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Overharvesting ofcrabs may destroy saltmarshes, Brownresearch team findspage 3

Italian Studies ‘PicoProject’ bringsrenaissance works tothe digital agepage 3

President RuthSimmons discussfuture plans, diversitywith U. staffpage 5

Juhyung Lee ’06 saysTWTP helps first-yearsunderstand, embracetheir ethnicitiescolumn,page 11

W. Volleyball falls toLouisiana St., FloridaSt. at Tallahassee tournamentsports,page 12

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BY ELENA LESLEYA new Ivy League-wide requirement mandating thatathletes not engage in competition, practice or conver-sation with coaches for seven weeks during a semesteris facing resistance from many Brown coaches and stu-dent athletes.

The Council of Ivy Group Presidents passed themeasure establishing an annual seven-week “quietperiod” for athletic teams last spring. The group alsoapproved a measure that cuts the number of footballrecruits, previously 35 each year, to 30.

The quiet-period measure stipulates there must beseven weeks in every academic year when student ath-letes have no “mandatory physical activity,” saidAthletic Director David Roach. Teams can meet therequirement by establishing any number of rest peri-

ods so long as each is longer than seven days.During the designated quiet period, coaches may

not supervise voluntary conditioning practices andstudents cannot consult with their coaches, even vol-untarily, he added.

Teams that violate the quiet period stipulation willbe forced to extend the rest period by two weeks thefollowing year, according to the measure passed by theIvy Presidents group.

Volleyball Head Coach Diane Short said many of herplayers are upset they can no longer talk to their coach-es during the rest period.

“Players need good leadership,” she said. “Theywant to succeed and they want to get better. Sure they

For temporary residents, International House is home away from homeBY OLIVER BOWERSIt’s hard to fit into a culture thousands of miles apart fromone’s own, but at the International House of Rhode Island,most everyone feels right at home.

For over 30 years, IHRI has served as a home away fromhome for the city’s temporary visa holders, be they stu-dents, researchers, professors or families, who can useIHRI’s resources at no charge.

“They don’t have any way to blend into American cul-ture,” said Billie Mason GS ’83, founder of IHRI. “Theyhave no friends … no extended families.”

But with a host of programs and activities ranging frompresentations on the American health care system toapple picking and hayrides, the IHRI more than fills thisneed.

The International House offers a slew of basic servicesto acclimate foreigners to U.S. life, including language les-sons for members beginning to learn English, and more

advanced sessions for those already competent in the lan-guage. It also provides advice on how to better function inthe U.S. school system or obtain supplies and services inU.S. culture.

“Culture shock is a very real thing” said Mason, whohas organized trips to supermarkets for spouses of tem-porary residents and outings to ethnic eateries.

But the programs at IHRI extend far beyond simple cul-tural tutorials. Flyers inside the doorway at its 8 StimsonAve. location announce activities ranging from variouslanguage clubs to Halloween pumpkin carving andChristmas caroling.

The Annual Holiday Bazaar, for instance, taking placeon Dec. 7, will boast a selection of international foods anddeserts, gifts, holiday crafts, jewelry and more.

Every program is open to the public, though Americancitizens must pay a small fee for membership. But sincethe International House’s focus is on keeping programs

accessible to all, “We keep it cheap so the kids can pay”said Marilyn Von Kriegenbergh, IHRI executive director,and former staff member at the Brown foreign studentoffice.

Above all else, IHRI seeks to foster camaraderie amongotherwise isolated foreigners. “They can always find afriend here when they’re lonely,” Mason said.

The International House hasn’t strayed from its coremission since Mason founded it more than 40 years ago.

Mason said that when she brought an internationalstudent to her house around the holidays in 1961, “he satat our kitchen table, and I saw tears falling down hischeeks. I asked him what was wrong and he said, ‘It’sChristmas time, and you’re letting me stay even thoughthe dormitory’s closed, and my family is thousands ofmiles away, and you took me into your warm kitchen and

BY EMIR SENTURKIn an attempt to generate some $2 million, the Universityis requiring students to “buy Brown” as part of the new“Brown First” policy.

The Brown First policy, which began this semester,requires student organizations and University depart-ments to use Graphic Services, University Food Servicesor select external vendors for a variety of services and isreceiving mixed reviews.

Under the policy, student groups and Universitydepartments wishing to make copies or cater an eventmust first turn to Metcalf Copy Center or UFS.

In accordance with the new policy, “Graphic Services… and University Food Services will have the first andpreferred opportunity to provide their specialized offer-ings to University departments,” wrote acting ExecutiveVice President for Finance and Administration EllenO’Connor in a letter addressed to department heads lastsummer.

If UFS and Graphic Services can’t provide what isrequired, they will place orders with “qualified externalvendors and oversee the process,” O’Connor wrote.

For example, Ronzio’s and Pizza Pie-er are the only twoexternal vendors that student organizations andUniversity departments can turn to for pizza when theirneeds exceed what the Gate can provide, Director ofStudent Activities David Inman told The Herald.

The aim of the policy is to “retain substantial funds thathave been spent on external vendors,” O’Connor wrote.

The policy is one of the several ways President RuthSimmons hopes to fund new academic initiatives.O’Connor wrote that the University could make an addi-tional $2 million from Brown First.

Several students said they were worried that GraphicServices and UFS will eventually become less competitiveand could bring about an overall drop in quality of servic-es offered thanks to Brown First.

While the first months of the program have been setaside as a transition period in which “efficiency and userfriendliness” will be improved upon, both GraphicServices and UFS are “determined to maintain the highest

Nick Mark / Herald

A new Ivy League requirement limits the number of football recruits and establishes a seven-week “quiet period”for all athletic teams.

Ivy League mandates 7 weeks of rest

see ATHLETICS, page 4

see IHRI, page 9

see BROWN, page 4

New ‘Brown First’vendor policy aimsto keep funds insidethe University

The policy, which requires Universitydepartments and student groups toretain internal services over outsidevendors, has drawn some criticism

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BY MONIQUE MENESESThings are getting crabby in the salt marshes downin Virginia and Georgia, according to a recent studyby Professor Mark Bertness and Brian Silliman GS.

Their study, published in the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences, reports that over-harvesting of blue crabs may be initiating the grad-ual deterioration of salt marshes.

Silliman met Bertness, a professor of Bio MedEcology and Evolutionary Biology, four years agoafter Silliman graduated from the University ofVirginia. Their two-year project began with researchand experimentation and culminated in a pub-lished paper reporting their findings, they said.

“We instantly hit it off and had a ball ever since,”Bertness said.

Their paper, which focused on a theory called“trophic cascade,” challenged previous findingsthat stability in a salt marsh ecosystem was basedon a “bottom-up” approach, Bertness and Sillimansaid.

“Everybody for 50 years thought that the theoryabout what controls the health of the grass wasabout nutrients and physical factors,” Silliman said,describing the “bottom-up” theory.

But data Bertness and Silliman gathered fromtheir experiments in Georgia and Virginia chal-lenged this theory, they said.

They discovered it was the absence of blue crabs,rather than factors previously thought to be impor-tant, that controlled the health of the marsh.

The lack of crabs was creating an imbalance inthe stability of the salt marsh ecosystem, they said.

Blue crabs prey on periwinkle snails, organismsthat inhabit and grow in the grass at the bottom ofsalt marshes.

These snails, which injure the grass with theirteeth, have the potential to convert a salt marsh intoa barren mudflat in eight months, Bertness andSilliman said.

“It’s like you have a wound and the bacteria keepon eating the wound,” Silliman said.

Cordgrass, the grass that grows at the bottom ofmarshes, is vital to the stability of the salt-marshecosystem because it serves as a habitat for variousmarine life and a nursery to many species of fish. Itacts like a sponge during hurricanes and filters ter-

restrial runoff that creeps into salt marshes fromtime to time, Bertness said.

“The health of marshes is connected with thisone species of grass,” Silliman said.

When the crab population decreases, the snailpopulation increases, causing more damage to thisvital grass.

“We were just blown away because we got downthere and we realized it was going on in spades andnobody had known,” Bertness said.

Silliman said discussion among fishermen, man-agers and scientists is essential to solving this prob-lem.

“This is a knowledge is power type of thing,” hesaid.

Silliman said it would probably be about four tofive years before humans feel the adverse effects ofthe over-harvesting of blue crabs and the lack ofaction to promote sustainability of the marshes.

“Will there be consequences? Sure. How will theyplay out? It’s just too hard to know,” Bertness said.

A typical day on the experiment site included get-ting up at 6:30 a.m., riding a boat to the experimentsite, building cages to sample the number of snailsin a given area, counting snails and recording snaildensities, Silliman said.

Routine encounters with snails gave Silliman andBertness a solid opinion on the snails’ existence,they said.

“We like snails. We’re snail guys,” Bertness said.The experiment, which was funded by a National

Science Foundation grant, took two months to setup. Outfitting the cages alone took 40 days with 200cages taking one hour each to install. However,there was compensation, Silliman said.

“I got a lot of frequent flyer miles. Let’s put it thatway,” said Silliman.

Research for this project is ongoing.“We’re planning an assault on Argentina marshes

in a month and a half,” Bertness said.Bertness and Silliman said they were enthusiastic

about the role the project could play in their futureresearch and study.

As for spending a lifetime dedicated to studyingthe effects of over-harvesting blue crabs on thehealth of the salt marsh, Silliman said, “Life’s tooshort to do one thing.”

BY XIYUN YANGThe Pico Project, a collaboration between Brown and theUniversity of Bologna, seeks to reinvent the classics bypresenting the works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola onthe Internet, allowing scholars to directly contributeannotations and footnotes to an online edition.

The project brings Mirandola’s 900 Theses and itsintroduction, the “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” into a“virtual space … a collaborative environment within asmall community of scholars to meet and work,” saidProfessor Massimo Riva, chair of the Department ofItalian Studies.

Riva coordinates the project with Professor Pier CesareBori of the University of Bologna and Professor MichaelPapio of the College of the Holy Cross.

Though the short text translation is presented “in afairly traditional way,” the innovation is in the approachto electronic discourse, said Giovanna Roz Gastaldi, lec-turer in Italian Studies. Roz Gastaldi serves as coordinatorbetween the Pico Project and its sponsor, the ScholarlyTechnology Group.

Along with an “Internet delivery of text,” the Web sitewill host a fluid exchange of annotations and footnotescontributed by a community of invited scholars, RozGastaldi said.

The site will feature a table of contents, a fully search-able index and images of the original incunabulum (edi-tions of the book printed before 1501), Roz Gastaldi said.

The Oration and Theses will be available in English andItalian in addition to the original Latin.

Working from the rare text early edition of the Orationand the Theses on loan from the British Library, Riva saidhe hopes this electronic edition will be more critical andfluid than its print counterparts.

He said he also hopes the Pico Project will prove to bemore “fruitful for the exchange of knowledge” in the formof identification of obscure sources and construction ofcontemporary interpretations.

Although postings will be limited by invitation andrequest to a small community of literary scholar–theolo-gians, philosophers and others in academia, the site itselfwill be accessible to the public, Roz Gastaldi said.

An influential, forward Renaissance thinker, Pico della

Italian Studies ‘PicoProject’ reinvents theclassics — digital style

see PICO, page 6

Crab deficiency threatens salt marshes, study says

standards of quality and serviceand to remain competitive,”O’Connor wrote.

“It sounds like the Universityis trying to monopolize whatservices can be used, but givenits financial situation, it may notbe too extreme of a measureafter all,” said Arta Khakpour’05.

Others think that the policyseems reasonable if it is gearedtoward improving theUniversity.

“The program is a great idea inthat it seeks to bolster a sense ofloyalty to the University, particu-larly in light of the fact thatBrown has not been doing well interms of money,” said TarekKhanachet ’03. “But the quality ofBrown food services has to beincreased. Brown’s catering can-not compete with local cateringinstitutions, and until it can,Brown First will be a point of con-tention.”

Communication of the policy’sregulations is a problem for somedepartments.

Benjamin Donsky ’03, coordi-

nator of Student SecurityOperations, said he did not findout about the policy until after heunknowingly violated it.

“I think it’s great if this policy isgoing to bring in the money thatwill attract top quality professorsand helps us retain the professorswe’ve got — I’m all for it,” Donskysaid. “The only concern I have isthat all the relevant informationbe communicated to the neces-sary people.”

Inman said the policy is run-ning smoothly.

“So far it seems to be working.So far the organizations are justgetting off the ground. We reallyhaven’t had any requests forrestaurants” other than UFS,Inman said.

But several student organiza-tions, including Brown-RISDHillel, are having problems withBrown First.

“The policy severely limits theplaces you can have an event andmakes throwing an event muchmore expensive than it could be,”said Rachel Ezrine ’03, a vice pres-ident of the Jewish StudentUnion.

Ezrine, who is organizing adance for the middle of November,is having trouble finding a spot oncampus for the event.

“I was told I had to cater theevent using UFS,” she said.

Ezrine said she originallyplanned to cater the eventwith foods bought from localstores.

Local vendors are attemptingto make it on the University’s“preferred vendor list,” whichcannot “provide services forUniversity departments without avalid purchase order provided byeither Graphic Services orUniversity Food Services,”O’Connor wrote.

The “preferred vendor list” willbe made available in 2003.Ronzio’s and Pizza Pie-er are theonly current “qualified externalvendors” the University wouldrelease to The Herald as of presstime.

“The restaurant approval hasto do with insurance and liability,so there’s always been a limit towhere students could go to bringfood in because some restaurantshaven’t been able to provide thenecessary insurance,” Inmansaid.

O’Connor declined severalrequests for interviews.

Herald staff writer Emir Senturk’05 can be reached at esen-turk@browndailyherald.com.

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Brown can do stuff on their own, but it’sgood to get advice from a coach.”

Short said for most players,the inability to talk to coacheswould be a greater detrimentthan the lack of required physi-cal activity itself. Many teamspreviously have had severalweeks off every year, sheadded.

In addition, teams alreadyhave restrictions on how manyweekly practices and hours ofathletic activity they can holdwhen not in season.

Many students said they feltthe requirement unfairly tar-gets athletes.

“In theory, what the presi-dents are trying to get us to dois noble — to explore otherfacets of the University,” saidvolleyball player Jessie Cooper’03, a Herald staff writer. “Butin actuality, it’s hurting stu-dents. Athletes do this becausethey love it, and it’s their pas-sion.”

Chas Gessner ’03, who hasplayed football and lacrossesince he was a first-year, saidhe thought athletes were beingsingled out “because we’re a lotmore in the public sphere thansomeone doing another club-oriented thing.”

Cooper echoed these senti-ments, adding that “there’ssometimes tension betweenathletes and non-athletes” andthat athletics are “a large, easyto target, money-makerattached to the University.”

President Ruth Simmonsrefused The Herald’s numer-ous requests for interviewsand comment on the IvyLeague Presidents group reso-lution, but Carolyn Campbell-McGovern, senior associatedirector of the Ivy LeagueConference Office, spoke toThe Herald about the meas-ure.

Campbell-McGovern saidathletics are inherently differ-ent from many other extra-cur-ricular activities because pro-fessionals are hired to instructstudents.

In passing the requirement,the Ivy presidents wanted “toprovide time during the aca-demic year when students werefree from athletic obligations,”she continued. “It was the

understanding that studentsdon’t perceive anything involv-ing supervision by a coach asvoluntary.”

The NCAA recently officiallydefined “voluntary” as a resultof concerns that “coaches werepushing the envelope on whatwas voluntary and what was-n’t,” Campbell-McGovern said.

Julian Jordan ’04, who hasplayed soccer since he was afirst-year, agreed there couldbe ambiguity surroundingostensibly voluntary activities.

With the requirement inplace, “it’s less of an obliga-tion,” he said. “People don’tfeel guilty if they don’t gopractice the oboe because acoach doesn’t make them feelguilty.”

Central to this debate is thequestion of “what kind of extra-curriculars contribute to per-sonal development,” he added.

For students who take theirparticipation in athletics asseriously as academics or otheractivities, the requirement is asetback, Cooper said.

“Brown is Division One —we compete against the topschools in the nation,” shesaid. “We’re already disadvan-taged because people aren’t onscholarship, and this makes usa little less competitive.”

The requirement will alsoaffect schools and sports dif-ferently because they all run onseparate schedules, and somewill have more trouble fittingin the seven weeks than otherswill, Short said.

“There will be a gradual ero-sion of our competitiveness,”she added.

Whether they can consultwith coaches or not, manyplayers insist they will work ashard as they can to keep thisfrom happening.

“I’m still going to be in thereworking out every day,” Coopersaid.

Herald staff writer Elena Lesley’04 is a news editor. She can bereached at elesley@browndai-lyherald.com.

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Athletics

BY MONIQUE MENESESPresident Ruth Simmons joined staff Tuesday to dis-cuss the implementation of initiatives for academicenrichment, long-term planning issues, diversity andcampus safety.

Ann D’Abrosca, outgoing chair of the Staff AdvisoryCommittee and manager of the education department,presented a brief review of recent improvements,including raising staff hourly wages, increased alloca-tion of funds directed to the Tuition Benefit Program, awinter break closing between Christmas and New Yearand the creation of a Staff Bonus Program

“I think opportunities for input are best at this timeof year,” Simmons said. She outlined some “broader”goals, including the need to hire administration, facul-ty and staff who cooperate with each other and whosegoals coincide with Brown’s vision.

“We need to support the University at the highestlevel, whether we work, we teach or we study,” she said.“We are here to support the University’s central mis-sion.”

Simmons said that progress from last year includedthe addition of 30 full-time faculty, whose temporarystatus could become permanent, and the addition ofmore than 60 new courses.

She emphasized the importance of the adjustments

to staff salaries and recruitment start-out packages andof the revitalization of Brown’s research infrastructure.

As for Brown as a workplace, Simmons suggestedtrying different things from time to time to increaseflexibility. She introduced the Staff Bonus Program, inwhich supervisors would nominate those in theirdepartments deserving acclaim for their excellentwork.

“We want to say ‘thank you’ in a tangible way,”Simmons said.

Simmons expressed hope that by February, SACwould draft a long-term plan outline for the University,including campus planning, improvements to studentlife and fundraising goals. She told staff she addressedthe faculty and told them that there should not be anypush for faculty benefits that would not be applicableto staff as well.

D’Abrosca told The Herald she appreciatedSimmons’ approach to staff and faculty benefits.

“Whatever happens to faculty will happen to staff aswell,” D’Abrosca said.

Simmons singled out diversity as a pressing issuethat needs to be addressed. She said one way theUniversity might organize itself to meet its diversity

CAMPUS NEWSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 5

Ellen Bak / Herald

President Ruth Simmons discussed her plans for academic enrichment, long-term planning, diversity and campussafety at a Tuesday forum with members of the University staff.

Simmons talks progress with U. staff

see SIMMONS, page 6

Student Life hires twoto bolster BOLT,oversee judicial reviewBY AKSHAY KRISHNANThe Office of Student Life created two administrativepositions this summer in an effort to expand its role instudent activities, judicial processes and leadership ini-tiatives.

OSL appointed Francesca Lo ’97 coordinator of leader-ship programs. She will directall leadership programs andwill lead Brown OutdoorLeadership Training. OSLalso named MylesMcPartland as student lifecoordinator to oversee theUniversity’s non-academicjudicial process and monitorstudent activities.

The two administratorssaid they feel at home in theirnew positions.

As director of BOLT, Lo isworking to create new leader-ship development activities,she said.

“I love working with col-lege students, and I am inter-ested in exploring leader-ship,” Lo said.

She said that financialconstraints make an immedi-ate expansion of BOLTunlikely. She acknowledgedthat there is a pressingdemand for the program,noting its expansion from 10students in its founding year to 160 students for the cur-rent academic year.

“It’s important to remember that high standards ofsafety need to be maintained, so BOLT cannot be expand-ed overnight,” Lo said.

McPartland said he predominantly deals with the non-academic judicial process and any student misconduct.

“I am interested in working with students and in theeducational implications of justice,” he said. “I also lovethe college environment and feel that it facilitates mywork.”

One of the most pressing challenges facing McPartlandis that of alcohol use on campus.

“I am worried about the general perception that alco-hol equals fun, and it’s frightening to think about howinvolvement with alcohol could get in the way of people’ssafety,” he said.

He said he feels it isn’t safe for students to be involvedwith alcohol at college, though he acknowledged thatdrinking is often a part of college life.

McPartland also hopes to improve the perception ofthe University’s disciplinary system.

“I am also bothered by the perception amongst stu-dents that the judicial process is some sort of a mysterythat goes on behind closed doors,” he said.

McPartland said he will encourage student involve-ment and feedback on the existing judicial system.

“I want to make the whole system involving the non-academic judicial process more credible and to instillawareness among Brown’s students,” he said.

McPartland also said he is excited about Lo’s leadershipdevelopment initiatives.

“On the whole, I feel that we’re on the cusp of somechange. The way things could change will serve studentsbetter. Developing leadership programs will instill leader-ship skills amongst our students, and that is extremelyimportant,” McPartland said.

Lo and McPartland created a student activities centerin Faunce House that primarily functions as a resourcecenter for student groups at Brown.

“The main aim of this student activities center is toprovide resources like copy machines, phones, computersand fax machines,” Lo said.

She said student groups can use the activities center topool resources or research various issues. The activitiescenter is open between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., Mondaythrough Thursday.

Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski said the newOSL administrators will give students more opportunities

Francesca Lo ’97, top,and Myles McPartland arenew hires in the Office ofStudent Life.

see OSL, page 9

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Columnist Jeff Saltman, a shirt-less father and son leapt onto thefield at Comiskey Park andjumped the first base coach ofthe Kansas City Royals, TomGamboa. Replays showed thecoach suddenly being rushedfrom behind by a lean, athletic 34year-old father (replete with tat-toos and a knife at his belt) andhis 15 year-old son. As he feeblykicked at his attackers from theground, Gamboa was quickly res-cued by the entire Royals benchwho, not so gently, detached theassailants from their coach. Thecrowd cheered the opposingcoach some minutes later whenhe was helped from the field,head bleeding.

What incited the attack?Gamboa’s attackers alleged thathe offered them his middle fingerearlier in the game in response totheir heckling (something hedenies). As Saltman noted yester-day, though, athletes giving abu-sive fans the finger is hardlysomething rare or new in thesports world. So what’s reallycausing the violence?

The most popular scapegoat—much to PETA’s chagrin—is beer.Yes, all parties involved in the tworecent events were probablyimbibing something at the stadi-um, and it wasn’t 2% or skim.Drunk people do stupid things. Idon’t need to convince anyone ofthis. We’ve all lived in the resi-dence halls and used the bath-rooms therein. I believe, though,that something is affecting vio-lent fans even more strongly thanthe beer they are drinking—theirteam’s failure on the field.

My theory is that a team’s dis-appointing performance, espe-cially when coupled with alcohol,is a sure recipe for outlandish fanbehavior. Let’s examine the casesmentioned. The WashingtonRedskins fans that got into thefight that eventually broughtabout the use of pepper spraywere witnessing the end of a 37-7drubbing at the hands of theEagles, who were not a clear

favorite entering the game. Highhopes for Washington under newcoach Steve Spurrier had quicklyturned to national embarrass-ment as the huge Monday Nightaudience watched the Redskinsget trounced.

In the case of the White Soxfans, the father, William Ligue Jr.,admitted to police after the gamethat he was upset because theWhite Sox were losing when herushed the field. Beyond the spe-cific game, the White Sox are fin-ishing a terribly disappointingseason. Beyond that, they wereplaying Kansas City. Any followerof baseball can empathize with aman who drops a lot of money totake family to the ballpark andthen has to watch the White Soxplay the Royals.

It should come as no surprisethat the last three majorinstances of fan violence spillingonto Major League Baseballfields have involved fans of theCubs, Brewers and Cubs respec-tively. Those aren’t exactly teamsthat are stringing up pennants fortheir supporters.

Even in the ugliest case of fan-on-player violence, the 1993stabbing of Monica Seles during atennis match with rival SteffiGraf, the same pattern can beseen. The deranged fan, a sup-porter of Graf, was witnessingfirsthand the eclipse of his idol bya better, younger player.

That people are getting soworked up over sports is not sur-prising, or even too troubling.Sports are the safe space for theAmerican citizen to be angry,opinionated, partisan, illogicaland unreasonable—it’s not onlytolerated, it’s expected. If yourreceiver slips running for a passand jumps up to beg unsuccess-fully for the interference flag, youdon’t point out to your friend thathe’s a liar; you call for the referee’shead. What you don’t do is expectanyone to actually follow up onyour call, and this is what is sofrightening. Tempers will alwaysflare in the passionate and sub-jective world of sports, but whenfans start to consider makingthemselves a part of the actionthings get a little crazy and dan-gerous.

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goals is to appoint a senior officerwho would oversee diversityefforts across the University.

Simmons suggested the multi-ple meanings in using the term“diversity” and said that she was“interested in what we do whenpeople get here,” more thanwhich people come in the firstplace.

Simmons said an investmentin more police officers and addi-tional shuttles are contributing tothe enhancement of safety oncampus.

As to the “highly debatedissue” of arming Brown Police,Simmons stressed that discus-sion is ongoing.

“In the end we’ve got to make adecision — we will resolve theissue,” she said.

Bill Wood, incoming SAC chairand library manager, said theoverall response to the staffforum was “extremely” positive.

“People are very happy withthe changes that have been madein the past year,” Wood said.

Throughout the forum,Simmons stressed the impor-tance of community.

“We can have a community inwhich we distrust everything, orwe can act affirmatively in a waythat’s more open and from theoffset arrive at a good decision.”

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Mirandola was among the circleof scholars that surroundedLorenzo de Medici. Mirandola,described by Riva as a “name thatbecame synonymous with childprodigy,” began, at the age of 23,the ambitious project that was tobecome the 900 Theses.

Written mostly in Latin butsprinkled with references toHebrew, Arabic and other lan-guages, the 900 Theses and“Oration on the Dignity of Man”sought to consolidate all traditionsof thought and facilitate debate inorder to find a certain universalwisdom and knowledge, Riva said.

Armed with typicalRenaissance progressive opti-mism, Mirandola hoped to pres-ent the 900 Theses to the Popeand a committee of cardinals,igniting cross cultural discourse.

But parts of the 900 Theseswere deemed heretical, andMirandola subsequently fled toFrance, Riva said.

With the Pico Project, Riva saidhe hopes to “bring back to thesurface something that was tohave disappeared.”

Often referred to as the mani-festo of the Renaissance, “Orationon the Dignity of Man” projectedthe tremendous responsibility ofthe human individual “to pro-ceed on a path upwards, towards

an angelic identity,” Riva said.As one who lived in a time that

mirrors our own, a time of immi-nent progress, a time “when tech-nology has given new tools to rein-vent society,” Mirandola stressedthe responsibility of individualsand the necessity of multiculturalreligious dialogue, Riva said.

Riva said he is consideringholding a graduate seminarbased on the developing project.

With the completion of thePico Project, Riva said he hopesto expand the same approach toMirandola’s other works as wellas to other classics.

The Pico Project will be offi-cially presented Oct. 16 at theNew England RenaissanceConference, to be hosted atBrown.

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Congress wants say in CIA pay changesWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Changing pay rules isnever easy.

When the Central Intelligence Agency told its employ-ees last year that it wanted to link pay scales to occupa-tions and pay to job performance, some employees balkedand took their concerns to members of Congress. Inresponse to employee fears, the House has moved toblock compensation reform at the CIA, and the matter'spending in the Senate.

The pay flap at the CIA isn't unique. Many federalemployees would rather stick with automatic, annual payraises determined by Congress than allow agency man-agers to have a bigger say in increasing compensation.

Still, there's widespread agreement among top Bushadministration officials, reinforced by think-tank and aca-demic studies, that the government's pay system makes itdifficult to recruit top-notch talent and reward employeeswho take on difficult assignments. In that sense, the CIAplan could be a model for a government-wide overhaul offederal pay.

Although the CIA follows the General Schedule — thegovernment's white-collar pay system — for most employ-ees, national security law gives the agency the freedom torevamp its pay system. The overhaul effort began beforethe 9/11 attacks, but compensation issues have taken onnew urgency as the CIA expands its fight against terrorism

In designing a new pay framework, the CIA looked atthe jobs and work inside the agency, grouped the workinto occupational categories and, where possible, pricedthem against the private sector and other federal agen-cies. The CIA then made adjustments reflecting the uniquedemands it places on many of its employees.

The proposed system, which officials said should pro-vide more clear career tracks, would rely on an annualemployee evaluation to guide pay raises and bonuses. Theplan also would allow the CIA to adjust pay for one ormore occupations without adjusting it for all occupations.

Every CIA employee, including senior intelligence offi-cers, would fall under the new system. No one would takea pay cut, but poor performers could no longer count onan annual pay raise, according to officials.

“We are saying to employees, if you are taking risks,working the hard issues, learning hard languages ... thenthis is a system that is better positioned to reward you andreward you significantly,'' John Brennan, the CIA's deputyexecutive director, said.

FDA may test blood for West Nile virusWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Routine testing for thepresence of West Nile virus in donated blood may be inplace by next summer, an official of the Food and DrugAdministration told a Senate committee Tuesday.

It will take several years to fully evaluate and license amethod for West Nile screening of blood, Jesse Goodman,deputy director of the FDA’s Center for BiologicsEvaluation and Research, told the legislators. However, thecurrent risk to the blood supply from West Nile virus is bigenough that the agency might permit widespread use ofthe test on a voluntary or experimental basis during thatperiod. Such an arrangement was permitted in the 1980swhen the AIDS blood test was being developed.

Goodman said several companies are working on aWest Nile test, which is likely to be a version of the onenow used in research laboratories to detect viral genes inminute concentrations.

“What we are hearing from the companies and bloodorganizations is that they are hopeful this will be able tobe done in time for the next transmission season,” he saidat a hearing called jointly by the Senate Committee onHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions, and the Committeeon Governmental Affairs.“I think an optimistic scenariowould be to have this available for next summer, at least.”

Investigators at the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC) are now convinced the virus can be con-tracted through infected blood or organs.

The FDA couldn’t require blood centers to use a testthat was unlicensed and under investigation, Jay Epstein,director of blood research and review at the FDA, saidafter the hearing. He said, however, that he thinks mostwould choose to do so, and that the agency would allowit.

More tests in people are scheduled for 2003 — a WestNile vaccine might be available in about three years.

JERUSALEM (Washington Post) — Israeli troops kept up theirsiege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah officebuilding Tuesday, defying calls from the U.N. SecurityCouncil, the United States and Europe for a withdrawal.

Other Israeli soldiers pulled out of the Gaza Strip afterstaging a quick early-morning raid that killed ninePalestinians.

Israeli officials said they would not end the Ramallahsiege until the Palestinians complied with the part ofthe U.N. resolution that calls on the PalestinianAuthority to “bring to justice” people responsible forterrorist attacks against Israelis.

“The resolution calls on both parties to take certainsteps,” said Dore Gold, a senior adviser to PrimeMinister Ariel Sharon. Another Israeli official, whoasked not to be identified, was more blunt: “As long asthey are not complying, why should we comply?”

The resolution passed the Security Council, after anextended debate, by a vote of 14 to 0, with the UnitedStates abstaining.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, JohnNegroponte, explained the abstention by saying theresolution did not specifically condemn the radicalgroups Islamic Jihad, the Islamic ResistanceMovement, also known as Hamas, and the al-AqsaMartyrs Brigades, which have carried out suicidebombings and other terrorist attacks against Israelis.

Palestinians said they were heartened by the resolu-tion, and by the unusual U.S. decision not to exerciseits Security Council veto power to block language con-demning Israel.

Arafat, in a statement issued from his besiegedoffice building, said, “The Palestinian Authority iscommitted to the (Security Council) decision with allits items, and it calls on the international communityto compel Israel to implement the withdrawal and endthe siege.”

Hani al-Hassan–an Arafat aide and the highest-rank-ing official in the Ramallah office building from Arafat’sFatah movement–called the U.S. abstention “a goodindication.”

“The problem now is how to implement the state-ment,” he said.

In Rome, a Vatican statement said that Pope JohnPaul II was worried about Israel’s “grave attack” inRamallah and that Sharon should “suspend suchactions that compromise the already faint hopes ofpeace in the region.”

Chris Patten, the European Union’s commissioner

for external affairs, said: “I can’t imagine how anybodycan think what is happening in Ramallah today canmake peace more likely.”

Hassan said Israel’s response to the resolution earlyTuesday was to resume some bulldozing on thegrounds of Arafat’s compound, creating plumes of sandand dust that left a layer of dirt in the Palestinianleader’s office, which now has no working air condi-tioners.

An Israeli military spokesman later said the bulldoz-ing work had stopped and described this as a gesture ofrestraint.

He also said that the curfew imposed by Israel inoccupied West Bank towns was not being enforced inmost places.

The nine fatalities in the Gaza raid included a 14-year-old boy, and more than 20 people were injured inthe attacks, which the Israeli Defense Force said target-ed 13 weapons factories.

Funerals were held Tuesday for the nine, whoPalestinians said included six civilians and three gun-men who fired on the advancing Israeli troops.

In the Gaza raids, the Israeli troops also demolishedthe home of a member of Hamas who Israel said wasresponsible for a shooting rampage at an Israeli settle-ment that killed five teen-agers.

Israel has conducted near-nightly incursions intothe densely populated Gaza Strip, but Tuesday morn-ing’s raid, with troops backed by helicopters anddozens of tanks, was by far the most intense, extendingmore than a half-mile into Gaza City and meeting moreresistance than any previous raid.

The Palestinian death toll was the highest in Gazasince July 22, when an Israeli jet dropped a bomb onthe home of Salah Shehada, the leader of Hamas’sunderground military wing, killing him, a deputy and14 others, including nine children, who were asleep inthe house at the time.

Military analysts said that raid, which Sharonlabeled a military success but which brought Israelwidespread international condemnation, made Israelitroops more cautious about mounting operations inGaza.

Hamas had its origins in the densely populated stripof refugee camps and urban neighborhoods.

Israeli officials and commentators said concern overcivilian casualties is the reason why Israeli troops havenot tried to apprehend the Hamas leader, Sheik AhmedYassin.

Israel beseiges Arafat’s headquarters

Ukraine, Belarus deny selling weapons to IraqMOSCOW (The Washington Post) – Ukraine and Belarus onTuesday both denied providing weapons systems or sen-sitive technology to Iraq in violation of U.N. sanctionsdespite reports identifying them as key subterraneansuppliers of President Saddam Hussein’s government.

The alleged sales to Baghdad could hurt both formerSoviet republics in the West as President Bush preparesfor a possible war with Iraq to oust Saddam.

The United States said Monday it had suspended $55million in aid to Ukraine because of allegations it soldIraq a sophisticated radar system that could target U.S.and British warplanes patrolling “no-fly” zones.

The growing confrontation between Washington andKiev came at a politically volatile moment for UkrainianPresident Leonid Kuchma.

About 5,000 protesters returned to the streets of thecapital Tuesday renewing their demand that he resignafter an eight-year reign tainted, in their view, by cor-ruption and economic tumult.

About 50 opposition members of parliamentlaunched a hunger strike to increase pressure on him tostep down.

Kuchma has responded defiantly, and state prosecu-tors on Tuesday opened an investigation of three oppo-sition party leaders, Yulia Tymoshenko, OleksanderMoroz and Petro Symonenko, who burst into a televisionstation Monday night with 200 supporters demandingair time to express their grievances with the government.

The television director yanked the evening news pro-gram off the air rather than let them speak, and theepisode ended peacefully.

At a briefing in Kiev Tuesday on the alleged technolo-gy sales, Serhiy Borodenkov, the chief spokesman for theUkrainian Foreign Ministry, said that “there were notand could not be any such deliveries to Iraq,” adding,“Ukraine is strongly committed to its international obli-gations.”

Borodenkov attributed the allegations, first raised bya former presidential bodyguard, to political mischief-makers.

“It is evident that someone is interested in aggravat-ing relations between Ukraine and the United States,” hesaid.

Similarly, officials in Minsk disputed assertions thatBelarus has helped Iraq reconstitute its anti-aircraftdefenses and funneled dual-use materials and technolo-gy that could help Saddam develop weapons of massdestruction.

Much of Kuchma’s troubles stem from a former body-guard, Mikola Melnichenko, who fled Ukraine two yearsago with audiotapes implicating the president in variousscandals.

The most prominent was a tape that seemed to indi-cate Kuchma was directing retaliation against a journal-ist whose decapitated body was later found outside Kiev.Kuchma denied any involvement in the killing.

More recently, Melnichenko produced a tape in whicha voice identified as Kuchma’s approved the $100 millionsale of a Kolchuga radar system to Iraq in July 2000.

The Kolchuga is considered a particularly potentdefense, capable of detecting approaching aircraft up to480 miles away.

The U.S. government, in announcing the aid cutoffTuesday, said it had authenticated the Iraq tape and hadindications that Iraq does possess a Kolchuga system.

In an interview in Kiev last week, a Ukrainian law-maker said a parliamentary investigation was unable toconfirm the charge but said new regulations would beadopted soon to prevent any future renegade armssales.

“It’s a very serious issue and right now we’re paying alot of attention to it,” said Boris Andresyuk, deputy headof the parliament’s national security committee. “It doesserious political damage to Ukraine.”

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FEC to ban ‘soft-money’ ads WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —The Federal ElectionCommission’s general counselproposed regulations Tuesday toenforce one of the most contro-versial provisions of theMcCain-Feingold campaignfinance bill: the prohibition ofads that refer to federal candi-dates paid for with unregulated“soft money” 30 days before pri-maries and 60 days before gen-eral elections.

Proponents of the provisioncontend that it’s crucial to theeffort to bar the use of phony“issue ads” that pretend to focuson legislation or other matterswhen their real goal is to elect ordefeat candidates for the House,Senate or presidency.

Opponents counter that thelaw violates First Amendmentfree speech rights and illegallyprevents legitimate use of radioand television to lobby publicofficials on crucial issues.

“There are no exceptions,”said FEC Chairman DavidMason, describing the proposedban on the use of large contribu-tions from corporations, unionsand rich people — ”soft money”

— to pay for radio and televisionads during the 30- and 60-daywindows before primary andgeneral election that refer to acandidate by “name, nickname,photograph or drawing” orthrough such references as “theincumbent” or “your congress-man.”

Mason said he expects the“electioneering” rule proposedby FEC counsel LawrenceNorton to survive more intactthan Norton’s previous set ofregulations governing softmoney, but amendments will beproposed when the FEC meetsThursday.

The proposed regulationswould, in the case of presidentialcontests, create a virtual black-out on national radio and televi-sion soft-money ads mentioningpresidential candidates fromroughly early December of 2003,or 30 days before Iowa caucuses,to the last primary, which is like-ly to be held in June.

Local soft-money ads couldbe run as long as they don’treach 50,000 or more sub-scribers in a state within the 30-day pre-primary period.

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gave me food.’” She said she became aware of

how isolated many foreignersfeel, and so she opened herhouse to international students.

“She would feed them andtake them wherever they neededto go. She loves that sort ofthing,” Kriegenbergh said.

But after more than 1,000 for-eigners came to her house, sheset out to establish IHRI.

Though she started theInternational House in a small,condemned building on BenefitStreet procured through a dealwith RISD, it has since moved toits current location.

Even at its larger size, IHRIremains almost entirely volun-teer operated. “Everyone here is avolunteer except for three (staffmembers),” said Gilbert Mason,Billie Mason’s husband, “but youwon’t find a higher caliber groupof teachers.”

“Because they’re volunteers, therelationships extend far beyondthe classroom” Billie Mason said.“We’re all friends here.”

Fernando Shina, an Argentine

Lawyer who teaches social studiesin the Providence school systemand is a resident of IHRI, echoesthis sentiment. “The people arevery supportive here,” he said.

“It’s really important when youcome to a place to find some-where really friendly … one of thebest things that happened to mehere was to find this place.”

The new multinational photog-raphy exhibit, which opens Oct.27, encapsulates the IHRI’s spirit,Billie Mason said. It includes pic-tures of men, women and chil-dren from across the globe.

As Billie Mason says, the exhib-it, like the house, illustrates, “thatunder the culture, we’re all one.”

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to learn about leadership andwork on solving social problemsat Brown.

“In redefining both of the posi-tions, we sought to have moreattention paid to two areas:advising student organizationsand enhancing leadership devel-opment opportunities,” Jablonskiwrote in an e-mail.

Lo and McPartland bringexperience and excitement totheir positions, Jablonski added,and they are already making con-nections with students.

“They have been eager to learnabout Brown and the culture oflife outside the classroom,”Jablonski wrote. “They are mak-ing direct contacts with manystudent leaders to solicit theirinput into how we should shapethese programs.”

Jean Joyce-Brady, director ofstudent life, echoed Jablonski’spraises.

“It is very exciting to have moreresources and talent to devote tostudent leadership, student activ-ities and student conduct,” Joyce-Brady told The Herald.

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For some strange reason, some people associated with Brown look atfootball like this is Ohio State University. Statistically not as strong asother schools in the arena, Brown clings to its athleticism, when itmight do better to tout its idiosyncratic brand of academia. Lastspring, the Council of Ivy League Presidents passed a measure man-dating a seven-week “quiet period” for Ivy League athletics duringwhich teams cannot hold practices or games and athletes andcoaches cannot engage in conversation. The Council also decidedthis summer to reduce the number of football recruits from 35 to 30.We agree that the often monolithic role sports play at Brown shouldbe de-emphasized. The “quiet period” measure is a viable way to putIvy League emphasis on the classroom where it belongs.

Athletes on Brown’s sports teams are not only mandated to endurepractices to hone their skills, but are also often compelled to engagein voluntary, captain-led sessions throughout the year. The majorityof students who play on our athletic teams are recruited to attendthis school for such purpose, and thus it is no surprise they often feela primary allegiance to the Bears over the books.

By setting this rule, Brown and the rest of the Ivy League are mak-ing it clear that athletics are simply one component of one’s under-graduate education. Athletics should not be a lone component of thecollege experience and athletes should not feel limited in their abili-ty to pursue other interests. We hope that a mandated period of nopractices and games is not necessary for student athletes to getinvolved in other activities. If an athlete wants to pursue anotheractivity in addition to his academic work, he should not feel thatbecause he was recruited to play a sport he can do nothing otherthan play that sport. This seven-week “quiet period” measure helpsreinforce that often forgotten idea that athletics are equal to anyother component of the undergraduate experience.

The resolution, however, is misguided in its mandate that studentathletes and their coaches not engage in conversation for sevenweeks. This overbearing restriction unnecessarily prevents student-athletes from speaking with their coaches and mentors, from whomthey presumably draw leadership and guidance. It is not the busi-ness of Ivy League University presidents to tell their students andtheir coaches who they can and cannot talk to.

All Brown students’ primary focus in attending this institutionshould be on academics and obtaining a degree. The Council’s “quietperiod” is one way to help ensure that our students athletes are stu-dents first.

Students first

Israel must shielditself against terrorTo the Editor:The Sept. 11, 2001, suicide/homicide attacks wereimmoral because they couldn’t effectively promotetheir perpetrators' agenda, whereas Palestinian sui-cide/homicide attacks could be moral because theymight alter the situation perhaps by forcing Israel’shand (“‘911+1’ lecturer says Palestinian suicidebombings can be ‘morally rationalized,’” 9/23)? Ithought the slaughter of innocents is immoralbecause it's murder, not because it’s ineffective.Was the Holocaust immoral because Hitler lost?

Israel must reply to the horrific, constant terror-ist attacks against it: it must protect its citizens anddemonstrate that terrorism cannot win politicalvictories. The common equivocation of preemptiveIsraeli actions against terrorists with terrorist atroc-ities themselves is idiotic, repulsive and anti-Semitic. While pro-Palestinian, pan-Arab andIslamic extremists indiscriminately incinerateinnocent civilians, Israel strikes back only at the ter-rorists. Unlike its assailants, Israel mourns, not cel-ebrates, civilian casualties.

Jews have survived thousands of years of perse-cution — the Inquisition, the Crusades, pogromsand the Holocaust to name a few highlights. We willcontinue to survive, and to oppose the world'sdarkest forces as they strain to extinguish humani-ty's lights. To any so perverse as to excuse these sui-cide/homicide massacres, know that your hatredwill never prevail. To quote Golda Meir, “Israel willnot die so that the world will speak well of it.”

Joshua Samson Marcus ’04Sept. 23

Honderich lecturerationalizes murderTo the Editor:It's time to start calling people like Professor TedHonderich on their support of terror (“‘911+1’ lec-turer says Palestinian suicide bombings can be‘morally rationalized,’” 9/23). Targeting civilians iswrong not because it might not meet some politicalaim in the long run but because it is murder. Thissummer I attended the funeral of a friend's girl-

friend — in fact, they were about to announce theirengagement. She was murdered in the terroristbombing at Hebrew University. Her “crime” wasstudying in Israel. Her death cannot be justified orcondemned in utilitarian terms: she was murderedby people who believe that targeting university stu-dents is a good way to make their point. It is incom-prensible that a university professor would seek torationalize murders like hers and grotesque thatBrown would bring him to campus.

Bill Dilworth GSSept. 24

Honderich’s defenseof terrorism illogicalTo the Editor:I am thoroughly disgusted and appalled by thecomments made by Professor Honderich at Friday’sconcluding lecture of the “911+1” program. I hopethat this University is as ashamed of itself as I amfor having paid good money to bring this speaker tocampus. Honderich claimed that the Palestiniansuicide bombings in Israel can be morally rational-ized in part because “Palestinians have bad lives,”and are therefore driven to such drastic measures.

Such illogic is despicable. There is nothing, noaction, event, or cause that will ever make it right,okay or understandable for a human being to walkinto a crowd of innocent, unwitting people anddestroy their lives. Such an action does not constituteresistance, or even combat. It is cold-blooded murder.

That the Palestinians are living in terrible condi-tions is truly lamentable. Let us all hope that both sidesin this conflict can soon reach a peaceful resolution.However, for Honderich to suggest that these murdersmight be justified as direct results of the conditions inwhich the Palestinians live is totally unreasonable.

Any person has a moral responsibility to do whatis right, independent of his individual circum-stances. That a man should be living in a refugeecamp does not make it any more morally right forhim to blow up innocent men, women and children.

Honderich’s reasoning repulses me. I hope thiscampus is quick to see through his faulty moraljudgments and is secure enough in its bearings towalk comfortably on the high road.

Raffi Bilek ’03Sept. 24

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 11

TWTP helps students rediscover ethnic heritageWhile many students may benefit from programs like TWTP, it serves its primary purpose for participants

FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT SHOULD BEnoted that I am currently labeled as an AsianAmerican; both of my parents are first gener-ation immigrants from South Korea. This isimportant to mention because it seems thatarecurring theme in Alex Schulman’s ’03 col-umn, “A critical look at TWTP: abuilding with no foundation,”(9/23) is the comparison of AsianAmericans to other ethnicities.Schulman asks “what common-ality does the average AsianAmerican student have with blacks that hedoesn’t have with whites” other than “relativepigmentation?” Does continually facing dis-crimination due to outward appearance andethnic background count as a commonality?This is a commonality also shared by Latinos,Arab Americans and Native Americans, butnot by Caucasians. Let me assure Schulmanthat “chink” or “chinaman” hurts just as muchas “nigger” or “spic” or “terrorist.”

During TWTP, we participated in an exer-cise that had us “split up” into our respectiveethnicities, list some common misconcep-tions about our cultures and what we wantedother people to know about them. Althoughwe all laid claim to different ethnic back-grounds, our experiences as minorities in theUnited States were all remarkably similar,each characterized by a trend of whiteoppression (whether overt or subtle). Theseexperiences ranged from never completely

feeling we belonged in this country to facingunfair racial stereotypes and bias.

Schulman may be under the impressionthat whites and Asian Americans are similarbecause historically Asian Americans havebeen quite willing to relinquish their connec-

tions to their ethnic heritageand assimilate into white socie-ty for this notion of “success” hediscusses. It is not uncommonto hear of first generation AsianAmericans refusing to teach

their children their native tongue becausethey don’t want them to experience the sameracially-based obstacles that they did. I knowthese sentiments first-hand, because, as oneof my former high school peers affectionate-ly told me, I was the “whitest Asian kid heknew.” I attempted to distance myself frommy ethnic roots because I was sick of beingtreated differently and feeling like I wasunlike my white peers; most of all, I justwanted to be accepted. My “anti-ethnic”actions went so far as to breed a sense of hos-tility between my parents and me; they rep-resented the side of me that I was trying myhardest to run away from. TWTP gave me thestrength to realize that my ethnicity is noth-ing to be ashamed of.

Minorities have no reason to feel morti-fied or guilty that we need TWTP to rediscov-er and find pride in our ethnic heritage. I real-ize now that I should never have altered mybehavior in order to avoid racism. Of course,since Schulman claims to share so many

commonalities with me and people of myethnic background, he can obviously relate.

Just because Schulman personally knows“very few Asian, South Asian, blacks or Latinofamilies that believe they have been treatedanything but fairly by the U.S. system” doesnot mean that this small populace representsthe entire minority population. As much as Iwould love to adopt such an optimistic viewof the status of race in this country, my his-torical knowledge of Jim Crow laws, Japaneseinternment camps and racial profiling (justto name a few) prevents me from doing so. Adisproportionate number of minorities con-tinue to reside in neglected housing projectsand areas where violence and drug abuse aremainstays of the community — or evenworse, state and federal penitentiaries. Sucha living environment represents a viciouscycle that has been proven to be incrediblydifficult to escape, even for the hardest work-ing and most moral individuals. I encourageSchulman to study the inner workings andpolitics that govern a housing project andthen tell me in confidence that “very few of(these people believe they have been) treatedanything but fairly.”

Schulman writes that “the story of mostimmigrant populations is one of incrediblesuccess.” This statement is not only false andbaseless but also completely disregards theincredible hardship that immigrants mustface in order to achieve this ideal of “success.”One cannot dispute the fact that, all otherthings being equal, an Asian American man

faces more obstacles living in the UnitedStates than a Caucasian man does.

We live in a racist society. Ideally, I wouldlike to be treated as a human being first, andan Asian American second. However, asSchulman so eloquently put it, “intellectualhonesty requires a look at broad, and oftenbleak, truths.” For many minorities, successcan never be achieved on the same level aswhites; minorities will never be completelyaccepted into the society in which we live. Iam and will continue to be discriminatedagainst due to my outward appearance.

The main function of TWTP is not to ridthe world of racism. Instead, it serves its pri-mary purpose of helping participants toembrace their ethnicities, rather than toreject them in the name of progress. As theTWTP Web site clearly states and Schulmanquotes, “(TWTP) facilitates an explorationand (re)discovery of our uniqueness.” TWTPbreeds a sense of awareness of one’s own eth-nicity and the racial issues that plague ourcountry. Thanks to TWTP, never again will Iforget where my ethnic heritage lies.

TWTP is not perfect. And beyond that, arethere other groups of people on campus thatmight benefit from a program similar toTWTP but geared towards their own needsand experiences? Of course, but that’s not theissue here. The question is: does TWTP, whenall is said and done, do more good than badfor its participants and the Brown communi-ty? The answer is overwhelmingly andemphatically, yes.Juhyung Harold Lee ’06 is from Kingston, R.I.

JUHYUNG HAROLD LEE

GUEST COLUMN

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 25, 2002 · PAGE 12

Ballpark brawlsdraw attentionfrom sports events

M. tennis wins four but falls to Harvard

BY LILY RAYMAN-READThis past weekend the Brown women’svolleyball team traveled to Florida StateUniversity in Tallahassee to participatein the Florida State Tournament. Theteam faced three difficult opponents inits second tournament of the year.

In the first match on Friday Brownfaced Louisiana State University. Brunofell 3-0 in the match, going 30-19, 30-19and 30-25 for each of the three games. InFriday’s second round, Brown facedLouisiana-Lafayette University and lostthe round in three games, with scores of30-17, 30-19 and 32-30. In the third andfinal round of the tournament onSaturday, Brown played the host team,Florida State, and took its third loss ofthe tournament in three games, with thescores 30-25, 30-25 and 30-19.

Despite a disappointing weekend forthe team, individual members of theBears did very well. Ceneca Calvert ’03was named to the all-tournament teamand helped the Bears defensively with 25digs throughout the tournament, as wellas over half a dozen kills and an ace.

Also impressive was KaralynKuchenbecker ’06, who recorded over 15kills in the tournament, as well as sevendigs and saw a lot of playing time for afirst-year.

Contributing to the offense wereAshley Trine ’06 and Jessica Cooper ’03,who each made a number of kills duringthe three games. Cooper currently has ahitting percentage of .246, has led theteam in blocks and is ranked fifth onBrown’s all-time leading kills list.

Also helping to win some points wasLeigh Martin ’06, who served up twoaces for the Bears in the match againstLouisiana-Lafayette. Elvina Kung ’05,and captains Aneal Helms ‘03 andAngela Dunn ’03 rounded out thedefense for Brown, each putting in animpressive number of digs.

Many players, returning and new,stepped up to the plate to put out someimpressive statistics this weekenddespite the losses. There is still, however,

no starting lineup as coach Diane Shorthas yet to decide who will be the first six.The lineup should be ready in earlyOctober, before the beginning of the IvyLeague matches.

While the weekend was somewhat ofa disappointment for the Bears, they had

their first home match last night againstNortheastern University. They hope for acontinuing improvement of the team asa whole.

Lily Rayman-Read ’06 is a contributingwriter and covers the volleyball team.

Sunshine State scorches W. volleyball

dspics.com

The women’s volleyball team was in action Tuesday night against Northeastern University.

BY BENJAMIN WISEMANIn its first tournament of the year, theBrown men’s tennis team defeated fourtop-caliber schools, and came away withits only loss to Harvard University.

Friday featured a doubles formatwherein Brown dominated over its Big Tenopponents.

The team swept Wisconsin University 3-0, led by the number one doubles teamJamie Cerretani ’04 and Zack Pasanen ’06.Adil Shamasdin ’05 and Nick Goldberg ’05won at the second seed and captain ChrisDrake ’03 and Benjamin Brier ’04 camethrough with a close 9-8 victory to recordthe sweep.

Against athletic powerhouse MichiganUniversity, Brown took two of threegames. Cerretani and Pasanen won 9-8and were followed by an 8-6 victory fromShamasdin and Goldberg. Drake and Brierlost in another close match 9-8 at the thirdseed.

On Saturday, the team continued itswinning streak in singles. Bruno defeatedBall State University and William and MaryCollege both by scores of 5-1. NickGoldberg played at the number two seedand stepped up with two big victories.Pasanen, who competed in his first tour-

nament as a Brown Bear, had a stellarweekend, winning two out of three singlesmatches at the number four seed as well asboth his doubles matches with Cerretanias the number one seed.

On Sunday, the team faced league rivalHarvard in singles play. The team did notfare well, dropping four of its five matches.The loss to Harvard was a small damper onwhat otherwise was a very successfulweekend.

“We got off to a good start this weekendwith some really big wins,” said Drake. “It

really helped us get ready for the comingweeks.”

Brown’s complete control overMichigan and Wisconsin will help theteam achieve its goal of national recogni-tion. “We are doing what we need to putourselves on the map,” said Brier. “I thinkwe made a big statement out here today,helping out ourselves and the easternregion.”

The next two weeks are important forthe team. This weekend the Bears travel toHarvard for a rematch that will be theirlast preparation for the ECACChampionship, held at the USTA TennisCenter in Flushing, New York the follow-ing weekend. Brown won the ECAC lastyear, and would like to do the same thisyear. The winner of the ECAC tournamentmoves on to the National IndoorChampionships.

“We got some tough play this weekend,but we would like to peak at the ECACs,”said Drake. “We want to get to the nation-als, that’s been our goal all along this fall.”

Sports staff writer Benjamin Wiseman ’05covers the men’s tennis team and can bereached at bwiseman@browndailyher-ald.com.

“We got some tough play

this weekend, but we

would like to peak at the

ECAC’s. We want to get to

the nationals, that’s been

our goal all along this fall.”

Chris Drake ’03Men’s Tennis Captain

ON THE FIRST FRIDAY NIGHT AFTERschool started this semester (September6th), I was giddily watching the Red Soxplay at Fenway when I suddenly heardscreaming and tussling behind me. Thesounds, a mixture of angry shouts and

fearful gasps,intensified andspread quicklythrough the crowd,and pretty soon,everyone along theright field line hadforgotten aboutthe baseball gamestill being played.A fight had brokenout in the stands.

By the timesecurity ran theirway up the aisle tostep in, an entire

section of the stadium had risen from itsseats and turned its backs on the field totry and observe the fracas.

Within a minute, the ruffians had beenfingered by surrounding fans and wereescorted out, separately, from the stands.Both hooligans, curiously, had mustardstains covering the backs of their shirts.Not having seen the details of the fightmyself I can only leave the cause to specu-lation. The younger and smaller of the twomen involved in the fight was accompa-nied by a girlfriend who, when reached for,rebuffed his attempt to hold hands. Hewas getting little support for his behavior.

Gradually, the fans all turned back tothe field and sat down, and soon the chill-ing, pulse-quickening atmosphere thataccompanies a fight had all but vanishedfrom the crowd. We remembered thegame, the Sox remembered how to scoreruns and a pleasant 7-2 victory over theBlue Jays filled the rest of the night.

Though the brawl in the stands ofFenway seemed a minor incident at thetime, it is part of what has become a fright-ening trend in professional sports lately—fans in fights. For those who didn’t attendpublic school, we’re not talking about thetime Winston stole Caldwell’s blazer and ashoving match ensued; these incidentsinvolve punches, kicks to the head, knivesand pepper spray.

The first of two recent high-profileepisodes took place during the fourthquarter of a Monday Night Football gamebetween the Philadelphia Eagles and theWashington Redskins. With just underseven minutes left to play, an altercationtook place in the seats directly behind thePhiladelphia bench. The brawl was sovicious that the arriving policemenemployed pepper spray to breakup whathe described as “a fan being kicked to theground by other fans.” The ugly event mayhave gone unnoticed by the televisionaudience if not for some nearby coolingfans on the Philadelphia sideline whichblew the spray into the midst of the Eaglesplayers, causing several to run gaspingonto the playing field and interrupting thegame for more than eight minutes.“Whenever you see your teammates com-ing out on the field and pretty much grab-bing their throats or covering their nose,it’s a pretty tough situation,” said quarter-back Donovan McNabb. It’s tough indeed,and a bit strange to say the least.

If that incident were not bizarreenough, last week, in a wild series ofevents discussed yesterday by Herald

LUKE MEIERBOLTS AND NUTS

see MEIER, page 6