrorist regime with malevolentregional ambitions in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. ThatPresident Reagan’s support helped fashion the modern murder-er that is Saddam Hussein does not invalidate his strategy, butrather highlights the dilemma faced by his administration. Justas President Franklin Roosevelt faced a difficult choice betweenfighting fascism or communism, so too did the Reagan adminis-tration, between a cruel dictator or a threatening ayatollah.

Reagan’s strategy may or may not havebeen prudent, but the point is that thecriticism his policies have received isunfair.

But the Blame America critics aremore than unfair. They have the wrongguy. I’ll tell you who senselessly and irre-

sponsibly promoted Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. It was-n’t Ronald Reagan. It wasn’t the Soviets. It wasn’t even the C.I.A.It was France. No, really. And by “France,” I don’t mean some pri-vate company that got bought out years ago by a corporationthat sells frogs’ legs and stinky cheese. I mean the man himself,President Jacques Chirac. While serving as Prime Minister dur-ing the mid-1970s, he negotiated a deal finalized in 1976 to giveIraq two nuclear plants and enough enriched uranium to makeseveral atomic bombs. Now Chirac may be a lot of things, buthe’s not stupid. Saddam Hussein paid lip service to the idea ofpeaceful nuclear energy, but he made his intentions obviouswhen he refused to accept a benign atomic fuel called “caramel,”opting instead for weapons-grade uranium, and when hebought technology from Italy enabling him to separate plutoni-um from spent fuel rods — not to mention the uranium he wasmysteriously purchasing from Portugal, Italy and Niger. It didn’tappear to bother the French government when Saddam explic-itly stated that the nuclear reactor was being constructed to ter-rorize Israel. Israel destroyed the Osirak reactor in 1981, but bythen, the damage had largely been done. Chirac had arrangedfor the training of hundreds of Iraqi nuclear scientists (the samescientists that Iraq won’t let U.N. arms inspectors interview), aswell as an early experience with nuclear technology that gaveIraq’s weapons program a running start.

Contrast Reagan’s desire to curb Iranian aggression withFrance’s motives. If you think our government is obsessed withoil, consider the 70 million barrels Saddam promised to sellFrance in return for its nuclear program. If you think we’reobsessed with our defense industry, consider the $1.5 billionarms deal that France got out of the agreement. Nukes andarms for oil: Is it just me, or does that remind anyone of NorthKorea’s economic model? Is this the Chirac who claims to be thenoble defender of the peace, or is this the Chirac who for yearshas undermined international pressure on the Iraqi dictator inthe service of his country’s narrowly defined self-interest?

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Saddam’s leading advocateturns out to be the biggest contributor to his nuclear ambitions.Today, Saddam is acting like Bush’s words are a great big bluff. It’sno wonder. Throughout the 1990s, the French were undermininginternational sanctions and watering down the internationalcoalition devoted to containing Iraq. Today, Chirac is practicingthe French habit of dismembering the NATO alliance that pro-tected him and his country for half a century, and he’s doingeverything he can to hollow out Bush’s threats. It’s what one canexpect from the guy who built Iraq’s nuclear program in the firstplace. Chirac is right to question Bush’s policy towards Iraq butlet’s not lose sight of his dark role in today’s crisis. France, afterall, is the country that surrendered to fascism, that gave up onVietnam, and that enjoyed NATO protection for decades withoutreturning so much as a “Merci beaucoup” to the allies preparedto die for the people of France. For once, the French should takeresponsibility for their actions instead of calling us the bad guyfor trying to clean up a mess that they largely caused.

Bush stuck cleaningup after French

NATE GORALNIKCOLUMNIST

MY HAIR, LIKE MY POLITICS, IS VERY IMPORTANTto me. You see, I’m an unfortunate person withstereotypical “Asian guy” hair. My hair is black and itsort of, well, sits there. I went through a bandanaphase while at Brown because it allowed me toignore the natural deficiencies of the lump of fur onmy pate. Bandanas and hats, however,could hide me from the truth for only solong: I needed a haircut, and I had to getone here in Providence.

Being a neophyte haircut-customer, Iwent to the corporate sellout “Supercuts”and was horrified to discover that it wasclosed for renovation or some otherworthless reason. I really needed a hair-cut — my vision was being obscured by my ever-lengthening locks — so I proceeded to the only othersource of hair cutting that I had heard of: ChezLenore. The Faunce barber was an option, I guess,but I’m a modern hipster and thus I feel more com-fortable going to a “salon” than a “barbershop.” Yayfor being won over by word symbology.

Anyway, I went over to Chez Lenore (by Allegra),proceeded up the stairs into this scary 1920s-eracommon area, entered the salon proper and wasrather surprised. A picture of Elvis greeted me on thewall, and the salon area was, for lack of a good vocab-ulary, homely. Lenore (hence the name ChezLenore), the proprietress, said hello and told me towait. I waited for a little bit and then she proceededto cut my hair according to my instructions. I wasinfinitely pleased with the result and with the niceservice that I received. Chez Lenore came out of

nowhere and won me over. Kind of like DennisKucinich.

After Senator Paul Wellstone’s untimely death, Ifelt increasingly cynical about politics. Wheneversome legislation was enacted that curtailed civil lib-erties or encouraged blustering foreign policy, I

could always tell myself that SenatorWellstone was looking out for us. He wasa politician in whom I could believe. Heis no longer with us, and so as “Decision2004” crept closer and closer, I hadbegun to despair. Kerry? Lieberman?Sharpton? General Clark? I won’t go asfar as some leftists and say that theDemocrats and the Republicans are

basically the same, but I wasn’t leaping for joy at theprogressivism of the Democratic possible candi-dates. I like Reverend Sharpton, but his past prob-lems (I don’t have room to go into them here) willplague him on a presidential run.

So I discovered Dennis Kucinich. I like him. He’sprogressive in a way that few elected officials dare tobe. “Whole Life Times” magazine writer PaulAndrews described Kucinich as a man who “takes aprogressive stand on a number of issues like theenvironment, world peace, corporate responsibility,arms reduction, world hunger, food modificationand spirituality.” Kucinich is co-chair of theCongressional Progressive Caucus and comes from astate (Ohio) that is filled with electoral votes. I have todo a lot more looking before I come to a final conclu-sion, but I like what I see so far.

I met two people this past week: Lenore andDennis. I’m huge on first impressions and both ofthem impressed me, one on a political level and oneon a cosmetological level. I feel secure: my hair andpolitics are now in good hands.

I DO NOT KNOW QUITE WHAT TO DOwith affirmative action. On the onehand, watching George W. Bush, whohas never merited a single advance-ment doled out to him in his entirecharmed life, cry for fairness and equal-ity is a pretty sorry spectacle. Also, any-one who remembers the lastRepublican National Convention,where black city councilmen were trot-ted out on stage in place of white gover-nors and senators, knows that the GOPisn’t entirely opposed to race prefer-ences. And yet despite that ample irony,I still believe that affirmative action inuniversity admission is an evil practice that is all themore tragic for being plainly well-intentioned.

I do not base this on any sort of sympathy for thewhite students whose rejections formed the basis ofthe lawsuit now in the news. In the coming monthsI will undoubtedly be rejected from a number ofgraduate institutions, some of which practice affir-mative action, and at no point will it occur to me tosue anybody. Affirmative action is evil not due to itsnegative effects on whites, but rather its negativeeffects on blacks.

Consider the following University of Michiganstatistic: a black applicant in the lowest tenth per-centile of grades and test scores has an 88 percentchance of admission, while a white student of thesame ranking has a four percent chance — Asianseven less. How is this disparity conducive toachievement or uplift? Somebody please tell mewhy it is considered a progressive idea, in this dayand age, for blacks to argue that they cannot in factcompete on a normal footing in America, that“structural racism” gives them indefinite permis-sion to underachieve and that what offers them a

chance at success is not their own abil-ity but rather charity from the veryinstitutions accused of such racism in

the first place. This is a policy disaster, and one based on a des-

perate hypocrisy. I would be accused of ignoranceor bigotry if I suggested that all blacks were mem-bers of an underclass who languish in brokenhomes and ghettoes of drugs and crime, and whothus need help from whites. Blacks would angrilypoint out the level of black achievement in America,the large and vibrant black middle class, the legionsof black professionals, etc. And yet when affirma-tive action comes up for debate, many of the samepeople are quick to push all these great stridesunder the rug, instead describing dire statisticsabout black males and the prison system, and asalways, anecdotal evidence of residual racism.

No doubt there is still racism in America. But ifthat excuses our universities asking far less ofblacks than whites, we are cutting off the nose tospite the face, and its results will not engender blackintegration or a colorblind society. No ethnic/racialgroup in history has ever achieved uplift fromoppression thanks to charity. The American immi-grant groups that have shown this are legion. Theconservatives who bleat about affirmative action’sunfairness miss the forest for the trees — it is unfairall right, grotesquely unfair to exactly those it pur-ports to help.

Brown, a friend of the court?

John Brougher ‘06 is one of the new members of TheHerald columnist staff.

When Alex Schulman ‘03 does not get into U. Mich,he will sue his own parents for his poor genes.

Nate Goralnik ’06 thinks that people only eat French escargotsfor the American butter that they’re served in.

Affirmative action is evil

not due to its negative

effects on whites, but

rather its negative

effects on blacks.

JOHN BROUGHERCOLUMNIST

ALEX SCHULMANBORN TO RUN

The Brown men’s tennis team, ranked54th nationally, registered the biggestupset in school history with a 4-3 victoryover 17th-ranked Wake Forest in a six-hour match at the Pizzitola SportsCenter on Saturday. The DemonDeacons are the highest-ranked teamthe Bears have ever beaten, and this winshould move Brown significantly higherin the national rankings.

“Our guys absolutely came out andbattled for every single point from thestart of doubles all the way through theend of singles,” said Head Coach JayHarris.

Brown started out strong by sweepingthe doubles with Jamie Cerretani ’04 andChris Drake ’03 winning their 11thstraight match. Adil Shamasdin ’05 andNick Goldberg ’05 were 8-6 winners atsecond doubles, and Zack Pasanen ’06and Kris Goddard ’04 took third doubles9-8 (3).

In singles, Wake Forest won the firstset at numbers one, two and three andcaptured the match at number two instraight sets to tie the score, 1-1. At num-ber three, Shamasdin came back to beatWake’s Mike Murray 6-4 in the third toput Brown ahead, 2-1.

At first singles, Wake’s Derrick Spicesaved two match points againstCerretani to win an emotional 6-4 battle.Wake went ahead 3-2 when David Bereoutlasted Goldberg in another 6-4 matchin the third set. The Bears tied the scoreat 3-3 when Pasanan battled back from aset down to win the last two sets, 6-2, 6-4.

With the score tied, Ben Brier ’04,playing number six, rallied from a break-down in the third set to pull out a 6-4 vic-tory and clinch the Bears’ big upset.

Brier had been 0-10 on break points inthe third set before coming back to knotthe score at 4-4 in the third. He thenfought off two break points at 4-4 andweathered his opponent, Brett Ross, whocame up big in saving the first threematch points.

The match ended with Brier winningmatch point number four, setting off awild celebration among the PizzitolaSports Center’s avid tennis fans.

—Brown Sports Information

HOME — WE ALL FEEL OUR VERY IDEN-tities wrapped around the places where wefeel we belong. To some, home is where theywere born and will never leave; to others,home is the place they have been thelongest, have the most friends and feel most

c o m f o r t a b l e .Unfortunately formany of today’sprofessional ath-letes, home is ane v e r - c h a n g i n gplace because of toplayer trades andthe allure of freeagency.

Gary Payton’shome of Seattleembraced him for13 years as its mostgifted basketball

son of all time. Payton will always be knownas one of Seattle’s greatest sporting super-stars, yet he was not able to remain there forhis entire career. His trade to Milwaukee lastweek was a result of lack of discretion andill-spoken words between Payton and theSonics management. It left the fans ofSeattle angry and this columnist wonderingwhether any player in team sports retainsteam loyalty nowadays.

It is increasingly common for players toleave their original teams through freeagency or demanding trades. Granted,many of today’s athletes are simply seekingto advance their financial position andmight be unsatisfied with their currentworking environment. However, there is noprofession in which employees do notencounter difficulties on the path to suc-cess. If only these athletes could exercisemore patience and intestinal fortitude, theymight be able to work through temporaryhardships and come through their careerswith a strong sense of team identity and loy-alty intact.

The impatient and instant-gratification-seeking attitude that many of today’s profes-sional athletes exhibit is exemplified by cur-rent Phoenix Suns basketball playerStephon Marbury. Seeking the sole spotlighton his own team, he demanded a tradeaway from a potentially dynamic partner-ship with Kevin Garnett in Minnesota, onlyto end up in New Jersey where he got thedim lights of half-empty arenas and a fewseasons of 50-plus losses. Then he sulkedhis way to Phoenix and now finally enjoyssome measure of success — only throughsharing the spotlight with Shawn Marion.(Some even would say rookie AmareStoudemire is the one occupying centerstage there.) The player he was traded for,Jason Kidd, did the near-impossible intransforming New Jersey into the East’sbeast. Thus, the egotistic “Starbury” will for-ever be known as the player who made theNets great — by leaving them.

Leaving for another team may some-times lead to greater success, but the casesof players sticking it out with one teamthrough thick and thin are legendary. JohnElway staying with the Broncos and winningSuper Bowls in his last two seasons. JohnStockton and Karl Malone leading the UtahJazz to winning seasons into their 40s andbecoming all-time legends in Salt Lake City.Magic Johnson getting through a roughperiod with a “crybaby image” in his secondseason in the NBA to become the owner offive championship rings and the winningestsmile in NBA history. Magic could havejumped ship in rough waters, but he stuckon, and now does anybody remember, cananyone possibly imagine that bad rap hehad during his sophomore blues?

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

FEBRUARY 26, 2003 · PAGE 12

“The Glove”packs his bags

dspics

Ben Brier ’04 (above) won the decisive match in the men’s tennis team’s upset,in three sets.

HANYEN ADREWLEE

FAR EAST SIDE

Men’s track tunes up for Heps

Men’s tennis tops highest rankedopponent ever, #17 Wake Forest, 4-3

BY KEELY THARPIn a tune up for the upcoming leaguechampionship meet, members ofthe women’s track and field teamcompeted at the USA Track & FieldNew England Championships onFeb. 23. The meet was an opportuni-ty for the women to improve theirseed times for the league champi-onships and to get a final speedworkout before the last indoor teamcompetition.

The team’s focus for the last twoweeks has been the HeptagonalChampionships that begin March 1at Dartmouth College. Many Brownwomen are ranked in the top ten intheir respective events, and the teamand coaches are looking forward toan exciting battle among the IvyLeague teams for supremacy on thetrack.

In recent years, Brown has setvery high standards for itself, win-ning two out of the last four IndoorHeptagonal Championships. Lastyear, Brown had a disappointing endto the indoor season when they fin-ished in fourth, but recouped well tofinish second in the outdoor season.

“We have the talent to finish inthe top three, but it is dependentupon our coming together as ateam,” said head coach RickWemple.

The women have put an extraemphasis on creating a cohesiveteam in a sport that is consummate-ly individual.

“What I expect out of my athletesis for them to go out and beat peo-ple, not to worry about times. If theydo that, they will run fast anyway,”Wemple said.

This year the women hope to

BY JOANNA GROSSMANIn its last regular season meet of the year,members of the men’s track and fieldteam competed in the USA Track &FieldNew England Championships at Harvardlast Sunday. The entire team did not com-pete, as some rested up for theHeptagonal Championships on March 1.

“The team is feeling good; we’re readycompared to last year. We’re more physi-cally and mentally ready to go to Heps,”said Captain Sean Thomas ’03.

The Bears took three of the top fourcollege places in the 200-meter dash. PhilSardis ’04, Eldridge Gilbert ’05 and ZachWeidner ’04 finished in 22.34, 22.92 and23.52, respectively.

In the 60-meter high hurdles therewere also performers in the scoring posi-tions. Daveed Diggs ’04 took fourth placein 8.36 and Brian Hulse ’05 took sixthplace in 8.44.

“The hurdlers ran pretty well; they areback on track to where they were a coupleof weeks ago,” said Head Coach RobertJohnson.

In the 60-meter dash, Steve Marino ’03and Brandon Buchanan ’03 finished infourth and fifth place, with only one hun-dredth of a second separating them, intimes of 7.12 and 7.13, respectively.

In the mile run, Chad Buechel ’03 fin-ished second in a tough run race with apersonal record of 4:05.51. Pat Tarpy ’05finished in sixth place with a time of4:17.82.

“Chad had a phenomenal perform-ance in the mile; we’re certainly very

pleased with how he’s doing,” Johnsonsaid.

“I had Enda [Johnson ’02] and Chris[Relf ’03] pacing for me, and they did afantastic job. They really helped me getstarted. This race should put me in a goodspot for next weekend,” Buechel said. “Ithink we’re going in to Heps in a goodposition; we’ve really stepped up the lastcouple of weekends and have a shot toplace high at Heps.”

The middle distance men in the 800-meter run finished four men in just over1.5 seconds of each other. Mike Keefrider’04 was the first Bear across the line in atime of 1:57.65.

Close behind Keefrider were MattCrimmin ’04, Mike Piche ’05 and ChrisRelf ’03, in times of 1:57.91, 1:58.73 and1:59.15, respectively.

“In the 800, we’ve got a lot of guysknocking on the door. We had some goodperformances but we know it’s an area wecan still improve in,” Johnson said.

In the 3000-meter run, the Bears tookthe top three college spots, with JeffTomlinson ’03 finishing in 9:01.45, MattMalachowski ’04 running 9:12.78 andMike Tomlinson ’03 finishing with a timeof 9:16.53.

In the final event of the day for Bruno,the 4 x 400-meter relay team narrowlybeat out the next finisher to place firstwith a time of 3:19.77. This time movedthem up in the conference charts, socome next weekend, they will be running

Heptagonalson the way forwomen’s track

see LEE, page 9 see W. TRACK, page 9see M. TRACK, page 9

wednesday, february 26, 2003

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